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Greer123-I mean, he had to learn something from him.

Haxorous Knight-Wow, it's like you read my mind on both accounts. For the Cinder part though, you're going to be in for a show. ;)

5-The Master and the Apprentice

"Peace is a lie."

Oscar interpreted that part of the Sith Code as that there was always be chaos along with order. They were two sides of the same coin. One could not exist without the other. The peace that the rest of the world claimed to have since The Great War was not true peace. The White Fang now became violent. Through the Force, thanks to his Master's teachings, he could sense some darkness. It felt like his master but more primal.

"There is only passion."

Oscar would not deny nor ignore his feelings and emotions. They made him human. But Lord Vader had taught him to have self control when needed. He spoke from experience, Oscar could tell. He had a feeling that it could be the way he now had a life support system.

"Through passion I gain strength."

His emotions often motivated him. Anger, rage, aggression and hate were fuel. They gave him power. Fear was his ally. Fear was his tool, his weapon against others. Perhaps there was a part of him that didn't like it, but he grew to enjoy putting fear into others.

"Through strength I gain power."

It was both thanks to his power and his master's teachings that he gained new abilities with the Force and unlocked his Semblance. It was powerful and he had a feeling that he was the first to wield it.

"Through power I gained victory."

His Semblance had helped many accounts and many battles against the rebels who sought Lord Vader's throne when he was gone. He also used it a great deal and unlocked new extents when he battled and sparred with his Master's failed apprentice before him. Starkiller.

"Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me."

In his experience, the Force made him feel a sense of freedom. He felt liberated. And the Dark Side felt...addictive. Like a drug, one that Oscar had no intention to stop using.

He had once asked Lord Vader once about Starkiller after meeting him Mantle and their empire had begun to rise.

"He was an apprentice that failed to meet my expectations" he had said. "His emotions made him weak and he foolishly hoped for the life he once had." Oscar didn't understand that. He was apprenticed to one of the powerful beings on Remnant-The whole galaxy!-a d destined to become so much more. And yet Starkiller didn't want that? Whatever the reason, Oscar only sought lightsaber teachings and nothing more from Starkiller. If he didn't want the power that the Dark Side offered, that was his loss as Roman and the Malachite twins had said.

He had gotten to know the inner circle he and Lord Vader had created.

Raven Branwen. The woman who planned to betray Lord Vader. She didn't say it but she didn't need to. But she was hesitant. Cautious of what happen should she fail. Honestly Oscar wanted her out of the picture every time he saw her, but as he and Lord Vader learned, she was a Maiden. A living Maiden that Oscar thought was a myth. While her power was nothing compared his own, Starkiller's or even Lord Vader's she had her use. And from what Lord Vader gathered, it was best to keep the Maiden and any others they find alive. After learning about the Maidens' powers work, Oscar agreed.

Robyn Hill. The one that did nothing but keep their existence a secret. And who had control over Starkiller. Well it wasn't really that. Starkiller, or Galen, trusted her. He had a hunch that it was more than just trust but it was just a hunch. She also kept them updated on whether or not Atlas and Mantle knew about them. And continued to give men to serve the empire.

And then there was Roman Torchwick. The one Oscar and Lord Vader had trusted to be in command of the empire despite the fact that Branwen and Hill had been in the empire longer. Hill was focused solely on Mantle, Branwen was planning on betraying Vader. Torchwick however, was completely loyal to Lord Vader. It didn't matter if it was out of fear for his daughter, Oscar knew his master had the thief's complete loyalty. Neo Politan was loyal as well. She made a decent sparring partner along with Texas of the two gangs he had encountered in Mantle. The Red Team and the Blue Team. After meeting the Red Team with Lord Vader, Oscar came back to Mantle and then met both gangs. After hanging out with the older teens, he gained a friendship with them in a sense.

