She walked through the Land of Darkness, her belly swollen, and her instincts flared and alert. The ground beneath her was a deep obsidian black, with purple crystals stabbing out of the ground like spears, all of it illuminated by a blood coloured sky, fiddled with dark clouds and a shattered white moon. The ground beneath her feet was jagged and torn apart, the rough rock interrupted by cracks, rivers of black water, and shallow streams that licked at her boots.

Around her, the Grimm eyed her with caution and promises of pain, should she deter from her path. A pack of Beowolves followed her with salivating teeth, hungry for a new kill. A Beserker cracked its neck, ready for a fight. A swarm of Sulfer Fish guarded a Lagartodile as they swam through the deep river of black water next to her. Above her, a murder of Nevermore flew overhead, their eyes always aimed down at her.

All of them ready to rip her apart limb from limb, and kill the unborn child in her womb, should she falter from her chosen path.

She did not.

She would not.

No Chill affected her mind. No Geist-like Grimm influenced her decisions and actions.

This was all her choosing.

All of it.

And she would not be swayed from it.

Up ahead, she could see the obsidian tower splitting the sky in half, and wished to speed ahead. However, for the Grimm around her, she kept her calm pace. She did not need her excitement to be the cause of her demise.

Into a wide clearing she went, and found herself surrounded by pools of Grimm water, from which the creatures of darkness themselves were birthed from. Beringels, Manticores, Lancers, Dromedons, Ravagers, Ziraphs, Long Tongues, Ursa, Sphinxes, Whisps, Creeps, Centinels, Goliaths, Jackalopes, Megoliaths, Griffons, Death Stalkers, King Taijitus, Teryx, Grendels, Blind Worms, Saybrs, Boarbatusks, and the Apathy all surrounded her, with even a Drake towered over her, like a colossal sentinel, threatening punishments of pain onto her, should she do any harm to their master.

And in the middle, was their master herself, looking over her with a smile.

She replied with a smile of her own.

And then dropped to her knees.

Salem approached her, stroked her cheek with her hand, and said those fateful 3 words.

"Welcome, Summer Rose."

The pregnant woman that was Summer Rose looked back up to her with a blissful smile.

"Hello there, Mistress."

Years later...

"You're being ridiculous."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you- Ruby, yes you are."

Ruby Rose, faithful servant to her master, Salem, stopped herself from slamming her hands against the table in front of her (Because that would both hurt and be rude), And went, "Salem, I swear, I can just-"

"Ruby."

"I can just walk into Beacon, and just take the powers! We don't need to go with Uncle Watt's ridiculous plan- Because honestly, that's, like, too much work, and so needless at the same time- We're trying to take the Relic of Choice and the Maiden, not bring down Beacon and Vale."

"Well", Salem began slowly, "Those are side benefits, of course."

"Right, but they're needless. We don't need the White Fang, or anyone else like that! I have my own connections! You know this! And people seem to like me, for some reason!"

"Not just 'Some reason', my dear little grandchild."

Ruby smiled at this, "Right, thanks Grandma, but- But still, my point still stands! Just give me a couple of months, and I'll be back with both the maiden powers, and the Relic of Choice, and no one will be none the wiser!"

"What if Ozpin tries to arrest you?"

"He won't be able to imprison me, because, y'know, I won't be doing anything illegal! At least, nothing that won't make him sound like a senile old lunatic that's off his meds, of course."

"Ruby..."

She got up from her seat, "I'll do it."

"Ruby."

She moved to the door, "I'll do it right now, in fact!"

"Where are you going?"

"To get the Relic and the Maiden!"

"You are going to die, Ruby! You are going to die and your mother and I will be extremely cross with you for doing so!"

"Tell my story!"

"It won't be very interesting-"

Ruby swung the door open, and then closed it dramatically behind her.

"-Aaaand she's gone."

Salem sighed into her hands.

"...Now what am I going to tell Summer?"

The door burst open suddenly, and a very pleased Summer Rose, with a chirpy smile and a plate of hot cookies in her hands, skipped inside and went, "Ruby, I've got another... Where did she go?"

Salem rubbed her forehead.

Maybe it was time that she started looking into those yoga classes that she had heard about...

A couple of months later...

"And stretch-"

And she stretched.

"-And downward dog."

And then she- Salem, the queen of the Grimm, now dressed in a yoga shirt and trousers, with a sweatband over her head and her hair tied into a ponytail- Performed a downward dog position over the blue fitness mat below her, scroll before her with a yoga video playing over it.

Gods, she was eternally thankful that Summer had given her this fitness program to use as a stress reliever. She could already feel the Tyrian-induced wrinkles begin to fade away-

[KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK}

-And then immediately return with a growl as someone suddenly and fiercely pounded their fists against the door to her room, surprising Salem so much that she immediately dropped from her position and smacked her head against the hard floor with a-

{THUD}

Yeah, that.

{KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK}

With a twitching eyebrow, she snagged the yoga band off of her head, and marched to the door, swinging it open violently as she then yelled out, "I swear, Tyrian, if you ask me why Grimm don't have reproductive genitalia one more time, I will evicerate you... Where... You... What."

There was Ruby-

"What."

-With a silver flicker of the Maiden powers in her eyes-

"What?"

-And a golden crown in her hands.

"What?!"

She presented the crown to her, "Hi."

"WHAT?!"

"I just took it."

"I-I don't- Excuse me!?"

"I just walked in and took it!"

"You walked into Beacon... And you..."

"And I took it."

Salem looked at her with disbelieving eyes, and then took the crown into her hands...

And then she began to laugh. Hysterically laugh. She laughed so hard that she started rolling along the floor in a fit of giggles.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What did you- How?!"

"I know! I'm still amazed by it, and- And you know what?"

"What?"

"You know what?"

"What?!"

"Ozpin couldn't do a thing about it!"

"He couldn't!?"

"No! Nothing! And I was just like 'What you gonna do? What you gonna do? You can't do diddly squat, sucka, that's what'!"

Salem started to clutch her stomach as she rolled along the floor, laughing madly as she then called out through the door, "SUMMER! SUMMER, PUT THE LAMB SHANK ON! WE'RE HAVING A CELEBRATORY ROAST!" before jumping up onto her feet (Gracefully like a queen, of course, and not excitedly like a hyperactive schoolgirl), and almost yelled to Ruby, "Details! I need details! Now!"

"Oh, you are going to love this story..."

And away we go!

Welcome to Switch, a fanfic idea that I put into my Idea Pool, but no one ever sent me a message confirming that they would do it.

Actually, no one has sent me a message saying that they're going to do any of my ideas.

Sad times...

Anyways, this fic is going to have a basic premise: Ruby and Cinder's roles have been swapped around, but their personalities haven't!

See where we're going with this?

However, this fic is going to be a lot more experimental than your usual fanfic.

Firstly, this is going to be an anthology collection, meaning that its just going to be a lot of interconnected oneshots rather than a whole story.

And secondly, this is going to be a fic that is told out of order.

Update schedule? Absolutely not! I'll update this fic whenever I feel like it.

Anyways, with all of that said and done, leave a review, favourite, and I shall be seeing you all next time!

Titanmaster117 out!