“Screwdriver?” I asked

“Screwdriver.” Ruby answered as she handed me a screwdriver. I took it and screwed in some bolts.

“Wrench?”

“Wrench.” she again answered as she handed me a wrench to which I used to tighten a few things.

“Yellow spray?”

“Which yellow?” Ruby asked, showing me two cans of yellow.

“The bumblebee one.” I told her. She smiled and handed me the spray can. I pulled up my mask and laid some covers on a few part before spraying. After a few minutes of that I stopped spraying and took a few steps back. In front of me and Ruby was a metal prosthetic arm that we’ve been working on for Ruby’s sister Yang. It been a few weeks since the two along with Weiss and Blake came to this world after the events Beacon. The dreams they’ve been happening seemed to be as if they were living a different life in Reamnet, visions of what could have happen from what Mother has happened.

Yang has been a bit off for the time with nightmares of Adam as a demon and what has happened to her arm. This continued until she, as she puts it, couldn’t take it anymore and wanted to hit something. As it seemed Mother and her had a short sparring match to allow Yang to blow off some steam. I didn’t know if it worked since Yang didn’t get a single hit in.

After that Mother has took some time of helping me with my semblance to train with team RWBY, more so with Yang and Blake. It went smoothly, for the most part as Yang was off in her fighting style with only one arm, to which me and Ruby were going to fix.

The idea was to build her a new arm to use and when I told Ruby about it she was more than happy to help, maybe a bit giddy as well.

“You think she’ll like it?” Ruby asked me as I looked at the arm.

“I think she’ll love it.” I told her. The two of us grinned as we had something to eat as the paint dries, yeah for fast drying paint! After it was done we wrapped it up and carried it towards the Valley where the others were at. When we got there I opened the door to the Valley and both me and Ruby walked out to another spar with Mother and Yang. Weiss and Blake were on a large rock watching as Yang tried to punch and kick Mother, to which was blocked and pushed away. It continued until Yang was flipped over and she landed on the ground with a thud.

“You can do better, Yang. I know you can.” Mother said in an encouraging manner. Yang groaned as she pushed herself up to a sitting position.

“I know I can, it’s just…” she looked at the stump that was her arm. “It I just feel off without another arm.”

“To which we are happy to announce…” I said, putting up the wrapped up prosthetic arm. “Your new arm!”

“Yay!” Ruby said happily. Everyone looked towards us as we stood there.

“What?” Yang said, laughing a little at our announcement.

“Ruby and I spent the last few weeks building you a new arm.” I told her we walked over and put the arm down. “Hope you like it.”

Yang stared at the wrapped up arm before slowly pulling the wrappings away. She picked up the prosthetic and gave it a look. Mother came over to take a look at the arm as well. Mother then looked at Yang.

“Go ahead, put it on.” She said, waiting for Yang to do so. Yang looked at her before looking at the prosthetic.

“This… reminds me of Mercury.” she said bitterly.

“Yeah, but it’s cooler than his legs.” I said proudly.

“Yeah.” Ruby said. Yang looked at the two of us before turning the arm over.

“So… how do it put it- ah!” as she said it the arm moved towards her stump some whirring sounds came out of it, making Yang wince a bit. “Ow owowowowowow!”

After a minute of this she stopped saying ow as the arm was attached. She took some deep breath before looking up at me. “Thanks… for the warning…”

“Sorry, didn’t think it would go off that quickly.” I said sheepishly. Yang didn’t say anything as she looked at her new arm, she turned it a bit and open and closed her fist.

“Wow… it feels… real.” she said as she moved her arm around some more. “This is amazing.”

“Magic and technology, if you find that sweet spot you open a whole new world.” I said happily.

“Yeah, Ooo I have so many ideas for Crescent Rose!” Ruby said happily.

“You mean like those inscriptions in that book we found?” I asked. She nodded as the two of us started talking about some designs before noticing everyone was looking at us.

“I swear, if it’s about weapons or building something those two are exactly alike.” Weiss said. I blushed at this as Yang was doing some shadow boxing.

“Oh yeah, I could get used to this.” she said as she did some jabs. One of those jabs made the barrel in the arm extend and fire off a shot, blowing a chunk out of a rock. Yang stared at it before looking over to us.

“Uhhh, be careful with that. The arm is sorta wired to your nervous systems and it’s also attached to your brain to get signals from it, and I thought it wasn’t loaded.” I looked over at Ruby.

“What? I got all the shots out… I think.” she said, looking at the rock. “Guess not.”

“I… have no idea what you just said.” Yang said as she looked at her new arm some more.

