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"...The attack was ultimately thwarted by a Vale Huntsman and students of Beacon Academy, members of a militia from Menagerie, and the Mistral Police department. The former two were visiting the school before the attack began. Councilor Elliot confirmed the latter two were apart of a 'Collaboration with the Menagerie Guard in counter-terrorist activities' and that Menagerie Guard is here to stay. A White Fang defectionist movement was there in force and has since been allowed to walk away. Polls currently show a 47% support rating for the Council's decisions, with 39% saying they were strongly against it. Of those remaining, 14% claimed they did not know or had no opinion."

"The body of a former student of Haven Mercury Black at the scene has raised many questions to how he and most of his team got there and whether Wiess Schnee really killed him at the Vytal Festival. An investigation is ongoing to determine the truth, Weiss Schnee calmed she was here to bring aid from the SDC to Haven thoughts on the heiress at this time have grown increasingly with confusion. Her sister Winter Schnee provided 'no comment '. In addition to the casualties, Headmaster Leonardo Lionheart was found dead in his office, reports say he fell in the defense of his school. Although the fighting has subsided the Council has locked down both Haven Academy and an entire city block until a clean up can be done."

"Opinions on the Faunus and SDC are confused but Tensions against the Atlas military prescience in Argus is still rising even as talks between two for renewed trade had begun-"

Blake switched off her scroll with a faint smile. People were letting them in, sure it was probably on the principle of enemy of my enemy, but it gave her hope.

Hope that this could be a new beginning for the Whtie Fang, a new brotherhood, once they dealt with the more violent members of the Menagerie Guard. They were still upset about Menagerie but no need to get so bloodthirsty.

"To think all this stuff started with Jaune getting drunk in a bar right here in the city."

It was weird to think about, one small lapse in judgment and all this happened. How could it have gone differently?

Would Blake even be here today?

She'd probably still have her ear.

A hand came up to trace along the wound, Blake had been bloodthirsty for vengeance. She still held a bit of a grudge for it, or was it over Ilia? Adam? Making fun of her? It was honestly hard for Blake to tell anymore, what was she really angry about?

She probably wouldn't be answering any of those soon. The White Fang still needed to be taken care of, and Blake would there. She had a job to do now, and all those deaths wouldn't be for anything.


Sienna sat upright in the bed shifting the baby in her arms, the little guy snuggled into Ruby's cloak, the hood especially had made the perfect blanket. "They're going to be disorganized with both their leaders gone, but won't just give up."

"I know Sienna, I'm aware of the opposition the White Fang still poses." Ghira sighed. "I suspect their actions to be more sporadic acts of violence, still I have the support of the Mistral council to hunt them down."

It was probably more of Ghira being a less extreme Faunus than anything else. The council here now cares for what Ghira has to say because he talks and they rather deal with that than the guys who start shooting.

"Lady Kahn, what do we do now?"

Her head turned to the seven remaining members of Khan's Claws, everybody else was either dead, in a hospital, or wounded beyond the hope of helping again.

"You've all stayed loyal for over two years now, I can't express how thankful I am... but this is where I stop fighting." Everyone looked at Sienna like she was crazy.

"There isn't anything we can do... Ghira is taking over the cause and will lead our people." She nodded at him. "Do what you want I'm done fighting."

There was a moment of silence, the seven all exchanged looks before dropping their masks and quietly exiting the room.

"I wasn't expecting that..."

"I don't have anything left Ghira, the White Fang is still out there and people are going to see it as my way started all this. Whatever our people's future is, your the one who's going to have the most say in it." Sienna stood and shifted the baby in her arms to show his sleeping form to Ghira. "Don't screw this up again." She hissed.

"I don't plan to."


Jaune stood across from Qrow. Neither had time to talk with the other for the past day, Jaune dealing with his newborn son had been the task and Qrow was busy doing something Headmaster Ozpin who was now inside of some kid named Ozpin. Also magic existed and there was a Queen of the Grimm named Salem. Sienna knew so Jaune had the right to as well.

Now the old friends had time to talk.

"So-"

"I-"

"You first."

"You first."

"..."

"This is weird." Jaune thought then asked. "How did you get back?"

"I just popped up in the middle of the woods," Qrow said. "It was nearest Ruby and she needed help, not sure how it happened, what about you?"

