I do not own RWBY or Tales of Berseria. They belong to their respective owners. This will begin a few days after Team RWBY's first day of school at Beacon. Enjoy.
Chapter 2: Welcome to Remnant
Velvet slowly opens her eyes and finds herself laying on the ground in some unknown forest. She sits up and looks around to see trees full of green lives and everything is quite, but peaceful around her.
"What was that? Was that a dream? But, I remember dying…after I killed Artorius. And then there was that woman in the white cloak. Just what the Hell happened?" Velvet asks herself as she stands up and looks to the sky. She sees stars in the sky, meaning it is night right now, but as she looks around, her eyes widen as she spots a shattered moon with pieces of it scattered in the sky. "When the Hell did the moon get destroyed?" Velvet questions as suddenly her mind recalls the knowledge the strange woman implanted in her mind.
She holds her head in her right hand and closes her eyes as she remembers what transpired before she got here.
"That's right. I'm not in my world anymore. I'm on Remnant now. Good thing that woman gave me all that info, otherwise getting used to this world would be that much more difficult. Well, guess I'd better find some place to settle down before making my next move," she notes before she starts walking through the forest.
As Velvet walks through the forest, she looks around and notices a lack of local fauna in the area. The forest was quiet, almost too quiet. As she continues her trek through the forest, Velvet can't help but feel as if she's being watched. She looks around, but sees nothing as she keeps walking. A few minutes later, she finds herself at a clearing in the forest. Ahead of her, Velvet sees an old temple of sorts, appearing to be quite old if the signs of decay and plant growth are any indicators. She approaches the temple and looks around, noting the pedestals set around the center of the structure.
"Doesn't look like this will be a good place to rest. Better start looking somewhere else then," Velvet says and begins to leave the temple. However, as she leaves, she hears some growling from the forest and looks forward to spot several sets of red eyes all staring back at her. Stepping out of the tree-line are around a dozen unknown creatures that look like black werewolves with bone armor, spikes, and a mask with red markings and red eyes. Velvet eyes them warily. "Ah, so these are the creatures of Grimm, Beowolves to be exact. Don't seem much different than all the daemons I fought back home. Well, let's see is these monsters can put up a better fight than them," Velvet says as he lowers her stance and a short blade pops out of the bracer on her right arm.
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Meanwhile back at Beacon, Professor Ozpin is sitting at his desk, going through some paperwork for the new semester while having a drink of his beloved coffee. A moment later, an alert comes up on one of his screens, gaining his attention.
"Hm, one of the security cameras in the Emerald Forest has picked up something by the old temple where the initiation pieces were kept. Let's see what it picked up," Ozpin notes before pulling up the footage on his screen. When he sees the footage, his eyebrows raise a bit as he sees Velvet being surrounded by Beowolves in the forest. "Well, this is interesting. But, it would not bode well for someone to die in the forest, now would it?" Ozpin says just as the elevator to his office comes up and the doors open to reveal Professor Goodwitch.
"Professor Ozpin, I was hoping to speak to you about-," she begins.
"Ah, Glynda, excellent timing. We have a situation in the Emerald Forest," he interrupts her.
Glynda gets more serious, "What's going on?" she asks as she approaches his desk.
"One of the cameras picked up a young woman near the abandoned temple in the forest, and Beowolves have appeared all around her. I need you to take a team with you and head out there to rescue her," Ozpin says.
"Who in their right minds would be out in a Grimm-infested forest late at night?" She asks as she walks around his desk to look at the monitor. She gets a good look at Velvet's situation, "Well, that answers my question. Judging by how damaged her clothes are, she must have been out there for quite some time, but why are we only finding out about this now?" she questions.
"We'll figure that out later. For now, I suggest you get Team RWBY and head out there to help. I'll monitor things from here and keep you posted. Go now," Ozpin answers a little more urgently.
"Right away," Glynda replies and leaves the room.
Ozpin continues to watch the video feed as Velvet prepares to fight.
