Pairing is! none at the moment.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING IF ANYTHING
A few of you mentioned that Ruby is more whiny and not dark. But hold on, where in my story or summary did it say Ruby would grow up to be dark? No, I said she'd be cold and she will be! But I think a few of you have the wrong definition of cold, to be cold it means to lack warm emotions like happiness and joy, excitement and friendship.
Ruby right now, is more like a rebellious teen and come on, everyone don't tell me you haven't heard of those fights (or had them yourself) where you want something you think is actually good for you but you're parents won't let you have it/go.
When I said she'd be cold I meant more towards her peers as 1. She's younger than EVERYONE in the show, by at least two whole years. So, she's of course not going to be comfortable with them and prefer staying with her parents or at least talk to them on certain subjects (like her real mother).
Now on with the story and let me explain something at the end about the pairings.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Guys... I, am 15. I'm a freaking sophomore. Don't expect perfection, don't expect good grammar, but here's what I want you to expect. Expect that this story, is going to have a good story line. I'm not great at things like making things long, or hold good conversations (I am probably the most antisocial person I know, why me? Because I'm that antisocial.) but, I know how to tug the heartstrings.
I could be called a loner. I enjoy being alone, because that's when I can express myself. I read a lot of stories that literally make me cry, I listen to sad music because it's one of the few emotions I can get out. So, I know how to tug the heart strings.
"Ruby? Can we speak to you?" Glynda knocked on her daughter's door. "Your father and I have something to tell you."
Nobody answered, Ozpin nodded and unlocked her door with his scroll. When they walked in Ruby was fast asleep with her head on the pillow and blanket covering only up to her waist.
Her mother smiled softly at the sight. "I remember when Ruby would come into my room with her blanket."
"She was having a nightmare, Glynda." Ozpin said knowingly.
"Even so, I miss those times." She responded before taking a seat at the side of Ruby's bed and stroked the young girl's hair. "She was adorable back then."
They noticed that on her desk was a picture frame, it was a horribly drawn crayon drawing of three stick figures. One was extremely short and had gray eyes and black/reddish hair along with a red cape. Holding the small figure's hands were a man colored green with glasses and a cane, and the other was held by a stick figure woman with yellow hair and glasses with a purple cape. At the bottom in terrible handwriting was 'My family'.
Scattered around her desk were other things such as a bit of dust, machine parts, and bullet casings.
Ozpin decided instead of waking her up, they would leave a letter. He quickly wrote one down and sealed it before leaving.
Glynda stayed back still in her mind subconsciously caressing her daughter's cheek. After a while she snapped back into reality and noticed it was late into the night. She kissed Ruby's head and she didn't know if she was having a dream or felt her kiss, but her daughter smiled. She then pulled the blanket up to her shoulders.
As Glynda left, she quietly whispered, "Good night, my little Rose," and locked the door.
"Aaahhh..." Ruby yawned stretching up. She lazily got up and went to the restroom to brush.
She took a quick shower, changed into her clothes, brushed her hair and teeth before making her way to the kitchen.
"Good morning Ruby." Her mother called out to her as she passed by.
Ruby however was silent. She got her pieces of bread and popped them into the toaster as she made her drink. Glynda sighed and walked over to Ruby, "You do know we love you right Ruby?"
"Not enough to let me go to school, or catch villains, or anything a hunter does." She said, clearly she had not seen the letter. "I'm fifteen mom, I'm old enough to hold a scythe, old enough to shoot a gun, old enough to go after a villain, and I could learn more with others, so why can't I go to school, or am I too old for this?"
Realizing this, Glynda gave a small smile. To her, Ruby would always be her little Rose. "You are old enough."
"I know that I am- did you just say I'm old enough?" Ruby said shocked.
She nodded. "Why don't we go to your room and have a talk dear?"
"Uh... sure, let me just finish eating." Ruby answered awkwardly. 'Did she really say I'm old enough? Am I really going to Signal? I mean I'm a year late, but hey better late then never!'
