Chapter 1. Twin Impacts
There were a lot of things in Ozpin's life that has caused him headaches. For example, Port constantly bringing in Grimm, and boring the students to death with his stories.
Glynda, getting on him for all that missed paperwork that seemed to be growing bigger on his desk.
The Vale Council being a constant mess of politics that cannot get shit done.
Ironwood doing his best to make Atlas the most hated nation in Remnant.
Qrow being…Qrow.
His ex-wife wanting to take over the world.
And the biggest headache of all, the two douchebags Gods that abandoned Remnant, cursed Ozpin with his immortal existence, and were the reason why said megalomaniac ex was the way she was.
This current headache ranked higher than Ironwood, but lower than the ex.
"Last night a massive unknown Object crashed into the middle of the sea between Vale and Atlas. Due to the impact of this object, all coast towns in the north of Vale have been evacuated due to Tsunami warnings. As experts try to discover what object hit the sea and caused this much chaos we will report as soon as they find out. This is Lisa Lavendar signing out."
"Do you think the Queen is behind this Ozpin?" The voice next to him asked.
Ozpin sighed while turning off the tv, turned toward to the source of the voice, it was his deputy headmistress, Glynda Goodwitch.
"I am not sure; she usually isn't this...extravagant." the tired headmaster responded.
"Should we send a hunter to check out what it was?" was the deputy headmistresses' response.
"Don't worry, as soon as that impact hit last night, I called a hunter to check it out" Ozpin replied.
"And who was that?" Glynda asked.
"It was a Hunter that is very trusted in our circle" he replied.
"You sent Qrow."
"He is an excellent Hunter despite his…tendencies Glynda"
Just as the irritated woman was going to snap back, Ozpin's Scroll started to ring. Happy to get out of this conversation, Ozpin opens his scroll to see the subject of their conversation calling.
"Ah Qrow, I see you are calling, have you found what caused the massive panic on the coasts?" the Headmaster asks.
"I have Ozpin." the grizzled veteran answers "and I don't think you will believe what it is."
"Come now Qrow, I have seen many things in my lives, there is nothing that can surprise me"
"Well its…it's a giant stone pillar" Qrow stammers. "And I mean huge, bigger than an atlesian ship"
"A giant…stone…pillar." Ozpin slowly repeats. "Qrow, tell me on a scale 5-10, how drunk are you?"
"Isn't the saying 1-10." the Huntsman responds back
"We both know that you are never below a 5."
Somehow this headache seemed to be getting pretty close to ex-wife territory.
What Ozpin didn't know however, was that while all of Remnant were wondering about the huge crash that happened last night, a smaller crash on a small island went unnoticed.
The night before
"Mori… Please…Stay Alive…And don't hate people… too much."
Jin Mori's Grandfathers last words echoed throughout his head as he went tumbling through the sky. At that moment though, all he could feel was hate.
"I'll TEAR YOU TO SHREDS. JUST WAIT PARK MUBONG." Mori screamed burning across the sky like a shooting star.
Where did it all go wrong? The Gods were beaten and Ragnarök had ended. True there was that little scuffle with R, and that white-haired bastard from Nox got away. But it felt like Mori had finally gotten his happy ending. He was finally back on earth after being stuck in the Sage Realm for months, and to his relief his close friend Han Daewi not only survived the final battle but had gotten quite a huge power up as well.
Those future spars were really going to be quite fun. Though, Earth probably would not have been the best place for the battlefield. As Ragnarök clearly showed when God-like beings fight, the geography… well… changes. A new canyon over there, a mountain missing, hell Mori was fairly certain his fight with Satan took a big chunk out of South Korea.
Either way, he was reunited with his friends, he once again proved he was the strongest under the heavens and best of all he finally got his Grandpa back! Everything was looking great!
So where did it all go wrong?
"HOW DARE YOU BETRAY ME! HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO MY GRANDFATHER!"
Continuing to curse that back-stabber Mubong, all Mori could think about was his grandfather being stabbed right through the chest by one hand and in the traitor's other hand the Holy Grail.
The Holy Grail was the only reliable weapon that humanity had against the Gods. It had the power to completely seal a Gods power, and deteriorate them into nothing. And that bastard Mubong pointed it right at him. Mori was certain he should have been destroyed but, his Grandpa…his Grandpa with his last breath was able to save him from the Grails power.
As Mori finally hit the ground with a thud all he could think of was his failures. He once again failed to protect those that mattered to him. As Sun Wu-Kong, the Monkey King, he failed to protect his teacher, Xuanzang, as Jin Mori he failed to protect his Grandfather, Jin-Taejin.
"MY STRENGTH I CAN'T CONTROL IT. IT'S…IT'S LEAVING ME. IS…is…the grail still affecting me?"
Mori could feel his consciousness start to fade, as his powers went with it.
"I…I can't do this anymore, lets… just disappear like this…"
and with that everything went to black.
"Hello, Helllloooo."
After what seemed like an eternity, a voice chimed through the darkness and Mori opened his eyes
"Oh, thank goodness you're alive I wasn't quite sure what I would've done if you were dead."
As the former Monkey King started to regain his senses, he was able to locate the voice. It was…a small girl…with a red hood and dark red hair… with silver eyes…and also… IS THAT A GIANT SCYTHE?
"ANNND THERE!"
With that last adjustment Ruby Rose had finally completed her maintenance on her precious partner Crescent Rose. Admiring every curve present, Ruby could not help but feel proud of the masterpiece in her hand. She had worked hard on perfecting her best friend… and no it was not weird that a scythe was her best friend. As she continued to admire the modern marvel in her hand her scroll suddenly started to ring.