“Your adjusting quite well.” Mother said, smiling at Yang’s excitement. Yang nodded as I sat down on the ground as Ruby went over to her friends. I watched the four of them talk to each other more happily then the first time they came here. Blake was less somber then after her time in the Hall of the Dead. I didn’t know what she saw there but didn’t pry, I’m just happy they are getting better.

As I watched Mother came over and sat down beside me. “Things look like their looking up now huh?”

“It looks like they are indeed.” Mother said in agreement. She glanced at Blake, her smile faltering a bit before saying. “But one thing does concern me.” She said.

“What’s that?” I asked her, looking over at Blake.

“Blake has informed me of the death Indigo Parker, your former professor if I am correct?” She asked to which I nodded and waited for her continue. “A few days ago, she came to asking if it was possible to see him one last time before his soul was judged. It was a reasonable request, I had expected her to ask if I could bring him back.” I looked at Blake, saddened to hear what Mother was saying. “So with Blake in tow, I searched for your friend’s soul but oddly enough, he was nowhere to be found. He wasn’t even on the list to be judged.” She said.

“He… wasn’t?” I asked. I thought back to the time when Indigo was killed, getting stabbed through the heart with a blade would, without a doubt, kill someone. “But if he’s not there, then could he be alive? Maybe his semblance brought him back, the shadowmancery he does.”

“I’m not sure, you may have to consult my sister.” Mother said, smiling sadly before looking at Blake. “For her sake, hopefully he is. She seems to care a lot for the man.”

“Yeah…” I said before raising an eyebrow. “So, road trip to your sister’s place?”

“You say that as if it were a long trip.” Mother said jokingly as she stood up. I rolled my eyes as I stood up and went over to the others the told them what’s up.

“You’re off to see your Aunt?” Yang asked. I nodded to her to answer. “Yeah if it’s alright with you I’m going to stay here, want to train with this arm a little more before I go anywhere.”

“And I’m staying here to make sure it doesn’t fizzle out.” Ruby said.

“Right, what about you two?” I asked Weiss and Blake. Weiss shook her head.

“Thanks for the offer but I believe this is a family matter.” Weiss said. I nodded and looked over at Blake.

“What about you? It may have something to do with Indigo.” I told her. I said her eyes widen and take a sharp intake of air, as if she could finally see Indigo again before looking deflating.

“I… no, I shouldn’t go. Thanks but I don’t want to get my hopes up.” she said sadly. I gave her a somber smile and hugged her.

“I’ll tell you what we find out when we return.” I told her. She nodded as she let’s go, I went over to Mother as a set of double door appeared. She raised an eyebrow at this before the two of us walked in to… a large room? I looked around and saw the walls were a dark red colour with some purple streaks coming down the walls. Some black chairs with a table in front of them with some books and magazines on them. The most noticeable detail was the symbol of the Mal Kun company on both sides of the wall and a large statue of the symbol behind a desk. There was a male typing away on a keyboard. I looked to Mother as she scanned the room. “We’re at her work?”

“She does take matters such these very seriously.” Mother answered. With that she walked over to the desk where the man was.

“Welcome to the Mal Kun Company, how can I help you?” he asked without looking up.

“Umm, hi we’re here to see Axycia Mal Kun?” I asked him.

“Sorry but Miss Mal Kun is really busy right now due the events of Beacon Academy.” he explained. I blinked at this, releasing we’re in Reamnet. “Which means she’ll not take any meetings or appointments at this time.”

“But this is important.” I told him, making his frown.

“Look, like I said before she’s busy right now so I ask you to leave before I call the-” he turned to look at us and his eyes widen. “...oh, you’re her sister and niece.” With a calming smile, Mother looked at him.

“I do suggest you look at the people speaking to you next time or I’ll have to suggest a new secretary to my sister.” Mother said. The man opened his mouth before moving over to push a key on his keyboard.

“Miss. Mal Kun?” he said, without looking at the screen.

“Yes? What did I tell you about calling me?” my aunts voice spoke through the speakers.

“Yes ma’am but this is important.” he explained.

“Is the world going to blow up? Is there an army of Grimm right outside?... Is the press here to bug me again?” she asked.

“No… your sister and niece are here. They want to see you.” he said. There was a pause before she spoke.

“Right now? They’re here?” she asked.

“Yes ma’am, they’re standing right in front of me listing in and your sister threatened to tell you about me not looking up.” he said, making me tilt my head at him.

“Yeah that’s her… send them in, oh and ask if they want something to drink. I got coffee on the way.” with that there was a beep and the man looked at us.

“Do you two want something to drink?” he asked. Mother shook her head but thanked him for offering. I shook my head as he stood up and lead us to aunty’s office. “I’m uhh, really sorry about that and the way I talked. I don’t have much of an excuse for it.”

