Dead by Roselight
Epilogue
When Yang finally woke up, she found herself in one of the rooms of Beacon's infirmary. The room only had one bed in it, so there were no other patients around her. Rooms like this were mostly used for patients that were sick, so that they wouldn't spread whatever illness they had on others.
With sluggish and slow movements, the brawler managed to bring herself up to a sitting position. Her body felt sore everywhere, like she had overworked herself in the gym. Surprisingly, Yang didn't feel any of the pain that she had felt from her injuries that she got from the world of The Entity. This was odd, as she had suffered quite a few wounds and bruises. Even if her Aura had returned, they shouldn't have disappeared so easily and without a trace.
The blonde girl couldn't help but wonder how she had managed to get back. Had the death of Vigo somehow released her from The Entity's world? Nothing made sense to her anymore, but it was certain that she was back in her own world once again.
However, Yang was not happy about being freed from the hellish nightmare she had been stuck in. In fact, tears were starting to fall from her eyes, as she remembered all of the people she had lost. Her teammates, JNPR, all the comrades she made back in The Entity's world and most importantly Ruby. Now that the brawler was finally back, any joy she should have felt was hollow and non-existent. Had she known this would be the feeling she would get upon escaping, she would have preferred staying in that world.
Was this how Jonathan felt before taking his own life? Yang suddenly understood why the boy had decided to commit suicide, even though he had been freed.
Suddenly, the blonde girl began to hear something. It was the sound of someone talking. This made no sense to her, as she was the only one in the room, but she could hear it clearly. It didn't take long before she started to hear another person talking. Then more and more, until all Yang could hear was a storm of noise that generated from hearing the speech of dozens of people.
The brawler held her head in pain, trying to quiet down the terrible noise. Her face was twisted in an expression of anguish, as the noise seemed to be only getting louder and louder. Yang almost screamed in pain from what she was going through, but before that happened, a single voice cut through the noise and seemed to silence all the other voices.
"Has the data been analyzed yet?"
Yang's eyes went wide as she heard the voice of Ozpin clearly. The headmaster was nowhere to be seen, but she could hear him clearly. Somehow the blonde girl knew that he was not too far from where she was. It seemed like he was talking with someone else.
"The data is still being analyzed, I'm afraid. There is a lot our researchers need to go through, but what they have seen so far has proven to be quite valuable."
The person that was talking with Ozpin was obviously Glynda. Yang could easily recognize the teacher's voice.
The brawler wondered for a second what the two professors could be talking about, before she remembered the device Ozpin had given her. She had been told by Howard that the device wasn't something that would send out a signal for it to be located. Rather, it was something that would send data to another location. Could the two professors be talking about what that device had sent them?
An uneasy feeling gripped Yang's stomach as she continued to listen to the conversation.
"Tell them to work as hard as they can in order to get everything out of it," Ozpin said. "This is something that we absolutely cannot waste. After years of trying, we finally have what could possibly lead Remnant to a brighter future."
"I know. We have made quite a number of sacrifices along the way to get to this point," Glynda said. "To think that all it took was an unfortunate accident involving one of our students to finally bring this forth."
Yang's eyes went wide upon hearing what the blonde witch had just said. Were they talking about what had happened with Ruby?
"What happened to Ms. Rose was truly unfortunate, but not necessarily all bad. It was the start to us achieving a goal that we have been chasing for a long time," Ozpin said, confirming the blonde girl's fears. "After she went missing, it was simple to get a new group to be sent to the other realm. Ms. Rose's teammates and team JNPR were more than eager to take part in this, even if they had different goals from ours. We didn't even need to make up a false incident for them to go investigate."
"This whole thing truly made our operation more simple, which was a great help. Not to mention, our results this time are far better than any of our previous attempts," Glynda said in agreement. "Like that time involving my brother."
Yang wasn't sure if she wanted to believe her own ears. What the teacher had just said gave the impression that she had been fully aware of what had happened to her brother, Graham. Despite knowing this, it sounded like Glynda didn't even care.
