"Ruby will you hurry up in there? I need to go too you know. And I don't want to be late for classes," Weiss complained with her arms crossed. She was standing beside the bathroom door in her night gown waiting for Ruby to finish up in there.
"I'll be out in a second!" Ruby called back. Weiss let out a sigh and decided to pace around their dorm. Ever since Yang and Blake went away on a partner's training mission for the weekend it had been just Ruby and Weiss. Back then Weiss would have pulled her hair out from dealing with Ruby for three days, but things had changed a lot since then. Mainly because she was now dating the red haired dunce. Weiss smiled at the memory of when Ruby came to Weiss, as red as her namesake, asking if she'd like to go for dinner in Vale. At first Weiss only said yes because she didn't want to upset her leader, but as it got closer to the date Weiss became more nervous and was having a conflict with herself. She always thought she was straight. But after spending dinner with Ruby, talking with Ruby, then looking into her happy silver eyes as the two shared their first kiss, she was sure she definitely like-liked Ruby. She wouldn't dare say the 'L' word yet; this was all still new to Weiss. She didn't want to rush things, nor did she feel ready for that word yet. Despite the good weekend they had she did miss the blonde oaf and the cat ninja and was glad they were coming back today, although she'd never say that out loud.
Ruby then opened the door to the bathroom. She was still in her pyjamas with a towel wrapped around the back of her neck. As she passed Weiss she quickly leant in and kissed her cheek.
"Room's yours now my princess," Ruby said as she walked towards the draws with a big grin. Weiss cheeks glowed a light red at Ruby's actions. "Dolt" Weiss quickly grabbed her uniform and headed for the bathroom.
"Erh Weiss... have you seen my cloak?" Ruby asked looking over her shoulder as she opened the second draw.
"Didn't you put it in the wardrobe?" she replied. Before she shut the door she saw Ruby quickly go to the mentioned wardrobe and open it. Weiss quickly took off her night gown and underwear as she entered the shower. Despite being constantly called the snow queen, ice queen, snow angel, ice princess, she hated the cold. It reminded her too much of home. She preferred being warm and feeling the heat, which is why she enjoyed the hot water sprinkling down onto her form. Fancy Ruby forgetting where she put her cloak, Weiss shook her head at her partner's mistake. Back then it use to irritate Weiss and anger her how Ruby acted at times. How a child like her got into Beacon completely baffled her. Now it was aspects that Weiss liked about her. They even at times caused the heiress to smile. They were what made Ruby well... Ruby, and she wouldn't have it any other way.
Once she finished her shower and dried herself off she began to put on a new pair of underwear and her uniform. During her shower, Ruby had plenty of time to change into her uniform. It also saved time and made sure they didn't see each other while changing. Both were definitely not ready to see each other with lesser clothing than their pyjamas. However when Weiss opened the door, Ruby had not changed out of her pyjamas yet, not only that but almost all the draws and wardrobes were open. The red head herself was inside one of them, moving hangers and coats around.
"Ruby! Aren't you changed yet?" Weiss frowned with her hands on her hips. If they didn't hurry they would be late for class which was... ten minutes from now!
"Ruby! We have ten minutes till classes start and you're not in your uniform yet!" Weiss scolded her leader. As no response came from Ruby Weiss marched over to her girlfriend and spun her around to face her.
"Ruby! W..." Weiss angry face quickly changed to confusion and slight concern.
"Oh... hey Weiss, didn't see you there," Ruby didn't seem...right. Her eyes every now and then would quickly look to different parts of the room. A worried look dons the leaders face as she scratched her right arm. "Weiss... h-have you seen my cloak anywhere?"
"Your cloak? No I haven't" Weiss didn't like the way Ruby was acting. Ruby looked around the room again then stopped at Weiss bed.
"Maybe it's under your bed!" Ruby quickly sprinted and slid towards her bed. Before Weiss could even act, Ruby had already crawled underneath.
"Ruby! You're going to get dirty under there!" Weiss shouted. Not a second later there was a thud noise followed by a yelp of pain. Soon Ruby crawled back out rubbing her head. Weiss sighed and knelt down next to her.
"You dunce, you okay?" Weiss asked. Ruby nodded her head then looked at the clock in the room.
"Look erm... y-you'd better get to class. I know how much you like getting there early," Ruby said looking around the room. Weiss did want to get to class early, but she didn't feel like she should leave Ruby alone in this...state she's in.
