Authors Note: Update schedule will be about once a day and some suggestions and feedback would be greatly appreciated as this is my first time writing a fanfic.
"Woooo Hooo"
Cinder yelled as she flew through the air at high speeds heading for the ground. After a couple of seconds flying through the air, she landed on a black mass of fur.
Christ. That hurt. Wait, where am I?
She stood up off the fur and looked around seeing a mountain with a black castle at its peak and the surrounding landscape was filled with pools of black goo.
"Huh. Weird"
She then heard a growl behind her and looked to see the fur standing up and taking shape as a
BEOWULF. Then this must be...
Salem's goddam castle
YAY, I'm in RWBY!
Cinder then realised that she was in actual trouble as the Beowulf ran a few strides towards her and swiped at her face.
I'm gonna die! Thought Cinder as she closed her eyes and waited for the inevitable. After a few seconds of her waiting to die, she realised something must be wrong and so opened her eyes to see the claws of the creature just mere centimetres away from her face. The monsters face looked confused as if it was going against its natural instinct. The Beowulf then lowered its clawed paw and gestured for cinder to follow it as it started walking up the mountain. Cinder was hesitant to follow the beast that had tried to kill her minutes before, but where else did she have to go in this barren wasteland?
As the monster was escorting her up the mountain she caught glimpses of other kinds of Grimm who would occasionally growl at her but eventually leave her alone.
This situation is.. very strange
She thought to herself as the pair reached the peak of the mountain where the gates to Salem's castle were. As she was a few steps away from the gate it opened automatically without her or any of the Grimm touching it. It sent a shiver down her spine.
The Grimm led her into the entrance hall of this possibly ancient castle. The gate closed behind the Grimm as he.. or she? left. Now Cinder was really terrified as she was all alone in th-
Y/n!
Oh god I haven't even thought about him
where could he be?
Cinder mentally slapped herself for forgetting about her best friend and biggest crush. She was still trying to think of where he could have landed when she heard a voice. But not just any voice. A voice with a tone as smooth as honey that made the listener weak at the knees and ready to obey. It was a voice Cinder recognised instantly.
Oh crap
"Walk through the door and approach my throne."
As soon as Salem said those words a door appeared in front of Cinder and opened automatically. Through the door, Cinder saw a long table filled with empty seats and a throne at the end of it and sitting on that throne was none other than Salem herself.
"Welcome Child. What brings you to fall out of the sky and land in my domain"
"It was an accident"
Cinders voice was shaking as she said those words because she knew there was an army of Grimm outside under Salem's control that could rip her apart at a moment's notice or maybe Salem herself could do it with a snap of her fingers. Thanos style.
"Accidents such as that seldom happen. So I ask you again, how did you get here and why?"
Cinder was freaking out as she didn't really know what to say as she knew that if Salem didn't believe her she would probably be killed.
The adults always said that honesty is the best policy so if this doesn't work I'm screwed. Besides, what's the harm, I'm just in a TV show, Heck I'm probably dreaming right now and the portal was probably a hallucination.
So Cinder told Salem about her world, how she got to this world, how she doesn't know where her friend is and with each sentence Salem looked more pleased so Cinders voice rose in confidence until it had the same tone as her giving a motivational speech.
"I am inclined to believe you, even though it sounds like an impossible scenario."
Cinder was immediately relieved as she had feared that Salem wouldn't believe her and the repercussions that would inevitably follow.
"But."
Cinders heart skipped a beat.
"While I now know of your world and your.. friend."
Salem said this in a tone to indicate that she thought he was definitely more than that. She wasn't wrong.
'I only know very little about you, So I would like to hear your entire life story from the moment you were born until you landed here, in Remnant."
So Cinder went on to talk for hours upon hours about her happy childhood until her parents died and the orphanage she had to go to. She talked about meeting Y/n and how she had loved him ever since. She talked about the bullies at school who would torment her constantly and the nights she spent dreaming of killing the bullies with her bare hands. She finally talked about the portal and the conversation her and Y/ had had. As soon as she got to that bit Salem raised her hand to indicate that that was enough for now.
I think I have just found the perfect servant
As Salem was thinking this she was saying,
"How would you like to get back at those bullies and anyone that has made fun of you in your entire life, and how would you like to use this power to find Y/n and make him yours?"
Upon hearing this Cinder was overjoyed. She was right all along about Salem really not being that bad.
In your face Y/n!
But that thought brought her back to thinking about him and how much she already missed him. With this power that Salem was offering she could make all her dreams come true.
"I'm in."
"Good. but there is a price. You have to be my servant, slave and assassin."
If she had heard those terms yesterday, she would've laughed them off and told Salem she was a crazy old lady. The thing that Cinder didn't know was that as she was talking to Salem and giving the queen of the Grimm her life story, Salem had told a special tiny Grimm bug to crawl into Cinders ear and start infecting her brain with Grimm energy to make her more compliant to Salem. A side effect of the Grimm bug was also insanity. But Salem was well aware of that fact. She was even counting on it.
"That is a price I will happily pay."
Good. Very good.
Salem thought to herself as she realised, she could train Cinder using love and vengeance as motivation to become Salem's most useful tool. And a deadly assassin.
