King's Watch, Cosmodrome, Old Russia, Earth

A woman wearing the Days of Iron armour set with the ornaments active with all pieces except the chest armour with the Nightstalker's Cloak. They had the shimmer shader equipped as well giving a black and neon blue tint to the armour. They had The Last Word and Thorn on each leg with Dreadfang slung over their back. They had Bad Juju with the Dragonsbane ornament equipped to it in their hands. Thorn also had Rose of Corruption equipped as well.

They used the Iron Gjallarwing sparrow and the Aspect of Glass ship with the Clades Orygis emblem. They were level 40 with a light level of 392. This woman was a hunter class Guardian on a mission to see what the house of kings was doing. She was Lily Rose.

Lily observed the areas inside the King's Watch and asked her Ghost "Ghost, remind me what the hell i'm doing, again." Lily walked into the room where the House of Wolves had tried to bring the Kings into the fold, but failed and where the Echo of Oryx causing the taken blight on Earth had fallen. "Tracking down the house of kings and finding out their plans. Huh… that's new!" Ghost comments as he looks at a console which seems to control a device to send things… somewhere. He then looked over to Lily who was staring in horror at the coordinates that this machine is set to while reappearing the word "No!" Over and over again like a broken record.

Ghost didn't understand what scared his Guardian so much and also didn't recognise these coordinates either. "Ghost activate the machine, we're going through after them and not stopping until everyone of the fallen are dead. I'll be damned if I'm letting them take over my home!" Lily growled out as Ghost looked at her with what was as close to shock as he could convey.

"What do you mean your home?" He asked her with Lily responding "Ghost, these coordinates lead to a planet in another solar system. This is where I was born until one day, in a flash of light, I was sucked away and ended up in the Cosmodrome. I died shortly after I arrived thanks to the fallen in the area. Then you found me. This planet is called Remnant. This is where I need to be. The fallen will not be allowed to kill them or anyone they know if I can help it."

Ghost was speechless and activated the machine that would send Lily home. He felt bad for keeping her away from her family for so long. Lily saw the portal open but had Ghost reconfigure the coordinates to a place where, if her habits hadn't changed, she could find her sister. She saw the place and changed her armour for a simple dark grey t shirt with a hooded man on it with navy blue jeans and black and blue combat boots. She also wore a cloak in a black colour with her emblem printed on the clip that held it to her body.

She then walked through the portal.

From Dust till Dawn, Vale, Remnant

Lily appeared in an alleyway across from the store 'From Dust till Dawn' and through the window, saw a person they were hoping to see. Ruby Rose. Lily walked through the door and greeted the shop owner. She looked around as she kept an eye around in case of threats. Lily had Ghost on standby with her weapon she made herself which she had stored on her at all times. She recreated it from her memories of her original weapon.

She got her phone out, put her headphones out, plugged them in and hit shuffle. She left it running while looking around and turned around when she heard the door open. She watched as the lord of all criminals, Roman Torchwick, walked in the store with Junior's hired men.

"Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a dust shop open this late?" Roman rhetorically asked as he had one gun pointed at the owner who asked them to take the lien and leave. Roman told him to calm down saying how he wasn't here for the money and had the guns get the dust.

One gun went over to Ruby which I was about to intercept but stopped when I remembered what Ruby was like. One gun approached me and said "Hands in the air!" Like it was a threat which made me sigh and put my hands behind my back. I sent a mental command to Ghost who summoned my sword which looked like raze lighter to my back which could shift into a sniper rifle and Scythe as well as a railgun and a necklace.

The gun that went over to Ruby promptly went flying across the room and landed on the one trying to intimidate me. They both landed on a heap in front of me which I walked away from. I had a feeling I knew what was going to happen next. Roman sent another gun at Ruby who went flying out the window followed by Ruby slamming her Scythe into the ground and switching her headphones off. I slowly walked out the store after Roman.

"Okay… get her" he said which got my eye twitching violently as the guns went to Ruby who beat them six ways to Sunday within a minute. She kicked them using her Scythe as an anchor with half of them getting taken out. I knocked out two from behind as I then drew my sword. I knocked out the rest after hitting them in the head with the butt of the sword after slashing each one's stomach dwindling the aura.

