It's been a few months since the match between Mavis and Cardin. Mavis has been slowly getting known as one of the top students in Beacon Academy. The downside of this was that Cardin didn't take his loss to her greatly so he tried to get back at her…. Only for him to get himself in trouble. He can't seem to take the hint after some pretty bad embarrassments, he even tried to go after some of our friends… yeah didn't end up good for him with that.

Right now I was hanging out with Ruby, doing the normal thing on a weekend; playing fighting ninjas super! The two of us were playing for a few hours and the score was tied for match point of five.

We were in this match for some time before Ruby's character cut the head off of mine and I lost. “Ha! I win.” Ruby cheered as I hung my head in defeat.

“Yeah yeah good game,” I said to her with a chuckle as I put my scroll away. I stood up and stretched a bit as turned the game off. The both of us have been hanging out a lot ever since Mavis and Yang hooked up… something that everyone saw coming from a mile away. It was a little odd for me to see that but I'm not stopping them from doing whatever. As I finished stretching I looked over to see the disaster waiting to happen but yet it hasn't happened as of yet bunk beds and saw several pictures hanging up near one of the top bunks. Looking closer I saw they were pictures of Ruby and Yang with some guy that was older than them. He had short blonde hair and tanned skin and has some features that matched up with Yang. I've seen this picture before but haven't asked about it… till now.

“Hey, Ruby, who's the guy in these pictures?” I asked her which she looked over to see what I'm talking about.

“Oh, that's my dad,” Ruby said happily. Ah, right. Should’ve been my first guess… though looking at the two, they don’t look a lot alike.

“Is it… normal that you don't look a lot like your dad?” I asked her, unsure if that's true or not.

“Well, that's mostly due to the fact my dad isn't my real dad,” Ruby explained which made me go wide-eyed before Ruby continued. “Yeah, shocking but, if you were looking at the two of us, we don’t look a lot alike. We even got it tested and… nope, no match.”

“Right…” I said to her as I looked up at the photos but didn’t see any of her mom. “Why don’t you have any pictures of your mom?”

“I do, they are on the other side,” Ruby said which the two of us moved over to the other side of her bed and sure enough, there were a few pictures of a woman with the same hair colour as Ruby, be it a bit redder.

“Oh wow, she’s beautiful,” I said to Ruby as she grinned.

“Isn’t she. I love my mom so much. She was one of the reasons I wanted to be a huntress.” Ruby said with a smile on her face. “She was a huntress as well, was in a team with my dad and uncle and she would tell me tales of their adventures to me and Yang when we were younger.”

Ruby continued for some time talking about her mom happily which I listened and smiled as she told them before long a question came up. “Hey, do you know who your dad is?” I asked her. Her smile faltered a bit as she looked down at her lap.

“No… I asked my mom but… she doesn’t talk about him.” Ruby said to me sadly. I didn’t say anything to her for a few moments, kinda understanding how she’s feeling about this.

“Yeah… I know that feeling.” I said to her, sitting down onto the bed, making sure it didn’t fall on top of me which thankfully it didn’t. “I don’t know much of my papa either, other than he’s a huntsman.”

Before I could continue or anything the door open and both Yang and Mavis walked in, hand in hand.

“Oh hey, Ruby, Viri.” Yang greeted us with a smile.

“Hey, you two.” I greeted back as Ruby waved. I looked over at Mavis and saw that Mavis was walking for once. “See that you aren't floating around.”

“She does but I keep her head down,” Yang said as she squeezed Mavis’ hand with her own.

“You keep telling yourself that, Yang,” Mavis said to Yang encouragingly and teasingly with a chuckle before looking at me. “So had any fun while we were gone?” Mavis asked with a smirk, which got Yang to hold back a sudden laugh.

“Well, I won our game,” Ruby said proudly as she smiled at me, I simply rolled my eyes at this.

“I'm never going to hear the end of this,” I said with a chuckle. Mavis and Yang blinked at this before the former shook her head with a groan.

