RWBYond Home: Villains of Vacuo

AN: My other project is out now and available to read-almost in its entirety. This could be the last chapter of the year, it might not. It depends on how fast I can crank out the other half of this story line. I don't know.

Review Response: Guest- Thank you for your review. I channeled my own experience with kids into the Ruby stuff. For your first question, I don't think so. I see kids as the happy ending. Medley, Yin, Gelb and especially Seraph are just happy endings for their mothers' respective arcs. I kinda want to be done with RWBYond once the final big bad of this story is defeated. Second question: oooooh yeah. He's even getting a team. Kyrogue- Eve is the villain that's going to develop and get stronger and more powerful. Hue is too but Hue is kinda already there to be a measuring stick. Nintendoborn- It doesn't matter.

Mental Madscape Part 1

"I need you all to stay calm." An echoey voice pierced through the darkness.

"What's going on?" Nova asked.

"Everyone wake up." The voice said again. Prim's eyes slowly opened. "Good, we're all awake." The person talking had an eerie glow around him. He looked a bit like Johnny but there was something off about his features. Johnny was standing next to him.

"Where are we?" Prim asked.

"That...is a difficult question." The glowing man said.

"Who are you?" Glade asked.

"Also complicated."

"Then explain it!" Nova shouted. "Who are you, where are we, and why am I in a bathing suit?"

"Come to think of it." Prim looked down at her exposed cleavage. "Were we at the beech?" She was also in a bathing suit. They appeared to be on a small plateau. Nova was the only other one wearing a bathing suit. Glade and Chenzi were wearing their usual clothes and Headmaster Suna was wearing an old Vacuo uniform.

"Headmaster Suna." Nova said. "Do you know what this guy is on about?"

"No." Suna said. "I've never been here before."

"None of us have." The glowing man said. "Trying...to process this and relay...the information so that everyone can understand it is...something I've never done before."

"Well start with yourself." Nova said.

"I...well...I think something happened." He said. "It's the only explanation.

"Well, no shit something happened." Prim said. "Why am I in a bathing suit? Not that I'm complaining." She winked at Johnny, whose face turned completely red.

"Something happened to link your minds." The glowing man said. "Namely, my, or our mind. Same mind same body. Same soul come to think of it but that's how this works I guess." He started talking faster than they could hear.

"Hey, slow down." Chenzi said.

"What he, I...or we, are trying to say is that this is my mind." Johnny said.

"For all...purposes...you can call me Shimmer." The glowing man said. "Manifestation of Johnny's aura, his logic, his semblance. So I guess we're the same person."

"Okay then, we just have to figure out how to get out of here." Prim said. "Any ideas Headmaster?"

"We don't have our weapons with us." Suna said. "Which means we weren't physically ripped in here."

"Well, we have our clothes." Glade said.

"Mostly." Nova said as she covered herself up.

"Yeah, why are Nova and I in bathing suits but the rest of you aren't?" Prim asked.

"This was probably done by an enemy." Shimmer said. "It's likely that your clothes are actually…"

"You and Nova must have gotten in your suits before the rest of us." Johnny interrupted with a nervous laugh.

"That doesn't sound right." Chenzi said. "Girls always take forever to change. This sounds the opposite of true."

"Well, we're wearing this." Prim said. "So it must be."

"Yeah, must be." Johnny said.

"Prim." Glade facepalmed.

"What?" Prim asked.

"Nothing." Glade said.

"First thing's first." Nova jumped in the air. "Shimatta!" She yelled. "My powers! Where are my powers!"

"Our souls must not be linked." Shimmer said. "That would explain why I'm here in this form. It's only our minds that are linked but we're inside my I mean our, mine and Johnny's mind and the rest of you are just projections. So we're the ones with power."

"Wait, if we're projections…" Glade stopped Chenzi from talking. "Oh."

"So...I probably have control." Johnny said. "Which way is the exit?" Shimmer lit up for a minute.

"That way." He pointed to the edge, which had a walkway heading down the plateau.

"While we're walking, we should try thinking about how we got here." Glade asked. "What was the last thing anyone remembers?"

The day before had started out with a bang. If bang meant Nova and Prim fighting over the last banana flavored jelly filled foot long doughnut in the pastry. Of all the things to fight over, this took the cake...or doughnut in this case.

"I was here first!" Prim said.

"I come in here everyday to get doughnuts before they run out of the good ones!" Nova shouted back. Sparks lit between their intense gaze.

