RWBY: I'll Carve My Own Path In This World (RWBY X Male reader) [5]

Chapter 30: Brunswick Farm

We walked through the empty town, no sounds came from anywhere but our footsteps and the wind

"What happened here? The other towns we passed through were damaged or unfinished, but this place...it seems to be okay..." Ruby said, Weiss was the next to speak

"Maybe everyone left in a hurry?" She said, I wordlessly walked up to one of the houses and kicked the door open

"Come on, let's get out of the cold already." I said, clutching my hoodie closer to me, despite its warmth, it stood no chance against this weather, the others looked at me weirdly

"What? It's not like there's anyone left to complain." I grumbled as I walked through the door, they reluctantly followed me

"Are you sure about this Y/N?" Ruby asked, looking at me with worried eyes

"Yup, now let's get a fire going, someone should search around for blankets too." I said yawning, they began dividing up the roles, who to I no longer had the strength to care, me, Oscar and Ruby walked around, the first room we found had books lining the walls

"A study, maybe a library?" Oscar said

"What's the...fucking difference?" I said, rubbing my eyes, something was off, I knew that much already, but I couldn't quite think of what it was anymore, I saw Ruby had gone over to another part of the room, I walked over to her, she was looking at a picture, everything was slowly becoming blurry

"Hey...Ruby..." I muttered, Ruby looked at me, her eyes widened in panic when she saw me sway heavily

"Tell Maria...about your eyes..." I managed before everything went black

Sugar honey ice tea! What's going on!? Were my thought as I just barely managed to stop Y/N from falling over, carefully lowering him to the floor, to make matters worse, a shrill scream pierced the air, I dashed up the stairs, Blake hot on my heels, we burst into a room to see Weiss and Yang, Uncle Qrow came up behind us and we all saw what had caused Ice Queen to scream

Two corpses, lying there in the bed, as if they had simply gone to sleep, What the!? Is this what Y/N meant by 'It's not like there's anyone left to complain'?

"Uncle Qrow, check the other houses!" I said, Uncle nodded and walked down the stairs, Yang escorted Weiss as we all walked back downstairs, still shaken by what we saw. An hour or so later we were all sitting around in the main room, the fire was roaring, Weiss sat next to it, eyes still wide open, she shook ever so slightly, Y/N still hadn't woken up, we had moved him onto the couch and he hadn't budged, a door opened down the hallway as the roaring wind made itself clear for a few seconds, Uncle Qrow walked into the room, brushing his shoulders

"Every house, it's all the same." He said, before anyone could ask him, he continued

"Bodies, every single home, it's like the whole place just never woke up one day." Weiss turned to look at the rest of us