A/N: Disclaimers: I do not own RWBY (owned by Rooster Teeth) or Star Wars (owned by Disney and Lucasfilm) or the Old Republic (owned by EA + Bioware [TOR and KOTOR] + Obsidian [KOTOR 2 TSL]) Or any of the various Legends or EU Material that will be used or referenced.

Warnings of massive character change, character death, Violence, and foul language. You have been warned!

As I removed the Disclaimer in the intro text this is an Old Republic Era AU and I will be using Legends Expanded Universe materials, not new Cannon with Dark side Ruby, Weiss, Pyrrha, and Nora, other RWBY Characters will be present, along with some SW Characters, and OCs as side characters. Cover Art by DeerieDopts, see bottom A/N for more info.


Star Wars: The Old Republic X RWBY

The Dark Side of a Rose


Chapter 1: War, New, and Old


A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away

Years ago the Great Galactic War boomed, and the return of the Sith Empire was at hand. Though, it also marked the return of a hero long thought dead. A Jedi thought to be lost to time, but her arrival came too late. The marker of such a fate was the blazing fires that were engulfing the cityscape of Coruscant. The twin-pronged arrowhead-shaped ships flying low in the atmosphere, laying down a blanket of turbo laser fire. The impacts shook the city to its very core.

As history would know this event to be the Sacking of Coruscant, and that is what this lost Jedi had just returned to her home being obliterated in laser fire. She was in shock at what was happening, a battle that showed the entire planet under a brutal Sith attack. The hero could do nothing but watch from afar as she felt the healed wound in the force was closing and sealing, her time as a Jedi exile was long over. She remembered the fight she just left, but now she had another fight. So she sighed, glad to no longer feel that pain that ebbing ache, she smiled as her curse was gone, with that thought, passed she could feel remnants, the tinge of pain still there in her body, though now she need to act. Seeing the burning Jedi Temple she ran. She pushed her speed using the force as a booster of sorts. Accelerated by the force she began to leap from building to building, using the force to break any fall that could be harmful to her health. On the ground this Jedi could see the Sith were decimating the city world, pillaging, plundering, burning, and indulging in the general barbarisms of war. She could almost bet the Sith were holding back on their attack as she watched the low flying dreadnoughts pummel the upper layers of the city. She figured they had enough firepower to make Coruscant into a second Taris if they wanted to.

Dashing ever closer to the Jedi Temple, the sounds of Turbolasers, blasters, and lightsabers were blaring in the air. They echoed off the duracrete and plasteel walls of the cityscape. She drew ever closer to the towering mass of a structure that was the Jedi temple. She could see the flames wicking through the building and emerging in billows of smoke. Seeing this even closer now, she darted toward the structure, her stark white cloak accenting her movements down the cityscape. She further accelerated allowing her to run on and up the walls so she could gain access to the temple. Upon reaching the massive structure, running along a thin maintenance catwalk to reach the block of structure the temple was located on, the white-cloaked Jedi began to jump and climb up the outside of the structure. As she got up to the main entrance she saw the wreckage of a crash, the one that broke the Jedi's defenses. She knew that entrance was out of the question so she ran, ran up the main structure, till she reached a blasted open window into which she leaped. Inside, the white-cloaked Jedi watched a group of Jedi Masters that were getting cut down by a Sith with a viridian blade. His blade strikes match that of form II makashi. Though something was off about this Sith, he carried himself like a Jedi and had the air of a traitor, a man who turned on the order and wanted them to suffer.

She felt helpless as she could do nothing for the masters who just died to the blades of this Sith, this traitor. The white-clad hero then steeled herself to face this opponent, who had now seen her and performed the Makashi salute. Inhaling she smelled the charred flesh of the dead masters and charged. Running forth, she ignited her silver blades engaging the deviant Sith with the art of dual blade fencing. White petals flowing from her cloak she engaged the Sith with a fury most Jedi abandoned for fear of the Darkside. As she engaged, her blades clashed against his with a crackling hiss. The flashing pulse as the air filled with the noises of their weapons. It was at which point she noted she was on the defensive, and she noted the nearby ledge of a balcony that overlooked a hall. The Sith smiled as he saw this fact as well and at this and engaged a second viridian blade on his hilt as the half-circle guard opened and he smiled, "Time to die, Jedi!"

