A/N:
This is it. The final chapter of Betrayal of a Rose. I would like to thank all you those who followed this fanfiction. I recently hit 100 followers, thank you. I never thought that I would reach that high of a follow count. That may seem small but I thought I would only get around maybe 30 by this time. But 100, damn. 100 of you decided that my story was good enough for you to want to know when I posted another chapter. So, thanks again.
I had fun writing this story. This was my first ever fanfic and the reason I started was because I was unhappy with the way some fanfics were incomplete or how I thought they went the wrong way so I decided to write my own, make it go my own way. Now, I had almost finished with this one, I already started another entitled Qrow's Little Secret and I have 3 more on the way.
Anyways, I'm writing this chapter a few days before I release it because I want some time to write down what I think then go over it a bit more than my other chapters because I want the final chapter to be worth the wait, not some disappointment. So, the time in between when I start and when I finish will be the longest of any of my chapters. Let's get started for the final time.
Side Note: I switch in between calling Pyrrha's weapon a javelin and a spear. They mean the same thing and as long are you picture her weapon, it really doesn't matter, does it?
Began Writing: January 17, 2017 at 10:08 P.M.
"Is that…The Grim Reaper?!" Professor Port said as all eyes were on the figure moving towards the fighters. They wore all black. Black hood which came down to her feet, black skirt, black leggings, black boots, black everything. Their face was covered by the hood so no one could see who this person is. The crowd was frozen in fear and the same could be said for most of the fighters. All of them, except Nora were frozen like a statue. But Nora was ready to strike.
Suddenly, she shot like a cannon towards the figure, raising her hammer and moving it down with a strong force as she got near. The figure just turned her head before raising her scythe to block it. BAM! Nora's hammer collided with the curved flat part of the scythe before the figure pushed her away with such a force that she fell back towards Pyrrha, landing on her back.
"Nora!" Pyrrha called out. Nora rose to her feet quickly, put she was holder her arm.
The figure turned to face forward before reaching into her pocket. She pulled out a scroll and it turned on. The figure looked at the scroll before beginning to tap the screen.
Suddenly, all the gates to the arena closed and the force field stretched out towards the floor. Next all the TV soon had an image of a skull holding a scythe on them, blocked them from being changed. Then, the figure pressed on more button and the loudspeakers let out a tone associated with someone tuning them. The figure then pulled the scroll close to her face before speaking.
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" the voice was loud and forceful. "You need not fear because I am to kill only one person." The crowd began to look around for that one person. The voice let out a small little chuckle before speaking again. "The person I seek isn't in the stands. The person I seek stands before you. The one I seek is a fellow student who has done some… irreversible things in the past. And they need to pay for what they have done." The voice suddenly changed to a more serious tone. The crowd began to murmur amongst themselves. In the crowd, Yang and Weiss sat next to Ren and Jaune, all four of them seemed worried. The Grim Reaper just said that one of their friends is about to die. They began to think about what maybe they had done in the past to upset this person, what wrongs they committed.
"And that person isn't you, Sun Wukong." The person pointed with her scythe to Sun. "Or you, Neptune Vasilias." She then pointed to Neptune. "Or you, Nora Valkyrie." She then pointed to Nora. "No, the person I seek to kill is Pyrrha Nikos." The crowd seemed to be taken aback. Pyrrha Nikos had done something to be wanted by the Grim Reaper, one the most famous killers of the time. "That's right, Pyrrha Nikos. The star of Vale, the champions among champions, one of the best students at Beacon, needs to die. Today."
"What do you want with me?" Pyrrha asked, a bit nervous but she had her game face on, ready to battle.
"Why, isn't obvious? I want you dead. I want your head on the end of my scythe you little bitch. You tried killed me once, but I am not letting you kill me twice"
Pyrrha's face changed a bit but she still held her battle stance. "I don't know what you are talking about." She said, demandingly.
"Pyrrha, don't you recognize me? Oh, that's right, you can't see my face. Here," The figure slowly lowered the scroll and took off her hood, revealing a pair of silver eyes and long black hair with red frosted tips "does that help?"
The crowd went silent as everyone's jaws hit the floor. Pyrrha completely gave up on her battle stance as her hands covered her mouth, both in realization and fear. It was a voice from the crowd that broke the silence.
