Well, I hope that you guys enjoyed the trailers. I hope that I made them almost as good as they actually were. I will only put in a author note if I really feel like I need it. So let's get to Episode 1!
"Legends. Stories scattered through time. Mankind has grown quite fond of recounting the exploits of heroes and villains, forgetting so easily that we are remnants, byproducts, of a forgotten past."
The gems in the image glow green and fade to show simple pictures of a man rising from the earth before being surrounded by creatures, barely held back by warriors.
"Man, born from dust, was strong, wise, and resourceful, but he was born into an unforgiving world. An inevitable darkness — creatures of destruction — the creatures of Grimm - set their sights on man and all of his creations. These forces clashed, and it seemed the darkness was intent on returning man's brief existence to the void."
Black sets in, then suddenly lessens as a light grows brighter and brighter until a gem rises from it and lowers itself into the hands of man.
"However, even the smallest spark of hope is enough to ignite change, and in time, man's passion, resourcefulness, and ingenuity led them to the tools that would help even the odds. This power was appropriately named 'Dust'."
The scene zooms out to show men shooting lightning, raising swords, and aiming rifles at the retreating beasts as a castle appears behind them.
"Nature's wrath in hand, man lit their way through the darkness, and in the shadow's absence came strength, civilization, and most importantly, life."
The castle zooms out to show a map of Remnant, which houses other buildings until they disappear in flashes of white and the map is lowered to show the scattering moon over a city at night.
"But even the most brilliant lights eventually flicker and die. And when they are gone... darkness will return."
We look down and see a man walking with swag. He has orange hair, a white jacket, and a cane. He has a group of people who are all wearing bowler hats. As they are walking, people seem to be fleeing from them in fear.
"So you may prepare your guardians, build your monuments to a so-called "free world", but take heed... there will be no victory in strength."
They seem to be walking to a dust store named 'From Dust Till Dawn'. They open the door and see a old man with the most majestic facial hair in the world.
"But perhaps victory is in the simpler things that you've long forgotten. Things that require a smaller, more honest soul."
"Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a dust shop open this late?" The man with the orange hair asked. One of his henchmen raised a weapon at the old man.
"P-please! Just take my lien and leave!" The man begged. The other guy shook his head.
"Shh, shh, shh, shh, calm down, we're not here for your money" He looks at his henchmen. "Grab the Dust" He ordered. A henchman opens a case and removes one of the cylinders and takes the dust. "Crystals. Burn. Uncut." The man orders. A henchman moves to go get more dust, but hears something. He unsheathes his sword
(Play 'This Will Be The Day')
The henchman sees a girl with a red cloak reading a weapons magazine. The guy points his sword at her. "Alright kid, put your hands where I can see them," The guy orders. He doesn't get a response. "Hey, I said hands in the air! You got a death wish or something?!" He yells. The henchman goes and shakes her shoulder, in which her hood falls and we see the girl from the 'Red Trailer'.
"Yes?" She asks. She sees him pointing his sword at her. (No nasty thoughts… No nasty thoughts… *Shudders in fear*)
"I said, put your hands in the air! Now!" He orders.
"Are you robbing me?" She asks. The henchman wants to facepalm, but doesn't.
"Yes!" He yells.
"Ooohhh…" She realizes. The orange haired guy is waiting for his men to finish the heist when a "Hey!" and "Hyah!" is heard, and the henchman that was robbing the red girl flies past him. Orange calmly motions for another to handle the red girl.
"Freeze!" One of the henchmen ordered. The other men look outside as she gets up and unfolds a box into its scythe form. Orange scowls, but Red smiles back at them before twirling the weapon around, striking it into the ground and turning off her headphones.
(Stop 'This Will Be The Day')
"Okay… Get her!" Orange yells. The henchmen head out of the shop and run at Red, who spins around her scythe and kicks the first approaching criminal in the face. She gets her scythe out of the ground and fires it off to hit another one with the butt of her weapon, sending him flying. She fires again and brings the side down on one attacker and dodges the next's gunfire with her rifle's speed, getting close enough to knock him into the air and follow him upwards so she can beat him away to Orange's feet.
