Chapter 3: Setting off & Learning

AN: Hello all, a bit of a longer chapter here, first I would like to thank everyone that has followed/favorited and/or read my story, so thank you. I know that the speed that I'm putting these out may slow down in the future as collage starts to pick up. Well here's another one for you.

POV Rai

After crying himself back to sleep, Rai slowly wakes up to find him still on Qrow's lap with Qrow's hand still on his head and Qrow's other hand playing around with a Scroll.

Shift so that he can rub his eyes and letting out a yawn letting Qrow know that his awake, feeling the hand on his head stop Rai looks up at Qrow who has a sad smile, Rai speaks softly "Morning, mister Qrow"

Seeing Qrow putting the Scroll away before hearing him reply "Morning Rai" Rai hears Qrow take a breath before asking "You doing okay?".

Rai Shakes his head and speaks with a quiver in his voice "N-No, I f-feel lost…", taking a second to wipe away some of the tears rolling down his face Rai continues "I d-don't know w-what to do".

Qrow says nothing and gently strokes the Rai's head, which helps to calm Rai down, once Rai is sniffling calm down to once every few second Qrow asks "Rai, can you show me what you are holding?"

Giving a nod Rai opens his hands and lays the three symbols down on his lap for Qrow to see.

POV shift: Qrow (I'm not good when it comes to children's behavior when their still sad and grieving)

Looking down at the Down at the three symbols, Qrow sees the first Symbol that belongs to Cobalt, the second symbol that looks like what Sapphire had only with the addition of the open lotus above the tornado and third he does not recognize.

After looking over them Qrow asks "Can you tell me who they belong to?" before Rai can answers Qrow hold his hand up to stop him and says "Take you time", Qrow then lowers his hand to let Rai speak.

Rai looking down at the symbols slowly speaks "This one", pointing at Cobalt's symbol "Belongs to my dad", Qrow hears Rai take a breath to steady himself and then pointing to the second symbol and speaks "This one belongs to my mom", Before Rai points to the third on he hesitates as more tear began to fall, Qrow seeing this gently strokes Rai's head while waiting patiently for Rai to continue, after waiting a few seconds Qrow hears Rai take a breath before continuing and pointing at the third before speaking "This one belonged to my elder sister".

Qrow nodes before speaking "Thank you, Rai," looking at the fit pit that currently has some meat skewered on some sticks roasting over it ask "You must be hungry, right?"

Rai opens his mouth to speak only for his stomach to answer for him be letting out an almost demanding growl, Qrow just laughs at this before reaching over and pulling out one of the meat skewers out from the ground and holding it in front of Rai, who grabs hold of it saying "Thank you" before he starts to devour it.

While Rai is eating Qrow pulls on out for himself and starts to eat thinking 'How long should it take for me to get Rai to beacon…? and what to do about his Aura?', looking back down at Rai Qrow sees him slowly reaching for a second only to stop sensing Qrow look at him, to which Qrow say "Go on", and Rai quickly picks one up and starts to eat it.

After eating their full Qrow ask "Rai have you heard of Beacon?", looking down at the boy Qrow sees him tilt his head to the side.

Rai think for a few seconds before answering says "Yes mom and dad Talked about it a lot mostly dad, as he kept telling us how he would always burn some scythe wielder", looking up at Qrow Rai sees him looking off to the side with a mixed face of emotions.

Qrow Both happy and annoyed by the answer thinking 'I was one time, never going to let that one down am I', giving a sigh Qrow turns to Rai and speaks "While you were out I spoke with the Headmaster of Beacon and he would like to meet you…"

Before Qrow can say anything else, Rai's face turns from the sad look he had to one of both excitement and joy before turning and asking with childlike joy (don't know how that works) "Really, he want to meet me? When? And why?".

Qrow placing a hand on the energetic Rai while thinking 'Much like Ruby' and says "calm down a little, yes he wants to meet you, as for when it will take us a few days to get to Beacon from where we are and why, you will have to ask him that".

After getting Rai to calm down some Qrow says "We can leave now but first we need to get your Aura under control". Seeing Rai tilt his head to the side cause Qrow to sigh and say "Close your eyes", seeing Rai close his eyes Qrow Continues "Try and focus on yourself and feel the energy that is flowing around you".

After waiting for almost ten minutes, as Qrow is about to speak he sees silver, red and gold flow over Rai before smiling and asking slowly "Do you feel the energy?", seeing Rai nod Qrow speaks once more "Okay now I want you to try and pull that energy inwards towards yourself".

After almost fifteen minutes of silence Qrow starts to feel the air get lighter as well as Rai's Aura becoming lower and lower until it stops around the point where a person's Aura would before they unlock it, nodding Qrow asks "How does it feel?"

