Cold
The feeling of the snow's icy embrace brushed against two dark figures as they trekked through the dark winter forest.
Above, the shattered moon shone brightly, it's beauty enhanced by the falling crystals under the starry night sky. One of the figures looked up, their face shrouded by the jet black hood.
The cold breeze blew harshly against them, but neither shivered nor acknowledge the chill of winter. The winds swept off the black hood, revealing a pale face with dark crimson eyes and pink lips. Their hair was short, barely reaching their shoulders and was dark as the night sky that gradually transforms to pale white by the tips.
They wore a red shirt that had a black rose in the center and a leather black, long sleeve vest that had a chain wrapped around their left wrist and a stun knife sheathed on their right bicep. They also wore black pants with white highlights at the pockets and sides tucked in black leather boots that had four straps, a utility belt that held a small black pouch and magnetic silver bullets.
"Onyx?" the other figure questioned the girl.
They pulled their red hood back revealing a girl that almost looked exactly like Onyx except for their hair which had crimson tips instead of white and silver eyes. She wore a long sleeve black blouse with red trimmings, a corset with red laces and utility belt with silver magnetic bullets, a silver rose decal and a small grey pouch at the back. Below her belt ran a black skirt with red trimmings that reached below her thighs and black stockings which ended in a pair of black boots with red laces.
Pale fingers reached up and brushed their twin's cheek. Crimson eyes closing as they turned to nuzzle the palm of her hand.
"I miss her, Ruby." Onyx finally whispered, her hand reaching up to hold the hand against her cheek.
Despite the wind whipping around them harshly, Ruby stepped up to her crimson eyed twin and removed her hand. Onyx slowly let her hand fall and her lips twitched into the beginnings of a smile as Ruby wrapped her arms around her waist.
"I miss her too." The silver eyed huntress whispered to her ear, her chin resting on her shoulder.
Onyx sighed blissfully. The warmth her sister was providing felt good but it did little to numb the pain in her heart at the thought of their mother. She slowly lifted her arms and returned her sisters embrace, both of them standing there in the middle of the winter night.
SNAP
Without thinking, Onyx spun her sister behind her as she threw her knife. Her aim was true as it lodged itself right at the head of a lurking Beowolf. The Grimm fell into the snowy ground dead but it was not alone. Both of them can see the glowing red eyes hiding in the shadows of the forest.
The twins immediately leaned against the other, back to back.
"So… " Ruby started as she looked at horde of Grimm prowling into the clearing, their glowing red eyes feasting on the sight of their prey. "How should we do this?"
Onyx shrugged, assessing the situation. "Normally, we shouldn't use our weapons unless it's absolutely necessary."
"Uhhh, you sound like Uncle Qrow" Her crimson haired twin grumbled, fingers that were itching closer to Crescent Rose's compact form strapped to her lower back fell to her side.
"Aww, I can already picture your pouting face." Her twin teased.
Despite the seemingly grave situation, Ruby turned around and socked her twin in the shoulder with said pout on her lips but Onyx just laughed, her sound of glee echoing in the forest.
The Beowolves wasted no time and all lunged at Ruby only for the cloaked huntress to disappear in a whirl of rose petals, revealing Onyx with her fist cocked back and a smirk on her face.
"You're dead!" She yelled as she slammed her fist right at the poor Beowolf closest to her. It flew back and slammed into a few trees before it slumped into the ground dead.
Not wasting a second, she swept the Beowolves off their paws and did a flurry of punches that slammed them into the ground.
Her senses flared up and she jumped over a lunging Beowolf before smacking her foot into its head, crushing it to the ground like a grape.
Her twin was faring better on her own, using her natural speed to dodge and attack pursuing Beowolves. Movements fluid and precise, aiming for the vital areas of the Grimm.
A howl shattered the night as an Alpha Beowolf jumped into the fray. The crimson eyed huntress glanced at the large Grimm just as she twisted the paw of a Beowolf before jumping behind it and slammed both her feet on its back. The arm snapped off as the Beowolf flew across the clearing and bashed its head into a boulder.
"Cool! " she heard Ruby comment from the side before dropping the dismembered limb, black smoke bellowing from it as it slowly disintegrated.
The Alpha roared a challenge and the dark cloaked huntress readied her stance but a shadow passed overhead as a red blur charged at it and slammed its fist right in the head followed by a series of punches to its stomach before delivering the final blow and punching her fist right through its skull.
Ruby watched dispassionately as the Grimm fell to its knees before she tore her arm off and it's body dropped to the snowy ground. The black blood stained her whole arm and the otherwise pristine and white field of snow before it disintegrated like smoke.
She turned around only to find her twin scowling at her with her arms crossed, the clearing filled with dead bodies of fallen Grimm.
"You took my kill" Onyx stated in a deathly calm voice. Normally, when her sister, her red eyes would harden and her voice would take a steel edge and any excuses or retort Ruby had died at the tip of her tongue so she just bowed her head looked away from her twin sister. Ruby couldn't stifle the gasp as she felt cold fingers grip her chin and jerk her face up, forcing her to meet her sisters eyes.
Ruby knew her twin sister very well. She can be dark and ruthless when she fights, sweet and caring when Ruby has nightmares about their mother but another thing her red cloaked twin knows about her sister is that she can be very possessive.
One thought ran through Ruby's head.
Oh dust.