A Deathly Silence (RWBY/Drakengard 3)

[X] Ruby Rose is already waiting by Yang's side.

"...It's going to be okay. I'll make sure of it."

That voice echoed in the darkness, as a song echoed through the girl's head. It was a slow song, one that seemed familiar, soothing the mind as it slumbered.

But the calm didn't last long. Before she knew it, she felt something pulsing within the depths of her soul. It was as if a rush of adrenaline had been injected into the metaphysical manifestation of her being, causing her unconscious instincts to scream that she had to do something.

It was a sense of wrongness that she couldn't quite shake. As if…

...She couldn't put a finger on it. Her mind was numb, and time was fleeting. Every now and then, her thoughts woulds just stop.

Was she dreaming? Was she awake, and just unable to process the world outside of her mind just yet?

What… Had happened, again?

The memories were slow to come, hazy in recollection, and painful to dwell on. Trying to piece together what had happened was like…

Trying to solve a puzzle, while every piece was burning.

But that feeling that something was wrong wasn't leaving. It was only gnawing at her worse and worse, as the memories began to slot into place. Fear and flames, smoke and sorrow. A roar and a legend, a scream and a familiar face, a song…

It was if a light was peering down at her, through the darkness, and the girl had not yet worked out if the light was another bad memory or not. If the light was a good thing or not.

They always say not to go towards the light, and the further the girl's mind strayed from the calm darkness and the soothing song, the more troubled she began. But if every fibre of her being was screaming at her, to go to the light, then there had to be something she had forgotten.

...There was a whisper from above, from the light. Vague, muffled, and full of grief. The girl felt drawn to the voice, even if she could not understand it.

No, more than that. It was something she needed to understand. Something that drove her to push through the darkness, even if her pain-addled brian had yet to realise what it was.

The memories were slotting into place, now. The corpse she had wept over, no, her father's corpse. The friends she had seen injured. The silver knight, the grey-haired boy, the Faunus covered in burns, the white dragon and the white woman, the desperate urge to fight, to stand and keep fighting, to not stop even when-

Even when-

Even when-

Her memories kept skipping, kept refusing to make the connection, cutting off with a sensation of pain and sorrow that made it hard to remember. That made it hard to want to remember.

But she needed to. The voice calling out to her, calling out a name, her name. She needed to answer it. She couldn't dwell in the darkness forever. Not when she was needed. Not when-

"Please, Yang…"

The sudden jolt of clarity ran through the girl's soul, and forced herself to awaken, pushing past the pain to shout the name that was suddenly all that mattered.

"Ruby!"

The name tore from her lips as she shot awake, her eyes ripping open to an almost blinding light, an unfamiliar ceiling, and---

"Yang!"

Her sister's arms wrapped around her, suddenly holding her tight.It was slightly painful, but at that moment, Yang couldn't bring herself to care.

Ruby was here. They were… They weren't in danger anymore, Ruby was here, and she was okay.

Perhaps more okay than Yang herself. How long had she been waiting for Yang to wake up? How long had she been at Yang's side, worried sick, because she couldn't pull herself together earlier?

On some level, Yang knew that train of thought was toxic and unfair. She couldn't help what the limits of her body were, how long she had taken to recover. But…

As hard as it was to remember what exactly had happened, Yang knew she had been hurt bad. A lingering sensation still assaulted her in some places, a remaining sense of pain from what had happened. And she knew that Ruby had seen it. She knew Ruby had seen her powerless, and had to save her, and now was the one who was visiting Yang in some kind of hospital while she…

...She still needed to get stronger, then.

"I'm sorry." It took Yang a moment to realise that it was Ruby who had spoken, and not just her own surface thoughts leaking out before she could stop herself. "I… This is my fault."

Yang tried to speak again, but the sudden desperation that had pushed her sister's name to her lips was gone, and it was suddenly hard to speak. So instead, she shook her head, as she tried to force out words again.

"If…" Ruby muttered. "If I hadn't run in there, if I hadn't tried to save Three… You wouldn't have-"

"No." Yang finally forced out. "You… It's not your fault. Don't apologise. It was…"

Yang's first instinct, to accept the blame for herself, she cut short. Ruby didn't need to deal with Yang's inadequacies right now. It was very apparent she was dealing with her own.

"...It was their fault." Yang said instead. And it was true, too. "The Faunus, Blake. The Silver Knight. The-"

The woman who looked just like an older Ruby. The woman who Ruby had called mum.

