AN: I hope you like this and tell me your opinion.
Finally, the semester break was happening. Many students in Beacon had backed their backs before they ride the bullheads that sends them to their homes. ACES was one of the many that would leave Beacon in the break and return later for the second semester. Some stayed like Weiss, Blake, JNPR, and more because it was either they didn't have a home or simply decided to stay away from people.
Anyways, Ace was happy, very happy. Happy to see everything good. Happy to see his old friends and family good. Happy to see his team together. It was a big hooray for Ace.
Now, standing next to bullhead, Ace, Carl, Violet, and Skyler stands and say goodbyes before leaving.
"Okay, guys…See ya in the second semester. Just don't mess things up when you get back early." Ace said.
"Oh, don't say that like it's our last time together. I mean you helped us in many things and I can't pay you enough." Carl rubbed his neck sheepishly.
"What will you do this semester other than visiting the family?" Violet asked.
"I will pay a visit to someone. It might take me a few days to go to him and get back before the second semester. Now, who is he or she isn't important right now." Ace explained.
Ace planned on traveling in Mistral. He would visit a certain bird if he was lucky to catch her before she does any sudden moves. Now, that might be a problem for him if he didn't find her quickly but hopefully, the news and reports in Mistral could be a good boy and help him. The visit itself won't take too much because he needs to get back quickly. Unless the bird decided to stop him by any chance, he can get back to Beacon before someone notices.
"Okay, see ya later." Carl thanked as he fist-bumped Ace and hugged him before he took his bags and went inside another bullhead.
"Don't destroy my upgrades, please. It's my gift for you, so thank you for allowing me to make that monster of yours." Violet hugged Ace which he also hugged back for a few seconds before she took her bag and leave.
Now, Skyler was only left, she's still shy about the last time Ace teased her. But it wouldn't take so long before she said something.
"U-U-Umm…I-I don't know what to say except saying my goodbye," Skyler said before she hugged Ace. The blue-haired girl blushed at how close she became. Before she released her hug, Ace hugged her back, making her blush harder. It stayed for a full minute before both released their hug. But before Sky took her bag, she got up to Ace's ears and whispered, "Consider this my thanks gift." It felt a bit like now or never for her.
Skyler kissed him on his cheek, making Ace blush. She took her bag and waved at him before she left to her bullhead.
Ace touched his kissed cheek and smiled, 'I guess she tries to send her message and she did and then some.'
"She took a different approach than last time. You're lucky that she loves you, kid."
"Yeah." Ace responded.
"Aww! I guess your stormy charm caught her." A recognizable sound came from behind.
Ace turned to see Yang standing and looks like she waiting for Ruby, all of that while she had that teasing smirk of her, making Ace chuckle, "I think I am."
As Ace lifted his bag, rose petals arrived to be Ruby with her stuff after she said her goodbyes to Weiss, Blake, and Team JNPR. "S-Sorry for being late. It took longer to say my goodbyes." Ruby apologized.
Yang patted her sister's shoulders to comfort her, "It's okay, sis. We will get back later. I know that both Ice Queen and Ms. Kitty will take care of themselves." Yang cheered. Ruby nodded before she, Yang, and Ace rode the bullhead that heads to Patch.
A few hours later, the bullhead arrived after stopping in different locations to escort other students. It was a bit annoying but they were able to handle it. Now, the trio left the bullhead and with them their bags and the motorcycles, Bumblebee and Demon Rider that got backed in a different room for them.
As the bullhead flew away, Ruby, Yang, and Ace walked for a bit together and chatted. It didn't have so many interesting asides from Yang's terrible puns and Ruby tries to shut her up. Good times. Soon, Yang and Ruby rode Bumblebee and waved their goodbyes to Ace, followed by Ace riding the Demon Rider and going on his way to get back to his house.
On his way back, he played Alive by Brandon Yates on his newly upgraded Demon Rider and sang with the song. It had been a nice way to cheer himself up for traveling on the Demon Rider. Sometime later, he became closer to his house, he stopped the music and start lowering the speed of the Motorcycle until he spotted the house.
