Ruby POV
My team just agreed to look into the White Fang and Torchwick thing, but I left the board game in the Library! After accidentally running into a visiting team, I continued my sprint until I see the Princess just hugging her knees outside the library door.
"Hey, are you okay?" I ask concerned, since she's normally with one of the other Y/ns.
"Dumbsmile faded away, and I can't find anyone... and no one will tell me where cat Y/n is!"
"It's okay! I'll just call his scroll."
After I picked up my scroll and put it on speaker, we both just waited for Y/n to answer. The Princess is about to cry when the sound of Y/n's scroll calling back caught our attention.
"Um... what did I just do? This glowing thing stopped making noise." The voice sounded like Marisa.
"Hi Marisa! Is Y/n there?" "Where'd that- oh, right. There was something like this back home. Sorry, but are you calling for the cat youkai here?"
"Yes, is he alright?" "He's unconscious on the floor."
Princess rips the scroll from my hand, accidentally hanging up in the process. "Y/N!!! WAKE UP!!! BRING DUMBSMILE BACK!!!" She sees that the call is over, and drops my scroll while crying.
"Don't worry, we can just go to his room and check on him, alright?" I say while crouching down to look at her face. This feels weird, but when I become a huntress I'll need to comfort kids like this after Grimm attacks anyway.
Y/n's dorm, Y/n POV
"Ah, you're awake Twintail."
I'm laying in my bed, but something feels wrong. Sitting up, or trying to, I see that my arms and a leg are gone. Looking towards the voice is Marisa sitting by the desk... but it feels wrong. She's not my Marisa, and I don't have enough aura to gap away. Her soul feels older, her clothes are wrong, and she isn't human.
"Are you just going to sit there staring at me in fear or can you not speak?" She's just looking around idly. "This place isn't Gensokyo, and the magic here feels... broken." She pauses, the looks directly at me. "Your magic is higher than the Gap Hag, yet is largely unstable. That's why you're missing some limbs, right?"
Marisa POV
He just lowers his head and lays back down, looks like I'm right. But why is he scared when I haven't done anything? Who was that on the... phone I think it's called? And why...
"Why won't you talk to me, Twintail?"
He stays silent, but his ears start twitching, and his tails are puffed up. He hears something that's making him more afraid. Ah, someone is knocking at the door, probably whoever he's scared of. Raising my left hand, I create a miniature sun and stand facing the door.
"Marisa, it's Ruby, Y/n alright?"
"Yes, he's-" "RUN RUBY, SHE'S NOT MARISA!" Ah, so he can talk. Wait, so he's not scared of her? I smell... roses?
Turning back to... Y/n I guess, his grey eye is red and the green eye is glowing. Some type of control magic it seems. But...
"That won't work on me youkai!"
[Supergiant: Antares]
The star in my hand grows until it takes up the majority of the room, then promptly explodes. I probably shouldn't use that in a small room... he shielded himself with red ice? Ah, he made arms and a leg out of the ice. The glow is gone and he looks exhausted.
RWBY dorm, Blake POV
On my way out of the room, Ruby suddenly flows past me, scattering rose petals everywhere. Looking back into the dorm, both Weiss and Yang are watching Ruby hastily grab Crescent Rose. Before I could ask why, an explosion rocks the building.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Weiss screams at Ruby, who looks... scared?
"There's a fake Marisa who has Y/n in his dorm! Grab your stuff and follow me!" Ruby promptly flies back out of the room, leaving us to process her words. There's a beat, then Yang and I gear up and charge after her. Ruby is trying to open the door, until Yang just punches the door off its hinges.
The fake Marisa is standing in the middle of the room, a pillar of red ice with a broken apple shaped potion bottle at its base holding her. Y/n is collapsed, panting on the ground with Bad Apple laying beside him. Ruby and Yang are instantly at his side, Yang petting him and Ruby hugging him trying to calm him down. After watching this for a bit, Weiss turns to me.
"How did a fake Marisa get here so fast? Doesn't his family need days to be stable enough to come here?"
"I think it's more important to ask why every other version of him is gone, and his team, and normal Marisa, but the little Princess is still here."
Weiss starts talking again, but I tune her out in favor of listening to what Y/n is telling Yang and Ruby.
"I-I touched the-e blue sparkly cube, and then I woke up on the bed..."
"You're okay Y/n, and don't worry, Marisa will come back when you grow back your... everything." Yang's trying to cheer him up.
There's a faint cracking noise, and the sound of a teapot. Looking back at the pillar, I see stress fractures slowly working their way across the red ice, and steam billowing out of a few of them.
"She's not done, yet." I say, now looking at the face of the fake Marisa, a smile clear as day planted on her face.
We ready our weapons and Y/n crawls behind us. The hissing of the ice is getting louder, and the steam more abundant.
Y/n is freaking out, "NO, YOU CAN'T MELT RED ICE, IT-"
The ice shatters and evaporates into nothing, the red Marisa just standing there, with a smile on her face.
"The other me didn't say she had a brother, and no I'm not fake, I'm just not his sister." She begins, and continues after seeing our confused faces, "Allow me to introduce myself; I'm Marisa Kirisame, the Witch of Scarlet Dreams. Before you ask, no I'm not a monster or doppelgänger or anything like that, I'm just from another world, although it's been... centuries, I think? Either centuries or millennia since I've been here."
Scarlet Marisa POV
They're all still on guard, but Twintail is slowly moving out from behind them. He's reaching for something... ah, I see.
[Love Sign: Master Spark]
[Red Side: Alter Spark]
Rainbow beam meets solar fire, and the four girls dove for cover already. I see they have experience. As soon as the beams die down, I see that the blond one's eyes shifted to red... like mine do.
"We can have a proper fight later," I begin, "but I think you need to recover first, Twintail. Or, brother from another world?"
"You expect us to believe-" white starts but I cut her off, "You have a cat boy with two tails made of unstable energy, how is another world far fetched? Or me being ancient?"
She begins sputtering indignantly, and I see blond's eyes go back to lilac while trying not to laugh. "What are your names, by the way?"
"Ruby." "Weiss Schnee." "Blake." "Yang."
I grin while looking at "Yang", "What is your last name, Yang?"
"Xiao Long, why?"
My smile must be reaching my eyes, "Well, miss light dragon, You're probably a descendant of this world's Marisa." I pause, to let them process my words.
"Wait, Yang's-"
"Yes, she's Twintail's distant cousin."
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The Fractured Cat (RWBY X Multiverse Project)
FanfictionY/n is a Meif'wa, a cat person not unlike a neko but here's the thing: he was never born. His soul is made of other broken souls who died at the end of the world. His memories before remnant are nothing but lies. He didn't exist before a light shown...
