The tittle may be a little weird, but that's only because there's so much happening this chapter. Also, I'd like to take this chance to thank SonicFlash78.

2)Is Team Limitbreak can have A shouen protag that utilize aura to build up power is short burst similar to Deku and could deku appear he the main protagonist of boku no hero academia encase you haven't heard about it not to be rude in my phrasing.

This gave me the idea for Taiyang's Semblance. That's right, it's time for Cobalt's last, true obstacle, between him and Ruby at this time. It's time for a fight, and next chapter it'll be time for a talk.. Of course, there's a lot more that happens before that.


Beacon Medical Ward: Waiting Room, Morning…

Pyrrha, Jaune, Cobalt, and Nora had slept in the waiting room. Ozpin had allowed them to do this considering second semester had yet to start. Now Jaune, Pyrrha, and Cobalt were waiting for word from Nora who was in Ren's room.

Jaune finally spoke up. "Cobalt I remember Forever Falls, but that didn't exactly paint the same picture. Is Raven an example of people you've been dealing with all this time. Even before came to Beacon."

Cobalt lightly scratched his face. "Well, I think she's one of the stronger people I've dealt with, but yeah she's a standard example of the type of person I face on a regular basis."

Jaune, after hearing this, had more respect for Cobalt then he did before.

Then Nora came running into the waiting room. "Ren's awake!"

JNPR and Cobalt ran followed Nora and burst into Ren's room finding him staring out the window. He then turned to his friends and almost seemed sad. Well, as sad as Ren could get. It was there if you knew how to find it.

"I'm sorry." Ren stated.

"What do you have to apologize for?" Jaune smiled. "You gave it your all like all of us."

Ren shook his head. "No, I wasn't strong enough to protect any of you. To protect my friends."

Cobalt chuckled. "None of us were strong enough to stop Raven. She only left when Qrow showed up. You don't need to be so hard on yourself for a simple defeat. I mean I've suffered many defeats with my only real victories coming from knowledge mixed with insane luck."

Ren closed his eyes. "You may be right, but it does not change the fact that I must grow stronger."

Pyrrha was thoughtful. "I think this has proven that we all need to get stronger."

Jaune nodded. "Yeah. We'll have to do more training from those books Cobalt gave and together."

"That's not going to cut it for me. Not completely." Ren got out of bed. "I'm going to ask for some help."

"Renny, you should stay in bed." Nora stated concerned.

Ren had a small smile. "I'm fine Nora. I was cleared to leave after you ran out." He walked to the table and grabbed his weapons slipping them into his sleeves. "Jaune, I'll come back to the room later." He turned to Cobalt. "Thank you for saving us."

With that, Ren left the room.

"Well, this has been a harrowing time, and we haven't even been back a full day yet." Cobalt chuckled. "Guess I'll take off for Vale again. I want another ice cream considering I didn't get to finish the last one."

He was about to leave until Jaune stopped him. "Cobalt wait." The manager turned. "Thanks for everything. You really came threw when we needed you."

Cobalt smiled. "Of course, you're my friends, and I'll do everything I can to protect you."

Outside Team CFVY's Room

Ren knocked on the door and Velvet answered with a smile. "Hello Ren. Do you need something?"

Ren nodded. "Yes. Is Fox in?"

"Yeah." Fox joined Velvet at the door. "He's right here."

"What do you need?" Fox asked.

Ren got down on his hands and knees. "Please, take me on as your student."

If Fox was surprised by Ren's current action, then he didn't show it. "If you need help with combat training then surely the staff would be better suited."

Ren shook his head. "Granted, Professor Glynda is an amazing combat instructor, and I've heard from Cobalt that Professor Ozpin knows about Aura; however, they are too busy to provide every student with one on one training.

You could. Out fighting styles and method of Aura use match up better than most in this academy. I'm sure I could take your style of combat, mix it with my own, and become stronger for it. Please, take me as your student?"

