Meant to get this out yesterday but oh well.
I Do Not Own RWBY
Most of the people in the room were nearly on the edge of their seats as they watched the next vision begin, a few nearly dropped their food because of it and quickly returned to a more stable seat.
An artistic image of Beacon Academy is shown as a woman's voice starts to speak.
"Legends. Stories scattered through time. Mankind has grown quite fond of recounting the exploits of heroes and villains, forgetting so easily that we are remnants, byproducts, of a forgotten past."
Ozpin jolted in his seat at the woman's voice, which caused Glynda to ask her employer, "Do you recognise this voice Ozpin?"
Ozpin responded with a single nod at Glynda before turning back to the vision with a single thought in his mind; 'What is Salem's importance in all this?'
The gems in the image glow green and fade to show simple pictures of a man rising from the earth before being surrounded by creatures, barely held back by warriors.
"Man, born from dust," the voice continued, "was strong, wise, and resourceful, but he was born into an unforgiving world. An inevitable darkness — creatures of destruction — the creatures of Grimm - set their sights on man and all of his creations. These forces clashed, and it seemed the darkness was intent on returning man's brief existence to the void."
Black sets in, then suddenly lessens as a light shines, then grows brighter and brighter until a gem rises from it and lowers itself into the hands of a man.
"However, even the smallest spark of hope is enough to ignite change, and in time, man's passion, resourcefulness, and ingenuity led them to the tools that would help even the odds. This power was appropriately named 'Dust'."
"Does anyone know how that name is appropriate by any chance?"
This question was posed by Qrow to the room, and Goodwitch was the one to give a response, "The name "Dust" is a reference to the fact that mankind was born from dust Mr. Branwen."
Team STRQ and a few of the civilians looked somewhat interested at this fact before they turn back towards the vision.
The scene zooms out to show men shooting lightning, raising swords, and aiming rifles at the retreating beasts as a castle appears behind them.
"Nature's wrath in hand, man lit their way through the darkness, and in the shadow's absence came strength, civilization, and most importantly, life."
The castle zooms out to show a map of Remnant, which houses other buildings until they disappear in flashes of white and the map is lowered to show the scattered moon over a city at night.
"But even the most brilliant lights eventually flicker and die. And when they are gone... darkness will return."
Summer reacted somewhat indignantly to this statement as she said with a huff, "Well, she sounds very sure of herself."
Raven's response was somewhat more thought out, "Humanity isn't going to be around forever Summer," she said to her leader, "Eventually we are going to die out and there will be nothing to stop the forces of grimm from reclaiming remnant."
Summer looked at Raven and then turned away with a huff, disgruntled. Raven just sighed and ignored her partners childish antics.
A man in a white coat with a bowler hat and four of his henchmen head down an alley from the shadows. They stop behind the coated man, who reignites his cigar without touching it and grins before walking down the road, frightening nearby citizens as they make their way towards the shop From Dust Till Dawn.
The woman's voice takes on a distinctly menacing tone as she continues to speak, "So you may prepare your guardians, build your monuments to a so-called 'free world', but take heed... there will be no victory in strength."
Everyone went silent at the voice this time, the tone of voice was somewhat disturbing. It is rare that you hear a voice with that level of menace in a persons voice. The hunters in the group seem wary about what will happen in these visions if someone like that was to show up in them.
The man and his henchmen enter the shop, the view point lowering to show a young girl wearing a hooded red cloak in the corner of the shop, reading a weapons magazine.
The voice of Professor Ozpin broke in here, "But perhaps victory is in the simpler things that you've long forgotten. Things that require a smaller, more honest soul."
Qrow smirked at the sound of his headmasters voice and decided to make a small joke of it, "Hey Professor, how does narrating feel?"
Ozpin simply had a small smile at Qrow's comment that grew slightly wider when the other Branwen smacked her brother on the head to get him to be quiet.
The henchmen look around and at the Dust crystals in the display when the coated man approaches the elderly shopkeeper. He flicked his cigar as he spoke to the shopkeeper, "Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a Dust shop open this late?"
One of the henchman points his gun at the shopkeeper, who raises his hand and panics, "P-please! Just take my Lien and leave!"
The thief spoke up at this point, "Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh, calm down, we're not here for your money," he turns to address the henchmen following him, "Grab the Dust."
One of the henchmen opens up a case and removes one of several cylinders, which the group uses to take Dust from the tube containers on the walls.
