RWBY: Templar and Shadow
" Remember that you are an infinite inter-dimensional being having a 4th dimensional dream." -DMT
Chapter 1: Open the skies
Central Square Middle School, New York State
9:00 am
Dante Perez was a young man living New York State and had a reasonably normal life. He always had plenty of friends, some were students in the local High school, and the rest were in Middle school with him. He felt that this life was okay for him, but on one fateful day, that was all going to change...
" Hey, Dante." Dante's girlfriend, Anna, said.
" Hey, babe." Dante responded.
The two of them walked along the hall together, and just before the warning bell went off, the lights all over the school began to flicker on and off, which had everyone surprised entirely. Then, without the slightest sound of warning, the windows nearby them exploded in a violent manner, causing the kids nearby them to scream in pain. They immediately rushed over to help the other kids out, when Dante noticed something out of the ordinary...
" Babe, come look at this." Dante said.
She came over to her boyfriend as he was looking out the broken window, only to become speechless at the sight. There was an enormous, glowing hole in the actual sky, with a column of blue energy surging up into it, and Dante realized that it was over where the high school was...
" I need to go." Dante said, turning away from the Window.
" What?" Anna asked.
" That is right over the high school, I need to see if my friend is okay." Dante said.
" That friend of yours, The Fanfiction writer?" She asked him.
" Yes, Xavier." Dante said.
" Then I'm going with you." She said in a determined tone.
" Attention students, The Board has officially declared this day to be an emergency half-day, so you will be returned home to be with your families." Mr. Penrod, one of the principals said over the P.A.
After those words had been said, every student in the building raced outside to get onboard their buses, some stopping so they could take a video of the massive hole in the sky only to complain about the fact that somebody's video became distorted. But Dante overheard some kid talking about a picture he took of the thing as he proceeded towards his own bus...
" Man, you're crazy." The kid's friend said.
" No, I'm serious, there's another world on the other side of that thing." The kid said.
" What are you talking about?" Dante asked as the kid's friend left.
" There's another world on the other side of that hole in the sky, look." The kid said, showing Dante the picture.
Dante looked to see a clear blue sky inside the enormous hole in the sky, which left him surprised, there was an actual, physical world on the other side of the hole. After he got home, he quickly sat down with his mom, who was watching some kind of breaking news story about what was happening.
" Mom, what the hell is going on?" Dante asked.
" You may want to see this." Dante's mom said, pointing to the T.V.
Dante looked to the T.V and was rendered to the point where he couldn't find the words to speak...
" We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring you this breaking news event, there has been an explosion in the Central Square area, and all residents in the range of the blast radius are hereby asked by the state government to evacuate immediately. It has been confirmed that the local high school has been destroyed, and all students are unaccounted for but all staff have been confirmed killed. Governor Cuomo has officially declared a state of emergency for the entire region and is requesting all civilians to either stay in their homes or to move either north or south of the anomaly. " The Reporter on the news said.
Dante wanted to speak, but he couldn't find the appropriate words to say about this matter, as he was consumed by the fear of the possibility of his most closest friend being dead, killed in the blast. He was contacted by Anna, and she too was mortified by what had been said on the news. But neither of them didn't know where the Breach had taken the others...
Aletian Forward Camp, Vale Outskirts.
9:00 am
Xavier woke up next to his friend Blaze in a cell at the forward camp the Aletian Military had established in response to the Breach. He was dressed in the old army jacket he used as a winter coat, dark blue jeans, his worn-down sneakers, while his buddy blaze was wearing his grey hoodie and scarf, lighter blue jeans and his sneakers. They were chained to the floor with Aletian robots pointing their guns at them, and an angry General Ironwood barging into the Room with Ozpin and Goodwitch in tow...
" What's going on, why are we here?" Xavier asked.
" I could ask you the same thing." Ironwood said.
" I'm sorry?" Xavier said.
" First, there is a physical breach in the fabric of Reality, and we now have over 300 children with no idea how they got here." Ironwood said.
" What are you talking about?" Blaze said as he started to come to.
" I know you both must be confused right now." Goodwitch said.
" You're right, we have no idea what you are talking about." Xavier said.
" Maybe it's best we show you." Ozpin said.
" Oz, that may not be such a good idea." Ironwood said.
" James, they clearly have some kind of amnesia that has caused them to lose their memory of everything that lead up to this moment." Ozpin said.
" But people are actually assuming that they are responsible, I can't guarantee that they'll be safe." Ironwood said.
" So you bring your robots with us." Ozpin said as Goodwitch unlocked the chains that held them to the floor.
She helped the boys up and they had immediately walked out of the building, out into the cold air of the environment. They looked up into the sky to see the massive breach, as the clouds swirled around it, and it covered the sun...
" That is what James was trying to explain to you." Ozpin said.
" It's currently been dubbed " The Breach" and it has been our number one concern." Goodwitch said.
" Returning you kids back to your world and sealing it has been our number one Priority." Ironwood stated.
Xavier began to feel a burning sensation in his left hand, so he looked down to see a cross form on his hand, which attracted the teacher's attention...
" Are you alright?" Goodwitch asked.
" How did this get here?" Xavier asked. " It must have gotten here when-" Xavier said before zoning out.
" When what?" Ozpin asked.
" When I, tried to stop that maniac who tried to destroy our school." Xavier said.
" Maniac?" Ironwood asked.
" I've remembered, there was some crazy guy trying to destroy our school using some strange cross." Xavier said.
" Why does your friend have a scarf over his mouth?" Ozpin asked.
" He has respiratory issues if he is out in the cold too long." Xavier said.
" Oh, I see." Ozpin said.
