AN: I know that it's a day earlier but, HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY! Here's more of the story! Hope you like it!


Chapter 28: The Aftermath

Everything is white as Ruby looks around across this blank void. She then sees a womanly figure wearing a white cloak and hood standing in front of her. The figure lifted her head to show a smile and her silver eyes. "Mom?" Ruby says in surprise, seeing her mother this empty white void. Summer Rose then turns around and walks away. Ruby tries to reach out to her, "Mom! Wait!" There was a flash of light that appeared then she sees a blurry ceiling with a light shining and the sound of something beeping. After her vision adjusted, she looks around and sees the heart-rate monitor and white curtains along with an IV bag connecting to her arm via tube. Then she noticed a familiar face. "Dad?" Her father smiles to see his little girl awake and says, "Ruby! You're awake!" Ruby tries to sit up with her father saying, "Easy there. Don't rush things." Ruby places her hand on her head and moans, "Ugh. It feels like I have a headache." She then remembers what happened and looks at her dad. "Wait, how did I get here? Where is...Weiss! Is she okay?! WhataboutYangisshealright?!" Taiyang stands up from his chair and place his hand on the curtains, "Have a look." He opens the curtains to show her teammates are in their bed with Neptune sitting next to Weiss with a cast on his left leg and having crutches layed across his lab. Weiss has bandages over her left arm where the thing stabbed her in a bed across from Ruby. Next to Weiss is Blake in bed with some band-aids on her face and is no longer wearing her bow. Sun was sitting next to her with bandages wrapped around his abdomen. Next to Ruby is Yang sitting up on her bed. She waves her right hand in a cast and smiles, "Welcome back to the land of the living."

Ruby sighs in relief while placing her hand on her chest, seeing that everyone is alive and notices someone holding her left hand and is sleeping in a chair with his head on her left leg. It was Dutch, resting there for who knows how long. "Dutch has been by your side for the past three days now." Taiyang says to Ruby after getting up from his chair. "Yeah," Yang says to Ruby, "that guy is very loyal and faithful to you." Ruby looks at everyone, "Wait a minute! What about the creature? Is it frozen? And what about the Grimm that was attacking from the borders?" "Allow me to answer that." Qrow steps in through the door. He drinks the contents of his flask before he continues, "The blue-eyed Grimm that were about to attack the city also became frozen after you froze that thing back at Mountain Glenn." He approaches Ruby and takes a seat next to Taiyang. He slouches slightly with arms crossed and crossing one leg over the other. "That thing called the 'Sephiroth Grimm', it is being transported to Menagerie for further research and study along with many other frozen Grimm." Ruby tilts her head in confusion, "Why? I-Hold on, where did that thing come from?" Neptune pulls out his scroll and said, "It should be on the news right now." He press the button and four holoscreens appear at the ends of the beds with Lisa Lavender on the news with the time being 6:00 am.

Lisa Lavender: "It has been three days since the attack at Mountain Glenn. *shows the footage of what happened on Thursday* Three days since an unknown type of Grimm emerged from the ground underneath the newly rebuilt settlement. Scientists are baffled by the appearance and design of the first form of the creature along with strange blue-eyed Grimm rampaging through the city's borders. Yet despite their approach, they were being held off by the combine might of the Neo-White Fang, Huntsmen, Promethean Knights, the Off-Worlders, the Atlesian Military, the Templar's Church, and the Temple of the Jade Dragon holding these creatures off as the main battle continued in Mountain Glenn. There are also sightings of what many witnesses called 'laser swords' fighting agains the Grimm in the darkness of Forever Fall Forests which some claim to be ghosts of the huntsmen that died protecting the city. The creature was almost destroyed until it took on a humanoid form with blue eyes and fought off against the Angry Video Game Nerd, Nostalgia Critic, Team SSSN of Haven, and Team RWBY of Beacon. How they stop the creature is unknown but he have numerous reports about a flash of white light appearing and paralyzed the creature. After the battle, all the other Grimm froze in place except some of the Griffons and Nevermores came crashing down while being in a paralyzed state.

But everyone cheered for joy as the travesty ended with Mountain Glenn recovering from minor destruction and there are no reports about any fatalities but there were a large number of injured from the battle. Moving to the origin of the creature, it was accidentally discovered by a few miners that have awoken it from some ruined chamber beneath the settlement. The chamber is closed off by order of the Vale Ruling Council and Dunkle Schokolade due to hazardous material being found that would infect living beings with an unknown bacteria. The name of the creature is up to debate on what to call it but some have a few ideas on what it should be called. As for Teams RWBY & SSSN along with the Nerd and Critic, they are still recovering at a hospital and neither Ozpin nor any of the teaching staff are giving any word on what is happening. If you ten are listening, best of wishes to you! *shows a silhouette of a man with a question mark on him and the background of Forever Fall Forest* Up next, we have a story about the disappearances of single young men between the ages of 14 and 23 disappearing in Forever Falls. *Then shows the pictures of Maple Arisagawa and Shizuka Nekonome* Later tonight, we are going to interview Maple Arisagawa about a universe run by music and Shizuka Nekonome to discuss about human-like monsters. This is Lisa Lavender, signing off."

Taiyang laughs, "And since they cannot disintegrate, many huntsmen started turning some of them into actual trophies." Yang also laughed, "I bet Prof. Port is having a field day with that."