Another one of the henchmen places an open case on the display in front of the shopkeeper he then demands, "Crystals. Burn. Uncut."
The shopkeeper proceeds to fill the case. As another henchman goes for another tube, he hears a muted song coming from down an aisle causing him to look in the girl's direction. He notices her and unsheathes his sword, which he then points at her and speaks.
"Is that girl just ignoring everything going on?" Raven asks.
Summer is the one who responds, "She probably can't hear what's going on over her music."
Raven puts her face in her hands after Summer speaks, realising that she is almost certainly correct. Her brother gives her an amused look but says nothing.
"Alright kid, put your hands where I can see 'em," when the henchman gets no response, he tries again, "Hey, I said hands in the air! You got a death wish or something!?"
He goes over to the kid and turns her around as he asks the question, the hood dropping to reveal a surprised Ruby Rose wearing headphones. He motions for her to lower them with a slight look of irritation on his face.
The girl pulls the headphones down to her neck, with the music still going as she responds the the henchman, "Yes?"
"I said, put your hands in the air, now!" The henchman says this with an undertone of annoyance at the seemingly naïve girl.
"Are you... robbing me?" Ruby asks.
Tai was the voice that sounded out this time "Yes. Yes he is."
The females of his team gave him a look while the other male simply let out a chuckle.
The henchman responds with a very annoyed, "Yes!"
"Ooohhh..." she says this with a small smile on her face.
The coated man is waiting for his men to finish the heist when a masculine "Hey!" and female sounding "Hyah!" are heard, and the henchman who was threatening the girl flies past him, smashing into something offscreen. The man calmly motions for another henchman to handle Ruby.
The henchman runs down the aisle and points his gun at the girl while telling her to, "Freeze!"
The perspective cuts to outside of the shop, when the henchman and Ruby come crashing through the window. The other henchmen look outside, one missing his hat, as Ruby gets up and unfolds her scythe completely. The coated man scowls, but Ruby smiles back at them before twirling the scythe around herself before striking the blade into the ground and turning off her headphones.
"The blade twirl was pointlessly flashy, I like it."
That was Qrows comment on the girls movements so far, while there had been nearly nothing to comment on. Raven decided to talk to her brother about that.
"She hasn't done any fighting except that so far! What exactly are you judging her on?"
Most everyone stared at the twins as they fought, save for their teammates and teachers. The vision even stopped so nothing big was missed. This went on until Summer decided to intervene, "Enough you two! We want to watch these visions not you two fighting."
Tai wanted to say that them fighting was more entertaining, but he saw that Summer was getting annoyed so he stayed quiet for his own safety. The twins clearly noticed the same thing as they snapped away from their argument and turned back to the, now playing, vision.
"Okayyy..." the leader paused before he spoke to his remaining henchmen, "Get her!"
The henchmen head out of the shop and run at Ruby, who raises herself up and spins around on top of her scythe and kicks the first approaching criminal in the face. She uses her momentum to pull her scythe out of the ground and fires it off once to spin around and hit another one under the chin with the butt of her weapon, sending him flying. She uses her momentum to spin and smashes the back of her scythe down on one attacker and dodges the next's gunfire with her rifle's shots, getting close enough to knock him into the air and follow him upwards where she smashes him away to the coated mans feet.
The man looks down at the henchman by his feet and speaks sarcastically, "You were worth every cent. Truly, you were."
"Never hire rent-a-thugs, you don't get quality you just get quantity."
It was a testament to how well known this was that every person in the room nodded in agreement with Qrows comment
He then speaks to Ruby, while dropping his cigar and crushing it with his cane as approaching police sirens are heard, "Well, Red, I think we can all say it's been an eventful evening, and as much as I'd love to stick around..." he raises his cane as he says this and opens the bottom to reveal a rifle with a cross grid, "...I'm afraid this is where we part ways."
The man shoots a red blast at Ruby, who fires her rifle at the ground and leaps over the blast. When she lands and looks up, Roman isn't there. She looks around and sees him climbing up a ladder on a nearby building.
Summer seemed reluctantly impressed with how fast the man seemed to be, "That is somewhat impressive that he managed to get to the ladder that quickly."
Her partner gave her own thoughts, "Skilled criminals are usually very good at escaping from trouble."
Tai and Qrow nodded in agreement with Raven's statement.
Ruby looks at the shopkeeper and asks, "You okay if I go after him?"
