Red
As the team of four sit in silence watching the text in front of them, the beginning chords of "Red Like Roses" begins to play.
"Hey, why is there music if this is gonna be real-life events? Unless we're being followed around by a band or something there shouldn't be any."
"Tai, be quiet and just enjoy, said magic music that makes no sense please."
Raven answering quite sharply and already growing tired of her teammates antics for the day, was also just wanting to get back to her dorm at Beacon, not sit and deal with this strange situation.
The text glows and scatters in red and white petals, and the full moon is shown amid falling snow and a floating red petal. Several more petals join the original, which passes over the words and dissolves them in red and black.
A figure in a red hood and flowing cloak is seen under the moon and in a snowy landscape, the cape constantly producing dozens of wind-blown rose petals.
"Whoa, is that summer? I like the red, nice colour change, makes us matching as partners now, cool."
Summers slight blush at Qrows comment went unnoticed by the male as he continued to watch the scene playing out in front of him.
An altar is seen near the edge of the cliff that the person is standing at, who turns and walks away to let the audience see the rose symbol on the marker and the words "Summer Rose - Thus Kindly I Scatter".
Shock. That's all there was. Shock.
Summer dead, not possible, at least not this soon. This was the first event how could she be gone before it even started?
"What the hell is this?!"
"Qrow! Calm down, it's okay."
"Okay? OKAY?! How is this okay Tai, how in all of Remnant is this Okay?! I mean what about Summer? How is she feeling about this?"
"QROW!! That's enough, you know that this is the natural order of things, everything will at some point die, the weak die and the strong live, anyway it's not like we can back out and go home, you read the same note as me."
"As upsetting as this is Miss Branwen does have a point, this is the fate of everything eventually and though I don't particularly agree with that saying Miss Branwen, you are right in the fact that we also cannot leave until all that is to be viewed has been."
While both Raven and Ozpin had been talking it seemed only Tai had noticed that Summer had curled up on herself and had become extremely quiet, more so that usual. Reaching to pull her into a hug, Tai just sat quietly waiting for Summer to speak first, he couldn't imagine what she was going through, to watch something hoping to gain an understanding of the future from it to try and make it a better one, only to see that your not a part of that hopeful future. Heart breaking.
"Guys, its okay, im okay, we don't know how far in the future this is for all we know we could all be gone."
Summer finally speaking managed to calm the two Branwen twins as they had again gotten into an argument.
"Lets just keep watching, okay?"
The red-hooded wanderer slowly walks through a snowy forest, where shadowy, beastly shapes quickly dart through, before coming to a clearing and looking around at the sight of around a dozen black-coated, red-eyed Beowolves circling their prey.
"Great … Summers gone but the Grimm are still here, what would we do without them?"
"Mr Branwen please lower the sarcasme."
-looks like even Ozpin can get tired of Qrows sarcasme - Was summers thoughts as she continued to watch the red hooded figure.
Three decide to dash forward and attack through jumping, but the figure disappears in a swish of rose petals, and the creatures crash to the ground and look up.
Outlined by the moon's light, her cape swirling around her body, is a small girl, who reaches behind her in slow-motion, pulls out a rifle, and fires a shot that blows a large part of a Beowolf's head out in a burst of blood-red smoke.
"Single shot, 50 cal sniper, with what looks like some form of mech shift, allowing for a second or possible third form. With the size of the calibre and the possible size of the mech shift, i would say this girl is a ranged fighter mostly, with a two handed melee weapon as a possibility."
"Summer, you're nerding out again." Tai very used to his teammates rabling when it came to weapons, had learned to be patient and let it pass, unlike Raven who was quietly sitting with both fists clenched ready to put a hole through the table in front of her.
More Beowolves start to attack as the girl lands. She leaps over the first beast and shoots it in the back, then, still in the air, blasts another one's side and gets into a position where she can fire at the third dead center. She rolls back and stands, unfolding Crescent Rose into its larger - and deadlier - scythe form.
"SCYTHE!! She has a scythe!! See I said it wasnt stupid Rae. Brothers Grimm, that looks amazing, I mean look at it!"
