Chapter 9: Comparing Notes pt. 2
(Twenty minutes ago)
Kendra was feeling apprehensive about this, but she saw little alternative. In twenty minutes, she and her team would be meeting with Professor Ozpin again for another story-telling session. From this point forward, they would be entering highly sensitive territory and she needed to know what to tell, and what (if anything) to leave out. Kendra stopped walking as she had reached her destination, she was at the ruins where they had found the 'relics' during initiation, she wanted to maintain as much secrecy as possible for what she was about to do. She had brought the box that Bracken had given her during his brief visit, opening it, she picked out the mobile shrine of the Fairy Queen. Kendra pushed any remaining doubts aside as she placed the shrine on the pedestal where she had retrieved the relic, laying a hand on the shrine, she pushed some magic into it causing a light barrier to span across the patch of ruin she was in. Kendra heard a Beowolf shriek in agony as it was torn apart, Kendra wasn't surprised in the least. By activating this shrine, she had claimed this area for the Fairy Queen, albeit temporarily, and as such it was impossible for any darkness to enter unless invited, most mortals were also strongly discouraged from entering the Fairy Queen's domain and if the Fairy Queen didn't feel that the intrusion was justified, she would destroy the mortal in question. Kendra had only decided to do this after she had thought on it throughout the day and felt nothing against it. Her feelings were confirmed as the Fairy Queen didn't destroy her, just because Kendra was favored didn't mean she could call on the queen willy nilly. Kendra felt a wave of power wash over her and a scent of honeydew combined with mint entered met her nostrils.
"Kendra" the Fairy Queen spoke to her mind as well as her heart causing Kendra to feel adoration as well as curiosity. "Is something the matter? You seem troubled?" As the Fairy Queen continued to speak Kendra could feel the same concern as the Fairy Queen did.
"Your majesty" Kendra began with a bow "Ozpin found out about my ability to communicate with the fairies and about Seth being a Shadow Charmer, we've had no choice but to disclose information about recent events to him. However, events we have yet to discuss will get more sensitive, I need advice on how to proceed"
"Yes" the queen said filling Kendra with a feeling of deep thought "Ozpin, he is a point of interest, I can see through your memories of him that he comes from another age and-" the Fairy Queen stopped talking and a feeling of rage entered Kendra as she found her memories turned to the witch that she had seen talk to Seth through that video clip. "How did this happen?!" she practically wailed in fury "How could she have come here, could it be that Zzyzx wasn't strong enough to contain her?" the Fairy Queen's rage was replaced with dread and resolution "Tell Ozpin everything Kendra, and I mean everything, your powers, my identity, let me know when you've discussed the Battle of Zzyzx with him and I will send Bracken to talk to him with you about the threat Salem poses, I can't discuss it now, there is simply too many precautions that I will need to take. Stay vigilant, and prepare yourself for the worst." The Fairy Queen finished as she cut the connection from her end. Wasting no time, Kendra picked up the shrine, placed it back in the box and ran back to Beacon for the next meeting.
(Beacon Tower, present time)
Team LNKS and Warren stepped out of the elevator and took their seats in front of Ozpin's desk. Ozpin, Glynda and Qrow were seated as well and between the two groups there was a baked potato bar.
"Hello" Ozpin said with a smile "I figured that, since you almost missed dinner last night we would have one up here for you."
"Thanks" Warren said grabbing two potatoes and drowning them in cheese and ham cubes. Once the others had gotten some food Kendra began the session.
"Almost a year had passed since Seth and I had been to Fablehaven. I was about to enter high school and Seth was well, he was Seth." Kendra started earning a glare from Seth and chuckles from Warren and Qrow. "Anyway, on the first day of the final week of our school year, a grotesque student entered our classroom, at first I thought everyone would be cruel to him but after hearing that he was gorgeous and that I was the only one who saw him differently, I realized he had to be some kind of magical creature. I wasn't sure how to proceed, every letter I sent to Fablehaven went unanswered, I could never reach them over the phone either. Things quickly became out of hand when he and another enemy who won't be named until later this session messed with our teachers mind and caused her to go insane."
