Chapter 8: The Unbalance Dream


"Happy birthday-ween Tanya and Ruby!" As the twins reach the age of six during the late month of October, the family threw a huge birthday festive surprise for the duo.

Despite their Birthday-ween party being grandiose like black streamers, orange balloons and many such scatter across the room that has Halloween themes on them, even blasting a Halloween theme music called Hexennacht. The two aren't in a great mood. As Ruby felt worried about what's happening to Tanya and the Devil is angrily upset of the revelation that revealed to her than enjoying their birthday slash Halloween party their parents generously gave them. Even Ruby sympathizes with Tanya's feelings of what they saw that her sister's body is dead. That sickening sadness and despair looming over their birthday party.

Thinking to herself deeply, every time Tanya makes the perfect plan; Being X will always rig Tanya's plan and forever trapped her in his perpetual cycle over a small prayer.

Thinking of that possibility, she needs to find a way to break that cycle, but how? The Devil can't convince Ruby all the time as she's extremely stubborn about helping others to do Ruby's family influencing her host, resulting Ruby to become rather idealistic. Second, she prioritizes helping her family first, if she sees something that threatens them, she will not abandon them. If those two things aren't met, she will get feisty. Especially over the near-death experience of Summer which Ruby sees her as a role model, greatly influencing Ruby.

Looking at the candles with a saddened face and Tanya seeing her own dead body isn't helping either; they weakly blow the candles with zero effort. When the candles light slowly fades into darkness, the parents are starting to get worried about why the twins are not acting genuinely happy?

"Tige, Ruby? Is it about the grave I showed you?" Worried about their emotional health, Summer wonders if it was the best idea to show Tanya her grave. Thinking about it, Summer starting to feel regret for making her little girls feels bad for themselves over her emotional guilt. Showing them how much she burdens the death of Tanya.

"No mother, it isn't like that. Its something else that I am thinking that's making me upset." Getting out from their chair, not even looking at their pumpkin flavored cake on the table, Tanya wasn't in the mood and Ruby feels sad for her twin sister's happiness. Was it a good idea to vow her soul for the god of light just to save their mother? The fact that the god she is worshipping is always getting under Tanya's skin?

"Don't worry mom, we're just going to talk this over." To Ruby, she is unsure if Tanya is a reincarnate or her actual sister. But seeing Tanya's grave made her rethink about her sister and wasn't sure if Tanya is an actual combat mage or not.

"Excuse me, I need to think." With that, the twins left the living room and making the family every bit of worried. But for Yang, she wants to get a bottom of this of why her sisters are being a buzzkill at their own birthday party.

In their room with the sun setting down, the twin souls chat with each other for hours and trying to sort out their differences.

Tanya, I know you're upset about my vow and seeing your own grave. But aren't you being too rough on this? Trying to comfort Tanya and ignoring their birthday that present to Ruby. Tanya just scowled in her mind and looking away from Ruby's bright soul. But something is crawling in Tanya's soul that Ruby could not tell of what it is.

I need to think of this Ruby. The revelation that presented me is still perplexing to my mind. Let's just go to sleep early so I can think straight for tomorrow. Ruby wanted to object of why they need to sleep. But seeing Tanya is not in a good mood and wanting to get on her good side, she eventually complies. So closing their eyes and resting in the dusky evening, they sleep. But when they sleep, a blonde haired girl slightly opens their door to watch them at a distance when the sun is setting down.

Sleeping away, the twins open their eyes to see they are still inside their bedroom. But something is quite off around them.

Around them, everything is unrealistically bright like there is no shadow anywhere to be seen and the light outside felt a lot brighter than before.

"Ah, Tanya, what the heck is going on here?" As Ruby pick her head up of what's going around them. Ruby felt there is something missing inside of her.

"Don't know Ruby, why is your voice beside …me." When Ruby heard Tanya's voice beside her, she turns her head around to see someone else is sleeping on her bed and wearing the same pajamas as her. Ruby almost jumped in surprise as she looks exactly like herself but with few key differences. Her eyes are bright gold like Tanya's eyes; her hair is bright blonde and Ruby felt that stoic nature radiating out of her face.

