A/N" Sup yo! How you're holidays been? Hope you've been having fun :P
Kage took a step back, letting Winter down and pushing her behind himself. Raven smiled as she stepped toward them and Kage continued to back off slowly. Blake was moving toward them as fast as Raven lifted her arm into the air, her blade ready to strike, Blake knew she wouldn't reach them in time.
Kage could take a hit, but Raven's hits were anything but ordinary, even so, Blake didn't want to cause anyone any more pain, even if it was miniscule. She wouldn't make it, but she knew someone who would.
Raven really couldn't care less who she killed first, or who got in her way. She'd just get rid of them all anyway. Winter wasn't her priority, she was Adam's. Raven's priority was Blake, but she could always have some fun on the side. She got ready to strike the child before her, lifting her blade up and smiling wickedly as he backed off, the girl protectively held behind him.
But when her blade was supposed to cleave through aura and hopefully even flesh, she was met with the strangest site. It seemed that her reflection was blocking her attack, except her reflection was glowing gold, no not gold, more of an amber.
Raven took a step back from the figure, getting a better look at the person before her. Her eyes narrowed into a frown before realisation dawned on her.
"You? I remember you! How are you doing this fine evening? I don't suppose you have a name yet do you?" Raven said with her signature smile.
Luna took a step back and straightened up, "Luna, if you must know."
"Luna? Hm, has a nice ring to it. Who came up with that one?"
"I did."
"Ah, of course, I suppose we should get this over with." Raven brought her blade up again, removing the sheath portion of her Gamboul Shroud.
"Wait wait. Can you hear that?" Weiss paused and turned her ear toward the noise.
Ruby and Yang shared a glance and looked back to the heiress. They were in a grey and black hallway, somewhere within the White Fang hideout. The two of them barely kept up with the heiress when she rushed out of their dorm without so much as an explanation.
Now they waited nervously as Weiss apparently was hearing a noise.
"Sound like….fighting. We should hurry."
Weiss lead the way, rushing down the halls as if she knew where she was going, luckily she happened upon the right door. Her hand slammed against the handle and pulled the door open without any hesitation. The scene that met the three girls was quite, unexpected.
Blake was walking toward Adam, who was just getting to his feet. Luna and Raven were in a battle, and Kage was watching them with Winter behind his back.
"Winter!" Weiss called as soon as her eyes fell upon her sister.
Winter's head snapped toward the voice and her heart leaped with joy. "Weiss!"
Winter ran from Kage's protection, bolting toward her sister, but she only made it a few feet before Adam appeared in front of her.
"AH!" Winter yelled in surprise and fell back onto her rear.
Adam loomed over the younger girl but he's attention was forced elsewhere when Kage stepped up to keep the girl safe asked. Adam was forced back under the barrage of dual attacks coming from the shadow dancer before him, pushing him away from Winter with every attack.
Weiss saw the opening and rushed toward her sister, sliding to her knees next to her.
"Winter. Winter! Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm-I'm" Winter tried to lift herself off the floor but her arm gave under the pressure and she fell back down, her body screaming as it thumped into the ground.
"Winter!" Weiss grabbed her sister's arm to steady her, but the skin in her grasp felt odd and the way Winter flinched as she touched her made Weiss very suspicious. Weiss lifted her hand and looked beneath her palm, finally noticing the fresh cut running along her sisters arm.
Weiss' eyes widened in horror, a multitude of emotions flooding through her. Confusion, fear, concern, frustration, anger, hate. They all rushed through her in an instant.
"Weiss?"
Weiss ignored her sister and pulled down the collar of her shirt slightly, but it was enough to reveal the collection of fresh scars and cuts running down her sister's front.
Weiss' aura flared as she stared at the scars, her fist balled into a fist, scrunching Winter's shirt. Her eyes remained glued to the sight of her sisters tarnished skin, the azure in her eyes becoming stern and hard and cold. Ice cold.
Weiss turned her head and found Adam, still in battle with Kage.
"Stay here." Weiss said, getting to her feet and moving toward the faunas.
Ruby rushed to give Luna a hand, leaving Yang to find Adam battling Kage in front of her. Yang balled her hand into a fist as she watched the faunas deflect and doge attack after attack. The brawler had to keep her anger in check so that she wouldn't spontaneously explode, a low growl left her throat as she launched herself toward the faunas.
Adam only had a split second in which he looked to the side and found the blonde's fist smacking into his face. He let out a pained shout, landing on his back and flipping over onto his feet. Yang rushed him without hesitation, using his daze to her advantage, landing three more hits, ending with Ember Celica firing and sending her elbow into the side of Adam's head.
