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"Lavender"

"Lavender"

"LAVENDER"

"GASP" gasped Lavender as she bolted upright and her breath ragged itself.

"W-Where am I" thought lavender as she looked around her surroundings. Looking around she noticed that the walls around the room were made from wood. She also noticed that the room had some furniture around as well.

Lavender attempted to pull herself up from the bed when her muscles failed her and she flopped back onto the bed. She moved her lower legs to only find out they were quite tired. "Odd? Why is body so tired? did I ru—" thought lavender before her eyes widen. As if a flood gate has been open memories from the day before, or god knows how long, slammed into her into her mind as the child let out a gasp and cupped her mouth with her hand.

"Oh Oum" thought Lavender as the memories risen and tears welled in her eyes, threatening to come out. Only for moments later a few droplets fell out of her eyes and dripped down from her cheek.

As her mind processed the memories her ears picked up a sound. Slowly but surely the sound became louder till she could recognize the sound, it was the sound of footsteps. After a few moments the door to her room opened as rays of light collided with her eyes, forcing her wince as her eyes slowly began to adjust as she soon recognizes who was standing in the door.

HER … Ruby Rose … her mother, the one who left her when she still just an infant and … and the one who … who killed her family, especially her father. She also noticed that her 'mother' was carrying a tray with a dish of some sorts in it. The women locked eyes at each other. The grief and anguish in her eyes turned into a burning hatred as she glared at the impassive eyes of her 'mother'.

No words were spoken as Ruby walked up to her daughter, she placed the tray near the bed as she sat down onto the bed.

Silence filled the room for a few minutes before Ruby opened her mouth.

"There not dead lavender, I didn't killed them" said Ruby, breaking the silence.

In response Lavender gave out a snort as she turned her head to side to avoid her mother's face. "Yeah right, why should I even belief you to begin, you could lying right now for all I care" replied back Lavender.

Lavender waited for her 'mothers' response yet none came, instead she saw her 'mother's' hand come over her and placed a small object in front of her.

"A scroll?" thought lavender in confusion, she grabbed the scroll as placed it near her. She saw the scroll was playing some kind of video or recording of some sorts. Looking carefully, she saw that it was in some kind of hospital room, in there was a man. Squinting her eyes, she realized that it was none other than her father, bruised and bandaged up but in stable condition.

Lavender touched the screen as she swiped it, causing it to show another room with none other than her aunt Yang who looked a bit more better than her father and sitting next to her was some of her friends.

"I told you I never killed them, I'm many things but killing family is something I would never do" calmly replied Ruby.

"Well where is aunt penny? I didn't see her" asked Lavender as she turned her head back to face her mothers.

"That is a discussion we have soon, suffice to say I didn't kill her either Lavender" answered Ruby.

Before Lavender could ask another question Ruby turned back to the tray before picking up the bowl and bringing it near her daughter's face. She soon realized that it was none other than simple chicken noodle soup.

"You need to eat, you greatly exerted yourself since I took you back. Don't try to use your limbs either, I know for a fact that there still too weak, so I be feeding you till then" explained Ruby.

A part of lavender's mind wanted to protest, saying that she could eat be herself, yet she knew that her limbs could barely support at all. Biting her lip she resigned herself to her fate.

Seeing how her daughter was not resisting she took a spoonful of soup before bring it near her daughter's mouth, moments later her daughters opened her mouth and she poured the spoons content inside.

"You like it?" asked Ruby.

"It's good" replied Lavender.

The two quickly fell into a cycle of feeding and eating for the next few minutes before the last of the soup was finally gone.

"I should go, these dishes won't clean themselves" said Ruby awkwardly as she took the tray and proceeded to leave the room, but before she did she turned back to face her daughter one more time. "I'll be back later" said Ruby as she left her daughter.

"See soon, I guess" replied Lavender to herself a few minutes later. Giving out a sigh she looked over to the scroll still in her hand, pressing the menu screen she tried to see if there was any connection, sadly there wasn't.