"Tanya, is that you?" Gasping in shock that her twin sister has a physical body out of nowhere, Tanya's eyes bulge of what Ruby just said, Tanya look down on herself to see she indeed obtain a physical form than residing inside of Ruby's body. Pinching her skin if this is real, she felt slight pain tingle in her skin and telling her this is all real. But why though, why does she have a body when Being X killed off her physical form?

"What the? How the hell did I get out from your body? Being X?! Are you out there?! Respond to me damn it!" Trying to call out to Being X of wanting to know why the hell she has a physical body now. Tanya only got a response of angry voices that are distorted and hazy, voices arguing that sounded like they're about to kill each other.

"What the hell is going on?" Hearing no response but unintelligible voices, Tanya got up from her bed and tries to exit out from her room to get answers.

"Tanya, where are you going?" Ruby asks her sister that presumably alive now of where she is going. Tanya simply replies back when she grabs the doorknob.

"I'm going to see what's happening Ruby-what the? It's locked." When Tanya turns the knob, it isn't moving an inch and staying at its place. Frustrated, her golden eyes starting to observe what's around her. Thinking carefully, Tanya narrows down on all the probabilities that presented to her.

"Well never mind then. I believe something isn't right. The door shouldn't be locked since we're inside, randomly having a body that shouldn't exist, and the bedroom looks unnaturally bright to be dawn. So narrowing out the possibilities, I believe this is some kind of a lucid dream we're in. Seeing that we're in a dream, I believe this body I obtain does not exist. Either from your projection of who I am or what Being X's plan for me to look like this if I was born in a separate body." Deducing and trying to rationalize of what's around her. Tanya could feel the unnaturalness of this place around her and she could not explain why though in this dream of theirs.

"So you're saying that your body does not exist and everything around us is just a dream? But why is everything feels so lifelike?" Ruby observing her surrounding area, her mind tells her that everything around her is real. But what Tanya said, it isn't.

"Definitely, it is a dream and I'm not sure of what you mean by Lifelike. Anyways, seeing the door is out of the option. We're going to use the window to exit out." Seeing the door is locked. Tanya has no other options but to use the window to get out of this lucid dreamscape. Ruby isn't sure that plan is a good idea since both of them are pretty short. But there is a chair for them to use, so she might as well join in with Tanya's escape plan.

"Alright, I'm in. Let's go." As the two walk up to the chair and pulling it towards the window, Tanya then climbs up to the chair and looking straight out of the window.

"Okay then, now to open the window and…what the hell?!" Looking outside, the twins saw the forest is all but monochrome; devoid of any color at all. Everything is purely black and white.

"Hey Tanya, is this part of our dreamscape because I don't feel like it is?" Thinking of why everything is black and white outside. Tanya is starting to break down the information of what she is seeing and bringing all the clues together of why it is like that.

"Hmmph, two voices, black and white? When Being X mentions that he has a younger brother and stories of him. Either he means it or those stories are fabricated to make Being X painted as the good guy. I bet this is their domain…probably." Making educational guesses of what she can gather up. It could possibly be the brothers' domain or just part of their mental landscape, Tanya isn't sure which. If Being X indeed has a little brother, Tanya will label him as Being Y for now. She hopes this thing doesn't attack her or otherwise malicious acts, else she's going to have to deal with two gods now. The probability of his relative being here is possibly slim or Being X's probably lying to her.

"Whatever it is, let's just get out of here." Pushing the window, Tanya finds it surprisingly light as she easily opens it up.

"Well, that was easy." Seeing one obstacle is solved. Taking a deep breath, Tanya jumps off from the window and landed on her feet unscathed. Ruby followed the same way and landed on her feet safely. Looking behind her, Ruby saw the house retain its original colors. But outside, that's a different story.

"You know Tanya. I think the black and white stuff feels alive for some reason?" Touching the ground, Ruby could feel the power from the light. Hearing it, feeling it, she felt the connection and its empathy. Wanting to fight off the evils of this world and their desire to defeat the darkness, not allowing the pain and suffering of others to continue as they see it as an act of evil to the light itself, presuming, that's what the light told Ruby.

But to Tanya, seeing the light itself just hurt her eyes of the pure ignorance and those uncontrolled emotions that would lead to irrational thoughts. To Tanya, she sees the light around here as pure ignorance to blind people and worsening the long-term in favor of the short-term thinking. The zealous, the fanaticism, the unrealistic idealism, that's what Tanya sees.

