"What?!" Taiyang asked skeptically. "Are you sure you're not just drunk?" he asked no Grimm would ever leave a human alive regardless of it's age.
"Yes I'm drunk, I'm always drunk but there is definitely a kid down there, look." pressing several buttons on his telescope he sent a live feed to his team.
"By Monty." Taiyang muttered there in the middle of the largest group of Grimm he had ever seen was a small sleeping child. Seeing something on the infant Taiyang zoomed in.
"What is it Tai?"
"There is something written on his blanket."
"What does it say."
"Give me a second you lazy drunk." Qrow responded to that by taking another swig from his flask despite know that Taiyang could not see him. "I can't read it. It's too far away. Can you get closer?"
"Get closer to the largest gathering of Grimm I have seen? Sure no problem." Qrow responded rhetorically. "Would you like me to fix the moon while I'm at it?"
"If you wouldn't mind."
Qrow rolled his eyes at his teammates sarcasm. "Look I'm coming back to camp make some food."
Taiyang snorted. "Make it yourself."
"Not for me, for the kid who knows how long he has been down there." Turning back into a crow Qrow flew to camp. Landing he saw Summer had just finished mashing up several berries and was placing them in a small jar.
"How are you supposed to feed him? If you turn into a human the Grimm will kill you."
"Just tie the damn thing to my leg already." he said turning back into a crow just as Summer's hand came up to slap him.
She sighed. "You better not use that language around Ruby and Yang." she warned with a small glare as she tied the jar to his leg. The crow just seemed to laugh as Summer trying to look intimidating was just too adorable. She just huffed crossing her arms as Qrow flew off.
Landing in front of the kid he was on the edge of a panic attack, even though he knew that the Grimm could not sense him. Years of training made difficult to not panic or flee. Using his claws to cut the rope of his leg he then spent several minutes opening the jar something that was not at all helped by the baby constantly trying to grab his wings and he was sure that if his sister could see she would never stop laughing. Then picking up the lid with his beak he slowly scooped up a small amount of the jam and held up to the baby's mouth and for once a baby's tendency to put everything in their mouth helped him here as baby quickly ate all the food. Once the baby was done eating it giggled and rolled around for a little before it went back to sleep. Picking up the jar with his claws Qrow flew back to base. Landing he flopped on his back to the ground as soon as he was human again. "Summer I have newfound respect for you dealing with children so easily."
Summer laughed. "Not as easy as you thought."
"Kid kept trying to grab my wings. What is it with kids and my wings." Summer started giggling because Ruby and Yang were the exact same way. "But the weird thing was that he did not stink."
Summer shot him a strange look. "What do mean?"
I mean I have been around Ruby and Yang long even as a crow to know what a dirty diaper smells like and the kid was clean."
Summer hummed at that, it was a good point toddlers could not go that long with pooping their body was unable to control themselves to that extent. For the next few days thing continued in that manner Qrow would take food to the kid feed him and come back. Then Qrow made the mistake of trying to move the kid after a week of no decrease in Grimm activity and it was decided that they could not wait anymore. They did not know how much longer what made the kid invisible to the Grimm would last.
Flying into the valley Qrow landed front of the kid looking around he made sure it was safe before using his claws to dig into the blanket that had been keeping the kid warm, he noted that despite the fact the area was filthy and babies were not known to be clean eaters there was barely speck of dirt on it hell the only damage to the whole thing seemed to be the name as the last part of it had been burned off all he could read was Harry.J.- but the last bit was burned. Flapping his wings Qrow slowly lifted into the air, careful given the package he was carrying. Keeping low to the ground as the crow did not have the strength fly up into the clouds with all the weight it was carrying, it started to encounter problems when a large nevermore landing causing the earth to shake and the infant to cry the loud noise scaring him. The dust flying through the air caused Qrow to be pushed off course quickly flapping his wing in a force of habit he used Aura to steady himself. That proved to be a near lethal mistake as soon as the Grimm felt his aura they attacked him slashing at him. dropping the baby onto the lucky soft grass below the bird quickly tried to flee. But not before he was slashed on the side by a Beowulf.
Flying as fast as he could back to camp turned into a human before crashing into the ground. "QROW!" Taiyang yelled upon seeing his downed teammate, rushing up to him. He immediately started looking for his wounds, seeing a large gash on his side he called out for his wife. "Summer! Bring the med kit!" the young mother had more than enough experience in the field to know not to do dily daly.
Rushing up to her teammates she gasped when she saw the gaping wound in his side, "What happened?" she asked worry welling up in her.
"I was stupid got knocked off course and used my aura to get me back on track." Summer then realized what must have happened while he may have been invisible as a crow Grimm could still sense aura and when he actively used it, the Grimm would attack him.
"How is the baby did he get hurt?"
Qrow let out a pained chuckle. "Well for one I finally found out his name it's Harry and Yes he is fine, kid landed on a patch soft grass i doubt he has more than a small boo boo."