"Splashed right into the middle of the ocean near a ship Blake was in."

"The cat girl with half her ear missing right?"

Jaune nodded.

"Hm, well that's fortunate."

"Yup."

"Alright," Qrow began. "I don't how I got back and you don't either. I'm still not sure if this is just the afterlife cutting me some slack and handing me a reality I like but isn't real, but I'd say we shouldn't look the gift horse too closely in the mouth."

"Yeah, that sounds good."

They stood there for a moment, really what should Jaune say?

"...So you're a father now, what's the kid's name?"

"We haven't decided yet but I was thinking Adam."

"Good name..."

"It's good to see you again, Qrow."

"Likewise, Jaune. Likewise."

"...Well better check in with my Nices see how they're doing." Qrow make his way down to the living room.

"Yeah, I better call my parents." Jaune reached for his scroll but was interrupted by a Nora.

"Jaune!" She jumped seemingly from nowhere. "I didn't wanna butt in before, you seemed reaaaaly busy but can we please talk about the whole me being the godmother thing?" Nora zipped up to his face. "Like you never truly said I could be the godmother but really who else would you pick?"

"Um, well I guess...?"

"So can I be the Godmother!?"

"Sure why not."

"Yes!" Nora pumped her fist. "I gotta tell Renny! Bye Jaune-Jaune!" She zipped away again.

Jaune shook his head at Nora's antics. "It's so good to be back."


"You want me to call Tai?" Qrow asked taking a sip from his flask on the couch of their new rental home. "Why? If you two wanna talk to him just give the guy a call."

Ruby fidgeted. "We kinda ran away from and took a bunch of dad's rainy day savings..."

"...How much?"

"Like all of his savings," Yang replied. "He's not gonna be happy when we call him."

"...Well, I should let him know I'm still alive." Qrow fish out his scroll and opened up a video call.

"Alright, you fucker just who are you and how did get this scroll?"

"Tai its Qrow, I'm not dead-"

"You think this is funny!?" He cried. "When I figure out where you're at I'm going to beat the shit out of-"

"During our third year at Beacon, I told you that dyeing your hair black and getting a Katana would impress Raven."

"...Qrow... is that you...?"

"That's what I said."

"By the gods where the hell have you been! We all thought you died, I just had a tombstone put next to Summers!"

"How was my funeral?"

"It was short, only Oobleck and Port showed up."

"Ouch," It really shouldn't surprise him, Qrow never did make many friends here. "I'm here in the City of Mistral right now."

"Mistral? If your there I need you to look for Ruby and Yang they-"

"Ran away from home and took all of your savings." Qrow finish for him. "I got them right here, in fact, they wanted me to call you."

"Could you, um, hand me over to them."

"Sure." Qrow ignored the frantic waving the two girls gave him and tossed his scroll. They had to face the music at some point so why not now? Ruby caught and cautiously looked into the scroll's camera like she was about to cut a wire on a bomb.

"H-Hey dad, how's the weather in Patch?"

"RUBY! YANG!"

"Brothers almighty." Qrow just had to shield his ears from the sheer inhuman volume Taiyang screamed at.

"It's one thing to run away but HOW DARE YOU STEAL FROM ME! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO AMASS ALL THAT LIEN?!" Tai snarled. "When I get my hands on you two I'll ground you girls until your older then Ozpin was!"

"Yang did it!" Ruby cried and even pointed an accusing finger at her sister.

"YANG!"

"No, no, no, no, no, no!" She waved her hands frantically in front of herself in denial. "I was Ruby's idea I swear! Look we didn't even spend all the Lien, here!" Yang pulled out a huge wad from her back pocket. "See, it was just the boat and some snacks here and there, it's not like we spent it all."

There was a calming silence, as heavy breaths came through the speaker.

"Okay, how much did you still have collectively?"

"Ruby let me see yours," Yang asked and the little reaper stilled. "Ruby...?"

"Uh..." She laughed nervously. "Well, you see, the thing about that is..."

"Ruby Rose, where is all that Lien you took."

"What if I... kinda... used it all...?"

"..."

"..."

"...Your butt..."

"Dad?"

"Is going to be redder than your CLOCK WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU-" The call abruptly cut out.

"I can't tell if Tai ended it or just broke his scroll from sheer anger." Qrow thought as Jaune walked in.

