A/N I am burning myself out on A/Ns but either way, Chapter 4: The Blood of Remnant

Chapter 4: The Blood of Remnant

"With most ties cut, the time of their vengeance along with their transformation draws ever closer." With this line, the cloaked figure realized they probably lusted for revenge, by this point but he had no true measure of who they were, or what had wronged them.

As the days passed, all of the School's Teams were either participating in the Vytal Festival or out on missions. As Team Prydwen was stuck on the proverbial shelf, for now, not having anything to do as they were barred from both those thing. Though, if they were allowed to compete, they probably would have dominated the competition.

Weiss was now an independent student at Beacon bearing her last name as only a name. Weiss was now someone who Taiyang was looking forward to meeting when summer break came. Winter was a massive help to the couple as well, informing them of the aftermath of Weiss's departure from the family, as expected at first he try pressuring Ozpin, who told him with a smile, "She is an adult now, she can do this, you have no legal say in this if she doesn't want you to have any."

Then came the threats of force and violence against her team, which got reported. Ozpin smiled as this scandal got Jaques Schnee kicked off the security council, and he was one of the major factors behind Atlas's deployment in Vale. Though once again PRWN was in the news, though in the gossip section, rather than the headlines, though the shock that a Schnee left the family was unprecedented.

"This is so damn dull!" Ruby grunted, Flopping onto her bed waiting for Weiss and Pyrrha to come back from assisting professors, a hobby they had on the slow days. They all helped out around the school when they could as they waited for the White Fang to curl it lips again and bare its teeth.

"Tell me about it," Nora Groaned from her bed, as she made a noise akin to a baby sloth, something she had been practicing since she saw a video of them on the internet, which she had shown to her team over twenty times by now. "With classes on hold, this has really made things a drag," Nora said slumping down opening up her scroll

"And we can't leave campus due to Ironwoods newest orders," Ruby said looking at Nora, contempt burning in her eyes "Damn it, I hate him!" Ruby cursed his name, once again wishing she had Crescent in the meeting with him. That's when the ring tone of Ruby's Scroll went off; it was Ozpin, who sent a message to report to his office immediately.

"I'll be back, Nora, Ozpin wants to see me," Ruby said getting up with a slight growl in her voice, Ruby after the incident had become very outspoken against Ozpin and Ironwood. She didn't hate Ozpin, she just didn't like him anymore, as he seemed to distance himself after the incident. Though, as of late he had been a great help and had been regaining some of Ruby's favor. Ironwood is the one she hated. To most, prior to the incident, no one could take Ruby seriously when she said she hated something, though everyone knew about Prydwen's grudge against Ironwood. Ruby quickly went from that kind, sweet hearted girl that everyone liked, to a sixteen-year old that could get Cardin Winchester to prostrate himself at her feet after Nora was through with his team. Though they did maintain a friendly demeanor in class and when dealing with others unless they managed to upset them.

Their grudge against Ironwood had been edging ever closer to the grudge they held against the White Fang. Mainly due to his attempting to 'convince' Weiss to reconsider her actions. Something Ozpin himself stepped in on as did the media, as even in dark times focusing on celebrities or big names was still appealing to some. Though Ruby didn't want to continue down that lane of memories as they were still fresh and something that quickly pissed her off.

Walking through the dormitory corridor alone was nothing new to Ruby as she often went out at night to look at the sky at night. She liked to watch the fractured moon when some horrible vision kept her up at night. When she reached the door, she was thankful her cloak was water resistant, as a massive thunderstorm unlike any she had ever seen had been rattling the school for two days. As she opened the door she prepped to engage her semblance. Rushing, whipping, she felt the coarseness of the air on her face as she bolted, and it wasn't just the rain, the air was palpable, she had a very bad feeling about the days to come.

After reaching the main spire of beacon Academy she proceeded to the elevator to Ozpin's office. Entering this elevator just gave her very vivid flashbacks to that day. Considering, in the amount of time between now and then, this is the first time she's entered this elevator since then. Her heart racing, she wondered what Ozpin could want, and that's when she realized she would know soon enough. She was only on the elevator for about forty-five seconds when it came to the top of the spire. Approaching the door she had another vision.

What she saw was unlike anything she had ever seen, everything looked high-tech, beyond the technology of Remnant. The hallway was angular and massive, red lights in the corners, though despite the lights it was still dark. With that flash of a vision, her mind flipped back to reality and she entered the office, promptly ignoring the vision.

"You wanted to see me, Professor?" Ruby inquired her hood still raised, water dripping from the cloak on to the floor. ,

"Yes Miss Rose, could you please lower your hood?" Ozpin asked calmly, still feeling bad about that day, despite the time that had passed. He could never forgive himself for not doing more despite the fact he was incapable of acting against Ironwood.

