Chapter 2 Fights and Revelations

AN: hello all new chapter for you between this chapter and the next I'll be making a spices overview of the type of Faunus Rai is along with a little bit of their history, along with some other things

POV: Third person (only a paragraph or two)

The sun had started to set and the scattered moon beginning its rise. The sound of fire crackling could be heard faintly, in a small open clearing no more than a dozen feet wide, sitting a man with his back against a sturdy tree with his eyes closed along with a small Faunus boy curled up in a ball on his lap sleeping peacefully, they are bathed in the warm light of the fire that is a few feet away from them. A dark shadow lurks on the other side of the clearing hidden within the tree it's dark red glowing eyes leave a faint trail behind as it moves.

Watching it prey carefully as it slowly steps into the clearing revealing a four-legged creature with the appearance of a wolf three times larger than normal one, on its vantablack fur are grey white bone like plating the run along its spine from head to tail, the plating covers the creature in most of the vital areas without reducing its mobility. Its face is also cover in a pure white bone plate with red lines running down from the top of its head over the eyes and down to its snout, as it gets closer carefully placing its feet it fails growl and misplaces its foot creating a loud *Snap* as it steps on a Decently sized branch that it did not see, the old man's eyes shot open and stares at the creature.

POV shift: Qrow

Qrow wakes up to a loud snapping sound quickly opening his eyes and looks at what made the sound, his eyes widen ever so slightly at both the Grimm itself and how close it managed to get as it stands half a dozen feet away from the fire, with the fire only three feet away making the Grimm only eight feet away, far closer than what a normal Grimm could get before getting noticed.

Qrow taking a closer look at the Grimm he recognizes it as an Abyss Beowulf and not its counterpart Beowulf (Beowulfs are different to Beowolfs the "u" instead of the "o" is important), seeing the Grimm standing there staring as it lets out a deep and dark growl like one would give when challenging another, realizing what it wants Qrow slowly picks up the Faunus boy and sets him down next himself before carefully standing up and slowly moves around the fire pit, the Abyss Beowulf match Qrow as it moves so that they are both facing each other with the fire pit between them and the still sleeping Faunus boy.

Once they stop moving Qrow speaks choosing his words carefully "It has been a while since I've seen one of you". Qrow slowly moves his hand to his sword and grips it changing it from its standby phase to its sword phase and drawing it out and standing at the ready, with a smile Qrow asks "You ready", the Abyss Beowulf lets out a howl signifying its ready.

POV Shift: third person for the fight

Qrow and the Abyss Beowulf stare at each other both in their respective stances, Qrow with his sword held with both hands pointing forward, his shoulders squared leaving no openings, the Abyss Beowulf with its front half lowered towards Qrow while giving out a deep growl, with the rest of it body carved so that it can make a dash in whichever direction it wants.

The wind blows through the clearing carrying both small sticks and leaves slowly the wind settles down with a single leaf slowly floating down between the two, as the leaf nears the ground both side tense and as the leaf touches the ground both side charge at each other as if there was an unspoken agreement.

Qrow slides while swinging out with his sword at the Grimm, the Abyss Beowulf not wanting to get sliced in two jumps over Qrow before turning and raising its claw to cut into Qrow's back, seeing the Abyss Beowulf jump over him Qrow quickly rolls to the side to hear the whoosh of air as razor sharp claws cut through the air.

Jumping back Qrow quickly switches to the shotgun mode and send of three shots at the Abyss Beowulf, who adeptly dodges backward avoiding each shot before charging once more with more speed than before.

Qrow seeing this knows that he won't be able to dodge in time switches back to sword mode and places it so that he blocks the charge the charge with the flat of the blade, the Abyss Beowulf collides with the flat of the blade with the top of it head losing most of it momentum before pushing once more to throw Qrow off balance.

Knowing what it wants to do Qrow jumps back with the throw and backflips and with some force planting both feet into a tree before launching himself back at the Abyss Beowulf who is shaking of the previous collision between the two, changing his sword into its scythe mode Qrow swings with to cut it cleanly in two.

