Short one! And not a Trail of Blood reaction! Instead, I just wanted a bit of fantasy in here without having dark fantasy.
EDIT: I got a few reviews (I guess from the same reviewer, given the context), that I'd like to address now, once and for all. I do NOT like be to criticized uselessly. For example: you don't like Arkos? Don't read Arkos. It's simple. Second, I did punch my brother once, when he threw a bucket of water at my face. The world's a place full of weirdness, you can find basically everything. Third, I can show all the crappy Arkos I want down your throats if you read MY stories. Fourth, a simple comment like that can't be sexist, it's called mockery. Not a nice thing, but not sexist. Weiss was stating was she believed was a fact. Fifth, I don't believe in love at first sight, either. Some people do. Also, in canon it's, if not love, infatuation at first sight. I believe the reviewer I'm addressing to will know what I'm talking about. I love receiving input for my fics. What I do NOT like is receiving uncalled for criticism. So, if you don't have anything useful or nice to say, please don't say it. It will make the world a better place.
EDIT of the EDIT: First off, I know that PHYSICALLY SPEAKING, in our world, two girls can't have a baby. I know, thank you very much. Just like it's fairly impossible to lift a hammer like Maghnild, or it's fairly impossible for Ren to hide Storm Flower in his sleeve, or it's fairly impossible for Yang to fly using her gauntlets, or it's fairly impossible for Jaune to survive the fall from the Beacon's Cliffs. Meh, I've taken a liking for impossible by now. Second, and I really hope you're listening really closely, this is my fanfiction. I'm not somehow with anger issues, the opposite: I'm far too patient and lenient. But now I'm gonna tell you this: MY fic, MY theme, MY choice. I don't get paid for spending hours writing this while losing sleep about it because I don't have time during the day. And I surely don't get paid for listening to people insulting my fics without trying to improve them. Yes, this fic has a dark theme. Meh. All of my fics have a dark theme. I'm that kind of writer. Yes, this fic has OOCness in it, and as you said we can chalk it off as it being from another fic of mine and not from canon.
Just one final warning. I will say this just once. Do not, ever, call my works `crap`. I spend time on them. Mainly because I want to write, but also because I know that enjoy them. I do not want to be liked by everyone here on FanFiction. But if you insult my works, then you're insulting me, and I'm not gonna take insults lightly. I would've normally just erased your reviews, maybe report you for your completely unhelpful reviews, and go on as if you didn't exist. But I want to give you a chance. You'd better take it, because I'm not in the mood to play around any more.
Anyway, enjoy the chapter.
They were all relaxing silently before shit happened.
Said shit was the entrance of two very messy looking Emerald Sustrai and Cinder Fall, both grinning like fools. The two, of course, had to try and tell the others how they had spent the last hour or so. Not outright telling, of course, but they did drop hints that were pretty obvious. Also, they were glowing like supernovas.
Yes, Nora did know what a supernova was. She also tried to recreate one with Maghnild.
Everything calmed down only when Mercury and Roman, friendly chatting about children, entered the room, and everyone was shocked to see that Roman had even let Mercury take one of his beloved cigars. Only Emerald remembered Roman's gift from Adrian Phoenix had been endless cigars in addition to the locket. On their way there, they had stumbled into Ruby, who had been denied to watch the reality with the Grimm/Jaune monster, and she was now trailing behind them, not wanting to be called `Red` by any of the two.
As if that wasn't enough, Nora had begged Khor to give her a new hammer she had sketched during the break. Seeing no particular danger in that -Nora with a new hammer was still Nora with a hammer-, the Writer had materialized the weapon... Only for Nora to give the newly named hammer `Valhalla` to the battle sloth Thor, and once again Ren had to step in with one of his miraculous smoothies.
Finally, three boys returned, those three being Sun and Cardin, with the one they had gone fetching, Neptune. The blue-haired teen was now wary of every door, and presented several cuts, burns, bruises and frostbites all over his body. They took their place carefully, with Neptune forcing Khor to change the disposition of the couches to avoid him being near a girl. He said it was better to be near Taurus, and that was saying everything.
Of course, nothing mattered as the screen lit up again.
Schnee Castle wasn't a place one would like to live in.
"Grrreeeeaaaat start", whined Yang.
"If a Schnee lives in it, nothing is a good place to live in", snarked Adam, earning a glare from both Schnees.
In the main hall, a pentagon had been drawn by the Schnees' archmages, and an incredibly powerful one at that. Instead of the common two pentagons one inside the other, this one was four pentagons, symbolizing the four elements as well as the four human limbs plus the head, and four circles, the circle being a powerful magical ward because of his meaning of infinity. Running all along the lines drawn, there were written words in ancient languages as well as runes like Entrapment, Protection, Ward and Control. All around the pentagon there were ten archmages, chanting in unison to empower the glyph.
"Jeez, that's ominous", said Ruby, cringing.
"I don't like the runes they chose", said Cardin, frowning. "Whatever they are doing, they're gonna trap something... what is that gonna be?".
"Also, it looks like something really big if they made all that mess for it", noted Weiss. "I wonder what that will be... maybe it's only them being overzealous?".
