Mama Yang-4
The night was calm and collected, with all the first year Beacon students gathered within the confines of the ballroom. In the men's room, Jotaro was performing his nightly routine of brushing his teeth, while also keeping an eye on Scythe as he seemed to be mimicking Jotaro's actions for not only brushing his teeth, but flossing, and hair brushing.
'Good grief how did I end up being the one to watch over the kid for his nightly routine?' Jotaro questioned. 'Right, he's too old to go into the women's with Yang.'
"Mr. Jotaro." Scythe spoke up.
"Call me Jotaro, kid. Calling me Mr., makes me feel like I'm an old man." Jotaro smiled rinsing his mouth.
"Thank you." Scythe stated.
"For what?" Jotaro asked looking at him confused.
"For saving me from those mean men behind that building that one time." Scythe exclaimed.
Jotaro nearly choked on the water from his second rinsing, before coughing it up into the sink, and turning to look at Scythe, realizing where he had seen that kid before.
"That was you?" Jotaro asked. "Good grief kid, you sure know how to time giving someone your gratitude."
Once Jotaro cleaned up the sink he was using, he helped Scythe with rinsing out his mouth, before his eyes looked up in annoyance, as he felt the presence of someone behind him, and could feel from the aura around him, that he did not take kindly to Faunus.
"Well, what do we have here?" A tall, ginger haired young man asked.
"Cardin. I'd say it's great to see you again, but I'm not one to lie." Jotaro exclaimed wiping Scythe's face, much to the child's annoyance. "What can I do for you?"
"For starters Dog-boy, you can exit the bathroom, leaving the freak here." Cardin said, cracking his knuckles. Dog-boy was his nickname for Jotaro, as he was of both Atlesian, and Anima heritage. "I need to teach this animal how to act properly around its superiors."
"I'm sorry, but that's not an option. Even if it was, you wouldn't get what you wanted." Jotaro said, using Star-Platinum to sit Scythe on his shoulder. "His mother just so happens to be a good friend of mine, and I'm not gonna betray her trust in me. If you want the boy, come and get him." Jotaro exclaimed turning around to stare Cardin right in the eye.
"Suit yourself, you were never one to go down easy. Always standing up, and protecting the freaks. When really, you should have been putting them in their places." Cardin stated cracking his neck.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." A new voice said.
Cardin turned around to see a tall, young cheetah Faunus, wearing a pair of red flannel pajama pants, with a lightning bolt shaped scar on his chest.
"Why is that?"
"Dragon Faunus are known to be the most powerful species of Faunus to ever roam the face of Remnant. A mother dragon can detect if her child is in danger and will kill anyone in a blind rage. The history books even say that during a war three centuries ago, one mother Dragon Faunus, slaughtered an entire army of human soldiers just to rescue her newborn daughter, decorating the forest in an emerald green essence that shined from the moons light reflecting off her scales at the fight's end, thus naming it the Emerald Forest, which just so happens to be the forest we're taking the physical portion of our entrance exams in the morning. The trees that are there now, fed on the soil of decomposed corpses and drank from the blood of that mother dragon's victims." He explained, much to Jotaro's shock, while Scythe was staring at him intently with a smile on his face. "If one mother could do that to an entire forest's worth of soldier's, than what do you think she'd do to you, as she is here at Beacon Academy?"
Cardin had to admit, that little history lesson had frightened him, and decided to play it cool, and shrug it off.
"Whatever freak, the brat's not even worth my time." Cardin stated, leaving the bathroom, playing it off.
Once Cardin was gone, Barry turned back to face Jotaro and Scythe, only for the latter to jump on Barry, nearly knocking him over.
"Yay, another person I know." Scythe smiled. "Barry."
"Good to see you to Scythe." Barry smiled hugging him.
"You know this guy Scythe?" Jotaro asked, using Star-Platinum to lift Scythe off the cheetah Faunus.
"Yeah, he stopped me from being shot in the head on a boat." Scythe smiled, as if that were an everyday occurrence.
"Yeah, I couldn't just sit back and do nothing. But Scythe, there's something I need to talk to you about." Barry said removing something from behind his ear, which removed an image covering him.