The shopkeeper gives a short "Uh huh", and Ruby sets off.
The criminal makes it to the roof, with Ruby's gun sounding as she appears in the air and lands right behind him.
"Hey!"
Qrow deadpanned at this, "Really... 'Hey!' was the best she could do?"
His team once again ignored his somewhat stupid comment.
The man stops at the edge of the building, and gives a very annoyed sounding, "Persistent..."
Ruby readies to fight him, but a Bullhead flies up and opens the hatch to allow Roman inside.
The man turns around and holds up a red Dust gem, "End of the line, Red." He states just before throwing it out at her feet, he then fires fires at her, resulting in a large explosion, blocking his view of the blonde woman landing in front of her.
The man gives a maniacal laugh which stops when he sees something on the roof, giving rise to a confused "Huh?"
A woman in a purple cape is seen in front of Ruby, casting a purple circle of protection in front of them with her wand.
Team STRQ looked somewhat surprised to see Glynda standing there, of course that did not stop Qrow from stating the obvious.
"Hey look, it's you Professor Goodwitch!"
Glynda just looks at Qrow and states, "Yes, Mr. Branwen, I can see that."
The rest of his team laugh at his put out face after she doesn't give any significant reaction.
As Ruby looks on, Glynda waves her weapon and sends several streaks of purple energy at the ship. The man is thrown around in the ship until he gets to the cockpit, where a woman in a red dress, with her face unseen, is struggling with the controls.
"We got a Huntress!"
Glynda glows purple for a brief moment and launches another blast above the craft, which creates a dark storm-cloud right over the bullhead.
The thief lets out a confused, "The hell...?"
Glynda gives a flick of her wand, causing large jagged hail to start falling that pummels and pierces the jet and one even breaks through the window, narrowly missing the thief's head.
Qrow gulps and makes a mental note to not anger Goodwitch to the point she uses that technique on him.
As if she heard his thoughts, she turns and looks at him with a small smirk causing him to gulp again and look away.
The woman in red reaches the back of the ship and her arms and chest light up, she then launches a burst of fiery energy at Glynda. The Huntress blocks it, but the flame splatters behind her and glows hot when the woman raises her hand. Glynda flips away from the explosion, which destroys part of the roof, and telekinetically gathers the shards of the roof to create a large spear, which she throws at the aircraft. The fiery woman shatters the arrow with several blasts, but it is reformed just in time to strike the side of jet due to the man's quick aerial lean. The wreckage separates and reshapes into serpentine shapes that encircle the jet, but the woman in the ship summons several glowing rings around herself that expand and destroy the shards.
Ozpin silently started to panic, the combination of abilities that the woman was using were only possible with the power of a Maiden, which meant that at least one maiden was not on the side of humanity. He was now very scared as he remembered the letter stating that secrets would be revealed and he now figured out why it said that.
Glynda raised her eyebrow at seeing her boss tense up. Clearly he saw something that made him panic but she discarded it, the issue would probably be addressed at some point or another.
Ruby, who finally has a chance to act without interfering, switches her scythe into its rifle form to fire at the woman, who simply blocks each shot with her hand. The woman then creates several blazing circles around her two opponents. Glynda telekinetically pushes Ruby out of the way and rolls herself out of the explosion's radius. She looks up to see the hatch close and the craft fly away.
Ruby looks at Glynda and speaks, "You're a Huntress," she then puts on a pleading, awe-stricken face and asks, "Can I have your autograph?!"
Glynda seemed to go into shock at the question from the girl on the screen, causing STRQ to laugh before being silenced by a death glare from her.
The scene shifts to a dark room where Ruby's amazed face has turned to one of shame as Glynda, with a tablet scroll, paces around the table Ruby is seated at, while Ruby sits right underneath a bright light.
"I hope that you realize that your actions tonight will not be taken lightly, young lady." Glynda says, "You put yourself and others in great danger."
"They started it!" was Ruby's protest.
Glynda ignored Ruby as she continued, "If it were up to me, you'd be sent home... With a pat on the back..." she notices Ruby smile as she says this "...And a slap on the wrist." she demonstrates by bringing her wand down on the table, which Ruby barely gets her hands away from with a squeak, before continuing, "But... there is someone here who would like to meet you."
STRQ were somewhat enjoying the little interrogation, though Summer also seemed slightly annoyed, but they all looked confused when Goodwitch said that someone was there to meet her. Who would be there to meet her in a police station?
