Chapter 1: A Rough Beginning
A/N:Okay this is my very first fic so take it easy on me alright?
I had This Crazy Idea where my own Avatar(OC) From WKC(White Knight Chronicles)
Wound up getting into The world of RWBY and meeting the cast of RWBY.
This Idea kept on running on my mind that i just had to write it! Also my Character doesn't necessarily follow the original WKC story but Ill improvise as well as make a few references.
Though I will make as I go along so no guarantees on everything.
"Normal"
'Thoughts'
'Incorruptus Voice'
"Chant before Transformation"
"Knight"
In any case I Don't own either WKC or RWBY just to make things clear.
(Somewhere in the Emerald Forest)
A lone young man is running along the forested path doing everything he can to keep himself out of danger whilest evading his deadly pursuers
"*Pant* *Pant* How the heck did things come to this?! First I'm in a place I don't even know where the hell I am
and now I'm being chased around by wolves?!" said the young man. The young man looked back at his wolf-like pursuers
"Give me a break! I hardly can remember anything at all aside from my own name!" he exclaimed .
Cutting through the green foliage with his sword at hand he kept on running while dodging any potential objects that may hinder his escape
(A moment earlier...)
The young man woke up only to see the starry night sky and the fragmented moon with his back on the ground.
As he tried to get up his whole body felt in pain ."Ow...what happened? Why does my body it's feel like its bruised all over?" the young man mumbled while getting up ignoring his pain while still disoriented he moved a hand to his head and scratched it while looking around at his surroundings only to find himself at unfamiliar place. "Where am I?..." he tried to remember how he got here only to find that he has no memories of it, whats worse was he had no memories of who he was. "More importantly...WHO AM I?!" he yelled out to himself frustrated at not being able to remember who he was.
'Andrew...' A voice echoed in his head, "Huh? Who said that?" looking around again to find someone only to find no one around "Is that...my name?". Instead he sees the large trail of upturned soil that he was lying down on as if something had crash landed directly creating a small clearing. Upon closer inspection of the upturned soil he sees small glittering fragments of orange crystals.
The young man looked past the trail to see another object shining in the distance. Moving closer to the object he finds that its a sword with an old worn sheath. Pulling the sword out of its sheath, he feels a sense of familiarity with the sword. Taking a good look at the sword, it was a leaf style blade with a built in hand guard and upon closer look he sees a series of symbols of unknown origin were engraved into blade. Believing it to be his he decided to keep the blade, placing the sword back in its sheath and attaching it to his hilt, then he looked at the state his clothing. It was all ragged an worn as if it went through rough times. The only thing that didn't seem worn was the chain necklace with a metal ring attached to it on his neck. 'Hmm...from the looks of things, it seems that I went through a rough landing of some sort which would explain my memory loss and including my clothes being messed up the way it is...' Andrew thought to himself. "It still doesn't explain how I got into the rough landing or why for that matter..." he mused aloud while analyzing his current surroundings.
As Andrew crossed his arms and pondered the situation, he felt his back shudder from feeling a presence nearby, several presences to be exact. Deciding to be cautious seeing as he was in a place unknown to himself, he looked towards the direction of the presences he felt that was just directly behind him. Only to find a pair of glowing red eyes and a beastly low growl accompanied it. Seeing the eyes and hearing the growl he assumed it might've been a wild wolf or dog, "Uh...nice doggie?" Andrew said only to see several more pairs of glowing red eyes accompanying the first pair. 'Oh Crap...' was the only words that ran through his mind. Being outnumbered and fearing for his own safety at the present situation he decided the best course of action was to run in the direction the opposite from what he was facing.
Little did he realize that the direction he was heading towards was the direction of a certain large academy atop a cliff in the center of the forest overlooking it.
(Present Time)
Andrew continued running along the path only for it to end since there was a cliff wall that blocked his path. He took a good look at the top of the cliff only to visibly frown seeing as he saw the roofs of buildings on the top of the cliff. "Darn it, the one direction I choose in a spur of the moment and it had to be in the direction of a cliff with civilization at the top of it!?" exclaimed Andrew. 'Finding another way around the cliff will take alot of time to do and time isn't a luxury I got right now' he thought as he took a look at the sides of the cliff.
