Chapter 16: Bambi Hunting
Opening her silver eyes, Ruby sees a grass field full of life. The sky above her is filled with stars and nebulas that are full of color. She sees birds flying above her and small creatures going by their day. The sun above her shines brightly as she sees a stream of light, uncorrupted and pure. Curious, she follows the stream where it leads.
Following the stream of these endless fields of green, she saw something that ruins the peaceful image of this realm. She sees a humungous tree that reaches to the heavens of space. Spite of its tallness, Ruby sees the bark is burned and charred. She smells the burning sulfur that the tree radiates and see a sickly green poison seeping out from the wood.
Ruby could see it would look mighty in its heyday, but it's now shriveled and dead. Its branches turn into ash, the roots below it are losing its grasp and the green foliage is now sickly brown like toxic death.
Continuing on following the light and ignoring the tree that's already dead, Ruby spots a skeleton lying on the grass which is missing a skull. As she passes that, the light is leading closer to the humungous dead tree as it's becoming bigger and bigger. Soon, she feels like an ant as she saw the huge decaying roots above her.
Entering into the roots where it's wide open. She saw a pool that is tainted with blood. The roots here are struggling to stay alive, when she steps inside the heart of the tree, the light stops fading in this area. Inside the roots are dark and damp, but at a distance, she sees something shiny.
"Good to see you, Ruby." Hearing a voice that's filled with an enlightened view of the world and transcending of their morality. Ruby turns to the voice to see a tannish skin man sitting on a decaying root, his matted hair reach to his head back and the bundle of his hair stacking above him, simply looking at the man makes Ruby feel like she's in a trance and seeing a third eye on his forehead. Ruby sees his hoop rings and wearing a strange robe that she can't really describe.
"Who are you? Are you God?" As she said that, he opens his palm and starting to make weird gestures that Ruby doesn't understand what it means.
"Am I God? No Ruby, I am a Deva. I am Shiva, the one who destroy and one who transform the world. For why I am here, I am a good friend of the God of Light." As the Deva name Shiva identify himself as who he is. Ruby looks around to find her god is nowhere to be seen.
"So where is he and did you meet Tanya? You seem to know her?" Asking those two very questions, Shiva change position and proceeds to answer Ruby's questions.
"Oh, he's having one of his…talks with his younger brother. I can hear it right now." As he said that, Ruby feels the ground below her shaking softly and an incoherent jumble of voices yelling out somewhere. To the Deva that Ruby is talking to, he is indifferent to their shouting.
"For Tanya, I met her when I granted her the holy relic. But here, I didn't meet her. She wouldn't know me if you ask her personally." Answering her that made Ruby little bit perplex of what Shiva meant by meeting and not meeting her like Shiva talk to a different Tanya all entirely. Shiva proceeds to explain Ruby why he is here.
"As your Lord having quite a discussion with his younger relative, I'll be the one who's going to guide you as he has utmost faith on me since the restriction on your spells have been lifted to do the Darkness's meddling." Shiva gazes at the pond that's tainted with pure red blood.
"You must drink the well of knowledge that your Lord heavily blessed upon it, Ruby. You will feel the knowledge coursing through you and having the knowledge to counter your sister's destructive behavior if it arises. You will have the knowledge to have a better understanding of your spells. You will know the old magic. You will know what God of Light knows." Taking a step to the pond, Ruby gives an uncertain tone to the Deva.
"Are you sure? Why do I need to drink it? It looks…unsanitary." Looking a pond that's spoiled with blood, Shiva gives a reassuring voice to Ruby.
"You will know Ruby and you would know if you drink it. If you have faith, you will know." Looking back at the well, she wants to know what's going on. She wants to know why God of Light threatens her sister. She wants to know what's this place and with the word why.
Ruby wants to know why.
Hesitantly kneeling down to the well that's shining bright and that's covered in blood. Ruby scoops her palm on the water and drinks the bloodied water. As she drank it, a wave of knowledge is rushing through her thoughts. As she drank it, her bird Huggy lands on her shoulder and cooing to her owner.
