Don't Own Rwby, Only The Oc

'thought'

"Speech"

"Powerful Creatures Speaking, like a dragon or a god"

"Tvs, Radios, and Text via book or newspaper... when those are around..."

(Mid Chapter Authors Notes)


I let out a happy cheer as I fly through the air and land with a slight crouch.

"Come on Neo!" I grin over my shoulder as stand up to my full height.

It has been about two months since I woke up... and well, last week Neo's dayheart was completed so she can finally explore the island, she seems happy to finally be outside, not as happy as I was of course, considering I had been forced to stay inside for most of my life until about a year ago, but she, as someone who regularly went outside, was forced to say inside during these three long months, so it probably waned on her sanity just a bit.

She lands beside me with a small grin and stretches. "So, where are we going today, Sean?"

"Weeelll... that's a good question... where do you want to go, Neo?"

Neo has gotten so much stronger than she used to be, not including vampiric strength, speed, and regeneration, she has this strange affinity for illusions and at this point can make several at the same time without much effort... only images though, she can do a bit of sound as well, but it takes a lot more focus... and she is trying to get smell and taste, but she hasn't exactly mastered that yet... but she is getting close! An apple she made with illusions smelled like an apple... it just had a horrendous sweet taste like eating several packets of coffee sweetener at the same time which I have totally not done before... not at all!

But anyways, she is trying things with illusion I wouldn't have DREAMED of! She is trying to basically make a summoning spell using an illusion spell, and she might actually be capable of doing it! She actually put me in a bit of a tough spot in our first spar when she created several clones of herself and blended in with the crowd, I of course, didn't use magic to make it fair considering my body is about five to six times stronger than hers, durability, strength, and speed wise, but I really only won that because I realized mid-fight that they don't have any sound or smell, then it was fairly easy to force her to yield...

She hasn't managed to even get the faintest grasp on how to make her illusions have touch though, and I have no clue how to do it either, my mother says that it's possible, but not really within her abilities as she sort of negated to learn high powered human illusion spells and focused on other things... like the ability to briefly stop time... which I didn't know was a thing until today.

You know, thinking about it, my family doesn't really use Illusions that much, I mean, sure, changing our appearance is one thing, but creating elaborate illusions- like that displacer beast I used to prank those sailors- which wouldn't be able to do half of what it did unless Emilia helped out with her own telekinesis- just isn't our forte, I blew through quite a bit of magic doing that...

"Let's go to the mountains!" She grins.

"Alrighty~" I hum as I turn around and leap up to a tree, slapping the lowest branch before taking off on a manageable run, Neo quickly following behind with slightly more effort.

A quick thirty-minute jog and we have made it about half way up the mountain.

"You know." I hum over my shoulder. "I have never been out here before... I wonder if we have a dragon near our home like Emilia does!"

"She... has a dragon?" Neo slowly asks. "Honestly, I should be surprised, but... nah, I'm a vampire now, Angels exist, magic is real... I accept dragons as a natural occurrence."

"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, but it wasn't a spider Emilia and I were taking care of that day, just a cat-sized baby dragon..."

"Oh... that makes a bit more sense..." She murmurs.

"Cave!" I exclaim as I point to a dark spot in between a couple of rocks, small enough that a building sized dragon wouldn't be able to enter, but still large enough for Neo and I to jump teen feet off the ground and still not hit the roof.

"Come on then." She grins as she pushes past me and walks up to it.

"Yeah, yeah." I nod as I take a quick moment to speed a few steps in front of her.

As soon as we enter, it brightens up, our eyes adjusting from the outdoors and allowing us to easily see the world around us.

"I wonder what's in here..." I slowly ask as I look around.

"I dunno..." She hums. "But if it's a spider larger than a cat... I am going to freak out."

"Why are you still scared of those?" I ask with a raised eyebrow as I gaze over my shoulder. "You are basically immortal, immune to poison and disease, the ones as large as houses couldn't kill you even if they wanted to."

"T-They just freak my out, alright?"

"Alright?" I mumble, deciding to move on from this strange conversation.

"Hey, can you send an illusion forwards?" I ask over my shoulder. "I sort of like these clothes and the first thing a dragon does when it sees something is set it on fire then ask questions later."