He even sneaked them into the imperial academy once. Via the Super Star Destroyer Lord Vader had outside of Remnant. They later came back as Scout Troopers. They painted their armor in the colors of Red, Black and Blue. They were the first Stormtroopers from Remnant and with Aura. He also learned hand to hand combat from Texas along with a hired Bounty Hunter named Boba Fett at a point.

Oscar could tell that Lord Vader had a galactic empire he served. And he kept Oscar a secret from it besides from the SSD crew. While there was a galactic empire, Vader seemed interested in Remnant. Why? he didn't know nor did he care.

Oscar looked at the weapon he had made. While he still carried the tradition of having a pair of lightsabers as his main weapon, the weapon before him will help him not draw any attention. He was almost done. Now he just needed the finishing touches.

Far beyond the limits of civilization, lay the ruins of the village known as Kuroyuri. The village was decimated by an ancient alpha Grimm. The Alpha took supremacy of the abandoned village for a few years until a pack Beowolves challenged it. A pack isn't the right word if one saw the whole fight. An army of Beowolves would fit better. Both surprising and quite horrifying to the Nuckelavee, was that Wolf army wasn't lead by a another alpha: it was lead by a human.

Khooohh-Pruuhh.

The human now sat against a dead tree that stood in the center of the village on his knees. Surrounding him was his Beowolves. He sat, meditating against the cool breeze of the forest. Darth Vader wasn't in a meditation to calm his mind and find peace in this once great village. It was to help strengthen his connection to the Force. The Beowolves either patrolled the area or stayed close their Alpha.

Lord Vader gained this pack's loyalty similar to the wolves of the planet he crashed on after the destruction of the Death Star. (1) He defeated and killed an Alpha, but this Alpha Beowulf was different. It was older as an alpha Goliath and two times bigger than an Rancor. Vader concluded that it was the Alpha of the entire Beowulf Grimm. The pack continued to grow almost daily now.

The pack had their uses. He had used them when he extended an alliance with Torchwick and the Branwen Tribe. It helped plant fear among them and their subordinates. Roman still saw Vader as a Dark Lord. And for a while, Raven Branwen thought the Sith Lord was someone who worked for Salem. A witch that existed in a fairy tale. While Raven stopped believing that notion, she still feared him and his Apprentice. Fear was his ally, his tool and weapon. The only one wasn't afraid of his Beowolves was his Apprentice Oscar. In fact he seemed in awe at them. And they treated Oscar with the same respect they gave to Lord Vader. Like he was Vader's heir. He suspected that one Beowulf in particular acted like a den mother to Oscar.

He absently reached his hand to pet a Beowulf that walked up to him. He ran his gloved hands through the Beowulf's fur as he reflect his time here at Remnant.

This world, primitive it may be, was a world of evolution compared those in the Known Regions of the Galaxy. Remnant. What a fitting name. Broken, divided, chaotic and a shadow of it's former self. And fragile that one wrong move would push it off the edge and into the abyss. He could sense that through the Force, so could his Apprentice. Whether or not Starkiller could, it didn't matter. While Remnant had no connection to the Force besides the resident Force Users, Starkiller and Oscar, it had something that the cybernetic Sith Lord thought was long dead in the galaxy.

Magic.

Raven Branwen was a practioner of magic. Of dark arts Vader long believed to have vanished from the face of the galaxy. In Vader's duel with Branwen, he saw what kind of magic Remnant had. Although he wasn't familiar with magic other than from the Force Users on Mortis and the Nightsisters of Dathomir, he knew Raven's abilities were not of that of the Force. Would it not for what Raven had told him, Vader would have labeled her as a witch. Instead she was one of four of Remnant's Maidens. Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. From what he had learned via a mind probe, her brother Qrow had a small amount of magic that allowed him to turn into a bird. An ability shared with Raven. The humor was not lost to him or to Oscar, but there were more important matters. The ability was given to the Branwen twins by the Headmaster of Beacon Academy. Professor Ozpin.

