Bleached RWBY

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Chapter One: The new beginning

No One's P.O.V

This was it, the final battle between Team RWBY and Cinder. It had taken them all of their years at Beacon plus another five before reaching this point. It had been a year after they graduated from Beacon when the White Fang launched a massive attack on all the kingdoms, crippling their defences and then blowing holes in the walls, releasing hordes of Grimm into them.

That had been a dark day for all of them. Everyone loss someone they knew. For Ruby and Yang, that was their father, he was caught up in the initial White Fang attack that he didn't have enough energy or Aura left to defend himself against the tide of Grimm.

It hadn't ended there for Ruby. During a fight with an Alpha, she got blindsided by a flashbang thrown by a White Fang grunt, giving the Alpha the opportunity to swing its massive paw at her face, going straight across her right eye, blinding her in that eye. It then went to dig its teeth into her throat, but she was able to get her right arm across and instead it ended up biting into her arm.

She was lucky in the sense that Weiss showed up at the moment and killed the Alpha, but she was permanently blind in her right eye and her right arm had been beyond saving and was amputated. She now had to use a special prosthetics arm that allowed for Aura to be channelled through it, similar mechanics to what they used to make Penny.

Since then Team RWBY, JNPR and CFVY have been fighting against the White Fang and Cinder and now they had finally managed to find where Cinder has been hiding and they planned on ending this war today.

They had thought through waves of White Fang grunts, cutting them down like a hot knife through butter. They were also able to take out Emerald, Mercury and Neo, showing no mercy as they released a small fraction of the anger and resentment they held against the group that they had thought since they began at Beacon.

All that stood between them and peace now, were Roman and Cinder, the two people stood in front of them.

"Ah Red, you never did know to stay out of our way did ya?" Roman asked rhetorically, his voice sounding like they had already won.

"Why so cocky Roman, you've lost your buddies and all the White Fang in this building, it's just you two and us," Ruby said, "now, even though I already know the answer, but I have to ask you to surrender peacefully otherwise I'd be breaching your rights as a human, not that you act like one, your more Grimm than sentient."

The response was as expected, Roman raised Melodic Cudgel, flipping up the crosshair and firing a fire dust shot at the group of girls, causing them to scatter.

"Bumblebee on Roman, White Rose on Cinder!" Ruby barked out, with her friends following the order to the letter.

Yang swung at Roman, releasing a blast of fire dust from Ember Celica, though Roman blocked it with his cane. Blake flipped over Yang, swinging Gambol Shroud down in an arc at Roman. This he dodged, but he had to block the follow up swing when she struck with the sheath for her blade.

She struck out with her weapon in sword mode, something which he narrowly dodged and only receiving a cut to his cheek.

"A bit cocky today, aren't we Roman?" Yang mocked as she swung at him, narrowly missing his head when he ducked, "didn't even have your Aura up despite being in a fight."

"Oh shut up you blond bitch!"

Him reacting to her taunting was his downfall. He failed to notice Blake behind him before she punched him in back of the head, followed by him being punched in the gut by Yang, who reinforced it with a shot, removing whatever Aura he had left, which sent he straight back to Blake who finished him off with a slice across his body, cutting him completely in half.

Ruby and Weiss weren't faring so well. Cinder had been on a whole other level compared to Roman, her Semblance being flames and the fact she has the Fall Maiden's powers made her a force to be reckoned with, though that didn't mean she was unbeatable.

She was firing off blasts of air and flames at the two, but they had trained together for four years, becoming an unstoppable duo who could never be beaten when they put their minds to something, and at the moment, both of them had their sights set on ending Cinder.

Weiss acted as defence mainly, chucking up glyphs and walls of ice to block attacks sent their way by Cinder. Ruby did most of the attacking, whether it was from a range or close quarters, she was the one dealing the most damage to Cinder's Aura, as well as the one whose Aura was diminishing the fastest out of the White Rose duo.

Cinder launched a stream of fire which was only blocked by a well-timed blast of ice forming a wall between the two and Cinder. Cinder did not realise this though, all she saw was dust and cockily assumed that she had hit her mark and turned her back on the scene. Big mistake.

Without warning, there was a thunderous bang, followed by the sound of metal piercing skin and then exiting again.

She peered down at her chest, noticing the present hole at the bottom of her chest, just below the arc of her rib cages. She fell to her knees, before falling onto her front, blood beginning to pool around her limp body.

"This can't be happening; how can a goody two shoes brat beat me? I have one of the most powerful powers there is, I cannot be beaten," she croaked out, inhaling air with laboured breaths.

"It's because we aren't cocky like you, if we're going to kill someone, we make sure they're dead before we turn I backs on them," Ruby stated.

"I bet you think that you've won know, don't you? Well your wrong!" She suddenly exclaimed, whipping out a trigger from under her and hitting the trigger.

The trigger did two things: one turn on the lights, revealing them to be surrounded by crates of unspecified dust; secondly it activated every block of C4 in the room, which were all attached to a crate.