Ace finally arrived and stopped his Motorcycle near the house before he got off it and grabbed his bag as he went to the door's house. The blue-haired boy rang the ring and waited with a smile on his face.
A few seconds later, footsteps were heard behind the door before the person opened the door. After it got opened to see who's the person, turns out to be Lisa Storm in a different outfit.
She wore a pink vest and white and pink pants, her hair had the same small ponytail and white socks. Ace guessed it was her first hunter outfit as she attended Signal Academy this year so nothing too shiny yet.
"Hey, Lisa." Ace waved his hand before Lisa realized him.
Lisa gasped in surprise as she didn't expect this sudden visit from her big brother. "Ace!" She exclaimed happily before she tackled him.
Ace opened his body for the coming hug but her tackle was so strong she made him fall on his back while she hugged him tightly.
"Gods…you're giving me the revenge for the last time, aren't you?" Ace said while struggling from the breathtaking hug.
"Hi, big brother! Indeed!" Lisa replied before she released her hug and pulled Ace back to his feet by his arm, "Come on, they will get surprised." She said as she went inside. "Mom! Ace is here!" Ace heard his sister from inside as he went inside the house.
Now, the first person to see in front of him is his brother Seth in a black outfit and rainbow socks. Yeah, his sense of clothing was weird sometimes. Anyways, Seth saw him and smiled, "Hey, Ace!" Seth said in a less blank and more cheerful tone before he hugged him. Ace rubbed his head as he released his hug.
"Looks like my boy had made it this far." Ace turned to see his mother, Regina who wore a blue apron, referring that she was working in the kitchen. "Now, come here." Regina hugged Ace in a heartwarming hug, continuing the streak of hugs. Ace returned the hug.
"Now, where is dad? I know he won't miss a chance like this." Ace asked.
"He went on a mission a few days ago," Regina replied. "Anyways, how is Beacon? Who's your team? And what wild stuff you made?"
"Oh, there's so much stuff. I have a team called ACES and I'm the team leader."
"Really?!" Ace turned to see Lisa carrying Luna and seemed excited, "How do they look like? What fun things do you do? Oh, Are you into someone?" Lisa started her rain of questions.
"Alright, I will tell but before that, how's Signal?" Ace took his baby sister from Lisa. "And how are you, Luna? Did you miss me?" Ace kissed Luna's forehead and Luna answered in her bubbly talking. She's yet to say her first words.
"Oh, yeah, Signal was awesome. I had new friends and nobody is judging my clothes like finally, I had my first mmph-"
"Okay. Okay. Before you start talking, I will listen to non-stop talking about it in the dinner." Ace interrupted Lisa as he covered her mouth with his free hand before she started her long talk. He should have delayed it for dinner and luckily it won't take so long.
The dinner finally arrived and the start was with Lisa's time in Signal Academy. While it was hard to follow her sometimes, Ace heard everything about her half-year at Signal. It had things that didn't change at all like the past. Something that stayed the same was her style. Lisa would use Hand-to-Hand combat as her style in combat. She proved many times how she was very deadly like a widow. And to prove it, we will have to wait for the problems she might make in the future. Whatever it was going a bit far in combat class or dealing with a problem against certain people that will say 'Your daughter is dangerous. You should keep her in control.' And that's a good thing. Or Ace thought of it at least. He didn't know if the others approved it but it was a good thing as people won't think of any funny ideas with Lisa.
As time moved on, turn out, Lisa's story or the way she explained it was so long that they finished the dinner and yet to have more to say. It was until an hour later she finally finished.
After she finished, the family sat in the backyard to listen to Ace's time at Beacon with the sunset breeze coming towards them. Ace started his story from the moment he met his teammates, to having the initiation, to fight Grimm in the Emerald Forest and getting interrupted every minute to explain whatever the heck happened, to the first day in Beacon, to the time he knocked CRDL some sense to them, to the times he had with the team together before ending with the last day in the semester.
