Weiss Reacts to...Revenge Fics!

A/N: Yes, this is the third time I've replaced a chapter. Good news; for anyone waiting for scriptfics, the chapter will most definitely happen after Weiss Reacts to TvTropes. However, the reason I changed the chapter is because I found the concept of a revenge fic hilarious (seriously, guys, these are fictional characters, no need to hate 'em enough to want them dead...).

DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth. Otherwise Pyrrha would be a troper.

Weiss laid flat on her bed, browsing the Dustnet with her tablet, a cup of tea in her free hand. Ruby was up on her bunk, playing what seemed to be Pokémon- judging by the fact she was cursing some random guy's Gyarados, most likely- and Blake and Yang could be heard nearby, taking turns playing what sounded to Weiss like Persona. Judging by their frustrated cries of irritation, it wasn't going too well.

The heiress sighed. "Amateurs." She continued browsing the Dustnet, sighing. She was feeling bored again- unsurprising, considering that for the umpteenth time, somebody had stolen her yaoi manga and of course, Blake was downloading some ungodly large game that lagged her computer down, so Weiss was forced to use her tablet.

"Someday, you peasants. Someday." She shook her head and continued reading through the archives, eventually stopping on a curious looking fanfiction. She heard Ruby cry in jubilation above her and assumed she won, shaking her head before turning back to her fanfic.

"...Break? A...curious title for a fanfic." Weiss looked at it curiously. It seemed to have a lot of reviews, for such a recently uploaded fanfic- it seemed to have been uploaded in the last couple of hours!

"Hm...it seems to be popular. I should read it, I suppose..." She went into reading it, her curiosity getting the better of her.

Elsewhere in Beacon...

Melanie threw her 3DS across the bed from her. "I HATE POKEMON SO MUCH"

"Uh...did you lose?" Miltiades piped in.

"Yes!" The white-clothed girl muttered. "I-I had them cornered with Gary!"
"...Gary? Really? That's what you name a Gyarados, Mel?"
"I was short for names!" She sighed. "Damn Ruby. Damn her." Melanie sidled over to her sister, watching what she was doing.

"Milly? What're you doing?"
"Uh, some stuff." She shrugged. "Mainly, seeing what the hubbub is about this fanfic, called 'Break'."

"Huh?"
"A darkfic." Miltiades shrugged. "Apparently, it's been hauled up in some discussion on why darkfics are bad."
"I personally don't like 'em." Melanie shrugged. "Too...dark. And angsty. But mainly dark."
"I don't mind 'em, myself, Mels. Long as they aren't too dark- I like my fanfics fluffy, personally." The red-clothed girl shrugged. "Stil-Whoa!"
"What?"
"The reviews!"
"Yeah?"
"Mels...oh Dust. Oh DUST!" She stared with wide eyes at the reviews section. "Just...what?!"
Melanie looked at it, horrified as well.

"Oh. My. Dust."

Weiss read through the fanfic, unaware of the horror she was about to experience.

"So it's a typical holiday situation?" She nodded, flicking through it. "Hm...myself, Yang, Blake and Ruby, out to a typical day in Vale..." Weiss noted the scenario as she read through. It was a fairly typical slice of life scenario, really; Blake being her typical, quiet self, Ruby being as hyperactive as ever, and Yang being, well, Yang.

The four of them were walking around on the ocean side in Vale, chatting and doing typical things- munching on cookies, talking about their classes, and generally being friendly with each other.

"Hm. The name 'Break' seems to be a wonderfully fitting name; it seems we do indeed get a break." The heiress noted. "Dust knows how I need one from these dunces..."

From the other room...

"Dammit, Blake!"

"What?!"
"SHE USED FUCKING MARIN KARIN AGAIN. DUST DAMMIT."

"SERIOUSLY?!" The sounds of rustling and struggling.

"Hey, I deserve a second turn!"
"Nuh-uh, you already tried it three times!"
"Well I want another go!"
"No! No snuggles for a month if you do this to me, Blake!"
"...I hate you so much."

"M-Mels..." Miltiades looked horrified. "...h-how could someone..."

"...t-that's d-d-dark...e-even by the standards of the Dustnet..."

The two girls had just read the various shocked, horrified and scared responses to 'Break'. The fanfic seemed to, according to these reports, contain copious amounts of insanity- not the funny kind either-, murder, and mental breakage.

All to break one Weiss Schnee down to a whimpering wreck.

