The halls of the military base in Atlas were as cold as they have ever been, the over use of pristine white on its walls and floors truly show the dedication towards their quest of perfection and cleanliness only to be rivaled by those of the Schnee family. The technology along its walls containing designs by many of the greatest minds of their time, Percival included.

And one of its many rooms contained the eldest daughter of the Schnee family, who moves in her sleep violently as her mind was plagued by a horribly real nightmare.

Her surroundings were burning in red flames.

On the distance the cries of the innocent were slowly and painfully being silenced.

The growls of the beasts soon overpowering as they feasted on their prey...

And she was in the arms of someone… someone she loves with every fiber of her being… someone she couldn't recognize, yet… found so familiar.

"Q-Qrow…" she lets out a name in silent whisper.

She was in pain… Yet at peace…

At least until she looks into the eyes of her lover…

And the peace is replaced with even more pain…

She broke him…

She betrayed him…

She chose duty instead of love…

And now she paid the price…

She couldn't bear to see the man she had gave herself in mind, body and soul look so devastated…

She knew he would forever have to live with an even deeper scar on his heart… A scar she planted there…

Yet… Even when she played him like a fiddle… she truly loved him… and she was sure he loved her too…

He was her only chance…

Her chance at a life she never knew she wanted… yet now desires more than anything…

A life away from military bases, guns and soldiers…

A life where she could truly be happy…

But she threw it all away…

And pushed away everyone who trusted her… in order to follow the orders of an empire whose rulers refused to work with the other nations against a greater threat just to obtain the power that her brother-in-law possessed…

They say Karma is a vengeful bitch… It was a saying she now knew to be nothing but the cold and harsh truth… Their plan blew right in their faces… Atlas was the first to fall when the beasts came since The Dark refused to help them…

And from the ruins, she was tasked with one more mission…

...To kill those who refused to aid the empire...

And she tried…

...But she was never a match for them…

And now here she lays… with a mind free from the lies and deception she had tried so hard to convince herself that was the truth…

Finally at rest and without the need to clutch herself to the old world she once knew…

They say that when you are dying and you have accepted your fate, your mind seems to clear itself of everything and you get to see the world from a brand new perspective, for as little as it may last… but for her...

With all this clarity in her mind, she now could truly see the damage she caused to those she loved…

And there was no one else to blame but herself…

But that was not what Qrow was thinking…

She looks on with horror as he grabs her broken blade, slowly placing it against his neck as tears run down his eyes. The weight guilt too much for him to keep carrying…

She tries to stop him… She HAS to stop him!

But the world around her soon begins to fade away… She was reaching her end…

She tried to scream…

She tried to move…

She tried desperately to do anything to prevent the death of the only person she has ever truly loved… To make him understand that this was all a burden for her to carry alone and that he shouldn't blame himself for what she had brought upon them...

...But she can't…

Was this her punishment?

To watch the man she fixed and later on destroyed kill himself because of her?

...To be witness to the death of all the light in her world?

She knew she deserved the worst of hells for everything her actions and the ones of her superiors had brought to the world…

And she would gladly spend an eternity burning away in the deepest circle of hell, a circle made specifically for the Traitors, like her…

And she knew she deserved it all, she accepted that fact a long time ago…

She would gladly endure any punishment they had ready for her in the dark pita of hell...

But not this…

Anything but this!

The world keeps losing its color as Qrow slowly starts to cut his throat, each millisecond that her blade touched the neck of her beloved husband is an eternity of torment…

And she can't do anything but watch…

And know that this was all HER FAULT…

And hers alone...

No…

No…

NO!

"OH GODS QROW, PLEASE STOP!"

And the world goes dark…

Winter lets out a scream of pure terror mixed with agony as she practically jumps out of her bed, her hands stretched forward in an attempt to stop her husband only for her to realize she was in a bed.

Her heart beating far too quickly for it to be healthy, she slowly comes to terms with what she has done.

She looks down into her hands which couldn't stop violently shaking in fear. You couldn't find a single speckle of dirt in them no matter how hard you looked thanks to the Schnee's high standards for personal hygiene yet to Winter they felt dirtier than they have ever been before… She could almost see and smell the blood in them… The blood of people she killed that more than likely did not deserved it...

Tears start to run down her eyes and she soon finds herself sobbing into her hands feeling sick and disgusted with herself.

She killed him…

Her husband was dead and it was all her fault…

She runs to the bathroom, not even stopping to look at herself in the mirror before she starts to throw up violently into her toilet, it wasn't until a couple of minutes later that she stops hurling whatever remain in her stomach that she stands up, feeling a very familiar presence behind her.

She remains quiet as she stares into the void, the image of Qrow slitting his throat still fresh in her mind and slowly driving her into insanity.

"I killed him, Percival…" she whispers to the man behind her "I killed… the only man to ever love me…"

Henry remains quiet as he stares at the breaking form of his ex-sister-in-law. "Yes, you did" he replies "and you tried to kill me and your own sister too..."

Winter slowly walked towards her sink, grabbing onto the cold steel and staring down at her feet.

"Why?... Why didn't you save him?... I betrayed all of you… why didn't you let me die?... when you know I deserve that and more?..."

Henry remains silent, his darkest side enjoying the sight of the traitor suffering. "I did" he replies with the same cold tone he used when speaking to those he despised.

Winter turns around to look at the white haired man in confusion "What?"

"Make no mistake, after the stunt you pulled at our home, neither me nor the girls had any intention of helping you in any way, shape or form" his words only added salt to her wounds "so we didn't" he pulls out a cigarette from his trench coat pocket and ignites it with a snap of his fingers "we let you die on that hill with Qrow's scythe halfway through your chest for any Ursa or Beowolf to devour… Ruby even suggested placing your head on a pike and throwing it at the survivors in Atlas" he takes in some smoke from the cigarette and blows it out right into her face. "And if I'm being honest… after you raised your rapier against my children… I was already imagining the perfect spot to crucify you while hanging you at the same time with your own intestines…"

Winter was more confused than ever until an idea crosses her mind that makes her slowly lean into the sink with a look of grim acceptance on her face "So this is Hell then?… Or has The Darkness consumed my body and soul for it to torture them eternally?"

Henry shakes his head and takes another breath from his cigarette before tossing it into her toilet "Neither" he replied making her confused look return to her face "trust me when I say this, Winter. After everything you've done, way too many people kept asking why I didn't use you as an example and fed you to The Darkness… But I don't give a damn what happens to you… In my eyes, you are already living hell and I can happily go on with my life knowing you'll have endless nightmares of what you and Atlas have caused to the world… And to my uncle..."

Winter glares at Percival who keeps looking at her with that same bored yet potent glare that challenged her to say something against his claims… but she knew she couldn't… "Then why am I still alive and what are you doing here?" she asked with a glare.

Henry took a step backwards and snap his fingers in order to materialize a chair for him to sit on out of nowhere, leaving Winter shocked at the use of his power "Don't be mistaken, if there was any other option I would avoid having any contact with you… but you are an integral part of the plans of both Yog-Sothoth and I, so I don't have much of a choice"

He lazily raises his hand and gestures at her mirror "Take a look for yourself…" Winter hesitates at first but slowly turns around only to gasp at what looks back at her, her younger self when she was in her prime!

"W-What is the meaning of this?!" she asks while slowly touching her face.

"We are currently in the past… around the time Weiss and I started at Beacon and you met Qrow" he pauses for a moment to allow her mind to process this "In the final confrontation between the Grimm Dragon and our forces, I used the Necronomicon to summon four elder gods to fight against it. The battle started to destroy reality and I made a deal to become the Avatar of one of the gods, Yog-Sothoth, in order to send the memories of Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang and my father Ozpin back into their younger bodies in order to prevent the rise of the Colossal Dragon, he has allowed me to give their memories back to a few others in order to prepare a better fight against the Salem and my grandmother"

Winter remains stunned "T-Then… why give my memories back?" she asks only for him to look at the ground and sigh "I've spent millennia outside of time planning this… I need someone in Atlas in order to spark a revolution when they inevitably search for the power inside my younger self. This version of me has a lot of ties in this city and has even become a constant contributor of many of the technologies used in the daily lives of the population and even its military weaponry… I must say… I am very impressed with all he has accomplished... There is barely any electronic that doesn't have his mark anywhere in its circuits left… but I still need someone to keep my father and the others informed of what is going on"

"Then, why not choose Ironwood instead? He is way more reliable and connected to the city than I am, along with him leading the chain of command" Winter asks still confused making Henry sighs.

