What's up there guys? I have finally returned and the sixth chapter of the "Red Rose of Winterfell" is here despite my lack of motivation to continue the story. Sorry about my grammar sentences if that bothers you much but rest assured, I will try my best in making the story bearable to read. Hopefully Stannis the Grammar King won't kill me for this, lol.

And also, I would love some help in beta-reading the previous chapters in order to make it look better. Or maybe I should retconn from 1st to 5th chapters when I have time perhaps.

I just watched the whole Volume 3 of RWBY and it was just... just so shocking and horrifying that this series would turn out to be so dark and gritty almost paralleled with Game of Thrones in most ways. It feels like the Empire Strikes Back version of it and the Bad Guys seemed to have won while everyone else had been trying to recover from all the tragedy they've been through. Damn...

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Game of Thrones and RWBY as the two franchises respectively belong to George R.R. Martin and HBO, the late Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth.

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In the world of Remnant, there exists a realm filled with high fantasy and science fiction where the huntsmen and huntresses, airships, gadgets, high-tech weaponry and a form of natural energy called Dust existing side by side. However, it was no utopia as it had its own fair share of darkness much similar to Westeros in almost every way but not too much in the extent.

Then there's the Grimm, the humans and the Faunus, the major inhabitants of the Earth-like planet with broken Moon in orbit.

With many civilizations and villages destroyed by the creatures of negativity and darkness, only the four kingdoms of Remnant are Vale, Vacuo, Atlas and Mistral with each of the kingdoms have their own distinct culture of their own which evokes the name of the world filled with remnants of humanity still struggling to survive.

Ever since Cinder Fall's seemingly defeat and somehow cruel and gruesome death at hands of the Red Reaper during their final confrontation a decade ago, the Vale Kingdom has been at a shaky peace and stabilized with assistance from it neighboring kingdom Atlas at least. It may take years to fully rebuild and restore the lives and economy of the people, both human and Faunus living there, but Vale survived.

The country has barely recovered from the series of terrible ordeals and events perpetrated by the madwoman's faction allied with the White Fang that took hundreds of thousands of lives, whilst using numerous hordes of powerful Grimm to make things even much worse than before.

It all happened in the 40th Vytal Festival when Cinder's faction had infiltrated in the international festival which was held in Remnant for every two years to carry out their despicable plots there despite being marked by a stronger security presence than usual, with a sizable fleet of airships constantly overhead as well as android soldiers patrolling the grounds.

This was due to the numerous precautions of General James Ironwood, who was appointed to head of security by the Vale council following the events of the first breach, where Grimm were able to enter the city but failed to stop the enemy infiltration.

Everything seemed to be completely fine and alright for a moment as there are plenty of entertaining and awesome fights between teams from four respective kingdoms enjoyed... that is until the festival was marred by Yang's apparently unprovoked attack on Mercury in the first singles match of the tournament.

This caused widespread controversy and negativity amongst the audiences watching this scene worldwide and on television. Unknown to the public, this was also orchestrated by Cinder. Emerald, working under Cinder's direction, used her Semblance to create illusions that led Yang to attack Mercury, mistakenly believing it to be self-defense.

Team RWBY was disqualified from the tournament as a result and that is not the end of it...

Tragedy then struck when Penny was destroyed into several pieces by Pyrrha in a fatal accident also manipulated by Cinder with Emerald's help again. The subsequent horror amongst the audience attracted hordes of Grimm, which somehow managed to slip past the City of Vale's defenses undetected until they strike. With the Grimm attack imminent, the Festival was presumably cancelled as everyone were caught off guard by these sudden turn of events.

The second breach of Vale is much more devastating than the first breach as it was full of chaos, destruction, and devastation as the city becomes overrun with Grimm where many Huntsmen and Huntresses lost their lives in multiple separate skirmishes and battles that has taken its heavy toll in their ranks. Despite with the much-needed assistance of General James Ironwood and his Atlesian military forces that had only kept the Vale quite very long enough from collapsing from anarchy and chaos but they took heavy losses among their ranks and their robotic troops turned on them due to the Black Queen Virus.

