A/N: Well, my first fanfic! Hopefully I can actually finish this.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or Power Rangers
Several centuries ago…
There was fire and carnage everywhere. Bodies of soldiers littered the ground, while the bodies of their foes quickly fell to droves of other soldiers and dissolved into the air just as quickly. The fighting was merciless, with neither side giving any mercy to the other. In the centre of it all, the battle to decide the fate of humanity raged on.
Four figures cloaked in blue, brown, green and purple were locked in fierce combat with a fifth figure cloaked in black. The four attacked without abandon, swinging their weapons in coordinated manners that prevented any escape. However, despite their attacks striking, the black figure still stood, shrugging off their attacks like they were nothing.
The brown figure, frustrated at this, decided to go in for a lunge with her staff's fire crystal right into the black figure's heart, trying to burn right through it, despite her comrades telling her to not to do anything rash.
They were right. The black figure didn't even bother to dodge, just grabbing onto the staff, staring into the brown figure's stunned look in her eyes before grabbing her face and channelling some sort of energy into it while slamming her down.
The brown figure struggled to get up, only to look in horror as she saw her body slowly being petrified before her eyes.
The black figure spoke, "One down, three more to capture."
The remaining three looked at one another and nodded. Their eyes started to glow, and their bodies started to hover over the black figure as they started to channel the very elements themselves.
The black figure was unimpressed: "Fancy party tricks, but they can't kill me."
The blue figure simple stated: "We aren't trying to kill you."
The black figure can only begin to wonder what they are talking about before great vines sprouted out from the ground, restraining the black figure as the blue figure's hand started to glow, with a single swing, she yells out:
"Aura Art: Spatial Rift!"
A brief image of a rune comprised of a pentagon, two smaller pentagons set inside one after the other and a dot in the centre appeared before space itself split apart behind the black figure, and before she could break free from her bonds, the purple figure rushed in a blink of an eye, releasing a large blast of flame that incinerated the vines, and proceeded to drive her fist into the black figure's face throwing her back into the spatial rift.
Just as the black figure was swallowed up by the rift, she said one thing.
"In due time, I shall return."
The rift closed, the armies of beasts under the black figure's command all dissolved, their link to the black figure cut. The soldiers are too tired to even cheer, just collapsing onto the ground for a much needed rest.
The three figures themselves, having completely drained themselves in their final attack collapse onto the ground, dying. The brown figure, still conscious as her face began to petrify, could only look on as her comrades began to die, and in her last moments before she was fully petrified, only felt one thing.
Anger.
Centuries ago, mankind was threatened by the dark force known as the Creatures of Grimm, shadowy creatures that specifically hunted down humans. However, after a great conflict against them, they were defeated and their master sealed away. Humanity was at peace.
This peace wouldn't last though, as the Grimm have re-emerged after centuries of dormancy, attacking the city of Vale. To combat this threat, four youths have banded together and awakened the power of their souls, using their powers to fight off the Grimm, and save mankind from them once and for all. Together, they are the…
Aura Rangers!
Hunt 1: Aura Awakening
Present Day
The battlefield littered with corpses was gone, now replaced with the bright and shining city of Vale, built shortly after the battle centuries ago to celebrate the triumph of humanity that day. In the middle of the city lay Beacon Academy, a prestigious boarding school for youths all over the country, currently run by the enigmatic Professor Ozpin.
In the Dark Aroma, a nearby café with a modern chic design popular with students from the Academy, two girls are sitting at a table, chatting things up.
"Amazing how you got into Beacon so early sis!" A blonde bombshell loudly proclaimed through mouthfuls of cake.
"Aww, it's no big deal Yang. I mean, all I did was impress on headmaster Ozpin when I met up with him," Yang's younger half-sister Ruby said rather sheepishly.
"Hey, he must have a good reason for bringing you here, so be proud of it!" Yang continued to say. "By the way, are you going to order something?"
"Yeah, your coffee and cake really do look good. No wonder this place is so popular." Ruby said, observing the crowded surroundings. Deciding on buying something, she gets up to queue at the counter, only for her to bump into someone else.
"Hey! Look where you're going!" The white haired student spouted out.
