RWBY: Death Blossom

Part 3: Nevermore, Ever-Chosen!

PART 3: NEVERMORE, EVER-CHOSEN
Episode 10: OF SOLITUDE AND SELF
The last thing Ruby was able to see was falling, a black swirling hole waiting for her down below, as voices were heard, both from the past, the present, and some, for the future. Her sight comes back and with a shocking surprise. She's floating in the middle of a boundless black void! Nothing there but her and an ocean below her. Wait? An ocean?! This was way different when she was falling through the bridge of the void. The sea glimmers with a mysterious light shining through it's calm and clear waters. The soothing sound of the swaying tides breaking the dead silence of the void.

Ruby: (Where......Am I? How did I get here?)

Ruby snaps out of her dumbfounded gaze and racks her brain for answers. Everything is hazy at first until it all comes back to her.

Ruby: That's right......

She recalls the events prior to waking up in this strange place.

Ruby: ......I fell.

Her weight suddenly comes back, but not in a way she expects. She plummets to the waters below. She screams, her thoughts scrambling on what to do as she races for a dive. Her semblance won't do anything for her, there is nowhere for her to go. She's in an empty void with a boundless sea.

Ruby: (Oh crap! Oh crap!)

She pinches her nose, holds her breath, and braces for impact. She hits the water, splashing through the cold surface and sinking to it's depths. Bubbling water fills her ears.
She swims for the surface but realizes that she couldn't, something is pulling her down.
She kicks her legs and swings her arms with all her might. Still no results. She sinks deeper and deeper. Her lungs ache, closing in on itself as she runs out of air. Is this how it ends? Drowning in the depths of a bottomless sea? What will happen to her? Will her body float to the surface? Or will she continue to sink? Does anything live in these waters? Will her corpse be food for them? What can live in these dark depths? These pressures? She gives in, unable to hold any longer, and opens her mouth. Instead of water flooding her lungs, air comes in. Ruby gasps with a deep breath of fresh air.

Ruby: Am I...Breathing underwater?

She takes in another breath, cold and refreshing air filling her lungs. Specks of light twinkle in the depths below. One by one their numbers swell, coalescing into a sea of stars and galaxies. Her mouth drops, a universe growing before her very eyes. The stars glide pass her at a slow pace, each one echoing with voices that oddly sound familiar. In fact, they sound like her voice. Then she sees them. Reflections. Images of herself, Neo, and others within the stars.

Goodwitch: Deathsinger!

????: Monster!

Ruby: (Professor Goodwitch?)

Ruby jerks her head towards the star where Glynda's voice came from. She sees Glynda, wearing an outfit looking she's in Vacuo, with another person who looks like a headmaster, facing off against.....Ruby? Except she was wearing a black and grey outfit with red, white and purple accents, and wearing a white mask with black slits for eyes.

"Ruby": The only monster here is you!

(Voice Changer)

(Ruby: What's a Deathsinger? )

Ruby wonders while watching speechless, until a loud grunt snatches Ruby's attention to another star. She sees herself and Neo fighting against Cinder and Tyrian in the grand hall of Shade Academy. She notices that this version of herself is the same as the last one while Neo was wearing a whole new outfit. Ruby watches herself get flung through the air by Cinder, hooking a pillar with her scythe, swings around, and lands next to Neo.