I got up early the next morning and had headed into Everfree to the ruins to lay down the proper circles and runes for tomorrow’s transmutation. I also wanted to see if Qrow was doing okay. I’d left him on a bitter note last night at the bar. I went around to the usual spots we’d found him over the past few days we’d found him since coming here. It was safe to say he was in none of these places so I went ahead and came here to the castle. I also wanted some time to myself to do some thinking but it wasn’t long before I arrived at the ruins. Other than finding a few small Nevermore in here it was pretty quiet.

Adam and the others had done an excellent job clearing this place out. I used my Arc to make up some large barrels of liquid black ink. I then kicked them over spilling them all onto the floor. I used my alchemagic to embed the ink deep into the stone floor in the patterns of a human transmutation fused with the of an advanced soul transmutation circle. I left certain areas in this pattern open so I could insert the ancient magical runes to accommodate for the flow of the magic. I set the runes in their proper places and headed back to town as I figured Adam’s group should be starting to stir by now.

As I made my way back toward Adam’s place I started to hear yelling of the small red hooded variety. Then I start to here a replied yell from my family. That’s when I figured out where Qrow had been all morning. He must have gone to Adam’s house last night after he left the bar to sleep on the couch. I don’t know if he even has a room of his own in that place. He only seemed to sleep wherever his drunkenness took him by the night end. Can’t do that anymore though. ‘Again, sorry Qrow’. I let out a sigh then heard Ruby again.

“This is the last time I’m going to ask you two. WHERE… IS… EDWARD?!” yelled a very angry Huntress at Polearm and Twilight.

“Ruby, calm down and listen to us. We have no idea where Ed is. We got up this morning and he was already gone or he never came back last night. He most likely with your uncle or training somewhere,” answered Twi with a worried look on her face.

“Oh no. He’s not with Uncle Qrow cause he’s in the house on the couch,” yelled the angry silver eyed girl.

“Then why are you looking for Ed. Did something happen to Qrow that was Ed’s fault?” asked Polearm as he placed an arm in front of his marefriend.

“That’s exactly what happened. Qrow came in this morning complete sober and hasn’t touched his flask at all. Then I go over to ask him if something is wrong. When he pulled his head up to me our eyes me and I saw one normal eye and that snake symbol that Edward got when he used his powers in his fight with the Princess,” Ruby yelled as she stomped the ground with both of her fists clenched in rage. “Edward better have a good explanation as to why my uncle is now half blind!”

‘I’ve got to step in before she hurts someone or attracts the Grimm.’

I put my hands in my pockets while I walked out of the forest and made my way to the trio and open my mouth to explain things.

“Your uncle isn’t half blind girl. In fact, he can see more clearly now than he’s ever been able in his whole life. That eye is The Ultimate Eye that sees all things even truth,” I say as I make my way over to the group. “What did you do to Qrow?!” shouted Ruby as she charged at me pulling out her Crescent Rose with flames coming off her clothes as she activates her semblance.

I let out a sigh as I activate my partial demon arm. Ruby propels herself faster firing off a few rounds to jump in there air and then again to come back down bring the blade of the Crescent Rose down upon me. I simply catch the blade of the weapon between my thumb and forefinger causing a small crater to form under me from the force of the attack while the girl holding it glares at me in pure rage. I only have a straight face on at the moment but I let out another sigh and I begin to speak.

“Qrow willing accepted the power of the Ultimate Eye last night at the bar. I told him that there would be consequences and one of is that he would no longer be the drunken bastard he was Ruby,” I say as she takes in what I say her clenched teeth start to disappear and is replaced with a look of shock as tears roll down her face. “In time he’s going to be a better man for accepting this power I gave him. Yes, his eye and body have changed becoming much stronger and gaining new powers and abilities. But, he is still very human. I was able to withhold much of the immortality of the Philosopher Stone I gave him.”

“What does that mean?” she asked as her grip tightened on the scythe.

“It means he’ll still age normally for the most part if only slightly slower,” I say tossing the scythe to the right causing the young huntress to fall with her weapon.

Qrow came outside of the house to see what the commotion was. He saw Ruby getting up off the ground and then he looked to me and started to grit his teeth a bit. He then pulled out the Harbinger from off his back and charged at me in a rage much like Ruby did. I saw him coming at me the second I heard my name.

