Well read and enjoy people. This may be a bit shoddy since its my first RWBY fanfic but if this continues. I will improve and maybe delve deeper into the psyche of the characters.
Have fun
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Chapter 1. Cut petals.
Just another day at beacon academy. The headmaster sipped on his coffee as he went over the files of his students. His face was forever in that state of perfect calm but he was slightly worried. He chose to ignore such matters as often he believed his students are strong enough and wise enough to handle such situations on their own without the need for teacher's assistance.
But two teams and a third alway seem to be a magnet for trouble. Firstly was team RWBY.
Led by their happy go lucky yet instinctually strong leader Ruby Rose. Weapon: Cresent rose. Scythe/shotgun/high impact sniper rifle.
Second in line was the heiress Weiss Schnee. Prideful yet easy to get to converse once you get to know her. But her rebellious actions do make her prone to her leader's crazy stunts. Weapon: Myrtenaster. Dust rapier.
Third in line is the enigmatic Blake Belladonna. Calm and quiet however her true identity as a faunus and her former association with the white fang group did leave some outgoing ideals. Weapon: Gambol shroud. Variant ballistic chain scythe.
Last member of team RWBY is Yang Xiao Long. Cheerful and easygoing but anger from her is bound to lead to chaos. Weapon: Ember Celica. Shotgun gauntlets.
As for the other team. It was rather a lesser known team but clearly carving its mark. Team SLVR(silver) led by Silver Pyronite. Outgoing and loud. Seeks a very hands on approach with justice. Weapon: Trident Gaia. Maser dust odachi (japanese long sword)/hand cannon.
Lily Pernicious. Second member has a very bubbly personality. Like to hit things but past is unknown. Weapon: Bolt swipe. Nunchakus with tasers outfitted and an electricuted wire.
Other two members were Vic Dreck and Rei Tardid. They do not interact much but seems to go with Silver and Lily's plans often.
The headmaster swiped his hand as the files disappeared from the screen while he gazes out his window.
"Something feels omnious." He says as he takes another sip.
. . .
It was lunch break in beacon academy as the students were lining up in the cafeteria and sitting down to eat. Discussions rambled on as one particular topic rose up. "Jaune. Please if you ever need any help just ask." Pyrrah affectionately said as her attraction to the underdog of their team was often bullied by a certain Cardin Winchester. "I know. We'll break his legs." Nora snarkily suggested punching the air. "Guys really. Its okay. Its not like he's a jerk to me. He's a jerk to everyone." Jaune replies nervously.
"And that makes it a good thing. Dude you're sucking the wrong nub man." Lily piped in from the side causing everyone to stare at her. The girl was of average height. She wore a black zip up sleeveless vest with a high collar and double blue lined border. Small white gauntlets and knee high black combat boots. Along her brown hair tied into a ponytail by a tiny lightning bolt shaped hair band.
"What? Its the truth right? I mean look at this guy. He's got the hottest redhead in the kingdom spreading her legs for him and his balls are smaller than a flea egg." She yammered but their gazes remained fixed on her. "Lily. Language. Don't talk so vulgar." Pyrrah advises her though her face did turn slightly red.
"Sure whatever. Hey look at that. This should be good." She smiles gleefully as they see Cardin continue his acts and now was yanking Velvet Scarletina's rabbit ears. A faunus trait she possess. But the real kicker was Silver quietly approach them. He feigns tripping and 'accidentally' throws a fork at Cardin's hand. It nearly grazed him as he let go. Silver sent a glance at Velvet and tilted his head sides ways clearly giving her the hint to bolt while she can.
Taking it she quickly escapes his grasp. "Whoops sorry about that Cardin it was an accident. Sorry did I hurt you?" He spoke with both a mocking tone and an apologetic one. It was hard to differenciate between the two. But the slight smirk on his face clearly gave it away though.
"You sneaky little weasel." Cardin scoffed as he stood up. He approached clenching his fist but then a soft beam of white light gripped his face like a gum and yanked him down as his cheek made contact with Silver's outstretched foot.
"Yikes whats your face doing down there Cardin." He said with a sly grin before putting his tray of food down. "Why you!" This time Cardin's anger boiled as he launched a series of punches as Silver side stepped and dodged while keeping all the food in his tray safe.
