Snippet 121
Stamped Out
Genre: Angst/Horror/Tragedy
Pairs: Not applicane
Parody: RWBY
AU-Type: Canon-eqsue AU
Tags: In response to Volume 7 Chapter 11, Bad Ending, Bad Decisions, Everyone Messed Up Big Time, Salem is TFS Frieza, Break Them By Talking, TW: Mind Rape
For the people of Remnant, a death blow was hit. Mantle fell and so did Atlas. Mistral was still in disarray and Vale was will reeling from its fall. Vaccuo was all that was left…along with Mengearie. In the wreckage, Team RWBY stand panting against Salem who had her feet on the crushed throat of Clover.
"To think that Cinder called you a great threat…what a joke." Salem said smug as Yang snarled. "You must be the daughter of Raven. I recognized that snarl…turned to a whimper after she watched what I did to Summer."
WHAM! Yang punched Salem square on in the jaw with all of her strength, but Salem unfazed and unasumed.
"So, can you tell me? Can you tell me why you thought that was a good idea?" Salem said scarastically as it sank in for Yang how little it fazed her. "Ozpin taught you poorly or you didn't listen. Doesn't matter, you're losing your wrist for that."
Salem grabbed her wrist squeezing it getting Yang to squeal before grabbing her head slamming her into the dirt. Her foot came on on her skull rubbing the dirt on her soles on her hair.
"You know I have to thank you for. How it not been for you interfering with Ironwood's plan to raise Atlas, I may have lost the relics and the maidens. But you just had to want to save everyone…and now you can't save anyone." Salem said with a snicker.
"Where's Oscar?" Ruby rasped out.
"From the looks of the wreckage, most likely dead. No matter, not like Ozpin will bother to stop me this time." Salem said with a shrug. "With him demoralized, no one can stop me."
"Humanity can still rise to stop you!" Ruby said defiantly.
"Oh really, can they? The kingdom that provides the others with their technology has been destroyed. There's no huntsman in Mistral, and Vale's still crippled. Who's left? An island full of animals and a desert kingdom of people who have a long history of bending over to those in power. Yeah, it will be really hard." Salem said dryly, not caring at Blake's wincing. "But you know I think I should give you something…"
Out from the dirt came a Seer Grimm that caught Ruby having restrained her arms and legs. Tendrils forced her silver eyes open.
"How about I show you how I tortured your mother…her last final moments before her body gave out. Every agonizing scream and sound shall be burned into your retinas." Salem said as the Seer Grimm's bulb flashed.
Ruby screamed trying to fight, but it did nothing to stop the rush of images. Every horrid sight, every putrid taste, every strenuous feeling, and every cacophony of sound. Her silver eyes rapidly flickered as Ruby cried tears of blood. Weiss and Blake could do little with both of them worse of wear and Salem having her foot on Yang's head. Once it was done, the Seer let Ruby's limp body hit the dirt with her dulled silver eyes flickering like a damaged lightbulb.
"Tempting as it would be to kill you four and have the Grimm eat your corpse. I don't think I'll do that. No, you four get to live with what you caused. Death is too good for you…and I'd be making a martyr out of a fool." Salem said walking away. "Have fun feasting off the corpses of your fellow man, Team RWBY."
Yang crawled towards Ruby just wanting to comfort her, tell her there was still hope. But…it was all for naught. Ruby was gone…all that left was a husk. Blake fell to her knees pounding the ground screaming how could this have happened. Weiss scrambled to see if her own sister was alive...but there was a sneaking doubt that she was even alive.
(A/N: No words to really say other than, if it gets to the point where I really dislike most of the main characters and this is what I end up producing, something is wrong.)