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VALE, OUTSIDE OF MT GLENN
"Good morning Ruby" Nora greeted.
"Hm? Mmm Nora will yo- gah!" Ruby cried out in shock, seeing Nora's face just inches away from her. The young huntress shot out of her sleeping spot hitting a nearby tree in the head.
"Oh, ow ow ow ... why did you have to do that Nora!?" The young girl demanded to know. Rubbing the lump on top of her hair.
"Mmmm ... Felt like it" said Nora
"Meanie"
"Well that and I'm pretty sure we have a kingdom to get to" the ginger hair girl reminded.
"Oh yeah, Atlas" remembering the events from yesterday, and more importantly the knowledge of magic ... not the cheap tricks but actual real magic, the kind that changes one's prescriptive of everything.
"Yeah well everyone else is waiting for you Ruby. Come on" waving over for the huntress.
Ruby nodded as she dusted herself off and used some aura to force the bump to shrink. Grabbing crescent rose she followed after Nora, a few minutes later she meet up with the rest of everyone.
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"Well took you long enough Ruby, had a good nights sleep?" yang asked.
"Uh, yeah I guess so. So I guess we start heading out now?"
"Indeed, though some breakfast would be nice too" Weiss muttered a sharp grow coming the huntress's stomachs.
"Oh yeah ... that, food" said Ruby. She turned her head to Jaune "say, not to be rude but ... you guys have like a spell or something for, well, this" pointing to her stomach.
The four siblings looked at each for a few seconds before turning back to Ruby. With a clap of his hand magic sprung from Jaune's hand as eight loafs of ... grey stuff materialized and accompanying them was a large clear pitcher of water.
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"Um, what's that?" Yang pointed to the grey ... thing, in the air.
"Food" said Jaune "It's no appetizing but it'll keep you nourished for the day."
"Like that single block, for the whole day?"
He nodded his head.
All four girls looked a bit uneasy at the grey blocks but relented and took one. The taste was ... well bland would be kind, non-existent would be more like it. It had a kind of rubbery texture but went down in the end, the only good part was that the water was cool and had refreshing crisp to it.
"Sorry about the taste, there's really no way to get rid of that, unless you got spices on you" Jaune apologized "But the food will keep you full for the rest of the day, so no worry there."
"Well I hope we do find some real food soon, if I have to eat this all the way I'll go insane" said Yang. Finishing the pitcher up "Welp, I'm ready."
Once everyone was done Jaune waved the magic away as the pitchers faded away. The group grab any last remaining stuff in the camp before finally heading off.
xxx Some Time Later xxx
"I spy with my little eye-" Yang began
"Trees" said Ruby
"The sky" said Weiss
"A bird" said Blake
"Bah, you girls are no fun" the blonde pouted.
"Well someone hadn't repeated to same thing over and over again for the past hour then maybe it wouldn't be so annoying" Weiss grumbled. Yang merely stuck her tongue out.
"Fine Miss Ice Queen" Yang mumbled. Minutes passed before a proverbial light bulb went off. "Oh I know, hey guys" turning her head to JNPR "Why don't you guys tell us more about magic?"
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"Huh?"
"You heard me Jaune, tell us more about magic. We've barely got anything last night, and for making sure your cute little butts are taken to Atlas safely I figured learning a bit more on magic would be fair payment."
"... I mean ... well ... ugh" Jaune looked at the sudden interest in the other girls eyes "... ugh, fine. We'll tell you more about magic."
"So, where do you want to start?" he relented.
The blonde winced when he saw all four of the girls snap at each other, a light growl even escaping from Blake, as they fought for who had right to first question. Eventually Yang won out.
"Alright, I'll start Lady-killer. So how does your magic work anyway? I mean you said something about alternate energy source or whatever, like you do some kind of fancy dance, a ritual, make a deal with a demon?"
"Wh- No! We don't do any of that, especially double with the demon part. That's just asking for a quick death, making a deal with a demon ..." shuddering at the last part.
