VALE:
On an island to the west of Vale called "Patch", in one of the green forests, through the running trees you could see three silhouettes, two a little big and one small.
You could see that they are children, the boy could be seen to have very dark black hair with bright yellow eyes that revealed fun and cunning, the girl with long wavy bright golden hair with carefree and adventurous lilac eyes, and the smallest It was a girl with neck-length black hair with red tips with silver eyes that only revealed innocence and highlighted by a red cape.
Apparently they are playing in the woods catching each other or having some kind of race.
"don't they catch me"
"yang that's not fair you're bigger than me and I'm already tired"
"but that doesn't matter in the game anything goes"
"arrh Alex help me catch her and I'll give you one of my cookies"
"yare yare ruby I hope you do it the other time you finished everything before giving me one"
"okay i promise just let me win this time"
suddenly at great speed the boy was already on the other's back, putting his foot as an obstacle made the girl fall.
boom
"Oh!"
"It hurt me, it's not fair, how is it that you move in an instant, that's cheating"
"anything goes"
"you are unbearable"
"I appreciate your appreciation"
"I wasn't praising you!"
They began to argue among themselves, throwing themselves on top of each other, rolling on the floor, while the youngest seemed to have concentrated on the bag of cookies.
"yang, ruby, alex come back for lunch the food is getting cold!!"
"yang, alex stop fighting dad calls us to eat"
"let me go first"
"You are the one who is grabbing me"
and they continued arguing until the little girl stood between the two telling them that they should return.
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In a two-story log cabin, three adults in the kitchen awaited the return of the children, a woman very similar to the girl from the forest, only more mature and adult, two men, one blond with a beard, the other dark and spiky hair. a "dusty old man"
These are Qrow Branwen, Taiyang Xiao Long, Summer Rose, part of the former STRQ group.
suddenly the door was thrown open and three dirty children entered, covered in mud and tree branches,
"we came back!" x3
The adults directed their gaze to the living room, summer went to see how they were, seeing them all dirty, she scolded them to go wash up to eat.
minutes later the three were already clean and went to the dining room to eat, entering to sit at the table they realized that there was someone else,
"uncle qrow!" x2 quickly went to hug him
"old me, when did you come back?" Alex said with one hand in his pocket and the other raised waving nonchalantly.
"Oh I just got here an hour ago to see how you were" he didn't mind the child's carefree manner and he already knew him well.
"Uncle when are you going to teach me how to handle weapons"
"uncle qrow train with me to become stronger and defeat alex"
"Very well, first to eat then we will talk about something else, now to sit down" ordered summer.
"How did it go who won the race" asked Taiyang
"No one dad, Alex and Yang began to argue about cheating" Rubi spoke
"but I was right alex is a cheater, appearing out of nowhere, tch I'm going to train to overcome it"
while father and daughters discussed qrow and alex talked about training.
"old man could you train with me, I'm learning a new technique"
"Oh, and you might know what it's about" Qrow asked with interest
"I call it haki, it allows me to predict movements"
"Like a sixth sense," Taiyang speculated.
"Yes, I want to learn how to activate it"
"Somehow that ability would be very helpful to hunters" says qrow
Summer later came in with the food, soon everyone started to eat, a while later Alex finished, going to his room.
the girls finished minutes later they also went to their room to play.
Downstairs the adults talked about their business and how they were until qrow asked a question that left the room silent.
"How is Alex, is she still having nightmares about the accident?" I ask qrow seriously.
"I don't know how to say it but he's calm, but when we ask him about it he changes the subject, dodging the question, ignoring him" Summer said, worried about the child since after his mother's accident he was in shock for a while, he didn't talk to anyone, he just had a blank stare without emotions, since there was no one else for the child they had to take him with them since before the accident the two families were quite close.
"Well it's normal after all it was a tragedy that no child should suffer"
"Yes, but with Yang and Rubi, he's improving a bit here, he's starting to open up, but nothing like before" Summer said, remembering how happy Alex was, even making everyone's day happy, he was a very sweet child but he changed completely
"Ozpin told you if she found anything about the incident" Taiyang asked
"I send several hunters to investigate the creature, including me, but we didn't find it, and the few that somehow found clues ended up dead," Qrow replied.
"ahh this is all very mysterious"
"Ozpin sent me to investigate an unknown place, maybe there I will find a clue of that monster" said summer
"Summer that's too dangerous you should cancel it that's something you shouldn't mess with!!!" Taiyang exclaimed
"Like Alex isn't part of the family too, maybe I'll find something to wake Lilly out of her coma," Summer blurted out.
"I also think it's dangerous, at least you should go with a large group of hunters so there isn't a similar incident" said qrow
"Not going with a lot of people would attract attention, alone I can be more stealthy; they must also trust my skills as a hunter"
"I know summer, but I don't want anything bad to happen to you, at least consider it for the family or allow me to accompany you" Taiyang said worriedly.
"You can't go with me if you go to the one who will take care of the children, regarding the suggestion of qrow I will consider it" Summer said positively
"ahh I can't change your mind but we have to make you take life jackets as a precaution"
While the adults were talking, they did not know that Alex was listening to them on the stairs with his improved senses, his face darkened when they talked about the accident that left his mother in a coma, but also worrying about Summer since during the time she was with them she too He became someone important to him, and he didn't want anything to happen to him.
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In the patio of the cabin they were all gathered to observe the training of alex and qrow, with a wooden sword each, at this moment they are in the center waiting for the taiyang to start.
"begin!"
