New Divide

It took a while, but she had gotten them caught up to the point from when she a woken from the mini-coma/concussion she had after the Ursa incident in Goodwitch's class. Granted the looks she was getting was that they knew most of the events that happened; however she felt that a bit of background was in order, "So anyone have any questions so far?" Ruby asked, if anything it was to not only to give herself a break from talking, but it was also a stall tactic. The next events were going to reveal the start of the Vytal Festival which consisted of Blake's obsession, the dance, the breech, the tournament, and the absolute hell that followed after. All events that had haunted Ruby for ten gods' awful years.

Yang sighed with her head in her head, rubbing her forehead, "Why would we have questions? You merely explained the events that we already know about."

"Well you just asked a question about having questions. That's a start."

"Don't be a smart ass." Blake stated firmly, eyeing her leader with a fiery amber gaze.

Ruby just shrugged, "Well I just wanted to point out that it was a question; but fine."

Weiss rolled her eyes, "Seriously though. Yang has a point, you told us events that we were all apart of; however I guess if you are really looking for questions then might I suggest you start telling us what happened after you woke up from the concussion."

"As you wish, however I have to say that is where things change. See, in my original timeline I was never in a concussion. Yes Jaune and I had the leadership class. Yes, per usual, Cardin was a total ass-hat. However there was no Ursa attack. We came back to Beacon just fine."

Finally they were getting somewhere now. They watched as Ruby stood up and slowly paced the room, pausing by the door for a brief moment, just to resume her pacing, "I am not too sure when this happened, but it might have been a few weeks after that particular class when Blake had started her obsession with the White Fang." Looking at Blake-who looked surprised at the uncharacteristic description-Ruby explained a bit more, "You were worried that the local Huntsmen and police could not handle the White Fang and Roman Torchwick. Which later in hindsight, you were shown to be correct in your worry. Regardless though, at the time we tried to dissuade you. We were students. What the hell did we know, or rather expect to accomplish? Although you made a compelling argument that our enemies were planning something big and were not going to wait for us to graduate. So in the end we agreed that we would work together to stop Roman and the White Fang."

"Wait I'm sorry. Obsession? Have you met Blake?" Weiss asked, "She is the only other sane person I can relate to on this team."

Ruby and Yang looked moderately offended at that. Blake for her part, still looked a bit surprised, "Seriously Weiss? What does that mean?" Yang demanded.

"I just mean that her revealing her secret to us and us taking on the White Fang at the docks shouldn't really have been that much of a catalyst."

"As I explained, they shouldn't have been working with a human." Blake said slowly as she still looked at Ruby, who nodded in agreement, "The White Fang detested humans, so I guess it makes sense I would want to find out answers. I just didn't expect to drag you all into it."

Ruby scoffed, "You were part of our team. Of course we would want to help you."

"Hypocrite!" Yang mocked coughed, Ruby eyed her, "Sorry what? Who said that?"

"Anyway…" Ruby trailed off still giving Yang a side-long look, "We came up with a plan, which also included Sun and Neptune since they eavesdropped and wanted to help." So she explained how those events went down, where she and Weiss were supposed to go over to the Cross Continental Transmit tower and look over the Schnee Dust Company records for any inconsistencies and robberies, but Weiss had been on her own after the run in with Penny happened again; the events she knew what happened when Sun and Blake had gone to a White Fang faction meeting to learn what the plans had been, and how Yang and Neptune ended up visiting Junior's club looking for further intel about Roman.

"I take it wasn't good." Weiss stated seeing that Ruby had gotten silent and lost in thought.

Ruby scoffed darkly, "Oh please, that event doesn't even make it to the list of the 'worst things that happened'." She shook her head and then looked at them while she leaned against one of the walls with her arms crossed, "In fact I almost miss the encounters with Torchwick, it was…simpler." Yang saw a reminiscing like gaze cross her sister's silver eyes and instantly grew concerned. The Fall aside, just how much worst were they talking about in what appeared to be a short timeframe?

