Remnants Queen Of Monsters

The Bane Of Humanity

In a warehouse by some docks late at night Roman Torchwick sighs. In front of him was a map of Vale. On it marked the dust shops with some crossed out. This job was making Roman wonder if he had finally gotten in over his head. He then felt a hand on his shoulder. Looking over he could see his right hand. Neo.

She wore a white cropped wide, broad tailed jacket with a pink interior, collar, a single pink button and large pink cuffs. She also wears brown pants with a dark belt that has a gray buckle and an additional narrow belt under it. Under her jacket is a brown corset, curved in the middle and at the bottom, exposing her hips. She also wears a multitude of black beaded necklaces, which hang haphazardly around her neck. Neo also wears black and white spat styled under the knee boots alongside black gloves.

Her Heterochromic eyes were filled with worry for her boss. "I'm fine Neo." Roman assures unconvincingly. "I'm just wondering if I took the wrong bet." He sighs. "I suppose there's no turning back now." Neo nods understanding his dilemma before giving him a much needed hug.

The moment was ruined however as Roman and Neo heard clapping causing Neo to pull away. It was Cinder Fall. Their employer, and her little runts. "How touching." Cinder says sarcastically. "I..." Before she could continue the ground beneath them began shaking. "What was that!?"

"How should I know?!" Roman shouts back. Then the side of the warehouse is violently ripped off as two glowing red eyes stare down at them with a golden crown. "A Grimm?!"

"How'd it get past the kingdoms defenses?!" The runt with green hair asks.

"Who cares?! Run!" Roman shouts. Just as he begins to run with Neo on his heels the creature screeches while it emits purple electricity upon its horned crown before blasting the warehouse with purple Prism Beams from its eyes. Roman and Neo are flung to a corner as they are covered by rubble. With one more screech the beast, Battra takes off flying away as it disappears, turning completely invisible. Roman has been able to see its departure from his spot under the rubble.

"It left?" Roman asks. Dispite being trapped him and Neo were practically unharmed. Just then a glow of gold energy rose from where Cinder had been before flying away. Roman and Neo struggled but managed to push the rubble off of them enough to get out. As they walked over they could see a pile of ash with two green weapons and a strand of burning green hair, next to that was a second pile of ash with Cinders left hand next to it. Roman gagged at the sight. Sure he'd threatened people and even killed a few, but this was more than he'd ever seen before. An entire body vaporized within seconds.

Just then they heard shuffling and a pained groan. Looking over Roman saw the other runt alive albeit missing a hand but alive nonetheless. "What the hell was that thing?" Roman mutters looking over to Neo who shared a worried look. He sighs before looking to the living runt, Mercury if he remembered correctly. "Come on let's get him out of here. The police are likely on their way.

Back at Beacon the gold energy phases through several doors before stopping in the elevator and going strait down into a hidden vault. Inside the energy travels right into the comatose body of a young woman named Amber. She was inside a pod hooked up to machines which were keeping her alive. Suddenly the heart monitor next to the pod spikes as Ambers eyes shoot open.

The next day Weiss woke up to the sound of giggling. As her eyes fluttered open she caught a glimpse of Ruby and Hope finding the to be the ones giggling. With a yawn Weiss got up stretching.

"Morning mamma." Hope says innocently. Weiss smiles softly before noticing the look in her eyes. Is she laughing at me? Is there something on my face? Weiss wondered. Taking a look at Yang's failed attempts to keep her composure Weiss grew suspicious.

Walking into the bathroom and looking into the mirror Weiss got her answer. Cat whiskers had apparently been drawn on her face while she was asleep. She rolled her eyes failing to wipe a small smile from her lips. After scrubbing the marker off Weiss went back into the main room with crossed arms.

"Well you most certainly look like your feeling better." Weiss smiles looking to Hope who was giggling again.

"Love you mom!" She cheers causing the room to laugh lightly.

Weiss walked over and pulled Hope into a hug. "I Love you to."

Later the girls all get ready to leave for class after their morning routines but halt as the school's speaker activates. "All students, all classes have been cancelled for today. I repeat all classes have been cancelled for today. Thank you."

"Huh I wonder why?" Yang says frowning. "Well at least now we can decorate today." Yang shrugs.

"Yeah!" Ruby cheers. "Yang, Weiss, Blake, their fearless leader Ruby, and the adorable junior member Hope can finally begin their first mission. Banzi!!!"

"Banzi!!!" Yang Blake and Hope cheer while Weiss simply smiles with crossed arms.

Once they had finished the room the beds had been crafted into bunk beds with Yang's bed stacked over Blake's using books to make a larger gap, and Ruby's bed hanging from the ceiling over Weiss' using rope. In other words it looked like a massive safety hazard, but Weiss was out voted by four to one.

With that the girls left the room to get breakfast in the cafeteria. Once they took their seats Team JNPR sat across from them. "Hey guys." Jaune smiles.

"Hey Jaune." Ruby greets.

"Hey Weiss." Jaune greats remembering her from the forest. "Is Hope okay? We heard she was sick."

"Yup." Weiss giggles noticing Hope trying to dip a cooking in milk like Ruby only to fail due to the cookie being too big. "Blake came over with the solution, though she said Ren, and... Velvet I think, we're the ones to make the medicine."

The man Ren himself smiles. "I'm glad I could help."

"You mean that green goop actually helped?!?" Nora shouts in disbelief causing the table to laugh. Just then Pyrrha's scroll beeps from a notification.

"What's that?" Yang asks.

"The news." She says. "I like to keep up to date on things from time to time." Everyone shrugs accepting it. "Huh."

"What's wrong?" Jaune asks.

"Here let me read it to you. 'Late last night a warehouse on the waterfront was attacked. Vale Chief of Police states that there was no evidence as to what caused the attack or why. The only clues found were two piles of ash and a hand. The only known victim at the moment is a young woman named Cinder Fall.'" Pyrrha frowns. "Do you think this is why we have no classes today?"

"Obviously." Yang states.

"It dose seem likely." Blake agrees.

Just then Hopes eyes flicker red as her expression turns to fear. Pyrrha notices and realizes she had forgotten Hope was there. "Oh Hope I'm so sorry I shouldn't have read that out while you were here."

Weiss turns to see Hope's expression and frowns. "Sweetheart what's wrong? Did the news scare you?"

Hope simply hugs her mother shaking in fear. "He's was here." Weiss' eyes widened. No, already?! It's only been what? A week? Two? Weiss knew she had to speak with Ozpin. He'd know what to do.