RWBY: The Unknown Sibling
(Harry is two years older than Ruby and three months older than Yang)
To the Anon who mentioned my timelines in ages. He is correct, Harry is the same age as Yang.
A/N: Thank you to everyone who has liked this story so far. As for those who have critiqued saying that they are slightly confused, I apologise. My brain goes quicker than I type and when I plan it's slightly better. I will try to make things clearer.
As Beacon became a hive of activity, nothing was going on in the City of Vale. It had started as a rumble at first, no-one really thought of it as problem because with Vale being placed surrounded by Mountains, Earthquakes and Storms were pretty common and thus people acknowledged it as an unpredicted earth tremor.
However, near the 'Bypass', which was really a slope leading down into a bricked of archway, the nearby stone and bins began to shake. Soon it became a rattle and the people began to visually see the nearby information panels begin to shake as well. Unfortunately for the thirty people next to the panels who decide to hit the floor and stay still. If this had been an ordinary earthquake, well they would have been alright.
However, they were sitting ducks for the runaway train and the rubble it carried out. Six people were killed from the rubble that exploded out of the wall and a further five people were killed as the train crushed them as it rolled. The other twenty as they got up all dazed and confused, completely unaware of what happened, were easy pickings for the horde of Grimm that rushed out of the railway.
(HAIL)
"Adam, Nanuuk, Damania…this…is going to suck." Harry said shortly before they hit the wall. He got grunts in return and as they hit the wall, Harry funnelled wind dust into and out of himself and he launched forwards. Harry winced as he slammed through the reinforced glass of the drivers carriage of the front of the train.
Harry went airborne, and didn't quite remember hitting the ground. He hit it once, twice, three times, his aura took the blows. He was vaguely aware of flying Faunus and what looked like icicle versions of his sister and her team.
He was more occupied with the feeling of utter pain of three cracked ribs, four broken and…yep that's his diaphragm haemorrhaging. "Recovery physical…three weeks minimum. Mentally three months." He sat up and by luck found his team sitting up next to him and they were surrounded by Grimm.
Thankfully the Grimm weren't too interested in them.
(RWBY)
They sat up and groaned. Weiss's ice shelter had protected them. But now they were in Central Square, near the 'Garden of Kings' and surrounded by Grimm.
"Ruby, we're in it now." Yang said in disbelief.
"Seriously? Can you be any better at stating the obvious?" Screeched Weiss, in a panic.
"Yang, Weiss…both of you are taking lessons from Harry in sarcasm and stating the obvious…Right now I have a plan." Ruby said.
"That is?" Asked Blake as she grabbed Gambol Shroud.
"Remember what Harry said? Welcome to Team HAND, where violence is necessity and …"
"Common sense out the window? What about it?" Asked Yang as she made no attempt to withdraw Ember Celica from their bracelet form.
"You're not…wait…You're his sister, of course. It runs in the family. This is a bad idea." Stated Weiss, Ruby made no effort to look like she listened or even heard her.
"Welcome to Team RWBY, completing the job is simple, method not so much…Let's do our job."
(HAND)
"No use complaining about this being our fault. Let's do this. Let's…" Harry began and then he saw the small child. About three years old, definitely dead, its legs no-where to be found and the rest of it being fought over by four Beowolves.
"New plan. Exterminatus. Annihilate fucking Grimm we fucking find…"
Damania gulped, she was struggling to compartmentalise the fact that she had killed her Uncle, it was murder at worst and self-defence at best. Even now, her career was over "What if the cops or people prevent us?"
"Use your initiative…" Harry replied "…How are you holding up?"
"Shitty. Killed my Uncle remember."
"Damn, okay…Hate to be callous but leave that to one side. That we can deal with as a team. Right now, I need you to help me stop these monsters from eating anymore people."
Damania nodded "I can do that. I can definitely do that. Harry, thanks."
"Why?"
"For being here, being a good friend. Good team leader. Getting to know us, well not treating Faunus like animals."
Harry nodded his sword extending into a scythe "Pleasure knowing you all. Let's go out swinging."
Adam grinned "No other way."
Nanuuk merely popped his fists "This is going to be fun. What about the Atlesian Fleet?"
"Shit happens…Remember, they're Atlesian not Valyrian. Oh and Didn't Get That Memo. If that doesn't work, send them my way."
Adam snorted "You'll send 'em back in a box. All right. Let's get De-Grimming."
With four battle cries the blood thirstiest group at Beacon since STRQ dived headlong into horde of Grimm. Harry coated himself in lightning dust and with his scythe spinning around him, he sliced, slashed and slaughtered his way into the horde. Lightning scream and arcing off him like demons and writhing snakes.
