Sorry about leaving the story untouched for a while, I had to focus on school and all that jazz. By the way, the question as to how Nermina and Amber ended up in Remnant will be answered in due time.

Disclaimer: I do not own either RWBY or Dark Souls, these series belong to Roosterteeth and From Software respectively.

Chapter 6

They were floating in a void, the only light coming from a shining orb that likely represented Amber's soul. They sat across from each other. Amber still had her facial scars, even in a spectral state, but it didn't impairs her sight in the slightest as she observed her host and really took a good look at her.

Nermina was shockingly pale, she even had white hair; she could pass as a relative of the Schnee family, if not for her purple irises and slightly tanner skin from traveling. Amber couldn't remember the details of Nermina's life due to their minds being separated like normal after they melded together, but they usually voluntarily share memories while in this comforting void.

After what felt like a few more minutes, they both suddenly felt the familiar falling motion, going back to reality.

-Linebreak-

When they woke up, they were in the dark corner of a train car, it seems that someone brought them here after they passed out. They had woken up just as the train stopped at it's destination.

"Looks like we've arrived," Nermina said aloud to Amber before walking over to a door and opening it; she was blinded by a random overhead light for a few seconds before she made her way off the train, and into the warehouses. After casting hidden body, she managed to sneak out of the district, and into the city of Vale, it was nighttime, likely around 8:00 pm.

After a little bit of wandering, they came across a store that seemed to be in the process of getting robbed, and despite Nermina's protests, she crumbled beneath the threat of a constant headache before running to the door and forcing it open.

"Who's there?!"

"Damn, its a huntress!"

She was confronted by the sight of a group of six gang members wielding swords and guns and wearing clothes consisting of a red and black color palette. They stood in front of a counter, and behind it was an elderly reptile Faunus.

After a moment of both sides evaluating the enemy, the gang members immediately drove her back outside and fought her in the dark street. Nermina had nearly drawn her blade and, at the request of Amber, had decided not to, and instead used her Sunset Staff as a blunt weapon.

Right off the bat she used an overhead swing on a grunt, taking him out of the fight instantly. Nermina took a hit from a dust bullet and felt her aura drop by around three percent,as it hadn't struck anywhere important. She then targeted the gunman with a dark orb, which shouldn't have killed anyone with the lack of power put into it, but instead of a regular dark orb she somehow ended up casting out a black orb that floated upwards and fired off bone spikes at the conscious grunts like the Soul Shower spell.

Blood splattered on the pavement as only one grunt survived, albeit with spikes sticking out of his left leg and his stomach. Seeing that he hadn't much time left, Nermina began walking towards him as he bled out. Darkness started swarming in her hand as she got closer, the grunt cried out in fear as her hand fell on the side of his face, but then she gently held his face and shushed him.

He felt the warm and comforting dark. It was soothing, he felt the pain of his wounds fade beyond the effects of modern medicine, before long, his will faded as well.

He gave in to the dark.

Nermina let the dark flow into the man, tearing away at his memories and taking them as her own. She remembered the warmth of another, a sister's pride in her brother's accomplishments, the grief of a lone orphan on the streets, the feeling of joining a stronger, larger family, and then fear of a man named Roman Torchwick.

Suddenly, the memories stopped flowing, bringing her back to modern day. The man was now comatose, but will live on to speak about this incident with fear in his heart, not remembering anything before it. Nermina let go of his face, letting it fall to the ground: she then quickly grabbed her sword and redirected an attack from her right side. The memories of the man had told her that there was one final member of the robbing party, sent to watch the group from afar and intervene if things got really bad, their name was Neopolitan. The exact person that just tried to attack her.

Years of cautious wandering and exploration had sharpened Nermina's sense of hearing to the point where it is almost as good as a Faunus's, which is what allowed her to hear the dispelling of an illusion some distance to her right, allowing her to hear Neopolitan's approach. Something felt different, though, it was like she could actually sense Neapolitan coming, like a radar.

Something about her had changed suddenly, but she didn't know what.

