AN: Hi! So, consistency isn't my strongsuit. Bet you guys already knew that considering it took little over 6 months for me to update this story. The only reason it was delayed is because I hit a roadblock for a while before deciding on rewriting almost the whole chapter, which went considerably faster and giving me almost a hundred percent more content compared to what I had before rewriting it.
Anyway, hope you enjoy this chapter!
Namikaze
Chapter 3
Anxiety, Compulsion and Confusion
A few hours ago
Patch. A small island off the coast of Vale. A rather peaceful place that was more or less self-sustained. It was considered to be one of the most peaceful places on the planet, and it showed as the local faunus and humans lived in harmony and peace, unlike most other places on Remnant. That did not mean that there weren't any grimm. Of course there were grimm, it was however mostly isolated to Beowolves and the ever-so rare Ursa.
In a clearing, a house could be seen, surrounded by outdoor furniture. The house was made out of the same wood that was surrounding it, giving the indication that the clearing hadn't always been there. On the second floor, three rooms accompanied a hallway that led down to living room. There was also a bathroom, complete with a shower and bathtub combination.
In the biggest bedroom, a desk with a hologram projector with a stylish white keyboard could be seen, coupled with an ordinary office chair, a bed with white sheets. On the other side of the room, a white crib stood. Inside of a crib was a small girl, no older than three years old. Her dark red hair went down to her ears, fading into a lighter shade the longer it got. The sheets that covered her had red roses, and the sheet itself was black.
In the room next to it, slightly smaller than the previous one, the walls were dressed in a white wallpaper with yellow dragons harboring it. A wooden dresser, reminiscent of the wood that made up the house, stood next to the door. Behind the dresser was a large mirror that stretched to each end of the container of clothes and ended only a few feet from the ceiling. Next to the dresser was a small desk, fit for a child. It was in the same wooden texture and it was accompanied by a chair of the same material.
On the other side of the room, a single wooden bed stood with white sheets. Next to it was a night stand, also made of wood with a table lamp standing on top of it, turned off. Lying on the bed, under the sheets, was a blonde young girl, fast asleep. Her hair was long, reaching her waist.
Downstairs, a the girls' father stood in front of the house's kitchen sink. He bore a sad expression on his face, as it had been several weeks since his wife had gone on a mission, temporarily leaving him alone to care for their children. As much as he wanted to join his wife on her journeys, he knew that it would do no good to leave their two daughters alone, especially not considering one of them was merely a toddler.
Currently, he was doing the dishes. Something that he had forgotten during the day. If his wife had seen the pile that had the trio had been racking up, he would've been in a lot of trouble. He'd rather not take his chances. "Man, doing the dishes is so boring… Summer, why can't you just come home?" he wondered to himself as he put the last coffee mug into the cabinet and went for a plate.
As he took it up, something made him shiver, to the point where his arm twitched and he lost the grip he had on the plate. It fell down and hit the ground, shattering into pieces. His eyes widened as he tried to make sense of what happened. "What the… Taiyang, get your shit together!" he thought "Everything is fine!"
As he finished his thoughts, however, Taiyang heard the cries of his youngest daughter. "I'll clean this up later, right now I need to tend to Ruby." he thought as he made his way out of the kitchen and up the flight of stairs in the living room. As he went in, he saw the girl flailing frantically inside of the crib. His right eyebrow arched as he moved towards her before he picked the small toddler and hugged her.
"There, there my little flower." he whispered "It was just a bad dream, nothing to be afraid of." Ruby continued to wail as the tears ran down onto Taiyang's shoulder. A frown crept up on his face as he realized that this was the first time something like this had ever happened. Ruby had never cried like this before, not even when she was a newborn. She had always been a sunshine.
"Has something happened?" he thought as he held the weeping child. He knew something was wrong, but he couldn't pinpoint what it was. He started to rock his little flower of a toddler as he tried to calm her down from the fit of sadness that she was experiencing.
