A Semblance of Sanity
A.N. Onwards to the last part of volume 1 (I hope) Here is a nice Christmas present, too. Edited on 1/4/16 for consistency with Canon
Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED LAST NIGHT, WHY ARE YOU TWO IN THE SAME BED" was the sound that I woke up to. I immediately disentangeled myself from Ruby and stood on the other side of the room. Yang was in full passed off mode, hair flaming, eyes red, pissed off scowl, the works. I decided to reply as soon as possible. "Nothing, we danced, she told me that she was in love with me, I told her that I felt the same after kissing her, we spent the rest of the night there until the concert was over, we caught the last bullhead back, she fell asleep on the way, I carried her back to the dorm and decided not to wake her up because she seemed like she was having a good dream!" I told her, praying to Oum that she would not kill me.
"YOU KISSED!?" she screamed as she ran at me, probably preparing to castrate me. Just as she reached me Ruby woke up. "Yang?" she said, sounding upset. Yang stopped and turned her head, "Yes Ruby?" she asked in her usual her cheerful tone. "Please step away from my… my…" she stuttered, like she was having a hard time finding the right word. "My boyfriend," she said, confidently this time.
She leapt back like I had just bitten her "Y… y… your… your… Your boyfriend?" she spluttered, like she couldn't process the words that she had just heard. "Uhhhhhhh… Ruby… I think you broke her," I said, barely holding back a laugh. Just then our scrolls went off all at once. I pulled it out and looked at the message: Team RWBYS to Professor Ozpin's office ASAP. We got dressed and set off.
Ozpin's office
I was wearing my beacon uniform, the blazer and dress shirt sleeves rolled up together to the middle of my upper arms, a necklace with a stylized view of a the top of a dragon's head and snout around my neck, a pair of rectangular glasses that had a thin frame that went half way down the outer side of the lenses, across the top, and ¾ of the way down the side of the lens that rested against the flesh of my nose, made of very dark blue metal. I had a nice black metal analog watch with a durable plastic band on my left wrist, a blue metal ring on my right ring finger, and a dark blue bracelet with a metal ring in the center on top of my wrist and a Celtic knotwork design on either side of it on my right wrist.
As we stepped out of the elevator we were dazzled by the room before us. It was like someone had taken the insides of a clock and turned them into a room, and it was magnificent, I could have just sat there and watched it for days and days.
Anyways, I digress, back to the topic at hand. After some awkward dancing around the subject we came to the heart of the matter. "Are you and James in a relationship, Miss Rose? Because if you are then we have to mark this down on both of your files." Ozpin said with a rather serious tone. ""Yes we are, but why does it matter? Is there some rule against hunters dating each other ?" she asked, hesitantly. "No, nothing like that, we just need to know so that we can inform your family and/or guardians of this, also this will make it so that the two of you will know if something happens to either one of you, we started doing this so that we don't have any nasty surprises of any kind." He told us, calm and succinct. "Well okay then, I just hope that Ruby's dad and/or uncle won't try to kill me, since Yang apparently gets her temper and fighting style from her dad." I said, trying, and failing, to sound cheerful and not at all afraid.
That afternoon
After that he let us go, and we decided to visit town to see the students from Vacuo that were arriving for the Vytal Festival that day. Weiss was going on about solemn duty to welcome them, yadayadayada, blah blah blah. "Whoa" I heard Ruby say, "What happened here" she asked as we approached what looked like a shop that had just been broken into.
Robbery, second time this week," said the cop on the scene. He turned to host partner and began talking about it, and the White Fang came up, and Weiss said that they were just a bunch of degenerates, and Blake retorted, and I just was not going to get into it. "What do you think of them James?" Weiss asked. I replied with the ever intelligent "Huh" "The White Fang. What's your opinion?" Oh. She had just thrown me into a minefield, and I had to tread very lightly so as to not make either Weiss or Blake hate me for a while. "Well, the way I see it, they're just trying to be seen as equals, and their current methods seem to them like they are working, so, in their reasoning, why would they change it. That is not to say that I condone it, they are, in fact, mislead, and desperate, too, but the people that treat them worse than grimm are at fault, too." I said, trying to not act biased at all. Judging by the looks on their faces, I suceeded.
My day went downhill from there, and the only things worth noting were running after a faunus stowaway and our encounter with a girl named Penny. I was fairly sure that she was a robot, because she talked very, very strictly in line with the rules of grammar and her mannerisms were very odd, very stinted and very scripted-seeming. Oh, one more thing, the one corner of the patch on my coat came off, thankfully, it was one of the lower corners, so there was no chance of them seeing… it.
When we got back to the dorm that night, Weiss and Blake were still arguing, and I was pretty fed up with it. I tried to ignore them, but I failed, and I took out my coat, grabbed out a needle and thread, and proceeded to start repairing the patch on the back of my coat when Weiss said "You want to know why I despise the White Fang? It's because there a bunch of liars, thieves, and murderers!" she said. At this point her Bitch-O-Meter was broken because it has no measure for that level of bitchiness. I stood up and said, almost at the same time as Blake and said " Maybe we were just tired of being pushed around!"
