As I can see the ground getting closer, I stab my blades into the wall and slow down my descent before jumping off getting the attention of the three ladies.
"*Chuckle* You must really be confident or just plain stupid if you think you can stop all three of us by yourself." Cinder says as she steps in front of Raven.
"Oh don't worry about me, I'm more than enough. In fact, this is probably overkill." I say with a grin as I take out my blades.
She summons her own blades with a small smile plastered on her face. As she's about to charge at me though, Raven suddenly sends a strong kick to Cinder's back causing her to fly at me. As surprised as I am I take the opportunity and deliver a strong uppercut to her chin sending her into the air and earning a shout of pain and a broken jaw.
Raven appears in front of Cinder mid air and slashes her midsection at and angle causing her to get launched downwards. I dash forward in time to meet Cinder and grab her face before dragging her across the ground, breaking it as I go before throwing her into the rocks besides a red giant gate.
"Truce?" Raven asks with her hand out.
'Truce." I say shaking her hand.
We look to where I threw Cinder and suddenly a giant pulse of fire explodes from where she probably is. We had to block our eyes since she kicked up a lot of dust but once it's settled down I can Cinder with some of her clothes burnt off revealing her grimm arm and an absolutely enraged expression with fire coming out of her eyes.
'Ker, you think you can help on this one?'
'I'll try Kratos, we grimm are naturally weak to the powers of the maidens.'
'So she's a maiden huh? I guessed as much.'
'I'm not so sure of this but I think that Raven is the spring maiden since if feel a little bit of that power leaking out.'
'Alright, thanks for the heads up.'
We didn't have to say anything as Raven turned to a raven and waited for an opening to attack. Cinder suddenly charged at me with renewed vigor and a very noticeable increase in speed. We immediately get in a a clash of blades where either I parry, block, or dodge her attacks while getting small cuts which mean little to nothing as it heals a moment later.
But I can see that the fact that Cinder hasn't been able to cleanly get a hit on me is causing her to quickly get more and more frustrated. We enter a blade lock and Cinder's face is red from a combination of anger and her trying with all her might to overpower me.
"*Smirk* Having trouble?"
"Shut up!" She shouts as she puts more force which I easily match.
'Ker get in her shadow and get to strike'
'Alright, ready when you are'
And without a word I quickly spin around Cinder and slash at her back. And with all the force she was putting she didn't have enough time to react and so she fell forward.
'Now!'
Ker then comes out of her shadow and bites and gets a good grip on her before he violently shakes Cinder around, tearing away the flesh from her causing her to again shout in pain. Ker then kicks her at me before I stab both my blades into her back while they're on fire before punching her into the air as Raven appears before Cinder and slashes her blade at very fast speeds leaving trails of red before ending it with a final slash sending the now unconscious Cinder down into the ravine surrounding the platform, we're on.
Raven lands in front of me and looks at Ker with an interested look.
"You were able to tame a grimm?"
"Not exactly, we're partners in a way."
"*Impressed whistle* Wow, never in my life would I have ever thought I would get to see someone working with a grimm."
"Right, and I'm guessing the relic is behind that gate?"
"You would be correct. But I do hope that you're not going to be a fool and give the relic to Ozpin? You're wasting your effort in trying to stop Salem, she's immortal, she can't be killed."
"*scoff* That's what people said about the last 'immortal' I killed. She isn't immortal, you're simply just not strong enough."
"*Sigh* Then you are a fool, I was tempted to let you join my tribe for the feat of power you've shown but it seems I set my hopes too high."
"Fool or not, you're going to open that gate one way or another."
"Make me."
"Gladly."
Ker basically teleported from my shadow to hers and bites down on her legs holding her in place. Before she turns into her bird form I quickly send a punch to her face with enough power that it caused her aura to shatter and sending her into the ground knocked out.
The other girl who I just remembered existed came running at me in a futile attempt to stop me. But before she even makes it halfway, Ker -who was quickly travelling between shadows- jumps out from her shadow before biting her leg and slams her into the ground multiple times knocking her out quickly.
'So how do I get the gate to open?'
'I believe that Raven just has to make physical contact with it'
Trying what Ker said I drag Raven to the gate and put her hand on it. Nothing happens for a few seconds before the gate glows a bright orange and opens inwards. Inside it I see endless dunes of sand and a weirdly shaped object floating on top of a rock pedestal.
'I'm assuming that's the relic?'
'It is, I feel the natural attraction to it that it should have.'
