Chapter 17

Year 0 Month 9 Day 3

Salem has launched a three way attack on the cities of Pare, Mistral, and Vale.

Karel and Weiss went looking for Yang and Arin. They had to go deep into the battlefield where their droids had turned against them.

"Blue, do we even know where they are?"

"Not really, but we can't leave them to die out there." Karel said. He then grabbed Weiss and jumped to the side. A bullet hit the ground where they were a second ago.

"Looks like we're not too welcome here." Weiss said "But was it a droid or an imperial?" She added

"Does it matter?" Karel asked.

"I guess not. So how are we going to take care of our friend?"

"I got an idea." Karel said. Karel took out dust.

He fired ice dust in the middle of the street, then fired fire dust at the ice. Weiss got to the other side of the street. The shooter didn't see her getting closer. She dashed up the stairs seeing a droid firing. She quickly destroyed the droid.

"How's it looking White?" Karel asked

"It's good Blue, come on up." Weiss yelled back.

Karel went to Weiss.

"Hey." Karel said

"Hey."

"How good are you at jumping across rooftops?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Because we may have to do just that." Karel looked at his scroll" to avoid anyone from shooting us."

"I can handle myself."

"Good. Let's go then."


Adam walked down the streets of Vale for the first time since his death. He walked to where he was killed and spat on the spot.

"I was weak." The event replayed in his head

Two alliance soldiers started to open fire at him. He pulled out his weapon and absorbed the shots. It started to glow red. He charged at them, but vanished before attacking them.

"What was that?" One of them asked.

"An after image." Adam said, as he killed both of them with one strike.

Adam looked at both of them then spat on their bodies. "Filth."

Adam went to the building where he saw Blake for the last time. "I was distracted. I won't make that mistake again." His mind was filled with an image.

"This is the girl who inhabits half of the fall maiden power. Bring her to me, or kill her." Salem said

"What about Ozpin and the Jedi."

"Trust me, and lead your forces there."

"What about Beacon?"

"I have that dealt with."

"Fine."


Meg was defending the Temple. There was only one master left at the Temple. He was leading the defense force.

"We have to hold the city till reinforcement from Vacuo." He cried out.

Two of the strange invaders came started to open fire. She blocked them then jumped over the wall the temple guard had made. She used her semblance to slow her opponents took out her black lightsaber. She turned it on and out came a purple blade. She got behind them, and made two quick slashes.

She stopped her semblance, and they both fell to the ground. A black dust came out of them, and their clothes changed color.

"What?" Meg asked.

"I don't know what this is." The master though. "I think you should go to Ozpin."

"But…"

"No, go."

Meg left for Beacon.

As she was running down the road she ran into some of the Red fang troops that were stationed in Vale. Ilia was leading them.

"Keep this line!"

Meg stopped behind her.

"What's going on here?"

"We've got this area held down, but we're facing heavy resistance. Do you know what they are Jedi?"

"No. But I fear they aren't Imperials."

Adam gathered his troops and moved up to the next defensive line.

Meg and Ilia turned. Ilia gasped.

"Adam… but he's dead."

"What?"

"That's Adam Taurus. He led a part of the white fang. He died here two years ago."

"That's not possible, he's right here."

Adam looked at the defense force. Faunus. And humans.

"Traitors! How could you work with the human filth! They who murdered us!"

Meg and Ilia got ready for the fight.

"There is only one fate for turncoats. Death!" Adam ran forward with his army. He was shot at, but he absorbed the shots. Meg jumped over the red fang and got ready to fight Adam. She tried to end it quickly. She made four quick slashes. The first one would have destroyed the sword, then the next three would be hitting vital organs.

Adam blocked every hit.

Meg turned around and looked on in shock.

"How?"

"It's a metal called cortosis. I hear it's able to block lightsabers. Let's test this out." Adam said. He used all the gathered energy from the bullets, and launched his attack on Meg. She braced for impact. She blocked in quick succession multiple hits, but not all of them. She got a large cut on her cheek. Blood started to flow down her face.

Adam laughed. "This is all the high and mighty Jedi can muster. No wonder you went extinct."

Ilia finished one of her opponents when she saw the jedi in need of help. She extended her weapon at Adam. He dodged it, and grabbed the end. Ilia sent electricity down. Adam put his sword in front of his hand. It absorbed the electricity.

"Thank you." Adam pulled on the whip, pulling Ilia close to Adam.

"Do I know you?" Adam asked.

"How are you alive?"

"…Oh, now I remember you. You're the one who loves Blake, aren't you. Well. I died because of her. So I want to show her what it's like. But I'll settle for you for now."

Adam raised his sword. As he was about to thrust it down he was hit by a force blast.

As Meg got up she spun around taking out three of Salem's troops. She blocked shots from Salem's troops, trying to get to Ilia's side to help her.

Four red fang troops went to Ilia's side.

Adam looked at them. "I see you want to die, but you have this one chance to do what's right and fight the human scum."

They raised their weapons.

"I see… I apologize for what's about to happen."

Adam raised his hand. All of his troops aimed. He signaled for them to fire. Meg pushed Ilia away, but the other four dropped dead. Meg charged Adam. He blocked the hit.

"You on the other hand, won't get the same opportunity."


Karel jumped across one rooftop to another. Weiss was behind him, but she wasn't keeping up.

Karel stopped. He waited for Weiss to catch up. He pulled up the map again. He sent out the signal and saw the Base. At the very edge he saw two dots.

"I think we just got in range to find them." Karel got out a paper map and a red marker. He circled where the base was, then he circled where the two dots were.

"Are we going to split up?"

"No, too dangerous." Karel patted his shirt, then pulled out a pistol. He handed it to Weiss.

"I didn't know you used guns." Weiss said

"Normally no, but when I have to…" Karel started. He looked up and pulled out his lightsaber. Weiss stopped to listen.

"My master doesn't want me to do this."

Sno jumped out, lightsaber in hand. Karel blocked her attack.

"This isn't going to end well for you. Just leave it alone."

"You humiliated me! I won't stand for that!"

