Twin Flames Chapter 4

Yang asked "Ruby why did you fake your death?"

Ruby said smiling "I was dead for a small moment."

Yang shouted "That doesn't answer my question."

Ruby said "That will be complicated?"

Yang shouted angrily "What do you mean by that?"

Ruby got serious and said "Let me start from the beginning, there were 2 gods twin brothers, the elder brother created life and all that lived during the day. The younger brother on the other hand tried to destroy everything that his brother created."

Yang shouted "This is relevant how?"

Ruby said harshly "If you let me finish, you might actually learn something such as why Beacon was attacked."

Yang said "Alright I'll listen."

Ruby said "No matter how hard he tried the younger brother couldn't stop it from coming back during the day. Therefore he creates a creature that shared his hatred for life, the Grimm. His elder brother had realised that their feud has to end, he proposed they make one final creation, one that had the power to create or destroy, they were given the gift of knowledge and ultimately the power to choose which path to follow, the way of light or the way of darkness."

Taiyang asked "Where did you learn this?"

Ruby said "A book in a vault sealed in Atlas's ship. Anyway as I was saying this is how humanity came to be. These four gifts the ability to create and destroy, as well as the power of knowledge and choice have a physical form. These gods left it behind before they left our world, they however had another even more powerful gift should someone try to use this power incorrectly, the 2 brothers left a small pool of their blood gifting the one who drinks it some of their power."

Yang asked "This pertains to what?"

Ruby said "Well turns out, Penny gave me some of it when I was dying, when it didn't work she brought all of it, apparently Ironwood located it in a temple and didn't know what it was. Ironwood took it and had no idea what it was. Anyway when Penny said 'It could cure all ills.' I thought I might as well try, I drank all of it, it didn't do anything. After the time I thought I was dead, I woke up in a coffin, which was being prepared, I closed the lid and left."

Yang asked "So why did you hide your identity?"

Ruby said "All of this must be kept secret, everything I said if let out to the public, Ozpin, Ironwood,Glynda and even Uncle Qrow have been tyring to keep this secret."

Taiyang said "Very well for my brother and for you Ruby, we will keep this secret."

Ruby said "Good, a powerful woman named Salem has been pulling the strings behind everything including Beacon's fall. She is the reason I had hid as a Silver Eyed Warrior I would have drawn attention to all of you and you would all be at risk."

Yang said "I see you were trying to protect us."

Ruby said smiling "Yeah."

Ruby gave Yang a big hug.

Yang said "Woah, you have built quite a bit of muscle."

Ruby said as she let go "Yeah, a lot of fighting."

Yang said "You have done better than I have."

Ruby said "Yeah, um where is Qrow?"

Yang said "He left following Cinder, Cassadaria as well as the remaining members of team JNPR."

Ruby said "I have to go ,Tyrian might be after them and he is tough,a scorpion man who has the power to poison others."

Yang said "But you just got back?"

Ruby said "I must meet with Qrow and the others they want to know I'm alive plus they need help as Salem would want to reclaim Cinder."

Yang said "I understand, go and promise me once this is over you'll come back."

Ruby said "I will when this is all over."

4 months later Cassadaria, Cinder as well as the remaining team JNPR arrived in the remnant of the settlement Oniyuri.

Cassadaria asks "Where are we?"

Ren said "This town was destroyed by a particularly powerful Grimm."

Cinder is hiding behind Cassadaria.

Jaune asked angrily"Why do you continue to protect her, she is always hiding behind your back?"

Cassadaria said "You have pointed your sword at her at least 10 times in the past week, that is reason enough."

Jaune shouts "She killed Pyrrha."

Cassadaria shouts back "She's family and Ruby was willing to give her life to save her, if you kill her know Ruby would have died for nothing."

Tyrian starts laughing "Oooh there is a lot of you, hehehe I am going to enjoy this."

Cassadaria said "There is no way you can beat all of us by yourself."

Tyrian laughed who said "I was by myself."

All their weapons flew into the air.

A voice said "Tyrian I am only concerned with Cinder, no one else."

Jaune turned around his eyes widened "Pyrrha."

Cinder stepped out and drew her twin blades.

Cassadaria said "You can't your still recovering."

Cinder shook her head.

Tyrian smiled "Well I guess that leaved the rest of you to me."

Qrow jumps down and said "No, you will fight me."

Qrow and Tyrian start fighting, Cinder and Pyrrha start fighting as well.

Tyrian said "Hehehe, even if you kill me, it doesn't matter Pyrrha has been given the power of darkness and could kill all of you, she will kill Cinder and inherit the power of fall."

Qrow said "We'll see about that."

The fight goes on and on. Qrow is winning his fight against Tyrian while Cinder is losing ground against Pyrrha.