To make it worse, the author seemed to not care a dot that he was horrifying his readers- and not in the best kind of way, either- instead making it clear that this was more of a hatefic towards a character he despised than a darkfic meant to entertain anyone, as made clear by his responses within the review section.

"...w-who'd write such a thing?" Milly muttered. "I mean, I've seen some good darkfics; Blood Rose being one...but this...this isn't a dark fic. This is just plain sick!"
Melanie nodded in agreement. "I-I agree, Milly..."
"...w-we've got to find Weiss." Milly stood up, grabbing her crimson petticoat. "Gotta warn her to stay away from this fic. This guy practically has a hate-on for her..."
"Uhuh." Melanie nodded, grabbing her own ivory petticoat. "I wouldn't like to see her sob her eyes out reading that thing."

"Agreed." And so the Malachite sisters set out on a mission.

"Okay...so it's getting darker..." Weiss noted. "And yet we're still out and about?" She nodded. "That seems like an odd...wait...who's watching us?" The heiress noted that the story seemed to be implying that someone was stalking the group.

"...oh?" She lifted an eyebrow. "A Grimm?" A Beowolf had seemingly shown up- in the middle of Vale, which she considered suspicious- and was following them.

"How peculiar-" She stopped herself, reading the next line carefully.

'And suddenly, Weiss Schnee found herself upon the floor, her throat ripped out by the canine Grimm and it scampered away. As if expecting her teammates to help, the cruel heiress reached out to them, choking upon her own blood.

And they laughed at her.'

"...what?" She read through the next passage carefully. What she found was...to be frank, not to her liking.

She watched herself dying, slowly, painfully as her beloved teammates, people she considered friends, laughed at her, jeered her, told her to hurry up and die in pain- at one point, Ruby, of all people, drew Crescent Rose to finish her off, to kill her, but Yang held her back, saying that she deserved a long, slow death.

And all she could think of was 'why?'. It did not end there; she was saved, by a man she immediately picked out to be a typical Marty Stu; his appearance was too good to be true, his name was too average for their world, and his weapon clearly stolen from Final Fantasy. Yet Weiss couldn't help but read it- if such a fic was going to save her from her clearly horrible friends, it couldn't be that bad, right?

"Right?" She slightly whimpered. Her eyes were drawn to read further, despite the clear emotional turmoil she was undergoing- Blake, Yang and Ruby were her friends- no, closer than friends, they were what Yang always called nakama- the truest of companions, those who would never, ever abandon each other.

And this fic...it broke that in half, and, as Weiss further read it, began to tear apart the bond they had built.

Melanie and Milly hastened their pace to get to RWBY dorm- it was on the other side of the school from MEME dorm; they shared it with another pair of sisters, Elizabeth and Elise Ermine- and the fact that they were on a completely different floor did NOT help.

"Dammit!" Melanie shouted. "Why is their dorm so far away?!"
"I dunno! I blame Ozpin! The ONE time we want to be close to 'em, we're this far away!"
"Dust help us..." The white-clothed girl sighed. "I just hope that Weiss doesn't read that crap."
"Who wrote it anyway?" Milly asked.
"I think I recognized the writing style..." Melanie thought back to it. "But I can't quite remember who it seemed like..."

Meanwhile, over in RWBY dorm...

"Wh-what..." Weiss looked at her tablet, shocked.

The fic took a turn for the worse. Soon, even the clear Marty Stu had begun to abuse her; treating her like a slave in sex and life alike- and to make it worse, none of her 'friends' would help her. It wasn't just RWBY, either, but Ren, Nora, Jaune- even Pyrrha had abandoned her.

Weiss watched in horror as her fictional self was shattered to almost nothing, and with each revelation shattering her further, it wasn't until she saw the final chapter that she well and truly felt horror...and a bit of emotional pain.

The man who'd taken her in, to care for her- and later abuse her- revealed, in a long, slow, twisted monologue, that they'd done it all to make her pay for her abrasive behaviour, and that now- at that point, her fictional self was broken to the point of suicide- they would simply watch her die.

"...who'd write something like this?!" She muttered in shock. As the story closed, with the inevitable result of her killing herself, the author notes told of their purpose for writing it; they hated Weiss- despised her with all their heart. The notes seemed to be a justification for making her suffer- indeed, she could tell that this guy felt glee while doing it, at points.

"..." She shut her tablet, as she felt tears well up in her eyes. "...no, Schnee, you won't cry, you won't cry, it's just a story..." Mastering her emotions, slowly, but surely, she stood up.

"I'll be taking a walk..." The heiress said to Ruby, who was reading a book on her bunk. Ruby nodded.

