Velvet turns as she hears the wind kick up, and she jumps to avoid a bullet coming from a menacing looking Ruby.
"You've stopped me too many times before!" Ruby yells at Velvet as she stands up turning Crescent Rose into a Scythe.
"Why Are you doing this?" Velvet asks her with concern. "What happened to The Ruby we used to know?" she dodges a swing from Ruby's weapon.
"What HAPPENED (swings at her again) IS..." Ruby swings again still missing, and stops setting crescent rose into the ground to brace her then continues beginning to tear as she screams at her "I WAS LEFT ALONE, NOBODY LOVED ME, MY BEST FRIENDS DIED AND I COULDNT SAVE THEM...(sniffles wiping her eye lowering her head, and starts speaking more dramatically) When they died, everyone had someone, Maybe some didnt but, they had more than I ever did. Those years wore on me, the pain of beariny witness to their death's, to watching my team crumble, and i couldnt dovA DAMM THING ABOUT IIIIIIIT!" she says screaming.
"But Ruby, you werent alone, you still had friends! Many of us cared and were sufferiny with you! We..." Velvet is interrupted by Ruby's anger, "HOW DARE YOU THINK YOU FELT WHAT I HAD! My...best...FRIEND Maybe egen someone I loved, even though she was a robot, died, because I couldn't save her. I never held it against Pyrrah, NEVER! It wasn't her fault. But then I was too late saving Pyrrah...I watched her die, and I couldnt do anything because I was too afraid to move as I watched Cinder shoot that arrow into her chest. NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND THE PAIN I FELT! My...(sniffles) ...Penny...She died... And the one person I felt might understand my pain, DIED! My other friend, DEATH I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR!"...Ruby cries leaning forward, as Neo watches from behind her, she looks to her right seeing a large group has made their presence known, in the group, Weiss walks forward, "Ruby (a tear is in her eye) You didn't uave to face that pain alone, We could have helped you! You should've talked to someone!"
Ruby direxts her attention angrily toward weiss, "AND DO WHAT!? Tell someone I was hearing their voices in my head because I felt so guilty, because I let them die, because I wasn't string enough!? (her hand on crescent rose shakes as she tears), Weiss, You cant begin to understand, (looks up) NO ONE COULD UNDERSTAND THIS PAIN!"
Jaune steps forward, "Ypu're wrong Ruby. Pyrrah was close to me too, I was too stupid to ever see what was right in front of me...and when I was showed it, i was sent away. I never blamed you for her death, I begged you and weiss to save her", Ruby retaliates, "AND I FAILED!".
"YOU TRIED!...Darnet you tried Ruby! That's all that mattered to me! When everything fell apart after that, What did Ren, Nora and myself do? You and the 3 of us went off to solve the problems that were created. We were happy to have you and everyone else who still was with us with us!" Jaune exclaims.
"But...I failed...their deaths, I... they never stopped haunting me...even if you lost pyrrah you dont understand how i felt with Pen!..." Ruby realizes exactly how Jaune felt, She realized she had blamed herself all this time for hurting not just herself but him too for Pyrrah's death, and wanted to deny anyone else felt the same she did, so she wouldnt feel so guilty.
She drops to her knees, dropping Crescent Rose, her eyes wide open, realizing, she inflicted Weiss with the same greif, because she was so in denial anyone else felt the same, she wanted them to not only feel the same, but worse, and at the same time, another part of her wanted to feel those feelings again, to bring those hidden feelings out she had stuffed so deep inside she couldnt see them. But what it took to see her feelings, was talking about it, not being vengeful.
Ruby lowers her head, saying nothing. Neo still stands watching developments. Velvet walks up to ruby and puts her hand on her shoulder, "Ruby...It's okay, We know you weren't ok when you did everything. We want to help you overcome your demons, to be you again."
Ruby sits silent. An ominous wind sweeps through that sends chills through everyones bodies. Even Neo moves shivering at this wind. As the breeze suddenly stops, Ruby speaks up in a monotone fashion without looking up, "Weiss, what did you think would happen, when we finally saw eachother again? What did you expect to do? did you expect to change me? (the ominous wind returns as she speaks further) Did you think You might have to kill me? (she looks up, with an ominous look in her eyes staring directly at Weiss into her eye) Or were you too afraid to even make up your mind?" Ruby Puts her hand on Velvet's hand as she says, "Weiss". Weiss replies nervously, "Y-yes Ruby?"...
END CHAPTER 8
Author Note;
I am well aware many of my uploads have typos. It takes a lot of energy for me to read through everything to find them due to my lack of sight. When I have gotten to a point where The ideas arent flowing consistantly, I will go back through and fix everything and update them. Until then I think its better to enjoy writing more to the story than stressing out over neck and eye strain from trying to find typos i cant catch without reading the entire thing more than once (and very slowly to be able to try seeing them).