RWBYKnights: Volume 1 [Old Version]

Chapter 1.5: Winter's End

"Frostnova?" A hooded man muttered, around him, a massive room was covered in ice as the woman at fault lay dying on his hands.

"Go... ahead..." A weak voice escaped her frozen breath. No matter if the man's skin was currently being turned to ice due to her condition, he still carried her, resting her head on his arms.

"I think, your father really loves you. Just like you remember everything your actual parents have done to save you... You can remember everything he has done for you..." The man said softly, with the white rabbit chuckling...

"It's a shame he was fated to outlive me... I wonder had I not met him... would he suffer the same way I brought him?" The hooded man shook his head.

"It is because of his suffering that he cherishes you even more..." Upon hearing the man's answer, the bunny smiled.

"Hehehe...Doctor. I can call you that, can't I? Doctor of Rhodes Island, choices just might be meaningless, in this world. Even so, even if the outcome makes no difference... I do want to choose for myself. I made my choice. With my own hands... To take the fruits of the seeds I have sown." The woman rested her hand on the hooded man's face.

"Your fingers... They are warm..." The man commented as he held onto the woman's hand.

"Strange... Why... is your face, cold? Is my body temperature not low?" She asked, surprised herself.

"Yes. Your symptoms, they are gone..." The man assured her, and with another weak chuckle, the woman caressed him even more.

"Ironic... I feel so... Alive, before..." Her words quieted as she nodded.

"I... would like to join Rhodes Island... I accept your invitation... Doctor..." She continued, her breathing was heavy as she gazed upon the hooded man's eyes.

"Thank you..." He said, trying not to tear up, the bunny shook her head.

"No... thank you. Your eyes remind me of someone I used to know. I met a boy who said his brother would rather go to the gallows than beg for his enemies' mercy... So he was going to walk across the snowy plains, he was going to walk all of Ursus... And he didn't come with us.
I thought he was the most idealistic person I've ever met. But now, you and Amiya changed my mind... Maybe ideals can be a kind of faith." She explained, releasing her hand, the hooded man nodded.

"Rhodes Island is all about fighting for a shared belief..." He said, with the bunny now looking up to the sky, a single crystal tear slid down her pale face...

"The original Reunion... was the same. Just the same. Your eyes, and that boy's, really do look the same. Only, you're not as determined as he was. You're so much... So much gentler. Let me go. My brothers and sisters are waiting for me.

...Father... I've been such a fool.

Forgive me..." With that, the winter maiden closed her eyes for a final time, as silence covered the frozen, wartorn area...

~~~

Yelena opened her eyes, suddenly feeling the surrounding temperature shift, she now felt hot as she gazed around her surroundings. She was in an iron cage, surrounded by even more iron cages filled with other people inside them.

"What?" She muttered when a voice behind her took her notice.

"Oh hey, you, you're finally awake..." The man perked his cat ears as the surprised and confused rabbit woman stared at him.

"You must have been caught near the town huh? Same with all of us here, as well as that thief over there." The man nodded at another man leaning on a cage. While she digested what the man had just said, she thanked herself for remembering the language class she took under one of her comrade's teaching for her to understand.

"But... why am I in a cage?" She asked, suddenly feeling her ears, it hurt.

"And why do my ears hurt?" She spent time massaging her ears as the pain died down, but the man only chuckled.

"Where were you born? Menagerie? How could you not know of what's happening now?" Raising her brow, she shook her head as the man sighed.

"We're going to have a long... long talk..." He muttered as he got comfortable in his position...

~~~

As the man finished explaining, Yelena nodded her head she recapped everything the man said. Without a warning, she crawled her way towards the door of her cage, with the man being the one confused now.

"Hey... what are you-" Suddenly, however, he stopped as he began to feel his skin freezing, as well as the steel cages surrounding Yelena. Soon enough, the sound of steel shattering echoed all throughout the storehouse as people began to escape from their cages.

"It is ironic, that I died to stop the dehumanizing of the infected... only to be brought into this damned world..." She crushed her own frozen cage with her hands as she stood up.

"Thank you for explaining this world to me, this is how I will repay you now. Goodbye." She turned to the still stunned man, without a warning, she froze the incoming guards who took notice of the prison break and left the room...

~~~Author's notes~~~

Again, the first half of the chapter was taken almost word for word. God, I love her character so much, but holy crap does she have one of the most bullshit boss stages in the entire game, her attack range is literally 1/4 of the map, and not only can she inflict frozen, she summons turrets that can also inflict frozen AND can permanently destroy tiles so that you cannot deploy operators on it. 

Her hell stage is also pretty annoying, as it was the definition of anxiety, but not because of her, but instead the fodder enemies that comes like a downpour. Like how am I supposed to put all my forces in front of the blue box, while making sure none of the 15 enemies can leak past my Mudrock and Blaze? While they are being frozen thanks to frost turret go brrr. Thank god I remember Whisperain's talent.