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"Killed your daughters?" Ren echoed. Salem nodded and he could feel no lies coming from him, it was as if she was assured their father killed them but that is impossible. "I find that hard to believe"

"But it is quite true Ren, that I promise you" Salem assured him "I admit it was a from a time long ago ... but for you I will tell that story once more"

"It was from the time when the gods had left the world and humanity was left scattered and broken. During this time I had ... fallen into a deep depression as I was cursed with immortality and your father was dead to my knowledge. For thousands of years I tried to live up to his ideas at first and tired to help humanity, but they never learned.

Afterwards I gave up and instead wanted to spend my immortal life in solitude. Until one day, I had felt an unknown source of magic outside of my home: It was your father of all people.

You must understand that I did not understand how or why your father came back but it did not matter to me, the man I loved was back in my life and I was for the first time happy.

After that we had stayed together as we discuss many things till we reached the topic of humanity. Understand that during this time humanity was far more fractured and divided then it is now. We had discussed greatly on it as we traded ideas but we could not agree to anything. That was until I came up with my plan.

Why not conquer the world and become it's new rulers? We were both Immortal and carried the last remains of magic, together we could create a new age of peace. And your father had accepted"

Ren widened his eyes

"Yes he did agree to conquering. But I don't want to digress; It tooks us more than three years to take over most of the known world and along the way we had created a family. Four beautiful daughters, it was a nice time for as long as it lasted.

Until one day, your father tried to run away the kids. I tried to understand why he was doing this and begged him to reconsider, but it was no use we were forced to fight and in the fighting we lost our daughters" Salem finished.

"But why did he want to take our ... ancestors, you never told me why?"

"Simple he went back on my plan, to bring back magic to the world and bring a rebirth of humanity"

"Rebirth?" He did not like the sound of that

"Yes, to see the replacement of current humans that exist with the ones from our time"

"WHAT!?"

"Ren calm yourself, you're not understanding what I mean—"

"Calm down!? You want to commit genocide against everyone on remnant. How am I supposed to calm down!?" he growled

"Because your siblings proved I was right. Let me explain ..." seeing the confused look on her son "I had theorized that my children would inherit my magical abilities and that it would be a permanent dominant trait.

Your existence proved that even with thousands of years of genetic drift you all were able to use magic like a natural. My goal was to slowly reintroduce magic by marrying our family into others and let nature take its course. In thousands of years mankind would have gain the ability to use magic once more and united under a ruler who understand, people that understood them apathetic gods."

That ... that was far less worse then ren had originally thought: And ... it seemed fessisable.

If it Salem did wait for thousands of years then in theory magic could have return back to all humans. That was if they made sure natural selection ensured that. Still, that did not mean the idea sat well with him and there were holes in Salem's speech which he was worried.

"So then, what would happen to us then? You said something getting lovers. Do you attend to have become breeding stocks for your plan?"

That seemed to cause a reaction from her "Absolutely not! you are far to precious for such a demeaning position. What I want from you is to find lovers that will give joy in your lives ... I want you to experience the joys of parenthood and finding a loyal lover"

"But that did not include our future descendents" Ren thought to himself. Even if he and his siblings still had children they had no idea what Salem would do to them in the future. She was immortal and all.

"But did father really do it, kill his own kids ... no that is impossible he's not a man that would do that. However, conqueror the world?" Ren sadly knew very little of their father and with the man being alive for thousands of years he must have had his secrets. But this ... this was a little harder to swallow.

"Just think what I said Ren, I only want what is best for you" The grimm she ordered came back with bushels of berries and other fruits. Using her magic she washed and sliced the fruit and placed them into earthen cups chilling them too. The two enjoyed a quite breakfast of chilled fruits.

After that she watched over him and prevented the boy from going to far from the cave. Not that he could run if he was to guess. Instead he thought on what Salem said about their father. It was difficult to accept such a thing. That in his wound.

Something was wrong with it

At first he thought it wasn't healed properly or that maybe Salem's magic weren't suited for it. But then he started to feel the wound, it was his own magic, his own magic was keeping it from healing it.

