A/N
The finale is getting split into 2 chaps to prevent it from getting too cramped (Which it still is). Might've made a mistake by putting everybody in one place at one time. I swear I'm not trying to delay anything, but it just... happens.
Oh well...
Imma try to post the 2nd either tomorrow or the day after , keeping my promise to y'all that I will finish the fall this week, since I want to finish the aftermath about before or after X-mas.
Evans's POV
"Urrk..." Evans's groaned, his voice carrying throughout the helmet, if he could even call it that, for in reality it was really more of a sound between a choke and a gurgle, and planted his hands on the ground as he turned his body around, shaking uncontrollably from head to toe, causing him to pluck out a handful of grass from the burning pain from the impact alone.
The armour clanked and rattled as Evans managed to stagger up awkwardly through the numbing soreness in Louis's- his, muscles somehow, swaying sideways like a drunken person would as he tried to find stable footing, but despite his efforts, it was cut short as his legs gave away, buckling while he sagged down to one knee.
Sharp pain shot up from the toes of his feet the moment his knee touched the ground, flaring up and spreading throughout the body like wildfire through a dry forest.
"Definitely... have to work... on my... landing... strategy..." He hissed in pain as it scanned for his bearings. "Is this... the Emerald Forest?"
But... there were so many Grimm.
It would be impossible for them to just leave... again.
Not without Louis... me, luring them in.
Where did they all go?
A large blast resounded from a good distance away, followed up by a thunderous pained roar that shook the ground beneath his feet.
Evans's shoulders tensed as his first thoughts that entered his mind were to limp away, before he realized that the sound that reverberated the ground was very far away, and knowing that fact somehow brought a wave of calm to wash over his body in his situation. Out of nowhere, a sudden rush of air burst through the trees, almost blew Evans off of his feet.
His reflexes kicked in, resulting in him holding both hands in front of him while he squared his feet to a low crouch, putting his center of gravity somewhere below his crotch.
It was a big mistake.
A sickening crunch made it's way to his ears.
"FUCK!" Evans cursed as unbearable pain shot through his knee, where the armor had dissolved all the way through and showed Louis's exposed joint, slowly twisting and cracking into an awkward angle from getting dragged across the ground being him, taking a chunk of the soggy mud and tracing it in an engraved line underneath him while the hurricane blasted his body in somewhat same direction, causing his body to twist sideways while his bad foot anchored it in place.
Despite his best efforts, it was impossible to keep the body angled perfectly in order to counter the blast, especially not with the injury Louis gained.
Resistance was futile. With a final, sharp breath, his knee finally snapped, twisting into an almost 90 degree angle that would even have even the most brutal of the White Fang members flinching.
"ARGHH!" He roared aloud as his hands rushed to where his exposed knee is, if only to push down on it to lessen the pain. When Evans's eyes roved down and saw all the spikes jutting into it, it took all of his will not to touch it, trying hard not to look at it, for it only reminded him of what was going to happen next.
The armor detected the damage immediately, shooting spikes into the body where necessary and twisting immediately back into it's proper position with a burst of blood.
"SHIT!"
With no hope of ever condemning or mitigating the wave of pain that was now coursing through his body in full, he propped his back against the nearest tree and hugged it, clawing into it profusely with grit teeth while pushing his torso up on the length of the trunk for support, only to crash to the ground on his side, where the literal thorn on his sides jutted just a little deeper into flesh and bone.
"GAAAGH! Fucking piece of-!" Evans couldn't find himself to finish that sentence as his voice died in his throat, suddenly turning into a gurgle.
"Blaaaaagh!" The mouthpiece flooded, the scarlet substance telling Evans that it didn't just consist of just bile but fresh, warm blood, spilling through the cracks between it's metal maws like a broken dam. Somehow, some of it remained internally despite the strain and the fighting. Evans could feel more forcing it's way up his throat, but he swallowed to keep it in, forcing it to stay down.
