A/N: I know what you guys are thinking. Oh god he is doing it again are we ever going to actually get past the seventh chapter. My answer is yes but I couldn't seem to carry on so a rewrite hoping that helps. I will make sure to try and update more often. I am also going to add more stuff and mess with the world more. So, hopefully I can actually do this and stop restarting.
Chapter One-
Isle of Patch (520 AGW)
The sounds of children are heard as a woman with raven black hair stands looking out a window. She sighed as she heard one of the doors open behind her. She turns to see another woman with black hair smirking at her. "Summer what are you smirking about?" The woman rolls her eyes at the other woman as she turns around.
"I just can't believe we have arrived at this point." Summer walks up next to the woman and leans against the window seal. "Raven we have come a long way from our academy days. Shit we are married now." Summer looks down at her finger and smiles at the ring on it.
"Yeah glad I stuck around." Raven sighed as she looked out at the open field in front of their house. "Do you think it is wise that both of us still go out on missions?"
"Someone needs to help protect others and Ty has his hands full with the kids. We should also head outside soon. Its almost time for the daily training." Summer pushes off the window seal and walks towards the door. "You coming or what?" Raven released a long sigh as she moved towards the door. As the pair move through the house the sounds of sparing could be heard clearly. Raven and Summer raised an eyebrow at each other before quickly rushing out of the back door.
The sight that greeted them was a blonde-haired man and a raven-haired man standing opposite a small blonde haired girl and a small black haired girl. The raven-haired man chuckled as the black-haired girl held a practice sword. "Good job Rubz but you need to work on that foot work a little."
The black-haired girl pouted as she tried to glare at the man. "Uncle Qrow I am trying."
Summer chuckles as she shakes her head. Summer walks over to the pairs and picks up the little girl. "Don't mind your uncle. He is still upset that I can kick his butt."
Ruby giggles as she wraps her arms around Summer's neck. Raven looks at the blonde man and the blonde girl. "Come along you three. Since you started training without us you have to make lunch."
The blonde-haired man groans as Qrow chuckles as they follow the two women inside. "You signed up for this. They are married to you, so they are your problem."
The blonde-haired man made sure that the two younger girls were not in sight. He gave Qrow the bird as he glared. "At least I don't have the ice queen. She must be such a pain to deal with."
Qrow sighed and slumps as they walk into the modest kitchen. "She is a huge pain. Tai you don't even know. I really thought that she would finally open up to me you know."
Taiyang Xiao Long Sighed as he looked up at the ceiling and chuckles. "Do you know how long it has taken me to convince your twin to stay here? She was dead set on leaving luckily the prince was coming to visit the day she decided to leave. He helped me talk her into staying. He actually spared her, like I had to replace the ground out in our front yard."
"The prince fucking showed up. Fuck dude." Qrow chuckles before a hand slams down on his head.
"Watch your mouth." Summer glared at Qrow. "We have to very impressible young ladies in here. I don't need them cursing like veteran hunters yet." Taiyang chuckles as he moves over to the stove.
Raven sighs as she leans against the counter looking at Taiyang before looking down at her feet. She hated to admit it but getting caught was only half the reason she stayed the other half was because of the ass kicking she received. Oh, and Summer showed up and kicked her ass as well. Now eight years later she is still married to Taiyang and Summer was her sister wife. Life took weird turns sometimes. Shaking her head, she looked at Qrow smirking. "Never learn your lesson, do you? So, Tai what made you start training early?"
Taiyang sighs as he turns towards the two women, he called wives. "We have a guest coming over. She even called me while I waited for you two got up." He sighed deeply as he moves away from the stove. "Mindy is coming, and she is bringing her nephew. She wants him to train with other children besides her children."
Summer raised her eyebrow as she gets onto the counter looking at the two younger girls enjoying a sandwich. "Ruby and Yang can you two head up to your room." The two girls nod before taking their sandwiches with them. "Go on."
"Apparently she is working with Oz. She wants to take out Salem as much as Oz. I think she is training to get her nephew up to the task. As a future realm king he will be as strong as the prince." Taiyang sighs deeply as he leans against the fridge.
"So, she wants to have him train with us? Or is this for another reason?" Raven sighs as she stares at her husband. This was an unlikely situation and didn't sit well with her.
