Run, Run, Run away-a-a-a
Coming to get you.
Author's note
For those who follow my stories in other fandoms and wondering if I plan to write more on them? Yes I will be trying to get back to them soon. I just recently entered a really bad phase of my life where I pretty much lost interest in everything. It wasn't pretty... But then I came across quite by accident something on youtube called RWBY. It was simple. It was cute and it was fun. The writing was fresh, the animation enjoyable and I started to care about the characters. I looked forward to new episodes and wondered where the series was going. And as I said, I came to care about the fictional characters... Which made the end of season 3 a bit rough but it made me want to write again. To start off with in this fandom are a series of quick one chapter scenes. None of the chapters will have any connection to another one unless I make a particular point about it at the beginning.
Ruby was running. Not surprising. She ran a lot. With her semblance being speed, most problems seemed to be left behind when she ran. She really wished this was one of those times. For the longest time Ruby had been obsessed with Weiss. The fascination with the pale heiress eventually grew into fondness and fondness eventually grew into desire and desire into love. Finally, not being able to take the one sided love any longer Ruby had confessed how she felt to Weiss. If this had been a fairy tale Weiss would have instantly proclaimed that she felt the same way and the two star crossed lovers would have lived happily ever after.
But this wasn't a fairy tale.
Ruby had waited after declaring her love to Weiss and waited. Weiss didn't react at all. Just stood there staring right through Ruby. Ruby figured that maybe Weiss was overwhelmed so she tried to tell the young heiress that if she didn't share her feelings, that it was okay. They could still be friends, right?
But still Weiss just stared at her. Finally, Ruby couldn't take it any longer and was gone in a flash of rose petals. She ran and as she ran she cried. She had no destination but only to outrun the pain in her heart at being what she thought could only be rejection from Weiss.
Eventually even Ruby's semblance runs out of steam and with a stumble Rudy found herself coming out of the speed run without intending to. Almost instantly Ruby felt weak and beyond tired. She had overdone it and her semblance had drained almost all of her Aura, leaving her tired and weak and more importantly completely defenseless.
Ruby examined her surroundings and realized with a start that she had run all the way from Beacon to Vale and was now down near the docks. Even for her that was a prodigious run.
Late at night, in Vale in the bad part of town and totally exhausted. Ruby was wondering to herself if things could get any worse when she hears…
"Red. Red. Red. We have got to stop meeting like this. People are going to start to talk."
Ruby turns slowly as she nervously swallows. She knows whom that voice belongs to and indeed things had just gotten much worse for her. "Hey Roman." Ruby squeaks.
"Roman is it? I didn't know we were on first name basis Red."
"Well you call me Red. So we're friends right?" Ruby tries as she starts to back up. She reaches behind her for her scythe only to realize she left Crescent Rose behind at Beacon in its locker. Roman Torchwick was exiting a dock warehouse and beside him were three obvious White Fang members as they were all wearing the Grimm masks.
Roman tilts his head slightly. "Well it is true that every time I try to throw a party you seem to be there."
"So we're all just good buddies and I'll be going now." Ruby tries to dash off using her semblance but only manages to stumble a bit as her body just flat out refuses to cooperate.
"Get her." Roman instructs the white fang with him.
Ruby looks past them. "Weiss Schnee! What do you think you are doing here? The White Fang will kill you!"
The White Fang members immediately stop and spin around to look behind them, while Torchwick just slaps at hand to his face in disbelief that they would fall for the oldest trick in the book.
"Nothing but dumb animals." He mutters to himself. He can see Ruby is now running away from the group but at slightly lower than normal speed for a regular human and she is weaving a bit as if drunk, or totally exhausted. "Overdid your semblance did we?" He asks with a smirk. This not only meant she couldn't do the speed trick but also that her Aura would be low and she wouldn't be able to heal or defend against injuries until she had some major rest. In other words, she was a sitting duck. Torchwick could see Ruby's hand go to a pouch on her belt and pull her scroll out, no doubt to summon help so he raised his cane and took careful aim.
Ruby didn't dare stop to use her scroll she brought it up high so she could see it better by the dim light on the dock area and brought up the app to launch her weapons locker to her location. Only to have the scroll explode in her hand as Torchwick shot it with that damn trick cane of his.
