Yang laid back in her hospital clutching onto Weiss's hand for dear life. Yang had no problem risking her life to fight a bunch of monsters but the idea of being asleep and leaving her life in the hands of others made her sick to her stomach. Weiss smiled at her making her feel a little better but she couldn't help but feel nervous because she wouldn't know what would be going on. Yang gripped Weiss's hand even harder making the heiress flinch.
"You're going to break my hand if you keep doing that," Weiss said through gritted teeth.
"I'm sorry… I'm scared."
"It's ok; they have given me permission to be in there with you while everything is going on."
"How'd you do that?" Yang asked blinking.
"My father gave me a call and I explained what was going on. He paid them extra and threatened to sue the hospital if the operation failed."
Yang's mouth dropped open.
"Don't be surprised… It took him some time to adjust to the fact I wanted to be here in Vale but he's ok now. He's pretty excited to meet you and so is Mother."
"Why did you do this all for me?" the blonde asked.
The heiress smiled.
"I promised you I loved you didn't I? That I would always be there for you and this is what I meant. I would do anything for you, Yang. I've missed you so much over these last few weeks it's unreal. I was hoping Ruby was taking care of you but she has run off again."
Yang frowned.
"I think they wanted to go after Cinder but she's dead. Emily spoke of someone named Salem."
"Salem…"
Weiss pulled away and walked over to the window.
"She's still alive huh?"
"Weiss? What do you mean?"
"She's the start of the Schnee family line."
Yang sat in her bed speechless.
"She was the first one to become known but her last name wasn't Schnee and her name wasn't Salem- it was Sara. Sara Snowing and she had three sisters: Claire, Millie and Bella Snowing. It is intended that Sara was powerful and everything but she had a darker side making things difficult when they acquired a strong power from a wizard. She was considered a great leader but she was corrupted and so the power did too.
"Rumor has it anyone who has the Winter maiden's power is to die a miserable because they can't stand the tainted power. No one had heard from her for almost two hundred years and here she is. It was just a story Mother and Winter told me but I had no idea that it was true. Our glyphs came from the power of the Winter and we each have a tiny speck of that power."
"Emily has the Winter power."
"She won't meet a happy ending. Neither will I for that fact if she gets out of her prison."
"Weiss, I don't understand. Are you trying to tell me she'll come after you if she gets out?" Yang asked.
Weiss smiled sadly and nodded. Yang made a strange face and got out of bed heading towards the window. Yang pressed her hand up against the glass and turned to look her girlfriend in the eyes. The heiress certainly had a sad look on her face but her eyes lit up when they stared into Yang's violet eyes.
"I want to make a promise," the blonde said, taking Weiss's hand now.
"A promise?"
"Yes. I will protect you no made what. I love you and I won't allow anyone to hurt you ever. No matter who it is I'll be there to help and protect you."
Weiss smiled, "Get your surgery done and we'll train together. I want to be able to summon the giant knight and protect you too."
Yang pulled Weiss close and kissed her.
"I'm sorry to interrupt ladies. Yang Xiao Long, are you ready?" the doctor asked.
Yang nodded, "Fuck yes I am."
Reese and Blake stood on one of roof tops staring at the giant Grimm frozen to the Beacon School.
"I still can't believe Ruby did that."
Reese smiled, "She is definitely different."
"How do you know?" Blake asked raising an eyebrow.
"I saw her after receiving the Spring power. She had a blue and yellow swirling aura. She has Winter and Summer but not a lot."
Blake nodded.
"Winter responses to negative emotions. I can see that from the way the Grimm is frozen but you can't blame her from what she saw."
The Faunus nodded.
"So how do we fix things?" she asked.
"I think we drill through the ice in certain spots and attack. We need to ignore all the other Grimm at this time because it's pointless."
Blake nodded again, "Sounds like a plan."
Reese cracked her knuckles, "If we let it out we'll have to kill it ourselves."
Blake gave her girlfriend a weak smile, "I don't want that to happen. For the sake of everyone else."
Reese nodded.
"Well let's get started."
Reese jumped onto her hover board and Blake climbed on wrapping her arms around her waist. They flew off going over all the Grimm who just ignored them which was odd. Blake frowned as she watched as they continued to gather around Beacon like they were waiting for something. Reese pulled out red Dust crystals and some red Dust rounds.
"Here babe. Ready?" Reese asked as Blake jumped on top of the Dragon Grimm.
Blake sighed and inserted the special rounds staring down the frozen Grimm.
"Let's do this."
