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Fair warning, this story is rated M.
Hope everyone enjoys!
As Yang lay in bed she was dreaming about life before the fall.
She was at a party. She had a classic plastic cup full of bottom-shelf liquor mixed with brown soda.
"Hey gorgeous! You are looking damn fine!" Yang heard from behind. The voice belonged to Henry Marigold. Henry always seemed to be at every party. No matter what the occasion, if there was booze and someone to hit on, he was there.
Yang turned towards him "Thanks Henry, you don't look so bad yourself." Yang let him put his arms around her.
Suddenly Yang heard a scream "RUBY!" she yelled. Yang ran towards her sister's cries for help, the closer she got the longer the hallway seemed to get. She ran for what felt like hours. Ruby's cries became louder, but just as Yang reached the door her cries stopped. Yang ripped open the door. The room beyond was so dark it looked like It didn't have walls, just an empty black void. The center of the room was illuminated by some kind of light from above.
What Yang saw in that light made her heart sink, her stomach lurched as she started sobbing uncontrollably. Yang dropped to her knees unable to comprehend the horror of her baby sister being ripped appart. The walker eating Ruby was crouched over her body. Part of her face was missing and there was blood pooling underneath her. As the walker kept eating Yang could see Ruby's body moving back and forth ever so slightly. The walker turned, it was Adam. His clothes and mouth were all soaked in blood. Parts of Ruby's intestines were in his hands.
"NOO!" Yang yelled.
Adam started walking towards Yang, she heard a voice that seemed to come from inside her own head. It was Adam's voice. "You deserve this Yang. All humans deserve to die."
Yang looked up, Adam was twenty feet from her, "I'll kill you!" Yang stood, ready to run at Adam full force when the lights in the room unexpectedly turned on. Yang was surrounded, Blake, Nora, Ren, Weiss, Tai, Qrow, Ozpin, Glynda, and Ironwood were all dead. It was horrible, with their rotting flesh one by one they all started to get up. Adam was ten feet away from her now.
Yang looked past Adam at Ruby, lifeless, and then she changed. It wasn't Ruby lying there anymore, it was Blake.
Blake turned her head, her torso soaked with blood, ribs exposed. and asked "Why didn't you save me?"
Yang woke with a chill in her spine. She was sweating, and her jaw hurt. Must have been grinding my teeth. She thought. I've been having this dream for weeks, why did it suddenly switch to blake at the end?
Yang sat up. She cradled her head in her hands. There's no use in just sitting here. Yang swung her legs off the top bunk trying not to shake the bed. She slid off the bed hoping she didn't wake Ruby. When she heard a slight snore from her sister she was proud of her accomplishment. Yang grabbed her gear and headed outside. It was hard to tell time now that society had fallen, but Yang figured it was probably around five thirty because it wasn't light out yet, but wasn't dark either.
It was starting to get colder. Yang went back inside and grabbed her brown leather jacket.
She decided she would take the SUV back to the gas station, more room meant more supplies.
Yang sat in the SUV and turned the key back, she switched the radio on and started scanning for any AM signal. After the third time around the spectrum she decided she wouldn't find anything and hit the CD button.
"Christ! Christmas music? Who the hell likes this?" Yang asked.
After an hour of waiting Yang saw Ruby exit the building and take her watch from Weiss. A half hour after that Blake exited the building, Ren and Nora right behind her.
As the three of them approached Yang exited the SUV and greeted them. "Three today?"
Blake responded. "Adam's orders, he wants to make sure I'm safe."
Nora said. "Pluuuuuuuuus I can get some of the sap from the Forest of Forever Fall!"
"Fine." Yang said. "But I am leading this little escapade. You do what I say, when I say. Clear?"
Ren nodded his agreement.
Blake Replied. "I like Feisty Yang"
"I'm being serious. I know all of you can handle yourselves, but one wrong move out there can mean life or death." Yang replied darkly.
"We understand the risks, and we will be happy to follow your lead." Ren replied before Nora could object.
