A/N: Ah, this chapter, originally was 1k words that got expanded to 5k. I am quite pleased with this, as this chapter is one of those things I glossed over originally. So please enjoy Chapter 15: The First Steps!
Edit: Changed the Chapter Number
Chapter 15: The First Steps
Ruby and Weiss's first day in Waldstahl had started early in the morning the next day just as Malserik said it would. They were awoken by the intrusion of the staff of Waldstahl bringing them breakfast and a new set of the same outfit they got the night before. It was at this point the girls had their first encounter with a non-human species. Two maids with blue skin, and two tendrils on the back of their head, needless to say, were shocked at first, then realized not to be too shocked about it as they appeared to be scared of being in the room.
They were fast about their work making sure Ruby and Weiss had a quick and hearty morning meal ready. They dressed quickly as they wished not to disappoint their new teacher. They were readied in mere minutes. Ruby and Weiss got dressed in a similar fashion as they did yesterday. The maids had left them the meal for them to eat on their table as they exited.
Interested in their morning meal, the duo sat down at the small, two-person metal table. Weiss ate her food slowly and normally, while Ruby started to demolish the plate.
As they started eating Malserik himself entered. Asking various questions about how the girls slept and how they felt, just checking in on their general well-being. He was happy to see them awake and doing well. After his inquiries, he left the girls alone and walked over to watch the beauty of the thunder snowstorm that was hitting Hiskal today.
The duo ate in silence as they had no idea what to talk about. once they were finished Malserik spoke to them from the window, "Ladies can you feel anything wrong about this storm?"
The girls got the feeling the storm was dark and unnatural. They felt the darkness that the storm carried, they could tell it was caused by all of the dark energy on the planet. "It isn't natural," Weiss blurted out, as that was the first word that came to her mind.
"You would be correct, that storm is caused by the sheer amount of Dark side energy on the planet," Malserik explained giving them their first lesson effectively. "Most of Drommund Kaas is covered in storms like this, all the time," Malserik explained calmly. "Now if you are done please follow me it is time to begin your first lessons,"
"Yes Mr. Malserik," they both replied in sync as Malserik was walking to the door. He stopped suddenly, something that unnerved the girls who had just stood up to follow. They could hear him chuckle.
"Ladies, if you were anywhere else in this empire, what you just said would have gotten you killed," Malserik chuckled as he turned to face the nervous girls who were wondering what they could have said that could be remotely offensive.
Though before they could ask Malserik continued with, "I wouldn't have expected you to know this, but if you are an apprentice, a lord or lower, you always address a Darth as 'My lord,' and if you are their apprentice you may be expected to kneel as well." Malserik explained calmly as the girls looked at him like he was mad.
The next thing that came out of his mouth was an order to the girls "So please kneel and restate what you said more appropriately."
Ruby and Weiss looked at each other, then back at Malserik, who bore a bright smile. Kneeling the two corrected their prior statements by saying "Yes, my lord."
Malserik smiled as they followed his command. Though, after he signaled them to stand and began to walk out of the room,"I don't expect you two to continue doing that, just acknowledge me as 'My Lord' around others, though in private just call me Malserik."
This got the girls to sigh in relief, glad he wasn't going to require them to say that when ever they addressed him. Walking along they followed Malserik through the maze-like network of halls and corridors. They entered the Main hall of the manor section of Waldstahl, a massive room that was sparsely decorated though it maintained the Sith architecture.
Though Malserik stopped as four droids armed with red lightsabers bolted out from the shadows. Malserik leaped up to a strut on the ceiling as he left the girls to fend for themselves in the ambush, though his thumb was over a button a few buttons on his bracer just in case.
Ruby and Weiss grabbed their sabers and ignited them and took up a defensive stance back to back to each other. The Droids were rushing rapidly one from each corner of the hall, their blades blaring. Readying for battle, Ruby assessed the threats facing her, as Weiss assessed her's. They ignited their blades as the droids closed the gap. It was evident to them the Droids were not equipped to handle their speed. Which they used to quickly dispatch the droids with little fight.
Malserik was quite impressed, though those droids were on the lowest setting they could be on. He tapped a button on his bracer, and four more droids were deployed. This time with the difficulty cranked up. He smiled as they were now closer to one of the deployment sites.
