Blake walked to the temple and removed a small leather purse from her belt. She took a nervous breath and removed a jagged, worn relic from the purse. The small piece of stone was older than any living creature on the planet and was inscribed with the language of the ancients. "This has to work…" Blake said to herself, tightening her grip around the rune. "We need their help…" The battle-worn faunus set the rune down in a small alcove on the temple floor as she heard soft footsteps behind her. Blake smiled softly and turned. "You're getting sneakier, Jayde, but I can still hear you."
Out of the shadows stepped a teen girl of 17, with dark green hair cascading down her shoulders and down to her mid-back. She wore an olive-green tunic with studded metal bracers on her hands. Her sinewy legs were covered with steel shin-plating and she wore slender metal boots. Her eyes, slender and yellow like a snake, shone through the darkness as the subtle light from the outside reflected off of her sharpened snake fangs. This girl was Jayde, a serpent faunus that Blake had taken under her wing after her parents and the rest of her village had been slaughtered by the Red Queen's forces.
"It's those stupid cat ears of yours," Jayde hissed with a grin. The apprentice reached into a leather satchel hanging from her shoulder and pulled out a large, dusty book. "Here's that book you wanted." Blake took the book and blew the dust from its cover, seeing the words "Spells of the Ancients" etched onto the cover. As Blake knelt before the rune and began to delicately leaf through the torn pages, Jayde slid her forked tongue over her fangs. "You really think Commander Long is going to be okay with this, Miss Belladonna?" As Blake found the page she was searching for, she took a deep breath.
"No, she won't be… but it must be done…" Jayde nodded obediently and knelt beside her teacher. The two began reciting the age-old words from the book as clouds gathered overhead.
"Addo preteritus nobis quod permissum nostrum posterus fulsi." The two chanted in tandem. "Veho lemma per vicis quod addo nos una iterum!" As they finished the incantation, a shining light shot from the rune and into the swirling clouds above.
As Yang studied the charts and maps in the war room, she noticed Jaune Arc, one of her most trusted lieutenants, walk in and stand beside her. The war had definitely changed him from the scrawny wimp that he once was. His short, blonde hair now fell down onto his broad, muscular shoulders and battle scars dotted his arms. He wore cracked plating on his chest and forearms and simple torn jeans on his bottom half. He had long ago upgraded his simple one-handed sword to a huge, two-handed greatsword that he had slung across his back. Even though it was a mighty sword, Jaune had grown strong enough to wield it in one hand as if it were weightless.
"How goes the training, Jaune?" Yang asked wearily. Jaune looked down at her and crossed his muscular arms.
"The troops are tired, but they're hanging in there…" Yang kept staring silently at her maps as Jaune sighed heavily. "You really think we can actually win? The Red Queen can literally conjure Grimm out of thin air and our numbers are dwindling fast."
"We have no choice but to try," the blonde commander told him. "Too many of our fellow men have fallen trying to stop her. The Red Queen won't win as long as I can still draw a breath, I swear it." All of a sudden, they heard a boom of thunder behind them. "Looks like a storm is brewing…" Yang remarked as she rearranged the table. Jaune turned and noticed the beam of light connecting the temple to the clouds.
"Um, Yang?" he said slowly. "You should see this…" Yang turned slowly and froze when she saw the temple. Jaune noticed her hands curl into fists, shaking with blinding rage. "Yang, calm down…" He tried to hold her back but even he couldn't stop her from storming out of the war room and towards the temple. He had no choice but to follow her, one hand on the hilt of his sword.
Blake and Jayde knelt before the wide beam of light, repeating the incantation. "What does the book say to do after the chant?" Blake asked Jayde as the wind began to swirl around them. Jayde checked the book, trying to keep the pages together.
"It says to ask the spirits for who we want brought to us!" Jayde told the feline faunus. Blake nodded and looked up at the sky.
"Spirits! Bring Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee forward in time to us!" She called loudly. The wind began to howl as it increased in speed and ferocity. Even above the howling gusts, she heard the metal footstep of the rebel commander and in one fluid motion she rolled away to the side and drew her weapon, narrowly avoiding a brutal attack from Yang. Yang's punch missed and cracked through the stone floor. Jayde leapt back as well and drew her weapons, dual Sai that doubled as pistols, as Jaune drew his sword. Yang's shoulders heaved as she bellowed angrily at her second-in-command.
"I gave you an order, Blake!" Yang shouted. "You deliberately went behind my back!?"
"Yang just wait!" Blake cried, dodging yet another ferocious punch from Yang. However, Yang was too angry to be reasoned with. Yang lashed out once more, this time moving faster than the faunus, and knocked her against the concrete walls of the temple. Before the brawler could let another attack loose, the wind died down and the light faded. She turned to see two young teens laying in a heap in the center of the room. She dropped to her knees, her jaw dropping as before her eyes she saw Ruby and Weiss, as alive and as human as the day they first met.
"Ruby? Weiss?" Yang asked breathlessly. "How is it possible?"
Thanks everybody for reading. Sorry it took so long to update… I don't have any excuses, but I am sorry. I'll try to update more regularly now that I have some more time. Next time I'm going to get into a little of the backstory of how humanity fell apart and how Queen Rose came to power.
By the way, the rough translation I got online of the Latin incantation is "Bring our past to us and allow our future to shine. Bring them through time and make us whole again." I'm sure it's not an exact or correct translation but it'll do. My apologies to anyone who actually does speak Latin.