"She didn't give me much. She has never been much of a talker." Taiyang rubs the bridge of his nose. "Look I just know she wants to come and talk to us. She doesn't trust Leo and you three are still technically agents of Oz."
Summer lets out a breath as she shakes her head. "I hate not knowing what is going on. I am so going to give her an ear full."
Qrow looks at the two women before looking at Taiyang. "When?"
"Soon I was hoping to have the girls studying in their rooms when she showed up." Taiyang let out a huff as he shakes his head. "If she wants the girls down here, I will call them. Now let's try and just be friendly and welcoming."
Qrow sighs as he takes a drink from a mug. "You know that out of the group why would she only pick us four?"
"We are just the first on her stop. Apparently, she is visiting more than just us. She will be down visiting Ghira and then Willow but doubt that will go over well." Taiyang sighs deeply as he rubs the bridge of his nose. "Look whatever is going on Mindy wants to train with the children of her son's friends. How is that wrong?"
"When it is the literally Ogre Queen and she usually doesn't do anything without reason." Raven sighed as she pushed off the counter. "The woman is very smart, and she doesn't do anything without reason."
Taiyang walks over to one of the windows looking out. He knows all of them were right, but fuck did he not know what to do. "There is nothing I can do about it. Mindy was very clear; she wants someone in Remnant that could help take on Salem and the tower. Just because most of the continents decide that its better if we distrust instead of working together and protecting each other. Does not mean we can't start building a world where our kids can go help out in say Pangea."
"Now there it is. This is about prepping for war, she wants to have a trained king in Remnant." Qrow slams his hands down on the counter.
"I mean she does have her brother. He is a well renowned realm king and he does have his soldiers helping to protect villages around Anima. So, I doubt that the youngest Arc is needed to be trained." Summer sighs as she shakes her head.
"Plus, the daughters also have their own realms." Raven sighs as she paced around the room.
"Look Mindy will tell us more when she gets here. I don't know what she wants or what is going on. I can call Oz but doubt he will tell me more." Taiyang was almost ripping out his hair. "Let's just deal with it when it gets here. I think we can call the girls back down for some teatime."
Before anyone could move a knock sounded from the front door and they all froze. Summer was the first to the door slowing opening it. What greeted her was a young man with raven black hair, his body covered in a black armor. Of course, he would be wearing armor for a visit. "You know that visits tend to be informal right?"
The man did not speak the dark-haired woman behind him did. "Not when the visit is for training. May we come in?" Summer almost cursed when she noticed the woman, of course the conniving bitch forgot to mention bringing her son.
Summer opened the door wider and motioned for them to come in. The first to enter was the man, he was followed by a woman who had his hair color, but her attire was different. Instead of full body armor she only wore chain mail under a corset. What shocked Summer and the others in the room was the young blonde boy that came walking in. Excitement and curiosity all over his face.
Raven watched the woman with a suspicious eye. "Mindy so glad you could accompany your son on his visit."
"Oh, Raven is that sarcasm I hear." Mindy looks down at the blond boy and smiles. "Jaune why don't you go find the children of the house while the adults have a talk." The now named Jaune smiled up at Mindy before vanishing in a blur up the stairs. Mindy turned to the four teammates with a grim look on her face. "Now onto business." Mindy walks over to the couch and sits down.
The young man stands next to the television stand and leans against it. He just looked at the four other people in the room with a smile. He cleared his throat before speaking. "Now before anyone gets all huffy and this turns into a fight. My mother has a proposition for you guys and hear her out before you refuse."
Qrow glared at the woman. He did not trust her one bit, everything she did was to further her kingdom and make her alliances stronger. She was not the bleeding heart everyone thought she was. "Alright spit it out then." Taiyang wanted to slap Qrow for talking to someone on the list of most powerful being in the world like that. She was just sitting down and masking her presences and it was still powerful.
"My nephew needs new life to his training. Tai you are an amazing hand to hand fighter and your wives are amazing. Qrow you are an amazing swords men and scythe wielder so if he trains here for a while he will acuire more skills."
"Don't you have generals that are as skilled if not more than us? Like what is the play here?" Qrow raised his eyebrow at the woman.
Mindy sighed as she sits up. "Only learning form members of my kingdom and family will stunt his growth. I already have trainers from around the world ready to come train him. I was hoping that you and my son's other friends would lend his cousin a hand."