Yang's explanation cut off suddenly, and she could see the reaction on Ruby's face, as she put together why.

"...I don't understand." Ruby confessed. "It's… Messed up and confusing and it hurts. But we can worry about it later."

Hugging Yang again, tighter this time, Ruby choked back some words. Yang hugged her sister back to reassure her

"How long have you been here?" Yang asked. It was a very obvious shift in the discussion, but Ruby had probably thought about that enough while Yang was out. "How long have I been out?"

"It's been a week." Ruby explained. "I woke up yesterday, myself. Been waiting for you ever since. Only leave for meals."

She reached down to the ground out of Yang's sight. Yang tried to sit up, but found herself unable to just shift her body upwards easily, for some reason. There were some machines plugged into her arm, it seemed, and a lot around her waist now that she looked, but it felt like there was something more…

Ruby's hand came back up again, holding a sleeping bag. "They got this for me last night. I didn't want to leave in case you woke up."

...Yang had to admit, part of her was happy about that. The last she'd seen of Ruby, it had been bad. Her brain was still reluctant to actually process what had happened, but she'd been hurt really badly, and Ruby was still in danger. If her sister hadn't been here when she woke up, who knows what Yang would have done?

But…

"...Didn't anyone try to stop you?" Yang asked. "Why didn't Uncle Qrow-"

A sudden expression flashed across Ruby's face, somewhere between shock and grief. Tears started forming in the corner of her eyes, quickly falling down her cheek as she tried to look away.

But by the time Ruby was trying to rub her eyes clear, Yang had seen it. And once she saw it, that was enough. There's only one reason why she'd react like that.

...It…

Yang had know Qrow was either still in Atlas or nearby, he had been up not long ago and had a tendency to move mysteriously fast sometimes. She'd have thought that he would be here to look after Ruby while Yang was unconscious. Even if Yang had been angry at him for keeping secrets, he cared.

But…

Ruby's tears didn't lie. There was a reason Qrow wasn't here now.

"He's…" Yang muttered, her voice sounding hollow. "He's dead, isn't he?"

Ruby once again pulled Yang into a tight embrace, a she wept. And before she could stop it, Yang felt herself crying too.

What the hell? Why had this happened? Why did Qrow have to die? The last time Yang had spoken with him, she had been angry. She'd avoided him for a while before now because of that anger. She'd never gotten over it, never tried to make it right, and…

And now she was never going to get the chance.

But somehow, that wasn't the end of it. Her father was dead too. Yang couldn't forget that, no matter how scattered her recent memories were. He was dead. And so was Qrow. Both of the guardian figures that the two girls had were dead now, killed in what must have been the same day.

It was just them.

It was just the two of them. It was only Ruby and Yang, and Yang wasn't strong enough to look after Ruby. She didn't have the ability to keep her safe, or the mental strength to bear through it. It had barely been any time at all since that was proven, since Yang realised that her quest for more strength was hurting Ruby. How was she supposed to look after her sister when she was like that?

This couldn't be happening. It wasn't fair. It just wasn't fair, damn it!

What had Yang and Ruby ever done to deserve this? Why had the two of them suffered so much, this last year? Why wasn't it enough that Yang had been hurt so badly on a school trip outside the Kingdoms? Why wasn't it enough that Ruby had been kidnapped by a madwoman of incredible power for no apparent reason? Why wasn't it enough for Yang to be hurt so bad that she could still feel the pain of the scars months later, because she just wanted to save her sister?

No, it wasn't enough. It was never enough. Everything seemed to come back around to hurt Ruby or Yang, in the end. The terrorist that Yang had briefly fought back in Vale had returned, burnt down an orphanage, and attacked people yang cared about. And the mystery Yang had briefly started to investigate, about why Ruby's silver eyes mattered to Five and why One thought they were important…

This was the way they found the answer to that?

Why?

...Ruby's eyes. The power she'd demonstrated. The fact that she had managed to fight after being stabbed in the chest.

That mark that was on her forehead, even now…

VI

"Six…" Muttered Yang.

Again, she thought to herself, she was forcing herself to think something differently. But what other choice did she have?

Anything was better than this. Letting herself stew in despair and powerlessness, cursing fate, she'd be trapped into that enough. If she had something else to talk about…

"Huh?" Ruby asked, before apparently getting it. "Oh, yes. I'm… I guess I'm like Two now, aren't I?"

