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Future notes: I fixed the dialogue and the wording. Nothing in the plot has been changed though, so don't worry. Also, I forgot to add that the beginning of this chapter starts off in Ruby's dream.
Chapter 4: Nightmare
I was surrounded by snow covered trees. Amidst it all was a cabin in front of me. 'Where do I know this place?' I looked around, noticing the familiarity of it for some odd reason, but I just couldn't put my finger on it.
"Where are they?" A woman spoke from the left of me, standing in front of the cabin. I turned to the person, to find Weiss. She had a white hooded cape that looked very familiar, but she had a different voice. It was deeper, older, motherly.
"W-where am I?" I asked Weiss in a shocked tone. The hooded heiress didn't say anything. All of a sudden I heard growling in the background, as I turned around a large pack of beowolves approached rapidly. I reached for Crescent Rose, to find nothing on the back of my sache. I turned my head back around just in time to spot a beowolf almost a foot away. I flinched, awaiting it's blow. But the creature walked through me as if I didn't exist, I was ethereal to the physical world.
I heard a yelp from behind me, turning around to find Weiss slashed from her shoulder down to her leg. She was bleeding, but still mobile as she stabbed Myrtenaster through the grimm that attacked her. Weiss fell to one knee as she tried to catch her breath, but gained her second wind quickly as the beowolves began encircling her like she was an injured lamb, easy prey.
"Weiss!" I cried out as I tried to run to her, but the ground seemed to stretch the more I tried to to reach her, spinning off into a hypnotic spiral as Weiss grew smaller and smaller. I stopped and dropped to the ground, clutching my head as I closed my eyes tightly. 'Please dear god be a dream, be a horrific fantasy in my head.'
When I opened my eyes the scenery changed. Weiss had her hood up now, beaten and bloodied from battle, panting in exhaustion, blood and beowolf carcasses scattered everywhere across the bloody-white snow. The cabin, this time, was set ablaze. The sound of a baby crying in the house echoed through the forest. Weiss suddenly ran in the flaming building, jumping out at the nick of time as the beams collapsed and the cabin crumbled. The white hooded girl held an infant wrapped in a red blanket, crying loudly. "Shhhh, it's okay. Don't cry." Weiss said calmly as she gave the infant a soother bearing a rose on it. The baby calmed down, sucking on it quietly as the older sounding Weiss begun humming a familiar song. 'Wait, I've heard of that song. What was it!?'
Weiss started to sing the melodic song to the baby in a soft tone. "Red like roses fills my dreams and brings me to the place you rest..."
Weiss continued to hum the rest of the song again. I gasped, cupping my mouth. It was starting to come to me, but I just couldn't fit the pieces together. It didn't make sense.
"Summer!" Someone behind me yelled, making me turn around. That's when it all came to me, the pieces finally fit.
"D-dad!?" I exclaimed to deaf ears. Taiyang and a woman with dark hair ran towards her.
"Go. Take Ruby, I'll fight them off!" False Weiss commanded as she gave the infant to my father. I felt my heart break, and a lone tear rolled down my face.
"Go!" Weiss screams. Taiyang and the woman acknowledge her as they run off into the forest, out of sight. Another pack of beowolves jump the injured huntress, slashing her multiple times like a toy made of flesh. I watch in gruesome horror as one last grimm impales her down to the knuckles with it's 5 inch claws, then throw her in the air like a rag doll.
"STOP IT!" I scream. A blast of wind emphasizes my words as the beowolves get startled and flee. False Weiss finally lands hard on the cold blood-stained snow, winded and in shock. Another cold blast came in and blew pieces of the burning cabin onto her. I ran up to the heiress and pushed the debris and other smouldering material off of her. I pick her up, hold her in my arms and gaze at the befallen woman before me. The hooded heiress took a deep breath before taking off her hood. I see my mother's face before me, making my eyes widen. Suddenly Summer pulled me closer to her.
"I love you.. so much..." a combination of Summer and Weiss' voice said as she let out her last breath, falling limp in my arms as she closed her eyes for good. I began to cry, holding the lifeless body of my mother close to me.
"Please. Don't. Leave. me here..." I sobbed as I closed my eyes, and let the sound of the burning cabin and snow howling in the air lull me into a dark and saddening sleep.
(Ruby's POV)
I sat up nearly screaming, cupping my mouth to try and fight the urge. I was breathing rapidly and my hands were shaking crazily. I pulled my legs in and covered my eyes as I cried a little bit, muffling the sobs on my skin. A moment passed and I finally calmed myself down before I looked around, finding I'm in my dorm room, a feint glow from the night light on the wall illuminated the two bunks. I wiped the tears out of my eyes and began to roll out of bed, stopping instantly at the edge as I remembered I slept on the top bunk. I swung my feet around and jumped off, landing silently as I made my way to the bathrooms.
After brushing my teeth I took off my clothes, leaving nothing more than yellow and rose patterned panties. I looked at my arms again, the word 'MISTAKE' on the right arm and a series of slashes looking like a slaughtered barcode on the other, and a broken girl in between the two. I changed into my pyjamas with a long-sleeve on and placed my outfit on a clothes hanger, carrying it with me as I went back to my dorm room. I pulled out my med bottle again and took the last sleeping pill I had left, hiding the bottle back in the sache of my pocket and jumping back into bed as I let the drug lull me back to sleep.
(8:00 a.m.)
I awoke to the sound of Yang talking to someone. "Alright guys. I'll wait for Ruby to wake up. You guys go on down for breakfast."Yang said as she opened the door, Blake and Weiss complied as the two exited the room. The blonde shut the door and hopped onto Blake's bed, chuckling a bit as she let out a deceiving sigh.