Two silent illusions of us sprint forwards, then, as soon as they turn the corner- *FWOOSH* they are obliterated by a wave of fire...

"Oh wow... I cant believe I predicted that..." I murmur. "You could say..."

"Sean..." Neo warns with a light glare.

"I'm on fire today~" I continue on, ignoring her warnings.

She smacks the back of my head.

"Yeah, yeah, no more puns..." I sigh, creating a casting a quick protection from energy spell around us. "I wonder what's in there?"

"Dragon?" Neo asks.

"Maaaybe... or we could find the world's very first flaming spider~ that would be nice~"

She snorts as we turn the corner... then get covered in a cone of fire as well.

The shield easily holds up, I fully expected to get demolished by a gout of flame from a great wyrm red dragon, I made it so it could withstand about half of that, but what we got was the equivalent of a human casting burning hands at us... as in... we could have eaten that attack for breakfast without the shield and without even singeing our clothes... actually, it was about one-point-five times stronger than that, but still not all that threatening in the grand scheme of things.

I raise an eyebrow as a dragon- no, not a dragon, a WYVERN, lunges at me and tries to snap its jaws around my head.

I blandly hold its jaws open with my hands, then knee it in the throat, causing it to lunge back.

As it shakes its head, Neo jumps up, then with a twirl she slams her heel right into its forehead, slamming its head to the ground as its body collapses.

"Wow... it was a dragon..." Neo grins as she walks around it and pets its unconscious form.

"Nono, it is a Wyvern... and that actually makes it better than a dragon for a few key facts... one: wyverns are supposed to be extinct. Two, wyverns CAN'T breathe fire or any other special element, only drakes and higher can, and finally, three... wyverns only have one tail..."

This wyvern appears to be special, it appears to have light purple scales and blood red eyes, several spikes frame its head, like the main of a lion, and has two rows of spikes that trail down its spine before splitting to go down each tail, each wing has a single clawed talon at its joint, sort of like a bat's but more purple and scaly.

"Well, what makes it a wyvern, then?" She asks as she observes the two stinger-tipped tails

"The two wings and two legs thing... Drakes and dragons either have four legs and two wings or just four legs... but this... this seems to be special..."

"Sean!" She gasps as she points behind the unconscious beast. "Eggs!"

"Wait... it has eggs?" I ask as I walk over to the nest and look down at the white speckled eggs. "We should bring it and its eggs back to my mother! She will know what to do with them!"

"Or you could just tell her... I really don't think we should move the eggs." Neo suggests.

"Fair." I mumble.

I pull out a crystal ball and wait as it quickly flashes twice, revealing my mother's face. "Do you need something my child?"

"Mom! We found a wyvern! You said those were extinct, right?!" I grin down at the crystal sphere.

She blinks twice. "A wyvern?"

I hold out the orb in front of me, revealing the spiky lizard.

"Oh, well, this is quite a find indeed, I will be there in a few moments."

The orb loses its glow and I put it back in my pocket.

Neo blinks after about ten seconds and looks around the cave. "Sooo when will she-"

*Flash*

She appears beside us with a bright flash that briefly lights up the cave and sends a pulse of wind throughout, then brushes a couple hairs out of her face which was blown around slightly by her entrance. "Well, what do we have here?"

She steps over to the unconscious beast and looks it over. "Interesting... two tails?"

"It also breathed fire at us!" I grin.

"Fire?" She asks with a raised eyebrow. "Hn... it is also a fairly nice color..."

"It also seems to have eggs." Neo announces, pointing towards the nest.

"Hmmm..." My mother hums, eyes trailing around the cave as she seems to decide what to do.

She smiles lightly. "Well, I suppose we will have a couple pets now... and it also looks like we might have found our dear Neo's familiar~"

"Wait... really?" The multicolored girl slowly asks. "I thought I was going to get a bat like all of you."

