King Sorrow here, thanks for being patient, I'm not to sure if you love this fanfiction or not but the I'll say that the steady income of people following it is a pretty good sign, I made this one a bit longer then the others but this is a key part in the story, I hope I did a good job, enjoy
Ruby saw Adam motion for her to come down. She returned Crimson Rose to its retracted state and placed it in its holster. 'Now I have to climb down, stupid Adam.' She cursed him in her head as she hugged the tree trunk and inched her way down, ignoring the bark that jabbed through her clothes and scratched her skin.
"I should have shot him in the ass for throwing me in this tree." she mumbled moving down another foot or two. "It wouldn't have killed him." she winced as a particularly sharp piece of bark jabbed her in her inner thigh. "I could have just said I missed my target and hit him, no one would know." She grumbled and dropped down the last three feet to the ground bellow, leaves cracked underneath her feet as she landed and dusted wood off of her clothes.
She looked through the trees for the path that the other two had gone down but she couldn't spot one, she shrugged and started walking. "I'll just make my own path."
Even with her speed semblance it took her twenty minutes and she had to turn around twice before she made it down on to the road, somehow she came out of the woods right in front of the ambush sight. She couldn't believe what she saw, "What the hell is this." she gasped her heart stopping in her chest. Blood ran thick across the black topped asphalt of the road mixing with the flaming gasoline from the destroyed cargo truck. the soldiers that she had helped knock out where now lying dead in the center of the mess, Adam was in the middle of carnage, his grim mask splattered with blood as he pulled Wilt from the throat of a soldier and wiped the blood from the blade.
Ruby tore her eyes away from the grotesque seen to see the other girl, Blake standing a short distant away holding her weapon in one hand and a small box in the other one, around her where six men on there knees, tied up and watching the scene before them. Five were dressed as soldiers, their masks removed. She could see the emotions of anger and sadness in their eyes but their face betrayed nothing, the sixth was wearing a white lab coat and had long black hair tied in a ponytail.
Ruby assumed that this was the Dustologist that they had come for. "Oh, so you've made it, I was starting to think you got lost." Adam said, Ruby's eyes flicked back to him. His voice was different, it usually was soft and sounded bored but now it held a tremor of something else.
"Are you OK?" He asked slightly amused. He sounded, excited. "What is this." Ruby asked looking at the horrific scene.
"Oh, this must be a surprise to you, I'm sorry. You knew that we were sending a message." Adam told her. Ruby stared at him lost for words, this wasn't happening, she only agreed to do this because there wouldn't be any killing.
"Since when did we kill." Blake finally spoke up, Ruby realized that Blake hadn't been let in on this part of the plan. "Since we underwent new management, this mission was to send a message, that the White Fang will no longer accept the treatment we have endured, no longer will we just speak out against the torment that our kind has endured at the hands of humans. We are sending them all a message that our peaceful protesting and that our non conflict ways are dead, they have made it so that we no longer have a choice. We will show them all that the White Fang will take what we want when we want it, and that we can also bite, a hell of a lot harder then they could ever!" His voice rose with each word, until his explanation became more like a well practiced speech. Ruby swallowed hard, This wasn't good, it was far worse then they had hoped.
"So the White Fang is turning over a new leaf." Blake stated cocking her head slightly, her ears twitched slightly. "And when were the higher ups going to let their soldiers know that?"
Adam looked at her as he sheathed Wilt. "Well, now." he said.
"What are we doing with these other soldiers?" Blake asked him.
Adam chuckled and walked towards her. "Three of them we're going to let go, someone needs to spread the message." Adam stated as if it was obvious. He stopped in front of the soldiers and stared at them.
"What about the other the last two?" Ruby spoke up, her heart was in her throat, she had a unsettling feeling about the answer. Adam laughed grabbing two soldiers closest to the scientists and dragged them away from the rest. "What the hell are you doing!" one of the Soldiers shouted as they where dragged over the bodies of the others. "Do you think you'll get away with this we'll hunt everyone of you down and kill you all, you Faunas bastards!" the other one screamed. Adam just chuckled as he dropped them face down in the center of the bodies.