"I cannot trust Ironwood… his military mind would crumble if he were to find out of the horrors that await for us in the future… who knows what he would end up doing in order to protect this city… that and…" he fell silent as he stares into the wall

"And?" Winter asks once again curious to know his answer before hearing him sigh in frustration once more

"Whatever you may have done… And even with how hard you hurt Weiss and Qrow… You are still family… And all my family gets a freebie in my book… I already began with your parents, for that matter…"

Winter freezes in shock, not believing what she was hearing, Henry stands back up and glares directly into Winter's eyes with ferocity "now listen here… I am giving you something millions of people would KILL for! I am giving you a second chance… at life…" he took a step back "what you do with it is your choice, but know that if you betray me… and go back to sucking the dicks of those old bastards at the empire council in order to rise higher in their ranks… I won't just kill you… I'LL ERASE YOUR VERY EXISTENCE OF THIS REALITY AND LEAVE YOU ROTTING IN THE LIMBO BETWEEN MULTIVERSES FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY!" His threat causes everything in her room to shake violently due to the killing intent he was leaking out.

She is beyond terrified as she backs away as far as she can before hitting the sink.

He lets out a sigh and composes himself "But I know you've already seen where that path of blind obedience will lead you… I am giving you the chance to form a family with Qrow like I know you've always wanted… in a world where the dragons stay in storybooks and having children isn't pretty much forbidden…"

Winter relaxes a bit, her gaze lowering back down into the floor with shame "after everything I did… you still go out of your way to help me?"

Henry gently lays a hand on her right shoulder, making Winter look back up into his eyes "Well… That's because I understood…" he says making her eyes go wide "The world was changing way too fast and not for the better… Many were still trying to act like nothing had changed, pretending like they were still in control of their future and the world… You tried to fall back into what you knew, what you believe in, which was Atlas and the empire, but when that failed… You tried to live from its ashes instead of moving on… And that's normal Winter… We all try to cling to the past rather than facing the future, especially when that future includes a giant Grimm invasion lead by a colossal dragon, the fall of all civilizations and the resistance being lead by a loose canon with the power of a primordial being living inside him"

Henry slowly turned to look out of her window just above the bed, an amazing view of the city of Atlas on the distance along with some trainees doing drills around the base bringing him memories of better times "Everything dies… Everything has an end… And that's normal Winter… Death is normal, what is not normal are our reactions to it" he once again stands up and walks closer to her, laying a hand on her shoulder and looking her right in the eyes "I understood what you were going through because we all were going through the same thing…"

Winter looks down to her feet, ashamed of all she has done "I… I will never be able to make it up to you…" she says trying to find the words to say next "And you'll never be able to" Henry replies with his now characteristic cold tone of voice "You will have to live with that mistake, with the choice you made that day when you carved another scar on Weiss for the rest of your life"

Winter sighed and sits down on her bed, placing her head on her hands as she tries her hardest to understand all of this while also holding back the tears forming on her eyes "I… I suppose you want me to stay away from Qrow now too, don't you? You need him at his best for what is to come…" she asks with fear evident in her voice, yet knowing full well she didn't deserved to be part of his life anymore.

"Not at all" Henry says causing Winter to raise her head and look back at him in shock "I told you before, I don't give a single damn what happens to you as long as my plans come to fruition and if to do that means allowing you to pursue a relationship with Qrow, so be it. I'll even assist you if that's what it takes" Winter could feel her heartbeat increase rapidly once she heard she was allowed to see Qrow.

"While I admit, Qrow is another factor in our end goal and having him at his best would be the most ideal of scenarios but..." he began making her gaze go back to the ground in sadness "I… I don't think I have ever seen Qrow… as Happy as when he was with you…" her eyes go wide and tears slowly leak out her eyes "B-but… what about Summer?..." she asks making Henry sigh.

"Qrow and Summer… well… It was a love that never came to its full fruition, she wanted to settle down and Qrow wanted to be free and an action hero. He will always punish himself for missing his chance to be with her and have a normal life just as much as Raven does with Tai-Yang… the two left and it was up to Tai-Yang and Summer to pick up the pieces" his tone of voice changed to something far more human, the part of Henry that still remembered to feel empathy and sorrow for those he considered family, it was a tone that Winter was happy to know he still had in him, even if it was deep within.

"And that's where I come in" he says making her raise her eyebrow in confusion "what do you mean?..." she asks making him let out the smallest of smiles "This timeline already has my fingerprints all over it and I plan to mess with it even more, if it wasn't for Yog-Sothoth and My family retaining their previous memories I'm sure things would just go into chaos" he lets out a small yet noticeable chuckle.

"Basically, I made Qrow to not fall in love with Summer in the first place" he says making Winter stand up with a scandalous gasp "W-What?! How could you do such a thing?!" she begins to question him only to receive a cold glare from Henry shutting her up instantly "I did it to help you form a relationship with him faster, you Idiot!"

"How is taking away something that defined Qrow's life like Summer helping anybody?!" she asks once more only to annoy Henry even more than he already was.

"Because it took you about three years to get him to even open up to you! And even more to get him to actually care about you! And we don't have the time to sit around and slowly play your mind games with him again!" he yells back making her flinch at his statement.

"Besides, it's not like I completely erased the feelings Qrow had for her, rather than that, I made him fall in love with something else" he says back in his cold tone of voice.

"And what exactly have you done to traumatize my husband instead?" Winter asks with just as annoyed tone yet not even nearing the coldness that came out of Henry's.

"I made him fall in love with the idea of having his own family" he says making her eyes go wide again "I made him want to have a family of his own, to settle down instead of roaming around the world looking for trouble like some sort of aggressive drunk hobo. But by the time he finally realized this, Tai and Summer were already expecting Ruby and when Summer died, he adopted a stupid mindset of him wasting his time and not being worth of love. A mindset that YOU are going to change" the seriousness on Henry's voice along with the nonsense coming out of it only served to confuse Winter even more.

"Why?..." Winter mumbles, all of this only serving to confuse her more and more "You are asking me to… to take what was years of effort forming a beautiful relationship with Qrow… and just rush it until he falls in love with me?..."

"to be fair, those 'years of effort' were mostly based on a lie, a lie that ended with Qrow slicing his throat open with your rapier, so I really don't think you are in the right moral high ground to question my decisions" the glare directed a Winter is more than enough to shut her up. "Look… I wouldn't dare do this to him if I had a choice… but I'm running out of options here Winter! And…. I won't lie saying I wouldn't like to see Qrow happy… you do owe Weiss a niece or nephew of her own after all"

Winter's face erupts in a scarlet blush as she begins to imagine getting pregnant by Qrow's child "H-How is she and the rest handling this whole time travel business by the way?" she asks desperate to change the subject.

"Unsurprisingly well for the most part, it's my younger self the one I am more worried about" he says with a heavy sigh

"How come? Is he treating them poorly? Giving them the cold shoulder?" She asks already imagining ways to punish him if he were to break her poor sister's heart.

"Quite the opposite actually… He knows most of what is going on and after a few memories I shared with him, he is willing to try and give all of this a shot but… he isn't prepared for the girl's "affectionate nature" and such…." Winter's eyebrow rises in confusion as she listens to his explanation "what do you mean?" she asks.

"Well… after your dead, things got… complicated… More and more attempts at our life were made; increasing in frequency when the babies turned six and the Colossal Dragon emerged… I've lost count on how many times I have given the girls a good scare when either my transport was hijacked or I went M.I.A. and that goes for them giving me a scare as well! They became so scared of the idea of one of us dying that... our minds and psyche took a heavy toll for it… We all became overly attached, extremely jealous, over protective and so much more… To even think about another person… Became pretty much a sin among us… And if anyone dared to try and harm us… Well… you already seen what The Darkness can do against my enemies…" the grimace slowly appearing on Winter's face as she remembers the horrors of the war tells him that she does. "Well… That paled in comparison to what the girls… did on a regular basis…" the noticeable shiver on his shoulders is enough to give Winter a clear idea of what he refers to.

"I-It couldn't have been that bad… right?" she asks fearful of the answer she is about to receive.

"Remember Adam's obsession with Blake and how he cut off Yang's arm?..." he asks making Winter nod in return "After Weiss pulled out his horns from his skull with her own hands, Blake cut his legs off before Yang broke both of arms… they had him dancing in pain in front of the remaining of his remaining forces and teammates, before Ruby took her scythe and decapitated him… After we finished eliminating the rest of that camp, the girls removed his face from his head and placed it on one of the survivors, sewing it to his own face after I removed his arms… They later released the poor bastard into Cinder and Salem's main base of operations… Safe to say, they all started to see us as a major threat from then on… specially after the girls started mailing them parts of Adam's body one by one each time they made a move…"

Winter's face goes pale at the horrific description of the events, covering her mouth in horror as simply trying to imagine all the barbaric actions they did was enough to freeze her on place in fear. "I-If they are so… Protective… Why are you so worried?..." she asks still unable to imagine her sister doing something so inhuman, something that could lead them to be court martial for war crimes if they did so today.