Barry stood there, with the same clothes, and scar on his chest, but with the image gone, more features were visible. His right arm from mid-forearm up to his shoulder, and past it to his shoulder blade, had a tribal dragon tattoo with lightning bolts inside its wings. His ears were slightly more pointed, with cartilage spikes; his fangs were sharpened, his eyes were more reptilian with a deep gold crescent moon shape on the right sides, along with golden scales in the same pattern on his face, as they were on Scythe's. His brown hair was a little spikier that usual in a windswept style, with golden frosted tips on the top and sides.
"What in the world did your bite do to me?" Barry asked holding up his arm.
"I don't know. My mom started going through the same thing after I bit her on the hand." Scythe explained, sitting on Jotaro's shoulder. "Maybe that professor guy could help us out, he seems really smart."
"Yeah, I don't think Professor Ozpin is in this late." Jotaro sighed. "Good grief. We'll try and figure this out in the morning. Oh and, how'd you hide your appearance like that?"
"Oh, a little something of my own creation. An image inducer. It allows me to hide what I truly look like to the naked eye, but nothing else really, if someone were to feel my ears while it was active, they'd prick their fingers on the cartilage spikes I've grown." Barry explained as they left the bathroom. "Hey, Scythe I thought you said you don't have any parents?"
"That's a bit of a story. One his mother should tell, but if you must know, he got adopted this past week, and sneakily joined his mom at Beacon." Jotaro explained.
"I see. Well, glad to hear he's got a family now." Barry smiled reinitiating the image inducer. "Wait is his mom a teacher here at Beacon? I was bluffing about her being here."
~With Yang~
It was quite rowdy in the ballroom, but Yang could care less as her focus was on her arm, and the book in her lap. She couldn't help but wonder if what Ozpin said about the tattoo suddenly appearing out of nowhere was real or not. Yang sighed as she lowered her arm and returned her attention to the book in her lap.
She had spent the last several hours combing over every detail within the first couple of chapters, the logical side of herself kept telling her that some of the information in this book had to have been fictional, or exaggerated. However that was not the case, as it was all starting to make some form of sense to her.
'Magic, dragons, demons, tyrants, guildhalls. I know I shouldn't dive too deep into this but there are some things that add up too much to where it might not actually be the scribblings of an insane man.' Yang thought. 'Acnologia was known as the Etherion Dragonslayer, with unimaginable power, not even the King of the Fire Dragon's Igneel could stop him. It seems nearly eight years ago, before the day of his demise, he fell in love with a Faunus woman, white tiger, huh. Shortly after a night of passion, Acnologia was found by this Natsu guy, and they ended each other's lives in the battle. Leaving the woman heartbroken, and laden with Acnologia's heir. Afterwards, this Grey Fullbuster guy, the Ice-Demonslayer, recorded the events he witnessed unfold in Natsu's journal, before continuing, and finishing it, and sending it back to Ozpin for safe keeping, as an act of friendship and farewell to his fallen comrade.'
"Interesting read?"
Yang was suddenly brought out of her thoughts by that question and turned her head up to see a black haired girl, wearing a kimono, with a bow on her head, sitting in a chair beside her with a book by the candle light, while the buxom blonde sat on the ground, doing the same.
"Oh, yeah… it's a very interesting read." Yang exclaimed.
"I noticed you reading it every time I walked past you through the halls. You didn't even put it down at diner, and you've been sitting here for three hours reading it. That's got to be some book." Blake smiled softly, holding up her own book. "And I know books."
"It's… full of things that caught my eye." Yang said, choosing her words carefully, before she felt a pair of familiar arms wrap around her neck, in a tight hug.
"Hi mom." Scythe smiled rubbing his face against hers.
"Hi sweetie, is everything all right?" Yang asked. "Did you brush your teeth properly?"
"Yes, I'm tired." Scythe yawned.
"Then let's get you to bed." Yang chuckled standing up with him in her arms. "It was nice to meet you uh…"
"Blake, Blake Belladonna." She smiled.
