Prologue: Strange Crystal and Newfound Power!
EX: Hello people, now I know I haven't updated this story in an awful long while, but there are a lot of reasons for that. One, I have a job and Two I have Writer's Block a lot. Now this prologue has been rewritten, because a lot of what I wrote didn't make sense before. Hopefully this will cover up those confused parts. I also decided to change how their crystals or should I say symbols/eyes work, as well as a full OC outfit change, well moreso the colors of their clothing. Their hair and their facial features will stay the same. Yeah I know I have NEVER shown what they look like, but I have drawings that I made, for how they look. Soon I will try to get up a cover for the fanfic as a whole. Like the colors of Miya's clothing used to be a white button-up shirt, but I decided to make it black, for reasons... not anything bad or perverted, but just I thought it would fit her better, that's all. Anyways enjoy this Remastered Prologue.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY, all rights go to their original owners. I do however own my OCs.
'Thus kindly I scatter...'
It was a great summer day on the island of Patch off from the coast of Vale, where our hero and heroine were born. Summer Rose was delighted to see her two children.
"What should we name them, hon?" Her husband Taiyang asked, as Summer held them both in her arms. It took a couple minutes for Summer to name the twins. They both had the same color of hair she had. Black hair with shades of red.
"I know, I will call her Ruby, and I will call him Zaron." She announced, as the twins both began to giggle and laugh a bit.
"I believe they like the names you gave to them." Taiyang told her, with a smile on his face.
About two weeks after they were born, they were brought home. Zaron in Taiyang's arms, and Ruby in Summer's.
"See, this is your new home." Taiyang said to both of them, with Yang their older sister behind them.
-Time Skip, 4 years later, Zaron's POV-
Me and Ruby my twin sister, were playing tag in the yard near our home in Patch.
"I'm going to get you Ruby!" I called out, while chasing her. She looked back at me with a smirk.
"You can try, bro!" She said as I ran a bit faster to catch up with her.
We both laughed, as we played, when Yang came home with Dad. They were carrying bags of food into the house. After a couple of minutes, Yang walked out of the house.
"Alright Dad!" Yang replied, before looking for us.
"Hey big sis, want to play tag with us?" I asked, stopping to look at her.
"How about instead we have a race? Come on, it will be fun." Yang asked, tempting me and Ruby.
"Okay, you in sis?" I asked looking over towards Ruby.
"Okay!" Ruby answered. We both followed Yang, but I realized that something changed, as we went further into the forest around our home. Something felt evil
"Something doesn't feel right here…" I noted.
"Seriously bro? You worry too much. Everything's fine!" Yang replied, to cheer me up.
Her words lasted for a couple seconds in my head, making me think everything was okay, when we all stopped in front of a large cave that was boarded up, and said 'KEEP OUT' clearly on a sign near the entrance.
"Huh, this wasn't here before. Maybe you are right little bro." Yang said, finally listening to my words before.
I looked over to Ruby, and saw there were tears welling up in her eyes. I quickly rushed over to her.
"Hey hey hey, everything will be okay Ruby. How about you hold my hand?" I asked, trying to comfort her.
She took my hand, and the tears faded away. Yang realized that the sun was starting to go down.
"Alright you two, it's time to go home. Don't want to worry mom and dad." Yang said, pushing us away from the cave.
That's when I felt something bizarre happen to me. That cave seemed to be calling me…
Not with a voice, but a strange metallic hum. I looked back, seeing something glow in the darkness of that cave.
We got back home safe, as I was thinking about the cave while eating dinner, still trying to figure out what I saw in that cave. When I heard that metallic hum, I also strangely felt safe… unlike the grimm that roam around. Usually beowolves and ursai. They don't dwell too close to our home though.
"Zaron, what's wrong?" My mom asked.
I got out of my thoughts, looking at mom, as well as dad, and my two sisters. They stared at me worried.
"I-It's nothing. Just thinking about things." I answered, before beginning to eat.
After dinner, I went straight to bed, still thinking of the glow I saw.
-Time Skip, 2 years later, Zaron's POV-
"Wow…." Ruby and me both said in awe, seeing Signal Academy. It was fairly close to where we lived, but seeing it up this close is something to behold.
