Leon was in a terrible mood for the next few days as he scoured through every historical document he could get his hands on to try and figure out where this magic came from. it should be mentioned that the energy signatures of magic and semblances were different in how they appeared to the sharingan which is how he knew the difference. leon only caught a break in his search for an origin point when he heard glenda reading a fairytale to tabitha. reading to infants helped them learn language a little faster despite them not actually understanding what was being said.
This particular story was called "the dark lady and the knight of light" and told of a kingdom long long ago that was ruled by two extremely powerful people , namely the dark lady who could command the grim and the knight of light who had great power granted to him by the gods. the story told the story of how the knight of light received a quest from the gods but the dark lady refused to allow him to pursue it and the two fought over it with the dark lady swearing vengeance on the world over the betrayal of her lover.
Leon didn't know how much of the story was complete nonsense but the description of the dark lady fit the bill for the magic he found in that bird grim with one problem , time. for this story to have been relegated to a fairy tale an extremely large amount of time would have needed to pass which should result in everyone involved being dead by now. keep in mind up to this point in time the only semblance that granted immortality to any real degree was his own , as far as the records show anyways.
The only thing that came to mind as to how someone could still have the abilities of the dark lady at this time was if it was similar to the schnee clans hereditary glyph semblance. leon was not a hundred percent sure if magic was hereditary since tabitha had shown no signs of it at all even when he scanned her his his sharingan. leon was obviously not aware that salem and ozma's children had only shown an aptitude for magic when they hit puberty. thanks to the full story only being known by ozpin and salem herself this information would remain out of leon's hands for some time now.
Leon soon discovered another problem after learning of the dark lady however "how do you find a person or group of people who obviously don't want to be found?" he asked no one in particular as he lazed about on top of the new beacon academy building. this caused him quite the headache since he had exhausted all his avenues of search save manually. "it's possible that these people are behind a lot of the stuff that shows up in the history books." he muttered with a thoughtful look.
If either ozpin or salem knew that leon was starting to look into the shadowy dealing they had throughout history they would both curse , though for entirely different reasons. ozpin would curse because it would likely lead leon straight to salem and salem would curse because it would highlight all of her horrible actions in the past. leon didn't notice it until it literally struck him but opal threw a rock at him to get his attention. sure the stone merely bounced off his shield harmlessly but it didn't make the fact it happened any less unpleasant.
Leon lazily rolled off the roof and glided down with his wings to go see what opal wanted so badly as to throw something at him. "i thought you had homework to grade or something after you took ports place as the studies of grim teacher?" leon asked with a yawn. "i already finished all of that yesterday , any ways i figured I'd come see about trying to convince you to take up your old teaching gig since i got tired of hearing the students asking about it." she said honestly. "yeah no , i am quite satisfied with my current freedom thank you very much. plus if you really wanted to have such a class there are literally hundreds of active or retired hunters who could fill the role." leon said while stretching like a cat.
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