It was a miracle Louis's body was still moving.
"Urk... pfffbbbt Aggh... blah... hah..." Evans's hands trembled and shook as he tried to wipe his mouth with the back of his hand, only to flinch at the screeching sound of metal against metal, forgetting for a second that he- Louis, was completely armoured.
[Warframe OST The Sacrifice To Take It's Pain Away (1 Hour)]
"Gods... Ruby was right... you're an idiot..." Evans said as he managed to sit down, if he could even call it that. In reality, all he really did just fall on his rear, and thank the gods that at least Louis's behind was free of the thorns.
His shoulders sagged, no longer feeling pain.
Or... anything else for that matter.
As if that wasn't enough, fatigue then came crashing down on both his mind and body, causing him to be nauseous once more as his vision swirled and blurred, and before he knew it, he was seeing double again, without much hope of seeing clarity for long.
"Not... here...." Evans muttered as his eyelids drew to a close and his metal snout nodded off, but the sound of his snout clanking against his breastplate was enough to wake him up.
"Not... now..." It took every last drop of effort to peel his eyelids back and force them to stay open.
The unbearable pain seared into his mind and ate away at his sanity while the gallons of blood leaked out of not only his metal jaws, but through the cracks in between his gauntlets, tassets and every other crack where a wound lays.
He hoped that he could say his muscles were just sore but Evans could no longer feel them, as if everything had shut down from head to toe. He would do anything right now to just close his eyes, and wake up to his own body find this all some fiendish nightmare.
He nodded off again.
Another resounding clank jolted him awake.
Gods he wanted to. The opportunity was too tempting to pass that he had to pry his eyelids open once more.
But he knew.
Knew too well that if he did that now, he wouldn't be able to sleep at night at the thoughts of the fact that he indirectly was responsible for the death of his close friend.
His brother.
If Louis was awake right now he would tell him not to worry. That it wasn't his fault that he was taking away his last breath. That it would be a mercy kill if anything to end it now.
Louis would pat his back telling him that he did a good job, and thanked him for protecting the girls for his sake, and would ask of him to continue to do so in his place.
And he would probably kill me for trying to save him. Yell at me to get back to my own body and tell me he could take care of himself, that this pain was his to bear, and his alone.
The edge of Evans's lips twisted into a smirk.
With a heavy sigh, he let his hands fall to his sides with a clatter and a heavy plop. He could still move them if his mind demands it, due to the armour more than anything, but as for feeling it?
Evans couldn't feel anything. It's as if his body consists of only his head, and nothing else.
At least he could feel his face, explained by the bad itch currently invading his nose, probably caused by the sudden spray of blood. An itch he couldn't scratch brain dead or not.
"You know... if I'd knew you'd do this so soon I would've possessed your body and sent love letters to the girls, hiding it under their pillows or something. Bet that would stir up quite a commotion to know you'd write your real feelings to them." Evans chuckled, then flinched immediately.
It'd hurt to even laugh, for the thorns embedded between his ribcage rattled within.
"Do you really wanna die a virgin?" Evans taunted with a choke as his eyes rolled up to look up into his skull, as if he could somehow find Louis in there somewhere. "I don't think any of the boys would approve of that, escpecially me. Except Dwiki of course." He added as his lips twisted into a smirk. "That dude always hogs everything to look like the most knowledgeable and powerful person in the room after all."
"You idiot. We hadn't even gotten our beach or onsen episode yet." He snorted. "Bet you wouldn't wanna miss the girls in their bikini's now do you? Not that that would make much of a difference, since you did saw them completely undressed, after all. But there is a certain amount of thrill to seeing them half clothed, curiosity taking over to wonder what's within."
Come on, tell me it's my fault.
The Semblance abusing cunt.
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"Tch..."
