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The Aftermath: Qrow
"It has been 2 weeks since half the population in Remnant turned into nothing more than dust, co-workers, friends, families, have been mourning since the events. Miraculously Grimm have been reported to be fighting among each other, Grimm experts have no idea why they are acting this way, but can only compare it to Grimm stablishing dominance over others, only some are attacking the outer settlements, this turn of events gave the Huntsmen Academies time to redeploy their Hunters. In other news the White Fa-" the Tv was turned off. Qrow couldn't support to listen to any more of the same news.
Plus, he had a killer headache with how much he had drank last night. He could remember when he first started drinking, it was his way of coping with Summer's loss. He drank enough to get drunk but not enough (most of the times) so that he would think irrationally.
But now it was worse, much worse.
Taiyang and Raven were gone.
Gone the same way half of Remnant went.
With just a pile of dust left where they were once standing.
Curse his fucking Semblance.
He couldn't think of any worst luck than being the last one of his team alive.
He thought he could've done something. Anything. But he knew nothing could've been done.
He had been in a village when it happened.
He had just woken up, and went to the Minibar/restaurant right outside the inn he stayed in. He was about to pay for his meal when the waiter suddenly turned to dust. He was up on his feet and outside the restaurant before a second passed.
Everywhere he turned he saw villagers turn into dust.
Men, women, elderly. Even some children. As if it was picking at random.
He had quickly turned into a bird and flew to where he remembered was the last place the Branwen Tribe had been located not far from the village. Because for all her faults, of which being a stuck-up bitch was the most common, Raven was still his sister. He flew at fast as he could. He arrived forty minutes later.
Forty minutes too late.
The place had been ransacked, and that was all he needed to know to realize that his sister was dead. If Raven had been alive, she would've stablished order among her tribe as soon as the first one turned to dust. If any besides Raven turned to dust.
He was devastated and thought that the least could do was to tell Tai since they were once married. And that was when he remembered that it happened at random.
So once again he flew as fast as he could, with little rest, and arrived at patch four hours later. He rushed at the cabins in the woods.
He kicked the door open screaming for Tai, but he didn't answer. He thought he might've flied to Vale to make sure, Yang and Ruby were okay, and he was about to rush out when he heard a whimper.
He turned and saw Zwei in the kitchen, sniffing at the floor while whimpering. Qrow slowly approached the corgi and fell to his knees when he saw the small amount of dust there.
He couldn't remember when he started crying, but all he knew is that he stopped when Glynda called him.
Only to inform him that Yang was dead.
So was Ozpin, but he couldn't give a crap about him. His team was dead. His blood family was dead. The only news that made him sigh in relief was to hear that Ruby had survived. He almost cried all over again but stopped when Glynda informed him that Ruby was in a catatonic state.
He arrived at beacon not five minutes later and went over to the Headmast-Headmistress office. He arrived and could see that the sudden death of maybe half her students had taken a toll in Glynda. Her eyes were red, and puffy, her hair a mess and he could see the dried tear stains in her ace. For all her cold exterior she was still human.
She saw him and he was about to ask how she felt, when she just told her Ruby's dorm number. It appeared she liked to mourn alone.
So, walking towards the dorm, he arrived, and was about to knock when he decided to just open the door slowly.
The dorm was tidy, he saw very unstable but yet stable bunk beds. It looked nice.
But it felt empty. He would know, they were made to hold four students for four years.
But he could only see one figure sitting in the bed in the tall-left corner.
Glynda was right. Ruby just sat there, not moving, unresponsive at his entrance. She was just breathing and blinking.
He got closer and "Ruby?" he whispered, calling out to her, he thought he said it too low, but he saw her blink few times, recognizing his voice.
She slowly turned to him "U-uncle Qrow?" she too whispered, but her voice was hoarse, not from crying but from not using it "W-w-where is dad?" he flinched slightly but she saw it.
Her eyes filled with tears and she jumped at him, tackling him in a hug and crying her eyes out.
He hugged her back and shed his own tears, they were like that for what felt like eternity, and none dare let go of the other. They sat there. Hugging. And crying for those they lost.
After that everything happened too fast. They slowly let go of each other, Ruby filled a suitcase with all her stuff. She went to the dorm in front of hers and knocked, three kids came out, they talked and finally they gave each other a giant hug. She turned to him and they left Beacon that same night.
Fourteen days passed and just yesterday was the first day Ruby went to sleep to her room. Which is why he took the chance to get wasted just for that night.
He got up from the couch and saw Ruby cooking breakfast, she learned last week when she saw that if he had been a cook he would've starved to death.
He saw her humming lightly to a tune in her Scroll, and he cleared his throat. She turned and saw him. And smiled. It was the last light in his life. His last shinning beacon.
He would protect that smile. He would help that smile grow. And he would train the girl to whom that smile belonged to. She had told him that she still wanted to be a Huntress, to help rebuild and protect the mourning world.
And he would be damned if he didn't train his last family to be the Best Goddamn Huntress to ever live.
Yep, not going to be a One-shot. I think I'll do some few more of these aftermaths on other characters, just got to think, with which ones. Anyway, hoped you enjoyed it
-The knight in dark flames