Ruby Rose, the desire of everyone in school. Not only is she adorable, but she has grown during the small time she has been there; Beacon Academy, that is. People know not too court her or go near her when Yang's around, but that doesn't stop some of the braver types.
To start off, though, we will start by describing the changes she has gone through; where Ruby barely used to stand at five foot, she now towers over her teammates and friends- even teachers- at six foot one. Her chest grew to be not as big as Yang's, but extremely noticeable with what she wears; the corset she wears had to be tailored to her new body height, and the chest area is a bit...form-fitting.
Weiss was literally the smallest person in Beacon now, where Ruby used to hold that title; to be perfectly fair, though, height didn't seem to bother her that much. The only thing that did was that she was...lacking...in the chest department of things.
Of course, she was envious of Ruby's growth, but not envious of the amount of attention- clearly unwanted- she would receive from both the boys and girls of her year. Even some second and third year students took notice, and some hounded her for dates and 'alone time'. Yang had to beat many a student with a stick- of course she would actually use the sharp end- more than once, but somehow, she saw her sister's hounding as a blessing; she got to practise her aim with her hands a bit more every time she beat someone away.
She didn't know, along with Ruby, that her own friends and even people amongst her team had feelings for her. And so it was, with this small revelation that Ruby Rose- the youngest to ever attend beacon Academy- was, somehow- although unwillingly- the sexiest person to ever attend, and therefore, the desire of every single student on campus, and even those off campus.
Ruby wasn't blind to this though, and saw it as a good thing; it showed that everything people ever said about her never being hot or pretty were wrong. To have an entire school dying for affection was rather a good thing, even if she had to suffer inane questions and calls for dates. As such, she was sat, alone, in the dining hall, picking away at her steak while she waited for her team to grab their food and join her, along with her friends, team JNPR.
She didn't notice team CRDL walking over, grins plastered on their faces. Just as she stabbed the fork into her steak, she huffed. That was when Cardin sat next to her.
"Hey there Rubes; I couldn't help but notice-" he was stopped when Ruby raised a hand. She gently plopped a bit of steak into her mouth and chewed, before swallowing and looking at Cardin with the darkest look she could muster, which was worse than Yang's angry face.
"Listen Cardin, piss off because I don't have time to deal with you and your band of retarded monkeys right now. Get lost before I use Crescent Rose to neuter you all." And just like that, they disappeared, whining and running away in fright. Yang and the rest of team RWBY, along with team JNPR all watched as Cardin and his team ran away in terror.
"I wonder what that was about..." Yang said, then grabbed Russell's shirt, stopping him from following his team from running. "Where are you off to?"
"Y-You're sister's a goddamn monster!" he said as he tussled free of her grip, sprinting in the direction that Cardin and his whimpering, fleeing team had gone. They all looked at each other confused, before a fourth year student sprinted past, a horrified look on his face. They all shrugged in unison before walking over to the spot Ruby was.
JNPR sat down in their usual spots, with Jaune opposite Ruby, Ren and Nora to his right and Pyrrha to his left. RWBY did the same, with Weiss on the left of Ruby, and Blake and Yang on the right.
As soon as they sat down, they all looked at Nora- with the exception of Ruby and Blake- who immediately started talking.
"And there we were; four thousand beowolves-"
"It was fourteen." Run corrected her throughout another one of her stories.
"-All growling; they looked at Ren-"
"-At Nora..."
"-And began to chase him! Then, I whipped out my hammer and smashed their skulls in!"
"I sliced all of their heads off from behind while Nora kept them distracted." Ren was pretty passive throughout this, but he could see Ruby eating the steak, alone, out of the corner of his eye. She finished, ignoring the strange looks everyone around the dining hall gave her- save for her friends and team, who was listening to Ren recount the actual tale- and left the room as silently as she had been eating there.
She headed to the training room, but in the corner of her eye, she could see CRDL pushing Velvet Scarlatina, the harmless rabbit Faunus, around. She knew they picked on her because she was a Faunus, but it still irked her that they bullied her because of being born. She had no choice if she was born that way or not, so why should others pick on her because of it?