Before any of them could voice the question, Ruby told them the battle with Torchwick and the Atlesian Paladin, how Blake started to get worse to the point of severe sleep deprivation that Yang had intervened, the school dance to celebrate the festival, and Ruby pursuing Cinder at the CCT. Blake felt the chill as she looked at Ruby, and if her sleep deprivation was as bad as Ruby described, then Ruby's obsession with Cinder was an equal match. Silver eyes nearly flared, a tint of red in her irises and the low growl that came from her as she said, "I warned him of that event. It was the near start of the end."

"The start of the end?" Blake dared asked, risking those eyes now trained of her.

"Yes. See it was there that we later learned she implanted a virus into the system in order to transmit those horrifying scenes of the Fall of Beacon Academy across Remnant." Ruby said darkly.

Weiss sighed and rubbed her face with her hands already feeling a massive headache coming on as she tried to process the information, "I think we need to pick this up a bit. Tell us what happened at the Fall of Beacon."

Ruby fell silent again and looked contemplative, "Ruby please." Yang called over, this time no trace of disappointment or annoyance in her tone. Ruby looked at her sister, "Just sit and talk to us."

Ruby re-took her seat, "It's not that simple;" she started to say taking a deep breath and leaning forward, "there were a lot of…domino pieces if you will…that happened to make the Fall as horrible as it was."

"That doesn't sound right though." Blake said slowly, "We saw the broadcast. How much devastation could there have been in…your timeline?"

Weiss and Yang agree with the question as they waited for Ruby to respond. For the three of them, it was still difficult to imagine that the Ruby they were talking to was in actuality ten years older than they were; that she lived a different life than they were living right now; however her expressions, mannerisms, and the events she was explaining started making this all the more real for them. Pieces of their team leader and friend they had been stewing over finally starts to make sense to them.

"The breach and what followed during the Tournament." Ruby answered after a few moments, hands clasped together.

"What was the breach?" Yang asked leaning back and running a hand through her hair.

"Remember when I told you about Mountain Glenn?" Ruby asked. Seeing their nod, she elaborates more, telling them of their doomed field trip to the Grimm infested city. She spoke of how she fell into the sink hole in the middle of the road, and Torchwick's explosive train. How they rescued her, but then the train speeding towards the city of Vale, and then how the Grimm came through and attacked the city. She ended with a bitter tone, "That event was one catalyst, but in hindsight it was nothing compared with what you saw broadcasted." She mentioned to one of the scrolls that was sitting on a nightstand.

Weiss nodded, "And the tournament?"

"We were in the tournament. We won the team rounds and moved on to the doubles. Weiss and Yang, you were chosen to represent us. You guys fought really well together." Ruby said with a sad smile at the pair. Then a scowl replaced the smile, "It was during the singles' rounds where things fell apart. Remember how Sun and Mercury faced off?" They nodded not liking where this was going, "Replace Sun with Yang and you have the next catalyst."

"NO!" Yang yelled angrily, all sympathy zapped out of her. How could Ruby have even suggested such a thing, "Seriously?! I would never have attack someone unprovoked!"

Ruby took the anger calmly and just looked at her sister, "Neither would Sun Wukong. Please Yang let me explain." She motioned for her sister to sit, and Yang continued her glare. Blake tugged on her partner's arm. Deflating, Yang sat back down and motioned Ruby to continue, "Despite the evidence against you, we supported you."

"So then how can you say it was Yang's fault?" Weiss asked.

"I didn't."

"It came off that way." Blake countered.

Ruby sighed, "Ok backtracking a bit. Cinder's two main followers-"

"Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black." Weiss said quickly, "What about them?"

