Vale Underground
Death was always seen as the harsh truth of reality. While life was seen as a beautiful and blissful lie. Many religions seek to ease the pain of death by speaking of a place to go after death. For many Faunus, they said that when a Faunus died, they are reincarnated as their full animal. It sounded peaceful for many people. To be given second life in a different way. But in Earth, Vampires were seen as a mockery of both life and death. Eternal life could be seen as a blessing to the ignorant. To escape the inevitable truth of life. To indulge in life's pleasures with no consequence. Only to be at a price. Feast upon the blood of the living to maintain eternal life.
Blood was often depicted as a piece of the soul. Currency that could affect a vampire's life depending on the victim. Blood offered is often more powerful as compared to taking blood. Many vampires never knew for it was simply in their nature to take the lives of their victims. Having blood offered could accomplish miracles. It was speculated that offering blood could possibly return life to the dead and turn them into vampires.
Darkness was all that was seen throughout the train tunnel as the ground was disturbed by footsteps. The darkness was broken by a light from a scroll as the person approached the corpse of Roman Torchwick. The smell oozed from the body as flies buzzed around. The gaping hole in his chest started to fill with maggots when the person knelt down. It was Neo. She looked at her mentor and father-figure slowly rotting away. All because of the cursed Vampire King that Cinder pointed Neo to being the perpetrator. Neo couldn't accept his death and so she learned of the Blood King who drank the blood of his enemies. It was said that it gave him power so she searched for Roman to bring him back and exact revenge on the Bloody King.
Neo pulled out the blade from her umbrella and lifted her sleeve up and pressed the blade into her wrist. Blood oozed out of her skin and hovered her arm over Roman's mouth. She watched as the blood dripped into his lips and on his tongue. She silently pleaded for it to work. To have her father figure back. A minute has passed with no signs of movement and tears dripped down Neo's cheeks as she silently cried. It was merely a fool's hope for those gullible to bring back their loved ones. She crawled to her feet as she started slowly walking away before the flies stopped buzzing. She stopped then looked back to see the body missing. She started looking around for any hope of seeing Roman. Her breathing grew heavy as her fear started spiking up.
"Neo?" That voice froze her on the spot. She slowly turned around with her body shanking in fear only to be met with a pair of fangs lunging towards her and a roar echo throughout the tunnel.
Dracula watched as Team JNPR fought against Team BRNZ. Dracula watched as the sniper pinned them down behind the rock. He grew slightly worried but then Jaune ordered for Nora to get to the mountain and keep them distracted. When Nora reached the top, lightning struck down on her which charged her up before firing a whole heart of grenades at the sniper. "Argos, go!" Then nobody moved to the confusion of RWBY and Dracula. He asked "Are they seriously doing this right now? In front of everybody?" Jaune started arguing about their team moves before Brawnz shouted that they were in the middle of a fight.
Dracula facepalmed "I'm starting to think I got off lucky with you girls." Weiss patted his arm and spoke "And we are grateful but those four could use some work." Summer had a hand over her mouth to stop herself from laughing. Raven rolled her eyes at her leader's immaturity. Jaune sighed as he was just done with it so he ordered Nora to hit them with her hammer. She gave an evil smirk and pounced on them and hit all four with their hammer, throwing them against the shield at the edge of the arena. Dracula winced and Professor Port announced "And with that, Team JNPR move on to the doubles round! ...Could someone go check to see if they're alright?" "Well that was... Fun. I think?" Dracula questioned after seeing that mess of a fight.
Doctor Oobleck announced "Well Vacuo fans will certainly be hurting after that one. However, this round will have them on the edge of their seats!" Professor Port spoke "Team NDGO from Shade is certainly a crowd favorite, but these lovely ladies will be going up against some of the toughest, testosterone filled teammates we've seen! I'm, of course, talking about Team SSSN! While Sun Wukong and his team will be representing Mistral, I'm sure his friends and family back in Vacuo will be cheering him on!"
Dracula watched as the arena changed to a desert with an artificial sun. Though it was artificial, it was still hot and it made Dracula's skin smoke a little which was nothing more than an annoyance. He watched as the other half turned into an ocean with spots of sand and a wrecked ship. Neptune suddenly frozen up at the sight so Ruby asked "Uh... What's wrong with Neptune?" Blake sighed and answered "Neptune's... Afraid of the water." Dracula then started laughing.
Weiss looked at her father and asked "What's so funny?" Dracula answered "His name is Neptune and he's afraid of the water!?" It only caused him to laugh more much to the confusion of the team and Summer and Raven. He calmed down enough and explained "Where I'm from, Neptune was the name of a sea god." Yang spoke "Oh... So it's funny because Neptune was a sea god and now our Neptune is afraid of the water?" Dracula watched as the match started with Neptune zipping to the desert. "Well this'll be a good one
The match ended with Neptune sticking his Guandao into the sea and electrifying the last three members of NDGO. Professor Port announced "And with that, Team SSSN moves on to the doubles round!!"
