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Chapter – 11
Willow Schnee P.O.V
Have you ever wondered what others said about a single changed either small or unnoticeable can do so much more. So much that it would certainly changed your future or fate.
I too at times wondered about such matters because something similar happened.
When I was at an age similar to my second youngest, our family was in short a normal one, one with only the slight uniqueness of being inheritors of a strong hereditary lineage.
I was a child, a simple one who dreamt like any other children with a small difference of being proud user of an amazing semblance. How that passion turned out after reaching a certain age.
Mother was your everyday normal housewife and she could not be any better than she had already been. Always bringing smiles to me and my father, oh how I missed her.
Father… *sigh* Father on the other hand was very different. He might not have a lot of friends and connections to progress through a harsh world of the weak and strong or poor and rich but still… he has something mother always talk about, a passion to never give up or give in.
Back at the time, there was so much conflict, and disputes occasionally broke out between humans and fanus. There were little who supported the fanus side and our family was one of them all due to the kind hearts of my parents.
Father always told me that even after the Great War between the kingdoms of Remnant, conflict and pain still covered the hearts of man and fanus alike. His dream at the time was to be established in the world's peak of power to make an impact for the betterment of everyone's lives either human or fanus which I did not fully understand back then.
My fellow peers distanced away from me due to my family's support to the fanus.
I remembered shouting at him, badmouthing him and his dreams. Yet he never showed any kind of hostility for my words as he just smile and gently patted my head saying everything was going to be okay.
I know I should've supported him but I was still a child, it was the only excuse I ever had back then as I and my mother saw to our father's departure to the great wide world to explore and learn for his dream to be achieved.
"Mother? What will happen to us?"
"Just believe in him honey; just believe in your father."
"B-But…"
"I know it's going to scary without him and I know it's going to be tough for us."
"But has your father ever given you any reason to doubt him?"
"N-No… still… without father our finance."
"Now you shouldn't worry about such silly means, we still have each other don't we?"
"I guess…"
"Come on, let's head back and I'll show you more about the art of cooking."
"Wait mother! You know I'm as terrible as father in the kitchen!"
Those times were such happy moments I wished I could've relived but now they're just memories.
It had been years, I quickly came to the age of 10 and I was one of the few girls that had been chosen to fight the creatures of grimm to protect the growing society but was chosen mostly due to my powerful and unique semblance. But rather than protecting, I only accepted such a path to support me and my mother after my father headed out to the world.
Seeing my mother work so hard and gain so little, I forced myself to take up the mentality to support her. It was hard, scary and many times mother asked or ordered me to stop but I couldn't… so I ignored her and disobeyed her to support her.
Even though I posses a unique power, I could not accomplish much at the time. I was only a child and I never really had the aptitude to be a slayer of grimm. Still I did my best with the little knowledge father had given to me before he left, my mother did not know since she was married into the Schnee name.
"*cough* *cough*"
"Mother!"
And out of nowhere mother became very ill and instead of helping I panicked. I kept using the fact that I was only a child again and many times I wished to redo such foolish action. Fortunately, the kind couple we had for neighbors luckily showed up in time to see my mother's predicament.
"…" For a whole year mother was bedridden and I had to do ever single work in the house as well as my low paid job. Mother sometimes tried to force herself from bed but I always stop her in fear of her being more weaken.
The kind couple who had helped me and my mother were about to move due to a reason for better living environment for their coming child but before they left they came to say their farewells as well give us a good amount of money to help my mother's medical bills.
I owed them so much yet I couldn't say anything; they were people who helped us so much. How pathetic I was even back then…
After a few months from then, mother finally passed away even the doctors were not able to cure her illness.
"No…"
I became bitter, I had used everything I earned to save her but none of the doctors could do anything in the end.
Giving me false hope and saying the impossibility can be possibility if I spend more on better equipments to heal her, at the end of the day I scoffed at the rich who only tramples others to gain when their lives weren't even at stake.
"Willow..." And he, the one who left and the one who mother always believed came back. He had the nerve to come back only when mother passed away! He could've at least come back sooner for mother to say her goodbyes but no! He didn't!
I bitterly told him everything, everything he had missed and how his lack of presences weakened my mother, his wife to an early death.
"…" He shed tears silently on hearing my words and how much he had missed.
"Even as she was about to meet her end, mother believed in you!" I shouted at him and I did not hold back my tongue.
"She believed that you would be faithful to her and that you'll come back soon!"
"And even as she was dying, she believed in that stupid dream of yours!"
