Hi. Yeh I decided a double release today.
Standard fair on copyright.
"Hi there Mrs. Rose. I see you have silver eyes too." I say with a nervous smile as I see her smiling visage as she sways side to side with what seems to be boundless energy even as shes sitting in the hospital bed.
Looking at her I can truly say she is pretty in that dorky girl next door kind of way.
Her nose is small and her cheekbones are round and small while her eyes are wide and bright. As if she is a chipmunk looking to get up to no good. Her skin is an almost snowy white with slight blush around her cheeks and her hair is black with it trailing towards red at the end of her hair.
"Uh bro. You're staring." Pyyrah says in a small voice with a blush.
"I bet you stared too didnt you Pyyrah?" I say as I start to blush as well.
"Yes she did. Heh hehehe." Antonious says.
"UNCLE! I did not stare." She says and points at me as if her pointing is the end if the topic. I'm so making fun of her.
"Yes kids stare. Can we get on with this please? I thought we had an important discussion to have." Qrow says breaking our little comedy routine.
Fine then, be that way.
"*sigh*Okay. So to preface this. I've had visions of the future. Granted now that things have changed so drastically compared to the original timeline, I dont know what is gonna for sure happen next." I say getting to the meat and potatoes of the conversation.
"Wait what? You can see the future son?" Antonious says with a shocked expression.
"Well... more a future that would have happened if I wasn't here to screw everything up. To start with, I didnt exist in the future I saw." I say trying to formulate a plan for half truths I will say that won't make Qrow mad I'm not telling the whole truth to them.
As cliche as it is to say. None of them are ready for that.
"So what happened?" Summer asks while tilting her head to the side like a puppy.
Why is she cuter than my little sister while she does that? That amount of cuteness shouldn't be legal.
"*clears throat* Well to start with Summer, you died." I say and let her take that in.
"I... die?" She says with I quiet voice and stops swaying.
"Yes Summer. You die. You fight Tyrian and Hazel alone and they capture you and torture you until they bring you before Salem missing one of your eyes. Salem proceeds to do the standard villain monologue that they love to make and then when she explains how she cant be killed. Like Qrow told me, you say to here that she doesnt have to die to be stopped. At that you activate your eye but it isn't powerful enough to trap her in stone. At that she infects you with a parasite that... dad can you please take Pyyrah out. Shes to young to hear about this."
"I'm the same age Dorian." Pyyrah responds.
"But you havnt seen it Pyyrah. You havnt lived witnessing these things happen. Please take her out dad. I'll tell you the rest later."
"Alright son. Let's go Pyyrah." He says as he leads her out of the room.
"Where was I?' I ask.
"The parasite." Summer says in a shaky whisper.
"Right.*inhale*The parasite. Salem implants Grimm parasite inside your head and you can do absolutely nothing as your body is no longer under your control but you're still conscious. She let's you go but with one order. To kill your daughters." I pause and calm my breath so I can compose myself for this next part.
" But I w-"
"YOU WOULD HAVE NO CHOICE!" I say interrupting her as she moves to deny the possibility of such a thing.
"Thankfully, but also unfortunately you never got the chance. You were stopped by the one man still looking for you after those months of you missing. Qrow. Qrow would find you and you would only say one thing to him. You would ask, no beg, for him to kill you. Then you'd attack him. The entire time you'd be crying tears of blood as the parasite would try and force you to use your semblance to teleport and kill him but you'd resist. You'd resist until the very end and give Qrow his chance. He did. He did and it broke him. It broke his very being to kill you. It would be the only way to stop you. As you lay dying and bleeding in his arms, you'd ask him to always support Tai and the kids. You ask him to leave your body for the Grimm and for him to take your emblem and cloak and give it to the family. Tai goes into near suicidal depression and Ruby and Yang go into the forest of Patch looking for you and nearly die if it wasn't for Qrow saving them."I finish and look at their reactions to my recounting of her death.
"You bastard! You told me Tyrian killed her!"Qrow yells as he picks me up by the collar.
"Qrow stop! I'm alive. I'm here." Summer says getting up from the bed and gets him to let me go.
