Huntress of Love: Chapter 1
Eis Schnee is angry. Far too angry to be at school today, but he has no choice. Even though his father has spent the better part of the previous night berating and belittling him for his recent injury, which will no doubt cause a scar he will have to bear the rest of his life, his father still maintains that a failure like him still needs to attend school. His father even has the gall to tell him that perhaps a bit of public embarrassment will do him some good to remind him that he is a Schnee.
But that thought alone does nothing but infuriate him further. He and his Lacrosse team had won their match of course, even though he had been body checked by a larger boy named Winchester, whose stick had cut across his left eye. But according to his father, a true Schnee would never had allowed themselves to be knocked down in such a manner. A true Schnee would have knocked the other boy down first then proceeded to win the game, because that is the true Schnee way.
It didn't help that he got a huge headache, and people are constantly giving him their "sympathy" if it could be even called like that. Most of the other students are as fake as his father, just out to gain his favor and use him to get attention from everyone.
It was nearly the end of the day, he just has to survive for another 15 minutes before he finally gets out of there.
After the bell finally ends his suffering he makes his way outside. On the way he stops at his locker, which is exactly next to the locker of Ruby Rose.
He wouldn't call her a childhood friend, but they were in the same class ever since first grade. She is a bit of a quirky girl, but always happy and cheerful. He knows that her mother died a year ago, but he never once saw her sad. nEver since they met, the girl has been trying to be friends with him, constantly talking to him, invading his personal space and always nice and smiling.
He didn't hate her, but they weren't friends either. They may have been friends in the beginning, but after his father got to know about this friendship and he got another one of his verbal lashings, they were merely classmates. He was a Schnee and Schnees never befriended common people.
So for him she was just an annoyance, one he could usually bear, but what happened next would change many things.
Just when he closed his locker, Ruby stood in front of him. They were both fourteen, and about the same height, but as always the first thing he noticed is her silver eyes. No matter how long they have known each other, those eyes always mystified him. Then came her short black hair with those red tips and her always red and black clothes.
He only spares her a short glance, not wanting to interact with her.
"Hey Eis, are you alright?" he only gave her a clipped "naturally" and starts to walk again. Not wanting to be left standing alone, Ruby follows him, still talking to him in her normal mile a minute fashion.
She is talking about the game and how cool they were, so he didn't really bother to listen to her.
Arriving outside the school gates, his headache and mood gets worse and worse, and he just wants to sit in the car to go back home. He is about to say goodbye, but then Ruby said, "I think this scar will look really cool." With as much excitement as she can.
And that was when he snaps, coming to a standstill "You think it is cool?" His icy voice would have caused anyone else to stop and think about what to say next.
Well Ruby isn't everyone else "Of course it is! It gives you a manly aura and you look badass."
Not turning around he says calmly "So you like it when people get injured or defaced."
Her eyes widen, she realizes the boy doesn't share her opinion "That's not what I meant."
Finally turning around, all Ruby can see in his cold eyes were malice and a promise for pain "But of course it is, you just said it yourself. You were probably also excited when your mother died, thinking she was cool for dying in that car crash."
At that he pauses, Ruby is also silent, looking with shocked and pained eyes at him. And then he knew it, he is about to hurt her more than anything else. But he still didn't stop there.
"Now that I think about it, she was probably glad to die in that crash, finally not having to endure your presence anymore. She probably also thought you are just an annoyance, just like everyone else does. No one likes you, you are just a pest for everyone and should just disappear, or do everyone a favor and die."
Tears are streaming down her face, and her body trembles from her barely suppressed sobs.
Looking at her he starts to feel a bit bad, but then he hears his father's voice, shouting at him to finish what he started, to not show weakness.
So he ripped off the necklace she is always wearing, the one she got from her mother before the crash, and threw it away.
"And just so you know, we would have never been friends. Why would I be friends with someone as ugly and as stupid as you, who is just a pathetic excuse for a human being." With that, he turns and leaves, not stopping and not looking back. But even if he doesn't look back, he can still hear her heart wrenching sobs.
Arriving home, he immediately goes to his room and stays there for the rest of the day. Now that he is finally alone, he allows himself to relax and process what happened earlier.
He can't believe that he said all those cruel things to Ruby, the only person who ever wanted to genuinely befriend him. And if he is completely honest with himself, he also wants to be friends with her, but he can't.
Thinking for a while about everything, he didn't notice when he falls asleep on his bed.
In his dream, he is an adult and already in charge of the Schnee Medical Service. Sitting in his office, he is working on his paperwork and didn't want to be disturbed. His assistant only comes in if it's necessary, and when she does, he doesn't notice how terrified she is, not daring to say very much because of his bad temper.