'It naturally attracts grimm?'
'Yes it does'
'Well good for you then, you get more prey'
'*chuckle* Indeed, I guess that's one way of seeing it.'
I step through the gate and the air feels different, where 'outside' it feels slightly damp, while 'inside' it feels dry. Not wasting any time I walk over to the relic and pick it up to take a closer looks at it. I can see that it has luxurious engravings on the gold parts of it.
'So how would you use this particular relic?'
'I believe that you must call out the spirit in the relic named 'Jinn' and she will answer any one question you have.'
'I see, well I don't I'm going to ask how I got here in the first place. Although I'm curious it's not the most important thing right now.'
I hook the relic to my side and exit the gate as it closes by itself.
'Should we wake her up?'
'Your choice Kratos, your choice.'
'Alright, waking her up it is.'
I crouch down to the unconscious Raven and super heat my blades before putting it on her hands. This causes Raven to immediately wake up and recoil from the pain.
"What the fuck!?"
"Had to get you up somehow, that was the quickest way."
"*Sigh* Why'd you even wake me up anyway? Why didn't you just leave me?"
"So you can get away of course."
"And why are you letting me go?"
"Because you don't seem like that bad of a person. And random question here, by any chance are you related to Yang?"
"I'm her mother. What about her?"
"I'm curious if you've heard that she's been kidnaped."
It takes a moment for her to process what I just said before she shouts, "MY DAUGHTER'S BEEN WHAT!?"
"Kidnaped. By Cinder during the attack on Beacon which is likely by Salem's orders."
"THAT BITCH." She growls and grips her sword's handle tightly with her whole body shaking in anger.
"Alright, I'm coming with you, and that's final!"
"Oh? And what happened to being a fool for trying to kill Salem?"
"I don't care! And I'll be damned if I don't do something about it!"
"Then welcome to the party."
I help her up and she puts the other girl on her shoulder.
"So what's her name?"
"Vernal."
"Right, you have a way out of here that doesn't involve you turning into a bird or me carrying her on my back as I climb?"
"Luckily for you, I do. My semblance allows me to make a portal leading to a person that I have bonded with before, and one of those people happens to be my brother Qrow."
"And you don't have one for Yang?"
"Sadly no, left her a few months after she was born. But even if I did I doubt I would be able to reach her since my semblance has a limit to how far it can go."
"Alright, I won't question your choices. Let's just go now."
She nods before slashing a red portal open before walking through it. Ker goes back into my shadow before I follow after Raven. We appear on the other side to see the room almost full of knocked out and possibly dead bodies of those people with the strange matching uniforms.
When Qrow and the other sees Raven they quickly get into fighting position.
"Wait, wait. She's with us now." I say
"What do you mean with us?" Qrow asks suspicious of Raven.
"What he means is that I'm on your side now you idiot of a brother. I just found out what happened to my daughter, and I'll be damned if I don't do anything about it!" Shouted Raven.
"She has a daughter?" Asked Nora.
"Yang." Ruby and Qrow both said.
This causes a look of shock to appear on all their faces before a look of understanding as they can see the resemblances between the two.
"How do we know we can trust you?" Ren asks still not convinced.
That is until Ozpin walks from behind and says, "I believe you shouldn't doubt the word of a mother when she talks about saving her child Mr. Lie."
After a few moments he sighs and puts his weapons down before the others follow, "Fine, but I'll be keeping a close eye on you." He says pointing at Raven.
She just scoffs before saying, "Like you could do anything to me."
At this moment I noticed that Blake was now here, "When did she get here?" I ask pointing at her.
"She got here when we were in the middle of fighting off the white fang." Weiss answered.
"Right! Well I'm sure that we're all tired after today so why don't we head back and catch some shut eye and we sort through all of this tomorrow?" Asked Torchwick who walk into Ravens view.
"Torchwick? What are you doing here?" Raven asks.
"Long story short, Ruby here got into a relationship with this guy back in Beacon and have continued until now." Answered Qrow.
"And you don't have a problem with this?" Raven asks.
"Of course I do, why wouldn't I when my niece is dating a criminal mastermind!" Qrow says.
"I'm flattered." Roman says bowing causing Ruby to elbow his ribs.
"… You know what, let's just go back to wherever you're staying. Too much has happened today." Says Raven.
She gets nods of agreement before we make our way back to get some sleep.
AN: Sorry it took a while to upload but here's the next chapter
