Yang Pov
I kinda went overboard on Sapphires hair. I dyed her whole hair light blonde, and gave her blue tips that get darker as they go down. Thirty minutes ago she started worrying about the hair and wanted to see it. I let my sister up and she goes to a mirror. The extensions fall to her shoulder and she sees her new hair. I flinch getting ready to be hit. I keep forgetting she is still my brother deep down, and I went to far. "Sapphire don't hurt me please I'm sorry I went to far, please forgive me." I start to cry and I close my eyes as Sapphire walks up to me.
Sapphire Pov
"I love it yang." Yang gives me a surprised look as I hug her. " I love my new hairstyle yang."
Releasing the hug I sit on my bed talking to my sisters until I get sent to the tournament for the two on two battle. "Wish me luck sisters." They give me hugs and I walk out of the room. They tell me they will be there to watch the fight. The stage is being selected, Z3R0 and I look at the people we will be fighting. One is a red haired girl, the other is a black haired guy with swords attached to his arms with a gun in the center of it. The trigger is attached to his thumb. The girl looks at my hair and laughs. "What's so funny?" she crosses her hands, "Nothing, Blondie just thought I would be fighting someone with a higher iq." In the crowd I can see Yang with a red face her eyes burning. "You are gonna regret that" "Ooh poor Blondie, too bad aren't good looking." She uncrosses her arms as the fight starts, and draws muddy water from the earth, channeling it around her body. Z3R0 sprints into the guy knocking him backwards and they fight. The girl throws water towards me and I barely avoid it. "Poor Blondie doesn't want to get dirty. I change my form to be a guy and I sigh as I rush towards her.
She throws the water at me and it shatters my illusion. I slide in next to her and slice her backwards. She uses the water to slow her fall. She grins as I am standing on a metal grate. She throws her hands upwards and water covers me all the way up my body covering my hair and clothes in mud and water. I scream and start to cry. "Aw the little Blondie is a girly girl." My eyes glow as I put the blue ore into the gauntlets. I activate yang's semblance and the girl opens her mouth as the shot shoots her into the wall protecting the stands. Her aura is shown to be at one. I sit on the ground and cry about my clothing being dirty. The man on the opposite team loses to Z3R0 and we are announced as the winner. The shield disappears and yang jumps down to come and help me. She lands next to me and picks me up as I start to cry. "My hair and clothes are ruined yang." She gives me a smile, "It's gonna be okay, you won and that's what matters." A friend of the red haired girl comes rollerblading down the wall to pick her up and she gives yang an angry look as she Rollerblades away, her tail causing rainbows as she moves.
Z3R0 Pov
I finish the fight with ease the guy was hardly a fight, and I get a call from Mia she tells me she's coming back after her free flight. I walk back with Weiss to her dorm room. Mia as she usually does when coming back rushes into me and tries to knock me down. Weiss sees Mia coming and stops her with a glyph. I laugh and grab Mia from the glyph. Weiss gives me a scared stare as I start talking to Mia. "Hey Mia have a nice flight?" Mia nods her head " Yes master. I had a great time." Her voice is slightly masculine as she is a bird that grew up with me, and she followed in my footsteps. Weiss circles me looking at the bird. "That bird is weird, you said it's name is Mia yet it doesn't have anything but a name to make it a girl." I give her a I don't know shoulder, " She never had a girl in her life just me and I can't make her girly." Weiss claps her in excitement, " I teach her how to be a proper and girly bird" Mia gives a startled squawk and tries to fly off. Weiss grabs her softly and runs off cooing about how cute Mia is going to be. I stand there dumbfounded at how I just had my bird taken from me. I thought she wouldn't like Mia but I guess I was wrong, I sit on a nearby bench and get out a candy bar relaxing.
Weiss Pov
This bird is so tomboyish I want to cry. It has been given no chance to be girly. He raised it to fight and not enjoy its life it seems. I put a bow on its ear as it shakes in anger. Remembering it's voice I change it to a girlier voice. She gives me a glare and I pet her. I get her dressed in leggings and let her keep the hoodie, she kept trying to bite me everytime I tried to take it off. I give her wings some color and then I release her. She flies around for awhile and then lands on my shoulder. Quietly she says thank you and I smile at her. We walk out to Z3R0 who when he sees Mia fall out of the bench and into a puddle of water. "My God Mia, you look so much moreā¦. Different" "Z3R0 I like this." Mia says and he nods his head in shock and the three of us go to eat food.