"Any relation to Sakura Belladonna?" Yang asked.
"She's my aunt on my dad's side of the family." Blake stated, with a quizzical look.
"Huh, you know thirteen years ago, you and I were this close to becoming family." Yang smiled, holding her thumb and index finger apart by a mere centimeter. "Now, your aunt is my son's personal doctor. I don't trust anyone but her at the hospital she runs."
"Huh, good to know." Blake smiled.
"Hi nice lady." Scythe smiled waving at her. "Mom, it's the nice lady I told you about. The one who bad mouthed the mean lady."
"Is that so?" Yang smiled before turning back to Blake. "Thank you, for standing up for my sister today at the courtyard."
"It was no problem. Happy to put a Schnee in her place." Blake smiled.
"Yang, we've got a bit of a situation that we need your help with." Jotaro said before noticing Blake. "Oh, it's you. Good to see you again."
"Likewise." Blake said before going back to reading her book.
"What's the situation?" Yang asked.
"You gotta come and see for yourself." Jotaro said, leading her away.
Yang held the book between her and Scythe before following Jotaro to where Barry was standing, his image inducer active again.
"What's the problem?" Yang inquired.
"This. Show her kid." Jotaro stated.
Barry removed the image inducer, revealing his draconic looks, and the tattoo on his arm.
"What in the world?" Yang asked.
"You said you didn't have any proof that Scythe was the cause of your recent transformation. Well now you do." Jotaro exclaimed.
"Little over a week ago, Scythe bit my arm right here, where this bizarre tattoo starts." Barry said, tapping the tattoo. "I didn't even get this done at a parlor, I just woke up yesterday morning with it, as if it came out of nowhere. Not to mention I look like a cross between a dragon and a cheetah now."
"Has, the element you're connected with… increased in power somehow?" Yang asked.
"Yeah, normally I could just manipulate lightning like a puppeteer with his puppets, but now it's as if I can generate the lightning out of my own aura, and use it in more ways than throwing a lightning bolt." Barry explained. "Before I could just generate small amounts of it, and create large ones by running in a circle, building up friction and centrifugal force, allowing me to throw a lightning bolt, but now I don't need to do that, all I need to do is…" Barry stopped when his right hand began to glow with electrical power as a lightning bolt formed in his hand. "That… all I gotta do is think of a lightning bolt, and it'll appear in my hand." He said as the bolt of lightning disappeared.
"I might know what's going on." Yang said handing a sleeping Scythe to Jotaro as she opened the book, finding a page in the back with different tribal dragon drawings and what element they belong to. "Aha, here it is." Yang stated, turning the book over, revealing a page with the exact same tribal lightning dragon drawn and inked onto the page, as is on Barry's arm. "You're not just a lightning speedster anymore. You're a Lightning Dragonslayer Speedster."
"A what?" Jotaro asked.
"A person with the power to slay a dragon, and I'm not talking about a Dragon Faunus, I'm talking about, an actual, feral, man eating, animal. Walks on all fours and everything." Yang explained.
"Here, let me see that." Barry said taking the book, before using his lightning fast speed to read through the entire book several times. "Alright so, at first glance I thought this was all purely fictional, but after reading the entire thing over a multiple times, I've realized there's more truth to it than I first thought. It's a clear statement that the son of this Acnologia person is…"
"Scythe." Yang and Barry said in unison.
"As a Dragonslayer can only be granted their magic of slaying dragons, by a dragon, from an elemental Dragonslayer magic filled stone called a lacrima, bathing in the magic filled blood of a dragon, having a parent who was a Dragonslayer, or by the power being given to them by another Dragonslayer. Seeing how Acnologia was more dragon than human…" Yang continued.
"His draconic abilities were passed on to Scythe during fetal development, in which case, Scythe isn't just a Dragon Faunus, he's purely half Faunus, half Dragon." Barry finished.
"Somebody please explain to me what is going on?" Jotaro asked, as he was completely lost. "Magic, dragons, you two are starting to sound insane."
"We might be sounding insane, but it's the truth Jotaro. It explains why both Barry and I suddenly became Dragon Faunus." Yang stated.