'Darn, guess I was hoping for to much" muttered Lavender as she turned off the scroll and putted it away. Seeing nothing else to do lavender closed her eyes hoping to get some shut eye before her 'mother' came again, yet she quickly found out that she couldn't, much to her personal annoyance.

Seeing how there was nothing to do on the scroll and sleeping wasn't an option sadly, she did the next best thing, staring at the ceiling with some hope that this would entertain her … suffice to say, that plan quickly failed … badly.

Now that she had fully exhausted every option available to her so she did the only thing she could think of at the moment and resigned herself to her fate as the boredom spread throughout her body. Eventually her eyelids had become heavy as she accepted the dark embrace of slumber.


Lavender felt her eye slightly become irritated, she opened her eyes to see beams of light coming from the curtains near her bed. Testing her arms lavender realized that while not exactly at full strength she could now easily move with her limbs with ease.

Slowly getting out of bed she edged slowly towards the blinds as she pull them a bit to see outside. A large forest could be seen nearby the house lavender was in, judging by their colors its seemed to be summer. The sun was just rising, signifying that it must be early in the morning.

Lavender grabbed the scroll on the nearby table. "8:30 AM huh" thought lavender as she turned off the scroll. The child looked around the room, assessing her current situation as she focused her mind to her current goal, escaping.

"All right Lavender, first of all you've gotta get out of this place anywhere but here will be preferable. Remember, you don't know if what she says is true, if all those TV shows have taught you anything it's that she could faking this all" thought Lavender as she focused her thoughts.

The first thing she needed was clothes, walking towards the closest she opened it as slowly as possible as she peered into the contents of the closest. There were a couple of sets of clothing neatly hanged and by their looks it seemed that they were clean as well.

Next she looked for anything that could hold the clothes, she doubted that she could go far if she carried them by hand. Scouring through out the room lavender eventually found a small briefcase that could maybe one or two sets of clothing, three if she packed very tightly.

As she packed the third set of clothes the next problem quickly became apparent as her stomach gave a light growl, food. Food and water will be a problem, especially after she escapes. The first idea to come to mind was sneaking downstairs and grabbing some food before booking it, problem was that there was a good chance that she may be caught by her so that idea was a no go. Lavender tired to think another good idea to grab some food but each one ended with a good chance of being caught, seeing no other option she forgoed the problem, hoping that previous camping trips with her father will aid her in dealing with the wilds.

After packing the last of the clothing Lavender peered down the window to ground where she gave nervous gulp. The house itself was two stories high, and she was on the second floor. The only way for her to get out of the house was simple … by jumping.

Lavender took another gulp as she flipped the window's locks before opening the windows, a gentle breeze passed the young child causing her to shiver for a brief moments before she focused herself back onto her current task. Lavender took one last look at the door, seeing and hearing nobody nearby Lavender dropped the briefcase onto the ground.

A light *THUD* could be heard as lavender took a wince before taking another look back at the door, lavender let out a sigh of relief as she saw nobody at the door still.

Bracing herself, lavender slowly brought one leg out before eventually finding space between the logs she place her feet. Bringing the other legs out it wasn't long before lavenders whole body was clinging onto the wall. She moved herself to the side, to avoid hitting the briefcase before she jumped down. A surge of pain shot through her legs as she gave a low groan of pain.

Not taking a moment Lavender grabbed the nearby briefcase before sprinting, along beaten dirt path that lead out from the cabin to wherever destination fate has chosen.


WITH LAVENDER


She had escaped … she had actually done it. A part of her mind chided her that of course she would escape, why would she want to be here. Ruby Rose stared at the opened window as the breeze from the outside gently touched her snow white cheeks. Subconsciously, she reached her hand outward before her other arm brought pack down.

"~sigh~, It seems I have more work to do" muttered Ruby as she proceed to leave the house, kneeling down she observed the ground near the porch for any clues of her wayward daughters ware-about. It wasn't long till she realized that they were a few indents in the ground near the window, from the looks of it seemed that Lavender had headed off on the path leading from the house. Giving a tired sigh Ruby activated her semblance as she flashed from her location, leaving a trail of back rose petals in her wake.