Ruby and Weiss heard the doors hiss open and more droids clattered out. Though unlike the last ones they parried their initial attacks. Ruby's attacks were fast and brutal, her style matching that of the seventh form, Juyo. Weiss was deft and precise with her attacks preferring thrusting and stabbing attacks to outright slashes like her counterpart. Once one of the droids was defeated it didn't take long for the other to finish off the other.
Malserik smiled malevolently as he saw the orange glow of burning metal. Though this was not his final test for them, He had another set of droids ready this time set on one of the highest levels for this model. This time two droids were released, and quickly put the girls on the defensive. Malserik watched as they were quickly overwhelmed.
Despite this, they weren't overwhelmed for long. As they employed their glyphs and speed quickly. Though, this wasn't enough as the droid's advanced processors kept up with their attacks and avoided the girls spell-like attacks. It was at this point Malserik got a thorough and shocking demonstration of the power of aura, as Ruby and Weiss both took blows at the legs from the lightsabers but suffered no damage. Before Ruby and Weiss could retaliate, The droids fell limp as Malserik descended from his perch on the ceiling.
"That is enough, you two!" He yelled as he descended from above. It was at this point Ruby and Weiss, angered by the use of these droids turned their blades on Malserik. Accusing him of putting them in danger, they kept their blades focused on him. Malserik smiled at this anger, and said: "Remember what I said yesterday?" In a quick flurry of viridian, their sabers were deactivated and on the floor behind them. "Now please pick them up that was just a basic test, I wanted to see how you two could handle yourselves."
Their first lesson after they cooled down was basic force use and etiquette. He taught them how to manipulate the environment through the force. Weiss was shocked as she had lifted her saber without even lifting a finger. The response was similar from Ruby, though her response was one of shear awe. After this he had them practice basic pushes and pulls. Practicing how to recover from being disarmed being the main goal.
The next thing he did was brief them on imperial etiquette. Like at the start of the day, he taught them how Sith are expected to act. Teaching them how the non-force sensitive populous was to respect them, even as apprentices. He then explained the slavery system. Something that upset both of the girls. As Malserik explained this, he made it abundantly clear, he and the other Sith he worked with did not support this. He wanted to get some of the rougher material out of the way first, that way they could get used to the ideas.
After his lectures on some of the ins and outs of Sith society, he decided to have them practice using their sabers. Practicing, standard forms as he brought one of the most painful and dreaded torture devices to a learning force user, the training remote. To him, them trying to block the blaster bolts was downright amusing. With each failure to block came a pulse of their tethered aura, and a vulgar curse. Though the most memorable moment of this first day was how Weiss forgot her saber had a second emitter.
Weiss was doing quite well after closing her eyes and trusting in the force to guide her deflection of the bolts, while Ruby was still trying to do it with her eyes with marginal success. As she batted another bolt away, she overextended and misplaced her hand hitting the secondary blade's activation button.
Weiss jumped at the secondary ignition sound. Realizing how her arm was positioned, holding the blade up in the air at an angle. She was only an inch from the back of her head with the second blade. The next thing that she noted was the smell of burning hair. Paralyzed with fear by her weapon, she dared not move an inch lest she wanted to cut her spine wide open. Malserik and Ruby quickly took note of the situation and reacted. Ruby dashing over and deactivating her own saber as Malserik, walked over calmly as he turned off the remotes. Ruby saw the activation switches on the saber's hilt and hit them quickly.
Weiss threw the deactivate hilt at the wall, though while it was in mid-flight it curved back towards Malserik's extended empty hand, which caught the deactivated blade in moments as it arched back to his hand through the force. As Malserik approached he said, "Well that is it for today, Ladies, I am sorry for being rough on you for the first day of your education," Malserik spoke calmly as he held Exar Kun's lightsaber for Weiss to take, she gave him a look of pure disgust. He saw them going to open their mouths to most likely protest the situation, but instead, he cut them off with,
"Though, I find my harshness a necessity, as most apprentices have to survive the academy on Korriban before even being looked at by a Sith. You two are lucky that you haven't gone through that hell," Malserik spoke calmly and seriously, "Also, I was going to make a comment after today's lesson about long hair being a burden in lightsaber combat, but it seemed you learned that lesson quite quickly, Weiss." Malserik smiled, holding back a chuckle as Weiss checked her offset ponytail, or better yet what was left of it. Feeling the singed hair, her hand recoiled and she stomped off in a huff, leaving her saber with Ruby and Malserik.