"You were worth every cent. Truly you were." Orange says sarcastically."Well, Red, I think we can all say it's been an eventful evening, and as much as I'd love to stick around," He raises his cane up to her, and the bottom flips up to a sight "...I'm afraid this is where we part ways." He says as he shoots a firework thing at her.
It explodes where she was, but she falls out of the sky and lands. She looks and sees Orange climbing up a ladder to a roof. She turns back to the shopkeeper. "You okay if I go after him?" She asks. He nods.
Orange gets to the roof and waits, but then sees Red come up. "Persistent." He mutters. Red gets ready to fight him, but a bullhead comes up and Orange gets in. He holds up a dust gem and looks at her. "End of the line Red!" He shouts. Orange throws it at her, then he shoots at it, causing a huge explosion. "Woah-ho-ho-ho!" The smoke clears and he sees a blonde woman with a purple glyph in front of her.
The woman then moves her weapon, causing the bullhead to move and shake. "We've got a huntress!" Orange yells to the pilot. She gets up and goes to the area where Orange was. The Huntress glows purple, then shoots a blast over the bullhead, making a storm cloud appear. "The hell…" Orange asks no one in particular.
With a flick of her wand, large jagged hail starts falling that pummels the jet and even breaks through the window, narrowly missing Roman's head.
The woman reaches the back and her arms and chest light up like fire, aiming a burst of energy at the Huntress. She blocks it, but the flame splatters behind her and glows hot with the enemy's raised hand. The Huntress back-flips out of the explosion, which destroys part of the roof, and magically gathers the shards to create a large arrow, which she throws at the craft. The fiery woman shatters the arrow with several blasts, but it reforms just in time to hit the side of the jet due to Orange's quick aerial lean. The wreckage separates and reshapes into more arrows that encircle the jet, but the woman summons several glowing rings around herself that expand and destroy the shards.
Red, finally acting, reverts her scythe into its rifle form to fire at the woman, who blocks each shot and creates several blazing circles around her two opponents. The Huntress telekinetically pushes Red and rolls herself out of the explosion's radius; looking up to see the hatch close and the craft fly away.
"You're a Huntress! Can I have your autograph?" Red asks.
Bang!
"I hope that you realize that your actions tonight will not be taken lightly, young lady. You put yourself and others in great danger." Glynda Goodwitch scolded.
"They started it!" Red yelled.
"If it were up to me you would be sent home… With a pat on the back… And a slap on the wrist!" She slaps the table, causing Red to flinch and hold her hand. "But… There is someone here who would like to meet you" She sighs. A man that Red recognized as Professor Ozpin of Beacon came in with milk and cookies. He put them down and leaned close to Red's face.
"Ruby Rose… You… Have silver eyes" He says.
"Uhh"
"So! Where did you learn how to do this?" Ozpin asks her, holding up a video of her fighting the henchmen.
"S-Signal Academy" Ruby responds.
"They taught you how to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?" He asks with doubt in his voice.
"Well… One teacher in particular." She says.
"I see." He then puts the cookies on the table. Ruby reluctantly grabs one cookie and devoured it. Seeing that it was okay, she eats all the cookies like a vacuum. OF COOKIES! Ahem.
"It's just that I've only ever seen one scythe user of that skill. A dusty, old crow…"
"Daz I Unkle~" Ruby looked embarrassed, then swallowed the cookies. "Sorry. That's my Uncle Qrow! He's a teacher at Signal. I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing!" (Heh. Crows. Wings. I'm just going to stay quiet now…) "And now I'm all like 'Hooowaaah! Witchaaaa!'" Ruby adorably makes karate poses.