"The moment Summer got caught she was dead. Instead of being angry at me for telling you what COULD have happened. Be happy that I warned you ahead of time so you could be there to save her." I say standing back up an looking him in the eye.
I hate that I have to crane my head up to do this. Stupid kids body.
"*sigh*You're right. I'm sorry. Continue. What happens next?" Qrow says in begrudging apology.
"Well fast forward twelve years and Yang and Ruby go to Beacon."
"Wait but only Yang would be 18. How would Ruby be going?"Summer asks confused.
"Ok so to quickly preface them going to Beacon, you of course know about the Maidens right? And I'm talking capital M here."
""Yeah."" They both confirm.
"Well I already told Qrow this. But his sister is the Spring Maiden. Gods I hate that I have to say that. Anyway, Qrow is tasked by Oz to protect the Fall Maiden by the name of Amber. He does so for 2 years until Oz sends Qrow on a mission to spy on Salem. In the small interlude, the Amber is mortally wounded by one Cinder Fall, formally Cinder Tremaine. Yes of 'those' Tremaines. It turns out Cinder was a agent of Salem tasked with tracking down Amber. So with the aid of one Mercury Black, the son of assassin Marcus Black who he killed, and Emerald Sustrai, a thief here in Mistral with the ability to make people see lifelike illusions by looking at their eyes. They capture Amber and our favorite Grimm Parasite appears once more. Except this time this one allows one to directly steal the Maiden powers of the host and implant it into the one using the parasite. Thinking that Amber is dead they leave her and Qrow finds her dying on the side of the road. She falls into a coma still retaining some of her Maiden powers and Cinder becomes a False Maiden with only the power to control fire." I say taking a moment to get a drink of water and let them digest everything.
"Whag happened next kid?" Qrow asks with clenched fists.
"Then a year later we get to where Ruby and Yang get into Beacon. Yang of course graduated from Patch's junior huntsman school and gets into Beacon. Ruby in Vale with Yang for her entrance exam, is in a weapon shop and it gets robbed by one Roman Torchwick. She fights him off and chases after him until he escapes by bullhead and gets attacked by, you guessed it, Cinder. Luckily shes saved by Glynda Goodwitch who then takes her to a police station where Oz is waiting. You wanna know the first think he says to her instead if making sure shes alright?"
"What kid?"Qrow
"I think I know." Summer says with a dour expression.
""You have Silver Eyes."" We both say.
"THAT SON OF A BITCH!"Qrow roars in rage.
"That's right. After sending Summer to her death by Manipulation through her hero complex and want to make the world a safe place for Ruby and Yang, he lost his Queen Piece. His Silver Eyed Warrior. So he needed a new one. It was Ruby. Now Qrow. Do you want me to tell Summer the relationship between Oz and Salem?" I say looking to him.
"Salem told us some stuff when we ran across her but she left out some of the things you told me."
"So she didnt tell the whole truth to us. I knew it." Summer says.
"Long story short. Oz and Salem are husband and wife. Oz gained powerful magic to reincarnate for as long as he wants but at the cost of being able to have children, and at the ritual Sacrifice of his firstborn son. Then his second son died in the Old War against Gehrman the first Hunter and traitor to humanity. Gehrman was also a Silver Eyed Warrior. Because of this Salem grew suicidal and threw herself into the Grimm spawning pit. She didnt die but her magic corrupted and she turned into the Immortal Grimm Queen. This war has been in a stalemate for centuries because Oz is too much of a prideful coward to do have fought and stopped her directly when he actually had the magic power too. As it turns out, the reincarnation has a cost. He loses more and more of his magic power for anything other than to reincarnate. In fact he used the majority of this lifes magic to give Qrow and Raven the ability to turn into their namesakes." I finish and drink the last of my water.
"So what happens now? Do we stop all that from happening?" Summer asks in genuine concern and uncertainty.
"I have a plan. Itll take a long time, but I'm hoping it'll work."
"Well what is it kid?"