"RUBY!" Yang called out, tears beginning to form.
She brought the scroll back up to her mouth. "Thanks sis." Ruby called out to Yang. "That's right motherfucker. It's me, Ruby Rose. I'm the feared Grim Reaper. I'm the one who killed all those bandits. I'm the bitch you tried to kill in the Emerald Forest all those weeks ago, I'm the feared Grim Reaper. What's lie to you spread told everyone, including Ozpin? That I was killed by Beowulfs? Dragged off? Eaten? I guess that sounds pretty convincing. I Beacon student, two years under everyone else, killed by Grimm. She wasn't ready for the real world, the real training. She should have stayed at Signal until she was 17. Pretty convincing stuff there. I would have believed it." Ruby spoke with anger but also with a bit of joy, watching Pyrrha's world crumble around her. Her reputation, her place among the best, all was fading ever so quickly.
Pyrrha looked over to Nora, who just stared at her with fear in her eyes. She looked over at Sun and Neptune who just stared back, anger in their eyes. She looked towards Jaune, who looked back in disbelief.
"What's wrong Pyrrha? Is your world fading around you? Now you know how I felt, as I lay in that bush, bleeding out from the wound you gave from that weapon you're holding. You know the pain of feeling a cold, shard object rip through your chest cavity, splitting blood lines and tearing through organs. You now know what it feels like. You know understand the pain I went through as I thought I was going to die. Never saying goodbye to my friends, my family. Knowing that my last image would be of your face, looking down at me in disgust, like I was one of them, one of those Grimm. You said you were sorry, but I knew that you didn't mean it. Was that supposed to be some comfort? Some comfort in my final minutes? Knowing that one of my friends quite literally stabbed me in the back? Leaving me with this?!"
Ruby pulled off her cloak to reveal a large scar in her. The scar could be more well seen in her back so, using her scroll, moved one the cameras to zoom in on her back and displaying that image on every TV screen in the stadium.
"Look at it, Pyrrha! Look at what you did! This will forever live with me, a reminder that you can't trust anyone, not even your best friends!" Ruby reached down to grad her cloak when she heard an explosion coming from the crowd. She looked over to see Yang the angriest she had ever seen her. Ruby quickly grabbed her weapon and fired a shot right towards Yang. If the force field wasn't in place, it would have nailed Yang right in between the eyes. Yang jumped back from the bullet hitter the force field and stumbled back.
"Yang, I know you want to be the protective older sister but you have to understand. This is my fight." Ruby turned back to Pyrrha who seemed to be ready to fight Ruby. She was a bit surprised by this. "Pyrrha, do you not regret what you did to me?" Pyrrha said something but Ruby couldn't hear it. "Here, speak into this. Let the whole world know what you think" Ruby tossed her the scroll, which landed at her feet. Pyrrha picked it up before speaking into it. "No. I do not regret what I did. I believe what I did was justified. You, all you did was stop a criminal to get into this school. I worked by ass off for years to get into this school. While you just strolled in one day, a little pet of the professor. Your fighting skill was sub-par at best and your people skills were poor to say the least. You don't deserve to be in this school. I'm even amazed they let you in Signal you short fuck!" Pyrrha tossed the scroll back to Ruby, who had a look of determination.
"Good, good. Let it all out. Let all your pent-up emotions out because this was your last chance to do so. Pyrrha, there was a time that I looked up to you. But after what you did to me, I don't think I'll ever see you as a human being ever again. Look around you! All the people that once thought of you as friends are wishing that they never met you. Even your love interest, Jaune. He wishes that you didn't exist." Ruby looked over Jaune who now had a face of confusion and realization. "That's right Jaune. Pyrrha loved you. She loved you with all of her heart. But in a few minutes, her heart will be laying on the floor because I will rip it out of you."
"Ruby, shut the fuck up!" Pyrrha called out to her.
"No! This is what I felt. One of my last images I have before I "died" was an image of all my friends and my sister, fighting those Grimm. They were so close yet so far." Ruby looked at Yang who was cooling off, poorly. "That's right sis. Remember when Pyrrha ran down that hill towards you, a large wound on her arm? That is where she stabbed me and hid me in that bush. I was so close to you, yet, so far at the same time." Ruby turned back to Pyrrha. "Pyrrha, your time is up. It's time to die."
