Mistral
It was night as the broken moon shined down Mistral. Everyone, except for Ruby, Sypha, and Trevor were asleep. Ruby took a deep breath as she stared at the picture of Weiss and her at the Vytal Dance. Back when Ruby still had both eyes and wasn't tortured by a bloodthirsty terrorist group. Her hand lingered over her scar and mechanical eye, not realizing that Trevor and Sypha watched her. Sypha felt the need to talk to her, Trevor wanted to watch and see how it goes. Sypha stood up and walked towards her, when Ruby looked up, she smiled slightly and watched as Sypha sat down next to her. Sypha looked at the picture and asked "Who is that girl?"
Ruby answered "That's Weiss. She's my partner and girlfriend." Sypha looked at Ruby in amazement. She knew same-sex relationships were taboo on Earth, especially in the church, but here, there was no hate. They chose who they could love. "Your girlfriend?" Ruby nodded "Vlad told us about how... Taboo and what kind of punishment it was to be gay. It's like everything is opposite on your planet. We're technologically advanced while Earth is more... Primitive." Sypha nodded and produced a fireball in her right hand "We Speakers carry generations of knowledge through our words. I was blessed with the knowledge of magic. My mother was ecstatic as was my grandfather, but my father... Was less than thrilled to learn I was a witch. He hurt me a lot and threatened to expose me to the Church. It was like that for many years until one day, my father murdered my mother." Sypha ignored the shocked expression on Ruby's face as she continued. "I felt so much rage I killed my father by burning him with my fire, in turn burning my house down." Sypha closed her fist and suppressed the fire. "My grandfather found me and took me into the tribe of Speakers. My hair didn't always look like this." To which she felt her short hair "But I did this to be more safer and to pass off as a boy."
Ruby put a hand in Sypha's and closed it in comfort as she spoke "Well here, you don't have to worry or hide who you are. Here, you can express yourself how you wish. It's what gives people hope. That and having cool powers can make people like you." Sypha looked at Ruby and smiled. Trevor watched them both and smiled as he looked at the two of them bonding. Sypha looked into Ruby's silver eyes and asked "I couldn't help but notice... But your eye. How is it brighter than your other eye?" Ruby frowned a bit before deciding to trust her with this knowledge. "It isn't my real eye." Sypha was confused and Ruby continued "Me and my team were on a Search and Destroy mission in Mountain Glenn, a failed settlement in Vale, that our Headmaster deemed unsafe due to an increase in Grimm. But we figured it also acted as a base for the White Fang." The trio were briefed on the White Fang and they too agreed that they were unstable and bloodthirsty despite their intention. "We scouted the area before we decided to camp for the night. I saw my dog, Zwei, walk away so I followed him to see some White Fang grunts, except now they were wearing black and red garbs. The road below me collapsed and I was in their hands. That was when I was questioned how I knew where they were. I didn't say anything and that's when... They broke my aura and cut my eye." Sypha put a hand to her mouth in shock and even Trevor himself felt sickened at the thought of a kid getting tortured. "That's when Dracula saved me... I couldn't see out of this eye anymore but it made me think that I matched with my partner who too had a scar over her eye."
Ruby looked down at the picture of Weiss in her tuxedo and smiled before tears dripped down her cheeks. "Where is... Weiss now?" Sypha asked but immediately regretted it as Ruby closed her eyes and quietly cried which prompted Yang to wake up and look to see Ruby crying. Ruby's happy-go-lucky mask slowly crumbled as the tears slide down her cheek. Yang stood up and ran over towards her younger sister and placed her cool mechanical hands on Ruby's cheeks to make her look at her older sister "Ruby. Ruby, look at me." Ruby opened her eyes to reveal her blood shot eye as she wrapped her arms around Yang's neck. Yang sat down against the tree, where she put Ruby on her lap and simply let Ruby cry on her shoulder.
"I-I'm so sorry. I-I didn't mean to make her cry." Sypha stuttered but watched as Yang shook her head "It's not your fault. She's bottled it up for a while, since Weiss was... Taken." Trevor looked at Ruby with nothing but sympathy as he watched her cry. After about five minutes, Ruby's crying was reduced to hitched and heavy breaths. Her grip on Yang loosened as she whispered "I want Weiss back..." Yang's heart broke a bit from Ruby's plead for her girlfriend. "I know Ruby. We'll get her back, I promise you."
Soon, Ruby fell asleep with Yang picking her up and putting her in her own sleeping bag, next to Yang's. She looked at Sypha and Trevor and spoke "You guys go ahead and sleep, I'll take the next watch." Sypha looked at Trevor before nodding and laying down in her sleeping bag and Trevor closed his eyes with his head hanging down.
In an undisclosed part of the village below Haven Academy, a man and a woman were tied to a chair silently crying as they watched a woman with mint green hair and red eyes that possibly could kill with a stare. She paced around a little girl with black hair that looked at her with fear. Emerald simply smirked at the fearful child as she sharpened her sickle guns against one another. The husband's breath quickened "Please, take whatever you want, just don't hurt her!" Emerald glared at the husband who quickly shut up and looked at the ground before singing silently. "Embers of fire give warmth onto me... Cinders of peace give Emeralds their shape as they slowly shatter. The glow darkens my mind as the darkness creeps in."
She quickly slashed the child's throat and watched with a sickening grin as the parents cried out in agony at seeing their child senselessly murdered and choked to death. Emerald walked over to the mother that continued crying and stared down at her bulging stomach and asked "Is it a boy or a girl?" When the woman gave no answer, instead she continued crying, Emerald snarled and shouted "ANSWER ME!" The woman cried out "A boy! She was going to have a brother!" Emerald smiled as she grazed her blade gently against her stomach which made the woman panic and cry more before Emerald plunged the sickle into her abdomen, killing the unborn child and any connection to life she had left. The husband cried loudly which annoyed Emerald as she plunged the blade into the side of his throat before pulling forward, blood squirted everywhere and Emerald opened her mouth to taste the crimson liquid. Emerald dragged two fingers against the woman's bloodied stomach before writing a quick message on the wall. She licked her fingers clean before holstering her guns and walked out of the house, leaving behind the first of many gruesome murders she would commit. The Crimson Emerald had arrived.