The King Of Knights (RWBY X Jaune Arc)

Chapter 19: Meeting And Talking

It is a cloudy day, As Team RANJR Has Left the town with the Inn as they are now following a mossy stone tile path through the wilderness. While walking, Nora stretches her arms up wide.

Nora: Another day, another adventure!

Beside her, Jaune reads a map while Ren, Ruby and Mordred continue alongside them.

Ruby: What's on the agenda today?

Jaune: Walking.

Nora: With a side of...?

Ren: Walking.

Ruby Sighed In Disappointment 

Ruby: Haven is a lot farther away than I thought.

Ren: Ruby? How long did you think this journey was going to take?

Ruby: I don't know! I grew up in a small area; I've never been this far away from home!

Mordred: Right but... how long?

Ruby: Maybe like, uh... two weeks?

Mordred: What?!

Ruby: Okay, fine! Three or something! Look, whatever.

Ruby looks up again after a beat and notices something ahead.

Ruby: Hey, what's that?

Nora jumps onto a slightly fallen post of a fence to get a closer look at a wall and building ahead.

Jaune: That's... strange. I didn't think we'd be hitting another village for a few days.

Nora: Are those buildings... damaged?

Jaune: We should search for survivors!

All 5 go running into the village, with Nora leaping onto the wall and to a rooftop from there. They discover the town to be empty. Ruby lifts a fallen plank of wood to find only plant outgrowth underneath.

Ruby: Anything?

Nora: Nothing over here!

Jaune: No one over here, either!

Ren: It almost seems like... the town was abandoned.

Ruby looks around As There were a feeling  Of Uneasiness in the wind.

Nora: Hey, I think I found something!

Ruby turns and rushes over. Nora, Jaune and Ren are looking at a town sign. Nora moves the ivy growing over it to the side to read what it says.

Nora: Oniyuri? Never heard of it.

Ren: I have.

The other 2 look at him, surprise on Nora and Ruby's faces.

Ren: You might think of it as Anima Mountain Glenn, had it never been completed. Years ago, the richest members of Mistral were unhappy with how the Kingdom was being run.

As Ren speaks, there are wide shots showing the various unfinished buildings, disrepair and neglect of the village.

Ren: Frustrated with the council, they pooled their resources together to build their own city, with their own laws. They hoped that one day, it could maybe even become its own Kingdom. Many thought it would be the future.

Ren walks away from the other three.

Ren: I know my parents did.

Ruby: What happened?

He brushes some dirt off of the stone border of a low wall to reveal claw marks.

Ren: What always happens.