It wasn't long till Ruby's enhanced vision locked onto her daughters fleeing form. While the distance between the two was significantly closed it was still far enough to the point that her daughter would not be able to see her. From their she watched her child continue her futile attempt to flee from her as well as most likely find some way back to her husband.

For a brief moment rage & jealousy filled her mind as she felt herself blaming Jaune for how her daughter was reacting now. Yet, as said before, said anger was as brief as it came for when she saw the few glimpses of her daughter's face when she turned her head back Ruby's anger slowly dissipated as other memories filled her mind. Pictures of her daughter laughing and playing with her father, that familiar infectious smile that she once wore was now worn by lavender.

She could easily imagined the joy lavender must had have when she was with Jaune, what fun times they must had have or maybe they went on little adventures around that pri-island. Yet, even as she remembered the pictures she took from the house there was always one flaw in each one, she wasn't in a single one. There was practically no pictures about her at all, besides the ones in that scrapbook it was as if Jaune wanted their daughter to know nothing about herself.

Ruby shook her head as she pushed such thoughts to the back of her head for the moment. Right now she had to deal with her runaway daughter.

A quick burst of her semblance instantly closed any distance the mother and daughter had. Lavender turned around in fright, only to see the smirking face of her mother.

"Going somewhere dear" asked Ruby as stared into her daughters feared filled eyes.

Lavender did not respond, instead opting to stare back at her mother. Time passed among the two before ruby gave a tired sigh as she reached out to grab her. And in that moment Lavender felt something else take over as she threw her briefcase straight at her mother's face before turning around and booking it.

Lavender pushed every muscle, every ounce of energy, every part of her will into her legs as she ran away from the one that called herself her mother, lavender could feel her heart pulsating loudly as it attempted to supply her legs with enough oxygen. For what felt like eternity lavender believed that she may had finally escaped her mother, only for reality to quickly crush the notion in swift motion.

Feeling tight pressure surround her arm Lavender gave out a painful whimper as she felt something sharp lightly dig into her arm, causing her to bleed a little bit. Looking back what she saw caused her to gasp. It was her mother's face, but that was not what caused her to be scared, no, it was ruby's eyes that truly terrified the child. Her eyes were not a soft crimson glow like they used to, instead were a blazing red that spoke leagues on itself.

"Enough" spoke Ruby in low tone, and as did Lavender felt her body to stiff. "You will stop this nonsense immediately, understood young lady" demanded Ruby.

"I … I" shuddered Lavender as Ruby gave a growl

"What was that, speak up!"

...

"Y-Yes m-m-mother" replied Lavender as brought her head down.

In response ruby grabbed lavender's chin as she stared into her daughter's eyes before letting it go moments later. "Good, now let's go back" said Ruby as she scooped her daughter into her arms in surprise as the two slowly headed back home.


BACK AT XIAO-LONG HOUSEHOLD


Ruby placed her daughter onto her bed as she gave her a stern glance. "We will be talking about your behavior after dinner lavender, don't think about trying to escape again dear, I have Grimm ready to retrieve you at a moments notice" said Ruby as her eyes soften a bit. "Now why don't you clean yourself up and come down for some breakfast."

As Ruby closed the door Lavender stared at the door for a few moments before tenderly touching the area where her mother dug her claws into her flesh. A light stinging pain swell where she touched the wound as disappeared soon after. Silence hung onto the room as lavender bit her lower lip in frustration. Getting herself out of bed she quickly got herself cleaned up and was now walking down the stairs to the kitchen.

Looking around Lavender could see her mother sitting on a nearby chair drinking some coffee. On the kitchen table was a plate of freshly cooked scrambled eggs. Ruby gave a glance to her daughter as she motioned her to the plate. As lavender devoured the plate of eggs both mother and daughter stayed in silence.

"You could have harm yourself badly back there Lavender" said Ruby as she her daughter a concerned look "I doubted that you knew how survive in patch's wilderness without running into some kind of trouble."

