Authors Note: Update schedule will be about once a day and some feedback and suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this is my first time writing a fanfic. I originally wrote this on Wattpad, so the stories already done. This is my first-time using FF so excuse the sloppy formatting. Message me if you want the discord link.

"You know, I don't think Salem is really that bad," said Cinder to her long-time friend, Y/n.

"But she wants to destroy the world," said Y/n, wondering how Cinder could even think that.

"Well, she only wants to destroy the world because the Gods were unfair to her and she lost Ozpin."

Her logic baffled Y/n who thought that Salem was the evil villain of the anime series.

"Well Ozpin came back and Salem still tried to kill him so.."

"Ozpin had it coming when he tried to kidnap his own daughters"

Y/n whispers to himself

That's not what happened at all

"Whatever, so how was your day at school?"

"Bad... again, the girls keep bullying me because of the burn."

The burn-in question was a scorch mark that covered half of Cinders face which she got from the house fire where both of her parents died. Y/n had met Cinder in the orphanage just days after the fire as he to was an orphan as his parents had died in a collision crash with a drunk driver.

"Well, at least there's a new episode of RWBY waiting for us at home."

"Yeah, I suppose you're right."

The duo was at the final stretch for volume 3 only having 3 more episodes to go.

Y/n couldn't wait for them to get home as he secretly had a crush on Cinder and enjoyed snuggling up next to her to watch RWBY. Little did he know that Cinder had the exact same feeling.

"Well, here we are." said Y/n opening the gate to their foster families house. The family only looked after the two 14-year-olds because they got child support cheques from the government.

As soon as they stepped inside, they knew something was wrong as they could hear a low drone perforating through the house.

"What the *Bleep* is that?" said Cinder, starting to worry that maybe they had left an electronic on or maybe a kitchen appliance was still running. If they had left something on, they knew their parents would beat them and not feed them for at least 24 hours. Oh yeah, their foster parents were also very abusive. Big whoop.

"I don't know. Maybe someone left the toaster on or something," said Y/n fearfully as he also knew the consequences if that had happened.

The pair of them walked upstairs trying to find the source of the noise. As soon as they reached the final stair they stopped, faces covered in shock. In the middle of the upstairs hallway stood a big blue oval-shaped portal in which they could hear the sounds of swords clashing, beasts roaring and a young girl yelling someone's name, although it was inaudible from this distance. Cinder was shocked... yet intrigued.

"That's a portal."

"Yep."

"Where does it go?"

"I have no idea."

"Do you wanna walk through it?"

Now it was Y/n's turn to be shocked as he couldn't believe Cinder wanted to walk through the portal when they had absolutely no idea where it went. It was insanity!

"Come on, it'll be fun."

"But we have absolutely no idea what the frick is in there."

"It'll be an adventure."

"It'll be our death."

Cinder was thinking that wherever this portal lead to would be better than where they are now and so really wanted to go through the portal to see what things could be waiting for them on the other side of the portal. At least going through here would get them away from her foster family and the bullies that tormented her all day at school. On the other hand, Y/n was terrified of going through the portal as he still had no idea what could possibly be waiting for them on the other side. There could be monsters, demons or.. or a world full of ice cream or a world full of doughnuts.

You know what?

This didn't seem like such a bad idea anymore.

Cinder was looking at Y/n's face as he came to this conclusion.

"So are you in."

"Ummm..."

"Wherever it goes will be better than this."

"I suppose your right."

"You're in then?"

"ehhh... Fine."

"Good, so should we bring something?"

"I've never gone through a portal before, I don't really think there's a set of guidelines."

"Well then, no time like the present, let's go!"

So, Cinder grabbed Y/n's hand and jumped through the portal. Into the unknown.

and right into Salem's waiting hands.