Yang

Monday, 6:45pm

It had taken a few hours, but they had finally reached Vale…

Only to find everything was normal. Even Oobleck was looking around in confusion.

"What?!" He semi-yelled, causing everyone in the area to start avoiding the dishevelled looking man. "I was sure the train would have hit by now! What happened?!"

It was then Blake spoke up.

"Doctor Oobleck? I… can't hear the rumbling any more…" At this Oobleck turned incredulously to the remainder of team RWBY.

"In that case! We must go and investigate that tunnel! Something must have stopped the train prematurely! Perhaps it was your leader!" At this Yang perked up. Maybe he was right, maybe Ruby had stopped the train! Yang quickly attempted to call her sister on her scroll, only for it to go straight to voicemail.

That was not a good sign. It meant Ruby's scroll was dead, or broken. Either way, that did not look good.

The team quickly raced to the closest entry to the old train tunnel, with Oobleck calling a rather stunned Ozpin to receive the codes to open the entrance - after explaining the entire situation, of course. Just as they got the codes, they arrived at the entrance to the underground tunnel, a small distance outside of Vale.

The peculiar thing was that they didn't run across any Grimm at all, despite being outside the city's walls. Usually there would be at least a small pack of Beowolves.

Opening the entrance, they entered the tunnel only to find an unmasked White Fang member waiting. Before they could do anything, he held up his hands and shouted for them to wait. Oobleck also held up his hand to the remainder of team RWBY, interested to hear his story.

"Before you guys, uh, ya know, beat the crap outta me? I'm not with the White Fang any more. Also, there's a little girl dressed in red further up the tunnel, trying to get through the collapsed tunnel. She has been for a few hours… I told her there's nothing she could do, but she didn't listen."

Oobleck simply tilted his head, about to ask a question. Before he could, Yang saw something and shouted out, catching the Doctor's attention.

"Zwei! There you are! Where's Ruby?!" The dog simply barked and started running full-pelt up the tunnel, with Yang in hot pursuit. Blake, Weiss and Oobleck swiftly followed. As they went further along the tunnel, they could see the collapse that the White Fang member had talked about, with a figure in red at the bottom. Yang started to sprint harder, calling out her little sister's name.

"RUBY!"

However, the girl in red didn't even turn, continuing to slash at the rocks with Crescent Rose. As she got closer, she immediately knew something was wrong, just by catching sight of the weapon's blade.

Crescent Rose was blunt.

The blade was blunt, had nicks and scratches all over, and as she watched, Yang saw Ruby hit the rubble hard enough to literally dent her weapon. Something was wrong, Ruby would never do this to her baby…

Yang got close and immediately hugged her sister. However, Ruby fought, pulling to get away.

"Ruby, we've been looking all over! What happened to you?!" Yang's voice was filled with concern as she held her little sister. Ruby simply continued to fight.

"Let go… I need to get through…" The words would have been a yell if Ruby's voice hadn't been scratchy and hoarse. She had clearly been yelling long enough to almost completely destroy her voicebox…

"Ruby what's wrong? What happened? Where's the train, why are you trying to get through?"

Ruby didn't answer the questions, just continued to fight to try and get towards the rubble. As Yang looked at her little sister's face, she could see the tear-tracks, the desperation in her eyes.

"Ruby, look at me." As her little sister did so, Yang made a decision. "Do you absolutely need to get to the other side of this rubble?" A nod. "Then stand back."

As Ruby stood back, Yang prepared Ember Celica and unloaded her most explosive ammo at the rubble, causing debris to fly everywhere. A lot ended up hitting Yang, but her semblance just absorbed the damage. After her guns clicked empty, she immediately raced forward, just as Weiss, Blake and Oobleck arrived, and Yang punched what was left of the blockage. After the damage her semblance had absorbed, and her natural badassery, the blockage didn't stand a chance.

The debris blocking the tunnel literally exploded.

As Yang all but vaporised the rubble, Ruby darted forward before the dust had even cleared. As such, she immediately ran into the wreckage of the train. Bouncing off the metal with a barely audible 'oof', she simply jumped over it, racing down the tunnel with her companions lagging behind her. Even exhausted, Ruby was still faster than any of them.

Racing after her sister, Yang saw signs that the tunnel had all but turned into a battlefield. There were chunks missing from walls, chunks of ice littering the tunnel, and scorch marks everywhere. There were bulletholes and gouges, claw-marks and debris. There was only 1 thing missing...

Bodies.

Yang started to get a bad feeling in her gut.

Finally, they managed to somewhat catch up to Ruby. They saw her on her knees in the distance, cradling something while rocking back and forth.

Yang's bad feeling got worse as she started to speed up.

They drew up to Ruby, but she refused to let go of the body in her arms. However, Yang managed to get a look at the face.

She looked around at the signs of battle and noticed another thing she had missed. There were almost no weapons. Almost.

There were throwing knives all over the ground and stuck in walls. There were 2 guns, mangled beyond repair, with the blades that had once been attached now bent and shattered some distance away. There were 2 more small knives similarly disfigured.

Finally, on the body Ruby was currently cradling, and several metres away, there were 2 vambraces, the one on the body missing its blade and the other mangled beyond recognition.

And so Yang watched on with absolute horror as Ruby cradled Onyx's body.

Yang

Monday, 10:30pm

They had finally managed to get the tale out of a sobbing Ruby, who had never once left Onyx's body, even after returning to Beacon. Going off the tale she had told them, they had been astounded at the sheer number of Grimm, then deduced what happened.

Seeing as there was still a body, there must have been no Grimm around to eat it, which meant he had done it. Onyx had single-handedly killed tens of thousands of Grimm. However, the wounds he sustained during the fight must have been too much, and so he bled to death. Judging by the wounds on the body, he must have been still fighting through sheer force of will alone.

They had all been shocked and horrified to learn that Onyx had once been working for the enemy, but Ruby had been quick to explain that he had switched sides. They would have doubted it, had it not been for the body that now rested on an empty bed in the hospital wing of Beacon. Some part of Yang whispered I called it, but the blonde quickly snuffed it out. Such misgivings had no place here. Not now.

All the while, Yang merely stayed with Ruby, and comforted her grieving sister. Finally the sisters fell asleep beside the body of the fallen assassin...

Only to be woken hours later by a voice neither recognised.

Author's note:

I'm not sorry for the cliffhanger! XD

Sorry for the massive delay, I've been really busy lately (which really is unusual for me...)

Also this chapter and the next chapter have titles that are lyrics from a song I love. Well, a version of a song, and it's the version I love. I'll tell you which song next chapter, if you can't be bothered to look it up.

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