Chapter 5: Fate

"Fate has chosen it's new hero."

Ruby Rose woke up the next morning, and immediatly got to work waking up the other two team members, who were both sound asleep.

"Yang. Blake. It's time to get up girls." The young leader told her teamates, who sturred in their sleeps before they both opened their eyes, one faster than the other.

"What...do you mean Ruby? It's only 8 o'clock." Yang said tiredly as she woke up slowly before realizing what Ruby was wearing.

"Ruby...why are you wearing...that?" Yang asked her sister as she was now fully awake, as was her partner Blake who also took notice of her leaders new, or rather, old outfit.

What was Ruby wearing? She was wearing her cloak as per usual, but she put on her old ripped and shredded combat attire, which arguably suited the young Huntress more than her new fresh clothes in regards to the current circumstances, and in relation to the mission she was gonna explain very soon.

"I wanna have a change of scenery for once. Albeit, the death of my girlfriend did that, but that was weeks to a month ago. I want a new change." Ruby said sounding rather determined as she unfolded her Scythe to begin sharpening it's blade and doing an ammo count.

"Yang? Let's take inititive." Blake says as she puts on her combat uniform before pulling out Gambol Shroud and beginning to sharpen it's blades, like Ruby do an ammo count, and test the string.

"Okay." Yang said as she too dressed up into her combat gear before setting Ember Celica on the table and like Ruby and Blake before her, doing an ammo count and testing the reloading function.

"Okay. Everyone ready?" Ruby asked her team as they haven't used their weapons in a long time, ever since Weiss's death as they needed to cope and accept she's gone.

"Yes, ma'am!" Blake and Yang said in unison as they nodded at their leader, who promptly nodded back before hooking Cresent Rose to her back.

"What's the reasoning for getting prepared, Ruby?" Blake asked as she looked towards her young leader.

"We're going back. Back to the place we lost her. Where I lost her...the place where Weiss died." Ruby said with confidence as Blake and Yang both put thier respective weapons away.

"Are you sure their ready?" Ozpin asked his old friend, who nodded at the Headmaster before snapping his fingers, giving him and Ozpin a way to watch the trio without being detected.

"They are. They just won't be for whenever Ruby realizes what she's just done." Vytel says to the Headmaster, who nods in complete understanding.

As the trio of girls is walking down to the scene, also known as The White Rose, Yang noticed something that wasn't there before. Something shiny. Almost like...a necklace. 'But Weiss never wore any type of necklace' she thought as she looked to her partner and, in particular, her leader.

"Ruby. Look." The elder sister said towards the younger, who nodded and moved slowly towards her current objective, her right hand ready and waiting to pull out her Scythe.

"Hmm. Tamerlyn...Onyx? Who is that?" Ruby asked her team as she was holding the necklace in her hand which is where she discovered that name as it was etched into the black gemstone, but in white lettering.

"Isn't that...The Leader of Team Tyrant of...Vacuo Academy?" Blake asked in suspicion as she stared at her two friends before her.

"Yeah...but what's a Vaccuian Team doing here in Vale?" Yang asks as she is just as suspicious as Blake, but it's Ruby who puts the pieces together, just as Vytel knew she would.

"They did it...they killed her... They say Tamerlyn is one of, if not, the best sniper in all of Remnant, and she's also a mercenary, but her current contract makes her forced to work with a Team from where she accepted the contract, in this case, Vacuo. If someome put a hit out on Weiss, she would be the one to pull the trigger." Ruby said as she stood up in pure defiance, placing the necklace around her neck as Yang looked over to her sister.

"Ruby. What are you going to do?" Blake asked as she walked to her leader, putting a hand on her shoulder.

"My destiny is now my own." She responded as she pulled up her hood, reached, and unfolded Cresent Rose.

"I need your help. Yang. Blake. Without you, I cannot pull this off. Will you two help me?" She asks her teamates, who both share a look at one another before both look towards the young Huntress.

"Of course we will Ruby. We will always have your back." Yang says to her sister as Blake looks to her friend with a nod, agreeing with Yang's statment.