"...I guess this explains why Five wanted you." Yang muttered. "I guess she recognised enough."

"Yeah." Ruby sounded, her voice sounding low on energy as well. "I suppose so."

The two girls were silent, as they tried to think of how to force the conversation to continue.

"...At least I'm stronger now." Ruby tried. "I don't think I'm going to have problems with anyone but…"

Her.

Zero. Ruby's mother. The woman in white had done her best to kill both Three and Ruby, and Yang had no idea why.

It…

"Did I miss anything?" Yang asked. "After… After I passed out? Anything that makes all this make sense?"

"...If you did, so did I." Ruby mourned. "I…"

She hesitated, clearly wanting to say something but holding back, before pushing whatever she was thinking down.

"One wanted to talk to me, apparently." Ruby said. "Maybe she had answers. I didn't leave you alone long enough to talk to her. Maybe she'll say something."

"...Maybe." Yang didn't have faith in One's ability to explain things, not after the last time Yang had tried to get answers out of her, but there wasn't any way she could dodge around the subject now that this had happened, right?

"...Where are the doctors?" Ruby asked suddenly. "Surely, someone has to know that you're awake, by now…"

"We should go talk to them, then." Yang said in reply. "Just need to-"

She tried to move her legs aside to slide off the hospital bed, but noticed after a moment that she hadn't moved.

Confused, Yang looked down on her body. There was a machine attached to her waist, but she should be able to just slide out from it. It wasn't clipping her in, it was just like a healing machine that had been left left over her instead of being put back up.

"...Ruby." Yang began. "Is there something holding my legs in place? I can't move them, but I don't feel anything…"

Ruby seemed taken aback by the question, giving Yang a sudden look of horror.

"I…" She began, sounding apologetic. "It's… I tried to fix it. I had the Song power, I don't understand it but it came naturally, but it wouldn't work. Your body rejected it past a certain point and I couldn't do enough to fix it. I…"

"Ruby…" Yang tried to calm her down, but the horror of her voice was infectious, and an uneasy feeling settled in Yang's heart. "What happened?"

"...We couldn't fix what m- what Zero did." Ruby said softly. "I'm… I'm sorry."

What? What Zero.,.

Pain carved it's way through Yang's side, just beneath her ribs, and as it cleaved through her body-

The memory finally sparked in Yang's mind.

She couldn't feel her legs move. In fact-

She…

Her legs had,,,

Everything below her ribs had lost all feeling. Right where Zero had broken her spine.

That's what had awoken the power within Ruby, wasn't it? Seeing Yang so helpless. Unable to even move.

Yang couldn't stop it. The tears couldn't be held back, not any longer. She wept, openly, loudly, her restraint gone. She felt Ruby try to pull her into a hug again, but the world outside of Yang's mind faded away once again.

Her spine was broken. Broken, and wasn't healing. She…

What was she supposed to do now? How could she be a Hunter like this? Losing a limb was often a career-ending injury for a Hunter, even Qrow had been a lot less active after losing his arm. An injury like this?

How was Yang supposed to fight like this? How was she supposed to defend herself, let alone Ruby? How was she supposed to help people, enjoy a Hunter's life, look for her mother, do any of the things she wanted to do as a Hunter?

This was…

Yang didn't even have a word, to describe it. Bad was too small. Terrible didn't fit. Nothing seemed to fit.

Ruby tried to console Yang, but her words were lost on the girl. What could she say to make this better? What could possibly ever make this better?

A bitterness rose in the back of Yang's mind. This was what she as letting break her? This was what brought Ruby to the point of consoling her? Not their father's death, not their Uncle's, not the disaster that savaged Atlas, not the fact that Ruby's mother had tried to kill her…

...It was something this selfish. Something that should be small, comparatively. The small, selfish pain that was Yang being crippled, and coming to the realisation that the life she had wanted, the path of a Hunter, had ended. That she wasn't able to protect anyone anymore, that she wasn't able to do any of the things she had wanted…

How selfish of her. And yet, she couldn't help it. With everything else, Yang had tried to distract herself, tried not to think. Pushed it back, or pushed it down. Done everything she could to just be able to talk to Ruby.

But she couldn't ignore this, couldn't pretend it wasn't real. The reminder was there, in the complete lack of sensation in her lower body, in the inability to move her legs at all…

And so, as Ruby Rose fell silent, Yang Xiao Long wept.