"Emerald's semblance is Hallucinations of the individual- strictly mental hallucinations. The ability to modify the sensory information in a person's head while their brain is processing it." Ruby explained looking at Yang, "She was in the crowd during your fight with Mercury. You won, Yang; but unfortunately Emerald created a hallucination in your mind making you believe that Mercury was attacking you after the fight ended-"

"While the rest of us probably saw nothing." Weiss said slowly understanding where Ruby's story of the Fall was headed.

Ruby nodded, "Correct…so Yang was framed for something that was beyond her control." She looked at her sister who was wearing a scowl, "Yang?"

Yang sighed in aggravation, "I cannot believe this bull-shit. I mean come on."

"I'm sorry Yang." Ruby states, "It is true. You were expelled from the tournament and unfortunately there was a pending investigation."

"So if that was the second catalyst, then that means…" Blake's amber eyes widen, "Cardin and Penny Polendina's fight."

The other two girls had their hearts sink to the pit of their stomach, "Oh no. That still happened?" Yang asked realizing that being framed wasn't the worst thing that happened that day, that there was still one more match up that had happened.

"Worse. Much worse." Ruby lamented, "Team JNPR was also in the tournament. They also fought gallantly and making it to the singles' round. Can you guess out of team JNPR who would have fought in that?" The three exchanged looks not liking where this was headed, they only hoped that it wasn't-"Pyrrha Nikos." Ruby answered solemnly seeing that they didn't dare guess.

Ruby pauses again and closes her eyes, the phantom screams and images crossing behind her eyelids, "Ruby?" Yang calls out seeing her sister's face contort with grief and traces of anger. She reaches out and touches Ruby's hand. Ruby snaps her eyes open and instantly pulls away from Yang, as if having been burned, "Sorry, but you just got quiet. We can take a break if you'd like."

"No, I need to get this out so that you can understand at least why I told Pyrrha before telling you." Ruby said softly, "Anyway as you know Pyrrha's semblance is polarity. Penny had been able to use multiple short swords simultaneously as well as use an energy blast from them by bringing them together. As you can probably picture, the fact that Penny was an android created by the Atlas military with Pyrrha's semblance, it didn't end well."

And if anything they had seen on their scrolls, they knew it didn't end well this time around, however trying to picture their friend killing another opponent…it wasn't something they could picture, "It was an accident," Ruby continued as if reading their distraught minds, "however it was the stake that nailed the coffin shut on Beacon, sealing its fate as a future nest for Grimm."

Once more Ruby described the best she could at the cataclysmic destruction that occurred after Cinder's hate speech. Of course they had seen the outcome on their scrolls, but to hear it first hand was equally terrifying. Ruby went to depths of explaining Ozpin's plans for Pyrrha, as well as the supporting roles that Weiss and Blake had taken on, and what Yang had done in trying to find her sister. The girls felt sickened by this admission, and it did not help matters that Ruby wasn't meeting their eyes. She couldn't as she talked about leading the others that stayed in the arena to fighting Torchwick on Ironwood's hijacked aircraft that had controlled the Atlas soldiers.

It was at this point she shook her head when she had gotten to meeting up with her team at the evacuation site, did she finally have the courage to meeting her team's gazes, each having unshed tears in their eyes, "You were lying there." She was looking at Yang now, "Your right arm was gone and Blake had a stab wound in her side gripping your left hand. Blake was apologizing as it was Adam that took your arm from you."

Blake looked away with guilt, and Yang instantly grabbed her hand, "No. You do not get to feel guilty." Yang said firmly.

"But Adam…he-"

"No. It didn't happen. Not now. So don't even." Yang repeated firmly.

Blake's ears were turned down, "But it's my fear. Him coming after the people I care deeply about. He is not going to stop."

Yang gripped her partner's hand even tighter when she felt Blake try and pull away, "Maybe not, but that is why we have to stick together. All of us. I promise it'll be ok. Besides," she looked at Ruby, "it turned out alright eventually. Didn't it?"