She learns the destruction of the dark god. She learns that the darkness is grooming Tanya to be its conduit. Bringing darkness to the world of Remnant, her aggression will be heightened and Ruby will be the one to bring faith into the hearts of the faithless. As she hears the wisdom, her body is glowing bright and a faint halo floating above her.
But is that true of what she learned or is it a lie? Her knowledge flow and ebbs as there is uncertainty in her faith. As she thinks, she understands the magic around her and the will to cast upon them if they're needed. As she's contemplating her knowledge, Ruby looks down to see a roundish ball emerging out.
When it appeared to her view, Ruby gasps in shock and fall to her back when she saw a severed eye that is embalmed on the tainted water.
"Your Lord doesn't know this yet. But grab that eye. I might bend things a little here as I'm in a good mood." Reluctantly grabbing the eye, something in her mind tells her this will come in handy in the future.
"If Tanya ask of why? Tell her that Ragnarok already happened and there are only fragments left of what she's going to find." As Shiva gives his last words, Ruby feels lightheaded as everything becomes bright to her silver eyes.
"Farewell Ruby Rose."
"Sweetie, wake up." Feeling someone shrugging her shoulder, the twins groan in tiredness as they open their eyes. They're resting on their bed and their minds are starting to recollect what's happening around them. Hearing the air conditioner humming and the buzzing colors of Atlas's skyscrapers, their vision soon starts to clear up.
"Ahh…what time is it mom?" Ruby looking at her mother and seeing the room is dark, she happily smiles at the twins.
"It's three in the morning. You said you want to find your friend. Yang and Tai are still sleeping so I can leave without them worrying about me that I'm still recovering. Don't worry, I'll find her and you can continue sleeping." Heard something clanking in her hand, the twins lifted themselves up to see she's holding Qrow's scythe called the Harbinger.
"Oh, I'm also borrowing your uncle's weapon since I left mine at home." Wondering where she gets that and how she convince him, they hear heavy snoring on the floor to see their uncle completely passed out with the strong scent of booze radiating out from his mouth.
"Will you be okay mom?" Watching their mother leaving the room, Summer give her daughters a supporting grin as she about to leave.
"Of course sweetie, if I don't come back at eight. Tell Tai or Qrow, they will know what to do." Opening the door and holding their uncle's gun-scythe. She quietly closes it as she's out of there sight.
Okay, let's follow her! About to get off from their bed, Tanya quickly stops her host as she quickly takes control of their body.
I thought you said she'll be fine by her own!
Yeah, but I want to help as well since she wouldn't let me and seeing your friend Visha personally!
Ruby, you're risking our mom and our lives because you want to see my old friend Visha again. Also, why's our right hand feel squishy? Opening her right palm and looking what it is. She sees a severed eye looking straight at her and Tanya starts to freak out of where the hell this thing came from.
Where the fuck did you get this?! Feeling its liquid oozing out from its optic nerve, Ruby did her best to calmly explain it to her sister.
Oh that, I found it in a dream like you found the spearhead Gungnir. For the eye, I found it in a bloodied pond under a destroyed tree. Shiva told it will be helpful…but I don't know what it does?
You found it in a dream and did you say, Shiva? When Ruby said Shiva, Tanya remembers the Hindu Deva in her previous life on her mythology studies, but Ruby meeting a Deva is really baffling to her.
Wait, so you met Shiva?
No, I didn't meet Shiva, I never met that Deva.
Well, he seems to know you.
Alright, never mind. Can you describe that dream again? Getting up from their bed, Ruby forced their body to get up while they're discussing Ruby's dream. Tanya is starting to scowl at what her host is going to do.
Few minutes later, the twins are outside as they walk alone by themselves. Their birds above them are surveying what's around to pinpoint their mother's location. Wearing their red beanie, their thick green jacket. The twins breathe out to see their white fog as the chilliness of Atlas can be downright cold.
