A/N: Well here we go, the plot is starting up its engines again and is starting to chug down the tracks. So here we go with the first new plot chapter Chapter 46: Independence! Enjoy!


Chapter 46: Independence


While the battle raged on Nar Shaddaa, and Events transpired in the Galaxy at large the Star Forge and the Revanites had been plotting away in their secluded space station. The Revanite forces had arrived on the Star Forge clad in their masked black and red robes, they formed a cult around Star Forge. Fully forming the Order of Revan. They had managed to consolidate all of their order to the Star Forge. The leader of the order a Sith Lord by the Name of Tari Darkspanner had brought her Order from Drommund Kaas along with a Darth Arkous and Rian Darok. They had brought all that they could on a small flotilla of civilian ships which were all docked to ports all across the massive Rakattan station.

They were working around the clock to prepare for Revan's plans to eliminate Vitiate, building up massive reserves of Droids and Ships. During this time Yang found herself in a very awkward position, as Revan's apprentice, she held a lot of sway over the Revanites, She liked the power she had as Revan had her by his side at most times as her training was finally nearing completion. She felt the power she had ascertained by walking the fine line in the middle of light and dark, it was a comforting thought knowing that she would be able to operate on her own, independent of anyone.

Sitting in her quarters looking out towards the Stars, the now pale blonde-haired former Jedi and Huntress sat thinking of the adventures this galaxy could unlock for her, though that was after she found her sister, that was her top priority. One that caused her to put her hand on the window that lead out to the void and say, "Sis, I am coming, just please be okay when I find you," She was worried about her sister even with the information that they were not related by blood didn't dissuade her, Ruby was still her sister, and she hadn't seen her in years. Yang knew she would be different, but how different she thought, as she looked out into the twinkling void. Was she a Sith? Was she a mere citizen, who did Ruby become? She had no way of knowing, all Yang hoped for was that she was still kind and wanting to do the right thing, though, from her knowledge of the force and the Sith, that could be unlikely if she embraced that power.

Then came that gilded-eyed Sith, Yang had seen that woman so many times in her visions yet she didn't understand her in the slightest, minus the fact that she was a Sith. At first, she seemed like a boogyman to the young at the time Jedi, a monster that needed to be slain, but as it stood now she seemed like a friend she hadn't met yet, as in her dreams and visions she fought alongside the gilded-eyed Sith with the red cross guarded saber though with numerous other people alongside them, the Sith with an Icy blue blade, the Sith with the crackling orange blade, and the Sith with pulsing pink blade. Then she even got some glimpses of people that looked like Roman Torchwick, Penny, and that tricolored bitch that tried to murder her on that train years ago on Remnant, which further posed a question to Yang's mind, Why would I work with them? Why would they be on our side?

Yang was utterly confused by these allies, though in her visions they were seemingly her allies, and the blonde apprentice didn't know how to feel about that. She would have pondered that some more though the door to her quarters opened and Tari entered not wasting any time she asked,

"My lady, have you packed your belongings?" Yang wanted to grumble at this question as she had most of her things ready to go, she was excited for this day to come, she was finally going to be leaving the Star Forge. Along with that, she hated being called a lady, it made her feel like she was a Sith, though according to Revan that is how Sith showed respect,

"I have, Tari," Yang replied like she would to a nagging mother, as she used the force to grab the only things left that she had not packed, Ember and Ash, her lightsabers. Ember was the same as the day she arrived on the Star Forge, but Ash was her new saber to replace the one she lost leaving the temple, and it was distinctly different a bent hilt with a Sith red blade, she didn't much care for this change but it worked, "I take its time?" Yang inquired, as she walked over to the door, preparing to leave if this was the case.

"Yes, it is time, My lady, Revan requested that I escort you to the conference room" Tari bowed moving out of the way allowing the now six-foot-tall woman to pass by her, Yang had a light smile on her face she was finally going to be set free, and Revan had made her a promise as a motivation to complete her training when her training was complete, he would give her Ruby's location.


Following Tari, the blonde Revanite grinned, at the thought of I am finally done here, I can finally go. Despite the training being fun, Yang always felt alone on this station, she didn't connect that well with Revan despite him being a good teacher. He was too obsessed with his plans at times to really socialize and there was also the fact he wasn't very good at socializing, nor over the years she spent on the Star Forge did she ever really have anyone to talk to, so she was quite lonely. even the newly arrived Revanites weren't much better as they were more of a cult than anything.

