Chapter 25: The Agreement

RWBY Dorm

"I guess it's time to explain what's going on…" Wasure said as she pulled up a seat between the bunk beds while everyone sat down on their own bed.

"It would be nice to explain what is going on…" Ruby said.

"What was with that overwhelming feeling I got when I was just about to hit that guy?" Yang asked.

"As you all know now, I am a weapon… I am not really a human being. But…" Wasure started before she took deep breath, "Long ago, before any of you were born, or before even when this world and the others were created, I was created. My creator was that man in black, he created me a long time ago with his own power. So after he created me, he sealed me away because I almost killed him from the amount of power I needed from him."

"You were sealed away?" Ruby spoke up.

"Yes, in a temple that blocked out my presence. For a incredibly long time, I stayed there, just waiting till I found. Then he came, and I still remember that day like it was yesterday."

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Wasure was in a katana form, the blade struck into the ground in the middle of a circular room that appeared to be the inside of a temple. She hadn't moved from that spot since her creator put him there.

She sighed, but suddenly felt a presence that made her felt so good to feel. It was her creators.

She heard screams and guns being fired along with monstrous screams of something before it went dead silent. She couldn't do anything and just waited until she heard the giant stone doors leading into the room, open slowly.

There, was the man in black, pushing giant stone doors open. But when he did, Wasure suddenly started absorbing his power, his very being. The man in black fell to his knees and put a fist onto the ground while his other hand was on his knee as Wasure absorbed him. This went on for a while before Wasure stopped absorbing his power, afraid she had killed him.

The man in black got up and walked over to her. He grabbed her handle and pulled her out of the ground, swinging her around a few times before he inspected the blade. That's when he saw his name on the blade, changing into several different languages. He watched until they went through thousands of languages and then created a sheath for Wasure in her katana form, sheathing her before putting the sheathed Wasure tied to his back.

He walked out of the circular room and down a long corridor, passing dead bodies with that made them beyond recognition. He soon came to an entrance and walked past the two giant stone doors and into the light outside.

He stopped and looked around, the area was dry and hot even though they were both in some excavation site the ground's surface. Though the man in black was surrounded by armed US soldiers, aiming their rifles at him.

"Drop your weapon and put your hands behind your head!" One of the soldiers shouted.

The man in black was silent, not complying to the man's orders as he thought about it. "Yeah… no…" The man in black said before the soldiers opened fired.

RWBY Dorm

"After several thousand of years, we spent together. I killed literally more living things than all the Grimm and Hunters killed around the world from the beginning of time, to now." Wasure said.

"That's horrible, I didn't know you were that old, and… that you had to kill SO MANY…" Ruby said.

"I'm a weapon… it's what I was created to do. Originally I was alright with killing, though as time past on I started to feel guilt for all the innocent I've killed… and that's a lot in my mentor's line of work…" Wasure said.

"Just who is your mentor anyways?" Yang asked.

"I can't tell you, we are currently in an agreement that I cannot tell you who he is. You may have gotten a bit to know him, but that wasn't even enough to give you the full explanation of who he is. Though I can tell you why he came here, Blake and Weiss… I assume you already know this?" Wasure asked before they nodded their heads. "Very well…" Wasure started.

A ontop a snowy mountain, unknown time

"Sir…" Wasure said as she stopped treading through the snow, waiting until the man in black stopped. She was no longer in a weapon form, but rather

"What is it?" He asked, looking over his shoulder.

"I've been wanting to tell you this... but I want to live a normal life…" Wasure said.

"A normal life?" He repeated.

"I want the freedom to do what I please without having you tell me what to do, or wield me as a sword…" Wasure said before the man in black walked up to her.

"Then lets make an agreement…" He said before Wasure widened her eyes at how easy he was willing to do this.

"What is it?" Wasure asked.

"First… you will have no money and only the clothes on your back to start out with. Second, you cannot use your powers completely, you may only harden your body and the objects around you, no body,object transformations. Third, you will only mention me as a mentor, breaking this or the second rule will make me come get you. Understand?" The man in black asked before Wasure nodded her head. The man in black then pushed her and she fell before getting up, in a back alley of Vale.

Present Day

"Then after a long time, Yang ran into me, and well… here we are…"Wasure said, shortening up her story.

"So he came here because you broke one of his rules? If its about that Dust monster thing I wanna call bullshit on that! You were trying to save me!" Yang said, remembering how Wasure incinerated that creature with a red laser beam.

