Team VIEW: First year, Forespoken Paths
Synopsis: 12 years before Team RWBY began their term at Beacon. Atlas Academy welcomes its newest huntsmen in training, but four make their mark through their skills and their habit of getting into trouble. This team is made up of Winter Schnee: Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, struggling to find her own path. Eckhart Slate: Nephew of the General and Headmaster, gunning for that position. Ifiral Phenrix: Reborn in fire, hunting for the match that began it all, and their Leader Viralious R.: A boy longing for revenge on his mother's killer.
Pronunciation guide:
Eckhart: (Eck-Heart)
Ifiral: (If-ral)
Phenrix: (Fen-Rix)
Viralious: (Ver-al-us)
Zeliska: (Zel-is-ca)
Plot adjacent: Fits mostly with cannon ages are probably the biggest hang up.
Thoughts, Screens, and flashbacks will be in Italics,
Rated M due to language violence and mature themes
Current possible Tags:Adventure, Drama, Humor, Romance, Sci-fi/Fantasy (How do I exactly describe Remnant?) Angst and maybe just maybe a little bit of crime... I know that's a lot of tags but it's mostly going to go between the Adventure, Drama and Humor... A lot of humor surprisingly.
As for direction this story will be going, most characters will be OC's, some might be related to some familiar faces from the show. But I am going to try and keep them to minor characters… well minus two as for those you will have to wait and see.(Hint one is spoiled in the synopsis)
I don't think there will be a consistent update schedule for this as my schedule is straight up not consistent and varies basically week by week (thank you college engineering program) Feel free to leave a review or PM me where you think the story is heading and I may confirm or play dumb if you guess it right.
I have a typical idea of how I want this story to go and have the Major plot points planned out(As of writing the entirety of the first arc is written and the second and first part of the third is storyboarded) but some small fluff stuff I would gladly accept ideas for.
I would also like to thank my Editor(Not a Beta since they have yet to make their account) AmoebaHewdraw, without him there would be a LOT more grammar mistakes. Mostly random Capitalizations... and homophones.
With that let's jump right in
Chapter 0: Poison Memories
The Atlas Academy training room was currently the stage for a dramatic bout of sparring between the two sisters of the Schnee household. The two clashed their weapons together causing the sound of metal to echo throughout the futuristic hall. From the side lines Weiss' partner the loveable dolt Ruby Rose cheered her on saying something along the lines of "Show her that little sisters are the best!" causing Weiss to give a small smirk.
Winter on the other hand was completely calm and collected, blocking each and every attack her sister was sending her way. She looks at her sister's smirk and follows the noise to its source, finding her sister's partner whom she had written so much about. Winter then begins to reminisce to her partner and slowly memories begin to bleed into her mind at the worst possible time. She's barely able to refocus herself to dodge a swipe from Weiss' Arma Gigas summon, its long blade missing her by only a few centimeters. Flipping backwards onto a small handspring, Winter uses her momentum to launch herself upward and quickly loads a cartridge of fire dust into her weapon. Summoning a small glyph below herself, Winter stands at attention bringing her hand down; she summons a small glyph to the left of Weiss before moving her blade into a quick sweep. A short wave of fire flew towards Weiss causing her to summon a wall of ice to block it before she was nearly caught off guard by Winter's Beowolf summon clawing towards her.
Weiss grits her teeth sending the tip of Myrtenaster into the Beowolfs chest, glancing around She is suddenly struck by Winter rushing towards her having used her glyphs as a springboard. Weiss digs her heel into the futuristic paneling lining the floor and summons a gravity glyph to steady herself. Winter seeing this performs a revolving slash that she continued her momentum to send her away from Weiss.
Winter looked at her sister and to her own aura reserves, finding them almost evenly matched. She thought to herself.
Weiss has improved drastically since our last practice spar, she's no longer the idealistic heiress… She's slowly following in my footsteps, supportive partner and all.
Winter's eyes then track back to Weiss' partner seeing the cheerful red hooded girl still giving enthusiastic cheers for Weiss, suddenly Winter's thoughts are interrupted by a smaller Arma Gigas slashing at her legs causing her to stumble forward slightly. On the ground Winter grits her teeth and looks up. Instead of seeing her sister with Myrtenaster raised into a fencer's stance, her memory plays a trick on her and she sees her partner standing there with a smirk on his face.
His face is as pale as she remembers it, his jet black hair has his typical purple highlights and is pulled into a messy ponytail through the back of his military cap. Adorning the cap is a familiar purple rose pin with two green leaves to its side. He's wearing his combat uniform, if one could even call it that, a carbon-threaded purple collared shirt with a light rose pattern paired with a gray and silver vest covering his torso. Gray and black pants filtered down past his belt and towards his dark pair of boots. Adorning his belt is a torn piece of cyan cloth that he said was sentimental when she asked and his half-mask gas mask. Winter found herself lost in the vivid construct of her memories not wanting to forget her partner's features; she steels herself and glances into her partner's eyes. Instead of seeing the pitch filled blobs that she expected from her nightmares she sees his normal purple eyes staring back at her showing pride. Suddenly he opens his mouth.
"You and your sister are evenly matched, Winter. In fact, she might be ahead of you when it comes to versatility of summoning." her partner responds in a somewhat playful tone.
Gritting her teeth Winter gets up and blinks, the illusion from her mind fades leaving only her Sister and the summoned Arma gigas in front of her. She's about to prepare to summon her Manticore before her partner's voice rings out once again.