"It's not our enemies I am worried about, if they were to attack one of us in the open, the girls would annihilate them in ways that I really shouldn't discuss unless I wish to traumatize you…" he rubs his eyes while letting out a stressful sigh "What I worried about is my younger self dealing with all of this. Now since your memories are slowly mixing with the ones from you had from this timeline, so it may be confusing drawing the difference between my current self and my younger self, but don't worry the differences will soon become obvious to you"

"It's not really a problem, your younger self is a really nice boy… a bit on the shy side but overall someone I approve Weiss of dating. You on the other hand… Well... sorry to say this Percival but… You have always been kind of an asshole…" She says with a small chuckle only to shut up after seeing the dark glare on Henry's face.

The glare was piercing a hole on Winter's skin "... I go by Henry nowadays… Percival is my younger self… it avoids confusion… Understood?..." he asks with a cold tone, making Winter nod slowly, shivering a little bit at the dark aura he was leaking.

He lets out an annoyed sigh "But yes, Percival has a quite… lack… of social skills in general, especially with women… And now he has four women who are overprotective, borderline psychotic and overly attached to him and each other all over him… So you can imagine how worried I am about him getting overwhelmed by them. He is basically the protagonist of a harem anime where all the girls are the Yandere option."

"It can't be that bad" replies Winter 'Can it?" she asks after noticing the deadpanned look on Henry's face.

"Woman, did you not hear what I just said?!" he asks "They cut pieces of Adam's body as if he was a cake and kept mailing them at the White Fang headquarters piece by piece! Not to mention that they have developed as sexual deviants! But I'll admit that was my fault…" he ends with an embarrassed tone as it was Winter's turn to coldly glare at him "Don't you judge me! I had a dark entity whispering at me twenty four hours a day, seven days a week! It taught me the Kamasutra and how things reproduced by the time I was four and made me develop too many kinks to count and it was a miracle I didn't become an actual sex maniac!"

"Now you are just making excuses!" yells back Winter with an increased glare "And I don't need to know the details of your sex life with my little sister, thank you very much!"

"But that's the reason I am worried!" yells Henry as the shouting match escalates "I have a socially awkward version of myself surrounded by four close-to-insanity killing machines with rather specific kinks!"

"And I still fail to see why I have to know all of this!" Winter yells back as the shouting match goes on. It took them a second to realize what they were doing, eventually stopping with embarrassment, here they are, one of the most powerful women in all of Atlas discussing like a child with one of the most powerful men across the multiverses, who fails to play the part of the mysterious and cryptic emissary of an Elder God. A few seconds of awkward silence passes and Winter is the first to crack up, only to be followed by Henry.

They start giggle, and then slowly chuckle until eventually turning into a full blown laugh. They were laughing because even with all that they have been through; all the lies, the secretive planning, the betrayals and the traumatic future, their bond was still very much real, the bond between comrades that forms after many years of battle together, a bond that became stronger when they became family, the bond between an older sister and her little brother.

"hehehehe… Good to see you keep being you, can't imagine what it must be like to work for an Elder God" she says before casually leaning on her wall, trying to catch her breath after all that laughing "I am quite surprised myself… Here I was telling my… apprentice how I was fearing of losing what little humanity I had left" his smile slowly fades as he looks out into the city "I've lived so many lifetimes outside of time… all this eons learning… trying to understand why it all lead to this… trying to find a way to stop it all… To give my psychotic wives and kids a future where they can be at peace… And give them a husband and father that can actually express his love for all of them… and not just pretend it to not hurt them…" he lets out a heavy sigh as Winter listens carefully.

"I need you, Winter… There are very few people I can trust… People who I know won't betray me the minute they know about the future… People willing to take a stand against what's to come and not panic when they remember it… I need agents… I need to fix all of this and end what my mother begun… I need people who my younger self can count on, because he is ignorant of all that is going on behind the scenes… things that even if I want to tell him, I can't out of fear of messing too much with the variables in the timeline… He has yet to realize everything at stake… And even the girls have yet to realize as well everything he as well as they, represent on this timeline… So I'll ask this one more time… Can I count on you…? Big sis?" he asks with a small smile before offering her his hand.

Winter is a bit shocked to hear those words out of his mouth again, tears form in his eyes before she wipes them away "You had me at 'I need you' Little Brother" she shakes his hand firmly, returning his smile.

"But are you really sure that Atlas will try to make a move on Percy? He is one of our main engineers and has been considered an ally of Atlas for a long time! The military leaders along with Ironwood keep sending him request for weapon schematics and even job offers!" she asks with concern.

"I have no doubt about it" he replies firmly "They made a move on me and I was an unpredictable killing machine with a taste for blood, full access to The Darkness, years of experience using it to its full potential and was rather easily influenced by it. There is no way they won't try it when my younger self is a shy, socially awkward, famous engineer that see's Ironwood as his uncle and has a vast majority of The Darkness sealed away and is just now learning to control it"

"Yeah… I guess that makes sense…" says Winter as she begins to evaluate their options "so, what's the plan?" she asks trying to come up with a solution.

"for now, keep your eyes open, pretend you are still on board with Ironwood about the Maiden Plan but inform my father of any military activity you don't recall being made in the previous timeline, we need to evaluate how my younger self's reputation as a master engineer has changed the way the higher ups think, if their machines and systems are so advanced now thanks to him, who knows what else has changed because of it and while they are yet to make a move on Percival now, it can't harm us to be vigilant of any signs of them beginning to plan for it, along with any clues about The Order of The Dark One's location's along with Cinder's plans" he explains with a calculative look on his face.

"Can't you just appear among them and kill them all?" she asks still confused about how his powers work "I can't, anything that affects too much the timeline will make us lose our advantage of knowing what will be coming in regards to Cinder and Salem. And I can't get too close to my grandmother seeing as I don't know how much she was involved with the original timeline, I've already destroyed her book of Eldritch magic that helped me summon the Elder Gods in the future so now she and her group are a big question mark in my plans. Not to mention their use of Eldritch magic could help them detect me, I have no doubt that they already know Yog-Sothoth is back in the Multiverse from his exile and have changed their original plans because of it, so it's best to keep an eye on them from afar and see who they react"

"What should we do with Percival?" asks Winter once more.

"He must begin to work on his singing skills, our mother's blood flows through his veins so he is capable of using her magic when the time is right" he says making her eyes grow wide.

"You mean the powers of the Bard? I thought they were supposed to only appear once every hundred years!"

"Ideally they should, but since our mother failed to seal every single dragon, the powers were transferred to Percival in order to finish the job, he already is getting visions from the second dragon, if he seals them or kills them will be his choice but we must NOT let Salem acquire a Dragon!" he says with a stern face to which Winter agrees with.

"what do you think he will do?" she asks making Henry smile "He is a Lambert… So he will more than likely find some way or form to do things his own way, even if it means breaking tradition and since he is too much of a softy to kill anything unless it's on a life or death situation…" his smile grows "It will be very interesting to see what happens next"

Winter soon shares his smile "What is he up to now?" she asks as she moves to stand next to her little brother and look into the horizon from her window "Either about to blow himself up, get someone to knock him out, about to get raped by the girls or getting dragged around by Glynda or Pyrrha" he replies with a small chuckle.

Winter keeps quiet for a couple of second "Henry… What are we going to do about Glynda and Pyrrha?..." she asks with Worry only to see her little brother's eyes turn into a dark glare along with his hands which tightly clenched his fists.

"... For now… We wait and see… I don't plan on losing anyone in this timeline, but those two… We'll have to see how things play out… And if they'll be able to climb their way out of the hole they dug themselves into…" he says with a cold glare before Winter places a comforting hand on his shoulder, making him sigh once again, a habit at this point.

"The pieces have been set and the clock is ticking… It's a Cult, a Terrorist Group, a Military Nation and Three Sleeping Dragons pissed about the Death of the Youngest versus a Family, a School, an Elder God and a Primordial being…" Henry says before taking a deep breath.

"... Seems Fair…" he says with a smile, wondering how his younger self is dealing with all of this.


-Meanwhile-

Back at Beacon.

Percival is doing what he was born to do, Build and Modify Weaponry. However, unlike most of his other times building something, he feels rather nervous. The reason for it being the fact that he was in front of a fully packed classroom with some students having to sit on the stairs between the desks or standing up behind them in order to make room for the rest to come in, some students even have to stay near the door and listen in from outside while others are recording him in order to transmit the video live for other students to see.

