231I Do Not Own Harry Potter or RWBY
This story contains FemHarry as Summer Rose
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Now then, there will no doubt be people out there upset with me, as I am posting yet another new story. All I'll say is that my muse is a fickle mistress.
I've actually had this idea in my head for months, about the same time I came up with 'For Death's Amusement.' However I liked FDA better, and I still love FDA, but the sheer amount of flames I got for how I portrayed Harry in that story killed my motivation for it. I had actually gotten my motivation back for the story, and sat down to write a new chapter, when I got another detailed review telling me what an idiot I was for making Harry so weak.
Now, I still intend to write the next chapter of FDA, but my mind...drifted, for lack of a better term, after I got that review, and I actually began to write this idea down. As I wrote it, I fell in love with it even more. The plus side to this story is that I have the Harry Potter arc fully planned before I get back to RWBY. Whereas with FDA, Volume 5 altered my plans for it. Not a lot, but still enough to throw off my plans. Hopefully, by having the HP arc planned I can get chapters out faster
Lastly, I don't mind constructive criticism. But if you're going to leave a review just to tell me I'm an idiot who should die because for some reason you don't like a part of this story (and yes, I did get reviews like that)...DON'T.
In fact, if you feel you need to leave reviews like that, on any story, STOP REVIEWING PERIOD! In fact, if you feel like you need to leave reviews like that, I ask that you not read my stories at all.
I, and the other authors on this site, are writing these stories for fun. We aren't paid (mostly), and those negative reviews can and will kill any and all motivation to continue a story, even if others like it. I, personally don't mind constructive criticism, it helps me improve my writing, even if I don't go back and change what I previously wrote (for whatever reason). But when all your reviews do is say how stupid an author is or that they need to die they're such an idiot, it does nothing but infuriate and frustrate the author. And considering how many people enjoy reading fanfiction for fun, everyone looses when a story dies or an author stops writing period, because of it.
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Prologue
Magic is a funny thing.
It can be harnessed and controlled, but at it's core, magic is wild and unpredictable.
With magic, the impossible becomes possible, and the unachievable achievable.
But for all of it's power, even to those most knowledgeable in it's use, magic will remain a mystery. And even they can encounter phenomenon they cannot explain.
Such was the case of young Harriet Potter.
Shortly after the murder of her parents, Harriet was left at the door of her mother's sister. But shortly after being left alone on the doorstep, and for no explainable reason, magic whisked her away to a new world.
That world was called Remnant.
Remnant was a dangerous world. The Creatures of Grimm roamed the planet. Their only instinct, to hunt humans. There was no reason for this behavior, for they did not eat the humans they killed, nor did they seek territory. They were drawn to human misery, cared only for the destruction of humanity.
To survive, the humans of Remnant had discovered a way to use their very souls to generate an aura. This aura could protect them from harm, even heal heal them. Aura also allowed those humans who unlocked it to use what they called a semblance. A semblance was an ability of some sort, a superpower for lack of a better term. And while certain semblances would run in bloodlines, many more were unique to individuals.
But aura had it's limits and could be depleted. And not everyone unlocked their aura.
Overtime, Remnant created Huntsman and Huntresses, men and women who dedicated their lives to protecting other humans. They protected the rest of humanity from the Creatures of Grimm, as well as criminals and terrorist. While they began their official training at the age of seventeen, for four years, most often training began at much younger ages. Either from parents, in Battle-Schools, or even in more remote outpost where skill at arms was vital for survival. Huntsman and Huntresses were the most elite of warriors.
But they were still human. And as humans, they were fallible, mortal beings.
It was into this world Harriet was transported. Specifically, in a region controlled by the Kingdom of Atlas.
Found alone, and without any identification, Harriet was placed into an orphanage, and given a new name.
Summer, named for the season she had been found during. Years later, when she unlocked her aura, and discovered her semblance of bursting into a flurry of white rose petals, she took the last name Rose.*
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Summer Rose smiled as she received the notification on her scroll accepting her into Beacon Academy.
