Chapter 16

Year 0 Month 9 Day 3

The battle at Pare was in full swing. The Empire slowly taking ground from the Alliance. The Battle has been costly for both sides.

Cinder exited the portal in one of the buildings in Pare. It looked unsafe to be in. She looked around and saw a few dead alliance troops. She started to gather Salem's forces. She started to raise the troops from the dead, sending them back to Salem's realm.

She was doing this when Ulric came. He looked out the window to look at the battle.

"I always hated fighting." He said

"I know. But you were a Jedi. You don't have to opportunity to be a pacifist. Now you work for Salem. Once we get the relics, we won't have to fight anymore."

"Won't the gods destroy us?"

"Not in Salem's realm." Cinder raised one troops, and gave him all the weapons, then sent him away.

"Did Salem tell you that?"

"Yes."

"Do you trust her?" Ulric saw Yang charging into battle.

"My lips are closed."

"Fine. It's weird watching her now. My last apprentice."

"Yang Xiao Long?" Cinder went to the window to see Yang fighting. She felt a little bit of anger, but she couldn't let herself expose herself so easily.

"She's got no skill with that. She may as well be waving it around." Cinder said. Mostly truthful, but she did let herself fall a little into jealousy.

"I could have trained her better, but someone decided to kill me before I could." He said looking at Cinder.

Cinder grabbed his face. "You see, because I did that, we can be together again." Cinder kissed him.

"She has my lightsaber." Ulric said.

"Do you want it back?" Cinder would take any excuse to kill Yang.

"No. She needs something to hold onto. When the time comes, I think she's going to kill me once and for all." He said

"You think too highly of her." Cinder said with venom and jealousy in her voice.

"You're jealous of someone who can't even buy a drink. I thought I taught you better." Ulric said with a smile on his face.

"You always were insufferable sometimes." Cinder says.

Ulric let his smile fade. He kept watching Yang. She turned her head to the building, and she stopped for a second. Ulric took a step back.

"She saw me."

"That's what we wanted." Cinder opened another portal, and shoved Ulric in it, then went in it herself, closing it behind her. Yang and Arin went up to the floor.

"See Yang, you were just seeing things."

Yang shook her hand. "Yeah, Yeah. But I could have sworn…"

She looked around the room. Blood was everywhere, but there were no bodies.

"Arin, doesn't this look a little strange?"

"What does?"

"There's lots of blood, but no bodies."

Arin looked at it, but then he looked up, quickly grabbed Yang, and jumped out a window before the rest of the building collapsed.

Dust covered the battlefield. Yang and Arin were holding their breaths to not get the dust in them. They quickly went in another building before letting out their breath.

"I think we're going to need more than just the force to help us here." Arin said.


Yang sent out a call for aid. A few moments later two engineers entered the building.

"Masks and goggles?" The first one asked

"Yes."

The second one got out two pairs.

"Most of us are handing these out. No sector has been safe from buildings collapsing."

"It's that bad?"

"We've lost the front lines." The second said


Karel called Major Roy

"Roy, are you still alive?"

Roy took cover and reloaded.

"Despite your best efforts. I don't know about Koa. His men had a meeting with the Emperor's guard."

"Why did the snipers fight them?"

"Can't tell you boss. I'd say that most of them are dead. My men aren't looking to hot either."

"Move back. Those front lines are going to be lost any minute now."

"I'll order to retreat to the second zone boss but Can't tell you how many of us aren't going to make it."

"We just got reinforcements."

"Not up here." Roy threw his last grenade. He took out two imperials.

"The Emperor's been ripping through us." Roy said. He got up and started to leave. He ordered to retreat, and the few who were still alive started to retreat. The empire didn't let up. Some stayed behind for a final stand.

"We're moving Boss."

"Thanks."


Karel ended the call. He called Major Koa.

Koa answered, coughing up blood. He killed one of the Emperor's guards.

"Koa, are you still alive?"

"Barely." Koa took out a cigarette and lit it. Emperor Sym came up the stairs.

"Sorry boss, I'm not going to make it."

"Don't say that! I order you to get back to me."

"I don't think I'm going to be able to do that. The Emperor just got here."