"Uh, hey guys just thought I'd tell everybody I'm going back home with Sienna tomorrow-"

"Can we come?!" Yang cried.

"Well, maybe I'd have to ask my parents-"

"Please check!" Ruby cried.

"Okay, I'll see later."

"Please now!" They cried in unison.


The vault door closed behind Raven as the powers of the maiden left it, wasting no time she held out the relic of knowledge to Qrow.

"Why even give to me Ray?" Qrow asked. "If you had it the relic could benefit the tribe, going soft on me now?" Teasing or not Qrow had to be cautious, the tribe mattered to Raven more than their team or siblinghood ever did. The love she showed above couldn't just change that.

"If I take the relic then Salem will have two incentives to attack the tribe and leaving it in the vault just makes me the bigger target. Giving it to you will protect the tribe better than having it." She rationalized.

"Letting me have it won't keep me safe."

"I will watch Qrow if any danger comes within you or any of those girls I'll be there in a heartbeat," Raven said with a protective hint in her tone. "Besides you already have a massive target on your back, no real danger in making it bigger."

"Watching me Ray?"

"You're my idiot brother Qrow, it's the duty of the smarter sibling to protect the dim-witted one."

"I thought the weak died and the strong lived?"

"Shut it Qrow!" She snarled. "You've been, let's say spiritually taxing to me over the years but you are still a Branwen, my brother!"

"Whoa! Easy! Easy!" Qrow back away when Raven looked to be rearing her fist back, getting punched by a pissed off Maiden was one of the things Qrow liked to avoid. "I'm just... not used to this. I love that we're still family it just seems like this came outta nowhere."

Raven's eyes burned out. "Yeah, I see what you mean."

Qrow accepted the lantern and locked it to his belt.

"Yang would love to see you."

Raven sighed. "No she wouldn't Qrow,"

"That's what I meant when I called you dim-witted." She muttered.

"I made a mistake, Yang got a new mother. A better one, and going back is just going to complicate things."

"Just keep her happy Qrow."


"That's it Oz," Qrow finished. "That was everything we said before I got the relic."

"Raven gave up one of the most powerful tools in the world but her logic behind it is sound." Ozpin thought.

"Very well, I see no reason to pursue Raven, for now at least, if she has no interest in locking the relic back or joining us it would be a waste to go after her."

"Yeah, she made her stance against Salem petty clear last night." Qrow added. "So what do we do with this thing now?" He gestured to the floating lamp on the table.

"We can't take it Atlas, the situation there grows dire every day, the two remaining maidens remain unaccounted for so locking it into another vault isn't possible, Vacuo seems like our best bet to protect it. Beach is still too damaged."

"Well before we go moseying off to the ass of Remnant I'm going with my Nieces to Jaune's family home."

"What?"

"Just want to make sure they get there fine, things are still unsafe for travel these days."

"We have a job to do Qrow, and the longer we linger the more at risk we come to attack." Ozpin said sternly.

"I have an obligation to family Oz, and besides Salem just lost a lot of people."

Ozpin, seeing there was no convincing him, sighed. "Very well, I guess a little sidetrack couldn't hurt."

"Salem has lost many of her followers it would be fool hearty to throw any more at us now. Yes, there is no current risk... for now."


"Tyrian failed. Cinder failed, Hazel failed, Leo failed, and Jaune has returned to the fray." She had placed small Grimm in the area to monitor the situation and saw almost everything.

Jaune didn't even have his family sword, because Salem had it in her hand. The blade pulled free of for the tenth time that day as if she even needed more proof this was her Jaune and Qrow. She needed a Nevermore, everyone had failed her and Watts wasn't going to be a miracle.

"If I want our reunion done right, I should do it myself."


The White Fang is not just gone it's fractured beyond repair but still a threat to Mistral, not going to be a recurring problem for Sienna and Jaune anymore but it's remaining members, as weak and inexperience I've been trying to make them out to be not just going to shrug their shoulders and fuck off. Ghira probably has to help root them because of Mistral's centric view on Atlas. In fact, it should even be beneficial to the Faunus image as a whole. Wanted to be clear on that, I won't be showing much of it most of what's coming next is going to be Sienna and Jaune with tidbits of setting up the time travel thing. But mostly just Sienna and Jaune interactions. This chapter was just tying a few things up.