Finally another chapter is finished. It took some time, but it's finished. Also I apologize that the story will only develop slowly and that the zerg will still have no appearance in this chapter, but RWBY took long as well to become a more combat filled series than just the lifes of four unlikely high school girls in a dorm. No hate I still like RWBY.
Well enough of the introduction let's get started.
Chapter 2: Interfere in the Initiation
After a long time of searching, Iarut had found various informations about this world. The language was the same as the terran's so the device had no problem with translating. The planet was apparantly called Remnant and had only 4 human nations. Vale, Atlas, Vacuo and Mistral. Except for a few small Settlements, these were the only cities on the planet's surface. The reason were the creatures he had encountered before, the creatures of Grimm. Soulless monsters that only existed to kill humans. No one knew where they came from or how they are still coming into being, but they do. For what Iarut saw and fought were called beowolfs, creeps, ursas and a king taijitu. It was difficult for the humans to investigate those creatures because they evaporated after death and, when captured, just died. For Iarut it was almost like fighting the zerg swarm and that made him think. The grimm didn't show any kind of organisation and are divided in many species, yet they fight as one. Could it be that they were controlled by an hive mind?
He had noted another population of sentient beings on the planet, the faunus. Human like beings with traits of mainly mammals and extended senses, depending on what kind animal they were related to. They had fought once in a war for their own rights, but were still discriminated. Iarut could only shake his head about that. It seemed like, despite the common threat all around them, humans had still this universal trait of stupidity, when they had expirienced peace for too long. When they didn't had an enemy to point their weapons at, they pointed them at themselves. In the Koprulu sector all races had to unite against Amon to defeat him, despite their past or conflicts with each other. Iarut continued to read. apparantly a organisation called the White fang, which once demonstrated peacefully for the rights of the faunus, was now a terrorist organisation and spread the gap between the humans and faunus by being murderous and violent. Instead of equality with the humans they wanted dominace.
Another thing, it seemed like the energy source of this planet was called "Dust" and was used in every kind of technology on this planet. It was like the khaldarim crystals the xel'naga gave the protoss. But most of all, it was an effective weapons against the cratures of Grimm. The so called huntsmen and huntresses were trained in young age to become the guardians of this world. According to a map Iarut was close to the biggest combat school on Remnant called Beacon. It was almost amusing for the Tal'Darim. He remembered his training as a youngling. In a few years the younglings were shaped into weapons of the chain of ascension. Already 40% of them died in battles with each other. Who couldn't become a weapon was worthless. Iarut had survived and killed without question to ascent, until Amon betrayed them.
Still the humans used dust to fight each other in something they called the "Great Wars", leaving thousands of humans and faunus dead and wide areas destroyed. Compared to the great wars in the koprulu sector it was already nothing. During the Great Wars and the brood war, billions of protoss and terrans died. The zerg could reproduce in hours, but had lost a few battles too. Also during their wars entire planets were destroyed, so watching over the number of casualities didn't made the Tal'darim flinch. However one fact made Iarut pity the people of this world. Dust apparantly lost it's power when leaving the atmosphere of the planet, which is why space travel was impossible with their current resources. When a planet was lost back in the koprulu sector the races had to move on and colonise another one, but the people here had not he option.
"So they are not as developed as the terrans. What a primitive state for such advanced beings." Iarut said to himself. He had spendt a bit too much time with Alarak, what influenced his view on "lower life forms". His thoughts however were interrupted by a loud screech that echoed through the entire ruin. Iarut didn't felt a presence in the temple, but the concentration of dark energy was increasing. He deactivated his device and put it back in his armor, ignited his bane blades and used void energy to cloak himself, while advancing towards the entrance.
When he came outside he saw two giant grimm around the ruins. One was a deathstalker, a giant scorpion like creature and the other one a giant nevermore. While looking at the four-eyed crow Iarut couldn't help himself, but to think that it's mask would be a good hunting trophy. What suprised him more were the eight people that fought the creatures. They were pretty young and wielded transforming weapons for both long range and close range combat. He began to analyse the young ones.
