Yes it is here. Sorry for the slower upload, I tried to make it a longer chapter. Please tell me which you prefer: more updates or longer chapters.
Cactus Man: I understand what you are saying, which is kinda sorted in this chapter.
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Now on with the story.
It had been a week since Roy had entered the forest. He was currently sitting in a meditative pose, a frown on his face as he tried to concentrate.
"Remember," Qui-Gon instructed as he paced in front of him, "focus on the code, let it guide you. The dark side is like a partner, having your back. Not a master that controls you. The light side, like a mediator, calming the anger within you when a situation requires it, and keeping the dark side from controlling you altogether. If you can master this concept, the force itself will obey your commands and will be at your beck and call."
"Argh!" Roy lashed out as he lost control and the dark energy incinerated the tree he was leaning on. "I don't get why I need to get more powerful. Im powerful enough to drag an entire cruiser out of the sky, why can't I just go and kill this 'Queen of the grimm' and be do—"
"Because she is more powerful than any sith to have lived before!" Qui-Gon sighed, "In you current state, you have no hope, you wouldn't even beat that headmaster at the academy. And you are too focus on the dark. Grimm are attracted to that energy. You will have to learn to subdue that dark energy when around others as-"
"Why should I care about others? If they are too weak, shame on them." Roy scoffed as he got up.
"Sit down boy, take a break, guarding you from her detection is tiring, even for a ghost." Qui-Gon yawned as he sat down and a chair appeared beneath him, "but it does have its benefits." He grinned.
"I still don't comprehend why a Jedi like you, is trying to help a sith like me. The only reason I have stuck around until know is because I haven't figure out what to do yet."
"What do you mean?" Qui-Gon inquired as he leaned forward.
"I was trained by Darth Plagius-"
"Oh, by the way, he's dead." Qui-Gon stated.
Suddenly Roy's head was forced back, and his eyes went completely dark. Roy could hear a voice, and soon, and image appeared before him. It was him, kneeling before Darth Plaguis. "I fear my apprentice is planning to betray me soon, my secret apprentice. I must survive. I am going to put you into a form of hibernation, and then using a technique I recently discovered, I will force all of my knowledge into you. You wont remember this meeting right away, but given due time, you will. You will have to slowly unlock this knowledge. Meditation will be the quickest way, but sith meditation is too dark, so you will ha e to discover another way. I know for certain, you will not fail for that is why I made you. Once you wake, if I am no longer alive, then your prime objective is to-"
"ROY!" Qui-Gon yelled,, distress clearly in his voice. "Snap out of it. We need to move or we will be discovered, there are people heading this way, and an abnormally large group of grimm."
Roy shook his head as he snapped out of his trance. 'No, I was so close.' He thought as he stood. 'I need to know! I must know why! If he made me, why am I here.' Qui-Gon began to walk away through the forest. "Come, there is a cave over here we can hide in until the coast is clear."
"Old man, tell me something, is it possible to make a force sensitive?" Roy asked, his head bowed down.
"Hmm, I thought as much. It is possible, and the only man known to achieve it was Darth Plagius."
"Why, why would he make me, and yet I don't know my prime objective? I have no purpose. I am one of the most powerful sith left in the galaxy, and I don't have a reason for living. The only thing consistent in my life, was the force it self."
"Have you heard about the will of the force? Well, I like to think that is what brought me to you. I will help train you. You may be powerful, but you still have much to learn. And with the hidden knowledge locked within you,"
Roy looked up, his mouth wide open in shock, "How-"
"I saw what you saw, it seems that you need to master the force, both the light and dark, to unlock this knowledge. I knew that I had to teach it to you, but until now, I didn't know why. Maybe, while you unlock this knowledge, you discover for yourself, what you think your reason for living is."
By the time they finished their conversation, they had reached a small cave. They went inside, and Roy went straight back to trying to meditate, determination plastered on his face. "Emotion, yet peace." He began. "Ignorance, yet knowledge. Passion, yet serenity. Death, yet the force." He chuckled for a minute. "I'm not stupid you old man, it is an abbreviation of the Jedi code, but it can still be interpretated for both Jedi and Sith. Smart."
