A/N: Hi guys, Welcome to my very first attempt at a RWBY Fanfic - RWBY: the Tale of Team CDAR. It may be a bit rough around the edges, but as I said, it is only my first attempt.
Somewhere in the Forever Fall Forest, Vale
The leaves drifted in the wind, slowly making their descent to the forest floor. They twirled around her, the girl sitting on the rock, before slowly touching down on the ground, gazing back up at the trees from which they came. She paid them no mind. Her mind was elsewhere, preparing herself for what was about to happen. Her partner noticed this, and spoke up.
"Don't worry," he said to her. "We've run through the plan a thousand times. Nothing is gonna happen that we didn't plan for." The Wolf Faunus looked at her with a reassuring grin on his face.
She ignored him, as she always did. She was about to speak up, but before she could, a new voice rang out across the clearing.
"Blake… Remus," the newcomer said. "It's time." He spoke without letting his emotions show, making it sound all the more sinister.
There was a time, back when Remus Viridian had first met the Bull-Horned Faunus, that the emotionless voice had scared him. Now, he knew that it just meant that Adam Taurus was ready to do his job. Grabbing his weapon, Remus fell in behind Adam and Blake as they ran through the forest towards their goal.
The Faunus trio slowed to a halt as they reached the cliff overlooking their objective: The rail lines that enabled the Schnee Dust Company to transport their product to all corners of Remnant. A solitary crow cawed as it flew past the cliff, seemingly oblivious to what was about to happen. As the Dust train announced its approach, Adam gripped his weapons, Wilt and Blush, in his left hand, and with his right, motioned for Blake and Remus to begin their descent.
As he slid down the slope, Remus unfolded his weapon, Romulus, into its sickle form, and, with a leap that would be impossible to perform if he was anything other than a Faunus, landed on the roof of the train, burying Romulus into the metal to steady himself. Hearing the screeching of metal on metal, he glanced over to his right, and saw that both Adam and Blake had easily boarded the train as well. Moving along the train towards a nearby hatch, he used Romulus to bypass the lock, and stood back to let Adam and Blake drop down into the car below.
As he entered the car, Remus was grateful for the enhanced vision that nearly all Faunus possessed, as the interior of the car was pitch black. Unfortunately, he saw that instead of dropping into the car that contained their objective, he had accidentally accessed the car that was carrying the train's security detail. Even worse, landing on the floor had triggered the motion sensors, activating the AK-130s guarding the train.
Crap, Remus thought to himself. Adam is not going to be happy about that. Standing up, he watched as the Atlesian Knights began to glow red whilst they came out of standby mode. Turning to Adam and Blake, he spoke.
"Looks like we're gonna be doing this the hard way." Blake looked at him with a smirk on her face.
"I thought you said that there was no situation we weren't ready for?" Blake said sarcastically.
Remus turned towards her, ready to reply with a retort of his own when Adam interrupted.
"Focus, you two. You know what to do."
With that, Adam drew Wilt, and prepared to fight his way out. Blake drew Gambol Shroud, keeping the sheath on, while Remus converted Romulus to its gun form, and loaded some of his Dust rounds. Turning to face the nearest Knight, he raised Romulus to his shoulder, and prepared to fight his way to their objective.
One of the Knights began to question the intruders. One shot from Remus' shotgun ended his line of enquiry prematurely. Adam swiped Wilt at the Knight nearest him, bisecting it with ease. Blake leaped back from her position, and cleanly took the heads of the two knights beside her, fully removing Gambol Shroud from its sheath. The remaining Knights converged on the trio, but were either forced back or destroyed as the Faunus group went to work. The whole fight lasted less than 60 seconds.
Kicking open the door to the next car, Remus groaned as he saw more Knights had been deployed on the next car. Blake ran past him, collapsing Gambol Shroud into its kusarigama form and hurling it at the nearest opponent. Adam was close behind, but took the time to have a dig at Remus on his way past.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" he asked sarcastically. "You got us into this mess, the least you can do is pull your weight and clean it up."
