I let out a sigh as the clouds slowly past by overhead. It has been a few weeks since I returned and other than some small things I haven’t done anything. I saw some birds fly past like a cloud that looked like an acorn blocked out the sun. My book that I got for my birthday besides me closed, I was halfway through it before stopping to do some cloud watching. I closed my eyes with a smile at how peaceful it was right now as the sun peeked out behind the cloud.

Then it was covered up again. Frowning I opened my eyes to see that the sun was being blocked again. Only it wasn’t a cloud, it was the Oversized Dragon that lives in the valley. It stared down at me as I stared back.

“Uhhh, ahnok…” I said in the language that my Mother taught me when I was young. She taught me many languages during my youth and the one that I was speaking in was I believe dragons could understand.

Its response was a glare and a guttural growl, both of which were very unfriendly. It raised up a giant claw, ready to stomp me as if I were its prey but stopped midway as it quickly turned its gaze off towards the distance. Whatever it saw had caused the behemoth’s angered look shift into one of fear. Lowering its claw back down away from me, it lowered its head with what I could assume was a whine. Looking up into the distance, I wondered what caused the behemoth to act this way but was interrupted as a large hand appeared from the fog. The hand was almost as big as the behemoth itself. The hand resembled that of a Dovah, scaly and clawed but this seemed different. It laid onto the ground, waiting for me to step onto it and after a brief moment of thinking I did. The hand lifted up and pulled itself into the fog, causing me to get wet because of it. When I was pulled out of the fog, I winced from the sudden light before blinking rapidly to adjust. As soon as I regained sight, I was greeted by Mother… only she was a giant, bigger than the behemoth of a dragon.

“Uhh…” was all I could say as I was dumbfounded. Sure I saw her like this before, but every time I saw it, I would say… well… “Uhhh…”

“I’ve told to steer clear of the Non-Dovah.” She said, setting me down by a flowing river. The distant roaring of a waterfall echoing nearby. Looking back up, I noticed Mother was sitting.

“Well… I… uhh…” I shook my head a bit, clearing my head a bit. “I was simply cloud watching and the Oversized Non-Dovah came over me…” I shuttered a bit as I remembered the first time meet the Non-Dovah, gave the nine-year-old me nightmares for weeks. I saw her staring at me and I shrank a bit. “Sorry, mom…”

“Hmmm…” She hummed, acknowledging my apology but saying nothing. The sounds of the coursing river was all that was heard for a brief moment before she spoke. “Just please, be careful. I’d rather not think of losing you.” She spoke softly, hearing this had earned me the sense of guilt. Mother was always good at making me feel guilty.

I looked down and nodded, feeling like my words are stuck in my throat. Even as a kid, Mother had always made me feel guilty for the little things I’ve done.

“So what brings you into my sanctuary?” She asked, breaking the silence. I looked up at her when she said this.

“Huh? Oh, Uhhh…” I tried to come up with something to say. “Again I was cloud watching and… umm.” She looked down at me curiously. Within a blink of my eyes, she was no longer towering over me and looking back down, I saw that she had shrunk down to her usual height.

“I do hope nothing has been causing you any distress.” She said with worry as she walked up to me.

“No no! Nothing has been doing that, other than almost getting squashed by a giant foot.” I muttered the last part before giving my mother a smile. “Everything is great, nothing’s wrong, everything’s fine and… I’m rambling am I?”

“Yes, yes you are.” Was Mother’s answer. She crossed her arms and simply looked at me questiongly.

“Really, everything is fine,” I looked around at where we are before looking back. “Just, not really much to do around here or in the valley then running away from the dragon and not to get pranked by those kids.” I frowned at the memory at one of their ‘playful’ jokes they pulled on me. Took me almost a month to wash all the purple out of my hair.

“About the children, they won’t be causing you much trouble for quite some time as I’ve allowed them to return to their rightful parents for the month.” She said, somewhat saddened yet relieved at the same time. Mother soon sat down on a large that had only just appeared. “They remind me so much of you as a child.” She said as her eyes closed with a smile forming.

I smiled a little as I went over and sat down beside her, “I wasn’t much of a prankster though.” I pointed out to her. She chuckled, placing a hand atop my head.

“Yes but you were a very adventurous little one.” She said, petting my ears as she did. I couldn’t help but smile a bit, also become more relaxed at the petting.

“Yeah, can you blame me when I saw the Valley?” I asked. “It was a large place to go exploring!” This earned me another chuckle from mother.

“That it is.” She said, enjoying the moment while continuously petting my ears. The two of us sat there for some time enjoying the scenery and chatting about anything that pops into our heads. Before I realized it, hours have passed.