Soon the force swirled around Roy, becoming so thick it could almost be cut. Qui-Gon reached out, and touched the forehead of the boy in front of him. Instantly, he was transported into what appeared to be a giant library. Easily the size of a quarter of the temple. It was filled with old books.
"Well, its seems you learnt to control both sides of the force pretty quickly." He said as he looked forward to see Roy floating around with about 10 books, all open, floating around with him.
"It took you a while old man. I've been waiting for you for a few hours. Luckily while I'm in here I don't need to eat, sleep, drink, or even use the toilet." He said with a smile. "So, what do you think of the library inside my head?"
"Of course," Qui-Gon exclaimed. "The technique didn't put his knowledge in your head, but all the knowledge of the force. Any other sith wouldn't have used it, as that would only make their apprentice more powerdul, and easy to defeat them, and it probably can't be used on themselves. Incredible."
"Do you have to ruin everything? Seriously though, what took you so long?"
"Actually, it was only a couple of seconds, it seems time is different while in here, and I did it to pull you out as I think we have been discovered."
"That would be nice and all, but I don't know how. Kinda why I haven't come out yet."
"I will sort that. Just begin to meditate again, but this time, focus on the cave."
Before he knew what had happened, Roy was sitting in the cave again.
"Even though it was only a few hours, I still learnt quite a bit, like self levitation. I can literally fly." he exclaimed excitedly
Qui-Gon sighed again. He pointed towards the entrance of the cave as two figures were walking towards it, and he slowly faded.
"I don't think this is a good idea." Pyrrha said as she and Jaune walked towards the cave entrance.
"Pyrrha, I made the torch, please just humor me." Jaune said, as he held a flaming torch up high.
The two walked into the cave that Roy was in. Using the force, Roy managed to cause them to not pay any attention to him. When they had walked past him, he quietly exited the cave, and using his newly learn levitation ability to hide in the upper branches of the trees.
Roy still didn't know what his purpose was, but he did have a new objective. He was determined to learn everything in the library in his mind. Maybe then he will find his reason for being made.
A loud explosion rang out across the forest, with trees on fire, and arguing could be heard. Before Roy could process this properly, the force rang out a warning, just as the tree he was resting in tumbled to the ground, having been cut at the base. On instinct, Roy jumped back and landed behind the two girls now leaving, watching the cute red hood as she slowly disappeared into the forest, a massive scythe on her back. He could feel the power coming of her in waves. So much untapped potential. Unconsciously, he began following them.
"How about a cute little pony?" Yang said as she picked up a chess piece.
"Sure," Blake replied.
They were standing at a clearing, with some ruins of an old building, the only thing remaining standing being some pedestals, with chess pieces on them.
Roy was on the forest edge, sitting on the upper branches of a tree. He had tracked the two girls until they decided to try and ride a nevermore. He then tracked the giant bird, until it was now circling over the clearing. The two girls near the artifact were looking up. Roy looked at the same direction, and saw a girl falling. For some reason unknown to the sith, he didn't like the thought of seeing her get hurt. Without even raising his hand, he used the force to slow her decent. The force screamed out its warning call, but before he could react, Ruby was hit by a flying boy. The same one who entered the cave if he could remember properly. The shock of the boys sudden appearance caused Roy to lose focus, and ruby was sent flying into another tree.
Just after this happened, a large ursa came out of the clearing, explosions going off on its back. It fell face first into the dirt, almost dead. On its back were two more of the young warriors. Roy realized that he didn't know why they were out here and that it would probably be a good idea to know, so using the force he carefully nudged the mind of the blonde. He instantly got what he wanted, and just as carefully as he entered, he left her mind. They were students. The academy taught them how to fight these creatures known as grimm, and their first mission, to get an 'artifact' and get back to the cliff.
While Roy was pondering this new information, a death stalker walked into the clearing, chasing another one of the students. She was obviously skilled, as she dodged all of the attacks. He looked back at the blonde to see her and the red hooded girl talking, with an over energetic girl bouncing around as well.
On the cliff, Ozpin was looking out across the forest, drinking his coffee, when his scroll rang out. Ozpin pulled it out to see it was Qrow, calling him. "That's odd, Qrow rarely calls, especially during the initiation." Ozpin answered the call.