Now, even though the huge crowd is getting him incredibly nervous, he knows that as soon as his hands touch his tools and begins working he will zone out and focus explicitly on his work, he had this exact same situation when he was overcoming the trials of becoming a Master Engineer. The problem however, is none other than the Professor who asked him to do this live modification in the process. Something that could easily make him lose his concentration as

"Ho Ho! How exciting my boy! To have the famous Percival Lambert modify the old Blunderbuss to reach new untapped potentials for new heroic legends to come! Not only that, but to now have him as one of my own students and have him show his ways to his fellow alumni! What joyous occasion to show the camaraderie and spirit of Beacon, Don't you think so my boy?!" Asks Professor Port with a cheery tone of voice as his mustache twirls with excitement "And remember to stop every so often to explain to your fellow students about your work! Your technique of Runic Dust Augmentations into weapons or "RDA" is what took you to fame after all! And we should all help each other grow to new limits! Not to mention many of our more support role and engineering enthusiast alumni have been waiting for a chance to ask this of you, so you better not disappoint!" he finishes with a laugh bringing even more pressure into Percival's shoulders.

When he accepted to do a simple elemental modification to Professor Port's Shotgun-Battleaxe he did not expect to put on a live show for a crowd, he was already listing his ideas about what he could do to the weapon in the garage with the help of Ruby and Blake when the Professor announced the change of plans.

Speaking of which, Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang were all the way on the other side of the classroom being pushed against the wall by the crowd of students along with Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha and Ren, who were also dragged to the back by the crowd. Percy couldn't even look at them for moral support as the only part he could see of them was Yang's little yellow hair antenna that helped him find them amongst the people.

To say the girls were not pleased had to be the understatement of the century, they were hissing and plotting the murder of multiple people who were blocking their way to see their husband, but they were not the only ones with a similar feeling as amongst the group on the back, was Glynda Goodwitch, who shared similar feelings with the girls, although perhaps not as psychotic, but instead of being directed at the students, they were directed at Port, as he overprotective mother instincts dictated that anyone that brings Percy any sort of discomfort is to be burned in the fires of hell, an ideal she often made quite clear to Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang.

"Move, you giant meat roadblock, I got places be! I am his assistant so I got to be over there!" yells Ruby as she tries to push her way through the crowd only to fail due to her tiny muscle lacking arms.

"All of you have three seconds to make me a path before I really get angry!" yells Weiss as well trying to at the very least have some room to breathe.

"If this people don't move in five seconds I swear to god I am going to lose it and start chopping heads off!" whispers Blake at her wives loud enough for them to hear while pushing her way through the crowd

"You are telling me! People are going to start losing teeth if they keep pushing and I'll pulverize into a bloody pulp anyone that dares to mess with my hair!" yells Yang in anger as her eyes slowly start to turn red as people keep pushing her around.

Percival looks down at the weapon, all the designs going on his head were now blanks thanks to all the new attention, The Darkness was laughing and mocking him from within the seal but luckily the noise from the outside world was loud enough for Percy to not hear its insults. His loyal white snakes/tentacles, who were named by Blake as Ivory and Blanc, were cooing for their master and tried to bring him comfort from inside, outside the seal along with all the other tentacles and tendrils turned white after getting in contact with his Mother's sword.

"What are you waiting for you Dork, an invitation?! Get on with the show you Loser!" yells Cardin from among the crowd making the rest of his team laugh while calling Percy names. This makes the rest of Percival's friends get up and glare at them, though none as intense as his brides, who were flaring up with murder in their eyes "For your information, That 'loser' has a Doctorate's degree on Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and a Masters degree in Automotive and Microelectronic Engineering, while you and your stupid Neanderthal brain has yet to properly pass from middle school insults!" yells Blake as hard as she can, getting a boost from Jaune and Ren in order to properly glare at Cardin.

The rest of the class begins to laugh while Cardin glares back at the black haired Faunus about to reply to her comment only to be beaten to the punch by Yang "Middle school?! You are giving him too much credit Blake! His brain probably has yet to pass preschool if all he can think about to insult somebody is Loser and Dork!" she adds making the class roar in laughter once again and earning another glare from Cardin, she is getting a boost from Pyrrha and Nora as she high fives Blake and the both of them wink at Percy "You can do this Percy! We believe in you!" the both say with Ruby and Weiss jumping and hanging from their arms to smile at him as well and join them in their chant along with Jaune, Nora and Pyrrha while Ren slowly raises his hand to give him a thumbs up as he was supporting a lot of weight from the rest of the group as they climbed up to give Percy their support. Eventually it becomes too much for the green ninja and he ends up dropping the gang with a loud thud as they scream before hitting the ground, getting the classroom to roar in laughter once again before Professor Port steps forward to calm them down.

Percival is blushing up a storm and his heart skips a few beats at Yang and Blake's actions as no one had ever stood up to him like that with the exception of his best friend Pyrrha. Seeing the support from his brides and friends brings back the confidence to Percival as he takes his tool belt and proceeds to lay his equipment across the table, several tools are neatly laid across the tables surrounding Percival, from Normal steel to power tools, Plasma tools, Dust boxes and more all neatly placed in a specific order like that of the utensils of the surgeon.

Percival presses a button on the right rim of his glasses that instantly darkens the lenses while also updating him on the state of his target, with a virtual display along with accessing his database to search for schematics that could fit this particular build. Once he finds one he likes, he lets out a smile and puts on his leather work gloves and apron, handing his blazer to Professor Port and loosing up the tie, he takes a deep breath and reaches for his modified scroll, opening his music library in the process and scrolling down to find his building playlist, a playlist Ruby and Him now knew from memory. He casually presses play and waits for the beat to begin with a smile on his face before turning to look at his fellow students "Rule number one of Weapon building by Percival Lambert" he begins drawing the students attention with every word.

"Musical Accompaniment!" he yells as the music starts.

Not going to lie, a lot of people cringed, many of them expecting a cheesy pop song or to see him dance to the beat as he modified the weapon like some sort of cheesy eighties montage. They had a rather pleasant surprise when he sits back down, grabbing one of his laser tools and waits for the music to finish loading in before leaning forward into the weapon.

He stops however, thinking for a second before pausing the music before the first note burst out of its speakers, much to the confusion of his classmates.

"I am going to show you why you need musical accompaniment when you are carving dust inscriptions into your weapon, everyone please cover your ears" he says before taking a piece of scrap metal he used to heat his tools before hand, making everyone slowly cover their ears with their hands with the exception of Cardin who refuses to follow the orders of a dork. Percival gives a subtle signal to Glynda and his wives, who take out a pair of earplugs he had given them a few days ago if they were to ever needed to come into his workshop while he is working, with Ruby having a pair of heavy duty noise canceling earmuffs as she was his assistant and spent more time on the workshop. Weiss and Blake hurry to give the rest of their friends a couple of ear plugs as well. Even to Velvet and her team even though they had yet to properly introduce themselves to them, along with as many sensitive hearing Faunus around them as they could.

The students gently cover their ears at first, but when they see Percival pull from his toolbox what had to be the biggest and most professional looking earmuffs they had ever seen, giving another pair to Professor Port as he didn't think it was a smart idea to not protect the hearing of the man that would soon be checking and assigning his grades. Seeing the heavy duty earmuffs the students start to cover their ears as hard as they can, figuring that whatever was to come couldn't be good.

"Sorry about this guys" Percy says before activating the laser tool and starting to carve into the piece of scrap metal, the sound that came out of the laser meeting the metal could only be described as an unholy squeal of a dying fusion between an agonizing animal and an equally in pain little girl enhanced by the echo of the depths of hell mixed with the sound for hundreds of nails making their way down a chalkboard. everyone presses their ears in pain, those who failed to take earplugs or refused to cover their ears (Cardin and his friends) were now kneeling on the ground in pain as their eardrums are just seconds from bursting, the people wearing ear plugs were faring a bit better, but still felt a reduce pain from their ears, meanwhile Ruby and Percival didn't had any sort of issue as the earmuffs were successful in blocking out any and all noise, professor Port still could hear a bit of the noise as the extra earmuffs Percival has on him were not as good as the ones Ruby and him have, but just seeing the reaction from their students he could imagine the horrible sound coming from the tool as Percival carves into the piece of metal.

He stops just before he brought permanent damage to his classmates ears, everyone lets out a sigh of relief and the class takes a moment to catch their breaths, Cardin, clearly upset, marches up to Percival who is gently laying his tool on its holster to avoid the laser from firing up by accident and proceeds to wind up his arm to punch him across the face.

