Salutations! Javier here to bring you another chapter of RAMB! And as always RWBY and Ancient magus Bride don't belong to me! They belong to their respective owners and as always R & R. it is my upmost priority that you feel relaxed when you read and for you to enjoy this chapter as well as the story so far. *bows*

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Previously

"Mommy! Look at my drawing!" Ruby said as she approached me with a paper in her hand, she thrusted the paper towards me with stars in her eyes

The drawing showed crude drawing of me, Tai, her uncle Qrow and Her sister Yang, I then saw a drawing of Chise and Ruth in between her and Yang under us there were the words

"One Big happy family"

I smiled at her drawing and told her "Dear, why don't you put your signature and the date so you can remember when you make this when you get older." She nodded before she raced towards the cupboard and grabbed a mug which she then brought it to the fridge and poured herself milk.

"Ok mommy!" she replied before she raced up again with her drawing and mug of milk in hand

I quickly yawned before I proceeded to the couch and fell asleep.

Now

:With Summer:

As I was sleeping peacefully I could hear the faint sounds of footsteps as if someone was trying to sneak up on me, I carefully raised my eye to peak on who was sneaking on me, It was Tai. The foul stench that came from he told me he either went swimming in a garbage dump or hadn't taken a bath yet it also didn't help that he wore the same clothes (which consisted of a sweaty grey sleeve-less shirt with black shorts and white socks.) since last night. I contemplated on if I should pretend to sleep or I could surprise Tai since it was obvious he thought I was still asleep but before I could decide I was suddenly lifted into the air.

"TAI!" I shrieked at him angrily causing him to laugh so hard, I was afraid he might drop me.

"Morning sweetie." He said after he managed to control his laughter and let me down.

"It's already 1:00 pm Tai." I said smirking at his surprised reaction

"WHY ON REMNANT DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP SOONER?!"

"Because you were in cutest albeit weirdest sleeping pose I've seen from you since I married you, and besides you do need rest you slept late." I said smirking

"What was said sleeping pose?"

At first I hesitated then contemplated on if I should tell him the truth or make-up one up before I decided on the truth

"Like a frog that is about to be dissected."

I burst out laughing at his reaction before he walked towards the window and saw the "broken" tree

"What in Oum's name happened while I was asleep?"

I grabbed the letter (albeit one that made me suspicious which I can clearly deduce from Javi's reaction to my sudden "attack" was not her plan.) that Javi sent me and handed it to Tai who read it as I explained what had happened

"Some things happened, Someone by the name of Javi sent me that letter," I said pointing to the letter in Tai's hands" I let her in before I pinned her to the ground since I was suspicious, Chise got a new mentor who gave her a big brown bag, Said mentor took a quick nap and challenged me to a brawl since she said she felt "rusty" as she put it and she came out victorious against a seasoned huntress from Beacon but I do have to admit I was holding back since I didn't know Javi's capabilities and didn't want to seriously injure her, and what's surprising is that she didn't have Aura!, she even turned me down when I offered to unlock it!"

"WHAT?! How in Oum's name did she beat you? The seasoned huntress of beacon, even if you held back you would have still won after all you were the leader of the strongest team in beacon!" he exclaimed

"Too true," Laughing I continued "Believe me when I was shocked when I was slamming her to the ground during the brawl, she quickly wrapped her legs around my neck before launching me to a tree and keeping me stuck there until my aura depleted and the tree fell." Earning a surprised look from Tai before he looked like he tried to imagine the scene and turned crimson (believe it or not I had Bow Chicka Bow wow by Jeff Williams playing when I wrote this. – Javier.)

"If you'd like to know her thighs were pretty soft." I said sarcastically before bursting out laughing at Tai's tomato red face while steam poured out from his ears and nose

"Just kidding." I said flashing him a peace sign he nodded in understanding before asking

"Wait, you said you were suspicious of this woman why on Remnant did you let her into the house or open the door for that matter if you were suspicious you could have asked her questions and gotten a good look at her, you do recall there's a window on the door right?

"I do actually believe it or not," I replied sarcastically before saying "I was just caught off guard by her sudden appearance after I just got the letter and I didn't want so seem rude at first even if I was suspicious."

"Even so, what if she was pretending to be the one who sent you the letter when in reality it was someone else who did it."

"If she was pretending to be the one who sent me the letter she would have said something elaborate that would have convinced me that she was the one who sent it she also shook my hand and greeted me that sounded genuine since a pretender would have sounded polite and planned."

"What did she say then?"

"She basically said "Hello my name is Javi and I'm the one who sent you the letter for my arrival." A "good" pretender would have said something more elaborate and she wouldn't have had to hide how she knew about us since a pretender would have made an elaborate excuse on how she knew about us, and she wouldn't have healed me and still want to shake my hand if she was here with ill intentions."

"What do you mean about healed you? Did she hurt you?!" Tai exclaimed angrily

"Technically it was my fault since I attacked first and she responded accordingly by kicking me in the ribs and basically lifting me into the air and placed me on the couch and heal my broken ribs faster than my aura would have done." I said patting the side where I was kicked

"And too be honest she was also a tad bit intimidating."

"I highly doubt a seasoned huntress who has faced the creatures of Grimm would be intimidated by a woman whom she just let in because she didn't want to seem rude."

"Don't you take that tone with my Xiao Long, you yourself isn't a rude person heck you wouldn't hurt a fly unless it tried to hurt anyone you loved or a Grimm fly, and the reason why I found her intimidating was because on how she held herself as well as her height.."

"Honey you're not that short." Tai said reassuring me patting me on the head

"You do know that patting me in the head doesn't exactly reassure me."

"Oh sorry, I guess I got SHORT on the delivery, I guess I thought too little on it."

"goddamit Tai."

"Hey no flowery words, I thought you ROSE above such language."

"Stop this pun madness please"

"Ok fine, but Xiao Long was she?"

"She was probably taller than you." I replied ignoring the pun

"Ok that does sound kinda intimidating considering how tall I am."