Several growls could be heard nearby indicating that they're already close by. Turning around with his back towards the cliff he saw that he was already surrounded by several wolf-like creatures. Taking a good look one of the creatures he realizes that they are indeed wolf-like but are more bipedal with sharp claws ready at their arms. Bone-like protrusions were sticking out around on some parts of their bodies with a small mask covering their upper face. "Just my luck...no memory of who or where I am or how I got here and now I'm already backed into a corner" he muttered to himself while looking grimly at his situation. Assessing his situation he began look at his options 'Seeing as they've already surrounded me and backing me towards the cliff, either direction I run will pretty much result in me getting killed here...then again if I stay and fight, it probably will result in me getting killed either way...just perfect...'Andrew thought bitterly.
Having no other choice he decided to fight them by readying his blade. 'My chances are slim but its better to go down fighting than waiting for a horrible death by these things' he thought as he waited for one of the creatures to make a move on him. A brief second had passed only for it to be broken when two of the creatures decided to attack by jumping in the air towards him with their clawed arms extended. Immediately his instincts and reflexes reacted and dodged the first one and sliced the other creature in half vertically at its torso. By the time the first creature turned to face his prey, he thrust his sword directly at the creature's head instantly killing it. 'Huh...my body remembers how to fight even though I have no memory of learning how to fight before...' Andrew thought surprised at his own fighting ability. "Two down..." looking at his fallen enemies then towards their comrades "A couple more to go" he said to himself, getting himself ready in another stance. The creatures saw the first two of their kind fall they decided to attack with several of them charging towards him while flanking him as others decided to jump him.
Immediately upon seeing them charge forward he decided to take some head on by running towards them and started slashing and dodging several clawed swipes aimed at him. Barely managing to kill at least 3 of the creatures in his run, one of his assailants dropped down near him while swiping it's claw at a downward arc. With a reflex action Andrew brought his blade up to block it while kicking off another of the creatures that decided to charge him. In the split moment he grabbed the clawed arm with his free hand and quickly spun himself with his back facing the creature flipping his grip on his sword in an ice pick fashion he thrust the blade towards the creature behind him making sure he didn't stab himself in the process. The creature groaned and fell down, drawing his sword from the dead carcass he turned to face more of his attackers head on once more.
Seeing more of their comrades fall to the young warrior's blade, some of the creatures decided to give themselves some space between them and their target while getting a better vantage point. Two more decided to strike directly in two different directions. Unfortunately for Andrew he began to slowly tire out due to his earlier run with them as well as a few stray scratches that weren't fatal but still hurting not to mention his earlier pain from where he found himself was getting harder to ignore. Andrew barely had enough time to block the one of the creatures sharp claws aimed at him with his sword, however at the same time the 2nd one quickly approached in a different direction with its clawed arm ready to strike. Not being able to use his sword at the moment he instinctively reacted by guarding with his free arm. Only for him to sent flying back from the force of the blow while luckily the claw didn't scratch too deep Andrew started to reel from the pain. 'Damn! That really hurt...sure wish I had a shield or an armguard on me right about now' he thought bitterly while doing his best to ignore his pain.
The creatures noticed that their prey was being pushed back and also slowing down they believed that it was the right moment to charge in full force. With his pain causing him to kneel down while relying on his blade for support and being more slower to react he wasn't able to ready himself in time to defend. Everything began to slow down in his mind he thought 'So this is it huh? This is how I'm going down then...At least I took some of them down with me'. Closing his eyes he waited for the imminent deathblow only for a few seconds it never came. Opening his eyes he saw a red hooded girl with a large red scythe that was much larger than her, moving like a red blur with petals trailing behind she quickly mowed down a couple his pursuers with some of their limbs flying in the air. Followed by another young girl with long black hair and a black bow on her head swinging her black ribbon like strap with a weapon attached to the end, taking down a few in just seconds. Two other girls appeared, one in a white dress-like clothes with a skirt, the other was a well endowed long blond haired woman with a brown jacket appeared running towards the young man.
"Are you alright?" the blond asked. Giving her a nod that confirmed that he was alright the blond turned to face the creatures flicking her bracelets forming into blazing yellow gauntlets and charged at them, crushing them with brutal punches and sending them flying. The girl in white decided to stay behind with the young man while armed with her rapier ready to intercept any of the the creatures in case should any of them get past her friends without them noticing.
