Yang stared at herself in the bathroom mirror, in the team's dorm room. The blonde had been hiding in there, ever since she left Goodwitch's class. Yang's hands gripped the sink, glaring at the image looking back at her, her eyes were a burning red a darker red than she had ever seen them.
"Why aren't they changing back?" Yang's voice was shaken, the blonde was on the edge of tears. "it's already been an hour, it has never taken this long before." The blonde touched her cheek before squeezing her eyes shut as if this would help return them to lilac. "What am I going to do?" she ran a hand through her hair.
"You can't do anything now, why even bother trying." The voice was mocking the girl, in her desperate state. "Don't you feel that connection of control you have on your body starting to slip?" Yang looked down at her hands, it was true, she had been feeling like she was fighting a losing battle for a while now, she could barely keep herself under control. Yang slid down the marble wall of the bathroom. The girl's hands on her face, her elbows rested on her knees.
"I hate to admit it, but you're right." The brawler let out a bitter laugh, tears starting to sting her eyes. "All this hard work seems pointless now, I've trained so hard. I finally found a place and people who see me for me, and yet I'm going to lose everything to a fucked up thing in my head. How is that fair?" Yang ran her hand through her hair, taking a hand full of it.
`I wouldn't say it was a complete waste of time, just maybe having friends. But the training part comes in useful to get rid of those so-called friends." Yang felt sick thinking about the threat, The voice was amused by the blonde's reaction, how weak she had become.
"I wouldn't let you do that," Yang growled, her fist clenched, her teeth grinding together.
`And how are you going to stop me? after all, you did so well trying to help vomit boy.` Yang looked down, she could see the fear in Jaunes's eyes and the rare sight of Pyrrha's anger. Yang didn't even stay around long enough to see her team. `Do you even think they want to know you, after what you did?`
"Why?" Yang's voice was shaking. "Why now? What makes now so different?"
"Hmm?" the voice hummed as if it was contemplating answering the girl's question. "I guess since there is nothing you can do, I might as well tell you. Do you remember the fight with the ice cream girl?.` Yang searched her mind, frowning, she was finding it hard to put any of it together. `Oh, that's right, you don't remember anything.` The voice laughed. `Well, minus her being on top of you and giving you a little kiss.`
"Shut up," Yang growled at how smug the voice sounded. Suddenly, Yang's head began to hurt, memories from that night rushing back to her, everything from seeing her teammates on the white fang's screen to Torchwick attacking Blake, and then finally, Neo. The mute girl had beaten the blonde so easily. Then all of a sudden, the girl was on top of her, her sword pressed against her neck, keeping her pinned down. Then Yang remembered the smug look as the needle was pulled away from her neck. "The syringe?" Yang breathed out. "Why wouldn't I remember that?" She asked, confused.
"Oh, I think that might be my fault." the voice said innocently. "As soon as that needle went in, I could feel how it weakened your Aura, so I took the opportunity and messed with the memory, but I chose to keep in the kiss. After all, that was the best part of the fight." Yang felt sick, rushing over to the toilet and throwing up. "The best thing is that stuff is still in your system, and there is nothing you can do about it." Yang wiped her mouth clean, resting her head against the wall, running through the options. However, a thundering bang at the bathroom door brought her out of her thoughts. Causing her to jump at the unexpected sound.
"Yang, get out here, this instant," Weiss yelled through the door. Yang didn't need to see the girl's face to know she was furious. She waited a moment, hoping that if she didn't make any noise, the girl would go away, but after another bang on the door, she let out a sigh and forced herself to stand. The blonde opened the door to be greeted by a furious looking heiress. However, Weiss stiffened up as blue eyes connected with red. The brawler looked away, walking past the girl and ignoring the other two in the room.
"What the hell was all that about?" Weiss flung her arms in the air. "Are you even listening to me?" Again Yang said nothing, keeping her back to her team. Yang picked up her weapons, sliding each gauntlet on to her wrist. Anger boiled up in the pit of Weiss's stomach, she marched right over to the blonde, grabbing her shoulder and spinning the taller girl around.
"HEY," Yang growled as Weiss grabbed a bit of hair in the process, accidentally pulling it. "Watch what you're doing." The blonde growled, running a hand over her hair, fighting to keep the anger under control.
"I wouldn't have done that if you had just answered me." Weiss shot back, while the other two just watched the two.
"What do you want?" Yang snapped at the girl.
"An explanation would be nice." Yang shook her head and turned her back to Weiss once again, collecting her ammo shells. "What you did to Jaune was vicious."
"We won, didn't we," The Brawler said. The team looked at each other, taken back by the words. This was so unlike Yang to say. "I thought that's what mattered the most to you, princess."
Weiss looked at the girl disgusted at her statement.
"Is that what you think of me? even I'm not that shallow to attack my own friends." The white themed teammate clenched her fist. "You even destroyed the changing room." Yang shrugged her shoulders. "You know, everybody is avoiding asking you, just in case you through a temper tantrum. But what has gotten into you? you are acting like a psycho?" Yang froze before continuing to working on her weapons. She didn't even bother answering the girl, choosing to give her the silent treatment.
