List of oneshots part 4
chapter 53
What if Salem was Pyrrha's mom and found out later about her involvement in the Fall of Beacon aka was kinda pissed?
Series: RWBY
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-Remnant, Grimmlands, Evernight castle-
It was a calm day in the bleak and semi desolate castle as tall woman with deathly pallor skin, dark purple veins on her face and arms, bleached pale white hair styled in a half up-done bun that was large in the back and had six offshoots wrapped by obsidian ornaments on either side of her head, jet black sclerae eyes, glowing crimson irises, a black diamond-shaped marking on her forehead, a G cup chest and wide ass, long jet-black nails, wearing a very long short-sleeved black robe that obscures her feet and partially drags across the ground, a curved high collar with dark red trim bordering the outer edge of a narrow window exposing her bust in a vertical ellipsis resembling an eye, a long shawl emblazoned with three interconnected maroon-colored vertical elliptic sigils resembling a trio of overseeing eyes above a series of maroon-colored diamond emblems, and a black beetle shaped ring on her right middle finger, sat on her throne, watching as her lackies, Cinder and Arthur were busy making the final preparations for the invasion of Vale.
However, she wasn't interested in the conversation at all, because...she was hiding some rather depressing information that really made her seem more human.
This secret? She has a daughter, yes she did and can have children but it wasn't a known fact in her cabal due to having her in secret. It was a few years ago and she traveled into Anima and then into a quiet quaint city known as Argus, in disguise mind you as it would be stupid to go itno a city and look like a Creature of Grimm. Anyway, she met a man, they had some fun, she got pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, but unfortunately the father died due to her magic lashing out in childbirth and well...she saw potential in the girl so raised her away from the Grimmlands so that she could eventually become her own person.
This went on for a while until her daughter wanted to become a Huntress, which surprised her greatly and she did forbay it but eventually she agreed due to her stubborn nature, a trait taken by her mother. For four long years she watched as her daughter won contests of strength in Mistral and soon became a celebrity...which made her a little happy but as she was busy with her plans of destroying humanity and the gods, she really didn't check up as much as she liked and...that's where we are currently at.
'Sigh.' she thought with a sad expression. 'Maybe I should've made the effort to at least check on her. Sigh, by the gods. Raising a teenage princess is so complicated at times.'
"And that's how the virus works." Arthur said calmly.
"Perfectly boring as always." Cinder rolled her eyes. "It's almost as boring as hearing Valian rumors. Like the one with that Nikos girl."
Salem's head perked up, getting her attention. "What was that Cinder?"
She turned to her mistress with a raised eyebrow. "It's a rumor, nothing more."
"Just humor me." she said with a low growl in her tone.
Cinder gulped. "I-It's just a rumor about Pyrrha Nikos, the Invisible Girl. From the cesspool of gossip, the Huntress In Training is in Beacon and-"
"And what?" Salem interrupted quickly before catching herself. "Ahem, continue." 'Beacon? Huh, I thought she would attend Haven or Atlas, given her status.'
"...well. It's nothing too major to the plan but apparently Nikos has taken up a lover in Beacon. A team leader of the first years."
CRACK!
And like that, Salem crushed the right edge of her throne with one hand, the purple shards falling to the ground as the immortal seemed...tense for some reason.
"I see. And would you happen to KNOW anymore than that?"
Cinder gulped while Arthur backed away slowly. "Um...I actually don't know, Valian rumors are notorious for not adding certain details."
"I see." she frowned while in her mind she started to think back to a single moment in her life that actually screwed her over.
The death of her four daughters by not only her hands, but Ozma's hands.
'I will NOT let that mistake occur again! My daughter will not have a lover that I DON'T approve of! Especially a Hunter from Beacon of all places!' she thought while her dark aura seemed to rise and fall like serpentine waves of power. "Both of you continue what you're doing, I have other matters to attend to."
Both gulped while seeing Salem walking off, her mood seemily angrier than normal.
