Hello guys, Don Orbit here. Well I know I haven't updated my other stories for a while because stuff in real life, but I think I will be able to update something soon enough. So this Story is in my head for quite a while now, so I would like to write it down.
Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY nor Starcraft. Rwby is owned by Rooster Teeth and Starcraft by Blizzard.
"test"=normal speech
"test"= psionic speech
'test' = thoughts
Prologue: Into the void
Two years. Two years since the end war ended and the three species of the Koprulu Sector made peace with each other. The terrans rebuildt their empire, now under Valerian Mengkst, who swore not to be the tyrant his father Arcturus was. With the help of the former rebels Raynor's Raiders the Terran Dominion became a fair and peaceful System. The hero James Raynor however went missing. No one knew where he was. The only Thing that he left was his former mark as a confederal marshal.
The zerg swarm retreated to Char, under their new queen Zagara. The zerg claimed forcefully the systems around char and the during the great wars lost planets. Now remained in their territory. Some say that they just waited for an provocation to unleash terror and destruction once again upon the galaxy. One thing was for sure. They were improving themselves with any second that went by.
The protoss rebuilt their home world Aiur. Hirarch Artanis assembled the survivors of the protoss and started to rebuildt their empire. But like the terrans they had to say goodbye to many things such as the Khala and the caste system. The nerazim who didn't had a home anymore since the destruction of Shakuras, found here a new home. The tal'darim were against an alliance with the other protoss factions and searched for a new home world themselves. However highlord Alarak gave, those who wanted to stay with the other protoss, the one-time Chance to stay on Aiur. The purifiers returned with Cybros to the moon Endion, while a few remained on Aiur to protect their organic brothers.
It was the first time since the end of the brood war, that all three species coexisted without any conflict.
On a hill close to a rebuildt protoss city was the memorial for the dark prelate Zeratul, who gave his life for the entire galaxy. He was the first one, who discovered the threat by the hybrids and Amon. He was hated by his People, hunted b the sins of his past and yet, he stood against the odds gave all others hope in the darkest hour. His death was truly a tragedy. Especially for his 'murderer'.
Artanis didn't know anymore how many times he went to Zeratul's memorial. Even now after 2 years he blamed himself for his death. No matter what Vorazun, Karax, Talandar or Rohanna said, nothing could ease his burden. It was dusk, when he stood on top of the hill again. He bend down and touched the memorial. On it still rested Zeratul's warp blade, the same one Artanis used in the end war. He closed his eyes, because of guilt and respect. After a while he heard a male voice behind him.
"I already thought you would be here Hirarch." it said. Artanis turned around to see a black and red cloud of void energy dissolve to reveal the speaker. It was a tal'darim protoss. It's sickly pale nearly white skin and bright red glowing eyes could tell that. He wore a black armor like all tal'darim, but it had differences. The base of his armor was a tal'darim zealot, but the shoulder plates had no spikes, they were plain. Also the tal'darim wore cloth to disguise his face, something only the Lenessa nerazim did. He also had armor parts of a blood hunter and wore a cloak like the Lenessa nerazim. His nerve cords were covered with a spiked armor similar to Alarak's. Artanis knew this tal'darim well. His Name was Iarut, he was as old as Artanis and was one of the few tal'darim, which decided to stay on Aiur.
"Iarut why did you come here?" Artanis asked.
"You know I own Zeratul as much as we all do, but it was him after all, who saved me in this Moebius facility." he replied. Moebius tried to test the capabilities of a protoss' psionic to control a zerg brood. Iarut had an abnormal high psionic potential, which is why he would be able to control a zerg brood. Moebius wanted that ability for the hybrids, so they experimented on him. Then Zeratul came and freed the templars, which were imprisoned there, but also him.
Iarut looked at Artanis who had risen to his feet again. "You need to stop blaming yourself for something you couldn't do anything about Artanis." Iarut said. "I don't think Zeratul would have wanted that."
I know about that, but still..." Artanis said, when Iarut cut him off.
