[A/N: I added a little tiny bit in chapter 29 as of Sat. Dec. 5th. Its not a big thing but still...]
Everyone was in rough shape after that. Jaune seemed to heal the fastest, but was almost sick with worry for his team. Ren had finally woken up, but was still recovering from the pretty severe head wound that had caused him to pass out in the first place. Nora was stubborn. She wouldn't even leave Ren's side long enough for the nurses to look at her arm, which had been cut open and the multiple bruises from fighting. Pyhrra was was told to stay off her knee for a while. She had injured that in the explosion.
Team RWBY was worse off than team JNPR. Yang was being the strongest. Despite the dislocated shoulder from the explosion and multiple cuts from debris, she was making bad jokes to try to cheer people up. It wasn't working. Ruby had twisted her ankle up pretty bad, and used crutches to limp over to Weiss's bed silently. She was the leader, and felt that she had failed her team. No consoling from her sister could convince her otherwise. Blake was bed bound due to blood loss from multiple wounds. Weiss faded in and out of consciousness. The wound on her side was pretty bad. The nurses said that she should heal fine but for now she needed to rest.
And team RNBW, where do I even begin? Bolt was suffering some memory loss and other effects from a concussion, and had a large head wound. Recherche sat on the edge of his bed, staring down at the floor. Physically, she was the least injured of the team. She had a badly bruised wrist, and had to relocate her shoulder. Nothing too severe but she was emotionally damaged. She had let go of herself for revenge, and it allowed those that she was responsible for to get badly hurt. On top of that, she had let Nevermora's killer get away not once but twice, and the second time she almost killed another of our teammates. Wolf was still unconscious. Sleepslicer had caught him with a poisoned blade. It had been eating away at him, but the nurses had caught onto it. They said that he should wake up soon.
Me? I was on the end of Wolf's bed with my knees tucked up to my chest. If you had thought that I had been quiet before I was even more so now. I couldn't get myself to say anything to anyone. Even when Yang had thrown a bad joke in my direction I had just stared at her with a blank expression until she left me alone. I rested my head on my knee and tried to ignore the pain.
I had a large gash on my cheek. They said if I was lucky it wouldn't scare. I had a large bump on my head from the explosion. There were also burns and scratches. None of them hurt quite as much as my cracked ribs. My arms and legs were covered with bruises from trying to match my old mentor's moves. The nurses insisted repeatedly that I stay in my own bed, but they couldn't get me to move. Sometimes I'd make an illusion to make it seem like I was asleep, but then one of the nurses would touch it and it would break and they'd come back to me. Eventually they just stopped asking. None of the physical wounds compared to how messed up I was on the inside.
I had seen a ghost. My mentor, the man that practically raised me, the one who created whatever I was, he had come back from the dead to tell me everything that I knew was a lie. Everything that I had done, every reason for why I had become a killer was a lie. He never really liked me. He liked Scary Neo, and there was no telling how far he would go to get her back. Before using her abilities was easy. It was a way to distance myself from killing. Usually I got the job done and she'd be satisfied enough to calm down on my own. But now, how can I guarantee that I could get her back under control? That she wouldn't go after my friends? There was a good chance that she could see them as holding me back and decide to get rid of them. But right now, she was my only chance at beating Sleepslicer.
And if all that wasn't enough, all of them had disappeared. Nicholas Sleepslicer, Cinder Fall, the White Fang general, and their largest bomb that they had managed to get away with, the one that could level a city, were all completely gone.