After a while before the lunch room could get riled up Lily noticed someone approaching and quickly waved at him giving him the thumbs down. Silver understood and took the last hit head on and fell to the floor dramatically
"Mr. Winchester. May I ask what sort of conduct is this?" A stern voice came from the doorway. They all watch silently as Cardin was singled out none other than Glinda Goodwitch. "Violence. Harrassment and bullying I believe we need to have a word with the headmaster. Meet me after classes and don't even think about escaping." She said whipping her crop and swiftly striking the back of his hand to slightly intimidate him which worked.
She turned around but then seemed to have a realisation after seeing Cardin glare at Silver. "It appears we have a little bad blood boiling here. But you are huntsmen. In training but huntsmen nonetheless so I expect you to handle it like one. Settle this matter in the arena if you must. Rivalry is one thing however if it causes dispute amongst you it may be a problem. Remember here at beacon teamwork and comradry is highly prioritised." With that she disappears.
Silver got up and smirked at Cardin who still looked pissed. Then walked away.
"Okay. What was that all about? And what did that Silver guy just do?" Ruby asks tilting her head.
Lily giggled. "Thats his semblance. Light grip. He can use it to turn his aura tangible and grab stuff. Pretty sneaky and powerful if you're creative enough." Then she laughed. "Hey thats like Pyrrah's magnetism right?" Nora yelped. "Nope. Pyrrah can only move stuff. But he can yank, tear and even crush stuff with his power." She replied waving her hand. "Cool." Nora began to drool. "But the catch is he needs to keep eye contact so blinking is a bitch." Lily continued to giggle.
Silver laughed at the predicament he threw Cardin in and stepped outside. There he noticed the faunus girl sitting on a bench and finishing her meal look somewhat sad. He strolled up to her and haphazardly plopped down beside her startling the girl. "Must be tough being a faunus here." He said sighing looking up at the air.
"You don't know the half of it." She replied coldly massaging her rabbit ears hurting from Cardin's previous pulling. "Hi. My name is Silver Pyronite. You're Velvet right?" He said knowing that both knew who each other were. Just forcing a jumpstart conversation. "What are you even doing? If you don't have anything to say go away." She said rather harshly. Silver feigned a frightened look before grinning.
"Sorry. I got nowhere else to go. Lily is in there with the others and its too loud and annoying in the cafeteria. The other two members of my team are pretty much fodder and its lonely being alone. Feels nice sitting beside someone . . subtle for a change."
"Speak for yourself. I feel horrible. Sometimes I wonder why I even came here." She replied. She looked up at the clouds along with him. "Hey don't let one retard ruin your school life. You wanna be a huntress. You want to help people. You have dreams and aspirations don't you?"
"You sound like a naive twelve year old making your first weapon." She said with a slight smile to her face. Feeling the ice break between then Silver sighed in relief. He chuckled. "Thats a nice way to put it. But trust me. I've had my fair share of troubles." His tone suddenly turned grim. The rabbit fauna's ears twitched as she turned to him but he forced a smile to his face and said. "Well better get going. Apparently a certain someone who goes by the name madam Goodwitch happened to witness my scuffle with Mr Winchester. So she thought the best way to deal with it is a hash off with me and him." He said standing up.
"Aw too bad. But hey wait." She calls out before he starts walking. "Why did you talk to me? I mean you don't even know me. And like I'm a faunus, you're a human. It doesn't make sense. I mean like if I was human you could be trying to score points or just showing off by why?" She asked her brown eyes glinting.
Silver closed his own black eyes and pondered. Then he shrugged. "Who knows? I just felt like it. You know that gut instinct thing. But answer me this. What's a faunas?" He asked with a half smile.
She was taken aback at this. "Shouldn't you already know that. I mean . ."
"Shut up and answer the question." His sharp reply cut her off.
"Well uh . .a faunas is one of the two intelligent species on remmnant. They look almost exactly like humans with the addition of a single animal trait. And"
"Thats it. See just like humans. If one little aspect your body causes this much discrimination it feels kinda stupid. You're person. I am a person. Thats it. Racial differences never mattered to me. To me faunas are just humans with slightly stronger physique. And besides those ears are kinda cute." Finishing that he laughed.
Velvet's ears twitched strongly before she slightly blushed but then she laughed too. "Well good luck on your match. And thanks for the conversation. It felt nice." She waved her hand saying. "Thanks. Anytime." With that he turned away. Soon he felt a presence behind him. He turned and saw a pair of silver eyes under a patch of black hair with red tips. The sight sent suppressed emotions flaring up along with a murderous aura as he glared at her.
