Author's Note:

Okay I said I was going to start making Interludes and I did. Welcome to 5.1! The Interludes will serve as some greater world building for my story since while Summer is the primary narrator, the world is much, much bigger than she is. These will be a little more experimental though not excessively so. Most will be in third person, while a few rare ones will be in First. Some might be documents or codexes of sorts though I might just tack those on to the end of main chapters. They will be between 1 and 4 thousand words, shorter than the main chapters which will be in the range of 5 to maybe 15 thousand words. Also I rarely due this due to a usual lack of feedback, but the one person who had reviewed I have to thank for giving me ideas on the way I want to go with this story. It's been a big help and I hope you keep doing so.

Anyway please follow and review so I can get even more feedback and make some needed improvements for anything I might not catch. Disclaimer or whatever don't own Roosterteeth properties...

Interlude 5-1 : A Murder of Qrows and a Conspiracy of Ravens

"Raven are you sure this is a good idea? I know our 'glorious' leader approved of this. But I'm not sure it's safe to be this close to a town this big."

A scraggly and no yet fully grown voice questioned a young women as they stealthily walked among the crowd of civilians. She was a young raven haired women of 13 years of age. One Raven Branwen shook her head at her twin brothers question but did maintain a wary eye for any suspicious activity that could trouble. She was a teenager of tall stature and despite her age was easily as tall as an adult man at 5'9 though her scrawny body and feminine figure revealed the truth. Her black hair was messy and long barely contained into a rough ponytail by a flower shaped clip.

Her heart shaped face contorted as she looked around her, her crimson eyes scanning while tapping her covered feet against the sidewalk. She was wearing a tattered red and black blouse paired with with a newer black skirt with squiggly white patterns at the bottom of the knee low article. Raven also had a pair of black leggings and high boots to protect her from the intense cold of the winter.

Her brother on the other hand was far shorter despite being twins, though Raven knew he would soon catch up. He was about 5'4 in height and lanky, though a closer look forward would show the muscle underneath. He was wearing a black and light grey t shirt with black pants and boots. He was rather pale like his sister though it was tempered by a very light tan. His hair stuck up due to poor styling choices or at least…that was what Raven believed.

"Don't be ridiculous Qrow…most of these fools are weak and fat after years of doing nothing. We onto have to worry about Huntsmen and they aren't going to go after a bunch of harmless kids."

'There's no reason to worry…' Raven thought to herself, barely stopping herself from gripping the hidden knife in her clothes. She would not let some random weakling take her, or her brother down so easily. Raven stiffened as she felt a surge of power and aura from her left. She pressed her hand against his chest to stop him from moving.

Raven gritted her teeth, and kept her distance from a heavily armored women walking casually in the streets of the small but well defended town. A golden armored and golden haired beauty of a women.

Next to her, a smaller cloaked figure excitedly followed her, their face hidden away by their clothing. There was a constant chattering from what Raven suspected was a girl based on the pitch and the subtle feminine figure.

"That scientist was pretty nice actually…we talked about my hypothesis for a few minutes and I showed him the prototype arma electromagnètico."

Raven narrowed her eyes at the odd statement and prepared to follow up on it, despite her common sense screaming in her ear.

"Why are you calling it that?" Raven stepped forward…

"Because it sounds cooler! " Raven stepped back…

'Why do I even have to bother?'

Raven dragged her brother away from the group of two seeing no reason to take a further interest in them. Her brother suddenly flinched and she knew to get out of the way. Her eye followed a card game from the window of a local pub and she moved away as one of the players roared in anger. He grabbed a scrawny winning player and threw him through the window. In the process a conspicuous sack of marbles leapt free from their confinement, and Raven only narrowly avoided the little balls of polished stone.

She only watched with a near sadistic mirth as dozens of them dropped down to the feet of the strange girl from before. As the cloaked teenager took a step…a single marble slid into the path of her foot…

"WAHHH!" Raven stifled a giggle as the girl fell with her arms waving in circles trying to keep what little balance she had left. She failed…

SMACK!

"HIJO DE PUTA!" Qrow tilted his head at the odd and meaningless word and she agreed with her twin.

"Still a weirdo. But we should keep our distance from that Huntsmen. She might not hurt us, but if she followed us back to the tribe… It would not end well for any of us.'

"Stupid bad luck…going to make it pay...somehow." Raven rolled her eyes at the girls odd reply and she took her brother out of the sight of the lone Huntsmen and her apparent charge.

Raven didn't know much about this town and she didn't particularly want to. They had only gone here as a "break" and to scout out some of the defenses. It didn't take long for her to conclude that attempting to assault this town would result in a painful death.

Raven knew there was now a more extensive defense grid of guns and small cannons placed in a gradually elevated grid around the growing town. The town had had also added some type of sensor system that would alert the town of a possible attack. Theoretically they could be destroyed if they didn't number in the dozens, and were placed somewhere obvious.

