Time for Chapter 2.


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

"You left this behind." Onyx speaks.

Ruby jumped up in fear and turned around. Onyx was 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, "I once planned to train under him but now my fighting style is too developed, it would be too hard to implement a scythe into my fighting style."

Ruby stared at Onyx confused.

"What is your weapon?" Ruby asks.

Onyx grabs his cane.

"Almost anything I want it to be." Onyx states.

The handle of the cane straightens and the cane collapses so it is long enough to be held with both hands. A blade extends out of the top of the handle.

"It has blades on both sides, and can extend, collapse, and curve to form many weapons." Onyx explains.

Onyx sticks the blade into the ground. Ruby examines the weapon.

"Now for that portal."

"You can do it?" Ruby asks.

"Yes." Onyx answers.

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

Suddenly a shadowy 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.

"Wait!" Onyx shouts.

"What is it?" Ruby asks when Onyx catches up to her.

"I need you to bring me to Ozpin." He says.

"Why do you need to see him?" Ruby asks.

"He can help me." Onyx explains, "Meet me at the statue in two hours."

"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 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 his sword which he drew to moment Yang started her charge. Yang swings at Onyx with her left and blasts him in the lower abdomen. Onyx jumped back and watches the other two girls. Weiss dashes at Onyx. He flips his sword so the blade faces downwards. Grabs Weiss' sword with his left hand and jabs her in the stomach with the pommel of his sword. He throws Myrtenaster into the air and grabs it by the handle. He scraps her rapier against his sword while throwing it to the side in order to create sparks that fly towards Blake's eyes. While Blake was blinded Onyx runs and opens a portal behind Blake. He knees her 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 Shadow Zone it can only be influence things in the Shadow 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 blocks 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 Shadow Zone.

Yang clenches her fists as her eyes turn red. Yang charges at Onyx and punches him in the jaw. The punch sends him sprawling across the ground into a tree. Onyx rubs his jaw before getting up.

"Okay, no more playing around." Onyx says.

His weapon has a blade extend from the opposing end as the other. The handle extends so the total length of the weapon is equal to his height. He begins to spin the weapon and charges at Yang. Onyx sticks one of the blades into the ground and pole vaults into Yang. Yang falls to the ground. Onyx collapses the weapon into a sword and holds it at Yang's neck.

"Stand down and listen." Onyx orders

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

Onyx converts his weapon into a cane and leans on it.

"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 Shadow 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 Shadow 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 Shadow 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 Shadow 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 shotgun casing. Onyx looks at the casings left behind from Yang's shots and sees the difference. He notices an O embossed on the bottom of the casing. Onyx puts the casing in his pocket, gets up and turns towards the two teams.

"Bring me to Ozpin." Onyx orders.


I'm glad to see the relatively positive response to the first chapter, I'll try to maintain that quality of work.