"Not all of us have bats for familiars, you have only seen Sean's and Emilia's, and, well, bats don't exactly live forever, they in fact live around a tenth of a normal human's lifespan... I gave Sean a bat to get a sort of feel for the familiar process, once it dies of old age, we will get him a true familiar that will at least live for a couple hundred years." She explains. "I would have normally done the same with you, but, well, we have four wyvern eggs here, so I thought I might as well take advantage of the situation~"

She kneels down to the parental wyvern. "I remember when wyverns where basically common pests, they were hunted down for their poisons and resilient scales... I am pleased to find that they have evolved from insignificant gnats into something just a bit more special~"

She taps her nails on the back of the dragon. "Hm... its scales are quite a bit stronger than a normal wyvern's... and the fire... I would actually place this above that of even drakes..."

"Wait? It's stronger than a drake? Aren't those lesser dragons?" I ask.

"Drakes cannot actually breathe elements-" she begins.

"THEY CAN'T?!" I ask.

"No, but they are heavily attuned to them, so a fire drake would have a shimmering aura of heat that can easily ignite wood and paper, while an ice drake might freeze whatever comes into contact with it."

"O-Oh." I blink.

She kneels beside the lesser dragon, reaching down to put a hand on its head. "Now, let's fix you why don't we?"

She closes her eyes and seems to cast a spell, but... nothing seems to happen.

Neo and I share glances, then slowly blink as nothing extravagant seems to happen.

We both sensed just how much magic power was put into that spell there, so something should have happened by now...

"Uuuuh... what is she doing?" Neo asks slowly.

"I... don't know." I blink.

After about five minutes, my mother begins moving again, she stands up and brushes off her skirt. "Well, that's just interesting... it appears wyverns have made quite a comeback... they thrive in the deep caves of the Underdark and in volcanos under the control of massive red dragons..."

"What... did you do to it?" I mutter confusedly as the lesser dragon wakes up and shakes its head.

It gazes at my mother's open back, then lowers its head as if to kneel.

"I simply changed up its memories, turning it from a chaotic dragon who only cares about survival, into a calm pet who is fairly patient." She explains as she turns around and pats its head. "Now, let's get your eggs someplace safe, then once they hatch we can finally give you a familiar, Neo~"

"Speaking of familiars..." Neo slowly blinks "What exactly is your familiar, Miss Cassara?"

She covers her mouth and snorts. "Oh, you really wouldn't want to know that."

"It's a giant spider, isn't it?" Neo whimpers.

"I refuse to answer that question on the account that I do not wish to... and to protect your ability to sleep at night." The woman giggles. "But I mean, teeeechnically, it is a demon~"

I slowly blink. "Isn't it a Bebilith?"

"Yes." My mother nods.

"What's a Bebilith?" Neo slowly asks.

"…"

"…"

My mother and I are silent for a couple of seconds.

"Well, why don't we hurry up and get these eggs and their... parent... to our castle, yeah?" I grin.

"Yes, my son, that is indeed a wise decision." My mother nods.

"Wait, what's a Bebili-"


We finally managed to transport the last of the Wyvern's eggs, my mother named it 'Avry' so it might be a girl... but I honestly can't tell... Avery could also be a boy's name, you never know... or Avwry... I don't know how exactly she decided to spell it.

The wyvern curls up just above its eggs and closes its eyes, blocking out the rest of the world, twin tails swishing ominously behind it.

My mother simply nods. "Well, this should do for now."

"So, what do you two want for dinner?" She asks as she twirls around to look at Neo and I.

"Hmmm." I hum as I tap my chin. "I don't care, really, anything is fine... what about you, Neo?"

The multicolored girl cups her chin and hums once. "Yeah, I'm with Sean, anything is fine, really."

"Dear..." My father makes his presence known as he appears, condensing from a swarm of bats.

"Yes honey?" She hums with a small head tilt. "Do you need something."

"A couple devils have sent word that they wish to meet us, how should I respond?" He asks.

"Tell them to bugger right off, I don't want to get involved with demons... the last time I did that I summoned the aspect of a long-lost demonic god and was forced to kill it."

"The aspect or the god?" Neo whispers to me.

I glance at her and simply shrug. "I dunno."

"Devils, dear." My father sighs.

"Even worse! At least demons are honest about what they want- even if it is 'desire to kill you and consume your flesh' nine times out of ten, devils are manipulative Bastards."

