Diary of a Beast Chapter 7: Part 7, a rwby fanfic

Diary of a Beast

Part 7

Day 107

My new life at this cabin is going well so far. I'm able to keep myself warm and I have been able to find food. Unfortunately, it's come in the form of Grimm meat. At first, the taste was so horrible that I wanted to throw up, but as I continued eating it, I started to like it. That actually scares me, since eating Grimm seems like something we shouldn't do. These are creatures born from the darkness of our world, eating them cannot be good. Ruby tells me that it's fine, since I do need food to survive.

Speaking of Ruby, things are strange with her. She only sits on one of the cabin's chairs and talks to me. She doesn't seem to be herself anymore. She used to be such an energetic person, running around and talking with her friends about anything that came to her mind. Now she seems to have lost all of her energy. I suppose it could be that everything that has happened recently has taken it's toll on her.

I keep hearing roaring outside my cabin. I have no idea what's causing it. It could be an animal or Grimm, but I'm not so sure about that. The roaring just seems... more than that. It's almost like it's calling me. I can't explain it better than saying that it just gives me that type of a feeling. However, Ruby keeps telling me that I should do my best to ignore it and not go after it. She says that only bad things can happen from it.

I'll listen to her for now, but I have a feeling that I might change my mind in the future.

Day 111

The roars are getting more and more alluring with each day. Whatever it is out there, it's calling for me. It has something for me. Something that I want. Something that I need.

Ruby insists that I stay indoors. She says that I can't even go outside to get food! I don't understand why she is so stubborn about this! There's only so much food and water here that I can survive for a couple of days at best! Does she intend to have me starve to death or something!?

Who does she even think she is!?

Day 114

Ruby is getting more and more frustrating to be with! How dare she tell me what to do!? I honestly feel like I should go outside and see whatever it is that is roaring outside! There's something about it that tells me I need to do this! How could she ever understand what I'm going through!? Does she think that she's my mother or something!?

Things were better when I was traveling without her!

Day 117

I just found out something horrifying! Ruby has been reading my diary! She knows every entry that I've made there! How the hell does she think that I could ever trust her again after she touched something so private and personal!?

I can never look at her the same way again!

Day 118

Ruby is silent! She isn't saying anything at all! I don't know why she has suddenly become like this, but I don't care! Now I can freely do what I want!

And the first thing I'll do is go outside and look for whatever it is that has been calling me! It's about time I found out what it wants!

Day 120

I found that thing yesterday and now I regret ever looking for it. Whatever that monster is, it can't be anything good. I should have listened to Ruby while I could, but now I no longer can. She has gone completely silent and has abandoned me to my fate that I brought upon myself. All I can do is regret my mistakes and beg for forgiveness.

That thing is still out there. It's been waiting outside the cabin ever since I found it. It's been calling me, trying to get me to come out and see it. But now I know better. I have to stay here until it leaves, no matter how long it will take.

Day ?

It's been days since I started hiding from that thing outside. I don't know how long it's been. All I know is that the monster is still outside, calling for me, and I must not go outside.

I wish Ruby would talk to me. I miss her voice. I miss having company.

The beast is roaring outside again. I must not go there. I have to stay here still.

Why won't Ruby talk to me? I want to talk to her. Why won't she talk to me?

...Who is Ruby?

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Why was it that I couldn't go outside again? And what was my name?

The beast claws the walls, wanting to break free...

Last entry by Yang Xiao Long

This is Yang Xiao Long, last living member of team RWBY and a member of the human resistance. If you wonder what happened to Blake Belladonna, the original writer of this diary, she was killed by me. I hunted her down after I heard she killed my other two teammates. Weiss Schnee, the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company. And Ruby Rose, my younger sister.

I originally set out to hunt her down in order to avenge the deaths of my teammates and to recover Ruby's body, so she could be properly buried. I do not know why Blake took Ruby's body with her, as it shows no signs of being damaged more than when she was killed. My only guess is that she was still somehow clinging to her human side by keeping her dead friend close to her, but I can only make assumptions.

If you have read through this whole thing, then you have just seen what it was that caused the world we knew to end. The gas that the Pure Reign developed was meant to give them a right for their racist war against the faunus. Their plan was to use it on Menagerie, turning all of it's inhabitants into mindless killing machines, thus causing a rift between our two races that would lead to a war. Unfortunately, it seems that even they didn't know just how powerful their weapon was.

What started with Blake back in the Pure Reign's base slowly became something that would turn our world into a living nightmare. There were signs that we should have recognized. The way Blake suddenly started acting should have been inspected more closely and as soon as possible, but we were too busy blaming her for crimes that were caused by the infection. If we had just done what needed to be done, maybe all of this could have been prevented. Maybe the world would still be what it used to be. And maybe I would still have my team.

The Pure Reign's virus only affects the faunus. It causes them to lose control of their animal side, turning them into aggressive and bloodthirsty monsters. But what is truly frightening is how easily the infection spreads. Just one scratch is enough to infect a non-infected faunus, turning them into one of those beasts. In addition, the virus can quickly contaminate food and water, leading to more infections. I don't know if there are any non-infected faunus left in the world.

The infection spread quickly to faunus everywhere. Soon faunus all over the world in different places. The reason why we were soon overrun by the infected was because the faunus were in every type of place you could think of. Police, military, school, anything. No one is prepared for your closest allies suddenly becoming your enemies. Before long, society as we knew it had crumbled.

If you have read this, then you must understand that none of the faunus ever became like this out of free will. They are as much of victims as we humans are. Even Blake, the one person this all began with, used to be one of my best friends before any of this started. So do not hate the faunus for this. Hate the ones that caused all of this to happen. The ones who wanted our two races to start fighting.

This is Yang Xiao Long. Last member of team RWBY and member of the human resistance.

Author's notes: And that's the end folks! This was an interesting project to work on, since it was mostly told from one person's view. I got the idea for this story from a Marvel comic where a strange virus starts to turn people, along with heroes and villains, into cannibalistic tribal men. They start to eat the meat of other humans and form tribes with each other to become a force that brings the world to a ruin. I kind of felt like something similar could be done with the faunus of RWBY, where they become more animalistic.

As you've probably figured out, a lot of the things that happened in this story were Blake's hallucinations. For example, the beast that no one else but she could notice was representation of her animal side trying to take over her. Ruby's talking corpse was her more human side trying to keep her in her senses, but was eventually taken over thanks to the virus. If you want to ask more about it, please PM me. I would love to talk more about it.

Anyways, this was a fun project, but I'll be moving to other stories now. Hope you guys check them out.

Until next time.

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