I really need to slow down; I can't stop writing these. But what the hell, no more school work this year :D Let's just write another chapter. This is probably going to be a short one (They found me 3 weeks later, dead in my computer chair with 600 pages of this).


Chapter 4: Loosing: Easier said than done

As the sound signaling the start of the battle rang throughout the arena, Yang and Mercury charged at each other. 'No problem', Yang thought. 'All I have to do is loose' She pretended to try to punch Mercury in the face, moving as slowly as possible without raising suspicion, fully expecting to be blocked, but... she hit. Mercury didn't even try to block her, passively raising his right leg but only managing to soften the blow by accidentally falling in the direction it was going. Confused, she stood there for a moment while Mercury got up again. This time, she would make it extremely easy for him. She aimed a weak kick around his waist, just to the right of his crotch. Again, Mercury couldn't block, resulting in him flying backwards. Did she really have so little control over her own strength?

Yang: „What the FUCK are you doing!? C'mon, give me a challenge!"

Of course, she had to keep up the show. But Mercury seemed to not give a shit. He just stood there, completely exhausted already.

Mercury: „Sorry, I think I had a few drinks too many last night..."

Yang: „Who gets drunk before such an important battle?"

Mercury raised his hand.

Oobleck: „Oh, what an unexpected turn of events! Contestant Mercury Black has given up!"

Yang & Mercury: „WHAT!?"

Oobleck: „This means Miss Xiao Long of team RWBY is one of the winners of the singles finale and her team will advance to the two-front-war team finale!"

Summer was sitting in the audience, shaking uncontrollably. Again! Fucking Mercury! In front of her sat the rest of team RWBY, cheering an awkward cheer for this half-assed victory.

This was bad. Really, really fucking bad. This was the only round in which Yang alone would have decided the outcome. Now, there was only one round left. A battle with the entire team, against two other teams at once. The gates back out of the arena opened. She had won. She had failed.


Ruby: „Oooooh Yang, you were awesome out there!"

Yang: „My opponent threw in the towel..."

Ruby: „Of course! He knew he didn't stand a chance against you and fled like the little pussy he is!"

Yang sighed.

Yang: „Could you get me, like, a bottle of water, Rubes? Would be nice."

Ruby: „Consider your water bottled, sis!"

Yang: „Right..."

Ruby cheerfully skipped away.

What should she do? She had changed nothing. Next round, the others would be there with her, fighting, not knowing that their victory could mean desaster for the world.

Raven: „Yang."

Yang looked up to see her mother standing in front of her. Behind her was some sort of shadowy, dark red portal.

Raven: „Come with me. We're having an emergency meeting."

Before she could respond in any way, Yang was dragged into the portal and transported to a dirty looking room full of boxes, a ceiling fan spinning above their heads. Summer was sitting on one of the boxes, looking very nervous, crossing her legs and constantly switching them around.

Cinder: „Mercury! Fucking Mercury! You had one job, damnit!"

Raven: „Summer, please calm down! It's not like we didn't plan for something like this. It's not certain they will win the final round, and if they do, we still have plan G"

Yang: „Don't you mean 'plan B'?"

Raven: „No, we've burned through A, B, C, D and E already."

Cinder: „Who the fuck cares! Our chances of success just plumetted straight down to below 50 percent! We're fucked! We're fucking fucked!"

Raven slapped her.

Raven: „So what!? Are you gonna give up now? After all that we worked towards for more than a decade? What happened to the strong leader I knew!? What happened to Summer Rose, leader of team STRQ!?"

Cinder: „She's dead! She has been since twelve years ago! Since the day she left her family! Since you created Cinder Fall!"

Raven: „Calm down. What are you on about!?"

Yang couldn't help herself from intervening.

Yang: „It's Ruby, isn't it?"

Summer stared at her, the sad glow in her amber eyes telling her everything.

Yang: „Please, just calm down. No matter what happens, I'll keep her safe."

Cinder: „I-"

Tears started to flow from her eyes.

Cinder: „I just didn't want to die!"

Her words echoed through the room.

Cinder: „I'm a coward! I should have been the one to take her role, all these years ago! But I couldn't! I couldn't bear to kill your mother! And I lost! I lost, but didn't die like I was supposed to! And now, because of my selfishness, the cycle has been broken!"

Yang: „What do you mean?"

Raven: „Yang, Summer is this cycle's original Guardian."

Yang: „Wha...?"

Summer wiped the tears off her face.

Cinder: „No, what she's saying isn't really true. It's more like I was supposed to be the guardian and received the associated powers, but once I decided against killing her, it abandoned me, returning to be bestowed upon someone new."

Raven: „But what a fight it was! I had to conjure up all my powers to defeat you, and it left me weakened."

Yang: „Pardon me, but I have lost track completely now."

Summer looked at Raven.

Cinder: „I thought you told her?"

Yang: „Told me what?"

Cinder: „Raven is the Queen of Grimm."

Yang: „Oh... Wait WHAT!?"

Raven sighed.

Raven: „Come, I'll show everything to you. You'd just be confused like this all the time if I didn't."

She drew her sword and slashed at the air, creating a portal like the one Yang saw before.

Raven: „Come on, don't be shy. This portal leads to a place were all your questions will be answered."

Raven extended her hand towards her. Yang hesitated for a brief moment, but ultimately put her hands together with her mother's and went through the portal.


I originally intended this to be longer, but what follows really deserves its own chapter and title. It's only going to get crazier from here on out, and in a few chapters, I will finally fulfill that promise of cosmic horror XD