The blades spun on the circular hilt and locked the Jedi into a defensive as the Sith pushed her ever closer to the edge that led to a steep drop. With a smirk and a quick force push, she went over the edge and fell into the hall below. She used the force to right herself as she fell. Though she then landed next to a blue-clad Jedi Knight with a cross guarded blue saber that this Jedi had ready she had at the ready. Quickly acknowledging the other, the blue knight and white-clad Jedi engaged various Sith marauders and their troops as the Temple around them burned, littered with the corpses of their fallen comrades. Both held back tears as they fought, though they fought with the fury fueled by guilt and sorrow, but most of all hope. They deflected blaster bolts and repulsed the Sith as they were pushed back. The viridian bladed sith did not pursue but he did look down from above.

Unfortunately, the hero knew none of these Jedi. though, she could feel the darkness that had eclipsed them as Coruscant fell. She needed to help them as much as she could, that's what she did now, she helped others in need. She refused to let herself or the blue knight faultier, though they were getting overwhelmed and they were truly getting desperate the hero of the Jedi revealed her knowledge of the dark side to the Sith, after taking a blaster bolt to her hood which had knocked it down, revealing that her hair, tied back ponytail of red-tipped black. Her silver eyes glared as she retaliated to the sith trooper in the form of a blast of force lightning. She frowned as she felt the pain in her hands as she used this ability, but in her life, she had walked both paths of light and dark. After which the two Jedi began to fall back dipping into lesser scarred corridors.

This dual existence of light and dark was not something she was not proud of. Her knowledge of the dark side, to her the darkness did have its uses as she learned a lot over the years. It was at this point the order was relayed to fall back and protect the Senate via a Jedi yelling out as he tried to rally all those who were falling back. As much as the duo wanted to stay and fight, they knew the senate had to be protected. The battle to evacuate was nowhere as intense but a Sith wielding two blue blades stood in their way. She bore the marking on her robes of a dark councilor, which made the duo decide to evade rather than fight as both of the Jedi knew they in the exhausted state they were in knew such a battle would be a hopeless fight not worth the waste of life. Thusly they reached a shuttle, one taking them far from the battle for the temple

During the event that became the Sacking of Coruscant, the Empire and Republic signed a peace treaty on Alderaan, the treaty was less than favorable for the Republic but it guaranteed a level of peace as both sides recovered in a ceasefire. The war went cold, awaiting a spark to ignite it again, as both sides fought in the shadows. No open warfare, it was during this time the Jedi discovered a years lost Jedi had rejoined their ranks. She had returned to Coruscant, from whatever hell she was buried in. Her white-clad presence brought the Tython-bound Jedi one thing, Hope. as they were exiled from the husk of the temple on Coruscant, This silver-eyed Jedi of old, told the modern order that she had a plan to defeat the Sith. Her word was trusted as they had seen that she had faced the emperor and lived, and the name of this Jedi was Meetra Surik to the Jedi, she was a rose blooming just at the right moment. Though she still bore another name, the name of her exile, Summer Rose.


On a distant world far from the conflicts of Jedi and Sith, on a world known as Remnant. The teams of RWBY and JNPR, still recovering from the breach incident just months prior were sent to investigate a deactivated dust mine by General Ironwood. This former mine was suspected to be a White Fang hideout. It was buried deep in the mountains kilometers out of Vale. though one concerning fact arose, despite this being a former Schnee Dust mine, Weiss knew nothing about the mine or its contents. One more concerning detail was how the equipment seemed like it never bore the insignia of the Schnee Dust Company. This gave it an even darker air when they approached as they saw no activity, not a soul in sight of the place, aside from them. As they approached they could see crates masked with camo nets that further shaded and concealed the area further. Jaune approached Ruby as he looked around as the teams fanned out keeping their eyes open for movement, especially toward the gaping maw of the mine that they were looking at. The lights flickering inside really gave the team some bad feelings, and Jaune stepping forward up to Ruby was the first to express this feeling

"Hey, Ruby, is this place giving you the creeps?" Jaune inquired to Ruby nervously as they approached the mine with their respective teams in toe behind them in no particular formation, though they had their weapons ready as they all could feel something in this site.