Adam drew his sword, held it in the open stance of Iado and waited. The first one charged him and with a surgeons precision split the boar like Grimm clean in twain. Two more rushed him and he quickly parted them; one head off body and the other hind quarters from front. The other seven in the pack fell in a similar matter.
Nanuuk well he was happy as a young Polar Bear Faunus could be. He had grown up in a family of seven. He was the youngest boy of three and one of the middle children, he was a little bit of a terror. But hey, he was now a Huntsman, instead of doing what his Faunus father did which was trapping. He sighed, he was the only one of his siblings to go onto becoming a Huntsman. Andrew and Gregory, his elder brothers even with scholarship money couldn't help put them through the four years of Huntsman academy and so they helped develop their father trapping job into a business, which was making a name for themselves. Emily was now working in an insurance firm and Rebecca, well Emily and her were the turning points in their family fortunes….Those two were able to pay their way through business and law school with one working as Huntsmen Defence. Nanuuk was the first to be able to go to Beacon. He hadn't wanted to go but Andrew had forged his signature and had told him "Do it. Become a Huntsman. You've dreamed about it. Don't you worry about us, all of us…We just want the rest of you to have more than what we had."
'More than what we had.' He thought as he, checked an Ursa Alpha with his hand crunching around the snout, before injecting ice straight into the brain. "With one thought, things crystalise with an icy blast." He said to himself as an Ursa bit him in the shoulder.
"I'm never giving up. I've not done by best." He growled. There was the unmistakable sound of teeth biting bone. Bone giving, tissue, muscle, tendon and ligaments giving as the Ursa shredded his shoulder. Nanuuk growled turned his armoured gloves around as water and wind dust mixed at the tips of his fingers before being fired into the Ursa.
Damania, butterflied her twin swords, repelling the Death Stalkers and impaling Creepers as she did so. Team HAND had scattered, in Harry's opinion 'Maximum damage to the enemy. More effective at saving civilians.' She had found a family of four trapped in car. They, had done a tolerable job by locking the car doors and fighting to keep said doors from being removed. She altered the grip on one of her blades, stepped up behind a Beowulf and pulled on the tail. The Beowulf gave a mixed sound between a snarl and a yelp. Claws lashed out, hitting thin air and then six precise shots penetrated the air. Two to the knees, two to the chest and two in the eyes and it dissolved into smoke.
Damania effortlessly finished the rest around the car. She knocked on the window "What do you want? What are those things? You're a Faunus! Stay away from me! Keep away from my family."
Damania shook her head "Yes I'm a Faunus. Right now…you and your family are in danger." She turned and she managed to throw a boartusk Grimm over the car when it was detonated by a glowing red orange orb of energy. 'That was Yang…probably'. She turned to the family "You are in the middle of a Grimm Attack on the City. Myself, my team and another team are trying to stem the breach, but in doing so are allowing Grimm to spread further into the city. Now, I'm a Huntress, well Huntress-in-training and I'm here to get the four of you to safety. Hopefully, soon another one of my team mates will clear out a building and then start calling in for extraction."
"Extraction?"
"Getting as many civilians out of the City. My squad leader…he's an asshole, but he's got a good heart and a decent head for this sort of situation."
The family nodded and slowly but surely got out of the car. "We live across the road, that block of flats." Just then one of the windows shattered as a Gorilla dissolved into darkness. When the family caught site of a pale skinned teenager "Is that?"
"That's Harry…The asshole. Now he really is being an asshole. He's probably systematically cleared that entire block of flats and is now about to start balling at someone."
Harry panted. That was the last of the Grimm. He had used wind dust, landed on the roof and had proceeded to open the fire exit door…More like removed where the door existed wall and door clean off. The sound that made had caused the Grimm to come surging up the stairs and walls and from there it was bobbing for apples, too easy. Grimm showed up, his rifle blasted.
He made his way down. He got blind-sided by a Beowulf, it's powerful front claw, threw him into a door and cracked it. Harry cried out as the claw cracked his aura and the latter part of the scratch opened up some scratches on his chest drawing blood. As it went of the throat tearing kill, Harry, managed to lift his boot and kick it where any sort of mammal should have reproductive parts. The family who Harry had almost let become Grimm food, opened the door to find Harry bite into the Grimm, it let out a roar of fury before falling over the balcony dissolving as it went.
"You're….You're a Hunter." He looked up and saw a kid, about eight years old, bright red hair and emerald green eyes.
"In training. Sorry…about the door." Harry panted. He had lost count of the Grimm he had killed. Lost count of the corpses he had seen, partly devoured or being devoured and those being eaten alive or no longer. He had put at least twenty people out of their misery. He had called for support but nobody was coming.