So Shiva said Ragnarok already happened and the world tree you saw is destroyed? Learning about the fate of Odin made Tanya feel really relieved that she wouldn't have to deal with a pagan god. Explaining why she has his spearhead without infuriating him since he's dead by Fenrir's jaws.
Yes, the tree is absolutely destroyed, sis. Knowing Ragnarok already happened, all the Yggdrasil residents probably perished by their own arrogance. Hearing this, she wouldn't have to deal with the Norse deities which made Tanya grin happily at such thought. It explains the majority of her questions but except for Being X's unhealthy obsession on trying to convert Tanya to his religion. The spear, the birds and the eye that Ruby acquired, all of it associates with the now deceased god Odin.
So is that a good thing that everyone is dead in Ragnarok? Walking outside with their thick jacket, they're fully dressed and following their mother. Their birds Huggy and Muggy spotted their mother as the twins can see what they see. They walk in the dark streets of Atlas where all the nightlife begins and where crime most likely to spur.
"Pfft, I want to meet those Asgardians. They sound like they know how to party unlike Tanya over here. Probably I'll meet a guy name, Magnus!" Hearing Andy again, Tanya peevishly groans of why they cannot mute their orb.
Why can't you shut up?
Oh right, I think I know a spell that will help your problem after I drink that pond. Grabbing onto their orb, Ruby whispers an enigmatic incantation to Andy. Hearing this, it begins to panic as Andy knows this spell during his creation.
"Wait, don't silence my voice! Hear me out-!" Before he could defend himself, the orb finally stops talking and only responds in pure muteness.
There. I cast a spell that he would never talk, but the magic will expire in three hours. Following their mother as she's examining the T markings on the alleyways, Summer follows the arrows of where they lead to.
So how did you learned to cast spells? Asking her host, Ruby simply shrugs as they follow the trail where their mother is heading. Tanya finds it beneficial that her host learns a lot of new spells than her. But what spells she learn, that's what makes Tanya a little bit scared because she doesn't know what her host knows.
One of the benefits of drinking the pond I guess? I know half of the supernatural aspects and learned a lot of spells after drinking the well for free. Following their mother of where she's heading. Tanya is starting to regret on following with Ruby's plans as the Devil made few reluctant pauses and the desire to head back.
Why did your mother agree with your ideas? Expressing disbelief that Summer is so willing to help out even though she's still recovering after that little incident she had. Ruby still cockily smiles at her sister and the desire of wanting to help out their mother. Like those stories. the shows and their mother keep telling her about.
Come on Tanya. She's a huntress. She can't resist helping others like me!
We don't have any weapons to arm ourselves!
Why didn't you bring the spearhead Gungnir? Remembering about the spear they had, Tanya left it and locked in their office in fear that the Norse gods are going to mess with her. But remembering her Lord's preferences in the pond, the God of Light, for some reason, really hated the Norse Pantheon. The pond didn't give her enough information of why Being X dislikes them and why he's still paranoid over the Asgardians since they're dead, but anything associated with them will not make him at ease.
I thought Odin was still alive during that time and I don't think a magical spearhead will help us here. Thinking about it, they don't have any appropriate weapons with them as Tanya thought her powers are justifiable enough to be concealed without attracting too much attention and she didn't test what the spearhead Gungnir can do, fearing it will backfire on them.
Forcing Tanya's body to activate Tanya's Elenium Type-100 aka Andy as she starts to float in the air where no one was looking. Directing the orb without her aviation gear, Tanya calculates that her flight can only be at the maximum of 60 mph and 200 meters in the air.
Can you let me fly over there, please? Tanya frowns that she is forced to join in on one of Ruby's misadventures. Snarling, she decides to make one request to ease her mind.
Do me one favor. Do you know how to cast optic camouflage? In response to her sister's request, all the light around them begins to bend as the human eye cannot see them now. Taking off, they fly at 100 meters as they wouldn't be bothered by any potential witnesses. The twins then hover above their mother and making sure she's okay.
