Well here is the next chapter in this story. Thank you all for all the support that the story received from just one chapter. It makes me feel like this story will have a new meaning to me. Hope you all enjoy. As always, the first part will be my made up lore for the story that you should not read if you have not watched the newest episode.
The Dragon grimm, it had many names but those were lost to time itself. A creature so dark that it could create other grimm just from a single drop of its darkness. Once there had been many that roamed the land and stroke fear in the heart of those that called them its enemy. However, they slowly killed each other off in a battle for territory. The last or most recently found Dragon was just a little hatchling when it was found at the ruins of Mountain Glenn by a team of five huntresses from each kingdom and the eternal one. The beast was still too strong for them to kill with the technology they had at the time. They managed to seal the beast into the mountain and put it to sleep at the cost of four of them, the maidens of the seasons. Summer Rose, Fall Tulip, Winter Daisy, and Spring Buttercup. The eternal one disappeared and was not seen again and as presumed to be killed with the maidens, but her body was never found. Of course, at the time the eternal one was known as only Lindsey and no one know of her past. But now, she has returned and soon the beast will return with her, as it follows her path of power...
Ruby and Juane stepped of the airship and started to walk to the auditorium when a group of rude people with the blonde girl from earlier leading them and pushed past them and caused Juane to get spun around and started to get sick again when he tripped over a girl's luggage and then puking on it due to his motion sickness taking full effect. "You Imbecile! Do you know what you just did and whose property you just destroyed?" A girl in white screamed at them as she stomped over to the duo. Ruby looked her over and immediately recognized her. She sent out a silent curse in her head as Weiss Schnee approached them.
"I am so sor-", was all that Juane got to try to explain his sorrow before he was cut off.
"You just destroyed half of my stuff and you," Weiss screamed at Juane and then turned to her. "You could have stopped him, but you didn't even try. Infact, why are you two here, this is a combat school, not some daycare for little kids that don't know how to handle their stomachs." Weiss anger getting more clear with each word.
"Again I am really so-" Juane tried to get out before being cut of by Ruby this time.
"Well if this a combat school princess, then why are you here. You don't look like you could last long in a fight and you are just a whiny little girl who has got what she has wanted her whole life." Ruby shot back to Weiss who looked startled and almost look like she was foaming at the mouth.
"HOW DARE YOU! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!?" Weiss screamed at her while reaching for her sword. She was stopped when one of her "servants" stopped her as the incident was starting to draw a crowd and didn't want her kicked out on the first day. She let out a growl and gave a look of rage to the two, "Just be glad that I don't want to get kicked out of this school yet and that I have a name to uphold, otherwise you wouldn't be so lucky next time." She turned to her "servants" and barked out an order as she started walking away.
"What was her problem?" asked a very confused Juane as he turned to Ruby. "Also thanks for standing up for me Red."
"No problem Juane, it really was not your fault nor did you deserve to have her snap at you. She is one of the type of people who just don't know when things are accidents and they tend hold a grudge." Ruby replied while helping Juane off the floor before she realized that someone was watching them. She turned to where she thought that the person was only to see a girl that thought she was hidden enough not to be seen by anyone. To bad for her Ruby had years of experience and lots of practice from the best in any profession. She started to walk towards her when the girl's eyes widened and she took off into the main hall for Ozpin's welcoming speech.
"Where are you going Red?" Juane asked while moving to follow her as she seemed to know where they were going. When she didn't reply, he sighed and let out a silent curse about women being difficult which earned a hit from Ruby who was now in front of him. She had hit him in the nose and now blood was starting to run down. Juane let out a cry of pain and clenched his nose to try and stop the blood. "What was that for?" Juane cried out in agony. Ruby's eyes widened.
"I am so sorry, I thought your aura would have prevented me from hitting you so hard." Ruby claimed while concentrating her aura into her hands and into Juane as she touched his nose and it started to fix itself. Juane looked surprised when his nose stopped bleeding and was now like it had been before she had hit him.