The holoscreens get turned off with Weiss looking confused. "Wait," she says, "what about some of the things we discovered like the stuff we found at the warehouse? Or all that money we found in the mines? Or the Grand Empire? " "Not only that," says Yang also confused, "just who is this Holy Matriarch of Enlightenment that preacher talked about?" Qrow gets up and puts the chair close to the wall near the windows and have it facing at everyone in the room. He sat down in the posture he was in and said, "Well, *claps his hands and rubs them before putting them down* to answer Ice Princess' questions-" "Hey!" "Ol' Jimmy tries to blackmail Dunkle with the information you all got but Dunkle counter blackmails Ironwood with some of the research the military was working on. That also includes Penny. Not only that, he also plans to reveal the Four Maidens to the public if the general ever bothers him or any works of Menagerie ever again along with some sort of evidence he claims about Ironwood planning for war." Blake thought about something for a moment until Sun jumps up from his chair in surprise, "Wait a minute, fairy tales are real?!" "Some are, but you need to keep quiet about it. Got it, monkey boy?" "Y-Yeah, alright." and Sun sits back down with Qrow giving a threatening glare at him. "Now that I think about it," Blake says after realizing something, "the discs were stolen from the vault so maybe Dunkle has them and using the information to counter Ironwood's blackmail." Qrow claps his hands and smiled, "Bravo, little-kitty. Bravo." He stops as he straightens himself on the chair and started to look serious.

"As for this Matriarch, Glynda managed to research the rest of what was on that little booklet and found somethings very interesting." Everyone leaned a little close towards where Qrow is at to listen in. "As you know, *looks at Dutch* Dutch or Arthur there is the 20th heir to some space throne and is the youngest out of all the children." Taiyang looks at Dutch with an agitated look on his face, "Well I find it hard to believe that little cretin, close to my daughter, is 12-years-old. *Looks at Ruby* Ruby, if this royal delinquent does something to you to break your heart or something horrible to you, *smacks his fist on his hand* I'll teach him a lesson! GRRRRRRRRR!" Ruby chuckles at her father's fatherly protection, "Easy dad. He will never do such a thing." The door was swung wide open with Albele holding the doorknob and said all surprised, "Wait a minute! I've been trying to seduce a 12-year-old?!" Everyone looked at her with shock and there was a moment of uncomfortable silence. "I...I feel kinda dirty right now so I'll go take a cold shower. Or 50 for a whole week." and closes the door. Then they all turn their attention back to Qrow with Yang saying, "Care to continue, dear uncle?" Ruby looked at everyone and said, "We're just gonna ignore that?" Looks like it.

Qrow: "Right. So, this empress of this empire from the universe had four husbands and from those four husbands came 19 children. Arthur there was born under mysterious circumstances. Some say she had a secret lover, some say she dated gods, but all there is is just speculation. His mother denies all theories about how he came to be. Speaking of the empress, she is a powerful woman that even gods fear her."

Weiss: "She's really that powerful?"

Qrow: "Not sure, but yeah."

Neptune: "Yikes. Note to self, never ask her out on a date."

Weiss gave Neptune an angry glare for a moment then looked back at Qrow, "Please continue." Qrow takes another drink from his flask then continues.

Qrow: "Well anyway, she has her children help govern the many aspects of the empire. From civilian to military to diplomacy. Even have control of the criminal underworld. The so called Matriarch is in-charge of all the religions of all the five-hundred galaxies and decides which one gets accepted and which one gets abolished forever, such as cannibalism. Her name is Seinaru Hikari Angelica Draco-Kitsune."

Ruby felt a shiver on her arm coming from Dutch and looks frightened by the sound of the woman's name. Qrow looks at Sun and Blake and said, "I believe you two know what she looks like since there is a statue of her at the cathedral." They both try to remember until Blake finally does, "Yeah. Yeah I've seen it!" "Then you have an idea what she looks like. Although she is heavenly in the hologram, especially the size of her boobs." Two pillows were tossed at the pervert with Yang and Weiss angrily glaring at him and they both said in unison, "You are the worst!" Everyone in the room laughed at that, including Qrow. After the laugh, Qrow continues. "Any who, there is supposed to be a diplomat, which is the second child, but he ain't coming. At least that's what we believe."

Yang looks at Qrow, "There is something I gotta ask. Is that thing we fought against the same monster that froze mom." "No," he answers, "the thing she and I fought can talk and use Dust. The one you all fought against is different. The one the two of us fought is sentient and extremely intelligent. I don't know where it went but everyone is trying their damnest to find it. But I do have one question." He looks at Dutch and asks, "If he's 12, why is he 15?" They all realize it until Ruby points out, "That I can explain. But before that, why is Neptune's leg in a cast." "Oh, when you guys were fighting, some of the debris from the building landed on my foot and broke it a few places."


Menagerie Airship/Miles Away From Vale

Two scientists were in the lab section of the ship and analyzing the frozen Sephiroth Grimm. They were checking the monitors with the thing in a giant glass tube.

Scientist 1: "What do you think?"

Scientist 2: "I don't know, it looks creepy. Out of all the Grimm I have seen in my life time, I have never seen anything like this before."

They continue to monitor the monster as Scientist 1 was about to leave the lab, but turns to ask, "I'm gonna get some coffee, want some?" "Sure." He opens the door, but his eyes-widen in horror as the figure grabs him by the throat and toss him aside. Rendering him unconscious. The second scientist got up, "What the hell? What the fuck is that?!" until a fire extinguisher was thrown at his head and becomes unconscious. The figure approaches the glass and slams his claws on it, causing it to crack with its eyes glowing on the reflective surface. "Its power is ours." [Play it!]