Sensing it death the Abyss Beowulf jumps backward while bring it plating on its forelegs and chest where it the thickest, it hopes to stop the scythe, the blade connects with the plating it cuts into it and a little bit into the Abyss Beowulf skin before it is launched backwards with the blade not able to cut any deeper.

Landing Qrow stands back up and looks at the Abyss Beowulf before speaking "Clear trick there, ready for round two" and They charge once more, the Abyss Beowulf leaps at Qrow who in turn slides on his knees going underneath the Grimm and fires another three shots into its underbelly, two of the shots creak the plating protecting it and the third flies between two pieces of planting and digging into the Abyss Beowulf, the shots cause the Grimm to lose its balance and fall to the floor sliding.

Giving a Howl of pain and rolling across the ground back to its feet it stares at Qrow with eyes full of malice and its anger only rises at Qrow's word mocking words "What's wrong doggy hurt itself", giving a rage filled howl it charges.

Qrow smiling at the desired affect his word had, readies his scythe once more and once the Abyss Beowulf has cleared half the gap Qrow charges, the Abyss Beowulf Leaps at Qrow think to pin him down where he stands leaps once it reaches the halfway mark, not expecting Qrow to charge it is unable to change its course.

Qrow's smile widens as the Abyss Beowulf leaps because it has made his job easier swings with the scythe. The two pass each other both sliding to a stop with half a dozen feet between them, standing up and returning his scythe back to its standby mode and sheaths it walks back over to the tree, sitting down and carefully putting the sleeping boy back on his lap looks at the Grimm and smiles as a line appears down it centre of it splitting the Grimm in two and watches it dissipate.

POV shift: Qrow

Breathing heavily after the fight and looking at the spot where the Grimm is still slowly dissipating taking out his Scroll Qrow takes a photo of the Grimm before it Disappears completely, looking at the time of on the Scroll it shows 10:20 pm thinking for a second 'That took more out of me than fighting a full pack of Grimm, best call in'.

Without a second thought Qrow calls Ozpin and after a few seconds it connects "Qrow, you have…" Ozpin pauses seeing how tired Qrow looks and asks after taking a drink of his coffee "What happened to you?"

Qrow doesn't answer right way instead sends the picture of the Abyss Beowulf and replies "That happened", pulling out his flask and finishing what's inside it and puts it way.

Ozpin's eyes Widen slightly at the picture before speaking with a slightly unnerved voice "Well, it has been awhile since we've last seen one", steadying his voice by taking a drink of his coffee and asks "Is the boy okay?"

Qrow puts on a small smile and with some sarcasm replies "Thanks for asking, I'm fine" before turning the Scroll to the boy and says without the sarcasm "yes the boy is fine, it ignored the boy completely during the fight", turning the Scroll back up so that it faces himself.

Putting on a smile and taking one more sip from his cup to frown with it being empty and asks Qrow "Any idea on when he'll wake up?"

Shaking his head Qrow answers "No, maybe tomorrow sometime" giving a large yawn Qrow speaks once more "I'll give you a call sometime tomorrow depending on whether he wakes up or not, good night".

"Goodnight Qrow" Ozpin says before ending the call.

POV shift: Ozpin

Turning to Glynda Ozpin asks "What do you think?"

Carrying over another cup of coffee and placing it down on the table turns and looks at the Abyss Beowulf with a frown and says "If the boy is pulling Grimm of that level he will need training and quickly".

Picking up the coffee and walking over to the window and looking out at Vale he says "I have to agree", taking another sip and asks "Who should train him though?"

Walking up next to him Glynda replies "I don't know, I can have a look through some possible hunters" pulling out a tablet version of the Scroll and starts to make a list of possible people but stop shortly after and says "I don't think Qrow would want to help too much, I'll see you in the morning sir"

Ozpin says nothing about Qrow only nodding his head to Glynda as she leaves while taking a drink from his coffee he thinks 'Just what is that boy and I think Qrow may have taken a liking to him', after looking out the window for a short while he turns and walks away

POV shift: Qrow the morning after the fight.