Ruby turned to the other, still on the battlefield. "The rest of you, you can stay and fight with Pyrrha. I would consider you a traitor and I believe the rest of the world would too. Or you can just walk away. You don't have to stay and watch if you don't want to." Ruby turned to face the crowd. "Same goes for you. The doors to the outside are open. If you don't want to see a fight to the death, you can leave. But know, if you stay to watch, you kill see someone die and will see some gruesome shit." Ruby turned back to her friends. "So, what will it be? Stay and fight and die, or leave and live?"
Sun turned to Neptune and said "Let's go." With a simple nod from Neptune and a disgusted look from both of them towards Pyrrha, they turned and walked off the stadium.
Ruby turned to Nora, who was still sitting where she fell back from Ruby blocking her attack. "Nora, what will it be?" Ruby asked.
Nora, with a stern face, turned towards to Pyrrha. "I hope you die a slow, painful death." Was all that Nora said, directed towards her once best friend Pyrrha, before turning towards Ruby and saying, "Let her suffer." Nora then ran to catch up with Sun and Neptune.
Ruby turned towards to Pyrrha. "With pleasure," Ruby said with an evil smile streaking across her face. Pyrrha, who was taken aback by Nora's comment, was now facing Ruby, a tight grip on her javelin and spear.
"I just realized something," Ruby said. "This is now a mercy killing. I could leave right now and I would still watch you suffer. Everyone knows what you did. Even if you managed to kill me, you still would never lead a normal life ever again. I have come to accept that but I don't believe you ever would. Pyrrha Nikos, the star student that fell from the heaven when she killed her friend in cold blood because why? She was jealous that a better looking, hotter, younger girl took her place? Is that why?"
Pyrrha suddenly lunged at Ruby, a move Ruby knew was coming. She quickly darted out of the way before firing off two shots at where Pyrrha landed. Pyrrha avoided the two shots but was caught off guard by Ruby swinging her scythe, which caught Pyrrha in the shoulder. Her aura had protected her from any real damage but it still hurt like hell.
The fight had begun and neither side was ready to die. Pyrrha threw her javelin at Ruby, to which Ruby responded with by shooting it. The bullet hit the javelin and ricocheted off. Pyrrha's javelin was deflected and landed close to Ruby but Pyrrha quickly used her semblance to pull her weapon back.
Ruby knew of her polarity semblance so one of her main goals was to keep Pyrrha from touching her weapon. Because while the blade was no longer steel, the rest of it was. So, Ruby was going to keep her distance from Pyrrha in regards to her weapon but she did need to get close to deal damage, but for right now, it was better for her to stay away.
Ruby once again started firing off rounds, aiming at Pyrrha. She got out of the way of most but one did end up hitting her in the arm, causing her to take a step back and kneel. Pyrrha took this chance to return fire. Ruby expertly dodged all the shots and decided that maybe now would be a good time to take a swing at Pyrrha, but Pyrrha had other ideas in mind.
Pyrrha threw her shield like a frisbee, something Ruby had forgotten about and was caught completely off-guard. She was hit directly in the stomach, causing her to fly back. Pyrrha then leaped into the air, her javelin out, ready to stab Ruby on the ground. Ruby rolled and just barely avoided the weapon hitting her but now she had to protection. She had lost her grip on her weapon when the sword hit her and it was now lying about 20 feet away from her.
Ruby glanced over at it and Pyrrha noticed it to. Now she was determined to not let Ruby get a hold of her Crescent Rose. Unfortunately, Pyrrha had forgotten about Ruby's semblance being speed. Ruby used her semblance to get around Pyrrha, pick up her weapon, and fire off two more rounds before her weapon began clicking, indicating it was out of ammo. Pyrrha was not prepared for this and the two shots hit their mark perfectly. One of them hit Pyrrha square in the back and the other hit her javelin. The shot sent her flying forward, landing face down. The bullet left a nice mark but didn't break the surface because of her aura. Pyrrha now had about 60% of her aura left. A few more well placed shots and her aura wouldn't be able to stop them.