Summer spoke "Well, I wish we could stick around, but we gotta get back to work. Well more Raven has to. Tai and I are going on a reunion date." Summer stood up and hugged Dracula and smiled at him with her fangs revealed. Ruby hugged her mother while Yang hugged Raven. Raven and Summer walked away from the arena and Yang spoke "Come on, let's go congratulate them.
Weiss stood up and was about to walk when she heard a bullhead with strips of flags behind the wings and her demeanor changed to happiness "She's here! Father, come with me!" She grabbed Vlad's hand and managed to zip him away from the rest of her team. Yang asked "What was that all about?" Ruby spoke "I um... I'll go see what that was." She zipped away as well leaving Yang with Blake. The Golden haired brawler asked "Want to get something to drink then congratulate them?" Blake smiled "Sure, let's go."
"So can you remind me who you want me to meet, Weiss?" Dracula asked as he was pulled by the heiress towards the school courtyard. The Bullhead landed down and the door opened to reveal Winter Schnee. Who was like a younger version of Willow with her hair in a bun and several strands of her white hair over her ear. Dracula whispered to himself "Aw crap baskets." Four AK-200 were in line behind Winter as she looked at Beacon Academy. Weiss came up to her. "Winter! It's great to see you again- I mean, I am honored to be reacquainted with you, Dear Sister."
Dracula looked at how stiff Weiss was in front of Winter, like she has no choice but to act formal in front of family. Winter spoke "Beacon... It's been a while. It feels different." Somehow Ruby appeared in front of Dracula and next to Weiss and answered "It is fall so I guess it is colder." Weiss snarled then punched her girlfriend's shoulder, leaving her on her knees to shut her up. Dracula winced then picked her Ruby and patted her head to make her feel better. Weiss spoke "Oh it is so wonderful to see you again! Beacon and Vale is so much different and even then it's changed so much!" Before Weiss could continue, Winter spoke coldly "I'm fully aware of how this kingdom handles its bureaucracy. But that isn't why I'm here. I also did not come here to watch my own bloodline fail so miserably." Weiss was shocked and defended "But we won!"
Winter responded "Only a novice would call that a victory. I counted at least three strikes missed." That made Weiss flinch so that was when Dracula interfered "Enough!" Winter looked at Dracula then kept a calm voice "So. You're the one who became Weiss's new father. The one who helped Mother break out of her drunken state. While I would thank you for helping Mother, I do not approve of how you practically wrapped your hand around my younger sister." Dracula narrowed his eyes then looked down at her "I do not need your approval, Winter. Besides, would you rather still have Jacques be her father? Continue his abuse on Weiss?" Winter flinched slightly then sighed. Her form went from stiff to hunched over, as if she couldn't keep the weight anymore. She spoke "I suppose you are right. I apologize for my behavior."
Dracula relaxed and spoke "You are forgiven. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Vladimir Dracula Tepes." He placed a hand to his chest and bowed his upper half to Winter who curtsied to the Vampire King. Ruby took the silence to speak up "So... This is a nice... Family reunion." Winter looked at Ruby. "So this is the leader of your team. I must admit, I was weary at first, but now after hearing of what you went through, I don't think I could've picked anyone different for Weiss to be with." Ruby was shocked and started blushing while Weiss wasn't doing any better. "Winter!" Weiss exclaimed while trying to cool herself down. Winter let a faint playful smirk escape before asking "If it is alright with you, may I see it?" Ruby managed to calm herself down then took the eye patch off to reveal the mangled silver eye. Winter held sympathetic eyes and noticed how similar Ruby's scar was to Weiss. Winter put a hand on her shoulder "I apologize for what the Blood Fang did to you, Miss Rose. Perhaps once this festival is over, we can speak with General Ironwood about getting an eye replacement."
Ruby looked up at Winter with contained excitement and replied "I appreciate that, Miss... Um Schnee. Yeah, I'd like to have a new eye." Winter couldn't help but smile as she saw her younger sister's girlfriend physically shake with excitement. Weiss looked at Winter in appreciation and mouthed "Thank you." Winter smiled and spoke "I'll have General Ironwood order an eye prosthetic soon. I'll assume you want the eye color to be silver?"
Ruby calmed down a bit and nodded to Winter. The young huntress was grateful and put back on her eye patch and Weiss held Ruby's hand to which Ruby smiled at her then Winter spoke "While I still have time, why don't you show me to your quarters to see if it is up to my standards."
Weiss shook herself out of her lovestruck gaze and spoke "Of course! And just as an FYI, the bunk beds only LOOK unstable." Winter then became confused "Bunk. Beds?" Dracula spoke "Believe me, this'll be good." He walked along side Ruby and spoke "That was rather mature of you, Ruby." The young Huntress smiled and spoke "Experience and good role models will do that to you."
