So, this is my actual first try at a RWBY fanfiction. I'll try my best to keep the characters not OOC. Please Read, Review and Follow!
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Chapter 1:
Today was the day that Weiss Schnee was going to wow everyone at the academy. Of course, they should already be wowed that the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company was going to go to their school at all. As a bellhop was bringing in her luggage, she fiddled around with her tablet.
Let's see… She thought to herself. First is a welcoming ceremony held in the auditorium on the left wing. After that, we all go to the main wing to sleep together on the floor.
She made a face at that thought. Sleeping together with a bunch of people she didn't know on the floor. It all felt horrible. However, just seeing her list open and ready to be completed on her tablet was enough to make her feel better again. Ah the grand feeling of organization! How it keeps one's mind sharp and clear for anything-
Crash!
"Ow…" a girl in a red hood was on the floor, rubbing her head as one of the suitcases fell with her. Weiss glared ice daggers at her.
"Watch where you're going! Do you know how much any of these cost?" he huffed, grabbing the bag that fell and opening it to check for damages. The girl in the red her just blinked at her.
"Uh. What?" the oblivious girl asked, making Weiss glare harder. She took out of the Dust crystals out, shoving it in her face.
"Look here Little Red Riding Hood! The damage you could have done to these crystals would have sent us both rocketing up to the sky! Don't you know anything?"
Again she was met with the face of stupidity and an annoying grin.
"Uh, how about we pretend that didn't happen?" the girl in red asked, quickly standing up and offering her hand to the Ice Queen. Weiss stared blankly at her and turned her back, placing the Dust Crystal back in its respected place.
"My name's Ruby!" now this Ruby girl was getting on her nerves.
"Well, Ruby, it was just great meeting you. But now I have to go and make sure I complete my schedule." she started to walk down the stoned path to Beacon, her face staring into the tablet.
She was already off schedule by three minutes! Infuriating! No matter, she wasn't going to let some Fairy Tale comedic ruin her plans for today. With a satisfied huff, she nodded her head and continued to the auditorium. The lecture was short and sweet. Good, that made up for the three minutes she had lost earlier.
As the students started to file out through the exit door, she was met again with that stupid girl.
"Hey! I, uh, didn't catch your name back there!" Ruby stammered. She had on a red hooded cape, combat boots and looked like she belonged in Robin Hood. Eyeing her down carefully, Weiss sidestepped to make it to the exit.
"Very funny." She scoffed, walking with her head held up high. Ruby blinked, playing with her fingers as she followed this girl. Why didn't she like her? Ruby was fun! She was cool! That was it, she was determined to get her to be her friend.
"What's so funny?" she made it quickly up to Weiss who blinked and stared at the petite pale girl with silver eyes. She stopped dead in her tracks and turned sharply toward Ruby.
"You don't know who I am? You almost caused an explosion with my family's merchandise and you don't know who I am?"
"Eh…heh, you see funny story really-" Ruby was cut off as a pamphlet was shoved into her chest by the girl with white hair.
"Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. You'd do well to remember that."
Ruby blinked and stared down at the small pamphlet.
"Heiress? That's pretty cool! You know when I was little I-" when she picked up her head, the girl was already gone, walking toward the main wing.
That little irritant would be a detriment to her studies here at Beacon if she was going to constantly show up out of the blue and ruin her schedule. The sun had already began to set. The colors of reds and oranges gently brushed against the sky in beautiful calm strokes.
Weiss stared at the sky for a bit, the scene reminding her to pick up the pace or she wouldn't make it at exactly 6:00pm sharp. Her heels clicked along the road as she walked. The main lobby building was huge. She had to use the elevator to get to the fifth floor where she made a face at all the kids bunched up together on the floor.
Keep it together, Weiss. It's only for a night.
She shook the thoughts out of her head. Thankfully, her bellhop had already left her with her clothing bag, kept neatly aside as she asked him too. The grimace on her face slowly went away as she saw the familiar bag and picked it up.
Good. It was 6pm, she had changed in one of the nearby bathrooms and made herself comfortable on the floor as best as she could. Her white hair which was usually tied up to the side as a pony tail cascaded down her back in soft locks. She kept her cold exterior to anyone that tried to talk to her. There was no time for socializing, she needed to make a checklist for tomorrow.
Let's see, get dressed, eat breakfast and then we need to meet with Glynda Goodwitch for our class schedules then after that I need to decorate the dorm room. Hopefully Pyrrah Nikos will be my roommate. With her and my brains combined we will be unmatched at this school!
