Chapter 9: A step foot into a new future

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Hello all, i am so sorry for the wait. Stuff in my life took me away, and i had a bit of writer's block, but im back now, so here is the next part of A Fallen Rose by any other name.


The moon in the window shines brightly into team RWBY's Room; the girls lay in each of their beds, their heads barred into their pillows. Their groans fill the room after their training week, as V called it, but if you ask the girls, they probably say it was hell on earth. You see, after the girls went outside to meet V, she was leaning against a tree, her arms crossed, and her eyes closed, and it looked like she might be asleep. Ruby had a bad feeling, but seeing she was the one who suggested they do this, she couldn't back out now; Yang, Blake, and Weiss were just as nervous as Ruby. In one swift moment, V's arm brings out a large shield. The girls look at the odd weapon with confusion; as you see, the shield seems like what Pyrrha had, but it covers over all of V to the point you cannot see V from where the girls are standing. "Come at me!" V bellows out, causing the girls to step back a bit. "you want us to fight you, V?" weiss asks, kind of annoyed at V as it seems like she is just mocking them, "But we don't have a weapon, and you have that shi" Blake gets cut off from V as she yells to use your hands and come at me. The girls look at each other, shrug, and charge at V. Yang strikes first, and her semblance makes her hair glow like the sun as she hits the shield; a loud Clang fills the forest as V throws Yang off, causing Yang to slide back. She looks up and sees there is no dent in the shield right as Blake and weiss attack V from the left and right sides; as the two try to hit V, she jumps in the air, grabbing both their heads and slams them together a thud coming from them both as V lands look down at weiss and blake shaking her head. Then, it was Ruby's turn. Ruby looks at V as she can feel pressure off of her like the murder intent, which scares Ruby, but she swallows that fear and runs at V, using her semblance to help her close in. She goes low and tries uppercutting V, but she steps, swings her body like a top, and kicks Ruby right into the tree she was learning agaist not too long ago. Yang stares at what V did and is trying to figure out a plan when she hears, "Hey, Goldilocks!" Yang looks up at V, who has a little sister in a chokehold, causing Yang's eyes to turn red as she screams for V to let go of Ruby. Still, V smiles, making her even madder as she charges at V again, but the fire seems coming from Yang's hand. but just like before, V sides step as Yang punches the tree, and its crash fills the forest. Yang and V fight to this point, which almost feels like a dance, but V is leading while Yang follows, her wild swing going right at V, but she keeps sidestepping and avoiding it. Weiss and Blake come too from their "attack" on V, shaking their heads there, turning to see Ruby on the ground and Yang in a rage. Weiss and Blake run over to Ruby to try and wake her up, "Ruby, ruby, wake up!" weiss yells over and over till she hears groning from rwby as she mumbles something; this causes weiss to learn down and hears what Ruby is trying to say "My ... fault...i cause cardin' to do this" ruby says. Weiss's face goes white as it seems to sink in what Ruby said. "Weiss Weiss," Blake yells to weiss, who looks over at Blake, "Hey, you okay," Blake asks, worried about her teammate, but weiss nods and is about to answer when Ruby leans up, holding her head. "Awww, my head, the heck happened?" This seemed to break weiss out of her trance as she hugged Ruby. "Hey, not so tight, weiss; you're hurting me," Ruby said, her face turning purple, which caused weiss face to turn red. She mumbled an apology and turned away, calling Ruby a dolt, which caused Ruby to smile and Blake, lo, okay at their top with some worry but keeping to herself. "Stop dodge and fight me!" Yang screamed, her rage growing with each swing of her ragging fist. "Seem like Yang needs our help!" weiss and Blake nod as V kicks Yang sliding back, "Damn you, V," Yang yells as she feels a hand on her shoulder, causing her to turn to see Blake, who just smiles at Yang. "Yang, please calm down and let us help you fight." Yang's eyes dart between Blake and V as Ruby and weiss add, "If we fight together, she can't take us all down," Weiss says. "Let's show her why RWBY is the best team ever!" Ruby gives her sister a big smile and raises her fist in the air as Yang's eyes return to her purple eyes. "if you are down with the friendship is magic crap, i like to continue. Thank you very much!" V yells, venom coming out with every word, causing the girl to glare at V, "You heard her, girls; let's show V why we're called Team Rwby!" Yang, Blake and Wiess nod as they run towards V, who is waiting for it. Ruby tells Blake and weiss to attack from the side and Yang to attack from the top, which has V roll her eyes as Yang jumps into the air and slams down on V, who uses her shield to block and send Yang flying back; it seems like history going to repeat itself, but ruby figured this might happen. Weiss and Blake come in from the side; weiss uses her hand to summon Glyphs on V's arms and legs, freezing her in place as Blake summons her shadow clones mixed with fire dust to run at V and blow its self up, which she does untill she out of juice. "Yes, i think we got her!" the girls cheer and begin to celebrate when a clapping is heard. "Well down, girls. nice attack, however." Light fills the smoke left from Blake's attack; the girls seem similar but can't remember where. The smoke clears, and V is covered in cuts and bruises. She smiles and points her shield at the girls. "I think you all deserve an award." The shield glows brighter. "aktína thermótitas!" the bright beam fills up the sky, which can be seen for miles as it goes right at Team RWBY. The attack only lasted a second, but it felt like hours for the girls. As the light fades, the team faces down on the ground. "Hmm, maybe i used a little too much power, whatever." she walks over to Ruby, who looks up to V. "what the hell was that?" V smiles as darkness fills the ruby vision.