"We should leave…"

Qrow protested the action. "Come on Rae I thought we were going to see the sights." She rolled her eyes at her brothers whining knowing he didn't want to be here in the first place.

"Fine! Where do you want to go?"

Raven didn't like the look on her brothers face…

'I hate my brother…sooo much! When I get home I'm going to whoop his scrawny ass!' Raven screamed internally as her twin poked and prodded around the large home belonging to a certain Huntsmen. Her brother had heard numerous rumours on the odd going on in the area around the nearly middle aged women's home.

So he decided it was a good idea to trespass on private property to take a look around. She had no idea where the hell he got the balls after his initial nervousness at even coming near here. They hadn't found much other than a vacant home and several heavily fortified secondary buildings. Raven frowned as she took notice of the many odd scars and craters left across a training yard.

Parts of the ground were melted, burned or had been lifted out of the ground by an odd force. She had even ripped out a large metal pole that had seemingly melted out from the ground. Some close analysis told her the metal was of incredible quality and unlike anything she had ever seen before. The only guess she had was that someone was practicing a very diverse and powerful molecular manipulation semblance. It wasn't unheard of but on this scale…

She placed the pole on a strap on her back for safekeeping…

Just as her brothers grubby hands reached for the door of one of the locked sheds, heavy footsteps nearly froze Raven to the ground. She leaped to her brothers side pulling him away from the door. But just as the two of them prepped to run, a light cough stopped them in their tracks.

The armored women was staring at them with an amused half smirk. Her left foot was tapping the ground while her arms were crossed over her chest. Ravens gaze lingered at the area for slightly longer than appropriate for she managed to tear her eyes away from the view. There was no sight of the other girl though a subtle told toward the house told her that the girl was snoring away on a bed.

Raven opened her mouth hoping she could talk her way out of this.

"Uhhh, puh, puhp, no explanations are required here." Her hopes were dashed with a single sentence and she awaited a possible punishment for their trespassing.

Her thoughts were derailed further…

"You must of been curious about this house huh? You wouldn't be the first but you're definitely the only ones who had the guts to come up here." Raven was left confused at the women warriors response and spoke up uncharacteristically.

"You're…not going to punish us?" Qrows eyes flickered over to Raven, and she realized her mistake. The women frowned at the response but shook her head.

"I doubt you meant any harm, and if you did well there isn't much you could against me."

Raven had to agree with the sentiment, even with her brothers semblance, this women would pick the two of them apart with ease. She could destroy the entire tribe as she pleased if she felt in the right mood for it.

"Hey, any of you want a quick bite before you go? The two of you look like you need a good meal." Raven gave the home a weary look and the women quickly caught on and made a wide gesture with her hand. " But, if you don't want to come in I can heat something up to go."

GRR!

Raven turned scarlet as her stomach rumbled and Qrow gave her a pleading look as his rumbled in response. She ended up caving and gave the women a nod. The motherly Huntress beamed and disappeared into the house.

She flinched as odd sounds emerged from the house, some curses could be heard too. 'What is going on back there?'

The Huntress returned with two bowls of what looked like some type of noodle? Raven squinted as the warm bowl was placed in her hand. The bowl had a plastic fork, and the noodles were covered in some type of tomato based sauce, plus bits of vegetables including kale. A smacking of lips told her Qrow had already started filling his bottomless stomach.

"T-Thank you… " The women smiled and she pulled out…some Lien? Raven found her fingers protectively curling around the sizable amount of money. She hid it way from prying eyes and sticky fingers, and she barely stopped her lips from rising up into a grateful smile.

"Any time…" Raven regrettably had to leave and gently tapped Qrow, telling him it was time to go.

"Hey," Raven stopped holding the bowl close to her chest, waiting for the other shoe to drop. "My name is Gilda! It was nice meeting you even if ong for minute. One day maybe I can introduce you to my kid!"

Raven was confused and felt a stab of fear in her heart not understanding the a aura users unfaltering kindness.

"It's…Raven."

She fled quickly with her brother close on her heels. The bandit didn't know what to make of it…so she simply buried it away in her mind.

But now…it was time to go home.

"Oh you got some good loot from that town huh?" Raven absently nodded to one of the more anonymous members who she couldn't even remember the name of. The raven themed girl had been staring at the 1500 Lien she had been gifted by the Huntress. There was no evidence of tampering of any kind, and no traces of some type of tracer so she was safe. She had given the bowl away as an additional utensil for the tribe, but was allowed to keep the Lien for future use. Her information proved vital and the tribe returned to the wild lands of Vacuo. She had warned them of the heavy fortifications as well as the numerous heavy hitters defending the town. Especially as it became home to various refugees from the fallen city of Mount Glenn.

She ignored her bandit companion who quickly scoffed and left her side to talk with a more willing person. Her brother gave her a look of concern but she ignored him as well caught up in her own thoughts.

'I don't understand…why? Just why?' Her voice was only a whisper as she followed the sun as it dropped below the horizon.

"Why was she being so nice to me?"