“ED! YOU BASTARD!” yelled Qrow as he thrust the sword forward. He immediately started wildly slashing at me causing a whirlwind to start to form as I dodged them.

‘Have to admit I’ve always wanted to fight in an epic battle with Qrow Branwen. This could work out for him seeing as how his head is finally clear after years of drinking. I’ll help him get a handle on his new powers, let him get out some rage, and get to fight one of my favorite anime characters. Win-win for us and triple win for me if he still considers me his friend.’

I block a hit with my demonized arm and was pushed back a few feet. “Okay Qrow, I know you have mixed feeling about me right now so come at me and let them out. While you’re at it use your new powers. Push past everything that’s happened and move forward,” I say waving my arm off to the right. I lung forward giving a punch with my right hand and he blocked it with the flat of his sword pushing him back a few feet.

He only glared at me with his Ultimate Eye. “If you don’t want to talk that’s understandable too but that doesn’t mean I’m just going to stand here and just let you beat on me Qrow,” I say as I pull Enki in its bow form before a separate it into its dual sword form.

“What did you do to Ruby you bastard?!” he hissed at me.

“Not a thing, actually. She was pissed off and worried about the state she found you in this morning and wanted to find out what I did to you last night. So she started looking for me to find out what happened and came across Twilight and Pole in the process. She thought they knew where I was but they didn’t and she kept asking and this kept giving the same answer. Which pissed her off even more. That’s about the time I came out of the forest and she attacked me. I caught her scythe and then let her fall off to the side and that’s when you came out,” I say as I run forward.

CHINK.

Our blades met in an exchange of back and forth blows. Qrow then changed his sword into its scythe form and brought it down upon me. I crossed Enki’s blades to catch the Harbinger. The force of the blow caused another crater to form under me. Qrow was certainly putting his new strength to good use. I was so focused on the scythe I didn’t react as the Huntsman kick me into the nearest tree. I was knocked back and quickly hit on the head with a fallen branch.

“OW!” I yell, jumping back to my feet.

‘Damn that hurt. Looks like he’s starting to us use that eye and his semblance in tandem. That's very good.’ I looked over to Qrow as he charges forward he swung the scythe coming in from my left, so I jumped and as I did I saw he had a few tears in his eyes. ‘Crap.’

I land behind him and started to speak. “Qrow it’s like you said last night. The booze only dulls the pain and even then it’s only for so long. It’s time you stop denying yourself the truth.”

I turn to face him and him to me.

“Why did you give me this power Ed?” asked Qrow with a softened face.

“I give you those powers to help you move forward, Qrow. I did this so you could help those kids. They’ll need a teacher. Especially Adam, if not Ruby most of all. Oscar needs to learn how to fend for himself since Ozpin’s hold on him isn’t nearly as strong in this world as it was in Remnant,” I say, sending Enki back.

“I didn’t give you those powers to cause you any more pain than you’re already in Qrow but to help you move through the pain. Remember the code I gave you last night and stick to it. Now go and explain to Ruby what’s going to happen from now on. And once you have better control over those powers you’ll be able to turn your eye back to normal. Now I’ve got to go and check on my wife. Pole, Twi come on.”

I release another sigh and I head back home from the schoolhouse. Pyrrha and Cheerilee had asked me to come in and help them set up for some kind of lecture about certain types of Grimm that Pyrrha was going to be holding later, and they needed an extra pair of hands to help get everything set up. It really helped that I was able to use my shadow as hands to organize everything faster.

I was kinda at a loss of what I should do today. According to Ed, everything was on schedule and we could go though Sora’s transmutation tomorrow, so all the prep was done, we just needed to actually go through with it.

Though, I was worried about Qrow. He showed up back at home last night before I fell asleep and from what I could tell, he was completely sober. I just chalked it up to Ed using some kind of alchemy, but even then, it seemed off to me.

Then there was the gunshots I heard a couple minutes ago, but I think Ruby just found a couple Grimm or something. I really needed to get back to practicing my soul attacks though.

