A/N: I thought this Chapter title worked better than the old one.


Chapter 10: The Blood of Remnant


When Ruby returned to reality, she felt her new arm and the new weapon in her hand. looking behind her she saw Weiss unconscious with Adam standing over her the point of his blade only millimeters from her neck. Ruby felt anger and rage, and with a slight tingle in her eyes. She snapped up and growled, "Get. Away. FROM. HER. YOU BASTARD!" finishing it in a roar, as she flicked her left hand with that same instinct she showed with the flashbang. This action flung the murderous terrorist like a rag doll. Ruby watched as her newfound power flung the man out the window. After that Weiss began to recover as Ruby examined her for any major injuries. Looking up Ruby had unmasked her face but what Weiss saw was not normal. Ruby's eyes had pulled a Yang and changed color Weiss thought though her look turned to shock as that was the yellow she saw in all those visions.

"Weiss, are you alright, can you still fight?" Ruby asked of her partner. Concerned Weiss saw Ruby's arm was back, so what just happened was beyond her. Though their was still a dead arm with a sword behind her. So aside from what Weiss just saw when unconscious and the fact Ruby had her arm back. She nodded that she was in fact perfectly fine minus some minor confusion due to the latter.

"Yes I can, I had a weird Vision, though," she said feeling something in her hand it was like the weapon Ruby was holding. So that wasn't a dream, Weiss thought as now she examined the weapon the one she had was a bit different than her partner's as hers had four spikes protruding from both ends. She felt and noticed the new amulet on the back of her left hand which caused Weiss to wonder who that Exar Kun was. She stood as she reached up with her left hand and felt the marks on her cheek and forehead but she ignored it as Ruby spoke.

"Well Weiss we need to get moving," Ruby said signaling with her new hand which Weiss inquired about but Ruby replied, 'She had no idea what happened either but they needed to get back into the fight' and they did just that. Returning to the battle at hand with Ruby as she leaped out the already broken window after Ruby did.


On the arena floor, Mercury and Emerald had received assistance from Neo and Cinder, which lead to Pyrrha and Nora being incapacitated by them. as Cinder and her minions walked over to the unconscious girls. The goons were ready to administer death to them. The four criminals smiled at the destroyed weapons, of the huntresses but it was at that moment white flashes erupted in their hands. Suddenly they were back on their feet and they somehow had regained consciousness. They stood tall with what appeared to be flashlights in their hands. Not knowing what was going on the four stopped as the press boxes window was shattered and Adam came flying out. The crowds of hostages were cheering at this display and cheered even louder as they saw two cloaked figures leap out of the window.

"Okay, who are these people?" Cinder asked actually nervous by those weapons they had in their hands, praying they weren't what she thought they could be. Though as she reached out with her abilities she felt cold, these character's sent chills up her spine. Each was a burning beacon of darkness to her. She knew darkness from her master but this was like something had given these girls power No Remnant should be this strong in the Force, unless… Though one with a very cocky voice spoke to answer her question.

"Well, I think we owe them an introduction, knights, " Ruby said with a newfound menace in her voice. On that order, they dropped their visors and lowered their masks and their hoods. Their eyes made Cinder start to lose her cool inside, they were like hers, and they all were glowing a sulfuric yellow, that's when she realized fully what she was dealing with. In her mind, she cursed why now of all the times did they have to find out now! She knew this would happen as she said in her head, it was only a matter of time till someone on this planet figured out they are force sensitive. That's when she realized they were the remnants of team JNPR and RWBY. With this knowledge, she could feel their anger and hatred toward her and the White Fang.

Ruby glanced at the thing in her hand. That's when a flood of memories came back and she remembered her Mother had a weapon like this that she rarely used. She remembered the one time she saw the Silver blade of energy as her mother engaged a Beowolf. As they stood in front of the crowd of captive students, who were cheering for the knights now that they saw their faces. The students of beacon led the chant of "Black Knights! Black Knights! Black Knights!" By the third chant, even those abroad watching found themselves chanting as the cloaked heroes revealed themselves. Ruby smiled away at the chanting as she felt through her new metallic hand where the button to activate the weapon was, just in case.

