Chapter 4: The Journey & Tests
AN: Hello all, another chapter, Firstly I would like to explain my how POV's work, what my POV's does is puts the focus on that person but it does' make it strictly that one, it follows their thoughts, think of it like a 3rd person view from them, I hope you enjoy.
POV shift: Rai
Rai soon awoke feeling warm rays of the morning sun, rubbing his eyes he looks, seeing the fire slowly dying out, a small river a small way off to the side and dark cloud approaching from the south.
Giving a frown at the somewhat ominous clouds, Rai tries to stretch only to find himself held in place, looking at what's holding him he finds that Qrow has his arms wrapped around him gently keeping Rai where he is.
Looking at his current situation Rai thinks 'What now? I don't want to disturb him, he looks peaceful' not able to find a way out of his current place without disturbing Qrow Rai chooses to focus on his Aura and Semblance.
Closing his eyes Rai begins to dive within himself, knowing what he needs to find and where, Rai quickly makes his way there, upon arrival he sees the large familiar multicoloured orb floating in the endless expanse.
Moving next to the orb Rai reaches out and carefully places his hand onto the orb, but rather than try to pull energy into himself he instead focuses on each of the colours.
The first colour Silver, soothing, calming and bright. The movement of the colour feels quick moving from space to space before stopping. Focusing more on the silver colour the energy he feels is sharp and fluid, while also free and unrestricted.
The second's colour Red, warm, positive, strong, curious and powerful. The movement of the colour feels fast and is constantly moving never stopping. Focusing more on the red colour the energy he feels is joyful and excited, while also strong and full of life.
The final colour gold, protective and comforting. The movement of the colour isn't fast or slow it is always next to the other colours and protecting them. Focusing on the colour the energy he feels is powerful and unyielding, while also unrestrictive and calm.
Smiling joyfully Rai slowly moves each of the colours towards him with each other with their respective movements without separating them. It's slow going and after what feels like ages, Rai stands at the centre of the orb feeling the colours move around him, inspecting him before it moves on, staying where he is Rai crosses his legs and brings his tails upwards while letting them flow freely and closes his eyes and lets his other senses focus on what's around him.
Slowly breathing in and out Rai starts to move the colours towards him, only to be blocked by the gold colour preventing him from doing anymore, stopping that plan the gold colour moves on, choosing to try and lead the colours he find better success in that plan, but still restricted by the gold a little as he feels it weariness towards him but he chooses to continue that plan.
Over time it slow becomes quicker as the golds weariness slowly fades as it feels Rai doing no harm to the other colours, slowly the large orb becomes smaller, before long Rai stops panting hard and slowly stands and moves out of the orb to see it has only shrunk by a small amount, he also notices a thin line from his right hand connecting him to the orb, smiling Rai slowly lets himself out of that space and back to reality.
Giving a yawn and a stretch, Rai finds himself set against the tree that Qrow was leaning on with him sitting on Qrow's lap, looking around he sees Qrow kneeling in front of the fire while stoking it to get the fire going again, slowly standing and making his way over.
As he got closer Qrow speaks "Morning kid, sleep will?"
Giving another yawn and sitting down to the now breathing fire he replies "Morning mister Qrow, yes I did, what about you?"
Qrow poking the fire a little more before replying "I did until I felt something odd"
Rai tilting his head at what Qrow said asks "What did you feel"
Turning to Rai, Qrow speaks "I felt your Aura fluctuate"
Rai's fox ears also tilt a little before he asks "What does that mean?"
Rai sees a look of concentration on Qrow's face before he hears from him "Think of it like how the wind blows" Rai nodes his head a little as Qrow continues "like how the wind blows, it can be strong or weak"
Rai's eyes light up as he says "So if it was like a strong wind it could be dangers"
Qrow stops and Rai can see that he wasn't expecting him to understand it so easily, shaking his head Qrow responds with a smile "Right you are, what I felt from you as not a strong flux but it did last for a few seconds, plus your body coated itself in its Aura"
Rai looking down sadly and says "Sorry, I was trying something dif… diff… 'different'" Rai nodes "Different in trying to suppress my Aura"
Hearing a chuckle from Qrow Rai looks up to see one of Qrow's hands moving towards him, Rai braces himself only to feel Qrow's hand ruffle his hair and speak "Don't worry I'm not mad, but why?"
Rai surprised at his hair being ruffled naturally leans into it while answering "The prev… pre… 'previous', thank you, way was hard and it felt… restricted"
Qrow changing from ruffling Rai head to scratching behind the fox ears (I'm going to hell for this) asks "So what did you do?", Rai having lost himself in bless with the ear scratching doesn't answer, seeing this Qrow mutters "Note to self, scratch behind the fox ear to cheer him up"
Feeling Qrow stop Rai gives a small and cute pout at Qrow who just laughs. Waiting for Qrow to stop laughing Rai moves next to Qrow and pokes him inside while waiting
After several seconds of laughing Qrow asks once more "So what did you do with your Aura?"
Seeing Qrow stop laughing answers "I went and focus on the orb and learned about the three colour"before Rai continues he hears Qrow say under his breath "So I was right" tilting his head Rai asks "what do you mean?"
Sighing to himself Qrow looks at Rai and asks "How much do you know about Auras?"
Pondering the Question for a few seconds before replying "Auras are our soul and are what protects us, right?"
Qrow smiles and speaks again "Right that's the basic understanding, now what about how one's Semblance plays into a person's Aura?"
Rai think back to how his father explained it when he asked about it before answers "The Semblance is part of the Aura as well as the person and it colours the Aura, correct?"
