After the events of Discord, things were… slow. I was still recovering from what happened to me and for all it was worth I wasn’t happy. Not at everyone that took time out of their day to help me no, more like me not being able to do anything. I was left in bed for the rest of the month past. Qo and the kids, other than Iilah, now goes to school in the Faunus town. Qo always comes to my room to get help with her homework. Yang, finally, has her wings which she was happy about for the entire day when she got them. Sure she needs help with flying but after a few crashes, she was still smiling.

Now I was sitting in my room with the covers on as I was tinkering with some parts I had at the time. I was focused on building a little clockwork mouse as Sylph slept at the foot of my bed when I heard a knock at the door. I grumbled a little having to stop my favorite pastime before standing up and heading to the door. I opened it and was greeted with the sight of a smiling Mother looking down at me, Strun and Kaida on side.

“Hello, dear.” Mother greeted. I smiled back at her.

“Hi mom.” I greeted back as I looked at the twins. “Hey you two, how was school?” They both answered with big smiles and saying that it was fun. I invited them in. Kaida and Strun happily ran in first before setting up a spot next to my bed and pulling out a few of their notebooks.

“I hope you don’t mind me bringing them along, they’ve absolutely begged me to take them to see you.” Mother said to me as she entered as well, sitting on my bed. This caused Sylph to stir in her sleep before finally waking up, taking notice of Kaida and Strun first before seeing Mother. “How have you been?” Mother asked, looking back at me.

“I’ve been… alright.” I said as I got back into bed. “Bored out of my head really but I’m alright.” Mother looked at me sympathetically before wrapping an arm around me and pulling me close.

“I’m so sorry dear but this was for your own good, I wanted to be sure you fully recovered.” She said before kissing the top of my head, between my ears.

“I understand mom, just… really boring sitting here doing nothing.” I said as I looked at a stack of books that I already read… four times over. “I even missed the grueling training you would put me through.” I admitted with a sigh. Mother hummed at this before she smiled.

“Would it make you feel better if I allowed you to leave your room now?” She asked, earning a confused look from me as I glanced up at her. “The past month you’ve spent bedridden in recovery. I see no damage left and it seems you recovered your aura as well.” She said, brushing my tail as she spoke. I instinctively purred at the sensation of my tail being brushed by Mother. “It’s actually why I wanted to stop by. To tell you that you no longer have to be trapped in your room and that your training can continue tomorrow at dawn.” She added. I smiled a bit more at this as I gave Mother a big hug.

“Thank you~” I said with a smile at the idea that I can get out of my room. Mother chuckled as she returned the hug. Sylph got up onto the bed and squeezed in between us, wanting to join in the affection. Sylph has been with me for the long month, normally she would’ve wandered down the halls but she stayed by my side as I recovered. I was happy she did this so I had someone with me as I recovered. I smiled and gave the Fox Grimm a hug as she gave me a lick.

“Now then, where is your lover, Ruby?” Mother asked me, making blush as a result before she added. “Normally she would be here by now, no?” She said.

“Yes but she and the other three went out on a mission.” I told her. After the Gala there was a few people sending missions, even Celestia posted some for us to do. With Team RWBY one of a few that can go out they’ve been busy. “She been gone for about a week and…” I pulled Sylph into a tight hug. “I miss her~!” I cried out with a waterfall of tears. Mother held back a chuckle, finding me amusing.

“I don’t doubt that you’ll tackle her the first chance you get.” Mother said, holding me close. I sniffled a bit as I nodded. “And don’t worry, I just happen to know that they’ll be returning within the hour.” She added. I looked over at her with tearful eyes and sniffled.

“R-Really?” I asked her.

“Have I ever lied to you, dear?” Mother asked back with a smile and an arched brow. I shook my head as I silently squealed at seeing Ruby again. A week or so past but it felt like half a year had past. I wiped my tears away as I went to sit beside Mother. Kaida and Strun were working on their homework and, after getting some help, were finished with it.

“You can’t wait to see Yang again?” I asked Mother with a smirk. She smiled and nodded.