"Hopefully, we will not be too late," he mutters.
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It does not take long for Professor Goodwitch to reach Team RWBY's room. She knocks on the door a little harder than necessary, and a moment later, the door opens to reveal Weiss Schnee in her nightgown, and with a scowl on her face.
"Do you have any idea-oh Professor Goodwitch. What are you doing here?" She quickly corrects herself from yelling at the Professor.
"I apologize for the late night visit, but there is little time," Goodwitch says as she walks by Weiss to see that the rest of her team were all in their night wear, but now waking up.
"Professor Goodwitch, what's going on?" Team leader Ruby Rose answers as she drops down from her bed hanging by rope attached to the ceiling.
"The cameras in the Emerald Forest have picked up a young woman being surrounded by Beowolves. Professor Ozpin wants us to go out there on a rescue mission. I need you four to get ready quickly and come with me immediately," Goodwitch answers.
"Do you have any idea who this girl is?" Blake asks.
"Right now, no. That's why we need to hurry. I'll wait outside for you to get changed. Move it, NOW," Glynda orders them and leaves the room.
Not wanting to argue, the four girls quickly change into their combat attire and ready their weapons.
"So, anyone wanna guess who would be crazy enough to go out into the Emerald forest all by themselves?" Yang asks as she checks her gauntlets, Ember Celica.
"Well, Professor Goodwitch said the girl was unknown, so it probably isn't a student here," Blake answers as she loads a clip into her katana, Gambol Shroud.
"Must be another bumbling idiot like that blonde buffoon, Jaune," Weiss says, aggravated at her sleep being interrupted.
"C'mon Weiss, we can't think like that right now. What's important is that someone is in trouble and we need to help," Ruby says as she places her sniper scythe, Crescent Rose, on her back. "All right, Team RWBY, let's begin our first rescue mission," Ruby cheers as the group leave the room to meet Goodwitch outside.
"Took you long enough. Now let's go, we need to hurry," she replies and quickly moves with Team RWBY in tow.
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Meanwhile, Velvet continues to look around as the Beowolves surround her on all sides, numbering around twenty-five now. She readies her bracer blade.
"Let's see if you guys are any better than the demons back home," Velvet mutters as she shows off a confident smile.
One Beowolf runs at her, leaping at her when it gets close, but Velvet jumps over it while swinging her arm blade at its neck, decapitating it. The headless Grimm's body falls to the ground and begins dissipating into smoke as Velvet looks on.
"That's right. These things turn into smoke after they die, but nobody knows how or why. Probably won't work if I try to eat them like I did with demons," Velvet mentally notes.
Three more Beowolves charge at different angles at her. Velvet kicks on in the skull behind her, jumps over one at her right flank, and makes three swings with her blade at the third to her left that kills it. Two more come at her front. Velvet runs at them and then slides under them as try attack with their claws. Once she's behind them, she runs back and jumps onto one, stabbing it in the head. She then tackles the second to the ground and stabs in in its chest several times, killing it. Velvet backflips away as another Beowolf tries to strike her with its claws. After she lands on her feet, six Beowolves rush her from all angles. Velvet activates the blades in her shoes, and then stand on her hands as she twists around, using the blades to slice through each Grimm, leaving their bodies in pieces. Velvet soon stops spinning and gets back on her feet as she eyes the remaining fifteen Beowolves that approach her with more caution.
"Humanity's greatest enemy, huh? Don't seem so tough to me," She notes.
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Professor Goodwitch and Team RWBY are all on board a bullhead airship as it flies to Velvet's location. While the first-years check their weapons, Glynda pulls out her scroll to check in with Ozpin.
"Professor Ozpin, how are things looking?" she asks.
"I'm watching her now, and so far, the young woman originally had twenty-five Beowolves surrounding her, but now she has killed ten of them. She's doing quite well. The only weapons I've seen her used were a blade in her right bracer, and a hidden blade in each of her two armored shoes. I must admit, she is quite impressive," Ozpin calmly notes.
