The Ruinverse Chapter 32- Neophyte Mania, a rwby fanfic

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The screen began to bubble and boil as the familiar silver door rose from it's depths, the thick purple chains corroding and breaking apart as the door opened up and bathed everything in dark purple.

From the tainted light, came a single red eye that glared at the screen before the door slammed shut and everything became static, a crumbling rose symbol appearing every so often as the title began to form.

The Ruinverse: Chapter Thirty Two, Neophyte Mania.

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-Remnant, Sanus, Vale, Beacon Academy, JPTR's Room-

"I wonder where Pyrrha went off to?" muttered the resident blonde of Team JPTR as he laid on his bed, looking at the ceiling as his eyes glanced towards the door, and then to the corner of the room, where a hastily constructed bunk bed laid empty sans for the trademark scythe of his friend, Ruby Rose. 'I hope she's ok.'

As he sighed heavily to himself, he recalled…the unfortunate events leading up to this moment.

For one, it all started when Weiss Schnee went missing, only to be found in the Emerald Forest, her eyes pulled out and her stomach gutted, by her concerned team, Team WYBN. However, only days afterwards, the other members of this team and other members of the student body went missing and then turned up in random locations across Beacon Academy.

Coco Adel, pushed off a third story window.

Velvet Scarlatina, beheaded by a closed window.

Nora Valkyrie, poisoned by a cup of coffee laced with Rapier Wasp venom.

Cinder Fall, shot in the head and had her arms cut off, only for them to be found in that evening's spaghetti and meatball dish….as the meatballs.

Yang Xiao Long, pushed down a set of stairs before her neck was snapped, either by the fall or…by something else.

And countless others that were either unnamed in the reports or unaccounted for due to the Emerald Forest and it's infestation of Grimm.

Only Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose and Pyrrha Nikos seemed to be safe from this 'killer's' wrath, although the teachers ruled the deaths as possible 'late night training gone wrong', although that theory is still being circulated by the staff.

As of right now, Ruby was attending her sister's funeral on the island of Patch, Pyrrha was somewhere in the campus and Tala….well, he didn't know where she was.

That girl was a bit of a mystery even to him. From Haven Academy before suddenly popping up, she seemed to be a quiet girl, preferring non transformable weapons compared to the resident scythe user, and seemed to be attached to him, almost clingy.

Every time he talked to anyone, she just popped up, hugged him tightly and then dragged him away from said person, even if it was just a simple 'hello' to a fellow teacher. In his eyes, this behavior was…odd, and it did cause a lot of strain to his team, consisting of two other girls, and…it felt like a punishment.

He had cheated his way to Beacon, was placed in a dysfunctional team, and might be the one that sparked the deaths. It all started when he came to Beacon, it was…his fault.

"..." he sighed while placing his right hand on his face, feeling forlorn about the entire situation. "I really wish I stayed a civilian." 'And didn't cheat.'

But as he started to close his eyes, he heard a loud thump in the next room over, confusing him in the process.

'What was that?' he thought while getting up and moving towards the door, opening it to see an empty hallway. "Huh, no one's here…that's to be expected. Half the students here are either attending funerals or searching the forest for the killer." 'Leaving me here alone.'

THUMP!

Jaune jumped a little at the sudden noise as he turned in the direction of the sound, located at the far right hallway, and blinked. "Ok, that was freaky." 'Was it a raccoon….a giant raccoon?"

THUMP!

The blonde gulped before getting a text on his Scroll, from Pyrrha apparently.

But it was…from ten minutes ago.

[Jaune, come to Team CEMY's room. Found something very big.]

"Eh? When did I get this?" he muttered while feeling very confused, but decided to follow Ruby's partner's instruction and walked towards the room, the thumping still echoing in his ears.

THUMP!

As the teen moved closer to the door leading to CEMY's room, he started to recall how bad the team was to begin with, Yang's 'play girl' personality clashed significantly with the team leader, Cinder Fall, like oil and water, natural enemies.