Karel blocked the attacks and analyzed what style Sno was using. It was a basic form IV. He smirked.

"What's that about?"

"You're using that form against me? I use three forms, and that's one of them. I know its weakness, and strengths. You can't win."

"Shut up!" She sent force lightning out at Karel. He put up his lightsaber to deflect it.

"This is your last warning. Leave."

"I will kill you some day. But…" Sno jumped off the side of the building. She used the force to break her fall. She looked up at Karel then fled.

"I don't understand her. When did I humiliate her?"

"I don't know. Let's keep going."


Empress Vox was battling the largest hoard of Grimm seen in any of the kingdoms in ages. For every one she killed, it seemed another ten took its place.

The White Fang were fighting against the Grimm, but they were having trouble. They didn't have enough.

The Grimm were everywhere. Vox used force lightning to kill a dozen Grimm. She looked at the streets. Her people in the city weren't weak, but nothing could have prepared them for something like this. A large Grimm ran through the streets, banging on its chest. It was a Beringel.

One of the White fang guardsmen stabbed it with a spear. It yelled, then turned around. It punched the guard into a building. Vox rushed forward, using the force, and made a slash across the Grimm's back, then spun around and made a similar strike across its chest. She spun her lightsaber and jammed it in the Grimm. It made a cry, then died.

"We have to get this under control." She said. She went to the guard. No good, they were gone.

"Then we need to figure out how to get these things out of the sky."

Dozens of Grimm dropped down from the sky in front of her. Vox cracked her neck and charged into the battle.


Steemi was in the royal estate, protecting the prince. Cedric was still quite young, but he had been moving his toys in the air with the force even at his age. The royal estate was the former academy. Steemi was the only one who Vox trusted to watch Cedric while the Grimm attacked. She was hearing the fighting, and hoped nothing would get in.

"Thank the force we have everyone here." She said. Steemi called for a squad of droids to back her up. They arrived and she ordered them to spread out across the room. The room they were in had only one entrance, and exit. It was a room made for this kind of thing, to protect Cedric if the war ever went south.

Steemi had control of the cameras and saw as the Grimm enter.

She got out something to cover Cedric's ears, then got out all of her pistols. She got ready for the Grimm to find her. In case it got to that point she got ready to throw herself on Cedric.

She heard as the gun shots throughout the estate started to grow fewer by the minute. She was glad she only had droids with her. She wasn't afraid to die for her master. They got closer until they were outside the room. After a few seconds, they got the door open. It was one of her men. They dropped to the ground with visible wounds like it was being used as a doll.

A grimm floated into view. It's orb like head unique to it. Steemi pointed her weapon at the Grimm

A voice came from it.

"I understand that you are the Empress' right hand woman."

"Did you just talk?" She didn't let her pistol down.

"Come now, Grimm can't talk. Take a look into the Grimm."

Steemi slowly moved forward, till she saw that the Grimm was showing the image of a woman.

"What is this?" Steemi asked.

"An Announcement. We both know you didn't kill that Schnee boy. I did. Now, I will leave you. You will go to your master and tell her that I am not happy with her. She has something I want."

"Who are you?"

"Call me Salem. Now you killed my spy when you took this place. You have something I want. Find the Spring Maiden then I will contact you again. Fail, and I will bring my full wrath on you. You have five years before then."

"Why so long?"

"This war creates an army for me, why stop before I have my full force. Now, you'll notice that my Grimm have left you alone. They left. Now go tell your master what I have said."

"I'm not leaving the Prince."

"Take him. What would I want with him?"

The Grimm left. Steemi collapsed, losing all her power


Vox just destroyed another wave of Grimm, and she was starting to get exhausted. She must have killed at least two-thousand of them. All the Grimm on the ground got up and started to leave.

"What?" Vox asked herself. All the Grimm started leaving. Everyone still alive just looked up and saw the Grimm leave. They started to cheer. Vox sat down on the ground and took a breather. Her people left their homes and came to the streets. The cheers stopped.

Some let out cries of agony, others didn't say anything.

Some of her people recognized her.

"Empress Vox, are you alright?" They asked. She looked up.

"Does anyone have water?" She asked. One of her people got out a water bottle and gave it to her. She drank it all.

"Thank you." She said.

Two of her guards found her. They helped her up.

"I'm just tired. Killing as many of those things as I did makes you tired alright." Vox went to the Royal estate, and saw the dead bodies outside. She started running. She saw the dead littering her home.

She had only one place where she would trust Steemi to be. She went there, and saw Steemi on her knees.

"Steemi!" Vox said.

Steemi looked up.

"Lady Vox, our true enemy has shown herself."


Meg and Ilia decided to get Adam away from the others. They started to run in the city. Adam followed them. Meg and Ilia turned a corner, and got ready for Adam. There was a noise above them, and they saw Adam falling down towards them. They dodged the attack. The ground on the other hand wasn't as fortunate. When it landed the ground, there was a large hole left. Adam took out his blade from the ground.

"You thought that little trick would stop me? How stupid do you think I am?"

"Looks like you just ignored your army to fight us."

"You really think I would split off from my troops to fight the two of you?"

The person who was talking to them changed their appearance. They weren't Adam.

"Your eyes lied to you." He said. He charged at them, but he wasn't a hard target to kill. They looked at each other and went back to where the troops were. Adam was carving through them.

"No" Ilia said.

The ground started to shake. A giant root came out of the ground and grabbed on Adam's leg. He looked up and saw Pyrrha and her team.


Ozpin got himself ready. He hadn't had to fight in a battle in quite some time. He looked at his office one last time. He got his cane and walked down the streets to his enemy. He saw at least thirty of them. He knew exactly what Salem did when he took one look at them.

"None of you should have been put through this. It's time to fix this wrong."

Ozpin knew what he had to do.


The Grandmaster arrived over the city and saw all the fighting. Her ship landed, and she got out immediately. She dashed towards Beacon. It would need more help than the temple. When she got to Beacon she saw Ozpin finishing a fight. Thirty bodies lay on the ground. He turned to her.

"You're back so soon. What happened?"

"I should ask the same, but so you know, the droids turned on us. Both sides."

