Author's notes: I want to point something out. I said Old Republic Era, not SWTOR. He's from that era sure, but he can't be defined using that game as a basis. That is all.
Disclaimer: I do not own either RWBY or Star Wars
Wayle soared through the sky. Kind of, it was more like plummeting slightly forwards. This wasn't the first time he experienced such a thing. Just that he had never been launched so high with no regard to his safety what so ever. Actually, disregard the part about regard for his safety. It was a long time ago since someone actually had any regard for his safety.
Wayle considered his situation. He could do quite a few things to avoid splattering across the ground that was getting closer at an uncomfortable rate. The problem was that most of them was a bit too eye catching. He didn't want to show too much of what he was capable of. He focused, entering a meditative state. Suddenly his fall was slowed by some unseen force.
His fall slowed to something more manageable, Wayle crashed into the treetops. Using a timely branch as a stepping stone to further gain control of his descent, he landed in a roll. Even as he straightened up his senses were already alert, searching his surroundings for danger.
Once he was content that there were no immediate threats he reached out further, sensing the others.
'Seems like they're all alive. Almost miraculous considering Jaune.' He chuckled as he remembered Jaune's ungracious flight. 'Still, there's no one in my immediate surroundings to partner up with. The closest are a bit away and has already met up with someone.' Wayle regarded the situation carefully. It seems he had managed to land a bit away from all others, and he had yet to properly figure out which Aura belonged to who.
Deciding there was no point standing in that location overthinking things, he decided to head towards the objective. Getting his bearings he set off, moving along the treetops to avoid any eventual Grimm.
-Break—
Contrary to popular belief, Sith, and Jedi, where fully capable of being stealthy. And Wayle was very capable in this regard. He was currently sitting in a tree, his physical form cloaked in shadows by the force and his presence hidden from the senses of those around him. It was impossible to detect him with normal senses, unless you were really close, at which point you were either dead or he would have already revealed himself.
He wasn't really sure what to make of the scene before him. Just a second ago he had seen Ruby falling from the sky before Jaune had managed to crash into her, sending both into a tree. Then an orange haired girl had come in riding on an Ursa that promptly collapsed, allowing a black haired boy to catch up. The girl had then proceeded to go all the way to the temple in such a short time Wayle nearly missed it.
Before he could wrap his head around that, a redheaded girl came into view, chased by a giant scorpion Wayle could only identify as a Deathstalker. She did show quite some skill by evading the claws of the thing. It was around this time Yang seemingly exploded shouting loud enough that even Wayle could hear her.
"I can't take this anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before anything crazy happens again!" Amusingly enough two seconds of nothing in particular happening passed. Then Ruby got Yang's attention and pointed towards the sky. You could see Yang's despair even from Wayle's vantage point.
He looked up and saw a giant bird that if his memory served was known as a Nevermore. Hanging precariously from one of its talons were Weiss, who looked like she could fall at any moment. Which she did. Wayle was about to leap out to help her himself when Jaune did it for him. The problem there being Jaune had no actual way of stopping them from hitting the ground. So they promptly fell together, Jaune landing on his stomach and Weiss landing on her rump on top of his back. It looked really painful for Jaune. Then the redhead from earlier got knocked over to where everyone else was.
It was then that Ruby decided to charge out at the Deathstalker. She was fast, that much Wayle had to give her credit for, but her Crescent Rose was unable to actually do any real damage to the beast and Ruby promptly tried to run away. Then the Nevermore attacked, raining feathers down upon the girl. She avoided most of them but one caught her cape, immobilising her. It looked bad as Ruby was about to get impaled on the Deathstalker's stinger when suddenly Weiss appeared and stopped it with a wall of ice.
Regrouping, Jaune and Ruby each retrieved an artefact from the temple before they all ran off. It was first then that Wayle came out, suddenly appearing in the temple itself. He wasn't sure what to make of the scene he had just witnessed, but it certainly showed that these people where extraordinary. He pondered things for a while before taking the first best artefact. Incidentally, had Wayle been familiar with chess he would have identified the piece as the black pawn. Then he set off in the direction the others had gone.
-Break—
Wayle arrived at some massive ruins standing in a great chasm at the base of a cliff. He arrived just in time to see the redheaded girl throw her shield at the Deathstalkers stinger, severing it and causing it to stab into the Deathstalker's back. The shield then returned to her after which Jaune gave an order to the orange haired girl causing her to jump up on top of the shield held up over the other girl's head after which an small explosion and the redhead thrusting out launched her high into the sky where another explosion could be heard and she started plummeting down again, smashing her hammer into the stinger with enough force to shatter the ground underneath it and cause the bridge they were standing upon to violently upheave sending the others flying over the beast. Another blast sent her flying over as well as causing the beast to drop down into the chasm.
Then he looked up to see the Nevermore crash into the cliff wall where its tail feathers where frozen stuck as it tried to lift up again. Then Ruby used some kind of band attached to Blake's weapon as a sort of provisory slingshot together with some kind of glyph presumably created by Weiss to launch herself at the giant bird. She caught it by the throat and after she hit the wall more glyphs appeared underneath and she proceeded to run up the wall, bringing the Nevermore with her. As they reached the top on more violent dash caused her scythe to shear trough the tings neck, decapitating it. Wayle was really impressed and decided to try and catch up.
-Break—
They stood looking up at the cliff where Ruby now stood, cape fluttering in the wind and scythe casually held over her shoulder.
"Whoa." Jaune said, impressed by the feat.
