The first few months of having Amethyst for Tyrian could be summed up in one word. HELL! Seriously even he had to question what the heck was he thinking. Him, an insane person who only wanted to please his Goddess. RAISE! A! CHILD! Actually thinking about it, it might not be so bad if she didn't cry all the time. Seriously it was like she had a sixth sense for it, every time he left to do something or drifted off to sleep she would cry. And the most shocking thing of all was the fact that she stopped whenever she saw him. Normally it was people seeing him that caused them to cry. But regardless he had told his Queen he would care for sweet little silver eyed Amethyst, and he would do his best like he always did.

"Come on now Amey. Just go to sleep nice and quietly." Tyrian said attempting to put his daughter to sleep.

This was the day he was waiting for. He had finally gotten Cinder to agree to babysit Amethyst for the night while he went out to do his own thing. And by that he meant do his Empresses bidding. Of course it took him weeks just to get Cinder to humor the idea, let alone agree to it. Shes 15 for crying out loud, isn't babysitting what every teen that age does today.

"At least she's asleep, yes." Tyrian said to himself as he watched Amethyst peacefully snore.

And just as he both expected and predicted the moment she fell asleep Cinder Fall decided to arrive.

"Yo." Cinder said waving a hand up and putting it down.

"Shush!" Tyrian said as he held up a finger signalling to be quiet.

"Sorry. Sorry." Cinder said as she walked further into the room set up for Amethyst. "So you just wan't me to babysit her for the night right."

"Yes. Just make sure she stays calm, asleep, and quiet." Tyrian said as he began to exit the room. "Oh and one more thing," Tyrian said as he turned around and got dangerously close to Cinder's face. "If anything was to happen to my sweet, little, precious, angel. I'll make sure you lose an organ or two." Tyrian warned slightly chuckling as he then left the room in a flash.

"Fine I'll make sure she's safe and happy." Cinder said as she sat down in a chair in the room, and pulled out her scroll. "Besides how hard can watching a child who can't even walk be?"

15 minutes later

"PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! BE QUIET!" Cinder begged the crying child hoping it would cease her wailing.

What was she even supposed to do in this situation. She had never babysat a day in her life. She didn't even know the first thing when it came to caring for a child. All she knew was feed it, change it, and rub it. And so far none of that worked. She tried feeding it only to get milk spit onto her clothes. She tried rubbing it, didn't work. And she didn't need to change it.

"What do I do! What do I do! What do I do! What do I do!" Cinder kept repeating to herself as she frantically moved around the room.

As Amethyst continued to cry, Cinder jumped in surprise as the door to the room opened. And inward stepped Hazel.

"Would you like some assistance?" Hazel asked as he glanced at the crying infant.

"PLEASE HELP ME! PLEASE!" Cinder said actually getting on her knee's and begging.

Hazel nods his head as he walks over to Amethyst. "You don't need to beg me for help," Hazel said as he picked up Amethyst and began rocking her in his arms. "You only needed to ask for help."

Cinder looked in surprise as Amethyst began to stop crying as Hazel rocked her.

"How did you get her to stop?" Cinder asked happy that Amethyst had stopped crying.

"Many times a baby just needs help going to sleep." Hazel said calmly turning to face Cinder. "Just keep rocking her until she falls asleep."

As Hazel handed Cinder the baby Amethyst, she stumbles a little bit but quickly starts rocking her arms back and forth. Hazel shakes his head and stops Cinder.

"Slowly," Hazel said moving Cinders arm back and forth slowly. "If you go to quick it will only rile her up more."

Cinder nods quickly as she keeps up the pace hazel was going when he was doing it for her. Hazel nods approvingly before leaving the room. Cinder just lets out a sigh of relief that she finally got the baby to calm down. After about 10 minutes she hears Amethyst start snoring again.

"Thank you." Cinder says softly as she walks over and puts Amethyst back in her crib.

As Cinder stands there for a minute to make sure she stays asleep, she smiles happily as she stays asleep. As Cinder quickly and silently slips out of the room, she rushes to her quarters in an attempt to change clothes.

'I'll be damned if I let Tyrian talk me into this again!" Cinder grumbles to herself as she begins to change into a less milk stained outfit.

Cinder really didn't mind it when Tyrian had asked her to babysit. She was actually curious as to what his adoptive daughter was like since she was a Silver Eye. But she forgot one crucial detail, baby's aren't a picnic at taking care of. Of course she didn't know what Tyrian was going through right now so... she should really consider herself lucky.


"Come on! Must everyone aim for my chest"Tyrian half joked and complained, remembering his battle with the Silver Eye that he took Amethyst from as he staggered backwards from an attack.

"Thanks for telling me!" Qrow Branwen said walking forward. "Next time I'll aim for your head!"

As Qrow lunged forward Tyrian dodged the attack by jumping backwards and tried circling Qrow. Seeing this Qrow flicked his long sword down exposing the shotgun barrels and began to shoot at Tyrian like crazy.

"My my, Someone seems angry." Tyrian mocked as he dodged the shots being fired at him.

"What was you first clue!" Qrow said as he flung his sword to the side closing its gun function and swiping towards Tyrian.

Seeing this Tyrian used his arm bracers to block the attack, and parry it upwards. As soon as he parried the attack Tyrian spun and delivered a side kick to Qrow's stomach area sending him backwards. However quickly regaining his composure Qrow ran towards Tyrian again and began to slash and strike at him barely leaving room for him rest. Tyrian, getting annoyed at the problem that not being able to recover was tried to use his stinger. As Tyrian thrust his stinger directly at Qrow's chest, Qrow saw this and backed away out of the stingers reach. This gave Tyrian an opening to attack.