“Nevermind then.” She muttered before beginning to float off the ground, letting go of Yang's hand as she did before resting her head atop the blonde's head. Ruby and I looked at one another confused before shrugging as I felt my stomach rumble a bit.

“Hmm, hey you two gotten lunch yet?” I asked Mavis and Yang.

“No, we were planning to head into the cafeteria after dropping some things off,” Mavis said before Yang dropped her gauntlets on her bed, leaving Mavis to do the same with her weapon. Ruby and I smiled a bit before all four of us headed off to the cafeteria to grab some grub. We chatted on the way there, laughing a bit at some funny stories that Yang was telling us as we got closer to the place.

I rounded the corner while talking to Yang and I ran into somebody. “Oops, sorry,” I said to whoever.

“It’s fine, I wasn’t looking where I was-” the voice belonged to a man and I looked at him and saw that he was a tall man with short hair and a trimmed beard that were both a dark brown colour. His eyes were the same dark brown colour as his hair as he stared at me with wide eyes, surprised to see me. He continues to stare at me before Yang spoke.

“Hey… you okay there?” Yang asked, snapping the man out of it.

“Huh? Yes, I uhh… sorry I have to… go… yes go, this way.” the man said as he walked around us and quickly headed down the hallway. Odd. we continue towards the cafeteria before Yang spoke up again.

“Hey, you okay?” Yang asked Mavis which I turned my head to see that instead of her happy go lucky smile was gone, instead was a look of anger. She took a deep breath and her look of anger was gone.

“I'm fine, Yang Yang,” Mavis said to her with a smile. Yang arched a brow at her but didn’t say anything as we continued. When we got to the cafeteria Mavis and I grabbed some food and sat down to wait for Yang and Ruby.

“Hey… what was that back there? It looked like you were about to break something.” I asked her, to which she arched a brow at me.

“I don't know what you're talking about, Viri.” She said to me, picking at her food with the fork in her hand.

“It has to be something, you rarely get angry. Heck even with Cardin you treat it like a game.” I pointed out to her before adding. “The fact that you got angry means something is up.” She shook her head at this before speaking.

“Viri, it's fine. There's nothing wrong.” She said to me, her agitation being held back but I knew it was there. I stared at her for a few moments before deciding not to push it as the other two came over and sat down with us. The four of us happily ate our food all the while I thought of the guy that we ran into. Don’t know why but… something about him was bugging me.

“So what are you guys going to do tomorrow?” Ruby asked Mavis and I. “Me, Yang, Blake and Weiss are going off into the town and explore for a bit.”

“Hmm, I don’t have anything planned… I thought I would give my weapon a bit of maintenance.” I answered Ruby as I looked over at Mavis, wondering what she had planned. She merely shrugged at this before saying.

“I was planning on simply hanging out with Yang but she has left out the bit where she was already busy for tomorrow,” Mavis said to Yang with a frown. Yang flinched at that a bit.

“Uhh, sorry babe… I’ll make it up to you?” Yang said as if it was a question.

“Hmph.” Mavis humphed before continuing to eat her food. As Yang tried to work out things between them and Ruby excusing herself to use the restroom I looked off into the cafeteria and saw the man I ran into before walk in. He looked around at the place before spotting me, I mean… there’s no one else in the cafeteria other than us and a few small groups. He gestured me to come over to him. I arch a brow at this since I didn’t know who he was, at all but… I don’t know there’s something about him that bugs me.

“I’ll… be right back.” I said to the other two who were still talking to one another as I stood up and walked over to see the man.

“Thank you for coming over.” He said to me as I got there.

“Yeah, sure… who are you and what do you want?” I asked him as I cross my arms.

“This won’t take much of your time but…” He pulled out a scroll and opened it as an image appeared to show me. “This woman… do you know her?”

I was surprised at this, it was an image of mama holding me when I was young… why does the guy have it?!

