Speaking to self

Conversation with Xeno


When the duo traversed through the portal they found themselves in the middle of nowhere in a forest.

"Well then, isn't this a good start…" Joseph sighed. "Let's get moving. Staying here won't get us anywhere." Joseph said.

Joseph felt less strained and more relieved. Even though the death of Cayde still lingers in his mind, this was good enough not to be worrying a lot about the Dreaming City. He trusts Lillie, his Fireteams and his raid team. He just wishes that he could be with them, fighting along their side.

"I'm here to rehabilitate myself. I'm too stressed in the work field. Heh, good thing exploration is one of my favorite things to do on my free time." Joseph says to himself.

The Guardian continued to move through the forest to find himself in front of a temple or some kind of shrine with pedestals that holds small objects. The two went in for a closer look.

Joseph gave a perplexed face and picked up a pawn from the pedestal. "Chess pieces?" Joseph said as he examined the black pawn.

"Two heat signatures behind you Joseph!" Xeno said.

Joseph quickly drawn Ace and pointed up a small cliff at two young females.

One was a fair-skinned, black wavy haired young female with a bow that moves in an odd way. She had amber eyes and wore a lightweight black and white outfit with a small scarf around her neck and stockings with a color gradation of black to purple. She had a strange looking sword on her back.

The young female next to her was a fair-skinned, bright golden hair that fades to a pale gold at the tips with a cowlick sticking on the top. She has lilac eyes and wore a tan jacket that bares her midriff over her yellow low cut crop top with an black colored emblem on the left breast. She has a pair of black mini shorts with a brown belt with brown pleated material, hip to hip around the back of her waist. Under the belt was a long white cloth, like a Titan mark reaching to her knee on the right side. She has brown high knee boots and orange, over-the-knee socks. One of her socks are pushed down and a bandana tied to her left knee. She has a pair of yellow gauntlets over a pair black fingerless gloves.

Joseph lowered Ace, "Shit, I almost shot you two!" Joseph yelled.

"Good thing you didn't." Said the golden haired girl. "How'd you know we were there? As soon as we saw you, you drew your gun at us." She said.

Joseph holstered Ace, "I'm always aware of my surroundings. I always listen carefully just in case enemies are near." Joseph said. "Anyhow, what's with these uh… chess prices?" Asked Joseph.

"These must be the relics we need to take to pass the initiation test." Said the black haired girl.

"Initiation test?" Joseph said "Let's roll with it." Joseph looked around to notice some pieces are missing.

"Some of them are missing." Said the golden haired girl. "Looks like we weren't the first ones here."

"Well… I guess we should pick one." The black haired girl said.

The three looked around to see what chess piece they like the most.

Meanwhile outside the forest…

A middle aged man with silver hair sipped his cup of coffee while examining the unknown participant at the temple.

"Who the hell is this kid?" Asked a middle aged woman with blonde hair. "He was not part of the registered participants!" She said sharply. "What should we do Professor Ozpin?" The woman asked.

The man who's name is Ozpin, sip his cup of coffee and continued to examine the unknown participant "We watch." Ozpin replies.

"What! What if he is a spy or trying to invade the school?" Asked the woman.

"We don't know that for sure Glynda." Ozpin says. "We should examine him while we can. If he follows the students back to us, we will detain him and then we ask the questions." Said Ozpin.

Ozpin continues to watch the participant with Blake and Yang.

Yang stared at the golden Knight piece "Hmm…" Yang then picked up the Knight. "How about a cute little pony?" She asked Blake.

Blake smiled, "Sure" she said as she rolled her eyes.

The stranger picked up the black pawn. "Heh, if it were me, I'd choose the pawn." The stranger said.

"But why? Aren't they the most useless out of all the pieces?" Asked Yang.

The stranger shook his head "Not quite." He tossed the pawn up in the air, "You see, pawns are the strongest out of all pieces." He claims. "Pawns can be anything, IF you are able to reach it to the end. When you do, you can exchange the pawn for a higher ranking piece, such as another queen. That means that you have two queens in the battlefield." He catches the pawn and placed it back to the pedestal. "People just believes that pawns are under-rated, borderline useless and just a one-time usage." He says.

"Wow… I never really thought about it that way…" Said Yang. "You sure do know a lot about chess, uh…"

The stranger pointed to himself "Joseph Anderson." He says. "And yes, I played a lot of chess when I was young, still do on my free time." Joseph says.

"Hi Joseph!" Yang says cheerfully. "I'm Yang! And the girl with black hair is Blake!" She says.

"It looks like the boy doesn't know what's going on. Like, he is from another world." Ozpin said

"What makes you so sure?" Asked Glynda.

"He appeared out of nowhere, his clothing is unlike anyone else's and that logo." Ozpin zoomed into Joseph and pointed at a logo on his chest holster. The logo looked like a bolder orange V with an additional slanted line on the right part of the V. "That logo is not any logo I've seen in Remnant…" says Ozpin. "The boy must've came through a rift to go to our world either unwillingly or on purpose…"

"I will go after him as soon as he attacks the students or when he comes back with them," said Glynda

Ozpin continues to watch Joseph through his data pad as a loud girly scream echoed the area.


So, after watching a video from byf about the consequences when we slayed the Undying Mind , I wonder... if we are able to prevent the inevitable end. Because just hearing the end gave me the fucking chills. Also, I REALLY wanna know what killed us permanently during the CoT (Corridors of Time). Plus with the CoT being a thing for a bit, I wonder if they are going to give us a chance to save the man, the myth, the legend Cayde-6! because that'll make my day but... doing so won't make a nice plot for Uldren... welp, guess we'll find out later on the seasons or the years.

hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Advice would be gratefully helpful!