AUTHOR NOTE: THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO THE LOVEOF MY LIFE. I DO NOT OWN RWBY.
Chapter Nine:
Snow fell silently on the small wooden cottage that dotted the lonely hill on the tiny island of Patch. A smalls baby's cry echoed through the scary woods stirring up all sorts of wild beasts and grimm. A small baby with Silver eyes lay in her crib coddled in a red blanket. A mother looked down on her new born with nothing but love in her eyes and a frown on her face. This baby was soon going to change the world for the better. Snow began to fall harder coating the ground and everything was still, cold and unmoving just like the mothers will. A small glance towards the clock, it was time for her to depart, she thought as the mother draped a cloak whiter than the blanket of snow that covered the barren ground. Darkness soon covered the white cloak swallowing it whole as it met it's well deserved fate. The only thing left behind was a hole in the small baby's heart never to be filled with a mothers love.
This would be the only and last time Ruby Rose would look upon her mother Summer. A small child abandoned by all but one.
A faint cry of a small girl as she struggled to understand why her mother would leave her. Everyone blamed her for her mothers disappearance, that her birth had been a curse rather than a blessing. Ruby felt burdened even by her own existence but Yang held her tight through the long night of screaming and rage. Her father had took it the hardest and spent most of her early years scolding Ruby harshly sometimes resorting to hitting Ruby. The only one who was ever on her side had been Yang, through thick and thin Yang had always been their for her.
Ruby had been so scared for her first day at Beacon, she had always wanted to be Hero the one who could find and save her mother and bring her back so her father could love her again. She realized that this was far fetched but she needed some love in her life. Yang had given her the confidence she needed to step up and become the leader she had. Ruby was never good at taking challenged head on but she had always tried her hardest. But like all things in Ruby's life Yang had abandoned her.
A crumpled Yang lay on steel stone ground of the arena looking defeated and confused she look up at Crimson with a eyes that pleaded for mercy or maybe love. A small tear escaped through her eye as she struggled to whisper Crimsons past allies. Her hands gripping to the tattered cape of crimsons hoping that maybe if she looked up it would turn red, and her little sister would be the same again.
Yang knew in that moment that it was all fruitless but she had to try to reach back to her sister and make her realize that day had been a horrible accident. She mustered up all her courage and asked the question that may be the end of her.
"Ruby, is that you" Yang said through a chocked voice. Tears now flying loosely down her face as she took Crimson in, almost looking proud at how much she had grown.
"Ruby is dead" Crimson said in a low voice her face in a scowl "But this is a better Ruby, a more mature Ruby, a more powerful Ruby" Crimson started laughing in a off pitch. "C'mon Yang isn't this what you wanted when you dragged me to that forest and killed me?" Crimson said screaming down this time she was eye level with Yang holding the girls face firmly.
"You all wanted a hero, but in the end you created a monster and now you will pay for your sins" Crimson said as she brought the tip of her scythe to Yang's throat. It gleamed in the sun and Yang could see her face reflected back at her and felt almost at peace with the situation.
"Ruby i'm sorry I never wanted this to happen" Yang said through tears as she pleaded for the old Ruby.
"Yang, I'm not Ruby. I am Crimson and you will all burn" as she said it she plunged the scythe through yangs neck taking her sisters head off cleanly. Blood ran steady down the blade touching Crimson who seemed to glow like fire in delight a devilish grin on her face and an intoxicating sent of dead roses.
The crowd was silent as first as they could not believe their eyes but before anyone could react Crimson turned into a pile of embers and disappeared into a fury of speed.
A faint scream could be herd in the stadium as Blake ran forward to try and be with the girl she loved. Pushing people out of the way to come across the still rolling head of Yang, it took all it could for her to hold it in but for a moment she wanted to die. She couldn't save Yang. It was to late, because at that very moment flames began to rise. The stadium was burning as the crowd began to panic, everyone was running for their lives.
A voice echoed over the PA system: "Attention students of Beacon, this is Cinder and I am here to watch you burn".
Blake reached for weapon as she searched the panicked crowd for Weiss who luckily for her was still close to her.
Weiss's eyes looked dead as she couldn't even comprehend what had just happened. Blake understood that Weiss had loved Ruby as she could still see the audible Rose emblem on Weiss's utility skirt. But Crimson wasn't Ruby, the Ruby they had known had indeed died on that fateful day in the forest.
Fall was upon us.
Ozpin sat in his study that soared high above Beacon a grimace smacked on his usually smug face. He knew that his days were numbered and he needed to find his champion of justice. A small glance at the screen that displayed a burning insignia. He could feel the dispare from where he sat, and knew this could only mean one thing. Grimm, and tons of them would soon be upon Beacon.