"She also had golden eyes with black slits for pupils."

"Did she say she was a Faunus?"

"No she didn't seem like it either aside from the eyes," I mused before I said "But enough of that for now and there's a pressing issue we need to talk about."

"And what is that exactly?"

"You my "lovely" husband, need a shower and a clean set of clothes." I replied, Tai sniffed under his armpit before scrunching his face in disgust

"Your right I smell like a week old Vieux Boulogne." This time it was my turn to scrunch my face in disgust

"That's very descriptive albeit a rather horrifying way of saying how much you stink, don't realize how disgusting that sounds?!"

"Well actually its smell not sound since we use our sense of smell not hearing to smell things but whatever, I also need to let you know I'll be heading back to Signal tomorrow."

"So basically you want me to prepare your uniform for tomorrow while you take a shower right now?"

"Yep, wait-" he began saying before I gently albeit quickly pushed him towards the bathroom and slammed the door.

I quickly ran to the kitchen sink to wash my hands before I heard Tai calling me

"Honey can you wash these please?" he asked as he held out his dirty clothes with the door is slightly open but not enough to reveal his naked body which was a relief and slight disappointment on my part (Bow Chicka Bow Wow)

"I'll be right on it Sweetie!" I replied before going to the bathroom and grabbed Tai's clothes from his hand which quickly disappeared and the bathroom door slammed shut, I headed to the Laundry room and put the dirty clothes along with the ones I had accidentally forgotten to put in the washing machine putting them into said machine before I filled the Laundry drum with detergent and water before letting the washing machine do its stuff and headed back to the living room before I thought

'I should probably prepare some lunch for everyone since it's almost past lunch-time.' Before I headed to the kitchen and grabbed my apron which said "Kiss the Cook or Else." And opened my box which held all my recipes and started cooking.

Later

As I finished plating the last of my home famous beef and beetroot burgers for lunch and brought out the jug of Iced tea I checked the clock and it was already 2:00 AM, as I was about to call everyone down for late lunch I heard the sound of heavy steps from the stairs and saw everyone already heading towards the dinner table

"Yes! Mom made beef and beetroot burgers!" Yang and Ruby cheered before they went to wash their hands along with Chise and Ruth.

"These look delicious Sum." Tai complimented me as he kissed my forehead

"Thanks sweetie." I smiled at him before we all began eating.

As we ate I noticed Chise not eating and I got concerned and asked

"What's wrong Chise?"

"It's nothing.." she replied before she began eating

Ruth looked at her, she looked at him before shook her head, Ruth glared at her before she sighed and nodded.

"She's been reading everything that was given to her by her new mentor, and she wants to practice them but is scared to ask permission from you because she's afraid."

"Afraid of what exactly?" when he didn't answer immediately, I looked at Chise who placed her burger down but before she could tell us, Ruth held up a hand and said

"She's afraid you might leave her or rather you might throw her aside as she put it." we all looked at Chise for confirmation she nodded slowly with tears swelling in her eyes

I slowly got up from my seat before I walked over to Chise and hugged her tight then I felt the others arms also going around her (except for Ruth) before she burst into tears.

"Chise sweetie why on Remnant would be so worried?" I asked her after we all returned to our seats, she tried to say something but she hiccupped a few times as tears streamed down her face before she managed to say (thanks to Tai who got back up and rubbed her in the back).

"B-bec-ca-us-e if I-I became t-too weird you would aba-band-don m-me j-ju-us-st l-like my mo-om and my o-oth-er r-re-lat-tives d-id." She stuttered out before she reburst into tears, Tai got up before Ruth did and lifted her up and let her cry on his shoulder as he patted her head and soothed her telling her

"It's ok Chise, no one's going to give you away or abandon you." he glanced at me before he carried Chise to the living room

"Girls finish your lunch while your father and I are going to counsel your sister." They nodded before they ate while Ruth gave me a small smile and mouthed "Thank you." before he got up and walked back to the stairs and headed up.

:With Taiyang:

"shh..shhChise it's going to be alright." I told her as she continued to cry on my shoulder, I noticed Summer approaching me before she leaned next to my ear and whispered

"Need some help dear?"

"I do, normally you're the one who usually comforts the girls whenever they start crying, I don't know how to do it correctly,remember the time I tried with Yang?" I reminded her as I continued rubbing Chise's head to comfort her.

Flashback

As 5 year old Yang cried after getting her first haircut without a barber shop burning down or us getting a fine, Taiyang tried to comfort Yang but ultimately said and did the wrong things

It ended up with a new window (it was fixed afterwards) a newly bought fire extinguisher (it's in the shed, luckily no fires had happened since that day.) and Yang used her semblance for the first time as well as unlocked her Aura and managed to use her Semblance for the first time (Who knew that her aura and semblance involved her hair.) and a constant reminder to not cut her Hair or touch her hair again.

"How could I forget? My little sunny dragon just falcon punched you to the wall."

"Falcon punched? Where'd that come from?"

"I don't know," Summer sat beside Chise before Chise left my shoulder and laid on her lap,who cradles her head saying

"Do you want to talk about it Chise?" Chise nodded and wiped her tears from her face before she could ask something she hiccupped and continued to hiccup until Summer helped Chise into a sitting position and got up and went to get some water for her (I would have gotten milk since that has always worked whenever the girls get sick but Summer disapproves of this even though it works.) When Summer returned with the water she handed it to Chise and told her to drink it quickly, Chise did as she asked and her hiccup was cured right away, after she went to the kitchen and placed the glass on the kitchen sink she returned to us then asked

"Do you know where I can find a candle?"

"I can get one but why do you ask?" I asked her

"I want to show you guys something before I explain if that's alright with you."

"You can show it to us the sun hasn't gone down yet." Summer reminded Chise, she shook her head then tried to do the puppy-dog eyes on me, but it was obvious that it was her first time to use it since it didn't work on me but I just got up and got the candle and a matchbox for Chise.