"According to Natsu Dragneel's journal, which this is a copy of, any Dragonslayer within Remnant's atmosphere, goes from being human, to Faunus within a weeks' time. The way he got his Dragonslayer magic, was from his foster father, a dragon named Igneel, King of the Fire Dragons, biting him, breaking the skin just enough to not only draw a small amount of blood, but for some of his magic to seep through the wound, via saliva insertion." Barry explained.
"Which is what Scythe did with the both of us. He bit the both of us, and now we've become Dragonslayers, just like Natsu Dragneel." Yang explained. "Read the journal, you'll understand when you do."
"Alright. I trade you the book for the boy." Jotaro said with a smile.
"Oh you clever boy." Yang chuckled taking the book from Barry and handing it to Jotaro, as he handed Scythe back to her. "Will you be using Star-Platinum to read the book?" Yang asked, holding Scythe against her shoulder as he subconsciously wrapped his arms around her neck.
"Not this time, I'd prefer to take my time with this one." Jotaro said. "C'mon Barry, let's return to the boy's side."
"Right." Barry said following Jotaro.
Yang smiled, happy Jotaro made another friend, even if he didn't know it yet. Heading back to the girls side, she was stopped by a ginger haired girl with the biggest smile she had ever seen. Breast Size: E-Cup.
"Oh my gosh, he's just so adorable sleeping there on your shoulder." She smiled.
"Thanks, he's all tuckered out after a day like today." Yang smiled. "He got to go exploring Beacon, and will probably continue tomorrow."
"Oh that's so cute. Is he your little brother, here to support you for the physical entrance exams tomorrow?" The girl asked.
"No, he's my son. He's here because he stowed away in my bag. I think he might have some abandonment issues. But that's not something that should be worried about right now. My name's Yang."
"Nora. How old were you when you had him?" Nora asked.
"Oh, no I didn't give birth to him. I adopted him. It's a bit of a story, but he's been hunted down his entire life. I thought I might give him a break from that kind of life." Yang smiled softly.
"Oh that is so sweet. Well, I should probably get to bed. Enjoy your night." Nora smiled walking off to where her sleeping bag was.
"You to." Yang smiled.
Putting Scythe down in the sleeping bag, Yang heard a commotion going on near Blake, and looked up to find Ruby, arguing with Weiss, whose hair looked as if it hadn't been lit on fire in the first place.
"What the hell does she want now?" Yang growled marching over to them.
~Ozpin's office~
"You're sure that's what she said Ozpin?" A man, Ozpin was friends with, asked over the intercom.
"I'm sure of it James. Grey might have turned on us, and I'm afraid his moral compass might have been destroyed in the process." Ozpin stated. "If that is the case, then we need to initiate the Demonslayer protocol."
"Oz, that's a last ditch attempt at taking him down if he goes insane." James said.
"I know James. I know." Ozpin exclaimed.
"You know what you're asking of me right? You're asking me not to restrain, or contain Grey Fullbuster, you're asking me to kill him. To put him, six feet under. Could you live with yourself, with his blood on your hands, with the guilt of his death on your conscious?"
"You know I have no choice but to live with it James." Ozpin sighed. "I know I'm asking you to kill a dear friend of ours, but with his power, I'm afraid there's nothing we can really do at this point. His power is on par with Salem's, maybe even surpasses it."
"I want you to tell me, you're one-hundred percent sure you want to go through with the Demonslayer protocol." James stated.
"I'm sure James. According to Grey, he had willingly turned on his best friend, all because he turned out to be a demon, created by a dark sorcerer named Zeref, who was indeed Mr. Dragneel's older brother. If he's willing to ignore all the memories he had shared with his comrade, and try to kill him at one point, then it stands to reason, Salem had no trouble with bringing him to her side." Ozpin stated.
"I understand Ozpin. But know, that I do not wish to take part of this, even though I must." James said before ending the chat.
Ozpin leaned on his desk, deep in contemplation, wanting to try and think of a way around this situation, that didn't involve killing one of his oldest friends, having already lost one of them to Acnologia's hand.
