Don't Own Rwby, Only The Oc
'thought'
"Speech"
"Powerful Creatures Speaking, like a dragon or a god"
"Tvs, Radios, and Text via book or newspaper... when those are around..."
(Mid Chapter Authors Notes)
looks like I finally decided to post this... welcome, everyone, to my own 'AU' of Rwby, Remnant: Life In The Shadows. (Or LITS... i am pretty proud of that abbreviation) basically, this 'universe' i have created is a mish-mash of several different universes all rolled into one! Basically taking Remnant, as it is, shadow monsters, dust, aura, n shit, and adding in races from Dxd, some magic and monsters from D&D (3.5 or pathfinder of course), and maybe even some elements from one piece as well! (i haven't fully decided on this yet, but i dont mean devil fruits, i was talking more on the techniques like the Six Powers)
As of 1/20/20 we have shifted from a purely RWBY story to a Rwby/DXD one, to those new to this fanfiction from the merger, let me just say, CHARACTERS FROM DXD DONT EXIST HERE only some of their races, clans, magic types, ect... Even sacred gears are going to be changed a bit... so, to explain... Rias Gremoy might not exist here, but the clan of Gremory still does, Issei flat out doesn't exist here, nor does DDraig or the boosted get, yet there will be other dragon-based god-slaying weapons to replace that... Azazel doesn't exist, but there will still be a 12 winged leader to the grigori, Ophis and Great Red... might exist purely because they can cross over due to the dimensional gap, but that's it... that is the limit to any and all DXD characters in this story... they can be inspired by canon characters, sure, but they are their own people.
ANNNYWAY, let's get onto the story!
A small boy, who doesn't look to be older than nine snaps his eyes open, he has short brown hair, a single unruly tuft refusing to stay down, he has bright blood red eyes with slit pupils that seem to eerily glow in the darkness of the room.
He grins showing off his sharp and pointed canines then hops out of bed and stretches. "Mhhh!"
He finds himself in is a large fifteen by fifteen-foot room, a large king-sized bed with red blankets has its headboard pressed up against the wall and has two small tables on each side, the room seemingly has no windows, and has a couple paintings of landscapes hung upon the walks made of black brick.
He lets out a short yawn and walks out through the door of his room and silently walks down the hallway, passing by a couple of paintings of a pale man with black hair and purple eyes, and a woman with brown hair, he passes by a couple potted plants housing blue glowing mushrooms for some reason, and the hallways also seems to also lack windows.
He reaches out to a door marked with a yellow sun, pauses briefly and cracks it open, gazing out into the dark wide-open world.
He smiles as he fully opens the door leading to a vibrant garden with tall walls of hedges bearing flowers, large trees with pink blossoms, and vibrant flowers throughout flowerbeds and wrapped throughout garden arches.
He stares up at the shattered moon and smiles, then proceeds to walk out into the garden, taking a seat under one of the garden arches next to a small babbling brook, swinging his legs off the bench, his smile faltering for just a moment as he realizes his feet can't even touch the floor, but returns to normal as he takes a deep breath.
A pale hand with black nails reaches out towards his back... slowly reaching towards the back of his collar.
He swivels his head around, the quick action causing his eyes to leave a slight trail in the darkness of night. "Oh! Hey mom!"
The hand reaches out and ruffles the small child's hair.
"Hello my child." A regal feminine voice greets as a pale woman with long brown hair with a single tuft standing up, wearing a silky black dress sits down beside the boy, her red eyes glinting in the darkness. "I see you are awake."
"Yep."
"Did you enjoy your nap?" She asks.
"Yep."
The woman flicks the small child's head. "Speak properly, Sean."
"Y-Yes mother." The now named 'Sean' says while rubbing a small red spot on his forehead. "o-ow..."
"Better, but, Sean, you know you shouldn't be out here without my- or your father's- permission; you aren't immune to sunlight yet." The woman sighs.