Qrow nodes and says "that's right, you have three colours to your Aura, which means you have three Semblances", Qrow sees Rai nod but gives no other expression of surprise or anything akin to that, confused Qrow asks "Did you already know about having three Semblances?"
Rai freezes before slowly nodding and says softly "Yes, my dad told me what type of Faunus I am and it's her… heir… 'heritage', yes, thank you he also told me not to say anything about it to others"
Qrow studies Rai for a short while before asking "Can you tell me why he said to keep it a secret?"
Rai gives a short nod and says "He said to keep what I am and my powers a secret so that people don't fear me"
Rai feels a hand be placed on his head and feels it scratch behind his fox ears slowly leans into it as he hears, "You don't need to say anymore, I'll catch us some fish and while it's cooking we can wash ourselves in the river", Rai gives a happy nod at the thought of food.
POV shift Qrow
It didn't take long for Qrow to catch them some fish and puts them near the fire to cook, while they went and washed up in the river, as Qrow was drying himself off he feel something off looking to Rai to see the boy stepping out of the river cover in water head to toe and his nine tails completely drenched as well, look at Rai's face to see a mischievous smile there, Qrow's face falls as he sees shake all of the water off sending it in every direction and covering Qrow with more water.
Whipping the water off his face and looking at Rai only to bust out laughing at the site of his tails as they have all puffed out, getting himself under control, Qrow finishes drying himself off, once both are fully dressed they sit down and eat the cooked fish.
Soon after they finish eating they see a flash of light and hears thunder off in the distance, Frowning Qrow says "Let's get going don't what to be stuck standing in the rain, do we?"
Rai shakes his head and says "No we don't and I don't think you want another shower" while gives an innocent smile.
Looking at Rai with a small dark smile says "True, so we're going to move a little faster today", the smile on Rai's face vanishes as he nodes.
Standing Qrow leads them back to the roads and says "I want you to match my speed, without using any of your semblances if you can't slowly start to use only your speed Semblance it to match me, this will help to teach you to control your semblances one at a time", seeing Rai nod Qrow sets off at a jog and slowly builds up into a run, at about a quarter his full speed he starts to hear sparks next to him, looking at Rai to see why where the sound is coming from he see hundreds of small sparks flowing off behind Rai from his cloak, that quickly dissipate, which remind him of the rose petals that Ruby leaves behind when she uses her Semblance, stepping up his speed to half he still hears the sparks next to him only there a little more frequent, looking at Rai Qrow sees close to a thousand sparks flow of Rai, smiling Qrow moves to three-quarters his full speed and starts to hear an almost constant static from Rai and as he looks down Qrow sees an almost silver streak of sparks coming from Rai. (Rai is still visible just has so many sparks fly of behind him that it leaves a small trail)
Qrow move a little bit faster to see if Rai can go faster but slowly the sound of static get a little softer, and he chose to slow down to match Rai and says "Will be stopping so slow down carefully", after saying that Qrow slows down with Rai to make sure that nothing too bad happens.
Once they slow to a stop Rai's breathing is a little bit heavy as Qrow asks "I think your Speed Semblance can get your speed right now to about three time higher"
Rai looks up at Qrow and says "While I was using my speed everything seem to slow down, do you know why?"
Giving some thought Qrow says "Use your speed Semblance" as he picks up a stick that's near the pathway "I will throw this at you and I won't tell you when…" before he finishes he throws the stick at Rai who sees it come and ducks while using his semblance and leaving sparks where he was standing, as Rai stands Qrow says "I see, your semblance doesn't increase your movement but I think it increases everything to do with speed about you, but we a find out if that's true later"
Looking at the sky to the south Qrow see that the cloud far off in the distance, looking back at Rai Qrow asks "Do you know what your Semblances are?"
Seeing Rai node Qrow motions him to continue "The first is lightning the second is speed and the third is phy… physical ab… abso…"
Qrow finishes "Absorption, oaky try using only the first and the third Semblance to follow me" and with that Qrow starts to run down the path at half his speed and starts to hear a constant rolling thunder next to him, looking next to him Qrow see a few dozen small bolts flowing off Rai as he runs, as some of those small bolts touch the ground they leave a small mark, Qrow says "We'll be moving a little faster now" and moves to nine-tenths his full speed and still hears Rai running next to him for a few seconds until it stops and looking back Qrow stops as will to see Rai pick himself up off the ground without a scratch on him or his clothes.
Waiting for until Rai is next to him Qrow asks "How do you feel?"
Seeing Rai tilt his head in confusion before Qrow sees him close his eyes with a look of focus on his face for a few seconds before opening them and says "I feel stronger than I did before I fall"
'Just like Yang' Qrow thought before he says "Okay that's good, let's just move with only your speed to see how much of a boost you got", and Qrow runs off at his full speed and seconds later the consent static from Rai is heard next to him, think 'Let's see how long this boost lasts'
After running for close to half an hour Qrow hears to static very slowly start to fade and he also starts to slow down until they stop, with Rai breathing heavily, pulling out his canteen of water and passing it over to Rai who takes a long drink before handing it back to him.
After resting for a few minutes Qrow picks up Rai in his arms and says "We made good time, you get some rest I'll carry you"
See Rai nodding as he curls his tails around himself and starts to sleep Qrow continues to walk, towards vale. Looking back towards the clouds only to find them too far away to see them thinks 'We may be at beacon sooner than I thought but not before the end of the semester'
AN: Well here's another finished chapter, the hardest parts of this were what the colours of his Aura were like as well as how to keep myself from typing out words that were too big for Rai to say, but overall, I think I did a good job. Well until next till