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"I know you're not a person to regret decisions, doing this especially for our sake. Our survival." Evans found the need to specify, despite the person he's talking to being completely out of the equation. "But don't do this. I, out of all people, know that you're not a cruel person. Bet you don't want to see any of them or us breaking down in tears over your dead body now do you? We'd never seen Ruby cry over Summer's dead body in the show. And we sure as hell don't want to see that now. Giving her helplessness like that would break her."
Tell me it won't.
That she's too strong for it.
That she would push on no matter what, just like how she did at the beginning of Volume 4.
Say something...
Anything...
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"Fuck...."
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"Come on guys..." Evans muttered as he looked up at the only source of light making it's way down through the small spaces between branches. "What's taking so long?"
A/N
[End the music here]
Kevin's POV
"HEAVE!" Kevin yelled as Glynda held out her crop and struggled with it, purple energy wrapping around the oversized bird that was trying to break free from it's binds, only to find more enshrouding it's body in the form of a faint pink glow.
The Giant Nevermore squawked angrily as the wires slowly untangled itself while beyond it's will, it slowly descended a few feet, with Glynda holding one arm over the other, struggling to keep in control.
It screeched out in pain, it's feathers bristling as it lashed out against the mysterious phenomenon it was unfamiliar with.
"HO!"
The Nevermore catapulted several hundred feet in the air, suddenly finding no resistance at all, flinging it's body further and beyond as it's body hurtled and spun wildly in the air, with the blades from Penny scoring deep scratches within.
The airship the others was in was in launched backwards mid air, as if fishing for an giant whale while it's fishing line finally snapped.
"Woah!" Qrow shouted from within. "Hey, keep it steady old man!"
"You should've held on tighter!" The pilot countered with a deep growl.
"Father is not old." Penny said flatly. "He is only 54 years 4 months 2 days 10 hours 55 minutes 10 seconds of age."
"That's OLD!" Qrow yelled, staggering over the low groaning of the ship that finally tiltied with the correct attitude.
Before he has a chance to open his mouth again, his eyes widened as he pushed Winter, who was looking the other way, out of danger, right on time to evade a giant metal dish came clattering into the small opening in the ship.
"Are you trying to kill us?!" Qrow snarled, a trickle of sweat cascading down the side of his brow, barely having the time to react himself as Jaune and Pyrhha clambered to their knees, as far away from the open hatch as possible
"That's a funny way to thank us." Kevin taunted as Qrow dusted himself off. "You're welcome by the way."
"Fuck you." Qrow cussed instead, and would've getting an elbow from his niece, if she was even able to stand up.
"Uncle Qrow..." Ruby muttered instead, almost to the point of slurring weakly as the ginger haired android helped her up by her shoulders to prop her against her seat, which she fell off of from the moment the plane jerked.
"Friend Kevin." The ginger haired girl greeted with an uncanny smile. "I am glad you are safe from harm."
"And I you." Kevin replied.
His eyes then roved over to the other figure beside the small reaper, where the cat faunus... her clone to be exact, was sitting with stiff shoulders, while her real self was on her feet with eyes and ears just as suspicious, securing the doorway between the cockpit and the assassin in their midst.
Her hands loosely gripped Gambol Shroud as amber eyes tracked the multi coloured girl.
"Secure Weiss first!"
Neo strapped the elder Schnee to her seat, holding out both hands in an attempt to calm her down as the Atlesian Specialist struggled to get loose, but the small girl proved stronger than she looked, and managed to hold her down as she buckled the safety belts on her waist.
"What is she doing here?!" Blake yelled. "She's working with Roman Torchwick! She was the one who knocked Yang out on the train! She's here to kill us all!"
"Uhh..." Adrian muttered.
"Great..." Kevin placed a palm on his forehead and dragged it down his face.
Looks like I have to take everything into my own hands for once.
"EVERYBODY SHUT UP!"
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Everybody stood there as they stared at him, speechless and frozen on whatever they were doing in the first place.
