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Review:
Gabe2000: Yeah your right there, vaccuo seems to be the only place unmolested
Eternity456: Thanks for the support man but unfortunately I can't tell what happens next, spoilers and all. However the reason for Atlas is simple, it's one of the most militaristic places in the world, a pretty safe place I would have to say. Also you do know that Ironwood already knows of JNPR magic right?
VirtualGuildKnight: Well here you go
Fallout-Man101: Nah Qrow's going to be good, I'm sure of it. As for Salem, yeah she's rightfully pissed and I wouldn't want to be JNPR when Oz tells the truth.
Mr. What If: Ugh ... you do know that Salem is reason this entire mess is happening. Pretty sure Pyrrha is going to like her.
Xealchim: Indeed
Austin: Thanks for offer man but I won't be able to add this time.
TheLost01: I'll see what I can do
Greer123: Mmmm depends
VALE MT GLENN
Dad had one rule, one ironclad rule that could not be dissuaded by anything. A rule that was constantly repeated into their head till they could know it by heart.
Never use magic in front of others.
'Nobody was allowed to know of our gift' father always said. Warning them of those that would try to take this gift away, no matter the cost.
And now he had broken that rule, twice.
Once to save a women who lied to him
And once again in anger
A part of him hoped this was all a bad dream, but the shocked looks from the girls constantly remind him that it was not so.
The only thing he now had was his fears and anger.
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"Jaune, what ... what is that?" Ruby once again asked.
Reining in his magic his eyes refused to meet with Ruby's, seconds passed before replying.
"It's ... I don't want to talk about"
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"Uh look Jaune, I'm not one to demand stuff but what that heck was that? One minute you were pissed and then the next second white fire shoots out of your eyes, yeah that's not exactly what I call normal there" Yang objected.
"Indeed, I don't recall knowing anything about this unique ability" agreed Weiss.
"Look, it's not something I want to talk about ok. Can we just please forget about, alright?" Jaune pleaded.
None of the girls look persuaded.
"Jaune ..." Ruby slowly spoke "... We're your friends, we just want to hel-"
"It's his semblance" Nora blurted out.
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me Ruby, it's ... our semblance" Nora reiterated, moving over to Jaune's side.
"You semblance? You have your aura unlocked?" Weiss questioned, giving the blonde a pointed look.
"Hey it's not only him ice queen, we all have our aura unlocked" the ginger boosted.
Before the ginger haired girl continued Jaune quickly turned her around, making sure to lower his head so only she could hear him. "Nora, what are doing!?" Jaune hissed.
"Protecting you dummy, if you think I'm letting you take this one alone you got another thing coming" Nora replied.
"But what if they learn about our magic, oh sweet brothers I should have kept my emotions in check stupid-" right before Nora pinched his cheeks momentary.
"Oi, don't go off moaning and sulking again" Nora huffed. Her brother always had that bad habit of sulking whenever he did (or thought he did) something terrible, and like any good sibling it was her job to slap all that nonsense away.
"Look Jaune, it doesn't matter it they learn or not, we'll get through this together" she assured him.
Before the blonde could reply Blake's response stopped him.
"I don't believe you two" the cat faunus stated.
"What do you mean you don't believe us?"
"You heard what I said Nora. I find it rather odd that you always had aura, even though you specifically stated that you've been civilians for your entire lives" Blake argued.
"We had ours unlocked before dad found us" Nora replied.
"And how old did that happen?"
"Around when where six or seven, why does it matter to you?"
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"Nora, you can't unlock your aura till your nine, your body is still growing your aura reserves about that time. It's physically impossible for anyone to unlock there aura till they're nine, eight at the barest minimum" Weiss explained.
"Your lying to us" she declared.
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"I wouldn't be sure of that Weiss" Ren spoke up, moving close to his siblings as well. "I do remember father telling us of extremely rare cases of where aura can be unlocked earlier."
"Indeed, I think I remember father saying something about that one" Pyrrha agreed, following her little brothers action.
"You, are not wrong there Ren." Weiss admitted "But such cases are, as you said, extremely rare. You have a higher chance of getting hit by lighting then unlocking your aura before the age of nine. And besides, if did unlocked you aura before then you'll have to deal with numerous medical complication that I can't even phantom."
"And last I checked we never told you of our medical history either. So what evidence do you have against us?" Pyrrha added.