(Later)
Salem frowned while walking deeper into the Grimmlands, looking for a very specific Grimm to utilize for her trip.
And what trip would that be you maybe asking? Simple, to Vale for some 'sightseeing'.
She looked around before seeing a rather large Griffon cleaning it's feathers before snapping her fingers and making it stand in attention. "Bring me to Vale, Beacon Academy to be exact. I have business there that must be done post haste."
The Grimm lowered its body and let Salem climb on before taking flight off.
Salem looked on as the Grimm continued to fly out of her domain, her mind thinking of her daughter and her own wellbeing. 'Don't worry my child, mother is coming.'
(Elsewhere)
-Sanus, Vale, Beacon Academy-
The sun shone on the pinnacle of hope in Vale as the Griffon landed a few miles away from the school and allowed Salem to jump off as it flew away.
'Such greenery. I really need to figure out a way to replicate this back hom-NO! No time for ideas, your daughter is in need of your aid.' she thought before looking over herself. 'Although...seeing a humanoid 'Grimm' might send out the wrong message, especially when only my daughter and Ozma know of my existence.'
The immortal looked around before snapping her fingers, causing a white fog to cover her as a tall pale skinned woman with short shoulder length red hair, green eyes, brown rectangular glasses, a E cup chest and wide ass, wearing a brown long sleeved jacket, tan short sleeved vest, white shirt, red ribbon tired at the collar, a short red plaid skirt, thigh high stockings that seem to tear near the hips, black high heeled shoes, and had a single silver ring on her right ring finger in the shape of a eye, took her place.
"...huh." she said in a more youthful voice. "It's been a while since I chose this form, like a few weeks or so." she looked at her hair and grumbled. "Still wish I was blonde again."
The Griffon tilted its head.
"Go ahead and fly off, I'll call you if I need a quick escape, just in case." She said as the Griffon flew off, this time for real as the woman sighed. "Welp, time to walk in high heels...ugh." 'Hate them!'
(Later)
The students blinked as a new student walked down the halls, looking like a MILF in cosplay to some and a very cute woman to others, as said woman looked around feverishly for something or someone.
'Where is she, where is she? It can't be that hard to find someone with red hair around here.' She thought while feeling like she was in enemy territory, which she was, although she also felt a little agitated that there were people staring at her like wolves. 'Gods damn it! Why did it have to be a school of honry teenagers!?'
"Hey, who's the new girl?"
"Don't know, pretty hot though."
"Maybe she's Mistralian?"
"Or maybe a Varcoian maiden?"
The woman looked around before seeing a slightly opened door and peeking inside.
Which revealed Pyrrha Nikos giving a hug to a blonde boy.
'Oh no!' the woman thought in shock. 'The rumors were true...she has a lover!'
"I'll see you after practice." Pyrrha smiled while walking to the door. "Don't forget to finish your homework."
"I know Pyrrha." he smiled. "Later."
As the girl walked out of the room, she didn't notice the older woman hidden behind the door until-
BAM!
She got hit by the door by Pyrrha.
"OW!" She cried out as Pyrrha walked away, the door moving a little away from her face as she rubbed her nose. 'Damn it!'
The woman groaned before looking around and slunk inside the room, locking it behind her as she discreetly locked the windows shut with her magic, the boy facing a small desk and not seeing her behind him.
'Ok, what to do first. Homework or comics?' he thought while the woman glared at him.
'I'm going to make this child wish he was never born.' She thought before moving closer to him and hit his neck with her right hand, knocking him out.
(Later)
Jaune groaned while waking up from a daze, only to notice the room was dark, he was tied to the chair by bed sheets, and a very pissed off woman was glaring at him with hate.
"Good to see you're awake." She said with a cold tone.
"Huh...what?"
She moved closer and gripped his cheeks tightly. "To the point, I know what you did to Pyrrha Nikos, and frankly I want nothing more than to gut you like a fish. But if I do that then I can't obtain the knowledge I seek."
Jaune paled as the woman moved back.