As Rai is about to answer he loses focus and his Aura returns to what it was and answers a little dejected "It's hard and I lost it" while sitting next Qrow with his head looking downward.

Qrow shaking his head says "It never was this is something that was easy, it's hard because you're new to Aura", giving the Rai a reassuring pat on the head Qrow asks "Want to try again?", Seeing Rai's head shot up with a smile and nodding his he quickly, Qrow laughs a little and singles him to try once more.

They kept this up until the sun is high in the sky and at this point, Rai can suppress his Aura for a total of thirty seconds while sitting still, before Qrow calls it for the day and says "Rai we need to get going".

Standing up Qrow walks over to the fire pit, which has burned down to just embers, and kicks dirt on it. Looking back at Rai, Qrow see that he has wrapped eight of his tails around one, raising an eyebrow Qrow asks "Rai, why did you wrap your tails together?".

Looking at Qrow, Rai puts a hand on his chin think of the best way to answer before smiling and answers "I did it to match my family, as they only had one tail", giving an honest answer before continuing "It does take some co… con… focus to keep them to like this, but I prefer them free flowing".

Qrow nodes before giving a kind smile knowing there's more to it and says "You can leave the unwrapped, I didn't mind", Rai looks at Qrow before his smile widens and his tails unwrap and began to flow freely.

The way the nine tails flow freely, are almost mesmerizing, shaking his head Qrow turns and slowly walks, as Qrow begins to walk he hears sparks as he sees silver lightning streak past him only for it to hit a tree leaving a small impression of the boy as Rai bouncing off it and falls onto his back, moving quickly Qrow rushes to Rai and kneels, before asking "You okay?".

Shaking his head to clear the dizziness Rai responds "I'm fine", then standing up and dusting himself off and turns to Qrow with an embarrassed face before saying "Sorry, I don't know how to control my…", Rai stops as he tries to think of the right word.

Petting the boy's head Qrow answers with a slightly amused smile "Semblance, right?", seeing Rai nod, Qrow continues "I have a niece that had the same problem", pausing to see how Rai reacts to this, Qrow see Rai look at him with wonder and a little bit of hope, before Qrow continues he stands and slowly walks on "Try to think about moving at your normal speed when you move"

Rai giving a tilt of his head does as Qrow says and moves to catch up with him, Qrow does not hear any sparks not does he see any lightning fly past him only the sound of leaves and sticks crunching under foot, turning to look down at Rai who is joyfully walking next to him Qrow just smiles thinking 'At least it won't be boring'.

POV Qrow several hours later

Qrow and Rai have been traveling for several hours, after the fourth hour Qrow saw Rai slowly down a little before he picks him saying "I'll carry you until I find a good spot for us to camp at tonight, while you continue to suppress your Aura".

After the surprise of being suddenly picked up Rai nodes before asking "What does me learning to suppress my Aura do?".

Qrow thinks on the question while moving, after a few seconds he answers "there are two reasons for it, the first is It helps to hide yourself from the Grimm and other people that can feel your Aura, if you had a normal amount of Aura or double that at most you wouldn't have to do this, but you have an absurdly large amount of Aura which can pull Grimm from some distance, and the second is that the more you do it the easier it gets and the more your Aura starts to hide itself naturally"

Qrow looks down at Rai to see if he understood what he just said, Qrow sees Rai with an odd mix of both confusion and understanding, with a small sigh Qrow asks "Which part?".

Rai hearing the question answers "The second part".

Qrow stops to think how best to explain it before shrugging and speaking "The best way to put it, is that the Aura realises what you want and slowly does it for you, the how and why no one knows", looking down at Rai Qrow sees him node his head and feels him starting to suppress his Aura.

Qrow continues walking with Rai in his arms for another hour before he starts to hear soft snoring coming from Rai looking to the sky to see the soft orange and red glow of the sunset from the cloud above, choosing now as a good stopping point Qrow turns off the road and head a small little bit into the forest to find a spot for camping.

It didn't take long to find a spot, as there was a small river a short ways off the path, once there Qrow put Rai down against a tree to free his arms, so that he can build a fire, after a minute Qrow gets the fire started muttering "If I'm in a forest why is there so little usable firewood?", after getting the fire started Qrow went to the river to get some fish, thankfully his Semblance worked with him for once.

Walking back over to the fire Qrow took some long sticks that he set aside and stuck them through the fish and set them to cook. Qrow moving to where he put Rai and sitting down next to him pulls out his Scroll (How much battery do these things have?), taking a quick look at the time on the Scroll which says 07:28 pm.

