(fallen petals) black like roses Chapter 4, a rwby fanfic

Chapter Four:

Yang stood shaking in rage as she continued to pummel the grim dummy in the schools training arena. "I Can't believe I lost to that guy" Yang screamed as she brought her fist through the grim and tore it in half. Stuffing now littering the ground as Yang's eyes turned red again. The ever consuming color that would always cloud her judgment. How could she be so weak? She was not fit to protect anyone let alone...Ruby. Her will shook as she remembered her baby sister, laughing and giggling. The small innocent soul that Yang had tried to change for her own greedy needs. The images of Ruby's silver eyes filled with love for her sister, Ruby as a small child crying in Yang's arms. Yang snapped as fire flared all around her. "She's gone and you can't protect her anymore." Yang screamed once more as she swung her fists in a fury finding something to punch. "I don't deserve to be alive" Yang said as she lowered her head only one small tear freed its self from her eye.

Weiss had been sulking in her dorms, a small rose insignia in her hand. She had taken in from Ruby's belongings with out Yang looking. Even after a year Weiss still couldn't get over her partners death. She may seem cold, but she had honestly cared greatly for the dunce. Weiss had always been horrible at showing her emotions but Ruby had cracked all of her ice, she couldn't afford to loose Ruby after that even if it meant a harsh lesson. But now more alone than she had ever been Weiss just bit back the tears starting to form in her eye. As she remembered everything she loved about Ruby. Her smile, her laughter, her scent that still managed to linger on her pillow case that Weiss was now cradling. "I never should have tried to change her" Weiss managed to say through the tears that were now cascading down her face.

Blake couldn't stand to see Yang so torn up, but she realized that there was such a gaping hole in their team. Ruby really knew how to glue people together. Blake sitting in the corner of the training room watching Yang as she slowly destroyed herself. There's nothing I can say to her that will fix this, Blake thought. The damage had been done and now they had to lick their wounds and continue on. With their big mission just a day away she knew it was going to be a difficult week for team WBY. Silently she wished to wake up from this nightmare they had created. But your past always does seem to catch up to you, and Blake's closet was full of many skeletons.

The day of the mission was here and the girls made their way over to the airship to meet up with the huntsman that would be watching over their mission in the south east quadrant. All were shocked to see Crimson standing their talking to Doctor Oobleck. All the girls grimaced at the site, as none of them were very found of Crimson. But their the man stood towering at 6ft wearing dust infused body armor and a pitch black cape that appeared to be made from nevermore feathers.

"I refuse to work with this dunce" Weiss said in rage as she pointed at Crimson who had a cocky smile on his face.

"Listen snow flake I don't like you anymore than you like me, but this is what Ozpin wanted" Crimson said in a gruff voice. Yanking Weiss forward into the air ship leaving her breathless as she looked closely at the hardened battle scared face. She noticed the white eyes that were devoid of pupils and she could hear her heart racing, realizing she was still holding Crimsons hand she yanked her hand away and stood to stare at the amused faces of her team mates.

"Making friends already?" Yang said with her eyebrow raised. A small chuckle crossing her lips.

"We don't have time for banter girls, according to my schedule were approximately two minuets behind" Oobleck spoke faster then he walked.

The last of Beacon fading away as their air ship zoomed over the city of vale.

Mountain Glenn was as Crimson had remembered it being, still devoid of all life. But she knew what lay deep inside that mountain. They made their way over to the very far side of the south east quadrant, the airship dropping low to allow everyone to disembark onto the next journey. The first thing everyone took in was the destroyed buildings that surrounded them. It was a little sad, Crimson remembered Cinder talking to her about the failed city, how many people had died. It didn't take long for them to intercept with some grim, but as each girl drew their weapon Oobleck reached his hand up to stop them.

"Wait girls, we need to watch it to find its pack. Lone grim are known to stray from the pack for days even months be prepared to follow it for a while" but as Oobleck said that a pack of fourteen grim rounded the corner. "Oh look theirs the pack, all right girls get them" Oobleck said taking a giant swig of his coffee. Not that he needed the caffeine. The girls all brought their weapons up and sprinted forward but before they could act they saw all the grim laying dead, and Crimson standing their licking blood off his hands.

"My word boy, did you just kill those grim with your hands?" Oobleck asked in shock. Never in his day had he seen any hunter in training kill grim with no weapon so fast.

The day went on like this with them finding grim around every corner. As they searched empty buildings for signs of the White Fang. Oobleck had been following the girls around asking each why they had decided to become huntresses.

But when he had approached Crimson the question was very different. "What made you want to become so powerful" Oobleck said as he bounced around.

"Lets just say, I was tired of being a child" Crimson had empathized the last part so that the three girls could hear. At this Yang's head shot up to look at Crimson who just winked back with a sly grin. "What about you Oobleck?".

"As a Huntsman, it is my job to protect the people, and although I am capable of doing it with traditional weaponry, I believe I can make a much larger impact if I do it with my mind." he said as he scanned the desolate city. "When I look at this city I see lives that could have been saved, but I also see history".