"I shall obtain the knowledge one way or another." She cracked her knuckles. "Now, what is your relationship with Nikos?"
"W-What are you talking about? What did I do to Pyrrha?"
"Don't play games with me boy!" She growled while looking tempted to slap him. "I know what you did to her, after all you are a teenaged boy with rabid hormones."
Jaune looked utterly confused while the woman began to ramble a little.
"Did you think living with her would somehow earn you brownie points? Well? Did it?! Because from what I see, you're nothing but a horny bastard wanting to jump on the nearest thing that moves!"
"What are you talking about?!" he cried out. "She's a friend! That's it!"
SLAP!
And cue him getting slapped hard in the face.
"Friend?! That's rich because from what I heard, you're not her friend! You're her leader and you somehow took it too far!" She growled while placing her fingers down near his chin and pushed him up as the door opened and Pyrrha Nikos walked in. "Tell me your relationship with Nikos or I swear to the infernal gods that I will-"
"JAUNE!"
"Pyrrha! Help!" Jaune cried out while the woman flitched.
'Oh no.'
Pyrrha narrowed her eyes before gasping. "M-Mother?!"
"..." 'This wasn't in the plan! Damn it I should've checked the locks!'
"Mother?!" Jaune let out with wide eyes.
The woman sighed. "Pyrrha dear, please leave. I have some adult things to do right now."
"What are you doing to Jaune?! And, why are you even here?!" Pyrrha yelled in anger as the woman shook her head and turned to her.
"Interrogating him, after all he had the gall of pursuing you in a...distrustful way." she frowned. "I only came to make sure he never harmed you ever again."
"Mother! Jaune hasn't done anything like that! He's my partner!"
She narrowed her eyes at that. "I see...more the reason to remind him of the consequences of being close to you, my only daughter."
"He's part of our team! W-We're not like that!"
The woman moved closer to Jaune's neck and began to squeeze. "I'm sorry my child, but as matriarch of the Nikos line, I can not take your biased word for it at face value. I need to hear it from him, or." she squeezed tightly on the neck, making Pyrrha's hands race towards her weapons. "Have him face the consequences of his own actions, while I, Thetis Nikos, end this perverted Hunter here and now."
"Let him go mother, NOW!" Pyrrha growled as Thetis kept on squeezing.
"Not until he begs for his life." she frowned before seeing Pyrrha charge at her in a blind fury, making her move back as Jaune gasped for air. "Quit having a childish temper tantrum and let me do my job."
"What? Let you sneak in here, tie my friend to a chair, and threaten his life?! I'm not the child here!" Pyrrha snapped.
"Um…" Jaune got out while trying to breathe a little. "Miss...Thetis...could we...talk about this?"
Thetis glared at him and kicked the chair, with him in it still, and sent it flying towards the nearby wall. "SHUT UP HOMEWRECKER!"
Crash!
"Ow..."
"That's it!" Pyrrha ran and tackled Thetis into the wall with a scowl. "GET OUT!"
"NO!" She growled before headbutting Pyrrha, hard to draw blood, and pushed her right out of the room.
CRASH!
Right through the door as several students ran for cover.
"I will not leave until I spank you for your insolence!" she rolled up her sleeves while Pyrrha got up and ignored the blood, feeling her adrenaline pumping now.
The champion of Mistral roared before using her semblance to lift several doors out of their hinges and threw them at Thetis, which she dodged surprisingly, and blocked Pyrrha's shield with her arms.
Thetis frowned before grabbing the shield and pulled Pyrrha towards her, punching her square in the face as the redhead went flying down the hallway, right into Team RWBY in the process.
BAM!
"AYI!" Ruby cried out while getting a bloody nose from Pyrrha's armored corset.
"Get over here you little brat!" Thetis growled while running towards her daughter. "So I can knock some discipline into that empty head of yours!"
"The only one needing discipline is you!" Pyrrha growled before grabbing Yang with her semblance and threw her at her mother.
"Ah! P-Money!?"
