To the one that recently posted the question, ask and you shall receive. But for those of you who want something to blame, blame Destiny 2. I can't say much more then that for now, so enjoy.
Ruby's time at Beacon had so far been a mixed bag of delight and sadness. On one hand she was finally joining at said prestigious academy, joined at the same time as her sister, Yang, had already made a new friend in a guy named Jaune, and had gotten to test out her new modifications on her scythe/sniper rifle combo weapon, Crescent Rose. All of which are great things to happen to someone who is starting a new year of learning to fight monstrosities.
But on the other hand, she tried, and failed to properly introduce herself to the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, Weiss Schnee. The ordeal started out normal with Ruby being polite, smiling, and trying to find a common interest to hopefully build up from there. The failure came when Ruby accidentally sniffed up some fire dust and sneezed, causing a small explosion. This caused Weiss to gather her belongings and storm off as she tried to straighten her white hair back to the way it was, but not before she threw a few insults at the black and red headed girl.
That wouldn't be the last time that Ruby failed at trying to make friends that day as later on that night, the two girls ran into each other again, only this time with Yang and a new girl named Blake were there to witness it all. While nobody blew up this time, the interaction still resulted in the heiress storming off, but without insults as she left.
However with only her second day at Beacon, Ruby could add despair to that bag of emotions as a giant Nevermore flew overhead, looking for the right angle in which to attack. Right now she was joined with her new reluctant partner Weiss, her sister Yang, and Yang's new partner Blake. But before the four could come up with a plan to take care of the raven Grimm in the sky, a series of heavy footfalls was heard approaching from behind. A large black bear covered in bone armor plates came bursting through the trees, adding another layer of fear to the girls. That fear immediately turned into confusion and shock as the intimidating Grimm fell flat onto it's face dead, and an orange haired girl hopped off it's dissolving back.
"Aww, it's broken." The girl said with genuine sadness that her new ride suddenly quit on her. The weird scene got even weirder as a black haired boy with a small streak of magenta and dressed in green came running up from where the Ursa came from. Exhaustion and worry was firmly on his face as the boy bent down and grabbed his knees, completely out of breath as he took in deep breaths.
"Nora, please don't ever do that again." The boy pleaded in between breaths.
"Ok, Ren!" Nora replied with a smile, her previous sadness clearly an afterthought.
"Welcome to the party, we're about to die." Yang said, gaining the attention of the newcomers. The two gave the blonde haired teen questioning looks before hearing the terrible screech from the sky. All six of the students now looked up to see the Grimm flapping it's wings while remaining in place.
"Take cover!" Weiss screamed with a look of realization. Everyone else immediately followed the heiress' advice, running and leaping away from the area as several large, black feathers impacted with lethal velocity.
"Does anybody have a plan for fighting that thing?" Ren asked as the Nevermore shrieked in anger and began looking for a new angle to strike.
"We have to bring it to the ground somehow, any ideas?" Asked Ruby, only to be met with many different ways of saying 'no'. "Well we have to think of something, that thing isn't going to stop chasing us anytime soon."
It was here that Blake heard several sets of footsteps approaching at a steady pace. Looking over the heads of Nora and Ren, the secret cat faunus spotted Jaune, Pyrrha, a small kid, and a strange green animal running towards them. While she wanted to question the odd duo running with the Beacon students, the continued screeches of the Nevermore forced her to ignore it for now.
"Have you guys seen that Grimm in the sky?" Jaune asked frantically as he did a quick scan to make sure that everyone was alright.
"No you dunce, we've just been standing around and singing songs." Weiss replied with a harsh tone.
"Weiss, you didn't have to be mean, Jaune was just making sure that we were alright." Ruby chastised.
"Well he shouldn't have asked such a stupid question." The heiress fired back.
"Guys, we can argue about this later, right now we need to take care of that thing!" Jaune shouted, getting everyone on the same page.
"Vivi, can you do anything to bring that Nevermore to the ground?" Pyrrha asked.
"Not really, my mana reserves are low until I can get a long rest." The kid now known to everyone as Vivi replied.
Another deafening screech was heard from above as everyone looked up to see the aerial Grimm flew closer to the trees in search of it's prey. While it was closer, Jaune noticed that it was still ready to fly away at the first sign of danger, and immediately thought of an idea.
"Vivi, do you by chance have anything that can slow it down?" Jaune quickly asked.
"I do, but after that I'm out of mana." Vivi replied, getting ready to cast his last spell of the day.
"Alright, when Vivi slows that thing down, Pyrrha and I will brace ourselves and angle our shields up. Then everyone else will jump off our shields towards the Nevermore. When you get up there, start attacking the joints of the wings and bring it to the ground. After that, I'm sure Ruby can remove the head with her weapon. Sound good?" The blonde haired boy said with a firm voice. Looking amongst the others, Jaune was happy to see that everyone else was on board with his plan. "Great, let's do this!"
The group backed up and readied themselves as Vivi muttered a quick incantation and waved his ivory mace in the direction of the Grimm. The Beacon students watched as an orange, semi-translucent clock appeared on the face of the Nevermore. The large minute needle began to turn at a fast pace before rapidly slowing down before disappearing. As the clock vanished, the wings of the Nevermore began moving at about a quarter of the speed than before. It's previous deafening screeches now slowed to a distorted gurgle.
"NOW!" Jaune yelled as he and Pyrrha rushed towards the creature. Both ran to about the halfway point between the Grimm and the group before making a sharp about-face and dropping to one knee and raising their shields above their heads. Not wasting a second and wanting to break another animal of darkness, Nora let out her fiercest battle cry as she charged with her oversized silver hammer/dust grenade launcher, Magnhild.
