Here's Chapter 11 of RWBY: Necrophobia. Enjoy.

XXXXX

A couple of minutes had passed since Weiss's startling change in behavior. She cried and cried, but didn't form one coherent word. Needless to say, everyone was surprised. But the two who showed it most were Blake and Altheda.

Blake wasn't sure what to make of Weiss's actions. She'd find Weiss trying to murder her a more believable thing than this, regardless of her being a faunus. And then there was that look in her eye. If she had to describe it, she would say Weiss seemed to see her…and yet at the same time be looking past her.

Altheda couldn't process what had just happened. That girl had never so much as shed a tear, let alone start bawling like a child. How could this have been possible? What was it about this faunus that caused Weiss to react like this?

The psychiatrist watched as Blake and Yang helped Weiss back into bed, the little maniac seemingly have cried herself to sleep. After years of treatments, nothing had led Weiss to act like this.

Altheda was literally snapped out of her thoughts as Ruby began to snap her fingers in front of her face. She hadn't realized it but someone had been saying her name, trying to get her attention.

"Doctor Altheda? Are you listening?" Ruby asked, waving her hand in front of the doctor.

"Y-Yes. Sorry, I was…" Altheda paused, the word she was looking for on the tip of her tongue.

"Zoning out?" Ruby offered.

"Yeah." Altheda said.

"Uh, so anyway…Does Weiss normally do stuff like this?"

Altheda turned to face the girl. "I was hoping to ask any of you the same question."

"Huh?" Ruby responded as Blake and Yang walked back over to them.

"Is this something that Weiss normally does at Beacon?" Altheda asked.

There was a pause. Then all three girls slowly shook their heads from side-to-side in unison. Their mouths all opened in wide O's as they said, "Noooooo."

"Has she done anything like this any-"

Altheda was interrupted by the girls repeating their previous motions and statement. "Noooooo."

Altheda took a deep breath as she led the girls back upstairs. "Alright, how about each of you tell me what your relationship is with Miss Schnee."

"Friend." Yang said.

"Partner." Ruby answered.

"I still thought she didn't trust me." Blake said, still in shock at how Weiss had reacted to her. While she knew the girl had worked on her general distrust of faunus to the point where it was almost gone, Blake couldn't shake the thought that Weiss was…hesitant around Blake, due to her past with the White Fang.

"Uh, didn't we all move past that?" Yang asked, turning towards her partner.

"Yeah but…I always feel a tinge of guilt for what I did for-in the past." Blake said, quickly realizing that the doctor didn't need to know about her involvement in the White Fang. It was then Blake realized something. She still hadn't placed her bow back on her head, so her ears were exposed. And yet…Altheda hadn't said anything about it.

"Why wouldn't she trust you?" Altheda asked, to the surprise of the girls. Did she not see that Blake was a faunus or realize that Weiss was a Schnee?

"Schnee and faunus don't have the best history." Blake said, unsure of how else to answer the question.

"I'm aware of that," Altheda said. "But I've yet to see Weiss have a problem with faunus in all her time here. Did that change at Beacon or something?"

This caught the girls' attention. "No, uh, sort-of," Yang said, trying to figure out how to explain Weiss's view of faunus pre- and post-dock incident. "When we first met…let's just say she didn't particularly seem to care for faunus at the time and leave it at that."

Altheda looked at Yang, looking mildly perplexed. "Well, I guess that happened after she left the asylum. In all her time here I think just one incident was related to an individual being a faunus."

Blake looked at Altheda with a stern expression. "…Did Weiss try to kill that faun-"

"No." Altheda interrupted quickly.

"Well, what happened?" Ruby asked.

Altheda sighed. "Well, it was during one of Weiss's few trips to the upper floors." She looked over at the girls. "And before you ask, yes. On occasion, Weiss has been calm enough were we could remove her from the secure ward for a few hours, or a few days if we were lucky. Anyway, there was a patient, rabbit faunus, who had a very bad case of paranoia and several cases of delusions. I remember that he kept a hat on at all times, 'cause he was afraid that aliens would probe his brain if he didn't."