Nickel was getting tired of them fighting over everything. She swore they did it on purpose. It was almost a competition to see who could be the most petty. Nickel had decided it was best to just stay out of it for now.

"Mister...can you please make another wrong so they'll stop fighting?" Johnny begged.

"Why do you have to be here anyway?" Nova asked.

"Because Johnny said this place has the best doughnuts in town and I had to try it." Prim said. Nova shot daggers at Johnny.

"Leave me out of this." Johnny groaned. "Can you hurry it up sir?"

"You can't rush art." The cook said.

"Kuso!" Nova shouted. "Why are you even still here? Weren't you supposed to go home?"

"Don't you pay attention to anything? Prim said. "I'm not going anywhere until I catch The Lionhead."

"Sure are taking your sweet time doing that." Nova said.

"He's not exactly running down the street saying 'come at me bro' now is he?" Prim argued.

"Aren't you the Guardian? Aren't you supposed to be better than sitting around waiting for the plot to happen." Nova smirked.

"Aren't you supposed to be the fair Summer Maiden, leading Vacuo in such troubling times?" Prim mocked. "If you were so much better than me, I thought you'd have The Lionhead figured out before I even arrived."

"I was too busy taking on real threats." Nova said. "Not the run-of-the-mill rejected Stunt Demon B-listers you've been fighting and getting beaten by on a weekly basis."

"Say that to my face." Prim got in Nova's face.

"The villains you've fought since coming here...have been shit." Nova said.

"Here's another doughnut." The manager said.

"Thank you!" Johnny cheered.

"Thank you, now hand it here." Nova said.

"No, I want the fresh one. You can have the one on the counter." Prim demanded.

"I have the doughnut, I pick who gets it." Johnny said. He grabbed both delicious cream-filled pastries.

"Please give me the nice warm one." Prim begged.

"Johnny…" Nova put on an eerie smile. "Will you please give me the doughnut. I'll be nice."

"I don't believe you." Johnny said. "Neither of you deserve this. You're acting like spoiled brats."

"Don't you dare." Nova growled. Johnny acted like he was about to eat it. "Bastard!" Nova grabbed him by the collar.

"Fine, here." Johnny handed her a doughnut and then handed the other one to Prim.

"Ooooh. Thank you." Prim lit up and stuck her tongue out at Nova.

"Which one got which doughnut?" Nickel asked in a hushed tone.

"There was literally no difference." Johnny fumed. "They're so childish but damn it...those smiles make my day. Right now I can't imagine my life without either one of them."

"You'd be surprised what you can imagine." Professor Plum dropped in. "Fancy meeting you here."

"Walking around in these clothes is so embarrassing." Nova fumed as they all walked through the woods. Chenzi's coughed and pulled on his collar.

"I never imagined you to have such a crowded forest in your mind." Chenzi said. "Always imagined you to be an open prairie kind of guy."

"These aren't just trees." Shimmer said. "This is the wealth of comprehension I, he...or I mean we have."

"English glowy man." Prim said.

"Everything I, we rather, know is represented by these trees." Shimmer said.

"It's actually impressive that it's this refined." Suna said.

They came to the edge of a cliff. A boundless ocean cascaded on the cliffside. In the middle of the ocean, just in view was a clocktower. It reached to the sky and into the clouds. Johnny clenched his fists as he stared of into the distance. It was Prim who spoke up first.

"This ocean...this is all the stuff you don't know." She guessed. Johnny shook his head. "And the tower?"

"It's the Tower of Time." Shimmer said. "Nothing but a memory. It was the headquarters of the Lightbringers."

"Johnny, you've been quiet." Nova noted.

"All his thought goes through me so might as well cut out the middle man." Shimmer said. "No use...talking if I'm the manifestation of his analytical mind."

"What about what your heart says?" Nova said. Both girls joined his side.

"I don't know if you want to do that." Shimmer warned.

"Nova...I don't want to fight here and now….but I know I speak for both of us when I say that we'll make it."

"We'll reach the island...together." Nova said. "We'll find the secrets of the Lightbringer. You'll be it's leader and I'll be it's champion. Just like we promised."

"And I'll be there too." Prim said. "It's up to you to take the first step. We've been following what you know but this is your limit. Listen to your heart." She put a hand on his chest.

"This is as far as I go." Shimmer said.

"We can't give up now." Prim said.