"Dad?" He heard from the door. He turned towards the entrance of the room and saw his eldest daughter, Yang. Her long, sun-kissed blonde hair was a mess, definitely worthy of the "bead-head of the year-award" if it even existed. Her hands were balled into fists as she rubbed her eyes with them, obviously tired and confused after being awakened by her sister.
"It's okay, Yang." he answered "Ruby was just having a nightmare. Please go back to bed, you have nothing to worry about." She nodded tiredly as dragged herself back to her own room. Taiyang started walking back and forth on the room's floor, cooing his dark-haired child. Her wailing slowly turned into sniffles as she calmed down. He went down on one knee next to the crib.
"There we go, Rubes." he whispered a he broke the hug and stared into her eyes as she got an even footing on the floor. "What's wrong, my little flower?" The little red-headed girl looked into her father's eyes and rubbed her own, sniffling a little in the process.
"I don't know, I can't remember." she said. He nodded slowly as he tried to make sense of everything that had happened in the past few minutes. He shook his head slightly, earning a giggle from the teary-eyed toddler.
"Well, let's get you to bed again, okay?" he asked softly. She nodded, once again rubbed her eyes before she stuck her arms out, ready to be lifted up by her father. He did just that and slowly put her back down into the crib. She laid down on the bed before he put her bed cover back over her.
"God night, my little flower." he whispered as he kissed her forehead. She yawned and mumbled "Good night, daddy." As he walked out of the room, only one thing was on his mind.
"What the hell is going on?"
Now
Taiyang stood outside of the master room while he was watching his youngest daughter, clearly worried about the small red-haired girl. It had become increasingly worrisome when she started flailing her arms around in her bed.
"Mom..." came the mutter from the small red-haired girl in the bed. She was still asleep, Taiyang surmised from outside of her room, but he began to feel the same that his daughter did. Something was very wrong and he was beginning to fear for his wife, more so his daughters.
"Oh god, what would happen if she died?!" he thought as his eyes widened. "I can't even begin to imagine how devastated the girls would be if they found out." He gazed towards his youngest daughter in sadness, almost like he knew that something bad had happened to Summer.
"I won't be able to sleep, worrying like this..." he muttered as he turned and walked down the stairs. "C'mon Tai, don't be such a downer… You know that she's one of the strongest Huntresses on Remnant. For all you know, she's perfectly fine and on her way back home right now."
He sat down on the couch and turned on the holo-TV as he tried to shake the bad feelings away from his mind. It was late at night and he was tired. The holo-TV played the Pumpkin Pete commercial, earning a sigh from Tai.
"Those aren't even good for your health..." he muttered as he changed the channel and was immediately greeted by a scream. "Not in the mood for horror..." switching channel once more, he nodded in satisfaction as he was greeted by a documentary about wildlife. His mind for some reason, however, blocked it out as he started thinking even more about Summer.
"Why can't I shake this feeling?" he thought, half-watching the looked at his scroll and contemplated calling it, but decided against it as it was
"Daddy..." He suddenly heard from the stairs. His eyes went towards it and saw Ruby standing there on one of the steps, rubbing her eyes with her hands. He immediately rose from his seat and hurriedly walked towards and up the stairs before picking her up.
"Honey, what's wrong?" he asked as he walked down the stairs with his daughter cradled into his arms. She looked up towards him with a sad smile on her face, tears threatening to fall.
"I remem- reme- remember what I dreamed about..." she said, trying to find the word, as a tear started to fall from her left eye. "I… I saw mom get hurt by a be… beowolf..." By this point, tears were streaming down her cheeks as she started crying and looked down again and continued to rub her eyes in sadness. Taiyang's eyes widened slightly as he hugged Ruby tightly.
"There, there, my little flower, She'll be okay." He sat down on the sofa with her in his arms and did his best to comfort her. "Is this one of those silver-eyes abilities Summer keeps talking about?" He thought as he brushed her hair with his hand and looked out the window. "Please come back in one piece, Summer."
"Uhh, how do you hang up on this thing?" Minato sighed out. Summer giggled. She looked through his eyes in glee as he tried to figure the scroll out. After a few moments, he finally realized that he didn't need to hang up as the other end already had done so. He let out a groan as he now had to figure out how to close it.
