A/N: Sorry for taking so long on this chapter, I had a serious case of Writers Block along with Winter Break distractions with this chapter, hence its shorter nature. So without further additions Chapter 29: The Fourth Knight.


Chapter 29: The Fourth Knight


"I am impressed ladies," Imperious said behind Malserik's desk as Ruby set Jaune's lightsaber on his desk Malserik standing at her side, who also had a smile on his face at what Ruby had set on his desk, "And you killed your first Jedi, Ruby how did it feel?" Imperious asked with a smile.

"I merely disarmed him I could not kill him, Imperious," Ruby replied, slightly nervous, "He was a friend of ours from Remnant, we couldn't turn him." Ruby continued standing though her legs wanted to give out in the gaze of the two Darths, though with her teammates standing behind her she stood strong. Imperious's reaction was that of a slight pout followed by a smile, as she thought of how to explain the situation to Ruby

"You cannot turn Jedi easily that takes determination and persistence, or a Jedi of weak faith," Imperious Explained to Ruby, "As for you Nora please go with Viridian, I would like to talk to your friends in private okay."

"Yes Ma'am," Nora smiled, trailing along behind an annoyed Malserik, only twenty minutes after meeting Nora, he was convinced she would need mental help and that was coming from a Darth. This girl is insane, Malserik thought, as he took the girl down to the lab to get genetic samples, and then get her dressed in something more akin to her comrades. He even had her walking in front of him, as he didn't trust her near the expensive equipment of his lab, or Waldstahl. The girl reminded him of all of those insane Darths by just her eyes alone. Then came the talk of broken legs and sloths, the latter of which only confused the Darth further with the thought of What is a sloth?! He would ask, but he felt if he did he would be there for hours.

"Well I am thoroughly impressed," Imperious smiled to the three young women in front of her, "You three are ready to become members of my order,"

"Your order?" Both Weiss and Ruby asked simultaneously. They knew that Malserik and Imperious where part of an organization but this was the first they are truly hearing about it. They had heard mentions of the order before, but this was the first time it was being directly discussed with them.

"Yes, we are the Visorium Order, named after my ancestors. we are a faction of force users that believes in a unified one Sith that can pool its resources without major in fighting. Our main goal is to unify the Sith and reform it, along with destroying Vitiate, he will doom our empire, our kind. I have seen the visions my ancestors have seen. Times when there can only be two Sith then, and threats that would wipe the slate of the galaxy will arise; our goal is for unification under one banner, to prevent such things."Imperious explained calmly to the girls, finishing her explanation with, "We want the galaxy to not fear the future, we want it to be prepared, that is what we fight for."

"And, you are inducting us into this order?" Pyrrha asked for the three of them, who looked at Pyrrha with a look of, 'We gathered that.'

"Yes, you four can join us, it is your choice, I will not force you," Imperious spoke with a smile as she relaxed into Malserik's chair, intertwining her fingers. She figured they would join, and there would be no repercussion's against them if they didn't, as at this point they would serve her plans either way

"I think I can say I will join," Ruby replied with a smile. Imperious knew she would, she was her apprentice after all. If Ruby joined the rest will follow, Imperious smirked at the thought, as Weiss trusted her partner, and Pyrrha trusted her friend, as did Nora.

"If Ruby joins, as do I," Weiss replied calmly. if what Imperious said was the goals of her organization, she could get behind that. Aside from that Ruby seemed to be enthusiastic with

"Likewise, I shall be part of the crusade to reform the empire as well," Pyrrha smiled a noble tone in her voice. This must have been what the spirits told her about.

"Nora will follow suit I take it?" Imperious asked with a smile, she was happy to see these four reunited and she was excited to see what they could and would do, "just curious do you know your lineage?" Imperious smiled planning to brief them about their parents.

"I know my mother is Jedi," Ruby replied going by what she heard from Jaune and the first conversation she had with Malserik.

"Ruby Rose," Imperious smiled as she stood up and looked Ruby in the eye. "Your name is a lie, your mother's name, her true name is Meetra Surik," Imperious explained much to Ruby's confusion. "Then your father, oh your father!" Imperious cheered almost sounding like an excited school girl.

"What about Taiyang!?" Weiss inquired with haste, as Tai was a man that she respected. The way Imperious was talking made the three of them concerned as it was apparent she held a shock bomb over their heads.

"Well, the funny thing is he is not her father, far from," Imperious smiled, almost wanting to cackle maniacally at what she just said, but she restrained herself. Ruby, on the other hand, had a look of pure "what the hell did she just say?" As a matter of fact, the other two had the same looks on their faces.