Once she had finished her breakfast, they went to Ruby's room. Each taking a seat, Glynda at her desk, and Ruby at her bed.
Glynda peered over her shoulder to see the letter was still sealed and laughed lightly garnering Ruby's attention. "Ruby, can you tell me why you believe you should go into school? Even if you were to go into school with others in your age group, you know far more than they do, you are learning from your father and I, and during summer the other teachers, Peter Port, Bartholomew Oobleck, and even Peach*. All of us teaching you much further than others would."
"So? All I need is some real training, I mean hunters have teams right? I can't do everything myself." Glynda smiled instantly, that was precisely what she wanted to hear, that her daughter does need help. "But I try to lighten the load for others. I know I may not end up the leader but I should still show I can pull my own weight."
After she said that Glynda pulled the letter off the desk. "You know, Ruby. You're father and I were talking, and we decided, or rather your father did. I didn't want to, but here."
When Ruby took the letter she saw the seal of Beacon. She was confused for a moment before her eyes widened and looked at her mother whom nodded. Ruby gently opened the letter breaking the seal, wanting that if this was what she thought it was, to treasure it forever.
"To Ruby Emerald Rose-Goodwitch
Congratulations, you have been hand selected by the staff of Beacon to be added into the roster for the X014 school year. We hope to see you this year in Beacon and would like to give you a warm welcome to our prestigious academy.
Headmaster of Beacon,
Ozpin Emerald"
Ruby had reread it thrice just to be certain of what she read. "I, I get to go to Beacon?"
Glynda nodded. Ruby ran to her mom, "Oh thank you! You guys are the best parents ever." Ruby said. Glynda simply stroked her hair. "But, why didn't you want me to go?"
She sighed, "Don't think it's because I believe you aren't ready. Rather... I'm worried for you. Ruby you'll be going here two years younger than anyone else. It's not because you aren't ready for what you have to do, but what you'll have to deal with. All your life so far, you've been personally tutored by myself and your father and the other teachers during summer. But mostly, I didn't want you to forget about us, Ruby. You're my little rose, I guess I didn't want you to leave me yet."
Ruby was touched her mother thought of her that way until the weight of those words hit her. She's younger, she's going to look like she got special treatment, she's not going to be on an even playing field and many will be either envious or jealous. While she is being taught here at Beacon, she'll have a hard time not because of what she'll have to do, but whom she'll be with.
To strengthen her resolve, to make sure none of that happened, to prove once more she was more than worth it. She needed to set her status as someone strong. Sure the sophomores of this year will know her, as will the juniors and seniors, but again that goes against her. She'll practically have the entire school on her side, but it won't do anything to help her.
She took a deep breath, "You don't need to worry about me mom." Ruby said to her gently, "I'll always be here, I won't leave that easily, afterall, you did teach me combat."
Glynda laughed at her daughter's words. "That I did, you better not soil the reputation of us Goodwitch!" She said sternly.
"I won't." Ruby said and silently added on, 'I'll make sure of it.'
Unbeknownst to either occupants in the room, Headmaster Ozpin was watching the girls from the door. He smiled into his drink (Seriously is there ever a scene where he isn't holding something? His cane, his mug, his scroll.) and thought, 'Oh Summer, if only you could see your daughter now.'
On the airship were several people. A blonde haired girl was looking at the academy with yearning eyes. "Ruby... I wonder if she'll remember me... then again she was four when she left. I bet she'll be awesome, I mean I am her sister."
The blonde haired girl in question was none other than Yang Xiao Long, Ruby's older sister. She hadn't heard of her sister since she left, the girl hardly knew anything about her other than she left and had red hair. Things like preference and dislikes she hadn't come to develop yet so all she had to go off from were two things, her black hair with red ends, and silver eyes.
Others on the ship were
Nora Valkeryie and Lie Ren. Childhood friends, Nora being the hyper energetic one, and Ren being the calm and collected one.
Pyrrha Nikos known for being practically a huntress prodigy.
Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust corporation.
