So, just warning you all that this chapter may not be for everybody. Thank you for all the suggestions from your reviews and messages, and I have taken them into account, you just might not see them take effect till later on. Hope you have some fun reading this! Till the next one!

Blake

Smirking, she continued to walk with her girlfriend down the road.

"That was an awesome movie! The main guy with the rubber body totally wrecked that tiger guy!What was his name again?" Yang asked.

Sighing, Blake responded "First of all, it is not the main guy, his name was Luffy, and the other character you were referring to was named Lucci. Although I agree that the action sequences were quite invigorating, honestly the story was hard to wrap my head around without any background knowledge which was sorely lacking. Are you sure this was the first movie? and not the middle movie in some big series?"

Yang just stared astonished at Blake, "You mean you haven't seen any of this series?! This is like the 8th movie! We have to go watch all of the other seven right now to get you caught up." Yang stated.

Grabbing Blakes' hand, Yang started to pull her back toward Beacon so they could marathon the series. Desperate to get out of the impending marathon, Blake looked everywhere for a reason why they couldn't, knowing that any logical response like, we have classes tomorrow. or Ruby and Weiss are sleeping in the room and we can't wake them. Would do little to perturb Yang from her goal. That was when she noticed it, a swirling sphere of glyphs, interlocking and spinning at amazing speeds, completely engulfing a warehouse a couple streets from them. The most confusing thing to Blake though, was that the glyphs looked like Weiss' Immobilization Glyphs. Yet they couldn't be Weiss' since Weiss couldn't produce a glyph anywhere near that size.

"Yang, stop!" Blake yelled.

"Oh come on, I'm sure you'll love the series Blake-" Yang said, stopping as she saw the glyph when she had turned to face Blake.

"Is that?..." Yang started to ask.

"Yes I think it is, we need to go." Blake said, answering the unasked question.

"Hell Yeah we do." Yang finished, letting go of Blakes' hand she engaged Ember Celica by punching her fists together. "We really really do..."

Weiss

Weiss was filled with two raw emotions firstly the immense concern and dread for Ruby's safety, and second the absolute fury and rage directed toward Daniel Lacrimento.

Daniel glared at Weiss, baring his teeth evilly as he did so. "Now Weiss, I realize that I can't risk hurting you directly as payback for the indignity you put me through, since the repercussions would be horrible for my fathers company. But I realized while I was getting this cast on that, if I can't hurt you physically, I just need to hurt you emotionally. That is assuming that you actually care about this thing that you spend so much time with. So assuming that, I am going to take apart something you love before your eyes as payment for your rudeness." he said happily.

Weiss just stared coldly at him, trembling in anger. Disappointed by the lack of reaction from the heiress he lost his grin,

"You see? Now you're ruining the moment, I was hoping for thrashing and screaming into your gag. That would have made everything so much sweeter, well lets get this started, I'm sure that will cheer me up."

Pulling a chair up behind Weiss, he sat down and snapped his fingers. Immediately the black figures went into a frenzy, preparing all of their instruments of pain.

Whispering in Weiss' ear Daniel said "Now I don't want you looking away for a second, Okay?" He put his non broken arm around Weiss' neck and forcefully kissed her cheek. "I'm sure you won't enjoy this."

Ruby

The clink of metal on metal woke Ruby, groggily she opened her blurry eyes And struggled to see. She was looking through a darkened window, and through it the seated, bound and gagged figure of Weiss was being what could only be called forcefully groped by Dan- whatever his name was. Ruby was very pissed off and immediately tried to rise and knock this jerk into the stratosphere, only to find that she couldn't. Looking down at herself she realized that she was in the exact same position as Weiss minus the groping. Except... The clinking of metal, what was that? Straining her head against her restraints, Ruby struggled to look in the direction of all the noise, her eyes widened at what she saw. There was roughly half a dozen black clad figures readying machines and appliances that looked like they were meant to cause unbearable pain.

W-what, are those for? They can't be for me can they? Ruby thought disbelievingly.

The realization hit her like a truck, she was in very real immediate danger and she had no way out of it. Straining against her bonds she realized that she didn't have Rubys' Stem on, if she had she could have collapsed it and gotten out quite easily. Now though as she struggled against the bonds holding her down she new there was no getting out of this the bonds were way too tight, and upon realizing that, Ruby stopped struggling. Looking up to meet Weiss' gaze, she felt tears start to prick her eyes, but forced them away for Weiss' sake if nothing else. Giving her best look of reassurance to her girlfriend she mentally prepared herself for what was to come.

They had started training to be able to ignore pain in their classes at Beacon,

It was something about emptying your mind right? Or was it that you were supposed to think of a whole bunch of stuff to distract yourself? Ruby thought, she hadn't been doing that well during that unit.

The clang of metal being gathered together rang deadly in her ears, Come on! COME ON! What was it?! Happy place?! Yeah let's go with that. Happy place Ruby! Happy place!