"Wake up! you were not done here!" V says while throwing cold water on the girls, waking them up. The girls groan as they get up, looking up at V, who has a stone glare at them. "What the hell happened?" Yang asks anyone in particular. "right, you four get up! your training is not done!" V seems to yell this like a soldier being yelled at by higher-ups. Ruby got up first, her legs still hurting from the odd attack V did. "But what was that attack you did, V, and what was the point of all this?" V just boops Ruby's head, causing Ruby to look up and ask, "What the hell was that for!" V cuts them off. "You four don't need to know what that was; what you should be doing is getting your asses ready for the next step; now get your butts in gear" Weiss stands, wiping the dirt from her dress while Yang helps Blake up, "but that doesn't answer the question V! and how can we learn when you beat the crap out of us," Weiss says while the other nods causing V to sigh "Fine then i explain by point out something i noticed about team RWBY teamwork" she put teamwork in quotations, she then points her finger right at Yang "Yang you're a hothead blonded who can't seem to control her angry, and that will end up getting not only you but your team in check!" Yang's eyes turn red as she stomps up to V to stare her down. "See, this is what i mean; your angry is a fucking joke, and of course, your angry is what caused" She pointed to Yang and Blake's missing arm and leg as she turned to Blake. "Blake, your fear is just as bad or worse than blondie here." Yang took a swing at V, but she grabbed Yang's arm, kicking her legs out as she put her knee into her back, holding her arm in the air. "Now for Ice Queen and Red," Weiss and Ruby stand there surprised. "Weiss, your blocking is trash of the highest levels, and that pride for what you call family is a joke! you never gain what you want with that kind of crap you are," Weiss glares at V. "And you, Ruby," V says as Ruby starts a yes "You're not a leader. You're not even close to being it. I can tell there something your hiding" she lets go of Yang as everyone turn to Ruby who gone white as a sheet and stares "But that doesn't matter right now" V walk behind a tree and pulls out some odd what looks to be swords which she throws to the girls "what this for" Blake asks as there all try to explain that most of them beside Weiss don't fight with a sword and that "Don't matter you four are starting at the bottom and working your way to the top. I don't want to hear any bitching about it! now Blake your going to fight Ruby and Yang your up agaist Weiss!" the girls look at V with confusion "Did i stutter! move it!" she yells. While unhappy about what is happening, they turn to their foe and spar with each other.

