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POV QROW

Bring my foot forward as quickly as I could I smashed by boot into the set of armored double doors knocking free from their frame with a loud bang. Half a dozen guard immediately emerged from into the atrium I'd just walked into each holding a combat rifle with laser sights aimed at my chest.

I gave an angry scowl at the security team and all of them took a hesitant step backward. I reached my hand into my pocket making one of the guards jump but paid no attention to him. I let my fingers run across the smooth surface reminding myself why I was here.

Taking a step forward I pulled out my identification card and threw it at the guard farthest on the left. The guard was the only one not shaking in fear and he caught the card and began checking it over. "Hmph, Veteran Huntsman…...Always gotta be flashy with their entrances."

I gave the guard a scowl and swiped my hunter's license from his and slipped it back into my pocket still keeping my hand in the other. The other guards in the room slowly lowered their weapons and made their way back to where they been before I kicked down the door. Looking back at the guard and tried my best to not cave his skull in. "Where's Ozpin?"

As I stormed into the small white room it took all I had to not pull my sword Reaper out of its sheath and decapitate the smug bastard in front of me. Ozpin just sat at a small table drinking his damn coffee while staring at his scroll. Pulling my fist back I slammed it into the table causing the metal to bend inward from the force. Ozpin simply looked up at me and took a sip from his coffee cup. This was the worst thing he could have done adding oil to an already roaring fire of anger.

I lunged across the table smacking the coffee cup from Ozpin hand and grabbed my hand around the collar of his shirt pulling him up close to me. I forced Ozpin to look at me by holding him just a few inches from my face. "Where the fuck is she?"

Ozpin looked over to where his coffee mug had fallen and shattered leaving a growing puddle of the dark liquid to stain the floor then back at me with an unwavering expression. "I understand you're upset Qrow, but that does not give you an excuse to barge in here and make a fool of yourself."

I scoffed at Ozin and threw him back into his chair turning from him an anger at how calm he was just sitting there. "Ozpin I followed you for years doing everything you asked of me. Especially after what happened to Summer. However, right now I need to know if what Yang says is true. I need to know if she's alive."

Ozpin gave me a slow nod and reached over to his scroll clicking it causing the wall directly behind to turn into a mirror displaying a hidden room behind it. It was clear that the wall was actually a one-way mirror that looked into a cell. Laying calmly on the bench inside the fiberglass cell was none other than the late Ruby Rose herself looking almost identical to Summer due to the passing of time.

"I want to know what happened, tell me everything!" Ozpin gave me a nod and pulled up a video file showing the display of the CCT tower. "Nine days ago Weiss Schnee was targeted by an Assassin who fired at her from the roof of a building across the street from the tower. Blake Belladonna and team JNR gave covering fire to your niece while she got Ms. Schnee to safety. Blake chased after the shooter but was unable to apprehend them. A week later Ms. Schnee recovered and the rest of the team came to visit. They came to me and told me the same things they told you about the identity of the shooter."

Ozpin stopped turning to face the cell before looking back at me. I gave Ozpin a nod asking to go on about what happened. "Towards the end of our meeting, it just so happened that there was another attack her at Beacon. Team JNR was being targeted by the shooter and Cinder Fall." My gaze widened at Ozpin mention of Fall the same girl who brought Vale to its knees in a single night. The same girl who mercilessly killed hundreds of people and stole one of the most powerful abilities on existence. "What...How can she be back it's been almost 7 years?"

"I don't know why but she was with Ruby and the two managed to badly hurt Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie before your niece's team showed up. Weiss Schnee took Ren and Nora and applied first aid while Blake and Yang fought Ruby. Neither knew for sure it was her because of a mask she wore. During the fight, they were able to remove the mask and confirm it was her. The fight escalated when Cinder joined the fight, Yang was able to fight Cinder and almost stopped her but was unable to. Jaune Arc took on Ruby but was injured by her. It ended when Blake attacked Cinder and Ruby stopped her. Ruby gave cinder an opening to run and she did, escaping before we caught her."

"That's really it, Everything that happened?" Ozpin gave a nod and pulled up a file on his scroll and projected it up so I could see it. "When we captured Ruby we ran an aura test and confirmed it was actually her. We've had a few incidences so for and have not been able to interrogate her. However, know that we have her in a new cell we should be able to. I wish for you to join us." I gave Ozpin a nod and stood up looking into the room where Ruby sat.

POV Silver

Sighting down in the small chair provided to me I looked at the two men sitting behind the glass wall separating us. I gave a displeased growl as I ran my prosthetic hand through my hair. After having it damaged during the fight I was given a new one that was deemed safe for a prisoner. It was nothing but nuisance moving too slow and having no power at all.