"~sigh~, Well I just want to tell you that I'm going to be leaving for awhile, Grimm business and all. I will be back in the afternoon, lunch is in the refrigerator reheat it for a minute when you get hungry, your allowed to explore the house at your leisure but don't attempt to leave the house, am I understood" said Ruby as she gave her a daughter a leveled glaze.

"Yes Ma'am" replied Lavender softly.

"Good … well, I should be off" said Ruby as she left her daughter in the house.

Once Lavender heard the click of the door as her mother finally left her the young girl gave a short sigh as she looked around the living room, wondering what to do. "What to do, what to do, hmm … maybe I should watch some TV, if it actually works."

Lavender got off her seat as she headed into the living room, grabbing the remote she seated herself onto the sofa before pressing the power button. To her great surprise it actually worked and soon enough the young girl was watching a random soap opera.

"Huh, I guess TV works, wherever I am" said Lavender aloud. "Come to think of it, where am? Didn't mom say we were in patch, I wonder where that is?."

With curiosity she turned off the TV before looking around the living room for any maps or maybe a scroll with connection. It wasn't long till her search found something. On one of the nearby walls was a small map of remnant, but as lavender looked at it she was a bit surprised with what she saw. Unlike the maps see had seen before this map did not have the three great kingdoms in it, no, this map had four kingdoms.

"Whoa, this must have been before the fall of beacon" thought Lavender in surprise. Like many other children of her age she had been taught about the fall of beacon which in turn brought the end of the kingdom of vale. Though she could not remember the exact details on the top of her head it was almost universally agreed that the white fang were the ones responsible for such an act. However, from what she had overheard from other family members that could be argued.

Shaking herself out of such thoughts lavender re-focused herself before trying to find where she was. "Alright, mom said that I couldn't survive in patch, so I must be near said place, so let's see, patch, patch, patch." thought Lavender as she looked around the map for any sign of patch.

Dread filled her body as she found where patch was, only for it to be west of vale itself, the first kingdom to fall in many years.

"Great, out of all the places it would be next to vale of all places" said Lavender aloud, "~sigh~ I guess I shouldn't be surprised, I mean mom is a grimm for dust sake. I mean how can that even happen to begin with? Human can't be grimm … right?"

As those words left lavender's mouth she brought her hand up looking at it's perfectly normal human shape. A feeling of disgust entered her body at the thought of actually being part of very things that want to destroy all of civilization.

"No way, I am not part Grimm, I can't be, I have a soul for dust sake, Grimm don't have that there just soulless monsters" said Lavender. "But" spoke a traitorous part of her mind "Remember how she spoke to you in your mind, we didn't even have our aura unlocked."

"No,no,no,no! I refuse to have to discussion anymore" thought Lavender as she pushed those dark thoughts far into her mind, getting up the lavender left the living room, looking for anything that would get her mind off thinking about her heritage.

Lavender looked around for anything that could take her mind off her supposed heritage, looking around something caught the young girl's attention. On the smaller coffee table was a small picture of what looked like her mother, yet she looked more human, in her younger years standing next to tall male with raven black hair and ruby red eyes. At the bottom of picture were two names, one was ruby rose and the other was Qrow Branwen with the word uncle written underneath.

"Qrow Branwen? That's odd, I never knew I had an uncle or I guess I should say grand uncle? Still … didn't auntie Yang mention somebody by the name Qrow." asked Lavender as she tried to remember anything about this person. Sadly nothing came to mind to the young girl.

"Maybe he knows of mom's condi-" spoke a small part of her mind before it was violently suppressed.

"~sigh~ Get a hold of yourself me, your going to drive yourself bonkers at this rate" spoke lavender to herself as she took a deep breath to steady herself.

With a little bit of her curiosity peaked lavender scoured throughout the room to look for any pictures that interested her. Their were a few pictures that interested her, pictures of her mother in her youth as well as pictures of her grandmother & grandfather. But such sights did not last as Lavender quickly expended the last of anything interesting around the living room, seeing nothing else she decided to go back upstairs to see if they to had anything else.

Searching throughout the rooms all she found were neatly folded beds that haven't been touch for a while as one could see a thin layer of dust on the sheets. Beyond a few posters of some kind of boy band as well as a few pictures of her grandparents nothing really noticeable was there.

