Chapter 1: Ruby Rose
"Dear Monty, I know I haven't really talked to you all that much lately, and that I'm not the best at being religious. Either way, I'm not sure just what to do anymore. We've all taken catnaps, eaten, and talked for a bit, but... Things seem kind of, I don't know, off. Like, will this weird feeling ever go away? I don't just want a neat and tidy ending to all of the stuff that's been happening at Beacon, nor do I really want an ending that means the end. I guess what I want is... Is.
I'd like to push forward, not poking through crevices and in corners trying to find out what's there. I want to see if I can MOVE, RUN, EXIST as I'm supposed 's been a whole semester or trimester already, and I'm not sure what is really going on with all of the civilian deaths that have happened... My mom's death date is drawing nearer and nearer the closer we all get to the end of school. What am I supposed to say at her grave?"
"Hi, mom, it's Ruby, your youngest daughter?" Ruby muttered into her pillow in mime to a conversation at her mother's grave, "Either way, I've been accepted into Beacon Academy, the school that trains hunters and huntresses, just like you were... Before you died... And left Yang, dad and Zwie all alone... And me, too.
I've had one hell of a year, I've formed a team with Yang, Weiss Schnee heiress to the Schnee dust company, and Blake Belladonna, who's a faunus that used to be apart of the White Fang, but left after a while. I'm the Leader, youngest of them all. Monty knows why Ozpin picked me, I'm pretty sure I didn't make such a good impression on Ms. Goodwitch when we first met. The two of them are pretty close, I'm starting to wonder what their relationship actually is. Anyways, I've made a lot of friends at Beacon outside of the team. There's team JNPR for one, they're another freshman group.
There's Jaune Arc, who's one of the first friends I made on campus. He's a good strategist, but kind of bad at fighting Pyrrha's helping him get better though. Speaking of Pyrrha, she's a really awesome fighter that just came to Beacon, Jaune's four-year team mate. It's kind of, ok, REALLY obvious that she likes Jaune, a lot. Come to think of it, I'm not quite sure what Nora and Ren's relationships is. They are the other two members of JNPR. Nora is a lot of fun to hang out with, but kind of exhausting. You can tell that from Ren, who always hangs out with her, and his constant collapsing. The two of them have known each other since they were kids and are best friends.
Next are the foreign students that have come for the Vinel Festival: Sun Wu Kong and Neptune... I'm not sure what Neptune's last name is. Sun's a faunus, he's got a monkey tail, and I'm pretty sure that he and Blake are this close :)(: to dating. Not really sure about Neptune in the dating department, Weiss has a crush on him though, so I'll keep and extra close eye on him.
Not to mention the fact that I'm pursuing a career in what got you killed, so nice to say like mother like daughter until it ends up like that on a grave stone. Would you really be happy for me? It's my dream, and Yang's too, but would you want me to continue in it knowing that your daughters would in all probability die on the job?" Ruby thought to herself. She hoped she wouldn't die too soon, but she knew the risks. To say it in a really cold way, she didn't really care too much about the fact that she would leave the others behind if she died first on the job.
It wasn't that she didn't care for everyone, or even want to stay with them for as long as she could, but did her mom feel the same when she died? Was there a reason for it all really? Was there really a grand plan like some Monty-ists said or was everyone just going to be judged as soon as they died? More importantly could she live without regrets and die without any too?
Ruby Rose looked at the top bunk of her bunk beds. She put the pillow down calmly behind her head. It was absolutely no use at all to think without acting. The best way to live without regrets. That would probably start with finishing Dr. Oobleck's homework and making sure Weiss didn't kill her by failing. Then monitoring both the foreign students and their teachers to see what happened in that meeting Professor Ozpin had gone to with the higher ups. And to satisfy herself and her whole team monitor the relationships between Jaune and Pyhraa, and Ozpin and Ms-Mrs-Professor-Dr.- Ok maybe the best way to say her name is only Glynda Goodwitch, nothing more nothing less.
Ruby pulled out her homework binder, that she was really meaning to return to Weiss one of these days. The pencil cup on the edge of her bed only had pens, but where's there's a will there's a way. Ruby put part of her pen in her mouth as the readings seemed to daunt her in sheer size. Then a favorite phrase of her mother's came to mind that didn't have a single bad memory to it.
There's less to do tomorrow if you get more done today.