Coltam: Hello my readers. I have returned for this chapter!

Ruby: Took you long enough.

Krona: Tell them about A Tale In Black.

Coltam: Ah yes, I will be discontinuing A Tale In Black due to a severe lack of readers and support for the story. If you guys are reading that story let me know For now though I will be discontinuing it

Ruby: Coltam does not own RWBY or any of it's characters, if he did the original storyline would be very different.


? Pov

Three weeks before Ruby's admittance into beacon

It was always so simple, the madness was. Utter nonsense it was. There was no madness within me, it was all around me but it was not in me. Alas despite my best protests, here I am alone in a room. It is so boring, even though I was given full access to whatever I wanted I wasn't allowed to leave. The room was driving me mad more than those apparitions were. All of my free time was spent drawing and building.

My drawing master piece was a large drawing of two foxes, one red and one a burnt orange, on the wall across from my bed. Nobody but me is allowed to touch it. They still haven't managed to clean all of the blood out of the carpet from the last person who tried to clean it off the wall. My other master piece is a sword. The sword itself is completely indestructible. The hilt made of solid diamond. The blade made of matter darker than the center of a black hole. Set into the middle of the hand guard is a blood red stone. The stone is not dust, nor is it a common gem. The stone had power beyond belief, however it had to be made in secret due to its nature and ingredients. In fact the entire sword had to be made in secret due to the danger of the weapon.

"It is time for you meeting with the doctor. I'll walk you to his office" A staff member called as he stepped into the room.

"Okay~ And don't worry I'll walk down there myself, besides you will be resting here!~" I reply while stabbing the man through the chest with my sword. I than wrap the sword in my bed sheet and walk down to the office.


Mistral Asylum: Patient 0736 (Iris), 5th Mental Evaluation (audio only)

"Hello Iris, I trust you are well?" A man is heard saying.

"Hello Doctor, I am doing wonderful today." Iris replies.

"How goes your 'project'? Is it finished yet?"

"Yes in fact she is, I actually brought her in today."

"I-I see. That is truly an intricate work."

"Yes, her name is Void Song."

"Well anyways Iris, about your condition, have you encountered any of those 'apparitions' as you called them?"

"Iris is asleep doctor" a new voice replies giggling. "She needed a rest after all the time she spent awake and I wanted to come out and play~"

"W-what are you doing?! Iris! Put the sword down!" the doctor cries franticly.

"Now where is the fun in that, I want to play doctor, so let me play with you~"

Screaming is heard for the next twenty minutes of the recording. Sounds of a liquid dripping onto the floor can also be heard. The liquid is presumed to be blood. The screaming stops abruptly, the doctor is assumed dead at this point.

"Aww it loos like I was too rough again. I broke you just as I started to get excited and have fun… Oh well there is always next time~ Bye Bye doctor~" The voice exclaims while giggling almost sweetly.


Ruby' POV

Flying through the sky was a relaxing feeling. Soon I was going to be back in my home. Well its sort of my home, I lived near the old temple for two years. Anyway before I hit the ground and died I reached out above my head and grabbed onto a branch, using to swing down onto the forest floor. I lightly tapped the charm on my necklace, causing to glow slightly. When the charm stops glowing I hear the sound of paws softly hitting the ground and they are coming towards me. I llok in the direction to see my only friend before Blake and Yang, they are a little orange fox with four tails. Her name, at least that is what she told me, is Seishin-kitsune. She is small enough to fit on my shoulder so I picked her up and sat her on my shoulder.

I pulled my hood up and began to walk towards the old forest temple. Suddenly a horde of beowolves charged at me. Seishin-kitsune instantly hid under my hood as I brought out Crescent Rose. When the Beowolves surrounded me I readied the scythe and pulled the trigger causing a one of the grimm to die and sending me into a spin. I than activated my semblance to increase the speed of my spin. While spinning I slice apart all of the grimm around me leaving nothing but mutilated grimm corpses scattered around the clearing. Listening for anything out of place I freeze, sensing another aura. I am scared because The aura feels so cold and dangerous. Quickly I climb a nearby tree to avoid having to team with a person with such a frigid aura.

'Kits, what should I do that aura scares me…' I asked through my thoughts. With Seishin-kitsune I can speak using telepathy due to a perfect resonation of our auras.

'calm down and watch from here. We can determine a course of action from there. I do suggest that you find the source of this aura for your and this new one are compatible mostly. There do seem to be a few quite a few complications preventing any kind of synchronization of both of your auras.'

'they are here!'

'such a frigid and dangerous aura, this person does not seem like a person you want to team with'

As I tried to get away from the person I slipped and fell to the ground. When I stood up I locked eyes with the one person I was hoping to never see again, Weiss Schnee. Immediately after our eyes met I ran and hid behind a tree. I looked back at her frightened, it is obvious she hates me so I'm scared to be on her team. Officially she is my teammate for the rest of our time at beacon, but it is clear that she wants me dead. I notice that the sword that she is holding is glowing a ferocious red. She than Points the blade at the tree I'm hiding behind, a massive ball of fire erupts from the tip of the rapier and slams into my tree causing the tree to explode.

After my hiding spot is destroyed I begin to run. I resonate my aura with Seishin-kitsune's and push my semblance to the max breaking. In doing do I am running so fast that the forest around me turns into a blur of light. When I reach the clearing where the temple is I stop, in doing so I emit a pulse of light that scatters into rose petals. Upon seeing the temple and what stands on the pedestals I take the figure that looks like a horse and hide behind one of the pillars. Just as soon as I get behind the pillar I hear people enter the clearing.


Coltam: That's a wrap for chapter seven!

Ruby: Damn you and you cliff hangers

Iris: My big debut, it was a lot of fun!

Coltam: Iris why are you so insane?

Ruby: That would be your fault since she is your OC.

Coltam: Well I guess that I will see you readers next time!

All: Bye Bye~