Dead by Roselight
Chapter 33: The Last of RWBY
"What in the hell are you playing at?" Yang asked in a voice mixed with anger and confusion. "What do you mean by what you just said? You've done everything until now for the sake of the people you care about!? Do you really think I'd believe that!? How could ANY of the things you've done have been for the sake anyone but yourself!?"
"That's where you're wrong, Yang. It has been for the sake of everyone around me," Weiss answered emotionlessly. "I need to return back to our world in order to do what needs to be done. I need to go back and fulfill my duty as the heiress of the SDC."
"Your duty as the heiress?" the blonde asked with wide eyes. Her anger then returned fully and she pushed the white-haired girl harder against the wall. "The hell is that supposed to mean!? What does your position as a heiress have anything to do with anyone!?"
"…I see that you're a fool, so I'll explain it to you," Weiss said with a sigh. "Do you have any idea of how much power and influence the SDC holds? The person in charge of that company can literally do anything they want without any consequences. Because of that, my father has caused untold amounts of damage, which has in turn ruined the name of my family. I need to get back to our world so that I can take over the SDC and lead the company in a proper way."
Yang couldn't believe her ears and simply stared at the heiress with wide eyes. All of the things she had done, the people she had betrayed and left for dead, had been for the sake of her taking over her family's company? Nothing else mattered to her as long as she got to hold the reins of the SDC?
Once the initial shock had run its course, the anger came back to the brawler stronger than before. She grit her teeth together and her eyes turned red from the sheer rage she felt towards her teammate at the moment.
"Are you fucking kidding me!?" Yang yelled at Weiss. "All of this was for the sake of money and power!? Do you have any idea how many irreplaceable things have been lost because of what you've done!?"
"Please don't speak of me like I'm some sort of criminal drooling after wealth. The SDC is far more than a simple pile of cash," the white-haired girl said with a slight frown. "What I want to get my hands on is the power the company holds. The SDC has influence to the whole world. If used correctly, it can help countless people. Once I get back, I can effectively save the world."
The blonde girl looked into Weiss' eyes to find any signs of lying in them. Instead of seeing any signs of deceit, she saw nothing. Yang almost let out a gasp of surprise, as she realized that the heiress' eyes were completely empty of any emotion. This led to a horrifying realization.
This world had actually broken Weiss, turning her into an emotionless monster that no longer cared about those around her.
"I see. So that's how you feel, huh?" Yang said in a low voice after confirming how much her friend had changed. "Unfortunately, you don't seem to understand something. If a person is willing to sacrifice their loved ones, how can they be expected to look after anybody else? The way I see it, you're no savior at all. If you take over the SDC, I fear it would only make things worse."
"That might be how you see it, but I see it differently. I have to go back and take over. End of story," Weiss said before suddenly kicking the brawler in the stomach. This caused her to let go of the white-haired girl, who then began to run away while Yang was recovering from the blow. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and find my way out of this world."
"That won't do you any good, ice queen," the blonde girl said with a slight chuckle. "After all, don't you need a key in order to get out?"
Hearing these words, Weiss immediately stopped and checked the pocket where she had put the key. Her eyes went wide as she realized that her pocket was completely empty. The heiress immediately realized that Yang must have taken the key from her during the time she was being held against the wall.
With her eyes filled with fury, Weiss turned to look where Yang had been, only to find that the blonde girl was missing. Her face turned red with anger as she went to look for her thieving teammate.
It didn't take long for the white-haired girl to find Yang again. The brawler was currently climbing over fences and running across the backyards of the houses surrounding them. Weiss immediately ran after her teammate, knowing that her only hope of escaping this world was in Yang's possession.
Having run for some time now, Yang had to stop and take a break for a moment. Not only was she still exhausted for everything she had gone through so far, but her wounds were also hurting. If she were to continue running for much longer, the blonde girl knew that she would eventually fall down from the sheer pain of her injuries.
"To think that Weiss abandoned all of us just for her company," Yang mumbled to herself as she took the key out of her pocket and looked at it. "Serves her right. Ice queen deserves to be left here after all the things she has done. She's no better than the monsters in this world, so she should fit right in."