Mia pov
I sit on the table eating seeds and tiny meat in a bowl. Weiss and Z3R0 are eating a pizza, Weiss stops and wipes her face with a napkin, " So what's your story Mia? You have to have one, you seem to be highly intelligent" I look down at my talons and nod my head. " I was born into a family of royal griffins" I start my story. "My family was fighting with the original hunters and huntresses. But it all started when my great great great grandfather saved a hunters kids life. He was known as a heroic griffin and he had his semblance unlocked by the leader of the town. He used his powers for good and protected the skies of the village. One day however hundreds of Nevermore covered the sky above the town. Everyone hid inside and he alone stood against the Nevermores. The man whose child he had saved came running out against the complaints of my grandfather via telepathy. The man ran to the weapon store and with a bow and arrow helped defend the town with my grandfather." I take a breath.
"My grandfather had met another griffin and they had six children. He was close to the young man who helped him, and trusted him fully. One day the young man came running to my grandfather and told him his daughter was stolen and taken to a mountain top. Trusting the man they took off into the sky. When they landed a net fell on top of my grandfather and it was hammered into the ground. My grandfather looked at the man who was given a package of gold for his betrayal. The man turned around and started to walk off only for his head to be magically sliced off his body. My grandfather watched as a lady walked up to him and removed his wings. She laughed at him and prepared to take off his head. My grandmother swooped in and distracted them, my grandfather got out of the net and ran away." I start to cry and Weiss wipes my eyes with a napkin. "Thank you Weiss." Clearing my beak I start again. "He lived and he taught his kids to never fully trust a man, for all he does is want more and more. One day however the lady came into town. She summoned giant demons, and the town's men tried to stab them but no earthly weapon could hurt them, and dragged everyone out one by one asking where grandfather was. No one in the town told her and she grew mad quickly. She got ready to decapitate people with the mayor being first. A person screamed in an unknown language toward her, and all her demons turned towards the man who screamed. Holding a book and a dagger in his hands he murmured incantations, and the book and dagger glowed a brilliant green. The man readied the dagger as a demon ran into him. With a single swipe to the head the demon fell to the ground dead. The townspeople cheered for the man and the woman cursed and told her demons to kill the man. Smirking the man opened his book and with a single word a green bolt of energy shot out arcing through the demons killing all of them one by one. The woman turns towards him and flicks her wrist at him. His eyes glow green and with a flick of his wrist she goes flying through a wall. The woman gets up and screams a word in the man's language and then says, you win this time brother. All the townspeople cheer for him and he asks where my grandfather is. My grandfather came out of hiding and the man healed his wings. My grandfather learned that day that few men were corrupt, most cared for others and are willing to sacrifice themselves. He told me this before he died when I was 12 years old. He died the next year. We griffins have a very long lifespan." I stop eating and got a drink.
"I was born as Mia the Swift. My family was happy to have me born into the world. They were upset though since they wanted another semblance user to take the throne from my father,when he got to a certain age. My semblance was activated however when I was a young age and they expected me to grow big and strong. I stayed the same size as I was as a adolescent griffin. When I finally had enough energy to use my semblance I realized why I was small. My semblance allowed me to grow ten times my size. My family was so happy for me and they allowed me to go out and see the world. I was having a fun time and then one day I got captured by a greedy man. He used me for bird fights. Me being a royal griffin I felt disgusted by what I had become so I ran away. His friends found me and we're about to kill me and eat me when Z3R0 here saved my life. And now I'm here after years of being a tomboy bird, and I just now get to feel the pampered life I was supposed to have in the royal family. I thank you Weiss, you are the second best person in the world to me. " finishing my story I walk into her lap and give her a head nuzzle. She gives me a warm smile and I go to sleep tired from my story and flight.
