Author's Note:
First, allow me to express my gratitude to all those who have chosen to favourite and follow this story. The former is now over two-hundred, while the latter is nearing three-hundred. In general, I'd like to thank you all for choosing to read this story.
Anyway, here's some stuff that I intended to be a part of the previous chapter, but decided to cut from it.
- Silvanus and Ozpin were supposed to have a heated conversation. Ozpin knows that Silvanus is planning to do something that will disrupt his and Salem's plans. While Silvanus would try to get through to Ozpin that his war with Salem has gone on for too long, and that it had cost too many lives and resources.
- There would have been flashbacks to several points in Silvanus' life. One of them would have him passing on Crocea Mors to his squire, Joan Arc, as he dies on a battlefield. Another would have had him be a Winged Hussar, him being the one to seal the tunnel to Mountain Glenn, and his attempt on Salem's life.
- Three other Immortals just like Silvanus would also be mentioned, though all but one of them would share his view of Ozpin and his war.
I also intended Silvanus Thorn to be related to Summer and Ruby somehow, because y'know, most varieties of roses have thorns. Probably won't make another chapter based on this idea, but, I might do another one, like I very likely will do another chapter for Rick and Morty, and maybe Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
Overwatch - Dragons
Once the screen had turned black, the audience started to look amongst themselves. That universe contained some very heavy stuff.
The students, and even those initiated into his order, began to feel doubt in Ozpin. This was another universe, so they reasoned that its Ozpin was a different from their own, and that their Ozpin wasn't a manipulative reincarnating dick who was using them as pawns in a secret war that had been going on for centuries. Though, the idea that he was clung to their minds for some reason. They tried to shake it away, but it had latched onto them like a leech.
Ruby, upon hearing about it, was enthralled by the legend of the Silver-Eyes. She recalled that Ozpin had brought up her eye colour when they first met, it was weird, but she had chalked it up to him being fascinated by such a unique eye colour. When they got back home, she would look up these Silver-Eyes. She'd never heard any stories about them before, and she felt it odd that it was so.
Ozpin was shitting bricks.
Why? Because his immortality had been exposed in front of his students and other uninitiated members of the Order. They appeared to not be pursing the subject, and for that he felt fortunate, but he needed to be careful. Alaric, he was surely enjoying this. And if the Keeper so wished, he might force Ozpin to admit his ability to reincarnate and reveal Salem's existence to his students.
'They aren't ready.' Ozpin thought to himself. In his eyes, his students weren't ready for the truth. Alaric secretly begged to differ.
"So. Interesting universe, wasn't it?" Alaric asked his audience, though, he didn't seek an answer and rose his remote again. "Let's see another one."
The screen came to life and showed an artistic rendition of two eastern dragons flying around each other amidst tall green mountains and clouds. The scales of one dragon was blue, while the other's colouration was green. And elderly voice began to speak.
"My family tells of an ancient legend about two great Dragon brothers; the Dragon of the North Wind and the Dragon of the South Wind. Together, they upheld balance and harmony in the Heavens."
Ren's raised an eyebrow once he heard the voice begin to speak. Though he had not heard his voice since he was a child, Ren could not help but think that the speaker's voice sounded like his father's. Were they going to see his father in this universe? Maybe his mother? Maybe even himself? It would be... nice if that were so.
The scene changed to a view of a highly urban landscape in the middle of the night. The city expanded as far as the eye could see. Panning down to street-level, a figure wielding a bow jumped onto the street. They wore green clothing that appeared to be inspired from the traditional attire of Mistral, though the left side of their torso and left arm was exposed. A tattoo snaked up their exposed let arm. The bow wielding individual had a well-trimmed beard and moustache combination, and their hair was black with a streak of pink.
"Ren look! It's you!" Nora stated loudly, tugging on her best friend's sleeve and pointed at the TV screen. She had to admit to herself, he looked very good. A sentiment that was shared by a couple other women in the audience.
"I look like my father." Ren murmured to himself.
Ren looked around cautiously and, seeing that the coast was clear, ran up the empty street and scaled up a closed wooden gate. From atop a building a mysterious figure watched Ren.
"Ooh. I smell I fight coming." Yang said, rubbing her hands together.