The smallest was a girls with a red and black dress, a red hood and red and black hair. She wielded a sniper/scythe hybrid that was much bigger then herself. The next one a white haired girl with a single pony tail and wearing something, what seemed to be a white dancing dress. She wielded a rapier and shot blasts of Dust at the crow. Iarut however noticed a faint scar next to her left eye. The next one was a black haired girl with a black and white dress and a black bow resembling cat ears. Iarut took a quick look in her mind, finding out that she was indeed a cat faunus. The last one fighting the crow was a blonde girl with brown shorts and a yellow tank top, revealing a big part of her... upper chest area. Iarut groaned mentally 'What is it with terran females and their obsession for their chests?' he couldn't understand it.
On the other side another group of four people fought the deathstalker. One was a blonde boy with a knight armor chest plate and a sword and shield. Iarut could already tell, that he may had talent in coordinating the group, but in a fight he would only last for about a minute. The next one was a girl with red hair and a spartan-like armor. She wield a spear and shield, but much more profesional than her companion. Then a boy in green was sent flying in one of the stone pillars. He wore a green top and blue pants and wielded gauss pistols, it seemed, like the terran reapers, but those had blades. The last one was a girl with orange hair and a White top with a heart shaped cleavage. She had a grenade launcher/war hammer hybrid, which she used to send her companions flying away from the cliff and the deathstalker into the canyon.
Iarut watched the whole battle from one of the massive stone pillars and was actually impressed to say at least. No wonder they were trained in the academies. Such individuals would be perfect elite soldiers. But to send basically younglings into battle was something both the terrans and all protoss factions, even the Tal'Darim looked down at. He then watched how the Girl quartet sent the nevermore in the cliff side and pinned it down. When they build a giant sling shot Iarut could her their conversation.
"Do you think you can make the shot?" the red one asked the white one.
"Can I?" she replied. 'Powerful, but arrogant.' Iarut mentally commented.
"Can you?" 'Childish.'
"Of course I can!" she shouted back, before sending the red one flying with a black glyph. The girl unfold her scythe and trapped the crows head between the cliff and the scythe's blade. The withe one swung her rapier upwards, creating more glyphs, which the scythe wielder used to run upwards the cliff with incredible speed. Then on the ledge she managed to cut the crows head of and landing on the cliff in a pose.
"Wow..." was all the blonde boy said, when everyone looked at the girl, whose cape seemed to emitting rose petals, which were swirling in the wind. Iarut then noticed something about her. A great power slumbering inside her, ready to be released and to destroy her enemies. It reminded him of the now destroyed Khala, the bond of every memory, thought and emotion of the Daelam, before it needed to be destroyed in the war. Yes, she was very interesting. When one day her power would awake it's fullest she would be a worthy opponent. Then however he felt another big grimm approaching. From the cliff the girl stood on. With a screech a second nevermore came crashing down at the now lone huntress-in-training. It was smaller then the first one ,but still big enough to swallow the girl as a whole. The girl manged to jump of the cliff, but she tumbled through the air and the nevermore followed.
"RUBY!" the blonde brawler yelled. The crow opened it's beak to eat the Young girl, when something like smoke came out of nowhere. A four fingered hand came out, grabbed the girl and soon she was engulfed with some red and black smoke. Just in the moment the beak closed the smoke and the girl disappeared. Now everyone was confused, when the smoke appeared again on the bridge between the girls trio and the temple. What the students saw shocked them.
Ruby had her eyes closed tightly and hugged her Crenscent Rose like a plush toy when she noticed that she didn't fell anymore. She then opened one of her eyes to see she was above the ground, but not falling. Something hold her. She then turned around to see something she would call later 'totally awesome'.