The girls couldn't react fast enough, and before they could even take a step in the direction of an exit, they were engulfed in a fiery explosion with a multitude of colours mixed into it.

Karakura Town

No One's P.O.V

The four girls that had arrived in a bright flash groaned in pain, opening their eyes to see towering skyscrapers and a starry sky.

"Ow, am I dead?" Ruby asked aloud.

"I thought Heaven would look more, cloudy?" Yang stated in a wondering voice.

"How do you know were in Heaven and not Hell?" Blake asked.

"The lack of fire and brimstone suggests that this can't be Hell" Weiss stated.

"It took you dying to finally agree with me?" Yang asked, bewildered by what was occurring at this moment in time.

They were interrupted though by a horrifying roar that their heads to snap in the direction of where it had originated from. They were met by with a truly terrifying sight. A giant monster with midnight black skin and a bone mask that resembled that of a Boarbatusk stalked towards the. It was easily five times Ruby's size and had a hole the size of a car in the centre of its chest.

"I think that answers our question, we're in Hell," Blake stated with slight fear in her voice despite being right that this place wasn't Heaven.

The girls decided they'd rather not find out what would happen once this demon reached them and booked it. At least, they tried to.

They had failed to notice the chains that were connected to their chests and ran all the way to an exact copy of them lying limp on the ground. This caused them to get so far before the chain went tight and caused the girls to be pulled over.

They looked over to notice the limp bodies, but couldn't react in time and the beast was already between them and their unmoving copies.

It grabbed all four chains in its massive hand a hefted the four of them up with ease. All the girls could do was stair into its glowing red eyes as it broke the chains, only leaving five links connected to the metal plate that was connected to their chests.

They were all unceremoniously dropped to the ground, landing hard on their backs. They stared at it with fear in their eyes, with despair setting in as they thought they would end up dying without being able to put a fight.

A sudden pain shot through their chests as the links grew mouths and began to cannibalise each other till nothing was left.

They heard a voice in their head to give up and except death, but they wouldn't and continued to fight off the edge. This however leased to a sudden build-up of pressure in their left eyes and throats, before it erupted and a white gunk shot out and began to start to form a mask, before darkness enveloped all of them.

Vizard's Warehouse

Ichiro's P.O.V

I was laid on the ground looking up at the fake sky that covered the roof of the training area.

It had been a tough day, training to keep my mask on was one thing, but getting slapped over the head with a sandal for every slip up was starting to piss me off.

The feeling of calmness I got from staring at the ceiling was broken when I suddenly felt an increase in the spiritual pressure that floater in the air, an increase that got my attention.

The spiritual pressure was that of hollowfication, but a normal person who is hollowfying would give off a burst before disappearing and appearing elsewhere as a hollow. This suggested that someone was fighting it, meaning they were more than likely powerful and about to become like me.

I jumped up onto my feet and ran up the stairs, passing the Vizards who had been sleeping till the sudden burst.

"Ichiro, what's happening?" Shinji questioned.

"Someone has begun hollowfication, but is fighting it, I was going to check it out and see if they came through normal or if they hollowfied, which would need me to cleanse them before they can cause any serious damage," I replied.

"Wait for me then, there is more than one person going through with this, we need to deal with this as a group, so its best we bring the rest as well, rather not have to fight anyone who is strong enough to fight hollowfication alone," he stated.

Once everyone was up, we headed straight for the area, where I could feel another hollow less than ten metres away from the four entities that were currently trying to prevent themselves becoming an evil spirit.

Ruby's inner world

No one's P.O.V

Ruby opened her eyes, finding herself in a meadow that stretched as far as the eye could see and was covered in crimson red roses.

"Where am I?" she asked aloud not expecting to receive an answer.

"This is your inner world, a place you created in your mind," a distinctively female voice said from behind her, causing he to tense and turn around and come face to face with an unfamiliar person.

The woman that stood before her had pale white skin, unmarked by any blemishes or scars. Her eyes were a bloody crimson, that stood out from her pale complexion. Her midnight black hair was in a basic ponytail that fell in between her shoulder blades. She wore a crimson red kimono that had white rose petals at the ends of the arms and the hem.

"Who are you and what do you mean by 'inner world'?" Ruby asked confused.

"This is a world created by your soul and resembles how you act and is effected by your feelings greatly," the unknown woman began, "as for who I am, I am. . ."

"I'm sorry, could you repeat? I didn't hear what your name was," Ruby asked, wondering why when it seemed like she was saying her name, no sound came out.

"I see, you can't hear my name yet, that is quite depressing to say the least," the woman replied.

"Err, why are the roses starting to decay!?" Ruby asked, sounding very alarmed at watching what was in essential a visualisation of her soul, begin to decay at an almost rapid pace.

"You are becoming a Hollow, you must act quickly before it's too late," the woman stated with great urgency in her voice.

"What do you mean by a 'Hollow'?"

"I can't explain now, not enough time, all you need to know is that they are evil," she began, "You must search through the scattered petal on the ground and find your soul reaper powers before it's too late."