"Why!?" Ruby hissed back at Ozpin, she found the request a bit personal and even more creepy.

"I haven't seen your face in a while," He said in a friendly manner that came off in a slightly creepy way to the leader of the PRWN Black Knights. This answer did make the young leader recoil slightly as she replied with,

"Fine" Ruby growled from under her hood, as she lowered it slowly. Ozpin looked at her with a pleasant smile, her face despite only being sixteen, looked angrier and her eyes looked a bit duller than he remembered. Though he decided to focus on the most obvious changes first, mainly the Aura merge changes.

"I will say that streak of white looks out of place," Ozpin said bluntly, also noting the silver in her eye was tarnished with ice blue at the edges of the iris where it connected with the pupil and the sclera. "Though it is not unattractive," Ozpin continued not trying to offend the young rose.

"I like it," Ruby replied with a slight hostile growl in her voice. Ozpin had been trying to calculate how much irreparable damage Ironwood had done to this girl. He feared for what Ruby was capable of as her mother was quite a capable warrior Ruby had speed and glyphs, and maybe even Summer's abilities. If this was the case Ruby could be one of the most powerful people at Beacon.

"Well that is good to hear, as you are somewhat stuck with it," Ozpin conceded bluntly, as his tone saddened a bit, as he cursed not keeping a closer eye on what Ironwood did with his students, considering the Atlesian military recruitment that was being done on his campus

"So what did you want?" Ruby inquired slightly annoyed with the Silver-haired man not explaining the purpose of this meeting to her.

"I have some information for a mission" Ozpin spoke calmly as he sat at his desk, his fingers interlaced in front of him and that elicited a smirk on Ruby's face, he knew it would.

"Disregarding Ironwood, are we?" Ruby said in a teasing manner as Cheshire smile curled on her cheeks. This had her interests peaked.

"Damn Ironwood for what he's done to my academy," Ozpin growled through his teeth, Ruby had never seen him angry but she did like it. Ozpin then continued with. "This isn't my idea, though."

"It was mine," spoke a calm voice emerging from the corner of the room as she emerged it was Winter, one of Ruby's personal friends, considering how she helped "The White Fang, we suspect could attack the Vytal Festival and hold it hostage or attempt to destroy it."

"I take it Ironwood, knows about this?" Ruby inquired, curious of the implications of Winter's suspicions. Something Ruby felt told her Ironwood knew already, which made her smirk grow if Winter was disobeying her superior.

"Yes though he is blinded along with the council, thinking they couldn't pull it off, that they don't have the resources," Winter said with a malice in her voice. It was evident she cared about the security of the event something that Ironwood had been ignoring as of late despite his job.

"You think they do, Winter?" Ruby asked of Winter curious of her sources and what the White Fang was planning if Winter knew herself.

"Absolutely," Winter replied calmly "They have stocks of Distortion dust and are most likely going to try to eliminate the arena with it, and Ironwood refuses to believe me."

"Why us?" Ruby asked legitimately curious.

"I figured you four would want to get some revenge, and your skills seem quite valuable," Winter explained with a wink, "Though I trust my sister and you more than any of Atlesian military at this moment, considering what they tried to do for my father. Thankfully Ozpin intervened with that," Winter said giving the headmaster a gentle smile, though there was a hint of ambition in her voice.

"Then, you have my support," Ruby returned with a smile that looked more at home on a psycho's face than hers, "So how is this going to work?"

"When they attack you will be contacted, at which point I will brief you on the way there," Winter explained calmly, "Due to this, I've made a request with Ozpin that you may keep your weapons with you at all times."

"Awesome!"Ruby cheered like her old self though her cheer did have a hint of darkness, "besides we've been really training up for missions."

"I still don't know why Ironwood banned your team from the Vytal festival," Winter complained to no one in particular really wishing to see how Ruby was in combat.

"Their restriction was because Ironwood wanted to make them angry." Ozpin replied calmly, "He's trying to groom them to be soldiers, that man has betrayed everything we academies have worked so hard for." This sentence made Ruby want to puke, as she tried to picture herself in the stark white uniform of the Atlesian military. The thought was like garlic to a vampire to the young girl, an absolute 'Nope'.

"Ah, well then, I will be glad when this comes to light, and I can take his place" Winter declared, ambition riddling her voice as she herself smirked. Ruby and Ozpin had no objections to this idea of Winter replacing Ironwood at this point.

"So you really want us to get involved?" Ruby inquired slightly curious if Winter was sure about this, considering if what she had planned went even slightly wrong she could face court marshal.

