The clicking of a controller echoed throughout the castle. The Elder Grimm knew what this meant, but the younger did not. The Elder Grimm told the younger ones what it was; the Queen. At that, the younger ones fell silent, knowing when not to question about the Queen. The clicking of a controller continued echoing throughout the castle.
Until it was disturbed by the ringing of a message. Sighing, the Grimm Queen told her teammates, "Sorry guys, I have to take this call; leading an evil organization is never easy. Catch up with ya tomorrow?"
Their voices came over the headset, understanding of her predicament. They only thought that she joked with the evil organization thing, only thought that she led some other organization. They said their goodbyes to her, then the Grimm Queen logged off and opened the message, putting her headset and controller away quickly.
Leaning back in her chair, she quickly set up an illusion to show that she was in her royal garb, not just sweat pants and a shirt. Her hair was already done up in its usual style, so she had no need to disguise that. The call opened up and showed Doctor Watts.
"Watts. I hope everything has gone well in Vacuo?" she asked, her voice smooth, but deadly.
"Yes, everything has gone according to plan. I have taken nearly all of the underground with the virus, and it continues to spread." He hesitated, just a moment. "But, I have concerns."
"Concerns, Doctor Watts?" she asked, raising one eyebrow.
"Yes, the people here. They, they speak of someone who traveled across the desert without water or food. Twice. Once coming in, the second out. If someone could do this, could anyone else?"
"No." she answered simply. "The desert sands would kill them, if not the Grimm and bandits there. No need to worry about anyone coming through the desert."
His face relaxed, minutely, and he bowed. "Thank you, my Queen." The screen shut out.
The Grimm Queen slumped into her seat, letting the illusion fade. "Damn idiots," she muttered, "They hear about someone just crossing the desert and what do they think? 'Oh, no, our entire business is ruined, let's tell the queen!'" She snorted mockingly. "I seriously doubt that anyone would be stupid enough to willingly cross an entire desert all by themselves. And if someone does, I'll bake a cake!"
Across the world, a man sneezed violently, looking up. "Okay, someone just insulted me. Who was it?"
"Er, Silv, nobody insulted you," Kira said, looking at him weirdly.
Silver nodded knowingly, "Of course, nobody here insulted me."
Kira gathered breath to say something, then just let it go, exhaling softly. "Whatever, c'mon Silver, let's go find some seats."
"One thing, Kira. Why do you think Tom's giving us time off? I mean, like, things are heating up, but he's just letting us off work like this? It's not really like him."
Kira shrugged, making her way through the crowd with Silver, "I dunno. It's probably has something to do with the end of the world business and he's giving you time to set up for it while not being bogged down by work."
Silver thought about it, then shrugged, "Eh, fair enough. I always wondered why he wasn't madder about my after-night adventures than normal. Probably because the OME knows what's going on around Vale- or the entire world, really- more than most people."
"Probably," Kira agreed. Looking around, she quickly hopped the divide between the student section and the regular stands, while Silver just simply walked through it. She scrunched her nose up, glaring at him, "Show off," She muttered.
"No, not show off, just uncaring. Plus, this is just an illusion." He waved his hand through the barrier again. "It's not like I could just go with you, with Ironwood wanting to keep an eye on me."
"Yeah, why does he want to do that?"
"I may or may not have freaked them all out at the meeting last night." Silver answered abashedly.
"Silver!" Kira admonished.
"I'm sorry! I couldn't help myself and they needed a stern talking to!" he shouted, making sure that only Kira could hear him. Magic was fun like that.
Kira sighed. "Did you at least not have Ironwood get the virus on his Scroll?"
Getting out of his cowering position, Silver smirked at Kira, "Why don't you find out." and he faded from view.
Growling under her breath about mysterious and dramatic boyfriends, Kira stalked off to find her sister- and Team RWBY.
Opening his eyes from the illusion, Silver was still smirking. "Did you enjoy your nap, Silver?" a voice near him asked.
"No," Silver replied, looking towards the source, Professor Ozpin.
"Hmm. Unfortunate." He nodded.