Changing back to the artistic scene, it showed the two dragons circling each other, their mouths open in rage. The narrator continued with his story.
"But the two brothers argued over who could better rule their land. Their quarrel turned to rage and their violent struggle darkened skies, until the Dragon of the South Wind struck down his brother, and fell to earth, shattering the land."
It showed the green dragon falling down into a flaming city.
The audience felt sadness for the story, it was always horrible when siblings fought each other. Blake, having read a lot of books, could see that this was obviously a bit of foreshadowing and that the mysterious figure must have been their sibling. It was obvious to anyone really.
Ren snuck into a courtyard in some palace, several guards patrolling around. One of them was a robot, appearing far more advanced than any Altesian model of robot.
The bowman began to swiftly incapacitate each of the guards. First, he shot the robot in the chest with an arrow, leapt down, and struck a human guard across his face, elbowed them in gut and kicked them of a ledge. Ren caught the arm of another guard, trapped his neck with his forearm as he drew his bow, and fired an arrow at the final guard who was running away and had a very odd haircut. The arrow flew, and appeared to track the guard.
The guard with the odd hairdo took out a mobile phone, dialed a number onto it, and as he brought it up to his ear, Ren's arrow impressively struck the phone. The guard kept running, and hit his head against a giant bell, knocking himself out.
"Hm, very impressive. I wonder what level of training this version of you had, Mr Ren." Winter hummed in admiration. Nora sent a glare at Winter, interpreting her words to be something other than what the older Schnee sister meant.
"The Dragon of the South Wind had triumphed, but as time passed and he realized his solitude. The sweetness of victory turned to ash."
Ren snuck through a small square with a tall cherry blossom tree within it, a full moon revealed to be not the only witness to his infiltration as the mysterious figure stood up with the moon behind them.
Ren walked into a lamplit shrine, a katana sword was on display at the far end of the shrine, a large banner with kanji characters written on it. A closer examination of the sword revealed it had a notch on the blade's edge, and the banner behind the katana had a large cut at its lower left corner, what might have been blood splattered around the cut.
"For years the bereft Dragon's grief threw the world into discord and he knew only bitterness and sorrow." A man with a straw hat was now stood atop a rock and was conversing with the Dragon of the South Wind. "One day a stranger called up to the Dragon and asked. 'Oh, Dragon Lord, why are you so distraught?' The dragon told him. 'Seeking power I killed my brother, but without him, I am lost.' The stranger replied. 'You have inflicted wounds upon yourself, but now you must heal. Walk the earth on two feet as I do. Find value in humility, then you will find peace.'"
Ren knelt down, and began preparing offerings before the sword display. Among these offerings, he lay a feather onto the floor.
Seeing where the story was going, most of the audience realized that the Ren of this universe had killed whatever sibling he had. Just like the Dragon of the South Wind. The sword on the display must have been Ren's sibling's. And like the dragon who felt sorrow for killing their brother, they saw genuine guilt and regret written on Ren's face, and his preparation of offerings indicated that he too felt mournful for what he had done.
"You are not the first assassin sent to kill me, and you will not be the last." Ren said.
In the shadows of the ceiling, numerous green lights lit up across the mysterious figure's body. They leapt down onto the floor, and landed on their feet soundlessly. Having a clear view of the figure's appearance, the audience saw that they were a female cyborg ninja, much of her body pitch black. They were armed with a short wakizashi above her buttocks, and a longer bladed katana on her back.
"You are bold to come to Shimada castle, the den of your enemies." The cyborg/robot ninja spoke in a feminine voice. Blake's voice.
"What?" Blake said in disbelief. She hadn't really anticipated that she was Ren's stalker. She could admit it was rather cool that this her was a ninja like the protagonist of one of her favourite books. But if her earlier assumption of where this story was going was correct, she was Ren's sister. The cat faunus found that she didn't dislike the idea of being Ren's sister. Though she wondered, was this Blake seeking vengeance against Ren? She also noticed that this other her didn't have cat ears, so she wasn't a faunus in this universe. That was an almost hard concept to grasp.
Ruby's excited voice broke her from her thoughts. "Blake look! You're a super cool robot ninja!"