As the day passed lavender continued exploring the home before a growl from her stomach told her it was lunch time, a quick meal afterward the girl resumed before ending the day surfing through the endless channels for anything interesting.


IN THE EVENING


The evening light shined upon the lands of patch, giving it a light golden hue for all who could see. From the shadows of the forest Ruby Rose walked out with an impassive look on her face as she neared her home where her daughter resides. But before she entered the house Ruby closed her eyes as she probed the minds of the nearby Grimm to see if her daughter had attempted to escape again, to her joy it seemed that her daughter had took her words to heart and stayed at home.

"Good, It seems that lavender had listened to my instructions " thought Ruby as she grasped the front doors knob. "Hmm, Lavender seems to be anxious, as well as fearful of something, did one of the Grimm scare her" worriedly thought Ruby, like the rest of the Grimm Ruby had a unique psychic connection to her daughter but only recently had she had the chance to actually strengthen the bond between them, Ozpin's magic was far more potent than she had anticipated.

Opening the door Ruby could see lights coming from the living room, locking the door she peered into the living room to see that her daughter was glued to some a show, comedy if had to guest from what the characters are saying. Instead of interrupting Ruby went the other way to the kitchen while avoiding making any noises.


WITH LAVENDER


The smell of food entered her nose as Lavender was broken out of her attention to the TV, the sound of sizzling could be heard from the kitchen as a light hum gilded its way into the living room.

"She's back already!" thought Lavender in surprise as she looked at the time "Yikes, I've been watching this show for that long" wondered lavender as turned to the door to the kitchen.

Lavender subconsciously bit her lip as she remember about the talk she was to suppose to have with her mother. "Maybe she may have forgotten about it … Oh who am I kidding there's no way she would have forgotten it, not after I socked her with a briefcase."

Before lavender could continue with her mental thought train of thought her mother's voice came up.

"Lavender dear, why don't you go wash yourself while I finish cooking" spoke Ruby.

Lavender gave a out a small sigh as proceed to do her mother's order. Once the task was done Lavender could see that the TV was now turned off as the door to the kitchen was open.

She could feel a part of her mind practically screaming at her get away from, stating the door out of this nightmare was so close. Yet, she could still feel the phantom pain from where her mother dug her claws in to her flesh, who knows what else mom do if she tried to escape a second time. Step by step, Lavender inched closer and closer to the kitchen, she felt her body grow colder as reached the door, adrenaline threatening to be released at a moment's notice should anything happen.

Steeling herself Lavender took in a deep breath as entered the kitchen where her mother was sitting on one side of the chair with two plates of stir-fry on each side of the table.

"Lavender, are you okay dear?" spoke Ruby as concern could be evident in her voice.

"I'm fine mom" replied Lavender.

"Hm, If you say so dear, now come on, that food won't eat itself you know" joked Ruby as her daughter gave a impassive face in return.

Lavender took her seat as she ate silently, refusing to respond to her as Ruby stared at her daughter which only added to growing awkwardness in the room.

...

"So, did you find anything interesting around here, after all, it used to be my old home."

"Anything on the TV that got your attention, that show seemed to have, Yellow VS Purple was it called. Kinda reminds me of another show I'd watch back a long time ago."

"~sigh~, Lavender ... I know you are upset about what happened in the morning. But, you should have know patch is much different than the island you were kept in. One bad call and you could have been easily poisoned or even worse."

...

"I also understand that you may be … scared … of me, what happened back there in the morning was not your fault lavender, that was mine. I want to say I'm sorry for what I did, but I was simply worried for your well being."

"Than why did you leave me all those years" demanded Lavender as she looked her mother right in the eye as she felt anger slowly rising.

Ruby clenched her fist tighter as she could feel her claws dig into her skin as she took a deep breath before answering.

"I didn't abandoned you lavender, like I said you were taken from me" explained Ruby.

"Than why couldn't you have come backed, why?" Asked lavender.