"Hey, Malserik can I give that saber a try?" Ruby asked once Weiss was out of the room. Malserik looked at the silver-eyed girl like she was insane, though considering what happened he figured 'why not?' He tossed her the saber curious of how she was going to do with it.
Weiss found herself alone in the quarters she had been given, laying alone on the couch like a vagrant. Only one day in and she was fuming with anger at their teacher. First the ambush, then the lessons, surely she could learn this force stuff on her own, she thought. Though shortly after returning, she heard a knocking on the metal sliding door.
She huffed as she got up and answered it, on the other side she met one of the blue-skinned aliens from earlier. A Twi'lek, she learned the name of the species today.
"Ah, my lady, Lord Malserik sent me to assist you with your hair," Weiss sighed as this servant seemed sweet and happy. Letting her in, she figured like at White Castle, Malserik kept someone to deal with hair and personal grooming. "Well my lady, Lord Malserik said that Lady Ruby will return here in a bit, in the meantime he wanted me to have a look at your hair if that is alright with you, my lady."
Weiss let what remained of her ponytail down for the servant to examine the damage, as she took a seat. The hair was singed at the tips, giving off the foul odor of burned hair. Unpacking her kit the young stylist got to work.
Back in the main hall, Malserik watched as Ruby handled the short handled saber staff with remarkable skill. She was blocking blaster bolts and retaliating aggressively. Malserik watched this brilliant display Ruby was putting on. A spinning flurry of blue, that quickly morphed into one of blue and red, as she deactivated the second blade on Exar's saber, and engaged her own. It was at this moment he realized she would benefit from a paired saber design, while Weiss would benefit from a bent hilt saber.
Noting this down, he stopped the training sequence, much to Ruby's disappointment. She actually had broken a sweat was starting to get winded after the fifteen-minute long constant display. Though Malserik walked over to her with a smile on his face, something that made Ruby happy. As he walked over Ruby heard him mutter something under his breath about 'Imperious is going to love this,' but actually addressing Ruby he said,
"Impressive, Ruby, very well done." Malserik said with a smile, looking into Ruby's silver eyes, "Please that is all for today, please take Weiss's saber back to her and inform her we will continue tomorrow," Malserik spoke kindly and softly, as he dismissed Ruby for the day. She quite enjoyed the physical elements of the training and she could tell Malserik was proud with that display.
Malserik smiled as he walked down the corridors going deeper into his home and thus the mountain. His destination was the lab, his place of work before the girls showed up. He knew what he had to do and he had a night to build his apprentice's lightsabers that would fit them better. Pulling out his stocks of materials he got to work.
Weiss sat down in a chair in the bathroom as the young Twi'lek got to work. She only wanted a simple short bob cut, something so simple no one could screw it up. With each strand snipped away the dyed blue tips of her hair returned her hair to the stark white it was naturally. This was something that grabbed the attention of the Twi'lek stylist.
"Would you like me to redye your hair, my lady?" She asked of Weiss, who quickly replied with a quick 'no' she was not in the mood for anything right now. She just wanted Ruby to get back. Once she had the desired hairstyle cut, she thanked the Twi'lek who left after sweeping up the removed hair and smiled. She realized how quick the stylist worked as she looked at her scroll and saw only twelve minutes had passed. Annoyed, she flopped back on the couch and in a few minutes the door hissed open and Ruby had returned.
Ruby smiled at Weiss's new appearance, thinking it looked good rather than off, and she made it known through a flirtatious remark, which shocked Weiss. Ruby immediately started trying to come up with new hairstyles that would work for Weiss. Though while Ruby did this Weiss went off on Malserik, something Ruby immediately tried to defuse. After a bit of a debate, the two went to bed.
The next day Weiss and Ruby awoke to Malserik letting himself into their quarters, leaving two objects on the main table for them. Ruby being curious at the early morning intrusion, decided to go see what their teacher had left for them. Weiss, who was content to stay in bed, heard the sound of two lightsabers being ignited, followed by a muted clicking and a cheer from her partner.
"These are perfect!" Ruby cheered! Weiss, quite curious of what made Ruby so happy, got up to investigate. In the main living area of their quarters, Ruby stood holding twin crimson blades. Though, Ruby sensing Weiss behind her clicked the sabers together, and deactivated the blades, to face Weiss with a smile. Weiss saw the new weapon and looked at Ruby quizzically before her eyes were drawn to the white leather belt still on the table with another saber on it. Going over to it she saw it was a bent hilt, with a single emitter. The curve of the hilt was comfortable in the hand as she picked it up. The ignition switch was located under her thumb and when ignited, the blue blade felt nimble and quick in the hand.
