Author's Note

So... here we are, the last chapter. I'm pretty sure most you guys would hate me because of this chapter but oh well... Credit to Mr. Stark357 for proofreading this chapter. Enjoy, mes ami.

Chapter 18 – What Have I Done?

Weiss opened her eyes and groaned as she pushed herself up. Her eyes immediately widened when she realized she was too close to the edge of a cliff. She tried to recall what happened but her head was still dizzy from the impact to the ground. She got up and backed away from the edge until her back hit something.

"Don't go so soon…" she yelped and turned around. Her neck was grabbed the moment she turned and Ruby's silver eyes glimmered in insanity. She gasped when the younger girl lifted her up, surprised by her strength.

"R-Ruby, please…" She begged but to no avail, she wouldn't listen. A gun was at point blank range to her gut and Ruby's fingers wrapped tightly around her neck. Weiss started to choke and struggled to be released but her struggles annoyed Ruby and she pulled the trigger.

Weiss gasped loudly and coughed out blood, some of it landed on Ruby's face. The heiress croaked weakly, her body trembled in pain and tears fell from her eyes. She looked at Ruby, eyes widened in shock, "R-Ruby-…" She choked when Ruby shoved the gun's muzzle into her mouth. She whimpered loudly and muffled, "No" repeatedly.

"I'm… going to kill a Schnee. Are you… going to leave me now, d-dad?" Ruby murmured. She fell silent and her finger slowly pulled the trigger. Weiss' eyes widened and the last thing she heard was a loud bang. She stopped struggling and her hands fell on her sides, blood poured out of her mouth and out the back of her head. Turns out the bullet went through with a clean shot. Ruby sighed in satisfaction as she pulled the gun out of the heiress' mouth. She threw her body off the cliff, cold wind brushing through her hair, that usually bring chills to anyone who felt it but she stood still. Vines came out of her palms and wrapped around her wrists before crawling up to her arms. She smiled and giggled.

She turned around once she heard a quiet thud below, she gripped the gun tightly despite the pain the vines gave as the firearm pressed against them and into her skin. Her left eye was black accompanied by a red iris this time. Her right eye would gradually be the same.

Blake looked around in the ruins where she last saw Weiss. She desperately called out to her, hoping for a response from the heiress but only silence and the sound of flames crackling answered her. She looked around frantically, gripping onto her hope that she'll see her again despite it slowly slipping away. She gasped when she heard footsteps behind her approaching, "W-Weiss?" She muttered. But the colors on her face were gone as she turned.

"The heiress? She's sleeping with the fishes..." Ruby replied and sighed. Blake backed away when she noticed the gun, the vines that wrapped tightly around her arms and came out from the corners of her mouth and eyes. She quickly looked away from her eyes, which used to be silver. Ruby sighed again in amusement. "Aww, what's wrong kitty cat? Don't you like fish? Why don't you join with your precious princess?"

She pointed the gun to the Faunus and shot without hesitation. Blake quickly dodged, using her semblance multiple times and tried to escape. In her mind, she tried to deny Weiss falling to her demise but knowing Ruby, Blake knew she would fall into hers as well.

The red caped girl was annoyed with her dodging her bullets and decided to throw the gun away. She activated her scythe which distracted Blake for a moment and Ruby immediately sliced the back of her ankle. Blake screamed in pain and fell on the ground with a loud thud. She gritted her teeth as she tried to endure the pain while being aware of Ruby's approach. She got Gambol Shroud into its gun mode and shot a few rounds but the younger girl was fast enough to block with her knife. Ruby threw the knife towards Blake's hand where she held her weapon and cut her wrist.

Blake trembled. Crawling away was the only thing she could think of right now. Ruby smiled psychotically and sliced the Faunus' other ankle. Blake couldn't scream anymore. Only tears and whimpers of pain came from her. She used every bit of her strength left to crawl but Ruby caught up and grabbed her ribbon, yanking it off, revealing her cat ears. She gasped when she felt her grabbing one of them, pulling it before she felt a sharp pain from her head. This time she screamed, an agonizing scream which seems to be music to Ruby's ears. She tossed the dismembered feline ear near the Faunus, letting her see it.

Blake could only cry weakly, her voice croaked from screaming. She just wished for the pain to stop but at the same time, she wanted to live badly. She swallowed the blood that she was about to cough out. It won't matter since Ruby sat on her back, restraining her and she knew well what would happen when Ruby held down her head. Blake glanced at her for the last time before the knife landed into the head where her cat ear used to be. Ruby stabbed her repeatedly. Blood poured out and the pool of blood around her body grew bigger. The Faunus' blood coated her face and her clothes. Her smile widened as she ended with stabbing her head, digging her knife deep enough until she could hear her skull cracked.

A familiar voice soon called in the distance. She perked up, recognizing the owner so well. She grinned this time and got off the Faunus. In her mind, her angel is calling for her.

