A/N This is a direct follow up to chapter 1, it will be taking of from where I left it, so to speak.
I will be naming previously unnamed characters after RT staff or the voice actors and their relatives.
Chapter 2: Growing up
"Ruby huh? Well I like it." Yang finally let go of ruby, after the long hug, and decided that it was best for them to get ruby checked out and brought home. They were about to leave when the cop from the day before caught up with them, "sorry I was not here earlier," he said almost out of breath, "but there was a robbery on the way here. Anyway" he said finally calming down, "we should get to questioning." "Of course," the farther responded, "first off, my name is Joel" the cop said while extending a hand to the farther "I'm Larry, nice to met you," the farther responded. "Anyway, to the point, I need to ask you some questions, but I would like to start with the young woman, what is your name?" he asked while kneeling down in front of ruby "She's Ruby, and I'm Yang" yang answered, "well ruby what do you remember?" Joel asked, "I uh, I don't remember anything," Ruby responded, "please the more you tell me the easier, -" "she has brain damage, and amnesia because of it, she won't remember anything no matter how much you grill her. Although we don't know what happened either so questioning will be pointless, all we know is how yang her found her," Larry said gesturing to yang, "then how do you know her name?" Joel asked with suspicion in his voice. "I named her" yang interrupted. "She had no name so I gave her one. That's what families do, isn't it?" "Well I guess so." Joel continued, "anyway please tell me exactly what happened and how you found little miss Ruby here." As yang and her mom Barbara, explained the situation to the cop, ruby was slowly starting to warm up to her new parents.
2 months later: ruby had been admitted into school with Yang, as a 1st grade student, and is now officially yang's adopted sister.
Ruby was at that moment bored out of her head, waiting for maths to be over, and for sport to start, as she already had an incredible intellect the only class she really needed was sport. She gradually lifted her head up from her paper, over to the clock, and immediately smiled as the bell rang, she jumped out of her seat, and out the door.
Running out onto the grass field, she looked back and saw the other class along with the rest of her own and with their teacher not far behind, nearing the field, (sport is split between 2 classes at one time.) "Alright classes, today is going to be focusing on running, we will do both races and distance." As the students got ready, the teacher walked off to the side of the finish line. "Ready, set, GO" she called, allowing both Ruby and Gavin, the top runner from the class above her, to race. As the two were racing ruby was dwindling behind a fair bit, but decided then and there that she would win. She gradually began to speed up, but something was wrong, she did not run like a normal 6 year old, no, she started glow a deep red, as her steps became longer she ran faster, and faster, she began to feel as though the world started to slow down around her, she though this was just adrenaline, until she began to fall to pieces, the pieces were flying, not only that but they were flying faster then her. The disintegration sped up the faster she ran, as time slowed further she split apart completely into rose petals, and began to fly at ridiculous speeds, easily overtaking Gavin, and flying past the finish line in record time. She was running at world record speeds, until she finally slowed down, well over 100m past the finish line. (About 330 feet.) With Time returning to its regular speed, she finally stopped, grinding her foot into the grass, creating a 20m long furrow.
She stopped completely and looked over to her teacher, quickly jogging back, she neared her teacher, desperate to know what was happening to her. "Congratulations," the teacher said, clapping "if all students would please come over here," they all obeyed albeit cautiously as the teacher began to explain, "What you just saw was an aura, auras are the manifestation of the soul, everyone has an aura, and with it a semblance, semblances are different to everyone, Ruby's semblance as we saw is speed, this means that, not only can she run fast, she can move every part of her body to the desired location almost instantly, given enough practice of course, usually people unlock auras with help from others, or while maturing, though sometimes they are unlocked through pure willpower, as we saw here." The teacher finished, as the students grew calmer, thanks to the teacher explaining what had happened, they gradually began to warm up to ruby, her social status being lifted greatly, by her new ability.
Ruby however was not so glad, as she felt like crap, she quickly began to stumble, over her own feet, as she was asking to be excused, she immediately fell to her knees, she bent over and onto her hands when she suddenly coughed violently, splattering blood over the nearby grass, the rest was a blur for her, until she woke up is the nurses office. "Ugh, I feel like crap," she said groggily, "ah you're awake, don't worry, that happens to everyone, first time semblance use is rough, as you literally overcharge your nerves, the blood you coughed up was probably your old nerves, you have new ones now, much more resilient." The nurse explained. "Ugh, I still feel like crap." Ruby complained, "wait where is Yang?" "Oh your sister? She's outside, give me a sec I'll go get her" she said while walking over to the door. She opened it, but before she could call for yang she was already charging towards her. Deciding that it would be best not to get hurt herself, she quickly dodged, opening the door fully letting the young blond in. "Ruby, oh thank dust you're ok" yang said while hugging her baby sister. "Yang I'm fine, I just feel like crap, the nurse explained everything to me," she said, smiling at her sister.
4 years later:
Ruby was looking through the family mail when she finally found what she was looking for, a letter from signal academy, to excited to wait she ripped open the letter, and removed the contents. Looking down at the paper, her eyes stopped, and she began to slime. She had finally done it, she had been accepted into signal academy, just two years after yang, had gotten the same letter. Ecstatic as she was she rushed inside the house, and to her parents, "Mom dad look, I got accepted into signal, I start on Monday." "Well done sweetie, I knew you could do it," her mom replied with a hug, almost as hard as yang would have, had she been at the house and not at signal. Quickly opening up her scroll she hit the message app and sent, off a picture of the note to Yang. She handed the note over to her farther for him to make sure she got all the preparations done in time for school.
We here at signal academy have recognised your combat talent, and have accepted your application to our school, we also greatly congratulate you as it is not everyone who is allowed entry. You will begin on Monday, at 8 AM, all students at signal academy will have to design and build their own weapon, and will be graded on the quality of the weapon and their skills while wielding the weapon, you have an unlimited budget to create this weapon, and all the materials you will need are free, all ammo for ranged weapons is free until graduating signal.
As Larry finished reading the note, he walked over to Ruby and joined in on the hug fest currently going on.
Ruby woke up with a jolt, remembering where she had to be today, she jumped out of bed, and entered the bathroom, taking a quick shower. And immediately rushed downstairs still throwing her clothes on. She quickly grabbed a bite and threw her bag over her shoulder. She almost broke down the door to her parents room, bye mom bye day she said hugging them both, sorry I have to be there by 8, I will see you on Friday." "Bye bye sweetie" her mother said returning the hug, quickly joined by Larry, letting go ruby checked her scroll and quickly bolted off in a shower of rose petals, "I never get used to that, do you?" Larry asked "Not really" Barbara replied.
With her semblance already activated ruby sped out the door and ran at well over the speed limit, to all observers she was just a blur of rose petals, followed by a powerful gust of wind.
Upon arriving at signal Ruby looked around at the incredible sight, still running she saw other students arriving along with her, some also running and others being driven, entering the courtyard, she spotted her sister and dashed towards her, "Hey Yang," she said, smashing into the older girl with a supersonic hug "Hey sis," she said, mostly to ruby but also to her friends, who were looking in confusion, as she hugged the young girl who just hug-tackled her. "So this is ruby huh?" one of the girls asked, "Yep, that's me" ruby said, almost teleporting in front of them with an extended hand, "jinx" she responded, unsure of the 10 year old in front of her, "so any of you guys know where 1st year assembly is?" Ruby asked, "its over there" Yang pointed, still sore from the supersonic hug, she had just received, "thank you" she said, immediately disappearing in a flurry of rose petals, "don't worry she does that," yang said craning her neck to the side a little, earning a small click.