“Time sure does fly huh…” I said, imagering what it would like if time does fly.

“I could slow it down if you’d like.” Mother said jokingly.

“I thought the idea of controlling time upset you?” I asked her, remembering a conversation she had with her sibling about a god of time or something.

“No, the thought of someone else controlling time upsets me.” She said before sighing. She frowned a bit before saying. “That man has proven more the once he knows the responsibility.” She said, taking a deep breath and breathing out as a smile formed on her lips once more.

I smiled back at her before looking off in the distance, my mind starting to wander, “So… what now?”

When I said that I heard footsteps coming closer towards us. I turned and saw my Aunt there.

“There you are, wondering where you disappeared to.” she said with a smirk. She glanced over to her sister with the same smirk. “You and your way of simply disappearing.” Mother simply rolled her eyes before asking.

“Is there something you need?” She asked, removing her hand from the top of my head as she did.

“Well I came to talk to you about something, and since Viri is here she can listen in,” She started to walk closer us before making an image of the Ursa I fought before. “After looking through the report I’ve became more and more interested in these Dust infused Grimm, and after taking some time to look into it I’ve came across that there a sorta new breed of Grimm on that world.”

With a gesture of her hand the image changed a little, instead of a Ursa with different crystals sticking out of it it was a dark brown Ursa with rock like spikes sticking out of it. It was also bulkier and bigger than the other one, “I saw this one just a week ago and I saw it has abilities around controlling earth. Meaning that it must of eaten a large about of Dust that control the earth.”

“Sounds concerning.” Mother said, standing up and walking up to the image of the Dust infused Grimm.

“Concerning, yes. Interesting, most definitely.” My Aunt said with a grin. “And that’s not the only one, other versions of Grimm that are infused by Dust are wandering around in the world as we speak.”

“Wait, does that mean the Ursa I fought is one of these new Grimm?” I asked.

“Kinda, it had Dust inside of it but it was at the halfway mark of turning into these hybrids and took one may different types of Dust.” my aunt explained.

“Another dangerous breed of Grimm.” Mother said but frowned sadly at the image of the Grimm.

“Dangerous yes, but in a different case. Take a look of this.” Mother’s sister turned to the image and made a sweeping motion. The image changed to see a large Dust infused Nevermore. It had dark yellow markings and it’s mask had yellow sparks markings on it. It was in some sort of nest where there were…

“Eggs?” I said as I saw white and red eggs in said nest. “I thought Grimm couldn’t reproduce normally.”

“That’s true, normal Grimm can’t. But these Dust Grimm seemed to have changed in a cellular level and, as you can see here, are able to make more by normal means via what an animal would do. I tried to get close to the nest of one and… well.” She lift up her arm and I saw it was blackened from the wrist up. “I believe I would call these Nevermores ‘Thundermores’ as they seemed to have lightning powers.”

“Has this change affected them mentally?” Mother asked. This made her sister frown.

“That… I don’t know… oh! But they rarely bother anyone unless they are disturbed. Like you see here.” again she showed off her arm.

“Umm, what does that have to do with things?” I asked, not sure where she’s going with it.

“Viri, did you sleep through that lesson?” my aunt asked, making me blush. “Normal Grimm would go after any settlement and try to destroy it, as they only wish to destroy all of creations. These Dust Grimm on the other hand, pay no mind.”

I frowned at this, not sure on what she meant. I looked at my mom, “What does she mean?”

“These Dust Grimm act in a much different manner than a normal Grimm. The latter feed off hate, anger and relish in the destruction of their enemies but these do not.” Mother explained, stopping briefly to think on how to explain further before continuing. “These Dust Grimm, while territorial, seek their own lives in peace without the need for destruction or hatred.” She finished.

“And as a theory,” my aunt said, looking up at the Dust Grimm Nevermore. “The Dust they are infused with gave them a soul of sorts.” she then frowned as the image split apart into smaller ones, each showing Ponies, Faunus, even Grimm fighting the Dust verants. “For others they see them as normal Grimm and fight them, out of survival or out of sport.”

“That’s awful.” I said, seeing one image of some Ponies boasting about killing a Dust version of a Beowolf.

“Yes, out of every world I have ever known, this one’s version of Ponies are the most cruel on the low end.” my Aunt said, she turned back to the two of us. “The Faunus around fight off these creatures out of protection of their own, but with now riled up Grimm and the Ponies harassing them, your friend’s family and village won’t last much longer.”

