Hello everyone and welcome to this fic.
First a big thanks to EvaShinobiKaiserKnight or ESKK for allowing me to do reading of your story "Garo SSBR of Makai" it is a crossover of Garo and RWBY, if you're interested to read it, it's very interesting.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters present, they belong to their respective owners, nor do I own the original story.
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Reading opening
(Thud…)
"Huh ... Where am I?" Ruby said as she woke up, not knowing where she was. The last thing she remembered was spending time with her friends, having fun, and then everything was blank "I have a headache."
"Ruby?" she heard a familiar voice question.
Ruby turned her head to look at her older sister "Yang?" she said, then she noticed that her teammates and friends were present too- "Weiss, Blake, Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, Nora, everyone is here."
"Hey Ruby." said Jaune with a groan as he was being helped by Pyrrha to get up.
The group realized that they were in an elegant room with several books floating in a corner, a huge bacl couch and a large table with gold colored ornaments hanging on it.
"Where we are?" Ruby questionned.
"If I knew, you'd be the first to know." said Weiss with a frown.
"Don't be frosty ice queen." said Yang with a smirk while Weiss sighed.
"Ruby's right though." Ren said "Where are we? And why are we here?"
"That's a good question, Mr. Lie," Ozpin said with surprise, beside him was Glynda Goodwitch, Qrow, Winter, and Taiyang
"Dad!, Uncle Qrow!" said Ruby and Yang
"Winter!" said Weiss
"Professor Ozpin, do you know where we are?" Pyrrha said.
"I'm afraid not just like you, we wake up in this room," Ozpin said calmly, "I do not know who brought us to this place or the reason we're here"
"This place is suspicious," Glynda said.
"Sister, why are you here?" said Weiss
"I do not know, I was busy with some military affairs in Atlas and suddenly they brought me here next to this drunk," Winter said pointing to Qrow
"Your words hurt, Ice queen" said Qrow jokingly and was about to drink in his canteen with alcohol but did not have it in his hand - "Great ..." murmured annoyed
"With everything cleared, there is only one question in mind," Taiyan said. "Where are we?"
The group thought on it for a few moments, before they assumed the worst, or rather, Weiss did.
"We were kidnapped!" she shouted "It's the only logical explanation, someone must have kidnapped us for some kind of twisted reason."
"It's indeed a possibility." said Ren calmly.
"Something's not right though." Blake started "We still have our weapons."
"Miss Belladona is right, we still have our weapons ... this does not seem strange?," said Glynda
Jaune looked around, and soon noticed that the doors in the room were unlocked "Hey, the doors aren't locked, almost like the person who brought us here isn't afraid of us leaving."
"Then the person who kidnapped us is either really stupid, or they're toying with us." Yang said
"Maybe both?" said Qrow
"The best answer is that I simply trust you." said a voice behind everyone, surprising the group.
Both teams turned around showing that there was a person behind them. That person wore a black colored armor except the joints were gray, they had a cloth around their waist and metal wings on their back. Their helmet was shaped like the head of a dragon, with a small yellow horn on it's forehead with two long ones on the sides, two red eyes and a H-shaped visor in purple.
"Hello team RWBY, team JNPR, Ozpin, Glyda, Qrow, Winter and Taiyan." he said calmly.
The young hunters and adults grabbed their weapons and wearilly pointed them at the stranger
"Who are you and why did you bring us to this place?" Ruby said.
"Please, lower your weapons." said the stranger "I'm not your enemy."
"Sure." Yang said sarcastically "Now give us an answer before I break your face."
"And we hope you'll tell the truth," Winter said.
"Of course, but only if you all calm down and lower your weapons." said the stranger "Trust me, hero's word."
"Wait." Ruby said in confusion "Hero?"
The stranger nodded. The group lowered their weapons, willing to give him the benefit of the doubt if he explains.