I placed the candle and opened the matchbox for Chise to use

"TAI!"

"What?"

"Why on Oum would you give a nine-year old a matchbox?!"

"How else would she light the candle?" before Summer could retort Chise pulled out her staff from somewhere and gently placed it's tip against the candle, then she said

"Flicker and Dance, tongues of flame,"
"Colors of Autumn, like the roots of barley,"
"Flicker and Dance, Light my way." Suddenly the candle wick burst into a beautiful flame before it slowly calmed down until it looked like a regular flame on the wick of the candle

"What in the heck was that?!"

"TAI! Language!" Summer reprimanded me

"It's all right," she sighed before she said "After my mom killed herself, I was passed around with my relatives, who didn't want me in their home, and no they didn't say that to me, as they say Actions speak more than words." Chise then muttered under her breath and the flame disappeared as fast as it had appeared.

"So… that's why I'm afraid, although I thought I lost that fear when I was with Elias, but I guess not.." she looked down and I heard slight sniffles

I turned to Summer who had the same look I had, sadness as well as worry before we hugged Chise whom raised her head and looked at me and Summer with a questioning look.

"What matters to us and should matter to you Chise is that without all the things that happened to you, you wouldn't have made it into our family and meet the wonderful people in your life." She stared at Summer before she started welling up with tears with her lip wobbling before she started bawling, she then hugged Summer tightly as if her life depended on it shaking because of tea who hugged her and rubbed her head saying soothing words to here which I couldn't hear but I could tell they were working since Chise released her hold on Summer who wiped her face and gave her a smile.

"Say how about we all go out to Vale later?" I suggested Chise nodded then Summer asked

"But dear how about your work tomorrow? You do recall how grumpy you get in early in the morning?"

"We'll just leave early."

"You do recall how feisty these girls are especially you Chise." Summer said poking Chise in the stomach who giggled in response

"I do, which is why I want to spend time with them before I go back to work tomorrow."

"Alright then, Chise did you take a bath already?"

"I did earlier this morning before the others."

"Good, and you have our full permission to practice your magic." I nodded in agreement

"Really?" Chise eyes sparkled like we told her Santa Claus was coming to town

"Yep!" Summer rubbed Chise head before she said

"I'll tell the girls to get dressed, Chise can you tell Ruth to prepare himself?" Chise nodded before she and Summer headed up the stairs heading up the stairs

:With Amber:

"Dad can we go to Vale?" I asked my dad as I sat on the couch with Winnie

"But sweetie your mom told me you with her did yesterday."

"The key word is "with her." But I want to go with you."

"But I have to go back out tomorrow dear."

"That's why I wanna spend some time with you, because you always go out and although I enjoy my time with mom but I still miss you." I told him, he chuckled before rubbing my head and said to my mom who was sitting beside us

"You hear that dear? Amber prefers Daddy over mommy!"

"Rufus you don't need to brag besides she didn't say she doesn't enjoy her time with me." My mom told my dad smugly he pouted before saying

"Ok squirt get dressed your dad's going to take a quick bath." I raced up the stairs bringing Winnie along with me but then paused on my way up when I heard my mom ask

"By the way Rufus, did Javi tell you why she needed to go to the post office?"

"No, nor did I ask.. why do you ask?"

"It's just that she seemed closed off, like sure she was fun to talk to and very charismatic but when I asked her of her business in Patch she would divert the question or just reply with "I rather keep it to myself." Doesn't that seem odd to you?"

"Well technically a person could decide whether or not they want to share what exactly are they going to do in a particular place, usually it's when they get irritated or when they have no experience with talking to others or have trust-issues."

"Well it was obvious she didn't have issues in trusting us and she did seem very good in talking."

"Your just saying that because she complimented her tea"

"Maybe, but it's true, so it only leaves that she was irritated, but that doesn't make sense she didn't seem irritated when I talked to her, she looked cool and relaxed."

"She probably didn't want to show it."

"But why on Remnant would she be irritated?"

"Didn't Amber say that Javi seemed lost and an irritated at the fact that she was lost."

"She did.. Huh I never thought about that."

"Well I better take a bath now." My dad said before I heard footsteps, I hurried up to my room and locked my door.

I opened by wardrobe and tried to fine the perfect attire when I couldn't think of anything I turned to Winnie who was sitting in my bed and asked

"Say Winnie what do you think I should wear?" The bear gave no response

"I'm think about this one," I held up a green t-shirt with the Achieve men symbol as well as their name "and wearing this one." I held up grey jeans "What do you think?" Winnie just gave me a blank stare in return.

"Ok then no peeking ok?" I turned Winnie around so that he was facing the wall

I quickly removed the clothes I wore earlier and the put on the ones that I chose and the ones that Winnie agreed with.

"Ambs are you ready?" I heard my dad ask

"Yes dad just need to get my socks on." I quickly grabbed a pair of white socks from my wardrobe and put them on

"Ok Winnie, me and my dad will be going to Vale so stay here and guard my room while I'm gone ok?" I tilted the head of the Ursa to agree with me

"Thanks Winnie." I said before giving him a quick hug before heading out the door

Minutes later

"So squirt, what do you wanna do?" my dad asked me after we had reached Vale

"Can we go to Whammy burger?" I asked giddily thinking about the grilled beef and double cheeseburgers they served there

"Sure thing but first let's grab some strawberry cupcakes from the Cupcake Man."

"Oh you mean that Bakery near the Whammy burger?"

"Yep, your old man needs some sugar in his systems, I may not be diabetic but I sure do love sugar."

"Dad, being Diabetic means you have or had too much sugar."

"What's being low on sugar called then?" he scratched his head in confusion

"It's Hypoglycemia dad."

"There I may not be Hypolywhatsit but I sure do love sugar."

"You'll get fat and the Grimm will kill you." I deadpanned

"Nonsense I stay incredibly healthy kiddo!, anyways let's get going or else no place for us to sit in Whammy Burger."

