HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS GAME OF THRONES SEASON 6. Sorry I'm a day off schedule, but GAME OF THRONES happened so I decided to rewatch the series. Up to season 2. So good y'all. So good.

I have the STRQ and Harry Potter fanfic up, if you want to check it out.

There was way too much of Taiyang in Yang. Raven should have expected as much – one glance at the girl, and she could see his influence over her. Her wide grin, her cocky posture, her overprotective manners. Without a doubt, she was the daughter of Taiyang Xiao Long.

And she inherited her looks and her temper from her mother. Great. If there was one thing Raven would like to keep in her bloodline, it was her anger issues. She was real glad Yang didn't inherit her sharp, witty humour or her ability to remain stoic in the most extreme cases and her –

Yeah, it was probably for the best that she was more like Taiyang. Hell, Raven saw some of Summer in her too. Just like she saw Summer, Taiyang, and Qrow in Ruby. Team STRQ must have raised the kids together.

What a mission that would be. She couldn't imagine Qrow trying to clean up after a dirty diaper, or herself for that matter. The Branwens were never great with kids.

The lights dimmed, signalling the start of a new vision.

The shot opens up to the Emerald Forest, panning down to reveal Yang strolling through the woods. "Hellooo?" Yang calls out. A dark flash rushes through nearby. "Is anyone out there? Helloooo?"

"What is it with these kids and yelling?" Taiyang asked, frowning. "Yang, sweetie, be quiet! Grimm will hear you!"

"Aren't Grimm just attracted to negative emotions?" Summer pointed out. "Yelling really won't ma-"

"And cover up your legs! You're going to catch a cold!"

Raven groaned, placing her head in her hands. She wondered how her future self could ever end up with someone so… so... obnoxious.

"I'm getting bored here!" Yang raises her arms up for dramatic effect. A bush rustles nearby her. "Someone there?" she asks, turning. She looks between two bushes, smiling. "Ruby, is that you?"

A menacing growl is her only response.

"Ruby sure sounds different," Qrow joked. "Must be puberty."

"…Nope."

Yang dives out of the way as an Ursa snarls and lunges for her, claws raised.

Raven narrowed her eyes. It was close – too close. She would've been ready to kill the scum that laid a finger on her daughter.

…Since when did I become Taiyang? she thought, blinking.

She quickly balances herself, recoiling her gauntlets before back-flipping to dodge a second ursa. One grimm rushes ferociously for her again, but is countered by a punch that sends it flying back. The second grimm follows its comrade, and this time it is faced with a fiery uppercut followed by a fast kick. The grimm collapses on the forest floor.

"You guys wouldn't happen to have seen a girl in a red hood, would you?" Yang asks casually. The grimm roar in response, lunging for her again. "You could just say no!"

"Something tells me she's not taking this as seriously as she should be," Summer sighed.

Raven definitely knew where she got it from. She darted her eyes from her brother to Taiyang. The snarky remarks were no doubt their faults; even her and Summer had slowly picked up their habits in battle.

An ursa swipes its claws while the blonde brawler backflips out of its reach, narrowly avoiding a hit. She laughs mockingly. "Geez, you two couldn't hit the bronze side of a –"

Yang stutters to a halt. A single strand of golden hair drifts gently down before her eyes, locked onto the distraction. The strand reaches the forest floor and there is a moment of anticipated silence.

"Oh no…" Qrow, Summer, and Taiyang cringed away from the vision. Raven stared at the image of the hair, bewildered and just as silent as her daughter.

"I'M GOING TO MURDER THEM!" she thundered, standing up aggressively. Three pairs of arms held her back while she attempted to annihilate the grimm that dared messed with her own blood's hair.

"You…" Yang growls, closing her eyes before opening to reveal fiery red pupils. The grimm glance at each other, almost in confusion. "…YOU MONSTER!"

"That's cute!" Summer cooed, still struggling to hold back Raven. "They're so alike!"

Raven took no notice of the comments of the others, focusing only on Yang. It seemed that her daughter was holding enough anger for the both of them. She forced herself to calm down, although her body still shook with anger.

The blonde brawler slams her fists down as her body erupts into flames. She darts towards the grimm and lands a series of fiery punches, uppercutting the creature into the air before barraging it with further attacks. The ursa is thrown through several trees, the force of Yang's punches and gauntlets making the forest catch fire. Yang turns and glares at the other ursa that rushes towards her.

"What, you want some too?" she demands. The ursa roars before collapsing at Yang's feet.

Blake stands behind it, weapon drawn. Yang pants as the raven-haired girl pulls back her weapon. Blake smirks at Yang.

"…I could've taken him."

"Yes! Team Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang is complete!" Taiyang cheered.

"If only we had an acronym for them," Glynda commented sarcastically.

"Team WRYB?" Qrow suggested. The team sniggered. Qrow eyed Raven, smiling wildly. She sighed.

"Team RYWB would fit much better," she reluctantly joked. Her teammates erupted into another fit of giggles.

