A/N: Ah, the old Chapter 2, Exposition city now with less talking, more fun hopefully! Rewrite info on chapter 1
Edit: Changed the Chapter Number (Last chapter of Grammar pass 4/22/22)
Chapter 11: The Arrival
"Ah, Hello Ladies!" The man spoke with energy and vigor not expected of someone wearing what looked like a black hooded bathrobe with a peaked hood. The girl's noted, dark figure stood about six feet as he approached them. The points of the energy swords they held followed him as they snapped out a question.
"Who are you!?" the duo retaliated in shock; blades ignited humming in the gentle rain, the drops hitting the blades pulsing to steam. With their weapons drawn on the dark-clad man they could, he was analyzing them, noting their burned armor and equipment. He also noted the way their hair was inversions of the other, looking at them further he noted the skin burns had already formed scar fresh scar tissue. Continuing his analysis under his hood, he noted the black and red-haired girl was in a Form Seven, Juyo stance, while the white and dyed blue-haired was in a Form two, Makashi stance. Noting their stances, he noted one aspect of the black and red-haired, her eyes had shifted color to the color he knew so well. They were the eyes of someone who had given in to the dark side.
"It is not wise for someone to raise their weapons so quickly on a stranger," The man said looking at the two girls lowering his hood one-handed. Revealing his identity to be a man in his early thirties at most with dark brown hair and a deep green eye, with an eyepatch on his right eye and stubble across his face, "If I were anyone else. you two would be dead with your intestines smoldering on the ground. So please lower your weapons, I mean no harm to you two."
Ruby had a feeling that this man was telling the truth, but she did not know why she felt this way, yet she was still airing on the side of caution. Going on gut instinct she deactivated her blade and Weiss did the same with no words spoken. the man noted as they lowered their weapons the red and black-haired girl's eyes changed to the silver color, which he assumed was their default. This had informed the dark lord that her fall wasn't complete, that was good.
"Okay, I am glad you two did that because I did have my lightsaber ready," the man spoke revealing his guarded lightsaber tucked against the underside of his arm, and like the two girls in front of him, he slotted his saber onto his belt.
"So that's what they are called!" Ruby cheered, happy to be able to put a name to these magnificent weapons as she clicked hers back on her belt, her mind distracted by this mundane fact.
"Interesting, most people know what a lightsaber is," the man spoke, and from his point of view, this was true. Most everyone in the galaxy knew of the energy swords of the Sith and Jedi alike. With that in mind, his next question was obvious, "So ladies, where are you two from?" He asked calmly with a pleasant tone wondering where they could be from that they would not know what.
"No! You are going to answer our question first," Weiss spoke, getting annoyed at this man, not one for someone redirecting a question. Something the man realized he had done as the first question of the encounter was indeed directed at him by asking for his name.
"My apologies, I am Darth Viridian Malserik, Dark Lord of the Sith, and Governor of the Hiskal region and the City of Hiskal," the Man answered eloquently with a bow and pleasant hand gesture. "Now it's your turn, ladies," he smiled as he stood back up.
"I am Weiss Schnee, former heiress to the Schnee Dust Company," Weiss spoke instinctively giving her family company title, something she only did to sound more impressive to this person, though she failed to understand Malserik's titles though under his cloak she saw his attire did indeed match someone of high rank.
Overlooking this factor, she gestured to introduce Ruby, though Ruby interrupted her "And I'm Ruby Rose, leader of a group of four called the Black Knights." Weiss glared at Ruby for interrupting her who proceeded to say, "What, I can introduce myself you know."
"I know that! you dolt, it's just this man sounds to be someone of importance and he is the first person we have met here," Weiss yelled seemingly reverting to her baser self at Ruby's feisty attitude.
"Well this just got awkward," Malserik said backing off, trying to get back on point. This little outburst told them they were still quite immature, mentally.
"I'm sorry for Ruby, Mister Malserik she can be quite feisty sometimes," Weiss said trying to be diplomatic with the man while Ruby glared at Weiss.
