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Daughter of the Gods

Chapter three: Sing, Immortal Heart

Getting up in the morning I dreaded the coming conversation. Going through the motions of my morning routine I went downstairs after getting dressed and saw that everyone was still here. Well, likely they had gone home for the night and just come back early. I nodded my head and got breakfast from a stash behind Tai's cereal. Finishing that I sat back on the couch and Ozpin spoke first.

"Where should we begin?" He said. I glared at him and he sipped his coffee nonchalantly.

"First off, Ass-pin, seeing as I've revealed your great shame of hiding for centuries to your inner circle, I would like to apologize. Secondly, I'm not happy that you blamed the world still being broken on me. Thirdly, I know I'm a maiden and immortal, but what do you need me for? The brothers only told me you were their champion and that I had the power to help you. You seem to be doing just fine right now." I crossed me legs and arms, showing that I'm still on edge around them.

"First I would like to apologize as well. You're right, I was ashamed of the years I'd wasted when I could have done something. When I left Salem I was heartbroken and didn't know what to do so I tried to run away from my purpose. I blamed you for the fact that the world isn't fixed simply because of my shame. Secondly, the brothers never told me your exact purpose, only that you're a protector and woman with extraordinary power." He explained.

Protector? That's oddly specific.

"Did they say what I was the protector of, besides the relic? What are you even the 'champion' of anyway?"

"My mission is supposed to be to prepare humanity for the brothers return, and when they are ready, the brothers will judge them. If humanity is ready, magic will return as well as the brothers." My eyes widened.

"What?! But the brothers are gone! How are they supposed to 'come back'?"

"They told me to find the relics when humanity was ready and bring them together. They would act like a bell, alerting the brothers that it was time." Ozpin said.

Holy shit.

"How many have you found?" I asked. Please say none please say none.

"Four." Qrow said smugly. I looked at Ozpin and he sighed.

"The relic of destruction hasn't been found. I never knew where it was and never found it. so I created a fake from what I remember the God of Light showing me. It was a sword, and I modeled it after the sword one of the statues is holding in the courtyard of beacon, imbuing it with a small amount of magic to trick anyone into thinking it was real, and then putting it in the vault where only a maiden could open it. As it turns out, you." He finished looking at me. "So we only know of three relics. I'm sorry."

I stood up and slammed my fists together, pulling them apart in the motion of drawing a sword. Closing my eyes, I felt the pommel form in my hand, and then the sword blade manifested in the drawing motion. Swinging it around, I rested the handle and blade in my hands and held it in front of the headmaster. Standing up, holding a shaking hand out to touch it, he drew back when he felt the dark magic inside the blade.

"Now you know why I never used it. I felt it corrupting me from the inside out and I figured another evil immortal was bad, so I put her in a pocket dimension that only I can get to. Besides, I didn't trust Atlas' militaristic tendencies." I smirked.

"Your power will likely never seem to amaze me." He said reverently.

To be fair I am a creation of the gods, so I do have a bit of an unfair advantage, not that I'm complaining.

Sliding destruction back into her pocket I sat back down, crossing my legs and arms across my chest. "Now, I believe there is other business that needs to be taken care of."

"And what would that be princess?" Qrow asked without a care in the world. His nonchalant attitude screamed covering something up, trying to bury a memory.

"First of all, I've been a literal goddess for a brief period of time, so hold your tongue. Second, I don't care for your attitude. Third, if you cannot behave I will have you removed from this plane of existence!" I stood up and towered over his sitting form. He rose to meet the challenge and in in the blink of an eye I picked him up, ran him several dozen miles away, and appeared back in the house in under two seconds.

"Anyone else?" I snarled. Everyone else, except Yang since she had gone to shower, stared wide eyed.

Sitting back down on the couch I got down to business.

"First off I need to know everything you know that I might not. Second, the sword always stays with me, no exceptions. Third, Who the FUCK was the woman that killed terra, and where do I find her." I growled out the last part.

