Ruby then awakens much to Blake's relief
"Uh, I heard some really weird voice in my head"
"What do you mean?" Blake asked
"It sounded like a man. He told me I needed to unlock my powers. I have absolutely no idea who he is but I think he's on our side, hopefully."
"He better, we can use all of the help we can get."
Meanwhile, Nightmare punches Weiss and Yang to the ground with his superior agility. He walks up to Weiss and stomps on her chest with his right foot. She screams from the three-clawed toes digging into her flesh as fresh blood starts to seep from her wounds.
Nightmare smiles evilly and chuckles, relishing in Weiss's agony.
Sun tries to attack Nightmare from behind, only to be knocked back by his tail
"Weiss!" Yang yelled, trying to stand as she collapsed from exhaustion.
Nightmare looks before his battered opponents
"Let her go!" Winter shouted
"You think this senseless cruelty is going to solve anything? Let her go!" Oscar begged
"You fools think what I'm doing is heinous? Look at what you're using right now to achieve your goals, violence. That's how the Great War was won, it's how the Faunus gained respect. Darkness is simply a force of nature. I gifted all humans with my ways of cruelty, the ways of magic, and how did you repay me? A knife in my back."
Nightmare takes his foot off of Weiss and walks away from her and Yang, advancing closer towards Ruby and the others.
"I see now humanity is simply not grateful enough to appreciate my blessings. When I defeat you all today I will reshape this world into my image, how it should've been without my pest brother's involvement."
"So that's what you want huh? Some sort of thanks? Well, you're going to have to wait for a long fucking time because we don't owe you shit." Qrow said
"You dare disrespect your master?!" Nightmare growled, angrily staring and grunting at Qrow.
"He's right. We're not going to stand by and let you dictate how you think the world should work. No matter how much the odds are against us, we will stop you," Ruby said
"Oh really, you think a little thing like you can best a God? You're nothing against me."
"Maybe so, but unlike you, I have the strongest power of all, my friends to support me until the end. That's why you won't win this war"
"Your foolish optimism can only carry you so far girl."
Oscar walks up to the right side of Ruby, looking into her eyes with her following suit.
"Ruby, if we don't survive this, I need to tell you something I should've told you a long time ago I,"
Before Oscar can finish his sentence Ruby grabs his head in both hands and gives him a long kiss on the lips Oscar gently pulls her in and returns the kiss.
"I love you too,"
Nightmare looks on, disgusted by the display of affection. He raises his left hand over his mouth.
"Aww how sweet, at least in the afterlife you two can be together for all eternity."
Nightmare's right arm then rapidly elongates towards Oscar, intending to grab him.
"Oscar look out!" Ruby said
Suddenly Raven Branwen, fully healed leaps in from the right direction and severs the deity's right arm from the elbow down with her sword.
The severed limb falls to the ground, flailing around as it slowly dissipates into black smoke.
Nightmare reels back and screams out from the pain. Standing, he turns to face Raven with an infuriated look of hate on his face.
"You, you filthy peasant!" He screamed as an oozing black liquid began to spill from the stump.
"Now you know what's it's like to feel pain"
The stump then suddenly starts to rapidly reform the missing limb. It bubbles like boiling water as it grotesquely grows back. The others look on in terror as his entire limb is regenerated, being completely identical to his severed arm
"How?"
"Oh Raven, you all haven't even started to truly experience pain yet."
Nightmare points his left finger at Winter, firing an energy beam at her. She stares in abject horror, eyes wide and mouth agape as the beam's glow looms closer
"Winter!" Qrow echoed, running towards her as he pushed her away from the blast.
"Qrow!" Ruby screamed, completely helpless.
He gasps in pain as the beam travels right through his abdomen. He looks at the bullet sized hole in shock as he slumps forward on the ground, motionless. Everyone else stares in shock as well.
Ruby falls to her knees, her eyes and mouth widening as she starts to weep.
The Dark God begins to sadistically laugh, having enjoyed the evil act. He then glances towards Oscar.
"I think the farm filth should go next."
"That monster," Ozpin said from Oscar's subconscious.
Ruby looks at Nightmare, clenching her fists as immense rage begins to boil inside of her.
"You ruthless, heartless BASTARD!"
She curls her arms to her body, and then suddenly flings her arms out to the sides, beginning to levitate off the ground. brilliant white light flows from her eyes enveloping the entire area.
"What the?!" Nightmare exclaimed, covering his eyes.
Ozpin quickly assumes control of Oscar's body.
