"Speaking"
"Speaking in a different language. (The language will be clarified if used in speech and not for effect)"
'Thinking'
Spells
Warning spoilers ahead in this chapter. This is an FT chapter, that means that there will either be a little bit of the RWBY characters involved or not in this chapter at all.
Nightmares
Rebecca's POV
"Ha, I'll slaughter your comrades one by one or should I do it all at once? The choice is yours, Princess. Pfft." Acnologia asks me.
"Please just don't, leave them alone!" I reply desperately.
"You think pleading will stop me! Just watch this!" All I can see is the faint movements of my old and new friends, my family as black silhouettes fading away. Then the blood is splattered all over the floor as he cuts them down brutally. I see my friends being sliced in half, torn limb from limb, all of them being slaughtered in different ways.
What can I do to help them? I'll fight and save them from despair! "You will never take me down. I'll take you down so that my family can live!" I charge at him as fast as possible and enchant myself.
"Hahaha, mah hahaha. I think this will change your mind when I show you what I have done to your precious younger siblings." He crackles in front of me.
My hair begins to go back to its natural colour of silver and my eyes switch from brown to their original sun yellow colour. "You won't lay a finger on them!"
"Oh, really that's a shame. Oh well, it does not matter because I already have." He laughs in mockery. Acnologia then places a picture in the sky of what he has already done.
This makes me disappear as tears fall down my face. I scream out just seeing them in those crystals ready to be sacrificed. "No little BROTHER, little SISTER Please NOOOOO! Get ooouuut of their, break free pleeease." I scream at the frozen, crystallized status of the dragon slayers. "I never got the chance to tell you who I am so please break free please." I go from screaming to sobbing in a matter of seconds. The fire that was lit just got smothered by despair. "Why. Please open your eyes." I whisper. "Cover my eyes, tell me this is all a lie. It can't be true that I'm losing you. So please come back. I want to see your smile's that spark of hope aways in your eyes. Please just open your eyes." I sob with trickles of water pouring down my face as if I was in a storm but on a sunny day.
"How about I give you a front-row seat of their deaths? MHA Mha Mha." All I can hear after that is the screams of my family, of the five I helped raise. Their souls became silent after a few hours. No longer in the mortal plane. All hope gone in a matter of seconds; lost to the darkness of the void. "Now it's your turn to die!"
With one quick blast to the chest, I slowly begin to blackout. "I'm sorry, I couldn't protect you. Mother, you may hate me but I know you loved them, I want to say I'm sorry but you may never see them again." Then I drew my final breath.
3rd person
Rebecca wakes up panting, "That was just a dream, not how it actually happened. Still if only I saved them all." Rebecca then gets out of bed and goes to the window. Looking up into the sky she thinks, 'What a beautiful night don't you think, Guys. Who am I kidding they can't hear me.' "Well, I better get some sleep." With that, she walks back to the bottom bunk on the right-hand side and closes her eyes and sees this.
Rebecca's POV
I can see my old home burning to the ground. My 'adoptive' brother dying and I'm trying to save him, but I failed to do so. All gone. Nothing left.
3rd person
She wakes up again, but every time she tries to go to sleep she either falls asleep and has the same nightmare or she closes her eyes and sees that exact same picture. In the end, Rebecca only gets 3 hours of sleep.
7:00 am the alarm goes off and continues on for several minutes until a certain redhead gets very mad. "WILL YOU ALL GET UP WE HAVE CLASSES TODAY AND WILL THAT STUPID ALARM JUST UP!" Erza shouts so loud that it can be heard from a mile away.
"5 more minutes." the rest of the team mumble.
"NO! YOU ALL WILL GET UP NOW! OR WILL I HAVE TO GET JESSIE OUT!" Erza practically screams.
"Yes Ma'am!" The boys squeal and rush out of bed with Grey ending on top of Natsu. After Grey realizes he is on top of Natsu, he quickly gets up off of Natsu. This then sparks a fire to be then smothered by an angry redhead.
