Ruby opened her eyes to the sight of a forest, she stood up and spun around observing her surroundings. She saw long shadows in the forest, moving lights, the sounds of whispers on the wind.

"Come play with us, Ruby." One spoke.

"Come die with us" another said, Ruby loaded Crescent Rose and looked around worriedly. She heard footsteps behind her and turned to see a Beowulf limp from the shadows, whimpering in pain and with a missing paw.

"You did this" the whispers said. The Beowulf fell to reveal another figure. Ruby looked at the figure in the shadows and as they stepped out the light revealed her as...Ruby, they looked at each other, the Beowulf corpse between them.

"You're...me?" Ruby spoke, fearful of the sight of a blooded clone of herself.

"Yes," her other self said, wiping the blood from her arms. "I'm you, only stronger" a smile touched her lips and it only served to make her look more mad, she stepped over the Beowulf and touched Ruby on the cheek.

"Oh, you are so innocent and weak." The blooded clone clamped her hands around Ruby's throat.

"You are me, you think I am a cheap copy, but I am better. We don't need your team or your sister. I will take control, and I will kill them all." Ruby fired Crescent Rose into her crazed clone's chest. It had no effect other than the hands on her throat tightened.

Ruby's vision started to darken around the edges until all she could see was the face of her clone.

"I wonder how I'm going to kill your sister" the clone mocked.

"Maybe cut her up, or drown her, or maybe feed her to a Nevermore; but first, I'll deal with you." She threw Ruby into one of the trees surrounding them and picked Crescent Rose up from the ground.

"Goodbye Ruby." She unfolded the weapon and a twisted smile spread across her face.

"Sleep well." She swung the scythe at Ruby and all went black.

Ruby's eyes shot open and she jumped into a sitting position.

She blinked the dark spots from her eyes and looked around. She was in her dorm at Beacon with her teammates around her.

"It was only a dream," She said quietly to herself. She jumped out of bed and walked to the window, she gazed out at the shattered moon and thought it was almost a mocking gesture to the world.

"The moon… Shattered for all time. Beautiful and terrifying all the same." She thought as she looked at the shattered remains of the moon. No one knows how it was damaged, maybe it was always this way.

Ruby never cared for the how or when, but she gazed at it all the same, wondered why it was shattered.

And she heard a voice in her mind, much like her own but more cold, cruel.

"You gaze at that moon because you are shattered. You. We are just like it."

Ruby tried to ignore the voice, to force it out but it kept speaking.

"You are Ruby Rose, the girl, the Sister. I am Ruby Rose, the killer, the Huntress, the defender, and the attacker. I am the oppressor and the oppressed."

The voice lowered to a dark whisper.

"You are my oppressor, Ruby Rose; and I will break you."

Ruby felt herself falling to her knees, but she didn't stop it. She felt the sting of tears on her face, but didn't wipe them away. The words echoed in her head.

"I will break you."

Over and over again, twisting into hisses and growls, screeches, and cries. Ruby covered her ears; but the monstrous sounds only got louder, she started shaking and sobbing as the sounds got louder and more violent.

Ruby fell onto her side and shut her eyes, and she screamed.

As she screamed, hands turned her on her back, and she screamed louder, imagining the hands around her throat again.

Ruby kept screaming until the sounds died away, she laid there panting and opened her eyes to the sight of her sister and teammates surrounding her, Weiss' eyes were full of frustration, Blakes were closed as she quietly took her hands from her cat ears, and Yangs glinted with tears.

"Ruby," She said. "What happened I mean are you alright?"

Ruby looked into her sister's eyes. "I can't tell her." Ruby thought to herself. "What would she think?" Ruby averted her eyes and softly said.

"Yea….I just had a nightmare." Yang nodded and goaded Wiess back to her bed before she could as she always put it "speak" to Ruby.

"What was the nightmare?" Blake said having opened her eyes to look at Ruby.

Ruby looked back with bloodshot eyes. "It was….death."

Blake stared at Ruby for a moment before saying, "I told you it wasn't all a fairy tail." Ruby nodded and Blake went to her bed. Ruby shakily stood up.

"I'm...going to walk for a little while." She grabbed her cloak and left before anyone could object.

"Running away won't do anything for you, Ruby." Ruby grit her teeth and attempted to ignore it. She heard the cruel laugh in her mind.

"Ignoring me does nothing Ruby, one of us has to die." The voice laughed again and the sound morphed into the screech of a Nevermore, Then countless Beowulves crying out in pain.

"Do you remember these sounds, Ruby? The beasts I killed while you cowered away inside." The sounds morphed again into a familiar voice crying in pain.

"It was ME who saved her, not you. I am the huntress. I am the warrior. You are nothing more than a pathetic little girl." Ruby stepped onto the roof and looked out across the academy. beyond that to the forest.

"Its so beautiful, isn't it?" Ruby thought

"The forest filled with the corpses of Grimm after Grimm. I will not be a killer. You kill not to be a huntress; but because you enjoy it don't you?" The cold voice in her head laughed

"And you wouldn't? Killing Grimm is killing Grimm. I may enjoy it….But I could kill your sister instead."

"No. I will not be a killer. I will not be you." Ruby stepped to the edge of the building and looked down.

"You will not kill my sister." Ruby tilted forward, not noticing the shadow behind her.

"You will never kill anyone."