Perseus ( RWBY fanfiction)

Chapter 1 : Betrayed

Ironwood kneeled beside the wounded girl in Emerald Forest. Most of her limbs were missing, with the exception of her left arm. A rather large wound ran up her face, and another wound was in her chest. "Will we send her back to Beacon?" Penny asked.

"No." Ironwood said, "Beacon doesn't want her back." He stood, motioning for a few of his soldiers to grab her. "They did this to her."

Penny looked as though she was considering what he had just said, and James hated it. It was a machine, but it thought, lived, felt. That terrified him. He brushed these feelings aside, and focused on the task at hand. "Do you know her?" He asked, showing little to no emotion as usual.

"Huh?" The ginger asked, not expecting the question.

"Do you know her?" He asked again.

"Yes." Penny answered sadly. "Why would someone do this to her?"

"Because she's special." James answered. "Because she's everything Beacon could ask for. Because she sets the bar too high. Because she is another level of perfect: the perfect hero."

The ramp lowered to the Bullhead, and James entered the bullhead that brought him out there.

Earlier that day, Ozpin sent teams RWBY, JNPR, CFVY, and CRDL on a mission to kill as many Grimm as they could in the Emerald Forest.

It went south from there.

The teams had decided to split up with their partners. At some point Pyrrha and Jaune got separated. The redhead met up with Team CRDL to carry out their plan. She signaled Weiss to begin Phase One, and the heiress began to maliciously attack her leader. Unfortunately, Ruby was too fast and, once she recovered from surprise, blocked every hit.

Noticing that the Ice Queen needed assistance, Pyrrha and CRDL came out of the bushes, and Pyrrha disarmed Ruby, slicing her right arm clean off, cutting straight through the girl's aura. Ruby cried out in pain and fell to her knees. Upon realization that her teammate, with the help of one of her friends and team CRDL, was trying to kill her, Ruby began to cry. "Why?" Was all she could say, coming to the dreadful realization that these were her final moments. "I trusted you!" She screamed, rage taking over, her eyes turning blood red like Yang, then to dull grey.

"I trusted you!" Everyone who was in the forest heard Ruby's rage-fueled scream. Yang immediately called her sister on her scroll, and when Ruby didn't answer, she called Weiss.

Weiss looked down at the caller ID on her scroll, and motioned for Pyrrha to make sure Ruby couldn't be heard. When the heiress answered, she faked crying. "Yang... I'm sorry... R-Ruby... T-They cornered her... There were just so many... I-I got scared and ran. She kept calling for me to come back, a-and when I didn't she screamed at me."

"O-Okay..." Yang quietly said. "Meet us back at the Bullhead.

Weiss hung up, and turned back to Ruby. "I'm sorry it had to come to this. But we can't have a little girl ruining Beacon's image, can we?"

Ruby slung her head back, slamming into Pyrrha's face, and ran. "You little shit!" Pyrrha yelled in anger, feeling the blood running down her face. She picked up her shield and threw it towards Ruby. The shield hit just above her knees, taking her legs off. Ruby screamed in pain, but it was not loud enough that it could not be heard by the others. Ruby landed on her back, and Weiss plunged Myrtenaster through her chest. The younger girl spit out blood, and went limp from blood loss. "She was easy." Cardin commented smugly.

"Easy for you to say." Pyrrha said, wiping the blood from her face. "You didn't do shit."