Author's Note: hey there people here's the final chapter to be posted for now. Yes with the previous version I had seven chapters but sadly chapter's six, seven, and the new chapter eight aren't ready yet. There'll be more details on that in a journal I plan to do on DA or Tumblr as of 6/4/2016 but for now this is the end of the update. I removed an aspect of my OC's in this chapter and tweaked one of the main scenes in a previous chapter but overall I think the new re-write works. For now I hope you like this. My Oc's are my design. I do not own RWBY in any, way shape, or form. Reviews welcome. Enjoy.

Stardust

Chapter 5

Prophecy

On the cliffs overlooking the Vibrant Forest Professor Blank held a coffee mug in one hand and a scroll in the other.

Glancing sideways despite being blind she had a pretty good idea what her companion at her side was doing and she was right. Professor Rust was staring blankly into the sky and to her she knew this meant he was still upset.

She sighed "you need to let this go, Rust."

Rust's gaze regained focus and he glanced sideways at her then back into the air before saying nothing.

Blank returned to looking at her scroll and said "it appears our pairings have begun to form." The woman scrolled through the device with a flick of her fingers and stopped at "seeing" something on which she commented.

"Oh, so those two joined up. That's interesting."

Rust's curiosity getting the better of him, had him pulled out his own scroll and pulled up the appropriate window. It didn't take long to see what had her attention.

"Nebula's with THAT kid?!"

Blank mused "I wonder what they're capable of together…"

Rust snorted "not much Nebula will be carrying that kid. Frankly I doubt his capability, we don't even know if his semblance does what we think it does. He's useless as a Huntsman."

Blank gave a tiny smile "that's rather hypocritical of you considering what people once thought of your semblances visionary capabilities…"

"I'm sorry but you see the future?!" Cerise exclaimed as he walked beside the other boy.

Skeptical orange eyes glanced over his new partner.

He was a year younger than him and like Cerise he was pale skinned, he also had long brown hair tied in a ponytail. His eyes were a mixture of gray and a bright dark green. He was wearing a lose black shirt with long black sleeves with a green vest over it, he wore long loose green pants the same color as his vest, and he rounded out the outfit with short brown boots.

A few moments ago after Cerise and Citrine had first met when they talked about where they were going to go next Citrine had done something unusual.

He had closed his eyes stood stock still and Cerise saw Citrines aura pulse around him for a moment as well as something else on his new partner's forehead. It was a hexagon albeit not so round it wasn't a solid shape just an outline defined by yellow lines the same shade as Citrine's aura and within the hexagon itself was the shape of an oval cut off by the hexagons lines. All together it almost looked like an eye, the symbol was also on his halberd too.

Cerise thought to himself then that must be his personal symbol as he thought of his own shooting star. After a moment the glow vanished completely and Citrine looked a little drained gasping a bit he said "t-this way" pointing.

And set off in the mentioned direction with Cerise following a second or two later.

After a second or two walking Cerise decided to go ahead and asked "why are we heading in this direction?"

Citrine slowly looked at him conflict written across his face and said "because I saw us doing so and I don't really see any better alternative."

Cerise asked "saw…?"

Citrine gave him a slow searching look, sighed, and said "my semblance is a gift of prophecy" running his hand not holding the halberd through his air.

Which brings us to now as Citrine explained how his semblance worked.

Citrine said that his semblance works two different ways even his instructors have trouble understanding it.

"The first" Citrine said "is when I close my eyes and use a good burst of aura I can see two seconds ahead clearly and that's if the situations calm. If stuff is happening around me the images… overlap" he said grasping for a word to describe it.

"Reading up on some fortunetelling books, I think that's possible futures I'm seeing that are overlapping because stuff is happening around me constantly changing it. It's only useful if used in a calm setting if even that." Citrine said with a bitter tone.

Cerise didn't bother to ask why Citrine sounded the way he did.

Citrine's semblance could be seen as good if the visions and way of using them were capable of being good but the problem was its use in battle was non-existent really, for starters he had to close his eyes and use a good portion of aura and since combat status constantly changes well… his oracular abilities had no real use as a Huntsman.

But Citrine did say….

"You have a second way to use your semblance?" Cerise asked curiously.

Citrine threw him a look through half lidded eyes almost as if asking himself a question before sighing and rolling his eyes tossing his head back, with one hand he reached for a leather pouch at his side and pulling out… a deck of cards?

"A deck of tarot cards" Citrine said fanning it and showing an assortment of pictures and colors on the front and a rainbow striped back on all of them "78 in total, my parents had already unlocked my aura then one day as a kid I found this and my semblance appeared as such but with these" he gestured at the deck fanning it shut "I go into a deep and slightly creepy trance and spout incredibly vague prophecies that most of the time mean nothing until well after the event's occurred, last time I gave one it was year before we figured out what it was referring too and yeah…" He finished in a low exasperated tone.

Cerise eyed the deck and holding out one hand he asked "may I?"

Citrine sighed and merely handed him the deck of cards.

Cerise eyed the deck and its illustrations and said "huh."

Citrine eyes him wondering what that meant precisely. Cerise looked back at Citrine and the older boy realized he had only been with his teammate for barely more than a day and had trod on several different sore spots. Wincing internally at the thought he held the deck out to Citrine who merely took it back and tucked it away.

Cerise thought over what he knew about his interactions and others outside the kingdoms and said the only thing that made sense then.

"Sorry…" Cerise said sheepishly.

