Roman and Taiyang were sitting at the kitchen table when there was a sudden knock at the door. Roman stood up grabbing his cane and slowly opened the door. To his surprise Junior and Neo were standing there smiling at him. He opened the door all the way and Neo embraced him gently. Taiyang smiled at the couple; he knew them since they showed up right after Ruby left helping him look for clues on where she would be.
"What's brings you here, Neopolitan?" Taiyang.
"Well, she has some good news for you two," Junior said, pulling out a chair for his wife.
"I got a call from Ruby."
Taiyang jumped up scaring Neo.
"Where is she? Is she ok?!" he cried grabbing her dainty hand.
"On her way to Haven."
Roman sat down beside of Neo looking into her pink eyes.
"Why didn't she ask me to go with her?" Roman asked.
"She didn't want anyone else she loved to get hurt."
"Is she alone?" Taiyang asked.
"No. I called the parents of all her Beacon friends and it seems Jaune went with her. The village Ren and Nora came from said they never even returned. Common sense makes me think that they want to avenge Pyrrha."
Roman nodded.
"I'm going to find her and stay with her," he said rising from his seat.
"Roman you might have to let her do this alone," Junior said.
The two men just stared at him.
"Only Ruby or Neo can take on Cinder now."
"Cinder is dead. I killed her."
Everyone turned around to see Emily standing in the doorway.
"You killed Cinder? Alone?" Neo asked.
Emily nodded.
"How?" Roman asked.
"She was already weakened by her "mother", Salem. She took the Fall power from Cinder."
"I've heard that name before," Taiyang said.
Emily frowned at him, "How?"
"Raven mentioned someone by that name several times."
"Raven who?" she asked.
"Raven Branwen," he said his blue looking sad.
"Ah, I've heard of her," the Faunus said taking a seat.
Roman shook his head, "Who is she?"
The color drained from Neo's face, "I know who she is. I fought Yang on the train and she came out of nowhere, but I'm glad she did. I know who she is and what she can do; she's scary."
"I wanna know about her tell me."
Taiyang looked up to see Yang standing beside of him.
"Yang-
"I wanna know. I wanna know about my mother."
Emily looked at the father and daughter with questioning eyes but she said nothing. Apparently her birth mother was a secret.
"She's strong," Neo said smiling, "She's a beautiful woman too. You look just like her with the hair and when your eyes turn red…. Wow."
Yang turned to Emily even if she didn't know who she was.
"Who are you and how do you know my mom?" Yang asked her eyes turning red.
"My name is Emily Hillide. I'm half Faunus and I use blue Dust to fight. You can ask your sister about me sometime. I know of Raven but I don't know her personally. I heard she can travel through dimensions using her swords; she can pretty much go anywhere she wants unlike preggo over here who can only teleport through this world here. There's rumors Summer is with her and alive which I think is true."
Yang's eyes turned back to purple as she looked at her father who was shocked.
"How is she alive? She died-
"She didn't thanks to Raven."
Roman frowned at his ex, "Why are you telling us these things?"
Emily sighed and held up her hand, "I'll tell you as long as no one hits me."
Everyone nodded.
"Raven is a special kind of woman… in an unfortunate sense. She has the ability to see who dies whether she's connected to them or not. She can also see the destiny of the person she touches. I heard she made swords to travel through different dimensions so she could escape the visions she constantly saw. I'm guessing she did since she stayed away.
"I had heard that she shows up with Summer in hand and that she protects her since I know they were teammates in school. That's a guess though but Raven also knows of Summer's destiny and what power Summer has to begin with. I'm guessing you know nothing of this huh Mr. Xiong Long? They won't come out unless there is extreme danger."
Yang bit her lip. So there wasn't a sure way to track her mother?
"So I lost my arm-
"But you had someone to protect you from death, correct?" Emily asked.
Yang nodded.
"Why would she feel the need to protect Ruby's mother?" Roman asked.
"Summer is the Summer maiden."
Roman and Neo looked at each other. Junior shook his head.
"Summer maiden? What's that? Like the fairy tale?!" Yang yelled angrily.
"Yes and it's true."
Taiyang grabbed Yang's shirt as she lunged for Emily making Emily flinch.
"I'm telling the truth!" she squealed.
"She is," the ex-villain trio said.
"That shit is just made up fairy tales!" she yelled her eyes turning red.
"Ruby is half the Summer and half the Winter. I gave her half of my power. Those with silver eyes can have multiple powers at one time."
Roman jumped up in a rage "Are you fucking stupid!"
"No. I'm giving her the means to protect herself."
"This is a bunch of crap! I can't believe you lure Ruby away with a bunch of horse shit!" she screamed pointing at Roman.
Emily rolled her eyes and touched Taiyang's coffee cup with her finger. The cup froze turning a bluish color and it spread into a beautiful willow tree. Roman wasn't impressed by the display but Yang and Neo were. The tree had bits of coffee in it making it look beautiful. Emily smiled at them knowing she changed Yang's mind.
"So do you believe me now?" Emily asked.