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"This is the part where you say 'engine start', right?" Adrian asked as he glanced at Kevin.
Shift
"Not now." Kevin shoved him as his eyes strayed to Amber, who lay lifeless on the cold floor. "What happened?" He asked as his eyes met the only 2 conscious members of team RWBY. "Where's Evans?"
"W-we don't know..." Ruby admitted, and yelped as all eyes and attention landed on her. "I-I think we saved Louis... from that... that... thing." Ruby managed to blurt out with a shiver, hugging her arms as she broke off eye contact and met the floor. "Then we got blasted away with white light. By the time we returned..."
"Shit." Kevin cursed as he peered off the edge to see if he can find a black glint of steel.
"W-what was that thing anyway?" It was Blake's turn to shake, as her breaths came out hitched. Her feet turned to jelly as she was suddenly reminded of her bad burn and the pain on her palms. "What did we just encounter?"
"Miss Belladona." Glynda asked sternly with the tone of a woman with authority, though there was a tinge of concern in her tone. "What did both you and Miss Rose see?"
"Something that shouldn't ever be birthed or given life to." Kevin explained without turning back, eyes darting left and right to see any signs of life other than the river of black that was crawling and piling atop each other en masse. "Where did you last saw him?"
"O-on the dragon..." Ruby faltered as both her and Blake's hearts sank.
Any hopes that their efforts was worth it died an ugly death as a pit opened in their stomachs, threatening to swallow them hole.
"D-does that mean... h-he's... L-Louis is..." Ruby sniffled as her eyes turned glassy, unshed tears almost spilling out. "L-Louis is..." Her voice cracked. "He's..."
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"Well, I don't see a glint of metal anywhere near that bastard of a giant, everything is barely reflective despite the forest fire lighting everything up as far as my eyes can see, so they sure as hell made it out of there somehow."
Blake's feline ears perked up at that, even Ruby visibly released a breath she didn't realize she was holding. Her shoulder's sagged in relief.
"But there's no telling if he's alive." Kevin hissed as he slammed his palm against the door. "I'm not sure how far they've gone, but if that dragon's gonna fully recover it'll flood the whole forest with fire and or Grimm. There's no telling where he is. Why the fuck did he had to pick black?"
Blake's ears flattened against her head and looked away with gritted teeth.
"B-but there's a chance?" Ruby asked meekly. "I mean, Evans hadn't returned to Amber's body-"
"Or his own." Adrian said as he pointed at the glass tube at the end of the ship, similar to the ones Amber was kept in, but laid out horizontally and placed top and bottom like bunk beds instead of side by side, with the panels filled with rows of buttons in between.
"True." Kevin smirked. "So he probably is alive, we just need to know where to look."
"Where do we even start?" Blake asked, but was completely ignored by the 3 men as they continued.
"You might've just cost us the only way to deal with that dragon Grimm." Derrick muttered, getting confused looks from everybody around, bar Qrow, who's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Oh you wanna deal with the aftermath?" Kevin challenged. "I'm sure Louis would be in a great mood after going on a literal rampage. Maybe he'll cheer up once he figures out you used his teammate as a tool."
"Hey, I don't like it either, but it's kill or be killed." Derrick said as he put both hands up in front of his face to defend himself. "And right now, I prefer the former. It's just an idea, unless you have a better one."
"Kevin." Adrian said in a worried tone as he pointed. "Is it just me? Or is the dragon fusing with the Amity Arena and making it it's core?"
Kevin's shoulders stiffened, without even looking at his face, his body language indicated that he was panicking as he rushed off to pop his head out of the rectangular space, not even worrying for a second that he could fall.
"OH FOR FUCKS SAKE!"
"We have to get out of here." Qrow pointed out. "Now."
Everybody just shot him confused looks. Some glares, from Blake and Kevin especially while others longed for an explanation.
"We're not going anywhere without Louis." Ruby said from her seat.