"Well damn. Back to Plan A." Ruby grunted as she pulled her arms close to her side and concentrated on running. It was so much easier when she had her semblance working.
Ruby weaved and ducked into empty warehouse after empty warehouse as she sought to lose her pursuers. Really, why did Vale need so many empty warehouses anyway? Finally breathing hard, she pulled to a stop in the shadows of yet another empty warehouse and listened. She couldn't hear any longer the White Fang chasing after her and breathed a sigh of relief as she must have lost them. She was just about to mentally congratulate herself on her luck when she turned around to find a short girl standing no more than eight feet away from her. The short girl had three toned hair. One side brown while the other side pink. The pink side had one white strip running through it. Her eyes were very different as well. The eye underneath the pink side of hair was a brown color and the eye under the brown side was pink. Ruby recognized her from the fight they had with Torchwick on the freeway when the strange girl had rescued Roman. She also had heard Yang's description of the fight she had with the petite girl on the train.
"Oh crap." Ruby said.
The girl tilted her head at Ruby with a smirk.
"Neo. Wasn't it?" Ruby asked as she started to once again back away from an enemy.
Neo nodded her head and began to slowly stalk towards Ruby. In no way rushing, almost casually as if she had all the time in the world.
Even fearful, Ruby had to admit the girl moved with a fluid grace that was almost mesmerizing. Ruby began to do what she always did when nervous and started to ramble. "We didn't exactly get a chance to be introduced last time we met. I'm Ruby Rose. I'm sister to Yang? You know the blond you fought on the train?"
Neo stopped her advance and with a sweeping gesture of her arm she bowed towards Ruby. "Wow. You are so graceful. You remind me so strongly of someone I know."
Neo stood up from her bow and made an exaggerated gesture of placing a hand to her chin as if deep in thought. She then pantomimed someone boxing.
"Yang?" Ruby almost laughed. "My sister has been called a lot of things but graceful? No."
Neo did the thinking gesture again and this time placed her hands to her head with the first two fingers of each hand out pantomiming two cat like ears or maybe it was a bow?
"Blake. Yeah she is pretty graceful but that wasn't who I meant." Ruby said. It was good she was keeping Neo 'talking'. The more time Neo spent 'conversing' with her the more time Ruby had to rest and try to regain her Aura.
Neo eyes widen as if in discovery and she then with her folded umbrella she pantomimed someone with a fencing foil.
"Yeah that is who I meant. Weiss." Ruby said with a smile but soon fell as she was reminded of whom she had been running from that evening. Neo tilted her head to stare at Ruby and the eyes changed color. The pink one was now brown and the brown one was now pink. Neo pointed at Ruby, then did the fencing pantomime and then holding her umbrella under one arm she brought both of her hands together forming a heart shape.
"Me and Weiss? Together?" Ruby asked. Neo nodded. "I wish." Ruby muttered sadly.
Neo began stalking towards her again and Ruby continued to back away from the girl. "We were having such a good conversation." Ruby said. "I mean you like talking to me don't you?"
Neo shook her head with a mysterious smile and continued to walk slowly towards her. Suddenly Ruby felt something hard hit her back and she shot both hands behind her to feel that she had walked into a support girder of the warehouse. At that exact moment, Neo leapt backwards and disappeared.
"Where did she go?" Ruby wondered out loud only to feel her hands seized behind her and pulled back against the girder. Something tightened around her wrist and Ruby found herself with her hands strapped around the girder.
"Some great huntress I am." Ruby muttered. "Not only let Neo get the drop on me but got tied up without even being able to fight back at all. No wonder Weiss didn't want to have anything to do with me when I confessed how I felt about her. I'm clumsy and foolish…" Neo suddenly stepped around the girder and came back around in front of Ruby pulling the hidden sword out from her umbrella as she came. "And I'm about to die." Ruby finished as Neo with a smirk on her face stood before her. Neo raised her sword up and Ruby couldn't resist shutting her eyes as she prepared for her young life to end…
Only to open her eyes a moment later when she felt no painful cuts but she did feel a lot cooler than she had before. Ruby glanced down at her front only to see that her corset and blouse were now cut apart and fluttering in the breeze. Even her bra had been sliced and the cups were flapping open revealing all her young body had to offer.
