Ruby and Sapphire
Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow, for the heart has no metrics or forms of measure. And all of it… irreplaceable.
Music: Mirror Mirror by Casey Lee Williams
As the moon gave off its radiant glow, snow fell from the sky and piled up all over the streets and roofs. It was quiet and not a soul in sight as all had returned to their homes and went to bed to prepare for the next day.
All...except one.
"Mirror, tell me something. Tell me who's the loneliest of all..."
A song was heard which echoed across the city. The melody of the song was slow and powerful but at the same time somber and it came from a large medieval castle.
Inside, the decor truly reflected the status of royalty from the vast array of portraits that lined the walls to the expensive chandeliers that hanged from the ceilings.
In a large grand hall, there was a young princess. She was the one who sang that beautiful song. She had pale skin, her hair were as white as the snowflakes and had glassy ice blue eyes. She wore a pale blue jacket over her similarly colored dress and wore high heeled boots. She had a necklace around her neck, a pair of earrings and a tiara. At the side of her waist was a rapier. It was colored silver, the hilt possessed four prolongs encasing a revolver like chamber. The chamber had six slots, each containing a vial of a different color.
She had closed her eyes as she continued to sing. This was her way of expressing how sad she was being alone. Much of her life has been filled with grief and sorrow. Many of her loved ones were gone and those that survived, she was forced to watch them undergo changes. Changes that she wanted to forget.
As she sang, a large figure stepped out of the shadows. It was a giant armor that looked like one from ancient folklore. It was gray in color and wielded a big broadsword.
Meanwhile, disaster struck at a city. Fire spread all over the buildings and vehicles and black smoke rose up to the night sky. However, there was one sign of life. At a local cemetery, a warrior was kneeling before a couple of graves.
He was a male and he donned a knight like armor. He had banana-like horns on the sides and a silver helmet over his red and silver suit. He had attachments on his shoulders and they also looked like bananas. The yellow part of the armor covered his chest resembling male muscle pectorals. The man's only weapon was a lance that was white in color with a yellow peel like handguard and a black handle. On his waist was a belt that had a knife like attachment on one side and the other, a picture of himself. Locked on in the middle of the belt was an opened padlock that showed a picture of the man's lance.
Although the fire continued to burn, the man did not respond to it at all. He was too focused on paying his respects. After a short while, he took something from the side of his belt, revealing itself to be a chess piece. This chess piece was a memento of a happier time. A time with him and those he cared about but that ended when tragedy struck and he was now alone.
As the knight was in thought, something was coming out from the fire. It was a 50 foot long serpent with sinister yellow eyes and dark green scales lining its body.
These two events occurred and along with it were static. As the two gargantuas came closer, the princess and the knight finally took action having already noticed their presence. The princess and the knight pulled out their weapons, ready to fight these creatures.
"Mirror, tell me something. Tell me who's the loneliest of all?"
The Giant Armor swung its blade. The princess jumped away on time and retaliated. She readied her rapier, dashed with an amazing speed and thrust. The Giant Armor blocked it.
The Giant Armor swung once more but when it was near, the girl disappeared, avoiding the attack. She then reappeared behind the titan and performed a series of slashes. The Giant Armor swung the broadsword and the girl blocked it on time and she was sent across the hall.
After landing safely, she looked up and saw the Giant Armor in the air. She dodged several attacks before being sent flying again. Landed, she made her fingertips to glow white. She motioned to the ground and a white circle appeared below her feet.
"Fear of what's inside of me. Tell me can a heart be turned to stone?"
Returning to the burning city, the Serpent had begun its attack by using pounce. The knight jumped out of the way in response. The Serpent slithered and resumed assault. The knight pushed the blade on his belt thrice and stabbed his lance to the ground. Then, banana shaped projections burst out of the ground, forming together like a wall which the Serpent hit on impact, stunning it.
The knight leapt and landed a hit on the Serpent. When the Serpent recovered, the knight twirled his weapon to confuse his attacker. The beast struck several times and the man in red dodged them. When it struck again, the knight dodged it and stabbed at the Serpent's eye in the process.
The Serpent roared in pain and retaliated with a tail swipe, smacking away the small enemy. The knight crashed to the ground. He recovered quickly and took out a padlock that had a mango for a design. He attached it to his belt and pressed the blade.
The knight transformed. Wearing a new bulkier red armor and brandishing a spiked mace, the knight roared and charged at the Serpent. The Serpent hissed and swung its tail. The knight clashed the tail with his mace.
He noticed on time as the Serpent attacked while opening its mouth. He grabbed it on time and the two battled in a competition of strength. With sheer willpower, the knight managed to slam his fist on the top of the reptile's head. He grabbed his mace and smacked the Serpent with it.
Backing away and gaining distance, the knight gripped his mace as the Serpent lunged at him. Spinning on his heel, the knight slammed his mace into the side of the Serpent's head and knocked it aside. The Serpent tried again to bite down on the warrior who managed to duck before he slammed his mace once again in its throat to jolt the head backwards.
The Serpent was disoriented by the blow as the knight's mace glowed. He spun around as yellow energy cubes trailed from his mace's head. He finally swung and fired a giant energy projection shaped like his mace straight at the Serpent as it opened its mouth.
BOOM!
The smoke faded and the Serpent was revealed to be unaffected. The only thing the attack did was fueling its anger. It gripped onto the knight in its jaws and then threw him straight into a building. The knight tumbled to the ground before the Serpent gripped him by the leg then drag him across the ground and released him. The knight groaned and gasped as the Serpent's tail came down, crushing him.
