Red Roses, White Scales

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

Morihei Ueshiba

Chapter 7

Best Team Ever

Mikhail awoke, his eyes wide open and his breathing was heavy. He looked around. Yang, as ever, hugged him and pressed his head against her bosom. She peacefully snored in a low volume, while Ruby snuggled her face against his chest, enjoying the warmth of his body. His eyes wandered to Blake, who slept peacefully. Her bow twitched and he pouted a little bit. Mikhail wanted to see her kitty ears, but well she wants to hide her identity as a faunus, so wearing it, was a must. A little bit nostalgia overcome him, Zero also wore a black bow on her head. Then he looked at Weiss. She slept on her back, while peacefully breathing. She looked like a princess from a fairy tale, only waiting for her Prince Charming to kiss her from the death-like slumber. He also admitted that she was a beautiful young woman. While her chest was modest compared to Blake's and Yang's, it was one of her charms. She had a slim and petite figure and paired with her chest, it made her attractive for man, where you just want to put your arm around her waist and began to gently caress her slender neck and shoulders with the mouth, lips and tongue. With her character, she would try to hide that it would actually felt good, but still saying 'Stop it'. But what Mikhail really liked on her, was her snow-white hair, which reminded him of Zero.

It sometimes came to his mind, even when he was a dragon, but there was a possibility that he was in love with the Intoner.

Yes, even though dragons were an a-sexual race, they could still feel love and affection towards others. An example, were Caim and Angelus, even being different races, they fell in love with each other. Although they may seem to have male or female-like traits or personalities, dragons were a sexless race.

'This is not the time for pleasant memories.' He looked at the clock on the wall; it was currently 3:00 am. It was time for training. But how could he escape from those cuddle monsters of sisters. An easy answer….'magic'. Mikhail concentrated and teleported, while being followed by afterimages, away and now he standing before the door. 'A simple dragon teleportation spell.' Legna always used them.

He looked back, when a groan from Ruby could be heard. Mikhail turned around and immediately suppressed to laugh. With him gone, Yang instinctively went to the next source of heat and that was Ruby. She was stuffed into the fleshy orbs of their sister, and was being suffocated. He went to the bathroom and grabbed some sport clothes.

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Outside Beacon

Mikhail was outside Beacon, the sun was already rising up. The sky was golden and red, birds were already singing and the air was a little bit cold.

The former dragon stretched himself and loosed hismuscles and joints.

"One hour jogging should be enough."

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Beacon Training Room

After finishing his daily jogging, Mikhail went to the training rooms in Beacon. Normally if you want to use them, you must fill out a request for using, to gain permission. But if someone wants to use them before 8 o'clock a.m. you can the rooms without it.

Mikhail went to his locker and put his new Zero Rose out. He walked to the specific rooms, for sword training.

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After Mikhail finished preparing, he also activated the dummies. Various puppets in form of Grimms appeared from the ground.

First he trained his sword techniques. He stood before a dummy, took a stance, while crouching slightly. His breathing became steady, his shoulders tensed. He tightened the grip on his sword and then….

*Slash*

The Beowolf dummy was beheaded, instantly…..

He went back to his stance and bisected the dummy with an upper strike, but the moment the sword was up, he adjusted the hold on his weapon and beheaded the dummy next to him. The next hour he did this with more and more targets.

After that, he trained his dual-wielding skills.

Instead of wielding them like normal swords, Mikhail fought different with them. With Zero Rose and the sheath, he constantly rotated around his own axis. He made some uppercut and overhead strikes, and began to spin around, while also using kicks. When he span around, he stopped for a split second, and rotated in the other direction. He and Mikhail always used spinning attacks, also why not using a sheath that was more or less like a club?

After he was done, he trained his scythe's skills. His new scythe was lighter, but still heavier than Crescent Rose.

First he twirled the weapon around his body like a windmill. He needed to adjust his fighting style on the New Zero Rose.

After 15 minutes of constantly twirling the weapon, he used trained himself with the recoil techniques. He pointed the head of the sniper-scythe behind and did this for 15 minutes as well.

He stopped when it was already 6:45, he transformed the weapon into a sword and sheath back and put it back on his waist.

He sighed and wiped the sweat from his forehead. But then from one moment to another he drew his blade and turned around. Zero Rose's obsidian blade was only one millimeter away from the neck of the female that was now standing before him.

The woman wore a shallow cut black dress in eastern style, five necklaces with an assortment of beads, a red girdle-belt, and a pair of matching gauntlets.

