Cinder opens the door to her and the group's meeting room as Nightmare walks in and looks around.

Nightmare: Tidy.

Cinder nods and walks to her seat and pulls it out, sitting down as Mercury and Emerald stand behind her. Roman comes in after her with Neo and goes to his seat.

Roman: The great leader of this small village was grateful enough to give us his home. Oh and the hospitality we needed.

He sits down with Neo sitting next to him, on the table, to his right. Nightmare takes a look around before pulling out a seat and sitting down.

Nightmare: I'm sure he was more than willing.

Adam: Damn right he was.

Nightmare looks at him to see him tap the hilt of his blade with his index finger, not taking his eyes off Nightmare.

Cinder clears her throat.

Cinder: Anyway. I believe you said you had a message for us?

Nightmare: Indeed. However it's more of a warning.

Everyone turns their attention on him.

Nightmare: Your plan, to bring beacon down....I love it.

Roman looks at Cinder who frowns and taps her finger on the table.

Nightmare: Seriously. It's well thought ou-

Cinder: Get to the point or Adam will personally escort you from the village.

Nightmare looks at Adam again who smiles a little. He clears his throat.

Nightmare: Unfortunately...it won't work out. Especially with the train part. That'll raise awareness and that's really not what you want.

Adam growls.

Adam: It IS what we want. More awareness means more bots will be provided from Atlas.

Roman: Especially those bulky ones. That's what the real prize is.

Nightmare sighs.

Nightmare: Those bots won't mean anything.

Cinder raises a brow.

Cinder: Why?

Nightmare: You see, there's this boy. Well there's three of them technically but they're inside this boy. They WERE tied with his emotions but now he can allow them to come out at will and take over his body. They'll probably be able to use their abilities too.

Roman leaned forward.

Roman: Wait wait wait. A boy has such a semblance?

Nightmare: No. The boy has no semblance and no aura

Adam laughed.

Adam: What's the problem then?

Nightmare: Did you listen? There are three boys inside him. They are very powerful. When they still had their bodies I fought them all at once and it was difficult.

Roman leaned forward.

Roman: How did you survive?

Nightmare looks at him then at everyone else in the room.

Nightmare: I had....help, friends who had my back....I did the same for them in return.

He smiles and looks at everyone in the room. Cinder leans back.

Cinder: You want us, to help you take them out?

Nightmare nods as Cinder looks at him and stands.

Cinder: What can you provide?

Nightmare thinks then gets an idea as he closes his eyes.

Nightmare: One moment.

Adam goes to Cinder.

Adam: You don't actually believe he can be trusted right?

Cinder looks at him.

Cinder: If what he says is true and there's a potential threat to our plan, then we have no choice. For now we have to trust him.

Nightmare opened his eyes and stood up.

Nightmare: My leverage will be here soon.

Adam starts to exit the room.

Adam: I'm going to sharpen my blade. Just in case.

Nightmare watches him.

Cinder: I may as well show you around our base of operations.

Roman stands up as Neo does the same as they both head to the exit too.

Roman: We'll be on our way to deliver the stolen dust to the train.

Cinder watched.

Cinder: Be back Tommorow morning!

Roman waves.

Roman: Yes Mother.

Cinder shakes her head and gestures for Nightmare to follow her as she and her henchmen leave the room. Nightmare rubs his red scarf between his index finger and thumb before following Cinder.

You watched as the doctors were questioning Matilda, trying to get a diagnosis on her current condition. All she would do is sit there with dull eyes and a face full of no emotion. Not even sadness considering two of her teammates, one being her boyfriend, were just murdered in cold blood.

Bianca, who was talking to the headmasters, came up next to you.

Bianca: Ozpin told me you woke her up.

You look at her and nod.

(Y/n): I am.

You lied just to keep Star's assistance a secret.

Bianca: How? The doctors did everything they could but nothing worked. Then you come out of nowhere and suddenly she's awake.