She frowned as she grabbed Yang, pulled Ember Celica from her wrists, and began to use them like her own weapons. "I might be rusty with firearms but I will make an exception on my idiot daughter!"
BAM!
BAM!
BAM!
BAM!
Pyrrha blocked the bullets with her shield as Blake, Weiss and Ruby ran to Yang's aid. "You will pay for hurting Jaune!"
"He was the one that wanted to hurt you! Why can't you see that!?"
"He didn't do anything you psycho!"
"Psycho!?" she snapped while running at Pyrrha, pushing her down the hallway in the process, before making her crash into a window, shattering the glass. "I am trying to keep you from making the same mistake as I did!"
Pyrrha growled as the shards pierced her skin as she tried to push her mother off, but found she was pinned to the edge of said window, the second story window to be exact.
"Give up, I taught you everything I know." she frowned while not seeing Pyrrha using her semblance to move Ember Celica near her face.
POW!
"AH!" Thetis cried out while getting bashed in the nose by her stolen weapons, making her move back a little to let Pyrrha stand up.
"You didn't teach me everything, mother!" she growled before slamming her knee into Thetis' gut, knocking the wind out of her before grabbing her by the front and straight up hurled her out the window.
Thetis went wide eyed before quickly grabbing the ledge and used the momentum of her fall to kick the walls outside and boomerang back inside the hallway, kicking Pyrrha right in the face and making her stagger a little before getting grabbed by the neck.
"Ah!"
"You are too early to defeat me." she frowned before throwing her against a door and placed her head against the inside of the room. "Now, stop this relationship with the boy or I will get serious, starting now."
"Never."
CRUNCH!
"AH!" Pyrrha cried out while getting the door right to her face, her head groaning from the collision as Thetis got ready to slam the door back onto her daughter's head, not seeing that Jaune was now untied and running towards Thetis.
"End you relationship with him or else I-"
"STOP!"
Thetis turned around and saw Jaune tackling her to the ground, letting go of the door in the process, only for her to kick Jaune towards the window and causing him to hang on for dear life.
"Ah! Pyrrha!" he cried out while his grip began to weaken, the redhead quickly getting up despite the pain and ran towards him.
"Jaune hang on!" she cried out while trying to grab him.
Slip!
Only for Jaune's grip to give out as he fell right down to the ground floor.
SHATTER!
CRACK!
Causing him to break his aura and his right arm in the process.
"JAUNE!" Pyrrha screamed in horror before running towards the nearest stairs, not seeing Thetis getting up and moved towards the window.
'Damn child. Getting in the way of a family matter.' She groaned while cracking her neck. 'No matter, I will finish what I started….wait. Where's Pyrrha?'
That was when she looked out the window and saw her daughter running towards the boy and bent down to hold him in her arms.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha cried out as Jaune was currently knocked out cold from the impact. "Oh no, hold on! I'll get you help right away!"
Thetis looked down as a certain memory came rushing back into her mind.
That being her, in her original human form, cradling her former love, alive again by the God of Darkness, as he slowly turned back to dust.
'...what have I done?' Thetis thought in horrified realization. 'I….I just acted like the gods I despised...I...I hurt my own flesh and blood….'
"Jaune! Stay with me! Please!" Pyrrha cried out as her mother watched on from afar. "Please stay with me!"
(A bit later)
Pyrrha sniffled while currently resting her head on Jaune's bed, the boy still out cold in the nurse's office, as she felt like a part of her world shattered before her eyes.
It also didn't help that her team, having heard of this, rushed over along with Team RWBY to make sure their leader was ok...although seeing Pyrrha in this state made them wary of disturbing her.
"Jaune…"
Knock knock.
Nora looked at the door and opened it, revealing Thetis who seemed a little more calmer than normal but still melancholy. "Yes?"
"I came to see my daughter and her….friend."
"She's not in the mood right now."
"I insist." she sighed. "I'm a doctor by trade. At least….let me see if the boy's ok."
"I don't think she's in the mood." Ren said before seeing Thetis walking in, unannounced, moved past the two teams and placed a hand on the boy's head.
