Aaahh...I was loving this dream. After a hard day of work at school and life in general...it felt good to be back in my dorm with the others, sleeping contently. This dream itself...i was lying alone on a beach, all to myself, relaxing. I deserved something like this. I laid stretched out on my back on a towel, sunbathing happily with my eyes closed. I stretched, something quite simple, stretching my arms above the top of my towel, giving a contented yawn. As I began to move my arms behind my head, the top of my left hand touches the surface of the sand...and I...seem to feel it. This sensation wakes me, but I still have my eyes closed. From behind my eyelids, I can...see a bright light? I shouldn't with the canopy over my bed...I work up the nerve to bother opening my eyelids...and the light that floods my eyes catches my eyes of guard, blinding me. I raise my hands naturally in defense of the blinding light...it...it's a rising sun? And a sky? A clear, cloudless sky. H...I actually feel sand under my back? My vision begins to clear, and I see my bare arm...bare? I turn my left arm around, so I can see it's underside, and...there's some sort of thing attached to my arm! This immediately wakes me fully. Suddenly I look at myself...! I have no clothes, only underclothing?! And I'm on some sort of a beach?! Immediately, I scream. I hear commotion beside me...it's Weiss, Blake, and Yang! My screams have suddenly woken them up. In the chaos, they see themselves, they see me...the result is several moments of panic and screaming, before suddenly we hear a shrill whistle. It's from Yang, who has the thumb and index finger of her right hand in her mouth. "CHILL OUT!" my sister hollers loudly. "Chill out?! CHILL OUT!?" Weiss snaps hastily. "WHERE ARE WE?!" I'm just as panicked as Weiss is, and I can tell Yang's concerned, but she's holding this well- So is Blake. I still see the looks of worry on their faces, though. I'm shaking, before I begin to cry like some sort of little girl. Immediately, Yang sees this and quickly holds me in her arms. "Hey, hey!" she tries to reassure me. "C'mon now! Enough of that! We can't have our team leader crying now, can we?" I wipe the tears currently on my face and sniffle. "But...wh...where are we?...what's happened?!"
"This...this can't be anything Torchwick or any of them could have done, right?" Weiss replies. "I...i know we were getting close, but-"
"It's not Torchwick. Nor Cinder, or anybody like that." Blake says calmly. "How do you know?" Weiss asks. We look, seeing Blake staring at the device on her arm. She stares right at it. "What?..." I ask. "What can you make of these things?" I say, looking at my own. Yang and Weiss are doing similarly. "Look." Blake says, then pointing further into the island. From the beach there is a small hill, open sand-and-grass plains in the middle, and forest on either side. Just above the tip of the hill, is the top of a large, metal building. It has a diamond-shaped part to it, glowing red...that one part...it looks similar to the strange things attached to our arms. Weiss pauses, before speaking "S...should we try and remove these?" she says. "wait...isn't that a dumb-"
"no." Blake says. She's been scratching at hers slowly. "It's not just skin-deep, so it seems...it looks like...an implant of sorts...and I have a feeling that trying to remove it is a bad idea."
"Well then, what do you think this is?" I ask. Blake slowly rises. "I don't know...but some science fiction books I've read come to mind." she stares dead at the tower's tip. "But I feel that may have some sort of...explanation." It becomes clear, our goal is to get to that tower. We begin heading up the hill as a group. Surprisingly, Weiss is fairly quick up the hill, and gets to the top far before we can. She freezes solid, suddenly, when at the top. "Weiss!" I call. "What do you see?"
….she gives no response. "Weiss! Weiss!" I call again. "What is it?!". I'm the first to get up to her. She's staring dead at something with a...near indescribable look of awe. "Weiss!" I say grabbing her shoulder, looking at her. "What is i-"
A sound catches me off-guard. A close, booming sound. Blake and Yang have now caught up...and they see what Weiss sees. I turn...and...there it is.
It's walking towards the forest edge on the right. It's huge. Four legs as big and thick as trees themselves, a long neck and tail...nobody says anything for a moment. Yang finally breaks the silence. "I...is that...a dinosaur?..."
Unmistakable. It is! It is! For a moment, all of my curiosity is gone. I run right up to it. "Ruby! Wait!" Yang calls, but I'm already halfway to the giant creature. I smile, looking directly up at it. It's like it completely ignores me. For once, something living that's bigger than me isn't scaring me. The others seem to follow me. I look at the tree the dinosaur is eating from, it's a fairly tall one, too. I decide...well, that it's time to get a vantage point. I begin frantically climbing the nearby tree, and my team scurries up after me. I get pretty high up the tree...I must be more than 100 feet up. The others finally catch up. Weiss is huffing. I guess she hasn't climbed many trees. "What's the big deal?!" she asks. She can see why now. From the shaded vantage point of the tree, we see it...right over the top of the crest of the hill...we're on an island, that's only part of a much more massive island. Across a large, natural canal that runs between our island and the much larger one, there's that red tower...or not. It's a massive, metal obelisk of sorts...floating in the air. From it's center, it emits a red beam of light that emits down onto the ground, at a focal point. Around it, water from the canal and nearby ocean flow around it, creating a small caldera or moat around the obelisk...and there isn't one. There's three. To the very far east, I can faintly make out a green one. To the north, atop an incredibly distant snow-covered mountain...i can see what seems like a blue one. There are pillars of light that aren't these structures coming down in several locations. I can't tell what these are...and there...there are things flying in the sky, prehistoric things. In the nearby forest, I can see the heads of other long-necked dinosaurs. All of us are staring at this sight before us. This time, it's my scared voice that breaks the silence. "G...guys...i don't think we're in Remnant anymore..."
Shadlos Presents...
With assistance from Jack Frost
A fan-fiction work.
RWBY's .A.R.K.