As they moved into Ozpin's office, the boy with silver eyes said nothing.
When they arrived, Ozpin sat in the chair behind his desk and the boy with silver eyes did the same but on the opposite side.
"So let's begin Aqua. What has happened to you since ten years ago?" Ozpin asked, questioning the boy.
Aqua told Ozpin what had happened, albeit not all of it, since he didn't want Ozpin to see his bad side. He kept a lot of details from his story, but somehow Ozpin knew that he wasn't telling the whole truth.
"–And all of that happened just ten years ago." Aqua finished telling what was essentially his life story, except those few key things he chose to leave out.
"I'm glad that you've escaped from your harsh master and that you still remember your family. Speaking of family, they should be visiting your and your mother's graves tomorrow." Ozpin spoke while peering at Aqua through his spectacles.
"Ozpin, are you suggesting that I should have a family reunion at my and mom's grave?" Aqua asked, after thinking a moment.
"Well... It is your decision on how to reunite with your family, not mine. I just thought you'd like to know." Ozpin stared at the Silver-Eyed boy knowingly.
"I see. Very well, Ozpin. I should be leaving, I want to be back with my family as soon as possible." Aqua said to Ozpin as he stood up from his chair and went to the elevator.
The next day, Aqua was walking through the dense trees of part of the island to get to his "grave". With the Force as his guide, it took barely any time at all to find it. It was located on a nearby cliff, the two stone graves visible from the trees. One for his mother, and one for him beside it.
The two gravestones each had an Epitaph. His mother's read "Summer Rose. Thus Kindly I Scatter", and his read "Aquamarine Rose. The beloved twin petal of Summer."
Seeing his own mothers grave gave him a feeling of losing his heart, he remembered when his father had told him and his sisters that she was gone. Yang seemed to understand, but he and his twin sister didn't quite get it. It took several months, but the rose twins eventually realized their mother was gone and never coming back. Both were plagued with nightmares after their realization, but Yang was always there to comfort them.
"... It's rather painful really. Seeing your own grave and your mother's grave." Aqua mumbled to himself as he stared at the graves. "I hope that dad and my sisters managed to get through life as normally as they could." Aqua said. "Whereas, I had a life that no one would have wanted to experience" He kicked at the dirt beneath him. "I wonder if my sisters had nightmares about me for the last ten years," Aqua continued, still gazing at the two graves. "Heh, I wonder what their reaction will be when they see me alive and well." he chuckled slightly.
It was at that moment that panting could be heard, causing Aqua to look down and see a black and white dog staring at him. "Hello there. What are you doing out here?" Aqua asked whilst crouching down and scratching behind the dog's ear, making it bark happily.
"Zwei! Don't go running ahead! You don't want to hurt yourself!" A familiar voice called, causing Aqua to stiffen slightly. He stood up as someone burst out of the trees. That someone was his sister, Ruby. Ruby was left breathless from chasing Zwei, leaving her older sister, dad, and uncle behind in the dust.
We need to keep an eye on that dog... Ruby thought as she took deep breaths. When she looked at Zwei again, she noticed a person in front of her mother and brother's graves. Why is he so familiar? Ruby thought confusedly as she turned her gaze towards him.
"Hello, sister… it's been a while," Aqua said. Silence descended between the twins, except for the faint sound of Zwei's panting.
"... Aqua?" Ruby asked slowly, not believing her eyes. Aqua took a few steps forward before three more people popped out of the brush.
"Ruby, don't go running ahead. It's not like both Summer's grave and Aqua's grave will disappear." A man with black hair and red eyes said through deep breaths.
"Qrow. Ruby ran ahead because Zwei ran first." A man with blond hair and blue eyes argued back to him.
Aqua's older sister Yang stomped her foot at the bickering adults. "Dad, Uncle Qrow, This is not the time for arguing." She said before noticing Ruby's statue-like state. "Sis? Is there something wrong?" She looked in the same direction that Ruby is starring in. she blinked a few times, trying to register what she was seeing.
"Have I been drinking too much? Or can I see a teenage version of Aqua in front of me?" Qrow asked slowly.
"Considering that I can see him and haven't been drinking, it's either a mass hallucination or he's really there.." Taiyang replied with wide eyes.
"Bro… Is that you..?" Ruby asked as tears threatened to appear in her eyes.
"Yes sis, it's truly me," Aqua replied with a small smile as tears started to come out of his eyes. Ruby slowly approaches her twin brother before hugging him tightly and crying.
"You're alive. You're alive." Ruby muttered to herself through tears of joy.
"Yeah, I'm alive," Aqua said as he closed his eyes and leaned into his twin sister.
