Day 1: Encounters and Interactions
A Corrupted Soul: Soul Eater AU
-99th soul-
It was the night that Ruby would get Crescent's 99th soul. The first time they met. They were chasing a ghoul called Jack the Ripper, a disgusting creature who's soul had long since been corrupted. Crescent hummed in Ruby hands as they worked together to harvest the soul. She smiled down at her weapon as the scythe gulped down the soul. It was the first time they met and certainly not the last.
Roman was working, not really all that hard, but working none the less. Melodic hated days like this and preferred to stay in his weapon form and refuse to speak to his maester. Both preferring other's company, rather than their partner's. He had been trailing after the rogue for some time remembering Cinder's clear orders to him about Jack. When he stumbled upon the red haired maester and her weapon. Her eyes widened as they landed on the criminal's face and his raised weapon. He could feel her piercing gaze as she looked at his soul, the red taint obviously coloring. He watched as her scythe swallowed the soul of his former lackey, as soon as the weapon was done with it's meal, the hooded girl raised the weapon up to defend herself. She launched herself at him and he easily dodged her attempts to attack him, raising Melodic he fired a quick shot, uttering a quick sentence, "Let's teach little Red a lesson."
"Hey!" she shouted as she dove behind a dumpster to avoid the shining spray of light that exploded when his shot hit the ground.
"Well, Red, I must say, this has been an eventful evening, but this is where we part ways," his last shot hit the wall directly, bricks and plaster stopping the fifteen year old from seeing the route of her attacker. Her teeth clenched and Crescent, her cousin and weapon, morphed back into human form, bright red hair flowing behind her. "We'll get him next time, after all, all we need now is a witch's soul, then I will become a death scythe."
Ruby sighed.
-0 souls-
The second meeting was different. Ruby had just failed to make Crescent into a death scythe, the dream she had moving toward for over a year, because of a stupid mistake. Why didn't she see it? Obviously Neon wasn't a witch, she was a freakin CAT. So instead of a witch's soul Crescent got a cat's. Ruby rocked her legs back and forth on the tower she was sitting upon, her heels slamming into the brick, causing pain to shoot up her limbs. "Stupid. Stupid. Stupid," she muttered to herself repeatedly, each time slamming her feet in harder, till they bled. A unrefined laugh interrupted her self deprecation and the maester looked up to come face to face with the orange haired villain she had encountered before Crescent lost all her souls. He plopped down next to her, leaning back on his hands and gazing through his bangs at her unblemished face. "So, what'd you do? Fail a test?" he laughed again, assuming he had hit right on the mark.
Ruby turned her face away, "No! I made a mistake and caused my weapon to loose all 99 souls we had collected!"
Roman seemed a bit taken back, "Damn Red! If I did that Melodic would kill me," he looked down at her feet, the blood soaking through her boots and dying the fabric red, "What the Hell!"
His voice had raised so drastically Ruby's eyes went wide and she glanced down at her feet, "What?"
She was genuinely confused, and he lifted her leg up and put it in his lap, "Don't hurt yourself because your dissapointed in yourself."
Gently prying the boot off her foot, after unlacing it, he tore the bottom of her tights off so that he could see the wound better. "Why do you care, aren't we enemies?"
Torchwick sheepishly looked down, "Ahh, sorry. It's just that my little sister Neo used to do stuff like this, no matter who it is it still effects me."
Ruby nodded and let Roman treat her wounds, silently sitting still unless his gentle touch tickled her feet. After his nimble fingers finished treating the wound, she started speaking, "I heard about who you are, Roman Torchwick, king of the thieves."
"Then you should know that an act of kindness such as this is rare and will never happen again," his voice was bitter and he stood and began walking away.
"Wait!" Ruby stood on wobbly legs, "I want to be friends."
He scoffed, "And why would you be friends with the king of thieves?" he asked incredulously.
"Because everyone deserves kindness."
"What are you? A saint?" he laughed and sighed, "fine then, but don't get too attached."
-14th soul-
Ruby and Roman, the maesters who were enemies and friends, this news quickly circulated the school. They fought a lot, I'm not going to lie, their weapons holding them back as their words lashed the other. By the time Crescent had reached 14 souls, Ruby and Roman had met up at least half that amount. Crescent was slightly jealous of the time her partner was spending with the criminal but her own time talking with Melodic eventually essauged even her doubts of the green eyed man.
-46th soul-
The first time they kissed was on the tower. They often hung out there after the second meeting. Roman had turned to Ruby, pulled her body close to his own, "Do you know how long I've wanted to do this," he whispered in her ear and planted a small sweet kiss on her surprised lips. He let go of her back, allowing her the chance to pull away if she so desired, but she only buried her hands in his hair allowed him to deepen the kiss. A week later he properly asked her out and only had to get beat up by Yang twice before she accepted it.
-85th soul-
After much begging Roman finally introduced Ruby to his sister, the girls hit it off immediately and often teemed up when making fun of the poor criminal.
-99th soul-
Ruby veil covered her eyes as her balling father led her down the aisle to the place where her fiance was standing, watching in awe. Yang and Crescent stood to her left as the rings were brought up to the dais. Roman's eyes were sparkling as he pulled the veil off Ruby's face and said his vows. Ruby's voice shook and her own eyes glittered with happiness as he lowered his head to hers. And the rest is history, because Ruby saved the a corrupted soul by giving him her own.