"Damn you..." Yang mumbles, "DAMN YOU ALL!!!" she bursts into flames as she delivers a great flurry of punches. One unlucky Ursa receives these punches and its body is obliterated into a pile of black gore.

Yang roars as she bisects a Beowolf in half with her sword. She raises it to block an Alpha's claws, but her extras arms blast its head apart. A Prowler lunges at her from behind, but she grabs all of its limbs before ripping them apart.

A small group of young Nevermores attacks the blonde, but she roars as a blast of fire washes over them. They screech in pain as their bodies are burnt before they're shot out of the air.

Blake reloads her desert eagles, and dashes away, leaving a clone to be trampled on. An Ursa roars, but it's soon destroyed as Nora slams her hammer down on it.

The ginger sees an Ursa Major creeping up behind Jaune, but she pulls out a Lightning Dust crystal and chomps down on it. Her body is soon supercharged and she zooms across the field.

"Boop." She says before slamming her hammer into the Grimm. The bear's head is then obliterated into ash, nothing left to fade away.

"Watch your back," Nora advises coldly before dashing off to destroy an Alpha Beowolf. She knocked it down into its back before she spins and crushed its skull.

Her supercharge soon ended, but electricity still cackled around her. She focused it into a grenade, before blasting it at a cluster of Grimm.

The Boarbatusks were thrown off the ground as the grenade exploded. A boar squealed as it struggled to flip itself, but a blade stabbed into its stomach.

Blake dragged down her blade, disemboweling the Grimm as it died. She aimed Gambol Shroud and fired several shots at another Boarbatusk, destroying its legs.

Blake looked up to the ginger, giving her a nod.

Nora returned the gesture before the two rushed together.

Despite their differences in personalities and combat styles, they still fought together greatly. Nora provided heavy firepower that disabled or stunned enemies, while Blake dashed in and delivered quick yet fatal attacks.

A murder of Scareqrows cawed as they rushed at the two.

"Nora!" The ninja shouted. "Ribbon dance!"

Nora nodded before grabbing Blake's ribbon. The Faunus leaped high into the air, her ribbon extending far and long creating an image of a tornado.

Nora then yanked the cloth, pulling down the girl. She twisted her wrists and arms pulling Blake around as the latter cut down any Grimm.

The two soon turned into a tornado of blades, cutting down and all Grimm in their path. Nora leaped and jumped, dodging any Grimm that she missed as if she were dancing.

Soon the murder was killed as only a few Scareqrows remained, but they were all cut down as Ren passed by.

The green ninja grunted as he raised his blades to block a Beowolf's claws. He quickly broke its defense before jabbing forward, the katanas embedding themselves into the Grimm.

It died with a howl fading away into dust, only for more Grimm to take its place. Ren cuts them down, but he knows that they can't keep this up forever.

"We have to move! We can't keep fighting forever!" Ren yells as he leaps away from a Beta.

The Beta prepared itself to pounce, but the Grimm never got the chance as it was impaled from the back of the head.

Pyrrha quickly yanked out her javelin. It transforms into a xiphos and she quickly cuts down another Beowolf, utterly destroying its neck.

The spartan roars out in rage, her anger attracting more and more Grimm. A large group charges at her, but a glyph freezes them in place.

Pyrrha immediately sets out to destroy the frozen Grimm. Her attacks and movements are quick and not wasted, despite her ferociousness.

Two blades pop out of Pyrrha's shield as she cuts down a Grimm, its organs spilling out as it dies. The blades then join together forming a bolt that's fired.

The bolt shoots through the air like a jet, it penetrates through everything in its path. Beowolves, Ursi, Boarbatusks, Prowlers, etc, until finally, it stabs into an Ursa, before exploding violently, black blood and organs flying everywhere.

Pyrrha reloads the mechanism in her shield with another bolt. She raises her arm, bracing herself before firing, this time aiming at Yang.

The blonde's Karma screams at her of danger and she instinctively jerks her head. The bolt passes by her faster than she could track, before embedding itself into a tree.

"Da 'ell?!" She turns to see Pyrrha charging straight at her, murder in her eyes.

"You BITCH!" Pyrrha lunges and slams down her xiphos.

Yang raises her arms catching the weapon, but she grunts from the force. She manages to throw off the spartan, only to be quickly assaulted.

"What the hell?! What the fuck do you think you're doing?!" Yang jerks back a metal fist and delivers a strong jab.

"You killed her!" In a swift fluid movement, Pyrrha deflects the fist with her shield and jabs her sword forward. "And I'll fucking KILL YOU!!"

Yang grits her teeth as she jerks her head back. The xiphos barely scratches her as she lands on her hands and delivers a kick to the redhead.

Pyrrha is sent back, but she recovers immediately and charges forward, her rage and hate fueling her.

Yang decides to fight back and delivers a flurry of punches at the champion, her four fists easily overwhelming the Amazon. But she guessed wrong as most of her attacks were either deflected or dodged.

'How is she...?!' Yang then notes the black glow on her armaments, and the force she feels when she attacks. 'Her Semblance...! She's redirecting them!'

Yang growled before delivering a kick to the spartan, but her arms are soon pulled back. She's slammed onto the ground, all the metal on her body pinning her down.

