Hey guys
How's it going?
So here is the first official chapter of Ruby Rose, Remnant Knight
I hope you guys liked the prologue
I did a lot of detail in explaining the appearance of the four kingdom founders
They come into play in a bit
Now, onto the explanation of the story
So about RoseArc
With speculation and conversation with another reader, I've created a RubyxOC pairing
Of course
Ruby betrayed
New twist
Yang is against her
(Gonna make this heartwrenching and stuff)
Few of her friends are against her
(Jaune is eh while Nora and Ren are right about to do it with Pyrrha and Blake will not betray her)
There will be OCs
Plenty of OCs
So following that
I want to give you all a big thanks for all the support and love I've gotten
Along with that the flames that helped make my story better and better
I love you all and wish you the best
Now, onto the tale of woe!
Ruby's betrayal!
"Step forward!" the councilor boomed in the court room and I squirmed, shaking in terror as I moved one foot in front of the other.
I was wearing what I always did, red cloak, blouse, skirt, boots, rose symbol, and my red cloak, I said my cloak already, right? The only difference from what I usually wore was the handcuffs on my wrists. I looked at them, seeing a blurred reflection of my face in the cold metal as I walked.
Stepping into the spotlight, I stood in a large chamber, two peanut galleries on either side of the rectangular room. Well, one side was made up of students of Beacon from all the different years and the other side was the councilors of Vale, Atlas, Vacuo, and Mistral. In front of me was a podium and farther up were Vale's two high councilors and three pairs of the other kingdom's councilors, then there was... Ozpin, er- Professor Ozpin.
"You are Ruby Rose, yes?" the other high councilor questioned and I nodded.
Vale's councilors were two people, a man and a female rabbit Faunus. Atlas was the same except they had a man and a woman instead of a man and a Faunus. Mistral was ruled the same way, but Vacuo had two Faunus' as their councilors.
"Tell us, what is your side of the story?" he questioned as a few other high councilors glared at me.
"Well, sir..." I trailed off, my voice shaking as I quivered.
I could hear the Beacon students jeering silently and whispering hate words while the rest of the kingdom's councilors looked at me with disdain and disappointment. Lower in the back of the room was the rest of Beacon Academy, either guys or girls who could get into the room or people watching on cameras or the teachers.
"It was just like any other mission, but... I spared some Faunus."
"White Fang, correct?" the Vale Faunus councilor spoke and I nodded causing the eight high councilors to murmur among themselves. "And why did you spare them?"
I snapped back into attention at her question and looked on with whatever confidence I was still holding onto. Each councilor stood on tall podiums, probably sitting on really tall chairs so they looked better than everyone else.
"They surrendered, they told me they were forced to fight for the White Fang," I answered, but a couple of anti-Faunus people started jeering, both from the either peanut gallery.
"Traitor! She's a traitor!"
"Idiot!"
"Liar!"
There were also bad words in those comments, the bad words Yang stopped people from uttering around me. She couldn't stop it this time, I knew she wouldn't do it even if she could. I saw the look in her eyes when I passed by her while on my way here.
"Silence! There shall be silence in this council meeting!" an Atlesian councilor shouted and everyone shut their mouths.
"Now, tell us, why not kill them?"
"Why should I have? They were innocent, they didn't need to be killed-"
"Yet you allowed them to flee and with that, the information you were to seek was lost!" a Mistral councilor shouted and the peanut galleries went up in a roar again.
The Atlesian councilors attempted to quell the outbursts, but while they did I listened in on what several of the high council members were murmuring about.
"End this... punish... people demand... the bungler has no chance... cannot become..."
They stopped as more quietness settled and I knew what was coming.
"You were one of our most carefully watched students, Ms. Rose," the rabbit Faunus councilor of Vale spoke up, "but your inability to do what is needed and the rumors surrounding your actions at Beacon-"
"Those are lies!" I shouted, trying to make them change their minds desperately.
I don't know how it started, but it did start a while ago, just a bit after the Vale Breach. I thought it would all be alright, that the school year would go back on schedule, but then people started avoiding me except those sleazy guys. Yang was always with me after that, protecting me, but eventually she started avoiding me. Weiss accused me of being a... just, something awful, but Blake wouldn't believe the lies I figured out were the reason for all of what was happening to me. Jaune and Nora and Ren and Pyrrha, they were all with me, but I could see their faith in me flickering from time to time.
"Be silent, child!" a Vacuo councilor stated, a wolf Faunus from what I could tell, male too. "Your actions caused us to lose more ground to these terrorists that plague both your people and ours, then these rumors! They scandal the very name of Vale's most prestigious academy, an academy all our kingdoms allow students to transfer to for foreign exchanges! This is failure!"