"Yeah, you're right Ruby. I can feel them." Although Tanya finds the light completely repulsive to her eyes, she looks at the darkness with indifference.

When Ruby saw the darkness, she looks at it with terror and disgust. Horrified by the emptiness when she looks into the abyss, where there is no morals, no good or evil deeds to dictate people's lives. She sees monsters that would disregard morality to achieve their goals. She sees Grimm, she sees the cruelty, and she sees Tanya herself. Ruby saw the manifestation of her sister's mind, the necessary evil to achieve Tanya's own version of peace.

Quickly looks away to avoid seeing the nightmares that presented in Ruby's mind, she does not want to stare at the abyss far too long and not wanting to see what the darkness truly is.

While looking at the colors that attracted the twins' attention, they soon started to notice a black and white trail that leads to somewhere.

"Hey Tanya, I found a trail. Do you want to follow it?" Tanya skeptically looks at the path that leads to somewhere. It could be a trap but it could lead to something important for them to learn. Thinking of her odds, it's better to find out what this place is than to stand around. So she will take her chances.

"Why not? Let's find out what it is." The twins follow the path of where the trail leads. Walking for few hours, Tanya notices something strange of what's around her. Looking at the flora or the fauna of the monochromic wildlife, she saw faded runes sparsely scattered across the forest that are scratch on the bark of trees as it faintly shadowed with elusive magic.

After witnessing the runes and staring at the strange forest. Tanya now notices the dual colors are starting to act aggressively to each other.

The light is dominating the darkness and consuming it with fanatic fever. But the darkness is retaliating back in ferocious rage and trying to rekindle its strength. Watching the colors trying to kill each other, something is really off about this dream that Tanya could not put a finger on why. While she is thinking, she didn't notice a vine trail is starting to manifest behind her.

"Is there something wrong with those light and dark things Tanya?" Continuing the trail, the two colors are starting to react violently to each other when the twins pass by them.

"Don't know, whatever it is that causing them is not…pretty?" Tanya notices the green, spiky vine-like appendages appear out of the blue as they were wrapping around her arms, halting her speech and some of the vines intangibly went through her chest like a ghost. When Ruby saw this, she almost passed out from shock.

"Oh shit!" Caught off-guard of this, the Devil starting to freak out of these strange vines physically wrap around her arms and its incorporeal-like powers going through her torso. Trying to remove the appendages with zero effort happening, the vines are deeply held in place and its fabric is unbreakable as Ruby struggle to remove the tight bindings off.

Strangely after few more seconds, the thorny vines heard her mental call as the appendages slither away from the arms and disappeared from her sight when the vines disappear like shadows.

"Odd, what are those things and why they remain green in this monochromic place?" Trying to figure out where the hell those things came from. She looks at her arms to see her skin unscathed by those sharp thorns. Tanya needed to remind herself this is all a dream after all and the body that obtained Tanya isn't real. While she's thinking, Ruby notice the sky as it caught her attention than the vines that randomly appeared around Tanya.

"Don't know sis, but look. There's the Cliffside of where your grave supposed to be and the sky looks pretty funky." Looking at where Ruby is pointing. She saw the cliff where her grave supposed to be. But the grave marking wasn't there.

Turning her head up to the sky, Tanya saw the light dominated the sky and the darkness that resembles the shattered moon is about to be engulfed by it. Like Máni is about to be swallowed whole by the wolf's jaw or Phaethon scorching the earth.

But the darkness is not going to give up that easily, it's now retaliating back, it is going to retake the white skies into darkness. It is going for the counteroffensive. The black tendrils are reaching out the light. In the future, it will regain its strength.

In doing so, the twins soon saw the humungous mountains crumbling into tiny pebbles by the light. The darkness burns the forest with all life dying. Clashing with each other like the world they know about to be crushed, the heavens will fall and anything that moves will die. The light will be snuff out and darkness will be vanquished simultaneously. Of what they are seeing shook to their very souls and they heard the raging voices of the brothers now clearly, the twilight of the gods.

Before Ruby and Tanya were about to witness that's beyond considered normal when the light is about to strike down the darkness. Before their souls can rip each other to pieces or become one from the imbalance of strife. They heard their older sister's voice calling out to them of their lucid dream.

"Tanny, Rubes? Wake up you two…wake up."


