AN: just a little something for the heat, have a short series of mindless beach summer fluff :)
Summer.
It was a season that always had a love/hate relationship going on for Ruby Rose. It was a season where she was active in each and everyday, and basically a season where it was really hot as hell. Ugh, she didn't really had the time to laze around because she was a very busy person every summer, although lazing around in this heat didn't exactly sound too ideal to be honest.
Good thing she was surrounded by sea water, where she can submerge herself once in a while when she wanted.
"Phew," Ruby blew air from her lips to give quick relief underneath her bangs as she fanned herself, she was beginning to sweat even though she was doing nothing. At times like these she wondered why she even liked being a lifeguard in the first place, well aside from the thrill of being quick to respond to help drowning people, and occasionally giving directions to some foreigners. 95% of the time she was just here, sitting atop her highchair, looking over the sea of people until she starts to make up ridiculous stories on some of them.
But she guessed, knowing that everyone was having a fun time while being safe was enough for her.
Burrowing herself into her recliner—thankful for the huge umbrella above lest she melt under the sun—she saw a black car pull over in a distance near the entrance of the beach in the corner of her eyes—no wait a minute, was that a limo? She turned her face there and saw the driver—it seemed, who wore a black suit under his big muscular body complete with a set of shades and an earpiece in his ear.
Ruby felt her jaw go slack at the sight, m— men in black?! Soon there was another black car, but it was fortunately shorter than the first—though the two people who came out made her jerk back in surprise, more men in black?! Were they going to invade the beach or something?!
Scary!
The driver from earlier looked around before opening the door in the rear side of the limo, when he did, a white sandal clad foot landed on the sandy ground daintily, until the figure revealed itself. It was a tall woman who had her white hair up in a bun, her bangs hiding the side of her face. She was wearing a white pleated chiffon blouse and black shorts along with her white sandals. She had a smile on her face as another figure came from the car, this time it was another girl, she had the same white hair as the first one but had hers tied in a side pony tail.
She was wearing a light blue loose shirt that was tucked in her lacy white shorts, her feet was clad in wedged white sandals, and they both had such milky white skin! It was almost ridiculous how they incredibly looked like.. the opposite of summer. Even though they were indeed wearing summer clothes, their.. color pallete definitely stuck out like a sore thumb. Especially after coming out of a black limousine, surrounded by men in black for that matter. It was definitely eye catching, but specifically the two ladies who came out seemed to have caught Ruby's undivided attention.
One could say she was starstruck, but no she wasn't, she was just merely observing.
She noticed that the second who came out was still shorter than the taller one even with her wedgies—Ruby was going to assume that they were sisters now, the uncanny resemblance was a definite ringer. The preoccupied lifeguard watched as the two ladies conversed with each other about something, the shorter one seemed indignant as the taller one simply laughed at her face. It went on for a while until they ended up in front of the beach house that had been vacant since the moment they moved here.
Ruby tilted her head, oh so they lived there? It was right next to their own beach house too, though much smaller compared to theirs. They were obviously wealthier than pretty much everyone living here in Vale beach. She'd never even seen a real life limo before! And those men in black? She thought those people only existed in movies! Sighing she returned her gaze to the beach when she saw them go inside, their bodyguards who were carrying luggage in tow.
Taking in one lungful of the sea breeze, she began to take another scan of the mass of people scattered around the beach screeching and running around like primates. She nodded to herself when nothing seemed to be out of ordinary and leaned back against her high chair with a huff, now that the weird arrival of the unknown rich people had passed, she was left with thoughts.
She began to wonder, who were those two girls? Did they actually live there all this time? She really needed to catch up about things around this beach, she was at loss. Ruby was deep in thoughts when a voice suddenly put her out of thinking.
Leaning over her high chair, she was met with the grinning face of her half-sister, Yang Xiao Long. Her long wild blonde mane was unkempt as always—fortunately tied up during work, speaking of work she was wearing her work clothes as well. Tight fitting buttoned lemon colored shirt that had a black collar—which definitely showed her curves almost too well, and a pencil skirt. She came on slippers though, she worked as a waitress in their restaurant, which was their family business.
