Grimm Satisfaction

Chapter 8

Sad Realizations

"Hey Zwei," I yawned stretching my arms as he licked my face,"It's nice to see you too."

Slowly I began rising. Looking out of the window I saw that the sun was rising. I stared down at Zwei and asked, "Did I sleep all day and night?"

He barked and shook his head up and down. "Thank you," I told him before he went into the kitchen. I followed and broke away to go to the fridge. There were frozen pancakes in there perfect for eating.

Grabbing them I went towards the kitchen counter. Climbing up was surprisingly easy compared to every time I've done this before. I walked on the counter and towards the microwave. It was a really bad microwave and the only thing in the kitchen that nobody would care if it broke. It was ironically the only thing on the counter that didn't break.

I put the pancakes in on the plate left inside and ate the timer to ten seconds. When it dinged I flipped the pancakes over and repeated the step twice.

After I was done the pancakes looked pretty good. Climbing down with my pancakes took some work, but it was easy. I moved back to the couch and started eating the pancakes with my hands.

A raspy voice came from behind me. "Looks like someone is hungry."

"Hy Qwoa," I said with a mouth full of pancake.

"I'm here too, Ruby," Taiyang said sadly, "How could you miss me?"

I gulped down my food, "Hi Taiyang."

"Finally, some recognition," he said sarcastically before sitting down in his chair.

Qrow awkwardly stood next to Taiyang's chair. He seemed uncomfortable and tired. Qrow moves his hand through his hair and said "So, Ruby you killed a Beowolf." I nodded. "That is impressive. You should be proud. Anyway, we were both wondering how you unlocked your aura.l

"My aura?" I asked silently.

"Yeah," Taiyang answered quickly resting his hands on his knees, "It's a simple curiosity that we have."

"Well, the night the Beowolf attacked I was going out to eat some of Mom's cookies. When I went back to bed a weird dream where I was above the clouds began," they both tensed, "Then, I was on top of Beacon and I could see for miles. Everything looked fine from where I was, but in the distance there was… was… millions of Grimm. They… they all attacked Beacon reducing the entire area to ash. Only… only Ozpin and some other Huntsman and Huntresses survived."

"What, what did Ozpin look like," Taiyang asked frantically.

"He had grey unkempt hair, and grey eyes. His black suit and green scarf were tattered. His small glasses fell off during the fighting and he had a cane weapon," I answered as best as I could starting to remember more and more details of the horrific sight.

Taiyang seemed shocked, "How did you know he was Ozpin? We never told you what he looked like."

"Qrow told me what he was like," I stated, "Qrow said Ozpin is stronger than him and that he was the headmaster of Beacon. I assumed that since he was the strongest there that he was Ozpin."

"Is that everything?" Taiyang asked, but immediately regretted after seeing my reaction.

"N… n… no," I mutter with tears threatening to fall down.

"What happened afterward," Qrow asked hesitantly seeing as I was about to break into tears.

I did break into tears, "Then it… it… it showed me that Mom died," both of their eyes widened in shock, "and then Mom gave me a…gift of hers and that… Qrow was my Dad!"

They were both stunned and had nothing to say. Qrow was the first to do something. He slammed his fiat into the table completely destroying it before coming over to comfort me. Qrow rarely cried. He lived through the worst of the worst and came out on top, but when the tears fell they fell for hours. They sat there for hours crying into each other. From an outsider's perspective it would be odd seeing one of the strongest Huntsman on Remnant crying together with a six year old girl. To them, though, it wouldn't matter if the entire world was watching.

Taiyang was silent with his mourning. He wished this was a lie, but the more he thought of it the more truthful it became. She said things she shouldn't know, described things she shouldn't have been able to see, unlocked her aura in a surprising way, and showed too much emotion for this to be a lie. Even if Ruby tried to lie he would have been able to see through it immediately. Ruby sucked at lying. Never in Taiyang's life has he seen Ruby lie effectively. Plus, in his youth he lived in the slums working for the scum of Remnant. After being lied to tens of thousands of times you start to instinctively know when someone is lying. So, Taiyang sat sadly in silence staring at the roof.

He knew team STRQ wouldn't last forever. Hell, his wife was technically gone, but she was still alive and well. This was much different. Summer was the reason their team was the best. Without her positive outlook on life all you had was a brawler who wanted nothing to do than beat life out of things, a reclusive reaper who wanted nothing to do with a team, and a cynical sword master that only wanted success. Summer was the glue that stuck team STRQ together. She tried her hardest to make the team be a team and in doing so became friends with all of us. Even Raven would have a hard time saying that Summer death won't affect her.

After a few minutes of listening to them Taiyang left the house and went to the large tree in the backyard. "You know," he said solemnly sitting at the base of the tree looking out towards the sunrise, "Raven, we know you're there. You probably already figured that out or Qrow told you," he chuckled, "Your portals aren't as undetectable as you think they are."

He sighed, "Yang is starting to look for you and all she has to go off of are pictures and stories I tell her. She could use a motherly figure," he frowned, "Even if that figure is a bad role model. Yang needs you even though it doesn't seem that way, so why don't you come back?" He began crying, "I would love to chat and go back to the good old days. When we were awkwardly dating and the team was together. When the world was nice. When we were… together"

Author's Note

Should Ruby become a maiden? If so, which one? This isn't necessarily a spoiler, since I haven't decided if she should become one, yet. Plus I have no idea how or why it would happen. Just an interesting thought.

Anyways, I'm reworking the experience gain. The first time Ruby gained experience was certainly not me being lazy. Nope not at all. So, Ruby will officially till the end of time will gain 10 experience per level an enemy has excluding bonuses.