"I feel you four have deserved it," Winter said with a slight scowl on her face, "and Ironwood needs to be put in his place, who better than your team to do it too," Winter saying this made Ruby smile as she extended her arm for Winter to shake as Ozpin nodded with approval with agreement of this new alliance.

With that Ruby, was dismissed. She sent out messages to her teammates, telling them they might have a mission soon and are to remain on alert until then.

"Surrounded on all sides by deception and lies. On their world, there will be a cataclysm, great enough to destroy armies and doom that world for generations to come." This made it evident to the walking man that they would endure a trial by fire in which they would succumb to the Darkside.

On this day, the semi-finals of the Vytal Tournament were taking place. As two pairs of partners readied for combat, the display screens turned blood red with the emblem of a black rook. The next thing of note to happen was the swarm of Atlesian Knights swarming the Arena like a mechanical flood. Their gears crunching and chattering as they raised their Rifles on the civilians as the live feeds continued in chilling uninterrupted detail.

The world of Remnant took a collective gasp as they watched the feed. Stunned, unable to look away as the Grimm outside the walls took exceptional note of what was happening inside. To further amplify the shock and awe the White Fang took to their bullheads and stormed Amity as well, supported by the Atlesian assets as they rounded up the students and penned them into the center of the Arena. As the world looked on at this info shocked at beacon something was happening. The clatter of black armor, the rattle of blacked out weapons, the whipping of cloaks in the blast of the Jet engines of the bull head as the thunderstorm resumed in full force.

It was happening somewhat like Winter predicted a massive force of White Fang assisted by AKs took the Vytal Festival arena by storm. Overwhelmed and outgunned those in the Colosseum had no method of fighting back. Holding them in the center arena at gun point all the students were there minus Prydwen and a few other that were out on missions. As the world watched in shock as all of Atlas's military assets were compromised and hacked, then used against them, Ironwood had failed, and the world knew it and he was nowhere to be found.

The Bullhead that was heading for the arena is where Winter and the four black knights were preparing for their assault. Clad in their new outfits, their hoods up, their identities concealed by neoprene half face masks and black visors to cover their eyes. They looked like knights now, seeing these outfits unsettled Winter to a Nth degree, but she ignored them as Weiss explained this was agreed upon by the team. Looking out at the Turbulent sky Winter could only mutter to herself, "I have a bad feeling about this."

"So Winter, what's it look like down there?" Ruby inquired lowering her face mask to talk unimpeded.

"It is bad," Understatement of my life, Winter thought as she continued"lots of hostages, bombs, and about five hundred White Fang members," Winter spoke briefing the knights.

"Any sign of their leaders?" Weiss inquired about locations of the main targets. Hoping they could cut the head off of the proverbial snake, thus collapsing the White Fang.

"Yes the press box is where their main leader, Adam Taurus, is located," Winter explained bringing up blueprints of the press box on her scroll. "We also have word of a rogue Mistralan team that will need to be dealt with as well."

"Anyone else coming with us?" Ruby inquired about reinforcements, she was hopeful there would be some but she had to make sure.

"Rumors only, though if what I'm told is true, Ozpin is gathering some of his forces," Winter responded, knowing most likely who would be brought in, she cringed at the thought of that man, but she would tolerate him as anyone offering their help was needed for this.

"Touchdown in fifteen seconds," the bull head pilot said in a stressed tone, as flying this high in a hull head was a bad idea with this kind of weather.

"Pyrrha and Nora you are to control the fodder in the Arena, Ruby, Weiss you are to capture Adam. I feel the need to say this 'No Killing, you are not to kill any members of the White Fang,'" Winter stated explicitly, hearing this actually made the knight's quiver, Not one of them showed any will to kill, anyone severely harm, maybe, but not kill. This order rung throughout their heads, Winter thought they could kill.

As they deployed into the arena proper from the commandeered news bullhead. Ruby and Weiss dropped quietly in the shadows above the booth, using glyphs to slow their decent. While Nora and Pyrrha dropped into the shadows of the arena floor. Their cloaks silencing the light rattles of their armor. like shadows, they pursued their objectives Ruby and Weiss infiltrated the rear of the booth and waited for the signal, while Pyrrha and Nora silently subdued the White Fang near the shadows. The command was quick and one word in their ear pieces, "Go!"

With that, Nora and Pyrrha revealed themselves causing one of the White Fang to yell, "Who the hell are you two!?"

"We are the Black Knights," they both Responded, "and we are here to break your legs!" Nora added maliciously as they charged deploying their now blackened weapons in hand at full deployment. With that, the world began looking at the screen with a glimmer of hope in the name of the 'Black Knights.'