"A crisis indeed" Ozpin agreed
"Yes, then a man approached me claiming to be a friend of a friend of our Grandfather's his name was Errol Fisk. Because he recognized that I had been changed in some way by the fairies and because of how desperate the situation was, Seth and I decided to accept his help in getting rid of the student who ended up being a Kobold."
"Ha" Qrow laughed "Next thing you'll tell me is that Dragons are real."
"That's a story for another night" Navarog said with a smirk that caused Qrow to shut up
"Seriously Qrow, after last time you'd think this wouldn't surprise you anymore." Glynda said disapprovingly
"What do you expect, I'm a middle aged teacher with a 'not-so-healthy' habit of drinking, part of me thought I was hallucinating last night."
"You're not" Seth sighed "Everything we're telling you is all too real."
"Anyway" Kendra continued "The following evening Seth, Errol, and I were in a volkswagen van outside of a funeral home. We had been told that the owner of the home, a man named Archibald Mangum, was an evil Viviblix with an artifact that could get rid of the Kobold."
"A Viviblix?" Glynda asked confused
"You know Vampire movies right?" Warren asked earning nods from all three of them "Blixes are somewhat like Vampires although only one subspecies of them sucks blood. There are three types of blixes: first the Lectoblix is a creature that does indeed survive by sucking the blood and vitality out of its victims; then there is the Narcoblix which has the ability to take control of people it bites while they sleep. And finally the Viviblix has the ability to raise the dead and use them to fight." Warren's explanation caused Glynda and Qrow to pale while Ozpin simply sighed.
"I'm not even surprised anymore" he said motioning for Kendra to continue.
"There were barriers on the funeral home that prevented all but children from entering once it was closed. Meaning that Seth had to go into the funeral home alone, he was looking for the golden statue of a frog."
"Alright my turn" Seth said clapping his hands together "So Errol told me that I had to go into the basement and that I should be as quick as possible. He gave me the code to get into the house and I used it, he also gave me a dog biscuit and told me to feed it to the statue so that I could pick it up. Once I entered the house, I was faced with a dog that was barking at me, I split the biscuit in half, and gave one half to him before I went down to the basement. After searching the basement I found a locked door, I figured since he was evil, it was okay to use the axe he had hanging on the wall to break into the room."
"Obviously" Qrow said pumping a fist into the air
"Anyway, I went in and fed the statue, and the statue bit me right on my thumb, I took the statue and left, errol said that the statue likes to do that and it was his bad for not telling me about it."
"The next day" Kendra picked up "I gave the statue to the Kobold, and it left immediately. We never saw the Kobold again, Errol asked us to help him steal an amulet from a member of the Society of the Evening Star, we agreed since he had helped us. The night we were supposed to go, Grandpa finally returned my call." Kendra sighed :"He told me that he hadn't received my letters and that the phone lines had been cut. Errol was a member of the society, he had created the Kobold problem so he could help us solve it and earn our trust, and Mr. Mangum wasn't a blix, he was a friend of our Grandfather's who was looking out for us and was merely out of town celebrating his 81st birthday." Glynda Qrow and Ozpin were shocked with this new information
"Effective, but cruel" Ozpin acknowledged with a frown
"Yeah, Grandpa sent a friend of his, a woman named Vanessa Santoro to pick us up and bring us to Fablehaven while we planned our next move. She arrived two hours after the phone call and we loaded into her sports car as quickly as we could, our parents weren't involved with the magical community so they weren't in any real danger, so they didn't come with us. We were ambushed on our way out of the neighborhood by errol, another Society member, and a Dullion which is like a golem but less powerful. We were able to escape but not before Vanessa's car took some damage and had the roof dented in."
"And I thought I had close scrapes" Qrow grumbled
"Vanessa pretty much broke half a dozen traffic laws to get us to Fablehaven in under two hours, a drive that would normally take 6-8 hours. When we got there, we were rushed to bed and the net morning Seth and I met our grandparents in the study to talk about what happened and what came next. We found out that Vanessa and a couple of other friends: Tanu and Coulter, were searching for the vault where the artifact was hidden so it could be safely hidden from the Society. We were also told that the reason the Society approached us was that they probably thought I was Fairystruck as a consequence of what happened the previous summer, but the most worrisome news was that the statue that bit Seth was actually an imprisoned demon named Olloch the Glutton, and that now he was free, he would grow larger, stronger and hungrier until he ate Seth."