“All is forgiven, I simply as that you show other respect when conversing. Looking directly at is a start in the right direction.” Mother said, her smile never faltering.

“I’ll… yeah I’ll do that.” he said, rubbing the back of his head.

“Is everything alright?” I asked him. He simply shook his head.

“Not really, due to the destruction of the CCT tower at beacon communications has been cut everywhere in Vale. The others are still active but only for their own region.” he explains. His mood turned sour with what he says next. “And the Schnee company has not only stopped exporting Dust to Vale, but to everywhere. Now Miss. Mal Kun is up to her head with paperwork and phone calls… along with some personal matters.” Mother arched a curious brow at this but said nothing. Before long we came up to a large set of dark double doors. The man opened one of them to allow us in, as we did we saw the room was a darker shade of red with some white streaks through it, making it looks like it was shooting stars in a red night sky. A large picture of dragons flying through the sky hanged on our left as a large window with the blinds drawn was to our right. In front of us was my aunt, talking on some sort of earpiece.

“Look I sent two groups to get the communication towers up so Vale has something to get reports through… Yes I know the Grimm activity rising after the fall but I can’t have Huntsman to go out on guard duty because their keeping other towns safe… Yes I’ll send some bots over… thank you goodb- goodby- GOODBYE!” she yelled before taking her earpiece out and turning her head to the left. “Xana! Are you coming?!”

Another set of doors open an a female Faunus comes in with a platter with a bot and a few cups. “Here you are ma’am, your coffee.”

“Thank you Xana, you’re a saint.” Aunty said as she took the coffee that was poured for her. She looked up at us before speaking. “Leave the pot, you can go and thank you again.” With a bow Xana hurried out of the room as my aunt took a sip of her coffee.

“So… what does my sister and niece need?” she asked, putting on a forced smile. Mother looked at me, waiting for me to speak up.

“U-um well, you see…” I cleared my throat before continuing. “Do you know that Team RWBY has come to the Valley?”

“They have?” Aunty asked, tilting her head a bit. “I could’ve sworn that I got information that your Schnee friend was in Atlas right now… that’s something I need to look into.”

I frowned and looked at Mother for a moment before continuing. “Well, during the time Blake asked Mother to take her to the Hall of the Dead to see… Indigo one last time before he goes.”

“Okay, and?” she asked, looking over to Mother. “You know that we both do some service in the hall but you should have no problem getting a soul to come forth.”

“There lies the problem, no such soul was found. I’ve searched even the archives but found nothing.” Mother said, informing Aunty of the problem.

“Hmm, well if you said that his semblance is that of Shadowmancery then there might be a way for him to live.” she said. We waited for a few minutes but aunty didn’t say anything.

“Well…” I asked her.

“Now now, I’m just… enjoying the moment that my sister is asking me for something that she doesn’t know about. I just want to enjoy it the feeling of it.” she explained. I looked over at Mother with a ‘really’ look on my face before aunty continued. “Okay, now that’s out of the way I believe his semblance saved him by turning his body into shadow so it could heal.”

“Wait, he could do that?” I asked.

“Yeah, well kinda, I believe when he was dying his semblance awoken to use this trait. But I don’t believe he’ll be around for some time, since if you said he got killed then it will take some time to heal. It’s shadowmancery, not the greatest at healing base magic.” Aunty explained.

“Interesting.” Mother said, intrigued in Aunty’s explanation. “Then perhaps there is hope for him.” Mother said. I smiled at her at the news.

“Yes yes, there’s hope. Mind you he may not have memories but the chances of him having a complete mind wipe is slim.” she explained with a small gesture. “If that’s all you wanted then I would like you two to leave, I’m really busy and-” before she finished the side door opened again and a young voice said something.

“Mommy, are you here?” a young boys voice said. My aunts face turned white as we all turned to see a boy who was about seven years old with small draconic horns and black scales on the sides of his face and arms. He wore some PJs and dragged a small beowolf stuffy behind him. He yawned as he rubbed his bright green eyes and looked at us. “Hello.”

“Ahhh, I uh.” Aunty stood up and walked over to the child and talked to him quietly. I moved over to mother who was staring at the two of them.

“I didn’t know she had a kid? Did you?” I asked her.

“I had my suspicions.” She answered, waving at the boy who briefly glanced at her. “Why she kept him as a secret is something I have yet to figure out.”

I didn’t say anything as the Faunus from before came over and picked up the child to, I guess, take him away. He turned to us and waved.

“Bye-bye.” he said as aunty closed the doors. She didn’t say anything as she walked over to her desk.