Tyrian sees Jaune with his guard down. Tyrian dashes off to attack Jaune. Cinder sees Tyrian moving and gets in the way of his stinger.

Pyrrha said "She is mine to kill, Tyrian."

Tyrian said "Alright, go ahead."

Pyrrha is just about swing at her when a barrage of swords land on the ground around Pyrrha.

A voice said "Maybe you should first confront those who you wronged before seeking vengeance."

Penny landed in front of Pyrrha, Pyrrha starts to shake as she flashbacks to the tournament.

Penny said pointing to Cinder"Pyrrha ,I am willing to forgive you but are you willing to forgive her."

Tyrian laughed "So you broke her, well then I just have to kill you."

Tyrian rushed to strike Penny when a red scythe cut his tail off.

Tyrian screamed in agony as he looked at his tail.

Tyrian shouted "Who did that?"

A voice said "Well maybe you should be more careful."

A girl in a red hood stood in front of him. Tyrian looked frightened and bolted.

She took her hood of and turned around, she said "Hey everyone you all okay."

Qrow shouted as he ran up and gave her a big hug "Ruby."

Ruby said "I have things to do Uncle but I'll talk to you later."

Qrow asked "How did you survive?"

Ruby said "Long story."

Ruby walked over and said as she looked at Pyrrha "I'm so glad your safe."

Pyrrha looked at her confused. Ruby generated a small ball of light to everyone's surprise and slammed into Pyrrha's chest clearing her body of darkness. Pyrrha collapsed.

Ruby said to Jaune "Take care of her."

Penny looked at Cinder, who is bleeding on the ground.

Cassadaria asked "Can you save her?"

Penny said "I will need to make an antibody that was a scorpion tail sting."

Ruby grabbed Tyrian's tail, she said "Use this, it should have some of his poison in it.

Penny said "An advantage of being a robot, I can store things in my body."

Penny opened her chest up and pulled out a first aid kit. Penny threw the first aid kit onto the ground and a huge medical lab came out of it.

Penny lifted up Cinder and put her on a stretcher, she carried Cinder into the Medical Lab.

Later that night Pyrrha woke up. She walked outside. Jaune walked out to see her.

Pyrrha said "I'm a monster, look at me."

Most of her body had turned into a Grimm like state.

Jaune said "I don't care what you look like, you are my friend."

Ruby walked over and said "Pyrrha you are not a monster unless you choose to be, I have seen real monsters and seen what evil means."

Pyrrha ran away from the rest of them. She snuck into the medical lab. Jaune followed her in.

Pyrrha lifted her sword up and swung, Jaune blocked her sword with his shield.

Jaune asked angrily "Why do you insist on killing her?"

Pyrrha shouted "She is the reason I'm like this."

Jaune shouted back "She is the reason I still live and breath, she is trying to make amends for the mistakes of her past, she is trying to help. She lays there because she protected me."

Cassadaria ran in and dragged her out.

Cassadaria asked "Pyrhha do you consider what we are to be monstrous because we are alive, we are living things of this world, you shouldn't try to make yourself a monster just because you think you are one."

Pyrhha shouted "Look at us, what can we do, we will always be feared."

Cinder limped over, she whispered in Pyrrha's ear "I have made too many mistakes, I am not seeking forgiveness but if I can prevent any more death then I will try for my sister who never gave up on me and for Ruby who put her life on the line to save me from myself, it would have made it all for naught not I will keep living for them. I will not let everything they had done to be in vain, I will not die today."

Pyrrha helped Cinder back to the bed.

Penny ran in and started to treat her wounds. Penny looked at the machine analysing Tyrian's tail.

Penny said "It's almost done, you can all stay in this room, I think Cinder would appreciate the company."

A TV turned on by itself.

Ruby asked "Why did it turn itself on?"

Penny said "I don't know."

The reporter said "We are here reporting on a monumental occasion, the leader of the Faunus rights group, Blue Neon."

Blue Neon's leader walked down her blue dress and mask glistened in the light.

Blue Neon's leader said "I formed this organisation 4 months ago as a way for all who wanted to make a change to the way Faunus are treated."

The reported asked "It has been noticed you have more Human members then Faunus members."

Blue Neon's leader replied "Faunus rights are an issue for all of us. The White Fang wasn't always as violent as it is now. The White Fang performed peaceful protests to any organisations who treated Faunus badly. The problem was no-one listened, the Faunus were still treated badly. Their leader changed at one point and they have caused much harm to others, using violence to get what they want Faunus to be treated a equals and the scary part is it worked. Many Faunus I have met who were once members of the White Fang when it was, have joined our organisation and told me they are happy that someone is seeking the peaceful path. Many Faunus have been more scared since the change of leadership. They are worried that the only way to secure peace between humans and Faunus is through Violence. We are here to prevent that from happening to show that we can be peaceful together. I see members of our 2 races working together. The working male Humans and Faunus,

sit down, sharing stories over their beer. Young girls of both races talking about their boyfriends. We are not so different, we just need to shake hands and walk to the future as equals.

