Chapter 1: So many questions but no answers

The sun peeked its head over the horizon of Tengu City, it's been awfully quiet lately. There wasn't no chaos going on, nor was there any spacial quakes lately either. It was a peaceful and quiet morning.

"Wake up!" Marigold shouted loudly as she was in her mothers bedroom dancing around. She laughed and grinned widely as she spun around, her golden blonde hair was in pigtails as her red eyes full upon her sleeping mother in bed. "Come on, wake up mama."

The blanket moved as the lump under the covers rolled over. Marigold pouted as she jumped up and landed onto the bed. "Wake up mama, come on. Why sleep in all day? The sun is shining and the birds are singing."

Kurumi groans as she pulled the blanket off of her head, her eyes half way opened. She saw Marigold sitting on the bed looking right at her. The spirit didn't say anything, as she reached up from the blanket and grabbed Marigold, pulling her next to her. She wrapped her arms around her daughter and snuggles against her. "Mommy is too tired to get out of bed sweetie.."

Marigold yelps as she had been pulled into a snuggling hug. "Mama... this is embarrassing, I'm not a baby anymore." The half Grimm half Spirit girl tried to wiggle her way out of Kurumi's snuggling trap but failed. "Mama... When is mom coming back home?"

Hearing this be asked, Nightmare unwrapped her arms from Marigold as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes and sat up in bed. "Your mother is very busy with work. I don't know when she will be back. But she will come back to her loving family." Kurumi saw Marigold sit up on her knees as she rubbed her head. "I'm up now, lets go get breakfast started. Ko.... I mean you'll be late for Spirit training with Yoshino and Natsumi."

Marigold wasn't playing dumb, she knew Kurumi was going to say Kotori but stopped herself from saying her name. "Mama... why isn't auntie being the one teaching me how to control my spirit powers? I want it to be auntie Kotori who teaches me." She puffed her cheeks as she crosses her arms. "You're no fun."

Kurumi shook her head as she kissed Marigold on the forehead. "Because, Kotori is very busy too. She can't always teach you how to control your spirit powers." Nightmare got out of bed as she slipped her slippers on, her pink tank top was wrinkled up as the left shoulder strap seemed like it wanted to slide off her shoulder. She stretched as she yawned, her golden clock-eye ticked a little as she turned to look at her daughter. "What do you want? Pancakes?"

Marigold thinks for a moment as her stomach rumbled, she grins as she nodded her head. "Pancakes! Oooh and uh... bacon, eggs and sausages!"

"We're not running a restaurant sweetie. If you want all that, we can go to Danny's later. But now you're just going to get Pancakes." Kurumi spoke as she flicked Marigold's nose. "Come on, you can help me make them."

Marigold grins as she jumped out of Kurumi's bed, she took one step across the floor and rushed out of the bedroom and down the stairs. Kurumi sighs as she snapped her fingers, her pajamas changed into a maid cafe outfit. Her hair was neatly fixed and no longer a mess, she went to leave the room as she grabbed onto the door knob. She turned around to look at the bed and slowly closed the door.

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After breakfast was done, there was a knock at the door. Marigold brushing her teeth as she heard the knock at the door, she quickly spits the toothpaste out into the sink. She could hear Kurumi's feet against the floor and the door unlocking, then opening up.

Kotori stood there as she saw Nightmare opening the door, rather than Marigold. "Oh it's just you, I thought Marigold would've been the one to open the door."

"No, she's busy with getting her teeth brushed." Kurumi said as she looks past her and saw Kaguya and Yuzuru standing outside as well. "I don't recall setting up an girls day out. What's going on?"

Kotori grins as she took a lollipop from out of her jacket pocket and unwrapped the wrapper that was hiding the sweet sucker. The flame spirit popped the lollipop into her mouth as she looks at Nightmare. "These two are curious about something. So they followed me here."

Tilting her head to the side, Nightmare blinks as she puts a finger on her chin. She grins a little as she looked over at the two. "Oh I see, they want to know how I got knocked up by a Grimm." Kurumi shook her head as she sighed. "Alright, if they must know." She walked past Kotori as she stepped outside.