"It was very terrible what happened to Graham, especially when we consider that it didn't bring any results to us," the headmaster stated. "I had hoped that he would have achieved a better result, but I think that might have been just from him being related to you."
"Graham may have been passionate about being a Huntsman, but his overall skills never matched that," the blonde woman said. "The only good thing that came with using him was that he was very eager to help, even if he didn't fully understand what he was supposed to do."
The brawler felt her blood run cold as she listened to how uncaring Glynda was towards her own brother. Yang herself considered Graham a spectacular Huntsman, as he not only helped people in need, but he also became the leader of Ruby's group after she had disappeared and had even saved the blonde girl's life. She could feel tears starting to fall from her eyes, as she thought about the blonde man in his final moments.
"It was a long and difficult road, but we have finally achieved something from it. I am certain that everything we have done so far has been worth what we've got," Ozpin declared with a hint of pride in his voice. "As for Ms. Xiao Long, I believe we might learn more from her as well. Get some of our staff ready to start performing tests on her. I am honestly surprised anyone made it back, but I'm definitely not displeased by it at all. We should use everything we've gained from this."
"Understood. However, shouldn't we neutralize her just in case? As long as she is alive, we might risk information leaking to outsiders," Glynda asked. "After all, we have done that to Taiyang and Qrow already after they started to investigate our operations."
Upon hearing what had happened to her father and uncle, Yang felt her sadness get pushed away and get replaced with anger. These two were treating the lives of people as if they were nothing. It wasn't bad enough that they used Ruby's disappearance to further their own objectives, but they had also sacrificed her, her team, JNPR and Graham. To top it all off, they had gone so far as to kill the last of the blonde girl's family for wanting to find out what had happened to her.
Yang swore that she would make them pay.
"All in due time, Professor Goodwitch. For now, I want to see what can be gathered from her while she is still alive," Ozpin answered to Glynda's question. "Once that has been done, we can get rid of her."
The two professors were continuing their conversation, but Yang wasn't listening anymore. The sheer anger and rage she was feeling at the moment had blocked her hearing. Right now, all she could think of was what she would do to the ones who had used her and her friends. The brawler needed to make them suffer as much as she and everyone else in that nightmarish world had or she would never be satisfied.
…But it wouldn't be enough to just make Ozpin and Glynda pay.
Yang thought about what she and all of her companions had gone through. The reason any of them had ended up in The Entity's world had been because of the world itself. Each and every single one of them had their lives ruined, which caused them to fall into despair and get taken by The Entity.
It wouldn't be enough to just make the ones that had betrayed the blonde girl pay. She would need to make Remnant itself pay for what had happened to them. Every man, woman and child had to be shown the horrors they had gone through or else it would never be enough.
With slow and clumsy movements, Yang started to get up from her bed, but ended up falling to the floor. Just as this happened, a nurse had walked into the room to check on her. Seeing what had happened to the brawler, the nurse immediately ran up to Yang to see if she was okay.
The last thing she saw was the hateful gaze of the brawler stare at her, before one of The Entity's claws appeared from behind Yang and impaled her through the chest.
Without giving her victim any thought, Yang threw away the nurse's body. Despite having just killed a fellow human being, she felt nothing but her rage and hatred towards everything. The blonde girl no longer held any worth towards human lives at all. She only saw them as scum that needed to be put to their place.
When Vigo had said that he and The Entity were looking for people to become the leaders of their army of killers, he had been somewhat lying. While he himself had believed those words, the truth was that he had been manipulated by The Entity. What the creature had truly wanted was essentially a host, a person to hold it in their body, so that it could leave the world it had been stuck in and go spread its influence further.
Long ago, The Entity had realized that Vigo wouldn't be an ideal candidate for this. His own objectives would definitely hinder what The Entity itself wanted and the former researcher could prove to be difficult to control as well.
