Dreaming of a better future

AN/ hello people, read the bottom as always.

Chapter 18

Marcus leaned back against a tree in Forever Fall. He watched as Lilith read over a map as she checked off areas on it with a small nod.

"Are you sure this is the right spot?"

Marcus asked as Lilith just rolled her eyes as she folded the map up.

"Yes Marcus, I am sure."

The multi colored girl said only for the black knight to roll his eyes at her as he stood up, walking over to her.

"Really, because this could end up just like the other two times when we went to the wrong spot. Either way how can you be so sure we are in the right spot? I mean we don't know how the Nightmares choose a place to appear when they travel back in time, I mean I ended up appearing in the sky falling into the ocean and you ended up in a cave underground."

He said as Lilith just lowered her head as she pouted.

"Look, I don't know exactly where the Nightmares will appear but I at least have an idea of where they will appear, I got this map from papa, he said that the areas that are marked are where Nightmares should appear. I believe papa, and he did a lot a research to make this map so I will trust it!"

The young multi colored girl snapped as she glared up at Marcus who just rolled his eyes. It was a funny sight to see with Lilith being so small seeing as Marcus stood at six foot six, while Lilith was three feet shorter.

"Fine, but I don't want another repeat of with the last two days, how we missed two of the Nightmares."

The black knight said while he got another pout from Lilith as she smacked his arm. The knight just rolled his eyes at her as he walked back to the tree he had been sitting under and sat down again. As he leaned back against the tree Lilith came back up and sat down beside him resting her head on his arm. The black knight just sighed at her as he sat waiting for something to happen.

"Hey Marcus."

Lilith spoke up, catching his attention as he looked down to her.

"Yeah?"

He turned back to looking at the forest for signs of anything to signify a Nightmare emerging.

"Are you ever going to talk to papa?"

The multi colored girl asked, catching the black knight off guard as he turned to his right looking away from her.

"I am not sure, I don't know what I would say if I did go to talk with him."

He answered as Lilith just nodded, understanding some of his reasoning. While in all honesty she could tell he was more afraid than anything. She didn't know why but she knew Marcus was terrified of seeing their father. Why? She didn't know, but he was and she couldn't help but want to know what happened, but she knew he would never tall her so she opted to just sit with her half brother and wait to see if a Nightmare would show up. As the two sat waiting for a Nightmare to appear back in Beacon Jaune sat with Helen in his lap while he rested figuring he could spend the rest of his day lounging.

Seeing as the nagging feeling he had was now gone he felt better with himself how he could just waste the rest of the day. As he did for the next few hours till the sun set he talked with Helen. He asked what type of father he was wondering if he was different with Helen, compared to how he was with Aeron. It was fun to talk with her how she told him of how he was so fun to be around always ready to play a game with her and her sisters. He also liked to talk to her about his son Marcus. Even though he knew what happened he wished he had the chance to meet him.

Marcus sounded like such a great person with how kind he was made out to be and Jaune couldn't help but see how much Pyrrha influenced Marcus. With how much Helen talked about and how highly she talked about him Jaune was very proud to know that's the type of son he has in the future. While he could tell Marcus was nothing like Aeron with how they both wanted to protect their family he couldn't help but compare his two sons to one another in personality.

"Marcus sound pretty damn cool."

The knight said getting a nod from his daughter. While the two talked more across the hall in team RWBY's dorm the four girls all sat with their daughters while Angela though was scolding her mother for setting the kitchen on fire. The heiress just sat, grumbling about why curtains were so flammable. As the heiress was scolded Yang just snickered at the sight while Ruby just shook her head remembering her own experience with Weiss cooking and her poor cakes demise.

As this went on Blake just silently read a book while Bell lay next to her resting. Ruby, Yang, Sara, and Summer all opted to play a video game while Pocket Penny walked about making herself a small little house on Ruby's desk from a deck of cards, popsicle sticks and glue. The girls all did things on their own talking laughing and or scolding in Angela's case as she continued to scold her mother. While these eight did that off in the second year dorms Coco, Velvet and Jasmine explained the situation to their teammates.

Fox didn't really care as he just gave a small thumbs up for Velvet and her kid while Yatsu seemed more interested in learning of what type of person this Jaune Arc was, seeing as he had only met him a few times when he was with team RWBY.

"Do tell, what is it that made Velvet choose him?"

The monk asked as Jasmine just climbed up his arms and sat on his right shoulder.

"Mama choose papa because he was always kind, I remember mama telling me a story of when she first started to notice papa." The young rabbit said as Yatsu sat down and crossed his legs ready to listen to the tale. "She said one day she was on a mission to investigate a village that had gone dark when sending out a distress signal for help. Mama and you all went to the village to find it was being attacked by Grimm lead by a Nightmare."

