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 Three, Weiss Cold.
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-Remnant, Sanus, Vale, Vytal, Amity Colosseum-
SMACK!
"AH!" Emerald cried out in pain as Cinder, her team leader, slapped her across the face with her right hand, blood dripping from her mouth as they were currently in an empty locker room.
"You idiot!" she yelled while trying very hard not to turn the illusionist into a charred corpse. "You LET Yang Xiao Long WIN against Mercury!"
"Ah…wait, Cinder-"
"You were SUPPOSED to trap her into an illusion, NOT let her win! You put the entire plan into jeopardy!" Cinder growled while ignoring her hands with fire.
"Wait!" Emerald yelled while quickly getting up. "I had a reason why I let the bimbo win!"
"Which is?" she frowned while Emerald gulped and wiped the blood from her mouth.
"I had a better idea."
"Doubtful."
"Just hear me out." She frowned while the flames extinguished themselves in Cinder's hands. "Yang Xiao Long isn't the best target for anything. She's a nobody to the rest of Remnant and, to be fair, not that impactful."
"How could she not be impactful, she is the daughter of Raven Branwen, the most deadly criminal on the planet."
"Yes, but she doesn't use the last name of Branwen, at all. And even if you could see the similarities between them, one's a brawling blonde playgirl, the other is a black haired red eyes killer with a cold streak. They are nothing alike." Emerald deadpanned while Cinder blinked in surprise. "If you want to create a fall guy, one that everyone in Remnant will instantly hate, look at the other members of Team RWBY, not the Y."
"Mmmm. And who would be the perfect fall guy?"
"Not the faunus, too easy. And the little red hooded brat, too 'small' a name to be even recognizable." she said while smirking a little. "We need to make the Schnee fall."
"...continue."
"Think about it, Weiss Schnee is part of the hated and corrupt family business. She had a record of hating faunus, is a natural enemy of the White Fang, and if she 'did' anything illegal during a match, on live feed, then the consequences will be dire." Emerald said while crossing her arms. "The family name would be put under heavy investigation, the corruption of the SDC would be exposed, and she would be turned into a 'plague', a freak in the eyes of normal society. No money to save her and her reputation would be called into question. Meaning if we let her move to the third round's finale and play our cards right, then the number of Grimm running amok in the chaotic aftermath will be greater than a bimbo's breakdown on an unknown fighter."
"..."
Emerald moved closer and whispered into her right ear. "Imagine the distrust that will occur once the Schnee is arrested. More hate and fear to feed the plan, and once the android is hacked, the world will see the rising Atlasian Knights as 'Schnee sabotage'."
Cinder's eyes widened in surprise, never expecting her pawn to be this good at planning, as she slowly thought the scenario in her mind.
All of which had one single outcome.
Complete destruction of Vale as a Kingdom.
'Mmmmmm, perhaps I should listen to her this once. If it works, then perhaps she won't be completely worthless for any future missions, and perhaps she will FINALLY do something worthwhile in my eyes.' the false maiden thought before nodding her head. "Very well, I will rearrange the matches to allow the Schnee to fight someone…more traumatizing to her person."
Emerald sighed in relief before getting glared at by the woman.
"But if this plan fails, you will be the first to be set ablaze by the Fall Maiden's true power." she said coldly before walking off, making the mint haired girl gulp in fear.
'At least she listened to me.' she thought before walking away, her plan slowly becoming reality as she smirked to herself with glee. 'I hope the little bitch makes a good scene, with a river of tears to boot.'
(Later)
The crowd cheered with excitement as the second to last match began, people betting their hard earned lien to the victor of this match. All the while the various teams were either celebrating their victories, such as Team RWBY and JNPR, or grumbling about their defeats such as Team SSSN and PC.
Overall, the citizens of the four Kingdoms were getting hyped for the next match before the scheduled final round between Pyrrha Nikos and the winner of this round.
And the Huntsmen fighting for the glory of facing the great Mistral champion?
Nora Valkyrie of Vale and Weiss Schnee of Atlas.
Yes, this is a pairing of two friendly allies from Beacon….but what the hay, this is a battle between a hammer and a sword, it's SUPPOSED to be fun!
As the announcers began their bantering, with a certain professor talking about their past exploits, Nora began to walk towards the stage and slammed one of her feet to the ground, creating a large boom that made everyone, including Weiss, jump in surprise.