“I hoped… I could keep him a secret until he was older until I was sure…” she said softly.

“Aunty, what’s going on?” I asked her. She took a deep breath before saying nothing for a minute long.

“You know that… the Vokun Dovah race is all but close to extension right?” she said, which I saw made her wince as if saying those words brought her pain. “I… thought I could handle it, knowing that a few were still alive but know little or non of their heritage but… I can’t.” she turned to her sister with tears threatening to fall. “You told me that things would be fine but I didn’t trust you so I went behind your back and tried to bring them back.” Mother looked at her, her face bearing no expression.

“Why?” I asked without really thinking. Aunty looked at me and frowned.

“Why? Why! Because I was alone!” she yelled at me before she went over and sat down. After a few minutes she sighed and put her head in her hands. “Due to my mistakes the Vokun Dovah race suffered and got almost wiped out. Almost all of them were sent to Oblivion due to their involvement with the war me and her had.” she said nodding to Mother. She then looked up at Mother with anger in her eyes. “You can do anything to me, put me through hell for all I care but if you dare lay a finger on my children I swear nothing in the multiverse can protect you from me.”

I took few steps back from her and Mother, feeling a shiver of fear coming up my spine. Mother smiled a little at her sister’s words before sitting down on the chair in front of her desk.

“What is his name?” Mother asked, catching Aunty by surprise at this. She blinked at me before answering.

“Divos.” she said with a bit of confusion in her tone. “Divos Mal Kun, as you can tell he’s seven years old if you were wondering.”

“Are there others? Nephews, Nieces?” Mother asked. My aunt was surprised at this before standing up.

“Follow me.” she said before walking through the side room. I looked over at Mother as she stood and followed. We walked down the hallway until we came to a room which had more colourful walls and more dragons flying around. I saw Divos reading a book with the Fanus woman from before but there was three more kids, all female. Their ages range from the same age as Divos to around four. “As you know, Divos is the male while that one,” aunty pointed at one that was the same age but with white hair and blue eyes. “Is Ailis, the younger two are twins who are named Naomi and Tia.” she said pointing to two twins with brown and black hair that are playing with a blue ball.

As I looked at the kids I looked down and saw Ailis standing beside Mother, making me jump. What’s with people moving so fast!?!

“Who are you?” she asked Mother. The latter smiled, kneeling to look at the young girl.

“I am Mavisath, your mother’s sister.” Mother said to the young girl. Ailis stared at her before smiling.

“Hia.” she greeted. Aunty smiled at her before picking her up.

“Did you did anything interesting when I’m gone?” she asked.

I stood by mother as we watched my Aunt go over to her kids and hang out with them. I couldn’t but help smile at this.

“She looks happy.” I whispered to Mother.

“I’m happy to see her this way.” Mother said, smiling at the sight. After a few minutes Aunty came back with a slight frowned before turning back to her kids.

“You all play nice now as I do my work…” she turned and whispered. “My… mountains of work, damn it Jacques.” with that she left the room. We followed behind as I gave the kids a wave goodbye. We turned to aunties office as she sat down in her chair with a sigh.

“Is there anything I can do to help, sister?” Mother asked, wanting to help Aunty with her troubles.

“No everything is fine, just a lot of work just got pushed to me in a short amount of time.” she starts rifling through some paper and pulled one out. “Like look at this, there was a plan for the Schnee Dust company to build some towers in key locations to extract Dust but when there was no Dust they up and abandon them. It’s just wasteful if you ask me.”

“So what are you going to do about it?” I asked her.

“Well again with the CCT tower down I’m going to turn them to a network of communication so Vale has a better chance to send messages. I thought I had to fight for it but Jacques is so busy in Atlas that he wouldn’t know what happen until later.” she explained. As we listen to her talk I felt someone pull at my pant leg. I looked down to see Divos there. Were they fast or have shadow powers as well. He turned and looked up at Mother.

“If Mommy is your sister, does that make you my Aunty?” he asked. Mother smiled at his question before looking at Aunty.

“Only if your mother allows it.” Mother said, bringing Divos’ attention to his mother. Aunty rolled her eyes and chuckled.

“Why not.” she said with a smile. Divos smiled at this.

“Yay!” he cheered. Mother chuckled at his excitement. I smiled at this before my station was drawn to Aunty.

“So, what are you going to do with your friends?” she asked me.

“What do you mean?” I asked. She leaned back in her chair as she spoke.

“Well since they all are with you for some reason yet oddly here in Remnant, I’m just wondering what you had planned.” she explained. I thought about it for a few moments.

“I...don’t really know, to be honest.” I told her. My aunt leaned forward on her desk as she spoke.

