RWBY: The Unknown Sibling
(Harry is two years older than Ruby and three months older than Yang)
To the Anon who mentioned my timelines in ages. He is correct, Harry is the same age as Yang.
"Are you two familiar with fairy tales?"
Harry and Neville looked at the Headmaster, the Deputy Headmistress, Qrow and Ironwood "Is there a specific one you're alluding Headmaster, please cut the crap."
Ironwood stiffened "I don't…"
Harry's eyes flickered momentarily "I don't like the way that you've in essence bent Vale Council over and made them Atlas's bitch…Now call me crass, rude and impulsive and I'll agree with that. Now Headmaster Ozpin has decided to bring myself and my best friend with a very big stick into the fray, I'd love to hear what he has to say."
General Ironwood sighed and Ozpin carried on "My apologies Mister Potter. I take it that you other Headmaster used to remain tight-lipped until well past the danger? Or neglected to tell you important information?"
Harry nodded "Something like that."
Ozpin nodded "Well this is going to take a while…Please bear with me for this is a mixture of myth, legend, memories and a very painful story…At least for me."
Harry and Neville nodded, both of whom schooled their faces into masks of utter seriousness "I, Hadrian James Potter or Haridrian Branwen, do swear on my life, magic, honour, soul and aura that I will never knowingly, willingly or be coerced into divulging any of the information Headmaster Ozpin will bestow unto me, hear or now until the end of my days unless granted permission to by Ozpin himself. So, it has been said." Harry intoned.
"So, it has been witnessed." Chimed in Neville.
As he said that both Harry and Neville's auras began to pulse and crackle and become visible; a bright emerald green, ruby red and smooth silver began to coat him and was entwined by a solid earthen brown, only to be encompassed again by a dark forest green. Harry and Neville's eyes widened when they saw Ozpin's aura manifest "So, it shall be honoured." Ozpin finished.
"I, Neville Franklin Longbottom, do swear on my life, magic, honour, soul and aura that I will never knowingly, willingly or be coerced into divulging any of the information Headmaster Ozpin will bestow unto me, hear or now until the end of my days unless granted permission to by Ozpin himself. So, it has been said." Neville intoned and again the brown aura appeared.
"So, it has been witnessed." Replied Harry and the tri-coloured aura appeared encompassing the brown aura.
"So, it shall be honoured." Intoned Ozpin for the second time.
Meanwhile, Inner Circle couldn't believe the sheer amount of power being exhibited by the two newest additions to the group.
Ozpin then seemed to age quite rapidly. "Alright. This is hard to explain, especially because even by the mad circumstances of this world." He said tiredly.
"Headmaster, if it makes it any easier…don't tell, us the very beginning just tell use the most relevant part," Harry said calmly.
Ozpin nodded "Thank you. Qrow will inform you later on…Anyway. The fairy tale goes that there was an immensely old powerful, lonely and exceptionally ill-tempered wizard and he lived alone. Then one day he was visited by four women. The first encouraged him to reflect and meditate and she proceeded to wait by a majestic oak tree. The next day her sister arrived, however unlike the first sister she came bearing gifts of fruit and flowers and got the wizard to revitalise his derelict garden. She then joined her sister by the tree. The next day the third sister, managed to convince him to embrace the outside world. For the first two sisters, the old man couldn't immediately do anything to repay them but the third sister got him into the garden and he repaid them with a majestic feast. Finally, on the fourth day, the final sister joined them and she got him too be thankful for what he has."
Harry nodded "The wizard then gave them parts of his considerable power and they became Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Maidens."
Ozpin nodded "Correct…Now…"
Harry sighed "Please don't tell me that there is an evil megalomaniac psychopathic sociopathic evil sorcerer with an army of evil undead never dying horrors and some numerously unstable and exceptionally power henchmen working for them? Oh, and that you people don't know where the maidens are? Or is it the potential fact you might have a maiden with part of it's power hiding in the basement of the school, powered by Coldballs Tech, which is why Vale has subsequently become their bitch? Have I got everything Neville?"