I really wish Ed’s wife gave me permission to enter the dark library like my sisters, but I guess learning about my own dark magic is a sort of hands-on thing. Though, I have mostly just been copying things I saw in media, like Shikamaru, Betty, and Pride. Maybe I should see if I could develop my own abilities aside from my soul attacks?

That thought about my abilities brought me back to something I have been trying to figure out. Me and Ruby, how do we use our eyes? It has been bugging me since before I was brought to Equestria, but every time Ruby used her eyes, it was to protect her friends. Pyrrha, Jaune, maybe she would have used it more is she and the others stayed in Remnant.

Yet, despite all the theories and posts I have read online, there was never a definitive answer as to how to use them. And now I was in the same boat as the red hooded huntress. How do I petrify or vaporize monsters with my eyes?

I guess I could ask Ozpin, but I have a feeling he would try to dance around the answer than just tell us outright. I do trust him and Oscar in a fight, but in a truthful conversation, I could tell he almost always is lying about his past, or at the very least, he is leaving some things out. Even though I understand some of it, what with his being a millennium of years old, some things need to be said to uproot the seeds of doubt.

I am brought out of my mental rambling when I see Edward, Polearm and their Twilight going by. I notice the latter two look a little shaken up from something, maybe they saw some nasty Grimm?

“Hey, guys, what’s going on?” I ask, walking over to the trio.

“Well, not so good Adam. Ruby was in a bad mood after seeing the state Qrow was in. After she got a look at the emblem in his eye she was able to chalk it up to Ed’s handy work,” explained Pole.

“After running into us she tried to find out where Ed was at, but we kept trying to tell her we didn’t know. After say twenty minutes of yelling Ed came out of the forest and that’s when Ruby went nuts and attacked him. There were a few gunshots as she shot herself into the air and another shot as she launched herself at Ed. I saw a lot of flaming rose petals go everywhere as she tried to hit Ed with the Crescent Rose only for him to catch like it was a baseball,” added Twilight with a little bit of shiver.

“I let go of the scythe and let them fall to the ground. That’s when Qrow came out of the house, saw Ruby on the ground and attacked,” added Ed.

“What did you do Ed? Qrow thought a lot of you and it would take a lot to have just attack out of the blue like that. Even if you did get in small scuffle Ruby,” I asked in shock to my statement.

“I was getting to that. Last night at the bar we got into why I was doing all the extra work while I was here. Then I told him there was a way I could help him. I warned him there would be consequences if he accepted the Philosopher's Stone but he said he trusted me and you know how stubborn the bastard can be,” Ed said as he crossed his arms.

“Wait a minute. You turned Qrow into a Homunculus?!” I asked in disbelief.

“Not entirely. I turned him into a half Homunculus like Wrath. He’ll still age if not a little more slowly than a normal human. He has all the usual benefit of the Homunculi even their metabolism,” Ed explained but paused to take a deep breath. “That means he can’t drink anymore. Well, he can still drink but like me, he won’t be able to get drunk nowhere near as easily.”

“You mean Qrow was sober because you gave him a Philosopher’s Stone,” I say as I was still in shock. “Why the hell would you do something so stupid?! That man is in some form of pain and you took away the way he deals with it.”

“He said it himself last night at the bar Huntsman. Drinking only dulls the pain and even then it’s only for so long and it makes it worse!” Ed shouted at me with a few tears in his eye.

“I gave him the Ultimate Eye as a means to not only help my friend face his pain but to move past it. He has people and family here that are depending on him and your one of those people. You need a teacher that has a clear head not just some of the time but all of the time if you're ever going to properly lead the Equestrian White Fang,” Ed says getting in my face. “I tried to talk him out of it to no avail. So you tell me, Adam Taurus. How would you have dealt with that situation,” Ed said as he backed away from me.

“I…” I started to say but then I quickly shut up and thought it was best not to piss off Ed anymore than he already was.

“One of the last things I told to Qrow was the Old Code, Adam. It was the only thing that I could think of to help him understand the situation he’s in now. I suggest that you take it up to as your order would do well if they could learn to understand its meaning as well, Huntsman, ” Ed sais as his group started to walk away.