Pyrrha shouts as she lunges at the pinned blonde and stabs her shield at the brawler's head. But the weapon stops as Yang brings up her feet, stopping it. The spartan sneers but grins as a barrel extends out of the shield.

The brawler's widened as she slipped out her actual arms from her gauntlets and punches the shield.

KA-BOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!

The cannon fires not so harmlessly into the air as a Nevermore was hit. Taking the chance, Yang grabs Ole' Reliable and fires point-blank.

The champion is sent off flying as the buckshot removed a considerable chunk of her Aura. She lands gracelessly on the ground, but despite the pain, she still picks herself up. Her mouth is bleeding as well as a few holes in her, but her eyes still hold that murderous intent.

A force crashes into the Pyrrha's back sending her down. She looks up to see Nora pinning her down, her face bearing seriousness.

"Rrrrr... Nora let go of me!" despite the ginger's immense strength, Pyrrha still manages to lift herself up.

"No!" the hammerer shifts her body, presses down on the spartan, but even then that's not enough as Pyrrha still manages to lift herself up.

"Pyrrha, calm the hell down!" Jaune soon joins on weighing down Pyrrha, his weight pressing down on her even more.

The spartan yells in a rage as she manages to get back on her feet. She grabs at Nora's arms, hoping to get her off, but she felt something wrap around her arm. She looks to see Blake pulling at a ribbon, restraining her. Something then knocks against the back of her knee, forcing her to fall.

The champion is pressed down onto her knee, but she refuses to be pinned. Not until she has avenged Ruby. "Get... off... me..." she growls. She raises an arm, but Ren comes out of nowhere and grabs that arm as well.

"Here I come!" Weiss' voice is heard as a glyph is summoned underneath Pyrrha. The girl's eyes widened before she tries to knock off the kids, but glyphs appear on her arms and legs, restraining even more.

The Dust mage grunts as she holds down the spartan, but she could feel Pyrrha slowly begin to break her restraints holding her. Weiss furrows her brow as she applies gravity Dust to the glyphs. The magic restraints pull down Pyrrha, slamming her down to the ground, but... even so, she manages to pick herself onto her knee. Even when she felt like her arms would rip off her sockets and her muscles would destroy.

This girl-, no this woman...

Compared to everyone else...

"Grrrrrrrr... Get the hell... OFF ME!!!"

Pyrrha bore true strength and will.

"Pyrrha! What the hell are you doing?!" Jaune shouts at her. "We don't have time to be fighting with each other! We can't lose anyone else! Yang is not responsible for Ruby's-"

"SHUT UP!" Pyrrha shouts, "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut! Up!" Everyone can soon hear soft crying, they all search for the source only to find it was coming from the redhead herself. The Amazonian then looks up revealing tears running down her face as she sobs.

"She's not-... she's not..." Pyrrha's strength then leaves her as her body is slammed down. Weiss releases the glyphs, allowing the girl to sob pathetically, her body slack. Her sobs then turn to full-blown wails as she screams to the skies, tears, and snot dribbling down her face.

"RUBYYYYYYYY!" she cries.

The others feel the wails of sorrow, their emotions can no longer be bottled in, but they have no time to mourn.

The Elder Nevermore screeches out as it passes by the group. It flies up into the skies before sending a volley of iron hard feathers. The group, sans Pyrrha, all scurry away, dodging the lethal feathers. They stabbed into the ground with great force. They rained down, passing by Pyrrha, somehow missing her.

The Grimm screeches out again as it flies off, intending on returning.

"Damn it! We're all beacon for the Grimm right now, but Pyrrha's a fucking lighthouse." Jaune growled. He tired to find a way for them to get out of this mess, but with everyone scared and depressed, it wouldn't matter if they hid. Everyone's emotional state would attract any and all Grimm.

"Jaune!" Weiss called out as she took cover behind a tree. "What do we do?!"

"I'm thinking!" Jaune shouted. Fuck! There wasn't time! They were outnumbered, but they could handle the Grimm. It was just that fucking Elder Nevermore kept continuously calling more Grimm. Not only that, but they had no way of reaching the bird.

Damn it! If only there was a Bullhead that was waiting at the temple like the initiation!

Wait a minute... That's it!

"The temple!" the boy exclaimed.

"Jaune!" Weiss shouted as she impaled a Beowolf.

"Weiss! The ruins!" Jaune shouted, "Everyone! We have to get to the ruins by the temple! It's the only way we can even attack the big ass Nevermore!" he explained as the others heard his plan.

"Yang! Go grab Pyrrha!" the blond ordered.

"What?! That psycho bitch almost fucking killed me!" Yang punched down a Boarbatusk. "We should just leave her stank ass!"

"I know, I know! But we just can't leave her! Your the only one who can pick her up with the weight and height she has!" he slapped away a Scareqrow with his shield before stomping it.

"Auuuuugh! Fine! But if she fights, I'm leaving her!" Yang blows off a Grimm's head before dashing towards the Spartan. A Grimm was about to mangle the girl, but four fists blasted it away. She quickly yeeted up the redhead onto her shoulder, Pyrrha offered no resistance as she was too far trapped in her thoughts.