I called out to everyone I know; Weiss, Blake, Pyrrha, Nora, Jaune, Ren... even Ruby. I couldn't believe what I'm seeing before me. The place where Beacon used to be has become a graveyard. Dead bodies everywhere, mutilated, chopped, sliced, anything you could imagine is what happened. With a heavy heart I walked through them, I still need to look for my sister after all.

I walked, and walked, and walked, through dead bodies and blood. For a second, I felt like I would cry. I felt like I could hear all of them begging me to help them. I know who did this to them, I know what happened just by seeing the destruction but what can I do other than stopping the perpetrator? Or at least, that's what I thought, what I could do...

I reached another pool of blood but this one was bigger than the others. I looked at the source and my eyes widened, I gasped when I see Blake's dead body. I froze, I could see one of her cat ears were chopped off, her ankles were sliced, blood poured out from her head and her eyes were still wide open. My legs trembled violently but I slowly made my way to her. I knelt down next to her and covered her eyes with my hand, closing them for her. I could feel myself on the brink of tears. Without me realizing it, tears fell from my eyes.

"Why... are you crying, Yang?" I gasped when I heard her voice. I slowly looked up and there she was, Ruby Rose stood with a knife in her hand. Just like eight years ago. "Why are you shedding tears... for HER?" She asked and her head twitched.

"Why? You asked me... why?" I pushed myself up despite trembling. "You asked me why I'm crying for her? You. Little. Bitch." I clenched my hands tightly, activating my gauntlets. She was taken aback when I glared at her. I couldn't bottle up my emotions anymore.

I charged at her.

I punched her repeatedly.

I let out a cry, letting out my anger, my sadness.

I couldn't take it anymore.

Family or not, it was too much.

She's gone too far...

I'd never knew I could do this to her. I never knew how violent I can be.

But I don't care anymore.

She was on the ground, helpless, scared. I could see them in her eyes. They've returned to their normal silver. Her arms, mouth and eyes were bleeding since I yanked the vines off forcefully. I stood over her and stared, just like how she did to her victims. She froze, her eyes widened, her breathing was too soft but I can tell she was afraid. Afraid of me, afraid of the fate that would come to her.

I forgot about the things she's been through. I forgot about the things that forced her to be violent. I forgot about her hallucination.

She gave me pleading eyes, she begged me to stop, but those words... I told myself they were lies. I gritted my teeth and made a huge mistake.

I stomped on her gut hard.

I forgot she was pregnant too...

Her screams weren't the usual screams of pain I heard before. It was more agonizing. But I didn't care. I was too angry to care. I stomped and kicked. She kept begging and begging.

I really lost it. I forgot about everything.

I forgot my promises.

I forgot my love to her.

I forgot I ever know her.

She stopped screaming. She stopped begging. I stopped too, to hear her whimpers. I huffed in anger, she was probably trying to beg me again. But I was wrong.

She was whimpering in pain. She was trembling violently and coughed out blood. I looked down to my feet, and saw blood. I thought it was from her arms.

It was from, "there".

My sanity returned, I slowly came back to reality, I slowly remembered everything. My promises, that I broke.

I promised, I would protect her. I promised her.

But I couldn't protect her from me.

"R-Ruby?" I called. She didn't answer like she used to. She didn't turn to me. She looked away. She coughed out blood. She cried, but I didn't care when I was being merciless. She didn't call for me.

She called for help. But nobody came...

I'm here to help her, but she didn't want me.

I need to help her, so like it or not. I picked her up, I brought her away from there, to the only airship at the landing pad. We took off, we were silent. She was silent. She didn't say anything but she kept coughing out more blood. I wiped them off, she still didn't say anything.

I just need her to be okay again.

The airship landed and I ran out. Rain fell heavily onto me, just like the tears falling from my face. I brought her to the hospital, getting a doctor to check on her and waited.

I waited...

And waited...

And waited...

I kept waiting. I was too worried to sleep. I looked around to keep my brain active so I could stay awake a little longer.

I heard the wall clock ticking. I heard thunder booming outside. I heard quiet footsteps approaching.

It was a nurse. We conversed for a moment, she told me about Ruby. I was too shocked to gasp or widen my eyes.

I killed her.

I killed Amelia.

I followed her to Ruby's room. She led me in and slowly closed the door once I entered. Ruby was on the bed, her looks darkened, she was looking down, she was too quiet. I gulped. I felt my sins crawling on my back.

I pulled up a chair and sat, facing her. "Ruby?" I called softly but she didn't answer. I frowned and my hand reached out to her.

I wanted to hold her, I wanted to caress her hair, I wanted to tell her everything's going to be okay.

But I stopped and pulled my hand away. There's no way I would touch her with THESE hands again. So I sat there like a complete idiot, watching her. The only thing I could do, watch.

I watched the nurses bathe her, I watched them put her clothes on, I watched them feed her. I only watch, because I can't touch her anymore. I don't want to touch her with the hands that hurt her over and over again. I watched strangers touch her. You might think it's not fair, but this is what I deserve.

Well now I'm the one feeling my sins crawled on my back...