Ren, briefly startled by his childhood friend's sudden outburst, sprinted after her with his weapons ready. A couple of green pistols with long, green, sickle-like blades extending from beneath that barrels that he named, StormFlower.
The next two that make a run towards the shieldbearers was the team of Blake and Yang. Blake's unique weapon, Gambol Shroud, was made up of two pieces. The first was a long, thin, black blade with a pistol morphed into the handle. The other piece was the weapon's sheath, which also acted as a thicker, heavier blade, both of which she wielded in a ready form.
Yang followed right beside her partner with her prized shot gauntlets, Ember Celice loaded and ready to fire. Both yellow, armor plated gauntlets allowed the blonde brawler to effectively fight in not only close range thanks to the extra protection, but medium range thanks to the dust rounds loaded inside the armguards.
The last two to charge forward was the team of Ruby and Weiss. The heiress to the Schnee Dust Company wielded her priceless and elegant dust rapier, Myrtenaster. This personal weapon was made up of a long, thin blade, a silver handle and handguard, and a six chambered revolver connecting the blade and handle. Each chamber was filled with a different kind of dust like fire or Ice, to which she could switch between with the squeeze of a trigger at the top of the handle.
Finally last, but most certainly not least, was the child prodigy, Ruby with her almost comically sized red and black scythe, Crescent Rose. This was perhaps the most unique weapon of them all as not only was it also a long ranged, high powered sniper rifle, but the length of the scythe form was almost twice as tall as it's wielder. Now normally a weapon like this would be extremely difficult to use, but thanks to the training from her uncle Qrow, practice, and her aura, the Beacon Prodigy made it look effortless.
As the last two students were launched towards the winged creature, Jaune and Pyrrha turned to watch and saw an amazing, yet somewhat comical sight. Six Beacon students were carefully and awkwardly shifting around each other as they all took shots at the joints of the wings. Even with all these different sources of pain, it took the Nevermore about a minute before it reacted, but by then it was already too late.
With two wet, simultaneous snaps, the weakened wing joints of the avion broke off because of the weight. The detached wings returned to normal speed as they impacted the ground before slowly dissolving.
Keeping with the plan, Ruby extended the length of her scythe and positioned the curved blade underneath the Nevermore's neck. As the bird began to catch up with time and fall faster, Ruby began firing her sniper towards the ground, pulling her blade through with each pull of the trigger. Finally as the Grimm caught up with time and impacted the ground, Ruby fired the last round in her clip to separate the head from the body.
The six students jumped off the dissolving back of the Nevermore and in front of the group of three and the weird fox creature. With adrenaline shooting through everyone's veins, a quick breath of relief was had before all of them erupted in cheers, happy that the plan worked flawlessly.
As everyone took some time to calm down a little before grabbing their relics and returning to Beacon. In the meantime, those that hadn't yet decided to find out about the kid that slowed the Nevermore.
"Everyone, say hello to Vivi Ornitier." Pyrrha said as she forced the young wizard into the spotlight. Vivi, although tried and shy, managed to timidly wave at each of the other students, all of which looked like they had a million questions to ask. However, before anyone could introduce themselves or ask questions, the ear shattering volume of Nora Valkyrie caused everyone to recoil.
"THAT WAS SO COOL HOW YOU WAIVED YOUR MACE AND SUDDENLY THE NEVERMORE SLOWED DOWN AND TH-!"
"Nora," Ren shouted, gaining the attention of his childhood friend, "that's enough, you're being too much for everyone."
"Oops, sorry everyone." Nora replied with a sheepish smile.
"Now that she's been taken care of, why don't we introduce ourselves. My name is Weiss Schnee. I must say, that thing that you did to slow the Nevermore was very impressive." The white haired girl said as she extended her hand to Vivi.
"Thank you," The wizard replied as he took the heiress' hand and shook it, "Not to sound like I'm bragging or anything, but that was actually one of my more simpler spells.
"Does that mean you have cooler ones?" Ruby asked with hopeful glee.
"He does, he actually threw a big fireball at a Deathstalker to save Pyrrha and me." Jaune answered with an almost fanboy tone.
"Truth be told it really was impressive, I had never seen anything like it." The Spartan said, a little offput with how Jaune and Ruby had already split off to talk about their excitement of potentially seeing more spells in the future.
"Guys, not that I'm amazed with what we just seen, which I am," Blake said, looking towards Vivi at that last line, "But we still have to complete our orientation."
The Beacon students all looked at each other with faces that said 'oh, right' before all eight began walking towards the ruins where the relics of the orientation were at.
Vivi and Carbuncle watched in silence as the students walked away while still chatting about his 'Slow' spell. It took a few seconds before Vivi's attention was drawn to Carbuncle letting out a heavy sigh.
"What's wrong?" Vivi asked.
"I just realized something," The light-green said before pausing, seemingly hesitant to say what it was, "We're not only no longer in the same dimension, but we're not even in the same reality anymore."
"What does that mean?" Vivi asked, almost afraid of the answer because of the way his companion was acting.
"That means that whatever Ramuh did ripped everything about you from Gaia and put it here," Carbuncle said carefully, watching as the young wizard slowly processed the news. "Vivi, I'm so sorry, but your friends on Gaia don't remember you anymore."
What does this mean, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!? As I hope you guys can see, I think I've got some good plans for the future of this little story. Now I will be starting the next chapter of the RWBY Gene soon, so please be patient with me here. Anyways, let me know what you guys thought of this, and I'm honestly really sorry that this chapter took so long.
Have a good one everybody!