Remnant a world filled with horrific monsters bent on death and destruction, and humanity's only hope is dependent upon the Huntsmen and Huntresses.
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For every kiss, a bullet in the face. For every action, a reaction. For every event, there exists in potential, a mirror event, an exactly opposite possibility. If the world you know is one full of adventures, where heroic women run faster than the speed of light, and men swing silver blades to slay Demon beasts. The only misstep or stopped hearbeat away, is a world of ruins.
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- Earth 63600 -
My name is Lisa Lavender, and I'm writing this because it's all gone wrong. My fellows thinks that I'm going nuts. I've given up my news reporter job at the VNN for this. Consider this: Marcus Black skilled assassin that lived in the mountains with his son, not only did he took away the boy Semblance and legs, but ended up killing him during training.
The bastard dispose of his son's body by using Acid Dust, but got discovered by his neighbours due to the strong smell of the corpse.
That's why I'm on the road all through this decade, people have been touched by the paranormal.
Their stories must hold clues as to what should have happened. How did it all go so horribly wrong?
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Lisa was now seen reading an old journal in bar about two girls, apparently the eldest decided to venture in the dark woods in the search of something wheeling the youngest one in a wagon and walking. But upon arriving at her destination they both got killed by three Beowolves.
The names of those little girls were Yang Xiao Long and Ruby Rose.
Lisa sighed, before putting away her journal.
Lisa:" Something soft, orange juice, maybe." she said to Junior Xiong.
Junior:" Orange Juice, we got." he said as Lisa nodded.
Lisa:" Fine, thanks." she said.
Lisa then notice a person sitting next to her as she turned to see the person had slanted, dark green eyes and bright long orange hair with long bangs covering his right eye. Black eyeliner traced his visible left eye. He's tall and lanky. He was wearing a mouth mask to cover up his lips.
His name was Roman Torchwick.
Roman then leaned a paper towards Lisa.
' Buy me a drink or I'll kill you.'
Lisa eyes widen before Junior started laughing.
Junior:" Hey, now Romeo I'm the one who owns the place here. Don't mind him, lady he's just a crancky. Just crancky aren't you? The brat tried to switch sides against the gang known as The Spider. He wanted to sold infos, so Lil's Miss Malachite shut the boy's mouth permanently. Show the nice costumer, your pretty smile little Romeo." he said while laughing as Roman then removed his mask showcasing the scars he got from his former of boss for trying to sold personal infos.
Lisa eyes widen as Junior and the daughters of Miss Malachite were laughing at Roman's pain like hyenas.
Junior:" HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! COME ON, LITTLE ROMEO!!! DON'T SHEDA TEAR. AWWWW. I PROMISED I'D GIVE YOU A DRINK FOR THAT DIDN'T I? A small one...." he said in amusement
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The White Fang organization ruled by Adam Taurus and supported by the daughter of the Chief of Menagerie Blake Belladonna have conquered the continent of Anima.
Qrow Branwen was executed in public after attempting the life of Headmistress of Beacon Academy Glynda Goodwitch.
CEO of the Schnee Dust Company Jaques Schnee was sold off by his wife and children in return for immunity at the Dept. of Justice of Atlas.
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Lisa decided to go in the territory of Anima, where currently there was a war of domination between the Branwen Tribe and the White Fangs.
And it appeared as if the Branwen Tribe was victorious somehow despite their smaller numbers.
Lisa was led by the bandits, cheerful and happy, to meet their leader which was pretty strange.
But Lisa knew that the leader of the Branwen Tribe knew something.
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I starred shamelessy, getting my first close up look at the leader of the bandit, Raven Branwen. A cold hearted woman with no shame in her actions. But just like me she has only questions. What happened? Is it supposed to be this way?
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Raven:" Miss. Lavender. Please be seated. I'm Raven Branwen. Currently, ruler of Anima. I understand your wish for an interview." she said calmly as Lisa sat down before noticing the heads of several White Fangs including Adam Taurus like they were accessories for Raven's tent.
Lisa then noticed Gambol Shroud, the weapon of Blake Belladonna, kept there like a trophy.
Lisa:" W-Well, I'm planning to write a book and I don't have a lot of time, in a lot of ways and.... Why do you think everything went this way?" she asked to Raven.
Raven then grabbed Gambol Shroud and looked at it.
Raven:" The person who wielded this weapon, possibly could've have the same age as my daughter if she was still living. Despite the joy of my men and women. I, just like you wondere why it all fail down........ I can't tell for sure, but it happened when I was still a student of Beacon Academy. My former of leader, Summer Rose finded a book in a dungeon......... Our mission was to get that book to the Headmistress, but that fool opened....... but then a green catalyst comet crashed upon us....... spreading its essence in our world........ It perhaps one of the reasons why this Bad Luck striked upon us......." she said.
Lisa:" One of the reasons?" she asked to Raven.
Raven:" Perhaps it had to do with something from back in the past." she said.
Lisa listened to Raven talk.
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Lisa was now in her house putting the pieces together.