"No harm, no foul," Malserik smiled "I was about to stop you myself, so she could introduce herself." With this statement, Weiss pinched the bridge of her nose. "But one can always appreciate tact," He said to relieve Weiss's nerves.
"So, where are we?" Ruby inquired, quite curious of where they were.
"Is your world capable of space travel?" Malserik asked, redirecting the question calmly and hoping the answer was yes. Otherwise, this would get complicated, faster than the Sith would like.
"No," Weiss and Ruby responded cautiously not sure why he would ask then it dawned on her, they may not be on Remnant anymore.
"Well then, you may want to come with me to Hiskal," Malserik said dropping into a serious tone. Not because things just got difficult, he sensed the wildlife was about to get angry if they didn't get out of there soon. With two girls from another world without space travel, that would not be wise to involve them with the local fauna.
"Why? what's going on?" They both inquired simultaneously. Quietly disconnecting his lightsaber from his belt he gestured for the girls to do the same. Right now they had to be as quiet as possible as a pack of vine cats was going by.
To answer their question the man replied, quietly to the two girls with, "damn vine cats." Though this reply was too loud as the roar of the vine cats bellowed towards them. Claws tearing through the mud and muck of the swamp the trio ignited their sabers. Malserik paid close attention to the blades, Red and Blue, interesting colors, He commented internally as he then ignited his own Viridian bladed lightsaber. As the storm above decided to accent the vine cat attack with a crack of lightning.
Malserik counted twelve of them, nothing new or truly dangerous for him. The girls he did not know these creatures, thus they could be a threat to them.
Ruby didn't know what to expect when she heard 'vine cat' though she certainly did not expect the giant toothy lizards that they were. Judging by the look on Weiss's face neither did she, as they came barreling out of the bushes.
The first few leaped at the trio, hoping for an easy meal. Ruby and Weiss retaliated with the concussive blast they had learned just mere minutes ago onto the foul beasts in front of them. Seeing creatures like this made the girls nervous as when the two were pushed back another leaped two in. Seeing the viridian blade whip across the necks of the creatures. The Man they had just met cut them down with ease as they stood and watched him do his work.
Though one had jumped out from the side headbutting the man into the muck of the swamps as the rain shifted into a torrential downpour. Seeing that the man had no Aura puzzled the girls but Ruby leaped into the fray, with Weiss quickly trailing. They couldn't let him die to these things.
Malserik was stunned by the attack as he cursed at himself for not realizing the threat behind him. I rarely make errors like that, He screamed internally Though looking up as he wiped the muck from his eye, he saw and felt the power of the two girls. Seeing their speed, and weird floating symbols. His mind clicked as he realized these two had to be the girls the prophecy foretold. He watched, sitting up as the flurries of red and blue did their work.
Though, he noted Ruby left her back wide open, an error that leads to the deaths of many acolytes and apprentices. Ruby had noticed this attacker one moment too late though to her surprise the vine cat erupted back with a powerful bolt of electricity. Looking back she saw their new friend standing back up. Together they finished off the vine cats.
Concerned about more wildlife interference, Malserik made the suggestion "Come with me you two, We need to get out of the open before more show up."
"Should we, Ruby?" Weiss inquired with a whisper. Despite the situation, Weiss didn't fully trust the man.
"I feel like we can trust him Weiss" Ruby responded calmly "I feel like he has no intent to mislead us or harm us. So let's go!" Ended with a stage whisper cheer. She was unsure of how she felt this way about their new friend but something told her they could trust him. Along with this, Ruby was also avoiding the fact they at this point had no other realistic option.
After deciding it was better for them to stick together and trust the stranger. They walked with the dark albeit now slightly muddy figure. Malserik was giddy with excitement as the girls followed him, He knew Imperious was going to love this.
On Tython the council was convening in their chamber. All of them were concerned with the recent disturbance, something only one Jedi understood truly. All the masters of the Council were present minus one. The table bore one empty chair, even those not on Tython were present
"Where is Master Surik?" Master Gulliman inquired concerned about where she could be. For one of the Jedi councilors, he had the look of a warrior, with sunken eyes and clad in blue robes and armor with gold accents.