"Okay, well let's get going then." Said Yang. The four of them each grabbed an empty five gallon gas can and loaded them into the car.
Yang waved goodbye to Ruby on their way out and started driving south. It would be about three hours until they made it. Yang hoped there was enough gas left to fill all the cans and the SUV.
Yang looked behind her to see Ren and Nora had both fallen asleep.
"Blake…"Yang started.
"What is it Yang?"
"Do you remember that party sophomore year? The one where you broke Roman's nose?"
"Of course!" Blake replied. "I also remember you going upstairs and screwing Henry Marigold on Cardin Winchester's bed!"
"You knew about that?"
"Yang, the whole school knew about it. There was a rumor going around that you had a threeway with Henry and Cardin."
"Oh my god...I completely forgot about that!" Yang was embarrassed now.
After a few minutes of silence, Blake asked. "Anyway, what about it?"
Yang wasn't sure if she wanted to tell blake the whole dream. She knew she had to tell someone, but she didn't want Ruby to worry.
"Well," Yang told Blake about the dream she had. Yang left out the part that Adam was the walker who killed Ruby. She did tell Blake how Right before she woke up, Ruby turned into Blake and how she said "You could have saved me."
"Damn, what do you think it means?" Blake asked
"I don't know...it feels good to get it off my chest though." Yang admitted.
From the back of the SUV Nora sleepily said, "Are we there yet?"
"Almost, it's about fifteen minutes from here." Blake said
Nora woke Ren and told him "Almost there."
Yang steered the car right, down the same road they had went down the day before.
"Wait, something's wrong." said Yang
"You're right, the cars have all been moved off the road." Replied Blake.
"Yesterday I thought I saw a figure in the woods." said Yang.
"What!?" Blake almost yelled.
"I thought it was just my imagination." Yang explained.
Yang pulled the car off the road and into a break in the trees. "We go on foot, we don't know who, or what did this and we don't need the car giving away our position. Once we've verified that it's clear, we can come back for the car."
"Right!" said Nora. Yang could tell she was getting excited.
"We have to be silent. Follow my lead and do not make a sound, we will stick to the trees." Explained Yang, looking Pointedly at Nora.
Before the group left the car, Yang pulled her sawed-off shotgun out of the back, Blake and Ren drew handguns, and Nora pulled out her sledgehammer.
Stalking through the thick treeline was slow going, it took them an extra half an hour to get to the gas station. About Three Hundred yards from the station Yang noticed an oil tanker with a couple guys on top pumping gas into it. There were a few more cars there with other men carrying boxes of food out and loading them into the cars. They moved deeper into the treeline, just out of view from the men they stopped behind a tree that had fallen over.
"They must be the ones who moved the cars." Concluded Ren "There's no way that truck would fit down the road without something."
"That's right, little kiddos. Now why don't you all put down your guns." Said a man from behind them.
"Shit!" Whispered Yang.
"Not a chance!" Said Nora, She brought her hammer down on the guy's arms. Breaking both of them instantly.
Before he could say anything Ren drove a dagger into the man's throat, keeping him from screaming while simultaneously covering himself with the man's blood.
That wasn't the first time any of them had to kill another person, and it wouldn't be the last.
"Now what do we do?" Whispered Blake?
"We need that gas, or else we will be walking home." Said Yang.
Blake replied. "They are former members of the Atlesian military. They will kill Ren on sight, and try to kidnap us. Ren's hair is probably the only reason he's still alive."
"I have a plan." Said yang. "We don't have a lot of time, it looks like there is only eight of them, but there is probably at least one sniper somewhere in the trees behind the truck. Ren, take this guy's AR and keep your eyes peeled on that treeline. Meanwhile Blake, Nora and I will sneak in close and try to take them out quietly."
Just then, from on top of the tanker they heard. "Anyone seen Elliot? He's been gone a while."
"He went into the forest over there, had to take a leak." The man who replied pointed directly at Yang.