Author's Note: Okay, here it goes... well hi whoever you are. My alias on this community is ConradPat and today I bring you my very first FanFiction, though not my first story. I've never done a FanFiction before though I'd thought that I'd give it a try and so here we are. Welcome to my first story dubbed "Revela Magnus" to find out why I chose this I guess you could use google translate as it's in Latin. I'd tell you, but I'm too lazy for that so nah. I believe that wraps this up now then without a further ado let's start this story.
Prologue
The United States of America
Washington D.C.
August 24th, 2021 7:25 AM EST
Today sure was a beautiful day here in D.C. and recently elected president Woodrow Wickets was enjoying the view, he moved a strand of black hair that dangled down near his left eye after he noticed it, and looked into a mirror to see his very own brown eyes staring back. Being President of a nation considered as the most powerful in the world wasn't easy, though he didn't care for it was his dream ever since he was a young boy to become president and set his beloved nation on the right path. He was not allowed to falter or flinch at the obstacles before him. For this nation needed a strong leader, one who would do it's people right, and never show an ounce of fear, and he was determined to be THAT leader, the one that corrects the nation's mistakes of the past and alter the course of its future without fear. The look on his face right now though probably said otherwise, as he stared in complete and utter dismay at the monstrous pile of paperwork before him almost as big as his first pile from when he had ordered the withdrawal of all U.S. military forces currently abroad and left only enough to manage the bases and embassies America had established across the world. He knew being president had its cons, but he wasn't prepared for the hordes of paper that he was forced to tackle. There were requests from smaller nations for him to visit, and budget requests from different government departments either requesting more money to be sent their way or for other departments to get budget cuts and the money to be redirected towards theirs. Woodrow had just started signing and agreeing to visit the African nation of South Sudan when there was a small, but slightly noticeable rumble. Though small, it was almost impossible for him not to notice in the silent room that is the oval office. He stopped signing his signature and waited 10 seconds to see if the rumble came again. It didn't.
Mr. Wickets sighed, and when he looked down to see where he left off on his signature he noticed that the pen had slipped, adding an extra long streak to one of the letters, again he sighed at this a little bit more annoyed than before.
He was about to continue it until the rumble returned, this time with enough force that his mug of coffee for this morning slipped off his desk, and his writing hand shot out to grab it.
He managed to somehow grab onto the edge of it only for the scorching hot mug to spill out its contents onto his hand causing him to flinch in pain as he dropped the mug and it shattered on the ground.
"Damn," he let his tongue slip from the pain.
The rumbling was still going with small pauses soon replaced with larger more powerful quakes that shook the office with more force and strength than the last. The president's signature was now replaced by a smeared ink blotch from his failed attempt to save the morning nectar. The doors to the oval office burst open when his security detail of 3 barged in, to ensure his safety.
"What the hell is going on?!" Woodrow asked already annoyed.
"We need to get you to safety Mr. President," the guard to the left answered.
"With all due respect Chaplin, I want to know what's going on!" Woodrow asked once again, his voice barely a yell as he tried to calm himself.
The guard now identified as Chaplin then responded with the calmest voice he could force
"Sir there's an earthquake sweeping across the entire nation with its magnitude increasing exponentially, we advise you to allow us to take you to safety," Chaplin had responded.
Woodrow Wickets was now being hurriedly escorted to a safe room as pictures fall off the wall of the oval office, there, however, was only one thought that still lingered in the president's mind despite Chaplin's response.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON," with that thought in his mind he wasn't sure he'd be able to calm himself.
The 3 security personnel had escorted him and the workers within the vicinity safely to a secure room before closing the doors and directing Woodrow under a desk. The rumbling continued and only grew stronger as Woodrow and his security team heard objects falling off desks and breaking, the sound happening more frequently. The earthquake had stopped once more, only to suddenly resume with more strength than any other Earthquake to ever hit D.C. everyone in the safe room could hear the sound of walls slowly beginning to crack until a sudden ear piercing banshee-like screech was heard all throughout the nation it seemed. Many feared this was the end, though they were brought back to their senses half deaf when it stopped almost as quickly as it had begun. The security team went to the doors and opened them signaling the workers to get back to work. Woodrow went straight back to the oval office, as he opened the doors he decided to direct orders to some of the officials who had entered the office behind him.
The president turned to the Secretary of Homeland Security Thomas Kite.
"Kite, I want you to publish a statement recommending families in large cities to stay indoors until the damage done is carefully inspected," Woodrow ordered.