Feeling the bloodlust the tiny girl flinched violently and stepped back. "Eeek." A slight gasp escaping her mouth as she put up her own aura. The boy realising its not the proper time yet quickly calmed down his aura. Seeing the situation developing he quickly looked for an excuse. "Sorry about that Ruby. Just a little jumpy. You see the thing is I lived in one of the outskirt villages of Vale before enrolling here so you see those area's were really prone to grim attacks so . . uh . .whenever I'm outdoors I get a little riled up haha."
Ruby not buying it as she sensed true bloodlust from him. Chose to take his whipped up excuse and waved her hand before her nervously giggling. "No. No its okay I see what you mean."
"I didn't scare you did I?" Silver said with a concerned look.
"No I just wanted to check up on Velvet but it looks like you took care of it. I didn't know you were such a nice guy." The light hearted bubbly girl said.
The conversation rolled on and in the afternoon many were gathering in the arena for what many called Cardin's beatdown session.
They were taking their seats in the stands while Cardin now in his battle armour with his mace over his shoulder walked in with a confident smirk. From another entry way Silver walked in now in his battle outfit.
It consisted of a black high collared full sleeved t-shirt underneath a grey stylised vest which was left open. On the chest was largely drawn in silver thread his sigil of a flaming bird with its wings spread. His sleeves were also decorated with several tribal patterns and ended with white gloves with blue designs. The rest was dark blue jeans with a few brown straps and ended with white sneakers.
His weapon in its compact form was folded up into a short sword which looked awkwardly like a sawed off broadsword. Along with a circular guard with a blue gem embedded in it. It was surrounded by small unformly shaped sword fragments in reserve for its ultimate longsword form. They took their positions and waited for the sensors and screens to light up. When the signal was given they started.
Cardin swung his mace foreward. Silver easily sidestepped it and flicked his wrist twice causing the sword to change to its broadsword form. He swiped it in a semi circle before him causing the armoured fighter to dash backwards.
"Dude you got muscle and force alright. But good lord you are slow AF." Silver remarks as he swiftly flanks Cardin and evades another blow. But the crown began booing seeing the fight was just about evasion and swinging without any clashes. But silver had a plan in mind.
Tactic: Insta kill. One shot.
With that he accelerated and began to run circles around Cardin. Then waited for him to swing. Jumping off the ground he used his aura to boost his jump height and kicked off the mace. High in the air he landed a swift kick to the side of Cardin's face with audible cracks. Though he knew his aura meant nothing happened he used that chance of a stun to put some distance between them.
"Time to end this."
"Kick his butt Silver!" Lily yelled from the crowd. He clicked a button on the hilt and it slightly extend for a double hand grip. The pure white blade unfolded and the guard began to spin all the fragments of the blade moved out and coiled around the blade. Extending into a curved longsword. The blade edge then slightly parted and an extremely narrow blue edge came out. The blue edge was filled with high power vibration Dust. With a little aura the blue edge glowed and the sword vibrated so fast it was like the light around it was distorting as heat was produced.
Like an ultra precision chainsaw in the form of a sword the wind spiralled around it and kicked up some dust on the stage making it look epic.
Activating his semblance he grabbed Cardin's head this time. Tightening it he pulled him and threw him upwards disorienting him then he himself leaped into the air and swung his long sword in a massive arc slicing through the air and even created sharp razorwinds as he struck clean at his opponents throat.
The impact broke his aura shield instantly as the aura bar went from nearly full to nearly empty in a single hit.
The crown was jawdropped but then many began to cheer loudly.
Rushing over to Cardin Silver holds the sword straight at his face smirking in victory as the signal for the fight to end is given. With that Silver shuts of his sword and the heat disappears. Then he extended a hand. "That was a good match though I did wreck you in the end." He says with a grin. "We should do this again someday." Cardin grabs his hand and stands up but his face didn't show any enjoyment from the fight.
Silver turned away and left the stage with the crowd shocked but cheering for him.
Days pass as team RWBY and team SLVR get more aquainted with each other. It was not long till Blake's identity as a faunas was revealed to those teams. And they kept getting into matters with the white fang and Roman torchwick.
One evening about a few months prior to the Vytal festival the fateful night happened that changed Ruby's life forever. It started off almost the same as any other evening. Yang was gone into the city snooping around for in her trademark gung ho style. Blake was pushed into going out on a date with Sun. So this left Ruby and Weiss in their dorm rooms. Weiss currently relaxed in bed playing with their pet dog Zwei while Ruby was scratching her head trying to finish her homework.
