So… I… *sigh* I just feel so fucked up right now. I broke that promise of trying to sing to Monty Oum at the RWBY panel… how did I break it? I didn't make it to the panel because it got full when I made it so there was no seating for me at all… I'm sorry if you guys just re-read The Blackening Rose so I can do it (probably that's how I finally reached 100,000 views in total) and I'm sorry that I didn't do it, anyways, here is another chapter, I'm back home and ready for work but thanks to that fail, I get the feeling that the quality of the next few chapters might be fucked up…

So this is how it feels like to get your soul taken away. I don't feel like I'm dead but where I am only gives that one thought that I am. So I finally fall at the hands of Cinder Fall. I thought and sighed. I didn't feel depressed at all, I've been through this, and the only feeling that is inside me at the moment is defeat. There is probably no way out this time… this is my true end. I don't know why I am giving up so easily, was it because I was tired of all the pain that I endured, or was I just too afraid of what would happen if I do get out of here? Cinder has my soul, I can't do anything unless I get it back but how can I when I'm in here?!

I sat down on the darkness, and waited for a miracle to happen. What am I going to do? I asked mentally to the blackness all around me.

Blake

"Ruby! No!" I shouted. I watched as my lover went from looking healthy to dead, her skin paler and you can see her bones. "You bitch!" The only thing I wanted to do was to kill Cinder for taking away the girl I loved. "I'm going to kill you!"

She gave me a smirk. "I like to see you try."

I activated my aura and stood up with no problem. I was focused now, making my aura heal me without exhausting energy. "You're going to regret saying that." I charged at her without any hesitation, but she stood there, waiting for me to make the first strike. I'm not getting fooled by that. I thought in angst as I flipped over her and struck her in the back with Gambol Shroud.

She groaned and did a quick turnaround while making a wall of flames to defend herself. "It seems I have underestimated you." Cinder said. "Alright, but this won't be fun and games."

I gave her a death glare. "It was never that way to me." Below my feet, the ground began to glow a fiery red and what was going to happen filled my thoughts. Get out of there! I jumped back to see an explosion of fire. If I had been there, I would have been burned to death. "Is that the best you could do?!" I shouted, taunting her as I did. Maybe doing such a thing as taunting will make things not go in my favor, but aggravating her can probably make her have a couple of weak spots open to my attacks. There was another problem as I fought the woman, I still had a horrible wound that needed healing, and the only thing that was keeping me up was adrenaline.

"Are you sure you'll last long enough before you bleed out?!" Cinder exclaimed, noticing my still bleeding wound.

"I'll make sure I last long enough to see you dead!"

"You might want to rethink that before you decide killing your rose too!"

"What do you mean?!"

She gave me a smirk. "Didn't you forget that I claimed her soul? She's inside me in an eternal prison, hurting me will hurt her too."

"So you're holding her as a hostage to me now!?" That made me angry, I always tried to protect Ruby when she wasn't at her best, but now I'm here with the threat that I could kill her if I killed the woman behind all of this trouble.

"I don't have anything else to demand now, so I could just end her life if you-"

"Don't kill her!" I cried out. I had enough with losing people, if she kills Ruby, then I'll just want to be dead. Then I barely noticed something, or someone behind Cinder. Kira! My eyes widened but I kept my cool. Don't act suspicious, just play along until Kira sneaks up on her. I thought and continued pleading for her not to kill Ruby. "I'll do anything, just don't kill her!"

Cinder raised a brow. "Anything?" she asked.

Kira was a couple of inches away from her, I gave her a smirk. "Not really." Kira grabbed her and threw her fist to the side of her head, knocking her out. I walked over to her with so many questions to ask. "How did you know I was here?" I asked her.

"There were some footprints from a grimm heading here so I just thought that's where you went." She replied and smiled.

"You made it so easy to knock her out, I was about to make some crazy plan until you showed up."

She chuckled. "Well, you know how I like to make an entrance."

"Like that time you almost blew up the cafeteria because you thought you were using smoke grenades but instead they were actually explosive?"

She narrowed her eyes. "Okay, conversation over." I laughed, and then one person came into mind. Ruby.

I turned around and saw her lying on the ground; I almost looked away in disbelief when I saw her features now. She used to look so healthy and energetic, but it looks like she had been drained of everything. "We need to get Ruby help, Cinder took away her soul and I don't know how to get it back."

"Well why didn't you say so, I'm a specialist when it comes to that?"

I turned around to Kira and raised a brow. "Don't tell me you got into that because of those spiritual movies?"

She shrugged and giggled. "Maybe, it could be for other reasons too." I face palmed at the statement. She did change a lot since I was gone. I thought and sighed.

"Well, go work your magic." I said jokingly.

"Ha-ha, very funny." Kira replied in a sarcastic tone. "Okay, put Ruby's body next to Cinder and I'll just do the rest."

"Alright." I did what she asked and she sat down in front of them. Around them, a glowing circle of white glyphs surrounded them. Their bodies began illuminating the same color, then Cinder began to turn into a red color, slowly, a small red, glowing orb raised itself from her body and floated over to Ruby's body. Then it descended into her and I heard a gasp of breath. My red-haired girlfriend sat up quickly, she was back to normal. "Ruby!" I exclaimed and put her in a tight hug.

"Blake, you're crushing me." she said softly.

"I don't care! You worried me so much." Ruby was back, and I'll make sure to keep her that way.

I am fucking hating writer's block. My shitty sadness and that added together makes procrastination. Please leave a review of this chapter because I really need to know your opinions.