One fell at romans feet and he commented "You were worth every cent… truly you were. Well red, grey as much as I'd love to stick around.. I'm afraid… this is where we part ways" he lifted his cane and flipped the sight on the bottom up as he shot a round at us. I immediately used the shield of the sword to block the projectile. Me and Ruby followed after Roman who escaped all of 3 ft above and in front of them. We arrived on the roof.

"Hey!" Ruby shouted at him with him sighing and commenting about how persistent we were when a bullhead floated up in front of us with him boarding it. He threw a fire dust crystal at us saying "End of the lines kids!" He started laughing but a blonde woman saved Ruby with her telekinetic shield. I was fine as I able to shadestep and blink away from the explosion in a second. She starts sending blasts of energy at the bullhead. Roman goes into the cockpit and a woman in a red dress with amber eyes and black hair appears and sends fire at the Blonde. They traded blows back and forth until Ruby shot at her who blocked it with her hand.

Lily drew Thorn and shot her with it. The sickening crack of the cursed gun firing echoed through the night air followed by a scream of pure pain and agony. I holstered Thorn after the bullhead escaped. The blonde took us to the police station where I learned her name was Glynda Goodwitch. "I hope you realise that your actions tonight put yourselves and others in great danger" she said with Ruby saying how they started it.

I simply stared at Glynda with my silver eyes glowing under my hood which appeared to look like two bright lights in the shadow the hood created. "If it were up to me you'd be sent home with a pat on the back… and a slap on the wrist" Glynda says with Ruby recoiling at the end of the sentence. My eyes glowed brighter when this happened. "But there is someone who would like to meet you" she continued and stepped aside with none other than professor Ozpin walking through the door. "Ruby Rose… you.. have silver eyes." He said with me resisting the urge to facepalm. Why? Because that doesn't matter at all. Well I mean it's important but it shouldn't be the first thing to point out about a person.

"So everyone just going to ignore me then?" Lily states with everyone looking at her and thinking 'How did I forget she was there?' "Excuse me.. I don't believe I know your name" Ozpin says with me flipping my hood down.

Everyone goes wide eyed with Ruby visibly shaking. Why? Because I look like a 17 year old Ruby with longer hair and less red and black. "My name… though if you don't believe me, I wouldn't be surprised… is Lily. Lily Rose." Lily says. Ruby's breath catches at the name. She then remembers her sister who everyone believes is dead shows up and helps her with Torchwick. Ozpin didn't know what to say in response to that. The room descended into an uncomfortable silence with the occasional flip of a throwing knife from me.

"Can you please continue with what you were doing? I don't think this silence is good for my health. Granted, health isn't really an issue anymore but, eh." Lily says along with mumbling the last part. "... so Ruby where did you learn to do this?" Ozpin asks pointing to Glynda's scroll showing the footage of Ruby's fight with the grunts. "Signal Academy" Ruby says shyly. I sigh at how nervous she is as well as detecting a hint of happiness and anger mixed in with worry. "So, what is an adorable girl, such as yourself, doing at a school designed to train warriors?" Ozpin asks with Ruby saying that she wants to be a huntress and going into a long winded exposition of how why she wants to be a huntress. Some references to Yang were thrown in as well along the way.

"Do you know who I am?" Ozpin asks with everyone turning to me as I started laughing like a hyena at this point. "What's so funny?" Glynda scolds me with some unrestrained anger. "Please, even a blind and deaf person could tell who you are. Seriously, I can barely remember the last time I was on Remnant, but even I know who you are. If memory serves it was at least… 10 or 11 years ago. I'm sure it was 11 though." I tell them. Ozpin eyes widen at the year he mentioned as she was right it was the year Lily Rose suddenly disappeared as well as later on, the unfortunate incident claiming the life of one Summer Rose, but Lily didn't know that. "Your Professor Ozpin, the headmaster of Beacon." Ruby says with me nodding. Ozpin asks Ruby if she wants to go to Beacon and she says more than anything with him saying ok.