"You mistook me." Shimmer said. "This is as far as I go." Johnny sighed and took a step. His foot hung above the ocean. He took another step and Nova followed him. Prim followed too and so did the rest. He took step after step, working on instinct rather than logic.

"Focus on the tower." Johnny whispered. "Focus on that challenge." His breathing was heavy but the comfort of his friends eased his heart and lit his path.

"This is merely the first step." Suna said. "It's not easy for him. Forfeiting his logic and following his instincts...that's his limitation."

They reached the tower. It was incomporial. They took one more step and fell upward into darkness. As they hit the sky, they popped up in a beautiful orange sunrise. There were faces in the clouds. One of them caught Johnny's attention.

"Mom?" He whispered. As he did they all started plummeting but the ocean was no longer there. Instead, it was Vacuo. They all recognized the landmarks. All of their outfits changed. Johnny was in his undershirt. Every blemish on Glade and Prim's face expanded. Chenzi became covered in freckles and they crashed.

"I know this place." Nova said.

"Of course we do." A second, darker Nova said. "This is my mind."

"You mean my mind." Nova said. "My childhood home."

Nova made it back home after eating her doughnut. Pangur sat in the middle of the room waiting for her. When she walked in, Pangur jumped into her arms. She could feel him pur against her neck as she cuddled up to it.

"Nova?" Chenzi knocked on her door.

"What do you want thunder rod?" Nova said.

"I'm bored and I want to make sure your cat is doing fine." Chenzi answered.

"What do you mean by that? You don't think I'm a good mom?" Nova fumed. "You don't think I can take care of my baby myself."

"Wow you really are a crazy cat lady." Chenzi said.

"I'm not crazy, you're crazy." Nova defended.

"Eh? Anyway, what have you been up to other than fighting with Prim over the stupidest things?"

"None of your business." Nova said as Chenzi reached for Pangur. Nova pulled the cat away and gave him a dirty look. After a minute of staring, Nova finally submitted and let Chenzi hold Pangur.

"Hey there kitty." Chenzi cooed. "Your mother is quite protective of you. You have to understand that once she finally opens up to someone she gets really clingy."

"I do not get clingy!" Nova said.

"Tell me again how you put a hole in the wall just because Johnny was with Prim." Chenzi said.

"I was on my period and really on edge." Nova said. "You have a bunch of sisters, I'm sure you understand."

"None of my sisters hold a candle to how awful you are sometimes. And what's your excuse for every other day of the year?"

"You know what, I don't have to take this?" Nova said. "I don't have to take any of this. Get out of my apartment."

"Alright." Chenzi said. "But I'm not giving up Pangur."

"Do it an anata o korosu!" Nova's power fluctuated around her.

"What?" Chenzi said.

"I'll kill you!" She kicked him so hard, he dropped Pangur. Nova caught the cat and threw Chenzi out.

"I was joking!" Chenzi said.

"Hmph." Nova shut the door on him.

"Well then…" Chenzi said. "Trying to take Pangur is the quickest way to get slammed by Nova." He rubbed his stomach where she kicked him.

"Trouble in paradise?" Johnny said as he walked down the hall with Professor Plum.

Back in the present, the gang were all looking around the house. Save for the shadowy manifestation of Nova's semblance, it was empty. It was definitely Nova's childhood home but there were some differences. Namely, where her parents room was, there was instead a shrine to Team RWBY.

"This is weirding me out." Prim said. Nova turned towards her rival and looked her up and down.

"Wait just a Goddamn minute." Nova said. "We're back in our normal clothes."

"I'm not." Johnny said as he walked around without his shirt.

"Wait...we all look differently." Prim said as she looked at Glade and Chenzi. They looked normal-ish but there was something a little more unpleasant about them. The only one who didn't change was Suna.

"Johnny!" Nova yelled as she grabbed him by the shoulders and violently shook him. "These are our perceptions of each other! Everyone here is how I picture them so WHY, when we were in your mind, was Prim in a bathing suit?"

"Not going to ask about herself?" Chenzi muttered to Glade.

"Or why Johnny is pretty much in the same boat now." Glade muttered back.

"It's um...the first time I met Nova was when we all went to the beach that one day with Ruby." Johnny defended. Nova threw him to the ground.

"Whatever." Nova said.

"I feel like you don't think really highly of us." Prim said.