"Salem." Ozpin swore under his breath. "You should go back to the temple. It's under attack."

"Can you hold this place down?"

"Yes."

The Grandmaster rushed towards the temple. When she got there she saw one of the old masters, fighting the Jedi.

"Master Steele! You died years ago!"

Master Steele turned around.

"I did. I was captured. Please kill me."

The grandmaster turned on her lightsaber. It was a curved blade, with a blue blade coming out of it.

"I don't know why you're here, or how, but you will not attack them!" She started her attack.

She was a fast attacker. She was a master of Form II. She was one of the only jedi who used this style. She didn't waste any time. Master Steele blocked the first wave, but locked blades with the grandmaster. He was too focused on her lightsaber that he didn't see he left an opening on his arm.

The Grandmaster took advantage of that opening, and landed her first strike. Black ooze came out of master Steele's arm. She didn't waste any more time, and quickly cut his lightsaber in two, then landed her killing blow.

"There are more of us." Master Steele said.

Master Steele fell to the ground, the body dissolving to his bones.

"How long has she had you?" The grandmaster asked.

"Grandmaster, thank the force you're here. Now we can send more Jedi to defend the city." Master Vester Brock said

"How many are here?"

"Twenty Jedi, and most of the guards."

"All the Jedi in Pare are in danger if we can't get them out."

"What's happened?"

"The droids turned against us somehow. The Empire's in the same situation."

"I don't like this at all."

"I hear you, but we still need them. They make up the bulk of our armies."

"Now's not the time to be talking about this. Send out five more Jedi."

"Understood." Master Brock left.


Qrow and Goodwitch followed behind Pyrrha. She brought her team, but she wasn't ready to fight in a battle like this. Pyrrha didn't listen to them. She rushed forward. When they caught up to her she was using her ability.

She had stopped Adam from killing Ilia. Adam turned to her. All Salem's forces turned to her.

"Let the world know this day that we, the Black Fang, declare war on the Alliance and the Empire along with all of their allies. Now we will kill our first target." Adam pointed to Pyrrha. "We will kill the false fall maiden."

Adam cut the plant and rushed at Pyrrha. He cut all the plants that rushed towards him. Qrow jump in front of his blade and blocked it.

"Not today. You've already killed enough for today." Qrow said. Ships appeared overhead. Vacuo arrived.

Adam didn't care.

"You won't stop me." Adam started his attack.

He attacked with his full force. Qrow blocked the hits, then when he was ready he made a spinning kick to Adam's face. He ordered his men to scatter.

"You're coming with me." Adam grab's Qrow, then jumps away from where the fight was taking place. Qrow tried to fight it, but Adam was stronger. He forced Qrow through a window and they rolled onto an office floor.

"I guess here's better."

"It's taken you out of the fight over the maiden." Adam said.

Qrow's eyes widened. He tried to get out of the building, but it was covered in a black ooze.

"I'd hate for Salem to lose her general in his first fight."

"You think too highly of yourself."

Qrow turned his Sword into Scythe mode.

"You're not going to stop us."

Adam attacked, but Qrow stopped it.

"You have family that go to this school, don't you?"

"If you don't stop there, you'll die."

"And they're on the team of my two greatest enemies, isn't that convenient?" Adam smiled.

Qrow turned his scythe back into his sword.

"This is your last fight."


Pyrrha watched as Adam took Qrow. Her team was looking at her.

"Since when were you able to do that?" Jaune asked

"It's a long story. We're still not safe."

"That's right you're not."

One of the Black fang troops jumped out. He was Kunai user. He threw three at Pyrrha, but Jaune stepped in front of her, blocking the Kunai. His shield started to shake, and started to get covered in a black ooze.

"What's that?"

"Don't touch it!" Goodwitch said.

The black fang troop landed, and rushed forward, getting behind two red fang troops. He stabbed them with two Kunai. They fell to the ground, and their bodies started to change. They rose up, and started attacking their fellow red fang members.

"Stop them at all costs!" ilia said. She hit one of them.

"You can't stop me." The Black fang troop said.

He was hit in the head with Nora's hammer.

The body hit the wall of a building, but it was different. It was ooze. The real one was still out there.

"Everyone, Protect Pyrrha." Goodwitch commanded.


Meg tried to follow Adam into the building, but the black ooze stopped her.

"Not good." She used the force to avoid it. She jumped off a lower part of the building, but before landing back on the ground, she was hit into a nearby office building.

She looked up after landing and saw who attacked her. She recognized her attacker.

"Mom!" She yelled.

Her mom had the same color of hair that Med did. She was shorter, but not by much. She used to have blue eyes, but now they were like Salem's. She wore a light outfit that let her move quicker.

Her mother wasn't a Jedi, but a hunter. Her mother used sickles chained together.

"I'm sorry. I don't have control of my body. You have to kill me. I'm sorry."

"B-but you're my mom." Meg said

"And you're a Jedi. It's your duty. I don't have much longer to talk. Salem's dangerous. Be careful. I'm sorry."

She lost control of herself and charged Meg.


Karel and Weiss followed the first signal they got. When they got there, it was under attack by both Imperial and Alliance droids. Those inside fired back, but by the cries, they were slowly dwindling.

"There's our first stop." Karel said. Weiss wrapped her arm around his neck. Karel grabbed it, then jumped down. They landed, and charged in. Karel threw one of the new droid poppers that were recently created.

It took down a handful of droids. He turned on his purple lightsaber and started to cut the droids down. Weiss used ice dust to create a way for her to use to get to the droids. It was a wall with a smooth inner surface creating a half circle. She used it, and plunged her Myrtenaster into the body of two droids. She took it out and the two droids died. She fired fire dust in a crowd of droids.


Yang was sitting down, blood flowing down her head. Shrapnel flew and cut her when the droids found them. Arin and Yang had to move up to a higher floor to avoid the droids.

"I'm sure they'll find our signal. It's only a matter of time." Arin said smiling.

"I hope so. I don't know how long we'll last in our state."

"We can hold them off, don't you remember, you're my student?" Arin said smiling. Yang couldn't smile.