"Neo what are you doing?!" She asked in shock.
Neo smiled at her and put a finger up to her lip in a shoosh motion before sheathing her sword into her umbrella and lying it on the floor. She then approached Ruby with raised hands. Ruby thought for a moment the girl had decided on just beating her rather than mess up her sword with her blood but as Neo closed the last distance between them she didn't form her hands into fists. She brought her hands to Ruby's chest and began fondling and groping her.
"What the…mmph!" Ruby tried to say only to have Neo slam her mouth over hers and started roughly kissing her.
"Oh my Dust! I'm being molested by Neo!" Ruby thought to herself.
Neo stepped back a bit and placing her hands on Ruby's skirt she suddenly tugged it and Ruby's panties down.
"Molested Hell. I'm going to be raped by Neo!" Ruby realized and began struggling.
Neo stepped back to watch Ruby's struggles in obvious amusement. "I'm flattered really I am Neo and if we were both on the same side and maybe if I had met you before Weiss I might have been attracted but not like this!" Ruby said in desperation and Neo tilted her head as if considering Ruby's argument and then shrugging as if she didn't really care if Ruby wanted it or not. Neo picked up her umbrella off the ground and with an evil smirk started towards Ruby. Right before Neo could reach her however, a shining white snowflake appeared between Ruby and Neo's body. It grew larger until it covered Ruby from Neo's gaze completely and then spinning shot towards the multi colored haired girl tossing her back violently. "Get away from my Ruby!" Weiss's voice growled.
Neo smirked at Weiss who was standing beside the girder Ruby was tied to, her smirk however faded when a red eyed Yang entered the warehouse entrance a distance off. Neo glanced into the shadows on the other side of Ruby and could barely detect Blake moving in their direction. Three against one odds were not odds Neo favored so she blew Ruby a kiss and then leaping backwards she teleported away.
Weiss continued to watch the space Neo had been in a moment ago as if fearing she would pop back in at the same place. Blake moved over to the girder Ruby was tied to and quickly cut the zip ties releasing Ruby. Ruby instantly grabbed the edges of her cloak and pulled them around herself hiding her naked state. Tears were swiftly falling from her eyes and no matter what Ruby tried she couldn't stop their flow. She had confessed to Weiss on how she felt. Been rejected. Ran away burning up her semblance and aura. Been caught by her enemies and had been molested and almost raped in a dirty warehouse and to top it off all the baddies got away scott free. She didn't deserve to be Team RWBY's leader. She didn't even deserve to be on a team. She was a complete failure.
Weiss finally deciding that Neo had made good her escape and wasn't coming back turned to see the huddled mess that was her friend and leader. "Ruby I'm so sorry it took us so long to find you! We didn't know where you went. I'm sorry I failed you."
"You didn't fail me. I failed you." Ruby cried/hiccupped. "I should have known you could never feel towards me what I felt towards you and just kept my silly desires and hopes to myself. I'm sorry I ruined our friendship and that I'm such a sorry excuse for a leader. I'll step down tomorrow and you can take over as leader and I'll leave Beacon."
"What the Hell are you talking about?!" Yang yelled as she arrived at Ruby's side.
"I made a horrible mistake then to compound it I ran away and burned out my semblance. I drained my Aura to such a level a kid with a pointy stick could have taken me out. No, that would have been dignified compared to what happened to me. I let Torchwick almost walk up behind me without even noticing. Then had to turn tail and run from White Fang thugs and to end my evening out on a really high note I almost got raped by the crazy ice cream girl!"
Yang whom had come in behind where Ruby had been tied hadn't seen the condition her younger sister was in. "Crazy ice cream girl?" She asked.
"That is what you took away from what I said?" Ruby cried/laughed. "Yeah Neo. Don't you get it? Brown, White, red. Her name has to be short for Neapolitan. You know? Like the mixed ice cream that is chocolate, strawberry and vanilla?"
Yang blinked. "I... Never thought about it before. Wait! What do you mean almost raped?" She grabbed her sister by the shoulders to check her for injuries and thusly caused her cape to flare open revealing her state. "Ruby! Are you okay?" Yang's eyes switched from red to lilac as her emotions went from rage to terror over what had almost happened to her baby sister.