Adam slid across the floor, coming to a halt with his vision slowly calming down and refocusing. He growled in frustration as he got to his feet, he looked up at Yang, his glare hidden behind his mask. He rose to his full height and took note that the blonde's eyes were no longer a soft lilac but were now a deep red.
"Do you really want to do this again?" He said, wiping some blood off his cheek.
"I don't see why not?" Yang answered.
Yang took her stance and Adam smiled at her, holding his sheathed sword in his left hand. He pulled the trigger on the sheath and sent Wilt launching toward Yang.
Blake jumped in surprise as Adam was suddenly thrown to the floor with a bang from Ember Celica. She took a step toward him but her body froze as she saw Yang advance on the faunas and follow through with another barrage of attacks.
She took a step back as Yang's eyes blazed red, "Yang?"
Both of Blake's partners engaged in combat. Ember Celica booming as yang's fist became a blur of motion, but even then Adam kept up, ducking and weaving between each punch and kick. Blake watched on in horror as her worst nightmare came to life in front of her. The two people she loved were now fighting each other.
"No. Nononono! Why?" Blake started quivering as she looked around the room, looking over all of her friends wrapped up in some battle of their own.
Blake suddenly felt some strange sensation, as if something heavy within her was pulling at her. The feeling grew until it begun to hurt, she doubled over in pain, falling to her knees when she understood what it was.
She turned her head toward Luna and Raven and to her horror she found Raven hoisting Luna in the air by the throat, Ruby was crawling to her feet behind them, Crescent Rose a few feet from her grasp. Blake looked at Luna, something was strange about her, she was pulling back on their aura connection and she was hurting Blake.
"Luna?" Blake managed in a pained voice.
Luna turned her head toward her and the right side of her face was no longer a warm amber gold. It was slowly turning black, from the palm of Raven's hand some sort of darkness crawled out along Luna's body. The black continued to grow along Luna golden figure and the pain Blake was feeling grew.
She had to cut the link, but Blake was afraid of what would happen to Luna.
Raven smiled wickedly as Luna's struggling ceased under her grasp. She took hold of the clone and forcibly poured her own aura into her, poisoning the aura within her and twisting her being. Raven sensed something within Luna's aura, she sensed someone else's aura, Blake's. Raven's smile widened as she took hold of the connection and started pulling back, she pulled and yanked, Luna turned her head to the side and Raven followed her gaze, finding Blake kneeling on the floor in pain.
Raven tightened her grasp around Luna's neck, relishing the pain evident in Luna's groan. She made eye contact with Blake and in that moment, she took hold of the aura connection and pulled back with all her might.
Blake screamed in agony as the pulling suddenly increased tenfold and yanked on a much larger portion of her aura. She fell flat against the ground, trembling in agony, Raven showed no mercy. The darkness continued to grow within Luna, dulling her glow. Then Luna started yelling in pain as the dark aura swarmed through her own and consumed it, eradicating it and hollowing her out.
Raven laughed to herself as the two Blake's continued to squirm and scream in agony, "Hahaha, pathetic!"
Blake had to cut the link, she had to cut Luna off. Blake tried to stifle another scream but failed. She slammed her fist into the ground in frustration, just as she cut the link.
Ruby struggled to her feet, just as two different sets of yells filled her ears. She found Blake lying on the floor a few meters from her, Luna was held in the air by the throat. Ruby cringed as she bent over to pick up her scythe, readying herself to jump back into the fray.
As soon as Blake but the link, Raven's aura flooded through Luna, causing her to scream as all of her aura was mercilessly consumed and destroyed. She tried to wriggle free of Raven's grasp, tried anything to get away from the pain, but Raven merely found the struggle humorous. She calmly pulled a black crystal from her pouch, looking Luna in the eye with her wicked smile, before she plunged the dust crystal into Luna's chest.
Luna's screaming immediately stopped, her body went slack and Raven calmly dropped her back to her feet. Blake looked up from the ground, the pain slowly subsiding as she tried to find Luna. Instead she found Raven standing in front of someone that looked like Raven, the second figure was completely black, it was as if Luna had changed colour from gold to black. But how could-
"Oh no."
Raven looked at the, new and improved, Luna before her, taking in her handy work.
"I'd say welcome to the dark side but it's a little cliché isn't it?"
Just then the boom of a rifle rang out through the room, followed by a small yell as Ruby launched herself toward them. Luna suddenly spun around, she summoned a clone and dashed forward. She dashed toward Ruby, too close to the red head for the giant scythe the reach her. Luna lashed out with her katana, quickly slashing across Ruby's front.
