"No just rest... let me rest." I was asleep before they were out of the room. I should have stayed awake, as soon as I fell asleep the dreams came in droves, spiders in all of them.
Chapter 2: Dreams, lessons and looking forward
I have to get home... I need my brother... I was a child once again running through tunnels where I played as a child but I was lost, Fargnar! Where are you?
Oh child your not finding that dwarf friend of yours. A female voice echod down the tunnels.
Who are you?! child me shouted out, Where are you?!
You know who I am...
But I don't?! the younger me yelled out but I knew... it was Loth she's found me I was doomed.
I have you in my web my dear... Loth taunted me from the distant dimension of the Nine Hells, I spit from the child me.
Web? What web? the child Alexa called out as she stopped in the tunnel.
Run is what I wanted to yell but my voice wouldn't work.
Your in my realm now little one there is no escaping. the ground fell out from under me and I fell starring up at what was the child me but her features had twisted into those of Loth.
I twist around and see that the pit is full of spiders, drow and driders looking up at me blood flowing from their moths their eyes white.
I screamed.
I shot up so fast that I fell of the couch with a thud. I was covered in a cold sweat. Tai came into the room as fast as he could.
"You okay?" He squatted next to me concern in his eyes.
"No... help me up" I said getting to my feet.
"Whoa whoa wait a minute you need rest." Tai tried to make me sit.
"What I need is food. Food translates to energy and energy translates to health." I said wobbling on my feet.
"That makes sense, I'll get you some." I settled down on the couch as he went to retrieve food.
I looked around the couch and found my belongings and picked up my bag of holding and pulled out my magic guitar... except it was empty... I felt the bottom of the bag... I panicked until I noticed it under my clothes, in fact most of my magic items were here just nothing else.
My sabers were fine, my elemental rings were there, my silenced boots were intact, where's my scrying mirror? My wands of magic missile? Choker of water breathing? Anklets of speed and feather falling? I had my gold armlets of greater defense and silver bracers of strength, and...thank god I had my father's magic ring...
"You like meat?" Tai called out to me.
"Something light on the stomach, crackers and cheese perhaps?"
"Okay." He called back.
"Your doing better." I looked the other way and saw Yang. "What are you doing?"
"Most of my stuff is missing... the cart I left them in the cart... gods I can't think straight." sit back down.
"Well you have been out for eight days after we found you and all of yesterday." she said.
"Eight days. I was asleep for eight days." I stared at the ground.
"What were you doing before you... found your self here?"
She sat next to me, "We were starting a recovery mission for a nobleman... it was a simple matter of finding a large cache of magic weapons."
"Doesn't sound simple."
"With a bard and a warlock both searching yeah it is... the problem was the conditions of the contract. They were taxing us with our arms twisted while saying it wasn't taxing us." I stated.
"Well looks like you two are getting along." tie says as he came into the room with a plate of cheese and crackers "it's clear that your a warrior I have sent a message to my friend Professor Ozpin about you and he is willing to admit you to Beacon in exchange that you teach him about your world."
"Beacon?" I questioned as I took the plate.
"A school for warriors." Yang said, "Me and Ruby are going, she earned her spot by fighting of a bunch of gang members a couple of days ago."
"I may be a bit old." I said.
"What do you mean?"
"Drow can live up until almost 1000 years old in rare cases... I'm almost 50, more or less 16 in your terms."
"Hey... your still considered a teen right?" Yang asked
"Yeah."
"Then it's fine." She said.
I point at her and a magic hand appears and pokes her nose. "Thanks."
"Did you just do magic?" Tai asked me.
"So?" I took a bite of cheese.
"Doesn't that take a lot of energy?" they asked.
"Not that spell." I ate a cracker.
"What dose?"
"That's a lesson all on it's own." I smiled at them.
"How much do you know?" they asked at the same time.
"Honestly not much. I'm a lore bard, one of many different magic users,Warlock, wizards, witches, sorcerers, shamans ,clerics as well as others and all of the different forms of them. Then there racial magics." I said.
"Racial magic?" Yang asked.
"As a drow I can cast a multitude of spells that a high elf can't and the same way around."
"Well what could you do?" Tai asked.
I snapped my fingers and feairy fire framed a book shelf. "Feairy fire, magic flames that out line anyone and anything without burning it." I polished off the plate.
"Alexa what is it like back home." Ruby asked from the doorway.
"My world or my home?" I asked back.
"Your home in Mythral Hall." she sat next to me on the other side of me as her father pulled up a chair.
My home was a dwarven city, my adoptive parents took me in after Fargnar found me in the tunnels beneath the city. If it hadn't been for the Drow ranger Drizzit Du'Urden who was friends with king Breunor I would have been left to die by the rest of the city. They Thought I was a Drow spy sent to gain information.
I remember what it was like growing up... the dwarven children fear me the cursed me, and kicked me but Fargnar would always save me.
