˗ˏˋ 𝐈 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐍 ; ⚰️

/ / omg y'all should follow @kushiluna (shameless self-plug as Yang is now ded) 🫡

― 𝐘𝐚𝐧𝐠'𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝. . .

― her; a solitary tear slowly falling from where her eye once resided. There was hardly an inch of her body that wasn't brutalised at this stage, her face filled with holes where her eyes, nostrils, and mouth used to be. A massacre in the truest sense. ―

― suffering through the whole ordeal from the other side of Ruby's scroll. ❝ Ruby... I failed you, sis... I'm... sorry... Pl-... Please... h-... help m-... me... Da... ❞ Before she could even finish, the Huntress' body had been smashed against the shards of ice beneath ―

― befalling her, unable to remain strong any longer. The spikes of ice would prod into her back, threatening to breach her skin and snuff out her life in an instant. As that mocking question was uttered, she would address her entire family in "presence," one of whom had been ―

― pool of her own blood, her clothing coated in her own vital essence and stained by her failure. As a Huntress, as a Guardian, as a sister... ❝ Y - ... KYAAAAAAHHHH!!! ❞ Unable to even bite back with a snide remark, Yang would finally succumb to the pain that was ―

― ❝ Grkh - ... GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! ❞ Truly frozen, or at least her lower half had been anyway, before being subsequently shattered. All she had left was her robotic arm, which she hadn't even the strength to use to drag herself away. She already found herself laying in a ―

― as she slowly withered away... Nothing remaining of the resplendent light that once was Ruby Rose. Every fibre of her being was screaming at her to run to her side, to at least embrace Ruby as she herself drew her last breath. So why was she stuck? Frozen in place? ―

― Adell... ❝ 𝐑𝐔𝐁𝐘𝐘𝐘𝐘𝐘𝐘𝐘𝐘𝐘𝐘𝐘𝐘𝐘 ! ! ! ❞ The sight before her was nothing short of sickening. Her dear little sister's carcass peppered with bullets, viscera coating the walls and floors as blood seeped from every pore, dust having set parts of her body alight ―

― her struggle had been pointless, her entire body quaking as her life flashed before her eyes. Growing up with Ruby at her side, attending Beacon Academy and meeting all of her cherished friends, being brought into Oversoul and becoming part of a new family. Blake, Weiss, ―

― not being there for her sister's protection. Frustration at this coward for striking such an innocent girl, anger for the forces that put this event into play, and yet... she felt content that she had been able to ave - ❝ No. . . ❞ Her voice shaken in realisation that ―

The sounds of her shells colliding with flesh was enough to fuel Yang's onslaught, her anger swiftly giving way to the pain that she'd been holding back throughout this exchange. Yang's ragged breathing would be periodically spattered with wails of sorrow, anger at herself for ―

― caused for her. Not for her own sake, for she had accepted her fate the moment she walked into the room. No, she'd stay strong so that 𝐡𝐢𝐬 suffering would be short-lived. The one the sisters had come to treat as their guardian. ❝ I'm sorry... Adell... ❞

― be engaged, and a near-unending barrage of shells were expelled. Shot, after shot, after shot. A torrent of bullets, casting everything she had at the one who would dare tear her family apart, Yang would give everything she had to take away from the fear her situation had ―

― ❝ 𝐃𝐈𝐄, 𝐃𝐈𝐄, 𝐃𝐈𝐄, 𝐃𝐈𝐄. . . ! 𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄 ! ! ! ❞ In her desperation to see Signora perish, Ember Celica would ―

― coursing through her veins, paired with the remaining traces of that primal fury was enough to dull the pain; for the time being at least. Now was not the time to mourn, not yet. The pain didn't matter, her life didn't matter. So long as she took this psycho down with her... ―

― Ruby... And yet she had failed once more. ❝ You think... that's gonna be enough... to stop 𝐌𝐄, 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐑 ? ! ❞ She couldn't think of anything else to say, all traces of a filter had left her the moment her sister had. The adrenaline ―

― over, her eyes growing wide as suddenly her remaining organic arm had been torn asunder, memories of her time at Beacon flashing before her eyes. Yet again she had been helpless to save those she'd cared about. She swore she'd never let this happen again, most of all to ―

― was an alien concept. This was the first fatal mistake Yang had made, and yet it was one that simply could not be prevented. By the time she'd taken heed of Adell's anguished cries, briefly snapped out of her blind charge towards her adversary... 𝐒𝐍𝐈𝐊𝐓 ! Shock took ―