The Ruinverse Chapter 73- Eboru no Zantō, a rwby fanfic

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 Seventy Three, Eboru no Zantō.

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-Remnant, Sanus, Patch, Xiao Long Residence-

Rumble.

The sound of distant thunder echoed across the forest as the formerly colorful evening sky became coated in black clouds, small droplets of rain falling towards the dusty ground and upon the wooden cabin in the middle of the vast woods of Patch.

Rumble.

Boom.

As droplets moved across the circular rooftop towards the ground, the camera zoomed downwards and stopped at the porch, where a figure sat on a wooden rocking chair, letting the calmness of the approaching storm lull them into a tranquil state of peace.

This figure was a tall pale skinned young woman with long bushy jet black hair tied by a red bandanna in neat done up ponytail, a small cowlick on the top of her head, bright crimson red eyes, a E cup chest and wide ass, wearing a long sleeved shallow cut black and red dress, red gauntlets, black fingerless gloves, several black beaded necklaces wrapped around her neck, a black belt, a red and white bandana hanging from the waist and went down to her ass, black shorts, black mid-thigh high leggings with red splatter patterns, black high heels, and holding a black sword sheath with a red hilt in her right hand, as she stared at the blade for any imperfections.

This was Raven Branwen…no, Raven Xiao Long, a member of Team STRQ, former member of the dreaded Branwen Tribe, and newlywed wife of her teammate, Taiyang Xiao Long. For the last few months, she and her teammate were busy traveling across the Anima continent, getting into bar fights, Grimm slaying, the occasional airship derby and intense…over eighteen escapades, all in an attempt to have some needed 'relaxation' after the intense wedding.

A Beacon Academy wedding to be exact, blame Qrow for misinterpreting the location and Kingdom while writing the invites.

But after all of that and several other misadventures involving Summer trying to jump into the marriage bed, it was good to be home…well it would be if it wasn't going to rain and she wasn't bored out of her mind. How can you blame her though, she and her husband only came home yesterday and the blonde brawler was out cold on the couch.

"Sometimes I wonder if he's right in the head." Raven muttered to herself while turning the blade a few times. "But hey, he's my idiot. Nothing will change that."

Rumble.

'Just another storm front. Typical of Patch.' she thought while the sound of thunder grew ever closer, the rain growing in intensity. 'A place to raise families, more like a place where hurricanes are commonplace. Ugh…if I ever give birth to a child, I'm taking my chances in Vale. At least the rent is more stable and less prone to Grimm infested windstorms….oh gods, now I'm thinking of the plot of a bad film! Damn it Summer and your geeky films!'

Rumble.

RUMBLE!

BOOOM!

The red eyed woman sighed while sheathing her blade back into its scabbard and began to stand up, intending to go back inside and get some shut eye.

ZOOOOP!

Yet before she could, the Huntress heard a loud thunderous 'tearing' sound in the distance, causing her to quickly turn and saw, a few miles away, a massive dark purple eye-like hole in the sky, which seemed to be expelling various debris into the surrounding forest like tiny bullets.

BOOM!

BOOOM!

"What in the world?"

ZOOOOM!

BOOOM!

The ground shook from the barrage of debris as streaks of orange dotted the sky, the strange hole glitching out every so often before-

BOOOOOM!

A massive explosion rocked the forest, burning a good portion of the woodlands as the hole vanished from existence and the rain began to blanket the budding inferno.

"What in the…." she muttered before deciding to investigate the impact craters and ran off the porch towards the forest. "I'm going to regret this, but as Ozpin's Eye, I might as well check up on anything out of the ordinary." 'And possibly use the debris as insurance. Gods knows that we used all of our lien with the wedding preparations and honeymoon.'

(A few minutes later)

Sisssle.

Smoke rose from the impact craters, numerous in quantity and varying in depth, as the rain began to wash away the evidence of this otherworldly phenomenon, dirt and loose mud filling in the holes and transforming them into deadly mud pits.

Sissle.

Gurgle.

Pop!

Blop.

SQUISH!

'I hate mud.' Raven thought to herself as she tried, and failed, to keep her feet out of the mud, her lower legs becoming coated in a thick layer of wet earth. 'I really hate it and I think one of my heels got eaten!'

SQUISH!

Blop!

"Ugh!" she groaned while pulling her left leg out, which still had one of her high heels on. "Next time, I'm getting boots."

Sissle.

As the red eyed Huntress moved through the mud and rain, she noticed a rather large crater a few feet away and slipped on the outer edge.

SQUISH!

SPLAT!