Jaune Arc, a rather normal looking boy.
Blake Belladonna, a silent girl with a book in her hand.
Many others were there, ranging from freshman to seniors. The former more than the latter.
Once they arrived on academy grounds, Jaune immediately ran out for a trashcan, everyone passing by giving either a pitiful, disgusted, or awkward glance.
As they arrived and entered they noticed three figures at the stage. Once everyone had found a place to stand or sit they began their speech.
Ozpin stood at the center before beginning, "I'll... keep this brief. 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. But I look amongst you, and all I 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."
The upcoming students whispered among one another.
Glynda then caught their attention as Ozpin left, he sent a quick flash of a rare smile anyone, bar Ruby and Glynda, have seen. "Tonight, you will rest in the ballroom, tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be prepared." Before taking her leave, not before smiling softly at Ruby.
She nodded and got off the stage walking to her own room to grab her items. Her team would have just enough room for them to all take a corner and a bit of the wall for a desk for their own styles. (That's just me saying, I want their room to be better than two really bad bunkbeds)
Quickly she re-arranged her room, putting her bed to the corner closest to the window and put her dresser right next to it, and at the foot of her bed a desk. The dresser would be for her and whomever would sleep adjacent to her.
Afterwhich she grabbed her pajamas, left her Crescent Rose on her bed, and left to the ballroom.
She found her own little corner, right near the stage. As she was about to fall asleep, she was suddenly jolted awake- "Ruby!?" It was team CFVY (Team Coffee) consisted of their leader, Coco, Fox, Velvet, and Yatsuhashi. "What are you doing here?" Coco asked.
Ruby looked with an emotionless face, "I'm a student here now. Mother and father allowed me to attend. However, I believe my mother will still have me teach Dust classes."
They were startled by her sudden cold response. "Is everything alright Ruby?"
She didn't respond for a full minute. Before they were about to leave she sighed, "I don't want to be treated differently. I know you guys won't, neither the juniors nor seniors will. However, it's my team I worry more for. I don't want them to look down on me like I need help, but I don't want to make them hate me or feel I got special treatment because the headmaster is my father and a teacher is my mother."
Team CFVY looked at each other and sent her a soft smile, "You got our backs last year during those Dust exams-"
"I made those dust exams." Ruby replied in monotone. They sweat dropped but smiled still.
"And you helped us study." Coco added in trying to help.
Ruby shrugged, to be brutally honest, the weight of her real mothers death still hung over her head. There were a few questions in her head. The first was why did her mother go on alone if her team was with her? The other, was who or what killed her? "It's not just that," she finally admitted.
"Is there anything we can help you with? We'd love to help." Velvet added in.
Fox nodded, "Yeah, Rubes, we can help. Just say the word."
However, she just looked out the window to the moon. "Maybe one day, I'll tell you. For now, I need to deal with it myself before I feel comfortable telling."*
They nodded and left her, not before Velvet gave her a smile and asked, "I can still come over for help on Dust right?"
Ruby gave a nod in return, "I'll have to see when I'm free, I'll make note to tell you." Velvet nodded her thanks and left.
After that was done she was almost certain she was going to sleep when something caught her eye. It was another team, however this team she knew fairly well. While they are not ranked as the best in most categories there are two they excel at. Stealth and teamwork.
They were talking quickly, well most of them. One was silently working on a drawing. Ruby, knowing the team quite well, assumed he was working on weapon designs, armor, or instead was planning out something for later.
The others were laughing and talking with the only other male looking over his shoulder to see what the other was up to.
She thought to herself what her team would be good at. Thinking it over, her best abilities were excellent close range combat and her deadly accuracy with the sniper, not only that but being able to mix dust on the fly. She is going to be the offensive or the support, to her that was totally fine.
Her mind began to drift into the land of Morpheus.
The next morning, Ruby was wide awake at the crack of dawn. Mostly because she was used to waking up so early after her mother's training.
Others had started to wake up, name Lie Ren, and Blake Belladonna.
