A boy laid on the ground of a field, breathing heavily. As he laid there, he looked up to the sky and laughed a little as blood dripped from his mouth. Slowly getting up, he saw a girl around his age looking at him.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
The boy nodded before he finally stood up straight, looking down to the slightly shorter girl. The girl gasped softly as she saw the blood and tried to take him to her house, though the boy softly pushed her off of his body.
"You're hurt! You need to get some help." The young girl said.
"I'm fine, this happens all the time." The boy finally said.
The girl stood there, frightened as the boy sighed and looked behind him to the other bodies. She didn't know what to do.
The boy looked around and softly sighed as he rubbed the back of his neck with his left hand.
"Hey, you got any water with you?" He asked the girl.
"Yeah, but I'm not really supposed to be talking to strangers. Plus, you're bloody and weird!" The young blonde exclaimed to the boy.
"Fair enough." The boy said before he started walking away.
"Hey, what's your name?!" The blonde demanded.
"Call me Zenix." The boy said as he walked off.
"I'm Yang!" The girl yelled after him.
"See ya 'round, Yang." 'Zenix' stated to himself with a small smile as he faded from the view due to the wheat in the field.
15 Years Later...
"Yang!"
The ringing in his ears wouldn't stop, no matter how hard he tried to not focus on it. In his arms laid the quirky blonde that he'd come to love over the years he new her.
Blood dripped from her slightly open mouth, while the rest of her body was covered in gashes and bruises. Her cheeks were stained with the tears that she'd shed just minutes before. Her eyes were glazed over as her face showed no emotion, while the boy holding her couldn't take it.
He let out a bloodcurdling scream while the blonde's sister suddenly looked over, the red clad girl speeding towards the two. Tears started streaming from the girl's eyes as she saw her sister's lifeless body.
"Make sure you take good care of yourself, Ruby."
"H-Huh?"
"I'll make sure to tell Yang that you're well."
"W-Wait, what're you—?!"
Ruby was cut off as the boy started running towards the threat they'd been facing for the past three hours.
The queen of Grimm herself.
Salem.
They'd all made sure that it wouldn't end like that, but it did.
Jaune and Nora were incapacitated, Ren was helping Weiss, Blake, and Oscar out in the courtyard with the Grimm, and Ruby was holding her sister's lifeless body while the boy her sister loved was going to face their big bad.
"Void's Edge: Chains of Hell!"
Black chains wrapped around the young man's arms and they extended to be as long as whips. As he started wailing on Salem, the people who were out in the courtyard came into the room and were horrified at the sight.
The black chains wrapped around Salem's neck as the boy pulled her to her knees and started pummeling her face with his fists.
"YOU KILLED YANG! I'LL MAKE YOU SUFFER!" The young man yelled as the skin on the right side of his body started to turn as black as the void of space.
The scar over his right eye, and the iris of that eye turned a deep purple as he kept venting his rage by trying to kill Salem.
Weiss and Ren went over to help Jaune and Nora, however they wouldn't wake up due to the beating Salem gave them. Blake went over to Yang, only to find a shell of the quirky blonde that she once knew.
Blake started to break down as soon as she saw Yang, collapsing to her knees. Weiss and Ren looked over to see what was going on, freezing in place after doing so. They couldn't believe their eyes, and they'd hoped it was all just a horrible nightmare.
As the 27 year-old young man kept beating Salem, the rest of the team just looked onwards and couldn't move a muscle.
Oscar ran into the room and immediately knelt at Ruby's side, hoping to console her somehow. However, there wasn't much he could do.
"Hand of Damnation." The young man stated as his right hand was engulfed in a misty, black substance and pressed it against Salem's face.
Salem screamed in pain, thanks to Ruby weakening her earlier with the power of her silver eyes. It wasn't much, but it certainly helped.
It wasn't enough, though.
Salem gritted her teeth and sent the young man spiraling backwards, his body hitting the ground harshly. He rolled to a stop, slowly getting up as he spat blood into the floor in front of him.
"Weiss, try and get Jaune up. I need him to give me a boost."
"Carter, he's out cold. I've tried, but he's too hurt."
"Fine, I'll do it without his help."
"You don't mean—!"
The pressure around them got bigger, their bodies feeling heavy. The floor and walls began to engulf in the misty, black energy that the young man had used.
All the energy started crawling into Salem's body, as she had a frightened expression on her face.
"I may not be able to kill you, but I can still destroy your physical body! Void's Heart: Hands of the Dead!"
Suddenly, all of the black mist turned into hands that started to claw at Salem's body, starting to take out chunks of flesh from her. As her body started to decompose, the young man started getting weary as he needed to keep it up.
'Damn, I need to finish it quick.'
"Void's Soul: Bane of Light."
Suddenly, a sword of black mist appeared in the young man's hand. He then walked slowly towards Salem, driving it through her mouth and the back of her head.
Then, everything stopped. The mist, the sword, everyone's bodies, frozen.
"You've done well at destroying our greatest punishment. She's seen the importance of life and death through you, and now, she can rest in peace with her beloved." A voice that seemed to be coming from everywhere said.
"Now, you may rest."
Everything then resumed, the black mist dispersing and leaving Salem's lifeless body laying on the floor, mangled and torn.
The young man's body collapsed under himself and he laid there, his eyes heavy as he started to bleed out through a wound in his stomach.
Within a matter of minutes... he was dead.
At least, that's what he'd thought at first.