Paralogue 3: Yellow
It was cold.
It was the middle of winter, and the land was cloaked in a sheet of white.
And on a lonely cliff on the small island of Patch, a girl sat next to a well-kept grave, silently mourning. She wore a yellow and black dress, and had long, almost shining blonde hair. The snow didn't bother her. In fact, it all seemed to melt before it touched her.
After a moment, she rises from her position, and walks away.
The inscription on the tombstone read 'Taiyang Xiao Long.'
She walked down the familiar forest path to her home. After a minute of walking, she pulls out a pair of headphones, and puts them on. She clicks on the cassette attached to it, and she could feel the tapes inside the plastic box ravel and unravel themselves back into their original position. Their was a click, and a song began to play.
There's a point where it tips,
There's a point where it breaks,
There's a point where it bends,
And a point we just can't take...
Anymore...
She continues to walk down the forest path, looking at the ground. She remained undisturbed, until a small wind tickled the hairs on her neck. She stops, and thinks for a few moments, before deciding that what lay ahead wasn't worth planning ahead for. She walks forward into the clearing she has passed through so many times before, and was not surprised in the slightest to see a small army of Beowolves waiting at the opposite end.
She watched as the front row of three break off, sprint towards her, and pounce. Their red, beady eyes staring her down the entire time. They snarled with hunger... hunger and hate.
As they pounced, they looked down upon the young woman, seeing nothing but an easy meal. With each moment they grew closer, and closer, and closer still, until they were inches apart..!
Swoosh!
With what seemed to be a mere changing of the wind, the three Beowolves fell to halves on the snow-covered earth. The girl didn't seem to move except for her sword hand, which now held a katana made of yellow Dust.
She coldly looked back at the crowd of Grimm as they howled into the night sky. The rest of the pack charged at the young girl, angered at the deaths of their kin. One leaped at her, but she took one step to the left and slashed at it's midsection, slicing it in half just like the three before it. Two more pounced in succession, and she slices one vertically, along it's spine, and dodges the second by leaping into the air. As she looked down at the beast, she twisted in midair and thrust her sword into it's skull.
The crowd only grew as more Beowolves heard the cries of their pack, and joined with the intent on killing the intruder. She ran forward and stabbed one in the throat, paralyzing the beast. Another swiped at her head, to which she ducked under the swing and cut off their shins. It fell onto it's stubs, and less than a second later was without it's head.
Two attempted to outmaneuver her. One pounced at her while, in unison, a second charged at her from the ground. She jumps backwards, dodging both of the Grimm and flicking a switch on her blade. The sword splits into four plates, arranging themselves into a barrel. She takes aim and blows the heads off of both aggressors. As more of the horde charged, she continued to fire at the crowd, killing off a number of Grimm.
One flung itself towards her, savagely clawing at air. She raised her blade and sliced the Beowolf in half just as a group charged her. She charged the group and blocked a swipe to her right with her sheath. She flings the sheath into the head of the aggressor, stunning it. With two diagonal, almost casual slashes she kills two to her right while the previous was still stunned.
Another pounces towards her, and with a simple spin she knocks the one out of the air with her sheath, and cuts the head off of the previous.
Four charge at her. She flicks her sword into it's rifle form and shoots down one, but the other three close the distance. Two pounce into the air while the third charges forward. She blocks one with her sheath, and cuts down the second before it could strike, but the one that opted to stay on the ground slashes her side.
She winces, but brings her blade down on the aggressor as payback. The first of the attackers, seeing an opportunity, brings it's claw down onto her head. Undeterred, the girl swings around and rips the monster in two in a single slash.
She looks up, and sees the crowd had become an army. The twelve from before having turned into a crowd of easily forty or more. She stared them all down, and her hair began to smolder. Her eyes turned a shade of crimson, and she sheathed her sword. The Grimm army charged all at once, ready to end the hunt, once and for all.
She was all too happy to oblige.
