The bar was the last place Ruby expected to meet a God.
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It has been a while since Ruby had been able to rest and take a moment for herself, between the constant fight for her life and the ever-present threat of grimm invasion she really didn't have a moment to breathe.
Looking back on it she almost found it funny, if you compared the small bubbly child that joined the rank of beacon academy all those years ago and the still small proffessional huntress and Hero that was currently drinking in a small bar on Patch, using the same flask as her uncle used before, the only similitude you could see would be the color of her remaining eye and the scythe that was stashed away next to her chair.
She was so lost in her thought that she failed to notice the man that was trying to catch her attention next to her.
"Hello, hello is someone in there",he said snapping his finger in front of her face.
"Sorry, I was thinking about some other stuff what were you saying"
"I asked if this seat was taken",he asked politely
"No, no you can take it"
It did not bother her that people took her for a loner and as such tried to take the chairs away from her table but it was the first time that instead of leaving with the chair the person actually sat down.
"Nice I've been meaning to talk to you actually miss Rose, you see i'..."
"Schnee",she interrupted him
"I beg your pardon?"
"My name is Schnee, Ruby Schnee."
"My bad I didn't know you had someone but that's not really the point, seeing as your wife has passed away, you see I actually..."
"Excuse me?",she asked angrily "Care to repeat what you said?"her hand slowly lowering toward her scythe.
"As interesting as I find you miss Rose..."
"SCHNEE!"
"I do not like being interrupted when I speak so please remain civilized, as I said...",he answered calmly with no worry on his face.
"I will not stand someone tainting the memory of my wife so if you have something to tell me say it fast before I..."
Alas she didn't get the opportunity to finish her sentence because she found herself unable to do anything but move her eyes, her limbs felt like they were bound by an invisible entity and she could not find herself to be able to say as much as a word.
Looking at him she could feel that he was the one who had caused this, but she could not understand how he was able to freeze her so. But it was when she actually looked around that she could feel thing were very wrong. Nothing was moving in the entirety of the bar, the liquids were frozen in the air, someone in a corner was stopped mid air after taking what seemed to be a heavy hit to the face and she could actually see a fly millimeter away from the pommel of Crescent Rose.
Turning her eyes towards the only person moving inside, she quickly analyzed him to try to get who or what he was.
He was… bland, never had she seen a man look so normal, dressed in worker clothes, black eyes, black hairs, a boring face void of any scars or any anomaly and most importantly the heavy feeling that she had seen him before.
"I didn't know that I looked so lame "He added visibly looking into Ruby's mind "As I was trying to say before I got crudely interrupted, I am interested in you, not in a weird way or anything, but more as a person, as a whole. So i'm willing to unfreeze you as long as you don't interrupt me anymore, ok?"
Turn out he didn't wait for her to respond, not that she was able to but seeing as he could read mind he could have at least tried to wait a bit.
"Who, no what are you" she asked slowly
"I don't have a name actually" he said without so much as a change in expression "and the sense of familiarity that you feel coming from me is not because we met but because you met my sons."
"How do you not have a name and what do you mean by your sons, who are they"
"To answer all of your question I will have to tell you a little story, well you probably have already heard it, It's the story of two brother, one was the God of Light and one was the God of Dark."
She nodded
"Well since you know the story, and you have actually seen their face once and considering what I have told you before who do you believe me to be?"
"Their father, something like a God" she said very, very quietly
"Now what was the nickname I was given by you people, Oum or something like that? Well it doesn't matter I am here to offer you a proposition."
"What do you mean?" she asked as politely as possible.
"Your life is interesting young lady, so much so that it managed to reach even when i'm not supposed to interfere with the matter of this planet but that's not the issue here.
I'm willing to give you a second chance."
"W-what do you mean by that… like a reboot?"
"Exactly like a reboot, you would go back in time straight towards the beginning of your quests and try to do it all over again and maybe this time nobody will die."
To say Ruby was taken aback is an understatement, she quite litteraly fell from her chair, knocked over her scythe, somehow managed to spill all the drinks present on the table and made a fool of herself in front of what was apparently God.
"Well i'm not God , i'm more like a god since my children have the same status as me but yeah… and don't worry as an omnipotent being I can afirm that I have seen far worse"
"How would it work?" she asked as she got back on her chair
"I'm gonna send you tree other little surprise on the day that everything started, the day where everything began, the night when you met Roman Torchwik for the first time."
"What do you mean by other surprise" she tried "and when would I depart"
"You will find everything out when you arrive and secondly, now"
"Wait what do you mean nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"
She could do nothing but scream as she was suddenly taken away by an invisible force and everything went dark.
"I'll be watching you and your little crew, it will be a really fun experience."
It was snowing over a 15 years old Ruby Rose, she had just taken care of a huge group of grimms that had disturbed her as she was "talking" with her mother.
Now the only thing she wanted was to go home and to bed, or to town where she knew she could go to the dust store she liked to look at the new weapons catalogs that had arrived, but all her plans were interrupted by a strange event.
As she was walking towards her home, a powerful bright light suddenly lit up the area around her and she could her the very near sound of people screaming for their life.
When the light finally settled she could finally see what or more especially who had screamed.
All siting in the snow looking suspiciously at each other were four women.
The first one a relatively tall silver haired girl with a pretty white and blue dress and a rapier hanging by her waist.
The second a very pretty girl wearing a long red dress with long black hair which seemed to be the only one devoid of any weapons.
The third one wich looked surpisinfly like her, wearing a short black and red skirt, had a really beautifull white scarf and a weapon that looked a lot like Crescent Rose hanging on her back, folded.
But it was when Ruby saw the last one that she really got the best surprise of her life, the person had barely any time to think before Ruby ran straight towards her screaming.
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM"