Hi everyone! I am glad to say that i have a Beta Reader for this story, which is Perilheart. I already corrected the first two chapters, and this chapter will get a correction too, because I have to go this weekend for personal reasons and i won´t be able to get to the computer to check, so probably this chapter will be corrected soon. Now, I expect that you enjoy this chapter.
This chapter has been rewritten
Ruby – 12:30 – Temple Forest
- "Great, the gang is here! Now we can all die together!" – Yang said, meaning that we had two powerful Grimm attacking us right now. But that was nothing, since we were Huntresses and Hunters, the protectors of Remnant, so it was up our task to fight them right now, and I won´t be less. – "Not if I can help it." – I said, before sprinting with my scythe in hand, using my Semblance to speed up towards the Deathstalker. It was going to be easy, nothing can fight back Crescent Rose, and I would be able to show Weiss that I can handle every type of danger without problem, a win-win situation!
- "Ruby, wait!" – My sister shouted, speeding up to try to chase me, but I was already using my Semblance, trying to have enough speed to let Crescent Rose slice the Deathstalker without problem. But what I didn´t expect was that the Deathstalker used one of his pincers to block my attack, and send me back, making me fall to the ground. It was going to be more difficult that I thought… - "Do… Don´t worry, totally fine!" – I shouted back, but my voice sounded my true emotions, the feeling of fear that started to grow inside me, since my Crescent Rose couldn´t pass the armour of the Grimm. Using the rifle parts of Crescent Rose, I fired a bullet trying to penetrate it, but the armour deflected the bullet like it was nothing… - "Time to run" – I thought, starting to run, but I couldn´t use my Semblance, my concentration was broken, and my only focus was trying to get to Yang.
But the Nevermore had others plans, since it threw a barrage of feathers that ended up trapping me because it hit in my cloak, and stopped Yang by trapping her in a wall of feathers. I struggled to try to break free, but the feather wouldn´t move. – "Ruby, get out of there!" – Yang shouted, trying to go to my side. – "I am trying!" – I shouted back, trying to break free with all my strength, while I saw how the Deathstalker got near me, pointing at me with his sting, surely to kill me without problems since I couldn´t move. I closed my eyes, fearing the pain I would be suffering when that sting came, but after a moment passed, I could hear something struggling and the pain didn´t come…
- "You are so childish…" - Weiss said, standing in front of me, with Mystenaster in her hands, pointed at the ground and lots of ice immobilizing the Deathstalker. – "Weiss?" – I began, surprised to see her saving me, but Weiss didn´t stop. – "And dim-witted, and hyperactive, and don´t get me started with your fighting style. And I suppose… I can be a bit… difficult. But if we are going to do this, we are going to go through together. So if you try to don´t show off, I will be… nicer." – She said, trying by her manner to apologise, or that's what I thought, because she was showing care for me at her way… - "I am not trying to show off, I want you to know I can do this." – I said, a bit depressed because I needed to be rescued, showing that I couldn´t handle the Grimm, and that I was weak… - "You are fine…" - Weiss said, meaning those words that I was strong enough to stay in Beacon, and maybe I gained her friendship… - "Normal needs…" - I whispered to myself, since this is what I wanted, to have more friends and becoming a Huntress with them.
I freed myself of that feather, and went to look at the Deathstalker, seeing how incredible was that it was rendered immobile with the Ice Dust that Weiss used. Then, Yang ran towards me, and hugged using her strength, feeling how I couldn´t breathe for a moment, before she used less strength. – "I am so happy you are okay!" – Yang said, showing clear signs of relief after checking that I was unharmed. Then a roar from the Nevermore reminded us that we weren´t free of dangers.
- "Guys, that thing is going back… And who is this guy in pyjamas?" – Said Jaune, firstly pointing at the Nevermore, before pointing at the guy in pyjamas that I didn´t see before… Maybe I was too focused in the Grimm to notice it, but it was really strange. – "He is Edward, a civilian that appeared out of nowhere with amnesia." – Yang explained, smiling, but that Edward was distracted, with his mouth open while seeing the ice and the weapons I and Weiss carried. At least he was impressed by Crescent Rose!
- "Look, it´s no sense in dilly-delaying, our objective is right in front of us." – Weiss said, looking at the chess pieces. – "She is right, our mission is grab an artefact, and make it back to the cliffs, and now protecting Edward. There is no point in fighting these things." – I said, while earning an approving look of Weiss by this decision. – Run and live, this is an idea I can get behind. – Said Jaune, showing his enthusiasm before going together to grab a relic. I caught the horse, while Jaune was reaching to grab the rook before Edward ran toward us. – "Don´t catch it!" – He said, grabbing the rook. Then, the relics started to show a dark glow that exploded in darkness around us. – "Ruby!" – Yang shouted before I fell unconscious.
Ozpin – 12:30 – Cliffs
He was checking the video to make sure everything was going as expected, seeing how Ruby Rose was showing the skills of a leader. She was innocent and eager to become a Huntress, but what caught his attention was the boy in pyjamas… A civilian in the middle of the Initiation? He was sure that the teachers out there would had intervened to take him to safety, but it´s like nobody outside the four pairs knew he was there… Then, they grabbed the pieces, but something started to give problems, obstructing the signal of the video.
