Tales of Roses and Snow (RWBY x Tales of Berseria crossover

Chapter 1: The Request from a Malak

In a clearing within the boundaries of a forest somewhere in Southgand, was a petite person in a long red hooded cloak sitting in amongst a field of flowers while holding five different flowers in their hands. A white lily, a black/purple tulip, a yellow dandelion and two roses. One of the two roses was bright red while the other was in darker shade of red.

"You want to have my help now?" The person said in a young female voice out loud. "I thought you and your master were on your daily trips around Loegres."

"I'm his malak no longer." A woman said behind her. The woman has long red hair tied back with a ribbon-like clip to form a ponytail. The tips of her hair are a whitish-green color, indicating her status as an otherworldly being. She wears a stylish white dress which accentuates her cleavage and has blue accents throughout. She wears black stockings accented with red and adorns herself with laced white shoes. Her fingernails are painted a reddish-orange color and on her face was a black mask that covers her eyes.

"You don't work for the Abbey anymore?" The red hooded woman asked curious.

"That's correct. I guess you left the Abbey as well." The malak said and the red hooded woman stood up.

"What the exorcists are doing is wrong, I know people turn into daemons thanks to the daemonblight but I won't use my Huntress abilities on innocent people that are still in human form!" The woman said angry but controlled.

"You used to be the youngest exorcist legate in existence, the only one able to swing a giant blade that is light like a feather and strong enough to break through the hardest metal in existence." The malak said as the woman turned around to face her.

The woman's appearance could make any man fall in love. She was a fair-skinned petite young woman with silver eyes and black hair that graduates to dark red at the tips. She wore a black and red dress with white sleeves. The sleeves was somewhat puffy but cut off by red lining and a red under dress was underneath and visible in the skirt and the end of the sleeves, a whole neck white choker with black lining was around her neck and connected to her dress in the back. Around her neck was also a necklace with a silver cross with red in the middle on it. Her black over dress has red ribbons in front as the red part almost was to her ankle while the black was shorter, a black belt was around her waist with silver lining and had her emblem on the right side while the left side had silver bullets. On her feet was a pair of black and red high heeled boots that reached over her ankle on the middle of her leg, red ribbons was crossing in the front and red thicker ribbons was around her ankles and was holding in place under the boots with two metal rings connecting all of them while the soles and heel was red as well. Her red cloak was covering almost her entire body as the hood was hiding her face, for the exception of a black feather sewn into her left shoulder.

"Ruby Rose, the Crimson legate of the Abbey." The red haired woman continued and Ruby looked down at the flowers in her hands.

"I know that, but me and Weiss left the Abbey four years ago." She explained. "That title doesn't hold any meaning to me anymore."

"I see, that's why you're now just a Huntress. Protecting people from daemons before exorcists comes at the scene to see you already taken care of the situation and fled." The malak said in understanding. "You and your friend are really extraordinary girls to be so young."

"Can I ask why you're here, Seres? I don't think you're only here to talk about the Abbey behind their back." Ruby asked as the malak woman hasn't really explained the situation.

"My apologies, I'm actually here to ask a request of help from a former comrade." Seres explained which picked Ruby's interest. "There's someone in Titania Prison that's the only one able to defeat Artorius and his plans, she's deep inside a pit cell deep in the fortress. I'm not sure if I can sneak in without the guards noticing me when I'm going to free her." Ruby takes out the dark red rose from her little bouquet to look at it.

"It isn't easy to get inside the prison island as there's only two ports that takes in new prisoners and daemons, there hasn't been a person nor daemon that managed to escape alive." Ruby pointed out as she looks at the flower before a smile appeared. "It sounds like a challenge I want to see happening."

"So you've already decided even though it's dangerous?" Seres asked and Ruby smiled even bigger.

"You don't know how much trouble me and my team got into back where I come from." Ruby told her with a small giggle at the memory. The petals of the dark red rose started to fall off by the wind and then flew away together with the wind. "Because, I think this person will make an interesting journey."

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Ruby now was on a ship on its way to Titania, the prison island, to help Seres free the person that would bring an end to the events of the past. Her hood was still up on her head while she was watching the ocean as petals flew in the wind together with her cloak.

"My name is Ruby Rose. 10 years ago, me and my best friend and teammate Weiss Schnee got teleported to another realm from our home Remnant. At the time, an old man took us in and helped us get used to this new place, the Midgand Empire in Wasteland. Not soon after, an organization called the Abbey recruited us after seeing our skills and abilities that seemed to them like powers given to us by malakhim, spiritual beings that have the power over the elements. They taught us how to use Artes, a special fighting style that uses mana instead of Aura and Semblance which me and Weiss are used to have."

The ship docked at the rear gate and now the mission began. Ruby and Seres snuck in while the guards were busy talking with the crew members, they had to go close to the walls whenever a guard was walking in another corridor. But they had to hurry to get away before another came forwards them as their destination is deep inside the fortress island to free the person they were there for.

"But after some time working with the Abbey, we both noticed that the exorcists' purpose was also killing everyone that caught daemonblight, a mysterious disease that turns people into monsters, even those that are still able to gain human form. It somehow reminds me of a fanus. A fanus is a human with animal characteristics that is mostly hated in my world but I know that not all people that are different from humans are bad and can become one of your best friends."