"Blake! Cover Yang!' Jaune ordered, the ninja nodded before leaping away. She cuts down any Grimm that approached the brawler. "Ren, Nora! Create a path for us to go through! Me and Weiss cover Yang! Got t!"

"Right!" Nora nodded before charging forward.

"We cannot fail now." Ren stated, before following after his friend.

"For the record it's; Weiss and I," the mage huffed before dashing off.

The group of six, sans Pyrrha, all charged forward, fighting their way through the hoard of Grimm. Leading the charge were Ren and Nora. The duo would put down any and all Grimm that dared get n their way. Nora would beat down the Grimm, giving Ren time to kill them or disable. Yang trudes through the forest, her fatigue and Pyrrha's weight slowing her down, but she pushed on. Should any Grimm decide to attack the vulnerable blonde, they would be swiftly dealt with by Blake's quick attacks. Jaune provided defense if any Grimm bypassed the ninja girl, shoving them back with his shield. Weiss would provide support to anyone, but mostly focused on aiding Jaune defending Yang.

The group did well to traverse the forest until finally they reached a clearing where the relics would have been. They had to make a fast break for it as they no longer had any cover. A small swarm of Nevermores sent volleys of feathers at them, but Jaune raised his shield and defended the brawler.

They ran and ran, continuously dodging fire from the Grimm until they finally reached the ruins. They rushed across the bridge of the ruins, their cover gone and room has lessened.

The Elder Nevermore screeches as it dived down. It tucked its wings in before ramming right into the bridge of the ruins, destroying the path.

The children yelled as they were all sent flying through the air. They all did their best to recover, clinging onto ledges, sticking onto walls, and landing on the rest of the standing ruins.

A Nevermore flew at the brawler, opening its mouth for a meal.

"JAUNE!" Yang shouts as she throws the spartan at the boy. He clumsily catches her, but her weight makes him fall.

Yang spreads her arms out and just as the Nevermore meets her. She grips its beak, holding it open as her metallic arms send shot after shot into the bird's maw.

The Grimm caws out in pain as black ichor soon fills its throat. It struggles to breath before its careens off to the side and crashes into the cliff side.

Yang lands on a pillar, nearly falling off but manages to stick the landing. She hears a screech and sees the Elder Nevermore diving down at her, preparing to kill the blonde.

Yang clenches her teeth, knowing it was the Nevermore that ate Ruby. Her eyes burn red with Karma and Aura. Markings on her body glow red with Karma as her teeth grow slightly sharper. She's hunched over as her fists clench painfully.

She raises her right foot and sets it down with a stomp.

She raises her left foot and sets it down with a stomp.

Yang jerks her head up as all four of her arms open up.

"COME ON!!!" She roars challengingly, her rage easily present.

The Grimm seems to understand the challenge as it opens it maw, letting out a terrible screech. It's speed increases as it goes faster and faster, the air practically splitting apart before it-

The avian Grimm suddenly opens it massive wings releasing an great wind as it stopped itself. It flapped slowing down its momentum as it made odd sounds.

Yang, who was completely prepared to dive right inside the Grimm's beak, pauses as the Grimm stopped just out her reach.

The Elder Nevermore caws, it's breathing quickening as it... coughed? It made a wheezing sound, catching everyone's, including other Grimms', attention.

The bird coughed and hacked as if it ate something bad, something it couldn't eat. Its throat convulsed, as a hump went up its throat.

Until finally it managed to vomit out whatever ailed it.

The object flew out of the beak and clattered right in front of Yang's feet. She looked down to see it was Ruby's assault rifle she had used.

Was... was this a taunt?

It appeared so as the Nevermore cawed out in what was supposed to be laughter, the others mimicking as well. It then flapped it's wings, deciding to just ram the human-

SLING!

A metal blade then cut through the Elder Nevermore's head, cutting right through the thick bone in plate. The only thing was...

SLING!!!

The Grimm's body was then split apart into halves, as Ruby sliced herself out.

Her body was soaked in black ichor, the blood and stomach acid burning away at her skin. Her eyes were silver white as her face was that of pure rage and hate.

Everyone's eyes widened in shock as to see Ruby still alive with a blood coated, silver scythe in her hands. Her body was glowing red as her did her body.

"YANG XIAO LONG!!!"

A bright silver light then engulfed the entire area as Grimm were turned to stone. Flying Nevermores fell into the chasm as Beowolves and Ursi died. Their bodies too far gone to support themselves.

The Grimm Reaper screamed as lunges at the brawler. She span like a buzzsaw before slamming into the blonde.

Yang grit her teeth as Ruby pushes against her sword. Fiery sparks flew out as the blonde saw Ruby's scythe cut into her own sword right before her eyes.

The force of the two's deadlock was too great for the stone pillar they stood on. It soon broke away into nothing as Ruby launched off the blonde.

Yang grunted before leaping onto the next pillar, she jumped from pillar to pillar while avoiding flying Grimm.

Ruby on the other hand, was consumed by rage and hate. Nearly every Grimm turned their attention to the girl, the negativity, the silver eyes, and the brand far too tempting.

A Nevermore flew at her, attracted to the brand. It opened it maw to eat her. But Ruby twisted her body and slammed the point of her scythe into its head, before using it to launch off.