I didn’t get why Ed was talking like this. He’d always been so friendly with me and the others. It like he turned on some sort of formality mode. I think has a lot to do with Qrow and him becoming a Homunculus. I think he really regrets doing it. Qrow is pretty stubborn and once he has his mind made up you can’t change it. I can’t really try to understand how Ed’s mind works but I do know that everything he does has a purpose behind it. He’s willing to take the blame and hurt for things if it’ll help those he cares for. Ed’s even willing to sacrifice part of himself if he can help someone just a little. He turned Qrow into a Homunculus to force him to face his pain but he tried to talk him out of first. The man was truly deserving of his title as The Crimson Sage. I’m proud to call him my friend and even prouder to call him family. Ed suddenly stopped and looked to the sky and let out a large huff and then started to speak.

“Sorry for biting your head there Adam. Let me make it up to you. I can let you have access to the Dark Library to learn a few dark spells,” said Ed in an apologetic tone. “ It what you’ve been wanting right? You should know my wife isn’t the only one who has access to it. I did help build the place. I can even teach how to use your shadows while we there. My semblance is shadow clones after all. We could also work on our soul techniques. Perhaps there’s a way we could even channel them through our weapons. Come with me as today is the only day we can do so. I must speak with my wife before we go to the Library it won't take long.”

After Edward’s discussion with Adam, he tagged along with us as we went to find our Princess Luna. Ed said she’d really been enjoying her downtime of not having to raise and lower the moon or dream duties. She still helps Adam and his Luna to keep herself from getting bored apparently. We told Ed the last place we saw her was after breakfast. Luna had said she wanted to get Rarity to make her a new dress for some reason. Personally, I think it’s for a date with Ed. He’s been under a lot more stress than what he let’s everypony see. Gods know this recent skirmish with Ruby and Qrow has only added to it.

‘Stupid Twilight. Now I remember what I wanted to ask Pole and now is just as good a time as any. Good thing I was thinking of dates.’

“Hey Pole, can I ask you something?” I say as my face heats up. “Sure Twi, what do you want to know?” he replied looking to me from the corner of his eye.

“Well, we’ve been dating for a while now and I know you’re really busy between your studies for Ed and your guard duties but I was hoping that you might start staying over at the library in Ponyville once we’re back home,” I say with my face burning up as I look over to my coltfriend who was blushing red enough to make an apple jealous.

I could tell he was giving this some serious thought from the look on his face before he answers.

“Listen Twi, I’d love to spend a few nights at the library with you,” Pole said but with a serious look. “That’s great, I can put an extra bed in Spike’s room. He won’t mind as he spends most nights over at Rarity’s now anyway.” I squeed with joy.

“Ed, did I just hear her right?” asked Adam in shock. “Spike sleeps at Rarity’s house in your Equestria. How the hell did that happen?”

“My timeline is a little bit different as you already know. Back home Discord was freed and reformed before the wedding,” Ed explained to Adam as we walked along. “Rarity needed a date to said wedding and asked Spike. Though the got pretty close in training camp too. Since then they started seeing each other. Especially since Twi has spent a pretty good portion of her time in Canterlot with me on her alchemy studies since the whole Malice incident.”

“Spike runs the library in Ponyville when I’m not around during regular business hours but he stays over at Rarity’s after closing and cleaning. I don’t really know the specifics of what’s going on between them but I do know that they’re very happy since they started dating. I even saw a kiss when we were at the Candle Festival,” I say sheepishly. “Sorry about interrupting you Pole, please go on.”

“Yes, well, I was gonna say that I really would like to start staying over Twi but I can’t. My job as a guard and Edward’s assistant slash student won’t let me. I mean, I stay at the guard barracks or in the lab whenever I get to into my research and you remember what trying to figure out that drink formula experiment did. URM” Pole explain with a sorrowful tone looking down.

All of a sudden he was nailed in the head with a small stone knocking him down straight on his flank. I looked around to see who threw the rock only to see Edward was facing us while tossing up and catching a handful of similarly sized stones in his hand. I looked back to Pole who was rolling around on the ground while holding his face. That’s when Edward gave his bit of inquiry.

