Pyrrha awoke in an unfamiliar, but somehow familiar place.
The last thing she remembered was the green dome and all the destruction that happened around them. She remembered nothing after that and now finds herself in the Emerald forest. Pyrrha could easily tell by the colour of the trees around here, it has a very distinct colour.
That was what made this place familiar until she noticed the newly paved road.
It wasn't anything ancient like the ruins and she was certain that she could smell the distinct smell of fresh asphalt. Before she could question why there would be a newly paved road in a Grimm infested forest, something even stranger once she stepped on the pah.
Two guys, around her age, walked towards her without a care in the world. They were unarmed, unarmoured and loud enough that she could hear them even when they were at least a hundred meters away. Pyrrha didn't understand how a Grimm hadn't attacked them yet!
She pushed down her worries for now and decided to focus on the duties of a huntress for now. After she got the civilians to safety she would try to find out what happened.
It took only seconds to reach them, even less to prepare her weapon and asses the surroundings. Once she deemed it clear of Grimm, for now at least, she turned her attention to the civilians. They wore expressions of surprise, but it quickly changed into a more familiar expression that Pyrrha was used too.
Awe.
"Pyrrha Nikos?!" The blonde nudged the more quiet, but no less excited person in the arm. "Can you believe it, dude? Weren't you supposed to be in Vacuo though, for that new movie?"
Movie? Pyrrha had only played in commercials and had denied any movie roles because it would take up to much time. And she can't remember that she ever visited Vacuo in her life. She decided to ignore it, for now, they must have heard that from a bad source.
"Could you tell me how you managed to get here? How did you get past all the Grimm?" She was still curious about that.
They at her in confusion. "Grimm? Why would there be Grimm in the park of all places." The quiet one decided to join the conversation to further confuse Pyrrha. "How does a Grimm look like anyway?"
Pyrrha was sure that she had never met someone that had managed to forget what Grimm looked like. Not even children asked that question.
The other guy looked at the quiet one with a disappointed look. "Big monsters with white masks and red eyes, don't embarrass me in front of Pyrrha. Don't you remember anything that they teach us at school." He turned to her. "I am so sorry Pyrrha, please don't think I'm as ignorant as this guy."
"I don't think... that?" Was she being filmed? "You mentioned a park? When did the Emerald forest become a park?"
One doesn't usually turn a Grimm infested forest into a park. Usually, that was, those attempts ended all the same way with horrific results.
"When it turned into a park?" The look of awe lessened for the first time. "I don't know, like a century ago when they cleared out all the Grimm."
"They cleared out the forest 97 years ago, it turned into a park ten years later."The quiet one stated.
"Are you seriously saying that you remember that you remember that, but not what a Grimm looks like?"
"Yep."
"I don't even know what to say." The loud one looked at her with suspicion. "Are you even Pyrrha Nikos?"
"What?"
"I mean, shouldn't you know this stuff already. Your clothes and weapon don't make sense either."
Pyrrha had gone through most of her life with every person she met after her first tournament victory knew who she was. She had never been mistaken for someone else and never been called a fraud.
"You look like your in combat gear, but you're fighting in heels. Your weapon looks more like a toy and you look a lot you-"
"Please stop, let's just get out of here before any Grimm decides to attack." At this point, she just wanted to escort them to safety so that she could focus on her situation.
Unfortunately, they wouldn't let her.
"Why should we go with you, you're a complete stranger and one that decided to dress up as Pyrrha Nikos for some reason."
"I have no idea why you would think that." She took up her scroll to display her ID. "I AM Pyrrha Nikos and also a student at Beacon Academy, which means you should at the very least listen to me when it comes to the dangers of Grimm." The guy had somehow managed to get her off all people irritated.
The guy quieted down for the first time and looked at it seriously. Pyrrha hoped they could finally get on their way now, but the laughter stopped that thought.
"If you want to use a fake ID you should at the very least try to get the date right." He could barely control his laughter and the quiet joined in once he read the ID too.
At this point, Pyrrha had given up on this situation and hoped someone would arrive to save her from this. Luckily someone did.
In the form of the red ball of petals that materialized behind the two guys and broke out into a wide smile.
"Pyrrha, I finally found you!" Ruby Rose shouted with glee.
Pyrrha felt the same way. Finally, there was some normalcy that she could anchour herself too. She only wished she hadn't decided to appear where she did as they almost jumped out of fright when she yelled.
"What the he-" The loud one turned to Ruby, but whatever he was about to say was interrupted as his face morphed into an expression of pure horror. "A Silver-eyed demon!"
They both ran away from them at a speed she hadn't thought they could as they both screamed in terror. And left both Pyrrha and Ruby in confusion of what just happened.
"Oops." Ruby wore a sheepish smile. "I didn't think I would scare them that much."
Lie Ren had no idea where he was.
Nora, Blake, Yang and he had woken up in a small alley, only to see a city that only looked like Vale on the surface. The reason he thought that was the fact that he recognized some of the buildings, but only some of them.
He remembered the street they currently walked on, but many of the buildings he clearly remembered weren't there before. Everything looked so much newer too. He would have looked around more if Nora hadn't called them over to her since she had sprinted ahead.
"Look I'm on TV." She said. "Though I don't remember being on TV."
Ren didn't understand what she talked about until he made it there and looked. What he saw made a mixture of emotions come forth so suddenly that he almost activated his semblance on reflex.
On the screen stood a woman much older than Nora, but the similarities where there even though he could barely what he saw. Things got worse as he read the small text underneath the woman.
Councillor Nora Valkyrie will speak about the preparations for Unity Day at 09:30