Weiss could clearly see that the smile she had come to learn at a young age when her mother had first started turning to the bottles of wine after her father would come home from work in a foul mood. It was a smile that masked the pain from a child. It silently spoke volumes of how thigs were going to be ok, but in actuality it wasn't. Weiss this time reached out and grasped Ruby's hand. Seeing that same smile Ruby was giving was one she had never wanted to see on her partner's lips, "Ruby?" Her tone was uncharacteristically soft, but there was an underlying plea that what she was thinking wasn't true; that the smile was false, and that everything did turn out alright even after Beacon's fall…that they were all indeed ok, even amidst the temporary separation that Ruby had hinted at.

"As we were getting ready to evacuate, Jaune called Weiss on her scroll. Cinder had stolen the Fall Maiden's powers and had killed Ozpin. Pyrrha had gone after her alone. He needed us for back up. Since Blake and Yang were out of commission, it was up to myself and Weiss to go help." Ruby had avoided both questions, "By this point one of the most powerful Grimm of all graced Beacon with its presence, the Wyvern."

They watched as Ruby had gotten up now and crossed her arms across her chest. With everything she had been through, she didn't think that this still affected her so much; but then again this was a catalyst of the hell that would follow, "We made it to the CCT, but were surrounded by Grimm and running out of time. Weiss had cast a series of glyphs up the side of the tower. I used my semblance to propel myself up the tower…the scene that I saw has haunted me over the years…"

Weiss moved to the bed that Yang and Blake were sitting on, the three of them hoping Ruby wouldn't be too descriptive in whatever nightmarish scene she witnessed, "I told Pyrrha I saved her life twice." Their hearts froze at the implication, but Ruby took no notice at their now pale faces, "She had been kneeling, Cinder was standing over her holding a bow and arrow. I arrived just as Cinder released the arrow, which planted itself directly in the center of Pyrrha's chest."

They were horrified. No words could even begin to form in their minds. It had been hinted at of course that something terrible might have happened aside from losing their school, but losing one of their close friends? It hadn't even crossed their minds, "No…" Weiss gasped out, having been the first to recover. The girl she had admired and had originally dreamt of partnering with…just gone?

"I wasn't fast enough." Ruby whispered out that they had to lean closely to hear her.

"Ruby-" Blake called out trying to stop Ruby's explanation.

Ruby was already too involved in the story to stop, her mind already reliving Pyrrha's death again. Yang sees the turmoil etched in her sister's face and somehow intrinsically knows that Pyrrha's isn't the last death her sister may have witnessed. It felt like she had failed as a sister, even more so since she recalled that Ruby had mentioned that she had fallen into a depression like state after Beacon's fall in her timeline. Losing an arm vs witnessing a friend's death? How selfish could she have been? "I couldn't move. Couldn't begin to process anything. Her chest…it had started to glow; and Cinder…she had used the maiden powers to flash incinerate her."

"Ruby…" Weiss calls out as she carefully gets up and goes to Ruby, whose fists were clenched, eyes averted and expression darkened, "it wasn't your fault. You did the best you could."

Ruby shook her head and moved away from her partner, "It wasn't enough." They made another move to argue, but Ruby swiftly continued, not wanting to dwell in this memory anymore, "Anyway in the end I…activated a power I didn't know I had." Clearing her throat, she asks, "Do you happen to recall seeing a blinding white light in the footage?"

"Yes." Blake said after having exchanging looks from Yang and Weiss, wishing they could do something to help their leader.

"Well that was me. I'll explain more on that later since that is another…involved explanation. Anyway I woke up on Patch nearly two weeks later. Dad had said that Jackass Schnee took Weiss back to Atlas," Weiss flinched at Ruby's attitude towards her father. Sure she knew he was far beyond from being an ideal human being, but the tone in her voice suggested something deeper…again just how much had things developed? "Blake had ran away with guilt." Blake's ear folded down so far one would think she hadn't had any to begin with. Yang gripped her partner's hand in an attempt to assure the feline faunus that there were no hard feelings, "And Yang had fallen into a depression. More so because Blake just up and left rather than losing her arm." Then again perhaps she was the one that needed assurance that Blake was still sitting next to her.