"Come down Rubes, let's have a short break!" she gestured with the cold soda cans in her hands which effectively got Ruby off her high chair, she gave her sister her drink with a small laugh, "Are you hungry?"
Ruby sported a thoughtful look, "Not really, but thanks for these," she shook her can to point out before opening it with a satisfying swish and took a swig, "Ahh, this is nice!"
"No problem sis," Yang spoke before sitting on the sand which Ruby followed suit, taking a drink from her own soda.
"Hmnn.." Ruby hummed as she pondered, briefly glancing at the beach house next to theirs, then to a distracted Yang, "Yang?"
"Yeah?"
"So there were these people who came 'round a little earlier, and they literally came out from a limo along with these huge bodyguards wearing black suits in a freaking beach," she started, her hands gesturing just how big they were, Yang was amused.
"Then they came inside that fancy beach house next to ours," she pointed to the said house, her pony tailed long dark crimson tipped hair almost hitting her sister in the face, before facing the slightly disoriented Yang again, "I was just wondering if you knew them by any chance..?"
"Well.." rubbing her slightly itchy grazed cheek a bit, the blonde mused while staring at the house her sister just pointed, her eyes squinting in thought, "Well I did somewhat hear from Uncle Qrow that the people who lived there were very rich people," she mumbled, putting her fingers on her chin as the gears in her brain functioned, "I think their last names sounded like Sneeze or something, y'know those types of surnames used in huge corporations? Yeah, that."
"Sneeze?" Ruby repeated, a little dubious but had a glint of mirth in her eyes, "I don't think any corporation would use Sneeze as their name, Yang."
Yang shrugged nonchalantly, a brazen grin on her features, "I don't know, I told you I wasn't sure."
"Anyway, sorry Rubes but I gotta get back to work now," she stood up, stretching her arms in a circular motion, "Just making sure to check on Penny before she suddenly malfunctions from working alone," they both laughed before the blonde waved good bye, "See ya later sis!"
Ruby waved back and her older sister was out of sight, she was smiling until she saw the empty can left beside her.
"Ugh, Yang."
With her palm on her chin, Ruby leaned over her chair as she watched the crowd beneath her. Soon her eyes happened to come across a group of people who were being quite rowdy in their own.. eccentric way.
...wait what?
What was even happening?
The group was composed of four people, and they were splashing each other—which yes, was completely normal. But the way these people did it, it was most definitely not normal. They were splashing each other as if it was some sort of Olympic sport! Ruby watched in shock—and awe—as an orange haired girl swung around an inflatable hammer as if it was her own trusty weapon, she seemed to be spouting nonsense with her incredibly loud voice that the lifeguard swore she could even hear from here.
"...SMASHING...MY MAGNHILD! ...AHH LEGS!"
Turning her gaze to her other friends, she saw another girl with red hair deflecting the violent swirls of water splashes with her kick board effectively, almost as if she was thoroughly trained to do it. The gingerhead pulled out something from her other hand that was obstructed from Ruby's view, and it was a long stick? Where did she even get that? And she seemed to be aiming it at the deranged hammer wielder as if it was a goddamn spear! The lifeguard watched with bated breath as the girl with her thumb out threw her stick with horrific precision and hit the girl—no it wasn't the girl, it was a dude behind her guarding another blonde boy like he was some hostage.
The redhead unsuccessfully hit the pink streaked dude who literally snapped it into two in midair as if he was Bruce Lee, he turned his gaze onto the girl and demonstrated some martial art forms that reminded Ruby of a certain character in a certain fighting game.
The girl seemed to click her tongue, before charging in and engaged the two in some sort of fight that could only make the lifeguard scratch her head in utter astonishment, she glanced to the hostage-esque blonde who was.. just getting pounded by the water, poor boy probably couldn't even breathe properly with all the water splashing on his face.
