Chapter Eight: The Beginning of the End
Ruby had never been more scared in her entire life as she was now, this woman Cinder obviously meant to kill her. She had been getting bad vibes from Cinder from the first time that she laid on eyes on her. It was obvious that Cinder was waiting on Qrow to come and save Ruby, and Cinder didn't seem much like talking, In fact the silence was eerie and Ruby didn't like this one bit she had to break the silence.
"So Cinder, what is so important about the silver eyes, and why does Salem want me so bad, I don't know Salem and" Ruby was saying then Cinder silenced her
"Shut up, I'm not taking you to Salem, your my bait little fishy, and your uncle is the catch,ooh your a little worm on a very big hook, dear, but don't worry your soon going to be leaving this world and joining that bitch of a mother of yours" Cinder said
Anger swelled inside of Ruby that she hulled off and slugged Cinder in her face
"Don't you ever say that again, my mother wasn't a whore or slut or a Bitch as you so aptly had phrased it, I loved my mother very much, it was you who should be ashamed. your little band of misfits killed her" Ruby said
Cinder stood there with shock on her face, this girl was no ordinary girl that was for sure and Cinder had grossly under estimated Ruby's resolve.
"huh, I must admit that I am impressed girl you learn that from your sister?" Cinder said wiping the blood from her lip
"No body makes me bleed my own blood" Cinder retorted
Just then the front door of the church slammed open and Qrow was on the receiving end.
Qrow scanned the area, it was an older church the statue of the virgin Maiden at the alter holding what he assumed to be the infant Thatos, candles lit the room with an eerie glow, it disgusted him as he had always been an atheist, he never bought the whole creation story, it bugged him to no end but no wasn't the time to be complating religion Ruby was important to him. Ever since she was born he made it his passion to watch out for her, sort of his way of pencese for letting that Tyrian guy murder Summer, if he'd only been a few minutes earlier that night perhaps the whole family would be seating down to a nice dinner, even Raven would be there, and Tai.. they would be laughing and not worrying about anything, but that was just a fantasy, the reality was that Summer was gone and now Ruby was in the hands of a mad woman.
"Ruby?" Qrow shouted
"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby shouted back
Cinder kept pushing Ruby along to top of the bell tower. Qrow followed after, the stairs were really twisted similar to an MC Escher painting.
" Man I got to stop drinking so much" Qrow said as he stumbled up to the top of the Bell Tower following closely after Cinder and Ruby.
Back at the Pit...
It was a real bloodbath it made Carl Marx sick to his stomach, he bent down and then jumped back suddenly, the girl Emerald reached up and grabbed his leg, she faintly spoke
"Help me,please Cinder took the girl to the Church, she's not the Cinder that I knew,something is different with her."
Emerald fainted do to blood loss, Carl Marx knew that this girl was dead, he nodded at his two Junior detectives Sun Wu Kong and Neptune.
"She's gone, well don't just stand there, get the body bags ready" Carl said taking a drag on his cigarette, then next to Emerald's corpse he noticed a black feather, he picked it up and studied it briefly he knew who it belong to, he'd have to question her at some point but right now he knew that he was needed at the Church, the girl Ruby was defiantly in trouble and if he knew Qrow like he thought he did then Qrow was already there.
"Sun, Neptune? I am leaving you two in charge here, clean up this mess then report back to Head quarters, I will catch up afterwards, I have some loose ends to tie up, do this and I'll see that you two make actual Detective, you can't be Junior Detectives forever you know" Marx said
"Yes sir" Both Junior Detectives said saluting their captain
Marx just nodded then left the Pit for the Church, he was way over due for a confession.
Cinder and Ruby had reached the highest point of the Church, the very top of Bell Tower, it started to rain, that is usually a bad omen. Ruby managed to sucker punch Cinder and ran across the roof but it was slippery and she lost her footing. Ruby yelped as she tried to cling to the side of the roof but she was losing her grip and her faith that she wasn't going to die.
Then out of nowhere a hand grabbed her's and pulled her back to the roof, but who's was it. For a brief moment she had thought that it was her Mother,but as the image of Summer Rose faded she saw her Uncle Qrow, he had a faint smile on his face and he said
"Ha, you know kiddo, your a magnet for trouble"
Ruby without thinking hugged her Uncle, she was very scared but glad that he was there.
"Now get yourself somewhere safe, and stay there, Cinder and I have to have a little heart to heart" Qrow said
Cinder stood there arms folded and an evil grimace crept on her face.
"How very sweet, but you should have just let her die, ha ironic you can't save anyone can you how fitting though like Mother like Daughter" Cinder said
"Ya know you just don't get it do you, that is why your all alone now, all of your friends are dead" Qrow said
He saw Ruby run back to the entrance of the Bell Tower past Cinder, but Cinder didn't try to stop Ruby as now that she had her prey cornered like a fox she didn't need the bait.