"We'll need to work something out so we can share information, as I'm sure you have your own as well. The sword I would prefer being locked in the vault, but I will agree that the way things are right now it would be best if you kept it. Terra is alive but extremely weak, we have no idea who that woman is or what she did. It seems as if she's sucked the power out of Terra's body."

My eyes widened.

"What do you mean 'sucked out of her body.' Describe to me what happened to her!" I needed to know, especially if it meant I could save her

"Whatever it was appeared to be grimm in nature, nothing I've ever seen before." Ozpin admitted. Damnit. I had hoped it was another form of magic and that maybe whatever had happened could be undone.

"I'd still like to see her. She means a great deal to me." I confessed quietly. Ozpin nodded his head before speaking up.

"I believe I have an idea that would be sufficient to deal with multiple problems." God he was so professional sometimes.

Like…lighten up a bit Oz. You're a reincarnating wizard talking to an immortal who has seen just as much bloodshed and human catastrophes as I have. Still, I was polite and nodded for him to go on without voicing my thoughts.

"Would you attend beacon as a student. With your experience I would ask you to be a teacher but because of how young you look it wouldn't be possible."

If I hadn't been sitting already I would have had to sit down. As it happened though I had been sipping some water and almost did a spit take.

Okay maybe I did do a spit take.

All over Glynda.

Well I've had a good run.

I was broken out of my inner thoughts when Ozpin cleared his throat, clearly expecting an answer, and hoping I would choose his suggestion.

I did. What could it hurt?

"Alright, but I do have several conditions." I said while trying to sound serious. Ozpin looked at me expectantly and waited patiently for my conditions.

"I'll wear a uniform but only if I can wear my cloak as well. I literally helped build beacon, so I think I have that right." Ozpin nodded easily enough.

"I want to be able to visit Terra and see if I can help her. That is also nonnegotiable." Again, Ozpin nodded like he had expected that, and likely he probably had.

"I'll also be carrying crescent rose with me at all times while Destruction is hidden, or, if it would be better, a hidden dagger. I won't be weaponless if I can help it." I stated honestly.

"While I am fine with a hidden dagger on your person, your scythe is a bit much, so I ask that you not carry that with you." He said politely. That was fair, so I agreed.

"I'll live on beacon grounds, but I'll also be traveling sometimes to check on my informants, so I will disappear from time to time." Ozpin seemed hesitant, likely at the fact that someone as powerful as me would disappear for days at a time, but he nodded eventually.

"My last condition is that Blake Belladonna be on my team no matter what." I admitted. Ozpin looked confused and Glynda looked aghast that I would even ask for this.

"May I ask why miss Belladonna has to be on your team?" Ozpin asked.

"I made a promise to Indigo Belladonna, one of the founders of the hunters academies and my best friend, that I would always protect her family. I failed in that promise during the great war, but I swore never again would I let that happen." Preto's face flittered through my mind.

Ozpin nodded in understanding but Glynda still wasn't satisfied.

"If you promised to protect her than you must know of her history with the white fang!" she accused.

"Of course I knew! But I couldn't interfere with her life! Every Belladonna must follow their own path without my interference, except in extreme cases of life and death. Blake is very good at avoiding serious injury or death." A small smile as I remembered watching over her training with Adam. As much as I hated the prick, he taught her valuable lessons in fighting and observation. "And I am very proud of her for finding her way back to the correct path."

Glynda seemed to deflate at the detailing of my promise, but none of them would ever really know the truth of my oath.

Ozpin thought over the information I had given him before he stood up and paced around the room. I was prepared to walk away from him, champion or not, when he came back with that determined stony look on his face.

"Your condition that Ms. Belladonna be on your team will be accepted." I looked at him with a huge smie. "However," he continued. "until you are absolutely sure of your teams trustworthiness, they cannot, under any circumstances, learn of the maiden powers, your silver eyed powers, or your immortality. The time will come when they should know, and I will leave the option of telling Ms. Belladonna up to you, but whoever else ends up on your team cannot know."

If only he could read my mind, but then he would know of my nefarious plan.