Fox sighed. "Stand up." Ren got to his feet. "What is your motive for becoming stronger?"

Ren replied, "There are many hobbies I have an interest in. That which makes me happy, but none of them come to close to seeing my friends be happy. That is what I wish to protect. I know logically that I can't do this, but I would still do anything to protect my friends.

Fox closed his eyes. "Very well. From this moment on, you are my student. You may refer to me as Mentor or Mentor Fox." He stepped out and closed the door. "Come on, we're starting now."

Ren nodded. "Yes mentor."

Qrow's Room

Qrow invited Yang in. "So, what happened on the trip?"

Yang replied, "They're dating, but that's all they've decided on doing."

Qrow brought out his scroll. "I still have to make the call." He looked at Yang. "Fire cracker, you better make sure Cobalt's prepared. I don't want to see the kid hurt unless he's hurt Ruby."

Yang nodded. "I'll get to finding him and tell Ruby as well."

Qrow nodded and Yang left.

"Qrow, what's going on?" Tai asked

"It's happened Tai. Cobalt is dating Ruby, but…" The line went dead. "Well, that's not good."

Streets of Vale

Sakura had finally landed, but she'd gotten lost. Vale was a lot bigger than she thought it would be. She would have asked for directions, but every time she tried she thought about her mother. How disappointed she'd be to hear that her daughter got lost not even an hour after landing. So, this eventually devolved into Sakura running around trying to find her residence herself… and failing.

With Cobalt

Cobalt was enjoying a vanilla ice cream cone and had just walked around the corner when some person, who had been running, slammed into him. The leader hit the sidewalk and his cone broke apart upon hitting the ground.

Cobalt sat up and looked around until his eyes settled on the figure. He froze. He was looking at young woman who had to be around Ruby's age. She had long pink hair tied in a pony tail and bright yellow irises.

Her attire consisted of a light red overcoat with matching pants and shirt. A pink trident was strapped to her back. At this point, people were starting to stop and stare at the two of them. Sakura got to her feet while rubbing her eyes.

Then she saw Cobalt who had, at this time, recovered and shot straight to his feet. His mind still trying to register who this was before him. He knew it couldn't be his mother. She would be older than this, yet she looked so much like the picture.

"B-Big brother?" Sakura asked.

Cobalt was utterly speechless. He didn't know what to do in this situation. All he knew was that he was likely cursed. That's the only explanation for all this. Seriously, months ago he didn't know he had any family left. Now he had an Aunt, a big sister, a cousin, and now a little sister.

Sakura jumped to her feet smiling. "It is you! Big brother!"

She attempted to go for a hug, but Cobalt jumped back. His mind was just a whirlwind of thoughts and confusion. He couldn't even speak. Couldn't even think of anything to say. This girl was just different enough, but also the same. This girl had to be the daughter of his mother.

Sakura was just staring at him now in confusion. This was never a possibility. In all the ways she thought their first meeting would, this one never crossed her mind. Eventually, Cobalt did the only thing he could think of in this situation.

He turned around and prepared to run. Only he wasn't in his usual frame of mind or he might have avoided Sakura who grabbed his arm. This stopped him from running. It wasn't the comfort of another's touch. It was more about being grounded in the moment.

Cobalt looked at her and sighed. "Well, clearly we have a lot to talk about."

"Big…" Sakura began.

Cobalt removed his arm from her grasp and held up his hand. "Just call me Cobalt." He began to walk away. "Come on."

The citizens of Vale stared after the two of them until they had left their view.

Ice Cream Shop

Cobalt refused to speak or let Sakura speak until they had their ice and cream and were sitting in as private a section of the shop as they could.

"Okay, clearly you're the daughter of that woman, and considering my father died before I was born, you're half related to me. What are you doing in Vale?" Cobalt asked.

Sakura went with the story her mother made her rehearse. "My father left when I was fairly young. Mother passed away a few months ago. She took care of me, but I never knew you existed until I got what was left to me by her will.

