A Wizards Misadventures

~~Level Twenty Three~~

"I dunno. Maybe. He's a wizard, Ruby, and maybe a little more than that. I know that Ozpin couldn't do some of the stuff that he did. Maybe in his prime. Frankly your brother and what he did just went over my head sometimes. I ended up just rolling with it after he made some kind of secret spy ring at Signal."

"SubI," she said glumly. "They were cool."

"Smart kids. I still see Ocean hanging around Bella sometimes."

"She's the one that can change into the spider?"

"We don't talk about Ocean becoming a giant spider," he said seriously. That got a giggle out of her. Her uncle looked down at the papers she had brushed aside. "Pyrrha, huh? Not mad at her?"

"No but I don't know how to say it." She took a bite out of her BLT. Ooh, extra crispy bacon. Her uncle was a pretty good cook with the simple stuff. Anything more complex than homemade pizza and he fell apart. His lasagna normally caught fire somehow.

"Dear Pyrrha, I don't blame you and I want to be friends. Don't sorry, blah blah friendship and insert an anecdote somewhere. Done."

"Mmm," she swallowed her second bite and looked at the paper for a moment. "I'll get to it later."

"Sure. Don't leave your buddy hanging, though." She sighed and nodded.

"Want hu guh clothes hopping… mngh, later?"

"Don't speak with your mouth full, Ruby. Gross. And yeah, sure. Like a bigger huntress uniform or-"

"Start recording, Simmy… you are? Good." They both immediately stopped, Ruby in the middle of another big bite, her uncle with his mouth hanging open.

"Greetings, people of Remnant. This should be getting to all of you, as in the whole planet. I'm going to stop a lot of questions and say that yes, this is a telepathic prerecorded message."

"Abyssareyou-"

"It's a message, Ruby, quiet!" Qrow said urgently. She shut her mouth and listened. This wasn't what she was expecting today.

"For those of you who don't recognize my voice this is Abyss Mavros. About eight or nine months ago I was forced to leave Remnant, basically kidnapped. Before I get into the hows and whys of that I need to give you a bit of context."

Kidnapped… kidnapped?! He was alive! Her brother was alive! Tears collected at the edge of her vision but Ruby wiped those away quickly. Though she wasn't really listening with her ears she strained them, trying to absorb every word.

"My company, Nature's Bounty, was founded based on plants taken from other dimensions. These dimensions were reached via my semblance, which is capable of traveling to alternate realities, though it's completely exhausting to me and a bit dangerous."

Ruby frowned. Lying already. The plants were magical, imbued with affinities. This was a preface to something, she was sure of it.

"Most of the time I found empty lands, fertile but also dangerous. Raging deserts, abandoned cities, and wild forests. This is where I got the plants that I introduced to Remnant and sold, making a large part of the modern economy, perhaps a larger one than when I left if Mahogany hasn't been slacking. In my explorations I made contact with a few otherworldly civilizations. None of them were too much more impressive than Remnant. More populous, maybe, or more culturally diverse, but none as advanced or with warriors significantly more powerful.