White
Darkness gives way to reveal the words:
"Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow, for the heart has no metrics or forms of measure. And all of it... irreplaceable."
" What is that supposed to mean, who the hell is this going on about? " was Qrows response to the vague text shown on the screen, only to have his sister voice her own opinions on his outburst.
" Be quiet and we might find out idiot, Gods sometimes you're more annoying than Tai and he thinks puns are actually funny."
" Hey, they are! It's not my fault you don't find them… punny… hahaha! "
"Ugh… you walked into that one Raven."
While Tai was still laughing at the pun and both Summer and Qrow had their heads in their hands, debating whether it was worth being friends with the blond. Raven was quietly muttering to herself.
" I can't kill a teammate. I can't kill a teammate. I can't kill a teammate."
It's a good thing only her brother could hear her at the time otherwise Tai might have ended up fearing for his life more than he already did when it came to the female twin.
The black closes in again and an amplified voice is heard saying:
Announcer: "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome... Weiss Schnee."
Summer realised what was said that this next person they were being introduced to was a Schnee, but not the current heir and only daughter of the Schnee family meaning this was quite far in the future, at least as far as she could tell, going off what information she had. Coming to this conclusion she decided to voice her discovery to the rest of her team.
" Weiss Schnee, not Winter, meaning this must be a second daughter, and if what Ozpin said was true about the first girl that her skill level could possibly place her in her second year at an academy then they have to be at least sixteen or seventeen years old."
"Umm, Summer, your point? "
"Brothers Grimm you're a right idiot sometimes Qrow, it means that this is at the very least twenty years in the future bird brain."
" Hey! It's not my fault, now can we please keep watching Raven?"
A young girl in white with a barely visible scar over her left eye walks out on stage into the spotlight as a piano plays the opening of "Mirror Mirror" before a crowd of people, occasionally taking pictures from their stands around the white castle they appear to be in. She closes her eyes and begins to sing.
Weiss: "Mirror, tell me something. Tell me who's the loneliest of all..."
" well, she sure acts like a Schnee, though I don't get why she chose this song to sing, sounds like its gonna be depressing, and that's coming from me of all people."
" Mr Branwen, though this young lady may have the Schnee name, that does not mean she has the same ideals and beliefs as the rest of the family, it may be that this girl may feel isolated on this path that her family has made for her. But who knows, we can only speculate."
" you know Ozpin, you can sound really ominous when you want to."
" Thank you, Mr Xiao Long."
While she sings, the view sinks down into her scar-free reflection on the stage, the world tilting until she opens her eyes and finds herself in another place, the light and shadows shifting until a warrior in giant armour with an equally massive broadsword appear before her. She backflips just as the Giant Armor brings its blade down on where she was, and the song continues as her flashback takes over.
"Watch out!"
Summers worry for the girl showing, as Weiss begins to fight.
Weiss (singing off-screen): "Mirror, tell me something. Tell me who's the loneliest of all?"
Weiss unsheathes her own rapier, Myrtenaster, and darts forward, getting a hit on her enemy before twirling into a landing.
"Ahhh! New weapon, oh wow, it looks like a strictly close-range weapon with no options for range, for her to actually use this in battle must take some skills, I mean the amount of precision needed just to land an attack is huge."
"Summer, the viewing, keep watching please." This time it was Qrow who had to reel his leader in with her rambling.
The Giant Armor swings again, but she dashes away and lands several spinning slashes on the creature. It retaliates when she uppercuts into the air, arcing its sword around and hitting Weiss' rapier, which she brings up just in time to merely knock her back. When she slows down, Weiss looks up to see the Giant Armor leaping into the air and hurling the sword down on her, then swinging it back up to get its fast-moving target. It finally hits her blade again, and she is knocked away until she rolls back on her feet.
"Looks like all that Schnee money that bought her practice and tutoring can't actually buy her skill, that was a simple enough attack to dodge, since blocking with that kind of weapon is difficult against that broadsword, trying to deflect the attack would have been easier but still a challenge due to the size of the armour and its weapon."
"Now look whos nerding out Raven, haha!"
"Shut it Qrow!"
Weiss (singing off-screen): "Fear of, what's inside of me. Tell me can a heart be turned to stone?"
With white energy now gathered on her fingertips, Weiss motions to the ground beneath her, and a snowflake symbol appears that propels her forward at extreme speeds. Despite the Giant Armor's attempts to slash at her, Weiss disappears and reappears all around it, leaping through the air using her glyphs and landing a blow with each pass.
