RoR: Tales Of Monarchia (A RWBY Fanfic)

1. The Child

Inside a building made of grey concrete, a young boy is sitting in a classroom on a wooden desk. He is writing on a tablet with a styler pen, writing notes down from the textbook he is reading from while he waits for class to start. After a moment, he sees a hand tap his desk. He looks up with a stoic expression to a see a girl with white hair like his along with dark blue eyes while his eyes were a light blue. She is wearing a black and white school uniform like him, which was a jacket with a symbol on the shoulders along with pants. The girl has a stoic look on her face as well while she tilts her head.

Girl: Taking notes before class again? Are you ever going to do your assignments before they are due, Johannes?

The boy known as Johannes sighs and lays his pen down.

Johannes: Probably not, Caroline. My study habits have always been atrocious, that may not change before we graduate.

Caroline: Well that's because you don't try to improve those habits. Maybe you could try getting with some friends to form a study group?

Johannes: What friends?

Caroline raises an eyebrow.

Caroline: Aren't I your friend?

Johannes leans back on his chair thinking for a moment.

Johannes: Are you? I would think of you more as an acquaintance more than anything. You help me with schoolwork and with cleaning up this room and-

Caroline sighs from his answer.

Caroline: Forget it, you idiot.

She turns around to head to her desk before Johannes grabs her arm. She sees a glimmer of amusement in his eyes despite his stoic exterior.

Johannes: I was joking, Caroline. Do you want to meet up this weekend and study for our test next week?

Caroline rolls her eyes before nodding.

Caroline: We can do that. You're still an idiot though.

Johannes lets go of her and she moves to the front of the classroom and sits down. He then sees more students walking in, they all have white hair like him but with various eye colors that are blue in some way. Light blue, dark blue, cyan, ice blue, et cetera. They all start sitting down at their desks as they teacher walks in a few minutes later and stands in front of the class.

Teacher: Good morning class, today, we will be talking about the establishment of our Kingdom, Monarchia, and its resettlement after the First Age when its original human population was wiped out by the Gods.

As the class would pay attention to the lesson, Johannes was thinking about this weekend. He was really looking forward to getting to spend time with Caroline.

~4 Years Later~

On the streets of a city, bodies laid all over the ground. Men and women in combat uniforms and gasmasks, with claw or bite marks on their bodies as their blood covered the roads and walls. Gun fire can be heard in the distance. Johannes, wearing a combat uniform and a helmet, sits next to one of the bodies with a gas mask beside him. He stares in shock and tears in his eyes at Caroline's lifeless body, her hand in his. Johannes slowly brings her hand to his face and he kisses it before looking to the red and black skies and lets out a scream of anger and pain. Nevermores and Winged Beringels fly around with Monarchian fighters engaging them as a giant whale-like Grimm hovers past the city, heading to its target up north to Solitas.