Even Emerald was visibly disturbed by the sight of it all while Mercury and Cinder just simply enjoyed the view of it as they are completely amoral sociopath assholes, as expected of them being truly rotten to the core.

On the meantime during the chaos above Vale airspace where Atlesian ships were sabotaged and assaulted, Roman Torchwick is devoured by a Griffon after fighting Ruby atop a hijacked Atlesian Airship when he rants about how cold and cruel the real world is and said these words within the depths on her mindset;

"You want to be a hero? Then play the part and die like every other Huntsman in history! As for me, I'll do what I do best: lie, steal, cheat and survive!"

Neopolitan, on the other hand, was sent flying off the ship with her open parasol after Ruby opened it in a sneak attack, left at the mercy of the raging winds and the flying Griffons that left her status currently unknown as of now.

From out of nowhere as if it had awoken from centuries-long slumber due to the extreme negativity everywhere and turns everything to more chaotic, the Grimm Dragon arrives, bursting out of Mount Glenn, shattering the entire mountain in the process. It's bigger than any other Grimm seen to date, its head alone being more than twice an Ursa's size.

Its mere presence is enough to make the normally fearless Goodwitch react with horror and, as it flies outside the ruined mountain, it drops numerous blobs of darkness that spawn more Grimm as they hit the ground and added more chaos and pressure to the second breach of Vale.

Not only that, all of the students of Beacon Academy were forced to learn to step up in their game outside their box and fight back with everything they got. Even the students from neighboring kingdoms' academies, who were caught in the middle of the conflict during their stay in the Vale for the Vytal Festival, had to do the same too as well.

Regardless of their efforts to push them back, they took losses within their teams as well such as Roy from Team BRNZ who was carried off by a Nevermore during the skirmish and the others seemed to be overwhelmed by their numbers and strength including the Atlesian robots that turned on them.

Not even Team RWBY and JNPR were spared from the tragedies happened to their members as Yang had lost her right arm to Adam Taurus when she tried to save Blake from him and his sadistic love-sick obsession with her, and finally... Pyrrha Nikos killed by Cinder Fall herself as the new Fall Maiden had shot in the ankle for crippling blow, next the chest with an arrow, then disintegrated into ashes right in front of Ruby.

To make even matters worse, Professor Ozpin had disappeared without a trace in the aftermath and is still missing but his colleagues including General Ironwood are still looking for him and were currently on the long track.

No one had seen him since he had fought off Cinder by himself when she finally obtained the Fall Maiden's powers during the transfer procedure between Amber and Pyrrha that she interrupted deep below the Beacon Academy's underground vaults after following them in midst of the Grimm's second breach of the Vale.

The only thing he left behind is his staff he normally used around all the time in his work as headmaster of Beacon Academy. Glynda Goodwitch became the headmaster in Ozpin's place by default until he comes back, if he ever did.

Motivated by the death of Pyrrha, the remaining members of JNPR joined Ruby Rose in her journey to Haven in order to track down Cinder and her faction where events that they've been through remained classified and unknown between themselves as of now and forming the new team of their own, RNJR. While the rest of RWBY were briefly separated and in their moment of grief before they eventually took the time to bring themselves back on their feet and return to reform the team once again.

The innocence of the young and promising students were shattered forever because of that tragic event where it still etches in their memories even if they tried to forget about it and move on but it's too much.

On the meantime, over a decade has passed in Remnant since Ruby Rose had disappeared without a single trace of her existence left after taking a high-level and extremely dangerous Grimm exterminating solo mission on her own and never came back. Not even a sign of her body or even a piece of equipment of hers left behind was found either.

It's like Summer Rose all over again.