You stayed silent and watched as General Ironwood went to Matilda, putting his hand on her shoulder and gesturing towards the door.

Ironwood: Come Matilda. I'll arrange you a flight home to Atlas. Bianca too.

Bianca looked at him.

Bianca: What?! No! I'm not leaving till Ash and Riley's killer is brought down!

Ironwood looks at her.

Ironwood: I suppose your just going to hunt him down yourself after what happened to your whole team, hmm?

Bianca grit her teeth and looked away.

Ironwood: Thought so. Come with us, you need fresh air as well.

Bianca looks at you as you avoided her gaze. She growls and leaves with Ironwood and Matilda.

Ozpin comes next to you.

Ozpin: She's eager for revenge. I know because I have seen that look before.

You look up at him.

(Y/n): Yeah. In a strange way, I can kind of relate.

Ozpin clears his throat.

Ozpin: The boy, inside your head...Who is he?

You looked away tapping your index finger on your arm and take a deep breath.

(Y/n): Guys?

Jasper: Star and Nightmare just exposed themselves. It's better we don't keep anymore secrets from him. Whether we open up to other people depends on the future.

You sigh.

(Y/n): Bianca will want to know.

Star: We'll tell her too. We owe her that at least.

You nod to yourself and look at Ozpin again.

(Y/n): ....Their names are Jasper, Ike and Star Light. They're....blood brothers.

Ozpin raised a brow.

Ozpin: There's more than one? What are they?

You look to the side.

(Y/n): I'm not entirely sure. Star is a half breed while Ike and Jasper are his guardians.

Ozpin: Half breed of what?

He asked still skeptical about the boys.

(Y/n): Sounds crazy but he's got a good balance of light and darkness in him.

You hear a click and look towards the door.

Ozpin follows your gaze.

Ozpin: Something wrong?

You look for a few more minutes as you thought you could hear mumbling before you shake your head.

(Y/n): I thought I heard something.

Ozpin stares at the door then at you.

Ozpin: Anyway. What is Nightmare?

You look at him.

(Y/n): He's something the boys call a Seeker. His race from what Star has explained are... demons. Except Nightmare has gone rogue, fighting for his own goal.

Ozpin: Which is...?

You look up this time and chuckle.

(Y/n): You wouldn't believe me.

Ozpin steps towards you.

Ozpin: Try me.

You stare at him and uncross your arms.

......

......

......

(Y/n): To kill god.

Ozpin's eyes widen slightly.

Ozpin: Alright. Not the first thing I expected.

You see him thinking to himself. He looks to the right then left until his eyes land back on you.

Ozpin: I don't suppose this Nightmare can be stopped with a simple plan of attack right?

You look down.

(Y/n): Unfortunately no.

You look up at him.

(Y/n): That's why I want you to report any urgent matters that have recently shown up to me personally. Even issues that Ironwood has brought up with you.

Ozpin chuckles.

Ozpin: Are you asking your own headmaster to relinquish private information to you, One of my own students?

You look at him seriously.

(Y/n): If it were under any other circumstance then I would understand if you said no. However, it's not. Please Professor.

He turns away from you before pacing around the room slowly. You tap the side of your hip in anticipation, waiting for an answer. He looks back at you.

Ozpin: Okay. If this Nightmare person is as dangerous as you say he is then I'll help as much as I can with tracking him down. Surely you'll need help though if you have to fight him.

You look to the side then to the ground.

(Y/n): He's got a point. Nightmare barely stood a chance against all three of you guys right? What's to stop him from taking us out if only one of you can take over my body?

There was silence for a minute until Jasper spoke up.

Jasper: Alright. We should ask for Bianca's cooperation. She wants him gone just as much as we do.

(Y/n): Agre-

???: NOOOO! Matilda!

You and Ozpin rush out of the room to see Ironwood, shocked and frozen as he looks down at Bianca crying on the floor next to Matilda who had taken her own life with Ironwood's gun.