"Now Ruby please wait outside, I need to have a chat with your… sister over here" Ozpin says with Glynda and Ruby leaving the room. "Oz, what do you want because I can think of lots of better ways I could be spending my time, like reuniting with Yang, Summer , Tai and Qrow along with talking to Ruby more. So I repeat what do you want?" Lily asks Ozpin who sighs and replies with news Lily started shaking from. "It with great sorrow that I inform you that Summer Rose perished shortly after you vanished with being believed to be dead. Now, I'm sure Ruby would be delighted to see you at beacon so my offer to her is offered to you."

Lily sighs and says "Thanks for informing me… and yes I will attend Beacon. It will give me a chance to reconnect with my sisters." Ozpin nods and dismisses her. Lily leaves the room after putting her sunglasses on and straightening her cloak. The cloak looks like Ruby's mixed with Summer's. Lily walked out of the police station and was immediately met with a cannonball of force crashing into her. Ruby hugged her and once she let go she spoke. "Lily… is it really you? I'm not dreaming am I?"

Lily shook her head saying "Yes Ruby, its me. You're not dreaming and we should be heading home. I'm sure Yang is worried about you." Ruby nods as they start walking before Ruby asks the question that she was wondering. "Lily… what happened? Where'd you go?" Lily sighs and responds "Ruby… I'll answer that question once we get home and I'm making sure Qrow is there as he needs to hear this too."

She then remembers about her ship and says "G, bring send us to A.O.G. asap." Ghost acknowledged and transmitted Ruby and Lily to the Aspect of Glass in orbit. Lily got into the pilot's seat and took off. Ruby sat down as soon as she saw Lily sit down. She knew this would be explained in due time. The Aspect of Glass landed outside the Rose/Xiao Long home a couple minutes later. Ruby and Lily left the ship which, after they left, flew back to orbit.

Ruby walked into the house and was greeted by Taiyang Xiao Long and Yang Xiao Long. They immediately hugged Ruby in the bear hug they always did. Lily walked into the house while they hugged and leaned against the wall to the right of the door. Once the hug ended Tai and Yang looked towards Lily and their jaws dropped and eyes widened. They couldn't believe it. Lily Rose was back after 11 years. "Is that-"Yang begins to ask but Lily cut her off by saying "Yes it really is me Yang, now where the hell is Qrow? He kinda needs to be here for this." Tai nods and contacts Qrow on his scroll. Qrow showed up a couple minutes later. "No way…" Qrow said before hugging the light out of me. "Now where were you?" Qrow asks Lily. "Sit. This is going to take awhile." Lily responds.

"Now to begin, this story might upset you so be ready for that. Now flashback 11 years…" Lily began.

Flashback, Forest around Patch, 11 years prior to Present Day

Lily walked out of her room and did the usual routine. Afterwards however, she left the house saying "Be back later. See you then" Lily left the house and wen towards the Forest nearby. The reason was that she had a new weapon and needed to test it. No one knew about it because it looks like the necklace that she always wears so they didn't question it. She took out every Grimm in the area in about 5 minutes with mixing between sword mode, Scythe mode, sniper rifle mode and rail gun mode. Lily shifted Hunter's Chaos back into necklace mode with a flick of the wrist holding the gun. The necklace looks like a heart shaped necklace with Clades Orygis etched in red on the black necklace.

Lily then made the trek back to the house where her family was. As she was walking a flash of light suddenly appeared in front of her as she walked into it without noticing. The flash died down and Lily Rose was no longer on Remnant. She woke up on a planet ravaged by war and she turned around and activated Hunter's Chaos in its sword form when she saw an alien charging her. She charged the alien and when it raised its gun to fire at her she stopped charging and activated the shield function of her sword and walked through the gunfire without issue. She then deactivated the shield and beheaded the alien afterwards.

Lily P.O.V.

I was somehow older on this planet. Now what happened next was a surprise to me in itself. I had somehow become 17. I wandered the planet for a couple months until one day…

"What happened?" Yang asked with everyone on edge with what I was going to say.