Ruby quickly reloaded her weapon before deciding now would be a good time to get close. With her aura down, her semblance would also be down meaning the pull of the polarity would be weaker. Ruby charged at Pyrrha, who was still not on solid ground after being hit, and swung her scythe at her. Pyrrha heard her coming but decided to play injured until she got close. It worked. Right as Ruby was about to hit Pyrrha, she turned over and stabbed Ruby in the shoulder, a move Ruby never saw coming. Her aura tried to stop as much as it could but the sword still penetrated her shoulder and left a nice stab wound. It didn't go deep enough to hit anything major but it still went almost an inch deep.
Ruby was clearly jolted by the stabbing and her form went out the window. She completely missed her target and flopped over near Pyrrha but was quickly back on her feet. Pyrrha stood up and the two stared at each other before Pyrrha charged at her, shield out. Ruby moved out the way but not before once again shooting at her javelin. Pyrrha thought she was just lucky that her weapon was there but what she didn't understand was why Ruby was hitting her weapon. Ruby had been hitting the same spot because she knew over time, that area would weaken to the point where one good smack on that region would split the weapon in two. Ruby had calculated that it would take about 7 shots to weaken the metal enough to weaken it enough split it. So far, Ruby had shot it 3 times and she could see a weakened spot in the metal.
Pyrrha once again used her shield like a frisbee but Ruby had prepared this time, smacking it away like a baseball using her scythe. What Ruby wasn't prepared for was the javelin being thrown. With her weapon down, all she could to was try to avoid it, but it no avail. As she ducked, the javelin scrapped across her back, leaving a nice long scratch. Ruby collapsed into a roll and tried to get a shot off but was interrupted by two boots being planted on her shoulders and pushing away with a force strong enough to send her flying away. Pyrrha had just hit her with a one-two-three hit combo and now Ruby was on the defensive. Ruby fired off one round as Pyrrha started pulling her weapons back to hit her javelin but her weapon was pulled from her hands. When Pyrrha jumped on Ruby and pushed away she just briefly contacted her scythe and now could control it using her semblance.
As her weapon flew away from her and landed in the ground sticking up, Ruby began to realize that she had underestimated Pyrrha. While Ruby had time to get better, so did Pyrrha and it showed. Ruby was being to fear that she would lose this battle and that she would die. While no matter what happened Pyrrha would probably be killed, she wanted to be the one that killed her. But here she stood, weaponless and it the middle of a flat battle field with no cover. Both girls had about 50% aura left but Pyrrha seemed to be handling that better. Ruby had to quick fast to put Pyrrha back on the defensive.
Pyrrha, on the other hand, was struggling. Ruby was a tougher fight than she thought. And while she was ahead now, she didn't have a plan to keep it that way. Pyrrha knew if that Ruby was to attack her, she wouldn't be able to defend herself for that long before giving it. Pyrrha tried to think of something when she saw the cuts on Ruby's body. She realized that if she was to deal a bit more damage to those areas, Ruby would have to use all her aura to just keep her alive and Pyrrha would be able to finish her off easily. Pyrrha decided that the frisbee shield technique had worked well the last two times she did it and if she accompanied it with something else, her plans might just work.
Ruby saw Pyrrha about to throw her shield and then an idea hit her. If she could use the shield like a jump pad, Pyrrha would be completely caught off guard and Ruby could really do a number to her. So, when Pyrrha released the shield, Ruby used her semblance to gain some ground. Then she disabled her semblance, went feet first and landed on the shield briefly before jumping off it into the air.
Pyrrha, who was about to throw her javelin at the spot where she believed Ruby would land at after avoiding the shield, was unaware that Ruby was about to land on her like she did to her a few moments ago. Pyrrha was dumbfounded when Ruby was nowhere to be seen but that feeling was soon overcome by the sudden weight of a human being on her shoulders before they leapt off and pushed Pyrrha to the ground.
Ruby used the new momentum to lung towards her weapon. Ruby grabbed the handle of the weapon, sued it like a pivot point and pointed the barrel towards Pyrrha who was lying on the ground. Ruby took a chance to weaken her weapon and fired three more rounds into it before Pyrrha rolled away. Now the weapon was on the verge of breaking and Pyrrha could feel it. She realized how weak her weapon was and decided that throwing it would be a stupid decision, so she converted it into its rifle form and fired back. Ruby was hit by one of those shots in the right leg, causing her to gasp in pain. She looked up to see Pyrrha darting towards her and full speed. Ruby quickly pulled her scythe out of the ground and rolled away.
