Remnant of Dreams

AN: I'm alive and well. I have returned from my trip to China with new ideas and new stories. Anyway, sorry for the long absence from Fan fiction writing. I seriously have trouble even getting internet in rural China, even then I don't really wanna risk ticking off the Chinese by circumnavigating the great firewall.

Now onto some important update. I will post new chapter of Tsukiko chronicle around Christmas (fingers cross). Hurricane of Beacon will be a bit uncertain at this point, I will have to see. As for the Remnant of Dreams, my new story. It is 90% completed in hand written format, and currently 11 chapters completed in computer format. Which I will post regularly maybe every 3-4 day. (*Cough* This has nothing to do with RWBY season five showing at Oct. 15. 2017 and the author trying to beat their release before they reveal something that would screw with his story in progress. *Cough*)

Without further a due, I present Remnant of Dream chapter one.

Chapter 1 – The beginning

A young girl of seven with long blond hair tied into two pony tails was pulling a small cart with her younger sister sleeping soundly inside through a ever darkening forest. The young girl pant in exhaustion as she made her way to where she thought she might find her mother. The girl Yang Xiao Long looked back at her little sister and smiled.

"We're almost there Ruby. We going get our family back. Everything is going to be ok. I promise." Yang kept pushing on until they reached the abandon building.

Yang fell to her knees as she realized, no one had lived there for years. She realized her mother wasn't here.

A growling sound send chills down her spine as two Beowolves stepped out from the shadow of the building. Yang's eyes widened in fear, she had no strength left to fight against two Beowolves in her current state. She doubt she could win even if she wasn't tired.

"Sis? What's going on." Ruby said tiredly as she woke up inside her cart.

'NO! RUBY!' Yang thought in terror. She brought her sister with her. Her action had doomed them both. "Ruby. Go back to sleep... Pl..."

Yang cringed when Ruby screamed at the sight of the Beowolves. The Grimm turned their attention to Ruby. Yang stood in their way as they made their way to her little sister. Yang snarled. "Leave her alone. Don't you touch..."

The Beowolf backhanded Yang viciously into a tree. "Yang!" Ruby screamed.

Yang coughed weakly as blood tricked down her face. "Ruby... run... please." Yang's vision darkened as she lost consciousness.

The Beowolves stood before the four year old girl as she cried. They could feel her terror and fear, they feed on such negative emotion as their only purpose in their existence.

Ruby was terrified, scared beyond reason. She cried for Yang, her dad, her mum, her uncle. As the Beowolf lifted it's arm up to strike her down. Ruby cried. 'Save me! Please! I don't want to die!'

A bright blinding pink light exploded behind the Beowolves. The Grimm shattered like glass before her eyes.

Ruby tried to looked into the pink light. She saw someone within the light, it filled her with hope and safety, she couldn't make out who it was. Soon fatigue caught up to her and everything turned dark.

Before Ruby fell into unconsciousness, she heard a soothing voice filled with a sense of melancholic. "... Homura?"

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Ruby screamed as she woke up, then she heard a loud thump from under her bunk bed. Ruby soon calmed down as she realized it was all a dream.

Although Ruby wished she was still dreaming. "RUBY! You dolt! Why are you screaming first thing in the morning!?" Weiss yelled as she climbed onto her bed, she had a very big red welt on her forehead.

"I'm sorry Weiss! It was a nightmare or a memory... I guess... yea definitely a memory. That's it!" Ruby babbled nervously.

"Dolt... make up your mind. Is it a dream or a memory. And it's too early for this! After what happened with Torchwick and his dust shipment theft yesterday. I could do with more sleep."

"I said I was sorry..." Ruby pouted. Then whispered to herself. "Not my fault you're such a scaredy-cat."

"Sorry. What was that you said? Care to repeat that again." Weiss said angrily.

"EEEK! Nothing at all! Please don't shout at me again." Ruby squeaked.

"What's with all the noise? Did sis see a spider or something?" Yang said with a yawn.

"Oh my God! Spider! Where!?" Ruby literally jumped off her bed.

"Ooookay. Not a spider then. Why the heck did you scream? Sis... what's wrong?" Yang saw Ruby looked away from her and fidget.

"It's that dream. You know..." Ruby said nervously.

"Oh..." Yang visibly deflated when she realized what Ruby was talking about.

Weiss huffed. "OK. You two are action all emo like Blake..."

"Excuse me?" Blake said with a glare from her bed.

Weiss ignored the former white fang member. "What is wrong with you two? You know I don't like to be left out, consider what our resident cat girl did recently."

"Excuse me again!?" Blake said with exasperation.

"Pay back for the past two days." Weiss smiled deviously at Blake, before turning her attention to the sisters. "Well. I'm waiting."

Yang scratched the back of her own head. "It's the worse mistake I've ever made in my life. Ruby was four and I was seven, when I took Ruby into a Grimm infested forest looking for my... our mother."