"Why's that dad?" I asked as we neared the bakery

"It's the afternoon and you do remember how delicious the burgers are there." My dad gave me a knowing look, I flushed in embarrassment before saying

"Dad look they have your favorite cupcakes for sale." I pointed towards the bakery window which displayed my dad's favorite cupcake which was the strawberry one with a cherry on top.

"Hurry kiddo! Someone might try to buy it before I- I mean we do!" I nodded in agreement before we headed inside and my dad asked the man on the counter (Who everyone knows as Mr. Pink because of his bright pink hair and because he specializes in pink colored cupcakes and cakes) asked if Mr. Pink had any extra cupcakes like the one he had displayed outside, to my father's delight he did and my father bought 2 for me and him before we both consumed them quickly and headed to Whammy Burger.

As we approached the restaurant I noticed a family of six (two guys and 4 girls) entering the restaurant, one of them was a redheaded girl who had her face on a book beside her was a blonde girl who I assumed to be her sister poking her in the ribs and saying to her

"Chise, get your face outta that book you might accidentally book out someone" she snickered and fist bumped the older blonde man (who I assumed was her father he looked as old as my dad.) The older blonde man replied "Was that pun made of paper because it was terrible!" everyone around them groaned and the redhead who I assume is Chise lifted her face from her book and rolled her eyes before the older woman (who I assumed was the mother.) said to her

"Yang's right despite the pun she and as well as your father made you might accidentally hurt yourself or the other person you accidentally bumped into."

"Okay." Chise closed her book and placed it at her side

"Mommy why are we at Whammy Burger? We just had your burgers for breakfast?" a small black haired girl with red highlights asked her mom

"Ruby just because they're called Whammy burger doesn't mean they only serve burgers, come on everyone let's get inside." The mother said to everyone before they all headed inside

"You know what Kiddo I'm glad I just have you, imagine how noisy their place must be."

"Well it's better than a quiet one is it not?"

"hm… you do raise a good point." My father stroked his short red beard before we headed inside the restaurant

While my dad went to the counter to order some food (I had asked for the double cheeseburger with their famous whammy fries with a chocolate milkshake.) I looked over to the table beside ours and saw the same family, the older guy (The mom and father weren't there they were behind my dad who was behind an elderly woman.) with black hair was staring at nothing while the blonde one was playing a video game in a scroll and Chise (Who was closest to me) was reading her book again while the youngest looking one who from what I can recall was named Ruby was munching on a cookie while holding a seal-up bag with 3 extra cookies.

I quickly glanced over to what Chise was reading it was titled "The Four Maidens of Remnant." I raised my eyebrow since I knew of the separate copy of the story and I still recalled on what Javi told me.

I closed my hands in concentration and opened up my palm I thought 'if I am the fall maiden then I would have some sort of power, right?' I imagined a small flame to my shock a teeny flame appeared on my palm (it didn't glow much thankfully) but what shocked me the most was that the girl, Chise had put down her book at that exact moment and saw the teeny flame on my palm and gave me a wide-eyed look, like I was someone she didn't expect seeing

She whispered to the older guy (who I assume was her brother) who gave me a look before he turned to her and nodded, Chise got up and walked up to me, at first I backed up but then saw Chise hold up a hand and her eyes said "I'm just here to talk." She sat beside me and introduced herself

"Hello my name is Chise Hatori what's yours?" she held up a hand and I took her hand and shook it saying

"Hi Chise my names Amber Autumn." I smiled back at her before she leaned towards me and asked

"How were you able to do that?" I panicked and whispered hastily

"I don't know what you're talking about." Honestly I didn't know that would work, I was just testing something

"I just saw you do magic, how on ear- I mean on Remnant did you do that?" I contemplated on whether or not to tell the truth but the look on Chise's face told me that I could trust her so I decided to tell the truth.

"Honestly I don't know, I was just testing a something I guess? This is the first time this has happened." Chise nodded before she said

"I can understand that clearly." I gave her a dumbfounded look "You do?" she nodded before she suggested

"How about we stay in contact? We could talk more about "it" if you want." she smiled at me again and I nodded and asked

"But we shouldn't let our families know about it right?" I said thinking about how my mom and dad would react to my newfound "abilities"

"My family well my mom, dad and father know about magic, because I'm like you." I quickly thought 'She's a maiden? That can't be true I mean that's just a fairy tale right?'

"How did they um.. react?"

"At first they found it odd but then they accepted it since I don't think Aura and a Semblance don't count as magic."

"Yeah it would be pretty weird if someone did something that a semblance would normally never do."

"Yep, so where do you live, if you don't mine me asking?"

"I live outside of Vale you, and I don't mine it's not like you have a nefarious plan.. do you?"

"I live in Patch, and no I don't" Chise giggled before she stroked her chin then asked "Then how are we going to stay in contact?"

"Use a scroll perhaps?"

"I don't have one."

"Me neither." I replied before we both laughed and I suggested

"How about we send letters? Or borrow our parent's scrolls they would understand."

"I like the letter idea, sure let's do it." we shook on it then I asked

"So what do you do for fun?" Chise looked off to the side possibly thinking before saying

"Reading, sometimes studying but I enjoy reading."

"Oh you go to combat school? I thought they only allowed 12 year olds to enter."

"I don't but I have a mentor who will be teaching me on my "abilities" when I'm 10."

"Oh really what are they like?"

"She's pretty and intimidating, she has this beautiful golden eyes I cannot describe," my eyes bugged out when she said "She also seemed cool and collected albeit a little strictly." The description had an uncanny resemblance to Javi whom I met this morning, I asked her

"Did she wear a crimson scarf with a beret?" Chise nodded

"Did she wear a grey shirt with black cargo pants?" she nodded again

"Why yes!" she looked at me shocked and I gave her the same look

"She's your mentor?!"