Ruby tried to stand but the pain in her leg was a bit too much. Pyrrha saw this and realized how weak she really was. She took this as a clue that now if she landed a good enough spear throw that Ruby's aura couldn't protect her enough and that it might just kill her. But she didn't want to take the chance that Ruby's weapon would get in the way so she used her semblance to pull Ruby's weapon away. Ruby began to feel a strong pull of her weapon being pulled away and an idea struck her. If she was to keep a grasp on the weapon, she could catch Pyrrha completely off-guard. So, as her weapon began to be pulled from her grasp, she used whatever strength she could to push herself forward while maintaining a grip on the scythe.
Pyrrha had closed her eyes to focus more on the strength of pulling the weapon away, but when she felt the weapon almost double in weight she opened her eyes. But it was too late to act. By the time she saw what was going on, Ruby had planted her feet right above Pyrrha's breasts and push off with a tremendous force. She used the backwards momentum to backflip away from Pyrrha but not before sending one more shot at her spear, landing perfectly. Ruby heard the faintest of sounds that sounded like metal beginning to crack and at that point Ruby knew that all she needed was to hit the weapon to split it in half.
The push off of Pyrrha had cracked Pyrrha's collarbone. Only her remaining aura protected it from breaking, but it still hurt extremely bad. Pyrrha looked up to see Ruby land sloppily, collapsing from the pain of the bullet wound. Pyrrha was now entering a half panic half frantic mode. She knew that she didn't have that much strength in her to survive more of those types of attack so she was getting desperate. Pyrrha decided that the whole risk over reward idea was gone as all her ideas were riskier than the reward was, the main one being whether to throw her weapon or not, even though it was weak.
With both girls running low on aura, they were both on the verge of not being able to heal from a large attack. Pyrrha knew this a bit better than Ruby and concluded that if she were to somehow get Ruby distracted and land a javelin throw on her, she might not be able to recover. So, Pyrrha once again used her shield like a frisbee just to distract Ruby enough. It worked and Ruby had to quickly move out of the way but she didn't have enough time to dodge the incoming spear.
The impact made a sickening sound of flesh tearing and bones cracking as the spear entered her other shoulder. Pyrrha had landed the shot and Ruby was feeling it. Ruby looked over to see a spear sticking out of her left shoulder, implanted about an inch and a half deep. Ruby dropped her weapon and looked at Pyrrha, who had a face of determination on, glad she had landed the shot. But Ruby wasn't going to have it end like this. Ruby had other plans.
Ruby slowly rose to her feet, the spear sticking out the whole time. Ruby then grabbed ahold of the spear, tightly gripping it. Then everyone watched as Ruby pulled the spear out of her body, screaming the whole time. Once it was out, Ruby took a good look at it, then at Pyrrha, who looked at her in fear, then back at the spear. She then grabbed either end of the spear and, with all the strength she could muster, broke Pyrrha's weapon over her knee. Everyone was stunned by this. This girl, who shouldn't even be able to stand up, just broke a weapon in half with her bare hands.
Ruby then looked at Pyrrha, who was now standing, and had already decided her fate. Ruby then somehow used her semblance for a second, breaking it off to throw the back end of the spear at Pyrrha, the went back into her tornado of speed and death. Pyrrha used all her strength to block the back half of her weapon but couldn't stop what happened next.
Pyrrha suddenly felt something cold hit her. A screaming pain coming from her back. She looked down and what she saw scared her beyond anything she had ever seen or encountered. Sticking out of her was a blade, but not just any blade. It was the tip of a weapon, a familiar weapon, her weapon. Ruby had used her semblance to get behind her and stab her, with the same weapon, in the same spot. Pyrrha looked at the tip of the spear sticking out of her in complete fear and pain. Then Ruby appeared from behind her.
"Aww, see. Now we match. I guess karma works in magical ways." Ruby said, an evil grin stretching across her face. Ruby began walking over to wear the other half of the weapon had landed after Pyrrha blocked it.
"Ru…Ru…. Rub…Rub…" Pyrrha tried to form words but the pain of the stab and the blood beginning to trickle out of her mouth was getting in the way.