As Dracula walked along the two sisters and the youngest huntress, the two AK-200 walked behind them before the two were dismantled and a rugged voice shouted out "Hey! You... Yeah In talking to you, Ice Queen." Dracula turned around and saw a man in his 40's with a grey button up suit with black pants and boots. He had a torn red cape with whiskers along his jawline and red eyes. He was hunched over and reeked of alcohol and Weiss, offended walked towards him "Excuse me!? Do you have any idea who you're talking to?" The man simply put his hand over her face and shushed her "Not you... You." He pointed towards Winter. "Saw that crappy ship of yours. Heard you were here."
Winter sassed "I'm standing right here." He squinted his eyes then said "So it seems." Ruby poked her head out from behind Dracula and gasped "UNCLE QROW!!" she zipped towards him with Rose pedals before hugging onto his arm and squealed "Oh it's so good to see you! Did you miss me!? Did you miss me!?" Qrow smiled and answered "Nope." He dropped her and ruffled her hair before Winter spoke out "You do realize you just destroyed Atlas property?"
Qrow looked around and started gasping "Oh I'm so sorry! I thought these were sentient life forms! Not buckets of bolts!" Ruby started getting nervous and put a hand on his sleeve "Uh Uncle Qrow, maybe we shouldn't do this here." Qrow "Uh uh. I have a bone to pick with her." He pulled away and started working towards Winter and spoke "I thought Atlas couldn't stoop any lower. You really think you're the defenders? You're just a bunch of sellouts."
Winter suppressed a sneered as she's heard that line many times and replied "I don't know what you think you heard, but I've heard enough." Qrow replied "Oh I've heard too. I heard ol' Ironwood finally turned his back on Ozpin." Weiss and Dracula grew concerned "What're you talking about?" Dracula asked and Winner spoke " Weiss, it's time you left." "Yeah, listen to your big sister, Weiss! She'll protect you. Just like how Atlas will protect us all!" Winter sneered then pulled out her saber and it somehow turned into a smirk though unseen to everyone else. "If you won't hold your tongue, I will gladly remove it for you!"
Qrow had a smirk as well as he smoothed his hair back and waited for her. Dracula watched with narrowed eyes and looked at Winter who had a smirk herself. He thought she must be arrogant as to think she can take on Qrow. From what he could tell, Qrow has had more experience in combat and watched as Winter zipped towards him before jabbing her saber, but Qrow managed to dodge them. From what Dracula could see, she was deliberately missing his head. This isn't a challenge... It's a goddamn lover's quarrel.
Dracula spoke "So your sister's in love." Weiss looked up at him and asked "What!? How can you tell?" Dracula then answered "Look at her. She's deliberately missing his head. She's too laid back.
If this was proper combat, she'd naturally be more stiff have more of a form, yes?" Weiss watched and answered "Yes? How does this have to do with Winter being in love?" Ruby watched him and said "Qrow's playing with her. She knows it so they're... Oh gods."
Dracula growled out "This is a goddamn lover's quarrel. This is how they show they're flirting. By challenging and showing strength." Weiss exclaimed "How can she be in love with such a disrespectful drunkard such as him!?" Ruby asked "How did you fall in love with me, Weiss?" That made Weiss blush and shut up as she continued watching Winter and Qrow dance around each other. Albeit with weapons and combat.
Soon, Ironwood shouted "SCHNEE!!" in which the fighting came to a halt and Qrow quietly growled "Cockblocker." Winter whispered "Plenty of time later, Qrow." She looked back up and looked at Ironwood "Sir!" Ironwood demanded "What is the meaning of this!?" Winter spoke "He started the altercations!" Qrow interfered "That's actually not true. She started it first." Winter sighed and lowered her head in shame.
Ozpin spoke out "Now now. There's a fight happening at the Arena Amity that I promise has better seats. And popcorn." Glynda spoke out as she glared at both Qrow and Winter "Break it up, people! We'll take care of this mess." Winter walked behind Ironwood and Qrow simply walked to the back and Ozpin asked Dracula "Vlad. Will you please come with us?" Vlad put a hand on Weiss's head and kissed her forehead "I will see you two later. Keep out of trouble. At least for a few hours." He smiled then started walking with Qrow. Ruby looked at Weiss and asked "So... Want to continue watching the fights or did you have something else in mind?" Weiss looked at Ruby and spoke "How about something to drink?" Ruby smiled and held her hand "Sure!" Weiss couldn't help but kiss her lips and wrap her arms around her. Ruby wrapped her arms around Weiss and kissed back.
A/N: So I rewrote a piece in this chapter because people saying how it put Ruby into a handicap. Believe me guys, I was weighing my options. Did I want Ruby to have a new eye or should I let Ruby have her eye as a reminder? It was a tough choice so believe me when I say that it wasn't lost on me. Thank you for your constructice critism and I hope you're all enjoying the story. This is my longest story so far so I'm putting all my time into this one. There will be an actual ending to this one so we're almost done guys!!