"I'm afraid I don't agree with that," a very familiar voice suddenly said, causing the blonde to turn and look where it came from. There she saw Weiss staring at her with an angry and insane glare. "You have something that belongs to me. Give it back or I'll take it from you."
"Come and get it, princess!" Yang yelled mockingly and began to run with the white-haired girl quickly following behind.
Under normal circumstances, the brawler would have had no problems with running away from Weiss. Unfortunately for her, there were many thing weighing her down and the heiress was putting her all into getting her key back. It didn't take long for Weiss to tackle Yang to the ground, which caused the blonde girl to let out a pained cry from her injuries getting hit.
"I am not kidding around, Xiao Long!" the heiress yelled while holding down her teammate. "Give me back the key or I'll make you pay!"
"G-Go to hell…" Yang managed to say while gritting her teeth.
This response caused Weiss to start punching the brawler into her injured places, which were her back and side. Thanks to the cut marks on her clothes, Yang's injured areas were easy to notice. The blonde screamed in pain from having her wounds get assaulted like this, and some of them even opened again.
"OKAY! OKAY! YOU WIN! STOP!" Yang soon yelled, not able to take the punishment anymore. With a trembling hand, she took the key from her pocket and gave it to Weiss. "Here's your damn key…"
"Good choice," the white-haired girl said as she tool the key. Before she left, she kicked the brawler to her side one more time, causing her to cry out in pain. "Don't try something like this again."
Once Weiss had left, Yang got up from the ground despite still shaking terribly from the pain her body was in. The blonde girl had a small grin on her face as she looked towards the direction the heiress had walked to.
"I don't need to try this again. You already fell for it when it really mattered."
After getting back her key, Weiss immediately went back to searching for the way out of this world. It was proving to be a rather difficult task, as she had no idea where the exit really was. All she knew that it was her only way to escape.
As she was looking around, the heiress soon found the normal exit gate that required the generator to be fixed in order for it to open. Since she knew that this gate wouldn't be of any use to her, Weiss ignored it for the most part. She decided to follow along the borders of the realm, as it was possible that her exit would be found that way. For the most part, all that the white-haired girl saw was the tall wall that had barbed wire on top of it, blocking her from leaving.
However, after following the border for some time, Weiss eventually saw some thick bushes up ahead that covered a part of the wall. This seemed very suspicious to the heiress, so she decided to see what was hiding behind the plants. Once she got past the bushes, she was delighted to see a door on the wall. Weiss immediately took the key from her pocket and put it in the lock. Her joy only increased as the key seemed to fit perfectly, so she turned it and got ready to make her escape.
Unfortunately for her, the key didn't turn all the way and the door remained closed.
Seeing her way out remain closed, panic started to take over the white-haired girl, who furiously kept trying to open the door. She kept taking the key out and putting it back in, turning again and again, and she even tried to pull the door open forcefully. No matter what she did, the door remained closed.
Confused as to why the key wasn't working, Weiss looked at it more closely. It was then that she noticed a certain detail that was missing. The key was supposed to have the name "Vigo" carved into it, but this key didn't. It had nothing carved into it, unlike the key she had picked up in the realm of The Nightmare.
The heiress immediately realized what had happened. When Yang gave her back the key, she had actually given a different key. Weiss had wondered a bit about the fact that the blonde girl had given up so easily. Normally, Yang would have fought until the bitter end even if all her bones were broken, so it was strange to see her surrender so quickly. The white-haired girl had been so focused on finding the way out that she didn't even consider the idea of the brawler trying to fool her, let alone would Weiss have considered her to be smart enough to do something like that.
"That… DAMN BRUTE!" the heiress said with her anger taking over her. "How dare she make a fool out of me!? ME! I should have killed her instead of just giving her a beating! I swear when I find her that I'll make her regret ever being born!"
Furious over what had happened, Weiss threw away the key that Yang had given her and made her way through the bushes that were covering the way out. The white-haired girl's mind was racing with all the painful punishments that she was going to put the brawler through.
However, Weiss soon found out that finding her blonde-haired teammate was going to prove to be rather difficult. As soon as she turned around, she saw The Shape standing there, staring at her.