"Besides it being next to impossible" said Yang. "One person I may believe, but four? Sorry guys, but that sounds crazy for even me. Sounds like more of a fairy tale then the truth"
"Even fairy tales have truth if you look hard enough" Ren muttered.
"If you desperate that is" Weiss pointed look.
"You three are really starting to grate on my nerves you know, what do you girls not understand that this is a personal thing" Nora growled.
"The part where you guys are lying to us, about this 'aura' and all of this shit we've been thrown in. Seriously, I think we deserve some answers here Nora" Yang snapped.
"You wouldn't even understand it if we did!" Pyrrha replied back.
Before Yang or even Weiss could retort the gentle hand of their faunus teammate stopped down, as she opened her mouth to speak.
And those next few words would forever change everything.
"I guess that means I ignore what I saw back at warehouse, with the horror"
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"What do you mean?" Jaune whispered.
"Don't play coy with me, I was there when you fought the horror, I ... I was awake"
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"Y-You were awake?" Pyrrha whispered, her voice so low the girls could barely hear it. And her skin, she skin had now discarded any notion of tan and now was pale, a fearful pale.
The rest of team RWY were shocked at the champions sudden change, one moment she was filled with anger, and the next it was as if death had just coming knocking at her door.
"Yes, I was awake when it all happened" Blake repeated "I bet you can say what I say there was some super aura technique or maybe your own semblance unique to only you four. But the truth is ..."
"... It's not, it's something else ... something magical" Blake hissed.
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"So what is it then Pyrrha, what did I saw back at the ware house ... what are you four!?"
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"No, no, no, that's impossible you couldn't have ... you shouldn't have" the distance between them suddenly disappeared as Pyrrha grabbed Blake by the front of her shirt "HOW, how were able, it should have been ..."
Words failed the champion.
But her emotions did not.
"What th- Oh! Get you hands off Blake" said Yang as she threw grabbed her hands, throwing her away.
The women merely turned and glared at Yang, the edges of her eyes now giving off a dark crimson flare as sh-
"Hey! Knock it off you two!" Ruby placing herself between the two women. The young huntress was tired, tired of all this madness and stress around her.
"Look, I know we're all stressed right now, but we can't be fighting right now. We made a promise to Qrow that we will get them to Atlas, so let's just focus on that. The longer we stay here the higher chance grimm could find us, so please, let's put this behind for now."
Nobody replied to girl.
Until the distant howl of grimm shook them out of their silence.
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"We have to leave" Ruby stated.
xxx later xxx
"Uh, Ruby, not to be that person ... but I think we passed that lamp post already. Like at least 5 times by now" said Yang.
Ruby refused to reply knowing full well that Yang was right.
To simply put it, they were lost
It was something that she should have expected, before they had Professor Oobleck to guide them. A man that had spent his life studying Mt Glenn, and a man that was not with them.
Leaving them all alone with no knowledge about the city.
"Ok, then how about we go the left way again, this time take the right at the intersection" offered Ruby.
Neither Yang or anyone argued with the girl as they took her offer, after a few minutes the group once again reached the intersection before taking the right.
Only to come face to face with rubble.
"Oh come on, you can't be serious" Nora growled. This the fifth time it has happened and once again they were back at square one.
"Come on, this place has to have a map or something" the blonde hissed as she shared the same feeling with Nora.
"Alright, maybe if follow our paths back to the train station we can try to follow Uncle's Qrow's path then-"
A vicious howl echoed across the city, the howl of beowolf.
Before the girls could react six beowolfs crawled out of the shadows, coming from behind the rubble and from the various abandoned ally ways left forgotten.
All six of the grimm bared their fangs at the group, slowly walking around them, watching them for the slightest hint of movement.
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"Jaune, you guys get behind us" Ruby ordered as team RWBY began circling around the Magier siblings, waiting for the first sign of attack from the grimm. Luckily, the huntresses did not need to wait.
The nearest grimm to Weiss struck first, leaping at the heiress with it's jaws wide open.
Only for a sudden glyph to halt it mid way. Two more glyphs formed as they skewered the grimm with dozens of icicles.
The rest of the grimm reacted, following after their now deceased kin's footstep as team RWBY responded in kind. The maw of the beowolf next to Blake found it self tied shut by a black ribbon, right as it was pulled close the faunus and her blade cutting into it's skull.
