Inshu sat across from Yang's bed, staring at the wall. The girl he loved had lost her arm in the Fall, and his little brother killed. What sort of sick joke was this?!
Head resting against his hands Inshu wondered if Ozpin was even worth finding again this time. They finally came together after two thousand years and this was what they had to show for it. A dead leader, a dead brother, and a mutilated lover.
The door opening was the only thing to pull him from his thoughts. Looking to it he saw Kaen, who seemed as bleak as ever.
"I just came from the hospital back in Vale. Rogue woke up. He knows Blake left. No doubt he'll go after her." He kept looking straight ahead, as if afraid to acknowledge his brother.
"What now then?" Inshu asked, slowly standing up as he hammered away at his flask, emptying it in record time.
"We need to give him a proper funeral Inshu." Inshu looked to his brother.
"Where? Where on this forsaken fucking rock should we bury our brother?" He demanded, slowly lurching towards his brother. Kaen now turned his head to look at Inshu.
"Where it all began. Where we began." Inshu stopped in his tracks. None of them had set foot in the Domain of Light since Kai-Y/N...had fallen for Salem's lies. They had never felt worthy of the brilliant land.
"We'd take months. I won't leave Yang that long." Inshu protested softly.
"If we use this we won't have to." Kaen now produced a compass from his pocket. Inshu gingerly took it, looking at it in shock...awe...sorrow.
"His first creation..." Inshu choked out. Tears rose to his eyes as he watched the needle pointed directly to the Domain of Light.
"Would it even work?"
"It's how I've been getting around quickly despite the chaos." Kaen murmured, slowly taking the compass back from Inshu.
"If it's going to be a proper funeral, all three of us should go." Inshu said, wiping his eyes.
"I know. I was going to get Reiji once you were ready to come with me." Kaen put the compass back into his pocket as he said this, sighing softly as he did.
"Alright. One thing first." He nodded to Yang, who was staring out the window. Kaen nodded, stepping out of the room to give the two privacy.
"You can go. He was your brother, I understand." Yang didn't even look as Inshu sat beside her, bringing an arm around her.
"I knew you'd understand Yang. But I wanted to make sure you'd really be ok." Inshu told her, hugging her. The blond turned, burying her face in Inshu's shoulder and crying.
"I don't want you to go." Yang cried as she sobbed.
"I promise it won't take us longer than the day. I'll be back before it's dark. I promise to every God humanity has ever thought of." Inshu slowly brought Yangs head up to look at him.
"I promise I'll come back, and I'll never leave your side once I'm back." He whispered, softly kissing the once fiery blond. Yang barely kissed back, wrapping her left arm around him.
"You had better..."
"I will Yang."

"Reiji." Kaen and Inshu stood out of the way from the destructive man before them, watching as he turned to them, his eyes fiery with anger and sorrow.
"What now? The last time you came for me where I was, this happened!" He roared, gesturing to the destroyed Beacon, the devastation of the attack, and the Grimm that wandered and approached the campus.
"We're going to give him a funeral. In the Domain of Light. All three of us." Inshu told Reiji, watching as a myriad of emotions seemed to pass over the mountainous man's features.
"When?"
"Once you agree. We would have to get the body, but then we could leave."
"How long?"
"We'll be back before dark."
"How?"
Kaen silently produced the compass, holding it where Reiji could see.
"You found it? After all these years?" A solemn nod from Kaen was the only answer. Reiji slowly bowed his head, his gaze to the ground.
"Fine."

"Who's gonna carry him?" Inshu asked, looking down at the cloth wrapped body of the trio's youngest brother.
"I will. I am the eldest. You all were my responsibility to guide when you appeared in this world. I will guide him one last time...to the Afterlife." Kaen spoke with the solemn determination only an oldest child taking charge of his siblings could.
With that Kaen reached down, collecting the body in his arms, and lifting it. Silently Reiji and Inshu both took hold of his shoulders.

In the blink of an eye the three brothers found themselves standing in the golden flowers of the Domain of Light. The Fountain of Life stood before them, the golden leafed Tree of Light behind it slowly swaying in the breeze.
Without a word Kaen walked to the Fountain, kneeling and laying his youngest brother on the rocks that lined the water.
"As we lived for our father Oum, so we live for the memory of our brother, Kaizen Oum. As we resist the darkness, so will we resist the loss of memory for our brother. As we guided him through this world, so we guide Kaizen towards the Afterlife." Kaen spoke quietly, Inshu and Reiji silent as he did.
Kaen lifted the body again. This time sliding it slowly from his arms into the water. As the body slowly dipped into the water, Kaen's hands brushed the waters surface, burning as if touching flame. With a grunt of pain Kaen pulled his hands back, watching as the body of Kaizen Oum sank beneath the water.

"Salem was behind this. I have no doubts." Kaen stated, looking to the stone covered Wyvern with Inshu and Reiji.
"That was obvious when we found out they were after the Fall Maiden."
"Still. We need a plan of attack. I am not going to sit idly by again, and allow another Academy to meet Beacon's fate." Kaen turned to Inshu now, looking him in the eye.
"You can stay with Yang. But if she fights again, you will fight too." Inshu nodded, unable to find a reason to argue. Now Kaen turned to Reiji.
"You won't bury yourself in Grimm here. You are going to Vacuo. Guard the Relic of Destruction. Wield it if the situation forces that possibility." Reiji looked to his brother and nodded.
"I will go to Atlas. Prevent any further destruction Ironwoods soulless army of machines may cause, and guard the Relic of Creation."
"And what about the Relic of Knowledge?" Kaen looked to the ground.
"That we must leave abandoned for now. As the situation evolves so too will we." Kaen looked between his brothers.
"We are not hiding from this war any more. Now we march the warpath."