Ryu supported himself with his Dragon Sword, holding a deep wound on his side. The Dragon ninja had taken on a massive army of fiends. He had fought for an entire day against fiends ranging from the same size as him to the size of of a garbage truck. Even against all the odds, taken dozens of injuries that would easily put down a normal human being, he had prevailed. But victory didn't come without a cost, Ryu was bleeding profusely from several wounds, deep and shallow and he had spent all of his energy in the fight, unable to even stand, having to use is sword for support. "It's over... I leave this world in good hands. Ayane... Momiji... Rachel... Kasumi... Hayate...Protect this world. And yourselves..." Ryu said, before falling to his side, the blood in his body and his life leaving him.
"This world is indeed in good hands, Ryu. But another world is in need of your abilities." A voice said as light enveloped Ryu and dispersed, rising to the sky.
In the world of Remnant, a child named Ryu was born to a huntsman in the village of Kuroyuri. His mother died from childbirth, leaving the huntsman to raise his child alone. He would train his son to be a warrior like him, raising him to be a powerful huntsman to protect the people of the world. By the time he was 5, he was incredibly adept at hand to hand combat and the use of several weapons, including a single or twin katanas, staff, claws, nunchaku, tonfa and kusari-gama and was quickly learning how to use much heavier, stronger weapons such as a scythe or greatsword. However, the boy had a secret: already having been through one of the processes of Resurrection before, the child remembered his past life as Ryu Hayabusa, the Dragon Ninja, which helped greatly when he was re-learning how to fight, especially since, as a huntsman, his father was not always around, so Ryu would often have to train by himself. There weren't many children in the village and Ryu was the only one being trained as a warrior, but it was clear he was in the best physical condition out of all of them.
This was evident when one day, Ryu was walking through town for his daily exercise when he heard someone yelling. Running along the back streets, Ryu got close to the scene without being detected and saw 3 boys he knew as bullies towards a few other kids in the village standing over a girl he didn't know: a dirt-covered girl with orange hair, a black jacket over a white shirt, pink shorts and shoes that had mixes of pink, white and black. She was holding a piece of bread close to her chest, rightfully out of fear that the boys standing over her would take it. "Where did you get that bread?! I didn't see you pay for it, thief!" The boy in the middle snapped. He was the tallest of the 3 and stood slightly taller than Ryu.
"No, look, it's all moldy!" The one to the left said.
"I think she got it from the trash!" The middle one said.
"Let me see!" The one to the right demanded, reaching for the bread, but the girl bit his finger. "Ow! She bit me!" He whined, before pushing her to the ground.
Ryu narrowed his eyes at this. In his past life, he had never liked those that would harm someone weaker than themselves and in this life, his father had always told him to stand up to those who would hurt others. "That's enough." Ryu said, emerging from his hiding place.
"Oh, look, it's mr. Tough Guy." The one in the middle taunted.
"Whoa! Where'd he come from!?" The boy to the left said.
"Who cares?" The one on the right said.
"Yeah. What are you gonna do if we don't stop?" The middle one asked.
"Make you." Ryu said simply.
"Oh, yeah?! Try it!" The one in the middle said, walking up to the young girl and raising a leg to stomp on her. (before I go any further, I do not condone child violence. I DO, however, find it hilarious.)
Ryu quickly picked up a rock at his feet and threw it at the boy in the middle, smacking him in the forehead and sending him to the ground. The one on the right picked up a stick and ran at Ryu, swinging it at him, but he easily caught it and punched his attacker in the face, sending him to the ground as well. The last one was shocked that his friends were so easily dealt with, but closed his eyes, shouting in anger and running at Ryu with one fist pulled back, ready to punch the young ninja, who kicked him in the stomach before the boy was in arm's reach, causing him to drop to his knees and hold his stomach, before dropping onto his side, still holding his pained gut. Ryu then looked up to see Lie Ren watching from around the corner. The two were on good terms, but Lie looked horrified at what Ryu had just done. Ryu simply gave a half smile and shrugged, before looking at the girl on the ground. "It's okay. I'll help you." He offered, helping her to her feet. "Come on. I'll get you some food that isn't moldy." He said, taking her hand and leading her to his house.
He took her back to his house and made them both a bowl of ramen, the girl surprising him with how quickly she managed to slurp down the entire bowl... and the resulting burp that practically shook the entire house. "Thank you." She said happily.
"You're... welcome." Ryu said, shaking off the shock from her burp ( vignette4 .wikia .nocookie rwby/images/e/e0/Shocked_Weiss .png/revision/latest?cb=20140925234647 ). "I am Ryu Hayabusa. What is your name?" He asked.
"Nora." She said.
"Where are your parents? Surely someone is looking for you and will feed you, right?" He asked. She lowered her head at this, clearly depressed, before shaking it.
"No. I don't have anyone." She said sadly.
Ryu looked at her sadly at this, before taking her hands and holding them, causing her to look him in the face. "You do now. I'll ask my father, maybe he'll let you stay with us. And even if he doesn't, you can come back here any time if you need my help." He told her.
She looked at him with a shocked expression on her face, before starting to cry and hugging him. "Thank you!" She said through tears. He was a bit shocked at this at first, before slowly hugging back.