"You've met her?!" we looked at each other before we laughed again at the realization we had met the same scary woman on the same day

"Small world isn't it?" I asked through laughs Chise nodded in agreement before we noticed my dad approaching us with his and our food

"Oh, who's this ambs?" he asked noticing Chise who looked at him panicked before getting up

"No need to get up on my account young lady, I was just asking who was my daughters new friend." Chise looked over to my for reassurance I nodded before she sat back down

"Here you go ambs," he handed me my food which I squealed in happiness and gobbled down on, I looked over to Chise who was giggling at me and I raised an eyebrow and asked with my mouth full

"Whur?" My dad chuckled at my question before he turned to Chise and asked

"So what's your name robin?" he asked her

"My names Chise Mr. Autumn."

"Please call me Rufus, calling me Mr. Autumn makes me feel old." I swallowed my food and replied

"You are old." My dad looked at me with a fake shocked look before he pretended wiping away a tear he looked at Chise who was giggling and said

"Chise, my daughter's mean can you help a guy out?"

"I would but I have to side with my friend first." My dad looked at her defeated and pretended to be frustrated but before he could say something Chise's mother and father walked back to their table and asked her older brother

"Where's Chise?" her brother pointed at Chise who was beside me and trying to sneak a fry from me which I swatted her hand and quickly grabbed it before I got another one and gave it to her which she took and ate hastily

"Chise what are you doing there?"

"Talking with my new friend's dad, mom."

"Oh, and who's your new friend Chise?" her mom placed the food on the table which made the blonde and Ruby to stop what they were doing and chow down

"This is Amber." she gestured at me which I wish she didn't since I had my mouth full of food and a stain on my face

"Hello Amber, what's your old man's name?" Chise's mom asked me I nearly chocked on my food I quickly swallowed it down before I let out a laugh with Chise giggling along

"Summer, don't be rude to a fellow old man in arms."

"Amen brother," my dad held out a hand to Chise's mom whom took it and shook it

"Names Rufus, what's yours Sunflower?" He said winking at her, she gave him a deadpanned look before crushing his hand. He sputtered out

"I-I think I-I'll t-take back m-my comment."

"Good, but thank you for the compliment also my name is Summer and that Oaf over there is Taiyang." She let go of his hand which he messaged and placed his drink over since it was cold, he briefly waved at the blond man who waved at him in return and went to eat his food.

"Chise, Imma take your fries, after all I have fries for it only!" her blonder sister exclaimed hovering her hand over some cheesy fries, everyone around her (except for her father who gave her a grin.) groaned at her French fry pun.

"Well I better go, I'm kinda hungry I'll try to send a letter as soon as I can ok?" I nodded before Chise got up and walked over to her table and ate with the others in silence

"So you two Pen pals or something?"

"Friends and Pen pals."

"Where does she live anyways if she has to be your pen pal?"

"She lives in Patch." My dad nodded before he went back to his food

"So kiddo, where do you want to go for Combat school?" he asked in-between bites from his burger (it was a bacon cheeseburger.)

"Honestly I considered the one in Vale, but I thought about the one in Patch."

"You mean Signal?" I nodded and he asked

"Why, is it because of your new friend?"

"Maybe, but because I heard it was safer there."

"Kiddo, no place in Remnant is safe thanks to Grimm, but your right I remembered how your mother wanted to move there."

"Why didn't she?"

"Besides meeting me," he said flexing his arms "She wanted to be near Beacon because she wanted you to go there someday and she trusts Headmaster Ozpin."

"Who doesn't?"

"There's probably someone out here." My dad mused

Somewhere a woman with ravenous black hair sneezed

"Anyways would that alright with you?"

"Sure, but the only issue is whether or not your mom agrees or not."

"I'm sure she'll agree." I said before I finished my food

Later

"Bye Chise!" I said waving to Chise who replied

"Bye Amber keep in touch alright?" she gave me a grin, I returned it and replied

"Count on it!" before me and my dad headed home, while my dad and I walked home as we approached the house, we saw my mom outside waiting for us on the porch sitting on the wicker seat my grandma used to use before she passed away.

"Hi mom!"

"Hello dear! How was your date with dad?" she asked with a smirk

"It wasn't a date mom!" I said blushing "I was just a Dad-daughter hangout!" my mom laughed at my reaction before she patted my head and said

"I know dear, how about you go check up on Khione before you head to bed." She then glared at my dad

"And you, to bed." She pointed towards the house.

"But dear-" My mom put a finger on his lips

"No buts if it's something you want to say something you can say it tomorrow before you leave." She proceeded to kick his butt into the house, I tugged at her dress and asked

"Where is Khione by the way?"

"Oh, she's in backyard, she's been eating up my roses, damn horse."

"Dear Language." My dad said from inside

"And what did I say Rufus?" I heard him squeak out in fear before I heard fast footsteps

"Mom I'm sure Khione doesn't mean ill, she's may just saying she likes your roses." I said before I walked to the backyard with my mom grumbling behind me before I heard the door open and close

As I approached the backyard I heard a neigh and saw Khione approaching me with a rose clamped between her teeth

"Hey Ki, how you been did you miss me?" Khione bobbed her head and down before she dropped the rose at my feet I picked it up and asked her

"Is this for me?" Khione gave shook her head side to side

"Do you want me to feed it to you?" Khione bobbed her head up and down again "But you had no problem eating them earlier," Khione gave me a blank stare "Oh alright then." I held up the rose near Khione's mouth before she ate it and licked my hands

"H-hey that tickles!" I said giggling, Khione nickered before giving me a hug, I quickly returned the hug and started walking away from her

"Goodnight Khione!" Khione neighed in farewell to me before she walked back to my mom rose garden and continued eating

I entered the house and raced up the stairs to my room, when I turned on the light, Winnie was still in his position on my bed.

"Did you look after my room while I was gone Winnie?" Winnie gave no response

"Good job." I said before I changed out of my clothes and put on my red pajamas which had Pumpkin Pete's rabbit on it, I turned off my lights before I jumped into the bed which made Winnie fall over

"C'mere you." I said grabbing Winnie and hugging him before I promptly fell asleep

The Next Morning

Somewhere not on Remnant

:With Elias:

I stared at the window from the living room, wondering where did I go wrong, I looked at the hallway expecting a knock on the door but it hasn't come yet.

