Right, so this is without a doubt one of the darkest thing's I've written... ever... so I'll say this. This is a story containing MASSIVE CHARACTER DEATH so be warned. Either way, Spoilers for Season 5 Episode 3.
I Do Not own RWBY. It belongs to Rooster Teeth and the Late Monty Oum: May he rest in peace
In the Grimm Lands, Jaune Arc, a young man and failure who once attended Beacon Academy, glared at a woman, a monster named salem. He held onto his injured lover, deep within his arms, hearing her breath slow and shallow, her eyes losing the silver light of hope they once had as she tried to fight back from her injuries inflicted onto her by the witch before her.
This woman was Ruby Rose, a young woman and prodigy who once attended Beacon alongside Jaune. She fought... so hard to stop the witch, so hard to avenge their friends and families.
Penny was the first to go, despite being a robot, Ruby held a deep friendship with her... someone taken by Cinder's actions, tricking Pyrrha to slice through her, using her semblance and Penny's robotic design...
Next was Pyrrha, a huntress-in-training and partner to Jaune. a young girl who fell for the blond knight and died to fight off Cinder, who despite her skill, bravery... determination... still fell before her own eyes.
Next was Nora, one who had been killed taking a Lethal hit from a Grimm called the Knucklavee, which was soon killed by the remaining members of Team RNJR. Her partner Ren took it hard and eventually was the next to go, He fought the traitorous Lionheart with all he had, but was struck down, protecting Jaune, his last teammate and brother in all but blood.
Jaune didn't say anything after that, and she tried to cheer him up...
Next was her uncle Qrow... followed by her own partner Weiss.
While the Schnee was able to hold off Emerald and even delivering the final blow, she was attacked by the Scorpion Faunus named Tyrian...
A year passed and Winter Schnee, Weiss's sister left the military, offering them training. But it didn't last. First Beacon... then Haven...and soon after it was Atlas that fell next.
They put up a fight, Mercury. Adam Taurus and a man named Arthur Watts all died in that battle. But there was more lost on their side as well.
Winter had died, and so had Blake, a Faunus who was once partners with Adam and left for what she believed in... and what she died for...
Soon enough Shade and Vacuo fell, ending the reign of the four kingdoms but a resistance was formed, the continent Menagire was an example... the people there hunted down and killed a monkey Faunus tried to fight, but in the end, he fell to.
Yang was the next one, overloading her semblance to kill another man named Hazel while Ozpin and Glynda took us somewhere safe. Somewhere we could train in peace...
We were trained... we were lost and once news about Taiyang's death reached her ears, they found something else to keep
From pain and misery... they had found comfort and love in each-other...
Three more years had passed... and they had tried to escape her reign. Cinder had failed in killing Ozpin, and for that Hazel, Tyrian, Watts and more so, her own faction.
She took great pride as she fought against those that tried to stop her... she watched as ...Jaune, avenged his team, killing Cinder where she stood. And soon enough it boiled down to one last battle
a battle between a "Mighty Silver-Eyed Warrior" and a "Brave Hero of the Arcs." Glynda was dead, hope all but lost. Just one last thing to take care of... Ozpin?
Ozpin, an ancient soul as older than even herself glared. Oh how he tried to reason with her, tried to make her remember he old life... her family, their friends... even their own un-born child
"Why... Why the hell are you doing this" Jaune screamed, holding Ruby's body as Salem watched amused with the false bravado the knight spewed from his mouth. On a whim, she answered.
"Because there is no hope for this world, you have seen it haven't you. Such despair, such bitterness" she said as the knight pulled out his sword, preparing to fight.
"Your wrong... I... I'll... save Ruby... and stop you, I swear it!" he screamed. An Arc always kept their word... how ridiculous. Perhaps in another life... but it was too late for him now.
"J-Jaune" Ruby said weakly as Salem smiled. She almost forgotten about the young reaper before a cruel smile formed on her face. Perhaps the girl needed more suffering.