Yang giggled. Blake elbowed her partner in the stomach while whispering, "Don't laugh, he was mentally ill."

"I'm not judging her." Altheda said, noting the interaction. "If I didn't work here, I'd probably laugh at that too. The man was almost a stereotype of paranoid people, down to tinfoil hats. But back to the subject, Weiss was actually fine with him. She'd been fine with other faunus before so this was out of the blue. If I recall correctly, she was just looking off into space when one of my coworkers managed to convince the patient that it was fine to remove his hat. When he did, he just flung it clean off, so it might have looked like his ears suddenly appeared on his head. That's when Weiss freaked out. I don't think I'd ever seen her shift her attitude so suddenly or unexpectedly. She started screaming at the top of her lungs and the look on her face…I'm pretty sure it was the face you'd make if you were a cow in the slaughter house. She began running and seemed terrified of anything that moved. She tried to jump out the window and she got through the glass," Blake's eyes widened at that detail. "but not the bars on the outside. Quick side note, after that ordeal we added bars to the inside too."

"So…that was the only faunus incident she had?" Blake asked. "She never had any other interactions with faunus?"

"Not exactly." Altheda said. "She has tried to murder several faunus, but that was probably because they happened to be the closest living thing to her when she entered one of her episodes."

"Who else has she targeted in her episodes?"

"Well let me think…" Altheda brought her hand to her chin. "There's a fair amount of patients, most of my co-workers, probably all of the security staff when they tried to restrain her from harming the formers, and me more times than I could count." She turned to look at Blake, tempted to say, 'So does that answer your question?' in a sarcastic manner, but she decided to shift back to a more serious tone. "And that's why I'm so interested in how she reacted towards you. You're the first person she's ever had a non-hostile interaction with."

"Yeah, but I don't have the slightest idea why she would do that." Blake said. "If anything I would have expected her to freeze up with me, stab Yang, and hug Ruby."

"Hold it." Yang interjected. She turned to face her partner in the eye. "Why do I get stabbed twice?"

"Well I don't want her to stab me with a pen."

"Well, neither do I!" Yang whined. She glanced towards her sister. "Ruby, you'd take the pen for me, right?"

"Uh…" Ruby gave her sister an awkward smile as she scratched the back of her head. "That actually looked like it might've hurt…so, uh…" Yang proceeded to hang her head and groan. Suddenly Ruby's head perked up. "OH! I just remembered!" She yelled.

Yang looked up. "What did you forget?"

"We were going to show Blake the picture we found before Weiss jumped her, remember?"

"Oh yeah!" Yang replied, her eyes open and alert. She started looking around the floor. "I think I dropped it in our rush downstairs….Oh, there it is!" Yang walked over to the paper, but Altheda picked it up and looked at it.

"Hmm, any reason you wanted to show Miss Belladonna this drawing in particular?"

"Yeah…but not for good reasons." Yang said, taking the picture from the doctor. She walked over to Blake. "You're not going to believe or like what young, crazy Weiss drew."

Blake walked over to Yang, noticing how Ruby started to stare at the paper, looking rather uncomfortable. "What could it be that I wouldn't believe at this rate?"

"Déjà vu." Yang said as the faunus looked at the page. "Look familiar?"

Blake's eyes widened as she looked at the image. That can't be. She looked at the date on the page's sticker. It was dated several years ago. That has to be a mistake, she couldn't have seen this back then. Blake couldn't believe what she was looking at.

"Doctor…" Blake said, her eyes never leaving the paper. "I think we may have found Weiss's familiar stimulus…"

On the page was an exact image of whatever had attacked them on the train.


Weiss was in her bed, keeping her eyes closed tightly. She hoped if she just kept her eyes closed, she wouldn't see them again. All those people, all blaming her, all telling her that she had to make it right, had to make them whole. But when she closed her eyes she could see the symbols. She didn't know what they were, but the burned their way into her sight, glowing dimly even with her eyes closed.