Ruby yelled out as her aura was dissipated from the attack, she landed on her rear with a thud. She quickly got back to her feet as Luna continued to advance on her, her eyes an empty void filled with darkness.
All three members of team RWBY paused as they all heard their team leader yell out in pain. Weiss stopped stalking toward Adam and Yang, looking toward the noise just as Ruby hit the ground.
"Ruby!"
She was about to change course when Yang slid across the ground before her feet. The blonde quickly got back up, a fresh cut along her left arm quietly bleeding freely. Both Weiss and Yang looked back toward Ruby to find the red head back on her silver eyes set and unwavering. Before Yang dived back into the fight, Weiss whispered something in her ear, the blonde nodded in confirmation before firing her gauntlets and rushing through the air toward Adam.
Yang lashed out with her foot as she neared Adam, but the faunas swiftly stepped to the side, letting the blonde pass by harmlessly. Yang landed in a crouch, hiding the smile that spread across her lips as Adam turned her back to Weiss. Yang quickly closed the distance between her and Adam, Adam drew Wilt, sparks flying as it ran along Ember Celica's gold metal, deflecting Yang's punches.
Yang quickly adjusted to the tactic. The brought her right hand around in a powerful hook, this time not firing her gauntlets. Adam made to deflect the attack with his blade, but the punch was a dummy. At the last second Yang bent her arm inwards whilst taking a step closer to Adam. Her arm passed in front of Adam's blade and just as it began to curve back toward Yang and her elbow was pointed toward Adam, Ember Celica boomed and launched her arm backward, her elbow going straight for Adam's jaw.
Yang smiled as Adam spun around from the force of the attack, stopping in a daze. Yang shook her arm off as she felt blood dripping down it, during her attack her elbow slammed into Adam's katana, producing a thin cut along her elbow. Yang took up her stance with a smile as Adam turned back to her with a growl.
"Not so easy the second time is it?" She taunted.
Weiss forced herself to stay calm, blocking out the distractions around her. The noises, the vibrations, the heat, the anxious feeling deep within her. She had to focus her aura into her semblance in a way she hadn't done so often. The one time she had done it she had some help in the form of a white cape, now she was without it.
She stood side on, Myrtenaster pointing toward the roof in her left hand. She took a deep breath and three glyphs appeared in front of her, each one smaller than the one behind it. They spun peaceful in the air, a shade of light blue washed over them as Weiss continued to use her aura. She opened her eyes and found that the last glyph was trained exactly where she wanted it, at Adam's back.
She really didn't want to know what exactly they had done to her sister, she didn't want to imagine it, but she knew whatever it was it was no doubt horrible. There was no way in hell she was going to forgive whoever did this to her, she was going to make sure they understood how angry they were making her. Weiss was going to make the White Fang realise that they shouldn't mess with the Schnee family any longer.
She would make sure they spent the rest of their lives frozen in cold, unforgiving ice.
Raven watched on as Luna and Ruby fought against each other, in what Raven would describe as a pointless, yet humorous, act. She found the young red head almost adorable, using that oversized scythe and wearing that somewhat over confident look. Raven had to laugh at the scythe, it was really unnecessary, especially since the user would be in big trouble if her opponent got too close to her, then the scythe was useless.
But then again it did add a factor of humour to the display. But Raven couldn't watch forever, she had other things to attend to and it seemed Winter Schnee was currently left unguarded.
Yang saw that Weiss was almost ready, the trio of glyphs rotating peacefully in front of the heiress. Now all Yang had to do was keep the faunas distracted for a while longer. What better way to do that then give them what they want, a victory.
Yang waited patiently as Adam approached her, his sword sheathed and waiting. He fired and Wilt launched toward her, she easily blocked the projectile with her gauntlet, but Adam continued to fire Blush, launching a barrage of shotgun rounds toward the brawler whilst he dashed toward her.
Yang deflected each round swiftly, but the after the last shot bounced off her right gauntlet, Adam's katana came down and knocked her right arm out of the way of her body. Adam quickly spun his blade around, sheathed it and then lashed out in three quick successions. Yang took every hit across her abdomen, cringing with each sting.
Yang quickly gathered herself and pressed forward, Weiss should be ready now. A few meters from Adam, her left gauntlet boomed and launched her toward him, her fist trailing behind her. Adam swiftly spun to the side at the last second and yang had to quickly plant her foot so that she wouldn't continue forward away from Adam. But Adam come out of his spin with Wilt following behind him and slashing across Yang's face. Yang yelled out and reeled back, the slash just getting past her aura and creating a thin cut under her eye socket.
