The Shadow of Fire
Chapter 6: When you want something done right...
"You have failed me... And there is a cost for failure my friends..."
Weiss couldn't see but she knew that she wasn't dead.
Weiss could hear the battle around her, the sounds of gunfire colliding against metal and stone combined with the shouting of White Fang soldiers made it evident enough that she was still walking on this planet.
The young Schnee hadn't a clue of how the battle was going or where she was on the field, but she did know how hard it was to fight while blind. The white haired teen slowly rose out of what seemed to be a massive crater, feeling around for a ledge or something to grasp to escape the enormous hole. Weiss ran her pale fingers across the nearest ledge that she could reach, slowly moving the tips as to not receive and wounds to her delicate and perfectly kept hands. A small sigh of relief escaped Weiss's mouth as she came into contact with a familiar slender and metallic object.
Myrtenaster.
Weiss firmly grasped her best weapon, slowly pulling it down to where she was currently standing. The heiress suddenly felt a strange object brush against her pale face, causing her to shutter in reaction and surprise. It had a seemingly soft feel to it, whatever it was, and oddly warm.
The young teen knelt down to the stone ground and began to feel around the rubble of the explosion, attempting to locate the elusive material. Whatever it is, it couldn't hurt to try and retrieve it. Finally Weiss could feel the soft cloth-like object, a bit of warmth coaxed the surface like butter on a hot pan. From what Weiss could deduce while blinded was that this was in fact Ruby's signature cloak, somehow fixed itself after the explosion. The teen draped the cloak around her back as Ruby would do, making her heart skip a beat for a second before realizing that she was in a war zone and needed to fix her eyesight.
The young Schnee reached behind her and grasped her personal purse that she kept metallically attacked to her lower back as a source of her emergency supply of Dust. If this didn't count as an emergency, then she didn't know what did.
The youngest Schnee dug through the silver bag blindly, bottles "tinking" off of each other inside the bag as her slender fingers sniffed out the correct vial. Weiss smiled slightly and plucked a warm vial out of the purse before tossing it aside. Worst comes to worse she could just get another. Weiss carefully opened the vial and raised it over her head and opened her eyelids slightly. With one quick flick of the wrist, the heiress poured the entirety of the bottle into both of her eyes, a small hissing noise emitting from her eye balls. Within seconds of contact, the teen was rewarded with her eyesight, while still a tad blurry was better than being blinded.
Weiss clipped Myrtenaster to her belt and began climbing upward from the hole that she had found herself in. Slipping a few times on the way up, the teen only ended up with a chipped nail and a few cuts and bruises.
Once Weiss reached the top of the hole she hoisted herself up onto the cold concrete of the docks and shifted her eyes around the area.
The first thing the teen noticed was the Silencers, or rather the lack of. All four of the fighters had disappeared from the battle all together, the only visible reference to them having been there was that random broken pieces of their armor and weapons. The second thing she noticed was that her teammates were in combat with the White Fang guards around the docks, easily tearing through the lines of Faunus fighters. Orion was calmly walking forward, ignoring the oncoming bursts of machine gun fire from the White Fang. The bullets seemed to deflect off of his body as they reached him, soaring across the battlefield back at the gunmen. Blake and Yang had to resort to more strategic combat, diving behind the random assortment of crates for cover before advancing.
Out of the corner of Weiss's eye she saw a large black covered figure approach her, holding a large scythe of some sort. The figure locked eyes with Weiss and shook his head is disapproval before vanishing into thin air.
'What...' Weiss thought before he noticed a White Fang member standing just to her left holding a grenade.
"Damn... Not another one of these..." Weiss mumbled under her breath before the man tossed it at her. Weiss knew she was in no condition to dodge this, the only place to run to was the crater and the grenade would just roll in after her.
In a flicker of red, Ruby appeared out of nowhere, racing towards Weiss at incredible speeds. Suddenly the younger teen jumped in the air, seeming to dive between Weiss and the grenade using White Fang member. Time slowed down as Ruby turned her head to face Weiss, sending a wink at the heiress before opening her jaw. The grenade connected with Ruby's jaw and was caught in between her new wolf-like teeth before time sped back up and Ruby was gone with the grenade. Almost two seconds after Ruby disappeared she re-appeared in a shower of rose petals. The younger girl winded her head back and flung it forwards, opening her mouth and letting the grenade fly back in its previous owners direction. The guards eyes widened just before the grenade exploded, sending the Faunus flying off into the distance.
Ruby ran towards Weiss and slid to a halt, kneeling down to the heiress. "Weiss! Are you okay? I saw the explosion and I thought you-"
"I'm fine." Weiss cut Ruby off, slowly standing up. "I'm fine. That was quite the explosion that you set off." Weiss replied, allowing a small smirk to appear on her usually stern face.
Ruby grinned wickedly, her tail ad ears perked up. "Yeah, I sort of found a few bomb and was like "oh I wonder what would happen if..." and well you know the rest."
Weiss, without any control of her body, reached over to Ruby and pet her head gently for a few seconds like a puppy. "Good job, now let's go finish this." Weiss told the younger teen, activating a duo of Glyphs next to them, aiming for the center of the battle.
"After you." Ruby said, gesturing to the Dust semblance.
Weiss rolled her eyes, suppressing a grin under her lips. The older teen walked over to her Glyph and activated it, soaring off into the distance with Ruby following suit.