The next few hours were painful for the girls; V told them to fight like their lives were on the line, but after an hour, they were to switch to another foe. This was hard on them because even if they were knocked, V would come over and force them to get up and keep going; the girls were not given any time to rest, and even when the sun went down, they were told to keep going, of course by this point the girls are all just exhausted. But they drag themself into V's home, all sore all over as V throws them some blackberry, which they eat, which seems to fill them up and allows the girls a chance to rest. The next few days of the week of training were the same as the last; the girls began to spar, changing who they fought. Yang seemed to be getting angry under control. V told the others to make Yang as angry as there, which, after a day or two, Yang would blow up, but now she is getting better at it, and her swing and blocking were growing little by little, but Progress nu the least. Weiss's blocking and counter-attacks are getting better, and she is even using her Glyphs to add strength to her attack and even block incoming attacks from her opponent. At the same time, using the Glyphs to make her opponent attack, and even her opponent's body slower, gives her the chance to attack and be one step ahead of them. Blake's courage is growing in leaps and bounds, and she even uses her shadow clones to help her attack and block. she goes to attack, and when the foe goes to attack, the clone will block and give Blake a chance to counter-attack; she even attacks at the same time as the clone to add more to the attack and even uses making clones of her sword and even her fist. When she connects the attack, it adds more power to it. But Ruby, well, she is not doing so well. She can't escape her guilt, Cardin's words blasting in her ears. "This is all thanks to you, Ruby." Weiss noticed this and was going to ask Ruby what was wrong when V interrupted to let them know that it was time for them to stop for the day.

And that's where the girls are right now. The girls lay on their beds, tired and wanting to die from all the training. As weiss sits there trying to fall asleep, she hears the door squick open a bit, moving from someone, and then the door closes; she lifts herself and looks over and sees Ruby's bed empty. Ruby is out on the porch looking up at the stars. "Ruby, you okay?" Ruby turns to see Weiss holding the doorframe to keep her up. "Hey weiss, ya, I'm okay, just thinking," Ruby says to her white-haired teammate; she keeps staring at the stares. "Are you sure it seems ever seen V act about what happened? You've been a bit." She reached out to touch Ruby's shoulder, which caused Ruby to jump far back on the grass in front of the house, surprising Weiss and Ruby. "I um, weiss, it just." She turns away, her face white as she looks about to throw up. "Ruby, if anything is wrong, you can talk to me; you can talk to your teammates; we are your friends." Weiss strolls towards Ruby, her hand stretching out to her teammate. "Please, Ruby, let me help you," weiss adds, but Ruby turns her back and begins to run into the forest, with Weiss following behind her, wondering what's wrong with Ruby.

Back with Yang and Blake, both are just completely tired and want to sleep, or Blake does, but Yang is just trying to get herself up. "Come on, stupid body, work your Sh!" she falls back and looks at Blake. "Hey Blake, you looking Future. Look just as tired as me," Yang says to Blake, trying to light the mood with her crazy puns. "God, Yang, stop. i can't handle your puns right now. im too sore & tired for this," Blake, of course, just rolls her eyes and laughs at the pun, managing to leave her body up to learn agaist the wall behind her. Both laugh for a moment but go silent, just looking away. the silence and awareness are heavy between them both. "Hey Blake, could i ask you something?" Yang wanted to remove the silence from the room. "Sure, Yang, what do you want to ask?" Yang takes a deep breath and asks, "It's just." She looks at her arm. "You wondering if we made a good choice, aren't you, Yang?" Blake says, her head down as she seems to fill in the blank, which causes Ynag to nod. "I don't know if we did or not." Blake looks at her legs, rubbing them with her hands. "And i feel like we did, but my guts say we didn't, but my heart thinks we did." Yang stares and looks away. "But we have been given a second chance and should take it!" She jumps up, only for her legs to give out and fall onto Yang. "Woah there, Blake, cats don't always land on their feet." Blake blushed and got off of Yang; she coughed. "Look, i know it might seem like it must, but we should try to work what we've got; we lost everything and been thrown to the bottom of the barrel. let's work our way back up, Yan," Yang cuts her off. "But what if can we do!" she yells, tears welling in her eyes, "Yang," Blake says with worry in her voice, "I failed to help you all! i failed to protect my team!" the tears flow as she seems to let it all out, but inset of talking Blake let her vent "I can't fight like i could with this arm! how am i useful How!" she screamed. Blake holds her and rubs the back of her head. What Blake and Yang didn't know was that V was listening. "Seem you two need more training; maybe i use the fast way to help them out," she sighed. "i get ear fill from the higher-ups, but what can you do?" she walks back downstairs as crying can be heard from Team RWBY room.