"It's not like your father would open his arms to me, I'm sure he would rather strike me down before giving an open hand to me. ~sigh~ But, it is not to say he is a good person, that I know for sure only a naive person he is … a good and naive man" replied Ruby as she ended it off on a bitter tone.

"But enough, I think it's time for us to focus on the real reason we having this discussion" said Ruby as she stared into the eyes of her daughter.

"Lavender, Why, why did run away from the house" demanded Ruby "What person in their right mind would just run off like that, you could have been seriously hurt or even worse, death."

...

"~sigh~ Lavender, d-" said Ruby. "Because I wanted to go home" muttered lavender, not daring to look at her mother's face.

"... You wanted to to back to the there ... why?" asked Ruby.

"Because that was my home" answered Lavender

"Home? Lavender, that wasn't a home, that was prison they kept you locked up in a island, you never got to leave or have any friends" argued Ruby.

"Not have friends! I had plenty of friends back home" countered Lavender as her mother gave a snort.

"Hmph, can really call them friends? All they are just people you found on the internet that simply found you interesting, I can promise you that those so called friends would abandon you in a moments notice if they knew who you were. Friends are people who you can trust in time of need and can rely on them no matter what" replied Ruby.

"What do you know, I don't look like friend material" bite back Lavender.

"I know a lot more about friends than you know of my daughter. While true my current form is not exactly 'friend material' as you put it." replied Ruby "Then again, I'm not in the need or desire for any friends, family is what matters."

"But still, why go back to that prison, you know you can't go back to that place and think everything will back to normal. So why do you try?"

"Because it is my home, it's where my life was, it was where I had my happiest and most saddest times" answered Lavender.

"Besides … I don't want to become a monster, or a pawn to you" softly said Lavender.

"A monster … a pawn" whispered Ruby as her claws pierced her skin as black blood began to flow from the wound as she gashed her teeth against each other. "Lavender, let me make this clear for you, I will NEVER turn into a monster and NEVER turn you into a pawn. I don't know what Jaune was thinking but let me make it clear that I will never do anything that would make into a monster/pawn … your my daughter and I will NEVER do that to you."

"Than why did Dad say that you tried to make into one the first place" accused Lavender as the memories of that fateful day began to resurface.

"You don't understand lavender, I wasn't trying to turn you into a monster, I was trying to protect, to save you" answered Ruby bring shock to the girl.

"By turning me into some kind of monster, is that what you call saving somebody" asked Lavender angrily.

Ruby gave a frustrated groan before she opened her mouth "No! I wasn't turning you into a monster I wa-."

"Than what were you trying to do than" demanded Lavender.

"I was UNLOCKING your inner Grimm Lavender" answered Ruby as she slammed her fist into the table causing a small crater to from as the hair hid Ruby's sight from the rest. Ruby took a few deep breaths as she attempted collect herself looking back to her daughter.

As Ruby looked back at her daughter a sense of regret filled her body, she could feel her daughter's fear at its breaking point as she looked into lavenders horror shocked eyes.

Instead of reply Lavender slowly brought her now shaking hand up to her face as her breathing began to quicken.

"Lavender," began Ruby before she recoiled from the sheer amount of fear her daughter was producing. In quick blur Lavender practically disappeared from her seat as Ruby was left alone with regret etched on her face. Her regret began to morph into anger as she clenched her fist once more before slamming into a nearby wall.


WITH LAVENDER


A monster, that was what she was a dust damned monster thought lavender as she hid under her sheets tears slowly streaming down from her eyes.

"No wonder why I couldn't leave the island, who would want a-a freak like me." Thought lavender. She could hear the pounding at her door, the sound of her mother asking to talk to her, but in the end they fell on deaf ears.

As these dark thoughts swirled around her mind with no end to sight a truly insidious thought entered.

"D-Did dad even love me" whispered lavender to herself, all memories of her father and his joyful simile were replaced with a mask as underneath a look of sheer disgust. But it didn't stop with him, no it spreaded to the others as well, the faces of aunt's and uncles were to replaced with a similar look.

There whisperers were like burning needles that pierced into her skull, the looks they gave were not one of love but of disgust as well as curiosity, as if she was a exotic animal.