Deciding to put it off, she pulled back from Neo and got into a ready stance, while Neo stood holding her umbrella over herself, opened. Neo was the first to attack, running forward and closing her umbrella, a smirk on her face as Nermina ran forward as well and slashed with her blade. Just as the blade an the umbrella collided, Neo shattered into glass-like shards before Nermina was hit from behind by Neo.

Nermina felt immense pain from her back, for some reason her aura hadn't protected her! Blood dripped to the pavement as Neo held her in that position, shocked by this revelation. How could someone like this not have their aura unlocked?

"What happened? Amber? Are you there!? Amber!?" Nermina questioned in her mind, but there was no reply from her partner. Neo suddenly pulled out her weapon roughly, causing the wound to bleed profusely as Nermina fell to one knee, holding her side as Neo stood in front of her.

Suddenly, the sound of bullhead engines made itself clear as it hovered near them and opened it's passenger door, waiting for Neo to board. The wind from the engines blew Nermina's hood back, revealing her features to anyone looking at her, the bullhead's spotlight also was directed towards them.

Neo's eyes widened significantly as she got a look at her opponent's face, it was rotting as if she were a corpse, and her eyes were pure white! What truly stood out was the fact that there was swirling black mark on her cheek.

When Nermina saw Neo's expression, she turned her head to look at a nearby window, and then realized what was wrong, she had went hollow at some point!

Thinking that this was enough for one day, Neo decided to finish off her opponent by pulling her blade out of her umbrella and point it at her opponent's heart.

"Well," Nermina said in a deep, raspy voice, "I'm beginning to hate this place."

Neo simply responded with a disgusted shake of her head, and then a piercing thrust through Nermina's hexer robes. After that, she quickly pulled the blade out and wiped it with a cloth as Nermina collapsed, she then vanished and reappeared in the open bullhead before it flew off.

Around 15 minutes later, Nermina heard the police approaching and struggled to get up after losing so much blood. She managed to stagger into a nearby alleyway, just as the police arrived, and take a drink from her Estus Flask.

"This place is going downhill if this is how long it takes for the police to react to a threat," Nermina quietly said to herself, a bad habit she picked up to stave off the loneliness of being an undead.

Quickly, she grabbed a human effigy from her travel bag and crushed it against herself, restoring her humanity.

"Finally! Do you know how long I've spent trying to contact you!? I've been trying to tell you that something was wrong this entire time!" Amber shouted at Nermina as she finally got their connection back.

"Well at least we know now that we can't communicate when I'm hollow," Nermina replied calmly, "But it begs the question, how did become hollow in the first place?"

"That's what I was trying to contact you about! When you cast that hex, you were suddenly being drained of your humanity! Yesterday that other hex you cast had also drained some of it, along with the 'souls' you got from the Grimm, I just didn't realize what the hexes were doing to you until you ravaged that man's mind and leeched some of his humanity without realizing it!"

Was it true? Had she used a version of the forbidden Dark Hand without meaning to?

Sighing, Nermina got up and used her sunset staff cast a chameleon spell, disguising as a random box, before deciding to take a nap as she waited for the police to leave the area. It was going to be a while before she would be allowed to experiment with her altered hexes.

-Linebreak-

Ozpin finally got up from his desk and stared out the window of his office; he had been sorting through paperwork due to Beacon's first semester starting in a few weeks, most of it was prospective students hoping to register and join the academy.

After a few minutes of taking a break and watching the city of Vale, he randomly received a message from one of his contacts. It held nothing more than a video clip, and a single sentence.

"An unknown player?" Was the only sentence, to which Ozpin raised an eyebrow, he sat down at his desk and pressed play.

The video was from a street camera, it showed a dust robbery being interrupted by an unknown person killing all the robbers with an unknown attack that produced a black orb that fired bone-like spikes, one of which struck the camera and turned the screen to static.

Normally, Ozpin would pass this as an act of vigilantism from a random huntress/huntsman living in the city, if it weren't for the fact that the orb seemed to be of Grimm-like origins, alongside the bone spikes.

Could this be another servant of Salem, or something entirely new? It doesn't match up with any of the memories of his predecessors.

Just who was this new player?