"Sir, what is going on?" Harry tried to move but he was too damn tired. He found a hand on his arm and it was the boy trying to get him to move. Then he heard the scream, he turned and in the living room was the biggest looking Gorilla type Grimm he had ever seen.
"Move…To me." He ordered, thankfully the family obeyed.
"I'm, Marcus Jewel. This is my wife Jasmine, my son Obsidian and my Daughter Lillian. Please…help us."
Harry nodded and he smiled at them, this one just met his eyes "I will…Not just for your sake but for your daughter. Looks so much like my adoptive mother."
'No aura, semblance drained…bollocks to that. Aura and Semblance are as tough as you are. As long as you think and believe you can do something, the aura will obey. It is you and you are it.' "I'm my aura and my aura is me. I am Hadrian Branwen, Son of the Hurricane, Babe of the Raven, Child of Misfortune and I'm not yet done."
His hand flickered out and his sword, lost two floors up flew into his hand. He narrowed his eyes and extended his senses, his semblance began to work changing the ambient dust in the air into that of inertia and gravity. He lowered the gravity around the Grimm, he twitched his hands and almost immediately the Grimm came hurtling towards him "Alright Harambe, time to pay." The air became excited and Harry clicked his left hand and gestured with his right. The area in front of the Jewel family and Harry, exploded in a fireball, so hot that it was white and even through closed eyes it could be seen. The Grimm was sent flying out of the window disintegrating it and the wall and window. "Sorry about that…Now…do you have a scroll and do you have anything to eat?"
"Yeah…I work in air traffic control."
Harry began to grin "Now, who do I have to piss off, yell at or threaten with brutal dismemberment to get shit moving?"
Marcus stared at him "Are you serious? You're…"
Harry sighed "No, I'm running on twelve hours sleep. Killed fifteen or so rabid mutts had to stop a train from getting blown up only to make the situation worse and am now trying to contain a situation also known as this GRIMM FUCKING INVASION WITH EIGHT PEOPLE AND I CAN'T GET A FUCKING MESSAGE OUT. Forgive me. So you work in traffic control you have some sort of permanent access to the city so as a Government guy, who do I have to…"
Marcus nodded "…put a boot to ass through, to get Bulkheads and whatnot for extraction. Oh and to get reinforcements. Are you going to need the Army?"
"NO…The army will only make things worse. What I need from you are all Bulkhead and transport ships moving over Vale, making a mess of that Atlesian Military Fleet plans. You, Marcus Jewel are going to help me save this goddamn city and by Oum we're going to do it."
Marcus nodded. He pulled out his scroll, put it into his table and began dialling the council as Harry's scroll began to ring.
"Branwen speaking. Where the fuck the reinforcements? Whose fucking calling?"
"It's Ozpin…Harry, what's the situation? I have students commandeering bulkheads but no-one's taking off due to the Vale Council."
Harry slammed his phone onto the table "Ozpin, send EVERYONE…Screw the Council. They're inaction has already claimed sixty people that I've seen. I've had to put twenty out of their misery. I have an Air Traffic guy here at literal weapon point yelling at me to do something. My hands are tied by yours and subsequently those cuntnuggets called the Council. Now, unless you want to lose Teams HAND and RWBY, I suggest you send those Bulkheads."
(Ozpins Office)
Ozpin looked into his monitors and his eyes widened. On the thirty panels he had split screened giving him a decent enough overview of the city. He could see Team RWBY on four screens trying to hold off an never ending horde, he could see the Grimm feasting on people. He even saw the individual members of Team HAND, racking up bodies, pulling people into blocks of flats but they were slowing down.
Ozpin turned to the Council "Authorisation code, Alpha, Foxtrot, Oscar, 1, 2, 3."
"OZPIN!" Growled the Head of Security, a Large Fat Walrus Faunus. Thankfully the Faunus trait was just a physique that resembled obesity.
"Don't jeopardise peoples lives more than you have. Bulkheads Go."
(Jewel)
"Bulkheads are going? Good. Thankyou."
Harry sighed. Now they just had to hold. "Marcus, gather everyone from the lower floors and get them on the roof. I'll be there suppressing Grimm that are thinking of coming up nearby." With that he finished the bottle of whiskey and the protein bar. Not the best combination but it would bolster his energy levels for now.
Then he heard it. The unmistakable cry of someone jumping from a great height, wearing armour and followed by an earth shattering boom. Harry looked down to see an armoured Neville outside of the Apartment block he was on top of.
"NIKL here for Honour and Glory."
"Neville, you amazing son of a bitch."