"That's not exactly the reason, but it is part of it…" Wasure said before Ruby and Yang looked at each other. "Four deaths… Four seasons… Four chances to change fate…" Wasure said.

"What?" Ruby asked, confused.

"All four of you were supposed to originally die, though… I made another agreement with my mentor. For each time he saved one of you, he would take away the time I would have with you by the seasons. I tried to prevent them myself but failed and ended up having to use my full power to save Yang, though that would have only granted me a short amount of time, if you don't count me breaking the rule." Wasure explained.

"We… were supposed to die?" Ruby asked, confused and shocked.

"Yes, Blake was the first. She was to die by Datred's hand at the masquerade. I thought she would be killed in public during the ball, but Datred would have actually snuck back to the mansion and... well… violate her body and then kill her." Wasure said before Ruby and Yang looked at Blake while Weiss and Wasure looked away as Blake looked at the ground. "He was actually killed by my mentor before he even decided on who to kill. The body… was massacred in a horrible way." Wasure said before looking at Ruby.

"The next one is you Ruby… originally you were supposed to die back at the hot springs in patch by the spiders that night you and Yang were taking. It was originally an idea you and Yang came up to try and keep Blake off our minds. Weiss didn't come because she felt somewhat responsible, and brooded over the situation back here in the Dorms. My memory would have come back either way, but I remembered too late and had to come after you guys into the labyrinth. As before, I couldn't break down the spiders webbing that blocked me off from saving you. This… made me watch you get the blood sucked out of you by the giant mother spider, breeding under the hot spring pond with its face sticking out of that wall you and Yang were tied up. After that, the... " Wasure paused for a moment, not going to say what happened next. "After a horrible sight with the little spiders, Yang lost it and broke free from the webbing binding her. She literally punched her way out of their and killed every single thing standing in her way… the power Yang was letting off was enough to make God cower in fear…" Wasure said before looking at Ruby and Yang's shocked faces.

"No way…" Yang said looking at Ruby for a moment before back at Wasure.

"The third… was Weiss. The same basic thing happened now when it was supposed to originally happen. Nora forced Weiss to drink a potion, believing it to be a potion to make her happy, when it just changed our minds with our bodies like it did before. Nora sent a letter to her grandmother and got no response for a few days, this made Weiss look up a way to get back in her own body. She came across the same thing about the inverted castle in an old book in the library. Me and Weiss went off to change our bodies back, leaving Yang behind as she WOULD NOT move from her bed, crying over the loss of Ruby." Wasure said before Weiss stepped into the bathroom, obviously not wanting to hear what happens next.

"We made it to that underground secret basement with the help of the lord, and of course, he still died. We came across the Dust monster, which… sadly… killed me while I was in Weiss's body… like the ghost… several stabs with unrecognizable swords at the chest and the head cut off. I thought I would have been kill, but I guess it didn't work that way. After my, or rather Weiss's head was cut off, we swapped back to our original bodies. I couldn't do anything because he disappeared in a flash of white light…" Wasure said before Weiss came back into the room.

"Then that just leaves me… I guess I died like Weiss did, but in the showers… where were you when this happened?" Yang asked.

"Yes, but considering the changes in all your fates, it changed the world around us too. Originally, the water to our dorm's bathroom was shut off, making you have to use the showers downstairs on the first floor. There was a few weeks originally between when you died, and when Weiss died. I was at everyones grave, feeling so useless to the ones that were the first people to ever offer me shelter and eventually become my friends…" Wasure paused, "Then I came back to find myself now all alone… my friends all dead and I wasn't able to stop any of them."

"What happened after Yang's… you know?" Ruby asked.

"I tried to hang myself…" Wasure said after the room went silent. "I climbed to the highest point on Beacon's roofs and tied one end of a rope to something supportive and then I jumped off the ledge without a second thought…" Wasure said before Yang and Ruby widened their eyes. "I had calculated the fall and the length of the rope to be long enough for me to stop just before my feet can touch the ground after the rope snaps tight, so I'd be hovering only a few inches above the ground. It would have been easy for them to take my body down, and the fall would have been high enough to snap my neck and kill me instantly. Though…" Wasure paused. "The rope broke and I didn't have time to harden my skin into metal and well… I barely survived the fall… my brain was mushed up and I was nothing more than a steaming vegetable, drooling over a hospital bed. But the memories of all your deaths never left my mind… my blood boiled at that… I wanted to kill… but I couldn't… and I wouldn't…" Wasure said.