"What does that mean?!" Ruby burst out, slamming her hands down onto Malsterik's desk as Imperious smiled back. "What the hell does that mean!?" Ruby inquired almost wanting to lunge across the desk for that statement. Ruby could tell Weiss wanted to ask the same thing.

"According to the genetic lineage testing Malserik did, Your father doesn't resemble the images of Taiyang, we have," Imperious explained calmly, "No he resembles someone else entirely. A man by the name of Revan." With that explanation complete she took out the datapad with the information on Ruby out and handed it to the Rose.

On the tablet, she saw her mother, the mother she knew, and a man she had only heard about through tales and legends from her master. She could sense that Imperious was being honest with what she said. She looked at the image of the man that was claimed to be her father. She saw his eyes, the gold, it matched her own. Imperious knowing what Ruby was focusing on, replied, "The eyes of the Darkside can be hereditary, and only Revan has eyes like that."

"So my mom and Tai lied to me?" Ruby asked unsure of what to think at the moment, other than How much of me is made of lies? How much, Mother? Father? Revan? How many more lies will I learn about myself as a Sith? Ruby thought as Weiss snatched the tablet out of Ruby's hand and examined her eyes for herself.

As Weiss looked at Ruby Imperious replied "I would bet it was only your mother who was responsible, as she has a nasty tendency to rewrite memories," This sealed Ruby's already cracked opinion of her mother. The facade of Summer Rose was shattered. It was at this point Weiss dropped the datapad as the color of her partner's eye seemed to match completely. Though it was Imperious who spoke first, continuing her prior thought "Now, Ruby, you yourself wondered why you were so powerful, that right there is why. Strength in the force is hereditary," Imperious explained as Ruby looked up at her, "And you are the daughter of two of the most powerful known force users."

"So this is true?" Pyrrha asked, skeptical of the claim. Ruby looked back at her friend with a look of 'I wish it wasn't but I feel it is.' Weiss mirrored that look as Imperious responded with a reply that sealed the deal.

"Malserik has holocrons worth of Jedi and Sith genetic samples," Imperious explained calmly, "Ruby's genetics have distinct traits from both Revan and Surik, Malserik said this is a 'near certain' result, Unless Taiyang is Revan, he is not the father."

"Could Taiyang be Revan?" Inquired Weiss, Ruby herself wanted an answer to this question, and that is what Imperious gave them,

"No, as Revan was captured by Emperor Vitiate after Revan made an attempt on his life, and he was an already married man," Imperious explained, though the last bit she added on confused them, and their faces showed it, "Revan was married to a woman named Bastila Shan when he and Surik went to confront Vitiate, and he had a descendant or two. So I don't know how or when you came to be Ruby," Imperious explained, making Ruby further question her existence. It was at this point Imperious produced another datapad. "This one is for you Weiss, it is a report on your Mother,"

Skimming through the report, Weiss learned of the truth of her mother, Atris Schnee. She learned that she too was a Jedi, though it was when she saw Meetra Surik mentioned numerous times in the report. This shocked Weiss as her mother was seemingly responsible for Surik's expulsion from the Jedi order three hundred years ago. It was at that point it clicked in the daughter of Atris's mind, three hundred years, no way her mother and Surik could be that old.

At this point Imperious also handed Pyrrha a datapad on her mother, A Vima Sunrider, a Jedi lost to time well before the Jedi Civil War. Pyrrha was shocked to learn of her mother's past as a Jedi. After all three girls were thoroughly shocked, Imperious smiled ad told the girls,

"You four are a lot more important than you think, and your bloodlines show that," Imperious smiled. Imperious herself was amused by this turn of events, especially Ruby and Weiss's relationship. From the few records recovered from Telos that Malserik had, Surik barely let Atris live, barely. She was about to kill her before letting her go realizing she had to find a Darth Traya. Atris even after Surik left swore her vengeance on the Dark Jedi.

The distortion between the disappearance of their mother, and the birth of her daughters, poised an interesting conundrum that Malserik addressed in his reports, he suspected the method of transportation between the where ever Remnant was unstable to Remnant, but more stable coming two, though he also suspected there could be some instability coming from Remnant as well. With the meeting done Imperious dismissed the three girls with the final order to 'get to know their lineage and come to terms with it.'