Blake smiled at her young leader's words and said. "I think I'm actually a cyborg, Ruby."
"Why a cyborg?" Ruby asked.
"I just have a feeling." Blake replied. She looked away from Ruby, and froze as she looked at Yang's face and saw Yang have a look set on her face which Blake and her fellow huntsmen and huntresses-in-training dreaded seeing. It was the face she made when she was about to make a pun or a joke. Others saw it too, and prepared for the first. "What is it Yang?"
"Oh it's nothing." Yang grinned. "It's just... we now know that cats do land on their feet."
Everyone looked at Yang with disappointed gazes, and some shook their heads at her.
"My calculations state that your joke was not even 0.01% funny." Penny said.
"This was once my home." Ren said, his hand reaching for his bow which lay beside him. "Did your masters not tell you who I was?!"
Ren turned and shot an arrow at Blake. Blake calmly moved aside, avoiding the arrow, and continued talking. "I know who you are, Lie."
The bowman shot another arrow that flew in an arc towards Blake, the cyborg ninja ducked at this. "I know you come here every year, on the same day."
Ren fired three more arrows at Blake. The ninja deftly dodging each one of them. "You risk so much to honor someone you murdered!"
Blake produced a trio of shurikens from her right hand (insert squealing sounds from Ruby), and flung them at Ren. The man ducked in time to avoid the shurikens, the hand-thrown weapons slicing the ends off a couple of Ren's arrows.
"You know nothing of what happened!" Ren shouted in rage, rolling forward and shooting another bow at Blake. Blake drew out her wakizashi and blocked the arrow with the flat side of the blade, the force of the arrow sent her off the many area of the shrine and to a lower floor of the shrine. Ren came over to the edge and drew another arrow, different from the others this time and fired it from his bow. The arrow split into several smaller arrows, the ninja deflected several and jumped back onto the floor above her. She sheathed her sword and dashed into a terrace that connected to the shrine.
"This other version of you sure is fast Blake. It's pretty impressive how she can deflect arrows with a sword like that." Pyrrha complimented the cat faunus, the girl in question nodded her thanks to the red-haired champion and looked back at the screen. She was still trying to figure out whether or not this Blake really intended to kill Ren, she did seem to be putting some effort into trying to kill him, though her choice to engage in dialogue might be indicative of something else.
"COME ON REN! BREAK BLAKE'S LEGS!" Nora shouted, urging older Ren on.
"Nora." Ren sighed.
Ren followed after her, and searched the terrace for the ninja. Blake continued to speak from wherever she had hidden.
"I know you tell yourself that your sister disobeyed the clan..." Ren turned and shot an arrow at where Blake's voice was coming from, though the arrow hit nothing but an empty wall. The came moved to reveal that Blake was now standing behind Ren, her wakizashi in hand. "...and that you had to kill her to maintain order. That it was your duty."
Ren was now done to two arrows. He took both out of his quiver and responded to Blake. "It was my duty, and my burden."
He turned and shot one arrow, Blake swiftly deflecting it, the arrow landing on the floor. Ren prepared his last arrow and rose his voice at her. "That does not mean I do not honour her!"
The bowman shot his last arrow at Blake. She held her sword in a reverse-grip and, in slow-motion, cut the arrow in half. The two halves embedding themselves in the wall behind her.
"Ho ho ho, excellent reflexes on Ms Belladonna's part." Port congratulated the Blake on screen.
Enraged and out of arrows, Ren leapt forward and swing his bow at Blake, the ninja blocking his attack, the two fighting one another in melee. Ren swung again, but Blake jumped over him, dodged another swing, and blocked a fourth attack. Blake went of the offensive, and with a mid-air kick, sent Ren against one of the terrace's wooden railings. The cyborg ninja jumped high into the air, her sword ready to stab Ren, who blocked the blade with his bow at the last second at the last second.
"You think you honour your sister, Blake, with incense offerings?" Blake questioned Ren. "Honour resides in one's actions."
Blake hummed in satisfaction. She was right. The Ren and Blake on screen were related.