"Aah! Sorry!"
"Sorry!? While I'm mostly unharmed, can you imagine what would happen if you bumped into something potentially more dangerous like a boxful of Dust, or maybe a frail old lady? I don't want a sorry, I want you to be more careful in the future!"
While Ruby was usually a somewhat quiet sort around people, she had limits. "Well, excuse me, princess!"
Noticing the commotion, a dark haired student reading a book looks up, before walking up to the arguing pair.
"It's Heiress, actually."
Ruby just made a confused surprised sound at that.
"Weiss Schnee, Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, most well known for producing much of the world's Dust supply."
Weiss stuck her nose up. "Good. Someone who recognises me."
Blake wasn't done though, "They are also infamous for exploiting poor workers and damaging environments through strip mining operations."
It was Weiss's turn to be surprised. "What!? How dare you!" Weiss said as she stormed off to the queue.
Ruby can only giggle as this situation plays out. But as she turned around to thank the dark haired girl, she seemingly vanished in the crowd of students.
Normally, after that, Ruby would continue queueing for her coffee and cake, return to Yang to enjoy her food, then return home to prepare for studying in Beacon.
However, this peace is not meant to last.
Suddenly, dark rifts began to appear over the Dark Aroma ominously. Most students in the area either begin to stare at this strange phenomenon, while others just simply started to hightail it out of there.
Soon enough, strange, horrifying wolf-like creatures start to fall out of the rifts. These creatures have fur as black as the blackest night and bone protrusions around, most prominently in the form of a mask that shows two glowing red eyes. Now just about everyone starts to hightail it out of the Dark Aroma.
This doesn't stop these creatures from attacking whoever is still struggling to get out of the coffee house, slashing at them as the students and baristas dodge and run as best they can. One manages to pin down a blond, blue eyed boy on the ground. His reaction?
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Just about everyone hers the ear piercing scream, causing everyone instinctively recoil from it.
"There's a girl in trouble!" Yang thinks in her head as she prepares to go into the coffee house.
The creature having recovered from the scream proceeded to brandish its claws to drive them through the boy's heart. The boy closed his eyes, expecting the worst.
Except the claws never struck him.
Opening his eyes, he sees Yang struggling with the creature, holding its arms at bay. She looks to the boy and just says one thing.
"What are you doing?! Get out of here!"
As the boy got up, he noticed that three other individuals were also trying to fight off the creatures in the coffee house. Ruby struck quickly, using hit and run techniques to get as much attention to her while avoiding damage as well. Weiss was engaging the creatures using technical methods compared to Ruby's fast and sloppy attacks, aiming to pin and disable the creatures with arm breaks to disable them. The dark-haired girl was avoiding attention, before pouncing on targets for massive damage, before blending into the crowd of creatures again. Yang herself was just using pure brute force, hitting the creatures with all she had. The boy realising they were buying everyone time to escape, ran out as fast as possible, trying to find help for them.
However, despite their efforts, it was not enough, as the strength and numbers of the creatures overwhelmed them.
"No!"
"Hopefully, Father will be proud of me now…"
"A fitting end for me then…"
"AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!"
It would have been the end, but all of a sudden, the four girls' bodies started to glow a bright light, releasing a shockwave that knocked the creatures out of the coffee house.
Yang looked at herself, realising that her hair was freakin glowing! But she didn't get a chance to rest much, as one of the creatures proceeded to pounce at her. She threw a punch at the creature's head to defend herself, and sent it flying back, where it proceeded to disintegrate into nothingness.
"Holy moley… this is AWESOME!"
The dark-haired girl, recovering from the shockwave, tried to dash forward towards the creatures, only to zip ahead for a brief moment, leaving behind an afterimage of her. Disregarding just what is going on, she quickly hid, luring a creature to attack the afterimage, causing it to fade away before the girl did a devastating sneak attack on the creature, grabbing its neck and twisting with all her might, snapping it and making the creature go limp on the ground before dissolving.
Weiss just spent the whole time dazed, unsure of what is going on.
Ruby got up quickly, trying to sprint out of the coffee house to engage the creatures again, only burst forward past the creatures and almost crash into another storefront.
