Chapter 1: The Gran Guinol Began
Being at the top is lonely and boring. Nobody knew of this fact more than Suigin, the Hadou God of Eternal Recurrence. For a very long time since he usurped the Throne from his predecessor, the Hadou God Myoujou, he had been watching over the universe, no, multiverse, playing with possibility, orchestrating events, trying to sate his infinite thirst for the unknown.
Sadly, when you're a nigh-omnipotent and omniscient God, finding something new that could stir you down to your very soul is downright impossible. Not when you have witnessed everything and created countless epic whether it was directly or indirectly.
Countless eons of observing and creating both heroes and demons or even minor drama got old when you are timeless and without equal. He had seen all possibilities, explore all tiniest changes in timelines, create and destroy worlds, and he is tired.
Unfortunately, as the supreme God that rules over the multiverse itself, dying is not exactly a course he could take lightly. Where's the fun in that? No matter how bored he is and how much he wanted things to end, just offing himself is too pedestrian and if there is anything he prides himself in then it is his ability to craft stories.
The world is his playground, and even if it is a boring playground as it is now, there might be a chance, a one in infinite chance it may be, that something would catch his attention.
Something does.
From time to time, when Suigin needs a more hands-on approach in his interference, he would create a Sensory to walk the mortal world, or worlds. A Sensory is like a representative or incarnation of a God in the mortal world. And currently, Allesandro di Cagliostro, Suigin's latest Sensory in a world known as Remnant found something interesting.
Remnant is a quaint little world which is different from earth and some others. For one thing, it is one of those worlds where magic exists, or existed in this case. This world came to be from a rather rare (relatively speaking) possibility where instead of a full pantheon or a single God ruling, two Gods came to be; the Brother Gods of Light and Darkness. Of course, Suigin is higher in the hierarchy being a multiversal God instead of one ruling a single world, but that's not important.
To make long story short, the present Remnant is a mere leftover of a once golden age of magic. That age ended when the people rebelled against the Gods and was killed for it, leaving only two people still alive from that era, and it is only because they are immortal… for a definition of immortal.
One is the witch that instigated the rebellion against the Gods in the first place and the other is, ironically, her husband who is cursed by the Gods to continuously reincarnate until he could stop his former wife from ending all life. That's the gist of it… ohh and the wife is in control of murderous beasts known as Grimm.
Of course, this is only the abridged version of the history and the detail is not really important. After all, such minor thing as history of a world cannot be compared to what Allesandro di Cagliostro just found.
"I have fallen in love with you. I want to kneel before you, Margueritte."
Among decapitated remains of Grimm and people, Cagliostro kneeled while holding the hand of a young girl in white dress. She has long curly blonde hair and she look at Cagliostro with tilted head. To onlookers, this is a strange and morbid sight. An adult man kneeling in front of a young girl while holding her hand, surrounded by decapitated corpses. What they didn't know is that this is a moment that would shape the very fate of the multiverse itself.
Sadly, that meeting ended up in tragedy. For the girl is cursed. The young girl was born under the blessing of the guillotine.
Margueritte Breuil was born fifty years before the Great War in Mistral. On the day of her birth, a man was set to be publicly executed via the guillotine, however, the headsman did not arrive. While the crowd wished for the man to be executed, no one actually wanted to commit the deed themselves. At the urging of Margueritte's mother, who was beginning to go into labor, the father eventually took up the task. At the moment he killed the man, Margueritte was born.
For the first ten year of her life, Margueritte was completely mute. Then, without seemingly any cause or warning, she began to relentlessly sing of filling the guillotines with blood. It was at this same time that her curse manifested, decapitating anyone who touched her. Her father abandoned her while her mother went insane. She was eventually deemed a witch and executed via the same guillotine she had been born under 17 years prior.
Cagliostro witnessed this personally. But what should have been the end of that story is actually just the beginning. At the moment of her decapitation, what everyone see is the death of an unnatural cursed being. But Cagliostro saw something else which reaffirmed why he was attracted to Margueritte in the first place.
What he saw was ascension.
Margueritte is a pure soul. Her soul is so pure and powerful that even comparing to the God of Light would make the God of Light be found wanting. And for the first time in eternity, Suigin found an equal as upon her death, Marie's soul did not enter the cycle of reincarnation. She ascended into an infant Goddess.
For the first time in a very long time, Allesandro di Cagliostro, the Hadou God Suigin, is genuinely smiling. It is not the usual snake-like smile of a schemer he tended to use but a genuine happy smile. Because here, at this moment, Suigin had found something he had never experienced before. Love. But the love of a God is not the same as the love of a human.
"It has been decided then. I wish to die on your lap."
Suigin thus declare. And at that moment, the fate of that particular world of Remnant was sealed. Suigin, the Mercurial Snake, smiled. Finally he had found something he want to do. Something he will put all his effort into creating. His last story, his Gran Guinol.
"Well then, everyone, listen to my opera. The plot is a conventional one, but the actors are good. The best, I believe."
-2 years before Beacon entrance-
Jaune Arc has a simple dream. To be a hero like his ancestor. His idea to do that is simple; become a huntsman and protect the people from Grimm. But that's not all there is to it of course. His other reason for wanting to be a huntsman is simple. He wanted to be close to his sister, Beatrice Arc.
Out of all his sisters, Jaune admired Beatrice the most, followed closely behind by Saphron. Beatrice was the nicest to him and doesn't tease him or embarrass him as much as his other sisters. She is also the only sister he has who became a huntress. She was strong and kind and beautiful, the kind of person he look up to, possibly even more than he look up to his own father.
She is also the only sister he has who is very much dead and buried.