The one next to Yang felt it's jaw slammed shut as Yang punched it back shut, the huntresses proceeded to grab it's throat and heaved it down onto the ground. A point blank shot finished it off.
The last one close to the hunters charged as at Ruby as the young girl swung crescent rose down onto the beast, the clean cut slicing through the skull.
As the last of the four the grim faded away that still left the last two, who had leaped over the huntress as the rest of their kin had died. Only for another large glyph to appear in front of them. The last thing they saw was a massive sharpened bolt of ice as it ripped through the dark hide.
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"Is ... is that the last of them?" Ren asked worryingly.
"I think so" said Yang "Don't see any- Pyrrha, watch out!"
From roof of the buildings another Grimm leapt down, this one had instead opted to watch as his kin were cut down one by one, waiting for the moment to complete it's mission. By the time the blonde human has saw it, it was too late.
The mass of the grimm collided with the young champion, nearly smothering the girl underneath as she began to scream.
"PYRRHA, get your hands off her!" Nora roared, magic rushing to her arm as an array of colors burst out. Lighting roared forward, easily striking through the hide, burning not only it's hide but also it's the concrete wall.
Her two brothers rushed passed as they went over to Pyrrha.
"Pyrrha! Are you alright! Do you need medical hel-"
"I'm fine ... I'm fine Jaune" Pyrrha breathed, motioning her brother to stop. "I ... I need to catch my breath, that's all."
The blonde nodded as he held onto his older sisters hand in support. Ren himself joined, before turning his attention back to Nora/RWBY.
The young man saw Nora shifting between Pyrrha and team RWBY, one with worry and the other with fear. Ren could also see the looks of worry and fear directed at his family form the four girls.
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"Well, what are you three looking at" Nora snapped, seeing the looks team RWBY was giving her.
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"It's ... nothing" Weiss tersely said.
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"Well then stop giving me that look" hissed Nora, before heading over to Pyrrha.
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"Well wait for guys at the corner, you can't meet us up at there" Ruby offered, motion her team to leave the Magier family alone.
xxx Some time later xxx
It had taken another 30 minutes to arrive once more at the train station. Once they arrived the group began to back trek from where Qrow had originally led them. Unfortunately, they only had vague idea of where to go.
The group itself was split into two. On one side you had the Magier siblings, and on the other there was team RWBY. And neither of the two dared to speak unless needed, keeping a fair distance away from each other as well.
xxx With Team RWBY xxx
"You guys think Pyrrha would be ok?" Ruby asked aloud. Finally breaking the silence within her team.
"What about her?"
"Come on Yang, I know your angry at them but Pyrrha was just attacked by a grimm. Don't you care about her health?"
"... Pyrrha ... Pyrrha's strong enough to handle it Ruby" Yang gently replied "She'll be ok sis."
"~sigh~ Well what you Weiss, or you Blake?"
Neither of two girls answered.
"What's wrong with you all, are you all just going to ignore Jaune and his siblings!?" Ruby growled out. The young huntress was starting to get annoyed by the silent treatment her friends were giving.
"What do want us to say Ruby" Blake asked "Sorry about being pissed off at you, even after you deliberately lied to us about something way beyond anything you guys have thought of?" Adding hand motions for emphasis.
"Look, I know they lied to us but-" Ruby began
"But what Ruby?" Weiss grimly asked "This isn't some kind fairy tale. We're risking our lives out here, making sure that the headmasters kids are safely brought to a foreign kingdom and making sure to avoid the grimm as they surround the kingdom.
On top of all of that, we have to avoid a completely unknown group who were able to put the headmaster of Beacon in a coma, while implanting a grimm into him as well.
And from what I'm getting, all of this is centered around whatever powers Pyrrha and her siblings wield. Whatever it is."
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"This isn't a game Ruby, we're putting our lives at risk for things we don't even understand. The least they could do is tell us something about their powers" Weiss finished.
"So what, are we just going to ignore their existence or something!" Ruby hissed.
"No ... but when we finally escape the Mt Glenn, we're going to get our answers from day Ruby. This isn't something they can't hide from us anymore"
xxx With Magier Siblings xxx
Fear was not something common in their family.
Sure there were times that they all got scared, like watching a scary movie, or hearing terrible news, or something else.