I got all her money and a box. This box contained many unsent letters addressed to you as well as information on your whereabouts. I learned you were in Vale, so I bought an apartment. I was then going to go to Beacon to see you."

Cobalt found that he felt no sadness for his 'mother'. Why would he? He had a real mom. Aqua. She took care. She raised him and Steel. That left him with a question. What did he do now?

Sakura asked, "How did you feel about mother?"

"I'm not going to lie. 'Mother' is a proper term for her. She abandoned me when I was baby. She was no mom. When I think of the word mom. I see another. That person raised me. She baked me cookies, tucked me in a night, read to me, and the list goes on.

I don't feel sadness for not getting to know mother. I felt anger and sadness at being thrown away." He clenched his fist. "She made me feel as though I wasn't good enough. That I wasn't worth anything to her."

He sighed, and his grip lessened. "At the same time, her decision led to me finding a real family. Even if I lost them, I haven't stopped finding family. People that care for more in the way she never did."

"You don't even care that she was remorseful for abandoning you?" Sakura asked.

"Remorseful? Heh, that's a strong word for a box of information and unsent letters. Remorseful would have been her coming to me and apologizing, but she never did." Cobalt stated with no emotion.

Sakura didn't know what to think except that what Cobalt was saying was true. Sure, mother did send people after Cobalt, but she never came herself. If she really wanted Cobalt back, wouldn't she come to get him?

Sakura was almost afraid to ask what was on her mind next, but she had to. "So, where does this leave us?"

Cobalt sighed. "It would petty to hold any ill will towards you for the actions of mother. At the same time, I hope you understand that I can't call you one of my sisters just yet Sakura. We'll have to get to know each other before I can consider you family."

Sakura nodded in understanding. "That's fair."

Cobalt held out his hand. "Here, let me see the paper with the address."

Sakura handed over the paper. Cobalt brought out his sunglasses and took a picture before flipping the paper over and quickly sketching a map.

He then handing it back t Sakura. "Here. Follow the direction exactly, and you'll find your apartment." He stood up. "Farewell."

Cobalt walked away, and Sakura stared at the map.

At the bottom there was Cobalt's number with a message. "Call me if you want to talk. If I don't pick up, I'm in class or busy."

Sakura smiled. This may not have gone exactly how she imagined it would, but that was okay. At least she had a chance to get to know her big brother. That was good enough for her.

Outside

Cobalt stuck his hands in his pockets and sighed, "I think I'll go to Tukson's and see if he has any more books in."

Tukson's Book Trade

Tukson was faced down on the ground. Unmoving. Dead. The ones responsible for this were Mercury and his partner Emerald Sustrai. Emerald is a young woman with medium-brown skin and dark-red eyes.

Her hair is a light, mint-green cut with a straight fringe and bangs, as well as two long locks on each side. She wears two bronze-colored rings on her middle fingers as well as a pair of high-heeled shoes.

Her attire consists of a crop top, shallow-cut. She also wears white pants and brown chaps, that end at her calves, and an overlong belt, twice-wrapped, where she keeps her weapons. Dual revolvers with long, curved blades.

"Okay, you can deal with his body Emerald." Mercury stated as he began flipping through a comic he picked up.

Emerald rolled her eyes and attempted to lift the Faunus by his arm pits. He was, understandably, very heavy. Mercury didn't even need to look up to know that his partner had a sour expression on her face. That made him chuckle.

Emerald eventually said, "This would go faster if you actually helped me."

Mercury smirked. "I did help Em. Remember? I killed the guy. It's only fair you deal with the body. Wouldn't want Cinder hearing that you didn't do a thing, right?"

Emerald growled. "I was the one that stole the address from Torchwick's sea of papers."

Mercury continued staring at his comic. "Yes, but would…"

They both stopped as the door began to open. At the same time Mercury heard the familiar chime from Emerald's Semblance as she stood up seeming completely natural.