"She is on her way," Grand Master Satele spoke calmly at the protesting Council member. As she said that the door to the Council chamber opened and a white and red-clad Jedi entered, hood raised. This Jedi took their seat in the council circle. As she sat she lowered her hood, revealing a woman in her late twenties to early thirties, her skin pale, her eyes a gleaming silver, and her hair midnight black with crimson tips. To the council, this was Meetra Surik.
"Master Surik." Another Jedi Master one by the name of Ruus spoke to gain Surik's attention as he asked of her, "I take it you felt the disturbance."
"I did, it was like the one four months ago, though this one was on a much more pronounced scale," The white-clad master spoke, calmly and collectively. Figuring this one was probably a much larger detonation of distortion dust than last time. Probably involving hundreds of people, and large amounts of other forms of dust.
"Could you determine the systems?" Gulliman asked as he rested his hand on his knuckles as the rest of the masters looked at Surik, wanting to hear what she had to say.
"Yes, there are a lot of systems, I've documented them in a report, the three I am most concerned about are the disturbances I felt near Korriban and Dromund Kaas, along with the one here on Tython" she responded calmly. Relaxing as she opened up a hologram screen of her notes for the council. "Have we managed to find the disturbance on Tython?"
"We have, it was two corpses, a severed hand with a sword, and a blinded woman missing an arm and a leg," Satele spoke responding to Meetra's question. "One of the corpses was dispatched with a solid blade that pierced the heart the other was killed by two Lightsaber strikes through the chest and amputation of the woman's limbs was reminiscent to that of Lightsaber strikes, while her blinding seemed to be with molten metal. The severed arm was removed via a solid blade as well," Satele continued in a further briefing, describing the evidence to Surik who was puzzled by this. curious of what occurred to cause two deceased to come through, though the severed limb also had her even puzzled.
"Interesting, where is the woman and the corpses," Meetra spoke wanting to see the bodies and potentially question the survivor. As evidence currently provided pointed toward the cause of the explosion is a battle.
"They are in the hospital wing, the bodies are in the morgue," Satele spoke calmly. She knew Surik would be prompt at securing all the information she could on what happened.
"I will file a report when I am done with my investigation into them," Meetra said with conviction. Leaving the chamber putting her hood back up and leaving the council chamber.
"Quick to work, she is," the green little master spoke from his chair after Surik had left the room.
"She is our foremost expert in these distortions. She survived the Mandalorian Wars and the attack on the Empire three hundred years ago. Only a few years ago she returned to us." Satele spoke explaining Meetra's unusual position to the other council member. Though, there was something off with the white-clad Jedi. She wasn't trusted by some on the council due to her close ties to the dark side and less social attitude.
"Walks a fine line she does," The little green master spoke, stating the truth most of the council was uneasy with Surik and her methods. Especially how she recently converted a Sith Pureblood to the Jedi.
On Dromund Kaas, Ruby and Weiss had followed Malserik to a clearing where a flying car awaited the trio. Though before they got in Malskerik asked if he could do a quick medical scan. Which they allowed as if there was anything they needed to treat they could find out. To their luck and to Malserik's relief they were in top physical condition for their age. The only thing of note and concern was the fact Ruby had a prosthetic arm. Aside from that information, the scan also gave their body measurements so he could have some new clothes made for the girls once back at Hiskal though he decided to send the data back to his home using the Holo-net. He looked again at the damaged armor they were wearing and thought to himself, Only a few wrong moves or broken fibers away from an embarrassing malfunction.
Malserik had the girls get in the back seats while he took to the pilot seat. The layout was much like a car on Remnant. Sitting down they relaxed in the faux leather seats as the rain plinked off the roof of the airspeeder.
Once airborne, the girls saw the vastness of the swamp was immediately telling them, they were on no known part of Remnant anymore. The Storms above gave a furious light show, something Malserik had to pay attention to as if he went too high he could fry his airspeeder.
