Another month passed since I went back to Beacon to rescue Indigo. Indigo has been… adjusting to his new surroundings, at one point he freaked out over the large Non-Dova that lives in the Valley but to be honest everyone freaks out when they see a kaiju size dragon walking around.

There are times where he has moments of split personality where he looks at everyone oddly and calls me Sara, my real mothers name. Though there were a few times where Indi would go all Professor on us during training which made us happy to see him.

I… had a difficult time with the idea that my mom was alive and out there. On one hand I really wanted to meet her and ask her questions, but on the other I was scared to see her. Also there’s the fact that when I see Mother and call her that it feels… off.

I kept it to myself as I reread the Crimson Huntress, seeing if I can pick out what Sara was like. Although it wasn’t much I started to see a image of what my mother is.

I let out a sigh as I sat in the hot springs in the valley, something my aunt made for some relaxation. It was a very good idea as the place was a natural hot spring… kinda, the words ‘natural’ around two powerful beings that could make whole universes with a flick of a finger lands in the gray area.

“I see you’re enjoying yourself.” I looked up in time to see Mother step into the water. She greeted me with her calming smile.

“What can I say, hot springs are amazing.” I said with a smile. That got a chuckle from Mother. The two of us chuckled as the clouds float on by over us. “So here to relax or have something to ask me?” I asked her. Her smile faltered at my words before she sighed.

“I’m just worried about you, dear.” She answered truthfully. I shifted uncomfortably at this. I could say that I was fine and well but that would be lying. Also in the state of… undress we were in, it was hard to openly lie to another.

“I’m still a little iffy about now knowing the name of my mother and yet you’re around and I call you Mother… it just feels off.” I told her, pulling my legs up and wrapping my wet tail around me.

“I understand but just know, that if you ever wish to talk about it, come and find me.” She said, smiling afterwards. I looked up at her and thought about it.

“Does it feel… odd for you? For the time you had me and I called you ‘Mother’ or ‘Father’ give or take your form you were in, does it feel odd with the knowledge of who were my true parents are?” I asked her. Mother hummed in thought.

“It was only for a short period of time but yes, though I happy to have been your parent figure.” She said, answering my question as she did. I looked up at her before thinking about another question.

“I wonder what was it like for her, Sara I mean. Did she know I was alive? If she did… what would she think or feel like during the time away from me?” I said out loud.

“More questions to ask for when you find her.” Mother said, lighting up the mood a little. I gave her a smile as I lowered myself into the water. After a few minutes of resting Mother got out of the hot spring along with the water. The water formed around her until she was wearing an amazing blue dress.

“Okay, that’s really cool.” I said.

“Thank you, dear.” Mother said, showing off her new dress a little before saying. “I’ve been meaning to try it for a while.” She said as the Hot spring pool gradually refilled.

“A dress made out of water, why not.” I laughed as grabbed a brush from behind me and brushed my tail. “I think I’m going to stay for a little longer until I get out.” With a nod she turned to leave but stopped.

“Oh and one more thing, do keep a close eye on your friend Indigo. If what you say is true and his memories are jumbled about and mixed with others than you’ll need be sure he doesn’t do anything drastic.” Mother said, referring to Indigo’s split personality dilemma.

“I will.” I told her with a smile. She smiled back before walking off. I was left alone for about ten minutes before the rest of Team RWBY came in and started to have fun. Before long I got out of the hot spring after I got splashed in the face one too many times. I wrapped myself up in a large towel and started making my way back to my room.

I walked down the walls as I felt my hair and tail became dry and fluffy, making them poof out a bit as I turned one corner and saw Indigo looking up at one of the many statues of Dovas of the past. After having brought Indigo back with me and after the tearful reunion, Indigo had gotten himself cleaned. He no longer sported a beard, having shaven it off the first chance he got. He had also gotten his hair done, giving him a less messy look to it.

“Hey.” I called out at him, drawing his attention to me. He glanced at me before looking back at the statue. I walked over to him and looked up at the statue. “Cool statue huh, I sometimes forget that they are much larger than this.” He stayed silent, his blank gaze falling onto the floor. I looked over at him worried. “Hey, you okay?” I asked, putting my hand on his shoulder.

