RWBY Volume 4: Rise of the Grimm Lords

by Saric the Slayer

Ruby and her friends are on a journey to the Kingdom of Mistral in order to find some answers to their questions about what exactly happened at Beacon. Along the way Ruby encounters an old childhood friend of hers who joins her group and agrees to help them in their quest. While this is going on sinister forces are starting to emerge in Remnant in the form of two bizarre new Grimm.

1. Introduction

Before I begin the actual story with the next chapter, I feel as though an explanation is necessary. This is a fan fiction of what I think could possibly happen in RWBY Volume 4. It may seem kind of pointless, since Volume 4 is only a few months away, but it's still fun to speculate and see what parts of it I get right. The idea for this fan fiction story actually came from a dream I once had about events of what would happen in RWBY Volume 4, and it was so interesting that I just had to turn it into a fan fiction and share it. The thing about my dreams is that I sometimes have very vivid and amazing lucid dreams that actually have stories in them, and sometimes if I'm lucky the stories from previous dreams will continue on in other dreams. Often times when I am really into a show, I might even dream up what happens next, such as the dream I had about what happens in RWBY Volume 4. These dreams often have some very interesting and amazing ideas in them that make for some great inspiration for fan fictions. Some of the events in the RWBY Volume 4 dream revealed some very interesting new story and lore elements for RWBY.

Aside from the RWBY Volume 4 dream I had, I have had a few other RWBY related dreams, though most of them were just random, silly, and nonsensical, kind of like the stuff that happens in RWBY Chibi. A majority of my dreams are like that, though sometimes I'll get lucky and have serious dream with an actual story or plot in it. I have a dream journal that I keep where I write down all of the events of every interesting dream I've had, and I do it as soon as I wake up after a dream so that I can remember as much of it as possible, and then I go back to it later and read over it, and am often very surprised by what I read.

On a side note, there are two other RWBY related dreams aside from the Volume 4 dream I had that stand out in particular. One is a weird crossover between RWBY and the anime/manga series Berserk, and although it was dark (Berserk is a dark series, which by default makes the dream dark), it had a bunch of random and nonsensical things in it that didn't make much sense. The one other serious RWBY related dream I've had that also had an actual story in it was one involving the past of Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie, which reveals their backstories. The story about Ren and Nora's backstory seems like it would fit really well within the events of the Volume 4 story, so I will try to incorporate the events of Ren and Nora's past into this RWBY Volume 4 fan fiction somehow.

Okay, well enough of my incoherent rambling, lets dive right into this story already. Before I begin, I feel as though there is something else worth mentioning. At the beginning of the RWBY Volume 4 dream, something interesting happened that leads right into the story. Before it started, there was a really epic opening for what would be Volume 4, with a new song and everything, and it sounded like something that would be an opening for RWBY, although I forgot the lyrics; they were mostly incoherent and hard to make out. Throughout the opening there is shown many images of the various characters of RWBY and it sort of gives some insights into what's going on their lives and in their minds. One image really stood out at the very end. It was a picture that looked like it was a photograph of Ruby and Yang as children, and standing inbetween them is another kid, a boy with silvery-white hair who looked to be about the same age as them. The three of them look happy together, and they are in sort of a group hug in the picture. Who the boy in the picture from their childhood is unknown at this point, but he is obviously very close to Ruby and Yang, and their connection will be revealed in the story. It then fades to white and the story begins.