In a way, it was impossible for them to get along due to Cinder's arrogance, Emerald's snarky personality, Mercury's blatant disregard for others and Yang's…well, Yangism. If the murders didn't occur, then it was more then likely they would've been at each other's throats by the second year, maybe less.

In a weird way, this wouldn't have happened if they didn't just…show up on the same week as Tala, which made the blonde think…maybe the entire team's dysfunctional 'teamwork' was the direct result of him applying to Beacon. Perhaps his inclusion caused the original teams to be displaced and remade to keep the status quo functioning, leading to the current teams of CMEY, NBWR and JPTR.

'Maybe Pyrrha's going to tell me I'm a failure as a leader? She isn't wrong, given my track record and inability to learn anything but basic swordsmanship…which is still leagues away from anyone else.' he thought before mentally slapping himself in the face. 'No, she isn't like that. She's sweet and nice and…gods, if only I was her boyfriend. Maybe my life would be different, I mean…she is beautiful, smart and leagues above me. I…it might never work.'

THUMP!

'Just what is that noise?' he thought before walking to the door, just as the thumping sound…stopped suddenly, making the hairs on his back stand on end, sensing something was terribly wrong. 'Well…..here goes nothing.'

Creeeak.

'Wait, why is the door open?' he thought before noticing the lock was broken, seemingly magnetized to the point of being unable to register a student's keycard. 'Who…Pyrrha? No, she's not like that. It has to be something else.'

As he carefully opened the door to CMEY's room, he noticed that….something was sticking out from the carpet, something…green?

'Is that…mold? No algae?' he thought while a little confused. 'Did they have a dirty room? They seemed to be clean freaks, especially Cinder…so why is there algae on the carpet, and a big one at that.'

Looking upon the empty room, a single bed left empty and covered in dust laid near the left corner, the blonde continued to scan the room for any trace of his teammate, but found nothing, not even a trace of red hair or bronze armor.

Squish.

He blinked before looking down at his left foot, only to see a pool of warm blood on the carpet, oozing from a single source.

The pale and unmoving body of Emerald Sustrai, her throat slashed and blood oozing out of the open wound, her vocal cords ripped out and hanging down the left side of her neck.

"Holy crap!" he yelled in shock and horror, moving back a little before he saw something else near the window.

The headless body of a short pale skinned woman with a D cup chest and large ass, long green nails, wearing a long sleeved black blouse with white frills on the collar and waist, a long white bow attached to the back, two gold armbands that went up to her elbows, a white belt, a knee high black skirt with a gold crescent moon symbol on the left side, black leg warmers and white high heeled shoes with a single gold crescent moon shaped heel, dangling over the side.

His eyes widened before noticing something right near his right foot.

The head, which had long brown hair sporting two twin tails that went down to her chest and had white bows on the ends and green eyes, the eyes seemingly dull and lifeless as he began to back away in fear.

"T-T-Tala!?" he cried out in horror as a figure stood behind him. "What t-"

KABAM!

And just like that, the blonde 'cheater' found himself in a world of black unconsciousness.

(Later)

-JNTR's Room-

"Ugh….what…hit me…?" Jaune groaned while slowly opening his eyes, the back of his head throbbing in pain for some odd reason, as he felt something soft on top of his body.

Only to see that he was back in his room, right in between the covers of his own bed, and right next to him was Ruby's partner, Pyrrha Nikos, who was smiling at him and seemed relieved.

"Pyrrha? What-"

"Hush." she said while placing her left index finger on his lips. "Don't move, you had a very bad nightmare."

"Nightmare, but…it felt so-ah." he groaned while Pyrrha carefully placed her right hand near the back of Jaune's head, rubbing it gently in the process.

"There there." she said with affection, something that surprised the boy. "It will be alright."

"Pyrrha, what…happened? What did you find?"

"Nothing." she said with a sigh. "I thought I had a lead on who was murdering all the girls, but came up empty handed. And then I saw you having a panic attack and I brought you here."