"I hope you have a good reason Qrow," he said sternly, "You know that the initiation-"
"I know, that's why I called," Qrow replied, worry dripping from his voice, "There is a pack of grimm heading for your students, a large one. There is easily a couple hundred beowolves alone. There's a flock of nevermores, almost 100 ursas and what's worse, they are being protected by goliaths."
At that last part Ozpins eyes widened. Not much could shock the old headmaster, but this clearly did.
"See if you can slow them down at all, just don't get yourself killed. I'll sort the students." At this last statement, Ozpin hung up. "Glynda, we have a slight dilemma. There is an army of grimm heading for the students. I want all students, second year and above, in that forest protecting the first years as they evacuate. I also want all huntsmen and huntresses in Vale to back up Qrow. He can be found by his scoll's beacon. Get it done. I'm going to the students to warn them what's coming."
Once he finished giving his order, he disappeared over the cliff, and Glynda began to send out the orders.
Roy jumped down out of the tree he was hoding in and walked out of the forest. Everyone present immediately turned to him weapons at the ready. When they saw it was another person, they lowered their weapons. He walked over to them, and using the force, grabbed a black king piece, bringing it to his hand.
"Hello, I am Roy. Are you the only ones who have made it this far?" Roy asked.
"Hi, I'm Ruby. This is my sister Yang, my partner Weiss, and then you have Blake, Jaune, Ren, Nora, and Pyrrha is the one running away from the deathstalker." Ruby introduced them all, "Where is your partner, or do you not have one yet?" she asked
"Don't have one yet." Roy replied. Ruby. That was her name. He liked it. She smiled up at him, and for a reason still unknown to him, his heartbeat increased.
"Great," Yang yelled out, "Now we can all die together!"
"Not if I can help it." Ruby called out as she sped off towards the deathstalker. Roy had to admit, she had guts, and her speed was incredible.
Just as Ruby reached the deathstalker, she swung her scythe at it, but it simply bounced off, doing no damage at all. She then shot at it, before turning around and running the other way.
"Ruby!" Yang yelled out.
While Ruby was trying to get away from the deathstalker, the nevermore shot out its feathers at her. Roy could see the precise spot that the feather would hit, and knew that her cape was going to be caught.
Roy frowned. No one was going to hurt her while he was around. He started to walk towards Ruby, grabbing Yang with the force and pulling her back, just as the feather barely missed her and pinned Ruby. He then used the force, and grabbed every single feather stuck in the ground. He sensed Weiss coming behind him, and sped past. "She was going for her partner. She should be able to defend her from the deathstalker. In that case" he thought. He turned the feathers up towards the nevermore.
"Return to sender!" he yelled as he pushed the feathers at the giant bird faster than they webt before. The bird crashed down just in front of him, just barely alive.
"Paybacks a bitch, aint she." He said, before he walked past, just as the nevermore started t disintegrate.
What he saw surprised him a little. The deathstalker's stinger was stuck in ice. "Well," he thought, "This will make it easier." Roy walked up to the deathstalker, and grabbed his lightsaber off his belt. He ignited the blade, and instantly his senses were heightened as the force infused blade increased his power. Swinging the blade, he cut the stinger clean off, and then deactivated the weapon before once again, hanging it on his belt.
Both Ruby and Weiss couldn't move from shock. Weiss couldn't believe how easily his weapon sliced through the armor of the stinger, and Ruby was in awe of the sheer power the weapon put off. Roy then picked up the stinger with the force, ice and all, and before the deathstalker could move, slammed it into the head of the beast, killing it.
Roy turned around and offered his hand to Ruby to get up. Giving him a huge smile, she gladly accepted it. As soon as her hand touched his, Roy felt like he could do anything. He felt like the deepest part of the dark side couldn't touch him so long as she was there.
Now that the immediate danger was over, Roy was able to sense a being of great power heading for them at great speed, faster than what Weiss and Ruby were before.
"Umm, Roy, sorry to intrude, but we have a problem," Qui-Gon said to Roy through the force.
"What now old man?" Roy replied, getting annoyed at having more problems.
"There are an awful amount of grimm heading this way. A couple hundred to be more precise."
Roy frowned. Even with his immense power, that was a lot of grimm to fight. Ruby noticed Roy's sudden change of attitude, and giving him a confused look, she asked, "Roy, what's wrong?"