So, after talking with his father, he agreed to allow Nora to stay with them, enjoying a nice dinner and sleeping in an actual bed. It seemed perfect, until there was a commotion outside of people screaming and monstrous roaring. Ryu jolted up as his father burst into the room. "Ryu! Nora! Wake up!" He told them, quickly waking the girl.
"Father! What's wrong?!" Ryu asked.
"Grimm are attacking. You two must get out of here. I have to stay and defend the town!" He told them.
Ryu was shocked when he looked out the window to see houses on fire and falling apart, as well as several large grimm terrorizing the streets. He then looked back at his father. He had been prepared for an event like this, but he hadn't imagined it would be so soon. But he looked back at Nora and knew he had to do what he could to protect her and get her away from this danger. He nodded and lifted up a board on his floor, pulling out a backpack containing provisions and a small sword (similar to the ones Ayane used) and two small pouches on either side of his waist, the left holding shurikens and small projectile weapons and the one on the right containing several dust crystals for Ryu to utilize with his semblance: his Ninpo attacks. By using aura instead of Chi, he can still use them, although to use his elemental attacks, he needs specific Dust crystals (I'll clarify at the end). Gathering all his essentials, Ryu grabbed Nora's hand and ran out the door behind his father, running towards the end of town as his father charged deeper into the town to fight the Grimm. The two had made good progress, but then a Nevermore shrieked in the sky. Looking up, the two watched as it flew in and fired feathers at them. "Look out!" Ryu said, pushing her out of the way.
All of the feathers missed the children, but several of them hit the building just behind them, tearing it apart and causing it to fall. "Ryu!" Nora said, reaching out for him as it started to fall.
"Run!" He told her, pointing towards the bridge out of town before the building collapsed between the two of them. Heeding his own advice, he took off down the back alley where the Nevermore couldn't follow in such a tight space, heading for the exit like he'd planned. After a few minutes, he could see the bridge, looking around for Nora. Suddenly...
"Ryu!" He heard his name called, seeing Nora and Lie underneath a building that hadn't yet crumbled. However, this had alerted a boarbetusk near the bridge to their presence, causing it to charge.
"No!" Ryu shouted, pulling out a Black Dust Crystal and utilizing its power of Gravity to use The Art of Piercing Void, creating and throwing a black hole at the monster and ripping it in half. However, in doing so, he had drained a large amount of his aura, tiring himself out, leaving him open for a Nevermore to strike.
However, instead, the beast strangely landed in front of him, showing no signs of hostility at all. It was as if it couldn't see him. "Hurry!" Lie called out as Nora waved him over. He quickly took the initiative and ran towards his friends, sliding under the building when he was close enough.
"Ryu!" Nora said, hugging him.
"It's alright, I'm okay." He said.
"You had us worried." Lie said.
"Yeah. It was close. But I made it. Thanks to you." Ryu said, having been able to sense Lie when he was using his aura. Suddenly, they heard a screech, but instead of a Nevermore, a striking peregrine falcon flew down with a sword sheathed in its talons, as well as something wrapped in a cloth, landing in front of Ryu. He was shocked as he instantly recognized the weapon of the Dragon Sword he used countless times in his past life, unwrapping the item in the cloth Ryu was pleasantly surprised to find the Eye of The Dragon, the jewel glowing brilliantly at which point the falcon flew off. Ryu smiled at this, looking at his friends and nodding confidently. "It's okay. I can take care of us." He said.
Lie looked to the side and found the small wooden hammer he could've bought earlier, carefully crawling out from under the building and grabbing it, before crawling back and handing it to Nora, holding out the knife his father had given him. "We'll keep each other safe." He said.
And so, the 3 managed to escape the ruined city, keeping each other safe as they had promised. Ryu would teach his new friends out to fight, teaching Ren (as he now preferred to be called) many of the swift, yet devastating moves he had known Ayane to do best while teaching Nora to use a hammer to the same magnitude as Rachel had in the past, as well as a few of the moves he had used when he once wielded her fallen War Hammer. He had tried to teach them to use more weapons like he did, but they felt most comfortable using one weapon. Ryu, meanwhile would grow to make just about all the weapons he had used in his past life; a set of swords longer and lighter than the Dragon Sword, nunchaku with scythe-like blades, powerful, bone-crushing tonfa that when combined, become a powerful automatic rifle similar to Rachel's 666 Heavy Machine Gun, a kusari-gama, claws and bladed greaves much like the Falcon's Talons, a quarterstaff much like the Lunar Staff, a deadly scythe and finally, a menacing greatsword modeled after Dabilahro that transforms into the Howling Cannon They would many to earn themselves enough money to live by the week and somehow eventually caught the attention of Ozpin, earning themselves a spot in Beacon Academy.
Ryu's Semblance: As explained before, Ryu's Semblance will be his Ninpo. Without Dust Crystals, he can use healing (Art of Divine Life), create a doppelganger, teleport or energy-based Ninpo (Torn Sky Blast), but for his elemental Ninpo, he needs a specific Dust Crystal. Ice Crystal=Art of Ice Storm, Fire Crystal= Art of Inferno, Art of Flame Pheonix, Art of Fire Wheels or Art of True Inferno (the Dragon thing from NG3), Gravity= Art of Piercing Void, Lightning= Art of Inazuma and Wind= Art of Wind Blades or Art of Hurricane
