Ok so first off I'm not going to put some complicated love triangle between Kenshi, Ruby and an OC because no matter how hard I try I cannot create an Oc worthy of Ruby's affection. Second, this series will have side ships like Nora X Ren and I'm thinking of putting Pyrrha and Lui Kang - because she's an undefeated champion and Lui Kang won at Mortal Kombat and defeated Shao Khan - , and maybe Blake and Kung Lao. I don't know I'm thinking about it but the story will not focus on these ships mainly the main ones will be Erron Black X Weiss Schnee, Kenshi X Ruby Rose, Yang X Jaune and I can't tell you the last ship. Anyway sorry if the characters are a bit OOC but I'm trying. Lemme know who you want me to make Team RWBY and Team JNPR to fight individually. Anyways here you go the second chapter.
Chapter 2: "The Breach and Return"
It'd been nine months since Yang had last seen Kenshi, and two months since they last had a conversation via scroll. Her dad and Uncle Qrow said it'd been three months since they had last seen him, she always intended to go home and see Kenshi but the last few months had been chaotic for team RWBY. First the B of team RWBY, Blake Belladonna, revealed that she was a faunus and ran away for a few days, so the rest of the team went to look for her and found that she and another faunus named Sun Wukong had stopped an attempted Dust robbery by the White Fang. So that lead to team RWBY searching for evidence on the White Fang's whereabouts and who they were supply in the town of Vale. They had taken Sun and his friend Neptune Vasilias to search and find answers, Weiss and Ruby decided to look at the Schnee Dust companies loggings for any clues, Blake took Sun to a White Fang gathering and recruiting place, while Yang took Neptune to a bar to find any leads from the owner. Blake and Sun's plan had lead the two to start a fight with Roman Torchwick, the one riling up the White Fang, who commandeered a battle mech. The fight took place on the highway and team RWBY destroyed the mech but before they could get Torchwick a teenage girl with pink, brown, and white hair wielding an umbrella of all things as a weapon saved him with an illusion and a bow to the Huntresses in training. After that Weiss and Yang had to plan and set up for the Beacon Academy dance for a week then had to clean it all up after. So because of all that Yang had been buried under a mountain of homework, so instead of visiting anyone she spent hours on end catching up on school work. On top of that all freshmen teams were to be sent on a mission with a Hunter tomorrow, then after all that the Vytal tournament was coming up soon so she had to practice for that also. So to say that Yang Xiao Long was under a great deal of stress was a huge understatement.
Yang closed the book that she was skimming through for info on a report in Professor Port's class. She slid the book over to her right and looked at her teammates. All of team RWBY was in the library for their own reasons, Yang for her report, Blake was catching up on her book reading, Ruby was browsing through a weapons magazine, and Weiss was studying for Ooblecks history exam. Yang had jotted down her findings on her notebook and let her mind wander back to Kenshi. She was worried sick about him, everyday she would check her scroll hoping to see a text, a missed call sign, or something to show that he wasn't dead or anything. It wasn't because she liked him or anything like that; no she couldn't do that to Ruby. She was worried because he was like the little brother that she never had.
Yang cast her gaze to Ruby, who looked at the weapons and Dust munitions like a 5 year old in a candy shop. Kenshi's "death" had hit her hardest of all, when Yang told her about what had supposedly happened Ruby had lost it. She cried for hours on end, refusing to come out of her room for a week, she barely ate, she only left her room to use the bathroom and return her untouched plate of food and put the cookies we gave her back in the pantry. It broke Yang and Taiyang's heart to see Ruby like this, there'd been times where they would almost tell her the truth that Kenshi was alive and well but when they tried to a lump would form in their throats and they couldn't speak. Finally the day of the funeral came, it was held at the Xiao Long/ Rose household, the caskets were empty since for some reason there had been a fire in the night – no doubt caused by the members who killed Kenshi's family to cover their tracks- so no bodies had been recovered. Ruby stood in front of Kenshi's casket the whole time tears falling freely, people gave their apologies to Ruby, and she would give them a small sad smile and a nod. The caskets were buried on the outskirts of Patch at a spot overlooking the ocean; Ruby had dropped a single red rose on each casket before the caskets were covered. The local Patch Hunters and police said that the family had died from an attack of Grimm in the dead of night and that a fire was started from the Dust in the home catching fire and burning everything to ash. No bodies were ever found, only ash. After the funeral Ruby once again locked herself in her room and it had taken a week to get Ruby back to Beacon Academy, but even when she did come back it was like she never left Patch.
