Lurking Darkness

No Safe Haven

The Next Night

"Wow, so this is Haven Academy?" You ask Qrow.

"Yea kid, it's beautiful when you see it at day."
Qrow recommends. As you all walk into Haven Tower, where Professor Lionheart's office is located, you see him standing at the top of the stairs, in the foyer.

"Hello students! Qrow!"

"Hey Leo. What's wrong?"
"Qrow, I've just received some awful information, I believe Haven is going to be attacked soon..." Qrow looks at everyone.

"I need someone to go outside at make sure everything is okay." He asks the group.

"I'll go." You volunteer.

"Me too." Blake announces. You both rush outside to secure everything.

Ruby's P.O.V

"Uncle Qrow, we need to be caut—." Yang interrupts you.

"Mom?" She's looking up to a... raven? Qrow fires his weapon at the bird in a split second. It flies behind Professor Lionheart and from behind him, it transforms into a woman. Yang's mom, Raven Branwen.

"They... they really are magic." Nora says seriously for the first time in her life.

"If you're going to shoot me, shoot me." Raven looks at Qrow.

"That was just insulting."

"What are you doing here!? Leo, what did you do!?" He looks ashamed of himself. Raven begins walking down the stairs.

"He did what any sane man would do in his situation, he looked at the info he had, assessed the situation, and made a choice." She stares daggers at Yang.

"We all made a choice. Like you." She points at Qrow.

"You've been scheming little brother."

"Leo, WHY?!" Qrow is rage incarnate at this point. You look at your step mother while Qrow speaks to her.

"You have the Spring Maiden."

"I do."

"Then hand her over and let's work together! We can beat Salem."

"ALL that time spent spying for that old fool and you still don't get it. There IS no beating Salem."

"You don't know that." You speak up. She looks at you almost uninterested.

"We've done things most people would call impossible, and the only reason is because we didn't have to do them alone. We had people to help us, teach us. We had each other." She recoils in disgust at "each other."

"I know we'll have a better chance of beating her if we work together." You extend your hand.

"Please." She remains silent. Then responds..

"You... sound just like your mother." She opens a portal with her Semblance and out from it flys a fireball. It hits you directly in the chest, knocking you back multiple feet.

"Hello boys and girls." Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury and a young girl walk through it and reveal themselves.

"Cinder..." You whisper. Just then, a rough, grizzly sized man walks through the foyer doors.

"The White Fang are prepping demolition and securing the school grounds, no one's getting in...
And no one's getting out."

Y/n's P.O.V

Minutes earlier...