It was during her defense of a frontier town about to be overrun by a large horde of Grimm, powerful Grimm at that. Reinforcement didn't manage to come in time and she and her team had to hold back the horde while evacuation is under way.
Eventually, when they realized that help won't come on time, the team made their last stand while protecting what civilian they could. The last two to stand are Beatrice and her partner, Kai. The survivors said that the two fought beyond their very limit and actually manage to decimate the horde, saving the remaining townspeople while dying in the process. When help did arrive, Beatrice and Kai had died in each other's arm.
It was a tale that inspired Jaune. He had heard tales of his ancestors being heroes who fought in the Great War but hearing his own sister becoming a hero is even more awe-inspiring. True it's sad that she died and of course he mourned with his family but he wanted to remember her in much more meaningful way. And that's why he wanted to follow in her footsteps.
Unfortunately, losing one of their daughter made his parents afraid that he will also ended up dead if he became a huntsman so they refused to enroll him into a combat school or even train him themselves.
Jaune understand their feeling, he truly does. He's fifteen, not stupid. He sometimes has nightmares where another one of his sisters or his parents coming home in a casket. It's a nightmare his whole family probably share after Beatrice's funeral. But he still wanted to be a huntsman anyway.
Still, it's easier said than done. He has no idea on where to start apart from keeping his body fit. He doesn't know what to train or even how to train. And so he found himself just hitting a tree with a stick most of the time. Then he got the asinine idea to actually look for a Grimm to fight.
It's a bad idea and deep inside, he knew it is a bad idea, but he is desperate and he had read books and comics where ordinary people were put in a dangerous situation manage to make do and become a hero so he figured that if he got into a real danger, his self-preservation instinct might help him get somewhere.
That's how he found himself in this situation.
"Aaaaahhhhh!"
Jaune's high pitched scream echoed throughout the forest as he ran away from a giant Deathstalker Grimm. About half an hour after he went into the forest, he was unlucky enough to find himself face to face with a Deathstalker Grimm. Basically a giant Grimm scorpion.
"If I survive this I swear to Oum I will never ever deliberately look for trouble again!"
Jaune Arc swore. At least he had wizened up. Now, if only he knew how to get out of this alive. The only thing he can do now is to run. The Deathstalker is just getting closer to him though and Soon it will reach him and kill him. He's not really keen on becoming Grimm food though so the Arc just kept running.
As he ran, he finally reached a clearing. In that clearing, there is a stone table and stabbed in the stone table is a weapon. The moment Jaune laid his eyes on the weapon though, something about it resonate with him. The weapon is a lance, a golden lance with large head. Feeling something from it, he quickly went to the stone table and grabbed the lance.
Guided by only his feeling, Jaune raised the lance and suddenly he felt his body be filled with power. The Deathstalker's movement now seems so much slower. Remembering the TV shows he watched where there are characters throwing javelins, he copied the movement and threw the lance. He didn't know why he did it. He certainly knew he had never thrown a javelin before but for some reason, he knew that no matter how he threw it, the lance will strike true.
Just like he thought, the lance suddenly accelerated despite his clumsy throw and it pierced the Deathstalker through its head. Jaune's eyes widened as he saw the impossibility. Just as he is questioning what just happened, he heard the sound of a person clapping from behind him.
"Remarkable. I never thought that I would see someon actually pull Longinus Lanze Testament from this stone."
Jaune turn around to see a handsome man with long dark hair tied halfway down dressed in black coat clapping. How did he get there?!
"Whaa?"
"I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Karl Ernst Kraft, and you, Jaune Arc, is the chosen one.
Karl introduced himself with a bow and a smirk. At that point in time, Jaune Arc didn't know it yet, but his fate had changed drastically with this meeting, a meeting that even the Gods would fear, because Suigin had arrived.
In another part of Remnant, in a small island of patch, a young girl is sleeping peacefully. Or at least she should be. Young Ruby Rose had just gotten back from visiting her mother's grave on the anniversary of her death. It was never a peaceful night for Ruby in that particular day. But today, it is different.
When Ruby opened her eyes, she finds herself not in her room or any place familiar. Instead, she found herself staring at a twilight sky on a sandy beach. She remembered going to sleep in her room so why is she here? Is this a dream? She's not sure as she thinks this is a dream but it doesn't feel like a dream.
"Dad? Yang?"
Ruby called out to her family, looking around as she does so. After a while, she's starting to feel worried… that is until she heard a song.
"Blood, blood blood, it wants blood. Offer the blood to the guillotine. Blood to quench the guillotine's thirst."
Ruby followed the direction of the voice. She ran and ran and ran until…
Right, this is too soon but I have a more solid idea for RWBY/Dies Irae crossover this time. Consider the old one a pilot chapter or a prototype. This time, the story takes place before the world of Anima Entelecheia. This took place in the world of Omega Ewigkeit, Suigin's world. That means Tasogare is not yet Goddess. I am taking a bit more liberty here and adapts Dies Irae to RWBY and also changing some things to make it fresh. Currently, I have several stories featuring Dies Irae and Lord Heydrich is definitely the primary antagonist. So this time I would like to take a different path and have Suigin really take the role as final boss with Lord Heydrich's position be taken by RWBY's Jauney Boy. Or we should refer to him as Lord Arc now. Unlike Lord Heydrich, Jaune will start out weak so this won't be a rehearsal of Dies Irae, at least not fully. And I think it is obvious who will be wielding Margueritte Bois du Justice in here. Also, before someone bring it up, I won't be nerfing Dies Irae's power level. Remember that Ewigkeit won't work fully in a one-sided slaughter. The Swastika can only be opened with real battle. And since Suigin is the final boss, be assured that even if things started off nerfed, I will not hold back for the finale.