When the time comes to drive home, he runs into a young woman, causing her to fall. Instead of helping her up, he starts shouting at her for making his suit dirty, that he could have gotten injured and that filth like her shouldn't even be verbal beating he gives her is so bad, the woman starts to tremble and cry. And for a moment the woman turns into Ruby, making him stop. Seeing her tears, he thinks back to that moment in middle school again. Starting to feel guilty, he is about to apologize when suddenly Ruby disappears and in her place his father stands smiling in front of him.
"I'm proud of you my son. You are finally the heir I always wished to have." A mirror appears next to him, and when Eis looks into it, he can't believe what he sees. Instead of his own face, he sees his father's face looking back at him.
Suddenly his eyes fly open, and he was breathing heavy from the dream. Eis looks around with wide eyes, and seeing his mirror he jumps up and runs over to it, sighing in relief when he sees his own face in the mirror and not his father's. Sliding down to the floor he once again is lost in his thoughts, but one though was clearer than all the others.
He is becoming a monster just like Jacques Schnee.
Shaking his head and slapping his cheeks a few times, Eis becomes determined to change his course and become an honorable man. Even at his young age, he knows that the SMS is corrupted and twisted and not the company his grandfather founded. His dream is to clean the family name and earn the trust of the people again. But to do that, he first must correct his own mistakes.
The next day Eis wants to apologize to Ruby for all the cruel things he said and for throwing her necklace away, but he never got the chance. She avoided him the whole day, and he could also hear the other students whispering and laughing about her. At the end of the day, he couldn't do what he planned to do.
Later at Lacrosse training, he was distracted and unfocused. His trainer assumes it is because of his injury, and lets him take a break on the bench. Looking around a bit, Eis notices something shining in the bushes. Standing up and taking a closer look, he found that it is Ruby's necklace. He always thought it was beautiful with the pendant shaped to look like a burning rose.
Putting it away to give it back, he returns to his training.
But the opportunity to apologize never comes.
The following week, they are informed that Ruby transferred schools. And with that he can never make up for his mistake.
It has been four years now since then, and Eis recently started to study Medicine at Beacon University.
He graduated High School as valedictorian and the ace of his Lacrosse team.
In the past few years Eis hit a growth spurt and was now 6ยด1"-foot tall, with a fit, but lean body. He is popular and has a group who call themselves his friends, but were in truth just some arrogant bratty rich kids. The same kind he was back in middle school.
After the incident with Ruby, Eis changed his behavior and tried to focus all his time on his studies to become a real doctor to help people, and not be like his father. Never forgetting what he did, and the way he utterly crushed her. He even still has her necklace, always wearing it around his neck as a reminder to never lash out at people like that. And here he is, in the best University in all of Washington State, coming closer and closer to his goal.
It is the middle of the first semester already, and Eis is one of the best in his class. But that isn't important right now. What is important is the fact that he is about to enter a dating site. But it isn't any random dating site, it is the official University site, Beacon of hearts, with only Beacon students allowed to join. Now it isn't that Eis has a problem getting a date, with his look and name he has to sometimes fend off the money chasers and potential sycophants, but that is exactly why he wants to try this site.
All the girls his friends tried to hook him up with were only interested in his name and money and never him. And he is so tired of being just Eis Schnee the heir of the Schnee medical Service, and being alone. Just for once, he wants someone to see him for his true self. To talk to him like a normal person, and not just to gain his favor. So he plans to enter the site with an non descriptive username and no photo.
His Username is SnowPrince18.
After creating a profile, he started to scroll through it. For the first hour he only sees people that don't really stand out. Most of them being from the social elite, like himself. But Just when he is about to log out, he sees a profile that piques his interest.
Like his own there is no photo of the girl just a black and white corgi, and her username is Crescent Rose.
In her profile he reads that she is a law student who loved athletics, and to read. She is also a cheerful person, who has trouble getting to know people, just like him. He doesn't know why, but somehow he has a good feeling about this girl. That she is like himself, an intellectual person who enjoys silence and a good book.
So he opens the private messenger to contact her, but then freezes. He doesn't know what to write. He sees that she is online, so there is a possibility of getting a fast response.
After long consideration, he types a simple greeting.
SnowPrince18: Hello
And presses send. Not 5 seconds later he starts to bang his head against a nearby table.
"Hello? Really?! Why couldn't I come up with something better!"
He is so busy trying to reconstruct the table with his head that he nearly doesn't hear the sound of a response.
Crescent Rose: Hi
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Hey everyone, Winter here! This time with another awesome colab, this time with the amazing Celestial-pricess. Just as a warning, this is gonna be a bit darker than some of the stuff we have already posted here, so I will always try to make sure to have any kind of warnings up for everyone. Otherwise, please enjoy this new offering from the RWBYverse!