It was a dark night and the moon was full and shattered, the world seemed colorless under its dull glow. Tonight was the night that Ruby rescued Blake, no, that Ruby and Roman rescued Blake. The two were walking up the street towards the location of Cinder and her goons.
"Are you ready for what we planned?" Roman stated with a hint of a hushed tone.
"Yeah." Ruby answers briefly before disappearing in rose petals.
Roman proceeded to walk into the building, cautious and ready for anything that came his way. The warehouse was empty, crates here and there the only thing blocking his vision of the large room, one light hanging dangerously low and lighting a single table was all that stood as reference to just how large the location was. As he walked towards the table, two figures stepped into the light, setting down three tea cups.
"We've been waiting, have one." Mercury stated, his statue like posture demanding attention as he spoke.
"We have a lot to talk about, Thief of Vale." Emerald said with the grabbing and sipping of her cup.
"I think we can assume that we know what each other are about to say don't you think?" Roman asked in a sardonic manner, the same time flipping his cane as to be holding the rifle end.
"You're not going any further, we still need our pet." Mercury said with venom.
"You're not getting the point, are you?" Roman said as he looked between the two with his eyes.
"What point, we're even offering you tea, just sit down, relax, don't worry about the Faunas girl." Emerald said, being rather blatant in her tone that she wanted nothing to do with Roman.
"For starters, you should get a return on this tea..." Roman said, eyeing it up as if to see if it was poisoned.
"Why?" She answered.
"This is a new flavor, it has a tendency to cause impairment of vision when applied with sufficient," Roman then swung his cane, looping it around the cup and catapulting it into Mercury, scolding his face and eyes. "Force!"
"Ruaah!" Mercury screamed and fell to the floor in agony.
"Mercury!" Emerald yelled and then drew her blades on Roman, "You bastard!"
Roman replied by aiming his Melodic Cudgel at her with great care upon her head.
"Quite possibly."
Meanwhile, Yang was walking out of the dorms in a new uniform, the boots black, the pants black, the coat black, but a scarf around her face in gold, metal bands scattered symmetrically throughout the uniform to tighten it to her form and a utility belt full of dust cartridges around her waist.
"You said I could go as long as I test this new suit on any challenges right?" she said while tightening her Ember Celica into her wrists.
Ozpin, standing next to her as she mounted her bike answered her.
"Of course, but be careful, it's not quite complete, the power might be too much for you to control at first."
"Makes sense…" "Ruby, your big sis is coming."
Meanwhile, Ruby appeared at the back window, looking through and seeing Romans fight in the distance as well as a cage behind the boxes, but after jumping down, what she finds isn't pleasant. Blake was hanging from the top of a round cage by her wrists, both of them scolded beyond repair, her body covered in burns the size of hand marks, her naked flesh riddled with bruises and a mixture of coughed up blood and shred marks from a whip or otherwise purposeful weapon of the flame-wielder. Blake herself was barely awake, her toes hanging only a centimeter from the floor. A puddle of her own blood lied beneath her.
"Blake! Blake tell me you'll live, tell me you'll live!" Ruby shouted in panic at the image she saw before her.
Blake coughed up more blood, stomach acid beginning to tint it darker as she gathered herself to talk, "Ruby, help me, I, tried…" She then passed out of blood loss. Ruby scrambling to find a way into the cage before simply blasting through the cage with Crescent Rose.
"This, is not, the end." She said as she tugged at Blake's shackles and ripped her down, both falling into the pool of blood. Ruby didn't lose hope though and continued to move Blake out of the cage, dragging the faunas with her own arms wrapped under and moving backward then dropping her against the cleaner surface outside of the cage and proceeding with CPR. She checked her pulse, there was nothing, nor was there breathing, so just did the chest compressions as vigorously as she could.
One, nothing, two, nothing, three, nothing; hope was being lost.
She tried giving her oxygen but she wasn't taking and the taste of blood was overwhelming. She went back to compressions, going for as long as her arms could bear, she tried, and she tried so hard. After some time, Ruby fell onto the body of Blake, crying and punching it, whimpering in the dark with the dead body of her friend. But with no hope in sight, the darkness absorbing her every thought, every action, every instinct, she picked up the body and started walking to Roman's battlefield.
"You're done Cinder! Your games end here, it's my turn to rule the city." Roman shouted, both of them facing down at point blank range of each other.
"Stop talking you infidel!" Cinder said before blasting Roman with her fire and burning off his hat, followed by him blasting three shots into the ground around Cinder as he tried to hit her slender moving figure. She proceeded to blast him to smithereens, firing gouts of flame at him with incredible speed, burning off his sleeves as he tried to protect his center of mass and melting his makeup off.
"I won't bow!" Roman said as he fell to the ground and was at this point simply scooting away from the gusts of death and heat.
"All things must come to an end Roman! That includes you, that includes your precious new goddaughter, and that even includes your lega-!" Right as she was about to make the final blow, her voice stopped, turning into a shallow gasp, her eyes shot open and she looked down as blood trickled down and out of her mouth. She saw only the large, curved blade of Crescent Rose impaled through her.
Running entirely on adrenaline, she turned her head to see the body of her pet fall in front of her dead, and looking up, saw the visage of hell itself. Ruby's eye's blood shot, her grasp on her blade deft and strong, her smile edging its way across her face as the voice of despair worked itself into her head and tore away her sense of fear, of conscience. In complete silence she pushed the woman to the ground and began to twist the blade inside her body, destroying any chance of survival.
"Ruby! No! Don't give in!" Roman grabbed onto her arm and was quickly frightened into letting go as she gave him the same look she gave the world. "Don't turn out like me." He said, leaving the building in a hurry as to find a plan in safety.
A moment later Yang arrived at the door of a warehouse, her bike skidding to a stop, immediately pausing in disbelief at the scene she saw, her sister, surrounded by flames of a burning building, covered in blood, standing in the mists of two desecrated bodies, one of them her friend. The smell of death wreaked heavily all was beyond the stability of the blonde teen's sanity when she saw Ruby turn around… and smile at her, a single tear caressing her child like face. Everything went black.
"Ruby? What are you doing here?"