Yo. (Edited; credit to Engineer1896 for pointing out my mistake. Thank you).

Mercury Black watched in muted silence as the people that mattered the most to him all fell, one by one.

The young man stood under the shade of a tree as Jaune Arc burned alive.

Mercury could do nothing - feel nothing as his friend and leader was cooked alive in a blazing inferno, created by none other than Cinder Fall herself. He smelled burning flesh. He heard the awful scream that came from Jaune Arc, struggling against his bindings, wailing and fighting for dear life.

And Mercury stood there, watching it.

Those blue eyes, normally filled with hope and conviction, were now full of nothing more than pain and horror as he was subjected to a slow and painful death. Ironically enough, Jaune was being burned to a crisp right where Pyrrha Nikos had died, right on top of the ruins of Beacon, on a night very much like the night of the academy's fall. Died fighting the very woman that had taken everything away from him.

It felt like hours. It could have been minutes. And he stood there, doing absolutely nothing.

As the flames died down, Cinder Fall lowered her hand and turned to him, her eyes glowing an amber shade. Their eyes met and before he knew it, he was engulfed in fire.

Lie Ren had killed himself.

Mercury Black stood above the lifeless corpse of his friend and teammate. Even in death, he was still as stoic as ever, his eyes betraying nothing. Even when the blade of his father was embedded in his chest, Ren had died as he had lived - with grace. Everything told of a swift and painless death.

His body however, told an entirely different tale.

As his body lay in the center of his destroyed village, Ren had his arm outstretched to Nora. Or what was left of her anyway.

There, where Ren's dull eyes stared ahead was a stain. An ugly, red stain marked near the village's center. Mercury could only think of one thing - Grimm.

The proud Valkyrie had been outnumbered. Torn apart. Thrown under a stampede, all because she had charged to face the Nuckelavee all by herself. Nora had wanted to protect Ren. To be his hero, to be the one to save him.

What an idiot. What was worse, Mercury could not tell if Ren had seen it all. Ha been forced to watch as Nora, his love and joy, was destroyed by the creatures of the dark, leaving nothing behind.

Mercury slowly walked over the large blood-stain and, as i by magic, felt something pierce his chest. His body rose up as something pulled. Grey eyes looked down to see a black, clawed hand piercing through his chest.

He began to cough up blood. Began to choke on it.

The next thing he saw was the maw of the Nuckelavee's second head open up, and swallowed him into darkness.

He had fallen.

Adam Taurus' broken body lay before Mercury, in the middle of a forest. In the middle of nowhere. The man had been unmasked, his brand exposed all for Remnant to see. Sadly, Remnant didn't give a damn. Mercury, however, did.

His partner and teammate's eyes looked up to the sky. Perhaps to symbolize the hope that had once filled the Faunus' heart once, how he would look up and dream of a future of equality and peace.

Sadly, death was not as romantic as people made it out to be.

He saw Adam's blade, Wilt, sticking out from both ends of the Faunus' chest, blood staining it's crimson blade and pooling around his body.

Mercury, without being there, knew how he had died.

For Blake. And Yang.

Salem had seen fit to unleash Hazel on the two, and Adam had seen fit to throw his life away for Blake Belladonna.

Yes, she had left him. He had followed her all the way to Beacon, hoping to the gods that she'd remain with him.

Instead, she had become a part of RWBY, and fell in love with her team. Maybe she had fallen in love with Sun as well.

And Adam? Well, he had been stuck with the most dysfunctional team Beacon had ever produced. But his love for her never died, whether it be because of obsession or just genuine emotion, he would never know.

At least Adam had changed for the better, before being betrayed by the broken remains of the White Fang. Hazel had deemed it fit to bring a small entourage with him. Adam saw it fit to give Yang and Blake no choice but to run, holding the terrorists off at the cost of his life.

Mercury said nothing. Felt nothing. Absolutely nothing, for how could he? The river beside them had began to flood immediately, before washing them both away.

Mercury woke to a jolt, feeling cold metal under him.

"Morning."

The first thing he saw was Oscar shaking him awake. Mercury blinked the exhaustion away from his eyes and looked around.

Yup, they were all there.

There was Jaune, chatting amicably with Blake. Seems as if they had found common ground on books. Mercury assumed it was gen:Lock, the sci-fi comic written by the author of Ninjas of Love and illustrated by the maker of X-ray and Vav.

He rolled his eyes at that and spotted Adam Taurus leaning on Yang, the blond snoring like a train while Adam slept like the dead. It was strange, yet oddly comforting. Her mechanical arm lay across his lap, his scarred face leaning on the top of Yang's blonde mane. It was nice. Blake was peacefully slumbering on Yang's lap. It was a nice scene to wake up to.

And of course, Ren was with Nora. Doing whatever the hell those two did.

The rest were up front - Ruby, was deep in conversation with Weiss, her uncle Qrow, and the Reaper herself, Maria.

Oscar pulled him up and patted him on the back.

"We're here."

Yes. Yes they were. And he'd give his life to make sure that would always be true.

Oof. I'm angsting.