Neville began to tick stuff on his fingers "Haven't made the suggestion of that the headmaster is actually the Wizard from the Fable, Myth or Legend with immortality who cannot rest until he has righted some old wrong possibly relating to aforementioned sorcerer?"
It was the ever-unflappable Ozpin, along with everyone bar Qrow whose jaw dropped. "How did you find that information! Ozpin destroyed most of the records, as did I." Thundered General Ironwood as he pulled a pistol.
"Seriously, Jimmy Coldballs? Thankyou for confirming all of my ramblings." Harry said as Neville grinned toothily.
"Very clever Hadrian, Neville. Nice work indeed casually getting under General Ironwood's skin and subsequently getting him to confirm your…interesting ramblings. Now, could you satisfy my curiosity and I'll shed some light on the matter."
Harry and Neville looked at each other, the Inner Circle watched as Harry and Neville deactivated their aura and yet more aura rushed out of the cocooning around the office, drowning out the soft blue of someone else's. "Not sure how well they're going to hold. Anyway, where we have grown up I have to deal with a dark sorcerer myself with all of the aforementioned powers and allies. However, I've got some goat-buggering old-man who holds everything to close to his chest with quite possibly a superiority complex."
Ozpin nodded "I see. Now whilst you are correct, I suspect you were going to use the term Wizard, assuming my opponent was a male but switched to a sorcerer for a more neutral title. Anyway, our opponent is a Witch called Salem, I failed to defeat her so many lifetimes ago. She also created the Grimm. What is more imperative is that Salem DOES NOT meet your own an evil megalomaniac psychopathic sociopathic evil wizard."
Harry and Nevi nodded "Wouldn't trust Dumbledore to not try and get Tom Riddle and Salem to work together to have me achieve my destiny." Harry spat.
"That destiny is?" Ironwood asked mockingly.
Harry smirked "I can't die until I defeat Tom…So Ironwood drops the constipation look, remove that Grimm from your ass and tell us WHY you're here fucking Vale over instead of Atlas…Oh wait, you already have, so why don't you go back to Mantle."
Ironwood growled and slammed his hand onto Ozpin's desk before pushing his scroll onto it "Fine…I'd recommend…"
"Getting laid? Stop being such a cunt. OW. Nev!"
Neville grabbed Harry "My friend here has had a pretty shit day. But he makes some very good points. Why are you here?"
"The same could be said about Qrow."
Qrow snorted "I'm here because my son, daughter and their teams almost died Jimmy. Furthermore, I'm here because I possess extremely pertinent information that I do not trust the CCN with!"
"You can't go dark in the field. There are protocols involved." Snapped Ironwood.
"Jesus Christ, crap on a crackerbread. Pack it in. Now I see why Harry, pokes so much fun at you idiots from Atlas. Now Qrow, General headmaster, Headmaster General perhaps we can discuss this as people and not petulant children." Neville said grabbing a beer from the box, Harry had brought in. "As for you Harry, here sit down, shut up and maybe NIKL will foot the pizza bill ONLY if you restrain yourself from taking the piss out of the HG-GH and who he represents."
Harry nodded "Stupid Window pieces of crap can almost guarantee that your robot toys will rebel…Anyway the intelligence?"
"The enemy's agents, the ones that took out Amber…they're here." Said Qrow.
Goodwitch gasped, Ozpin frowned and hummed. Harry and Neville looked at each other. "We know. We picked up intelligence that our Enemy is already in Vale."
Harry growled "…So in total dicktator fashion, Jimmy decided to strongarm Vale into 'protecting Vale' from Grimm with the entirety of an Atlesian Fleet ALL of which is heavily mechanised…" Harry sighed.
"Problem Mister Branwen?" Asked Glynda.
"Our Atlesian Fuhrer is a complete and utter fuckwit, son of an elder berry smelling father and a hamster mother…He's blown any sort of subterfuge. Headmaster, immaturity and horrible first impressions aside what do you want Neville and I to do?" Harry asked.
