"Ruby vs. Nightmare" is a fight that occurred in "Light in Shadows" of RWBY: Ice Queendom, where Ruby fights against the Nightmare for the third and final time to save Weiss from its clutches.
Preceding Events[]
During the Battle of Weiss' Dreamscape, Yang buys Ruby time to go after the Nightmare by distracting Big Nicholas while Negative Weiss and Negative Blake fight. Upon entering the tower, Ruby's relic is snatched by Whitley, and Ruby fends him off with her scythe. She proceeds deeper into the tower and uses the black relic to make her way into the Nightmare's room.
The Fight[]
The Nightmare shoots many vines at Ruby, who fends off each and every one with her scythe, cutting them easily. She tries to get closer to the Nightmare, but is stopped as more and more vines come at her, and is forced to retreat slightly. She realizes the Nightmare she is fighting is merely a manifestation of the real Grimm, and starts tearing apart the room searching for the Nightmare. She recalls Weiss' words while she was in Ruby's Dreamscape, and figures out that the real Nightmare is hiding in her shadow.
She swiftly turns around and shoots at her shadow, the Nightmare revealing itself. Its true form is quickly vanquished, but the grown version is not yet defeated, and grabs Ruby with its vines. It restricts her, but Ruby, unaware of her actions, uses her silver eyes and destroys the Nightmare, freeing Weiss.
Aftermath[]
In the real world, the Nightmare escapes from Weiss' body, but Shion captures it and stores it in their jar, however due to the damage Ruby had done to it, it completely disintegrates.
Ruby sees Weiss in the aftermath of the fight, and asks if Weiss would truly be her friend after seeing her on her side. Weiss smiles, and Ruby finds herself back in the Nightmare's room, Weiss' Songbird dress the only thing remaining. She realizes that it's Weiss herself, and she is transported using a Glyph to where Weiss is waking up as Negative Weiss.
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