'Just push the diamond-shaped button!' Summer exclaimed in-between her giggles. Minato blinked for a moment as he pressed the button, and the two clips slid back into each other. He face-palmed and sighed at how technologically impaired he was as the woman inside of his head continued to giggle before it turned into a hysterical laughter. It was driving him nuts, which was completely intentional.
He put the scroll in his pants' pockets before he turned towards Summer's body. He frowned. He didn't want this to happen. He didn't want the first person he'd meet in this world to die right before him. "At least we saved your soul, Summer-san." he told her, trying to console her. Inside of his mid, Summer's smile turned sad. He couldn't see it, but he could feel it. "There's still hope for you, no matter how slim it is."
'Yeah, I guess that's true...' she said somberly, a tear falling from her cheek. 'I have to believe that there will be a future for me outside of you. I have to, for my daughters.' Minato didn't say anything. All he did was nod before he picked her body up. He walked towards the opened door that led out the hallway that harbored the stairs, and started climbing it.
As he did, he heard silent sobs coming from the young dark-red haired woman inside of him. The emotions that his body projected weren't good for them. He reeked of negative energy and it would only attract the Grimm, and he knew that.
Luckily, he didn't hear any Grimm coming for them. With the sound of Summer's cry in emotional agony, he climbed the stairs hoping they wouldn't attract any Grimm. He picked up his pace, climbing the stairs faster and faster.
"It'll be all right, Summer-san." He said to her "We'll find a way for you to live the life you've always wanted, with your daughters. There's no use being depressed, especially not in a world filled with monsters that are attracted to negative emotions."
Summer nodded as she slowly stopped sobbing, understanding the situation they were in. 'I know, Minato.' She answered back 'I'll try to hold it in until we're out of this mess.' Minato nodded as he continued to walk in silence.
The walk was slow and it was somewhat awkward for them both. They both wanted to say something, but refrained from doing so. It was weird, they thought, that they were both inhabitants of the same body, yet only one of them had control. Not before long, however, they had reached the rooftop door. "Well, here goes nothing." Said the blonde as he opened the door with his right hand.
"Are you sure we trust this Minato guy, Oz?" said the red-eyed man as he gazed towards the gray-haired headmaster, who had just hung up on Minato. Said man turned his own gaze towards the questioning man before he sighed.
"I don't know, Qrow." he answered "But considering Summer didn't make any form of warning signal while we were talking, I will assume that he won't be hostile." he said before turned his head back towards the open bullhead door. They were closing in on the building that Minato resided in, and they wanted Summer's body back.
"How strong do you think this man is?" Qrow asked the elder of the two. Ozpin hummed for a moment,
The bullhead turned as they came to a stop right over the rooftop. It descended down before landing onto it. Darkh then cut the engines as the two huntsmen jumped off from the shuttle-door in sync, landing in a slight crouch. They quickly straightened themselves as they looked towards the roof's door.
"I don't have the slightest clue, Qrow." Ozpin answered "But, I guess we're gonna have to wait and see for ourselves." Qrow nodded in response. They both didn't want to admit it, but they knew for a fact that the former leader of Team STRQ was dead. They were realists and the state that Summer had been in while talking to Ozpin made him realize that she wasn't going to make it. It was the truth, a sad one at that.
"I can however say that the look in his eyes were that of a veteran warrior, no doubt." Ozpin suddenly said. He was about to continue, but was interrupted by Qrow.
"Here he comes." Qrow said as the door on the roof opened, revealing a young man with sun-kissed blonde hair and a black trench coat. He held Summer's body in a bridal-hold as he walked towards them. They could see the blood on his hands and clothes, and it took every bit of Qrow's restraints to keep himself from lashing out in anger and sadness. Tears were free-falling from his chins as they slid down from his eyes, and he couldn't stop it. All he could do was watch the man walk towards them.
"I take it you're Minato." Ozpin calmly said. Said blonde nodded as he continued walking towards them.
