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.
AN: I am awake and alive. Just been busy.
XXI
Velvet groaned, she stirred and her eyes opened. She was definitely not in her room, she knew that much for certain. Her vision spun as suddenly a wave nausea washed over her. She jumped out of bed, only to land heavily on the floor. The impact caused several moans and groans, but nothing truly serious, she looked up…She had been on the top-bunk, she hated the top-bunk.
She looked in the bottom bunk, she could see who she thought to be Adam, passed out asleep with it appeared to be someone from either RWBY, Coco, Damania or Pyrah or Norah. Velvet shrugged, she stopped. Yatsuhashi was sprawled out literally just in front of her, Fox was under the table.
There! In the corner, or rather curled up in the corner was the fourth or fifth mountain of muscle, Neville. Velvet groaned, she needed the bathroom and with agile feet and a rabbit like grace, she crossed the room and made it to the bathroom. She opened and shut the bathroom and found herself face down the toilet and the remains of dinner came rushing out.
It took fifteen minutes for the vomiting to stop. Her eyes were running freely, her hands were sticky with pools of saliva and snot. She fumbled with the tap and she sighed as cool water, washed over her hands. She cleaned up her face and looked at herself in the mirror. Her pants and shirt were somewhere in the room, she fought down the blush of embarrassment and headed back out, she was going to go back to bed.
Velvet left the bathroom, now with just a sore and throbbing head she realised that she was actually in Team HAND's room…as was it appeared everyone else. She grinned as she saw her two teammates curled up near or under the dining table. Coco, seemed rather content curled up with Adam. The Weasley's were curled in a bunch close to the door. Ruby it appeared was curled up in a ball using Neville as a pillow. Damania was half on her bed and off it with Yang and Weiss…Yep, she saw the white combat dress of the Schnee Heiress.
Nanuuk, she didn't see anywhere. She blushed when she realised that the Polar Bear had been in the bathtub. NIKL it seemed were scattered all over the place, with Kobi in the kitchenette and Isabella on Nanuuk's bed. That left Harry, she blushed as deducted that she must have been sleeping with him.
She grinned, it was nice. Harry was warm. She scrambled up the ladder and collapsed back where she had previously been sleeping, the moment she did so, Harry's arm pulled her back to him. "You okay?"
"Head's spinning, been sick…What happened?" She whimpered, which turned into a soft moan as Harry began to massage her temples and back. The immediate difference between her headaches before and after the massage was amazing.
"You okay?" She asked curiously. Harry grinned, wrapped his numb arm around her and rolled her on top of him.
"If you're going to have hot and sweaty hangover sex please wait." Groused Adam from the bunk beneath them. This was met by a thump and muffled shut up.
Harry sighed "Moment has been ruined. Now, excuse me I have a show…"
"Nanuuk is in the shower…technically the bathtub; Ren and Nora, not sure about Pyrrha or Jaune…Yang, Weiss and Damania are looking rather cosy in the opposite bottom bunk…Yatsuhashi and Fox are on the floor and under the table respectively, Ruby and Neville look quite cute by the wall…Coco's kinda occupying Adam right now and the Weasley's well they're by the door."
Harry grinned and summoned his scroll from his bedside shelf, he opened it and from the sanctuary of his bed snapped several pictures of his hungover friends, team and family all of them save for Velvet. "I'm going to have a shower, where I shower it matters not but I am going to have a shower."
Velvet grinned and as the pair dropped down to the floor, Harry grabbed a change of trousers and a shirt. Velvet meanwhile pulled on one of Harry's shirts lying on the ground it had the caption of 'I don't mean to be blunt, so fuck you and shut up' the word don't had mysteriously faded sooner than the rest of the slogan.
"It suits you."
Velvet couldn't help but blush again "Ready?" Harry nodded and the pair slipped out of the room, scurried down the corridor, up the stairs and entered Team CFVY's room.
Harry groaned as the hot water, descended onto his scalp. Hot water for him made everything go away. As he showered, he began to think about the previous evening. There had been so much alcohol and food, it was stupid. He was pretty sure he had photos to put on Social Media. He loved that invention. He shut off the water, dried up and pulled on his boxers as normal left the bathroom.
As he left the bathroom, Velvet was waiting for him with her scroll in hand. Velvet grinned as her boyfriend left the shower, she lifted her scroll and with the camera and snapped a few pictures.
Harry's face was a picture. "Really?"