"Hey fire queen, you look nervous," Nora instigated raising her weapon showing the hilt looked like that of a tooth. A quarter of her face was now marked on her face with a pattern of black tattoos that looked tribal mainly consisting of lines and dots. Her smile was even more wicked and twisted as she readied the weapon and felt a new power coursing through her veins.

"I think she knows she's lost," Pyrrha added raising her weapon up hers was bent and like Nora, she had a marking on her face, a black oval with a scar-like dash on it on her right eye.

"I haven't lost yet girls," Cinder replied smiling even though her forces were surrounded by the four girls, she still had some tricks up her sleeve, as she came to the realization that these girls couldn't be too strong due to them just unlocking the world of the force.

"I do believe you have Cinder" a voice boomed as another bullhead descended it was a voice both Weiss and Ruby knew well, it was Qrow who jumped out of the bullhead followed by Winter, Taiyang, Glynda, and Raven all with weapons at the ready minus Winter. "Well, Ruby I must say your team has done a good job subduing the threat," Winter spoke as she drew her sword.

"Ah, Mister Branwen, Miss Schnee, cocky as always but you see I haven't lost yet. Well, my apprentices time to show them your true powers," like that, massive concussive blasts erupted from the palms of Cinder's contingent. They all felt the concussive blasts that flung the newly arrived reinforcements back along with the captive students. Though, the four knights weathered the blasts, the origins of the blast were at the hands of Cinder's main minions, excluding Adam and Neo.

Recovering, Taiyang looked at Ruby and her team. He originally hoped Ruby would go back to being her normal cookie-loving self, but seeing her now, he knew that was impossible. The look on her face told him all he needed to know, a fierce determination to end this battle, no matter the cost. Though his eyes were drawn to her hand. He was shocked by what Ruby was holding in her right hand. With that weapon in hand as she weathered the waves of kinetic energy bombarding them. Holding up her dominant hand the rest of Prydwen did the same. Cinder was shocked at how they were withstanding the blasts with little effort, that was when she felt how strong they truly were which could only be due to one thing they all had an outside force-sensitive lineage. Retaliating, the girls threw them back with their own concussive blasts.

Recovering from the sling from the window of the press box Adam began to charge. Qrow, having fully recovered himself, saw the bull Faunus charging at Ruby's back. Seeing this attack Qrow leaped into the fray parrying the incoming blow. In a quick exchange along with dirty fighting, Adam disarmed Qrow. Seeing the glint of the blade, Qrow accepted his fate, opening his arms to accept the blade through his chest. His body felt no pain as the blade bisected his heart.

Seeing this everyone was in shock as Adam withdrew his sword from Qrow's body, blood spraying, coating the arena's floor and his killer. While his body was falling, that's when everyone present could feel the shock in everyone's minds. Ruby's yellow eyes went wide and filled with tears of anger at this sight, as with the rest of her team. Ruby felt rage as Adam took another one of her loved ones. Her team feeling her Rage, Weiss especially, they all ignited their blades all a bright crimson minus one. These blades were a source of shock to Taiyang, as Summer said to him once 'you can trust most colors of the blade just never trust those who wield a red blade.' Yet here he was watching his daughter using such a blade, one like her mother's yet hers was red, as were her friends minus one, Weiss who had a blue blade. Watching, he saw Ruby lash out as her blade sliced right through Adam's blade but he avoided the crimson blade.

"Adam, are the charges set?" Cinder yelled over the sound of the blades swerving in the air. She watched Mercury and Emerald avoiding the blades while trying to retaliate themselves. Though Pyrrha and Nora remained fierce opponents. Not having sabers of their own, they had to dodge them.