Well, this is a much-needed improvement, She thought as she handled the weapon. Then they found a note on paper, though they couldn't read it as it was in Aurebesh, one thing Malserik seemed to overlook. Though they ignored the note for a few as they got a more adept feel for their new weapons.
Malserik absolutely neglected the idea this could be an issue, and he learned this when he found them wandering Waldstahl, and not reporting to the room he told them to in the note. Taking this issue as one of utmost importance, helped translate Aurebesh to the written language on found Remnant. It was not difficult as they shared similar characters, though they had to remember how to do it on the fly and in public.
Once the language barrier was out of the way, they practiced with their new weapons. Malserik was impressed to see their fighting styles flourish with these new weapons. Weiss began to transfer techniques from her training with a rapier to this new saber along with losing her animosity towards Malserik. With his guidance, she quickly became adept at fencing an opponent's blade with form two, Makashi. Though as she focused more on the blade she lost some of her earlier prowess with blaster deflection.
While with Ruby's style, Malserik was more hands-off in comparison. He gave her freedom as paired sabers allowed for so much variation, and that's what Ruby did. She didn't take to one style, in particular, she used and mesh bits and pieces from them all. Her style was a quick red whirlwind, swapping between twin sabers and saber staff mid-attack. Something that impressed Malserik quite a bit, as that one thought of Imperious is going to love this, rang in his head.
When it came time for basic force training, it took some time to get them used to using the basics of the force. Though once they got it, it became second nature to them, and their strength in the force was powerful. It was during this time, that Ruby began being able to read people, she could tell basic intent and feelings at a glance. Though if she got physical contact, she could read even deeper. Malserik had only heard of one case of force sight manifesting like this.
After they got comfortable with these abilities, he started to put the screws to them. These screws consisted of; intense physical training and making them spar against training droids again, with both blasters and lightsaber analogs. Each day he added more variables, making them have to use the force to augment their abilities in various ways from additional speed, strength, and endurance. As their training progressed he watched them incorporate their semblances into their styles with shocking effects.
As the weeks into months went he introduced them to even more advanced and deadly techniques as they honed their skills with the blade to a razor's edge. Though they encountered an interesting, though expected difficulty, in the form of their growing bodies, Weiss growing an extra few inches putting her at five feet, seven inches, and Ruby having fun with a new hairstyle for her partner, mainly an asymmetric bob cut.
This was all while Ruby's body, went through a late and rapid growth spurt, blooming upward to close to six feet in height. With this growth, her body filled out as her womanly attributes started to become much more pronounced. With each day that passed, her figure went from looking like a teenager to like that of a young woman. These changes were starting to be reflected in changes to her face as the scars healed. Malserik was puzzled by this growth, confused if she was just a late bloomer or if this was an influence of the Darkside on her body.
Of course, these growths made their training much more difficult for a time as not only did they have to keep up with what their bodies were throwing them, Malserik was turning up the intensity of the training. Though, despite his efforts, they kept up, much to their master's surprise. While they went through this period of growth and adjustment, Malserik decided to reduce their physical training just enough to let them grow and get used to their bodies.
Instead, he focused on education of the galaxy and its lore alongside other abilities he thought they would need to know minus lightsaber and force skills, as being a Sith involved being intelligent and cunning, as well as brutal. He introduced them to holocrons and holobooks worth of lore, large scale tactical scenarios, management, and even skills like piloting, as it was a sport of both Sith and Jedi to take to the stars in starfighters, like the modified Aurek tactical strike class fighters Malserik kept on hand, along with flight simulators.
After the period of relaxed physical training, he kicked them back in gear with an odd trial, deciding to make them uncomfortable. Malserik sent them up against the droids unarmed and alone, their weapon was to be the force itself.
Ruby was the first to endure this test and its purpose was to have them realize the offensive capabilities of the force. In the chamber, Ruby slammed the droids around using force grip, pushes, and pulls. Her strikes in the force were so powerful that they even dented the reinforced wall and the sheer concussive force rattled the whole room.