"...his aura is recovering fast. He will be fine by tomorrow, but the broken arm will last a month at most." she said sadly, making Pyrrha glare at her. "I know, it was my fault but I only tried to help you."
"Help? HELP!?" Pyrrha snapped in rage. "All you did was storm in here and attack him for NO REASON! We didn't do anything, but all you did was listen to yourself and not the facts!"
"Sigh. Look, I came here because of a rumor."
"What rumor?"
"...that you and the boy were….more than partners."
"...what? We are more than partners, we are friends, family!"
"Wait, I didn't mean that-"
"SHUT UP!" she snapped. "Just shut up and get out of here!"
Thetis sighed before her hand glowed a dull yellow color as she placed the hand on Jaune's right arm. "I will leave, after I help your...partner."
Jaune groaned as the arm started to mend itself, every ripped fiber and broken bone shard returning to their proper places, the boy's eyes slowly opening in the process. "Mm...P...yrrha?"
"Jaune!" Pyrrha cried out before hugging the boy tightly, Thetis moving back and watching the tender moment play out. "Oh thank the gods you're alright!"
"Ah! P-Pyrrha!"
"I was so worried!" She cried out while sniffling a little, tears dripping down her cheeks.
Jaune blinked in surprise while seeing his team and Team RWBY looking at him with equally worried or relieved faces.
"Pyrrha." Thetis said sadly. "I never meant for this-"
"Get out." Pyrrha growled.
"Pyrrha?" Jaune said with a worried look on his face.
"Get out mother. Now."
"..."
"Pyrrha, I already forgave her." Jaune said while Pyrrha looked at him in shock. "I was sort of in and out of consciousness but I did hear why she attacked me and...I would've done the same if someone made a rumor of my sisters."
"But Jaune, she slapped you, tied you up and tried to choke you!"
"Honestly? That's tame compared to some of the stuff my mom's said she'd do to any boyfriends my sister's got with who treated them badly."
Thetis slowly turned around, looking at Ruby for a brief second, before walking to the door. "I will leave. But Pyrrha….the rumor wasn't about you and the boy being family...it was something else entirely."
"And that would be?" Jaune asked as Thetis sighed.
"It was that...you and my daughter were lovers." she said before closing the door. 'Goodbye...my little warrior.'
Everyone's eyes widened, Nora's jaw dropping.
Creak.
"One more thing." Thetis said with a semi stern tone. "No sexural acts before marrage."
Creak.
And like that, she left.
"..."
"..."
"Wow." Nora said in surprise. "Arkos Ship is real….yes! Ren, let's get the wedding prepared! Right now!"
"Ok." Ren nodded while Pyrrha and Jaune jaw dropped at their team's nonchalance to that revelation.
"What?!" both cried out as Weiss shrugged.
"Welp, the dolt got a girlfriend to woo. I have no problem with it."
"I ship it!" Ruby smiled.
"Same here." Yang said while giving a thumbs up. "Vomit Boy and P-Money are cute together anyway. But don't forget to let us come to the wedding."
"Save some fish." Blake said while Pyrrha and Jaune fainted from embarrassment.
"Too much?" Nora asked.
"Yep." Blake deadpanned.
"Oops."
(Months later)
-Vale, Beacon Tower-
"Do you believe in destiny?" Cinder smirked while getting ready to kill Pyrrha Nikos with her bow, eager to have the Fall Maiden powers at her command.
"...yes, but destiny will never favor you!" she spat with a glare.
Cinder frowned before stabbing her in the heart with an arrow, the energy of the Maiden leaving her lifeless body. 'Yes! It's al-'
RUMBLE RUMBLE!
The woman looked confused as the sky became blood red and the earth began to quake.
RUMBLE RUMBLE!
And lo from the distance, a galaxy sized tornado of black flames rushed towards the tower and took the form of Salem, her eyes stained with black tears and her arms wrapping around the girl's body.