"Get up on your knees." Adam ordered kicking them. The soldiers growled but sat up on their knees. Blood caked their faces, their eyes glared at Adam filled with hatred.
Adam turned and addressed Ruby and Blake. "You two are going to prove your loyalty to the new White Fang, by killing these two men." He chuckled.
Ruby felt her heart stop, 'No,no,no, I can't kill someone, the only reason I agreed to this was because I wouldn't have to kill.' She thought as panic began to set in her body began to shake.
"I have to prove my loyalty!" Blake yelled. "How dare you insinuate that I'm not loyal, I've been here longer then most commanders, I was raised in the White Fang and your questioning my loyalty!"
Adam raised his hands, "It's not my call, but you've never killed someone, the higher ups just want to assure that your with them." he explained.
"Of course I am!" she snapped, though her voice betrayed her, she was nervous.
"Come, kill him, or you can just leave the White Fang." He said. Ruby instantly felt hope, 'I can just leave, they would understand, I can't kill someone.' She thought excitedly, but as Adam was finishing his sentence he was placing his hands on Wilt and Blush. Ruby's heart plummeted. 'Who am I kidding, they wont let us just leave, we know to much now, they'll kill us.' she took a breath, she had no choice.
Blake looked over at Ruby, even though the girl was wearing the grim mask Blake could sense the emotions that were coming from her. 'I wonder if she's going to do it, I can't believe that this happening, but I don't have a choice.' Blake thought, but she took a step forward, her feet felt like they where made of lead, and every fiber of her being was screaming that this was wrong as she stepped over the bodies that lay in her path. She just stared at Adam, he had never steered her wrong before, maybe this was for the best. She swallowed and chose to follow him. She stepped over another body and slipped on blood but caught her balance.
She saw that Ruby was also walking towards the two soldiers and Adam. It seems she had made her choice.
Ruby stopped walking directly behind one of the kneeling soldiers just as Blake approached the other one. All Ruby could hear was the sound of her own heart beating rapidly in her ears and the man's ragged breath as she roboticly pulled Crimson Rose from it's sheath and it extend to it's gun mode. She moved it to the back of the man's head, the muzzle bumped the back of his head and the soldier stiffened.
"Wait." he said, the word didn't make sense to Ruby, the syllables where so far out of her current state of minds reach. "Wait," he said again, this time she understood it. "What." She managed to choke out, her throat was dry.
"If your going to kill me, your going to look in the eyes of the soldier that you murdered." the man snapped, his voice was solid and Ruby flinched from it. She didn't want this she didn't know how to cope with this. The man shifted slowly and turned around, the barrel of Crimson Rose tapped against his forehead as he stared up into her eyes, Ruby felt a tear trace down her cheek as she met the mans green eyed stare. "My name is Samuel Dirk, I have a wife, and a eight month old child." he stated and Ruby felt her heart shatter, 'what am I doing, I can't kill someone I can't be a murderer.' she thought and looked at Blake, she already had her weapon pressed to the back of the other soldiers head, she looked at Adam, he nodded reassuringly, his hands still on Wilt and Blush. She closed her eyes. 'Remember why your here, you have to make sacrifices, you don't have choice.' She told herself, she took a breath and opened her eyes. "I'm so Sorry." she whispered.
Blake stared at the back of the soldiers head trying to pull the trigger, she could hear the other soldier talking to Ruby but the words were senseless to her. If she was with the White Fang she could make a difference for her kind, she could help pull them out of this age of racism and hatred, she only had to pull the trigger.
Ruby's voice appeared in Blake's head. "Black, the beast descends from shadows." It sung, so soft and sweet.
Two gunshots rang out.