The young woman wanted to be a huntress, more than anything. But she disliked the militaristic approach Atlas took. She believed that huntsman and huntresses shouldn't be military personnel, that their allegiance should be to humanity as a whole rather than one specific kingdom. It was why she had applied to Beacon academy in Vale instead of Atlas.
Atlas Academy had a tendency to push it's students towards the Atlesian Military.
She couldn't wait to be at Beacon
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She hadn't expected to be named team leader. In fact, Summer was wondering if perhaps Professor Ozpin had made a mistake.
The rest of the students that made up the newly formed team STRQ seemed much better to be leader than her.
Taiyang Xiao Long was much calmer than she was, despite his brawling style of combat. Heck, the blonde boy was the calmest out of the entire team.
And the Branwen siblings, Raven and her twin brother Qrow, just seemed to radiate confidence, despite neither being very sociable. Not to mention the apparent anger Raven carried due to the fact she wasn't named team leader.
It was clear the sword wielder believed she would be a better leader for the team, and Summer wasn't sure she wouldn't be.
"Now that is a long face."
Summer looked up to see Professor Ozpin, the Headmaster of Beacon Academy, standing next to her. One hand was resting on the top of his cane, while the other held a mug full of...something. Summer wasn't sure what.
"Professor," she exclaimed, a bit startled. "I didn't see you there."
"So I gathered," Ozpin said, with a slight smile. "If you don't mind me asking, what seems to be the problem Ms. Rose?"
Summer hesitated a moment before explaining. "I just...I can't help but feel you made a mistake making me a team leader." She looked down at the admission.
Ozpin sighed, though when she looked up, he had a small smile of his face. "That remains to be seen."
"What do you mean?" she asked confused.
"I mean it's only been one day," Ozpin explained. "Summer, I've made more mistakes than any man woman or child on this planet. But at this moment, I would not consider your appointment to leader to be one of them." He leaned a little closer to Summer, making sure to look her directly in the eye. "Do you?"
Summer shrugged uncertainly. "I don't know."
Ozpin smiled at her. "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you're not confident in yourself, then how can you expect others to be confident about your decisions? You've been burdened with a daunting responsibility, Summer. I advise you take some time, to think about how you will uphold it."
Giving her one last reassuring smile, the headmaster turned to walk away, leaving Summer alone to think of his words.
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"You look thrilled," the somewhat sarcastic voice of Qrow said as they watched Taiyang dance with a very awkward Raven.
The twenty-one year old huntress turned her silver eyes to her best friend and partner. "I'm trying to be happy for them Qrow...but it's hard."
Her teammate chuckled. "I don't doubt it is. Though I'll admit...I'm more surprised my sister agreed to marry him. And I'm even more surprised she agreed to wearing a wedding dress."
Summer smiled. "True. I don't think I've ever seen your sister act so...girlish."
"Neither have I," Qrow admitted. The two stood in silence a moment, just watching their two teammates on the dance floor. Then Qrow added, "You know, your a good friend Summer."
"What do you mean?" Summer asked, confused.
"You could have been distant, you could have even tried to steal Tai from my sister. Instead, you helped set up the ceremony, even stood as the maid of honor as my sister married the man you've fallen for. And not once, have they looked at you like they knew how you felt about Tai."
Summer snorted lightly. "You might be my best friend, even the brother I never had, but they're my friends, my family too." She smiled sadly. "It's my own fault I didn't tell Tai my feeling before your sister did. And what kind of friend...what kind of sister, would I be if I tried to stop their happiness for my own selfish desires."
The taller man placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder, and gave her a small smile. "That's why you're a good friend Summer, you care."
"You do too, even if you won't admit it."
Qrow chuckled.
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"Yang's asleep," Summer said, as she walked into the kitchen, where a relieved Taiyang was cleaning up after dinner.