The world once again slows down for Percival, his enhanced senses allowing him to see the punch from a mile away, he was already leaning back to dodge when he feels Ivory and Blanc starting to emerge from his back, preparing to throw themselves at Cardin with Ivory targeting his neck and jugular while Blanc targets his arm with the desire to tear it of his body and to beat him to death with it. Feeling the murderous desires of his guardians, it takes all of Percival's will to force them back inside and prevent them from revealing his secret to the rest of his classmates, with all of his focus shifted to prevent the incoming murder of Cardin, Percival has no time to properly dodge the incoming punch, receiving it straight into his nose, pushing him backwards into the floor from the chair he was sitting on.

"TAKE THAT YOU JACKASS! I DARE YOU TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DO THAT AGAIN!" he yells, his fist still up in case Percival stands up again.

From the corner of his eye he could see Professor Port about to yell at him until he froze in place as a dark feeling sends a shiver down Cardin's back before feeling a very strong and heavy hand clamping on his shoulder. He slowly turns around only to find Glynda Goodwitch staring down at him as a dark aura slowly grows in size around her, her right hand grabbing his shoulder as her nails are about to pierce through his clothing and into his skin, her left hand holding her riding crop with unprecedented force, shaking violently as she tries to keep herself calm enough as the somber expression on her face promises death.

"U-Uhm…" whimpers Cardin as the visage of Glynda's rage paralyzes the vast majority of his body in fear, making him unable to connect his thoughts with his mouth in order to come up with an excuse that might save his life.

"Well… It seems Mr. Winchester has just volunteered to my… Special Reformatory Course…" says Glynda with a sadistic smile that sends shivers down the spines of everyone present, causing the students outside of the room to make a run for it to their respective classrooms in fear of what she might do to them for skipping class. Glynda's iron grip on Cardin slowly started to pull him towards her as she slowly turns around and drags him out of the room.

Cardin tries to scream and break free of her grip only to find himself on the ground and dragged by the leg, the classroom's door bursting open after Glynda blasts a telekinetic wave into it with her semblance. Seeing the destruction the pissed off teacher managed to do regardless of her own policy to not damage school property makes Cardin Panic even more, trying to grab the legs of any student that might help him stop her, only for the rest of the students to jump away from his grasp or kick his hand away to avoid being dragged to hell with him as well.

Even Professor Port refuses to help the poor lad, his magnificent mustache shivering as a sign of nearby danger in a way he had never felt before, the teacher had never felt such fear than what he was feeling for Glynda right now, not to mention that he has never seen her as angry as she is right now, so much so that he was considering of sending a message to Cardin's family about the untimely demise of the young hunter.

The last any of the students see of Cardin for the rest of the week is his screaming form as he desperately tries to cling to the floor by his nails, leaving a trail on the floor as he is slowly dragged by Glynda like the end of a horror movie.

As the rest of the students make a mental note to never misbehave in front of Glynda for as long as they live again, the members of team JNPR and CFVY however were all left questioning if whatever Glynda's punishment could be worse than whatever Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang had planned for him, as it took the collective strength and effort of the eight members of the two different teams in order to subdue the four girls, who were about to scream bloody murder and jump/dash into the front of the class to more than likely murder Cardin themselves. The girls had made weapons with whatever they had nearby, from sharp pieces of glass that had burst out the window after Percival's demonstration, sharp pieces of wood they tore off some of the desk, and a few box cutters they managed to get their hands off earlier in the day in case some wench or asshole needed to be… reeducated about Percival or their own marital/relationship status.

Even with Yatsuhashi using all of his strength to keep the girls from dashing out and committing homicide, they can all still feel the inhuman force that the girls are showing off right now as they whisper unintelligible phrases that more than likely describe the incoming murder of Cardin

Meanwhile, Percival slowly gets back up on the chair, holding his nose in pain in order to hide The Darkness healing it and snapping it back in place from the rest of his classmates eyes, he looks at the screaming form of Cardin and immediately regrets his decision to stop Ivory and Blanc of pretty much eating him alive, because whatever Glynda has planned for the jackass that dare to hurt her god-son right in front of her very own eyes just has to be included in one of humanities list of acts of unspeakable and unsustained cruelty from the sadistic face Glynda was showing, a face he didn't even know his godmother could make.

"Well… That is for the most part a normal reaction to using a high caliber laser against to make indentations on aura conductive metal" Percival says resuming the class and trying his best to change the subject before people were traumatized by what they had just witnessed.

"Like in many movies and books, what I do for my dust infused weaponry is create a series of schematics or "Runes" across the edges, center and handle of the weapon, creating a path for your aura to travel" he takes out a combat knife from his pouch that had the very same pattern of engraved Runes all over the blade "your Aura needs dust to activate and the dust needs a channel in which to travel and release in order to not explode on contact, depending on your control level and amount of aura, you can even activate different paths of runes in the same weapon! Creating different effects depending on the situation" he says with a smile as he activates his semblance, making some of the runes of the knife activate and in turn causing the edge of the blade to let out a small current of visible electricity that could easily be used as a taser, he then switched the runes he was activating to make the blade burst into blames, getting an amazed reaction from the audience. He then activated yet another set of runes to make the blade be surrounded by a small tornado before slashing at the air and creating an slash of wind come out of the blade and fly into the wall were a visible cut was made, making the audience give him a round of applause as they cheer at his demonstration, even Professor Port was impressed by the versatility the Runes could bring to any weapon if used properly.

"now don't get me wrong, the reason I can activate different rune sets has nothing to do with my control over aura, but mainly because of my semblance that allows me to activate Dust at short or long distances, so far I can activate Dust crystals, powder and runes even if they are over 60 feet from me, so what you are seeing is only a bastardized version of the rune activation, I am sure any of you could create even more impressive and devastating effects if you have a high enough control of Aura" he says with a smile seeing the interest of his classmates and Professor increase even more before handing the knife to the Professor who in turn searched for a target.

Port decides to try it out and opens the window, aiming at a nearby tree and getting used to the pattern and feeling of the runic blade before activating the wind runes and slashing at the air, creating an even bigger blade of wind that slashes well over half way through the tree. Port is shocked by the power of the runes and barely has time to bow to the students who were applauding him.

Percy smiles as the attention is focused back at him as he continues to explain "this is the very technique that I based my main thesis on, a technique so far only I have been able to use properly due to my affinity with Dust and my semblance that allows the powders and crystals to truly become one with the essence of the weapon and therefore the user, in shorter and romanticized words, I am basically sealing the weapon to your soul"

He grabs his laser tool once more "While I do have a basic way of adding my own aura into the process in order to make a basic preset for everyone to use, I prefer for the Runes to be built precisely for its user's aura, so I have them charge a constant flow of aura into the weapon as I create the runes" he turns to his left and proceeds to make a signal for Professor Port to grab the handle of Blunderbuss and start pumping a steady flow of Aura into it.

Percy turns once more to grab his Scroll, seeing that he was getting ready to work for real this time most of the class prepared their ears in order to protect themselves from the incoming sound blast only to see Percival tuck away his earmuffs back into his toolbox, seeing their confusion he decides to explain "No need to worry this time, through the years I have modified my scroll with many overhauls and military enhancements in order to create a way to overpower the sound of the tools reacting to Aura and Dust sensitive material, the speakers transmit sound in a way that manages to pretty much overpower any other noise besides the music it starts playing" hearing this, most of the alumni decide to trust him and remove their earplugs while the remaining decide to keep them at hand just in case he was wrong.

Percival once again goes through his small ritual of preparation, taking a final glance at the girls as they had managed to squeeze closer in their moment of hellish desire to strangle Cardin to death and lets out a genuine smile for them, earning ones in return from them along with Ruby and Weiss blowing him a kiss while Blake silently tells him "I love you" while Yang winks at him and makes the form of a heart with her hands. Their actions never failing to make him blush.

He shakes his head in order to regain his focus and begins to trace a few runic patterns with a marker on the scrap piece of metal "So far, no other engineer has been able to even come close to matching my technique and any machine they try to program to surpass me only ends up damaging the weapon itself. The key to proper Rune making is a combination of finesse, skill, affinity with Dust and a lot of patience" he says before showing the class a few of the more basic runes "notice how they all start and finish at the bottom? This is in order to make sure the energy follows a basic route as it travels around the weapon without overpowering an specific rune, although there are some weapons that require the runes to be overcharged, such as an earth rune on a mace or a club or hammer in order to create small tremors or even raise rock walls and stalagmites at your foes!"

He stops when he notices one of his classmates raising his hand "If you are the only one who can make these types of enhancements, why don't you just dedicate to make them? Wouldn't you be set for life if you made runic weapons?" his question was a valid one but it was one that reminded Percival of a certain burden of his.