Karel heard a pistol fire until it was out of bullets. He heard the buzzing of a lightsaber, and he heard the familiar sound of lightsaber cutting through flesh.

Sym picked up the scroll.

"This is Emperor Sym. This man is dead. You shall meet his fate."

"Sith Scum!" Karel shouted. The call cut off. Karel sent out an announcement that Major Koa was KIA.


Major Pixi read the message, then ordered the building he was stationed in to be destroyed.

"But Ma'am…" One of his troops started.

"Whoever killed him is still in that building."

"But the body…"

"We'll have his memory, but if his killer escapes…"

"Pixi, I've heard everything. Don't fire at it. We still have troops near that building. Don't fire at it!" Karel ordered.

Pixi swore "Fine, have it your way." She turned to her gunners. "Cancel my last order!"

Pixi looked at the scanners, and saw another enemy ship coming. It sent out dozens of fighters. Pixi looked at how many snub fighters she still had. She didn't have enough to match them. She then calculated how much gas they would have had left. It wasn't much.

"Call our fighters back!" Pixi ordered.

Pixi looked back to the scanner and saw a large group of new hostiles.

"What's that?" She asked.

One of her troops called back "That's a large group of Grimm." Pixi swore again


Master Roni helping get the troops safely behind the second zone of the city. The new troops were pushing the imperials back for a bit, but it ended in a standstill.

"We're holding them off at 15th and Baker. Everything past that is lost." One of the Captains said.

Roni looked at the map she had of the city.

"I don't feel comfortable with them getting so close." She said. Another captain ran up to her.

"Commander, Grimm have arrived in massive numbers."

"That's just great. Are they attacking?"

"Both sides."

Roni looked out.

"No, we can't use them to our benefit, unless… Get me droids. The Grimm don't attack the droids as much. Maybe they can be used."

"We'll call them in. We have no idea if it will work though."

"We have to try something." Roni said.

"Alright."


Sym left the building and saw the Grimm hoard coming.

"Keep moving men! Don't let up!" Sym ordered all ships to land. He knew what the Grimm could do to ships. The Alliance didn't set the ships down right away, but one after another they landed too. Now it was all about the ground battle. The tanks that left the ship were ordered to fire at the Grimm first.

Soon the large hoard were over them, darkening the sky.

"We won't be destroyed by these things! Kill them!" Sym said. He gathered energy waiting for them to lower.


All the Grimm were flying Grimm, swooping down. Ruby was with Roni and they were having to fight off the Grimm.

Ruby killed her fair share but was getting surrounded. She put her lightsaber away and got out Crescent Rose. She was ready for the fight. She used her speed to her advantage. She got on the back of one as it started to raise off the ground. Ruby quickly killed the Grimm she was on and jumped to another one by her. She got a dozen like this, until she found one tougher than the rest.

She had jumped on it's back, sticking Crescent Rose in it, thinking she killed it, but she didn't, so when she went to jump to the next one, she was saved by her weapon. She turned quickly then got her lightsaber out. She jammed it in the Grimm's neck. It screamed, and started to fall, but it wasn't dead. It wanted to take Ruby with it. Ruby used the force to turn it on its stomach, and to shield her for the impact. When it fell it started to fade. Roni looked at her.

"Please don't do that again." She said.

"Get Down!" Roni told Ruby. She did, then Roni jumped over Ruby, taking her lightsaber out while spinning and landing it in the head of another Grimm.

"These things are everywhere." Roni said.

"Thanks master."

"No problem. We should get inside." She said

"But we can take them on."

"We can't see the Sun anymore. They blocked it out."

Ruby looked at the hoard.

"Why aren't they all attacking?"


Watts converted more of the dead to Salem's army. Unlike Cinder, he didn't have to kiss them to get the poison in them. His bullets were coated with the poison, and he had multiple vials of it just in case. A portal opened behind him. Lavi came out of it.

"Hello doctor." She said

"Why are you here?"

"Salem wants me to be here. She said I could help you."

"I highly doubt that, unless you know how to transform them."

Lavi laughed.

"No, I was an Imperial Remember. I just need to kill one of them and take on their Identity for a few minutes. Our Lady said you would find a purpose for me."

"I think people would recognize one of the Recon Zero members, who's meant to be dead." Watts said. He converted more troops.