“But of course, you are not the only one excited for their returning lover.” She said, chuckling as she helped the two pack up. I chuckled as well as I heard a knock at the door. Looking at Mother for a moment as I went over to the door. I opened it and saw Rose there.

“Hey, you have a moment? This is important.” Rose said with some serious in her voice. I looked at her before I nodded and moved out of the way. Rose walked in and saw Mother there as well. “Good, I didn’t miss you. Now Team RWBY is back much earlier than everyone thought but… something happened.”

“Was someone hurt?” Mother said worryingly. Rose shook her head.

“No, they’re fine and all but they came across something odd at the last bit of the mission from what I’ve been told.” Rose said, crossing her arms before adding. “They were supposed to take out some Grimm but, when they got there found there was no Grimm... Just some wounded guards that were close to the brink of casting off.”

“What..?” I said, listening to Rose explain. Rose simply shook her head.

“I know what you’re thinking; who could’ve done this. Well Team RWBY had the same idea when they helped the guards out. It seems a woman the looked a lot like a red and black raven going at high speeds slaughtered the Grimm and attack the guards. I believe the last part was that the guards were thinking this woman was a Grimm but found that out the hard way.” Rose explained to me and Mother. Kaida and Strun didn’t understand what was going on but they knew it wasn’t for them.

“Let’s go.” Mother said before looking at Sylph and saying. “Please keep an eye on the kids while we’re gone.” Sylph nodded before headed to go meet up with Team RWBY. After searching for a bit, we ended finding them in Indigo’s classroom. It was quiet as everyone was sitting in different desks. The most was Yang who stared out of the window deep in thought. I saw Ruby and went over to her and sat beside her.

“Hey.” I greeted, earning a smile from Ruby.

“Hey.” she greeted back as I pulled her into a hug and kissed her head. I had briefly glanced at Mother and saw her in a brief makeout session with Yang, the two were obviously excited about seeing each other after a week apart. I looked over to Blake and saw her sitting on Indigo’s lap, arms wrapped around his neck. Finally, there was Weiss, who was happily kissing Tak. The latter blushing madly at the affection.

“Well uhh, I know reunions are great and all but… can we move onto the important stuff that’s not going be on love?” Rose asked as she had her arms crossed.

“While I would normally ask you to kindly shut it, you’re right.” Indigo said as he adjusted himself in his seat with Blake across his lap. “Would you care to inform us on what you’ve learned during your last mission?” Indigo said a serious tone. Blake looked up at him before saying.

“We were finishing up the last bit on the last mission, exterminate some Grimm that was nearby. But when we got there all the Grimm were wiped out. Sure we could’ve left but the fact there was injured Pony guards as well meant we had to help them.” Blake explained with a little frown. “When we asked what happened they said some woman in red and black attire came and took them out. When they approached her, she turned and attacked them.”

“Without reason?” Mother asked with a curious glance as she now sat on Yang’s lap. The latter wrapping her arms around Mother before moving her head to the side to see us. Blake frowned even more.

“One of them said it was out of no reason but others said other things and then there’s the one Yang got.” Blake said.

“I asked him one question and it seems that the big blonde dragon lady scared the crap out of him.” Yang said before looking at Mother. “I’m not scary am I?” Mother shifted on Yang’s lap before wrapping her arms around her.

“No, you’re beautiful.” Was all Mother said to Yang. Yang smiled as she gave her a kiss on the cheek.

“Anyway, it seems their captain was, and sorry for my language Tak, an ass.” Weiss said with a slight blush. Tak simply suppressed a chuckle, having rarely heard Weiss swear.

“It okay to swear every now and again, Weiss.” Tak said just above a whisper but luckily I was able to hear him. Mother soon stood up, eliciting a whine from Yang as she did, she then looked at us and said.