She'd tried to bury it, so many years ago, she'd needed to bury it all deep within her mind, to the point she'd had forget she'd buried anything all. And after that, she'd lived many years of blissful ignorance, never knowing what she'd locked away, deep within her brain. But her barrier had been fragile, unable to keep it all locked away forever. In her ignorance, however blissful, she'd foolishly tried to find what she'd forgotten, tried to remember those four years and the one day she dreaded most. Cracks had formed in her mental barrier and it wouldn't take much to tear the whole thing down. And that was when the Necromorph had appeared. The monster from nightmares, the sight of an undead, savage, mutilated body had been all that was needed to raze the wall she'd constructed out of desperation so many years ago.

Try as she might, she could no longer hold back the memories. It was as if she was trying to push against a door to try to keep out a single, massive force. But cracks kept appearing in that door and the memories began to bleed back into her mind.

She couldn't stop it now. She would be forced to remember it all. What those people did in their madness, the bodies, the blood, and the Marker. She could still see it. The spiral rock that, even now, seemed to emit a red pulse from its core. The thing that brought twisted life to the dead. The monument from hell that created the Necromorphs.

And now, as her mind went blank as she was dragged into an exhausted, (thankfully) dreamless sleep, she remembered that day eight years ago. The day she visited Cerca Mine.


Eight Years Prior

Weiss looked out of the car. The perimeter wall was massive, going seemingly forever in both directions. She knew that the wall was meant to keep Grimm away from the mine, but she still wished it didn't have to be there. This was her first trip to Vytal and she wanted to see as much of this new continent as she could. She'd fallen asleep on the train ride over, so she missed one of her best sightseeing chances.

Well, at the very least she could see the entrance to the mine. The main opening to Cerca Mine stood at the base of a mountain, making it easy to spot. There was a small trickle of people, both entering and leaving the mine. Mostly faunus, but a few humans here and there. Weiss frowned, not looking forward to meeting any of them.

"Weiss," a woman's voice said. Weiss looked up. She hadn't realized it, but they'd arrived at the entrance. "Come on sweetie, we're here." Weiss slowly got out of the car. The moment she was out, she rushed behind the woman, clutching the side of her leg.

Weiss saw a tall cat faunus with short black hair and two black ears walking over to them. Weiss tucked herself behind the woman's leg. "Weiss, come on and introduce yourself." The woman said softly as the man approached them. Weiss merely tightened her grip on the woman.

The woman merely sighed and reached out to shake the faunus's hand. "Adala Schnee, nice to meet you. Please pardon my daughter, she's very shy."

"No problem Mrs. Schnee." The faunus said, accepting the handshake. "I'm Ari Belladonna. I'll be your guide for your visit to Cerca Mine."

XXXXX

Well, this didn't take long to come out (Relatively speaking). I sorta rushed production of this chapter, because I'm very excited about what comes next: A Necromorph outbreak. The Cerca Mine Incident is coming after another chapter or two. I think it's safe to assume that if you're here for the dead space aspect of this story, then you've been waiting for this part. I can say that I look forward to adding in as many creepy bits as I can into it. All I need to do is make up some […Is 'OC' really the right term for this? I mean, it's no spoiler to say that almost everyone is gonna die, right?]. I hope you all liked this chapter and are excited by what is to come.

(I want to clarify two details that you may/may not be confused with. With Weiss freaking out with the rabbit faunus, she just saw what looked like things growing out of a man's head. You'll be able to piece the rest of that together. And as to why she hugged Blake…Well, let's just say she sees the resemblance).

Also, thank you to the people who voted in the top 10 favorite chapters poll. The poll had two votes, both of which were for chapter 5. Thank you for participating.

Well, If you haven't already, please fav, follow, and/or leave a review to let me know what you think of this new chapter (It was a little rushed, so I'd appreciate the feedback). And if you have: Thanks! I appreciate it.