Kintin23: HELLO PEOPLES OF THE INTERNET! I'm back for chapter two of Twinsouled (Name to be explained later). Thank you all for the great response to chapter one (over 100 views) and thanks for the reviews.
Review responses:
percy morgesten: Interesting story I would like to see what happens next.
Ha and by way of recommendation you can try to make sure ruby does not become one, Mary Sue.
We all hate sue and Stu.
Ha and you would have to be a bit more descriptive about people and objects.
This is a recommendation and is simply said to help you improve.
Pd my mother tongue is Spanish is not English I regret any spelling errors
Kintin23: In this chapter I will try to be more descriptive, but making Ruby a Mary Sue might happen by accident because her personality will be similar to canon Ruby (If not more... eccentric) and canon Ruby is a Mary Sue, or at least kind of one (think about it).
dragoncraftertex: Hah! This is a great story. Honestly, if I were in Ruby/... (wat to call main character?), despite the absurdity of the situation, I'd reveal everything to Summer but make her keep silent about it.
Still, keep going and nice job!
Kintin23: First of all, the main character does not have an old name because it will never be important, so just call her Ruby. Second, Ruby isn't telling Summer anything because something like that will massively change the possible outcomes, which Ruby is trying to avoid. Instead she is trying to get summer to stay via other means. Summer might also not believe Ruby because although she knows about the silver eyes and the maidens, it is much more believable that she just overheard Summer talking to Qrow or Ozpin about it, or at least that is what Ruby thinks.
Now on to the show!
Ruby P.O.V.
I step outside the house and look around for Yang. Our house is a simple two story cabin made of wood, and can best be described as a cottage. Outside is a wide path the width of a car that leads into the forest before turning off to the right. The rest of the clearing in which we are located in is just mowed grass with a few trees scattered here and there. Out back behind the house is the big oak tree that Yang told me to meet her at.
"Hey, Rubes! What took so long?" Yang called over to me as I was making my way over to her, her hands behind her back, clearly hiding something.
"Sorry," I say as I make it to her "I couldn't find my Journal."
"Ugh, you and your journal." Yang laments "What do you even put in there?"
"Oh you know, stuff... and weapon plans! Can't forget the weapon plans!" Seriously. I have been drawing different plans for Crescent Rose ever since I found that book on mechashift in the bookcase. I'm really good at it, too. I think I may have been an engineer in my past life because I should not know this stuff that well. Anyways, Yang seems surprised by my statement.
"Weapon plans? You want to be a huntress?" Yang asks incredulously.
"Yeah, I mean our parents always teaching us to help others, so I thought, hey, I might as well make a career out of it! I mean the police are alright, but Huntsmen and Huntresses are just so much more romantic and exciting and cool and really, gosh, you know!" I exclaim. And before you say anything, yes, I know exactly what I am doing.
"Well, you definitely seem enthusiastic about it." Yang says, slightly unsure of herself.
"Y-Yeah... Anyways! what did ya wanna show me?" I say excitedly. She has been keeping her hands behind her this entire time and I still haven't gotten a good look at what it is. Knowing story tropes, it's probably going to be something important. Like a rare dust crystal! Or maybe a mysterious key to something we will find years later! Or maybe even, *Gasp*, a high tech data chip that has extremely important information on it that will lead us smack dab in the middle of a planet wide conspiracy that will take us on the adventure of a lifetime!
"It's a rock that looks exactly like uncle Qrows face!" she says while laughing, bringing her hands forward and showing me said rock. You know I feel I should be disappointed, but it's just... IT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HIM! It's hilarious! It even has the stubble!
"OH MY OUM! That's Hilarious!" I laugh with her.
"You know what we should do with it." she says to me, her voice now low "We should tie it to a stick and hit him with it whenever he does something stupid."
With that, we both get the same grin on our faces. This is going to be fun. Now we just need to find a suitable stick.
2 hours later
OK, so we couldn't find a good stick, but after a while, we did end up realizing that we have a few spare parts so we ended up just using a metal bar we had lying around for some reason.
We also ended up calling it 'The Qrow Bar'. Guess who came up with that name.
After that, we just did random stuff for a while until mom called us in to head out for ice cream, unfortunately reminding me that if I don't do something, this might be the last time I talk to her.
"Ruby! Yang!" Mom calls from the now open door. "We're going for ice cream now!"
"Coming!" I call back.
Grabbing Yang by the hand before she can say anything, I bolt of back to the house where we quickly get ready to leave.
It takes an hour to ferry over to Vale, where we head to the ice cream stand in the middle of the park we go to all the time. I get strawberry because just like canon Ruby, it's my favourite. Yang also gets strawberry, Dad gets lemon, and mom gets vanilla. We sit down at a nearby park bench to eat.
"Guess what I got you two on my last mission." Mom says to Yang and I as we sit down.
"You got us presents!?" Yang and I exclaim excitedly.
"Yep, I did." She says, proud of herself.
"Your Mom always gets you presents when she comes back from a mission. How do you not expect this already?" Dad says jokingly.
Mom elbows him in the ribs.