A mother of Ruby Rose, stepmother of Yang Xia Long. A wife of Taiyang Xia Long and a member of Team STRQ back in their younger days back at Beacon Academy. Summer went on a mission and never came back, leaving her daughter and stepdaughter without a mother and her husband extremely devastated of her loss since his first wife and mother of Yang, Raven Branwen had also disappeared under unknown circumstances.

And currently, most have believed that Ruby may have fallen the same sad cruel fate just as her mother Summer Rose did in the past and it hit Taiyang and Qrow the most that left both men into a drunken stupor and lethargy of the loss of the young woman who takes after their dear friend and teammate of her personality and traits no doubt.

However the remaining members of Team RWBY still stubbornly believed that she's still alive out there somewhere although they were currently referred to be called as "WBY" in public after their leader's apparent decade-long disappearance since then. It didn't help the fact their friends from JNPR had also lost Pyrrha too as well since her body was all dust and ashes, and were called as "JNR".

Although technically when both teams were crippled by the death of Pyrrha and decapitation of Yang, Ruby and the three members of JNPR became "RNJR" for a moment there to compensate for their losses before RWBY was officially reformed while JNPR remained the same without the redhead girl they've cherished in their lives at Beacon Academy.

While Ruby Rose was infamously known to be an extremely deadly master of the scythe and her powerful remaining silver eye, the remaining members of Team RWBY have a reputation of their own that also speaks volume in the Vale:

Weiss Schnee, a renowned mage duelist and currently she is the CEO of Schnee Dust Company after succeeding and replacing her sorry-excuse-for-a-father from his position in inheritance. Her older sister, Winter Schnee had already abdicated in favor for her younger sister of inheriting the company due to the former's own ties with General Ironwood, implied to have lost her title as heiress upon joining the Atlesian Military.

With the company in her hands, the snow-haired Huntress had devoted everything to right the wrongs her father had done and clean up the messes left behind in the past due to the fact known for its "controversial labor forces and questionable business partners", implying a bad reputation and/or criminal undertakings. Along in the intent to put an end to the history of bloodshed with the White Fang once and for all by her efforts to help them financially in compensation for the mistreatment of the Faunus working in her company.

It was a slow but fresh start for her to rectify her father's mistakes upon inheriting the company as a way to change that.

Blake Belladonna, an accomplished assassin and master in guerrilla tactics and warfare. She is also a special liaison between the tensed but somewhat a bit stable relations between humans and faunus' co-existence after the White Fang became nothing more but a shadow of its former self and a minor threat because the terrorist organization had entirely lost support from its masses and followers after suffering many casualties and disgruntlement for their own reasons, mostly being used as disposable pawns and cannon fodder of Cinder Fall.

She even killed Adam Taurus in disappropriate retribution for Yang, starting with his right arm in quite an ironic karma.

And finally Yang Xia Long, a prize fighter and widely regarded as the most dangerous person on Remnant whom anyone should absolutely not go up against her if their life depends on it. Despite the loss of her right arm to Adam Taurus' quick strike, she is still considered very dangerous with the augmented strength from her powerful prosthetic replacement after recovering.

Cinder Fall had targeted Yang in the top kill list personally by her hand as a greatest threat and this led to Ruby Rose end up killing the madwoman in cold blood in defense of her older sister in their final confrontation.

As for the remaining JNPR members who aren't exactly slouches either and had also done the same as well just like their comrades:

Jaune Arc, a formidable warrior with great expertise of the sword and the shield and an accomplished leader of the team in his own right. After Pyrrha's death, he vowed to never be weak again and to never let anyone die because of him as he continued his training to become a worthy leader he was meant to be and even honed his swordsmanship skills to its limit.

He even kept Pyrrha's bronze circlet headpiece with him as a tragic keepsake and remembrance. In fact, he was the one who gave a crippling blow to Cinder and regained the headpiece back from her despite possessing the Fall Maiden powers. That soon allowed Ruby the opportunity to finish her off in cold blood, exploiting the crippling weakpoint during their final confrontation.