The atmosphere was calm. Almost too calm. Borderline eerie. "I give up. Why is this history essay so hard?" She groaned looking up. "Well if you paid attention to Oobleck's lectures in class instead of doodling Port's belly and weapons you probably wouldn't be having this problem." Weiss replied snuggling with the corgi. "But he talks like a runaway train. His caboose is like always full steam ahead with no brakes."
"Ruby. Caboose is the rear of the train the engine is the front." Weiss corrected.
"Whatever." She sighed. Then they heard a knock on their door. "Come in." Weiss said throwing the dog away.
It opened to reveal Lily fully donned in her combat gear. "Good evening team RWBY oh wait." Then she notices only two members. "Oh its just blood snow." She said.
Both grimace at the term. "Where did that name come from and what do you want?" Weiss getting straight to the point. "Isn't the term ice flower supposed to be the name?" Ruby said raising a finger. The two ignore her.
"Well . . .we've been doing some recon found out something big is going on downtown. Like a huge faunas recruitment operatuon. Normally we would just ignore it but I heard they are yanking every faunas in the city to their cause. Me and Sil thought we might do some snooping around and maybe even wreak some havoc." She said with a feral grin. "We thought if you guys wanted to come along."
Weiss and Ruby exchange glances. "Isn't it a bit dangerous? I mean don't they have like really good senses to sniff us out. If we get caught it could turn ugly." Weis said calmly. "True but what's the thrill without a little danger."
"Awesome I'm in." Ruby excitedly yells. "Ruby! Hang on for a second even if we do go our chances of getting spotted are very high. Wouldn't another faunas commong along improve our odds." Weiss grabs Ruby by the back of her tank top before she bolted to the changing room.
"Who? You mean Sun and Blake. Aren't they like busy or something." Lily pondered.
"Yeah I guess. Hey wait a minute how do you know about Blake and Sun being busy. When you walked in here clueless?" Weiss accuses her at picking that. Lily mischieveously bit her tongue. "Busted. Truth be told I saw them leaving together."
"Come on Weiss don't be such a worry wort. Lets just get going. Anything to escape this atrocious homework." Ruby begged with her puppy dog eyes. Weiss had no choice but to give in. "Oh alright. But the moment things begin to get hairy we pull out."
"Sure!" Ruby and Lily both say. In a few minutes they were outside. It was late evening and surprisingly windy. The clouds obscured the shattered moon Weiss and Ruby both changed to an outfit befitting the outdoors. After double checking their weapons the trio meet up with Silver at the academy gates.
"Alright lets go." Lily quietly announces. They quietly move through the city till they made it to downtown where they moved up to the roof tops to look around.
"See anything?" Weiss asked looking around. "Ooh. Jane doe at 5 o'clock. Whoo check out the rack on that baby." Lily ogled through some binoculars before they were snagged away by Ruby and then shared with Weiss as they looked through each lens.
It was a faunas woman. A doe faunas in fact wearing some risque clothing clearly attempting to please. "Alright ladies act your gender. If she's a faunas in this part of town she could be heading for the meeting point or at least lead us to someone who will." Silver said taking the binoculars from the girls acting very business like but seemed to have an excited tone to his voice.
A strange, creepy excitement. Weiss wanted to turn back but definately didn't want to be the first to chicken out. Besides she had some confidence in her skills to fend of any enemy.
They continue to move till they found the meet. It was massive warehouse in the docks. It only had one huge shutter entrance and a few small doors to the side which they saw several members of the white fang handing out grim based masks to fauna as the entered. Keeping their distance they circled around the buildong splitting up then finally knowing there was no other entrance.
"So do we push further." Ruby asks. "It will be difficult if we do." Weiss remarked. "That warehouse only has a few entrances and all of them are in the front guarded by white fang members."
"Then we'll just have to make a back door ourselves." Silver says with a grin.
"If you plan on breaking through those walls how are we not going to get detected. This feels more like an infiltration mission than a recon." Weiss.
"Isn't that what you are for miss Schnee? I'm sure with a bit of gravity Dust and you gliph skills you can conjure up a soundproof barrier." He egged her on.
Weiss was a smart girl who could handle tough situations but with her pride being poked like that it nearly compelled her to step up. "Fine. Humph!"
The foursome moved and approached through the side of the warehouse but then something caught Ruby's eye through the open door of another warehouse. "Hey Weiss check this out." Ruby entered and pointed at a large metal container. "Isn't that the same symbol you wear on the back of your outfits." Ruby stated.