An object that looked to be made from feathers hung from the right side of her skirt. She also wore black, thigh-length boots with a red splatter pattern. Her most distinctive feature was a fearsome, full-face mask that resembled the face of a Nevermore. The mask had four eye slits, further enhancing the character's inhuman appearance.

Mikhail's eyes widened, but he didn't move his sword a bit.

The masked woman spoke up "Impressive, you almost adjusted yourself on your new weapon and not only this, you became stronger…..Mikhail." The woman spoke in a familiar, almost warm tone; her hands were almost on her weapon "You reacted before I could draw my sword."

Mikhail lowered his weapon flicked a strain of his hair behind his ear "What do you want…Raven." He sheathed the weapon and glanced back at Raven, Yang's biological mother.

Raven took her mask off, showing her face. She looked very similar to Yang, sharing the same youthful appearance, facial shape, and even the fringe of her hairstyle, but with black hair instead of blonde, and her eyebrows were a little bit higher.

"I just come to look after you." She smiled at him and he looked away, seriously he doesn't like that woman really much. She broke his father's heart, Yang grew up without her and his mother Summer was sad, that her best friend didn't talk with her anymore. He also knew that she was really dangerous. The only reason why he bothered to speak with her was because she trained him.

Due his Semblance, Mikhail had enhanced senses, higher physical power, a quicker reaction rate and ability and denser muscles and bones, perfect for wielding swords and scythes.

When his training with Qrow became more intense, Mikhail wanted to learn more, to become better. His uncle saw his potential and rapidly growing power and asked the only person who was stronger than him, his sister.

The first time they met, Mikhail glared with bloodlust at her. The moment she felt that, and saw him in the eyes, she took her mask off and….smiled. Qrow was shocked. His sister didn't smile very often.

Her first words to Mikhail were….."You are just like me, you reek of blood." Then she talked how much his eyes were like his mother's and herself. If it wouldn't be for his blonde hair, she said that he looked like Qrow's and Summer's child; his silver eyes from her and his red eye from the Branwen family.

Mikhail was surprised; Qrow was in love with Summer, his mother? But shortly his uncle explained that she saw him only as a good friend and brother.

He didn't bother him about it, since he came to peace with it and over her.

Mikhail asked her if she would train him; which she said yes, but only under one condition, that he would never tell his father and sisters about it.

He frowned, hearing the condition caused an inner conflict. He wanted to help Yang, he wanted to help his father, so that they could finally her the reason why Raven left. But he also needed power and wisdom to become stronger; he accepted it, reluctantly of course. Even today, he could punch himself for having such a big secret from his family.

The next six years were hell for him. Over the years, Qrow brought him, under the presence to train him, what he also did, to Raven who helped him to become stronger. But her training was pretty much torture.

He wasn't only trained by both Branwen siblings in the art of weapons; they also showed him how to walk between the normal world of Remnant and its Underworld. Mikhail learned how to make contacts and how to do things, you know being a little bit rougher. His wisdom of his past life helped him more adjust in this world. Raven was impressed by his improvement, saying that Qrow didn't lie about him.

His uncle even brought him occasionally to the Vale's and Vacuo's red-light district or other cities. Meaning Mikhail was also a known in some brothels and bars…

The older he get, the more he learned from them. But Qrow noticed something. Mikhail also became 'dangerous', like Raven. He was ashamed, that he influenced Summer's and Taiyang's child too much. Even though his nephew was still a gentle and kind boy he was at the same time yet different, Qrow always suspected that he was not like his siblings. He was different from his family and different from others. He could feel it; Mikhail was a natural born killer. His monstrous amount of Aura and beastly Semblance were pretty much significant for his suspicion.

Since that day of his hindsight, he vowed to that Mikhail should live a normal peaceful life. This thought was strengthen, when Mikhail took a target down; imagine the surprise by seeing a Goliath apart.

"So why are you here, my dear?" Mikhail asked in a calm and stoic manner.

"To see and maybe congratulate you, for being accepted in Beacon?" She shrugged with her shoulders.

"Why are answering in a question?"

"What do you want from me? A kiss?" She tilted her head and crossed her arms.

"How much I love to kiss beautiful women…..I pass, you know you could see…."

"No…" Even without ending his sentence, Raven knew what Mikhail suggested "This is not the time for her and me.

"She is…"

"She is not; I know that you and Qrow protect her from the background."

Mikhail flinched and went to the showers, followed by Raven, who didn't even care when he stripped and entered the shower.

"My daughter thinks she could do what she wants, attacking people and angering them and what brought her idiocy? This…people were after her and her family.

Mikhail didn't say anything, he just continued to shower.