"I-I know, b-but I am getting better at it!" Sean exclaims. "I can stay outside for an entire minute before my skin starts turning to dust!"
"That's what I mean." The woman sighs. "Your father, myself, and even June don't turn to dust when we make contact with sunlight, even if we were to stay outside all day, and I will admit, all of us used to, but we each have grown out of it."
"You just need to wait a little longer... your sister managed it when she was thirteen, so please, just wait until then before going outside, Sean."
"O-Okay..." The small boy sighs.
"Come on, let's go back inside."
"A-Alright."
A girl, looking roughly eighteen, with long brown hair walks down a hallway with a pep in her step-
"BIG SIS JUUNNE!"
She freezes and slowly lifts an arm, revealing a small brown-haired boy clinging to it.
"Hi~" he hums.
"Oh, hello, Runt." The now named June mutters as she pats the boy's head
"Fight me!" The boy pouts.
"You want to lose again?" The girl smirks.
"No! I can totally beat you this time!"
June simply waves her hand and the small brown-haired boy starts floating.
He crosses his arms and pouts as he is floated upside down.
"Not fair."
He is launched down the hallway.
"WEEEE-*Crash*"
The boy rushes back. "Muahahah! You cannot kill me! For I am immortal!"
"Sorry, Sean, I really don't have time to play right now." The girl says with an apologetic smile. "I'm just going to the library to get a book."
"What for?" Sean asks.
"This."
Her eyes flash crimson as two red trails of what looks like misty-fire bursts from the corners of her eyes.
"WOAAAH!" Sean exclaims. "What is that?! Can all vampire lords do that?!"
That's right, if you couldn't guess by now, Sean and his family are... abnormal... in a world where creatures of darkness roam and hunt humanity... other creations of the dark god hide in the shadow, avoiding humanity and living their lives in peace.
"No." The girl shakes her head. "I seem to have woken up with this ability several nights ago, how I gained it? I really don't know, but father told me to study up on various branches of magic and legends to see if anything fits."
"Woooah!" The boy exclaims again. "What does it do?! What does it do!"
June smiles and snaps her fingers, creating a small ice crystal which she hands to Sean.
"It lets you use... ice magic?" The boy mutters, a small frown on his face as he looks back up to June. "But we can already do that."
"Look closer."
Sean does so, realizing that it is actually brimming with much more magical power than it should be.
"You put more magic into it?"
"No, the cost was actually less than normal, this ability increases my affinity towards elements by a large margin- not just ice- and allows me to cast elemental spells for less, but they do more." June explains.
"Woah!" Sean exclaims. "That's super cool!"
June ruffles Sean's hair again. "See you around, Squirt!"
The small vampire crosses his arms and pouts as his older sister walks away.
"Alright my boy, let's try out some of your human-magic." A tall man with black hair and purple eyes grins, showing off pointed canines, he is wearing simple noblemen's clothes with a large red cloak. "First, let's do Evocation."
Sean points his index and middle finger towards a large hey target. "Firebolt!"
An orb of fire shoots from his fingertips and collides with the metal target, sputtering out but causing one of the inner rings to glow a bright blue for a couple of seconds before fading.
"Not bad." The man hums. "Why not conjuration now?"
The small brown haired vampire holds out both palms in front of him and casts his next spell. "Blockade!"
A large five-foot cube of wood springs to life in front of him and stays there for about eighteen seconds, then it dissipates into white motes of light.
"A good shield spell..." Sean's father states. "Now, try conjuring something to help you in battle."
"Summon Monster!"
A large red magic circle appears, summoning forth a large centipede, almost as big as a regular adult human, that quickly crawls around, searching for an opponent to attack.
It disappears after about twenty four seconds.
"Let's try abjuration, now."
"Shield!"
A clear shield of force springs to life besides Sean, floating around him, prepared to deflect any blows from its caster.
"Transmutation."
"Fist of stone!"
One of the diminutive vampire's hands turn a strange grey color.
"You were having a bit of trouble with Divination, let's try that one."
