A bright light gold and purple hue began to envelop the entire screen as a strange crystalline structure coated it like stain glass, faint shades of red, white, black and yellow flashing every so often akin to sparkling gemstones.
"Light. Darkness." spoke a feminine voice from some unknown location as the screen started to show glimmers of various people and places, each one familiar to the trained eyes beyond the screen itself. "The two forces that bring about balance within the vast void of time and space, allowing for the formation of life itself, one with the potential to move forwards into the future, for both good and ill intentions."
As the images flicked on screen, from the image of a red cloaked wearing girl falling into the void to catch a red stained rifle, a girl with blazing red eyes punching two twins in white and black with golden gauntlets, a girl with amber eyes on a ship in the middle of the sea letting the wind take away a black bow as her cat-like ears were exposed to the world, to the image of a girl with white hair fending off a swarm of massive wasp-like insects with nothing more than a rapier while trying to keep the airship she was on safe from the swarm, a large port city with a single golden statue of a warrior woman in its snow covered center and a massive draconian monster getting turned to stone by a bright silver light from the base of a ruined emerald tower-
CRACK!
Thick cracks began to form across the screen, breaking the once smooth surface into a kaleidoscope of colors as the images splintered into new and unrecognizable forms.
From a blonde young man walking down a hallway that seemed to glitch every so often with gold squares, a young boy with a single pink strand of hair looking at a ragged girl with dull silver eyes in awe, a woman in red fighting against a woman with a blacked arm tipped with claws as both were coated in a respective red and orange energy, to a gold eyed man laughing madly at several teens as they were launched into a forest from their white platforms and a young lilac eyed girl waving towards a girl sporting a pink and brown eye from outside a bedroom window.
"Yet, even time will bend to the whim of one's choices, no matter how small." the voice said while the image of a red eyed girl with mint colored hair running away from an angry mob sporting silver arm bands flashed across the screen, followed by the image of a slowly cracking wooden statue of a girl holding an umbrella in her right hand emerging from an enormous tree trunk. "Or how large. It is the fate of progress, the fate of choice within this vast omniverse."
The crystals began to shimmer as the image of an armored warrior coated in corrosion battling against a woman clad in flames, the screen briefly exploded into a shower of embers as the image faded back into the endless mirrored shards.
"Such wonders are fleeting, yet marvelous nonetheless. However, besides the worlds made famous under the consistency of predictable outcomes, there are many others that are unusual." the voice said while the image of a orange haired girl and a green clad boy quietly putting an explosive whoopie cushion under a white haired girl's butt as she was eating breakfast, appeared on screen, followed by the images of a very tall woman with a long cat-like tail hugging a girl with amber eyes tightly and a man with a thick mustache pulling down a switch as electricity covered the screen for a brief moment. "Unheard of and, to some, do not cross the collective nature of the omniverse. Timelines that exist in abundant yet veiled obscurity."
The flashes of electricity died away as the image of a blue eyed girl draped in red and black robes smirking from a wooden throne adorn with two spear heads appeared on screen.
CRACK!
CRACK!
Only for the screen to crack once more, the image fading away and was replaced with the image of a gray haired man draped in shadows sitting on a silver throne as a large gold spear was held in his left hand, his single green eye glaring darkly at the screen before quickly sinking back into the kaleidoscope of crystals.
"However."
CRACK!
Suddenly, the stain glass-like surface began to split down the middle and pulled away like theater curtains, revealing a tall fair skinned woman with short straight pale platinum blonde hair that went down to her ears, two long thin locks that trailed down to her upper chest, light blue eyes, an E cup chest and large ass, long dark purple and shining gold nails, dark purple and shining gold tattoos on her arms, legs, hips, neck, forehead and upper eyes that were in the shape of twin cawing draconic ravens holding a odachi and a pair of gauntlets in their talons for the arms, a snarling puma holding a sword in its mouth on the legs, a kneeling knight holding a rapier in its left hand on the neck, a single eye-like emblem with two smaller 'eyes' colored silver by grounded gray dust on the forehead and a blooming rose with three long vines holding a scythe, a staff, a lamp, a crown, a sword and the broken remains of a sword, spear and crystal blade on the eyes, wearing a faint purple sleeveless skin tight bodysuit with gold lining that exposed her legs and hips, a long white cape sporting a curved raised high collar and went down all the way to her feet, pale purple lining along the sides and inside of the cape, pale blue rhombus-like brooches attached to the cape's lower sides that hung over the shoulders and neck by a pale purple chain, pale blue arm bands with a single white diamond crystal in the center, pale blue anklets and white heeled flats, from within as she stared at the screen with a serious smile on her face.
"The stories long neglected will be told." the woman said as the image of a young girl with a bunny ear-like ribbon flashed on the screen while a tall shadowy figure clad in orange light presented the girl with four golden objects. "So that their wonders will be experienced by all, for I am Salem, The Narrator."