"So then how did you know all this was going to happen? How did your mentor stop our deaths anyway?" Ruby asked.

"He came to me… he wanted to make a deal… for each time he saves your life, he gets to come closer to taking me back… I broke down and didn't care when it was Yang's turn… I learned about your deaths from Chūsei, he showed me everything…" Wasure said.

"Chūsei?" Ruby asked as she looked at the sleeping dog.

"It's hard to explain, but the most of what is going on is that my mentor protected you before I broke a rule and he came to get me, and now he's letting us have six weeks to train…" Wasure said.

"Do you have any ideas on what we should practice under? Like is he slow or something and we need to work on speed?" Yang asked.

"He's a dual wielder of both a broadsword and a katana. He cannot really be beaten, only slowed down. Our best bet is to go all out on him, but not make it 30 seconds long and wind up tired, you all need to increase your stamina and endurance. We are not going to beat him, but rather impress him with how well we can fight. Now… I'm going to…" Wasure didn't finish her sentence before she passed out in the chair, loudly snoring.

The girls looked at one another before they slightly giggled at how quickly Wasure was out, she had done a lot in a day and there's no question that she was running on fumes now.

"Let her sleep in my bed… she did save me after all…" Yang said before she got up and walked over to Wasure before picking her up and put her in Yang's bed. She took off Wasure's muddy boots and socks before putting her feet on the bed and tucked her in, roughing her hair a little before she walked away with a smile as she sat down on Wasure's air mattress.

"Tomorrow is the start of something very important girls, we need to get stronger so we can beat Wasure's mentor. Wasure is our instructor on this, she will tell us how to beat her mentor and how to make us stronger, we need to make sure we do as she instructs, for now… I'm giving Wasure co-leader status over the team." Ruby said as she switched into her pajamas.

"As long as she doesn't blow a whistle in our ears if she's going to train us…" Weiss said as she slipped into a nightgown.

"Bring back some memories though…" Yang said as she got in Wasure's bed.

"She won't blow a whistle in the morning, we don't have one anymore. Now let's all get some rest, we have a busy day ahead of us…" Ruby said before they all finally settled down and went to sleep.

Ozpin's Office

"I lost my son… I want to kill Wasure, but I know Elen would not want revenge for our child…" Victor said before drinking down some of the vodka he had.

"I know that ever since Datred betrayed you and Jame's, you both have been working hard on finding him. You even thought he was dead after that explosion in that mining cave full of red Dust." Ozpin said as he looked out his office's large window.

"I guess he really is an immortal…" Victor said as he laid his arms and head down on Ozpin's desk and closed his eyes.

"Not exactly…" Ozpin said as he walked up to his desk and pulled out a yellow case file with some papers in it. "Read the last few pages and you'll find out your time warping friend isn't immortal…" He said before Victor sat up and looked at the file before taking it and started reading.

"Wait…" Victor said as he almost finished reading. "How the hell did THAT happen?" He asked, looking up at Ozpin.

"From what I can tell, Datred retreated to a cave after the incident at the Schnee manor; only to, for some reason, stab himself in the throat and then cut his own genitals off before he oddly ate himself, he died from the blood loss…" Ozpin said.

"Gruesome… but why would he do it?" Victor asked as he set down the papers on the desk.

"I don't think he did it to himself, rather I think something of a higher power made him do it…" Ozpin said before he grabbed his cane and started rubbing a cloth on it, cleaning some smudges on it. "It's most likely he actually killed himself either out of fear or was under control, either way, something powerful killed him." He said.

"Why something? What if it was a person?" Victor asked.

"It isn't a person, I know this for a fact. Though, you seem really calm for not locking up Datred…" Ozpin said, noticing how calm Victor was, even though he had the strongest determination to lock up Datred in prison.

"He might have turned my son into that creation, which… killed Elen… but I can't stop and complain about something that has passed now. Though I would have liked to see him behind bars if it was possible. Also… aren't you going to do anything about our intruder?" Victor asked before Ozpin paused and looked at him.

He quickly threw his cane up into the air and the sound of a dog in pain filled the air before a giant white dog with a black chest fell onto Ozpin's desk with his cane stuck in their side.

"Well, if it isn't Snowball, the dog of the Schnee family. What are you doing here?" Ozpin asked.

"Is it because of our discussion over Datred?" Victor asked.