"Yes they are!" he said as he felt a burning feeling in his chest. Looking down he saw a crimson blade piercing the left side of his body and leaping in front, the Schnee girl pierced the right side of his chest with her blue blade. As the blades were withdrawn the silence in the arena was palpable, as Ruby and Weiss took a life. The Students, the White Fang, all of the Staff, even those across the world remnant everyone watching gasped as Adam fell dead on the floor his mask snapping in two upon his fall. All of the conflicts stopped as all eyes focused on this scene.

The silence was broken by Ruby saying "You kill my friends, my sister, destroy my Scythe, take my arm, and now you kill my uncle, now it's your turn to die." The staredown between Cinder and Ruby was so tense the world could feel it through the camera feed. It was at this point Cinder drew a weapon like Ruby's and ignited it, glowing a burning orange, and battle was on. the two engaged in a display of combat unseen before on Remnant. Ruby charged in with an amplified scream loud enough to rupture eardrums, followed by a loud crack and a concussive blast of air. At such a high speed, her rose petals flew like a blizzard. her blade blurring as the movement is a fearsome display. Cinder barely parried this strike. Though she needed more defense to hold her ground. Instinctively Cinder deployed her second saber, so she could counter Weiss's incoming attacks. Cinder knew she was on the defensive, one wrong move she would lose as these two girls were overpowering her with sheer speed and ferocity.

It was at this point Pyrrha and Nora Re-engaged the other two rogues. watching in abject horror at what she just saw, Neopolitan bolted off the arena floor. She had to find Torchwick, who she knew was being held captive by the White Fang as Cinder's bargaining chip to keep her loyalty. It was time for her to get him and get the hell off of this thing, lest she wanted to end up like Adam. As she figured after Cinder, Roman would be next on Red's list. Pyrrha noted that Neo was fleeing but decided to focus on the opponent in front of her. The world watched the feed as they kept pressing forward, as the Black Knight revealed the blackness in their hearts, as they showed no mercy.

Back in the battle in the center of the arena, Cinder was trying to calculate Ruby and Weiss's movements. A task that was almost impossible though the force did assist her. they were simply too fast as each of their movements boomed with the decimation of the sound barrier. Their blades crackled in the air as they collided, seeing an opening Cinder bolted back only to feel her legs get snagged by her ankles. looking down she saw two bright red floral glyphs that had vines that engulfed the lower part of her leg. Focusing her aura, she broke them off, allowing her to use a pulse of energy to propel her escape. Back on her feet as Ruby leaped to the spot where she just was, embedding her blade into the ground. As Ruby recovered, Weiss kept up the onslaught using both her speed and glyphs to her advantage. Cinder was glad she had two blades, as even one of the girls was a pain to deal with.

Ruby reentered the fight in spectacular fashion, charging forward as her blade dragged along the ground. As Ruby swung her blade, molten slag from the arena floor went up in the air. The redhead formed her flower-like glyphs on the slag, propelling the molten material into Cinder's eyes, blinding her and searing her face.

The pain Cinder was in caused her to lose focus on her abilities, screaming in anguish as Ruby and Weiss came in for an attack, Weiss taking Cinder's left arm at the shoulder, Ruby swiping Cinder's right leg out from under her. With the smell of burning flesh permeating the air along with Cinder's pained screams. Ruby and Weiss looked at the twitching wreck with content smirks on their faces.

That's when Cinder felt her throat being constricted. As she was raised in the air facing Ruby and Weiss, who had their hands up like they were grabbing her throat. Standing side by side Ruby on the left Weiss on the right, blades retracted now and tucked into their belt. Their dominant arms extended strangling the Dark Jedi, their eyes glowing the same fierce yellow as Cinder's were known for. Cinder cursed internally as Adam had the detonator and now she needed it. She felt her apprentices get subdued by Pyrrha and Nora though not outright killed, though Mercury did lose his recently discovered to be metal prosthetic legs to the crazed redhead that apparently loved attacking the legs. Taiyang saw what the two girls were doing and ran up to Ruby, though Pyrrha intercepted him saying "Please don't interfere" with the humming crimson blade close to his neck.