The woman waved her left arm outwards, causing the screen to be coated in blinding stained glass as the woman vanished from sight.
"And this."
The shimmering light slowly died away as the camera zoomed away, revealing several glowing silhouettes that, after a few seconds, were shown to be massive letters stained with glowing crystals.
Tales of Wonderful RWBY
"Is their stories." the voice said before the screen faded into a menagerie of colors, a large rainbow lined book of crystals sporting a gold rose emblem on its cover appearing from the void as it opened its golden pages for the world to view.
Tales of Wonderful RWBY: Chapter One, The Conquering Tiger.
Alternative Salem Character Inspiration: Eagleman27
Inspiration/Author(s): MajorBrony95
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-Remnant, Solitas, Atlas, Schnee Estate-
Wooosh.
The wind outside the glass windows formed a small twister of snowflakes as the camera loomed outside a white mansion, fresh snow blanketing the area as the camera zoomed into the bright yet dark hallway.
Silent, devoid of servants...a perfect snapshot of stillness in the middle of the night. Not a sound was heard.
Clack.
Clack.
Except for the pitter patter of shoes against the marble floors, which was soon revealed to be from a short pale skinned young girl with short white hair that went down to her cheeks, pale blue eyes, wearing a long sleeved light blue dress that went down to her waist, a small silver snowflake-like tiara, a white collared shirt, a long white poncho with a red inside that was tied around her chest with a white bow and a silver chain, a white snowflake shaped emblem on her back, white tights and light blue boots, whose face was filled with a mixture of worry and childish 'sneakishness'.
[The innocence of childhood is a fickle thing, a sword against the hardships of the world and a shield against its corruption. Both are useful, but also detrimental to a child's development if used too much.]
Clack.
Clack.
The child looked around, eyes tired and drooping slightly, before carefully tiptoeing down the hallway. "Mmmm..."
[But for Weiss Schnee, it was her only weapon against her...rather troubled upbringing. High expectations and neglect were a constant within the Schnee household, always hidden behind a veil of 'happiness', and, for the middle child, perceived differently through the eyes of a child. One, that is slowly forced to grow up before her time.]
'Where's the bathroom? Ugh...so many hallways.' she thought to herself while moving towards the left wing of the manor, her mind overwhelmed by the almost endless dark hallways in front of her as she felt her bladder tighten within her body. 'Mommy, I'm sorry for not listening to you. I will never drink so much water before bed from now on.'
Clack.
Clack.
'I hope Winter isn't behind any dark corner. I know my birthday is tomorrow...but I hate surprises.' she thought to herself while turning her head to her left and right sides, making sure not to hit any of the armored suits lying around the halls. 'And I hate the dark. I know I have a good sense of...what was that word? Spcia? Spacia..location? Oh yes, it's spiral location. That's it. I have good spiral location skills with the mansion, but why didn't I get a candle? That would make my life easier...and keep the Chillmen away.'
CRASH!
The small child flinched in fright as she stopped in her tracks, only to hear the sound of glass shattering in the distance, a small sliver of light peeking through the darkness like the morning dawn. "W-What...what was that?"
[Oh, that isn't good.]
SMASH!
CRASH!
Gulping a little in fear, the girl felt her lungs moving in a slightly erratic way before she took some deep breaths, despite her body feeling rejuvenated from the sudden jolt in energy, and carefully tiptoed towards the light and, inevitably, the source of the loud noises.
[In most timelines, Weiss Schnee would grow to become Beacon's Huntress in Training and, eventually, bring herself to escape the gilded cage known as the Schnee Legacy. But here, in Dimension: 209051- 00 TCTRWBY, things...went out differently.]
BAM!
SMASH!
'Wait...isn't that father's study?' she thought to herself while inching closer and closer to the slightly opened door, the sound of splintering wood echoing in her ears in the process. 'Is it a burglar? A mad faunus? Oh no...Chillmen! Ahhh!'
[For beyond that door, one that holds the reins of the Schnees for over a decade.]
CRASH!
Weiss flinched as she inched closer to the door and peeked through the crack.
Only...
SMASH!
To see the room completely disheveled and covered in scattered books as her father, plastered and half naked, was busy smashing several of his precious bottles of wine, all of them empty, against the walls and door, his table broken in half for some reason.
[Was the drunken mess known as Jacques Gele, abuser and snake of the SDC, making a drunken rage against no one. A pity...if I had any for this lesser man.]
SMASH!
"H'a hic, bit'h! Fuck ya...sl't." he said with a slurred tone as he stumbled a little to the left, continuously punching the nearby walls in a drunken rage. "Fu'k, hic ya!"
POW!
POW!
"Fu'k ya!"
The girl finches with each punch and curse her father made as she tries to not squeak in fear, to keep her father from discovering her presence...and locking her in her room...again. 'Is father...mad about something?'
"Fu'k-OOF!"
SMASH!
CRASH!
