Icy winter air blew over the Schnee estate, carrying with it tiny snowflakes that landed over the courtyard softly, creating a snowy landscape over the Schnee manor which glowed in the soft silver light of the shattered moon.
Despite the icy temperature, Weiss remained unfazed and continued her training, already accustomed to the temperature after living in Atlas her entire life. She wore her usual blue/gray combat skirt with gray wedges as well as some sapphire jewelry, all of which did nothing to help protect against the icy wind.
Weiss walked forward and watched as the icy winds picked up and swirled around her, causing her hair, to sway to the side, collecting stray snowflakes as they whirled around her.
Shapes began to form out of the ice crystals, taking form as the snowflakes gathered and the winds swirling around her intensified, forming creatures that Weiss was all too familiar with.
All around her were monsters of her own creation, Summons made of ice, snow, and her own Aura, which were not only there to help her train her technique, but to also strengthen her Aura. She wanted to be able to summon as many Grimm as Winter could and after weeks of training, she was getting very close to her goal.
In total, she had created three Boarbatusks, five Lancers, two Beowolves, and one Ursa. The strain from Summoning them all at once was already starting to set in, but it was nowhere near as hard as it was when she started.
Weiss nodded at the Grimm and they all charged at her at once.
The Lancers, being the quickest, came at her first, shooting their barbs with deadly speed and accuracy. Weiss created a Glyph under her and backflipped out of their way and into the air, creating another Glyph which she used to propel herself at the Lancers, taking out all five Lancers in one go.
When Weiss landed on the ground, she was faced with the Boarbatusks rolling towards her, their sharp tusks eager to rip her to shreds. Loading some Energy Dust, she created a cyan Glyph in front of her that stopped the Boarbatusks in their tracks and gave her the perfect opening to strike them in their unprotected bellies with one wide slash.
Weiss heard the Beowolves coming up from behind her, so she quickly loaded her Fire Dust and slashed another wide arc through the air, sending a sharp blaze that sliced through the Beowolves and grazed over the Ursa.
Angry that it had been burned, the Ursa charged at Weiss, swiping at her with a huge paw that sent her flying, despite trying to block it with Myrtenaster.
Not staying down for long, Weiss created another Glyph that she used to propel herself towards the Ursa, landing a slash in its side before speeding herself away with another Glyph.
The Ursa roared and charged at her one last time, barely giving Weiss enough time to load her Light Dust and propel herself off her Glyph, aiming a perfect strike at the Ursa's head, disintegrating it immediately as the Light Dust filled its body and burned it from the inside out.
Sighing with relief, Weiss leaned on her rapier for a second, feeling the strain from using so much Aura start to set in.
Someone started clapping from behind her, prompting her to turn around and see her beloved butler, Klein, standing there with a plate with a steaming cup of coffee on it and a smile on his face.
"Well done, Snowflake, I'm sure Winter is very proud of your progress." He complimented, smiling as Weiss took the coffee from his serving plate.
Knowing that she wouldn't be able to escape her butler's kindness, Weiss nodded and smiled softly. "Thank you, Klein. I'll be back inside in a moment."
Klein's eyes changed from brown to yellow and a worried smile appeared on his face. "Yes, but I hope you aren't pushing yourself too hard. After all, you and the rest of Team RWBY worked so hard to get here, and after what you, your sister, and your mother did to overthrow your father, I think you deserve the rest."
"I've been through a lot recently, and I'm sure the worst has yet to come. I need to be prepared." She responded, a frown starting to form on her face as she remembered almost dying in Mistral and fighting all the Grimm on the way to Atlas.
He nodded and took the tray and the now empty mug of coffee with him back inside the manor. Weiss knew that he was right, but for some reason she didn't want to call it quits just yet.
She wanted to experiment with her Summoning- to test its limits.
Weiss knew that Summoning was something that she didn't need to use Dust for, but that left her thinking, what if I did use Dust?
With a new sense of resolve, Weiss turned Myrtenaster's revolver so that it landed on the most powerful Dust she had, Light Dust. Weiss took in a deep breath and let the Light Dust flow into Myrtenaster, making the runes that were along the rapier glow brightly.
Exhaling, Weiss drove Myrtenaster into the ground and created a Summoning Glyph. She smiled victoriously when she found that the Light Dust was reacting well with the Summoning Glyph, but she was surprised to see that the design on her Glyph was different than when she normally summons Arma Gigas, her giant white knight.
The Glyph displayed what looked to be a trumpet, or some kind of horn instrument in place of the swords that usually surrounded her snowflake emblem which was in the middle of the Glyph, as usual.
Weiss gasped when she felt a foreign energy mix with her Aura energy that was flowing through the Summoning Glyph.
She tried to cancel the Glyph, afraid of what might go wrong, but she couldn't. Instead, she watched helplessly as the Glyph raised itself off the ground and grew bigger, spinning as it gained more and more power.