Her eyes glowed brightly, before another Nevermore flew at her. She created a platform with her Karma, and leaped off of it. She sprinted across the Grimm's back, each step turning its back to stone by just touching it.

More and more Nevermores flew at her, but she dodge and countered, killing them with her scythe, or their vitals being turned to stone. She crashed into a Grimm, her scythe keeping its mouth from clamping down on her.

She growled in annoyance seeing her target, Yang, growing smaller and smaller as she ran. She couldn't waste time! She needed to kill the fucker!

"ENOUGH!" she commanded as another blast of silver energy washed over the entire ruins. Every and all Grimm in the nearby area were caught in the blast radius. They were all turned to stone, their expressions that of agony and hatred as the closer one were vaporized into dust.

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She leaped off the Grimm, who's body was frozen. It crashed into another Grimm, killing it as Ruby landed on a ledge.

Three Beowolves lunged at her from behind, but she merely faced and they were turned to stone. She swung her scythe, destroying the statues.

Several more Grimm lurked in the shadows, the brand attracted them, but the eyes made them wary. That was until an Alpha Beowolf stepped forward. It howled before leading a charge, the rest following through.

But they all fell as Ruby swung her scythe. The blade's sliver egde(get it?) cut through any and all Grimm. And those that didn't die with a swing suffered a slow death as their bodies turned to stone.

The Alpha dodged the scythe, the silver energy giving the Grimm goosebumps. Ruby growled before she shouted. A blast of light flew out and the Alpha was nothing more than a statue.

Ruby knocked it down, before stomping on the head.

This wasn't time to be fighting fodder! She needed to kill only one person.

~ ~ ~

Yang landed on a edge, and rolled to lessen momentum. She immediately threw a punch, blowing off a Beowolf's head. Only to see it was made of stone. She looked around and saw several more Grimm were turned to stone, froze in mid movement.

She blinked at them and turned to Ruby and saw the Reaper was flying her way. Rage and hate present on her face.

"Xiao Long!" Ruby screamed as she slammed her scythe down upon her like the hand of Monty Oum.

Yang grunted in strain as her sword held back the scythe. But even while she held her own, she could see Ruby's scythe digging into Dragkov.

'How?!' Yang thought with disbelief, 'how can she even think about fight?! Even after being eaten!'

Ruby leaped off the blonde, and spun her body. She landed on a branch which she bounced off and crashed into Yang with even greater force.

'This sword can cut through fucking steel! How the goddamn hell is she cutting through it?!' Yang could only parry and defend while Ruby continuously attacked.

Ruby leaped off once more and her scythe quickly transformed into a sword again. She stabbed it into the ground and used it to pivot herself slamming the blade into Yang again with spinning force.

Yang growled before her blade glowed purple. She roared as swing the blade at Ruby, who tried to block. But it proved to be a mistake for Ruby as not only was her blade knocked out of her hands, but she could feel the bones in her arm nearly break.

Yet Ruby didn't waste any time as she delivered several punches to the open blonde. Her rage mulled the pain even when her bones fractured even more. She leaped away when Yang lunged at her with her extra arms.

'Like Blake and Velvet, just like them...' Ruby thought numbly as she launched off. She clinged onto a tree like a spider before launching off of it.

'She changed her moves?!' Yang tried to follow the redhead, but her movements were simply too erractic. 'She's moving like some animal...?'

"Behind you," Ruby's voice was behind her as she felt arms wrapped around her metallic one. "I'm gonna rip all your arms off!" She threatened before she slammed her feet into Yang's back.

"Get off me!" Yang could hear the metal groan as she tried to fight back. But it only proved worse as she heard a warped snap. She fell forward screaming in pain as if she actually lost an arm.

Ruby flew off Yang's metallic arm in her own before it disappeared in a burst of Aura. The sudden shift of weight disoriented the girl and she slammed back first into a tree. She groaned before she felt a fist slam into her gut.

She vomitted saliva as more fists slammed into her stomach. She jerked her leg up, the knee slamming into Yang's jaw sending her back.

"Damn you!" they both shouted as they lunged at each other. The two delivered their attacks, each defending and attacking. The only reason Ruby wasn't overwhelmed by Yang's strength was through her martial arts, speed, and pure willpower. Yang only bore through the damage with her high pain tolerance and multiply fists.

Three more fists crashed into Ruby's gut, chest, and face, but she took that damage and returned it with twice as much force back at Yang.

Yang's armored arms compacted back into Ember Celica before she slams them forward. Ruby slams her hands forward as well, catching the fists.

CRACK!

The redhead's eyes widen in pain as she feels her wrists fracture even more, but she bears through the pain.

Yang's third arm reels back and jabs forward straight for Ruby's face.

But Ruby counters by jerking up her leg, her knee knocking away the hand. She brings up her other leg and slams the blonde down, embedding her in the ground.

"DIE!" Ruby prepares to crush the brawlers skull, but she see Yang pull out her sawed off.

'FUCK-!' Ruby nearly breaks her spine as she twists her body. Her cloak glows blue with ice Dust as Yang fires at her.

But rather than a buckshot, the two barrels glow a fiery gold before blasting out two powerful jets of flame.

Ruby can feel her flesh burn and bones crack as she sent flying back from the force. Her body unceremoniously crashes on the ground before she recovers, albeit poorly.

