Alright guys its been a long time since I last wrote a fan fiction. Easily over 7 years so it may be a bit rough but I digress. This will be a ladybug fiction but no lemons unless the story develops to it. This will be rated M for violence, language, swearing.
It had been a mostly calm summer since signal had let out for the summer break to let students visit family before the next semester started. But it had been almost 3 months of doing small hunts around Patch and Vale with Taiyang and Yang. Ruby needed to pick up some very fine Burn dust to put in the rounds she put together for Crescent Rose. Normal .50-caliber bullets would work in her sweetheart easily but by adding minute amounts in each of the shells powder charges not only did it increase power it increased recoil, range, and penetration. All that meant was a quick trip to From Dust Till Dawn to pick up a canister of their dust before school started in a few days and with her headphones on it made the walk quicker. Walking into the store she made a stop by the magazine stand to look over the new rifle parts shown in the Huntsmen Post. She would admit she got completely lost in the specifications of a 9x42 mm Counter Sniper Scope so she hardly noticed what was going on until a man in a black suit turned her around her hood falling down as he points at his ear.
"Yes?" Did old man Fleet hire a new bodyguard to protect the shop? It was possible after all it was getting close to closing probably.
"I said, put your hands in the air, now!" To be honest that wasn't what Ruby had been expecting him to say to her at all.
" Are you... robbing me?" He said clearly getting more and more aggravated with her. That was the last instance of calm for the night. The fight with the henchmen and their leader was quick and the chase to the roof didn't end as she had hoped. The man had fled into a bullhead just as Glynda Goodwitch arrived to stop him but she wasn't able to do much when a dust mage took his place fending them off. With a large explosion, they distracted the two on the roof and made their escape. It was almost a blur seeing Professor Ozpin, his comment on her eyes, her fighting style and then the invitation to go to Beacon a full two years was something she couldn't turn down. In fact, its how she got to where she was now stood on Beacon cliff having just disembarked from her air ship. She shuffled behind Yang trying to settle her nerves. She wanted no she needed people to like her for who she was, not see her as a kid that bumbled her way into Beacon and needed to be babied.
"Well, at least I have you hear Yang." She looked up at her sister with new hope growing in her silver eyes.
"Actually, my friends are here. Gotta go catch up. 'Kay, see ya, bye!" In what seemed a flash Yang had run off so fast it sent her reeling backwards right into someone's luggage. At first, she couldn't really hear what the person was saying as her head was spinning from the fall but she was pretty sure it was a girl. Standing up focusing she could tell she was being yelled at.
"Are you even listening to me? Is any of this sinking in? What do you have to say for yourself?!" Wait that girl was shaking a loosely lidded jar of burn dust filling the air and Ruby's nose with searing partials making her sneeze and subsequently igniting the dust causing an explosion.
"Unbelievable! This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!" Finally getting a good look at the girl she saw piercing blue eyes boring through her own.
"I really, really sorry!" She tried to brush the soot of the white bolero only for the girl to swat her hand way seeming only to get angrier.
"Ugh, you complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon? How old are you? 12!" The girl in front of her was getting louder and louder to the point people were staring at them. "This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice, you know! We're here to fight monsters, so... watch where you're going!" Off in the distance, a dark haired girl had been making her towards the school having heard most of the exchange between the two now in front of her.
"Hey, I said I was sorry
Princess!" Ruby was steadily starting to get angry with the girl in front of her trying not to start yelling back as her right eye flickered red briefly.
"It's heiress, actually. Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world." Ruby turned seeing a girl dressed mostly in black and beautiful amber eyes she was immediately lost in. Her eyes played with light the way honey teases an unsuspecting sunbeam. When the sunbeam first notices the honey it looks like tea… warm, orangy brown and is intrigued with the warmth's intimations and so is trapped. Fascinated it slants into the honey from an angle higher or an angle lower and is enthralled, finding itself a splinter of amber fire caught in a vicious lantern that shines with such golden sweetness that to part from that beauty is as good as dead. But that's when Ruby noticed something buried deep in those eyes. A kind of sadness.
"The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners." With that comment, Weiss was visibly taken a back almost as if the snowy girl was struck across the face but that didn't last long before she started to storm off.
"Wha- How dare you- The nerve of... Ugh!" The taller girl watched the snowy girl storm off with Ruby apologized again saying she'll make it up to her as the former turned and started walking away again. Ruby how ever followed after the taller girl catching up to her with a soft smile spreading across her face as she walked backward in front of the raven haired girl.
"Hey, my name is Ruby. Ruby Rose!" Ruby stopped and held out her hand finally getting to look over the girls' features before quickly getting caught in the cold pools of honey.
"Blake Belladonna." The ravenet reached out shaking Ruby's hand briefly before reclaiming her own. "So Ruby I take it you came to see off friends or family?" It was obvious Blake wasn't good at making small talk but for the first time, she looked into Ruby's eyes. They were like two pools of liquid silver waiting to be molded into what ever was needed. They glistened brightly, warm and metallic, rivaling the most excellently polished suit of armor. The sclerae that surrounded them were pristine, untouched by red. They were pure. They were warm. They were beautiful. But that itself made them impure. If Blake had to guess this girl was yet ignorant to real pain, the horrors, and the suffering that came with truly living in this world. As nice as Ruby was Blake didn't want to stay around her too long through out their Beacon career. She knew after a few missions that blessed innocence would suffer and she wouldn't want to see something like that die.