Our mom took us into town, to see Signal, and I have to say it was worth it.
"Isn't it amazing, kids?" Summer asked.
"Yeah! I want to go there when I get older, so I can become a huntress like you mom." Ruby replied, with enthusiasm.
"And what about you Zaron? Do you feel the same way as your sister?"
I took a moment to see the academy one more time, before we went back home.
"Yes, I want to be one of the most skilled huntsman ever." I said, revealing my goal for the future.
Summer kneeled down, and hugged the life out of us.
"Oh my little babies! You are growing up so fast! I will be so proud of you two, once that happens. Who knows? Maybe you might go to Beacon Academy when you get older." Summer said, letting go.
"Come on you two, let's go home." She both grabbed our hands and we walked home together. When we got home, we ate some of our mom's homemade cookies.
After that, I went to bed, after a couple hours. Turning the light off on this night, made me feel strange, but I quickly shrugged it off and went to sleep.
Zaron's Dream…
A portal appeared in front of me as I saw the cave that I saw before but it was open with no fences. I walked into the cave, seeing a bright blue light in the darkness.
That light was coming from a weird structure, and in the middle was a crystal floating. A light blue crystal. I walked over to the strange structure or pillar, and saw something etched into the stone.
'A long time ago, this crystal was once part of the Ethereal Sigil, a artifact of extreme power that only select few were able to use. Due to part of the Sigil being corrupted by darkness, it was split into two crystals by the first seasonal maidens themselves. This is the result of the Light energy, of the Ethereal Sigil.' It said, when I looked over at the crystal again.
I slowly reached for it, when strangely it went through my chest into my body. For a second, nothing happened, until a minute later, when my body started to float, glowing like a christmas tree.
All sorts of images popped in my head, but I couldn't understand any of them since they were too fast to follow. I landed on the ground, with my fist against the floor. It caused the earth to turn into a crater.
The thing that hit me at that moment, is that I felt lighter, like as light as a feather. Some grimm appeared, and I slowly breathed out when my eyes glowed blue instead of silver.
Zaron's POV
I woke up somewhere unfamiliar, seeing a dark rocky ceiling, and around me, I saw several piles of ash. I started to panic, since it looked like I was lost.
"Mom! Anyone!? Hello!?" I didn't hear anyone coming to my aid. A tear came down from my eye, when suddenly a symbol on my neck, responded lighting up the darkness around me, making me less afraid and also making me know that I am not alone.
I started to look around, seeing the same structures from in my dream. The pillar, the pedestal, all of those things weren't lit up anymore. Another thing that confused me, is the writing on the pillar is gone. Like it didn't exist at all.
'If all of this stuff is gone, even the crystal, then where did it go? And where did that writing go? Was all of this real?' So many questions I had, but didn't have the answers to them sadly.
Back at Home, Ruby's POV
It was finally morning! I stretched my arms up, getting out of bed. I decided to go say good morning to my brother and Yang as well. I knocked on his door first.
"Zaron? You there?" I asked, not getting an answer, before Yang went out of her room.
"Hey Rubes, what's going on?" Yang said still drowsily waking up.
"I don't know." I replied, before walking into Zaron's room, seeing a shape under the blankets.
"Alright, Zaron, come on, it's morning now." I said to him, before taking the sheets off the bed seeing that's he gone.
"H-He's gone…" I said sadly, before I began to cry, as Yang hugged me.
"It's okay, Rubes. I'm sure he's fine." Yang said to calm me down.
That's when Mom and Dad looked to see what all the crying was about, and she decided to handle it, making Yang stand nearby.
"My sweet little Ruby what's wrong?" Summer asked.
"Zaron's gone." I answered, in between sobs.
Mom was surprised, seeing the same thing, he wasn't in bed, but turned towards Dad, and he nodded, knowing full well what that look meant.
Summer's POV
Putting on my cloak, and hood, with my longsword equipped. I waved goodbye to Tai, and Yang. As me and Ruby went off to find Zaron.
"Stay behind Mommy, if things get too dangerous, okay Ruby?" I asked her, and she nodded, grasping my cloak for safety.
"Now can you think of anywhere where your brother could have gone?" Ruby tried to think, remembering that cave from before.