With that said, the woman left, leaving ruby to stare at the infinite amounts of piles of petal, one of these piles being the one that held the abilities to stop her from becoming one of the creatures the unknown woman seemed to want to prevent Ruby from becoming.

Not knowing where to begin, she became panicked and just started going through the piles by hand, trying her hardest to find what would pass as her soul reaper powers.

"Focus Ruby, if you were an unknown power, which pile would you hide in?" she thought in her head. Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes thinking solely on becoming a soul reaper.

When she opened her eyes, she was met with a shocking sight. All around her were white ribbons, all leading back to a pile of roses, except one was not white, it was a crimson red colour. Feeling drawn to it, she grasped the ribbon and yanked on it, feeling herself being pulled and ending up in front of the pile, where she could see the handle of a sword sticking out of it. The handle was silver and wrapped in red rope.

"You've found it," the mysterious woman said again, "now grasp the handle and pull it out."

She did just that, reaching out with her right arm, which she realised that despite being inside her soul, her prosthetic arm was still there instead of her real arm or no arm at all.

Once the blade was fully out, there was a blinding flash that once it subsided, revealed that she was back in front of the demon like creature.

She felt something weighted over her face, and realised that she seemed to have some bone like substance covering her face. She grabbed the bottom and pulled it up, leaving it to rest on the top of her head.

She looked at her friends and found they also were removing what looked like bone masks off their faces. What seemed to stand out the most though was the fact they were all wearing black kimono tops, black hakama pants, white undershirt beneath the kimono tops and a white sash around their waists.

At each of their wastes was a katana, but their normal weapons were nowhere to be seen.

The Hollow also noticed them and let out a blood curdling roar and charged at them, intent on killing them.

"Ruby, you must kill the Hollow using me," the mysterious woman said in her head.

"What do you mean?" she replied back, speaking in her head.

"I am the sword on your hip, unsheathe me and swing me in a downward arc, it'll cut straight through the mask and kill it instantly."

She did as the woman said and unsheathed the sword with her right hand, swinging the sword up before bringing it back down in an arc just as the Hollow was about to barge into her, completely cutting through the Hollow's mask and causing it to turn into nothing but particles.

"Well done Ruby, you did exceptionally well." The woman said in her head.

"How did you know how to use your katana?" Blake asked, being the one out of all of them that actually uses a katana in her regular fighting style.

"The woman in my head told me to do it. Does that make me sound insane?"

"No, I've got a man in my head, but when he went to say his name no sound came out." Weiss said.

"Same, except I had a woman in my head like Ruby," Yang also stated.

"Mine was like Weiss'," Blake also said.

They heard multiple thumps behind them, causing them to spin around and put their hands on the hilts of their swords.

What they found was not another Hollow, but nine people.

One was dressed in the same type of clothing as them. He looked to be about fifteen and had bright orange hair. On his back rested what looked like an oversized kitchen knife, with no handle, wrapped in bandages.

Another boy stood to the left of the orange head, who had blonde hair in a bowl cut. He was wearing a beige button up shirt with a brown tie. The shirt was tucked into black skinny jeans. In his hands, resting on his shoulder, was a sheathed katana with a maroon and gold hilt. He appeared to be of a similar age as the orange haired boy.

Next to the blonde man stood a short girl that wore a red and white track suit, with a white shirt underneath the jacket. Her katana was found resting on her back and had a red and gold handle. The girl seemed to be the youngest out of all of them.

Next to her stood a girl with lime green hair, wearing a white jumpsuit with an orange scarf around her neck. She was also wearing orange gloves and boots. She held a sheathed katana in her hand that had a dark green and black hilt. She only appeared to be slightly older than the other girl.

Next to her stood a man with grey hair, despite looking too young to even have it, who wore a sleeveless dark blue shirt with a white trim around the edges, as well as green khaki trousers. He had his katana placed through one of his belt loops and the hilt was white and grey.

To the right of the orange haired boy stood a girl with black hair, who wore glasses, the top half of a sailor's uniform, with a pleated skirt instead of trousers to go with it. Her katana was found in her hands, sheathed, with a blue and gold hilt.

Next to her stood a man in a blue track suit with sun glasses on, despite it being night time, and had hair that stuck out like a star. His katana was also held in his hand sheathed and had a blue and white hilt.

Next to him stood a man with blonde hair in white shirt with frilly stuff down the middle, blazer over the top of it and grey dress trousers. His katana could be found resting at his hip, slotted through one of his belt loops. Its hilt was red and black.

Finally, next to him stood a large man with pink hair, in a green suit with a white button up underneath it. He was the only one who did not have a katana visible on him.

They all looked at each other till Ruby spoke up.

"Who are you?"

"We are like you," the blonde man, with a bowl cut for a haircut, said, stepping forward a step, causing the girls to tighten their grip on their hilts, "and we are like you. We are Vizards."

A.N – Thanks for reading the first chapter of my new story. Please favourite and follow if you liked it and leave a review for ways I could improve or bits you liked and wish to see more of in the future.