"Had to…After the blood and grime. Don't worry, no-one will see them." Velvet replied grinning at her boyfriends face.
"I have no problem with that…Do you?"
"YES!" Velvet replied, before realising Harry had her with her own words "You're mine. I'm not normally selfish but you're my boyfriend." She commented as she handed Harry his scroll.
The pair got dressed and headed into HAND's room to find the room bustling with activity and Ozpin. "Headmaster? Tea? Pizza? Beer?" Harry asked as he and Velvet re-entered the room.
"Pizza please if you have some on hand, tea would be lovely…Mr. Potter, I am again here on official business." Ozpin said a ghost of a smile passing over his face.
"No alcohol on school premises? For the record can I state that it's not mine." Harry replied grinning.
"That and whilst I am happy for you and Miss Scarlatina, I must stress that you are both careful when it comes to your relationship. I believe that is everything, how is your hangover?"
Harry smiled and cocked his head "What hangover? I don't know of such a condition…at least, I don't think so."
Everyone bar Neville and the Weasley's looked at him in shock, or rather an extremely hungover shocked look, that resembled a lemming "How?" Asked Nanuuk, who looked more grey than white.
"You never did get to tell me." Velvet said as she neatly stepped on his foot.
"It's because of either one of two things: your immense magical power or aura as its known here or something else, isn't it?" Came the pained voice of Ron.
Harry looked at the lanky redhead with raised eyebrows "A theorise a bit of both and other things…My aura reserves are pretty vast, out of all the Staff here only Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch are anywhere around my level in terms of reserves and control…they're better than me in control. Students, that's funny. Neville and Jaune although Jaune's reserves can potentially dwarf my own…Then there was the debacle in the Chamber."
Ron gulped "You went in dusty and came out covered in blood, grime, guts and leaning against my Sister and using a Sword as a crutch."
"Basilisk. It…got me. It bit me in the arm, if it hadn't been for Fawkes then I'd be dead."
Everyone looked at him in horror, Velvet especially "Just where were you bitten?" Asked Ozpin curiously.
Harry grinned and rolled up his left side revealing the mark of Voldemort's resurrection ritual and the puncture mark of the Basilisk "There and sixty seconds to live."
Ozpin's eyes widened "So you lived which is a good thing and you surviving gave you a benefit?"
"Yeah…just don't allow me to bite you and get access to your blood…I bit and ate a Grimm and it died." Harry replied.
Ozpin shook his head and he pulled out some forms "For CFVY, RWBY, NIKL and HAND for the Vytal Festival…You, sixteen are going to be showing are guests around. Any requests?"
"No Atlas for Team HAND." Harry said flat out "If Jimmy has problem with that, he can kiss my Faunus loving ass."
"Jimmy?" Asked Ruby.
"General Headmaster James "Jimmy" Ironwood. He, dad and I have a total sunshine and daisy relationship that really isn't borderline hostile." Harry explained with a manic grin as he hugged Ruby.
Ozpin chuckled in all his years, he had not seen anyone much like these students in front of him. They all represented an individual member of Team STRQ, the anxious but blooming leader in RWBY for Summer; NIKL the laid back powerhouse that had been Taiyang; CFVY the ambition and pessimistic Raven with HAND being the utterly unapologetic Qrow.
Ozpin chuckled as he left, his mug of tea refilled and a box of pizza in the other. No food tasted as good as taken food.
"You do know that Ozpin stole an entire left over pizza." Ruby said.
"I, We owe him some of thousands of lien Rubes. So let him…Anyway we have roles to fulfil." Harry commented and with that the representatives of Beacon headed out to perform their duties.
(Small Time Skip)
The next few days had flown by. Teams from all over the world had arrived and the Teams were busy attending lessons and showing the foreign students around Beacon and Vale.
Everything had gone perfectly fine. IHAND had ended up making very good friends with a few of the teams that were representing Haven and Shade academies. CRDL seemed had taken to heart some of the Atliesian students, as had SNTL. Everything came to ahead everyone was in the gymnasium watching Team JNPR eat the crap out of CRDL, Harry grinned.
"It's so beautiful, watching a woman kick the shit out of those four."
Apparently it had been said a bit too loudly and had been heard by a few of the Atlas Academy Students "Think your tough?!"
Harry grinned "Why are you asking for a team spar?" He got sixteen nods in return "Four on One? People?"
Nanuuk grinned thinly and Adam chuckled, they turned to Damania "Harry do you think this is a good idea?"
"No, it's a horrible one…Besides could be fun."