"Oh the Schnee semblance, I haven't actually seen it in practice before, it looks quite fascinating indeed."
Ozpin could already see the number of uses a semblance such as this could have, even if just from the quick demonstration that was shown.
After a slash to the face, the Giant Armor aims at Weiss' feet, who leaps over it and gets an undefended fist to her head. Weiss is launched yet again, but this time, her attempt to get back up is weak and unsure. A worried Weiss closes her eyes, and in the real world, the spotlight suddenly cuts out.
"No! What's happening? Is she okay, that's not the end, right?"
"Summer relax, if shes trained or training to be a Huntress it will take more than that to put her down, also I think the back and forth between the singing and the fight is sorta like a flashback, the fight being in the past and the singing is in a close future to that, so she'll be fine."
"Well done Mr Branwen, I didn't think any of you would pick up on that little detail, but I do believe you to be correct on the matter."
The moon makes itself known when the clouds in front of it pass, showering Weiss in its light as she sings, eyes still closed. In her mind, she stands back up, eyeing the Giant Armor with blood trailing down the left side of her face, and holds out her sword, spinning the revolver in the hilt until red energy appears over the blade. The Giant Armor runs up and drops its sword on her, but it meets her rapier and is deflected off.
"She uses dust, oh, that would give her a ranged option in battle fixing the issue of it being a strictly close-range weapon, that's quite clever, I like it."
"Raven, again with the complements, is it just me that you have something against."
Tai was really not understanding why Raven had decided to take an interest in these girls, for roughly six months now he had tried his hardest to get his partner to at least acknowledge his efforts to improve or gain her attention in a positive light. Maybe Qrow was right, he had as much of a chance with Raven, as cotton candy did surviving water.
Weiss (singing off-screen): "Mirror, mirror, what's behind you? Save me from the things I see! I can keep it from the world. Why won't you let me hide from me?"
"She doesn't like who she is, or who she's becoming? Strange for a Schnee but sure go for it, a bit of self-deprecation is always good for the mental state, gives a good reality check every now and again."
"Qrow are you sure you're okay, I know you've got this schtick of being broody and morbid but please don't worry me like that, as your partner it's my duty to help at all times."
Qrow's response was just to shrug and continue to watch the viewing, Summer turning to his sister asked the silent questing of whether he was actually okay, and got the same response, a shrug.
Weiss switches it up and spins, a cyan light now creating a wave of ice when she strikes it into the ground that freezes the Giant Armor in place. It swings again, but Weiss runs ahead and jumps on the sword. Myrtenaster is now glowing yellow, and she rolls on the broadsword and slashes at her foe, destroying the ice crystals in shards of purple but impaling its weapon into the ground. She rotates the hilt again and a snowflake circle spins under her when the Giant Armor tries to hammer its fist down on her, but she rolls out of the way and activates the glyph, launching the warrior up into the air and becoming trapped by Weiss' beams of blue energy.
Weiss (singing off-screen): "Mirror, mirror, tell me something. Who's the loneliest of all?"
With one final leap into the air and her real self singing the last lines of her song, Myrtenaster glows with the white markings on its blade and Weiss descends onto the Giant Armor. When her attack is done and she lands in a crouch, the black hollows of the enemy light up and crashes to the ground in a shower of ice and snow behind her.
"Wow this girl sure does have a head on her shoulders, I mean that series of attacks takes some planning and skill to pull off especially with no backup. I think out of all of us, only Raven could pull off something like that solo."
Weiss (singing off-screen): "I'm the loneliest of all."
Weiss gets up and closes her eyes, finishing Mirror Mirror to a gentle shower of snowflakes and a roar of applause from her audience. She opens her eyes and looks around as if in a daze, then peers up at the slightly-scattered moon above.
She dips her head and bows to the crowd as the curtains close around her, followed closely by RWBY's title and the silhouettes of its characters.
"Okay I'm only going to say this once; I'm not one to be invested in people or their histories but I do want to know more about this one, the song that was playing tells a story but not the full version of it, I want to know more about this girl."
"Wow, I never thought I would see the day my sister would take an interest in people. Raven, what happened, did you catch emotions? Oh, the horror! Hahaha!!"
"You really are a jackass Qrow. can we move on, please, what's the next viewing?"