Sorry this took so long.
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Willow Schnee was known to be an impassive person, but impassive does not mean uncaring. She had taken this attitude once her father handed the company over to her husband. She was hoping that her daughter might be able to put the company back to how it used to be, and she was also curious as to the strange feeling of foreboding that was emerging with this next vision.
Darkness gives way to reveal the words:
"Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow, for the heart has no metrics or forms of measure. And all of it... irreplaceable."
Willow frowned as she read those words, her own mother had said that very quote to her as a child. The fact that it showed up there was not helping her foreboding.
"That is a somewhat sad statement, don't you think?" was Taiyang's reaction to the quote and his team seemed to agree.
The black closes in again just as an amplified voice is heard saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome... Weiss Schnee."
This came as a surprise to everyone in the room, although seeing as there was already a Schnee child, Winter, it really should not have been. Willow was surprised that a child of hers would be a part of these visions.
A young girl in white with a barely visible scar over her left eye walks out on stage. A spotlight focuses on her as a piano plays the opening of chords of a song before a crowd of people, who are occasionally taking pictures from their places in the stands around the castle that they appear to be in. She closes her eyes and begins to sing.
"Mirror, tell me something. Tell me who's the loneliest of all..."
Everyone went silent at the lines of the song, some listened to the lyrics and music while others took a look at the girl and wondered if the song had any personal meaning to her.
While she sings, the view pans down into her scar-free reflection on the stage, the world seems to tilt until she opens her eyes and finds herself in another place, the light shifting until a warrior in giant armor with an enormous broadsword appears in front of her. She flips away just as the armor brings its blade down on where she was, and she continues to sing the song in the background while the flashback continues.
"The girl is going to fight that!?" was the immediate outburst of most of the females in the room, sans Willow and Raven.
"So it would seem," was Ozpin's answer in a calm tone, "but the fight has only just begun so we shall see how she does."
"Mirror, tell me something. Tell me who's the loneliest of all?"
Weiss unsheathes her rapier, and darts forward, striking her enemy before twirling into a landing. The Giant Armor swings its blade at her again, but she dashes away and lands several blows on the creature. It retaliates when she is in the air from trying to stab higher, arcing its sword around and attempting to hit Weiss, but she brings up her sword just in time to make the blow merely knock her back.
"The girl has some very good skills," Raven commented, "She has to be in order to use a rapier like that to not only strike at the armor, but to also block the blade from striking her."
The civilians took her word for it, while the hunters looked at the scene and saw what she did. Willow felt a small amount of pride in her apparent future daughter, before frowning and wondering about the scar on her face.
When she slows her momentum, Weiss looks up to see the Giant Armor leaping into the air and striking down at her with its sword, then quickly swinging it back up in an effort to hit its fast-moving target. It finally strikes her blade again, and she is knocked away until she rolls back on to her feet.
"Fear of, what's inside of me. Tell me can a heart be turned to stone?"
A white energy gathers on her fingertips, and Weiss motions to the ground beneath her, a snowflake symbol appears and propels her forward at extreme speeds. Despite the Giant Armor's attempts to strike her, Weiss disappears and reappears all around it, leaping through the air using her semblance and landing a blow on the creature with each pass.
"Well, if that doesn't prove that she's a Schnee nothing will." was Qrows reaction to that last scene.
"What do you mean Qrow?" Summer asked.
"The Schnees have a hereditary semblance, only they have it, and only they will ever have it."
That statement was explanation enough, though no one saw Willow form a small glyph in her hand and look at it as if deep in thought.
After a slash to the face, the Giant Armor aims at Weiss' feet with its sword, she leaps over it and gets struck in the head by the creatures fist. Weiss is launched back yet again, but this time, her attempt to get back up is weak and unsure. A worried Weiss closes her eyes, and outside of the flashback, the spotlight suddenly cuts out.
Everyone looked worried for the girl in their own way, although most of the hunters thought that Jacques was more worried for the legacy that girl indicated than for the girl herself.
The moon makes itself known when the clouds in front of it pass, illuminating Weiss in its light as she sings, her eyes still closed. In the flashback, she stands back up, eyeing the Giant Armor while blood trails down the left side of her face, and she holds out her sword, spinning the revolver in the hilt until her blade lights up with a red energy. The Giant Armor runs towards her and attempts to slam its sword down onto her, but she meets it with her rapier and it is deflected with a burst of red light.
Summer was the first to react to this, "She's a Dust user!"
Glynda started watching much more closely to see what types she would use and her tactics within this fight. The Schnees actually looked somewhat proud with Jacques having a more family oriented pride, while Willow seemed proud of the girl, while also seeming somewhat sad at her injury.
"Mirror, mirror, what's behind you? Save me from the things I see! I can keep it from the world. Why won't you let me hide from me?"
Weiss switches the cylinders color and spins, a cyan light creating a wave of ice when she stabs her blade into the ground that freezes the Giant Armor in place. It swings at her again, but Weiss runs forward and jumps onto the creatures blade. Her rapier is now glowing yellow, she rolls on the blade and strikes at her foe, destroying the ice crystals but knocking the creatures weapon away and impaling it into the ground. She rotates the hilt of her rapier again and a snowflake circle spins under her when the Giant Armor tries to slam its fist down on her, but she rolls out of the way of the attack and activates the glyph, which launches the warrior up into the air and it becomes trapped by Weiss' beams of blue energy coming from several small glyphs creating binds on the creatures arms, legs and torso.
Most people in the room leaned forward at this point, eager to see how the battle ends, and Glynda was near salivating at the Dust and Aura techniques that the girl was using. Willow was looking at the tactics her future daughter was using in conjunction with her semblance, and was very pleased at her skill.
"Mirror, mirror, tell me something. Who's the loneliest of all?"
With one final leap into the air and while her real self singing the last lines of her song, her rapier glows with white markings on its blade and Weiss falls towards the Giant Armor. When her attack is finishes she lands in a crouch, and the black hollows of the enemy light up as the creature crashes to the ground in a shower of ice and snow behind her.
"I'm the loneliest of all."
That final line of the song everyone realizes that the song truly was about her, Willow wondered how her life was for the girl to feel like that and started to feel some form of shame.
Surprisingly, the blonde woman, Amelia, was the one to say something that she noticed, "The girl had a similar position to the red-cloaked girl in front of the moon, did anyone else see that or was it just me?", Everyone else thought about that and agreed with her.
Weiss gets up and closes her eyes, finishing the song to a gentle shower of snowflakes and a roar of applause from her audience. She opens her eyes and looks around as if in a daze, then peers up at the slightly-shattered moon above her.
She dips her head and bows to the crowd as the curtains close around her, followed closely by RWBY's title and the silhouettes of its characters, with the girl in red already being there and Weiss' image showing up next to her. The screen changes to falling snow and a snowflake flies across the screen before it fades to black.
"Well, that's two of the people in that image now." was the very obvious statement from Qrow.
"I agree with you , as does everyone else," was Ozpin's dry response to Qrows comment, "and as such we should be fairly sure that the next one will play shortly, and I will also assume that the next person will also be related to someone in this room, as like the past two people." Any further comments were cut off by the wall beginning to show the next vision almost immediately after Ozpin finished his analysis.
Now, I said last chapter that I will not be bashing the Schnees, and this is still true. However, while I will still not be all that kind to Jacques, I am going to try to redeem Weiss' mother, I see her as someone who gave up because of what her husband has done to her family's legacy as was illustrated at the beginning of the chapter, so there's that. Read and Review.