Yeah, so I don't own anything from RWBY. That would be Rooster Teeth's thing. Or Dark Souls. The great lord Miyazaki of From Software owns that. RIP poise.

Chapter 1: Wake Up

Stone. Cold, hard stone was the first thing he felt. He couldn't see it, however, as it was pitch black. "Where am I?" he thought. Upon further inspection with his coarse hands, he noticed the rock beneath him was not smooth either and was covered in patches of grass. In fact, it almost felt as though the stone was arranged in bricks.

Carefully, he propped himself up. This was harder than he first anticipated, due to the heavy metal plating he wore on his torso. The man stretched his arms as though waking from a deep sleep, only to have his right arm hit something hard. He felt the item carefully. It was a metallic bar with a coiled shaping to it. Although the air around it was cold, the metal itself was warm to touch, as though it was creating it's own heat.

A question quickly arose in his head: "Is this what I think it is?" As his hands made his way farther up the coil, he felt two more points extending from the bar. A growing sense of nostalgia appeared in the man's stomach as he used the metal to stand himself up. Nervously, he hovered his hand over the object and projected his soul onto it.

Fire began to lick at the base of the steel, fueled by the ash at the base, before releasing its force in a quick flash of light. The man's shadow danced across the crimson trees and stone pillars behind him while he took a seat next to the newly created bonfire. The orange light now highlighted his pale, white skin, which contrasted his short, black hair that fell over his face on one side in messy locks, occasionally covering his light blue eyes.

On his torso, he wore set of armor. He had modified it himself and was made so that it was neither too heavy to weigh him down in battle nor too light to ineffective at protecting him. It had been claimed from one his fallen enemies, a fight he will never forget. However, instead of being used to guard the archives, the iron armour now protected a simple warrior. A warrior who had now lay down his head on the stone floor of the ruins, in wait of the morning...

The curtains did nothing but slight dim the sunlight that was slowly starting to glare into the room and onto Ruby's sleeping eyes. It almost woke her. Almost. Ruby could sleep through most things, a statement that Yang could testify to. What she couldn't sleep through though was- "RUBY!" snapped Weiss, which quickly jolted Ruby awake, making her briefly panic and very nearly fall off the bed.

"I'm awake, I'm awake!" replied the reaper's frantic voice.

"You should've been awake an hour ago, you dolt!" came Weiss' reply. "We're going be late now because of you!" The aristocrat then proceeded to storm towards the door and swing it open, before turning around and exclaiming that she would be now going to class. To door banged close behind her. Ruby had gotten used to this by now, especially since it had happened a fair few times now. What was surprising was how the ice queen could still get angry at Ruby sleeping in. I suppose that was the answer though: she was the ice queen.

The bathroom door clicked shut and Ruby's attention was drawn towards the silent, raven-haired woman walking out. Blake was as silent as usual, which was a massive contrast to the brash blonde on the other side of the room, who noticed her sister was finally awake. "Hey, look who's finally awake!" smirked Yang, only to get a comeback of "Like you never sleep in, meanie" from her sibling, who was making her way over to the bathroom.

Team RWBY's lessons that morning seemed to go on forever, especially since it was Grimm Studies with Professor Port. His stories went on forever and ever and ever and ever and- well, you get the idea. With this all morning you'd think that the academy was trying to make the students pull a Van Gogh and cut their ears off. Thankfully, it finished (eventually) and the students were released to lunch.

As the team strolled down the hallway to the canteen, Ruby yawned loudly (after all that morning-long lecture had almost put her to sleep). Weiss glared at her from the corner of her eye. "That's funny. I would've thought you wouldn't be tired considering the amount of time you slept in for this morning." she spat out.

"Well, someone's a bit salty," poked Yang "Huh, I thought salt melted ice…" This quickly gained a glare from Weiss, who had no comeback to this, so simply replied with "Ugh. Well I have work to do, so I will see you next lesson. Enjoy your lunch." And thus she walked away.

Work wasn't the real reason why Weiss wasn't having lunch with the others. After having the morning trapped with them in the same room as Port, she needed some alone time and decided to go on a walk. There was a spot she had found on the grounds of the school, surrounded by trees, where nobody went. A perfect spot for her to relax away from the buzz and noise of the boisterous students. It was a small square area framed with trees and had a flagstone floor. There was a nice metallic bench at one end out of sight from the path.

Or at least that's how she remembered it. Now in the centre of the usual paradise stood what appeared to be a coiled sword, jutting out from a pile of dust. Weiss eyed it suspiciously but after running the options through her head for a few seconds, she waved it off as another one of Ozpin's odd ideas of decorating the school (nothing could be weirder than that giant, golden lemur statue though…)

Gently, Weiss sat herself at a bench and let out a long sigh. Between studying, training and her team, she didn't usually get that much time to relax, so it was nice to get a sit down. In fact, this bench was pretty comfortable and the slight gap in trees gave her a lovely view of Forever Fall, it's crimson trees stretching for miles into the distance.

A/N: So then. The first chapter of my first fanfiction. I went for a Dark Souls x RWBY crossover because I love the game and the show. For those of you who are Dark Souls fans, I've only really played DS3 that much, so… don't expect too many references to the other two games. I'll get round to finishing them eventually. Well done if you got the Professor Arc reference (great fanfic). Please feel free to review. And don't be afraid to leave criticism, I want to improve… so… you know. I say that but I don't even know if I'm gonna continue it. I'm not exactly a pro writer. But, hey, everyone has to start somewhere. Besides, even if I do continue it, it's not gonna be very regular. I have studying to do, R1 to spam and hentai to watch.