“Dumbass students the lot of ya. You can stay in Ponyville and use the Rune transporter in the shop to go and forth from Canterlot Castle’s workshop to the Ponyville Automail shop. That is why I developed the thing. How do ya think Twilight’s been checking in on Spike. And it’s not like you’re not going to have downtime Pole. I’m not going to have you constantly in my lab or my workshop all the time or sparring. I get enough fight with Luna in as is without having you bugging me. And no but either. You’re going to start putting forth more effort into your relationship with my niece,” Ed said as he started to throw more rocks at Pole.

“OW! Okay, I get it.OW! I need to put effort into my OW! relationship with Twilight. Twi I’m sorry. OW! Now can you please stop your uncle. OW!” Pole say as Ed continued to flick rocks at him.

“Yes, Edward, speaking of putting forth more effort into relationships. Maybe you should take some of your own advice,” said a dark and ominous princess of the night, aka Ed’s wife, from behind him.

That’s when Ed froze in terror and very mechanically turned around to see a smiling Luna with her eye twitching ever so slightly.

“Oh, hey, Luna,” Ed says as he smiles in fear. “Why did I wake up to alone this morning my dear husband?” asked Luna clearly angered.

“I was trying to back before you woke up but the laying of the final marks at the castle took longer than expected. Then, kinda I got into a little skirmish with Ruby and then another one with Qrow,” Ed clapped his hands to together while he bows his head. “I’m really sorry Luna. What can I do to make it up to you?”

Luna let out a sigh then smiled while placing both hands on Ed’s face pulling it up to meet her gaze as she then kissed him. Adam, Pole, and I all blushed at the sight while trying to look away but couldn’t. When Luna pulled away I swear Ed’s eyes were spials while Luna only chuckled at his confusion.

“You and I will be having a date later on this evening. One, you need a break and haven’t stopped since we got here. Two, we haven’t spent practically anytime together since our arrival either. Now, I must go and help Lex, Nat, Sora, and Dusk with there dark magic lessons. I’ll meet you at Townhall by five this evening. See you later Ed,” Luna said waving goodbye as she was off to see the others.

“Yeah see ya later Luna. Love ya,” Ed mumble out still in his daze from the kiss before shaking his bringing him back to reality. “Okay, guys that went a lot than I thought. Let head to the Library now.”

We walk with Ed till we reach a mirror shop. Adam looked at Ed while scratching his head.

“Ed this is a mirror shop, I thought we were going to the Dark Library,” Adam said in disappointment while Pole and I laugh. Ed then pulled out his black key and placed it on the mirror causing a ripple effect to occur in the mirror.

“Alright Adam in ya go,” Ed said as he grabbed Adam by the jacket and threw him through the doorway. “See you guys in there if ya wanna come.”

Ed the step through the door and we followed suit

.We arrived in the Dark Library within a few seconds of me tossing Adam through the mirror. I was met with an angered faunus who hadn’t yet looked at his surrounding but was looking to the doorway waiting for me to come through. As I did he was right in my face just as I’d planned for him to be.

“What the hell Ed I know you’re still in a bad mood from earlier but that doesn’t give you the right to go tossing people through mirrors,” Adam spat in anger as Twi and Pole came through the doorway.

“You two decided to join us, good,” I said looking of my shoulder before turning back to the angry faunus, “Before you throw off on me anymore you might want to look where you are my friend. Dark Light come out and meet our latest addition to your roster of patorns.”

POP!

In a quick burst of light, there was a small orb of light about the size of my head now float in mid-air now floating next to me. Adam only looked at it with a raised borrow questioning what the orb was. Then it started to introduce itself.

“Greeting Adam Taurus and welcome to the Dark Library. My name is Dark Light and I am the Librarian of this place. I take it you are the brother to Lex, Nat, and Sora. I do hope we get along while your stay in my Mistress’s domain.,” Dark Light said introducing herself in her usual polite but monotoned manner.

“Wait, where did you say we were at?” asked Adam as he look quickly changed to that of confusion and awe as he looked around at the massive collection of dark magic tomes.