"What?!" Glynda, Qrow and even Ozpin yelled in disbelief
"Yep" Seth said with a nod
"The safest place for both of us was ironically a place where we could also get ourselves killed easily. Tanu, Coulter and Vanessa became teachers of ours and we began to learn more about their fields of expertise. Later that day, we went to a cabin in a protected corner of the preserve to visit Warren who was a Catatonic Albino at the time. We went with Tanu who hoped to find a way to cure him."
"Really?" Ozpin asked
"Yep, I was not at my best. I was attacked by a Revenant, next thing I know, I lose two years of my life to the curse it put me under." Warren said
"The next day, we learned that somehow, drumnants that Vanessa kept in her room had escaped their cage." Kendra said "Drumnants are creatures that are usually highly poisonous although Vanessa's weren't. But the way we saw it-"
"A saboteur would have no way of knowing that" Qrow realized
"Exactly" Kendra agreed "We decided to remain vigilant and try to find anything suspicious.A few days later we were taken out of Fablehaven to see a man named The Sphinx."
"The Sphinx?" Ozpin asked
"An ally of the preserves who helps when needed. Once we visited him, I learned that the reason I was such a big target for the Society was because when the fairies kissed me, I became Fairykind." Before Ozpin could ask what Fairykind was, Warren shot Kendra a nervous look.
"You're sure you want to tell them."
"Yes" she nodded "I got confirmation to do so from the Fairy Queen just before this meeting."
"What is Fairykind?" Glynda and Qrow asked at the same time
"It means that the fairies shared their magic with me. I learned that I could read and speak languages related to the Fairy language, I had perfect eyesight in the dark, my touch can revitalize magical objects as well as beings with magical powers, I can command fairies to help me, and that night I met Glynda and Ruby, I discovered a new ability, apparently I can absorb magical attacks and send them back at the attacker."
"Amazing" Ozpin said
"Thanks, although I'm sure Seth's own interview could've gone better."
"Basically I learned that Olloch would eventually grow strong enough to breach the Fablehaven defenses and that once he did, he would try to eat me and that he currently didn't know how to stop him." Seth sighed
"That sucks" Qrow said in sympathy
"Yeah"
"Anyway, after we visited the Sphinx, we went back to Fablehaven and kept doing the best we could. But of course, Seth had a scheme to get rich." Kendra said with a look of annoyance on her face
"Yeah" Seth began "Remember the Satyrs who saved us from the Ogress?" the three teachers nodded "Well, they offered to buy batteries for their TV off of me using gold."
"They must really enjoy television" Glynda muttered
"You have no idea" Warren chuckled remembering how quickly the mountain of batteries he provided Newel and Doren with disappeared after he had given them the TV in the first place.
"As I was saying, I followed instructions they left me at the edge of the yard to a tennis court that Warren had built for them to use." Seth continued
"A tennis court too?" Qrow asked
"Hey, when you have good informants, you treat them well" Warren shrugged
"That makes sense" Glynda said
"So, I got to the tennis court in enough time to see them arguing over a game they were playing. Once they realized I was there, they stopped fighting and came over to me. At first they offered me alcohol they had brewed themselves as payment for the batteries." Seth continued
"Alcohol?" Qrow asked looking up "Please tell me you still have some"
"Qrow!" Glynda snapped
"Nope, I didn't take it. I reminded them about the gold and they eventually caved and traded me a gold bar in exchange for 24 size C batteries for their TV."
"Good choice" Ozpin said "I'd rather have a minor running around with gold than alcohol" he chuckled as Qrow groaned at the missed opportunity.
"I was about to leave and head back to the house when out of nowhere, Olloch the Glutton attacked me and the satyrs" Seth said
"No" Qrow gasped
"Yes" Seth replied "thanks to the satyrs and Hugo who came when I called for help, I was able to make it back to the house safely."