Racism was just stupid to her; it made no sense.
She sighed, heading their way as they pushed her around, ignoring her pleas to stop.
It seemed she wouldn't get to train today; at least she had them to take out her frustration on.
She walked over, but watched as velvet actually fought back. It seems Cardin didn't like that, so he hit her over the head.
That was the last straw. Velvet was a nice person, and Ruby wouldn't blush or be embarrassed if she said she was nice looking- facts never did that to her. For Ruby, since her body had grown, had attention form people because she was human, and she had a biggish chest. Velvet would probably get the same attention- though she wouldn't wish this on anyone- if she was human, which made her sick. She was a nice person, not Faunus, or animal; Person. That didn't matter; race never did to her or yang. It just came down to what kind of person you were.
Without warning, she unsheathed her Crescent rose, loaded it with a dummy round, and pulled the bolt of her gun, causing a loud click to emanate through the hall. As Cardin turned his head towards the noise, he and his team froze in place at the sight of Ruby pointing Crescent Rose- that bastardly scythe- at them, locked and loaded to shoot.
His hand remained with a vice grip on the Faunus girl's ears, still keeping it in a crushing hold, and not letting go.
"Let her go, and walk away right now." Ruby spoke, her voice and expression so dark, so evil, that even Velvet shuddered along with team CRDL, who all looked at Cardin. He hid his face of horror behind an empty, shaky smirk of false bravado.
"We both know you won't shoot."
Just as he said this, Ruby pointed her scythe at Dove, and without flinching or hesitating, shot him. Since it was a dummy round, it hit off of his aura, but the gun was so powerful it knocked him flying into a stairwell, rendering him unconscious.
Cardin froze again, his bravado gone. He stared, wide eyed and shocked at Ruby, who then pointed the gun at him. "Now, let go." She ordered, with malice and hate filled into each word. He was too frozen to do anything, so Ruby sighed and again, without hesitation, shot him.
As soon as the bullet hit, his hands came loose just in time for him to be sent flying into the knocked out body of Dove. As he hit, his head whacked off of Dove's, and he, too, was knocked unconscious.
Ruby swiftly sheathed crescent Rose and looked at the softly crying form of Velvet, who was holding her limp rabbit ear within her hand. There were hand marks all over, but the thing that really showed that it hurt was the massive bruise at the centre of her head, where Cardin had hit her when she tried to fight back earlier when he grabbed her ear.
She walked over and knelt down next to her, whispering to her as she held Velvet that it would be okay and no one hated her. Ruby gently stroked one of the ears, and at first, Velvet froze up, but softened into it as she continued.
After velvet's tears were dried up and the Faunus had stopped crying, she looked down to the Faunus girl and felt...something. She wasn't sure what it was, so she left it to wander around in her head. She felt herself being dragged in closer to the Faunus, as Velvet was moving in as well, but something forced them both back with burning faces.
They coughed, in unison, and somehow, Ruby could feel embarrassment. She looked back to the Faunus and stared into her eyes for a second before asking her something. Whatever it was, Velvet wasn't paying attention.
"Hey, Velvet; did you hear what I said?" Velvet shook herself out of her reverie and asked Ruby to repeat it. "I said, do you want to go for lunch later. You always look so lonely by yourself and...I just thought..." Ruby had no idea why she couldn't think, why being around Velvet- of all people- turned her into a stuttering mess, when earlier she was about to castrate the entire team CRDL. Maybe she would have invited Nora to shatter some kneecaps first, though.
Velvet didn't let her finish, for she exclaimed, rather loudly. "Yes!" after regaining her shy composure her cheeks burned with embarrassment. Thank god the hallways were empty. "I...I would l-like that." she looked down, bashful and worrying that her shouting would scare Ruby away.
"Umm...so...where do you go for lunch?" Ruby asked, acting as if Velvet hadn't just shouted in her face.
