AN: I don't own RWBY or anything from Marvel and make no profit off this. This will have barely any Marvel references as the symbiote in this will not be any known one like Venom, Carnage, etc. So at the most you'll get Marvel space stuff being referenced to and nothing Earth related.

Also I got two other stories on going so updates might take a bit.

Symbiote Knight

Chapter 1: It came from Space

It was alone.

It had been alone for a long time, exactly how long it had no idea as time has no meaning at the moment. It was floating in the vast emptiness of space as the rock it was hidden in made its way through the cosmos. The asteroid wasn't that large, but it was large enough for the black liquid looking creature had burrowed deep inside to find shelter and wait. It knew that it would most likely find nothing but death in the emptiness. It slept most of the time, as there was nothing more to do than just wait.

It was a Klyntar, a species of symbiotes that sought out those of noble bearing, to help them to aspire to bring peace to their part of the universe, at least that had been the original plan. A separate group had formed after they were corrupted by taking hosts that were not as noble as they had hoped some had been crazy or twisted in ways, they couldn't have foreseen, and it twisted them in return.

That was why the alien had been exiled, the group it had been with had been corrupted and so when it had refused to join them in their madness, they exiled it to the void. Therefore, they banished it to the cosmos to slowly die from starvation or maybe it would hit a sun, a black hole or something else.

It was alone and had been for so long, it hurt to be alone for the species. For a symbiote without a host it was like it's life had no purpose had no meaning. It would scream if it could at times but in the cold indifferent void there was no one to hear it's screams.

And so, the lonely symbiote floated on and on, trapped in its silent prison.

What it couldn't have known was that the asteroid had finally gotten into a planetary system and the gravity of a world was slowly pulling it down. When the asteroid shifted and the symbiote felt the pull of a planet, it was equally both joyous and fearful. It knew that it might not survive impact, the terrible sound and heat of impact might kill it but after all this time It was starting to think, that death might be a mercy.

Even if it did survive, there was no telling if there was life was on this world.

It decided to check as a small sliver of itself snaked out and looked outside, it saw a blue green world full of life, for the first time in a long time the symbiote felt hope.

So the alien got ready, it buried itself as deep into the core as it could, sealing up any holes and it hoped that perhaps finally, finally it would be free…one way or the other it would be free.

-Beacon-

Jaune adjusted his chest piece as his team and a few other teams were gathered inside of a bullhead. He had taken something for motion sickness but he was still feeling a bit off. He was trying to just focus on anything else, maybe the task they were all given. Apparently a meteor had impacted in the Emerald Forest so Beacon was turning this into a special event for the class.

All the grades were involved as each would be given an area to survey in groups, apparently this was to simulate a search mission. Each section would be given a teacher to evaluate and help out if needed since the Emerald Forest did have Grimm in it.

Jaune felt a lurch as the airship lifted off and he was glad to took something for his air sickness, it wasn't until going to Beacon he found out he didn't do well flying as that was the first time he had flown.

"Are you doing okay?" Pyrrha asked him placing a hand on his shoulder.

Jaune nodded, "Yeah I think so."

"I hope so," Yang from across from their seats said with a smile as he wiggled one of her boots. "Because if you throw up on my shoes again you're cleaning them."

Jaune groaned, "I'm never going to live that down aren't I?"

"Nope," Yang teased.

"Well I hope we can find some Grimm to fight," Nora cracked her knuckles. "It's been awhile since we got to fight them."

"I'll second that," Yang nodded.

"We are supposed to be searching for the crashed meteorite," Weiss told her.

"I wonder what we'll find with the meteor," Ruby wondered.

"Meteorite," Weiss corrected.

"That's what I said."

"No, you said meteor."

"What's the difference?" Ruby threw up her hands to her they were the same thing.

Weiss sighed, "A meteor is in space and when it hits our atmosphere, a meteorite is when it survives this and crashes. The first one usually just burns up until there is nothing left."

"Ohhh," Ruby blinked not realizing there had been a difference.

"Huh, you learn something new every day," Yang shrugged it off.

"So what's so great about a rock from space?" Nora asked and then brightened up. "You think it has aliens on it or something?"

Weiss rolled her eyes. "Hardly, it could be a piece of the moon."

"They do say a piece of Moon Fall is lucky," Blake finally commented remembering how pieces of the moon in the past were called Moon Fall because, well it was obvious why. With their broken moon in the sky pieces not and then did seem to get pulled and fall.

Weiss continued on, "Since we can't travel into space because dust loses its powers when it leaves the planet, have know very little about space. Anything that comes down from it can tell us all kinds of scientific discoveries. It would even have undiscovered metals or elements, it will most likely be studied in depth for years."