"Thats my family's crest. These are Schnee Dust company cargo. What is it doing here?" It didn't take a second for it to hit them. "Stolen goods." They say in unison.
Now with an incentive Weiss really wanted to find the criminal who keeps doing that along with her natural dislike for faunas of the white fang it was asking for her to get involved. When they finally reach the back wall. "This should be far enough." Silver said as he pulled out his sword. Flicking it to its broadsword form he pressed the switch. The circular guard began to spin as the pieces came out of it and extended to a longsword form.
"You plan on cutting your way through 8 inch concrete walls." Ruby joked.
"Pretty much." Upon activation both Ruby and Weiss felt the heat and wind comming off the sword. "Whoa!" Ruby being the weapon nut she was seeing it up close was quickly entranced.
Silver jut the nearly 3 foot long sword straight into the wall as the blue edge glinted and sliced through concrete. He used his aura to buff his muscles as he traced the sword to create a large circle to completely carve a hole through.
The team RWBY duo watched agape at the sheer cutting power of the sword. "That sword is incredibly sharp." Ruby gasped excitedly. "Its all in the dust. As long I put the right amount of aura in it the sword can adjust its vibrations to match the material. And when it does I can cut through anything. Well except aura. Since it doesn't have any vibration but if you do swing it hard enough you cold break it in a single hit."
"Okay. You cut up the wall so how do you plan on removing that chunk." Weiss said pulling out Myrtenaster.
Silver gave a dark grin as he pressed a second switch as the weapon began to morph again. This time the hilt curved downwards and a trigger appeared. The blade reverted to its broad sword form then parted down the middle. The pieces realigning themselves to form a railgun as he took aim.
"Um ladies in case you didn't know this is also a plasma cannon." He spoke as Weiss rushed to get her barrier up. Swiping her fingers and selecting her gravity dust in the rapier. A black circle glyph appeared.
Everyone stepped back as he fired a massive orb of supercharged blue plasma straight into the wall causing it to crumble with a blast the sound of the detonation only being muffled by Weiss's gliphs. They see the perfect hole for a person to fit through.
"Well that was subtle." Ruby spat as they sneaked in. Of course their haphazard entry was in fact noticed as they entered and an saw the whole warehouse turned into a massive seminar hall of faunas. Some members of the white fang while many were just civilian faunas. There was a stage built and upon which was a seemingly white fang leader or at least someone of high rank was giving a motivational speech about being superior to humans and fighting back.
And apparently their entry way was caught in plain sight. So they were in the sights of a few hundred faunas who despised humans. This was not a good situation at all.
"Uh . .um . .hello there gentle, nice faunas . .people. nothing to worry about just a group of kids . .uh . .running around." Ruby put up her hands to chest level and tried to diffuse this thickening situation.
. . .
The situation began to deteriorate. The faunas were disgusted at the mere sight of a human. Now the white fang members began pulling out their weapons and began to approach.
"What's a human doing here?"
"How did they get here?"
"Despicable humans always snooping around."
"Kill them."
Murmurs and shouts escaped the cloud.
"We're too heavily outnumbered. We need to pull out now." Weiss whispered as she held up her rapier and began to step back.
"No. This is perfect." Silver said slowly he shook his neat black hair and ruffled it up. Many slowly cowaring away moved to the door but suddenly an electro blast fires at the control switch causing it to jam shut the door and lock everyone inside.
Eyes turn to Lily who used the shooting end of her taser nunchucks and fired the door. "Whoops. Looks like I fried the control panel I guess the only way out of here is this hole and through us." She said her voice sounding way more feral than usual.
"What is wrong with you two!? We are here to observe not fight. Why are . . " Weiss shouted before out of nowhere Lily moved before her and jabbed two of her electrified nunchucks at Weiss's neck and zapped. The thousands of volts firing so concentratedly tore through her aura and electrocuted her neck. Causing her to shriek and collapse.
"WEISS!" Ruby screams as she sees her friend go down. Shocked and scared by what is happening she charged Lily pulling out Cresent rose only to see a sword comming up and disarming her. Then in a blinding flash of blue light the back of a sword struck her fast in the gut before a severe kick to her face sent her crashing to the wall.
Stunned she struggled to recover despite her aura providing protection the impact still dazed her. By the time she came to her senses a wire like a noose came down and tightened around her neck. The wire had a strong pulse of electricity through it and the jolt sent her nerves haywire as she felt her entire body stiffen with paralysis.