"Ow." Jacques groaned while blood dripped from his forehead, the wooden chair he stumbled upon broken as its nails pointed outwards like porcupine quills.
[A sight of drunken foolishness, one that Weiss has never seen before in her life. She had known many things, from the art of economy to the finest details of regal fencing, yet she had never seen her father act like this. Had she been older and slightly wiser, she would leave this well alone, however...]
'Maybe I should just leave-'
"Fu'k that hic, wh'te h'red bit'h, f'k her! My, hic, pr'zed ti'ar was mu'h bett'r! H'c, wh'd I have to le't hic...her go?"
'Tiger? We had a tiger?' she thought with wide eyes. 'That sounds cool. I've never seen a tiger before.'
[The curiosity of a child won over.]
Weiss looked around, seemingly trying to make sure she was truly alone, before moving her left hand towards the door, the screen quickly faded to black in an abrupt manner.
[And in this moment, childhood would be tarnished forever and the coldness of adulthood would take its place.]
(A few weeks later)
-Menagerie, Kuo Kuana, Rama-Ka District-
The sound of screeching gulls and the overwhelming smells of spicy barbeque permeated the large village, the population dominated with the faunus as a transparent image of the blonde haired woman looked down upon the world from the sky, her form akin to a specter as her eyes glowed slightly.
"Get your fish! Fresh from the bay!"
"Boars tusks! Get your grounded boars tusks here, guaranteed to help boost vitality upon consumption!"
"Silk! Mistrali silk! Finest in four Kingdoms!"
"Kamen Crabs for sale, 500 lien per pound!"
[Menagerie, home of the faunus. An ill placed nation of refugees and outcasts from the Great War's conclusion. An oasis of exotic animals and resources guarded by both its chieftain and The White Fang, although many find this a mirage, a falsehood given to them by humanity's hubris...which isn't wrong, given they had the short end of the stick for well over a few thousand years and counting.]
"Liquid Cream! Great for those hard to reach scales!"
"Get your apples!" yelled a merchant, her chameleon-like horns that jutted out of her forehead glistening in the midday sun, as she held a green apple in her left hand and didn't even notice a small figure wearing a brown cloak walking past her. "Get your fresh apples here!"
As the figure walked past various vendors and stalls filled with food and unique items of material wealth, they tried to make themselves inconspicuous, as if not used to the bustling crowd around them.
Yet as they made it out of the shopping district and turned to their left, they noticed that...they wound up in a dark alleyway full of rats and the occasional trash can.
[However.]
The figure carefully walked down the alleyway, the shadows barely affected by the harsh sunlight above, as the sound of footsteps was heard right in front of them.
Which soon was revealed to be several masked faunus wearing white and black clothes, each one with a snarl plastered across their faces.
[On this day, the White Fang.]
"Oh? Look at what we have here." the lead goon smirked while her long donkey ears twitched slightly. "A trespasser."
"Yeah." said a cat faunus as his long orange tail puffed up in agitation. "One that smells like an Atlasian."
"And...um guys." said a centipede faunus while his antenna twitched above his head. "I don't think she's Atlasian."
"Aereus. We know you have a bad sense of smell but clearly, this one is an Atlasian, and a human no less." the cat faunus deadpanned.
"But maybe this one's a faunus?"
"Knock it off you two." the donkey ears faunus frowned before grabbing the figure by the shoulders.
[Will find their prey and strike.]
"Sorry Sap." Both 'goons' said at once before the head 'goon' pulled off the figure's hood...revealing the nervous face of Weiss Schnee in the process.
"Oh ho ho. Looky here, a Schnee. Far away from home and on OUR tuff? Hehe, the High Leader will love to see you. Aereus, Stannum, grab her legs! We are heading to the secret base." Sap smirked with glee as her two cohorts grabbed the girl's legs...who seemed not to be panicking at all.
Despite her breathing becoming erratic that is.
[Oh dear, caught by the so-called 'protectors of faunuskind' on her first day of traveling to this haven in the sea. Although, it is surprising she even sneaked her way onto a ship, after...boarding and then abandoning one of her father's airships in the middle of Anima. ...what a rebel, but that is to be expected, she is ten years old after all. Right, where was I? Oh yes, the capture, ahem. The net was cast, and now Weiss Schnee will be dragged to the spider's den.]
The screen slowly faded to black before it quickly transitioned to a large dull crimson hued room with circular mahogany breeches, a single large wooden gate at the far end and several long triangular red banners with a snarling wolf's head and three claw marks lining the walls, the breeches filled from head to toe with masked faunus, all looking down at the three 'goons' in the middle of the room.
Slam!
"Ow!" Weiss yelped while hitting the black and white tiled floor face first, the three 'goons' standing over her and looking rather smug at the moment as they looked at the crowd around them.
"Brothers! Sisters!" Sap said out loud while pointing to Weiss with her left hand. "Rejoice, for on this day. On the Solais Eve Festival, a trespasser arrived on our shores, that trespasser? A Schnee!"