Having been so caught in his thoughts, he barely noticed the blinking notification of an audio message appearing in his inbox.
"Who could be messaging me at a time like this? It's nearly two in the morning." Ozpin questioned before bringing up the inbox.
Ozpin opened the message, finding it was from the man he had just been speaking to Ironwood about.
"Found a trail on Acnologia's brat. Looks like his mother died giving birth, and was left at an orphanage. Seems he's already mastered a couple elements from his father's power." Grey Fullbuster's recording exclaimed as images of a gruesome scene were uploaded, onto Ozpin's screen. Every single image showed people, human and Faunus alike, massacred, and all killed, skewered by one element. "Seems like he's already mastered his ice magic, using it to kill every single living thing within the borders of the village he was born in. I'm tracking him down now, I'll be at Beacon by tomorrow morning. We'll chat then. But until I get there, keep your guard up around campus, Salem might have already brainwashed him into doing her dirty work, and helping whoever stole Fall's power, into finishing the job."
Once the message ended, Ozpin's eyes were glued onto the images of the skewered townsfolk, and knew instantly that Grey was lying about who really killed the people of that village. Time and time again, he had seen that handy work, by one individual who was always started, and finished his battles with that specific attack. He could see, through the coloration of the blood, and the way the ice grew out of the ground, that the true culprit was Grey Fullbuster himself.
"Oh, my dear friend. What has Salem done to you?" Ozpin asked, a look of mourning mixed with dread, etched onto his face.
~Morning of the tests in the locker room~
"Well you seem to be in a good mood today Ruby." Yang smiled as she finished prepping her gear, while Scythe played with a Rubik's Cube.
"Yep, no more awkward small talk, or 'getting to know you' stuff, today I get to let my sweetheart do the talking." Ruby stated pulling her folded weapon out and holding it like a lover.
"Remember Ruby, you're not the only one going through initiation." Jotaro stated.
"He's right. If you wanna grow up, you're gonna have to meet new people and learn to work together." Yang exclaimed.
"Ugh, you both sound like mom and dad." Ruby groaned. "Okay, first of all, what does meeting people have to do with fighting? Secondly I don't need people to help me grow up, I drink milk." She stated mater-o-factly.
"But what about when we form teams?" Yang asked.
"Uh, I don't know, I'll just be on one of your teams, or something." Ruby stated, sounding a little scared.
"Maybe you should try being on someone else's team?" Yang asked nervously, playing with her hair.
"My dear sister Yang, are you implying you do not wish to be on the same team as me?" Ruby asked.
"W-what, no, I do I just thought… I don't know, maybe it would help you break out of your shell." Yang stated.
"What the, I don't need to break out of my shell, that is absolutely-"
"Ridiculous, there's no way I put my gear in locker 636 yesterday. I would have remembered having to count that high." A blonde boy, wearing knightly armor, stated unintentionally interrupting their argument.
"Jotaro could you please go help Jaune find where he left his gear?" Ruby asked.
"Good grief. I'm on it." Jotaro said walking off to help the blonde knight he and Ruby met when trying to find the auditorium yesterday.
Scythe's curious gaze followed Jaune and Jotaro all the way to where an unfamiliar redhead and a familiar white haired girl were talking.
"Scythe, could you wait right here for a bit for me?" Yang asked getting his attention.
"Alright mom." Scythe stated, his attention drawn from Weiss and the redhead.
Yang left Scythe with Ruby as the young girl was still making adjustments to her weapon, to make it more efficient.
Entering the women's bathroom, Yang took off her left glove, and held up her arm entirely.
'No sign of that tattoo Ozpin was talking about. Maybe it will appear when I unlock my power? I should ask Barry about his.' Yang sighed.
~Meanwhile at the same time Yang left~
Scythe's attention was drawn back to Weiss and the redhead, he didn't like Weiss, and didn't like the way she was talking with the redhead. Seeing his aunt preoccupied with Crescent Rose, which he marveled at every time he saw, Scythe slinked away, and went over to where Weiss and the redhead were chatting.