The being had white skin, burning red eyes, gazing a the nevermore, and a long pony tail covered in a jagged and spiked steel armor. It wore a face cloth, but Ruby could already tell by the angle she looked up that it didn't possess a mouth. The being was covered in a jet black armor with a red cloak over the left shoulder. The hands had four digits and were covered in black gauntlets with red gems on them. The feet had two digits and the legs were bended in a way she hadn't seen yet at an animal. There was a moment of awkward silence when she realised her position. It hold her with an arm around her waist, pressing her to it's chest.
"Eh... excuse me? Can you put me down?" she said blushing. The protoss then turned it's eyes at her, before letting go of her. Rubby landed a bit uncomfortable since the creature in front of her was about 2.5m high and she was pretty small. The protoss however didn't seemed to bother, when an outraged nevermore came right at it. Then red lightnings cracked around it's hands and streams of electricity were released at the grimm, which now screamed in pain and crashed in a few pillars, before stabilising again. Then Iarut used transit to appear over the creatures's head. Then he ignited his bane blades (earning stars in the eyes of a certain weapon maniac) and slashed them over the four eyes of the nevermore. It screamed again, but the taldarim wasn't done yet. He slashed over the avain's body and cut through feathers, muscles, flesh and bones, leaving deep cuts.
Then he teleported on a still standing stone pillar. The nevermore, even when blinded and wounded, sensed the tal'darim and charged at him. Iarut then used his psionic energy to create a shock wave (similiar, but weaker than Alarak's version) that ripped the grimm apart by the cuts he had left on the bird. The body parts and the blood evaporated even before they could make contact at with the ground. He turned to the students, who looked at him totally bewildered. Even if they didn't say anything, he could sense the fear and respect they felt in this moment. Then he dissolved in a cloud of smoke.
"What the hell was that?" Weiss asked the oblivous, but knew no one had the answer. Not even Ruby.
The cliff over emerald forest (you know with the jumping pads)
On the cliff to emerald forest Glynda Goodwitch and Ozpin looked at the screen shocked as well. They had presumed that it was some new kind of grimm, judging by the color sheme, but this was very unexpected.
"Headmaster, what should we do about this?" Glynda asked.
"We wait for the students to return. They have finished their Initiation. After that we will see how things unfold. But for now" he looked from the tablet in his hands to his coffee cup he had dropped. "it would be nice if you could get me another cup of coffee." he finished. Glynda then walked of, while Ozpin smiled. He loved to mess with Glynda, even in situations like this. But this of course was a big discovery. He had to brief the other teachers in as well.
Beacon
After the official intitiation and the revealing of the teams everything became quite in Beacon. All except for a certain alien. Iarut had infiltrated Beacon with his invisibility to learn more about this world. He wandered through the halls and thought to himself. 'Why did I safe her? Was it because of the promise to Artanis? How could I've done something so stupid?' The Daelam had the tradition to help others in need, but why did he had to blow his cover? Was it maybe because the girl and her power? That it would be a waste to let her die right there and then? Iarut couldn't grasp the subject. He however had something from it. He had read the girls memories and thoughts. The name was Ruby Rose, an odd name for an human, was 15 years old, her scythe had the name Crenscent Rose and had an undying love for cookies. Her mother, Summer Rose, died as an huntress, so it's her dream to become an huntress herself. Her older half-sister Yang was the blonde girl Iarut had seen earlier and had a very Close relationship to her sister.
In the few seconds Iarut had hold the girl he had learned everything about her. Iarut didn't really understood her behaviour. According to her memories her mother died several years ago. That she died in battle was honorable, but also proved her weakness. It was hard to lose someone you cared for, even Iarut knew that, but it was like Ruby didn't accept the ruth that her mother was dead because of her own weakness.
Then he saw someone in the halls. A pale blonde, glass-wearing woman with a white top, dark pants and a dark purple cape, carrying a pot of coffee. Iarut allowed himself to read her mind as well. Glynda Goodwitch, middle-aged huntress and combat teacher in Beacon. When he dug deeper he saw something disturbing. She was on the way to the headmaster Ozpin, one of the strongest huntsmen on Remnant, to discuss with him and her colleagues about the unknown life form that safed Ruby Rose. Iarut then silently followed the woman into an elevator, which they used to reach the office on the highest tower. It was easy not to get detected since he was a blood hunter once and had trained with the Nerazim on Aiur.