"Thank goodness" Ozpin replied
"Yeah, Hugo asked if I was alright once we got back"
"The golem asked you if you were okay?" Glynda asked
"Oh yeah" Kendra said "We forgot to mention that when the fairies put Hugo back together after the fight against Muriel and Bahumat, they also somehow gave him a free will so he could learn and become truly sentient"
"Wow" Qrow said
"Anyway, once we found out Seth was alright, he was naturally in big trouble for going off into the woods without permission."
"As I expected" Glynda approved
"We had a talk with him in the house, first we found out that the bar of gold he got from the Satyrs, actually belonged to a troll named Nero making the Satyrs thieves. Then, we found out that someone wrote the name Christopher Vogel in the register of admittance to Fablehaven as well as Olloch himself meaning that not only did we have a traitor in our midst, they also let Olloch in without any second thought knowing that it would try to kill Seth." Kendra said
"Will you kids ever get a break?" Qrow asked in exasperation
"I know right?" Luke replied
"So, we ultimately decided to sleep on it and plan out our next move in the morning." Kendra said
"Later that night" Seth began "I was woken up by Coulter who said that he knew where the artifact was and that he needed my help to get it so The Sphinx could hide it. I snuck out of the house with him to help"
"Don't you ever learn?" Glynda asked in an annoyed tone
"Don't be so hard on him" Warren said "More often than not, Seth's disobedience has actually saved all of our lives."
"Thanks" Seth said before continuing "We had Hugo take us to a grove with four hills where Warren was seen before he went Catatonic. At first we thought is was a shade so we came with a tool that should've helped as we went into the grove, we would've taken Hugo but there was a barrier keeping him out of said grove. I held the tool and for a while it seemed like it was working but then the figure in the grove pointed a finger at us and we were hit with a massive blast of energy that threw us both off our feet. In a moment, the tool we were using shattered like it was fragile glass and the figure slowly sauntered over to us as we lay nearly stunned and defenseless." Seth said
"That's terrifying" Glynda said
"I remember waking up in my bed in a panic" Kendra said "I looked over to Seth's bed and saw that he was gone. At first, I thought he was heading to the bathroom, but I checked under his bed for his emergency kit just in case and when it was gone, I knew he was gone."
"That must've been unsettling" Ozpin said
"Yep, Vanessa's room was the one I was closest to so I went in and woke her up. At first, she was angry but when I told her that Seth disappeared, she calmed down and we went to wake everyone else up. When we couldn't find Coulter either, we believed that he was the traitor and had lured Seth out of the house. Grandma and Grandpa tried to calm me down while Vanessa, Warren, and Dale began to search the woods for Seth and Coulter." Kendra said
"Meanwhile" Seth began "back in the grove, Coulter had suddenly woken up and asked me where we were. I was really confused at that and before I could reply Coulter saw the figure coming towards us and called it a Revenant and that to destroy it, we needed to pull the nail out."
"Good thing he knows his stuff" Qrow commented
"Yeah, only we were both too weak to actually do anything about it. Coulter mustered all of his strength to crawl over to me and place an item in my mouth, he told me to bite down on it as hard as I could and once I did, a cocoon formed around me that would shelter me from literally anything and everything."
"Doesn't sound like the aid a traitor would give" Ozpin said
"No, it doesn't. Then again Coulter wasn't the traitor" Warren replied
"Anyway, I heard Coulter scream as the Revenant turned him albino and Catatonic like Warren was." Seth said "I ended up passing out from exhaustion soon after that"
"The next morning, Vanessa, Dale, and Tanu came back to the house with Hugo missing an arm from fighting Olloch, and Catatonic Coulter with them. Since they couldn't find him, and since Olloch had suddenly disappeared after briefly entering the grove, they assumed Seth was dead. I remember feeling empty at the news." Kendra recalled
"That's awful" Ozpin said
"Vanessa took me inside and brewed me a tea with sleeping medicine inside of it so I could get some rest. I woke up later that evening and was invited into my grandparents study for a talk. Grandpa had been pondering what happened and knew that something didn't add up. So he told me about his plan, he said that he had told Vanessa, Tanu, and Dale that since the traitor had been apprehended that the key to the vault to the artifact was underneath the cot where he slept, in reality, the box contained a thieve's net to ensnare the real traitor."