"Hello, Ms. Rose it's good to be able to talk to you after these many years." I gave the man another growl locking my eye onto his own eyes. "Ms. Rose, do you know who I am?"

"No, and I'm not sure why I should." The man gave a small chuckle at the joke and took a sip from a coffee mug. The man was all to calm sitting in front of me like I was some damn child. "My name is Professor Ozpin and I am the headmaster here at Beacon. My job is to train future hunters and huntresses to fight the darkness of the world. You where even one of my best students that ever attended this academy!"

I stared at Ozpin in disbelief at what he said and let out a light laugh. "You're kidding you want me to believe I was a student here at Beacon." Typing quickly Ozpin projected a file displaying a record of one of Beacon's teams. "Yes, in fact, you where I brought you into this school when you were only 15 years old because I believed in what you could do. While you were here you were the leader of Team RWBY."

Ozpin clicked on the scroll and displayed the images of each girl on the team as he read through them. " Other than yourself your team was made up of your partner Weiss Schnee, your sister Yang Xiao Long and Blake Belladonna." Ozpin stopped flipped to a final picture displaying the younger version of each woman myself included. I jumped up angrily and slammed my fist into the wall looking at the image. Every time I saw something that had to do with the three woman it made my head ache in pain.

"STOP IT. Stop telling me these lies. My job is to kill those people and you're trying to tell me I was friends with them. SO STOP LYING TO ME!" The man next to Ozpin looked at me as I screamed his eyes filled with unending sadness. His crimson eyes bored a hole right to my heart making my body quiver. "Ruby I am not the one lying to you. The one who has lied to you is Salem."

My eyes grew wide as I switched my gaze over to Ozpin's. "How do you know that name?" I gave Ozpin a scowl becoming angry at the mention of her name. No one knew who she was unless she wanted them to know. "Salem and I are a pair that has clashed before in the path and I know who she was and what she has become. She will manipulate anyone and everyone to do what she wants and destroy anyone who gets in her way."

My anger exploded all at once and I slammed my prosthetic fist into the fiberglass as hard as I could sending a spider web of cracks through it. The force of the blow caused the two men to jump back and some of the metal on the prosthetic to bend and warp. "DO NOT SPEAK OF HER LIKE THAT. SHE"S GIVEN ME EVERYTHING!"

Ozpin calmly sat back in his chair picking back up his scroll pulling up a file but did nothing else with it. "Ruby, Salem has lied and manipulated you. She is the person responsible for your injuries, and why you can't remember your past." Ozpin said nothing else and clicked on the file pulling up four video files each showing a different person's perspective.

I watched the video as the four figure breached into a building and quickly dispatched an enemy. Then one of the began giving orders, someone who sounded a lot like me. I cupped my head into my lap as the pain began to return. I tried to look away from the screen but couldn't as hard as I tried. My eyes were glued to it.

One of the figures moved off from the group and wiped almost a dozen guards while the other three followed a minute behind her. As I continued to watch the screen the videos began to change into one image. No longer was it a video but a memory.

I remembered running into a subway after fighting a group of men and then my head erupt in pain as the man Yang had fought earlier held a pipe in his and a bomb switch in the other. There was shouting and screaming and it ended when Blake shot the man and killed him. Then explosions began to erupt all around.I had jumped up to my feet and grabbed Blake telling her to run. I told all of them to run. We ran as fast as we could but it wasn't enough. The ceiling fell and I...I didn't make it.

I opened my eyes and looked up at the two men and stared at them wiping tears from my eyes. "What was that?" For the first time since they had walked in, I was actually interested in what they had to say and left the aggression out of my voice. "What...Was….That?"

Ozpin closed the file and placed his scroll in his pocket and let out a sigh. "That Ruby was the truth. That was the last time anybody ever saw you before you were presumed dead. The question I need to ask you now is very important. What happened to you?"

3 years ago

The first thing I felt was pain all over my body. I opened my eyes and panicked as I looked around the room I was in. I turned my head as far as I could saw and saw the multitude of machines hooked up to my body. I continued to look around the room and couldn't recognize anything else. It didn't look like a hospital or anything I recognized.

I began to panic as I tried to remember why I was here...and I couldn't. I tried to yell for help but my throat was so dry it came at as more of a croak than a yell. Fighting the pain I sat up and swung my legs over the bed and tried to stand. The second I put weight on my legs they collapsed and I fell down to the ground. Instinctively I pushed out my left arm to catch myself but nothing happened. I hit the ground hard and rolled over in pain.

