AN: Hello all, new chapter for you, it seems that I overestimated the flow of the story and time-skip chapter is not here yet, well You can guess by the title what might happen and for those wondering why Qrow hasn't had any of his gasoline it's because of Rai and Qrow's soft spot for some kids and other reasons :D. The current season in the story is autumn at the end of the first semester of Beacon
Although this may be a little late, I DO NOT OWN RWBY that is owned by Rooster Teeth and Monty, what I own is my OCs and the places I make within this Remnant, not including already made places in the show. Sorry, this AN is a bit long ON TO THE CHAPTER enjoy.
POV Rai
Rai wakes up in a soft bed with Qrow sleeping next to him, looking out the window he can see that it is just before sunrise and that he back at Beacon.
He moves slowly to not wake Qrow and gets out of the bed, taking a quick look around he sees three other bed the closest is untouched the second has its cover half on and the third has Alcatesh under the covers with Lily sprawled over her.
Continuing his look around and sees to doors the first is on the far wall and the second is on the wall across from the beds leaning on the wall are his parent's swords.
Rai quietly moves over to them, stopping in front of them he reaches out and runs his hand along the flat side of the swords, feeling the cool metal against his fingers puts a small smile on his face, looking to his left he sees a small red bag that he recognizes from his house.
Moving over to the bag and opening it he finds several sets of his clothes inside, his ears twitch as the sound of cover moving reaches them, looking towards the source his sees that Lily has moved to be hugging Alcatesh.
Rai pulls out a set of new clothes and moves to the door across from the beds and opens it to see a nice sized bathroom, setting his clothes on the countertop next to the sink and locks the door before doing his morning routine.
After finishing his normal routine Rai unlocks the door and walks out the bathroom wearing clothes a little different than before, with them being thicker for the coming winter but his cloak is still on him, as he walks out he sees that the other three are starting to wake up, and Rai puts his used clothes that he folded next to the bag and moves the empty be and hops up on it and waits for them to wake up. (Takes him half an hour to an hour because of his nine tails, most of that time is used washing and drying them)
The first to wake up is Alcatesh who tries to move to find it impossible as Lily is hugging her over the covers with a sigh she creates a portal under her and falls through it and lands next to the bed, with Rai giving a small clap which startles her making her jump and cling to the roof.
Looking up at Alcatesh who is clinging to the ceiling Rai sees a black cat like tail flow out behind her, (I forgot to say that team CLAS was a Full Faunus team whoops) once she gets down Rai asks quietly "Are you a cat Faunus?"
Alcatesh shakes her head as she moves around and sits next to Rai while saying softly "Not quite, I'm a panther Faunus"
Once Alcatesh has sat down Rai hugs her and says "Good morning aunt Tesh"
"Morning Rai" Alcatesh replies then looks at Lily and asks "How long until she realizes I'm not there"
Looking over Rai sees Lily moving about searching for the missing person she was hugging and says "Five minutes"
The two talk for a few minutes before Qrow begins to stirrer, Rai turns to Qrow and says in a Happy "Good morning Uncle Qrow"
Qrow giving a yang while stretching replies "Good morning Rai, morning Al"
Alcatesh sends a quick glare to before saying "Morning, we're just waiting on Lily who's been trying to find me on my bed for the last... four minutes"
Rai Cheerfully speaks "Aunt Tesh said if I guess how long it would take for Aunt Lily to figure out where Aunt Tesh went she'd buy me a bag of cookies"
Qrow looks to Alcatesh with a raised eyebrow and asks "Is that true?"
As she is about to speak Lily appears in her lap and Rai Cheers happily "Yes, cookies"
Alcatesh looks at the clock and sees that just over five minutes have passed and sighs saying "There goes my Lien" and shakes Lily awake
Lily groans a few times before waking up with Rai suddenly hugging her still happily saying "Good morning Aunt Lily, Aunt Tesh is buying me cookies thanks to you" and gives a bright smile
Lily looks up at Alcatesh to see her with a little bit of a sad look before turning back to Rai and speaking with a smile "Good morning Rai, and your welcome" only for a portal to drop her on the floor and her groaning "Worth it"
Qrow gives a good laugh before saying "Give us a few minutes to wash up and we can have breakfast"
Rai nods and they each take their turns using the bathroom with Qrow being a half the time the two ladies took each and after an hour they were heading to have breakfast with Ozpin and Glynda.