[Solais Eve, the faunus equivalent to the Equinox Festival of Anima. A day of celebration and new beginnings, although for Weiss, it might be her end...or perhaps not. Who's to say?]
"A Schnee?"
"Kill her!"
"Rip her face off!"
"Make her suffer for her father's sins!"
"My kin!" Sap yelled with a smirk. "Today, we shall judge this Schnee, our way!"
"DOWN WITH THE SCHNEE!" The crowd cheered at once as Weiss slowly stood up and frowned.
[This is not good. Although I have a feeling she will make it out of this situation.]
"Kill her!"
"Scalp her clean!"
"Down with the Schnees!"
"I'm not a Schnee!" Weiss yelled, causing the crowd of faunus to stop chanting and stare at her in perplexed dumbfoundment.
"...um, I don't know if you realize it." Sap said with a confused tone as her two companions tried to wrap their heads on Weiss' words, as if it was...frying their brains. "But you are a Schnee."
"No, I'm not."
"The white hair. The blue eyes. The clothes. It screams 'Schnee'!"
"I'm telling you, I'm not a Schnee." Weiss frowned.
"...are you THAT dumb!?" Sap growled while her ears twitched wildly up and down. "You. Are. A. SCHNEE!"
Weiss narrowed her eyes before turning around and began removing her poncho and shirt, freaking the three faunus out in the process.
"Hey hey hey!" Stannum yelled while his tail puffed up in disgust. "Stop undressing!"
"We want you dead, NOT...this!" Aereus yelled while Sap held her mouth in disgust. "Sap! Stop her!"
"Kid, stop! Ugh, stop! We might be White Fang but we AREN'T into doing kids dirty! Especially with ten year olds!"
"I don't know what you're talking about, but!" she growled before exposing her back to the entire assembly of faunus.
Revealing thick dull onyx stripes that trailed down from her lower neck to her upper hips.
"I am not a Schnee! I am a faunus!" she yelled while glaring at the entire room. "I am your kin!"
"...WHAT!?"
[Yes, Weiss Schnee, middle child of the Schnee family, is not a member of that family at all. Instead, she is a faunus, one that at one point thought of her trait as burns. But now, will that be enough to save her from an angry, albeit confused, crowd of faunus?]
"How!?"
"She's a Schnee! They DON'T associate with the faunus!"
"They are tattoos! I know it!"
"S-Stripes...but, how-" Sap stuttered in disbelief as Weiss growled in frustration, pouting her cheeks a little in a childish manner.
"I am a faunus, a tiger faunus." she said while putting her shirt and poncho back on, much to the three goon's internal relief. "And not just any faunus, but the daughter of your leader, Sienna Khan! My mother!"
"...EH!? Ok, now that is bull!" Stannum yelled in disbelief along with the rest of the crowd. "There is no way our High Leader would randomly allow that snake to bed her!"
"She's lying!"
"Kill her already! End her lies!"
SIISH!
CRACK!
The crowd suddenly became silent as the sound of a cracking whip rang across the area like thunder, causing all eyes to turn to the upper right side of the room, revealing a surprising sight.
That being a tall dark tan skinned woman with short wild black hair in an asymmetrical bob style that went down to her chin, amber eyes, light onyx stripe-like tattoos across her arms, legs and face, dark orange cat-like ears with two golden hoop earrings on the left ear and two golden hoop earrings on the bottom most ears, a D cup chest and wide ass, a small red gemstone on her forehead, wearing a form-fitting dark gray sleeveless top with a white trim, a large diamond cut-out on the back that exposed most of her back, a small diamond-shaped cutout above her chest, a black elbow-length fingerless right glove, a small gray vambrace on her left wrist, a long back revealing red cape with gold accents that showed off her back and was clasped together above the diamond cutout by a golden clasp, a gray waist cincher with red trim, a black golden buckled belt, a gray pouch on her right hip, a long red rope with a golden bell on the tip wrapped around the left side of her waist, a red rope wrapped around the right wrist, a long gray skirt with white accents that shaped inwards towards her partially revealed calves, two long splits on the sides of her hips, black shorts, black knee length stockings with a golden trim, light gray red laced wedged sandals that had the red laces tied to her calves, and holding a long silver chain whip with a red, yellow and blue diamond on the pointed end of the weapon and a red and black handle in her right hand, sitting in an ash wood throne as her expression was that of calm fury.
[Ah yes, the other main character within this narration, Sienna Khan, High Leader of the White Fang and, at this moment, Weiss' savior. But for how long?]
"H-High Leader..." Sap gulped while seeing the cold fire within the tiger faunus' eyes. "W-Why tak-"
"Take her side? Simple, she IS my daughter." she said flatly as she stared at Weiss. "One that by that bastard's terms isn't supposed to be near me. Why are you here? Did the bastard finally tell you?"