Lisa was excited and energetic. While she was annoying when she asked Ace about the crazy thing like how did Violet bounce on the surface or the difference between using violence and knocking some sense when he explained how he dealt with CRDL, she listened carefully like a child who likes to listen to his parents' adventures. Seth was quiet for most of the time and not surprising to anyone, he asked when he wants to understand a specific thing. But mostly it was his blunt face that was shown with little changes now and then.
Regina, on the other hand, was something different. Thanks to her training. He noticed a smirk on her face. That smirk. Ace knew that she meant something and compared to Yang, Ace knew Yang pretty well and how she behaved sometimes unlike his mother whose smirk meant either she thought of something about him and Skyler (Because Ace won't forget about Regina's asking for FIVE if you forgot, my good sir.) or something completely else (Which he hopes that doesn't goes any weird way because Reigns are wild.)
Now that he thought about it, Ace's mother meant something about him and his not deceased friend. If that was true, gods, we aren't done with the first year, and making a family with Skyler's idea started to rise. Ace hoped that his mother didn't think of any wild ideas yet. Still, the idea of having a family with Skyler might be stuck for a long while.
Anyways, Ace's stories took until night to finish. It was way better than the past one. Because in the past, Ace wasn't interacting with his team as much as he did in the new timeline, the past one didn't take so long to finish.
As night came, Ace took Luna with him to their room to put her on her bed. As he put her, she grabbed her bear and played with it, she was so adorable it made Ace smile and tear up. Tear up to the point he starts crying. Crying for what happened to Luna when he had to take her under his wing, protect her, and make her childhood so hard.
As Ace finished, he sensed the place to see if anyone was behind the door and thankfully nobody was near to listen. It was good for Ace as he needed to say something out of his mind aka the bad future.
"Hey, Luna…I'm glad that you're a child again." Ace greeted his sister, "I feel bad at how hard I took care of you and how your and Adrian's childhood became. SNIFF I hope we finish Salem this time. I won't handle to have the same bad future or even worse this time." Ace started to tell his story, "I hope that we remove Salem from the existence of this world. I became in my forties and lost years of my life scared of facing Salem. But after what happened last time, I'm certain to say that I'm…less scared and more daring than the last time we had. While she doesn't know about whatever will happen and that I will prevent the Fall of Beacon this year. I need to take care of many things that will result in changing the future. The White Fang is one of them. After all of this nonsense ends, I want to let you know that, remember to have a great childhood. It's a time you won't be able to repay after it goes away and begins to understand how cold and hard this world is. And hey, if you wanted, I can be your mentor if you asked. Adrian too to a matter of fact." Ace tickled Luna playfully, making the young girl giggle, "Heck, I know a little thing about you two but I won't tell you what is it. You have to know if you met him." Ace chuckled at the last part. He remembered that having Luna and Adrian with him for more than 15 years can make an interesting thing between them. He hoped that it reached the way it could have an end. Or it was but Ace slept and didn't notice it. Even though it was weird to have it in such circumstances, it broke the bad atmosphere and made something unique that helped Ace whenever he wanted to have anything else than the same keeping the guard on its 120% all the time.
Overall, it was a good Friday night with the family. It would have been completed with Zack sitting next to them, but he wouldn't prevent him from going to the mission he had.
…
The next day rose and Ace finished his daily stretching, went outside for his Iai-Jutsu training until his aura got down. He returned and everyone was sleeping so he went to take a bath and remove so much stress on him. After that, he made breakfast for everyone which they woke up by that point. He also made an extra dish that had eggs, bacon, and a cup of coffee, but it was not for him, it was for his father, Zack, who will return this morning at any minute.
As he was carrying Luna, she finished her milk and started to pat her back to burp, then, he continued to carry her to spend the remaining time waiting for Zack.
RING
And he finally arrived, Ace went to the door and opened it to reveal Zack Storm, a tired guy after a mission for a few days, Zack took a few seconds to recognize his son.
"Hey, dad." Ace greeted.