They had won. They had thought two massive Grimm and prevailed. The rush of victory was upon them and their spirits were high. That was until they heard a massive crack behind them. Turning about they stared horrified as another Deathstalker approached. They were too tired to either fight or run. They set themselves to try and hold it off until they could get help or an opportunity presented itself. Then suddenly Wayle blocked its path.
The massive beast halted its charge for a few seconds, surprised by the sudden appearance of the youth. Then it struck out with its stinger, only for Wayle to spin out of the way and cutting it off with his sword. The beast screeched in pain and tried to catch him in its pincers, but he jumped above it cutting deep furrows into its chitin. The beast trashed around as it was assailed, the youth weaving around its flailing limbs, cutting some of and casing deep wounds in others.
A quick leap saw Wayle bury the sword in the beasts head in an attempt to finish it off. The sword got stuck and the beast shook him off. He landed in a roll, but with no weapon it seemed like he was in deep trouble. Then suddenly the stinger stabbed deep into the Deathstalker which was followed up by Wayle running up to it with speed that could match Ruby's and smash his palm into the stinger, causing a great force to send it through the beast, tearing it apart.
Wayle retrieved his sword and made his way over to them. They stood flabbergasted at the youth who had just singlehandedly taken out a Deathstalker.
"Are you alright?" He said with an evaluating look in his eyes.
"Yes. We're fine, thanks to you." Pyrrha was the first to recover from the shock. "You must be very strong to have defeated a Deathstalker, but I haven't heard about you before. How could that be?"
The question made Wayle realise that the beast would have been quite the challenge for most. He frowned slightly. "I just stayed mostly to myself. You see, I am not from around here so most of my deeds would have gone unnoticed."
Pyrrha wasn't convinced, but before she could question him further Nora burst out in excitement.
"That was awesome! How did you do that?! It was crazy how you managed to send the stinger through it like that!" The orange haired girl was upon him, bouncing around him and bombarding him with questions.
"Nora, calm down." Ren suddenly spoke up.
"Oh. Sorry, I got a little bit excited. I'm Nora! And this is Ren!" She indicated the black haired boy.
"Pleased to meet you. I am Wayle."
"Where is your partner?" Jaune asked, looking around for any signs of another person.
"I never met anyone else, so I don't have one."
"How's that going to work out?"
"We will see. It will be fine, I am certain of it." Wayle indicated Ruby's group. "Should we not try to meet up with them?"
"Oh, right. Let's go." Pyrrha quickly said. "Oh, and I'm Pyrrha. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Thank you. Now let us get going before something else shows up to hinder us."
-Break—
"Russel Thrush, Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing, Sky Lark." They were in a large auditorium. On a screen pictures of the aforementioned lined up as the persons themselves came up unto the scene. Ozpin was holding the ceremony. "The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward you will work together as team CRDL (Cardinal), led by Cardin Winchester." Applause filled the auditorium.
"Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos." He continued as the newly formed team CRDL left the stage and the familiar people stepped up. "The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward you will work together as team JNPR (Juniper), led by Jaune Arc." The applause resurged as Nora hugged Ren.
"Huh?!" Jaune looked shocked. "Led by?"
"Congratulations young man."
Then Pyrrha, in good spirits and possibly to try and comfort the young man gave him a friendly punch to the shoulder sending him sprawling on the floor and turning the applause into laughter.
"And finally, Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward you will work together as team RWBY (Ruby), led by… Ruby Rose." Weiss looked at the little girl in surprise and Yang hugged her in pride.
"I'm so proud of you!" Wayle seriously hoped this was the last time she would shout something along those lines.
"Now, then. One last thing." Ozpin, unsurprisingly, had lied when he said lastly. "Wayle Tyran." He stepped up, wondering what would happen next. "You failed to get a partner and retrieved the black pawn piece, which the other of was not retrieved." Ozpin looked at him, a slight hint of a smirk forming on his face.
"But, in deference to the skills you displayed. We have decided to bend the rules a little." Wayle would be lying if he said he wasn't nervous. "Therefore, you will work on your own, teaming up with other teams if necessary."
Wayle was unsure about how to react to this. Ozpin seemed quite happy with this arrangement, which caused Wayle some suspicions over the whole thing.
"But there is a slight problem." Of course there would be something. "You will need to dorm with another team. Any volunteers?" Wayle's eyes went wide at how casually the man before him acted. This was no small matter!
Wayle's fears were soon realised when he heard Yang shout, "We volunteer!"
Wayle turned to look at the offending party, judging by the reactions of the other members of team RWBY, and the short time it took for Yang to respond, she had not consulted the others beforehand. Any hope of that getting him out of drawing more attention than a parade suddenly entering the room with a fanfare was dashed as Weiss seemed to agree after some consideration, Ruby seemed quite fine with it and Blake simply shrugged.
Wayle looked towards Ozpin with a look that said: "Don't do it."
"Fantastic. Wayle, you will dorm with team RWBY. This looks to be an interesting year."
Wayle suddenly understood how Ruby felt at the beginning of the initiation. Of all the ways to get attention, this felt like one of the most effective. Which would have been great if he hadn't been trying to avoid it. He was suddenly convinced beyond a doubt that Ozpin had no regard for that guys and girls shouldn't share sleeping quarters. This was going to be an interesting year indeed.
Author's notes: I hope this doesn't feel rushed and like things are going too fast. I'm not sure I'm entirely satisfied with this chapter. Honestly it went faster than I thought it would. Oh well, things should start getting worse (better) from here on. Do give feedback and I hope you will have a nice day.