During the night, Yang saw them left their room via through their window. Panicking, the older sister starting to wake her folks up of what happened to the twins. Hearing this, Tai and Summer quickly jumped off from their beds as they hurriedly leave their cabin.

The three try to follow the twins but the family encountered these strange overgrown vines and thorns covering their path. Of how the undergrowth of jungle vines appearing in the middle of the woods is beyond baffling to the parents.

"What the hell are these things?" As Tai whisper under his lips, they encounter these massive amounts of vines that are entangling amongst each other as they block their path. They saw thorns big as kitchen knives and the green appendages humming with life.

"I wonder if I can rip them-ow!" When Tai try to remove the vines with the help of Summer, Tai's finger made contact with the thorn. Pricking his finger, Tai feels his soul being drained in seconds and his aura is being dispelled at that very moment. Soon, his finger begins to bleed when his aura is all but siphoned when the thorn finished sucking on Tai's soul. Making Tai feel weak and empty inside that there's nothing protect him of. Like a hollow shell when his reserve is dried up.

"The heck?!" They soon realize that this particular flora wasn't natural either since the vine fabric that Summer tries to destroy is nearly impenetrable and they completely underestimated the spiky thorns as the prickles can suck someone's aura like leeches when their skin made contact with the spikes. Learning of this, they try not to touch the thorns or else the vines will siphon their auras by sucking off their reserves like a vacuum. Worse, the thorns are sharp like daggers as it'll tear their skin apart with their auras are deactivated and continuing their futile attempt to pass through the overgrown plants would be a bad idea.

"Never mind of this path, I know where they are going as there's an alternate road that leads to the same direction!" As Summer knows where the twins are going by the path they're heading. They begin to traverse the longer route that leads to the same spot, Tanya's grave.

Reaching the destination of where they are after bypassing through the unnatural vines, they found the twins sleeping in front of the tombstone that contains Tanya's body and hearing the twins snoring peacefully in their single body. Seeing this, Yang hurriedly ran towards them and holding their shoulders to wake up the duo who are near to Tanya's grave.

"Tanny, Rubes? Are you two still awake? Come on, wake up you two." Shaking Ruby's and Tanya's body to wake them up, they needed to respond. Getting desperate, Yang raises her voice and shook their shoulders a little harder.

"Wake up!" One last shake, the twins open their eyes to see Yang is holding their shoulders. Looking at what's around them. They see they're in the open field of the cliff that's filled with color and turning behind them to see the gravestone of Tanya's body where they rest near. Looking back to their body, Tanya is still trapped in her host. But the dream they had felt so real to them that they could not ignore it. What was that monochromic forest, where did those vines came from, why is the light and dark are fighting, why are they outside?

But for the dark and light though. Thinking about it, Tanya has a hutch that Being X probably has bad terms with Being Y. It could be beneficial to Tanya…or detrimental for her.

Looking out at the cliff, they saw the forest and mountains are intact. Nothing crumbled by the unknown destruction or strife they have witnessed. Only they saw the sun is rising in the early of the morning. Touching the green grass and feeling the cold breeze blowing at them, they are back to reality.

"Jeez, you two really scare the jibbers out of us three. Did you sleepwalk all the way here entirely by yourself?" Of what Yang just said, Ruby is all but surprised as she talks to Tanya about this.

Hold on, so when we're exiting out of the window and following the trail. Did we actually sleepwalk over here?

Seeing we're out here, I believe so. I need more clarification of what happened when we're sleeping.

Before Tanya or Ruby could respond back to their eldest sister, Yang suddenly hugs them tightly in her warm embrace. Not wanting to let go and almost lost them that she could not burden her soul for.

"Don't ever do that again, you two made me worried sick." Letting go of them and Yang's emotional feelings are let out. Tanya looks back at Yang curiously and wanting to confirm what Yang said when her golden eyes look at her lilac eyes.

"Yang, did we actually sleepwalk all the way over here?" As Tanya ask her eldest sister to confirm that they actually sleepwalk. Yang nodded her head and explains what she saw as Yang's heart still pumped with fear of the twins' safety.

"Yeah, I saw you two sleepwalk when you exited out of that window. I try to call you but you're not calling back. So we follow you two of where you guys are heading…but then these vines randomly showed up out of nowhere in the woods." When Yang mentions the vines, Tanya did remember that vines suddenly wrapped around her wrists in their dream. But where did they come from exactly?