"Now if I can continue. That day…"

… I somehow found other humans around the planet after wandering for two months with nothing but Hunter's Chaos and my regular outfit. I was practically dying bit by bit every day. Then this family found me and nursed me back to health. Just in time too as the aliens on the planet had found the place. I immediately defended the family who saved me and fought like I'd never fought before. I got a few cuts and bruises here and there but managed to beat back the aliens.

Then the mother of all aliens arrived. I soon discovered that this alien was stronger than all the others. My aura thankfully took most of the punishment. But he was too strong. I watched as he killed the family before my eyes. The next thing I know time slowed down with me getting behind the alien and got it to its knees. I discovered my semblance. It helped me kill this alien after a railgun shot to the face. Nothing survives that. The aliens retreated. I buried the family and wandered the planet for a month after that.

Then came the worst day of my life. That day… was the day I died…

"Than how are you even here? Not that anyone's complaining." Tai asks.

"Well…"

… it started about 2 weeks after I killed the big alien. By this point I had killed god knows how many of them at this point. Anyway, I continued wandering the planet until a bigger version of the big alien showed up. This one was angry at me for killing its cohorts so I fought it. The fight was the hardest of my life. I activated my semblance and used the sword mode and Scythe mode on Hunter's Chaos since they were the most powerful and I had the most practice with those modes along with they seemed to work the best against the aliens. A couple days locked in mortal combat later, the alien felt like an overachiever so it impaled me with an dagger sparking with electricity. I shot it in the face with the railgun.

So I'm lying there bleeding out on the floor being electrocuted when the literal father and leader of the countless aliens I slaughtered shows up. I'm not in a state to do anything so I laid there slowly dying until the alien had enough of death staring me and shot me in the head with the pistol they used.

"So you were… executed?" Qrow asks me and I nod and I continue my story.

"So fast forward a couple centuries…"

… I'm suddenly waking up with my weapon next to me in a state of disrepair. I'm hearing a synthesised voice calling me a guardian and saying eyes up. I open my eyes and see a floating eyeball talking to me. It seemed to be an AI so I didn't question it. So apparently this area I died in years ago was fallen territory, whatever the fallen were, and we needed to get out of here and find a ship to take me to the last city. So yada yada some shot later after picking up an assault rifle, an archon it was called, this being a different house, the factions these fallen were split into, to what killed me and I got the ship and flew off only to come back and kill the archon later. Some travelling around the solar system later, killing aliens along the way I end back up in the King's Watch, the house Kell, the thing that killed me by the way, I find a portal used to send an army of fallen to coordinates I recognised. I was shocked as I knew where these coordinates led to, Mountain Glenn in Remnant, so I had Ghost alter the coordinates to where, if Ruby hadn't changed her habits, which she hadn't, Ruby would be and I walked through the portal and arrived at From Dust Till Dawn.

"So… that's how you got back then?" Yang asks. I nod. I see Ruby looking like she was about to explode but I stopped her before she could "Yes Ruby, you can look at Hunter's Chaos later." Ruby squeals in happiness. "So any questions?" I ask them and Tai asks "Yeah two things 1 you haven't asked where Summer is? and 2 what was the floating eyeball AI thing?" I sigh and reply "I met Ozpin while I was out after stopping an attempted robbery with Ruby, where he told me about Summer, and the AI is still here. G… say hi to my family…"

I wait for a bit before in blue pixels next to me, Ghost appeared and said "Hi! I'm a Ghost and you can thank me for getting this terror of humanity back onto her feet." I sigh before chucking and with a smirk on my face I said to him "You know I hate that name… Little Light" Ghost looked at me and said "You know I hate that!"

"You know you like it… Little Light" I replied and he sighed before leaving with saying "If you need me I'll be managing your armour and weapons from Sol."

"Now I need some sleep for tomorrow. It's not going to be fun." I said before walking up the stairs and walking into my room which looked just like I'd left it. I laid down on my bed before falling asleep.

The next morning,...