Yang's eyes flared as she touched the wound and felt the blood trickling along her cheek. Adam ignored her and moved forward, Yang met him halfway and threw a few punches at him. Adam waited for the right hand punch and when it came his way he smiled to himself. He deflected the punch with his sheath, Wilt sitting comfortably within Blush. He tilted the sheath so that the hilt of the blade was pointed at Yang head, at which point her pulled the trigger, launching his blade once again at the blonde.
At such close range the hilt of the katana slammed into Yang's forehead with a solid thud, Yang recoiled back but Adam was faster. He was too close to Yang for Wilt to completely leave it's sheath, so after it slammed into Yang's head Adam forced sheath forward, slamming the hilt back into Yang's head and re-sheathing Wilt in the process. Yang doubled back as her head was roughly battered once more, her vision blurred and she nearly lost her footing, she really hoped Weiss was ready.
Adam quickly brought Blush around, quickly taking Wilt out and slashing across Yang in one smooth motion. Yang was about to fall over but Adam grabbed her hand, pulled her forward and was about to plunge his blade though her body, if Blake hadn't yelled out.
"Adam don't!"
The faunas stopped his blade a hairs breadth from the brawlers chest, turning to face Blake. Yang's vision cleared up somewhat and she realised how close Adam's sword was to her heart, she tried to back away but he was still holding her wrist. Yang peered over Adam's shoulder and found Weiss' glyphs spinning rapidly as a softly blue glow emitted from each of them. Yang looked back to Adam and realised Blake was talking to him.
"Adam please, please just stop." She pleaded, failing to hold back tears. "Please stop fighting."
"Blake nothing you'll say will make me stop! I'm too far into this to back out now!"
"No you're not! Adam I can help you, please! All you need to do come with me!"
Adam looked at his former partner. The one that had left him behind in this dark place. The women who abandoned him. The women that he had cared for and loved.
"Adam you don't have to-" Blake paused as something out of the corner of her eye grabbed her attention.
She turned and found Weiss standing with three glyphs spinning rapidly and pointed right toward Adam. Blake's heart dropped and she panicked, doing the first thing that came to mind.
"Weiss no!"
Weiss' eyes shot open and she quickly flicked her rapier to the side before thrusting it into the glyphs before her. The three glyphs exploded and launched a beam of ice toward the faunas, each glyph focusing the beam into a more powerful, more accurate beam.
Adam heard Blake call out just as Weiss fired. Not knowing what was behind and only knowing that there was something behind him, he quickly turned back towards Yang, he pulled her towards him as he jumped up and flipped over her head, landing behind her with his blade resting against her throat.
It happened so fast Yang didn't realise that she was facing a beam of ice until it had hit her.
Adam held onto Yang as the beam hit her violently, rocking them both as the force of the attack forced to push them backwards. Yang screamed as ice quickly began to crawl along her body and encapsulate her.
Weiss realised what had happened a little too late, moving her rapier up and out of the way after the damage had already been done. The beam followed the point of her sword, lancing across the room and along the roof, creating a line of crackling and growing icy spikes through the room.
Adam removed his sword before the ice could take it and threw Yang's semi frozen body to the side where she landed with a half thump, half crack.
"Yang!"
Blake yelled out and was by the blondes side in an instant. Yang's upper torso was completely covered in ice, her left arm had ice all the way down to her elbow, her right shoulder had a thick layers of jagged ice clumped around it and ice had crawled around her neck, ending in a series of jagged point and her left thigh was completely covered. Most of her right side was safe, but even then she was in a very bad way.
"Yang! Oh god not again!"
Blake already knew who to blame. She just had to open her stupid mouth and give Adam that warning. But if she hadn't Adam would be in a much worse condition.
'But what about Yang! Look at what's happened to Yang!'
Blake was already fighting herself, blaming herself for what had just happened whilst at the same time trying to convince herself it was the right thing.
'Yang could die! How is that the right thing!?'
"I-I- I can't. I don't know! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Blake yelled.
Weiss looked at the blonde lying half frozen on the floor, 'That should be that stupid faunas! Not Yang! Why did you open your mouth Blake!'
"Weiss!"
Winter called out and Weiss immediately spun around to her sister, Raven was casually walking toward her. Weiss was about to launch herself toward her sister's aid, but Kage beat her to it. Appearing before the Schnee, and meeting Raven evenly. Weiss was about to join his side but something slashed across her back and brought her to her feet.