As the girls looked around at the fauna and environment. This environment gave off a darkness that not even the most Grimm-infested areas could give off and this swamp stretched for miles at least. Though with fifteen minutes of high-speed flight the terrain became rockier, which shifted into tall forested mountains with snow-capped peaks. They found themselves in a very mountainous region, cruising through the mountainous region, Malserik said to the two ladies in the back "Welcome to Hiskal Ladies, and guessing by the look on your faces you realized you're not on your homeworld anymore."
"So we aren't on Remnant?" Ruby inquired for confirmation, not wanting to believe the situation. Though all of the things she had seen had pointed at the fact they were certainly not on Remnant anymore.
"No you are not on Remnant, I've never heard of a planet by that name," Malserik admitted, wondering where their homeworld was. Of all his time studying the galaxy maps, he had never once heard of a planet named Remnant, which was a tick for them being the ones mentioned in the prophecy as Remnant was seeming like a world that was long forgotten.
"So where the hell are we?" Weiss inquired brashly, wanting information to calm herself down. Though the information he gave did the exact opposite.
"You are in the Hiskal Region of Dromund Kaas, Dromund System, Esstran Sector," Malserik said this in a way to let it sink in the girls' minds they were very far away from home. When they realized the gravity of their situation; they began to sob. They realized they could no longer go home, They were exiled on an alien world. No amount of mental preparation could have readied them for this. Separated from everything they cared about. Malserik let them cry, as right now the situation would seem bleak to them, but he knew a new future awaited them.
Though through tear-filled eyes they saw a valley in the mountains, they saw a dark and gloomy-looking high-tech industrial city. Surrounded by snow-capped mountains and on the top of one of the taller mountains in the valley was a large fortress-like structure bristling with guns, with further gun emplacements all around the pseudo-crater-like valley.
"Hey ladies, you see that fortress up there?" Malserik inquired as the fortress was one of the key elements of the skyline of the city. Along with one of the few things he truly took pride in.
"Yes, what is that?" Weiss inquired as Ruby looked at it herself. Upon further study, the fortress looked more like a high-tech manor until it shifted into a fortress at the sides. It was a castle on a mountain, something that reminded of Weiss of her old home.
"That is Fortress Waldstahl," Malserik said smiling, he designed the fortress himself and he was happy he could call it his home, which he then conveyed to the girls by saying, "That is my home."
"Weiss, you should feel right at home," Ruby teased, making light of the situation as she put her right arm over Weiss's shoulders. It was at this point Weiss got a true grasp for the power this man held.
"My god, this place is bigger than White Castle," Weiss gasped as she studied the massive fortress and that's when Malserik spoke into a microphone on the console after entering a frequency into the console.
"This is Viridian, I am back and I have two guests," He said his voice calm and crisp as the waited for a reply. His fingers tapped on the console for only a second before the reply barked through.
"Roger! My lord!" the voice on the other end barked back in an accented voice.
"I want them treated with respect and authority, Captain, also have the fabricators tailor two garments to these specifications," Malserik added with a serious tone to his voice, as he beamed the data from the scan of Ruby and Weiss he took earlier again just to verify they had them.
"How big is your staff?" Weiss inquired, quite curious about how powerful this man truly was.
"I have a garrison of about one thousand of my own private troopers, to which I have about twenty thousand garrisoned alongside imperial regulars at key points around the city," Malserik spoke calmly revealing sensitive information to Weiss and Ruby, as he didn't deem them a threat to his security. "As for the general staff, there are about two hundred and fifty assigned to various roles, alongside numerous research and engineering staff."
These kinds of numbers made Ruby and Weiss's eyes go wide with a sense of scale. Why were so many soldiers required on this scale, Weiss thought in her head. She figured he must be doing something somebody wants to be stopped or he is in a position someone wants, and the regulars must be corruptible to the point he had to put together a private army to contend with them. Though, before anything could escape Weiss's mouth Ruby asked: "So what exactly do you do?"
This question got Malserik to smirk he always love to answer this question but he didn't have the time to answer it in full, "Well, Ruby I do a lot of things" he responded shorting Ruby's question as they entered the hangers of Waldstahl.
