Main theme: Metro Exodus rap by Jt Music, featuring Andrea Storm Kaden
Theme: Peg Doll Nursery Rhyme from Doctor Who

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Do not go gentle into that good night, by Dylan Thomas

Transcript recovered from the Forever Forest, just after the last initiation. It had been scribbled onto the walls, and was untranslatable until multiple years later, when new knowledge was brought to light. This transcript is now part of the unabridged Age of Endings book, itself part of the unabridged Age of Man collection. All continuing versions of the Age of Man books are to be sent for abridgment and editing, and the original, unabridged version of the Age of Man collection is to be kept locked away in the Belladonna Archives. Only those with ARKOS level clearance are allowed to read the unabridged texts and transcripts. Anyone who reads the unabridged texts and transcripts without the correct clearance is to be detained and interrogated immediately, and is to be kept under surveillance for signs of criminal activity until further notice or change in suspect's profile or behaviour demands otherwise.

Transcript provided below:

Do you remember me?

Do you see me?

Will you see me?

Will you love me?

Will you accept me?

I know you will. You're like that, you see. Always accepting. Always loving. Why do you think I fell for you, like so many others?

I have come to claim you, my dear. I have come to take what is mine. I have come to hold my beloved by my side, and begin the final evolution of man. We will embrace the great change. We will mould and morph into our new perfect shapes, and we will embrace each other, as man changes and accepts the embrace of our mother eternal, cutting away the chaff from the wheat, culling the weak from the strong, the mighty, the righteous, and begins our final empire, where we will claim these lands like our ancestors of old, and you and I will be the ones to spread our love and unity through our dominion, joined together under the eternal union of man.

Does the thought not excite you, my dearest? Does the imagining of leading our fellows towards our new paradise, and creating an eternal Eden for our empire not fill you with a feeling of purpose, and belonging? It is the dream that I shall share with you, the dream you will embrace, and the dream that I have been gifted by my mother eternal.

Do you hear that? My mother is calling us. She has given me everything, and asked for nothing in return. She has saved me from darkness. From the nothingness that laid before me for so long, and needed so little from me. Our paths are aligned, and our goals are the same. My mother will be there to walk me down the isle, while I bring to her the rightful gifts and treasures that she so longingly seeks.

Let Ozma come. Let him send his hunters and killers against me. Against us. Against our rightful joining. It will matter not. Nothing will stand between our rightful union. Nothing will stand betwixt our love, and our imperium. Our covenant.

Be ready, my love, for the time of man's hatred towards itself is finally over. Man's ascension towards its true form has come.

And we will be there to lead them to our new Eden. Our new empire's heaven on earth.

Hello, and welcome to my new story, Ascendancy, an alternative universe of RWBY, following the tales of our beloved characters as events and circumstances play out much differently, old legends breed new life and come to life, and a growing darkness encroaches upon Remnant, preparing to destroy everything and anything, so that they can remake it anew.

Truthfully, I'm not entirely done with the planning stages of this story, so there might be some changes and edits that come with this story as it goes on, so that it flows better over the course of it's narrative. However, I hope that that doesn't get in the way of you enjoying this story, and I do hope that I can make something that you can all enjoy as well.

For now, let us read on, and see just what this story has to offer, but for now, leave a review, tell me your thoughts, and I'll see you in the next chapter.

Titanmaster117 out!