This is my first story. I am bendable if I get characters out if their character, so review away. Without further introductions, lets start. RWBY is owned by RoosterTeeth.
?'s POV
I awake to the sound of someone trying to wake me. I have a headache for reasons unknown to me. Ignoring the pain I slowly rise to try to see what I'm in or where I'm at. I immediately recognize that I'm in a forest, but the location is unknown to me. Along my field of view, a temple and a group of people could be seen. The girl calling out to me was dressed in a red and black style clothing with a red hood.
"...re you alright?" she ask.
"Where am I?" I ask looking around
The girl next to me says, "You don't know about the Emerald Forest? Where are you from?" Her voice reminds me of someone.
I see a giant scorpion come out of a tree line next to the ruins, someone was running from it. The red one said something and went to attack the scorpion but it didn't work. On her way back, she gets pinned by what it looks like a giant feather. As the scorpion when in for the attack, I see a white blur. Then the ice came from somewhere saving the red one. I hear something between the red and white one.
As this is going on I look in my pockets for anything to identify myself. But there was nothing but an electronic device and I see a mark on my right hand.
The girl sees the device and the mark. She asks, "How did you get that scar, and what are you look-"
A girl who is dressed in solid white walks up in a state that I think she is a bit mad, interrupting the red hooded girl.
"Do you have any idea the damage you could have caused?"
I sit back scratching my head about to reply. The girl in the red pulled the girl in white aside to talk to her. I hear words like "amnesia" and "crazy". I could guess which came from where. A girl in black came around and told the two to calm down. The white one huffed but the red one looked at a giant bird flying around.
All I heard was "Time we leave" and the red one said something but I didn't catch it. I look around and I see eight people in total. I recognize the ones who talked but none of the others.
Someone asked the one in red "What about him?" looking at me.
"We'll take him to Ozpin." she says. I start to think, 'Where have heard that name before?' I guess I will find out soon enough.
They grabbed something of some pedestals and asked me to come along. I did and seen the bird as soon as we reached the cliff. A giant scorpion came out of the tree line and heard someone shout "Nora, distract it" indicating to the bird. The bird fired its feathers at us and I redirected one and using the momentum of the feather killed the scorpion coming out of the treeline. The group just looked at me, but then I started to feel weak. I felt myself being pulled into darkness.
When I woke up, I see the bird being pulled up the cliff face and seen the red one doing so.
Ruby's POV
*1 minute before finding unknown person*
As everyone was gathering around the ruins for the relics. There was a flash and then part of the ground and trees suddenly caught fire. But as soon as the fire had appeared, it just vanished. I asked Weiss what was going on but she said that it wasn't caused by Dust. I went to where the fire happened and saw a crater. Curiosity took over and looked in the crater. The crater wasn't all that deep, maybe a foot deep. But in the center was someone not something. Which wasn't all that strange, usually the cases with craters and fire is people using their semblance or Dust. But this guy didn't even have an aura. He had shoulder blade-length obsidian black hair, which is strange because I haven't seen any boy with that long of hair. Ren's was long but not that long. I keep asking is he alright as he wakes up, but the only thing he ask is where he was. 'What does he mean where he is at?' I tell him that he is in the Emerald Forest. Again, confusion is on his face.
I see a girl come out of the treeline with a Deathstalker on her. She lands close to us. I go and attack the Deathstalker but Cresent Rose bounces off, I start to run but I get pinned by a Nevermore's feather holding me here by my cloak. I close my eyes and as soon as I open them I see Weiss has froze the stinger of the Deathstalker. She goes on her rant and we go to the mysterious guy.
He starts to look through his pockets and pulls something out of his pocket and then stops. He pauses, looking at his hand. Looking on his hand and I notice it too. A type of rune, maybe Oobleck can tell us where it came from. I start to ask what he was doing and what he is looking for but Weiss interrupts, and being the way she is, she goes off on him. I pull her back, and say "Calm down, ok? Maybe he has amnesia or is he really not that aware." Weiss retorts, "I say he is just crazy. No telling what damage he could have caused with that trick he pulled." Blake comes over and stops our little argument. We hear the Nevermore overhead and Ren says it's time we leave. We grabbed our objective and headed to the cliff. When we did reach the cliff face, the Deathstalker came out of the tree line and the Nevermore landed in front of us. Ren told Nora to distract it, as it shot its feathers at us, the mysterious guy somehow REDIRECTED one of its feathers and killed the Deathstalker with it. When we saw it, everyone's jaw dropped but soon noticed he fainted from something most likely from exhaustion.