"WOAH!"
But her reprieve won't last long, as the creatures start to advance towards her. Thinking quickly, she decided to make use of her newfound powers, zooming all around the area striking the creatures here and there when it's safe, but they aren't doing much damage. Then, she saw both Yang and the dark-haired girl fighting off the creatures with some measure of success, but the numbers of the creatures was still too great for them to take down individually.
"We need a plan!" thought Ruby.
Quickly analysing the battlefield, she noted Yang's high strength and slower speed, and the dark-haired girl's stealthiness in exchange for relative frailty. She decided to use those strengths to their advantage.
"Yang! Attack the ones following me!"
"Wha…? Oh, I get it! Understood!"
"Miss uhh…"
"Belladonna. Blake Belladonna."
"Oh! Blake! Could you use your clone thingies to confuse the enemy?"
"Got it. I'll try."
Coordinating together, Blake confused the creatures with her clones, allowing Ruby to aggro them towards her more easily, while Yang dealt the damage on them knocking them across the street. In due time, they eventually manage to finish off the creatures off, with the creatures' corpses dissolving in the air.
Before they could even sit down and contemplate on what just happened though, another bright light surrounded them and in a flash, they vanished.
"Errgh…. Where am I?" Ruby groaned out as her eyes fluttered open, her vision blurry. As her vision recovers, she notices her rather strange surroundings. It seemed to be a rather high-tech command centre of some sort in a pentagonal shape, with screens covering the walls providing all sorts of data, and in the centre of the room, an elevated platform with a hologram of what appeared to be all of Vale. Glowing green lines traced across the room, seemingly providing power the room. Most prominently besides the central platform, were four tubes glowing red, white, black/purple and yellow, each occupying a corner of the room.
"Where are we?" Said Weiss, recovering from her previous daze.
"Oww… my entire body hurts." Yang stretched her body, trying to get the aches in her body out.
Blake just stayed silent, simply observing the surroundings.
"I see, so you are the ones who have awakened," A mysterious voice spoke from behind them.
"Aah! Who's that?" Ruby jumped in shock as the four turned around.
"I can't say I'm that surprised, especially you, Miss Rose." The figure was clad in a black suit, complete with waistcoat, with a green scarf to complete the ensemble.
"Professor Ozpin? What is going on? Why are there shadow monsters? Why are you here? WHY DO WE HAVE SUPERPOWERS?!" Ruby asked, getting progressively more and more flustered and panicky as she went on, her arms flailing wildly.
All Ozpin did in response was to hold his hand up gently and say: "Now, now, Miss Rose, I understand that you must have plenty of questions, and judging from the rest of your faces, all of you have questions." Weiss, Blake and Yang looked up at his face.
"Now, starting from the beginning. Centuries ago, mankind was at a relative sort of peace. Most were happy and prospered. However, one day, the dark creatures that you fought, known as the Creatures of Grimm, appeared in droves, destroying settlements left and right.
The Creatures of Grimm were born out of the collective dark thoughts and emotions of people, collected over the millennia. Their master, Salem is effectively humanity's 'dark side' of sorts, from wrath, happiness at misery to most importantly, self-destruction. She desires nothing more than the destruction of humanity, even if it doesn't serve her any material benefit in the end. She was eventually sealed away in a subdimension closed off from our dimension, in a final battle that happened right where Vale is standing right now.
Despite the overwhelming odds, mankind fought back. They used the power of their souls, called 'Aura' to strengthen themselves to even the odds. Those who had their Aura awakened could pull off amazing feats of strength, resilience and agility. In addition to these benefits, they could also use a 'Semblance', effectively a superpower of sorts that varied depending on the individual. I watched over these warriors all those years back, directing their efforts to defeat Salem."
Weiss spoke out. "So, what you are saying… is that the first big flash of light we had was our Aura awakening?"
Ozpin continued, "Yes. The re-emergence of the Grimm has resulted in a 'reaction' of sorts. By fighting back the Grimm in the coffee house, your actions resonated with your souls, awakening your Aura."
It was Yang's turn to ask. "So… what are we doing here?"