Jacques Schnee bursts into the room, he shouts "Your actions have cost me millions in labour."

Blue Neon's leader walked over to him and said "Your company treats Faunus like their animals, when they are so similar to us."

Jacques said "Show the world who really are, how can you promote peace behind a mask."

The Blue Neon's leader takes off her mask.

Ruby and her friends look shocked as they watch.

Jacques asked "It can't be, Weiss why?"

Weiss said "I saw what we were really doing to the Faunus, I escaped and formed this organisation to free all Faunus from slavery."

Weiss stepped back to the podium, she said "I learnt more at my time at Beacon then I ever could have at Atlas. I met a former member of the White Fang at first I didn't know, I treated her badly at first not understanding but with some help we talked it out and I saw how similar we were, if I was in her position I would have done exactly the same thing in that position had our roles been reversed I could imagine her being me and me being her. If you are out there Blake I hope your doing okay."

Blake and her family in Menagerie watched closely.

Blake cried as she said "Weiss , I'm sorry I should be there with you."

Jacques said "Guards, attack."

Weiss stood there as his guards lifted up there blasters.

Blake shouted "No, Weiss defend yourself."

The fired a shot at her. A metal arm blocked the shot. Several soldiers knock out the few guards Jacques had.

Ironwood said "Jacques, we were given orders to maintain the peace during this broadcast. I didn't think you would do this but you are now under arrest for your actions here."

Jacques shouted as he was take away "I am president of the Schnee Dust Company, you are all going to be in so much trouble for this."

Ironwood took Jacques on a ship.

Jacques shouted "How dare you arrest me."

Ironwood said "The Council has been bothered by you considerably, the allegation of slavery of Faunus by the Schnee Dust Company has been a constant eyesore to Atlas, we didn't have enough evidence to arrest you for that. Your complaints to the embargo of dust to other countries has also further angered some members of the councils till they lacked a reason to arrest you. Today you did, however, commit a crime you disturbed a peaceful event ordained by the council."

Jacques shouted shocked "Ordained by the Council!"

Ironwood said "It was ordained by the Council a few weeks ago to give some hope for all during these troubled times."

Jacques shouted "They are criminals!"

Ironwood said "They are what we need in these trouble times. The last thing we need is to be divided."

They arrive at Atlas. Weiss stands there with the Military Council.

Ironwood said "So does the rest of Council agree we should put him in prison."

Every member of the Council nods. Winter Schnee entered the room. Winter asks angrily "Why is my father being arrested General Ironwood?"

Ironwood said "Calm your temper, he attacked the Blue Neon leader, Weiss after she gave her speech on peace between Humans and Faunus."

Winter walked over to Weiss.

Winter shouted angrily "I am sick of you and little pathetic organisation."

Weiss said "You call us pathetic, this so called little organisation is amounting to 1 million members and counting."

Winter said "You are causing damage to our family with all this rubbish you spout. Humans and Faunus can never work together."

Weiss said "Well then we are in a whole load of trouble, fighting amongst ourselves will only bring more and more Grimm, that attitude will turn all of the world into what Beacon is now, a home for Grimm, this is for peace war attracts Grimm and the end of all life."

Winter swings her sword at Weiss.

Ironwood shouts "One more move and you will be in the prison with your father."

Ironwood takes Jacques into a prison cell. Winter hits him from behind and frees her father. Weiss runs down and find Ironwood lying there with the door open. Weiss Carries Ironwood back to the Council.

The other Council members ask "What happened?"

Weiss said "It was Winter, it has to be."

Ironwood woke up and said "Weiss is right."

Weiss said "I'll help look."

Weiss and Ironwood spilt up while many other guards were also searching.

Weiss found Winter hiding with Jacques.

Winter asked "Are you really going to do this?"

Weiss said "I will, yes if I have to turn on you to do what I must to protect what I care about."

Weiss and Winter start fighting. Weiss knocks Winter's sword out of her hand .

Weiss said over her communicator "I have found them."

Ironwood took Jacques and Winter away.

Weiss met with Ironwood.

Ironwood said "I guess you wan to take control of your father's dust company."

Weiss said "No, I will go to pick up the last of my personal items and then it belongs to Atlas, I have my own organisation to run."

Ironwood said "Very well."

Weiss said "Just make sure all Faunus who are enslaved are released."

Ironwood said "I promise."

Weiss said "Well if you don't I will come knocking."

Chapter 4 End