Leafing through his contacts, Qrow stops and calls Ozpin, while the Scroll is ringing he feels Rai move up next to him and buries his head into his side (Qrow's that is) still asleep, Qrow moves his arm and puts it round Rai and pulls him closer.

After a second more of ringing the Scroll connects and Qrow hears "Qrow, good to see you" from Ozpin.

"Likewise,", Qrow replies before asking "How are things at Beacon?"

"Things are getting busy, as the end of the semester is closer than the students realized" Ozpin replies with a calm smile before taking a sip of coffee from a different mug than before, and asks "How's it going your side?"

Qrow gives a sigh before muttering to himself "Wish I had some alcohol" before speaking directly to Ozpin "Found out a few things about Rai, some good, some bad and something odd"

Ozpin raises an eyebrow towards Qrow's muttering before giving a smile to Glynda before focusing back on Qrow, and responding "Let's start with the bad first shall we".

Nodding Qrow speaks "The three disks that Rai has all belonged to his family", Qrow sees Ozpin's face sadden a little at the news and motions Qrow to continue, doing so Qrow speaks "They belonged respectively to Cobalt his father, Sapphire his mother and finally his elder sister, he didn't give me her name"

Ozpin remain silent for a few seconds before asking "What's the good news?"

Smiling Qrow speaks "He's very bright and a curious boy, with the five hours before we started to walk he was able to suppress his Aura by a large amount." pausing to take a breath before continuing "He did run into some trouble with his semblance but that was quickly sorted out, and right now the amount of Aura that is still emanating from him has dropped by about thirty percent given a few more days it should be hidden to the level around about a young huntsmen before going to one of the academy's"

Ozpin's expression does almost a one eighty and says after taking a sip of coffee "My he is quite talented before we go onto the odd news, how much guidance did you give him?"

Qrow expecting this question replies simply "No more than a few words".

Nodding Ozpin asks "What is the odd news, that you mentioned".

Qrow pausing for a few second think how best to say it, simply asks "Before that our Aura is colour by our Semblance to some degree correct?" Ozpin not expecting the question thinks for a second before nodding and Qrow continues "Here's the strange thing, when I had him focus on his Aura it flowed over him but it had three colours"

Ozpin almost chokes on his coffee as he was having some when Qrow said that. Taking a moment to collect himself before asking "Are you sure and not seeing thing because you were drunk?"

Qrow chuckles at Ozpin's question before shaking his head and replying "No, you saw me have what was left on me at the time".

Ozpin looks towards Glynda with a frown before muttering "You this time", turning back to Qrow he asks "What were the colours and do you have an idea on what they are?".

Qrow nodes and says "In order, the first was silver, which I think is related to Lightning, the second is red and it looked exactly like Ruby's, which makes that one Speed, and the third was gold and I believe that it has something to do with absorption".

Taking a few seconds as he lets Ozpin contemplate what he has just said, Qrow gently strokes Rai's head, after several seconds of silence Ozpin asks "I can see what you mean, but can you tell be the reason behind the first and the third?"

Qrow stops stroking Rai's head and answers "For the first, it's because the in which I called you first, he started to have a nightmare", seeing Ozpin raise an eyebrow Qrow says "hold on, while he was having the nightmare lightning started to coil round him", taking out his canteen of water and taking a drink from it before setting it down and speaks once more "For the third, when he used his Semblance by accident and run into a tree he was perfectly fine but the tree had an impression of him in it"

Both Glynda and Ozpin raise an eyebrow before Glynda asks "Wouldn't he be fine with just his Aura protecting him?"

Qrow shakes his head and says "Not at the speed he was going"

Ozpin smiles understanding what just said speaks "I see, will this has given us some food for thought…" before he finishes speaking short and quick beeping is heard from Qrow Scroll.

Tsking Qrow says "I'll speak to you when we get to Beacon in about three maybe four days"

Ozpin nodes and says Quickly "Good, the semester end a day before, good night" and hangs up.

Turning his Scroll off Qrow shakes Rai awake before asking "You, hungry kid?"

Smelling the cooked fish Rai quickly wakes up and nodes his head, Qrow reaches over and pulls out two of the sticks with the cooked fish from the ground and hand one over to Rai, after eating, Rai yawns before rubbing his eyes and climbs onto Qrow lap tiredly while curling his tails around the two of them and falls asleep, Qrow Doesn't stop him from doing so and soon rest finds him as well.

AN: That took longer than I thought it would, never was any good with travel settings mainly how to start them without making it to forced, the Auras of this Remnant do attract the Grimm much like how emotions do, with the suppressing of Aura becoming automatic is think of it becoming more a part of the person and the large the amount of Aura the less connected to the person it is, what Rai is doing it connecting with his Aura making it connect to him more and becoming a part of him, hope that helped, well until next time.