"Wait, Blake is Ren's sister? So... wait a minute... shouldn't Ren be able to recognize her voice?" Coco expressed her thoughts aloud. Everyone just shrugged and continued watching. Blake and Ren were probably younger when Ren was forced to almost kill her, so Blake must have sounded different if Ren could not recognize his sister.
"I wonder how Mr Ren will react upon learning that Ms Belladonna is alive." Glynda pondered as she observed the events on the screen.
"You dare to lecture me about honour? You are not worthy to say her name!" Ren said in response, as he turned Blake's sword away from him and threw her to the other side of the room. He ran over and picked up the arrow on the floor, a pair of blue dragons emerging from the tattoo on his left arm and began coiling around his arrow, as he said. "Ryu ga waga teki wo kurau!"
When Ren loosed his arrow, no mere stick with a sharp pointy end flew from his bow, but two large, blue eastern dragons emerged and began to fly towards Blake.
"Whoa!" Sun exclaimed in surprise, and was joined by Neptune, Nora, Ruby and Yang as he said. "That's so awesome!"
"What the hell is that?!" Weiss cried in amazement.
The entirety of the audience were stunned by Ren's ability to apparently summon dragons. Though they'd be more amazed by what came after.
"Ryujin no ken wo kurae!" Blake cried as she drew the katana on her back, a single dragon like the ones Ren sent towards her, except it was green, emerged. She directed her dragon to come between Ren's blue dragons, who both seemed to follow the green one. They moved around Blake, before the blue dragons were sent flying back towards Ren, who could only stand there, stunned by the sight before him. The blue dragons flew through Ren, before disappearing, Ren falling to his knees.
The audience bore expressions of astonishment just like the one the Ren on screen had on his face. Needless to say, they had never seen crap like that before.
"Huh, neat." Taiyang saying the only words that he could use to describe what he had just witness (This was also how I reacted when I first saw the trailer).
Ren let his bow fall to the floor as Blake sheathed her longer katana. Still in disbelief of what he saw, and said. "Only a Shimada can control the Dragons. Who are you?"
Blake wordlessly dashed forward so that she was beside Ren, drew her wakizashi and held it against his neck. Ren, confused as to why Blake was not killing him said. "Do it, then. Kill me."
The cyborg ninja was silent, and then moved her blade away from his neck and said to Ren. "No. I will not grant you the death you wish for. You still have a purpose in this life, brother."
"No... how...? My sister is dead." Ren stood, refusing to believe the cyborg ninja before him was his sister. Blake unsealed the mask that covered her face, a hiss of air followed, and she slowly removed her mask. The camera zoomed in and focused on Blake's eyes. Most of what the audience could see of Blake's face was obscured by shadows, but, they could see that there were faint scars that had long healed marring the parts of her skin which they could see. A looked of realization was set on Ren's face as he said. "Blake!"
"Yeesh. What did Ren to you, Blake? Is it so terrible that you had to be turned into a super cool robo-ninja?" Yang questioned. The cat faunus herself could not give the blonde-haired girl a response. When the Blake on screen revealed her face, she felt pain shoot up every part of her body, it had only taken an extreme exertion of her own will to sop herself from falling to the floor because of it. She chose not to tell anyone about this sensation.
Over to Ren, the boy was silent. When the Ren on screen realized that the cyborg-ninja was his dead sister, he felt the emotions of relief, guilt, confusion, and disbelief that the other Ren was feeling. He wanted to question why he was feeling this, but found that the thoughts of expressing his concerns being pushed out of his head, and replaced by an unmoving want to not tell anyone about this sensation.
"The Dragon knelt upon the ground. For the first time he was able to clearly see the world around him and he became human. The stranger revealed himself as his fallen brother. Reunited, the two set out to rebuild what they had once destroyed."
"What have you become?" Ren asked his sister. Blake put her mask on, patted his shoulder once, and walked up to the railing, saying. "I have accepted what I am and I have forgiven you. Now you must forgive yourself. The world is changing once again, Lie, and it's time to pick a side."
With a mighty leap, Blake jumped from the terrace and landed onto a nearby rooftop. To the surprise of the audience, Ren took up his bow, grabbed his last arrow, which was embedded into a wall, aimed it at Blake and shouted out to her. "Real life is not like the stories out father told us. You are a fool for believing it so!"