Yang nodded.
"Ok… well Ruby holds both because Summer gave birth to her… so it's like Ruby has a copy of the power. Cinder's mother is after all of those with the power."
Roman glanced at Neo and Junior. So they were right, there was someone behind Cinder and her motives.
"Salem makes Cinder look like a kitten actually."
Roman shook his head.
"I am ordered to protect Ruby at all costs."
Roman nodded, "The Hillides are pretty particular on how power balance is."
Emily smiled, "That and the fact is Salem needs taken down."
Neo shook her head, "I wish I could help her."
"Well, I needed someone I could trust to stay with her and while her friends are pretty powerful themselves, they could die at any moment. So since Neopolitan is pregnant and Hei will stay with her, I want you Roman to go. If you don't mind traveling with me to find her. I need to talk to her as well."
Roman nodded.
"I'll go. I miss Red and I don't want her to be alone."
"You love my sister that much?" Yang asked.
"More than anything. I couldn't live without her."
Emily forced a smile. Shit hearing that it still hurts. She looked over to see Neo grinning evilly at her and Emily gave her a dirty look making the smirk on Neo's face grow bigger.
"Well if you need to pack anything then do it now."
Roman got and went to Ruby's room packing what he could.
Neo turned to Emily.
"So, how does it feel?"
"What feel?" Emily asked glaring at her.
"To be with Mercury."
"We… are having our problems."
"Like?"
"I found he was sneaking off with Emerald."
Yang shook her head, "To do what?"
"Well, I'm guessing from their making out and stuff –
"Oh I'm going to leave the room!" Taiyang said.
Yang grinned as her father left to go outside with Junior.
"What kind of power does Salem have?" Neo asked.
Emily shook her head, "Not sure but she's fucking scary from what I'm told. I know for sure I can travel back and forth where she's at."
"Where is she?" Yang asked.
"The Dark World. It's seeable and everything but it's protected by something else. You can only get in with incredible dark aura."
"Do any of us possess this?" Neo asked.
Emily shook her head, "I have some but it's not enough to open a portal."
"How will we get over there then?" Yang asked.
"Ruby… will have to learn to use her dark aura without losing herself in the process."
Summer sat on the ground looking at the nothingness as Raven sat on the ground looking through her swords. Summer had no idea why she did that every day but Raven inspected each and every one of the them. She got up and sat beside of Raven eyeing the sword trying to see what she was looking at but all she saw was the color of them. Raven raised an eyebrow.
"Can I help you?"
"What's going? Why do you do that every day?"
Raven gave her a strange look.
"What do you think I'm doing?"
"I would think you were cleaning them but you stare at them so much. Is there something about your semblance that goes with them?" Summer asked staring at the yellow blade in her hands.
"I can see different dimensions and see if there are safe by the way they feel in my hands."
Summer's eyes stared down at the blade raising her hand to touch it.
"I don't know if you would want to do that."
"Why?"
"You can see things you wouldn't want to see."
"I want to see anyways Raven."
Raven tapped her lips.
"Hold on."
Raven grabbed a red blade and held it out to Summer.
"You can see Ruby and Yang with this."
Summer's eyes lit up as she took the blade.
"Funnel your Aura into it."
Summer closed her eyes and her silver aura went into the blade.
It was all blurry but she saw a red cape and a black dress. She squeezed her eyes tighter and the image became clearer. It was Ruby after all with her pale complexion and silver eyes. She was smiling and she looked very happy. Summer tilted her head to the side as she noticed Ruby had two giant red and black weapon on her lower back.
Summer's eyes started filling with tears blurring the vision.
"You ok there?" Raven asked quietly.
Summer nodded and looked back down at the sword. She closed her eyes and she saw Yang.
Yang was sitting at a table with her father. She was definitely missing one arm and she seemed kind of down. Her violet eyes were unreadable. Summer frowned as Yang stood up and walked to the guest room with tears in her eyes making Summer's heart hurt.
"Summer, are you ok?"
"Yes… but I don't know how to feel with Yang being sad."
"I think someone will fix her… literally."
Summer frowned, "What does that mean?"
"She has a girlfriend."
"Yang? She has a girlfriend?" Summer asked in disbelief.
"Yea… Considering how she is I'm glad she's happy. She still loves the girl."
"Aww."
Summer grinned as she sat the blade down.
"Thank you Raven."
"No problem Summer. Keep the blade."
Summer smiled proudly looking at the blade.
"You ready Roman?"
"Yea."
Roman hugged Neo and then gave Junior one. He turned to Taiyang.
"Tai, I'll do what I can and bring Ruby home safely."
"Thank you Roman."
Roman wasn't exactly excited to travel with Emily but if that's what he had to do he would he would. He threw over a small black bag on his shoulders and nodded to his friends. Emily walked out first and he followed. He really hoped that this would end quickly because he honestly didn't want to be around her. He thought maybe Ruby would get mad.
"Calm down."
"Huh?"
"I can hear your heart. I'm not going to rape you Roman."
