A/N: I LIIIIIIIIIIIVE! I'm sorry I've been quiet for over an entire damn year. I have been super busy moving, getting a visa, and just... just a lot right now. I'm trying to not let my stories die. So, without further ado, here's another chapter. I'm sorry it's so short.
Warning: Blood, violence, and mild psychological things. Plot and stuff.
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KuletXCore: I'm super glad you like what you've read so far. Thank you for reading and your patience!
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Yang sighed as she closed her locker, groaning from how tired she was. She slammed her head on the metal before turning around, finding Ruby looking panicked right behind her.
"Yang, I didn't mean to! I don't understand what happened!" She sputtered, her voice shaking.
Yang dropped her books and moved closer, placing her hands on Ruby's shoulders. "Easy. What happened, Rubes?"
Ruby's hands gestured wildly, her breathing short and irregular. "I just, you know, shut my locker, but my hand went right through it! Like, suddenly high-five the back of the locker through it!"
Yang quickly walked off in the direction of Ruby's locker, halting when she saw that there was, in fact, a hand-sized hole through it. Hastily she began looking over Ruby's hands for cuts and gashes, stunned into silence when there was nothing there. "That's… not even possible."
"I know! And now I have a hole in my locker, and we're gonna be late!"
Yang tried to form words, but her head was spinning. All she could do was look around helplessly before a somewhat familiar figure began walking up to them in a very unfamiliar way. For several seconds her brain refused to register who it was, even Ruby staring in shock. It wasn't until a voice came from behind them in utter disbelief that they could truly understand who they were looking at.
"Nora?!" Weiss' voice squeaked out.
Nora strode closer in a white shirt that had a heart with small slash cut out from the cleavage area, a dark blue and pink midriff jacket, a pink high-waisted miniskirt, and white and pink knee high boots. Her gait was far more self-assured than they had ever seen, far more feminine. She arched an eyebrow at the openly gapping group and walked closer, directly up to Weiss.
"Hey, kiddo. Man, you grew quite a bit since I last saw you." Nora's tone and inflections were vastly different, a bit lower and more cocky. "How's it going?"
Weiss found herself unable to speak from shock, completely ignoring the bell going off in the distance to keep staring. "Nora? What are you even talking about? Why are you dressed like that?"
Nora's face tilted and scrunched up in confusion. "Who the hell is Nora?"
Yang stepped closer and gestured at her directly. "You. You the hell is Nora."
Weiss took Nora's hand and looked at her directly in the eyes. "Nora, please. Please remember who you are. Please remember."
Instead, the girl pulled her hand free. "Look, Weiss, kiddo. I'm Coco. Who in the hell are you talking about?"
Weiss shook her head desperately, reaching out for her again. "No, no, no. Please remember. You've been my best friend since we were little. Remember? We would meet up at the park and I would help you build sand castles in the sand box? Remember? Please?" She begged piteously, holding Nora's face in her hands. "Please don't forget me, please!"
Ruby could see the tears building in Weiss' eyes as she tried to step closer to Nora, but halted when Yang put her hand on her shoulder. She looked up to see her sister shake her head.
"Wait." Yang whispered softly.
Weiss kept looking into Nora's eyes, searching them for the friend she had known for almost all of her life. "Please, please remember. Please don't go."
Nora put her hands on Weiss' as if to remove them, but a frown creased her features. She froze, blinking several times. "Weiss..?" She whimpered.
"Yes, yes it's me!" The relief was bare in her voice and face, a soft sob escaping her. "You can do this, I know you can."
Tears rolled down Nora's face as she started crying, clinging to the pale hands on her cheeks. "Help me. Please." She begged her.
"I will. I'm here. I'm not leaving you." Weiss assured her.
"She's really… really loud. She's so confused…" Nora's eyes were full of a tired fear. "I don't know who I am right now."
"Look at me, Nora." Weiss demanded softly, forcing her to look up into her own ice blue eyes. "You're Nora Valkyrie Ren. You're the smartest girl I know, and there are a lot of smart people working at the company. You're my best friend."
"Coco." Nora mumbled. "I'm not Coco."
"No, you aren't. Coco was… one of Winter's friends. I met her a few times, and you are not her."
A blue light flared up from Weiss' hands in a bright flash, and suddenly, both she and Nora were gone.
"Whoa, whoa! What the fuck?!" Yang shouted out, quickly moving to where the two had been just moments before. "Where? How? What the fuck?!"
"You two!" A stern female voice called out, making both of them jump. "Why are you not in class?"
Both of them whipped around to see Principal Goodwitch striding closer, her heels clicking loudly.
"Ms. Goodwitch!" Ruby squeaked nervously. "We… we uh…"
"Such an articulate answer." The woman crawled as her eyes narrowed at them. "Both of you, to my office. Now."
The two teens followed her in silence to the main office, entering the office of the principal herself, Principal Goodwitch sitting behind her desk with a sigh and motioning to the chairs before the girls.
"Have a seat."
Weiss and Nora were shaking as they looked around, taking in the command center in shock.
