RWBY Short Stories

「I Was Never Gone」

Alternative Ending

It's been eight months since Beacon's fall.

Our young heroes have returned to their old academy, just to check up on things.

Nora, Ren, Jaune, and Ruby went their separate ways.

The silver warrior walked along the forest, making her way up a cliff, which held a perfect view of Beacon Academy.

She needed to make her head as it was overwhelmed with memories and endless thoughts from these past few months.

Ruby Rose stood on a cliff. Looking toward Beacon as it recovers from the hell it went through.

She took a moment to inhale the fresh air.

Something was on her mind. Someone was on her mind that she couldn't shake. Their memories embedded in her head forever.

Her eyes were clouded in darkness; her cheerful smile turned into a frown. She had been walking with a heavy heart for months.

She looked at the sky, picturing the clouded and smoky atmosphere of that day.

But one of her many memories continued to haunt her. The fight between the partners in crime.

The plane.

Where she fought two famous criminals.

Her enemies: Neo and Roman.

That night he perished, and the silent pink huntress vanished.

Ruby gritted her teeth and clenched her hands into a fist. Her nails were digging into the skin of her palms. She was digging her nails so deep into the skin they began to cause pain, but she ignored it as they didn't bleed.

"I could have saved you."

"I couldn't save you."

"I d-didn't save you."

"I l-let you d-die."

Her silver eyes were shut tight as she tried to keep herself from crying, but every waking moment more and more began to form, threatening to spill any second.

"And now you're g-gone."

She felt like she was losing herself. Her strength began to leave her body. Her legs were growing weaker by the second as this pain became worse. Letting her body fall to the ground and cry herself a river.

"You are gone forever."
She whispered to herself.

"I never left little red."

She never turned so quickly to the sound of someone's voice.

Her tears fell, rolling down her cheek before falling onto the grass filled ground.

"Well, and alive."

She was crying but laughing, sadness, relief, and overall pure joy to her broken heart.

Bringing herself up from the grass floor she cried tears of joy.

She ran away from the cliff side, tears falling through the air the closer she got to him.

He smiled faintly at the red girl, opening his arms.

She ran to him and leaped forward. Her arms stretched out to catch him.

She was found in his embrace, the criminal's vigorous and comforting arms. Holding herself up by wrapping her small legs around his hips, her hands flew around his neck.

"You are a-alive!" She cried and cheered.

"You're alive." Ruby whimpered quietly into his neck as she held his messy orange hair. Our criminal holding her firmly against himself.

"I'm alive." He whispered, and she smiled through the tears.

"I'm alive Red."

She nodded against him and held on tight.

She got her criminal back.

"D-don't ever leave me!"

"Don't ever lea-."

" I promise."

He whispered in her ear.

He smiled.

Oh how much they missed this, wrapped in each other's embrace.

They would never want to let this moment go.