“Well of you want my opinion, maybe take them to the new Huntsman school you helped build at that village your friend lives?” she asked.

“You mean Tak?” I asked. She simply shrugs as I turned to Mother to hear her opinion. With her being silent I turned back to Aunty. “Wait, wouldn’t they want to return?” this caused Aunty to sigh. She reached over and pushed a button which caused a small screen to lift up from her desk. The screen flickered and I saw Team JNPR, but Pyrrha wasn’t there, instead was… Ruby?

“From what I was told the young rose has this so-called power of the Silver Eyed warrior, a legendary being that could defeat the Grimm with just a look of their eyes. I also believe that after she has used it the first time it had an odd reaction to the gem you had, breaking and transporting you and your friends to the Valley but since Team RWBY haven’t been transported to another world before a copy of themselves was left behind.” Aunty explained. “It’s kinda like being Displaced but that’s something I don’t want to get into right now.”

I thought about it for a few moments until I spoke. “So...their dreams they’re having…”

“Are what happened here, they are linked to each other since there one and the same. And if they want to go back they will simply return to their normal bodies and go on with their lives as normal, I be it with more knowledge and understanding about a few things.” she added. Mother was intrigued with this new information

“Perhaps this can be replicated, only to affect a single entity of course.” Mother said.

“Way ahead of you.” Aunty said as she leaned back. “I always saw mortals disappearing by other beings was quite annoying, their friends and family worried sick about them to the point of… well you get the idea, I’ve done some myself but using this way a few times.”

“Hmm.” Mother hummed in thought. Whatever was in her mind had brightened up her smile. “I may have an idea but I will need time and if I what hope is true, than your friends will have one less friend to mourn.” Mother said. I raised an eyebrow at this before speaking.

“Okay. Well, I don’t know if there’s anything else we need to do here…” I said looking at both Mother and Aunty. Aunty simple waved her hand.

“If that’s all you two can go, I have a company to run and a whole nation to get it’s voice back.” she laughed as her son came over to her. She picked him up and put him on her lap.

“Alright then but if ever need anything, anything at all I’ll be happy to help.” Mother said to her, giving her new nephew and my new cousin a small wave goodbye.

“Bye bye!” he said with a wave. With that and a wave from me the two of us left and walked through the door to the Valley, just in time to see Ruby running away from Yang.

“You won already, stop chasing me!” she yelled.

“Not a chance sis, you really need to work on your hand to hand!” Yang yelled.

“You have a metal arm!” Ruby yelled. The two of us simply watched as this going on.

“They’re having fun.” I commented. Mother chuckled at the sight of a fleeing Ruby.

“Indeed.” Mother said in agreement before spotting Blake sitting by the edge of a cliff by herself. “If you’ll excuse me, I’ll go have a chat with Blake.” Mother said, spreading her wings before giving them a mighty flap that sent her skyrocketed her into the air before gliding towards Blake.

As this happened I saw a burst of rose petals rush behind me and Ruby appeared. “Help! Yang is not stopping with her training!”

“It’s for your own good!” Yang said, running towards me. Ruby yelped before running around me with Yang behind. I oddly felt like I was in the middle of ring around the rosy of this, literally.

“Don’t I have a say in this?” I asked.

“No!” Yang yelled before tackling Ruby. I watched them roll down the hill, it was also a big hill.

“Huh…” was all I said as I saw the two of them sprawled out on the ground. I turned and walked over to Weiss who was sitting on the grass. “How long was this going on?”

“For sometime, mostly is them running around.” Weiss said with a sigh. “So, how did it go with your aunt?”

“There was… something.” I said, glancing over at Mother and Blake. “My Mother is going to handle it so…”

“Right.” Weiss said. I looked back at Blake, seeing Mother sitting beside her as she spoke. Mother must’ve mentioned what Aunty said as Blake’s solemn look was replaced with a hopeful one. Mother smiled as she continued to speak but Blake stopped her when she tackled Mother with a hug, surprising her. Mother didn’t waste a single minute before she returned the hug, giving Blake a shoulder to cry on. She must’ve been holding in her pain and tears, not wanting to show weakness but whatever Mother said must’ve broken the damn.

I smiled a little as I turned to see Ruby and Yang training, seemingly that Ruby given up running from her older sister.

So far everything is going fine and I wondered what the future will hold.

Author's Notes:

So this was a little bit out of the way chapter that I wanted to do, sure there’s not a lot of context with The Mother and Aunt’s past but really that’s a whole story on it’s own. Also I think the idea that Ruby building Yang’s new arm is a cool idea xP

That Displacement Tag is a funny thing too