Chapter 1- The city that never sleeps
The city of Mistral was a lively one with shops and stores with various items to purchase for all kinds of people. A diverse culture and unique collection of people from all over remnant make it a city that never seems to rest. It's been about a week since team RNJR arrived after being rescued after their close call with Qrow at Kuroyuri. Though Yang and Weiss were arriving in the city they were unaware of Ruby's location. Ruby stared into the sky watching airships fly over and spacing out as she sat on a bench outside of the lodge they were staying at which was located in the central market. The thought of her beloved friends fogged her mind to the point of where she didn't even acknowledge Jaune and the rest of her current team. Jaune called to her waving a hand in front of her face "Ruby? You okay?" Ruby startled back into the reality that she was facing answers back "Oh yeah, sorry guys I'm okay." Jaune slightly frowning persisted "You sure, you've been really quiet lately." Ruby reassured Jaune "Yeah I'm fine, just been thinking about a lot of things lately. I...was just hoping to hear from Yang or my Dad or anyone else it's hard not knowing how they're doing." Jaune sighed and said " I'm sorry….Ruby you know how it goes there isn't much we can do, if there was we would have contacted them." Nora exclaiming loudly right behind Jaune causing him to scream like a little girl " Hey no need to get down Ruby I mean.. who knows.. she could already be here for all we know, it is a really big place after all. Plus knowing her if she is here she'll cause a ruckus eventually." "Nora!" Ren bopping Nora on the head and putting his hand on her mouth called out "That's a little insensitive don't you think we don't even know if Yang recovered from what happened at beacon. " Nora quickly replied "Sorry I guess so….." Ruby let out a sigh and clenching her fists forced a smile saying "Guys I'm fine let's just get moving we're gonna be late for our meeting with Professor Lionhart." Plus... ever since we got here I've just been having this feeling like we're getting stares... so I don't wanna sit around here in the market come on let's go." Just as they started to walk through the market they heard the commotion of what sounded like a fight breaking out. As they went forward to see what was happening cracks of machine gun fire sprayed a nearby dust shipment creating an explosion throwing dust debris and shrapnel everywhere in the vicinity and throwing Ruby and her friends back into a brick wall and Ruby hitting her head badly and losing consciousness.