"But what about you?" the heiress asked.
"I'll... I'll look around for five more minutes... if I don't find it I'll get changed and sprint to class. You go on ahead," Ruby finally looked back to her girlfriend and put on a smile. Despite that feeling of concern and doubt to leaving Ruby alone, Weiss gave a nod and for good measures leant forward and kissed her girlfriends forehead.
"Five minutes, or I'll make you do an essay," Weiss said with a grin then stood up to leave the room. She opened the door and after looking back and giving a wave to Ruby, who returned a wave of their own, left for class.
Weiss sat in her seat as Professor Oobleck almost teleported to different parts of the room, due to his coffee intact. They were now halfway through the lesson and Ruby had not shown up. Weiss was starting to get very concerned. She regretted leaving that girl alone, why did she let herself go to class while Ruby clearly wasn't all right. Damn it. "Just how important was that cloak to her?" She thought, trying to focus on taking notes but failing. If there was more time in between the classes she would go back to check on the red head. She just hoped that Ruby would appear for the next class.
Half an hour into the second class, still no Ruby. Weiss was through waiting, she needed to check on her to see what was wrong. She quickly stood up, bringing the attention of students and the professor.
"Miss Schnee. Something seems to trouble you. Confess to me your strife!" Professor Port bellowing voice called out to her.
"I... I have to go. My partner may be in trouble. Please Professor... I'll cover the work that I miss and...," Weiss began but stopped when Port raised his hand.
"I'm sure you will Miss Schnee. If your partner is in need of help then go to her my child!" Port nodded and motioned to the door.
"Thank you sir," Weiss smiled and quickly ran out the classroom. One student then put his hand up.
"Sir? My partner is in need of help too! Can I be excused?" he asked.
"Of course you cannot! Now where was I? Oh yes, so as I was surrounded by Grimm only armed with a leek..." Many groans echoed the room as Port continued one of his long winded stories of his past.
Weiss quickly ran down the hallways. She hoped that Ruby was okay. She hoped nothing bad happened. She hoped when she returned to her dorm Ruby would be sitting there with a sheepish look on her face, saying she lost track of time like the dunce she is. However when she arrived to see her dorm door slight open her hopes slowly started to fade. When she opened the door, all her hopes where shattered. She never should have left her alone.
Inside the dorm room Ruby was nowhere to be seen, however to say that a tornado when through their dorm room was putting it lightly. All clothes were all over the floor, the draws where scattered across the floor, the wardrobes where pushed over, the curtains were pulled from the wall and the make shift bunk beds had fallen apart. Yang's bed was now sideways on the floor with its mattress flung across the room, Blake's bed thankfully untouched. The same could not be said however for Weiss and Ruby's beds. The ropes holding the bottom end of the bed were cut, so half of Ruby's bed was literally through Weiss. Feathers were everywhere from the destruction of Weiss bed, but also from Ruby's as it had seemingly been sliced open.
Weiss backed away from the door in fear. What was going on? Did Ruby do this? Did someone attack her? How could she leave her alone like that?! She was a terrible partner! A terrible girlfriend! Weiss quickly shook her head and looked around, hoping to find some clue that would lead her to her girlfriend. Thankfully she didn't have to look far to see rose petals littered across the floor, leading out of the dorm and down the hallway. Weiss entered the dorm room and went straight for one of the wardrobes and reached in, hoping what she was looking for was there. Thankfully it was, so now with Myrtenaster in hand she ran out the dorm room, following the rose petals that would hopefully lead her to her rose.
Following the trail she was lead to the locker room. She knew she was in the right place when she heard familiar gunshots coming from inside, the gunshots of Crescent Rose. There was a male student against the wall outside who saw Weiss approaching.
"Don't go in there! She's crazy!" she shouted. Weiss glared at the boy who insulted her girlfriend and approached him.
"What happened?" she demanded an answer.
"I was just getting something from my locker when she sped around the corner. She had this crazed look in her eye, blood all over her arm, wearing pyjamas I think?" he began to explain.
"What happened then?" Weiss snapped, not wanting to dilly dally.
"Right... so she went to her locker I think, tried putting in her code. But she couldn't remember it, in her state I wasn't surprised. But then she pulled out her weapon and shot the locker open. She looked inside then started shooting all the other lockers!" he quickly finished. Weiss looked back to the locker room, and then with an intake of breath she marched towards it, bracing herself for whatever was waiting for her.
