Perseus ( RWBY fanfiction)

Chapter 9: Red head

Perseus blocked each of Yang's heavy blows, the force from the impact cracking the ground beneath her. Yang had so much brute strength behind it, that Perseus had to extend her shield in order to not be crushed. Taking the opportunity, she bashed the blonde directly in the face with it. Perseus unlatched her feet from the cracked ground and kicked Yang in the stomach, sending her stumbling back.

"Ruby's not gone." She grunted out, slapping one of Yang's shells away. "She's in our custody. Why do you think we're so sure about what happened?"

"If Ruby's been with you for so long, why didn't you arrest Weiss before now?" Yang shouted out, sending a series of shotgun-enhanced punches down on Perseus' shield.

"She's a Schnee." Perseus said in a bored tone, grunting under the heavy rain of blows. "We couldn't use Rose as the primary source of Schnee and Nikos' proof, she would have been killed to defend the Schnee name."

"Why don't I believe you?" Yang asked, sending a particularly strong punch to her opponent. She was knocked back slightly, and her shield left a small opening to take. Yang didn't hesitate; landing a devastating blow on her Perseus' face. Perseus flew back, her mask cracking from the force.

Perseus got to her feet, a hand on her cracked mask. "Because you don't want to admit that the person you defended killed your adoptive daughter." She said in an annoyed tone.

"You're lying." Yang said defiantly. "I just know it." The blonde strode over to the cybernetic soldier. "Come here you fucking Arkham Knight ripoff." She taunted. Briefly overwhelmed by curiousity, Perseus looked down at her armor, attempting to see what Yang was talking about. In response, she was slammed into a wall. Yang began to maliciously slam her fists into the cyber-soldier's face mask. They could both hear the sound of breaking metal.

Yang stopped when she saw blood running out of the mask, down Perseus' neck. She pulled her arm back to finish the fight with a final blow to the throat, but Perseus' shield intercepted the hit once more. Repeating the blog from before, she bashed the blonde in the face with the slightly cracked shield. Perseus fired her blaster at Yang's feet, launching the blonde across campus, unconscious before she even landed.

While Perseus had been fighting Yang, Jaune fought Pyrrha. They both swung their weapons at one another, blocking or parrying each hit, showing a remarkable increase in Jaune's strength. Neither side left an opening for their opponent to take. The exchange of blows would never have ended if Perseus hadn't intervened, stepping in and knocking Pyrrha off her feet, aiming an Aura-piercing pistol at her head. Perseus kneeled down to the fallen warrior, sliding her mask off, allowing Pyrrha to know the truth.

"Oh my God." Pyrrha said, her voice full of fear and horror. "You have to understand! It wasn't personal!" Pyrrha said quickly, pleading for her life, "He said he'd kill me if I didn't!"

"Who?" Ruby asked suspiciously, a smile stretched onto her face before she put her mask back on, preventing someone else from seeing her.

"I–I... He'll kill me..." Pyrrha said miserably.

"Either I kill you, or he does! CHOOSE!" Ruby pressed the pistol against Pyrrha's temple, sending a shudder down the redhead's spine. "These are aura-piercing rounds; they'll break your aura as soon as I pull the trigger, do you really want that?" Pyrrha shook her head, tears forming in her eyes.

"I can't!" She said pleadingly.

"You can." Ruby muttered ominously. Showing no mercy or sympathy, she pistol-whipped Pyrrha. A stream of fresh blood ran down her face. She brought the gun to Pyrrha's stomach, and pulled the trigger. The redhead screamed in pain, her armor, Aura, and resolve being shot through all at once. "How can you live with yourself?" Ruby asked, picking her up by the throat and slamming her against the wall, shoving the gun under her chin.