Zack's eyes wide opened before he went to hug him, continuing the streak of hugs, Ace hugged him back with one hand while still carrying Luna in his other hand. Zack released his hug and patted his son's shoulder.
"Hey there, kid. I thought you might come here in the break and if I was right, you came here yesterday, didn't you?"
"Yep." Ace nodded. "Also, your breakfast is ready. Don't ask how I knew you were coming." Ace pointed over his shoulder.
Zack looked to the table where his breakfast is already is there. Zack looked at his son, confused. "I don't know if you knew I was coming or that was sheer luck, but thanks." Zack thanked him before going to the table.
"No problem, dad."
As Zack went to the table, he greeted his wife and kids before he start eating his food.
Ace smiled happily at how his family is cheerful and full of energy. He didn't know how to repay his parents for their actions and helping him throughout the years but at least he can do a service for them.
Ace sat on the couch and opened the TV. He started to change between the channels and nothing was interesting except the docks incident where Blake detected a White Fang cargo with Sun and beating Roman Torchwick before her teammates arrived. Other than that, news about having dust getting stolen is always something that goes trending in the news. Now, all of that stealing in for the Breach that was originally planned to use in the Fall of Beacon but a slip up ruined half of the plan but that didn't mean the Fall didn't happen but avoiding more problems is better than having all of the shit rains at once.
But that's a story for another day.
'Now, I need to prepare myself for the long and maybe luck-based journey in Mistral. I only need max fuel and have more because the sheer speed will cost so much and I can do that with the Blue-charged electricity as It's a long and available source with me. Some food on the way, nice music, and nothing else.' Ace said in his thought. 'But not right now.'
As Ace changed the channels, he smelled something. Something familiar to him. Without another thinking, Ace sighed. It was Luna, again and his hand felt wet. 'NICE!' Ace stood up and went to the room where the diapers are. In a quick movement, he changed the messed one and changed it to a new one. All of that, without nobody noticing he went to the room.
After that, he handed his baby sister to his father and headed to the bathroom to clean his hand. As he cleaned his hand, he looked at himself in the mirror. His hair was getting longer and his facial hair was growing up slowly. His eyes showed stress bigger than what was shown. Generally, he looked horrible.
"Now, look at you. You have the fate of Remnant on your back." Ace started to talk to himself. "That Witch will pay, you hear me? SHE will face the wrath of me, huh! I will gonna finish that bullshit once and FOR ALL! RUGHHHH!" Ace began to slap the walls with his right hand in anger.
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On the other side, Regina was cleaning the dishes. Now, Regina knew her kids very well, except Luna who was still young to understand her. She helped Ace from the killing accident and started to work on his and her children's mental training and she understood what her children think. Now, it was not perfect as she and her children could lose control at some moments but they do a good job. Ace was the best out of the other in terms of emotion control. He can control himself and stay calm to ensure no slip-up ruins everything. But something looked different on him. Ever since he cried silently on her side and Ace didn't feel right sometimes. Yeah, he can't feel good every day but a closer look at him and she began to see something.
Pain, anger, relief, and other emotions.
He wasn't like that before that day. He had determination, insistence, a stubbornness that make anyone scared, and the ability to go forward no matter what. While yes, he had those stuff, adding the new ones all of the sudden was obscure and brought questions, especially that time she asked him in the day before going to Beacon.
The answer can be believed by anyone but Regina, she had her doubts and Ace indeed hide something big and dangerous. Now, that can be answered as he might have a problem with a group of baddies or someone strong and things became somehow complicated. How big is a question that can't be answered easily?
"Now, how can I know what he's hiding?" Regina asked herself. It's a big problem as Ace is good at changing or faking out his problems. As well as reading anyone, so a giant proof was a way to pull out everything but what it can be?
Her thinking got interrupted by the sound of hitting. Regina turned to the sound and from the kitchen, she heard a yelling sound coming out of the bathroom.
"HUH! I WILL SHOW YOU!" A yelling came out from Ace. The sound of his voice felt like he was frustrated and angry at someone.