In the Pressbox, at the same moment, Ruby and Weiss revealed themselves by incapacitating the guards behind Adam. Who turned to face them and said: "Now this is a surprise, didn't know we had an opposition group here, no matter, you will die for intruding." He said drawing his sword and Ruby and Weiss followed suit. Both began an onslaught of attacks Adam was barely able to keep up against these two. To him, their speed was impressive, most impressive.

Down below fighting around the tied down students, Nora and Pyrrha were a sight to behold. The White Fang grunts and AKs were charging them head on like fools, getting batted out of the way as the cracks of bones being shattered and metal crunching rang through the air. Though, after enough fools had their legs inverted by well-known faces came up to them, Mercury and Emerald Weapons drawn at the two knights. "Alright I have no idea who you two are but we can let you ruin our plan, so go look somewhere else for your human sacrifices", Mercury said, never seeing these two before. Using hand gestures Pyrrha told Nora to handle Emerald while she attacked Mercury.

Up in the press box, Ruby and Weiss were overpowering Adam. The duo of red and white were making very unpredictable, fast-paced strikes on the terrorist leader. Considering the insane speed they had, and their glyphs, which gave away the identity of a Schnee, one set of their glyphs was normal while one was using a floral patterned Glyph something that was quite new to the man who had killed a Schee prior. One was using a slashing sword, with near spot on edge alignment, while the other was using a rapier with pinpoint thrusts. Parrying with both his sword and sheath, he evaded their attacks that were fueled with extreme prejudice. Their strokes fueled by a fiery vengeance that tore the air as the blades clanged.

The Faunus then noticed a slip up on the slashing blade user, and exploited it, taking his blade right down on her right arm severing it.

Ruby screamed in agony as she fell as her right arm was cut off just before the elbow. She kept screaming as blood poured out, though her crimson aura stopped the bleeding for the time. That's when Ruby heard Weiss screaming as she continued the onslaught, Weiss felt the pain in her right arm, it was like it was on fire. Weiss had to win because if she didn't Ruby would most certainly die. Clanging and ringing, the blades sang in the fury of battle, a true song of war.

Though, on the floor, Ruby noticed something next to her a shadowy dust crystal that had fallen out of a box nearby. Out of options, Ruby took the crystal in hand, realizing what it was, Distortion Dust. Looking at the battle again, she had to do something to do something to help Weiss. Despite the risk, Ruby put the crystal next onto the bloody glowing stub. Seeing the sight above her. she watched Weiss get disarmed and kicked into the wall of the box by Adam. Ruby needed to hurry, she poured her Aura into the crystal which caused a bright flash at the stump of her arm and a chain reaction.

"In realizing Their powers, Sith of age yet to come, and Sith of long past will assist Them before their arrival, and after." this thought concerned the dark lord as he walked. Did this mean Sith of the future have an interest in these heralded ones or was the universe bending itself to assist these people? This puzzled the Sith greatly.

In that second a singularity did not form but a she felt something attaching itself to her arm, and her mind was permeated with another Vision and knowledge She saw a figure looming over her in a suit of black armor his breathing sounding like that of a worn out gas mask. She felt the pain in her arm she saw his right hand hold up what looked like a flashlight and spoke in a deep raspy metallic voice.

"To you, I don't exist yet, We are the same, Sacrificing to save our loved ones, though you have a chance I never did. a prophecy told me, a powerful Sith would be raised by my arm." Ruby looked at the masked figure, his armor and raspy breathing unnerved her, the next question further unnerved her as he knew her name." Would you embrace darkness to save Weiss, Ruby?" Ruby sat there, trying to interpret what this figure meant but there was no time she needed to help Weiss, so she gave her answer as she stood taking a step forward.

"Yes, I would!" Ruby said, which gave the tall figure all he needed "then you shall have my arm Darth Fleurnoire!" He said christening her with a name she did not yet understand. Holding his arm in a prime display to the young leader, watching this his hand 'dismantled itself' into glowing fragments. Fluttering through the air, the glowing bits of metal and fabric formed onto the stub of her arm. The metal skeleton of the arm reconstructed itself before her eyes, as each nerve was painfully connected to the arm. Then it was sheathed in the fabric from the figure's arm, the process was complete as her new hand was capped with a heavy synthetic leather gauntlet. The Sheath on her belt was replaced by a socket with the 'flashlight' in it. Taking this new weapon in hand, she examined it, the darkness of the object fixated her as a black aura permeated and mixed with her own.

Though as this blackness morphed, she could feel something new, something that was always there, yet unnoticed. It was a power, a force that was empowering her, teeming with this new power, she felt alive. Her body awoken to power she started to giggle, then chuckle, then burst into a full bore manic laugh. This is it this is the power I needed. Ruby thought as reality resumed back to her.

A/N: and that was Chapter 4 of the rewrite, I really don't have much to say anymore. I may update these A/Ns later.