"If you want to help, kill imperials then administer this to them." Watts handed her two vials of the poison.

"Oh, you're giving me the good stuff." She said

"Go and do your mission."

"Fine, you were never any fun." Lavi left.

Watts didn't say anything then took deep breath when Lavi left. He shook his head "Where does she find these people?"

Yang looked up and saw the Grimm in the sky.


"I don't think we should go out right now." Yang said

"Why?"

"It's dangerous."

"How bad is it?"

"I don't know if we have enough bullets." Yang said

"It can't be that bad." Arin walked out, and four Grimm came for him. He went back in the building.

"I wonder how many of them there are. Must be thousands. Or millions." Arin said


The Tanks started to fire at the Grimm, but it didn't help a lot. The Grimm started to dive towards the tanks. The Tanks never won.

Many of the people had to hide in the buildings. Only the droids were out, and they still weren't safe. The Grimm caused the Battle to stop.

No one was watching out for Salem's forces. Ulric was following Cinder. They used the Grimm to tell them were people were by watching how many were around one building. Cinder walked into one of the buildings and found Alliance troops huddling together checking how much ammo they have left.

They turn and see her and Ulric.

"Who are you?" One of them asked.

"I'm sorry." Ulric said. They took out their black lightsabers and started to cut everyone down. Ulric turned off his lightsaber and looked at the bodies.

"I hate this." Ulric said

"You don't have a choice. You follow me now. So, you may as well stop complaining." Cinder said as she started to convert the troops. Ulric wanted to have no part of this.

"When did you meet Salem?"

"I don't remember. She had her eyes on me for a while during out time together. It was Watts who found me. He told me about the collapse of the Jedi here."

"So, that's why you were asking me about it. I'm guessing he gave you what you needed."

"Yes, he laid a crumb trail for me to follow. Then I followed it. I guess you know where that lead."

"You forced my hand."

"Yes, I did. And you killed me, but I don't care about that. You made me like this." Cinder said. She put her hand on Ulric's face.

"Now we have to go up and get more people."

They went up the stairs and murdered every living thing in the building.


Salem watched as her army of the dead came flooding in. Soon she would show the world her power. But for now, she would suffice to take the droid factories. She gathered some of the troops and sent them to both factories.

She watched the battle.

"If only I could be out there. I would destroy them all." Salem looked out the window. More Grimm were being created. She was gaining more power.

She still felt empty. Nothing could ever make her feel anything but melancholy.

"Curse you Ozpin." She hated him. She realized long ago that they would always be around. If one existed, the other would as well.

Salem still had her magic, but it wasn't strong enough to get out of her realm.

Long ago, Salem could freely walk between the realms of light and dark. But Ozpin stopped that. Like before when they first met, Ozpin came into her realm. He cast a large spell that must have used most of his magic and made it impossible for her to Leave. Salem then killed Ozpin. But she soon found that she was trapped. Half way to death, but people could still enter the realm.

She knew that if she wasn't careful, her body would be destroyed, and her spirit would be trapped in her realm forever without anyone being able to come in.

She would need to scream but have no mouth. She would be trapped in her own purgatory, her own hell.

She shook her head. "I can't think about that now."

But the though didn't leave her mind. It horrified her that something like that could happen.

She wouldn't let it happen. She needed to stop it.

But to stop it she needed her army, and an army needs a General.

Salem turned around and raised her hand. A dark puddle opened, and her General raised out of the ground.

"I am yours my lady."

"Adam Taurus, Raise up."


Adam remembered the pain of the lightsaber in his chest. He cursed himself. He let Blake distract him. Now he was paying for it. He held out his hand and heard a voice.

"I still have need of you." Adam didn't know who it was. He fell to the ground, bleeding. He felt something on his neck. Then he faded.

"It's cold" Adam thought. He opened his eyes, and he was covered by a darkness. It surrounded him and infused itself with him. The wound in his chest was healing. He felt the last of his blood leaving him. In its place was a black fluid.

"You are now mine." Adam heard the voice.

"Who are you?"

"I am the one who is keeping you alive. I am the one who will give you your revenge."

"You will let me destroy the humans?"