The peanut galleries didn't burst out this time and I almost let out a sigh, almost. Suddenly, a couple seconds after he stopped speaking I saw another councilor stand up.
"Nay! It is heresy!"
The entire room erupted in jeers and trash talking, trying to down me even more. I felt tears well up, but I forced them not to fall while my cheeks turned as red as my cloak. I trembled and squirmed, just standing there in the middle of the room in front of everyone.
"I will stop them, I pro-"
"No, you will not promise," the Valean councilor that started the meeting off with stated, his eyes weary. "Already, your own team abandons you and does the rest of your schoolmates, then your teachers, and now you are here."
He motioned at the two Atlesian guards at either side of me and they grabbed my arms.
"Our verdict is given," all the councilors spoke up in a mighty mix of voices, "Ruby Rose shall be allowed to continue her career as a huntress-in-training, but she shall do so in shame."
The crowd continued on jeering at me as I was dragged off, watching the high council made up of the pairs of high councilors from each kingdom speak. Ozpin gave me a sad look, one that gave me sympathy as he looked down.
"You will be able to gain the title of huntress," an Atlesian councilor said as I neared the chamber's doors, "but when your brothers and sisters-in-arms attain greatness, the weight of your sins shall stay your feet, and you will be left behind."
"You stupid imbecile!" Weiss screamed at me as I sat on my bed, arms crossed as more tears slipped down my cheeks.
It was a week after the trial and everyone just hated me, well, almost everyone. The teachers still liked me, most of them at least. Most of the students hated me though, but there were a couple who liked me. Weiss was against me, she didn't even call me dolt anymore.
"Weiss-"
Blake was cut off by Yang who put her hand in front of the cat Faunus.
"No, Blake, Ruby deserves this."
"How can you say that? She's your sister!"
"No, she's not, not anymore," my ex-blonde sis stated and I felt my heart break even more. "She lied to us."
"I didn't!" I screamed at her, but the brawler threatened to slap me, pulling back her hand.
"Yang! Ruby is not... she isn't... Ruby does not do favors for people," Blake slowly spoke, growling out the last words.
"How am I suppose to know if that's a rumor or the truth! She goes missing every other night!"
"Because I go train!" I argued, but she sent a glare my way.
"Oh yeah? Then how come no one sees you train?"
"Because I'm in the Emerald Forest practicing on Grimm!"
"Oh, let me guess, you clean your precious sweetheart too so you have no evidence!"
That stung because it was true, I really did clean it. Maintenance, but I guess it got me out of situation in battle and into one that was more emotional.
"That's right, stay silent," Yang growled as she went to her bed.
"You... argh!" Weiss growled loudly and fell onto her bed, arms crossed in anger. "I can't believe you!"
"I can't believe you!" I screamed back, jumping down onto the floor. "I can't believe my own sister doesn't believe me!"
Yang got up, but she didn't move towards me. She just stood there, looking at the floor, but when she looked up, her hair was glowing and her eyes were blood red.
"Your mom would be so disappointed," she stated, calming down to a silent rage.
That snapped me, it broke the final... whatever of my repressed feelings. I shot forward, using my semblance to fly towards her. My hand slapped her and she stumbled back while I stood there, taking one step back in shock at what I had done. Her eyes turned instantly blood red and her hair burst into flames. She raised her fist, ready to strike back, harder.
It was in Yang's nature to be better. If you hit her, she'll hit harder. That's why I jumped out of the way as a blast from Ember Celica blew open the wall behind us. Thankfully, I was by the window so she didn't blow up the hall, unfortunately I was also standing on the edge of falling to my probable death.
"Yang!" both my teammates screamed, Blake being more concerned for me while Weiss was concerned about getting in trouble.
"You little!," Yang shouted as she tried to teach me a lesson, tried being a key word in that.
I dodged and jumped down, using my aura to shield me as I hit the ground. I tried to flee, but a couple more blasts blew up the ground in front of me. Yang dropped down and landed behind me as I unfolded Crescent Rose.
"Come on!" I shouted, wanting to just beat her up so she could see I wasn't weak and then I'd tell her to believe me.
We fought and for a while I was winning through all of it. The problem with Yang was she was a hot head, not that I wasn't either, but right now I was a bit more level headed. I dodged and sliced, cutting open her clothes and drawing some red lines on her skin. Then, out of nowhere, a line of ice shot across the ground and grabbed my foot. I looked over to see Weiss with Myrtenaster in the ground, using her dust to freeze me in place.