But never have they felt fear like this, the fear of your entire life crumbling around you and you couldn't do anything about it.
That was the fear that dominated the minds of Jaune and his siblings.
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"So ... what do we ... what do we do about team RWBY?" Nora asked hesitantly "We can't, we can't tell about our magic guys. We can't."
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"Maybe we should leave them, once we escape MT. Glenn we just turn into birds and fly away from them" Ren offered.
"But what if they see us or find us later?"
"... There's always Illusion magic, and if that doesn't work ... we could ... wipe their memories" said Ren.
"No, absolutely not" Jaune ordered "I've already made one mistake showing them magic, the last thing we need is them to be more suspicious of us."
A heavy sigh escaped the man's mouth as his shoulders sagged slightly "If I never was so stupid and kept my emotions in check, none of this would have happened stupid me" he berated himself.
"Brothers dammit, why did I even-OW" two fingers proceed to pinch his checks tightly. "Pyrrha! What was that about?"
"You were starting to mop again Jaune" she warned him "You know how Nora and I hate it when you get that way."
"Look, one way or another we'll get through this Jaune. We've been in worse situations then this Jaune."
"She's right you know Jaune" Ren pipped up. "We've survived against the matron, the horror, and various other things Jaune. As long as we stick together I'm sure we make through this as well."
"Yeah, like what Renny said. Thick or thin we'll make it through" Nora agreed.
"I agree, no matter what Jaune, we're family, and family sticks together no matter what" Pyrrha placing her hand on Jaune's shoulder.
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"~sigh~ I hope so guys ... I hope so" Jaune sighed heavily.
xxx A Few Hours Later xxx
"Aright guys, this should the be the place, hopefully" she muttered at the end, Ruby stared across the vast roof that in theory kept them from the exit. All eight of them were situated on top of the nearby buildings that laid near the edge of city and close the exit out of this mountain for good.
"Please let this be the place me" Ruby begged as she eyed the surrounding buildings for any Grimm. Ever since Pyrrha had survived that grimm attack none of them had encountered any sort of grimm.
While Jaune and his siblings were fine with that, it placed an uneasy feeling within the young huntress. The grimm had practically surrounded the entire kingdom, and yet there wasn't a single grimm in the entire area.
This place should have been filled with grimm up to your knees ... yet not a single one was encountered.
And that placed Ruby in a nervous mood.
"And your sure this the right place?" Pyrrha asked.
"Mmhm" she nodded "It should be around here, all we just need to do is fine the right place. Uh Blake, could you help me find it ... with your faunus night vision and all."
Blake nodded as Team RWBY began searching for the exit
Once the girls had gotten far away from JNPR Ruby began clearing her throat.
"Hey, not to worry you guys and all, but do you three feel off?" she asked.
"What do you mean by 'off' Ruby?" Yang asked.
"Oh come on Yang, you know ... with all that's happening ... where are all the grimm? I mean shouldn't this place be swarming with grimm, after all they're so close to the city. But there's not a single speck of them anywhere."
"Ruby does a bring a good point. It is rather odd to see very few grimm in the area" Weiss agreed hesitantly.
"Yeah, you do make a good point there sis" Yang admitted "Maybe it's with all the grimm surrounding Vale. Maybe all them decided to meet up with the rest?"
"I don't know Yang, even that feels odd ... well of course adding the part where all the grimm are surrounding Vale" said Ruby.
"If you say so sis ... ~sigh~ it still doesn't make any sense why all the grimm are going to Vale? I can't believe Nora and her siblings to be the cause of this" Yang shook her head.
"Well if not them then who? The grimm only started to converge after we just left, that's sounds to much for coincidence" argued Blake.
None of the girls could refute her on the last part, it could not have been coincidence for the grimm to converge minutes after they left.
"Well look, one or another we will-"
Before Ruby could finish the loud sharp crack jolted the girl.
*CRACK*
*SSSSKKK*
~GGGGRRRRSSS~
Ruby rushed over to the side of the roof top.
Only to face to face with the biggest beowolf she'd seen. She barely had any time to dodge as the beast leaped on top of the roof, shaking the entire building.
The grimm was easily three times the size of a paladin. It's body was covered head to toe with white armor plating, heck you could have mistaken it for some other grimm had not the girls recognize it's shape.
"What the hell is that!" Yang yelled.