"Is this my ... grimm side? Didn't it say something about not letting me get taken by salem?" Ren silently wondered. Did that mean it would rather see he dying or died over getting taken by Salem: He felt himself sicken and tried to understand the reasoning. He even tried to contact his grimm side, nothing.

...

"Salem, how did you deal with your grimm side ... I mean the whole talking to it part" he asked

"And what brings this question? I thought you did not want to deal with anything involving your grimm side?" Salem asked.

"... I think my grimm form is preventing me from healing" he said bluntly

"Explain, now" Her eyes narrowed.

"My magic, I can feel my magic stopped your healing magic and slowly undoing the wounds" He explained. Salem got up and checked with her own magic. A few seconds her eyes widen. "I think, my grimm side is trying to stop you from taking me. I remember it saying that it will keep me away from you"

"Even by killing you" she whispered

"Yes" He couldn't read anything from her face. But her magic showed him her fear, worry, panic, and despair.

"I see ... then we do need to deal with it then" she echoed "Have you tried summoning your grimm powers? You need it to actually talk to your grimm form."

"Using my grimm powers, I am sure that if I do the wound is going to—"

"I will keep it shut" she stated.

Ren slowly nodded, closing his eyes he tapped into his negative emotions.

And nothing

Confused he tried to forcefully call upon on that power but was meet with silence. He even tried using his magic to demanded it forth. Nothing, just the silence of the cave. "I ... I can't call upon it Salem. It's like it's blocking me from contacting it"

Looking at the witch he saw her in deep thought at his response.

...

...

...

"My son, there may be a way for you to find your grimm side. However, it is a powerful spell that will require us to travel into your mind: Both of us, the spell forces the caster to enter as well" Salem watched her son, she saw the worried and fearful look on his face. But touching his wound that fear was pushed back with resignation.

"If we go into my mind, I control what we see and not see" he stated. she agreed instantly

Getting up she began writing the marks on the ground, once she had finished red magic crawled off of her and onto the markings as they lit up. Three small fires formed around the circle as motioned Ren to come, holding onto his arm she lightly pricked the skin as a drop of blood feel. The flames exploded as the entire cave was covered in purple msit

UNKNOWN

The first thing Ren and Salem saw was black. Then the colors changed to a dark grey and became lighter as the colors changed. Soon they saw a large forest before them as the trees blocked out most of the light making it dim light.

"So this is my mindscape, this is not what I expected" Ren commented

"It can be confusing for your first time, the more you practice the easier it becomes to enter this world. I will show you at a later date, now we need to find where your grimm half is hiding" she motioned him to the forest "This is your mind, you are the only one that can find him. Think of the grimm and your mind will lead you to it"

Ren walked up the forest and began thinking of the grimm. Squinting his eyes he saw ... lights? No they were lights, the ones that moved up and down tempting him to follow. So he did and Salem followed closely as they did.

...

"Interesting" she said to herself. She watched shadows of young boys looking at her before vanishing, sometimes even seeing them running around or to someone. Each shadow contained a memory of her son, she wondered what would happen if she touched one of them.

"Don't touch them, I have no idea what will happen if you do" Ren warned.

Salem did not responded. They continued following the path by the light as they noticed the forest began changing. The ground underneath did not look as healthy or some the barks looked more black or white, the deeper they went the more apparent this became. Soon the trees looked like grimm versions of themselves as the ground itself started to bleed black bile.

Eventually the lights stopped and they say the largest cocoon Ren ever saw. It was pale white and like the ground a black liquid seemed come out of it. "What do I do now?"

"Speak"

"... H-Hello? Are you in there, my grimm side?" he said lamely. Nothing happened as he started worry, that was until the cocoon began to shake.

A large clawed hand burst out as another came soon after. The claws began ripping the silk as it revealed some kind of grimm. The lower half of it's body was like a spider, while the upper half more resembled that of a ancient valeian knight, it's helmet glowing with dozens of eyes, all green.

"... What BRINGS you HERE my MASTER" it hissed out. It then turned to Salem "The FALSE mother IS her TO it SEEMS, how WORRYINGLY"

"You should know why I am here. Your attempts at stopping me from healing properly, I want you to stop it, now" Ren ordered

"I CANNOT follow THAT order MASTER" it replied

"And why not?"