---Just at the edge of her awareness, soft enough to almost be mistaken as imagination, Yang heard an angelic melody, as her sister began to hum a song.

It was a soft thing, a gentle thing. Melancholic and sorrowful, but with something else hidden behind that. Yang couldn't identify it right now, but the sound of her sister's voice humming such a thing made her…

Smile, almost.

It was a small joy, a small calm, but it was still here. She'd lost everything else, but…

The song ended. Yang's tears still fell, but quieter, Whatever Ruby had done, it had helped. Yang didn't feel as overwhelmed, now. It…

It wasn't going to last, Yang knew. But for now, it would do.

And so the two sisters waited, in each other's embrace, silently.

Eventually, the silence was broken-

[X] -by Ruby. "Come on. Let's go talk to One. See if she can make sense of this."
[X] -by a voice at the door. "A beautiful song, Miss Rose. May I take a moment of your time?"

-[X] -by Ruby. "Come on. Let's go talk to One. See if she can make sense of this."

Yang nodded at her sister's suggestion. It…

It wasn't going to improve anything, but right now, Yang had too many questions. Almost all of which were "Why". Why any of it happened, why to Yang and the people close to her…

Even if it wouldn't make anything better, maybe if she knew the reason, she could figure out her emotions over this some more. She was lost, right now. Confused. Full of grief and despair and the only way she was processing it was just not thinking about it, because there was so much to think about. With some proper answers, maybe Yang could figure this out a bit more.

It wasn't likely, really, but it was probably for the best to be optimistic here. It was gonna be hard enough dealing with this.

Ruby disengaged from Yang's embrace. "Hold on, just let me…"

She turned away from Yang for a moment, and disappeared from her point of view. After a minute, she returned, pushing a wheelchair with her.

...Fuck. This was something Yang was going to have to get used to now, wasn't it?

Taking a moment to breath, Yang made sure she didn't just make herself look pathetic again in front of her sister. This was…

Gah.

Ruby took a moment to go over all the machines around Yang, pushing them away, before offering a hand. Yang ignored it to push her upper body upwards, sitting up, before taking a moment to try to drag her legs towards the edge of the hospital bed.

It took her far longer than she would've liked to do that. It wasn't that long, it was kinda easy to move stuff when you were as strong as Yang was, but the fact that it took time longer than basically instantly was too much more than usual.

This was her life now, wasn't it? Things that used to be thoughtlessly easy like getting out of bed now needing a lot more effort, let alone things that were actually difficult…

Which brought Yang to her next problem. The wheelchair was lower down than the hospital bed. How did she move from one to the other? Fall and hope she hit the right place?

...Yang really just wanted to put this behind her.

"Can I get a hand, Rubes?"

Ruby picked Yang up, and put her body down on the wheelchair.

"...Thanks." Yang muttered.

She'd need to find a way to do that herself. It was bad enough she wouldn't be able to protect Ruby anymore, she didn't want to have to basically hold Ruby's hand for every little thing.

It sucked. It was terrible. It was something Yang wanted to stop thinking about, but she couldn't. The reminder was in the lack of sensation in her legs, in the wheelchair she could feel at her back, in how she was going to move her arms to move around.

Yang looked around at the wheelchair for a moment. It fit the usual Atlas aesthetic, the technology in it proudly on display. It seemed obvious, in hindsight, that an Atlas hospital that people were taken to after being found injured at a Schnee manor would automatic. So she just had to press a button and have it move?

Yang pressed the forward button briefly, testing it out. It accelerated slower than she liked, but as it stopped a moment later, she reflected that the lower speed was probably for the better. Otherwise, the sudden stop would be jarring, or it'd take too long to stop.

Looking back at Ruby, Yang forced a smile. It was obviously faked, but she needed to make the attempt, at least.

"Lead the way, then."Ruby moved to the side, and opened the door out of the hospital. Yang took a moment to look at the controls, The side buttons, she was assuming, was turning the wheels.

Holding down right for a moment, Yang spun into the direction of the door. Moving towards it until she was directly in front of it, Yang then spun it some more to be able to go straight out of it.

If her legs still worked, she'd be able to just… Go through.

No, don't let it set in any more. Just focus.

Talk to One. She should have some answers, about Ruby and Zero.

Ruby was waiting outside the door, and the look of concern on her face was…

She must have seen Yang's reaction to that pity in Yang's own face, because Ruby turned away quickly enough. "Sorry."