With more of their kind being slaughtered at an alarming rate they decided to end their pursuit for the young man and run. The girl in red collapsed her red scythe into a high caliber gun. Firing at some of the retreating figures until they were no longer in sight. Folding her gun/scythe into a compact form and placed it at her back, she walked back towards the young man with the other two girls in tow. As she and her friends reached the girl in white and the young man "Are you alright?" the girl repeated the same phrase as her blond friend.
"I will be thanks to you girls" he replied while catching his breath to ease his pain. Getting up he gave a grateful smile to the girls "Thanks for the assist, any later and I would've been a goner!" said Andrew.
The girl in red giggled "I'm Ruby these are my friends Blake, Weiss and my sister Yang" said Ruby as she introduced herself and her
companions to him.
Learning their names he decided to introduce himself in kind "Nice to meet you girls, My name is Andrew" he said.
"SO...what were you doing out here in the Emerald Forest at this time of night?" questioned Yang, "Obviously its not getting friendly with those Beowolves earlier" she grinned.
"Beowolves? Is that what those things were called? Anyways to answer your question unfortunately I don't know how exactly I got here since I've lost my memories" answered Andrew.
"Are you serious?" Yang laughed for bit only to stop when she saw his face not showing any form of him joking "You're serious?" she said in disbelief.
"Wish I wasn't...but the only thing I can remember is just only my name anything other than that is just blank" he sadly replied.
The girl known as Weiss rolled her eyes "I find it very hard to believe that some random guy who conveniently lost his memory while being chased after by a large pack of beowolves" said Weiss.
Andrew shrugged his arms "Well I don't know what else to tell you really, I know its really hard to believe but that's just it, my name was the first thing I remember right after I found myself in that upturned trail of destruction" he pointed his thumb in the direction of where he was before he was chased.
A look of shock passed through all the girls faces.
"We were just about to go there before we ran into you! You mean to tell me that you were that falling star?!" Weiss exclaimed in disbelief from receiving the information she just heard.
"Wait...Falling Star?" Andrew asked confused at the information he had received.
The girl called Blake spoke up "She means the recent meteor shower we were having a while ago...one of them fell down at the exact location that you were at earlier".
"Huh... that kinda explains how I wound up getting here as well as losing my memories, though the why still remains to be answered..." he mused to himself thinking back on the recent events before the beowolves.
Ruby spoke up "Did you check your pockets? Maybe there might be something that may give you a clue to your past".
A look of realization dawned on his face "Now that you mention it I didn't exactly get the chance to look before those beowolves attacked" he immediately reached into his pockets
Thoroughly searching his pockets he only found a metal egg shaped object that resembled a top. With its small curved side having a singular pointed edge in the center while its wider end had four pointed edges each pointing in four different directions with a green circular panel in center of it. Looking closer he make out some sort of faded symbol in the circle with a series of inscription surrounding the rim of the green circle. Feeling a sense of familiarity this time coming from the egg shaped object. The girls looked at the object with mild curiosity.
"Well...I don't know what this is or what it can do aside from the obvious but for some reason it does feel important to me for some reason..." he said as he spun the top like object in the palm of his hand testing to see if anything unusual would start. In the end nothing happened.
Ruby noticed the sword that was attached to Andrew's waist "Where did you get that sword from Andrew?" she asked pointing at the sword.
"Oh this? Found it nearby when I woke up" he answered.
"Can I see it?" Ruby asked excitement showing in her eyes while Yang shook her head from seeing her sister's excitement from seeing new weapons.
"Sure" he replied and drew his sword out of its sheathe, pointing the blade towards ground he held the sword by the handle and gestured Ruby to grab it. When Ruby grabbed the handle of the sword, an unexpected effect had caught everyone off guard. One of the symbols on the blade started glowing and in turn it instantly made the sword heavier to the point that Ruby with all her might slammed the handle of the sword onto the ground.
"What the!?" she exclaimed, she struggled to lift the sword by the handle "I can't lift it! Its too heavy!" she cried out. To the girls this was hard to believe seeing as Ruby was able to carry a large over sized scythe that was more heavier weapon than herself compared to all their weapons. Ruby let go of the sword in disappointment as she wasn't able to lift sword at all, Yang decided to try her hand seeing as she was considered the more stronger member of the sisters only for her to be met with the same results.
"Odd...it wasn't heavy when I was holding it" he said as he moved to pick up the sword. As soon as he grabbed the handle the glowing symbol on the sword stopped glowing and returned back to its normal weight."See? Its not heavy at all" He swung his sword in small strokes while taking care not to harm the girls with his sword.
