Hey guys M4 here.
I hope you guys enjoyed that last chapter. I promised you action, and you got it!
Anyways...I hope you guys like this chapter and I will talk to ya'll later.
Yang woke up with a splitting headache. She felt like she was in a middle of a hangover.
Opening her eyes, she had to squint from the sunlight blinding her for a moment. Once her eyes adjusted, she took a look at her surroundings. She was in a hospital bed, and her clothes her beside her on a chair. The smell of disinfectant and alcohol was intoxicating. (The alcohol, she was used to it but she wanted to not puke from the smell.)
The door creaked open and in came Ozpin. She mentally prepared herself for a scolding she knew she was going to get.
But, instead, he walked up to her and smiled.
"Good evening Ms. Xiao Long, how are you feeling?" Yang groaned in pain, making that her answer.
"Where...?" She couldn't finish from the pain in her throat.
"You are in the infirmary at Beacon. Team JNPR became concerned after you girls became very late for curfew. We were able to ping your Scrolls to an abandoned meat factory. When we found you..."Ozpin trailed off, not wanting to say what happened.
"What?"
"You, Blake, and Weiss were found unconscious in front of several WF members who...passed. The way that they passed was very gruesome, to say the least." He sat down, and looked at her with regret. Yang looked at him in confusion, before her eyes went wide.
"Where's Ruby?" She asked. Ozpin sighed and looked at her.
"We couldn't find her. We were only able to find her scroll...and a few traces of her blood." Yang put her hand over her mouth, trying to muffle a cry.
"We don't know if she is dead. It's only been 45 minutes since we found you 3. Better keep your hopes up Yang, because we might not find her." Yang clenched her fist, her hair turning into fire and her eye red with rage. Ozpin put a hand on her shoulder.
"I already called your father. He is on his way here, and he will also help find your sister." She calmed down slightly but broke down crying.
She failed to protect her little sister from that psychopath.
( 10 minutes Earlier)
Ruby woke up, unaware of her surroundings for a moment. She tried to get up but felt something holding her down. Looking down, she went wide eyed when she saw chains around her body.
She was no scared and tried to get out, but the chains were tight. Looking around, she gasped at who she saw.
The punisher, drinking something out of a canister, holding a revolver.
"Morning Sunshine." He said, pulling back the hammer of his revolver.
Ruby was scared. No, scared does not come to the definition of what she feels now. She was chain up to one of the leggings of a water house on the roof of a building. The Punisher finished drinking from his thermos, closed it and looked at her with anger.
I guess 'Terrified' and 'Petrified' were good words to describe how she felt.
"W-why am I here?" The punisher looked at her but got up, put the revolver in his waist line, walked past here and behind her.
"Please, don't hurt me." He came in front of her again, holding 2 large bags. She tried again with the chains, bashing and trying to wiggle her way out but to no use. He walked over to the wall, put the bags down, and sat down.
"You can bash against your chains all night. Only way you get out of here, is if I want you to. Know that." Ruby felt more fearful of her life than ever.
"D-do you know w-who I a-am?"
"I don't give a shit who you are." Ruby mustered up all the courage she could to say this.
"My sister, father, and all my friends at Beacon are going to find me, and when they do, you will wish you never chained me." But, that small amount of courage was shot down when he said the following.
"It's been 1 hour since I tied you up red. I don't see any police cars, choppers, and definitely not your friends. They are not coming to your rescue." Ruby tried to block that from her mind but it stayed there.
He opened the 1st bag and rummaged through it until he pulled out a rifle. This weapon looks different from the other rifles, and other guns she was used to. Taking out a few spare magazines, he began to load spare bullets into them.
"What are you going to do with all of this?" The punisher looked over the roof, staring at the view of it.
"I'll do what's required."
Taiyang was a patient man, due to him having 2 daughters. I mean sure, he would get upset if they get bad grades, or get in the middle of a fight.
But now? He was livid.
"WHY THE HELL HAVE YOU NOT FOUND MY DAUGHTER YET?" He shouted at Ozpin, who was calm as ever. They were outside the hallway since Taiyang literally barged through the hospital and beat up any guards that stood in his way
"Taiyang, please calm down. I am collaborating with Atlas, and the Vale Police force. We are doing everything we could to ensure your daughters safety." Taiyang growled but calm down a little.
"Where is Yang?" Ozpin motioned to the door behind him. Tai quickly opened and gasped in relief when he saw his daughter.
"Daddy?" She turned her head and stared at her father. Tai ran to her and hugged her. Yang burst into tears while in her fathers embrace.
"I-I'm sorry daddy. I-I couldn't p-protect h-her." She stuttered. Tai shushed her.
"No baby, this wasn't your fault. A bad person did this, not you. You did everything you could to protect her." Yang looked at her father, who only smiled at her.
"I love you and ruby the same way. You did good kiddo and I'm proud of you." Yang stopped crying but still held onto her father.
"What type of guns are those? I have never seen them anywhere before." The punisher looked at her, so she looked away and whimpered.
"I stole these weapons from Atlas. They were prototype weapons that fire these bullets called "Powdered bullets." This "gun powder" is more powerful than dust and can shred through your Aura and skin in an instant." She looked at him with wonder.
"How do you know this. Where you part of Atlas?" The punisher turned around and fished for another gun.
"No." Was all he said as he took out his pistol and began to clean it.
"Then how did you get these weapons?"
"Stole them."
"Were you part o-"
"Stop it red." He abruptly said. Ruby quieted down for a moment.
"You know, no one else has to die. You can stop now, walk away." The punisher finished cleaning the pistol and looked at her.
"Walk away? Could you do that? Could you walk away?" Ruby stayed silent.
"Yeah, I thought so." He got up and walked past her again but she heard him rummaging through something. She soon heard the church bell ring, signaling it was midnight.
"You know, here it Vale, some people and Faunus are actually from here. They can't leave because they feel as though the city is apart of them. Then they grow up, and become huntsman or they enlist." The punisher was silent.
"Where did you get your military training? Did they show you how to kill?" The punisher looked at her and smirked.
"You a shrink, red?" Ruby giggled silently at that. "Come on, you have to be someone else when you aren't wearing that skirt."
"I'm just a girl who wants to be a huntress."
"Yeah, and did you ever kill someone?"
"...no..."
"Ok, so then don't talk about it" He slammed a mag into another pistol and put it in his back.
"I've seen some fights and I beat up people."
"Sure you have. Your a huntress in training, what did you expect?"
"I almost had you beat." She grinned but stopped when he looked at her.
"Your talking about trading hands, red. I'm talking about shit that you never done before."
"But, I know one thing. Killing changes people. Makes them do things that they can't unsee or undo. Come to find out that they changed for the worst." The punisher scoffed.
"Fair enough." He open is revolver, and put in the bullets for it. He slammed it shut and put it back in his waist.
"I know it's har-"
"You run around in that dumb battle dress and beat up bad guys. You go home at night, take off that dress and scythe and think maybe you didn't do those things but someone else did." He angrily stated. Ruby scoffed when he called her battle skirt dumb.
"Why am I here?" Ruby tried to turn the conversation around.
"Everything you do on the streets, Red, it doesn't work." Ruby raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? And what you do is better?"
"What I do, I do. It's out of necessity."
"Who did you lose?" The question caught the punisher off guard.
I'm gonna stop here because I don't want the chapter to drag on and on. But, more will be seen next chapter.
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