disclaimer: IDNO(Ido not own) RWBY
Chapter 1: Allow Me to Introduce Myself
I'm ready to go home and crash after all the chores and scythe training I had to do with my mentor, Qrow, but right as I'm about to walk out the door, he tells me to go to the dust shop and get him some liquor and ice dust.
Sorry. Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Christen Alec Black. I'm sixteen years old and training to be a huntsman. I specialize in scythe(small- and large-scale)/sword wielding and close-range sharp-shooting, although my friend, Ruby, can snipe a beowolf from the top of a skyscraper from thirty miles away. I'm also a faunus, but no one really notices thanks to my jet-black hair and hooded cloak I got from a shop out in the country. I'm a wolf faunus, so I can thank whatever deity there is for the no-tail thing. My semblance is tied to my wolf side in some ways: I can vanish from sight, literally, when I go into the shadows, and I can locate people or things if asked, and one big advantage to being a wolf is that I never get lost.
Anyway, I had just gotten back into my clothes, which consisted of a black, long-sleeved shirt that had my family insignia, a red square within a blue triangle within a black ring, my dark grey, baggy jeans, and blue running shoes, when I had to do something else that involved me not going home. The only reason I didn't smart off at him was A) I was afraid he would bust out his scythe, and B) he sounded worried for some reason, like he knew something bad was going to happen. Since he didn't usually sound like that, I put on my cloak and slid my scythe,Wolf's Fang, currently in scimitar form, into the scabbard on my back and slid the handle in hiding it from sight. I then jogged to the dust shop and walked in, seeing Ruby reading a magazine and wearing her headphones.
I decided to get the stuff Qrow asked for before talking to her.
I was just about to open the fridge and grab the six-pack (God, I hated dealing with the clerks when it came to purchasing.) when the front door to the shop was slammed open and some dude in a black suit yelled, "Alright, everybody on the ground, this is a robbery!"
I turned to look at Ruby and one of the men robbing the store walk over to her and get her attention. Ruby then took off her headset and looked at the guy, her expression confused. I smirked at what I knew was about to happen next. The guy repeated what had been stated and Ruby asked, "Are you robbing me?" with that cute little smile she made when she was about to throw down.
I stepped forward and said, "I wouldn't do that if I were you, man. Hey, Ruby."
"Hey, Christen," she replied, "Ready?"
I grinned, knowing what she meant. I pulled my hood back, showing my pointy black ears, then pulled my sword out of its sheath and flipped the switch, changing its mode to scythe and sending a wave of fear through the store, "Ready."
She busted out her own scythe and we started laying the robbers to waste. Or, at least we were until a guy with a derby hat, orange hair, cane, and white suit showed up with a girl with black hair and a red dress and started shooting fireballs at us.
I grabbed Ruby's arm and pulled us into the shadows, effectively making us both vanish. We started running in a really fast circle around them, Ruby shooting out lampposts that might give us away and me sending a barrage of shots at them to keep them disoriented. Once they realized that they had little chance of hitting us, I guess they decided to retreat, running to a rooftop.
We followed them and were about to catch them before they got on an airship and bombarded us with different dust attacks, most of which we avoided or blocked, but we knew we couldn't keep it up forever. We had our limits, while airships and dust don't.
Right when we were about to be incinerated, at which point I wrapped Ruby in a protective hug and put myself in front of her as we sank to the ground, a huntress landed before the airship and deflected the fire from us. She then picked up the debri with what I guessed was her semblance, and formed a giant spike, which she shot at the airship.
Figuring the woman was racist against faunus, I put my hood back on. Then I remembered that I was still holding Ruby and looked down, and started blushing furiously when I felt her pressing even more into my chest. She looked up at me and smiled, making me blush even harder. Then she fell asleep in my arms from all the exertion.
The airship promptly left, leaving me to wonder just who those people were. The huntress turned around and I got a good look at her: She had shoulder length, blond hair, a stern look, and hardened purple eyes. Her outfit consisted of a white dress shirt with elbow length sleeves, a black, highly modest skirt that made me wonder how she was able to fight and move quickly without falling in it, she also wore black pantyhose and slip-ons. Again, I wonder. She wielded a black riding crop in her right hand.