'How classy for humans.' Iarut thought.
They had reached their destination. The room was surrounded with turning and clicking gears over and under the office. It was like a clock. At the end of the room was a large window in front of a wide holographic table. At the table Ozpin sat with a mug of coffee as usually. Across the table were three chairs, two of them for the the staff members sitting on said chairs. Peter Port a veteran huntsmen with gray hair and a big mustache, that loved to tell his students bombastic 'tales' from his past. Iarut tried, but found no lie in them. Either he really did what he said he did or he believed that he did those things. The second one was a green haired man with round dull glasses, which didn't allowed anyone to see his eyes. Bartholomew Oobleck, that was the only Thing Iarut could grasp in the short time, since his thoughts were so fast that they were swarming around his mind like a swarm of interceptors.
"Ahh Glynda. Good that you could make it." Port said.
"Safe it for later Peter. We have buisness to do." Goodwitch said dryly when she put the pot of coffee at the table. Iarut looked at her. She had the same personality as Selendis.
"This is true, but please sit down." Ozpin said. Glynda did as said and Iarut stood in the shadows of the room a bit away from the table. "Now you may wonder why I did asked you to come here at such a late hour."
"Well, yes. What is so important that you need us at a time like this?" Oobleck said faster than he thought.
"Because None of our students should see this." He pressed a few fields on the table and a holographic screen was projected in the air. It was a video of Iarut first saving Ruby from the second nevermore and than turning it to fried chicken. After the video, everyone, minus Ozpin and Glynda, was shocked. "I don't know what this is, but it doesn't seemed to be a grimm." Ozpin broke the silence.
"But what is it then?" Port asked.
"By the look of it's anatomy and the design of the weapons it could be an weaponised grimm." Oobleck said.
"Oh please in your dreams." Then the two male professors began to argue about the origins of the unknown creature.
"ENOUGH!" Glynda shouted at her colleagues when she couldn't take it anymore and slapped her weapon, a riding crop for an unknown reason, against her palm, making the other teachers even Ozpin shiver in fear. "Right now something unknown is close to our academy and saved one of them. Still we cannot tell if it's hostile or not."
Ozpin then took a sip of coffee and stood up. "She's right until we cannot say it's hostile we won't interfere. Important is that we won't tell anyone about this matter. Just the fact that the powers of this being turned a nevermore of this size into ashes is proof enough to say that it is indeed powerful. If Atlas or the White Fang hear about this, they will do anything to obtain this power." Ozpin thought about his friend James Ironwood. He was quite... idealistic, believing that Atlas couldn't be defeated by anything. However because he cared about the lifes of his soldiers he did various researches to obtain more fire power.
"Well what do you suggest headmaster?" Glynda asked. Now the teachers stood infront of their headmaster, listening to his next words.
"We will try to communicate with this being. It seemed to be intelligent. Until then we won't tell any person outside this room about the matters we discussed tonight, understood?" he said.
"Understood."
"Understood."
"Understood."
"I agree." then a voice said inside their heads. Immediatly everyone was in combat stance and looked around to spot the source of the telepathic voice.
"Who's there?" Glynda demanded, looking around. Even if she would never admit it, Iarut could already tell that she was close to panic.
Then out the shadows of the gears, Iarut stepped out. Oh he was going to enjoy this.
And cliffhanger. Sorry about that, but I still had some stuff to do, so be excited for the next chapter of this story. I hope you enjoyed the chapter and see you next time again. And about Ruby blushing: it's not a RubyxOC Pairing! It's just that it's very awkward and embarrasing when someone is wrapping his/her hand around someone else's waist. Am I right?
'Til next time then goodbye.