“Far from it.” He said just above a whisper. “One moment I see myself sitting next to Blake, watching over a sparring match, then within single blink the world around me changes into a bloody battle, people I never knew yet somehow know were dying around me.” He said, lightly shaking his head before taking a deep breath. “I feel myself slipping more on more into obscurity. These visions, these memories… haunting me as if they were my own.”

“Have you tried to talk to Mother? Maybe she can help.” I asked. He shook his head once again.

“Through my recent episodes, Blake has been able to bring me back. She’s slowly helping me remember.” Indigo said. So that’s what they’ve been up to lately. “But I’ve made a mistake… and she’s quite upset but still willing to help.” He added in regretful tone.

“What was the mistake?” I asked, quickly cursing myself for saying that.

“It was brief but I had slipped again into the memories not my own.” He said, taking a deep breath before saying. “I had called Axycia.” He said. He looked over at me and probably saw face go through a number of emotions.

“Axycia… you mean that same Axycia that’s the sister to Mother, my aunt…” the two of us stared at each other in silence as this sets in.

“I don’t know.” Indigo said, truly confused. We stood there for some time, kinda awkward for me since I had a towel on, before I spoke up.

“Maybe I should call my aunt and see what she says?” I said to him. “Maybe clear things up.”

“I guess…” He wasn’t able to finish is sentenced as his indigo iris dilated while midnight purple iris shone briefly. “Yes… Yes that sounds like a good idea.”

“Uhhh, okay then…” I said, kinda wondering what just happen. “Maybe have Blake there as well so the both of you can hear it.” He nodded albeit reluctantly before heading off to find her. I quickly went to my room to dry off and put some clothes on. The idea of talking to Indigo in that state of undress was really weird. I then sent a message to my aunt that I need to talk to her and hope she had time to do this. I didn’t see any reply as I walked out of the room and found Blake and Indigo in a small room with a few chairs and a couch. Blake had her face in a neutral expression as Indigo simply looked like he has a lot on his mind. I didn’t say anything as I sat down and waited for maybe my aunt to come.

After ten minutes of waiting the door opened and she walked in a dark red suit and some tinted sunglasses. She held a scroll in her hand as she tapped at it.

“I have thirty minutes to an hour of free time before I have to bolt, so what do you need to my dear?” she asked me. I looked at her before Blake spoke.

“You’re Axycia Mal Kun right?” she asked.

“Yes my Faunus friend, I’m one Axycia Mal Kun, what do you-” she stopped as she turned and saw Indigo who was staring at her. She tilted her head a bit. “Weren’t you dead?”

“I thought so too.” Indigo replied, his midnight purple eye shining briefly. “You look like you haven’t aged a day, Axycia.” Both me and Blake stared at the two of them as my aunt smiled.

“You look younger Theodore.” she said with a smirk.

“Umm, you know him?” I asked her. She turned to me with a raised eyebrow.

“Knew him? We used to be a couple.” she answered, making Blake cough in surprise as I looked at both Indigo and her.

“You two?” I said, making my aunt roll her eyes.

“Well not ‘him’ exactly, Theodore Parker is Indigos grandfather.” she looked up to the ceiling with a sigh. “Those were fun times.”

“Uhh…” I said looking at the other two. Blake frowned at her as she said this. “What happened to you two?”

This caused my aunt’s smile to falter a bit. “I… had a habit to disappear from time to time, Theodore was there when I came back but… one time… I went and didn’t come back for a long, long time.” she turned to Indigo, who’s midnight purple eye was still glowing. “I was there when they buried you.”

“Yes, when she never came back I had thought the worst but I had not been given the time to grieve as I was called into arms.” He said, shaking his head lightly before saying. “I had hoped that by the end of the war, I would be able to see you again, perhaps even propose but…” He said, knowing he we knew what he meant. “Eventually I married another, had children and settled down, knowing my efforts in the war had changed the world.” He said. This caused my aunt to look down at herself.

“I’m.. I’m sorry that I left, if I stayed…” she didn’t finished as it was something that she didn’t want to say. “I didn’t forget about you Theodore, all this time I never forgot about you.” her gaze turned to Blake before sighing. “But sadly, the Theodore I knew in the past is long dead, you’re just the memories of him in one of his children’s children.”