Now Qrow and Cinder where all alone on the roof of the Church, Cinder struck first with a fire ball, and Qrow dodged it like a ninja. Qrow sucker punched Cinder in her gut, she bent down to grab her stomach in pain and then Qrow kneed her in her face, she stumbled backwards, she almost slipped off of the wet roof, but Qrow grabbed her preventing her from falling to her death.
"What's wrong with you, I thought that you wanted to kill me? Why be so generous now?" Cinder said
" Ha generous, nah I just couldn't let you die without first giving you a parting gift" Qrow said
"What are you.." Cinder said as Qrow placed both of his hands on her head
"Thirty hours of Intense pain, the pain that you and your little Hell Fire Club had caused Summer, Now you can die" Qrow said letting go of Cinder and she fell, fell right onto one of the gargoyles that sat on the edges of the ornate Church design, she was dead and now Qrow could return to the afterlife and join his beloved Summer for the rest of eternity.
Marx saw the girl Ruby running out of the Church and right into him.
"Woah easy there little lady, Ruby Rose right?" Marx said
"Yeah, Detective Marx? I'm glad that your here" Ruby responded
Then Qrow emerged from the darkened shadows of the Church, his makeup had all but faded and now he seemed weakened, he didn't say anything so Marx did
"What about the woman, Cinder? Is she dead?" Marx asked raising an eyebrow
"Yeah, you saved us all man, what you kept with you all this time, thanks for everything Carl" Qrow said
"Yeah I thought that it might help you but you committed a lot of murder man, hmm I can't very well arrest a dead man, so we're even now Qrow" Carl said reaching out his hand and Qrow excepted it
"Yeah we're even" Qrow said
Before Ruby could say anything she noticed a ghostly figure in white who approached them and Ruby gasped as she noticed it was her Mother, Summer smiled at her daughter but didn't say anything she bent down and placed her hand on Qrow's shoulder he gazed up at her and she smiled at him, the very same smile that he had grown to love. Summer helped Qrow up to his feet he was exhausted and could barely stand and the sun was just about to rise, then just like that they were gone, forever.
Epilogue
Yang woke up to see her mother in the kitchen, was she still dreaming or was this real, was anything that had happened in the last few days been real?
"Morning sleepy head, you hungry? I'm making eggs, did you like them sunny side up or scrambled" Raven said smiling at Yang
Yang didn't respond so Raven did
"Ah forget it, I'm sorry to have even tried, I bet that your still steamed with me, and rightly so, I wasn't very good at this whole mother thing anyway."
Yang walked over to her mother who was about to throw out the eggs, but Yang stopped her
"Over easy" Yang said smiling
Raven nodded and placed the pan back on the stove
Yang grabbed her mother's hand and spoke
"We have a lot to discuss, but if your willing to talk, then I'm willing to listen" Yang said
"Yang I" Raven said
"Tell me why mom, why did you abandoned me, I was just a child after all" Yang said
"I was scared and didn't want a baby, so I gave you up and ran away, and I have regretted it ever since, I was young and naive" Raven said
"There's more too, I knew that if Salem ever found out about you then I couldn't live with that, so I've been keeping an eye out for you ever since...from a distance" Raven said
"Well you can start now,right now, make it up to me" Yang said
"Yang I.." Raven said trailing off
"Ah Mom? Your burning the eggs" Yang said
"Oh crap." Raven said trying to save the eggs
Both girls laughs for a brief moment and then they shared a hug, it looks like a happy ending after all.
An Excerpt from my next RWBY story...
In the farthest reaches of the world of Remnant there is a Castle of a very very wicked sorceress, her name is Salem and she is very upset. She sat on her throne lightly tapping her fingers on it, she was waiting for the results of the events that had transpired.
Then the doors opened and there was a thin man with a thick mustache and a wicked smile he was her right hand man Arthur Watts.
Watts was a scientist and a political activist. He had no know semblance but he had knowledge and as they say Knowledge is power.
"Well Arthur, what have you to report" Salem said
"As you had predicted my grace, Cinder and her band of idiots have failed, the Hell Fire Club has all but burnt out, Now if I may suggest that we move ahead with the next phase of the plan?" Watts reported
"Useless peons, never send a girl to do a woman's job. Rest assured my sweet scientist, the power of the Maidens and Ozpin's death is an assured thing, so I want you to go to Atlas and convince the good General that a war is on the horizon, if he doesn't turn over the Winter Maiden and the Atlas Relic to us we will start killing innocents, starting with the good citizens of Mantle, oh and Neo will accompany you" Salem said waving her hand and a young girl with with multiple colored hair and a derby style hat approached, she was the silent type and that worked to Watts' advantage because she wouldn't give him any lip. Arthur nodded in agreement and then the two left to complete their next objective, one team had already failed Lady Salem, this one couldn't as well.
Authors notes:
Well that was it, my first real Fan fic in awhile, I kinda had lost interest in it because of life in general, and now that I have more time to do so I plan on working on more stories in the not too distant future, in fact I have some other fan fics that I plan on re-uploading as soon as I can find them that is, anyway with all that is happening in the world today we need distractions.