"Clever, make the traitor feel secure to slip them up." Qrow nodded in approval
"Exactly" Kendra said "As we went to sleep that night, I was fully clothed and ready in case the traitor made a move, as I lay there I heard a yell of shock coming from the study as well as Grandpa calling for everyone. Just moments later everyone entered the study to find Daleinside the net with Grandpa holding a knife over him. Dale said he had fallen asleep and woken up in the net."
"A ridiculous excuse" Glynda said
"Well, Grandpa thought for a moment and said that at this moment the traitor knew that he had pieced everything together so pretending wouldn't help at all. Friends behaving out of character, drumnants released to explain bite marks and finally Dale claiming to have ended up trying to steal the artifact in his sleep. He apologized for not figuring it out sooner, he then apologized to Dale for being in the net and told Tanu that we couldn't blow this before throwing his knife at Vanessa who dodged it and began nimbly moving around and putting everyone to sleep with her darts. Grandpa told me to run saying that Vanessa was a Narcoblix and told me not to trust anyone without making sure they were who they claimed to be. And I ran into the woods to get away as Vanessa took control of the house." Kendra said
"Well that's a plot twist if I've ever heard one" Ozpin said as Glynda and Qrow gasped at the news.
"I ran to the pond to try and orient myself, once I was there the naiads taunted me and threatened me and I replied that they couldn't do anything to me while I was out of the water and they replied by releasing Mendigo, Muriel's old automaton servant from it's captivity. He grabbed me and began to force me back to where Muriel was imprisoned. While he was trying to get me to her, sever fairies noticed what he was doing and came to my aid. They couldn't destroy Mendigo, so they just placed him under my control. I ordered him to stop and put me down and he did. While I was picking myself up the fairies asked why I hadn't returned the bowl to the shrine and told me that the naiads kept it as a trophy. They also told me that the Queen would never have been angry with me for returning something she had lent me. They then wished me luck and left. Having nowhere else to go, I took Mendigo with me to the cabin where Warren was so I could figure out what to do."
"So you have some help, nice" Qrow said
"Meanwhile, I woke up and found that I was no longer being tossed around like when I was inside of Olloch. Once I was sure I was safe, I broke myself out of the cocoon and was relieved to find that Olloch had reverted back into his statue form, turns out, he had in fact eaten me, but I was protected by the cocoon as nature took its course." Seth said earning a laugh from Qrow and a sigh from Glynda
"Too much information Mr. Sorenson" Glynda said
"So, once I was free from Olloch I had a big problem, I was deep in the woods, I hadn't used any milk, and I had no idea whatsoever how far away I was from the house."
"Quite the predicament" Ozpin agreed
"Out of the frying pan into the fire" Warren agreed
"As I was walking I found the ruins of a manor and thought that if I could get to the roof, I could try and spot a landmark." Seth continued
"Quick thinking" Glynda said
"Once I made it to the roof, I was able to see Warren's cabin not too far away so I started heading in that direction. I arrived to find Mendigo guarding the place and Kendra relieved to see me." Seth said
"Seth and I made something to eat out of supplies in the cabin" Kendra said "I had managed to take Tanu's bag of potions with me as I fled the house and inside Seth found some Walrus butter that work the same way as the milk does, so he was able to see magical creatures."
"Butter and milk? Next thing you'll tell me is that there happens to be a special flour that lets me see magical creatures." Qrow said
"Then all we need is chocolate chips and we can make cookies" Warren chuckled
"Seth and I compared notes on what happened and decided that we needed to get the key to the vault to keep it out of the hands of the society, we eventually decided on using the brownie doors to get into the house undetected."
"Brownie doors?" Glynda asked
"There is a species of magical creature known as Brownies and they love repairing, crafting, and most of all baking. They enter the house at night and take care of any broken stuff that they can simply because they enjoy to do so. And if you leave ingredients out, they'll make some kind of treat for you" Warren informed them
"Yeah, the Brownies make the best cookies ever, way better than anything on this world either if I had to place money on it.
