And yet another one! Probs the last one for a while, until I get my creative energies going again, so enjoy for now.

The Underground

(Inspired by Made in Abyss)

One day, all of a sudden, right in the middle of Vale, a hole opens up in the middle of the countryside.

There is no explanation for it. No reason why. No clear answer.

It simply comes into existence for seemingly no reason.

And somehow, for whatever reason, Teams RWBY, JNPR, and CMEN (Cinder's team) End up inside the massive chasm in the middle of the world, and begin their journey all the way to the bottom.

However, along the way, they're attacked by what look like men in suits and tuxedos, but wearing strange diving helmets atop their heads, are separated into different groups, and are scattered across the different layers of the underground, and continue their travels downwards.

Weiss, Yang, Nora, and Mercury are flung down towards what seemed like some sort of underground city built into a giant cave, filled with strange, mutated inhabitants of all shapes and sizes, each of them holding a strange form of morality and values that are absolutely alien to the 3 of them, as their society revolves around the flesh and the skin, with hundreds of these creatures coming together and forming massive orgies of skin and bone and melted flesh moulding together into horrendous sights and entities.

Ruby, Ren, Blake, and Emerald would find themselves in a long wasteland of mountains and caves and forests within the underground as it travelled downwards, and would be forced to content with heavily mutated forms of Grimm, each of them unique to each other, some of them nightmarish and horrifying, and some of them even sentient and living, but all of them as equally insane.

Pyrrha and Cinder wound find themselves being stranded together and being hunted down by the men in the suits and diving helmets, and would be forced to confront each others ideologies and beliefs as they are continuously tracked and followed by these mysterious assailants, before they are captured by their attackers, and confronted with the truth about them.

They are Grimm.

Sentient Grimm.

Grimm with the habit of dissecting any human and Faunus who might travel down into the Underground, and grafting those body parts onto themselves, so that they might become human one day.

And Jaune and Neo, meanwhile, would find themselves in the home of a sentient horde of Grimm spiders, who would come together to form either a giant Grimm arachnid, or a human woman with pale skin, black hair, spiderweb patterns across her, and pure red eyes.

They would meet a sentient Grimm known as Madame Web, who, surprisingly, is actually one of the only truly benevolent entities in the Underground, despite being a Grimm- Though she is really creepy- And is willing to help them rescue their friends from the horrors of the abyss that they find themselves in.

And she does this by giving them both the Mark of the Spider, which would allow them, to a limited extent, control over her spider swarms, as well as summon their own giant spiders to ride like steeds through the Underground

Think of her like Ozpin, only much more trusting and open with her secrets, but also a hell of a lot better at reading people, and thereby knowing how well to trust someone and guessing at their intentions.

And, it is through Madame Web that we learn more about the Underground and the enemies that they face:

The Grimm in the tuxedos and diving helmets? They're called the Divers, a collective of Grimm that have achieved true sentience by reaching the bottom of the Underground, but have been driven so mad by their existence as Grimm that they have wheeled back around to being sane, and now seek to become living creatures, like human and Faunus, by any means necessary.

The mutated creatures within the cave city? They are fellow Grimm that have completed the journey, like the Divers, but have not walked out of their insanity yet.

The rest of the strange Grimm that their friends were encountering in the wastelands of the Underground? They're the Grimm that failed in their journey down into the bottom of the chasm.

And what is behind all of this? What is causing all of this to happen? What is driving the Grimm to journey down into the bottom of the Underground, to try and achieve true sentience?

Why, but the 5th relic, of course.

The Relic of Existence.

Soon, it becomes a race against time between Ruby's Group, Weiss' group, Jaune's group (Including Madame Web), Cinder and Pyrrha, the Divers, and all the other Grimm in the abyss to get to the 5th relic, and uncover the secrets of the Underground once and for all, before it killed them.

Because soon, it might.

The 5th relic was changing them, just like it did the Grimm.

Manipulating them.

Mutating them.

And soon...

They might never be able to leave the Underground, ever again.

So yeah, new idea. Is inspired by Made in Abyss.

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Why I talk like this? I not know. Felt like it, guess I.

Until next time!

Titanmaster117 out!