"Don't apologize." Yang assured her. "I am…"

Yang trailed off, then shook her head.

"Never mind." She sighed."Let's go talk to One."

Ruby hesitated for a long time, before nodding.

"Let's go." Ruby said.

She led the way slowly, oddly restained, so Yang didn't fall behind. Ruby's whole gimmick was about moving forward and moving fast, so her taking her time like this for Yang just felt wrong.

Yang tried not to think about it, as she maneuvered her way around a few corners. She tried just turning while moving forward for the first corner, but after she nearly crashed into the wall and had to take a moment to correct that, she decided to just play it safe.

...She really hoped that she got used to it at some point. This was just miserable. She'd be there by this point if she could just walk. Not even just run, a brisk walk would get her there faster. Was she missing something? Was there a way to adjust the speed that she was missing?

Again, Yang was overtaken by a sudden sensation of guilt. Here she was, complaining about her own issues, and not her fathers death. Not her sister going through her own trauma. She was the oldest living member of the family who was around, she should either be concerned with her sister or mourning the dead.

It was a thought that kept recurring, and a thought that just made her feel worse every time. She kept trying to just not think about it, to push it out of her mind, but then she was reminded of her broken spine and useless legs constantly, and then she felt guilty over the people who got hurt and the people who died.

She needed a change. She couldn't deal with this, she didn't want to just keep repeating this, it was goddamn miserable and-

"We're here." Ruby said. Yang focused on the world outside of her again, and looked forward to see a secured steel door, with a buzzer and speaker by the side.

Ruby stepped forward to press the buzzer, and a voice from the speaker responded.

"What is it?" One's voice called out.

"It's me." Ruby replied.

There was a pause, before the door opened.

"Come in." One said. Ruby paused, letting Yang enter first, and the blonde girl wheeled forward.

One was standing behind a desk, covered in paper. The room had one window behind the desk, but other than that had no apparent light source. Maybe the window was a light or something, Yang had seen weirder.

More importantly, though, was who was standing in front of the desk, between Yang and One. As Ruby entered the room, she saw her too.

Five's breath caught briefly, as she looked at Ruby.

"...You told me she was still unconscious." Five said to One.

"The last time you were left unsupervised with that girl, you kidnapped her." One replied. "Forgive me if I thought it necessary to keep you away from her."

"She's family." Five said, her voice growing more… Excited? "I knew it. I knew she looked like Zero. She-"

"I know, Five." One interrupted. "Calm down."

"She has her eyes!" Five called, as she started moving towards Ruby. "She-"

Yang caught Five's arm as she tried to pass her, and Five stopped, more out of surprise than anyone else.

"Stay away from my sister." Yang growled.

Five glared back, but before she could reply, One's hand came to rest on Five's arm, just above Yang's.

"Five." One's voice was low, but calm. "Please excuse yourself. We'll speak later-"

"I don't need to be excused." Five replied. "I'm-."

"Now, Five." One commanded.

The Intoner looked at her older sister for a moment, hurt visible in her eyes. The moment passed, and One let go of Five. The younger Intoner ripped her arm away from Yang, and continued towards the door. Ruby stepped out of the way, leaving the path clear for Five, but then paused suddenly.

"...That's why you kidnapped me." Ruby stated. "My eyes. They're mum's eyes."

Five paused, and Yang bit her lip.

What was Ruby doing? What good could come from talking to that woman?

"Why didn't you say anything?" Ruby asked. "You knew, didn't you?"

"Why would I say?" Five asked. "I'm a selfish person. Why would I tell you anything you want to know? I'm the only thing that matters, as far as I care."

"Really?" Ruby asked. "Then why did you care enough about mum to kidnap someone for looking like her?"

Five didn't reply.

"It hurts for you too, doesn't it?" Ruby asked. "And...Even if you hurt me before, I don't like that."

"Are you offering to cheer me up, dear?" Five chuckled. "My, I'm pretty sure you're too young for that kind of thing-"

Yang growled. "Leave."

Five actually listened to that, leaving the room and letting the door shut behind her. There was silence for a moment, before One spoke.

"Ruby." She began. "I'm glad that you found the time to speak with me. I see your sister is awake."

Yang considered waving, but couldn't work up the motivation to do so.

"I'm sorry about what has happened." One began.

"It's fine." Ruby replied. "It's… You didn't do anything wrong."