Flashback

"What do you mean they're gone?" Lindel demanded me after he had finished transporting the dragon

"They're gone, simple as that."

"It isn't simple as that Elias, and you better tell me."

"And I cannot simply tell you."

"And why is that?"

"Because it's complicated."

"Complicated how exactly?" I contemplated whether or not to tell the truth, I decided on telling the truth I told him begrudgingly

"They've been taken by the Carthiphilus." After I had said that Lindel gave me an angry glare before he slapped me in the face and shouted

"THEN WHY ON EARTH DID YOU NOT RESCUE HER BETTER YET WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME OR ANYONE ELSE?!"

"I had no choice, if I told anyone why she was taken they wouldn't have forgiven me."

"OF COURSE THEY WOULDN'T YOU LET THAT MONSTER TAKE HER AND HER FAMILIAR."

"It's not only that.." I muttered

"THEN WHAT?"

"I may have tried to perform a soul switching spell which was suggested by a Witch, with Chise and her friend who was possessed by The Carthiphilus, she ran away with Ruth before The Carthiphilus took them." He looked at me like I was a monster before he proceeded to beat me with his staff

"WHY ON EARTH DID YOU DO THAT? THAT'S FORBIDDEN AND WRONG!"

"It was the only way I thought I could save Chise!"

"BY HURTING HER FRIEND? BY USING HER BODY TO EXCHANGE SOULDS WITH CHISE'S BODY WHEN CHISE CLEARLY DIDN'T WANT THAT?"

"I was trying to do what's best for her!"

"BEST? YOU CLEARLY DO NOT REALIZE WHATS BEST FOR CHISE!" I sat on my chair before I droop my head and felt something I couldn't understand like something was weighting me down or pulling at whatever was inside me, if Chise were here she would tell me what I'm feeling, I sighed before saying

"I guess your right…." Lindel looked at me before he pated my head and said

"I'm sorry for shouting at you… don't worry we'll find her." I shoved his hand away and said

"It isn't that simple!" Lindel looked at me seemingly wanting to argue again but instead he looked at me sadly before he nodded in understanding and walked away and said before he left

"If you need me….. just send me a message alright?" I nodded sadly before he left

I sat alone in the living room (since Silky was cleaning Chise's room) I wanted to tell Angelica about it but I didn't want her to worry.

But then again she'll find out sooner or later, so I decided to send her a letter about… what had happened I included everything I didn't tell Lindel including the help the Fae queen gave albeit a small one for now, I still haven't got a reply yet.

End of Flashback

I got up and got myself some hot cocoa, I stared at it sadly before I heard a knock on the door, ignoring the cup I walked to the door to reveal Angelica who looked at me like I had murdered her daughter before she slapped me in the face and scolded me for at least 2 hours about how could I have done that do 2 little girls and acted upon the suggestions of a Witch as well as allowed that monster take her before she calmed down and asked

"If it weren't for my kind heart, I would have turned you into a pile of bones right about now."

"Kind heart…? Unfortunately Angelica heard me and gave me her angry face and said

"Don't test me Elias." she flexed her arms threateningly before she slumped on her chair with a mug of Hot Cocoa in hand (Silky had given it to her while she was scolding me.)

"Why…?" she stared at me with sadness written all over her face

"I have nothing to say or add that would dissuade you from causing me bodily pain."

"You do have a point," she sighed and placed the cocoa mug on the coffee table "Is there nothing we can do Elias?"

"There is nothing we can do at this given time, except hope."

"Can the Fae Queen help, I do recall you mentioning how fond she was of Chise."

"The Fae Queen owes me no favors but she did lend a hand." Angelica looked at me with hopeful eyes

"What was it?"

"She told me to wait."

"Wait for what?"

"When it is time for me to go after her and Ruth." The hope in Angelica's eyes dimmed before she asked

"Well is there a way she will tell you? Because doesn't she usually not come into the mortal realm."

"She told me she would send someone but I am not sure who or what."

"Did you make an estimated guess at least?"

"Well," I laced my fingers together before saying "it would have to be one of her kind since I highly doubt she would interact with any other being, as well as having the ability of Teleportation."

"I concur," Angelica took a quick sip from her Cocoa which had turned cold "Perhaps Hugo can give us a clue, Hugo!" A veil of water swirled around one spot before the Vodyanoi appeared sending a sprinkle of water to the floor

"How can I be of service Mistress?"

"Can you tell me of any news from the Fae realm?"

"The only thing that has been circulating among the Fae is the disappearance of Robin and her Familiar."

"Anything involving the queen?"

"If there is, I am forbidden to tell a mortal but since there isn't then no."

'She must have not told any Fae." I thought to myself before Angelica asked

"Hugo, can you tell me of any Fae nearby that have the ability of Teleportation?"

"Nearby? Hm…." The vodyanoi stroked his chin before it said "There is one nearby."

"And what manner of Fae are they?"

"A will o Wisp mistress." I mentally sighed remembering the cynical Fae.

"Thank you for letting us now Hugo, your services are no longer required." Hugo bowed before his mistress before he disappeared in a sprinkle of water

"So should we go to a graveyard?"

"If he's the one the Fae queen will send him we or rather I should wait."

"Suit yourself, I better head back to England, having a job and all that."

"I understand."

"If you find a way to her, let me know or else." She brandish her fist toward me

"O-of course." I stammered out Angelica chuckled before she waved farewell.

I sat in the living room for a few minutes before I heard my stomach growl

"Silky!" Silky came into the living room "Could you prepare my lunch please?" Silky nodded and retreated to the kitchen

'Might as well pick up a book while I wait.' I thought before I headed out of the living room.