On Tython, Meetra decided to investigate the live one first, as a living being can answer questions. Entering the clean medical ward of the temple, Meetra spotted the hard to miss Master of healing, "Master Alik-zander," Meetra said to the hulk of a six-foot four-man with circular glasses,
"Ah, Master Surik" the hulking man with tan skin and blonde hair responded in his accented voice. the large scar on the left side of his face unbefitting of a healer."What can I do for you?" He continued with a pleasant smile that gave the air the man was a gentle giant.
"The woman who was recovered from the disturbance," Meetra responded calmly, she wanted to get to this woman as soon as possible, as She may know something about the disturbance. Any survivors could give her information on the status of Remnant and what had happened to cause such a massive detonation.
"Oh her, room 138, we just finished putting prosthetics on her," the towering man said calmly, with a smile as he asked politely as other healers passed by, "Is there anything else I can do for you?"
"No that is all," Meetra smiled, "Thank you Anderon." She continued as she walked, briskly away from the healer Jedi continuing down the clean metal halls of the temple's medical ward until she saw the Aurebesh symbols for '138' which out of all the symbols of Aurebesh, they looked the most like their remnant counterpart. Entering the room she saw the woman was already fitted with prosthetics on her arm and leg, her hair was pitch black and her eyes glazed white with scarring surrounded by burned tissue. The burns looked absolutely gruesome, as her aura the scars were ragged and red and her eyelids were severely damaged. The white-clad Jedi also felt her reaching out with the force to perceive her environment like that of a Miraluka, a feeling Meetra knew all too well.
"You going to answer where I am?" she asked innocently with hints of fear in her voice. Surik could feel how nervous she was, she could guess Anderon had something to do with it. He was always a kind and gentle soul, though his appearance was quite imposing for a healer.
"You don't know?" the White-clad, Jedi said raising one of her eyebrows. She was expecting Anderon to inform her of such basic information.
"I don't really know anything about where I am, who I am, who all these people are, and why my arm and leg are metal." the woman said like a lost but innocent child, despite the fact she looked like a woman in her twenties.
"Ah yes, I forgot to mention she does seem to be suffering from Amnesia," Master Alik-zander spoke in a huff as he ran to catch up to Meetra with this important detail, "She's a completely blank slate right now, minus her force knowledge and accelerated healing. When we found her. Her head seemed to have hit a rock, when she fell." This fact made Meetra realize that she could be faking amnesia so to test this she put her hand on her forehead to read her. She found nothing minus instinctual things like how to speak, walk, eat, and use the force and aura, she was by definition a blank slate. This made Meetra slightly angry but she repressed it quickly, realizing this one could be trained rapidly to be a Jedi. She informed the healer that this one could be trained if her memories did not resurface. After that she went to investigate the corpses, hopefully, the dead had more information.
When Malserik landed his airspeeder in the hanger, The girls realized the scale of the facility, as the hanger bay ceiling was meters above their heads. The hanger was absolutely massive, catwalks observation decks and all of this was built inside a mountain. Then they saw the soldiers, they were as armored and armed as Atlas's finest units, though their armor was pitch black with Viridian accents. They looked well drilled and as Malserik stepped out of the airspeeder addressing him with a roaring.
"My Lord!"
Malserik replied with a calm and concise, "At ease." After saying that he gestured for Ruby and Weiss to exit the vehicle and follow him. As they got out two individuals approached, one clad in armor like the soldiers yet he bore a shoulder cape with more decorations on his chest plate. While the other was dressed like a simple Butler. Both of these men stood and the soldier replied, "Welcome back lord Malserik,"
"Ah Balikor, Dornettz, I trust all is well?" Malserik said pleasantly, the tone he was using seemed genuinely friendly.
"Yes sir, we got your message," the butler replied with a smile as they looked at the two girls that were gawking at the size of the hanger and the armored soldiers. Seeing this the soldier continued with, "and welcome to Fortress Waldstahl, young ladies."
Jumping back at the sudden friendly welcome, replied in sync with jumpy, "Thank you." This reply got the three men to laugh a bit as Malserik spoke again.
"Well, Ruby, Weiss, I think we should be on our way," Malserik said dismissing his friends who walked through a door. Seeing this, Ruby got the feeling they would defiantly be seeing more of those two.