Hearing this, Remus took a deep breath, and yelled at Adam and Blake, telling them to cover their ears. After confirming that they had done so, Remus unleashed his secret weapon. Using his Semblance, he literally howled at the Knights, letting the ultrasonic vibrations play havoc with their command frequencies. After making sure that the knights had deactivated, Remus turned to Adam, with a smirk on his face.
"Happy now?" he asked the Bull Faunus. Adam just looked at Remus blankly, before turning away. Remus scowled in response, and followed.
Reaching the car that actually held the objective, Adam turned and opened one of the multitude of crates lining the walls of the car. "Perfect," he said aloud. Turning to the other two, Adam directed them to head to the next car, claiming that he would set the charges. Blake looked shocked at this.
"What about the crew members?" she exclaimed, worried for their safety. Adam turned and looked her dead in the eye. What Blake saw scared her worse than anything she had ever seen.
"What about them?" Adam replied, his voice somehow colder than Remus ever thought possible.
Before Remus could do anything, the trio heard, and felt a loud thud. Turning towards the source of the disturbance, the three Faunus found a gargantuan robot which could only be described as some form of Spider-Droid moving towards them. Reaching for their weapons, the trio were too slow, as the mech fired all four of its cannons at them, forcing them to dive for whatever cover they could find.
Blake ran towards the droid, Gambol Shroud raised, and slashed downwards, only to be knocked to the ground by one of the robot's arm-cannons. Blake attempted to crawl backwards, as the giant mech raced towards her, seemingly eager to crush the girl where she lay. Adam leapt in front of her, and, Wilt in hand, delivered five strikes with enough power to force the Spider-Droid back away from Blake. Remus followed suit, converting Romulus into what amounted to an exo-skeleton for his hand, designed to increase the force of his punches. Drawing his arm back, Remus laid into the mech with three immensely powerful right hooks, slightly denting its armour, and forcing it back even more.
"We need to get out of here!" yelled a slightly bruised Blake.
Having gotten back to her feet, the Cat Faunus ran towards the door, gesturing for her companions to follow suit. As they made it to the door, the Droid began to combine its four cannons into a massive beam cannon, and immediately began to charge it. The trio jumped through the door, and ducked the moment that the robot fired its new weapon. The massive beam tore a hole through the end of the car that the three Faunus had just vacated, and through this hole emerged the Spider Droid.
Adam turned to his companions, and, gesturing towards the giant mech, shouted at them to buy him some time. Remus converted Romulus back into its shotgun form, and loaded it with more Dust rounds. Blake, however, looked back at Adam.
"Are you sure?" she asked, fear creeping into her voice.
Adam looked at her, and yelled out "JUST DO IT!"
Blake turned towards the Spider-Droid, and, quashing the fear that was rising within her mind, ran towards it, intent on keeping it occupied long enough for Adam to do whatever he was going to do, with Remus following suit. Drawing Gambol Shroud, Blake dodged the Droids shots, and, leaping up behind the mech, threw her weapon at its faceplate, using the recoil from the built-in pistol to return it to her hand, repeating the action three times.
Remus had rolled behind a crate, and was using it to brace himself as he let loose with Romulus. He pulled the trigger again and again, each time letting the Ice Dust contained within his 12-gauge shells build up around the Spider-Droid's legs, in an attempt to immobilise it. So far, it was working, but who knows how long it would hold. Glancing back at Adam, he saw that the Bull Faunus was ready to unleash his Semblance. Getting Blake's attention, he motioned for her to get out of the way, just as Adam leapt towards the Mech, faster than anything Remus had ever seen.
The Spider-Droid momentarily forgot about Blake as Adam appeared in front of it. Charging its beam gun, the mech fired on Adam, who somehow managed to catch the blast on Wilt, storing the energy away for his counterattack. As the Spider-Droid managed to break free of Remus' Ice prison, Adam focused the energy he had absorbed into Wilt, and with one strike, annihilated the droid, leaving nothing but ashes in its place.