Thump.
Weiss held in a groan. A random noise only happened once today, and that noise came from-
"Hey there, Weiss!"
Ruby
Weiss's cold glare slowly made its way to Ruby's face.
"Don't you have a sister to bother?" Weiss asked, going back to her tablet.
Ruby turned her head to find Yang, her taller, more muscular older sister. Well, not technically a biological sister, but their love for one another was just like that of a sister.
Currently, the wild blond was trying to outmatch the guys in flexing, showing off her biceps as another male tried to one-up her. Ruby shook her head.
"Nooooot at the moment, no." she laid on her spread out red sleeping back. She had a red and black gradient tanktop, rose patterned pants and a sleeping mask on her head.
In other words, she would be no competition when it came to academics. The ice girl went back to her tablet, leaving Ruby to rack her brain for something to say.
Come on, say something witty! Something cool, something that doesn't make me sound desperate to be her friend.
"You got a really cool scar over your eye." Ruby pointed out, Weiss stiffened. "How'd you get it?"
"None of your business." The heiress shot back at her, her glare sending a cold shiver down Ruby's back. She wouldn't give up. No way! Yang told her to make friends and she just started with this one! Maybe a little insisting should do the trick to break past her barrier.
"That's understandable. Everyone has something in their past they don't want to talk about." Weiss still had her face plastered to the tablet, but was listening, just to make sure she had knowledge on this girl to take down any competition.
"Aren't you a little young to be here at Beacon?" shot Weiss who eyed the girl more carefully.
Ruby was shifted under the girl's uncomfortable stare, like she was prying back her skin to stare at every secret Ruby kept in her heart. Good thing daggers didn't actually shoot out of her eyes, Ruby would have been dead twice.
"I was promoted because Professor Ozpin saw my skill." She muttered, fiddling with her fingers again.
"Stop doing that! Raise your voice when you speak and look at my face!" she scolded. Ruby flinched and put her hands behind her back, staring at the Schnee girl in front of her.
"Professor Ozpin saw my skill and promoted me to Beacon." Ruby slowly moved away as the glare intensified.
"You got promoted? How old are you, like, fourteen?"
"I'm fifteen!" shot the red haired girl back with a frown. "I'm a great scythe wielder!"
Interesting, a fifteen year old girl who's a scythe wielder and who also managed to get promoted twice just to get in.
Let's not over-estimate her yet. Weiss scolded herself. I haven't even seen her in battle and she doesn't even look the type to study at all.
"Hmph." was all she said as she turned her tablet off and laid down in her light blue sleeping bag. A large white snowflake was designed across the front.
Ruby copied her, snuggling up against her bag as she stared at the white haired girl.
"So…"
"Are you going to keep bothering me? People are trying to sleep." Weiss said angrily as she turned to look at Ruby.
Ruby flinched and hid half of her face in the sleeping bag.
"Sorry…" shaking her head, Weiss turned back around and closed her eyes.
She needed to wake up early enough to get dressed, eat and then go see Glynda Goodwitch. Just as she was about to get in line for food a certain red haired girl popped into her life again. Weiss groaned and face palmed as she turned around to the girl who was furiously trying to back up against a much larger blonde female.
"What?" she asked, folding her arms across her chest as she stared intently at Ruby. Yang gave a wide grin and shoved her forward, having Ruby nearly topple over her. Weiss merely backed up.
"I, uh… how about we start over?" the girl in the red hood recuperated herself and stood up, extending her hand toward Weiss. She just stared at her.
"Hiya, my name is Ruby, and I wanna be your friend." She grinned again. Her cold analytical glare made Ruby shrink back but was surprised when Weiss grabbed her hand and shook it firmly.
"Weiss Schnee. But I know you already knew that. Try not to ruin my schedule, Ruby." She turned around swift and precise, the skirt on her body turning with her in a fluid motion then falling back gracefully on her legs. Without even greeting the chef, she took her plate of food and left for the table to eat.
Ruby frowned and fiddled with her fingers, looking down. Yang smacked her back hard, making Little Red flinch.
"Hey! Not everyone is as big and brawly as you are!" she whined and pouted her lower lip, reaching to rub her back.
Yang smirked and dragged Ruby back to their group of friends.