:With Javi:

After I had left the Xiao long/Rose household I decided to explore Patch for the rest of the afternoon before taking a rest in a local inn in the morning I retreated deep into a forest so that I can teleport with ease that no one was watching but before I could get a portal home I heard a growl, I slowly turned and saw a black wolf with a bone face with red veins along it and around the eyes as well as bone spikes were extruding from its limbs (which seemed to be the biggest ones) as well as it's back its eye red with a yellow pupil stared at me before it stood on its hind legs revealing a rib cage on its chest before it licked it's lips and roared at me before it crouched and charged towards me.

"So this is what a Grimm looks like, not the weirdest thing I've seen in my long life." The Grimm ignored my comment and raised a clawed fist toward me

I stopped it with my hand and said

"What good was that going to do?" The Grimm looked at his stopped paw before it looked back at me before it roared and tried to swipe at me, I jumped away from it before I summoned my Horseman's pick in a silvery flash (which I used during the War.) and slammed it on the creatures chest sending it to the nearest tree and to the next (I swear I am like some crazy lumberjack who doesn't use an axe to chop trees.), the Grimm just growled before it charged at me once again

"You just don't know when to quit do you?" The Grimm gave no response as it tried to bite my head off, I shoved the pick end of the Horseman's pick to the jaw of the beast before slamming it to the ground where it dissolved instantly

"Shame, I was hoping to take a souvenir." I sighed before I opened up a portal to Earth and to my home, as I hoped out of the portal I took a second to admire the small two story cabin that I built tucked away from society since the Dark Ages, it used to have a red titled roof until I got bored one day and changed it to blue, the two windows in the front of my cabin were the things I had to change the most since random creatures would fly to it and destroy it (it was either a small dragon, before they died out and had to be moved to dragon sanctuaries to survive, a random witch or mage would fly by, they luckily passed out every time they crashed, or an antsy ogre would come and smash the windows before he tried to smash my house which thankfully I always use my horseman's pick to deal with them.) as I looked at it I noticed that the front door (which had a pot of bluebells hanging from the circular window of the door) was slightly ajar, I gripped my weapon and slowly pushed the door open to reveal two faces, one of them I had hoped to not see today

"AMELIA!" I shouted at Amelia who sat at my dinner table chugging down the contents of my aged wine straight from the barrel I had kept it in

"Javi you're back!" Ariel greeted she got up from the couch to hug me, I held up a hand for her to wait and stomped up to Amelia who was still chugging from my aged wine barrel

"WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING?!" Amelia continued to chug until she placed the barrel down on the table which creaked slightly

"WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M DOING? I'M ENJOYING A DRINK!" she replied slightly drunk

"BY BUSTING INTO MY HOME AND CHUGGING ON MY PRIZED AGED WINE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!?"

"YOU WERE AWAY, AND BESIDES THIS WINE TASTES GREAT WHY ON EA-" Amelia shouted before I wacked her in the head with the end of my weapon (only slightly)

"OH SO YOU WANNA PLAY LIKE THAT EH?" She pulled out her weapon which was a war hammer before she temporarily forgot what she going to do and proceeded chugging from the barrel once again with her hammer beside her

"Both of you stop this! And Javi we're sorry for breaking into your house again." Ariel apologized

"Apology accepted for the 550th time, but you on the other hand." I glared at Amelia who was smirking at me after she had finished the half the wine with her hand caressing the barrel that was beside her with her Hammer in her other hand

"Amelia step away from the barrel and let me put it back where I kept it."

"NEVER!" Amelia giggled as she proceeded to lift the barrel to drink from it once again, Ariel sighed before she grabbed the barrel from Amelia who looked at her infuriated and handed it to me

"There you go, you should probably finish that soon." I nodded in agreement before I suddenly felt something heavy punch or wallop against my stomach before pushing me out of my door making me drop the barrel (Luckily Ariel caught it before it fell.)

"THAT WINES MINE BITCH, AND I'M GOING TO FINISH IT!" Amelia yelled as she got outside my house holding her hammer with both her hands

"Actually It's Javi's so-" Ariel began to say before Amelia interrupted saying

"SHUT IT MERMAID, JAVI I CHALLENGE YOU TO A D-D-D"

"Not that please."

"FINE, I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL FOR THAT PEFECT WINE." She then looked around and asked

"HUH? HOW DID I END UP HERE?" Ariel sighed placing the barrel to the floor

"You knocked me out of my own home so that you can challenge me for the "perfect" wine."

"OH YEAH." Amelia tried to look like she remembered that but in reality she didn't

"ARE YOU JUST GOING TO STAND THERE AND FORFIET THE WINE TO ME? OR ARE WE GOING TO FIGHT?" Drunk Amelia demanded (wait why am I calling Amelia Drunk Amelia it's not like this hasn't happen before, well except when she found my aged wine now..)

"Fine, just don't come crying to Ari when this is all over."

"Since when does Ames come crying to me, it's usually you!" Ariel demanded

"I DON'T CRY!" before she slammed the hammer head to my gut which launched me far

"Ow, you've gotten stronger since that last time." Amelia only grunted in response then charged again

"Please I'm very tired despite the fact I slept in another world, besides I just got back today."

"DON'T CARE" she slammed the hammer against my face which landed me near my house, which ticked me off since I nearly had to repair it again

"HYAAHH!" Amelia shouted about to smash me once again before we heard a loud burp we turned around to see Ariel with a flushed face and the barrel tipped over

"hehehehe~"

"WHAT!" Amelia screamed before I hit her in the head causing her to pass out

"Thankfully that's over." I said picking up an unconscious Amelia as her weapon disappeared in a silvery flash

"Thanks Ariel I owe you."