Raven's magic was formidable but she used more of her combat skills than power. Which was how Vader defeated her. Their second duel was longer as Raven was no longer holding back and Vader toyed with her. And unlike her shape-shifting ability, she received the power of the Spring Maiden by being in the former Maiden's final thoughts. A fact that all Maidens shared. They're powers past down to the women in their last thoughts or it was to someone random. It was how the Maidens have been around as long as they did. And why Vader kept Branwen alive despite her thoughts of betraying him and the empire.

He couldn't afford to have the Maiden's power transferred to someone Vader didn't have an eye on.

Other than Maidens, Remnant other sources no other planet had.

Aura and Semblances. While they had no connection to the Force, Vader had a suspicion that they were connected to Remnant's magic in some small way. The ability to shield their body from harm and heal from almost any fatal injury was formidable with the right kind of Semblance. No one had the same Semblance. One had superhuman strength, the other had superspeed. Raven had the ability to create portals to the people she shared a close bond with. Robyn was someone to be considered to be a living lie detector. And Neo Politan had the ability to create illusions and tricks on the mind. The possibilities were endless. Another reason why he took Oscar as an apprentice. He had a strong connection with the Force but his Semblance was one of the most powerful he had encountered on Remnant. It started small with control over clocks and watches before it increased his speed and the speed of others in combat. Now it was so much more.

Dust had its uses until Vader found out that it could not live outside of Remnant's atmosphere. But he will work a way around that small obstacle.

The Faunus were unlike any life form Vader had encountered. A human subspecies with animal appendages like ears, gills, fins, horns, antlers or fangs and tails. Some had scales like Fish Faunus or Reptilian Faunus. They had heightened senses. Superior hearing, smell and vison, night vision and superior speed. Truly what the Empire would need in their soldiers. Both the Galactic and his own.

The Huntsmen and Huntresses. The so-called Defenders of Humanity and Faunus against the creatures of Grimm. Vader was reminded of the Jedi with their morals and code. He cared not for their cause and no longer did his apprentice. Perhaps in the future, he could obtain some for his empire like what Oscar had done with the gangs from Mantle. Yes, his Apprentice could be the key to getting soldiers with Auras and Semblances.

The Creatures of Grimm were what had his attention the most. They were considered beautiful in the Sith's eyes. Not in appearance but it was what the Sith Lord saw underneath. Not just mindless beasts that acted on instinct. They had the Dark Side in them, not just surrounding them. Anger, hatred, pain, it was their life. They weren't products of the Dark Side like some ancient Sith experiment, they were the Dark Side of the Force incarnated in monstrous forms. He suspected that was one of the reasons why the Beowolves were loyal to him. The other Creatures of Grimm however were stubborn to submit to him no matter what his packmates had said. No matter. The Grimm seemed to learn what the crime lords and Atlassian councilwoman had learned. Join me or die.

Stomp.

The silence of the abandoned, destroyed village was disturbed by the sound of footsteps.

Stomp.

Vader lifted his head and saw two pairs of red eyes in the darkness. He slightly smiled sinisterly under his mask. "Come to your senses, old one?" He asked the Nuckelavee as it walked into the town square. Some of the Beowolves snarled and growled at the Grimm horseman but stopped at Lord Vader's hand signal. The Sith Lord rose from the ground and began to walk to the Nuckelavee.

"You are one of the oldest Grimm creatures," Vader said, knowing full well that the Grimm was intelligent to understand it. "One of the only of your kind," he continued. "I hate to kill a specimen like you." he held his hand.

The Horse snorted out black smoke while the Rider's fingers twitched. Sith and Grimm stared down one another until the Rider made the first move. It lifted its two clawed hand and reached for Vader's. Vader grabbed onto it firmly and shook it. The Horse knelt down and bowed its head at the Sith Lord. Vader nodded and patted the Horse on the neck.