"But, dear, this could be an opportunity to make peace with the-"

"No, it won't be, because as I said, devils are complete bastards who only care about themselves, they would try to use us to end their little feud with the stray demons."

"Dear... we are running low on enchanting gems, hell is populated by thousands of castle sized gem dragons, if we make peace with the devils, I can get the requisite materials to transmute gold, silver, platinum, and more importantly the gemstones themselves."

My mother narrows her eyes at him. "Stagrim Chro, my dear, you are starting to sound like you wish to sleep outside in the skeleton pit..."

My father sweats slightly.

"But, I'll allow it." My mother finally sighs. "You can make peace with the devils; however, you are to make sure that you, and you alone, will be able to complete their wishes... no adventures to Hell either... you are to stay on this plane, I would not be happy if you decided to visit Hell and got yourself killed."

"Y-Yes dear..." My father nods.

"Good." My mother smiles, her closed eyes being shadowed by her hair. "I'm glad we could come to an understanding."

"I-Indeed." My father nods. "I will contact them right away!"

And with that he explodes into a swarm of bats and flutters out of the room.

My mother turns back to us. "Well then, while dinner is being prepared, my children, why don't you go and practice your magic, you were almost at a breakthrough, correct, my childe?"

Neo nods and with a grin, grabs my wrist and runs out of the room. "Come on Sean! Let's fight again!"


"So... do you like... want me to come at you full force?" I slowly ask.

"Yep." She nods.

"Spells, strength, and everything else?" I continue.

She gives me another nod.

"Why?" I blink.

"Because I want to become stronger! How will I get stronger if you are constantly holding back against me?!" She exclaims, with a fairly large pout, arms crossed over her chest as she lets out a small 'Hmph' at the end.

"…" I'm silent for a moment.

"Alright, I can respect that." I shrug with a slight head tilt as I gaze out towards the wall.

Then I lean forwards, crouching down slightly, and blast forwards at my full speed, catching her briefly off guard as I lunge for her midsection, fist held back.

She smirks suddenly and shatters like glass, then I stop my movement and quickly do a single back-hand-spring to avoid her sudden roundhouse kick as invisibility fades from her body.

She flings her hands forwards, creating a cone of rainbows and sparking lights in an attempt to daze me, but I clench my eyes shut and finish casting the spell I started mid-flip.

Suddenly a massive colorful circle appears on the ground in between us, she widens her eyes as a large form leaps through, it has the head and front legs of an eagle, along with two large brown wings on its back, its rear however, is that of a lion who's tail swishes around wildly.

With a simple roar, it lunges forwards in an attempt to bite Neo, but as it nears, she strikes it with the side of her fist, knocking its head to the side, then she punches it right in the chest with her other hand, causing it to let out a squawk and stumble backwards, its muscles rapidly withering and skin becoming gaunt against its bones, then she opens the fist she just used to punch the griffon and shoots out a ball of fire about the size of a basketball that strikes the half lion-half eagle in the face, blowing its head off entirely and reducing it to simple white motes of light.

She then seems to realize her mistake of taking her eyes off me for an extended period of time... of like two seconds, and quickly snaps her head around to look for me, but it is too late...

My fist rockets towards her face and stops a centimeter from her nose just as she locates me, the force of my attack ruffling her hair and causing her to widen her eyes and take a shaky step backwards.

She lets out a long breath as she closes her eyes, then she opens them with a slight glare. "Why didn't you hit me?!"

"I-I'm not going to hurt you, Neo." I scoff. "Even if you can take it now, I'm not about to shatter your face, that would be like breaking a porcelain vase! You are much too pretty to be horribly disfigured!"

She blushes slightly, the thrum of her heartbeats quickly making themselves known. "You..."

She scratches the back of her head and looks away. "You're such a jerk sometimes... you know that when you say things like that I-I get like this!"

"Yeah, it's pretty cute..." I shrug. "Why do you think I do it?"

She raises her hands and I barely avoid a cone of fire. "Round two it is then!" I mutter as I hop backwards.

'you know... those strange animated tv shows Emilia and I sometimes watched would say... she is a complete- Tsunderriere? No! It was Tsundere! Yeah, that's right- oh... there is another wall of fire coming at me...'