"Targeting ray!"
A laser light appears at Sean's fingers but nearly instantaneously disappears with a spark.
"…"
"We might need to work on that one." The man sighs.
"Enchantment."
"Pain!"
A rune appears on the wall, but quickly fizzles out as it has no target and cannot affect creatures who aren't living.
"Nice one, now do Illusion."
Sean holds his hands out in front of him and conjures a flat image of a vase, it warbles once as if it was a hologram, but then seemingly gets more and more real as it expands outwards.
"Silent Image"
Sean's father slowly nods with his hand on his chin. "Not bad."
"Why don't you try necromancy now."
"But most necromancy spells are targeted-"
"Don't mind that my boy, you can cast it on me, not even the strongest necromancy spells can kill a vampire lord!"
"A-Alright."
"Stolen breath!" Sean raises his hand towards the black-haired vampire, and nothing seems to happen.
"That's much stronger than your other spells!" The black-haired man grins as he picks up Sean. "That's my boy!"
"Oh... right... we don't need to breathe..." Sean slowly blinks. "I kind of forget about that sometimes."
The man puts Sean down. "Now, let's try Divination again."
"Seaaan~"
Said child snaps his eyes open and sits up. "Yeah, mom?"
"We are going someplace special today, so hurry up and get ready." The brown haired woman hums as she pulls her head out of the room and clicks the door closed.
"Hm?"
The now twelve-year-old Sean Chro blinks in confusion. "Someplace special?"
He looks over towards a Runic circle on the wall which has several images of the moon and the sun, new moons on the east and west side and a 'full' sun and moon at the north and south with two large lines in the center, one appearing to be frozen while the other appears to be moving ever so slightly.
"It's half a cycle past noon?! Why so early?!"
Pov: Sean
I blink several times as a teleportation circle is cast beneath my mother and I. "Where... are we going?"
"You'll see~" my mother hums. "But you need to be on your best behavior."
"Alright?"
"Have fun~" My sister hums from the side.
She had long since 'mastered' her powers, from what my father can tell is that it is a simple enhancement power that seems to randomly select its user upon the previous wielder's death, and considering my sister has them now... it is safe to say that nobody else is EVER going to get them again.
The powers themselves seem to be a shortcut to power if I am going to be honest, they granted June great elemental abilities, such as Fire, Earth, Air, and Water, and even some more powerful ones like 'Ice' or 'Lightning' but not ones like shadow, blood, or light... admittedly, it would be a bit strange for a vampire to suddenly get the ability to control light attacks, that mental image is beyond cursed, but even with our large racial affinity for shadows, more couldn't hurt.
"What do you mean by 'Have fun'?" I ask.
She simply smirks... then we teleport away.
The first thing that I notice about our new location... is that it is fairly chilly, resistance to cold be damned, in the sky, are thick clouds blocking out the sun, and white specks are falling from them.
"Snow?" I ask as I gaze around at a figurate winter wonderland.
In front of us is a long path leading to a metal gate surrounded by a brick fence, a couple of gargoyles are perched up on the walls, seemingly watching us.
"Where are we?" I ask as I turn to look at my mother.
"We are currently on an island located in the center of the northern continent." She answers as we slowly start walking forwards towards the gate.
"Why are we here?" I ask
"We are here to introduce you to your adorable little fiancée!" My mother grins.
"My what?"
"You are engaged." She explains.
"I still don't know what that means." I deadpan.
My mother stops for a moment, glancing around in thought as she cups her chin. "Think of it as... a friend you will eventually live with in the future, where you share a bed, share secrets, and eventually fall in love with."
"Love? Ewww." I sigh. "And my bed wouldn't be comfortable with someone else in it."
My mother ruffles my hair. "Please just behave. if it works out, we will get you a bigger bed, no need to worry."
"Oh... okay..."
The gates open before us, allowing us to continue walking to a very large mansion in the distance.
