It takes Qrow mere hours to reach back to the house and estate his team and nieces looks like with his titanic beast form he lands to see... Raven, sat on the front porch calibrating her dust blades case. when the huge titanic crow form lands it does so with a gust of wind before he morphs back to his normal self and judging by the look on his face it isn't good...
Qrow asks the royal consort Raven "can you bring Yang and Ruby here please... this is really bad news... pertaining to you as well..." He says shaking as he sips from the larger of the two flasks he has, the one Ahriman had given him as Raven gulps nervously and head inside to get the others.
She quickly gets out before anyone else and asks "Qrow? What's going on? Did you find one...?" He responds " no, his but one had some really unfortunate news to put it mildly"
Summer, Taiyang, Ruby and Yang exit the house and the 4-look ready to hear the worst...
Yang asks "did you find someone? Are they...?" Qrow kneels in front of them and answers " no they are alive, it's Blaleria, she's alive but has requested she stay hidden... It's what she told me happened, Yang, Raven... Sanguinius is dead, so is Konrad Curze... Ruby "
Yang could hear a pin drop form the next star system over she's so shocked and she twitches with rage as she falls to her knees her eyes welling up threatening to flood forth as Raven embraces her daughter crying as well as Ruby just stairs...
Not only is her dad dead but the news was from her flame, her love... It takes seconds for Yang to burst into fire like she does when she's angry but there's something more in it this time... her flames are a bright red and her wings although unharmed, are equally ablaze.
She weeps hot tears dripping into the soil as she starts to growl at Qrow "HOW" just one word, just one question and he can feel free without his powers she's under the trip of something dark...
"Horus had led 10 primarchs in a rebellion against the emperor... during the last days of the war, Konrad, Sanguinius and the emperor led a deep strike onto Horus's flagship... Blaleria wasn't there in person she was on the surface commanding her legion."
yang shoves of her mother and leaps into the sky and takes off with a loud thundering crack that could be heard for miles and across the water, the air becoming superheated to the point of burning and Qrow winces from the sudden spike in psychic power, she's going that fast and Qrow says "I can track her down, trust me, I've seen her angry like that before I'd leave her be."
Raven being the one human Sanguinius romantically loved is an emotional wreck as Summer and Tai escort her indoors as Ruby takes off to the huge barn used as a workshop to use iron rose as a way to calm herself as Qrow sits on the front porch as he himself processes the news but something else worries him, he still doesn't know what happened to Prospero, his legion, his dad...
A few days later...
Deep within the vale, Valkyrie now Nora is riding a recovered and healed Fenria alongside men of her mercenary company the "avenging angels" who specialise as border patrol and Grimm hunters having fallen back on her experience with her legion to figure out what she should do with herself on this world.
She could get away with using her armour as the villagers she lived with and sees had assumed she was a Hunter of some sort and due to the internet being absolute ass this far out many didn't have scrolls.
She and a group of ten men and women are cutting across a clearing on a hunt for a specific Grimm pack that had killed a local map makers daughter in an ambush hunt, Valkyrie in her mixed mk1 thunder and mk2 crusade artificer armour, this being one of the few days she'd dared use it, as it was a chore to remove without the proper tools, grabs her thunder hammer of her back and with her "semblance" channels the power of her psychic might with the warp being only stable here into herself and glows brightly as she bellows out "on them lads!"
the others with her draw dust sabres or maces and hammers or guns just before the pounce upon the surprised pack and by the time there noticed Valkyrie and her thunder wolf have leapt into the air... A Beowulf spins around tilting its head before a psychically charged thunder hammer comes down on its ahead.
Its head explodes in a fountain of gore and burning fat and fur as the power of the warp burns and boils it to bursting point.
The boiling black blood splatters against her armour which has been scrubbed of all Vulka Fenrika symbol and markings marking her smiles as the thrill of combat fills her allowing her to take her mind of the ever-present memory of the battle of Fenris...
Fenria sinks her large K9 teeth into the un armoured wrist of a dazed Beowulf as a result of the thunder hammers field shooting out on impact and rips it away causing that beast to howl in agony and rage before it is smashed aside by the mass of a horse and its rider at full speed.