“Where did you get that?!” I asked, shocked he has that image. The man was surprised at my outburst and looked at the photo, a look of sadness formed on his face.

“Why I have it I don’t want to go into but let’s just say that she was… is someone close to me… someone that I had a wronged…” He said simply before looking at me. “But judging from your reaction you do know her, have you-”

“Of course I know her, she’s my mama,” I said, cutting him off. His eyes widen as we stood there… staring at each other… this was getting awkward.

“Oh… right… okay…” He said slowly before putting the scroll away. “I will… uhh… wow, this is-” He didn’t finish as a fork flew between us and impacted between us, scaring the hell out of us. We both looked over to see that it was Mavis that threw the fork… a shadow of darkness of evil intent surrounds her. Her gaze was on the man beside me, she shook her head as if to let him off with a warning. “Uhh, right… I think I better… go.” He said as he slowly walked out of the place without breaking eye contact with Mavis. When he left I turned to her with a confused look.

“What was that for?!” I asked her as I marched over to her.

“You are not getting answers from me, if you want the truth then speak to your mother.” She whispered at me before getting up from the table and walking off with the tray following behind her, leaving the other two confused.

“Uhh, what was… that about?” Yang asked me as Ruby, now back from the washroom, looked completely lost.

“I… I don’t know… But I have to go make a call.” I told them as I made my way towards my dorm room. So many questions buzzed in my head on what just happened and who this guy was. When I got to my room I saw that no one was here so I grabbed my scroll and started to dial up mama. When she answered she was wearing her bandana and looked like she was in the forges.

“Hey honey didn’t expect you to call so soon.” She said to me with a warm smile. “Is there something you need?”

“Hi mama, do you have a moment? I need to ask you something.” I asked her. When she told me that she was free I told her about my encounter with the man from before, the fact he had a photo of her, and what happened with Mavis. When I was finished mama looked shocked.

“And… and this happened a few minutes ago?” Mama asked me which I nodded.

“Yeah… don’t know why Mavis is so mad at this whole thing. When I ask about it beforehand she doesn’t give me an answer.” I said to her with a frown. “She simply said ‘Go ask your mother that.’ so… what gives?” Mama didn’t say anything at first, she looked like she was distracted with something.

“Viri… that man’s name is Ray Walker… he was the man I was with when I had you… and ran off.” Mama said to me. My eyes widen when I heard this. That man was my papa? I didn’t say anything to mama as I was too shocked at this that mama continues to talk. “It’s been so long since I saw him last… did he seem alright?” Mama asked me.

“Uhh, what? Oh um… well, he was fine before almost getting hit by a fork.” I answered her.

“Ah… well… let’s hope your grandfather doesn’t find out about Ray being there.” Mama said to me which got to arch a brow.

“I thought you would also be mad at him mama,” I said to her.

“I am… but it's been so long and… I don’t know…” Mama sighed a bit.

“Did you… miss him?” I asked mama which she looked at me through the Scroll.

“I… Viri when he ran away when I told him I was having a baby I was hurt back then and… a lot has to happen and I can understand that he was scared. We were young and we were together for not a long time.”

“I thought you said it was a few years.” I pointed out to her.

“When it comes to a relationship time is different!” Mama retorted at me which got me to giggle. “What I’m getting at that is that I’m not over the fact he ran out on me… but I’m not overly mad at him.” Mama was quite a bit before smiling. “I still remember him going out of his way to book a seat at a restaurant I loved, even though he could only get one seat and he had to talk through a scroll.”

Mama sighed with a smile on her face before looking at me. “Viri, thank you for telling me all of this… and if you see Mavis, please tell her to not kill Ray… I still need to talk to him.”

“I will,” I told her before saying goodbye to her.

“Oh wait, and if you see Ray again. Tell him to keep the scroll.” Mama said before hanging up. I sighed as I fell back onto my bed, I just met my papa… so many emotions ran through my head as I laid on my bed. I couldn't think of how to properly react to the revelations as there were parts of me that told me I should feel happy and excited while the other me said I should be angry at him for what he did. Maybe tomorrow I can have my answers.