"…" I released all my pent up anger and frustration on the man that vow to protect my mother through thick and thin. I exhausted my voice but I did not care if someone outside even heard me as pride and embarrassment was the last thing on my mind.
"She did huh?" Even though he was crying, he smiled. This man… how I hated him! How I hated him!
"Willow… I'm sorry tha-!" He tried to pat my head as he used to when I was younger but I quickly slapped it away.
Without anymore words, I glared at him one last time and left the house. It hurts so much and I really wanted to be away from that man, so I went to the only place I felt safe and secure. Mother's grave.
….
"…" I cried as I sat near my mother's grave. I was so bitter and hurt that I did not even realized all the fireflies were lighting up the cemetery making it a little less scary as evening slowly turns into night.
I felt safe and a little less angry but… it was cold and I was a little hungry. Still, the pent up sadness and anger never subsided.
"Aren't you cold?"
Someone asked and I quickly pull out a short sword I always had on to do my work as a child huntress.
"…" I don't know what happen but I was mesmerized by the beautiful and calm pairs of eyes. The feeling, it was very alluring.
"Who are you?" I quickly shook of the strange new feeling and glance at the person's physic.
He was clearly a child and I had a question why some so young was doing here where the decease were put to rest. I had my own reason so what was his?
"I'm …." He said his name but I couldn't hear him for some reason and after confirming he wasn't someone shady or bad I withdrew my blade.
"…" For a short moment I stare at him, he was clearly someone younger than even me by his appearance. At the time I regarded him as a fanus from his additional features but I've never seen someone with so many tails which I assumed were a fox. His features were sort of cute.
"Aren't you cold?" He asked again.
He must have seen me shivering but I didn't say anything to him.
"…:
"A-Ah!" I squeak in surprise, he was too close. No boy has ever approach me before so I reacted very different.
"…" For some reason he won't go away and just sat down while whimsically looking at the fire-flies. As I said to myself again, he was a strange boy.
"…" I might not have said it but it was indeed cold and from the way he kept glancing at me from behind I guess I couldn't help but show how cold I was.
"If your cold… I hav-!"
"O-Okay! Okay! I'm cold! Do you have something to warm me up with or something!?" I wasn't my usual self and I unconsciously snapped at little boy.
"Mm!" He wasn't afraid of my loud voice instead he nods happily.
"!?" The next thing that happened surprised me; he had his tails wrapped around me as they enlarge at a size that could cover me like a blanket.
"This is… really amazing…"
"It's better, right?"
"I-I am, thank you."
"I'm glad."
I came to the conclusion that he was such a weird boy, and even thought the tails were covering me around like I was inside a dome of it, it wasn't dark.
The tails glow in such a beautiful golden color and along with the warmth they held; I somehow felt my mother's ever warm embrace.
"…" Inside the warm dome made from wrapped fox tails, he and I chatted for quite a while. It was nice… I remember it was the first time I chatted with someone I believed close to my age.
And as I took quick glances at him, he was actually pretty cute and nice especially the small smile he made from time to time while he listens carefully to every word I said.
I liked the attention he was giving me but I ignored such new feelings since it felt wrong as well as right at the same time.
"Willow!"
My father arrived and I anticipated it.
"…" The annoying feelings came back, the anguish and frustration came back and I asked the boy beside me to open up the warmth that covered us.
"Father…"
"…" He came all this way and yet he had no words to speak to me. How I hated this man.
"Please Willow, let's us go back. It's about to rain and you might catch a col-!"
The ice petals glyphs I send his way were quickly blocked by his own unique glyphs. I did not want to hear more of his excuses.
"Willow…"
"Don't come near me! I've survived this long without you and I will continue doing so!"
"…" I saw his ever sadden eyes but I will not give in to such late short comings.
"But…" I still, I still had something to ask…, "I still do have a question."
"…"
"Have you ever regretted leaving me and mother to follow your dream?" I shivered as I asked.
"…"
"Answer me!"
"No… I never regretted because I had to make a difference and I am glad your mother still support my dre-!"
I hated his excuses.
"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!" I used my glyphs and quickly dash at him with a short sword at hand. The fact that he only defended himself used his steel made staff without retaliation infuriated me.
I screamed at him, I shouted at him, cursed at him for being the most unworthy father and a husband. But still he won't fight back and I hated this part of him, he was always too kind.
My blade never reached him as he had more power, control and experience in using our inherited semblance as well as being an overall fighter.
But still I kept on fighting; even using stronger summoning glyphs I recently learned to force him away.