“This has certainly caught my interest and will indeed look into it, for now though let us enjoy today.” Mother said, grabbing Yang’s hand and helping up before whispering something into her ear. I was unable to hear what she said but it elicited a small blush from Yang before she picked Mother up bridal style and hurried out the room with a giggling Mother in her arms. Everyone left the room in sorta a same fashion. I walked Ruby down to my room with my hand in hers. As soon as we got there and opened the door I saw that the kids were gone along with Sylph. I didn’t really know what happened but my attention was pulled when Ruby turned me around, pushed me to the bed and got on top of me. She gave me a passionate kiss which I was eager to give back. We were like this before Ruby pulled me away to speak.

“I missed you.” Ruby said with a blushing smile. I smiled back the same way before I spoke.

“I missed you too.” I said as I gave her another kiss. The two of us had a makeout session before we heard the door open.

“Mommy?” Qo said before she came in and looked around. Ruby rolled over to sit up just as Qo saw her and smiled. “Mommies!” She laughed as she ran over to give Ruby a hug, earning a laugh from her.

“I missed you so much Qo!” Ruby said as she hugged Qo. The little Fox Faunus giggled at this as I smiled at this. The three of us sat there for some time before Qo asked if we could play a game. This led to the three of us playing some board games for hours. While it did interrupt me and Ruby’s moment, we were happy nonetheless.

“Mommy Viri, do you think I’ll get a brother or sister in the future?” Qo asked which through both of us for a loop.

“What brought this one?” I asked as I had to move some pieces on the game of Risk which Qo asked to play… and beating both me and Ruby. The kid is really smart.

“I was just wondering.” Qo said with a shrug. “I was talking to auntie Yang about it and it led to babies and then it got stopped when Monahsemonah came around.” Qo explained. [Grandmother] I looked at Ruby for a moment before I started to speak but Ruby cut me off.

“I don’t know honey, maybe.” Ruby said, which surprised me and Qo smiled.

“I could be an older sister!” Qo giggled as I gave Ruby an odd look. She simply shrugged at me as she took her turn. I looked over at Qo and spoke.

“What did your Monahsemonah say about this?” I asked Qo.

“She said that I have to ask my parents where babies come from…” she looked between the two of us for a moment. “And I think I’ll find out later…”

“Oh honey…” Ruby pulled Qo into a hug for a moment. “Yeah.”

The rest of the night went on just the three of us playing board games, too which Qo beat both of us.

After two days of enjoyment I got a message that Princess Celestia wants us to come see her. I woke up early to do my jog to stay in shape around the area of the school. After a few hours of that I saw Father sitting down at the stairs up into the school reading a book. I jogged over to him and spoke.

“Hey.” I greeted him. Father looked up at me and smiled.

“Good morning, dear.” Father greeted with a bright smile before adding. “You’re up early.” He said.

“Yeah, after a month of being stuck in bed I felt like I should run a bit to stay in shape.” I said with a smile. “What about you, you’re also up early.”

“Ah yes…” He said, looking off into the distance with a chuckle. “Yang and I had a little talk after she spoke with Qo and as a result… we’re having another child.” Father announced, looking back at me.

“Oh my lords really!” I said with a huge smile on my face before thinking about it. “You know, after all that time with you together, I believe you were going to have another.” I added with a laugh. He laughed as well before closing the book he had.

“Yes well, you can thank little Qo for that.” He said with a chuckle. I smiled before I asked.

“I wonder, why did Qo ask Yang about that?” I asked out loud. “I’m still wondering about it.” He chuckled at the memory before saying.
“Perhaps she would like to have siblings of her own.” Was his answer as he placed the book down before looking at me. “But what about you?” He asked. I rubbed the back of my head as I sat down.

“I… don’t really know for sure.” I said. “I love Qo and Ruby to death and the three of us as a family…” I stopped there as I thought about it. I saw the other two as part of my family and I would do anything to keep it that way. Would it be bad if there was one or two more in the mix? I heard Father chuckling which brought me out of my thoughts.

“You don’t seem opposed to the idea.” Father said between chuckles. I looked over at him and stared for a moment before slightly nodding.

“I’m… not opposed to it. Truth be told that, I would love to have a family with Ruby but… no, there’s no buts.” I said as I shook my head. “Yeah… I’ll talk to her about it later.” Father smiled at this before wrapping an arm around me.