Her daughter, Lisa, stood next to her and noticed the sounds from the bathroom. "YOU WILL PAY, YOU WITCH! I HAVE SO MANY THINGS I WILL UNLEASH UPON YOU!"
Confused by that, she turned to her mother, "Ah…Mom? Why does Ace yelling like that?"
"He seems that he's having a complicated problem with someone," Regina replied. A minute later, the yelling stopped and Ace got out of the bathroom and he went to the backyard, sitting with his legs crossed.
Regina went to her son, concerned about the sudden mood change he had. She sat next to him and crossed her legs like him.
"Ace…you okay? Why did you yell like that in the bathroom?" Regina asked.
Ace sighed, "Mom, recently, I'm feeling like I'm the employer that the entire company relies on to save it from getting shut. It's a long problem and not recent for your information. And no, I'm not comfortable to tell about it."
Regina hummed and nodded, "Then why didn't tell us about it earlier?"
"I thought that it won't expand so much on me but it did. Now, there's nothing to be concerned about, mom…Look, I will tell you everything once I know when is the right time, okay?"
"Aha, Just don't forget to clear it out of your chest. You know how some problems can't be solved by just not telling anyone about it." Regina said as she stood up and went back to the house.
Lisa looked at her mother and her brother still sitting outside, "So?"
"He's dealing with something dangerous, Lisa. He's in big trouble and none of us are in the picture, somehow." Regina said what she got in her conversation. "Now, get ready for your and Seth's training."
Now, Lisa knew this training very well. The training Ace and Azure had before aka the Hammer. It made her scared in instant. "Mom, please, I can't handle it anymore." Lisa squealed.
Regina turned to her daughter with a serious look, "Now, now, girl. We made a deal of decreasing the number of days in the month we had it. So, don't you 'Mom' me and be a good girl. Your big brother was taking double the days for your information, girl and he was getting back after the hits he had until his body gave up from the constant beating. So get your butt and meet me outside."
Lisa, with no other choice, nodded and went to inform her young brother. Lisa heard how painful the training with her mother was. Ace and Azure were suspects in that crime and the stories of the pain they feel were quite scary before she did the training. But oh boy, she understood how painful that was. She and Seth took the beating she felt until they passed out and still felt the pain after.
Ace heard the small conversation his mother and sister had. He had a small chuckle at the part of Lisa complaining and worried about his mother knowing the truth. Ace's only hope was to keep his secret fight against Salem away from people as much as possible because knowing the information he had and the number of changes that might result in changing the future will start having the eyes on him. Ace was ready of course but he doesn't want this to expand out of anything other than him, maybe his team, RWBY, JNPR, and the adults.
Ace rubbed his face and took a deep breath. He stood up for Regina's training for Lisa and Seth. Lisa looked sad and didn't want to have the bone-breaking training and Seth looked bored but looking carefully at him, he said 'Here we go, again.'.
"Don't be so sad, Lisa. I'm sure you can do great today. Just make sure these hits don't stay with you until Monday." Ace cheered, knowing that he couldn't do anything but watch.
Regina brought her trusty hammer, Reinhardt and it turned from a black staff to the scary hammer that feels like it came out of hell as Ace describes.
The hammer's handle had blue and black colors in it in a way it mixes well enough while making it look badass and scary for many. It also had buttons for different modes like changing the length of it, pulling out the gun feature that is a sniper to shoot not just bullets but also darts that had different types of poisons which can be useful in some situations, and multiple buttons for dust fused attacks. The head of the hammer was the reason why Ace calls it coming from hell. The head was all metallic black with spikes that can be seen in different spots, a big black and blue spike on the top of the head, the face of the hammer had a broken skull, referring that the hammer was good at breaking the bones.
Ace felt the pain of it before it lands, I guess it's because the hits he had before made a memory of how painful the attacks are. Yet, he continued despite the pain it delivers.
Anyways, Lisa stepped forward and stood in front of her mother who was ready to start. Lisa took a very deep breath and stood in her fighting stance.
