Capítulo 1901: 131
Chapter 131
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"How're you holding up?" Cinder asked quietly, sitting by Yang's bedside as her younger sister rested, one arm still in a thick, heavy cast. Both of them were still rather beat up from the last couple weeks, though while Yang had broken her arms and a leg punching out a marauding Deathstalker, Cinder was… stuck in a wheelchair. Not that she was crippled, but because she was ostensibly supposed to be on light activity only until her Aura fully recovered from the absolute nonsense that she'd been through.
It had happened so quickly, in the end. Cinder had been in the CCT Tower's main lower level when Ozpin had told her to come, had gotten into the machine while she knew her baby sister was still fighting, had done her best to not scream as an entire extra person's worth of Aura entered her soul and forcibly merged in a way that… really wasn't supposed to happen. Her shitty stepsisters had stepped in barely half an hour later, screaming invectives and curses as they tried to blow down the entire tower with the amount of power they had.
Apparently, her shitty stepsisters and their assassin teammates were evil. Who could have possibly guessed. Not Cinder, apparently, because as bitchy as her ex-stepsisters were she somehow thought that they were the kind of people who'd just be shitty to work with and be absolute assholes, instead of PLOTTING THE DOWNFALL OF THE FOUR KINGDOMS.
But the two of them were dead now, their teammates having gone on the run. And Cinder was the Fall Maiden. And… she didn't know how to think about that. Team VERM had tried to blow the Amity Colosseum out of the sky too, barely a week into Cinder's ascension to Maidenhood, and while they had failed thanks to the security reinforcing the area (hadn't even gotten close, really), it was still… difficult.
That Ozpin hadn't been reachable for the last… while… was… annoying. But she didn't want to try and pry into that. Not when she was still nauseous from trying to process the memories and personality bleedover that had happened. Amber… she felt bad for the person now stuck to her soul, who occasionally whispered in her mind and brought forth flashes of memory and nostalgia that Cinder really did not need intruding in her daily life, keeping her stuck in her home on Patch when there was still so much to be done- despite the successful repelling of the grimm incursion some weeks ago, Vale was still in a sorry state and there were so many repairs to do. The walls had been breached in multiple areas, there were still destroyed shelters, there were burials to be had…
Not everyone had made it out. A lot of people were still mourning. A lot of people were still homeless. A lot of people were still injured and suffering, and Cinder… Cinder was trying to comfort Yang while Blake ran missions in Vale and Weiss occasionally made the trek out to the Hell Castle in order to see if Ruby had woken up.
Yang…
Yang had been hurt. Badly. Her Aura had given out and while she could still fight at the time… during the invasion, she'd been knocked out and it was a miracle she'd only done it after she'd managed to bundle Weiss and Blake onto a medical transport.
"I'm… about as good as I can be with three broken limbs, four broken ribs, and a concussion," Yang finally answered, not moving from where she laid in her bed while staring up at the ceiling. Her inflection was flat, dull, so empty and dead that it almost sounded nothing like Cinder's little sister who normally flooded every room she entered with life and warmth and the vivaciousness of a girl who lived to the fullest. "I still wake up surprised that I'm still alive, honestly… just glad that it was only a couple of clean breaks and scratches… and a concussion."
"Yeah… I'm… more just wondering if you're doing alright being alone most of the day. I know Weiss and Blake are trying to help out in the city but, y'know. They've been there for half a week now and… I just wanted to check in," Cinder shook her head ever so slightly and pressed one hand against Yang's good shoulder, trying to use her Aura to comfort her sister but… it just didn't feel quite the same as usual. Amber's mix of autumn and dried leaves flowed along with Cinder's persistent sensation of heat and crackling glass, and… she retracted her hand after a moment, grimacing as she tried to regulate herself, to try and… do something. She was unique now, wasn't she? Like Ruby, but… not as much. Nowhere near as odd. Two souls in one body, a dead girl stapled to a living one. Ugh.
She really hoped that hearing Amber's voice occasionally would fade away at some point.