“Look at you, all grown up and thinking about a family.” Father said as he pulled me close. I blushed at this as I gave him a hug back. It wasn’t long before the rest of the others came, Yang a massive smile on her face as she saw Father. “Hello, love.” Father greeted her before standing up giving her a quick kiss.

“Hello.” Yang said after the kiss. I saw Ruby smile at me as I walked over to her. It was then we saw a few chariot came down with some mechanized horses pulling it. The Pony on it said this was our ride to Canterlot to see the Princesses. Some of us got on one of them and the other before they were pulled away into the sky. I saw Father and Yang sharing a moment with each other as they flew in the sky as I held Ruby’s hand. The two of us smiled before I decided to ask her the question.

“So… remember Qo’s question two days ago?” I asked her. Ruby looked over at me.

“Yeah.” Ruby answered with an odd look.

“Well… I gave it some thought and…” I stopped for a moment before shaking my head. “Never mind, I’ll tell you later.”

“Hey… don’t be like that. What do you mean?” Ruby whined. I chuckled as I saw we were getting closer.

“I will tell you later.” I said. She frowned at me before we landed near the castle. We were escorted to the throne room where both Celestia and Luna sat waiting for us. As we got in we all bowed to them.

“Thank you all for coming.” Celestia said before looking over at Father. “I also have to say thanks again for dealing with Discord, how is he doing if you don’t mind me asking.”

“He’s serving his punishment as the janitor of Forever Free.” Father answered the white alicorn mare.

“And all he asks for is to have that colourful cat around.” Yang added. I remembered him around with the cat around him. Sure it’s his chaotic power near him is a bad idea but from the looks of it, they seemed to be good friends. Father nodded at this before looking back at the two.

“That’s nice to hear, but that’s not what we called you here for.” Celestia said as her horn shined with a yellow light an image appeared. She wore a cloak that looked like black and red feathers and a raven like black mask. Her feet were clawed like boots that she wore. “As you can see here, this being came out of nowhere and attacked a group of guards some time ago and again with a few trained groups of huntsman.”

“Not really well trained.” Luna added which earned a looked from Celestia.

“Sister, we talked about this.” Celestia warned. Luna rolled her eyes at this as Celestia looked over at us.

“Again I sent some huntsman to capture her but, the results are the same.” Celestia sighed. “I’m worried that this woman would cause more damage if she’s free.”

“So… you want us to go and capture her?” Blake asked Celestia.

“Maybe she’s doing this out of self-defense.” Indigo suggested as he stood beside Blake.

“Whatever it is I would like you to go find her and bring her in.” Celestia said to us. “I want to hear what’s her side of the story.” Yang looked at the image and got a closer look at it. She frowned a bit before saying.

“It’s not her.” she said loud enough to say. Father heard this and placed a hand on her shoulder, Yang’s frown vanishing within an instant.

“Where was she last sighted?” Indigo asked the two princesses.

“Her last sighting was near the outskirts of Baltimare.” Luna answered Indigo. With that Indigo looked at us and before saying.

“Alright, we have an objective and a location. Let’s get this done quickly.” Indigo said to us. We all nodded as we said goodbye to the Princesses and left the room. As we walked Yang stopped for a moment as she started to look green.

“One… second.” she said before going over to some planter and started to throw up. We all looked at this as Ruby helped her with her hair.

“Morning sickness... That’s not going to be fun.” Blake said. Weiss looked like she was going to throw up from this. Father stood by Yang as she did this.

“Will you be alright, love?” Father asked after Yang stopped puking. “Do you want to go back to the dorm?” He asked.

“I’m… fine…” Yang said as she shakingly stood up. “Forgot about that part.” Father helped her back up and comforted her before cleaning the planter with a snap of his fingers.

“If at any moment you need anything, let me know.” Father said to Yang as she too was affected by the cleaning, she looked as if she never threw up.

“Thank you…” Yang said with a smile.

“Do you think having Yang with us like this is a good idea?” Weiss asked us in a whisper. “She has a third kid and, we don’t know if this lady is going to put up a fight.”