"And while you were busy protecting her, she thinks she could continue and put her and others in danger."

"Is this the same reason you abandoned them?" He turned the shower off and walked out of the cabin still naked and looking Raven into her eyes.

"Maybe or maybe not." She said dryly.

"Everyone has weaknesses and flaws, including me.

"Yes, and that is you love too much, and that shows only more that you are your mother's child. Your mother was one of her kind, just like you. It was a flaw and a weakness, but Summer used it and made that to a strength too, just like you!"

He turned "What about Ruby, she is…?"

"She doesn't know how the world works; she thinks she could save everyone, making everyone happy. She looks exactly like her mother, but that's the only thing she and Summer have in common. Yang was raised by her and still she didn't even learn one thing from her."

Suddenly the air became cold and heavy, Mikhail's silver eye went dark and, while his red one glowed he went out of the shower "Careful…." His voice dark and icy "Insult my sisters, my family one time….and I will show you how dangerous I can be…." Several veins became visible on his entire body and the sound of tensed muscles could were hearable.

Raven's had goose bumps and she could feel the urge to kill from Mikhail, yet she smiled "You inherited everything from her, her face, her eyes, the light in it, her love and gentleness, her tenderness and personality, too. Even the way you react, when you become angry. Your sisters react with intense feelings when anger comes over them, just like Taiyang.

"Why are you here?"

"To give you an advice."

"Mikhail furrowed his brows "And?"

"Do you really want to dwell here, with the slow progress of becoming strong, or will you finally accept your destiny and the power within you and follow the path you should?"

"…" He didn't say anything; Mikhail just looked at the ground before.

After a clicking sound came from her scabbard, Raven drew her sword and slashed the air before her. A small tear appeared where she cut the air. She put her mask on and before she entered the portal, Raven turned around "It already began, he gears are in motion, and you are in the middle of everything Mikhail." She smiled under her mask "Will your history repeat itself again or will you finally have your happy ending?"

Mikhail's eyes widened "Wait!" But Raven was already gone….he put a hand on his mouth 'A bad ending or a happy ending….huh….it can't be….There is no way that this annoyance is here…..'

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Room from Team RWBY

After Mikhail was finished, he put the male uniform of Beacon academy on. The uniform consisted of a black suit lined with gold, accompanied by a blue vest and a white shirt with a red tie. Since Beacon Academy's Dress Code allows the students to customize their attire. Mikhail wore his white scarf from his mother and his beloved medallion. His hair was tied into a ponytail. Some students were already in the floors, and some female looked after him and whistled…also some people wanted to makes selfies with him, since he was a celebrity.

Mikhail opened the door of the room 'No way, they are still sleeping?' He looked back at the clock; it was already 7:30 a.m.

He sighed; Mikhail went to the home economy room making breakfast for his team. A leader always looks after his teammates and must hold their moral high as possible. Students could enter it without permission as long as they write their name on the list. Beacon was a high prestigious school, meaning the quality and quantity of the food is on high-standard.

For Ruby, he cut some strawberries and put some low-fat whipped cream on them. For Yang he made a grilled cheese sandwich with ham. For Blake, a tuna sandwich, he saw her in only two days, eating ten of these. Well she was a cat-faunus, figures. Beside he also really liked fish, especially mackerel. Tuna was on place two for him. Making a breakfast for Weiss was more of a challenge, since she had strict diet. He made her a simple salad, with a low-fat and -salt dressing. The ingredients of the salads he cut were separated. She could mix it to her liking.

He looked to his sisters and smiled; Ruby was still in the clutches of Yang and squished between her ample breasts.

"Hey girls wake up." He leaned forward, his head over them. Yang parted from Ruby, while scratching her stomach.

Ruby woke up "Morning…" She rubbed her eyes and blinked adorably. She raised her upper body in a sitting position and stretched her arms up in the air, while yawning.

"I made breakfast." Immediately Yang opened her eyes.

"Breakfast!?" Both his sisters looked at their brother and with glittering eyes.

"Yep! Here, for you strawberries with whipped cream." Ruby hugged her brother and snatched the bag with her favorite food.

"And me?" Yang went forward and shoved Ruby to the side.

"Grilled cheese with ham."

"Yeah! You are the best!" She also hugged her brother and took the bag. Both girls began to munch their food down.

"You are the best little bro!" Ruby already ate half of her strawberries and had some cream on her cheek.

"So now," He turned around and saw that Blake was already starting to wake up "Morning."

"Morning." She replied her usual calm tone and yawned. Her mouth stretched a little bit more than a normal person could make it.