"So I've noticed." Ozpin said, placing his mug down. He leans in closer to Ruby's face, while sitting on a chair below the table. "And what is an adorable girl such as yourself doing at a school designed to train warriors?" He asks. Ruby gets serious.
"Well… I want to be a huntress"
"You want to slay monsters?" Ozpin asks. (A durr…)
"Yeah! I only have two more years of training left at Signal! And then I'm going to apply to Beacon!" She starts talking faster and faster with her enthusiasm growing "You see, my sister's starting there this year, and she's trying to become a Huntress, and I'm trying to become a Huntress 'cause I wanna help people. My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, Hey, I might as well make a career out of it! I mean the police are alright, but Huntsmen and Huntresses are just so much more romantic and exciting and cool and really, gosh, you know!" Ruby ranted. Ozpin's eyes went wide for a second, then they went normal.
"Do you know who I am?" Ozpin asked.
"You're Professor Ozpin. Headmaster of Beacon." She answered.
"Hello"
"Nice to meet you" Ruby nodded.
"Do you want to come to my school?" He asked.
"More than anything" Ruby says, getting happy. Ozpin looks at Glynda, who just gives a dissiproving 'Hmmp' and he turns back to Ruby.
"Well… Okay." Ozpin says. Ruby smiles, wide eyed and happy.
"I can't believe my baby sister is going to Beacon with me! This is the best day ever!" Yang Xiao Long says while hugging Ruby.
"Pwease stahp" Ruby groans, her back getting crushed.
"But I'm so proud of you!" Yang excitedly said, letting Ruby out of her mama bear hugs. She gasps for air then talks back.
"Really sis, it was nothing."
"What do you mean? It was incredible! Everyone at Beacon will think that you're the bee's knees!"
"I don't want to be 'The Bee's Knees', okay? I just want to be a normal girl with normal knees"
"What's with you? Aren't you excited?"
"Of course I'm excited… It's just… That I got moved ahead two years. I don't want anyone to think I'm special or anything" Ruby moans. Yang put her arm around Ruby, trying to comfort her.
"But you are special" The girls' attention is drawn to the 2-D animated newscast on Vale News Network playing nearby, talking about the robbery and showing Roman's mug shot.
"The robbery was led by nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick, who continues to evade authorities. If you have any information on his whereabouts, please contact the Vale Police Department. Back to you, Lisa."
The mugshot changes to Lisa Lavender, with a photo of animal-eared demonstrators holding signs saying "WE ARE NOT ANIMALS!" followed by an image of the logo of a growling red wolf's head with three scratch marks.
Thank you, Cyril. In other news, this Saturday's Faunus Civil Rights protest turned dark when members of the White Fang disrupted the ceremony. The once peaceful organization has now disrupted...
The news feed is cut off as a hologram of Glynda replaces it.
"Hello and welcome to Beacon"
"Who's that?" Yang asks.
"My name is Glynda Goodwitch." She answers as if she heard the blonde.
"Oh"
"You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy! Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world." The Glynda-gram said.
"Oh, wow! Look, you can see Signal from up here! I guess home isn't too far after all" Ruby says in awe of the view. That they just now saw. On a ship that has glass. And they were on the glass area. ARRRRGGG- *Ahem*
"Beacons our home now" Yang says to Ruby. They hear someone vomiting. "Well… I guess the view isn't for everyone" Yang says, rolling her eyes.
"I wonder who we'll meet next!" Ruby asks.
"Ugh. I just hope they're better than 'Vomit Boy'" Yang responds.
"Oh, Yang, gross! You have puke on your shoe!"
"Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross, gross, gross, gross!"
"Get-Get away! Get away from me! Get away from me! Get away from me!"
Holy crap. These episodes are long in story format! 7 pages! Well, I think I have decided what my story schedule will be. The RWBY episodes on weekdays, and 'A Second Chance at Life' On Friday and the weekends. So on Friday, expect one upload from this and one upload from 'A Second Chance At Life'.