As they took off, a certain black crow watches them at a far distance. For they aren't alone on following Summer's trails.
Down below, Summer is carrying her teammate's gun-scythe for her to use. It isn't hers but she knows a few knacks with it when Qrow lends his weapon to Summer during their school years. Thinking about it, he wouldn't mind if she uses this thing if her weapon is out of commission during her missions. For why she is here, her daughters told her that a girl they knew is being chased after by Schnee employees. Summer wants to know if there's more to this and finding any possible corruption in Atlas to go with that. Something insidious that could not be ignored any longer.
Going through the alley, she feels the air is damp, the floor murky and the pathway looks ominous like someone is going to shank her in any moment. She follows the odd markings that are shaped like arrows. A sign of some sort? Walking further, more strange markings that look like runes than the T arrows which Summer previously saw.
About to proceed any further on following the subtle wall markings, a girl with antlers is breathing heavily as she stops to take a breather. Of what Summer saw completely saddened the young mother's silver eyes. The faunus that her daughters describe is fully accurate. Long brown hair, filthy clothing, and muck on her face. Her eyes that are then filled with fear when the deer girl spotted her.
"No, wait! I'm here to help-!" Before Summer can finish her sentence, the deer instantly run for her deer life.
"Wait! Don't!" Chasing after her, Summer's sides are slightly hurting as her body is still coping with her grievous injuries. Her wounds are gone, but her insides are still hurting when she sprinted for her. But that didn't stop her to help someone else in need.
Running as they pass through the complex alleys, the deer girl then stops when two foremen appear in front of the faunus. Their faces express utmost displeasure at the deer girl when they finally caught up with her.
"Stop right there. You evaded us long enough! Return back to Yalo's place or else we'll make you!" As one of the foremen said that, a baton unsheathed itself as electricity is sparking out from the shaft. Summer can really tell if anyone touches the shaft, they will be knocked out till the next morning.
"Hold on you two! What are you doing with this deer girl?!" Activating the Harbinger in sword mode, Summer obviously can tell these men have unsavory intentions for this poor girl as one of the foremen chuckle devilishly.
"Why do you care for this animal, dear citizen? You know they need to know their place! You can leave and never talk about this. Or, we're going to make you regret interfering with us." Soon, four more humans appear who are dressed in Atlas security uniform. They have the same intentions as the foremen as they're pointing their batons at the armed Huntress.
"Make me then!" Doing her best to deter the hostile Schnee workers, the deer saw an opportunity. She runs for it as she passes through the distracted employees. But one of the foremen kept an eye on her when the deer slip through them.
"Oh no! You're not going anywhere!" One of the foremen draw his pistol and shot the faunus dead straight at her left arm. A silent pew was heard as the gun is designed to prevent attracting any witnesses, the deer yelps in pain when the bullet plunges into her skin, feeling the bullet digging into her flesh. The deer girl trips and fell to the floor, whimpering in pain.
"You monsters!" Having enough of these creatures in human skin, Summer got in her stance as everyone pulled out their electric batons.
Summer then somersaulted in the air when one of the guards charged at her. She slashed her humungous blade down on his back which the guard got crushed under by the sheer pressure that Summer is inserting. Pulling Qrow's Harbinger out, everyone can see the blood spilling out from the blade when it penetrates through his flesh.
"Shit! We have a huntress everyone!" Being more vigilant this time as they're facing a seasoned Huntress, all the guards and the foremen become cautious about what they should do next.
One of them swings his baton at her, but Summer ducks down and kick him in the gut. Transforming the sword into scythe mode, she slams the scythe down on his head which blood spurting out when she stabbed through his cervical. Summer is familiar with death, but she is not weak-minded and she does not enjoy the killing of others, for this was a necessity to protect the young girl who got shot by her cruel employees.
"You animal loving bitch!" One of the guards try to jab his baton at Summer's back but she swiftly swings the scythe before it can reach to her. The blade reaps through his waist as sliced guts and organs fly out from his lower torso.