"Yes, while drinking some funny water." Weiss said while trying hard not to tear up at the sight of her mother's face. "He told me...how you gave me to him in place of his own...dead daughter."
Sienna nodded. "I only gave you up because of...a blood money contract, all in his favor. But what else did he mention?"
"...he said...that...you and him-"
"High Leader!" Sap interrupted in anger. "You can't be seriously humoring this Sc-"
SIISH!
SQUISH!
"AH!" The faunus screamed as a silver blade was deeply embedded in her left ear, blood dripping from the base as she fell to her knees in pain.
"Do not interrupt us Sap, or I will aim a little deeper next time." Sienna growled while every White Fang member stiffened and held their tongues in silence. "Continue, my daughter."
Weiss gulped, her eyes fixated on the blood, before she quickly shook her head and tried to act calm despite her rapidly beating heart. "I...I know you were a maid at the mansion, how he tried to butter you up, how he...played rough with...you and forced you away from me. I know that you joined the White Fang out of revenge and...how I'm just a replacement for the real Weiss Schnee."
[...yeah. I'm not going to sugarcoat anything she just said, for all of that was true...and rather abridged for my tastes yet given the circumstances, I will let that slide.]
"..."
"Mother." Weiss said while steeling her nerves once more. "I want to join the White Fang."
Sienna, her right eyebrow raised slightly, looked at her daughter with a surprised glance as the crowd around her remained silent, knowing that a single peep would bring them into her line of fire. "Join us?"
"Yes, I'm small and inexperienced but I am something that no other faunus is currently able to do." Weiss said while pointing to her back. "I am a faunus that lives with the man that you all hate. I can learn his plans before they happen, his words before they are spoken, his actions before they can hurt others. If you let me, a fellow sister, join the White Fang, you can learn everything that he does, stop him before his plans happen and...bring him down."
The faunus stared at her with realization behind their masks as Weiss' words seemingly resonated with their souls.
A chance to bring about the end to the human that perverted everything he touched.
A chance...to strike down the monster that brought ruin to all.
"Is she serious?"
"Getting rid of that bastard?"
"But she's from his family, she might betray us."
"But she's also the High Leader's child. She holds legitimacy to our cause."
[Squabbling, always squabbling. No matter what timeline, be it past or future, the White Fang of this era will always squabble. It is their fate...one that will be changed soon enough.]
"Weiss, my daughter." Sienna said firmly but with a hint of concern in her tone. "You know this is a dangerous venture. One that will take years of your own happiness away from you if you continue this path."
"I know."
"Are you sure? Are you willing to sacrifice the chance of a normal life to become the arbiter of the faunus cause?"
"...I lost my happiness the day fa-...that man told me the truth. All the bile, the filth and the hate. It...It made me grow up." she said with a growl. "I...I want to stop him, to keep him from ruining other people's happiness. I don't care if my life is focused on his destruction or that my 'family legacy' will be destroyed in the crossfire, it is my choice and I choose to become what he fears, a faunus with his smarts but none of his amoral personality. I want to stop him and make Remnant a better place, at your side."
[Mmm, a good choice of words, worthy of respect. I approve, but will Sienna? Will the White Fang, haters of the Schnee name and all it stands for, accept her? Well...]
"...very well." Sienna said with a smirk as she stood up, along with the other members of the White Fang, and snapped her fingers, causing the room to erupt with clapping. "Weiss Khan, I formally welcome you to the White Fang, your new family."
[It is easy to say yes to my question. After all, this is the start of Weiss' journey, one I will watch from beyond their senses.]
Clap!
Clap!
Clap!
Clap!
The young girl's eyes widened with awe as the faunus around her clapped for her, her smile slowly growling as the screen began to fade away into inky blackness.
[A happy moment, one Weiss has not felt in a long while. A moment of acceptance by the ones her father taught her to despise, an irony in itself. But for now, time will envelop this moment and shall be replaced with another.]
(Some years later)
-Sanus, Vale, Commercial District, Tukson's Book Trade-
The midday sun shone upon the vast city skyline as cars and trucks drove in an almost leisurely manner across the crisscrossing roads, the camera zooming past the passersby and towards a quaint little bookstore on the left side, it's green shop front decorated with dark green while the words 'Tukson's Book Trade' was displayed to the world in gold foil.
Yet...on the black wooden door was a 'Closed' sign...indicating that for today, the owner was out of town...or he's on his lunch break, either one works.
[Vale, capital of the Kingdom of Vale. Home to Beacon Academy, the restaurant stand known as A Simple Wok, and the ill fated Mountain Glenn. A haven for personal freedom and capital, yet under the surface, crime and anti faunus sentiments permeate the atmosphere...like almost all versions of this city across all timelines. But here, on 282, 27th Street, the wheels of progress move onwards.]
WEEEEIR!
Clank.
