RWBY: The Phantom Of Remnant

Be warned that the following chapter may contain a visual description of events that may be unsuitable for an audience of younger readers. Reader discretion is advised.

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It was late into the afternoon. Every match for the first day had just finished. Magna was just wandering around the city as he thought back to the tournament.

Obviously, Pyrrha won her match. Afterwards, Magna had asked her if she's participated in the tournament before and her reply was that this was her first.

Now, Magna had two options. One, he fights Pyrrha for the win or two, he let's Pyrrha win. It needs to be said that Pyrrha's consecutive wins of the mistral tournament were mentioned when she, Weiss and Jaune met.

He had no idea if one less win would change the original story. What if she never got on the cover of Pumpkin Pete? The meeting between her and June would change!

A bad headache came to Magna as he silently cursed the butterfly effect. Who knew if changing that one fact would cause other future events to change.

Exhaling a long sigh, Magna was about to find Qrow when he saw a bandaged man walk into a dark alley. The man triple checked his surroundings before hastily entering the alley.

"What are you up to John?"

Slipping into the shadows, Magna quietly followed behind him. If anything, John was thorough. He took almost 5 minutes just checking his surroundings before move forward.

After almost 40 minutes, John stopped as he came across a large warehouse. He knocked on the door five times as he muttered, "For the tribe…"

The door opened up a few seconds later as a man in an outlandish outfit nodded and replied, "For the tribe…"

Magna took the brief period they were greeting each other to stealthily enter the warehouse.

Opting to move forward safely, Magna moved to the rafters before exiting the shadows.

As Magna scanned the surroundings, he froze as his eyes widened in shock. Hundreds of men and woman, all wearing outlandish clothing, moved around the warehouse like worker bees in a hive.

Each person was carrying a large container filled to the brim with dust.

Dust crystals, powder, shards. As far as he could see, there was dust.

Suddenly, Magna crouched down low as he saw John move towards another room.

Re-entering the shadows, Magna quickly slipped down and followed behind John.

As John closed the door, Magna had to physically hold himself back from razing this warehouse to the ground.

A man with a face that just screamed 'Punch me!!!' sat on a chair in the center of the room. Surrounding him was a multitude of different woman, all missing pieces of clothing as they quietly sobbed on the ground.

Some of the woman even had cuts and burns, with the worst being a busty woman whose entire face was cut to shreds. Magna could tell that she used to be a very attractive woman but now, she looked dead inside as her eyes stared at the wall with a hollow gaze.

John clicked his tongue in annoyance as he said, "The f.u.c.k Shay? Why'd you have to scar my bitch?"

"You know exactly why I scarred the bitch! She said my d.i.c.k was tiny!" Yelled Shay as he flipped John the bird.

John glared at Shay as he roared, "Your d.i.c.k is f.u.c.k.i.n.g tiny! A f.u.c.k.i.n.g dust shard is bigger than your d.i.c.k!"

"F.u.c.k you John! That's not what your mum said last night when I was f.u.c.k.i.n.g her!"

The woman visible trembled as a few tears slide down her face. Magna, on the inside, was completely livid. However, he held himself back. He needed to know more about their operation before he destroyed their plans.

Plus, there was something familiar about this Shay guy. It was at the tip of his tongue but Magna honestly couldn't remember.

Shay glared at John for a few seconds before exhaling a sigh as he said, "Well, what's up? The tournament is still going on, what the hell are you doing here?"

"That's actually why I came to see you. I lost, to a kid no less."

Shay's eyes widened as he yelled, "What!?! What do you mean you lost!?!"

"It means I lost. The kid was strong. Even with my semblance, I couldn't beat him."

Ruffling his hair in annoyance, Shay g.r.o.a.n.e.d as he muttered, "Is he gonna be a problem?"

"Shay, he's a kid."

Shay fell into thought for a couple seconds before agreeing. The pair then went on to talk about their next move. They were stealthily stealing dust from around Argus as everyone concentrated on the tournament.

So far, they've robbed multiple dust stores, some private properties and tourist that visited from other cities.

The woman, however, were girls they kidnapped during their dust raids. Store employees, random people off the streets, they kidnapped them all for the sole purpose of 'relieving' their brothers since the girls of the tribe actually reject the advances of their comrades.

The only silver lining Magna could see was that most of the girls were still untouched, not counting the scars and burns on their bodies.

Apparently, the sc.u.m gathered in the warehouse enjoyed torturing people.

After learning all he could, Magna committed the warehouse to memory before leaving. He needed to find Qrow. There were just too many people for him to take on alone.

Well, he could take them on alone but there's a chance that they would use the girls as hostages.

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Opening the door to a quiet bar, Magna's eyes twitched as he saw Qrow. With a drink in one hand and a waitress in the other, Qrow quickly down his drink before releasing a content sigh.

Magna wasted no time as he went over to the drunkard and said, "Qrow, we have a problem."

Almost instantly, Qrow lost his drunken expression as he gently let the waitress go. Taking out a few lien from his pocket, Qrow smirked at the waitress as he said, "Sorry lady but duty calls. I'll make sure to swing by later and we can pick up where we left off."

Fighting back the urge to sigh, Magna hastily pulled Qrow out of the bar.

As they walked through he streets, Qrow frowned as he said, "Hey kid, the hotel I booked is that way. Where the hell are you taking me."

Magna g.r.o.a.n.e.d in frustration as he said, "I said it at the bar, Qrow. We have a problem!"

Suddenly, Qrow stopped as he grabbed Magna by the shoulders and held him in place. He stared into Magna's eyes just long enough to make him uncomfortable as he slowly said, "Magna, calm down. You've been acting jumpy ever since the bar. What exactly is the problem?"

Magna took a couple deep breaths before explaining the situation to Qrow. He told him about how he followed John and stumbled on a massive dust stealing operation.

When Magna told him about the girls and the man named Shay, Qrow held up his hand as he said, "Wait! Does this 'Shay' person have a face that just makes you wanna punch it?"

Magna gave him a weird look as he replied, "Actually, he does. How do you know that Qrow? Do you know him?"

Qrow's face, for a spilt second, became painted in anger as he spoke through clenched teeth, "Sadly, I know the idiot your talking about. And who he works for. You did a good job Magna but this is too big for you. You just focus on the tournament and leave the rest to me."

"What!?! No way! Qrow, I ca-"

Qrow suddenly cut him off as he yelled in anger, "NO!!! Just… just focus on the tournament. Trust me Magna, I will help those girls out."

Before Magna could argue back, Qrow leapt up to the rooftops as he disappeared into the night. As frustrated and unsatisfied Magna was, he decided to listen to Qrow and head back towards the hotel Qrow booked.

What about his room key? Qrow already handed it to him in the bar, right before they left.