"…"
We both stare at each other; while I glared he had the gall to show a compassionate look. I shouted to myself that I will not be fooled.
But the next word… the next word coming out of him shook me really hard.
"My strength was never met to harm you." He dropped his weapon and took steps closer to me.
"Don't come near me! I am not hesitant to harm you!" I position my short blade readying for anything he might pull.
"…" And yet… he still took more steps towards me.
"S-Stop! I said stop!"
This man… no matter how much he tries, I-I'll never… I'll never ever forgive him! That was what kept bouncing through my mind.
"…" He came so close and my fear, my body unconsciously reacted.
"…" My blade did pierce something and I froze.
"You…" I stare at the little boy who comforted me a while ago giving me a sad smile while blood spilled out of his lips.
"…" I dropped to the ground and my father quickly attended to the young boy who stopped me from doing something I wasn't even sure of.
"Little one… you should've done that. I deserve it." My father talked to the boy as if he knew him but I was too shocked at myself for the deed I had just done.
"Mr. Nicolas, *cough* could you help me get up?"
"…"
"…Of course."
"…" They came near me as I stared up to them with a shocked, feared and widen eyes, an expression fitted for a selfish child like myself.
So many questions in me surface but I couldn't speak out any of them.
"I think your wrong about Mr. Nicholas."
"…"
The fanus boy move closer to me and my eyes widen as the fatal injury I gave him started healing itself.
"So please," He was doing something I never could or would do, "please forgive him."
Why was he bowing like a fool and why did he have to support that man? I kept asking myself such questions without ever trying to find an answer.
"I-I can't…" I turn my gaze away and finally spoke out. My father had a sad expression but I couldn't care at the time.
"Why?"
"It's not something I-I will ever do… so don't bother." I still avoided any kind of willingness even though I hurt him.
"Then…" He walks closer me but more specifically at my mother's grave, "I'll just have to convince you."
The moment his hands touched the grave stone of mother's his tails enlarge before glowing. Light started to shine everywhere as if the coldness of the night disappeared.
The theme of everything dark and cold around was gone, I and my father stood in a place so amazing so fantastic I wondered if this was what paradise would look like.
My mother's grave stone was there and the little boy who did something for this strange phenomenon to happen.
"W-Where am I?"
Something I would never forget happened.
"…" There before my eyes stood the person who was my whole world and everything. The person who always gave me a smile and a warm home to lived in.
"…" I and my father were shocked, she who was supposed to be passed away now stood before us, with a healthy look I almost forget she had due to her illness.
"Mother!" I ran to her.
"Willow?"
I was about to reach to her but the moment I tried to embrace her, I couldn't. Her body phase through me.
She was there but we couldn't touch each other… I realized she was not alive and this realization hurt me again.
"…" I cried before her, she tried to calm me down using soft words but I just want her to hug me again. I was being selfish but I wanted it.
"My love."
"D-Dear? You came back." Even though I could see hurt in her eyes mother still was kind as ever, my father was very lucky to have her.
"I'm glad."
"M-Mother…"
"What's wrong my little Willow?"
"…" Mother listens to my worries and my thoughts as well as everything that had happened. She learned that I didn't want my father back and it hurt her.
"My little Willow…"
"Don't bother, I will never-!"
"Shssh…" She shushed me, how long has it been since she did that.
"What I am going to say is that… I'm glad that I became a mother to such a strong girl."
"…" Why was she saying this? And why did I react so much on such a simple sentence? I just couldn't help but listen.
"And I'm really glad I had such a good girl caring for me when I couldn't do the same."
"…" Even though she couldn't touch me, I felt it, her soft and warm hand. "And thank you, thank you for growing up into such a strong and independent girl."
"Mother…"
*drip* Even when mother died I couldn't shed a tear but now it was different.
"…" Father knelt down beside us too, and I felt a little hesitant at his presence.
"But Willow, now that I'm gone… you and your father only have each other."
"But… he…"
"Willow, I know he didn't come home in time but… please, believe in him like I do."
"…"
"You know that this world is a cruel world my little smart girl. So please, don't let this hate pull our family apart. Now that I'm gone, you're going to need each other like we needed each other."
"I'm sorry, but I just couldn't stop to come back…" Father too might have not said it but I believed at times he regretted his actions.
"It's okay Nicholas, you here now. So take care of our daughter like you should be doing as a father."
"I will."
"…" Out of nowhere the same tails that belonged to the small boy enveloped all of us and for some reason I was able to touched my mother.