She replied, "Yeah, have a bad feeling about this place," she said looking around, her head on a swivel. Blake was behind them still pestering Weiss if she knew anything about this mine she replied with responses that said she knew nothing. Despite this Blake did not believe Weiss and kept pestering her.

"Blake, please, I may be the Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company but I know little of all the things my father does," Weiss spoke, trying to get her faunus friend to hopefully understand. Unfortunately for her, she gave a look of disbelief once more and Weiss wanted to pinch the bridge of her nose and sigh. Though what came next was not Blake's voice but Ruby's.

"Blake, if Weiss knew anything she would've told us, this is the White Fang we are dealing with," Ruby explained as she looked over at the duo of white and black that her team had, she smiled as she walked forward, approaching the mine.

Weiss was actually slightly shocked by this statement, as it signaled Ruby was taking this very seriously, then again she remembered the briefing they were given and realized Ruby wanted to prove herself. As they entered the mine, they realized the lights were still on. This fact signified to the group someone was here, and if not, they were here recently. They kept walking deeper into the mine searching everywhere for clues. It was like the mine was deserted hastily, things thrown around as if a mass of people were trying to escape. They found White Fang Regalia along with mining equipment, but not a single person in sight. Out of the corner of her eye, Yang saw a note posted on a structural support column that she read aloud.

"'To the ones who find this note, BEWARE of the back of the mine! There's something back there, we don't know what.'" Yang read this aloud, "Well that's cryptic. We gonna check it out?" Inquired Yang, as she crumpled the note in her hand shoving it into a pocket in the interior of her jacket.

"We came here to investigate, So I see no reason why not," replied, Ruby, with a smile that bore a slightly nervous undertone in her voice. Okay keep calm it's not like this is anything new, Ruby thought as she was given command over both teams in a sort of martial sense by the General. With that thought, she began to keep trotting down the cave-like shaft to the mine as her team was following. JNPR was quickly following, though as they walked they saw tools dropped on the floor, boot prints in the dust, showing a hasty evacuation of the mine and this sent up red flags for Jaune as they continued and he protested.

"Well, that thing had the miners or White Fang running. it could be really dangerous," Jaune spoke nervously. It was a seven-to-one vote on going further into the mine, Jaune being the only opponent. Though, as they continued into the bowels of the mine, they didn't notice any signs of struggle or any hints that anything was wrong as they walked along minus the hasty evacuation. That is when they saw the dust crystal in the walls as the light hit them. Under the light, they morphed and twisted with dark shadows from the crystals. These crystals were so strange Weiss even made a comment on how odd they were. The group as they drove deeper also noticed how hastily everything was dropped, even more so as the tools that were left abandoned were still running, some machines still left idling in place. Despite all of this, the two teams kept walking as a group towards the rear of the mine.

Once they passed a certain point, without much warning, the duo of teams heard the rattle of guns being lowered towards them from behind as they also heard an energy field activate. Once trapped the teams heard the phrase "checkmate!" come from behind them as well. They turned to face the squad of White Fang, lead by a ghost of Blake's past, Adam Taurus. The eight's eyes went wide as they noted the sheer amount of explosives on the wall, disguised to hide it from view. It was at this moment the eight knew what this was, a trap, as the White Fang leader clicked the detonator, with a smile. It was at this point Weiss reflexively grabbed Ruby by the arm, her mind telling her that she did not want to die alone as the detonation ignited.


The initial explosion was not that of sufficient magnitude to do any major structural damage to the mine, but the energy it instilled in the dust still encased in the walls caused an even more devastating secondary explosion. Only microseconds after the initial detonation, the secondary explosion was not that of a concussion detonation, like the first. No, it was like a singularity absorbing matter into it. And the teams were engulfed in the white light of the singularity of this strange form of dust. Despite what was engulfing them Weiss refused to let go of Ruby's arm as the veil was sheared open right before them. Her grip was tight as the vortex began to swirl faster and faster. The teams had no idea what was happening though as they were whipped around in the vortex that formed, Yang was the first to enter the epicenter, then Blake, then Lie Ren, and lastly Jaune. Though the four that remained couldn't tell who remained as their aura is what kept them alive during this event that should have killed them. Though another miracle occurred, as their bodies were pushed out from the singularity. As the four passed out from the forces straining their bodies, Weiss and Ruby were still linked together as their auras had a strange reaction to the dust. It was like the vortex stretched their auras and linked them, as the vortex finally collapsed sending the four survivors flying around in the crater of removed materials of the blast as the vacuum of the singularity collapsing cracked the air as it filled the void that was left by the vortex that had ripped the four of their friends from the world. With the crash of the air, they fell their auras shattering as they hit the ground.

