Athazagoraphobia

Yang woke up back at Patch. Just like she had for the past year. She had a small smile on her face, just like she had for the past year. She felt amazing, just like she had for the past year.

But, unlike the past year, the smile faded quickly. She was alone in her bed, and the other side of the bed was cold. Usually, Blake would stay in bed until Yang woke up, and if she didn’t, Yang would still be able to hear her in a nearby room. Blake rarely left the house without her. Something must have happened.

Yang rolled out of bed and ran downstairs quickly, grabbing her gauntlets just in case. 

When she got to the kitchen, she found a note lying on the table, along with Blake’s scroll. That was very weird. Blake took that thing with her everywhere.

Hands trembling, Yang picked up the note and started to read it.

Yang,

       I’m sorry to have to tell you like this, but I can’t be with you anymore.

      Whether you’ve realized it or not, you’ve changed. And I don’t like where that change is most likely leading to. You’ve been acting more and more like- Something had been scribbled out so that she couldn’t read it.

      This is goodbye. Don’t try and find me.

-Blake

Yang clenched the paper in her hands, crinkling and ripping the paper. How DARE she?! After everything, I’ve done for her?! She thought angrily. Her eyes had turned blood red. 

Something in Yang told her that this was wrong, that she shouldn’t be acting like this, but she ignored it. She slammed the note into the table, smashing it into pieces. 

Yang growled in frustration as splinters dug into her hand as a result. She stormed into the bathroom to get them out and clean her hands. 

She only looked up once she was done, staring into the mirror that reflected her face back at her.

Except it didn’t.

Instead, there was Adam and his and his angry sneer staring back at her. His cold blue eyes piercing her soul.

Yang screamed and punched the mirror, only for her fist to sink into the mirror, like she had punched glue. She tried pulling her fist away, but it had started to suck her in.

Try as she might, she couldn’t getaway. She was pulled into the mirror and into a place she had seen a thousand times before.

She was at Beacon, or what was left of it. She looked down at her hands and saw that she had two completely normal arms. 

I’ve… seen this before... She thought, but she didn’t have much time to think about it. She heard footsteps coming towards her.

When she looked up, she saw Adam coming towards her slowly.

She gasped and felt a sudden weight on her arms and glanced down to see Ember Celica. She looked back up at Adam and began to shoot at him, but the shots went straight through without affecting him.

She tried reshooting him, but Ember Celia and her arm were gone. Yang’s eyes widened, snapping back towards Adam. She nearly screamed when she saw that he was right in front of her.

Adam smirked down at her and drew his sword. “You really thought you could kill me?”

They were on the cliffs by the waterfall. Yang had her metal arm and Ember Celica back.

Blake was nowhere in sight.

Adam moved around her, slowly getting closer and closer. “You’re too weak to even dodge a blade that’s going to cut off a limb, and you think that you can kill me?!”

Yang felt her left arm trembling, but she couldn’t move to stop it. She couldn’t move at all.

Adam was right in front of her now, looking down at her. “You’re weak; you rely too much on other people. You push them away from yourself.” He leaned down to get right in her face. “You want to know why everyone leaves you? Why no one wants to be around you?”

Yang tried to shake her head, no. But she still couldn’t move. She could only stare into his cold dead eyes.

“It’s because you’re useless. You make everything worse for people. You but in where you’re not wanted.” Adam smirked evilly. “And you’re a failure, and you fail at everything you do. You are very easily replaced. Why would people want you if they could have someone better that doesn’t come with all the flaws you have? Like Penny. Or Sun.”

Yang felt tears stinging her eyes, and her whole body was trembling.

“I’m doing everyone a favor,” Adam said, backing up. He held his sword up and began to glow a bright red. 

That was all the warning Yang got before bright red flashed across her vision, and she was sent flying off of the cliff. There was a large cut on her stomach that was gushing blood. She hit a rock that was below them and fall into the water.

Then, everything went black.

“No one will ever stay. They will all leave you behind.”

Yang woke up with a gasp, tears streaming down her face. Her hand automatically went to her stomach, where the gash was. When she saw that nothing was there, she quickly looked at her surroundings.

She was in Vacuo. Everyone was here. Adam was dead. She was safe.

She was lucky that Blake hadn’t been on watch and was sleeping a bit away from her. Blake would have definitely heard her and came over to check on her.

Blake’s ear twitched, but she didn’t wake up, which made Yang even luckier since Blake was usually such a light sleeper.

Yang took a deep breath and held a hand over her racing heart, trying to calm herself down.

I hadn’t had a dream that bad since I first came home from Beacon. She thought to herself. Maybe losing my arm again triggered it.

She looked over at Blake, who was sleeping peacefully, Yang’s arm right next to her.

Yang smiled softly, watching her for a few seconds before her eyes caught on something moving behind Blake. Looking at it, she saw Sun’s tail wrapped around Blake’s waist. He had either cuddled up to Blake while he was asleep or…

Or Blake let him do that. She might have wanted to sleep with him beside her. Yang ignored the way this made her feel. She shouldn’t have feelings like that for her partner, anyway. It would mess with the team dynamics too much.

Yang sighed quietly and laid back down, looking up at the stars. She listened to the wind blowing, the sounds of Ruby’s quiet snores from right next to her, the louder snores of Qrow from a bit away, the even louder snores of Nora from the other side of the camp, and, strangely, the somehow even louder snores of Maria. Seriously, how can an old lady be that loud?

She took another deep breath, finally feeling her heartbeat slow down.

Her thoughts slowed to a stop as she focused on everything around her. She was slowly starting to forget the dream. But one thing still was left imprinted on her mind. That final thing Adam had said to her, “No one will ever stay. They will all leave you behind.” 

Yang shook her head. He’s wrong. The dream was wrong. It had to be. She took another deep breath. But what if it wasn’t?

Yang dismissed the thought, closing her eyes and trying to get to sleep. Completely unaware of the glowing eyes that had begun watching her the moment she woke up.