Lurking Darkness

The 13th Day

You are writhing in pain, now on the cold, vinyl floor because any fibers that rub against your skin feeling like you're being shot with a round from Ruby's rifle, the pain is astronomical and you're on the verge of not being able to speak.

"..."

"Y/n? You need to take a shower, you haven't had one in over a week." Weiss tells you.

"Don't need... want Blake..." She huffs and puffs.

"Y/n, there's only 8 days left, you're over halfway through this, you can do it. But I'm not going to let you do it smelling like an Ursa. Come on." She picks you up by your shoulder extremely carefully and helps you to the shower.

"Can you undress yourself or do you need help?" She asks you concerned.

"I... can." You utter before falling onto the wall.

"Okay, no you can't. Here." Weiss helps you remove your shirt. Even the act of taking off a shirt feels like razor blades gliding across your body. Next is the pants, your calves feel like they're being shredded by just the pants being around your ankles. You manage to utter out a joke even through this pain.

"Thank goodness you're not Yang..." Weiss chuckles slightly before closing her eyes and removing your underwear. Easily the worst part for obvious reasons. She turns the bath water on, realizing the water pressure is too strong for your weak skin. Once it's full she slowly helps you into it, immediately shivers overtake you. She helps you clean yourself but allowing you to do the worst part, once everything is done, she helps you out, gets fresh clothing and painstakingly puts them on you, groans of pain escape you every now and then. She helps you onto the bed once you're dried off and clothed.

"Okay, just yell if you require anything. It's my turn to take a shower now, I'll make it fast." She closes the door and lets you be. You lie as still as possible, only moving your eyes to look at the T.V. The cold floor soothing the hot side of your body. Once Weiss is finished, she returns as a mass of white hair.

"I never realized you had so much hair." You tell her.

"Fun fact: I've never cut it. Okay, Ruby is coming over, she's bringing cookies, just letting you know."

"Thanks..." After half an hour you hear Ruby walk in, you can make out some of the conversation, though the T.V drowns out some it.

"Ruby, he's not...ight not make... more days."

"He'll make it... for Blake...just have to keep our eyes..."

"You saw the cuts...did those to...self..."

"That's bad...Dad might know...at times do to help..." You pass out from pure exhaustion and the pain is tiring.

Ruby's P.O.V

"Weiss, he's been that bad?" You and her sit on the couch eating cookies.

"Ruby, this is awful for him, he's barely eating and anytime I try to feed him, his body just rejects it and spits it out. He couldn't even undress himself to get into a bath. Thankfully he was mature for once, except the Yang joke."

"Damn..." You don't sweat often, especially not like Yang and Y/n. But you're stunned how bad this is.

"Any news on Blake?" Weiss asks you.

"Blake isn't doing good either, I dare say she's worse. She's constantly making Shadows which makes it hard to keep track of her. She's covered in blood too."

"Her blood?"

"Yang's. Yang is scratched to high heaven and is even missing some of her hair, not a lot, but if it weren't Blake, enough to murder someone."

"Oh goodness.." Weiss exclaims.

"There's 8 days left right?"

"Yes, and it's only going to get worse for both of them."

"How much worse?"

"Pyrrha thinks the book isn't totally complete, but their Auras are going to start merging tomorrow, it's supposed to be the worst between then and the end, I'm talking about bone breaking pain, almost like they're on fire."

"Ironic for him." You try to joke.

"Not funny." Weiss retorts.

"I'm going to call Dad and see if he went through something like this with Yang's mom."

"Good idea." You pick up your scroll and go to contacts, you find Dad. You call him and prepare for a long conversation.

"Hey pumpkin!"

"Hey Dad! How've you been?"

"I've been bored, just finishing the touches on the garden. What about you?"

"That's actually a reason I called, we have a 'delicate' situation here."

"What's wrong?"

"Remember how Y/n and Blake got married a while back?"

"Mhm."

"Well, they're both in incredible pain."

"Oooh yea. I read that book. Aura Binding or bonding or something like that right?"

"Mhm. Did you and Yang's mom have that happen?" He sighs.

"We did. It didn't last very long though, I think maybe two days?"

"Well, Y/n and Blake are on day thirteen..."

"Thirteen days?! Brothers Grimm, are they okay?"

"About as okay as you can be. Weiss is with Y/n and Yang is with Blake. We're keeping them separated because Blake is pregnant, we don't want harm to come to the baby."

"Good idea hun'. Do you know how much longer they'll be like that?"

"Blake and Y/n both had a dream where it was two weeks. So that would make it about 8 more days."

"Holy shit!"

"Dad.."

"Sorry sweetheart, but man, that's a long time."

"Mhm. I just wanted to know if you had any advice for us to help them."

"Well, keep them calm, keep them separated physically, but if I remember correctly. They can text and call on the scroll, it could help them remain calm. As long as they aren't together during this process, shit, I imagine they'll be one of the strongest duos on the planet."

"They can call each other!" You scream as Weiss reacts.

"Yes they can."

"Thats great! Weiss go get—!!"

"Give me... my Scroll..."

8 days left! It's going to get worse now though, especially this last week, time to find out, next time. Again, thanks for reading! -P