'Son of a bitch... she lured me in to a trap.' The sneer on Ruby's face slowly turns into a smile as she realizes something. 'She knows she has to attack with lethal force if she wants to even think about defeating me. She's sharp, I'll give her that.'

She needed to finish this. Her body was at its near end, her eyes were red with blood rather than Aura or Karma. Her arms were nearly broken, her head felt like it was burning up, and she could only guess how fucking red her hair was right now.

"Why?" She heard the blonde say, "why are you still fighting? You almosted died. And yet, all you can think about is killing me!"

Yang then blasts herself onto her feet, revealing that she had stored up enough kinetic energy to activate her Semblance. She turns her head to face the redhead with her piercing red eyes, Aura and Karma both mixed together.

"If you wanna keep fighting, fine." Yang reloads Ember Celica. "I'll break every bone in your body if I have too."

'Fuck...' was the only thing Ruby could think of as the blonde launched herself.

~ ~ ~

The two teams had finally managed to regroup. They helped each other walk over to the beginning of the ruins, where the temple was.

Jaune was currently carrying a still emotionally dead Pyrrha, while Weiss helped a Blake who had hurt her ankle. It was slowly being healed by her Aura, but would take a bit more time.

Ruby was alive, that meant they needed to leave right now. Forget the duel, they'd beat Ruby if she thought they were going to continue.

"RAAAAAGHHHHH!!!"

KA-BOOM!

The ground suddenly shook as a force crashed down on it, nearly knocking down the huntsmen.

"Okay, that's it!" Jaune snaps, "We're beating Ruby! She cannot still be fighting!"

Ruby's form shot out of the tree line as Yang quickly followed.

The two landed and immediately began trading blows with each other. Ruby leaped away, Yang following, and they still fought mid air.

To the teams all they could see were explosions appearing right and left as the sisters fought each other.

'Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!' Ruby repelled a punch, but the force was too great that she received half of the attack. She didn't even get a chance to attack back!

The teams could only watch in shock and amazement at how Ruby and Yang could still be fight with such strength. How the hell was Ruby still able to fight this much after being eaten?!

"You still wanna get in on that?" Blake chided.

"Fuck fighting that! Besides, Yang could finish this it would seem." Jaune felt weak just by looking at the two.

Pyrrha's dead eyes glanced at the fighting happening right before her. All she can comprehend is red and yellow blurs dashing and exploding across the field.

The quick red blur reminds her of Ruby. How the rose petals flutter as it moves, barely dodging the explosions the follow the yellow blur.

'Wait a minute...' Pyrrha's eyes fix themselves into the red blur, noting how it would leave rose petals in its wake.

'... Ruby?'

Intense blasts of fire continued to be shot at Ruby, who did her best to parry or dodge, but she was getting slower! The stress and pain was raising her fatigue higher and higher!

Yang thrusted both her fists forward, the barrel preparing to fire once again.

"Damn it!" Ruby quickly wraps her arms around them and pushes them away. She takes a risk and reaches for the sawed off on the blonde's belt, only for the third arm to nearly snap her arm in half.

Ruby lets out a shout of pain as she kicked away. She recovers, but barely dodges another blast as she begins to sprint in all fours.

Yang pauses for a moment, her eyes able to follow Ruby. Even low on Aura, and without her Semblance, the redhead still manages to maintain her speed to such high levels.

Ruby lands on a branch before launching off with her Semblance. She cuts through the air like a arrow, her foot out preparing to beat the blonde.

"RUBY!!!" Pyrrha shouts in absolute glee as she finally confirms it was Ruby.

"Wha-?" The redhead turns her head, but it proved to be a grave mistake as a Yang reels back her hand and grabs Ruby.

The force spins the two around, but in the end, Yang angled her body and slammed the redhead into a cliff side.

The stone caved in on itself as a crater was formed. Yang's hand digging into the collapsing with Ruby underneath her smoking fist. She refrained from using her shotgun as Ruby's it would have most likely killed Ruby.

The blonde releases her fist from Ruby, leaving the redhead embedded inside the cliff.

"I'm sorry I had to be so brutal, but you know just as well as I do that I had to fight like that to win." The brawler spoke, "but even after you were eaten and after you cut yourself out, you still wanted to fight."

Out of the corner of her eyes, she could see Pyrrha had woken up, but she was absolutely furious as she tried to rush down the blonde. The teams tried to keep her down, but were failing.

"You lost Ruby, but I'm not a murderer," she reached out with her metallic hand, "I won't force you, but you don't have to reconcile with me. I can see that..."

Yang's words died in her throat as she saw something. She had pulled out the redhead from the cliff, stone and dirt fell out revealing several broken and shattered shards of pink Dust crystals sticking into Ruby's back.

The crystals were slowly losing their color as they were seemingly drained into Ruby's body.

'Pink dust crystals...? Wait, isn't Ruby a doctor or...' Yang's eyes shot opened as she realized that these were the white healing Dust crystals.

Ruby's body suddenly jerked forward, arms and legs wrapping around Yang's metal arm.

"Surprise~!" Ruby grinned as she pushed against Yang. The arm groaned in protest before snapping off. But before it disappeared, Ruby quickly twisted around and aimed the arm at Yang before firing a shot.

