Temptations of the Dark Side

Chapter 16

THE HIDDEN BASE, (Y/N)'S POV

I stood within my training room with the crumpled bodies of dead White Fang soldiers at my feet, I had been experimenting on how to unlock the Force within the natives on this planet, it was somewhat different since an aspect of the Force was already opened up to each individual person on this world, yet they were limited to that specific power rather than the vast array of different powers and abilities they could use with the Force.

"This is so frustrating!" I yelled as I threw away another White Fang soldier whose mind I had shattered while attempting to open the Force in him, his head made a satisfying crunch as he hit the metal wall and he left a streak of blood as his head slid down the wall.

"QUERY; What is troubling you master? Are you facing difficulty with you experiments?" HK47 asked as he stood at the door ready to bring in another prisoner for me to play with.

"Unlocking the Force within these inhabitants is a taxing experience! It seems every time I get closer to an answer their fragile minds shatter, I must harness my rage and frustration to find an answer!" I said as I clenched my fist angrily, my lightsaber was in my room beside my bed since I could easily kill these weaklings with my Force Powers.

"COMMENT; Perhaps you require sleep master, you have been experimenting through most of the day, according to my calculations of this world's solar cycles it is currently night outside" HK47 said, I took out the scroll I was given and saw that it was indeed pretty late at night, I opened my mouth to answer when an involuntary yawn escaped.

"I guess your right... perhaps the solution to this problem will arrive in my dreams, HK, I'm going to sleep, wake me early tomorrow, and get the men ready, I get the feeling I'll need a few more test subjects before I'm ready" I said as I walked through the doors and down the hallway towards my room, with HK47 following close behind me.

"ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; As you command Master, as always, it is my pleasure to serve" HK said, when we reached my room HK kept on walking and exited my room to relay my orders to the soldiers, I walked towards my bed and started to untie my robes until I was in just my small clothes, then I climbed into my bed laying down in my back, I turned the lights off and closed my eyes to sleep.

TIMESKIP TO MONDAY, TEAM RWBY'S DORM ROOM, THIRD PERSON'S POV

Morning had just come as Ruby lay in her bed wearing her pyjamas, a pair of long white pants covered in roses, and a black vest with a heart shaped bear's head with red eyes and white teeth on the bottom, her eyes fluttered open before she sat up and yawned as she stretched her arms above her head, she looked down to see that the bed Blake usually slept in was still untouched which meant she still hadn't returned, causing the fifteen year old girl to sigh sadly, she looked around and saw that Yang and Weiss had already left the room probably to get themselves breakfast.

Ruby slid to the edge of her bed and jumped down, she gave Blake's bed another sad look before she picked out her normal clothes and got changed, as she walked out of the room she saw Pyrrha leaving her room with a sad look on her face.

"Morning Pyrrha, is something wrong?" Ruby asked.

"Oh, good morning Ruby, I'm fine thank you" Pyrrha said as she tried to cover up her pained look with a smile, however Ruby wasn't convinced.

"Are you sure Pyrrha? Because you look kind of sad" Ruby said, Pyrrha's smile dropped and she looked down sadly.

"Well... (Y/N) and I sort of had a fight a few days ago, and I haven't seen him at all, so I'm... kind of worried about him" Pyrrha said as she held onto her arm, in truth ever since (Y/N) had so coldly told her to leave him alone and not talk with him anymore she had been crushed, she had managed to sit through the lessons on Friday but didn't really pay attention, the whole weekend she had stayed in the dorm room, rejecting her teammates offers to hang out in favour of stewing in her depression, she had tried to go to his room to talk to him only to find it locked, when Ruby, Yang and Velvet came back to the campus she had asked them about him only to learn that he was wounded in a fight with another Sith, before walking away to be alone.

The fact that there was another Sith on Remnant shocked Pyrrha, it shocked her even more when she learned that this other Sith had attacked and wounded him, she asked where he had gone but they all said the same thing that they didn't know where he would have gone, so Pyrrha waited to see if he would come back so she could talk to him and perhaps try to apologise for her actions, in truth she had known she was being unfair with flirting with (Y/N) while holding onto those feelings for Jaune, but it was difficult for her to decide what to do at the time.

However, after she had been sent away by (Y/N), and seeing him replace her with Velvet she started to realise what she wanted, Jaune had tried to cheer her up of course but his eyes were always on Weiss, Pyrrha found that her feelings from before had dulled and were slowly being replaced by the desire to be beside (Y/N), she missed the way he would talk to her, say flirty and suggestive things to her, the way he would touch her and tease her reducing her to a blushing mess, she wanted him to give her another chance, but she couldn't find him and he hadn't returned to his room the entire weekend, making her worry a lot.

"Really? Blake's been gone too... I hope they're okay" Ruby said in a sad voice, the two girls sighed sadly before walking towards the cafeteria in silence.

When they arrived they sat down at a table with their friends, Yang was kicking back after finishing her breakfast with a satisfied smile on her face, although there was some worry in her features for her partner, Weiss was still finishing up her own breakfast, eating it in an elegant way as she brushed off Jaune's attempts at flirting with her in a rude way, Nora was scarfing down her seventh helping of pancakes that Ren had been making for her.

"Hey Ruby, are you doing okay?" Yang asked as she looked at her little sister with concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine, I think we should go to the city to look for Blake again" Ruby said as she finished eating the plate of chocolate chip cookies she had gotten for herself.

"Why should we?" Weiss asked in a snooty voice.

"Because she's our teammate, besides I want to try and find (Y/N) again, he's been gone just as long as she has, let's go!" Yang said as she grabbed Weiss by the back of her dress and dragged her off towards the Bullheads with Ruby running alongside her.

Pyrrha sighed sadly as she watched them dash off, however that was quickly replaced when she decided to go do the same with (Y/N), she'd go into town, find him and try to apologise to him, she stood up and dashed towards the doors leading outside.

"Pyrrha? Where are you going?" Jaune called out in surprise.

"Oh, no where, I'll be back soon bye!" she said before dashing away in a red and bronze blur.

"Wonder what that was about?" Jaune said as he looked to his teammates for answers.

"I'm not sure, but whatever it is I'm sure she's got it under control" Ren said in a calm voice.

"PANCAKES!!" Nora screamed as she held her empty plate towards Ren, the boy sighed and got up to make her another batch, leaving Jaune sitting there with the hyperactive ginger.