What if Kayaba had killed Kirito in their final duel? Follow Asuna in her path of vengeance and freedom.

Author's note: I got the cover art off a yahoo search. If anyone knows who drew it I would love to be able to give proper credit to the original artist. The only alteration I did was changing her uniform from white to black and make her smile into a frown.

Continuation of my SAO fanfic: Death Wish.

Asuna was finally free to reunite with her husband, or was she? Kayaba had told her Kirito was waiting for her "among the clouds." Certainly this couldn't be what he meant!

Sugu was a woman in pieces. Two years had passed since her brother's death. Two years of grief and hard-fought healing. All of it shattered in the span of seconds when the people who remained in SAO were finally free, reminding her of all she'd lost. Now she fruitlessly flew in ALO, hoping to find that inner peace she had once again lost.

After graduating from the best school in Remnant with high honors, life was perfect for RWBY. Or it should have been. Jealousy, hate, vengeance, blackmail, and political intrigue follow them doggedly in this sequel to Senior Year.

For differences in my AU from canon please check the description of Book 1: Senior Year.

Chapter title Key:

Ruby & Weiss: Single word titlesBlake/Phoenix: Avian themedYang: ______ and _______JNPR: The _______

If a chapter title doesn't fit within this key it's because its a mixed bag of everyone. This is more likely to start happening near the end of the book when the individual storylines begin to merge.

A collection of short stories taking place in my RWBY AU. They run the spectrum of when they take place. There will be a note at the top explaining when.

These can stand on their own, but they add some depth to the backstories of my books that I think enhance them.

For differences in my AU from canon please refer to Book 1: Senior Year.

Senior year is finally here! Time for celebration, a time to look forward to the future and reminisce about the past.

Life is never that ideal, and trouble, as it often does, has come to team RWBY. A new enemy appears among social strife and emotional pain. Will RWBY be able to hold together and face their new foe, or will they be divided and crushed?

Differences on this AU from the actual canon:

I wrote this after season 2 and before any hints of season 3 were released, so many characters that were only mentioned until then are basically OC's and will not have any resemblance to what they will be. The canon story lines of the show ended at the end of their first year.

Life has mostly been normal since then with the exception of a major incursion of Grimm in the summer between third and fourth year which was successfully driven off.

I've also made their weapons much more important to the use of Aura, so small things like Ruby finding out that Jaune hadn't made his never happened. Jaune also now sports a new weapon because of this. See "the bond" in one shots on more about that.

Otherwise it's pretty much the world you know.

Chapter title Key:Ruby & Weiss: Single word titlesBlake/Phoenix: Avian themedYang: ______ and _______JNPR: The _______

If a chapter title doesn't fit within this key it's because its a mixed bag of everyone. This is more likely to start happening near the end of the book when the individual storylines begin to merge.