Hearing a voice behind her, Ruby turned around, just to come face to face with Fafnir. While all the Beowulfs around them began to lay down in submission, the half Grimm addressed her elder.

"[Hello Fafnir, what do you want to teach me?]"

Before he answered her question, Fafnir sat down on a nearby tree stump,and prompted all the Grimm to rise from their prone positions and sit instead.

"[I hope to teach you how to reach out to your siblings with your mind.]"
"[Why can't we start with how I can make myself look more normal again?]" Ruby asked, slightly confused, as she sat down on the ground before him. Even with her question, her excitement was easy to see with her tail swishing from side to side on the ground.

The Ancient Grimm gave her a thin lipped smile before he responded.

"[Because it is easier to control Grimm that are not yourself. Now, close your eyes and try to stretch out your senses.]"
'That sounds just like what you had me do mom.' Ruby commented to Summer as she nodded to the Elder Grimm while slowly closing her eyes.

As she stretched out her senses like she had done when training with her mother, just like before, she could feel something brush against her senses.

"[I feel something where each member of my pack is sitting.]" Unseen by the young girl, her comment caused Fafnir's eyes to widen in surprise.

"[That was faster than I expected, well done child. Now try to concentrate on a single one of them and try to touch its mind.]"

With another short nod, Ruby began to focus on the instance of this strange feeling that was closest to herself. A moment later she felt waves of excruciating pain coming from it, just as a pained howl sounded right behind her. Surprised Ruby's eyes opened wide as she turned around to look at the origin of the howl. Behind her, one of her Beowulfs was clutching its head as it howled and thrashed in pain. As she watched, the pack's alpha noticed its eyes and hair not moving despite how much it was shaking around.
"[What is going on?!]" Ruby shouted panicked.
'I fear you used the powers of the Winter Maiden on it.' Summer said as she tried to soothe her daughters worries.
"[It seems as if it's head has been frozen stiff]" Fafnir said as he stepped closer to the Grimm which had started to quiet down and just laid there, unmoving as he touched it's frozen fur.
'You you mean I did this?' Ruby asked Summer confused and angry.
'Yes, I fear you accidentally set the powers you inherited from me against the poor thing.' Summer commented, trying her best to sound sad over the death of a Grimm.

'But but that's not what I wanted.' Ruby said, her mental voice filled with sadness and a hint of self loathing.

'I know Ruby, I know.' Summer replied, trying her best to comfort her daughter without the ability to hug her.

"[Well this is very unexpected.]" Fafnir commented as he left the now dissolving Beowulf, unaware of Ruby and Summer's mental conversation.
"[I-I killed him]" Ruby told Fafnir as tears welled up in her eyes.
"[No, it is as much my fault as it is yours.]" Fafnir said as he placed a hand on the redhead's shoulder "[I should have talked more with Ozpin about what being Summer's daughter might have meant for you in regards to all of this]"
After this comment, Fafnir helped Ruby to stand up as he began to lead the way back towards Beacon.
After she had said her goodbyes on the ground underneath team RWBY's dorm window, Ruby quickly scaled a nearby tree to jump into the dorm from.
"Good night Ruby." Yang greeted her sounding somewhat annoyed, or maybe even angry, as the redhead landed in the middle of the room.

"You still awake sis?" the half Grimm asked surprised as she stood up and closed the window.

"Yes, because unlike you I haven't forgotten that you promised I could talk to Mom today." The blonde, barely keeping herself from raising her voice as to not wake the rest of their team. As she continued, her crimson eyes stared into Ruby's. "But your little group of monsters seems to be more important than a promise to your own sister."

By now she was poking Ruby in the chest, while the half Grimm was trying her best to stay calm so as to not break down and cry over all that happened so far this night.
"I-I'm sorry Yang." The redhead simply stated as she rubbed the back of her neck, ears hanging low and tail snuck between her legs. "You want to ask mom anything right now?"
"More than a few things." Yang replied. "But top on that list is what happened on mom's last mission."
A moment of silence followed, before Ruby relaid their Summer's reply. "Mom said she would tell you if you really want, but she says you might not like all of it."

"I don't care if I like what I'll hear or not, I want to know what killed a Huntress that was ignored by Grimm." The blonde replied immediately.