Sending her falling towards the center of the deep pit before hitting the mud, face first to be exact.

"Gah!" she gagged while wiping the mud off her face. "Damn it! And it's in my hair too!" 'It's going to take hours to get out!'

Standing up from the mud, she noticed that the inner center of the pit was…rather solid, smoke billowing from the center as the very dirt was transformed into hard obsidian crystals.

She raised an eyebrow before stepping onto the now solid ground, cracks forming due to her weight, as she saw three objects sticking out from the 'island' of crystals.

In the very center of the 'island' was a small gray six sided box with strange notches on it, which seemed to pulsate a strange….'energy' from within, although the former Branwen didn't exactly know what the energy was.

On the left hand side was a small rustic gray rectangular box-like object with a single 'eye' like indentation on the front, that seemed fossilized and almost…alien to anything seen on Remnant, especially when it's design wasn't of Atlasian or Mantleian manufacturing.

But what piqued Raven's interest was on the right hand side of the cube, which happened to be a gold belt with a long crank like buckle, a blue handle, two red notches on the right side of the buckle, red clips on the left and right sides of the belt, and a blue star chart-like 'globe' with yellow lines on the ends and center of it.

"A belt? Odd…but the design looks like a child's toy." she muttered to herself while her very soul was trembling for some reason, the very existence of the belt causing the hairs on her neck to stand up in primal terror.

Yet...she felt something else, something...unexplainable.

She, for a better word, felt the raw…power of the belt? No, that's silly, a belt has no powers beyond keeping a pair of pants up. If anything, keeping one's butt secured was its true power in life as far as she knew.

However….something was familiar about the belt, something she knew too well.

The Relics of the gods.

'Is this…god made? No, that's impossible, there are only four relics and all of them are accounted for.' she thought to herself as her body seemed to move on its own, inching closer and closer to the belt's general direction. 'Besides, it's just a belt. A belt that somehow appeared from a hole in space along with a cube and a…whatever the other one was.'

Babum...babum...babum.

Her heart began to race as her right hand inched closer and closer to the belt, its globe-like center seemingly beckoning her to remove it from the crystalline prison.

Babum...babum...babum.

'It's just a belt. A normal belt.' she thought before grabbing the belt with her hand.

WOOSH!

However, as she did so, several dark red energy tendrils erupted from the belt and latched onto Raven's body, the belt quickly wrapping around her waist as lightning flashed in the sky, blanketing the screen with white.

ZAP!

BOOOOM!

And like that, everything went black as the sound of lightning and muffled screams were heard in the background.

(Many years later)

-Vale, Beacon Academy, Headmaster's Office-

'This can't be happening.' Ozpin thought to himself while pacing across his office, the setting sun moving past the horizon behind him, as he seemed deeply troubled. 'This can not be happening. How can this even happen!?'

Stress and fear fueled his every step as the headmaster felt dread in his very soul. For terrible things have been occurring in Remnant, something, for once, not related to his former wife.

The Kingdoms of Atlas and Mistral…have fallen, the Grimm overridden the capitals and created….monsters, strange beings of smoke that seemingly attack at random. Yet this wasn't the only tragedy, for other unexplainable factors have been looming since before the unfortunate fall of Remnant's most influential civilizations.

The Crown has been successful in creating a lawless nation of violence, Vale's criminal underworld has been united into a centralized 'police' force that controls all aspects of Vale, the SDC was liquidized and destroyed by an unknown pyromaniac whistleblower, the numerous Dust mines of the world have been bombed and destroyed, Menagerie has been placed in a deadly civil war between the Pro Human White Fang and the Anti Human White Fang factions, and, for whatever reason...Huntsmen all around the world have been vanishing off the face of Remnant itself.

No trace of their whereabouts, no physical evidence, no Scroll data, no nothing. It was as if they had just…ceased to exist.

But for the immortal, things were starting to become even worse for him for two big reasons.

One, the Relics of Knowledge and Creation have been compromised and seemingly destroyed in the Grimm attacks.

And two, he was booted out of the Vale Council just moments ago for 'treachery' against Vale's interest.

"Just how did they even come up with that conclusion? I definitely know I haven't done anything detrimental to their fragile egos." he muttered to himself as he tried to rationalize the council's decision. "Yet they seem to believe I was selling secrets to Atlas of all places. Yes, I did have some secrets but I'm not that confident or willing to divulge any one of those 'truths'." 'Nor am I a threat to them. I CREATED the council. Ugh…this is going from bad to worse.'

As he tapped the top of his cane with his index fingers, he began to recall a…personal loss to his goals.