Thomas then turned and went to give orders to his colleagues through his cell phone, but after taking it out of his pocket looked at it with confusion, then turned back to the president
"Uh sir, I don't have any reception here and it seems the Wifi is out as well."
Everyone in the room took out their cell phones to see they too had no reception or a connection of any kind. That's when a worker came into the office to inform them of the situation.
"Sir, we've lost contact with all our satellites and only landlines work as of now"
Woodrow now even more confused than before asked
"How can that be?"
The worker simply replied "We don't know sir"
"Then get to work and find out why!" Woodrow replied with authority.
The Kingdom of Vale
Beacon Academy, City of Vale
Auborn 31st, 3580 6:25 AM VST
Ruby had just woken up in her dorm to find that her entire team had already woken up and went to the mess hall without her. She was slightly annoyed by this but forgave them quickly. She jumped off her bed and sprang to her dresser ready and excited to start another day here at Beacon. It didn't take her long to get dressed, and as she left her dorm she said bye to Zwei and quickly ran to the mess hall. She arrived at their usual table to find Weiss, Blake, and Yang all waiting for her. Ruby took her seat and the group began to chat.
"What took you so long?" asked Weiss, the notorious 'Ice Queen'.
"I'm not a morning person," Ruby retorted.
"Doesn't matter you should train yourself to be ready early in the morning, and be one of the first ones up, it's your duty as a leader," Weiss responded with her usual sass.
"Woah there 'Ice Queen' chill out, we wouldn't want you to lose your cool now would we?" Yang defended her sister, though earning countless groans from the surrounding students at her failed attempt to make a funny pun.
"What?" Those who heard the pun glared at her, "What?!" Yang asked once again some edge in her voice this time.
"The last thing we need right now is another Yang induced headache so could you please learn to give up on the puns?" Blake injected.
"It sounded better in my head," Yang retorted with a small pout.
They chuckled at their own antics, though they didn't notice a small rumble that slightly shook their drinks. They began talking about minor topics when another rumble shook all the tables in the mess hall and the chandeliers above began to sway a little. This second rumble is what caught the attention of almost all the students in the mess hall while some were still distracted by their conversations with their friends and teams.
That's when the third rumble hit this time catching the attention of everyone in the mess hall. It was noticeably more powerful and caused the chandeliers to sway back in forth even more. That's when Jaune spoke up from the silence "Um, guys what was that?" he asked turning to his team and friends back at the table. This rumble was slightly longer and caused some of the student's mugs to fall from their tables and hit the ground with a loud crash and shattered on the ground.
The students were starting to get more anxious at this. Ruby responded to Jaune's question her muscles now tense as she felt as though a battle was about to occur "I don't know, are we under attack?" Then finally the fourth rumble hit this time shaking the entire mess hall causing the chandeliers to sway more violently their dangling glass crystals loudly clashing together, until as if a final cue for the students to evacuate the mess hall one of the chandeliers was shaken off its hook and it came crashing down.
The students under it quickly backed away as it crashed to the ground with a loud shatter that would have you think a million glass cups had fallen off a shelf to a concrete ground. The students scrambled to the inner courtyard with their final destination being the outer courtyard that leads to Beacon. Team RWBY and JNPR were lost in the chaos trying to rediscover their sense of direction in what seemed like total anarchy. People were bumping and pushing past each other now that the quakes continued shaking this time every building within their line of sight.
The headmaster of Beacon Academy, Professor Ozpin came over the school loudspeakers "All students please evacuate the building immediately we are currently experiencing a ground quake, please try to remain calm," the speaker cut out, but not before a small portion of Ozpin sipping his coffee was heard from the speakers for a split second. The announcement had seemed to somewhat calm the crowd.
The two teams RWBY and JNPR had found their way to the outer courtyard along with the entire student body of Beacon Academy. The crowd looked up in awe as one of the minor towers of beacon and its mess hall collapsed in a sound that was the mix of stone and steel clashing and the tower collapsing to the ground with a sizable cloud of dust puffing out from the rubble of the collapsed buildings. That is when the ear-assaulting screech had pierced their ears causing them to instinctively pull their hands up to protect their fragile eardrums.
They had heard nothing louder in their entire life, they believed nothing could rival it not even the notorious deathly call of a nevermore. The screeching stopped and the students pulled their hands away from their ears as they cringed from the ringing now left in them, and their aura had only been able to protect them somewhat from the offensive sound. Ruby who's ears were still ringing spoke her mind.
"What was that?!" She asked her voice on the verge of being a scream.
