Chapter 45

Salem takes her forces to another fortress ruled by a warchief close to the Forest of Carnan alongside Adam, Fennec and Corsac this time. Tyrian is also there and he is giddy with excitement.

The thralls along with minions and some of the Uruks that Salem conquered with all of them chanting, "SA-LEM! SA-LEM! SA-LEM!" As they eagerly wait for a signal from their evil mistress. Salem approaches to the frontlines but this time, she is wearing a demonic-looking helm on her head that allows her to communicate with Gnarl in the Netherworld Tower.

"Mistress!" Gnarl says through the helm, "I have sense one of our hives inside that fortress! It is the greens. Let's take down that fort and reclaimed that minion hive."

Adam draws his sword and prepares for battle. "Let's kill these ugly bastards."

Tyrian taps his left foot impatiently as he cackles at his excitement. "Pleaaassseee!" he grins. "Give me the order to kill them already!" His body moves up and down in anticipation. "I wanna rip their throats out! Remove their spinal cords and choke them to death with them! I NEED SOME GOOD KILLS!"

The Albain brothers step away from Tyrian as they are a little freaked out by this mentally unstable scorpion Faunus.

At the top of the keep, a big and hairy Olog named Ar-Gul, a feral tracker. Not to mention that he is green too. He comes out of the tower and goes, "You! She-Man think you can take on Ar-Gul!? Guess again bitch! I'm gonna violate you then eat your legs for good measure! Then I'll let my soldiers fuck you, then my beasts! You hear that, you fucking harlot of a dung beetle!?" Then he went back in.

Tyrian takes great offense to that as he grinds his teeth. He looks at Salem, "That freak insulted you, my Mistress. Let me take his head and give it to you as a trophy!"

Fennec whispers to his brother, "Pot calling the kettle black."

Salem glances at Tyrian, "Steady Tyrian. You'll get your chance soon enough." Then Salem raises her sword and sounds the charge like last time, "ATTACK!"

All of Salem's forces charge in in order to take down the fortress. Yet on the walls, some of the Olog fire corpses of the green minions that reek of poison gases at some of the forces. They've done something to the green minion corpses that cause them to emit poison gases that can act like mustard gas or a gaseous form of hydrochloric acid that cause eyes to burn, suffocation, and ultimately, well, death. Also on the wall, arrows are being shot at them. To make matters worse, their covered in shit. But Adam uses his blade to deflect the shots to avoid being fired upon while also powering up his semblance. With it, he has gathered enough to slice down the gate with one stroke. With the gate defenses down, all of Salem's forces charge in.

Tyrian climb to the top of the walls to deal with the remaining defenders at the gate. He climbed his way up to the top and rip out one of the throats of the archers with the stinger of his tail then killed three more Uruk by piercing his tail through their heads. He charge at one of the corpses and remove one of the spines from them to choke the fourth archer to death with it. But he noticed a few more Uruk archers about ready to fire upon him. So, Tyrian use the suffocating Uruk as a shield to block the arrows. Then proceed to wipe them out with his weapon. While doing so, he cackles insanely as he kills anyone that gets in his way. Well, he did live up to his promise. Rip out someone's throat, use their spines to choke someone yet not to death, and got to kill some Uruks.

The Albain brothers are up against fifty Uruks that are more heavily armored and have really big weapons. Both of them went in opposite directions right before using their speed to stab the gaps in their armor with their poison daggers. The wounds may not be fatal, but the potency of their poison surely is as the Uruks slowly collapse onto the ground dead. But Fennec looks at an archer about ready to strike at Corsac so he sprang into action. The archer fire his shot but got deflected by Fennec. Then Fennec takes the arrow and throws it at the archer. Right in the center of his head.

"Thanks, brother." Corsac appreciates his brother saving him.

"Stay focus!" Fennec says. "We're not done yet! And, you're welcome."

Tyrian and Adam meet up and took down some of the captains of the fortress. Adam just slice them down while Tyrian captured two of them for Salem to dominate.

Yet as they approach the keep, Gnarl called. "My Lady! I can sense the hive inside. Order your browns to retrieve it so you can have access to new minions."

Salem is gonna do just that. But first, she have to take care of the warchief of the fortress. Her forces climb the way up to the tower to get to the warchief, who is sitting on his throne with six cages of legendary Graugs. Three on each side. Before the Ar-Gul can get up and challenge Salem, Salem just throws a massive sword made of shadows right at the guys head and killed him. Then proceeds to dominate the legendary Graugs into her army. At this point, she doesn't give a shit about the warchiefs. She just want everything that there is in the fortress. The beats, the weapons and armor, the green minion hive, everything.

"My lady." Gnarl speaks to Salem through the helmet. "We have the green minion hive back where it belongs. You can now summon green minions at your leisure. Green minions can do a great deal of damage if you attach them to an enemy's back. They aren't terribly hygienic I'm afraid. But they are good at sneaking up on things. Use them to guard an area, and they're practically invisible. As long as the enemies don't notice the smell! Like those Uruks on Wargs and Caragors. But Uruks smell just as bad so it is hard for them to tell the difference anyway."

