En-route To Air Force Base Alpha, Vale

3rd P.O.V

Kilometers outside of Vale sat Air Force base Alpha. It was constructed in secret decades ago for the use of V.C.T.R. and Vale's building air force, and with the Council's new budget recently passed, Airbase Bravo and Charlie would begin construction.

All apart of Vale's secret plan to start modernizing its military now that the king and the original council where long since dead. Their memory and promises to keep a small military gone along with them.

Currently a black bullhead modified for military use was enroute to Alpha base, with fireteam Osiris on board.

First Lieutenant Opal Browning also know as Accelerator, fireteam leader of Osiris had his helmet off cleaning his rifle. At 28 years old the his once tanned skin had be rendered pale from time spent in his armor. The special forces operator would normally be reaching the end of his physical prime at his age, but aura and the advanced medical treatment spec ops soldiers were given would push that off for another decade or two.

"Overlord to Accelerator, come in Accelerator." A radio transmission squawked from his helmet.

Pausing his weapon maintenance Opal put his helmet back on as it sealed with a his. "Accelerator to Overlord I hear you loud and clear."

"Good," A man with a gruff voice said from over the radio "Change of plans Lt., a settlement in Minstral went silent and we have no idea what happened. It's on our border with Minstral and they have no one in range to see what happened at the moment, so they nicely asked us to take a look."

Opal raised an eyebrow inside his helmet, "So why not send hunters? It was probably just a Grimm attack."

"Could have been, but someone would have heard a distress signal, but nothing of the sort happened. One minute signals were coming and going from scrolls within the twin than next, just silence, and a settlement of a couple thousand just doesn't go silent in an instant. Grimm attack or no."

"Bandits than? I wouldn't put it past one of the bandit nations or clans to do something like that." Opal said.

"Again possibly. Which is why Jaeger and Psycho are going to fly out and investigate once you touch down and refuel. I'm not going to risk sending a hunter team there just go have one of the Branwens or Örns be there."

This time Opal furrowed his brow, "I'm not going sir? I'm fireteam leader, shouldn't I be going as well?"

Overlord grunted, "Exactly, your fireteam leader. Which is why you're going to meet the new recruit, assess him, and get him to operational status." Overlord said before sighing, experience telling him that Browning would argue that he should be with his team, "Listen Lt., there's a storm on the horizon and it's not your average run of the mill one. My gut's telling me it's gonna be a huge shit storm of epic proportions. Maidens getting attacked, bandits and Grimm attacks becoming more frequent, Salem's agents getting bolder, and the White Fang growing more powerful."

Pausing to let everything sink in he continued, "Which is why I need one of my best V.C.T.R teams fully operational again."

Opal sighed remembering the plans they had made once they finally had some time off. Going to the beaches in Minstral, time off to see their families, and finally visit Frost's grave, "We're not getting that leave time we were promised anytime soon are we sir?"

"Not until the council breaks to the public that it's going to start rearming and create a standing military. To short on manpower until then. You have your orders Lt., get them done. Overlord out."

Opal shook his head and looked at his sleeping fireteam members before taking his helmet off and going back to work on his rifle.

Beacon Academy (Nighttime), RWBYY Dorm Room

3rd P.O.V

It had just stuck midnight when the last members of the newly formed team drifted off into the realm of sleep. Hours of arguing who got which bed and how to pack everyone's stuff into the dorm room had eventually ended with the agreement that it would be discussed the next day when everyone was much more rested.

Our favorite pyromaniac was currently sleeping in a makeshift hammock because of the lack of beds. Not willing to let his siblings sleep on an uncomfortable surface and deciding to try to be nice to his newest teammates, he offered them the beds.

His twin had offered to share her bed with him like they use to do when they were younger when Yang had a nightmare (apparently almost getting killed by a creature of darkness when you were a child could really put the scare into some people). But experience reminded Natsu of all the times Yang almost choked him, as she was quite the cuddler.

So he declined and went to the rooms closet and grabbed some extra sheets to make a hammock out of them. Wasn't as comfortable as the one from his home in Earthland, but it was better than sleeping on the ground at least.

So here he was. Resting in a peaceful, dreamless sleep, when someone he hadn't heard from in almost two decades decided to interrupt.