Crunching, grinding, tearing, the destruction of the droids was a symphony to Ruby's ears as she threw them to and fro with the force. Even getting creative with her attacks, shoving droids into each other, using glyphs to accelerate fragments like bullets.
Watching from the observation room Malserik could tell Ruby was having a blast doing that as she smirked as she crushed the last droid with a very powerful force grip, her eyes turning yellow as she did. As she finished the slaughter of the droids she came out with a smile on her face telling Malserik and Weiss she was happy with what she did.
Weiss was second in the pit, she was lightly smiling as she entered and was surrounded by saber training droids tapping into the most recent ability Malserik had been teaching them, she felt the charges swelling in the palms of her hands.
Malserik had just started educating them on the basics of this ability; he was shocked to see the light blue sparks forming around Weiss's hands especially around the amulet on her left hand. Detecting the energy build-up around their target the droids' programming switched to more caution-oriented subroutines, raising their blades and focusing their blasters on the target. Static charge surrounded Weiss, causing her short snow-white hair to rise into the air. With a dramatic flair, Weiss raised up her hands in front of her and released the stored energy from her fingertips, releasing a torrent of force lightning that rivaled Malserik's ability.
He felt his hair stand on end as he watched the blue wave of lightning crackled through the air. It chained between the droids, destroying them upon contact After Weiss put down her hands seeing the destruction she unleashed. She fell to her knees huffing for air as that put a massive strain on her body. Ruby and Malserik Rushed in, Ruby making sure Weiss was okay, and Malserik looking at the destruction unleashed upon the droids, they were fried beyond repair.
"So how was that?" Weiss inquired with a smirk on her face as she stood up, still exerted from the attack.
"That was amazing!" Ruby gasped wanting to now learn how to use force lightning, with a very much increased enthusiasm as she hugged her partner.
"I will say, that was really quite impressive, Weiss, " Malserik said as he smiled seeing what Weiss could do, "How did you master lightning so quickly?"
"I didn't do anything special," Weiss smiled feeling the tips of her fingers stinging after that not realizing her lightning would be as powerful as it was. She looked out at the field of destruction, the droids were completely decimated at the lightning jumped between them.
After that day, Malserik realized these girls were prodigies when it came to the force, and like some of the luckiest of dark side users, seemingly unaffected by its touch even when using some of its most powerful abilities. After this realization, he pushed them harder than ever before, not that they minded. It had been eight months since their arrival on Drommund Kaas, despite pushing them harder Malserik had given them free time to do things of their choosing, take up hobbies and what not. Weiss practicing her skills with the force while Ruby worked on designing her own lightsaber, and they occasionally went down into Hiskal for dinner or just to walk around.
While they went out or did other things, Malserik was in his lab. He had managed to modify their 'Scrolls' to access the Imperial Holonet, as well as continue to tinker with things in his lab. He set Ruby and Weiss free for the day, they either went into to or went up to an isolated gazebo that Malserik built atop the second highest peak of Hiskal.
He had been toiling in his lab, a room filled with various gizmos and gadgets. The room also had a myriad of manufacturing technology for producing and testing some of the newest inventions or innovations that Malserik could come up with. For the past two years, he had bids in the Imperial military with blaster rifles and armor to replace the standards of the Imperial war machine. Alas, I am an outsider to Acina and Vowrawns pawns, Malserik thought as he retired from his lab for the day, he was under Darth Imperious's Sphere of Ancient Knowledge, not Technology or Production, though being in command of Hiskal did give him sway with both Acina and Vowrawn, but not enough.
Deciding to put the project on hold when the girls arrived was a decision that saved him from a lot of mental headache with dealing with the Imperial Armaments Council. Though with them quickly mastering what he taught them, he was running out of things to do, so a return to one of his passions was necessary. Though with no headway being made on those projects he had to think. His mind wandered as he wandered back to his quarters in Hiskal. A sparsely decorated, yet unorganized space.
He checked in with his apprentices before he got undressed and went to bed, after confirming they were safely back in Waldstahl, he retired for the night, Trying to think of ways to further enhance Ruby and Weiss's training. After thinking for a few moments, he realized what they were lacking, live field experience, they could only do so much in the sterile confines of the training rooms. They needed to fight actual opponents in true combat, where mistakes have more consequence than a bad bruise or burn. They needed to fight, fight like true Sith.