"Do whatever you think needs to be done…I get that HAND are…loose cannons but please Hadrian if I'm allowed to call you that. I need your teams in the Festival and flush them out."
"That Headmaster is our genuine pleasure."
With that, the teens left "Are they up for this?" Ironwood asked Ozpin slightly nervously.
Ozpin grinned "Play them straight and honest and they'll be some of the best assets we'll ever have."
No-one noticed Ironwood's scroll turn red.
(Cinder's Teams Room)
Cinder grinned. They had access to Ozpin's office. For her immense dislike of the snobbish Atlesian Scientist, he admittedly did exceptional electronic work.
The moment they made the connection, they began to eavesdrop on the conversation. They finished listening when they heard the doors close. Cinder turned to her subordinates "Which ones are Harry and Neville? Are they linked to anyone of importance?"
Mercury and Emerald looked at each other as they recalled the fighting "Harry is a tall thin teen. Wields a scythe. Neville, not too sure. As for them being related to anyone not too sure." Emerald said.
"I think Qrow's involved. Yes, I know Qrow when I see him…more smell him than anything. Wields a scythe and smells like my dad after a long day." Mercury commented.
"Any idea on Harry's semblance? It is a good idea to have an idea on his powers before we fight in the tournament."
"Very strong. Seems elemental based, I think. He didn't display anything that could easily be construed as a semblance. It could be something mundane as increased battle reflexes." Commented Emerald.
"I'm leaning towards battle reflexes. Cinder, you didn't see him properly in combat earlier on today. He was dodging blows from Ursa Major's, tanking hits from King Taijitu, he even got eaten by said Taijitu. When we first saw him, he got back-handed out of a fifth floor flat by a Beringel. He called it 'Harambe' or something before dispatching it." Mercury commented, being the son of a formerly very dangerous assassin Cinder tended to take his advice about dangerous fighters.
(Harry et al.)
Harry reappeared outside the dorms, carrying three crates of beer. "Thank Oum, I know how to apparate. Now Nev, get this door open please."
Velvet opened the door almost immediately on hearing her boyfriend's voice. She yanked the door open with such force, Neville almost fell through the door. Just behind him "Seriously, Harry?"
"That's my Godfather…But yes, I had to make a beer run. Darling, please excuse me, the sooner I get to the kitchen the sooner I can see you."
Yatsuhashi plucked the boxes out of Harry's hands and Harry soon had to deal with a high flying rabbit faunus. Velvet attached herself to Harry and kissed him She broke the kiss and jumped backwards as she took in his appearance. Harry was still covered in blood, grime, mud, dust, sweat and Grimm bits. "You, sir are ripe. You need a shower and we'll order pizza."
"Wanna join me?" Harry asked grinning from ear to ear.
"Pervert…You're an absolute moron and an inappropriate one at that. But you're mine. Not now." Velvet admonished lightly slapping Harry on the shoulder, she was grinning and blushing slightly. The rest of team CFVY watched, the temperamental and quite frankly balls-to-the-wall insane leader of team HAND did amazing things for Velvet's self-confidence.
The eighteen teens and young adults comprising of NIKL; AND; RWBY; JNPR and CFY watched with smirks on their faces as Velvet 'flipped' Harry onto his back and all but chucked him into the bathroom. "Enjoy that?" Yang asked.
"Immensely." Replied Velvet absentmindedly only to turn beetroot red as she worked out what Yang was alluding to. However, Neville and Kobi got out their scrolls and began to order copious amounts of pizza and drinks.
The shower for both Harry and Neville were both utter heaven. This included the friendly banter and even the Gryffindor hospital wing rule of back scratching with scouring charms. Neville got dressed whilst in the bathroom whereas Harry, pulled on his underpants and strode out of the bathroom.
The effect was instant. Yang covered Ruby's eyes, Weiss and Blake stared. Isabella blushed as did Velvet. Coco's eyes widened behind her glasses whilst the males just stared and shook their heads at how insane Harry was acting. "Put some clothes on."
