Arrival.

Pyrrha Nikos. She has been called many things in her life. Prodigy, warrior, huntress, even a Cereal Mascot. But to those who truly knows her, she is simply called: Friend.

Pyrrha was a student at Beacon Academy and a member of Team JNPR. Her weapon of choice, called Miló, was a red-and-bronze spear-like weapon that could transform into a rifle or a short sword. She used this alongside a shield called Akoúo̱, which resembled a classic hoplon.

Formely a student of Sanctum Academy, Pyrrha graduated top of her class. She's won the Mistral Region Tournaments four years in a row, A new record. She's on the front of every Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes box... Sadly, the cereal isn't very good for you.

She went to Beacon in hope of becoming a huntress. During her time there, she made powerful bonds with her teammates. Even falling in love with the team leader, Jaune Arc. Pyrrha was truly happy with them,and finaly being with people who judge her for who she is and not just for he being a celebrity... Sadly her happy life would not last and took a drastic turn for the worst when the Vital Festival started.

It began when Ozpin, the Headmaster of Beacon Academy and his friends told Pyrrha that she was next in line to become the new Fall Maiden after the last one was attacked and half her power stolen. The problem with all this was that Pyrrha might not retain her old self if she had gone through with it.

Having to make such a major choice put a massive mental and emotional stress Pyrrha, to the point she became depressed and socially distant from her friends. Pyrrha was selfless to a fault- one of the traits that harmed her most.

Pyrrha's selfless nature, combined with her beliefs of carrying out her duties as a huntress made it difficult, if not outright impossible, for her to make decisions for herself out of fear of letting down those who have placed their faith in her. Regardless of the potential dangers of taking such powers through unorthodox means, she was not fazed by it as much as the idea of losing Jaune and her friends.

This proved to be her ultimate end when Cinder Fall and her allies caused mass panic in Vale which lead to a grimm invasion.

And that led her to the current situation. When Ozpin tried to give Pyrrha the other half of the maiden's power. Cinder showed up and stole it. Ozpin told Pyrrha and Jaune to run and get help while he fought Cinder alone.

Jaune and Pyrrha run out of the front door. The muffled sounds of Ozpin and Cinder's fight could be heard.

"Okay, I think I have Glynda's number" Jaune said as he walks away, looking at his Scroll "Oh, where is it?" Pyrrha turns and stares silently at Beacon Tower. Jaune's voice soon breaks her concentration "Pyrrha? What was all of that?".

Pyrrha turns to look at Jaune "I...".

Their conversation is interrupted by an explosion, followed by Cinder using fire to fly up through the elevator shaft. The two teens stare at the tower in surprise.

"But... Ozpin..." Jaune said in shock.

"There's no time" Pyrrha shakes her head, then looks at Jaune, quickly adopting a determined tone "Go. Get to Vale and call for help".

"Huh? What are you gonna do?" Jaune asked. Pyrrha slowly turns her head to stare up at the top of Beacon Tower. Following her gaze, Jaune realizes what she plans to do "No... no, Pyrrha, you can't. You saw how powerful she is! Pyrrha, I won't let you do-".

Suddenly, Pyrrha grabs Jaune's head in both hands and silences him with a long kiss on the lips. After a moment of hesitation, he gently pulls her in and returns the kiss, while Pyrrha slightly raises her foot behind her. She then pulls away, ending the kiss, and stares into his eyes, one hand on his cheek and the other on his chest.

"I'm sorry" Pyrrha said sadly, then uses her Semblance on Jaune's armor, pushing him directly into a nearby locker, which slams shut from the impact.

"Hey! Wait! Stop, stop! Pyrrha, please don't do this!" Jaune begs

While Jaune pleads, Pyrrha walks over to the locker and begins typing coordinates into it. She looks him in the eyes one last time, before stepping back and watching the locker fly away. Once it vanishes into the distance, she clenches her fists and, once again, adopts a determined demeanor as she walks toward the tower.

Once she steps through the entrance, she runs to the nearest elevator and uses her Semblance to force the doors open. Inside, she finds that Cinder has left a large hole in the floor and roof of the elevator on her way up. Pyrrha steps inside the elevator, closes her eyes, and begins mustering all of her strength. The elevator begins shaking. She focuses even harder, straining herself, until the elevator begins a quick ascent toward the top.

When she reached the top. Cinder gains a fiery glow around her eyes and swipes her hand through the air, attacking Pyrrha with an arc of fire. She then shoots a stream of fire, which Pyrrha dives over.

Six small fireballs form in a circle behind Cinder, and she sends another streak of fire toward Pyrrha, who barely avoids it. Once again, the Maiden sends a stream of fire the young redhead's way, but this time, Pyrrha blocks it with her shield. She leaps toward Cinder, powering through the flame, and as soon as the fire stops, she spins around and slashes Cinder's arm with her spear. However, Cinder catches the blade and pulls, turning Pyrrha around. Cinder slams her palm into Pyrrha's stomach, and fire bursts forth, blasting Pyrrha away.