We still had the Nevermore to deal with. I got Weiss, Blake, and Yang to form a plan. Weiss froze the Nevermore to the bottom of the cliff while Blake and Yang set up a slingshot using Gambol Shroud and Weiss was back as they finished up. I hopped on Crescent Rose and landed on the makeshift slingshot. Weiss held me in place with one of her glyphs. Going from black to hold me in place, to red when I shot myself at it. When I landed on the cliff face, Weiss used her glyphs and I drug the Nevermore up the cliff face while firing Crescent Rose and decapitated the Nevermore.
Once we got everyone on top of the cliff, we took the guy we found in the forest to Ozpin.
?'s POV
As soon as we got to the top of the cliff, with newfound energy, the red hooded girl took me to someone that had grey hair, dressed in green and grey, and had opaque glasses. He asks me the same questions that the girls did. "Who are you?" "Why were you in the Emerald Forest?" and a new one I haven't heard, "What's your name?"
I told him what I told the girls that found me and as for the name, I had no idea. All my memories were blocked behind a thick fog. Looking at the rune on the back of my hand. "Call me Rune for right now." After that, there was a silence thick enough to cut with a knife for a couple minutes.
I am the first to speak after the pause. "I have no idea who I am or how I got here. It seems all my memories are behind a thick fog and they are hard to get ahold of. I only have this device on me." I pull the device out of my pocket. Ozpin looked at the device in my hand. "Maybe that," pointing to the device, "can tell you who you are and where you are from. But not now, I have to get everyone back to the school. I need you to come along too, we will talk after the ceremony.
During the walk back, I look through the device and seen music, pictures, contacts to people I don't remember, games, and videos. I tried making contact to several people on the list but the phone doesn't work. Figures, if I'm not from here why would the phone work. I saw that the red hood girl, I picked up the name Ruby, seen me mess with the device. I had some headphones on me and listened to the music, Ruby's eyes looked at me for a certain song. I looked at the song, but I couldn't find the title, but Ruby hummed along to it like she knew it. Maybe I'll ask her later what the song is.
Rune's POV After Ceremony
I sat in Ozpin's office before the ceremony, Ozpin came in first after the ceremony. After about 5 minutes, the eight people from the forest came in.
After everyone sat down Ozpin started asking questions. "We looked through the device that you had, nothing was strange but some things. Some of the songs had team RWBY on it before their team was formed." Both teams looked at me, questions forming on their faces. But Ozpin continued, "But it may be mere chance. Whether or not it is chance, it tells us that you are not of this world. As for who you are, this device had no indication." He looks at his own device and continues, "Your strength is something of this world with aura. But you have no experience of this strength. Looking at this video, you redirected a Nevermore feather and killed a Deathstalker. But soon after, you fainted. But upon closer inspection, you didn't use aura or a semblance." Both teams looked at me again, they couldn't understand someone redirect a Nevermore feather without aura or semblance, let alone surviving one. Ozpin looked up and continued talking, "Now to help you get those memories I was thinking on figuring out on if I should put you on a team, but it may be later. But first we need to unlock your aura, and that isn't as hard as it sounds. Out of the eight people here, Pyrrha volunteered to unlock your aura because she is the only one who has experience in this room. One thing with unlocking aura is that whoever is unlocking your aura can see certain memories. This may help remember who you are and where you are from." He pauses for a few seconds, "Do you want to continue?" I reply with a yes.
Pyrrha comes over and places her hand on my left shoulder and puts her forehead close to mine, eyes closed. She tells me to concentrate, and I follow suit. I feel a warm presence come in to what it feels like my heart. After a few seconds, memories come trickling in but most stay back. When she finished, I had a cobalt looking glow over me and she looked tired. I started to get a horrible headache as Ozpin looked at us and asked, "How did it go, I see the aura but the one thing I'm looking for is memories like who you are."