They have been running with Weiss and Ruby for a while, but both are still tired from the training. They stop at a large opening with just one tree sitting there. "Ruby, Stop!" Weiss commands, but Ruby doesn't not till she at the tree, holding onto it as if her life depended on it; Weiss pants hard. "Ruby, what the heck has gotten into you? why are you doing this, and why are you acting like a chi?" Ruby punches the tree, which causes weiss to step back. " Don't you get it, ice queen? i caused all this to happen!" Ruby screams into the night, her voice carrying. Confused, Weiss acts ruby. "Wwwhat do you mean you cause all this ruby?" Ruby still her back to weiss. "if i hadn't gone on that stupid mission with you all if i just listen to my gut! if i if i" Ruby turned to her weiss tears flowing like crazy now. "Yang and Blake would still have their arms and legs, and we wouldn't have lost our weapons." She barries her face in her hands and crumples to the ground, hiding her face in her dress and crying. Of course, weiss was confused and just walked over to Ruby, patting her shoulder and letting her get it all out. After some time, Ruby explains that Cartin planned all this to get back at us for what happened on the trip and that Cartin told her that this entire mess was on Ruby; of course, weiss just sat there and listened to Ruby till she finished. "And so this is all my fault," Ruby says between sobs, weiss of course; she turns and looks at the stars before answering Ruby. "Dolt, you think that this is all your fault," weiss says with a bit of her classic sass, which gets Ruby to look up at weiss. "Um, didn't you hear me for the last bit?" Weiss got up, wiped her dress and walked in front of Ruby. "So what if it is your fault, Ruby, we all fought Cardin, and we kicked his ass, so don't you think all of team RWBY is at fault" Ruby just stares. "Besides Ruby, as the team leader, it's your responsibility to take action when it comes to stuff like this, and you're doing just that, right? well, that's for us, your teammates, to decide, and for me, i think you're doing everything right; not sure about Yang and Blake, but i know i believe you are," she reached her hand to Ruby. "But if i hadn't let Cardin," Weiss just bonked her. "Ouch, the heck was that for Ice Queen!" Ruby, anger filling her voice, "There, the team leader, i know." Weiss gave a small smile to Ruby. "Look, you messed up, but you are still learning to be a team leader, and besides, this entire woah is me, is not you, Ruby Rose" Ruby just stared, the anger vanishing from her. "I um," she try to think of somthing but nothing coming, "But if you want to be sad dolt maybe i be the new leader of team RWBY and will call ourselfs team WRBY!" Weiss jsut say this with so much joy in her voice it just catches Ruby more off guard, and she begins to belly laugh, Weiss smiles thinking "there my favour dolt" Ruby of couse laugh for a good five mins but she finally compsses herself long engouch to smile at Weiss "Thanks Ice queen your not so bad after all" of couse Weiss puff up her cheeks and yells "whats that suppost to mean!" there both just laugh at it all, bring the calm to this night "Let head back dolt" Weiss says as Ruby replays "you got it ice queen" the both walk back to V home, not know that tommore will change them but lead them down a path that will shake the world itself.

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