The trio of girls all stand in a triangle formation, keeping close visual before a loud bang is heard, as Blake faintly heard the bullet and ducked under the round as it whizzed passed her and landed safetly on the ground.

"Tamerlyn!" Ruby yelled as the older Huntress jumped down from the building and rolling to avoid harm as her golden eyes stared deep into Ruby's own silver ones.

"Ah. Ruby Rose. I assume you and your team are here looking for some evidence." She smirks as her sniper, just like Ruby's own, turns into a black Scythe.

"What's it to you!?" Ruby shouted back at the black cloaked huntress, who simply walked towards the trio with a devilish smile on her face.

She suddenly lunged forward as Yang, but Ruby intercepted and clashed steel wih the other Huntress, who wasn't being moved at all, up until her next words which pushed Ruby over the edge and caused her silver eyes to glow.

"I killed Weiss you pathetic brat! It was not a hit or a job, I killed her on purpose!" Tamerlyn said to Ruby's face as her silver eyes began to glow with an almost blinding light. Ruby's aura suddenly flared up as she began to glow a dark crimson.

"Ruby...?" Yang asked in a scared type of tone as both her and Blake backed up.

"You...YOU...!!!" Ruby screams as she glows more and more, before she begins to glow as bright as a star.

"Your fate has been sealed. You will die where she has unless you show me your real power!" Tamerlyn shouts at Ruby, who's whole being is consumed by am almost divine crimson.

Ruby absorbs the light as she has a whole new look to her. Her aura isn't red, but a divine shade of white as her eyes are still the same, but glowing with Godly powers.

"What...happened to me? It doesn't matter...you...I will KILL YOU!" Ruby, the new Goddess of Vengeance, spoke directly to Tamerlyn's own soul, which shivered in fear. Meanwhile, the young Goddess didn't understand what has happened to her, but she didn't care so long as she could avenge her girlfriends death.

Within an instant, Ruby was in front of the Huntress, ready to kill her, when the sniper popped a smoke bomb and vanished, leaving Ruby and her Team alone as Ruby powered down.

"Ruby...are you-" Yang was about to ask before her younger sister collasped onto the ground, dropping her Scythe.

The next thing Ruby knew, she was at home in Patch, in her bed, with her sister, Blake, her Father Taiyang, Professor Ozpin, and her favorite person in all of Remnant.

Her Uncle Qrow.

"Hey, kid." He said to his niece who looked up to her Uncle in heavy amounts of pain.

"Owwww!!! This hurts..." Ruby said as she had to use most of her strength to push herself up, struggling but doing it anyway while her throat sounded dry.

"I know kiddo. It's gonna hurt for a little while." Qrow said to Ruby as he nodded to Yang who got her younger sister some water for her throat.

"Thank you sis." Ruby said as she takes a sip of water before looking to her Uncle with confusion on her face.

"What...happened?" She asked her Uncle as Taiyang nodded to Blake, Ozpin, and Yang as the four left the two master Scythe wielders alone.

"Do you know what you are, Ruby?" He asked his niece, who shook her head.

"Let's make it easier. What did Ozpin first take notice of when you two first met?" Qrow asked her, as she tried to remember.

"Something about...my silver eyes, right?" She asked her Uncle, who simply nodded and took a chair up next to her bed.

"Well. I've told you about your silver eyes, but what happened last night, I need to explain." He said to his niece as she looked at her Uncle in absolute confusion.

"Ruby. You have the powers of a silver eyed warrior. Meaning The Grimm are scared of you. However, as Vytel said, you now also posses near God like powers. Or at least, that's what he told you. What happend last night, you turned into something so much more. You forgot about the pain of loosing Weiss, and then replaced that pain with anger." Qrow said to Ruby who looked at her Uncle dead in the eyes and asked one simple question.

"What does that mean, Uncle Qrow?" She asked, and she got a response not from her Uncle, but from the Headmaster of Beacon Academy himself.

"It means that you, Miss Rose...are a Goddess."