Blake let out a harsh cry as an oncoming burst of an assault rifle slammed into her shoulder. The Faunus Huntress ducked under a crate of Schnee Dust, applying pressure to the wounds.
"Blake!" Yang roared out, her Aura activating. Her body glowed a fiery orange and red, fire glowing in her eyes and her rage took over her body. Yang raced towards Blake's attacker and slammed her fist into him, sending the White Fang member into the air, crashing into another group of guards. Once she knew that the guard was incapacitated from the fight, the brawler raced towards Blake.
"How bad is it?" Yang asked with a concerned tone, holding Blake's shoulder in her arms.
"I'll be fine; bullets went all the way through." Blake replied under a hiss of pain. "We need to end this now."
Yang was about to respond when the crate they were using for cover exploded, sending the two rolling across the stone pavement right into the eyesight of the White Fang.
"There they are!" One member shouted to his comrades. "Get the-"
The guard was cut off by a clash of steel and a flash of white. Weiss slammed into the guard with enough force to knock the breath out of him. The guard landed on the stone, slamming his head on the ground, effectively knocking him out. The rest of the guards raised their weapons at Weiss, ready to avenge their fallen brother. Ruby landed in front to Weiss just as they began firing their weapons. Ruby spun Crescent Rose in massive and quick circles, repelling the bullets before they could make contact with the duo. Weiss created a Glyph behind the duo. Stepping onto it and flying over Ruby. Weiss spun her Dust chamber to the "Fire" mode and held it at the guards on the ground. Weiss spun around in the air before raising Myrtenaster up above her head. The heiress then brought Myrtenaster down in a massive arch, sending all the energy created by the Dust chamber down at the guards, sending a massive arch of pure, solid Dust down onto the lines of troops, effectively cracking the pavement and putting the guards out of commission.
A group of around ten troops ran around the corner, the last of the White Fang fighters by the look of how fast they were running. Ruby ran forward and nodded to Weiss, silently telling each other what they needed to do. Weiss made a Glyph behind Ruby, allowing Ruby to place her scythe onto it aiming right for the panicking soldiers. Ruby disappeared in a shower of rose petals and Weiss gave a small grin. Weiss clench her hand into a fist and delivered a punch forward into the air, turning on the Glyph and sending Crescent Rose in the direction of the running guards. Crescent Rose tore through the Faunus's, sending a few to the ground and the rest into the air. Ruby appeared in front of the group, catching her scythe in one hand before spinning it wildly, cutting the soldiers over and over with the massive weapon. The youngest teen of team RWBY let out a roaring laughter that sounded akin to one of a psychopath on the loose. Ruby had the look of pure anger on her face, and if one were to look directly into her silver eyes, they wouldn't see the cuteness and warmth in them anymore, but a void of anger and haltered in a field of black fire.
In one swift motion Ruby slammed the edge of Crescent Rose into the pavement. As soon as the blade touched the stone, the mangled bodies of the White Fang landed on the ground.
A cheer came from Yang and Orion while Blake grinned slightly under the pain she was in. Weiss allowed a smile to cross her lips, realizing that they finally won.
"Good job Ruby!" Yang called out as the group walked over to Ruby who was standing completely still with her scythe still jammed into the ground. "That was awesome! Right Blake?" Asked her girlfriend.
Blake's face turned from one of pain and slight happiness to one of panic in a few seconds. The Faunus's ears perked up agitatedly, moving around furiously. Blake turned her head towards Weiss quickly; her eyes wide and full of worry.
She must have know what was about to happen.
Ruby lifted Crescent Rose out of the ground and slowly stalked towards one of the mangled bodies of the White Fang. Crescent Roses blade dragged across the ground, making a horrible sound akin to one of nails dragging across a chalkboard.
"Weiss! Stop her!" Blake yelled at Weiss, who seemed to be losing her composure.
Weiss raced forward towards Ruby, who was only a few yards away from the group. Ruby raised Crescent Rose up over one of the White Fang Faunus, holding the blade over his neck.
Weiss ran faster and raced to Ruby's side, gripping her arms tightly as Ruby attempted to lower her scythe down onto the guard's neck.
"Ruby! Stop!" Weiss shouted at her partner, the same look of worry that Blake had moments ago building inside of Weiss.
Ruby gave no response besides a low growl, akin to one of a wolf being deprived of its meal, the sound of anger. Ruby forced the massive scythe down a few centimeters more, almost to the Faunus's neck.
Weiss's grip tightened on Ruby's arms, pulling Ruby's arms up along with the scythe. "He's finished! We don't need to mutilate him!" Weiss pleaded. "Ruby! Stop this right now!"
Ruby turned her head to face Weiss and the heiress let out a quiet gasp. Ruby had the same look in her eyes as one of the wolfs that little Weiss had read when she was a kid, just before it was about to kill its prey.
"Ruby..." Weiss muttered softly, worry taking over her body. This... Thing wasn't Ruby anymore.
A loud cracking noise was heard from behind Ruby. Almost immediately after Ruby's eyes dilated, her ears drooped slightly along with her tail. Crescent Rose slipped out of her hands and landed harmlessly on the ground beside the White Fang member. Ruby's body slumped forward and landed in Weiss's arms, the teen's body not moving.
Orion stood where Ruby had been moments ago holding a broken wooden baseball bat, which the God proceeded to toss to his side. "Alright! I'm not carrying her back to Beacon if she knocked out. Weiss, have fun with that." Orion said while grinning, bending down and lifting Crescent Rose into his arms.
"Let's go girls."