"I think he might have went to that cave, that was all closed up nearby." Ruby said, making me check there first.
Walking up to it, it looked like a forced entry. Suddenly I heard footsteps from inside the cave, making me bring out my sword.
"Ruby, stay behind me." I told her, and the figure walked slowly out of the cave, revealing itself to be Zaron. But I noticed something about him was different. His eyes were blue, then went back to their silver color, and that symbol on his neck.
"Could it be?" I muttered, still staring at the symbol on his neck.
Zaron's POV
I ran towards mom, and she picked me up, hugging me close to her chest.
"Mommy! I was scared." Zaron said in between sobs.
"Don't worry Zaron. Everything will be alright now. Now let's go back home." Summer said, as the tears from my eyes stopped, a small smile came across my face.
During the night, Zaron's POV
I couldn't sleep for some reason, maybe it was because of what happened today, or maybe something else entirely. I heard two voices in the living room, having a conversation.
'Most likely mom and dad, better check it out.' I thought, before opening my door slightly, and began to listen.
"I'm telling you Tai, our son has been chosen as the Light Etherium Wielder." Mom said to him, making me get interested more in what they were talking about.
'Light Etherium wielder, what does she mean?' I asked myself
"How? I thought that story was just a fairy tale." Tai said, in awe.
"Apparently it is as real as the Seasonal Maidens themselves, since I saw a symbol on his neck and our son's eyes turned blue."
"Well then, what should we do?" Tai asked.
I then heard enough, shutting my door quietly, and dove under the blankets. After a couple minutes, I fell asleep unlike the time before.
Dream, Zaron's POV
I was standing at our home, when suddenly a girl about my age with long white hair, and red eyes came towards me, wearing a black button up top, with a gray skirt.
"Wait who are you?" I asked, when she stopped, as a smile came across her face.
"My name is Miya!" She greeted with a smile.
"Mine is Zaron." I told her, when the scenery changed, making her disappear. In front of me, I saw who I assumed to be her father.
"Miya! Miya come back here!" He called, as I saw Miya cry.
"No! I want mommy back!" She said back to him.
'What? Why is she crying?' I asked myself, when the ground beneath the girl collapsed, and she was sent into a cave similar to the one I was in.
She coughed a bit, and slowly got up with bruises on her body now, as she saw a crystal hover over in front of her. It was a dark purple.
She reached for it, as memories flooded through her mind.
"Hatred...Despair...Suffering...Chaos… Revenge." She muttered, before an explosion of Dark Etherium covered the cave, until on her neck was a dark purple symbol, and when she used it, her eyes became purple.
The scene changed to Miya reluctantly going back home, seeing her home covered in flames. She slowly walked towards it. When she saw what happened, she fell on her knees, and tears streamed from her eyes.
'Things like this… GRRRR is what makes me wish I could do something!' I thought, clenching my fist and gritting my teeth. My eyes began to glow, when the area in my dream changed once again, to something that looked more sinister.
I was standing in an area filled with dead trees, red skies, and dark pools of black goo. I saw Mom wearing a white cloak, when suddenly everything around me turned to darkness. In front of me, I saw Mom, on the ground.
"Mom… MOM!" I called, before sprinting towards her there.
I put my arms around her, and she wasn't moving.
"Hey come on! Mom! Please! Why aren't you moving!?" I cried, trying to wake her up, when grimm appeared surrounding me.
End Dream, Zaron's POV
I woke up, with a scream, breathing heavily, as I shot up sitting down in bed.
"Oh thank Monty, it was just another nightmare."
Dad and my sisters, came running into my room.
"What's wrong, son?" Dad asked.
"...It's nothing… All I had was a nightmare" I said to them.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Yang asked, sitting on my bed beside me.
"I'd rather not." I replied, before noticing one thing.
"Hey Dad, where's Mom?" I asked.
"Oh she went on a mission."
"Again?" I asked, frustrated.
"Don't worry son, I assure you she will come back before nightfall." Dad said to make me feel better.
"I hope so…" I muttered low enough so they couldn't hear me. A couple of hours later, I noticed something near the front door, looking like a note with something attached to it. It said it was for me, and only me.
I looked around and didn't see my sisters nearby or my dad, as I began to read it to myself.