"Oh...well I-I go to a small cafe run by my parents..." after she trailed off, she could see the light bulb go off in Ruby's head.
"Scarlet coffee; yeah, I always go there. So...what time should I pick you up?" Ruby then realized what she said, and so began her fabled ramble of Ruby-ness. "I mean, do you want me to come and get you, or do you want me to leave you alone to go by yourself? Argh, that's not how I meant to say it! I mean-" Velvet giggled, and this silenced Ruby. Velvet's giggles were like a rainstorm of cotton candy; no matter what, you would never get bored- if you were Ruby- of the different types, but plain was just good. Velvet's was plain, and it was, to Ruby, heavenly. She needed to make Velvet giggle again.
"How... well...why don't you pick me up at seven? They don't close until eleven, and they're my parents, so..." Velvet was struggling as well. She had always liked Ruby, but since she just saved her and they had that little almost-kiss, she knew what was happening; her suddenly getting braver and braver around her, Velvet suddenly feeling happy and giggling- something she never did a lot- whenever Ruby was there; the signs were practically lit up like a neon light in a dark room. You just couldn't mistake love. Now that she thought on it, really, really hard, she had liked Ruby since she first saw her; Ruby was one of the first people she ever saw, and of all of the kind people Ruby was the one that made her feel...well, like velvet. Not like her nervous and stutter self, no, more like a braver, happier version; Velvet two-point-oh.
"S-Sure..." after another minute of awkwardness, velvet bid Ruby goodbye, and Ruby, her, and as Ruby walked off, a feeling of emptiness- after she left velvet- came to her, and a sudden realization that she knew would cripple th entire school if not handled soon came to her. Like Velvet, the signs were there, and she didn't see them. it should have been obvious the way her heart would quicken as if it were running a marathon over her chest when she was near or even in sight, or the way that when she was talking to her, a feeling of happiness washed over her, and her cheeks would burn and her thoughts would centre on Velvet and she rambled; the signs were practically painted all over her, and she still ignored them.
She made sure that velvet was out of earshot- temporarily forgetting that she was a faunus- and sighed, sliding her back down a wall until she came to a hunched position. The realization made her squirm with sudden uneasiness, and she just had to say the words out loud. "Oh my God, I love velvet."
She didn't notice velvet stop in shock for a minute, before she started to walk again.
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Ruby was preparing to go pick up Velvet, but realized she had no way to get to her; and suddenly, Yang became very useful.
"Yang... can I borrow Bumblebee?" at the pure mention of the words 'borrow' and 'Bumblebee' in the same sentence, Yang's head shot up, as she cast an accusatory glare at Ruby.
Inquisitive, Weiss asked for her, while Blake just read a book. "Why do you need the bike? Can you even drive it?"
Ruby and yang looked at each other before looking at Weiss, then both began to snigger.
"Weiss," Yang started "What kind of sister would I be if I didn't teach my Rubes to drive the bike I was gonna-" before she could say any more, she stopped herself.
"Yeah, so Yang, can I borrow her for a while?" Ruby asked. She was bigger than Yang now, by an inch or so, but still it was noticeable, so Ruby had to actually look down to her sister.
"Sure, but why?" Yang held the keys out to her sister, who took them before answering.
"Well...I'm going out to lunch."
This caught the entire team's attention. "With who?" Blake asked.
"Where? Weiss inquired.
"On a date?" of course Yang would ask that.
She looked at Blake "Velvet," she looked at Weiss "Scarlet coffee" she the looked at Yang, an decided to tease her "It might be..." and with that, she left three very confused teenagers in their dorm, leaderless and annoyed- that was Yang- at her vague answer.
Ruby forgot one thing; her purse.
Just as she opened the door, Blake threw her the bag, wished her a good night, and closed the door, leaving Ruby to be the confused one as she made her way down to beacon's garages for students vehicles.
Velvet, right now, was worrying on if Ruby would get there.
Ruby didn't know she would be scared of motorbikes...