After a couple minutes of walking we finally reach the door, it opening for us as a woman with pink hair and two small curved horns coming out of the side of her head, wearing a maid outfit looks out and nods. "My lady is expecting you."
"Follow me."
We both follow after the horned maid, and I take the time to realize that she actually has a thin tail with a heart shaped tip that sways behind her as she walks, leading us through red carpeted halls, under rainbow chandeliers, and past various paintings of landscapes full of vibrant colors.
"In here, please." The maid bows as she opens a door in front of us.
'you know... maybe we should get some maids instead of just a hoard of unseen servants... the house seems really big and lonely without them.'
"Ah, Cassandra, I am glad you could make it." A woman greets from inside the room, she appears to be about the same age as my mother, and has long white hair that goes down to her waist, and she wears a simply black gown as she sits in a lounge chair.
"Lucillia," my mother replies. "It has indeed been a while."
"Is this adorable little thing the Sean Chro I have heard about?" The now named Lucillia asks.
"Yes ma'am." I nod.
"Emilia, come out and meet Sean." The white-haired vampire says as she looks behind the chair she is sitting in.
A small girl with shoulder-length blonde hair pokes her head around the corner, she has gleaming red eyes and is giving us a really cute pout before she goes back around the corner.
"…"
I look to my mother then back to the white-haired woman in front of me.
"Now, now, Emilia, don't be rude." Lucillia sighs. "Why don't you show him your room?"
"A-Alright." A quiet voice says from behind the chair as the girl walks out revealing she is wearing a red dress.
"P-Please follow me."
Her room is... kind of girly all things considering, it has no windows much like my own, but it has a couple pretty plants here and there, and it has a picture of a snowy landscape, but they hung red curtains on the sides of it... probably to make her feel less locked up or something.
She has a large bed with a large red blanket draped over the top.
'these people like red I guess...'
We are both sort of awkwardly sitting on the edge of the bed.
"So... want to be friends?" I slowly ask.
I turn my head but flinch back as I notice Emilia's face was extremely close to the side of my head.
"Are you a vampire lord?" She immediately asks. "I will not have a weak fiancé."
"I still don't know what that word means." I sigh. "But yes, I am."
"Prove it."
"How do I prove it?" I ask.
"Use an ability only a vampire lord can." She says.
"Like this?"
I raise my hand and a pen and quill on a table across the room start floating.
"Hm." She hums. "Alright, I believe you, but if you think you are better than me you are dead wrong. You being a vampire lord just means I will tolerate you until you give me a reason to like you or dislike you."
"W-what happened to the stuttering shy girl?!" I whisper.
"My mother is scary when she is mad, so I didn't want to mess up." She scoffs. "But now that we are alone, I can speak freely as I like."
"…"
"…"
We both tilt our heads as in the far distance with our enhanced hearing we hear a faint explosion.
"…"
"Want to go check that out?" I ask.
"Sure." She sighs. "Just sitting around here is just boring."
I hold out a hand towards the wall and a hole in reality opens, leading to about one-hundred feet outside the front gate of the mansion. "Dimension Door."
We both quickly hop through and the gate closes behind us.
I wipe my forehead. "alright, I think I can do maybe one more of those, so let's use that to get back inside when we come back."
"…"
Large, black, bat wings extend from our back and we take off in the direction we can hear faint repeating explosions.
*Bang Bang Bang*
From atop a hill, in some bushes, we stare down at a boat which seems to be getting attacked by giant black crab... things... actually, I think they are more like shrimp or lobsters, but anyway, they each have a white mask with red markings covering most of their heads and their bulbus eyes on stalks that poke out through holes in the mask are blood red as well, seemingly lacking intelligence.
The boat has actually crashed into the island that Emilia's home is on, and it strangely enough, seems to be made out of metal... though it probably won't be floating any time soon considering the several large holes punched into the hull.
There seem to be several people on the boat wielding strange metal tubes that are shooting sparkles that explode when they hit something, there is also one wielding a glaive that creates blades of wind when swung.