With everyone asleep, no one noticed part of Natsu's upper forearm start to glow with a dim golden light. It lasted a few short seconds before it faded, leaving what looked like a jagged numerical seven, with two short lines running diagonally next to it.

"Natsu." A deep, layered voice called from inside his mind as the mark pulsed.

Snapping his eyes open Natsu found he wasn't in the dorm room anymore. Instead he was in a distantly familiar place.

'The guild hall!' he thought. Unlike the destroyed piss poor condition it was in when he left to go fight his brother, it now looked immaculate.

It was also empty, save for a blonde haired man in a black leather jacket, sitting at the counter sipping from a large glass of beer.

"Oi, who the hell are you?" Natsu said.

The man sat his glass down and turned around. A pale face that had a smirk and sunglasses faced him, "Really Natsu? Has it been so long that you don't remember me?" he said as he took off his sunglasses. Revealing eyes that looked like a starry night sky.

Natsu felt the pressure in the room start to rapidly increase which caused his legs to start bending as he felt a massive weight on him.

'Only one son of a bitch has this type of power.' Natsu thought. Looking him in the eyes he said, "Ankhseram.'

The primordial smirked and put his sunglasses back on. "Glad to see you still remember me. Now come here and take a load off." He said as he snapped his fingers.

All of a sudden Natsu went from standing across the room to sitting on a bar stool by the counter. The primordial one the other hand was now behind the counter pouring two glasses of beer.

Turning around he handed one of the glasses to Natsu, "Here you go my boy, drink up. It's been what, almost two decades since you've had any alcohol?"

Natsu shrugged and took a sip. Letting it slide over his taste buds he nodded in approval, "Nah, my uncle has let me take a sip from his flask every once in awhile, says it will build character." he said before taking another drink, "I will say this stuff's pretty good, don't remember Earthland having this good of beer though."

The god chuckled, "That's because it's not from Earthland. It's from a planet called Earth, this beer is a brand called Samuel Smith."

Natsu raised an eyebrow, "Earth? What is that, some kind of shitty ripoff of Earthland?"

Ankhseram shook his head, "Not at all, extremely different actually." He said, "Pretty cool place, except for all pantheons. Most world's only have a couple of pantheons but Earth's large and diverse population caused tons to pop up. To bad half of them are pricks like that Yahweh guy, though... he does have a couple of hot daughters."

Natsu sighed, "Well pretending I understood a single damn thing you just said and as much as I'm enjoying this friendly little chat, I know you didn't visit me for no reason."

Nodding Ankhseram sat his drink down, "Right you are my boy. I'm here to talk about your brother."

"Kami Dammit what he do this time?" Natsu asked. Seriously what could the bastard possibly be doing that warranted a visit from a primordial?

"Oh nothing much, besides you know, creating demons again."

Of course, what a surprise.

Natsu groaned as he slammed his head on the table, "Again? How am I supposed to kill demons without magic!" But something stood out to Natsu from what the god said, "Wait a minute, how do you know he's been creating demons? I haven't seen any of them and I've been on this planet for 17 years! I'm sure they'd stick out from regular Grimm."

"Oh I don't know, maybe it because I'm the primordial of life and freaking death! Kind of hard to not notice when a couple thousand people die but their souls go missing."

"Wait, did you just say a couple of thousand souls went missing?" Natsu said as his mouth went agape.

"Why yes I did. Which means…" Ankhseram trailed off.

"He's making an extremely powerful one isn't he?"

"Yep."

Natsu's eyes widened in horror, "Well than what the hell am I supposed to fight it with? No way I could fight something like one of the Tartarus demons without magic!"

Ankhseram sighed, "Why yes, it does present quite the problem. I only gave you the abilities of the Devil Fruit because I figured it, coupled with your aura, would be enough to kill Zeref in his weakened state without magic. But a demon infused with the power of a couple thousand souls could be problematic. But there is a silver lining in this."

"And that is?" Natsu asked.

"In order to create demons you need to take a human soul and corrupt it, which means he's been messing with life and death again. My job is to keep the balance, if someone is messing with it, I get to fix it. So if he's breaking the rules, I can to."

"So what are you going to do about it?"

"When you wake up you'll find a mark on your right arm, so don't freak out. It serves two purposes, the first is that you'll be able to contact me at anytime. Just in case."

"And the second ability?"