"Because YOU wish ME to STOP salem FROM taking YOU" it answered back. It then turned back to Salem "YOU will DIE"

It's legs sliced through Salem's torso as Ren gasped in shock. Her body fell to the ground as it did not move, Ren was about to go to it before Salem suddenly got up. Her wound glowing before sealing up

"You are a fool, I cannot die by any means" she said "And you will cease halting his healing. I will not show mercy to those that put my children's lives at stake."

The grimm spider growled as it grabbed ren and threw him away as it attack Salem. Red magic blocked it's strike as lighting charged in her hands as they let loose. Magic flew from her hand as the grimm side growled. Fire, lighting, ice and so much more slammed into its chitin but it ignored the pain. It continued stabbing the witch as her immortality repaired it.

It spat and a thick glob of webbing trapped Salem. It's claws slashed at her body tearing it into pieces as it hissed in annoyance, salem's body regenerated from each strike with ease, it made sure to destroy her head before it grew back. It quickly roared in pain as a dark puddle formed beneath salem's body, a grimm hand spourting up and smacking him away.

Getting back up her magic flared and the ground beneath it wrapped itself around it, holding it in place. It tried to get out and it even tried to spit in her at her again, she stopped that. With a single flick the ground pulled it down to her eyes.

"You will release what ever hold you have over my son, now" she growled. Her eyes glowed as she felt the grimm mind, her mind striked at the grimm as it mind reeled from hers. The minds fought for dominance as she saw it eyes turning from green to red.

She smirked

Right before she heard ren scream. Turning around she gasped as the wound was opened again, this time it was widing.

"Me OR your SON?" It taunted. The moment her control faltered it broke out before fleeing into the forest. She rushed over to her son and began healing the wound again.

"I-It used the wound against me ... it was trying to kill me" he tired to grasp what reason it would do that. It said it was obeying his wishes but was trying to kill him. "W-Was it really going to kill me there?"

"I do not know, but we have to find him. He may try to cause your wounds to open again, if we can hold it down then I can take control and order him to stop" said Salem. She pulled her son up, ren was worried about the plan or the part where she controlled his grimm side. But now they needed to stop his run away grimm side.

He tried to think about the grimm before his head throbbed, seemed like the grimm was forcing them on a hunt.

Helping her son the two began searching the forest.

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"I'm think we maybe lost" said Ren "Because I am sure that we saw that tree three times already" he eyed the tree with a heart shape symbol that had his name ... and his old crush's name on it.

Salem merely glared at the other name, reminding herself to get cinder to find that harlot. "This is your mind ren, if we are lost then only you can change that. Try thinking about getting close to where the grimm was, or maybe a clue?"

Ren looked at the witch, she just motioned him to try it. Seeing no other option he did it, a few seconds later both of them heard giggling as the wind picked up. Then something hit his face, pulling it off it was ... a piece of cloth? Suddenly the wind picked up the cloth and moved away, Salem and Ren chased after it.

A few minutes later the wind died down as they saw the place was different. The trees here more resembled carved oak and the ground was too made up of planks than dirt. Both of them were confused before they heard ... Ozpin!?

The trees parted to show Ozpin and the rest of his kids. All of them sitting in a circle as the man started to speak, whatever he was saying they could not hear but they saw him grab a piece of cloth and lit it on fire. He then handed some to all of them and urged them to do the same

"I remember this, it was when father started to teach us about magic ... but why show this memory?" said Ren.

While he was looking the scene Salem watched Ozpin closely. She saw how that man spended time with her children as her chest ached, another joy taken by her. A part whispered she should attack this figment, he should never had this joy, it should've been her's not Ozma's another thing he stole. She pushed the whispers down and clenched her fist.

"I still don't know why we're looking at thi—" Ren started.

Then the scene started to speak, it was his voice ... and he was asking Ozma about ... their mother. He felt Salem tightened her grip as she looked intently.

...

"About your mother Ren? ... Hm, there was a time when I had a wife. But that so long ago, sadly she died a long time ago my son" the memory of Ozma said.

"I was never dead, I was always here for you dear husband" she spat.