Weiss stiffened and pulled Myrtenaster out of the ground, sensing that her Glyph hadn't summoned something, but rather...opened something. Or at least, started to open something.
She sensed that the Glyph was like a door that had a lock on both sides. If someone wanted to open it, then it would have to be unlocked from both sides.
And I think I just unlocked the first side.
As if right on cue, the sound of a horn filled the air and the Glyph glowed a bright silver color, spilling out so that eventually a full portal was opened in her courtyard. Foreign energy, energy that didn't come from Dust or Aura, intermingled with her own as the portal stayed open.
A flash of light blinded her for a second before two men came out of the portal, each fighting for dear life. One man seemed to be in his forties, wearing a strange yellow metal suit while the other one seemed younger, still a teenager, and was wearing a dark blue cloak with silver accents and a mask.
He had what looked to be a trumpet at his side, reminding Weiss of Flynt Coal, but judging by the sound that she heard when the portal opened, Weiss could tell that that trumpet was no ordinary instrument.
The two fought and Weiss for some reason could do little more than watch as these two strangers opened portals and went through them at whim, going wherever or whenever they wanted without a second thought while the original portal stayed open, glowing brightly as the two fought.
"You'll never escape, Warp!" The boy shouted as he followed the older man, apparently named Warp, through another portal.
Warp cackled as they went through the portal and it shut after them. For a moment, everything was silent. The only sound Weiss heard was the wind and the soft sound of the snowflakes hitting the ground.
Suddenly, a portal opened in the sky and a limp body fell towards the ground, landing with a sickening thud.
Warp jumped out of the portal a few seconds after, a wicked smile on his face. "It seems that your time is up, Herald."
When Herald groaned in pain, Weiss felt a surge of disgust and anger go through her. She didn't know where they came from or why they were fighting, but cold-blooded murder was something Weiss could not abide by.
Creating a Time Dilation Glyph, Weiss charged at Warp, slashing him across the chest and sending him flying away from them.
Weiss quickly kneeled by Herald and checked to see if he was breathing. Her heart skipped a beat when she heard a light wheezing sound coming from him.
"And I thought that there were no superheroes in this plane of existence. I guess I was wrong. Who might you be, young girl?" He got up shakily, blood already seeping from Weiss' attack.
Why didn't his Aura protect him? Did Herald already break it?
Weiss didn't know why he didn't have any Aura coming off him or Herald for that matter, but she took it as a blessing that she had some advantage over him.
Weiss stood up and readied her weapon. "I think the better question would be who are you? You mentioned something about this plane of existence. Am I right to assume that you and Herald aren't from this dimension?" She asked, her tone as icy as her emblem.
The whole idea was bizarre and hard for Weiss to swallow, but she had more pressing matter at hand, so she tried not to dwell on it.
"Perceptive girl. I probably shouldn't tell you, but seeing as you'll be dead soon, I hardly see the problem." He wiped the blood off his yellow suit and grinned, revealing equally yellow teeth.
"You see, little girl, Herald and I were gifted with the ability to move through space-time. I seek to conquer worlds with my gift, worlds like this little one which are devoid of nuisances such as the Justice League, but Herald here has made it his goal to drive a wedge in every single one of my plans." He grinned wickedly as he took in Herald's state. "But seeing as Herald is on death's door and there are no obnoxious superheroes here to stop me, I think taking this lovely little world will be easier than I thought."
He obviously knows nothing about Remnant if he thinks Salem or Ozpin will let him take it over.
"There may not be any so-called superheroes here, but," Weiss created a Glyph under her, causing Warp's eyes to widen. "I think you'll find it much harder to conquer than you'd think."
He laughed and readied himself. "So where did you get your powers from, hmm? A radioactive blizzard? That magic sword?"
Weiss decided that the less the man knew about Remnant, the better. "You have ten seconds to leave this world and never return."
"What a shame. I admit, I was growing fond of your icy demeanor, but, if you wish." He cackled and created a portal which created a powerful wind tunnel that nearly sucked her right in if she hadn't used Gravity Dust to keep her down.
While she was focused on keeping herself from flying into the portal, Warp opened another one directly over her, letting a huge river of lava crash down from the sky.
Using some more Gravity Dust, Weiss directed the lava towards Warp who shielded himself by using another portal which sent the lava to another unknown place, hopefully back to the volcano it came from.
"So, it seems you can control gravity as well as the perception of time with this peculiar magic of yours. I wonder what else you can do?" He smiled psychotically, as if he was only toying with her.
Weiss glared at him and stood up, readying some Wind Dust and Water Dust, eager to let loose some ice on the sociopath. "I have no interest in playing games, so if it's all the same to you..." Weiss drove Myrtenaster into the ground and created an Ice Glyph under Warp, freezing him solid in a giant block of ice before he had the chance to open another portal.