I can't blame them though, if I had grown up with the drow I would be raised to be a spider worshiping priestess.
I showed an affinity for music and magic from a young age, not being really able to work a forge it was a amazing when I forged a pair magic sabers made with a Damascus pattern using black adanmantine and silver mythral. A dwarven cleric blessed them to destroy demons swiftly and eviscerate those who worship Loth, The glow red in the presence of the unholy nad blue when they sense the divine.
I never attended school much being mostly home schooled by my mother in music, reading and writing, and magic when it emerged, she being a bard of her own right. My father was a soldier in the army, he did his best to teach me fighting skills, I remember the day his beard caught fire while forging the ring enchanted to only fit the one person who will marry me.
When my brother and I left home on our own adventure we had set out for Chult to find exotic magic weapons we met a warlock on the road seeking knowledge and we just formed our team, gaining fame from vanquishing evil, and cleaning towns out of ale, I gained more money by performing acts of physical dexterity, skill, song and magic where ever they would let me.
Noblemen soon found out about us and hired us to do more and more missions, but they wanted me more then the mission completed. I had become a goal in their eyes, I was seen as the perfect trophy wife, or they wanted me as their mistress.
I was shamed out of many towns, and when I turned them down and returned to the city they had been so angry tat I had turned them down they had spread stories that we...after the first few times I was so shaken that I had return home where the people knew me... my father wanted to bring down these pigs, and we did, we found proof that they were supporting bandit clans, slave trading, they even kept slaves themselve, claiming them as servents, and would beat themifthe said otherwise.
My home was free from stuff like that, a kingdom built into a mountain.
"I just want to see my home once more... I was the odd one out but most people knew who I was and respected me... I wish my brother was here... he'd tell me that this was a new adventure..." I sat back holding back tears.
Ruby wrapped her arms around me, "You'll find them again," normally I wasn't a touchy person but it felt right that she did this for some reason.
"Thanks." I wiped away the tears, I looked at the blood soaked bandages wrapped around my left arm and slowly unwrapped them.
"What are you doing?" Tai asked as the last strip fell away revealing a stark white spider web pattern that went from my shoulder to my wrist.
"That's...new." I said. But I knew who caused it.
"Your arm was bleeding badly when we found you." Tai explained.
I felt the lines...the weren't raised... there was no scaring other than the design. "Loth marked me... her blood flows through me... it makes sense she can affect me."
"Why would she..?" Yang pointed at it.
"Remove all doubt I guess, fireballs don't cut skin."
"Eh?" all three of them asked.
"Method of defense, if need be I'll blow my self up with a fireball and walk away with minor burns."
"That explains the burnt clothes." Tai said shaking his head.
"I feel much better thank you." I told them.
"Let's try standing up." Ruby suggested while getting up.
"Sure thing," I stood up with much more ease finding that I had feeling back in them, "But first I should wash."
That's when I found the difference in technology.
Two weeks later. Air terminal in Vale waiting for departure
I've had time to adjust and learn about the world around me. I've sewn new clothes and learned enough to pass as a native to the planet...except I was still a Drow, there were literally no one like me, I stuck close to Yang and Ruby. They had convinced me to go sleeveless and keep the hood down. "Guy's people are looking at me..." I said eye's flicking from side to side... my hair still hasn't returned to red... I hadn't realized that until my first shower.
"Hey it's fine." Yang told me.
We head towards the terminal but as I'm about to get on I'm stopped and told that it's full.
"Hey we'll see each other at beacon." Ruby says.
"Uh yeah." I check my scroll that Tai had given me... this technology... it's strange.
I head over to the next one and get one with a pale girl dressed in a white dress and jacket, her hair was whiter than mine, I accidentally bump into her. "I'm sorry, miss...?"
"Weiss Schnee, and ...what... who are you?" Her eye's a piercing pale blue.
"Alexa Bowie Fal'catta, I'm... umm..." I step back.
"Your what?" Weiss wasn't the nicest person.
"I'm sorry." I turn to walk away.
"Ahhh ahhh... no I'm sorry... you must be stressed out." she said, "It's just I've never seen nor heard of anyone looking like you."
"I'm a drow..." finding no reason to lie.
"A drow?" her head cocked to the side.
"A subterranean race of people. There's so few of us left." I lied, can't let them know that I'm from another world.
"Why haven't your people joined us on the surface?"
"They typically murder others for resources... I was left behind one day and my adoptive parents found me." Half truths half truths.
"So their that way by nurture not nature?" she seemed to relax.
"Yeah would seem like it." That was the truth... from what Drizzit has told me they indoctrinate the children from birth.
"Your worried about what people will see you since your so different." her face softened
"Yeah." I said gripping my right arm with my left.
"Hey you can make it work."
"Thanks." I muttered.
"You'll do fine. This is a warrior school and you have that look about you."
"Thanks Weiss." I smiled.
When we landed me and Weiss parted ways She went one way I went another walking straight into another guy back my forehead colliding with his armor. "Huh?"