She was trying to help Yang teach me a lesson! I tried slicing at the ice, but I was to afraid that I'd cut off my leg. Suddenly, Yang's fist collided with me and I was sent flying. I hit the ground with Crescent Rose, hearing an audible breaking noise from my sweetheart. Before she could attack again, however, I ran off with Crescent Rose, ready to just leave and be done with it all.
My feet made the stone steps tap as I walked the long path down into the Grimm infested forest. I stayed by the ruins where I fought the Nevermore with my team before we were a team. The place was only visited by Beowolves since there was probably a den nearby. The occasional Ursa would come here, but I could take care of them. This was where I trained, where I had been going to sharpen my skills, not be a... prostitute.
Tonight was more about relieving emotions instead of training because of what happened earlier. They thought I let people do things to me, willingly! They thought I was a traitor! They thought I was weak! I was cutting down trees and cutting through some stone stuff.
Sometime into my rage relieving, I heard Beowolves and then next thing I knew, a bone claw had cut through my blouse. My stomach had some cuts on it, bleeding a bit, but I had sense to jump back so the Beowolf hadn't gutted me. I cut off limbs and heads, making them spurt their dark red blood and making them into pieces of meat. It was a long time later that they were all dead, pretty big pack, must've been drawn by my hate and anger.
I guess I felt a lot of stress since what I did next was cut a row of fifteen or so trees down. Crescent Rose's blade slicing through the wood easily and letting me end up behind them all. The tree trunks groaned as they fell, making a whole line appear in the foliage, but I didn't care, I knew it wouldn't matter.
How dare they think those things, how dare that stupid Cardin spread rumors about me, how dare they! Great, now I'm thinking like Weiss... Weiss! I hate her with a passion now, that traitor! My own partner... my own sister. I can't believe Yang, what gives her the right to talk about my mother, what gave her the right to decide I was a disgrace?
Suddenly, I heard a loud cawing and turned in time to see a Nevermore swoop down to grab me with its talons. I jumped out of the way, dodging the Creature Of Grimm. It picked up dirt and let it go before flying off to circle around and come at me again. I tried changing my sweetheart, but I guess I found out what had broken when Yang hit me. Some gears must've gotten loose or something snapped inside, but anyways, my weapon didn't change like she was suppose to. Instead, Crescent Rose made this loud, short screech as the blade tried retracting into the body. I thought quickly and decided on firing my sweetheart in its current scythe form. I shot a couple of bullets, aiming for the head with the upgrades I'd given her during my team at Beacon.
However, it was as tough as the other one I fought during initiation, shrugging off the impact of each hit. The bullets bounced off it and it flapped its wings, shooting razor tipped feathers at me. I tried dodging, but I guess history really does repeat itself. A feather impaled my cloak and kept me pinned. I tried to get free, but I didn't want to ruin the cloak. I tried cutting the feather's stem or whatever and it did work, but the razor sharp edged was still pinning me.
It was circling around and just as I pulled my precious cloak off the remainder of the feather, it fired some more. I was ready to accept my fate, ready to die. I thought about how Yang and Weiss would feel, finding my body out here, how Blake and JNPR would feel, how dad and all my other friends would feel. I was thinking about... wait, how am I still thinking?
I opened the eyes I had closed to find a man standing over me, holding up a large, rectangular shield. It was a scutum, used a lot in the eastern kingdoms of Mistral, around the place where Pyrrha came from. I noticed it was glowing and realized it was an energy shield emitted by a projector on his left arm, making the whole thing appear, probably powered by some sort of dust or electrical power. He moved it away and pulled up his right arm where he had a shotgun in hand.
As the Nevermore swooped down, he got ready to fire. Just as the talons were at us, right when I could almost see my reflection in it from the moonlight gleaming off its probably recently washed talons, the newcomer fired. He hit it dead center in the chest. The bullets were probably incendiary, with fire dust in the metal because its black feathers burst into flames and the impact of the shot pushed it back enough for it not to grab us.
It tried flying off, but the fire dust bullets burned through its chest quickly, probably enhanced. It died and fell down, dying on a tree which some of its branches impaled it on. The man stood up, deactivating his scutum shield and putting his shotgun in a holster on his back. He turned around to look at me, he revealing his appearance.
He was average sized, well built will tan skin and an armored body covered from head to toe in golden gear. He gripped the sides of his helmet and pulled it off, showing a head full of black hair matched with a growing bear made of stubble. His eyes were colored light green and his face had three scars running across it, matching the wound a Beowolf would make.