Springing forward Tyrian managed to catch Qrow by surprise jumping on the over sized blade on his sword. He then delivered a swift kick to Qrow's face, followed by grabbing it and headbutting him. This caused him to lose his footing as he fell off of Qrow's sword and Qrow staggered backward. Both of them making a quick recovery ran back towards each other as they began striking weapons.

"I! WILL! MAKE! YOU! SUFFER!" Qrow said seething with rage as he applied a ton of force pushing down with his sword.

"Why whatever did I do." Tyrian joked as Qrow's scowl grew in size, causing Tyrian's smile to do the same.

"YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHY!" Qrow said as he broke the locked clash and swung at Tyrian's head.

Tyrian ducked to dodge the attack and sprung backwards to make distance between him and Qrow. As soon as Tyrian accomplished this his weapons sprang to life as he began shooting a stream of bullets at Qrow. Seeing this Qrow used the blade of his sword to block the incoming hailstorm and ready to counterattack. As Qrow readied to counterattack, the bullets suddenly stopped. Quickly deciding to take the risk Qrow stood up and scanned the area. The man was there but he was looking at his scroll, and seemed to be muttering something under his breath. That was before he stopped and pocketed the scroll.

"Well dear friend as much as I hate to leave on a cliffhanger," Tyrian said as he started backing away. "I have more presskng matters than simply offing a drunken nobody!"

Right as Tyrian finished a loud CAW sounded through the area as a giant Nevermore quickly flew by and swooped over Tyrian, who grabbed onto its legs.

"BASTARD!" Qrow yelled in rage as he quickly converted his weapon into shotgun mode and began running to get closer to the fleeing warrior.

But sadly it was to no avail as the Nevermore soon ascended to the skies out of Qrow's range. Gritting his teeth and his eyes hate filled and bloodshot, Qrow suddenly let out a scream of rage that was heard for miles around.

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"

'Im so sorry Summer'


It had been about a year when Amethyst had started to walk. Naturally Tyrian, as a respectable and great father was all over the girl when she did. In fact even his divine Goddess/Mistress/Empress/Queen every other name for a royal female Salem was there. Even being in her presence was enough to excite Tyrian. But her being there and smiling when Amethyst took her first wobbly steps. Lets just say it was Cinder's presence and her demeanor that kept him from fainting. Actually thinking about Cinder Tyrian had to admit that she had become less impudent and annoying as of late. Maybe it was her deciding to finally mature, maybe it was a threat from Salem, or something else entirely. Whatever it was he was grateful.

"Come here Amey." Tyrian said as Amethyst slowly stumbled into his arms.

If this had been Tyrian from a year ago he would have laughed at the prospect of him having a child and holding them in his arms. Now he was actually happier than ever before and looked forward to seeing Amethyst when he could. His Queen had also shortened the number of missions he was sent on saying that it was important for the father to spend much time with the child in this stage of maturity. She would latch to him and listen to him.

"Alright come here." Cinder said as Amethyst tried walking towards her.

Cinder had actually come to like Amethyst over the past year. Sure it was rocky at the start but after a long conversation with Hazel and Tyrian, seperatly, and another month of babysitting. Cinder had grown to like the small child Tyrian had technically "Kidnapped". She had even grown to personally accept the girl as a sort of younger sister to her. She found it nice to talk to someone other than the others of Salem's inner. It was relaxing and relieving to let out a few pent up emotions when she was babysitting. To let all her negativity out of her system, it was pleasant. She had even noticed a change in her behavior as she had not been reprimanded for speaking rudely or talking out of line. Just another event to thank Amethyst for.

The other two of the inner circle were neutral on the girl. Hazel didnt think the child should be put onto the path they had all decided to take from basically birth. He however never voiced this outright and withdrew from the subject. He did offer help where it was needed, but that was hardly ever as Cinder seemed to practically beg to babysit Amethyst sometimes, and had gotten good at it. So good to the point of Tyrian not insulting her or saying anything rude.

Watts on the other had wanted as little to do with the child as possible. He detested children and merely "Tolerated" Cinder on a daily basis. He just kept to himself and his lab as he always had. "What were children even good for?" He would say, noting the fact that they couldnt fight and were barely mature enough to make decisions. Still perhaps the daughter of the resident madman of the group would prove more interesting in the future.

"Hopefully she doesnt grow up to be a second Tyrian." Watts dryly remarked ro himself as he worked in his lab, alone!


Taiyang was broken. There was no better word or term out there. First Raven abandons him and Yang years ago. Then Summer dies and Ruby is missing and considered dead by everyone but him and Qrow. But the two wouldnt talk as of late as Qrow had begun drinking excessively. Whatever Gods existed bless his poor liver. Tai was surprised that Qrow didnt die from alcoholism yet. He at least had the courtesy to stay away when he was super drunk. He could act alright when he only had a few shots, but not after the fourteenth one. But at least Qrow knew Yang wouldnt take to him drinking and acting drunk in front of her well.

Yang was another problem entirely. She was three and had already lost three people she cared about. Tai couldnt do anything when Yang started attacking everything. She was his and Raven's Daughter, what do you expect. Yang had started out by punching her bed, and then the wall. Soon holes started to appear and Tai was forced to intervene. But Yang had already made a goal in her head.

"I want to become a Huntress!" Yang pleaded to her father.

Tai sighed as he looked over at a picture of team STRQ. Yang had already lost so much, but he was going to make sure she didn't lose anything more. As he looked her in the eyes he simply sighed and nodded. But before Yang could celebrate his approval he spoke up.

"On the condition that I actually show you to throw a punch properly."