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P.O.V. Alex:
When I heard the cry in the blink of an eye, I moved behind the old man to slash his back, but apparently he had already noticed him, countering me with his own sword separating us.
"You're going to need more than that kid to catch me off guard," sneering.
"tch I'm just getting started"
and we exchanged blows again, channeling my senses, I analyze his movement pattern to predict his next move, at one point he throws a slice at me, but I dodge it and moving to his right, I try to cut him, which somehow I dodge by ducking.
"You may be fast boy but I have more experience and I trusted my instincts"
'instinct huh' closing my eyes, inhaling, I see an aura moving but it was blurry and I couldn't follow it, when he was about to hit me I protected myself with the sword, I managed to stop it but dragging myself by force, my aura had flickered, demonstrating the force that put.
"Wow, you stopped it, even though I put in half my strength, it's surprising, well, I expected it from you" congratulating me
"Come on, we have to get serious and show me how much you've improved"
"you said it old man"
Strengthening myself with aura and putting all my physical strength I push towards the old man with great speed, maybe only the hunters will be able to see me, for normal people serious like appearing out of nowhere at another point, giving blows that caused shock waves but the old man just calmly dodged them with layers of aura, also getting stronger,
We were a while ago with only me attacking,
'Okay, I'm going to put my experiment into practice'
"old man, are you just going to be defending yourself all the time"
"You're right, well let's see how good you are at dodging or taking hits"
the old man attacked me without giving me a break, but this is perfect if I want to awaken my haki,
Closing my eyes I focus on dodging to see the shadows, but I only receive blows that make my aura flicker, but I must endure it if I want to achieve even a percentage of what it is.
...........
We were there for hours, I was tired with my body full of blows, bruises and scrapes since my aura had been broken a long time ago, several times everyone told me to stop the fight but I insisted to continue since I could see more traces of the shadows and for longer, although uncle taiyang stopped us saying that I'm already at the limit, that it's true I can't move, 'arh my whole body hurts, but I must continue I must be stronger'
"brat we stop it here, look at the fair you are standing"
"I can still go on"
"Although I admire your tenacity to continue, you shouldn't always do it since that will put your life in danger and nobody wants that" the qrow uncle scolding me
staggering and was about to fall but aunt summer caught me, carrying me to heal, although I passed out before entering.
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BEFORE THE BATTLE:
The entire xiao long/rose family was in the armchairs watching qrow and alex
"umm I hope uncle qrow teaches that cocky a lesson"
"don't say that yang we should also support alex"
"Those girls should watch carefully so they can learn from this fight"
"Yes, I hope they don't get hurt so much" Summer says, somewhat worried.
"It's all good, qrow knows that it shouldn't happen" says Taiyang reassuring him
"I hope that if I don't like seeing Alex too hurt it makes me anxious"
"Don't worry if they go too far I'll stop them"
After a while Taiyang shouted for them to start, although they were surprised by Alex's speed, they had already gotten used to being surprised.
from there they saw that they were exchanging blows, and that somehow alex managed to predict qrow by hitting him but he dodged it, separating them.
"wow did you see that yang it's amazing!"
"it's nothing ruby I can do that too" says yang not wanting to accept what his sister says
"it is surprising that it took qrow by surprise"
"well qrow just trusted"
they watch as alex takes a deep breath and closes his eyes, qrow attacks but alex apparently couldn't dodge it, only stopping him while crawling
"ahh for a moment I thought alex was not going to defend himself"
"but why does he close his eyes"
"I don't know but I think he wants to achieve something"
"I hope it's not something dangerous"
The two adults watch the game and realize that they are getting stronger with aura and from there they begin to fight with more force causing a strong wind due to the clashes of both.
but qrow was only defensive with alex giving his all, then qrow starts to attack but alex just stayed there closing his eyes defending himself awkwardly as if he wasn't paying attention, they see alex's aura blinking, they tell them to stop but alex wants to keep going , his aura was already broken but he insisted on continuing, until taiyang stopped them, with that alex falls on the floor if it weren't for summer holding him
"son are you okay" worried summer
"qrow look what you did"
"I'm sorry but the boy wanted me to continue and he couldn't reject it since he would be denying his conviction" says qrow
"Mama, Alex, be fine" Ruby said with teary eyes since he doesn't like to see Alex in that state.
"Yes honey we just have to cure it"
Alex fainted and they had to take him to clean them and treat him, after putting him in his bed
later ruby and yang went to the patio with their uncle qrow to learn from him with ruby wanting to see his weapons.
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P.O.V. ALEX ;
At night I woke up hungry, going downstairs to find everyone in the room watching hologram shows, Uncle Tai noticed me, getting up to ask me if I was okay.
"Son, you're fine, nothing hurts"
"I'm fine man I'm just hungry, I can eat something"
"Of course, let's go, I'll serve you the food"
there everyone notices us with aunt summer and ruby asking me if i was okay with yang doing it his way and uncle qrow apologizing.
"honey can you move, do you want me to help you"
"if I'm fine I'm just hungry"
"alex i thought you were going to die" ruby tearful
"hahaha it's not that much ruby it's just a slight fainting"
"um fool you must be careful next time when I defeat you"
"Yes, we'll see, I'm waiting for the moment"
"Sorry brat I think it happened to me, as compensation for the next time I'll show you if it's a weapon" ruffling my head.
"old man it was not your fault I was the one who insisted"
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after eating uncle qrow said goodbye to us saying that he had work to do and after finishing it he would come to visit us.
Now we are all in our respective rooms to sleep,
'hope I don't have any problems tomorrow' somehow I feel like I'm raising a red flag.