"Why'd you come here? We can't go to Mistral anymore."

"I thought ahead for that." Arin reached behind Yang's ear and turned off a clocking device. He let yang see it.

"This thing has been hiding your face since the battle started."

"But my friends knew who I was."

"That's because they're on the list I made."

"What are you talking about?"

"This device was made by one of my good friends, and they've outdone themselves with this one. It scatters the image of your face, and changes it in slight ways. You've got a face that stands out, and this suppresses that. Now you look like any other soldier. And it has a list of people that it doesn't affect quite ingenious right. I had one on as well." Arin said with a smile on his face.

"And when did you put this on me?"

"I didn't, you did. Remember our last concert, you had to wear that comm; at the end of it was one of these. All of our band members have them, that's why I'm worried about Deedee. Hers hasn't been responding when we look for it."

"I see. Isn't this an invasion of privacy?"

"All in the contract." Arin said. He put Yang's back on, and held his head to her forehead.

"I'm not as good as Gael at this, but here we go." Arin started using force heal on her forehead.

The cut closed up, and stopped hurting.

"There, good as new." Yang blushed

"Thanks." Yang said


Weiss finished her attack, and the last droid. Karel looked into the building. Everyone was dead, but it wasn't just Alliance troops. Imperials and alliance troops fought together. Karel and Weiss entered the building. Karel had to lead Weiss away from the bodies. She looked at him, in his eyes, seeing no emotion.

"How can you have no emotion when seeing this?" Weiss said

"This isn't my first war. Just like I told you, I fought in a large war, but the missions I completed were some of most gruesome battles of that war. You have to ignore it if you want to live."

Weiss was horrified. "But…"

"I know. But that's how it has to be."

They went to the top floor and found a wounded squad, being helped by an imperial medic. The medic turned to look at them and pulled a pistol.

"If you interrupt me, these men will die. I made the signal start."

"We won't stop you. We saw what your men did. I'll help you if I can."

"Do you know how to stich people up?" She turned back to her patient. She started fixing up the next person. Karel started helping a different troop. He recognized who was here. It was the members of Squad 13.

He did everything he could to help them, but he had to keep moving. They still haven't found Yang, Arin, or Vuren.

"I'll send men to help here. We have to keep moving." Karel said.

"Alright." Weiss said. Karel made a hole in the building then they jumped to the next building.


Vuren gathered forces together and made base in a bakery. She gathered Alliance and Imperial troops.

"Are we going to be found by those droids?" One of them asked

"No. We're going to be safe here. Trust me. I'm a Jedi knight." She said

"But you can't see the enemy."

"I may be blind, but I can see better than you all."

"That doesn't make sense."

"I don't care if you don't get it; we just need to make sure we're safe." Vuren said. Her head shot up.

"Get ready; we got droids coming from both directions." Vuren took out her lightsabers.


Adam wasn't getting tired. A benefit of Salem. He couldn't say the same of Qrow.

"Are you getting tired yet old man" Adam asked.

"Hardly." Qrow said. He wasn't going to let him hurt Yang or Ruby.

Qrow launched his next attack. He dragged his blade on the ground, but before it would have hit Adam he raised his sword, sending dust in his face. He then spun around, and kicked Adam into the ooze. It kept him in the building.

"I see. So how do we get rid of that?"

"You don't. That was a good hit. I'll give you that, but I've got a surprise for you now." The room started glowing red. Adam sent his attack at Qrow. He dodged it at the last second, as it hit the ooze wall. It almost broke. Adam appeared behind Qrow. He fired hitting Qrow, and his Aura broke.

"One hit is all it will take to take down the mighty Qrow."

Adam thrust his blade down to kill Qrow, but he turned into a Crow and survived.

"I have to use all my power." Qrow closed his eyes. Adam charged towards him, but before the blade could hit, Qrow raised his hand. Adam stopped. He threw Adam into the Ooze, and almost broke it. Qrow had been gathering force for the entire battle, and sent Force lightning at Adam. It sent Adam out of the building, and broke the Ooze. He leapt out of the building and followed Adam towards the ground. Adam hit the ground, and bulled out his blade, taking in all the energy. He closed his blade and used it to heal himself.

"This won't work anymore." Adam said, and he was surrounded by Vacuo troops and hunters pointing their weapons at him.

Adam gripped his sword as the troops opened fire. He used the gathered energy and slammed the ground with it. It shook all the troops and Qrow off their feet. Adam was able to flee.

"Pull back for now. Your mission is a success." Salem said

"But I didn't get the girl."

"You did what I wanted you to do. Leave before you die again."

"Alright." A portal was created in front of him.

Qrow raised a hand yelling for Adam to stop, but Adam didn't listen.

Qrow fainted.


Ozpin got to where Pyrrha was. She was surrounded, but they were still in danger.

"Where's Qrow?" Ozpin asked.

"Up there." Goodwitch pointed to the black ooze.

"The grandmaster arrived, After this, we're going to have to do something about a situation that has arisen in Pare."

"but that's where Ruby is" Pyrrha said

"Along with a lot of other people." Ren added.

Everyone was on edge, ready for the next attack. It came quick, twelve legendary hunters who wield twelve different types of swords. They stood over the group.

"The twelve swordsmen of the desert." Twelve swordsmen from Vacuo who singlehandedly held off an army of man and grimm in the last great war. All twelve were killed in the battle, but it's said they took over a thousand for each of them. Salem got to them.

"That's correct." The leader said. Eleven of them separated leaving the leader.

"I am Carmine Angel, leader of the swordsman. This is my blade, Eclipse." She turned her blade down towards the ground, and slammed it.

Ozpin's eyes widened.

"Don't move!"

They were trapped in a dome, and all the light was absorbed in Eclipse. The pommel glowed.

"We're trapped in here, but it's better to fight one than the other eleven. Get ready for a fight." Ozpin said.

"I'm glad someone recognizes my powers. I was able to make this sphere larger, but it killed me before." Carmine said. She put both hands on her blade and got ready to fight.

Ozpin moved in front of Jaune. Everyone made sure they were ready.