The scene changes to Weiss, surrounded by beowulves. She raises her rapier, confidently posing for battle. "Remember your training, Weiss…" she thinks. "Head up," she lifts her head up, "shoulders back," she straightens her posture, "right foot forward – not that forward!" she steps her foot forward.

"She's done her homework," the duelling professor pushed her glasses forward. "Her form is, theoretically, correct."

"But?" Summer asked, sensing her teacher's hesitance.

"…But that doesn't guarantee a victory, especially against a foe as unpredictable as grimm," she critiqued.

Qrow grinned. "So I'm better than her? You admit I'm a great fighter?"

Glynda remained silent.

"Slow your breathing, wait for the right time to strike, and…"

She switches to a red dust, charging forward with her blade. "NOW!"

Ruby lands in front of her in a flash, injuring the grimm. "Gotcha!"

Summer, Qrow and Taiyang clapped their hands, all congratulating the girl on the attack. Raven put her hand over her mouth, hiding the oncoming laugh attack that was threatening to erupt. She had never seen something so comical in her life.

Weiss gasps in shock, unable to stop her movements. She stumbles and aims her blade at another direction, sending a fiery blast that hits a tree. Unfortunately, she starts a forest fire.

"Nice going, Weiss," Qrow snickered.

"Clearly that was Ruby's kill," Summer added.

Raven's body shook with silent laughter. She felt a pair of eyes locked onto her; Taiyang, probably, was staring at her. She didn't care. Dust, that was hilarious.

Ruby glances at the tree in concern. Suddenly, a claw knocks her back and collides with her partner, who stumbles back on the impact. "Hey, watch it!" Ruby snaps.

"Excuse me, you attacked out of turn, I could've killed you!"

"There are no damn turns in battle!" Glynda yelled, the frustration evident in her tone.

"You'll have to try a lot harder than that," Ruby mutters, raising her scythe. She changes her ammo while Weiss steps back. A tree suddenly collapses beside them, alit from Weiss' fire. Weiss stanches Ruby.

"We have to go!" she says, leading Ruby out of the clearing. The grimm howl in pain as the flames engulf their bodies.

Team STRQ stared in stunned silence at the roaring flames. "So, uh, Oz…" Taiyang began, addressing the headmaster. "Does the forest usually get set on fire?"

"It happens occasionally," Ozpin answered.

"Define 'occasionally'."

"…Twice a year."

"Didn't that guy from team CROM set the forest on fire a few months back?" Summer asked. Raven nodded. She was with one of their team members that day, working for a history assignment. She would never forget the look of pure fury on her face. That was a fun day.

Weiss and Ruby reach to a halt, the black smoke from the fire behind them. The two pant.

"What was that? That should've been easy?" Ruby gestures to the burning forest.

"Well perhaps if you had exercised even the slightest amount of caution with the placement of your strikes I wouldn't have set the forest on fire!" Weiss retorts.

"OOOOOOOOOH!" the boys of STRQ shouted.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"I'm just surprised that someone that talks so much would communicate so little during an encounter!"

"She's right," Raven agreed. The rest of her team stared at her in mock horror. She rolled her eyes, crossing her arms. "Grimm don't understand us, as far as we know. The two could have easily talked with one another. Both of them are at fault here."

The others reluctantly nodded.

"Well I'm sorry that you need my help to win a fight. I'm just fine on my own!"

"Well, congratulations on being the strongest child to sneak your way into Beacon!" Weiss insults. "Bravo."

"It is an impressive feat," Ozpin said, surprising the team. He wasn't one to commentate on the visions unless he was directed spoken to. "But no one can sneak into my academy."

He said the last sentence with complete assurance.

Weiss storms away, Ruby following behind. In her frustration, the red-cloaked her slices at a nearby tree before switching her weapon back to its dormant form and placing it behind her.

A single giant black feather drifts down behind them.

"A nevermore!" Taiyang exclaimed.

"Wow Tai, I didn't know you were that good at naming animals," Qrow teased. "Now what animal goes 'moo'?"

"Shut up, Qrow," Raven snapped, glaring at her twin. He narrowed his eyes, glancing between the pair of Raven and Taiyang before turning back to the vision.

Jaune and Pyrrha walk through the forest, Pyrrha leading. Several distant explosions are heard, drawing Jaune's attention. "Did you hear that?" he asks quietly.

"Gunfire. It seems some of our comrades have encountered the enemy," Pyrrha answers. The two continue their search for the relics. The red-haired warrior pushes a branch aside to venture forth, hitting Jaune and causing him to fall over. "Jaune!" she exclaims. "I'm sorry."

Jaune shrugs, laughing. "It's okay. It's just a scratch."

Summer smiled brightly at the scene. "He's so clueless," she said. "She's so kind. I love their partnership!"

"Why didn't you activate your aura?" Pyrrha asks, approaching Jaune.

"Huh?"

Pyrrha blinks. "Your aura."

Jaune mutters unintelligible words.