"Why should we?" The Other Nova said. "Even before we became the Summer Maiden we had to work our ass off to get this far."

"And what did you do?" Nova asked. "All you did was find a stupid old sword and suddenly you're the Guardian of Remnant."

"It was more than that." Prim defended.

"What makes you special?" Nova asked. "Why couldn't it be Citrine or Glade or even Argent. You're the only one who turned into a spoiled, stupid little brat who thinks she deserves everything she wants. Well guess what, it doesn't matter who you are, you can't always get what you want!"

"Don't project your mommy issues on me." Prim pointed to the shrine. "Blake's statue is completely destroyed. Yang's and Weiss' look worse for wear but my mom's is still fine other than the sad look on her face."

"Yeah, come to think of it, mom's statue looks kinda brittle." Glade moved to touch it.

"Don't touch it!" Nova shouted.

"You were always jealous of us Nova." Prim said. "You were always jealous that we were her kids and you weren't. You were jealous of all the love and attention we got that you didn't."

"Shut up." Nova coughed.

"You were jealous of our talent. You were jealous of our friends and family. You were really jealous that I slept with Johnny. And you're jealous now that your admiration for MY mom is on full display and there's nothing you can do to change who your own shitty mother is."

"I said SHUT UP!" The entire house shook. Another door burst open. Inside of it was an older woman with dark hair and freckles on her face. A chain of energy bound her to Nova.

"The Summer Maiden." Suna said. Johnny nodded.

"Nova, we need to leave this place." Johnny said.

"This place is my mind." Nova said. "Everything is memory, knowledge, and power. Escaping this place is escaping my mind and going forward."

"All the more reason we have to go." Johnny said.

"The door is locked." Glade said. "There's no way out."

"I...I never left this place." Nova cried. She curled up into a ball and started weeping. "I never left this place." Something shattered and crumbled. Chenzi had blasted the statues of Team RWBY with a blow.

"What are you doing?" Prim asked.

"Our past does not define us!" Chenzi said. "Good parents, bad parents, who the hell cares? We are all finite beings. We all have things in our past we don't like but it is completely up to us how we deal with it."

"Let go." Johnny said. "Think about who you are. Think about what we have instead."

"Easy for you to say!" Nova shouted.

"It's just like you said. We should be more focused on the future." Johnny wrapped her in a hug. "And we'll do it together." The door leading outside clicked open. Glade pushed it open and stepped through the portal.

"Come on." Chenzi said as he stepped through. Prim and Suna followed after. Johnny helped Nova up and stepped through the door. Nova timidly stepped forward.

"Please don't go." The Other Nova said. Nova turned back to look at the manifestation of her semblance. It now appeared as a little girl, just as she looked when she first discovered her semblance.

"Johnny is right, we have to go." Nova said.

"You can't leave this place, what'll that make me?" The Other Nova said. "I won't just be a tool like Summer is!"

"You…" Nova turned back and kneeled to look the child in the eyes. She lifted her semblance's head up. "You were always there for me when I needed you. You always helped chase away the loneliness. I'll never forget that."

"Then why leave if this is where I exist!?"

"It's not." Nova gave the child a hug and kissed the top of her head. "You're a part of me. You'll always be a part of me. No matter where my mind is at." The Other Nova cried as she disappeared inside of Nova, freeing her to escape her mind and go on to the next one.

"Hey Professor Plum." Chenzi said right after being thrown out of Nova's apartment.

"I was just visiting Johnny." Plum said. "He had some worries he wanted to discuss with me."

"Well, have fun." Chenzi said. "Do you know where Prim went?"

"I think she went to the gym." Johnny said. "She tried getting me to work out with her but...yeah already doing this."

"Well...I think I'm going to join her." Chenzi said. "Also, why didn't you tell me Nova was obsessed with that cat to an insane degree?"

"I didn't think it relevant." Johnny said. "Send Prim my regards."

Chenzi arrived at the gym a few minutes later. Prim was running on a treadmill in her workout clothes. Chenzi would be lying if he didn't say she was attractive, just not really his type. He preferred women with a bit more edge to them, not fluffy pampered princesses like Prim.

"Hey Chenzi." Prim said as she slowed down. "Here to work out?"

"Here more to kill time." Chenzi shrugged. "Glade's out with Hina...probably having a good time."

"I thought you liked being the third wheel on that tricycle." Prim said.

"Sometimes I do...when Glade is serious." Chenzi said.