Citrine sighed and mumbled "it's okay." Then looking at his friend he said "you look like you're older than me, what secrets are you hiding?"

Cerise bit his lip nervously and went "uhh…" For about a second as Citrine looked at him curiously before a snarl went through the air as big Ursa lunged from out of the gloom and greenery and charged them.

Cerise unfolded his fan and Citrine unslung his halberd from its place his back.

With a twist of the fan Cerise called up a glyph between them and the attacker and the glyph Cerise was pleased to see was back to normal as it was spinning normally and had its intended effect of blocking the charger.

Cerise made a flick with his fan which made the glyph knock the Grimm up slightly and seeing Citrine poised next to him dropped Cerise the glyph to let his partner act.

With a spin and the motion of his weapons swing without letting go Citrine created an arc of yellow light that rammed into the Ursa's belly and knocked it flat on its back where it lay like a turtle if only for a moment.

Citrine moved to seize that moment and to help him along Cerise called up his ring under Citrine to provide a speed boost.

It worked but it caught Citrine off guard for a moment making him skid on the ground and stumble before he caught himself something Cerise noticed with a wince.

But regardless Citrine was still able to do what he intended sticking his weapons in the beasts' belly effectively ending the threat.

Sharing an uncertain look at the lack of proper coordination, Cerise shrugged, Citrine nodded slowly, and the two headed on but it wasn't long before they spotted light beginning to break through the gloom and foliage.

Sharing a brighter look the two smiled and walked into the light and a large clearing.

Cerise and Citrine had to blink at what was before them.

For starters the sky was visible overhead no tree canopy. There were only a few patches of grass here and there otherwise it was just plain dirt. But that placed in comparison to the clearings main attractions.

There were a few wooden columns scattered about some pale color on them from pain long weathered and the columns were old and cracking or broken altogether.

But in the center was a lone rock with a little wooden structure on top and much more importantly a much newer silver box sitting on the ground in front of it.

Sharing a brief smile the two headed towards it reaching the box they heard a whirring noise then with a clunking noise a small object was spat onto the ground picking it up Cerise saw an object he knew of but had never seen but still he remained silent.

Citrine though spoke up with a mutter "a puzzle piece?"

Flipping the black toy part over they saw the number "16" inscribed in gold on the back.

Looking at each other they shrugged and looked at the cliffs skyline where they need to get back to and then into the gloom forest and shared an understanding look.

Neither of them particularly wanted to wage war to get back to the starting point at this moment.

So with a thoughtful look Cerise said to Citrine "be ready to land in a hurry and maybe need to help me land too."

Citrine turned a questioning look on Cerise but that changed to understanding when Cerise opened his fan and called a ring into the air before them and jumped up and landed on
the empty space facing Citrine, Cerise said "we need to move fast."

Citrine nodded and jumped up beside him.

Cerise looked back towards the cliff and called another ring before them but higher in the air and taking a deep breath Cerise jumped forward with Citrine right behind him and with his right arm wind-milling he dismissed the vacant glyph and called up a new one for them to jump on and they proceeded like this all the way back to the cliffs though as they got close to their target Cerise's rings did start to shake and slow in their spinning.

But still tired they made it back to the cliff tops and sprawled there for a moment and at the sound of movement they looked up and saw Professor Rust approaching.

Cerise hazily blinked as he came back to himself in the auditorium where all those who had passed initiation were gathered as by groups of four students were assigned into teams.

After the first two Cerise had sort of tuned it out to rest much like he did with the Crushed's evening prayers back at camp but looking around he saw they were down to the last few pairs, himself and Citrine included.

Paying attention now he watched as the third to last team formed and blinked as he caught what he hadn't before.

Oh please no… He thought. Don't tell me…?

But as the second to last team went up he got his answer. Last names WERE called in the process and Cerise closed his eyes groaned lightly, getting a look from Citrine as the older teen wished to disappear. If his mother Clare was who he thought she being some kind of hero, Cerise knew this could get complicated fast.

As they were signaled to call up Cerise decided just to get it over with and deal with what may come.

As the duo walked up Cerise eyed those that were to be grouped with them.

The first was a male faunas with wolf ears. He looked about Citrine's age and had fair skin albeit it smudged with some sort of dirt. He had pale blue eyes
and short cropped red hair. He was wearing a green tank top, camouflage pants, and combat boots. He also had a short sword sheathed at his backside.

The second person was a female human. Her complexion though was beyond the three boys' fair tones her skin looked downright ethereal, accompanying it was blond hair and bright purple eyes. She was wearing green sneakers, blue stockings, black shorts, a pink long sleeved shirt, and a magenta scarf to round out the outfit.

As they all stepped onto the stage like the others Professor Blank called up their pictures one by one along with their names.

"Citrine Seeress, Titania Regalia, Smoke Carver, and Cerise Nebula." And with those words hushed murmuring whooshed through the auditorium as the trio on stage with him all gave him looks of surprise Citrine most notably.

But still Professor Blank went on quieting things somewhat as she said "the four of you brought back matching puzzle pieces bearing the number 16 henceforth you four shall be called Team Cactus from today on." As she spoke Cerise saw their named vanish but for the first letter of each of their first names with moved and formed an acronym. CCTS.

Looking at Professor Blank she then finished "led by Cerise Nebula." To general applause while Cerise hung his head knowing his own prophecy had come true and that outside or inside the kingdoms trouble may have followed him regardless…