Disaster AU WIP (Patreon)

//I've already showed 1 or 2 of you this story since I started working on it, but I figure posting the parts to Patreon and to the public will actually keep me going on it, possibly turning it into a long series. So, for those I haven't showed, or those of you I did if you just wanna read it again, here it is.//

 

Things were looking desperate for the members of Team RWBY. Their first mission as graduates of Beacon Academy gone awry due to a Nevermore appearing in their hunt for grimm. All four of them were taken down in one swift move by the beast, with Weiss and Yang taking the brunt of the damage due to the grimm’s claws, pinning them down to the ground under its weight, as Ruby and Blake were sent flying against the castle ruins walls. The sounds of their bodies colliding with the walls echoed through the open area as the Nevermore roared its dominance to drown it out.

“Ach!” The sound of the blonde’s voice came from Weiss’s left, giving her an idea of where to look for her friend.

Taking a second to try and breath, the heiress tried to open her eyes, seeing nothing but red as blood quickly coated her vision. “Ya… Yang! Where… Where are the others?!” Weiss’s voice came out strained, ragged, and almost broken from the sheer weight of the beast crushing her ribs.

“I don’t know! Everything happened so-”

“Get your claws off my friends!” The familiar sound of Ruby’s voice seemed to echo through the area as she stood in front of the best, body bloodied and cut from her collision with the wall. Suddenly, the very unique and familiar sound of the girl’s weapon, Crescent Rose, unfolding and deploying could be heard by the two that were trapped under the Nevermore. The girl planned to take the beast on by herself! “Come on!!”

Those were the last words to leave the girl’s mouth before the beast began to rise off the ground, flapping its wings to take flight. Luckily, this was just what the crimsonette wanted, bringing a smile to her lips before she turned and faced away from the two as she watched Weiss and Yang wipe the blood from their eyes. “Good… Blake is on her way! I’m gonna lure it into-”

“Ruby!” Weiss screamed, hoping to get her leader’s attention as she watched the flying grimm charge right for the girl with her back turned, claws aimed at her head. “Run, you dolt!”

“Just trust me, Weiss! I know what I’m-” As Ruby turned around, it was as if everything moved in slow motion. He vision was filled with nothing but the Nevermore’s claws heading right for her face. At least, that was until a quick flash of white and blue covered her view and she fell towards the ground and landing on her rear, a large puff of dirt surrounded her the beast. When things started moving at normal again, all she could hear was the grimm roar like it had hit its target before that same shade of white appeared through the dirt cloud. The girl quickly looked down towards her feet, curious. A glyph had been placed out in front of her face, torso, and thighs separately, one of the Nevermore’s claws barely piercing through the one guarding her thighs. “Okay, Weiss! I get it. I need help sometimes.” The leader turned to face her teammate that she assumed to be still beside her sister, gasping as she only saw Yang and Blake together. “Wei-”

“Took you long enough to agree…. Dolt…” the heiress’s voice came in front of Ruby as the cloud slowly started to disperse and show the aftermath of the beast’s attack. “Now…. Stand up… I’m gonna need help…” Everyone could heard her, but no one knew exactly what she was talking about until the could fully vanished, showing Weiss standing there with her rapier piercing through the Nevermore’s head. She listened to her teammate’s gasp as they finally realized that her left arm was gone and the grimm had managed to pierce just barely into her stomach to try and reach Ruby, luckily being stopped before going more than a few inches into her skin.

“Weiss!” Was all the three of them said as the beast started to vanish into the air, having been killed by Myrtenaster. The girl’s name echoed through her mind as she fell to her knees, landing on her side before her own rapier fell beside her, slicing her right eye and earning a scream of pain from the heiress as her teammates dashed towards her, Ruby obviously the first one there.

“Weiss! How could you?! Why did you?! I don’t- I don’t-” The crimsonette was frantic, scared, even ashamed of herself for failing her teammate this badly. “Why?!” Tears began to form in Ruby’s eyes as she reached down and gently took Weiss into her arms, seeing the blood from her right eye trailing down her cheek and blood pouring out from her shoulder since her arm was completely gone.

“My body just…. moved on its own…” She answered, a forced and clearly painful smile on her face as she kept both of her eyes closed. “Before I knew it… I was standing in front of you, something sharp against my stomach, and…” Weiss let out a few deep cough, spitting blood onto both her cheeks and Ruby’s while Yang and Blake finally made it, the two quickly wrapping up and doing what they could to treat the wounds while knowing they had to take her to the hospital or… the worst may happen.

