It was the dead of night.
The cracked moon illuminated the snow falling onto the ground in the woods of Patch. The air was silent, save for the sporadic howling of a beowolf in the distance. Not many lived on this island, but there was still a small town and a feeder academy, Signal. The town was surrounded by various cabins here and there with paths leading out towards them. Some of the occupants were still active, the lights from their respective cabins looking like the eyes of some creature sticking out of the forest.
Two figures trudged towards one of these cabins, one clad in white and the other in red, seeming unaffected by the cold. They were here for one thing, to murder one of the residents.
"So, this is it eh?" The girl in white said to the one in red, who was her twin.
"Yeah Melanie, at least this is what Junior said." The girl in red responded
"Okay Miltia, let's not fuck this up." Melanie hopped up onto a ladder leaning up on the eaves of the second floor and climbing it to their target's window. She peered inside to find her asleep. "Boom." Melanie slowly pried the window open and started to slide the girl out of it. She didn't stir as Melanie pulled her fully out of the bedroom window and pushed her onto the ground, where the young woman fell into the snow.
"Wow, she's a deep sleeper eh?" Miltia asks softly to her sister
"Yeah, I guess I don't know the bitch enough, and thank god I don't too" Melanie responded. She jumped down onto the ground and both twins dragged the blonde to a nearby tree. Somehow, the blonde brawler stayed asleep during the entire thing. They propped the one-armed brawler up to the tree and stood there.
"Damn, didn't think we'd like, get this far." Melanie said with a smile. She then proceeded to slap the girl they just dragged out of the room. "wake up, bimbo bitch."
The blonde slowly woke and looked around only to set eyes on both Malachite sisters looking down at her. She said sleepily "Very fun- "she stopped as the recognized the girls that kidnapped her. "You two are with Junior, right? What are you doing out here then?" Yang asked, not knowing what was taking place.
"We're here to finish what Taurus started." Melanie stated, her cold eyes looking at her enemy's.
"W-wha?" Yang stammered out, looking somewhat frightened
"We're here to kill you." Both twins said in unison.
The one-armed brawler regained her composure "You mad I kicked your ass or something?"
"You could put it that way. I mean now you can't put up much of a fight anyway with your one arm." Melanie gloated and tapped the stub of Yang's arm with her heel, causing pain to shoot through still healing nerve endings. The blonde grimaced and stood up, staring down both. The insult that Melanie gave angered her.
"What did you say, bitch?"
"I said, you wouldn't put up much of a fight."
Yang pushed Melanie away and swung with her good arm. The twin in white rolled out of the way and countered with a sweep kick at Yang's ankles. The kick lands and Yang falls onto her back, getting back up and narrowly blocking a downward slash made by Miltia with her claws. Melanie followed up with a knee towards Yang's face, the latter dodging and grabbing onto Melanie's leg. The twin in white pulled her leg away, the blade on her heel cutting into Yang's hand.
The blonde brawler yelped in pain and balled her hand into a fist, punching Miltia in the side and sending the red twin onto her knees. The blonde prepared to knee her in the temple but Melanie kicked her in the back of the head. Yang collapsed onto the ground, the single well-placed kick depleting her aura.
"Guess who was right?" Melanie looked down at Yang and giggled.
"You fucker…what the hell are you going to do to me?"
Melanie slammed the blade of one of her heels into Yang's chest, cutting into her left breast. Yang screamed in pain. Miltia grabbed Yang by the shoulders as Melanie stabbed the other one, the brawler crying out in pain again.
"Hey sis, should I do anything with the other arm?" Miltia asked
"If you would like…" Melanie responded, with an inviting tone.
The girl in red started to drag one claw across the blonde's arm, drawing blood as she took her other hand to cover Yang's mouth. Yang bit the short hair twin's thumb as she did so.
"Ah! She bites!" Miltia exclaimed.
"Don't make me kick the teeth out." Melanie leaned towards the brawler and threatened her.
"God you're such a piece of shit…" Miltia added as Yang started to cry
Melanie started to giggle, then laugh "aw, she's crying…"
"I think we should shut her up…" the shorter haired twin suggested
Melanie nodded and brought one of her heels up to Yang's eye, preparing to impale her through the head "goodbye blondie."
Just then, a portal appeared and a tall, mysterious woman clad in red stepped out. She was wearing an ornate Grimm mask and carried a crimson katana. Both Melanie and Miltia stopped and turned to face this woman.
"Can I h-help you?" Miltia stammered out.
The woman said nothing and attacked Miltia, the latter attempting to block with her claws. The swordswoman proceeded to slice straight through the red twin's claws, rendering them useless. Miltia stood there speechless, her weapons being broken. The masked woman proceeded to plunge her blade into the claw bearer's abdomen and used her strength to lift Miltia off the ground.
In one swift motion Yang managed to get up and tackled Melanie to the ground, pinning the white twin and preventing her from getting up and off the freezing snow. The longer haired of the twins struggled against the one-armed blonde, but the latter used her legs to keep the former from moving.
Miltia's mouth started filling with blood as she howled in pain, squirming about. The mysterious swordswoman slid her off the blade and she fell onto the snow, turning what was white snow into a dark red color.
"Seems you two don't have aura." Was the first thing Yang's savior muttered to both the twins. "you two are pathetic."
Miltia, now dying, inched closer to her sister, who was still struggling against the blonde brawler. She took a gulp of air and as tears filled her eyes, she stammered "S-sis, I-I'm sorry. I…I…" The woman that ran her through picked the red twin up by the hair and in one clean stroke lopped her head clean from her shoulders.
Melanie looked over at her now deceased sister, and then back to the brawler and the swordswoman. "She was my…other half. What the fuck have you done?" the white twin's eyes filled with tears as she started to weep.
The blonde only smirked "aww, now you're the one crying. Don't worry, you'll join her just about now…" Yang started to choke Melanie but the mysterious woman stopped her.
"Stop." The woman commanded and put a firm hand onto Yang's shoulder. "Let her live with the consequences." Yang let go of Melanie and left her on the ground, limping back to her cabin. The masked woman formed a portal and stepped into it, vanishing.
Melanie laid there, as snow fell onto her pale cheeks. Her tears ran down her face like rivers through a frozen tundra. Time seemed to slow for her, as her mind struggled to process what had just occurred. Her twin, the only true family she had, was gone. She scooted up to the remains of her fallen sister, curled up against them, and cried herself to sleep.