The young rabbit said as Velvet and Coco flinched at the prospect of having to fight a Nightmare in the future, while Yatsu and Fox were more interested in how the fight went.

"Mama said the Nightmare was too strong for you to fight, so you tried to escape but in the process mama ended up getting snatched up by a Nevermore!" Jasmine exclaimed as she retold the story. "Mama said she had never been so afraid in her life and when she thought she was going to die as the Nevermore dropped her she remembered a flash of white and gold. The next thing she knew she was back on the ground in papa's arms as he had killed the Nevermore. Mama was shocked at the sight of him as she then remembered watching papa battle the Nightmare killing it."

"After wards mama went back to her team as papa stayed with them as they all were going to the same place and as time went with the travel papa helped them all out and stuck with mama more and more. As it happened mama slowly began to fall in love with him."

Jasmine said basically finishing her story not really caring for going any further into it as she felt she explained enough. Fox just gave a small clap for the story as he lay in his bed no longer interested in what was going on while Yatsu just nodded.

"So in the future he ends up aiding our team, I wonder why he would do such a thing."

Yatsu said getting a chuckle from Jasmine as she patted him on the head.

"He helped because it was the right thing to do, and papa would never leave a person alone to die if he can save them."

The young rabbit said puffing her chest proudly as she admired her father. Velvet just rolled her eyes at her daughter as she went and pulled her from Yatsu's shoulder while Coco just smiled at them as they fell back into their normal team routine. As team CFVY fell back in routine down with Glynda she set out some blankets for Grace on the couch till she could get her a bed. As Glynda did this in the kitchen of her room Grace was cooking for her. In all honesty Glynda was actually glad to hear Grace was going to cook her some dinner seeing as she still had some paper work to fill out after the previous days incident with the Nightmare.

The professor let out a tired sigh as she sat back down at her desk as she slowly began to fill out more paper work. As she read and signed paper after paper she began to worry what would happen with James and Jaune if the general tried to confront him. While she knew how headstrong the general was she also knew he wouldn't harm a student no matter the reason. Although that didn't make her feel better seeing as she knew James would do whatever he had to if it meant protecting the kingdom, as horrible as it sounded James acted like it was better to sacrifice the few to save the many. While logical it still left a bitter taste in Glynda's mouth.

The witch just sighed as she leaned back in her chair as she looked up at her daughter who was happily cooking in the kitchen. She was still confused on what she should feel about the whole having a child thing, while she also found it strange that Jaune of all people was the person she ended up being with.

"Grace may I ask you a question?"

The witch said drawing her daughter's attention as she turned back to her.

"Of course."

The young blonde said as she continued to cook.

"Do you know what made me fall in love with your father in the future?"

The witch asked wanting to know what it was that led to her and Jaune being together, because really, she was 11 almost 12 years older than him. How could she have ended up falling in love with one of her students? It was such a strange thing, she was wondering what kind of mind set her future self was in when she made this choice.

"What do you mean?"

Her daughter asked as she turned around looking at her as she wiped her hands over her apron.

"What I mean is, what is it that leads to me and Jaune falling in love, I mean how did I ever end up with him. I keep trying to think about what I would see in Jaune, and while he does have many good traits I still can't find anything that would make me fall in love with him. He is just too young."

The witch said as her daughter just sighed and shook her head.

"Mother can you really not see it?"

Grace asked somewhat amused as Glynda just raised a brow at her as was confused by her question.

"What do you mean, what am I supposed to see?"

Her daughter just laughed at this as she turned around quickly turning down the stove as she then walked over to her.

"Mother haven't you noticed how much time you put into thinking about him. I mean you told me back when father first came to Beacon, you doubted he was even supposed to be at Beacon. You told me you wanted to have background checks done on him because of it."

Grace said as her mother just nodded remembering requesting Ozpin's permission to have the background check. At the time Ozpin vouched for him so she let it go but she remembered how inadequate he was compared to other students.

"Yes I remember that, what is your point, I was worried for his safety seeing as he didn't have much skill or any to really speak of."

Glynda said waving offhanded only to get a chuckle from her daughter.

"You're right, but you see what did you do for him because of that?"

Grace asked as her mother paused and thought about the question. In the beginning after the first combat class match she had with Jaune she remembered how terrible he performed and how she felt watching the fight. In all honesty she wanted to end the battle as soon as she saw how clumsily he drew his sword. She was shocked at how bad he was, with how skilled his transcript said he was, and she wanted nothing more than to ask Ozpin to expel him for his own safety, but she didn't. Why she didn't, she just doesn't know.

