"YANG!"
Ruby screamed, her eyes burning with tears. Her grip on Crescent Rose tightened until her knuckles were white.
Several feet away from her, her sister was on her knees with her hands gripping weakly at the black arrow the protruded from her stomach. Her eyes were the size of pin-pricks as she stared down in shock, they rapidly flashed from purple to red. Her grip on the arrows loosened as a red liquid began to bubble up and out of her mouth.
The younger girl turned to stare with pure hatred at the villain that stood in front of her, a smirk clear across Cinder's face. A steady, rushing stream of tears trailed down Ruby's face. "I'm…"
"You're going to do what little rose?" Cinder taunted, her Dust-Made bow twirled in her hand. Her amber eyes glowed with the powers of the Fall Maiden.
"I'm going to…" Ruby seethed, her silver eyes pulsed in their sockets. "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" The young prodigy used her semblance to blast herself towards her opponent, red rose petals fluttering behind her, and Crescent Rose was already pulled back ready to swing.
The edges of her vision were slowly dissolving into white, she was slipping. A war cry escaped her lips, a cry for the friends she had lost… For her sister that may be gone.
Ruby's rage grew as she got closer towards the woman. Cinder smirk simply grew, her bow morphed into a rather familiar spear. The brunette swung, the scythe and spear made contact.
CLANK!
The battle had begun, but tears never stopped.
Cinder was going to pay!
Ruby's eyes pulsed hard with every hit and block, soon enough that had begun to throb with either tears or power. She couldn't tell. Her silver eyes glared daggers at the older woman, who had a flicker of worry flash across her face at how they glowed, but no less determined to end the battle.
"Is that all you got?"
Cinder's mocking voice pushed Ruby to the edge. All her friends were dead and she had the nerve to mock her. With one last broken cry, she pulled back Crescent Rose and swung. Her world faded into white, the last thing she saw was the fear that consumed the other woman's face.