In a quick instant in time, about two minutes or so, a long white limousine with a snowflake emblem plastered to the hood parked right outside the bookstore, the far back door opening slowly to prevent it from hitting a yellow fire hydrant.
[Along with the wheels of a limousine apparently. At least they didn't hit that fire hydrant, it looks rather expensive.]
And lo, for stepping outside the limousine with the grace of an angel, was a short pale skinned young woman with extremely long white hair that was braided into a ponytail went down to her knees and went over her left shoulder, pale blue eyes, a B cup chest and small ass, wearing a gray sleeveless cheongsam with white lining that went down to her ankles and had a open slit that went down her right leg, a diamond shaped cutout on the bust, a short white cape that went down to her waist and was held in place by silver sapphire encrusted brooches on the sides of her collar, black sunglasses on her head, long white detachable sleeves that were attached to the shoulders by silver straps, short gray light blue trimmed opera gloves with a single sapphire on the palms, a small silver ring with a cyan gemstone encrusted in its center on her right ring finger, a light blue sash around her waist with a small white pouch on her left hip, a silver snowflake emblem on her stomach, thin light blue full body stockings, white high heeled slippers, and had a silver rapier with a long blade sporting triangular lines around the sides, a six barreled chamber inside the six pronged light blue hilt and sapphire gemstone at the end of the hilt, in her right hip, whose expression was stone cold yet fair in temperance as she walked towards the front of the car.
[Oh, there she is. Weiss Khan...she has grown a little, mostly the hair. Mmmm, wasn't she supposed to be wearing...no no. I must be mixing up timelines again, anyway, yes. This is Weiss, aged seventeen as of last month and currently the secretary of the SDC's majordomo...yes, you heard me right. She is a secretary for her father...ok, this is odd. I know this is Dimension: 209051- 00 TCTRWBY, I checked before arriving here. Yet...did I make a mistake? Did I accidentally blink and turn my focus to another similar timeline? Mmmm...better keep watching, just in case.]
"Take care Miss Schnee." spoke the driver as the window lowered, revealing a rather jovial man with light brown eyes and a large brown bushy mustache, who smiled at the girl as she returned the gesture with her own smile.
"Thank you Klein, same with you."
"Just try to contact me if something's up." the man said while his eyes changed from brown to yellow. "It will make me happy, especially on Sundays."
"I will." she chuckled as the man's eyes changed to red.
"And don't try anything crazy at Beacon. The windbag might've sent you here for one of his PR stunts but I know teenagers, and they love to party, break things and, gods forbid, have se-"
"Klein." Weiss said with a light blush, making the man's eyes turn pink as he looked to his left in embarrassment. "I'm not going to act like that. I'm smart enough not to start any trouble, especially when the SDC's image is going down the drain...but thanks for worrying. Appreciate that."
"R-Right." Klein said before his eyes changed to a mint green hue. "Anyways, I must be going. The next flight's at three...but, heh, but, I have time to chill out before then."
Weiss nodded before seeing the window moving back into place, just as she saw the man's eyes turning lavender. "Klein! Don't go to sleep!"
[Oh boy. That would not be good, and I have seen versions of him doing the exact same thing with other vehicles...including a mechanical Wyvern mech.]
"Zzzzz-Wait what?" he said while his eyes turned back to their original brown color. "Right, sorry about that Miss Schnee."
Vvoosh.
And with that, the limousine drove off and to the right as Weiss sighed in relief, knowing that her father figure wouldn't be sleeping on the wheel...like last time.
[Close call. Very close call, but now's not the time to worry about your positive parental figure. It's time to meet with your destiny.]
"...sometimes I worry for him." she muttered to herself before walking towards the store's front door and produced a small key from her left glove sleeve and unlocked it as she entered the establishment, closing and locking the door behind her.
SWISH!
SHING!
Only to have two black blades pointed at her throat from behind, although for some reason, she wasn't scared or terrified at all.
Instead, she seemed...happy about the entire situation.
[Oh? What's this?]
"Stand down." she said calmly as the blades pulled away from her neck, the lights flickering on as several White Fang members stood up from behind the numerous bookcases, an amber eyed woman with black cat ears and a white face mask set between her eyes smirking right next to her left side. "Good job, Elder Belladonna. You and your Sect are living up to my standards."
"Thank you, we live to please you." she said with a bow. "But, why are you still wearing that ring? You are with us."
Weiss sighed while tapping on her right ring. "It's to keep him from finding out."
Ziiish!
Sparks of light cyan electricity shot from the ring as cyan glitches flickered across her body before fading away, revealing a palette choice of red, gold and black in place of her 'normal' choice in color as her weapon became a golden blade with red ruby in place of its sapphire gemstone and her dress' back became visible along with her stripes.
An indicator and badge of honor for the daughter of Sienna Khan.
"That I am your leader."
