Forming Questions

Ruby wakes up and walks out of the tent. Onyx is nowhere to be found. She sits on a rock near the former fire and waits. Onyx walks up behind her.

"You left this behind." Onyx speaks.

Ruby jumps up in fear and turns around. Onyx is holding Crescent Rose towards her. She had dropped it during her fight with the Shadowolves.

"A scythe is an uncommon weapon, especially being used by a young girl." Onyx says.

"My uncle Qrow taught me." Ruby says as she takes her weapon.

"I see you learned from the best." Onyx responds.

"You know my uncle Qrow?" Ruby asks.

"I know of him, never met him." Onyx says.

Ruby stared at Onyx, awkwardly.

"Who are you?" Ruby asks.

"You know my name." Onyx states.

"That's not what I mean." Ruby says.

"I'm a huntsman." Onyx answers, "Noticed you looking at my swords."

Onyx grabs his katanas. He draws both.

"White Wolf." He holds up his golden katana, "For Grimm."

Onyx lowers White Wolf and holds up Dark Sympathy.

"Dark Symphathy." He states, "For anything else."

Onyx sticks the blades into the ground. Ruby examines the swords. She notices the blade of Dark Sympathy looks as if it has been coated with some greasy, transparent liquid.

"Now for that portal." Onyx says.

"You can do it?" Ruby asks.

"Yes." Onyx answers.

"So what do you need to...?" Ruby begins.

Suddenly a crimson portal opens. Ruby walks up to it and stares at it.

"You sure this will work?" Ruby questions?

"Yes." Onyx says as he pushes her through before following himself.

On the other side Ruby ran to the closest tree and placed her hand on it.

"It worked!" Ruby shouted.

Ruby turns towards Onyx.

"Why did you come with me?" She asks.

"I need to find out what was up with the random portal that brought you here, they aren't natural occurrences." Onyx explains.

"Thank you, I'm going to find my friends." Ruby says as she runs off.

Ruby stops and returns to Onyx.

"Won't you need me to show you where to portal was?" Ruby asks.

"It's near where I found you, right?" Onyx questions.

"Yeah." Ruby answers.

"Then I'll find my way." Onyx states.

Onyx runs to where the portal was and Ruby heads to Beacon Academy.

Ruby take out her scroll and calls Yang. Yang quickly answers.

"Hello. Ruby?!" Yang says.

"Who else? I'm heading towards Beacon." Ruby says.

"Hey! Who are you?" Ruby overhears Yang say.

"Yang? What's happening?" Ruby asks.

"What are you doing?" Ruby overhears Yang ask.

Ruby loses connection and tries to call the other members of Team RWBY with no response. She calls Jaune.

Yang, Blake, and Weiss have their weapons drawn. They are surrounding Onyx. He looks around, unphased by the danger.

"Stay out of my way." Onyx orders.

Onyx had arrived to area through one of his portals. The three girls had noticed and instantly connected it to the portal that Ruby ran into.

"What did you do to my sister?!" Yang yells.

"Sister?" Onyx repeats.

His eyes widen, Onyx knows who Yang is referring to. Yang sees to look on his face and charges at him.

"Tell me!" Yang yells.

She strikes with her right hand and Onyx blocks with the face White Wolf which he drew to moment Yang started her charge. Yang swings at Onyx with her left and tries to blast him in the lower abdomen, but Onyx jumps back and watches the other two girls, standing completely upright with his sword in his right hand, not taking the battle seriously at all. Weiss dashes at Onyx while he flips his sword so the blade faces downwards. Onyx grabs Weiss' rapier with his left hand and jabs her in the stomach with the kashira of his katana. He throws Myrtenaster into the air and grabs it by the handle. Onyx then scrapes her rapier against his own sword while throwing it to the side in order to create sparks that fly towards Blake's eyes. While Blake is blinded Onyx runs and opens a portal behind her. He knees Blake inside and closes it behind her. Yang fires at Onyx who creates a portal to use as a shield. Normally the pellets would still have the same effect but if an inanimate object enters a portal to the Chaos Zone it can only be influence things in the Chaos Zone. Onyx jumps into the portal and jumped out another that opened right in front of Weiss who had picked up her rapier. Weiss rapidly strikes at Onyx who, with one hand behind his back, blocks and deflects her attacks without countering. Onyx deflects a stab and knocks Weiss' weapon out of her hand.