I look through the memories that have come back, I say, "I know certain stuff like the teams here, along with their names. But nothing on how I got here, it's all foggy." Weiss looks at me and says, "If you know our names then say them." I reply with a sarcastic tone, looking at the person I name, "Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, and Lie Ren. The eight of you form teams RWBY and JNPR. And you are Professor Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon Academy. Before I knew this I had a slight idea of your names from the forest. But they were your first names."
Everyone but Ozpin looks at me like they seen a ghost. Weiss ask, "Did you watch the ceremony?" Ozpin tells Weiss that I did not, I was up here in his office the entire time of the ceremony. Ozpin then asks, "How do you know this much?"
"That I have no idea, but I can say my semblance gives me stealth and strength, but not at the same time. Both of which I haven't been able to test it yet, but the strength would be about half of Yang's, maybe as strong. But I do not have her semblance of dealing as much damage that is given. As for the stealth, I would have no idea. I don't know of anyone right now to compare to. But I think this is my semblance, I would have to train to find out what it is." I tell them in a flat like tone.
NOW everyone looks at me like they seen a ghost. Ozpin ask, "Is there anything else? A memory telling you what your name is, how you know this, or how you got here." I look through the memories and I see fog. "All I see is fog. As for the name, I have the first letter of my middle name." Ozpin looks at me, eyebrow raised, then says "What is it? I know you are not part of the color name process after the war, due to reasons." I tell him, "It starts with a K, but past that I have no idea. I do remember that it was a common word but spelled differently. Like Ruby and Yang's uncle, Qrow." Both Ruby and Yang look at me mentioning their uncle. Pyrrha start to speak with questions on her mind, "I wouldn't know about the middle name, but I only saw two memories. One was that he knew our names, although I don't see how. The other was how he was taught to fight and 3 styles of combat." Ozpin asks looking at me, "And what styles are those?" I reply, "It would be in guns, greatsword, and unarmed. The unarmed would be something like what Ren would know, and the guns were in marksman." Everyone looked shocked at the answer, not only was he strong but knew those styles they thought. I continued, "The way I was taught to fight to survive was that I was thrown out to the wolves. It was kill or be killed." Sensing it going darker and everyone's reaction looking scared except Ozpin's, I lightened it up a bit. "Of course if I was about to get hurt beyond anything not to learn or close to death, my teachers would come to help me. But that is as far as I remember." Their expressions looking softer after that. Ozpin looks at me and both of the teams to see that we are tired. He says, "Why don't you stay in one of the empty dorms for the night and we will settle thing more tomorrow?" indicating towards me. I say sure and we head for the dorms bring both teams with me.
Ozpin has thoughts running through his head. Who was this Rune? What effect did he cause through the school? Was he a threat? Only time would tell when he came back in to his office tomorrow and that this was a start to an interesting year.
We get to our dorms and say our goodnights. Like all of the other dorms, my room had 4 beds, a desk, a single dresser (I think they moved the others somewhere as Ozpin told me my room housed the spares), a couple of nightstands, and a bathroom. The device I came with when I found myself in the forest was sitting on one of the nightstands. I clean up and climb into a bed, thoughts running through my mind as I try to drift into sleep. 'How did I get here?' 'Why was I here?' 'What was my name and why do I know only my first initial of my middle name?' I look at the device that came with me and started to look through it. Some pictures I look through have no meaning others have some, what meaning those few have I have no idea. Most songs were of the rock genre while others came from stuff like T.V. shows to games. The shows and games I could not find anywhere here. The games varied though. Four were RPG and two were rhythm. Why were there rhythm games on here, did I like music that much?
That question flashed a memory in front of me. I was playing a guitar to some rock song. I can't even think of the name of that song. The drum was doing a two beat ,I think for I have no knowledge on a drum set. If I get my hands on a guitar, then I would see what that song is without having to go through the hundreds of songs that is on the device next to me.
That memory may come in handy later on but not now. I need to figure out why and how I got here first. And for some reason, I had weapon schematics thought up. A claymore that turned into a marksman rifle. The sword could still use the gun aspect but not effectively, as the magazine was in part of the cross-guard. I couldn't figure out how it would work. I am going to ask tomorrow to see where the forge is and make it. Who knows? Might come in handy for later for something. If I am going to try to figure out how I got here, I might want to play the part. With all these rampant thoughts put away, I finally fall asleep.
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