In one great motion, she unsheathed the blade and slashed at the enemy. Great yellow flame billowed out of it's sheathe, wrapping itself around the blade and forming a sort of extension. The fire-blade easily cut apart the Grimm from fifteen feet out. With each slash and flourish, swaths of Beowolves burned to ashes. None of them got close to the golden girl, who turned the bitter winter into a sweltering summer.
With one last spin, the final Beowolves were torn asunder, and the battle was finished.
She was left standing there, regaining her breath after that encounter. She let her katana and sheath hit the ground. Her shoulders slumped over, and letting herself collapse to the ground, she looked around to admire her handiwork.
Beowolf parts had been scattered all throughout the clearing, still burning away. All the snow had melted within thirty feet of her. If one rolled over and faced the grass, one could pretend it was spring.
-And the innocence and peace we always knew...
Click!
She was snapped out of her weariness by the music, not having realized she didn't turn the cassette before the fight. She rises and sheathes her sword.
"Time to go home..." She whispers, as the tape whirls in her cassette once more, preparing the next song... It brought a smile to her face.
I don't know where we should go,
Just feeling farther from our goal,
I don't know what path we will be shown,
But I know that when I'm with you I'm at home...
Yes I know that when I'm with you I'm at home~
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Author's Notes: Hey, guys, I have an announcement. I know this chapter took way longer than it should have, and I'm sorry for that. I ran out of enthusiasm to write the story about two weeks ago. As such it was tough mustering the will to write this thing when I've been having so much fun getting back into video games.
So until further notice, I'm going to take a break from RWBY: SWAP and enjoy other things.
Now, I'm not discontinuing the story, not by a long shot. Expect new chapters to resume a few weeks from now. I just don't want to leave you all in the dark about the long delays.
Now that we've gotten the announcement out of the way, time for reviews!
merendinoemiliano:
I don't know why i didn't notice this sooner. It's very awesome on introspection and swapping, i can't wait to see whath else you have in mind. I admit, i would prefer here Qrow as Ruby's dad(Yang and Ruby would make more sense as cousins here. Tough a lot of other situation make more sense, Coco seems more reasonable than Cardin), and fights need to improving, but there is time for this one. I can't wait to see next chapters, i hope Jaune will upgrade his equipment with at least a firearm. Keep up the good work and see you soon, also good i hope Ghira and Kali will be decent faunus beings, i hate bashing.
Yeah, I know my fight scenes need a LOT of improvement, though I hope that this chapter was a step up. However, on your topics of Jaune and Qrow as the father, I already have everything planned out. I have a very good reason why Qrow isn't her father, and I have several scenes planned out for this. Thank you for the constructive criticism!
Bomberguy789:
Well, this Lie Ren is incredibly different to both his canon self, and the character is is sort-of-but-not-really swapped with. It's definitely interesting to see that it isn't only the character traits that have been swapped, but the situations as well. Provided the characters remain consistent in their swaps, then it will all be good.
And I wonder, who actually has racially abused the new Velvet and Blake? It would be interesting to see if Cardin WAS still a racist, but was still different in various other ways.
And finally, Tyrian. So far I've only seen the opposite of Oobleck, but whenever he appears next I'll be interested in seeing what's changed and what hasn't. Good luck!
Yeah, it's important to note that characters wont just be copy-paste personalities from the show. They will have some of their old quirks and some may even have traits that weren't even present with the original character. I think this makes things more interesting.
For Velvet and Blake, it's simply implied. Being a faunus in this universe means being a huge target. The moment you leave a pro-faunus town or city, you will be exposed to it. I think simply being in Vale or Beacon is enough time to be a target from this. No one we know (or, you know, a named character) have bullied Blake or Velvet because of this, but we don't need to see it to believe it, in this case.
On Tyrian, I was very disappointed with how he turned out, so I went back and changed a few lines to solidify his character and show off a few quirks better. On the other hand, he'll really get his time to shine come season 2.
Royal2
Ok good chapter man but I fell bad for Nora for when you know what happens.
What? I have no idea what you're talking about. Nothing bad ever happens.
Ever.
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