"Your sister held onto her weapon with a stronger grip." Onyx taunts.

"My sis..." Weiss starts before being kicked into the Chaos Zone.

Yang clenches her fists as her eyes turn red. Yang charges at Onyx and attempts to punch him in the jaw. Onyx grabs her fist and uses his Aura to block the shotgun blast. Yang's eyes change back to lilac and are filled with fear as she can see the anger burning in Onyx's eyes. He sweeps Yang's legs and kicks her into the tree. Onyx then sheaths White Wolf. He draws Dark Sympathy in an upwards slashing motion. The slash wasn't completely perpendicular to the ground. Yang turns around as she hears wood splitting. One of the trees are cut down by seemingly nothing. Yang freezes as she feels blood trickling down her cheek. She puts her hand to her cheek and feels a small wound. Her Aura quickly heals the wound, but Yang questions why her Aura didn't stop the wound in the first place. She looks back at Onyx who his blade at her neck.

"Stand down and listen." Onyx orders

"Onyx!" Ruby shouts as she arrives with Team JNPR.

Onyx sheaths his Dark Sympathy.

"What are you doing!?" Ruby asks as she helps her sister up.

Onyx doesn't answer, instead he opens a portal next to her where Weiss and Blake walk out, still on guard.

"They struck first, I was simply defending myself." Onyx states, "I didn't harm them that much, only disabled them."

"You know this guy?" Weiss asks.

"Yes, he helped me while I was in the Chaos Zone." Ruby explains.

"Is that where he sent us?" Weiss asks.

"Yes, it is." Onyx interrupts.

"I wasn't speaking to you." Weiss retorts.

Onyx ignores her and walks up to Yang and stares into her eyes. Yang backed up in confusion.

"Lilac, not red." Onyx states.

"Huh?" Yang says.

"Your eyes, they're no longer red. Your semblance, correct?" Onyx says.

"Yeah..." Yang responds.

Onyx turns towards Ruby.

"I see she's aggressive." Onyx comments.

Onyx begins examining the ground. Weiss walks towards Ruby.

"How do we know he wasn't the one who brought you into the Chaos Zone?" Weiss asks.

"I trust him." Ruby answers.

"Why? He tried to kill us." Yang says.

"I used non-lethal attacks." Onyx states.

"A blade to my throat isn't non-lethal." Yang retorts.

"I didn't strike at your neck." Onyx comments.

"I still don't trust him. Like Weiss said, how do we know he didn't bring you to the Chaos Zone?" Yang says.

"He saved my life and brought me back." Ruby explains.

"He could have said he brought you back and avoid the entire fight, or stop it once it started." Blake states.

"I could have and probably should have, but I didn't." Onyx interjects, "There are more important things at hand here. Like the mysterious portal that Ruby ran into; I didn't create it, so how did?! Why'd they do it?! I'm going to try and figure that out, you can either help me or stay out of my way!"

Ruby stares at Onyx in confusion. He wasn't like this in the Chaos Zone. The mysterious portal set something off inside him. Ruby had always noticed some aggression in Onyx's voice, and now he is showing that aggression. While Teams RWBY and JNPR talk Onyx digs his fingers into the dirt. He pulls out a black crossbow dolt. Onyx looks at the casings left behind from Yang's shots and sees the difference. He notices an O embossed on the tip of the bolt. Onyx puts the bolt in his pocket, gets up and turns away from the two teams.

World of Riders:

The Chaos Zone

The Chaos Zone is an alternate realm that exists on the same plane of existence as Remnant. It was created by the Eighth Rider using the Shard of the Riders with the purpose of being used as a prison for the Seventh Rider. The Chaos Zone itself appears as though it is in black and white. Everything in the Chaos Zone cannot be observed or interacted with while on Remnant, however everything on Remnant can be observed in the Chaos Zone, but only non living things can be interacted with.

Controlling the Chaos Zone is achieved through Chaos Aura, which allows the user to open portals to the realm and phase into and out of it at will. The Chaos Zone is also filled with dormant Chaos Aura and is home to the Chaos Grimm. Chaos Grimm appear like normal Grimm but covered in a dark black shadowy aura. Chaos Grimm are stronger and possess unique abilities not present in their standard counterparts. Any Grimm transported to the Chaos Zone will instantly become their Chaos Grimm variation and any Chaos Grimm removed from the Chaos Zone will become a transparent goo known as Congeria.

-Lux, the First Rider