RWBY: Malefic Rising

Chapter Six: Monsters

The two girls remained silent. Weiss had somehow managed to close her mouth, but her stare never faded. Finally Ruby spoke, "Come on Weiss this isn't important. Just forget about what I said. We have to be a team here."
Weiss blinked and her expression changed. She shook her head.
"Sorry Ruby, I was just so surprised that you could even have said that. You're just so.. So.. you know.."
"So innocent?"
"I was going more with childish, but yeah innocent works too."
"Hey!"
Weiss smiled pretending to ignore Ruby's objection. She continued to look around. Sigh, "This is all I can do I guess." She unsheathed Myrtenaster and signaled Ruby to step back. Ruby did so and Weiss stabbed it into the ground creating an ice dome around the briefcase.

"That should protect it until Yang and Blake get back." She lifted her weapon from the ground.
"Let's get out of this gorge" Weiss said as she pointed back to the top of the hill. After setting up camp night had taken place over the sky. Weiss sat next to the fire, warming her snowy hands. The smell of the corpses had subsided thanks to a steady breeze from the north. A lush scent of trees was all that remained. Ruby sucked in the moist cool air and shuddered in pleasure. What amazing weather. She smiled and let the cold fill her lungs. She snuggled up in a blanket and fell deep into sleep.

The sun warmed Ruby gently. She sat with her team in good company. JNPR had joined them in congregation. A mix of novel tails, terrible puns, mass teasing, and hysterical laughter was heard throughout the halls of Beacon Academy. What an amazing day, thought Ruby. Leaning back she smiled closing her eyes. I want it to stay like this forever.

Suddenly Ruby felt cold. She opened her eyes, the sky was darkened by storm clouds, the school destroyed. There were smoking fires. They cast little light in the crumbling ruins, but it didn't matter. Ruby could see. There her friends lay. Lifeless in the rubble their expressions of pain stared into her as if saying she was the cause. "What is this?" cried Ruby. Tears precipitated from her eyes. "What happened to you?!" She shouted weeping. Yang's blank glassy eyes bore no answers. Ruby fell to her knees. She tugged Yang's shirt and shook her sister.
"Yang!"
Nothing.
"Yang please!" She shook harder.
Silence.
"Please Yang, wake up!"
Her tears spilled over her sister's body. She was all alone. Ruby looked behind her. There was the cause, in the middle of this all, that damned silver suitcase...

The sound of Ruby's sobs woke Weiss. She ran over to Ruby. Her crying friend shifted from from side to side, she was fighting so hard to get out, to awaken from the nightmare she was in.

Weiss crouched down and shook Ruby.
"Ruby wake up! Ruby!
Ruby's eyes opened.
"Weiss?" Suddenly she exploded with raw emotion. She had the saddest smile as she grasped Weiss tightly.
"I'm so happy you're alive!" She hugged Weiss in between sobs. Weiss shivered, Ruby was being so clingy...
She continued, almost erratically.
"I'm won't be alone. I'm not going to be alone."
Weiss's face turned to worry, something's happening to Ruby.
"Are you ok?"
Ruby remained quiet.
The shock was too much for her. Ruby's voice was lost. Weiss looked down at her friend's eyes, they weren't the same as before, something is definitely askew.
"Well for now just try and get some rest. We'll talk about this tomorrow."
Ruby nodded, curling up she laid back down. Weiss turned her head as she lay on the ground, looking back at her leader.
"Good night Ruby."

When morning came Ruby hadn't much sleep. She got up and walked past Weiss to the edge. The case was still there.
"Thank goodness," Ruby said closing her eyes. "Thank goodness for what?" Weiss inquired,Ruby.
"The briefcase is still there."
"Don't be so sure young miss." Said a frenetic yet almost feverishly rusted voice. Ruby and Weiss both turned to see who it was. Standing there was a large Faunus. His uniform was white and grey, definitely White Fang.
"I see we have a Schnee with us, hehe, nothing I haven't snuffed out before." He grinned. Ruby looked from the lone faunus to Weiss. Oh god did she look pissed.

"Your killings end here scum!" She pointed her sword threateningly. He twisted his head to such an angle that it was seemingly unnatural. His lips contorted in such a way that even Weiss cringed.
"Oh, scary. It looks like I'm going to have to get on the ground and beg for my miserable life aren't I? You're going to kill me with that rapier loaded with crayons?" His narcissistic eyes were only matched by his gross sadistic smile. He bent his head backwards to look behind him.

"Right Boys?" Suddenly four other fauna appeared. Each having a disgusting smile to call their own. They were certainly here for the "fun".

Weiss stood her ground, "You don't even believe in the cause you work for. You're just a bunch of murders!

"Now where are your manners? We believe just fine, Mom always said that a job isn't a job if you enjoy it." His smile grew wider. "And I've come to enjoy it very much."

He reached behind him and revealed his prized possession. It's blade unfolded quickly, all gears snapping into place. Black was the Axe that came to shape. Its crude design dwarfed Ruby by comparison. The edges looked as if they were covered in layers of rotten blood. He stood like a giant holding it up with brute strength.

"This is my Darling Tralacia. Isn't she beautiful?" He rubbed the blade lovingly. "I've never cleaned her. She holds onto the blood of every person I've ever killed." He mockingly stared into Weiss's eyes as he talked.
"Maybe someone you knew is standing here along with us. Pretty interesting if you think about it huh?"
Weiss couldn't take it anymore. She was so sick of this monster's voice...
Ruby saw the horrified look upon her friend's face. Something snapped.

Suddenly a flurry of movement was seen behind the leader. He looked to where Ruby had once stood. Where did the red girl go? He felt something scrap his sides. A warm sensation ran through his waist. It was like no other one he had felt before. He looked down managing to find that he was a different hight than before.
Screaming.
The sound of falling bodies.
A low voice whispered into his ear, his eyes widened in terror.
"Look Ma, no legs, hehehe".
Darkness.

Ruby got up. Her face hid a small smile.
"It's too bad he had to be cut short." She walked past Weiss still giggling.

Weiss's face was dark. She couldn't believe what she had just seen.
Ruby was just a...
Ruby isn't a...
She didn't dare think anything more.