The blonde man sighed. "Thank you Summer." He paused a moment before adding, "I don't know what I'd do without you."
The redhead smiled sadly. "Probably go insane with worry...Tai...I, I'm sorry about you and Raven. I wish I could tell you why she left you, and that little angel upstairs. And I'm sorry I can't fix it."
"It's not your fault Summer," Tai assured her.
She sighed. "But I can't help but feel it is," she admitted. "I mean, we all know Raven wanted to be team leader. If she had been, perhaps she wouldn't have left you."
Taiyang walked over and placed his hands on Summer's shoulders. "It's not you fault Summer. Raven...Raven's complicated. You know that."
"Yeah...But it's hard to believe that Raven could just abandon you and your daughter like she did. She was always so fierce, so unshakable. Then Ozpin got us involved against Salem...and she changed."
"I know," he smiled sadly. "We all have." He sighed. Taking a step back from his team leader. "You should get some sleep. You and Qrow have a mission tomorrow."
Summer chuckled lightly. "You're right. We'll probably be gone before you wake up." She smiled mischievously, "Unless Yang decided to wake you up early of course."
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Qrow was sitting with Taiyang as they watched Yang play in the little sandbox Tai had built for her. Summer was currently in town, grocery shopping for the house that, in the time since Raven had left, become home to all three remaining members of Team STRQ.
"She loves you you know," he said after a moment.
Tai looked over at him. "What?"
"Summer, she loves you. She has since our second year at the academy," he explained.
"This isn't a funny joke Qrow," Tai said, somewhat coldly.
""It's not a joke," he told his friend. Looking over at the blonde, he sighed and rubbed a hand over his face. "She won't say anything to you about it. She feels guilty."
Tai looked at him, confusion in his eyes. "Why would she feel guilty?"
"Because you were with Raven. And even if my sister abandoned you and Yang, Summer still holds out hope that she'll come back, that she'll actually be a mother to Yang, and a wife to you. Summer doesn't want to let go of that hope, that we'll all be a team, a family again."
The other man was silent a moment, before he asked, "Why are you telling me this?"
"Because I love Summer, not romantically mind you." The dark haired hunter sighed. "She's more of a sister to me now, than Raven ever was. More importantly, she deserves to be happy."
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Summer smiled, holding the tiny bundle in her arms, looking down at her daughter with love and devotion.
She looked up as the door opened, and Taiyang walked in, holding the two-year old Yang. Her husband and daughter, even if Yang wasn't her blood, were followed by Qrow.
"Hey," she said softly as they approached, not wanting to wake up the newborn that had fallen asleep just a few moments after being placed in her arms.
Taiyang smiled, and leaned down to place a kiss on her forehead. "How are you doing?" he asked softly.
"I'm fine Tai," she assured him.
Before they could say anything else, Yang asked, with worry in her voice, "Are you okay Mommy?"
Summer smiled at the young girl. "Of course I am sweetheart."
"But you were crying?"
"Come here," Summer said softly, patting the side of her hospital bed.
Yang, with some assitance from her father, sat down beside Summer.
"I was crying because I was happy," she said, lying somewhat. "Do you know why I was happy?"
The young girl shook her head.
"I was happy because your sister was finally coming. Would you like to meet her?"
Yang smiled, and nodded.
Summer lowered her newborn down so that the older girl could see her clearly. "This is your sister Yang, your little sister. Do you know what that means?"
Yang shook her head once more.
"It mean that you now have a very important job."
"I do?"
"Yes, you need to protect her. It's a big sister's job to protect her little sister. Can you do that?"
Yang nodded. "What's her name?"
"Ruby," Taiyang said, placing a hand on Yang's back as he sat down on the edge of the bed, next to his daughters and wife. "Her name is Ruby."
"At least she get's her looks from Summer," Qrow added, speaking for the first time since entering the room. "I'd pity the kid if she took after your ugly mug Tai."
Tai glared over at his friend.
Summer just chuckled lightly.
And Yang continued to stare amazingly at her new sister.