In an oddly high tension, Regina swung her hammer with a small force at Lisa. Lisa caught the hammer with her hands and the force was strong enough to make a small shockwave.
It just started.
Regina swung again and Lisa caught the coming attacks on the right side of her body. Regina lifted the hammer above her head and Lisa blocked the coming attack with her palms while the attack made a small crater from the force. Regina didn't wait for a second and lifted the hammer and attacked from the front of and Lisa blocked the attack with her forearms while getting pushed back with her feet digging the ground beneath her.
Lisa grunted from the pain in her forearms but still stood.
"Come on, Lisa! Let your legs stand in the ground." Regina exclaimed before she went for another attack. Lisa barely caught the head of the hammer which resulted in having damage to her chest and barely not breaking her bones. Another attack came and Lisa caught it while getting pushed back a bit. Regina didn't stop as she caught her daughter off guard and lifted the hammer and Lisa with it to the other way, slamming her in the ground. After that, Regina raised her hammer and slammed it on Lisa. Lisa saw that attack coming and dodged it. Regina thrust the head of the hammer to Lisa's chest which Lisa blocked with her forearms while keeping a small space for the spike on top of it.
CRACK
It was a mistake as the thrust broke her forearms bones, making her grunt out of pain all of that while she got pushed and fell to the ground. After her bones got healed, she returned to her position to continue. While Lisa getting the beating, Ace and Seth were watching.
"So, Seth…how's the training?" Ace asked his brother.
"Hell," Seth answered bluntly while Lisa's grunts and the broken bones were heard.
Ace didn't need 2 seconds to understand how Seth describes the pain of it. Yeah, his talks can be blunt and emotionless but living with him long enough helped him understand him like how anyone can understand Ace if they stayed long enough with him.
"School?"
"Nothing special."
"Your weapon?"
"Still thinking." Ace continued and Seth replied in the same tone.
While Ace was asking Seth, Lisa got launched and landed in front of her brothers, coughing blood from the hits she had. "Y-Your…turn." She coughed her last words before she went unconscious. Seth sighed and stood up for his turn.
Ace carried his sister to the house and put her on the couch to have her minutes of resting before she woke up for the afternoon training with Zack on the Hand-to-Hand combat. He put her head on the pillow of the couch. Ace rubbed his sister's head resulting in a small groan of her before he went to the backyard to see if Seth was standing up.
As Ace made his first step, he looked to see a coming body at high speed. Without any time to react, the body made its contact with Ace, making him and the body fly inside the house before he stopped completely. Ace groaned from this sudden attack and lifted his head to see Seth unconscious on his chest.
Pushing him away, he stood and carried Seth with him and put him on the couch.
"Whoops! I increased the force a little bit." A voice came from his left to see Regina with an apologizing face while her hammer was getting to its staff mode.
Ace rolled his eyes. Yeah, Seth was new to that training and he couldn't stand her attacks like Lisa. But Lisa wasn't standing the attacks too so yeah, he needed some time.
"Don't worry. he needs some time to get used to it like how she had."
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A week later, Ace was preparing himself for the travel to Mistral. He was having a small bag that had his food supply, a book for the time when he wasn't traveling, and he's making sure of the fuel in the Demon Rider.
As Ace was checking the Demon Rider in the garage, a knocking from the door is heard. Ace turned to see that the person that opened was Regina carrying Luna on her left arm.
"Is there a place you will go today?" Regina asked.
"I will go to pay a visit for someone. It will take a few days but I will come back as soon as I finish." Ace answered while grabbing the Dust Decoded and checking for the Blue-charged electricity.
"And that person is related to the problems you had?"
Ace knew she won't leave him and there was no point in lying. "Depends on how it will go." Ace pressed the button for the Blue-charged electricity, making the blade of the sword into a glowing blue blade with electric sparks coming out of it, "A chance of success or failure depends on the mood." Ace said as he made the sword a contact with the fuel tank. After a few seconds, the tank was fully charged.
Ace smiled and made the sword back to normal and put it on his back.
"You know you can tell us. This problem won't be solved if you didn't have others helping you." Regina informed.