"I will Kobi, I will. Velvet…" Harry didn't finish what he was going to say as clothes were flung in his direction.
"Please, Harry…What happened after the debriefing? Did your other Headmaster do anything?" She stopped and sniffed.
"Neville, how much has he had?"
Neville, sighed "Three or four and had an over exposure to dicktators and twat-stains in the form of James 'Jimmy' Ironwood."
That got everyone's attention "He's here! That asshole!" Isabella snapped.
"You dislike him?" Harry asked, his opinion of Neville's partner increasing.
"Yup, he's a Headmaster, General and part of the Atlesian Council…Harry, why is he here?"
"Making Vale his bitch and providing security for the Vytal Festival. We, Neville and I…Okay, I made an extremely bad impression on him." Harry said.
As he said this the door opened and Ron, Hermione and the Twins let themselves in. "Insult him? Belittle him? Much like you treat Professor Snape?" Hermione asked.
"Hermione, you and I know that Snape starts those confrontations."
"But, Harry should not…"
"Roll over and be Snape's bitch, Hermione you and I both know that Snape starts it. You and I both know that Dumbledore doesn't me to have a backbone of my own. Either ditch his dick at the door and come have a beer, food and a laugh or you can take the vegetarian option and fuck off." Harry growled as he pulled on a ragged looking t-shirt on top of his jeans.
Hermione looked like she had been slapped "What has endeared Headmaster Ozpin to you, instead of Professor Dumbledore?"
Neville grinned "Answers and honesty, Hermione. Answers and honesty. I have been given something that Dumbledore doesn't. That something is knowledge, with knowledge comes choice and said choices can lead to destruction or creation. So, Hermione what is your choice?"
Hermione looked Harry dead in the eye "I'm sorry. Ron, Fred, George, Ginny," but the bushy brunette couldn't cope with the fact that she was but a pawn in someone's game, and she turned away.
The Twins grinned "Like we could ever forget our investor." They said alternating between every word. They entered the room and were handed beers. Followed by Ron and Ginny.
Velvet looked at the two younger redheads, the youngest male made his way over to her "Hi, I'm Ron. Ron Weasley."
Velvet nodded and was surprised when he grabbed her forearm, she did the same "Nice to meet you. I'm Velvet, Velvet Scarlatina."
Ron, after shaking her forearm kissed her knuckles "Can we have a quick chat."
Velvet looked at Harry, who nodded in reassurance "Yes. Why? What's this this about?"
Ron sighed "I had hopes of Harry, marrying my sister and becoming part of his family. But, on contrary as to what you might hear about me, I can tell that you care about Harry and he cares a hell of a lot about you. I've never been the best friend to him but please, as someone who knows him…If anything be straight and honest with him, oh and…be a better friend than I ever could be."
Velvet listened "Thanks…for the information. I will."
The two looked over to see Harry and Ginny in a close space. Velvet closed her eyes and channelled her aura to her ears. "What is it Ginny? I'm in a relationship."
"I know Harry. I know. I need you to take a leap of faith and kiss me, it's not for you but for me. I need closure." Velvet opened her eyes to see Ginny kiss her boyfriend. The pair pulled away almost immediately simultaneously grabbing a beer each.
Harry took a deep pull, belched and looked at her "Find closure?"
Ginny nodded, drank and winced "Yeah, how'd you drink this?"
"Practise. What is it?"
"What I thought I felt towards you is nothing but a crush…Be safe, and I'll see you when you eventually comeback to deal with Snake face." Ginny said before she too left.
As the party began to wind down around midnight, Velvet rested her head on Harry's shoulder "Sad that you're leaving your old friends?"
"Yes and no. I found love in my heart and it broke whilst I was with them, I found friends and I lost them through the years. I now have you and Beacon." Harry replied, kissing her on head and wrapping his arms around her waist.
Velvet sighed "I love you. You know that right?"
Harry nodded and he looked her in the eyes "I love you to."