One of the larger- but farther away- shrimp points a claw towards the man wielding the glaive, who notices and rolls out of the way abruptly.
*BOOOOM*
Emilia and I wince and cover our ears as a bullet of wind shoots forwards and pieces through the crate behind where the man was standing.
"Owww." I whimper. "That sort of made me mad... my ears are still ringing."
"Mn." Emilia nods with a scowl.
"Do you know what those black creatures are?" I ask as I watch one attempt to get on the beach, only to shriek in pain and quickly scurry back into the water.
"No, I have never seen them before in my life..." She responds.
"And what are those weird metal sticks they are using?" I ask. "Wands?! But I can't sense any magical energy from any of them... and that glaive has no magical signature as well, and the man wielding it isn't swinging it hard or fast enough to normally create blades of wind."
"Hm." She hums with narrowed eyes. "All I know, is that they are trespassing on our land... we have enchantments specifically so that people just ignore this island..."
"I think the crab demon things might have knocked them into it... they also seem like they can't get on the land."
The edge of the man's glaive glows bright green as he swings it downwards creating another blade of wind that hits the joints of one of the smaller black monsters, completely cutting off its clawwed appendage.
"That big one seems to be the only one that can shoot blasts of wind..." I note. "Interesting."
As I said, the big one in the back is the only one throwing out air-attacks that punch through metal, the rest are just scurrying up the sides of the ship, they seem less armored and are easily being slain by blasts from the magic wands that don't explode, only pierce.
I look over to Emilia. "So, what do you want to do?"
"Nothing." She replies. "They got on our land, if they die, it is their own fault."
"Aww..." I sigh. "That's no fun... I kind of wanted to go punch the big snippy one."
"Then do it then." She deadpans.
"Nah, you are probably right, and besides, I don't want to get shot with those wand things... they look powerful enough to break through my skin..."
The people onboard the ship eventually slay all of the creepy crustaceans and gaze at the island.
"Hm, it looks like they are going to start searching around the island..." I note.
"They won't survive..."
I look at her with an eyebrow raised.
"We have fairly strong monsters around, a couple yeti, a white dragon, definitely a couple packs of winter wolves." She explains.
"Why do you let a dragon live so close to your home?" I ask.
"Oh, Blizz is actually fairly friendly to us... but his intelligence even as an ancient dragon is about that of a human..." She yawns
I wince. "Don't dragons normally have about five to six times the intelligence of a human as an adult... not to mention an ancient?"
"White dragons are pretty dumb, Sean." She sighs. "But, dragons are dragons, even if whites are the second weakest of the chromatics, Blizz is a useful ally to our family."
"Chro-matics." I smirk.
She swats the back of my head with a magical enhanced swipe so I actually feel it.
"Ow."
"Pun again and you get smacked." She frowns.
"Alright." I sigh as I look back to the group of humans slowly getting off the boat. "So, are we going to keep following them?"
"Might as well." She sighs. "Maybe they'll die... that might be entertaining."
"Wow... you are a total sadistic hag, aren't you?"
"Can it, Sean." She growls with a slight... blush... on her face?
We silently watch as the humans dismount their broken ship and split into two groups, one slowly walking deeper into the island, right past our hiding place, while the other seems to be unloading crates in order to build a camp, and they seem to be speaking in an unknown language, so I cast a quick 'comprehend languages' spell on myself and Emilia.
"Where the hell are we?" One asks as he fixes his thick coat, he, like most of the other people here look like just random run of the mill humans... nothing out of the ordinary about them at all. "There isn't supposed to be an island here... or in the entirety of the Atlesian Ocean."
"Look at it this way, Mach," another speaks up. "We are the first to discover it, so we now get to name it... personally, I am thinking... 'Barnopolis!'
Emilia scowls and looks like she is going to whisper something to me, but is cut off.
"Shut the fuck up Barney." A third deadpans. "What happens on the island stays on the island, we don't have time for your bad jokes right now, if you can't quit, you might just find yourself face down in a snowbank so we can conserve resources."
