RWBY 40k fanfiction – Salem, mistress of Inquisition.
Ep 1 : Arrival on a rotten planet.
The 28th millennium.
It is a dark age for Humanity which was once so powerful.
Terra, the world where Humanity was born had become a wasteland, resulting from wars for power, rancor or preservation after a long decline caused by an unknown force in the Warp.
As this millennium began.
A terrible war was raging between the Pan-Pacific Empire and Ursh. Ursh claimed control of the region north of the hive city of Hongol and plundered the area.
Inside the Pan-Pacific Empire.
Martial law was in order.
An inspector from Dictator Narthan Dume was in a village, taking inventory of the inhabitants.
It was recognizable by its cybernetic parts and a computer plugged into its head. He also had a huge iron bag, several weapons, and mechanical arms.
Inspector: "345, 346, 347, 348, 349... the count is good."
The old chief of the village, recognizable by his long beard and his non-existent arm because of the mutations approached him.
The Village Chief: "I think you forgot someone."
Inspector: "Which one?"
The Village Chief: "The Maiden Witch."
The mutated villagers are surprised at the request.
Villager 1: "Are you crazy?"
Villager 2: "Don't go into his territory! We are dealing with a monster!"
Inspector: "Who are you talking about?"
Village Chief: "She is a woman who is said to have a beauty worthy of the Old Times. However, she haunts the Valley of Stone Teeth and all who venture there have fallen victim to her... Suffering punishments worse than death. At certain times, like... (counts on her malformed fingers) ... 4 moons ago. She came to the village and took a whole crate of fruit."
Inspector: "Hm... Thanks for letting me know. I'm going to see that witch and let her know that we don't disturb order in the all-powerful Pan-Pacific Empire."
Villager 1: "But don't go there! You will lose your life there!"
Inspector: "It's her life she will lose. It has been two cycles since I purged vermin. Your village will be quiet when I return."
The inspector left the village and took a stone path for long hours. He climbed the hills of bare rocks. Then he discovered in the distance, a small cabin of rotten wood.
Silence was in the valley. No wind was blowing.
He walked slowly towards the hut. He could hear noises coming from inside.
Three meters from the house, this noise was characteristic of someone crunching something in their teeth.
He arrived at the door and saw that it was open.
He waited before finally pushing her aside and stepping inside.
Inside, he could see some sheets of papers, books but also a table, a kind of stone kitchen, a bed, and other things.
But at the back of the house was a figure. A young woman with disheveled blonde hair, wearing a dirty white dress and her other accessories that are old and rusty. But her body itself was healthy. The blonde hair was shiny.
But despite this, a stuffy atmosphere was in the room.
The woman was with her back to her desk, eating the apples in the crate. Deformed, shriveled apples whose color was desaturated. Despite the fetid smell that emanated from them, she ate them.
The inspector after watching this spectacle, took his bolter from his back and pointed it at her.
Inspector: "Maiden Witch of Stone Teeth Valley. Cease your activity and surrender in the name of the Pan-Pacific Empire."
The woman in question then stopped taking apples. She chewed the rest before spitting out the core.
Woman: "I've said it countless times..."
She turned around violently, knocking over her chair.
Woman: "... don't come into my house!"
She opened her hand and a ball of light formed in her palm.
The inspector was surprised to see her face to face. This woman had a very shining beauty, untouched by mutations.
But her gaze and expression were enraged, the woman's blue irises surrounded by veins, injected with frustration, excitement, and uncontrolled rage. The inspector understood that he was dealing with a woman whose behavior was probably unstable. But no matter, vermin like that, he killed thousands.
Inspector: "Follow me calmly out of the house, so that I can complete the inventory of the Village of Rocks."
Woman: "Get out... Get out! Get out or I will kill you!"
Inspector: "No."
Woman: "RAAAAAHHH!"
She threw her ball of energy at the Inspector who narrowly avoided, tearing open the wooden wall behind him and causing a large hole in the stone wall.
He exits the house through the door, just before the door is destroyed, revealing the witch with an expression of pure rage.
She threw multiple energy balls at the Inspector who dodged and responded with bolter shots that pierced the witch's body.
However, much to the inspector's surprise: the wounds closed quickly, leaving nothing from the bolter bullets.
Inspector: "What? It is one of those immortal mutants. Alright... Witch, you'll take a one-way ticket to Hongol."
Woman: "Never!"
She launched a beam of energy towards the inspector but who again narrowly avoided, taking an electrical wound on the side.
He then had an idea.
He fired again, emptying his bolter magazine into the woman, piercing her in all directions.
He then threw his weapon at her before picking up his sword.
But to his surprise, the woman reached out, stopping the weapon in mid-air. The weapon deforms before becoming an iron spike. She sent him towards the inspector who avoided him before he charged towards her.
He threw his sword but it caught him with his hands.
Woman: "You can't beat me!"
It electrified the sword, the inspector tensed in pain but did not release his grip. Finally, one of his hands hit the woman's head and shattered it. The body fell to the ground.