"Yeah." he answered "I'm Namikaze Minato." he said, passing both men and jumped onto the Bullhead. "We better get out of here before the Grimm comes around." The Hunter duo nodded as they did the same.
Minato then put Summer's body on the Bullhead's floor and pulled out one of his scrolls before unrolling it next to her, earning a raised eyebrow from Ozpin. Wordlessly, he put the upper side of her body in the middle of the scroll and started a sequence of hand seals. When he was done with the hand seals he slammed his hands onto the circles that was on each side of the scroll, sealing her body into it.
Eyes widened, Qrow quickly drew his scythe and pointed it towards him, slightly grazing the right side of Minato's neck. "What did you do?" he asked, finally letting his emotions flourish. Minato sighed as he grasped the blunt side of the "sword" with his left hand.
"I only sealed her body to keep it from deteriorating any further." Minato answered "I should've told you what I was going to do, sorry about that." Minato then let go of the blade and pushed it slightly to the side.
Qrow nodded as he retracted the blade from Minato's neck and gave out a heavy sigh, head tilted upwards toward the Bullhead's ceiling. That's when he noticed it. If Summer is dead, then why do I still sense her aura?" He thought as his gaze went onto Minato, who was now sitting on one of the Bullhead's seats, the scroll rolled together and back in his coat's pocket. Before he could say anything, the Bullhead's engines started and it lifted off.
"Mr Minato, I have a few questions that I'd like to ask you if you don't mind." said the Headmaster of Beacon out of the blue. Minato looked towards the silver-haired man and nodded.
"Go ahead, Ozpin-san." Answered the blonde, earning a slightly raised eyebrow from the duo. Deciding to ignore it, Ozpin coughed into his closed hand.
"First off, if what you say is true and Summer is dead, why and how Summer's soul is inside of you." Ozpin said, no, demanded. The Yellow Flash sighed out loud.
"Should've seen this coming." He thought as he stroke his right hand through his hair. His gaze fell down towards the floor of the Bullhead. "I guess I'll have to be honest with the two of you. I'll start from the beginning and give you a brief rundown on who I am." His eyes went towards the window of the Bullhead briefly before back towards Ozpin's own eyes, who motioned him to begin with a nod of affirmation
"My name is Namikaze Minato, Minato being my given name." he started "I come from a different reality where we do not use aura. Instead, we use something called chakra, an energy source that is created from melding our physical and spiritual energy together into a single form." His paused to let them take the all of the information in. After a few seconds, he continued.
"We mold this energy to use it for both offensive and defensive means, mostly in the form of Ninjutsu, like this one." he said, pausing as he held his hand up slightly and formed a Rasengan in his hand. Much to his amusement, their reaction was that of shock. Never in their life had they seen someone be able to manipulate energy to that extent. He dispersed, creating a wave of harmless energy that dissipated quickly.
"When Summer was dying, performed CPR on her to revive her. When I did so, I unknowingly used my chakra to pull her soul out of her body and into mine." he half-lied "Her soul is still alive, within me. This is why you can still feel her aura. She's inside of me, a temporary solution until we find a way for her to reunite with her daughters."
Silence brewed inside of the Bullhead. Their reaction had been exactly what he had anticipated it to be. Eyes widened, mouth open. "Does this happen a lot, Summer-san?" He asked the girl inside of her head.
'Nah, they're probably just trying to process what you just said.' She answered 'I mean, it's not every day you get to talk to an alien that can suck souls out of people, even if what you said was a lie, you've still got me inside of you, and having a huge fox inside of your head would only make you sound crazy so taking the fall for it was probably the best choice.'
Minato nodded. It was his reasoning as well. He waited for them to respond, watching them intensely. He didn't want to admit it, but he could very well have given himself a death sentence after the short story he had just provided. He also didn't know if he could prove it. He didn't know if it was possible to steal someones aura or anything even close to that. He mentally crossed his fingers in hoping that they'd believe him, or that he'd be able to pull something out of his ass to prove that he was indeed telling the truth.
'But, can't you just, I don't know, try and channel my aura?' asked the sole female inside of Minato's body. He hummed for a moment, contemplating on the proposal.