"Huh…I don't recall that."

"You were spasming a little, apparently you hit your head hard on something." she said while Jaune's eyes widened in shock. "Good thing I found you before…you entered a coma."

'I see….so I did something…ugh. But it felt so real.' he thought before noticing Tala's empty bed. "Um, Pyrrha. Where Tala?"

"Oh, she had to return home." Pyrrha said before moving back and pulled out a bag of 'Kung Pow Burger' from near her left foot. "But let's eat first. I got you your favorite."

"Wait, chicken nuggets?"

"Yep."

"Grea-wait a second. Why did Tala return home? She's…she's clingy to me." he said while Pyrrha pulled out a large box of chicken nuggets. "She wouldn't leave me for a second, not even to use the bathroom." 'Or in the shower…gods, that was so mortifying!'

"Oh, that…she really had to leave." Pyrrha said with an uncertain expression on her face. "Apparently Headmaster Leonardo had to summon his students back, something about 'stopping a Grimm incursion to the southern walls' or something like that. I really don't have a clue."

And just like that, Jaune felt his heart break into a thousand pieces. The reason? Because without Tala, the unneeded clinger of the group, his team was effectively destroyed.

Ruby was too busy mourning the loss of her sister to even consider returning to active Huntress duties.

Pyrrha, while still here to help him out, was only one girl. Even if she was a champion…she wasn't enough to keep a team together, especially one so dysfunctional.

And without Tala to help cover the team's flank, due to her unique acrobatic skills, the effectiveness of the team was…bare bones at best.

Then it came to himself…he was a fake, one that couldn't even use a sword, his semblance was unknown and possibly the reason why his luck was so poor, and…he didn't feel like a leader at all.

If he was a leader, then he could've stopped the killer and maybe save the other girls from a violent death…but he couldn't even kill a Grimm, he couldn't defend himself from anyone else.

He was a fraud, a loser…a coward.

He deserved this fate, he deserved to be expelled for his team's disbandment.

He, Jaune Arc, only son of the Arc family….wasn't like his grandfather.

He was…trash, plain and simple.

"...I see." Jaune said, his heart heavy with thoughts of self doubt and internal hate, as Pyrrha placed the box near the table and smiled at him.

"Don't worry, the headmaster will find other members to fill in the roster. And who knows, maybe Ruby will show up and we can be a team again." she said as Jaune closed his eyes.

"Maybe…Pyrrha, I know this is sudden. But…maybe I-"

"If you say worthless, I will be mad." she interrupted with a frown. "You aren't worthless at all, I believe in you Jaune. Never forget that."

Hearing these words of encouragement, instead of making him feel better, caused his heart to sink deeper into despair, feeling like she was only saying that to distract him from the total failure he was…not that he blamed her at all given his lackluster motives and inability to learn any Huntsmen techniques.

'She's…only being courteous.' He thought while giving her a hug, his eyes still closed as the girl blinked in surprise. 'Best return the favor…not that she will enjoy it.'

As the boy kept on hugging the champion's body, the girl smiled and hugged back, the camera slowly moving back near the window.

Swwwwiish.

Only for a trail of purple glass to shimmer across her face and body, revealing…a tall muscular pale skinned woman with long brown hair in a waist-length ponytail that curled slightly into a loose ringlet on the left side while the right side was pink with some white streaks, a brown right eye and a pale pink left eye, green eyeshadow, a D cup chest and small ass, wearing a brown overbust corset with a vertical light brown strip in the center, a elastic black A-line mini skirt, brown opera-length gloves, a red ankle-length sash that wrapped around her skirt, a small circular bronze plate on her right hip with an etched spear shaped emblem in its center, two brown pouches on the left hip, a brown belt, a bronze circlet adorned with a pair of small green teardrop shaped emeralds on thin bronze chains under the hair, a large bronze gorget around her neck, a bronze bracelet on the upper half of her left arm, bronze mid-thigh length greaves that went down to the boots, bronze mid-thigh length cuisses that ended near the top of her knees, a bronze bracer on the left arm, and brown high-heeled boots with a bronze trim that reached to her mid-calf, who grinned with a mania infused smile, her eyes seemingly glowing with energy.