The death of Team STRQ.

Ten years ago…they all died from a sudden mudslide. Their bodies mangled from the rocks and debris, yet authorities failed to come up with a logical conclusion for their deaths and has been shelved in the Vale Police Department's Cold Case department.

"...they were so happy, the best Beacon ever produced. Yet their mysterious…accident goes unsolved." 'I know it wasn't a natural accident but who would kill them? Summer's Silver Eyes were left intact, which rules out Salem. But who would kill four seasoned Huntsmen, two of which are Branwen born?'

Ping.

"Mmm?" He blinked as he heard the elevator pinging and the two steel doors opening up behind him, making him raise his left eyebrow since he knew for a fact that Beacon Academy wasn't open yet to the public, given the current state of Vale and the council's 'cease and desist' order following his dismissal from the council. "Now who would that be?"

Ping.

"Make yourself at home." Ozpin said while turning around to face the figure, only for his eyes to widen in horror and shock.

For in front of him was….Raven Branwen, no Raven Xiao Long, alive and well.

"Ah, Ozpin. Headmaster of Vale's esteemed Beacon Academy." she said with a mocking chuckle. "We meet at last, or in this case, I meet you for the first time."

"Raven…but how? The reports-"

"Exaggerated." she said with a shrug. "They didn't even find the body, so who's to say I wasn't alive and kicking while you just watched students here in this glorified castle?"

'Her mannerisms, her attitude. It feels…off.' he thought to himself. "Why are you here, after all this time, why now?"

"It's simple really, I'm here for you." she said while pointing at Ozpin. "More specifically, your hidden power, wizard."

His eyes widened before noticing that Raven's voice seemed…deeper than normal. "Wait, you're not Raven Branwen."

"Oh? And what gave it away?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.

"The voice, the way you casually talk about yourself and your negligence in talking about your own family." Ozpin said calmly. "If you were the real Raven, then you would be asking me about your family or be devastated about their demise."

"...heh. Clever, but." she chuckled while seemingly unfazed by Ozpin's words. "You got one thing wrong, I chose not to disguise myself. I chose to come here with my voice sounding like this, all because I know you won't be around much longer."

'Cocky and arrogant? No…it's something else entirely, like he knew the outcome before it occurred.' he thought before narrowing his eyes. "Who are you?"

'Raven' smirked while moving towards the right side of the office and stared out the window. "I could tell you and my master plan but that would be stupid and to be frank with you, your little power might retain that information to the next vessel. So no, not going to tell you and risk everything I built."

Ozpin frowned before noticing that 'Raven's' left hand was moving towards her right sleeve.

SWISH!

CLANK!

SHATTER!

In an instant, a small black blade made of glass shattered from Ozpin's cane, only for a thick yellow smoke to cover him.

"COUGH COUGH!" he gasped as his body glowed with a deep green energy. "What did you, cough!"

"I just infected you with a modificato version of a special gas I spent years reproducing." She said while Ozpin felt his body burning from the inside out. "Don't worry, it won't kill you or make you lose your mind. That would be too easy. But it will raise that Hazard Level up enough for a little experiment of mine."

As the immortal began breathing heavily, he noticed Raven's waist glowing bright red before materializing a strange belt from out of nowhere.

[Evol-Driver!]

'Raven' chuckled while pulling out two small bottles, one black with a gray pump-like top, and one that was pure white with a black Beowolf face on the top, from her belt and shook each one as she placed them into the notches on the belt. "I always liked the white one, such interesting similarities to me, if you ask me."

[Grimm!]

[Rider System! Evolution!]

Ozpin frowned as 'Raven' began to turn the crank on the belt, causing several gray pipes to appear over the woman while red and black liquid slid through the pipes and condensed into two separate circular pipes, each one quickly transforming into armor pieces. 'What is she doing?'

Three golden rings formed around the woman as she moved her hands over her chest in an 'X' formation.

[Are you ready?]

She smirked while extending her arms outwards. "Henshin."

SLAM!

WOOSH!

[Grimm!]

The rings and armor slammed into Raven's body, causing said rings to circle her as black and white gas enveloped her before exploding outwards in a dark smog, yellow lightning zapping the ground and walls as the smog instantly vanished into nothingness.

[Grimm! Evol Grimm! Fuhahahahahahahaha!]