"Yes, and your other enemy." The floor started to shake. The image of Blake came up. A sword appeared in his hand. The fury blew up. He shoved his sword in her chest.

"If I will be able to do that for real, I will do everything." Adam said

Salem appeared behind Adam.

"You have a purpose. But you will wait."

The next thing Adam remembered was this very moment.

"You will lead my troops. You are missing a glorious war right now."

"I have only one war I want to wage.


" Adam said

"Against the humans, I know, and you shall have that war." Salem said. "But you will be the face of my army. You will arrive at Beacon to eliminate Ozpin."

"But that's going to be heavily guarded."

"Not anymore. At Pare there is a large battle raging out between the Empire and the Alliance. I have sent my Grimm to pin them down. My forces will turn the droids against their living masters. You will then kill Ozpin, an announce ourselves to the world."

"I will do as you say." Adam said

"Good."

Caled got into the droid factory. With the battle going on outside, the defense was minimal. Caled was able to easily destroy any opposition. He reached his destination and quickly got the codes for the Alliance droids. He waited for the order.

Baron called him

"I have the codes. Do you?"

"Yes."

"Then you shall both turn the droids to our side." Salem said.

"Of course, our lady." Caled said.


Karel sat in one of the buildings. Four droids came by sending orders from Roni and handing him water. Karel took it and thanked the droids. Bora came down from the floor above with one of their troops.

Karel ordered the droids to keep moving, but they ignored it.

"Did you hear me?" Karel asked.

They raised their guns. Karel quickly cut them down.

"That's not good." Karel said. "The droids have turned against us."

The troop went to the window. He saw droids going into the buildings.


Ruby and Roni waited for a few droids to come back, but they had a bad feeling about this. Two droids entered and fired at them. Ruby and Roni dodged the attack. Roni threw her lightsaber destroying the droids. She caught her lightsaber.

"What do you think this is all about?"

"I don't know why. How could this happen?"

Karel called.

"Master, the droids…"

"I know. But what I don't know is how it's happening."

Karel didn't say anything.

"Does it seem lighter outside?"

Roni looked outside. She opened the door and looked at the sky. The Grimm almost completely left. Only a few stayed behind.

"We're no longer stuck indoors, but we've got a bigger problem. More than half of our forces here are droids. This isn't looking good for us."

"Then we may have to make a temporary alliance."

"Maybe… but how likely are they to help us?"

"If they're like us, then likely. The Emperor's here."

"I don't like this."

"Neither do I."


Blake and Weiss met up with two of the Jedi who arrived. Akio and Mizuki.

"Looks like we're safe here. For now." Akio said.

Mizuki closed her scroll.

"Bad news, the droids have turned on us."

"What?" Akio said

"That's all I heard."

Blake sighed. "We've gone from stuck to stuck. What a leap"

"We don't know how many Grimm are left" Weiss said

"Well, I can tell you one thing for sure, the sun's gotten a lot brighter." Akio said.

Mizuki peeked her head outside and saw two squads of droids walking about. They saw her, then started running towards them.

She pulled her head back in. "We're going to have to fight our way out of here. We should meet up with the rest of the Jedi."

"Where's that?" Blake asked.

"That's a good question. I would say I have no idea." Akio said.

"So, we have to run for it?" Weiss asked.

"Yes." Mizuki said. She pulled out her lightsaber and charged towards the droids.

Akio looked at Blake and Weiss

"Follow me if you will." Akio went out next, turning on his lightsaber. Akio and Mizuki cut down all of them before moving on.

Weiss called Karel

"Where are you?"

"I don't know. I think we're on 24th street, but maybe not. We may have moved back soon, or we may have to…"

"Yes?"

"We may have to team up with the Empire."

"You think we're going to be able to?" Weiss asked

"I don't have high hopes, but if they're fighting the same enemy we are, then maybe. It's better to live then to die in a ball of fire." Karel said

"We're about to meet up with you I think."


Weiss ended the call. Karel got out a few water bottles out from his bag and started to pass them around. Mizuki opened the door.

"Karel, good." Mizuki said. Karel tossed her a water bottle. "Thanks." Akio, Blake, and Weiss came in. Karel gave them water, then they started to talk.

"So, what do we have?" Akio asked.