"Don't worry Jaune." she said calmly, her left hand stroking his back with affection. "I will never leave you."

As the screen began to fade, the eyes of this doppelganger glowed within the darkness, staring at the screen as the pink and brown eyes slowly faded into nothing.

"I love you too much for that to happen~"

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Name/Designation Title: Neopolitan 'Pyrrha' Nikos (Neophyte Mania Neopolitan- NMNRWBY)

Age: 21~23 (Physically 17 )

Affiliation: Mega Evil.

Dimension: - 61661634- 94 NMNRWBY

Abilities: Enhanced strength, durability, speed, agility, acrobatics, endurance, maneuverability, and reflexes, Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls (LBPAFG) skills and knowledge, Huntress skills and knowledge, javelin handling and knowledge, rifle handling and knowledge, shield handling and knowledge, swordsmanship skills and knowledge, high aura pool, pin point accuracy, hand to hand combat skills, aura handling and knowledge (limited), hand to hand combat skills, kick based combat skills, fencing skills and knowledge, high espionage skills, high cunning, acting skills and knowledge, pickpocketing skills, high hijacking skills, vehicle riding skills (including airships), cane sword knowledge and skills, mania like insanity (only during times of stress or periods of infatuation).

Semblance(s): Overactive Imagination (Dominate), Polarity (Recessive).

Bio: In this timeline, after Roman Torchwick's escape of Glynda Goodwitch, Neopolitan, during a simple walk around Vale, discovered a lost and rather confused Jaune Arc, who caught her interest a little and at first just pointed him in the right direction, towards Beacon Academy. However, her life would spiral into infatuation and desire after Jaune, in a moment of innocent observation, complimented the girl's eyes, something no other person had done in the past. Falling in love with the boy, despite her age gap, she decided to follow the blonde to Beacon, abandoning her partnership with Roman in the process and even masquerading as a student, a girl from Haven Academy called Tala Vestia, after the criminal killed and assumed her identity. During the first year of classes, 'Tala Vestia' became a member of Team JPTR, consisting of Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos and Ruby Rose respectively, but her attempts to become closer to the blonde ended in constant distractions and interactions by other girls, causing her already unstable mind to deteriorate over time, finally snapping when Cinder Fall made a 'booty call', in her mind, at her 'lover'. Deciding to get rid of the competition, she began a killing spree, eliminating all the girls that ever got too close to Jaune, including her own team. Some of these victims of the assassin's blade were Weiss Schnee, Cinder Fall, Yang Xiao Long, Velvet Scarlatina, Coco Adel, Nora Valkyrie, and many more unaccounted for. Towards the end of her murderous rampage, she attacked her own teammate Pyrrha, while Ruby was busy attending her sister's funeral in Patch, and was about to kill her when Emerald Sustrai busted in and, in a bid to avenge the death of her leader, used her semblance to knock out the two girls, but the semblance overloaded and instead of trapping Neopolitan in an illusion, it merged her semblance, Overactive Imagination, to create a 'tear' between fantasy and reality, turning the girl's body and mind into an 'illusion' that infused itself into Pyrrha's body. Overriding and fusing with the champion's body, she became even more powerful and gained the ability to speak, which she used to masquerade as Pyrrha Nikos in her attempts to make Jaune Arc love her. After killing Emerald to hide her crimes, she began to care for the blonde, his team shattered and his dreams ruined by 'unknown' events, and make sure he was always there for her, and vice versa. In the end, the now merged Neopolitan Nikos had her dream come true, a lover that will never know the truth, and will allow the rest of Remnant to burn just to keep him in a 'blissful' nightmare of her own creation. A girl that could never find a home, has at last found one in a ruined teammate…but was the price worth it in the end? Only time will tell…and in the meantime, the nightmare will continue onwards towards mania.