The Next Day…

When the next day came around I was sitting at my desk with Molten Fox in front of me as I did some maintenance on her. While I was enjoying the time, somebody wasn't having much luck, that person was floating around in the room upset.

Mavis has been like this for the better part of a few hours now, Yang having had plans she seemed to have forgotten when making time for Mavis. The latter of which has made us sure that she isn't mad at Yang for being with her friends, she is mad for having forgotten her prior plans. That's all she has been seeing during her moping about.

“You know… you could've gone with them and hung out… right?” I said to Mavis as I worked on my weapon. Mavis stopped her mindless floating and waved her hand when I opened my mouth to ask what she was doing my vision was darkened when a cleaning rag was sent to my face. “Real mature…” I said to her with a grumble.

She didn't answer me as she continued to float around the room. I shook my head at this as I went back to work on my weapon until there was a knock at the door. Both of us looked at one another before I got up to go check who it was.

“Hello? Who’s-” I stopped when I saw it was the guy I met yesterday, my papa.

“Oh… good, I found the right room this time.” He said with a sigh. Behind me, Mavis stopped floating around and looked over at us, glaring at the man in front of me.

“Yeah… do you need anything?” I asked him, curious on to why he was here.

“Right, that. So… how much do you know about… me?” He asked me nervously. I arched a brow at him.

“I know that you’re my papa that ran out on her when you learned she was having me,” I told him bluntly. He winced at this as he rubbed the back of his head.

“Right… yeah, hearing that out loud still sounds bad…” He said. “And I agree that was the wrong thing to do, no the worst wrong thing to do.”

“You think,” I said bluntly as I cross my arms. The two of us didn’t say anything for a few moments, and during this, I could feel Mavis’ glaring grow.

“So… how’s your mom?” Papa asked me, it almost sounded like he was worried about something.

“Mama’s fine. She’s working in a forge.” I answered simply which caused him to let out a sigh.

“Oh thank above… I was so worried about her, and you.” Papa said to me with a smile. “I went to the village, to talk to your mom and… well, get beaten by her, which is justified for what I did… shitty for me to do and… after what I saw…” he didn’t finish but I got the picture.

“We were saved by grandma,” I told him which he seemed to freeze up a bit.

“... Oh… okay uhh…” Papa’s eyes dart around a bit. “S-She isn’t around is she?”

I had to pause for a moment, knowing said person he was talking about was right behind me. “... No, she’s not.”

“Oh thank lords…” Papa said thankfully which made me giggle a little. “Don’t know if you know but she’s terrifying. Both her and your grandfather… I don’t know which though.” Papa said before looking around, no doubt thinking that grandpa or grandma would appear. I was holding back a laugh before saying.

“I talked to Mama yesterday, she… wants to see you again.” I told him which he looked shocked.

“She does?” He asked, unsure if I said that right which he got his answer as I nodded. A small smile appeared on his face. “I would like that… I really would… anyway, I have to go, got some work to be doing so…” He cleared his throat and stood up straight. “Make sure you’re paying attention in class, do your homework and… eat your vegetables.”

“Are you trying to parent me?” I asked him while arching a brow.

“I don’t know, is it working?” He asked which caused both of us to laugh a bit before he said. “And… Viri, if you need anything, anything at all, you can give me a call… I ran from something that I can’t forget, and it will take me a lifetime to make it up.” I smiled at him before I gave him a hug which surprised him before he hugged me. When we parted I watched him go down the hall as I closed the door to face Mavis.

“Well… he said he was sorry and stuff.” I told her. Mavis merely frowned at this and shook her head before floating off into the bathroom. I blinked at this just before the edge of the door shone brightly. I arched a brow at this before walking up to the door only to be sent to the ground as it swung open.

“Help! The doors are attacking!” I yelled as I was on the ground. “Oh, the horror!”