Ruby was the first of the four survivors to wake up, they were in the crater of the blast, though to call this a crater would be a massive injustice as it was more of a hemisphere cut out of a mountain. In front of them all, exposed to the crater was a thicket of dense woods. Ruby's eyes fluttered open, and her mind was still in shock as she felt her aura was weak yet feeling somewhat different. The poor huntswoman's body was hurting and burned as she saw red eyes peering through the darkness in the woods. Knowing they had Grimm, she reached for Crescent on the back of her belt. She felt nothing there on her belt and her body locked and her heart raced when she realized it wasn't there. Looking around she saw her precious weapon shattered on the ground, saving her from death by breaking on a rock to save her from breaking her back. Though, it was completely shattered and virtually useless. Her prized weapon was destroyed to save its owner. As she saw this she could feel her aura crack and sputter as her heart broke. Her clothes were beaten and ragged, blood trickling from small wounds all over her body as her Aura was depleted yet she knew that she needed to fight.

Realizing there was no time to mourn the loss of her precious scythe, she needed to arm herself to fight for her friends. By her left hand was Weiss's Rapier, Myrtenaster along with Weiss who was unconscious right by Ruby. its blade was buried in the ground as it loosed itself from Weiss's belt in the blast. Ruby, remembered basic sword training from Signal before Qrow picked her up and taught her how to use a scythe. She grabbed the sword pulling it from the dirt below. Feeling its weight in her hands, she was not used to a weapon like this. as she sauntered forward, she saw Pyrrha's sword, Milo, buried into the dirt on her right side seeing no alternative she picked up her blade as well. her eyes narrowed on the Grimm as she noticed, Blake, Yang, Jaune, and Lie Ren, were not in the hole with them. Her mind snapped back to the mine, her grips on the blades tensed as she felt anger, hatred, and grief rushing over the poor girl. staring down the Grimm her eyes almost burned with an unfamiliar sensation. She could not place what she was feeling in her heart but the darkness ebbed and pulsed. She could feel her eyes burning with hatred as the silvery color flashed and pulsed to a sulfurous tone. She roared out as she engaged the Grimm only attracting more with her anger and grief. She barreled forth with a fury that she always kept in check, as her mom always told her anger leads down a dark path. Though part of her relished in the un-before seen anger almost like a catharsis as she was slicing through the Grimm like a razor.

For Weiss, it felt like hours before her ears would stop ringing. The Heiress felt sapped of all her strength. As she struggled to move, she decided to open her eyes to see if she still was in her flesh. Looking up she saw the blue remnant sky. Looking around she saw Pyrrha and Nora still unconscious, but no Jaune Yang Blake Ren, or Ruby. Not seeing any of them her heart sank. Though then she saw a flash of red and heard a faint voice yelling, muffled by the tinnitus in her ears. In seconds she saw what was happening, Ruby was fighting Grimm, though her fighting seemed different as she engaged them. As Weiss's vision recovered becoming less fuzzy she saw why. Ruby was not using her scythe; no she was using twin swords, her own sword, along with Milo, Pyrrha's spear. She was wondering why Ruby wouldn't be using Crescent Rose. As she thought about it, she saw her answer on the ground next to her and from what she could see, it was destroyed beyond repair.

Weiss could feel the raw emotion Ruby was going through trying to save what remained of her friends. She looked around for any way she could assist but found none. Returning back to Ruby, Weiss heard her voice cold with anger and hatred. Those two elements were two things the little redhead was not known for. As her hearing focused she could hear the vulgarity and wolfish growls poured from her mouth as she darted around. The normally red blur was blackened from the soot and scorching from the blast. Her motions were decidedly and markedly more brutal than ever before. She was cleaving through the hordes with ease despite her injuries, though her injuries caused what happened next.