"No, we draw our magic through ... well, I guess you can say within ourselves. But not our souls mind you."
"It's more like our souls are connected to a ... a different plane of existence, and we draw our magic through the plane of existence" Jaune explained.
"Whoa hold on there, a another plane of existence?" crossing her hands in a T-shape position.
"Oh yeah, uh to make a very long story really short basically there's a bunch of different place of existence besides our own like the plane of fire, water, air, etc ... For us we draw our power from the plane of magic, or the plane of the gods, or just the realm of Mythos. You can chose which one you like."
"Yikes ... hold on, are you saying that there are actual gods and whole plane of existence filled with them" Ruby exclaimed.
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"I mean, yeah ... why?"
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"Jaune, you and your family have a lot of explaining to do"
"Uh, ok?" said Jaune "Well anyway yeah, our souls act more like a bridge. This allows us to harness the powers that come from the realm and all one needs is the willpower to handle the flow of magic."
"Hold, I thought you said you merely needed to think to use magic" brought up Weiss.
"And you'll be right" said Jaune "Magic requires one is able to envision what they're trying to cast and then summon the willpower to draw out the magic. Once you draw the magic out controlling it is real easy. And that's really about all there is to magic to our knowledge."
"Huh, I see"
"So the next Quest-"
"I'll ask next" said Blake quickly "Your magic, is there any sort of classification to it? I know you said spells a lot and was wondering if there were levels to it?"
"I can answer this one" said Ren "You'll be right Blake, there are indeed different class of magic, both type and how powerful they are. To start out with there are six different types of magic. Evocation, Illusion, Abjuration, Transmutation, Enchantment, and finally divination."
"Evocation is the school of destruction, where magic is focused on it's more destructive aspect. Basically all your fireballs, lighting bolts, and other destructive spells fall under this category."
"Illusion is the school of utilizing magic to hide oneself or confuse your enemies. At it's weakest you could do basic lights while at it's peak one could create illusion so powerful it may as well be the real thing."
"Abjuration is the school of defense. Well, I think we know what spells are used here."
"Transmutation is school of alteration. Unlike the previous schools mentioned this school focuses on altering in object into something different, not only that but also altering oneself to an extent."
"Enchantment is ... well it's an interesting branch of magic. In that unlike others this school focus primarily on the mind. More importantly how to influence and control the mind."
"And finally, we have divination the most rarest of schools to study in. Unlike any of schools mentions this by far the most ... unique of them. In that this school is focused on understanding the future, to see beyond what normal senses can see and into the worlds far from human understanding."
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"Wow, that's a lot of different schools" said Ruby "I mean they all sound pretty cool, well except enchantment, that just sounds nasty."
The rest of girls silently agreed with Ruby's latter statements, the power to control another's mind felt ... wrong, horrible.
"Oh, well you done't need to worry about that. Most of really dangerous spells of that school have been lost a long time ago in our family, we only know of the most basic ones" Nora assured them.
"Uh hu, we'll hold you on that" said Blake wearily "I have to admit I never knew magic could do so much, especially to see into the future. How does that even feel?"
"Feels like someone dunked your head in water as a bunch of pictures run pass you, it's really not that great as it seems. You barely get anything out of it and even what you do doesn't make half sense" Nora explained.
"Oh ... I see, well carry on"
"Thank you, now while there many different schools of magic all of them follow the same system of levels. At the very bottom we have our cantrips which are most the weakest and basic spell for any school, something anyone could learn if they had the free time."
"Then we go onto level one spells, the level two, then level three etc ... Afterwards we finally reach the highest level of magic, 9th level magic. When I mean 9th level magic is the strongest magic of any branch I do no kid. The sheer complexity of each spell is immense and the power ... the power of a 9th level spell is nothing to dismiss."
"You aren't just summoning a large portion of magic, your alternating the very fabric of reality to your whims. This is power of the gods you girls, these are the spells that divide mortals from demigods, gods, and godlike entities" Ren finished.