“Okay, look, please don’t do what you’re thinking. I just want to talk to him.” I heard Mama say as she was talking to someone. I looked up to see her talking to someone who I don’t know… wait, no… he looks familiar… kinda.

“I'm just going to talk to him.” Said the man, holding a familiar cannon in his arms, loading it up as he walked by me while Mama held him back, her feet dragging against the ground.

“Are you going to talk to him, or is that cannon going to talk to him?!” Mama yelled as she was trying to stop the man which wasn’t working.

“Uhh, what’s going on?!” I asked, very confused about what’s going on. Mama looked over at me before saying.

“Hi Viri, this is your grandpa… who now looks much younger now, and I’m trying to stop him from shooting your father, please help!?” She informed me and asked.

“I just want to talk to him.” I heard Grandpa say once again as he made it to the door. Normally I would question why grandpa is doing this but after knowing what he’s going to do with the Cannon and what it could do I decided that I didn’t want my papa to be blown up to itty bitty little pieces. I got up and helped my mom try to stop him but… Man, he’s strong!!

“Dad! Please! Don’t do this!” Mama yelled as we were being pushed across the floor.

“I just want to talk to him, I just want to shoot him.” He said before ripping the door off its hinges, his left eye twitching and his cannon lighting up as it was ready to fire.

“If you fire that thing the whole school will come down!” Mama yelled at grandpa as he aimed down the sight attached to the cannon barrel. Oh, lords he really couldn't give a shit! The cannon began to emit the ominous glow as his sights were trained on an unaware Papa only for Mavis to step in front of him and push the barrel to aim out the window before it fired, echoing across the hall as it shattered the window and the shot went off into the distance before exploding.

“As much as I would love to do this as well, we should give the man a chance,” Mavis said to Grandpa, who looked at Papa as the latter looked back at us in shock and confusion. “Just trust me, dear,” Mavis said to Grandpa, took a deep breath and sighed.

“Fine… but he has a lot of explaining to do.” Grandpa said before Mavis nodded and fixed the window with a snap of her fingers. Mama and I looked at the two of them just as we heard someone fell and looked over to see Papa fell onto his behind, a look of shock and fear on his face. Mama and I looked at one another before walking over to Papa.

“Am I dead? I don’t know if I’m dead!” Papa asked, still getting over the shock of what just happened. It wasn’t until Mama kneeled to him.

“Ray… you’re not dead.” She said to him before the two looked at one another… then mama punched him in the face.

“AH!” Papa yelled as he fell backwards, holding his eye. “AAAAOoooow~... Yup… I deserve that.”

“Yes, you did…” Mama said to him as Papa looked up at her, now with a black eye.

“Sara… you look… the same from a long time ago…” Papa said to her which Mama smiled a little.

“And you’re still an ass,” Mama said softly. She looked back up at him and added. “The beard is new.”

“I like it, makes me feel better about myself,” Papa said with a chuckle. Mama giggles a bit before she helped him up to his feet. “Ray… we need to talk.”

“I know… uhh, am I not going to get shot at?” Papa asked, nervously looking back at my room.

“If I have a say, no you won’t,” Mama said to him.

“Not giving a lot of courage there Sara…” He said to her which Mama shrugged before Mama and I helped Papa back to my room where Grandpa was fixing the door. Papa looked at him then at Mavis before blinked at her. “Ohhh… you’re the one that threw a fork at me.”

“Hello, Ray.” Mavis greeted, her tone lacking any emotion to it. Grandpa was frowning still but at least… hey, where did the cannon go? I looked around at the place for it as Papa hung his head.

“Should’ve known…” He muttered to himself as mama sighed.

“Mom, please. Can you give him a break…” She looked back at grandpa. “Can both of you do that? Yes, he made a mistake-”

“Said mistake was a big one, Sara.” Papa points that out to her.

“Why are you taking their side of things! Really?!” Mama yelled at Papa.