First I need to get these two out of the scraps they are wearing, The Darth reminded himself, as he looked back at the girl's scorched clothing. Leading them to the locker room just off the hanger, Malserik saw the boxes in front of the room and silently thanked Dornettz for being prompt about getting the clothes tailored. Handing the girls these boxes he opened the door to the locker room, and said, "those are new clothes please go change,"
Ruby and Weiss looked at the state of their armor and decided changing would be the best option, and went inside the room. After they were inside he went to get changed himself, as it was not proper for him to wear muddied clothing.
Once inside the girls peeled their old armor off. It was not a pleasant thing as some of the fabric fused to the burned tissue. Deciding to get the material off now they had to rip it off with force, Something that was extremely painful. It was like taking off old stuck-on adhesive bandages.
After the painful ordeal, they opened the boxes that were given to them. Inside Ruby's box was a simple white tunic and pants with black leather pullover jackboots and a simple black leather belt with a slot for her lightsaber. While in Weiss's box, was a black tunic and pants with white leather pullover jackboots and a simple white leather belt with a similar slot and pouches, in which the girls put their surviving scrolls in. While they were changing in private, the first thing that was noted was that their necklaces were gone, which of course upset them greatly.
Then Ruby got to examine her new prosthetic arm and its mechanics. Ruby being the machine nut and all, marveled at the gold and black hand with all of its guts exposed. It was at this point she realized she could tinker with it when the time came. Of course, Weiss was very off-put by Ruby's new hand due to the implications it held.
Though, Weiss herself found some unusual marks on her as she looked in the mirror that was on the wall, the three scars connecting with her left eye scar, and the weird four-legged bug mark on proud display on her forehead. Weiss knew these marks, they belonged to the man who gave her the lightsaber on her belt and the amulet.
"Hey, Weiss, can I see how bad my face is?" Ruby said effectively asking Weiss to stop hogging the mirror. As unlike Weiss Ruby had to see how prominent the burns on her face were.
"Yeah, sure," Weiss said feeling the new marks on her face letting Ruby look in the mirror. Ruby saw the burn scar Cinder gave her. She was thankful it didn't look too pink or obstructive though it was still there with the rough skin of scar tissue. She ran her metal fingers on the burn to feel the texture of the sore skin with the cold metal.
"We sure got roasted," Ruby chuckled referencing the burns their bodies had endured. She was trying to make light of the situation, trying to cope with what had just happened. She didn't care for the burns but she was stuck with them, she was just glad she didn't look like some comic book villain.
"We got more than that, Ruby," Weiss said solemnly looking at Ruby's bare metal hand. As Ruby saw what she was looking at she clenched her hand in front of her face and spoke.
"Oh it's fine, I rather like it," Ruby Responded pulling away from the mirror as Weiss returned to it, realizing she probably should cover it with something. That's when she looked back at the pile of her burnt clothes and saw the gauntlet glove was perfectly intact and she slipped it on. Looking at Weiss's pile she noted a weird gold amulet with a red gem that looked like it was meant to be worn on the back of the left hand. "Hey, Weiss, What's this?" Ruby inquired holding up the amulet.
"I don't know, that man in the vision gave it to me," Weiss said calmly, still unsure who that man was and why he gave her these things.
"Well, the man in my vision gave me his arm, literally," Ruby chuckled clenching her metal hand into a fist again, listening to all the motors and servos as they flared to life with each slight movement.
"Well if you get another vision where you can talk to him, thank him for me," Weiss spoke calmly though her voice got solemn at the end. She was glad Ruby at least got some form of an arm, despite how off-putting it was. As Weiss backed away from the Mirror and decided to put the amulet on her hand fastening it to her hand and wrist along with taking the surviving dust crystals she had on her old belt and threaded the pouch onto her new belt.
Finally, after getting dressed up in these new clothes, the girls found another piece of clothing that survived the fireball, the knives with their red sheaths and belts. Weiss and Ruby decided to wear them under their 'issued' belts. With that matter sorted they began to affix their lightsabers to their belts.