In the meantime, Ruby went back to her room to grab her dust and Crescent Rose before making way to the sparring room.
The sparring room was Ruby's personal training room. Mostly due to the randomizer meaning anything can happen.
Each part of training was randomized, from which Grimm projections, difficulty, if they are advanced or not, and the most important, if they come in waves or timed.
Preparing herself she took no chances and grabbed switched Crescent Rose into a scythe. What she was faced with were two Grimm, but these were no ordinary Grimm, no it was a king Taijitu and a Death Stalker. It was obvious it was going to be a timed training as killing one is difficult by yourself.
Instantly, the black headed Taijitu launched at her. Ruby back flipped out of the way and unhinged her scythe.** Afterwards, she switched her bullet set into her 'Cross' bullets.
As she did, the Death Stalker charged at her. Thinking on her feet, she jumped quickly before pulling, the recoil of the bullet let her vault over the tail. When Ruby came back down she hooked herself onto the tail and fired again cutting it off.
However it was not that easy. The white Taijitu began to coil towards Ruby, as did the black head, yet this didn't even faze Ruby. She quickly ran towards them and fired a bullet, spinning in mid air as to cut off the white head, of course as the Taijitu's heads are independent, killing one head did not mean killing both.
Meanwhile, she had not known her battle was getting quite... loud. Many of the students began to wake up and hearing the sounds of Grimm, especially strong ones, provoked the elder students to wake up nearly instantly and run to the sound. The new students however, were woken up by the loud gunfires and saw the older students running. Of course, this did not bode well with them as they too began to run to the source of the noise.
However when they got to the place of origins, not one was left without their jaw on the floor.
They witnessed as Ruby was taking down the white Taijitu head on her own, the elder students after calming down, looked to see the Death Stalker without it's tail end, instead it was lodged between the skeletal plating on it's head.
Even if they wished to interfere they couldn't. The Sparring room prevents all outside damage and to make sure no student was ever dumb enough to fall in, a barrier was placed. This meant that nobody could warn her that the Death Stalker was now charging at her, and they are known as one of the more silent Grimm.
Ruby was prepared, she pulled out a dust crystal surprising most and threw it at the beast, switched to her standard scythe, and shot it. A blaze of fire exploded and she pulled out a vial in her hands before pouring it out and using her aura to activate the wind.
Every old student smiled knowingly, they all recalled their first dust lesson from Ruby, which was controlling basic dust in various forms. Anyone who was taught by her knows that fire and wind is one of the more difficult to control dust combinations of the four basic dusts. However, they knew anyone who had Ruby's capabilities, well... let's just say she can mix dust on the fly.
The fire raged and burned the Grimm to it's death. Of course as it was a hologram, it merely burst into polygons. Everyone was amazed, the seniors and juniors, some sophomores were amazed that Ruby, the little fifteen year old Dust teacher they've had for the past year, had taken down a Death Stalker as though it were nothing, and with two kinds of dust no less!
All that was left was the black headed Taijitu, at this point everyone was wondering what she was going to do. The head lunged as Ruby switched her bullet casing to yet another set, this time it was her recoil-lightning ones which were much more potent than her 'Cross' bullets. She stuck the scythe into the ground and just as the beast opened it's mouth,
BANG!
The head flew back, timer finished, and the barrier fell down.
Everyone had a few thoughts. The elder students thought she was going to be pretty big now. Team CFVY, all smiled and thought she more than proved she is ready. the rest of the students were just gaping, all but one student in particular.
Weiss Schnee, she was thinking something different. "She'd be a perfect teammate... If, I can't get Pyrra, that is."
As the barrier finally finished Ruby heard clapping and froze instantly, as she turned she was shocked to see many of the students, both new and old were watching her. However to keep her demeanor, she met them with a bored expression, which seized the clapping.
"I would recommend you get ready, new students. The first part of the test is at the hillside, I hope you are prepared."
Everyone, bar Team CFVY were surprised at her cold demeanor, Team CFVY only grew more curious as to what happened.