I woke up and immediately got ready for the day. I got my phone and had Ghost get Ozpin number to tell him that me, Ruby and Yang would get there our own way. He agreed to it. I waited outside for the sisters and they appeared 10 minutes later. "Ready?" Two nods "Ok, G transmat to AOG." We transmat to the Aspect of Glass which is in orbit. I'm in the pilot seat with Ruby and Yang in the passenger seats. "So I bet you're wondering why we are in my spaceship when we're going to beacon right?" Ruby and Yang nod so I continue "Well as social as Yang is, I thought we could get there faster than the proper craft and reconnect a bit while we're there. I cleared it with Ozpin beforehand so everything's fine. Now G play it"

Ghost nods and plays the news from the ship. After some time, the speech by Glynda happens with me laughing about peace."Why'd you start laughing at peace?" Ruby asks with the answer "Peace never lasts, this comes from someone who took part in an never ending war. I've watched people die in various ways before my very eyes with no way to avoid it, but I'm not standing by while the Kings lay waste to Remnant like they did Earth, also I have a score to settle with that Kell in particular. Oh, when I kill him, I'm going to be so happy I'll probably let them all live. Nah! I'll kill every fallen that stands in my way." From me. They realised that the Kings Kell was the one that killed me.

I swung the Aspect of Glass down and we flew over Beacon with some people, already there, staring at the ship as it descended. We transmat down to Beacon Courtyard. The Aspect of Glass flies back to orbit. "Now let's go! G show me that list please." I asked him.

He complies and shows me a list of students and why I should watch out for them. The first of 3 was Weiss Schnee. The heiress of the SDC. Keep in check or advise how to do so. Also, keep away from faunas if possible. Second, Blake Belladonna. Cat faunas and ex-white Fang member. Left once the organisation turned violent. Keep an eye on her. Finally, Pyrrha Nikos, four time tournament champion with a polarity semblance. Good thing my weapon doesn't use metal so that can't be affected by polarity. Put on a pedestal and looked up to by others. Very few people care for her fame. Just wants to find people who see her for her, not for her achievements, no matter how great they are.

"Now where'd - oh! Son of a bitch!" I yell and blink over to Ruby after seeing Weiss shaking a dust vial in her face. It isn't sealed properly. I grab the vial from Weiss and put my hand on her forehead at arms length to keep her away while simultaneously fixing the dust vial. "Weiss. Look at this for a second. Do you have any idea how much damage your actions could cause?" Next thing I know an explosion happens after I question Weiss. "Great. Just great! This is the exactly what I was saying Weiss. Now leave, princess, before you make things worse." I say to Weiss. I go invisible to tail Blake who just arrived after this conversation.

"Its heiress actually. Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. The same company infamous for its controversial labour forces and questionable business partners." Blake monotones. Ruby snickers and I'm silently laughing at that. Weiss storms off in a huff. Ruby tries to ask Blake her name but she leaves. This was my signal so I follow silently. I decloak and meet a pair of amber eye staring at me. "I knew you were there." Blake tells me. "Let me guess, Cat ears?" I question with her eyes widening at that. "I have my ways of getting information" I say to stop her next question. "So Blake, why'd you leave? Adam? The way you dealt with things?" I ask and get "Both" from Blake.

"I don't have a problem with it. Some of my team and friends were treated like faunas. So I don't judge. Humanity will always discriminate against things that they don't understand." I said to Blake and blinked away to Ruby and Yang and appeared behind them. Weiss appears and sees me with the railgun aimed at her. She doesn't start her rant at Ruby. Not on my watch anyway. Ozpin taps the mic to get everyone's attention. "G record" I say under my breath which he complies with.

"I'll… keep this brief. You have travelled here in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you finished, you plan to dedicate your lives to the protection of the people. But I look among you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge will carry you so far. It is up to you, to take the first step." Ozpin delivers the speech and Glynda takes over, after Ozpin steps away from the mic saying "You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."

"Well… I can't believe I'm saying this but that was worse than Zavala trying to be… encouraging!" I say with Ruby and Yang saying "He seemed… off" and "It almost like it wasn't even there" respectively.