"Oi Ice Princess why the hell were you on top of me?!"
"Well, it's not my fault that you are flipping slower than me!"
"Natsu Grey you are not to fight or use that kind of language in school or anywhere near people who are too young to know such words! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!" Erza shouts again.
"Yes Ma'am!" Grey says while hugging Natsu out of fear.
"Aye," Natsu answers while hugging Grey.
"Guys would you shut up, I'm trying to actually get some sleep here." Rebecca murmurs while trying to catch up on all the sleep she missed.
"Come on Rebecca, we have classes you don't want to be late, do you?" Erza asks, friendly.
"I don't care, I need my sleep. Now go away." Rebecca continues murmuring.
"Shouldn't you have gotten enough rest last night?"
"Yep probably, but I didn't get much sleep last night."
"Well, you need to go to lessons if you ever want to graduate."
"Ok ok fine I'll get up, but only because you asked so nicely." While she is saying that Rebecca slowly gets out of bed, "Hey guys what time is it?" After that, she finally opens her eyes. She stretches and then stands up.
"It's 8:30," Natsu replies.
"Already!" The other three shout. Within the space of 10 minutes, the entire team is ready to go to class.
"Do we really have to go to class because I want some sleep," Rebecca asks while a small smile curves upon her face becoming the perfect disguise for her sadness.
"YES, YOU DO! YOU CAN GET SOME SLEEP WHEN WE GET BACK FROM CLASS! And now let's do fifty push-ups to wake us up before we go to class. CAPISH?" Erza commands.
"Nope, Erza you're on your own here right guys."
"Yup." The Ice and Fire rivals reply and then think at the same time, 'Ha with Rebs on our side we won't get beaten up for disobeying Erza.'
"Are you neglecting your duties as a team leader?" An annoyed Erza asks.
"What duties am I neglecting, Erza?" Rebecca asks back with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh, I don't know, LIKE TRAINING YOUR TEAM TO BE STRONGER EVERY DAY!" Erza starts off sarcastic and ends with screaming.
"No, that's not my duty, that's school's duty. Look at the time. Welp if we don't get going we'll be late for sure and you're the one that wants to be on time for class." With that, the team leaves for their classes. 4 hours later back in Team BRIS' dorm room. "Class was sooo boring. Guys, how did I survive that? Was it just luck?"
"Um, Rebecca you do realize you slept through most of the lessons." The rest of the team reply as if it is the most obvious thing in the world.
"Oh yeah I did, but that was because they were soooooo boring."
"I agree. Although I would say they were much better than Erza's torcher lessons."
"Do you DISS MY TEACHING METHODS!"
"Well yes I do, and let's be honest you will never be a teacher."
"Erza, Natsu is right not that I'm saying mine are any better, in fact I believe them to be worse, and Erza could you stop with the shouting."
"Don't remind me of how you would teach in comparison to Anna, it was hell," Natsu says while a shiver creeps up his spine.
"Speaking of Anna, I forgot to tell you guys that she raised me as soon as I was reborn on Remnant."
"She did?!"
"Yes, Natsu she did. In fact, I believe she is around the same age as Ichiya and known as a friend to all kingdoms."
"Will I get to see her again?"
"I believe you will, at the Vytal Festival."
"Who's this Anna person?" A confused Grey wonders aloud.
"Oh, right I forgot Grey you are the only one in this room who has not met her. Well her full name is Anna Heatfilia and she is Lucy's ancestor from 400 years in the past. Did you know that the Heartfilia name has actually been passed down from female to female, not the normal way."
"Interesting. Wait a second, I have another question if she is from 400 years in the past then how do you, Natsu and Erza know her?"
"Well, the answer is simple. Natsu and four other dragon slayers who were tort by dragons their magic went through the Eclipse gate with Anna, and then it was opened 400 yours later in the year x777 on the 7th of the 7 At 1:00 in the morning by Layla Heartfila, using the 12 zodiac keys to open the gate. Erza then met Anna just before she died and then revived Remnant."