Emilia looks over to me and whispers. "I like him."
Something twitches under the beanie of the last guy and he suddenly looks around. "Did you guys hear that?"
"Hear what?" 'Mach' asks.
Three guys in the middle who have yet to speak look around, among them is the man with that strange glaive.
I use my telekinesis to lift a small rock on the other side of the group, then just simply drop it.
I carve some letters into the snow as well.
One of the men slowly walk over and lift the brush, revealing a small rock and the words.
"You are now being hunted"
"Runic lettering?"
A smiley face is carved into the snow with my telekinesis.
"EEK-" the man shrieks
"WHAT IS IT- oh... ooooh." The glaive wielder begins. "oh no."
You know, Telekinesis is a strong word for what I can do... at most I could lift a ten pound rock or break a stick in half... I need a bit more training before I can uproot trees and crush metal plates into scrap like the rest of my family... as I am now, I mostly just use it to mess with people.
Emilia gives me a confused glance but I shrug and mouth the words. 'I was bored.'
She makes an o shape with her mouth and grins mischievously.
Claw marks are scratched into a tree by an invisible telekinetic force as she waves her hand forwards.
I grin as well. 'I can work with this.'
A large black panther like creature seemingly warps to life in front of the group, it has six legs, four muscled limbs in the front, the second set right behind the first and two at the back, on its back, are two long tentacles with sharp spikes across each tip, it snarls and then disappears once more.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?!" One of the men shriek.
Black ribbon-like shadows explode from the ground, wrapping around some of the limbs of about four of the men, two unnamed, 'Mach' and the unnamed glaive wielder, the glaive wielder easily rips them off by simply flexing, but the other three's knees shake under their own weight as the shadow tendrils dissipate.
"What the hell is going on." The Glaive wielder wonders in a gruff tone.
The strange panther appears and has its tentacles floating dangerously close to the back of the head of one of the guys in the back.
"BARNEY!" Look out!" One of the men shout as they shoot a blast from their magic wand at the beast, but it disappears before the attack hits.
One of the weakened men start gasping and reaching towards his throat, the panther appearing again behind him with a tentacle wrapped around his neck, the man's fingertip's passing through the top layer of the tentacle as he tries to free his throat.
"Reggie!"
'My horrid telekinesis is seriously strong enough to strangle this dude?' I frown slightly. 'wow, humans are weak...'
The beast rears back its teeth in a feral like grin and releases him, slamming the other tentacle on his back and making him take a couple feeble steps forwards, then it disappears again.
"D-Dear god... it is just toying with us!" Glaive wielder whispers before suddenly hopping backwards as the beast appears again and slams a spiked tentacle into the ground where he was seconds before, sending snow flying outwards and leaving a dome shaped imprint in the snow.
"RETREAT!" He shouts.
"Flee." A ghostly echo passes throughout the surroundings.
Several of the men freeze and look back in absolute horror. "That... isn't a grimm... is it?"
The cat snarls again and disappears as they begin to train their guns on it.
The men quickly return to sprinting away.
Several motes of light flow outwards from where the beast was last seen.
"Pff-" they get about five-hundred feet away before we make any noise.
"PFFAHAHAH!" Emilia laughs.
I snicker along with her.
"Alright, I take back everything I said." She grins. "You are pretty fun to be around."
A humongous white scaled form plummets from the sky and lands on the beach where those men ran.
"…"
"Is that-" I begin
"Yes, Yes that is..." Emilia sighs.
"OH GOD!" We hear in the distance. "IS THAT A FUCKING DRAGON?!"
"And that is the sound of it not being our problem anymore..." Emilia whispers. "Quickly, let's go. Now."
"Alright." I nod.
We sneak out of the underbrush and return to the brick walls surrounding the mansion, then we teleport across the frozen ground and back inside.
Emilia lets out a content sigh as she lays on the bed. "That was pretty fun... too bad they are all dead now."