"That's true, I won't lie to you, there have been many companies and military groups that have offered me nearly ridiculous amounts of Lien, amounts that would have made sure I never needed to pick up a wrench again and just focused on wasting away on a beach somewhere, Atlas and included, but…" his thoughts still linger on his dark burden. "Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it… If I were to produce these weapons in mass… whoever I started to work for would get an almost unfair advantage… one that I would never be able to truly know what they could use it for! Not to mention that this military grade weaponry sooner or later will fall in the hands of the people, you have all already seen what just a simple combat knife can do with a basic level 1 wind crystal rune set, try to imagine being mugged on the street by a guy with a pistol with a level 4 explosive powder rune set! Or have a terrorist group armed to the teeth with level 9 Fire crystal heavy assault rifles with a grenade launcher attachment! It's not possible to trace and protect all my weapons from falling into the wrong hands, even with my aura recognition and shutdown failsafe on the weapon, it would only take a skilled enough engineer to crack them open and have them ready for battle again!"

He lets out a heavy sigh "No… this type of power is not meant to be mass produced…. The only reason I keep putting them in my projects is thanks to the fact that I store them in a safe place near me and they are most of the time filled to the brim with explosive fail-safe's in case someone does try to use it without my permission, that is if I don't break them internally in such a way that they are useless until I take the time to repair them once again so unless I completely trust the person I am making a runic weapon for or I am looking to change my own combat style, most of the runic weapons I have made are in an useless condition and in display on my safe place"

He stops once more after seeing the same student raise his hand once more "And where is this place?" he asks only to make Percival chuckle "it used to be underground, but my nosy godfather managed to find it after orders from his superiors, so I moved it to an even more discreet location before he was able to break in or someone else managed to find it" he replies with a confident smile, wondering how Henry was taking care of his creations outside of time. A plan Henry himself insisted one in order to avoid Atlas and therefore White Fang to find the secret to his craft.

"But enough with the questions! You all came to see some magic, so here we go! Again, sorry if the music is a little loud but it's either that or permanent ear damage and I am sure which one you prefer the best.

He smiles and movers to press play on his scroll before once again shadowing his glasses and taking a small medical mask before hunching over Blunderbuss.

Again, the students didn't know what to expect with the exception of Blake, Ruby, Yang and Weiss, who sit back and relax into their chairs before staring at Percival with happy smiles and dreamy eyes as they cuddle closer to each other, some say that when married couples have been together for a long time they never find their partners more beautiful than when they are truly happy, just waking up besides them or being their true selves, and for them, seeing Percival work is seeing the man they absolutely adore without any shadow of a doubt be himself to the full extent of the word, a gigantic socially awkward nerd that gets flustered easily and is fun to tease but a god when it comes to build things. And seeing Percival happily hunch over the strange weapon of their professor with a look of child-like-glee only helps to fortify the scarily potent feelings they had for the young engineer, which was saying something considering they were all above psychotic levels of adoration towards him and each other.

"Straighten your back, honey!" yells Weiss in both concern for his posture and desire to see her husband-to-be flustered again, something that immediately happens as he sits back straight with a massive blush on his face that he tries to hide from them due to hearing one of his pet names being said out loud in public.

The music starts playing, a soothing melody of violins start to come out of the Scroll's speakers as Percival starves to carve into the metal with his laser tool, the students prepare for the horrifying screeching sound only to not hear it come, they are confused for a moment until one of them tries to ask Percy how was the scroll removing the sound of the tool only for not a single sound to come out of her mouth, the students marvel at the fact that as hard as they tried they weren't able to produce any sound whatsoever yet the music kept playing as if they were holding the phone right next to their ears.

That's when people started to hear the lyrics of the song as the almost angelic voice of a woman begins to sing, a voice Port had not heard in years and that Percival and now his wives, held close to their heart.

Well I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?

By the time the students look back up, Percival's hand is off like a lightning bolt. The melodic voice of his mother ringing in his ears and inspiring him. Pyrrha lets out a gentle smile as she remembers how Percival used to play this song for her all the time before a match for luck.

Well it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Every move of the laser into the metal has the precision of a machine yet the finesse of a paintbrush by an artist painting with his very soul

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

The girls close their eyes and relax into the chair, so many times had they heard this song being played for their children as a lullaby they now knew it by heart, most of the time it was Percival who sung it for them when he thought they weren't around. They start to sing along even though their voices can't be heard.

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you

Port could feel the shift in his aura as Percival starts to add Dust into the incisions he makes in the blade of his weapon, one of the axe blades containing wind Dust crystals while the other would contain fire as per requested. He wonders how long it has been since he last heard Aria's voice, let alone her singing she was so famous for.

She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

A rush of emotions hits Percival like a ton of bricks, a sensation that is soon shared with everyone else on the room as he starts to put more heart into his work, The Darkness long forgotten as the seal gets stronger for a moment.

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

The students start to hear an equally harmonious voice of a man singing along to the song, they relax to the duet as they watch on Percival's work with interest while Port and Pyrrha look confused as they doesn't remember this song to be a duet

Baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor (you know)
I used to live alone before I knew you

As the song picks up so do the voices of the singing duet, the members of team JNPR look on to their friend with amazement, his hand moving at an almost inhuman speed as the song continues, Jaune can't help but wonder if he would ever be as passionate with anything as Percy is right now with his art as Pyrrha looks at him from behind with a longing look on her eyes hoping to one day be noticed by the blonde while Nora and Ren unconsciously get closer and closer together soon intertwining fingers out of reflex

And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

The members of team CFVY are in a similar boat, Velvet covers her mouth in shock at the beauty she was seeing, the image of a man pouring his heart and soul into his creation, and she can't help herself but to take a picture to capture the moment. Coco slowly lowers her glasses in amazement, the feeling of peace being brought to her very core being enough to justify getting to classroom early on Velvets demand's. Yatsuhashi himself closes his eye; a calm smile is plastered across the face of the gentle giant as the feeling of Peace spreads to him. Fox on the other hand is simply lost for words as he tries to either relax or pay attention.

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

An old feeling starts to slowly burn back in the hearts of two of the members of team CFVY, as both Coco and Yatsuhashi slowly turn their heads to look as the shy rabbit Faunus who is standing some steps ahead from them to get a better view of Percival's work, both of them feel their hearts slowly start to beat faster as the lyrics of the song reawaken an old flame they have tried to ignore for so long, wishing to be heard. They slowly get closer and closer to Velvet, not realizing the actions of the other.

I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

The girls cover their mouths, smiles under them as tears begin to creep out of their eyes, they soon find themselves holding each other as they couldn't believe their eyes and ears, recognizing immediately the second voice of Aria's duet as the same voice of the man who sang their children and them to bed every night and now are is slashing away at their professor's weapon with a high caliber laser. Which they were certain he was unaware of him singing along at all himself.

And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Percival's heart keeps on beating as the melody seems to reach into his very soul, his hand now following the melody as he feels the warm embrace of his mother's arms around him once again.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah…

Out in the deserted hallway, Ozpin leans back on the wall next to the door with a small smile on his face, getting to hear the angelic voice of his beloved Aria once again brings back memories of the good times the two of them shared together as a couple and later on as a family when Percival was born, for as few as they were, they are the most precious moments the headmaster has. He pulls out from below his shirt a silver necklace where a locket is hanging from, the slick design of the locket had the only decoration of a heart carved into the silver, upon opening it he is met with a picture of himself, a two year old Percy and his wife, Aria, the three of them hugging each other tightly while smiling to the camera while Aria holds up Percy's little hand to wave at the camera.

On the other side of the open locket was yet another picture of his wife, in her combat armor with a loving smile on her face. Her short red hair and brown eyes showing pure joy and adoration in them were enough to make him fall in love with her all over again, her determination and lack of sophistication along with her sometimes crazy and hyperactive nature only being quirks that made her more attractive in his eyes along with her courage and passion for life and more importantly, music.

Her selfless compassion, adamant desire to protect others and desire to preserve life at any cost made her the perfect leader of the people and a symbol of peace for their generation, he was sure that she was the one that was meant to rule over the academy instead of him.

He holds the locket close to his heart, it's painful aching only remind him of the future that is meant to be save, a future where their son and grandchildren may be free from the sins of their past, whether it was Salem and her forces on his part or the Grimm Dragons on hers, his son now needed to face the future his parents left for him and this time, he would be with him every step of the way, as she would have wanted. He heads back up his office as his Scroll vibrates receiving a message from Winter, smiling as the plans were being set on motion.

As the song ends a few of the students want to cheer only to be stopped when the next song plays, again starting with a melody of violins but with a more upbeat tone, Percy still has work to do and he couldn't afford to stop now as the rest of the instruments start to join in to play "He is a Pirate" the movement of his tools gets faster yet its precision does not falter in the slightest.