The blast sent the blonde flying back as she was unprepared.

Everyone, while trying to restrain Pyrrha, all gasped as they looked at Ruby's form.

Vomiting a large amount of blood, Ruby scratches away at her near, complete, blood red, hair. She stops scratching, leaving her hairstyle looking like some wild animal. Both her eyes were completely blood shot with not only blood but with an overload of Aura as well.

Her eyes were wide, her pupils small. Her hands were shaking violently as her head twitched. The teams called out her name, but she can't hear them. All she could hear was herself.

She fights and fights and fights, always sent to the brink of death, always to edge of the world, always to the sent to that sweet, sweet, end that she will never get to taste.

It never ends.

She will always fight.

She will always keep pushing back.

Always always always...

She could feel that weight, that same overbearing weight trying to suffocate her when she fights. No matter how many times she breaks through, how many times she cuts her way out, there always more. It never ends. It just a never ends.

Taiyang, Qrow, Summer, Raven, Salem, Ozpin, the Brand, The Relics Jinn, Grimm, Gods, the Devil, Hate, Love, Death, Life, Karma, Aura, pain, blood, flesh, sex, drugs, death, murder, torture,

It never ends... it never ends... it never ends...

"R-... Ruby...?" A faint voice calls out.

The Reaper is yanked out of her dark thoughts from the faint voice that called her. She turns her blood red eyes to face the one thing she could always count in in her entire goddamn life. The one thing that has never left her in her darkest times.

"Pyrrha..." Ruby mumbles as she sees the spartan staring at her. Worry clearly in her eyes.

...

It will end. It will end... someday. Be it today with her battle with Yang Xiao Long or sometime in the future by Grimm or something else, it will end.

But, she doesn't have to be alone.

Gripping her burnt and torn blouse, Ruby tore off the top along with the bra as well. There she stood half naked with her breasts, scars, burns, and brand free for all to see.

She grabs her cloak before wrapping it tightly around her breasts, for modesty and less air restriction.

"YANG BRANWEN XIAO LONG!" Ruby shouts out gaining everyone's attention. "DAUGHTER OF TAIYANG XIAO LONG AND QROW BRANWEN!"

"Know this, Yang Xiao Long!" Ruby takes a stance, grinning like a madwoman, "You have my respect! But that will not help you defeat me! I will beat you!"

"And when I do!" Ruby doesn't finish as she sprints at the brawler.

'Eighty-five percent of Aura was used to heal my immediate wounds, even so my body hurts like fuck. That leaves twenty percent remains for personal use.' She lunges at the blonde who defends.

Yang's Semblance, which was still active, fights back against Ruby's attack, having more difficulty as the redhead's speed was back.

"Damn it! Why?!" Yang punches away a kick, "Why won't you stay down?!"

"Because I don't know how to!" Ruby retorts, ducking under a blast of fire. "No one ever taught me to give up!"

"That's not what I'm talking about!" Yang receives several punches to the gut. "Why... why won't you just let me win?!" She punches away the redhead, "Do you hate me that much that's you die so you don't have to reconcile with me?! Tell me why?!"

"Because..!" Ruby spins around and delivers a roundhouse kick, which Yang dodges. "I can't!"

"Why not?" Yang reels back a fist.

"Because!" Ruby does so as well.

The two slammed their fists forward, not bothering to defend as they simultaneously punch each other in the face.

"I don't know."

The two's force create a great explosion as the ground they stand in falls apart. The two sisters fall and are nearly crushed by the falling debris.

"Ruby!" Pyrrha shouts as she chases after the two. The rest of the group follow, hoping to help them stop.

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Down below, Ruby groans as she picks herself up. She slowly shakes her head and look around to see she had fallen further down a cliff. The ground must not have been able to take the force and had broken apart.

Ruby puts a hand down to get up, but she immediately screams in pain. She looks to see her own silver short sword sticking out of her own side. Red blood and black ichor staining the metal.

Ruby gasps in pain, she sees her Aura trying to stop the bleeding, but she knew she was running out fast. So she did the only thing she could do...

She willed herself before wrapping her hand around the sword. Just touching the blade seemed to agitate her wound, but she had to do this.

Very slowly and painfully, Ruby screamed and cried as she yanked out the sword from her own stomach. Blood gushed out like a squeezed toothpaste tube, but her remaining Aura did its best to heal the wound. Or enough that it's stop bleeding.

Ruby takes a small breather before gritting her teeth and picking herself up. She knew she should have given up, but she can't back out now.

She reaches out for anything to lean into and her hands grasps metal. She blinks at the touch but slowly feels the metal and finds out, from the rough texture and thick width, that it was Yang's Dragkov.

She hears a cough and turns to see Yang using Silver's edge as a walking cane. Bitch.

The two sisters then look and meet each other's eye. Silver staring into lilac. They glance at each other's weapon before glancing at their own.

An understanding was formed between them as the knew what to do.

TheY slowly picked up speed as they rushed at each other. They picked up the blades as if they were their own and threw it at each other.

The two blades stab into the dirty grass next to their owners and they grab their blades and swing at each other.

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The two blades clash against each other, resulting in a clang. While the explosive strength the two bore was gone, that did not mean their blows were any less dangerous.