A tearful sob escaped her throat as lavender curled tighter to herself, begging that this was some kind of nightmare. Slowly lavender felt her eyes grow heavy as her body began to grow tired. Yet as lavender drifted off to sleep the very words that her mother imparted still clinged onto her as the dark thoughts they sired followed.


IN LAVENDERS DREAMS


"Why is everything so dark" thought lavender, she turned her head to every possible direction, looking for any form of light to illuminate her surroundings.

Seeing no form of light lavender took a hesitant step forward, the ground itself seemed solid for the young girl as more steps were taken before she was walking.

"H-Hello, is anyone there, hello?" Asked lavender. Silence was her answer, she attempted it again a few more times but each result ended with the same result.

"~sigh~, where in dust am I, come on there has to b-oof" said lavender before she tripped on something.

"The heck was that" asked lavender as used her hands to find what she tripped on. It took a few moments but as she touched the object she realized a few things. One, whatever she was touching was definitely warm, second, the texture itself felt like skin.

Confused, lavender peered closer to the object attempting to see what she what it was.

The face of her father's dead corpse stared back right at her, lavender let out a screen as she recoiled back from the sight.

"D-Daddy" whispered lavender in horror unable to fully comprehend what she was seeing. She shakely brought her hand up to touch the corpse of her father.

"No,no,no,no,no, this has to be a dream" whispered lavender, as her hand touched the body one of hands shot up and grabbed her hand.

"Lavender …" moaned the corpse "... Why, why".

"W-What" asked lavender, in response Jaune tighten his grip on lavender causing her to wince a bit.

"You know what you did!" Roared the corpse. "You did this,after all I did, how could have forgotten you monster!."

With fear and shock lavender forcibly wrenched her hand away from the corpse, causing the decaying hand to break from the main body.

The corpse continued moan and curse the child. Lavender back away as far as she could from the corpse before she felt her back hitting something behind her.

Turning around her eyes meet with glassy eyed look of aunt Yang, she could see both of her arms torn off as horrendous gashes could be seen on her torso. "A-Auntie Yang" shuttered out Lavender as she stepped away from Yang.

"Why, Lavender, why" croaked out Yang as she stumbled closer to her niece.

"Stay back" said Lavender, "I-I'm warning you, stay back."

Before she could take another step backwards a hand grabbed her ankle, turning around her eyes widen in horror at the sight of near dismembered aunts body. She to moan the same thing her aunt and father had previously said, but nonetheless fear and shock flowed through her veins as she ripped her ankle away as sprinted away from the madness.

Lavender could feel her muscles throb with pain, her lungs starting to get heavy as sweat dripped down her face. As the last of her family members voices finally faded Lavender began to slow down before coming to a full stop taking multiple gulps of air as she threw herself to the ground.

"~pant~ Why ~pant~ is this ~pant~ happening" gasped Lavender as she tried to control her breathing. Taking a few moments she start to feel her breathing begin to calm down, a few more minutes later her breathing returned back to normal. "Why … why did they say that I did that" whispered Lavender to herself as she looked around her surrounding.

"This has to be a dream me" muttered Lavender "come on Lavender just focus, this is a dream just a dream and nothing more" chanted Lavender as she closed her eyes, focusing on trying to escape this nightmare.

As she brought her hand to her face she could feel something was immediately off, as her hands came to her face they … pricked her?

"What the" thought lavender, she brought her hands to her eyes only to see that they looked completely normal. Slowly she brought her hand near her face again, only for them to prick her again, looking at them again they still looked normal. She brought them once more to her face, instead of looking at them lavender brought her other hand to the other and as did her breathing hitched.

Instead of feeling the normal texture of her nails what she felt instead was something tougher, longer, and more wrong. Instead of looking at them again lavender moved them closer to her face where they were stopped by something. By now Lavender's breath began to become more erratic, gently tracing her claws she used them to feel what was on her face.

A mask … a full face mask in fact was what Lavender could feel with her hands. She dared not to look at her hands again as breathing began to increase as well was sweat dripped down. Yet, even with her attempts to not to look her hands slowly inched their way closer to her eyes.