"My arua? what is that?" Juane asked out of curiosity with a look of confusion. Ruby's eyes widened as she felt for his aura with hers and didn't find it. She gave him a look of surprise for him attempting to attend Beacon with no aura. He was either really strong or just plain stupid and from how fast he bled, she guessed extremely dumb. She tuned out any other questions while forcing more aura into him to unlock his aura right than and there. He let out a yelp of surprise when she triggered his aura and it took effect for the first time.
"You can thank me later." She said while grabbing him and pulling him to the main hall for Ozpin's speech that they had to listen to. "Don't want Ozpin to give us detention on the first day of school." She said as she triggered her ability and they were suddenly in the main hall. She pushed Juane to the side of the main hall as he held his stomach in pain from the sudden use of Ruby's ability. Ruby patted him lightly on the back as he tried to keep down the remains of what was left in his guts.
"I'll...keep this brief." Ozpin started to speak and everyone stopped talking in their groups to show respect. "You have traveled here today in search of knowledge-to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people." Ozpin paused before his speech took a darker turn. "But I look amongst you, and all I mainly see is wasted energy, in need of purpose-direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step. Some of you have already started your path there." Ozpin stated while taking a sip of his coffee and scanning the crowd for someone. He met her eyes and then he turned and walked off the stage. Jaune let out a nervous chuckle at that.
"Are you okay Jaune, you seem rather distraught about the whole speech" Ruby questioned him while turning to look him in the eyes.
"Yeah, it's just that Ozpin seemed a bit off with his speech." He claimed while trying to reassure himself that he made the right choice sneaking into the school. She sighed and looked at the dispersing students after they missed what Goodwitch had said.
"Well Juane" She whispered while leaning in to the point where she was right next to his ear. Her sudden closeness made Juane start to get flustered as Ruby pressed up against him. "You may have cheated your way into Beacon, but that takes a lot of courage to even risk your life to be here. An old friend of mine from my town used to say this to make others feel better. Get Traught or get dead. The irony of that is he was the first person of our group of people when we fled to "die" and he was brilliant just like you." She confessed as she slowly moved away from Juane and looked at his face with what she could only describe as shock. "Now let's go to the Ballroom and get set up for the night." Ruby then turned and started to walk to the Ballroom. Juane snapped out of his confusion and ran to catch up to Ruby. What he nor Ruby noticed was the shadow from earlier watching them as the headed to the ballroom.
"So it really is you." The shadow then disappeared.
That Night
Juane looked over at Ruby, "What happened to your village? You mentioned earlier that you had to flee and that some of your friends died." Juane asked while looking Ruby in the eye.
"My village, my home, was overrun and we were forced to flee. We were slowly picked off until there was just four of us left. So we split up and each of us went to a different kingdom to try and get help to save what was left of the village. I never saw any of them again." Ruby stated while glancing out of the window to the moon.
"Have you tried to get in touch with any of them?" Juane asked while turning to lay down and stare at the ceiling. He looked over to Ruby after she didn't respond to find her not there.
On the Roof
"So why are you here?" Ruby asked the figure that stood next to her on the roof.
"Why wouldn't we be here? After all, the Court needs her Thorns." The figure responded as he stepped into the light.
"We? So the others are here as well?" Ruby stated while looking him in the eye.
"Yeah they are here and using different names for the time being." THe figure stated while walking towards the edge of the roof. "Best of luck in the initiation in the morning, we will be in touch." The figure jumped of the roof and disappeared into the night. However, where he stood there laid one of his throwing knives.
"So this should be a fun year after all." Ruby muttered to herself while picking it up and looked at the symbol on the edge of it. The knife belonged to the Court of Roses, her assassins were here to play.
There is the end of that chapter, if you can guess what the Court of Roses is based on you can pat yourself on the back. Sorry it took so long to do, had to do finals for school and the entire issue witht the power cord screwed me over. If you liked this, leave a comment on things that need improvement. Well hope you all enjoyed and as always, Tuxeomaskforever out.