At the castle, somehow the magic circle gave the princess power. She dashed and avoided a swipe. She leapt back and slashed at the Giant Armor's chest. During mid-air, the circle appeared on her feet again and she launched herself, hitting the knees and waist.
She continued hitting the legs, pushing the giant back. Using the magic circle again, she struck up. She boosted forward and landed a few more.
Had enough, the Giant Armor retaliated. As the princess landed on the circle, she saw the Giant Armor swinging its sword. She jumped up but that was a mistake. Vulnerable, she gasped in horror when the Giant Armor swung a brutal, bone crunching punch.
After a loud boom, the princess crashed to the ground hard. For a short while, she laid motionless on the floor and during that time, crimson blood dripped from the left side of her face.
Suddenly, the static reappeared and a bizarre event occurred. Images of the City in Winter and the City in Inferno shifted between one another. Even the Giant Armor and Serpent were not immune to it. Simultaneously, their images overlapped one another as if both were standing at the same spot.
The static grew stronger and more erratic. Reality was seemingly falling apart. With a burst, the static was no more. That was when the bizarre grew even more.
The world was now a mix between two cities. This city was engulfed in a sea of fire while the snow resumed falling from the night skies. At the castle, everything was falling apart. The flames were spreading, portraits turned to ashes and burning debris dropped like flies.
At the great hall, the young princess was starting to wake up but she was weak to barely stand. She managed to look up and fear formed on her face.
In front of her was a terrifying sight. It was a monstrosity. It was a green skinned serpent like humanoid with long arms, equipped with sharp claws. The face was horrendous to look at, resembling a man's face covered in boils followed by its soulless yellow eyes. It had no legs but an elongated snake tail. It wore medieval armor and carried a giant broadsword.
This Armored Serpent hissed maliciously at the downed princess. Its only desire is to kill in the most violent way possible.
The princess tried to get up but she was just too weak to stand up. There was no hope. All that's left was death. Fortunately, someone was there to change that. The girl sensed something and looked up to her side and saw a red hand belonging to the knight who had survived the Serpent's attack.
He offered a helping hand and for once, the princess genuinely smiled. She took it and the knight lifted the girl back up. Morale restored, the two stared at their enemy in defiance who roared in rage.
To even the odds, the knight replaced his belt with a new, shiny one. He then took out another padlock that had a clear casing, decorated with a lemon. He attached the padlock with the belt and activated its true power.
In a flash, the knight had changed his appearance again, this time wielding a bow instead of a lance or mace.
The Armored Serpent lunged at them but the two jumped away. It turned around and head straight to the princess and attacked. The girl rotated the revolver in her rapier and it glowed red. She swung her enhanced rapier that effectively deflected the broadsword.
"Mirror, mirror, what's behind you? Save me from the things I see!"
Taking advantage of this, the knight used his bow and fired bolts of energy at the behemoth leaving scorches on its armor. The Armored Serpent used a tail swipe. The knight and the princess avoided it while the walls and floors were not fortunate, having been blown to bits upon contact by the deadly whip.
"I can keep it from the world. Why won't you let me hide from me?"
The girl rotated her rapier's revolver chamber once more, making the weapon glowed blue as the tail was getting near to her. She stabbed the blade into the ground, unleashing a wave of ice and the tail was caught in it. The reptilian creature swung its sword. The princess leapt back and the knight came in, jumped and landed perfectly on the sword. He ran up, leapt and swung his bow at the monster's face. Leaving several marks, the serpent roared in pain. Landing safely, the knight and the princess fired a combined attack that froze parts of the Armored Serpent's body.
After turning her rapier to glow green, the princess dashed and thrusted it at the serpent's chest. The blade fired a huge burst of wind that sent the giant flying. Crashing into several walls, it was blasted from the castle and was now outside.
The knight and the princess exited out of the burning castle. Outside, there was no trace of the Armored Serpent.
Suddenly, the Armored Serpent revealed itself, bursting out of the ground and the duo avoided it on time before it dug into the ground again. Knowing what to do, the knight stood still, waiting for the monster to come back to the surface. It finally did and attacked the "unsuspecting" knight from behind.
The trap was sprung. The knight without looking back, turned his bow and fired from behind. The surprised monster was hit and stunned.
"Mirror, mirror, tell me something. Who's the loneliest of all?"
The beast was left to be slashed repeatedly from both sides by the knight and the princess. The knight then pressed the lever on his belt. He swung his bow and fired an energy strike.
With the monster downed, it fell on top of a magic circle which the girl had summoned. She caused the circle to explode, launching the Armored Serpent up in the air. The princess fired several beams, locking the reptile in mid-air as the knight prepared his finisher.
He aimed and pulled the string of the bow, forming lemon slice projections between him and his target. He fired, shooting an arrow that transformed into an energy version of his lance. It pierced the Armored Serpent through the chest and it died in a huge explosion.
"I'm the loneliest of all."
The Armored Serpent has been defeated. With that, the young princess and the knight looked at one another. The knight walked towards her and bowed before her. She nodded back, acknowledging him. The two remained where they were as fire and ice continued to co-exist.
Sangokuden x RWBY: HUNT OF THE ARMORED WAR GODS
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Note: Having Weiss and Baron together was incredibly fitting. One, they have the medieval theme going on and two, they're 'kinda' a handful to work alongside with. As for the Giant Serpent, its appearance is based on the Basilisk from Harry Potter. Also, snakes in some folklore represents corruption which is interesting given what happened in Mitsuki's past that was revealed in Destiny of the Armored War Gods. Please, read and review. Thank you very much.