Only for her roll out of the incoming claw. The sharpened bones sliced through the concrete, effortlessly slicing through the material.
"Take this!" Four rounds of red dust hit the side of the beowolf, a bloom of fire momentary covered the grimm's body.
Only for it to reveal perfectly fine armor.
"Wha- How tough is this grimm's armor!?"
"Maybe some kind of new sub-type?" Weiss offered, right before she launched more then a dozen more ice shards. Which followed the same results as Yang's.
"Blasted all, just how tough is it's armor?" Weiss tsked in annoyance.
"Less talking more fighting" Ruby ordered as she used her semblance to avoid another strike. Propelling her into the beast's inner space the moment it striked she unleashed a massive barrage of slashes across it's chest and joints.
Each strike barely made any leeway as the grimm threw the reaper off it's armor, snout snarling at the thrown girl. But before it could move to the girl two rounds of fire dust striked at it's eyes, turning it's attention to the now mad Yang.
"Oi, step away from my sister fiddo. You want to fight? Then come at me" motioning with her hand.
*GGGGGRRRRR, RWWWWAAAA*
The beast let lose a massive roar, pushing the huntress a far as it charged onto to Yang. The breast slammed into girl, throwing her a few meters as Weiss/Blake barely dodged out of the way of the beast.
xxx
"S-Should we help them?" Nora whispered, she and her family watched the huntresses desperately fought off the massive grimm. But it was clear that none of the girl's attacks seem to faze the grimm at all and only seemed to serve to anger the monster further.
"But what can we do, none of them are leaving scratches on that grimm's armor" Ren objected.
"W-Well what else do we do ... do we ... do we want leave them or something" she whispered back.
"Nora!"
"I'm sorry. it just that ... well what do we do? I mean look at them, that grimm is beating them all and ... and what good could we do against that" said Nora.
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"The exit is not too far" Pyrrha whispered her eyes darting back to entrance to the tunnel out of here.
A few minutes
A few minutes will be all that it'll take to leave this horrible place. They could leave turn into their animal forms and run away to Atlas. With their magic they could easily hide from the grimm and if needed they could fight them off as well.
The only cost was team RWBY
Was it worth it? Team RWBY knew too much already, they should not have seen their magic and if things hadn't went bad then they never would. What if they told others of their gift, how would they react to the truth ... how would others see their gifts.
Nobody should've learned of their gift, it was risk that would only bring misery to their lives.
How could they understand the risk of magic.
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But were their lives worth it?
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Jaune stepped forward.
"I know what we to do"
xxx
"GAH!" Ruby cried out in pain, her aura had finally collapsed from the last attack the grimm leveled. A brief flash of red color surrounded her body before it shattered, it was a miracle that her aura was able to absorb the last attack.
"Ruby, you ok!"
"No, my aura is gone" she replied. At the moment the grimm was more focused on Weiss and Blake.
"Dammit, we a new plan to deal with this thing. It just keeps shrugging off attacks like they don't exist" Yang growled.
"Well then what do we Yang, because I got no idea right now" Ruby said.
"Maybe getting out of here? There's no way that grimm can fit in the emergency exit. If we can get ourselves out of here-"
"Ruby, dodge!" Weiss yelled.
Both sisters looked back as they saw the grimm throw off other two huntress before coming towards them. The beast raised it's claws to strike.
Right as they slashed at Yang, her aura flickered as she was launched back, her face skidding across the rooftop as her body refused to move. Before Ruby could even cry out her sisters name the grimm reared it's other claw at her.
Only to stop midway
A bolt of lighting threw the beast a few meters away, a nasty scar blackening it's plate.
All eyes turned to the source.
Jaune's hands clacked with lighting as his own eyes glowed, a white mask of magic seeped from his eyes. With a single twitch of his wrist the building shook as two massive roots erupted underneath, trapping the grimm as they began to crush it.
Before it could move two ropes of fire whipped across it's eyes, the beast howled in pain as it's eyes bubbled and began to drip from it's socket. The beast suddenly screeched as it tried to clutch it's head, bellowing an awful roar of pain as two large boulder hit the grimm in the face afterward.
"Ruby, you ok?" Jaune asked, walking over to the downed girl.
"Jau-" The blonde offered his hand to Ruby.
