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Pain. It was the first thing that she felt. Why did she feel pain? Oh. Now she remembers, the train. It collided with the wall and then nothing...

Yang Xiao-Long found herself barely able to get up at all. She was a blonde with waist long hair, she almost cherished more than life itself, a yellow tank top and a tan jacket over it with short shorts and some boots. She was scuffed up sure by that stupid midget, but she'll live. She shook her head and decided to take a mental note of wounds on her person.

After a minute or so of doing this, she let out a breathe of relief realizing that her aura took most of the blows. She lifted her self up and groaned as she took note that they, they being her and the rest of Team RWBY, were in the middle of a park? Huh, who would put a park next to the walls? Oh well... The Grimm were following them!

She quickly looked towards her companions noticing Blake and Weiss were getting up and were shaken just like she was, but that wasn't what caught her attention. No what caught her attention was the her sister, Ruby Rose. Ruby was still on the ground and unconscious, or at least she hoped her sister was unconscious. Fear gripped her. 'No no no, please don't be dead.' She kept chanting this as she ran over to her sister.

Weiss and Blake both looked concerned for their young leader and noticed something Yang didn't and took defensive positions. Yang would have noticed if she wasn't checking Ruby over for any wounds she might have and to see if she is even still alive. "Yes!" She couldn't help but scream for joy when she realized that Ruby was still alive, but that raised the question. Why was she still unconscious?

She was taken out of her questions when she heard her partner yelp out. It was then that she realized Grimm were starting to surround her and her team. It was also at that point that she realized that Team JNPR was their fighting against the Grimm as well. Overall, it was hell out here. She took a defensive position to fight the Grimm but wouldn't have to move and risk her sister getting attacked.

She realized belatedly that the Grimm kept coming out of the Breach, the same breach that the train they were trying to stop created. She hoped that when they get out of this Ruby didn't take this too hard. The girl was innocent to a fault. It would be hard on all of them, but now was the time not to think on that since to think on it they had to survive.

The first Grimm, a beowolf her mind supplied, leapt toward her as she prepped her Ember Ceccilia and launched a punch at its head. The Grimm all attacked after that. 'This is gonna be a long day.'

After the Breach was closed up, and the Grimm dealt with Yang had personally rode with her sister to the nearest hospital ward so they could check her out. She wanted to tear her hair out and scream at the fact they didn't know what was wrong with her and prescribed that she just needed to sleep. They acted like nothing was wrong here, when there was clearly something wrong with her baby sister. It didn't matter that they were students at Beacon either, since they called up their father to tell them what happened.


It wasn't long after that call was made that Taiyang Xiao-Long and Qrow Branwen both arrived at that hospital room to see how Ruby was. All three had sat in silence for maybe the first hour before Qrow asked Yang the question she didn't want to answer. "What happened?"

She didn't know why she felt that way, protective instincts maybe, but she didn't want to answer the question. If it wasn't for the pleading look on her father's face then she probably wouldn't have. So she told them about how they were on a simple clean up mission at Mount Glenn and how Ruby got seperated due to some weak ground and fell into an underground city. She explained how their was White Fang there and how they had tried to stop them and the train that they used to breach the wall and bring Grimm into the city in the first place.

Overall, she took an hour to explain it all and to answer any questions they had to the best of her abilities. Qrow had sat back with a grim expression on his face. "So let me get this straight, Torchwick was working with the White Fang trying to bring Grimm into the city? What kind of end goal are they playing at here?"

Yang knew that those questions weren't directed at her and she knew that he didn't mean to say those aloud either. Yang had almost laughed when her uncle had made to grab his flask he always carried on him only to realize that at this moment he didn't have it since the hospital doesn't allow alcohol near their patients. He only grunted in realization before looking down at Ruby. They all hoped that she would wake up soon.


'Wake up... Wake up... Wake up you stupid girl...'

Ruby could feel something was not right, but she couldn't pin point what though. She opened her eyes only to wish that she didn't as she saw two things. One was a taller woman with strangely white skin and blood red eyes, a gem and red marking all over her face and a completely black dress that flowed all the way to the ground. Ruby knew who this was, it was the Grimm Queen, Salem.

The second thing she noticed was her companion, she didn't like who it was. Standing right next to Salem was the headmaster of Beacon, Professor Ozpin. Horror seemed to fill her as the two stood next to each other calmly and looked from each other to Ruby. She tried to take a step back but found herself seemingly bound to the spot.