Lie Ren, a very proficient martial artist in his own right with 'Grand Wavering Fist', one of the few notoriously difficult but immensely powerful fighting styles he had mastered as was his duty as a member of the Lie family and is very good at it when applied in unarmed combat that makes him a dangerous opponent.

Despite that, Ren's sleeping improved a little bit but is more prone to complete exhaustion if he gave out sooner or later due to his workaholic habit as a Huntsman and constantly training his skills more often.

And then, Nora Valkryrie, a powerful melee specialist with an extreme proficiency of the hammer who still retained her happy-go-lucky, bubbly and playful personality with boundless enthusiasm. But it is clearly that she did so just to hide her pain for the loss of her redheaded teammate whom she had enjoyed company around along with the rest of the JNPR team.

Teams RWBY and JNPR were no longer students of Beacon as they once were before.

They are professional Huntsmen and Huntresses in their own right after graduating Beacon Academy a decade ago.

Within the Schnee Dust Company building, there is a lab where Weiss was in her lab coat and working with her Scroll containing data from researching the Nevermore responsible for Ruby's disappearance after WBY and JNR had managed to capture it alive albeit suffered some injuries in its body due to Yang taking her anger out on it in the first place.

"Hey, Ice Queen! Have you still found Rubes yet?", an older golden-haired woman in a very stylish outfit that of her teenage years cheerfully spoke out loud while entering the Schnee Dusty Company lab casually.

Having a migraine on her head due to stress from work recently, Weiss replied back amidst studying the captured Nevermore locked and chained in a containment cell. "I am still trying Yang. If I was right, this unknown type of Nevermore was responsible for Ruby's disappearance. And for the last time, stop calling me that!"

"Kill-joy. Hey, Blake could you give me a hand over here? I needed to make a punch-line! Get it?", the blonde woman said with the clear intent to make another of her still lame puns again.

Entering the lab after following her partner whom she still regretted letting the decapitation caused by Adam to happen, the black-haired Faunus woman in a standard military-esque outfit and hairstyle rolled her eyes. "Do you always have to make fun of your own handicap Yang? You're self-deprecating yourself here you know that."

"Hey come on Blake! At the very least I can hand-le myself with this hand-y prosthetic I have with me. All thanks to Weiss' company of their great hand-iwork quality here.", the older half-sister of Ruby Rose said with the wave of her right prosthetic arm attached with a stronger version of Ember Celica.

Weiss and Blake can only sigh and roll their eyes at their fellow teammate's usual routine of lame puns about arms again especially the eye too in their RWBY leader's case when she was around prior to her disappearance.

It never gets old since Ruby and Yang both lost their right arms respectively in both different scenarios and have been called 'the Righty Sisters' as a result of the latter's declaration when they got prosthetic replacements since then.

At one point, Yang once joked in dark humor that she might lose an eye too just to complete the circle of losing another important limb from one of her bad moments (which she was mildly drunk at that time) and an upset Ruby gave her a black eye in response as a result.

After that incident, the two half-sisters didn't speak to each other for a week but reconciled later almost immediately over a batch of milk and cookies. Despite being grown-ups, there are some few streaks of childhood innocence and antics left in them after all.

"Some things just never change...", the Faunus Huntswoman commented bemusedly.

"Aside from that, now that you guys are here recently. Since there are no signs of a body being found where Ruby disappeared, we know she's still alive out there somewhere. I refuse to believe that dunce is dead. Even after Pyrrha died, the ashes and a bronze circlet headpiece were what's left of her while Ruby has none. Not even one single piece of red cloth from her cloak left behind.", the CEO of Schnee Dust Company said before glancing at the Nevermore.

She finished, "On top of that, I think this Grimm right here might have possessed some special kind of power that may have something to do with our missing leader."