Everyone finally was ready. The old students were in their old rooms, some of which pulled out their scrolls and began to watch the initiation.
"Think Ruby will really be part of it?" "Definitely." "Without a doubt." "I'd be surprised if she weren't, which means she'd have surprised us four times today."
They were all watching, as the new students greeted one another in the lockers. Ruby sat alone watching the sky through the window. She was disturbed from her peace by the clearing of ones throat.
When she looked it was, Weiss Schnee, it had perks also to be a teacher. Albeit more of a substitute, but a teacher no less. She was able to know precisely who each of the new students were, of course just like everyone else, she had no choice in whom her teammates are.
"Hello, I saw you're... practice earlier today and was wondering if you would be interested in... forming a team with me." Weiss said with the perfection expected from an heiress.
Ruby meet her gaze with an emotionless stare. "You do not choose whom is on your team."
"What?! How would you know that!"
Ruby stood up and bowed slightly, "I am Ruby 'Emerald' Rose-Goodwitch, the adopted daughter of Headmaster Ozpin, and Glynda Goodwitch, the combat teacher. I am also often, the substitute for dust class when my mother is having trouble. As both a teacher here and daughter of the headmaster, I am allowed more than average access into the schools' database. And you," she pulled out her scroll and searched for the girl infront of her.
"Are Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust incorporation, the world's largest dust shipment. However, as of now, your father is the one whom orders what is done. From this information, I gather that simply leading the company was not something towards your desire and are trying to be something better. Am I incorrect to assume so?"
Weiss was shocked once more by the girl, now she knows as Ruby. However, not only that, but she was talking to a teacher, someone who had been in this very school often.
"Wait, you can't be older than me how old are you?!" Weiss ordered.
Without flinching, she replied calmly, "Do not yell, it is unladylike, especially of an heiress, as for my age, I am 15. However, I had asked to be placed in a regular school such as Signal, but father had other ideas."
Seeing she had nothing else to ask, Weiss timidly asked for the one bit of information she needed. "How are teams formed?"
"I'm afraid I am not disclosed with that information, my father makes it impervious I am not to know. However, what I am aware of is that it involves the Emerald Forest, a Grimm infested forest as that is where initiation is always held." Ruby answered before walking past Weiss. "If you will excuse me, we are to be at the hillside in five minutes, and I'd rather not have my father nor mother wait."
*- While she is cold, it's something totally different for her. You can't just forget everything you've been for fifteen years in a snap can you?
A lot of you will say things like, you can. Tell me this, all of you who have siblings KNOW this is true. You fight with your brother or sister, say I'm never gonna talk to you for a hundred years! then the next day, you ignore them, and maybe you do it for a second day, but on the third day? Nope. That's what I'm talking about, you can be cold, but really? To Ruby, sure she was shocked, but she wasn't cold. She's acting cold.
**- If you noticed, during the Red Trailer, her scythe at one point would in a sense, unhinge which let her be much more fluid in her strikes. That is what I am talking about.
So... pairings huh? The answer is!
I don't care. Yep, I don't care about the pairings RIGHT NOW. However, due to my lack of an ability to explain properly I will simply hope you understand the next few words. There will be a pairing involving Ruby and another character. It will not be an OC. I am saying this because there are actually 3 options I am thinking of now.
A lot of you do NOT want Weiss to be in the pairing. (Specifically Weiss)
Some of you say you do but most say no.
Many of you say do NOT have a pairing as the story can go without one. I can agree on this.
Let me introduce your new three options.
1. LADYBUG: Blake x Ruby, why? Seems interesting on what I could pull off.
2. NONE: Why? As I've read in the reviews, it's not needed in this story as she is going to be more cold then cheery and bubbly,
3. Cinder x Ruby: Why? Let's say word of Ruby's deceased biological mother reaches the ear of a certain criminal. When you're weak and frail and something bad is brought up, but they offer you strength, the wise person says no, the desperate person says yes, and the broken? The broken seek warmth.