"I don't know what will happen if I do, though." he answered "But if it comes to it, it might be my only option." Before he could think any further, Ozpin had regained his posture and brought his closed fist once more up to his mouth and coughed into it.
"Well, that certainly is quite the story, Mr Namikaze." The Headmaster said "But can you prove that she's inside of you?" The Yellow Flash sighed, having foreseen.
"I don't know, but I might be able to." he said as his legs shifted into the lotus position. He closed his eyes as Summer started to exude her aura into his system. He could feel it, it was calming, yet invigorating. The energy felt so much like chakra that he wondered if it was actually the same thing.
The Hunter duo felt the presence of Summer much clearer now. To them, right now, he might as well have been the silver-eyed warrior that they had come for. It was strange sight, seeing the unknown man exude the exact same aura as Summer, something that shouldn't have been possible in the slightest.
"Even if he had stolen her aura, it would've mixed with his." Ozpin thought "This means that she seriously is inside of him, and that it isn't just her aura that he is drawing upon right now, but also her very soul." Qrow's thoughts were almost the same, although he didn't quite understand what was going on.
Without even realizing, Minato blacked out and fell down onto the seat next to him. The Hunter duo rushed to him immediately, dumbfounded at what the blonde had just done. The Fourth Hokage rose back up onto the seat with a hand on his forehead. He sighed, only it didn't sound like the usual sigh that would come from Minato. It was much softer.
"Man, what was that, Minato?" came the voice from his mouth, only it wasn't his voice. It was Summer's. He/she opened his/her eyes, his/her silver eyes, and looked around, confused. The Hunter duo once again widened their eyes as they finally understood what just happened. The two shared the body now, and because of that whenever Minato channeled her aura, she would be brought forth and given control of the body.
"Holy shit..." muttered Qrow as he stared wide-eyed at the blonde. "There's no way this should be possible..." he thought "But is it really her, or is it him faking it? We don't know much about him." The confusion only increased from Minato/Summer as he/she slowly stood up, almost tripping over nothing.
"Holy shit..." he/she said as his/her eyes widened when she looked at Qrow and Ozpin. "Uhh.. Hi!"
"That man that attacked you could very well become a thorn in my side, Raven." Came the voice of her father "I want you to rest up so that you can once again go after him and end him."
Raven nodded her head, standing in a kneeling position as her father paced back and forth in the tent, trying to figure out what went through that old man's head. She could feel it though, his manipulation had already started to take its toll on her. She was aware of the fact that the more she was ordered around by him, the less disobedient she would become.
This was her father's semblance: Word of Persuasion. The ability to slowly but surely brainwash and manipulate peoples thoughts simply with words, to make people believe it was the right choice. To make it sound that everything he said was logical and true.
Her brother had somehow escaped the clutches of said semblance, thus giving him the freedom that he deserved. At least that was what she thought right at this moment. Their father had yet to say anything about Qrow, but she knew that once he spoke about him, it would be out of hate. Words were powerful and when dealing with this man, it really was. The man could talk his way out of anything.
"Master, what would you have me do?" she asked, earning a doubtful look from her father. He grumbled a little before sighing.
"Go and rest." he answered "You are in no condition to go on a mission. That man clearly had the upper hand on you and I have no doubt that he wasn't going in for the kill after what you told me about his abilities." he grumbled once more as she rose from her kneeling position, faltered slightly in her walk. "His teleportation ability is troubling, you should watch yourself. Who knows how far he can teleport or, how it even works for that matter."
Raven nodded as she limped out of the tent towards her "home", which was just a glorified name for the tent she had been given by her father. "If I could kill him, I would do at any moment." She thought. She once again heard hateful mutters from the bandits around her, clearly showing her their disdain and hate for her. "But, I don't even think for one second that I would be able to win against him, even when I'm at my strongest. Not to mention the fact that if I raised my blade against him, he'd have Tai and Yang killed immediately."
"That man is a monster…" she thought as she continued to limp through the camp "The only man I know that is fast enough to match him is the blonde I fought earlier, and I don't even know if he's good enough to take on father."