Lisa:( A magical cursed book? A comet flying down from space? But what does it have to do with the current situation....) she thought in her head.
Lisa then checked another journal about James Ironwood being a Councilman of Atlas.
Lisa started tipping her pen of the table looking at the journals she gathered aswell as the informations.
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Lisa, then went at Atlas to gather information needed as she saw how peaceful Atlas was.
Lisa:( The Kingdom of Atlas, I hate this place. It's too bright, too much sincerity. Too much perfection.) she thought in her head as she was doubting the Kingdom of Atlas, feeling that there was some hidden secrets.
Ironwood:" People are starting to notice you. Lavender." he said.
Lisa:" Councilman James. Good of you to find the time to meet me." she greeted.
Ironwood:" You use my name in public again, I'll put a bullet in your head. You're making quite the stir. Been spotted in the two most security sensitive areas." he said with a smile as Lisa was a little bit concern by the first lines.
Lisa:" H-How did you know?" she asked with an akward smile as she noticed Atlas guards grabbing a White Fang member and dragging away.
Ironwood:" A book. You're writing a book. No much gets past the agency. Still I don't know why you're wasting your twilight days on this cross world thing, but how about this rain?" he asked referring to the rain falling down from the sky.
Then the White Fang members started getting brutalized by the Atlas Guards in a inhuman manner.
Lisa was startle.
Lisa:" B-But, I'm not a political writer. I'm writting about the changes in the world. The difference. The possibilities. I contacted you because of your knowledge. You ever get the feeling it all went wrong, Councilman Ironwood? Like maybe all of this is not going according to how it supposed to be. Like maybe there is something wonderful that was robbed from us? You see the book I might call it 'Fallen Kingdom' communicates my feeling that world took a wrong turn. Interviewing people who witnessed weird phenomena gives the clues that- she was then interrupted by several gunshots from the Atlas Guards as Lisa gasped in shock.
Ironwood:" Well, I don't get that feeling. I kinda like things the way they are. I don't feel guilty about not making an effort to understand the world. Like, these animals right there, they're not the same of us. Do I care about them? No, just like the rest of the world. You're in lot of pain, Miss. Lavender. Oh, I'm not gonna stop you from interviewing folks for your book. I'd love to last a little longer to be informed of such details you've discovered." he said showcasing his robotic endoskeleton, meaning he chose to be technology itself just like his followers.
Lisa felt creeped out by this and left Atlas.
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Lisa then went to Argus to have an interview with one of the missing Huntsmen family members.
Lisa started knocking on the door of an house.
Lisa:" Miss. Cotta-Arc? Are you in?" she asked as the door was opened by Saphron.
Saphron:" What is it?" she said with a depressed look on her face.
Lisa:" I'm Lisa Lavender. From VNN, you wrote me." she said.
Saphron:" I'm Saphron Cotta Arc, get in." she said with lifeless.
Lisa got inside of the house as Saphron served her a cup of coffee.
Lisa:" You wrote me about something regarding the Forever Fall forest.... Some kind of conspiracy." she said.
Saphron:" Yes, Beacon Academy is a lie. They hide things from you. Things that will ruin their reputation. My brother, who wasn't good at fighting got sent there, He used fake transcripts. He just wanted to realize his dream to become someone. But it was taken away. He went to help a classmate that got attack by an Ursa. S-Something came down crashing. It was like a comet or something. The guy my brother helped got away. But not my little brother. Something got to him. But that didn't kill him. It hurts to look at him, now. His skin went black like carbon and dry and cracked, and light shone out of him. Like all his flesh was on fire. That's what the classmate who was there told me. T-Then he started to swell. And then the Devil broke him open." she said with tears coming out her eyes as her toddler Adrian was looking at his mother in confusion and sadness.
Saphron:" He just turned into a mass of radiations or something and he was still alive. I don't know about the rest because the classmate passed out of the shock. H-He's still alive, he's still alive..... I know he's still alive...... H-He's out there..... M-My brother is out there......." she said with tears coming down her eyes.
Lisa looked at the older sister with a sad look on her face.
Lisa:( Looking at her, she's not lying....... That's the love of a sister....... That damned comet, what's the meaning of this....... It happened with Raven's team but nothing in particular was done to them, but to that young man........ What is it looking for?) she thought in her head.
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Lisa was back in her house collecting more and more informations.
Lisa:( Neptune Vasilias? Died during an hurricane while swimming with his older brother......) she thought in her head while reading the article.
Lisa:( Hurricanes don't usually happen at Argus........) she thought in her head reading more and more articles.
Some regarding about Sun Wukong eating the faces of his victims not caring if they were adults or children.
Lisa put an hand on her forehead having an headache of what she was reading.
Lisa:( What is this? Is it a sign........ that our world is destined to fall.......) she thought in her head.
Team CVFY of Beacon Academy died in the explosion of their airship, for unknown reasons.
Lisa was interested, because it appeared that CVFY seemingly died...... but there was no informations about their airship and their status.