Ozpin was somewhat more hesitant at that question. "You… you see, that attack on the coffee house is not going to be a one-time deal. The Grimm, after centuries of being sealed away, have regained enough of their strength to start attacking. The attacks may be sporadic due to the dimensional barrier, but they will happen. To stop them, we need a group of defenders to stop them.
Blake instantly picked up on what he meant. "You mean… you want us to defend humanity?"
Ozpin nodded. "Yes. I want you all to take on the powers of warriors long past augmented with technology to defend Vale from the Grimm. I want you all to become… Aura Rangers."
Ruby just stared at Ozpin for a bit, processing what she just heard.
"You mean… we get to be SUPERHEROES?!"
"… That's one way to put it."
"YES! I'm in!" Ruby spouted out excitedly.
Ozpin looked at the four and began to speak.
"Do not mistake this as an obligation to do anything. I know that you all have lives of your own, and accepting the responsibilities of an Aura Ranger is no simple matter. You have to be prepared to… give your life to stop the Grimm from hurting anyone else. Your lives will be changed greatly. So I have to ask you this: are you all willing to take up the fight and hunt the Creatures of Grimm threatening us?"
Ruby reaffirmed her decision. "I know how dangerous it could be, but I can't just sit around and watch others die while I could stop them. With your equipment, I could save everyone."
Weiss thought to herself for a bit before speaking. "This is a way I could serve the world my own way. I'm in."
Yang smashed her fists together and just said: "Hey, a good opportunity to beat up stuff for a righteous cause? Count me in!"
Blake spent some time deep in thought, before saying: "The risks don't bother me. I'm in."
Ozpin gave a small smile while bringing up a case and unlocking it. "Excellent. Here are your main tools in this fight. The Aura Changers, these tap into your Aura and transform you all into Aura Rangers.
The Aura Changers were a simple design, basically a black cuboid with a button on the centre on a wristband.
The four girls took the Aura Changers, but upon putting them on, they started to glow, revealing a personalised form for each Changer as the glow wore off.
Ruby's Changer was now coloured red, with rose petal decorations layered closely, making it look like the side of a rose.
Weiss's Changer now looked like it was made from ice, even being cool to the touch. It now basically looked like a giant intricate snowflake.
Blake's Changer was strange. It now looked like a mass of shadow, complete with fuzzy edges, but it was solid to the touch.
Yang's Changer now basically looked like a mass of solidified yellow flames.
"Cool…" Ruby kept on admiring her Aura Changer.
Ozpin got her and everyone else's attention quick enough. "All you need to do to activate them is to say "Aura Form, Change!", push the central button and you will be morphed. Additionally, the Aura Changers come with 'perception filters', so only you Rangers and whoever I allow can see them, allowing you to wear them and be prepared at all times. They also obfuscate your identities to others when morphing, including surveillance equipment, so you all can morph in public without exposing yourselves, for the most part."
Weiss was still admiring her Changer as she listened. "Huh, you've made it really convenient for us."
Ozpin gave her a smile. "Well, it would be rather embarrassing should any of you get caught in an attack without your Changers, wouldn't it? Now, are there any other questions?"
Blake spoke up. "Just one thing. Just what are you? You just offhandedly said that you led humanity against the Grimm centuries ago. There is no way you are just an ordinary human."
Ozpin remained ever so calm. "I was wondering when any of you would ask. Suffice it to say, I'm effectively Salem's opposite. While she embodies negative traits and ideas, I embody positive ones, like justified anger over injustice, or fearing for the safety of others. It is my duty to watch over humanity and fight against Salem, and as such started Beacon to raise each generation of people right. It also helps me find prospective Rangers should Salem surface. You might even find one around the campus."
The four girls looked somewhat surprised, but not very much after learning all about the Grimm, Aura and the Rangers beforehand. Before anyone could say anything else though…
*BLARE! BLARE! BLARE!*
The alarm in the command centre rang out!
"There is a Grimm attack!" Ozpin said as he faced the central hologram of Vale, where a particular area was being highlighted. "It's over there!" He said as he pointed towards the highlighted area. "Prepare for teleport!"