“You three can take a crack at the books while I take a nap and maybe get something to eat. Adam, just ask Dark Light if you have any questions about anything you’re curious about or don’t understand. Don’t bother trying to get into the restricted section cause you need my permission or Luna’s to get in there, and I don’t plan on giving it to until you’ve proven yourself to my wife that you can control your magic beyond a certain point. She’s the expert on this part of the magical spectrum. Adam, be ready because as soon as I say so we’re going to the training arena to work on shadow and soul techniques. See ya after while,” I say as I walk to Luna’s private study while waving to the others.

“Have a decent rest Master Edward. Now, Mr. Taurus shall we begin with your studies,” chirped Dark Light.

After I’d eaten a few pieces of fruit I sat in the chair I kept in the study for such occasions as this. Sure there was a bed but that’s Luna’s and I never really liked it anyway. I don’t know how long I was out but it couldn’t be more a few hours, four at most. When I woke up I felt so much better. Now that my head was clearer I thought it was time to train Adam in the proper use of shadows.

“Dark Light inform Mr. Taurus that it’s time for training. Please guide him to the arena and configure it for an open field around high noon if you please,” I say as I make my way through the bookshelves to the arena. “I would be my pleasure, Master Edward. If I me add I rather like Mr. Taurus so please don’t be to rough with him in your sparring,” said Dark Light with some concern in her voice.

“Don’t worry Dark. I’m only planning on a minor session,” I say laughing.

I made it to the arena in fifteen minutes. I got the with Adam in it already waiting from me. I released Pride and activated my demon armor for my arm. I smiled the Huntsman as my shadow expanded behind me in. It took on a large shape with multiple eyes a mouth with razor sharp teeth in the shape of a smile and multiple appendages.

I quickly used a few shadow hands to grab on to Blush & Wilt pulling it from Adam’s grip catching it with my right hand. He was clearly shocked that I was able to so easily take his weapons. I could only smile.

“Lesson one Shadows are some of the most versatile things on this planet. Whether for showing off or stealthily stealing your opponent’s weapons,” I say shaking his weapons at him. “I’m going to teach you more or less the how to make use of your shadows as weapons.”

“Sweet, now can I have Blush & Wilt back?” Adam asked extending his hand waiting for me to return his weapons.

“You can have these back when we’re done with your training. Until then I’m putting them in my vault,” I say as I open the Gates of Aries placing Blush & Wilt in it.

We sparred for a quite a while. Adam would try various attacks and techniques from various show and a few from the Library with little to no avail of even coming close to me. I was really disappointed that he was trying to use his own attacks.

“Adam, what is a shadow?” I asked as he rubbed his chin pondering the meaning of my question. “I’m afraid I don’t really follow Ed. Shadows have a lot of different meaning. Especially since we’re Displaced,” he said with a huff sitting on the ground to take a breather.

“You’re right but think of it this way. A shadow is a reflection of whatever it cast. As such it has all of the same attributes of whatever cast it. A shadow can also be a weapon sharper than the sharpest sword but as fragile as a dry leaf. A shadow can also be the gateway to your soul. Take my semblance for example,” I pause to see him staring intently at me.

“My semblance allows me to summon forth replicates of myself that operate independently from me but it represents my want to give the souls trapped in my body a form separate from me. My point is Adam, you shouldn’t try and copy things you’ve seen but come up with your own techniques like how you developed your other techniques. Enough of a break now we move on to the other techniques or more specifically your eyes.”

“You know how I can use my eyes?” Adam said jumping to his feet in excitement.

“First off Adam you already know that the Grimm are destroyed when the gaze of the silver-eyed warriors. You must understand that this means they were a direct countermeasure created by the god of light to counter his brother’s beast of darkness, aka the Grimm. You, Adam, are a very special case in this manner because you have silver eyes but you can also use dark magic,” I explain to the Huntsman.

“I’m afraid I don’t understand Ed,” Adam says scratching his head.

“I’m saying you are the one being in this world that has a balance of light and dark. The one being that can never fall to either side. Who will always walk the line in between them. But that’s only if you can learn you can learn to use them in the entirety. You already have a handle on the dark aspect of yourself as per the markings that appear on your body when you invoke it but you have no concept of how to invoke your light aka your eyes,” I said as I used Arc to make a few bottles of water tossing one over to Adam.

“Great, but that leads me back to me to my earlier question Ed. How?” he said then take a swig of his water.