Inside she saw who she was looking for. Ruby was stood in front of a locker that didn't belong to her. The door was open and riddled with bullet holes. She was flinging everything out of it while muttering very quickly. When Ruby stepped away from the locker, Weiss' heart cracked at the sight of her girlfriend. Ruby looked horrible. Her eyes were full of fear and panic and her skin was paler than usual. She looked even more manic than when she left her. The arm that Ruby scratched when she was nervous before at the start of the day was now red with cuts. Her other arm however was badly cut open with what looked like pieces of wooden splinters inside the wound. Neither of the wounds on her arms seemed to bother Ruby at all, she was moving around chaotically muttering very quickly to herself.
"Oh my god... Ruby... what happened to you!" Weiss ran over to hug her but jumped back with a yelp as Ruby suddenly pulled out Crescent Rose and fired wildly at another locker, filling it with bullets. Weiss quickly ran and tackled the red head to the ground. Making sure Crescent Rose was out of Ruby's reach Weiss wrapped her arms around her. Ruby then started lashing out, fighting to be free while screaming out.
"NO! I NEED TO FIND MY MUM'S CLOAK! NEED TO FIND MUM! NEED TO FIND HER CLOAK! NEED TO FIND MY MUM!" Ruby repeatedly screamed, trying to free herself from Weiss.
"Ruby! Please! You're scaring me! Please calm down! Please!" Weiss pleas fell on deaf ears as Ruby continued to act out. Soon Weiss began to hear a familiar voice calling out from the hallways.
"RUBY! WHERE ARE YOU SIS?! I'M COMING!" It was Yang. She had returned! Thank god! She must be able to help calm down Ruby.
"YANG! IN THE LOCKER ROOM! PLEASE HELP ME!" Weiss screamed out, tears now breaking through the dams behind her eyes. Seeing Ruby like this was too much for her. Soon the blonde barrelled around the corner with Blake to see what was going on, Ember Celica at the ready.
"Yang... please help me calm her!" Weiss pleaded. Yang was already skidding across the floor towards them. She quickly pulled Ruby towards her in a hug, Ruby still fought to get out of her grip. Yang then started humming a tune into her ear. This tune sounded familiar to Weiss, as if maybe she had sung it before during one of her recitals before she took up hunting. The humming seemed to be working as Ruby seemed to calm down. When Yang finished Ruby looked between her and Weiss.
"Y...Yang?... W...Weiss?" Ruby whimpered. Before either could respond Ruby pressed her face against Yang's shoulder and cried. Her cries echoed in the locker room as she screamed into Yang, tears pouring profusely down her cheeks.
"It's gone! It's gone!" she screamed as Yang rubbed her back and gently rocked her. Weiss felt powerless as she watched her girlfriend broken emotionally, causing more tears to fall from Weiss eyes.
"What's gone?" Yang asked softly. Ruby hiccupped and cried some more into her shoulder, then finally accepted the harsh reality.
"My mum's cloak... it's gone!"
A/N: Well... I gave in to my own demands that I didn't want to do. I have now started a second story when I've not finished my first. This will be my downfall on fanfic updates I can see it happening DX
This was a story idea that came to me while I was on holiday this past week. I have the story complete in my mind from start to finish and it won't be long like I plan for White Rose in Red Snow. And no I've not given up on The White Rose in Red Snow either! I will finish both these stories!
NOW FOR IMPORTANT NEWS! I am in the process of planning a ridiculously huge RWBY AU story that I'll also been writing.
...*looks at what I previously typed*
Okay I know I'm ruining myself even more here now with a third story, however I have never felt excited about writing a story like this ever since my first ever fanfic. I want to make sure it's perfect so there will probably be long gaps between updates for that. So far the title for it is "The RWBY Chronicles of Hordian" It's a dark fantasy AU in a brand new world, no different interpretations of the land of Vale, Vacuo, Mantle, Atlas ect ect. BRAND NEW CRUEL WORLD! Chances are I won't publish the first prologue until after RWBY Volume 2 finishes.
Heck I was so excited for this story that I even created my first ever Tumblr! And I have no idea how to use Tumblr! So far I put up a post of some bits of lore from the world of Hordian, where the story takes place in. Go and have a look, I'll put the link in my profile page.
So anyway, that's all from me now, expect updates from Her Cloak, The White Rose in Red Snow, and the first prologue to The RWBY Chronicles of Hordian.
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