"We never rejected helping out a child. We are more curious on your play and your plans. You don't just out of the blue do something." Summer sat down in a chair and stared at the woman.
Mindy sighed as she rubs the bridge of her nose. "Fine, I want Salem out of play. We can't make a direct assault, and neither can John. The councils of the kingdoms are stonewalling us. I don't want war with Remnant, and I think if I do things differently it will play out better."
"So, your changing how the family trains? Don't you normally send them around the world to every school possible to learn?" Taiyang gave Mindy a questioning look. It seemed odd to change how she ran the royal family. Yes, Johnathan Arc did things his own way and would get tutors for his children. But learning everything you can about Wonder was how they did things. Since the ogre kingdom was vast and accepted soldiers from all the continents. The main line needed to know how to do all what they could. Given most Arcs and the families that made up the realm king lines were fast learners they did not need more than two to three years at any given school.
Taiyang was not saying it was wrong, the prince knows how to counter and fight any person from Wonder. But there was the fact that from the way he acted it was not so much coping what was taught it was taking what was taught and turning it into your own style. The prince once told him that he learned a lot from being in the schools around Wonder but discovered something. If you tried to just copy what you see and not mold it to your own style or needs, you would only ever be a novice. So, each realm king had their own style, spell book and ectrea.
Mindy sighed as she stared at Taiyang. "I am not sending Jaune across the world no. He is eight and already being tutored in many things from around the world. I was going to talk to you about leaving my son and Jaune here for at least a month. I want him to study the style of four amazing huntsmen and huntresses. He can learn so much, and I can't wait to see his style in a few years' time. Look the tower is putting piece into play. Mixed with all the other groups in the world I would rather have my best foot forward. Salem will jump at the chance to ally with them and further her own goals. I am limited by politics and the planets limited vision."
Qrow sighed as he walks over to a cabinet in the corner of the room and grabs out a bottle of whiskey. "If the tower is making a play then why not attack. From what I hear the tower is just a collective of groups."
"It's hard to attack something that spans across the world. The have operatives on every continent of Wonder. They are a large organization that can split the agents up into small groups. I can barely get permission to move my crafts out of orbit and into deeper space. The world council has their heads so far up their ass they can't see straight." Mindy grabs the bottle from Qrow and pours herself a glass before handing it back to him.
"We will do it. I will never refuse to further a young child's education and if it can come in the form of me teaching him. Then fuck yeah lets down it." Summer looked into Mindy's eyes with determination. They may not always see eye to eye but Jaune was a child and she would be damned if he would go without her help in learning.
Mindy smirked as she stood up and headed for the door. "I will leave it to you." Mindy walked out of the house as four pair of eyes turned to the young man in the room.
"Hey guys what is up?" The man smiles nervously as he chuckles.
Atlus (520 AGW)
A.N. Advance warning dark scene ahead. Torture and abuse.
The sounds of feet moving over a concrete floor and the smell of smoke was all that filled Wiess Schnee senses. The sounds of talking made the pounding in her head worse. Wiess tried to move but found that she could not move at all. She felt the ropes around her wrists and her ankles. Her sight was blocked by some form of cloth. It was all too much for her eight-year-old mind to handle as she starts sobbing.
A voice filled the air around her causing her to shiver. "Oh, look the little Schnee bitch is awake. Wake up the cow who birthed them." The sound of water being dumped was the next sound that filled Wiess' ears. A gasp came not long after the sound, her mother's voice began to fill the silence that took over after the water had been dumped.
"What do you want?" Her mother's voice sounded pleading and afraid. She had never heard her mother sound so broken and weak. It was scaring her and making her cry even more. She was terrified and it only seemed to be the beginning. As the cloth was ripped off her face the light burned her eyes. The sudden invasion of light did not feel pleasant, but it was the sight in front of her that had her frozen. There sat her mother Willow Schnee, proud matriarch of the Schnee family. She was covered in water and tied to a chair.
The next sound to invade her overloaded mind was the sound of something striking skin as a man wearing a strange mask that looked like a grim hit her mother across the face. What, her mother always told her that the White Fang was an ally and she was working with them. No, these people wore a perverted symbol these where not the peaceful protesters who her mother was trying to help. These were extremis or terrorists posing as the group.
The Faunus features gave away it was the first and not the latter. Of course, they would be targeted. Her father was not a good man and he was so worried about making money more than treating his employees properly. Her mother had been teaching her things and she was happy to have her mother. Another hit this time Willow spit up blood as she glared at the men, a man with a wolf tail walks upholding a large metal pole.