"Wait then how do you know, Anna and the dragon slayers if they were born 400 years ago?"
"Grey, even if you don't know who I truly am you should know the answer to that question." Space and time itself suddenly stops momentarily for the memory to pass.
"Yeah sorry about that, but I was also going to ask about Natsu and well how do I put this E.N.D," Grey asks in an attempt to lighten the mood.
"I'll answer that later after lunch and activities."
"Ok."
They then go and have lunch after a few hours they return to their dorm room.
"So about that question?
"Natsu and well how do I put this E.N.D?" Grey asks again to remind Rebecca of his question.
"How do I put this? Well, basically Natsu died when he was little in a fire. I believe he was 7 or 6 years of age at that time. When I met Zeref this had already happened and he was going to college to find a way to revive Natsu. He told me what had happened when I asked him if he was ok. I told him he should not mess in life and death unless he wants to become immortal. You may ask how did I know that he would become immortal. It is because there is a legend on Earthland of a girl and boy who come from a different world like ours but different. They both became immortal but two different types of immortal.
One day the lover of the girl fell ill and died so the girl went to the god of light and asked him if he could revive the boy. The god of light explained to the girl that life and death are part of a delicate balance which must stay intact. The girl cursed the god of light and went to his younger brother the god of darkness. She manipulated him to think that she went there first and so the god of darkness revived the boy. This caused the god of light to go over to his brother and explain things to him. For the actions of the girl a punishment was to be given. She was flung into the pool of creation giving her immortality until she learned the meaning of life and death. After that, she recruited a lot of people to make an army for her vengeance. The gods hoped that she would learn from her mistakes and she did. It was that humans are easily swayed. They went to the gods to take them down, but instead of it ending with the gods gone it ended with the human race being wiped off of the planet. The girl was once again alone. Eventually, she had a brilliant idea if the pools of creation gave her immortality then surely the pools of darkness would take it away. Unfortunately, she was wrong. The pools of darkness cannot kill someone with immortality, only make a creature with immortality and the desire of pure destruction. Later the boy was confronted by the god of light and given the task of uniting all of humanity. His immortality is of reincarnation, every time he dies his soul moves on to another body with an already existing soul then merging to become one. That is how I know about cursing to be immortal.
So back to the story. All the contraptions Zeref had come up with were all for Natsu's sake. His first one was the R-system, the one which needs many human sacrifices. I know all of you have come into contact with that one and the next one too. The Eclipse Gate is the next one and finally he decided to use the most taboo magic of them all, Living magic. From which the Etherious was born, the final Etherious ever made was Natsu, but he is the special case you see Natsu had two souls but no longer sins his book was rewritten by Lucy." 'Why did I say that it was the first time I met Zeref. They all know that was not the first time. Maybe it was because I thought it was better for Natsu, not knowing that they know more about me than he does. It's not the right time yet. Natsu I'm sorry, but I will tell you this secret eventually when the time is right.'
"Is that it?"
"Yes, Grey that is it. Now I think it's time to go to bed, don't you?"
"Yup." The rest of the team replies. With that, the day ends and the nightmare begins.
Rebecca's POV
"Ha, I'll slaughter your comrades one by one or should I do it all at once? The choice is yours, Princess. Pfft." Acnologia asks me.
"Please just don't, leave them alone!" I reply desperately.
"You think pleading will stop me! Just watch this!" All I can see is the faint movements of my old and new friends, my family as black silhouettes fading away. Then the blood is splattered all over the floor as he cuts them down brutally. I see my friends being sliced in half, torn limb from limb, all of them being slaughtered in different ways.
What can I do to help them? I'll fight and save them from despair! "You will never take me down. I'll take you down so that my family can live!" I charge at him as fast as possible and enchant myself.
"Haha, ha mah hahaha. I think this will change your mind when I show you what I have done to your precious younger siblings." He crackles in front of me.