Walking down the dimly lit corridors Yang saw the Revanites carrying out their daily tasks, making sure the station was ready to accept their incoming brothers who were going to be arriving in the coming months. They were going to be preparing to strike at the Sith Emperor, Vitiate, then reform the empire in the image of Revan. Yang, however, cared for none of that, to her, she only cared about finding her sister and this whole elimination of Vitiate was hopefully a means to an end and that end was her motivation throughout her training. After this was all over she just wanted to stand by and protect the galaxy from its dangers.

Though the blond brawler, also lamented the changes her body had undergone during this training due to her constant skimming of the Darkside, had not gone unnoticed first she lost pigment in her skin becoming absurdly pale, then her right eye locked to red like it did when her semblance activated, then her hair faded in color from its normally golden yellow to a more normal blonde coloration. The last one was the most annoying to the brawler, as her gold mane, was what she was the most known for, but she was willing to accept the change for the power boost it gave, as the force was good compensation for the matter. Despite this change, she still grew it out again though she kept it in a long braid to prevent it from becoming an issue in combat. Anothercaviot was that her appearance went well with her long black robes though instead of red Yang decided to use a faded yellow to match her hair color, the style still resembled her masters.


After a few minutes of walking and an elevator ride, Yang and Tari arrived at the door that leads to the conference room. Tari quickly clicked the control to open the door. With a hiss, the large metallic door opened allowing Yang to hear a conversation inside the room,

"So Arkous, Darth Imperious is the one you suspect to be the leader of the reconstituted Visorium order?" Inquired as voice that sounded like Revan with his mask on, he seemed more interested than usual, which caused who Yang recognized as Arkous to respond with,

"Yes Lord Revan, Though they are small and seem to only operate in the Empire," Arkous said as the door fully opened with a loud ka-chunk, which got all heads to turn to face Yang and Tari, who entered and took a seat as Revan, gestured for Arkous to continue. "Well out intel on the Visoriums is really quite circumstantial, though we have confirmation they do exist from one of our Revanites, and from the intelligence we have we can deduce that all arrows lead to Hiskal, and that city is a fortress and infiltration has proven difficult."

"I would expect nothing less from Malserik" Tari explained calmly, Malserik was a name that Yang knew well. As a matter of fact, she had Revan see if he could get her some information on the traitorous Jedi, as they were both disavowed Jedi, and that made Yang sympathize with the man, especially when she read up on his past, she understood why he left, she would have too. But after that thought, Tari continued with, "He has withstood infiltration for many years, he as impenetrable foothold further reinforced by the loyal civilian population as they do report suspicious activity to his private guard force."

"I know of this," Revan replied calmly, he had been keeping an eye on the order for quite some time now, "I personally think they are very sympathetic to our cause, they even might have the same end goal as us," Revan explained in a way that shocked Yang as she could tell what he was going to propose to the Revanites which her theory was proven when her master continued with, "With that in mind I would like to propose we form an alliance with the Visorium order, and my apprentice will serve as the ambassador," This line made Yang's eyes go wide as she sat at the table. She was not a diplomat nor had any skills to be a Diplomat, The leaders of the Revanites all turned to face the uncomfortable blonde as Revan declared,

"Yang Xiao Long, your final trial is to come," Revan spoke his voice dramatic and confident as to not appear weak to the Revanites," so please follow me, Yang, the meeting is adjourned," Revan announced dismissing the council of Revanites, gesturing for Yang to follow him out of the room. Walking down the dimly lit corridors Yang knew where Revan was leading her to, the hangers. As they walked far enough away from the Revanites, Revan spoke his voice reverberating through his mask, "Yang, I have not forgotten my promise, you will see Ruby soon," Revan said with a pleasant almost fatherly tone, "I just need you to handle this task for me," Yang groaned lightly in discontent as her posture relaxed as she asked,

"So what exactly do you want me to do?" the blonde asked as she followed behind her master, whose reply was quite simple,

"you locate and represent me to the Visorium Order, see if you can get them to join our cause, and if you cannot do that, try to at least convince the Knights of Hiskal to join our cause," this got Yang to raise an eyebrow, she had never heard of the 'Knights of Hiskal' before, so she, of course, had to ask,

"Knights of Hiskal?" Yang inquired as she walked along behind Revan, who stopped for a second to answer, seemingly unnerved by the question

"They are just Sith, four female humans potentially Remnant's like you if the rumors are to be believed," Revan spoke a half-truth, "They alone would be powerful allies to our cause," Revan explained fully knowing who one member of the knights was. With that explanation, Yang smiled and responded with,

"Understood, it shall be done, my master," Yang spoke seemingly mocking how the former Sith elements of the Revanites always said that when Revan gave them an order.