"It is quite possible. Your family has always been famous for not taking any chance", agreed Ozpin. "It could quite easily be a normal ritual brought to the edge of paranoia by their zealousness".
"Pft", scoffed Adam. "I say now they summon something like the Grimm and free it in the world so they are then paid to get rid of them".
"That's...", Winter opened her mouth to retort before sighing. "...actually something my father would do", she finished ashamedly. Adam grinned in victory.
Weiss Schnee, the second daughter of Lord Jacques Schnee, stood in the middle of the glyph, looking every bit of nervous she should've been. The girl had just reached her seventeen birthday, and soon she would've been trained in the magical arts all the Schnees mastered. Given her... particularly rebellious nature, Jacques had decided to wait until her adulthood before giving her an Elemental.
An Elemental was a simple matter, if a Lesser one was invoked. One simply had to choose a natural event, location or element, such as lightning, forests or Fire, and summon its physical embodiment. A poorly made glyph almost always ensured the death of the summoner, but one like the Schnee's was able to invoke even Greater Elementals. For example Salem, the Elemental of the Grimm, who was Jacques's personal Elemental.
"WHAT!?", exclaimed Goodwitch, Ozpin, Ironwood, Cinder, Emerald, Mercury and Qrow, surprised at seeing Salem there.
"What?!", exclaimed all the others minus Adam, shocked to hear that Mr Schnee had summoned the embodiment of the Grimm.
"They match", snarked Adam, smirking.
For Weiss, they had decided to let Fate decide. In case the glyph worked correctly, she would gain the services of a Pure Elemental. Pure Elementals were weaker than Greater Elementals, since they couldn't manipulate the other elements, but they were fairly strong on their own. I case the glyph went wrong... Weiss would probably be killed by the imploding energy of the glyph, and the Schnee family wouldn't have to worry about an Elementless Wizard to feed.
"Appropriate", nodded Adam.
"Taurus, if you don't shut that mouth of yours, I'm gonna rip your tongue out on my own", menaced Weiss, with much more control than his sister, whose threat was similarly worded but way more painful: "Taurus, if your don't shut that hole of yours, I'm gonna rip your dick off".
Needless to say, the bull Faunus simply snorted -like a bull- and turned back to the screen/window.
And that was why the young Weiss Schnee was nervous, standing in the middle of the now fully-working glyph. Just one mistake, a slip of the tongue by one of the archmages, or a line drawn a millimetre wrong... and all the energy accumulated in the glyph, that was admittedly enough to level Schnee Castle like it was nothing, would collapse into itself, with her in the exact middle of it. Not just that, but her father had ordered the glyph to be drawn so to make sure she would die in case the glyph went wrong.
"Grrrreeeeeaaaaaaat father", drawled Adam, taking more and more entertainment from the reality the more it went on.
The two Schnee sisters growled something unintelligible, while others, respectively Pyrrha and Ironwood, patted their shoulders comfortingly.
In front of her, finally, began to form a mist. It wasn't particularly dense nor particularly large, but they took it as a good start and the voices of the archmages returned to their full tone, the echoes calculated to aid even further the glyph and the ritual. Even the archmages were part of the symbol, wearing runes and glyphs drawn all over their clothes. The Five Elements' representations had been placed in the five corners of the inner pentagon: feathers for Air, rocks for Earth, a bowl of river water for Water, burning coal for Fire and a bowl of the mixed blood of two lovers for Love.
"Bleah", gagged Ruby at the sight of the bowl of scarlet liquid.
"Wait, the Fifth Element is really love?", asked Ren. "I've read a lot about it but I haven't really found any undeniable proof about it. Is it true?". The others could only shrug helplessly.
The mist swirled and whirled in place, right in front of Weiss before solidifying into place. A tall boy with eyes like the ocean in a stormy day and hair like the Sun reflected on the sea was now standing in front of Weiss, his clothes made of dark clouds of rain and his expression somewhere between curious and wary, head tilted sideways to look at her better.
"Damn, cloud clothes are so cool!", exclaimed Yang, totally digging the outfit. "Even if they are a bit... inconsistent".
"Schnee, please, restrain your pet", said Adam in a bored tone, and then smirked when Yang's bullets disappeared in mid-air. "Oh, finally Khor decided I'm a watcher too".
"Don't push your luck", suggested the Guard Chieftain from her couch in the corner. "He doesn't like you".
"Cinder, please, restrain your pet", mimicked Mercury, his tone just as bored, gesturing to Adam with one hand. Emerald actually snickered at that and even Cinder smiled a tiny bit. Most of the others laughed without restraint while Adam planned to murder Black as soon as they got back to their universe.
"Elemental, you have answered my call", chanted Weiss, following the ritual. Now that the Elemental had appeared, the chances of her dying were much less consistent. She would need to seriously anger the Elemental to force him to collapse the circle. "My name is Weiss of the Schnee Lineage. As apprentice Wizard, I invoked you as my Elemental".