He gave an apologetic smile towards Ruby and Yang, Though Ruby was visibly disappointed in not being able to lift the sword with her own hands she was still amazed by the sword's ability while Yang was simply amused at her sister's fascination with the weapon. "I've never seen a sword that is capable of doing that before...I think the sword can only be held by you since those symbols act as some sort of security glyph to prevent it from being used by any others aside from you." said Ruby while analyzing the sword at a glance.
"Huh never knew that it had an ability like that, though what are glyphs?" he asked.
"Glyphs are like powers that we call semblances, each person has a semblance unique to their own as well as their own aura." Weiss answered. Noticing the wounds that Andrew sustained earlier she began to ask "Why aren't your wounds healed yet? Shouldn't your aura be healing you already?".
"Um...I don't exactly know how to use it nor do I know what it is" Andrew said sheepishly placing a hand behind his head in a sheepish manner.
Weiss was about to retort until she was interrupted by Blake "Since he came from that falling star its possible that he's from another world entirely that doesn't experience things like we do in our world" said Blake taking things into consideration with the facts "Plus he lost his memories so its only natural he doesn't know"
"Maybe... but we should see Professor Ozpin. See if he can help and I'm pretty sure he would like to meet the guy who came from a falling star" suggested Ruby.
"Hmm...I don't see why not. I've no place to go to so anywhere is better than here." said Andrew after placing his sword in its sheathe after coming to an agreement the group decided to move to their destination. "So where exactly are we headed? Aside from seeing this Ozpin person I mean..." asked Andrew.
Yang giggled before answering "We're heading back to Beacon Academy, Professor Ozpin is the headmaster of the academy which is right up this cliff." said Yang while gesturing towards the edge of the cliff "Its a well known academy that specializes in training students who are trying to become hunters or huntresses".
"Huh that sounds kinda tough from what you tell me" he replied.
"All sorts hunters and huntresses in training start here before ever becoming a full fledged hunter or huntress, each with their own unique skills and weaponry." said Ruby "Some make their own weapons from scratch to fit their own style like my Crescent Rose" she pointed towards her folded weapon.
"Wow you made that? That's really impressive I wonder if I can make a weapon of my own like that aside from what I got." he said very impressed in the handiwork and craftsmanship of the weapon made by the said girl. Ruby blushed at the compliment that was given to her, however Andrew didn't notice it the other girls did before she gave her thanks for the compliment.
As they reached Beacon Academy, They decided to admit Andrew first into the medical ward since he has yet to recover from all the wounds he received from the battle. The nurses gave him a quick check-up and bandaged some of his wounds before they let him go. Blake and Weiss left earlier to head their dorm room while Ruby and Yang left to see if Ozpin was at his office. By the time Ruby and Yang returned together they headed for the dorms
"Unfortunately Professor Ozpin is away for today and he won't be back until tomorrow morning so until then you can bunk in at our dorm room, you can use the spare room that's connected to ours until you get yourself situated" said Ruby.
"I see...Thanks for all your help and sorry to be a bother." replied Andrew while giving a small grateful nod for their hospitality.
Yang smiled "Its fine... besides its not everyday you meet someone from another world plus you with your memories gone you need all the help you can get right?" 'That and an opportunity to tease Ruby' Yang inwardly grinned at the thought.
Entering Team RWBY's dorm room they were greeted by the sight of Blake and Weiss on their own haphazardly made bunk beds. Blake was on her bunk reading a book while Weiss was already in her sleeping clothes, when she saw Andrew with Yang and Ruby she glared "What is he doing here!?" she asked in a angry tone.
"Calm down Weiss its only going to be for the day besides until Professor Ozpin returns tomorrow he's only going to be bunking in the spare room" said Yang while raising her hand in a defensive manner.
"Erm...if it is not too much trouble for you all that is..." Andrew mumbled while rubbing the back of his neck, he understood the implications of a guy sleeping a room full of girls but he resolved to not be rude to their kindness and hospitality after all they were nice enough to even help him out of his predicament and even save his life.
"Its not like one of those other boys you brought in last time Yang!" Weiss exclaimed while visibly irritated by the thought of having another guy in the room like one of Yang's previous relationships.
Ignoring Weiss's argument with Yang, Andrew saw the book Blake was reading and decided to approach her "Say whats that book you're reading? Is it any good?" he asked.