"No! NO NO No! My daughter! My little warrior!" She screamed in anguish as the tears began to stain the girl's skin with acidic taint. "NO!"
Pyrrha's eyes slowly closed as Salem felt the girl go completely still.
"No…..not again…" she cried while Cinder, with total disregard for the atmosphere, used her Grimm implant to steal the Fall Maiden's power.
'It's all….wait. Did she just say….daughter?' She thought before realizing her mistake.
Salem gripped the body tightly before glaring at her former lackey with hate. "What. Have. You. DONE!"
"M-My mistress, it was an honest mistake!"
"You killed my daughter! You killed the only thing holding me back from ending humanity! And for what?! Glory? Power?!" She snapped while her eyes glowed crimson red. "You have failed me for the last time, Cinder Fall!"
"B-But the maiden's powers! That's why you sent me here!"
"Yes but my daughter had nothing to do with my plans!" She stood up as the Grimm all over the city began to ignore their targets and move towards the school. "And you killed her! And for that, you shall die on this day! Spawn of the Gods, rip HER APART!"
Cinder screamed in pain as the beetle Grimm began to crawl out of her right palm and fly away, leaving her without the power of the Fall Maiden as the Wyvern roared at her face.
From every direction came the roars and cries of Griffons, Ursas, Creeps, Goliaths, Nevermores and thousands more as they moved towards the former false maiden.
"Please mistress! I-" she tried to say before a Griffon charged at her and tried to claw her eyes out, only to dodge it as more Griffons and Nevermores swooped down towards her.
"CAW!"
"CAW!"
"Mistress please! Give me another chance!" She yelled while the draconic Wyvern spewed fire at her.
Salem watched on with hatred in her eyes as she held the body of her daughter in her arms, the beetle Grimm landing on the corpse's forehead. "Save your breath, you can be ripped to shreds for all I care."
Cinder's eyes widened as the Grimm continued to attack her, overwhelming her as Ruby rushed towards the tower and-
RIP!
CRUNCH!
Saw Cinder getting turned into burger patty as the older immortal looked at her daughter sadly.
"My little warrior….I will not lose you, not this time." She said while the beetle Grimm crawled into her daughter's mouth and she turned to Ruby. "Silver Eyes, tell this child's partner that death will not have this warrior. Tell him, Pyrrha Nikos shall come, for blood."
Ruby looked confused as the woman turned into flames and vanished, leaving only Pyrrha's weapons, now slagged by heat, resting on the ground. "...eh?!"
(Later)
-Grimmlands, Evermore Castle-
Hazel and Tyrian looked at each other with contempt as Salem appeared in the middle of them, holding the body of a teenage girl in her hands.
"My godd-"
"Shut up." Salem interrupted while glaring at the faunus. "I have no time for your antics. Hazel, hold her and follow me to the pools, now!"
"Yes ma'am." he nodded before gently picking up Pyrrha's body and followed Salem out of the room. "But why bring a copse here?"
"She's my daughter and I want her here for a special procedure." She said coldly. "The same method that turned me into a monster."
"You mean…."
"Yes." She said while moving outside the castle and towards a large pool of black ooze. "Turn her into a Grimm."
"Will she come out the same way?"
"She will." Salem said before stopping at the banks of the pool. "Throw her in."
Hazel looked hesitant while looking at the body.
"Drop her in before I throw you in as well." She said with a dark growl.
"Yes ma'am." he spoke before dropping Pyrrha's body in.
SPLASH!
The ooze bubbled as Salem watched on with a frown.
'I lost four children but Ozma went too far this time. Giving her the Maiden's powers and letting that traitor kill my daughter.' She frowned as the ooze began to glow purple. 'But no more. I will strike now, destroy all and let it all burn. But not before I bring my daughter back, not as a human.'
Splash!
A clawed ivory hand bursted from the ooze as Salem smirked.
'But as a Grimm, one that will show Ozma the meaning of fear.' She thought as the screen went black. 'Oh Ozma, you really fucked up this time.'
To be continued?