Ruby started to think back to her dream of The Dessert filled Kingdom, placing herself back in the kingdom she changed one thing, she made Weiss real in her dream not some ice cream impersonation. Weiss was her queen in the land of sweets- Ruby heard her own ear splitting scream before she felt the pain. Snapping out of her forced daydream she looked down to see a large nail, (no it was closer to a train spike than a nail) was halfway driven through her right forearm, She could feel it inside her arm, the spike had just barely lodged in her bone, then another blow came. The hammer, wielded by one of the black suited figures came down on the spike, completely shattering the bone and piercing through to the other side of Ruby's arm, imbedding itself into her chair. The pain washed over her in waves, every twitch, every breath sent another one to chip away at her grasp of consciousness. Through the haze of pain she heard a voice,

"She's going unconscious already? That's no fun, give her the shot."

She didn't even feel the needle enter her left shoulder, it was nothing compared to the pain she was feeling already. Suddenly her vision cleared, and with it the pain cleared too, horrifyingly sharp and agonizing.

I have to stay strong! I can't let Weiss see how much this hurts. Ruby managed to think.

Mustering up the force of will to put on a strong front through the pain she didn't notice the cold metal of another spike being placed against the middle of her right bicep.

Right as she opened her eyes and sat up in an attempt to look confident and unfazed, the next spike was hammered in, this time all in one go. Her facade shattered completely, tears of pain fell freely from her eyes. She couldn't think, all she could do was scream in pain.

Next came the legs, they hammered a spike into each of her calfs and thighs pinning them along with her right arm to her chair.

All Ruby wanted was to be able to fall unconscious, but she couldn't. No matter how badly she wanted to fall into the void she couldn't.

"Let's make her symmetrical for you, okay Weiss?" Daniel said above the screams and sobs, plaguing the rooms.

The whir of saws came next, Ruby managed to move her head to the side and see one of the black suited figures smiling sickeningly sweet to himself as he brought a circular saw to bear.

A fresh wave of tears sprang forth, unable to help herself, Ruby looked back to stare into Weiss' tear stricken eyes. She saw such overwhelming sadness and rage there. Ruby closed her eyes and waited.

It took little time to cut through Ruby's right arm at the same place the Deathstalker had cut her left. The spikes had made sure to secure her arm from moving so they could get a clean cut. As she lost the feeling in her right fingers she realized that she felt a presence at her legs. She cracking her eyes open to take a look at what was happening to her legs now, but she shut them quickly after seeing what she had. There was now a figure kneeling at each of her legs holding circular saws, they had been smiling wide at her, waiting for her to see them before they started.

The twin sounds of saws started up, then at the exact same time, Ruby was relieved of both of her knees and lower legs

Lets stop for a second, we need to make sure it doesn't die on us. That would be just too easy. Daniel said,

The figures quickly came and bandaged all of the new stumps and essentially stopped Ruby from losing anymore blood. They gave her another shot to keep her awake, then left, smiling widely all the while. Ruby sat like that for what felt like.. she couldn't tell what, hours? day's? weeks? she couldn't tell. She didn't even have the energy to look up at Weiss to see her face.

Eventually, they came back, still toting their grins. this time they didn't pick up any heavy machinery, the simply picked up a few scalpels and stood waiting around Ruby.

"Let's start! I don't know if I can take anymore suspense!" an overjoyed sounding Daniel said.

One of the figures snapped into action, leaning over Ruby, he grasped his chin with one hand almost as if he was an artist scrutinizing his own painting. Breaking out into an even bigger smile (if that was possible) he raised his scalpel, and pressed it firmly over Rubys' left eye, slowly dragging it down, he created a large jagged gash that went from overtop her eye from her forehead down to he middle of her left cheek. With a flourish he stepped away from Ruby and bowed towards the room Weiss and Daniel were in.

"Don't you see Weiss? I knew she would look better if we marked her with your scar for you!" Daniel said with apparent glee.

I just want this to all end, I just want to go back to before this and be happy with Weiss I want to kiss her and love her, all I want is to hold her again-... Ruby thought despair crowding her mind.

"I think one last modification should make it perfect! I just know it will far more effective as your toy, or would it be more accurate to say slave? I don't know, but anyways continue!" Daniel cried gleefully.

Two more figures came up to Ruby brandishing scalpels,once they got close one of them spoke for the first time in a husky voice,

"Don't worry we won't kill you, but you might still want to take one last good look at your girly over there, because this will be the last time you are ever gonna see her."

Confused, Ruby followed the direction he was pointing, just to meet Weiss' horrified gaze, tear covered and sad beyond any belief. Then her vision cut out, she screamed and screamed and screamed. She felt her eyes pop and be swirled around in her head with the two scalpels of the black clad figures before her.

Then the world stopped. She didn't understand what was happening but she could feel Weiss' aura all around her and everywhere else, stopping everything. She reached out with her battered and broken aura and barely clasped on to her girlfriends soul like a last lifeline in the open sea.

P.s. Who said a rose is only Pruned Once?