I hate losing motivation, trust me I do… but whenever I read a story called Fighting a Beautiful Death, it really drains my confidence and courage to continue writing this. I don't know the reason why but just reading the AN or part of the story makes it happen so… anyways here is Chapter 9 and I really hope the authors that made that story don't read this…

By the way, someone left a review saying that I don't suck at writing action scenarios and that the one I made was good, I yelled "no it sucks" and laughed… shows how random I can be at times…

Blake

I'm so worried for Ruby. Just sitting here in the waiting room is only making the worry grow. What could they be doing in the operating room. I closed my eyes and it only made me remember what had happened to her. Cardin… my clenched my fists tight enough that they were bleeding. He put her in this state and he's going to pay for it, but for now, I need to worry about my wife. Yang was in a state of panic. I put my arms around her and she buried her face in my chest.

"There was so many times when Ruby was in danger, but this one hurts me the most." she said, her voice muffled. "A student from our school… injured her and it's the person that hurts others that he thinks are weaker than him." She was beginning to get angry and I know this because she pulled away and her eyes were now crimson instead of the normal lilac. Yang stood up and said through gritted teeth. "I'll be right back."

She had the same thought as me but I can't let her do that. I blocked her and said. "I know you want to go after Cardin, trust me, I want to do the same, but for now we need to stay here… for Ruby's sake."

Crimson glared straight into my eyes, and then they returned to their normal color. "Okay… but when I know she's okay, I'm going after him."

I nodded. Hey, I might want to tag along. I thought and sighed. Right on cue, the same doctor that took Ruby to the operating room walked in. "I have some good and bad news." he said in a calm voice.

I grew worried. "What's the good news?"

"The good news is that she'll make it for sure, she's a tough girl." Yang smiled at the last part but then it faded as soon as it appeared.

"What's the bad news?" Yang asked.

He sighed for a second; I can tell he's hesitating. "Well… the bad news is that the injuries could have killed a human with no aura. She sustained multiple fractures in her ribs, even some were snapped off its place, and three of them actually punctured her lungs." I gasped in horror. I didn't think it would be that bad. "Ruby almost died, but we managed to get them treated, the punctures' are closed up and are healing. With her aura, the healing will make the process faster; we also repaired the fractured ribs. She had a flail chest which is when three or more ribs are broken in more than one place. Since she had that, the broken area couldn't hold its shape when she took a breath and it made it hard for her to do that." I listened to the details of her injuries fully, not wanting to miss out on anything.

After he finished explaining, I asked in a concerned voice. "How long will it take before she can leave here?"

"From what the other doctors and I can tell, those were serious injuries but like I said, her aura is helping it heal at a rapid pace so probably… in a week and a half."

I frowned but at least isn't longer than that. I can just visit her in my free time. I thought. Then I realized something, we were supposed to go to where Weiss is at tonight and Ruby is injured. "Thank you doctor, can I have a chat in private with my sister?" He nodded and left, and then I turned my attention to Yang. "We can't get Weiss tonight." I said straight out.

Her eyes widened. "But we have to do this now!"

I shushed her. "Don't be so loud, you're making people stare."

Yang calmed down but she was still furious. "I am not going to wait Blake… they might move her and I can't risk that." she said in a stern voice.

"I know, but just the two of us will make things difficult."

She leaned closer to my face and said. "You are either coming with me or not and I'm not going to choose to wait, you can't make me change my mind."

I sighed. I can't just let her go by herself, she might get hurt. I am going to regret this. "Fine, I'm going."

Yang smiled. "Good, now let's pay Ruby a visit."

I opened the door to Ruby's room. As I entered, I was hit with the scent of strawberries and roses. What happened in here? I thought and looked around. There were roses on a desk at the left side of the room with get well cards taped to them. Most of them were from friends that Yang, Weiss and I knew but there were some anonymous cards too. Ruby was sleeping peacefully on her bed. They changed her clothing to a patient's gown and placed her combat attire neatly on a closet to her left.

"She's asleep." Yang said softly.

"I know." I replied in the same volume as hers and walked slowly towards my sleeping wife. I took a seat next to her bed on the right side and stared at her with a smile. She looks beautiful. I thought. That's when I saw the drool streaming out of her mouth. Okay, that's gross. Yang took a seat next to me and noticed where I was staring.

"You've never seen her drool in her sleep?" she asked. I shook my head. "Well as her sister, I had some times when she drooled on my hair." she said casually and laughed.

Ruby was stirring from her slumber and her eyes were opening slowly. "Blake, Yang… is that you?" she called softly.

Yang stopped laughing and smiled at her sister. "Yeah, it's us Ruby."

A smiled crept on her face. "Thanks for being here, I wanted to see you two when I wake up… I really hate myself for coming to the infirmary. I lost count on how many times I've been here." She laughed.

"You should look at the roses that people left for you." I said and pointed at the desk full of roses.

"I saw them already, I was awake a couple of minutes ago and people were coming in with them. They we're really nice to me and told me to get well, there were some students coming in that were seriously angry at Cardin."

Yang chuckled. "Looks like trouble will be heading his way."

Ruby laughed. "Nora said that she'll break his legs this time… I don't know if she's seriously going to do it but-"

Right on cue, Nora slammed the door open and gave us a goofy grin. "Well, I did my job." she said and gave us a salute.

"I'm confused." Yang said. Then behind her, a doctor walked across the doorway with a stretcher that had Cardin on it. He groaned in pain and yelled, "My legs!"

"You seriously broke his legs?!" Yang exclaimed. Nora nodded casually. "Awesome!" she ran up to her and raised her hand for a high five. "Nice work Nora, you did what I was going to do."

"No problem, Operation Payback is a success," she walked towards the door and waved goodbye, "well catch y'all later."

Outside the room, we can hear her talking with Ren who I guessed chased her down as always. "You have to stop running off like that Nora." he said in exhaustion.

We turned our attention back to Ruby who was laughing. "Nora is so awesome!" she shouted and continued laughing. We continued talking about some other things that weren't related to today's… incident, it felt like nothing bad had happened.

Visiting hours were up so we had to leave, we still gave Cardin what he deserve even if we visited Ruby. No let me rephrase that, Nora gave Cardin what we wanted him to deserve and hopefully after breaking his legs, he learns to never pick on Ruby or anyone else again. We walked through the now dark courtyard of Beacon and I noticed Yang going towards the exit of the school. There is one more thing we need to accomplish, getting Weiss back…

Writer's block is a bitch, I can't stress how hard it is to type a chapter and for some reason now, I get easily distracted. But here is a chapter and I hope to publish another one soon.