"You. Who dares enter this premises?" This version of Weiss would say coldly.
"Weiss… It's me, Irad…" Irad states, approaching slowly, "Don't you remember me?"
"Are you one of the sillies? Can't be. You don't look like one of them. Either way, you're coming with me, so I can properly judge you." She would bring out her book to check.
"Weiss, I really don't know what the hell is going on… But you really need to wake up." Irad states, on edge. "You're scaring me…"
She listens to the voice of Winter as she states him as an unknown threat. Weiss brings out her sword. "You shall be judged."
"Weiss… Please don't make me do this…" Irad states, getting into a defensive stance, ready to use his sword to defend himself.
(Battle Theme: (Remix)Moonstruck Blossom /狂花水月(アレンジ)【KirbyTDX/星のカービィTDX】 /watch?v=ED5JTzCwocQ)
She then raises her sword, as it burns bright blue. She then swings it down, as her slash reaches all the way towards the baffled Irad.
Irad flips away from the slash, and blocks more strikes, "Weiss, you gotta snap out of it! Nightmaratack is controlling you!" He exclaims, then dodging an attack from a glyph, and countering another with his magic. She then shoots multiple beams all over him. He noticed that they are more powerful than the Weiss he knew. Irad tries his best to block, but is blasted back, and he would land and slide back on his feet, huffing, and starting to tear up,
"Weiss, please… You need to hear me! What happened to you?! This isn't you!" He dodges yet another incoming attack, "Your friends, Ruby, Yang, Blake, what about them?! Don't you remember them?!" He stays on the defensive, trying desperately to reach out to the true Weiss. She flies upward using her glyphs and shoots more beams that home in on him. She seems to have an unlimited amount of energy on her.
Irad blocks the beams using his magic, "Fine… Guess we need to play hard ball." He sprouts his wings, "I'm sorry, my little snowflake…" He flies after her and creates a barrage of homing fireballs, whilst fighting with his sword, making decisive strikes, but not strikes that should be lethal. He hopes to at least overpower her and maybe snap her out of it that way.
In the recess of Weiss' mind, Weiss sat in her room looking out the window at the endless night… Her expression seemed drained of hope, and filled with emptiness, as this prison made her think she was always still trapped in her fathers grasp… But she would then perk up when she heard a distant familiar voice of a man calling out to her… She looked around for a moment, then shook her head, believing she was hearing things… Her father's words echoed in her mind that she was nothing but a face for the Schnees, and that she is supposed to just be a figurehead… Yet again though she heard the voice, but it was louder. She tried to block it out, but it was growing in sound. She looked at the mirror, and her eyes widened, and she could hear the voice more clearly,
"Weiss, please! I don't want to fight! Think of everything we've been through; all we've accomplished! Your friends care for you! Your mother cares for you! She doesn't blame you at all! Your sister, she loves you! Weiss, I love you! Break away from his grasp, please!" Weiss would almost recognize this voice… Irad… That's right, it was Irad… She looked at the mirror, more clearly, tearing up, as the color in her eyes changed back to normal slowly, and she realized she needed to escape.
"Irad! I'm coming!" She got up from her seat, and ran from her room. As she went through the manor, she saw everyone frozen, as if frozen in time. Everything was fake, everything wasn't real. She wasn't suffering anymore… Her family, they weren't suffering anymore. Her friends… Irad… They helped her get this far. She sped past many rooms, realizing they were repeating, and she knew the prison was trying to keep her inside. Back with Irad, he was hit by blasts from Weiss' glyphs, and sent back, and he'd continue to fight Negative Weiss… Although he could sense a shift in Weiss as they fought, as her attacks became less ferocious.
"Cmon Weiss, you're one of the strongest people I know!" Irad said as he locked blades.
She covers her face with her palm, feeling pain in her head, "Ugh… Irad… Irad?!"
"Yes Weiss, keep going!" He disarms her and gets close and holds her, taking a risk. He cups her face, "Follow my voice. C'mon my little Snowflake." Weiss struggles in the moment, and several glyphs surround them as Irad holds her, but he stands his ground.
Inside, Weiss would then reach a room that had a large mirror, and Weiss observed the area. She would then catch sight of a corrupted version of her father, smiling, "You should have been a good little girl, and smiled and waved… Now you will die, and so shall your 'family'! Kill her!" Suddenly, the mirror shined by the moonlight, and a darker, more intimidating Arma Gigas came through, standing before the white snow angel. Weiss looked at it with determined eyes… She fought it before, and she would fight again. She closed her eyes. She readies her sword, as the dark knight wields his giant blade. After a moment, she opens her eyes slowly, as they began to slightly radiate the color of Irad's aura.