The eight-year-old across from her had shut down. Willow was glad she was no longer taking in this scene. When she got out of here, she would hunt these men down with the help of Ghira. Another pain raced across her face. This time she felt the skin be torn and the bleed start to flow from her cheek. The next hit was followed a crunch as her nose flared with pain. The men take a step back with a laugh, Willow was holding back the tears luckily her vision went white. That helped to keep her from screaming or sobbing.
She felt the metal pole hit her knee and then heard the pop before pain shot through her legs and made her scream. A large man was walking up to them motioning for the men to move away. Her vision was starting to blur from the pain luckily her hearing was not failing her yet. "Miss Schnee we only want to send a message to the world. We are done being pushed around." The man smirked as he moved a camera to see both the tied-up people.
The man lifted the bleeding and beaten face of Willow Schnee. He made her face the camera. "Hello world. We are the revolution. We are done with the peaceful ways and we are done being pushed around and kicked down by you. Now watch us destroy the two people that Jacques Schnee loves the most. When we are done, we expect Jacques to hand over owner ship of the SDC to us."
Willow turned her head enough to see the ears of the man holding her head. The silver hair on the man's head did not strike her as weird. The fact that his ears were obviously fake is what caught her interest. She knows the others were real and did not understand why they were following a fake Faunus. Unless he was offering money and support in them starting this new cell. The White Fang were peaceful and Ghira was all about doing things without bloodshed.
This new cell of radical members would only make matters worse. Especially with a human pretending to be a Faunus leading them. Her vision would go white again when something ripped through her shoulder. The act of not screaming was getting harder, she let another one rip. The once white dress that the Schnee matriarch was warning was now red from the blood leaking out of her body.
Wiess came back to reality as her mother screamed. Fear was the only thing she felt well that was before a smack sound echoed around the room and she saw stars. Blood filled her mouth from the hit. Wiess was more in horror as she watched the men hit her mother repeatedly. Blood drenched the floor as sharp objects entered the woman's body. Wiess was crying and she was trying everything to not scream at the men. She feared she would only make it worse.
The next feeling to enter her mind was pure pain as a fist connected with her jaw and a loud crunchy pop sound followed it. "Shut your mouth, bitch." Wiess resigned herself to just watching them beat and stab her mother.
A gunshot rang through out the room, Wiess stared wide eyed as a man with a mask feel down blood flowing from his head. Wiess took in the scene to see the man had his pants around his ankle and her mothers dress was ripped open. Wiess did not know what just happened but the silver haired Faunus just saved her mother.
"I made simple rules. Quite simple rules and I expect everyone to follow them." The silver haired Faunus yelled as he walked up to the woman. "You are trying to take back control of the SDC. I want it instead so give it to me and my friends." Willow glared at the man; her eyes swollen but the glare could have frozen even the hardest criminal. Willow just spit saliva and blood into the mans face.
The man sighed before another gunshot sounded and Wiess despite the pain in her jaw screamed as blood flow from her knee. "Now let us try this again. Give me control of the SDC."
A raspy voice left Willow's mouth as she glared at the man. "Over my dead body. You would need both mine and my husband's signatures. You won't get either one." The man growled as he put the gun to her head. "If I die it all goes to my husband and then my daughter. IF she dies it gets dissolved and goes to no one. So, go fuck yourself."
The man's eyes go wide as he cocked the gun. "Seems like I have to pressure Jacques to sign it over." Wiess watched wide eyed as her mother with tears in her eyes mouthed three words that she wishes she could reply to. The worlds I love you floated in the air as the gun went off and Wiess watched the spry of blood before her mother's head slumped down. The life living her eyes as Wiess stared wide eyed and in shock. She did not notice the silver haired man leave or the hands on her body. The rest of the event was a blur and darkness.
Hospital in Atlus (520 AGW)
The sounds of machines were what meet Wiess as her world begin to gain color. The pain in her head was not helped by the bright lights in the room. She had to take a minute to look around, she was not in her bed. She figured it was a hospital and it was painful to even move. She looked at one of the machines next to her and paused. The events from the night before kicking in, she started to sob and tried to lean her head in her hands.