“That brings me to my question for you Adam. What is your first and foremost responsibility as a Huntsman, a leader, a brother, a friend, and to those you hold dear?” I asked in a serious tone.

“I don’t follow. Ed what’s the point in that question. It has several different answers for each subject and many that can tie into each other,” Adam said in total confusion.

“I didn’t want to bring this up but it looks as if I have no choice.,” I say with a darkened tone. “You once told me how Lex ‘lost her innocence’ remember.”

“Don’t go there, man. You know none of us like to talk about what happened,” Adam says as he starts to growl at the very mention of the incident but there was also a flicker of white light originating from his eyes. ‘Looks like I’m going to have to play the asshole again, but if the helps him understand how to unlock his powers than I’ll be the bad guy.’

“Oh really what the hell are you gonna do to stop me, Mr.Taurus. Maybe I should just go talk to Lex about it. She’d be able to give a better description of exactly what happened. Nat could tell me exactly what of mind she was in after it all went down,” I said with an evil grin.

‘Gods please forgive me. I hate being a douche.’

“You better stop right now Ed. I’m warning you if you don’t I’m going to beat the ever living crap out of you,” Adam said with his fists clenched in rage but his eyes now had a steady flow of light coming from them.

‘Sorry Adam but I have to do this.’

“You beat the crap out me, you mean like you beat the living hell out of the guy who defiled your sister. Don’t make me laugh kid. In fact, HAHAHA, the idea, HAHAHA, of you trying, HAHAHA, is absolutely hilarious, HAHAHAHA,” I say laughing maniacally.

Adam was now positively fuming with the light coming from his eyes. One more push and I had him.

“I still find it funny how a fifteen-year-old but the crap out of a twenty-some odd-year-old adult. Doesn’t really matter in the long run but I think I’ll go ahead and call Lex and Nat up on the watch now,” I say reaching into my pocket.

“YOU BASTARD!” yelled Adam as a blind light came forth from his eyes bathing the whole library in the brilliant light of protection.

‘Finally’

Adam passed out from invoking his eyes so I brought him to the lobby to rest. Not surprising, it like using muscle you never knew you had. I looked over to the faunus who was starting to stir.

“Oh my head, what in the Gods was names happened?” Adam asked as he grabbed his head sitting up.

“Easy, Adam. they egging on I did earlier, got you to use those eyes of yours. Have some water and sit back and relax. You’ll start to feel better in a minute. I want to apologize for those comments I said but it was the only way I could get a reaction out of you,” I say as he takes the glass of water from my hand then taking a huge swig of it.

“What exactly happened? The last thing I remember was you fixing to call-” He immediately stopped talking and jumped up and grabbed my shirt his eye began to emit light again.. “You bastard! I thought we were family and then you go and pull a stunt like this.”

“Easy Adam. You’re still weak from your outburst, and I never had any intention of going through with that threat. Makes me sick that I had to sink so low as to use one of our family member’s worst experiences as a weapon against you just to unlock your powers. If I had more time I’d have done thing differently. But let me ask you a question. In that moment before you blacked out, what exactly did you feel?” I ask as he holds on to my shirt before releasing me.

“All I was thinking I had to protect Lex and Nat from what you were about to do and anything you were about to ask,” Adam say as he stumbles a bit.

I poked him in the chest causing him to fall back into the couch in his weakened state as I asked another question, “And what is your first and foremost responsibility as a Huntsman, a leader, a friend, and to those you hold dear?”

“To protect them at all cost. Even if I know that I have no chance of winning,” He says as he soon starts to realize what’s going on.

“Exactly my young friend and that is the key of how to unlock the power of your eyes. You want to protect those you hold dare to you. Although your power is a little bit different from Ruby’s,” I said refilling his glass with water.

“How so?” he says taking another gulp of his drink still visibly pissed at me.

‘I don’t blame you for that.’

“The power of your eyes takes the form of your keyblade,” I say standing up from my seat. “I only saw it form for a slight moment in your hand when your eyes activated. It wasn’t long enough to give it a defined form but it was definitely there. Now I hate to cut our training short but I have a date with my wife that I must keep and you’re completely spent for today,” I say walking over to the door while Adam follows still scowling at me.