"Winter! Winter, help, please!" Weiss called out, her voice trembling.
They felt a soft tug in their chests, and a cloud of shadows erupted nearby, Blake rushing over to them. "Coco, I felt her. What's going on?" She demanded abruptly.
Nora's eyes went wide, shaking her head. "Blake? Blake, you're alive!" She called out happily. "Sweet fuck, I'm so glad!"
Blake halted as Nora reached up and pulled her into a very powerful hug, holding her close. "Coco?" She whispered.
Weiss blinked before joining them. "No, it's not Coco. Your name is Nora!" She was desperate to get it through her head.
Blake pulled away with great effort, holding the smaller girl at arms length. "This happened before," her gaze met Weiss' firmly before darting back to Nora, "we all went through this when we connected to our coins. It's like the two minds start mixing up who is who."
"Can you help her?"
"I can try." Blake admitted. "Nora, I need you to listen to me very carefully."
"Blake? Who is Nora? Stop calling me that."
"You are Nora. You're not Coco Adel." Blake spoke in a very clear voice, making sure to be slow enough to hide the pain of seeing her friend in the body of someone else. "Coco died. You died, Coco. Cinder Fall killed you. Your memories are messing with Nora."
Nora shook her head in confusion. "Dead? But… I'm here. You're here."
"Yes, I am. But Nora has the pink coin now. This isn't you anymore."
Nora looked between Blake and Weiss, her hands reaching up to grab her head. "No, no, please." She muttered. "Please, help! Weiss! Weiss, help me!"
Weiss moved to stand in front of Nora, holding her shoulders firmly. "Nora, listen to me very carefully. You are the one who is alive, okay? Your memories are the right ones. Coco isn't you. Coco isn't the one who is alive."
Nora nodded very woodenly, sobbing. "I'm Nora. I'm Nora. I'm Nora." She kept repeating between watery breaths.
"That's right. You're Nora." Weiss replied soothingly.
"Weiss…" Nora whimpered as she looked at her. "What's happening to me? There are so many memories. So many memories that aren't mine. Am I going crazy?"
Weiss pulled her in for a firm hug, shaking her head. "No, you aren't crazy. You connected to your coin. You connected with Coco."
Blake placed a hand on Weiss' shoulder lightly. "I felt Coco, so I pulled you here when you pulled both of you somewhere else."
Blue eyes met amber in utter confusion as tears rolled from them. "What? What do you mean I pulled us?"
"In moments of very high stress when you first start getting powers, you might accidentally pull yourself or others to places. It gets easier with practice."
Weiss didn't seem any less confused, but spoke again regardless. "Thank you."
Blake was taken aback by the gratitude. "For what?"
"For helping us. You had no reason to."
Blake opened and shut her mouth several times, finally clenching her fists as she looked at the floor. "Because you have nothing to do with your sister's sins."
In a burst of shadows, Blake vanished, leaving a very confused and frightened Weiss alone with Nora.
Principal Goodwitch steepled her fingers as she listened to their poor excuse for being out of class, her expression unamused. "I don't care if you forgot your lunch, Miss Rose. Your sister should have brought it here and had us page you."
"I'm sorry." Ruby sheepishly apologized for what had to be the hundredth time in five minutes.
"Don't be sorry, Miss Rose. Just don't let it happen again. I'm letting you both off with a warning. Next time, detention." The woman stated blandly. "Now, get to class."
"May we have notes, Ms. Goodwitch?" Yang pleaded.
With a small sigh, the woman reached over on her desk for a pen and her stack of excuse notes, quickly writing up two of them for the sisters. When she was finished, Glynda held one in each hand towards them. "There. Now, don't let this happen again." She warned them both.
Ruby eagerly took her note, though Yang was far more subdued in her collection. How could she make sure it didn't happen again? Hell, how did she find Weiss and Nora? Lilac eyes looked at the pink paper in her hand with a concerned frown, her thoughts running around like mad. What was going to happen to them now?
"Is there a problem?"
Yang's attention snapped up to those piercing green eyes. "Huh? No! Looks great. We should, uh, get, uh, going."
Quickly, the both of them left the office, both worried about two different things; Ruby was way more concerned about her locker while Yang was concerned about how everything was already turning into one big old dumpster fire for them already. How were they going to manage this whole double life thing? It looked way easier in comics and movies. Nora and Weiss were missing, and how were they going to explain any of this to actual adults? If someone told her about it, she would laugh at them and she was part of this insane life!
"Yang? Why… do you have your coin out?"
Ruby's question snapped her out of her whirlwind thoughts and her focus was directed to the yellow coin in her left hand. When had she reached for it? "I uh, I dunno." Quickly she shoved it back into her pocket before reaching over and ruffling Ruby's hair. "Get to class, dummy." She stated with a grin that hid her fears.
Ruby slapped away the hands with a glower, trying to fix her now mussed hair. "Bite me."
"Love you too, dweeb." She lovingly insulted back before they parted ways.
Life was already turning into a massive mess, and it was only the first day of this. At least she was in this with her friends, so she wasn't alone.