Her gaze momentarily went towards one of the men, who glared at her with daggers. Her eyes then reverted back towards her tent. "I seriously don't understand how we're not being overrun with Grimm, considering all of the negative emotion radiating from this camp." She thought in dismay.
She sighed as she ducked into the tent and crashed onto the small mattress. "I guess I should just get some sleep and make sure I heal properly. My leg is fucked and my head feels like it was run over by a train." She put her head on her pillow and her arm over her eyes as she closed them, fully intent on getting some sleep.
Ozpin and Qrow stared at the blonde, completely dumbfounded. "What the hell is going on?!" thought the dark-haired young scythe-wielding man as he eyed the male blonde in front of him. "Uhh, can you explain what's going on?" He asked. Minato/Summer nodded hesitantly.
"I think I just took control over Minato's body by mistake when he started to draw on my aura." Summer finally said, all but confirming it was her "We didn't think this would happen though. Man, Minato's eyesight is much better than what mine was and his body feels so light!"
Ozpin chuckled slightly hearing Summer's statement. The shift in personality was clear. This was Summer all right, no doubt about it. He cleared his throat once more, earning the attention of both Summer and Qrow.
"Yes?" Summer asked innocently, earning a weird look from Qrow.
"This is so fucking weird..." muttered Qrow from under his breath. "I think I need a drink..." Summer looked at him oddly before frowning. Before Raven left, Qrow rarely drank alcohol. Now his consumption of said substance had steadily increased over the years. Oh, that's right! Minato fought her!' She thought.
"Before you start, Oz, I have to tell the two of you something." She said, earning their attention. She sighed under her breath. "When you two were on your way, Minato had a little skirmish with someone that all three of us know." Eyebrow raised, Ozpin stared at her.
"Oh?" He asked "Do tell, who did he fight?" Summer took a deep breath, clearly intended to make it comically dramatic.
"He fought Raven." She finally answered after a few seconds, earning raised eyebrows from both of them.
"Ugh, what hit me?" Came the voice of Minato from inside of… his head. "Wait, why the hell am I in my mindscape?!" Summer giggled softly, which both looked and sounded weird coming from a man's mouth. as she found the situation downright hilarious. The two hunters gave her an odd look.
"What's so funny, Summer?" Qrow asked.
"Oh, Minato just woke up." She answered "He's a little stuck as a passenger at the moment." Qrow chuckled at the idea, but then frowned. Ozpin once again cleared his throat to stop the banter that was going on, once again earning their attention.
"What do we do now, Summer?" he asked "I don't think Minato would like having someone else walk around in his body while he's merely able to observe." Summer nodded. "Also, where do we go from here? Do you have any idea on how to get you out of Minato's body without ending your life?"
Summer shook her head, signaling that she had no idea what they should do. "No, neither of us have any idea what we could do to fix this." She answered "But considering I'm still around, I have a feeling we're gonna get through this." Ozpin nodded in agreement before Summer went into a thinking pose.
"Hmm," She started "there's no way I'd be able to get a hold of a body that is made out of flesh and blood. Not without forcefully taking one." Ozpin's eyes widened slightly.
"Of course..." He thought "A synthetic body. That could work." He eyed the woman that was stuck in a man's body. "What about a synthetic body?" He asked.
"What, you mean like a robot?" She asked, earning a chuckle from Ozpin.
"More or less, yes." he answered, earning a hum from Summer, who went deep into a mental conversation with Minato.
'Do you think that could work, Minato?' She asked him 'Do you think that could be a possibility?' She heard him hum in thought for a moment.
"It's certainly possible." he answered "But we can't be sure of it. Do you even have any of those robot bodies that can handle having an aura in their system in this world?"
'I don't actually know if we do.' she answered 'Maybe I should ask Ozpin.' She nodded to herself as her gaze went towards Ozpin.
"Is Atlas capable of creating a body capable of sustaining an aura?" She asked.
