The Child of Grimm (Rewritten)

Chapter 5: The Right Candidate

(Opening Theme: RWBY V3 Opening-When It Falls Performed By Casey Lee Williams)

-Two Weeks Earlier; Library-

    The whole group couldn't believe their eyes and ears at the photograph before them. Roman Torchwick, was their father! Their actual father! It was unbelievable to say the least. Neither of them looked alike, well except for Destiny's green eye. Though when they looked at Cristal, she had nothing to resemble that man! Each of them looked at the photograph while the two sisters sat there awkwardly; Ruby fidgeted a little as she had been standing.

Yang had soon been the first to speak up.

"Your dad..." Yang soon said, "...Roman Torchwick, is really your dad?"

"Yeah." Destiny said as she nodded.

"One of the most wanted criminals? In all of Vale?"  Blake soon added.

"Yuuup." Cristal replied, "The whole shebang."

Weiss looked to Ruby as she hadn't been surprised about the whole thing. "Did you know about this?"

"I only found out about this in the afternoon!" Ruby said, "In my defense!"

"How can that be?" Jaune asked, "The news never talked about Roman having a family."

"That's because he kept us hidden." Destiny soon explained, "He once told me, that Cristal and I were his secret, and he made sure no knew about us."

"He was really good at that sort of thing." Cristal said, "That is... Until she found us out."

The two teams looked perplexed at this as they glanced at one another. "She?" Ruby soon asked, "I thought you two said, the White Fang that kidnapped you."

"We did say that." Destiny replied, "But... They only did it because that lady told them to."

"How do you know that?" Nora asked.

"Because..." Destiny said hesitantly, only encouraged by Cristal, when she put her hand on her shoulder, "... Because our dad... Talked to her before we were taken..."

The whole group gasped at this, as once more they were just shocked by this newfound information. "Do you... Know anything about her?"

"Sorry." Cristal soon said, "We can't really say. Neither of have seen her face, or even heard her name. All we heard was her voice."

"Her voice?" Ren said.

Cristal nodded her head but she stayed silent; Destiny soon took a deep breath before she started to explain.

"The first time... We heard her, was before we were taken away. She came to our apartment, and dad told Cristal to take me to our room and stay there until she left. She did, and we stayed. Though he didn't know we were listening to their conversation."

"What did they talk about?" Blake asked.

"We're not sure." Cristal soon said, "We couldn't hear it clearly. But whatever it was, it wasn't anything good. Dad told her that he wouldn't have any part of whatever it was she wanted him to be involved in. But... That's when we felt something hot."

"It... Felt like it was fire." Destiny soon added, "We knew it wasn't from Dust, but at the same time we knew it was impossible. There was only one person we, or rather I know that could do that, and that was Amber."

Cristal flinched at that name while once again the group had been left perplexed.

"Who's Amber?" Ruby soon asked.