The movement made her jaw hurt and her shoulder flared with pain. She just went with the act of sitting there sobbing silently the tears streaming down her face. A voice cut through the silence like butter. The cold and indifference in the voice made her shudder. "Quit crying. Its un-lady like and I expect better from one of my children."
Wiess looks up at the man that spoke. It was her father Jacques Schnee, and he did not look at all effected by this. "Your mothers funeral is in three days' time. I expect no crying at that either. The Schnee family will show that the mourn like proper Ladies and Lords. Then you will restart your training and studying." Wiess could not believe he was acting so cold. She was devastated by the fact her mother was dead. Her father could at least pretend to be a little hurt. He did not even seem sad about it.
Wiess just stared at him and nodded her head. She laid back down, nothing about this made sense. Her mother was strong and an ex huntress. She was one of the best even went to the same classes as the likes of General Ironwood. Those men should not have been able to do that, she was sure there was more going on and she would spend time trying to get to the bottom of this.
Jacques sighs as he pulls out his scroll. "I have to take this." He turns around and walks out of the room and answers the call. "I told you to wait."
"I know boss, but we need to know what to do. There is a lot of heat and Ghira will come looking for us soon." The voice from the other end responded.
"Is Khan ready or not. I know she will deny her involvement, but she also did not stop us. So, if she decides to chicken out I will take her as well." Jacques growls over the phone.
"Khan is ready it's the Ghira aspect. He has to step down as leader." The voice sounded scared as Jacques nodded. The man was right, with Ghira still as leader it would be a fringe group attacking. No, he needed the fang he wants. That way all focus can be on them and not on him. It will simple be seen as him being paranoid after his wife's death. "Just tell Khan to wait. Ghira will have to step down after the next attack." The man hung up after agreeing to talk with her.
Jacques sighed as he put his scroll back. He would come back and check his daughter out tomorrow. He needed to plan things out in case Wiess became like her mother. As Jacques turned to start walking something stopped him, no someone stopped him. A girl standing in front of his daughters open hospital door. A girl with long white hair with blonde through it. She looked so much like his daughter it freaked him out. The only difference was this girl was at least sixteen.
He approached the girl and cleared his throat. "Excuse me, but who are you and what are you doing?"
The girl turned to him and growled. "I am no one and I don't owe you a thing." The girl turned away before sighing. "I know what you did." She started to walk away moving fast. Jacques tried to follow. After the shock of what she said wore off. But a bright blue light around a corner she vanished behind was all he saw. He did not see the girl at all after that. Jacques was shaken and he needed to make sure there was not a leak. He turned and walked away heading for the exit.
Menagerie (520 AGW)
Ghira Belladonna glared at the television screen in front of him. The headline reading 'Willow Schnee murdered, suspects radical cell of the White Fang.' He could not believe what he was seeing. The White fang was meant to be a group fighting for Faunus rights. Peacefully and not by killing an active supporter. Yes, humans have had a bad habit mistreating Faunus, but violence was not the answer. Hell, he was pretty sure that this would hurt their cause.
Faunus could become huntsmen and huntresses; they could get jobs and own shops. Yes, the prices in shops, spas and other things were higher for Faunus but they were working towards a better world. There was no reason to kill a person who was helping with that. Hell, Willow had a whole group of people trying to help all over Remnant. Ghira sighed a lot of Faunus were tired of the miss treatment, he hated to say this but no matter how equal the laws are there would still be people who hated them. It was just the nature of the beast.
Ghira felt a tiny head pop up on his shoulder and he chuckled as he turned to a small girl with raven black hair and cat ears on her head. "Blake what are you doing?"
"You looked down daddy, so I decided to come cheer you up." Blake smiled at her father as her ears twitched. "See I made you laugh."
Ghira shakes his head. "Honey you know that you always cheer up your father." Blake giggled as she hugged her father.
A much older looking woman walks into the room. Ghira looks at her and cannot help but to notice the resemblance between his daughter and his wife. Blake was going to make a man or woman incredibly lucky to have her. Ghira raised an eyebrow at the expression on his wife's face. "Kali what is wrong?"
"Sienna is outside. She wishes to talk to you." Kali had an angry expression plastered on her face. Ghira would bet she also saw the news and assumed Sienna had something to do with it. Getting up Ghira walked to the front door before exiting.
He stared at Sienna Khan; the woman was beautiful but filled with so much hate. "Sienna what do you wish to discuss?"
