Perseus kicked in the door to Schnee's office, and saw that it was apparently empty; the only sign that anyone was there was the desk chair that had been turned around, to allow the magnificent view of the city to be visible.
"Weiss—" A voice that spoke of massive authority began, only to get cut off by Perseus.
"Weiss is not here." The Schnee spun around, his face twisted into a scowl.
"Where is she?" He demanded.
Perseus tossed him Weiss' scroll, he caught it, noting the snowflake emblem on the back. "She had always been the weakest. Killed her, have you?" He asked, now smirking psychotically. Perseus shook her head.
"No. Yang is making it hard." She said.
"I suppose you're here about Miss Rose, yes?" He asked, seemingly without care. She did not answer, instead, she disappeared in a flash of rose petals. She reappeared directly in front of him, then picked him up by the throat. She kicked his chair through the window effortlessly.
The small crystals of glass fell on the street below. She held him out over the edge, ripping her mask off. "I want to know why!" She demanded, her voice full of venom.
"My guards will be here soon." He calmly said, not in the slightest bit fazed.
"No, they won't. They've all been taken care of." Through the main door came the speaker, Jaune, and Nora. Ren landed the bullhead on the heli-pad outside.
"I'm going to ask once more." Ruby said hatefully. "Why?!" When she asked, she tightened her grip on his throat.
"The Rose family is dangerous!" He shouted, suddenly panicked. He was looking down at the street below, now fully realizing the threat in front of him.
"What does that mean?!" Ruby shouted over the deafening noise of the wind, extending her reach, and hanging him further away from the safety of the floor.
"The Rose family! They— They all have silver eyes!" He frantically shouted. Ruby could hear the shouting of the Schnee guards coming down the hall. She shot a dirty look at Jaune and brought her helmet back up.
"Talk and walk!" She told Schnee, bringing him back in the building, she began to march towards the door, motioning for Ren to start up the bullhead.
[Months Ago]
When Weiss and Pyrrha arrived at the bullhead, Yang jumped on the heiress, asking if Ruby was okay. Weiss just faked crying, answering Yang's question. Yang didn't look hurt, angry, or sad like they imagined she would, she looked dead inside.
"I found this." Weiss held out Ruby's cloak, placing it in the blonde's hands. It became very apparent to her that Yang was in shock of just having lost the most important person in her life. Tears began to fall down the brawler's face. She sat down against the far wall, bringing her knees to her face, and just cried. Coco, Velvet, and Blake tried to comfort her, but she wasn't having it.
Once she the three left her alone, Yang's thoughts drifted to Ruby's childhood, making her heart hurt. Her thoughts drifted from birthday-to-birthday, up until fifteen. Yang remembered when Ruby began training with Qrow. She remembered when Ruby got her cloak. She remembered the similarities between her little sister and Summer. It had been roughly thirty minutes since the last time Yang saw Ruby alive, and yet she already missed her. She wanted her little sister back.
When the broken remnants of Team RWBY arrived at their dorm, Yang began to shove all of her stuff into a suitcase.
"What are you doing, Yang?" Blake asked, her voice shaky. She also wanted to cry, Ruby was a good friend. Ruby had been the first to accept her past, and the first of the team to accept that she was a Faunus. Why had she done that? Blake had always wondered, it wasn't until Ruby died that she finally understood it; Ruby did it simply because Blake was her friend before she was anything.
"I'm gonna go home for a bit." Yang weakly said. "I'll be back, don't worry."
By the time Yang arrived at Patch, her eyes were red, and stung to the touch. When she got home, her father had already been told what had happened that day. He had also been told that there had been no body. Just like Summer. The only thing he had gotten back of Summer was her white cloak.
He had planned on giving this to Ruby for her eighteenth birthday. He knew that Ruby would either never take it off, clinging to the only piece of her mother, or never put it on, worrying that she would damage it.
When Yang came home, he had gotten drunk and passed out in the recliner. In his lap sat all the professionally-taken family pictures they had from every year. Yang carefully picked each one up, silently putting them back in their places around the house, she laid Ruby's cloak on top of him. Yang then went to her bed, and tried to sleep.
When Qrow arrived two hours later, he froze, seeing Ruby's cloak draped over his friend/ex-brother-in-law. Worried for his niece, he dashed to her room, knowing that she wouldn't go too far without her cloak. And he became worried when she wasn't there, either. Next, he looked in Yang's room, seeing the blonde asleep, her eyes red. The picture of her and Ruby that normally say on her nightstand was now face down, as if Yang didn't want to see her. Qrow slowly walked back into the living room and woke up Taiyang.
"Qrow?" He asked. "When did you get here?"
"Just now. Did something happen?" Qrow said.
"Yeah," Taiyang looked down. "The same thing that happened to Summer happened to Rubes."
"What do you mean?" Qrow asked, extremely worried at this point.
"She— she's gone." Taiyang said, breaking down. "Those damn monsters tore her apart."
Qrow had to sit down. When he had trained her, he knew this day would come, but he'd always imagined that it would be to save someone's life. Not in vain. From carelessness.
Qrow took a large swig from his flask, saying, "I'm not drunk enough for this." Taiyang nodded in agreement, taking the flask, and taking a swig. Qrow punched his arm.
"You still have to take care of the one in the other room. Don't forget that." He said. "She needs you. Don't shut down again." Taiyang nodded, handing the flask back.
"I guess we'll have to arrange a funeral first." He said, looking to one of the pictures of Ruby that rested on the mantle. She was laughing in front of a white backdrop. It was to the right of the group picture of Taiyang, Yang, and Ruby. The girls were sitting in front of him, and he stood behind them, his hands on their shoulders. To the left of that picture was a picture of Yang, who was also laughing.
Edited by DemonFoxBK201