Ruby simply shook her head at the scene with a smile on her lips, at least happenings like this made her work more interesting and worthwhile.
When they finally got tired, they began to retreat from the ocean, the boy dragged over to the sand by the orange haired girl as he wheezed for airscreaming gratitude to some almighty deity for surviving the calamity brought upon him. It was actually funny that it made Ruby chuckle, this was probably the most interesting group she'd ever encountered in the beach. Well.. aside from the rich people from earlier.
Sensing some newcomers, she averted her gaze to the side.
Oh, speak of the devil.
It was the white haired sisters.. and they were in their bikinis this time. It made Ruby stop as she unintentionally lingered her eyes towards the two, especially the short one who had a skin so white, it could blind anyone who even looked at her. Not to mention, her stare looked somewhat icy and cold.
Damn, does she even leave her house?
Everything about her screamed rich..
..regal, pretty and—
Shaking her head, she began to take notice of the inconspicuous swim ring around her waist, and she couldn't help but tilt her head in confusion.
Was that..? Yes, it was a swing ring. But what was with that? It even had snowflake designs on it, it was.. childish.
Maybe she didn't feel like paddling her limbs in the ocean. But that was rather cute, it was something she would never expect.
The two sisters began to walk towards the ocean, with muscled men in their wake who were fortunately in swim clothes, yet the identical sunglasses and the earpieces in their ear were still off putting. Better than being in suits in the beach, she guessed.
In that short while when they were walking, somehow the short one and Ruby's gazes met. She saw piercing ice blue eyes widening, as if startled, before she tore her gaze away—straight to the sea. Blinking at what just happened, Ruby discreetly placed a hand over her chest, her heart strangely excited for some reason.
Maybe the heat was getting to her.
After a quick scan towards the folks around the beach, she landed her gaze once more to the sisters, and saw the taller splash the short one in the face impishly to the point that she couldn't even gather her bearings, the girl got so pissed she threw her swim ring. The taller laughed before giving it back then said something—almost in a hush, the shorter one blushed in embarrassment before taking it back indignantly, safely tucking herself inside.
Then, Ruby didn't even notice she had been exclusively watching over them.
The sounds of ocean waves and people surrounded the two prestigious sisters—probably in the whole beach, though the older of the two seemed too interested in the water to care about the attention they knew they were gaining.
"As always, the clearness of the water here never fails to amaze me," Winter, the oldest of the Schnee sisters said absentmindedly as she stared down the rippling saltwater, "I can see my bikini."
Raising an eyebrow at her statement, Weiss—the youngest of the two—simply splashed her on the face before lying her chin over her swim floater. Letting the gentle waves of the ocean roll her of back and forth, the sounds of water swinging against each other lulling her into relaxation.
"It's a shame father couldn't come this year," she spoke, sharing her thoughts in a murmur. Usually their father would come with them every time they went here, but something came up in his work which he had to take care of, leaving the both of them ahead. Weiss just wasn't used with the absence of their father in outings such as these. He had always been a warm hearted goof and made things better, even though he could be a little over-reacting and overprotective sometimes.
Turning to her little sister, Winter shrugged her shoulders in reply, "It can't be helped, he had to attend to an emergency."
Weiss hummed distractedly before discreetly looking over a certain high chair, where lifeguards were situated, she saw a fine young lady sitting a top it, keen silver eyes scanning over the area. She was obviously used to this kind of work, it showed on her toned body and well.. she had a tan! Pursing her lips as she peered over her swim ring, the girl was wearing a maroon colored bikini, she had goggles over her head and a whistle around her neck. Her dark hair was crimson tipped and her long hair was held up in ponytail.
The alabaster haired girl noticed that she was actually attracting quite a lot of attention even just by sitting there, she didn't seem to notice too.
A fake cough brought her out of stupor causing her to jerk in surprise, almost losing a hold of her swim ring. She glared at her sister who was giving her an obnoxious look, "What?"
Winter smirked, before tutting with a shake of her head, "It seems like someone caught little Weiss' interest."