"Ruby! Stop this please," Taiyang pleaded with his daughter over Pyrrha, still shocked by the anger in Ruby's heart. "Please, no one else has to die!"

"Sister! please don't" Winter said, limping over, only to be stopped by Nora, who had her blade lined up with Winter's injured legs, both of them causing the dark duo to release Cinder to acknowledge them. Letting the now disabled Cinder fall to the ground with a loud thud. The duo turned back to back with each other and acknowledged their remaining family, along with calling off Pyrrha and Nora's threats. Winter and Taiyang were both shocked by the looks they were getting as they looked into their yellow eyes. Before they could say a word, Cinder, recovering enough from the pain, sensed her area with the force. Feeling the location of Ruby and Weiss she blasted the duo with a ball of fire impacting on Ruby's right side, Weiss's left, blasting them back together and burning them. With her distraction set, Cinder sensing the location of Adam's corpse, grabbed the detonator off his belt, telekinetically bringing it to her hand and clicking its red button.


Like the blast in the mine, the main detonation did barely anything. though the secondary distortion dust detonation formed a singularity big enough to engulf Amity Coliseum, along with all who were aboard. Though, before the singularity could fully engulf them, Ruby grabbed Weiss's arm with her prosthetic one. As they were engulfed by the singularity, Ruby felt them being pulled apart so she strengthened her grip. As she opened her eyes she saw the dreaded vortex of her dreams. Her eyes were wide with fear as she could see Weiss's were open as well but they were back to their normal ice blue color. Along with Weiss, Ruby's eyes defaulted to their original silver color. That's when Ruby noticed alongside Weiss's singular vertical scar now rested three new scars intersecting perpendicularly to the vertical one. This was along with a mark on the center of her forehead that looks sort of like a four-legged scarab. Though the most upsetting of all, she also noticed the third-degree burns on the left side of Weiss's body stopping just short of her jawline. Ruby knew, by the pain, she was feeling in her face that she was not as lucky.

The right side of her body was burned, stopping just short of her right eye. The pain she was in was unbearable but she had to keep holding on, nothing would break her grip on Weiss's left arm. Bolts of lightning from the walls of the vortex struck them both, the most powerful striking the hexagonal gems on their necks causing them to explode and fragment, unknowingly embedding shards into their chests. This strike caused them to scream more, but nothing could be heard over the roar of the vortex, as their cloaks and other loose or fragmented pieces of their armor were ripped from their persons. After what seemed like hours at hands of vortexes agonizing torture, the girls were finally released, slamming down into the cold muck.


As he walked further down the muddy trail, standing about one hour into his walk, he remembered the ultimate verse."Daughters of the force. born of the blood of lost Jedi. Their blood is unknown to them. Powers yet untapped, to be unleashed upon the Jedi and Their Destiny." This line told the sith one thing, they would indeed be strong in the force and destined for something. This gave him a smirk as he continued walking. Then in his head, he heard another line, one that wasn't heard before.

"The Drums beat louder and closer, cracking like thunder. You Darth Malserik will be their first step on their path to becoming Sith!" It was in the specter's voice and out of all the specters had said for this prophecy. This one new line concerned him the most as he was mentioned by name.

Before he had time to reflect upon this prophecy further, he felt a disturbance in the force so great. It felt like that of worlds being shattered in a nearby system. Startled by this new disturbance, he grabbed his half-circle guarded lightsaber from his belt and readied in his right hand in a weird grip, though not igniting it. A deafening crack of the force storm rang through the swamps as he started to ready for battle. Alert and wary, the Sith saw the lightning strike down it looked very different from any of the force storm lightning he'd seen before. He began to move rapidly towards the site of the strike, unsure of what was going on, but he had the intent of figuring out what was going on.


Far away from Dromund Kaas, on Tython, the Jedi Temple was bustling with activity as always, but everything stopped, all who were there felt the disturbance upon them, though one Jedi master was undisturbed she had felt this before and she had been through it on multiple occasions she knew what was happening another battle had sent more lives off their homeworld throwing them into a galaxy at war.