Summer twirl her scythe around as she brought the blade down behind her, bisecting another guard into twos, precisely showing all of his symmetrical slice organs to the two remaining foremen.
Transforming the Harbinger into sword mode. In a blink of an eye, she slashes the blade directly at one of the foremen's neck, instantly decapitating him as his head went flying with some of the blood flying at Summer's face.
About to end the monster who shot the faunus. In a struck of bad luck, Summer's insides start to sting horribly as she missed her swing at his torso area. Seeing his chance to avenge his fallen employees, the foreman lunge his baton at Summer's chest. The electricity reverberates within Summer's body, amplifying her agony as she cries in unfathomable pain. Retracting his baton back, Summer falls to the ground yet still breathing. She does her best to lift her head up as her mind is still conscious.
"You bitch! You will pay what you do with my friends! For that, I know just a thing!" Unbuckling his pants, Summer express fear of what he's going to do. But for both of them, they aren't aware a noose is floating above him.
"Get away from me!" Trying to get up, she futilely falls back down as her pain is too great to handle. A lecherous grin spreading at his face when he drops his underpants to expose his crotch, but the noose got closer as the gallows approaching for him.
"Oh, you will know what I feel. For I will pleasure you till your brains drop-ACGK!" The foreman suddenly feels his throat is being choked with a fierce grip like it's crushing through his esophagus. He looks down to see there was nothing but it feels like there's something strangling him in pure rage.
Surprising Summer, the foreman is being lifted up in the air and pants-less. She doesn't know who is doing this, but she doesn't have the energy to stay conscious. As her will to stay awake wades, Summer went into a dreamless sleep. Her breath is steady as she is still alive.
Up in the air, his mind is going black by the asphyxiation he's going through. He is about to pleasure that little huntress till something is strangling him. Up in the air without his pants on, he looks up to see the night sky of Atlas. He looks down in terror as he's floating around 100 meters in the air, seeing the entire traffic below him as they beep and honk.
Looking up one more time, he saw a pair of eyes looking down at him. Where two are different in color and the two of them express differently at him. The golden eye express of a savage animal like a demon that enjoys his suffering. When he continues to look into her golden eye, his mind dive into madness as he feels horror what he sees in that eye, the bloodshed, the insanity sinking into a cackling frenzy. No way to bring your salvation in this hell. As mankind murder themselves, there's no hope for their kind.
The silver eye glare at him with great judgment on his sins like an angel bringing justice to his unholy actions, a seraph ready to send his soul straight to hell. The eye shines great displeasure of his presence as he committed the greatest sin.
But below the eyes, he saw a third eye that is severed and bloodshot. Suddenly, the eye moved on its own. It ominously stares at him as it shows great wisdom, something ancient about it, something old. But like the gold eye, it shows great sadistic pleasure as it flashes at him with untold insanity.
He wants to scream but he can't. His heart is pounding frantically by the terror he saw but he can't breathe. Soon, his heart stop and everything turns into pure darkness. Died by asphyxiation? Heart attack? Maybe both? Either way, the foreman lies deceased as he hangs by Tanya's noose lifelessly.
He's dead, I can't feel his heart anymore and he's not radiating out with fear. Looking at the guy, Tanya finds him completely disgusting and lowliest creature she has ever seen on trying to molest their mother. She's indifferent to the scene, but for Ruby…that's a different story.
Good! Hope he stays like that. To Ruby, she cannot express what she's feeling. Anger, disgust, sadness? All of those emotions mix in her heart as she nastily glares at the dead foreman. Seeing this, Tanya can't help but feel pity for her sister as she never experienced the wretched side of mankind and the Devil finds it bizarrely alien to her that Ruby is acting like this.
He's heavy! I'm going to drop him now! Letting go of her vines that is tied like a noose, Tanya made sure he didn't fall in a heavily populated area that would create unnecessary witnesses. So she dropped the corpse in a deserted alley where no one can find the corpse. Letting go and waiting for a couple of seconds, they hear a soft thud. They check down to see the corpse splatted in blood, knowing he wouldn't survive that fall headfirst.
