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Chapter 9: Near Death
Ruby lifted the scythe up, but she cried out in pain when pressure went into her arm. She still had that cast from when I cut her arm open. The spiked ball dropped in between us and I let it go.
"Why did you save him? He tried to kill you a few months ago," I said when I looked into her eyes.
"That's water under the bridge. The point is that you're all scratched up and you're acting unstable. Wait a minute!"
Ruby looked at the scratches on my face and sensed the dark and dense aura surrounding me.
"You sold your soul to Insanity," she said with a gasp.
"What's it to you? I could do whatever I want to my own soul."
"Why are you doing this, Weiss. She must have offered you something that you simply couldn't resist. What did she promise you?"
"She promised to give me the world."
"The world?! Are you mad?!"
"No, I'm elated."
"Is it pleasurable to get those scratches all over your body or be bossed around by the daughter of Satan?"
"Yes. She could push me around all she wants. It only brings me closer and closer to world domination."
"Oh my God! You lost it, Weiss. You don't even realize that she's using you so that she could bring even more chaos to the world of Remnant."
She picked up her scythe and the blade was pointed at me.
"I have no choice, but to end you for the safety of Vale. This will hurt me more than it will hurt you, Weiss."
I took out the Myrtenaster and turned it black by using my aura.
Weiss Schnee (Corrupted) VS. Ruby Rose (MAX Power)
The students ran from the cafeteria and the professors came running. I didn't want them to disturb our little battle. I placed a Shadow Shield around us so no one could disturb us. Ruby started to have red aura around her. It was very dense and I could barely see her. How did she get this much power? I wrapped my dark and dense aura around myself, but it wasn't as big as Ruby's.
"Insanity, give me more power."
"I can't do that. Your body can't handle more of it yet."
"I don't care. She's getting in the way of my destiny."
"Okay, but if it kills your dumb ass, don't come haunting me."
More power started to flow through my veins. My aura was as massive as hers. We had a leveled playing field now.
I rushed at her with my black Myrtenaster, but she guarded. Ruby put her scythe above her head, and brought it down to form a huge wave of energy that I couldn't dodge. The wave slammed me into the Shadow Shield. I may have been down, but I wasn't out. Ruby used rose petals to bash me around.
"Give up, Weiss. You can't win."
She disappeared in rose petals and Ruby ended up behind me.
"Please, stop this madness," she said before I tried to kick her.
Ruby disappeared again and I found the Crescent Rose's blade coming out of my stomach. I tried to use Shadow Shield before she impaled me, but it wouldn't work. I didn't have enough energy. Ruby kept the blade steady and it hurt like hell. Blood came out of my mouth and the place where I was stabbed. My vision started to get blurry and I passed out.
Insanity was standing near me while I tried to hold on to my soul. My body started to reject it, and Insanity just stood there and watched.
"Why aren't you helping me," I asked.
"I told you that too much energy in your body had a possibility of killing you, dumb ass. Your body started to quickly tire out and you couldn't do one of the simplest moves."
"I'm sorry," I said before I threw up, "I-I promise to listen to you if you help me survive this, mistress."
She turned around and started to slowly walk away.
"Please *cough* help *cough* me..."
Insanity turned around and glared at me.
"Fine. It's only because I had a minute to think about what I'm losing here."
Insanity looked into my eyes and my body started to heal and my soul was being sucked in instead of expelled.
"Don't fail me again, Servant. If you do so, then you're on your own."
I knew that wasn't true because she needed me, but I would have to take Ruby out of the picture(I know that I said that I wouldn't want to hurt Ruby, but she's starting to be a bother).
My eyes opened and Ruby was standing over me. She jerked the blade out of me. Ruby gasped when the skin around my stomach started to repair itself and I stood up. I rushed at her while she was still shocked. Ruby grabbed my arm when I was really close to her. She pulled my arm. The black Myrtenaster went through her neck. Ruby had a weak smile on her face.
"Why would you do that, Ruby?"
"I want Insanity to possess my body so you could defeat me. You're stronger than I am, Weiss," Ruby said before she was on the ground. Her eyes closed and Insanity took the bait.
"Why would you do that?"
"This way, I could have you and Ruby."
"Will this get in the way of our initial plan," I asked.
"It won't."
Insanity's true appearance started to change. When she was done with her transformation, I sensed happiness concealed inside of her.
"Behold, this is my actual appearance."
Insanity had black hair with red tips on it. It was still cut short. Her eyes were gray and soulless. Insanity had a tiara on her head and her skin was even paler. It was like I was looking at a ghost. Her cloak was black. Insanity's blouse and skirt were red and black; Her stockings were black. She had a gold medallion hanging around her neck with darkness wrapped around her arms. Her weapon was a grim reaper's scythe that had a blade that looked like the red crescent moon in my dream. She kind of looked like Ruby, but she didn't have metal crucifixes on her clothes like Ruby usually had. Instead, she had small red crescent moons on her clothes. She had black nail polish on her finger nails. I freaked out when black wings came out of her back. A really dense red and black aura was around her.
"It feels so good to be whole again. Some remnants of my body was still in her subconscious."
That's why she was so strong. Her aura was able to grow bigger and bigger because of some of Insanity's influence. The Shadow Shield that I put around me and Ruby went down and everyone ran away from me.
"I'll erase their memories so that they don't remember anything that happened. I still need you here, Weiss. These people make great servants like that 'Ren' fellow. He already reaped thirteen souls without using his full power. You should have saw the blood that came out of his oblivious victims. It was so beautiful."
"Whatever. Hurry up and erase their memories."
"Got it."
The world around me started to change. I was back to normal and Cardin was just sitting at a table and laughing with his friends. What did she do? Insanity must be really powerful to alter the space around her as well as manipulate time to be in her favor. Everything was back to normal and Yang's note was in my hand. Blake came up to me.
"Weiss, what's wrong with you? You've been standing up and looking for a table for five minutes. Sit at our table if you want and don't worry about Yang. I can take care of her."
I sat at the table. Blake and Yang were glaring at each other. Ruby had soulless eyes and her arm started to heal up; the cast was breaking. I immediately knew that it was really Insanity in disguise.