Lisa then looked at the article to see many airship suddenly being confirmed disappeared fro unknown reasons.
Lisa even manage to find a video in an illegal site about such thing.
The airships disappear as soon as the enviroment turn foggy.
Lisa then started working all night to find out about such mistery.
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I walk for a while, aimless, hoping to get away from death in meandering. I find myself by a lake with a surface like a old glass, all stillness and strange ripples. I imagine that if i dropped a stone in it, the waves it made would be perfect circles, taking easy hours to move out, eventually touching all sides of the lake. These people, these paranormal ruins of men, they were dropped on the world like a stone. Their shockwaves have touched all edges of my world.
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Lisa was now seen in a flowery area before she heard the voice of a little girl calling her out.
???:" Miss?" she asked.
Lisa turned around to see a black haired little girl with blue shinning eyes.
???:" You looked all alone. So I got you a flower because they're alive and can be company." she said with a bright smile.
Lisa eyes widen before a smile on her face.
Lisa:" T-Thank you." she said as she grabbed the red rose.
???:" My mommy talks to her flowers all time."
Lisa:" Flowers, huh? What's your name." she asked.
???:" I should be here, but fate told me that I shouldn't be. Because they never allow the princess to get out of her tower." she said.
Lisa was confused by this.
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Lisa then woke up from her dream feeling absolutely confused.
Lisa:" Princess...... Tower?" she asked herself as she went to look for clues about such thing, maybe she's going crazy..... or maybe the truth is being revealed to her.
Lisa started looking through fairy tales at the library, until she manage to fell upon one...... 'The girl in Tower' as she started to read it, however it appeared as if the story didn't have an happy ending because the girl never got rescued.
Lisa then started thinking about the words said by the little girl.
Lisa:( Something was meant to happen in the past? Is that why everything went horrible? B-But, why should I believe a fairy tale. But, what that little girl seems accurate.) she thought in her head as she continued to read other fairy tales and it appeared as most of them didn't have an happy ending.
Despite how seemingly childish it appeared, to Lisa point of view. It didn't seem right that it was just all bad ending. It appeared as if the continuation was never ended properly. This was all.... ruined. Everything. The built up was ruined. This unfairness. Was not meant to happen.
It's not just one thing. It all went wrong. There was no Balance. And it allowed cataclysm like these to happen. Everything was going wrong because there was no Balance to keep everything on check.
Lisa:( I can't explain it. The best I can do is to show people what things could have been like. The Best I can do is to write this damn book.) she thought in her head.
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Lisa went on to interview Tai Xiao Long, a lonely man with nothing to lose at this point.
Tai explained what happened in the Dungeon just like Raven told him, however he go on to say taht he saw something within the green smoke after the comet crashed down. He saw a what happened to be a large humanoid skeleton with green eyes just starring them down as he grabbed the book and recitated a prayer or something.
Darkness was spread through the world of Remnant according to what Tai said.
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Lisa then started walking her way through the city of Vale as the sun was coming down.
Lisa:( The Fallen Kingdom....... That's what I'll call my book......) she thought in her head as she was planning to write the story of how her world as fallen.
Lisa:( I have all the notes, all the interviews. I an write the book and please I can write it quickly....... I wish I had time to really craft the book. Make the clearest and beast possible case of why the world went wrong.) she thought in her head as cracks started forming on the ground beneath her but she didn't notice.
Lisa then felt the air heavier for some reason.
Lisa:( It's so heavy, I should've taken a pill. I'll stop at the pharmacist later.....) she thought in her head as a church bell like sound started ringing in her eardrums causing Lisa extreme pain as blood started coming out her eyes.
Lisa took out her tissue to clean her bloody eyes as she started coughing.
Lisa then look at the corner of her eyes to see a man covered in rash with missing blonde hair, covering his body with a green torn cloak in a dark hallway.
Lisa started blinking in confusion.
Lisa:" W-What?" she asked.
???:" I-I can't.... Keep this any longer...." he said as the ground started trembling.
Lisa then looked at the shattered sword laying the floor.
Lisa eyes widen looking at the sword.
Lisa:" A-Are you Jaune Arc? Y-You survived the comet. Your family is-" she was then interrupted by Jaune.
Jaune:" I-It burns......... It burns....." he said as green aura started coming out of his body as green smoke was coming out of his mouth.
Then an earthquake happened as everyone started running to safety.
Lisa turned to see it as Jaune's started becoming more unstable.
Jaune:" T-They lied to me...... T-They said were gonna fix it....... I-I don't care anymore....." he said as his body then bursted into green light as the beast within the boy took over.
Lisa got blown away by the energy burst.
Lisa crashed on the ground as a giant Centipede bursted out from the ground.
Moments later Lisa woke up to see what appeared to be no longer Jaune approaching her as the streets were destroyed.
???:" Are you done with your interviews? If not, let me tell you this.....Before time, before there was anything. There was nothing and before there was nothing, there were monsters. That's it for the interviews, Miss. Lavender." he asked as his skeletal hand reached for Lisa.
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To be continued.....