Floating down at the alley where their mother and the reincarnate of Visha are at. Landing on their feet and decloaking their invisibility, the twins can see the bloodshed that their mother made here. Ruby finds it horrifying that their mother can do all this singlehandedly. Her mother told them that being a huntsman is an adventurous, fun and protecting the very life itself against the Grimm. But this. This shattered the perception of what a huntress truly is and seeing the grim reality of what her mother truly faced.
The walls are covered in blood. The cold floor is covered of her enemies' guts of how easy their mother butchered them. The way she sliced them and how she almost got molested by one of them, it's too much to bear what she saw. Ruby wanted to hurl, but Tanya restrains their gut on making sure they don't vomit here.
Tanya finds this not so surprising what she saw. Merely seeing the macabre that Summer made is mildly tame compared to what Tanya faced. She knows the stories that her mother made and the media that ridiculously glamorous the image of a huntsman is a purely false advertisement. Knowing the true purpose is to curve the negative emotions of mankind and an easy way to recruit simple minded individuals to take a dangerous career…like Ruby for an example.
"Help me." Hearing the familiar voice that Tanya knows too well, the Devil turns to the deer faunus which the android called her Victoria Tiwaz. Her left arm is horribly bleeding by her recent gunshot wound and the brown filth on her skin isn't helping either. If they don't do anything fast, she will die from blood loss or sepsis.
We got to do something fast here sis! Doing her best to forget the horrors what Ruby saw and focusing on the wounded Tiwaz. Tanya is getting a little worried as they don't have any antiseptic or bandages to properly heal her wound.
Do you have any ideas since we don't have a first aid kit? Ruby trying to scramble through her mind of how they can save this faunus without medical supplies. Ruby found her answer and snapped her fingers.
Let see…hold on, I know a spell that heals any wounds. Learning this special spell when she drank that strange pond, Tanya can see Tiwaz is growing pale and sickly. Seeing this, the Devil is getting impatient and waiting for Ruby to do it.
Then do it. Walking up to the Visha reincarnate, the deer whimper weakly until she saw a raven-haired girl with red bangs coming closer to her. The familiar golden eyes she saw that gave her the menacing déjà vu switch back to her gentle silver eyes.
"Shh, don't worry. I'll heal your wound. Just hold still." Gently holding her left arm, Ruby looks at the wound to see the bullet pierce through the upper section of her arm as it's bleeding severely. Placing her right palm, Ruby calmly chants as her silver eyes subtly shine at the deer. The deer felt there wasn't a bullet jiggling through her arm and the color in the skin is returning back to her.
Finishing her chant, Ruby lifts her palm that was over her wound and to find the bleeding hole is all but sealed up. Surprised, the faunus look at her injury to see its instantly healed.
"Who…are you?" Hearing her weak and gentle voice, the deer shyly look at the strange girl. The silvered-eyed girl simply smiles at her that she's okay.
"Don't worry. I'm just a friend. So how about it?" Offering a hand to the deer girl, Victoria was hesitant at first since Ruby is a human. But she gladly holds her offer as Victoria is lifted up from the floor.
"Anyways, what's your name friend?" Trying to spark a conversation here and trying to ignore the violence around her. Tanya is getting really irked that their mother is still knocked out and the corpses that are around her is starting to attract flies. If they stay any longer, the authorities or witnesses might find them which are a big no-no to Tanya.
"Victoria Tiwaz or Visha as my nickname. So how is it…going?" Distracted by the corpses that Tiwaz saw, Tanya is getting really antsy on standing here and forgetting about the bloodshed behind them.
Ruby, we don't have time. Our mom is knocked out and the corpses here aren't making things easier for me! Snapping Ruby's thoughts as her host is still trying to cope with the massacre here. Before she can respond, the Dove Huggy and the Nevermore Muggy perched on Victoria Tiwaz's shoulders. When the birds touched her shoulders, the severed eye in their pocket illuminates with a grey dull light, a connection with the birds as the eye detects them.