She spun around on the ground, looking up as Adam continued toward her.
Whichever one it was, one of the Schnee's was going to die.
Blake was still by Yang's side, tears streaming down her cheeks as Yang remained unmoving. She didn't know what to do, what could she do? She had to do something!
'This is all your fault! Again! All you do is get people hurt!'
"No! I-I didn't mean to! I couldn't let Adam die!"
"Yang is the person you love now, not Adam! Now she's dying in front of you!'
Just then Blake heard someone else cry out and not a second later Ruby landed on the floor a few meter's from her. Her scythe sliding away from her, Ruby tried to get back up but her arms failed her and she fell back down.
"R-Ruby?"
It seemed as if everyone around, all the people she loved, were being hurt. Which was exactly what was happening, and it was all her fault.
'Your fault! All of it! Look at Ruby, look at Weiss, look at Yang! Yang! You love her and you betrayed her'
"No! No! I didn't meant for this to happen! I didn't want to hurt anyone! I just want to save him!"
'You can't save everyone!'
"C-can't save everyone?"
In the middle of Blake's inner conflict, Yang heard it all and managed to mover her arm and grab her partners. Ice was cold, Weiss' ice was even worse, especially when she was angry. But Yang burnt hot, hotter than the sun, not even Weiss' ice could keep her down.
Blake felt Yang's hand against her arm and quickly looked at her partner.
"Y-yang?" She sniffled. "I'm so sorry, I didn't meant to-"
"Not unless you try." Yang managed to say.
"Wh-what?"
"It's always worth trying, don't you think?"
Yang rolled over and the ice covering her front broke away as it began to melt off her burning body.
"Blake, you're not going to save everyone if you don't even try. Stop thinking you're going to lose on of us, we aren't that easy to get rid of."
Yang got up and helped Blake back to her feet.
"Now I know you still have feelings for Adam, so I hope you didn't think I was about to let him die then, maybe Weiss might have." Fire was beginning to rise around Yang's form.
"Blake please stop crying," Yang said, wiping away a tear. "I know these decisions are hard for you, I don't blame you for anything, so please stop blaming yourself."
Blake looked at her partner with wide, desperate eyes. Blake needed this to end, she needed it to stop. None of this was fair, Yang shouldn't be saying these things to her, she didn't deserve them.
Yang leaned forward and pressed a soft kiss to Blake's lips, holding it long enough for her warmth to reach Blake and hopefully pull her out of the hole she had fallen into.
"Blake I love you and I always will, no matter what happens. I'll be fine, I promise you, I will still be here when this is over. Do what you need to do to bring him back, we'll worry about what happens after you save him."
"Yang I-I-"
"Blake stop thinking. You want to save him, so go do it! I don't want to sound cheesy but, love always finds away."
Yang winked at Blake, kissed her sweetly on the cheek and then quickly rushed to her sister's side. Blake watched her go as flames grew around her form and covered her in a golden fire.
She had to end this. She had to end this and she was going to save Adam in the process. She just needed to get everyone out of the way and she had an idea how, she just hoped Yang wouldn't forget her own words.
Raven was enjoying her fight with Kage, he had always brought something new. He was just an interesting person to fight really. With his magic tricks and shadow dancing it was all rather entertaining. But unfortunately this fight would not go uninterrupted.
Blake rushed into the battle, surprisingly kicking Kage out of the way and rushing toward Raven. Raven frowned at the sudden turn of events and was equally surprised when Blake offered her another deal.
"Like I said earlier, I'll hand myself in if you leave everyone in this room alone."
Raven smiled and stepped back from Blake, "What a deal! Of course I accept."
"I mean it, you let them go."
"Even better, let's leave them right now."
Blake was about to ask what that meant but Raven rushed toward her and then everything went completely black.
Weiss and Kage were very confused. One moment they were looking at Adam and Raven, the next they were gone, leaving them alone in the room. They looked around the room but couldn't find them, neither could they find Blake.
Yang had just finished pummelling what had been Luna, into the ground when she noticed the lack of noise. She looked around and found Weiss and Kage looking just as confused.
"Blake? Where's Blake?"
Kage shrugged. Raven was gone, Adam was gone, and so was Blake. That only meant one thing.
"She handed herself in." Yang breathed.
Raven said Adam and herself would leave them alone, she didn't say anything about the rest of the White Fang, she didn't even work for them really. Just then they came rushing in, pouring in through the two entries of the room, surrounding them all quickly. There were a lot of them and Yang was already questioning whether they would make it out or not.