"While my sister is a student here I actually received advanced placement from Professor Ozpin after he saw my skills in combat." Ruby fidgeted softly as she talked about herself. She didn't want to sound like she was bragging or anything she wasn't vain after all. She motioned to the direction of the event hall where all the first years had to spend the night before orientation tomorrow. They're conversation continued on most about what ever came to mind even if that meant Ruby turned half of it in to weapon shop. That is until she caught the glint of something in the corner of her eye handing from Blake's neck just a few meters from the door. She stepped in front of Blake staring at what she realized were two rings and based on the pattern on the steel there was only one metal she new to make naturally.
"Hey Blake if you don't mind me asking whats with those damascus ring your wearing around your neck?" The ravenette's already pale skin seemed to drain of colour as she reached up clutching both of them as something dark came over the former's face. Ruby was almost certain she messed up but before she could apologize for it the Blake in front of her faded from sight leaving Ruby alone. It was like she was watching a cartoon because she did see the tail end of Blake's hair passing through the door. Did her new friend move so fast she left behind an image? No, she couldn't have not only would that mean being faster the Ruby, there was no gust of air, sonic boom, and wouldn't be impossible to steer at that speed.
Ruby sighed heavily though she wasn't sure what she did but she did know she had some how offended her new friend. If she had to guess those rings probably to someone or some people that were very important to Blake. Even though she was lost in though she made her way into the event hall where she had found Yang and was telling her about tripping over a girls luggage since the opening ceremony had yet to start. "Well when you ditch me and I explode what to you expect." Ruby reached up running her fingers through her dark crimson hair brushing it back before falling over her brow again.
"Really sis but you never blow your top. What made you so mad Rubes?" Yang couldn't really believe that Ruby had lost control of the Sinistre already she hadn't had an accident in a year.
"Yang! Not that! I told you not to talk about that here!" The small girl hissed through her teeth at her sister her right eye seeming to flicker briefly as she got up set. Before they could continue they heard an Atlassian voice yell out.
"YOU!" Ruby jumped on Yang clinging to her for dear life trying to keep herself safe from the coming on slot.
"Oh Oum its happening again!" Then pale girl marched up to the two of the glowering already. "Your lucky we weren't blown off the cliff!" Yang stared at the girl in disbelief confused as to if she had just heard that correctly.
"Oh my Oum you really exploded... Well Ice Queen looks like my babysis really 'Blew' you away." Everyone within earshot of the blonde groaned as if she had actually struck them in the stomach. Weiss rolled her eyes choosing to stalk off away from the blonde bomb shell.
"Yang I will tell everyone the fighting styles that hard counters you. Your primarily a boxer and even though people thing you're a slugger, I know you're a Swarmer whi..." Ruby was silenced by Yang's hand clamped over her mouth making the crimsonette giggle even as her feet dangled.
The night went by so quickly Ruby saw the raven haired girl again but all she got the chance to do was introduce Yang before seeing the sleeping yukata turned her beet red. 'How can she wear that with so many people around?' Ruby was having a hard time getting the girl out of her mind even as they stood on the cliff over the emerald forest. Her mind was processing the speech Ozpin was giving or even Jaune's confusion she did hear her pad making a gashing sound.
"Glynda." Ozpin took a long drink of his coffee mug as several of his students were flung into the forest. "You did have the pad Ms. Rose is on fixed after last years' weapon malfunction?" Glynda looked up from her scroll blinking bemused before Ruby's pad triggered only the right side flinging her screaming sideways into another student. "Never mind just please have repairs done before next year." Both of the students 'Omphed' starting to fall into the trees as Ruby gripped the person and pulled out Crescent Rose firing downwards. The recoil jolted them backwards and up rapidly slowing their descent until Ruby fell on the ground her aura absorbing most of the blow. The other person landed on Ruby knocking the wind out of the girl easily since her aura wasn't raised anymore.
"Ugh what in the name of Oum hit me..." Blake looked down seeing the smaller girl under her still reeling from their hard landing. Ruby was gasping for air when the weight on her chest eased itself as amber eyes met silver binding the crimson girl to the secret faunus for the next four years. Ruby started looking over her new partner to make sure she wasn't injured when her eyes looked on Blake's head. Ruby could have sworn Blake wore a bow not fa... those are real. 'Oum! Shes a faunus! Wait why was she was hiding it? Did I messed up already?!' Blake stared at her partner confused as to why she wasn't talking or moving. She then noticed something off to the side laying on Ruby's cape the making her pale as she finally felt the breeze on her ears. Acting quickly Blake took Gambol Shroud pushing the sheath behind the girls head to knock her out when a gunshot rang out and a dart fired past her face. Looking around she saw nothing and sighed it had to of been a warning from a proctor to stop.
"Blake what the dust is wrong with you!" Blake flinched back slightly not expecting the crimsonette's sudden outburst as she sat upright.
"Ruby you will forget you ever saw them." Reaching over the feline grabbed her bow standing up as she made quick works fitting it around her ears to once again hide them. Ruby stood up grabbing the older girls wrist holding on with a surprisingly firm grip holding them both in place.
"Blake I'm not some dumb kid! If your hiding what you are you have to have a reason. But that doesn't mean you get to be angry with me for something out both of our control." Blake yanks her hand free her eyes wide before she turned bolting deeper into the tree. She had to go. Ruby couldn't found out any more about her, she couldn't risk her telling anyone else. She wasn't focused tough she didn't hear the movement in front until she ran into the Ursa the padded through the bushes. She barely had time to stop before a large clawed paw swung for her chest.
So I'm not used to the edit document section on Fanfiction yet so Im sorry about that.
Ruby: Wait why are we so panicky?
Blake: You mean more then normal?
Ruby: Blake!
You guys will find out soon i promise.