"Everyone cover your eyes quickly!" Ozpin yelled
The light then dies down to reveal Ruby's entire body is covered in a complex silver, white and blue aura consisting of rippling, fire-like energy, complete with sparkling particles traveling upwards. She has also gained a slight increase in muscle.
The others all look at Ruby, astonished by what they are seeing.
"What happened to her?" Sun said
"She has done it, she has unlocked the power of her silver eyes. I am so proud" Ozpin answered
"She looks like an angel," Yang said
Nightmare looks at Ruby and begins to feel fear for the first time in his eternal life.
"What's going on? She's different, she's changed."
Ruby glares at Nightmare a gust of wind blows in his direction, almost knocking him off his feet.
"Filthy maggot, prepare to be squashed!"
Nightmare moves in to punch Ruby with his right hand. However, she moves towards him so fast she almost cannot be seen by the naked eye except for the silver rose petals she leaves in her wake as she grabs Nightmare's fist in her left-hand mid-flight.
"Huh?"
"Why don't you wake up, you're hurting people, what have they done to you?"
Nightmare jerks his fist out of her hand, attempting to uppercut her with his left fist however it burns when it makes contact with her body
He reels back, grabbing his burnt hand in pain.
"How could a mere mortal have possibly gained this much power?" Nightmare growled in anger
"Now you're going to know how it feels to be powerless and afraid. As you've done to everyone else."
Ruby gives Nightmare a hard punch to the gut, he gasps and puts his hands over his stomach in pain. She then punches him in the face twice before kicking him in the chest, sending him flying several feet into the ground.
"Yeah kick his ass Ruby!" Yang cheered
Jaune runs to Qrow and checks his pulse.
"Thank God he's still breathing. Blake help me flip him over." Jaune said
"On it"
Jaune puts his hands over Qrow's injury and begins the healing process. Weiss notices Ruby's Crescent Rose on the ground next to her and picks it up, running towards Ruby with it.
"Ruby catch"
She flings the weapon in the air, Ruby jumps up and catches it, landing on the ground in a kneeling position. The weapon then transforms into its scythe form as she twirls the weapon around, striking it into the ground
"Oh, that's how you want to play huh?"
Nightmare conjures another trident, charging towards Ruby.
She counteracts by spinning around on top of her scythe, proceeding to kick Nightmare in the center which makes him stumble back. She then slashes Nightmare in a left downwards motion as he is barely blocks the attack with his weapon.
"No, I will not be defeated by the likes of you Ruby."
Nightmare thrusts his trident forward attempting to stab her, she evades the attack with a dash of her enhanced Semblance.
She knocks his trident out of his hand and proceeds to slash him upwards with Crescent Rose, inflicting a large gash on his body.
Nightmare screams, dropping his weapon as he kneels in pain. The Dark God pounds his fists on the ground, unable to comprehend his defeat. He looks up and angrily snivels at Ruby, his facial expression becoming filled with contempt as he bleeds an burning, black liquid.
"Tell me. Do you have anything to say, to your creator, before you strike him down?"
Ruby looks at him with an expression of pure rage as she raises her weapon.
"Your no creator of mine."
She then swings Crescent Rose across Nightmare's neck, decapitating him
His head falls to the ground as his body starts to turn into black ash. The Grimm surrounding the Kingdom all begin to dissipate. The sun begins to rise moments after. Ruby then is reverted to her normal state, exhausted as she collapses on her back
Her friends all run-up to her, helping her up and hugging her as they congratulate her victory.
"Ruby you did it, you were amazing!" Weiss said
Qrow proudly smiles at his niece, Winter then walks up to him.
"Why did you take that hit for me?" Winter questioned
"I couldn't lose you too."
Winter smiled, touched by Qrow's words.
"We did it, brother," Raven said
"Yeah, we did."
"I'm sorry?"
"For what?" Qrow asked
"For everything I did to you, our family, Tai"
Raven sadly looks down on the ground, Qrow puts a comforting hand on his sister's shoulder
"Raven, none of that matters now, you did the right thing. If you hadn't come when you did the God of Darkness would have probably used our bodies for footrests.
Raven chuckles and smiles at him, grateful, and he smiles back as they hug.
Suddenly the relics on the pedestal then glow a whitish gold.
"What the?" Sun said
A golden portal similar to Nightmare' then manifested, a figure then steps out as the portal closes.
The figure has a nearly identical appearance as Nightmare featuring a humanoid lizard-like body but more muscular and with a long tail.
However, unlike his brother, he possesses golden sections on his body instead of white and his body is mainly snow-white color his eyes also have pupils and irises and they are also golden colored
"Dammit, another one" Blake said
"No no, I mean no harm, I swear."