"Now, why're you done here, young lady?" he asked and I squirmed in embarrassment.
"I, uh... I...," I stammered and he leaned in a bit by at least an inch. When I tried giving an explanation, all that came to mind was my betrayal. "Shouldn't you know?"
I had snapped at him, surprisingly catching him off guard, but his hard expression turned back to stone hard again.
"Now, ms... whatever, I would appreciate you telling the truth-"
"And what if you don't believe me like everyone else!" I screamed in his face, but quickly put up a guilty look after that with a fearful one.
He had stumbled back from the force of my voice, a shocked expression on his face as he stared at me. I felt more guilt start seeping into my heart as he stepped towards me until he was dwarfing me with his manly size.
"I honestly have no clue to what you speak of," was all he said and I raised an eyebrow.
"What?"
"Well, to be fair, I've been out here for, uh... I'd guess a couple of days, maybe a week or two, hard to tell without a calendar, or a charger for my scroll," he spoke again, scratching his head in thought. "And before that I was just out on a mission. Bloody Goodwitch put me on cleaning duty the moment I came back!"
He was yelling at he sky now, with a funny accent in his voice. He sounded like those snobby rich people from the old age, with all the big dresses and powdered wigs. Except, well, he sounded more modern and laid back when he spoke.
"Now, where was I? Oh! Yes, why're you out here?" he asked me again and I calmed myself down.
"I was just, well... training," I half lied and he raised an eyebrow, but nodded his head slowly in acceptance of my answer.
"Oh? Well, students are not allowed down here in the Emerald Forest unless you are recruit," he stated, arms crossed as he looked down at me.
"Really?" I nervously chuckled, face completely red now in embarrassment.
"Well, what year are you?"
"One."
"Oh, a new student, eh? What's your name?"
I was hesitating in giving him that answer. I didn't know if he actually did know about all those rumors or not, but I did know he wouldn't let me go if I didn't.
"R-ruby Rose, sir," I answered and his eyes went wide as he stumbled back, again.
"By the Overseer! You're the girl who killed the nevermore!" he shouted in joy and I tilted my head in confusion.
Instead of calling me a traitor or some cheating prostitute, he knew me as the girl who killed a flying Grimm.
"Uh, yeah..." I said, my voice trailing off into silence as I blushed a bit.
"Huh, Prof. Goodwitch gave me hell after she found out that Nevermore was there, I mean, the Deathstalker was suppose to be alive, but the Nevermore, hm... must've flown in from somewhere else," he muttered and I tilted my head further, almost falling over in confusion, literally.
"So... who are you?" I asked and he jumped at my voice.
"Oh! That's right, I haven't introduced myself!" he shouted and I nodded as he recomposed himself.
Putting an arm against his stomach, he bent his upper body forward in a slight and respectful bow.
"The name's Aksel Carmine, I'm pretty much the Emerald Forest's janitor," he explained and activated his shield again, the energy shield glowing red and crackling with small electrical tendrils jumping across its surface every now and then. "I keep the Grimm from getting out of check, keep 'em in here and not out there."
"Oh," I spoke in realization and he smirked before deactivating his shield.
"Alright, now we should get you back to the dorms," he stated and I jumped up in shock and fear.
"No no no no!" I shouted at him and he tilted his head in confusion.
"What?"
"I don't want to go back, I... please don't take me back there."
"Why? You're a student here, right?"
"I am, but... everyone hates me now..."
"Come on, I'm sure its just one bul-"
"I got put on trial, called a traitor, and my own sister hates me along with most of my team and the school," I snapped and he stared at me with wide eyes, mouth a shrunken to be this small thing that showed he was processing all of that.
He opened his mouth to say something, but closed it again before looking down. He looked up at me one more time before looking down and rising up to his full height.
"Well, um... I guess I should... what were you put on trial for?"
"My team, Team RWBY," I started to explain hesitantly, "we were sent to shut down a White Fang base after the whole Vale Breach event. I spared some of the Faunus and they blamed me for the information we needed to get being stolen."
"That's it? You're a traitor for being a hero?"
"Hero? I let the information get stolen," I murmured, but he bent down getting on one knee to be at my level.
"Hey, it isn't our job to fight their battles," he stated and looked up at the sky. "Listen, I have a teacher, a really wise teacher who teaches a lot of people. He always tells us this, soldiers follow orders."
I raised an eyebrow at that, I was a huntress- er, ex-huntress-in-training. How am I compared to a soldier other than being a fighter.
"But heroes save lives."
I got that part, I wasn't just trying to be a huntress, I was trying to be a hero.