"Glade's always serious though. You're not. That's kinda your thing."

"No I mean...wait...Glade's told you that he's training Hina right?"

"He mentioned something about helping her control her powers but that's it." Prim said.

"Yeah, that I like doing. I like training with them. When they're getting all lovey dovey I get a little sick of it and think of ways to ruin it. Glade takes offense."

"He used to be so much more fun to be around." Prim groaned. "He changed a lot since Beacon."

"We all have." Chenzi said. "You were more serious. Glade was less serious. I was more creative. Nickel was...where is Nickel anyway."

"She kinda disappears every once in a while." Prim leaned into his ears. "I think she's moonlighting as a superhero without us."

"If she is I'm going to be so freaking mad." Chenzi said. "Bad enough she steals my kills and finishes off villains without any flare but to ditch us to chase down criminals...that crosses the line."

"Yeah, I thought I was supposed to be the hero." Prim sighed. "You want to know what sucks?"

"What?"

"Knowing exactly what you fear...but what you fear is something you'll never be able to actually ace."

"What's with that serious tone?" Chenzi asked.

"It's something my stupid brain has been coming back to ever since I first found Corcea Mors. That thought has been getting more frequently ever since I had that run-in with Lionhead."

The next mental-scape was covered in stone pillars. Dark red clouds swirled through the sky. Lightning clashed in the distance. There was something wicked about this place. Darkness was all around. Johnny was still without his shirt, and on top of that was wearing tight shorts. Chenzi looked five years younger. Glade looked more heroic. Suna didn't change significantly. Nova had cat ears and whiskers as well as her tail.

"Where are we?" Johnny said. "This looks like Oblivion."

"I know exactly where we're at." Chenzi looked at Prim, who was staring fully clad in armor. Fighting Dreamer stepped out from behind her as she thwarted their gaze.

"Prim." Johnny sighed.

"And you all thought I was gloomy." Nova said. Chenzi looked at her and nearly laughed. "What is it?"

"You have cat ears!" He pointed and laughed.

"Prim!" Nova yelled. "Kuso, I'm a monkey, not a cat!"

"Well...you still look alright." Johnny said. "I feel so stupid right now."

"I'm sure Nova and Prim are both loving it." Chenzi said.

"Lucky you're not naked." Prim mumbled.

"Come again?" Nova hissed.

"Nothing." Prim said.

"So where do we go?" Glade asked. "This is your mind. Where's the exit and what do we have to do to get there."

"Te exit is here." Prim said as she pointed to an archway. "I...I already know what I have to do."

"What you…?" Glade started. The sound of thunderous footsteps approached them.

"I'll hold them off." Prim drew a line with her sword. "You guys wait until the gate opens. It'll eventually open."

"Like hell we'll just hang back." Nova said.

"Nova's right." Johnny said. "Whatever is coming we'll fight it together."

"This is my mind." Prim said. "I'm the only one who can fight. You don't have your powers or weapons here.

"Professor Suna." Glade said. "Please back us up on this."

"This is what Prim has to face." Suna said.

"I knew this would come ever since we were in Johnny's mind." Prim said. "This is where my mind always comes back to. The thinning of the veil. The approach of Grimm capable of destroying the world. I'm the Guardian who has to stand against it."

"You're not standing alone!" Glade said.

"But for all of you it's a choice!" Prim said. "You all have choices. You all chose to be heroes. Even you Nova. You might not have chosen to be a Maiden but you more than any of us were determined to be a hero."

"Are you not?" Nova shouted. She grabbed Prim by the collar. "Who the hell cares if you're some destined hero. I don't! You really piss me off!"

"What else is new?" Chenzi mumbled.

"You act as if being a hero is such a daunting task. Shut the hell up with that iyarashi!" Nova said. "Being a hero is more than a paycheck you spoiled brat. It's more than a duty or a responsibility. It's a privilege to risk my life for others. You should be proud that you were chosen to lead in this battlefront!"

"Nova…" Prim trailed off.

"That's why I freaking hate you. One of the reasons anyway. You have absolutely no right to be gloomy in the slightest. All this woe is me iyarashi is going to give me a God damned aneurysm."

"It's...I'm…" Prim was at a loss for words. "I'm the one…"

"If you want to throw your life away that's fine by me." Nova said. "But lift your head up and do it with a smile on your face."

"That's what it's going to come to!" Prim shouted. "I...I'm going to die here. Well, not here here but in the real world...in Oblivion."

