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Prologue: Awaken

A cloaked figure walked into a destroyed town. He continued his walk before he came across a trio of black werewolf like creatures. They looked at the figure before they charged at him. The figure dove out of the way when the wolves attack but lost his cloak in the process.

With the cloak gone it reveals a man with long black hair and dark eyes. He wore a simple black tee-shirt and jeans. In his hand was a Katana. The handle was well crafted with a dragon head on the end. He removed the sword from its sheathe and got into his stance with the sword pointed up with his right hand holding the hilt right at the top of the handle with his other hand holding it on the bottom.

The wolves charged at the man again. He side stepped the first wolf and a quick swing of his sword beheaded the creature. "You are a few centuries too young to kill me," the man said. The other two quickly attacked the man who jumped over them. When he landed he swung his sword again removing one of the wolves legs as he jumped back to avoid the other wolf. The uninjured wolf charged at the man only for the man to duck under its attack and slice the wolf in half at the waist. The man twirled his sword around in his hand as he walked to the injured wolf. The creature tried to crawl on its arm and remaining leg to attack the man. With a quick swing of the sword he removed the wolf's head.

"Well that was a good warm up. Let's see if this town has some food left," the man said. He started to walk around town till he felt a tingling sensation in the back of his head. He drew his sword and yelled, "Come on out I know you are there."

Out of one of the houses comes a young women about eighteen to twenty years old. She had silver eyes with black hair with red tips. She had on a simple outfit with a white hood. In her hands was a simple rifle with a broken butt. She looked to be terrified and confused at the same time.

Recognizing the look the man decided to introduce himself, "I'm Duncan McCloud of the clan McCloud."

"Hello there I'm Ruby Rose and I'm not sure what is going on. One second I was helping the guards defend the town from the Grimm when I felt an attack from behind. The next I'm waking up covered in blood with dead bodies all around me," Ruby said.

Duncan lowers his sword when he realizes he is dealing with a newly awaken immortal. "Hello their Ruby. I think I can explain what is going on, but we should do it in a safe area."

"Okay my house is just over there," Ruby said. She led Duncan to her house where he could see pools of blood on the outside that the girl tried to avoid looking at. They made their way to the kitchen when she said, "Please sit down and I will prepare some tea."

"Thank you," Duncan said.

After she turned the oven on and set the Kettle she went to the table and sat down opposite of Duncan. "So can you explain what happened?"

"Well for starters what do you remember about what happened to you," Duncan said.

"Well I was sitting at the table talking to my parents when the alarm went off. When it did I grabbed my rifle and ran to the wall surrounding the town. I jumped on the wall and started to take shots at every Grimm I could catch in my sights. After a couple of minutes the wall was being overrun so I grabbed the dagger a kept on me to stab the ones that came at me. I could see Oliver about to be eaten by a beowolf so I charged at the creature and bashed its skull with the butt of my rifle. When it went down I used my knife to stab the wolf in the neck. When it started to dissolve I turned to check on Oscar and saw that he was bleeding out."

She stopped for a moment as a few tears started to leak out of her eyes. "I had gone down to try and stop the bleeding but there was so much blood. He begged me to leave him and leave but I couldn't," she said.

"You loved him," Duncan said. He had recognized her actions from what he had seen in his long life from others as well as himself.

"Yes," she said her tears coming down like waterfalls. "We were going to have a wedding in a month."

Duncan went to the crying girl and gave her hug. "It's okay I know what it is like. To love someone with all your heart only for them to die in your arms being unable to do anything." He could not keep the memory of Tessa from his mind. He had just killed Pallin wolf and saved Tessa only for her to be gunned down by a Junkie right outside.

"We had grown up together. We had always watched each other backs and there was nothing I could do. I kept trying to apply pressure to the wound but it would not stop bleeding. All I could do was watch as he bled out right in front of me. The next thing I know I feel something stab me in the back and I black out. The next thing I know I wake up and see the Grimm had left and Oscar was dead underneath me. Why, why did they leave me alone after I passed out and killed everyone else," she was screaming at him in the end begging him for answers.

Letting out a sigh knowing it will be hard for her to hear the truth he said, "The first thing I should tell you is that you were not unconscious, you were dead."

"What is this hell then? What did I do to deserve to have to bury everyone I ever knew," ruby yelled at him.

"No this is not hell. We are still in the land of mortals, but you are not a mortal ruby you are immortal," Duncan said. The kettle went off signaling the tea was ready. Duncan left to get the tea as ruby tried to adjust to the information she was given after drinking two glasses of tea she had calmed down enough to ask a few questions.

"Immortal, so I can't die no matter what," Ruby asked.

"No we can still die it's just hard for us to stay dead," Duncan said.

"Us," ruby asked.

"Yes us, I am also an immortal. I have been around for almost 700 years. You know that tingling sensation you felt earlier that is a sign that there is an immortal near you," Duncan said.

"700 so you must know of the time before the Grimm," Ruby said in astonishment.

"Yes I am," Duncan said.

"Wow what was the world like," She asked.

"It was entertaining, I can tell you more later," Duncan said. "First I should explain to you about your new station as an immortal."

"What do I need to know," Ruby asked.

"First is that there are more immortals than just me and you," Duncan said. "The others will come after you for the quickening and eliminate you from the bloody game."

"What's the quickening and what game," Ruby asked.

"Immortals can only die if you remove our heads. When this occurs by the actions of another immortal all the knowledge and strength of the dead immortal goes to the victor in what is referred to as the quickening. The game is a reference to the story that one day there will be a gathering of the immortals. When this occurs they will fight till there is only one of us left. In the end their can only be one," Duncan said.

"Are you going to kill me," Ruby asked.

"No I got tired of the killing long ago and know only fight in self-defense. I also make it a point to train young immortals like yourself so they can survive. If you are willing I will help train you," Duncan said. He held his hand out for ruby to take.

She stared at the hand wondering what to do. A part of her wanted to stay with everyone, but another part of her wondered what the world outside of the town is like. As she stared at the hand she thought she could hear Oscar telling her to leave and see what life has to offer. After a deep breath she reached for his hand and said, "Okay."

On that day ruby met one of the oldest immortal and started her adventure outside of the small town she had called home. She didn't know what awaited her but

This was an idea that popped in my head while I was watching highlander and decided to type it up. this also gets the honor of being the first highlander rwby crossover on the site. Just so there is no confusion this is taking place around 250 years before cannon so none of the other characters like yang or Taiyang are dead. Ruby will eventually get crescent rose and use that as her dueling weapon breaking from the standard sword that she used.

This story won't be updated often just when inspiration strikes. My main focus will stay on my other story RWBY reborn.