Tears slowly came out of her eyes as she looked at Weiss collapsed on the ground with her neck turning red. And Lily choking her or at least trapping her. "Why?" She managed to stutter before her entire body went numb. She was forced to watch helplessly.
"Oh don't worry reaper just sit back and enjoy the show." Lily said licking her lips and wrapping the wire between the nunchucks around Ruby's throat even tighter.
Instantly a volcano of repressed bloodlust erupted from Silver. His aura glowing in a bloody silver colour as well. He once more changed his weapon to its odachi mode and pointed at them.
"Hey! Listen here you worthless excuse for animals. You guys are nothing but the garbage of society. Your kind may have the superior physical strength but aside from that you are technologically retarded. You don't contribute to society. Nothing but a mule for hard labour. You freaks need to be put on a leash and kiss human boots properly." He roared his insults triggering massive anger from the crowd. Many poised their weapon and charged. Three came first. A small cat girl. A fox guy and a muscular bear faunas.
A blue light grabbed them and blocked their movement and a heated blue arc of narrow light swiped at them instantly slicing the three in two. The girl had her head and right arm removed, the fox down diagonally his torso and the bear split from the waist.
They all splatter on the ground writhing for a few second in pain then died. Ruby gritted her teeth and turned away tears in her eyes. But the electricity prevented her from moving.
Silver waved his sword and swished the blood off towards Ruby causing her to shudder.
"Well then I guess its time to start." Silver's voice sounded hungry. Veey hungry.
Then . . .he dashed. Charging the crowd. The non fang members completely horrified broke into a panic. As a frenzy of blood and screams broke out.
Ruby watched helplessly as she watches limbs being hurled into the air. Organs spilling out and staining the floor. Helpless innocent faunas being mercilessly chopped up. Fang members unable to move or fight in this chaotic rush of people.
The numbers rapidly began to fall. The heat of the sword. The glow of the edge and the scent of blood were all being burned into Ruby's mind. She knows mass slaughter. But those were all grimm. They never had much blood to begin with and would completely disintegrate to nothingness as soon as they were killed leaving no mess or stains.
These were different. She never knew blood had such a strong rusty smell. The vibration of the sword and the wind spiralling around it all combined with his face of pure ecstacy was horrifying.
She couldn't take it anymore. She just wanted to pass out or simply die herself. But unable to move unable to think she sat on the ground powerless. Even her adrenaline pumped heartbeat was distorted by sheer power of the electric wire powered by lightning Dust. Lily's face looked needly she seemed like she wanted to take part too but she also seemed duty bound to restrain her.
Many soon abandoned their weapons and ran for Ruby and Lily as their only escape route. But alas a beam of light surrounded them and pulled them back only for many to be heinously chopped up. Cries for help went unanswered. Shrieks of suffering were ignored. Men and women were indiscriminately cut down. It just didn't seem to end. At last a tiny handful of people remained. They raised their weapons for a last ditch effort only for him to morph his bloody sword to its cannon mode and fire a plasma burst which blew up explosively.
It felt like an eternity passed but soon after several minutes of mass murdering the madness began to cool. Not a single bullet was fired throughout the slaughter as the fear of shooting their own people that costed their own lives.
Ruby was panting even though she hardly moved but being stuck in one spot was tiring as well. She felt the noose around her neck loosen as the smoke from the aftermath cleared. And Silver walk out half covered in blood. Suddenly she was let go. As he senses came back she fell ti her side from her sitting position.
Coughing several times she says. "Why? Why did you . .kill all those people? The white fang was one thing but . .the others were innocent people. . .how could you?" She croaked.
He turned off his sword but didn't fold it. Leaving as it is and dropped it. He sad down to a cross legged position on the floor.
"To make it more convincing." He non chalantly spoke.
"Convincing for what?!" Ruby cried.
"For your future." Silver replied.
" . . . ." Ruby was speechless as she couldn't grasp what was happenning.
"I mean look at this Ruby. Just look at the mess you made." He said with an evil grin.
"W-what? No way. You did it. You can't . . "Ruby protested jn confusion.
"What do you mean Ruby? You killed these people." He began to lick his lips.
"NO! It was you. You did it. These people were killed by a sword. Your sword. You can't just do something so vicious and expect me to take the blame." She protested.