"Yeah." I sigh as I sit on the foot of the bed.
*Knock Knock Knock*
"C-Come in!"
A girl with short, silky white hair that goes down to her chin pokes her head in the room, she is a couple inches taller than Emilia and has blood red eyes attributed to most Vampires.
"Cassara?!" Emilia asks. "What are you doing here?"
"I just wanted to see this 'Sean Chro' for myself." She says.
"H-Hello." I greet.
She fully enters the room revealing that she is wearing a blue dress and has a larger bust than Emilia's flat board.
She is also about four inches taller than Emilia, who is three inches taller than my height of about four foot-six inches.
"So, you are the one who thinks they are worthy of being engaged to Emilia?" She asks while leaning close to my face. "Are you fully prepared to go the distance if it is required?"
I look over to her. "What does engaged mean? My mother told me it was like a lifetime friend, but in this context, I can't help but think she might have lied a little."
Cassara slowly blinks, walk over, grabs Emilia's arm and drags her out of the room and into a closet.
"HE IS SO INNOCENT!" I hear the loud whisper on the other side of the door. "You CAN'T corrupt him!"
"Didn't you come in here to prevent him from corrupting me?"
"No, I just wanted to make sure he wasn't a pompous newt who would refuse to meet you even once and marry a GODS DAMN SUCCUBUS-
"Are you really still on about that? According to mother it has been twenty years... just get over it."
"WHY SHOULD I GET OVER IT?! HE PICKED A LESSER SPECIES OVER-*Cough* uh- You are already bonkers Emilia; you CAN'T taint him like that! What EVER you do... DON'T- and I repeat *DON'T*- and I'm putting heavy emphasis on don't here, but, DON'T teach him about the birds and the bees."
"I'm not going to! this is all mother's idea anyway!"
I slowly blink.
"He is actually pretty fun to be around." Emilia continues.
"D-Did he make you fall in love with him after only about an hour of being with you?! What the hell?!"
"W-what? N-No!"
"You are blushing really hard right now oh sister of mine~"
"So, what did he do to get you this hooked on him?"
I look up at the ceiling.
"N-Nothing!" Comes the stuttering voice of Emilia
"Come oooon tell me!"
"I won't!"
"If you don't, I might just have to find out myself~"
"Mother wouldn't allow it!"
"I was just talking about asking him... what were you talking about~" I can practically hear the smugness radiating off that statement.
"…"
"And she totally would~ succubus thing, remember? I pretty much have free reign to choose my husband now!" the voice continues, seeming to be the end of the conversat-
"WHAT?!" -ion...
They both leave the closet, Cassara pats my head and walks out the door, saying "Have fun your two." Over her shoulder.
"…"
Emilia just pouts.
"What was that about?" I ask.
"Nothing~" Emilia hums in a meek whisper. "Nothing at all~"
"Okay..." I blink as I tilt my head slightly. "What's a husband?"
"…"
I let out a long sigh.
I had sent out a couple bats last month to spy on the humans, taking the time to look through their eyes and listen through their ears when I can... and I found out, humans have advanced massively... I recall my father talking about how their 'best' weapons were enchanted crossbows and swords... but that has completely changed... even the wimpiest peasant now can purchase weapons which- if trained with- can punch holes in someone miles away... also, I figured out that some of the humans have evolved animal traits which was surprising... but even more surprising is that they are actually SURPRESSED! By all means, these evolved humans- faunus I think they called themselves- should be oppressing the regular humans! They have better sight, hearing, scent, and a racial trait depending on what animal they are based on, be it even better hearing with an extra pair of ears, fangs with venom, retractable claws, WINGS! That's right, they have even evolved wings... frankly, if they keep it up, they might become the next vampire race, they have wings down, now all they need to have are the ability to shape shift, maybe something like our telekinesis and weather altering abilities, then we might have some actual competition!
