Chapter 88: Faith...
Chapter 88: Faith...
~Albus POV~
"Ugh…"
Waking up slightly I open my eyes to see myself on the bed as I had the most horrible dream ever.
I thought that Penny from Volume 8 was alive as I –
Turning my head I saw Penny, Neo, and Emerald glancing at me as I talked to myself, "I see I'm very clearly dreaming still what a –"
*Pinch*
"Ow…!"
"Nope dear everything is real."
"Salutations Albus Burn!"
Oh, dear TRUTH all that happened last night was indeed absolute oh fuck kinds of ducks.
Pinching my checks thanks to Neo playfully smirking at me and rubbing my cheek, I began to see Penny in disbelief as I spoke, "Ok… can you please clarify one thing for me, Penny, or else I feel like I might have a brain aneurism."
Blinking at that Penny nodded at my choice of words although with some worry before I asked the important question, "Just be straight with me. Are you from the future sent back in time to possibly change my mind or kill me? Or are you from an alternate universe completely different from our own?"
Now it was their turn to give me a confused look before Penny replied to my question, "No the second option. I'm from an alternate universe like you say but with your Ult. Eye it would be really easy."
"Oh thank TRUTH for that."
Ok, so the operation of future Skynet on Atlas is on hold for a foreseeable future but the original here would be scrapped to be replaced with the Golem Project instead.
With Penny here this…
This certainly derails lots of things that are going to happen in the future and with her being here a lot of unforeseen things might have or will appear now…
Actually…
Turning my head slowly towards Penny with a concerned glance at her as I spoke the next question with Neo and Emerald seeing this as well, "Ok… AU is a thing now so… when and how did you come to our universe exactly?"
Penny stiffs a bit before she reluctantly replies to me with a sad smile on her face, "Right… when I got stabbed and died my Aura or I guess into the void and then came in contact with the energy you gave off. And thanks to that I was able to anchor myself to the living plane but so long as I'm around you for the time. So… when you woke up in the forest…"
So…
At the start when I came into this world.
This… this changes a few plans.
Although Neo and Emerald took this differently as Emerald replied in a shaky tone, "Wait… then-n are you-u a g-g-ghost –"
Interrupting Emerald waving my hands off at this as they seem surprised at how casual I was before I stopped midway of leaving before turning to Penny, "Ok this changes things and yes you two she's practically a living ghost but – wait by chance did you turn in a Magic Spirit or Cursed?"
Penny looked a bit shocked but I got my answer.
She radiated Cursed Energy which can't be a good sign…
"Wait you're, ok with a ghost with the living?!"
"How the heck are you chill with this!!"
Making a deadpan expression towards Emerald as I began to get up and get ready to inform Ghira and Sienna of the news, "What the heck you talking about Emerald? I mean we have spirits with us ghosts aren't that different. If anything, it's going to be the norm. Just be progressive. Then again I did create a sentient monster ice cream using Drugs still have no idea how that happened but so progress…?"
….
"That… that… uh…"
…
Silence filled the room as they took the process of all of this.
"Wait what was this about a sentient ice cream monster?"
I will ignore to answer that.
Yeah when we have magic spirits appearing in Remnant then ghost coming is the least considering thing but if Penny is reanimated as a Cursed then she might not be the only one of her kind around.
Now I just have to create some sorcerers on the list now.
"No seriously what was that about the ice cream monster!"
….
"Albus what did you create!!"
…
"Drugs."
Neo was glaring at me with a simple word that made me shiver in fear.
"Explain…"
Sighing at this I did the only option I could think of in a situation like this…
"Woop Woop!"
Escape like a Zoidberg would do…
"COME BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN DEAR!!! WHAT SENTIENT ICE CREAM!!!"
"WOOP WOOP!!!!"
And never look back from a fury of my wife!
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~Ruby POV~
How could everything be so wrong?
Everything changed.
I don't know how but everything about this Remnant is just wrong and drastic ever since a year has passed.
I mean everything with my friends has been helpful as it has been trouble simply moving on and waiting for Ozpin to find us a way home but…
The Cursed King Cultist in Mistral is a very big issue since some trouble is brewing in that area of the Kingdome as all who are poor or victims of bandits or destroyed villages all come to a natural all-base forest Kingdom in the works.
Konoha it's what's called but to some a village hidden in the leaf.
Although they are more a kingdom than a village no wait getting side track here.
Sigh…
That's where the home base of the Cursed King Cultist resides as everyone there is essentially brainwashed from the reports and to make matters worse…
Jaune Arc was sent there to investigate and broke his heart knowing that Ren and Nora were within the Konoha and it might be very unlikely that team JNPR would appear but…
I trust in the fate that they will meet in Beacon I just have to believe in that hopefully…
But then came another surprise when our team went out to find Merlot to take him down only to attack an empty base later on as we couldn't find the crazy doctor as if he was wisped away.
And that frightened us or more so Ozpin knowing he was gone.
And the worse part was Yang her younger self became the Spring Maiden.
What I remember was the fact that Yang suddenly broke down receiving info from Raven according to Ozpin's words she transferred her Spring Maiden powers to her along with… memories of what happened.
Safe to say she is a hater of the Cursed King Cultist as she believes their so-called King is a murderer that took her mother away and for safety made Tai move from Patch to the Vale Kingdom for Yang safety.
It hurts.
My heart hurts seeing the hate I saw within Yang's eyes as my own older Yang was conflicted seeing that hateful expression but also my younger self being more insecure of the changes oh this going to be bad in the future.
And then there's the fact that Ozpin told us that Magic is returning while at other times would be good it's very exclusive to one place that ironically enough, we don't have any real members to visit the place.
Menagerie.
We can't use Blake as it would involve some issues happening if she were to be found out and dealing with the White Fang here in Vale is hard enough as it is.
But of course, ironically enough Ozpin doesn't have any Faunus allies within his inner circle aside from Blake and the traitor so we couldn't send anyone inside to investigate the area except for Qrow.
However, even he couldn't do it as soon as he got within a certain range near the island but that wasn't the worse of it.
Oh no.
What was the worst that happened was that good news and horrific news about Neo whereabouts our Neo I mean.
The good news was in the last year she was sited in Atlas…
The bad news is when Neo managed to leave a message to us through a live video scroll fee of the dead Schnee of Whitely and Willow… her dad…
Meh.
But the news did drive Weiss home hard as she was in deep depression… it was very bad to the point that she started to take on her mother's wine of drinking hearing the news.
Fortunately, we managed to keep an eye on her to make sure nothing really bad happens but…
All these new enemies and the Cultists are really going to be something different that I'm not sure we're ready to handle and there is Maria searching for Albus within the different kingdoms still along with Qrow.
Certainly, helps to search the area but…
Glancing outside the window of my current home of Patch along with Yang staring at the outside with the sun still out I have to wonder…
What is even happening anymore?
"Ruby come on."
Feeling a tap over my shoulder I saw Yang staring at me to go along as I nodded my head to join her.
You know when I thought about becoming a Huntress I thought I would get to be the hero of my own story fighting the impossible and such but…
This.
The constant failures we do and fighting for a pointless struggle of it all?
Was being a Huntress like this all that cracked up to be?
…
If I ever go to the past I would stop myself from ever becoming a Huntress like this again.
There wasn't a thing as heroes... not in Remnant, there isn't...
Such a thing was only a fairy tale...
And I was the fool to believe such faith in that.