Feeling the warm rays on his skin Qrow slowly wakes up opening his eyes only to quickly closes them due to the blinding light, rubbing his eyes to clear them he looks down at the boy sleeping peacefully with his head on Qrow's chest and the boy's tails wrapped around them, choosing to just sit there and enjoy the peace and quiet of the morning and gently placing his hand on the boy's head and just slowly stroking it

After enjoying the peace and quiet for some time, Qrow feels the boy shift in place, looking down at the boy he sees that he is slowly opening his eyes only to quickly closing them to keep the blinding light out, giving a small chuckle at this causes the boy's fox ears to shoot up.

Slowly the boy opens his eyes and looks around before looking up at Qrow with his silver and gold eyes, Qrow looking down at the boy says "Morning kid".

The boy's ears flick once more at the man's voice, the boy looking around finds himself sitting on Qrow's lap with his shoulder against Qrow's chest and his tails wrapped around the two of them, looking back up at Qrow the speaks with a somewhat dry voice "Morning, Dusty man".

Qrow caught a little off guard by the name gives a chuckle, and pulls out the water canteen, opens it and carefully holds it in front of the boy before says "Here drink, it'll help", watching the boy slowly reach for the canteen grabs hold of it, before guiding it to his mouth and starts to drink from it, Qrow can tale that the boy's grip is weak and hold the canteen loosely so that the boy has more control over it.

After the boy had his fill of the water Qrow slowly pulls it away and screws the lid back on and puts it away, silence overtakes the two of them as neither one wishing to break the comfortable silence.

Placing his hand on top of the boy's head gently Qrow asks "Hey kid, what's your name?", the boy stiffened slightly when Qrow's hand rested on his head.

Looking up at Qrow the boy answers stuttering a little "M-my name is Rai Zilar".

Qrow hearing the name freezes completely, eyes going wide he looks down and asks "So your name is Rai Zilar", Rai nods to this which causes Qrow to relax a little Before asking the question hates to "Well Rai I'm Qrow, can you tell me why you're out here?". (finally, I can say their names YES)

Rai gives no answer only sniffs as tears start to fall down his face once more, seeing this Qrow gently pulls Rai closer while whispering kindly "Shh, it's okay take your time". Rai just gives a very short nod before hugging into Qrow and just lets the tears flow unabated, all the while Qrow gently strokes Rai's head thinking 'What do I do now'.

Rai's crying slowly subsides after several minutes only for Qrow to find that Rai had cried himself to sleep, giving a sigh of relief that Rai finally calmed down, pulling out his Scroll Qrow and quickly glances at the time that says 07:39 and calls Ozpin.

Hearing the line connect Qrow speaks quickly with an unsteady voice before Ozpin could "Oz, you might not like the news I have."

Taken aback by how Qrow spoke and the both distraught look on his face and sadden looking in Qrow's eyes asks Calmly "What's happened?"

Qrow tries his best to steady his voice before answering "I have the boy's name," Ozpin nodes for Qrow to continue and he does "His name is Rai Zilar", Ozpin just about to take a sip of his coffee stops and almost loses hold of the cup. (For the confused the name Zilar Belongs to only one family like the Arc's)

Tightening his hold on the coffee cup, Ozpin lowers it slightly and says "That answer the first part, what about the second?"

Qrow finally having his voice under control answers "When I asked why he was out here…" Qrow pauses briefly before continuing "He didn't say anything only started to cry for almost ten minutes before falling asleep, with what I know about Cobalt and Sapphire, I don't think Rai ran because of them and with the three other disks that he hasn't let go at all… I can only come to one conclusion"

Ozpin slowly lowers his coffee cup down to the table and pushes it forward before placing his hands together and resting his forehead on and with deep sadness asks "Qrow can… you bring Rai to Beacon?"

Qrow replies shortly "Yes, we'll get there as soon as we can", with that Qrow ends the call setting his Scroll down next to him, Qrow leans back against the tree thinking 'Now how do I get this one to Beacon'

AN: This gave me some trouble when typing out, mainly with the fight between Qrow and the Abyss Beowulf this Grimm and the Beowulfs that attacked Rai's home will be explained soon, also using this as a gap to think of the move between where Qrow and Rai are to where Beacon is. Well until next time.