"Neither are we." Kevin snarled. "You got a problem with that?"
"Look pal, that thing is gonna recover soon. If you want to stay here searching for a dead man then by all means, be my guest." Qrow said as he paused to glance at Ruby for a second, before looking at Yang. "But I'm not going to let my nieces be part of it."
"Uncle Qr-"
"We. Are. Not. Leaving. Without. Louis." Kevin repeated. "So you can go fuck yourself if you think you wanna go. You could transform into a bird and fly away any time can you not-?"
Kevin suddenly found nothing to stand on as his feet dangled in the air, a palm wrapping around his throat, taking only a loose finger to send him tumbling to his death.
"Who are you working for? Salem?!" Qrow yelled. "Who are you?!"
"Qrow!" Both Winter and Glynda yelled.
"Uncle Qrow let him go!"
"Stay out of this Ruby!" Qrow snarled as he used his free hand to push Ruby back to her seat. "Where is she?! Where is Salem and what's she planning to do next?!"
Kevin smirked as he stared Qrow down, not even bothered that his life or death was in the hands of the man before him.
Literally.
"Provoke the drunken man why don't you." Adrian sighed as he put his hand around Qrow's arm. "Let him go Qrow."
"Are you sure about that?" Qrow threatened as he looked at the forest. "Adrian was it? You a part of this too?"
"You wouldn't believe us if we told you who we are." Kevin said without a hint of fear in his tone. "At least, not without constant proof, and that's gonna take time, so I'd recommend you let me back in the ship, then we could talk about it when we finally get the band back together."
"You think I'm stupid?" Qrow snarled and tightened his grip around his throat. "The moment I let you back in, you're going to alert the Queen about our whereabouts."
"I'm not a part of her faction, if that's what you're worried about." Kevin sighed nonchalantly. "Even if I was, your nieces would've been nothing but bones by now. But if you wish to kill me in front of Ruby, do it. It'll just show you what kind of a man you really are."
"Grrrh..." Qrow growled as Harbinger rattled in his arm, his knuckles turning white as the small leader stared at him with wide eyes.
He raised Harbinger above his head. "You really like to run your mouth don't you? I don't have to kill you, I could just-"
"They're not from this world!"
"Jaune...?" Pyrhha muttered as she held her boyfriend back. "You're not supposed to-"
"What do you expect me to do? Sit back and watch while they get tortured like this?" Jaune said as he held out both hands to Qrow, who kept his eyes to Kevin at all times. "They don't deserve to be treated like this. They've helped us so much, and this is how we repay them?!"
"Who are 'they'?" Glynda asked. "Mr Arc, explain yourself, what do you know that we don't?"
"Louis, Evans, Kevin, Adrian, Derrick and Dwiki." Jaune held his breath for a second as he expected both Adrian and Derrick to lunge at him to shut him up, but to his surprise, both just stared in amusement. "They're from another world named Earth. They died there, reincarnated here in our world. On earth however, our world is an show of some kind made for their sick entertainment. The point I'm trying to get across is..." He took a deep breath. "They know things we don't, like what's about to happen, and to our advantage, they're on our side."
"Ah dammit..." Adrian slapped his knee. "Here!"
5 lien fluttered past Kevin and into the evening air, floating down like a dried leaf into the forest below.
"You couldn't have waited until we were both back on the plane?" Kevin deadpanned. "That doesn't count by the way, so you still owe me 5 for the bet that lover boy would crack first."
Qrow glanced at Ruby, where she had her head down, refusing to meet his eyes, then to Blake, who glumly nodded.
"And who put that shit in your head?"
"Louis did..." Ruby muttered softly. "He told us-"
"Then he could just be another Cinder, only told to turn on you all later rather then sooner. Salem has gotten a little more creative on the backstories these days." Qrow spat. "Natural, given how long she's lived with nothing but Grimm it'll drive anybody insane."