"RUBY!" an angry voice on the other end yelled. "WHERE ARE YOU?"
"Oh, sorry Dad" the red head quickly stammered. "I was just fixing up Crescent Rose and doing a quick cleaning."
"QUICK!?" Ruby winced from her Dad's angry voice "Ruby when you told me you were going to go do maintenance on your weapon it was after school ended at 4. Do you know what time it is right now?"
"Uhm a little after 4." Ruby said hoping that it was not too late.
"Sure, a little after 4." Her father sarcastically replied. "If the amount of your little is the same little as your Uncle Qrow whenever he says, 'Just a little more.' You would be right that it is a 'little' after four."
Oh, biscuits it was really late wasn't it.
"Ok Dad." Ruby responded, "I'm on my way home right now."
"Be safe honey" her dad responded back face suddenly turning serious "and what do we do if we meet strange men that say they have candy in their van"
"Dad I'm 15 not 5." she deadpanned.
"Oh, you're right… replace candy with cookies." he responded.
"Daaadddd" she whined.
"Ruby" was the only thing he said.
"I say no." Ruby finally broke.
"And?" was all she got as a response.
"I try to get away as far possible." was her response back.
"And if he tries to grab you?" he responded back.
"Dad, do we really need to do this part?" she snapped.
"Of course we do, it's the most important part." he retorted.
"I use the sharp edge of Crescent Rose in between the legs" she sighed.
"Atta girl, I taught you well." her dad beamed. "Now get back home quickly, I got a blender from my mother that I'm itching to try out before Qrow gets his hands on it."
Ruby groaned as she put her scroll down, making her way home. She loved her dad she really did, but… Uggghh it has been so frustrating that he keeps on treating her like a child.
She was going to be a huntress one day, a protector of the innocent! a hero of the people!
Was what she kept on telling herself. She still had a long road ahead of becoming a Huntress. It was only recently that Ruby had finally started to not be garbage at combat and she still needed to wait two more years to even get into a Huntsman school like Beacon.
TWO MORE YEARS. The wait would not be so bad except her older sister Yang was going to Beacon this year and Ruby was going to be left behind for two more years at Signal.
"I will be a Huntress." Ruby said out loud to no one in particular.
As she stared back at the night sky her silver eyes caught something soaring through it.
"Is…Is…that a Shooting star?"
As Ruby frantically started to think of what to wish for there was only one thought that came into her mind. No, it wasn't endless cookies or that new silencer for Crescent Rose.
"I wish to be a hero that saves everyone" she fervently prayed, "Just like Mom."
As Ruby continued to stare at the shooting star she started realizing something… Wasn't it getting awfully close? She soon let out a panic yelp as the shooting star crashes and explodes right into the woods ahead of her.
"I know dad said to come home as quick as possible" Ruby thought to herself "But I got to check this out."
Using her Semblance, the Scythe wielder leapt quickly through the forest. As she approached the crash site, she sees a small stone pillar where ground zero was. As she gets closer to the pillar Ruby notices that there seemed to be something leaning against that pillar. It… appeared to be a boy? Looking around her age?
Putting two and two together Ruby realized that the poor boy must have gotten hit by that shooting star?... Pillar? And since she was going to be an awesome hero she quickly went to his rescue.
Or she would have, except for the three Beowolves quickly approaching the unconscious youth.
Instincts on high alert, Ruby quickly fires one dust round in the head of one Beowolf. Totally nailing it.
The second one she closes the distance with her semblance and brings her blade down onto the beast of darkness. Two down one to go.
As the third one approaches behind her, Ruby fires a dust shot with Crescent Rose, using the momentum of the shot she turns around quickly and decapitates the last monster. As Ruby watches the corpses of the beasts start to dissipate, she thinks to herself that all that hard work training with Uncle Qrow seems to be paying off. She cannot help but be impressed by her own handiwork. Until she realized why she was fighting.
"Oof save the boy, I completely forgot about the boy" Ruby mentally berates herself as she heads to the still youth.
As she takes a better look at him, the first thing she notices is that he has spiky brown hair. So spiky, in fact, he looked like a main character from one of those Mistral Cartoons. The second thing she notices is that his clothes are a complete wreck. Outside of a sleeping mask on the top of his head, that was surprisingly intact, the rest of his clothes were wrecked and he didn't have much in the way of a shirt.
And that led to the third observation, his body was covered in wounds and scars. Panicking Ruby starts to wonder what to do, she didn't have anything for first aid, so she decided to do what she does best. Winging it and hoping he wasn't dead.
"Hello, Helllloooo."
Doof, what was she thinking if he were dead, he obviously wouldn't answer.
Suddenly the boy started to stir and open his eyes. They were brown? With crosses in them?
"Oh, thank goodness you're alive I wasn't quite sure what I would've done if you were dead."
Doof, why would she say that. That's like the worst thing she could say to someone that was clearly injured.
The boy looks around widens his eyes for a second and goes back unconscious.
"Well that could've gone better." She deadpans to herself.
Now the problem becomes how to move the clearly alive youth to somewhere less dangerous.
"Well time to do what I always do whenever I need bailing out." she muses to herself as she pulls out her scroll.
"YANNGGGG, I need your help, I have a boy problem."
Hearing her sister yell over the scroll she'll castrate that bastard makes Ruby realize, maybe she could've worded that better.
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