"It's time for THUNDER THIGHS!"
'Ok….that was….something.' Weiss thought while straightening herself and pulled out her weapon. 'But I must not lose focus, it's time for me to shine!'
And within a single second, the match began with Nora charging towards Weiss, sending her hammer right at her face as she quickly used a glyph as a speed boost, avoiding the strike via a hard right turn.
"Aw! I missed!" Nora huffed before turning her weapon into a grenade launcher and fired upon Weiss, who used her semblance to keep herself active and actively avoid the explosive grenades.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOOM!
"Come on, face me buttercup!"
"Excuse you!?" Weiss yelled in disbelief as she fired a ball of fire at the girl, getting knocked back as the Schnee used her glyphs in conjunction with her sword, to send a fury of sword slashes at the ginger.
"You." Nora grinned before turning her weapon into its signature hammer form and-
BOOOM!
Slammed it into the ground, causing Weiss' sense of direction to become dazed, stumbling backwards as Nora began to rush towards her, her hammer getting ready to strike her chest.
BAM!
Clank!
Only for a white colored Boarbatusk to rush towards the ginger, via a glyph, allowing Weiss to regain her bearings.
"WEEEEEEEEE!"
"I know Ren said not to…but I'm going to RIDE YOU!" Nora laughed before jumping on the constructs' back and, using her hammer as a makeshift rein, began to ride on the bucking 'Grimm', allowing Weiss to summon more Boarbatusks to aid her in this match.
"WEEEEEEE!"
"WEEEEEEE!"
"WEEEEEEE!"
"WEEEEEEE!"
"Oh, you gotta be kidding me! How many Boarbatusks did you kill!?"
"Just enough to keep you occupied, princess…oh that was bad." Weiss muttered in disbelief as the legion of Grimm began to launch themselves right at Nora, who began using her natural strength to punch each one on the snout.
"Ah! Gods, that hurt!" she yelled while punching the Grimm even more, trying to keep her own 'mount' from throwing her off. "What are they made of, ice!?"
"Well duh!" Weiss yelled before sending a fury of bounders via Stone Dust, causing many of the Boarbatucks to get destroyed, including the one Nora rode on.
"Weeeee!" She laughed before turning her hammer into a grenade launcher and fired a round at the sky, propelling her backwards as she, having turned her weapon back into hammer form again, charged towards the arena. "NORA SMASH!"
"Shit!" the heiress cursed in horror before quickly summoning a glyph and propelled herself to the right.
BOOOOOOOOM!
Just in time for the field to get destroyed in the process, the shards of stone cut against the Schnee's fair skin and coating the cuts in dirt.
"Ah!" she cried out while falling to her knees, blood dripping from the exposed cuts as Nora raised her hammer up and slugged it on her left shoulder.
"Woah! That was amazing! I really need to try that out more often, oh! I can even fly like goldilocks!" she grinned while Weiss groaned, struggling to stand up as she used her sword as a makeshift cane. "And Renny might enjoy it too! Oh my gods, we can be the Flying Grenade Squad!"
'Ah…that was too close, one false move and my aura would've been shattered instantly.' Weiss thought while not noticing the fact that…something felt off, the pain in her knees keeping her from properly thinking right. "Ah…I need to end this quickly.'
Nora smirked before turning to Weiss and ran towards the girl. "Time for a Nora Smash, Final Edition!"
'Shit!' she thought before seeing the girl jump right in her direction, the hammer arched back to strike from above.
SQUISH!
And in an instant…the attack just stopped.
Weiss, her eyes momentarily focused to the point of obtaining tunnel vision, slowly looked down at her left hand.
Revealing her weapon, the pride and joy of the middle Schnee, lodged right in Nora's left side, stuck in between her ribcage and her heart.
Clang.
"Ah…a..h.." Nora choked out, blood dripping from her chest and lips, as she fell to the ground, dead upon impact with the broken arena.
"...murderer!"
"Killer!"
"Another Schnee attack!"
"Arrest her!"
Weiss' eyes widened in horror, the crowd all around her calling for her head, making her hyperventilate, old memories flooding into her head at great neck speed.
Bombs.
Assassinations.
Jeering.
Snowballs filled with Dust shards.
Spiteful rumors.
All things tied to her family, to her own destructive family life…to her own feelings of self loathing, feelings that not even her team knew about.