The two once again began their blade dance with each other despite it lack of speed and power. They slashed away at one another, dodging with a hair's length as sparks flew out. Small cuts and stabs nicking at their flesh.

Yang slammed down Dragkov, and Ruby blocked. The force nearly made her legs buckle, but she stood strong.

But before her eyes she saw her own blade crack. It seemed that her own sword was teaching its end as well.

My sister,

Ruby lunges forward, shoving back Yang with a tackle.

Come join me,

Yang raises Dragkov and blocks a swing.

In battle we are stronger

Yang fires a shot at Ruby, who dodges by a hair's length.

When grudges will falter,

Ruby thrusts her blade forward, nearly impaling the blonde.

Sacrificed to their fathers

Yang counts the stab and kicks back the redhead.

My sister,

She lunges forward, but Ruby rolls to the side.

Come join me

Yang tackles forward with a head butting, catching Ruby in the stomach.

In battle we are stronger

While mid air, the two swung their blades at each other. Yang's sword is parries by Ruby's swing.

When grudges will falter,

Ruby swings down, but Yang's sword has greater weight, pinning down the blade.

Sacrificed to their fathers.

Yang reels back a fist, her gauntlet preparing to fire a shot,

One night of sin shall be gone for good

But Ruby pulls out her short sword and thrusts forward.

Now we claim what was thought to be gone.

Ruby slashes up her short sword, parrying the blonde's fist. The shotgun fires out of way, but Yang delivers a headbutt.

Ruby stumbles back, but recovers in time to block. Her guard nearly breaks, but she manages to push back.

The two begin swinging their blades once again, sparks flying out as they tried to overwhelm each other.

Ruby leaps away, the spot she stood on being crushed by Dragkov. She begins sprinting around the area, rose petals fluttering in her wake.

She dashes forward and stabs forward. Silver's Edge is blocked by Yang's blade, but the short sword meets flesh.

Yang shouts out in pain, the sword stabbing into her shoulder. Luckily her armor managed to stop it from piercing through completely.

She growls before swing her blade at Ruby, the blade glowing purple.

Ruby raises her sword, the flat edge of the blade catching Yang's but the force sends her back. She coughs out blood as she could feel her ribs fractured.

Ruby then shoots off with her Semblance, pushing it to its limit. She leaps, landing on a tree before bouncing off of it and launching at Yang.

Yang raises her blade just in time to block Ruby's scythe as she spins at her, shaving away at her sword.

Ruby leaps off and lands, but nearly falls as her legs are struck with pain.

Yang seizes that chance and swings Dragkov, but Ruby quickly reacts by stabbing Silver's Edge into the ground. The clang responds as Ruby's body shakes from the force.

Yang grits her teeth as Ruby dashes at her once again.

My sister, come join me

She fires the last of her shot at the redhead,

In battle we are stronger

Ruby dodges, spinning through the flames

When grudges falter will falter

Only for Yang to deliver a punch straight to the face

Sacrificed to their fathers

Ruby nearly blacks out, but she bites down on the hand and thrusts forward.

My sister come join me

Ruby's short sword catches Yang off guard and she cannot react.

In battle we are stronger

The silver blade stabs through the blonde's head, blood gushing out.

When grudges falter will falter

Ruby's eyes widened as she cannot believe she just killed Yang.

Sacrificed to their fathers

Only to see she had stabbed through the blonde's cheeks.

My sister, come join me

Yang jerks her head, the blade cutting in further,

In battle we are stronger

Revealing her pissed off expression as she bites down.

When grudges will falter

She jerks her head, yanking away the short sword,

Sacrificed to their fathers

Ruby immediately reacts and leaps away, dodging another punch. There she stands with her long sword only as did Yang who was out of ammunition.

The two sisters charge at each other for one final time. They both reel back their blades, Silver glows bright as iron burns hot. Yang's sword uses all of its Dust as Ruby uses all of her Karma to strengthen her blade and bones as they finally meet.

Oh my sister, with your courage we can conquer

In my sword I put my trust that you will honor

I will be the higher ground should you concede it

And my body be your shield if you should need it

An explosion of Karma, Aura, and Silver and Gold washes over the area like a volcanic ash. The resulting force causes the two swords to break apart violently. Their fragments shoot off like meteors and finally... the sisters fall.

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Ruby's eyes struggled to stay open as she sees Yang's form not very far.

"Ruby..." the blonde mumbles.

"Xiao Long," Ruby wheezes out, heh it seems neither of them won. "Listen... you hurt me, just as Taiyang and Qrow did..." shame and sadness forms on the blonde's face, "but I can see... I can see that you truly regret what you have done."

She coughs out weakly. "I... will never forget what you all did to me..." she states with great hate and animosity, "but..."

She moves her arm reaching out for the blonde who's eyes widen.

"I... we can move on, and create something better, something stronger, something... beautiful." Tears well up in the two's eyes. The blonde reaches out to take Ruby's hand.

"Yang..." Ruby smiles sweetly, "I forgive you."

The brawler's can't seem to believe what she hears, but accepts it. Her eyes are now fully crying, tears spilling out. But she doesn't care as she takes Ruby's hand.

"Thank you..."