The melee's over before the Grimm realise especially with someone like the demi Primarch Nora with them going for a lack of a better term "berserk"
She stands beside Fenria slinging her weapon to her back she takes of her helmet and says "report, did we lose someone?" One of her riders' answers " no valkyrie a clean slate, minor wounds, nothing aura won't fix in a few days" Nora smiles saying "good, that's another pack down"
She looks around herself and hears and feels something on the air...something familiar...something she hasn't felt since... Nikea... "You guys head back without me, I'll catch up I need to do something quick" her riders depart soon after and Nora draws her hammer once more putting her helmet on.
"I know your there come out, warp sorcerer" she growls as she suspected it would be a tainted rune priest or some warp entity that had found her but much to her surprise and shock the black crow circling her transforms revealing Qrow, son of Magnus, seeing him has her sweating and shaking as really painful memories start to surface especially as she knows what befell Prospero and isn't sure if he does...
Qrow is wearing his armour the bright shiny candy red shimmering in the warm sunlight as he knew Valkyrie wouldn't believe he was thee Qrow otherwise. "Well, well, well Valkyrie of Fenris, it has been a while, hasn't it?" He says in greeting as Nora powers her hammer and take her helmet of "likewise Qrow, how the hell did you get here?"
the older man chuckles taking his own helmet of "my farther threw me through a portal of his own making just before Russ attacked Fenris..."
Valkyrie takes a few steps back and starts to visibly shake as the memory of the battle of Fenris is dangerously close to coming back in full force as she says "oh no... you don't know what happened to him? To Prospero?" Qrow feels his heart sink in his chest but says " let's not discuss that hear Valkyrie, I'm here with an offer, there's 4 others on this world, Yang, Morticia, Blaleria and if rumour is proven true Wenoa and I've made the same offer to them and the offer is this.
Come to beacon academy, learn to be a huntsman and more importantly be around fellow demi primarchs, train in your armour, use your weapons and powers without hanging to lie or hide them and as a bonus of with a huntsman licence you can make this mercenary hand of yours both legal and official "
A few years later...
Pyrrha Nikos is stood in the hanger of transports in her local town preparing to leave for Beacon with her stuff strapped to her back as she always lived a Spartan like lifestyle in terms of items, she took with her. She is nervous as she's been on a pedestal for a considerable amount of time by everyone around her with her skill being exceptionally high to the point of getting her the nickname of the "invincible warrior".
Oh, how little they knew of her past...
She gets a grip on her emotions especially as she holds up a singular bright shining silver tooth of a chain axe attached to a necklace she's wearing proudly whispering "I wish you were here to see this dad, mom and brother's...
" Then she hears her mother's voice in her head as she remembers something she had taught her in the past " remember Pyrrha SARRIN! You are strong, steadfast and above all a truly worthy of my respect, remember what you are and hold it like you would a shield and nothing will harm you"
With these words in mind, she picks up her rucks sack and straps it to her back as she gets into the massive transport and takes a secluded seat but finds her peace interrupted when a preacher of the church of the maidens who is offering blessings to 1st time hunters and finds her blood boiling in her very veins at even the possibility of being addressed by a priest.
The older woman dressed in robes with a symbol stitched into it displaying a spring flower, a summer fruit, a leaf in autumn and a snowflake walks up to her offering "blessed" coins saying "Please my child accepts a humble blessing to safeguard you on your travels to become a hero our kingdom's need"
she's kind enough but Pyrrha finds herself standing up reaching for her weapon in sword form by its handle saying "back. Away. You charlatan, your kind are but pests on humanity" her voice is a deep commanding tone something she had picked up from her mother and farther as her deep-seated rage against the religious and her heritage getting the best of her typically kind and stoic nature.
The poor woman recoils and nearly falls over form shock at being greeted in so hostile a manner stammering "p..please..I... Only... Seek...to... Raise... The spirits of the soon to be hunters...I mean you know... harm.. or I'll intent..."
Pyrrha partially draws it to really drive home the point and the old woman walks away defeated and saddens and when the rage fades Pyrrha blinks and realises what she had just done in public and goes to run away to hide in her shame at treating someone so harshly but runs right into a certain blonde boy not a minute later...