"Hey Tukson, why's your…" Cobalt began as he entered the store.

At first, he noticed a distinct mint smell. Then he noticed Emerald and Mercury, but he couldn't see Tukson anywhere.

Cobalt nodded to them "Hey." He then focused on Mercury getting the feeling he'd seen him somewhere before, but he couldn't quite place it. "Tukson getting you guys a book?"

Emerald put on her friendly disposition. "Actually no. We have no idea where he is. You seem to know him. Have any ideas?"

Cobalt frowned. He'd seen this attitude to many times from woman around his age. Still, he would be polite. It just didn't give him the best impression of her.

Cobalt thought about it. "He's probably run to the nearby store for a quick bite or drink. By quick, I mean about half an hour. Though usually he gets someone to mind the store for him." The manager shrugged not thinking much of it since there have been a couple of instances where there was no replacement. "You guys should try coming another time."

Emerald was relived, but Mercury was a different story. "If Tukson were always here at this time, this customer would have had a different opinion. In addition, he was sniffing the air. He could smell the mint. One of the signs Emerald's using her Semblance on him.

He also looks well trained. We'd have a tough time getting rid of him, and the commotion would have drawn attention. An unpleasant situation that would have angered Cinder to no ends. In summary, we've gotten lucky.

Emerald did notice Cobalt's discomfort with her, but she had no idea why this was. "Yes, I suppose we'll walk with you if that's okay?"

Cobalt shrugged and opened the door as Mercury and Emerald followed him out.

Outside

Cobalt walked with his new companions. "I suppose I should introduce myself. Names Cobalt Sky."

Emerald smiled. "I'm Emerald Sustrai."

She then gave Mercury a look. "Names Mercury."

Cobalt stopped. "Wait. Mercury… Mercury Black?"

Mercury stopped in his tracks, but he was smart enough to put on a smile instead of shock. "Yes. My last name is Black. How do you know my father?"

Cobalt smiled and pulled out the photo of team SMOK with Sakura bent out of the shot. "My father and your father went to Beacon together. Not only that, but your father was the leader of team SMOK."

Mercury looked at the photo. He could couldn't believe it. Except… he had to. His father looked genuinely happy. He never looked happy as far back as Mercury could remember. Marcus would only ever look sad, angry, or nothing.

"This means you two must be here to represent Mistral in the Vytal Festival." Cobalt stated. "I'm a student up at Beacon."

That got Emerald's attention as Cobalt put the photo away. "You're training to become a Huntsman?"

Cobalt gave a short answer still not liking that fake smile. "Yeah."

Emerald was catching on that this kid did not like her, but he seemed okay with Mercury. This resulted in Emerald elbowing her partner. He'd have better luck getting information.

Mercury piped up. "Uh, what's your team like?"

"Actually, I manage two four-man teams and two-man team." Cobalt replied.

Emerald feigned that she was impressed. "Really? Sounds cool."

"So, he's either a genius, strong, or a combination of both." Mercury was genuinely impressed. "Must be demanding work."

Cobalt smiled. "You'd be surprised. The people around me are huge help in performing my duties." Cobalt decided that it was time to part ways. "I should get going. Maybe we'll see each other at Beacon, Mercury… and Emerald."

Mercury decided to play the part and extended his hand with one of his smirks thrown in. "Count on it. We'll have to have to have a match See which one of us is stronger."

Cobalt smiled as he took the hand and they shook on it. "Sounds like a plan."

They parted ways.

Once he was gone, Emerald sighed aggravated as she rubbed her temple. "It should have worked."

Mercury was currently enjoying himself. "You mean your act?"

"What else would I be talking about?" Emerald asked angrily.

Mercury chuckled. "I think your just jealous. For once, I was better at getting information Em. I even made a friend. An important one from the sound of things."

Emerald growled. "Let's just go back. Cinder will have our heads if we're late."