“Father is here and do you think he’s going to let Yang get hurt?” I told her. Weiss looked at Blake and Indigo, only for them to shrug back at her. When Yang came to us we went out of the castle and used the chariots to where the woman was last sighted.

The trip was short but we as we flew around I saw a black and red spot down in the field. We flew down and landed near the figure and saw that it was the same being. We all got off as she was sitting on a large rock looking up to the sky. We all looked at each other before Indigo stepped forward. Yang… sadly had another round of throwing up so Father and Yang weren’t around as Indigo spoke.

“That wasn’t nearly as hard as I expected it to be.” Indigo said, noting that it was indeed an easy and quick search. The woman simply stared at him in silence for a bit before speaking.

“Who… are you?” she asked, her voice was distorted behind her mask.

“My name’s Indigo Parker and I’d like to know the name of the person I’m speaking to.” Indigo said, trying to get the woman to say her name.

“... No.” she answered as she shifted a bit. “You’re not Indigo Parker.”

She moved her arm out of her cloak, her pale skin was as her wrist bands transformed into clawed gauntlets. We all took a step back as she spoke.

“I saw Indigo Parker die at the Fall of Beacon.” she said before disappearing into black and red pedals before there was a gunshot as she reappeared punching Indigo in the stomach. “You’re a fake.” Indigo was launched backward towards us before stopping in front of us, holding his stomach.

“Indigo!” Blake yelled as she ran at his side to make sure he was okay.

“Look at that, the black cat is here. How long will it be until you turned tail and run away.” The woman said to Blake.

“Hey! What’s wrong with you!?!” Weiss yelled at her, making the woman laugh.

“What’s wrong with me? That’s rich from a Schnee.” she tilted her head a bit. “Did daddy tell you to come out and play? No free will at all.”

Weiss was taken aback at this woman’s words. I pulled Molten Fox out and turned her into a sword. Ruby walked up beside me with her scythe.

“We’re here to talk to you, not to fight.” I told her as Indigo gasped a bit. I don’t know how this woman knows much of us but it didn’t matter as she attacked Indigo.

“Sorry.” she said as her other arm moved out with the same clawed gauntlet as she took a fighting stance. “I’m done talking.”

With that she bolted forward by shooting behind her, just like Yang would as she came up to me. I slashed at her but she blocked it with her arm. She grabbed me and threw me away as she turned to the others. I rolled a bit before stopping. I pushed myself up as I saw the others putting up a fight with the mysterious woman, all their moves and combos that they practice seemed to be for not as the woman blocked, dodged, and counter each of them. It was almost like she knew how they work. She grabbed Weiss and spun around and hit Blake away as if they were nothing. She turned to Ruby as she used her semblance to dash forward to tackle her. The woman effortlessly grabbed her scythe and looked at her. She said something to Ruby before breaking Crescent Rose. Ruby eyes widen as she was kicked away from the woman. I watched as she hit the rock with enough force to break her arua and knock her out.

Something in me snapped as I saw Ruby hurt before I gripped down on Molten Fox. I screamed as I blasted forward with a torrent of flames behind me. The woman turned as she blocked my blade but grunted from it.

“YOU DON’T TOUCH HER!” I screamed as the flames poured into Molten and I was welding a flame sword. I brought it down on her but missed her by an inch as I came around and punched her. “DON’T EVER LAY A FINGER ON RUBY! I’LL KILL YOU IF YOU DO!”

“Funny you should-” I cut her off with a flaming fist. She dodged it. “She’s just a child, not ready to be a true huntress.”

“SAYS WHO!?!” I yelled as I slashed upwards and a torrent of flames burst up at her, knocking the mask off. I panted in anger as the flames died down and my anger was replaced with shock as I saw who it was. “No…”

“It… can’t be…” Weiss said as she saw who it was.

“Ruby...Rose…” Blake said as Ruby, a little older and longer hair stood in front of us with a frown.

“Actually, it’s Ruby Branwen.”

Author's Notes:

Well... that’s something...