I also learned that the world thinks magic is just simply a legend, and any 'magicians' I could find were simply good at sleight of hand... disappointing if I am going to be honest... though I guess every single one of them could be called mages because things they use in their normal day-to-day life would be considered magic to those of us who still use wood to cook food. They seem to have developed some sort of magic dust- aptly named 'Dust'- which has several abilities based off the 'element' it is, be it Ice for those cold boxes they have, fire for their stoves, lightning for powering their cities- which is another conversation entirely, and wind to power their strange flying machines.
Now I am simply trying to figure out how to get my mother and father to let me go out and go on an adventure.
Now, when Emilia first saw this observant, mad alchemist-esque, side of me, she first asked me what 'sex' means, then, when I couldn't answer, she let out a sigh and labeled it as 'dumb-smart mode' and simply said to a sister. "Just because he has that mad look in his eye and acts smart doesn't mean he's not innocent..." Which frankly I have no idea what she means by that, and I don't know what this 'sex' is- I really don't like the sound of it at the very least- but back to the original topic. If I was able to combine this technology with magic, there is no TELLING what I could accomplish! With normal technology humans created guns (I finally figured out what they were called) and an artificial hivemind of metal soldiers, if you toss in actual magic, there is literally no limit to what could be created! A mechanical dragon, a gun which doesn't require ammunition, I even saw a couple of people who had weapons that could CHANGE FROM MELEE WEAPONS TO GUNS and I want one, nothing is going to stop me from making one.
"M-Mom."
"Yes Sean?" She asks, not even looking up from the book she is reading in her lounge chair.
"I want to leave the island."
"…"
"What?" She asks, her eyes straying from her book. "Why?"
"For the past month I have studied humans... and they have accomplished things we can only dream of, they have no magic, but they have giant metal constructs that fly them across the planet, they have weapons that can punch through several layers of metal plating from miles away, and they have created so many good looking food item!"
"I want to go out on my own and figure out all this new technology, eat their food, and enjoy what fun activities they have created!"
"Alright." My mother shrugs then goes back to her book.
"S-Seriously?!" I ask.
"Sure, go out and have fun, Sean, If I need you, I will simply send out my familiar to go and fetch you and bring you back." She hums. "You aren't as sneaky as you think you are Sean- well, you are, I just have a mother's intuition and I have noticed you compiling notes and wondering about the outside world, I was simply just waiting for you to ask."
"I will be giving you a couple of rules though," she continues. "No magic- or at the very least, things that aren't that obvious like a disguise self or a silence spell, so that means no ripping the blood from your foe's bodies and using it to skewer their friends. Rule two is fairly simple as well, bring back any recipes you find! I looked through some of your notes and some of their human treats sound simply delectable, like parfait, lava cakes, ice cream, and their various ways to cook meat! Frankly, If I keep going, I think I might start drooling~"
"Are... you only letting me do this because you want to try human cuisine?" I slowly ask.
"Are you complaining?" She asks.
"Not even slightly!" I grin.
"Rule three is the most important one, Sean." My mother continues. "Have fun~"
"Thank you so much!" I exclaim as I give her a quick hug and rush out the door.
Weeeelll welll well, look what's back for a third reboot... but at the same time, not... because it is now without 'the gamer' system! Also without a SI Oc, just a random vampire boi in a random vampire world.
So, what do you think of the new story? I would like to think I did the entire 'family' thing better than the first reboot.
this is my *MAGNUM OPUS* i am going to put so much DAMN work into this! i am even going to go back and change things if i do something wrong! i already have a fairly large guide to the races, and a bit on enchantment magic.
i currently have 3 chapters finished, all above 5000 words, and that should be good enough for now, ill release them in a couple weeks, Next week is Portals And Pizzazz, then Cardhunter, then chapter 2 of this, i am currently at that stage where i know what i want to do for the 'finale' of this 'first arc', but i really dont know how long to stretch out this arc for... i'm thinking... maybe eight chapters? we will see how it goes~
well, i guess i have taken up enough of your time, Ciao!