His face had one of surprise. "But Trident gaia is your weapon. You must be delusional Ruby. Here's the story. Ruby Rose and friends Weiss Schnee, Lily Pernicious and Silver Pyronite got curious over criminal activity in the city and stuck their noses in matters they shouldn't." He put his hands up and made a great news headline gesture. "They found themselves neck deep in a faunas meet. Brave fighters they were they confronted the white fang and the other fauna. But being outnumbered and outmatched Ruby Rose lost her weapon. Psycologists say due to childhood trauma she lost care for people but tremendously adored her weapon. With it being destroyed she freaks out, steals her friend's weapon and goes on a killing rampage to find the one who destroyed her weapon.
Convincing story eh."
"Garbage! No one in their right mind would believe that garbage. My weapon is Cresent Rose. Its right there. . .and . .and yeah the door you sealed up that doo . ." She was cut off with the shock one not seeing her beloved weapon not found anywhere. Then a few shots sounded. She saw Lily no longer with her but instead using her weapon to shoot the switch.
"Oh look you trapped them with your scythe gun preventing anyone from escape." He then laughed but it was a scary horrifying laugh.
"He then stood up again as Lily tossed him the red weapon while she ran off to look for something. He grabbed it and unfolded it. A look of disappointment appeared on his face as he stared at the weapon.
"Pathetic. This thing is so stupid. The blade has this needlessly thick top and the scope my god how do you aim this crap. This doesn't even have a cross hair aim. How can you hit long range with this and if you cant shoot long range how can you call this a sniper rifle. He then twirled it around as his face showed displeasure. "The shaft is damn thick. The spin is inefficient and it lacks power. Hell his weapon is all about showing off. Stupid as shit."
Ruby winced as she was on the verge of tears again listening to her weapon getting berated. "Yo Silver. I found it. I found it. I found it." She cheered like a little girl as she hauled a decent sized barrel marked extremely dangerous by a trolley to them.
"Wha. .. what is that!?" Ruby stuttered.
"Wanna know?" He gave a sleazy grin before slightly opening the sealed lid. "This here is fluoroantimonic acid with a little exta. This thing here is one of the most powerful acids in the world. Originally it was meant to be used to melt through some of the toughest rocks in the world to get the rarest Dust crystals ever but ironically this acid is so strong it melted the Dust off too hahaha." He laughed slightly. "It was so powerful theres isn't exactly anything to do with it. So we humans chose to do what we always do with strong stuff. Weaponise it." He then picked up Cresent Rose and held it over the barrel.
"Huntsmen weapons are made with super metal alloys that never get destroyed aren't they. Lets put this to the test shall we."
"NO! PLEASE DON'T DO IT I'M BEGGING YOU PLEASE." Ruby shrieked wildly holding up her hand but before she could reach him once again a pair of wires wrap around her hand and pull her back just before she could trigger her semblance.
But it was over. Her pleas fell on deaf ears as he began to dunk the scythe into the bubbling liquid. He pushed it down to his gloves and then held it up. Ruby cried openly at that point watching her beloved partner. Her sweetheart melt and crumble before her right in his hands. The object which protected her in times of battle. The thing she crafted all by herself which was like a baby to her. Her sniffled only made it funnier to Silver as he tossed the dissolving weapon to the side.
"Wow those teflon lined gloves really come in handy don't they."
Lily said letting her go. Ruby crawled pathetically on the ground as she crawled up to the last remains of her weapon dissolving as he threw it away. She got one last touch on it before the palm of her right hand suddenly began to burn while the acid burns away into the ground.
"Now for the final touches." Silver said. "Lily I guess its time to whip up some witnesses."
"You got it." She gave a salute as she ran off towards the massive pile of corpses. Looking around carefully with a finger on her lips. "Lets see. Live people. Live person. Live person." She chanted.
Ruby turned her way with red eyes. She opened her mouth to say something but Silver read her thoughts. "Wondering what she's upto? I left a few live people in there. Lily is just gonna alter their memories to a more . . suitable scenario."
"She what? But I thought her semblance was electrokinesis." Ruby said teary eyed and heartbroken.
"Hahahah." He laughed again. "What a joke. You know its funny the system at beacon never analyses your equipment or does any physical checks. She integrated conductive wires into her hands and has a lightning dust battery in her gauntlets. And those examiners are so dumb they fell for it. Her true semblance is memory change. Though she can change it to whatever she wants. She can only manipulate to half a day. So thats annoying but its perfect for now."
"Ah found you." She picked up a cat faunas woman who only had her arm chopped of and a bad cut on her leg. But the trauma knocked her out. As soon as she regained her sense she screamed trying to escape but Lily put all ten fingertips to the woman's head and a red glow surrounded her head. In three seconds she passed out again.
