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Chapter 0: The Rebirth of Darkness

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule." - J.R.R. Tolkien.

-The Threshold of Darkness-

A campfire crackles and sizzles in front of the threshold of where the alleged "Heart of Darkness" slumbers. Four people sat in a circle, all of them eating their last amounts of provisions that they have both packed and bought. A crusader named Tyrius Angirus sat, reading his scrolls while sharpening his two handed holy claymore called the Long Crusade which he now wield in his right, Parker Hemwick the Plague Doctor who is replacing the bandages of Leoric Azir, a leper who's goal was to cure his scourge, and Hendricks Cariem a lone highwayman who's hunt for valued goods threw him into a quest to destroy this twisted darkness.

"Are we all ready?" Said Leoric, and Parker simply nodded

"Let us purge this unholy darkness from this earth." Said Tyrius

"Yes... kill this "thing" and get the goods." mumbled Hendricks as he reignites the torch with the dying flame.

"Then we shall end this." Answered Leoric as he both lifts his Broken Blade and smothering the fire with his copper cladded boot. They all prepared themselves as they entered the gate way to end the darkness' evil crusade.

-The Realm of Shadows-

As they walked through the threshold, they emerged into a long hallway where the stars of space glow like gems in a forgotten quarry but as the pathway emerged, it was made made beating, contorted and corrupted, flesh and faces bending and pulsating like a maggot infested carcass. Faint yet haunting screams of the dead echoed in the empty, cosmic void.

"This place gives me the creeps..." Said Hendricks but the other three we not deterred.

"Stay vigilant, I can feel it's unholy presence." Responded Leoric. As they walked down on the path with only the sound of metal stepping on firm yet moldy path to cover up the screams, they see a body that is strung up by ropes of flesh and bone. It's asleep despite having no human features, with blue sunken eyes growing all over.

"What is that?" Asked Tyrius as the four walked up to it

"This maybe the root of evil." Responded the holy leper

"Then let's kill it." Said the shaky highwayman but Parker grabbed his shoulder and shook a no.

"The doctor's right, like in the ancient scriptures, only the purest of light can breakaway to unholy dark." Said Tyrius. As the crusader and leper drew out their swords ad stabbed the inhuman amalgamation of flesh and bone into it's chest. It roared a ear piercing shriek as it's toxic life slipped out of it's unholy grasp. But while the two were about to pull out their weapons of the light, the lifeless creature's body imploded, hitting the two champions of light. As Leoric got up, his armor was just stained but the blacken blood, but when he checked up on Tyrius, his armor was pierced by a shards of the monster which glowed of a sinister black.

"That was easy." Hendricks responded but before Leoric said a word, a rift ripped open of where the beast perished and began to pull the four into it with no effort. Then when the four were sucked in, the rift closed itself and soon the realm.

-Team RWBY's dorm-

"*sigh*Another day, another pile of homework to finish until the beginning of the week." Said Weiss who was filing her nails while the remainder of the team who had stacks of work to put on their desk

"At least carry a book, so we can't carry them all the way here!" Groaned very tired Ruby who carried the heaviest load of the bunch

"And risk breaking a nail?! I will rather mine for dust then do that." Responded the heiress as she warped up her pedicure

"And this is the reason why we call you the Snow Queen." Said Blake with ma very small smirk while Yang gave her a fist bump.

"Hey, I am not that cold." Said Weiss but before they hit the showers, they felt the earth and foundation rumble.

"What is that?!" Panicked Ruby as she zips to her bed and hiding under her bed sheets. As the three looked out of their window, as they see three craters formed near the statue of the huntsmen where lightning crashed and thunder roaring, but a fourth was closer then they expected. But the fourth came falling unto a section of the school with the force of an arrow drawn.

"That one hit the school!" Exclaimed Blake as she ran to where the crash was

"I call investigating the three craters" Said Yang as she prepared her Ember Celica, with Ruby trailing behind

"I'll go with you!" She squeaked scared of the sudden events. And Weiss let out a sigh as she followed the two to the court yard.

-Unknown-

A figure siting on her throne of dust and rock, her skin was pale like snow with veins glowing black, she watched as the four meteors crashed onto the academy.

"What you are looking at are the four scoundrels who ruined my life's work." said a voice, where she sees a man emerging from a void of pure blackness who is cladded of a classical Remnant attire.

"What was your work then?" she asked the man, then she then felt a sudden spine chilling cold jolting through her body. She sense of a unspeakable horror that loomed in this man. Even she had a heart of evil, but his was incomparable to hers, was that of purely twisted, cruel, vile, evil and despicable aura that he some how manage to keep it tame without losing his mind

"I spent my life, countless decades of studying in the macabre and dark arts." He answered with his words sticking her like a moth to a flame.

"But these so called "Heroes of Divine Light" thought they can enter my manor and kill what thought was the harbinger of doom." He continued

"I have a follower who is infiltrating the building, I will inform her to check it out." She answered and then he soon walked backed into a rift

"Then seek to it that she will destroy them...but heed my warning, these warriors of my realm are not the people who inhabits this shell of earth and rock." He finished as the rift closed.