Oddly enough, Tanya feels extremely invigorated like her soul ate an influx of aura going inside of her. Feeling like a bundle of energy going off like a pile of fireworks and her mind is wide awake.

"You know what, I'm glad you two are safe. Right, mom?" Breaking Tanya's train of thoughts, Summer walk next to Yang and place her hand on Tanya's right shoulder. Even if Summer isn't Yang's mom, Yang still looks up to her as one when she and Summer reconcile their relationship.

"That's right sweetie, what kind of dream made you sleepwalk over here. Unless it's about you…passing away, then I'm sorry." As Tanya notice a tinge of guilt on her suppose mother's face. Not wanting to upset her again and knowing Ruby will have a tantrum over it if Tanya does not express empathy. Tanya clears her throat and tried to comfort her.

"Mother, I know you're beating yourself over my passing. I'm still here mom; just don't be sad about it." Trying to comfort her and trying to remove the guilt that Summer is carrying. Summer simply wipe her tears that are leaking from her eyes and giving a motherly smile to Tanya. As Summer felt relieved that her other daughter does not hate her for what happened, but rather, Tanya blame it on a god for Summer's suffering.

"Thanks, sweetie, I needed that. I'm just glad you're safe here." As a burden lifted from her chest, Tai awkwardly steps in between them and trying to lighten up the family mood.

"Sweetie, honey, I don't like to intrude on the daughter-mother moment. But can I have a small pep-talk with my nieces?" Wanting to give a fatherly conversation specifically to Tanya, Summer nodded to her husband and step few backs to give Tai his personal space. So kneeling at the twins' height, his assertive yet tired eyes look directly at the twins' gold or silver eyes. Wanting Tanya to know he is her father no matter what, even if she is a reincarnate from another world.

"Tanya, I want to let you know that you're still part of our family. In spite of your passing, we are all relieved that you're still with us. Even if you don't have a body, we are still here for you in your troubles. No matter if you're dead, alive, or someone else; you will still remain in our hearts even after death." Giving Tanya reassurance that Tai and his family will still look up to her as their daughter. Tanya wasn't sure of how to respond back to her father's comment and his seeming act of kindness towards her.

"Well seeing that build up is out of my chest, let's restart on celebrating your birthday again. Besides, you two didn't eat your cake yet." Wanting to re-celebrate their birthday party over Tanya's foul mood when Tai notice her other daughter's sore expression; Ruby thinks to herself that would possibly make Tanya happy, few seconds of thinking, Ruby made a greatest birthday promise ever.

Hey Tanya, I want to tell you something.

What is it, Ruby?

How about I make a promise to let you have full control of my body and behaving while we're at Atlas? What do you think of it, sis?

Yes…I think that would suffice. Thinking of what Ruby just said to her. Of what Ruby said to her, it is promising and her host wouldn't interfere with her studies. But isn't sure if she keeps that promise. At least it gave a reassurance to her that Ruby wouldn't be a complete nuisance during their stay in Atlas…probably.

"Alright then dad, let's go back to our home." Seeing Tanya's mood slightly lighten up that Ruby wouldn't be a burden for a short while. Tai happily smiles at Tanya's perceived optimism. But the Devil felt slightly tense by that dream they had when everything suddenly is being destroyed. Even if it's a dream, she could not erase those images in her mind of what she saw.

Getting up to their feet, the twins walk back to their cabin with their parents nearby. While they're walking, Yang decided to crack a joke with her other sister to pass the time and giving some sense of normalcy.

"Hey Tanny, do you want to eat your cake because it has a 'tangy' taste in it." Tanya sighs in annoyance of Yang's new interest in puns when she read her cheesy joke book while Tanya was buying military history textbooks to study.

"Yang, would you refrain from using your puns please?" Turning back to their blonde sister with irradiation, Yang simply giggles to herself like it's the funniest joke she ever made. In response, Yang playfully punches Tanya's right shoulder to lighten up.

"Come on Tanny, its funny!" As the two socializing with each other while they're walking, Tanya saw the thorny vines that scattered across the forest. Confirming that they exist and her dream isn't merely a nightmare they experience. They didn't notice a huge flock of Grimm hiding within the spiky flora. Not knowing that the Grimm is under their noses but not acting hostile either, for they're under the Devil's grip as she is unconsciously controlling them.