"Come on, out with it. These might be your final words so don't let them be random sounds." Ruby picked up the other half and began to walk back.
"Rub…Ruby. Please don't do this. Don't. Please." Pyrrha choked out finally.
"Aww, the pleads for mercy. I knew this was coming. All I must say to that is where was the mercy when you killed me? Huh? Where was the mercy when you saw, the life escape my eyes, as I lay there, bleeding out? HUH?! WHERE WAS THE MERCY THEN?!" Ruby was screaming at this point. The whole stadium could hear her. She began to twirl the half in her hands before she started chuckling. "Oh, that's right, there was none. I saw the look of righteousness in you, the feeling of "I did a good thing today" in you tone. To you, I was a mistake. I was a problem. And you were the solution." Ruby leaned in close. "You and Blake, that is." Pyrrha looked at Ruby with a face of realization and fear. Ruby smiled. "That's right. I know. I know about all of it. I know of your little plan with her, what role she played, how she manipulated my sister. Don't worry, she's next." Ruby back away from Pyrrha and turned from her.
"Ruby…please don't kill her. She felt bad for what she did. I didn't, okay?" Pyrrha was pleading with Ruby at this point, tears streaming down her face, mixing with the blood that came from her mouth.
"I know you didn't. I know she did. But don't worry, her death won't be as painful as yours. It will be quick. I bullet to the head or a snap of the neck. Quick and painless." Ruby had a crazed look in her eyes. Pyrrha saw this and knew that there was no way out of this, she would die today.
"Fine. You win. Kill me." Pyrrha lowered her head, both in shame and defeat.
"With pleasure." Ruby pulled out her scroll and began speaking into it again, her voice coming over the loud speakers. "But you, Pyrrha Nikos, were a mistake. You should have never been allowed to come here. Ozpin made a mistake. And I'm here to fix that mistake." Pyrrha looked up at Ruby, recognizing this as the final words she spoke to Ruby before leaving her in the bush. Ruby lowered the scroll and smiled at Pyrrha, "Karma." That was the last word Pyrrha heard before Ruby launched the other half of her weapon at her, hitting her right in the neck.
Pyrrha choked out more and more blood as her air and blood supply began to run out from her neck. The life was slipping faster and faster from her grasp. Ruby calmly wake over to Pyrrha, who was choking on her own blood, Ruby looked her square in the face before yanking the sword from her neck. Pyrrha gave one last look of fear before dropping dead in front of Ruby. Ruby just starred at Pyrrha, blood continuing to spill from her body and she lay, lifeless and cold, as she still held on to the weapon, caked in her blood before dropping it in front of her.
Ruby then walked over to where she had dropped her scythe and picked it up. She then looked around at the crowd. There were either starring in horror or covering their eyes. Ruby then calmly reached into her pocket and grabbed her scroll and began speaking into it again.
"I'm sorry you had to see this," her voice over the loudspeakers said, "but sometimes, justice is bloody and violent. I'm sorry to my friends, my teammates, to everyone who had to see this, and I'm especially sorry to my sis." And with that, Ruby pressed two buttons on her scroll. One which raised the gates to the arena, where military guards where already standing, waiting to arrest her and the other, which eliminated the force field completely. As the military rushed the field, Ruby used all her strength for her semblance to fly straight up and over the arena and away from the stadium.
Yang suddenly stood up, causing Weiss to snap out of the trance she was in. Yang began to turn from Weiss, but not before Weiss grabbed her arm.
"Yang? Where are you going?" Weiss asked
"To the dorm, Ruby might be there." Yang said, pulling away from Weiss' grip. "I need to see my sister again."
"Then I'm coming with you. She was my first real friend and I would never forgive myself if I never saw her again."
Yang nodded and the two headed towards the dorms.
Meanwhile, Ruby sat on Blake's bed in the dark dorm room, picking the glass out of her after she came in through the window, smashing it. After finishing with that, she began to bandages up her shoulders. She knew where all the bandages were and had begun self-injury treatment. The one on her back would require more than what as available in the dorm so she planned on stealing for medicine from the local hospital.
She was almost done when the sounds of people running came from down the hall. Ruby quickly grabbed her scythe and aimed it at the door, expecting military or security to come smashing through the door. And the footsteps got louder, she focused on the area of the door where a head would appear once the door came down.