"Professor Ozpin, is this really the time? Whatever, as long as she is alive when we reach her. We should arrive in a few minutes. Keep me posted," Glynda says before disconnecting.
"Well, it sounds like our damsel in distress isn't quite so in distress, now is she?" Yang jokes.
"Hopefully it stays that way when we reach her," Blake adds.
"I'm kind of interested to see her weapons. Blades in a bracer and in her boots sounds so cool," Ruby says, getting off topic.
"Ruby, this is not the time. You can ask her about her weapons after we are back at Beacon," Weiss berates her.
"Ooh right, sorry. I couldn't help it," Ruby apologizes.
"Enough. We'll be arriving at the temple shortly. Get ready," Glynda reminds them as they continue on their way.
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Velvet slices off the head of another Beowolf as in the past few minutes, she's reduced the number of Beowolves from fifteen to ten. Velvet looks around as the remaining Beowolves get ready to attack again. Velvet retracts her blade.
"Alright, time to end this," she declares. Velvet looks at her left arm and focuses her energy. A moment later, her bandaged left arm turns into a large, blackish red werewolf arm with sharp claws. Velvet raises her arm and looks at it with a sense of nostalgia. "Looks like some things haven't changed, even in a new world," she mutters.
Velvet charges the Grimm, and strikes at two of them with her left arm, killing them both in one strike as their bodies are ripped to pieces. She then jumps into the air spins around, slamming her arm into three more onto the ground. When Velvet land, one Beowolf jumps at her from behind, but she grabs its head and crushes it with her demon arm. After that, she attacks two more, clawing one in half and stabbing her claws in the other's neck. Velvet looks back at the last five in front of her and gets an idea in her head.
"I wonder if I can still perform that one arte from Seres," Velvet thinks, and a moment later, the ring from Seres appears on her right middle finger. Velvet looks at the ring and allows a small smile on her face. "Guess that answers that…Good to know you still have my back…Seres," Velvet mentally notes.
Velvet summons fire into her left hand, and then thrusts in forward, sending a ball of fire at the remaining Grimm. The fire arte strikes all five and consumes them in its flames, reducing them to ashes. With the battle over, Velvet deactivates her demon arm and takes a breath to calm herself. She looks around to see all the bodies of the dead Grimm have evaporated into smoke. Looking around, she doesn't see any more around her, so she assumes the area is clear now. Deciding to continue on her quest to find some place to hunker down, Velvet begins walking again, but stops a moment later when she hears a strange noise coming from above her. She looks up to see a bullhead airship approaching and slowly lowers down a few yards ahead of her.
"A bullhead airship. Heh, that knowledge thing that woman did sure helps," Velvet says before the right side of the airship opens up to reveal five females inside.
The first is an older women with green eyes and blonde hair tied into a bun with a few locks left untied, with glasses and wearing a white top showing a little cleavage, a black pencil skirt, stockings, and black high-heeled boots. In her right hand is a riding crop. Behind her are four girls around Velvet's age. The first is a girl with long loose blonde hair going down to her waist. She is wearing a tan short-sleeved jacket over a yellow tank top, black short-shorts with a brown half-skirt of sorts around her shorts, along with a white underskirt longer than the brown one. She has on brown knee-high boots with yellow socks, and a purple bandana around her left knee. On her arms are a pair of yellow shotgun gauntlets. The second girl has long white hair tied in an off-center ponytail on her left side in a tiara. She has blue eyes, and is wearing white bolero jacket over a white/ pale blue thigh-length strapless dress with a ribbon tied around her waist. She has on a pair of white high-heeled boots, and is wielding a rapier of sorts in her left hand. The third girl has long black hair with a black bow on top, and has amber eyes. She is wearing a black buttoned down vest with coattails and a white, sleeveless, high necked shirt underneath. She is also wearing white shorts, black stockings that fade into purple at the bottom, black low heeled boots, a black detached sleeve on her left arm, a black scarf around her neck, and black ribbons around her forearms. She is wielding a black katana in her right arm with a sharpened sheath on her back. However, the fourth girl is what gets Velvet's attention the most.