Glaring at the flight-capable Nevermore still caged and chained inside the chambers, the older blonde woman said. "So you mean to tell me that the fatass birdbrain here did something to my little sister, didn't it?"

"Yes, Yang and language please. Based from the results of research by myself and a team of scientists employed by my company, the Nevermore here had the power to create portals but this is a rare one because there are no other kind out there. It's almost as if... someone wanted Ruby gone with no trace of existence. Not kill but send her somewhere in another dimension. It's just a theory of mine but that's that.", Weiss explained with a bit of unease.

Agreeing with the Schnee, the Faunus said. "Whoever plotted behind her disappearance must be afraid of her power or just wanted her gone away from Remnant this instant. Who knows? After all, Ruby comes from a line of legendary warriors who possessed powerful abilities related to their silver eyes, said to be an ultra rare trait through her mother, Summer."

Then Yang added in, "Yeah, Ruby did tell me Ozpin noted of her eyes too in first meeting. According to uncle Qrow, there was a fairy tale about warriors with silver eyes who are so powerful that even the Grimm fear them. However, the full extent of this ability is still unknown because Ruby rarely uses it even now unless it is completely necessary."

Upon seeing Pyrrha die at the hands of Cinder Fall in the end of their fight on top of the Beacon Academy building, Ruby accidentally uses this power in her grief that stunned the new Fall Maiden and freezes the Grimm Dragon which later began to move again and disappeared with no sign of its existence left since its awakening. However, she has no memory of doing this after losing consciousness.

But later on, the young Huntress had found about it with the newly-formed RNJR and trained to use her silver eyes with some difficulties; in fact one of them happened to have cost her one eye to Cinder as a result.

"It's possible since that dunce had those silver eyes that scared the Grimm completely to be frozen with fear- Hey, Yang! I'm not making Ice Queen jokes here! It's self-deprecating me here!", the Schnee CEO said but was interrupted by the older sister of her partner snickering at the unintended pun related to her unwanted moniker brought too many times.

"Just chill out Ice Queen. There's need to be so hot-headed here like me.", the older half-sister of Ruby mischievously joked which is the last straw for Weiss Schnee.

"Oh that's it! Raaagh!", she yelled before lunging at her in response.

It broke out into a cat-fight between the fiery blonde bombshell and the Ice Queen as two members of RWBY were engulfed in an anime-style cloud filled with beat-ups and hair-pulling, along with a cat getting dragged into it for some reason which is considered somewhat insulting to the cat Faunus standing unfazed of their brawl and filing her nails.

"Could be possible if her silver eye was a threat to someone wanting to get rid of her. Ruby being sent to another dimension was the only explanation here. I mean Remnant had their fair share of stranger things before in the past, so why not dimensions? It's a popular in most science-fiction novels and fanfics around the Outernet along with vids in MeTube, you know.", Blake said in wonder while ignoring Weiss and Yang in the middle of their catfight.

That brought both women of Schnee and Xia Long to agree about the concept of alternate dimensions after briefly stopping their little childish scuffle, holding each other's arms and pulling their hair respectively.

"Hmm... You're right about that, Blake. It does makes sense...", the blonde Huntress noted while the Schnee CEO added in, "Agreed. It's highly plausible explanation and this Nevermore here is our ticket to the other side once the best scientists and engineers create an experimental portal based from its negative energy that brought Ruby there."

While the Schnee Dust Company were studying the special type of Nevermore, they also devised hypothesis of creating a link between Remnant and the other dimension where Ruby Rose had disappeared a decade ago via a portal. Several tests were made with objects used and there has been no human volunteers yet due to unknown risks passing through a portal if that happened.

But it's the only shot they got if they're going to find the red-hooded Huntress there no matter the cost.