Kotori turned around as she blinked a little, she watched as their mouths moved. "How did you even get pregnant? There's no possible way a girl could get another girl pregnant. Was there some special way?" Kotori mocked their lip movements as she giggled. "Oh I see, so you two are curious... Why do you want to know? Not that is matters, but I suppose I should tell you... You see."

Before Kurumi could say anything else, a cabbage stand on wheels came rolling down hill as it had gotten away from it's owner and hit both Kaguya and Yuzuru. Kotori saw this as she wasn't even going to question it. All she could hear was some person yelling 'My cabbages!' As for the twins. They were taken away by the cabbage stand as it kept on rolling down the street.

"Huh, I hope they're not gone for too long." Kurumi said. "I could use some cabbages for dinner tonight." She turned around as she saw Kotori scratching the back of her head. "Well, since you're here. Marigold should be finished soon."

Marigold came dashing through the house as she came to a stop on her heels, she saw Kotori as she smiled widely. "Auntie!" She jumped for joy as she hugged the flame spirit tightly. "So you were coming."

Kotori had heard the countless times Marigold had called her auntie, but she felt like it was now being more of a joke in calling her old. She didn't even have a growth spurt yet, she wiggled out of Marigold's hug as she pats her on the head. "Had to make sure you didn't know I was, and please stop calling me auntie... it's making me feel old."

Marigold didn't listen as she smiled more. "Auntie, auntie is here to teach me." She giggles as she claps her hands together.

Kotori sighs as she puts a hand to her forehead. "Sometimes you act like a child."

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While Marigold was away learning how to control her spirit powers, Kurumi had went into town as she hummed lightly. There was a radio station playing a song Miku had recently sung for a live concert, on her way to the mall. Nightmare had spotted Tohka in one of the restaurants with someone else other than Shido, curious about it. The spirit slipped into the restaurant as she listened on what was being said.

"I don't know Tohka, this seems a bit fishy." Nia said as she balanced a pen on her upper lip and sighed. "Are you certain Shido is wanting to make a new Manga that involves working together with me?"

Tohka nodded as she gulped down a mouthful of cake, she pounded her chest as it went down hard. But she managed to get it down, she grabbed her glass of water and chugged it down before putting the glass down onto the table. "I'm certain of it, besides isn't it going to be fun doing a Manga together? Two worlds collide, two different art styles. Minds of readers will be blown."

An omelet rice dish was placed down in front of Nia as Mii, Ai, and Mai were sitting across from them. The three of them noticed Kurumi while overhearing what Nia and Tohka were talking about.

"Hey isn't that Kurumi? What's she doing here?" Mai asked.

Ai shrugged as she made a bit of eye contact with the spirit before looking at her food. "Maybe she came here on her own for some reason."

"That's so lame." Mii said clearly being the only word she knew how to speak. Anything else wasn't in her vocabulary.

Nightmare noticed them but didn't pay them any mind, she noticed Tohka hadn't heard them. She figured it was best to leave for now, before Tohka took notice of her arrival.

Right as she had left, the twins were waiting for her. It seemed they had returned from the run away cabbage stand. This time, Kaguya leaned over to whisper into Kurumi's ear. "So, tell us. How did it happen?"

Kurumi raises an eyebrow up wondering why they wanted to know so badly. "Alright, but are you sure nothing will come by and sweep you both off your feet?"

The twins nod their heads as they waited to hear what Nightmare had to say. Kurumi glanced around to make sure there wasn't any runaway food stands or anything on wheels, she let out a sigh. "Alright, it's simple. You see..

Just as Kurumi was about to say it again to them. A golf cart came zooming by as the breaks were clipped, hitting the two spirits and sent flying out of the mall. Nightmare blinked confused as she wondered if it was bad luck that struck the two spirits or not.

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Sighing and panting. Marigold fell backwards onto her back as she looked up at the sky. Kotori was in her spirit form as she glances down at Marigold, luckily she hadn't gone berserk while in her spirit form. Unlike last time, she sighed as she puts her arm out. "Come on, up to your feet."