Roy only said one word, but it was enough to stop what everyone was doing, "Grimm."
Not a second later, Ozpin came out of the forest, looking rather surprised at the sight of Roy. Roy just turned, and gave a small wave.
"Look headmaster, about your window-" Roy began, but was interrupted before he could continue.
"My office window is of little importance right now. Students, we have an army of grimm of easily a couple hundred heading this way right now, and reinforcements will not arrive in time, prepare yourselves, and the second that back up arrives, you are leaving, no arguments." Ozpin ordered to the students, "and you," he said as he pointed to Roy, "are having a talk with me." Roy did not like the sound of that.
The students all got their weapons ready. Roy went up to Ruby, and noticed her hands shaking, barely holding her weapon properly. She was obviously scared. Roy hadn't felt fear in a long time due to his master's harsh training.
"Headmaster, I have a proposition. I want to join your academy on the team I chose, with conditions of course. In return, I will hold off the army of grimm. Think of me fighting the grimm as my initiation." Roy said as he gave Ozpin a serious look.
Ozpin knew talent when they were standing in front of him. He could practically read how perful people are or could become, but Roy was an exception. He couldn't read anything from him, but a little voice in the back of his head just screamed power and wanted to cower from it.
Ozpin's thoughts were interrupted when Ruby yelled out, "You mean you're not a student?"
Roy turned back to her, "No, not yet, but I promise you, I will explain it all at the right time. Ozpin, I can do this, but not with all of you in my way, not to be offensive or anything."
Ozpin didn't like the idea of leaving a child in the forest, but his students came first. "Very well, we will start heading back, but reinforcements will be at the cliff, so if you get overwhelmed, just retreat." He then turned and called to the students. "Change of plans, we are leavi-" just as he was speaking an Ursa ran out of the forest, almost striking the back of Jaune, but Roy was already there, his lightsaber in the head of the beast.
"We're leaving now. RUN!" Ozpin yelled. The students all ran towards the cliff, with Ozpin close behind him.
Ruby stopped and looked back to see Roy sitting cross legged on the ground, his weapon floating in the air in front of him. Ozpin noticed Ruby stopped and went up to her.
"Don't worry Ruby, he is far more powerful than you think. Just before I got a glimpse of what I assume is his past. I don't know how, but I do know that he can take out these grimm, but if we were here trying to help, we would like get in his way and be killed. We must leave." Ozpin then turned and began off again.
Ruby hesitated, but turned and followed after the headmaster, regretting the decision to leave a comrade behind.
Roy instantly began to meditate. He probed the entire forest, sensing the fleeing students, and the army of grimm heading his way.
"Qui-Gon, why are there so many grimm, this doesn't seem like normal behavior from the rest I have fought." Roy asked his mentor.
"It's not. They were attracted to the darkness within you, before you began to soften it with the light side. If you hadn't found out how to when you did, there would be a lot more, and they would have been here a while ago. We are fortunate. Just be careful while fighting them. Remember, the dark side is a comrade, not a master. The light side is a best friends, keeping the comrade from taking over. You need just enough of both. The dark side will try and take over again if you aren't careful. Good luck, and may the force be with you. I will see you soon."
Roy just scoffed at his words. "East for you to say. You're not the one trained on the dark side all your life. I should figure out how to slap a force ghost and co-" just as Roy was threatening Qui-Gon Jinn, a Goliath came out of the forest, and attacked Roy. Instinctively, Roy jumped out of danger. He then used the force to strengthen his physical abilities, and redirect his jump towards the beasts neck, and with one clean swoop, cut off it's head.
Roy looked out over the forest. He could see the grimm advancing. Roy gathered the force into himself, letting it gather instead of using it on anything. He then infused his blade with electricity, and charge forward towards the army of death waiting for him, and all he could do was smile.
AN:
Incase you haven't figured it out yet, yes there will be partnering.
If you dont understand how the abbreviated jedi code can relate to sith, i will explain it in a later chapter.
Also, sorry if anyone doesnt like the fact that Roy's dark side is calmed, but like cactus man said, he wouldnt be allowed if he was like a true sith. That doesnt mean it comes out a fair bit, as it will, but he will be slower to react out of anger and can hold back more etc
And yes, a library of force techniques is op, but oh so cool. There will however be limits to it