All these things raced within her mind, causing her aura to fluctuate, rise in power, multiple glyphs forming all around her as a single large glyph formed under her feet.
"No…No…NOOOOOOOOOOO!" she screamed, the glyphs glowing a bright white color as thousands of tons of ice began to swirl around the arena, frost covering the ground as people screamed in terror before freezing in place, their internal organs and blood turning cold and hard as the very thing that entombed them.
SWIIIISH!
Crackle.
Crackle.
As the screams of the Schnee echoed across the coliseum, ice began to spread outwards, from the floating 'island' of Amity to the grounds of Vytal below, moving in every direction until even the sea began to freeze near the top, trapping ships and causing airships in the area to fall into the ice, trapping its occupants in a frozen tomb.
Soon, the walls of ice raced towards the city of Vale, freezing it in time, its people unable to scream as their brains were encased in ice, leaving them nothing more than statues, unmoving yet stuck in their normal mundane routines.
As the camera quickly zoomed back towards the epicenter of this ice storm…the screams suddenly died down.
The glyphs vanished, albeit slowly, as within the center of the former arena…
The body of Weiss Schnee, her face still screaming to no one, stood there, covered in ice.
To all the world, this place of sport and treachery has now become the time capsule of a bygone era.
And as the screen began to fade, the camera zoomed slowly towards the stands, where Emerald, her eyes wide with terror and her arms trying to shield her face from the frost, sat in her seat, forever watching the event that sparked…this unfortunate event.
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Name/Designation Title: Weiss Schnee (Weiss Cold Weiss Schnee- WCWSRWBY)
Age: 17
Affiliation: Normal Evil (Extremely loosely)
Dimension: - 230000- 00 WCWSRWBY
Abilities: Enhanced strength, speed, durability, agility, endurance, and intelligence, tactical knowledge, Dust knowledge, Huntress skills and knowledge, limited hand to hand combat, high swordsmanship skills and techniques, master fencing skills, dual weapon utilization (blades), firearms handling and knowledge, Multi Action Dust Rapier (MADR) knowledge and handling, high aura pool (increased further by an unstable rush of adrenaline).
Semblance(s): Glyphs
Bio: In this timeline, during the Vytal Festival, Emerald, seeing the match between Yang Xiao Long and Mercury Black play out, had a flash of inspiration and deviated from the plan, letting the blonde brawler defeat Mercury Black instead of placing her under an illusion, angering Cinder Fall in the process. Threatened with wrathful flames, the thief explained that while letting the brawler become a criminal in the eyes of Remnant is fine, her influence in the world is inconsequential and inferior for the plan's long term goals, thus she decided to change her target from Yang to Weiss Schnee, daughter of the SDC's CEO and current participant in the Vytal Festival. By casting her in an especially devastating illusion, she would be considered a united enemy to the general population, both humans and faunus, and her reputation would be placed in tatters, unable to rise again and humiliated to such a point that her fear and aggression, mixed with the crowds' shared hate for the Schnee name, would attract more Grimm to the invasion and possibly bolster the White Fang's forces by a few thousand. In the thief's eyes, using the Schnee as the fall guy is better than a simple 'bimbo'. Seeing the logic of her 'pawn's' plan, Cinder agreed to shift the planned battle between Pyrrha Nikos and Penny Polendina to the final match of the third round, inevitably allowing other matches such as Sun vs Ruby and Ren vs Ciel to occur unchanged, although due to Ciel's defeat at the hands of Ren, she had to improvise and use the next best fighter of the second to last match to enact her plans. However, once the match between Weiss and Nora occurred, Emerald activated her semblance just as the Schnee attempted to strike Nora, placing her in an illusion where she 'killed' her opponent by stabbing Nora in the chest with her blade. Horrified by this, her mind began to race and reactivated her dormant emotions of self loathing, fear, and personal failures of her life, allowing her semblance, Glyphs, to become completely out of control and dangerous, causing a massive ice storm to form all across Vytal and Vale in a matter of minutes, killing everyone and burying them in thousands of tons of ice, including herself. Deterred from this sudden freezing of half a continent, Salem decided to wait until the ice thawed to acquire the Relic of Choice, but in the end, she would have to wait a thousand years…all the while, the mummified remains of a bygone era wait to be released. To think, a deviation in an invasion of Vale led to a Weiss Age.