Yang was determined to leave this camp, it had been about a week since she spoke to Weiss and Ruby. She hated that it was taking this long, every time Blake had to go with Adam Yang felt herself get angry. At this point, it was getting hard to hide it.
"Okay, let's do this," Yang said to herself.
Yang walked out of her makeshift room, she was wearing blue jeans, a dirt-covered yellow shirt, and her favorite leather jacket.
Ruby was waiting for her by the entrance to the church. She was leaning on the wall in a very uncomfortable position, her arm was bent so her forearm was against the wall and she was standing with her right leg crossed behind her left., "Everything ready?" she whispered.
"Why are you acting so weird? Stay calm or this will never work." Yang whispered back.
Ruby stood up straight and brushed her hair out of her eyes, "What ever do you mean dear sister?"
"Seriously Ruby shut...up..." Yang glared at her sister. "Let's go. Weiss and Blake are going to meet us at the motor pool."
Ruby looked taken aback, but Yang knew they only had one chance to do this without bloodshed. The plan was for Ruby, Yang, Weiss, and Blake to leave on a normal run. The night before, Ruby and Weiss had gathered everyone's things and packed them into the van. The next day they would go south to the gas station they went to a couple months back. The four of them would wait there until Ren, Nora, and Jaune came looking for them. Blake was sure that Adam would try to find her, so it would only take Jaune to volunteer them into searching. As soon as they were beyond the gates they would go straight to the gas station from before and then all of them would search for a new home.
That was the plan at least.
"Here they come." Ruby pointed towards the church.
As Yang sat there in the driver seat of the van, she couldn't help the nerves welling deep inside her chest. She felt her human hand start to shake and she couldn't stop tapping her foot. Until Ruby tapped her on the shoulder she didn't even realize she was repeatedly saying, "we can do this."
Yang looked at Ruby, "What?"
"You need to calm down. Take a deep breath. It's just a normal run, they have no idea what's going on."
"I know, I know."
The side door opened and Weiss and Blake jumped into the van.
"Okay, let's go," said Blake. "I can't wait to be away from this place."
Yang nodded in response and turned the van on. When she started down the driveway her heart sank. As they went past the front of the church, Adam walked out the front door dragging Jaune by his hair.
"Jaune!" Yelled Ruby.
"What is he doing!?" said Weiss.
Yang stopped the van and all of them jumped out.
Blake asked, "Adam? What is this?"
"Did you really think you could leave that easily? Did you think you would be able to get away without me knowing? How arrogant of you." Answered Adam.
Yang noticed Jaune had blood running down his face starting above his hairline. His nose was also bleeding and it looked like he had a busted lip.
Adam put Jaune on his knees in front of him. "Is this what you want in a protector Blake? A groveling little worm that will do nothing but die at your feet?"
"What are you talking about!? Blake yelled. "You are the only one I want to be with, where is all of this coming from?"
"DON'T YOU DARE LIE TO ME! HE TOLD ME ALL ABOUT IT!"
Yang looked at Ruby and nodded hoping she would understand.
"Adam what did he say? I don't understand...I love you."
Yang felt disgusted, she hated the way Blake had to lie to keep her and her friends safe.
Adam scoffed, "Once this piece of shit is dead there will be no one between us." he raised the shotgun he had in his hands and put it to the back of Jaune's skull.
"Except there will be!" Yelled Blake. "I can't keep this charade up any longer! You're the one that is between us Adam! The way you treat people! It isn't right! You can't just kill someone for no reason!" Blake was crying now. "You can't cut someone's hand off because you're displeased with them! And you can't use me to take out your anger anymore...I won't let you!" Blake drew her Glock and pointed it above Jaune, at Adam.
"NOW!" Yelled Yang.
After that everything went haywire. Yang heard the explosion first. Ruby had understood what she meant. While Blake had Adam distracted Ruby started on plan B. Ruby slowly walked to the side of the church, as soon as she was out of Adam's sight she took off running.
The night before, Yang had taken a grenade belt from the armory and stashed it behind the church, she instructed Ruby to throw them next to the wall and run like hell.
Jaune moved his head to the right just before the explosion. He leaned back so the barrel of the gun was next to his head and stood up while grabbing the shotgun. He pulled the shotgun forward forcing Adam against his back. Jaune pointed the barrel towards the ground while pulling it forward, he leaned forward and took a step back with his right foot getting Adam off balance. He pulled down lifting Adam off the ground and flipping him across his back while disarming him. Adam landed flat knocking the wind out of him.
"Go help Ruby!" Yang Yelled to Weiss.
Adam's shotgun in hand Jaune dove behind the van joining Blake and Yang.
"Let's go!" Yelled Blake.
"Where are Ren and Nora?" Asked Yang.
"The cellar, we have to get down there!" said Jaune. "No one can die! Not again."
As the three of them moved from behind the van, Blake was punched in the face and fell to the ground. Before Jaune could do anything Adam grabbed the barrel of the shotgun brought it up and hit Jaune in the face. Jaune crumpled to the ground unconscious.
Yang lunged, wielding a punch knife she went for a right hook to Adam's face he narrowly dodged it, Yang tried for a left jab but Adam moved out of the way of that one too. Still holding the barrel, Adam tried to hit Yang with the stock of the gun. Yang saw her opening, She brought her left foot up and kicked him in the stomach. Adam stumbled backward Yang followed her kick with a powerful haymaker her knife slicing open Adam's cheek making him stumble back even more. He took a step back and tripped over Blake's unconscious body landing on his back, once again knocking the wind out of him.