Later, in the ballroom…

"It's like a big slumber party" Yang says to Ruby and I while Ruby writes a letter to her friends back at signal and I just twirled a knife in my hand with no effort. "Not sure dad would approve of all the boys though" Ruby responds. "I know I do" Yang replies and starts purring when a knife flies past her face and embeds itself into the wall. She turns to see me twirling another knife in my hand after retracting it.

"You nearly hit me with that!" Yang yelled at me and I stop twirling the knife "But I didn't. I purposely missed that throw you know as I could've killed you without even trying. Now stop that now otherwise I won't miss next time." I respond. "That girl…" Ruby trails off. I follow her line of sight and see Blake. "Oh!" I say when I see her. "Ruby come on let's go talk to her." I continue and we walk over towards Blake. "Blake" I say simply with her glancing from her book and nodding before looking to see Ruby next to me and saying "Aren't you that girl that exploded?"

"Yeah, my name's Ruby." Ruby says to her with Blake replying "Blake. Also I never got your name." The last part was directed at me. I say "Lily. Now I want to thank you for your help with the heiress." I turn to walk back and do so as Ruby asks Blake "So… what's your book about?" Blake looks up and answers "It's about a man with two souls, each fighting for control of his body."

I walk back to them and say "Huh, so just like The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde then?" Blake looks at me and replies "In a way, although the only similarity is that there are two souls in the same body." I look at her and nod and say "Ruby let's go, I'm sure Blake wants to be left alone right now." Blake nods at my words. We go back to where we were sleeping with Yang looking at boys again. I sigh and throw a knife that embeds itself right in front of her.

"Lilly, do you have to do that?" She asks me and I respond "Yes I did, now get to sleep before I throw another through your hair." Ruby's eyes go wide and so do Yang's at my comment. "You do know how obsessed with her hair she is right?" Ruby asks me. I nod and say "Well it's either that or stop her from eating for a week." Yang gasps and stares at me before responding with "You wouldn't!" I laugh and say "Try me"

Yang starts repeating "No!" over and over again until Weiss is about to tell us to shut up when a pillow knocks her out cold. Just as she got up I threw a pillow at her to save my ears and say "Time to sleep"which Yang and Ruby follow.

The morning came soon after and we went to the locker room. I slept in my clothes as I always did. I was in the locker room next to Ruby and Yang. I looked around the room and observed the others that stood out in the room. Pyrrha Nikos was a world renowned fighter that would give me a challenge if I was serious. Blake Belladonna was an opponent that likes to dodge using clones and surprise you but not if you know that she uses clones. Nora Valkyrie was an opponent that gets stronger by absorbing electricity so none of that. Lie Ren was an opponent that uses SMGs that have blades on them, he uses speed and fire rate to whittle down opponents then finish with the blades. Everyone else was either too easy or a mild annoyance.

I hear Ruby talking to Yang about teams and breaking out of a shell. "Yang, Ruby stop now before I cut my own ears off." I tell them. I see Jaune talking to Weiss and hear "Jaune, do you know who this is?" From her. I act quick and throw a knife that flies right past Weiss but cuts her hair a bit and embeds itself into the wall. I get another knife before saying "I suggest you not finish that conversation, before I do something you regret." Silence looms after I finished. The PA system emits Glynda's voice and says "All first years to beacon cliff for initiation."

I made my way out of the room after retrieving my knife from the wall. I stood on the launch pad next to Ruby, waiting for Ozpin to let us go and kill things already.

"For years you have trained to become warriors. Today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." Glynda took over for Ozpin saying

"Now, I'm sure most of you have heard about the assignment of teams. Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates… today." Ozpin took over again continuing

"These teammates will be with you for the next four years, so it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well. That being said, the first person you make eye contact with will be your partner for the duration of your stay here."

"After you've partnered up, make your way to the Northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way, do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path or you will die. You find an abandoned temple at the end of path containing relics. You will return this item to us." Ozpin says before students start flying. I was launched not soon after Ruby.