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."
"Anyone have any idea of what that could mean?" Neptune asked no one in particular receiving various no's in return.
"I think I might have an idea." Weiss quietly answered.
The black closes in again and an amplified voice is heard saying:
Announcer: "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome... Weiss Schnee."
"At least we know who it's about now." Ruby said looking at her partner.
Whitley sighed quietly to himself. Maybe this watching the future thing would be a good opportunity to mend the broken relationship him and his sister had. His father did tell him not to worry about her anymore after she went to Beacon, but he wasn't here right now. She hated him, he was sure of it, she always had. The question was, why? Well, once they got some sort of brake he would get his answers.
A young girl in white with a barely visible scar over her left eye walks out on stage into the spotlight as a piano plays the opening of "Mirror Mirror" before a crowd of people, occasionally taking pictures from their stands around the white castle they appear to be in. She closes her eyes and begins to sing.
Weiss: "Mirror, tell me something. Tell me who's the loneliest of all..."
"Is this one of your concerts?" Ren asked the white haired member of team RWBY.
"Yes, I think this is my last concert before I came to Beacon." Weiss' answer made Them think about what they did before they came to Beacon since apparently, those were the things being shown right now.
Blake groaned internally, the last important thing she did before Beacon was rob a dust train since she was still in the White Fang. Weiss would probably be fine with it since she knew she was a Faunus already, but what would everyone else say.
While she sings, the view sinks down into her scar-free reflection on the stage, the world tilting until she opens her eyes and finds herself in another place.
"What just happened?" Ruby asked wondering why Weiss was suddenly in a different place.
"It's like a flashback in a movie or something similar." Nora said gaining the attention of the others.
"Are you seriously comparing our future to a movie right now?" Yang asked with a deadpan look. Nora only answered with a shrug.
The light and shadows shifting until a warrior in giant armor with an equally massive broadsword appears before her. She backflips just as the Giant Armor brings its blade down on where she was, and the song continues as her flashback takes over.
Weiss (singing off-screen): "Mirror, tell me something. Tell me who's the loneliest of all?"
"What even is that? And why are you fighting it?"
Before Weiss could answer Whitley beat her to it. "It's an Arma Gigas, our family keeps a collection of them."
Weiss glared in annoyance at her brother. "It was possessed by some Grimm. I had to fight it to prove to my father that I could become a huntress." Weiss explained her voice laced with disgust at the mention of her father.
The rest of team RWBY winced, Weiss already told them she didn't have the best childhood or father. No one else knew about that, and they didn't need to. This was a team RWBY only matter.
The author snickered to himself wherever he was. "Yeah, not for long. Only like ten more chapters."
Weiss unsheathes her own rapier, Myrtenaster, and darts forward, getting a hit on her enemy before twirling into a landing. The Giant Armor swings again, but she dashes away and lands several spinning slashes on the creature. It retaliates when she uppercuts into the air, arcing its sword around and hitting Weiss' rapier, which she brings up just in time to merely knock her back.
"You can do it, Weiss!" Ruby cheered her on.
"I've already done it. This is a flashback, remember?" Weiss reminded her rolling her eyes.
"Oh, uh sorry, forgot about that." Ruby said nervously scratching the back of her head then glaring at everyone who was laughing, which was everyone.
When she slows down, Weiss looks up to see the Giant Armor leaping into the air and hurling the sword down on her, then swinging it back up in an effort to get its fast-moving target. It finally hits her blade again, and she is knocked away until she rolls back on her feet.
Weiss (singing off-screen): "Fear of, what's inside of me. Tell me can a heart be turned to stone?"
With white energy now gathered on her fingertips, Weiss motions to the ground beneath her, and a snowflake symbol appears that propels her forward at extreme speeds. Despite the Giant Armor's attempts to slash at her, Weiss disappears and reappears all around it, leaping through the air using her glyphs and landing a blow with each pass.
Whitley had to say, he was impressed by Weiss' skill. Not that he would ever tell her that.
After a slash to the face, the Giant Armor aims at Weiss' feet, who leaps over it and gets an undefended fist to her head. Weiss is launched yet again, but this time, her attempt to get back up is weak and unsure. A worried Weiss closes her eyes, and in the real world, the spotlight suddenly cuts out.
The moon makes itself known when the clouds in front of it pass, showering Weiss in its light as she sings, eyes still closed. In her mind, she stands back up, eyeing the Giant Armor with blood trailing down the left side of her face.
This got gasps of worry from the rest of the audience. Don't get Whitley wrong he still dislikes Weiss for abandoning him like Winter and his mother but that doesn't mean he doesn't care about her, at the end of the day she is still his sister and he does want to try and make amends while they're here.
She holds out her sword, spinning the revolver in the hilt until a red energy appears over the blade. The Giant Armor runs up and drops its sword on her, but it meets her rapier and is deflected off.
Weiss (singing off-screen): "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 it up and spins, a cyan light now creating a wave of ice when she strikes it into the ground that freezes the Giant Armor in place. It swings again, but Weiss runs ahead and jumps on the sword. Myrtenaster is now glowing yellow, and she rolls on the broadsword and slashes at her foe, destroying the ice crystals in shards of purple but impaling its weapon into the ground. She rotates the hilt again and a snowflake circle spins under her when the Giant Armor tries to hammer its fist down on her, but she rolls out of the way and activates the glyph, launching the warrior up into the air and becoming trapped by Weiss' beams of blue energy.
Weiss (singing off-screen): "Mirror, mirror, tell me something. Who's the loneliest of all?"
"Break his legs, Weiss!" Nora shouted her encouragement not being able to hold it in anymore. Ren at that point decided to just give up on trying to calm her down and let her have her moment.
"Um, thanks I guess?" Weiss said not sure how to respond to that.
With one final leap into the air and her real self singing the last lines of her song, Myrtenaster glows with the white markings on its blade and Weiss descends onto the Giant Armor. When her attack is done and she lands in a crouch, the black hollows of the enemy light up and crash to the ground in a shower of ice and snow behind her.
Weiss (singing off-screen): "I'm the loneliest of all."
"Something you would like to tell us?" Coco asked the heiress with a raised eyebrow.
"What are you talking about?" Weiss said hoping they wouldn't ask anything too personal.
"The lyrics. Those definitely meant something." Pyrrha said able to tell Weiss was trying to avoid the question.
"It's... personal. Just drop it." Weiss said trying to avoid revealing too much about her home life to them. Her team she trusted with personal matters like these, but the other teams not yet.
Weiss gets up and closes her eyes, finishing Mirror Mirror 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-scattered moon above.
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, Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee.
Blake was trying to mentally prepare herself for her turn. It wouldn't be pretty, that much she knew, especially with Weiss' brother who seemed like a mini version of Jacques.