Pyrrha slams into a wall and falls to her hands and knees. She then stands back up and faces Cinder with determination still in her eyes. Cinder propels herself forward with flames jetting from her hands, smirking once again. She attempts to slam into Pyrrha's abdomen, but Pyrrha leaps into the air above her and wraps her arm around Cinder's. As Cinder slows to a stop, Pyrrha positions herself to place her feet on the wall behind her and pushes off, flipping herself over Cinder. She uses the momentum to flip and toss Cinder across the floor.

Cinder lands on her front and, as she slides, she pushes off the floor to get back on her feet and perform a back-handspring. Her smirk turns into a look of slight concern upon the sight of Pyrrha charging forward to slam her shield into Cinder's abdomen and push her over. As Cinder stumbles backwards, Pyrrha hits Cinder's right hand with the blunt end of her spear, then slashes Cinder's left hand with the spear's blade. She then spins around and slashes across Cinder's abdomen and legs.

Pyrrha spins around to attack again, but Cinder performs a backflip whilst kicking Pyrrha, with flames trailing behind her foot. The kick knocks Pyrrha into the air, and Pyrrha quickly rights herself. She flips her spear in her grip, holds it back, and then tosses it toward Cinder while firing the gun mechanism. Six fireballs appear around Cinder again, but they dissipate when Cinder backhands the spear away. Pyrrha's shield then flies toward her, and she hits it away, as well. After being momentarily distracted by the shield, Cinder returns her attention to Pyrrha and gains a look of slight surprise, then annoyance.

Pyrrha launches herself toward Cinder and puts her arms around her, tackling her. The two turn each other in mid-air, fighting to be the one on top. Upon their landing, the room fills with a white cloud. When the dust settles, Pyrrha has Cinder in a choke hold, and Cinder is barely managing to hold Pyrrha's spear away from her neck. The Dragon flies away, and Cinder's eyes begin glowing as she applies heat to the spear in her hands. Her grip tightens as she heats the spear more and more, staring over her shoulder at Pyrrha.

Upon hearing a loud screech, Cinder turns her gaze ahead and smirks, while Pyrrha gains a look of fear. While Pyrrha sets her focus on the Dragon that is flying toward the tower, Cinder finally snaps the spear's melted blade into pieces. Just before the Dragon slams its wing into the roof of Ozpin's office, Cinder elbows Pyrrha in the abdomen. The room fills with a green glow as the windows shatter and Pyrrha goes flying across the room. Giant cogs and debris come crashing down in the office, and the structure containing the CCT's transmitter falls to the ground outside, in pieces.

Pyrrha crawls toward her shield, while Cinder watches on from her position levitating off the floor with flame jetting from her feet. While looking for a way to distract Cinder, Pyrrha notices Ozpin's collapsed metal desk and uses her polarity to throw it at the corrupt Maiden, knocking her to the floor. She then quickly grabs her shield and rolls across the floor, sitting up on her knees and holding the shield up. With a burst of flame, Cinder throws the desk off of herself and levitates in the air.

Pyrrha rolls out of the way of two streams of fire that Cinder sends her way and attempts to block a third. However, the force of the third sends Pyrrha tumbling backward, and the floor momentarily catches fire while Pyrrha rolls to her feet. From behind the wall of flame, Pyrrha throws her shield at Cinder, who confidently backhands it away. She then looks up in surprise to see a multitude of giant cogs floating in the air around her. Using her polarity, Pyrrha directs her shield to knock Cinder's feet from beneath her and then slams a cog down on Cinder's abdomen to pin her to the floor. She calls her shield back to her arm, then brings the cogs together into a pile on top of Cinder. However, Cinder blasts them away with a powerful burst of fire, sending them in all directions. One of the cogs flies toward Pyrrha, who raises her shield to block, in vain. The force of the impact slams her into the remains of a wall, taking away the last of her Aura.

Cinder forms an obsidian bow in her hand. As she raises it up and draws back an obsidian arrow, Pyrrha charges forward, spins, and throws her shield at her. Cinder looses the arrow, which shatters upon impact with the side of the shield. However, as the fragments part ways above and below the shield, they glow orange and rejoin each other on the other side. The fragments melt into each other and cool into the shape of an arrow, which continues on its path directly into Pyrrha's ankle. Pyrrha collapses in pain. She attempts to pull herself to her feet, but the pain is too much. Both ends of the arrow break off, making removal impossible.

She turns over onto her hands and knees as Cinder moves to stand in front of her "It's unfortunate you were promised a power that was never truly yours" She kneels down and lifts Pyrrha's chin, staring into her eyes and smiling "But take comfort in knowing that I will use it in ways you could never have imagined".

Pyrrha pulls away, sitting up and matching Cinder's stare "Do you believe in destiny?".

Cinder frowns, narrowing her eyes "Yes".