"Hmm, I don't actually know at the moment." Ozpin answered "James have been awfully quite about that kind of technology, but he did ask me a couple of months ago about the theory of aura itself." Summer sighed.
"Okay, thank you Ozpin." She said "I'm gonna give Minato back his body now." Both Qrow and Ozpin nodded as she went to lay down on the seats and closed her eyes. Seconds later, Minato opened his eyes up again.
"So, he does not retain her silver eyes when she's not in control." Ozpin thought "That means that the properties of the silver eyes are tied to the user's soul and not the body." he hummed in thought as Minato sat up.
"Professor Ozpin, we've almost reached vale." said Darkh from the cockpit.
"Alright, thank you for flying us there, Darkh." answered Ozpin, earning a nod of appreciation from the pilot.
"No problem, Professor." Darkh said "Just doing my job." Ozpin nodded before looking out from the cockpit's window. Minato followed suit as he stood up. His eyes widened in marvel as he saw the city.
"Wow..." he said "This city is huge!" Ozpin chuckled at the young man's fascination.
"Yes, this is the City of Vale." Ozpin said "It is the capital city of this kingdom and up on the top of that mountain, you can see Beacon Academy on top of that mountain."
"Beacon Academy?" Minato asked, earning a nod from Ozpin.
"Yes, Beacon Academy." he answered "It is one of the four places where the next generation will be trained and guided down the path of hunters and huntresses, to fight off the evil that has infested this world." Minato hummed for a moment.
"You mean like the ever-looming threat that reaches far beyond the Grimm?" He asked. Both Ozpin and Qrow's eyes widened considerably at this.
"How much do you know?" inquired Ozpin from the blonde.
"Not much." The Yellow Flash admitted "I more or less got dropped here with not much to go on other than a prophecy written on a cave wall, surrounding me and a scythe-wielding silver-eyed warrior."
Ozpin's eyebrow quirked up, seemingly intrigued by this Revelation. "A prophecy, you say?" he asked, earning a nod from the blonde. "I see… I do not know any scythe-wielding silver-eyed warriors."
"I do… Rather, I will know one in the future." said Qrow, whose eyes had widened. "I was planning on asking Summer if I could train Ruby in using a scythe when she had become old enough to enroll into Signal Academy."
Both Ozpin and Minato turned to him in shock. "The pieces are already falling into place..." Minato thought before a scream could be heard in his head.
'WHAT?!' Came the voice of Summer, earning a slight growl from Kurama.
"Will you keep it down, woman?!" He growled "Some of us are trying to sleep here!" Said woman blushed a deep red, which went unnoticed by Minato since he couldn't see her.
'Sorry!' she squeaked as she hid in her cloak. 'I guess that he'll train her no matter what I have to say about it.'
"I see..." said Minato "She doesn't like the idea, but it would be good if you did. There's a storm coming in the future and I believe that Ruby needs to be ready then." Qrow nodded.
"She's too young at the moment though, she's only three." Answered Qrow calmly. Minato nodded understandingly.
"Yeah, I know..." Minato muttered.
"How's she holding up in there, Minato?" Asked the Headmaster.
"She's holding on." Answered Minato "She's a strong one, I'll give you that." Both Qrow and Ozpin nodded in Agreement. Summer was indeed a strong individual, and it was not anything new to them.
"Indeed she is." Ozpin said.
"Professor Ozpin, We have reached Beacon Academy." Came the voice of Teale. Ozpin nodded in appreciation.
"I see. Thank you once more, Teale." Ozpin answered as they landed on the Bullhead Landing Platform. The doors opened and he jumped out of it, Qrow following suit and Minato wasn't far behind. As Minato's feet landed on the ground, his eyes went up towards the Academy buildings before widening considerably.
"This place is huge..." he muttered under his breath as he started walking, following the Hunter duo closely.
AN: So, I've got no idea when I'll be updating next. Hope you enjoyed this chapter though. The other version of the chapter was way too actionpacked and it was this reason that I had issues finishing it, so I decided on not releasing it at all and instead focused on rewriting the chapter.
Hope you enjoyed it though and I'll see ya next time! Bye!