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"So, do you ... know any 9th level spells" Blake asked slowly.
"No, only our father has that kind of knowledge and even he can't use them. Our magic goes only up to 6th level" Ren explained.
"I see"
For a little bit the girls remained quite as they mulled over the knowledge given to them. Until Weiss approached the siblings.
"Alright, I have my question for you. You said that your family has always had magic and you also said that there were others like that once had magic correct?"
"Um, I don't know if said that Weiss" said Pyrrha "But your not wrong, yes, a long time ago their were others then our family who could harness magic."
"Then tell me about them, your culture, your people" Weiss requested.
"Very well" the champion nodded "Well I guess we could begin with my people religion. Unlike your people's religions my people faith is in the god brothers."
"God brothers? Say didn't you always say something like that before" Yang pipped.
"I did, the god brothers to us are the true gods. The elder of the brothers is the God Of Light, through him all life is born and was one who came up with the idea of humanity in the first place."
"Then there is the younger brother, the God Of Darkness, magic, and the grimm-"
"The grimm! Hold on a second, are you saying the grimm were created by a god whose also the god of humanity!?"
"Does that mean Grimm are our siblings!?" Ruby gasped
"Yes, but no to you Ruby, father always told us that grimm never bothered our people as the God Of Darkness kept them away" Pyrrha explained.
"A world without grimm, now where did that disappear to?" Yang called out.
"You'll have to ask dad for that, I don't remember the exact basics of that old legend he told us" replied Pyrrha. "But continuing on, it was said that when the older brother began creating life the younger one became jealous, unable to match his brother, and so created the antithesis of life, death, to mock him."
"Disease, plague, grimm you name it he made it. Eventually the elder brother became slighted and the two fell into a great war, pitting their creations against each others."
"After eons of fighting the elder brother, wearily of war, offered his brother an alternative. Instead of fighting each other they would instead use their energies to create one race. A race that would encapsulate the best and worst of them, a race molded in their own image."
"That race would be called humans" Pyrrha finished.
"Or at least that is what dad always told us so take how you would" Pyrrha added "Besides that father always said our people were a feudal society, though unlike yours ours was supposedly focused on who was the eldest and not so on gender. "
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"So, is that all, don't get me wrong what you've told us is a lot but-" said Blake
"No no, just trying to think what to tell you next" Pyrrha assured her "Oh yeah! I forgot to talk about soul bonds."
"Soul bonds?" asked Yang
"Indeed, now I know you girls have your own idea of what a soul bond is, supposedly it's something that draws people together and all. But that's not what a real soul bond is, a soul bond is well ... complicated. But it's simply a permanent connections between two souls"
"A permanent connection, I mean I've heard of limited connections between hunters but never have I heard of a permanent one" and Weiss would be right, to her team at least.
While experienced hunters could form temporary bonds which was mainly used to transfer aura into other, never had they head of a permanent one.
"How does that even work anyway?"
"Er not really sure off myself there Ruby. Dad could probably explain more, I can make a soul bond but the inner workings is something dad knows better" admitted Pyrrha.
"But a soul bond is far different then what your thinking. For one it's permanent and can't be broken unless through the will of the gods. Second, a soul bond allows the recipients to know if each other is alive as well as send feelings to each other in their purest form."
"What hold on a minute" Ruby raised her hand "Back when we first meet, you said that you needed help finding Nora. Why couldn't you just use that soul bond to find her?"
"Well I'm pretty sure we never told you we had a soul bond Ruby" smiling at the little blush on Ruby's face "But you are not wrong. While me and my siblings have a soul bond with each other it can't tell where you are, merely that you are either dead or alive."
"Oh, well a soul bond still sounds pretty useful, I mean knowing if your teammates are alive or dead is pretty-"
"A soul bond is not a simple matter Ruby!" the champion interrupted "A soul bond is a very serious thing. Even my people understood it's importance. A soul bond is a deceleration to the very gods themselves.
