"Bravo, bravo." Ozpin clapped, gaining the attention of everybody there. "What a splendid display." He smiled. "I'm sure we can all learn something from a battle like that, from fighters like you..."
"Raine." The kitsune took a half-bow with a smile. "I'm Ravage's mother. Sorry about the mess, I can have it fixed immediately."
"Ozpin. And no problem, so can I." Ozpin returned the gesture as Glynda fixed up the area, restoring the courtyard to its natural state, fixing up the crater and the cracks in the odd stone column. Ozpin rose back up. "You put on a wonderful show indeed, I'm sure all of my students will appreciate it when I show them the recordings." Raine chuckled.
"Happy to entertain." She nodded. Ravage began to stir, regaining his consciousness. "Knew he wouldn't be out long." Raine looked down to her son.
"Urrgh..." Ravage opened his right eye and pushed himself up, stumbling back onto his feet before shaking his head and rubbing his forehead. "Maybe next time..." He sighed in defeat. Raine smiled and patted him on the head.
"I hope this wasn't too embarrassing for you, Ravage." Ozpin chuckled. "Losing in front of everybody I mean."
"Ehh, I never win against mom." Ravage shrugged. "After a while your pride doesn't hurt as much after each loss... your body does though."
"I suppose it might." Ozpin nodded.
"That was totally awesome though." Ruby smiled.
"I gotta admit... never seen anything like it... and I might never again." Blake added.
"Hey, I'm happy to take you on anytime." Ravage shrugged. "Hell, I'll take all four of you in a 4v1 anytime if you feel up to it, after all I love a good fight." He grinned.
"Heh, usually I'd say you'd have enough in just fighting me." Yang folded her arms and smirked. "But after that... maybe a little help would be nice." She added.
"Hey, don't go doubting yourself. Remember, I fight fair... in the sense I wouldn't use any more power than you." Ravage replied. "Besides, from what I gather you're the next best thing to a Saiyan I'll find round here, and I love me some Saiyan brawling."
"What's a Saiyan?" Yang inquired.
"Wow... huh, I assumed you might have some equivalent to that verse in media form around here, at least from what I gathered from a certain..." Ravage rested his head in his hands. "You know what, never mind, forget about it: might lead to some existential questions."
"You haven't visited one of those verses in a while have you?" Raine looked down to Ravage with a raised brow.
"Nope." Ravage sighed. "Missing my quota. Should also probably go see Akiko and the others some time as well... actually there's a lot I haven't seen in ages, I slept in a little too late, remember?" He looked off to his left as he muttered. "But I digress." He looked back to Ozpin, Glynda, Team RWBY and JNPR. "Well, I hope you all enjoyed my ass-beating, but we should probably be getting off by now... I haven't had 5th dinner yet."
"5th?" Jaune's eyes widened.
"Ravage is a growing boy." Raine smiled. "Plus our race has a naturally big appetite. Though I also say growing loosely."
"Hey, come on, you know you love me as a little lusus naturae. Heheh." Ravage looked up to his mother and smiled.
"You win this round." Raine smiled back.
"You have to go so fast?" Ruby asked, looking visibly disheartened.
"Oh come on, you know you'll see me again: I can't just relegate you girls to cameos on my holiday." Ravage laughed. "I mean I also wanna fight you and your team some time as well, so there's that. Hell, win and you can pet me whenever." He rubbed his nose. Ruby immediately pulled out her scythe Crescent Rose, the weapon unfolding and its blade extending out.
"Weiss, Blake, Yang... gear up." Ruby narrowed her eyes with a devious smirk. Yang was the only one to ready her weapons. She really wanted a fight herself. Ravage laughed again.
"You're not ready." Ravage shuck his head. "I'll give you all some time to prepare, for whoever does decide they want to spar, and we can go at it another time. Plus I'm hungry, can't fight on an empty stomach."
"Don't try and use that as an excuse for your loss." Raine smirked, folding her arms.
"Damn." Ravage clicked his fingers in irritation.
"Well I suppose this is goodbye for now then." Ruby put her scythe away.
"Yep, see you all around. Ozpin, thanks for having us." Ravage nodded.
"Any time, have a good day." Ozpin nodded back.
"Bye." Team RWBY and JNPR bid farewell to Ravage and Raine.
"See ya." Raine smiled before she and her son turned to leave.
"I miss them already." Ruby looked down at the floor.
Ravage and Raine sat at a campfire out in the thick of Emerald Forest, deep in the region and far from civilisation. Their little camp had actually been set up in a set of ancient ruins, atop a crumbling old tower overlooking a large section of the forest. The sun had set long ago and the stars were already shining high up above in the night sky, the shattered moon looking down upon mother and son as they rested.
"So, if you get back home before me you'll know where I am." Raine finished off her sentence. Ravage laid down on a fallen pillar, resting his head in his hands as he relaxed.
"Alright, but I may actually be hopping around other verses after this so it might not matter." Ravage replied. "Actually, I'm thinking of hosting a tournament later on." He added.
"Heh, sad you can't get into the one coming up in this world?" Raine smirked as she kept the campfire going with a little boost of her flames, sending out a small stream of fire from her right palm.
"Damn straight." Ravage sat back up. "I hate missing out on tournaments..." He sighed. "And now that my memories of this world's average timeline are back, I know things are going to get really fun around then. Hell, if I was allowed in the tournament I'd stay and help."