"And you call yourself Mrs. Ruby's daughter?" Nova sneered. "What a disgrace. Ms. Ruby was ten times the hero you'll ever be. She risked her life for the entire world multiple times and did it with fierce determination every single time. And she won. If anything is going to get you killed it's me when I finally snap and melt your stupid freaking face."

"The future is not determined." Johnny said. "You don't have to fight by yourself. You might be destined to lead this fight but that's all it'll be. Just another big fight for you to lead."

"And we'll all be there to help." Glade said. There was a sharp hiss as the gate opened.

"It looks like the day you fight isn't here yet." Chenzi said.

"I...I thought the challenge was putting my life on the line." Prim said. Fighting Dreamer shook its head. "But it's not about accepting help either."

"It's about realizing what's on your plate and eating it." Suna said.

Chenzi and Prim were walking through the park after spending time in the gym. They spotted Glade walking out of Vito's with Nickel and waved to him. Glade and Nickel both rushed to their side.

"What have you been up to?" Prim asked.

"I was just taking Hina to work." Glade said. "Ran into Nickel."

"I was having lunch with Officer Fallon." Nickel said as she covered her face.

"Awe...no need to be embarrassed." Prim poked the android. "I think you're kinda cute when you get all bashful."

"Thanks?" Nickel looked away.

"So, how about you?" Prim asked. "How's Hina doing?"

"She's doing fine." Glade said. "She's really coming along. It's kinda scary." He laughed. "Who would have thought that we'd be so close after out parents spent nearly twenty years trying to kill each other."

"Yeah, I haven't forgotten." Prim said.

"I really want to surpass him someday." Glade said. "I mean, if I can get that strong...we'll be unstoppable."

"And I'll keep getting stronger right alongside of you." Prim said. "Honestly you're the only thing that keeps me motivated half the time. Wouldn't want you surpassing me too much."

"Speaking of that, up for a spar later?" Glade said.

"I'd rather relax the rest of the day." Prim said. "Already did my workout."

"Say, when are we going to go on another mission?" Chenzi asked.

"Whenever there's more missions to be had." Prim said.

"I've been taking solo missions." Nickel said.

"I freaking knew it!" Chenzi said.

"Things are actually slowing down." Nickel said. "Pretty soon the only thing left to do will be fighting Lionhead."

"And then we'll leave this place...maybe." Glade said. "Kinda like it here."

"You just want to stay for Hina." Prim teased.

"And what's wrong with that?" Glade said.

"Nothing." Prim said. "It's just...once I wrap things up with Lionhead...I might have to leave."

"Maybe...we'll go our separate ways." Glade suggested. Prim's face sunk in. That wasn't what she wanted to hear.

The next mind field was covered in a pure white snow. Evergreen trees extended behind them as far as the eye could see. Glade knew this was his mind. Johnny, Nova and Suna looked pretty normal save for the glasses that lined Johnny's face for some reason. Prim and Chenzi looked as they did when they were younger, freshmen at Beacon.

"I know this place." Prim said. She and Chenzi both looked directly at Glade.

"This is where your mind goes?" Chenzi said. Heart's Grow stood next to Glade and nodded.

"We just have to cross the bridge." Glade said.

"Seems easy enough." Johnny said.

"Any baggage we have to look forward to?" Nova asked.

"Not like you and Prim." Glade said.

"That seemed purposely vague." Chenzi said as he stepped on the bridge.

He stopped when he heard something falling. A large armored man crashed onto the center of the bridge. He drew his guns and aimed it at the team. They all recognized him immediately. He was the one who went toe-to-toe with some of the greatest heroes ever and won more than he lost. He was the man who set fire to Vale when everyone else thought it impossible. He was the other worldly figure Glade sought to surpass in his mind.

"That's as far as you go...heroes." Levi Seerlivey stood between them and the exit. And without anyone else's power it would be a deadly duel.

AN: Merry Christmas yet again guys. If you haven't already, check out my story "The Shining Knight and the Snowy Angel. It's a fluffy, sometimes smutty White Knight fic I was doing as a Christmas present for everyone. So much character stuff in this chapter. This stuff might actually be the most important stuff this arc. As to its significance, well….

Next Time: Will the group pass the test? Will they remember how they got there? Will they thwart this plot or be stuck in their minds forever? Find out next time on RWBYond Home.