"Dude, c'mon. You're going to shoot your sister after what just happened?" Neptune said in disbelief of the other Ren's current actions.
"Perhaps I am a fool to think that there is still hope for you, but I do. Think on that, brother." Blake replied, before disappearing puff of smoke. Leaving behind only a feather, just like the one Ren had laid on the floor, flying in the wind.
Ren returned to the shrine and knelt before it. The camera panned upwards to a painting above the shrine. The painting was the same as the first scene depicting the two Dragon brothers.
With that the screen turned to black.
"Wooo, that was great." Coco said, stretching her arms and legs.
"Yeah! Nine-point-nine out of ten. It had Ren, ninjas, Ren, an alright fight scene, Ren being awesome, an interesting story, and did I say Ren already? Eh. Would have been ten out of ten if Ren won, because Ren would TOTALLY mop the floor with Blake. No offense." Nora rambled on.
"That's enough, Nora." Ren tried to rein in his partner, but Yang decided to jump in.
"Oh yeah? Well, Blake would destroy Ren in a fair-fight."
"You wanna bet on that?" Nora grinned as she and Yang stood up and faced each other.
"I bet 50 Lien that Blake can beat Ren in a fight." Yang responded. Nora laughed and said. "Make it a hundred Lien and you-"
"Ms Xiao Long and Ms Valkyrie, that is enough!" Glynda interrupted the two. "There will be no gambling amongst my students as long as I am here."
Alaric chuckled and made ready to bring up another universe for his guests to watch.
I'll admit to you all that I've never played Overwatch. I do follow the latest hero reveals, origin stories and have watched the cinematic shorts. You gotta admit that Blizzard can make pretty great cinematics.
That's all for now everyone. For hearth and home!
Future Ideas:
Personal Ideas:
- Aliens vs Predator
- Battlefield Friends
- Diablo 3 Cinematics
- Final Fantasy XV Kingsglaive
- G.I Joe Resolute (Cobra Commander scenes; his speech to the UN and then to his troops)
- Lord of the Rings
- Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail - Scenes; French insults, Castle Anthrax, Tim the Enchanter, the Killer Rabbit, and the Bridge of Death
- Red VS Blue
- Stand By Me - Song by Florence and the Machine
- Warhammer 40,000 (An Intro to the Dark Millennium or the Emperor's Text-to-Speech Device probably)
Original Ideas:
- Damsel not in Distress
- Death of Hope
- Demi-Human Students of Beacon
- The Edelweiss Corsairs
Reader Requested Ideas:
- Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better - Song
- Asura's Wrath
- Archer
- Assassin's Creed
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- Big Hero 6
- Ben-To
- Berserk
- Bioshock
- Bloodborne
- Borderlands 2
- Call of Duty Advanced Warfare – Live Action Trailer
- Code Geass
- College Humour skits
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Dark Souls
- DC Abridged Universe
- Dead Space
- Deadpool or Deadpool 2
- Deus Humanity Divided
- Devil May Cry 5
- Dragon Age Inquisition
- Dragon Ball Z
- Elfen Lied
- Far Cry 4
- Fate/stay Night Unlimited Blade Works
- Fate Apocrypha
- Gundam 00
- Halo
- Half-Life
- Highschool DXD
- Hitman
- Infamous Second Son Trailer
- Jojo's Bizzare Adventures
- Jurassic World or Jurassic Park
- Kamen Rider
- Logan
- Madness Combat
- Mafia 3
- Magnificent 7
- Mass Effect
- Miracle of Sound - Song; All as One, the Day the World Died
- Metro 2033/Exodus
- My Hero Academia
- One Piece
- Overwatch
- Pacific Rim
- Persona 5
- Pirates of the Carribean
- Prototype 2
- Resident Evil
- RWBY Chibi
- Saw
- See You Again - Song
- Seven Deadly Sins
- Shrek
- Smash Bros Trailer
- Soul Eater
- Star Wars (Either the movies or the 2003 animated cartoon)
- Super Sentai Gokaiger
- Terminator
- Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell
- Walking Dead
- Warframe
- Witcher
- World of Warcraft Cinematics
- Venom 2018
- Venture Bros