This made me worry, I shot up to say something but stopped when my Aunt shot me a look, “I understand you want to go and help out but you’ll makes matters worse…” she then looked at her sister. “Yes I thought it through and everything. Don’t rub it in.”

I was sorta taken aback at this, with how serious this is I can’t believe my aunt would say something so… childish to her sister. Though this isn’t the first time I saw this happen.

“What do you suggest we do?” Mother asked, closing her eyes with small in thought.

“Some more study would be needed to understand them more, along with coming up with names since it would be a bit confusing with the normal Grimm names.” my aunt explained. I thought about it for a few moments after she said that.

“How about… Staubgrimm?” I asked them. My aunt thought about it before nodding.

“That would work.” she said simply. Mother smiled at me as she opened her eyes once more.

“So… what do we do now?” I asked my aunt.

“For me I’m going to look into the Staubgrimm some more, find out more about them, learn how they tick. You two… I don’t know, maybe another few lessons from your mother would be good.” she explained. I laughed nervously, being trained from Mother or her sister was always interesting. My aunt basically taught me how to fight along with Mother, though she seems to like to throw me into situations that involved me fighting my way out of. Mothers were more… I can’t pick the word for, hard but fair?

“I suppose that’s doable, I’ve been meaning to spar with my own daughter for quite some time.” Mother said still with her loving smile. The thought of sparring with her both excited me and terrified me.

I let out a nervous chuckle as my aunt nodded. “Yes well, Viri I hope you get some good training in.”

“Yeah… maybe I might be able to beat you in a spar.” I said cheekily.

“I doubt it,” she said without missing a beat. “Sure I can’t beat my own sibling in a fight, learn that the hard way, but that’s fine. Any way, I’m off!” with that my aunt turned into shadow and went into the ground, leaving me with my mother. I frowned at what she said before looking at Mother.

“She never beat you in a fight?” I asked her. With a chuckle she shook her head.

“Not once.” She said, walking off towards a set of large doors that had just appeared out of thin air. With a wave of her hand, the doors opened and revealed the sparring room. I followed her to the door as I thought about it some more.

“Is there anything she beat you in? It’s not like you beat her at everything.” I said to her, looking up at her.

“Sadly to say, my sister has yet to best me in anything.” She said in a saddened tone before shaking her head. “It’s one of the few reasons she… nevermind, let’s not dwell with the past.”

I frowned at that, deciding not to press my chances. The two of us walked into the sparing room, it was a large dome ceiling room that had stands where weapons should be on, but there isn’t. I did some stretches before glancing over to mother. “So, what’s today’s lesson going to be?” With a flash of light, she no longer were her long white dress, instead she now wore a full suit of black armor. Along with the change in attire, she now held a familiar greatsword over her shoulder. I’ve seen her use that blade once or twice as a kid but the memories are a bit hazy.

I shifted slightly as I pulled out Moltin Coil, extending her to her sword form. My sword hummed as I got ready for anything mother would do. I watched as Mother spun the heavy blade around in her hand before impaling the floor in front of her, causing the blade to emit a blue aura. With one hand behind her back, she made the come at me gesture with her other hand. I swallowed what was in my mouth before making my blade burst into flame. With that I dashed forward towards her and swinging my blade at her only for her to catch the blade between her fingers. Quickly grabbing the blade, mother soon tossed me aside and threw Molten Coil back at me.

“You can do better, sweetie!” She yelled encouragingly. I was still shocked at how easily she caught and threw me. I shook my head and stand back up, picking Molten Coil up as well. If close range doesn’t work…

I shook my weapon and heard it wrille as small embers began to fly out of it. Using my semblance I gain control of the embers and shot them forward. As they got close to Mother they expanded to fireball size and came right at her.

I watched as she simply bat them to the side as if they were flys, she raised an eyebrow at me as I grit my teeth and slashed at the air, sending waves of fire at her. Seeing this, Mother did nothing but stand there and watched as the flames grew closer. Just mere inches away from hitting her, Mother raised her hand and stopped the flames in its tracks before it turned from a fiery orange to a neon blue. She then fired it back at me at double the speed, barely giving me time to dodge.

I rolled out of the way, feeling the heat of the fire beside me. I switched my blade and pointed it at her, firing some shot at her as I tried to circle around towards her. The sound of each shot hitting her armor greeted my ears but when I looked to see if any damage was done, I saw not a even a single dent.