"You what!?" Weiss was horrified.

"Yea... not the highlight of my life. What we found were a pair of Beowolves and Ruby woke up when they were about to attack. I was knocked out cold. Good thing uncle Qrow came..." Yang said with regret.

Ruby interrupted. "Sis. You know uncle Qrow didn't arrive till much later. I know what I saw."

"Rube. We talked about this. It must've been a huntsman or Qrow. I never saw what you seen." Yang said sadly.

"Hang on. What did Ruby see and what's going on?" Weiss said with confusion.

Yang sighed. "We were helpless. we... should have died that day. Rube here was convinced she saw an angel. An angel covered in pink light."

Weiss's eyebrows rose at that. Blake smiled then said with mirth. "An angel? I guess that's normal for a child. You were four at the time."

Ruby pouted. "You guys are mean. I know what I saw... I never seen anything like it. But I wondered why she called me Homura."

"That's... an unusual name." Blake said with interest. "It almost sounded Mistral."

Yang tried to lighten the mood. "Rube here put our uncle through hell and back when she thought he was the angel in pink light. You guys should have seen the look on his face."

Ruby turned bright red. "It wasn't as bad as when you and dad decided to dye all of uncle Qrow's cloths in bright pink! It was the first time I saw him cry!"

Yang smiled at the great memories. "It cheered you up, when he turned up for your eighth birthday in pink." Ruby burst out in laughter after that.

"If you two are done horsing around. We got work to do." Weiss burst their bubble.

"Geeze Weiss. Could you be any colder. Is your hearts made of ice. Ice queen." Yang then looked around. "Get it. Ice. Ice queen. Pretty clever huh."

Everyone groaned at her poor attempt at a pun joke. Blake added. "If you have to explain your joke. It's not funny in the first place."

"Geeze. I guess even a cat can wake up on the wrong side of..." Yang would have continued.

"Finish that sentence and I will dye your hair pink while you sleep." Blake threatened.

"You won't." Yang tried to call Blake's bluff.

"Won't I." Blake replied with a devious smile.

"That's enough! ALL of you. Get ready and help clean up the mess at the dock. Especially YOU Ruby Rose." Weiss pointed at Ruby as she was about to sneak out of the door.

"AWWW. Come on. It's Sunday, can't we just leave it to the clean up crew." Ruby complained.

"I don't want to hear that from you, dolt! You and that Penny girl caused that mess. YOU will help clean it up! Beside, what we need to help clean up isn't dust. It's the museum pieces that fell out of the stolen Bullhead. I still can't believe those degenerate..." Weiss felt a glare from Blake and quickly amended her comment. "I mean misguided people stole a Bullhead with a priceless artefact on board. It's a miracle it didn't break when it fell out!"

Yang laughed nervously. "I guess that would've been bad if it had broken."

Weiss glared at her. "It would have been so bad that our descendent will still be cleaning up that mess long after we are gone. Now get dress. ALL OF YOU!"

Ruby huffed as she changed her cloth along with everyone else. "Some time I wonder who's the real leader of our team."

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Vale's shipping dock

"So what is this 'priceless' artefact? Ice queen. Is it some priceless jewellery. A crown maybe?" Yang said as she walked through the dock with the rest of her team.

"OH OH! Is it cookies! Maybe the world greatest cookies." Ruby said as she jumped up and down with excitement. Weiss had an angry vein pop up on her forehead.

"No that can't be it. It has to be a salmon. The largest and most juiciest in the world." Blake added with a drool.

Weiss spun on the spot and snarled at them. "Are you messing with me!? Why would cookies and salmon be priceless artefact! At least Yang's suggestion was closer on the mark and she is an idiot."

"HEY! Watch it! Ice queen!" Yang shouted.

Weiss threw up her arms in frustration. "Look. It's something my grand father found during his dust mining expedition when he started the Schnee company. The artefact was dated back even way before recorded civilization. It's over two thousand years old. It's old. Really old."

"So what is it. Some ancient fossilized salmon." Blake said with a smirk.

Weiss concluded Blake was messing with her. Pay back for this morning. "Sigh... It's a mural. And an odd one at that. You will understand when you see it."

As the team moved into a partially ruined cargo container. Weiss switched on the lights. Blake along with Yang was surprised by what they saw. It was a massive pure white stone mural, a carving of a girl with angel like wings, long flowing hair, an unusual and beautiful flowing dress with shoes that had wings on them. Behind her, carving that represent sunlight exploded just above her. The carving made the girl looked like she was descending from heaven itself.

"How odd. Why is the face blank?" Blake said as she looked at the mural.

"No idea. But it's strangely fitting." Weiss replied.

No one noticed Ruby behaved rather strangely when she saw the mural. Ruby felt something tug at her very soul. It felt like it was calling to her. Ruby took small steps towards the mural and laid a hand on the mural's leg, just above it's shoes.