Two claws … to bloodied claws, no more human hands … only grimm.

"No … please no, no, no,no,no" begged Lavender as her body started to shake as well as all the voices from before slammed into her like a freight train.

"Why lavender, why"

"Why did you do this"

"After all we did"

"MONSTER"

From the darkness the bodies of all her family members appeared, yelling at her as they tore against the child's mind with the ferocity of blood-lusted beast, hurling insult after insult with no end at sight. Lavender curled herself into a ball eyes shut close as used her claws to pry off the mask, desperate to show that she was still human.

"Why won't this come off, why won't this come off, please, please, please" mentally pleaded Lavender as she tried to pry off the mask yet no matter how much force she used the mask refused to budge.

"Please, I'm not a monster, please" begged Lavender yet her words fell on deaf ears as the corpses continued to verbal assault against the child. A sense of desperation filled the young girl's body as she took a glance at her claws.

Lavender slammed her claws straight at her mask with every ounce of strength she held. For a few moments nothing happened … till she heard the cracks of something break as her face became a bit lighter as joy filled her body.

She turned to crowd, "See, I told you that I wasn't a monster, see my face is completely H-U-M-A-N" said Lavender looking at the crowd. But all she got was silence, confused she involuntarily took a quick blink and as she did the corpses were all gone.

"What the? Where did all go" asked lavender to herself as the corpses of her family seemed to have vanish from existence. As she uncurled herself and stood up she took a few hesitant steps fearing the corpses Kay appear out of nowhere. But, nothing came for all there was silence, unnerving the young girl.

As lavender brought her foot down a crack could be heard, looking down she saw that it was her mask or what remained of it. Lavender bended down as she gently grabbed the fragment, as she did lavender froze for she could see a reflection on the mask.

A reflection of … her

"No" whimpered Lavender, falling to her knees.

For what she saw was her face … a complete blank face with pitch black skin with two glowing red orbs that replaced her own eyes.


I have no mouth but I must scream-Harlan Ellison


And so lavender cried, hot tears flowed from her eyes as once again she curled herself.

"WHY, WHY THIS … WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME" screamed lavender to the darkness around her.

"DO YOU LIKE THIS … IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED, HUH" demanded Lavender.

"I KNOW YOUR THERE … IS THIS … ~SOB~, IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED"

"Please … turn me back … I don't want this, I want to be human. I want to go back home, I want auntie penny, I want all my aunt's/uncles back … I want Dad" begged lavender.

"Please … I'm scared"

"Mommy, please" whimpered lavender as she waited for some kind of response.

A warm feeling enveloped Lavender, it felt familiar but she couldn't put her finger on it, as the darkness surrounding her was pushed back as a small amount of warmth and light washed upon her skin. From the corners of her eyes lavender could see two pair of arms reached towards her before pulling lavender into a tight embrace.


RUBY


In the real world Ruby could be seen cradling her only child as she held lavender tightly, using the bond between the two to push away the nightmares that dare plague her child.

"~sssshhh~, No more nightmares lavender, that I promise to you" whispered Ruby as she gently caressed Lavender's hair. "I promised you Lavender that I will never turn you into a monster or a pawn and that extends to stopping you from unknowing trying to turn yourself into one as well."

A cry escaped from her daughters mouth as she held lavender tighter promising her that she would never let any harm come to her. Mother and daughter stayed silent as no words were needed as mother's love spoke for both of them, eventually midnight came to the two as the nightmares that plagued lavender's mind were banished allowing the child to rest peacefully. Ruby tucked her in bed before slowly closing the door .

"Goodnight Lavender" spoke Ruby before closing the door.

FIN

FINALLY, I GOT ANOTHER CHAPTER OUT, AFTER CENTURIES OF WRITER'S BLOCK I HAVE COMPLETED THIS TASK.

But enough of the dramatic stuff, so besides this chapter I going to be working on the chapter an old power as well as go back and edit older chapters of Cloth and Scythe as well seeing as they aren't exactly the best looking ones I've made. But besides that I guess I see you later people.