"Mess up this timeline further?" Raine chuckled.
"Hey, I could easily crush all of the bad guys with zero effort if I wanted to, save a few lives and a lot of trouble..." Ravage shrugged. "But I think I'll just let the future play out normally, doubt I'll be here for the party now."
"And if you decide to stay longer?" Raine inquired.
"It'd be over before it even starts." Ravage smiled. Raine laughed.
"Getting all compassionate."
"If I'm around I may as well save the day." Ravage defended himself. "But if I'm not around then it ain't my problem, nothing is." He followed up.
"Of course." Raine nodded.
"And besides, who knows what the future holds?" Ravage continued. "They might need this to grow stronger in time for the next big threat, by saving them from the current threat I may doom them to the next." He explained. Raine nodded again.
"The night is darkest before the dawn." Raine muttered. Ravage nodded back.
"But the dawn will always come, eventually." He responded. "Because there cannot be night without day, and day without night."
"Ah, philosophy." Raine smirked. Ravage shrugged.
"That reminds me, these Grimm creatures seem familiar to you?" Ravage scratched his head.
"Just your average darkness monsters." Raine replied. Ravage nodded.
"Like the Heartless."
"Like the Heartless." Raine nodded back.
"Ah, tropes." Ravage smiled. "Great, now I got another verse to visit some time." He muttered, looking aside.
"Ah cheer up, you know you love it." Raine rolled her eyes. "Or do I need to do a topical musical number?" Ravage's face went blank.
"Have you been listening to the OST?" Ravage stared at Raine.
"Maybe." Raine glanced to her left and right. "Besides, isn't a mother supposed to entertain her child?"
"I'm more than content already." Ravage assured Raine. Raine cleared her throat. "Oh is that Grimm I sense?" Ravage looked to the forest below.
"Dream of anything..." Raine began.
"Here we go..." Ravage sighed. "Ok, maybe I'm up for it." He muttered.
"I'll make it all come true." Raine stood up. "Everything you need is all I have for you. I'm forever, always by your side." Ravage rolled his right eye as Raine sat down beside him. "Whenever you need a friend, never far behind." Raine tickled the back of Ravage's left ear, her son giggling as she did so. They looked up to the night sky. "If the stars all fall, when there's no more light, and the moon should crumble, it will be alright." Raine and Ravage looked back to one another and smiled. "Don't you worry about the dark, I will light up the night with the love in my heart." Raine continued. "I will burn like the sun, I will keep you safe and warm." She clicked her fingers and she was briefly engulfed in flame. "Like the smell of a rose on a summer's day, I will be there to take all your fears away. With a touch of my hand, I will turn your life to goooooold." She and Ravage stood up. "With a touch of my hand, I will turn your life to gold." She 'booped' Ravage on the nose and smiled. Ravage swallowed his pride.
"Let's have everything, nothing we cannot do." He joined in. "Every heart just beaming, every sky turns blue. I'm so happy just to have you here. Smiles turn to sunshine, worries disappear." Raine giggled and patted Ravage on the head.
"When the days turn dark, and we start to fall, I will pick you up and we will fix it all." Raine picked Ravage up and spun him around before putting him on her shoulders, giving him a shoulder ride. "Don't you worry about the dark, I will light up the night with the love in my heart, I will burn like the sun, I will keep you safe and warm." Raine began to walk around the campfire with Ravage sat on her shoulders. "Like the smell of a rose on a summer's day, I will be there to take all your fears away. With a touch of my hand, I will turn your life to gold." She and Ravage stopped and looked up to the broken moon. "Goooooooold..." Raine picked Ravage up off of her shoulders and proceeded to give him a hug, the two smiling warmly as they embraced.
"Don't worry, I've got you; nothing will ever harm you." Mother and son sung in union, their voices joined in song.
"I'm close by, I'll stay here; through all things, I will be near." Raine continued on. She looked out to the horizon. She could feel her own mother's love shining down upon her. "Close your eyes, don't you cry. Love's around you; in time, you'll fly." Their hug ended and Raine put Ravage down, patting him on the head again afterwards. "Don't you worry about the dark, I will light up the night with the love in my heart." Ravage and Raine danced around in a circle as Raine continued to sing."I will burn like the sun, I will keep you safe and warm." Both engulfed themselves in flames, their fiery auras flaring up as they smiled at one another. "Like the smell of a rose on a summer's day, I will be there to take all your fears away. With a touch of my hand, I will turn your life to gold." They turned to the horizon as their fiery auras faded away.
"With a touch of my hand, I'll turn your life to gold." They finished together. Raine and Ravage looked over to each other and smiled before bursting out into laughter. They sat down on the edge of the tower, their legs dangling over the side.
"Well that was a thing..." Ravage chuckled. Raine patted him on the back. "All we're missing is a shooting star." And a shooting star passed them off in the distance. "Called it." Ravage smirked.
"How predictable." Raine shuck her head.
"Wanna go mess with the White Fang?" Ravage turned and asked.
"The what?" Raine scratched her head.
"Those terrorist Faunus guys. You've run in to them, right? You mentioned a hijacked aircraft incident." Ravage explained.
"Ahh, those guys." Raine realised. "Sure, it'll be fun: just fighting monster after monster gets boring, more sentiant life can be a nice change of pace to keep things lively." She smiled at Ravage. Ravage nodded.