My hair begins to go back to its natural colour of silver and my eyes switch from brown to their original sun yellow colour. "You won't lay a finger on them!"
"Oh, really that's a shame. Oh well, it does not matter because I already have." He laughs in mockery. Acnologia then places a picture in the sky of what he has already done.
This makes me disappear as tears fall down my face. I scream out just seeing them in those crystals ready to be sacrificed. "No little BROTHER, little SISTER Please NOOOOO! Get ooouuut of their, break free pleeease." I scream at the frozen, crystallized status of the dragon slayers. "I never got the chance to tell you who I am so please break free please." I go from screaming to sobbing in a matter of seconds. The fire that was lit just got smothered by despair. "Why. Please open your eyes." I whisper. "Cover my eyes, tell me this is all a lie. It can't be true that I'm losing you. So please come back. I want to see your smile's that spark of hope aways in your eyes. Please just open your eyes." I sob with trickles of water pouring down my face as if I was in a storm but on a sunny day.
"How about I give you a front-row seat of their deaths? MHA haha." All I can hear after that is the screams of my family, of the five I helped raise. Their souls became silent after a few hours. No longer in the mortal plane. All hope gone in a matter of seconds; lost to the darkness of the void. "Now it's your turn to die!"
With one quick blast to the chest, I slowly begin to blackout. "I'm sorry, I couldn't protect you. Mother, you may hate me but I know you loved them, I want to say I'm sorry but you may never see them again." Then I drew my final breath.
3rd person
Rebecca wakes up panting, "Again? Why does this have to happen to me?" She gets out of bed and walks over to the window and opens it. 'If only I had all of my power back then, I would have won easily. I suppose that it's the price for having your magic sealed away. No matter what I did, I couldn't unlock my magic, not until the last moment when I had already lost everything, but it was too late. I died before I could even use my magic. The real question is why am I having nightmares now. I know that when I was just reborn I would have nightmares, but that was because it had only just happened. So, why now?' Those questions remained in her head for some time until eventually, she fell asleep on the windowsill.
Specks of light slowly came through the window. Mixing with colours of red, orange and yellow. The bright light slowly awakes Rebecca from her dreamless sleep. "Morning already? What's the time? It's 5:30. Way too early. I'm going to try and sleep." After saying that she walks back over to her bed and goes to sleep.
7:00 am the alarm goes off and continues for several minutes until a certain redhead gets very mad. "WILL YOU ALL GET UP WE HAVE CLASSES TODAY AND WILL THAT STUPID ALARM JUST UP!" Erza shouts so loud that it can be heard from a mile away.
"Alright, another day of boring school! How fun." Rebecca replies sarcastically. A suspicious snore or rather two suspicious snores could still be heard in the room.
"BOYS GET UP OR WE WILL BE COMING FOR YOU! GET OUT OF BED NOW!" The Queens of terror shout.
"Yes, Ma'ams." The squeamish boys reply.
A knocking sound is heard. "Come in?" Rebecca says from the inside of the door.
Two angry team leaders come through the door in their pj's. "Oh hey Rubes, Vomit boy. Whatcha doing here?"
"We came here to tell you to keep the noise down. We can literally hear you from a mile away. Every morning!" The team leaders reply.
"Hehe sorry about that Rubes, but I can't quiet down the two females in the room, because they are really scary and you don't want to get on their bad side."
"DID YOU JUST CALL US SCARY! YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT!"
"Yeah like that. Owwww that hurt. Did you guys have to hit me?"
"Well now you should have learned your lesson, never call us scary again."
"Yes, Ma'ams," Natsu replies.
"Guys let's go-to breakfast. I don't want to miss it like we did yesterday!" Rebecca says to her team. With that, the team BRIS and the leaders of teams RWBY and JNPR leave the room. Ruby and Jaune go back to their rooms and team BRIS goes to breakfast.
_4 Hours later after lunch_
In Team BRIS' room, "Hey Rebs, so the other day I still had one more question to ask." Grey tells Rebecca.