Suddenly, the door opened with a fury, but instead of seeing a solider in a helmet through her scope, she saw a pair of lilac eyes and long golden hair staring back at her.
"Yang!" Ruby dropped her weapon as Yang ran up to her and gave her the biggest hug she had ever received.
"Oh, my god! I can't believe you're alive. I was so worried!" Yang cried out through the tears. The embrace seemed like it would never end.
Ruby looked up and saw another person in the room. She had blue eyes and long white hair and was wearing her signature white combat skirt.
"Weiss!" Ruby called out and beckoned her to join in on the hug, something she wouldn't normally, but made an exception this time, quickly joining in and beginning to cry too. "Weiss, I missed you so much."
"Shut up and hold me you dolt." Weiss said through her tears.
Ruby eventually broke the hug when the pain from her shoulders came back.
"Okay, ow, you're beginning to hurt me." Ruby pushed the two of them off.
"Sorry." Yang said, wiping the tears away. "I just missed you so much."
"We all did, including Blake, who ran away yesterday." Weiss said. Ruby twitched upon hearing her name.
Yang noticed this. "Ruby, what's wrong?"
"Nothing." Ruby said, trying to change the subject.
"No, something is bugging you." Yang seemed more demanding now.
"It's something that you two don't need to worry about." Ruby tried to shake the thought of Blake out of her head.
"What do you mean? What happened with you and Blake?" Yang asked.
Ruby sighed. "I guess you have a right to know." Ruby inhaled deeply before going on. "Blake helped Pyrrha."
"What?" The two girls looked at her in shock.
"The day I was attacked, Blake purposely went with Yang to distract her from me. She told you everything was alright and that you were just paranoid. So, yesterday night, I sent here this and told her never to come back." Ruby showed the two girls the image and caption. Both girls just looked on in shock and awe before Ruby saw Yang's eyes turn red.
"That BITCH!" Yang looked like she was going to kill Blake herself. Ruby quickly grabbed Yang by the arm and pulled her down, causing her to lose her balance and fall. Yang looked up at her little sister, who looked down at her in a mix of disappointment and anger.
"Yang, I know how much you care for me, but she is my fight. Just like Pyrrha was. I need to fight this battle on my own." Ruby said.
"So, she did try to kill you…" Ruby looked at Weiss, who was looking at her feet. "She really didn't like you and tried to kill you because of it?"
Ruby sighed. "Apparently, she believed that Ozpin had made a mistake allowing me into the school. She thought that my fight with Torchwich wasn't near enough to prove myself and that I was just a teacher's pet."
"Your scar? Can I see it again?" Weiss asked. Yang nodded as well. Ruby turned around and dropped her cape again. Her whole back was exposed. She wore a type of shirt that only covered the front, something it looked like she made just for this occasion. It really looked like a regular shirt that had been cut in the back. Weiss reached out to touch it and when she did, Ruby pulled back in surprise.
"Sorry, your fingers are just cold and I haven't felt the feeling of another pair of hands in a long time." Ruby said with a small smile. Weiss smiled back and when she touched the scar again, Ruby didn't move.
"Oh, my god. She really did a number on you. I surprised she didn't kill you. You honestly should be dead." Weiss said, looking at her in amazement.
"Well, let's just say that I was given a second chance by someone I love." Ruby said as a single tear form in her eye.
"Well then," Yang said, "I guess it's time to go home."
"No." Ruby said.
"What? What do you mean no?" Yang asked, puzzled.
"Yang, I just told everyone across Remnant that the Grim Reaper is Ruby Rose. They are going to find out where I was born, where I came from, who my family is, where they came from, why I'm like this. I could never lead a normal life ever again." Ruby said.
"Then we'll just change your name and your appearance. No one will ever know." Yang said, trying to reason.
"Yang, it won't be that simple. Everyone, you, me, dad, Qrow, we will all have to change our name, our appearance, and even move from Patch to somewhere more secluded. I'm sorry Yang, but I can't go home, not ever." Ruby said, more tears forming in her eyes.
The sound of yelling and running coming from down the hall made them all glance up.
"Just down here, the dorm room is right around the corner." A muffled male voice could be heard,
Weiss and Yang looked back and Ruby as grabbing some clothes and extra bandages.