Mercury followed his partner smiling, but his thoughts kept turning back to his father. Not exactly a topic he was glad to be thinking about, but this new bit information was interesting if nothing else.

Beacon

Cobalt stepped off the air ship and saw Ruby and Blake frantically looking around for something or someone. Then their eyes settled on him, and Ruby started running. He wondered what had happened when another air ship opened. Cobalt got bad feeling.

He turned and spotted a familiar figure even though they only saw each other, briefly, before Cobalt came to Beacon. The figure was a fairly young man with short blond hair and blue eyes. On his right arm there was a tattoo similar to a heart.

He wears brown cargo shorts with a dark brown belt, black shoes, a red bandana on his left arm, and a brown leather vest over a tan dress shirt with the right sleeve cut off. For armor, he wears a metal spaulder, leather vambrace, and a brown fingerless glove, all on his right arm.

"Ah, so that's why Ruby's out and has likely been looking for me." That was all Cobalt got to think before Tai sprinted at him.

Taiyang threw a punch only for Cobalt to dissolve. Tai then merrily stepped to the right avoiding the downward swing of Cobalt's blade.

"Yep. He's already starting seem stronger than Qrow." Cobalt thought.

"I see you didn't hesitate to attack me." Taiyang commented.

Cobalt jumped back holding his swords in front of him. "I'm pretty familiar with how this goes thanks to that fight I had with Qrow." Cobalt held out his sword. "Stay back and watch Ruby. I have something to prove to your father."

Ruby stopped with Blake joining her. "Dad, you don't have to do this."

Taiyang never took his eyes off Cobalt. "Sorry Ruby, but this has to be done."

Ruby frowned. "Just don't hurt him."

Cobalt chuckled knowing she only meant that in the best way possible. "Thanks for the confidence boost Ruby."

"You didn't let me finish. Go all out Cobalt and kick his butt." Ruby proclaimed.

Cobalt quickly observed Tai once more and found that he had no weapon. This likely meant he was a superior brawler to Yang. On top of that, he was a teacher and trained Huntsman. At least this fight wouldn't be to the death… It shouldn't be at least… or with a murderer.

Tai made his move, so Cobalt sheathed his blades. He then created a fire dust and ice dust short sword and slammed them together creating a steam cloak that enveloped them both. Cobalt then jumped from the cloud of steal now holding a water dust and lightning dust riffle in each hand.

He rapidly fired them off into the cloud. The attack did what Cobalt intended including failing to stop Taiyang from charging straight out of the steam cloud which was slowly dispersing. Cobalt had already dispersed his guns and drew his katanas which were glowing with sky blue Aura.

"Multiple Tensho's." Cobalt declared using Ruby's Speed to speed up his sword slashes.

Crescents of energy flew at Taiyang, but he avoided every one of them as his veins, all along his legs and right arm, glowed blue. Cobalt wondered what type of Semblance this was until Taiyang punched him in the gut. Cobalt was rocketed all the way to the Emerald Forest.

"Ruby, what was that!?" Blake asked.

"That was my dad's Semblance. He can stockpile his Aura and use to perform crazy feats of strength and speed. It acts as a doubled edged sword though because it takes a fair bit of Aura to use." Ruby explained

"As you saw, it can be quite devastating. Especially if you are prepared for it like Cobalt was." Yang finished as she and Weiss joined them. "Dad must be serious about testing Cobalt. He rarely uses his Semblance unless absolutely necessary."

"Will Cobalt be okay?" Weiss asked concerned.

Yang smiled. "You didn't let me finish. This situation is different. He also tends to also use his Semblance in spars with people he respects or wants to test. Not in the strong enough to date my daughter sense. He could have just fought Cobalt regularly if that's all he wanted."

"So, should we go after them?" Blake asked.

Qrow had joined them. "No. Tai will make sure Cobalt gets back okay. It's better if we stay here besides this is more of a formality. When the questioning begins… well that's when you should worry for Cobalt."