"So, Pyrrha, have you thought of any pairings for the teams?" Weiss asked.
"I'm not sure, I was thinking of letting the chips fall as they may." The redhead, Pyrrha, exclaimed arming herself.
"Mean lady."
Weiss and Pyrrha looked down to see Scythe looking up at Weiss, trying to look angry, but only looking adorably cute, causing Pyrrha to squea in delight, and gush over his cuteness.
"What do you want brat?" Weiss asked, not affected by Scythe's cuteness one bit.
"Stop being a meanie. Maybe you'll make more friends if you're nicer to people." Scythe stated.
"Listen brat. I don't know who you think you are. But I will keep my promise about shipping you off to the Schnee Mining Quarry if you keep pestering me."
"Weiss." Pyrrha said in shock.
"Damn it." Weiss groaned, realizing she had dropped her nice person act in front of Pyrrha.
Scythe was now standing behind Pyrrha, who had a very disappointed look on her face, mixed with quite a bit of anger.
"That is not some sort of threat you make to a child, I don't care if you're not Pro-Faunus; you don't make those kinds of threats to a Faunus child, just because you don't like them." Pyrrha said.
"Well it'd be what he deserves, he's nothing but a hindrance to those here who are actually trying to study. I'm sure his slut of a mom could just get herself knocked up again." Weiss exclaimed before she was launched back, and into a pillar, pinned there by a red and gold spear. She looked up to see Pyrrha's anger had risen, and was not one you'd want to meet in an alley way. "Well, it seems you're an animal lover to."
"Where is my son?" Yang's voice echoed in the locker room.
Pyrrha turned around and saw Yang frantically looked around, in and under the lockers for her son, before she looked down at Scythe who was still beside her.
"Is that your mom?" She asked.
"Yep. I think I'm in trouble." Scythe exclaimed.
"I'm sure we can fix this if we tell her what went down." Pyrrha smiled picking him up. "I'll be back for my spear later Weiss, just sit back and, hang around."
"Not another joker." Scythe groaned. "Mom's jokes are bad enough."
"Sorry kiddo." Pyrrha chuckled as she walked over to Yang, with Scythe in her arms.
~Out at the Beacon Cliffside~
Everyone was gathered, and standing on platforms, facing Professor Ozpin, and Ms. Goodwitch.
"For years, you have trained to become warriors, and today your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." Ozpin explained.
"Now I'm sure you've heard rumors about the assignment of teams. Well allow us to put an end to your confusion." Glynda stated. "Each of you will be given teammates, today."
"What… oh." Ruby exclaimed, a bit scared.
"These teammates will be here with you for the rest of your stay here at Beacon. So it is within your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well." Ozpin added. Ruby gave off some more scared noises, not wanting to be paired with someone she didn't get along with. "That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing, will be your partner for the next four years."
Ruby's world broke around her, as Laxus said that.
"What?" Ruby asked extremely scared.
"See, I told you." Nora stated to her friend.
"After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way, do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path, or you will die." Ozpin stated.
"My kind of day." Yang smiled, Scythe sitting on the ground behind her.
Jaune gave a nervous laugh and gulped in fear.
Scythe sniffed the air, and his fear levels rose up dramatically, as he froze in place, not wanting to attract any attention, as the scent of who he feared, grew stronger, as he grew closer.
"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple, at the end of the path, containing several relics. Each pair must choose one, and return to the top of the cliff. We will regard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately." Ozpin explained. "Are there any questions?"
"Yeah, um sir-" Jaune started.
"Good, now take your positions." Ozpin instructed, ignoring Jaune's inquiry.
"Um sir? I've got, um, a question." Jaune stated. "So this, landing strategy thing, uh, w-what is it, you're like dropping us off or something?"
"No, you will be falling." Ozpin stated.
"Oh, I see. So like, did you hand out parachutes for us?" Jaune asked, his face going pale.
"No. You will be using your own landing strategy." Ozpin stated.
The moment before Ruby was launched, Scythe jumped onto her back, alerting her of his presence, as she was unaware of the fear he was admitting.
