EYES
Member of Team RWBY

"You...have silver eyes."

That's the first thing Professor Ozpin said to me. And, I mean, I get it. I like to see what color people's eyes are too. There are so many different cool colors!

Uncle Qrow's eyes are red. Yang's eyes are purple - unless her semblance is activated. Then they are red - but not red like Uncle Qrow's. Red like a campfire, not the center but not the edge either. Yeah, red like that.

Dad's eyes are blue. So are Jaune's. Pyrrha's eyes are so green they look like they glow. Blake's eyes are yellow, although that might be a faunus thing. I never thought to ask. And Ren's eyes are pink! So cool!

That crazy lady with the umbrella of death even has one pink eye and one brown eye.

So with so many cool eye colors, who would have thought my silver eyes would be special?

But now Uncle Qrow's telling me that my silver eyes mean I'm some kind of fairy tale hero that scares Grimm just by looking at them, which I don't believe because I've looked at plenty of Grimm and they have never been scared of my eyes.

But...there are pictures of that huge dragon Grimm frozen to the top of Professor Ozpin's tower; and Uncle Qrow says that I did that. I don't remember any of it - just that everything went white. And I guess I passed out a little.

And now Blake and Weiss are gone. And Pyrrha's dead. And Yang lost her arm and won't talk to anyone. And I'm supposed to be some fairy tale hero that saves everyone.

I don't feel like much of a hero. Heroes are supposed to protect people. I watched that woman kill Pyrrha. I wasn't there when Blake and Yang were hurt. I wasn't able to keep Mr. Schnee from taking Weiss back to Atlas.

I remember Blake saying life isn't a fairy tale… Yeah, life isn't a fairy tale. But, I do have silver eyes and some kind of power I never knew about before.

There's lots that's broken, and I can't fix it all; but I'm not the only one trying to fix things. Professor Goodwitch and Dr. Ooblek and Uncle Qrow and even Winter and General Ironwood are trying to fix things. So I'll fix what I can, and let them fix what they can. And maybe with everyone working on it, we can fix everything.

AN: I know Ruby's a bubbly personality, but she's been through the ringer. She's lost friends in one way or another; she's lost Yang to an extent; she's lost her school and the normalcy it provided. Hopefully, these are all temporary losses; but there's a got to be a moment when it all sinks in even if she's dealing with it really well. So this is my guess at an internal monologue to get her from waking up at home to leaving with Team RNJR.