The dog suddenly started giving a human chuckle, even though it was now bleeding from the cane still stuck inside them. "Why would you think I would be taking orders from a mere business family? I do not dwell in political affairs, I came here on terms of my own…" The white dog said.

"What do you mean?" Victor asked.

"Six weeks from now, Wasure and her team will fight her master. This fight will settle all things between Wasure and her master. You can aid Wasure's master in the fight, and obtain revenge for your son. You need not worry about killing Wasure, her master will take care of that." The dog answered. "I can feel the anger swelling inside you, you want that sweet revenge and you can get it without having to kill a soul…" He added.

"Six weeks you say…?" Victor said as he thought about it.

The white dog suddenly got on its feet and leapt towards Victor, an open jaw as he launched towards him. But suddenly the creature went past Victor and fell to the ground, with Victor holding a green Dust sword, blood dripping off the tip.

"Sorry, but sneak attacks don't work on me… even if I am a bit drunk…" Victor said before he gave a slight hiccup.

The dog's head suddenly turned around and jumped into the air, jaw wide open as it reached to grip into the back of Victor's throat. But the head was suddenly slammed down to the ground and there Ozpin stood, with his cane in hand.

"You forgot that a wolf can still bit with its head detached…" Ozpin said as he cleaned the blood off his cane with the cloth from before.

"I know, I know… probably would be dead right now if you didn't stop him…" Victor said, his voice starting to slur a bit.

"Is the alcohol finally setting?" Ozpin asked before Victor hiccuped, taking that as a yes.

"Siz weeks uh? I'll wait till then…" Victor said before he leaned his chair back onto its two back legs before it fell backwards and hit the floor, Victor was out cold.

"And you just make yourself right at home Victor… I'm not the one cleaning up the mess you made in my office…" He said before he walked towards the elevator, soon to leave his office as Victor slept with the dead pet of the Schnee family.

Emerald Forest

"They girls are taking what Wasure told them very calmly, they don't need anytime to process what just happened and what they have to do, and in such a sudden moment." The male Yang, wearing the white kimono said to his sister.

"You should know that Blake girl is already taking the situation rather calmly because you told her, Weiss is dealing with this calmly because our younger brother told her. I'm just guessing the two non-direct sisters are taking this rather calmly because they are basically just understanding the basic stuff." Yin said, picking her teeth with the bones of a dead Grimm she killed.

"In other words…" A deep male voice said, "All those two need to understand is, "Save Wasure, train hard to beat her mentor…" Is that how you're putting it?" The man in black said as he walked out of the shadows to join the other two, his katana and recently obtained broadsword nowhere to be seen on him.

"Brother!" Yin shouted as she flicked the bone-toothpick before pulling out both of her swords from their sheaths, they had the same designs as the man in black's broadsword.

Yin gave an insane smile with wide eyes before she ran up to the man in black and jumped high in to the air before coming back down with her swords raised above her head. The man in black just watched as she fell back down to the ground before she was within distance of hitting the man in black. She brought her swords down, but before she could even get her swords past her head, the man in black backhanded slapped Yin in the face before her entire momentum changed from following gravity downwards, to following the force of the slap and into several trees that laid ontop of her.

"An idiot as always…" Yang said, shaking his head.

"Round two!" Yin shouted as she suddenly jumped out from underneath all the trees and back into the air, only for the same thing to happen once she got near the man in black.

"Do you honestly think they will have enough time to even stand up to you? Don't you think six weeks is a bit… small?" Yang asked, ignoring her sisters constant attempts to try and hit the man in black, only to get slapped away with his back hand.

"There is a place in this world that has a higher gravitational pull than anywhere else. The air is thin and the place looks almost uninhabited by living creatures. It's also got a special thing about its location… it's the perfect place for their training. How strong they'll get, I'm not sure…" The man in black said after slapping his sister for the 24th time in a row.

"Round 25!" Yin said as she ran up to the man in black, only for Yang to suddenly have her in a headlock and snapped her neck.

He dropped her to the ground before she started snoring loudly, as if the neck snapping just put her to sleep.

"You two need to get going… you need to get back to work…" The man in black said before Yin suddenly faded away.

"We'll see you some time in the future young brother… it's hard to believe that this would happen... and I mean all this…" Yang said before he held out his arms out as if he was directing towards everything around them.

"Just get going…" The man in black said calmly.

"Of course, Chūsei…" Yang said before he faded away and the man in black was all alone in the Emerald Forest.