(Kratos pov)
We come back to the amphitheater, and I see a lot of students and teachers waiting for my arrival eagerly. The students have looks of amazement and anything of that sort while the teachers look at me with newfound respect. I walk in and the whole crowd cheered for me, both students and teachers. I walk on the stage and start speaking into the voice amplifier.
"Now that you've all seen what I can do, I hope you all will show me what you can do when in my class, but until then have a good day." I say
The crowd cheers for me again before Ozpin dismisses them back to their dorms or their classes that were put on hold. As I walk down the stage, Oobleck and Port walk over to me.
"That was amazing young man! I've never seen such skill and power before!" Port says with a laugh.
"Indeed, I agree with Peter here, now it makes sense why you asked how difficult the initiation was. Well congratulations on your success Mr. Dominus" Oobleck says.
"Thank you, both of you, for your kind words. For now though, I need to have a talk with Ozpin about something" I say
They nod and I walk past them and catch up to Ozpin.
"So, where's Glynda, she's usually always by your side?" I ask.
"Glynda has some paperwork to do and to teach her classes, now what would you like to talk about Dominus?" He asks.
"Well let's talk about that in your office, shall we?" I say and he nods having an idea on what I want to talk about.
'Kratos, can you hear me?' I hear Ker's voice, but I don't see him anywhere.
'I'm speaking to you telepathically Kratos, I just found out I can do this because we have a connection with each other. Just talk in your mind and I should be able to hear it' he says.
'Like this? Can you hear me Ker?' I ask.
'I can hear you loud and clear Kratos' He replies.
'Well that's good, and assuming that this doesn't have a limit on how far away we can communicate with each other, than it could be very useful when I need you to spy on people.' I say.
'Indeed it is' He says.
'I have a question for you Ker. Can you tell me what Salem is like from when you last saw her?' I ask.
'Hmm, if my memory serves me right then, she is a decently tall woman with deathly pale skin much more pale than even Weiss'. She wears a jet-black dress with a boob window and has completely black sclera and red irises with black veins running along her arms and the sides of her face. I don't know about her personality, but I once heard when I was patrolling her castle that she said something along the lines of 'I will get what I want and no one, not even Ozma will stop me'. I don't know what's her goal or who Ozma is but whatever it is she wants; it's probably going to be bad for all of us' Ker explains as me and Ozpin ride up to the 100th floor.
'That was very informative, thank you Ker. I'm going to ask Ozpin about this, he seems like he knows more than he lets on' I say.
After more waiting we finally arrive at the top floor. I'm glad I had Ker to talk to, otherwise that ride would have been much more boring. Ozpin sits on his chair, and I sit in front of him.
"Now before this even starts, I'm going to assume you want to ask me about me being the only one with mana other than you?" He asks.
"That is a correct assumption, now if you would kindly answer it." I say.
"Well to put it simply without having to give you a very long-winded explanation, I have lived much longer than I look. And over time people that have been able to use mana decreased over time until I was the only ones left that's able to use it. Does that answer your question Dominus?" He says.
Whether he's lying or not I can't tell, but that's all the info I have so I'll trust him for now. "That does, thank you. And I have another one that I want to ask you. Because to me, you seem like a person that knows more than what he lets on. So, I'm asking you Ozpin, do you know a person called Ozma?" I ask.
He was taking a drink as I was talking, and he choked on whatever he was drinking. After coughing a few he looks at me in bewildered. "Where did you hear that name?" He asks a little too quickly and aggressively almost shouting too.
"Where I found out is not important, what is important however is, do you know him?" I ask.
I look at his face and he looks to be having a fierce internal debate on what to tell me. So I wait patiently, rushing him isn't going to give me a good answer anyways.
After some more time he finally decides and looks at me seriously, "Dominus, can I trust you? Can I trust that you will not let anything I say out of this room?" He asks.
"Yes, you can. And since you're trusting me, I will trust you. My true name is Kratos." I answer seriously myself.
"*sigh* Very well then, Kratos. The man you call Ozma is standing right before you" he says.
"Wait so you're him? Then what makes this so serious if all you did was change your name?" I ask. He must be an important person, seeing Salem mentioning him specifically.
"Because, Kratos. Only one other person in the world knows of my past name and that is Salem." He says.
"Oh, so that's why you're so serious about all this" I say.
"You're talking as if you already know who Salem is." He says with suspicion.
"That's because I do." I say.
"And how do you know her?" He asks.
"Through him" I say as Ker comes out of my shadow shocking Ozpin.
He immediately jumps and swings his cane at him, but I quickly block it.
"Ozpin calm down, I made a pact with him!" I shout.
"You what!? How do you even know how to do that!? And being able to make a pact with an ancient grimm such as this requires a giant amount of mana!" He shouts losing all his composure.
I sit back down and so does he, "he told me how to make a pact because I let him live and offered to heal him with my mana only if he pledged his loyalty to me. He agreed and was confused why I wasn't saying the chant to make the pact, so I asked him about it and he told me what to say. And I do have a very large amount of mana, I increased it over the years." I say.
He deadpans at me before sighing deeply and resting his head on his hand while rubbing his temples. He puts his hand under the table, and I hear a click.
"I'm too sober for this." He says as a cabinet rises from the ground filled with bottles of alcohol.