Carmine launched her attack at Ozpin. He blocked it, and when the blade connected, light flashed across his eyes, momentarily blinding Ozpin.

She was about a get a slash across his stomach, but Pyrrha caused a root to come up and block the attack. Carmine noticed and looked at Pyrrha.

"The maiden."

Ozpin quickly punched Carmine to make her step back. When she did Ren jumped in the air and fired at her. The flashes of light giving everyone a glimpse at their enemy. Ren ran up to her and slashed at her, closing his eyes before it connected with the blade. Ilia, being able to see in the dark rushed towards Carmine. After Carmine knocked Ren back, she turned back and slammed the hilt of her blade into Ilia's back. Ilia coughed up blood.

"Careful. She's one of the greatest fighters to ever live. Simple tricks won't work on her." Ozpin said.

"Now you tell me." Ilia said. She rolled to the side and avoided the sword from killing her. When it hit the ground, the light escaped the sword. It was a little brighter than before, just barely noticeable. Pyrrha understood it then.

"Every attack makes the sphere lighter! So she tries to end the fight quickly so we can't see her." Pyrrha changed her weapon into spear mode. She charged forward.

"No!" Goodwitch yelled. She ran forward. Ozpin took out a bottle in his jacket and threw it at the ground. Goodwitch picked it up and sent it flying at Carmine. She blocked it, and bits of light came off the sword. She blocked the hit Phyrra tried to land. Nora smiled and jumped at Carmine.

Carmine blocked the attack, then grabbed Nora, and tossed her into Jaune.

"That's it." She said. She charged forward, jumping over Goodwitch, and went for Phyrra. Jaune got out from under Nora, and tackled Pyrrha. The blade hit nothing. Carmine grabbed Jaune and prepared to kill him, but Pyrrha threw her shield, bouncing off the sphere hitting Carmine. She stumbled, and dropped Jaune. He went for his sword, and locked blades with Carmine.

"I can feel a power hidden inside of you boy. Don't die, and it won't be used against your loved one by Salem." Carmine released a large amount of light blinding everyone, and she went for Goodwitch. After a series of light attacks, she kicked her, breaking her aura.

Ozpin created a fireball and launched it at her. Carmine blocked it, using the last of her light. The sphere started to crack.

It broke open Carmine jumped back and the other swordsmen appeared.

"Carmine gave us trouble, how are we going to fight the rest of them?" Jaune asked.

"You won't. You'll cover Pyrrha as she gets out of here. I'll take care of them." Ozpin said.

"You'll die." Goodwitch said

"Have faith in me." He said smiling.

"Then I'm going to stay with you."

"I don't want you to die. Your aura already broke."

"I won't leave you here."

"They need someone to help them. That's your job." Ozpin said

"Fine. Don't you dare die!"

"Understood."

Glynda and the others left.

"Salem wishes to tell you something. She's been looking forward to this. This life has been particularly annoying." One of them said

"Salem, I know you're listening. Your attack won't work. You forget the spirit of these people. It's a useless attack. They'll rise back up. I'm not needed. This was always your fault."

Salem took control of Carmine.

"I don't care what you say. You think too highly of them. After I kill you, I will get what's mine."

"Fall's power doesn't belong to you."

"Who got her killed in the first place?"

"Arguable" Ozpin said

"Go on, kill him." The swordsmen charged Ozpin.


Karel and Weiss Finally got to the second signal, hoping it was one of them. There were more droids, but there was something else, a hum.

"That sounds like a lightsaber, wouldn't you say?"

Karel jumped over a few droids, and spun around, cutting down eight droids. Spikes of ice came up out of ground and destroyed more droids.

Vuren saw Karel coming up, and sighed with relief.

"We got back up, Open fire on those droids." She jumped into the crowd of droids. She moved closer to Karel until they met up

"I wondered when you were going to show up."

"Didn't think you would need me." Karel said with a smile on his face.

"Shut up. We got a job to do now."

"That we do"

Everyone fought the droids, and they eventually beat them back.

"You're needed back at the base. It's in that direction. I would give you the map…"

"But I'm blind, I know." Vuren said.

"Exactly. So, have you seen Yang and Arin?"

"I haven't seen anything since the day I was born."

"You know what I meant."

"Yeah I know. No I haven't seen them. What should I do with the Imperials?"

"Bring them back. It's not like they're going to fight you right." Karel looked at them.

"I don't think so. Alright everyone, we're going that direction."

They left, and Karel looked for another signal. There was only one left.

"We have to get there soon." Karel said. They dashed towards it.


Yang and Arin listened as the droids started coming up the floors. Yang got out droid poppers. They moved up the stairs and when they were in sight, Yang threw it. She took out the first few droids. Arin gave her a thumbs up.

It didn't stop the droids for long. They just moved past the downed ones. Yang got ready and started firing at them, taking them out one by one. She jumped out of the way right before she would have been hit.

"We may be in over our heads." Arin said.

Karel got to the final location. They didn't see any droids on the ground. That was either really good or really bad.

"Let's get moving. This could be bad." Karel said. Weiss followed Karel up the floors of the building.

Karel found droids. He kept moving, not stopping to fight them individually, so he just cut them to pieces while walking. They turned on him, but they couldn't stand up against him. Soon he got to the top floor, and found Yang and Arin. They were breathing heavily, and Yang had blood running down her mouth. There was a dead HK droid on the ground.

"That's impressive." Karel said.

"Yeah, but it broke our auras." Arin said. He tried to get up, but couldn't. "It's a real good thing you found us just now."

"I'd say so." Karel sent out a message.

"We found them."

Master Roni got the message.

"Return to base."

Karel smiled.

"I got a fancy trick." Karel pressed a few buttons, and his ship was right outside of the building.

"I don't think we're going to get a way to get back." Karel said

"If we don't have to walk that far, it's good enough for me." Arin was hiding a wound.

Yang looked at Weiss and smiled. "Can you help me out?" She asked

"You got it." Weiss said.


Meg Rushed forward, her lightsaber hitting the sickles her mother used.