When Ruby came back to Beacon, her grades had dropped to barely passing; she ate just enough to last her through the day, then after classes she would go straight to the dorm and lie in bed. Her knew found friend, Jaune Arc, tried to get her out of her room and take a walk or something but she would just say she didn't feel well and Jaune would leave. When Yang and Ruby came back from their two and a half week vacation on Patch, the W of RWBY made Ruby's mood even worse by saying she wasn't good at being leader and trying to take over as leader during Ruby's funk but Yang and Blake refused to listen to Weiss and only listen to Ruby. Although Ruby was still in a funk, she would give her undivided attention when it came to team training and combat class. After a month of putting up with Weiss and her trying to get Ozpin to change leaders Yang pulled Weiss aside and told her that Ruby's best friend of 6 years had recently become her boyfriend and died barely a month ago. If it weren't for the fact that she was talking to Kenshi via scroll even she would have started to believe that lie, saying it so many times but Yang didn't tell her that. After Yang's outburst, she stormed back to their room leaving a dumfounded Weiss in the hallway; when Weiss finally came back to the room she went up to Ruby and apologized for the way that she had been acting. Ruby being the kind hearted person she was tried to wave the issue off, but Weiss wouldn't have it. Yang and Blake listened to Weiss and Ruby's conversation with interest as Weiss gave reasons why it wasn't ok.
"It's not okay you dun… Ruby" Weiss caught herself almost saying that derogatory word. "One it's not lady like, two you're my leader and you're just trying to keep us together as a team and it doesn't help if I try to make myself leader." Weiss gave a deep sigh and pulled her legs to her chest. "It's not okay because a teammate shouldn't be thinking about getting all the glory in a fight, he shouldn't be thinking that as long as he gets the recognition he thinks he deserves then who cares about anyone else. A teammate, especially in our line of work, should be thinking that no matter the cost I need to make sure that my team is okay, make sure that they don't get hurt because a mistake that he makes. They should put their trust in their leader and their teammates and not think that they have no idea what they are saying."Ever since that night though Ruby and Weiss had grown closer as partners and as friends, and Weiss had put more trust into her leader.
It had taken Ruby three months of mourning to move on, and when she did she returned to her normal self. Her grades went back up, and she spent more time with her team and team JNPR. She still wore Kenshi's jacket everywhere she went, Yang guessed that it was a part of her know, just like the one his mom gave to her, and just like Ruby, Yang wore it every single day.
"Well I'm bored." Ruby's voice cut Yang out of her thoughts. Ruby stood from her chair, stretched, and gave a little yawn. "So I'm going to go back to the room for a 30 minute cat nap before we have to pick our first official mission."
Ruby picked up her books and cast a little wave off to the rest of team RWBY and walked away. They waved back and went back to what they were doing. Once Ruby had left Yang immediately pulled out her scroll and checked for any messages from Kenshi yet again. Once again for the 60th day in a row, there was nothing. Yang was starting to get even more worried about him, so she sent a quick text hoping for the best.
'Hey Ken. It's been months since I last heard from you. I hope your okay; I'm getting real worried about you. Please give me a sign or something saying you're still alive and not dead in a ditch somewhere.'
Yang waited for a text back from Kenshi for 5 minutes then she pocketed her scroll and let out a sad sigh. Yang didn't think that anyone at their little table had heard her but Blake had. Blake peeked over the top of her book and saw Yang with a frown on her face, which was so not like Yang. Yang always has a smile on her face and a ridiculous pun waiting at the right time. Blake decided to ask her partner about it later maybe when Ruby was around so that if she started to cross the line with Yang asking too many questions then Ruby would be there to stop it.
When about 20 minutes had passed the rest of the team picked up the books, returned them to their rightful place, and went to go wake up Ruby to go and pick their mission.
- Line Break-
Yang collapsed on her bed roll with a groan. All day team RWBY had been killing Grimm left and right for Professor Oobleck so he could conduct some type of research. Team RWBY, Oobleck, and Zwei all huddled around a small little fire that Yang had started with a bit of Dust from Weiss's spare vials. Oobleck said that they would need to establish night shifts so that everyone could get some sleep, as he pulled out food for everyone and hopped up to a little ledge in the ceiling to sleep. As the team ate, Ruby volunteered to take the first shift and no one objected to it. After they Ruby was done she walked over to a hole that had been made in the wall of the building they were in and watched the Grimm.
Yang watched Ruby for a while, then laid back on her bedroll. She stared at the ceiling, listening to the sounds of her teammates steady breathing, the crackling of the fire, and the sounds of a Beowolf's howl. Not long after felt her eyelids grow heavy and she fell into a dreamless sleep, getting some rest before her shift.