Tai nearly scared the shit out of me when he spoke up right behind me for the first time since I walked in the house.

"I'll tell yang the good news."

Ozpin was about to comment on the smirk that appeared on my face, but the door to the house banged open and in walked a pretty pissed of Qrow. He was huffing and puffing like he'd run a marathon or flown one.

Qrow glared at me with murderous intent before a freshly showered Yang jumped on him from behind and wrapped him in a bear hug. I just barely saw her wink at me before she and Qrow toppled to the ground in a heap.

She got off quickly before wrapping me in my own bear hug.

"Dad just told me the great news!" she squealed. "I can't believe my older sister is coming to beacon with me! Back to beacon with me?" She mused to herself before shaking her head clear and hugging me tightly again.

"Yang, I don't need air to live, but I do like having it." I grunted. She was smothering me with her boobs.

"I'm sorry but I'm just so happy!" She squealed again. I swear if it was possible I would've gone deaf from just how high pitched her squealing was.

"I'm literally only going to be there for reasons other than school work. It would be so much easier if I could be a teacher but because the brothers stuck me around the age of eighteen there isn't much I can do about it." complaining solves nothing but it does make me feel better.

"Plus, teachers are going to hate me because I know so much more than them." I rolled my eyes. Being immortal and going to school was going to be hell.

"You'll be great. Isn't it funny that you'll be able to graduate from a school you helped build." Yang commented.

"Yes ha ha. So funny. There's a reason I avoided going to hunter schools." I looked away, but Yang understood.

"Hey come here." She pulled me into a soft hug. Besides Indi, Yang gave the best hugs ever.

"Thanks, little dragon." I said in her ear. She hugged me tighter for a second before letting me go. Qrow popped up out of nowhere.

"So that's just it. You're letting her go to Beacon and put the entire student body in danger, because what?! She asked nicely?!" So…he seemed a little upset.

"No Mr. Branwen, I'm going to Beacon so I can fulfill the will of the gods with their champion." Was the only reply I gave. I didn't want to deal with him now but apparently he wasn't done.

"Just one second, how can we even trust you. You've hidden for centuries, only to come out of hiding to fight a war for the faunus, kill hundreds of people in the process and then disappear again. The only thing that's lived as long and walked with you is death." He spat. Okay maybe a lot upset.

"Uncle Qrow!"

"Qrow!"

Multiple people shouted at the same time. His words cut deep but they weren't wrong. My hands were soaked in the blood of soldiers and innocents alike, most happened during the great war, but some…

"You're right Mr. Branwen," My eyes began to glow an eerie silver. "My hands are stained as red as my cloak, and it may never come off, but at least I'm willing to try to use my power to make life better for people. The same as I have been doing for centuries. I've stopped more wars from happening in remnants history than years you've been born." I stepped forward, flames sparking to life in my palms.

"So you see, you don't have a choice but to trust me, because without me, you'd all die slow and painful deaths." The very air around us grew heavy, and storm clouds began to form before I felt a hand on my arm. I looked to see Yang's lilac eyes staring at me, pleading with me to stop. I took a deep breath and calmed down, but not before one final jab.

"I have seen things you cant even dream of in nightmares, so before you go accusing me of being selfish, or cowardly, or a monster, just remember who showed your fledgling race to use your souls alongside four friends, who protected dozens of cities and a few kingdoms from ruin, who has seen more death than can ever be understood…" I trailed off, turning around and running to my shack in the woods, ignoring the calls of Yang and Tai.

Stepping into my hut was the most at peace I could ever feel, but right now it didn't seem to be making a difference in my restlessness. So, I started packing what little clothes I owned, alongside keepsakes I never went anything without.

My armor from the great war, a reminder of who I became when faced with the worst of humanity. Shaking my head free of those reminders I stowed my armor in the same pocket dimension as the sword and slung a bag over my shoulder, filled with every bit of clothing I had, which wasn't much.

Only a few pairs of pants, shirts, socks, boots, and cloaks.