{Insert Kamen Rider Build OST- Evolution}

The headmaster's eyes widened in shock as a black long sleeved armored bodysuit with red sleeves, gold lining on the arms, neck and legs, a short circular collar, a thick blue and gold chest plate with a single blue orb and several interlocking rings in the center, a short flared skirt that trained down the hips to the knees on the back and front, circular blue orbs on the chest plate and back, circular blue shoulder guards with pure white canine skull-like protrusions reaching up to the neck area, pure red lines running down the sides of the protrusions and forming two spikes at the ends, a pure white helmet with fang-like 'eyes' and black slime-like horns going around the base of the neck and upwards towards the forehead, a red mouth piece with a single white eye symbol in the center, blue gauntlets with a single red gem in the center of two interlocking rings over the lower arm and gold fingers, blue wristbands, gold bands over the elbows, blue armor on the sides of the torso, short gold greeves, blue cuisses with circular blue orbs on it, red boots, and a gold belt with a long crank like buckle, a blue handle, two red notches on the right side of the buckle, red clips on the left and right sides of the belt, and a blue star chart-like 'globe' with yellow lines on the ends and center of it, around the waist, stood in place of Raven Xiao Long, the single 'eye' seemingly staring into his very soul with malicious intent. 'What the!?'

[Evol. Phase 1.5]

"Heh, this will be interesting." 'Raven' said while flexing her hands. "It's the first time I battle a so-called 'immortal'. Well, a Nebula Gas infected one, but that still counts."

Ozpin coughed before seeing 'Raven' vanishing in a trail of red, only for him to be punched in the face by the figure and sent back a little.

"Slow aren't we?"

He narrowed his eyes before getting kicked in the stomach, sending him flying towards the elevator before narrowly escaping a right hook to the face.

BAM!

"Oh? Still have some strength in you?" 'Raven' mocked in a playful manner. "It seems your lack of 'magic' was an exaggeration, or just fortunato."

"I'm a Huntsman, it takes a lot more than a 'Nebula Gas' to stop me." he said before using his aura to increase his speed, which made 'Raven' chuckle as she blocked the oncoming strike from his cane with her right hand.

"True, but I know you don't have the will to finish me off." she said before throwing him into the air and punched him right in the ribs, sending him colliding with his desk and breaking it. "Like how you failed to stop 'her' the first time."

"Ugh…" he groaned before rolling out of the way from an ax kick to the face, which he retaliated by swiping his cane at him, only for 'Raven' to vanish again in a blur of red.

"I know about your wife." She said before kicking Ozpin's back, sending him back a few feet as 'Raven' grabbed him and punched him several times, causing his aura to crack from every strike. "How you died and sent her into a blood frenzy that wiped away an entire species, only for you to hesitate on your second chance. Love, ha. Such follia."

POW!

"AH!" Ozpin cried out before getting kicked into the nearby window, glass cracking as he felt his aura weakening greatly, the burning feeling in his body growing more with every second he fought. 'How is he this powerful!? Did he kill a Maiden, no, this is WAY beyond a Maiden's power!'

"And now, your little journey of redemption is at an end." she smirked before pulling out a white and black bottle and turned the lid, causing Ozpin's body to glow bright green as a strange liquid formed within along with black spider-like webs on it.

Ozpin's body burned from the inside out as he felt…everything being 'sucked' out, his powers, his memories and his knowledge, as his body began to rapidly age. "W…h…a…"

'Raven' grinned as the bottle filled up before turning the lid and pocketing the bottle away. "A perfect Smash Bottle. Needs some work but I can feel the power from this one."

"A…h…"

She looked at Ozpin before 'smirking' under the helmet as she pulled out another bottle, this one filled with a purple liquid. "Time to make my leave, but first."

The now elderly Ozpin groaned in pain, his mind and body rapidly decaying as 'Raven' poured the bottle's contents over him.

WOOOSH!

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Magnificent." she said with interest as Ozpin's body became coated in a purple cloud of smoke, his form mutating into an unknown form as the sunset behind her, causing the room to slowly become pitch black except for Ozpin's glowing body. "A new Smash, and this one will help attract the Grimm to this place of learning."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"One loose end cut." she said before her armor vanished in a flash of red, her expression filled with malicious joy as she walked towards the elevator. "Go wild, Witch Smash, and make it flashy."

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRAAAAAHHHHHH!" Ozpin screamed before his voice was distorted into a bestial howl of pain and rage.

Ping.

As the elevator door opened, with great difficulty due to the dent it sustained from the fight, 'Raven' turned around in the enclosed space, two pairs of dark purple eyes staring right back at her as she made a mock salute with her right arm. "Ciao~"

Ping.

And just like that, everything went black as the sounds of bestial roars echoed in the background.

