TheNiemand- Yes, the argument of a couple can be very perilous but whoever said they were married? And you call this update fast? That statement became very inaccurate, very quickly.
DarkDevilKnight- Well if you were to scroll down and read... Anyway, there will be some Taiyang and Yang father-daughter time next chapter.
Guest- I'm not going to repeat my tirade from chap 2 about accounts but to answer your question: no, styles will not be mixing, at least not in the way you are suggesting.
Emiliano733- I thought all babies were evil, using their adorableness to make people do their bidding. I imagine at least 1 episode will be dedicated to team STRQ.
The majority of the people that lived in the STRQ household were Hunters and the ones that weren't Hunters would be trained to become Hunters. So it was only natural that they would have a stonking large yard with a training ground in it.
The equipment they had was numerous, practice weapons, dummies, targets and practice armour were all stocked for the young children of the members of Team STRQ who hoped that they would become brilliant Hunters one day. Many weights and other exercise devices for muscle building were also outside so that said children could actually have enough strength to be effective.
Right now though, they were children and of those children, only one of them was really old enough to start training.
This was why Yang stood in front of a training dummy on a warm Novembers morning, a common thing on Patch, wielding a practice sword. Off to the side was Raven who was watching on.
"Begin", Yang swung with the limited amount of force that a 5 year old could muster, not a lot, and thwacked the dummy where it's thigh would be if it actually had any.
Watching on, Raven could tell that the swing was sloppy but could easily be worked on through rigorous training and spars.
Yang swung again, this time hitting the dummy in in it's equivalent of the left arm of a person before going for a thrust into the chest of the dummy.
"Stop", Yang pulled the sword out of the dummy, the dummy only having been impaled about an inch.
"Right, your swings are sloppy. If you swing like that then you are leaving yourself vulnerable to attack by the enemy," Yang opened her mouth in attempt to object but Raven continued her sentence before Yang even had a chance to really say anything, "I will teach you how to swing and slash in an effective manner."
"Next, your footwork is about where I would expect it to be at your age, that will improve naturally over time. Final problem is that you lack strength, yes, you can swing a practice sword but what about a real sword which weigh more as they are made of metal rather than wood."
As if to follow up that statement, Raven drew her own sword and passed it to Yang who struggled to lift the blade even with two hands. Notice the pain that Yang seemed to be in, Raven took her sword back and Yang sat down on the ground. "As you tell for yourself, you are going to need to become much stronger."
"How?" Yang intelligently asked with all the charisma a child that would be starting schooling at a public school if she wasn't going to go to a combat school once she turned 13. For now though, she and Ruby would be homeschooled.
Raven sat down next to her daughter so that she could explain to Yang in a friendlier fashion. Explaining things to people while standing over them would only serve to intimidate them. Raven would rather not intimidate Yang as they gotten on to that part of training yet.
"Well, we Hunters have a an ability called aura. Everyone technically has aura but it has to activated either by someone else or extreme circumstances to actually be useful. It heals minor wounds, absorbs impacts and increases strength and speed. It only seems fair to activate yours so that training goes by easier and so we know what your semblance is when it can become useful", Raven explained to Yang, her daughter hanging onto every word, even it she didn't really understand it.
"What's a semblance?" Yang asked in the way that all 5 year olds ask questions, without any understanding as to what they were asking.
"A semblance is the mostly unique power given to someone with unlocked aura that depends mostly on a person's soul and personality. It is often described as a a 'reflection of one's self on their aura'. Some are passed on from parent to child like the glyphs down the Schnee line", Raven explained to Yang, who had long given up on trying to get her mother to explain things in what were called Layman's Terms.
Yang stated quiet, as if sorting through the knowledge her mother had just imparted onto her. Raven gave a small but incredibly telling smile. She had done a nice thing in juyst explaining things to Yang, though she knew that she would have to have Yang read books as well as go through physical training.
With a sigh, Raven stood up before helping Yang to her feet. "I suppose I'd better unlock your aura then, now focus. For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all, infinite in distance and unbound by death. I release your soul, and by my shoulder protect thee."
Yang shivered as a feeling that was both somehow familiar and unfamiliar washed over her. "Is it unlocked, mom?"
"Yes, Yang, your aura is now unlocked. Now, let's get some physical training done."
Raven had Yang exercise until lunch when the sweaty and tired 5 year old stumbled into the house and was given something to eat by Summer who had been watching Yang train while she wasn't tending to Ruby, taking alcohol off of Qrow and 'reminding' Taiyang to set a good example by not slacking off.
Once Yang had recovered from her exercises and had eaten a sufficient amount of food, Raven took a book down from one of the shelves. Entitled 'The Basics of Grimm', Raven placed it down beside Yang before sitting beside her daughter.
"Yang, physical training isn't everything. You have to use your brain in order to create strategies and you have to know your enemy", Yang gave a blank, disinterested look at the book.
"I know it's boring Yang, I had learn these basics too. They proved valuable to me, they may save your life. Now then Chapter 1..."
In the background of the previous Summer was trying to keep Ruby under control, the younger girl was running around pretending to fight Grimm. It was apparent to Summer that her little girl was ecstatic to become a Huntress and had been inspired by Yang's training. The result was a hard to control red haired munchkin.
But a munchkin that wanted to follow in her parents footsteps.
Stop the funeral procession, this story isn't dead and neither am I! My excuse for the stupidly long time it took to get this out plus why the chapter is so short: School, videogames, writer's block, the original version of this chapter being far worse than this one, bone idleness and the internet in general.
But I am back, hopefully for good.
See ya
DaPika