Ruby stood in silence and leaned against the closet door. She allowed them to think over the beginning part of her story. It was a lot to digest and she knew it wasn't going to get any easier…especially the aftermath of Atlas and Mantle's Fall. A sick feeling coiled in her stomach as she watched her team closely…just how could she explain their own deaths? "Twice." Weiss managed to get out; she had retaken her seat but kept her eyes on the floor, "You said you saved Pyrrha twice…you had kept us from going to Beacon for that reason. So that was the first time. The second was Tyrian's sting…"

"Yes I did." Ruby confirmed slowly.

"So that was why you told her. You are afraid what is going to happen at Haven." Weiss continued just as slowly as she was still processing the information.

"Yes. I know in certain instances the timeline is trying to correct itself. I was told that there might not be things I am able to change; that I would have no idea what those things are." Ruby explained, "Pyrrha's death being one of them. After seeing her get stung by that unimaginable bastard…I thought she deserved to know."

"Know what she would be dying for." Yang bit out still reeling from all of this, and yet still upset that Ruby had this knowledge and still hid it from them.

Ruby winced at this, "I'm sorry but I really did mean to go over all of this with you all after Haven."

"Because you know we somehow come out on top?" Blake asked as she pulled away from Yang.

"For the most part, but I wanted you all to focus on the mission at hand."

"Retrieving the Relic of Knowledge." Weiss said and Ruby nodded, "Never-minding the fact that we've been worried about you since your coma at Beacon and then reuniting with you at that poor town that was destroyed by Grimm." This was said in a tone of sarcasm and in her typical 'Ice Queen' persona.

Again Ruby winced, "Ok again I deserve that." They were once more silent. After a few moments, she sighed deeply, "Do you want me to continue or…?"

"Might as well. I doubt we'd be resting much tonight anyways…" Yang answered as she saw the time.

Ruby took a deep breath, "Well after the Fall of Beacon months passed and team RWBY was temporarily disbanded. Qrow had told me of his mission to Haven. So not wanting to sit at home and do nothing I opted to contact the remains of team JNPR to try and stop Cinder Fall's next plan…"

They listened as Ruby recounted her travels with Jaune and the remaining members of his team. The feelings of familiarity hit them as they recalled their own experiences before they met up with Ruby in the Grimm infested town and then again afterward in the forest. Eerily nagging feelings as each trial and tribulation Ruby describes come to mind, including, "Wait Tyrian Callows…that faunus that-" Weiss started to say, cutting Ruby off as she had started to describe her original encounter with the psycho scorpion faunus

"Stung Pyrrha? Yes. In my timeline, he was hunting me…just as he was hunting for me now." Their faces pale at Ruby's words as they recalled the scene that had Ruby almost do an unthinkable act, "Only thing that really changed was that Qrow had met up with us at that point…"

Though it had happened a long time ago for Ruby, she could still hear the echoing clang of Harbinger and a different weapon belonging to the scorpion faunus, "I had been literally fighting for mine and his life. After all, I wasn't about to let him just fight for me. Of course though, his semblance had gotten in the way…not in a good way that would have been beneficial for us. After I had been thrown back, a wooden beam had fallen…nearly crushed me…if it hadn't been for Qrow." The sick feeling returned, and they noticed how her face had darkened considerably, "The feeling of relief and gratitude had vanished in an instant just as fast as it had come…Qrow had been stung. Just like that day with Pyrrha, I didn't think. I just reacted…I took that faunus bastard's stinger."

It was a tone that was becoming all too familiar and yet it still caused Blake to wince, Weiss to look shocked, and Yang to look at her sister with sympathy as she asked, "Did you try to kill him then too?"