"Don't hold back. Free me from Salem's control." She said. She moved her sickle over Meg's hand, and the sickle closed on it. Meg's mom had complete control of her daughter's hand. She moved it, breaking the lock.

Meg tried to head-butt her mom, but it didn't work. Her mom went behind her, and pulled on the chain. Meg tried to attack but when she moved her arm, her mom stopped her.

"I'm sorry." She said. She kicked Meg's leg, causing her to fall to the ground. Meg spun her leg around, trying to get her mom off of her. Her mom spun around, bringing more chain out of the weapon.

Meg got up and got her lightsaber, and tried to cut the chains, but it bounced off.

"No, do all of you have Cortosis?"

"Yes. I'm sorry, but you have to find a different way to kill me." Meg's mom ran towards a pillar in the office room. She threw the Sickle, and the chain wrapped around the pillar. She went to her weapon, and caused the chain to move in. Meg tried to fight against it, but she didn't succeed. She was just out of reach of the other sickle, and now at the mercy of her mother.

Meg stood trying to defend against her mother, but she kept getting hit. She was always a second late in seeing her. She felt the metal of the Sickle clamp on her hand. She knew if she didn't do anything, soon she'd have one less hand. She moved forward, and cut the pillar in half. The chains started to go back into the weapon. It met into one weapon.

The metal retracted.

The chains were the backbone of the weapon.

"If you get your first sickle locked on an opponent, you look for something solid to plug the second one into, then the tension of the chains trying to get together causes the sickle to start closing in, until you take a part of your opponent off, right mom?"

"I'm glad you're smart. Do you remember my semblance?"

"Phasing through things. Hard to forget."

Meg spun around with the other half of the weapon flying with her hand.

Meg's mom barely dodged it from killing her, then she phased through the ground. Meg jumped in the air, and hung on the pillar, waiting for her mom to come up. Meg was tackled from within the pillar, and went flying into a cubical. She dropped her lightsaber. Meg shook her head, but didn't have a lot of time. Meg's mom put all her weight on Meg's chest, and took the other end of the sickle and locked it to her neck. It started to clamp again.

"Forgive me."

Meg didn't have long. She used the force to move her lightsaber. It came flying, and she turned it on. Meg's mom gasped. The purple light shown threw her abdomen. With the last of her power, she unlocked the twin sickles, and she fell down to the ground.

Meg gasped. She went to her mom's side.

"Mom." Was all she could get out.

Her mom put her hand on her daughter's face.

"I'm so proud you turned out to be such a good jedi. Never hesitate to fulfill your duty." She started fade.

"I will mom. I will."

Her mom smiled at her, and once more died.

Meg grabbed her mother's weapon, and closed her mother's eyes.

Meg jumped out of the building and saw Ozpin fighting ten swordsmen at the same time. Two were off to the side, then vanished. Meg jumped down and went to Ozpin's side.

"Ozpin, where is everyone, and who are these guys?"

"These are the swordsmen of the desert. I'm sure you know them."

"Of course."

"The others left on my orders. They're protecting Pyrrha."

"And you're fighting them by yourself?"

"Don't worry about me."

"I can help with one of them."

"No, that will take you away from protecting Pyrrha. She can't be killed."

"Why?"

"I don't have time to explain now, just go"

"Fine." Meg went back to the temple.


Ilia was running with the rest of the group, but she didn't know where they were going. Only Goodwitch knew where they were going.

The black fang troop with the Kunai showed up again. Everyone stopped.

"You have to keep going. I can take care of this guy." Ilia said.

The troop looked at Ilia and let everyone past.

"I am from Mistral. I died during the Great War. These are my weapons." He said. He took out Kunai.

"I know what your weapons are, you attacked my men."

"I am sorry for that. I don't have control over my body anymore."

"You won't get any sympathy from me." Ilia said.

"I don't expect it." He said. He rushed forward, throwing two Kunai at Ilia. She blocked them, but didn't notice that he disappeared. She turned around looking for him, when she heard something in the air. She looked up and saw him flying down towards her.

She jumped back as he landed. He threw two more Kunai. Ilia got ready to block them, but then, they turned into eight.

"What?" Ilia said. She took out two, but had to avoid the other six. "So, you multiply your weapon?"

"Yes." He threw two Kunai, and it became sixteen. Ilia got a piece of wind dust and threw it towards the Kunai. It broke and stopped the knives.

Ilia smiled. She sent out her whip, and it was blocked by two more Kunai. Ilia sent a wave of electricity down her whip. Before it was about to hit him, his Kunai changed form into pure lightning dust Kunai. It absorbed the shock, then he threw them at Ilia. She jumped backwards, but it didn't help. The Kunai hit the ground, breaking, and sending the electric shock out. A piece of the knife flew past her, cutting her cheek.

"I don't get it. How did that happen?"

"It's the Kunai. They can change to whatever I want it to be."

"So that means no elemental dust."

"Correct."

Ilia's eyes widened, as she heard those sixteen kunai from before, coming towards her.


Goodwitch lead them to Beacon, and to the elevator. She moved team JNPR in and pressed the button to go to the vault.

She got out of the elevator.

"I'm going to help Ozpin." She said

Pyrrha began to say something, but the door cut her off.

Glynda ran back towards where Ozpin was. She ran past where Ilia must have been fighting, but she didn't see either of them. She called for all the staff to meet her to help Ozpin.

Only Port and Oobleck were able to get there.

Ozpin was gasping for breath, blood running down his face. One of the Swordsmen were about to end him.

"I'm sorry everyone."

But he was stopped by Port firing at him. Ozpin looked over and saw them.

"What are you doing here?" Ozpin asked.

"We couldn't let you fight alone."

Glynda arrived. She saw Ozpin's condition, and tried to hide her fear.

"Glynda? Where are the others?" Ozpin asked.

"Safe. Now we fight together" Glynda said.

Ozpin shook his head and got up.

"Alright. There are only eight of them now. The others left."

"Where to?" Port asked

"Salem's Domain."

"Look at the odds, only two to one. I think you're slowing down Ozpin." Oobleck said.

The Swordsmen split up in duos and started fighting.