"I took half the army away to pursue my ambitions." One stated. "And I allowed Two to invite you here. It was my responsibility to keep you safe, even before I knew for sure that you were family."

"You knew too." Yang interrupted. "That Ruby looked like Zero. Why didn't you tell me when I asked?"

"I suppose I should have, in hindsight." One admitted. "I didn't think this would happen. If I had known Zero would try to kill her family, I would have warned you right away. As it is, though, I wanted to investigate something that didn't make any sense."

"Like what?" Ruby asked.

"Certain dates didn't seem to add up." One explained. "There's too many inconsistencies. One of them, admittedly, is just my memory. How old are you, Ruby?"

"Fifteen." The girl replied. "My birthday was a while ago."

"But that doesn't make sense to me." One continued. "Because the last time I saw Zero was thirteen years ago. How could you be Zero's child, if those around her didn't notice her pregnancy or child when she was still around?"

Yang frowned. "Maybe you're just misremembering."

"Perhaps." One stated. "Memory has proven to be rather unreliable, hasn't it? Such as the time I asked you what colour Ruby's mother's eyes were, and yet, shortly afterwards, became confused as to why I brought up Ruby's mother at all."

Yang blinked.

What… Was she talking about?

"Something isn't right." One explained. "And I wanted to know what it was. I had my suspicions that Ruby might have been a Sixth Intoner, but I wanted to know how. I wanted to be able to explain it all. Back then, I had assumed no more danger would come to you because of that. I was wrong. I'm sorry."

"What are you trying to imply?" Ruby asked. "That… There's something weird going on with people remembering mum? What does that mean?"

"I still don't have enough information." One replied. "But I think I know someone who might."

"Who?" Yang asked.

"The Headmaster of Beacon." One replied. "I have been informed of the conversation that was had, involving you and him, regarding saving your sister from mine. Ozpin suspected that ruby would be immune to Five's song, didn't he? Because of her eyes?"
"...That sounds familiar." Yang admitted.

"I believe Ozpin may have information I need." One explained. "And even if he played it close to his chest before now, after that has happened, he…"

She trailed off, before starting over.

"Forgive me." One said. "I have been cruel. The two of you have been hurting, haven't you?"

"...It's fine." Ruby replied.

"I'm sure you must be so confused." One assured them. "And I intend to present to you the answers, once I have enough information to put it together myself. But for now, I'm afraid to say that I don't know why Zero attacked us."

"...Oh." Yang muttered.

So not only did One not know how Ruby was an Intoner, but she didn't know why this had happened…

"I understand that you have lost your guardians, however." One stated. "And I'm sorry. If you need it, I can make arrangements to ensure you are looked after. It won't be the same, I know, but let me know if I can help. You are, after all, family."

"...You don't want us to stay here, do you?" Yang asked. "I'm… Kind of sick of Atlas."

"I understand." One replied. "After what happened, it makes sense that you would want to go home. I will see to arranging that you will be safe in Vale, if you want to go back."

"...Thank you." Ruby replied. "I know that's probably a lot of effort-"

"You are my niece." One continued. She paused, momentarily, as if surprised she had said that, before continuing. "I've spent all this time gathering my family again. I'll make sure they get whatever they need. For instance, if they wanted access to my private office, to look through my files, they would just need to ask, next time."

"...You noticed?" Ruby asked.

"You weren't as subtle as you thought." One said. "But I understand. You were investigating what it was I could have known about Five's motivation, yes?"

Yang nodded.

"I would rather it never happen again." One stated. "But we have bigger things to worry about right now. It-"

An alarm blared on One's desk, and she looked back to it.

"...I've lost track of the time." She sighed. "I have to meet with Ozpin soon. I'm sorry, Ruby. I know that I've been trying to meet with you for a while now, but-"

"I get it." Ruby replied. "You wanted to get more information, we… Kinda want to know. Right, Yang?"

"Yeah." Yang replied, trying to hide her frustration. "I…"

"I'm sure you want to make sure your other friends are okay." One replied. "Or perhaps you want to know more about the force that attacked us. Four should be arriving soon with a friend, she has been investigating. You can talk with her, if you want."

Ruby looked down at her sister. "What do you think?"

Yang thought about it for a second.

[X] ...She wanted to know more. If talking with Four got her information on what dangers were coming from Ruby, she was the one they needed to talk to.
[X] Yang still didn't know who exactly had made it out of the whole incident. She wanted to make sure everyone else she cared about was okay, at least.