Finishing up a gave a last longing glance to the place that had been home for the last few years. Running back to the clearing in front of Tai's house I was there in a few seconds.

"Okay, I've got everything I need, we should be going."

"Well if you'd stuck around and or remembered the acceptance letter I got, you'd know that the airship doesn't leave until tomorrow, sis." Yang laughed.

"Oh yeah. Well then I'll see you tomorrow." Telling Ozpins group and offering no further chance for conversation as I walked into Tai's house. Everyone must have left because Yang and Tai walked back into the house alone.

"Well that was fun." Yang said with a cheery smile. I just looked at her with deadpan eyes and Tai face palmed before walking into the kitchen for a sandwich.

My stomach grumbled and I remembered that it was noon. Damn we had been talking for a long time. Fixing myself a sandwich as well as Yang's I sat back down and handed her the food.

"Thanks Rubes!" she said before taking a large bite.

"Yang you're supposed to eat it not inhale it." I admonished. She rolled her eyes and swallowed the fist sized bite she had taken.

"Sorry sis." She said before taking a smaller bite. Lunch proceeded quietly after that, small easy conversations, mostly Yang asking Tai and I what beacon was like, and I told her I'd show her everything about the school.

We talked for hours about how I would continue training with her, even if she was on another team, how I would tutor her in history because she somehow still sucked at it, and the things that would likely happen with me being at Beacon. Namely the danger that would follow by working with Ozpin and his crew against the forced of evil.

Yang told me she was prepared for it all and even defiantly stated that she wasn't scared of anything.

"Yang, fear is natural. I'm scared about what's going to happen. I'm immortal, and that means that one way or another people around me die and I go on. I'm not scared for myself, I'm scared for you and everyone else." I told her quietly. Her defiant attitude deflated quickly at my admission and she wrapped me in a quick hug.

"I'm sorry. Sometimes I forget what you are and what that means to you. I promise I'll be careful but if the world is in danger I'll be right there by your side." The warmth from Yang was comforting, in a way that often reminded me of the group hugs the girls and I used to have.

"I just worry about you Yang. You have a habit of charging in without ever really thinking sometimes and it scares the hell out of me."

"I know you worry, and how many times do I have to apologize for Juniors bar." She chuckled.

"Well I think you're forgiven since it did allow me to gain a lot of information about Ozpin and his group of spies." It turned out to be for nothing in recent days but oh well.

"Well I'm glad my recklessness was good for something." She laughed again. Immediately my mood and the topic shifted.

"You haven't gone looking for her anymore have you?" I whispered. Tai was in the other room, but the man had great hearing. He was a huntsman after all.

"No, after you told me where she was and why she was hiding I stopped." She said sadly.

"Yang she does love you but in her own way. She's hiding to protect you and her powers."

A couple years ago I learned just who Yang's mother was after I figured out who the blonde reminded me of. When I found Raven I was pissed, especially when I learned what she had done to get her maiden powers.

Sarah had been such a sweet girl.

At first I was pissed, attacked and beat her in her tent and was about to kill her when she spoke of why she did it. it wasn't selfish, and I understood the logic of killing the girl, but it didn't make it any better. She spoke how Yang was always in her thoughts though, and that if anything happened Yang would be the next spring maiden.

It was a genius way to protect the maiden powers from the wrong hands. A bit complicated, but genius.

"I know she loves me, you told me that yourself and I trust you, but it still hurts that she's not around." She confessed.

"I know it hurts, but she's protecting you an it was such a hard choice to leave you."

We talked until the sun went down about more Beacon history, the other academies, and some of their secrets. Through it all I felt bad about omitting the vaults that Ozpin had installed, but Yang wasn't ready to know about those yet. Such power couldn't be talked about, even in the privacy of home

"Alright," I said when I saw the time. "It's late and we have a big day tomorrow." I said as I turned out the lights.

"Yeah. Night rubes!" Yang said with a yawn as she went to her room upstairs.

Pulling the blankets up around my body I went to sleep on the couch, a weird feeling settling in my stomach as I would be heading to beacon for the first time in centuries.