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AN: Hey there all you readers. Those Days is a huge success, and I'm feeling good about NoL: BV, I've decided to make another story. I haven't gotten that bad of a review yet, so I'm hoping this story will also be something enjoyable for all of you guys.
Will this be an AU universe? Yes. Will shipping's change? Possibly.
Chapter 1: Ruby
"And that class is how to get the integral of the function." The professor concluded to the class as the bell had rung. "Remember to read up on revolutions and areas."
Ruby Rose trudged out of the class on her lonesome while a few stuck around to chat with friends. Being a prodigy and skipping two years into freshman high school, she had no one to call a friend through her first two months. Sure her sister was in the same school, but she was a year higher and didn't see her as much during school time.
'Maybe I'll head over to the library to read some manga.' She thought to herself, pushing away the thoughts of loneliness. As she was entered the library, she took notice of a few girls and a guy in a corner muttering something to themselves. Seeing they had a candle lit, she went over to tell them off.
"H-hey!" She mentally kicked herself for that weak shout. As the girls looked to her, she cleared her throat to continue. "It's dangerous to have a candle in here. You guys should maybe do that somewhere else."
"Sorry." One of them said in a sultry tone. The young girl took notice of her eyes. They were amber and looked fiery, but at the same time felt so cold. "This place is one of the only areas where we can feel the aura flowing freely. Must be because of how quiet it is in here."
"Okay." Ruby mumbled, not understanding what she was a talking about. "But it's still pretty dangerous to have a fire close to books. Big or small."
"…Thanks for the concern." The girl said, extending a hand out. "My name is Cinder. Cinder Fall."
"I'm Ruby Rose." She replied, shaking the older girl's hand.
"You don't have to worry about the candles Ruby." She said in the same sultry tone. For some reason, Ruby felt like listening to what she was saying. As her lilac eyes left the amber ones, she felt a bit light headed. "Go on with your business. We'll be perfectly fine once we're done."
Nodding her head, Ruby had picked a table close by to them after she had picked a manga out from her favorite section. She could hear the group muttering something around the small flame, but she took no mind to it. After a few minutes, her nose started to itch and she felt a sneeze coming.
ACHOO!
The sound had echoed through the hall library and had halted the small group in what they were doing. Taking note that the muttering had stopped, the young girl had looked up to see Cinder staring at her with half-lidded eyes.
"Sorry." She apologized, wiping her nose.
"…Maybe you should go to another area." Cinder said, sounding a little peeved.
Getting up, Ruby had moved to the manga section to be closer to the books. After half an hour, she had dozed off feeling tired for some reason.
After waking up, she saw she was the only person in the library. Taking her phone out, she saw that it was a quarter to three. Getting up to stretch, Ruby had clasped both hands in front of her and heard some of her joints pop. Still half asleep, she looked down to see the stack of manga still on the floor.
Picking the stack up, she started putting them back in their place. Things were going easy as she had one arm hold the stack, while two hands were putting them away. …Wait.
Looking at the arm holding the stack, Ruby then looked at the normal hand that was frozen in place. The other hand, which was all black and a little furry was still putting books back in it's place.
Feeling itself being stared at, the other hand had paused and had turned to Ruby and waved before continuing it's earlier task.
"A…a…a…" After the stacks were put away, Ruby had followed the source of the hand to see it was coming out of her belly button. "AAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Luckily the library was empty enough for her to scream without being reprimanded. As she ran around screaming while trying to get away form the arm that was attached to her, the little girl had tripped and landed on her nose.
"How did this happen?" She sobbed while the new arm had patted her in comfort. Her grief was shortly lived as panic set in.
"Is anyone in here?" A tall girl with a black bow asked, opening the door to the library. Seeing no one after a few minutes, she shrugged off her curiosity and left.
"That was close." Ruby whispered under a table. Looking over to the arm, she tucked it under her shirt. It was hard to walk to her locker since the arm had kept wriggling. "Hey! Watch the hand buster! I'm still underage!"
After getting to her locker without suspicion, she had put on heavy sets of clothing she had stored inside in case of wardrobe malfunctions.
'Note to self.' She thought. 'Thank Yang later after all this is through. Now to just walk on home without looking like a creep.'