(Team RWBY's dorm room)
Ruby Rose sat upright in bed as she felt something strange and unusual, she had been munching on a cookie made using her mother's special recipe.
"Ruby" Yang asked looking over at her sister in concern "Are you all right?"
"Yeah" Ruby said thinking for a moment "Yang?"
"Yes sis?"
"I don't know why but I think I'm going to beat Seth Sorenson up tomorrow."
"Make sure you have someone record it for me."
"Got it Yang" Ruby said with a yawn "Goodnight"
(Ozpin's office)
"So, we made our way to the Satyr's tennis court where we convinced them to lead us to the Brownie doors in exchange for 72 size C batteries. Don't ask me how, but in just three days they used up all the batteries Seth had sold to them." Kendra said
"They're as addicted to TV as Qrow is to alcohol." Ozpin stated
"Why does that make way too much sense?" Glynda asked
"I'd like to think I'm not that crazy with booze" Qrow said
"You are Qrow" Glynda said dryly "In fact, if I remember correctly, I think I overheard Yang referring to you as 'Drunkle' Qrow while talking with her friends"
"Yang and her puns" Qrow said
"You're not even the least bit concerned with how she sees you?!" Glynda asked
"I'm comfortable with who I am" Qrow said with a smirk
"Anyway" Kendra said before things could get too off topic "once we got to the Brownie doors, we used a shrinking potion to turn ourselves miniscule and we gained entrance into the house thanks to the brownies. Once we were inside, we grew back to our normal sizes and waited for Vanessa and her compatriot Christopher Vogel who was actually Errol to go to sleep before we moved to snatch the key from them. Once we succeeded, we made our way back to the cabin and argued over our next move"
"Kendra thought we should hop the fence to get out of Fablehaven and try to find The Sphinx" Seth said
"In hindsight, my plan was more naive optimism than anything else" Kendra admitted
"My idea was to take the key, get the nail out of the Revenant, and get the artifact and use it against Vanessa" Seth said
"So you had two plans" Glynda summarized "On nearly impossible due to lack of means and the other foolhardy but likely to work."
"Pretty much" Kenra said "I had talked Seth into my plan, or so I thought"
"While she was in the bathroom, I grabbed the key, a courage potion, a pair of pliers, and Mendigo and went to the grove. I found out that Mendigo couldn't enter the grove so I sent him back to the cabin to keep Kendra safe while I entered the grove. The Revenant and I faced each other not more than a couple minutes later. I drank some of the courage potion and felt the Revenant's crippling power fade to nothing more than a minor annoyance."
"I can't believe it was actually working" Glynda said in astonishment
"The Revenant made itself stronger and before I knew it, I had my pliers on the nail, but I was out of courage potion and getting weaker by the second. I pulled and the nail gradually began coming out, it physically attacked me, my skin blistering at it's cursed touch. The strength left me in its entirety, and with one las desperate pull, the nail came out and the Revenant was destroyed as I collapsed into unconsciousness."
"Around that same time while I was panicking in the cabin" Kendra said "I heard a man calling out to see if anyone was here. I saw Warren walking around, he was still albino but he was no longer catatonic. I informed him of the situation and we left for the grove immediately."
"Once we got there, we found the key laying on the ground and were relieved because it meant that Setch couldn't have possibly have entered The Inverted Tower." Warren said
"The Inverted Tower?" Ozpin asked
"The name of the construct that housed the vault, which in turn housed the artifact, like the vault itself, it was impossible to enter without the key." Warren clarified
"We found Seth next to the Revenant's corpse and panicked before we noticed he was still breathing." Kendra said "We ordered Mendigo to take Seth to the stabes on the far side of the preserve where he would be safe. Meanwhile, Warren and I entered the Inverted Tower, I was able to help him navigate traps from false stairs masking a drop of hundreds of feet, to a massive room covered in a mosaic of primates that were ready to kill us if we brought in any weapons that didn't come off the key, apparently as we proceeded, the key revealed a sword and turned itself into a spear."
