"...what happened here?" Ruby turn her head around, she wasn't expecting loud noise when she's listening to her favourite piece of soundtrack she found not too while ago, her face is clearly disappointed, but she soon realize she isn't alone.
"Damn, where did this little girl come from? I thought you already told me?" Roman and his bowler hat, the shopkeeper cries when Roman puts his cane closer to him, while pointing at Ruby. "Get her."
The men quickly stop what they were doing, carrying valuable dust that's for electronic devices use, the first man twice the size of Ruby walks to her, he seems pretty confident.
"I promise you it won't be hurt if you would be… cooperative."
"Hmm sure, but what happen here?" Ruby curious as she walks past his grab, at first the men thought it was just a mistake but soon realize she's already on the door behind them. "Are you guys planning on moving?"
"What's that noise over there?" Roman came back with his bag of dust, he is surprised to see Ruby is still not being tied up. "What are you doing fools! Don't let her run away!"
"Woah, I'm not going anyway mister."
The men quickly gang up on her, but everytime when they thought their hands is going to reach her, Ruby is always one step ahead, dodging and reposition herself behind them, she seems pretty confused.
"Hey, what's the matter on catching me? I'm not a grimm."
Roman quickly react by shooting Ruby with his cane, Ruby dodged the bullet and look upon the impact behind her, there's fire burning on the street.
"Woah, what's that, is that an explosive round?" Ruby walks near Roman and take a close look on his cane.
"Back off red! I don't know who you are but don't mess in our business!' Roman swings his cane up and order his men gang up on her again, only this time with guns. "Shoot!"
"Yikes!" Ruby didn't expect they would have shoot her in such close range, she quickly make her way out of the store, but soon found out some of them are leaving with the boxes. "Did I do something wrong?"
"Hmmm! Hmmm! Hm! Hmm!" The shopkeeper makes his way to Ruby when the last of them left, Ruby quickly help him out but wasn't sure why he still here.
"Strange, I thought you were with them."
"They rob the store, please help me catch those bastard!" Using his loudest voice, the old man coughs uncontrollably but staring at Ruby hopefully. "Please."
"Oh… ummm… what should I say… I go get them?" Ruby isn't sure what to do, she takes off her headphones and try to listen to their footsteps as she's hunting grimm, the city landscape is a bit different from what she would imagine would be, she could senses only people but not grimm. "I be back."
Ruby disappear as she makes her way to the top of the building with one jump, the shopkeeper would only wonder why a little girl like her is lacking common sense, while having capability of a huntress.
"Oh yes, the police!"
Ruby oversee Roman and his men as they rob another store on their way, she isn't sure what they are doing, but she was told to catch them.
"People these days are weird, don't you think? Crescent." Ruby carry out her scythe and put on sniper mode, she isn't use to shoot people and quickly found out her few shots would pinned most of them down in no time, she was expecting more rounds before she plan to reload.
"What's this!" A huge net from the sky, one shot from the right caught five, the left caught six, Roman quickly realize there's one coming right on top of him, he quickly dodge it with a side roll and trying to help his men out to the left.
"Sir! We can't move!"
"Shut up useless bastards! I'm trying!"
Ruby quickly jump down and inspecting the net to the right, her eyes tell them to behave, her oversize weapon seems light on her hand, her huntress instinct is hard to ignore as her mouth is chewing on her little sharp knife, for almost a second, they could feel the strong wind as the scythe swings in mid air and the sharpness of weapon heading towards them, but stop before reaching the men.
"Sorry… I thought I already use my weaker type of rounds?" Ruby testing out the net by pulling some strings out, she isn't too sure. "Wait, this is fine I guess."
Normally Ruby would kill everything she caught in her net, if it wasn't they are humans, Ruby wouldn't even hesitate to land a few slashes on them, her hunting experience told her to be merciless and even so looking at them, she has her instinct to kill too, just she is better on hiding it, so her prey will never know until it's too late.
"Don't kill us!"
"Hmm." Ruby sniffed at them, testing on her knife against their clothes, she did it as her old habits to know more about her victims condition, cause emotion on faces could be fake, but the heart beats, the pulse, they can tell.
"...onto the next one I guess."
"Sir! Don't leave us!" Roman makes his run after he takes his bag, Ruby looks calm as she looks at his back, the men could see the soulless huntress smile, they don't know if she's still counts as a human when Ruby would jump so far away within a blink.