I transform into a swarm of bats and disperse, then reappear about twenty feet above Neo who has her hand raised up to where I am reforming.

I cross my arms as she shoots three oval shaped blasts of force, they rocket towards me and strike my crossed arms, each creating a small dip in my skin that is quickly buffed out by my regeneration.

I land on Neo, but she shatters like glass, causing me to let out a sigh and raise a wall of earth behind me, blocking a ball of fire that fizzles out as it strikes it, then I spin around and punch it, sending a blast of rubble outwards as my fist collapses the wall

She crosses her arms and manages to quite easily tank the watermelon to golf ball sized pieces of rubble, looking no worse for wear and any slight scratches she may have gotten, healed nigh instantaneously.

She uncrosses her arms, only to see my fist hurtling towards her face again, causing her to flinch back as my fist, once more, stops about an inch away from her face.

"Mnnn I almost had you." She grumbles.

"No you didn't..." I hum.

She lets out a sigh. "Want to go again?"

"Hrm... sure, but if you keep fighting me, you might start to get habits in combat, I'm trying to fight differently each time, but eventually I might run out of techniques... not everyone will attack or move like me, so you should try to be slightly more balanced in training." I hum. "If Emilia was here, I suppose you could spar with her a little bit, but I think she would actually hit you..."

"Speaking of Emilia... where... exactly is she?" Neo questions as she walks over to me rolling her shoulders to get any stiffness out.

"Oh, she's back home doing some super-secret training apparently... I really don't know what though." I explain. "The last time I called her she said something ominous like 'I'm going to show you that I won't be left behind!' Then hung up."

"She's talking about your shadow transformation, right?" Neo asks.

"Yeah, probably... I don't really know how to access it yet though..." I mutter. "Well, I can do this..."

The shadows under me flow upwards, ingulfing my body in a thick aura of shadow that flickers upwards like a torch's flame.

"Woooah!" She exclaims as she inches closer, observing the flickering shadows.

"I mean, this is easy... I just don't actually get any power boost from doing this and I sort of look silly..." I sigh as I rub a hand through my hair, dispelling the aura. "I mean... I could probably use it as a shield by hardening the shadows when they are like that... but that's about it."

Neo slowly blinks at me, then looks down at my shadow, then looks back to me. "THAT'S IT!"

"Hn?" I hum.

"Vampires can control shadows, right?" She slowly asks.

"Yeah, it's our own sort of magic system, making use of what's there and creating elements." I nod.

"Now, what if, I put a controllable shadow UNDERNEATH an illusion." She grins, her insane idea of making physical illusions seemingly one step closer to reality.

"I mean, it technically won't be a physical illusion spell anymore, and would take a bit of time to master controlling two things at once, but... it's definitely a step in the right direction." I mutter, her idea finally setting in as I only just have thought of the possibilities. "OH WOW! That actually sounds SUPER useful! If you can figure out how to do it, you would definitely be a force to be reckoned with!"

"C-Can we start trying this right now?" She asks.

"Hmm." I hum as I tilt my head. "Sure, why not... ill summon something for you to try and copy, then after you manage to make a shadow version of it, you can try and control it."

I hold out my hand and create a small portal, then slithering through it comes a small green viper about three feet long.

I let out a few long pants of exhaustion as it coils up and stays there. "Alright- *Huff* Try to copy this."

"Sean... why do you look so tired?" She slowly asks

"I made it permanent." I explain.

"Wait... it's possible to do that?!" She asks.

"Yeah." I sigh as I go and sit down at the edge of our little training area. "It takes a lot out of me though..."

The snake coils up in front of Neo, its amber eyes and angular head staring right at her.

Neo holds out her hands and briefly channels the power of her new vampiric heritage... and creates a flat line of shadow on the ground.

It's not a physical shadow... it's as if she just cast a long shadow in the dirt.

We were probably going to be here a while...


Sorry about this chapter being a little short, Sean started teaching Neo and I realized about half way through the lesson it was EASILY over 1000 words and not even a third done with it so I move it to the next chapter. Annnyways, I hope you all had a great week! I will see you all later! (And next week, we might get to see some aftermath of Sean's little freak out, but not in the way you are probably thinking)