Cinder stands back up and forms an obsidian bow and arrow again. She pulls back the arrow, lowering the bow to aim at her weakened opponent. Nearby, Ruby finally reaches the top of the tower, landing in a kneeling position. She looks upon the scene, seeing Pyrrha sitting with her eyes closed, accepting the fate that awaits her. Cinder looses the arrow, which plants itself directly in the center of Pyrrha's chest. Ruby watches in horror as Pyrrha gasps in pain, the wound in her chest emitting a red glow. Cinder approaches her fallen foe and places a hand on Pyrrha's head.

The last thing Pyrrha saw was a flash and then everything went dark.

Pyrrha was falling. Falling through a void of darkness. She felt nothing... nothing at all. So this... is what being dead was like. A feeling of complete nothingness.

"So... this is the end for me... this is how I will spend the rest of eternity... alone... in the void" Pyrrha whispered to herself.

"It does not need to be like that, Pyrrha Nikos" Came a voice before Pyrrha was blinded by a powerful light.

When Pyrrha opened her eyes she gasped at what she saw. It was a being of pure light, peace and harmony was all that Pyrrha could feel from him. She felt calmer, even though she should be scared.

"Who are you?" Pyrrha asked as she found herself landing in the powerful being's hand.

"I have many names. But you might know me best as the God of Life" The being said.

Pyrrha gasped "You are one of the creators of the world and all lives on it. You and your brother, the being of darkness created the humans... so you both are real after all".

"Indeed. Long before your kind excisted I created water, plants and wildlife during the day, while at night, my younger brother would discover my creations and become disgusted. He created drought, fire and famine. Yet life had a strong ability to endure, so the younger god of destruction decided to create the Creatures of Grimm. He designed them so that they would have an innate desire to destroy everything and anything. Weary of our feuding, I proposed that the two of us create one last thing together, a masterpiece that we could both be proud of. My brother agreed and together we created a creature that was gifted with knowledge, creation, destruction and choice. Most important was the capability of choosing whether to use these gifts for light or dark. These creatures became known to be Humanity" The god explained.

Pyrrha nodded at this having read about it before "What do you want with me, great one?".

"Tell me Pyrrha Nikos. When you went after this, Cinder Fall. Did you expect to survive the battle?" The God asked.

Pyrrha looked down and shook her head "No... I knew right from the moment I sent Jaune away that there was a big chance I would die...".

"Then why did you do it?" The God asked.

"Because... I could not just stand by and let it all happen. I could never live with myself if I didn't at least try to do something. The safety of everyone I love is more important to me than my own life. And I would die 1000 times more if it ment protecting them" Pyrrha declared.

"Even knowing the pain they would feel from your death?" The god asked.

Pyrrha got wide eyes and looked down. Of course she knew they would be hurt by her death, she was not stupid. She knew they cared about her... but she still belived they would be able to go on without her. She just wanted to help them... but she never wanted to cause them pain.

"What should I have done? Tell me great one!" Pyrrha all but begged.

"That is not for me to say, Pyrrha Nikos. Me and my brother created your kind with the ability to decide what you think is right... but I can see your doubt. Am I right when I say that you don't really know what is right and what is wrong?" The god asked.

Pyrrha looked down again. She was never good a making her own choices since she was always holding on to her beliefs of carrying out her duties as a huntress and it made it difficult, if not outright impossible, for her to make decisions for herself out of fear of letting down those who have placed their faith in her.

"Yes... I have no idea how to really tell the diffrance sometimes... all my life I never had to make such choices, they were always made for me" Pyrrha said in slight shame that she had been so dependent on others and when she had the chance to finally think for herself. She got herself killed.

"One more question: If you got a second chance at life. Would you take it?" The God of Light asked.

Pyrrha looked up at him surprised "What do you mean?".

"Remnant is not the only world in all the realities. I have spent centuries looking through the cosmos and found another reality and another world in need of a warrior to help protect it. If you want a second chance at life. A life where you make your own choices. I can send you there" The God explained "But, I can not do it unless you want to. So see this as your very own choice. A choice where only you are affected".

Pyrrha thought long and hard about this. Another world sounded crazy, but she was talking to a god so she was willing to belive anything at this point. If this world needed protectors then Pyrrha could not ignore it. And noway she was just gonna say no to a new chance at life when a god offered it to her.

Pyrrha looks up with determination "Send me there!".

The God smiled "You are a true warrior. Fare well, Pyrrha Nikos".

And just like that, everything became bright.

When Pyrrha woke up she was lying on something hard. She sat up and noticed she was on a roof top. Her trusty weapon and shield had been restored and was right next to her. Standing up, Pyrrha picked up her weapon and shield before walking to the edge of the building and looked over a city. It was much bigger than Vale and the buildings were massive. It looked like something you would see in Atlas. Pyrrha almost laughed when she saw the bulding across the street.

It was a library, the perfect place for Pyrrha to start lerning about this world. Seems the God thought of everything

"Why thank you God of Life. This will make my new life a whole lot easier" Pyrrha said before heading over to the library.

And like that. Pyrrha's new life began.

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I have really grown to Love Final Fantasy and Crisis Core is a real gem.

Pyrrha will meet the others in the next chapter.

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