Meditating on this disturbance, she focused on where the vortex points were opening. They were all over the galaxy, unlike the last time when they were all on Tython. One was on Tython, a lot were on Nar Shaddaa, Coruscant, a few on Taris, Alderaan, and Tatooine. Though she felt some more and discovered, there were some on Korriban and Dromund Kaas. Though quickly as it came it was gone, that's how it went with these disturbances, they were quick. The door opened behind the Jedi master and a female voice said: "Master Surik, you are required in the Council room immediately."

"Thank you, Padawan" Responded the Jedi master as she stood and unfurled a white cloak with a red interior, as she walked out the door with the Padawan.


In pain, laying in the muck, Ruby squirmed to sit up; her body was in extreme pain. Looking around her environment, what she saw she could not believe it. The weird trees that look twisted and sick, the storm roaring overhead, and the overall darkness this place had. She looked around some more in the second sweep she saw Weiss unconscious next to her. Squirming over to her, ignoring the cries of pain from her own body. Ruby saw the extent of the damage done to Weiss's body; third-degree burns all along her left side her armor seared off. Ruby was amazed that none of it touched her face, but not deterred by these wounds Ruby began to check Weiss's vitals. Like Weiss, Ruby's right side was burned, the clothing disintegrated by the flames though one article remained unfazed on her right hand the gauntlet. Before Ruby could even put her metallic fingers to Weiss's neck to check her pulse, Weiss's eyes opened. Like a bolt of lightning, Weiss darted up and hugged Ruby. Crying she yelled, "We're alive! We're alive!"

"We are, but where?" Ruby asked out loud, just happy to see Weiss awake. Though she looked around, the environment was grimly dark. The storm above seemed unnatural, it gave off a discomforting air that made Ruby nervous. Though Weiss's hug reminded them both that they had wounds to tend to.

"No idea," Weiss responded with a bit of a grunt in her voice due to the pain of the burns. Though she started to focus her Aura towards the burns which Weiss knew sadly we're going to scar, she felt Ruby focusing her Aura on doing the same. "But, it's fitting isn't it, that we get caught in the blast"

"Yeah, it is," Ruby replied solemnly, her voice filled with sorrow as she recalled the battle. As her aura turned the burned flesh into leathery pink scar tissue, "I can't believe we did that."

"Did what?" Weiss inquired solemnly as she watched the scar tissue form on their burns.

"Killed Adam," Ruby Responded bluntly, her voice filled with remorse. She felt bad as the revenge she got was bittersweet. The bitterness becoming more evident with each passing second in that swamp. "and that we went flat out berserk on Cinder."

"Yeah well they killed all of our friends, Ruby, and he killed Qrow," Weiss said, her voice filled with guilt and remorse, as well as she was trying to justify her actions.

"I know but now we are no better than him, I wanted to kill him but that wasn't right," Ruby spoke, trying to stifle tears but in her mind, she was a murderer and a tormentor. All of those times she wished for those things to happen to her White Fang and those pulling the strings, she didn't feel satisfied with that action.

"Well, Ruby, all I can say is we were angry and we were not thinking," Weiss said solemnly, trying to justify the act to both herself and Ruby.

"I see you two took your first life," Said a male voice interloping into the conversation, from behind. This voice spooked both Weiss and Ruby who jumped back and drew their lightsabers in defense and the man just stood there, smiling under his hood at the blue and red blades pointed at him.


A smile on a pallid face, and ahead on the floor. A dark womanly figure smiled at the now deceased general Ironwood, whose corpse lay beheaded on the steps before her. He was a good collaborator even if I had reworked his mind to get this to work, now I just have to wait and build up my forces then once we emerge, the galaxy will be ours. She thought as she felt her forces rallied by the dismay and chaos that had just consumed Remnant.


A/N: Well this ends the intro rework I mentioned in chapter 4x a lot. I did change a lot, but it was all well and due. Let me know what you guys think.