“I’m wondering why you’re not on their side,” Papa said as we set him down on the bed.

“Well… that’s because after a long time thinking about it… I’m not as mad as I was before.” Mama said to Papa.

“We'll leave you two to your… catching up.” Mavis said before taking Grandpa's hand and saying. “I will go and take Jericho to be distressed,” Mavis said to which Mama groaned.

“Oh, lords mom…” Mama said to Mavis who looked at mama oddly.

“Sara Mal Kun, get that head of yours out of the gutter! I meant taking him to the War World.” Mavis said to mama in a scolding manner. Mama blinked at this.

“Oh… right… sorry.” Mama said, blushing a bit. With a huff and a roll of her eyes, Mavis took Grandpa back through into my room and exited the way they came, through the bathroom, leaving the door to the dorm room completely busted open. The three of us stared at the doorway and then at each other before Papa spoke.

“Again, your parents are really… scary.” Papa said to mama before adding. “Anyway, I’ll fix the door.”

“It wasn’t your fault that it got ripped open, I should make my dad pay for it since he did rip it open,” Mama said with a huff. This got a chuckle from Papa as he looked at mama.

“Sara… I’m so sorry. If I didn’t run, all of this wouldn’t have happened.” Papa said as Mama shook her head.

“Just… can we stop bringing that up? It’s in the past and I don’t want it to be brought up again.” Mama said simply as she looked at papa. “I just want to know what you were up to all this time.”

“Well, it’s a long story,” Papa said to mama with a soft smile on his lips.

“Well, I have nothing better to do today,” Mama said as the two of them sat on my bed with me listening in. I was happy to see my parents together, and not fighting. I just hoped that maybe, just maybe, they would try and get back together.

Elsewhere

Far up in the kingdom of Atlas, General Ironwood was heading down the hallways towards the communication room of Atlas Academy as he was informed that there was an odd message that they got. When he got there everyone turned and gave him a salute.

“At ease,” he ordered as he walked over to the one who sent him a message. “So, you were the one that heard this?”

“Yes sir,” a young man answered. “I was doing my normal routines when I picked it up, sir… I could hear anything but some static and muffling so I had to… improvise.”

Ironwood arched a brow before looking over and saw what the young man mean by improvising. “Is that… an old radio?”

“Yes sir, have to tinker with it but… just listen.” The young man said as he turned the radio on. “I recorded the message as best as I could…” Ironwood stopped him as the radio was giving off some static before a female voice came through.

“I repeat, can- SSSS- ea me. This is- SSSS- hunters of the City of Yharnam. We need- SSSS- lp, we have people that need transport. I don’t know how long we-SSSSSSSSSSS~” the message was then devoid of static as Ironwood thought about it.

“This is… real?” He asked the young man.

“I… I don’t know sir, but from what I got from it and traced the signal and… you’re not going to believe it, sir.” The young man said.

“Well, spit it out.” the General asked firmly. The young man nodded and pressed a key on his keyboard and one of his screens changed to a map of Remnant.

“It’s coming from nowhere.” He answered as a red dot appeared in the middle of the Sea of Souls. “From the looks of it, it’s near Vale but again, there’s nothing out there.”

“Hmm… Soldier, I have one question for you.” Ironwood said to the young man. “Do you know the story of the City of Yharnam?”

“Not… really. Just that it’s some sort of old fairy tale.” The young man said. Ironwood stared at the map for a few moments before saying.

“That’s the thing of fairy tales, some of them are true…” He muttered before turning away. “Thank you for reporting this.” With that, he started to walk off.

“Uhh, sir permission to speak freely?” The young man asked which General Ironwood turned his head and stopped. “Where… are you going?”

“To make a call to the Headmaster of Beacon.”

Author's Note

That's the thing about Fairy Tales, some of them are true.

(This chapter has been put up from a mobile phone, wanting to see if this works so sorry for mistakes)

Edit: Did some editing... I repeat a lot of words as it seems. :/