"I am not saying that it is not going to be fun, by Oum Harry. I'm part of Happy Little Monsters, I am questioning this from a strategic standpoint as the Vytal Festival is around the corner."
Harry nodded "I see your point but now that has forced our hand. If we decline Beacon's reputation will take a hit and we'd be classed as wimps or worse."
"Yeah, pussies and a Faunus Lover." Jeered one of the Cadets. Harry's eyes flickered brown, he turned around, vanished in a flicker of ozone and with a catastrophic sound of aura breaking and ribs breaking the Atlas student went through the door and slammed hard into the wall directly outside.
"All of you, HAND, arena…NOW!" Harry instructed and they began to troop to the stage.
"Miss Blackwood, what happened?"
"One of the Atlas students challenged us. We responded, insults exchanged so it's them against us four."
Glynda nodded "And there fourth?"
"Indisposed…in the corridor. His fault!" Harry said before everyone changed.
As they assembled on the stage, Glynda found herself joined by James, Ozpin, Qrow and surprisingly Summer and Taiyang "What's going on?"
Harry tried to keep the smirk off his face "My foot in mouth comment about another team accidentally triggered humanistic pride. Not my fault!"
"I suppose that student outside accidentally found himself on the receiving of your aura breaking blow?" Replied Taiyang fighting back a grin.
"Atlas standards have evidently dropped…That was a love tap!" Harry protested.
"For Neville!" Ruby commented idly.
"RUBY! YOU'RE MEANT TO BACK ME UP! Stupid no good rotten naïve little sister." Harry muttered.
"Aren't you and Neville supposedly banned from sparring?" Asked Goodwitch a little too sweetly.
"I believe it was 'Not too spar whilst on Beacon Premises…Now I've taken Premises to mean everything not covered by four walls and roof' and thus Grounds are acceptable. Besides no-one's been hurt…save for a… rabbit, a deer, doe and lemming." Harry replied sheepishly.
Glynda shook her head "I will not ask. For this fight how is it going to go?"
"That's up to you. I'm all for Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war, but if you want to drip them in one team at a time that's fine."
The Atlas students caught the end of the conversation "You dare to insinuate that you and three Fauni can defeat us! We're among the top ten teams chosen to represent Atlas in this festival, whereas Beacon seems to let all sorts of riffraff in." Stated a rather statuesque blonde student with what appeared to be spear of some sort.
"Over compensating much? Anyway love, my team as in the four of us have stood sixteen to twenty feet Grimm deep, no reinforcements, no aura, no ammo. We were told 'Hold the line' and you know what love? We fucking held that line…As for being top teams good for fucking you. To me, Adam, Nanuuk and Damania that means fuck all. Hell Jaune, arguably the weakest guy in our class has more balls than you lot as you showed up the moment your mechanised dildos got involved. Now quit stalling, Professor Goodwitch get the Aura gauges up and HAND lets work 'em like we worked the Grimm." Harry growled as he began to flare his aura.
"When Aura is red or breaks you're disqualified." Shouted Goodwitch as the fight began.
"Damania, Moses!" Shouted Harry, Damania shook her head and her aura decreased as she pulled on her semblance. Her semblance was a channelling one and when combined with dust it could be a cylinder/cube or even a wall of energy. Moses, was a collaboration technique for when Harry wanted to demonstrate a point.
Damania chucked water dust crystals onto the floor, they shattered and immediately six inches of water covering the arena began to bubble, twitch and writhe as if it was alive.
"Oh shit. Moses?" The Atlesian students quickly began to press their attack, they needed to stop this as soon as possible. Unfortunately Moses was an attack that could not be halted, it could be however multiplied. Damania grunted and as if loading a crossbow pulled the water backwards, she placed herself into the "centre-stance" of an Iado duellist much like Adam. However, her style only used the "centre-stance" as her heritage as a Lioness Faunus provided the requirements to go from no power to distribution to full in a small amount of time, as a opposed to Adam's slow juggernaut-esque style. The water was amassed, now it needed to be shaped, she cupped her hands and brought her hands to her waist, she locked onto her target…Harry and with a roar thrust her hands forwards.
The water released in a flood, quickly reaching the speed required for it to feel like concrete. "Oh SHIT! HAH!" Harry booted his opponent in the stomach before grabbing his sword, twin handed and pulled it upwards in a two handed ascending slash as opposed to a two-handed descending slash designed to barrage, overwhelm and beat down his opponents defence.