Ruby sighed knowing everything her uncle and sister said were true. "We should probably at least inform Ozpin, Glynda, and Rain of what's happening at least."

Qrow nodded. "Good idea. I'll take care of Ozpin."

Emerald Forest

Cobalt climbed out of his crater, panting, as his Reinforcement receded. He'd even managed to keep a hold of his blades.

"Holy crap… That is some Semblance. Note to self, avoid any swings with glowing veins. Also, never let your guard down in any fight from now on." Cobalt thought.

Taiyang burst forth from the brush the veins in his legs glowing blue, but not his arms. He slammed into Cobalt and carried him into a clearing before throwing him into a tree. Cobalt managed to land on his feet. Cobalt sheathed his blades.

Taiyang stopped as Cobalt crouched to the ground. "What are you doing?"

Cobalt smiled. "You've just put us in the perfect place to let my dust capabilities shine."

The blue and green dots lit up before Cobalt slammed his hands on the ground. He was filtering Ice dust into the ground. Taiyang looked at the manager, confused, until the ground rumbled. He then jumped as an ice spike popped up from the ground where he'd been standing.

That started it off as multiple spikes of ice sprung up keeping Taiyang on the defensive. Cobalt ran in as his arms sparked with electricity, but the yellow dot on his disk was lighting up. The manager shoved his arm forward blasting electricity into Tai's stomach.

The blond brawler was blown back into an ice spike, but he quickly recovered and charged at Cobalt grabbing him by his shirt. Tai then threw Cobalt as the veins in his arm glowed. He was thrown clear out of the ice field.

Cobalt flipped managed to flip, just so, and grab ahold of branch climbing on top of it. He then jumped past Tai below causing the Hunter to skid to a halt and jump up after him. It was to late. Cobalt was right over the ice field.

He jumped down and held out his hands releasing all his lightning dust, this time, at the ice blowing it apart around him. Tai's eyes opened wide as he crossed his arms doing his best to block the shards of ice that came at him.

Cobalt took this chance to spring up and latch onto Tai's waist. Before the Hunter could act, the student pushed them both off into the remaining ice below. At this point, Cobalt let his air dust run wild whipping up a tornado that spun them around with many chunks of ice.

They were both repeatedly pelted. Cobalt soon let go as the tornado flung them away before dissipating. Cobalt slammed into a tree his Aura breaking upon impact. He slid down to his butt trying to recover his breath.

Taiyang came trudging through the undergrowth and Cobalt got to his feet. "No more Aura. I give up."

Taiyang was starting to like this kid. Those types of moves were things he'd have done if he had that much dust at his disposal. Of course, he still had his part to play as the overprotective father he was.

"Those were some risky moves kid." Taiyang stated

Cobalt smiled. "Honestly, I was trying out a few new things I've been picking up and thinking about. Might actually make some of those last resorts."

Taiyang walked over. "Alright, let's get you back to Beacon. I'll let you rest, but me and you are going to have a chat tomorrow."

Cobalt nodded. "Acceptable."

"Follow me back to Beacon. I'll deal with any Grim that come our way." Tai stated before walking off.


Lelouch of Zero: Rain's reaction to seeing Cobalt was weird but also completely understandable given the situation, I loved Coco's instinct reaction, such a good big sister. It was a smart move on Drake's part to send Raven after Pyrrha since he knows in the not too distant future, that she'll be facing an opponent of similar caliber. She definitely needed to have her "untouchable" status pulled into question within her mind, might just save her life. Or not, who knows.

Quillion9000: Actually, he has no idea what happens after Volume 2. The world always reset for him every time he ended up killing Cobalt. At this point he only knows that an attack will happen, but he has never experienced it himself. That's why his true knowledge, that which he has experienced himself, is limited. At the same time he has lived multiple times over gathering information. Of course, he is a still trying to move things in a particularly good direction, but he does have opposition in the form of Calem. Honestly, do you expect Calem to sit by while Cloak(Drake) makes such positive changes?