At her wrist without anyone noticing even Tanya herself, her veins faintly turn pitch black as it pulsed with pure darkness. Thorny vines manifesting out from her soul as it slithers around her arm when the darkness is unlocking her semblance.

Tanya, I think I feel something is in your arm!

What do you mean? I don't feel anything?

I mean it! There is something in your left arm that feels disturbing!

If you're that persistent. Then fine, I'll check. Lifting her wrist to see what Ruby is making a fuss over. Tanya saw nothing as the black veins and vines instantly vanished when Tanya looks at her wrist. The Grimm that hide in the dense woods vanished as well.

See, nothing. Would you please stop giving false alarms?

But I thought I saw-argh! Never mind then…

When the darkness is out from Ruby's senses, it returns back to what it is doing. Manifesting and continuing to infect Tanya's soul without anyone knowing of its presence. Seeing Ruby isn't pestering her anymore, Tanya starting to formulate plans on how to deal with Being X and facing many expectations that he is going to throw at her, mostly pulling on Ruby's emotional strings. Not knowing another god is watching her back. Like a great evil that could not be ward off in the Walpurgis Night of spring.

An odd Birthday-ween present that Being Y granted her.


The Headmaster of Beacon closes his eyes and mentally concentrated. This spell he is performing requires a little bit of magic in his reserve but is mentally tasking for his mind to bear. Of what spell he is using is a really old spell that Ozpin nearly forgotten, it is to commune with the divine. Focusing the spell to see the brothers' domains and eavesdropping of what they are saying. Concentrating his collective soul, Ozpin masks his presence as the brothers wouldn't detect his intrusion, watching the brothers destroying their own domain one by one. Their fighting attracted the other deities to see what the ruckus is all about.

To Ozpin, it's just another violent brotherly feud like family members destroying each other's own property to get their point straight. It just another day of sibling rivalry.

Of what Ozpin is hearing, he only can hear their angry shouts and threats from each other. As the younger brother discovered his older brother's schemes and is furious over the imbalance between them. Opening his eyes, he heard enough and his mind is about to pass out from the mentally taxing spell that the Headmaster is using.

"So Oz, what kind of information that you got from the divine brothers that are so interested towards my little nieces?" When Qrow notice Ozpin finish his spell, the Headmaster took a deep breath and rubs his skull from an immense headache that Ozpin has to endure.

"Of what I hear from the barrage of angry shouting, the two eventually calm down and came up to a conclusion that could appease both of them. I believe you wouldn't like what you're going to hear what I'm going to say." Turning to Qrow if he should tell him, Qrow just shrugs his shoulder and starting to uncap his flask.

"I'm all ears Oz, so tell me of what it is." Letting out a sigh and rubbing his head to calm Ozpin's headache. He begins to recall what he heard from the brothers.

"They're going to settle their dispute, a divine compromise, a bet so to say. In doing so, they want to resettle their old vendetta towards Salem from my thousand years of failures of not defeating her, so they're going to do something rather drastic and letting the twins deal with her. The other thing I heard from the older brother is that he wants to challenge Tanya if she can prove her faith…by fighting her old enemy and an army of her victims. Of whom Tanya's old enemy is or her foes are that Tanya needs to slay, I have no clue." Hearing that the twins are going to fight Salem and the Being X's future scheme is going to be, Qrow almost chock on his poison of what the brothers' plans are.

"Fighting Salem? Are they crazy?! How can the two…oh." Looking directly at Ozpin, he remembered that the headmaster is the collection of reincarnated souls stuck together in one body, in one mind. As the twins are no different to Ozpin. Of what the brothers' plan for the twins, Ozpin acknowledge that the brothers' loss their trust in him to defeat Salem and granting their blessings to the twins instead. His thousand years of his burden to let others die for his cause and his constant failures disappointed the gods on Ozpin's weak state, making the gods doubt him. So they're going to restart to make things go as plan.

"Still, I don't like what I'm hearing of this. But what do they mean of Tanya's old enemies? Does that mean Tanya is a reincarnate that made bad blood with someone else here?" Trying to interpret what the God of the Light deal is. Ozpin did hear that the little brother whispered to himself that he's going to tip the odds. Knowing the God of Darkness, or what Tanya label him as Being Y, is aiding Tanya without any restriction means the little brother is extremely serious about his older brother's meddling, wanting to win the bet of theirs.

