Black Like Shadows

Midnight Darkness's brother, Grimal, has come to visit her. But she is still bitter about how he left her to behind. And he just so happened to pop up in her Muse-ic Class. So Midnight decides to vent out her anger through her her assignment. But she didn't expect it at all for him to join in on it and explain to her why he had to leave.

*Note: Fine, I'm sorry for all the RWBY songs. But I just can't help it. After listening to this song, which is about Ruby's reaction to her mother's death, I was inspired to have Midnight feel the same way when Thanatos her brother was forced to leave her. Disclaimer I do not own RWBY or the Song, all of which belongs to*
*Rooster Teeth, Monty Oum and Jeff Williams. All alterations to the*
lyrics were made to fit the situation, please support the initial
release. BTW the "chained" part I put in was Midnight's brother telling her that he supports her decisions and that he doesn't want her to be bound to their mother any longer. And the "she" and "her" in the song is referencing their mother since they don't ever want to hear or say her name ever again.

**Midnight Darkness starts strumming a guitar, she looks her brother in the eyes and begins to sing:**

I couldn't take it, couldn't stand another minute

Couldn't bear another day without you in it

All of the joy that I had known for all my life

Was stripped away from me the minute that you left

To have you in my life was all I ever wanted

But now without you I'm a soul forever haunted

Can't help but feel that I had taken you for granted

No way in hell that I can ever comprehend this

I wasn't dreaming when she told me you were gone

I was wide awake and feeling that she had to be wrong

How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?

Now I'm trapped inside a nightmare every single f'ing day

It's like a movie, but there's not a happy ending

Every scene fades black, and there's no pretending

This little fairy tale doesn't seem to end well

There's no knight in shining armor who will wake me from the spell

I know you didn't plan this

You tried to do what's right.

But in the middle of this madness

I'm the one you left out of sight

Black like Shadows

Fills my head with dreams and finds me

Always closer

To the emptiness and sadness

That has come to take the place of you

**Grimal quickly grabs a microphone and jams in:**

I know you're broken down by anger and by sadness

You feel I left you in a world that's full of madness

Wish I could talk to you, if only for a minute

Make you understand the reasons why I had to go

I wanna tell you that you're all that ever mattered

Want you to know that, for eternity, I'm shattered

I tried so hard just to protect you, but I failed to

And in a prison of abandonment I've jailed you

I never planned that I would leave you there alone

I was sure that I would see you when I made it back home

And all the times I swore that it would be okay

Now I'm nothing but a liar, and you're thrown into the fray

This bedtime story ends with misery ever after

The pages are torn, and there's no final chapter

I didn't have a choice, I did what I had to do

I made a sacrifice, but forced a bigger sacrifice on you

I know you've lived a nightmare

I caused you so much pain

But, dear sister, please do remember

I don't want you to remain in chains

**Midnight:**
Black Like Shadows

Fills my head with dreams and finds me

Always closer

To the emptiness and sadness

That has come to take the place of you.

**Grimal:** You're not the only one who needed me; I thought you understood

**Midnight:** You were the one I needed, and you left me as I always feared you would

**Grimal:** Would I change it if I could?

**Both:** It doesn't matter how

The petals scatter now

Every nightmare just discloses

It's her heart that's black like shadows

**Midnight:** And no matter what I do
Nothing ever takes the place of you

**Midnight's guitar solo intensifies**
Black Like Shadows

Fills my head with dreams and finds me

Always closer

To the emptiness and sadness

That has come to take the place of you