Dear Zaron,
I know I know, I do these missions a lot, but as a huntress I have to. It's part of protecting what is precious to me, and that is you, all of you. There's something I need to tell you Zaron, I know what happened. You can't hide it from me, that crystal you touched, it was the Light Etherium Crystal, wasn't it? The half of the artifact that the first Seasonal Maidens created themselves. I might be gone after I write this, but son, make sure to use what I put inside the drawer under this note. It will be my last gift to you. I gave the ideas to someone I trusted, and they made it. So use it well.
Sincerely Summer Rose A.K.A Mom
I opened the drawer that Mom told me to open, and I found a blue detailed electronic looking case with another note on it. It read:
This is a weapon that will serve you well, son. I call it Winter Rose, and it is a HCSSS (High Caliber-Shotgun Sniper Scythe).
I experimented a little bit with the weapon Mom got for me, specially crafted. When I saw Dad outside, staring at the sky. After a couple hours, he went into town, leaving me and my sisters at home.
Without saying anything, Yang pulled a wagon towards us, and told us to get in. Something was different with Yang's mood now. She seemed more serious, and a hint of anger? We went further into the forest near our home, passing the cave I found that crystal in. Yang was pushing through a couple thorny bushes. While she drove us, I looked over at Ruby, and saw that she was sleeping.
Regardless I decided to keep an eye on her, until I saw Yang's wounds. She had cuts and wounds opening up on her body. I was going to say something to stop her, but due to the way she was acting, I stayed silent.
A path was in front of us now leading to a worn-down house on top of a hill. We all heard growling from the inside. This was bad. A feeling of dread came across me, as my heart began to pound.
Slowly approaching, were three beowolves, as they surrounded us. I wanted to do something about this, I NEEDED to do something! Yang was too tired, going all this way for what seems like nothing and Ruby was sleeping soundly.
One of the grimm, decided to lunge at Yang, when time seemed to slow down. My eyes began to glow blue, and I rushed in front of Yang, as a blur.
Yang was in awe, now that I was holding back the beowolf, with my bare hands. I breathed out, making a sword appear in my right hand, as I stabbed the beowolf I was pushing back.
Then the other two, also decided to come my way, and attack me with their claws. My eyes flashed as soon as they came towards me, and I appeared behind them while the grimm were split in two halves, and all three of them turned to ash. The sword vanished out of my hand, as I saw someone in front of us, that seemed to look familiar, before I fell unconscious.
3rd Person POV…
Uncle Qrow sighed heavily, before picking up Zaron.
"You did great, kid." He said to the boy, still surprised by what he saw.
'So the crystal chose him, huh?' Qrow thought, before facing Yang and Ruby.
"Alright you three, we are going back home." He said, carrying Zaron on his shoulder.
Little did they know, Miya saw the boy in action watching from afar, making her smile happily.
"We will meet each other soon, Zaron. I am sure of that." She said, before running off away from them.
EX: Now I know I know, there are a lot of questions that are probably going to be asked, but let me explain the most important ones, if you have some questions that I didn't answer than PM me, I will try to get to you ASAP! But also what did you think of the remastered prologue?
Q/A: Why did you go with the crystal being absorbed into their bodies? I did that because it didn't make sense to me as a whole before, since they would have to wear the crystal at all times, so instead I chose to make it so they absorb the etherium inside their bodies.
Q/A 2: Wait! In the show, we didn't have any idea what Summer's weapon of choice was? Why did you pick a longsword? Now I understand what you mean, we STILL have no idea, unless I missed something, what her weapon is. I picked a longsword, even though a lot of people thought she wielded a scythe similar to Ruby, and Qrow. I went with an article's suggestion stating it would be a longsword. So that's my answer.
Q/A 3: Winter Rose? I thought it was Xeno Rose? Why the name change? Well let me explain, Summer named it for him, it wasn't Zaron's idea to name it Winter Rose, but since his aura is part of the absorbed crystal inside his body, I thought it would make sense. Blue paint, and blue rose, yeah, I think you get the idea.
EX: Now the remastered Chapter 1 title:
A Long Journey With Uncle Qrow
EX: Don't worry, I will keep the time skips very reasonable. Although I will write the most important parts of this journey, without time skips.