"Yang, you are going to Drommund Kaas, please do try to be respectful of the Sith, they don't take kindly to disrespect," Revan mused, "But to get you to Drommund Kaas I have your method of transport," Revan smiled as he opened a door to one of the larger hangers, inside Yang saw the ship she came to the Star Forge on the Ebon Hawk, though the old freighter had been repainted from its old Republic paint scheme to Sith navy grey and black scheme at which point, Revan continued with "Yang I have had the Ebon Hawk refitted for your ownership, also T3-M4 will accompany you, but she is now your ship, may she serve you as well as she did for me," Revan said with a smile beneath his mask, "but I have one last matter to attend to," Revan spoke calmly, prompting Yang to ask,

"And what would that be?" her voice sounded of a muted excitement, she was happy she was getting a ship, but she was hoping for something a bit more modern, like a BT-7 or an XS Light Freighter, but alas the old venerable ship would have to do, and the fact of it was, The Ebon Hawk was now her ship.

"Well you are an apprentice of mine and Revanites are known for wearing Masks, So I had this made for you," Revan smiled as he pulled a mask from under his robes it was a simple rounded black metal mask with a slot visor and an asymmetric faded yellow strip with Yang's emblem in the line as a black marking, which Revan handed to Yang who examined the Mask before deciding to place it upon her face, just to see how it felt. It was cold, but it was comfortable, obviously designed for long term use, but Masks weren't really the blonde's thing, though she spoke through the mask to say,

"Thank you, Revan," Yang said, her voice being edited and distorted by the vocabulator within the mask, "If that is all, I have a long journey ahead of me," Yang spoke once again, hearing her voice getting distorted by the mask. Showing Revan that she had slight impatience to get going.

"That is all Yang Xiao Long, Goodbye and may the force be with you," Revan said taking his mask off, as he said that and giving her a final wave as Yang walked toward the ship.


Entering the Ebon Hawk, Yang was greeted by the beeping of T3, which she now understood, and to which Yang replied by saying, "Yes, let's get this thing flying!" Yang said as she darted up to the cockpit of the Hawk as the rumble of the engines turned on, and the ship darted out of the hanger of the Star Forge. Yang sighed, She was free.

After a few Chirps from T3, the Ship entered Hyperspace and Yang's journey was underway with the blue vortex of the faster than light travel. She Relaxed in the cockpit chair, she knew it would take a month or two to reach Drommund Kaas. So she had to keep fit and mentally sound in that time, so she took off her mask and smiled after so long the twenty-year-old Yang smiled she had a ship, she had a way to look for Ruby after all of this time she could look for her long lost sister.

Yang was hopeful that she would find her soon, and the first world she was going to search was going to be Drommund Kaas, a world that as a Jedi she could never hope to reach, content with a smile she dozed off into a light sleep, though it wasn't long until that sleep was disturbed by a sharp jab on to her right side which caused her to jolt up to the sound of what as sounded like laughter, but it was just T3 beeping at her. After she noticed this fact she yelled,

"What the hell you tin can!" Yang screamed as she leaped to her feet, wanting to smash the droid for disturbing her but after a few quick and rapid-fire chirps and beeps that urge was quelled as the droid explained there was a message from Revan in the central holocomm terminal in the main hold of the ship. Getting up Yang walked down the path to the main hold, and took a seat at the quarter circle couch facing the holocomm, looking at the circular console and said, "Alright T3 play me the message," T3 chirped as he plugged into the console and a hologram of Revan appeared and began to speak.

"Yang Xiao Long, I prepared this message for you, as my apprentice your objectives remain the same, but I felt you deserved to know something about the four Knights of Hiskal," A blue bust-like hologram of Revan was projected on the central console in the main hold. Yang sighed with the thought this will be good. Unsure of what to expect she reclined back and wondered why he just didn't tell her this information.

