The Arc Clan

A RWBY Fic by AndrewJTalon

DISCLAIMER: This is a fan based work of prose. RWBY is the property of Rooster Teeth and ViZ. Please support the official release.

The Arc Clan: Cousin Alice

Weiss focused her energies as she stood in the ruins nearby Beacon. Her Glyph rotated before her, glowing brightly. She surged her Aura, and focused her mind on what she wanted to bring forth.

In a flash of light, the Geist Knight appeared, towering over her as it had over a year ago. It saluted her with its large sword, then knelt in supplication. Weiss smiled a bit, then heard some footsteps.

She looked and frowned a bit in confusion. A beautiful, voluptuous pale woman with white hair, wearing dark purple robes, walked up the path towards her. A trident-like symbol was engraved upon her forehead and her eyes were dark blue.

"Oh, hello!" She greeted Weiss politely with a small smile. Weiss smiled back just as politely.

"Hello. Can I help you?"

"Ah, forgive me," the pale woman said, "My name is Alice Arc. I've gotten a bit lost. I was looking for the courtyard: I'm meeting my cousin there. His name is Jaune: Do you know him?"

Weiss blinked. Compared to the other relatives of Jaune's that she'd met, this woman seemed... Mostly normal. Still, it never hurt to be cautious.

"We're... Friends, I suppose," Weiss said. "Why didn't you call him on your Scroll?"

"I'm afraid I lost it on my way here," Alice sighed, "But my servants are looking for it. I decided to try and find him the old fashioned way first."

"I'll let him known you're here," Weiss decided, pulling out her Scroll and texting a message to Jaune. When finished, she looked back down the path the woman had walked.

"You came through the Emerald Forest?" She asked in mild disbelief. "Are you a Huntress?"

Alice smiled wryly.

"Sort of. Ooh! A Geist Knight!" Her eyes locked onto the large form, her early worries forgotten, "Totally under your control?"

"Er, yes," Weiss nodded, "It's part of my Semblance. I can resummon defeated enemies from my Glyphs, among other things."

"Fascinating!" Alice enthused, walking over to look over the Knight from every angle. "Do you require additional Dust for specific summons or is it just an Aura Cost?"

"It's just an Aura cost, but Dust can be used to enhance them with elemental effects," Weiss explained, smiling a bit, "You're familiar then?"

"My own Semblance works on somewhat similar principles," Alice replied, smiling back, "Though its utility is more focused on... Uh... Summoning and animation than Elemental manipulation. Could you explain it?"

Weiss spent a rather lovely thirty minutes talking about Semblances and Dust usage. Her worries about Alice Arc diminished. The woman was keenly intelligent and very curious, and had some wonderful suggestions for her own Semblance that Weiss really wanted to try out.

Thank God, a normal Arc relative! Weiss thought happily.

"Oh! Jaune, I completely forgot!"

"So, you said your Semblance was similar to mine," Weiss said, "Can you demonstrate it?"

Alice hesitated.

"Well..."

"HEY BOSS!"

Weiss looked down the path... And her jaw dropped. Two dozen animated skeletons ran up the hill, the lead holding a Scroll in its bony fingers.

"GYAAAAHHHHHH!"

She turned to run... And slammed right into Jaune. He held her and looked down in concern at the panicking Weiss.

"Hey Weiss! You okay?"

"SKELETONS! MONSTERS!" Weiss shrieked. "Th-They must be possessed by Geists! We need to alert the school, we need reinforcements-!"

She turned to direct her Summon to battle... When Jaune laughed.

"Oh! No, it's okay! I know these guys!"

Weiss's eyes bugged out.

"You what?!"

The skeletons came to a stop in front of Alice. The leader, dressed in a tuxedo, held out the Scroll to Alice, who took it gratefully.

"Thank you guys," she said with a smile.

"We'd have been here sooner but JEREMY tried to add some deer bones to himself to look more 'manly'," the leader Skeleton groused. One skeleton, wearing deer antlers on his head, looked as non-chalant as possible.

"I don't know what you're talking about! I'm just naturally horny!"

The lead skeleton sighed then looked at Jaune. He bowed his head.

"It is good to see you well, Jaune."

"You too, Old Bone!" Jaune said cheerfully.

Weiss gaped.

"I... Wha...?!"

Alice turned to Weiss and Jaune with a bashful shrug.

"This is my Semblance: Necromancy."

"No bones about it!"

"Shut up, Jeremy!"

"NEVER!"

Weiss silently moaned.

I knew it! There's no such thing as a normal Arc!

Notes:

Alice is the Necromancer from Baalbuddy's series of comics. Look them up, they're funny. Though definitely NSFW in many cases.