"Suckers. They think I'm gonna wake up early as hell in the morning just for a frickin' field trip out in the bushes. Ha! Now to get a little shut-eye while I 'wait' for Ruby to wake up!"
"I'm already awake." I responded, making Yang jump and bang her head on the bed above her. Rubbing her forehead, she got up.
"Oww..Why'd you have to startle me sis? I was just gonna wake up." The blonde baby lied. I giggled a bit as I jumped down from the top bunk.
"Karma's a bitch, ain't it?" I said as I smirked, crossing my arms. "Don't worry though. I need your help with something today. We'll have to postpone the trip to tomorrow." My smirk turned to a more serious face.
"What's up sis?" Yang asked.
"I ran out of my medication, I was wondering if you could take me to the pharmacy?" I asked.
"Of course. If you need them then I would never say no." She replied. I smiled and hugged her.
"Thanks sis." I said as we walked out of the dorms.
"Why is the field trip postponed?" Blake asked as she took a bite out of her toast. Yang and I both found her and Weiss in the cafeteria, telling them the news.
"I need to run an errand today. It's very important and I have to do it today." I answered.
"What is this errand?" Blake questioned. She had a confused look on her.
"Um, well. It's kinda.." I struggled to come up with an answer. I hadn't told them about the condition I had, the only people who knew about it was close family.
"Ruby has to go get a physical examination." Yang said aloud, making Blake and Weiss look at me weirdly. I gave Yang the 'What the Fuck Kinda Excuse is That? That's the Best you can Come up With?!' look. Yang just looked away, letting the awkward moment arise. "Yeah, she's gotta get her va-"
"THEY DON'T NEED TO KNOW THE REST!?" I shouted, making Yang jump.
I sighed. "Please don't tell anyone else?" I begged them. The two teammates nodded.
"Of course, your secret is safe with us." Blake stated. Yang and I waved goodbye as we walked out of the cafeteria.
"A physical exam!? That's the best you could come up with?!" I yelled at Yang.
"What?! It worked didn't it? Besides, it wasn't like you had any good reasons to postpone the trip we've been talking about since the very first day of summer break!" Yang protested.
"ANYTHING was better than that!" I hissed, "now they're going to think I have some kind of viral infection or STD or something!"
"Oh come on, you're overreacting now. Besides. Soon this'll just be something you'll look back from the future and laugh at."
"Oh yea, of course. 'Hey Yang, remember that time when I had to go pick up some more antidepressants and we had to come up with an excuse for our team to postpone the trip and you told them I was getting a colonoscopy? Wasn't that funny as hell?!'" I exaggerated.
"You're not really getting this, are you?" Yang asked. I sighed. We hopped on her motorcycle and drove off, kicking up a cloud of dust behind us.
2 Hours later.
I finally received my medicine and exited the pharmacy, with Yang holding the door for me. All the drugs covered through our school benefits. "Thanks sis." I thanked.
"You're welcome." Yang returned. We jumped on the bike and started it up again. As we drove back to Beacon I tightened my grip on my sister, hugging her from behind as she drove. I felt her hand press against mine, accepting my embrace.
We finally got to the dorms, finding Blake and Weiss weren't around. I opened the pharmacy bag and put the meds in my pocket, crumpling the bag and throwing it in the trash. "Hey Ruby, are you okay?" Yang asked me as I zipped my sache pocket up.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Why?" I lied, knowing she didn't buy it.
"Ruby. Please don't lie to me, I only want to help you." Yang said with a concerned, caring look. I sighed.
"I think it's getting worse Yang, I don't know what I'm doing anymore. I feel like I'm nothing most of the time." I confessed. Yang placed a hand on my shoulder.
"You are not nothing Ruby. You are the best thing that has happened to me, our family, this team and society. You are a very gifted huntress-in-training, and you are the kindest and most loving person around. And I will always love you no matter what happens." Yang stated truthfully as she gave me a hug. My sister loosened her grip and brought her arm around my hips as we stood in the silence of the room.
"I had a dream last night Yang. A dream about mom." I told Yang as we continued to stand there, looking out the window.
"You did? What was it about?"Yang responded.
"I-it's kinda dark and depressing. I don't want to tell you if you don't want to hear it." I replied.
"No please, tell me. What happened?" She begged.
"Well. I was in a snow-covered forest, beside me was a cabin in the woods. Mom stood in front of it with her white hooded cape up. Then, all of a sudden beowolves attacked her out of nowhere. Soon she was cut up and there was blood everywhere and the cabin was on fire."
I paused for a moment, a lone tear went down my face. "Hey, don't cry. You don't have to tell me anymore." Yang said in a soft voice, rubbing my back as she consoled me.
"No, it's okay, I want to continue. Next, I heard a baby crying in the burning cabin. Mom ran into the burning house, retrieved the baby and escaped just in the nick of time before the cabin collapsed. She sung 'Red Like Roses' to it to calm it down, then dad ran out of the treeline with another woman and mom gave the baby to him as she distracted the beowolves so they could escape. But she got impaled in the process. Mum just laid there.." My crying started to get louder and stronger. "I held her in my arms and she said to me that she loved me, before she died. Right there in my hands."
Yang continued to rub my back. "Yang, do you know what it means?" I asked her.
"I don't know Ruby." Yang answered.
"I was the baby Yang. I was taken by dad as mom fended them off.." I slumped down on the ground, holding my face as I began to cry harder now. Yang sunk with me and held me close to her as I weeped.
"Shhhh, it's okay." Yang cooed. "It's okay."