The boy looked at her for a long time, so long that she thought he would refuse. Right when she began panicking, he nodded in acknowledgement. It wasn't an agreement, but it was already something. "I am the nebulous skies. I am the powerful seas. I am the rain that brings life. I am the hailstorm that brings death to the crops. I am the thunder that force you to cower. I. Am. Storm".
"Wow, Vomit Boy surely likes to make an impression", commented Yang. "I'd say he's fastormable".
"What does that even mean?", asked Nora, curious about her partner.
Ruby sighed. "She meant fashionable, but she substituted the `shion` of the word with `storm` to make one of her horrible puns. Seriously, sis? Fastormable?".
"Hey, don't criticize my masterpuns!", she complained.
"I am Weiss Schnee, and I require your services", continued Weiss, a bead of sweat rolling down her forehead as the Elemental's expression didn't change one bit. "You are trapped in a Glyph of Warding. You can't exit nor take action against me. Only if you swear loyalty to me, you will be freed from this chains".
"Wow. Slavery", snorted Adam. "I totally called it".
"No, you didn't", grumbled Weiss, ashamed her other self would do such a thing as slavery.
The Elemental looked amused now. "And how do you think you can contain a Storm?", he asked, and Weiss heard the thunder explode outside, as heavy rain began pouring down and the Sun that until a few minutes ago lighted the room now all but gone. "Your offer isn't appealing, Weiss Schnee".
Weiss was desperate now. "No! You must obey!", she exclaimed, her fear only increasing as she realized she was encircled by mist. "Why me?! Why none of the other Elementals rebelled?! Why me?!".
"Your offer is uninteresting", repeated Storm, beginning to fade.
"No!", shouted Weiss, reaching out to grab his arm. His skin felt soft and smooth, but almost inconsistent. He was fading back into his element. "I'll give you whatever you want! Just please, don't go!".
"Weiss, Weiss, Weiss", scolded Nora, shaking her head. "Never to offer `whatever you want` to someone you don't know".
"Not even to someone you know, either", added Ren, remembering when he had to bake two thousands pancakes for Nora. The boy shivered. "Especially not someone you know".
The mist solidified instantly and the arm beneath her finger returned to its solid state. An intrigued look was suddenly on his face. "Whatever?", he asked.
She gulped, but it was too late to back down now. "Whatever", she repeated. The Elemental nodded, a pondering expression now adorning his face. "Just, please, don't make it too harsh", she begged after a minute. The boy chuckled.
"I'll keep this debt in mind", he said. "I will request my payment in time. For now, continue with the ritual".
Weiss suppressed an explosive sigh of relief. She wouldn't be kicked out of the family, after all. "For it is in bonds that we achieve immortality, through this we become a paragon of fortune and glory. Infinite in distance and unbound by Death, I connect our beings, and by soul, support you".
A powerful white light enveloped the two as soon as the finished the last words.
"It's very similar to the one I used to unlock Jaune's Aura in the Emerald Forest", noted Ruby, remembering the day they had partnered up. "What does it do in this?".
"Apparently it bonds an Elemental to its new owner", explained Cinder. "It said it was part of the ritual, so I guess it's the end of it".
And finally, Weiss opened her eyes to look at her new Elemental. The glyph around them had broken, and the ten archmages laid unconscious on the floor, a clear sign that something powerful had just entered the glyph. With all their energies consumed to keep the glyph working, they had simply fainted. Lord Jacques Schnee was watching with interest his daughter's Bonding. He hadn't caught the name of the Elemental, but he hoped it could help make her a bit less rebellious.
"Instead, she got Storm-Jauney", cheered Nora, looking around with a smile. "I bet he won't be happy about you becoming even more rebellious".
"He's never happy", retorted both Schnee daughters at the same time.
Storm had solidified completely now. His cloud-like clothes had become a dark blue vest that gave him a wizard-like look. Not like he wasn't a wizard. No weapon nor armour was visible on him, but Weiss knew better than to care about those. She herself knew, and she was just an apprentice, how to create an ice sword out of thin air, so she assumed the Elemental knew how to take care of himself.
She looked at him for a while before nodding to herself, remembering an old legend about a warrior called Joan of Arc. She would need to adapt the name, but it could fit. "From this day until you will be returned to your Element, your name will be Jaune Arc. Do you understand?".
"I do", replied Storm, looking around before focusing on the Grimm-like woman standing beside Jacques. His eyes narrowed and he turned away from Weiss. "Grimm", he greeted coldly.
"Storm", returned the woman, whose human name was Salem. "A pleasure to see you here".
"I fear the pleasure is not mine", he growled, but then turned back to Weiss and knelt. "My Queen".
"First slavery", scoffed Adam. "And now you force him to worship you. Schnees".
Yang grinned. "Oh, well, there are many ways Weiss-cream could be worshipped by Jauney", she snickered darkly. "I guess your other self is bolder than you are, Weiss".
"Yang!", exclaimed the girl in white, her face as red as Ruby's cape. "You... you are indecent!".
Yang burst into laughters.
I... don't know what to say apart... I'll be back soon.
Until next time,
Khor Evik Vlakhavlakh.
PS: Adrian, your `pet` has somehow returned. Did you teach her Dimensional Travel?