"Ok."
Emily shook her head.
"I'm not Ruby so this will take a day. We can use one of our Bullheads to get to Haven though."
"That sounds good."
"You that worried about your girl?" Emily asked.
"Yes, I miss her and she just took off without asking or even telling me what was going on."
"I'll be sure to give her the mission details and that's all I can do for you guys. One of you has to learn to use dark aura."
"She's not evil."
"You don't have to be evil."
Roman frowned.
"I don't get it.'
Emily gave him a guilty smile, "Me either actually. You have to see Mistress Ember for that."
"Mistress Ember?"
"Yup. She's married to my eighth cousin. She's strictly dark aura."
"Wow…"
"What?"
"I never thought that we'd be paired up taking down the same enemy."
Emily grinned strangely making Roman's skin crawl. Something wasn't right.
"Do you know where Ozpin is?"
Emily stopped in her tracks and turned around.
"No. I was wondering that too."
Roman nodded as she turned away.
She's not ok. I can something is wrong.
"Master."
Salem turned away from the purple crystal.
"What Daisy? I haven't the time!" Salem growled.
"You asked me to watch the girl's aura level. She's breaking through your control."
Salem squinted at the white haired girl and turned back around.
"I'll kill you the next time you don't warn me soon enough."
"Fair enough Master."
"Daisy, I want you to go there and wait until I give you the say so."
The white haired girl bowed and pulled out a blue bow. She flung it into the air, making a rip in space and time. She walked through grabbing her bow as she went and the rip closed. Salem turned back and began pressuring her mind on the stupid soul she was controlling; the girl was fighting hard to regain her body but she wasn't getting anywhere.
"Emily are you ok?" Roman asked cautiously.
"Yes, why do you ask?" she said flatly.
Roman stopped in his tracks.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"I'm who I am."
Roman squinted and pulled out his cane.
Ruby stopped and looked at the sky. What was wrong with her? She felt weird like…. Something was wrong… She felt something inside of her that was strange and it made her uneasy. She took a deep breath and started dialing Emily's number.
The phone kept ringing but there was no answer. Ruby frowned and hung up. Jaune, Ren and Nora were looking at her funny as she stared at the scroll. What was this horrible feeling? She felt like she was losing control or losing something. She redialed her number and waited. Still no answer; she was getting worried.
"Are you ok Ruby?" Nora asked.
"No… Something's wrong. I can feel it. I feel terrified."
"Ruby… You sure you aren't paranoid?" Jaune asked.
"We have to go back."
JNR looked at each other.
"I'll go since it'll be faster for me. If you want go on ahead and I'll meet up with you."
"Ruby that's long ways to go- Jaune started but he got cut off by Neo.
Neo appeared in front of him, scaring him enough to make him scream.
"Neo-
"Something is wrong! Roman texted me and said something was strange about Emily!"
So I was right. Something is wrong.
"Ok are we gonna make it there ok?" Ruby asked slightly worried at Neo.
"I'm fine. Let's go!"
Jaune shook his head as the girls disappeared.
Ruby and Neo made it just in time as Emily attacked Roman with full force blowing ice shards everywhere. The feeling hit Ruby like a ton of bricks. She fell to the ground holding her head as strange visions filled her head of a white haired woman with red eyes and a small girl with white hair named Daisy. She fell onto her side gritting her teeth trying to fight off the pain.
"Ruby! What's wrong!" Roman yelled.
"Some- someone's controlling her!" Ruby managed to get out.
Neo stayed away because she had promised Junior she wouldn't get hurt but it agonized her that she couldn't do anything.
"ARGHH!" Emily yelled but it was no longer her voice.
"Who are you!" Roman yelled slipping on the ice that was covering the grass now.
Ruby jumped up with all her power and began stumbling towards Emily. The control and the nasty feeling was getting stronger. She threw arms around Emily's waist as she went down to her knees in the unbearable pain. Emily's body suddenly stopped like it had frozen in place. Roman watched as Emily collapsed into his fiancée's arms.
"What the fuck was that?!" Roman asked.
Ruby and Emily both began puking on the ground from the strain. Emily looked at her with tired, surprised eyes.
"How did you know?" she gasped.
"I don't… I don't know. I felt it."
"I think it's because I gave you some of my power and you … knew I was in trouble."
Ruby's silver eyes widened.
"What?"
"I think that was Salem…. Shit… I feel like shit…"
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In the trees was Daisy hiding and waiting for Salem's order but she knew it wasn't coming since she was so pissed. Daisy pulled out her bow and an arrow. She stayed knelt down and pulled the string back as the arrow began to glow with black aura. She let go and the arrow whizzed through the air at it's target.
I hope everyone likes this so far. I've been super busy lately and I work overnight and sometimes I don't get out until almost 8 or 9 sometimes so plz forgive me :)
I'm on Saiko now so if you get on I'm QueenoftheGrimm :)
Also thank you everyone that was up for me to make Dark World. I honestly didn't think anyone liked The Betrayal that much but thank you! I'll keep on going!