Yang slept for a good 2 hours before she felt herself being shaken gently.
"Huh… What?" Yang opened her eyes to see Ruby. Yang rubbed the sleep from her eyes and sat up.
"Hey it's your turn to keep watch." Ruby said with a tired voice. Yang groaned and pushed herself up, she looked to see Weiss and Blake still fast asleep on their sides. Yang looked at Ruby and told her to get some rest. Ruby smiled and laid down on Yang's bedroll after she set her weapon down. Ruby immediately fell asleep and started to snore lightly, Yang smiled and went to where Ruby had been. Yang looked through the hole at the crumbling buildings that had once been a city. Grimm crawled through the debris hoping to find the Huntresses that were in their territory. She could feel the chill of the night air radiating off the cement walls. Yang thanked her Semblance was fire based, so because of it she had a higher body temperature than anyone else.
Yang looked up from the destruction and debris, to the stars. There were no clouds to hide them, no lights shining to drown out their light, and because of that, it seemed that all the stars in the universe were shining brightly for her. The stars always reminded her of her mother for some reason, but recently every time she looked at the stars it would take her back to the night Kenshi left and made her cry; but for some reason they made her feel as if everything's going to be okay.
Hope your okay Kenshi. Hope you come home to Rubes soon. Yang thought to herself. As the night dragged on she didn't notice Ruby take off after a runaway Zwei …..or the person that followed Ruby closely. When she did notice Ruby left she alerted everyone and they took off to find Ruby. All of them were so focused to find Ruby that they were oblivious to the 4 pairs of eyes watching their every move.
- Fast Forward about an hour or 3-
Well this has been one crazy night, Ruby thought as she held Crescent Rose in its scythe mode. Team RWBY was surrounded by all types of Grimm in the middle of downtown Vale. First she had been captured by a couple of White Fang soldiers and beaten by Roman. Then her team found her and they boarded the White Fangs train which turned out to have a bomb in each passenger car. Then they all separated to fight someone, Yang against the brown, pink, and white girl that aided in Romans first escape, Blake against Roman, Weiss against some White Fang thug wielding a chainsaw/sword, and Ruby, Oobleck and Zwei to stop more of the Atlas mech, In the end though they failed to stop the train and it crashed into Vale spilling Grimm into the city. Now team RWBY stood in the dead center of a circle of Grimm.
They all knew that this is where they could all die but they wouldn't go down without a fight. If they could only hold out till reinforcements came then they would be okay. So 4 tired, dirty, outnumbered, and low munitioned Huntresses fought for what would probably be there last stand.
They fought the Grimm for about 20 minutes, only the adrenaline coursing through their veins giving them the edge to stay awake, before team JNPR, Miss Goodwitch, Prof. Port, and team CFVY showed up to fight. Team CFVY fought incredibly, their team leader Coco killing every Grimm in her path. The fight of the Breach lasted roughly about an hour, before the last of the Grimm were killed and Roman was captured.
Pyrhha, Nora, and Ren went to go give their thanks to the other team, Blake sat on a bench with Weiss, and Ruby was holding a folded Crescent Rose in her lap and lying on the cold cement. Yang walked up to her and sat down next to her sister glad that they all survived the ordeal with only hurt aura's and a few bruises.
"So not bad for the first official mission of team RWBY huh?" Yang asked her little sis. Ruby opened one eye and looked at Yang like she had said something stupid. "Well okay maybe it wasn't a complete success some parts of Vale will need to be repaired and some people were hurt but that was all we could do for the minimum amount of destruction from this. The important thing is we saved the city from an inside attack, with only a few cuts and bruises, a few civilians hurt, and no one died. So I say that we call this mission a success." Yang gave her sister a smile which Ruby returned gratefully.
"Plus team RWBY managed to capture the leader of this whole thing in the train and escort him personally to Atlas military." Jaune added, as he handed the two sisters some water. They gratefully took the water, Ruby taking little sips at a time, but Yang chugged the water in 3 seconds flat, and gave out a loud belch. Ruby rolled her eyes at her sisters antics while Jaune just smiled and handed her his water. Yang smiled sheepishly at the embarrassing moment, before taking the water and following her sisters lead.
Yang looked at the blonde knight who stood in front of them. He was no longer the same kid who they arrived on the airship with. He had gotten a little taller, he had learned how to use his sword better, thanks to Pyrhha's training, he had grown a little more muscle, also benefits of Pyrhha's training, and he carried a strong and confident air around him, replacing the weak and clumsy one from before. So all in all he Jaune Arc was becoming a better leader for team JNPR, and a better swordsman. Plus he's kinda cute… Yang mentally slapped herself at that last part, but before she could scold herself for thinking like that, a loud booming laughter cut through the air.