We walk through the portal returning outside the mirror shop from earlier. I wasn’t worried about Pole and Twi as they can enter and leave as they needed. We were met with Luna who was wearing a midnight blue dress embroidered with diamonds in a night sky motif with her hair in a ponytail while she was wearing black high hill shoes. She also had a long box hidden behind he back.

“Right on time. Ed would you mind going on ahead while I speak with Adam for a bit,” Luna says with a smile. “Sure,” I say going on to the restaurant.

I looked to the shocked but angry Huntsman. Ed had contacted me through Lex’s watch and let us know what had happened. While Lex, Nat, and Sora were a little mad with what Ed did they were more worried about his emotional state. He’d broke down crying during his apology to the trio of sisters for his use of their past and for the way he went about pushing Adam to unlock his power. After we got Ed to calm down we noticed Adam was starting to stir in the background so we decided to end the call. Afterward, I explained how Ed was always doing what he could for others no matter the cost to himself. He’d always been this way he’d help others even if it meant losing someone he cherished for good. Always saying ‘I will always do all that I can to help those I care for. I don’t care if they end up hating me in the end because of it’.

I was pulled back to the present when Adam spoke.

“What did you want to talk about Princess?” he asked in a rough tone.

“Adam I know you don’t have the best opinion of my husband right now but I want you to know he is truly sorry for his actions in the Library earlier. One thing you must’ve realized by now is that Ed only does things like that is one he has a good reason to,” I say looking to the ground.

“I don’t care for his reason’s Luna. He had no right to use one of my family’s darkest times against us. I thought I considered him family but after this stunt, I’m not sure I want to ever have anything to do with that bastard again,” spat Adam in fury.

“Let me tell that Ed understands as a similar situation was what caused him to be entombed in stone,” I say as I pull the box from behind my back. “Edward has wronged everyone of you that he has called his family and he doesn’t take that word lightly Adam. Ed has major trust issues due to his entombment and for him to consider you and your sisters family after a few months is something remarkable. He was in tears earlier. Something the I rarely ever see outside of him being around me and Tia.”

I give the box to Adam and he looks to me in confusion. He then opens it and his eyes widen. In the box lay his weapons Ed had taken from him earlier and placed in his vault. They had gone through some type of evolution when he put the Blush and Wilt in the Gate of Aries. What the vault did to them I didn’t particularly know apart from what Ed had told me to tell Adam. All I know is that when a weapon is placed inside Ed’s fault it evolves to its peak of proficiency and this state is maintained for the rest of the weapons foreseeable future.

“When Ed put your weapons into his vault and they became what is called a Noble Phantasm. In other words, a legendary weapon that can only be wielded be a true hero. You no longer have to build the ammo for Blush while Wilt can generate a reality slash called Meido Surasshu. It’s an a reality warping attack that sends whatever it hits to a place Ed calls Hell,” I say as Adam runs his hand over his new weapon.

“Adam, I know Ed has already said he wouldn't blame you four for never wanting anything to do with him ever again but that he’d still considers all of you family. Just know that no matter what you do when Ed says something like this he truly means it. You all have qualities that remind me of Ed when he was younger and maybe that’s what he sees in all of you too. I think he’s doing his best to help you four in order to keep you from making his mistakes and to help guide you as best he can. Ed never had a Displaced there he could turn to, in fact, the closest thing Ed had to a teacher was mine and Tia mentor, Starswirl,” I said as I walked over to the young warrior placing my hand on his shoulder.

“Please don’t judge my husband’s actions to harshly Adam. I can also predict what he might do before we leave to return home,” I say turning as I start to walk away. Before I get to far Adam catches me by the shoulder.

“What do you think Ed is going to do Luna? I might be on the fence about how I feel about him right now but I have the right to know if he’s planning something,” Adam said in a serious manner.

“I believe Ed will try and alter you and your sisters’ watches so that you’ll never be able to reach him. Or at least only under dire circumstances. You’ll have to excuse me now as I must join Ed at the restaurant for our date. I know he really needs this right now. I will see you tomorrow for your sisters ceremony. Goodnight Adam,” I say as I leaving Adam with his thoughts.