BONUS ROUND 1: THROWBACK PROMPTS

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In this round, we'll be using prompts from last year's bonus rounds! You can either come up with a prompt based on the previous themes, fill a prompt from previous bonus rounds, or fill a prompt that's been posted this year!

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PROMPT: TEAM [TEAM NAME]

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FILL: TEAM [TEAM NAME]

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FILL: Team RWBY

[hopelessgemini]

fandom: RWBY

ship: winter/cinder

content warnings: mild injury/blood

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Cinder scowls at her through a face-full of blood and soot, eyes wide with animal desperation. The sand around them has been scorched into glass, black spears pointing up to the sky. Winter wonders if she could back her up against them. She’s already got her forced into a corner.

“You’re not doing yourself any favours,” she points out. Cinder spits blood at her.

“I’d rather die than —”

Winter can’t help it; she laughs. “Are you scared?”

“I’m terrified. And you would be too, if you knew what Salem will do to get me back.”

“See, that’s the thing. We’re offering to keep you safe —”

“You’re creating a death trap,” Cinder snarls. Her aura flares weakly; it’s doing her best to protect her, but it isn’t fast enough. Winter could knock her out easily. She should knock her out. But that wouldn’t be fair. “You take me and she’ll come looking for me. And she’ll destroy all of Vacuo, and then it’ll be over, won’t it? You’ll end the world for the sake of playing the hero.”

“But you can’t go back, can you?” Winter asks, tilting her head. “That’s why you’re out here. She sent you to Vacuo with orders to retrieve the relic. But you can’t do it, so you can’t go back.”

“I —”

She pauses. More blood trickles from the corner of her mouth. There’s something hollow in her eyes when she looks at Winter again, something wild and desperate and afraid. “I know she’s going to kill me. I’m going to outlive my usefulness sooner or later. If I can’t — if I can’t take Vacuo, she’ll be done with me.”

Winter looks at her for a moment, jaw working. She’s tired of all this, admittedly, and she wants to go home. But she did promise. “At least let your aura recover before you make any decisions.”

“You just beat the shit out of me, and now you’re —”

“Well, yes. We need you alive, don’t we?”