[OH! So I wasn't wrong, she just had a Hard Light powered ring on hand. An interesting choice too given that illusionary technology on that scale is only at the developmental stages in this timeline. Huh...right. A grand transformation from a broken child to a successful leader, having caused all of the SDC's grievances upon her rise to High Leader, one that has made the fight against the Gele legacy unfairly successful.]
The cat faunus nodded before putting her weapons away. "Tuskon is in the back, waiting for you."
She nodded while walking towards the back office, her associate following right next to her. "What is the status of our diplomats in Vauco?"
"Still trying to locate the King and Queen, High Leader. They are still criminals with a large network of spies and moles, it takes time." Elder Belladonna said with a sigh. "But they did mention that negotiations are possible once they're found."
"Makes sense, we share a common enemy. Jacques Schnee, the man that turned their lands into a desert and made my mother's life a living hell." Weiss said with a cold tone, her lips parting slightly to show her grinding teeth. "With their manpower and smuggling circles, our plans will be achieved within our lifetime, especially after Phase Two."
"Heh. Still can't believe none of us thought of this beforehand." Elder Belladonna said with a chuckle as they made it to the back door, the words 'Manager' plainly visible from its bronze plate. "Replacing every single Dust on the planet with faulty ones set to explode at a moment's notice? It's crazy, and a little...dark for my tastes, but your plan is foolproof, given the type of enemy we're facing."
"...all plans are set to fail. It takes a strong will and the guts to do it for a plan, of any kind, to succeed within the goals set for yourself." Weiss said while smirking a little. "And my plan to turn the world against that Grimm spawn will not fail, not now, not ever."
[Yes, it will not fail. The plan to discredit Jacques Schnee, while contrived and easily destroyed by more competent minds, will succeed. And that plan is what exactly, you ask me? It is simple. Replace every SDC owned Dust crystal in Remnant with a synthetic duplicate and let the public think they were 'ripped off', as the youth say it. From there, the public will lead a crusade against the SDC and then...the snake will be jailed for a global Dust inflation scandal.]
"It's an irony in hindsight." the cat faunus said as Weiss reached her left hand towards the knob. "The company was started by Jacques' boss by the mining of Dust and now you're using Dust to collapse his empire of lies. If his ghost was here, he'd be either praising you for your actions or lamenting on the state of his once proud dream."
"..."
"High leader?"
"Let's get going." she said while opening the door, allowing the cat faunus to enter before her as she took a deep breath and gripped her left hand a little. 'The words of the dead don't matter...just the actions of the living.'
Creak.
'And I will make my actions known.' she thought as the camera panned away, revealing the translucent blonde woman watching from behind a bookshelf labeled 'What If Section'. 'That the Schnee Dust Company and all that stands with Jacques Schnee's twisted mind will be grounded between my heels. For I am Weiss Khan, The Conquering Tiger of Menagerie, and I shall avenge all that you ruined in the name of greed, this I swear.'
"Weiss Khan, the child of lust and the instrument of decades of hate and hopelessness. A story that continues to play out...to an uncertain future." the woman said while none of the White Fang members took notice of her presence at all. "A tale of vengeance, justice and hope. One I root for a happy conclusion, yet I must leave this world for I am only a narrator, not a player in her schemes of economic sabotage."
Siiiis.
The woman's form slowly faded away like mist as she turned her head towards the screen, her eyes locking forwards as she smiled a little.
"But know this, there are more timelines to see, more to learn about. And perhaps, one day, I will return to this place, revealing its utmost fate to you all." she said as her form became nothing more than a mirage, and then nothing at all as the screen faded to black. "But for now, let us leave this story and conclude our first outing. Until next time, I bid you adu."
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Name/Designation Title: High Leader Weiss Khan/The Conquering Tiger of Menagerie (The Conquering Tiger Weiss Schnee- TCTWSRWBY)
Age: 17
Affiliation: Anti
Dimension: 209051- 00 TCTWSRWBY
Abilities: Enhanced strength (enhanced by semblance), speed (enhanced by semblance), durability (enhanced by semblance), agility (enhanced by semblance), reflexes (enhanced by semblance), endurance (enhanced by semblance), hearing (enhanced by semblance), smell (enhanced by semblance), and intelligence, night vision (enhanced by semblance), tactical knowledge, Dust knowledge and handling, high hand to hand combat, high swordsmanship skills and techniques, high fencing skills and knowledge, firearms handling and knowledge, whip handling and knowledge, snake sword handling and knowledge, Dust Revolver Whip Sword (DRWS) handling and knowledge, high economy/lien knowledge, high espionage skills and knowledge, high SDC knowledge, White Fang knowledge and training.
Semblance(s): Hyperactivity (a unique semblance that allows the user's adrenaline levels to remain active, granting them superhuman abilities and senses at the cost of said semblance being permanently active. If paired with a user with the faunus gene, the user's natural abilities will be increased ten fold.)