"Get up Ruby, no time for sitting down" he said, pulling her up "are you ok, did the grimm leave any wounds?"
"No, I'm good, but ... what are you doing?"
"I ... look, I know you don't have much reason to trust me after this entire mess and I bet you have every right to be. But I've made some terrible mistakes ... but abandoning you all is not one of them I want to make. You guys just relax, let me and siblings deal with this" he assured her.
Before Ruby could respond Jaune unleashed a bolt of magic onto the grimm. "Everyone, take care to that grimm!"
His siblings nodded as they ran into the fight, Nor channeled her magic into the palms of her hand, unleashing a bolt of lighting. Throwing the beast further as a fireball exploded in front of the beast pushing it to the very edge of the building.
"Ren, now!"
With a single flick of his hand the beast found itself lifted upward by a few meters as the young man glared at the beast.
*SNAP*
An invisible forced hurled the beast across the air, as it's roars soon becoming a distant sound as it fell.
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xxx A Few Hours xxx
Fires crackled in the air as the warmth from the flames brought the needed relief from the coldness of the night.
Around the fire was JNPR & RWBY
Only a few hours had passed as they finally left the mountain and any possible grimm within. Luckily, there were few grimm within the area and those that were there were easily dispatched by the girls.
Once they had reached a fair distance from the dead city did they finally make camp. With a quick burst of magic all eight of them now enjoyed a warm fire. All the while maintain silence.
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"So, I guess we owe you guys a thanks I guess" said Yang.
"Uhh thanks Yang" said Jaune. "I mean you were also pretty cool ... well until the whole giant grimm part."
"Hey well what else were suppose against that thing. The thing trashed us" she objected as Jaune merely shrugged.
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"So ... I guess you might want to know about ... well you know what" said Pyrrha motioning the fire lit by their magic.
"Well, if you guys don't want to then you don't need to-" said Ruby
"No No, You four should have the right. It's isn't right for you girls to not know, not with everything that is happening ..." Jaune trailed off.
"I mean if you really want to, then we won't stop you" she said.
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Jaune nodded as he turned his eyes to Pyrrha, giving her one more nod before focusing on the fire.
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"~sigh~ Ruby, your powers ... they're not what you would consider normal or really anything anyone else has seen" began Pyrrha.
"I mean you guys have some weird ... semblance but I don't think we would consider it weird you guys" said Yang.
"Hmph, our powers aren't semblances Yang" Pyrrha scoffed.
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"Excuse me?" said Weiss.
"Our power is not a semblances or aura based Weiss. To be honest, our power is really something beyond even that" Pyrrha admitted. Team RWBY titled their head in confusion.
"Our power is ... is magic"
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"Uh, Excuse me?" said Weiss "I'm sorry, but I think I heard you saying magic of all things."
"That was what it was Weiss, Magic" said Pyrrha.
"Well I don't want to be that person Pyrrha, but what your saying is simply crazy. Their's no such thing as magic you four."
Pyrrha raised her brow as a ball of fire formed in her hand.
"That could be your semblance"
The ball of fire turned into an ice ball, before a lighting one, cycling through the different elements before coming back to fire.
"Sem-"
The fireball glowed before forming into a pile of dirt, a green spout grew from the ground as it shined from the darkness
"..."
With a playful smirk the dirt and plant disappeared, leaving only the bemused looks from JNPR and silent looks from RWBY.
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"So ... magic ... actually exist?" asked Ruby.
Jaune nodded his head "Yep, though it's not som-"
Before Jaune could finished Ruby's face appeared only inches away from his own, her own eyes shining in almost childlike joy as her body shook with excitement.
"OH MY GOD, magic actually EXIST. That so amazing you guys, so that does that mean you can pull bunnies out of hats! Oh, can you guys transform into other things like a bird or a plane or doggy! OH OH, can you guys like do awesome spells like making illusions or shooting fireballs-"
"Ruby! Can you um, give me a little space here, really in my personal space here" asked Jaune as he gently pushed Ruby off of him.
"Oh Yeah, uh sorry about that Jaune" she apologized, a slight blush forming.
"It no problem, just uh be a bit more mindful will yeah" said Jaune, turning his attention to the rest of team RWBY "I guess you three have questions as well?"
"We do indeed" said Weiss "So how does your magic work anyway? Where do you draw your power from and what even makes your powers magic and not some kind of advanced semblance?"