"What are you even doing with your weapons?" Ruby's voice was soft and unsure about asking the question.
"It doesn't matter." Yang tried to brush off the question, heading to the door, but Weiss stepped in front of her. "Get out of my way, Weiss." The brawler threatened.
"Not until you tell us where you are going." The heiress refused to budge.
"I'm going out." Yang raised her voice at the girl, feeling her chest tighten, the burning sensation of her semblance drowning her. "I'm not going to ask you again. Weiss, get out of my way." Both girls narrowed their eyes, none of them willing to back down.
"Yang," The blonde's eyes landed on her partner, sitting on her bed. "You can't leave here, not in the state you're currently in. You'll end up doing something you'll regret." Blake tried to force the girl to see reason.
"She is right, Yang." Ruby stood up from Weiss's bed." You can't leave. Maybe, if you tell us what is wrong, we can help you. You don't need to keep this to yourself. Please, let us help you." Yang's red eyes connected with Ruby's silver, the intense staredown caused the younger girl to look down.
"You can't help me, Ruby, no one can." Yang let out a heavy sigh, her voice actually sounded apologetic. For a split second, Blake swore that the brawler's eyes went back to purple.
"How do you even know that? You haven't even told us what the problem is." Ruby replied. "Yang, let us help you." The red-themed girl pleaded. Yang could feel her anger bubbling up inside of her, the idea of someone being able to help her seemed laughable.
"Will you stop being so Proud, you brute." Weiss finally snapped, unable to stay quiet. Yang's headshot back around towards her. "We're trying to help you; myself, Blake and your sister are trying to help you." They all nodded.
"She's not my sister." Blake's mouth fell open at the comment, making her feel ill, her eyes went straight to Ruby, who looked like her heart had just been shattered, tears began to fall from her eyes.
"What do you mean?". Weiss looked at everybody. confused by their reaction. "Of course, she is your sister."
"We are only half-sisters. Ruby's mom actually stuck around for her." Yang said bitterly.
"Yang, what has gotten into you?" Blake shot up, her hands shaking in anger, unsure why her partner would say something like that. It just sounded so unlike her. Yang would do anything for Ruby, even give up her own life, so why the sudden change.
"What? she knows." Yang threw her hands in Ruby's direction. "I don't know why she is getting so upset. At least she had a mom who loved her, mine just up and left me. As if all I was, was a piece of shit on the road." Yang began to shout, causing everyone in the room to be put in stunned silence. "Summer only looked after me because I was baggage from her husband's last relationship. Then when Ruby came along, everybody loved her. She was the perfect child. Especially after summer died. Because she was the spitting image of the woman who could do no wrong, while I looked like a woman who did everything wrong." Yang tipped the desk over, clenching her fist as her team took a step away from her, unsure what she would do next. "Even now, you can see my uncle and dad find me nothing more than an accident from a bad situation."
"That's not true, they love you," Ruby spoke through the tears, Yang let out a laugh.
"Do they? If they did, they wouldn't leave me to raise a toddler, all by myself." Weiss look between the two, still confused. "When summer died, I chose to give up my whole childhood for you, so you wouldn't miss out, and yet, that still wasn't good enough. They could never look at me the way they looked at you. I reminded them too much of my mom." Yang stopped her rant, staring at each girl, all had a mix of shock and hurt, When she looked at Ruby, she felt guilt, but her mouth wouldn't allow her to apologize.
"You know, when I got into Beacon, I thought maybe that would be my ticket for a bit of freedom. Be my own person, get a life of my own. Then all of a sudden, Ruby is coming along for the ride, and not just that, she is going to be my leader. You always have to one-up me, don't you, Ruby? Dad seemed prouder of you than he was for me. But that's cool. The man wasn't much of a dad to me, to begin with."
"You don't mean that," Blake said, trying to step closer, only stopping when Yang glared at her.
"You don't know what I mean," she said firmly. "After all, you've never been on the other end of being left, you're always doing the leaving." Blake's bow flattened, grabbing her arm and looking away. Yang looked towards Weiss now. "What, you don't have anything to say? Makes a changed, princess. That's probably the first time you ever kept your mouth shut. But then again, you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, of course, you wouldn't know what hardship is." Weiss's mouth fell open. The brawler took the opportunity to leave, slamming the door shut. The room was quiet apart from the sniffles coming from Ruby.
Yang
Yang sprinted out of the dorms, running until she had gotten to the garage where Bumblebee was being held. Quickly pushing the button, before sliding inside. As soon as she closed the door, her knees buckled, and she was on all fours, slamming her fist on the ground as she cried out. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, "she whispered. Punching the ground even harder until her fist was red-raw and blood-soaked through her gloves.
"HAHAHA, did you see their faces. That went better than I expected." The voice laughed as the girl trembled on the ground.
"Go to hell." She said through tears, "Why didn't you just fight them? you Didn't need to say all that stuff."
"Because throwing a punch would have less impact." The voice laughed. Yang clenched her fist.
"I need to find her, I can't let her get away with this." Yang pushed herself off the ground.
Hey guys, hope you are all keeping well. Finally, I got to the big chapter, not entirely pleased with it. Thought i could have done better, I hope you like it.