Jaune blinked he had no idea this could be that important but now that she explained it, he could see her point. The only way they could study space as far as he figured was with a telescope. What Jaune didn't know was that because Remnant couldn't get into space, they focused more of their energies on things like staying alive.

There were plenty of stories about the people of Remnant fleeing their world to find a safer one, Blake had read a few of these books, but without a way to actually reach space it was all in the realm of fantasy.

The airship buckled a bit making Jaune's stomach churn slightly, he was so thankful he got something to help his airsickness. He just laid his head back onto the headrest and closed his eyes trying to just focus on anything else. Thankfully it was a short trip to the Emerald Forest.

-Emerald Forest-

Pain.

Pain was the first thing the symbiote felt. The pain of the impact was felt but it was the heat that was the worst part of it. This kind of heat was death for it, if it couldn't get away. How long had it been here it did not know. Slowly the black ooze started to seep out of the rock as a silent scream that wasn't heard by any ears as it touched the hot ground. It had to get away, it couldn't stay or else the heat would kill it in its weakened state.

So it would crawl along the hot ground, the burning pain was agony but slowly the symbiote made its way out of the creator. It was finally free, free from the prison but it was also hurt and very weak. It needed a host to rest and recover, anything would do. Even an animal would work if only to heal, the symbiote had no idea if this world held any kind of sentient life after all.

It could be trapped here for centuries if not forever but at least it was a world with life. It could sense the life of this world. A world full of life like this something could come along it hoped. Just by luck something was moving in the forest, through the brush a large dark creature walked out.

The symbiote didn't sense any sentience but it did seem to have some form of intelligence. Maybe it was a primitive world that hadn't evolved civilization yet? The creature had a skull like face with long claws and stood upright.

The creature came over to investigate the crash most likely. As it moved closer the symbiote was close to the creature's leg. It quickly latched out and attached to it as it started to bond, then it screamed again.

This creature was not natural, it wasn't something born as more created and it was nothing but darkness. It was cold and cruel inside this beast, it was twisted and filled with anger and vileness. It was painful to try and bond with this creature and so the symbiote quickly pulled back from the repulsive creature. The thing was almost like a type of 'un-life', was the closest thing the symbiote could describe it as.

The Grimm however didn't like what this thing was doing to it, it felt it latch on and something touching it's mind. Only one was permitted to do that, only The Queen was allowed to do that as it clawed and growled at the black substance and kicked its leg out. The symbiote went flying and slammed into a tree as is slowly started to seep down it.

The Grimm growled but paused, it sensed humans nearby. The black substance would be for later, the humans were priority.

The symbiote forgotten it slide slowly down the tree, the pain of trying to bond with that disgusting thing had taken almost all of the symbiote's strength. It would die soon without a host, it knew this. It was funny, all that time locked up in space and as soon as it gained freedom it would die.

-Jaune-

Jaune wasn't sure what he was looking for, he figured an impact creator at least, he checked his scroll. Their search area was coming to a close and so far nothing, they hadn't even found any Grimm which he didn't mind. While his training with Pyrrha was going steadily he wasn't sure he was fully confident in taking on a Grimm just yet.

"Look, ahead," Ren pointed as the team looked and they could see toppled trees.

"Think we're close?" Jaune asked.

"Looks like it," his partner nodded. Team JNPR picked up their pace as they looked to find themselves standing in front of a chard impact zone. In the center was a rock just over a foot in length.

"Well looks like we found it," Jaune smiled.

"I'll let the staff know we found it," Pyrrha pulled out her scroll to get the teacher's attention with their location.

"Oh I wonder what it's made out of," Nora started to go down the small pit.

"Nora, no!" Ren went after her afraid what his childhood friend would get into with it. "We don't know if it's safe yet, it could still be hot or something."

Jaune was about to agree when something large caught his eye, he turned just in time to face a beowolf that leapt out of the surviving bushes. The howl it sent out got everyone else's attention as Jaune on pure instinct got his shield up in time to take the blow, he was slammed into a nearby tree thankful that his aura and armor took the hit.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha cried out already her weapon was turned into its rifle configuration as she started firing at the beast.

The Grimm snarled at her from the pain of the shots as it started to try and dodge it. It howled out as Ren fired his own machine pistols but the howl soon died as Pyrrha's weapon now in it's javelin configuration was suddenly imbedded in its throat. The Grimm toppled over as it die into black ash, but then other howls answered back.

Beowolves tended to be in packs and never alone, that howl had been calling its pack and they had answered.

Jaune was pushing himself off the ground when he felt something on his back. "What the?"

He found he had slammed into some kind of…tar? It was black and gooey but didn't exactly look like tar. Great he landed in some kind of muck, he just hoped it didn't stain, he would have to deal with that later as everyone was getting ready for a fight.

