Book;1 Remnant: chapter 1;arrival
Falling. That was the first thing that came to Cole. He was falling in a sea of darkness with no sign of stopping." Is this it?"He thought." Is this how it ends? Forever falling
into nothing?" After what felt like an eternity Cole finally saw something in the never ending darkness. "What is that light? What will happen to me when I reach it?"
Cole thought as the strange light enveloped him
He awoke laying on soft, warm grass. A cool breeze passing over him. As he sat up he looked around and saw a forest all around him. Yet what truly unnerved him was the strange feeling he got. As if he didn't belong he didn't belong. "This place feels...different. Almost like the Fade, but less dark." thought the strange boy. After a few minutes he decided to explore the strange forest.
As he walked Cole tried to remember what happened. "Lets see." He thought out loud. "I was fighting Corypheus alongside my comrades, the inquisitor was about to destroy the red orb and then..."He stopped walking as he remembered the rest. "Then Corygheus attempted to hit the inquisitor with a spell and I intercepted it."
As he remembered that last part he asked himself a strange question. "So why is it I'm not dead?" Before he could think anymore on it he heard a strange sound he never heard be for. Like a small cannon. "What was that?" He asked himself. Then he felt something off in the direction the noise came from. He felt the presents of two people(girls if he wasn't mistaken)and something else. Strange creatures unlike anything he felt before. 'I think there in trouble.' he thought. 'I should go try and help'.
he decided as he ran to the sound of fighting.
Ruby wasn't having a very good time right now. She finally got into her dream school(two years early no less)and she was looking forward to making new friends.
Unfortunately it wasn't go as she hoped. She was in the middle of initiation where she had to retrieve a relic from a temple and bring it back to her head master
She hoped two find her older sister Yang and partner up with her. Instead she got stuck with Weiss Schnee. An heiress with a seriously bad attitude.
There first meeting blew up in there faces(literally).And then they got stuck as partners. Now they where surrounded by beowolves and they still couldn't work
together.
"Watch where your going you dunce!" Weiss complained as Ruby stepped in between Weiss and a Beowulf they both targeted.
"Sorry." Was all Ruby could say before she narrowly dodged an attack made by said Beowulf. As the Grimm charged Ruby began to use her semblence to cut down five Beowolves in a single swoop. Meanwhile Weiss managed to take down three more by using her glyphs to move rapidly from one Grimm to the next. As they fought however they soon realized that there was too many of them to handle. "I think we should retreat!" Ruby shouted as she switched her weapon Crescent Rose in to gun mode in order to thin there numbers.
"Yeah" Weiss said landing near her. "I think that's a good ide-look out!" Weiss shouted as a large Beowulf came up behind Ruby. Ruby wasn't able to block in time, but managed to use her aura to weaken the impact. "Ruby!" Weiss cried out trying to run toward her only to be intercepted by five more Beowolves. The large Beowulf slowly made it's way to Ruby could who could do nothing to protect herself.
'Is this it?' she thought to herself. 'Is this how my journey ends?' She looked over to Weiss trying desperately
to get past the Beowolves blocking her way to no avail. 'Please.' Ruby thought as the Beowulf lifted it's claw to finish her off. 'Someone...please...help Weiss. 'The large
Beowulf brought down it's large claw just as Weiss let out a desperate scream.
"RUBY!" At that moment the large Beowulf stop just mere inches from Ruby .In a single heartbeat the giant Beowulf began to fall apart as if it was cut to pieces. Ruby, Weiss, even the Beowolves all stopped dead at the site before them. For stood before them was a strange looking boy with two daggers in each hand standing there over the fallen Beowulf. The stranger wore a very large hat, and had on a worn down duster coat with leather boots, and worn gloves.
"Thank goodness." The stranger spoke. "I made it just in time."
Cole was happy he made in time to save the red hooded girl from the strange werewolf looking creature. He rushed to the sound of fighting as fast as he could.
When he got there he found a young girl laying on the ground as the strange beast attempted to finish her off. Quickly he unsheathed his daggers and cut the beast
down without breaking a sweat. As he looked around at the other girl and the creatures before her he made a shocking discovery.'These creatures' he thought. 'They don't have a soul!' Cole has faced many dangers in his journeys with the inquisition. Both man and beast and demon alike, but he never met anything like these soulless monsters.
As he stared at the Beowolves they too stared at him. They knew there was something odd about the being before them. He looked human yet he didn't smell or feel human.
He was...something else.
Weiss couldn't believe what she saw just now. Ruby was almost killed, but was saved by this strange boy. She saw Ruby move fast,but this guys speed was off the charts!
She tried to remember if she saw him amongst the other students, but she couldn't recall. Before she could think anymore about it however she remembered the Grimm in front of her and prepared to face them, but when she looked at the monsters she saw something unbelievable. The Beowolves were staring at the new arrival and were...shaking? No not shaking. Trembling! The Grimm were scared. Afraid of this strange boy.
'Why?' she thought. 'Why are they afraid of him?'
Cole went to the girl in the red hood to check on her. He checked her out and realized something...off about her.
'What's this strange energy coming off her.' He thought.
