Waking up and seeing everyone move around as they were I had thought I over slept; turned out everyone just wanted to get ready early.
I decided to get some more sleep until a certain blonde woke me.
"Wakey wakey," she said has she nudged me, trying to get me to fall over. I kept my balance and just gave her a glare.
"Why are you waking me when we have an hour before we need to get ready?" I asked keeping a blank expression. I noticed the red haired girl wave shyly at me so I give her a nod. A blush suddenly crept on her cheeks and she darted away leaving rose petals behind. As I looked back at the blonde she had a grin plastered on her face.
"Ahh love at first nod," she commented as she held out her hand. "I'm Yang and the girl you just made run off is Ruby, my younger sister."
I took her hand and lifted myself up shaking it. "A pleasure, it really is. My name is Carmine." I say as I grab my bag and head off to the lockers.
"Now that I am awake, I guess I will get ready." I say a bit annoyed. Yang just scoffs at me and walks back to her sleeping bag.
As I walk out I notice the girl with black hair and a few other people watching my movements.
'Why must I be the center of attention?' I think to myself as I exit the room.
When I think I am safe, the red haired girl decides to show up. "Umm hi," she says softly. "I'm Ruby, if Yang didn't already tell you."
I could see she was very nervous and I didn't want to scare her.
"She did. My name is Carmine; it is a pleasure to meet you Ms. Ruby." I say a way a bit too sincere then I wanted to.
She stutters a bit at my words. "P-p-please call me R-Ru-Ruby." I smile at her and ruffle her hair a bit.
"Whatever you say, Ruby," I say as I start to walk off. I thought my meeting would end there, but of course it didn't.
"S-s-so what kind of weapon do you use." I hear from behind me as I am walking. I sigh softly as she keeps talking. "I am a bit of a gun nut and love all kinds of weapons." I chuckle a bit as she is now next to me.
"You will just have to see either during, or after initiation." I say calmly not wanting to scare her, although I doubt I would at this point. She frowns when I walk into the boys bathroom with just a wave.
Initiation went well and everyone made it out.
Ruby now leads team RWBY, consisting of herself the heiress Weiss, Black Belladonna the faunus in hiding, and her sister Yang.
I am the leader of team CBLT (cobalt) with myself, Beryl White a female doe faunus, Loden Green a man from Atlas like myself, and Tomas Umber a quiet man who hasn't told us much.
I take my stuff to settle in my room where I see my team setting up. It is late in the afternoon when we arrive, so we all get to whatever we thought was best for our part of the room.
Beryl is wearing a white button down frilly shirt, with a gray under shirt, egg white pants and light colored shoes. Her hair is an off white with her little deer ears sticking out of her head.
Loden is wearing a green sweater with dark green slacks. He has his hair in a need bob cut that matches his blue eyes.
Tomas is nowhere to be found but you can see his dark colored clothing sticking out of his bag on his bed. It seems to be his color as his hair is a dark gray and his eyes look glassed over in a gray hue.
I hear a knock on the door and go to answer. I should have asked first. As I open the door I am yanked out by a strong grip and dragged into a different dorm room.
As I am dropped on the floor facing the door I can hear Ruby apologizing and Weiss berating Yang. "Someone had to go get him," she said as I stand and brush myself off.
"A simple, 'Hey lets go for a nice chat' would have worked." I offered as I turned to see the girls all staring at me.
I give them a confused look when I notice my hair isn't over my eye. I quickly turn around and readjust my hair.
"So what can I do for you ladies?" I ask as I look from one to the other.
"Well…" Yang starts and is immediately cut off by Ruby.
"We wanted to congratulate you on becoming Team Leader." She says enthusiastically.
I just look her over grinning. "So this is for the two of us?" I say as I look to the others. Ruby is blushing deep while Yang gives me a thumbs up. The other two look confused again,
"I am not the only one who is a new team leader now am I?" I say matter-of-factly.
Ruby smiles and goes out knocking on the door across the hall.
Soon team JNPR is in the room and my team has walked by and we are planning the nights event. "Just remember that we have class in the morning." Beryl says as we all go to the town and have a bit of fun.
It was a fun night as we all chatted and got to know each other.
Tomas even talked with Blake for a bit, so I found out he wasn't the completely to himself type. I wanted to talk with Blake about her faunus heritage, but I knew better in from of her new team and Weiss of all people; although she seems to get along well with Beryl.