It sounded more like rain on a roof. The water slammed into the sword and somehow parted, two students were carried out of the arena and another two took a heavy hit on their aura as the water slammed into them. "Flash Freeze!" Came Nanuuk's throaty call as the Polar-bear faunus slammed his hand down trapping their eleven remaining opponents. "Partition!" Adam rumbled as he drew and sheathed his sword in a blur of motion.
To the adults observing, well they were impressed. Combining three separate combo attacks together, whilst not hard was definitely not something that first year students were able to do. "Taurus needs some tutoring, that 'Partition' technique whilst effective is a little slow." Qrow pointed out.
"Their fighting styles need to overlap more. Damania and Nanuuk both work well together…" Said Summer as the bear and lion faunus systematically removed three more Atlesian students. "…They need to work with Harry and Adam more. Those two…compliment each other far too well." She said.
"Summer, you've not seen you son and Neville work together. Those two, as you've overheard are not allowed to spar full stop and it's not because we do not trust them…Those two throw attacks and aura at each other that could seriously hurt other students." Goodwitch murmured before wincing as Harry and Nanuuk performed "Ice Knife", Nanuuk created a swarm of icicles and either Harry or Adam sliced them into smaller projectiles. There were nine left.
"Is that move legal?" Taiyang asked.
"As your nephew said 'no-one's been hurt', it's legal. This is however, slightly embarrassing." Goodwitch retorted.Ha
"That Beacon is thrashing Atlas Academy? No…Rather, just how badly they are beating the Atlesian Students. Then again, HAND are an exceptional team."
(In the Arena)
"Adam let's do it. Xamination." Harry murmured with maniacal cheerful ness. HAND were looking rather ragged for aura levels but due to the fact practise made perfect, they had managed to outlast twelve of their opponents.
"You do know that this might kill them."
"Might being the operative word. I'm not telling you to Moonslice! Do you think I'm a mad mass-murdering maniac?"
"Mad yes, maniac definitely, mass-murdering? Grimm count? The fight on the train?"
"The fight on the train is at least manslaughter in self-defence from extreme terrorists. Anyway Xamination?"
Adam sighed "I'd prefer Let Go."
"I'd prefer not having that song sung around me Adam." Nanuuk replied as he round-house kicked one of the last survivors of the team.
(Stadium)
"Why didn't I put a bet on?" Yang griped.
"Because no-one would've believed it. Your cousin and his team well they all thought it was hype." Sun said as the last fighter from Atlas was lifted from the floor his aura disintegrating and blood begin to flow out of his chest.
"Sun, HAND IS the hype."
"HAND wins." Declared Goodwitch as the bell rang. Harry vaulted of the stage whilst evaporating the water.
"Sorry about being a bunch of hams. But you have to admit it was cool."
Goodwitch shook her head "Harry, Damania, Nanuuk, Adam…it exasperates me so much that you four are so temperamental as a Team, yet you always succeed in what you wish to achieve."
"From something I heard Harry say a few days back 'Do or do not there is no try' and 'It's gonna be us against the world…the world's gonna lose.'"
Harry snorted "I'm on a Team with three Faunus, I'm in a relationship with a Faunus. They're already going to give me a hard time and I unfortunately ran out of give a damn a long time ago. So it's going to be us against the world because quite frankly those in power should those not in power. Now, I have lunch to get."
(Great Hall)
Ron was making headway into his dinner and chatting with Jaune when they overheard the conversations from the Atlas delegation "Have you heard? It's preposterous! They must have cheated! Sixteen of our own in Medical!"
"Did you hear? Atlas took on Beacon, with the odds clearly in Atlesian favour and somehow the Beacon team took 'em all out!"
"Your lying Leaf…There's no team that skilled that could take on Four teams at once."
Ron looked at Jaune "I know of one team." The redhead said. Jaune nodded "Yeah, HAND…That'd be Harry and a very Harry thing to do."
The conversation stopped as HAND entered the hall "What? Are we in a zoo exhibit? No need to stop and stare at our gloriousness…Ow, Damania!"
"Really Harry? Was that necessary?"
"Yes and yes…I'm hungry."
As everyone slowly resumed eating, Ozpin entered and spoke "I have one announcement. The Vytal Festival starts tomorrow evening with a Gala. Formal wear is mandatory and attendance is compulsory that is all."
As the room returned to its normal busy tones of discussion, CFVY joined the first years "Hey Velvet, want to go to the Gala with me?" Asked Harry straight out.