What Jaune didn't notice was the 'tar' was seeping into him quickly. The symbiote had been near death when Jaune landed on it, given it was near death it took the chance since these beings were fighting that creature. As the symbiote entered the host body it felt the bonding process start, this was a compatible life form.

The alien only hoped that this was a good person, it didn't want to get twisted like its brethren had been. So it slowed the bonding process just a bit, just enough to not permanently bond as it wanted to check out the host first but so far from the emotions, this host wasn't putting out any dangerous emotions. In fact, the symbiote felt fear not only for itself but for the others.

'I have to help them I can't be a burden to them. I'm supposed to be the team lead, oh why was I made the leader? Pyrrha has so much more experience than me. Okay time to man up, oh man this is going to suck. Come on Jaune, I can do this, I can do this.'

The thoughts of the host were a curious thing, the host seemed to care for these three but there was a lot of missing contex so far however the symbiote thought that maybe its luck had started to turn around.

The few Grimm that showed up his teammates were already fighting, Nora had just slammed the skull of one with her hammer with enough force to crush its skull, Ren was fighting one moving around quickly firing, he slide under the attack of one using the blades on his guns to slash as the beowolf's tendon. It roared out in pain as he got up and fired point blank the rest of his ammo into it's face.

Pyrrha of course was decimating them.

The red head after getting her weapon back charged at the Grimm when they broke the tree line. She flung her shield as it sailed in the air slamming into the exposed skull like mask breaking it, the creature grabbed its face with it's clawed hands but she didn't stop there. She called back her shield with her magnetic semblance as she faced the next one.

It slammed into the back of its head attacking from behind as the shield stunned it, she took advantaged and with her javelin impaled it through the eye and then kicked it, freeing her weapon and sending the dying creature into the one someone up from behind it. The Grimm tripped over its dying brother as Pyrrha threw her weapon making it sail faster and harder with her semblance impaling it between the eyes.

She heard another Grimm coming up to her and extended a hand as her shield came back as she blocked its claw swipe at her. She then called back her weapon changing its form in flight into its sword mode as she grabbed the hilt and after taking a step back from another full swipe she stepped in and cut off the arm at the elbow. It roared at her in pain and fury as it lunged forward for a bite but she easily side stepped it and with an downward arc sliced its head off.

All this was done in a matter of a minute, evidence that her nickname as the Invincible Girl and her three championships weren't just for show. She took a moment to look around, Nora was fighting another Grimm as Ren was helping her, there didn't seem to be any others.

No wait, she missed one and it was heading right for Jaune!

Jaune stared at the creature in front of him. He had been captivated by Pyrrha's battle prowess he hadn't noticed the creature until it was coming right for him.

He wasn't sure of what to do, so many thoughts entered his mind he was stuck in place. Should he take the hit? Should he dodge and how should he dodge? With sparring he had someone to help guide him, in training it wasn't life or death but this was his first real life or death fight since the entrance ceremony.

He suddenly realized that it was too late to dodge by this point so he pushed everything away in his head and just went with his guts. He saw the claw coming as he was about to put his shield up to block it when it suddenly came to him. It was like a stroke of inspiration or something. He could see what to do, he saw himself bat the claw away with his shield and then to thrust his sword under the jaw and into the head of the Grimm.

Without thinking he did just that but it felt different, like his movements weren't controlled but more guided. He felt his shield shift slightly to better deflect the claw and when he thrust his sword up he felt himself adjust the blade just enough and thrust it out quickly and with more power than indented.

The Grimm stopped for a moment when the blade went into it making a gurgling sound almost like surprised before it fell to the side ripping Jaune's sword out of his grasp.

"Ah!" Jaune quickly grabbed the hilt as he pulled, it easily came free as the Grimm turned to dark ashes. "I did it," he whispered to himself blinking at the fading creature.

"Jaune are you okay?" Pyrrha rushed over as he looked around to see the rest of the pack were gone by now.

"Uh yeah…I got him," He shrugged still surprised at himself.

She only smiled warmly at him proud he had done so, she had seen him going for the attack and was about to use her semblance to help just nudge his blows as she could tell they were off, but he had seemingly corrected himself. She was glad that everything went well, and she knew this would help give Jaune some much needed confidence.

What neither of them knew was that Jaune had been guided, inside the symbiote hadn't the strength to take over a body but it did have just enough to help out if only a little. Still, it was draining and it wasn't sure it could pull that off again any time soon. It would need time to rest and heal, in the meantime it would start to shift through the host's memories to get a sense of this person but so far the symbiote had a good feeling about this one.

TBC…

Updates might be a bit slow as I'm working on two other stories.