"Qrow your fangirling just as hard if not harder than Summer right now, in your current state I refuse to believe we're related right now also, its still stupid, the reason you use a scythe is because of some mythe about a Grimm Reaper, a bed time stroy Qrow, your weapon is from a bedtime story."
Pouting due to his sisters remark, Qrow decided to sit and appreciate the weapon in silence, while muttering that his weapon of choice was not in fact from a children's story.
One of the braver Beowolves goes forward, but the girl merely spins, hooks its body in the curve of her blade, smiles as the monster growls, and fires the sniper section at speeds that sever the creature's body in a shower of petals. Both halves land on the ground, continuing to bleed roses, and the rest of the pack charges.
Rotating the weapon, she unloads her spent bullet and drives the blade into the ground, firing from a single spot at several approaching monsters until one swipes at her feet, narrowly missing as she jumps up with the scythe and blasts back, digging it into the ground again when she sees more creatures emerging from the woods.
"You know Qrow, even without the scythe she sorta fights like you, its weird and plus the red cloak. WAIT!! Is this a mini Summer but with Qrows abilities? Wait is this your kid?!!!"
"NO!!"
"NO!!"
Both Summer and Qrow now red as the males cape shouted at Tai, not believing in what the blond was saying.
"Dude, we're Huntsman partners not that kind of partners!"
"I must say Mr Branwen, Mr Xiao Long is not wrong in that this young girl does share a resemblance to both you and Miss Rose."
"HA! As if Qrow would have a kid."
"Exactly Raven, why would I have a kid? Why would I want a kid, I mean not to say that this one is pretty cool and her scythe is awesome, but why?"
"Alright, I get it, Qrows a lone wolf batchelor and Summer is a true Huntress with no time for family, lets just keep watching."
A Beowolf almost gets her with its claws, but she twists out of the way, fires at the monster in front of her to make the weapon and wielder spin, and kicks at the one behind her. She twirls the scythe and cuts down Beowolves from both sides, dodging another attack to hook a beast in and blast out at an approaching creature to kill both.
She leaps over two, goes in to dismember and cut down one, and catches another's neck in her blade with her on the beast's back before pulling the trigger and beheading it while flying upwards. Two Beowolves follow, but she shoots her way down and slices them up when she has to block from a wolf's swipe on the ground, which pushes her back and lets her see the large number of enemies left.
"The skill that this young girl is currently showing, I would say she would possibly be ready for her second year at Beacon, maybe with a bit more training in teamwork."
Ozpin remaining mostly quiet throughout the viewing and the teams' outbursts noted that this girl would one day make a fine Huntress, and hoped that they would one day cross paths.
Nodding, she drops her previous cartridge, inserts another with a cross symbol, loads it in, and blasts off at a higher speed than ever before, coming at the dumbfounded Beowolves like a rocket when she converts the scythe to a sickle-shape and spins her way through the mass, cutting up and down, left and right, leaving bullets, rose petals, and blackened body parts flying into the air. She disembowels them quicker and quicker until the last one falls, she blasts into a jump, and lands in a pose with her scythe hanging behind her as bullets rain from the sky.
"She's quite impressive, I like her, relentless but skilled, nice."
"Wait, you've known about this girl's possible existence for two minutes and are willing to compliment her, you've known me for nearly six months and the closest I've come to even some form of praise is "You're not dead? Okay I guess." come on Raven, seriously."
"What do you want from me Tai, I say as it is."
The girls form is darkened to a silhouette against the red moon while credits are seen under her image, right before the picture spins and slides itself into the collection of other unseen girls and the title is announced as RWBY
"RWBY? What is that, how do you even say that?"
"I believe it is pronounced RUBY and i think it is a team name, much like how your team name is STRQ but pronounced STARK, Mr Branwen."
"Yeah it looks like there's another three people to watch and introduce, so i think we should keep going."
"Like you said Summer, we don't have much choice in the matter if we want to watch or not, but I'm up for it."
"Then I do believe we should get back to the viewing, it seems that the next one is titled "White"."