"I'll see you later, then. Hey, Weiss, you sound sad..." The crimsonette noted. "Are you-"

"I'm fine." With that brusque interruption, Weiss walked outside to gather her thoughts.

The Malachite sisters ran into Weiss, and they ran to her.

"Weiss!" Melanie shouted. "Whatever you do, do NOT read this fanfic!" She held up her tablet, showing her 'Break'. "It's...a pretty clear-cut revenge fic, and it's kinda...-"
"I know. I read it." She muttered.

Milly tilted her head. "Weiss, if you're-"
"I'm fine. It's just a story." Weiss nodded, mustering a smile. "Besides, it's not like they really meant it, right?"
"Uh...well..." Melanie and Milly nodded. "If you insist...we'll just walk back now, then." The pair walked off, nodding to each other.

"...I feel like she's going to break down..."
"If she does, her team's got her back. What we need to know is WHO wrote that. I KNOW I've seen that particular style before." Melanie stated.

"Who, Mels?"
"I think I share a Literature class with 'em..." She flicked through her mental map of who she shared it with; Cardin, Dove, Sky, Velvet, Elizabeth and a couple of other students she didn't know, apart from her sister.

She knew it was one of the former, but who?

Meanwhile, behind them, Weiss sat down, thinking.

"...w-what did I do to this guy to deserve having THAT written about me?" She muttered. "I didn't do anything personally, surely. I mean...I used to be...horrible, and mean and abrasive, especially to Ruby...

But...but they don't hate me, right? I'm not that person anymore, right?"

Weiss wasn't sure.

Later that night...

Long after everyone had gone to bed, long after everyone had fallen asleep, Weiss sat up in her bed, sweating and crying. The fanfiction had gotten to her badly- she could not stop thinking that, for whatever reason, Ruby and the rest were going to leave her behind.

She'd had a bad nightmare indeed, just now.

Weiss had dreamt that she was in that situation- that she was walking with her team, in Vale, at sunset. She wasn't aware that anything whatsoever was wrong, that anything was going to happen.

And suddenly, it did; the Beowolf, just like in the story, ripped her throat open and left her to die. Weiss instantly knew that this was the part where the Marty Stu came in to save her, and waited, weathered the jeers and the insults.

But...it was not to be.

Soon, to her horror, the faces of her friends twisted themselves into horrifying caricatures of themselves, with mouths too big, too toothy to be human, as they mockingly put her down, screamed at her, and threw insults at her...

Especially Ruby. Ruby was harshest in her insults, throwing back her once affectionate epithet of dunce as a wicked insult, snarling at her, telling Weiss she hated her, and hoped that she would die a horrible, long death- it was too much, for Weiss, to see her affectionate, friendly, caring leader do this to her, even in a dream.

It was too much, even to think about.

"RUBY!" She screamed, and her partner awoke. "W-Weiss?!" The crimsonette poked her head down, to see a crying, clearly hurt Weiss. "...oh my Dust! What's wrong?!"

"J-just..." She shook her head and ran outside, sobbing. Ruby's eyes widened.

"Oh my Dust...Yang! Blake! Wake up!"

They found her, sobbing on a bench near the girl's toilet. Melanie, Milly and Cardin- the latter had joined them after hearing the shouting from CRDL dorm and seeing the pair walking around, also going towards the noise. They'd explained the situation to him, and Cardin, not necessarily being the closest of friends with her, nonetheless agreed to help.

"Weiss?" Milly approached her.

"Y-yes?" The heiress looked up, her normally clear blue eyes welling with tears. Milly shuddered to think that someone's horrible, nasty story had reduced someone to this.

"I-is everything..."

"I-it's just that..." Weiss continued sobbing between words. "...t-that...I-I had a dream...t-that my team...that Ruby...w-would..."

"We know." Melanie nodded. "That's never going to happen."
"B-but what if...what if it is..."

"Oh, shut the fuck up." Cardin growled. Milly and Melanie shot him a glare, but he ignored it. He moved towards Weiss. "Ya know, you used ta not give a crap about how some random jerk treated ya."

"Y-yes...but-"
"Lemme finish, Weiss. Yer all nice and that, but is this really who ya are? Crying at some random asshole making some fanfic of ya where he takes ya ta bits?" He chuckled. "Come on. Ya really think Ruby and all that'll leave ya, that they'll just do that?"

"...no..."

"Then what's the worry?" He nodded towards her. "I'm probably the biggest asshole in Beacon, and even I wouldn't backstab my own team...or my own friends. Still...if ya have any problems...ya come to us if ya can't come to yer team, yes?"