"You spared those Faunus and that's something a hero does," he stated and got up, looking at the sky again.
"Um, why are you looking at the sky a lot?" I asked and he looked down at me with confusion.
"Oh, um, well... Okay, I guess since you're not going to Beacon anymore, I can take you with me."
"Take me with you?"
"Yeah, that teacher I was talking about, I'm going to meet him now."
I had a surprised face on after that as I followed him. He started explaining how Ms. Goodwitch had assigned him to clean up the Emerald Forest after he had come back from a mission to fight off some bandits in the outskirts of a village. He followed the Nevermore to me which had come to me after feeling my hatred and anger. Right now, he was explaining how he was finally done and he could go back to his home. Apparently, he could have a break after he was done with his job and since the Nevermore was the last big Grimm he had to hunt, he was practically done. He said he had left a note on Ozpin's scroll and could leave now so that's why we were going.
I think it was an hour or two later after midnight that we were on the ruins I had been at for my initiation.
"So this is where you fought the Nevermore?" Aksel asked and I nodded as he looked the ruins over. "Impressive."
The ruins were more ruined now after the battle both mine and Jaune's teams had, but they were actually still pretty much standing.
"So what are we waiting for?" I asked as we sat down on the tallest ruin.
"Our ride," he murmured as the light of dawn peaked over the mountains on the far side of the Emerald Forest. "Would you look at that."
I obliged and smiled, seeing the beautiful sight. I was a pretty lazy person and I usually slept in when I could, but this time, I was actually up early... holy crap I haven't slept all day. I started to feel drowsiness from thinking about it and after a while, Aksel nudged me with his elbow.
"Hey, rides here," he spoke and I snapped my slowly closing eyes open to see a Bullhead flying in.
My ears opened up and I heard the loud roar of the engines as it descended, landing on the nearby cliff where Jaune and his team had fought the Deathstalker. I followed Aksel towards it, hesitantly trailing behind as I wondered who could be on it.
I looked back, hoping to see Beacon one last time before I got on the ship, but the cliff hid it. Not even the clock tower was showing and I took that as a sign. I guess I really wasn't meant to go to Beacon.
The side doors opened up to show a tall man, lean wearing robes with armor. A golden sort of crown going around his head, except it looked like two vines made of gold crisscrossing along the crown of his head, a sort of crown of vines.
"Celadon!" Aksel shouted in joy and rushed to meet what I assumed was his friend, but he slowed to a stop when he realized this Celadon guy held a cold look. "Celadon?"
"Hello Aksel," he spoke, his voice flat and cold, but having a hint of... sadness?
I looked closer at the man as I got closer, his armor was intricate, smooth with no corners. It was curved and sharp, but not sharp like jagged, sharp like a curved leaf. It was made out of some kind of golden metal, markings carved into it while the clothes underneath his armor was robes colored black or dark green. Then, I noticed the antlers coming out of his head, small, but noticeable.
He was a Faunus, a deer faunus.
"Celadon? What's wrong?" my new friend asked and he turned away.
"We came back from a mission," he answered as both Aksel and I boarded the bullhead. "Three of us went, only two are here, alive."
Aksel's eyes were wide, a hand over his mouth as he stumbled back into a metal wall. I felt sadness, a feeling some emotion and pity for them since they lost a probable friend.
"Who?"
"Adrianne," he stated and Aksel lowered his head, "she fought off the Creatures of Grimm long enough for us to regain our strength... unfortunately, we regained it to slowly."
"The sorceress deserves her rest," he said and looked at the sky for some reason.
I raised in eyebrow in confusion, but decided to let him have a bit of silence. Unfortunately, the moment I went to find a place to sit at I ran into the Celadon guy.
"Aksel, who is this?" he questioned, his mourning mood turning into an angry one.
"Oh, this is Ruby," he explained and gripped my shoulders, keeping me in place as he squatted behind me, "Ruby Rose."
"Rose?" Celadon gasped in shock and looked at the man behind me.
"Yes, Rose," Aksel breathed and suddenly felt uneasy as the two men stared in awe.
"Uh, is there something special about my last name?" I asked and Celadon turned around, heading to the cockpit, probably to talk to the pilot.
"Kiddo, you should probably get some rest," Aksel stated, and lightly hit my shoulder with the back of his hand in a playful manner, "I don't think you've slept all night."
He was right about that and so I laid down, resting my back against the metal wall. My eyes slowly closed and the last look I got of the bullhead was of Celadon and Aksel talking, giving me glances while murmuring something.
"He needs to see her."
Done
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