Ozpin was exhausted, so he relied on his magic to power his body enough to survive the attack.

He blocked the attacks from both sides. He landed a hit on one of them. That's when one got behind him, and landed a hit on his back. Ozpin screamed in pain, and felt his blood leave his body. He knew his favorite shirt was ruined.

"This is bad." He said.

Oobleck wasn't faring too well, but he knew he was doing better than Ozpin. He just wasn't used to this kind of fight.

"Who wants some coffee?" Oobleck took a sip then turned his cup into his weapon. He took out a clump of coal, and hit it. The coal broke, and caught on fire. It went in all directions, hitting the clothes of one of the swordsmen.

"Bingo." He said. Oobleck went after the one he could face. He looked back for a second and found that he was being chased by the other one, so he got out fire dust, and tossed it at the one chasing him. The one he was chasing went in a building and stopped.

"We will fight here." The swordsmen said.

His sword was an executioner's sword.

"This sword is named Fate." He slammed his sword in the ground, and created a magical barrier. "Our fate is decided here."

"I see." He picked up Fate and pointed it at Oobleck.

"Fight with Honor"


Port was able to take on the two opponents much easier than his allies.

He noticed Oobleck run off after one of them, and him being chased by another. He fired at one of them, but the swordsman was able to block all the hits.

"This is the Protector's sword. It creates a shield around me. To win this fight you'll have to fight me first." The owner of the sword said.

"Fine then. I guess you'll be the first one to learn my lesson."

Port was about to start, then the ground started to shake. Everything shook. He looked around but couldn't find where it was coming from.

The swordsmen looked at each other, then vanished.

"What?" Port asked.

All the rubble on the ground blew into the sky. Port coughed, then saw a shadow coming from the dust.


Oobleck and the swordsman felt everything. They looked outside. Dust had shot up in the sky where the others were.

"Looks like I don't have a lot of time." The swordsman said. He picked up his blade, then rushed Oobleck. It hit Oobleck, but he wasn't done yet. He carried Oobleck across the floor of the building, hitting him with everything on the floor. Oobleck's Aura was about to break. The swordsman slammed Oobleck into the floor. His aura was gone.

Oobleck laid on the ground, his abdomen covered in his blood. He watched as the sword was brought up, but before he was able to decapitate Oobleck, he stopped.

"I understand." He looked at Oobleck. "Looks like you live today." A portal appeared behind him. He went in it, and the field fell. Oobleck lost consciousness.


Glynda wasn't able to fight any longer. She tried to block an attack, but that swordsman knocked her weapon out of her hand.

"You shouldn't have come back" She said. She put her sword, Storm caller, back in its sheath, then hit Glynda with it, breaking her arm.

Glynda fell to the ground. She looked at Ozpin. The swordsman grabbed her by the hair, and got out her sword once again.

Glynda yelled out "Ozpin!"

Ozpin looked and saw as the sword entered Glynda's back.

Ozpin started to shake. It didn't matter who he was fighting. Ozpin gathered a large amount of magic and let it out. The Swordsmen all teleported away, except for one. The wielder of Oblivion stayed, and plunged his sword into Ozpin. Ozpin didn't care. The wielder pulled it out and vanished. Ozpin walked to pick up Glynda. She was gone.

"Not again." He said. Ozpin knew one spell, one he never tried before, but there's a first for everything.

Ozpin gathered the magic needed to use this spell.

It was forbidden in the old world for how it will always end in the death of the caster, but he was going to die. He would swap his life for hers, and he would take on all her wounds. He kissed Glynda, casting the spell, the kiss of life. He walked out of the dust he created, and watched as Glynda coughed, life reentering her. He started to shake. He dropped Glynda, and fell to the ground.

Glynda looked as she saw Ozpin fell to the ground. She looked at her chest and saw the wound gone. She knew what Ozpin had done.

"No, I didn't want you to do this."

"You'll have to… find me when… I return."

"Why did you do that?"

"Only one of us were going to die today." Ozpin smiled. "A tear, Glynda?"

Glynda cried as she held Ozpin's head. The tears fell on his face, mixing with his blood.

He reached up, and wiped away her tears. The wound from Oblivion would soon end him. It stopped any healing from happening.

"No, don't cry. When there's life, there's hope." Ozpin closed his eyes.


For a moment, everything went quite.

Salem watched. She felt something. Was this guilt? Sadness? Pain? Or was this revenge?

The twelve swordsmen appeared in front of Salem.

She turned to them and said.

"You did well. Rest now."

They left. Salem watched as Ozpin's friends came up to his body. She brought back all her forces. Her enemy was dead, but now she would have to search anew. She still feared Ozpin.


Ilia was in bad shape. The Kunai kept multiplying, and now there were hundreds of them flying at her. This fighter was beyond her skill. Soon he would be able to kill her. She had hidden to get her breath back.

"I can't fight him. He's too strong." She said.

"Thank you." He was too fast for her.

"If you're going to kill me, just do it."

He got ready, but stopped.

"No, My mistress has ordered me back."

"What?"

"You will live. Tell me your name, and I will you mine."

"Ilia Amitola"

"I am Reolin Brans." The portal opened behind him, and he disappeared.

Ilia sighed in relief.


Karel brought everyone back to the Base they made. When he got there he was greeted with a surprise. It had grown, and now he saw that the Emperor was here. Talking to Master Roni.

"I came like you asked me. What is it?"

"You know as well as I do that we can't get out of here alive if we're fighting each other."

"I don't doubt my skills." He said

"But what about all your men, and your ships. Who's going to fly them?"

"I can fly."

"Even so, we just want to get out of here as much as you do."

"I doubt you'll just leave. This group will leave then you'll send in the next. This battle isn't over yet."

"We can fight later, now we have to work together so we can get everyone out of here. We'll call a two week truce where both sides leave this city."

The Emperor though for a moment then shook his head.

"I agree to these terms. We will fight together until we defeat the droids."

"Then we leave."

"Yes, then we leave. I am a man of my word. It's time for the alliance to prove it's honest."

"We won't betray you." Roni said.