Okay, I dressed, ate, and now all we have to do is visit Glynda Goodwitch. Right on time as usual thanks to the few minutes I saved getting dressed so early. Ruby didn't interfere as much as I thought she would.
Breakfast and class schedules went by with a breeze. What she didn't expect was when they were going to be flung into the wilderness. She was calm, composed. Glynda was explaining the process with Professor Ozpin.
"And so, you will be flung into the forest using your own landing technique, be careful, the wilderness is full of Grimm. Try not to die" he said with an amusing smile.
Weiss smirked. This should be a breeze. The catapults started to shoot them off one by one, giving the suspension as she was about to be fired. There was one boy who for the life would not stop talking. He kept asking question after question, questions that should have been made clear already. Thank God her catapult shot her off into the air to stop his insistent questioning. Even after his questions were silenced, it was his screams that filled the air that made her want to shove her rapier through his gut.
The landing wasn't so difficult, just a simple glyph to cast was easy enough for her to stop her momentum and slam her feet into the ground.
Good, got to find those blasted artifacts now. Maybe Pyrrah will join me as my partner? Oh we'd be unstoppable!
She grinned and casually sauntered down the forest, this will be easier than taking candy from a baby. Let's just hope she didn't meet that Ruby girl.
Got to find Pyrrah, got to grab an artifact, got to avoid Ruby.
She repeated that to herself over and over again. She would not, would not, accept Ruby on her team. The more she walked along, something scuttled past her view. She drew out her rapier and held it looked around. Nothing, quiet. Her guard was up now. Sighing lightly, Weiss took small steps, making sure to check around and keep no openings. It was really quiet. Unnaturally quiet. She didn't hear any Grimm and to make matters worse, she didn't hear her classmates either.
Don't be afraid, Weiss. You can handle any pesky Grimm around here.
Her pace quickened a bit and she started to hear the crunches of footsteps again. They quickened just as she did, the faster she ran the faster they ran with her. Grimm were here and by the sound of it, a lot. She couldn't continue to run like that anymore. She had to fight.
"Come out!" she yelled, taking a defensive stance with her rapier. "I dare you!"
Out from the bushes leapt Grimm Beowulves. And one of them was obviously the alpha. It was huge. Towering down at her petite figure at 8 feet. Its beady red eyes glared down at Weiss, causing her to narrow her focus onto the leader and aim the rapier at him. He was disgusting, and he smelled disgusting too. For a moment, neither moved. The smaller wolves waited on the command of their leader but he snarled at them, making them back up. Weiss tensed her arm and took a step back. She didn't know much of animals, but wolves were an easy thing to understand. The alpha had ordered his pack away from her. She was going to be his meal and his alone. That is, if she could catch her.
She smirked, waiting for its pathetic attack, the moment it would lunge she'd stab it. The alpha didn't move, however, and tested the air with his nose. It slowly got on all fours, circling Weiss. She did the same, slowly moving around. The smaller wolves had encased her in a giant circle to prevent her from leaving the fight with the alpha. No matter. She could do this. Then the wolf made its move. A wrong move to the fortune of Weiss. Suppressing a smile, Weiss waited for the large alpha to make a mad dash toward her, but a simple glyph locked it in its place and her rapier followed in a quick fluid motion, naked to the eye.
The only thing that was heard was the alpha's head smacking against the ground once it was cleanly decapitated. The others waited. Their paws shuffled along the ground. Their leader did not move. There was no command coming from him anymore. Weiss marched her way through the wolves, shoving past them. They jumped out of her way before she could touch them. They had no idea what to do.
Perfect! I knew I could do this.
She had a new objective, to go and find Pyrrah. But something new caught her mind. Something was screaming at her, flying at top speed. Could it be that unnerving boy that wouldn't shut up when they first were launched into her forest? Then the little dot turned red and she knew exactly who it was.
Oh how her blood boiled.
Before she could react, the two were sent spiraling through the forest.
"You insufferable little child!" Weiss shouted and shoved Ruby off her. Her head was pounding where the two of them collided into each other.
"Weiss?" Ruby asked, looking up, and rubbing her own head.
They stared at each other for a while the realization of them being partners weighing in on them.
"Hey….Weiss." Ruby said casually, trying to lighten the mood.
"Don't 'Hey Weiss' me!" she continued to yell. "You've ruined everything! Now I don't know which direction I'm going in!" she dug her heels into the grass furiously and turned to march away from the red cloaked girl.