"Prepare for teleport? Like before…" Ruby could barely complete her sentence when she and the rest of the Rangers were caught in a bright light, vanishing from the command centre.
"Oof! That was… a little rough." Ruby said as she was splayed about the ground, trying to quickly get up.
She doesn't have much time to do so though, as she heard the screams of people running off from a particular plaza in the area, which was currently populated with quite a few of the creatures they fought before. Additionally, the creature in the middle seemingly commanding them looked rather different, more looking more like a humanoid fountain than anything else. It was then that Ruby also noticed that the centre of the plaza was strangely empty, like something was removed.
The fountain monster couldn't care less about the Rangers though, since he was having too much fun wreaking havoc, using its head to fire highly pressurised jets of water to tear up the landscape as people vacated the plaza as quickly as possible.
"Hah! Take that, and that, and that! Taste my Fountainhead!" He screamed, having way too much fun at his job, until…
"Hold it!" Shouted Ruby as the Rangers made their way to the creatures and Fountainhead.
"What?! Who are you coloured misfits?!" Screamed Fountainhead as he gesticulated wildly.
"Just the mighty force that'll wipe the floor with you guys!" Yang yelled as she cracked her knuckles.
Fountainhead wasn't impressed. "Hah! Just four of you puny humans won't be able to stop us!"
Ruby looked Fountainhead in the eyes, giving a grin, and said: "Oh, we'll see about that. Rangers! It's morphin' time!"
The Rangers whipped up their Aura Changers, pushed the button, and yelled out: "Aura Form, Change!"
The Aura Changers glowed, covering the Rangers in light, before solidifying into a form-fitting suit of their respective colours, with a gold sash that crossed their torsos from their left shoulder to their right waist, and included a miniskirt as well. Each sash had a personalised emblem near the left shoulder, a rose for Ruby, a snowflake for Weiss, a dark black flame for Blake, and finally a burning yellow heart for Yang. Additionally, Red's suit also featured a cloak/hood on it.
Next, Ruby's helmet came on in a flourish of rose petals. It featured a black visor which slightly expanded into rounded edges at the sides, and a silver mouthplate that extended from the centre of the visor. Completing the helmet were rose petal designs on the edges of the visor, lined with gold.
Weiss's helmet came on with a flourish of snowflakes. Her visor expanded into pointed edges instead, and featured her snowflake also lined with gold emblem on each side.
Blake's helmet was formed by a mass of shadows. The visor's edges pointed upwards instead, and her visor edges were undecorated unlike the others.
Yang's helmet was formed by yellow flames. The visor flared outwards like fans, and the edges were decorated by yellow flame designs similarly lined with gold.
"Swift Justice! Aura Red!" Aura Red gave a thumbs up.
"Cooling Calm! Aura White!" Aura White gave a polite bow.
"Silent Shadows, Aura Black!" Aura Black lowered herself in a crouch, with her legs spread and one hand on the ground.
"BURNING PASSION! Auuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrra Yellow! Aura Yellow bent over a little, clenching her fist hard, before thrusting it up high in a fistpump.
"AURA RANGERS, READY!"
*BOOM*
An explosion broke out behind them.
"Aah! What was that!" White yelled as she flinched forward from the sound.
Her helmet crackled to life. "That would be the Aura Changers cleaning excess Aura out, it happens sometimes." Ozpin said calmly.
"Ok…" White said, disbelieving that something so corny would have an actual explanation.
"Why did we do all that?" Black asked, her helmet hiding a blush of embarrassment.
Ozpin's reply was quick. "Such posing usually pumps a Ranger up, and makes it easier for Aura to be channelled from the positive emotions involved. You'll find it to be optional later on if time is constrained."
Fountainhead was not amused by the Rangers ignoring him. "Hey! Your target is here! Beowolves! Attack!" He thrust his hand out dramatically.
As the Beowolves started to advance on the Rangers, their helmets crackled back to life.
"Oh yes, I should bring you up on the semblances that I sensed in you all. Red, yours is Speed. White, you can use different Dust compounds to fire off 'spells', for lack of a better word. Black, you can create shadow clones that can take hits for you and be used as decoys. Yellow, the more damage you take, the harder you can hit back. Understood?