Time skip

-2 Hours Later-

Weiss and Yang jump into Percival's arms as their group of friends makes their way down the hallway towards the cafeteria. "Percival that was amazing!" the two of them yell as Percy smiles and hugs back with a chuckle "It was just a routine exercise, honestly I was worried you were all getting bored!" he says as he regains his balance only for Ruby and Blake to jump into the hug as well and hug his arms.

"Dude, by the time you finished people rushed behind Port as he ran to test his new weapon! I don't think anyone has ever been That enthusiastic about something regarding Professor Port!" says Jaune before high fiving Percival.

"it was truly a work of art, I can see why you are considered a master in your field, Percival, you have earned my respect" says Ren with his usual calm voice and smile "Thanks man! I appreciate it" says Percival before fist bumping Ren.

"YOU WERE LIKE *SWOOSH*! AND WE WERE LIKE *WOW*! AND THE LASER WAS LIKE *BZZZT*! AND THEN PROFESSOR PORT WAS LAUNCHING FIREBALLS OUT OF HIS AXE! I STILL DON'T KNOW WHY WE DIDN'T FOLLOW EVERYONE ELSE!" Yells Nora with her trademarked enthusiastic self

Percival chuckles once again at her antics "Sorry Nora, I get really hungry when I concentrate like that for so long, in fact, Ruby and I have a mini-fridge in the workshop for when we finish projects, although it's mostly filled with cookies or cookies and cream Ice cream most if the time"

His statement only makes puff her chest proudly "it's good for you to eat sugar after a stressful situation! I don't need to explain myself!" she says with a semi grumpy tone as she hugs Percy's arm

"that being said" interrupts the voice of reason, Pyrrha "It's a good thing we managed to break away from the group, with one quarter of the school gone to chase Port we'll definitely get the advantage in the cafeteria, hopefully they still have those little shortcakes I like" she says with a kind smile.

"OH THAT'S RIGHT!" Yells Nora "Ren, there is this AMAZING Strawberry shortcake in the cafeteria you just HAVE to try it! You to Jaune! Come on guys we are wasting air, LET'S GO!" Yells Nora once more before pulling Ren and Jaune by the arm and rushing towards the cafeteria. "Whoa, Nora! Slow down!" yells Jaune as they start moving at Match Nora speeds with Pyrrha close behind them trying to catch up to her friends and crush/obsession.

Percival lets out a laugh at the sight of his friends disappearing around the hallway and tries to move forward as well only to feel his Fiancée's stop him in his tracks and prevent him from doing so. He looks down only to see the dreamy looks the girls are giving him.

"what is it?' he asks with a smile only for each of them to take turn to kiss him in the lips before hugging him tightly. Percival was now a blushing mess once again and tried his best to hide his face only to fail miserably as Ruby and Blake hold his arms in place.

They start to move forward, making their way towards the cafeteria as the girls wear giant smiles of victory while Percy tries to control the color coming out his face and failing miserably as the five of them walk.

They were about halfway there when Percival's scroll started to vibrate "H-Hang on, I gotta take this" he says with a small stutter as he had yet to compose himself, much to the girls teasing pleasure.

As soon as he takes out his scroll and reads the message however, all color drained from his face "Babe?... Babe what's wrong? Is everything ok?" asks Yang bringing her concern to the rest who turn to look at him as he remains frozen.

The girls all look into the phones message and can't help but to glare and hiss as well when they saw the caller I.D. and the message below it.

Uncle Ironwood has left you a message:

Come to your father's office, we need to talk.

It reads, the reason they were all so hesitant about this was because Ironwood was a man of business, a man who was always busy or had something to do and therefore would never contact Percival's scroll directly unless his uncle needed something from him.

Specifically a favor in regards of a new weapon schematic, a vehicle or in the worst case scenario, yet the most probable thanks to Percival's own luck.

Him using The Darkness…

Things are truly, getting interesting...

-end of chapter 7-


Semi-Halloween Omake:

Gifts from The Middle of Nowhere.

"The time of reckoning is upon us" a dark voice begins as thunder and lightning booms in the background "The day all monsters come out from the shadows of the night in order to lurk in the world of the mortals and prey upon their flesh!" the lightning once again booms in the background lighting up the room to show the headless body of the man telling the story.

"Is that so? Because I don't think those girls dressed as slutty nurses can be considered 'creatures of the night' Jaune" says Ren looking from their dorm room window at some of the students making their way to the main hall of the academy.

"What the- Ren! Don't startle me like that! Especially not on Halloween night!" complaints Jaune from inside the torso of his headless horseman costume.

"Jaune, how many times do we need to tell you, it's not Halloween! We are just going to the school's costume party, it's October 26! Can you even see in that thing? I don't see any panel for your eyes" he asks as he himself wears a super sentai suit of the green sentai warrior.

"Ah! That's the secret to really awesome Halloween costumes my friend! Authenticity! I had commissioned Percy to help me make a full suit of armor that hides my head! Doesn't it look amazing?!" he says with pride that is visible even though the legit black metal armor plate that the armor is made of, though Ren has to give it to Jaune, it looks pretty nice.

"That still doesn't answer my question as to how are you planning to see" replies Ren with a sarcastic tone. "Pyrrha is going to be my eyes! She is going as a vampire queen and I asked her if she wanted to spend the whole party with me, I am still really surprised how quickly she agrees" says Jaune with an 'as a matter of fact' tone.

"Yeah, you are still an idiot" is all Ren can come up with before Nora bursts in the room "BWAHAHAHAHA!" She laughs maniacally while wearing a costume of the super sentai warrior's greatest enemy, Empress Repulsa "GREEN WARRIOR, WE FACE EACH OTHER ONCE AGAIN!" She screams before jumping at Ren before he saw it coming, only for him to replace himself with Jaune at the last second.

Jaune doesn't have time to react and falls to the ground with a loud clank of his heavy armor. "Nice try Nora, good costume though" says Ren with a smile as he begins to treat Nora's pulsating lump on her head.

"Is everyone ok? I heard a commotion" ask Pyrrha from the other room before coming in to see what was wrong, Ren and Nora feel their breaths being taken away when they see Pyrrha in costume, looking like a regal lady with pale skin and an elegant red Victorian dress "Wow Pyrrha, you look amazing!" compliments Nora making her blush"Thank you so much! I didn't know what to wear so I asked Percy to let me in his costume trunk! I am glad it looks good!"

"why does Percy have a Victorian dress in his costume trunk?" asks Ren confused before removing his green sentai helmet "Oh, all he has in his costume trunk are dresses and other women's clothing" Pyrrha's answer only confuses the group more "He likes to dress in drag for costume parties!" the lack of surprise in Pyrrha's voice tell the rest of her team she has seen Percy in dresses far too often.

"Hey! Speaking of which, where are they?! They've been gone for two weeks now!" asks Jaune still from under Nora as the armor proves too heavy to lift on his own.

"Ugh! Jaune, how many times do we have to tell you?! Percy and the girls went to Mistral to visit his relatives for two weeks! They'll be back home any minute now!" replies Nora annoyed to Jaune's frequent question.

"Hey! It's not my fault the author writes this at three in the morning and can't think of a good framing device to get the readers up to date!" says Jaune before a bowling ball falls from the heavens and hits him on the armor plate where his head is located "OUCH!"

Pyrrha rushes in to aid him "Are you ok, Jaune?!" she asks desperately "Finland!" he replies dazed.

Before they can ask where the bowling pin came from they hear the door to the workshop open and walking up the stairs come Percy, Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang "Guess who's back?!" asks Yang with a smirk before tossing her bags on the bed and jumping in the couch "ahhh, the comforts of home, how I've missed you!" she says happily as she cuddles her sofa cushions.

"Hey guys! How was the trip to the middle of nowhere?!" asks Nora excitedly "First of all Nora, cool costume" says Percival before giving her a thumbs up "Second of all, my grandparents don't live in the middle of nowhere! They live in the Now'here, Mistral!" Percy corrects her before beginning to unpack the food items his grandma gave him in the appropriate cabinets in the kitchen.

"That's what I said! Middle of Nowhere!" she replies making Percy's eyes roll before she turns to Ruby "anyway, how was it?!" she asks excitedly before Ruby smiles "Oh, it was great! Muriel and Eustace are such a lovely pair of old people!... mostly Muriel… And they have such a cute pink dog, I wish I had brought Zwei with me on the trip!" she yells excitedly before pulling from her bag lots of sweaters "look! She made sweaters for all of us! She also taught me how to sew and even gave me some of her happy plums as gift for my coming birthday! They are delicious though perhaps with a bit too much Vinegar" she points out before handing everyone their sweaters, each of them with their respective emblems.