"Mom, I'm telling you, no need to worry. You just need to be cautious of any sneak attacks. I will tell you everything once this problem gets harder."
Regina raised her eyebrow in question, "And when will you tell us if what you do is trying to push us away?"
Ace sighed and closed his eyes, "I promise that I will tell you. If I didn't, then you have the right of breaking my bones with dust."
Regina narrowed her eyes at her son. She knew that he wanted to make sure of their safety, but how much it will take until he splits out all of his secrets. "Deal." Regina went back to the house to see the dinner she was preparing.
Ace covered his face in sadness. He was about to cry but took a hold of himself. He knew that Regina will do anything to know which was a problem if she and his father got involved in the problem. He watched her die in front of him and seeing her again was hard by itself. Seeing her die again was something Ace won't forgive himself about. He wanted to see his family and friends' life getting happier and better. Even at the cost of his life. Even if he had to make the deal with the devil to beat Salem.
On the other side, Regina was getting concerned about her son's problems. She was afraid that her son was involved in a world-ending problem. While it sounded ridiculous, Storm had to deal with crazy shit before and her son wasn't out of that list for sure. As she went to the kitchen, her husband, Zack, was standing and watching the food in her place.
"So?" Zack asked.
"He doesn't want to say anything."
"Don't worry, honey. He's an adult, now. He will have to deal with complicated problems now and then."
"I know but something tells me that it's bigger than what we think. I mean, he's going somewhere tomorrow and he's taking a few days to go."
"WHAT?!" A voice came from behind, Zack and Regina turned to see Lisa is standing who heard a bit of the conversation. "What do you mean that big brother is going somewhere! He promised to stay until a week from before he's going back to Beacon."
"I won't travel for long. I said I will take a few days of traveling." Ace was heard from the garage. "It depends on if the person moved somewhere or stayed in his place."
"Oh, come on!" Lisa pouted.
"Come on, girl. You know that I will graduate from Beacon when you finish Signal. I mean Seth will join you two years later but the point is that you have to rely on yourself and your friends when you need them. Meaning, I won't be here every time and you should know that like Azure and me."
"I get it."
"Aww, don't be sad. I may visit you in Beacon if I was free. After all, Ozpin will need me a lot if I was a teacher. Who knows?"
"Really! Thank you, brother." Lisa hugged Ace tightly.
"N-No problem." Ace said in a struggle. These hugs will get worse soon.
After the talk between the brother and sister, the family had her dinner and everything went normally.
…
The next day, Ace woke up early, made his morning exercises, made breakfast for him and the family, and prepared for his Mistral journey. As the family stood outside, Ace was getting ready for the ride on the Demon Rider, his young siblings are ready for school.
"Okay, as I said, depending on how long it will take to find, I should be here in a week or so. Now, I'm sorry for making you concerned but this is my problem for the time being." Ace said before he turned to his family.
"It's fine, I guess. Huh, that's the life of huntsmen and huntresses?" Lisa said.
Ace sighed and went to hug his sister and she hugged back but not tightly this time. "Don't forget to do your best. If you did, I had a gift for you."
"Huh? Really?!"
"Yeah, but it will take some time to make, soo around the time you finish your first year greatly, I would have finished it by the time."
"Oh, thank you, Ace. You're the best brother anyone could have."
"Right, now don't forget to go to Signal or you will get late." Ace said his goodbye as he put on his goggles and rode the Demon Rider. "Again, I'm sorry for making your concern. I will tell you everything once it needs to. See you next week or so." Ace ran the engine and head up to Mistral.
As Ace was getting nowhere to be seen, his family was waving goodbye.
"Come on, Seth. Let's go to school." Lisa grabbed her brother's arm and went to their school.
As both Lisa and Seth were nowhere to be seen, Zack and Regina still stood in their place.
"I think we have to deal with two children that will get used to having problems." Regina put a hand on her waist.
"Like parents, like children, I guess. They're growing up and we have to deal with it especially that Luna might go after us, too." Zack said.
