Lurking Darkness

Realization

"Glad to see you're back." "Pyrrha says to you.

"I'm not glad. Why are you appearing here?"

"If I'm being honest, I wanted to see how you would end up without me helping you along the way." She smirks are you.

"So translates into 'Because I want to watch you suffer'."

"Pretty much. Kind of like how your mother died." She sets you off.

"Pyrrha, how dare you say that."

"What're you gonna do. Fight me?"

"Yea, I am.

(Y/n)! Wake up!... Ruby! Weiss! Yang! Someone!

"Pyrrha. I did everything I could to save you. Why are you so hateful to me?"
"Maybe because I'm dead!"

He's not waking up...

I got an idea, stand back, he might lose his hearing for a minute, but he'll wake up...

"Looks like we're gonna have to wait to continue this." She aims her rifle at your head.
"What are you talki—?"

BOOM!

"AH WHAT THE FUCK!"

"There, he's up now." Yang says at Blake.

"What the fu—!"

"IM SO HAPPY YOU'RE OKAY." Blake tightly hugs you.

"Why wouldn't I be?"

"When I woke up, you weren't responding to anything, I tried slapping you, nothing, you wouldn't wake up. Yang fired Ember Celica beside your head and you woke up."

"You also kept saying Pyrrha over and over. What's going on?" Ruby asks you.

"I keep having that nightmare... Blake's not in it anymore, neither is my mother, Pyrrha is still there though.. she looks so angry every time..." you state.

"Hey kid. I know the feeling.." Qrow states sadly.

"What does that mean Qrow?"

"I'll tell you some other day... now uhm everyone? Let's um, leave them to present themselves. We've got a hell of a day ahead of us." It just occurred to you and Blake that you are both totally nude and the only thing sparing both of your dignities is a thin sheet.

"GET OUT THEN!" Blake yells at everyone. They all zoom out if the room as fast as possible.

"Blake. I'm so sorr—." She plants a kiss on your lips.

"Don't scare me like that ever again." You hold her cheek.

"I won't."

3 hours later.

As you, Blake, Ruby, Yang, Weiss and JNR gather around Qrow and Professor Ozpin, he lets Yang explain exactly what Qrow has told RNJR weeks prior.

"Is that all your mother told you Ms. Xiao Long?" Ozpin asks her.

"Almost."

"What else was there then?" You ask, knowing all of this already.

"You forgot to tell everyone what you did to Qrow and my mother." You're shocked, a secret about Qrow?

"That... is not a secret I thought she would give up quite easily. Your mother must trust you a great deal." He says to Yang. She has a look of massive distrust.

"My ability to reincarnate, while a curse, isn't without a few key benefits. I too, posses a certain magical power, using this power, I was able to gift the Branwen twins the ability to see more, to move freely and be unburdened by their natural bodies. I, well, I gave them the ability to turn into birds." You're amazed, Blake squeezes your hand to remind you to listen.

"I needed help keeping tabs on Salem's plans and help searching for Maidens when they're hosts became unclear."

"Why would you do something like that? What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"Yang! That's enough, we chose this, we wanted this." Qrow shuts Yang down.

"Have you done this with anybody else?" Ruby asks quietly.

"It's not that simple sadly, my power is incredible, yet finite, the amount I gifted to Raven and Qrow was in all things, minuscule."
You all sit there silent.

"You see, centuries ago, I sacrificed a great deal of my power to four young women. They were the first Maidens..."

"You're the old man from the fairytale?" You ask Ozpin, standing up.

"Indeed I am. I'm not done quite yet though."
You sit.

"I also discovered multiple objects of power, 'Relics' I guess you can call them." You are shocked, everyone else has been told this story, except for you, Weiss, Yang and Blake.

"These Relics are not of my creation, but they all hold incredible power, the one under Haven Academy is the Relic of Knowledge." You stand up.

"Why didn't you let me know back at Beacon when you added me to this inner circle of yours?"

"Mr. Aspro, please I was only attempting to be discreet."

"You entrusted me and Pyrrha with incredibly sensitive information, and you couldn't give us all of it? Why?" He remains silent, then answers.

"It was never my intention to lie to any of you. There are just some matters I prefer to 'play close to the chest' as Qrow puts it. Correct?" He looks at him.

"That's right Oz."

"Now, I recommend we all rest up, tomorrow night is going to be eventful, we are going after Spring, together." You and Blake go to the room and lie down.

"Hey, so fun stuff tonight?"

"I don't think I can tonight, I've too much on my mind."

"Such as?"

"I just have a really bad feeling about Haven.."

"Y/n, that's what I needed to tell you about."

"What do you mean?"

"I was in Menagerie for the past 3 months...
with Sun, we both learned something..." You look into her amber eyes and listen.

"I learned that Adam is still alive..."

"He's... what?"

"He made it out of Beacon..." Adam will be the first to pay for what he did...

You'll make sure of it.

First, you have to get Spring...

Battle for Haven soon! Again, thanks for reading! -P