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Name/Designation Title: Raven Branwen/Raven Branwen Xiao Long/Kamen Rider Evol/'Evolto' (Eboru no Zantō Raven Branwen- EZRBRWBY)

Age: 20~30?

Affiliation: Ultimate Evil~Omniversal Evil.

Dimension: - 5999992017- 03 EZRBRWBY (Originally Dimension: 340009123- 99 BKR.1)

Abilities: Enhanced strength, speed, agility, endurance, durability and reaction time, genius level intelligence, high aura pool/high hazard level (via Evolto's influence), hand to hand combat skills and knowledge, high close combat skills and knowledge, master swordsmanship skills and knowledge, master manipulation skills and knowledge, Huntress knowledge and skills, high espionage skills and knowledge, high knife skills and handling, limited magical transformation (raven), flight, high charisma, Dust handling and knowledge, master tactician skills and knowledge, Blood Tribe physiology (via Evolto's influence), possession (via genetic manipulation), genetic manipulation (via Evolto's influence), genetic liquefaction (via Evolto's influence and venomous touch), matter manipulation (via Evolto's influence), identity manipulation (via Evolto's influence), memory manipulation (via Evolto's influence), fire manipulation (via Evolto's influence), instant teleportation (via Evolto's influence and semblance), shapeshifting (nulled due to host), Pandora Box control/manipulation (via Evolto's influence), low technological knowledge and skills, limited programming knowledge and skills, limited invulnerability (via Evolto's influence and genetic liquefaction), black hole creation/manipulation (nulled by host/broken Evol-Driver), Evolbottle/Fullbottle creation (via Evolto's influence), Smash/Lost Smash creation (nulled slightly by limited resources of Remnant but not impossible), Nebula Gas creation (nulled slightly by limited resources of Remnant but not impossible), space survivability (nulled by host/broken Evol-Driver), telekinesis (via Evolto's influence), energy manipulation (via Evolto's influence), energy barrier creation (via Evolto's influence).

Semblance(s): Kindred Link.

Bio: In this timeline, the life of Raven Branwen, now Raven Xiao Long due to marrying her teammate Taiyang Xiao Long, was doing well for herself, she had graduated from Beacon Academy and returned to Patch after a few months of honeymooning across Anima. In a way, it was a semi peaceful life….yet that would all change when a dark purple hole in space and time appeared over Patch and expelled three strange objects, a box, a belt and a strange attachment, that crash landed near the Xiao Long residence, causing her to investigate the impact crater. Yet, unbeknownst to her or anyone in Remnant, these objects are in fact from another reality, an A.R. World or alternative world, known by the designation Dimension: 340009123- 99 BKR.1 or, in that reality, World of Build Version One, former home timeline of Kamen Rider Build and its main antagonist, Evolto of the Blood Tribe. In the reality of the A.R. World, during the battle between Evolto and Kamen Rider Build, the 'death' of the alien didn't end in the way anyone expects, as the break down of time and space from the resulting black hole allowed the Evol-Driver, Evol Trigger and the dreaded Pandora's Box, with its contents of Fullbottles and Evolbottles still inside, to slip between the Kamen-Riderverse and the Ruinverse. However, due to the collision and subsequent battle, the driver, the trigger and box were drained of power while Evolto's surviving genes became fractured and fragmented, only recalling events before his battle with the Rider, as it was on the brink of complete death due to a lack of a host….until Raven, sensing the belt's powerful 'god' like power, became compelled to wear it, thus losing her consciousness to the belt's influence. Once Evolto gained a new host, the alien, upon learning of this world's many peculiarities and needing to repair the Evol-Driver and Evol Trigger to regain his powers, decided to manipulate the fate of Remnant, creating new forms of Fullbottles and Evolbottles to give Pandora's Box an 'edge' in this world while pushing every single Kingdom, from the criminals to the immortals, into a state of chaos and war for his amusement. For ten long years, Evolto would gain power, combining the stolen energies of the Grimm, aura, semblances, Dust and magic, from any source with potential, with his own Evol-Driver to regain his powers and eliminate all threats to his plans of complete planetary destruction. Learning from his past failures, the last of the Blood Tribe species would constantly prevent the creation of Kamen Riders on this planet while using the Smash and Lost Smashes, using a modified version of the Nebula gas, to cover his tracks, allowing him to destroy several capitals of Remnant including Vale and Atlas once they served their purpose. Soon, his plans will ripen and bring forth the metamorphosis of a god, one devoid of mercy and care, for he was Kamen Rider Evol, and this time…he will not fail in destroying this new 'earth', not when he had the power of a Branwen. [Hahahahaha! Nothing shall stop me! Ciao~]