Whatever their feud is, Ozpin knows that the future becomes a lot more dangerous than what the Headmaster previously predicted. So thinking over this, Ozpin told Qrow of his answer.

"Don't know who are Tanya's enemies, but she's not going to fight alone of what I've heard."


Somewhere that's beyond the realm of Remnant. A twisted world where the creatures of Grimm are spawning from and where the mastermind of their creation resides, a land that is devoid of life with the red sky glooming over the rocky, crystalize terrain.

In her domain, a deadly pale skin woman was staring at her window and her flesh tainted with darkness. Her appearance and soul is all but pure wretchedness. As her appearance strikingly similar to the creatures of darkness as her black, red veins pulse with malice. Her black eyes look out at the window with her blood red irises penetrating through the sky. The lady feels the air that something is not right and something in the small part of the darkness that she feels is not responding. Like another independent hive is controlling her pets.

"Mr. Watts, do you receive any news report of what Ozpin is doing?" Talking to the former Atlas scientist who was a disgrace at his field by his peers. The mustache scientist who goes by Arthur Watts approach behind the ominous woman's back.

"No actions happening from Ozpin's agents Ms. Salem, but there is strange news happening at Vale a few months ago." Hearing of this, Salem knows that something isn't right with the atmosphere that Salem is feeling, a hutch that the leader of the Grimm felt.

"Go on, what is this particular news that you keep hearing Mr. Watts?" Wanting to pry on what's happening back at Vale that caught Watts's eyes. The former Atlas scientist cleared his throat and elaborates the fuss that's happening at Vale.

"A mere child who is born with two souls Ms. Salem, medical doctors heard of the phenomenon like wildfire and the scientists are itchy to study this child. The brat is currently remained anonymous under the Council of Remnant's protection, deeming it as top secret. Silencing the media or witnesses of this child's identity, a smart move on their part as they instantly cut any further information that relates to this kid." A person with two souls, Salem thought to herself of how is that even possible? She knows a person who has many souls and he is currently running his pathetic huntsman academy. Unless he died of a sudden heart attack, that would be extremely unlikely since this child is a separate entity.

Thinking of the possibilities, Salem starting to become cautious and decided to put more effort into her plans. Raising up the difficulty that the Beacon Headmaster couldn't bear at all and accelerate the evolution of her Grimm just in case. Thinking more about it, Salem decided to increase Cinder's training and gifting her more efficient grafting than what Salem had originally planned for her.

"You know Watts? I have a change of heart in my plans. For now, let's raise the stakes." Looking back at the window and staring down at the pool of black goo, the Grimm emerge out of the pool like a bastardized version of a baptize and its flesh starting to rapidly shell itself of its bone structure as well increasing its muscle mass for it to split someone apart. Bones cracking and flesh bulging, the highly envolved Grimm roar in an animalistic cry.

"Just in case." Salem is becoming more cautious of what she heard and she isn't going to let her guard down. The Mastermind is getting quite suspicious about this child's presence as she wants to look into this matter.


"Oh holy light, let your divine presence guide my soul to virtue and righteousness from the wicked darkness. Let the people hear your holy power." Inside of a magnificent design chapel in the Kingdom of Atlas, a girl who is in the start of her teens is kneeling down and praying to her god as the stain glass windows showering light upon her.

"Amen." Getting up to her feet after she finished her prayer, the priestess is impressed yet worried of the girl's sudden zealous piety.

"Marlene Sue, good to see your anger issue has been resolved. How is your father Arson Sue doing?" As the priestess compliment of her faith to their lord, the girl named Marlene Sue greeted the priestess.

"He is doing fine Priestess Delphine, I feel light as a dandelion and my wrath is uplifted in all thanks to the lord above us." Giving a lighthearted smile to the priestess, Del happily nods to the girl's uplifting attitude but nervous about the girl's sudden devotion to their god.

"So further ado Ms. Del, I need to go. Father doesn't like to be kept waiting you know?" After Sue bows her head to the Priestess and saying goodbye to meet with her father, the priestess notice a tint of gold flash in Sue's brown eyes at a split second. Bewildered of what she saw, the priestess quickly shrugs it off. Thinking she was merely seeing things.


By the way, Hexennacht is a soundtrack made by Phyrnna and the Walpurgis Night is a European spring festive about warding off evil spirits.