"Little one…" Father and I were completely surprised again, such a strange event that day.
"…..." The boy ever so polite put us back inside the very same dome of his tails but a much large dome of place. He sat on the side while looking at us with a sleepy expression and yawns from time to time; I found it quite adorable too.
"…" Hours must have passed and I eventually saw things at a lighter view because mother showed me.
The time actually came and I had my last hug from my mother while father joined us.
"Please you two… please, try to live the best you can."
"…" And finally my mother slowly disappears as she was able to say her goodbye to us. Father and I kept staring at the same spot she disappeared even when the warmth left us.
…
I sat near my father while the little boy with the beautiful tails soundlessly slept on the side.
Father picked him up and we both saw the sun rising, we enjoyed it so much that time passed by so quickly.
"Who… is he?" I asked as we walked back to our home.
"He's someone amazing… you saw how he made all that possible right?"
"…" I nodded; I really appreciated his amazing miracle. It was hard to sink it in but I am glad such a miracle happened.
"But most important of all, he's someone you can put your trust to the bitter end."
"…" I did not ask again, I only kept glancing at the little boy father brought home and the one who was going to have a huge impact in my life started then.
My life really did change from bad to good though only for a short while. Anyway, fortune and fame quickly came to father as he and the little boy venture not far to create something that would eventually started the Schnee Dust company.
The little boy who came to us, made such a difference in our life that he eventually became my first love. A simple first crush really… but nonetheless something I never really regretted feeling.
Mending the broken bond I had with father might have been one of the reasons why I fell for him.
He was very strange yet amazing, but a lot issues were there which father carefully explained to me the little detail he knows about the little boy. It was then I learned he was neither human nor fanus. Still my feelings and appreciation for him never falter.
Time was out of anyone's control really and it goes on faster than anyone thinks; eventually the people I care began to leave me one by one.
He… disappeared first, neither father nor anyone could find him and next my father too left this world to be with mother. Married to a man I thought I could trust and love me back only to realize the harsh truth.
My fate was at bottom rock, my life turned upside down. Even though my financial situation was extremely stable now, my life was a disaster. How I envied you mother.
And here now, my own two offspring, staring at me as a failure of a mother. Not that I would or could interject such fact.
Unknown land
At another location, another woman was also in a different mood than her usual self.
Inside her castle, she could do anything and everything not bound by the laws of man or nature. Yet, a familiar feeling of annoyance that always seems to bother her as long as she could remember.
She may own power beyond any mortal could describe, but the feeling was not as good as she like when a certain little one was not by her side.
"Even when you forgave me, the fact of my actions still bothers me."
She was currently inside a room that was very well maintained despite the clean but negligent other rooms of the castle she lived in. It was room that belongs to someone she value even more than herself.
"…" She sat on the bed like she always did when it was time to tuck in the one who owns the room. She glided her pale palm on the bed sheet that was now very cold after he left.
Her eyes glances around the room in which the unusual color of iris red turned back into a beautiful blue color for a short while.
For the past year, the woman had been doing such actions from time to time. She knew it wasn't something new but she couldn't stop herself from entering the room, a habit that only furthers her longings.
"!"
After a while, she heard the sounds of the feathered beasts she had sent for his return.
"…" She walks out of the room's large window where it led to her precious person's favorite place. A field of flowers he created with a single thought and touch but unfortunately without him it was a deserted area like all the other places of the land her castle was situated.
She also saw that the number of creatures she sent were lesser than she remembered.
Without wasting more time she raised her hand and one of the large beak creatures, better to be referred to as the creature of grimm ducks down.
"…"
"I see…"
"!" With a wave of her hand, the entire humongous feather grimms around her disappeared out of existence.
She was disappointed, her eyes ever so glowing in anger.
They had failed to retrieve him again and this infuriated her.
"Ozpin…" The woman knew why her creatures failed and she was very bothered but gathered back her thoughts.
"..." Even with this failure, her plans weren't unaffected. It was only her longing for her precious one that made her ordered her creatures to reach out to him.
"You might think this raises your chances… that you might actually win this time but this era like the previous ones too will still be not enough. And soon Ozpin, soon you will see just how pathetic your struggles is."
And done!
The harem is getting to big so no more addition, so no Neo. Willow Schnee will also not be in the harem too. It's something I don't want to do because it gives off the word 'marriage' 'mother' 'wife' very demeaning. She will still have feelings for the hero but doesn't act upon it. You guys know that some people even fantasy characters just don't get to be with their true sweetheart.
Anyway, bye!