Bio: In this timeline, the CEO of the SDC, Jacques Schnee, would be short staffed in servants and hired a tiger faunus named Sienna Khan as a maid as a last resort...however, upon seeing her beauty and nonsense personality, Jacques would find himself falling for the faunus, despite already being married to Willow Schnee and having a daughter, Winter Schnee. As a result, he would attempt to woo Sienna with gifts, higher pay, a position of importance within the SDC and even the chance to become his successor instead of his own daughter in exchange for becoming his mistress...yet while tempted and slightly touched by the man's affections, she refused his advanced due to wanting him to commit and divorce his wife before she can even consider his offer. Unfortunately, the patriarch of the Schnees refused to ditch the wealth and status of his wife's fortune for a 'lowly faunus' and upon being refused for the one hundredth time, he snapped and...forcibly had sex with her in a blind lustful rage before forcing Sienna into silence. From this one dark moment came another...for upon the end of nine months, she would give birth to a daughter, one with tiger stripes running down her spine, and would be forced to give her daughter away after Jacques blackmailed her into signing a contract that allowed him to formally 'adopt' the child as his own in exchange for her termination from her maid role and a few thousand lien in blood money to keep her silence...all under the agreement that Sienna would never communicate or be anywhere near her daughter under the threat of imprisonment for 'sexural depravity'. Forced to leave both her daughter and Atlas, Sienna would come to despise the man she once served and eventually joined the budding White Fang movement as a way to fight back against the man's tainted legacy...all the while her daughter would be named Weiss Schnee, after the real one that died stillborn on the same day she was birthed, although Willow never knew about the switch due to Jacques' manipulations. For the next few years, Weiss would grow up ignorant of her true origins, thinking her tiger stripes were burn marks and that her semblance was unable to be unlocked like her siblings, not realizing that her semblance is already active, which is called Hyperactive, a permanently active power that allows her to have a boost in energy and a constant stream of adrenaline allowing her to gain near superman strength and more enhanced versions of her faunus heritage like very sensitive vision and hearing. Yet one day, one day, while getting ready for her tenth birthday, she overheard her father, in a drunken rage, recalling to himself about his 'prized tiger', causing her to confront him and learned the truth about her mother and her current occupation as the White Fang's High Leader...which shattered her childhood innocence and strove her to take vengeance upon her father's heartless cruelty. After sneaking out of Atlas and traveling to Kuo Kauna, she was captured by the White Fang and, upon revealing herself to the stunned organization, before asking them to accept her as both a 'sister' to the faunus and a member of their just cause, which they accepted upon the threat of Sienna Khan's motherly rage. As a result of this one change to the timeline and of Remnant's history, Weiss would learn the ways of combat, how to use her semblance to its maximum, to use her Dust Revolver Whip Sword (DRWS), known as Vergeltung, with grace and how to finally dismantle the SDC's corruption from its head...which she would do by tainting her father's image for the worse. In order to do this, she would become the White Fang's mole within the SDC itself, and after her mother stepped down as High Leader and gave her the title, started to coordinate raids and Anti SDC attacks that would cost the company millions of lien and bring Jacques' darker nature into the spotlight though the use of 'leaked' documentation of corruption to the public. This led the public to start looking into his private life, forcing the CEO, under the very desperate act of trying to make himself look benevolent, to send Weiss, who grew up to be his most trustworthy daughter and secretary after Winter joined the Atlas Military, to Beacon for Huntsmen training that might bring in some good PR for himself and the company...not realizing that she PLANNED for this and was using this trip to get in contact with the White Fang Sect in Vale, led by Elder (Lieutenant) Blake Belladonna, to set the next stage of her plan...which was to discredit the Schnee name even more by placing false Dust crystals in every SDC owned shop and stealing the real Dust before hiding them away from the public for a few months. In Weiss' logical mind, if the public knew that the 'Dust' the SDC was selling were unstable fakes at exorbitant prices yet did nothing in light of the growing 'Dust' accident fatalities, then the entire population of Remnant, both humans and faunus, would take action against the company for 'taking' the real Dust for themselves and thus...lead to the SDC being drawn into a losing battle within a global inflation scandal that will leave them bankrupt in a matter of months, possibly weeks...move that would bring an end to the SDC and free Remnant from its shackles. Thus, Weiss, daughter of Sienna Khan, would be forever remembered as The Conquering Tiger for her actions against the tyrant Jacques, even if she has to make a deal with the God of Darkness as she would conspire with The Crown organization to gift them amnesty and support in their plans for a new monarchal Vauco in exchange for their backing against their common enemy, the SDC, the reason why Vauco was turned into a desert in the first place. An uneasy alliance, an uncertain outcome...a future without the SDC...a world unburdened by Jacques' evil nature. All these things weigh heavily on Weiss Khan, the savior of the faunus and the world...but will she be seen as a hero or a villain, that, my friend, is left up to the imagination. For now though, the world heads towards a karmic outcome, one that will bring an end of the old darkness and shine new problems for the next generations.