"That's not a good sign" Ozpin said
"No it wasn't" Warren agreed "After exiting the room with the mosaic, we walked onto a platform that had rods inserted into the wall. I pulled one out and let it go to test it out, and sure enough it floated itself back into the socket on the wall meaning the rods could basically control gravity around itself. Kendra and I used the rods to float down to the chamber below us where we found the vault."
"Strange instruments for a strange world" Qrow said, mostly to himself
"Once we got down there we found a statue of a cat on a pedestal and realized that it was the vault. Warren tapped it with the spear and it turned into a real cat." Kendra said
"Confession time" Warren announced turning to Ozpin specifically "You remember my interview with you to become a teacher here and I told you about that three-headed flying acid-breathing panther grimm?"
"Yes" Ozpin replied, suspecting he already knew where this was going
"Well, it wasn't a grimm. As we killed the cat it came back to life only larger and Kendra and I realized that cats have nine lives so we had to deal with nine incarnations of the cat."
"A three-headed flying acid breathing panter?" Qrow asked "I officially prefer my life as a huntsman"
"I don't blame you" Warren replied with a chuckle
"Warren and I had successfully killed the cat a fifth time when it reincarnated as a massive panther. Next thing we knew, Vanessa and Errol showed up and proposed a truce." Kendra said
"A truce?!" Glynda exclaimed "What made that traitor think a truce would be acceptable?"
"Because as much as I hate to admit it, we needed her help" Warren said "The panther was getting stronger, I was getting wounded, Kendra kept having to risk herself more and more and I was getting worn out not to mention out of shape from the two years I spent catatonic. And she eloquently pointed out that if we were to fight each other while the panther was still alive, we would all die."
"That makes sense" Glynda conceded
"As we got the panther down to its last life, Warren was bleeding out and poisoned while Errol had already been killed when the panther scratched and bit into him." Kendra said
"It may not be a grimm, but it acts like one" Ozpin observed
"We were able to get Warren to turn into a gaseous state by giving him a gaseous potion which kept him alive long enough for reinforcements to arrive in the form of Tanu, Coulter, and Dale to finish the panther off and thus claiming the artifact for us. It was the Sands of Sanctity."
"The artifact that can heal any wound" Glynda recalled
"Correct, we apprehended Vanessa, left the Inverted Tower to find The Sphinx and his bodyguard Mr. Lich waiting for us. Then we used the Sands of Sanctity to heal everyone. And Vanessa was placed in the Fablehaven dungeons. A couple of days later, we decided to lock Vanessa in The Quiet Box, which was a cell on the property that actually removed the prisoner from time itself so they could be locked away for a thousand years and be perfectly healthy when or if they were released." Warren said
"Convenient" Qrow said
"Before Vanessa was imprisoned in The Quiet Box, she told me that she still considered me her pen pal. After thinking for a bit on it I remembered that while she and I were alone, several days before her betrayal, she had given me some candles made of umite wax along with an unite wax crayon. The umite wax crayon can write invisible messages while the candles let someone see and read the messages. I investigated Vanessa's former cell in the dungeon and I found a message providing a plausible explanation for how The Sphinx is a traitor and working for the Society of the Evening Star as well as a testament that she used to be loyal to him until he had her locked in the Quiet Box. With him being a possible traitor, another question had come to mind, who was the previous prisoner in the Quiet Box, and why was he more valuable to the Society than a Narcoblix? If The Sphinx was a traitor of course"
"Was he a traitor" Qrow asked
"We'll save that for next time, it requires diving much deeper into the story as a whole and we've already been up here for the better part of two and a half hours." Luke said
"I agree" Ozpin said "Let's reconvene tomorrow night and discuss this more" Everyone agreed and made their way to bed. However, off in another part of the Beacon campus, Weiss Schnee hung up her scroll and went to bed too. What did I just listen to? She thought to herself. Apparently, just after sitting down, Luke had accidentally butt-dialed her on his scroll and she had heard everything they talked about. She eventually decided to ask Luke about it tomorrow and went to bed herself.
Yay, this is my longest chapter yet. Sorry for not posting for a few weeks, I've been busy painting as well as doing college courses online. Anyway I'm willing to bet that you didn't see a member of Team RWBY learning about this so soon? What will happen next? Hope you enjoyed the chapter and I'll see you next time.