Chapter 11: Dark Birds
Damian opened his eyes to see himself in a white forest. He sat up and saw white trees with equal white grass…he didn't have his helmet on for some reason, but he ignored it.
"Must be a lucid dream…" he said to himself, feeling lighter "Definitely lucid" he looked at a tree and touched it, feeling funny, he jumped to a tree branch and held on to it, it didn't snap, surprising him, he had titanium armor on…
He dropped down and chuckled to himself, looking down, he looked back up and immediately saw a long dark haired woman with a nevermore mask on her face. She wore a black and red shallow cut dress with gauntlets and long dark heels. She was holding his helmet staring at it as she caressed of it "Uhh…h-hello?"
The woman took notice of him and giggled, she placed the helmet on her back and started to run away. Damian started to sprint after her, she turned back at him and laughed as she ran. The woman jumped on a floating rock and looked down to Damian.
Damian looked up to the woman and jumped on the rock, grappling on to it, he lifted himself to the surface and saw the woman running on a floating wall, he sighed and ran to the wall, gravity suddenly changed and he fell on the floating vertical wall. He heard the woman laugh again and saw the woman above him looking right at him. "Who are you?"
"You should've known by now." The woman said, gravity shifted again and Damian fell in front of the woman. He immediately stood up and was now face to face with the woman.
"What do you mean?" Damian asked, The woman gave Damian his helmet
"I'm Raven Branwen…" Raven took off her mask and she had Yang's exact face. Damian wide-eyed and staggered back
"You're Yang's mom…" He felt his heart beating faster
Damian woke up heavily breathing in his bed in beacon, unable to process what he had just witnessed. He heard knocking on his door
"Damian?" he heard a squeaky voice from the door, Damian sat from his bed and sighed "Damian...are you there?" Damian stood up and saw what he was currently wearing 'UNSC shirt and sweatpants…good enough.' He walked to the door and opened it, showing Ruby with her innocent look.
"Ugh, finally you open the door!" Ruby groaned
Damian chuckled "Yeah, so…what do you want?"
"Oh! Uh, Ms. Goodwitch wanted me to come get you! Another Spartan is coming to Beacon and I can't wait to see himtheylooksocoolandawesomeijustwanttousetheirweaponsan-" Damian placed a hand on her mouth
"Ruby…shut up." Ruby pouted
-Airship-
Magnus sat on the airship waiting for his relocation to this Beacon Academy, a bunch of teens training to fight the Grimm. It was an odd thing to train teenagers to fight demon monsters from hell itself…even though he used to fight aliens from other planets…but that was way worse than fighting demons from hell. "These kids have it easy." He said as he took a swing at his new bottle of whiskey, he stopped and wiped his mouth.
He turned to the window and saw he was getting near the school, he put on his helmet and placed his shotgun on his back. Magnus stood up and walked to the airship doors. The doors opened, showing the sergeant he was located with and the headmaster with his assistant.
"Spartan Magnus…" Xavier said
"Sergeant Xavier. Headmaster Ozpin and Assistant Glynda..." Magnus answered "Wasn't there supposed to be a blue haired kid here?"
"Yeah, Glyn. Wasn't Damian supposed to be here by now?" Xavier asked
"I'm here." They heard, seeing Damian with Ruby latched on to his arm "This Magnus?" Magnus watched the little girl on Damian's arm
"Wha-"
"Don't ask…she'll let go soon" Damian said turning to Ruby on his arm. "She's Ruby. Ruby, he's Magnus" he introduced her to the Spartan
"Hi…you look so cool." Ruby said as she smiled at Magnus
Magnus raised an eyebrow "Thanks…?"
Glynda turned to Ruby "Ms. Rose, I would appreciate if you could let go of my assistant. So we could introduce our new…member of Beacon's staff." Ruby let of Damian and bowed slightly
"Ok, Ms. Goodwitch. Bye Damian, Bye Magnus!" Ruby waved as she walked away from the group, Damian smiled at her innocence…which was surprising due to her age. Damian turned to Ozpin
"Alright, Damian. Take Magnus to the room he shall be staying." Ozpin instructed, Damian nodded and motioned to Magnus to follow him along with Xavier. As they walked away Ozpin blankly asked
"At what time is James going to arrive at Beacon?" Glynda observed her scroll and checked the schedule
"…At 4:00 p.m. Tomorrow…I swear if he makes an entrance with his army…" Glynda hissed
-Team RWBY Dorm-
Blake, Weiss and Yang stood around a table in their dorm, currently waiting on Ruby to arrive. Weiss was staring at her scroll "Where is she?"
"She was supposed to be here by now." Blake answered, the door opened showing Ruby
"Hey girls, sorry I'm late." Ruby apologized "I was with Damia-"
Yang grabbed her by the arms, shaking her in the process "Did he mention me!? Say something about I should improve about myself?!"
"No-o-o-o-o-Ya-a-a-a-n-ng-he-e-e-e-di-d-d-n't-sa-a-a-y-a-a-an-n-n-ny-y-y-y-t-t-t-t-h-h-h-h-i-i-i-n-n-n-g-g-g!" Ruby stuttered, Yang stopped shaking her and dashed back to her spot on the table.
"Ok thanks!" Yang cleared her throat "Alright, Snow Queen. If you may…"
Weiss glared at the blonde "Stop with that name. Anyway, thanks to Blake and her skills, we were able acquire one of the many weapons that the Spartans use."
"I never understood why we stole one of them. What we going to do with it?" Ruby said looking at the Plasma pistol
"So we could reverse engineer it and be able to use it with our weapons! Imagine the possibilities with this!" Weiss stated as she picked up the pistol "And if we ever find out what the material is in the green little thing in the front, The SDC could harvest it and create the dust type in mass production! It could a revolutionary step in Remnant history!"
"Weiss get off my table." Blake stated, Weiss looked at where she was standing. She calmly got off and stood near the table. "Which is why we stole the weapon. I hope that answers your question Ruby."
A/N: These chapters were short but were just build ups…for Quantum to join in on Vol 2 of RWBY!