The Rangers had little time to digest, but they mostly understood it from their experiences in the Dark Aroma, and rushed forward to engage the Beowolves, leaving White alone.
"What do you mean, use Dust compounds? Couldn't you have provided me with some first, I mean, why would I just be carrying Dust around me?" White complained, feeling left out of the action.
"Just… just go ahead and fight the Beowolves. I remember that you four managed to hold your own without Aura for a bit." Ozpin replied, trying to be gentle, since it is her first time.
"Alright…" White said as she rushed in to join in the fight.
The fight was fierce, but with the additional power that the Aura Changers gave them, the Beowolves stood no chance, especially when Red and Black served as decoys to lure them away while both Yellow and White dealt the damage with haymakers and judo throws respectively.
Before long, the mass of Beowolves were just mangled corpses dissolving in the wind. Fountainhead was not pleased.
"What?! You dare fight us off? Well, prepare to be hosed down!" He said as he prepared his water jet attack, bombarding the Rangers, causing sparks to fly off their suits.
"Arrgh! We can't get close! What do we do?" Red yelled into her helmet comm.
"You may not be able to approach him now, but the Aura Changers have one other ability. Focus on a weapon of your choosing, the Changer will manufacture it on the spot, but it can only be used once before the weapon is bonded to you. Choose wisely." Ozpin calmly stated, unflappable as ever.
Nodding, Red focused on a weapon of her liking.
"Something cool, powerful and like a scythe! No, a gun! A gun-scythe! Yes!"
The Aura Changer heeded Red's thoughts and lines stretched out of Red's hand, forming the shape of a large scythe, before a flash of light materialises it into a solid weapon, a massive scythe with a sniper rifle built into the shaft of the weapon.
"WEAPON: HIGH VELOCITY SNIPER SCYTHE CRESCENT ROSE" Beeped the Aura Changer.
"Cool…" Red said to herself as she admired the weapon for a brief moment, before collapsing it into sniper mode. "Even cooler…" Holding Crescent Rose up, she fired upon Fountainhead.
"Oww! That hurts!" He complained, waving his arms wildly again.
White started to think about her own weapon.
"I've trained with rapiers, so that should work, and some means to channel Dust as well, since I don't really know how."
White's Aura Changer read her thoughts, and lines stretched out, forming a slim shaft in her hand before materialising into a weapon, an elegant rapier with ornate carvings in it, along with a revolver chamber preloaded with Dust above the handle of the weapon.
"WEAPON: MULTI ACTION DUST RAPIER MYRTENASTER" Beeped the Aura Changer.
"Impressive, construction is solid…" White gave the rapier a once over, before swinging it towards Fountainhead. She spun the revolver chamber around, "hmm… water types are weak to electric types, so how about this?" She stopped on one chamber holding what she recognised as electric dust, and pulled the trigger on the rapier. Predictably, lightning shot out of the rapier, striking Fountainhead right on the face.
"Arrgh! Anywhere but the face!" Fountainhead loudly complained.
It was Black's turn.
"A flexible weapon, light and versatile."
Lines of light stretched out of Black's hand, forming a long flat shape before materialising into a weapon, a rectangular sword. That is, until Black noticed an extra handle on the blade, and pulled on it, revealing the rectangular sword to actually be a sheath holding her main weapon, a katana that could fold into a pistol with a durable ribbon attached to the handle.
"WEAPON: VARIANT BALLISTIC CHAIN SCYTHE GAMBOL SHROUD"
Black looked over her weapon. "Interesting…" She then collapsed Gambol Shroud into its pistol form, noticing that it still had the blade showing, tested it out by throwing it out, holding onto the ribbon like a chain, swinging it back and forth, striking Fountainhead multiple times.
"Owww… Owww! What did I do to you guys!?"
Finally, Yellow thought about her own weapon.
"I wanna punch things hard, Plain and simple!"
Lines stretched out and covered Yellow's hands, before materialising into two yellow gauntlets, with what appeared to be shotgun shells in the wrist area, loading into the gauntlets themselves.