“If you’re trying to hold back, don’t bother.” She said, taking a hold of one of the many bullets that had dented themselves against her armor. “Give it your all.” As she said this, the sword embedded into the floor shone before she gripped the hilt and pulled it out. Her eyes as white as the endless void, she spoke. “Fraan faal Suleyk do faal Pah Monah!” She flicked her blade, causing it to extend and split with a chain connecting each part of the blade. Flicking the hilt resulted in a crack of her whip before she sent a flurry of swipes. I jumped back and dodged a few of the swipes as I hit a few of them away.

“Give it my all huh…” I took a deep breath as I felt the flame in Molten Coil. Soon the blade turned white as another attack came at me. Slash at it I was able to knock the whip away, feeling that I could have cut it in half as I charged at Mother. I felt the white hot flame burning from my weapon as I brought my weapon down on her. Once again, she caught the blade with her hand but unlike last time, the armor on her hand began to melt before it was nothing but molten metal. Mother smirked at this while I tried free Molten Coil from her grasp but to no avail. Mother then shoved the blade back, causing me to stumble backwards while Mother’s weapon retracted and reformed into the greatsword.

She swung her sword at me, slash after slash I was able to dodge luckily. Despite the heavy looking greatsword, Mother’s speed was greater. Without as much as a warning, the sword once again extended and split into a whip before Mother wrapped the bladed chains around me. Since this was a sparring match within the training room, it was unable to severely hurt me as Mother had made this room to reduce the damage one would receive by more than half. Nevertheless, it still hurt like hell. A point of her finger and I was sent flying towards the nearby wall, unwrapping myself from the whip as I did.

I slammed into the wall and felt the air being forced out of my lungs. I feel down to the ground and started to cough. Soon I stood up as and took my weapon with both hands. Breathing deep, as best as I could I pushed my power to the limit and then some as my blade turned to that of a flaming sword as bright as the sun. Lifting it over my head I brought it down with a yell, blasting everything that gets in its way. I felt myself lose consciences as I did this, feeling more drained then ever.

I soon opened my eyes to see the sky again. I blinked a few times before closing them again as the sun came out behind one of the clouds. I groaned again as my whole body felt sore.

“Ugh… why do I feel like I got hit by a truck… with rockets?” I groaned. A familiar chuckle greeted my ears.

“You’re feeling half the exhaustion you would’ve ended up with from depleting your aura like that.” Mother’s voice sounded close by. I opened my eyes and squinted, seeing her towering over me with a smile. “When I said to give it your all, I didn’t mean it literally.” She said, sitting on her knees beside me. I frowned at this.

“I… ugh.” I soon started to cough as if my lungs were on fire. Soon as I stopped I felt light headed. “What… happened?”

“You pushed yourself over the limit in an attempt to create a powerful enough blast that would’ve surely melted my armor and sword if it weren’t for one tiny mistake.” She said, her smile never faltering as she pointed up at the midday sky. I looked up, only to hiss at the light of the sun. “You missed.” She said simply.

“Uhh, okay? I missed, I don’t really get why you’re pointing up to the sky?” I said, putting my hand over my eyes. “Also, why is it so bright right now?”

Mother handed me a pair of dark sunglasses, I guess to help me see what she was pointing at. I put them on and I no longer needed to squint to see. Looking back up briefly, I noticed that floating next to the sun was another brighter, much smaller sun next to it. I blinked a few times at this, making sure I’m seeing this right.

“Mom… why is there two suns in the sky?” I asked her.

“I think there is room for more improvement but I suggest not doing that again unless it absolutely necessary.” She said, not really answering my question. I simply looked at her in confusion and she quickly noticed. “You created the second sun.”

“I… what!” I looked back up to the sky and back at her. “But how?! Sure I pushed myself a lot but I don’t have the power to make a sun!?!”

I soon started to cough again and fell back down to the ground. I looked back up to the sky at the now two suns, “How is it possible? How can I make a sun?” Mother simply smiled before answering.

“You’ve tapped into your full power, something I thought would require more training for you.” She answered, combing my hair with her fingers.

“My full power is making suns… great, now I can sell them off to worlds with no sun.” I said jokingly as I sat up again. This earned me a laugh from Mother. The two of us laughed as I looked up to the newly made sun. “So… what now?”

“Now you rest up, you’ve used up all of your aura and it’s going to take time to recover it.” She said, standing up and offering me a hand. “Let me help you to your room.” She said. I allowed her to help me up as the two of us headed off. I looked up at the two suns as we walked.

“Well… it also makes getting a tan easier.”

Author's Notes:

ahnok- Hello

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So yeah, push Viri to the limit and then some and she can make suns, who knew?

Edit: Forgot to mention this but special thanks to one Uncle_Death for being... well, a co-writer.