"All done Sil." She squeak and a fist pump.
"Great job Lil. Now do the other one and we're set." He replied.
"Consider it done." She said with a giggle.
Just in that time Weiss began to regain her senses. Shaking her head she looked around and gasped. Hudreds of dead people Ruby in tatters. Silver covered in blood smiling like crazy. The realisation of Lily zapping her. Anger and fright boiled up inside her. "What?! What in the world is going on here? What are you doing Silver what do you get out of this?" She demanded painfully getting on her knees still shook up by the blow to her neck. She slowly began to sweat.
Ruby turned to Weiss feeling a slight surge of happiness but immediately replaced by intense fear. She was her friend even if falsified evidence is presented by them at least she knows what happened here. But then the thought of Silver killing her was fresh on her mind. Stranger faunas was one thing but the thought of watching her friend die was too much for her heart to bear. She quickly mustered enough strength to crawl to Weiss. As Weiss also saw Ruby crying and approach her. "Ruby!"
She also crawled but suddenly she was caught in a full nelson hold and yanked back. "Tsk tsk. You two can't get aquainted just yet. This is the big finale." Lily gloated with a sultry. She began to press all ten of her fingertips on Weiss's head. Weiss struggling to break free.
"WEISS! WEISS NO. DON'T HURT HER!" Ruby roared with fright. But then a red glow surrounded her head as her eyes went blank.
"WEIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS!"
Her screams were left to die in the wind. Her head fell to the ground sobbing. Silver suddenly threw the Trident Gaia towards her. "Hey Lily how much time do we have." He shouts.
"About dawn or a few hours earlier if a night police patrol finds this place." She said thoughtfully.
"You monsters. . .you murderers . . .why? Why are you doing this to me?" Ruby finally snapped. Her silver eyes glowing as she grabbed and picked up the sword. Feeling crushed by anger and sadness at the thought of her life being ruined right before her. Her breathing intensified. Her heartrate accelerated. She charged in a burst of red rose petals. Only for her to smash into a light barrier. Then she was struck by another bolt of lightning comming from Lily's weapon and then Silver dropped his shield and kneed her hard in the gut.
This impact nearly caused her to throw up as she fell back. "Good of you to ask Ruby. But piss off. Still I believe everyone deserves a chance in life. So here's my deal. If you can make it through this. The next time we meet. I will wholeheartedly answer your every question. Farewell silver eyed maiden."
And with that Lily struck her in the neck again with a full force electro blast. This numbed her mind. Losing all rational thoughts she began to collapse.
Everything around her whited out.
'What's going on?'
'What's hapoening to my life?'
.. . .
'You're a monster Ruby. I can't believe you could do something so insane.'
'No. I didn't do it.'
. . .
'I always knew you were jumpy girl. But that was way too overboard."
'Please. Believe me I didn't."
. . .
"They were innocent people Ruby. What you did was simply unforgivable."
'It wasn't me. I was framed.'
. ..
"Ms. Rose I cannot believe I am ashamed to call you my student."
'But . .but.'
. . ..
"I'm sorry Ruby but . .just . .just go away. Stay away from me you monster."
'No. It can't be. Not you too.'
. . . .
'Someone. Anyone. Please isn't there anyone who will believe me.'
. . . .
"Hahahahahahaha. Ruby Rose. Your weapon is the Trident Gaia and you . . . .. .are a murderer."
Racked by a severe headache. She twitches. Her every muscle fibre jammed up struggling to get her nerve impulses moving again. The heiress of the Schnee dust company with her clothes stained in blood struggled to get up. Her body feeling strange and tired. Her clothes were badly messed up and soaked in various places with sweat and blood. Her neck feeling like it was about to fall off.
She manages to plop up to her side and tried to fix her blurry vision. When the world came to focus she heard banging at the entryway. Someone was trying to break in.
"This is the police. We are breaking in." A shrill professional voice shouted on a mic. But she turned her head and got the nastiest shock of her life. Her head cleared and a ton of memories of the previous night came flooding back. She clutched her own mouth and almost tearing up as she pictured Ruby do the heinous deeds she did.
She stared up at the kneeling sight of Ruby with torn up clothes. Covered head to toe in blood. A sword jammed into the chest of a dog faunas woman. A sword being held by Ruby herself looking like she wasin some kind of trance. With a look of pure ecstacy on her face.