He turned around and my eyes met his blue ones he had a childish look to him and his white armor gave him a fighter look to him.
"Sorry." I step back.
"No, I'm still reeling from the flight." he did look a little green.
BAM!
"What was that?" I ask.
We turn the corner to see Weiss and another girl were going away from Ruby who slumped to the ground.
"Hey Ruby, come on." I said as we and Blondie helped her up.
"Thanks Alexa. Hmph weren't you the one who threw up on the ship?"
We walked around campus making small talk.
"So Your names are Ruby and Alexa huh? Mine's Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls of the tongue, ladies love it." he slyly claimed.
"Do they really?" we asked.
"They do, at least I hope they do." he admitted. "What weapons do you two use?"
"Well I use this thing." Ruby brought out a massive mechanical scythe.
"Is that a scythe?" Jaune asked.
"It's also high impact long range sniper rifle."
"Eh?"
"It's also a gun."
"Ooh okay. Alexa what about you?"
I hauled out my twin sabers, "3 and 3 quarters feet of enchanted Damascus sabers hand forged, chain link d-guards, and plenty of other tricks."
"Ummm."
"Magic curved swords."
"M...magic?"
"Don't over think it okay, just my semblance." I then realized that not every one is accustomed to the idea of magic... what if magic isn't thing in this world?
"Okay." he said shrugging it off.
"What do you have Jaune?" Ruby asked.
"Well I have this sword." he said as he drew it.
"Oohh." She studied it up and down.
"Yeah I also got this shield that gets smaller."
"But wouldn't it just weigh same?" I asked.
"Yeah it dose."
"Yeah I'm just a dork about weapons, after all I forged Crescent Rose myself." Ruby said as she coddled her weapon.
"You made that?" he asked shocked.
"All students at my old school forged all our own weapons." she said looking at him like he was crazy.
"It's a hand me down, my great great grand father used it to fight in the war." he said.
"An old blade is more trust worthy then most new blades, you made a good choice." I approved in his choice of weapon.
"Cool, thanks." he gave me a weak smile.
"You two have a respect for history, rare these days." Ruby looking mostly at me as she knew some of my history.
"Where's the assembly." I asked.
"I don't know I was following you Ruby." Jaune said.
"I was following Alexa." she said
"I was following Jaune... shit." I realized our mistake.
We made our way to the meeting hall and Yang called over Ruby, and I got separated from Jaune and I didn't really pay attention to the presentation, I caught tidbits about responsibility, and where we were sleeping.
"Hey." I turn around to see a guy in gray armor with gold designs black cloth underneath, his styled hair was brown and deep blue eyes.
"Hey, who are you?" I ask him.
"What's a freak like you doing here?" I shut him out.
"Hey! Don't ignore me!" he yelled as I walked away.
I set up in the corner of the ballroom and pulled out my guitar and strummed a few notes and started to lightly to sing...
When the sun set's over the river
No no no that won't work...
Deep in the forest, there is a forgotten realm,
In which silver flowers grow,
A legend forgotten, a myth dissolved,
They contain the nectar of the gods.
I looked up and found that I had a audience, and that they were all faunus, I had read about them. "Ummm, hi."
"That was beautiful." one girl said, "You've just made the world a little happier."
"Why thank you." I blushed a little, I rarely got such compliments.
"Can you continue?" They seem so... unconcerned about my appearance.
Deep in the forest, there is a forgotten realm,
In which silver flowers grow,
A legend forgotten, a myth dissolved,
They contain the nectar of the gods.
I've seen this meadow in my dreams...
The gods drink from the flowers,
And they cry with pure bliss,
For with every flower they sip from...
True lovers meet for the first time...
Adventures over come a grimm prophecy of death...
Monsters fade away...
And the world sees a happier dawn...
Deep in the forest, there is a forgotten realm,
In which silver flowers grow,
A legend forgotten, a myth dissolved,
They contain the nectar of the gods.
I've seen this meadow in my dreams...
The gods drink from the flowers,
And they cry with pure bliss,
For with every flower they sip from...
A blessed child is born...
A war finds an end,
Without bloodbaths...
Family's hated's fade away...
I've seen this meadow in my dreams...
The gods drink from the flowers,
And they cry with pure bliss,
For with every flower they sip from...
A pure song is sent to a bard to sing...
A poet finds his voice...
Deep in the forest, there is a forgotten realm,
In which silver flowers grow,
A legend forgotten, a myth dissolved,
They contain the nectar of the gods.
Deep in the forest, there is a forgotten realm,
In which silver flowers grow,
I stopped singing and found the whole ballroom listening to my song.
"Hi." I put my instrument away.
"Alexa... That was amazing!" Ruby ran up and gave me a hug.
"Hey hey RUBY!" I laughed with the rest of the ballroom. I looked out at them and saw that they just had seen a small piece of me, I was okay with that.
Not long after I was asleep.
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