Marigold reached up and grabbed Kotori's arm as she was pulled up. She looks at the flame spirit for a bit as she turns her head away. "Why is it that everyone I know have astral dresses and have powers. But I don't, you have that, mama has a beautiful red and black dress. I don't have one of my own."

"It's going to take sometime to figure out what yours is." Kotori said. "We knew what ours were and learned to use them. You on the other hand, that's a different story. Seeing as you're part spirit and part Grimm, it would be a tough one to figure out. Maybe you don't have any special powers like we do. Origami was a human and she became a spirit, and now she has her spirit powers and her AST armor." Kotori stayed in her spirit form for a bit longer as she touched Marigold on the head. "The only thing I can probably think of at the moment is that Scarlet's Grimm DNA inside you is more in control rather than your spirit DNA from Kurumi. That's the only thing I can think of, but... if you were to maybe end up going berserk out of the blue and activated your spirit power. Then we'll know what kind you have."

Marigold looked down at the ground as she let out a sigh. "I wish mom wasn't away, she'd probably help out. But she's busy and can't find no time to come back to see me."

Kotori turned back to normal as she offered Marigold a lollipop. "There's several reasons why your mom isn't here to stay. There's also reasons why it's just you and Kurumi for the time being, I don't want to get myself into trouble in telling you why. You should ask Kurumi, that is something she should tell you."

Marigold took the lollipop from Kotori as she unwrapped it and pops it into her mouth. "You think I'll finally know why mom isn't here with us then? Are you sure mama wouldn't be lying to me?"

Marigold felt like Scarlet had left her and Kurumi behind to find another family to be with. But this wasn't the case. Scarlet had been caught up in some wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff, but not just that. She was currently in back in Remnant, as for why she was. She didn't have the slightest clue, she had found herself in Atlas prison of all places. General James Ironwood was being a total ass and locked her up, even though team RWBY had came to her aid to defend her from Ironwood's wrath. This was an odd predicament she had gotten herself into.

Meanwhile at Nia's studio apartment. The twins had went to her for the answer on how Kurumi had gotten pregnant from a Grimm. Nia adjusted her glasses as she looked at the two spirits with confusion.

"So.... you want me to use Rasiel to find the answer as to how the Nightmare spirit got pregnant from another girl?" Nia asked as she wasn't too familiar with Scarlet. Even though she could just use her angel to figure out who she was. "Alright, but what makes you two think you're safe here from any runaway vehicles?"

"Because, we're inside. There's no way a vehicle would come derailing us from the truth." Yuzuru said as her and Kaguya were sitting on their knees waiting for Nia to give them the answer.

"Alright, alright." Nia said as she held her hand out. "Rasiel, a book materialized out of thin air as it landed in Nia's hand, the book was already opened as the spirit looked through the pages. Her face started to turn red with each passing minute. "O-Oh my.... W-Wow!" She was completely red in the face now as her glasses had slid towards the tip of her nose. "Awooga!" She started to chuckle nervously and grin. "This is...."

"What? What? We're waiting." Kaguya said as she was confused by the sounds coming from Nia's mouth.

Nia closed Rasiel as her angel vanished, she regained her composure as she took a deep breath and exhaled. "I'm sorry, but I can't tell you anything... it's best if you don't know."

"What? No, this is juicy info. We must know!" Yuzuru shouted.

Nia stood up as she kicked both of them out of the door. "It's not suited for your ears, now if you excuse me I have work to do."

Both the twins were dumbstruck as they couldn't believe that their last resort in finding the answer they've been dying to know. Just kicked them out of the details, they both sighed as they decided to give up trying to figure it out.

Back inside the studio apartment however, Nia was laughing and giggling. She wiggled around in place as she had summoned Rasiel again, she was looking at the pages again. Her creative yet perverted and lewd mind was filling with ideas for her Manga. "Oooh, that's going to be so hot to input into my Manga! Hehehe. Those two were so dirty! She brought the honey for the hive alright!"