"Or us." Melanie and Milly nodded in agreement.

"T-that's...that's nice of you...I-I just thought...I felt that...I felt abandoned..."

"Weiss?!" Weiss perked up as she saw Ruby, who ran into her, glomping her tightly.

"R-Ruby...I-"
"Save it, I don't need to hear it. I just want to hug you, 'kay?" The crimsonette tightened her hug on her partner. "I want you to feel better. I just want you to know, that we're here for you, that we'll be at your side if you ever feel sad, 'kay?"

"I...I suppose..."

"As will we." Blake and Yang chimed in, nodding. Even Jaune and Ren had shown up, and Pyrrha and Nora. They were walking across, offering their own words of support.

Weiss felt heartened at everyone showing up to comfort her; even the Malachites, who she wasn't that closely related to, and Cardin, the reformed bully...she felt herself grow lighter, as if a burden had lifted from her heart. Knowing that her closest friends; JNPR, RWBY, and especially Ruby- would never abandon her...it made her happy.

"I just...I..." She shook her head, crying again, but this time, these were tears of joy. Ruby patted her on the back.

"It's okay, Weiss. Let it all out." She mentally squeed for a second; she WAS hugging the one she had the hugest crush on, but now wasn't the time.

Suddenly, a light went on in Melanie's head. "I figured it out." Milly looked at her.

"What?"
"It was Dove." Cardin blinked. "What?"
"Dove, in your team, Cardin." Melanie nodded. "Yes...I knew I recognised the dark themes. He hates Weiss, doesn't he? Thinks she's stuck up?"

Yang cracked her knuckles. "Oh, that sonofa-" She was pushed aside by Cardin, who was walking back to his dorm. "Hey!"

"Save it, Xiao Long." He shouted back. "For doing that...ta poor Weiss?" He smirked. "He deserves more than just a beatin'.

I'm going ta renovate his ass!"

"H-hey, take me along!" Yang moved up next to him. "She's one of us, you know!"
"Let's break his knees together!" Nora moved up, activating Magnhild.

Cardin looked back to the Malachites and everyone else. "Ya won't be telling Port or anyone else, right?"

"Trust us, we weren't even here." They walked away, as Ruby and Weiss walked in the opposite direction, back to their dorm. Jaune and Ren walked with them as well, as did Pyrrha, offering their own words of support.

Dove leaned back in his chair, smirking in sick satisfaction. He had seen all the reviews of his fic 'Break'. He really hated Weiss; whether it was because of her attitude, her family or because he just did, Dove found it good to hate her.

"Ah...yes. That fucking Schnee bitch." He smirked. "If I can't give her comeuppance in real life...well...guess she'll never know it was-"
"Dove?"
"Yes, Card-oh." He looked towards the door, to see a very pissed off Cardin, a smirking Yang, and a gleefully smiling Nora. "Uh..."

"Dove, we need ta talk. Ya see, it's about the thing you wrote about Weiss..."
"I-I swear, it was completely harmless!"

"Yeah, well..." Cardin shook his head. "Ya made her cry. Ya kinda need an asskicking for that."

"Shit, Cardin! I-I'm-"
"KNEE-BREAKING TIME!"

"This is for Weiss, you sick bastard!"
"AAAHHHH-"

Needless to say, when Dove appeared at the infirmary that morning, the reports that he was beaten up by a flaming titan, a large heart-shaped hammer and Cardin- who'd been found in JNPR dorm, playing a card game with Jaune- were disproven.

END

A/N: I kinda needed to take my own anger out at revenge fics...really sorry about that. :c On the plus side, I'm fine now and I PROBABLY won't be doing that again. Also, I needed to get my feels out- and I kinda regret putting Weiss through that... :c Oh, and I'll be calling Miltiades Milly now because it's easier to spell, more moe and it's Weiss Reacts. :P

But, in future, to prevent such events, we must take drastic measures! For just one lien a month, you can adopt your own Weiss. She comes with a tracker every month, and your very own Weiss plushie. Please, kids, think of the Weisses, every time you write a revenge fic against her, you hurt a Weiss. Please, adopt a Weiss today.

*ahem* On another note, next chapter will be Weiss Reacts to The Shadow of Fire! Le gasp! A shout out to you again, Dagger of Faith, for letting me write about it; I hope you enjoy next chapter!

So read, leave your reviews, suggestions, criticisms and thoughts, and I hope you have a great day! Until next time!