Weiss stood there for a few seconds to catch her breath and make sure that she had truly frozen Warp and that he couldn't somehow open another portal while frozen in a block of ice. When she was sure that the coast was clear, Weiss ran back to Herald whose condition was rapidly worsening.
"Herald! Do you think you can stand? I need to get you inside. I have a friend who can-" Weiss was cut off by a series of violent coughs and a firm grip on her wrist.
"D-don't." Herald coughed up some blood, turning on his side so he wouldn't get it on Weiss. "Thanks for taking care of- " He coughed up more blood. "Warp. I only have enough power to keep that portal open for a little while longer. I need-" More blood. "You to push us through it. My people will know what to do from there."
"But-" She tried to protest.
Herald coughed up more blood, except it was starting to turn a revolting brown color. "I'm done for. Just help me get us back to our world so that your world can stay safe."
Weiss wanted to say that her world probably wasn't much safer than his, but she refrained from doing so and just nodded.
Using a Glyph to help Herald up without hurting him, they both walked over to the frozen block of ice Warp was trapped in.
He stepped away from Weiss and saluted her, erupting into a coughing fit, trying and failing to keep his coughs in. "Thanks. Without you, I probably would've been-"
Herald's last words were forever ingrained in Weiss' mind as she saw a portal open over Herald, releasing a blast of energy that incinerated Herald in an instant, reducing him to nothing more than ash.
His horn fell to the ground, still in perfect condition despite the blast that had just killed its owner.
Horrified, Weiss turned to see Warp's smug grin as he set his sights on the portal and limped towards it, ice still covering his suit. Somehow, he had managed to thaw himself out while she was distracted with Herald, but Weiss wouldn't make the same mistake twice.
Creating a powerful Glyph under her that was charged with the full force of her emotions, Weiss loaded Light Dust into Myrtenaster and charged at Warp. "You monster!"
Right as he was about to go through the portal, Weiss thrust Myrtenaster into Warp's abdomen, creating a bright light that erupted from her rapier, the energy from the Dust clashing with the energy from the portal, causing the portal to become unstable.
Warp's eyes widened as he realized what was happening. "N-no! Stop it! Cease your magic this instant! If you don't, my powers will-"
Gold and white light flowed from the portal, wrapping around Warp in tendrils, dragging him back through the portal.
The tendrils that wrapped around him also wrapped around Myrtenaster, but instead of drawing it in, it seemed as if the light was actually going into the rapier.
"No!" He snarled, scrambling to fight the pull of the light that was draining him of his energy and dragging him backwards.
When the light going into Myrtenaster subsided, Weiss used a Glyph to get away from Warp, keeping her eyes on him as she jumped backwards. When Weiss landed however, she wasn't paying attention to her surroundings, causing her to trip over Myrtenaster's case and fall on the ground.
"I refuse to lose my powers and let you go free! If I suffer, then at least I'll get the satisfaction knowing that you won't ever return to this world again!" He cackled, using the last of his power that was quickly draining into the portal to create another one under Weiss. "I'll see you in my world, Ice Queen!" His cackles turned into screams as he was sucked into the portal that was draining him of his power.
Weiss tried using a Gravity Glyph to counter the pull of the portal that had formed under her, but it was too much for her to handle after using so much Aura during her training session and fighting Warp.
She heard the door to the mansion open and she saw the rest of Team RWBY as well as Oscar standing there, horrified and confused looks on their faces as they started to run towards her.
"Don't worry about me! I'll be back!" She yelled over the howling winds coming from the portal, trying as hard as possible to keep the Gravity Glyph going.
"Weiss, what is that?!" Oscar yelled, the rest of RWBY too scared to even speak.
"A portal to another dimensional plane! I don't know where I'm going either, but I'll be back, I promise!" Weiss smiled at her team as they rushed across the courtyard, wanting their possibly last memory of her to be of her smiling.
Weiss felt her Aura cracking under the pressure. She knew that Ruby's Semblance wasn't fast enough to save her from the portal, and she didn't want to run the risk of them going with her, so she did what any honorable Huntress would do.
She dispelled her Glyph and let herself fall through the portal, taking one last good look at her friends because she knew that it would be a while before she saw them again.
"I love you guys."
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A.N. And there we have it! Ever since it got announced that DC was going to make some RWBY comics, I've been dying to try to write something like this.
This story is centered around Weiss so other characters from RWBY won't be making very many appearances, though that may change depending on how the story goes from here.
As for the DCU, I'm going to take different characters from different continuities like Superboy from Young Justice and the Teen Titans from the Cartoon Network version and the Justice League from the movies and put them into the same universe since not all iterations of the same character have the same skills or personalities in the same universe.
This story is also on AO3 and it'll also feature some pictures and gifs that I think go well with the story or just random ones that I like to go along with the regular chapter.
Thanks so much for reading and comment with any questions! Until next time!