"Okay, but mom suggests we sit down, as this might take a while." Ruby said as she pulled two chairs from their desks before sitting down on one of them.

-x-

Seeing one last Goliath before her, Summer jumped up into the branches of a nearby tree to get a better look at the Grimm's back. A moment later, the huntress vanished in a cloud of white rose petals, just to reaper on the elephant like monsters back in a similar cloud.

Summer had gotten used to Grimm not reacting to her presence years ago and without a second thought she plunged her weapon deep into the Goliath's neck before it seemed like it even noticed her presence.
Once her blade's crossguard was touching the beast's skin, Summer pulled the trigger to send a bullet into the Grimm. But as this would do little to kill it, she also drew n the powers of the winter maiden to sever its neck with a thin blade of ice as there was no one around to witness it anyways.
As the now dissolving beast's body began to fall to the side, Summer pulled out her sword before leaping to safety on the ground. Just as she was about to take her first step, a trio of bullet's impacted her Aura before she could try to dodge them. The redheaded Woman immediately took cover behind the dissolving Grimm before the unseen attacker could fire another burst of bullets.

Taking a peek through the cloud of dissolving Grimm, Summer could make out a band of bandits approaching her position. Transforming her blade into an approximation of an actual rifle, the Winter Maiden carefully began to return fire against the approaching outlaws. She managed to break through the Aura of one bandit before they took cover as well.
Realizing her cover would not last as long as the tree's the bandits had hid behind, Summer looked around until she found a small grove of trees nearby, which she appeared in just a second later as Rose petals fell to the ground. Thanks to her change in location, she managed to take down another bandit.
Hearing a twig snap behind her, the Huntress turns around, careful to remain hidden from the known enemies, just to see a dozen more humans and Faunus wearing the same gear as the bandits approaching her location. Deciding not to take her chances against those Numbers, Summer used her Semblance once again to vanish as far as she could see into the forest.

As she tried to pull out her scroll to call Qrow for backup, a Aura and Dust enhanced blade struck her across the back, draining more of her Aura than the bullets that hit her before.

Spinning around, Summer barely brought her blade up in time to block another strike of the flame wreathed blade. Looking up at her assailant, she immediately recognized the woman behind the Grimm like mask just from her messy mane of black hair.
"Raven what are you doing here?" Summer asked surprised as she blocked another of her former teammates attacks.
"Isn't it obvious?" Raven replied dismissively as she tried to land another blow on Summer. "I want those powers of yours."
"That is not going to happen." Summer shouted as she managed to barely evade Raven's blow, trying her best to disengage and run from her former friend before the bandits caught up to them.

As they continued to exchange blows, the Huntress began to notice how much her prior extermination mission had actually taken out of her as she had to draw on the powers of the Maiden just to keep up, her eyes now surrounded by silver flames.
Freezing Raven's feet in place, Summer tried her best to get away, but with a howl of rage, Raven activated the Dust in ehr weapon's blade to send waves of fire after the Winter Maiden. Barely extinguishing the flames before they could impact her Aura, Summer began to tire out even more as Raven finally broke the ice and quickly caught up to Summer, a new blade attached to her weapon's hilt. Thus their fight started up once again, with the Huntress now clearly on the back foot until a series of bullets hit the both of them, draining Raven's Aura while they finally broke Summer's.
'Sorry Yang, Ruby, Mom won't be able to make dinner tonight' Summer thought as she closed her eyes, just before she felt a blade pierce her chest.

-x-

"That woman" Yang hissed under her breath as Ruby finished the story, once again just barely avoiding waking up their team. "I'll swear I'm going to find her and then I will-"
"Yang please." Ruby says as she grabs a hold of her sister's wrist. "Don't lower yourself to her level."

"Why, she just left me and dad on our own, and then she killed Mom." Yang shouted, causing both Weiss and Blake to wake up.
"If if you want we can start picking missions involving Bandits and face her as a team. But please don't just run of o your own." The redhead pleaded with the blonde.
"Fine, but if we don'T find her by the time I'm done with Beacon, I am going to look for her, whether you guys come along or not."
"O-okay, but let's just go to bed for now okay?" Ruby asked, seeing the angry scowls on her teammates faces.

So I am back from Hiatus, although updates will still be a tad slower than before.