"Where are you going?" Weiss asked.
"Those men most likely have a shot-on-sight order for me. So, I think it would be best if I wasn't here when they bust through the door." Ruby grabbed her weapon and began to climb out the window.
"No! I won't let you leave. Not again. I'm never letting you out of my sight again!" Yang's eyes turned red again, both from anger and tears forming in her eyes.
"Yang, I'm sorry. But this is for the better. If I'm still here and you're still here when they get here, you're going to see some things that aren't going to be pretty." Ruby was now on the window sill, preparing to jump. A sudden force of someone trying to pull her back caused her to begin to lose her balance. Ruby pulled a hidden knife she had hidden in her boot and stabbed the arm that was holding her.
Yang jumped back in pain as the knife was drilled into her arm. Weiss jumped back but was unsure about what to do, help Yang or confront Ruby. She decided to help Yang.
The footsteps were getting louder now and Ruby knew that if she didn't leave now, someone would die.
Ruby looked at Weiss. "Tell them I attacked you both. Tell them that I was crazy, that I overpowered you. That knife is going to be more than enough proof. But DON'T tell them anything about what you heard from me." Ruby looked at Yang, who just looked back at her sister in fear and shock. "I'm sorry…" Ruby croaked out, tears forming in her eyes. Ruby then turned from them both. Ruby crouched down and fired off a round right as the door swung open and five military officers with guns drawn came barging in. They looked at the two girls on the floor, one with a knife sticking out of her arm and the other trying to comfort her.
"What happened?! Where is she?!" The man began shouting at them.
"She…she…" Yang tried to speak but was too caught up in her emotions.
"She attacked us. We tried to get her to stop but she was crazy. She even stabbed her own sister. I'm afraid she lost her mind." Weiss looked down as more tears came.
"God dammit. Find her and get these girls some medical personal, stat!" The man began to yell at his men.
Ruby had used the momentum of the shot to propel her into the air before using her semblance to fly away from the school. She landed near Forever Fall and began to run from there. As she reached the tree line near the edge of the school, she took one final look at the school. She looked back on all the memoires she shared at the school. All the fun times and happy times. All the team bonding and all the friend making. She glanced towards the dorms, where Yang lay. She began to cry for her sister. She couldn't image what she was feeling. She was trying to help and her little sister stabbed her. She then turned away from the school and ran into the forest, never to be seen again.
Meanwhile back at the RWBY dorm, Weiss and Yang sat on their beds, thinking. Yang was being treated for her stab wound, which was hadn't hit anything major. Weiss sat on her bed, looking out the window towards Forever Fall when something caught her eye. Something small was drifting in the wind. Yang saw it to and they both watched it as it drifted left, then right, then left again. It was small and red and it seemed to come from nowhere. It came ever close to them before they realized what it was.
A rose pedal. A single red rose pedal was drifting in the breeze. The two watched it the whole time as it came ever closer to the window. Then, as softly as it could, it landed on the window sill and stayed put. It glistened in the moonlight as it lay on the window sill. Weiss and Yang looked at each other as the agreed, it was a tribute to the teammate, the friend, the sister they lost that day. It sat there until Yang picked it up and put it in her front pocket, a silent reminder that Ruby was always with her, no matter where she went.
A/N:
The End.
I really hoped you liked this last installment of Betrayal of a Rose. It was a blast to write and really nice to read what you guys liked about it. I tried to make it the best I could, that's why I took me about a week to write this. My main area of concern was the fight. I'm not that great at fight scenes but I really tried on this one to make it the best. And I do believe it turned out well. I'm really sorry if it didn't meet what you wanted, but I'm more of the dark, emotional writer. Also, this smashed my record for longest chapter at over 7300 words.
But anyways, thank you for making this worthwhile to write. I had a blast. Once this chapter is posted, which will be later in the day, I will click a little button that says "Complete" which means that if you follow it after this chapter, then you will have a story that will never be undated again in your followed stories. Instead, add it to your favorites and re-read it. My next story, besides Qrow's Little Secret, will either be another dark fanfic about Ruby being injured, one of her being captured and one about death, lots of death. I haven't decided yet.
But thank you again and have a good day.
Finished Writing: January 23, 2017 at 12:44 A.M.
Words: 7.3k
Pages: 12