"Oh I'm peachy. I'm perfect! For a complete and total loser, I'm doing great!" Ruby pulled away from her sister and began speaking/crying louder and louder, nearing hysteria.
Weiss stepped pass Yang and raising a hand she slapped Ruby hard.
Yang's eyes instantly went to straight red and her hair blazed bright enough to light up the entire warehouse. She would have pounded Weiss into paste if Ruby hadn't rushed to put herself between Weiss and facing Yang. "No Yang. Don't! I deserved it. I deserve the punishment for being such a bad leader. I don't blame her."
Weiss opened her mouth and closed it several times like a fish out of water before she could regain her ability to form words. "You colossal, incredible dolt!" She finally managed to shout at Ruby's back. "I didn't slap you to punish you for being a bad leader! I slapped you to try and calm you down! You are going hysterical and talking nonsense! You are not a bad leader. You are the best leader team RWBY could have! Yes, you ran so fast and far that you temporarily burned out your semblance but you were upset. You didn't know you were going to run out of power near where Torchwick just happened to be at that time. And you were facing Neo! Hell Yang got her ass handed to her by that psycho."
"Yeah. Hey!" Yang said.
Weiss looked past Ruby's shoulder at Yang. "Oh hush. You know it's true. Just like I got beat up by that White Fang guy with the chainsaw but now is not the time for debating that." Weiss pulled Ruby around to look at her. "Ruby I admit when you told me earlier how you felt about me, it caught me off guard. All the reasons why us being in a relationship were a bad idea was flashing through my mind and I kind of got swept away by them."
Ruby's face was covered by the hood of her cape but the hood dipped down as Ruby looked at the floor.
Weiss tightened her hands on Ruby's shoulder to make sure she didn't run away this time. "But I realized something but before I could shake myself out of my stupor to tell you, you had run off already."
"What were you going to tell me?" Ruby's voice came out soft and broken. "That I was some kind of idiot to think a girl like you that could have any boy or girl she wanted could ever find me desirable?"
"NO you dol… I mean Ruby. I was going to tell you that it might not be easy being in a relationship with me. My father won't like it and may try to drive us apart. The news media when they find out will hound us. White Fang may try to harm you because of your connection to me but with all that…" Weiss reached out and pulled the hood back from Ruby's face and raised her chin with a finger so Ruby would look her in the eyes. "I want to try. I feel very strongly… I mean I'm very fond… Oh dust this is hard for me. I'm not used to dealing with emotions like this." Weiss sighed and then unconsciously straightened her back. "Ruby Rose… I love you. I want you."
Ruby tried to look away. "You are just saying that because of what almost happened to me tonight. I understand and I appreciate it. I really do. And you don't need to worry I won't hold you to any of this tomorrow when you rethink…"
Weiss grabbed Ruby by the back of the head and pulled her towards her and kissed her deeply.
Yang and Blake could only watch as the kiss last longer and longer.
Yang started to frown when she noticed that Weiss's hands had left Ruby's head and were now moving under Ruby's cape.
"HEY! My sister is naked under there. Stop that!" She shouted at Weiss and moved to pull them apart.
Both girls were panting from lack of oxygen and both their faces were bright red.
"Wow. Maybe you do mean it?" Ruby asked hopefully.
"Come here my dolt and I'll prove it some more." Weiss said her voice going slightly husky.
"Whoa! No. No." Yang yelled and placed herself between the two.
"Yang." Blake called out to her.
"Don't Yang me. Ruby is still naked under there. If Weiss is what it takes to make my baby sister happy? Fine. I won't stand in their way but no way am I going to stand here and let them make out in a dirty warehouse."
Being reminded by what almost happened a short time ago Ruby's enthusiasm did flag a bit. "Yeah. I kind of want to go home now and try to forget this night ever happened." She looked over at Weiss. "Well not all of it but just the unpleasant stuff."
"And no more talk about you being a bad leader and wanting to quit?" Weiss said warningly.
"Okay."
"And next time you spring something like that on me you will give me enough time to deal with the shock before running off."
"Okay."
"And if you do decide to run off, you will at least be sure to take your scythe with you?"
"Okay."
Yang rolled her eyes and looked over at Blake. "They already sound like an old married couple don't they?"