You are declaring that this person you have bonded is the person you are willingly to spend an eternity with. That you are willing to give a piece of your own soul for this person. Once you make that declaration only a god can annual that" Pyrrha warned.
"Oh, uh ... I see" Ruby gulped. Yikes, that was far more serious then she expected.
"Indeed, soul bonds are not something to play around with. Even my people would rarely do one, even couples who loved each for decades don't use one" Pyrrha warned.
"So are there different types of souls bonds or just one? Because you all having one for each sounds a bit uh ... well I don't know how you four see incest-"
"Whoa wait WHAT! Whe- Where did you get Idea, of course there are different soul bonds!?" Pyrrha glared at Yang wide eye with disgust. Yang quickly raised her hands, giving the disgusted siblings an apologetic look.
"Ignoring your interesting statement, yes, there are different types of soul bonds. For instance there is one between siblings and one between parents/children. That type bond is what we have with each other and with father" Pyrrha explained.
"Ooohh, well that's makes a lot more sense" said Yang
"Yes, Yes is should"
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"Well man look at time that's passed by, we must've been talking for what hours?" said Ruby, hoping to break to silence.
"Yep ... looks like it's noon already" Blake agreed.
"And still no sign of civilization, and we're sure we went the right direction ... right?" Yang added.
"I thought our goal was to get away from Mt. Glenn" said Weiss.
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"We have no idea where we are going are we" stated Blake.
"Yeeeeepppp" said Ruby
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"Say-" began Yang, turning her had back "- Um, you guys wouldn't have any way to find where we are. Like a magical map of something?"
"A magical map you say, well that would be quite useful for all the times we got a little over our heads" said Pyrrha ""Sorry but magical maps aren't our thing. However, I think I have something better then a map."
"Uh how so?"
Pyrrha simplified as she raised her finger, magic appeared around the finger swirling around lazily as the huntress looked at it with awe. Taking a deep breath pyrrha closed her eyes.
"Oh great spirit of the winds, beseech my calls and come forth"
The winds around them became silent, only to pick up in speed to the point where clothes were being affect by it. Around the girl the winds turned a deep green as they began to condense into a ...
"Is that ... a bird?" asked Weiss. In front of Pyrrha was a large bir- No, an eagle made up of green wind. It's two yellow eyes stared at the human in front of it before bowing it's head. The girl smiled as she beckoned the bird onto her arm as it did, gently holding onto the arm.
"So ... you never told us you could that P-money" whistled Yang. "So um ... what is it?"
"This is a summon Yang, a creature from the realm of wind" Pyrrha.
"Oh, uh pretty sure you never told us about you being able to summon?"
"Summoning isn't a common school it really isn't. The power to summon other beings is a rare art and one that requires a contract, which itself is something rare even back when magic was common."
"Um how so Pyrrha?" Ruby asked.
"Well first of all, to even begin summoning you need a contract with a individual summon or a group of them. Once you have that then you need to appropriate amount of magic to summon a creature.
Then you can command it, well to an extent. You can't force a summon to do something it doesn't want to and if it's really angry it'll either attack you or just leave" Pyrrha explained to Ruby.
"Huh, never knew summoning was so complicated" said ruby. "So I guess you all have summoning contracts?"
"Actually we have four" said Nora.
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"What?"
"Oh yeah there's really no limit on how many contracts you can have save making sure everyone agrees to it. For us with contracts with Wind Elementals, Fire Elementals, Water Elementals, and Earth Elementals" Nora listed off.
"Don't forget the heritage part" Jaune added.
"OH YEAH! Pyrrha forgot to mention this but if a summoner ever has descendants then they too have access to summon, so long as the contract is valid and they know how to of course" Nora added.
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"You know I feel like your just showing off right now" said Ruby.
"Hey well if you had the chance to talk about stuff you never been able to before would you not take it?" said Nora.
"Mmm ok you make a fair point" she conceded. "But still, what can your uh elemental do anyway?"