Everyone in that little vicinity all turned to find that laughter's owner. In front of the opening of the train wreckage stood five people, looking at the Hunters and Huntresses like they were looking for a fight. One had yellow eyes, that reminded Yang of the eyes of a snake, he wore black robes over his upper body, black torn pants, and his mouth and nose were covered by black face mask but what creeped Yang out the most was his feet . His feet looked like they were replaced by lizards feet (human sized) and from what Yang could tell his skin wasn't skin but… scales?
The next one to his right could easily be called a cyborg. He wore only black pants with black combat boots with daggers sheathed on the sides. The guy had jet black hair in a crew cut style, he was ripped, having muscles that would give a bodybuilder a run for his money with a tattoo of a black dragon going from his torso to his left eye. The thing that branded him as a cyborg was that part of his left cheek up to the middle of his forehead was metal fused with skin and where his right eye should be was a red like lens in its stead. Then in the middle of his chest where one's heart would normally be was an empty hole of metal the size of large apple, and in his hand he held a large glowing red orb. If Yang had to guess that thing he had in his hand was what went into that hole.
The next one was a fan of pink she wore pink high heels, pink short shorts that showed off her long legs, and all Yang could say about her top was it was just basically a pink bra with crossing straps. And I thought my outfit was revealing. Yang thought to herself. What was really strange about this woman was that she wore a pink veil covering only her mouth, but what disturbed her was her eyes. They were sick shade of orange that reminded her of a lion's eye.
The last of the young adult was very strange. She couldn't tell if it was alive or a mummy come back from the dead. It wore long black robes with red trim around his body with black boots, his face was wrapped in what looked like bandages, and a hood over his head. His eyes glowed green, Yang couldn't tell from the distance but she swore that he had no pupils.
The last man was huge! He stood taller than Jaune, who was 6'1". The man looked as if his whole body was carved out of granite, muscles so huge it would make professional bodybuilders cry to their moms. He wore laced sandals going to the top of his calves, and what Yang could only describe as a loincloth with brief. He showed his upper body muscles by wearing no shirt and only shoulder guards with what looked to be bone spikes coming out of it. His head was covered by a helmet , that had horns coming from the top and connected to the front of the helmet was mask made of pure bone its canine coming out about an inch or 2. His eyes were orange just like the pink girl's, but these eyes emitted pure hate, greed, and evil.
The man started laughing once more; just the sound of it was putting fear in her heart, like she had never experienced before. Everyone's hand went to their weapons ready to fight, even the professors.
"Good show" the man's booming voice started, matching his physique perfectly, "I thought that I would need to step in and save you all from those weak Grimm."
"Who are you, and what do you want?" Miss Goodwitch asked her voice demanding. Her right hand remained on her riding crop just in case she needed to fight at a split second.
"My name is Shao Kahn, emperor of Outworld Academy, and rightful ruler over all of Remnant." Shao Kahn said as he beat his chest. The people in the back started to cheer, and the Beacon students and faculty looked at each other, all knowing that this was going to end in a fight.
"The world of Remnant has no individual ruler, Kahn. Each continent has a kingdom and all 4 kingdoms live in peace and harmony, and if a threat occurs, that would threaten all kingdoms, we have contingencies to handle all sorts of matter like this." Goodwitch said with pure hatred directed towards the man.
"Do you now then tell me how you plan on handling this?" Shao Kahn tilted his head to the left. Everyone looked to the right and drew their weapons, readying for a fight; however this was a mistake, for when they looked they didn't notice the person who had crept to their right, slowly drawing the blade in his arm. The Tarkatan assassin with the speed of a bullet, speed forward and impaled an arm blade into the side of Prof. Port. The professor's hands quickly clutched the puncture in his side as the blood gushed from the wound. When that happened everyone looked for the assassin only to see a blur every now and then.
The Tarkatan assassin looked for another opening to strike but didn't see any; until, he saw Ruby standing between Jaune and Yang, looking like a scared puppy. An evil gleam came in his eyes as he aimed his blade at Ruby's stomach, and charged forward.
What had happened next was too much for anyone, even Blake, to comprehend. Jaune saw the blur out of the corner of his left eye and he somehow knew it was headed to Ruby. Jaune pushed Ruby behind him and waited for the sting of the blade hitting him. Jaune waited for the blade and all he heard was a sharp clanging sound, a sickening SCHLUCK, and a THUD.