Slightly taken aback by his curiosity she answered him "Its about a man with two souls each fighting over control over his body".
'A man with two souls...?' he thought until he felt a slight shock run through his mind..."Urk!" he grunted feeling the shock overwhelm him for a second placing a hand to his forehead. The occupants in the room looked at him in worry except Weiss from his gesture, noticing their worry he reoriented himself and said "Ah its nothing its just that for a minute there's something about that man with two souls sounded familiar but I can't seem to quite place my finger on it".
Ruby approached Andrew with worry evident on her face "Are you sure you're all right?" she said.
Andrew gave a warm smile towards Ruby a small blush appeared on her face at sight of his smile which fortunately for her he didn't notice "Quite sure really, its been a long day anyways might as well hit the hay since its pretty late" he replied. He walked towards the door leading to the spare room connected inside to their room opening it, before he went inside he turned to the girls and gave a sincere smile "Girls...again I can't thank you enough for your help I hope I can repay you all one day..." he said before heading in closing the door behind him.
The girls looked at the closed door that he went through with silence in the room until Yang decided to break the silence "Well...he certainly doesn't seem to be a bad dude that's for sure." said Yang as she approached the dresser in the room getting herself ready for sleep.
Weiss scoffed "Hmph! Of course he should be grateful we saved him from being killed by those beowolves!" she exclaimed.
Ruby already had just about enough about Weiss's attitude toward their new companion "What's with you!? Ever since he got here you've been giving him an attitude like he's some foreign being!" she exclaimed.
Weiss surprised at Ruby's outburst scowled before responding "Uh hello? In case you haven't noticed he 'IS' a foreign being, he came from a falling star! We don't even know anything about him yet! He doesn't even have his memories! For all we know he might possibly be some invader who wants to take over our world!" argued Weiss.
"If there 'WAS' an invasion then we would already be fighting back invaders right about now!" exclaimed Ruby.
"Woah, easy sis we know that he's a nice guy an all but still Weiss does have a point" said Yang as she stood between her sister and her partner "Aside from the fact that he came from a falling star with no memories of where he came from, we barely know anything at about him at all" reasoned Yang "Who knows? He probably might be a part of something we don't even know about even himself".
"Hmm...still I wonder why he reacted like that when he heard about the book. Do you think it had something to do with his memories?" Blake asked aloud as she settled into her bed.
"Oh whatever...I'm not going to lose any sleep because of this." said Weiss.
"Its possible though, Usually when someone loses their memories it takes sometime to for them to come back but there are times that it might never come back at all..." Ruby said sadly. The thought of someone never being able to remember who they once were ever again seemed too sad for the girls except Weiss to think about, deciding to call it a night they began to sleep on their beds instantly letting themselves be taken to their dreams. Little did they know their new companion overheard their conversation.
He crossed his arms in front of his chest as he laid his back against the wall nearby the door closing his eyes while calmly thinking about the subject of their conversation. 'Hmm...what they said did have point' he thought as he looked up at the ceiling gathering his thoughts. 'There's a lot of things I don't know about especially how exactly I came to this world or my past for that matter...If I were in their position I would probably think the same thing if the roles were reversed so I can probably understand their suspicions..." he thought as he settled himself down onto the makeshift bed that was in the room. 'Well...thinking about it too much won't help when its been a long day. Best to think about it tomorrow.' with that final thought he laid his head his head onto the pillow letting sleep overtake him.
As he slept a voice rang out within his mind, 'Andrew you have finally come...' said the voice.
(A/N): So what do you think? I'm not really a great writer an I'm still improving on a few grammar skills
Though Id like for some constructive criticism to point out what I did wrong and I hope I haven't made any of the characters too OOC but go easy on me already alright? This is my first fic to work with.
Although I am looking for a beta reader if there's anyone that is willing.
One more heads up as I am posting this chapter I've already more or less made the next Chapters the thing is however is that I wont upload them until I have improved them well enough for me to be satisfied with it as well as get an good review from a beta reader later on. Another thing I will note is that on occasion I will reedit some of the previous chapters if I find something I'm not satisfied with.
Edit Update: Someone pointed out about my problem when it comes to making the conversations and speeches of each person since I kinda bundled them all up in a big paragraph so I figured that altering it to the way it is now seems better let me know if you'd like it back the way it was before.