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The knight roars and would go for an attack. She dodges out of the way, leaving Glyphs around for a speed boost. The giant looked around and felt all of the ground glyphs lift him up like last time. Then Weiss jumps up and bounces from the other airborne glyphs she made to strike the defenseless dark knight with the elements with each hit.
The knight would recover and stab the ground with his sword sending a dark shockwave, sending Weiss back a bit. She'd seem frustrated but would then look to her right side to see a white apparition of Irad smiling, and nodding, "Together." He exclaimed, and Weiss, feeling his love and care, and also with the knowledge her friends were with her every step of the way, would charge once more, as her eyes glowed the same color as Irad's magic, and her glyphs modified greatly. The apparition followed her movements, as the knight summoned its own dark apparitions after the heiress, but Irad's apparition would begin to cut them down as Weiss fought the knight.
She slides below the knight, then charges her rapier, as a beam comes from the tip of the sword, stabbing through the knight's back to its chest. Then turns the beam into ice, as the knight immediately becomes frozen solid, and smoking. Irad would then turn his attention the knight, and would make cutting motions, and would sheathe his blade, shattering the knight into icy dust.
Weiss lands gracefully in a crouched position, behind Irad, as he looks behind him to see her, as the dark beings disintegrate as well. The dark figure of Jacques would be enraged that his knight failed, and the world around Weiss and Irad begins to split and break apart. Jacques would shatter to pieces, and Irad and Weiss run into the large mirror, shattering it as they went through. They would then be back to the top of the castle tower where the moon overlooked them, with Irad holding tightly to Weiss, who was back to normal now.
Weiss sighed in fatigue, "... Irad?" She was unsure exactly what was going on. Only shows relief that sje survived whatever that was.
Irad looks at her, cupping her face, tears rolling down his cheeks, "Oh thank the God! Are you ok?! I was so worried!"
She would groan a bit. "Irad… Please! Show a little bit of dignity." She sounded annoyed, but her blushing face tells a different story.
He chuckles, "I'm… I'm sorry, you.. You scared me when you didn't remember me and attacked me… You weren't in control… Although, I must say, you do look very attractive in a general's outfit." He chuckles at his little joke.
As much as she was blushing red before, now her whole face is completely red. "Irad!" She pushes him out of panic. "You are unbelievable! Don't we have a mission to do?!"
He finishes laughing, then clears his throat, "We should get out of here fast…" He catches sight of the way back, and points to it, "Let's go quickly." As he says this, everything starts to tremble, and they book for the portal.
She looks back on this world and feels like pieces of her life are crumbling. Although this was merely a dream world, created to manipulate her. It wouldn't take long for her to turn away and never look back. Once they exit the portal, they see everyone waiting for them.
RBY goes towards Weiss and hugs her tightly, as they were all worried.
"Weiss!" Ruby cheered.
"You're okay!" Blake said in relief.
"You gave us a scare!" Yang couldn't contain her laughter of joy.
Olmotack smiles, "Well ain't we glad we have you back!"
Ruby continues to hug her friends, "Team RWBY is back at full strength!" Ruby chippily exclaims.
Suddenly, JNPR would run up, "Irad! We have a problem! A large scale of Grimm is coming this way!" Pyrrha announced.
"Yeah, and big ones too!" Jaune added. Irad would sigh, but they would all suddenly jump as the four portals they had stepped on suddenly glowed and the gates to the tower opened slowly, and they all saw the tower up close in its full glory… It was a long way up… Irad knew he had to do something,
"RWBYS (S being Summer)… JNPR… Your mission will be to go up the tower, and face Salem and Nightmaratack, and put an end to them. I will hold off the horde and give you all time. SSN, Olmotack, and Oscar will assist me in holding the line… Do you all understand?"
They all nod in acknowledgement. Ruby speaks with determination, "We'll do our best!"
He nods, "Then without further ado, let's end this now… Good luck, team…" Irad nods to Weiss with a soft concerned look, which says to her, "Please be careful, and come back to me…" Weiss would give a reassuring small smile in response. RWBYS and JNPR walk towards the tower, looking up.
Ruby speaks, "Let's do this, team!" Ruby said, determined, and everyone yells in agreement. They enter the tower, seeing a whole bunch of Dark Grimm lurking and growling. They knew they had to fight their way up.