"Shut up Tai. Anyways, too the presents!" She says in a grandiose manner before reaching behind her back and taking out two gift boxes, one wrapped with rose pattern wrapping paper, and one wrapped with flame pattern wrapping paper. She hands me the rose one and Yang the flame one. Me, being me, open mine up first. Inside is a large red cloth and when I take it out, I realize that it's a cloak, just like Moms, except red not white.
While I'm doing this Yang opens hers to find that it's a scarf, the same scarf that she is seen wearing in the series almost all the time. Yang is very happy with the gift, but mine just reminds me that Mom will be leaving soon and won't be coming back if I don't stop her. Unfortunately, Mom notices my odd behavior.
"Ruby? What's wrong? Don't you like it?" Mom asks me, concern clear in her voice.
"NO!" I exclaim. "I like it! I do. It's just... I have a bad feeling."
Yang seems confused by this.
"A bad feeling? What kind of bad feeling." She asks me, obviously skeptical.
"I don't really know. I feel like something bad will happen." I say back. If I make Mom worried enough about what might happen on this mission by acting like I had a premonition or something, she won't go, thinking something won't go as planned.
Mom and Dad look at each other worriedly.
"Yeah..." Mom begins before being cut off by dad.
"Your Mom has another mission coming up soon." He says simply.
"WHAT!?" Yang and I exclaim together. I'm acting, though, because I'm not supposed to know about it yet.
I open my eyes wide as though I just realized something.
"Don't go." I say in a soft voice.
"What? Why?" Mom says confused.
"Don't go." I say, louder this time.
"Sweetie, whats wrong?" She asks me worriedly.
"DON'T GO!" I yell out.
Mom comes in to hug me.
"Ruby. What's wrong?" Mom says in a comforting voice.
"Don't go. I have a really, really, really bad feeling." I say.
Mom and Dad share a look before she replies.
"Sweetie, I'm sorry but I have to go. It's important. What brought this on? You've never acted like this before." She asks me.
"I don't know." I reply. "I just have a feeling that if you go on this one, you won't come back."
When I say this, Mom starts to get worried. This is good. This means she's starting to take me seriously. Just a little more and I think I can get her to promise not to go.
"Mom won't come back!" Yang exclaims. "Mom don't go! I want you to come back!"
At this mom seems to think really hard for a few seconds before she gets a determined look on her face.
"OK. If you're really that worried, I won't go." She finally says.
At this I feel a massive weight lift off of me. I did it, I changed the story for the better. Mom won't die and she can help me learn how to use the silver eyes when I 'discover' the power on my own in a few years.
I wipe away my tears and give the biggest grin I possibly can.
"Thank you." I say
"Well, now that that is over with, and we're done with ice cream, what do you guys say we start heading home. It's starting to get late." Dad says. He has been quiet this whole time. It's kind of surprising really, I thought he was just timid in the show because of what happened with Mom and Raven, but I guess he just is naturally timid. He is based off of the cowardly lion from the Wizard of Oz after all.
After packing up and heading home, I get ready for bed and put on my new cloak like a blanket before jumping in and having Mom tuck me in.
"Goodnight Ruby." She says quietly while closing the door.
"Goodnight Mom. I love you." I say back sleepily.
"I love you too" She says before the door closes, plunging the room into darkness.
The Next Morning
Waking up later that usual (10:00 rather than 9:00) I get dressed, brush my teeth and head downstairs to find that Dad made breakfast and Yang is no where the be found, probably still asleep.
"Finally in the land of the living are we?" Dad jokes. "how'd you sleep?"
"I slept great, thank you very much." I reply, matter of factly.
"Yeah, yeah, anyways, I made breakfast. Chocolate chip pancakes, your favourite." He says as he hands me a plate before I sit down at the table and start eating happily.
"So you seem to be in a good mood today. Why's that?" He asks me while he's cleaning up the mess he made when he made breakfast.
"I dunno." I say between bites. " I think it's because I was able to save Mom from whatever it was on that mission of hers."
Dad seems to pause at this before frowning and putting the pan he was scrubbing back in the sink.
"About that..." He says and I freeze, my heart suddenly pounding in my chest.
"Daaaaaad." I say slowly, worried. "Where's Mom?"
"Ruby, you don't understand, this wasn't an ordinary mission, She couldn't just not-" He starts to say before I cut him off.
"NO, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!" I yell at him slamming my hands on the table and starting to tear up.
"This is your mother we're talking about, she won't go down easy." He says trying to convince me. To bad I already know the outcome.
I stare at him for a few seconds with tears in my eyes before running off into my room, slamming the door behind me, and burying my face in my pillow, crying my eyes out. I can't believe it. I was so close, SO OUM-DAMNED CLOSE! She still left, though. Why. WHY! Why did she have to leave. I should have just told her what I knew. She would have had to believe me. Screw the damn timeline, I WANT MY MOM BACK. I just had to be cocky, thinking that she would believe her five year old daughter about telling the future without any proof and now she's gone.
She's gone, and it's all my fault.
Kintin23: Well I did say I would try to make Ruby not be a Mary Sue, so She can't have everything turn out how she wants it. Instead I thought I could use this time for character growth. From now on Ruby will still be mostly the same, but she will try to plan things out better and she won't be as reckless.
Thank you guys for the great feedback for the last chapter. If there is anywhere else I can improve, please let me know.
See you guys next week. Kintin23 out.