"Oh yeah, sure, have him within the legendary Berserker armor which impales the user in order to fix them mind you, have him draw the Grimm away from Beacon and towards the deserted Mount Glenn, kill them all, ripped the tail out of Dwayne Johnson's scorpion king with better CG, and gravely injure Cinder, the latter being half the maiden mind you, and is currently in a position to die here and now should we leave him." Kevin said with sarcasm so thick, it could kill a cow. "Did I miss anything?"
"I think you missed the part where he actually brought all the Grimm back." Qrow smirked victoriously at his little loophole, and Kevin felt the man's fingers loosen slightly. "That's proof enough that he's on Salem's side, isn't it?"
"And he wouldn't have," Kevin said simply. "If you'd have arrived to save her on time. Or if she didn't try to save me and let that sword actually connect." He said at the trembling reaper grasping her naval. "Glad to see you're doing alright, by the way, but try not to do that again."
"B-but that's what huntresses do." Ruby tried to explain herself. "W-we protect people."
"And I appreciate the save." Kevin said with a wave of his hand. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not ungrateful. But you're his teammate. You're all as important to him as we are, and we've known him probably all our lives."
"It was the trigger to knock his 'Overdrive' loose, like a shaken soda can. Thus, the Grimm come." He explained as he gestured behind him. "Just like ants."
"I think you forgot to mention one thing." Someone said. "That he slept wi-"
"Let's... leave that out of the equation for now." Kevin cut off before his hard earned effort died an ugly death. "Glad to see you're in one piece, clumsy D." He said as his eyes looked past Qrow and over to the co pilot's seat, directly above Blake's cat ears. "Though you couldn't handle this commotion long before we got here to give us a warm welcome?"
"Haaaagh..." He mooed as his seat spun around. "What's the point in trying? They wouldn't listen to me anyway."
"He finally realized it on his own accord." Adrian snickered.
"Why me?"
"Is this true?" Qrow ignored then and looked over his shoulder, breaking off eye contact with the rotund man just this once. "Is that where all the Grimm went to when we rendezvoused in the city?"
Winter nodded slowly. "Another world though...? That's a bit far fetched. But that explains why they were brave enough to stand between us when we foug- sparred." The Atlesian specialist corrected herself as Glynda sent a glare her way. "They knew our weapons would never have connected in that last moment."
"Wait, we fought?" Qrow asked.
"Right, you were as high as a bird when that happened." Kevin chuckled. "No pun intended."
"Tch..." Qrow slowly placed Kevin down, patting off his shoulders once he was on solid ground. "I still don't trust you, any of you." He added as he looked at Adrian, then Derrick. "But if Ruby trusts this person in that dark suit of armor so much... then we'll go pick him up, but after that," He said quickly when Ruby's eyes lit up. "We leave."
"You can't be serious." Ruby muttered. "Uncle Qrow, we can't just let that thing roam around Remenant-!"
"That thing was responsible for the death of a dear friend of mine." Qrow winced after looking at Ruby, shaking his head as he recalled the memory. "I don't want the same thing happening to you. Any of you." He added as he stared longingly towards Yang.
"With your best efforts, your group tried to kill it, yet it stands." He said, nodding towards Glynda. "It's a good effort, and if that thing really is making the Amity Arena it's core, it's about to gain a lot of weight, so it's not going anywhere anytime soon, it might be for the best to just leave it be."
"B-but it's going to-!"
"We leave once we find your friend Ruby." Qrow repeated. "I'm not about to see history repeat itself just because you think you can stand up to something you're not ready for."
"Teammate." Blake corrected.
"Sure, teammate, whatever. My point stands, we leave afterwards."
"I agree."
"You... do?"
"Blake...?" Ruby asked as she stared at the cat faunus. "What are you-"
"Louis would've said the same thing Ruby." Blake sighed. "That thing is too powerful for us to handle right now. Not even he could imagine this happening."