She moves out of the way of thee door so that a surprised Ruby can see a man in green come through the doorway, holding a mug and a plate of cookies.
"Ruby Rose," at this, he leans in to look at her face before continuing, "You... have silver eyes."
"Congratulations Professor you stated the obvious!"
Qrow seemed oblivious to the tension that had turned up when Ozpin said that. Summer looked at him with suspicion, he clearly knew something since she recalled what her (Future) daughter had said about the Silver-Eyed warriors. Summer was now even more curious about these powers, and Ozpin could clearly tell as he seemed to be slightly fidgeting under her look.
Ruby seems confused for a moment before Ozpin gestures at a video of Ruby's fight on the tablet Glynda was holding and speaks, "So! Where did you learn to do this?"
"S-Signal Academy." was her reply.
"They taught you to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?" Ozpin asked the young girl.
"Well, one teacher in particular."
"I see..."
Quite a few people just stared at the screen, 'I see' was his only reaction to that statement?
He puts the cookies in his hand down on the table in front of Ruby. She tentatively picks one up and eats it in a single bite, and then, once she does not see any rebuttal, proceeds to shovel the rest of them into her mouth.
As Ruby is eating Ozpin continues speaking, "It's just that I've only seen one other scythe-wielder of that skill before. A dusty, old crow..."
Ruby speaks through her full mouth at first, "Oh! That's my uncle!" she then swallows and wipes her mouth as she realises how that looked before speaking again, "Sorry. That's my Uncle Qrow! He's a teacher at Signal. I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing. And now, I'm all like— Hooowaaah! Witchaaaa!" she proceeds to make some karate-style poses and noises after she says this.
Qrows team all look at him before looking at each other and bursting out into laughter. Qrow was staring at the screen in shock, before he took a swig of the drink he had in his hand and rubbed his temples at the thought of becoming a teacher.
Ozpin seems slightly entertained as he responds with, "So I've noticed." he places his cup on the table as he leans in and sits down on the other side of the table from Ruby, "And what is an adorable girl such as yourself doing at a school designed to train warriors?"
"Well... I want to be a Huntress." Ruby responds earnestly.
"You want to slay monsters?"
"Noooo," came from a sarcastic Qrow, "She want's to slay monkeys, of course she wants to slay grimm Ozpin."
Ozpin simply held his head in embarrassment at his future self.
"Yeah." she replies, "I only have two more years of training left at Signal, and then I'm going to apply to Beacon!" she begins speaking faster and faster as well as seeming more enthusiastic, "You see, my sister's starting there this year, and she's trying to become a Huntress, and I'm trying to become a Huntress 'cause I wanna help people. My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, Hey, I might as well make a career out of it!" she giggles before continuing, "I mean the police are alright, but Huntsmen and Huntresses are just so much more romantic and exciting and cool and really, gosh, you know!" she flips out as she says the last part, staring at the two with a wide, somewhat crazy smile.
Glynda and Ozpin study her for a moment before the man speaks, "Do you know who I am?"
Ruby calmly responds as if her previous outburst didn't happen, "You're Professor Ozpin. You're the headmaster at Beacon."
Ozpin smiles as he responds, "Hello."
"Nice to meet you."
"You want to come to my school?" Ozpin asks the girl in red.
Ruby replied with, "More than anything."
"Why is he asking that?" Summer wondered.
Ozpin gulped, if he was right he knew exactly what was about to happen and his assistant was not going to be happy about it. He could already feel the headache he was going to get from the speech she was going to give him.
Ozpin exchanges a glance with Glynda, who shows her disapproval with a "Hmmph" and a turn of her head, before he turns back to Ruby, "Well, okay."
Ruby smiles, wide-eyed and open-mouthed.
The scene shifts to show one Yang Xiao Long as she tackles her sister in a hug aboard the large airship to Beacon. Said sister has the smile that was on her face slowly fall as the blonde starts crushing the air out of her.
"Oh, I can't believe my baby sister is going to Beacon with me! This is the best day ever!" the blonde exclaims.
"Well, it's confirmed that they are indeed related."
The looks he got from the females of his team caused him to quickly shut his mouth and keep watching.
Ruby is gasping from a lack of air as she speaks, "Please stop."
Yang releases her sister and steps back while speaking, "But I'm so proud of you!"
"Really Sis, it was nothing."