After that first fight, instead of simply keeping him out of the match's she had begun make him fight almost every day. And she had made sure to put him against the only other student who was close enough in skill to him. That was Cardin, and while she still knew Jaune wasn't as skilled she at least felt it was a good stepping stone for him. Why she had thought of it that way she didn't know but she had found Jaune such an abnormality in Beacon, and couldn't help but feel she had to give him a chance.

A starting point so to say. She probably did it because she was always so fond of the underdog, and something about the way Jaune had fought even with his lack of skill, his methods of attack when he actually planed out what to do was such an interesting thing to watch, because he didn't fight with brute force, he actually used his head. It was a nice change of pace compared to how normal students would either be over reliant on their weapons or semblances. Jaune had certainly made for an interesting student when things came down to it.

"I tried to help him, like I would any of my students. What are you trying to get at?"

Glynda asked her daughter who just smiled at her.

"I guess I shouldn't be surprised, I mean why would you notice, I guess we should just wait."

Grace said as she turned away and walked into the kitchen to continue cooking.

"Wait what do you mean, what didn't I notice?"

The witch asked confused by her daughter while a little peeved at the fact she was dodging the question. 'What does she mean? Did I over look something?' She thought as she leaned back in hear seat and began to think more on what her daughter was talking about. With a sigh she decided she would think more on the subject another time. As the two went on with their work off in Forever Fall Marcus and Lilith were making their way right back to Vale as the sun set and the stars started to shine in the night sky.

"So nothing happened."

Marcus said bored as he walked with Lilith on his shoulders as she grumbled.

"That doesn't mean a Nightmare won't show up here, that just means they weren't here this time."

The multi colored girl said angrily getting a sigh from Marcus.

"I guess that makes sense but for now let's head back into the city and get some rest."

The black knight said getting a nod from Lilith who just sat quietly on his shoulders. As the two walked Marcus thought back on the battle he had with the Nightmare who called himself Alastair. For such a Nightmare to show up so early meant that they were beginning to cause trouble for the man behind the curtain if he was willing to send such a powerful Nightmare. Still that wasn't what Marcus was thinking about, he was thinking more about what the Nightmare had said.

Alastair had called himself a human; such a thought sickened the black knight. Nightmares were Grimm, beasts, sick monsters that all should be wiped from the existence. Marcus still remembered the horrors Nightmares have caused. As the black knight walked he tried to get the Nightmares words out of his head, but he couldn't and it irked him to no end. With a tired sigh he turned, looking up to the shattered moon as it loomed over head. 'I wonder what you would have done if you were in my position dad.' The black knight thought.

While Marcus walked back to Vale with Lilith, down near the docks of Vale Alastair sat leaning back against a shipping container. The Nightmare sat waiting for the wounds he received to heal. As he did he looked over his bloodied and torn clothing. 'That boy is so rude for ruining my suit.' Alastair thought as he sighed leaning back against the container. He had been sat there for the better part of the day after his battle with Marcus. As the nightmare thought back on the fight he chuckled. He would have to admit he hadn't expected the black knight to be so strong.

He had thought all the claims about him being the one killing off the Nightmares that were sent back were just exaggerations but after his battle he could see they weren't. While the black knight wasn't the strongest he would make for a difficult opponent in the future. With a grunt Alastair forced himself up and walked along the container as he looked around for someone. And as luck would have it a lone dock worker sat on the pear enjoying a sandwich. Alastair smiled as he saw him. Giving a quick look around the nightmare just walked up behind the dock working. His eyes glowing red as he came up behind him.

"Do forgive me."

Alastair said catching the workers attention only for the worker to have a hand punch through his chest as his heart was ripped out. The worker died instantly as his head fell to the side, his body limp as Alastair began to eat him. The Nightmare bit down, ripping the flesh from the dead worker as he pulled the man's heart to him, eating it as he then began to eat the rest of the man. The only sounds that could be heard in the area were the waves and the soft crunching sound of Alastair eating. When Alastair was done all that was left of the man were a few bone's and the man's head.

"At least I left you with something for your kin to identify you." Alastair said giving a small bow to the dead workers head. "Thank you for the meal."

Alastair said as he turned away, the wounds in his chest healing as he wiped blood from his face and hair. 'I will need a new suit.' He thought as he turned looking up to the shattered moon. He smiled as he watched it pass over head.

"Well I guess I should start my search, this will be a magnificent hunt."

Alastair whispered to himself as he threw his bloody shirt away and began to make his trek into the city to hunt. But he would first need to find a tailor to make a suit for him.

End.

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