"Ok Grey spill it." She replies.
"Ok, umm what was it? It was….. umm ahh I remember. So I was going to ask if what you told us about that legend is true and it exists on Earthland then why don't any of us know about this legend?"
"Good question." Erza and Natsu remark.
Rebecca gulps and begins thinking 'I. Where do I know this from? When was I told about this legend? Is it a part of another legend? Yes, that's it! It's from the Legend of Time, which has been passed down the Ethiero family for generations.'
"Hello, Eathland to Rebecca?" Grey asks.
"Wha? Oh right sorry about that. Anyways I just remembered the answer to your question. So this legend is a part of another, but you would never have heard of it because only my family knows this legend. It's been passed down, my family for generations." Rebeca finally answers.
After talking for hours on end, it's time to go to bed. Allowing the night to take them away into an endless slumber one of dreams or nightmares.
Rebecca's POV
"Ha, I'll slaughter your comrades one by one or should I do it all at once? The choice is yours, Princess. Pfft." Acnologia asks me.
"Please just don't, leave them alone!" I reply desperately.
"You think pleading will stop me! Just watch this!" All I can see is the faint movements of my old and new friends, my family as black silhouettes fading away. Then the blood is splattered all over the floor as he cuts them down brutally. I see my friends being sliced in half, torn limb from limb, all of them being slaughtered in different ways.
What can I do to help them? I'll fight and save them from despair! "You will never take me down. I'll take you down so that my family can live!" I charge at him as fast as possible and enchant myself.
"Haha, ha mah hahaha. I think this will change your mind when I show you what I have done to your precious younger siblings." He crackles in front of me.
My hair begins to go back to its natural colour of silver and my eyes switch from brown to their original sun yellow colour. "You won't lay a finger on them!"
"Oh, really that's a shame. Oh well, it does not matter because I already have." He laughs in mockery. Acnologia then places a picture in the sky of what he has already done.
This makes me disappear as tears fall down my face. I scream out just seeing them in those crystals ready to be sacrificed. "No little BROTHER, little SISTER Please NOOOOO! Get ooouuut of their, break free pleeease." I scream at the frozen, crystallized status of the dragon slayers. "I never got the chance to tell you who I am so please break free please." I go from screaming to sobbing in a matter of seconds. The fire that was lit just got smothered by despair. "Why. Please open your eyes." I whisper. "Cover my eyes, tell me this is all a lie. It can't be true that I'm losing you. So please come back. I want to see your smile's that spark of hope aways in your eyes. Please just open your eyes." I sob with trickles of water pouring down my face as if I was in a storm but on a sunny day.
"How about I give you a front-row seat of their deaths? MHA haha." All I can hear after that is the screams of my family, of the five I helped raise. Their souls became silent after a few hours. No longer in the mortal plane. All hope gone in a matter of seconds; lost to the darkness of the void. "Now it's your turn to die!"
With one quick blast to the chest, I slowly begin to blackout. "I'm sorry, I couldn't protect you. Mother, you may hate me but I know you loved them, I want to say I'm sorry but you may never see them again." Then I drew my final breath.
3rd person
Rebecca awakes sweating. "What again? What is it with me and nightmares, and why is it the same one over and over again? Even though it never happened, it happened completely differently." Rebecca mumbles to herself. She then walks to the window again, but this time does not go unnoticed.
Slowly Natsu opens his eyes and gets up. 'I knew something was up with her.' He gets out of bed and slowly goes towards Rebecca. "Hey Rebs." He whispers.
"Hi, Natsu." She replies, "Wait a second why are you up?"
"The question is why are you up? I've been noticing that you're different than you normally are, and eventually I figured it out."
"Yeah, you did. It makes sense why you're the one who figured it. Why do you act like an idiot? That's not the Natsu I know."
"You know why. I was going to ask if everything is ok and why you lied about that being the first time you met Zeref?"
"I don't know why I did."