"Well, we're planning on meeting up with Master Roni and Ruby before trying to contact the empire. We're going to need their help if we're going to survive this." Karel said

"That's insane!" Akio yelled.

"You got a better idea? I'm ready to hear it. Or would you have us fight against three enemies?" Bora said.

"I don't like this." Mizuki said.

"Neither do I. And we still don't know where Vuren, Yang, or Arin are. We've got no contact from them." Karel said

"So we need to find them then. Why don't we just split up. We've got more than enough people to do it." Blake said.

"That is the problem. We're not splitting up." Karel said

"But we can't just leave them out there." Weiss said

"Who said we were?" Bora said

"But…" Weiss started.

"I can be tracked easily. The gauntlet in my arm has that feature. So I will go looking for them once we meet up with Roni. Someone's going to come with me, but we haven't decided who."

"What about Bora?" Akio asked

"No, she's going to have gather our troops together."

"So well decide when we get there?" Mizuki asked.

"Yes"

The group moved to where Roni was. She had sent out a beacon. It drew droids to the spot, but they were easy to beat back. It was one of the few defended positions in the city. Even the Grandmaster was there. The HQ was moved to this position.

Karel went up to Roni.

"We've got a few of us here." Karel said the group walked in the HQ. Ruby Yelled and ran to Weiss and Blake. She hugged them both.

"Have you seen Yang?" She asked.

Blake shook her head.

"I see." Ruby said defeated.

The Grandmaster went up to Roni and Karel.

"I have to leave. Something's going to happen at Beacon. They'll need me."

"How are you going to leave here?"

"I have a ship." She said. She bowed and left.

"That means we're down Jedi." Karel said. "Oh, yeah that reminds me, has Pyrrha started her training?"

"Yes. Vuren has been helping her."

"Good. Maybe we could have her help us soon. We need something to get us out of here."

"First we need to survive, then you can think about making plans of getting out of here."

"I'm going to a beach after this."

Roni laughed.

"If we get out of here, we'll all go."

"You hear that Bora, when we get out of here, we heading to the beach."

Bora gave a thumbs up.

"So now onto business, who's going with you to get everyone?"

Karel turned around. He saw everyone who could go with him, but he knew who he needed.

He went up to Weiss.

"White, will you come with me?"

"Of course, Blue."

"Then let's go."

Karel and Weiss left the HQ going to where Yang and Arin were last seen.


Ozpin watched Pyrrha as she trained. She was getting better, but still needed practice. It was a good thing they were safe in Vale.

"Ozpin, I sense something's going to happen." The grandmaster called Ozpin.

"Are you sure?"

"Positive. I'm coming back now."

"Alright."

Ozpin turned to Pyrrha.

"Miss Nikos, we need to end this session now. Get with your team."

"Is something wrong?"

"I believe so. Now get ready to fight."

"Is it the Empire?"

"I don't know, but we have to be ready for everything."

Ozpin and Pyrrha left the training area. Ozpin found Goodwitch.

"Get everyone ready for a fight. I don't know from where, but we have a fight coming soon."

"Alright." Goodwitch went to gather the staff together. It wasn't fast enough.

Ozpin was getting reports and calls from everywhere about an army marching down the streets of Vale. It just appeared. Ozpin knew what it was and where it came from immediately. This was Salem's Army. And he knew where she was getting the troops from too. He was disgusted.

Goodwitch and the other teachers came up to him.

"Professor Ozpin, what are we going to do?"

"We have to fight. Get the students ready. This will be another fight for their lives." Ozpin said

Empress Vox landed in Mistral. She had started go over things about the war, she got a report.

Thousands of Grimm were coming towards Mistral, and spreading all over the empire. She made sure her child was safe, then went to defend her city. She called upon her citizens to help destroy the Grimm at all costs.

Vox started to fight the Large Grimm. This was her first run in with them, but since she had seen them before with Recon Zero, she had an idea how to defeat this enemy.

Salem watched over as her forces destroyed her enemies. She smiled and thought it was good.

Author's notes: I hope everyone enjoys this story.

I've recently been kept up with a few things, Kingdom Hearts 3 is one of them.

I have a few more ideas up my sleeve. But don't think We're close to being done.

May the Force Be With You

-DragonZlayerx12