"We let things play out except for a few key points. One, we prevent Amber's death. Two, I enroll in Beacon with Pyyrah and we help Ruby and Yang. Three, we prevent the fall of Beacon. Yes Cinder succeeds in getting the full Maiden powers. Then, we train Ruby in how to use her silver eyes. Then when we're ready, we destroy Salem together. I was able to single handedly drive off Salem with both my semblance and eyes. If all three of us use our combined power, we should be able to nuke her and prevent and regeneration from happening. And if that doesnt work, we dismember her, but the pieces of her body in reinforced metal containers, and launch her body into space in separate directions, with a few heading towards the sun. Granted this is just my general plan but it's something to end this bullshit."
"Hey! Swear." Summer says pouting at me.
"You didnt say anything to Qrow." I say in disbelief.
"Hes not a little kid. No matter how mature you seem?"
"Seem? I'll have you know I'm plenty Mature. My body just hasn't caught up with my mind." I say crossing my arms.
"I don't know kid. Sometimes I really question that." Qrow says with a shit eating grin.
This guy.
"Ah so your ganging up on me is that it? Well I'm mature enough to know not to try and win that fight." I say with a grin of my own.
...
...
"Hehehe."
"*giggle*"
"Hmph"
With that, a new alliance was born.
-12 years Later-
Well I just turned 17. It's one year until Beacon and this is also supposed to be around the time Amber gets ambushed.
About five years ago, Summer said she'd be retiring from active huntress duty so she could focus on helping Qrow train Ruby in both his to use a scythe and how to prepare for the use of her eyes.
Apparently the only reason why I was able to use my eyes was a combination of the presence of Salem, my resolve to make something of myself, and the pure life threatening situation I was in. Only immense stress and willpower are what's needed to activate the Silver Flash.
That's what I call it cuz I have no idea what they called it in the show.
Ruby and Yang are pretty much the same as in the show, at least from what Qrow has told me about them. I'm supposed to travel to Patch this year that way I can meet the others and I can enter Beacon with the others.
Pyyrah of course, being the awesome badass adoptive sister she is. Just like in the show, the soon to be 4 time Colosseum champion.
Difference this time though is we would fight in the doubles tournament and I'd stay out of the singles so she could develop on her own.
Pyyrah is always trying to get, "The Sleeping Dragon" of the Colosseum to partake in a 1v1 tournament and get people to stop saying I'm living in the shadow of my sister.
Fucking idiots, I dont care about the fame. I'd rather Pyyrah be famous and have a future after this war with Salem and her cronies.
I'd rather she stay in Haven academy and not come to Vale next year to apply to Beacon. However, if we are gonna succeed in taking down Salem, we need everyone. Even my Unbreakable little sister.
She's also angry that I'm leaving her behind here so she can train on her own for a year.
Not that she isn't pouty about the fact that I won't fight her seriously outside of semblance training.
To prevent the same thing that happened to Penny during Vytal, for the past three years, I've been not only practicing with my Throwing Glaive which I call Solar Eclipse, I made a Chakram named Lunar Eclipse along with a bunch of retractable throwing knives that using my semblance, would almost mirror Penny with her Marionette blades. Solar Eclipse is a white and gold Throwing Glaive that has eight Scythe blades that spin around on a track on the circular handle in the middle (think of the inquisitor lightsabers in the newest star wars game). I use electric and fire dust cartridges to empower the blades and make it slice through most anything due to the fact I was able to make Monomonecular blades that are reinforced down to the Molecular level to prevent breakage of the blades.
Then we got Lunar Eclipse that is a Ice, Air, and Gravity dust aligned Chakram that has a bright silver body with a singular midnight blue blade that spins around its handle just like Solar. Made with the same alloy that I used to make Solar as well except different elemental infusion. I took up Dust weaving as well, that way I could infuse mine and Pyyrah's clothes and Armor to help with our respective capabilities.
(Essentially think of Solar and Lunar Eclipse as two discs in Tron's Discwars. Hand to Hand combat supplemented with medium range tactics when throwing the Glaive and Chakram respectively)
I had to take three years of learning to forge weapons and what known alloys and dust mixtures would be most effective for every need and I also had to eat a lot of different types of dust infused metal to be able to figure out a good alloy to make the blades strong. I went with a titanium and tungsten alloy that when thrown, with the aid of my semblance and gravity dust, can cause quite a bit of damage.
