Chapter 1


The End of the World


The burning of flesh filled the sun was blocked out by pure darkness and the only source of light was the shattered moon. The walls were breached, the grimm had stormed the city and destroyed everything in their path. On a cliff near the city, a lone figure watched in glee as the grimm devoured the last of humanity. Another woman, clad in a Red cloak, approached the figure with a scythe in one hand and a sword in the other. "Was this what you wanted Salem, everything in the world is dead, the cities are all burning, and it is just you and me," The cloaked figure expressed while eyeing Salem for any traps or weapons that she may have hidden to attempt to stop her.

"Not quite, I always envisioned that it would only be me standing here at the end," Salem turned to face the woman, "After all Miss Rose, I didn't expect you to survive all that I sent after you. You have been a major hindrance in my side from the day Ozpin found you in that dust shop." She flicked her hand and a portal opened which a sword slowly floated out. The sword, a blade almost like it had been ripped out of a elder grims spine and sharpened and enthralled in darkness, flowed into her hand. "However Miss Rose, that ends now." With that Salem started to rush forward.

"What you haven't realized Salem is that you lost this before it even began." Ruby stated with anger before activating her semblance at full power. To the outside world Ruby just seemed to disappear with a single gunshot and then appeared behind Salem a split second later. To Ruby however, she had stopped time and moved towards Salem and fired her gun behind her to increase her speed while dashing towards Salem. She sliced down with her scythe and tore straight through her arm before twisting around and bringing the sword around and stabbing it through her spine at the base of her neck. She than jumped back and let her semblance stop. Salem let out a gasp before falling to the floor while staring at Ruby, before grinning and started to pull out the sword in her neck and throwing it in the ground in front of her.

"Thank you Ruby, you are about to make me do something I never thought I would do again since the Moon was whole. I will give you the treat of seeing my semblance in action, this is the end. Goodbye." Salem started to glow and started to heat up as she pulled in all the energy of the grimm from the town and starting to form an orb in her hand that slowly started to grow in size. Ruby's eyes widened in shock of Salem not being dead and quickly grabbed the sword and stealthed it before starting to run. by using her semblance to stop time, Ruby could only use the bare minimum of her semblance to increase her speed but decided now would be a good time to see how much she could push it to escape whatever Salem was doing. "Too slow little Red." Salem declared as the orb sucked into itself before erupting out raw power with the center of the blast being shielded from harm. Ruby made a desperate attempt to activate her maximum output of her semblance again and was blinded by a flash of light.


When the flash ended, Ruby was no longer on the cliffside. As her eyes adjusted to the new source of light, she realized that something was wrong when she heard the chirping of birds and other animals. She glanced around and saw trees all around where ever she was, the clear blue sky was filled with rays of sun. She remembered the last time she saw the sun 3 years ago and wondered what had happened. Her power was coming back at a rate that was different now that the world was full of light that her aura could absorb. As she glanced around, she heard fighting off to her left side and she quickly drew her sword while leaving her scythe on her back and started to run the the sounds. As she entered a clearing she stopped in pure shock. Ahead of her was her team and team JNPR back during the initiation. The only difference was instead of her in a red cloak, the person that looked identical to her was dressed in a gray cloak. She watched as the teams fought against the Nevermore and the Deathstalker and how each team took them out. Ruby snapped out of her shock and realized what she had to do. She started to walk to Beacon so that she could speak with professor Ozpin.

However, when she was halfway to Beacon, she ran into a pack of beowolves. She sighed before placing her sword in its sheath and reached onto her back and pulled out her scythe and deployed it into its full form. A single gunshot rang out through the forest and in the blink of an eye, the pack of grimm were decimated and she continued on her way as the wolves dissolved into rose petals. She wasn't in a good mood and she quickly glanced around to see if there were anymore grimm in the area before continuing on her way. Ruby need to figure out what was happening and fast.


A few hours later


Ruby had arrived at Beacon Academy. The last time that she was here was when it had fallen and the world still had a chance at fighting the grimm. She quickly glanced around and saw no one was around so she activated her semblance and ran up the side of the main tower and landed on the balcony to Ozpin's office. She pushed open the door and realized that everyone was probably at the team assigning event. She walked over to where a cup of coffee was sitting and grabbed it and sat in Ozpin's chair and took a sip of it. The rich warm liquid slid down her throat and she grinned lightly, so this is what Ozpin felt like. As she glanced around Ozpin's desk, the elevator dinged and opened and out stepped Ozpin. "Hello Ozpin," Ruby stated with a sad smile. Ozpin looked at her with shook and dropped his mug and it crashed on the floor.

"S-Summer?" Ozpin questioned with a look of hope in his eyes. She gave him another sad look and shaked her head.

"I am sorry Ozpin, but I am not my mother. I am Ruby Rose and I think i just traveled through time." She stated with a look of honesty. Ozpin started to regain his composure. He walked over and sat in a chair.

"Well Miss Rose, this is certainly a shook. May I ask why you look like hell on Earth?" Ozpin asked curiously as to the reason her clothes were torn up and she was pale as paper. Ruby started to explain what had happened over the time since the fall of Beacon to her fight with Salem. "So she is starting to play her hand." Ozpin sighed as he got up and walked over to the coffee pot and grabbed a new mug and filled it with coffee. "So what are your plans Miss Rose?" Ozpin asked out of curiosity. He heard a gasp and he turned to see her looking at his scroll and at the younger version of herself. Well, kind of herself. Almost everything from how she got in to Beacon to the weapon she used to who trained her, but what had surprised her was the listed parents.

"Is this accurate, or is this some type of sick joke?" She asked as she snapped back to her normal self as she pointed at one of the things listed on the scroll. He walked over and glanced at what she was pointing out.

"Yes Miss Rose, or is that wrong?" he asked out of confusion. The data was correct as far as he remembered and had no clue why she was making a big deal out of it.

"I wish to add to my previous statement about traveling back in time to saying I crossed into a parallel dimension." Ruby muttered as she read it over one more time.
Ruby Rose, Age: 15, Reddish black hair, silver eyes. Parents: Mother: Summer Rose (deceased). Father: Qrow Branwen.


Well hope you all enjoy, I plan to see how well it is received before I determine if I am going to continue the story. Any feed back is good and appreciated. I got this idea from browsing through RWBY fanart. Again, hope you all enjoyed. ~Tuxedo Mask Reborn out~