They were on the way to the gate when two bickering kids were arguing and one kid hurtled a fireball that the other boy easily evaded, and now the fireball was hurtling towards Xavier, but the most strangest thing to happen was that the fireball mysteriously extinguished itself before it hit him.
" How did you do that?" Blaze asked.
" That I do not know." Xavier responded.
" Did you just use a semblance?" Goodwitch said.
" I have a semblance now?" Xavier said in a shocked tone.
" Then, your semblance means you can cancel out any hostile semblance." Ozpin figured.
" Can we replicate the same method to close the Breach?" Ironwood said.
" Are you asking me to save your world?" Xavier said.
" How did?" Ironwood said in a shocked tone.
" Lucky guess." Xavier said.
" Can we focus on getting to the advanced camp?" Goodwitch said.
They pressed onto the advanced camp, crossing paths with a group of soldiers on a bridge to their goal, when Blaze noticed something flying towards the bridge and realized it was a piece of debris...
" LOOK OUT!" Blaze screamed, entrapping his friend, himself, and the adults in a shadowy veil.
They fell off the busted bridge and his and Xavier's cuffs dropped to the ground in which they saw a pack of Beowolves approaching them quick...
" Stay behind us, boys." Ozpin said, drawing his weapon.
While the teachers drew their weapons and attacked the advancing Grimm, while Xavier and blaze saw another pack approaching them, causing them to think and ask themselves " What do we do?" . They looked around to see if they can find something to defend themselves from the Grimm. Xavier found a shotgun with plenty of shells from one of the crates the soldiers were standing near before they were killed, and Blaze found a sword that had belonged to one of the deceased soldiers. They defended themselves with Xavier blasting off the heads of the Grimm that had approached him, while Blaze cut down the other Grimm that approached him. After they were all dead, Ironwood and the others turned their weapons on the boys...
" Disarm, now!" Ironwood said.
" Okay, I'll go with your methods, but you have to wrestle that sword from Blaze because he'll put up a fight." Xavier said.
" Wait." Ozpin said.
" Oz?" Ironwood asked.
" We barely held our own back there James, maybe it'll be best that they defend themselves." Ozpin explained.
" He has a point James, let them carry the weapons." Goodwitch said.
" Fine." Ironwood said, though he disagreed with the idea.
They fought their way through the valley, and ended up crossing paths with two young girls fighting off a group of Grimm that would have hit the advanced camp. They immediately helped them drive them back, so Ozpin walked over and talked to them as they were catching a breather...
" You kids alright?" Ozpin asked.
" We're okay professor, but the advanced camp has got Grimm advancing on their perimeter." Yang said.
" We were on our way back when those ones hit us." Ruby said.
" Who are they?" Blake asked.
" I'm Xavier, and the sword-wielding fellow beside me is Blaze." Xavier said.
" I'm Ruby, and this is my sister Yang." Ruby explained.
" Nice to meet you guys." Blaze said.
" Pleased to meet you." Xavier said.
" The camp's not far from here, you guys can follow us." Yang said to his teachers.
" Okay then, let's mooove out!" Ruby said.
They pressed on towards the advanced camp so they could discuss a plan of action to deal with the Breach, and they ended up hearing the sound of someone strumming a guitar. They turned a corner and they saw Xavier's closest friend Alexander Drought, strumming a guitar, but it was sending out sonic-like waves of energy that was sending Grimm flying back. They also saw Blaze's brother Zach firing a sawed off shotgun at the Grimm...
" ZACH!" Blaze screamed.
" Blaze?!" Zach exclaimed.
" Hang on, we're coming!" Blaze shouted.
They raced towards them with great haste and helped his brother and friend out, and Blaze immediately ran up and hugged his brother after the fighting was done...
" I'm glad that you're alright." Blaze said.
" I'm thinking the exact same thing." Zach said.
" What are you kids doing out here?" Ironwood asked.
" We volunteered to help out, found these weapons in an abandoned hut just further down the river." Zach explained.
" I got the schematics to this thing, so I'm hoping to build one of my own someday." Alex said.
" Way's clear, open the gates, General Ironwood's here." A soldier in a makeshift tower shouted.
The Gates opened and they were now in the advanced camp, where the 300 students from the school explosion were, all shaken up and traumatized from the event. Xavier regrouped with his other friends, then proceeded to meet with the others in the command tent.
" Do we have an exact location of where the Breach is originating, Operative Schnee?" Ironwood asked Winter.
" It appears to be emanating from these ruins, and it appears to be controlled by a strange sphere." Winter said, showing him on the holographic map.
" Is there anything else?" Goodwitch asked.
" There is a strange cross symbol on its surface, our intelligence agents think it's some kind of key we need to seal it." Winter said.
" I might have guess at what it is." Xavier said.
" Really?" Winter said.
" Yeah, could it be this thing that's on my left hand?" Xavier asked, showing them the mark.
The group was left speechless at what they had seen, finding out that the key they had needed to shut the breach was on Xavier's left hand. They immediately knew now that Xavier was the only one who could close the Breach now, but he knew what that meant. If the Breach was to be closed...
HE HAD TO STAY BEHIND.
This concludes the first chapter to RWBY: Templar and Shadow, a story in which four friends (2 who are brothers) are trapped in Remnant after they send the majority of their friends and fellow classmates back through a breach in the fabric of a dimensional barrier that had separated Earth from Remnant. After sealing it, they must adapt to civilian life in the city of Vale, but resort to dark and dangerous methods to take down a sinister plot that threatens all of the world. The next chapter is when the breach is sealed, leaving the four boys with no home or family to return to, and a choice that will change their world forever. Sit back, relax, and enjoy Templar and Shadow as it continues to unfold...
ENJOY.