“Ruby, we need to go! We need to get her to the hospital or we may lose her…” Yang was calmer than the rest, shaking as she took hold of Weiss’s hand, helping the girl to her feet before looking for the way the team come from before their confrontation. The blonde quickly picked up the heiress and put her on her back, turning to look at Blake. “Call for help and get Ruby moving! If we don’t go now, Weiss will die!”

That one word sent shivers through everyone’s spines. The thought of losing Weiss for good was terrifying to all of them as Yang began sprinting back to camp with Weiss resting against her. They weren’t even really able to treat her wounds properly, and as both Ruby and Blake saw blood trailing down Yang’s back and onto the ground, they knew they wouldn’t have long to save her.

Luckily for Weiss, she was able to remain conscious due to the bounce in Yang’s running with each step she took. It wasn’t much, but it was enough to keep her awake. “You don’t think a Schnee can die from such a thing…. Do you?” The young girl did her best to tease them as she could hear Blake and Ruby on the phone with both the Hunter’s Association and the emergency teams respectively. “Yang…. My arm’s missing… Isn’t it?”

“Don’t talk! Just save your strength… We’re going to get you help. I promise-”

“Your semblance…” She forced out, coughing again once the blonde stopped at the camp the team had set up. “Left.” Another cough as Ruby and Blake dropped their scrolls and came to their side. “Use your semblance... or the campfire… Burn some of… My wounds closed….” Weiss forced her good eye open as the team could hear dozens of footsteps quickly approaching them, unfortunately seeing nothing but haze and blur in front of her. She could distinguish the colors of her friends’ hair, but that was about it. “Do… Do you hear that…?”

“There they are!” Glynda’s voice called out to the medic team she was escorting towards the team of four.

“Glynda! Oh thank god, you’re he-” Before Ruby could even get the words out of her throat, she saw her old teacher reach for the young heiress and put a hand to her head, listening to the deep breath she took. “What are you-”

“Quiet, Ruby.” Glynda said in a demanding tone, earning a quiet eep from the girl. “I need to concentrate and keep hold of Weiss or my semblance won’t be able to hold the blood inside of her body as we transport her.” The blonde professor took a deep breath as the medics approached her and Weiss. “Grab the girl. Two of you stay and heal the team. Escort them to the hospital as soon as you’re done.”

Weiss let out a soft breath as she was pulled off of Yang’s back by a medic, taking a moment to look towards her teammates. She didn’t realize it, but the blue color of her eyes quickly started fading into a hazy gray as she did. The young girl was able to see her friend’s faces for just a brief moment. Sadness on Ruby, fear on Blake, and desperation on Yang’s. “Idiots.” The young girl paused for a second, her eye widening before she raised her remaining arm and clicked her teeth, forcing her stamina as much as she could to form a glyph around her shoulder, almost instantly freezing it as Glynda kept hold of her forehead. “I’ll be better before you know it.”

“How can you say that, Weiss? Look at you!” Yang shouted, stomping on the ground before watching the medical team start carrying the girl to the hospital just a short bit away. “I just… I don’t….” The blonde wasn’t able to finish her thought before her tears broke through, starting to trail down her cheeks.

“Yang, was it?” The medic who stayed behind said with a smile, starting to tend to her wounds while they all watched Weiss be carried off. “Your friend is already performing a miracle… You saw her eye…” He paused as he got the team’s attention. “She’s a Schnee… They don’t die easily, or stay dead for long in her mother’s case.”

All three of them stayed quiet as they listened, eyes darting between the medic that was tending to them and then Weiss’s sleeping bag. Blake was the first to take a seat, looking out to the field and spotting the heiress’s rapier on the ground. All three of them were injured severely, so they were going to be there awhile, and the faunus realized this. “Just… Hurry up….”

Ruby’s eyes went wide as she heard the calmness in Blake’s voice, growing furious at the prospect that someone could be this way. “Blake, how can you be so calm at a time like this?! Weiss…. She... She could be dying not even thirty miles from us, and you aren’t even-”

“Of course I’m worried, Ruby!” Blake quickly interrupted, covering her face to try and hide her own tears from the team and medic. “I just… We all know Weiss wouldn’t like us to be there if we are still injured like we are… She’s resourceful… She’ll… I hope she’ll pull through.” She didn’t want to shut down how Ruby felt, but whining wouldn’t solve anything, or make Weiss feel any better once they all finally met back up. “All we can do is hope…”