Something was wrong I tried to move my arm but couldn't feel anything, when I tried to move my arm nothing happened. Looking down to my arm I let out a blood-curdling scream even despite the dryness of my throat. Where my should have been was absolutely nothing. I used my right arm to grab at where my other arm should have been hoping this was some joke. I screamed again when my hand found that my arm was gone from the shoulder down. There was nothing left.

Frantically I clawed at the bed with my good arm and began to drag myself up to my feet as I did I began to panic even more. I felt my right leg touch the ground but nothing from my left. Even more frantic than before I looked down to my legs and saw what was missing. My left leg was gone from the knee down with a bandage securely wrapped around the stump.

I fell back to the ground and began to cry...I couldn't remember what happened...where I was or who I was. I just laid down and cried.

I had no idea how much time passed but I felt a set of arms wrap around my chest and Suddenly I was being raised into the bed. When I'd been settled into place, I opened my eyes and tried to find who it was that had helped me. I finally found the person standing in front of my IV with a syringe in my hand. The raven haired woman turned to me and gave a smile a single amber eye looking at me. "Don't worry everything will be ok." The woman plunged the syringe into the IV and I could feel my eyes growing heavier. "Don't worry everything will be ok."

Each time I woke up the Raven haired woman was always there. She was always so kind answering my questions as best she would feed me when I couldn't and helping me walk while I got the hang of my new prosthetics. The only thing strange was she would never tell me where I was. Only that I was safe. Eventually, I learned her name was Cinder and that mine was Silver.

As time moved on I was allowed to leave my room and walk around. Cinder was always there leading me down the hallway showing me around the castle she said I was in. Cinder said it was owned by someone named Salem and that I'd been rescued by her after an accident. I couldn't remember who they were but let it slide. If they saved my life then I was indebted to them. Eventually, I met more people who lived in the hospital the first was a girl named Emerald who seemed hesitant at first and her partner Mercury who was a jackass.

The next person I met was Hazel a large man who looked like he could tear an ursa in half. His look was the complete opposite of his personality. Hazel was a calm man who stayed quiet and only put in his opinion when he believed it was right. The rest of the time he was silent. Then I met was Dr. Watts who gave me some condescending comment about being helped by Hazel. Finally, I met the worst of them, Tyrian.

I'd been walking down the hallway and the man had rounded the corner chasing after some invisible object and slammed right into me knocking me to the floor. When I opened my eyes he was standing right above me just a few inches from my face. I could see the blood lust in his eyes as he chuckled to himself. "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't see you there….Did I hurt you?" Tyrian stuck out his tongue and licked the side of my face like a wild animal. "OOH, I like how you taste."

Tyrian let out a yelp as I fireball struck his side sending him spinning away from me. Cinder held out a hand and helped me up while scowling at the deranged man as he crawled away shouting "Stupid bitch!"

Then one day it was time to meet Salem. Cinder came up to my room that day and was quieter than usual. Cinder walked over to my closet and pulled out a pair of black jeans and a red shirt and laid it out on my bed. Then She grabbed a trench coat and placed it next to the pile. "Change into these quickly."

I gave cinder a strange look and began changing into the clothes. When I was done I rotated my shoulder trying to get a feel for the tightness but found them to be very comfortable. I pulled on a pair of combat boots and black gloves the stood up from my bed as Cinder headed towards the door. "Cinder what are we doing. Why am I wearing this?" Cinder walked back into the room and looked at me with a stern look she'd never worn before.

"Today you are meeting Salem. You need to understand she is not someone to be trifled with. You will only speak when spoken to and be mindful of you manners. Understood?" I gave her a nod and felt the fear build up in my chest. If Salem could make Cinder be on edge then what could she do to me.

"Oh before I forget take of your patch!" I looked up at Cinder and took a step back. I'd gotten over the loss of my arm and leg but never over my face. The accident had left the left side of my face with a mess of burns, scars, and an unusable eye. "Cinder I don't know...I."

"Silver You don't need to worry, just take it off and put this on. Hopefully, it looks better than that patch." Cinder handed me a box and I almost dropped it when I opened it. Inside was an elegant metal mask made of silver roses intertwined together. The silver mask ran along the left side of my face and connected to a large black section that would cover my scars.

I turned away from Cinder and began to pull off the current bandages that covered my face trying not to aggravate the scar tissue. Once it was off I carefully pulled the new mask out of the box and put on. I tightened the mask and felt it hug my face perfectly as if it was made just for me.

I turned back and smiled at Cinder who did the same. "Thank you, this means so much to me?" Cinder nodded and held out her hand to me. I took the hand and followed her as she led me through the large castle. For the longest time, I'd only been allowed to move around the west side of the castle. For the first time, I would be allowed to see the other side.

