Chapter 6:
The creature's eyes glowed blood red, unearthly light spilled out bathing Ruby in its deathly radiance. Currently the two were in a power struggle. Ruby circled with a staggered stance. The obsidian colored Black Panther circled, mirroring her stance and movement, doing it with four paws. Ruby hadn't taken her weapon to fight the creature. She wanted to kill it naturally. And that is why in the current situation it was a power struggle. Rose petals formed a wide ring around the circling pair. Previously Ruby had used her Semblance to place the ring, simply letting the petals fall off the hem of her red cloak. After the ring was complete she discarded her cloak. Circling a few more times all the while never looking away from her opponents eyes, she started to discard all of her other clothing. Ruby threw her boots over her shoulders with two swift jerks, still keeping motion. Keeping with the same pattern Ruby discarded everything else, literally. The only piece of clothing she had on now was a skintight skin suit. It covered everything except the face tightly, yet still allowing free unrestricted access to all humanly possible movements. Nothing but power runes, glyphs, hieroglyphs, symbols, and tattoos covered the suit. They traced intricate patters, massing together and connecting in the center of her back. This was where they were most concentrated. This was also where the most potent power symbols known to fabric enchanters lay grouped, all the rest were merely extensions of this group. Ruby suddenly realized that, even though she had all this pent up explosive power and strength, she couldn't use it to kill the super Grim. After this realization she bolted. The Black Panther gave chase, Ruby desperately need to find Crescent Rose.
The super Grim lunged, Ruby swerved to the right desperately wanting to get out of reach of those deadly claws. The creature managed to bat her on the shoulder, sending her sprawling forward. Ruby slid off the edge of a small cliff. Extending her legs and transferring power to the areas that would absorb most of the impact, she then hit the ground with a crunch. Ruby transferred power to her legs; she took off again, running perhaps three times as fast as before. She really needed to find her scythe. Hearing a faint shout Ruby tried to circle around going back to where her team was, fighting off regular Grims. However the super Grim intercepted Ruby, pining her on top of a sunken bolder. Pushing all of her limbs into the boulder with its paws, it then dug its claws into the hard rock for more holding power.
With a start Ruby realized it had frozen. When she tried to struggle free it screeched. ARRRRRAAAKKKAAAHHH the shear volume was enough to stun her completely. Ruby was frozen with fear. What happened next only amplified her fear a hundred fold. Slowly the creature opened it maw. Once its lips parted and teeth separated, she rolled out from under it. She landed on all fours, Ruby then sprinted away wanting this torment to end.
Sooner or later the abnormal creature of Grim would overpower her, then infecting her with the Darkness Plaque. She defiantly did not want that to happen. The people who got infected died within two weeks. The worst part was, all the while the said infected person would be going through the worst pain one could possible experience. 'This getting infected doesn't sound very pleasant at all.' Ruby thought as she rounded a particularly thick tree.
Her scythe suddenly dropped from the thick tree. In one swift movement Ruby took it in her hands and extended it out to its full length. She didn't pop out the blade; instead she prepared the sniper part. After focusing her aura, she fired a violent shot that propelled her forward. Ruby whipped around firing at the rapidly approaching creature, the shot missed. Cursing Ruby popped out the blade and ran forward.
The Black Panther jumped. Using power Ruby swung her scythe up and stuck the creature in the neck just above the heart. Immediately she transferred all the power in the suit, using her aura, focusing it in the next shot in the chamber. Ruby fired immediately after the transfer of power was complete. The creature's head blew off completely along with the rest, which flew off, in fragments, into the forest. Getting off another blast aimed at the ground in front of her, Ruby flew back and up to escape the darkness that used to be in the creature. She slammed into a tree, plowing right through it; she then exploded out the other side. Continuing with the momentum Ruby dug a small divot in the forest floor, which grounded her to a halt. With most of the power momentarily gone thanks to the two successive shots, Ruby didn't survive either of the impacts. Ruby had been knocked unconscious.
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Weiss got off two more fireballs using Myrtenaster. They blasted two more Grims in the chest above their hearts. Yang moved in with Ember Celica simultaneously punched and blasted the creatures apart.
Blake finished off two more with a double decapitation. "Well that's the last of them." Blake sighed, clearly relived. The expression didn't last. Team RWBY looked around for their leader. Off a ways, on the other side of the clearing they had fought in, was a ring of rose petals. Scattered around it seemed to be ruby cloths. Blake, Yang, and Weiss's eyes widened, they didn't know about the power suit Ruby had worn under her clothes.
"Ruby!" Weiss yelled. "Aw shit where is she?"
"Well I don't know. I wish I did though." Said Ruby's sister Yang in a worried tone.
"Where could she be?" Blake asked equally worried. They couldn't simply go wandering off to find her, Ruby was still fighting the Black Panther looking super Grim. "Wait I have an idea. Hand me Crescent Rose. I'll go hide up in that thick tree over there; hopefully she will come running under it with the super Grim chasing her. When she does I'll drop her weapon for her."
The group headed over to Ruby's clothes. After gathering it up in one pile they blushed. They didn't realize how much of her clothing Ruby had actually removed. Quickly grabbing the sheathed scythe, Blake moved toward the thick tree. After climbing atop it she waited.
Finally after several agonizing seconds Blake heard super fast footfalls. Immediately she dropped the scythe, straight into Ruby's outstretched hands. Blake watched Ruby take down the super Grim. What stunned her most about their team leader was not her speed, or even her power. What stunned her most was what she was wearing, a skintight black skin suit, with red symbols running over its surface. Blake was entranced, until Ruby blew the creature up with a single sniper shot. The darkness that was inside the creature suddenly spilled out, however Ruby wasn't there, thanks to another equally powerful shot. Ruby managed to get herself away in time not to get infected with the painfully deadly Darkness Plague.
However the blast from the second shot drove Ruby through a tree and into the ground knocking her unconscious. Blake yelled, "Yang! Weiss! We need to help Ruby." Looking again Blake saw that Ruby was naked. Apparently after using up so much power the suit must have disintegrated. "Oh and Weiss? You might want to bring her clothes and a blanket." Blake called again.
The three friends gathered around their leader. Weiss placed a small blanked over Ruby. It left Ruby's legs exposed from mid thigh down. It covered up her hips and entire torso. Besides that her head, shoulders, and arms were exposed. Ruby looked deathly pale, this was due to the loss of aura and shock trauma. Ruby's black hair framed her now pale face hauntingly. The red streaks in her hair looked like blood.
"We need to heal her." Weiss stated desperately.
"How can we do that?" Blake asked in equal desperation.
"We should try pumping all of our auras, however little we have left, into her. After all she needs it more than us." Yang suggested nearly driven to tears seeing her dear sister like this.
And they tried. Kneeling around her head, they all placed a hand on Ruby's face. With Blake's hand on Ruby's left cheek, Yang's hand on Ruby's right cheek, and Weiss's hand on Ruby's forehead, they started pumping their combined auras into their dearest, and probably dying, friend.
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