"Jaune… do you know what aura is?"

"Hold up," Qrow said, hand raised. "How the hell does this kid not know aura? It's one of the first things you learn in any academy! It's huntsman 101!"

"He could have not gone to an academy," Raven pointed out. There were a few cases of outsiders who managed to enter Beacon despite no prior academic experience. She had met one in the year above them. She was, without a doubt, one of the best students of that year.

"But usually they have high combat skills anyway," Glynda argued. "I have a feeling about this Jaune boy…"

Jaune scoffs. "Of course I do! Do you know what aura is?"

"Aura is the manifestation of our soul," Pyrrha explains. As she talks, the scene shifts to Lie Ren wandering the forest alone. "It bares our burdens and shields our hearts. Have you ever felt like you were being watched without knowing someone was there?"

Ren narrows his eyes. "Uh, yeah," Jaune replies.

A large black king taijitu hisses and rises up behind Ren. It quickly coils around the huntsman, who readies himself for battle.

"Woah, is he taking on that guy by himself?" Taiyang exclaimed. "That's awesome!"

Raven nodded in agreement. The boy must be incredibly talented if he could face a king taijitu alone where so many of his fellow students failed to take down a Beowulf (she shuddered at their incompetence).

"With practise, our aura can be our shield. Everyone has it, even animals," Pyrrrha continues, pacing around Jaune.

"Not grimm, though," Raven corrected.

"What about monsters?" Jaune asks.

"No."

"Oh," she said, feeling slightly embarrassed.

Ren backflips out of the range of the lunging taijitu, narrowly avoiding its sharp fangs. It stretches out for him again, screaming. "The monsters we fight lack a soul. They are creatures of grimm – the manifestation of animosity." He pulls out his green pistols, jumping above the grimm before shooting dust bullets down. "They are the darkness, and we are the light."

"Right." Ren kicks the king taijitu's head, knocking it back. "That's why we fight them!"

The grimm lunges for Ren yet again. "It's not about why. It's about knowing." Ren slams his blades down on the grimm's head, before yet another scream is heard. "Understanding both dark and light helps us manifest our aura." A white king taijitu rises behind Ren. "Everyone has some of both."

"Two of them?" Summer gasped.

The white snake rushed forward, baring its fangs. Ren jumps out of the way as the other snake wakes up. He grits his teeth, glaring at the two grimm in front of him. "By baring your soul outward as a force, you can deflect harm. All of our tools and equipment are conduits for aura." Ren rides on the back of the snakes, aiming dust bullets at his enemies. The white snake lands a hit, disarming the huntsman. "You protect yourself and your soul when fighting."

Ren holds his hands up, blocking an incoming attack from the black grimm.

"It's like a force field!" Jaune exclaims, smiling.

"Yes… if you want to look at it that way," Pyrrha says.

Ren holds back the fangs of the snake with his bare hands, struggling against its weight. Purple energy pulses from his hands. In one motion, he breaks apart the grimm's fangs and uses one of them to blind it. He uses the pulsing energy to attack the head directly, causing it to explode and fall next to its white counterpart.

"Crap, he's better than all of us," Qrow whistled. "At aura, I mean," he added.

Ren rushes for the next grimm.

The scene switches back to Jaune and Pyrrha. She places her hand on his shoulder. "Now, close your eyes and concentrate."

"Uh, okay," Jaune complies. The two's auras light up – hers a bright red, and his a pure white.

"For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all, infinite and in distant and unbound by death. I release your soul, and by my shoulder protect thee," Pyrrha recites. She pulls away from Jaune, panting.

"Pyrrha?" Jaune exclaims.

"It's all right," she reassures him, straightening herself. "I used my aura to unlock yours but the energy to protect you now is your own." She smirks as Jaune's wound heals itself. "You have a lot of it."

"And you know what they say about men with big aura-" Taiyang started.

Raven glared daggers at him, fuming. He stopped talking immediately.

Ren stands above the bodies of the two taijitu, pistols in hand. He pulls them back into his sleeve and wipes the dirt from his clothes. A strange sound is heard, and suddenly Nora hands upside down above Ren.

"I still don't think that's what a sloth sounds like," Ren greets, smiling.

Nora pokes Ren's nose playfully. "Boop."

And with that, the vision ends.

"I love those two," Summer laughed.

"Ruby's still the best though," Qrow said.

"Yang," Taiyang and Raven chorused. She glanced at him, the corners of her lips twitching upwards. Damn, she was getting soft. Was that what motherhood will do to her?

Not that she minded. No, she didn't care one bit. Not even when all the others were arguing over weapons and students and whatever the hell they felt like, she found blissful peace just being next to him – even just leaning on his shoulder soothed her.

Shit.

Raven Branwen was falling for Taiyang Xiao Long.

Fun fact: the members of Team CROM are Chrom, Robin, Owain, and Maribelle. Can you guess where they come from?

And to all of my GOT fams out there - dem s6 premiere tiddies tho.