However, Yang was a perfect host in The Entity's eyes. The simple reason for this was that it could easily manipulate the blonde girl, which it had realized upon facing her directly. Back then, the creature had actually let Yang tear through and get her hands on Vigo, as it needed to have the brawler burn out all the anger she felt towards everything that had happened back in that world. The former researcher not only became the perfect target for Yang to burn away her anger rage, but it also cut off the tumor that would have hindered The Entity.
Even now that they were back in the blonde girl's own world, The Entity would be able to easily control Yang any way it wanted. All the loss and pain she had gone through had left the brawler broken. The Entity only needed to give her a small push to get her to a state it wanted and that push was quickly provided by Ozpin and Glynda. The creature had to just use its own ability to inspect the world around it and let Yang hear their conversation and the blonde girl was ready to become the force of destruction and death it needed her to be. A few more suggestions to her rage-clouded mind and Yang soon viewed the whole world as her enemy.
The Entity and Yang Xiao Long were now united for the same goal.
The brawler stood up from the floor and looked behind her. There she could see all of the killers from The Entity's world, standing still and waiting for her orders. Yang could see all the ones that she had met as well as several that were new to her. Even Pyrrha was there, but the blonde girl paid it no mind. There were bigger things for her to worry.
However, one killer decided to speak up and walk up to Yang. This was none other than the killer known as The Nightmare, Freddy Krueger.
"So the blonde kid that got away from me got to be my new boss, huh? Well, congratulations, goldilocks, but I don't think you're exactly ready to step up to such a job," the burnt man said mockingly. "If you think any of us is going to follow your orders, you must be dumber than I thought. You should just let us go and- Urk!"
The rest of Freddy's words were cut off by Yang grabbing him by the throat and lifting him up in the air. She still had a look of absolute hatred on her face, as she stared at the killer.
"Mind your words, Freddy. I am no longer the helpless victim you faced before," the brawler said with her voice now sounding distorted and demonic. "I am currently holding myself back from tearing you apart and the only reason for that is I can use your abilities. However, anger me again and I will make you suffer far worse than all of your victims. Understood?"
The killer simply gave a nod and was let go. With her status among all the killers now confirmed, Yang turned her attention back what she really wanted to do. Punish Ozpin, Glynda and the whole Remnant.
No matter if they were man or woman, young or old, human or faunus, all would feel the wrath of Yang Xiao Long. No one would be safe and the world would be painted red with blood.
They better run. They better hide. Or they will all be Dead by Daylight.
Author's notes: I know it was incredibly cheesy of me to end it on that line, but I couldn't help myself. I just liked it way too much to not do it.
I decided to end this story like this because I felt like it fit the source material of Dead by Daylight. The Entity is a higher-level being that has existed for at least hundreds of years. It should be clever and powerful enough to manipulate people the way it wants. I also think that having the story end with Yang simply defeating or even killing The Entity would have been kind of lame, and an ending where she simply survives wouldn't have proven all that interesting or surprising.
I know some of you were most likely disappointed by not seeing your favorite killer appear, but I unfortunately couldn't put them all here. There were just way too many, so I had to choose which ones to use. Some were left out due to a similar killer being used (like with Leatherface) and some were left out simply because I didn't like them. Some killers also got left out due to the fact that they came to the game way too late, such as The Plague. By the point they arrived, I had already decided upon which ones I would use and couldn't really change my plans.
If there is one killer I regret not using, it's The Doctor. At first, I honestly didn't like him, so I decided not to use him. This wasn't helped by the fact that the first gameplay of him that I saw didn't really show him in a good light. Only after seeing some much better gameplay with him did I take an actual interest in him. Unfortunately, by that point, I had already gone too far in the story and I couldn't squeeze him in, even if I tried. It's a bit of a regret of mine, but it can't be helped.
Anyways, thank you all for checking out this story. It was an interesting project and I had a great time coming up with this story and seeing how you all would react to it. This was an interesting and a fun ride.
Until next time.
RWBY is owned Rooster Teeth and Dead by Daylight is owned by Behaviour Interactive.