RWBY Through Worlds (End)

215: Voices Calling Your Name

Salem ordered Tyrian to bring the Relics.

But this order he refused, to her great surprise.

"What is this?" he yelled at them all. "Are you just going to go along with this? Kill them all."

"You do not command me," Salem said to him sternly. "If I have decided to proceed with this, it is no concern of yours."

"Yes, it is," Tyrian said. "You were going to wipe out the world!"

"If it's not necessary to do so in order to get what I want, this is much faster--" Salem began, but Tyrian didn't listen to her this time.

"You can't be serious!" he said. "You were a goddess of destruction incarnate! Of course you will do this."

"Tyrian!" Salem said sharply, and he shut up for a moment. "I am not a goddess! You idiot!"

Well, she really might have expected this to upset him.

"What?" he sputtered.

"She never was, moron. Didn't you listen to anything we told you?" Mercury said.

"She's a human with a curse," Cinder said. "Dumba--!"

"Wait a minute," Shine said. "If you push him further, he might do something desperate."

"A little late for that..." Wally said.

"It... it was really all a lie?" Tyrian sounded disappointed and livid at the same time. "You... you are a human?"

"I was... once." Salem no longer cared if he knew this. It was obsolete now.

"No!" Tyrian howled like someone had put him in hot irons. "No! No! No!" He began to thrash and strike himself.

He was freaking out the kids.

Some of them looked away.

"Pull yourself together," Hazel said.

"Why don't you just get the d--- Relics?" Cinder said. "We can finally end this."

"What?" Tyrian looked up. "You... No! No, I'll take them myself first!"

He charged at Theo next second.

But of course Hazel and Wally both stepped in before he got there and threw him aside.

Tyrian glanced at all of them and knew that he couldn't fight them.

His eyes went from one to the other.

"Fool," Salem began, angrily. "How dare--"

But she got no further for Tyrian howled in rage and then ran out of the room.

"What is he doing?" Mercury asked.

"Running away?" Emerald said.

But then they heard glass breaking.

"Did he just go out the window of my council room?" Salem said, like he was a kid who threw a baseball through it.

"Do you really need it anymore?" Oscar asked her.

"But he--" Salem suddenly went to the wall and waved her hand.

The wall opened up, and she peered out of it. "What is the fool doing now?"

They all rushed to look, though some of them didn't know why they bothered.

It was odd to stand so close to Salem and her not be attacking, but for now her attention was on Tyrian.

Tyrian had jumped out of the window all right, though it was on the ground level so he hadn't broken every bone in his body.

He was running over the dirt toward the Grimm pond.