Yang looked at her little sister in confusion not catching what she said due to the ringing in her ears.
"What Ruby?!" Yang asked also on the verge of screaming.
Ruby Responded "What?!" with Yang quickly following up with another
"WHAT?!"
Blake whose ears already ringing painfully yelled "YOU DON'T NEED TO SCREAM YANG MY EARS HURT," she had declared with a noticeable edge in her voice... well noticeable for those who weren't currently deaf.
Yang regained her hearing and heard what Blake said, she mouthed "sorry" and knew it was time to shut up.
Holo-TV Screen
VNN NEWS
The channel was switching between different shows finally pausing on a news channel.
"It seems the Vale Council has concluded its meeting after the damages caused by the ground quake that occurred only yesterday," A reporter had stated.
The channel went to static then came onto screen again with VNN still on only with a different date of 1 day ahead "In the aftermath of the worldwide ground quake that shook all of Remnant two days ago breaking all records and became to be known as the largest known ground quake ever in recorded human history there are reports coming in from several Atlesian scouts that a large land mass has appeared off the coast of Draco~Alas, though these reports have yet to be confirmed."
Channel goes to static once again, only for the news to come back on once more with another day passing.
"We are heading to the coast of the supposed large land mass that supposedly appeared a few hundred miles off the coast of Draco~Alas 3 days ago on the day of the record-breaking ground quake now dubbed Reliquiae Ruptor by geologists, many theories have come to say that the appearance of this land mass was directly caused by the large ground quake. We are setting out on this mission to either confirm these rumors or lay them to rest," the camera moved away from the reporter to the vast ocean that was the coast of Draco~Alas, and expected there to be nothing, but more water, however after 5 minutes passed the pilot of the special news Bullhead spoke up "We're picking up something rather large on the radar, hold up until the scans tell us what it is," the reporter turned her attention to the pilot for few seconds before the final scans came in, "The scans are showing that it's a massive landmass," the reporter then asked the pilot "How big?" to which the pilot responded "Big enough to where not even the entire eastern coast of it can fit on the screen,"
Then a screech that rivaled the one that accompanied the Reliquiae Ruptor ground quake was heard, though not worldwide. The reporter not knowing what it was, spoke her thoughts "What was THAT?!" she asked before receiving an answer from the pilot "It seems that 3 aircraft have appeared on the radar, but where did they come from? There's no way they came from above we're at the maximum altitude that normal aircraft can fly," then seemingly out of nowhere, a radio transmission was received though it was staticky. "Unidentified air-KRSSSSHHH Identify yourself Imm-KRSSSSSHHHHH this is United States air-KRSSSHHH turn ba-KRSSSSHHHHHHH be KRSSSHHHHH," the reporter now confused asked " Do you think you can clean that up?" to which the pilot responded with "Yeah I think so, but there shouldn't be any transmissions out here." After the transmission was cleaned up the message was cleaned up much more clear this time.
"Unidentified aircraft please identify yourself immediately this is United States Air Space turn back now or you will be shot down."
Author's Note: Well that concludes Chapter 1 and please review it with as much criticism you can as it's not going to hurt my feelings. I'm aware that the dialogue or some other things may appear to be 'off', but I don't know what I can do to fix that so just give me some advice. The only rule I have is no blind hate and that's it. I want to be aware of my story's flaws so that I can fix them later on and in possible future stories, and remember this is my first FanFic so go a little easy on me when it comes to certain things like OC's and such.
Edit: Thanks to Chickengun99 and 7Artemis7 for the well written and critical reviews that have helped me out with correcting this chapter as much as I can, if you see any future valid points of criticism like these two did, then please don't hesitate to point them out, be cut and dry with it. Also small thanks to Edrap for the small and simple review complimenting me on the work of the previous chapter even though it was lackluster and subpar, but he has the honor of being the first person to review my first story, :D.
I'm genuinely happy about the response I got for the subpar chapter, and my only excuse is me being tired from a long day, and me not being very experienced.
Some things to take note of for future reference when reading the story:
Draco~Alas is the name of the 5th continent of Remnant that's shaped like a dragon and for those wondering how I made the name up, I put each word separately in google translate to Latin and it loosely means "Dragon Wings" if you translate each word separately, or at least that's what I got.
Reliquiae Ruptor is the name of the Earthquake that's the main event going on in this chapter, and again like Draco~Alas each word was also translated separately in Latin to loosely mean "Remnant Breaker." Yeah, Yeah, I know I'm a dork.
