Chapter 8

CLAS, Returning and Closure

AN: Hello all, back with a new chapter, learning more about team CLAS, and more Enjoy. Sorry for the delay

POV Rai after Qrow and Ozpin left

He looks around and the three-other people in the room before moving back onto the chair and pulling out the three symbols that belonged to his family.

Lily sees the symbols in Rai's hands and crouches down next to him before asking softly "What are you looking at?"

He jumps at the sound of her voice while pulling the symbols close him as to not lose them and turns to his right looking a Lily who is crouching next to him and answers "Mementos from my family" and shows the three symbols.

He sees Lily look down at them as her face loses most of its glow and he hears from her saddened voice "Captain Cobalt's and Sapphire's symbols"

He looks over at Glynda and Alcatesh to see that they both had sad looks on their faces, confused Rai asks "What's wrong?"

Alcatesh stands and moves next to Rai before sitting down and asking "Did your parents tell you about their time at Beacon" he nods his head and Alcatesh continues "Your mother and father were part of team CLAS, there was Cobalt, Lily, me and Sapphire, we made team CLAS"

Rai looks at Alcatesh for a short while before he asks "You knew my mom and dad?" he sees both Lily and Alcatesh nod their heads, and he continues "What were they like back then?"

Lily smiles and says "They were amazing, they had great synergy when it came to the Semblances, Our team was second only to Qrow's, During one of the Tournaments we came a close second with only Summer standing at the end of it, sadly Qrow didn't have the best luck that day and stepped on a hidden pad the sent him out of the ring, and the strange thing was, there were no launch pads in the arena a minute before the fight" Rai starts to let out a small laugh.

Feeling a hand rest on his head Rai looks at Alcatesh who has a saddened look and she says "Rai, for us team CLAS was like a second family, so you also have us to help look after you"

Rai looks at her for a few seconds before quickly wrapping his arms around her and pulling her into a hug and says happily "Thank you, aunt Tesh" he turns and looks at Lily who has just wrapped her arms around him as well and says "Thank you aunt Lily"

After a short time the four of them continue to talk about team CLAS's time at Beacon, along Rai talking about the happier times with his family with for the remaining hour and Rai learns that Lily's Semblance lets her be where ever she wants and how very see want to appear there and that Alcatesh's Semblance lets her create portals with in eyesight of somewhere she been before and Rai quickly warms up to Glynda and also starts to call her aunt Glynda which has her flush red slightly, the hour passes quickly with the sound of the elevator doors opening.

(Sorry for the short bit of team CLAS there is not a lot they can really tell a five and a half year old… yeah let go with that and not that I was drawing a blank for this, and yes Lily's Semblance is as it says if she was standing on the floor and wanted to be hanging from the rafters by her feet that's how she'll appear there for Alcatesh's I wanted something that could keep up with Lily's and portals fit I got this idea from a RWBY Minecraft roleplay that I watched)

Rai quickly vanishes in a trail of silver only to reappear on Qrow's arm trying to reach for the bag of cookies, which send Qrow into a fit of laughter before taking one out and handing it to Rai saying "Don-" but the cookie is already gone with Rai tilting his head at Qrow how sighs and says to the others "The Bullhead it ready" and walks back into the elevator with Rai who is still staring at the bag of cookies.

It didn't take long for them to get to the Bullhead and take off with Lily, Qrow, Rai, and Alcatesh on one side with Glynda and Ozpin on the other side.

Qrow reaches into the cookie bag taking out another one and handing it to Rai and almost sees it vanish into his mouth, the flight to several hours to reach the rough area of Rai's village, Rai had fallen asleep a few minutes into the flight with his head on Qrow's lap and the rest of him Wrapped in a ball with his tall that everyone took a picture of finding it cute.

Nearing the area Rai suddenly shot up startling some of the other people with Ozpin asking "What's Wrong Rai?"

Rai says nothing and smells the air before turning to look out the side of the Bullhead and saying "I smell smoke that way" and points towards the south-east.

Ozpin knocks on the door to the pilot and says "Take us south-east" with an affirmative the Bullhead starts heading south-east.

After five minutes the Bullhead stops abruptly before the pilot turns the Bullhead to the side and says "Sir you need to see this"

What they see is a very large area that has been burned black with a few recognizable objects that look like burned down walls of houses and surrounding the burned house but still within the blacked area stands a two-meter wide and five-meter stone wall the has been chard black completely and within the blackened area stands a single house untouched but the flames Ozpin tells the pilot "Land and wait for use"

The pilot follows Ozpin's orders and lands the Bullhead outside the blackened area, once the Bullhead lands Rai immediately shots out and runs straight for the house, the others chase after him as fast as they can.

