A:N: okay! First sorry this took so long, I got my wisdom teeth pulled out and have been really sore so it took a while to write. After this there will be a quick epilogue chapter dealing with Blake's parents and how that stand on everything that's happened. But other than that black rose is finished, and I'll be moving onto the children of rwby story. Enjoy.
As the walls connected to the ceiling of the always changing device, lights illuminated the blackness of the box the three individuals were now trapped in. Blake stood strong her sight not break from Adam for a second, she had seen the pain this man caused her friends alone today. What he's done has only served to obliterate what ever shreds of remorse Blake had for Adam. He kidnapped Weiss, broke Yangs arm, and only a month earlier tortured Ruby. She was done holding back her hatred for her former friend at this point.
Adam swiftly put his scroll away and reached for his blade. "Now Blake, Ruby. There's no more interference from the schnne and her girlfriend. I can kill you, and your own girlfriend." Adam said this his voice very unstable and angry. Adam was ready to kill the one he wanted to fight beside for Faunus kind. But to Adam she left him alone and tried to find happiness when she robbed him of that.
This was no longer old friends in a fight, this was to hate filled warriors ready to kill the other out of anger. Ruby could see the anger in Blake's eyes and could feel the tension in their battle ground as they stared off one another. Without a word their fighting began as the two charged at each other weapons ready.
Adam brought down his sword wilt (A/N: I Just learned durning writing this that his sword was called wilt and the gun sheath was called blush.) in a heavy cleaving motion. Giving Blake ample time to use her semblance to get away. Adam quickly slashed upwards catching Blake by surprise. She blocked his attack with her gambol shroud getting Adam in a blade lock. Ruby sped to Blake and lashed upwards at Adam. Adam quickly reacted by pushing Blake back and back stepped to avoid Ruby's scythe. In response Ruby raised the barrel of her weapon and fired off a shot. The bullet barley missed Adam passing under his arm.
Before Ruby could pull back the bolt of her rifle, Adam grab blush by its stock (it already having transformed into its gun state.) and quickly fired off two bullets at Ruby. Both hit the young huntress sending her flying back from the force. Ruby land on her side as she gripped her chest where the bullets hit. The shots broke her semblance but not her skin, at worst just a nasty bruise.
Blake growled seeing Ruby once again in physical pain. Blake's tail uncoiled from her waist and began to wag side to side showing her anger. She quickly changed gambol shroud to a pistol and fired a few shots at the white fang. "You'll pay for that Adam!" She continued to fire over and over.
Adam ducked the shots and opened fire on Blake. The Faunus huntress quickly converted gambol shroud to a sheathed sword and blocked the bullets. She pulled her blade out of the sheath and slashed at Adam. Though the Faunus man side step the swipe, he brought down the handle of wilt onto Blakes back, knocking her to the ground.
Ruby got up, a bruise starting to take shape on her chest. She looked to see Adam knocking her beloved girlfriend. Her injuries were forgotten the moment she saw Blake hit the ground. A flurry of petals came by as Blake disappeared from the ground. Adam looked up to find Ruby resting Blake on the floor. "You
Okay?"
Blake nodded as she rubbed her back. "He just hit me with the handle." She quickly stood up and readied gambol shroud to fight. Ruby did the same with crescent rose. Ruby quickly brought up her rifle and began shooting as many rounds as she could at the white fang leader.
Adam was quick though either dodging or slicing through any bullet the came his way. He quickly fired off a few shots of blush hitting Ruby's rifle causing her to lose balance. Seeing the huntress off balance made Adam go in for the kill, swiping his blade downwards at her.
Blake saw his blade coming down and quickly blocked it and swing her gambol shroud for a counter. Adam barely blocked the strike and returned the attack in full Ruby swung her scythe catching his blade. The three quickly began to block and counter the opposing sides attacks, each hit only missing by inches.
Ruby's stamina was beginning to fail, her breathing was heavy and her moves were becoming sluggish and difficult to pull off. As well her injuries were becoming increasingly more painful and difficult to suppress.
Adam took immediate notice of Ruby's fall in movement and played against them. He quickly knocked Blake against a wall causing her to hit her head on the surface and pass out. He then began to focus on the Rose girl. Adams attacks were relentless, with each attack came another attempt to break her guard and strike her down swiftly.
Ruby kept up her guard trying to avoid his attacks. With a quick dash to one side She felt a sharp pain in her side as her fractured ribs became broken one. With that sharp pain Ruby couldn't hold up Her differences anymore and lowered her weapon taking heavy breaths
Adam swiftly knocked crescent rose out of Ruby's hands, causing the weapon to slide near Blakes body. He brought up his blade, ready to strike the one who (how he saw it) took Blake from him. Ruby was too tired to move, The most she could do was raise her left hand against the incoming attack.
That was Ruby's biggest mistake.
Adam swiftly cut through the huntress' fore arm severing it completely off. Ruby fell to her back in shock as she bled from the fresh wound. Adam wasn't finished yet though, he was going to make sure this girl died here and now. He placed both his hands on wilts handle and thrusted its blade down into Ruby's chest.
Blake began to regain her consciousness, she rubbed her temples as her vision cleared. Her immediate thoughts were of Ruby, she looked up and saw the scene that had unfolded before her. Ruby's arm laid lifeless near The huntress, she followed the trail of blood coming from the arm leading to Adam standing over Ruby his blade piercing Ruby. She was mortified to say the least, seeing her fiancé laying there as someone tried killing her. She stood up from the ground, her eyes now full of anger and resentment. Her gaze fell on crescent rose on the ground near Blakes feet.
She picked up the weapon and began to walk towards Adam. Raising the scythe over her head Blake swung the weapon hitting the attacker of her love right in the chest.