The inspector dropped his weapon before taking an iron bottle, opening it, and pouring a green liquid on it, cauterizing his wounds. He did the same with his wound on the side.
He saw that the woman's head was beginning too slowly regenerate.
He then took handcuffs in the form of Adamantium balls, he tied his hands with them. He then put chains on her legs, before putting armor plates on her, enclosing her body in a metal prison.
He entered the house and inspected the papers and books. He saw that these books were works containing precious knowledge dating back to ancient times.
He thought of the fat reward he was being offered at Hongol.
Like what, victory is offered to the deserving.
He took the books and the sheets, put them in his bag before leaving the house.
He took the woman's body completely regenerated but passed out. His mechanical arms took her before immobilizing her behind her back and chaining her to him.
Several hours later...
Village Head: "You did it! Praise be to Narthan Dume!"
Inspector: "My inspection is over. Also, the crate of apples is in the witch's house. All that remains is to retrieve it."
Villager 1: "Yes! We can eat!"
The crowd was filled with joy and celebrated the victory over the Witch.
The inspector meanwhile left the village without a word.
Leaving for the unknown with his precious delivery.
After a few hours of walking in the stone desert.
He felt something wiggle behind him.
Woman (choked): "HHHMMMM! HMMM!"
Inspector: "Silence. I told you that I would take you back to Hongol. You would have a much more rhythmic life in the city."
Woman: "HMM! HMM!"
Out of the corner of his eye, the inspector could see Electric Arcs escaping from the iron balls enclosing the witch's hands.
Inspector: "You can't escape. These Adamantium balls resist your mutant powers."
The woman attempts to use her powers but only manages to move a little. Then finally, his movements cease and crying is heard.
Woman (crying): "Hmm! Hmm! Hm... Hmmm!"
The inspector ignores them and the woman cries for a long time during the journey before finally becoming silent.
The inspector for his part was still walking, fatigue, sleep, hunger were concepts unknown to him. To be an inspector is to be freed from the afflictions of a body of flesh that rots over the ages. He could do his job as he always did.
Finally, he arrived in a large plain, borrowed more and more by patched vehicles, mutated animals where in the distance, a gigantic city piercing the sky and covering several kilometers could be seen.
It was Hongol, the City of Jade. Capital of the Almighty Pan-Pacific Empire.
He arrived at the great gates, the people who saw him bowed before him, showing the respect of an Inspector of Narthan Dume.
He climbed the steps of heaven for whole hours, passing little by little from the houses of the destitute, towards the houses of the average tradesmen and craftsmen, to finally arrive at the noble buildings.
Finally, he came to a large building. A richly decorated tower.
He entered it and could see a man with multiple mechanical arms, with half of his face covered in cybernetic parts.
The Inspector placed the books and sheets on the desk.
Man: "Inspector Fatmos? What is it?"
Inspector: "Precious books."
The Man at the desk analyzed the books and sheets.
The Man: "Type 8 information. Extremely valuable. Price set at nearly 800,000 Golden Skulls. Inspector, transfer the money to your personal storage."
The bureaucrat took the books and put them on a table behind.
The inspector left the premises before going around the floor.
He came to a large building, covered in gold.
He entered it and came across a woman covered in cybernetic parts.
Woman: "Yes?"
Inspector: "Inspector Fatmos. Found a type 5 witch."
The Woman analyzed the prisoner.
Woman: "I see. Follow me."
She got out of the table and accompanied the inspector to the black cells. She opened a cell and the inspector put the woman in the cell and the bureaucrat tied her up in prison chains.
Woman: "Take your bounty to my office."
Inspector: "Good."
The two left the cell, leaving the blonde alone.
Inside her armor, the woman was motionless.
Her expression was frozen, emotionless.
The Witch (Thoughts): "Someone...Let...Someone...help me... Any... anyone… I... cannot... take it... any… more..."
Flashback:
The woman is in front of two beings. One being made of light. The other was made of darkness.
Light Being: "I believe I have made a mistake."
Dark Being: "Which one my brother?"
The Light Being: "To give Salem immortality. See, she directly threatens our world. As such, as long as she is present, it will be impossible to pass judgment on the Remnantians."
Dark Being: "What are you going to do?"
Light Being: "Banish her."
The Witch: "No...NO! Not that! Everything but not that!"
Light Being: "Silence! You have turned Remnant against his gods! My judgment is upon you. Be banished to a corrupt and hellish world! You will only return by your own means!"
He opened a portal behind the witch.
The Witch: "NOOOOOOO!"
She gets sucked in and disappears.
After a long journey, she crashed on a charred and dead earth.
She looked around her, all was decay and corruption. The rocks were lifeless, the air foul, the ground cracked.
Pain invaded the whole being of the Witch, so powerful that she could only do one thing: scream.
The Witch: "AAAAAAAAAAAHHH! AAAAH! AAAAAAHH! AAAAAAHH!"
The witch now known as Salem shed tears into her armor.
Salem: "Help... May... Someone... save me..."
She ends up fainting in her dark cell.
To be continued... The Sigilitte.