Her right leg locked up in a tinge of pain allowing a Beowulf to break Ruby's recently recharged aura and slammed its claws into her right shoulder, ripping from front to back. the claws tearing through Ruby's clothes and cloak in the process. At the sight of this, Weiss's eyes almost popped out of her head in horror as her friend and partner were wounded. Her mind was going miles a second. Hearing Ruby's blood-curdling shriek, Weiss decided she had to try something, anything. Though that something was a trick that most likely would kill her if it even worked. That thing was an Aura Transfer. This by all rights was a forbidden technique that was well hidden from most to all due to its nature. The transfer is giving up a portion of the Aura to someone. The one performing the transfer ends up transferring a part of their soul, according to the records of transfers the ability to do this act was spontaneous. Most didn't know what they did until it was too late. Many of Atlas's labs tried to recreate such an event but with no success, Weiss knew this, as she felt her aura trying to channel into her fingertips.

Seeing Ruby moments from death as the Beowolf Raised its claw for her head, Weiss looked at her, she could feel something new, something between her and Ruby. it was like she had discovered the infrastructure to do what she needed to do, though it just was not active yet. Noting this as a symptom of distortion dust, she knew that the transfer would be easier. She sighed, as she felt the grief and anger flowing through her, she did not want any more of her friends to die, especially Ruby. She didn't care, no more people were to die today, even if she died to save her. As she knew Ruby would live and that would make it worth it and fulfill her promise to be the best partner she could be. In a split second, Weiss extended her arm and focused her Aura and her glyphs to focus part of her aura in a line to Ruby.

The pain in her shoulder was unlike anything Ruby had felt before. Ruby felt her blood pouring out, seeping into her cloak and top. Though she impaled the skull of the Grimm who did the damage. Though she sat there trying to bring herself to fight the pain was unbearable. She felt her aura fading as she leaned on Pyrrha's spear. She was gasping in pain it taking all of her strength to keep her up. Though in that second something changed, that's when she felt a cool breeze on all of her wounds as they closed and healed like her aura was being supercharged. Seeing more of Grimm, she adopted a stance that only someone intimately familiar with the types of weapon she was holding would know. Ruby thought this stance was weird as she had only basic sword combat knowledge. Engaging the Grimm with that cool feeling engulfing her as she heard the word "Live" being spoken in Weiss's voice in the back of her head. Hearing these words Ruby smirked as she re-engaged with the Grimm.

Ducking and rolling, as she felt her anger swelling within as her will to fight was boosted. She let out an almost feral growl as she could hear what sounded like mechanical rasping in her ears. It was methodical and precise. The sound was alien to her. Though as she fought she felt alien herself. As she pressed forward aggressively her vision flashed between two places as she fought. That is when Ruby evaded an incoming Grimm and then struck with newfound agility, thrusting the blade of Myrtenaster into the brain of an Ursa that barreled out of the forest. Ruby smiled as the Ursa fell dead at her feet, it was at that point Ruby held up both blades readying herself for further combat. She saw the forest morph and ignited and the blades in her hands turn into red energy for a split second humming with a verbose power. After that split second, she saw more of the Grimm in the forest back down, retreating as if they had just witnessed something even more terrifying than them.

Watching as she felt her aura giving out completely, Weiss saw Ruby fighting and doing so with cunning unlike any she had ever seen from the little red Huntress. Weiss saw skilled swordsmanship with Myrtenaster and Milo. It was in one split second she watched the environment morph and twist with flames, and a black-cloaked figure standing tall, with to blood-red energy blades held at their sides.

Watching as the vision faded and she faded in and out of consciousness, she knew the transfer was successful as Ruby stood victorious holding the stained black blades in hand as the Grimm retreated and their fallen corpses disintegrated. She had accepted the blackness of death. Before she could close her eyes for the last time, she saw Ruby's silver eyes were above her. She could tell by the way they looked like she was panicking, though, something looked different as they flickered in color from a yellow. She could feel Ruby frantically trying to save her. She didn't want Weiss to die but Weiss conceded her fate.

Ruby wanted to scream, she had already lost four people today, she wasn't going to let Weiss die. As Weiss's eyes fluttered weekly as Ruby looked down upon her friend, she was going to die and Ruby felt a pain in her soul as held her dying friend. Weiss was smiling weakly as she held her, while Ruby was in tears. It was at that point Ruby felt like something unlocked inside her, a power she could use to save Weiss. Almost like a connection between the two, she found herself pouring her aura into her last hope. She felt like what was missing in Weiss was restored, that's when something inside them both clicked and Weiss started to regain her strength she felt her aura returning as she felt Ruby transfer her aura to her but Ruby didn't lose consciousness as Weiss did, but she did feel weak as Ruby noticed her normally Red aura was lighter in color. though after a few seconds Weiss awoke in the redhead's arms. Seeing her awake made Ruby hug her tightly, with tears streaming down her face. She had saved Weiss, though unknown to her she sealed their fate.

