Immortality (Chapter 25)

Your POV


It was safe to say any tiredness was gone. Clutching at the blood coated weapon you grunted and dislodged it from your chest, it fell limp in the young redheads hands and clattered loudly against the stained stone, echoing inside the shocked silent amphitheatre.


(Y/N): "W-well that hurts like a bitch-"


3rd Person POV


(Y/N): "W-well that hurts like a bitch-"


(Y/N) fell to the floor prone and just like that the silence disappeared as screams and yells erupted from the witnesses. People ran out the classroom in panicked masses wether to get help, tell others or just to leave was unknown. Only a handful of people remained and one of the most prominent was Pyrrha Nikos, as she jumped the barrier separating spectators and fighters.


Pyrrha: "(Y/N)!"


Tears welling in her eyes she ran to the lifeless body and grabbed hold of it and clutches him to her chest, unwilling to let go. As she did the 3 downed girls regained their fight and rushed over to the body standing next to their frozen leader. Glynda looked at the scene laid in front of her and moved closer.


Glynda: "Pyrrha, Pyrrha! I know this is bad but we can't help him if you're grabbing him!" The older woman said trying to regain control of the situation and calm the panicking students.


Pyrrha: "HOW?! She killed him! That monster killed him!"


Ruby: "I-I..." Ruby was in a similar state to Pyrrha, unmovable, as she stood in the same position like a statue.


Glynda: "Trust me this is not as bad as it looks."


Yang: "How can it not be as bad as it looks?! He's got a hole in his chest!"


Glynda: "Yes but-"


Blake: "Let me see him, he might be ok!"


Pyrrha: "Don't touch him! None of you touch him!" Pyrrha feebly attempted to yank (Y/N) closer to her only costing herself in blood.


Weiss: "Pyrrha just let go-" Weiss began to approach when the cocking Of weapons made her stop and look up.


Nora: "I suggest you think very carefully about what you do next."


Looking up from (Y/N), aside from Pyrrha, team JNPR could be seen stood there weapons at the ready.


Yang: "You can't be serious!" She said moving to protect her little sister, as she failed to respond to anything.


Jaune: "I'm afraid we are."


Blake: "You must be able to see that we're just trying to help!"


Pyrrha: "What you and your killer leader?!"


Ren: "Perhaps we should just all calm down."


Weiss: "You're the one aiming weapons!"


Glynda: "STOP!" Everyone fell quiet and looked at Glynda, more glaring though. "Now all of you calm down and I-"


Pyrrha: "Fat lot of good you've been!" The calm demeanour of the champion was fully gone now, only malice and contempt took its place, sharp as a knife now pointing at the professor.


Glynda: "Pyrrha!"


Yang: "No, she's right you've been irrationally calm about this!" And just like that tones changed as everyone sided against the elder.


Glynda: "Yes but that's because-"


Weiss: "You didn't plan this did you?"


Glynda: "Of course not!"


Pyrrha: "He's been struggling to sleep... maybe that's why his aura failed! What did you do!"


Glynda: "I never did anything to his aura!"


Blake: "So you admit something was done?!"


Glynda: "Yes but-!"


A loud gasp of life stopped everyone in their tracks as they all looked to the previously dead body to see him gasping for air eyes wide and chest healed.


(Y/N): "Fucking hell you lot can shout!"


Your POV
Just A Minute Ago


Looking around the lonely darkness you sighed as you realised you had died once again.


(Y/N): "Hopefully Glynda will be able to get a grip on the situation."


That's when you heard muffled shouts and words being yelled from all corners of the darkness. You half recognised some of the voices and realised, by piecing as much of the conversation together as you could, that shit was hitting the fan.


(Y/N): "Oh I'm going to hate myself for this."


Squeezing your eyes shut you started focusing on healing so you would be able to live stably when a bright white light enveloped you.


Opening your eyes you gasped for air and were welcome to a lovely sight of Pyrrha's breasts, sadly with no time to admire them you pushed away from the grip holding you.


(Y/N): "Fucking hell you lot can shout!"


Standing up and looking around the shocked people you were mortified to find they looked like they were about to fight each other over you.