Blake looked at the two of them as Axycia looked at her. She reached over to her hand and moved it over to Indigo’s knee. “I wish I could help you, but both souls have merged into one and the memories of both are scrambled.” She kneeled down to their level and smiled sadly at them.

“Actually, I’ve merely fused with my grandson so he wouldn’t be robbed of his life. I’m transferring my regenerative abilities onto him, of course it came with some… serious side effects.” In-Theodore said, breaking the silence. Blake looked over at the two as my aunt looked over to his stump of an arm.

“Missing an arm is one of them?” my aunt asked with a smirk.

“I’m afraid to say that the bastard that nearly took my grandson’s life had cut off his arm before I began the process.” He said with a bit of sadness. Axycia looked at this for a moment as she wanted to say something.

“Well, maybe Axycia could heal that part, give the arm back.” I pointed out to them.

“Viri I’m not the greatest at healing but… this I could do.” she said, looking at the man.

“No!” Theodore said in panic. He quickly calmed down before saying. “I thank you for kindness but… Indigo has already solved his dilemma not too long ago.”

My aunt nodded at this and turned her head a bit. I saw her let off a quick sigh before looking back, guessing she wasn’t really that good on healing magic.

“Well, if there’s anything I can do for you just tell me.” she told him. He smiled at her offer.

“Thank you, Axycia.” Theodore said, sitting down with a chuckle. “To think I’ve fallen for a literal goddess. Luckiest man in history I say.” This brought a blush to Aunty’s cheeks, surprising me as I’ve never seen her blush before.

“Uhh, yeah well umm I have to… bye.” she said before walking out of the door blushing. My jaw was on the floor before looking at the man.

“You sir, are amazing.” I told him before pointing at the door. “I never saw her do that.”

“You should’ve seen her back then.” He said, reminiscing his past. He looked back at me. “While I do enjoy a good banter, I’m afraid I must be going.” He said, smiling at both me and Blake. He faced Blake before saying. “The boy truly cares for you deeply, you mean the world to him.” He said to her. Blake smiled at this, a bit taken back but happy nonetheless. “Until next time, my dears.” He closed his eyes, a loud exhale was heard from him. He was left panting before he looked at me then at Blake.

“Did… Did I miss anything?” He asked taking a few deep breaths. Blake hugged him, surprising him a bit but ultimately returned the hug. I smiled at them before speaking.

“Nah, you didn’t miss anything.”

A few weeks passed and Indigo seemed to get better as in he didn’t switch into his grandfather as often.

One odd morning when we came to the Valley and waiting there with his tail wagging and panting excitedly with a bow tied around his neck was Oni, simply sitting there for Indigo. Indigo stared wide-eyed at the Beowolf in front of him.

“Oni!” Indigo exclaimed, happy to see his companion safe and sound. Speaking of which, Oni was quick to act and tackled Indigo onto the ground before happily licking his face despite Indigo’s protest. After a while Oni finally stopped, letting Indigo wipe off the saliva. “How did you get here? Not that I’m complaining.” He said, a happy smile on his face as he began to pet Oni. It was nice seeing him happy like this, having only seen his rough side during Beacon it was a sight to see him smiling like this. I also have a feeling that my aunt had something to do with this after her interaction with Theodore.

With that said it also let Sylph have someone to play with. Speaking of her she grew over the months she been in the Valley, now almost the size of Oni. She even made a small area in the Valley she calls home, that is if you call a small icy place a home.

Indigo also came back with teaching me and the rest of Team RWBY about being a Huntsman/Huntress’ alongside Mother. I also think he got some new tricks from the memories of his grandfather as well since there are times were his teachings were completely different.

One day Indigo got all of us to have a sparring match with him to see how we improved. Not only that but Mother and Aunty came to watch.

“So you’re really an all-powerful goddess?” Weiss asked my aunt.

“Of course dear, but I don’t use my powers to expand my business, it just be boring if I did.” she explained as Indigo got everyone’s attention.