"B-but if we don't stop it-"
"Beacon was doomed right from the start." Kevin said. "We tried for the direct approach and failed. We find Louis, then we go."
"Grrh..." Ruby bit her lip. "Derrick!"
"Hm?" The person in question faced the small reaper. "What?"
"You said earlier that there was a way for us to deal with the dragon Grimm. How?!"
"W-well..." He said as he nervously glanced at Qrow, then to Kevin for confirmation.
"Your call." Kevin shrugged, his shoulders rising and falling without any purpose as if to say he was on his own should things go south. "Don't say I didn't warn you."
"T-the night you met Ozpin..." Derrick started with a small stammer. "What was the first thing said to you?"
Qrow grit his teeth.
"He- I... I don't know, what does that have to do wi-"
"Silver eyes..." Derrick muttered.
"Stop!" Qrow yelled as he stormed towards Derrick, who held out both hands. "You don't know what you're doing!"
"Uncle Qrow stop!"
"Ruby get out of my way!" Qrow stepped to the side as Ruby stood in between him and Derrick. "Don't be a hero!"
"What are you talking about?! You taught me how to use a scythe to slay the creatures of Grimm. You told me that I could be anything if I put my heart into it!" Ruby yelled back. "This concerns everybody else, not just me, but Vale, Patch, dad, maybe even Remenant!"
"You don't understand!"
"What? That in too young to be a hero? I enrolled in Beacon for a good reason Uncle Qrow. I wanted to be a huntress, and both you and dad ensured I would be a good one."
"That's not it Ru-"
"So why are you stopping me here, why now?" She snapped. "If there is a way to slow it down, let alone kill it, why would I sit and wait when I can-"
"BECAUSE THAT THING KILLED SUMMER!"
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"W-what...?" Ruby staggered to the side, wobbling unstably and having Derrick flinching with his back into the corner, ready to catch her if needed.
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"Tch..." Qrow spat to the side, glaring out of the corner of his eye as if to accuse them, as if saying 'See what'd you've made me done?'
"I hoped I didn't ever have to tell you." Qrow sighed, eyes on the floor. "Your mom was a great warrior squirt. And an awesome super mom, the way Yang puts it." He said as his eyes roved over to Yang, his look full of regret as he remembered what his sister did, how she left Tai after the 'accident'. In truth it was more of self sacrifice, so that both he and Raven could live.
"She was an even more experienced silver eyed warrior couldn't deal with that Grimm, so tell me, what's to say you have a chance at all?" Qrow scoffed as he closed his eyes, before giving Ruby a hardened glare that even surpassed Winter's. "You don't even know how to activate them, let alone, know what they do, do you?"
"B-but... Derrick said I did something in the show..." Ruby muttered as her gaze locked onto the man with the purple hood. "I did it, right? I saved everybody by killing the dragon."
"You didn't let me finish." Edgy sighed as he pinched his nose ridge. "You did. You did more than just kill the dragon, you fatally wounded Cinder as well... but it came at a cost."
Ruby's heart sunk and her gut twisted, knowing she wouldn't like what she's about to hear. "And that cost was...?"
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Exchanging glances between the glum but curious looks everybody was giving him, Derrick took one deep breath before he admitted.
"The death of both Penny and Pyrrha."
A/N
Wew, that took a while to write.
Apparently I can't put an end to the Fall all in one chapter, so much for that. Whoopsie me.
Reviewer Sessions
(Really tired of putting chapter marks in here, since most are updated comments while I PM those that comment on early chaps, gonna leave that out from now on.)
paradox0.5white: No spoilers here, gonna have to wait for that.
Sacke110: Badly timed pun is badly timed. Then again, what can you do when you're high xD. Kevin's just doing what he thinks is right, probably doesn't want anybody to get left behind, so.
DankAnon: I KNOW right? I mean, Raven being part in a tribe, I'm sure that's common practice. Wonder if she and Qrow are accidents.