"ah ah ah!" interrupts Blake before taking the topper of happy plums from Ruby's hands "those are for your birthday young lady!" she says making Ruby blew a raspberry at her before she kneels down to kiss her, making her smile once again "but yes, Muriel is such a kind soul, she even taught me the basics of Sitar playing, she is amazing with it! She even gave me her spare one!" she says before pulling from the mountain of baggage a black sitar case holding a beautiful looking brown sitar "though, Eustace could really work on that attitude of his!" she continues with a bit of an annoyed tone

"I am just happy one of Percival's relatives actually likes us and approves of us! I swear to Oum I was ready to meet another overprotective Psycho!" Yang chuckles only to see the members of team JNPR and Percy give her a look of "are you serious" when she mentioned overprotective psycho "That and I spent most of the time with Eustace and Percy trying to fix that old truck of his"

"Ah yes! That old truck" says Percy as he comes from the kitchen "I love fixing that thing every October I come to visit them, it's such a technological wonder how my grandpapa Eustace keeps it working despite everything he does to it trying to fix it" he chuckles with embarrassment, at least it was clear from which side of the family he got his engineering skills.

"Um, Percy?" asks Pyrrha making Percival turn to her with a smile "what is it Pyrrha, oh! I see you have been through my costume trunk! Lady Victoria Delanco the Fourth looks so good on you!" he says with a smile.

"um, yes thank you, but…" she begins trying to come up with the right words "Is Weiss ok?" she asks as Weiss hangs tightly on Percival's back with a look of total horror in her face "Oh! Weiss? Yeah, since she loves dogs she spent most of her time with my grandparent's dog Courage, don't know what's got her like this but she hasn't let go off me for the rest of the trip home" he says before starting to hang a picture on the wall that contained himself, the girls, Courage, Eustace and Muriel on the front of the family farm smiling at the camera as he wears his beloved grandpa's hat.

All of them were oblivious of the daily horror Weiss had to face with the help of Courage as the family spended the two weeks in high hijinx almost in the verge of death due to a ridiculous amount of supernatural creatures that tried to get them, she lost count of how many time she and Courage saved the rest of the family from certain doom, so much so that her new scroll photo is about her and Courage simply smiling at the camera after once again saving everyone. "The horror… all the types of horror…" she whispers before digging herself further into Percival's back.

Yang got a mischievous look on her face "you know, Eustace did give me something as a keepsake as well" she slowly says making the rest of the group pay attention to her "Hey Weiss!" she yells making Weiss turn her head towards her before being greeted by the horrifying visage of a green mask "BOOGA WOOGA WOOGA WOOGA WOOGA!" she roars making Weiss almost literally jump out of her skin in a scream before rushing off with Percy on tow thanks to her mighty grip and hiding under the covers of their bed. Yang starts to laugh out loud along with Nora before being smacked in the head by Blake with a rolling pin Muriel also gave her as she taught her and Ruby how to cook "Ow! Now what did I do?!" Yang asks "You know she hates that! If she has nightmares tonight you are sleeping on the couch!" Blake yells back making the rest of the gang chuckle at their antics.

"What about you Percy, did you get any keepsakes from your relatives?" asks Ren as he Nora and Pyrrha make a team effort to help Jaune back up.

"Hmm? Oh, not much, My grandpa gave me a spare of his hat that shall now remain as one of my most precious possessions, next to my shrine to Xena!" he says excitedly before opening his personal closet to reveal a shrine to the warrior princess and Lucille Frances Ryan/Lucy Lawless in general that contained the full series all signed by the actress, pictures also signed, replica of her chakrams, actual props of her chakrams sealed in a glass display case, and a set of armor actually used in the filming of the show, all of it centered around a picture of him and the actress smiling at the camera with her in full costume. He lovingly places the hat on a spare mannequin head before softly touching the signed photo of the warrior princess "I'm back my love" he whispers before gently touching a replica of her chakrams and closing the door to meet the gazes of his team who were looking at him with a mix of jealousy and surprise "I can be obsessive about something too! None of you have the right to judge me! I have the right to be a little weird just like everyone else!" he screams in protest.

"I-Is that all?.." asks Jaune trying desperately to change the subject before things got more uncomfortable.

"Not at all! He also gave me this!" he exclaims before pulling an ancient looking slab from his backpack, a slab that almost gives Weiss a heart attack when she sees it "apparently it's very old but grandpa couldn't sell it so he gave it to me! Pretty cool huh?!" he asks with a smile before Weiss runs to the window, where on the distance she sees a tall skinny figure looking back at them before saying in a ghastly voice.

"RETURN THE SLAB~... OR SUFFER MY CURSE~..."

What follows is the blood curling high pitched screams of Weiss as this proves to be, a terrifying night after all.

-Happy Halloween and Good Night!-


Authors Note:

I know, I know, I've been gone for pretty much half a year already and this isnt a long enough chapter to apologize. But please understand that I struggle a lot developing all of the plot, some ideas that I like are often replace by better ones and the end plot is still a big mistery even for me.

I am pretty much making this as I go but I can't say I ain't having fun and I hope you all do to! The ending has changed at least 5 times now and I still don't know where to take this story but i'll make my best to make sure we don't stumble too much out of context and end up losing the plot entirely.

Not to mention I had planned to released this chapter by June but ended up trashing and redoing the whole thing as it proved to be too much of a cringe fest! ((more than already ease XD)) I am still struggling to develop Percy as a character and I sometimes fear I am not doing the proper justice to Oum's Characters. Then again, I did add elder gods and time/multiverse travelling to his work so I suppose thats something I shouldnt worry about so much.

Anyway, this story has proved to be such a great training experience for me and I vow to see it to its completion! be it 30 chapters, 60 or hell, even 100! I swear to all of you that I will let you see this story to the end! I wont allow myself to quit!

But back on topic, have you guys seen RWBY: Combat Ready in kickstarter?! i am to late to get a signed copy of the game (T-T) but I am stil soooo backing at least one tier! I want that game and I want it now! especially since we unlocked the miniatures for both the girls and villains! (I LOVE MINIATURES!) go support if you want a kickass game featuring our favorite girls! Especially since we are sooo close to unlock Penny as a playable character! also, who else is pumped for season 5?! Ain't gonna watch a thing until all episodes are up as per tradition to binge watch the entire series once a season is over! now including Rwby Chibi as well!

As for the Omake, I didnt want to wait for Halloween/Dorky Waifu Birthday to post it so its not the scariest thing I could make as I wanted to get this chapter up as soon as possible, but i hope it was enough to reawaken that old trauma we all suffered as children when we watched that particular episode, so you are all welcome for that! :D

As always, Please support CSLucaris and Saskyang on Tumblr, they are a strong motivation for my work and help me go through Writer's block with their amazing pieces! Tell em I sent ya! or Commision a Piece! you will not be dissapointed!

Also! Plese, Please, Please! leave a Review with your thoughts and opinions as I am still trying to perfect my craft, nothing makes me more happy than a review containing a nice comment and a constructive critisicm! but even if you hate the story, please explain why and what I can do to make it better! I really wish to become a better writer and bring you the best story I can give you!

But anyway, back to the narrator's voice!

What exactly is Ironwood after?! How is it possible for Percival to hold so many degrees at his age?! What sort of Eldritch Horror has Glynda unleashed upon the Poor and Idiotic Cardin?! What Will happen with the Love Triangle that Velvet still doesn't realize she is the main part of?! What sort of Tasks will Winter have to do now that she works as an Agent of Yog-Sothoth?! What will Henry and Cinder find in the beginning of Time?! What exactly lurks inside of The Darkness?! What are the powers of the Bard?! How will Percival deal with meeting his Wives Parents?! Why am I making so many questions you obviously don't know the answer to?! And most importantly, Will we be able to see even a little bit of Velvet in the upcoming season?!

All this questions and much more will be answer in the next exciting chapter of:

RWBY: Time Management!


P.S.

What would you guys like to see in the coming chapters?

-More Henry and Cinder?

-Flashforwards of the now inexistent future?

-more Percy interacting with his newly wed life?

-The Girls finally enacting Divine Punishment against an unsuspecting thot? (had to write it that way or a friend wouldn't stop bugging me)

-The Confrontation between The girls and their parents?

-Pyrrha trying her hardest to make Jaune notice her?

-The same but with Nora and Ren? (( I feel i am neglecting then a little bit))

-More of the Coco/Velvet/Yatsuhashi love triangle?

Leave any suggestion in the Reviews! Ill give closer attention to the ones including constructive critisicm or nice messages! XD

Well, I think that should be all, the next chapter is already 20% done so if I don't erase it due to cringe, I'll hopefully update before the year ends! ((No Promises))


Well, Thank you so much for your attention if you managed to read to the very end and even if you didn't, I hope you enjoyed my story and as always!

From the Eldritch Depths of my heart were The Ancient One slumbers.

Thank you for reading!

Kami-Nii-Sama