The elemental itself titled it's head "Master, who are these humans? I do not understand what they are saying?"
"It's the current language of the humans" pyrrha explained.
"Hm, you humans seem to change everything when we arrive, one moment you are all fighting with stones and the next you're flying around in metal ships. Feh, you humans need to slow down a while and relax"
"I don't think that's much of an option with us" pyrrha playfully apologized
The elemental shook it's head "Humans, very well my summoner what is your desire for today?"
"Find us a nearby village where we can rest"
"Understood"
The wind elemental shot up as it circled around before flying off northward.
"The elemental will be trying to find us a nearby village to stay at" said Pyrrha. "Until then we need to wait."
"You think one bird can find us a way out?"
"First of all, it's a wind elemental Yang. And a wind elemental is one best trackers out there Yang" Pyrrha assured them.
"Well I hope your singing will pay of P-money"
"I'm sorry? What singing?"
"What you were just doing, singing. I mean that was what you were doing"
"No, I was speaking to- Oh, I forgot, I'm so sorry! What I was speaking wasn't human, that was the celestial language. It's the language used by most magical begins save for a scant few" said Pyrrha.
"Ah ... well, I guess we just wait around for now" said Yang.
xxx Team RWBY xxx
"Well ... magic is certainly something" said Ruby.
"You can say that again. To think magic could do that much and more, it's one thing to command the elements or create illusions and another to see into the future or even summon other beings" said Weiss.
The heiress groaned as she rubbed her eyes "The more we learn about magic the more it feels like half of the stuff comes straight out of fairy tales. Seriously, how there be actual God's of all things, they don't exist ... or well they shouldn't!"
"Hmph, half Weiss? More like everything" Yang commented. "And to think magic once was something that everyone could use, no wonder nothing is left about them maybe they blasted themselves in oblivion?"
"Yang!"
"Sorry"
"I don't everyone back then could shoot fireballs at a mere thought Yang" said Blake "I mean you heard it from them that magic requires knowledge of what you are trying to cast before hand."
"And besides, they said that these ancient humans came from a feudal society. So it's safe to say that the really powerful spells were kept to select few" Blake reasoned.
"Mmm ... yeah I guess that's fair" she conceded.
"Still makes you wonder how an entire civilization was reduced to five people" said Yang.
"War, Famine, Plague? There could be plenty of reason why they could've disappeared" Weiss offered.
"But I mean if they did disappear then why don't we know anything about this? You saw what magic can do, if anything there should relics or something like that still laying around here" the blonde argued.
"You ... are not wrong in that regard, it is rather odd to see no signs to magic throughout history. You think people would have seen magic been in use time to time" said Weiss.
"Maybe they thought it was a semblance? I mean we didn't know it was really magic until they told us so" said Ruby.
"True, that is a very real possibility. Yet that doesn't explain how magic disappeared, if humans were capable of using magic then what happened to make all vanish? Were these humans a sub-branch of humanity or were we the sub-branch?"
"And what the faunus, I didn't hear about any faunus being able to use magic either. Did we not have the potential to use it?" Blake added.
"Or maybe faunus didn't exist back then?" Weiss also offered "At this point we really can't assume anything Blake."
The cat faunus mouth tightened at the very idea, a world without faunus was both interesting and terrifying for the girl. But then again not even JNPR knew the whole story. "The headmaster, he must know about magic and about it's history. If there is anyone who can give us a real answer it's going to be him."
None of her teammates argued on that part, as much as JNPR has been an eyeopener they did not have all the answers to their questions. Only the headmaster had that, and the only way to get those answer was to get JNPR to Atlas.
"Well let's hope none of them have to reveal their magic, the last thing we need is Cinder, and whoever else is working with, after us. Pyrrha is right you girls, this magic business is no joke, we need to be on our A-game, and that means no trying to tell others about magic Weiss" said Ruby giving a pointed look to the heiress.