The Emperor turned around and started to walk away. He looked at Karel for a moment. Then continued.

Karel felt puny in that moment. Sym had a cold aura to him.

Master Roni came up to Karel and his group.

"Vuren already came back. Thanks for your help."

"I see we're going to help the empire."

"I don't like it, but we don't have enough man power to get out of here anymore. We have to destroy the droid factories, then we can leave."

They both felt something. They looked at each other.

"That's not good. Something's happening." Karel said

"Our contact with Vale just cut off."


All the Imperials gathered together with the Alliance troops, and it was uneasy to be sure.

"How are we going to destroy the factories?" Karel asked in the meeting. The Jedi and Sith met together that night to discuss how they were going to destroy the factories.

"At least we don't have to fight all the droids. We just need to fight the ones in the factory." Sno said

"Yes, but we can't bomb them with the ships. We both installed heavy shielding to protect our droids. We also need to figure out why these droids turned on us." Akio Jin said

"Once we do, we'll be able to take down the shields and blow them up, which will turn off most of the droids, if not all, in the city" Mizuki said

"So' we're going to have to split in three to finish this." Lord Soule said

"Two." Vuren responded.

"No, three, since we need a team to hold the city while we split off."

"Fine, we'll have three." Roni said.

"If we have this all figured out, then let's strike tomorrow." Emperor Sym said

"Isn't that a little quick?"

"We need to get out of here. Whoever did this probably is doing this all over. We need to return to our homes as quick as possible."

"Then we go tomorrow"


Year 0 Month 9 Day 4

It was decided that both factories would be attack with a Jedi and a Sith. Roni would go with Emperor Sym, and Lord Soule would go with Karel. They each took two hundred troops, and the rest would stay in the city, until they discovered what went wrong.

Karel and Soule took their two hundred with them to the imperial droid factory. Karel didn't say a word.

"Remember, this is the only time we're going to be allies, so next time, don't think I'll go so easy on you."

"We're working together any you threaten me? Let's just get this done with and go home."

"Don't slow me down."

"Go right on ahead."

Their group got to the droid factory, and immediately they were under fire. New droids were being created. Soule got to the door first, and planted charges on it. He moved out of the way and blew open a large hole. Everyone was going to rush into the building. They started, and no matter what, you kept running. Karel led the troops, blocking in coming hits, but he didn't stop. Even as some troops were being killed left and right they only had one goal, to get into the building.

Once they got away from the windows they would be okay. Soule entered the building, and saw the factory working by itself. He didn't see anyone, anywhere.

"That can't be." He said to himself. He didn't have much time to think, as he was getting shot at as soon as he entered. He let out force lightning, clearing the way for the troops, and he moved them along to the stairs. They rushed up, and got a vantage point on the droids below. They opened fire, taking out many of them, but there were still many more.

"We need to stop the droids from being made." Karel yelled at Soule, because it was so loud.

"If we destroy one part of the assembly line, then all droids after this room will be faulty." He yelled back.

Karel got out his lightsaber, and threw it at the arms assembling droids. This section of the assembly line, the finishing touches was destroyed. Karel kept moving on. He went to another assembly room, and destroyed the arms, until they couldn't create any new.

"We solved one problem, but we still have another to figure out." Soule said.

"I didn't forget!" Karel said. Karel got more of his troops to move on. They found a room that was locked, so Karel opened it up.

"Tell Soule we found the workers. Tell him not to expect anything good." Karel closed the door, behind it the bodies of all the workers from the factory.

Soule reached Karel again.

"Any alive?"

"No. Now we have to get to the control room. That's where we'll find what went wrong."

"Agreed." Karel and Soule rushed up the factory, until they found the control room. The only thing still intact was the main computer. Karel looked through it, and found something.

"It's a small thing, but it's caused all of this. It's like a tick. If we try to take it out by force, we may end up doing more harm than good."

"We don't have long. Our troops are running low."

"We need ten minutes. This is going to be complicated." Karel started the process to stop the bug at its source. He knew every second would bring the remaining droids back. Karel pressed one key, thinking he did it, but then the screen flashed red.

"What did you do?"

"I think all your droids in the city are going to be coming here soon. If you can contact the base, request backup. We have fifteen minutes now.

Karel went back to the computer, and figured out his mistake, he only cracked the defenses. He stopped after that, and now, the bug learned from that.

Soule got the last of their troops to defend the top floor. They lost most of the troops along the way. Each minute more would die, and more droids arrived.

"Hurry up."

"Almost there." Karel replied.

He pressed a few more keys and a chip came out of the computer. He picked it up and realized what went wrong.

"This chip infected all the droids that were made here." Karel said.

Soule looked out the door, and saw the droids standing still. Karel lowered the shield, and put the chip in his pocket.

"Everyone, we have to get out. The ship's going to be coming."

The troops were more than happy to leave the factory. And right after everyone got out, the blast came down. The factory was destroyed.

"Let's not do this again" Soule said

"Agreed" Karel said

They heard the other factory get destroyed and knew that the alliance was over.

"Two weeks, that's how long of a standstill we have here, and after those two weeks, the battle will start again." Soule said

"I'm not going to be here when it does. I'm going to head to a beach right after this."

Karel planted his head on the grass, as the factory was outside the city.

"I wouldn't mind a trip to a hot spring." Soule said.

"Well, this is where we depart. Hope to never see you again."

"Scared?"

"No, I just really don't like you." Karel said.


Roni and Sym were able to get everything done, and gathered up their troops. Roni and Sym stood at the heads of their exhausted armies.

"Two weeks."

It hung over their heads. Two weeks. In two weeks this place would once again be the site for a battle that seems to be unending.

The Alliance and Empire left the City of Pare, both sides knowing it was going to restart in two weeks.

Nothing would stop the war. Just as Salem planned.

Author's notes: Okay guys, so I have a reason why this didn't come out sooner. I broke my laptop that I wrote the rest of this story on. I have a way to write now, as you can tell.

So this will be the last Pare chapter for a while. Originally it was going to be three chapters, then two, but now, you know…

I'll try to get more of these out

May the Force be With You

-DragonZlayerx12