He takes two and give one to me before opening it and downing the bottle. I might as well since it was offered. I drink it and I tasted the alcohol, but it wasn't even that strong, to me it's no different than drinking water.
"Much better, now what you don't know however is that Salem used to be my wife" he says after downing almost all of the bottle.
"Explain." I say while the boy plays with Ker that's in a miniature version of himself which is as big as a normal wolf.
Ozpin then explains about his past, him saving Salem from her castle and them getting together. Eventually dying to a disease, Salem going to the gods' domain. Him being destroyed and recreated again as the gods were arguing. Then he was given a power to reincarnate until he completed the task of uniting humanity given to him by the god of light and Salem was cursed with immortality.
They reunited after all of humanity was destroyed by the god of darkness. They acted like gods themselves with the powers they were given. Got kids, Ozpin telling what the god of light tasked him with to Salem. They disagreed and Ozpin tried to sneak out with the kids but got caught. He fought with her killing their children in the process.
Ozpin reincarnated spending whole lifetimes mourning and drinking his life away. Decided to get his shit together and asked Jinn where the relics were, what they did, and how he could destroy Salem. He found out that Salem couldn't be destroyed. And even with that knowledge in mind he continued on and helped humanity until here we are sitting here.
"Gods causing trouble again? They all are idiots." I say sighing.
"Gods have caused you trouble before?" He asks.
"They have, which eventually lead to me killing them" I say surprising him yet again for the third time in the past hour.
"So the legends were true.. you're the one who killed Ares along with the other gods. You... are the Ghost of Sparta..." He says.
"That explains the blades you're using and why they have a different feel to them compared to other weapons. And you lecturing Ms. Nikos about fleeing from that deathstalker makes that much more sense." He says.
"There are legends of me?" I ask.
"There are, you can look it up on your scroll later. If that is all, could you please leave me to my thoughts? I need some time to myself." He says.
"Alright, I'll be going then. Boy, Ker, let's go." I say standing up and walking away as Ker gets back in my shadow and the boy follows.
We enter and I press the button to the 12th floor to drop the boy off in my room so I can go to Glynda's class so I can see how she teaches.
"Hey, are you really the man from legends?" The boy asks.
"Of course I am, you doubt me boy?" I ask.
"No, just wanting to reassure myself. And since that's true, I have such a cool guardian! He literally made legends!" The boy shouts happily which earns a smile and a laugh from me.
We arrive at the 12th floor, and I drop the boy off before heading to Glynda's class as it is about to start. I enter it and I see Glynda is the only one in class, she notices me and puts her scroll away.
"Hello there Dominus, what are you doing here?" She asks.
"Just going to watch how you teach so don't mind me." I say as I walk behind her.
"Fine, just don't do anything to disrupt the class" she says.
"Disruptions huh, you mean something like this?" I say as I spank her butt again, and she was not expecting it and let out a small moan.
"Could you not!? What if someone heard me just now!?" She shouted but she complained about being found out and not me actually spanking her.
"Hehe, then can we go somewhere and do it then?" I ask.
She looks at me shocked and with a massive blush on her face before looking away but not before I hear, "I'd love to" she said barely audible, but I managed to hear it.
"Oh, what was that Glynda? You'd love to you say?" I ask with a shit eating grin.
"Shut up, idiot!" She shouts and I just laugh.
"Well you didn't say no, so I'll meet you at Beacon's courtyard on Saturday at let's say 10a.m." I say and before she could respond, students start filling the class, so she has to deal with it.
As everyone takes a seat Ruby speaks up, "Hey professor Glynda, why is your face red? Are you ok?" She asks as I snicker at that question.
"I'm fine, now no more interruptions. Your new Professor, Dominus is here to watch so don't mind him and continue on with the lesson as you would usually. Now to start off with some sparring, any volunteers?" She asks.
Nobody volunteered so she picked herself.
"Jaune Arc and Cardin Winchester, you two get down here and prepare to spar" she says.
They both do and she counts them down. As she says 'go' Cardin does a big and wide swing with his mace, Jaune puts up his shield, but the force slams him into the wall. Cardin goes for an overhead smash while putting his whole weight into it. Jaune rolls out of the way and strikes the unprotected part of Cardin's stomach which makes him go back a couple steps.
Jaune, with some confidence ran at Cardin but leaving himself wide open which Cardin takes advantage of. He swings his mace and Jaune not being in a proper form to block gets hit with the full force of it sending him flying back.
"Match over! Jaune's aura has been shattered making Cardin the winner. Now can anyone tell me why he lost?" Glynda asks the class.
Weiss then raises her hand, Glynda nods letting her speak.
"It's because he had poor form and attacked at the wrong time." She answers.
"Correct, and although Cardin won, what do you think he did wrong?" Glynda asks again.
This time it was Pyrrha who raised her hand, Glynda nods and she answers.
"He put all his weight into his swings and his strikes are wide and slow which would be easy to dodge." She says.
"Correct, now you two get back up and the next spar will begin." Glynda says.
And that cycles continued, sparring, then evaluating it on what they did wrong and what to do to get better, and then onto the next spar. This happens until it's time for the class to end.
"And that's the last spar of this lesson, you are all dismissed" She announces and the whole class leaves in a few minutes.