"But she was a good women, kind, loving, and had a heart of gold. The time we had with together ... they were good times, it was the happiest days of my life" said Ozma. "She would've have been a good mother if she was here"

"We did have everything together, we ruled the world and were on the cusp of true peace. Those happy days could have been eternal damn you. Then you threw it all away" she thought.

Before any of them could go on the image faded as on the floor was now a piece of paper, no it was a trail of paper. Seeing no other option they followed the trail as it lead them further into the forest

"Ren, why did you ask ozma about your ... mother" asked Salem.

"That, it was a long time ago a few years after father took us in. When he started teaching magic I asked of him we had any more family outside of us, that was his answer" said Ren.

"You never were alone" she said

"But we're given a legacy we never wanted" he replied

...

...

...

The rest of the trip was silent as they reached the end of the trail. This time it lead to large sheet of paper and from what little sunlight they saw that it was face down. Salem was the first to reach down for it, right as something stabbed through her torso and threw her into a nearby tree. Ren barely had time to put up a shield before his grimm smashed ren away.

"YOU will NOT go ANY further SALEM" it began attacking the witch as he returned with magic.

As they battle Ren slowly got up as he saw the two battle. Before he could move his head ache and fell down, the pain was coming back.

"Dammit ... what does that thing mean by I ordered it?" he wiped the blood as he thought what his grimm said. His eyes went to the paper on the ground, mustering the strength he crawled over to it and grabbed the paper. Brows scrunched as it was a picture ... but what did it mean ... it was something he made when he was a kid.

When he was thinking about his ... mother.

Eyes widened, is this what his mind was telling him? Looking at the grimm and salem, he closed his eyes.

The grimm suddenly stopped as Salem looked confused. She saw her son was not fighting, and wound ... it was vanishing. His grimm side retreated to him and stayed silent.

...

"Heh, so this is what it was trying to say or what I wanted" muttered Ren. Salem approached her son as he motioned her down.

And showed her the picture

It showed a picture of a female, most of her body and face was not filled out but she saw the women holding a crudely drawn picture of her children. It was a picture of her, their mother.

"I made it when father had told you to us. Back then I wonder what you would look like, I couldn't think of anything that fit right in so I left it alone. God I thought I lost a long time ago. Guess I always remembered it" Ren explained "Back then I always wish I could see ... you"

"... And what now? I can be that mother if you let me" she whispered.

"At what cost, that was what my grimm form was protecting me from. It knew in my heart that I could not accept what your asking me to become, I wanted the mother I always wanted to draw ... I wanted you before you became what you are. Father showed us your huaman shape ... I wanted to see that" Ren explained.

"You can" Right before Ren's eyes he saw the white skin given color as her hair turned back into blonde. But her eyes, they changed from a deep red to a sky blue color, that hard look was their but in a different color. "This is what I looked, see I can be that mother you wish, please Ren I don't want to lose any of you I want to be with you all"

...

He held her hand

REAL WORLD

Salem awoked, she saw that her son was still sleeping.

But his wound was healed and was no longer opening.

Looking down at her son it would be so simple to just take him right now. Her grimm were already alerting her of the rest of the children coming here with their 'guardians' she could not take them in this limited form but she could take one of them. She traced over the wound.

Maybe she could force the grimm to submit

She had many different options in control that pesky beast ... huh ... she never thought she would call a grimm a pesky beast.

She grasped her sons cheek as he body already began distingrating, it was no use she could maybe stave it off but she choose not. "My son, one day I will be the mother you wished to be. And ... and I will give a world that will make you happy, we're we can be the family we were meant to be ... ~sigh~ even with Ozma. I love you"

And Salem vanished, right as his siblings arrived to him

Yikes, that took longer then expected. First of all I am sorry about this and there is a good reason this time.

I am officaling declaring a break on this story.

Am I going to abandon it? No and I will come back to it that it a promise.

The reason I am taking a break is two fold. One ... I'm a little burned out working on this story I am sorry but that is true. While I love what I worked on I am getting tired and finding it hard to come up with ideas so I think a break would do good.

Second, I am writing another story that will be out during this summer.

As for what it is ... whose blonde and love ramen?