Adams rib cage was immediately cut in two as he was flung to the wall, blood painted the walls as his body fell to the floor. Blake dropped crescent rose, she picked up the scroll that had fallen from Adams body and quickly reset the maze, She then picked up Ruby and their weapons. Blake carried her injured girlfriend from the box of a room.
When the walls began to lower, Yang quickly stood up looking to see what had happened. She didn't know what to expect but she wasn't prepared for what she saw. The image of Blake carrying Ruby, her head hanging low. The first thing Yang had noticed was her sister's missing arm.
Weiss held her hands over her mouth and complete shock. Her legs gave away seeing her two friends coming towards her. She could smell the blood of her once leader as Her body was laid down on the floor. Once Weiss regained herself she scrambled to grab myrtenaster and pull out a green dust container.
Green dust was a powerful healing agent, but left heavy scars. It works in a pinch and this moment was a tight pinch. Yang looked on as Weiss sprinkled the dust over her half sisters chest wound. "Where's Adam!?" Yang said through gritted teeth as her eyes shined red, raising her good arm to fight.
"Dead, he's dead Yang." Blake said in a near lifeless tone. Her spirit seemed broken, she was tired, she was weak, she was on the verge of tears. She was coming close to losing Ruby, that was something Blake never wanted to do. She'd came to the edge of losing the one person She held above her own life.
Seeing Blake's distress Yangs anger ceased. She placed her hand onto Blake's shoulder. she wanted to say something that could soothe her friend, something that eased her mind. But nothing came to her, no pun, no calming words, nothing.
"Yang, Blake Ruby's not losing blood anymore, If we get her to a hospital quick she'll make it." Weiss spoke as she sealed the dust container and placed it back into myrtenaster cylinder. Her clothes were covered in blood from her work at patching up Ruby's arm. The bandage was crude but did the trick.
Blake looked up her eyes widening to hear what Weiss had said. She quickly wiped away the potential of tears and walked to the heiress, handing her the scroll. "Call winter, tell her to bring medical aid as fast as she can." Blake knelt down next to Ruby and placed her ear to the scared chest. Her heartbeat was faint but still there. Her tension was eased, she knew there was a chance now.
Within twenty minutes a hovercraft landed near them with winter and atlas field medics. Ruby was the first to be loaded to allow one of the medics to begin cleaning her wounds and properly bandage them. Weiss came second as her aura had worked to fix up most of the dangerous wounds at this point. Third was Yang, her arm was quickly examined making sure it was still just a fracture. Once properly examined they gave her a fracture cast to keep the bone from breaking any further. Last but not least Blake was brought in, though she refused the medics help and instead sat next to Ruby holding her only hand.
A few days after the confrontation-
Ruby's eyes slowly opened for the first time in the days following her injuries. Her first thought was of how long she had been out, the next thought came to her quickly. "Where's Blake?" she said weakly as she attempted to get up from the bed. She stretched out her left arm to get a hold on the bed side table, only to fall when she had no grip. Ruby groaned as she laid on the ground. Then she realized something didn't feel right, something was missing. Ruby looked down her body to find the lack of her left arm. "M-my arm! What happened to my arm!?" Ruby gripped what was left of her fore arm in horror as she began to panic. Hearing the commotion, two nurses came in to try and calm down the huntress.
Weiss and Yang were currently three floors down signing out of the hospital. They're injuries weren't as extensive as the other so they were discharged very quickly. "You think Ruby will be okay?" Weiss asked as she finished up another sheet of paper work and moved on to the next.
"My lil sis? Yeah she'll pull through, she one though cookie. And with the medical technology atlas has I'm sure she'll be kickin' Grimm ass in no time!" Yang said with a confident toothy grin.
Weiss sighed as she placed down the paperwork. "Yang I'm not sure if it'll be that simple, she lost a piece of her. It will more than likely take a lot of time for her to heal and move on. We need to support her, we need to be there when she needs us."
Yang sighed pushing her hair out of her face. "I know, but I know this won't hold her back for long. She's strong, she's capable. She'll get back out there."
A nurse walked towards the two, causing their conversations to cut short. "Excuse me, miss xiao long? Your sister's awake." Yangs eyes perked up hearing the news of her sister's awakening. The nurse quickly guided her to Ruby's room. Weiss stayed in the lobby to finish the paperwork. Yang was ecstatic to see Ruby awake.
Yang swiftly opened the door with a wide grin. "Hey rubes go to see you awa-" she was cut short to see her sister staring at her missing limb. Ruby's eyes were puffy from what Yang assumed from crying. Yang walked to Ruby's bedside and rested her hand on the girls shoulder. "Ruby, are you okay?"
Ruby's eyes glanced up at her sister. Her eyes were still puffy but they seemed lively. "Oh hey sis, yeah I'm fine. Just still taking this in." Ruby jesters to her missing arm with her right side one. "The nurse went to get Blake, and when she gets here we're gonna talk about what to do next."
Yang grabs a chair that was sitting beside the door, pulling it up to the bed. "What do you think you should do next?" Yang sits down staring her sister dead on.
Ruby looked at her arm and sighed. "I want to continue being a huntress, I want to protect vale from Grimm. But what if I can't fight as well as I could before."
Yang snickered, kicking the side of the bed. "Ruby, you know as well as I do that IF is the biggest two letter word in the world. Don't let ifs hold you back from doing what you feel is right." Yang grabbed Ruby's left upper arm very gently. "This won't limit one of the best huntress of our generation. You're tougher than that and everyone knows it."
"Your sister's right Ruby, a lost limb can't limit a huntress." Ruby looked to the door to find Blake standing in its frame, there was a concerned nurse behind her. "Miss belladonna please stop before you aggravate you wounds." The nurses words fell on deaf ears as Blake walked to The right side of Ruby's bed. The Faunus leaned down and planted a soft kiss.