"Well-" Nora began "- I guess the biggest thing is that we don't draw from aura. I mean you girl are huntresses but I doubt you felt any aura coming off of us, right?"
"Well your not wrong Nora" said Blake, it was true that aura users could sense other aura users, but even that was an advanced skill and people could just mask there aura. But then again that didn't seem like something Nora or siblings could pull off, even veteran hunters have trouble masking aura.
"Of course I am Blake. But anyway yeah, we don't exactly draw magic from ourselves. It's more like we're drawing it from another source, of course the specifics are a bit complicated and not something I want to talk about before sleeping. But yeah, we get our powers from an ... outside force."
"And for the second part Weiss, well besides our powers not running off aura ... I guess the other big thing would be that when we use magic we just do it" she finished.
"What do you mean by do it?" Weiss asked for clarification.
"I mean just that, you just focus on the spell your want, draw your magic forward, and wallah I have a spell" she explained.
The four huntress were utterly stump at Nora's answer. That was not something they had expected. Unlike magic aura was more of a muscle then whatever magic was, one had constantly train with it to truly become proficient with it and even that took years of hard work to achieve results.
From what Nora just told them a magic user did not need to even train with their magic, as long as they knew what they want they could achieve it with ease.
"It can't be that easy Nora, there's no way" Yang objected.
"Well, maybe not but it's real easier then aura, or so dad tells us. And well besides those two I guess you can say magic can do things semblance can't. Dad always told us semblances were limited in what they could do, not with magic."
And once again that statement surprised RWBY once more, though this time even more deeply. A semblance was more then a unique ability that hunters had, a semblance was one's identity, their very person given form. To master one's semblance was more then training, it was coming to terms and acknowledging your own self and what your semblance reflected about you.
For someone to have the power to circumnavigate that and instead capable of doing almost anything ...
Magic was suddenly far more powerful then they had imagined.
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"Then why do you hide your magic?" Weiss questioned "Don't you realize what your family has, this ... this could change all of remnant itself. It could change how we see the world, think of all things we could learn from it" her voice becoming more and more awed at the very potential of magic.
"This shouldn't be kept from the world, this should be known everywhere. Magic could change everything, think of all the potential, all the-"
"-Damage it could do" Pyrrha warned "Weiss, think about all the damage that could happen if people learn about our powers. I refuse to have my family be hunted down by greedy pigs."
"But Pyrrha you can't forgot all the good magic could do. So what if people would want your powers, with your father and the kingdoms we can easily assure your saf-"
"And what about my father! Look at him, he was in hospital because somebody found out about our magic!" Pyrrha yelled.
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"You can't assume that P-" began Weiss
"Well what other reason is there? Why else would they attack my father, cause the grimm to appear, and start all this madness in the first place! ... Because of one single mistake everything is ruined, and now we're being hunted by a unknown group whose only goal is get out powers" she snapped
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"Besides-" Her voice becoming lower "- What you're saying is a foolish goal. You think we're some kind of link to past ... but were not. All we are is just a reminder Weiss, of a different age, we're all that's left of magic in this world ... there's nothing left but us."
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"You don't really mean that do you Pyrrha, right? I mean come on Pyrrha there must be like relics or something from your ... ugh ... people?" said Ruby.
Pyrrha silence was her response.
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Slowly one by one all four girls started to come to the grim realization of what the four of them were trying explain.
There was no other magic users beings besides them.
No Aunts
No Uncles
No hidden brothers or sisters
No parents that miraculously survived
No ancient relics from their families
No artifacts from there people
No spirits to guide them
No family members from Ozpin' side
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They were all that was left of magic in remnant
Well ... here you go folks the latest chapter. I want to first say that I'm real sorry how long this took, normally it shouldn't be. But with finials on finishing last week ... well safe to say I really hadn't had any time. Hopefully with winter break I can get more done.
So once again, no omakes (yes yes hate me) but right now I'm dead tired writing this chapter and really don't want to write anymore.
Oh! Not only that but I also wish to announce a new story I'm working on, It's a naruto fic but it will be some time before the first chapter comes up. What you can know is that is has no bashing, no harems, and no godlikes at all. In the fic I hope to keep everything close to cannon personality wise as well as the plot-ish
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So yeah, besides that I wish you guys happy holidays and have a great winter break