"Scythe?" Ruby managed to ask before the two of them were launched through the air.
Ozpin, Glynda, stared with dumbstruck expressions on their faces, as Ozpin dropped his mug, and his glasses now hung from one ear. Glynda's glasses had fallen to the ground and were right beside her scroll-pad as Jaune was launched.
"What the hell is going on here?"
Ozpin and Glynda turned around to see the Ice-Demonslayer himself, walking up to them, wearing his signature black skin tight shirt, with his cargo pants, military boots, white and blue trimmed trench coat, and sunglasses.
'I see, Scythe must have sensed his presence, and as an attempt to get away from him, clung to Ms. Rose before she launched.' Ozpin gasped.
"That brat was here, recently, I can smell his scent. I thought I told you in my message to be on your guard old man?" Grey sighed picking up Glynda's scroll-pad, resetting one of the launch pads.
"Scythe wasn't the one to kill everyone in his home village, and you know it." Glynda said, picking up her glasses.
'Bold move calling him out like that Glynda.' Ozpin exclaimed.
"What are you talking about, of course he was; didn't you see the images I sent with my message?" Grey asked. "Also, what the hell are you calling him Scythe for?"
"It's his name. We did see the pictures you sent, and we've seen what Mr. Xiao Long can do as well. He's nowhere near controlling his ice-magic. He can only produce tiny shards, this was proven at diner yesterday." Ozpin stated. "Another piece of evidence that proves it was you, is the color of the ice used. Mr. Xiao Long's is blue, yours is purple, same color as the ice used to kill all the townsfolk."
"Now the only question is, when did Salem bring you to her side?" Glynda questioned.
Grey was silent, before he began to laugh. It started out small and quiet, until it grew more prominent and insane. Grey reached up his hand, now black as coal, and moved it through his hair, bringing it to the windswept style he had it at when he infiltrated the cult of Zeref worshipers, while revealing the black markings reaching up over his eye.
"So you figured it out huh? Guess I shouldn't be surprised, I mean, you are as old as the Mistress, right Ozma?" Grey questioned, thus gaining a look of shock from the Headmaster. "Oh you seem surprised I know your true name, well let me enlighten you. Salem told me everything about you. Who you truly are, who you pretend to be, how the tale of the maidens was all false. They were your daughters, and you killed them."
"Salem was the one who killed them in that battle that ravaged our home. They got caught in the crossfire of one of her attacks, and I was too late to protect them. They inherited not only magic from both myself and Salem, but they inherited a portion of my ability to reincarnate. Though dramatically different, their souls still remain with each reincarnation, and I will do everything in my power to protect them, just like I will do everything in my power to protect the boy you hunt." Ozpin stated raising his cane and pointing it at Grey.
"Sorry, but Salem's right. This world can't be saved, thus it must be destroyed. So she's going to need the brat's help." Grey said before the launch pad sent him flying.
"Damn, we don't have time to call off the exams. Let's hope Ruby can defend against him." Glynda exclaimed. "Furthermore, you owe me an explanation to what I just heard from the conversation you two shared."
"I'll explain it all. But for now we'd best hope that Ms. Xiao Long can protect her son, while we let the exams continue." Ozpin sighed.
~With Ruby~
"What exactly do you have against my nephew?" Ruby asked as she was trudging through the forest with her partner, Weiss Schnee.
"For one, he's a filthy animal who can't keep his nose out of anyone's business. Just this morning he ruined my chances at trying to team up with the most popular girl in Remnant." Weiss exclaimed.
"As I recall, you did that yourself when you let Pyrrha see who you really are. Another thing, Scythe is not a filthy animal, he can actually take out an Ursa Major with one attack all on his own." Ruby stated firmly.
"Please, I highly doubt that." Weiss scoffed.
"I've seen it myself." Ruby stated. "Though you should have seen your face when he lit your hair on fire, and that was only a small fraction of what he used to kill the Ursa." Ruby smiled as Scythe laughed at the memory of it.
"That was him?" Weiss asked turning around to face her instantly. "I had to use a special blend of wind and water Dust to repair the damage that prank did to my hair."