Jaune groans a bit at the sudden shock of having someone bump into him as he hits the floor "what the...?" Pyrrha having remained standing panics a bit offering her hand to him and stops ever so briefly once she takes a look at his face as she seems to realise something " I'm so sorry I umm.. " Jaune takes her hand and pulling himself up saying "it's fine, we all make mistakes, I'm Jaune arc"
Pyrrha suddenly finds herself in an awkward situation as she hopes to high heaven that she's not conversing with who she thinks she's conversing with "I'm Pyrrha Nikos, I'm not form around here again sorry for knocking you over."
Jaune chuckles adopting the demeanour of a dorky nerd as it's what he's very used to being described as quite "dorky" before by his own adoptive parents and many sisters.
Pyrrha recognises that particular ability and it dawns on her she's speaking to the son of Horus as he speaks "I'm fine I've had worse, on your way to Beacon?" He asks shifting his bow on his back having out his sword and shield in the ship's cargo hold as she responds " yes, I'm a 1st year student or 1st year student to be anyways "
Yang and Ruby are stood together dressed fairly casually with the former having her wings tucked in as far as they'll go and the latter's cloak having her legions badge proudly displayed on it with a rose hanging out of its teeth, the two close cousins are talking when Ruby notices Jaune "no...it can't be Jaune?" She whispers loud enough that Yang hears it and growls " what. Did. You. say. " Despite Qrow telling and confirming Jaune's innocence Yang still harbours a deeply held rage and blame of the heresy on his shoulders.
Ruby gulps saying "it's Jaune Lupercal... He's coming to Beacon to, who is that he's talking to?" Yang focuses her mind to calm down and answers "that's Pyrrha Nikos, a famous champion fighter, we've done some modelling work before."
Ruby who is idly reading through blueprints and designs on her scroll says "oh that's really cool but what do we do? Wait to introduce ourselves? Or...?"
yang Responds "we wait, remember what "uncle" Qrow said, don't speak to someone you recognise as a demi Primarch about that subject unless in private or in a different language "
Pyrrha is secretly thankfully she was famous for wearing a helmet as much as she did as she speaks to Jaune finding heroes getting along surprisingly well with him.
Blake however is on a different part of the ship in a private cabin using a hand hololith to speak to the captain of her night lords on the worlds surface, captain Adrion "my lady, there is a high spike in White Fang activity in the Vale, I request your orders on what is to be done with them, I still insist that you have an honour guard with you, you are too important to risk"
Blake sighs deeply "have 5 brethren's ready to act in the Vale at all times, Fledaine hunters to be exact, they are not to be following me but keep watch, this will be the last time we speak of this captain. As for the White Fang... Monitor them, strike only when necessary and keep lethality to a minimum and deliver those captured to the authorities." She cuts the connection there before taking a seat on the thin mattress bed and sighing and hoping to high heaven that they still have the discipline to not murder of leave flayed corpses as most of them in this strike force are of Konrads' gene seed.
Weiss Schnee is stood in her own cabin looking through a private scroll she keeps solely to speak with her adopted sister Winter Schnee who she's grown very attached to over the years to the point of a romantic bond she suspected was brewing between the two of them due to winters incredible skill and intelligence reminding her of Rylanor in a lot of aspects. with a particular semi revealing photo winter had sent her suspensions are depended.
She also uses it to monitor her private armoury form her father's meddling with it as he's grown increasingly adamant about reverse engineering her armour and shield technology and has even dared to strike her for not allowing it and the day before as she left, he had tried to use her adoptive little brother as a way to try and convince her to allow it, which ended up with said brother being psychically punched by her and her farther trying to slap her but being frozen in ice up to his neck.
She sighs as she looks at the semi revealing photo as it's winter in a state of undressing form her uniform by undoing her buttons and stopping at the midpoint of the breast line with her thumb suggestively hooked into the next button down. Weiss having never truly understood herself isn't entirely sure what her feelings are towards her adoptive sister mostly due to being raised by both the emperor who whilst being a great teacher was terrible at recognising certain emotions and Rylanor both not exactly being great candidates to speak about one's emotion to.
"I hope I can find some measure of answers here and Qrow follows through on his promise...but I'm not too sure I'm going to like what remember" as she remembers occasionally that she can hear the dim of a thundering battle or one phrase "the ancient awaits"...The
Holding into her rapier built out of the remains of what was once her power/force sword and comments "I could use with your advice Rylanor... it clams me..."
to be continued...