After that we ran out of the room. I heard Ruby yelling after me, but I kept on going, she probably hated me now that the secret was out, along with Yang and Weiss. We stopped in front of the statue in beacons courtyard, and Blake reached up, hesitantly, and removed her bow. We heard someone behind us say "I knew you'd look better without the bow.
Two days later (imagine that they have a long weekend)
"So you want to know more about me" Blake said to our new friend, Sun. I was pretty much tuning them out, drowning my sorrows in a seemingly endless cup of Irish coffee, because, at this point I had convinced myself that Ruby now hated me. I was broken out of my daze by Sunday with a "What about you, big guy? What's your story?" I might a well tell them. "I was in the White Fang until I was 13, then I left because I wanted no part of what they were becoming. After that I got food where I could, barely scraping by. That went on until I was 15, then I was hired as a bodyguard for a very powerful Crime Lady (because the female form of lord is lady). I made friends with Mercury Black and Emerald Sustrai, the boss lady's other two bodyguards. When I discovered my semblance, they ratted me out to the boss and she tried to turn me into her personal attack dog using a collar that would drug me into a berserker rage and then give me a shot of morphine when I killed something. It made me develop an insane second personality that loves sex, drugs, rock & roll, and killing. She would use people that she wanted dead as targets and the drug just brought out the other guy who always was happy to comply. I did make friends with a fellow test subject named Neopolitan, though. I escaped several months before school started, Ozpin found me a month later, and the rest is history." Blake and Sun just sat there, shocked. Hopefully, this would blow over soon and things would go back to normal.
Later at the docks (there are no meaningful changes/events up to this point)
Blake and Sun had come up with a plan to find out once and for all if the robberies were conducted by the White Fang. The plan was to have a stakeout across from a big Schnee company Dust shipment that had just come in, but our suspicions were soon proved right when a bullhead arrived and White Fang grunts came out and began to prep a crate for transport. A human in a very slick getup came and began ordering the thugs around and Blake broke cover and went after her. I was beating up on grunts from the White Fang when I heard… her. "Oh I finally found you, my dear, stray pet" she said, venom lacing her voice. She was wearing a black jumpsuit with glowing cinder themed flares and a half-mask over her eyes. She had twin swords in her hands and a smirk on her face. My vision tunneled, the only thing that mattered was killing her. I went at her claws out, ready to f*** her up. The next thing I knew I felt an icy pinch in my right shoulder, then nothing. I looked down and there was blood dripping out of the hole where my arm used to be. I then picked myself up, and attacked again, this time I felt a slice across the bridge of my nose and an unbearable burning on my left wrist. I fell to my knees, beginning to black out from pain and blood loss.
The last thing I saw was a reaper of Red and Black running towards me, scythe forgotten.
Chapter end
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Jk, I'm not that much of an asshole. On with the story.
The first thing that I noticed when I woke up was the overwhelming smell of antiseptic, which meant that I was alive, and probably in a hospital. The second thing was a girl in sunglasses and a beret. I could have sworn that I had seen her before, but I couldn't remember where, so I asked, saying "Who are you? Where is my team?" The look on her face was priceless. She looked like someone had doused her with ice water. She quickly regained her composure and replied "I'm Coco Adel, leader of team CFVY, Velvet's team. She has been so worried about you since you got curb stomped by that mystery woman. You're one of the few people that stood up for her when Cardin bullied her, you know. I convinced your team to go and get some hot coco in the cafeteria. You had Ruby worried sick, you know. She and at least one of your teammates, Team JNPR, my team, or Team CRDL have been here with you almost 24/7, regardless of being ordered to go to class normally. Your teammates have barely been able to sleep for a month." "Even Weiss? The prim and proper Princess? Also, where is the remote to adjust my position?" "Yes, even her, and the remote is on your right," she said a smirk tugging at her lips at that. I picked up the remote, and looked at it, just so that I didn't accidentally press the "call nurse" button and saw a… metal hand…
That's right…
I lost my right arm…
The next moment three things happened, and in this order: I heard a gasp, a red and black blur gave me a bear hug, and then I heard the sound of a paper cup hitting the floor and spilling its contents.
Ruby let go and looked up at me, tears glistening in her eyes, smile gracing her face. She looked terrible, eyes red and puffy from crying, bags underneath her eyes, the whole nine yards. "Don't ever do that again you big dummy" she said. I looked at her, leaned over, and then said "I may be a big dummy, but I'm your big dummy," I said, then kissed her, full on the lips. The brief embrace seemed to last an eternity. I broke the kiss and smiled. "I'm sorry for running away, I was just so scared about what you would think, it's just that you guys are the first place that I've belonged, not just been wanted, but truly belonged, and I was afraid that I had ruined that, because I really do love you, Ruby" I told her, but I got no reply. Puzzled, I looked down. She was fast asleep. 'Why the heck not' I figured, and used the remote to lower the bed a bit, snuggled up, and closed my eyes..
I slept soundly and had sweet dreams that night, happy and content.
AN: Here you go my few, dedicated fans! I worked through the Doctor Who Christmas special to bring this to you guys, I hope you like it!