RWBY and APRJ: volume 4

Chapter 1: the next step

It started in a, let's say, 'other dimension'. No green, no blue, no yellow. It was not vibrant or happy at all. It was only purple, red and black. Colours that represented death. One look of the landscape to frighten the life out of anybody. Grimm were being born from puddles and pools that surrounded the environment. Many species of Grim, in fact. Beowolves, Creeps, Griffons, you name it. They all walked around the rocky ground as Emerald and Mercury watched from a castle as the creatures were born from the slimy prison. They then heard a SNAP! of fingers, telling them to go that way.

There was a table meeting of some sort going on. A man with dark brown hair and a moustache was looking at his scroll, another man with his hair tied back was smiling like a maniac, and another man was just calmly taking in the place as he had his arms crossed. The person who called Mercury and Emerald was none other than Cinder herself. She HAD changed though after being hit with Ruby's silver eyes. The whole of her left body was completely scarred. She had to wear an eyepatch for her left eye as some scars showed from her face. She had a new dress on that covered her entire left arm too and her hair had been cut shorter as well. Emerald and Mercury pushed each other as they walked up to Cinder.

"Yes, yes, please keep your...posse...in check" The man who had the moustache was called, Arthur Watts. Mercury got angry at him, but Emerald held him back. "You hear that? Silence. I have half the mind to thank the little girl who bested you"

"If I were you, I'd hunt her down...find her, and...well, she took YOUR eye, didn't she?" The man who was smiling was called Tyrian Callows. He even laughed like a maniac, thinking about what he would do if he managed to find Ruby. Cinder tried to speak, but due to her injury, her vocals were severely damaged, leaving her as nothing but a shallow breathing mess. She edged her head closer to Emerald, since she could understand what Cinder could say.

"Pathetic, why do you even-"

Arthur could not finish his sentence, due to the double doors being unlocked, allowing a figure to walk out from the darkness. It was the same mysterious woman who spoke after Ruby, Amity, Jaune, Nora and Ren left to find Haven. Everyone stopped their bickering and stared at the woman. After taking a couple of calm strides, she stood in front of some candles.

"Watts..." She called, grabbing Arthur's attention. The woman en turned around, revealing her face. Her red pupils and white skin gave of a deathly aura, in which no light, nor happiness could remove. She only had a frown on her face, which held cracks and veins. "Do you find such malignance necessary?"

She held out her hand, making everybody sit down in their chairs as she sat in a dark purple throne.

"My apologies, ma'am" Arthur apologised, sitting back down. "I'm not particularly fond of failure"

"Then I see no reason for your cruelty towards young Cinder" The woman replied. "She's become our Fall Maiden, destroyed Beacon Tower...and mostly importantly...killed dear Ozpin"

The woman has a grim smile on her face as she listed all of the positive outcomes that had happened during the fall of Beacon. The woman continued her speaking...

"So, I'm curious. To what 'failures' are you referring?"

"Well...the girl with the silver eyes" Arthur answered, obviously referring to Ruby.

"Yes" The big and bulky man, who went by the name, Hazel Rainart, joined into the conversation. "We've dealt with her kind before. How is it that a novice was able to best one of us?"

"My thoughts exactly. Even without her new power, it should have been effortless" Arthur agreed.

"It is BECAUSE of the Maiden's power" The woman corrected. "Make no mistake, Cinder. You are the key to our victory. But your newfound strength brings with it a crippling weakness...which is why you will remain by my side as we continue your treatment"