"WEAPON: DUAL RANGED SHOT GAUNTLETS EMBER CELICA"
Yellow admired her new weapon. "Ooh baby, absolutely wonderful!" Suddenly, she leapt out towards Fountainhead, who was still recoiling from the previous three attacks, and punched him in the gut really, really, really hard.
"Woaaah!" Fountainhead went flying across the plaza. "Ok! Now I'm MAD!" He proceeded to continue firing a barrage of water jets at Aura Black, only for it to explode in a mass of clouds.
"Arrgh! Can't see anything!" Fountainhead shot water jets randomly everywhere, trying to disperse the clouds.
As the clouds dissipated, Fountainhead looked everywhere, trying to find the Rangers. What he saw shocked him deeply.
There was now a massive ice formation in front of him, with Aura Red standing on top of it.
Red glanced back behind the formation. "Yellow, ready?"
Yellow nodded back. "Ready!" She then punched the formation, shattering it and sending pieces flying towards Fountainhead.
"Oh no!" He panicked, trying to shoot down as many shards as possible, until he saw Red riding on one such shard, with Crescent Rose unfolded and its sharp edge facing him.
"Take this!" Red yelled as she rode the shard, swinging Crescent Rose across Fountainhead's body, finishing him off.
"Nooooo! Forgive me, Black Queen!" Fountainhead yelled dramatically as he fell down and exploded, leaving behind a perfectly intact fountain.
The Rangers gathered together and said in unison: "Grimm, hunted!"
Back at the command centre, the Rangers were celebrating their first win.
Yang was ecstatic. "Yeah sis! That idea to surf on the ice to get that guy was a perfect mixture of ridiculousness and awesomeness!"
Weiss was a bit more reserved in her judgement. "I agree, it was a good idea, but something more practical may have been better."
Yang seemed unamused. "Come on ice queen, we're fighting weird monsters in colourful spandex! Ridiculous and awesome should be our bread and butter!"
Weiss was indignant. "Ice… ice queen!? What kind of nickname is that?!"
Yang gave a huge grin. "One that suits you perfectly! Oh yeah! I heard something else from you in the fight. What was it? "water types are weak to electric types"? I didn't peg you as a Pokémon fan!"
Weiss was starting to get red in her cheeks. "Hey… hey! I just heard others talk about it! That's it!" She started to stomp towards Yang, wanting to give her a piece of her own mind.
"Heh! Try to catch me!" Yang taunted as she broke into a run, while Ruby giggled at this show of immaturity.
Blake looked on this scene, with a small smile on her face. Facing Ozpin, she said: "Not exactly what I would expect for the defenders of mankind."
Ozpin looked back at her. "Let them have their fun," But then, his look changed, he looked sorrowful for something. "It may not last very long." With those words, he walked away to the exit elevator.
Blake could only guess at what was going on in his mind, but she understood what he meant clearly.
In the still vacant plaza where the Rangers fought Fountainhead, a single figure walked up to the fountain that used to be Fountainhead. She was dressed in a short red dress, but her most prominent feature was the concealing helmet that she wore, completely black with an image of a Queen chess piece printed on the visor. Ruminating on the previous events in the plaza, she spoke to herself in a deeply synthesised voice.
"Activate subdimension channel."
From her point of view, the world shattered, splitting apart to reveal a black swirling mass of space, where the black figure with an ivory white face and hair stood before her. The figure started to speak.
"Greetings, Black Queen. Do you bring me good news?"
"A good day to you, Master Salem, but I don't have very good news. It looks like the headmaster has found a band of misfits to fight for him. This may take longer than expected then. No matter, I know just what to do."
Salem's face twitched at the mention of the headmaster, but she remained calm. "If that's the case, then we'll need extra firepower against them. I'm allowing you to send out Goliath class Grimm if you can muster up the negative energy to do so.
The Black Queen smiled behind her helmet. "Thank you for the assistance, Master," she cut the connection and the world reassembled before her eyes.
She looked at Beacon Academy standing proudly in the distance, and smiled to herself.
Four youths, bound by fate have now taken up the fight against the returning threat of the Creatures of Grimm. However, this is just the start of a long path to defeat the Grimm for good.
Aura Rangers Hunt 1… ends here!