It wasn't a question that they had wanted to ask, and yet it was a question that they wanted an answer to, "No." Ruby breathed out as she fought to quell the boiling rage inside of her, "Regrettably." She couldn't help though but to add, "It sure as hell would have saved me a lot of trouble had I just ended him right then and there."

"When did you get like this?" Yang demanded now as she stood up to glare at her sister, "I know my sister. She wouldn't be saying these things; which begs me to ask…are you really my sister or is some vengeful new Grimm possessing you?"

Ruby shook her head, "I can assure you that I am your sister. However it also brings me to being selfish in that I wanted to protect your innocence just a bit longer; but I guess that is no longer possible seeing as I know where this next bit of conversation is headed…" She steeled herself, pushing down all emotion and praying to the Brothers that they doesn't end the way she ultimately fears it will end, "I said I would answer any question. So Yang here is the answer…I got like this…" she motioned to herself, "the day team RWBY officially died."

Yang opened her mouth to speak, but no words came out. Blake got up and stood next to Yang, and Weiss flanked her other side. The three of them stood facing their team leader, mouths open but no sound coming from them. It wasn't until Blake swallowed the bitter lump in her throat that she managed to get out, "What?"

"You mean that in the metaphorical sense, not the permanent sense right?" Yang managed out, even though based on the looks they were getting, Ruby meant it as the latter.

"How?" Weiss whispered out. Ruby took a step back and Weiss managed to take a step forward repeating, "Ruby how?"

Swallowing the large lump in her dry throat, Ruby took a shaky breath, "It was I guess three years since Haven, so from the fall of Atlas and Mantel…maybe a year to year and a half after Cinder had managed to acquire the Relic of Creation. That in itself is a story on its own. Seeing as you asked about 'our' deaths, I'll tell you that one later when the time comes." She explained immediately seeing their minds spinning with that new bit of revelation, "Anyway team RWBY's death starts with…Yang's." She watches as lavender eyes widen before turning a shade purple darker before closing and turning away.

Blake and Weiss look at the blonde, faces pale and disbelief. Ruby, for her part, recalls the tombstone next to her mother's: Yang Xiao Long- I Burn, "It was supposed to be a simple scouting and report mission in Vacuo. We took this mission together…sister binding time we called it. There was a larger area we didn't account for, and we split up momentarily." A bitter smile crosses the reaper's lips as Yang takes a deep breath and turns to her sister, "Those in the 'Fang that were still loyal to Adam ambushed you and taken back to their base."

"No…" Blake whispered out as she stared at her partner. It was most definitely her nightmare come true. She had been afraid to open up to people, but being on this team made things even more complicated. She tried to keep her past separated from them. She had kept her secret of being a faunus…a former member of the White Fang…to protect them. However those walls came down, and by the sounds of it, the one thing she was afraid of actually happened. Someone had gotten hurt because of her! Yang had lost her arm at Beacon in Ruby's timeline, and now she-

"It was to get Blake's attention. To show that he wasn't gone like you and Yang had believed in Argus. Of course he had help; for a pretty hefty price, Salem had given him some sort of special powers, much like she had done with Cinder, and he somehow managed to gain control of his own Grimm." Ruby continued as if Blake hadn't spoken.

Weiss was watching the sisters closely. The sick feeling turning into a lump of concrete in her stomach, "What happened then?" She whispered.

Ruby broke her eye contact with Yang and swallowed. She retook her seat, but the three of them stood around her. She felt the walls closing in, but she pushed through, "When I realized Yang wasn't responding to me, I knew something was terribly wrong and called for reinforcements. Since Adam wanted attention, it was fairly easy to get to their base. Long story short, while the fighting didn't last very long; Qrow, Jaune, Nora, Ren, Weiss, and Blake showed while Oscar and Maria led us from the aircraft, I managed to free Yang, but Adam had become enraged. His newly dark powers had raged out of control."