It was at this point that Weiss noticed her lightsaber was symmetrical and had a switch on either end. Curious of this, Weiss ignited the blade on one end of the saber, then pressed the button on the opposite end. She was shocked when a second blue blade of equal length to the first ignited from the other end. As Weiss was holding with the lightsaber nervously trying to maneuver it without damaging anything. Ruby marveled at the double-bladed design quickly examining her saber if there was anything she had missed. Ruby ignited her crimson-bladed saber and found a control by the black emitter guard, activating the control the single blade in her hand jumped from one meter in length to two meters.
On the outside of the changing room, Malserik, who had just changed himself, had gotten concerned when he heard the ignition sounds of lightsabers. Fearing a trap, or some other violence, he barged into the room. His lightsaber in hand, ignited in its fierce viridian, only to see the two girls examining their weapons. That's when he noticed the strange lightsaber Weiss had, a blue double-bladed short-handled lightsaber with four prongs on either end is emitter guard and two red ignition buttons. Malserik knew immediately who used to own that Lightsaber. This shocked him as that lightsaber was reportedly lost to time according to the records he had.
"Ladies, I hope you know those aren't toys" Malserik spoke sternly and loudly, disengaging his Lightsaber, as both girls jumped and quickly deactivated their lightsabers. "Interesting weapons, aren't they?" Malserik added as he clicked his back onto the back of his belt. The girls nodded as they affixed them back to their belts, "Well. Now we must talk so follow me please."
Clad in the garments given to them, they followed Viridian, who had changed into an outfit consisting of; a tunic of black leather armor with three pleats of leather on the front, with a dark bluish-gray robe like layer that extended down to his knees like an overcoat. Underneath with what seemed like an emerald green turtleneck, which reminded the girls of Ozpin. His pants were officer-style breeches with knee-high pullover black jackboots. He had a black utility belt on with his lightsaber with the half-circle guard on the back of his belt with other various pouches. He had gloves on both hands with leather bracers with what looked like some form of technology embedded into the leather. This new outfit made him look like a huntsman officer. As they followed him through the fortress, Malserik asked, "I hope those clothes are comfortable?"
"They are comfortable, but they really aren't our colors" Ruby replied not liking the white tunic she was given's color. Weiss was comfortable with the color of hers, but she felt how uncomfortable Ruby was without a cloak on, looking at Ruby, Weiss saw how different she looked without it. Even the simplicity of the outfit screamed against Ruby's style. Though seeing Ruby dressed like this did make Ruby look less threatening and more professional, something the man who gave them the outfits seemed to value.
"You wouldn't happen to have any cloaks?" Weiss asked calmly, knowing Ruby wasn't going to ask herself. Ruby looked at her with a look of thanks and gratitude.
"I'm afraid I don't have anything like that minus my robe's cloak, which is caked with mud," Malserik said as they continued walking till they reached a fancier more living area located in the depths of the fortress. They followed him down a few more corridors when they found a door that Ruby had seen before. This is when it hit her, this hall was the hall she saw going to Ozpins office just before the attack on Amity. As they approached the door was automatic and it opened, revealing a massive study-like room with a large curved panoramic view window that oversaw the whole city.
The desk was massive and the chair was very interesting looking though in the behind the desk. The room looked like the office of a man bent on conquering the world, or someone who liked watching over his domain. Off to the right of the desk, a table for three was set with food and drink. The food smelled good and the dishes looked well prepared for guests.
"Please have a seat we have a lot to talk about," Malserik said expecting them to be there for a few hours, as there was truly quite a lot to talk about.
A/N: Well, that was the new chapter 11, I added a battle to it so Malserik could see, and not go off their words. Aside from that I really hope people are liking the rewrite, the lack of feedback is worrying. If you guys don't like it tell me, please. Also, I have decided that the old chapters are not going to stay past the new chapter 13, so once the new chapter 13 is up they will go down, Also I will be updating the story once I am happy with the new chapter, and with the way this is going it will be frequent. Please feel free to leave your criticisms in a review or pm and everyone have fun, stay safe and may the force be with you!