Ozpin goes next to Ironwood.

Ozpin: James, What happened?!

Ironwood's body jolted as Ozpin put his hand on his shoulder.

Ironwood: I-I don't know. She unclipped my holster and pulled out my sidearm with her semblance. I only noticed when I turned around to see if she was still following.

Ozpin looks at Ironwood's gun and picks it up, handing it to him as he reluctantly takes it back.

You go down next to Bianca and put your hand on her shoulder.

(Y/n): Bianca.

She looks at you with her red puffy eyes that still had tears in them. She sniffles.

Bianca: Why...? She didn't do anything wrong...she was like a sister to me.

You nod in an understanding way. The doctors come in, lifting Matilda up slowly. Something falls out of her hand and onto the floor in front of you. You look at it and pick it up. It was a bracelet, hand made from what you could tell. It had AMBR written on it.

You hold it in front of Bianca as she looks at it in the corner of her eye before completely turning her attention onto it as tears just began to fall. She goes to take it but you hold onto her hand as she looks at you.

(Y/n): I know who did this.

Her eyes widen.

(Y/n): I can give you all the details but you need to work with me okay...?

She looks away from you as you sigh. Suddenly her grip tightened on your hand as she looks at you with eyes full of anger and determination.

Bianca: ...Alright.

Cinder was just done showing Nightmare around the village. She was now watching him kicking his legs back and forth like a little child while sitting on the edge of a balcony.

Emerald, one of her subordinates, came up next to her.

Emerald: He's hiding something. We should just take the warning and get rid of him.

Cinder sighs.

Cinder: I have warned him about his actions in regards to lying in this new formed partnership. Besides, he's yet to provide his 'leverage' as he calls it.

She looks up to see the sun about to defend past the trees. She turns her attention to the lights in the village.

Cinder: He had till the lights in the village turn on to provide it or he's a goner.

Nightmare sighs.

Nightmare: It's not nice to talk about someone behind their back.

Cinder looks at him.

Cinder: I'm sorry. However I stand by what I intend to do if your just going to waste my time.

Nightmare rolls his eyes.

Nightmare: Whatever.

Mercury narrows his eyes at Nightmare and was about to go up to him but Cinder stopped him. He looks at her as she shakes her head making him relax and step back.

The sun slowly descends as Nightmare looks at the trees to see them shaking. He smirks.

Suddenly the lights start to turn on one by one. Cinder notices and as the last one switches on, she smiles and stands as a small flame sparks in her hand.

Cinder: That's your time gone. No more waitin-

Emerald puts her hand on Cinder's shoulder causing the raven haired girl to look at her green haired subordinate who was looking out to the front of the village.

Cinder follows her gaze and her eyes widen.

Mercury: What the hell is that...?

Mercury says as he steps forward.

Nightmare looks too and smiles calmly.

A boy loses his ball on the path again as he follows it. Suddenly a big claw covered in bone armour comes down on the ball, crushing it, causing the boy to fall back and look up in terror as the creature the claw belonged to, growls and snarls. It continues on heading towards the balcony as the villagers head back into their homes and the white fang soldiers patrolling back away from it.

Adam comes out of his tent and runs towards the village. Once he got to the middle he stops and backs up also as the creature goes past him.

Nightmare stands up and jumps down in front of the white fang members. The creature stops and crouches down to Nightmare's height, licking him and wagging its tail.

Mercury: That's not a Beowolf...right?

Emerald: It....It looks like it...but-

Cinder smiles slightly as she jumps down in front of Nightmare.

Cinder: Alright. Coloured me impressed. What is it?

Nightmare smiles.

Nightmare: Glad you asked.

He turns to her and points to his creation.

Nightmare: Meet....Cerberus! The first of many yet to come thanks to yours truely.

He says as the three headed, golden eyed, 10 foot tall Beowolf got up on its hind legs and howled.

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