Once they got back to their feet, RW began to help the PN portion of their friends. As they got them back up Ruby began looking around the blast site frantically looking for Yang, as Nora did the same for Lie Ren. they saw nothing but ash and dust. Ruby using her semblance searched the surrounding area as her mind raced, No she can't be gone, she can't. There is no sign of any of them. My god, no. That is when the poor redhead's heart began to sink as she began calling out their names.

"Yang! Blake! Jaune! Ren!? Anyone?" Ruby yelled as grief poured into her sinking heart. It felt like a lead weight had been affixed to her chest as the realization took hold of her. They are gone… She thought to herself. Her hope faded as her knees felt weak and crumpled below her she felt the tears start to well and she faltered, letting out a deep wail of a scream as she counted this among her failures.

Hearing her cry Weiss realized there was nothing she could do for her partner at this time except go up and hug her. She knew this pain as the white-clad girl looked over her friend who was kneeling. She remembered the family she lost to the white fang as she patted Ruby on the back as Pyrrha and Nora began to console each other.

Weiss looked at Ruby, and she could feel the girl's pain, as she herself knew the loss of family that she faced. She had lost a few cousins and an aunt to the White Fang. She crouched down next to the sobbing Ruby and put her arm around her shoulder. That is when it finally hit her as well. She lost her friends and her teammates. In a way, it hurt more than her family as she looked back at the crater. They are gone. Though a wave of emotions filled her as she saw the Grimm circling in the woods. She grabbed her Rapier from next to Ruby and readied to fight. As she held her blade up, she could feel something as she looked at them, staring at them dead in their burning red eyes. She held up her blade readying to fight as tears welled in the corners of her vision. Though as she blinked to clear them, something changed, she saw it all change. Her weapon was replaced by a beam of icy blue energy. As she looked down at the Grimm in this new environment, she saw them backing down as their normally red lines shifted color. Though she quickly returned to reality as she saw the beasts of Grimm were retreating. Looking around, she saw Pyrrha and Nora, they were both crying out in the pain of their losses. Ruby looked destroyed, her sobbing filling the air as Weiss pulled out her scroll and called for the evacuation bullhead. She went back to try and do the impossible, which was trying to console her team.


Far away, The blast had just consumed them, the four of them. The vortex they were flung into tortured them with bolts of lightning for the brief time it held them. It was even crueler, slamming them face down into the muck of the land. To them, it was realized to be even crueler when they found themselves with odd creatures with unknown weapons, though like rabid animals they began to attack them. Later they would learn the name of these hammer-headed bipeds was 'Flesh Raiders.'

Initially, after their emergence, the mud was clear. As the locals saw them, they were surrounded, the raiders not moving on them due to their shocking entrance. When they stood up they saw the ramshackle camp and the dirt they landed in had a sparse amount of bones decorating it along with chunks of rusted metal, as the smell of ash filled the air.

Scared and afraid of the creatures in front of them communicating in a way that was impossible to translate, they readied to fight. Yang raised her fists deploying Ember Celica, Jaune raised Crocea Mors, Blake took an offensives stance with Gambol Shroud, and Lie Ren readied storm flower.

The flesh raiders were cautiously circling them, like vultures above a corpse. Looking around the lost four did not see their four teammates. This fact sent the blonde brawler into a rage as her mind screamed WHERE IS RUBY, which she could not control. Her eyes burned red with rage and her hair ignited in golden flames, as she feared the worst could have happened to her sister. She shot forward into the crowd of the tribal creatures. Her rage consumed all rational thought as her fists connected with these things' faces

Under attack the other three fought. though the weapons they had instead of plinking off their opponent's aura. They did their job, they impacted the flesh with violent and bloody effects. Though they had little time to focus on this fact as the raiders sounded a battle horn, calling even more of them into the fray. With that call Yang's anger was overflowing, she thought her sister could be dead, and she had no idea what these creatures were and she didn't care. She was drenched in blood, each hit from their weapons just made her angrier. Her weapons caused especially violent effects on the attackers, who now we're on the defensive.

