Authors note, this my first and I did it on an iPad, so there are random lines to indicate a change in location and characters perspective.
I do not own any of these characters or RWBY or anything in this really, after all its a FANfic, about somebody else's thing.
There might be shipping later I'm not yet sure.
Chapter One: Closed Borders
The Kingdom of Vale sat quiet and still on this rather cold Summer day, most people were inside with heaters turned up and TV's on, the streets were empty of people except one girl.
Outside in the Main Street, a blonde seemed to be ignoring the cold weather and was talking to her friends over the phone, she wore mostly brown and yellow, and a mighty fine pair of sunglasses, the phone was ordinary, nothing interesting about that.
As she walked she noticed she was walking towards a café and decided she might stop for a drink, hanging up, she made her order and sat to wait, it wasn't long before she was walking again with a hot chocolate in hand and phone in the other, dialing someone new.
It took about three rings before the receiver answered,
"Hello, Who is calling at this ungodly hour?" A strangely old voice came,
"Ruby, why are you acting old?" The blonde replied,
Ruby's voice changed in tone and became more young and happy,
"I'm in class you should probably hang up Yang, Weiss doesn't look happy."
The blonde, 'Yang', in turn hung up the phone and Began to wonder why Ruby was taking class so seriously all of a sudden, and since when did Weiss have that big of an impact on her behaviour?!
She was cut from thought however at the sight of a real nuisance.
A man sat in an alley, with a bowler hat and a nice white coat, and a cane, he was smoking and reading the paper.
"Torchwick!" Was all yang could say.
Torchwick in turn looked up from his paper and smiled,
"Isn't a strange thing when you find Atlas has shut down their borders, and have given no reason why?"
Yang was shocked, no insults, no mocking, but pure interest, not like her encounters with the man before.
"What do mean?" Yang asked, puzzled.
"Exactly, they're not on the map anymore and the paper says they closed their borders." Torchwick replied, seeming unfazed by her angry tone of voice, he then gave her the paper to read.
The paper was the latest issue, and looked almost like it was all one story,
the headline wrote: Off the Radar, Off the Trade! Off the Radar she could understand, but off the trade?! It was more puzzling than torchwick being nice to her, she immediately called her friends and told them they need to read the paper.
When Yang looked up, Torchwick was gone and alley was suddenly baron, Yang decided to head home, this was rather exciting, she could do a whole investigation thing with her friends and find out what's going on and... She had lost focus on where she was going and accidentally hit someone, the stranger turned and yelled, Yang shook her head and apologised and quickly walked to an airport and took a ride to her university where she did most of her training and stuff.
In her dorm room, a crazy girl was hanging upside down from a very unsafe looking bed that was tied to the roof, she wore red and black, with red hair and silver eyes, she looked up and noticed Yang in the doorway, "YANG! You're back!" She yelled,
" Ruby you don't have to shout, I'm right here." Yang exclaimed,
"Sorry, so Weiss, what does the paper say?" Ruby still spoke loudly, but it was quieter than before,
The girl she was talking to, Weiss, looked up from her paper and said quite blankly,
"Atlas has shut down their borders and closed all communication channels to their area."
Yang walked to her bed and noticed her, kitty cat, friend looking as if she knew this was coming,
"Blakey, what's up, you really don't look surprised."
Blakey looked at Yang angrily, leaned close and shouted,
"how many times do I have to say it's Blake, not Blakey!"
Ruby looked down at Weiss and gestured to the door as if to say they should leave.
Weiss, understanding this gesture, got up and told Blake she was going for a walk, Ruby quickly followed.
"So what do you think of the paper report thingy?" Ruby started,
"Mildly concerning, why would Atlas, a place of prosperity and peace just suddenly do this?" Weiss was starting to sound afraid, and began digging through her pocket for her phone.
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Torchwick seemed very uneasy when he returned home, a tri-coloured girl noticed this upon his arrival and proceeded to try and calm him down, he then decided he needed to go to Atlas, and see for himself, he looked at her questioningly, and asked if she thought Cinder would be OK with him taking a helicopter to have a look, it was worth a shot right?
He looked at the table he was seated at and sighed,
"Neo, what is happening, those kids are gone, hmph, Atlas is gone, and I seem to no longer be needed around here, I wonder how much she would hate me if I changed sides?"
Neo looked shocked, this wasn't like him at all, her first instinct was to hit him and tell him knock it off, but instead she sat down, and looked at him like she was worried about him, she finally decided to speak up,
"How about you get some rest hmm? Your not thinking properly, besides, if we swap sides, who is going to trust us? We'd be like, double double crossers!"
Torchwick thought for a moment, and decided to rest like she had said, but he was still intent on inquiring about the helicopter for tomorrow. As he went to his room, he noticed a large teddy bear in the spare room, Neo must have had guests or something,
he reached his room and laid on his bed, staring at the roof, the dull, grey, plain roof as he slowly dozed off to sleep.
Neo watched the TV for a while to make sure he was asleep before sneaking out and heading straight to Cinder, telling her everything, and asking what she should do about it, Cinder didn't seem surprised, she told Neo to just watch him, and go with him to Atlas, she too wanted to know what was happening, Neo then asked about the 'Kids', and Cinder just told to think of it like another date, only about a month longer than a date.
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The room was quiet when the girls returned, Ruby went to brush her teeth and to get changed, Weiss just sat down and tried to call home, without an answer she put it down, she was starting to get really worried now, and Ruby could tell, just after Jaune and Pyrrha asked about Yang and Torchwick down the street earlier, wich made her plain out confused.
Weiss decided she would go to the communications tower in the morning and try again, she opened a book titled 'Wars of the Forgotten' to take her mind off everything,
Ruby liked the book and suggested it a while, when she saw Weiss reading it, she felt very happy.
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Morning came and Weiss was nowhere to be seen, Ruby just guessed she went for a walk and left to see if she could find her, as she walked about she encountered a rather annoying fellow named Cardin,
Cardin looked rather glad to see Ruby as the insults came quick,
"look guys, the flower girl is walkin' up the aisle!"
Laughter filled the hall as Ruby walked past, then it went quiet when she made her comeback
"I might be a flower girl, but I'm still closer to a happy life than you'll ever be, prison would probably be like a paradise when the real world is done with you!"
Silence, and the odd 'burn man' where heard as Ruby left to continue her search but to no avail,
She used some sort of super speed power to get to the north coast, way past the walls and found Weiss watching the ocean, Atlas was off in that general direction and Weiss came here often, how she got here so fast was unknown to Ruby, but she didn't mind, it gave Weiss a spot to sit and chill, which isn't what happened when a helicopter flew off towards Atlas, bearing the mark of the white fang, everything just seemed to get even more confusing to Ruby, but she decided she was going to find Torchwick and see if he know, she figured if it's white fang, it's Roman Torchwick!