Sadly, Ruby had still caught a few people's eyes with how heavy she was looking. She was able to play it off as a puppy she was trying to sneak into her home when people stared too long.
Yang and Ruby's apartment
Ruby had forgotten the biggest obstacle in her way as she made it home.
Her sister: Yang Xia Long. Technically they were half-sisters, but they didn't really care. Sure Ruby's mom and Yang's mom were at each others throats half the time whenever they all got together, but the sisters had loved each other all the same.
With all the friction, their dad had decided to give the two an apartment to get away from all the fighting when Yang had turned seventeen and got a part-time job as a courier.
It also helped that Tifania, a long time friend of Summer, was happy to act as a guardian for the two while living right next to them.
But back to the matter at hand, Ruby was currently trying to get away from her older sister.
"I'm fine!" She said in a huff.
"Are you sure you're okay Rubes?" Yang asked her sister, not used to seeing the little freshman wearing heavy sets of clothes. "You're looking a little …bloated."
"Uh… yup!" Ruby said, shifting her hands around her belly as she felt it squirm. "Eep! …Nothing to hide!"
"…Okay Ruby, what animal did you find this time?" Yang demanded answers, tapping a foot on the floor. They already had Zwei, and he was enough of an expense.
"It's not something I can show you easily!" She whined, trying her hardest to hold what was under her clothes.
"Try me." Ruby sighed as she let go of her belly and lifted her shirt.
Suddenly a huge black furry arm plopped on the floor and started feeling around it surroundings. As Yang followed the arm, she was surprised to see that it was crawling out of her little sister's navel.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" Yang shouted as she tried to stomp on the arm.
Yang was currently taking ballet and kickboxing with Tifania during her down time, but panic was still on her mind as she tried to ungracefully stomp over the arm that kept dodging her every move.
"Yang! Stop!" Her little sister shouted, trying to grab hold of her sister and the arm.
But she was too late as Yang had caught onto the arm and had pulled with all her might. After the mighty tug, Ruby had felt something slide out of her navel as she landed on her butt. Looking up, she saw her sister holding an arm to some sort of giant werewolf.
As the wolf snarled at her sister, Ruby panicked and had dropped a shelf nearby onto the creature. It was successful in knocking the creature out cold.
"What is this thing?" Yang said, prodding the wolf's head.
"I think it's a werewolf." Ruby muttered, holding a vase in case it woke up again.
"I'm calling animal control." Her older sister said, pulling her cell phone out.
"What are you going to tell them?" Ruby said in disbelief. "Hey sorry to call you guys, but I pulled a werewolf out of my sister's belly button. Think you guys can send it into a nice home?"
"Well how'd it even get in there?" Yang growled at her sister. "You were hanging with the cultists again weren't you?"
"I wasn't!" She said indignant. "…At least I think I wasn't."
While they argued, they forgot about the werewolf that was stirring awake. As it got up, with a deep snarl it lunged after Yang.
Seeing the creature about to swipe at her sister, Ruby had pushed her out of the way but had gotten a deep gash in her midsection.
"RUBY!" Yang screamed as she watched blood spray from her sister's gut. But instead of falling to the floor as it should, it had wrapped itself around her baby sister.
The werewolf was confused as well. As it tried to take another swipe at Ruby, a tendril had pulled it right back into Ruby's gut.
"What is going on?" Yang said in fear and shock.
In Ruby's mind
Ruby was currently in a rose garden with the only light coming from the roses below her feet. Soon, the werewolf had appeared and was stalking towards her. As she backed up, something had caught between her feet and made her fall on her rump.
"Take the coil." A voice muttered behind her. Turning around, she saw no one.
"Take the coil. It will MAKE us complete." The voice groaned below her. Turning down, she saw a red cloak flowing towards her.
"Put me ON." She heard the cloak groan. Before she knew what was happening, the cloak had wrapped itself around her neck like a snake coiling around it's prey. After a few seconds, the red cloak was now flowing around her neck.
If Ruby had a mirror, she would have noticed her once lilac eyes were now shining silver instead.
"Yesssss…" It hissed in glee, sounding more lively. "We are now one!"
Remembering the werewolf in front of her, Ruby had closed her eyes seeing it lunging at her. But instead of being eaten like she thought, the cloak around her had grabbed the monster and was holding it in the air while laughing.