"But Ruby, think of all the potential. This is easily one of the if not the greatest discovery in history, we can't just let it go!"
"Well sorry there Weiss-cream but I have to go with sis over this one. I don't know about you but putting a target over a friends back feels pretty scummy to me" spoke Yang.
"And what about you Blake?" the blonde looked at her partner.
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"I ... we need the whole story. Whatever is the origin of magic we need to know about it, we can't be kept in the dark about this anymore" said Blake "Let's just try to get them to Atlas right now."
"Right, anyone in disagreement?" asked ruby.
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"Great, let's head out girls, seems Pyrrha's elemental is back"
Ugh here you go everyone the first chapter of 2020, I hope you all enjoy it, sorry it took so long, I originally wanted it out during new years but when steam sales come and you start binging kamen rider ... things happen you know.
Anyway I hope you guys enjoy it and leave a like and review (please)
Also I want add the future chapters of a different fate may take some time to come out as I'm working a naruto fic. But don't expect anything to come out of that soon. I have a ... plan when it comes to it's release.
Besides that I hope you guys enjoy the new year as I am.
So outside of that let's get on with the omakes
OMAKE#1 WHY SALEM SHOULDN'T TEACH HER CHILDREN HOW TO COOK
VALE, RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT, MAGIER HOUSEHOLD
"Mom, I'm hungry" said Nora, the rest of her siblings nodded in agreement as they played around in the living room.
"Hm, well unfortunately I can't cook, your father made sure of that" Salem grumbled, the nerve of her husband.
Make one mistake and create a new breed of grimm and off you go from kitchen duty, the never of that man sometimes.
"Well if I can't cook then I guess I can teach one of you" she said.
"Oh Oh I wanna I wanna" Nora waved her hand rapidly. The grimm queen nodded as she scooped up her youngest daughter and entered the kitchen.
"I think we should make a stew for dinner, do want that dear mommies stew?"
"Stew!"
"Stew it is then. Hm, well first of all we're going to need a pot ... oh! This should work" grabbing the largest pot she could find.
"What do we add next mommy?" Nora asked, sitting on the counter.
"Well that depends dear, what do you want to add to the stew? It's your stew after."
The ginger haired girl cupped her chin as she thought what to add. After a few minutes she snapped her fingers and pulled something out of her pocket.
"Oh! I found these funny mushrooms in the park toady!" the girl showed her mothers a fistful of the most colorful mushrooms she had seen, each one of them glistered brightly.
"Hm ... well Ozma did say mushrooms added flavor, sure why not" throwing them into the pot.
"Now I think we need to add flour next I believe?" Salem began searching around the kitchen for any flour as Nora looked at the stew.
"Maybe some salt-oops" said Nora as she dropped the entire bottle of salt into the pot.
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"Well looks like daddy forgot to stock flour" said Salem "Oh well, no choice but to do it the hard way." Grabbing dirt from the window garden she clumped it together and poured magic into it.
Seconds later wheat came out as she grabbed it and crushed it with her hands, throwing it into the pot.
"Now let's see, I think we need to add ..."
xxx Some Time Later xxx
"There it is sweetie, your first stew" the grim queen said as she looked at her daughter creation with pride.
The stew itself looked back with eyes pleading for death.
"Now let's add some pepper to it" as she began adding the pepper.
Only for the shaker's cap to fall, all the pepper falling into the stew as it screeched in pain.
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"Eh, I like my food spicy anyway" she waved off. "Now let's see how it taste."
Ignoring it's cries the spoon sizzled as the ... glop closed to her lips.
Only to hear Ozma's car coming into the driveway. "Oh your father is here, he can taste the meal for you sweetie."
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The grimm witch hugged her crying daughter as they finished the last of the eulogy for Ozpin's corpse. They soon began lowering the coffin into the ground as Port played the bagpipes.
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"I can't teach others how to cook" said Salem
"Jee, you think" Ozma/Oscar spoke, watching his body being lowered.