"They are Remnant's this is a fact, not a mere assumption. You should know all four of them and you need to get comfortable with who they are and steel yourself for the truth." these words coming from the unmasked Revan, rang in Yang's ear, almost like she was in a doctor's office being diagnosed with a terminal illness. After a second's pause, the hologram continued, "hopefully you are ready for the names of the Knights. They go as follow Nora Valkyrie," Yang gasped as her eyes went wide in shock at seeing Nora's face as an image popped up on the display, she looked older, as expected, though she appeared corrupted Yang, herself knew the price of the Darkside but Nora looked fully immersed in it with her faded hair and sulfuric yellow eyes, along with the weird tattoo on the right upper quarter of her face. Even more concerning was the insane smile Nora had in the image.

"Pyrrha Nikos," The hologram continued, Like Nora, Pyrrha looked completely immersed in the dark side her normally red hair faded to a light pink color, while her eyes were a luminous red, seemingly filled with hatred and anger. The black spot with the line looked out of place but Yang barely noticed due to her hair be let down in the image. Continuing on Revan's Hologram announced,

"Weiss Schnee," This one shocked Yang a lot as Weiss's picture looked extremely odd as her shortened hair seemed to be covering something on the left side of her face, it took Yang a moment to realize she had an eyepatch on, which was discomforting, but Yang was relieved to see that she didn't look as corrupted as Nora and Pyrrha. In the given few seconds one thought was playing on a loop in Yang's mind Please don't let the last one be who I think it is. She thought as the hologram of Revan showed his apprehension, which concerned the blonde apprentice even more. Then after a break where he looked to be composing himself, he spoke,

"And the last is Ruby Rose," The image popped up and Yang stood up wanting to punch the console, but it was at that moment she also wanted to scream in horror as she noticed something, the now golden eyes of her sister stared into her soul they were those eyes that haunted Yang and that was her sister she could tell despite all of the changes that it was her. Her legs weakened, she collapsed, Ember and Ash on her belt clanged on the metallic floor as she fell. The message by this point had flipped to another image. It showed all four cloaked with their Lightsabers and it was at that moment Yang realized who the Sith she feared was, her own sister. She held the bloody red cross guarded lightsaber. At this point, tears started to well in Yang's eyes as she realized, her sister, that sweet little girl that was Ruby had grown up into a Sith with golden eyes.

With the sight of her sister like that Yang quivered as all of her visions of Ruby flashed back into her mind. She wanted to cry, she just wanted to sit there and bawl her eyes out, as she stared at that image, they were all together, each of them a Sith each holding their lightsabers which corresponded to the ones in her dreams, she could never see any of them becoming Sith, let alone those Sith from her visions. With that, she screamed,

"WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!" She repeated till she ran out of breath, after which she rested her head against her knees, there was one part of her mind that was telling her, 'be happy she's alive,' though the rest of her mind was focused on the fact Ruby was now a Sith and could be an enemy to Jaune Blake and Ren. Looking back up she saw footage being played on the console, it was lightsaber combat from far away through what looked like a sniper scope, as she focused on it T3rewinded it to the beginning for the blonde.


In the footage, she saw a massive fortress that was burning in light snow at night. She saw what appeared to be Sith troops storming the fortress from three landed ships she saw a darkly cloaked figure walk out from the shadows and stand by one of the ships with the rear guards though like a bolt of glowing red lightning she saw a bright red blur dart out of the fortress as the cloaked figure ignited their yellowish lightsaber to block the incoming strike which was Ruby as expected. As Ruby threw a punch and the cloaked figure withdrew and lowered her hood Yang's urge to punch grew as she saw two black feline ears, it was Blake. To which she could see a pause in the combat, it was evident they recognized each other and were talking, at which point she could see that Ruby's lightsaber was so much more than a crossguard lightsaber. though much to Yang's surprise they reengaged in combat. She watched horrified that Blake seemed to be the aggressor they kept fighting till Blake got a solid hit on Ruby then attempted to impale her something that broke Ruby's aura, Watching with Horror Yang saw Ruby take a strike to the face though Ruby recoiled back into the fight, blasting out red force lightning at Blake as her Aurapulsed back and shifted her lightsaber into a scythe mode and then proceeded to go insane on Blake. Kicking her in her spine. Using the force, to throw a large Duracrete slab at her. Which was an impressive feat, alone. Then Ruby threw one of the Starships that Blake was standing on. She saw Blake get snagged in glyphs though she didn't see Weiss anywhere. It was at that point she realized that Ruby was the one that summoned them. Blake broke free and slammed Ruby back knocking her down and looked to be ready to strike the Coup De Gras, Which made Yang scream out wondering why Blake would do that, though it was at that moment the cross-hair focused on Blake and with a bunch of flashes from what Yang could only assume was a blaster rifle Blake fell onto the ground before Ruby who recovered from the blast as another Jedi leaped out of the fortress which the sniper tried to shoot though the bolt was redirected back at the camera at which point the feed cut.