"Yeah, it's like I can't get any rest around here." Silver raised his voice, making sure Ironwood heard him. Ironwood, only a few feet away, rolled his eyes. Silver sighed, and started stroking the raven's feathers, which was sitting on the armrest next to him. (Everybody in the room had elected to ignore it, as Silver said he wouldn't go in unless the raven came with him.)
Looking back outside, Silver watched as Port started announcing the start of the doubles matches. Down in the stands, in the student section, Kira watched intently with Jade, as well as Mike from across the stadium, as the randomizer started flipping through students. It finally landed on students. Port read them off, "Yatsuhashi Daichi and Coco Adel of Beacon, Versus Hydrangea Potter and Harry Potter of Shade!"
Jade, Mike, Kira, Ironwood, and Ozpin (and Qrow, but he won't admit it) all leaned back, letting out a sigh of relief. RWBY looked at Kira and Jade weird, but didn't say anything. Silver just smirked, still stroking Raven's head, and simply said, "Told ya so." Cinder looked at Mike, "Were you expecting something different?"
"No, but it seems that we're going along with the plan?"
"Of course, why wouldn't we?" Mike didn't say anything in response.
"He managed to do it," Kira muttered.
"I'm actually surprised, I didn't think he could do it," Jade muttered in reply.
"So what does this mean?" Ironwood asked Silver.
"It means that you saved us all, General. Congratulations." Silver stood up, Raven hopping onto his outstretched arm. He walked past them saying, "Of course, Cinder may have plans I have no idea about, but I doubt that they'll be as bad as what would've happened if she had access to your scroll." He stopped at the door, turning to look at Qrow. "Oh, and Qrow?" The drunkard looked up at him. Silver raised the arm that had Raven on it, "Your sister still hates you." And with that, he walked out of the room.
As soon as the room was out of sight, the raven on his arm flew off and transformed into a woman, "Okay, what the fuck was that for?" she asked.
Silver shrugged, "Your brother's really easy to aggravate, Raven."
"That's another thing, how do you know my name?" She demanded.
"I know many things, Chieftess Branwen, like how Ozpin managed to make you and your brother transform into birds. And how you abandoned your child after her birth."Silver shot a glare at Raven.
"It wasn't directly after," She defended, growling lightly.
"I didn't say directly after." Silver sighed. "Walk with me, Raven." She looked distrustfully at him, but followed anyway. "Did you know that she's looking for you? Yang, I mean." Raven nodded, she already knew this. "You showing yourself after beating Neo on the train only strengthened her resolve to find you."
"I know."
"Then why do you hide yourself from her? Is it cowardice? Fear? Shame? I may know people, but I do not claim to know them. So tell me, why do you hide?"
"I am not hiding."
"To you it may not, but to those of us on the outside, it is hiding. If Yang were to suddenly walk up this hallway, what would you do?" Raven didn't respond. Silver nodded. "That is answer enough. When Salem's agents come looking for you- the Maiden- Fight them. Do not submit, Raven. You are a strong-willed person." Silver took a gamble, "Summer might've been disappointed at what you've become."
Raven stopped in shock, staring at Silver, who continued walking down the hallway. By the time she shook herself out of her memories, he was already gone. Quickly looking around, she transformed into her raven form and flew out of there, the things Silver said ringing about her mind, no matter how much she tried to ignore them.
As soon as Silver was sure he was out of her sight, he slumped against a wall, breathing heavily. "Holy hekk, that was intense." Taking a few more deep breaths to center himself, he got off the wall and back on his way towards the exit of the VIP areas.
Kira sat dumbfounded as she watched Coco and Yatsuhashi decimate the Potters. She still couldn't believe it. Silver had actually managed to stop Cinder from gaining control over Ironwood's Scroll. Maybe it was the threat of destruction and decimation of the world that made him not do it. Either way, she was just happy that he hadn't managed to allow Cinder access.
Mike, on the other hand, was annoyed. It wasn't how Canon was supposed to go. Cinder was supposed to have had access to Ironwood's scroll by now. He was counting on Canon to go as normal, not this! His plans were now thrown out of whack, he now had to find some way to get Cinder's access to the Vytal tournament so that she could spread fear and fell Beacon. It needed to happen. For everyone's sake.
/casually enters in OCs from another book
Get ready for insanity. it's coming the next chapter.