A.N. Thank you to everyone who has been reviewing. I have been reading them and I do appreciate them.

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When Ruby had arrived, it was quiet. Despite the summer heat, the normal ever-present sounds of insects were absent. In front of her, the cliffside with her mother's gravestone now had a partner.

Ruby Rose

And from Love's shining circle, the gem drops away.

Ruby drops to her knees.

"Hey mom. It's been a while, since I came by. A lot happened since I visited in the winter. Yang got into Beacon. And I stopped a robbery. But I kinda died after that. Dad always said I needed to be more careful. But surprise, I guess. I'm not dead! Well, anymore at least. I made a deal, with this lady, Tiamat, and I came back. But ever since I came back, I changed. I look like some weird albino lady mixed with Grimm stuff. I am not even sure Yang and Dad would even recognize me with how I look now. And, that's not all. I, I didn't realize that I was on Patch, and I forgot what I did before that. Every time I try remembering anything about it, all I remember is being angry."

Ruby pauses for a second, realizing she was starting to hyperventilate. After taking a bit to calm down, she continues.

"I just wish you were here. I don't know what to do. I am going to try to talk to everyone back home, but so far, the only people I have met since I started looking like...this, have all tried to hurt or kill me. What if they do the same? I'm not sure I could handle it."

As she finished say this, she heard a click from directly behind her.

"Stand up. Slowly."

Ruby tensed as she recognized the voice.

"Uncle Qrow?"

"It wasn't enough to take her from us, was it? No, you take her and do this with her." Qrow mumbled. Raising his voice back to it's previous commanding tone, Qrow continued. "I said stand up. I don't know why Salem made you look like her, but clearly you are aware enough to not be just any Grimm."

Standing and turning around, Ruby looked at her uncle. He looked far more haggard then Ruby remembered ever seeing him, worse than he was when her mother died. The normal scent of alcohol was far stronger as well.

"Uncle Qrow, it's me."

"Shut up! I don't know why Salem decided to send you here to do her dirty work, but it doesn't matter. You aren't Ruby." The tone of his voice startled Ruby. She had never heard him talk like this, not even when he was furious at her and Yang for bending one of Harbinger's barrels. And now that same weapon was pointed at her.

"Uncle Qrow, please it's me. I know I've been gone for a bit, but it's me." Ruby pleads.

"No, it isn't. You are just some Grimm made to look like her. Now, either start talking about why Salem sent you or I am just going to shoot you."

Ruby was crying now. She knew she looked different, but she had still held a small hope he would at least be able to tell it was her.

"Please Uncle Qrow, please believe me. I don't even know who this 'Salem' you are talking about. Please, it is me. It's me your Little Petal."

Ruby barely reacts in time to block the shot with one of her tails. She is speechless as she looks at the smoking barrel. She looks at her uncle, not believing what has just happened.

"Don't want to talk, that's fine. Wanted to work off some steam anyway." And with that he launches forward, swinging his great-sword. Ruby begins blocking using her tails. She refuses to summon her equipment, hoping that maybe if she doesn't attack, he will realize it is her. That he will know it is her. She begins trying to dodge when one of Qrow's blows bite into her left tail. She rapidly backs away using her tails to gain extra ground. Her back to the sea, she looks up to her uncle, and all she can see in his eyes is hatred. Why, why can't he see it is her?

"She isn't even dead for 3 months and your Master decides to do this? I swear, I am going to hunt that bitch down and kill her myself. After I kill you, you damn fake." He snarls. He promptly changes Harbinger to its scythe form and goes back to taking swings at her, far faster and deadlier.

Ruby freezes as she hears that. 'I am a fake?' Ruby's world grinds to a halt as she processes this. 'Is that why I am forgetting things?' With her thoughts stuck on this, Ruby is unable to react in time. She looks down to where her left hand was supposed to be, only to see her arm a stump at her elbow. Ruby watches as her forearm falls into the ocean below her. Ruby releases a primal cry for aid.

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Deep in the depths of the sea, something hears the call of one of her siblings obviously in distress. She begins stirring, awakening after a decade long slumber, moving to assist her sister who was in trouble. Her other sisters near her begin to stir, all moving as one to their sister. After all, wasn't that what family was for?

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Ruby was crying. Qrow hadn't even hesitated when he cut off her arm. Was this how she died again. Killed by her uncle who refused to believe her. Just as she lowers her head, preparing to accept her death, she hears a small voice calling out to her.

"..ster"

Ruby doesn't quite hear them, but focuses on the voice coming in.

"Sister! Hold on we are coming."

Ruby gasps at this. Her sister was coming? Yang was coming?

"Not quite Amaranth. Didn't you remember, when I raised you, that you would join my family as one of my children."

"Tiamat?" Ruby shouts in her mind. "You mean that…"

"Yes, your Sisters are coming to save you from that former Uncle of yours."

"Don't worry Amaranth, Big sis Tenebris is coming to help. He won't hurt you anymore, now get ready to head into the ocean, we'll blow him to bits."

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As Qrow begins moving forward to deliver the death blow to the thing masquerading as Ruby, he heard a series cannons firing. He manages to back away in enough time, before he sees something that causes him to freeze in his tracks. Coming from the sea are no less than two dozen other Grimm, some humanoid like the Ruby imposter in front of him, and far more that were increasingly more monstrous. As he looks down and sees the Ruby faker slowly backing away. He manages to dodge the incoming shells, but he is still flung back by the blast. As he manages to look back up, he notices that the entire cliff side had fallen into the ocean. As he rushes to look out, he notices that all the Grimm, humanoid or otherwise, had disappeared.

'Damnit' He thinks to himself 'I gotta call this into Oz. He needs to know what Salem has up her sleeves.' As he turns on his scroll, however he notices that he has a missed message from Glynda.

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At the base of the cliffs, now sinking into the ocean, the two monuments for a lost Mother and Daughter remained together as they sunk to the bottom. However, as they continued to float down, they struck a rock, separating the land that had conjoined them together. The younger of the two then began rolling down, further and further before falling into the abyss.

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Post Script:

Well this was interesting to write. I hope you all enjoy this. Please, leave a review or just any thoughts you have about all of this.