Ruby jumped into the light that shined so bright it hurt her eyes. She felt something enter her body; it was warm and nice feeling unlike what she had felt earlier. She turned her head as she heard a blood curlding scream- someone was scared or angry but she didn't have time to think about it. Ruby felt herself fall onto the ground; dirt and grass rubbed onto her face.
She felt relieved but she felt horrible inside. She started crying into the grass angry with herself and the decision she had made. She wanted out of Dark World badly and she felt no regret killing Cinder but Pyrrha… she did. Ruby felt even more ugly because she wanted to kill Pyrrha to get out of there because the nasty feeling she got being there.
"I-I-I'm a horrible p-p-person," she wailed.
She was alone and afraid. She was afraid of herself even more that she would go so far as to do that.
"Where am I?" she asked looking around.
The place around her wasn't familiar. She got up and looked through the trees to see giant building colored with shades of blue and purple.
"Where is this?" she whispered to herself.
"Hey are you ok?"
Ruby looked up to see Daisy standing there.
"You!" Ruby shouted.
"You got out. I'm surprised."
Ruby growled and jumped at the girl. Daisy showed a slight surprise in her eyes but it wasn't enough to stop Ruby. She landed on top of Daisy knocking her to the ground and punched her face. She certainly broke her nose and blood was all over her face but Daisy made no reaction. Ruby began crying and pulling at her hair in an angry rage.
Daisy frowned at Ruby's reaction.
This isn't the usual reaction when angry. What is this? This is different from what I normally see even from Master. What a strange sight. I can't place this emotion… maybe I haven't seen it before?
"How do you feel?" Daisy asked curious.
"I don't know!" Ruby screamed in her face.
"Anger… sadness?" Daisy said thinking aloud.
"Why does it matter to you?! You can't feel hurt and regret!" she wailed in her face.
Ruby slapped the white haired girl.
"Ruby?"
Ruby turned her head and saw Jaune, Nora and Ren standing there.
Daisy sat up to see three people standing there.
"Are these your friends? Are you going to tell them what you did?" she asked.
Ruby glared down at the girl but she was right. She would have to tell them sometime but how could she?
"Are you scared?" Daisy asked.
"Why do you care that I am?!"
Daisy tilted her head a little to the side.
"I would like to understand."
"You work with Salem so no!" Ruby said standing up glaring down at the girl.
"What's going on?" Ren asked stepping forward.
"Are you related to the Schnees?" Nora asked.
"The Schnees?" Daisy asked.
"Yea, you have the white hair."
"I don't know. I am an orphan picked up by my Master."
Ruby hugged herself and turned away from her friends.
"Ruby, maybe she should come with us?" Jaune asked.
Ruby didn't hear him and she didn't notice the change in herself either but someone else did.
Emily and Roman had continued on their way after Roman had convinced Neo to go home. He hadn't said one word to Emily the whole few hours they had been walking but she had figured he was angry though she wasn't focused on that. She had felt that Ruby had disappeared completely but then she had reappeared warmer, darker and stranger- something strange had happened when she disappeared.
The night sky was beautiful but everything seemed to be falling apart. She had failed in her family's mission to protect the Maidens and make the power disappear because Ruby was gone. There was something definitely strange about that little white haired girl. Emily cracked her knuckles and yawned.
"Maybe we should stop and get some sleep," Emily said.
Roman stopped and whipped around to face her.
"We are continuing."
"Listen, there's no way Ruby would continue in the darkness like this. Let's rest just in case we encounter enemies along the way."
Roman sighed and nodded in agreement.
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They laid there staring at the stars not moving. Things were weird after all since they were together before. Emily turned to her side trying to ignore the strange, uncomfortable silence between them. Roman pulled off his black over coat and folded it into a pillow and dropped it on Emily's head. She jumped up and looked at him.
"You look uncomfortable. That'll help you sleep."
"We'll find Ruby don't worry."
"Why did you attack her?" Roman asked.
Emily smiled, "I knew who Ruby was that's why. She needed some more power so I gave it to her."
"You made her more desirable to the enemy."
Emily nodded, "Yes but it seems like she understands what she's doing. She has the Fall power now."
Roman raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"How can you tell?"
"The power I gave her is still connected to me."
That isn't the problem though. It seems like it gas gotten darker and corrupted somehow. I need to know what happened when she left.
Roman sighed and turned over.
I feel like something is wrong but I just don't know what.
Something was wrong.
Sorry its shorter than usual i just thought this was a good place to stop. Until next time :3