"Yeah, maybe I'm too overprotective with them." Regina sighed.
"Hey, you were like that when the team was with us," Zack remembered. "Besides, when you have your grandchildren when these two marry, you will tease them to no end."
"Aww, you know me well, honey." Regina kissed her husband's lips before she entered the house, followed by Zack.
…
In Mistral, specifically Haven Academy, a Lion Faunus was sitting at his desk, finishing an important paper. He was a middle-aged man with a mane of tan/gray hair and a beard. He had a tanned complexion with brown eyebrows and dark brown eyes.
He wore a brown greatcoat with a matching mantle, which had cross emblems on each side. He also wore a white dress shirt under his coat, a western necktie, and carried a pocket watch with a lion head on it as an emblem. Lionheart also wore dark brown slacks and dress shoes.
This is professor Leonardo Lionheart. The headmaster of Haven Academy.
Leo sighed at himself. He was doing the unforgivable which was helping Salem in getting the relics and destroying Beacon with it. He knew that Ozpin would kill him as a punishment at most. At least, a great punishment would fall on the headmaster's head. And there was Salem who was ready to kill him at the moment and put someone else instead of him or Ozpin will and ruin everything. Now, nobody knew about this secret except one, of course, but still, he was in a bad spot right now. All of that, because he was scared. Scared of death. Scared of any harm Salem will unleash on him. He should have killed himself but it was too late to get back. Getting the relics as Salem wanted was a hard process but it's getting there. It was hard to get the Lamp of Knowledge because Spring went rouge and nobody knew where was she (Except Ace who knows that Raven is but hiding it in the form of Vernal.) Which would have been either good or bad for him.
As he put the paper on his desk, a ring from the desk had appeared and he knew who was calling so he pressed the button to reveal a small hologram of a man who was a tall middle-aged man with a slim build and slightly tanned skin. He had short black and gray hair as well as a thick mustache and eyebrows, and green eyes. He wore, a yellow dress shirt, and a black necktie and fingerless gloves matched his cordovan shoes, under which he wore yellow socks.
This is Arthur Watts. A former Atlesian scientist and mostly known for being dead for years.
"Hello, Leonardo. How are the files of dear Cinder and her wacky allies?" Watts asked.
"They're already done, Arthur. They're considered to be one of my students. Still, some will get suspicious with them." Leo informed.
"Do not worry about that. They will get in and out without nobody noticing any change. Now, don't forget the plan of searching where the Spring Maiden is." Watts said before he finished his call.
"Right."
Leo covered his face with his hands in shame but it was too late. Or is it?
AN: Here it is. I hope you like it. I tried to have Ace interact with his family a bit more, showing their personalities more. Tell me what do you think of it?
Anyways, I like to say that I'm sorry. Again, I'm a guy who doesn't usually sit and write the story a lot but I try my best. And you know what will happen next chapter, don't ya. A meeting with the bird herself. I planned on the conversation and another thing you can expect or not expecting it.
Also, before you ask, Ace x Skyler is my plan. It's my fanfic and I can do whatever. I have other ideas with Ace x Yang but I won't write it.
Do you like to have Ace in crossovers with other media or have the character from that interact with Ace?
For example, I watched S1 of Mushoku Tensai and planning on watching S2 later. I read other fanfics of it. So, do you like to have an RWBY x Mushoku Tensai crossover fanfic where Ace went to Mushoku's world or have Ace reincarnate into the world of Mushoku Tensai and take the place of Rudeus or Rudeus reincarnates into Remnant after he died from age and became a child for another family?
I mean Mushoku is still kinda new and there aren't many fanfics or crossovers. Who knows? Maybe a Ben 10 x Mushoku Tensai will happen and I hope that it happens which I will post later in the Ben 10 Crossover ideas you have to check it out and tell me if there was any story from there you like to make because I'm not a person that you can trust writing multiple stories from media I didn't watch/play it.
Anyways, tell me your opinion on this, and don't forget to favorite, follow and review.
Sincerely, Eslam.