And thus, the hateful feud between the two sisters, scatters kindly.

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Pyrrha, Weiss, and the rest all rush to the epicenter of the mysterious explosion, concluding it was Ruby and Yang that was the cause.

They pass through a battered battlefield, several broken and cut trees, craters scattered everywhere, and blood splatter in some spots. They searched and searched, until they finally found them.

"Ruby!" Pyrrha shouts, she rushes over to where the redhead laid, fearing the worst.

"Yang!" Weiss follows rushing over to the blonde who laid right next to redhead, also fearing.

The two skid to a stop to see the two sisters laying down on the ground. Blood pooled around them as they were severely injured.

Ruby had several broken fragments of Dragkov dug into a massive gash in her shoulder. As if a grenade had exploded near her.

Yang had the broken tip of Silver's Edge stabbed into her stomach. As if it were stabbed and broken off.

But even so, in the end, they held each other's hand a warm and genuine smile on their faces.

7,393 words, excluding disclaimer and Author's Note. I will accept criticism and opinions.

And so, Volume two of Wilting Roses and Growing Thorns comes to an end.

The sister have finally reconciled, and while Ruby May never forget, she has forgive. Forgiven Yang at least.

Also, Ruby's alive! How? Why? What? And I will say this right now! It was NOT plot armor. Story would still continue even after, but I not killing Ruby, for now at least.

Okay, so let's see if I BS can qualify as a proper explanation.

Roman got eaten by Griffin during Vol. Three fight. And he ded, like hella dead. Now, he was swallowed whole, not pecked or chewed. This could give him opportunity to get out by cutting his way out, or something. His Aura wouldn't protect him all the way, but it would be enough to stop stomach acid from completely dissolving him.

But, the Griffin he was in then lunges at Ruby, and was then engulfed in flames.

Now Ruby, she hella tough, but would that be enough for her? Well, her Aura would be enough to stop the stomach acid, despite it being low, and she has Red Karma. Now, she's not an expert, but being swallowed I believe would be enough to cause emotional trauma. Red is connected to emotion, and that's like jump starting a car.

Now, even though Ruby got healing crystals stabbed into her, man she gonna be fucked for the next few days. This isn't where heal up for a few days, and oh! My bones are perfectly fine as well as my joints.

Man, have ya ever broken an arm or leg? Damn shot never the same again.

I'd also like to state that the Blake, Nora, and Ren did not know this was a death battle. Pyrrha and Weiss knee, but they were okay with it cause they both believed their Waifus would be the victor. Jaune, well he can't really do anything, but he's torn between the two. Sure Ruby's his long time friend, but she wants to kill Yang, who in turn only wants to reconcile. Jaune is a good person, I feel everyone forgets that.

I believe that's most of everything I wanted to talk about, well at least for the characters behavior. Now for my thoughts on the chapter and story as well.

So, I will be honest, this chapter was rushed. Even now as I'm writing this, I want to go back and change things, but I can't. That would mean rewriting EVERYTHING. There were many parts where I wanted to change some stuff midway through writing, but then I'd have to change everything else so it'd make sense.

I don't plan my writing, sure I may think okay this will happen so this can happen. But it all very vague. I just sit on a computer or get my phone, and vomit out words. I'd like to say I'm a good writer, but I'm just average. I'm only writing fanfiction after all, and I'm on Wattpad, I mean come on ha!

Don't delete my account Wattpad.

Any who, as for this Volume, it was... eh alright. I wanted this Volume to end on the twenty fifth chapter, and it did! But not without some costs. I wanted to get Blake's identity revealed, as well as look in on the Second Narrator's scheming.

But, well no one saw any of that.

But I'll be able to do it next Volume, it'll give me a chance to pitch in on how RWBY got involved with the Roman and the White Fang. Introducing some characters and, well I won't spoil all of it.

Well, I think I've gotten everything. If there's anything that ya guys want to m is about, comment about it!

Anyway, I'll be taking my break so I can plan! Au revoir!

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Somewhere, far far in the depths of the continent Sanus, where no settlement lays, where no human or Faunus would traverse alone, a figure walks alone.

They walk through the untouched forest, animals scurrying off and Grimm merely watch.

The figure then approaches a cave. Moss, vines, trees grow on the cave, blocking the entrance. But it does little as the figure dents out a blast of fire, burning through the blockage. The walk through the flames, going inside the dark cave.

The continue walking, the darkness not impeding the figure, until finally the stop.

And right before them, is a shrine.

One beating an exact resemblance to the shrine that sealed the Grimm Apostle. The only exception being, instead of a humanoid statue in the center, it was a creature that bore wings.

The figure raises a fist before shattering the statue, releasing the monster inside.

"Arise my brother," the figure spoke, revealing themselves to be the Grimm Apostle. "Your long slumber has finally ended."

Black sludge spills out like tar, it quickly forms a shape, as two great black wings form on the back.

"Well, for you it may have been quite long," it spoke perfectly, as if it did not need time to recuperate, "but for me, twenty plus years is not too long."

"This is not your first prison?" The Dragon Apostle questioned, "Are there others that are awake? How many? Who sealed you?"

"All in due time brother, but I will focus on regaining my strength," red eye snap open, "and when I do, I will get my revenge, Raven Branwen."