A/N I hope you all still enjoy this, please don't hate me.
Ch.38 Mourning
Ozpin turned back to the group looking over them. "Stay in the ship." Blake started to say something but Yang pulled her close. Ozpin started walking with the man to the spot in the rubble they had cleared. "We found it near what we think is origin of the explosion. The dust we think that exploded here was so unstable it vaporized everything in a four meter radius."
"Did you find a body?" Ozpin asked stopping the man and looking him in the eyes.
"We found most of one, but If someone had been next to that explosion. I would be surprised if we found another one." The two walked the rest of the way and when they finally made it Ozpin saw what they had found. It was Dantes coat, most of it, it looked like it had been caught in the blast and then thrown from the blast site. There was not much left of it but he knew it was Dantes. The crews were still digging through the rubble when someone else called out.
"I got something here." Ozpin made his way over to the spot and by the time he got there they had the object pulled out. It was one of Dantes swords and Ozpin knew the second would be around here. It was as he was turned to walk back that the second sword was found the workers handed all the stuff to him and he started walking back.
"I think its time to call off the search." All the workers looked up to Ozpin who was looking over the remains. "I think we found all we are going to find." Ozpin made his way back down to the ship. As he stepped in Wynne stood and walked over to him to see what he found. All he did was put Dantes coat in her hands and put his swords in the corner.
"No, no, no." Ruby got up and made her way to Wynne and pulled her in close and she gave in crying into the girl.
"Nala I am sorry." She said into the girls ear. Blake broke down worse than she did last night She could not stand, and she was crying heavily. Yang grabbed her and pulled her close letting her cry as much as she wanted. This hurt Yang and she wanted to cry but she knew that Ruby and her needed to be strong for the other two. Weiss could only watch from her spot on the bench as the scene play out in front of her. Wynne was still clutching Dantes coat when Ozpin had the pilot lift off and make his way back to Beacon. The whole way back Yang held Balke as she cry and Ruby held Wynne. They were silent for the whole ride back, the only sound was of the two girls crying. Once the ship landed Yang and Ruby helped the girls to their feet and started to walk with them.. Neither of them wanted to move but they needed to. Weiss watched and as she walked by she grabbed Dantes swords carrying them with her. Ruby and Yang guided the two girls to a more private place where they could mourn. They brought the girls to their dorm and let them cry as much as they needed.
"Ruby he is gone, my brother, the last person on this Earth that loved me." Ruby pulled her head up and met eyes with the young faunus.
"Nala, he was not the last person." Ruby said looking at the crying girl. Wynne knew what she meant but was too heartbroken to do anything. "And yes he is gone, but is that what he would want you to do?" Ruby said pulling the girl back into her. "I miss him too but you need to keep moving forward he would want you to." Wynne looked up. "And when you think it is too hard to go on I will be here." Ruby kissed the girl on her forehead and Wynne started to feel better hearing the the girls words. Blake on the other hand was having a worse time. No matter what Yang said to her nothing seemed to help her even in the slightest. She was slipping into a darkness that would swallow her whole and there was nothing any of them could do about it. Days started to pass and nothing changed she would not eat, sleep all she would do is sit in the dark clutching a picture of them Yang had taken at the dance. After a few days Wynne was not at 100% but she was better, though sometimes she would see something or hear something that would trigger a little breakdown but Ruby was always there like she said she would be. In the end it was Wynne who finally got through to Blake. Wynne walked into the dark dorm and switched on the light looking over to Blake who was laying on her bed facing the wall.
"Blake." Wynne said poking her in the back. She waited for a minute or two trying to get Blake to respond to her. "Blake." She said again trying to get her attention. "I'm not gonna leave till you come down here and talk with me." Blake turned over sat up and got out of her bed. The girl looked like a mess but Wynne looked right past that. "I have been working on something and I want you, no he wants you to have it." Wynne pulls out Dantes coat from a bag that she had with you. She had worked hard on getting it back into one piece. "I worked a long time on trying to get this back like he had it. Once I get it all together I tried it on and someone it still works." Blake was lost for words she wanted to take the coat and hold it tight like it was him. She started to reach for it tears in her eyes when Wynne pulled it back. She looked hurt and started to look down at the ground. "No no." Wynne said lifting her head up by the chin. "If you want this there are some things I want you to do." Blake looked into her eyes tears filling them. "No more of this." She said using her free hand to grab Blakes. "Dante would not want this, he would want you to move on, like I did."
"Wynne I can't it's too much he was too much to me."
"I know he was a lot to me, and it hurts every day but you are only hurting yourself by not moving on." Wynne walked to the back of her with his coat in hand and started putting it on Blake. "It's time to remember him but also move on, and there are people all around you who are here when you have a bad day." Once the coat was on Wynne walked back to the front of Blake. The coat started to warm her like it did that time back in the tree and it felt like his arms around her. "Now how about we start a new day." Wynne put her hand out and slowly Blake put hers in it. "A new day it is."