I knew Ruby would be happy I did this, so I asked, "Could I get your autograph for my friend here?"
"No," she spoke in a voice that Reflected her appearance: stern and unwilling to give ground, "You two are coming with me." She said it so matter-of-factly, I had to resist the urge to run, since I felt like I was being arrested. She must've sensed my anxiety, because she said, "Don't worry. You're not in trouble."
I relaxed a little, and asked, "Could we possibly take a car? My friend here just passed out and I'd like a nap."
I picked up Ruby bridal style, and the huntress, who introduced herself as Glenda at my asking, led me to a limousine, where a man in a chauffeur suit opened the back door. I got in with Glenda behind me, and sat down, situated Ruby next to me, and promptly passed out.
I'm not sure how long we were driving, but i was long enough for me to be fully awake. Ruby, on the other hand, was still asleep, so I picked her up again (I could get used to this.) and carried her while I followed Glenda to what looked to be an interrogation room.
I walked in and tried to wake up Ruby. She slowly opened her eyes and yawned, causing me to yawn (Thankfully I could do it through my nose.), and asked sleepily, "Is the wedding over?"
My face went crimson. "That far along?" I looked over to see Glenda wearing an amused smile.
Ruby then leaped from my arms and started gushing to Glenda, and before she could ask for an autograph, I filled her in on what happened between her passing out and waking up. When I mentioned what she said about a wedding, her cheeks turned red, "Sorry about that."
Glenda told the two of us to take a seat. Once we sat down, Ozpin walked in. I recognized him from his pictures when I was doing some research that Qrow assigned when I was younger.
The Headmaster for the school of beacon set a plate of cookies in front of us, chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin. Ruby set forth to inhaling the chocolate chip cookies while I grabbed an oatmeal raisin and chewed it thoughtfully, since my taste buds were a lot more sensitive and sugar left a bad taste in my mouth if I took it too fast.
Ozpin looked at both of us in the eyes and said, "You two have silver eyes."
Ruby and I exchanged confused glances. I replied with my ever so tactful default phrase; "Yeah, so?" whilst my lovely partner in crime simply said, "Uhh..?"
Instead of answering my question, he decided to show us feed of our fight from the security cameras, "Where did you two learn to fight like this? You two wield the most deadly weapon against Grimm."
Ruby volunteered hesitantly, "Signal Academy. One teacher in particular…"
I picked up, "We were terrible with any weapons before he took us under his wing."
"There's only one other person I know who can wield a scythe like that; a dusty old crow," Ozpin stated.
"Ths muh ncle qow," Ruby said through a mouthful of cookies. She swallowed and repeated herself, "That's my uncle Qrow. Since he trained us, we're like:" She launched into her cute little karate chopping and fighting noises.
Ozpin looked amused, "And why, praytell, are an innocent young girl and a nice young man attending a school for hunters and huntresses and not going on a date?"
Ruby and I looked at each other and I quickly turned away, my face red as a tomato. I said, "I'll let my friend tell you why." My crush since grade school then composed herself and went into her extremely fast-paced rant about the great things of being a hunter/huntress while I sat looking at her and smiling at her childlike exuberance. When she was done, I simplified for my own sake, "We want a life of adventure and possibly romance, so we hope to get into Beacon in two years since I got held back a year."
"Do you know who I am?" Ozpin asked.
I spoke first, "You're Professor Ozpin."
"You're the headmaster for Beacon Academy," Ruby added slowly.
The young, white-haired man smiled at his recognition, "How would you two like to attend my academy?"
I was screaming internally while I coolly said, "It would be an honor."
Ruby, on the other hand, was too excited to describe. She latched me in and iron hug and went into another excited rant, mainly consisting of repeated "Omigosh's" in rapid fire until I had calmed her down enough to remind her that we needed to pack, so we headed to our respective homes to pack bags, but not before Beautiful Red Riding Hood planted a kiss on my cheek and made me completely blissful for the rest of the night.
The next morning, Ruby and I met for coffee before we left for Beacon. I got before her, so I waited in line for her. She showed up about ten minutes later in her usual outfit.