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It had been five years since Ruby's birth.
And Summer and Qrow found themselves fighting off a horde of Grimm.
Qrow's scythe cut through Grimm as though they were naught but wheat, while Summer's spear struck with pinpoint precision as she zoomed around the battlefield with her semblance.
The two expert Hunter's fought with a coordination and teamwork that had only come from years of fighting together.
Despite this, they were slowly being pushed back towards the edge of the cliff they fought near. Even as countless Grimm fell to their blades, there were only the two of them against this wild horde.
Slowly, their aura's were depleted, until one lucky blow knocked Summer to the edge of the cliff, depleting her aura in the process.
Exhausted, she looked up, only to see Qrow cut down the Ursa that had struck her.
Qrow looked at her...
….Just in time to watch as the ground below her gave way unexpectedly.
The last thing Qrow saw of his best friend and partner, was a sad smile as she realized what had happened.
It wasn't until later that he realized the scream he'd heard had been his own.
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Qrow sat at the bar looking sadly down at the picture taken of Team STRQ on graduation day. Already the picture was stained with his tears.
He didn't even feel the black eye he'd received from Tai when he told his friend about what happened to Summer, that she wasn't coming home, that the river running below the cliff had swallowed her body, and that, despite hours of searching in his crow form, he couldn't find her and bring her home to bury.
And it was his fault.
Qrow knew it was. His semblance caused bad luck, to friend and to foe. And the cliff was solid stone, there was no reason at all for it to give way at the moment Summer was standing on it. He had no other explanation for why the cliff gave way other than his semblance.
It was his fault Tai lost his wife.
It was his fault his nieces lost their mother.
It was his fault that his best friend was dead.
When the bartender set the shot of whiskey in front of him, he swallowed it down effortlessly, trying to drown his guilt and pain.
Then he called for another.
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As she fell from the cliff, Summer was sure she was dead.
With her aura already depleted, she knew the odds of surviving were slim. But she didn't scream, she couldn't even feel fear.
Closing her eyes, all she felt was the sorrow that her daughters, her precious little girls, would grow up without her, that she would never see the beautiful women they would become.
Sorrow that Tai would lose yet another wife.
Sorrow that Qrow would no doubt blame himself and his semblance.
And there was nothing she could do to stop that sorrow.
She never noticed the fire that appeared around her.
The sudden, but not fast nor fatal fall to a floor covered with stone, rather than a hard and lethal impact with the river below the cliff, she did notice however.
Opening her eyes, sore and exhausted from the fight with the Grimm and her spent aura, Summer stood up.
To be met with a silent hall, reminding her, in setup, of the cafeteria at Beacon, filled with children sitting at four long tables that had candles floating above them.
"Harriet?"
Summer turned towards the voice that spoke, to face the man who had spoken. He was an elderly man, with long white hair along with an equally long beard. He wore what appeared to be robes of some-kind, half-moon spectacles which sat upon a crooked nose in front of his blue eyes, and was standing next to a goblet that was set on a pedestal of some sort.
Behind him, sat a fifth table, shorter than the other four, and filled with adults.
Summer went to grip her spear, Silver Thorn, only to realize she'd lost it when she fell. With that realization, her hand drifted to the handle of the knife she kept on her belt, both as a back-up weapon and as a utility tool when out in the field.
"Summer," she corrected, realizing the man thought she was someone named Harriet. "Where am I?"
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*The Schnee Family is proof that some semblances can pass through families. For the purposes of this story, I decided that Summer's Semblance would be like that, and thus she has the same semblance as her daughter Ruby
And for those of you wondering, Ozpin's speech to Summer is quite similar to his speech to Ruby, only with minor alterations to fit her situation.
As my last note for the prologue, I intend to have Summer return to Remnant. But, if you haven't already figured it out, time passes differently in the two universes. I actually did the math, so I know when Summer will return to Remnant, but she'll be gone longer there than she spends in the HP world.
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