A few days passed on Drommund Kaas, Ruby, Weiss, and Pyrrha had begun training Nora to get her up to their standards for combat. It was in this time Nora showed her friends how fierce she could be. Dumping massive amounts of force lightning into her body, she could power her strength to absolutely ludicrous levels. Normally she held back on this ability, but now that she was among friends, she let loose. The first time doing so she was practicing her hand to hand combat with some training droids, able to see their weak points as shatter points, she could focus her ludicrous strength with pinpoint accuracy on weak points and faults in the material of the droids. Though after the first punch the training chamber echoed with a loud and decisive crack. This crack caused Nora to collapse in pain, as her arm shattered under the power imbued in her own muscles. Her bones were used to the basic stress of her semblance, but this was an all new level of strength that her bones couldn't withstand.


With her right dominant arm broken, she decided to try to relax on the training till the shattered bone was fully healed. It was also at this time, she decided to build her own saber to Sith standards. Not having any idea how the sabers were constructed, she asked Ruby for help with the design, as she wanted to make a collapsible lightsaber pike so she could have something similar to what she had on Tatooine but maintain the ability to shift to a normal sized two hand hilt.

Taking the design like a commission, Ruby designed the saber but she added a few unique features such as using a blaster ignition system to extend the main shaft rapidly and adding the end of a Force pike with flanges like that of a gaffi stick. She mandated the design be made of Phrik alloy due to its length. Nora loved the designed and overviewed Ruby's manufacture of the saber's parts. Despite Ruby making the parts, it was Nora's job to assemble it. To which she did, using the Pink Krayt Dragon pearl from her old lightsaber, Corusca Crystal she found in a settlement and a Katak Crystal provided by Malserik. For its first test ignition, it ignited in a compressed pink blade with a magenta core. Nora immediately loved her saber testing its blast extensions system she immediately fell in love with it naming it the 'leg-breaking made easy' system. Though her official name for her saber was in old northern Atleasian, the name was "blodsverd."

With her saber complete, Nora wanted to get used to using it, practice with it, and become familiar with it, she wanted to fight. For the past week she had stared at the weapon resting on the table next to her bed in the quarters given to her by Malserik that were connected and modified to attach to Ruby, Weiss and Pyrrha's quarters, forming a long hall like room between them which was used as a common living space with a bathroom and three bedrooms in a row.

Each time she looked at that saber her broken arm tingled with a light pain, that was more of discomfort in the cast. This night she had enough, Blodsverd would taunt her no longer. Getting out of bed, she cracked the cast on the wall, smashing it. Freeing the barely healed arm. Her arm limp with pain. She growled, basking in the pain. She came up with a way to stifle the crippling factor of her arm. She focused that pain into the force, using its power to pin the fragments of bones back together then focusing her aura into the damaged bone. She could feel the bone healing slightly, but it would be too fragile to use heavily. Nora sensed this and came up with a solution, she reinforced her arm with the Darkside's energy.

She let out a light growl as the pain in her arm intensified causing her to clench her right hand. Taking the saber in hand, her arm pulsated with pain, almost feeling as bad as when she originally broke it. Though, she wasn't going to let that dissuade her. Though the pain caused her to lock her grip on her Saber.


In the training hall, Malserik and Imperious were having a friendly late night spar. Imperious wanted to practice her form two against the man who taught her the form. Originally she relied on form seven, dual blade and saber staff techniques. While nothing to scoff at, Malserik taught her how to fence properly with a single blade. While she still preferred her normal style, it was a good backup to have.

Malserik's fighting style was proper, like that of an officer, while Imperious was much more fluid and violent. In a direct no holds bar duel, Imperious would be handling her own against the traitorous Jedi, but she was only using one blade against him, and she couldn't use the force.

The duel ended when Malserik disarmed Imperious of Castle by torquing it out of her hand and quickly putting his blade up to her throat. He was smiling as Imperious cursed,

"Damn it, Viridian," She blurted out as Malserik deactivated his saber with a smug grin on his face, "You know I can't win under these conditions," Imperious deadpanned as she pulled Castle back to her hand.

"I understand Ceres, I truly understand," Malserik smiled at the blue eyed Sith, "I just wanted to practice, and get a feel for your technique now, and as you stand right now, in a duel of the same parameters, you would lose to Weiss." Malserik smiled as Imperious rolled her eyes,

"You are proud of her, aren't you?" Imperious asked, she knew the answer but she just wanted confirmation at this point.