As Salem goes back down to her Netherworld Tower, everyone else takes a brake from all the battles for a bit before ready to take on the next one. They've already conquered four fortresses in the Nurn Region and ready to take on the Overlord of the Feral Tribe. (I know that there are only five fortresses in the game [main game, not DLCs] but decided to add some extras.)

Tock, Adam, and the Albain Brothers gather around a campfire as the sunsets over the mountains to the west. While there, they have a discussion about their current situation.

Tock starts off, "Is it just me, or is the boss being more sadistic by the minute?"

"She has gotten darker than before." Fennec says.

"Indeed." Corsac agrees with his brother. "That woman is giving me the creeps. Even more so, I saw her eating the remains of that green ogre thing last night."

"That's disgusting!" Tock freaks-out. "She really has become sadistic!"

"What makes matters worse is that she even ate some of the dead thralls and orcs."

Tock turns to face away from the group and looks like she's about to barf. "Oh god." She does her best no to loose her lunch. "That is just wrong."

"I have to agree." Hazel says as he approach. "Is it alright if I join?"

"You can join." Adam says.

Hazel sits between Tock and Fennec.

But Adam notices that something is wrong with Hazel. "What's on your mind?"

"It's just that... I keep wondering if my sister is here. If she is alive and unharmed."

"That is puzzling." Fennec says. "But as of right now, we're more worried about our current predicament."

"Salem?"

Everyone in the group nodded.

"It may have something to do with her soul that may have split into two. Don't forget, she has been around for almost an eon. I figure that her human side must have split from her Grimm side. We're stuck with her Grimm half while her human half maybe somewhere on this world." Hazel tighten his left hand. "Possibly with Ozpin." he says in a subtle hostile tone.

Tock says, "Well I don't know about you lot, but I think we should find this Ozpin fellow before Salem does something to us."

Hazel makes a threatening glare at her while bearing his teeth at her.

"Hey!" Tock says as she shows her teeth. Her sharp, metal dental work. "Don't you dare show your teeth at me governor!"

"Enough!" Adam ordered which stops Tock and Hazel's fight as he stands up. Then speaks in a more calm manner, "Listen, we're stuck here for a while until we know what are Salem's plans are. If she no longer needs us, then we must take flight before we ended-up like those warchiefs. When that happens, we're gonna find the other Salem who maybe with Hazel's sister along with others that may have come from our world." He looks at Hazel, "Even if Ozpin is there, we have to work together in order to get out of this crazy planet. Understand?"

Hazel takes a deep inhale and exhale through his nostrils before looking at the fire, "You're right."

Adam removes his helm. "Look at me in the eyes."

Hazel turns his attention back at Adam.

"Do you understand?" he asks again.

Hazel gives Adam his full attention, "I understand."

"Good. We may also have to inform the doctor about our plans as well."

"But can we trust him?" Tock asks.

"I believe that man is far more trustworthy than that freak."

"Good point."

Hazel gets up and walks away while saying, "I'll let Dr. Watts know what is going on. His medical expertise should help us on our journey when the time arrives."

Adam looks at the sunset to the west to see the last of the day's light before night sets.

"You know." he says to everyone. "Even though this is a different world, the sunsets are still the same." He smiles a little as everyone looks at the setting sun.

Tock smiles, "You have a point. No matter what world we're on, sunsets are still beautiful."

The Albain smile as well as they say, "Oh yes." in unison.

Now, for a bit of comedy at the Remnant Encampment.

Over at Team RWBY's house, Penny comes in with a laptop and goes, "Sal-u-tations!"

"Oh hey Penny!" Ruby greets her with a smile.

"Hey girl!" Yang greets her as well.

Penny looks at the sisters, "Can you please gather everyone for a moment, I have something to show you."

All the family members have gathered to see what Penny has to show.

"I found something on my laptop and the title of it is called 'Gush Gush' and I would like to show it to you all because I don't get it."

"Then show us." Taiyang says.

One video clip later.

Everyone in the room was horrified by what they just saw. They were shocked, disgusted, cringing and nearly traumatized by what they saw.

Taiyang says, "I'm starting to regret it."

Ruby starts crying, "Wwwwhhhhyyyyy!?" before Summer Rose comforts her.

Ghira keeps on cringing as he goes, "I need an adult."

"Same." says Raven who is also shocked.

Qrow starts saying, "Worse ways to die. *starts sobbing* So many worse ways to die."

Blake blares angrily at Penny, "Why did you show us that!? That was the most disturbing thing I have ever seen in my life!"

"Same." Kali says as she raised her left hand.

Yang says with a blank yet wide eyed expression, "If you'll excuse me, I need to go bleach my brain."

"Same." All the members of the Schnee Family will join Yang in getting rid of the horrible images that they just watched.

AN: Hey. How is everyone doing? I'm a bit worn out myself. Hope you guys enjoy the chapter. Now for Q&A.

The Vice: It is possible, but they could be more like fort towns from The Elder Scrolls core series. But I've seen people make some impressive ones if you know where to look.

Guest01: I'm gonna have to agree with you on that one.

See you guys soon...hopefully. Things at work is draining me faster than a AAA battery on a device that is meant for a D battery. As for my other work I mentioned from the last chapter, I'm gonna release the first chapter as a bit of a preview that will be coming up. But it will be under a different name though.