"At least you got it all back." Ruby smiled.
Scythe's laugh was stopped when his ears picked up on something, and it scared the living daylights out of him.
"Ice-Demon: Cold Imprisonment."
"Move." Scythe shouted jumping down from Ruby's back, pushing her out of the way, and into Weiss, causing them to tumble from them.
"What the, get off me." Weiss shouted, before a cage made of purple ice dropped down and enveloped Scythe in its confines.
"Scythe." Ruby shouted running to the cage. She tried to put her hands on it, but drew them back as she felt like they were going to freeze off.
"Don't bother. My ice is so cold that touching it will instantly cause fourth-degree frostbite to anyone not immune to the cold." Grey smiled landing on the cage. "Name's Grey Fullbuster, I've actually been hunting this little brat down for a while."
"Get away from him." Ruby shouted firing off three rounds from Crescent Rose aimed for Grey.
"I see, you actually care for this little abomination. Do you have any idea who his father is?" Grey asked, to which his statement gained Weiss's attention. "This brat is the son of a man named Acnologia, he wiped out all the Dragon Faunus in existence, leaving himself and a friend of mine to be the only ones left."
"I said get away from my nephew." Ruby shouted swinging Crescent Rose in its scythe form.
"Ice-Demon: Death Scythe." Grey shouted clashing his icy blade against Ruby's metal one. "As I was saying. After the intense battle, they had killed each other. Which angered me to no end. Little to my knowledge, he had sired a child with a barmaid who had skipped town after seeing the fight. My team and I had no clue of his existence until three years ago, when we heard that something was causing Grimm Invasions within the country of Menagerie. I've been tasked with bringing this child to Dr. Arthur Watts of the Atlesian Military Science division, for medical, and military weaponry purposes. I recently got back to Vale from the village this boy was born in. Everybody was killed, no one spared. All because he's insane just like his old man." Grey stated tossing a few photographs at Weiss and Ruby's feet, much to their horror.
"No, I didn't kill anyone." Scythe shouted, before the cage was toppled over, silencing him.
"Shut up. Once Dr. Watts figures out how to replicate your full power, we'll be the strongest out of all four…"
Grey was interrupted when spews of ice went shooting out of the ground at him, forcing him to jump away from the sharp projectiles, thus separating him from the cage he made to imprison Scythe.
"Well, well. I never thought I'd see the day, a Schnee protecting a Faunus. What would your father think?" Grey questioned.
"He'd be disappointed. But proud that I found a link to the man who stole millions from us to fund his research." Weiss exclaimed. "Arthur Watts, wanted for multiple counts of homicide, caused by his illegal human experiments, as well as grand theft from the Schnee fortune, stealing 7.5 Million Lien from our family. Another thing, the ice in the photographs are purple, same color as the ice keeping that kid contained, so it's logical to reason that you're framing him for the death of that entire village."
"I see, so I let it slip that I'm working with a known criminal." Grey exclaimed. "I messed up. It won't happen again."
"Neither will you imprisoning my nephew." Ruby shouted, using Crescent Rose, to slice open the cage, the blade laced with burn Dust.
"You're going to regret crossing paths with me Ms. Schnee." Grey stated, and angered look in his eye as Scythe jumped onto Ruby's back.
"Maybe, but looks like we'll have to pick this up another time." Weiss smiled.
"Oh yeah, why is that?" Grey questioned.
"Well, you can't really fight us, and a large pack of Beowolves at the same time now can you?" Ruby smiled, grabbing hold of Weiss's wrist with a smile. "Bye-bye…"
Using Crescent Rose's recoil, Ruby launched the three of them into the air, higher and higher with each shot, before clutching onto the talons of a Nevermore.
"Ruby you dunce." Weiss shouted as the Nevermore flew off, leaving Grey on the ground, surrounded by Grimm.
"Those brats." Grey sighed with a growl. "They're starting to get on my last nerve."
Grey took one step forward, before geysers of ice sprouting up from the ground, skewering the Grimm as he followed them in the direction the Nevermore flew.
"It doesn't matter. A demon always catches their quarry."
