Queen Ruby

Chapter 23

Closing my eyes I focus again. This time it's easier to sleeve my body behind and focus on my soul. The big thing is still there. I pull myself together and walk towards it. It takes me is complete. I feel the heat, fire burning away every. It's hot but it doesn't hurt too much, it only stings. I accept it and embrace it. I see them, I see them all. Standing in front of me again.

'Mom' I try to reach her. She's standing motionless in front of me. All of them, I feel them and I remember everything. I see their lives pass by my eyes, then out of nowhere, I see my own life flash by. All the good memories of my friends but also the memories I tried to forget. The mean kids at Signal, the pain of holding back, my hatred towards the Grimm and finally I see what I made myself forget so long ago. I remember my life before dad, I remember playing with Roman I remember mom holding me when I hurt myself, I remember my village and I remember the night I lost it all. I lost it all. I lost everything that night. I lost everything.

'You can't hide from me. I am you and you are me. Why do you try to forget me so much?' I hear my own voice. In front of me, I see, standing there like the others did, myself, but I'm no me. My dress is black and I have a tale and ears. I can tell that I'm a Woolf from the little fangs in my mouth. My hair is grey like my tale and my eyes look like those of an animal.

'I'm sorry!' I scream, hoping she can hear me.

'Sorry? You're Sorry?' She laughs. 'You locked me away all this time. You don't even remember me.'

'I'll let you out, I'll let you out, but we need to work together.'

'Together?'

'Let us become one!'

'Why would I do that if I can just take our body for myself?'

'Because this world isn't as bad as you think! You had everything taken from you and I forgot you to ease that pain, but it didn't all lead to pain. We have a sister a father a team that loves us, we don't need to be scared and angry!'

'Yes, we do! We need to be what we are! We are a monster! A cold-blooded monster! We are what we are because this is what we need to be to defeat Salem!'

'No!'

'Yes! It is!'

'Please! Let us be one. We can be happy and have friends. When the time comes I promise to do what I have to to protect Remnant, but until the time comes we don't have to be a monster!'

The Faunus me expression changes. She doesn't seem angry anymore. She's surprised. Slowly I see her start to fall apart. Like glad she cracks and shatters.

'When the time comes I will take control. Don't forget that.' I hear her say one last time before I am pulled out again. I wake up in the middle of the air. My bday is glowing white and I start floating downward. As soon as my feet touch the ground the light goes away. I feel the tail and ears, I can move them like moving my fingers. I can see my reflection in the glass walls of Oz's office. My hair is a dark grey, but I still have the red end and it's longer. My take is the same color as my hair, it's tip is red. I try feeling my teeth with my tung, my little K9 teeth are here too. My eyes look the same but I see better. I can see everything, the tiles on the roof of the tower on the other side, a bird far away, I feel so much more. My senses are highlighted and I smell things I never gave before.

"It worked..." I hear Qrow whisper. When I turn to him he seems surprised that I even heard his comment.

"How do you feel Rubs? You are still my little niece right?"

"I'm not sure. I think I am, I took her in. I let her in, I think I'm me, but I'm also... her."

"Her?" Roman asks carefully.