Within moments Ruby suddenly found herself at a devastated urban ruin, sunlight and rain poured down at her and the person on her lap. Ruby cradle the girl's head as tears spilled from her eyes.

'No! No! NO! NO! Please NO! Not her!' Ruby screamed desperately within her head. No words would come out of her mouth. It was then she realized, she was not in control of her body.

The pink hair girl in her lap reached out to her and gently cupped face. There was cuts all over her arms. Her pink eyes filled with untold suffering, pain and sorrow.

Ruby wanted to scream. She wanted to find someone, anyone that could help her. She have to save her.

"Please... I don't want to become a witch." The girl said to her.

'Don't be stupid! You're going to be fine! I won't lose you. Yang! Weiss! Blake! Where is everyone! Help me! Help...' Ruby wanted to shout those words, but nothing came from her lips.

It was then the pink hair girl raised her hand, with a pink gemstone in her palm. The stone was darkening before her eyes. Ruby didn't know why, but it brought fear and despair into her very hearts and soul. Then against her will, her own arms began to move. A black metallic gun in her hand. She pointed her gun at the gem.

'No... stop it! Stop! Stop! STOP! Why won't you listen! Stop this! PLEASE!' Ruby pleaded and screamed. She didn't know why, but she knew if that gem was destroyed, it would kill the girl. However her plea fell on deaf ears as the gun went off and shattered the gem.

"R..Y! Ru.Y! RUBY!" Yang shouted at her with a worried expression.

"Wh..at? What's going on?" Ruby said with confusion.

"You tell us dolt. You froze up." Weiss said with concern, even her usual sharp tongue lack it's bite.

"Sis... what's wrong. You froze and started crying." Yang said as she held onto Ruby's shoulder.

Ruby wiped her eyes and found tears, then the memories flooded back. 'What was that? What was it I saw?'

"I'm fine. I just need some time alone. I will be ok. I promise." Ruby lied as best she could.

Weiss frowned. "If you say so. Call us if you need anything. All right?" She wasn't going to push the subject.

"Yea I will. I will be fine." Ruby said quickly as she exited the cargo container.

There was a moment of silence as everyone came out of their shock. Blake said with concern. "Yang. Has this happen before?"

"No. It's the first for me." Yang said dejectedly.

"All right! That's it! I will call someone else to escort the mural. Let's go find our team leader. We can't leave her like that. Come on!" Weiss shouted.

Weiss quickly left the cargo container with Yang and Blake following closely behind her. However Ruby was nowhere in sight.

"Arggghhh! That immature little brat! Good thing I can track her scroll." After Weiss took out her own scroll and clicked a few buttons on the screen. She said to Yang and Blake. "She went that way. Lets go!"

Yang said with concern. "Ice queen, since when can you track us through our scroll?"

Weiss said coldly. "Since a certain cat girl left us and made everyone worried for several days."

Blake groaned. "You're not letting that go. Are you?"

"No." Weiss replied simply.

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Ruby ran through the street at top speed. Just after she left her team, she received a message on her scroll. She couldn't help the smile that was gradually forming on her face.

She came to a quick stop at the bus station. Ruby looked around frantically at all the people disembarking, a flash of pink caught her eyes.

A girl of fourteen with shoulder length pink hair tied into twin pony tails with yellow ribbons. She wore a white frilly dress and skirt to match, she has a massive suitcase with her. The girl turned towards her, her pink eyes locked onto her silver ones. The girl smiled like the sun itself.

"Madoka!" In a blur of rose pedal, Ruby hugged the girl before her, almost knocking her over.

"R.. Ruby! E.. everyone is watching!" Madoka said while her face turned red in embarrassment.

True to Madoka's words. Several passer-by giggled at the adorable sight before them. Ruby turned bright red at what she just did, she quickly separated herself from Madoka. "I.. I'm sorry. I.. I didn't mean too... I really missed you... and..."

"I missed you too." Madoka said with a smile.

Ruby felt tears in her eyes as she remembered the vision she had earlier today. She really thought she lost Madoka there.

Madoka became frantic when she saw her tears. "R.. Ruby! What's wrong! Is it something I said..."

"I'm ok! Really! It's stupid. I must be dreaming, I thought I... I lost you for good... I'm..." Ruby hiccuped, but stopped when Madoka hugged her.

"It's ok. I'm here now. I'm not going anywhere." Madoka said in a soothing tone.

"Ahemm." Weiss coughed into her hand. Both Madoka and Ruby almost jumped out of their skin. Weiss smiled politely. "Want to introduce us to your friend or are you in the habit of attacking innocent girls in broad day light."

Ruby flailed around as she explained frantically. "This-is-my-friend-from-Patch-we-known-each-other-since-we're-five!"

Madoka giggled. "Hello. I'm Madoka Kaname. It's a pleasure to meet you."