"You think that is okay!" She pointed at Blake. "You think you can control her?"
Yang kicked Adam in the right side of his face causing blood to spray off to his left.
"What did you do to me!" Yelled Yang. She sat on top of Adam and brought her fists down on his face, left, right, left, right. After the third hit, she started losing steam.
"Yang stop! He's had enough!" Ruby came around the corner of the church and grabbed Yang around the waist. "We have to go! The horde I saw yesterday will be here any minute after that blast. It won't take them long until they find that hole in the wall either."
Yang let Ruby pull her off of Adam. "We have to hurry, Ren and Nora need help. They're in the basement."
"What about Jaune and Blake?"
"We'll put them in the van and take the keys."
"I'm good." Blake sat up, "I can help."
"You're sure?"
"Yeah, Just a little shaken up"
Yang noticed Blake was avoiding looking at Adam.
Just then Weiss came around the corner of the Church, "Walkers are getting through the wall, we have to go now!"
Ruby raised her rifle and fired at the man at the front gate, hitting him square in his chest, he fell backward into the street off the wall. Through the gate, they could see walkers swarm the man and start eating. "Let's go!" Ruby but her rifle on her back and drew her handgun, "Yang grab that and you lead, Weiss, help Jaune into the van and defend it with your life."
Yang grabbed Adam's shotgun and ran into the church, Ruby and Weiss close behind. "Where did everyone go?"
Yang heard gunshots coming from outside, but they weren't coming from the front of the church. "The walkers must be here, everyone is defending against them."
"MY ARM!" she heard from outside.
"And it seems like they are losing."
Yang and her group carefully went through the room making sure there wasn't anyone lurking. They made it to the basement stairwell without any issues. The three girls descended the stairs with Yang leading Blake in the middle and Ruby watching the rear. The stairs ended in a hallway with four doors on both sides.
"They used to put naughty kids in these rooms to try to make them fear hell. That's why there are flames painted on the walls down here." Said Blake.
"It's definitely unsettling." Said Ruby.
Yang looked through the window on the first door and only saw an empty room with a metal chair in the middle and a table off to the side. Looking at the room Yang's hand started to burn, Doctor Wolfe's face flashed into her mind. "Blake, you really think Adam cut my hand off because he was mad at me?"
"It's definitely a possibility." Replied Blake.
"I found them!" exclaimed Ruby. When she reached for the door it was kicked open slamming into Ruby, she stumbled back and fell to the floor clutching her wrist. Blood was oozing from her nose.
"RUBY!" Yang and Blake yelled in unison.
"You didn't think it would be that easy did you?" doctor wolf walked out of the room with Nora in front of him, his electric saw against her throat. Nora was crying she had duct tape wrapped around her head covering her mouth, and her arms were zip-tied behind her. Nora's legs were taped together above the knee letting her walk, but just barely.
Yang took a step towards them.
"Ah ah ah," Wolf said in response, "one more move and this gets turned on."
Yang stopped in her tracks.
"Look," Blake said, "Let her and the rest of us go, and you live. There is no option that you can take that will get you out of here alive. You kill her, we kill you. There's nothing you can do."
"Oh, is that so? You have no idea what's going on here little girl! You think you can manipulate me?! Why the ner-"
Blake cut him off, "No I don't want to manipulate you." Yang cut in "But she did want to distract you."
No sooner did the words leave her mouth did Ruby's knife enter the side of Wolfe's neck. Nora brought her head back and hit the man in the nose. He dropped his saw and clutching his neck dropped to the floor.
"No time to dawdle, let's go!" Ruby cut Nora's bonds and helped her with the duct tape on her head.
Yang ran into the room and did the same with Ren. "Let's go, Weiss and Jaune are waiting with the van.
The five of them rushed to the stairs and out the front door of the church. The first thing Yang noticed was that Adam was gone.
"Get in! Let's go!" Yelled Weiss as Jaune threw the door to the van open.
The five of them jumped in as fast as they could.
"What happened to Adam?" asked Yang as she was climbing in.
"I don't know, I just kept my head down hoping no one would notice me." Said Weiss.
Weiss started the van and drove towards the gate. As soon as Yang could see the hole in the wall and all the carnage they had caused her eyes started to well with tears. There were walkers storming into the place she had called home for two years, the people who were getting eaten right now were, in some capacity her friends. She knew that if it came down to it, they wouldn't have hesitated to kill her or anyone else in this van if Adam had ordered it but that didn't help the guilt and sorrow she felt for them.
The van stopped, Ren jumped out and opened the gate.
"Where did the walkers go?" asked Ruby
"It doesn't matter! Punch it!" Yelled Jaune as he helped Ren into the van.
Once they were through the gate and onto the open road, Yang finally felt relief, she sat down in the middle row, next to Blake.
Blake reached out and took Yang's hand. "We did it...I can't believe we are actually out." Blake rested her head on Yang's shoulder.
"Just keep going Weiss, as far south as this gas will take us," said Yang, she looked around at everyone in the van and smiled. "How's your wrist?"
"It's fine, just a sprain," said Ruby from the front seat. "Ren, keep an eye behind us, just to make sure they aren't following."
"Will do." He replied.
"Look!" Nora pointed out the window, "It's snowing!"
A/N
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Winter is coming! (I don't watch Game of Thrones and have never read the books) but eh, why not?
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