"We may have lost Pyrrha before... but we will not lose Ruby. Not this time. We will find her and we will bring her home back to Remnant and to all of us. Once a way to the other side has been opened here, we bring Jaune, Nora and Ren along with us. It's gonna take more than just few Huntresses to venture on our own from what lies on the other dimension without adequate backup. Who can tell there might be dangers and threats unknown to us there?", the white-haired young woman said in declaration that her two fellow teammates agreed.

The black-haired Faunus woman noted as she looked at her Scroll beeping on the current updates, "It's about time then, Weiss. Team JNR will soon be back from their mission exterminating a huge nest of Grimm far outside Vale's borders and then we will debrief them about our own unsanctioned mission to rescue Ruby. Hopefully we get Glynda's approval to do this secretly. The public must not know about this and our little trip to the other side will be classified."

Yang then fiercely stated with her eyes glowing dangerously red as she smashed her Ember Celica with her normal and prosthetic arms, "In the meantime, I just hope Ruby didn't somehow get laid and had a kid from some guy on the other side against her will. Even if she said she loves him. Because I am gonna break that guy's legs literally when I find out!"

Weiss and Blake shook their heads at the over-protectiveness of Yang over Ruby despite being grown ups. Then we feel so sorry for the poor guy who may or may not have done so to her from the other side if that's possible... Even after reaching adulthood like us, Ruby is always a virgin we loved to tease her about along with the lesbian accusation joke., they thought.

Meanwhile back in Westeros where the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms continued feasting within the halls of Winterfell, Ned Stark felt a very cold chill down his spine and finds it very odd for someone who lives in the North his whole life like him would feel the cold as if he was some greenboy southerner who got a first taste of the northern climate here.

Because of this, King Robert then made a humorous joke out of his best friend's expense when he saw him shivering a bit and laughed at him heartily while the rest wondered to themselves of what could possibly unnerve the unflinching and honorable Warden of the North himself.

"What is this disturbance in Oum's name?... Whatever I felt, that can't be good... Not one bit at all.", Ruby muttered out loud to herself after sensing her prosthetic arm shaking nervously and tried to stop it to little avail as she enjoyed eating cookies.

Author's Note: Well, the sixth chapter of the "Red Rose of Winterfell" is finished and the next update will be coming around soon. Sorry about a short chapter but I have to tone it down a little as much as possible. I hope you enjoyed the RWBY side of the story on how did Remnant react to the disappearance of Ruby Rose for a decade along on how it had changed since then because the remaining teammates of RWBY will be going after their leader in Westeros alongside Team JNPR who are still on their mission duties.

When I thought up of the meaning of the team names after Pyrrha and Ruby were gone in this story aside from RJNR: "Ranger" formed at the end of Volume 3, I got this from my mind lately, WBY: "Woobie" and JNR: "Junior".

As for the ending of RWBY Volume 3, I cannot comprehend how really dark and horrifying can this season be. You have a favorite character you bonded and loved before he/she was taken away from you in a cruel and unusual death... Dammit! I had a strange feeling George R.R. Martin must be enjoying this with character death and darker side of RWBY.

Pyrrha's death by that bitch Cinder,... this is so heart-wenching and I could not stop crying when she died. Poor Jaune... Happy Valentines Day indeed from Rooster Teeth. Monty Oum, you're a masterpiece of a series you got there. :'(

And about Roman Torchwick's motive rant before he got gobbled up by the Grimm Griffon, I think that will be Ruby's motivation to survive Westeros in the game of thrones if she's going to live and find a way to make it back alive to Remnant if possible. She might even thank him for the motivating words. Although the Starks might not approve of that since they're an honorable and noble lot, so she kept it to herself.

Truth be told, I know nothing on what really happened in the canon, so I will have to remain anonymous in most parts of this story until RWBY Volume 4 comes out as part of the AU. But that doesn't mean I will not continue updating the story regardless of my grammar issues. Sorry again but few people managed to get me writing again and I thank you guys. :D

Anyways, enjoy and don't forget to review.