55As for popular request, I regrettably post this.
It was supposed to be a normal mission for team RWBY. Go into the deeper parts of the Emerald Forests and eliminate Grimm in the surrounding area to open up the Emerald Forest for another mission for a more veteran team.
Ruby had been excited the day prior to the mission. Yang deviated from her unusual bright and happy-go-luckiness and was wary of the mission. Blake and Weiss were nonchalant about it. As for Ruby Rose, she knew that whatever happens in the mission, it's going to be alright since the other three members of her team were always going to stick together.
The flight took them less than thirty minutes from the Beacon platform to their drop off zone. The pilot had given them their exfiltration point which was 5 kilometers north from where they were. It was just supposed to be a normal mission for team RWBY, right my little rose?
Team RWBY looked at the airship take off into the distance and they immediately set up camp where they knew it would be safest from the Grimm of the forest. They made a little house for Zwei so he could be as comfortable as he needed to be. A little area for a fire pit and four sleeping bags. That was all they needed for the entire trip in addition to food rations. They needed to eat especially if the mission took more than a day to complete.
Ruby and her team wandered around the forest, setting up markers and waypoints so they knew how to get back to camp. They were still together.
Night came along, Yang volunteered for first watch over the night in intervals of two hours each shift. She saw how tired Ruby was after literally bouncing around the forest for hours. A little nap could do no harm for the youngest member of the team.
Ruby tucked herself into bed facing Weiss. The girl of her dreams. She already knew that Weiss was dating some boy from Beacon. She never really bothered to check who it was since she knew she would never had the chance to ever be with Weiss. She had no name, no face to recall, no weapon to be amazed about.
"Good night, team RWBY. Wake me up when it's my turn for lookout," Ruby said and with that, she immediately dozed off to wonderland.
Ruby suddenly woke up from faint sounds that she had heard from outside the perimeter of their camp. She quickly opened her eyes, the fire was dead and Weiss and Yang were nowhere to be found. Fear sprung across her eyes as she panicked. Ruby got off of her sleeping bag and woke up Blake.
"Blake, everyone's gone! Weiss and Yang aren't here!" Ruby silently yelled. Blake looked around her and was alarmed too. Weiss was supposed to be on watch right now and Yang asleep. But both sleeping beds were empty and Weiss was not at the perch where she was supposed to be. They both calmed down because they knew fear would attract the Grimm and it was dark as midnight. The two of them would stand no chance facing off hundreds of Grimm.
Ruby grabbed a flashlight from her utility pocket and Blake did not need one with her Faunus vision. The pair searched for the two while holding each other's hands so they wouldn't get separated. While looking around, Blake heard a rustling sound amongst the leaves so she drew Gambol Shroud on her remaining free hand.
"Ruby, we're not alone…," Blake whispered.
Ruby attached the flashlight to Crescent Rose and held the gun with one hand while the other, firmly grasping Blake's comforting hand.
Blake saw a silhouette over the distance west from them and she pointed out to Ruby what she had seen. Ruby turned off her flashlight as Blake took the lead and slowly approached where she suspects are people wandering the forest at night.
As they got a little bit closer, they heard moans. Ruby turned on her flashlight and Ruby saw Weiss and Yang together, half-naked and on each other. Ruby knew whenever Weiss had sex because she smelled like sweat and perfume every time she had done the act. She kept silent about it but she didn't know she was doing it with her sister. Emotions went overdrive inside Ruby's head and her little heart broke. Blake, on the other hand, was shocked to see that her girlfriend was cheating on her.
Ruby ran away as fast as she could in some random direction. Blake shouted to her as she failed to catch Ruby in time. In a matter of minutes of using her speed semblance, she was outside of the mission perimeter and she was undoubtedly lost. She felt betrayed by everyone she knew except Blake. Even though she dated her sister, Blake was always there for her no matter what the circumstances were. She was like Summer in a sense that Blake had become her second mother. Ruby confided everything she kept inside her fragile heart to the Faunus. Everything. Which meant Blake knew her painful unrequited love for the Schnee heiress, her love of strawberries despite eating more cookies than she normally would, and her treatment of Blake as a second mother. Blake knew everything there is to know about Summer Rose, Ruby's biological mother.
Hurt and broken, it was just supposed to be a normal mission for team RWBY.
In the darkness of the Emerald Forest, Ruby realized that she had gone too far. Ruby looked around her with her flashlight and the trees were not familiar to her. She opened her scroll only to realize that her device did not have a signal so she's essentially lost.
Ruby knew not to fear the darkness as it would attract Grimm to her location but out of nowhere, Zwei appeared in front of Ruby. This gave the little girl some glimmer of hope.
The little dog led Ruby in the general direction where their camp is although the dog is not entirely sure. After a few minutes of walking, Zwei stopped and stared at Ruby then he started whining.
"What's wrong, Zwe-"
Ruby flew from where she stood. She hit her head on a tree making her vision fuzzy. She lost Crescent Rose and she lost Zwei. Fear kicked in as she became defenseless in the middle of the night. Ruby attempted to stand up but massive pain surged throughout her body. Ruby had broken her leg and her aura was depleted. She couldn't stand up so she calmed down as much as she could and hoped that whatever had hit her would notice where she is in the cover of darkness.
An hour passed by, Ruby heard Zwei crying. In a few minutes, she saw Zwei through her eyes that had adjusted in the darkness. His left front leg was torn off and it was already showing signs of the blight that corrupted the Grimm. As Zwei cried, Ruby didn't notice that once Zwei went silent, she thought she was just asleep but rather, Zwei had died in her arms.
Ruby stayed put for a couple more hours in the same place that she broke her leg until the sun broke through. Ruby had been exhausted so she slept but once her eyes opened, Grimm had surrounded her. There was no hope of surviving for her. She tried standing up once again, but her injuries were too severe that she could not even lift herself up even for an inch.
"This is it…," Ruby said to herself. She looked up and saw who she thought was Blake watching her as she was about to be killed by the Grimm. Ruby could not believe what she is seeing. Betrayed by another loved one in her life. Blake of all people, a figure whom she viewed as a mother. Her last thoughts were, I hope you all die.
The Grimm jumped onto Ruby, ripping her body to shreds only for it to stop within seconds. Her entire body was bleeding as she laid there on the ground. All of a sudden, the Grimm vanish as if they were just an illusion.
"Hello, little red," the Blake figure said as she hopped down from the tree branch from where she was watching. As she got closer, her black hair turned green and said, "I wouldn't want you dead, now would I, my love?"
She transfused some of her aura that she had to Ruby Rose.
"Welcome to my personal hell," the figure said as she kissed Ruby's lips and licked the blood off of her own lips.
THE END