Sheathing Wilt, Adam turned towards the next car, but stopped in his tracks. Blake was standing there, slowly drifting away. Adam realised that she had severed the couplings. He looked at her, one word forming on his lips.
"Why?" he asked.
Blake simply looked at him, sadness in her golden eyes.
"Goodbye," she replied. Adam blinked once, and she was gone.
Two Days Later
White Fang Outpost, Forever Fall, Vale
Adam was sitting in his tent, sharpening Wilt. He had already finished giving Blush a thorough cleaning, completely stripping it down and polishing every inch. Anything to take his mind off of Blake's betrayal. He stopped to inspect Wilt's edge, ensuring that the nicks she suffered from slicing through the AK-130s on the train had been rectified. Satisfied, he placed Wilt down, and stood up. As he turned around, he saw that Remus was standing there, arms crossed.
"What do you want?" he barked at Remus. Remus just looked at him, not moving an inch.
Several seconds passed, before Remus finally spoke up. "Were you really going to do it?" he asked Adam. "Were you really going to kill those civilians on the train?" Adam narrowed his eyes at that.
"Of course," he replied. "They made the decision to work for Schnee, they can suffer the consequences." Remus' expression hardened at that.
"If the White Fang is willing to murder innocent civilians just because they were there," he was saying, "then I think it's time that the White Fang and I part ways." Even though Adam's face was mostly hidden behind the mask he was always wearing, Remus could tell that he was becoming enraged.
"If you think that you can just walk away from the White Fang, from me," Adam hissed, "well then, Remus, you have another thing coming!" With that, Adam grabbed Wilt from its resting place, and swung upwards at Remus.
Remus barely managed to get Romulus up in time to deflect Adam's strike. He braced himself for Adam's next attack. Adam took the opportunity to continue his barrage of slashes, swings and furious swipes, not noticing through his fury that Remus was breathing in far deeper than normal. By the time Adam had noticed, Remus' ultrasonic howl had knocked him flat on his ass, and his head was ringing with pain. Blindly he groped around, trying to find Wilt. Remus, seeing that Adam was on the ground stopped using his Semblance, and was walking towards the Bull Faunus, tearing off the White Fang patch on his shoulder as he did so.
Dropping the torn piece of cloth on Adam's head, Remus failed to notice that Adam had managed to wrap one hand around the hilt of his sword. Sensing that Remus was distracted, Adam pressed his advantage, and wildly slashed upwards, smirking as he felt Wilt's blade bite into the flesh of Remus' face.
Screaming in pain, and clutching the eye that Adam had mutilated, Remus let loose with his Semblance once more, forcing Adam into the ground. Turning away, Remus began to run as fast as he could, desperate to put as much distance between him and the White Fang as possible. He knew that there was only one person he could turn to now. The only other person who he knew had escaped the White Fang and lived.
Blake Belladonna, Remus thought to himself, as he watched the red leaves tumble gracefully towards the ground. Where are you?
A/N: So, the reason that I wrote this Chapter was mainly to introduce one of the four members of Team CDAR. I am not going to rewrite all four trailers, as I plan to introduce the other three OCs in a different way. I just had to do this one as I wanted Remus and Blake to share a past when they left the White Fang.
Another thing: It may be a little bit unorthodox, but I won't provide much in the way of character descriptions in this story. Two reasons why: 1 - If you are reading this, then I can assume that you know what the RWBY Cast actually looks like. Secondly, aside from basic descriptions, such as Faunus Traits, I want to Leave how My OC's look up to you, the Reader. This way, you can come to your own conclusions about how they look. I do have my own Ideas, but I feel as though if I describe them, you guys will be locked into viewing them as I do. That is the last thing I want. I want you guys to interpret the story in your own way, so that you can immerse yourselves into the world. Do let me know if this idea works out.
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*Edit 3/01/18: In order to comply with the Colour naming rules for OC's that Monty Oum created, I have changed Remus' last name to Viridian.