(Y/N): "Nononononono, really? Weapons? Thats what started this shit. Nice hit by the way, really didn't see it coming." You said to the young red head who you now noticed was now genuinely crying.


Ruby: "B-b-b-but I-I killed you..." Her hoarse throat croaked out in choked words.


(Y/N): "Yes you did and you know what you get for that?" You silently walked over to Ruby and enveloped her in a hug as she burst, all of her emotions coming out of the floodgate at once onto you. "You'll get your explanation after you explain what you all did." You said grimly no one meeting the glare you laid on.


{Le Timeskip brought to you by me ruining all friendship between JNPR and RWBY}


Ruby had refused to let go of you since you started hugging her so you ended up carrying her back to RWBYs dorm room followed by the two teams in silence. From what you could tell so far Pyrrha and Ruby were the most effected by the event.


Coming up to the door you stood in front if it with a hard glare.


(Y/N): "Open."


Blake was the first to react and scrambled to open the door with her scroll, then opening it wide for all of you.


(Y/N): "All of you, in and sit."


The teams silently marched inside followed by you and Ruby. Closing the door, Blake took up a seat on her bed alongside Yang, Weiss was on hers whereas JNPR sat on the floor.


Yang: "It wasn't-"


(Y/N): "Abab, shush. All of you will explain what happened from your perspectives, no interrupting, no arguing, just explaining."


And so they did. Each had a slightly different approach and there were some differences but it all pointed to the same thing. Absolute panic.


(Y/N): "If I had just told you sooner maybe this all could've been avoided."


Jaune: "Told is what?"


(Y/N): "I'm immortal, Jaune."


Everyone stared at you signalling oh to start explaining.


(Y/N): "Alright I suppose it's my turn." Sighing you adjusted Ruby for what could've been the 30th time and began. "When I was younger, maybe 14, my aura exploded violently and charred one of my neighbours cats, this kept happening until they ran out of cats or until my family got sick of apologising, I don't quite remember. So my parents took me to a science program called the 'Aura Inversion Program', I was hooked up to a machine that would 'suppress' my aura temporally. It was agony and when my parents attempted to stop them they were killed."


Pyrrha: "(Y/N) I-"


(Y/N): "I'm not done." She nodded and was quiet again. "A week later I found out what they were truly doing. They were attempting to create the ultimate soldier, an un-killable machine of murder. I know at least 42 were tested I'm not sure if there were more. I was the only one to pass everything. I was killed, butchered and slaughtered over and over to prove a scientific point that aura could be used to make immortality. And they succeeded. They then tried to make me into a weapon. And they succeeded. Then I killed them all. I blew up the lab along with myself but I came back as I always have. Burning, freezing, starvation, bullets, poison, drowning, Grimm, swords, knives, scythes... I've died to all of them and each time I come back. Hell I don't even know if age could kill me..."


Weiss: "(Y/N) I'm so sorry..."


(Y/N): "But I can remember..."


Pyrrha: "Remember What?"


(Y/N): "I can remember every single death, every single experience and inch of pain that was ever dealt to me I can remember it with perfect clarity, when I'm asleep or when I'm awake, I can remember dying in that forest to that Nevermore and Death Stalker and how the feathers immobilised me and the pincer ripped me apart... it's why I sometimes listen to music when I fight... to drown it all out."


Ruby: "I'm sorry..."


(Y/N): "I know, Rose." You only realised you were crying when someone wiped away the tears as more arms hugged you.


Pyrrha: "We'll be here for you..."


Yang: "When you need to sleep or just to talk..."


Blake: "We will always help you, you're no longer alone."


(Y/N): "Thank you..."


And that night you slept in peace.


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Jack: "Well that's a bit anticlimactic."


Archer: "What do you mean?"


Jack: "All that build up and it's over like that?"


Archer: "Oh you don't think this will HEAVILY effect how characters behave for the rest of the story?"


Jack: "No?"


Archer: "You're adorable sometimes."


Jack: "Would an adorable person do this?!"


Whose bed do you want to wake up in?


Yang's


Blake's


Pyrrha's


Ruby's

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