"It's… I'm gonna be honest, it sucks shit. I can't move, I can barely feed myself, I can feel myself wasting away, I know damn well that it's gonna be at least another month before I'm all healed up from this damage and… is it selfish that I'd rather have my girlfriends here with me?" Yang asked quietly, grimacing as she used her good arm to try and push herself into a sitting position, hissing with the effort and grumbling as she managed to settle herself up, if only just barely. "I… I miss them, CinCin."
"I know, Yangles. I miss my girls too, y'know. And I-" Cinder stopped, grimacing as she looked away before she could open her big mouth and drive the mood down further.
Ruby.
She missed Ruby. Her precious baby sister, the light of their family, the cutest widdle baby girl in the world. She missed the smell of roses in the house, missed the way that Ruby was always vivacious and full of life even when things were hard and life was scary. Missed her sister because she might never wake up from that crystal prison she'd locked herself in.
Cinder knew Yang missed her too. Everyone did. Her, Emerald, Neo, Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, Ren, Weiss, Blake, Yang… even Mercury did, for all that he always pretended not to care about anyone. Bastard was a lot of things, but he wasn't heartless. Qrow and Tai missed her most- Tai having thrown himself into the repairs around Vale to distract himself from the pain and Qrow continuing to visit Ruby with Penny every so often.
Penny… Cinder couldn't possibly imagine how much pain and anguish the little redhead was going through? Poor girl. Even with her girlfriend right there, right in front of her… Ruby was still so far away.
It rankled at everyone that the person who had been so instrumental in stopping the invasion, who had disintegrated the Wyvern and every grimm in that area and called the other grimm assaulting the city away, was stuck in a trap of her own making. Ruby was still healing, Qrow had said. She just needed time, he said. As if it was normal for her to make a construct like that hellish, blackened castle that grew out of the ground like a horrible crystal spire, like a mesh of thorns and spikes and spires that wove in and out until they resembled nothing so much as a gaping maw to the depths of the underworld itself.
Poor Ruby.
"Yeah, I miss Ruby too," Yang muttered, bringing Cinder out of her reverie as she raised her arm and patted Cinder's leg, not bothering to look at her sister as she stared dead ahead at the wall, fixating on nothing in particular while she mulled over her own thoughts. "She's…. Gods, I hope she'll be okay. She's strong, and she's always bounced back before but… gods I feel useless. Sitting at home like this, injured and stuck and… Ruby's out there and I should have been protecting her dammit! Why is it that every single time that I get stronger, why is it that every single time that I get better… It's never enough to save her? It's never enough to protect her! I spent my whole life thinking that I'd never let her out of my sight again, never let her get hurt again! And I just- I never did it. I couldn't protect her. At all… ever…"
She sniffled quietly, hand clenched against Cinder's thigh as tears dropped from her eyes, trailing down her cheeks and landing against the fabric of her sheets. "I… just…"
"Yeah, I know how you feel, Yang. We gotta be stronger, though. We're gonna heal up, we're gonna get strong, and we're gonna be the ones to protect Ruby once she wakes up," Cinder smiled- not that she felt happy, but to try and cheer Yang up anyway- and clapped a hand on Yang's shoulder before shaking her head and sighing. "Well, us and Penny at least."
"... Y'know Penny's apparently leaving for Atlas to go install those upgrades she and Ruby have been planning out?" Yang muttered, blinking slowly as she remembered a conversation she'd had the other day. "She'll be back but like… c'mon. She's already super fuckin strong… it's not fair."
"Then we'll have to get even stronger, lil dragon."
Yang snorted, cracking a slightly goofy grin as she shoved Cinder away with a short laugh. "Don't call me that, lil firecracker."
"Okay fine, dumbfuck."
"Bitch, say that to my face!"
"I am!"
"You are so lucky I'm down three limbs right now or I swear I'd punch you into next week for that, CinCin."
"Oh you are more than welcome to try, Yangles."
"Bitch!"
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