Much to my displeasure, though, the Signal Academy bully and rich kid, Dustin Fieber, came strolling in, shoving people out of his way. (A/N: Think of the most fancily dressed and snobbish person you can imagine and you've got a pretty close picture of him.) Nobody protested due to the fact that his father was a high- positioned worker for the Schnee Dust Co., and he was leering at Ruby, which really started to make my blood boil. Did I forget to mention that he's also pervert? Yeah, he hit on just about every girl and no girl refused him because of his dad's position.
Now, I'm not one to get overprotective, I know full well that Ruby can take care of herself, but my problem with this was this particular time was that he could easily out- muscle her and drag her out, and no one would say anything just because we weren't at school!
But since I was there, it happened a little differently:
He walked up and tried to flirt with the Rose next to me, and when she ignored him, he reached out to turn her around before I said, my tone threatening, "I wouldn't touch her if I were you."
He turned in my direction and smirked, moving his raised hand to the hilt of his chainsword and revving it, "And why not?"
My eyes were glinting with murderous intent, "You touch her, and I use your skin as the fabric for a new cloak and use your hair to sew it together."
This seemed to amuse him,and he had the audacity to laugh. He asked, "You wanna fulfill that threat?" He reached, once more, for Ruby again. I caught his wrist when his hand came within three inches of her shoulder, "I said not to touch her."
Ruby put her hand on my shoulder. I looked to see her worried expression when she said, "you don't have to do this for me."
"I know, but I want to," I returned my gaze to Dustin and asked, "Can you walk away? Or does this have to get ugly?"
"I can ruin your parents, you know."
That tore it: My parents were dead because of jerks like him, "Looks like it has to get ugly."
Before he could retort; I threw a punch to his face that sent him out the window. I was about to go after him before I heard him bawling his eyes out like a two-year-old. God he's pathetic.
I took a moment to calm down before turning and walking back to our place in line. A beat after I reached it, applause erupted and I had to pin my ears to keep from going deaf. We reached the counter and ordered our drinks. For Ruby, we got a latte with double the cream and sugar, and for me, we got a mocha with triple the cream and half the sugar. I pulled out my pay card to pay for the coffee before the cashier said with a smile, "It's on the house. That kid's been running us into the ground with the free coffee he extorts from us."
We thanked the man and started walking to the airport. I offered to carry Ruby's luggage, but she turned down the offer and said with a smile, "You deserve a break after taking down Dustin back there. Although I could say that made this quite the exciting first date."
I stiffened when she said "date" and felt the blood rush to my cheeks, "W-Wait a minute! T-This is a d-date?"
She looked up at me, a light pink decorating her pale complexion, "Yeah. I know it's just coffee, but, I mean, I'd like it to be a date…" She trailed off as though she had just thought of something, and her face went downcast, "It doesn't have to be, if you don't want."
I gained my complexion and chuckled before lifting her chin and saying with a warm smile, "I'd love to be on a date with you." I then planted a peck on her forehead before holding out my arm in invitation. She took it quickly and laid her head against my shoulder, putting some warmth in my cheeks and making me feel better about myself.
When we got to the airport, we saw Yang and waved. She ran over to us and started to say something before she saw our arms linked, and immediately her grin grew to it's maximum stretch; nagging at us to spill the beans. I simply stated that we had gone to get coffee and it had turned into a date. The lemon-head before seemed unsatisfied, so she dragged her sister off to a nearby tree and proceeded to give advice on what Ruby should do next, most of which made my face turn red with embarrassment. I decided to tune tham out 'til they got back, which was about ten minutes later.
When they came back, Ruby's face was the color of her cloak and Yang was smiling in some sort of triumph. My date came to stand in front of me and before I could ask what was making her face so red, she pulled the front of my cloak and gave me a full fledged kiss. After a beat, I kissed her back, feeling like I was on cloud nine.
When she pulled back I staggered for a moment, no coherent thoughts forming, before asking, "Did… Did we just kiss?"
Ruby nodded in confirmation and I made a small noise that wasn't exactly dignified. I don't remember much else besides my first kiss' arm grabbing me and pulling me to the airship, where I tried to process the events that had just taken place until we arrived.