"Ames was riiiiight the wwiiiiiine doooesss tasssteee goooooo.." drawled out before she passed out too

I sighed before I picked her up to letting my weapon also disappear into a silvery flash, I walked back inside my house and placed Amelia on the couch (well more like tossed her there.) when she proceeded to mumble in her sleep, I brought Ariel upstairs to Anna's room where I gently placed her on the bed and covered her with the blanket I smiled at her cute snoring before I looked at the abandoned room, I hadn't changed it because if I did it wouldn't have the Anna flair that it always had, Mannequins were stationed around the room with various dresses and armor which were either made by her or friends of hers (like Coco Chanel.) the walls were always Moss-green colored with a white ceiling and oak floors , there were several shelfs near the windows with books and flowers that I had maintained and replanted with her absence, there was also a dragon skull ( it was acquired when dragons were more numerous and dangerous) that acted as a coffee table with two barrel chairs beside it, I walked up to the various flowers and stroked each of their petals whispering

"Don't worry she'll be back soon.." The flowers gave no response, I always prayed that Anna would come back one day, since she was the only blood family I had left.

I looked at Ariel who continued with her cute snores before I silently closed the door and went to my room to grab a blanket before walking down the stairs, when I had reached my living room I noticed that Ames had fallen from the couch and laid on the floor snoring silently, I chuckled at the sight before I placed her on the couch and laid the extra blanket I had on her. She mumbled something like

"Wine….Ale….Beer…." I just sighed before I picked up the fallen barrel at my front door before closing the door and brought the now empty barrel to my cellar (or is it basement?) which was entrance was beside the stairs and my kitchen and placed it next to my Generator which had other wines hidden underneath it (Which I was glad that Ames hadn't found them yet.) and walked out of my basement relocking the door and placed the key in my pocket, I looked at the time and saw it was almost one o' clock, I decided to walk up to my room to take a nap.

'I swear these two are going to be the end of me.' I thought before I fell asleep.

In the continent of Sanus, Vacuo

:With Ecru:

"Come on Ecru, raise that leg higher!" Grand-mère told me as we were practicing the Roundhouse kick with a makeshift target my Grand-mère made from pillow stuffing and pillow covers at our homes backyard (if you can call it that it was more like a training ground.) instead of far-away as my mother insisted (Grand-mère wanted to decline but then she remembered what happened days ago so she relented.) today I wore all black with a green hood shawl and black combat boots (My Grand-mère insisted I wear combat boots all the time, not that I don't mind since I love combat boots.) I stretched my legs before I roadhouse kicked the target which only made it fall over, I sighed sadly while Grand-mère muttered

"Not bad, Again!" she slammed her double-tipped spear into the ground which startled me nearly kicking her in the face

"Watch it kid! You nearly ruined your Grand-mère beautiful face." She gave me her famous glare which as I was told by my mom, made every guy that courted her back away and never come near her until my dad came along and my Grand-mère approved of him, I sighed before I used my semblance to lift the target back up.

"Ecru, pick up the target not using your semblance!" she kicked the target across the yard where it landed face-down on the sand "If you do that you'll be complacent and use your semblance for personal needs and become lazy!" I sighed before I walked towards the target and brought it back to where Grand-mère was, afterwards I made it standing up without using my semblance

"Now I want you to perform the kick once again, and make sure you push it far from you and not just make it fall over alright?"

"Yes Grand-mère." I got into position before I delivered the roundhouse kick to the target which made it launch 4 meters next to the spot where Grand-mère had previously kicked it to.

"Good work, now I'll be teaching you the Axe Kick, observe." Grand-mère walked over to the other target she made then proceeded to lift her leg before slamming it to the poor target which reduced it to stuffing and torn cloth, I did a spit take while my Grand-mère just looked down at the annihilated target muttering

"I should've made them stronger.." she pointed at me and said

"Now you do it," she gestured towards the target beside her "And make sure you don't injure yourself in the process ok?" I nodded before I approached the target and performed the drop kick which caused my black pants to rip a little in the bottom

"KYAA!" I screamed covering the area that had been ripped, I looked at Grand-mère who merely smirked and said

"go inside and change but next time don't wear something tight whenever we do this okay?"

"Okay Grand-mère" I muttered slightly crimson before running into the house

"Oh? Is your training session done already dear?" Mom was stretching in the living room as I passed her

"Nope, just going to change my pants."

"Did you piss in them again?"

"MOM! NO I DIDN'T," I blushed furiously remembering the time I did when I was still five when Grand-mère started teaching me how to use a dagger (which my mom disapproved at first before she was silenced by Grand-mère fierce glare.) "It's just torn down there." My mom gave me a grin which I didn't know it was called (It was the shit eating grin.) before she shooed me to my room, I quickly removed my torn pants and replaced it with my baggy black camo pants 'Mom said it used to belong to her before her hips got to big for it…. that's weird to think about now that I think about it.' I quickly ran out of my room and into the backyard where Grand-mère was drinking something from her flask (where did she pull it out of no one knows.) before she said

"Oh your back now I want you to perform the kick again."

"Ok Grand-mère" I began stretching my legs once again before I walked up to the target I had Targeted (haha puns) earlier and performed the drop kick to it this time not a single tear on my pants and managed to smash the head (if you can call it that, it was just a misshapen lump of stuffing and pillow cloth anyways.) of the target earning a clap from Grand-mère

"Good girl, now try to smash the body, here" she gently placed the target (now with a smash face.) on the floor.

I dropped kick the chest area of the target which caused some stuffing to come out, afterwards I did the same to the pelvic area which earned a long clap from Grand-mère 'Why do I have the feeling she wants me to do this more often?' I then propped up the target (now misshapen) and performed the roundhouse kick once again to it before it flew a short distance and broke upon landing due to the face it had been dropped kicked on beforehand

"Excellent! Take a break before we restart you're training in dagger use." She winked at me before she walked back into the house with me following suite

"Old…hag…."

"What was that?"

"Nothing!" glad I dodged a dust bullet I went to the fridge and went to town.

Well that's all for now

After 2 years I'm done :D (jk it was like a week and a half)

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Alex Kellar A.k.A Glynda Goodwitch: (since he told me to go back to work (‸↼‶)ᕗ )

So- wait I already answered you so no need for me to repeat myself :3 but I fixed the issues with the pervious chapter and added reasons why said character did so and so in this one!

Ultime-Owner:

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