"YES!" It's shout echoed through the void of Ruby's mind. "YES! Oh the power I have now!"
Slamming the creature on the ground a few times before ripping it in half, Ruby had fainted once more at all the gore she was seeing.
Ruby's room
As Ruby opened her eyes, she saw Yang sitting right by her bedside.
"It was all a dream." She whispered in relief.
" 'Fraid not sweety." A voice said on the floor.
Looking down, she saw a corgi looking at her. Rubbing her eyes, she had chalked it up to her still hallucinating.
"Zwei?" She said to herself. Nudging her sister , she was successful in waking her before pointing back to the canine.
"Ruby?" Her older sister said. Suddenly, Ruby was in a bone crushing bear hug. "Ruby! You're alive."
"Yesterday wasn't a dream?" She asked her sister, still eyeing the dog.
"I wish." The blonde said with a few tears. "But it doesn't matter now. You're okay, and that arm thing is gone now."
"But what happened?" She asked confused. "All I remember is blacking out and roses."
"You two should be thanking me." The two had snapped their heads as they heard the corgi talking. Seeing them staring at him strangely, the canine had spoke once more. "What?"
After a few minutes of screaming, chasing Zwei, and tying him up, the two were now interrogating their dog.
"Who are you and what have you done to Zwei?" Yang growled, pointing a finger at the corgi's nose. The dog had licked it cutely in response.
"Is that any way to thank me from saving you two from that beast yesterday?" It said condescendingly. "I even put you two in bed."
"Don't play me demon!" Yang growled. "I know kickboxing."
"Demon?" It laughed. "I know we bring misfortune, but does that really make us demons? I'd call us more of Grimm."
"You keep saying last night, but all we remember was the werewolf trying to kill us." Ruby piped in, staring into the eyes of her dog.
"It's called a Beowulf actually." The corgi corrected her. "But you really don't remember me, Ruby?"
Shaking her head, the corgi had sighed.
"Maybe this form will help." After hacking and coughing to the disgust of the two, Zwei had thrown up a red cloak. As the corgi barked as if nothing happened, the cloak had rose up a bit. "Recognize me now?"
"You're the cloak in that dream I had." The little sister said, remembering the events.
"And you're the portal from the other side that let me and that Beowulf through." The cloak said, trying to wrap itself around her.
"What do you mean portal?" Yang said face to fabric as she pulled it off her baby sister.
"Sadly for Ruby, she is now the portal between my world and this world." The cloak explained. "Some are nice like me, but there are other things that are malicious and bloodthirsty. Like the Beowulf you pulled out of her."
"Problem solved then." Yang said as if the answer was that simple. "We just make sure Ruby doesn't pull anything out of her gut."
"Not as easy as you think blondy." The red fabric said. "See, that Beowulf came out of her belly. I on the other hand …came out from a cut on her belly."
"So I'll make sure I won't get cut's or anything like that." Ruby waved it off.
"You girls just don't get it do you?" It said tiredly, before turning to Ruby. "You're the portal to the other world. It could be through anything on you: From your hair to the smallest pores. There's no stopping them from coming through."
"So I'm going through monster puberty?" Ruby asked in fear, starting to sweat.
"Basically, yes." That answer did not bode well with her. "While "
"Maybe I can suck them back in me." Ruby suggested. "…Wait. But wont that mean I'll die if everything on me is a portal?"
"The portal is a one way street." Ruby did not get what that meant, and the cloak could see it. "It means things can come out of you, but nothing can go back in. I had to eat the Beowulf last night to save you two."
"Great." She muttered. Yang was sitting at the kitchen table massaging a migraine that was forming.
"But hey." The cloak said, wrapping around her. "I like you, so with me around, you'll have no problems with whatever comes through. After all …we are now one."
Puberty had just gotten stranger for Ruby Rose.
End
AN: And that's the end of the Chapter 1. If you guys are wondering what kind of voice to use for Ruby's red cloak, then I've been debating with Mark Hamil or Senketsu from Kill la Kill.
Anyways~3.
Next time on Ruby-Chan!
"We have a new student joining us today."
"I don't want to be here!"
"I can't fight her alone like this Ruby! Think of a weapon!"
"Why can't we be friends?"
"Do you even have a name?"