"Crap, those men from Cinder is so bad, always causing more attention than needed." Roman climb onto the roof, while carrying dust on his back, the man is tired, but not giving up anytime soon, he try to get to higher heights of the building, while constantly yelling at his small radio device. "Come now! I'm here!"
"Hey, where are you going?" Ruby appears from his back, Roman quickly react with his cane swinging at her and trigger a few shots, but Ruby isn't too concern with the smoke he putting, she could still sense him.
"Shit, I thought those are poisonous darts." Roman isn't wrong but Ruby seems to know the smell too well, a quick dash and she found herself hitting on something as hard as metal, a short fall to nearby high ground, Ruby looks very surprised.
"Flying stuff…" It is Ruby first time to witness the chopper fly above her head, she didn't expect something this big to suddenly appear in the middle of the city, but soon view it seriously. "Crescent, I think we may have a jackpot."
The chopper quickly went invisible after Ruby chase it for awhile, Roman sigh as he could see little red still looking at them from the building, as she knows they are still there.
"Can we get away from that monster faster! I can't stand here anymore." Roman checks on his cane and rounds, he soon realizes something is missing. "Wait, where's my hat!"
A quick sharp cut, Ruby swings her scythe from above as she has no fear of heights with fast moving blades on top, Roman could see Ruby for a slight movement as some of his hair is cut in half too, there's no time to think and Roman could see his hat being throw at him when he falls into the ground, Ruby catch them all before it was too late, but Roman start running again, this time with his bowler hand on.
"What happened?" The pilot remains shock, never in his life he wouldn't sense danger coming on his way, the others are not sure what's going on when they saw themselves facing the ground, and soon a net caught them all, this time Ruby continue to chase on Roman and she thinks she will gets him for sure this time.
"Arghh, stop it stop it, leave me!" Roman try to use his cane, he managed to break some parts of it but not all of them, he's still trapped and Ruby is standing on the top building looking downwards, the prey isn't calming down yet.
"This is the police of Vale, we demand you to surrender yourself now."
"Eh?" Ruby looks shock as she saw more lights begin to appear, a even bigger chopper appears as they warp in, she isn't sure what's going to happen so she stands there and look into the sky.
"Surrender yourself now! Put down your weapon!"
"But I have a promise from that old man you see… there's still peo-"
"I said put your weapons down!" The authority soon comes down with their highly armed forces and guns, Ruby feels a bit uncomfortable when many eyes looking at her.
"He run away…" Ruby try to tell them, but they ignore her at will and bring her back to their platform, she was handicap and her weapon stolen, she wonders if she doing anything wrong when the authority shows up, now her sis is going to be mad.
...
"We're so sorry!" The officer soon come and apologize to Ruby after he gets his call, Ruby could heard it was the shopkeeper voice but soon another unknown voice come over, she isn't sure what's happening but, she knows she is in trouble.
"Hey, do you have any numbers? I want to call my sis." Ruby asks as she looks outside of the window, she wasn't aware as she's still being handicap.
"Numbers?"
"My sis told me if I was caught then I should be given them numbers."
"...so what's the number?"
"Oh."
The other guards soon come into the room and whisper to the high officer, his face went palm for a moment but soon calm back down. "...affirmative."
"Yang!" Ruby is happy to see her big sis again after a few minutes of lockdown, she learns it by staying in one place without breaking the seal too often, she cares for her Crescent too.
"Ruby… what happen?" Yang look confused when she saw some guards carrying her sister weapon to her, it's six of them and they barely moving it slightly above the ground, it didn't take long until Yang noticed Ruby's huntress equipments is fully loaded onto her weapon.
"Yang?"
"Do you just go hunting in the city… again?"
Ruby nods, Yang couldn't believe it happened again, while learning the stories behind it from the guards and Ruby, she chuckles.
"Well sis, it's complicated, please don't laugh ." Ruby holding Yang's hand. "You know I never been to a settlement or city before!"
"...just head back home when you're done." Yang pat her head. "Dad is still waiting for you,"
The sisters chat friendly as the guards look upon the men Ruby caught in her net, they seems to having trouble getting them out and some of them looked too scared to be true, as they have been traumatized by whom, they wonder.
...
"Ozpin, how many times I have to tell you, don't leave Beacon without me!" Glynda walks past the guards along the way, a robbery just happened in town without any civilian casualties but all of the dust are being stolen, Ozpin takes out his glasses and take a look on the ground, there's fire and some rounds shot fresh.
"Interesting, a red caped girl with silver eyes."
"Hey, I'm talking to you."
"Apologize, but Glynda, we need to find her now."