***
Ruby had accepted that her mother was gone, but her twin brother, never. She couldn't accept that the closest family member to her was gone. No matter what her other family members told her, she just couldn't accept it. After all, what kind of twin sister would she be if she had just easily accepted that her twin brother was dead with no evidence?
She and her family had just been walking to the graves for a visit, nothing more nothing less. But when Zwei had run off and Ruby followed, she never would have expected that she'd find her long lost twin brother!
His porcelain skin, blonde hair that had the dark red color on the tips, black and red robes with a cape and a hood and a bit of armoring on the upper torso, it had to be her brother! He'd even called out to her, greeting her as his 'sister'. Looking closer, He had a belt on his hips which held a few metallic cylinders and other strange devices that she had never seen before. Odd, but one look into his ever and she was certain it was her brother. Silver, just like hers.
She was certain it was him.
Her emotional reaction is happiness—no it would be an understatement to say that, there was no existing word that could accurately describe the feelings she was feeling at having discovered that her twin brother was alive and had come back to them. This unexplainable emotion was the best thing in the world at that moment for Ruby.
The family walked back to their house and settled in the living room.
"So what happened to you when you got kidnapped?" Qrow asked Aqua, who was sitting in an armchair and Zwei was in his lap.
"Well… It goes like this." Aqua gave them the entire story, which he himself knew wasn't the actual story, more so a tale filled with lies and half-truths.
"So, Aqua, why don't you show us what you learned?" Taiyang asked, causing everyone to stare at him.
"Dad! What the hell, my own twin brother who has been missing for 10 years, has just come back to us! And you want him to fight?" Ruby barked whilst glaring at him.
"It's alright, Ruby. I would like to show you my skills." Aqua calmed her down while smirking.
"Count me in. I would like to see what Aqua is made of." Qrow said as he took a sip from his flask.
"Kick his butt Aqua!" Yang yelled excitedly. Everyone went outside, and Aqua and Qrow stood ready to face each other, with Yang holding up a scroll to film the event.
"Okay Aqua, little one's first," Qrow said with a smirk as he readied his sword.
"Here I come Uncle Qrow," Aqua gripped his dual Vibroswords tightly, ready to swing them at a moment's notice. He struck his vibroswords and gathered the force to use it to create powerful Electric Currents through his Vibroblades and it spread it in a long-range, creating lightning. With another swipe, he generated waves of Force Lightning moving at near impossible speeds, while Qrow was barely able to escape from the slashing of Lightning
"Was that Aqua's Semblance?!" Taiyang exclaimed with a shocked expression on his face, while Ruby and Yang just deadpan stared at the fight.
"It looks like it," Yang replied with wide eyes.
"Lightning? That's interesting." Qrow said before swinging his sword at Aqua.
Aqua blocked the attack with a single Vibroblade, not flinching a bit.
"Now here it is, Uncle Qrow," Aqua said before pushing Qrow's sword off his single Vibroblade. Aqua started attacking him with rapid strikes
"Bro! Keep going!" Ruby cheered with a smile on her face. Aqua swung in a diagonal slash which Qrow easily blocked.
Aqua, through the Force or to the audience, his "semblance" was generating such deadly amounts of Force Lightning through his blade, that despite Aura covering the weapon, the Electrical currents bypassed the Aura surrounding Crow and almost depleted him of his Aura.
"Uh!" Qrow shouted as he crashed into the ground as the effects from his nephew's "semblance" were taking effect. Qrow was about to get up, but a sword found itself pointing at his throat.
"And we have a winner!" Yang cheered as Ruby smiled, Aqua helped Qrow get back up.
"Wow Aqua, you have great sword skills and nice semblance," Qrow said, smirking.
"Yes, I have. It's a pity that I didn't get the chance to use my other weapon." Aqua said, causing everyone to become quiet.
"… Another weapon?" They said in unison.
"Oh yes, my other weapon," Aqua replied, before getting his lightsaber from his belt. By pressing a button, it projected a blade of pure blue light. "This is a Lightsaber, a hilt encasing special crystal dust that can be used to project intense amounts of temperature that make lava look like ice!" Aqua said proudly as he waved it a second, and then turned it off.
"... Why didn't you use that?" Ruby asked, still amazed at the glowing effect of her twin brother's other weapon had had.
"It's because, I feared that the intense heat would've caused some serious burns and would near instantly deplete someone's Aura, just like what I had previously said."
Yang was about to say something, but Taiyang put a hand on Aqua's shoulder. "Come on now, Aqua has been through a lot. Let's get back inside, we have a lot of catching up to do." Everyone agreed with him and followed him walking back inside the house.