As Vader turned away, the Beowolves welcomed their new member. Humans and Grimm were now part of Vader's Remnantian Empire. Now it was time to extend to the Faunus.

He activated his communicator and waited for his inner circle to answer. "Torchwick, Hill, Branwen." He greeted. "My empire is growing as the weeks progress." he said. "I want to know how exactly it is doing." Torchwick and the others bowed their heads. "Yes Lord Vader." they said in unison.

Torchwick reported that was well, and gave him the information on Branwen's daughter. To spite the bandit queen, Lord Vader read most of the info to her. He could sense that it was hurting Raven that her daughter was looking for her and beating up people for it and she couldn't watch over like she used to. Because of him.

Branwen reported that her tribe hunted the last of the Malachite spiders in Mistral. Good, no more traitors. And that the Branwens had complete control over Mistral's criminal underworld.

Hill said that no one in Atlas and Mantle aside from her and the Happy Huntresses knew about the empire and that Atlas still don't suspect a thing of what really happened in Mantle. "Your boys covered their tracks well." she had said.

Vader ordered them to continue to do their tasks and stay hidden. (Torchwick and Branwen.) And wished Hill good luck, as councilwoman of Atlas and Mantle . "And Neo Politan." He said, surprising Roman. He only had a view of Torchwick but he could sense the mute eavesdropping on their call. "I want you and Branwen to look for the whereabouts of the White Fang High Leader." he saw Raven snap to attention. She clearly was lost in thought about her daughter but that didn't matter. "It's time I expand my empire to the Faunus." he said. "Contact me when you do." With that said, he ended the call. He then picked up his personal Scroll and called his Apprentice.

"What is thy bidding master?" Oscar said on the other end immediately. "I have another test for your skills Oscar." Lord Vader said. "There is a Huntsmen team outside of your farmland. Terminate them, do what must be done." he ordered. "Do no hesitate, show no mercy."

"It will be done Master." Oscar said before he hung up. Vader put his Scroll away and turn back to Beowolves and Nuckelavee.

"What? Neo?!" Roman said to Neo in his office. Neo looked at him false apologetic. Sorry, I got bored. Neo signed. Roman sighed. Of course Neo was bored. He left her with nothing but drinks. No ice cream or practice buddies. Bad mistake. "Well at least the boss wasn't mad at what you were doing." Roman said in relief. Wait, how did Lord Vader know Neo was in here? Roman thought in confusion. He instantly recalled that Lord Vader's Semblance was telekinesis and telepathy. Right. That guy is so fucking OP it's too ridiculous sometimes. He sighed. "Well good luck looking for the tiger lady," Roman said to Neo who looked semi ecstatic. The only task the Dark Lord had given to Neo was to keep tabs on Raven's daughter. Which she enjoyed but this was new.

There's no such thing as luck, Neo signed before she spun around and went to get Hush.

5 miles out of Vale.

"Like what my dad said," Mercury Black said to Cinder Fall on a hilltop. "If you want to know a city," he receded. "go find the rats." He looked to the kingdom of Vale.

"And who better than the biggest rat in the city?" Emerald Sustrai asked with a dubious look in her crimson eyes. Cinder smiled herself. She knew that they were referring to the one who controlled the criminal in Vale. Roman Torchwick. "Come," she said. "Let's begin."

With that, the trio walked to Vale. Unaware that they weren't heading into the domain of a large rat. But something much worse.

So what do you think? Good? Bad? Bit of both?

Review what you think.

(1) A reference to one of the comics about Darth Vader. I can't remember what's called but it features Lord Vader gaining the loyalty of wolf like creatures while he crashed landed and was making his way to an Imperial Outpost.

I hope you now got what Oscar's Semblance is.

Next, Oscar fights against professional Huntsmen. Roman meets a certain woman in red. Neo and Raven look for Sienna Kahn.

Stay safe, may the Force be with you.

GojiraFan455516 out.

Peace.