Immediately upon seeing the killer, the heiress' rage was replaced with fear and terror. Last time she had been discovered by the white-masked man, she had barely been able to escape. This time, Weiss wasn't certain if she would be able to do it. After all, it was by sheer luck that she had found those other survivors that she had used as a distraction. Now, the white-haired girl wasn't sure if she could do such a thing again or if it would even work.
As Weiss was trying to think of a way to escape from the killer, The Shape decided to start moving towards his prey. Once he took the first step, the heiress was broken out of her daze and she began to run away.
Weiss ran as fast as she could, but the killer proved to be faster, as he soon caught up to her. The blade of his knife cut the white-haired girl's back, causing her to scream and fall down. Even in such a hopeless situation, Weiss still tried her best to escape and began to crawl away. However, this didn't help her at all and The Shape was soon holding her up in the air from the front of her jacket.
"You… You dare lay your hands on me!?" Weiss yelled at the killer. Her mind was now completely broken and madness was taking over. "Do you have any idea who I am!? I AM WEISS SCHNEE! HEIRESS OF THE SCHNEE DUST COMPANY! YOU ARE NO-"
The rest of her rant was cut off by a single swing of the killer's knife. An expression of shock was left on the white-haired girl's face, as The Shape carried away her decapitated head.
The realm was going to soon have a new jack-o-lantern, made from Weiss Schnee herself.
Back with Yang, the blonde girl was stumbling through the realm in a haze of pain. She might have gotten the key from Weiss, but the hits she had to take had opened up some of her wounds and it wasn't looking too good for her.
With no better ideas, Yang decided to go into one of the houses in the realm. She was hoping to find a place to hide from the killer, so she could rest and try to get her strength back. It wasn't exactly the best plan ever, but it was the only idea the brawler could think of at the moment.
As soon as she got inside the house, Yang decided to head to the basement. She felt that it was the safest place to hide at the moment. Unfortunately, the blood loss and pain that was making her dizzy caused the blonde to slip on the steps and fall down painfully. After the fall, Yang began to desperately struggle to get up, as the noise she had caused could have alerted the killer to her location, so she needed to hide somewhere.
However, the brawler soon found something that became more important than a hiding spot. In the middle of the floor of the basement, there was a metal hatch. Upon seeing this, Yang crawled up to it and looked it over. Just like Ruby's notes had said, the hatch had the name "Vigo" carved on it, which was also on the key she had taken from Weiss. This was the way to The Entity itself, the being behind this whole world.
Yang knew that it was foolish of her to even think about going down this hatch, but she decided to do it. Even if she had promised Ruby not to do it, the blonde girl felt like she had to go and face the monster that had been the cause of so much loss for her. Yang had lost her friends and her sister, so she wanted to make the one responsible for it pay. No matter what it would take.
With a turn of the key, the lock on the hatch was opened. The hatch revealed metallic ladders that went down with no end in sight. The inside was so dark that you couldn't see the bottom at all. Despite this and the pain her body was in, Yang got on the ladder and prepared to descend into the darkness below.
Just as the brawler was about to leave, she noticed The Shape standing not too far from her, staring down at her while still holding Weiss' head.
"Sorry, but I'm not going to be playing with you," Yang said to the killer without even caring about the white-haired girl's severed head. "I'm going to have a little talk with your boss. Enjoy Weiss' company."
Before The Shape could do anything, the blonde girl went down the ladders and closed the hatch behind her, preventing anyone from following her.
Author's notes: From this point on things might get a bit weird with what I have planned. The next chapter is going to be about Yang confronting The Entity itself, so I'll be taking a few "creative liberties" with it, since as far as I know we don't yet truly know what The Entity looks like. However, we are now pretty much at the endgame of this story, with only two or three chapters more to go. Hope you guys will check them out.
Also, I forgot to mention this in the last chapter, but the blonde woman that got killed by Michael Myers was supposed to be Kate from Dead by Daylight. Thought some of you guys might find that a fun little detail.
Anyways, I'll be working on the next chapter soon. Until next time.
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