"Did you see the news?" Sienna looked at Ghira an unreadable expression on her face.
"Yes, and I am wondering if you had anything to do with that." Ghira glared at her.
"I may think we need to be a little more forceful, but I would not order such a hit. That has dealt a blow to our cause." Sienna stares at Ghira still with an unreadable expression that was really starting to piss him off.
Ghira starts to walk down the steps. "Is that all you care about? That our cause was hurt not that a woman has lost her life, or that a family is broken because of people trying to in act a way of hate and violence." Ghira stands in front of the woman glaring down at her. "Not only was the woman a big name in Atlus, but she was a big supporter of us. You are damn right it hurt our cause because she was helping with it. Bigotry is not fought through death and destruction it is taught through acceptance. It is slowly bleeding out of your teaching of children. Killing and destroying things will never bring an end to bigotry."
"It isn't working Ghira!" Sienna growls out as she balls her fists. "They still mistreat our people and all you do is march. Our people need action not yelling."
Ghira snarls at her as he crosses his arms over his chest. "You think your way will work. That fear is the best way to get equality. I think yes you will get fear but that is not the same as being accepted. You can not have a society that fears another group of people. Until you figure this out, I will run damage control for the radical members you have created."
"At least the Schnees will learn not to mistreat us. Especially since the youngest daughter will fear the mark of the fang for the rest of her life." Sienna glares at Ghira before turning away from him.
"What do you mean?" Ghira raises his eyebrow. Now that is strange, the problem was not Willow. It is her husband that was the problem, Willow did what she could but since her husband owned half the company. He could do what he pleased.
"Apparently the little human was there when they killed her mom. Most likely she will never mistreat a Faunus. That is what fear does for our cause." Sienna smirks as she starts to walk away.
"Traumatizing a small child helps our cause? That is like saying that killing a child just because their parents were bad people helps keep the world safe. Or killing someone just because they exist with in the same group as another. You are not a solution you are part of the problem." Ghira growls out as he heads back inside. He did not need to hear the ramblings of a hate filled person. Hate against hate was not going to solve anything.
Ghira let out a calming breath before a voice interrupted him. "Seems like time to disband the white fang and create the Faunus Kingdom. I will help of course." Ghira turned to the voice only finding Mindy. Of course, she just shows up, no call and no knock. He would have attacked her for doing something so rudly, but he was not in the mood to be reminded how powerful she was.
"Hello Mindy. What are you doing here?" He just stares at the woman.
"Ghira is that anyway to greet a friend or the person willing to fund you making this island a whole empire. I can literally make it to where you and the rest of your people can settle the whole island. Irrigation dealing with your little fauna problem on the island." Mindy stands up and smiles sweetly at Ghira. "No think about it and also I wish for my nephew to come train with you."
"I will think about the kingdom thing and the training. Come back in two weeks' time and I will have your answer." That was something he was going to have to think about. There was no way that He could just rush into that decision with out talking to his wife. Hell that was changing the way Faunus would be in the world more than Sienna's hate filled path.
Mindy pats Ghira on the shoulder. "Just think about it okay. I would prefer the Faunus just joining my empire, but I figure its time for your people to have something of their own." Mindy walks out the front door. Ghira watches her with a scrawl on his face, what the hell is that woman's play? He knows Mindy wanted his father to stop sitting around and just make a damn kingdom. He knew that she would ally with them and use them to do what the councils of the other kingdoms would not. He shakes his head heading for the stairs. He needed to be with his wife and kid, he also needed to call Winter.
He was burning with rage and grief he could not focus on that yet. He needed to focus on his people and family, Winter would just shrug him off and it would not do to blow up on her. Letting out a sad sigh he stops in front of a picture he smiled at it before heading up the stairs.
Castle Signis (Ogre Kingdom) (Remnant date 520 AGW/ Orge date 45 QM)
A raven haired child sighs as she looks at the emerald haired girl next to her. "You know mom will be pissed if were late again?"
The emerald haired child looks at her with a pout. "But Cinder I am trying to perfect my dagger skills."
Cinder sighs as she shakes her head. "Emerald come on; the other kids are already there. If we are the last it will look bad and as your older sister, I will not have us looking bad." Emerald sighs as she follows Cinder down the stone corridor. Cinder smiled as she looked at the large men and women wearing shiny black armor. The royal guard were always watching them, she once told them she could take care of herself. The guard glared and said she was only ten and needed the protection.