"Hey wait, c'mon!" Ruby groaned, following her. "Is being my partner so horrible like that for you?"
"Yes, it is. You're immature, your table manners are ghastly and you can tell the difference between a male and female Beowulf! You're useless to me and I'm stuck with you as a partner!"
Ruby frowned and matched her speed in her walk. "What's your problem anyway? So what! I can still fight! Quit acting like you're so perfect!"
"Quit acting like a baby!"
"Will you two just shut up already. I can hear you a mile away!"
Both girls froze and turned their heads to the sound of the new voice. Blake and Yang near a temple with a bunch of chess pieces. Figures.
"Yang!" Ruby cheered and ran for the brutish blonde wonder woman. Blake remained away from the two, a faint smile tugging at her lips.
Well, here was her team. The child and her cavewoman sister along with the girl she faintly knew about.
This is just perfect. Weiss thought as she grinded her teeth.
Her plans had gone straight to the trash and burned up in flames. This was her team and she was stuck with them. Stiffening her back, she moved past all of them and snatched an artifact.
"Let's just get back before we're late." muttered Weiss as she grouchily moved passed the other girls.
They all nodded and were about to move when a thunderous book shook through the land. They all stood still, readying their weapons. Weiss noticed Ruby pull out what looked like a sniper but them elongated into God knows what that came out of a steam punk magazine. She shook her head, going back to her own rapier and flexed her fingers.
The booms became more and more frequent until out of the trees came Pyrrah running for her life with a giant deathstalker behind her. She could practically hear Ruby pick her jaw up from the floor.
"Don't worry guys! I got this!"
What? She wasn't really going to- she actually went and did it!
That little- Weiss glared at her, saving the impolite words she had for Ruby in the back of her head.
Ruby whipped out her sniper, firing heavy round bullets into the thick armor of the deathstalker. Didn't she know to aim for the eyes or underbelly? No, it really looked like she didn't know at all.
Rolling her eyes, Weiss charged, ignoring Ruby's attempt at stopping her. Warning her about something. Whatever.
She continued her strategic attack, holding the deathstalker down by encasing its feet in ice. With one swift motion of her hand, she struck upward, having the ice shards follow her movement and lifted the giant scorpion up into the air, exposing the soft underbelly.
She made no attempt to look at Ruby as she took her time to find the heart, promptly shoving her rapier up into its gut. The scorpion no longer thrashed and she pulled out the bloody weapon.
"Pay attention in class. I'm not going to be following you everywhere like a baby sitter."
Ruby stared back hard at her, but had no words because she was right. The red headed girl sheathed her weapon against her back and slowly walked up to Pyrrah who was out of breath.
"Are you okay?" Ruby asked, placing a hand on the warrior's shoulder. The other girl nodded her head.
"Yeah, I'm fine. This guy's been chasing me down ever since I landed." She said, rubbing the stress off her face with her hand. The warrior girl looked at all four of them.
"Ah, I see. So you're all full on teammates then?"
Not unless I kill Ruby in some freak accident. Weiss bit down that remark from actually escaping her head.
"Yep, all full here! So I guess that means you're partnered with Jaune, Nora and Ren." Yang counted off her finger as she tried to recall.
This was nothing as she planned! Nothing at all! Stuck with these….these….imbeciles!
The rest of the day went fairly smoothly, except for a giant Nevermore attacking and Ruby cutting its head clean off. That was pretty impressive though she'll never admit that to anyone. After the ceremony had passed and they received their acknowledgements, Weiss couldn't even look at her teammates. She was so infuriated that she could melt right off the stupid makeshift bunkbeds Ruby made them do.
Ruby.
That little-
Stupid-
She was their leader. Out of all people, she was their leader. And even the damn team was named after her!
"Weiss?" the snow white girl snapped her attention to whoever called her. It was Yang. Ruby was on top of her, sleeping in her bed while Blake was on the opposite two, reading a book.
"Weiss calm down, you're going to explode the chair you've been glaring at for 15 minutes." Yang folded her arms over her ridiculous bust. As if the shirt made them look any better. Rolling her eyes, Weiss undid her hair from its tie and laid down, the cool cloth from her nightgown pressing up against her.
This wasn't over yet. Over her dead body was she going to let some punk try and take her title.
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As you may have noticed, this is the original Ruby Universe with some minor changes made by me. The beginning will most likely be the same as the story is but will go off in its own direction to allow for Ruby and Weiss romance.
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