"By the force, is it not apparent," Malserik cackled as Imperious pouted at his response, "yes I am proud of her, not only was she an excellent learner. She is also an excellent teacher herself, as she taught me how to mine and process dust, along with the weapons and abilities of Remnant." Malserik explained, long-windedly, making sure to take a breath before continuing with, "along with that she introduced me to this most interesting Remnant game as of late, it's called Chess, it is all about thought and strategy."

"Viridian, you-" Imperious started to say before the door's to the training chamber opened. Past the doors was Nora, the last person they expected to see, due to her arm. Something that both of the Darth's noted about her was the fact her cast was gone. Though, the more disturbing thing was the fact she had her lightsaber in hand.

"Ah, Nora, what are you doing? are you okay?" Malserik inquired for the girl's safety and well-being. He originally didn't care much for her as she seemed a bit crazy at first, but she had calmed down and seemed more reasonable. Though as he asked that, she looked at him, causing him to lock up with shivers in his spine as her sulfuric glowing eyes locked with his one green one. At Which point, Imperious realized exactly what was going on by the darkness emanating from Nora's arm and said

"She is more than fine right now," Imperious said quietly, "Set her up with a training routine, Malserik, setting ten," She said as she signaled for Malserik to follow. As that passed Nora, they could see the pain in her face. Heading up to the control Room, to watch the training the Duo of Darth's watched the Droids start to deploy as Nora took her place at the center of the Arena. She ignited the pink compressed blade as one thought went through her mind, Get used to the pain, I need my body to get used to this! Nora declared internally, as she struck the first of the Droids. She was dumping all of her force lighting into her body. With each strike, there was a snap in her body, first, it was other arm bones, then her legs, then other bones went as well.


Up in the control dash observation room, Malserik and Imperious were contacting Ruby Weiss and Pyrrha, along with a cadre of medical staff as they watch. They were speechless, her face was grim with pain, but she was dueling, even going into saber staff mode part way through. Her body by this point should have been in pieces, yet she stood and fought. Imperious immediately knew the technique she was using, and she muttered the name of the Darth that made it his mark,

"Sion," Imperious muttered, despite Krayt being the Darth the girl knew, she was using his technique though instead of hatred she was using passion and pain. It was at this point, the three other knights entered with the medical staff outside. They watch Nora fight for the Duration after the training. After which she was still standing, though she was exhausted and panting.

Afterword's she claimed to be fine, despite actually being in a lot of pain. She could feel her bones, they were fragmented and she was focusing on holding them together with the force, while her Aura repaired the damage. Needless to say, all of those who watched this display were shocked and concerned, but Imperious explained what Nora was doing, as dangerous as it was, it was a technique. With this in mind, they all went to bed with Various thoughts.


It was also during this time the girls also came to terms with what they learned about their families, and it was found out, Nora, who was an orphan that never knew her parents was the daughter of two of Meetra Surik's companions, Atton and Mira Rand. Jedi who had helped reassembled the Jedi order then disappeared shortly after Meetra did for the first time. They must have ended up on Remnant during that time and had a child. Though, Ruby was the one who had something to come to terms with her own existence. From the reports Malserik made for her, He couldn't place when Ruby was conceived or even how, as during the point when she was going up against Vitiate with Revan he was married, and she would have been too young during the Mandalorian War. This concerned the young Sith, as she didn't know where she came from. While this normally wouldn't bother her, It bothered Imperious and Malserik along with her as she wanted knowledge, she wanted to know how she came to be.

Though she decided to not obsess over it as answers would come in time, that's what Imperious told her at least. Weiss and Pyrrha were shocked by their parents being Jedi, making them question who their parents were, information provided by Malserik shed some light on all their parents pasts as Jedi.


A/N: Well that was that Chapter, I had some fun giving Nora a new ability to cope with her strength, basically I wanted her to be ready for battle despite injury. Nora is supposed to be the berserker after all. As for next chapter Jaune Arc's Naboo fun (Warning, there will be gungans if they exist on Naboo at the time).

As for those Reviews that came up, I am deeply thankful for the praise, made my day seeing them!

As for the length of the story, I have no bloody Idea, I am planning for around 100-120 chapters, by the end of this but of course, this is subject to change.

I am glad you enjoyed De Sang and Ruby in this Story. Along with that Revan is her father, kind of a Star wars Trope for there to be a surprise family reveal.

Now with that out of the way feel free to ask any questions if you have them, or give suggestions or corrections once again if you have any please give them or leave a review. Alright, everyone, be safe, have fun, have a Happy New Year and may the force be with you!

Blitzing Raptor