Cinder stops at a large wooden door and smiles at a girl with pink and black hair standing next to it. She bowed before speaking. "Sisters are the others inside." Instead of speaking the girl used sign language. She could have simply said no Cinder thought. "Well we are the first here, huh to think us three would be the first ones here."
Emerald shakes her head as she grabs the other girl's hand and leads them inside. "Don't mind her Neo, she skipped breakfast." Neo pulls away and signs 'how?' "She slept in apparently the guard on duty decided Cinder needed more sleep."
Neo giggles as Cinder huffs a much older woman walks in her long raven hair flowing along her armored body. "Glad to see you three here early. To think I would have to hunt down my younger sisters. Now let us sit mother should be here soon and it will just be us four. The others have responsibilities and Anthony is already down for his nap." The older woman walks over to a chair and sits down. The children follow the woman's example.
Cinder smiled at the woman, the queen of the teal realm. Her older sister and the woman who saved her. Shaking her head as Mindy walks in shocking not accompanied by her brother. Cinder raises her eyebrow before speaking. "Mother where is brother?"
"With Jaune on a training trip Cinder. Speaking of training I will be starting the next round of training for you three. I will make sure to set it up starting tomorrow." Mindy nods as she sits down and smiles at the three children. "So, first item to be discussed is simple. Jaune is currently going to be gone for about three to five months. He will be training with handpicked tutors around Remnant. Second order of business is the up coming family trip. I already messaged the other children and they all declined due to being busy. But you three are still children and will be accompanying me on the trip."
Cinder nods as she smiles at her mother. "Alright, if that is all I say we eat." Emerald giggles next to her as they stare at Mindy.
"Yes, let us eat. I am quite famished from the trip. Now enjoy your meals." Mindy chuckles as several trays get wheeled into the room.
Grimm Lands (520 AGW)
A woman in a long black dress with raven black hair stands looking out an open window as a man with blonde hair stands next to her. His face twisted into a grin as he blonde and purple beard sits under his mouth. His reddish green eyes look out over the dark desolate lands of the Grimm Lands. "Look, Salem its quite simple. You join me and the tower, we help you dominate Remnant."
"Marik you do understand that I don't need your help?" Salem looks towards the now named Marik. "Besides, you assume you can do what Wilhelm II, Franz Joseph, Mehmed V and Ferdinand I couldn't do in the first world war and that is just some examples for you."
"They were amateurs in over their heads, plus they didn't have the tower backing them." Marik smirks walking around her and stands next to her throne. "I would figure the great Grimm Queen would want the help of the most powerful group in all of wonder."
"Not at the cost of all my own progress." Salem glares at the man. "Besides what the hell do you think the tower could give me?"
"The tower, an organization known by the name because as you scale their members, we only get stronger." Marik smirks as a purplish mist starts to form around him. "Do remember Salem I am a twelfth-floor member." Salem growled; he was right a fight between them would only disrupt the Grimm flow into the world. Salem cursed under her breath if only life was simple, her being the most powerful being in the world. No, through out wonder there were beings on her level.
The tower was known to have fifteen floors to its member numbering system. Twelfth and higher was full of king class beings. She did not even want to think of the fifteenth-floor members, rumored to be able to effect reality with out even blinking. "Fine give me time and I will tell you my decision. I don't want to rush into anything."
"Well when you are tired of tying with the old wizard in his tower let me know." Marik starts to head towards the door but pauses. "Salem tell me, why not join us? You would be a Twelfth-floor or higher member and you get the added perks that come with it."
"I can't leave Remnant." Salem sighs as she goes back to looking out the window. "Just keep Remnant out of your silly war until I reach a descion."
"I promise to leave Remnant alone until you come to your senses. Besides I don't plan on starting a global war yet. I will start in Pangea first, maybe bring back some old friends to assist me." Marik laughs as he walks out of the door.
Salem looks over at a floating Eye with tentacles coming off of it. "I would tell you to follow him, but I doubt you would last very long. Maybe this will be helpful." Salem walks over to the eye and pulls it over sitting down in her chair.
"The tower is getting brave, but smart. Not one of the contients will jump to the aid of Pangea. The world is so divided its why I can continue to wage my war on Remnant." Salem laughs as she leans back in her chair.