RWBY: The Lost Kingdom
Chapter 1: Silver Eyes
The sound of a million voices echoed throughout the old gray halls. Together they sang a beautiful melody that captured the ears of any who heard it. Their song told a story of love, hate, and sorrow; a story that many have heard and but eventually forgot, or perhaps a story that many would want to forget. The story that lamented the lost souls, the souls that still wander, and the souls that will wander, where will they go? Will they have salvation? What will be the fate of Aurora?
"Aurora…"
A voice that was different from the chorus silently echoed through the halls. Standing there in the middle of the castle floor, all by herself was a little girl. The girl had fair skin, choppy black and dark red hair, and silver eyes. She also wore a red dress with the design of roses on it. She stood alone in the castle, she looked at the ground to see her bare feet touching the snow. Well...first she thought it was snow, but she looked at it and felt deadly heat coming from it. This was gray snow also known as ash.
"Ash of the lost souls…"
The silver-eyed girl turned around quickly to see a woman who towered over her. The woman's skin was so pale she thought she might be a corpse, she had long silver hair that shined like fine metal, she wore a long golden robe with star-like designs on it, her ears were very long and pointy, a big and blinding halo hovered right above her head, and her eyes were also silver…just like the girl's.
The girl looked up to the ceiling, there was a hole above them, and ash was continuing to fall from the sky like a snow shower.
"She still searches for the dark...the stone holds secrets that should never be awakened...if she claims it, it will be the end of Aradia…"
Then a mighty roar came from outside. The roar silenced the singing voices and created earthquakes which made the walls and ground crumble.
"What will you do, Huntress of the Blood Rose? The Silver Demon? Will you fight the Queen of Darkness…"
The roar got louder and louder, so much louder in fact that anyone who heard it could go deaf. The silver-eyed girl covered her ears and tried to run away, but fear had chained her legs down to where she stood. Darkness then engulfed the entire castle, and the silver-eyed girl could not see anything. She tried to scream for help, but no voice came out.
"What will you do, Ruby? Ruby...Ruby...Ruby...Ruby...RUBY!"
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Ruby screamed as the loud voice of another girl broke her free from her prison of sleep.
"Are you ok Ruby? You were twisting and turning in your sleep."
Ruby looked up to see her older sister, Yang Xiao Long. She was a beautiful young woman with lilac eyes and bright golden hair. She looked at her little sister with a smile, as if she was staring at a puppy.
"Awww~, did Little Rubes have a nightmare~?" Yang said in a babyish voice.
Ruby got annoyed and sat up, she looked at her clothes to realize she was not wearing the red dress that she was in the dream. She was still wearing the pajamas she put on last night, and she sighed in relief.
"Hellooo~! Remnant to Ruby~!"
Ruby rolled her eyes, but she looked back at her older sister with a smile.
"I'm ok Yang, it was just a weird dream...that's all…"
"Was it about the Cookie Monster that stole all your cookies again?"
"Yang! Come on, I haven't had that dream since I was four!"
"Do you two have to be so loud?!"
Ruby and Yang looked down on the bed below them to see a girl with pale skin, pale blue eyes, and long white hair, it was no other than the Ice Queen, Weiss Schnee. She looked up at her two partners with annoyance.
"Why do you two have to be so loud?! People in other dorms could still be sleeping, you know!"
"Come on Ice Queen, it's the weekend!" smiled Yang. "And besides, aren't you going to be hanging out with someone today?"
Ruby's eyes then shot open and realized and she began squealing as if it was her birthday and she got the best present ever, "OH CRAP THAT'S RIGHT! TODAY IS THE DAY YOU AND I GET TO HANG OUT!"
Weiss pinched her nose.
"Oh good lord…"
A week before today, Weiss was scolding Ruby for failing Mr. Oobleck's quiz. To make Ruby take her studies seriously, she made a bet with her. If she passes the test that will be coming soon, she and she will hang out for a day. Ruby, who was so desperate to be close to Weiss, quickly agreed to this bet and studied as if there was nothing better to do. In the end, she got a B+ on the test, which was a good grade. Weiss was impressed that Ruby did well, but then quickly regretted the bet she made because she did not want to spend a whole day with her annoying little leader.
"You dug your own grave, Weiss."
Everyone looked at the bed on the other side of the room. Sitting on her bed and reading her book was the final member of Team RWBY, Blake Belladonna. Blake was a beauty with fair skin, long, wavy black hair, amber eyes, and black cat ears because she was a faunus (but that's a secret).
Ruby puffed up her cheeks and crossed her arms.
"You're talking as if I plan to kill Weiss or something! It's going to be fun!"
Ruby jumps off the bed, makes a perfect landing, and gets up in Weiss's face with excitement in her silver eyes.
"I want to head to the Aos Mall! They have great stuff there, like makeup, manga, and *squeal* I just can't wait!"
Weiss hung her head down in defeat.
"I'm not going to survive, am I?"
Yang patted her back.
"Come on! You were planning to go to the mall anyway. This time, you are just going with an extra person."