During breakfast, they talk about their plans with Qrow and Rai heading to Patch while Lily and Alcatesh heading out for a new mission what that mission is Rai doesn't know but they promise to meet up every now and then.
The four of bid farewell to Ozpin and Glynda and head into Vale to go to the docks for Qrow and Rai to catch a boat to Patch on the way they stop at a bakery to buy Rai his cookies which he chooses strawberry chocolate chip cookies and say goodbye to a small amount of Lien from Alcatesh's purse.
Once at the docks Rai gives Lily and Alcatesh farewell and good luck on their mission and boards the ship to Patch with Qrow, the trip to the Island of Patch didn't take long and Rai was excited while on the boat, they arrived around late morning.
(I cannot describe Patch easily but I'll try)
Stepping off the boat that docks at Patch's port, Rai is greeted by a simplistic port compared to Vale's. There is less metal and concrete, instead, there is more wood, all the building around the port are a mix between wood stone. (Think trade port form the 1600-1900 ish that would find in movies)
He is shaken from his stupor by Qrow when he taps him on his shoulder and says "Let's go, and stick close"
Nodding Rai grabs hold of Qrow's extended hand with his hood up, the travel through the small town passing by many buildings a few of which catch Rai's eyes, the bugs one that catches his eye is a multi-story with a fairly wide ground area, the building has four towers in each of the corners with one of them having Signal in big letters on it, when Rai asks about it Qrow explains that it is Signal a school for Hunters that are just beginning and that they teach for six years.
The second building that they pass by it a medium-sized building with an open window display that has several books showing in it with tons of other books behind them, Qrow almost has to pick Rai up to get him moving again.
The third building is odd to Rai as it looks to be a single story with it being a dozen meter wide and long with very little on it when Rai questions Qrow, he responds saying it's a barracks for the police force and a few other things.
Soon they leave the town and begin to walk down a dirt road with a forest spreading out on either side, it is a relatively quiet walk through the woods, with only the sound of dirt underfoot, small birds singing and Rai occasionally munching on a strawberry Choco chip cookie. (HE got a few bags :))
After half an hour of walking through the quiet woods, Rai soon started to hear voices far, far off in the distance, the first sound like an older man with an instructive?... voice, the second sound much younger and it sounds to have a bit of fire behind it as well as underline protectiveness to it, the third voice sound a little younger than the second but filled with lots of energy and also sounds very happy, the final sound he hears is happy barking.
Rai looks to Qrow and says "I hear three voices ahead and a dog"
Qrow stops and looks down at Rai and asks "You can hear them?" Rai gives a nod and Qrow continues with an impressed look "We're still more than two hundred feet away, that some great hearing you have" while ruffling Rai's hair.
They soon start to walk up a small hill before exiting the forest and Rai has to cover his eyes for a second to let his eyes adjust, moving his hand down Rai sees a large two-story log wood house, in the middle of a large clearing with a few trees scattered about.
Near the house is a tall man with blond hair and dark purple eyes relining in a summer chair enjoying the sun with a glass with some drink and ice in it while wearing some casual clothes, off to the side running between the trees are two girls and a corgi, the first of the two girls has long messy blond hair and lilac eyes and is wearing mostly yellow, the second is a younger girl with a red cloak, with black and red hair and silver eyes which caught his attention as he hadn't seen anyone else with the same eye colour as him.
He is brought back to reality as Qrow starts to walk, and Rai quickly walks next to him still holding Qrow's hand, Qrow walks up to Taiyang with Rai walking close to him, Rai's ears twitch as he hears the three off to the right stop playing.
Taiyang hears two sets of feet walking closer and looks over to see Qrow and someone young with a red and silver cloak, sitting up and putting his drink down Taiyang looks at Qrow and asks "It's been awhile?" he then looks to Rai who moves behind Qrow a little and asks "And who's this?"
Qrow looks at Rai then to Taiyang and answers "This is-" before he gets any further he is interrupted by a loud "Uncle Qrow" which causes Rai to quickly fold his fox ears down and put his hands over his other ears while crouching, while a red blur leaving behind rose petals suddenly attach itself to Qrow's arm.
The red girl littles another squeal and Rai give a small pained groan towards the high-pitched sound, Qrow looks at Rai and can see the slight look of pain on his face through the hood of his cloak and turns to the red girl and says "Ruby calm down a little, this one has sensitive ears" While gesturing to Rai.
