Ruby adopted a what?! (AU-ish)
Disclaimer: This is a figment of my imagination using characters from RWBY owned by Rooster Teeth.
Nice to have made your acquaintance, ?
While walking along the forest path for their evening stroll, Ruby and Weiss suddenly hear a very cute whine followed by an attempt growl at a higher than normal pitch. Looking around for the source, their eyes stopped at the shadowy spot under a shrubbery where they found a baby Beowolf. The white boned mask is a dead give away, but what's different about this one is that instead covering the entire top half of the face, the bone plate seemed to have forgotten to grow over the eyes, leaving the white amusingly like the white fur on the face of a Bernese mountain dog. Additionally, in place of red veins spidering the mask, they see two blue, thick rectangular shaped...we will call it veins, slap comically at the place where eyebrows should be, with a pair of glow-in-the-dark baby blue eyes below. Once they moved closer, the Beowolf backed out of the underbush, even with dimming evening light, the pair have a much better view of the creature. In place of the usual claws, this one has four white bone plated paws. If they can be called claws, they don't seem to be very effective with how dull looking the pointy ends look to be. Though, rest of the body seems to be like any other Beowolf, bones jutting out from where various joints, inky black body seems to shimmer as it absorbs light.
Taken suddenly by what she is seeing, Ruby d'awwed at how cute the little Beowolf looked while trying to fend off invaders!
'This has got to be the so very rare albino grimm! I think I read about them in a Rare Grimm book before.' Ruby thinking back to the time before she began her studies at Beacon Academy to learn as much about Grimm as possible.
Albino grimm is known to some hunters and huntresses, though appearing similar physically to any other creatures of grimm, the albinos have been found to have something akin to a soul. That is the exact reason behind their close to non-existence, as soon as an albino grimm is born, they are killed by whatever other grimms are near, even if not immediately after birth, they don't last long once found out by other grimms.
"Weissy, are you thinking about what I am thinking?" playfully, Ruby asks while keeping an eye on the albino. Not that this tiny creature has a chance to out run Ruby, not in a googolplex years, the little grimm is just not aware of this fact yet.
"No, Pinky. We are not taking over the world with this albino grimm." comes Weiss's wry reply.
Pouting, "But Weissy, just look at it! It even got your eye color...sort of! They are like super rare, and not known to be harmful, we can't just leave it out here to fend for itself! We need to take it home with us to keep it safe!" exclaimed Ruby, her voice seems to be a bit too excited both from encountering something rare and cute at the same time and at the possibility of owning a pet-sort of.
"Ruby, we don't know much about albino grimms. What if they grow up to revert back to normal grimms? We will be housing a grimm, risking it attacking us off-guard, or even worse, for it to call out to other grimms to the area, putting everyone around us in danger!" Weiss rationalized, knowing Ruby has a heart of gold, leaving a seemingly harmless creature in harm's way will be nearly impossible, Weiss can only hope her consideration is enough to have Ruby rationalize on her own and leave the Beowolf be.
However, Weiss made the mistake to look toward Ruby's direction, facing her is a pouty puppy eyed face, struggling with her inner rational self, knowing she had never won against that face, she had to try for the sake of...she can hardly think of a what right now! Forcing herself take deep breaths, Weiss assessed if there is ever any chance to not cave under the puppy-eyed pouty face attack, alas, she failed again before she could count to ten.
Weiss praises herself for holding off the attack for a whooping 6 seconds, that's a whole 1 second more than last time, a grand 20% increase! If she continues at this rate...who was she kidding, she never stood a chance against Ruby's puppy-eye attack. Sighing, "We will bring it home for now. Tomorrow, we will take it to the Grimms study lab at Beacon Academy to have it looked at. We will also have to research more about it." Thinking about the current situation carefully, Weiss seemed to have overlooked an important issue, "How are we getting it home?" Weiss raises one perfectly arched brow as she asks Ruby.
"We will try to bait it with cookies!" Producing a pack of cookies from Dust knows where, Ruby took out one piece, breaking it into several pieces, taking one to place it in front of the albino Beowolf.
After sniffing at the cookie crumb suspiciously, the Beowolf wolfed down (heh) the offering. 'Surprise surprise, the albino Beowolf seems to have more than just the cute face in common with Ruby, they even share a mutual love for cookies, ugh.' Weiss cringes internally. 'Handle one Ruby already got my plate nearly full, how will I deal with another cookie-loving cuteness around the house?!' Resigning to her fate, Weiss watches as Ruby leaves a trail of cookie crumbs for the albino Beowolf to follow home, maybe it is a good thing they are mere minutes from their house, they will just have to figure out where and how to house the creature until tomorrow.
Once they arrived at their house, Ruby kept the little albino Beowolf following crumbs in random zigzag looping around while Weiss goes in the house to find some kind of cage to house the creature. Luck has it she found a canine cage, that seems to be used to ship Zwei to Beacon during their first year, guess that cage didn't get lost when they moved after graduation.
Once Weiss settled the cage in the kitchen, she called for Ruby to lure albino in. The little grimm followed Ruby in like a lost puppy, guess Weiss shouldn't feel so surprised anymore at how well Ruby's charm works, even on an albino grimm.
"Here you are, buddy, now you are safe from big, Beowolves!" giggling at her own pun, Ruby thought Yang would be very proud.
Maybe the little grimm had a long day, or maybe it was just the fact it had been running away from other grimms since it had any awareness thus far, after a weak attempt pawing at the cage a few times without the door moving, it decided to just settle down and rests its head on forepaws, closed its eyes, lulled itself to sleep.