Hey guys, Flipkicks here and today is a new side story for RWBY Volume 4. This story is called 'Aftermath', setting after the events of The Reaper of Beacon. The story will about what has happened to the cast during the time skip.

Each of the chapters will be focusing on the cast and what they are thinking of their friend, Ichigo Kurosaki.

I do not own neither series.

Ruby
Part 1

Journey to Haven
5:00 P.M.

"You're sure its this way?" The blonde haired male of the group asks their leader. This male is Jaune Arc, a former student of Beacon Academy. He is on a journey to warn the next academy, Haven Academy, about them being the next target.

"Of course I am!" Said the short black haired with red highlights in her hair. This young teen is Ruby Rose, the leader of the group and also a former student of Beacon Academy. "We are here and the nearest town is one." she shows him the map as the others around her look at where she is pointing at. "We can stay there for the night and gather some materials."

"She's right Jaune, the sky is about to turn dark." Said the other male of the is a male teenager with long black hair tied into a ponytail that ends midway down his back. There is a magenta streak on the left side of his hair.

"Right..." Jaune looks around, looking around for a particular someone, "Where's Nora?" He asks his friends until they felt a tree hitting the ground. They all looked back to see their friend, Nora Valkyrie, standing on top of a now dead Ursa Grimm. They all sweat dropped when she sings,

"I'm Queen of the Castle!" She repeated and repeated that line over and over again.

"NORA!" They all shouted as she freaked out when they shouted.

"What?" She looks at her friends confused and they all hang their heads low.

"Come on, let's get going." Jaune and the others soon headed to the nearest town while Ruby was left behind.

'I wonder if your still out the Ichigo...' she looks at the sky, hoping to and wondering if her friend is still alive.

She was there when she saw Ichigo fighting off Cinder while she helped out their critically injured friend in Pyrrha Nikos. After getting Pyrrha out of the way, she saw with her own eyes that Ichigo was about to be killed until Ruby unleashed her unknown hidden powers. Once she unleashed her powers, it both consumed Ichigo and Cinder and after that, both of them weren't ever seen after that.

'Please be out there...' She didn't want to believe that he is dead because of her unknown power but there was something that doubted her, and that was his sword covered in blood.

She then looks at the ground, hoping that she wasn't that killed Ichigo until she heard,

'Just keep on going Ruby.' She then looks in front of her is a late teen with spiky white hair, covering himself with a black aura. 'You need to keep on going forward.' He knees down to see her now crying eyes.

'You honestly think I have what it takes to stop her?' She questions herself and there was some doubt in her tone.

'Stop doubting yourself Ruby. During our training sessions, you proved to have the most potential besides Jaune. You have what it takes to take them down.'

She then gets back up and can feel confident once more. 'Thanks Ichigo...' She turns around and he wasn't there. 'Please watch over me and the others.' She then rushes to her allies and hopes to make Ichigo proud of her.

And that ends the first chapter, each of the chapters are going to be short so please expect them to be long. Each of the cast will have a chapter or two or more in this story and leave some hints of their relationship with Ichigo.

For those who are wondering what has happened in 'The Reaper of Beacon' will mainly have to read that story, even though the story is still being written. I figured I write a short chapter of the time skip and some parts of Volume 4.

I hope to hear what you guys think of the story and always, I'll talk to you all later.