Foreboding wasn't a strong enough word to even begin to describe what they were feeling, "The fortress that we were in had nearly imploded upon itself; most of that energy had been directed at Yang. Weiss and Blake had finally managed to get enough traction to work together to take out Adam, which had Blake landing a blow to his chest which ended his raging powers for good; but it was too late."

Ruby held back the tears that were threatening to spill over, "I held you in my arms as I begged Jaune to help you."

"How-" Yang choked out, before clearing her throat, "How could vomit boy help me?"

"His semblance is Aura amplification." Ruby answered, "He'll unlock it at Haven…or if he gets around to listening with me, I'll help him unlock it before then…just like I will help Weiss with her summoning." She answers in a dead tone as she avoids looking at her partner. No one questions her, or rather as the time to question her, before Ruby starts her story again, "He couldn't do it though. You didn't have any aura left in you for him to amplify. I was running out of time, your eyes were slowly closing…I was losing you…so out of desperation, I begged the one person who I knew that could help…" She looks at Weiss.

"Me?" Weiss asks sadly after a moment, unable to meet Yang's eyes, "How-?"

"You always knew what to do. You helped me with everything. Studying, keeping me grounded, organizing our missions and plans. Damn you were in the top percentile of our academic classes. I begged you to help. I…" Ruby squeezed her eyes shut and leaned forward, "I begged you to help. Pleaded. Bargained. I was ready to give you anything you wanted. Give up cookies, candy, coffee, hell I was ready to give you the position of leader if you could have helped save Yang…"

It was a supernova now. Ruby would have given her the positon of leader? Weiss looked away. She no longer wanted it. Hadn't wanted it in a long while. Not since the vow she had made that night over a cup of coffee, "Instead you hugged me." Ruby said softly.

"Why-?" Yang started to ask, feeling a bit thankful that the team's 'Ice Queen' would have comforted her sister in this horrible event.

"BECAUSE WEISS DOESN'T HUG!" Ruby yelled suddenly standing. She took a step back and took a breath, "Over the years while she…you," she briefly looks at her partner's wide eyed look, "had gotten better at physical affection, the only time you initiate it is if something terrible happens that's beyond your control…this was one of those times."

There was silence that followed. No one making eye contact. Yang took a shaky breath inhale and then exhaled, "At least I died for something worth fighting for…" She discreetly looks at Blake and reaches for the faunus's hand.

Blake hesitantly takes it, "Yang-"

"No. I haven't met this guy yet, but when I do…I'll make him pay for the trauma he caused you…us…" Then she looked at Ruby, "And this time I'll be careful. Ruby if you think for one moment that I blame you-"

"I know…you don't blame me…however I'm not done yet…but-"

"Let's take a break. You need it so no arguing." Weiss said firmly, she then looked at the bumble-bee pair, "We need it too."

Seeing their looks Ruby consents, "Alright. I'm heading to the training room then…I promise I won't leave the building."

They watch their leader leave, not taking Crescent Rose with her. They do not know if that is a good sign or a bad sign. Blake pulls out of Yang's grip and sits on the bed, "Hey you can't really shoulder the blame. None of this is on you." Yang states knowing where her partner's head is going.

"Yang is correct. You are not responsible for someone else's actions. He's made his choice and you made your's." Weiss states.

"Mentally I know." Blake sighs out looking at them, "However…I am also thinking about Ruby and the choices she has made so far…"

Yang joins her partner on the bed and leans back, with her arm covering her eyes, "Yea I wasn't expecting all of this; and this doesn't get any better by the sounds of it."

"How are you handling your…?" Weiss trails off, warily looking at the brawler, waiting for an eruption of her temper.

Yang sighs, "I mean we all die eventually right?" Then she scoffs, "Honestly I have no idea. I guess it won't hit me until later at some point…" Then she sits up and looks at Weiss and Blake, "She said team RWBY dies. So if I am the first one…"

"Then who is next?" Blake asks finishing Yang's sentence.

"And how exactly does Ruby come back?" Weiss also questions.