"Alright, soo why are you awake, why don't you go back to bed?"
"I can't. I don't know why but I'm having nightmares about him."
"I would have thought you had gotten over it by now."
"So did I, but I think when I was talking to Weiss that it brought back bad memories. And because of that I can't sleep anymore. I just want to go home and see my younger sister Extal and Mom."
"Makes sense." Natsu then notices something by her waist, "Um Rebs what's that?"
"I was wondering when you would ask? I'll tell you. You see they are keys but not any old keys they are from the 10 Oddities of Remnant. In short, they are Celestial keys only found on Remnant. Did you know that Remnant, Edolas and Earthland are connected in some way?"
"Nope I didn't, but could you tell me more about those keys?"
"Ok ok. Well as I just told you there are ten of them. I have some of them. The ones that I have are, The gate of the White, The gate of the Black, The gate of the Grey, and The gate of the Split Demon. I don't have enough magic to even open one. It's because those 4 have either equal magic to Zeref or more magic than Zeref or maybe a tiny bit less, but that is still a lot of magic when you can't get very far or progress any further in magic."
"That's true. Without the key, we cannot progress in our magic. I know that it takes a lot of bravery, courage and devastation in this world for us to gain that key, but even then we still have to earn three more."
"True. There are a few more things you should know about the Keyes."
"What?"
"The tenth key is ….. Our way home."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Basically when the first nine keys are found the tenth will appear and it's a portal to Earthland and back."
"Home."
"Yes, but we will find it. Don't you think it's time to leave the past behind and move on knowing that there is hope, Natsu?"
"Yeah, I think it's time you choose what dream you have and overrule that nightmare."
"Thanks."
"Your welcome. Anything for family." After that conversation, the two went back to sleep and crushed the nightmare. The next morning after everyone is up and at breakfast.
"So Rebs, I was wondering if you knew why Anna and Ichiya are older then all of us?"
"Good question Natsu and I think it might have something to do with how they died but I have no clue on how they died so I could not say, but Erza was there so if I know how she died then maybe I can tell you."
"Well when they died they were pushing Acnilogia through the Time Rift but before he could eat it they died in the absolute nothingness."
"OF COURSE! The Time Rift! It makes total sense now."
"Ok so spill the beans. No pun intended. I am not becoming like my twin Yang."
"Ok, ok. So they went through the Time Rift and because it's a Rift intertwined with the fabric of space and time. So it distorted time which I believe still has to correct itself which is why those two are a completely different generation to us considering the fact that they had direct contact with the rift. It also affected us. You see we all died on the same day but the question is why weren't we born on the same day? It's because of the space-time distortion."
"Wow, that makes so much sense." The rest of the team gape, dropping whatever was in their hands at the time on the table.
"Hey Rebs I was wondering what did you dream about last night."
"Natsu you know not to pry in people's business."
"It's fin Erza last night I promised him I would tell him. I bet you're wondering why it's because I was having nightmares and Natsu helped me overcome it when he realized what was going on."
"Why didn't you tell us?!"
"I don't know, but I didn't. So my dream last night was that Lucy found a solution and did not follow my plan. So basically they found the Fairy Sphere spellbook. Erza and Mira managed to lure Acnologia's body onto a boat of ice that Grey and Lion made they ended up trapping Acnologia in the Fairy Sphere and in the Rift in Time the Dragonslayers escaped from their lacrimas and Natsu kills Acnologia with the Seven dragon fire and falls from the sky. One year later Lucy won the Kemuzalion award and then Team Natsu when on the one hundred year quest which Gildarts failed at and obviously succeeded although I didn't actually dream of the entire 100-year quest."
"Wow, that was an awesome dream." Teams BIS, RWBY and JNPR say at the same time. For the rest of the week and a few more weeks, all the three teams are talking about is Rebecca's dream.
So in case, you didn't know her dream is what happened in cannon so if you want the full dream go and watch the final battle of Fairy Tail against Acnologia.