As if Salem sensed her intent to flee she smiled. "Your arrival here is quite startling girl. I know time travel when I see it, but I have to know who sent you back and why." Ruby felt nauseous at that. She knew! How did she know? This made no sense. Where was she?

Ozpin took a step forward as to place himself in between Salem and Ruby. "Now Luna..."

Salem snarled at that word. "You have no right to call me that name anymore! You haven't had that right for years."

Ruby felt like she was missing something here. Something important. She knew one thing though. Salem wasn't her real name it was Luna something. Ozpin didn't seem to care though as he continued anew. "I know hate the implications here, but listen to me. You can't take out your feelings of rage on this girl. If anything take them out on me. Let this be one of my mistakes not hers."

Ruby felt like she had to say something but she didn't know what would come out. "You are working for her aren't you Professor." Ozpin looked shaken at that statement and made to rebuke it before he was cut off. "So that's what happened. You left us to die so you could go back to your girlfriend here didn't you! Didn't you!"

Ozpin looked terrified at that statement, while Salem looked horrified and confused if not intrigued. Salem spoke out in response. "You are truly a simple soul aren't you. We have never had such a human relationship like that, but we have been 'friends' I guess you can say." She paused as she looked at Ruby, truly taking her in full detail. "Your words have strong implications in them. It means that Ozpin had nothing to do with your trip back, which brings me back to the question, who sent you?"

Ozpin was looking back and forth between Ruby and Salem truly helpless as he watched things play out. To Ruby though, it looked like something out of a movie. She didn't realize that Ozpin didn't want this as he saw this as another mistake he has made at some point. It was strange really. She did recall him saying that he has made far more mistakes than anyone on this planet.

How deep did that truly go? Getting pulled out of her reverie was not fun as Salem seemed to lose her patience. "Insolent... Do you not realize how easily I could destroy you now? You seem to think that you are better than me don't you. I can bring humanity to its knees just like my master did when he started this war!" Salem seemed to have stopped herself as she realized what she just said and implied.

Ruby reeled at that. She remembered that that Jeremie person mentioned how Neio had unleashed his shadowlings onto the world... That ment Jeremie should know who Salem truly is and that Salem knows who Jeremie is. All the more reason not to tell her about him and her mission. Salem seemed to realize she wasn't going to get any answers from her so she decided a different approach.

"Oh my little Rose. Didn't you realize that I know all about your little friends you have." Ruby felt her insides lurch at that. "I can hunt them all down and destroy everything around me until you give me what you want."

To say that Ozpin looked livid was an understatement, he seemed to be truly angry with Salem. "You shall not lay one finger on any of my students, you witch!" That seemed to make Salem stop, as if to reassess her options.

It didn't seem like it was meant to be as Ozpin began to FADE from where they were. "Don't you dare get in my way Ozpin! You think that I will play nice with a second Rose like I did the first one. I will crush the Roses and they will wither away and die. Humanity will fall."

Ozpin seemed to realize the position he was in and walked over to Ruby as he faded and grabbed her as if to stop his body from leaving here. "Ruby, don't listen to her. I only have humanity's best interests in my heart and I won't allow the Roses to die out nor will I let humanity fall." As he spoke that Salem laughed as Ozpin finished disappearing.

"That wretched fool doesn't even realize that he has already lost this game." Salem seemed to enjoy this like it was all one big joke. Then again to something like Salem, whose life wasn't on the line, it very well could be.

Ruby wanted to laugh but she stopped herself if only so she could make her move silently. 'Wait. I just have to wait here until I can find a way to leave.' Salem seemed to react to these thoughts by glaring at Ruby.

Ruby notices happily that she didn't feel fear when Salem glared at her. She didn't feel anything at that. She idly wondered why though. Maybe it was Ozpin's words? No it wasn't that. Was it because she had something over Salem? It could very well be. She did hold the knowledge of future events. Yeah that was probably why.

Salem seemed to get her fill on looking at Ruby as she looked away. "We will meet again and next time I do hope you will cooperate better, if only for your friends sake." With that Ruby felt something tugging at her consciousness and she was unable to resist it. Idly she noticed that she was fading the same way Ozpin did. The last thing she noticed was the fact that Salem seemed to be walking away, but where was she going...?


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