"You'll find out when the time is right. I'll give you a bit of a hint though, think of it as a conduit. Now goodbye my boy, time for you to wake up."

Natsu raised an eyebrow, "That's the vaguest bullshit someone's ever said to…" He was cut off as Ankhseram snapped his fingers.

"Gahhh." Natsu gasped as he woke up. Looking around he saw he was back in his new dorm room, his sisters and new teammates still sleeping soundly in their beds.

'The hell was that?" He thought, "Must've just been a drea… why is my arm burning!?'

Looking at his are he saw a mark on his upper forearm. It looked like a jagged seven with two smaller lines, it looked like someone had branded him and left angry red scar tissue behind.

'So it wasn't a dream. Dammit Ankhseram you couldn't have at least made it inconspicuous like a tattoo or something? Yang and Ruby are going to freak if they see this!'

Almost as if the mark was listening to him (which it probably was), it glowed with a soft golden light before the red tissue smoothed out on his skin turning to a dark black.

'Huh, well alright then.' He thought, 'If Yang sees it I'll just say Qrow let me get it while he was drunk. Problem solved.'

Studying the mark for a couple more seconds before being satisfied, Natsu closed his eyes and drifted back to sleep.

Timeskip (Morning)

"Everybody wake up." Ruby practically shrieked.

No one like waking up early in the morning to loud noises, especially teenagers. So you could expect the reactions of each of the four sleeping teens were quite violent.

Our protagonist, thinking someone was in trouble because of the scream, woke with a start and tried to jump up. Only for his makeshift hammock to twist violently at the sudden motion and curl like a cocoon around him.

The secret feline of the group hissed quietly and pulled the blankets tight over her head.

Weiss simply groaned, blinking her eyes open before yelling, "Quiet you dolt!"

And finally the female Xiao Long twin out of reflex courtesy of her little sister doing this at their home almost daily (she didn't have the heart to lock her door on Ruby like her brother Yin did), simply whipped her pillow at the redhead.

"Oof" Ruby grunted as the pillow hit her square in the face, causing her to fall over.

Recovering from the tactical pillow toss Ruby got back up. "Cmon guys!" She said, "We've got class in a couple of hours and we still need to unpack and as team leader I declare this room needs a makeover, we need more space for our stuff."

"I suppose it could use some moving around." Blake conceded as she pulled off her covers.

"Raagh." A loud cry came from a bundle of covers where hammock had once been, still suspend above the ground with Natsu struggling to get out.

"Hmm, should we help him?" Blake asked.

"Nah." Yang said, "He's just hanging out, he's fine."

"That's it." Natsu's muffled voice said. All of a sudden the hanging cocoon of blankets burst into flames, vaporizing in seconds and dropping him on the floor face first, "Owww."

"Well that's just great! Now where out of extra sheets. I can see the idiocy must be genetic." Weiss complained.

"Well maybe if one of you helped me I would have had torch them!"

"Guys can we just… is someone's scroll ringing?" Rusby asked.

Natsu looked over at his bags and saw his scroll was ringing, "Hold on it's mine."

Picking up and answering it he asked, "Umm hello, who is this?"

"Why good morning to you too Yin."

Natsu's eyes widened, "Oh uh good morning to you professor. Is there something you need?"

"Get cleaned up and come to the bullhead docks as soon as you can, we have a meeting to attend. Oh and you're excused from all classes today." Ozpin said.

"Yes sir." Natsu replied.

Natsu went through his bags and pulled out a set of regular clothes, consisting of just a black shirt, red and white jacket, and blue jeans.

"Calling shower first." He said as he walked in the bathroom.

Yang who was also up by now looked irate at that, "What, Why do you get it first!?"

Natsu's shirtless form peaked out and said, "Well for one i'm the oldest."

"We're twins!"

"And second, that was the headmaster who just called me, he wants me to meet him as soon as possible. So suck it." He said before shutting the door.

Shaking her head Yang decided to start getting her clothes ready. Only when she turned around she was greeted with site of a blushing Blake and Weiss.

"So… your brothers ripped." Blake said with slightly wide eyes after seeing the sight of a shirtless Yin.

"Yeah I know, quite the sight isn't it." Yang said.

Both Blake's and Weiss blushes disappeared and fixed Yang with strange look. Ruby just sighed.

"What? Eye candy is eye candy." Yang said shamelessly.