Yang reclined in shock at what she had just watched, her eyes wide with the thought of, They tried to kill each other, what has this galaxy done to us all? Yang asked herself as she rested her head in her hands as more tears flowed forward when T3 beeped at her, informing her that there was more content in the message. To which her response was, "I don't care, I want to get to Drommund Kaas as soon as possible," Yang said firmly as she went to the beds on the ship she needed rest. As she laid down, her mind was going wild, The Jedi knew where Ruby was and Yang didn't know if her mother was acting on that information, though judging how it was Blake that fought her, she figured she wasn't going to act, though that raised the question in Yang's mind, Would Ruby even want to join her? Judging by how Ruby resisted Blake, it was going a no, She figured Ruby was too encroached in the Sith to even contemplate leaving to join her Mother. Yang cursed as she remembered her promise that she made back on Tython, one that she would never join the Sith. She cursed out, as she found a part of her mind was contemplating joining her, as one line went off in her mind, 'Maybe if Ruby joined the Sith, maybe they aren't so bad,' Though a humorous thought also entered her mind, "or they just offered her strawberries and cookies." Chuckling at that though Yang relaxed, as it was going to be a long journey but it was one with a destination, Something she had lacked for years now. After a few minutes of calming down, she returned to the central console to see if Revan had any final words for her, which he did, as another hologram opened revealing Revan's face as the message played,

"Yang, I know all this information is a shock to you, so I have a new order to add to your mission, go be with your sister, you still are her sister, just please get me in contact with her, and the Visorium order, Good Luck and May the Force be with you," Revan explained as Yang smiled as she realized this was his plan, and she had a decision in front of her, but that was to be made later, right now she had a long journey to make and all she had to keep her from going insane was that droid, but she would cope with it if she could get in contact with Ruby once more.


A/N: Well, Yang's back in the picture and she is on her way to Ruby, I wanted to start the new chapter off with a Yang (Sorry couldn't help it, I wrote an entire chapter with out Yang giving a single pun so yeah, forgive me). I had thoughts about which section I would do first and I figured I should handle Yang's first, as she hasn't had nearly as much time as she should have had. With that I am going to handle the Reviews, this is going to be fun.

hornofdesolation: Well here it is, it took me long enough, though now that I think about it not many stories survive the kind of rewrite process I did, but hey determination.

KingHoborg: I will take a look at it when I feel like it, for now, I want to progress the story and fix earlier issues, but I will take a look at adding more to them. Thank you for that!

DuskDragonDeltaxd: Well you sir have earned the honor of being the first person on the internet to give me a threat and ultimatum! On the internet that's a sign I am doing something right! But in all seriousness, Wait and See! (Note, I get where your coming from I have stopped reading stories because some one died with out proper cause.)

Guest: Thanks, man!

Well with that out of the way, Next chapter will carry on were Nar Shaddaa left off, and it gonna be Grimm, so that will be a thing, (I was tempted to make it the last of the three chapter 9 chapters but I am not that evil, I think.) With that out of the way I would like to inform everyone there could be another slow down in my writing as my coursework is starting to pile high, but I will try to get one or two more out this month and also have one done for May the Fourth if all goes right. So with all of that out of the way, Thank you all for reading, if you have any comments, critique, suggestions or corrections, feel free to leave a review or PM me if you can, anything can help the Story. Now then, please everyone be safe and may the force be with you all and thank you all for reading, reviewing, following, favoriting, and sharing RWBY: Dark Side of a Rose!

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