She sighed in relief before frowning. "You won't be able to move for a few days and even then nothing to strenuous which includes transforming."
"But what about the kid?" He immediately objected, not willing to leave the kid there if no other reason then he would starve.
"Don't worry we will think of something, now rest." She ordered pointing towards his tent.
The next few days were spent with Qrow doing his best to recover as fast a possible while Summer and Taiyang tried to figure out a way to get the now named Harry out of the valley of Grimm. Checking the camera that had been set up to monitor the Grimm, summer immediately called out in anger. "QROW!"
To her surprise she got an answer. "What did I do this time?" he asked exiting the tent where as he put it was being held prisoner.
Summer gaped at him before turning back to the camera. "Wait if you are here than who's down there?"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Qrow questioning his teammates mental health before freezing as he saw what she was talking about. There on the screen was a crow the same size as his feeding berries to the young child. "Who the hell is that?"
"I thought it was you!"
"Well clearly not I'm right here!"
"I know that now!" this was scene Taiyang saw on leaving his own tent.
"What the hell is going on!" he interrupted stopping the argument in its tracks.
"That!" they both said at once pointing at the monitor which still showed the small bird taking care of Harry.
Tai's eyes widened and he ran up to the scene checking over the equipment several times. "It's working fine so where the hell did that bird come from?"
"I don't know but let's check." rewinding the video fed for several seconds he stopped when the crow had finally vanished clicking play they watched as young Harry looked to the sky clearly expecting Qrow to show up, something that made him grimace in shame as he had not come and the kid was lucky to be alive. Eventually the child started to cry and yet even through his tears and the distance between him and the camera they could see his eyes start to glow and the dirt around him start to swirl they watched in shock as the dust slowly turned into a crow that looked similar to Qrow's own animal form. The crow seemed to look around for a little most likely dealing with the fact that it existed! Before flying off it returned several minutes later with a bundle of berries in claw pulling one off the bunch with it's peak before holding it in front of Harry who happily ate the berry completely unaware he just broke nature.
"We can not tell anyone about this." Taiyang suddenly said after a moment.
"What do you mean?" Summer asked despite years she still was slightly naive to the world always seeing the best in people.
"Think about it Summer," Qrow said unnaturally serious. "A child who can create life from nothing that the Grimm ignore, the government will either dissect him to copy his powers or the people will see him as a modern day messiah." Summer could see that happening with powers like his everyone would be after him for good or ill.
After a few moments of grim silence Qrow clapped his hands together. "So at least we don't have about the kid starving, Summer how long till I can get him."
Snapping out of her thoughts she started to check him over. "It should be about three days till you can get and do not push yourself otherwise it will take longer." She told him shooting him a look knowing his tendency to push himself to soon after an injury.
The three days had passed quickly and before they knew it it was time to grab Harry again.
Flying to where he had left Harry last time he carefully landed making sure he was disturbing any Grimm but once again he was interrupted from grabbing the baby by the same crow that he had created. It squawked in warning the other crow to back off. But the baby than let out a giggle and the bird moved back cautiously as Qrow moved to pick up the baby the creation of the child immediately attacked him. Flapping it's wings in warning and pecking at him. Shaking his beak in annoyance he started to fly off to think of something else as the other bird was clearly not going to let him closer but to his surprise the other crow picked Harry up with his claws and started to follow. It seemed that while the bird wanted to follow him it did not trust him with it's charge. Qrow just started to head back to camp hoping the bird would follow as he landed he turned back into a human and watched as the crow gently place Harry down before taking up watch around him carefully eyeing each of them clearly not trusting the new people.
As Summer carefully walked towards the baby holding up a small amount of food to show she meant no harm. As she fed the baby he giggled and played with the hem of her cloak.
"What are we going to do with him? We can't just leave him at an orphanage the government is sure to find out about him there."
"We could take him in." Summer said, rocking the baby back and forth.
"What but Summer we-" He was cut of by Summer shooting him a look, which caused him to sigh and his shoulders to slump. "Yes dear." Summer smiled while Qrow gave a cough that sound suspiciously like 'wiped'.
The crow squawked at being forgotten, and Summer giggled. "Yes you can come to."
Qrow took a swig from his flask. "Well if he is going to be living with you he is going to need a name."
Summer seemed to consider it for a second before snapping her fingers. "How about Tweety." Qrow snorted and Taiyang cough.
"How about Dust." Qrow said, "he was born from it." the crow landed on his shoulder and squawked in approval. "See he agrees."
Summer pouted at the name she chose being dismissed, but nodded nonetheless. "Fine then Dust it is, now let's go home."
The conversation about the diaper is to show the many strange things that will surround harry growing up also Harry not starving to death remember he has magic to keep him sustained longer than normal so he can last weeks where other normal babies would die in hours, last no Harry's semblance is not the ability to create life but it is related to how the crow was born. also remember these are much younger versions of team STRQ ok they are easily a decade and a half younger than by the time Rwby will have started