Rai soon arrived in front of the house to see two weapons stuck in the ground in an X shape, the first is a large two-handed longsword with a steel grey blade with an orange fire patter down the centre, the handle has a flame like cross guard and a red wrapped handle, the second in a smaller and more elegant sword with a single edge blade that has a light green tint to it and what looks to be swirls of air along the top of the sword, it has no guard and the handle is wrapped in a forest green piece of cloth and tied around the point they meet is a folded note, Rai reaches out shakily and pulls the note off and opens it.

To our beloved son

If you are reading this it means we've died, with this letter we would like to say a few things.

Firstly, we are so very proud of you, whether it be your boundless energy or the constant smile and even when we had you run we were always proud of you.

Secondly, we love you so very much that it hurt us to have you run we never wanted you to go through what you did, and leaving you as we are only hurts more and for that we are sorry.

Thirdly we are leaving everything we own to you the house, the workshop, all the money that we've saved up, all the materials that were never used and lastly, we leave you with our weapons to remember us by, the entire land within a hundred feet of the wall and finally the family's motto, "We may wither, we may be stepped on, but we will always grow stronger, never giving up".

And finally, we are sorry for all the pain you are going through but we are even more so about you seeing your sister died, we failed in our job as parents.

May you live a life full of love and happiness

With all are love your mother and father

Sapphire Evergreen and Cobalt Zilar

(Yup Rai owns what's left of the town and the surrounding area)

By the end of the letter Rai is on his knees with tears falling down his face unending, he doesn't feel Qrow pull him into a hug trying to comfort him, once Rai realizes that he is being hugged he turns into the hug and continues to cry harder, everyone around him is silent with their head looking at the two swords.

They stay there for some time until Rai slowly stops crying and asks shakily "C-ca-can make a-a gr-grave for t-th-them pl-please?"

Qrow nodes and responds "We will just tell us where"

Rai slowly stands and slowly leads the group to a clifftop where he and his family spent most of their time together, Rai stops several feet away from the cliff edge and says "Here" before sitting down and looking out over the vast green forest.

Qrow nodes at Ozpin before moving and sitting down next to Rai, which he then pulls him next to him.

Ozpin Looks to Glynda and asks quietly "Could you make the tomb stones for his family?"

Glynda nodes and starts to use her Semblance to pull several rocks together and merging them to form three white tombstones, Glynda moves each one and places them between Rai and the Edge of the cliff, with each of them having something different written on them, the first one on the left had.

[Insert Cobalt's Symbol]

Cobalt Zilar

Father, Husband, Team Leader and a great student

"Let's Turn Up The heat"

The second one on the right

[Insert Sapphire's Symbol]

Sapphire Evergreen

Mother, Wife, Teammate and a lovely student

"I Go Where The Wind Goes"

The third and final one in the centre

[Insert Lilian's Symbol]

Lillian Evergreen

Sister, Daughter and a friend to many

"I Flow Like Water, Never Stopping"

Rai looking at the three gravestones smiles and looks at Glynda and says "Thank you" before turning back and continues to look at the gravestones with a sense of closure as the orange sun sets in front of them and soon Rai's eye slowly close and he falls into a peaceful sleep leaning against Qrow

POV shift Qrow

Qrow feels Rai lean against him and looking down he sees that Rai has fallen asleep, Qrow move carefully to not wake Rai as he stands while picking him up.

Turning around Qrow looks at the others and says "I think it's time to head back, Lily can you pick up Cobalt's and Sapphire's swords and Alcatesh can you grab some clothes from the house for Rai" they all nod as they follow Qrow back to the Bullhead with Lily and Alcatesh picking what they were asked to before quickly following, climbing aboard Qrow knocks on the pilot's door and says "Take us home"

The pilot looks back at Qrow seeing Rai sleep and responds "Nice and quiet?" and Qrow nods before moving and taking a seat

Looking at Ozpin and Glynda, Qrow asks "Did you check how much he was given?"

Glynda nods and answers "I did and there are seven digits, and I have locked it until he turns seventeen or when he gets into Beacon, the land is very big and so far, out that no one even comes within two or more-day journey, but I think you have an idea for it?" She asks at the end

Qrow nods saying "I do but I think regardless of if I didn't I think Rai would do something with it"

No further words are exchanged for the rest of the flight once they land Ozpin thanks the pilot and says to the other "You can use the guest houses until you're ready to leave" and leaves with Glynda

Qrow walks with Rai in his arms and Lily on his right carrying the two swords and Alcatesh on his left carrying a bag of Rai's clothes, they continue to walk in peaceful silence reaching the guest houses Lily opens them with a swipe of her scroll once in the room Qrow walks over to the far bed of the four and places Rai under the covers before turning to Lily and Alcatesh who have put their items against the wall and say "Good night" before laying down next to Rai, thee two say their goodnights and climb into their own beds and all three of them were out in seconds.

AN: you want to know something about his chapter, I hated writing it not in the way you would hate someone more in the way of how one would have to do something they have to but don't want to, that how this chapter felt to me, I hate writing ending to characters especially the words they leave behind, I don't know why but it hurt when I write them, well I hope you liked the chapter. Well until next time