Z3R0 Pov
I stop eating the food and start to think, Weiss stops petting Mia and asks me what's wrong. " Nothing Weiss, just the man she mentioned is only known in legends as the savior of the hunters. He brought them together to fight when they thought all was lost. His name was lost in the legends however. I always thought he was just a story, like people being born with a power because of their eyes. Sapphire broke that idea however." She continues petting Mia, "Then maybe he is real? That would mean the sister has to be real as well though." I nod my head deep in thought. "The woman is confirmed to be alive, she's the one who killed Sapphire's mom. That's right she's lived that long. So the guy must be alive still." I get up putting a big tip on the table for the cleaner. "let's go Weiss." She uses her phone to give herself a purse big enough to fit Mia, who is still sleeping. She walks after me as we go towards her dorm. I give her a hug and tell her to watch Mia. She nods her head and I walk off towards Ozpin's office. He gives me a nod as I walk in. " and to what do I owe this meeting Z3R0?" He extends his hand as I take off my mask. "Does Salem's brother live?" He steps backwards in shock. " Z3R0 you are putting your head where you shouldn't be, you are not a high enough rank to know any information about that man." not giving up I retort, " Ozpin, tell me whether or not the man is alive." He waits, and nods his head. " He disappeared three years ago, his name is Blane. That is all I can say, stop digging around Z3R0 not everyone in atlas is on your side." I put my mask back on. "I've known that for years Ozpin, they won't be able to stop me." I walk into the elevator confident. The light in it is off and as it closes I flash my light. Two of my fellow Atlesian specialists are In here with me. "Ohh hello friends."
Sapphire pov
I finally got all my hair clean and changed clothes. Feeling better I go out of the bathroom. Yang is outside with a shoe box, she hands it to me and I take it to my bed. She wait for me to open the box. In fact everyone is waiting for me to open it. Inside is a pair of blue boots with a heel and gems on it. Weiss and yang give each other high fives as I put them on excited to have something to wear besides Ruby's boots that don't match the outfit. I give yang a hug and start walking around in them. Getting used to them quickly, I surprise yang. Weiss sits on her bed petting Mia who looks better than she did before. A knock at the door and Z3R0 is standing there with ice on his gloves. Weiss gets up putting Mia down on her bed. "Z3R0 did you find anything out?" He breaks the remainder of the ice and tells all of us to sit down, Mia waking up sits on Weiss's lap. " I will tell you all i know, as well as something about who I work for."
Z3R0 Pov
" The man we are looking for is named Blane, he is the brother of the woman who killed your mom. " I put down my laptop and activate a holographic image of Blane. " I have made a predicted holograph of what he looks like. This book is the source that allowed him to kill the demons that his sister created. Normal earth weapons cannot make a dent on the demons. They are susceptible to magic however and non earth metals." I nod towards the meteor ore on Sapphires weapon. "Sapphire could take them on. And anyone with an elemental semblance can as well, such as weiss and I. However the man is important to our cause. Evil human beings seek to destroy the world and all who inhabit it, they wish to send us to the dark ages once again." Sapphire responds, " Where is this man? You and I can go after him together." Responding to Sapphire, " I will be unable to help you this time Sapphire, no one will. You will have to go and find this man alone after we find his general location. That's all I had to say, if you need me ill be in my room at the inn.
? Pov
"Wake up Blane, are you ready to join my side and watch the world burn?" Getting up, I spit out of my cage and with a flick of her wrist the knives in my back continue draining my aura. "it's a shame my brother, you will have to die for your stupidity she laughs and dirt kicks up around her as she walks away. Reaching for the spit I grab the key that was laying there. The demon that used to stand there died weeks ago and she doesn't remember giving it the key. Or maybe she does I think and thinks it left its station. I unlock the door to my cage and the knives fall out of my back. I stagger over to my book and murmured an incantation to heal my wounds. "Sapphire rose, i'm coming to help you." I grab my dagger and book and with a word teleport out of this hellIsh dungeon. At the front of the dungeon I reappear and I quickly duck into the bushes. "Hang on Sapphire, I will cure you of being a girl when I get there."
Sapphire pov
My boots look so great and I can't stop thinking about how much my life has improved. Someone knocks on the door and Yang gets up to answer it. As soon as she opens the door a man puts his foot in the door, wearing a hood that covers his face. He looks down at the ground and holds a book in his hands. "Which one of you girls is Sapphire? Yang threateningly holds her fists up. He casually pushes her aside. "I assume you think I'm here for hostile matters, i'm sorry I have been away from the world for a period of time". He lowers his hood and his emerald green eyes give us a kind smile. " My name is Blane, I am the twin of Salem and I am one thousand and eighteen years old." Everyone drops their jaws, and Mia bows to him. " You saved my first grandfather, I thank you." He shakes his head. "I should have been there sooner. I am here however to cure you Sapphire of the curse that turned you into a girl." He readies his book at me and I shake my head. "I don't want to be a guy anymore. I have never been closer to my sisters than ever before and I never want that to change." Blane gives me a smile, " I see well the least I can do is fix that nasty curse affliction that drains your power." with a single word I feel my body gain power that it had never even felt before. I start to shake lifting into the ground and before I black out I see Ruby freaking out trying to grab me.