"First, let me introduce myself." he said music started in the room "Hear my call!" he cried out cheerfully "Dancer of the multiverse, the dragon warrior!" he did a spin "Magna Ryunoid! At your service." he said while striking a pose. (the same that Gai Ikari / Gokai silver does at the end of his henshin)
A small explosion happened behind him once he finished. THe group looked amongst each other and wondered if he was sane.
The now presented Magna Ryunoid coughed embarassedly "Well I gave you my name," he said a little sheepishly, "I'll answer your questions now, but before that, does anyone want anything to eat or drink?"
He received a round of nods, prompting him to calp his hands twice, making all kinds of food items, from cookies, to pancakes, to tuna sandwiches appear on the table along with many other kinds and a few drinks as well.
"Woo!" shouted Nora and Ruby as they pounced on their plates with their favorite food, Blake moved fast as well, but not as fast as she grabbed a few tuna sandwhiches.
"Do not you have any liquor or any alcohol?" said Qrow
"I'm sorry but I do not like people to drink these things ... but I'll make an exception" said Magan snapping his fingers and a small glass of beer is in the hand of Qrow
"That is all?" Said disillusioned to see the small glass
"Yup," Magna said.
"At least he's doing me a favor, I would not want to tolerate a drunken Qrow right now," murmured Glynda
"I agree with you," Winter said.
"Then Mr. Magna Ryunoid, Why did you bring us here?" asked Ozpin
"Good question." started Magna "Has anyone heard about the multiverse theory?"
"It says that there are multiple alternate universe out there, and for each action we take, another universe where we didn't do said action also exists, or sometimes the changes can be extreme, like a person not being born, or having a completely different family." Blake said getting everyone's attention"I've read about it a bit."
"It's basically that yes." started Magna "The reason that you're all here is to read a book, but not any just book, this one tells the life of different counterparts from another universes." he took one of the books that floated and put it in the table.
Ren took the book and read the cover "Garo SSBR of Makai"
"What is it about?" said Jaune as everyone took their turn to check out the book.
"I'm sorry but I don't do spoilers." Magna said with a smirk underneath his helmet.
"Listen well, you oddball, I don't know what your game is but I'm not about to fall for any traps." said Weiss in annoyance.
"I'm not attempting to trap you or anything of the sort." Magna started, sounding completely serious "I'm giving you the opportunity to read about another worlds, you can learn something from this and use it in the future, as this will feature events that will take place in your futures. The reason I do this is to help, and the only thing I ask for in return is your trust and to read the lives of your counterparts, I give my word that when you finish reading, I'll send you back to your world."
The young hunters and adults looked at each other, thinking over what they should do.
"Well, we have nothing to lose honestly." Ruby said.
"I agree with Ruby. We're just reading a book afterall." Yang said in agreement.
"He said that our future is written in this." Jaune started "It could help us avoid disasters before they arise."
"Mister Arc is right." Ozpin said supporting his student "It's possible that this book can help us."
"He promised us that we'll return home when we're done. We have don't have any reason to say no." added Blake.
Weiss gave a slight grunt of acceptance "Okay, but if this is some kind of trick, I'll turn you into an ice sculpture." she said while pointing at Magna.
"I'll keep it in mind ice queen." said Magna, making the heiress look at him "I cannot deny that the nickname fits your personality."
"So how are we going to read it?" Ruby asked.
"Reading order is team RWBY first and then JNPR, after Ozpin, Glynda, Qrow, Winter and finally Taiyang"said Magna.
With that said, Ruby got ready to read.
"Just a moment." interrupted Magna "Before reading, we need something to help get a visual." he snapped his fingers and a plasma screen TV appeared on the wall.
"Why a television?" asked Blake.
"A visual aid to better understand the story," Magna said "And if you have any questions I will answer them if necessary ... but I won't give out spoilers." He cleared his throat "And one more thing, the first four chapters are the trailers where we're introduced to the protagonists in the story. Now you can begin." he smiled underneath his helmet as the story was about to start, first stop…
And cut ...
Thus ends the prologue of this story, the next chapter will begin with the reading of the first's trailer ... I hope you liked it and see you another time.
Goodbye from Magna Ryunoid