As the night went on Yang finally came up to me. "So what is with your two eyes?" She asked a bit loudly.
Ruby knew her sister was going to make this hard on her but also wanted to know the answer.
I looked her dead in the eye and said three words. "White Fang Attack." That did exactly what I wanted it too. She dropped the subject and no one decided to talk about it again that night.
Ruby tried a few times to close and talk to me, which was okay, but I kept pushing away a bit, not wanting to get close to her; if anyone. She really wanted to know all about my weapon and my eye.
Yang had to come over a few times and stop her from talking but I let her talk away. It made her happy, and I was happy to listen.
She went on about her 'Baby,' Crescent Rose. It was a scythe-sniper combo, which I have to admit is pretty cool. We seemed to hit it off well but I had to remember that I always lost someone I cared about and to make sure I wasn't making the same mistake again.
It took some time to get use to being around everyone there, as everyone just seemed to want to talk to me. I didn't care that much. It did bother me some though. I was always the center of attention when I was in the ward but that was it.
Nearing the end of the night I notice Blake and Tomas talking out by themselves and wandered over a bit.
"I am surprised that you are able to hide it so easily under a ribbon," I heard as I walked to the doorway. I decided not to interrupt and walk back, but when I turned around Jaune was there.
"Hey Carmine," he said in a bit of an irritated tone. "How come Weiss has the hots for you?" I didn't even think someone would like me, let alone her. I just smirked and motioned at myself with my hands.
"I got the charm." I said cockily.
Jaune didn't like that and tried to throw a swing. To give him a bit of dignity I let the swing go through and sure enough it wasn't that strong.
"Hey hey, done be like that. I'm not interested." I said as Blake and Tomas walked back in.
They could see Jaune was drunk as well.
"Looks like Yang spiked the punch," I heard Blake say and Tomas just chuckled. "Let's get Jaune to bed, before he hurts himself more." she said as we walked him back down to the group.
We decided to call it a night and go our separate ways.
"That was fun," Yang started. "I had a Pun-tastic time." Everyone just groaned at this point and we all walked back to the dorms.
"We should do this again soon." Ruby added as we got to their dorm. I smirked a bit, "Find something else to celebrate," I commented knowing she probably would just to have an excuse to hang out again.
With a wave to everyone we said our goodnights. Tomorrow was going to be a long day, when you have very little sleep.
As I lie in my bed and started to fall asleep I could hear Tomas come over.
"Atlas really helped you out with that eye didn't they?" He whispers sitting next to my bed. I looked over and could see his glassed over eyes clear as night.
"I am sorry you had to go through with what you did. Most faunus know about the tragedy." He spoke as if it were news that just happened. "Your mother and father were good people just trying to help in any way they could. I hope you can be the same." He said before he returned to his bed.
No one else was awake that night expect for me.
'How could he know so much?' I thought. 'I didn't even know they were doing what they did."
I looked out the window at the broken moon when suddenly a message went over my eye.
From Ironwood:
Level 3 Grim Attack, West Sector 43. All Available Units Please Stand By.
I looked at the map that came up. Level 3 wasn't that high, and Sector 43 wasn't too close to the Vale border.
I just decided to ignore it this time and let sleep take over.
The nightmare wasn't too bad this time. It seemed redder then I remember. I watched as the man attacked my mother, or was it my mother. The woman looked to be younger, like she was still a child. Her hair was red and not my mother's golden brown. Then I noticed that she had a weapon in her hand; a gigantic scythe, the size of a small Ursa. Then I could hear her laughing, I could see her dancing. The same blush on her face when she first saw me. I was dreaming about Ruby Rose instead of my mother. The man was replaced with Yang and the house was filled with food and drinks and loud music; a life of someone who hadn't lost it all once before.
"I wonder what this means," I said as I awoke to the daylight.
A/N: I hope you all enjoyed. This is becoming a fun story to write. I will say one thing about this story and this is, it will not follow anything related to the show. I decided this after not wanting to have to make it line up. I want this to be a unique experience for all. The only main things that will stay the same are of course, Weiss, Blake, Yang and Ruby. Everything else will be a bit different. Please review and like and follow if you want. I appreciate it all.
Thanks Again: DK
