RWBY Volume 4 Redux

Campsite

Neptune's eyes were shut tight as he sleeps. His ears were muffed as if something was blocking them. All he can hear was the waves. But he had no idea what he was in a void of darkness.

"Why is it so quiet? What was happening to me? No sound, no voice. Why do I feel relaxed, but at the same time I was dead? It was as if the afterlife was coming for me."

Neptune opened his eyes to see where he is. But as he processed, all he can see was the void of blue. But as he sees the sky, he found himself underneath the void. His worst enemy, water itself.

Neptune then gags as he felt himself suffocating underwater.

"No, not water. No not again!" The he sees a figure above and swims up, once Neptune resurfaces, he found himself sinking in by the waves of terror. He sees his brother, Jupiter himself.

"Jupiter! Over here!" Neptune sunk while struggling to swim, calling for his older brother for help. But he seems to have pretended to not see him. "Help! Help me!" Neptune shouted as he kept sinking in. But to his despair, Jupiter turned away from him. Before looking back and said, "Pathetic."

That words stops Neptune as he feels the same shock for whenever Jupiter insulted him for his fear of water. "J...Jupiter..." Neptune did his best to hold his breathe, only to lose it once more. Sinking further and further down into the void of the ocean. To him, it was a peaceful death.

"Your friends can't save you now. How long will you deny the truth?"

"I want to save the people I loved. I wanted to fight. I wanted to protect."

"But you can't even swim, can ya?"

Neptune opened his eyes again, but this time, more narrowly, due to his vulnerable state. Seemingly at the verge of death. To his surprise, he can see a mirage of himself, smirking at him. That image of himself was fear and regret.

"Face it, you are a coward. Sun only met you because he felt sorry for ya."

"You're wrong..."

"As for your name Vasilias, you can't even live up to it. It's no wonder why your dad was deserted by his own family. You'll end up in the same path as your brothers. You will be remembered as the useless son who can't use his semblance."

"Shut up..."

"Give in to your fear."

"Stop it!"

"Drown in the seas of despair. Rest as the oceans wallow you in sorrow. Your friends will see you as a scaredy cat. In the end, no one will mourn you."

"Please. Stop it. It's no use, somebody. Please...help me..."

Then a spark of white light was shining above him as he felt death coming to him. He though it was his time. But that light is different. For some reason, he felt warm. His mirage version of himself had disappeared.

That light, it was so warm. So warm, I don't feel any fear anymore. I have to reach out that light. I felt like I need to follow it.

Neptune is surprised that he was swimming up. Not giving up on trying to reach out the light before him. To his shock, a hand reached out for him. Neptune I beyond shock to see the person reaching for him.

"It can't be..." It was Weiss. Reaching out for him. She pulled him up. Swimming back to the surface. They grabbed each other's hands.

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