The hunters were surprised by this, she thought that what she did was nothing? A lot of trainee hunters wouldn't have been able to do what she did so effectively.
Quite frankly she deserved the praise.
"What do you mean? It was incredible!" Yang exclaims, "Everyone at Beacon is going to think you're the bee's knees."
"I don't want to be the 'bee's knees', okay?" Ruby says, "I don't want to be any kind of knees! I just want to be a normal girl with normal knees."
"What's with you? Aren't you excited?" Yang asks her sister.
"Of course I'm excited... I just..." Ruby sighs before explaining "I got moved ahead two years. I don't want people to think I'm special or anything."
Yang goes over and gives her sister a one-armed hug as she tries to reassure her, "But you are special."
"So, Ruby seems to be insecure while Yang is supportive," Summer said, "These girls seem to be really good, and close, sisters."
If anyone disagreed they made no noise about it.
The girls' attention is drawn to the newscast on Vale News Network playing nearby, talking about the robbery and showing the coated man's mug shot.
A newscaster was heard speaking, "The robbery was led by nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick, who continues to evade authorities. If you have any information on his whereabouts, please contact the Vale Police Department. Back to you, Lisa."
The mugshot changes to another newscaster, with a photo of animal-eared demonstrators holding signs saying 'WE ARE NOT ANIMALS!' as she begins to speak, "Thank you, Cyril. In other news, this Saturday's Faunus Civil Rights protest turned dark when members of the White Fang disrupted the ceremony." the image changed to a logo of a growling red wolf's head with three scratch marks, as Lisa continued, "The once peaceful organization has now disrupted..."
The vision paused here as everyone turned to the faunus couple. Ghira seemed to have gotten depressed by this, and while his wife seemed to be trying to comfort him he could be heard repeating, "Where did I go wrong?"
Everyone gave him a moment before the vision began again, they will give him time to come to terms with this.
The news feed is cut off and a hologram of Glynda replaces it, which begins to speak.
"Hello, and welcome to Beacon!"
"Who's that?" Yang asks.
Her question is answered very quickly, "My name is Glynda Goodwitch."
"Pointless question ahoy!"
Once again, Qrow was ignored. He just gave his team a dirty look while Goodwitch stared at him in exasperation.
Yang simply let out an "Oh." in response before the hologram continues speaking, "You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy! Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world." the hologram then disappears once it finishes speaking.
Several cries of surprise are heard as ruby looks out a window in awe, "Oh, wow! Look, you can see Signal from up here!" Ruby looks through the window at the town below and continues to talk to her sister, "I guess home isn't too far after all!"
"Beacon's our home, now." Yang says.
Team STRQ all smiled at that, it was true, Beacon became a second home for the trainees there.
The professors both smiled at that, the teachers try very hard to make their students feel at home, it is nice to know that all the work is good for something.
The two hear someone groaning and see them hunched over nearby, running towards the back of the ship.
Yang rolls her eyes while speaking, "Well... I guess the view isn't for everyone."
"It was a nice moment while it lasted." Ruby said in agreement with her sister.
The view changes to show the ship approaching Beacon across a large body of water, while the sisters voices could still be heard.
"I wonder who we're gonna meet?" Ruby could be heard asking, "I just hope they're better than Vomit Boy." There is a moments pause before, "Oh, Yang, gross! You have puke on your shoe!"
Yang's voice was next heard, "Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross, gross, gross, gross!"
Ruby sounded very panicked as she spoke, "Get-Get away! Get away from me! Get away from me! Get away from me! Get away from me!"
The scene then fades to black.
Team STRQ had fallen over laughing at the sisters reactions while Amelia was looking curious.
Stavros noticed this and turned to the woman, "What is it?"
She shook herself and responded, "Nothing, I just think that the blonde bot may have been my child."
The man looked surprised but simply nodded.
Everyone looked at the wall where the visions normally showed, but it had returned to a normal wall. Clearly they were being given some time for the Belladonnas to speak to one another and get over the shock of this vision.
Once they realised this the Belladonnas moved away from the group a small amount to speak while everyone else got up to do other things before the next vision.
Not my best work so far but... meh.
Sorry this took so long I was moving so I couldn't get as much time to write. The conversation with the Belladonnas will be the beginning of the next chapter, or it's own depending on how long it runs.
There will be more comments from people other than STRQ, Ozpin, and Glynda in the next chapter once WB and Jaune start being introduced.
The poll on my profile will be up until the teams finish the initiation.
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