"But you are not purely your semblance, Winter, show her what a Geist can do… show her what you can do, Winter." The voice is still playful but fades away as Winter blinks, she glances around hoping to find that it wasn't a trick of her mind and her partner had somehow returned but she knew the truth.
Breathing out a long sigh, Winter summons a glyph behind her and removes her parrying dagger from her hilt, she then performs a backflip landing on it. Closing her eyes she imagines her partner standing next to her and follows the motions he would do when performing this technique. She uses the glyph to launch herself forward at Weiss, shifting her blades to reverse grip in the process. Winter uses her blades held reverse to perform quick long slashes towards Weiss, this style is completely opposite of her normal precise and elegant fencing, no this is ferocious and messy. It's a perfect mirror to how her partner fought with his weapon.
Weiss is on the back foot from her sister's surprise change in style, she is barely able to use Myrtenaster to block the ferocious swipes but it's still causing her to bleed aura. Making up her mind Weiss spins the chamber of Myrtenaster and it lands on the chamber of fire dust and as she's about to send a large wave of fire towards her sister Winter does a backflip kicking Weiss in the face while doing it.
Stumbling back Weiss looks around for where her sister could have gone before she feels cold Atlassian steel in front of her neck and stomach. Somehow while Weiss recovered Winter had used the opening to get behind her and place her blade to her neck.
"Do you yield, Weiss?" Winter's voice is cold and calculating.
Weiss is about to respond by summoning an Arma Gigas to slash her sister when the blade cuts across her neck shattering her aura. Winter removes her grip around Weiss and watches her tumble to the ground.
"WEISS!" Ruby's high pitch scream echoes through the training hall as she runs up to examine the defeated ex-heiress.
"I'm fine, Ruby, really." Weiss responds coldly, before turning to Winter, "What was that?"
Winter blinks for a minute before shaking her head. "Your control over summoning is second to none Weiss, I simply shifted strategies to secure Victory." Her tone is militaristic
"That's pretty obvious Winter but What was that, it's unlike you to do fight so-"
"Ferocious, uncompromising, reckless… almost like a grimm." Ruby finishes.
Winter laughed slightly at the comparison, it was not the first time she heard partners style compared to a grimm. "It's simply a style my old partner used. I practiced it once or twice as it can be a good way to confuse an opponent."
"So who's your partner? Are they here?" Ruby asks innocently.
Winter's smirk fell hard. "No he's… out… Why don't you go hit the showers and get something to eat." She says quickly hiding the fact she didn't want to talk about it.
Ruby waved her away while Weiss gave her a small smile. Before Winter wandered off to Ironwood's office.
"WEEEEISSSS, come on don't you want to learn about your sister's team too?" Ruby whined while she and her partner were eating in the quite boring mess hall of Atlas Academy. To their left, they could see a happy go lucky squirrel faunus talking on the phone mentioning that she would be getting back late.
"Unlike you I actually respect people's privacy." Weiss drones out taking a sip of her coffee
"Hey, I'm not nosy!" Ruby whines "But come on, aren't you curious about the person who fought with that type of style? It was crazy!" She finishes in a small excited huff.
"Ugh, fine Ruby, after we've finished here we can go to the library and see what we can find about Winter's team." Weiss responds flatly.
Ruby yelled in excitement and the two quickly finished their meal as much as Weiss wanted to hide it. She was curious about her sister's partner and why she would suddenly use his techniques in the middle of training, especially one so… unlike herself.
Reaching the library the two quickly approach one of the terminals and follow the instructions to reach the Atlesian Military roster (something that they had bribed Marrow with coffee to get access to) and searching for Winter they find the link to her time at Atlas Academy.
"Wow, Winter looks so different with short hair." Ruby comments looking at her picture on the profile.
Weiss ignored the comment and continued searching before finding a photograph labeled Team VIEW: Year 1. There are four people in the photo, on the far left is a man with auburn hair wearing a simple threaded tee-shirt and baggy pants, next to him is a boy wearing a purple shirt, gray vest and black and gray pants, next to him is Winter hair hanging short and she's wearing her old combat skirt, lastly is a boy who looks a bit like a miniature Ironwood except with blue instead of white. Weiss simply looked at the picture.
"Team VIEW huh, odd name" Ruby says.
"Like RWBY or SSSN are better?" Weiss responds.
Ruby opens her mouth before quickly closing it, "Point taken." She responds flatly.
Weiss moves and clicks on the team pulling up the files on each of them.
Viralious R.: Status MIA.
Ifiral Phenrix: Status MIA
Eckhart Slate: Status MIA
Winter Schnee: Status Active
Suddenly Weiss knew the reason Winter had been hesitant to talk about her team.
Ruby then suddenly took the mouse from Weiss's hand and clicked on Viralious' profile, confirming trying to get more information about their last possible mission. Before a large pop up blocked her path.
ACCESS DENIED
This got both of their attention, as they were using Marrow's credentials. Sure he was the newest Ace-Op but he was like the rest of the Ace-ops and second only to Winter and Ironwood. What could have been the three missing member's mission had been that not even an Ace-Op could look into it. Weiss simply stared at the screen pondering this question.
A\N
The photo in question is the cover art for this story if you wanted to see what it looks like. This Chapter 0 was actually written as Chapter 12 went up and is the second chapter 0 created for this story. The first one spoiled more of the story, so I created this one instead. I will admit that the story is a little rough at the start but it gets better as it goes on.