The fourth girl, appearing to be the youngest in the group, is wearing a red cloak with a hood, a black long sleeved shirt with red trim, a black corset with red strings around her waist, a black skirt with red trim, black stockings, a black belt with several bullets on it, and black boots with red lacings and red trims. She has what looks like a large red scythe with some kind of trigger mechanism on the side. But what catches her attention the most is the girl's face. She has short black hair with red tips, and silver eyes. Seeing the girl, Velvet remembers what the strange woman from before said, and why she's here.
"You'll know when you meet her," the woman's words echo in her mind.
"Who would've thought that the reason I'm here would come to me so soon. Lucky me. Well, I did say I would watch over her. Let's see how this plays out," Velvet notes as she slowly walks over to the group.
Goodwitch steps up, "Hello, I am Professor Glynda Goodwitch from Beacon Academy. I would like to know why you were traversing through a Grimm-infested forest alone and without proper resources," Glynda questions her sternly.
Velvet narrows her eyes, "Great, another no nonsense chick. Reminds me of Eleanor when we first met," Velvet mentally says. "Just passing through. Lost my supplies on the way here. Grimm seem to love me for some reason," she jokes.
"I can surmise, given your…attire," Glynda notes as she looks Velvet up and down.
Team RWBY do the same, with Ruby and Weiss having a slight blush of embarrassment at Velvet's damaged clothing not leaving much to the imagination.
"How can you were such an outfit?! Aren't you even cold?" Weiss almost yells.
"Works for me. And you get used to the cold. I've been wearing these for quite some time," Velvet replies.
"How long have you been out here then if you've worn the same clothing for a long while?" Blake asks.
"Not long. Like I said, just passing through," Velvet says.
"Well, where you planning on heading? To Vale perhaps?" Glynda inquires.
"If that's where the road takes me. What's it to you?" Velvet asks.
"Well, we caught you on our security cameras, surrounded by Beowolves, and were sent here to rescue you," Glynda answers.
Velvet looks around the area and then back at them, "I can take care of myself. I'm no novice when it comes to fighting to survive," Velvet says.
"I can see that. If I may, we were also tasked with bringing you back to Beacon. You will be safe there. Also, the headmaster wishes to speak with you," Glynda says.
Velvet thinks for a moment, "…And if I refuse? After all, you don't know me. For all you know, I could be some kind of psychotic maniac on a killing spree," she inquires while extending her arm blade to prove her point.
This action puts the members of Team RWBY on edge, but Glynda remains calm.
"Please, we are not your enemies. At Beacon, we can provide you with better clothing, food, and help with your injuries," Glynda says.
"What injuries?" Velvet asks.
Glynda gestures to Velvet's left arm, "Your left arm is covered in bandages and they look old. You look like you could use medical attention," Glynda responds.
Velvet looks at her left arm, "This isn't an injury. My arm is fine," she says. "If having an arm covered in bandages that can turn into a demon arm be counted as 'fine."
"Even so, I still ask: will you come with us?" Glynda asks politely.
Team RWBY remain silent throughout the exchange, watching the two women converse. However, When Velvet looks at them, they tense up a bit since Velvet still has her arm blade out. Ruby then notices how Velvet looks at them, specifically her. Their eyes remain connected for a few short moments before Velvet looks back at Goodwitch and sheathes her blade.
"Alright. I'll go with you. But no tricks or traps alright. I met my share of people who stab others in the back for selfish reasons," Velvet says.
"Thank you. Come with us then," Glynda says and they all board the bullhead to head back to Beacon.
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Back in his office, Ozpin watches from his monitors before going back over the footage of Velvet's fight with the Grimm. He pays particular attention to Velvet's left arm.
Ozpin holds his chin in his left hand, "Interesting…"
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