When Jaune opened his eyes to see someone in front of him in black and red leather/metal armor, a red bandanna tied around his forehead, a katana sheathed on his back and red sunglasses on. He looked to be the same age as him with long raven black hair and stood at about 6 feet tall. To the right of the teen lay the body of the assassin, Jaune didn't know what it was but it didn't have a single hair on its head, with long sharp teeth that showed freely , it had a pretty big muscle mass, with long blades coming out of the top of its forearm. The thing that made Jaune nauseous was that it's head was not connected to its body but rather sitting in a pool of its own crimson red life source.
Jaune couldn't help but puke when the scent of its blood hit his nose and Jaune saw the things spinal cord and the inside of its throat. After puking Jaune wiped his mouth and looked to the teen before him. He stood before him with a smile on his face, as if he just received a medal instead of decapitating whatever that thing was. Jaune looked around once more to see that Shao Kahn and his thugs were gone. Jaune put his attention back to the boy standing before him; Jaune outstretched his hand and gave a weak smile.
"Thank you for saving me. My name is Jaune Arc, leader of team JNPR, and Hunter in training." Jaune said. The teen shook Jaune's hand with a grin on his face. Jaune led him to his team and introduced them.
"This is Nora Valkyrie, Lie Ren and my partner Pyrrha Nikos and we are team Juniper." Jaune said as all of his team shook the teen's hand and gave their thanks; Nora picked up the poor kid and gave him a bone crushing hug as her thanks. After that Jaune introduced team CFVY, Coco gave the kid a smile and pulled down her sunglasses to wink at him, to which the raven haired kid slightly blushed. Velvet smiled, shook his hand and blinded the kid with the flash of her camera, to which she meekly apologized. Fox and Yatsuhashi shook the kids hand and both gave a silent nod.
"Next are the professors of Beacon Academy. First we have our history teacher, Pro….uhh, Dr. Oobleck."Oobleck gave a quick thanks and sped off to get more supplies for the weary students and faculty. "Then is our Grimm Specialist, Professor Port." The big man held his left hand on his side where he had been hit, but his aura was starting to heal it, leaving nothing but a scar.
"Thank you, lad, for saving the life of one of our students. Oum only knows what would have happened to us if you had not been here to save all of us." The man clapped a hand on his shoulder and thanked him again.
"Lastly, is our combat instructor Miss Goodwitch." Jaune said. Miss Goodwitch stared rather suspiciously at the newcomer.
"You look familiar have we met before?" Glynda asked.
"No maam I don't believe we have."The kid stated.
"No? Then why does your armor look so familiar, and the way you fought reminds me of someone I fought beside?"Glynda narrowed her eyes at the boy, but he just shrugged and said he didn't know. Miss Goodwitch just gave a small sigh and walked off.
"Ooookay. Well then last but not least we have team RWBY." Jaune didn't notice the small wince that the boy made nor the small frown that adorned his face.
"This is Blake Belladona and Weiss Schnee." Jaune motioned to them. Blake shyly looked at the kid and gave a meek hello which was so un-Blake like; Weiss waited for the kid to bow or something at the mere mention of her name but the kid just gave a small wave, to which Weiss gave a small 'hmmph'.
"Then last but not least Ruby Rose, the leader of the team, and her sister Yang Xiao Long." Jaune this time did notice the kid give a wince and his smile was gone, replaced by a worried look. The sisters had a look of shock on their faces, both had tears in the eyes, and looked like they were gonna lose it.
Everyone looked at the trio, waiting for something to happen, and eventually it did. Ruby took one step forward , her lip quivering , tears falling down her cheeks, she lifted her hand to the kids cheek and she stared at the kid. Yang was blinking madly trying to make the tears go away, an she had her fist clenched hard. Everyone had a puzzled look on their face , except the newcomer, and the sisters. The black haired kid was definetly crying and he put his hand over Ruby's and waited for her reaction.
Ruby with her other hand went to his sunglasses and pulled them down slowly to reveal his eyes. Silver meet silver, when his glasses were taken off. Ruby dropped the glasses and put her other hand to his other cheek. No one knew what to make of all of what was happening, but no one dared to speak and break the moment that was occurring.
"K-kenshi?" was all that was heard from Ruby's lips. Weiss and Blake's face turned from puzzled to shocked when they heard the name, both remembering the story told to them by Yang, everyone else was confused.
"Hey Ruby. Yeah it's me, I'm back." Kenshi said.
Well that's it for this chapter. Lemme know how you feel about the ships I'm making, lemme know who you want with who and I'll see if I can do that or not. Thanks. Review.