Meanwhile Ruby finished her strawberries and went to the bathroom.

'Okay that was actually kind of cute, like a cat.' He raised the bag with her breakfast "I made breakfast for you."

The faunus tilted her head and blinked "You didn't need…"

"A tuna sandwich." Faster than he even could see with his enhanced senses, Blake snatched the bag from his hands and opened it. Her eyes became twinkling stars and a little bit saliva was dripping from the corner of her mouth.

Mikhail giggled at her reaction; Blake snapped out of it and she refused to look at him, her cheeks red from shame.

"You are so cute, you know that?"

Now her cheeks became even redder "Leave me alone…." She hid under her blanket and wished that the ground would open up and swallow her.

Next was Weiss who still slept peacefully, Mikhail spoke softly "Weiss it's time to wake up or you will not get any bathroom time.

The sleeping beauty awoke "What!?" She shouted and looked in panic around "I am next!"

"Sorry Ice Queen,"

The heiress yelled "Don't call me that you annoyance!"

"But Ruby was first, then Blake, me and lastly you." Yang grinned and devoured the last piece of grilled cheese "Nice food as ever little bro, thanks!" She gave a thumps up.

Blake was also finished with her sandwich. "Thank you as well, it was a good sandwich…." She was fast…..

Mikhail nodded and left a fuming Weiss "You made breakfast?" She felt a little bit out, but the heiress didn't want to admit it.

"Na, here." He threw the brown bag with the salad at her and opened the window to let some fresh air in.

"Thank you." She looked in the bigger bag and was surprised. Different kinds of vegetables with the cabbage were cut and separated so that she could mix it. She asked him "What about the…."

"The dressing is low-fat and low-salt, I used salt from the dead seas of Vacuo and I also cut the same things you ate yesterday, since you mentioned that you have a balanced eating plan.

Weiss blinked several times in surprising and thanked him. She began to eat.

"Never thought, you are guy that could cook." Blake stated slightly surprised about the new revelation of her team leader.

"I do pretty much every chore in our home, cooking, baking, cleaning, gardening, reparations, bills and laundry.

"This is….pretty much work for someone your age," The faunus was a little bit taken back, Mikhail was pretty much a househusband, besides being one of the strongest in this generation.

"Yeah, Mikhail is like super-bro, kicking Grimm ass and making awesome cookies!" Yang yelled out how proud she was about her brother. Well like her father, she wished that Mikhail would rather work as weapon designer or be a house husband.

Weiss swallowed a bite from her salad "What about your parents, shouldn't they do such things?"

Yang's and Mikhail's eyes widened and both looked somehow down.

"Dad was never a really good in such things and mom…." Yang rubbed the back of her head. It was a topic she never liked to bring up.

"Mother is not with us anymore…." Mikhail finished and leaned out of the window.

"Oh….I am sorry…..I didn't…." Weiss felt really bad, she should have notice such thing, or rather she should have said nothing. The only thing she did was looking down.

Blake's eyes widened and she didn't know how to react. Normally she would read a book to push such thoughts out, but it didn't feel right, doing it right now.

"It's alright Weiss…." Mikhail looked and smiled at her "You didn't know, besides its better that you both know it now. Mother was the best parent you could ever wish to have." He knocked on his chest, where his heart was "She lives inside us, and she would scold us for being sad, because of her.

Yang looked at her brother. She couldn't bring herself but to smile. Their mother's death hit them really hard. Their father somehow shut down, Uncle Qrow was also mourning in his way and Yang cried a lot, while Ruby didn't understand what was going on, she was too young to understand. But Mikhail, even though he was the same age, knew it somehow the moment she didn't come back. Yang would remember the day were she saw her brother crying the first and only time; it almost broke her heart, seeing her brother, wailing in despair. He was a momma's child, no question. Her death hit him harder than every other in their family. Mikhail had even a mental link to her, like with Ruby.

Since her death, her brother changed…..he learned more things and started to become more reliable. Wouldn't it for him, their father would have mourned even longer than he wanted to….Also Mikhail was their tower of strength…..Even though he was mourning and grieving too, he was always there for his family.

"Still I am sorry…." Weiss wasn't hungry anymore and she put her breakfast away.

"Please, a sad face doesn't suit you Snow Angel. Be bossy and angry again."

Weiss twitched "Don't call me that you buffoon and I am not bossy, maybe right now angry but not bossy!"

Mikhail began to smile, while Yang broke out in laughter even the always stoic Blake cracked a smile.

Weiss' sour face faded slowly and she smiled a bit.