He turned to look at the girl in white and felt the strange energy coming off her too. Before he could think about it he remembered the girl who was injured and turned toward her again. "Are you hurt?" He asked witch made her jump a little. She shook her head back in forth. "That's good." He said as he dug out a healing potion." Here drink this. It will help you feel better. " He said as he gave the bottle to her. Before Ruby could ask what it was Cole stood and turned to the dark beasts witch made them flinch a little.
"I know your scared. "He told them as he began to walk towards them. "I can feel your fear." He then drew his daggers. "I'm giving you one chance. Leave now and live or stay here and die." It was then that the Grimm became angered. 'Who was this strange creature that dares to threaten them?' they thought. Without thinking the Beowolves charged straight at Cole. Then suddenly in a instant he vanished. He ran right at them in a blur and carved them up before they even felt it. Then as quickly as he vanished he appeared
again behind the five Beowolves. A second past, then two, then three, then suddenly the five Grimm fell apart into multiple pieces. Ruby and Weiss just stood there watching with jaws wide open.(Ruby drank the strange liquid and somehow felt better enough to stand).
Cole could tell they were shocked. He knew it would happen. What he didn't expect was what the girl in the redhood would say.
"That...was...AWSOME!"Cole wasn't expecting that kind of reaction. He wasn't use to it. "You were like "WHOOSH" and they were like "GWAH" and Weiss and I were like "GASP". and you where like "whatever" and Weiss did you see that?!"The girl in red asked to the girl in white now known as Weiss.
"See it? How could I have missed it?" Weiss scoffed. Though she had to admit she was still shaken from everything. After that surprising display the girl in red decided to introduce herself.
"Let me introduce myself. I'm-"she began before she was interrupted by the stranger.
"Ruby Rose. Daughter of Summer Rose and Taiyang Xiao Long. You have an older sister named Yang, but you have different mothers . You learn to fight from your uncle Qrow Branwen ,and you want to be a...huntress?" He said that last part with a bit of confusion. Ruby and Weiss just stared at the boy with puzzled looks.
"How did you-"Ruby began to ask before the boy turned to Weiss and began to talk to her.
"And your Weiss Schnee. your family sells Dust' not sure what that is' all over the world.
You have a...questionable relationship with your father and your sister is-
"Ok stop! "Weiss interrupted before to much info was told. Cole looked down a little sad.
"I'm sorry he said. "I got a little carried away.
"It's...ok, but how did you know all that?" Weiss asked him feeling uneasy about the strange boy.
"Oh it's...um" Cole thought for a moment. 'I'm not quiet sure, but I think I'm in a different world somehow'. Cole thought. He remembered his friends in the inquisition telling him that there are some secrets that shouldn't be told.(Of course when they said that they meant Cole shouldn't go around tell people "there" personal secrets, but he thought the same applied here as well.)
Then he saw something in the girls mind. About a power they called-"Sembelence."Cole proclaimed.
"Uh,what?" Ruby asked.
"That's my sembelence. I can "feel" what's in a persons
heart and learn there past. I see what hurts them and make the hurt go away. "Cole didn't feel quite right lying about his power,but he thought he should wait before
telling them the full truth. Besides he didn't really lie to them about his abilities.
"That sounds AWSOME!"Ruby screamed excitedly.
'More like creepy. 'Weiss thought to herself.
"Yes people have told me it's a little creepy." Cole said freaking Weiss out even more.
"So, whats your name?"Ruby asked.
"Cole."He answered.
"Cole? That's an odd name? "Weiss stated obviously.
"Yes I've been told that to. "Cole said laughing a little as he said that.
"So Cole,I don't remeber seeing you you a late commer?"Ruby asked curiously.
"Late commer? Late for what?" He asked.
"aren't you here to enroll in Beacon? "Weiss asked.
"Beacon? What's that?" Cole asked innocently. Ruby and Weiss looked at each
other then back to Cole.
"If your not here to join Beacon then what are you doing here?"Ruby asked hoping Cole wasn't an intruder.
"I-I don't know. "He said." My firends and I we were fight a dangerous person. He tried to hit my friend with some strange attack. I took the hit for him then I found myself...falling. "Cole said.
"Falling?" Weiss asked.
"Yes falling. Falling into darkness. So thick and black. I thought I would fall forever. Then I saw a light. And then I woke up here in this strange place." Ruby and Weiss
were a little skeptical about all this, but then they wore asked-"What are you two doing in a dangerous place like this anyway."Then they remembered.
"OH DUST!" They both screamed surprising Cole. "We forgot! Were suppose to find these ruins with relics and take them back to the headmaster!" Ruby explained. Cole felt sorry for making them forget something important like that.
"I'm sorry for making you forgot your mission." Then Cole had an idea. "Maybe I can help you find the relics. And in exchange you
can help me learn about were I am." Ruby and Weiss looked at each other and nodded.
"That sounds like a good idea."Ruby said.
"Then lets be off." Cole proclaim. As the trio went in search of the ruins little did they know that Coles arrival would set up a bizarre chain of events.
Second chapter. Didn't take long did it? That's because I pretty much got the whole story down and ready. I don't know when the next chapter will be up, but look for it very soon.