"Yeah and buying stuff I don't want to buy and doing stuff I don't want to do," Weiss grumbled.
"Ok! Get ready Weiss, we are leaving immediately!"
Ruby used her semblance to run into the bathroom, leaving rose petals behind as she did.
"Arrghh! You got rose petals on my bed again Ruby!"
After a while, both Ruby and Weiss were dressed and ready to go. Ruby wore a red sweatshirt with a black version of her emblem on the front with short jeans, and Weiss wore a nice white skirt and some fancy black heels.
As they got to the mall, Ruby wanted to check out the manga store. Weiss complained saying she does not like manga, but Ruby forced her to come with her because she had lost the bet. They checked out the latest volume of Seven Huntsmen of the Night and The Ragamuffins (Weiss found interest in one of the characters named Branley who wielded a rapier just like her). After looking at manga for at least an hour (because Ruby was taking too long to make a final decision on what to buy), the two went to the food court for a break. Weiss bought a decent meal for herself, while Ruby had a pile of tacos, burritos, nachos, and a whole mountain of cookies on the side. Weiss looked at Ruby with pure disgust, but the red-haired girl paid no mind to her because she was too busy enjoying her cookies. Once Ruby finished her monstrous meal, the two finally went to a place Weiss actually wanted to go, the make-up shop. The heiress was trying to buy the latest make-up that was designed by Atlas, while Ruby was looking at some from Vale.
Weiss went over to her.
"You're going to be buying make-up too?"
"Y-yeah! Why?" Ruby asked.
"Well, it's just that I never thought you were the type of girl to be into that kind of stuff," said Weiss.
Ruby threw the makeup in her bag and continued talking, "Well to be fair, I'm not that interested, but what if one day I meet the perfect guy? When we go on a date, I got to look my best! Or maybe he might be a guy that's not into girls wearing make-up...argh! Now I'm confused!"
"Ok ok, you're thinking about this too much. Just get what you want and lets-"
"Don't you want to try this product ma'am? I believe it would look really good on you!"
Ruby and Weiss turned their heads to see a man in a suit holding a bottle of perfume and talking to someone in a brown oversized hoodie.
"No thank you."
The voice coming from the hood sounded feminine as she brushed off the man offering her beauty products. The hooded person then started walking towards Ruby and Weiss's direction. When she spotted the two, she sprinted up to them and bowed politely.
"Hello there residents of Vale! It is a pleasure to meet you!"
Ruby and Weiss looked at each other, both were taken aback by the strange greeting and the dialect of the woman's voice. It was one that neither of them had ever heard before.
Not wanting to be rude Ruby responded, "Hi, it's nice to meet!"
The girl raised her head and took her hood off, revealing her face. She was so beautiful that Ruby and Weiss could not stop staring. She had white skin with short light green hair, fringes framing her face, and there were three dots on her right ear. And she also had silver eyes, just like Ruby.
The lady looked at Ruby and asked, "Thank you, um...do you know where I can find Beacon Academy?"
Weiss raised an eyebrow.
"You don't know where Beacon Academy is?"
The girl rubbed the back of her neck as she laughed nervously.
"Sorry, I am quite new to Vale, and I do not know where to go. I have some business there so I was wondering if you girls could point me in the right direction."
Ruby smiled and nodded.
"We know where it is, follow us!"
The two girls took the confused lady outside of the mall and directed her to the streets.
"Do you see the huge tower with green light coming from the top?" Ruby said as pointed towards it, "That's Beacon right there!"
The woman gasped, "My goodness! That's a school!? It's almost as big as a castle!"
"It pretty much is a castle if you think about it," replied Weiss with an amused smirk, the woman's cluelessness was funny to the heiress.
"Well...thank you so much I guess I'll be heading off then."
"Ok, have a good day ma'am!"
"Oh right," the girl turned back to Ruby and Weiss with both her eyes shining brightly. It was weird but both Ruby and Weiss could feel some strange power coming off of them.
"My name is Tiana Silverline, may the gods bring good fortune upon you," her voice sounded like a goddess and her beauty seemed to become more visible. Before either of the girls could say anything else the majestic woman walked away and disappeared into the crowded streets of Vale.
"Tiana...Silverline…"
Ruby breathed as she thought of the woman.
"Well...that was weird. Anyway, it's getting late, let's head back to the academy," Weiss took all her shopping bags and was already making her way back to Beacon. Ruby stayed right where she was for a few minutes lost in the depths of her mind remembering the strange dream she had. She did not know at that moment why the thought of the dream returned to her or why that strange woman made her think of it, but she knew that the weird power she felt when she looked into the woman's eyes was the same power she felt in the dream.
"Ruby! Come on, let's go!" Weiss yelled from the far side of the road.
"C-coming!" Ruby quickly forgot what she was thinking about, picked up her shopping bags, and followed Weiss. The broken moon rose high up in the air signaling the day's end; tomorrow would be a new day for Team RWBY and others.
Author's Note:
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