At least the heavy atmosphere was gone.

"So done, Blake you can go!" Ruby who was finishing showering and clothing herself came out. The raven-haired jumped down, took her uniform and went with it in the bathroom.

"Blake, should I go out?" Mikhail asked.

"No it's alright."

He nodded and looked back at his sister.

"Well," She puffed her chest out "How do I look?"

Mikhail looked at his sister. Beacon's girl uniform consisted of red plaid skirt, a brown jacket with a tan vest and white shirt with a red ribbon tied at the collar. She wore the given long stockings. She also wore her red hood given from their mother with the cross pins.

"You look as beautiful as mother." He touched and caressed her cheek and smiled brilliantly at her, well she and he were the splitting image of their mother.

Ruby blushed and smiled "Thank you!"

Suddenly the blonde brawler grabbed a pillow and threw it on his face.

"Uf! Hey what was that for?" She glared at his sister.

"Because you never compliment me, you jerk! I should ask!" She crossed her arms and pouted.

Her brother snorted "Because you're sexy and we know it."

Yang leaned her head back slightly and smiled with the light of a sun "D'aww, you know what to say to a girl." She winked at him and he shrugged in satisfaction.

"Hey what about me, am I sexy?" Ruby tried to look…..well in her own way, but she failed, because she looked so adorable right now.

"Nope, you are the most adorkable being in this world, sis." Mikhail said it flat out, causing Yang to break down in laughter and even falling on the ground.

"I am not adorkable!" She fumed.

'Oh man she is so cute!' Mikhail and Yang gushed over their sister.

Meanwhile Weiss looked at the spectacle before her eyes and shook her head 'Damn flirting siblings.' But still she blushed a little bit when she remembered how Mikhail complimented his sister. 'If a handsome boy like Mikhail would say I am beautiful while smiling at me like that….' Her entire face became red and she pushed it in her pillow.

"Yang you can go now." Blake was finished and also wearing the school uniform of Beacon. On her head was still the bow. Yang jumped and took her uniform and went to the bathroom.

'Honestly I like the bow, but I would like to see her without hiding her identity.' Mikhail thought. Yes he wished Blake would be more honest, but at the same time he could understand her struggle a little bit.

"Nice!" He gave a thump up, causing Blake to smile a bit.

"You sure love to throw compliments around, huh?" Weiss stated with crossed arms and raised brow.

"Hey I am just being honest, besides you should know when I talk nonsense, Weiss?"

"What do you mean?" She titled her in confusion.

"I mean you probably knew if someone speaks, hang on a sec," He covered Ruby's ears with his hands "If someone talks bullshit, like Jaune and those high-class milksops in Atlas." Then he parted his hands from her head.

"Well," She thought about it "You never….."

"I mean you are beautiful, like fairy tale princess, and I really like your white hair, it's so beautiful and your scar is somehow cute in a way." Mikhail complimented her straight while looking her directly in her eyes and her hair not like certain others, who looked rather on her body like leeches. The way he said it, with no change in the voice and mimic, he really meant it sincerely.

"You really love to throw compliments around….." Blake looked at Weiss, who was suddenly red "Really Weiss?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Be quiet!" Weiss huffed; she took her uniform and went into the bathroom, she forgot that Yang was still in there.

"Hey Ice Queen, if you want have some bonding time with me, why didn't ya ask?" Ruby, Mikhail and Blake could hear Yang speaking in amusement.

"No…stop….unhand me you fiend…nooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

Blake raised again her eyebrow and turned around. She looked in shock when Mikhail grinned devilishly. Even Ruby took a step back from her brother and began to sweat while smiling nervously.

"Wait you didn't plan this, did you?" The faunus felt a little bit nervous, by those sudden event, and here was Mikhail with an angelic-yet-evil-like smile 'No he couldn't….he isn't…'

"Of course not," He waved his hand "Do I look like someone who plans such evil deeds?"

The faunus frowned, maybe Mikhail wasn't as nice as she thought…..

Mikhail enjoyed the struggle, he heard from Weiss while Yang showed her kindness and had one thought 'Best Team Ever!'

Another chapter done!

Hope you like it.

I also want to show Mikhail's adorable blunt side, since he always likes to compliment everyone, also his care for others.

For dual handing, since Mikhail and Michael used spinning attacks I made it, too.

The idea also came, when I noticed that Michael's English voice actor is Paul St. Peter, the man who is known to giving the voice of one of the biggest and most awesome villains in video game history, Xemnas from the Kingdom Hearts series.

If you have questions pm me.

Khan

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