Jaune was on the verge of gagging at the sight of the damage their weapons were causing to these creatures. Though he couldn't stop fighting, as this was a fight to the death. Blake and Lie Ren were in the same boat, fighting because there was no other option. The trio was back to back as the hordes swelled around them. Despite this, Yang's rage was still the loudest thing on the battlefield. None of them had ever seen Yang like this her hair was shifting from burning gold to a flaming white as the red glow of her eyes intensified.

Yang felt like a failure, she failed to protect her sister. The one person she care the most about was probably dead, and yet she was alive somewhere fighting for her life against an opponent she did not understand. Caked in blood, gore, and viscera, Yang raised her bloodied fists and reloaded Ember Celica. Thought the white-hot rage that had consumed her was doused, by three humming energy blades surrounding her, followed by a stern and concise,

"Do not move!" She saw wielders of the blades were cloaked in brown and tan robes. She could feel the humming in the blade in her body due to how close the tips of the blue and green blades were to her body. Raising her hands to put them up, her eyes returned to their normal lilac color. She looked around seeing the gory damage she had committed upon the creatures. She felt faint as the three blades kept humming away as she realized these things weren't a weird form of Grimm, they were living things. Looking at her hands she had realized what she had done. The trio's weapons were coated in the crimson blood of the flesh raiders, though they had not attracted the vigor of the new faction that had entered the fray, their presence was enough to scare them away. Though all four of them were appalled by their own actions, the sight of Yang surrounded by corpses and coated in blood, shook them to the core. Blake in particular was shocked by Yang's rage. Though it was at this point white-cloaked figure approached the captive Yang and lowered her hood. It was at this point the three watched as Yang broke down into tears.

"Mom…" were the only words out of Yang's mouth as she started to sob. Seeing this, the three with the blades were dismissed as the woman in the white cloak hugged the upset brawler. "Where is Ruby?" Yang asked looking at the woman she called mom, who then responded with a bit of a confused tone.

"If Ruby is not here now she is alive and well on Remnant," This fact calmed Yang down slightly, but she relented in the fact Ruby would be okay. Okay without her. It was at that point a shuttle came by and whoever these people were.


In the distant galaxy, at a different time on a dark and gloomy day, lightning crackles in the air. the day was normal for a day on Dromund Kaas, though the force storms seemed a slight bit more potent on this day. The darkness permeates all of the regions of the planet, tainting even the life that teems within the swamps and jungles of the planet. Walking through this desolated wilderness is alone, a darkly clad figure. the figure's robes swaying with each step, as he was contemplating the prophecy a Specter told him in the tombs of the lords long past. The Specter voice right now was haunting his mind as he looked at the Holocron that revealed the information to him originally, "The drums of war beat, louder and louder, heralding Their arrival from a planet long lost." He smiled continuing his stroll.


A/N: Well first thing first! New cover with the titular characters! I commissioned art from the lovely dearie of DeerieDopts. She does great work, and well I know I drove her nuts with this commission. So once again thanks to her for, the full-body art of those four.

See DeerieDopts on Deviant Art for the full images of the characters of Ruby, Weiss, Nora, Pyrrha. (Maybe more down the line)

For my lightsabers, just look at my Deviant Art, BlitzingRaptor

So why this rework on the intro? I wanted it to be more fleshed out and less cringy than when I initially wrote this section in 2015 then modified it somewhere in 2016. I was hardly the writer I am today. I am not rewriting the entire story, though I want to do an editing pass eventually on all the chapters. I did have a few retcons to make so I hopefully caught a few errors in there. Also, I am playing more with dramatic irony, hence why, I moved a few later flashbacks to here to play out in real-time. Also, I won't be doing full A/Ns for Chapters 1-10 so enjoy the sparseness at the bottom.

So, with all of that out of the way, Thank you all for reading, if you have any comments, critiques, suggestions, or corrections, feel free to leave a review or PM me if you can, anything can help the Story. Now then, please everyone be safe, and may the force be with you all thank you all for reading, reviewing, following, favoriting, and sharing RWBY: Dark Side of a Rose!