"Weiss?"
"Yeah?"
"I think….. this won't hold for much longer."
The man with silver eyes knew that there was nothing he could do but watch.
No. He thought. No please, not like this. NOT LIKE THIS!
He just couldn't look away from the dying women on the floor. The ceiling above was encased in a giant ice crystal. It was the only thing standing between them and the Grimm. As the red girl said, it would eventually break. And thus…. the Grimm beyond it…..
"Is this….." Ruby weakly asked. "The end?"
"Yeah…. I guess." Weiss said, also on the verge of dying.
Son Ruku Rose didn't want to believe that this was real, that this was the end of this happy fairy tale. NOT. ONE. BIT.
"But…" Ruby said, turning to her lover. "If I can drag you with me in death….. I have no regrets."
"Excuse me?" Weiss asked. However, she was smiling, knowing that she and her wife would die together.
"DON'T!" Ruku screamed. "WHAT ABOUT YOUR KIDS?! YOUR FRIENDS?! EVERYONE?! THEY…. THEY'LL BE HEARTBROKEN WHEN THEY HEAR THAT YOU'RE BOTH GONE! PLEASE! GET UP! GET UP AND FIGHT!"
To his horror, it was like they didn't hear them. He began to panic. They didn't have much time!
"GET OUT OF THERE!" He screamed at the top of his lungs. "GET OUT OF THERE NOW!"
"Well…. If I die here… with you…." Weiss weakly groaned. "I don't regret it. Not any of it."
Although both Ruby and Weiss were silently crying tears of joy that they would die side-by-side, Ruku couldn't hold back the immense flood that was blurring his sight. He wanted to do something, ANYTHING, to rush in there and save them. But he couldn't move. Something had him frozen. Himself.
"Why?" He wept. "Why am I not doing anything? Why am I standing here, about to watch them die?! WHHHYYYYYYY!?"
The ice ceiling began to crack. Ruby grasped her cross and held it tightly. Weiss turned to her and smiled.
"Just like how you're still praying right now," The Heiress smiled. "I'll keep believing that we won't die here. So even in the future, I'll stay by your side."
Then, Ruku began to see things. HEAR things. Memories. Of his favorite couple, the White Rose. Everything Ruby and Weiss had been through. Their first meet. Their first fight. Their first mission as a team. Journeying throughout all of Remnant. And, Ruku's favorite, their first kiss. And every single kiss and romantic moment, public and private, they ever had. Their graduation. Their wedding. Ruby giving birth to their three children. But, even though Ruku hated this, this was the right thing to let happen. He sensed that, at this exact moment, Bumblebee, Blake and Yang, were going to die as well. This would be the day Team RWBY came to an end. But their own children would continue their legacy. And yet, he couldn't stop the tears flowing from his own silver-eyes.
His eyes began to widen in horror as the ceiling gave way, and hundreds, no, THOUSANDS, of Beowolves fell towards them.
"You… dolt….." Ruby gasped out.
"That's… my… line….." Wiess smiled, as she began to freeze up and shatter.
He couldn't look away, even though he wanted to.
After the extremely short bloodshed, Ruku was in pure horror and sadness when the Beowolves left.
The ice sculpture that was once Weiss Schnee was gone.
And now…. Ruby Rose was the last of RWBY.
Ruku tried to say something, to beg Ruby not to go, but he choked on his fears and tears.
"Yang….. Blake….. Weiss…. Mom…. Everyone…." Ruby groaned as she began to fade away into dozens of roses.
"I….. love… youuuuuuuuu….."
Son Ruku Rose began to shed his tears as the last of the roses blew off into the wind. But it was all true.
Ruby Rose….. was gone.
And there was nothing he could do.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Ruku began to scream and cry as beams of light shot out of his eyes and his hair turned a yellow-gold.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Then it all faded to whiteness.
…
"GAH!"
Son Ruku Rose sat up. He was in the snowy forests, near a grave. He breathed a sigh of relief.
"A…..a dream." He said to calm himself down. "It was….. only a dream."
Sure, the death of one warrior he knew too well didn't bother him, since he came back time after time again.
But… the death of the girl…. She would not come back.
Ruku shuddered at the thought of his nightmare. How it felt and looked so real. He couldn't let it happen. Not yet.
He looked into the distance. He had explored this world far and wide and had even fought the Silver-Eyed Warrior herself.
Now, the other world. He thought. And the other warrior.
Harnessing his Ki, Son Ruku Rose flew off towards another place. One separate from this one, yet almost similar to it.