As we walked down the main hall I could feel the crushing weight of anxiety weighing down on me. Who was Salem and what was she like? Would she be angry with me or would she embrace me like a mother? Would she hurt me or love me? All these questions fluttered through my mind the only thing that kept me moving forward was Cinders holding my hand.

I almost ran into Cinder when she stopped before a set of large double doors that reached up to the ceiling. Cinder let go of my hand and I gave her a nod as she placed both her hands on the doors handle and pushed the doors open. I followed Cinder into the room and was surprised by the size of the room.

The room was giant making up the size of almost half the castle. Running the length of the room was a large hand carved wooden table made of a dark black wood. Dust crystals of all colors and sizes had been placed into the table each connected by a flowing web of gold veins. The walls solely made up of large glass windows over twenty feet tall each looking out into the unknown land around me.

This was the first time I'd seen the outside since I'd woken up and it was magnificent and terrifying at the same time. Stretching all the way to the horizon was a black land made of black jagged mountains and large purple crystals. The sky itself was made of crimson light the land seem evil. Above all of it was the moon shining down upon the black land with its pale like.

I stopped behind Cinder and paused in fear looking out to where the room connected to a balcony overlooking the dark land. Set in the middle was a black throne created from black rocks and purple crystals of the land. The air around me felt thinner as a figure in the chair stood up.

When the woman turned toward me I took a step back in fear of what she was. The woman had deathly white skin with deep red and purple veins running along her skin. Her hair was just as white as her skin and was held up in a pun with six offshoots with ornaments hanging from them. The part of her than scared me the most were her eyes. The white of her eyes were no longer white but a crimson color while the rest was a midnight black. To say she was human was almost wrong.

The Woman walked down the steps of the balcony her purple and black robe flowing behind her. The woman walked right up to me and placed a hand on my chin causing my heart to beat faster. "Do not fear my child I have no intention of hurting you. It would be a waste after I used my powers to save you. Would it not."

I stared back at Salem and gave a nod unable to talk from the force of fear inside me. "Good, the reason I called you here was to discuss my plans for you. I know of your ability to fight and I wish to train you so that you may become a warrior again. And in time you will be able to seek revenge on the people who did this to you."

I felt very confused at what Salem had said. I'd been told by Cinder I could fight but nothing about what had happened to me. "What do you mean by revenge. I thought I was in an accident." Salem looked and my and ran her finger of my mask. My body tensed at first but the feeling ended up rather soothing causing me to relax. "No my child what happened to you was no accident. You were stabbed in the back by the very people you called friends. I saved you because I saw something in you. Something I could use to take down the evil of the world. To kill the people who tried to kill you."

Salem's words ignited something inside me. Somebody had intentionally tried to kill me. They took away my memories, my arm, my leg, My DAMN FACE. Rage boiled inside of me because of this realization. I looked at Salem and Let the fire inside me burn through me with rage. "What do I need to do?"

"Ruby do you now understand that you've been lied to. Salem is not the woman she says she is." I looked at Ozpin and gave a nod. It was clear what he had said, everything had become clear. Salem had stolen my life away and taken everything. I wanted her dead.

"I understand but if you want my help I have my own demands." Ozpin nodded and pulled out his scroll ready to type away. "If it is in my power than I will do it." I gave a nod and began to think of what I wanted if I was going to destroy another life of mine in hope of returning to my old one.

"First I want to see my team, one at a time, I want to hear what happened." Ozpin nodded and began typing away on his scroll. "Second I want to be the one to kill Salem. And finally, I want to save my kids first and to have a full pardon for Cinder Fall."

Almost instantly the man next to Ozpin jumped up in anger knocking his chair to the ground. "Ruby you can't be serious. We both know what Cinder has done, she was Salem's main pawn. She's responsible for the attack on vale and thousands of deaths. Why save her?"

I looked at the man who had stayed silent through the entire meeting. He had said nothing but had gone through a rainbow of expressions the entire time I told my story. "You might not like it but Cinder is only a pawn just like me. She has been there for me the entire time and has saved my life dozens of times. Currently, she is the one protecting my little girls and I want them back safely. If you cannot do this I will never lift a single finger to help you."

Ozpin held up a hand to them man motioning him to sit down. "Qrow you may not like it but what Ruby says is true. She is no more than a pawn and if she is the means to an end of the Queen's reign." Ozpin paused and looked between the two of us before he clicked his scroll and the glass wall between the three of us raised up into the ceiling. Ozpin held out his hand to me and said. "If we do this then will you help us?" I took Ozpin's hand in my own and shook it. "If it saves them then yes!"

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