“Gather ‘round, students!” Indigo exclaimed loudly, grabbing everyone’s attention. He appeared having walked up the path up to our little area. I was the first to notice his new attire. It looked similar to his old outfit back in Beacon this time without his vest and the left shoulder of the shirt was ripped off. Indigo noticed Mother and Aunty before saying. “Mesdames.” He said, greeting them both. Aunty smiled at him along with mother.

“So… we’re doing a sparring match with you?” Yang asked him as she looked towards his lack of an arm. “Wouldn’t it be hard with… uhh…” Indigo rolled his eyes.

“As Huntsmen we improvise and adapt to the situation, no matter how severe.” Indigo said, reciting one of his earlier lessons. I felt a little nostalgic moment when he said that.

“So… it is a one on one or one on…” Ruby quickly did a head count. “One on five?”

“Seems fair enough.” Indigo said with a nonchalant shrug. We all looked at each other.

“Why do I feel like this is a bad idea?” I asked.

“Viri, everything I do is a bad idea.” Indigo replied with a smirk. I gulped as we all moved into the arena. I pulled out Molten Coil and got ready as did everyone else. Indigo simply stood there waiting as Mother and my aunt made some seats for themselves.

“Well Teach.” Yang started as she got ready. “Time to show you what we picked up when you weren’t around.” Like a blur, Oni had sprinted between us wanting to sit beside both Mother and Aunt. With a smirk, Indigo balled his hand.

“You’re not the only one with new tricks.” As he spoke, I noticed the shadows from the trees and rocks were being attracted to Indigo. The shadows coursed through his body and with an excited laugh, Indigo’s stump grow a shadowy arm. I blinked in surprise at this before thinking about it. It makes sense that he would do this and with two suns there would me more shadows.

“Oh… okay.” Was Yang’s reaction as she stared at the arm. Weiss’ jaw was on the floor at this as Blake tilted her head at this.

“That’s… so… cool!” and lastly Ruby said excitedly. “How do you do that?!”

“Wait you’re excited about this?” Weiss asked.

“Well yeah, it’s really cool!” Ruby replied.

“It was a few days after I woke up in Beacon. The first thing I felt was power… power that I have never thought possible.” Indigo started as he opened and closed the shadowy hand. “I felt my semblance’s true potential and I harnessed it, used it to better my survivability.” He said, gazing at us as we all had our weapons drawn. It was then I realized his lack of tonfas or weaponry for that matter.

“Even if he has a shadow hand, arm, whatever, we still got him.” Yang said as she went into a boxers stance. I glanced over to Indigo as his eyes dart from one to another.

“I don’t know about that…” I said before the first move was made by Yang as she rocketed forward, delivering the first punch. Before she got even close to Indigo, a familiar shadowy fist rose up from the ground beneath Yang, sending up into the air before landing with a loud thud back onto the dirt.

“Ow…” was all Yang said before Ruby got ready along with Weiss.

“Ready?” Ruby asked. With a nodded Weiss made glyphs on the ground as Ruby bolted forward, seemingly going faster as she past each glyph and firing off a shot a few times. Soon she was a blur around Indigo as she moved in to strike him. Only for her scythe to phase through him. With a smirk, the color seemingly disappeared from Indigo, his entire physical appearance diminished and left only a silhouette. The silhouette was then absorbed into the ground before vanishing.

“Can’t hit what’s not really there.” Indigo’s voice was heard all around us as a multitude of silhouettes rose up from the ground and took the form of Indigo. “Or am I there.” They all said in unison.

“Well, now it feels like we’re in a house of mirrors, just without the house and mirrors.” I said as the other two turned to face the other Indigos.

“Well, it’s just the four of us.” Blake said as we all saw Ruby slowing down and started to stumble a bit.

“Ugh, I feel like I’m going to throw up.” she said before falling over. We all stared at her for a moment.

“We should’ve practiced that a bit more…” Weiss said.

“Okay… the three of us, we can still take him.” Blake corrected. With that said I looked over at Weiss.

“Firewall?” I asked. She smirked.

“Firewall.” she replied as her rapier’s revolver chamber rotated to red as flames followed up the blade as Moltens chamber started to spin. After a moment the two of us slashed forward towards the Indigos, sending a wave of fire towards them. They all looked at the fire before saying.