As the knight charged, she merely grabbed the sword, delivering a kick into his abdomen, sending him back and causing him to fall. She enjoyed his defiance, that look of anger as he got up once more.
"Jaune... Jaune, get out of here. Now!" Ruby screamed before he ran towards her. If he was running, he was taking her with him. He lost his team, his family and friends. And just like her, he refused to lose another.
Salem frowned at the display before her. Young Love, how hopelessly dull.
Ending it, she brought out a weapon, Ironwood's gun and shot him in the leg, forcing him to fall in front of the girl. Seeing her eyes widen in horror, the witch smiled and walked toward her.
"How does it feel girl" she began as Ruby looked up at her in horror as she stomped on the boy's head and looked down at the reaper
"To lose what you so desperately tried to protect" she said as she placed more pressure on it, watching the agony and his semblance prevent her from killing him.
"That semblance of his... how annoying" the Boy would live... like he always seemed to do. How she wished she could have ended him there... crushed like the roach he was under foot... but for her sake... she would spare him...
Looking at the girl, she seemed almost broken and with a smirk, the witch kneeled down, holding her head up and her other hand rubbing her cheek.
"Have you forgotten who I am... I am the Queen of Grimm, I am Salem" she said before in her hand appeared a small bug Grimm. The reaper tried to turn away but the witch held her mouth open and tossed the bug in it, seeing it go down her throat, she stood up and walked away.
She had one last thing to do...
Ozpin:
He sat there in that child's body, motionless, cold to the world with tears in his eyes. He had watched Salem nearly killed Mr. Arc... he had witnessed the witch turn Miss Rose... and then with the relics, she sent them away.
"He who gathers all the relics will have the power of the brothers... that is what was said was it not" Salem said as she walked up to him, chuckling to herself as Ozpin refused to look up. Soon he flinched as she wrapped herself around him, Like a mother holding a son...
or two lost lovers reunited.
"But we know that's not true... those who collect the four relics are granted another power" she said as she whispered something into his ear.
"Time-Travel" she said making Ozpin finally choke. Was he crying? Did he still hold any semblance of a flame of love for her...
"Just answer me this... why?" That was a question they both knew the answer to. They never had another choice...
"You truly are arrogant Ozpin... You thought you could save me... thought you could win" she said before looking into his eyes. One Red and one Silver... meeting two tired blue eyes.
"This won't be over... Ruby... Salem... I will stop you..." he would save her and bring her home...
"Jaune... tell me, what can you do to save me, when you can't save yourself." Cutting the chained, she allowed Ozpin to fall to the floor as she looked down at him, ignoring a lone tear from her silver eye.
"Salem... I... I'll stop this madness... I swear it" Ozpin screamed with both anger and defiance in his eyes before Salem sighed, grabbing what seemed to an odd weapon... a simple scythe... nothing more, nothing less.
"...Perhaps in the next life, Ozpin" she whispered as the silver began fading, being covered in a deep red.
...Perhaps in the next life...
And with Ozpin saw nothing other than darkness.
Ozpin: Perhaps victory is in the simpler things that you've long forgotten; things that require a smaller, more honest soul...
Salem: A smaller, more honest soul. It's true that a simple spark can ignite hope, breathe fire into the hearts of the weary. The ability to derive strength from hope is undoubtedly mankind's greatest attribute... which is why I will focus all of my power to snuff it out.
Ok, so for those of you who read through this... I'm sorry for your ruined innocence but this was an idea that was in my idea after I heard the "Ozpin is future Jaune" and "Salem is Summer" theories. That being said. I also wanted to make a challenge if Salem was a corrupted Ruby and Jaune was a future Ozpin except Salem and Ozpin both died and were both reincarnated as Ruby and Jaune.
I'll leave a challenge in my profile with more information. The Next RWBY story will be a lot more happier. I guarantee you that. so until then...