- "Glynda, go to them." – He said, looking at Glynda Goodwitch. – "Alright, Professor. "– She said before starting to run with infused aura speed towards their location. It was strange, but it was something that needed help, since didn´t planted any Dark Dust in the relics, and that was not his doing… He decided to wait, while taking a bit of the coffee, trying to maintain his head cool, and being ready to take part if it was necessary, even though that civilian was similar in appearance to someone I couldn't recall…
Edward - ? - ?
I waked up, feeling how my head hurt like hell, looking around me. I could only see that we weren´t in the Temple Forest, and beside me was the girl Yang called Ruby. She was waking as well, seeing in her silver eyes the confusion she was suffering. – "Where are we?" – She asked me, but I couldn´t answer. The place started to get a bit clearer, maybe because our eyes were adjusting to the darkness, but we could see that we were like inside a building, a really big building with open ceiling, since we could see the sky, but it was dark, as if no star covered the night.
- "Well, look what we have… An intruder…" - Someone said, making us look at the sound, and it was a woman wearing a dark robe, and her hair was long silver. But she was transmitting a feeling of fear to us, my instincts were telling me that we should scape from her grasps. Ruby prepared her weapon, her scythe looking prepare to fight her in any moment. – "I mean you, the girl with red hood… He is here for his trial… And the reason is his very existence… Something that you will forget soon…" - The woman said, with a smile that seemed sadistic… - "I am not going to let you harm him!" – Ruby said, pointing at the woman with her scythe before making a shot to her, but then she put her hand and grabbed the bullet… - "Wha…!" – Ruby said, before being flung back, as if she was hit by something, but then I fell back too, receiving like a train charge to my chest, feeling how the pain was installing in my body. – "Give up girl… he is going to die, and you will forget. Isn´t it the best choice, since you can´t do anything?" – The woman said to Ruby, seeing how she was getting up, being between me and that woman. – "Ruby, please…" - I said, trying to get her out of harm. I didn´t know why I said that, but I didn´t want her to get hurt because of me. I coughed, feeling how blood escaped from my mouth. I was feeling weak by the moment, and it was getting worse…
- "The reason I don't give up is because I am a Huntress. My objective is becoming a Huntress so I can protect the people, and if I can´t protect you here, I am not going to forgive myself even if I forget. So don´t give up!" – Ruby said to me, surely trying to keep my hopes up, but I could see better, she was feeling weak from the impact, I could see how her legs shacked to try to keep her standing. But she looked at me, with those eyes, silver eyes that reflected confidence and… hope… - "What a purest soul… but since you don´t give up, I will have to kill you too…" - The woman said, while something gathered in her hands, something that was like dark light until she fired in a discharge of pure dark energy that was directed to us. Ruby stood between that dark ray and me, surely hoping that she would protect me that way. – "No!" – I shouted, I didn´t want her to die like this, I wanted her to live, for her to live her dream, but I couldn´t do anything for her, and I was a dead weight…
- "Then do something…" - Said a voice in my head, and then a push in my back that made me go to where Ruby was, running to her and then, I hugged her in an attempt to make us move from the dark ray, but it was going to be too late. But then, the voice was calling me again… - "Say my name, and call me to this fight… Make Ruby be able to maintain the hope…" - Said that voice, and then a surge of power breaking my mind with two words. – "The Star!" – I shouted, feeling like an explosion of light surged from my body, before feeling how I fell to the ground. In front of me was Ruby, but it was different… she was wearing now a white cloak, with her hair now longer and the colour of her hair now was golden, even making Yang envious of that hair. Her weapon changed too, it was still a scythe, but now there was a new blade at the bottom, and she was shining with a warm light…
- "The Star!? This is not your playground! Leave!" – The woman shouted, with a inflexion on her voice that indicated fear, like she was scared of Ruby… - "It´s time to pay for your crimes…" - Said Ruby, but even her voice was changed, sounding more like the voice of a kind mother infuriated, because it´s children were hurt. Now, in a flash, Ruby was behind the woman with the scythe prepared to slice that woman in half, but that woman wasn´t going to let Ruby made that move, since she prepared as well those dark lights, repelling the initial attack of Ruby with another attack, but she blocked it with ease using her weapon. – "Light, come!" – Ruby shouted, making the dark sky starting to light with stars, but one of them shot a column of light that ended up in my position, making me stay inside that column of light, feeling better now, the pain disappearing. The others stars started to gather around Ruby, before they started to follow here in her increased speed. Ruby made another slice with the scythe, trying to slice the head of that woman, but she evaded in time and tried to hit Ruby with another dark ray. That attack was blocked as well for the stars that gathered around Ruby, before another ray, this time a golden ray, was shot to that woman, making a clear hit in her chest as she backed off a few meters. – "The Fool… I see. I will work with you in due time. The Star, you won´t be able to protect him all the time…" - The woman said, before disappearing from our sights. Ruby stayed silent, until the light came off, making Ruby wear again her clothes and hair.
- "What happened?" – Ruby asked, looking at her hands in confusion. I didn´t know if she remembered anything of that battle, but the light that covered me faded, as I fell unconscious, feeling dead tired…