“You’re no fun.” They said before being engulfed in the flames, all of them revealing themselves to have been Silhouettes. With a frown I looked behind us, seeing Indigo sitting cross-legged waiting. He noticed me staring and stood up. “I’ve got one last good trick up my sleeve.” He said, crouching down and reaching into the shaded ground with his shadowy hand. His hand sunk into the shade like water before he straightened up and pulled something out from within. We all stared with side-eyes as he did this. What he pulled out was amazing, a large shadowy scythe, its size rivaling Ruby’s Crescent Rose.

“Oh you gotta be kidding me…” Weiss said as she saw this.

“You got this!” we heard Yang yell out with Ruby passed out beside her.

“Yeah, but you’re not the one to dealing with this.” I muttered as both Weiss and Blake went after Indigo. With some quick Glyphs Weiss got Blake up in the air as she used some more to stay mobile. In the air Blake had her weapon change to a gun to shoot down at Indigo as Weiss weaved in and out trying to slash at him as well.

Indigo effortlessly dodged Weiss’s slashed and blocked Blake’s shots with his new scythe. He quickly countered Weiss’s last swipe of her rapier with the blade of his scythe he swung at her, the scythe having an audible swoosh as he spun it around in his hands before swinging again. Weiss was able to dodge before jumping back out of his reach. Blake was still in the air when this happened and attempted to help Weiss but having somewhat heightened reflexes, Indigo used his scythe to pull her down to him. He held her close briefly, a smirk on his face as he said.

“Dinner, later?” He asked, to which Blake nodded before being spun around kicked over to Weiss. “Sorry.” He said, actually meaning it before finally looking at me.

“Smooth~.” I said as I held Molten coil.

“Go… Viri… hurk.” I heard Ruby said before throwing up a bit. I simply smiled before some embers shot out of the chamber.

“Remember these?” I asked before shooting out the flaming flares. As I kneeled down. Indigo looked at me with an arched brow as he leaned into his scythe. He simply swept them away with his shadow hand as if they were nothing.

Though that was the point as I changed Molten Coil in to her second form and pulled the trigger to shoot me forward. Taking a page out of Ruby, kinda, I rolled over and turned into a flaming wheel of fire heading towards Indigo. Blinking a few times at this, Indigo readied his scythe in on matted. It looked as he held a… golf club. Ah hell.

The next thing I noticed was that I was rocking away from him like a golf ball, right as Ruby stood up. I slammed into her and fell on top of her. “S-sorry…”

“It’s… fine…” she said with a groan. “Mind… moving your elbow? It’s pushing into my stomach…”

“Oh, sorry.” I said as I moved a bit until I was face to face with her. I blushed before rolling over.

“I thought you all said you trained?” Indigo asked, helping Weiss and Blake back up. I got up and helped Ruby up.

“Ugh, put me back down… everything is still spinning…” she said as I let her back down.

“We did… didn’t think you got this good.” Yang said as she got up. “And I was the first one out.” she grumbled.

“Yeah, how did we know you could do stuff like that?” Weiss said. He shrugged and said.

“You should’ve at least expected something.” He said to her. Team RWBY looked at one another as I looked over at Mother and my aunt. It seemed that Sylph came to watch as she was sitting beside Mother.

“Well, it seems we need a lot more training.” I said to him. He chuckled after hearing this.

“You got that right.” He said between chuckles before being slugged in the shoulder by Blake, silencing him. “Sorry.” He said to her.

“You still owe me dinner.” she said with a smirk. Indigo smiled as I heard both Mother and Aunty coming over.

“You think I held back too much?” I asked, glancing up to the second sun in the sky.

“No, you fought fair and so did he.” Mother said, glancing at Indigo as he conversed with Blake.

“I also believe that move was similar to something Ruby can do?” Aunty asked. I simply shrugged.

“Yeah, a little, but the getting dizzy does suck…” I thought about it and looked at her. “Wait, you know Indigo can do this.”

“Maybe~, I’m not saying.” she said innocently. I frowned at this as my aunt smiled. Shaking my head I turned back to see Ruby standing and asking Indigo about the shadow scythe he did. By the look on his face she was asking a million questions about it. I stared at them before an idea came to mind. I walked over to the group and looked at Indigo.