I also finally figured out the truest limitation on my semblance besides Aura and whether or not I've eaten something like what I'm manipulating.
Its materials. Sure I'm able to change the Molecular structure and bonds of things, but I the elements to be around to change it to something in the first place.
The easiest way to explain it would be to compare it to fire. You cant make fire without some kind of fuel and energy. If you have neither, you get no fire. Also very heavily paraphrasing and dumbing things down here.
Hense I named my semblance, EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE. I'm sure you can guess where I got that.
I havnt been able to go all out with it due to the Colosseum only being to red bar instead of to the death so I have to hold off on the whole chopping things to bits part. At least during my stay on Patch I'll be able to get to fight Grimm. Apparently ever since the Grimm Horde that killed Pyyrah's father, The Cowardly Lion, Headmaster Leonardo of Haven academy, has tasked his students with around the clock patrols keeping a twenty mile radius around Mistral's capital city, Mistral, completely clear of Grimm.
That and every citizen of Mistral has a weapon of their own to fight off Grimm. It's actually a lot safer here than in Vale city.
Because it's so safe and we have nothing to do besides the arena and my reading of forging books I've been trying to train Pyyrah so she wouldn't panic at being overwhelmed and use too much force from her semblance against a humanoid opponent unless they were trying go kill her.
It hasn't been going well...
"Again." I say using my semblance to pull back all my weapons around me while using the Molecular bonds in the air to compress it and manipulate them.
"Pyyrah you cant panic. You panicking at the most crucial of moments won't get just yourself killed, but others as well." I say to my bronze armor clad sister. "You are a complete and utter Badass, you have no reason to panic. You can fucking stop bullets. How many people say they can stop bullets?"
"Dorian I keep telling you, I cant use this Force or whatever you call it. I need time to focus on what I manipulate. A bullet is too fast." She says as she puts Miló, her spear, xiphos, rifle, on her hip while putting Akoúo on her back.
"That's why we've been training like this for the past three years... Look you've gotten better, you dont really need Akoúo to stop bullets and weapons from hitting you. You make it seem like you dodge everything in the span of one breath because I gave you the idea of an angled force field of magnetism. Literally no one besides me and dad know about your semblance. You literally get into the head of every single opponent in that arena. You are the Unbreakable Amazon. Stop getting in your own head and focus on what you want. Focus so you can find the strength to carry on no matter what and wield that blade with the skill of a goddess of war." I say as I lead her away from the sandpit here in the gym of the family mansion.
"I cant help it Dorian, so much is riding on me learning how to properly fight in such high tension situations but the tension itself destroys me. I'm supposed to die next year Dorian. You told me that yourself." She says with a defeated tone as we sit down and I stay silent and let her vent. "What if I cant do it? What if I let everyone down and I fall and you and Uncle Antonious are left heartbroken after I passed?"
"Pyyrah do you know what scares me? It's not just failure. No my greatest fear is failing everyone BECAUSE I decided I didnt give it my all. My fear is losing everyone and everything I've been striving to keep going. Hearing you act so defeated truly terrifies me sis. I told you that you were SUPPOSED to die due to no outside intervention. That was a world where I didnt exist and I wasn't there to help everyone when they needed it most. I exist. I think, therefore I am. And I AM sure as hell not gonna let you give up on yourself and die." I say looking her in the eyes. "Also I wanna live long enough to be the cool uncle that all my nephews and nieces go to for stories and helping break the rules." I say with a smile.
"I hate that you know how to make me feel better sometimes. Why cant you just let me wallow in self pity?" She says as she crosses her arms.
"Because then I'd be scaring myself by not trying my best to make you happy. You forget sis. You fall under the loved ones category."
I say as I stand up.
"Now come on. You'll have a whole year while I'm in Vale to wallow in self pity. I want you at your best when we see each other again."
And that's it for the double release today. Have a good day everyone.