Then the twins saw a memory.
"TANYA!"
Watching her Wing Commander falling from grace and the many gunshot wounds scattered on her body. Tears spilled on Visha's face and gripping her rifle in an uncontrolled rage, her blue eyes glare at the allied mages as her obedience faded.
All of the remaining Imperial Army 203rd Battalion felt the same way as they're consumed in rage. Soon, they roared in hatred and the need to avenge their young Commander's death from the hands of their enemies.
In the sky where dawn is setting, all the remaining 203rd Units charge in and ready to face their deaths. One by one, each of them died. But each death that the enemy killed, the Battalion slaughtered hundreds of them, inflecting their numbers unspeakably as it was a bloodbath. The sky rains red, the black clouds form and meat is falling from the clouds. Like a terrible curse that cast upon the Battalion with berserking rage and their diehard savagery.
For the one who has the higher kill count is Viktoriya herself.
The Lieutenant feels the rush of ecstasy coursing through her veins as she chops the limbs of her adversaries with her bayonet and fighting them with unspeakable speed. As her anger rises, so too her ability to fight as she fires rounds of explosive spells that break through their force fields. The bullets cutting through their flesh like a buzz saw and the cries of men echoing in her ears as she rips through the Allied Forces like toothpicks, each time she kills, her conscious went into a trance.
Her senses dulled, her mind is mourning and in ecstasy. Her eyes are golden bright like madness. As the flesh flies and the terror roaring of the remaining fallen both Allied and Imperial alike. She made a small prayer before she goes down in a glorious brutal death in this land of pure destruction that was once the Empire.
But she prayed not to God, not to any divinity, but to Tanya's sake.
"Tanya…if you're hearing this and wherever you are, I'll always be with. Not matter in heaven, hell, or any other afterlife. I'll fight alongside with you in the bitter end and my loyalty is with you. Hear my prayers to you, Commander!" Tears spilling in her eyes and letting out her prayer for Tanya Degurechaff within her heart but not to God, a bullet went straight through at Visha's literal heart as the Lieutenant coughs out blood. A possible punishment for her heresy. Soon, her left arm blown to pieces by an enchanted bullet. Scattering her flesh and bones in the air like a confetti.
As she falls, she falls with Tanya. To bring justice to her dear friend's death.
Lieutenant Viktoriya Ivanovna Serebryakov, joins in with her Commander's death.
Snapping their eyes open. Ruby and Tanya gasp what they saw.
That was-...that was Visha's memories? Ruby can't comprehend of what she saw. The destruction below where only mankind is killing themselves. Not the Grimm, only men. She saw her sister getting shot many times and her units avenging her death like someone stole something special to them. She can still hear Visha's rage echoing in her mind and the desire to bring justice against her enemies. She understands her grudge against Being X, her caution towards Mankind.
I believe so. It feels…heartwarming? Tanya can't describe what she saw. Seeing her battalion tearing through the enemy forces like its nothing made her proud for what they did. She didn't know Visha can be like that as she sliced through the mages like lambs. At the very end when she prays to her and dies alongside with her, Tanya can't help herself but smile at Visha's faithfulness to her. But not in a feign smile, but an actual genuine smile. Her eyes are spilling in joy as she cannot express what her friend did for her. Tanya is not acting herself at all, but she feels her blacken soul lighten a little. A rare feeling she never felt.
Thinking about the memory they saw, Tiwaz opens her blue eyes. The doe ears that hid behind her hair flops right up and antlers are still sticking on her head. Rubbing her eyes, she looks back at Ruby to see familiar golden eyes. As she gazes upon those eyes, a flash of images flicking through her mind, her memories as Viktoriya, remembering the death of her friend, all of it. Widening her eyes when she through Tanya's golden eyes, the deer shockingly muttered with these words of knowing who it is that's in front of her. Words that made the Devil extremely surprised of what she heard.
"Ta-Tanya Von Degurechaff?! Commander…is that you?!"
