Crimson Gold
"I see what you mean Weiss… It's hard to explain myself…" Ruby stated. As Ruby stated this, the group woke from their slumber. "You were sleeping?!"
Yang quickly came to their defense. "You took a really long time to think, Ruby!"
Ruby pouted. "It's hard you know. I really don't have much to say that I haven't told you."
Blake, trying to get the fire started, asked, "So which one of you was adopted?"
Yang and Ruby immediately put their head down in shame. "We are NOT adopted! Everyone thinks that! Urggh!" Ruby said fiercely.
"I'm sorry! It's just that you have very different last names and… features…" Blake countered.
"Anyway," started Ruby, "We are sisters from the blood. Yang and I have a good relationship. Yang always helped me out with school, and always read me stories."
Yang laughed. "Yeah, but you're a bitch about it-"
Ruby came to her own defense. "I am NOT!" she said childishly, "I just don't like when you baby me."
Yang raised her eyebrows. "Told you she was." She said.
"Whatever, Yang," Began Ruby, "She was always there for me when I needed it-"
Yang raised her finger, "Not necessarily always."
Ruby turned red as her combat skirt. "UURGH! I'm trying to make you look like a good person!" She explained.
Yang grinned, "Okay, continue."
Ruby sighed. "As I was saying, she's almost always there for me. Except for the first day of school. And the thing with that boy. And when she blamed things on me. But whatever, otherwise, she there for me a lot. So, I love her a lot."
Yang smiled, "Thank you!"
Under her breath, Ruby said, "Whatever." Yang didn't seem to notice.
"Wait," Weiss begun, "How'd you get into Beacon, Ruby? You never told us?"
Ruby looked happy to be asked this question. "You know that Torchwick guy?" she asked. The group nodded. "Yeah, he robbed some dust store I was in, and I took down all of his goons and came into pursuit of him. He was getting away on a big flying thingy when Glynda Goodwich showed up and nearly stopped him. I fainted and-"
The group seemed to find this amusing. "You fainted?" They jeered. Ruby blushed.
"Yeah, Yeah, whatever. Anyway, I woke up in some office and Ozpin walkedinandIfreakedoutandthenheaskedmetojoinBeaconcausehesawmybadasseryand-" Ruby stopped to catch breath, but before starting again, she was stopped by Blake.
"What the hell was that?"
Yang intervened. "Sometimes she speaks really fast while explaining something. I got this; I speak fluent Ruby. She said: Ozpin walked in, then she freaked out, and he asked her to join Beacon, because he saw her badassery in the fight." Ruby nodded in agreement.
"Oh." Weiss said. "You know each other very well, don't you?"
Yang rolled her eyes. "Obviously, we just told you our damn life story!" Weiss pouted. "It was a rhetorical question, Yang." She yawned. "I'm going to go to bed. The tournaments in a couple weeks."
Just then Ruby remembered. "What about Penny?" all of the girls looked at each other.
"She must've gone off somewhere, I mean, we barely know her! She'll pop up again sometime." Ruby didn't look convinced.
"Ok, ok. But I still don't think she'd just disappear out of nowhere." Yang rolled her eyes. "Whatever, Ruby, I'm getting tired. Is this meeting over?"
Ruby immediately said, "No. We need to talk about Penny! You saw how good she was at fighting! She wiped out three darn airships! She shot sword from thin air!"
Blake said, "She could have Pyrrha's power, magnetic control or whatever it is."
Ruby sat on the thought. "Maybe. But all the same, she did that laser thing with the swords! Pyrrha can't do that."
Weiss decided to speak up.
"What happened over there, anyway?" Ruby seemed to forget Yang and Weiss weren't there.
"Penny kicked ass. She took down three airships, and at least two dozen guys. It was absolutely insane!"
Weiss seemed surprised. "Penny?" Ruby nodded. "I know, right?"
Yang spoke up. "She's going to compete in the tournament, right? If she's as killer as you say, she'll probably win."
Ruby moaned. "That's the problem! We don't know where she went! She might not even be here for the tournaments!"
Yang just wanted to sleep. "Ruby, calm down. She's a big girl, she can handle herself." Ruby sighed. "I don't know, she seems pretty helpless."
Blake and Weiss nodded in agreement.
"She does seem a little helpless…"
Yang burst. "What the f- Oh, I can't say that, this is rated t. Darn it. Whatever. What the hell are you talking about? You just said she kicked major ass!"
Ruby countered, saying, "Yeah, but you saw her before, laying on the ground. She's not the smartest. She maybe tactful, but definitely not the most logical. Yang sighed. "I just want to go to sleep!"
Blake rolled her eyes. "It's only 9:00…" she said.
"Ok. Anyway, let's rewind here. Are you two friends again?" Ruby asked, pointing at Blake and Weiss. They looked at each other. Weiss was the first to speak.
"Yeah, I don't really care she's a Faunus."
Blake agreed. "As long as she's fine with me, I'm fine with her. Ruby seemed quite content with her work.
"I'm glad we sorted it out. Wait, Blake, are you in with that Sun guy?" Ruby asked.
Blake laughed. "Sure, I guess." She replied. Ruby nodded, looking a tad bit disappointed. At this, Yang burst out laughing.
"HA! Ruby, you had plans for him, didn't you!" Ruby immediately turned red. "Did NOT!" Weiss rolled her eyes.
"Stop being so foolish." She said. Ruby looked Weiss straight in the eye, just beginning a sentence, and noticed a little scar. "How'd you get that?" Ruby asked, pointing at Weiss's scar. Weiss regretted her asking this question.
"I... I..." Weiss struggled to answer this question. It brought back unwanted memories.
Ruby saw the expression on Weiss's face, and took action. "Why don't go to slee-" Before Ruby could finish the sentence, the girls were off. Ruby slouched in her bed. She had a lot to think of, tonight.