“Hey, do you miss being a professor?” I asked him, getting his attention. He looked at me curiously.

“That’s sort of an question out of the blue.” He said to me, confused by the question.

“Well it will help with what I have to say next.” I told him when the others came over. Blake looked up at him as Indigo thought about it.

“Yeah, I guess I do miss it.” He said, smiling a little sadly before saying. “Anyway, why do you ask?”

“Well, if you remember the time I was out of school for a few weeks, the reason was that I was doing something important.” I said before explaining to them about the Village Tak lives in and the Huntsman school that I helped started. Blake was surprised that there was another world with Faunus in it as well as magic. Yang and Weiss had many questions about this, mostly on the fact that there were anthro ponies there as well.

“Like, real-life ponies, that stand on two legs.” Yang asked. I nodded my head as she thought about it. “I just can’t picture it…”

“Yeah, it was a big shock when I first saw them.” I said before looking back at Indigo. “Anyway, they only have three teachers from all as I know of but if you want I could take you there and you can be a professor again. If you want I mean.” I told him. Indigo considered it before looking at Blake who simply smiled at him.

“Sure, I’ll join.” He said his decision.

“Uh, just to ask in this whole another world traveling gig but-” Weiss started before Yang interrupted her.

“Did you just say ‘gig’?” she asked. Weiss frowned at her before continuing.

“As I was saying, is there a way for us to, I don’t know, go back home?” she asked.

“To answer that Weiss, you are kinda already there.” Aunty said before going over what she told me and Mother.

“So… there’s two of us?” Blake asked her.

“Yes, your dreams are the time your other selves have done over in Remnant.” she said.

“Well… if that’s the case I’m going with Indigo here.” Blake said as she looked over at him with a smirk. “Someone has to keep an eye on you.”

“Wow, you got over that quickly.” Indigo said, a little surprised by her sudden decision.

“I don’t know, maybe you been rubbing off on me.” she said with a smile. I chuckled as I looked over at the others.

“Well count me in.” Yang said with a smile. “A whole new world to explore, who wouldn’t want to go?”

“I wonder what questions I could ask, to myself?” Ruby asked in a dreamlike state. Yang nudged her to snap her out of it. “Huh? Oh right I want to go!”

“Why?” I asked.

“Because ponies.” she answered, making me laugh. Everyone looked over at Weiss as she looked at them.

“But, what about our home? Our friends and… families?” she asked, sounding like the last part was forced.

“Well like she said there copies of us over there and if we want to go back we can simply pop back over there as if nothing has happened.” Yang said before looking at my aunt. “Right?”

“Yup, you gain all the memories of the other half as well knowing what happened here. Just the skills you trained before might not transfer over since, you know, muscle memory.” she explained. Yang nodded and looked back at Weiss.

“Come on Weiss, we’ll see Ponies!” Ruby said childishly. Weiss stared at her and the rest of her teammates before sighing.

“Ugh, fine I’ll go.” she said.

“Yes!” Ruby said as she looked off to the Valley. “Today, Team RWBY of Weiss, Blake, Yang, their team leader Ruby and friends will now go out and do something they never done before! Banzai!”

“Banzai!” Yang, Blake, Ruby and I said as we had our fists up in the air before tilting to the left and an odd sound was heard.

“Oh and Viri.” my aunt said. I looked back and saw her handing me a new Scroll. “Do try and not break this one.” I blushed as I took it.

After some time to gather our stuff we were all ready to hop over to the other world. I was standing a little away from the group with Mother as they were talking.

“Do you think I’m doing the right thing?” I asked her, now not too sure about this.

“Yes, I’m sure you are.” She said, smiling at me. I looked over at her before I smiled at her. The two of us hugged before I headed down to the others.

“Ready to go?” I asked them. They all nodded before Ruby hooks her arm with mine.

“Onwards to adventure!” she yelled happily. I blinked at this.

“Uh, Banzai?” I asked.

“Banzai!” she yelled, earning a laugh from everyone.

Author's Notes:

I don’t have a lot to say other then Indigo is still a badass, and Banzai!