"You weren't yourself back there Artanis. Your body was controlled by a being of god-like power. Amon killed Zeratul, not you. Besides, you need to be strong now. There is an entire species that relys you. Now you have to do what he would have wanted you to. That one day all protoss can live with each other." Iarut said.
"And yet, you are leaving us Iarut." Artanis said. Iarut had no intentions to stay on Aiur, but not because he disliked the other protoss. It was like when he would become too attached to Aiur, than that attachement would prevented him to grow stronger.
"I have looked through the archives of Aiur, learned about the traditions of our people, have trained with protoss of all factions and helped to rebuildt our civilization. There is no place on Aiur, where I belong to Artanis. And raising younglings is not something I desire. Also I haven't found someone worthy" Iarut said.
"You mean there was no one interested in you." Artanis said. The truth was that the tal'darim weren't well liked, because they were scavengers and the many conflicts with them caused many casualties. Some on Aiur didn't even want them on this planet. The tal'darim, that joined the daelaam were mostly under their kin, because of that.
"However, I came here to say goodbye to Zeratul, before I leave Aiur." Iarut said. He walked to the memorial and closed his eyes for a silent prayer. Then when he was finished he walked of to the hangars, followed by Artanis.
The hangars of Aiur where like the most buildings of the daelaam made of white and gold metal. Here void rays, phoenix and other ships were located, prepared for combat. Iarut had worked on his ship quite a while now.
It was a tal'darim phoenix, but had a few tricks in the sleeve. It had a small cargo bord and a faster-than-light drive. In the front a laser similar to the tal'darim destroyers was installed. It had also a supply of disruption mines, which could deal big damage to groups of flyers. Iarut named it Blade of Bel'shir, because of his home planet.
Iarut was now in the hangar standing in front of the ship. He turned around to Artanis.
"I'm actually thankful for what you and the others did. And I'm proud to call you friend Artanis." He said. "For that I swear to preserve our traditions." He put his hand on his chest, a gesture of respect to the protoss. "En taro Zeratul." With that he used Transit to teleport into the cockpit.
"En taro Zeratul. Friend Iarut." Artanis said. The engines of the ship started and the black ship shone in a crimson light. Iarut flew slowly out of the hangar not wanting Artanis to be thrown around like a rag doll. Then like a fire red comet, Iarut took of in the night sky, only to disapear with a crimson flash into the void.
A small summary to Iarut
Name: Iarut
Age: 270 (I checked it... well Artanis' Age since they are both the same age)
Race: Protoss, Tal'Darim
Weapons: Bane blades, psionic blast
Abilities: Cloak - Iarut can become invisible
Psionic powers - Iarut has psionic abilities such as mind reading, psinonic orb and mind blast
Void energy - Iarut was once a blood hunter and has trained this abilities with nerazim. This enables him to use transit and shadow strike.
Bio: Iarut was Born on the tal'darim world Bel'shir in the year 2238. He was not as brutal as his comrades, but he was not less a fighter. Many years later, he became a blood hunter under Highlord Ma'lash. During the second great war, Iarut discovered his immensive psionic capabilities, that allowed him to confuse zerg by ordering some zerg to attack their own brethren. Moebuis captured Iarut and brought him to a facility to obtain this psionic ability and to give it the hybrids. During his time there Iarut realized that the Ascension Ma'lash had promised the tal'darim was a lie. Later the facility was destroyed by the zerg swarm and the dark prelate zeratul. Iarut used this to escape from the facility and allied with Alarak. Together they then allied themselves with the united protoss. On Slayn Iarut became a fully accepted ascendant for Alarak by killing Ma'lash's guardians together with the protoss forces. After the end war, Iarut left the tal'darim in order to get stronger and to help the united protoss regaining their strenght. On Aiur Iarut helped the protoss at the reconstruction of their empire and filled the other protoss factions in the traditions of the Tal'darim. In exchange he trained with the other factions and learned how to use his powers more efficiently. Now he left Aiur, searching for a new battle, somewhere in the void.
So the prologue is finished. I hope you are already interested in the Story. It will take some time to get things loaded with a bit more Action since in RWBY the Progress in the matter fighting Action was rather slow. Please check out my other stories if you are interested.
Well see you next time