There was a part of Malserik that asked, are these girls ready for actual combat? Malserik feared what would happen to his apprentices, he didn't want anything to happen to them. Viridian thought as laid down in his bed looking up a the ceiling with his eye, the eye patch still boldly on his face and his saber and companion SturmKrieg, on the end table next to him. Since he was a Jedi, that blade had remained at his side. With some final thoughts, he fell into the murky blackness of sleep.
Outside Hiskal, in Kaas City, a red-clad woman boarded the last shuttle out to Hiskal. Considering how late it was she didn't expect to get there until the sun started to rise, though time was not something she cared about. Her appearance was atypical of Sith, little to know armor, just light flexible fabric, that was elegant yet practical.
Her face was unmarked, both by tattoo or the force. Though her skin and hair were ashen and an almost faded white blonde. By most who saw her she was beautiful, her body, her face, though the feature that stood out the most were her youth and eyes. They were a deep blue, a feature that made her stand out among her peers on the Dark Council. She looked young and spry for a Sith, barely into her mid-twenties by appearance.
The crew of the transport was stunned by the fact that someone of such importance had decided to grace a slow public shuttle at the middle of the night, especially out to a backwater city like Hiskal. She walked aboard carrying two boxes, trying to draw no unwanted attention to herself. Insisting she travel like the ordinary commoner, and that they do not announce her arrival in Hiskal. The crew noted the black and silver sabers mounted on the harness on her shoulders and obeyed this order with a gulp, as this order was backed with an unspoken threat.
She took her seat on the sparsely populated transport, looking out at the night sky from the seat at the window, and said in her Imperial accented voice,
"This is a wonderful night," She wanted to surprise her old friend whom she had not seen in years, along with meeting the two girls she had been hearing so much about, and for whom the two boxes on her lap were labeled for. Though she had also gotten wind of a rumor that some of their adversaries may be plotting on attacking Hiskal. Little did she know tonight would be the night.
In the lower streets of Hiskal, four figures stood cloaked in black. Surveying, Scouting, they looked for locations to begin their onslaught. Even this late at night the streets of the city were still very active, filled with happy workers, celebrating another bonus for a production milestone. It was evident this town did not fear its ruler, this fact alone made them want to gag.
They found a very populated city square, easily hundreds of people around. There they struck out, red blades humming, screams piercing the cold night air, They struck the people down with either blade or the force. In a second the mood flipped from joy to pure terror. One of the four was carrying a piece of technology that was forbidden in the empire, a communication jammer. They used this device so they could extend the amount of time they had before being 'contained,' by the private security forces that were the Hiskalan Guard.
The Hiskalan Guard was quick to respond, though they were not properly equipped to deal with four Sith hell-bent on destruction. When trying to relay for reinforcements, the soldiers of Hiskal's finest were greeted with the cold and chilling static before they met their end at the end of a crimson blade.
Despite the randomness of this violence, these four Sith, who were mere apprentices were tasked with the objective of 'terrorize Hiskal and you will draw out Malserik,' by their masters. They were given free rein to do as they pleased in this town with no fear of repercussions. due to the jammer, a response from Waldstahl was delayed until sunrise. This was not the first time Hiskal or any other population center on Drommund Kaas dealt with a few rouge apprentices. They all had protocols set in place to deal with these kinds of situations, Hiskal's was quite unique. Once the sun rose the order came, and it came in the form of 'Contain the threats and await support, they will be dealt with personally.'
A/N: I am not going to lie, I was slightly confused on how to write this. I didn't want to flow over the details like I did in original Chapter 3, but I didn't want to bog it down with too many short events or unnecessary detail either, I feel I balanced this quite well, I envision this chapter being the training montage and the gap filler. Also, I wanted to set up for next chapter as well and I feel I did that quite well. Along with giving Malserik a bit more character.
An added bit of info, Weiss's new hairstyle I envision looking like the younger Cinder from volume 3's hairstyle.
Alright well, that was Chapter 15 of Dark Side of a Rose, I hope everyone is enjoying this rewrite, I am quite enjoying doing this, so I want to hear from you guys. I also have an update on the chapter 1 word wall if any of you are interested. Along with that, I will have the polls up to go with this chapter, so have a look at those when you get a chance. With that out of the way, I also would like to ask for feedback on the rewrite in general beyond the polls, do you guys like it and what not or did I screw up big time? With that, everyone have fun, stay safe and may the force be with you!
Blitzing Raptor.