The said girl immediately turned her body behind the lifeguard—unhelpfully—and splashed her in the face, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Glancing over to the high chair Weiss was looking at, she began speak in a way that grated on Weiss' nerves, "Well, she is indeed.. stunning, I'll give you that," soon she sported a slightly confused look, "Though, this is the first time I saw her."
They had been regulars in this beach every summer so she would know, and from what she could recall.. the lifeguard before had always been that over the top muscular guy who looked like he was consuming steroids for breakfast, he used to always flaunt his humongous biceps in every chance he got. The moment his duty calls, he could probably break someone in half before he could even get them out of the water.
She seemed to like her better though, the older Schnee didn't really know why but she just held this impressive aura around her that she couldn't really point a finger at.
"I like her," she concluded.
Suddenly, she heard Weiss splutter ungraciously, "What?!"
"What do you mean what?" Winter seemed confused by her reaction, "That I like her?"
Not a moment later, the look of realization dawned upon her face which Weiss dreaded dearly, "Ohhh I get it. Don't worry, Weiss!"
"I won't take her away from you!" she laughed.
Weiss simply spluttered again in reply, "W— What?! No! I don't even know her!"
"Wow Weiss you're funny today," Winter shook her head with a laugh.
"Shut up, Winter."
Winter simply chuckled at the indignant pout on her sister's face, a large enough wave making her swim floater roll her back and forth unceremoniously, a splash hitting her on the face. The older of the two tried to stifle her laughter this time, "Seems like you still need more floaties."
Weiss was utterly exasperated, the ocean wasn't kind to her today, "I do not."
Shrugging nonchalantly, she spoke teasingly, "Okay then, I'll just get one for myself since I'm getting tried of flailing my arms around."
The younger of the two simply put her nose up in a huffy, as if she was superior. Winter waved her crabbiness off, "Yeah yeah," and did a double take on her sister, "Will you be alright while I'm gone?"
Weiss of course, being the prideful girl that she was, she said yes.
With another look, her older sister began to swim away, unintentionally creating waves that pushed her further away from the shore. It blared red alarms in Weiss' brain, making her look over the shoulder of her swimming sister. Wait.. why was the shore so far away? Since when did they drift away from land this far? Feeling dread creep up her submerged skin, she began to kick her feet to find the comforting feeling of the cold sandy ground.
Except.. there was no ground.
Jesus christ.
Weiss began to inwardly panic, but the annoying prideful part in her refused to let her emotions show. She had to stay calm, yes.. stay calm Weiss! She won't let the absence of the ground get to her! She will.. she will power paddle through this! Oh god, her heart was beating so fast, Winter was out of ear shot now, she was near the shore. She didn't really want to shout since that will be embarrassing, she just had to wait, right?
Yes, she will just stay perfectly still, wait for her sister and everything will be alright.
Suddenly as if to crush her remaining hope, a particularly harsh wave slapped her in the face, causing her to drift further away from land.
Weiss wanted to scream.
Luck definitely wasn't with her today! She had been noticing her swim ring somehow making her sink into the water for a while now, but she thought it was just her slumping over, but no! Her supposedly trusty swim ring was failing on her, it had a hole somewhere, a beslobbering villainous rude-growing hugger-mugger measle hole!
Ugh!
Now she was beginning to channel her inner Father!
Little by little she felt her god forsaken swim floater go airless by each second, and she died a little every time it happened. Weren't swim floaters supposed to keep people safe?! Why was it doing the opposite right now?! She could feel herself sinking deeper into the ocean, she did not know how to swim for pete's sake!
Weiss was now visibly panicking searching for that hole probably made by Satan while power paddling like a dog towards the shore, but the waves kept on pulling her back! Stupid bawdy waves! Let her live! Oh god, she was going to die, she couldn't find the hole and she could literally feel herself neck deep into the water. She glanced back to her sister, who finally noticed, but it was too late. Before she could even shout for the lifeguard, the said person was already swimming over to Weiss who was startled at her quick entrance.
Though before she could even register her face, she was already drowning.