By this point, the yellow girl and the corgi have made it over to where Rai and the other are, the red girl now known as Ruby legs go off Qrow's arm and looks over at Rai who is still crouched down hands over his ears and "Sorry"
Rai looks up and Ruby seeing a sad and a little guilty face, he slowly stands up while looking at Ruby before nodding accepting her apology and moving closer to Qrow and grabbing hold of the trouser leg.
Qrow gives a small sigh and scratched the back of his head before giving a cough to get everyone attention, once that's done he says "Everyone, this is Rai Zilar, Rai these are Taiynag, Yang, Ruby, and Zwei"
Rai gives a small wave to each of them, as each of them gives a different response, Ruby answers "Hello" then Yang "Sup" after her Zwei barks cheerfully and finally Taiyang "Hello kid"
Tai after greeting Rai turns to Qrow and asks "Is he Cobalt's son?"
Hearing his father's name Rai's mood saddens a little which Qrow notices and gentle ruffles Rai's hood and nods sadly to Taiyang's question
Taiyang sees who Rai reacted to the question and how Qrow nodded to it before turning to the girls and says "Girls why don't you take Rai and find something to do"
Yang nods and Ruby follows with a big smile before rushing next to Rai leaving rose petals behind, smiling happily she says "Come on, we can play a few games"
Rai looks up at Qrow who knees and whispers loud enough for only Rai to hear "Don't worry there very kind, I'll only tell Taiyang about what happened and nothing more promise"
Rai looks at Qrow before nodding and walking with Ruby and yang, once they're far enough away, Ruby turns to Rai and yang and asks "What do you want to do?"
Rai looks at Yang then back to Ruby and says "I don't know, I mostly read books"
Ruby gets a thoughtful look until Yang asks "Rai can you lower the hood please?"
Rai nods before reaching up and pulling back his hood, showing his fox Faunus ears with his silver and red hair and silver right eye and silver and gold left eye.
Rai see two reactions the first is Yang, she looks surprised by the silver eyes which pull her attention first and then the colour of his hair and finally her eyes stop on his ears, the second reaction is Ruby's as she sees the eye colour her eyes go wide the hair colour doesn't phase her, when she sees the fox ears she adopts a large smile, before squealing "CUTE!" and uses her Semblance to try and reach out for his ears, Rai reacts quickly seeing her reach out and quickly uses his Semblances to move a few feet to the right.
For Yang, what she saw and heard was a squeal that broker out of her stupor and then saw Ruby reach out for Rai's ears only for there to be silver sparks where he was and him standing a few feet to the right.
Everyone but Qrow is surprised by Rai speed until Qrow calls out "Girls careful he's very fast"
Ruby looks to Rai with an even bigger smile and says "Race let's have a race"
Rai looks at Ruby for a few seconds then to Yang and says "You judge" before moving to two trees and asks "How many laps around the place?"
Ruby thinks before turning to Yang for an answer who responds "Three laps around the clearing" they both nod and get ready and Yang starts counting "3! 2! 1!... GO"
Both Ruby and Rai speed of with Ruby leaving rose petals and Rai leaving sparks, where Rai is continuously using his speed Semblance whereas Ruby has to use hers in bursts, both are weaving through the trees by the edge of the clearing leaving behind their respective trails with Rai mostly in the led but falls behind weaving between the trees and limiting himself so he can keep his most of his Aura suppressed.
They quickly finished the race in just over thirty seconds with Rai winning be a few seconds, Rai comes to an almost immediate stop after passing the trees and Ruby stopping a few feet after him panting heavily.
"Well done Rai, no one's beaten Ruby in a race before," Yang says congratulating Rai
Rai reddens a little at the praise and pulls his hood over his head.
Ruby walks over to Rai and gives him a small hug and says "Don't worry she always like that"
Before Rai can speak his ears twitch through his hood as he hears footsteps from a large creature approaching from the forest along with demonic growls.
Rai's head immediately snaps to the source of the sound and slowly backs away, as a dark creature slowly makes its way through the woods towards them
AN: Yup I'm a D**k for this prepare for something interesting next chapter, that Grimm is different, I think I said it once but I'll say it again I hate writing for characters under ten, and it seems that I didn't consider the story progression, no Time-skip for a little longer, Well until next time
