Chapter 3 : The Journey Begins
A/N : here it is the one and only chapter 3
Ruby stood before her mother grave stone like she has so many times before but for some reason this time it feels different . She been her before during the winter . It isn't the fact that it's so quiet in fact she actually likes the fact that's it's so quiet up here it always allows her to think clearly. Nor is it the fact that she has companion with her after all she's been up here plenty of times with her sister or her dad even uncle Qrow a couple of times . Maybe it's because things are different now or maybe it's because things seem so dire now . She things to herself could it be what she's about to tell her mother . Whatever it is it continues to bother her . Her let's out a shakey breath ,which becomes instantly visable due to the cold . She smiles sadly down at the grave
"Hey, mom I'm sorry I haven't come here again…in quiet a while it's just well quiet a while . It's just things are different now I mean Beacons gone , over run with grimm … there was this dragon that I stopped I think you would be proud of that . Uncle Qrow says it's because of my silver eyes and he said you had a similar ability . Anyway , my team's gone now . Weiss is apparently back in Atlas with her family , Black ran off , and Yang lost her arm and is depressed . I know mom the last part is probably causing you to freak out but don't worry yang's special shell fight through it like she always does. But mom I need you not to get mad alright and I mean please oh please don't get mad at what I'm about to tell you next okay . I sort of ran away of home and I'm sure dad's probably freaked out but it's not as bad as it sounds okay… Me and Jaune you remember Jaune right he's the leader of team JNPR ,along with Nora , and Ren are heading to Haven . Uncle Qrow sort of told me that there might be some leads as to what happened to Beacon and to possible find the people responsible for it . Don't sorry mom I'll be safe I promise and I have good friends to watch my back to. I'm sorry mom but I won't be able to see you in a while I don't know how long I'll be gone for . But don't worry I'll come back, and I'll talk to you again okay . Goodbye mom I love you .
With that Ruby stepped back , turned around , and walked towards the remnants of team JNPR . She nodded to Jaune who in turn nodded back and began to follower her . Ren and Nora shorty followed after the two as the begain down to trail leading to Haven .
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She was determined to get to Haven to figure out what caused the downfall of Beacon and hopefully find the culprit behind the incident. She knows Jaune, Nora , and Ren also have their own reasons for accompanying her. She wishes Yang was here along with her , maybe a journey would have helped boost her sisters morals . After all those used to cheer her up in the past. Like when they were little much to the horror of their father when they would disappear .
"Ugh", came a voice from behind her.
She turned and saw Jaune shakingly getting back to his feet . ", I'm fine he muttered as soon as be saw her looking at him. She looked at him and saw he was visibly tired , and sawy Nora and Ren in not much better shape after all they had been walking for over 9 and a half hours since they left mom's grave . She herself felt her legs shake a bit every now and then from exhaustion . Her body seemingly begging her to sit down and rest .
She let out a long sigh. "We should probably set up camp for the night ", she said. Looking around she saw the sun beginning to creep down on the horizon.
"What, we should press on a bit further ", Jaune began to protest . He took a few feet forward before his legs have way and he feel once more. He started back up " I guess your right ", he said .
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They set up camp as soon as night fell . Ren had set up the two tents up surprising fast . According to him it had been from years of experience from when he and Nora had no where to call home. Jaune and Ruby had gather a plentiful amount of wood for the fire and an equally amount of wood to keep the fire burning through out the night. To the surprise of both Jaune and Ruby Nora was extremely fast at starting a fire m According to her it had been from years of experience from when her and Ren had no where to call home .
They ate their meals in silence except for the sort conversations every now and again. After they finished their meals they headed off to the two tents . Nota and Ruby in one and Jaune and Ren in the other . Ruby selected herself to keep the first watch after all they were in the middle of a forrest with plenty of wildlife and potential grimm lurking about . Nora and Ren were asleep almost instantly .
Ruby couldn't help but look up at the stars . As the littered the night sky gleeming like little beacons in the dark sky . She let out a sigh as she began to think of how things were so different now. Especially how different Yang seemed when she left. It was so different from her usual motherly, fun , outgoing , carefree nature Now she just stayed in bed barely talking to anyone and just staring out the window.
I hope Yang truly now's that I love her Ruby thought to herself . Hoping Yang would be alright while she's away on this journey.
On top of that Rubys unsure about this ability . Uncle Qrow had told her that mom had the same ability along with everyone else who had silver eyes possessed the same ability. It scared her though having this ability it was cool she thought at first but that quickly changed to hints of fear . She didn't even know how she triggered it in the first place. Or how she was going to use it if the time arose. Ruby sighs and looks up at the stars once more . I wonder if mom was as scared and confused as I was when she discovered this ability she thinks to herself . Ruby hears rustling coming from Jaune and Rens tent that snaps her out of her train of thought.
"Hey", says Jaune quietly . As he closes the tent as quietly as possible in an attempt to not wake Ren nor Nora. "I couldn't sleep", he adds.
Ruby simply nods as he sits down by the fire near her . A lot of things we on her mind surrounding what happened to everyone . After all Yang was a bit vaige about certain things but Ruby didn't want to press for details in fear it might worsen her sisters depression .She turns and looks at Jaune and ask ," What exactly happened to everyone ?"
Jaune looked at her before letting out a sigh . " Well after I called Weiss I just stayed there outside of the locker. Until I was found by Oobleck and Port who were out looking for any survivors . I was more or less dragged back to the evac site on forced onto an airship".
Jaune let's out another sigh." The next thing was all a blur Were all on the airship escaping ,the next thing you know there a flash of a blinding white light , and once it's faded the dragons frozen onto the tower. Once we landed there were a a bunch of Schnee company guards and Atlas members . You can guess who's father was there. Weiss was more or less dragged onto her father's airship against her protest. I guess Blake slipped away while everyone was boarding much to the dismay of Sun. Yang was more or less fading in and out of consciousness throughout all of it. Sun and his team were sent back to their school. Along with teams ABRN, BRNZ, FNKY and everyone else.
"From what I hear some of our teams from Beacon like team CFVY are helping Altas and the other Huntsman push back the grimm that are trying to escape from Beacon . Me, Nor, and Ren have been more or less drifting around up until you contacted up. He sighed once more . " And you already know what happened to Phrrya", he said sadly.
"You think we'll actually find anything ?", Jaune ask .
I hope we do ", Ruby replies . " Try and get some sleep I'll wake you when it's your turn".
Jaune mutters a goodnight and heads back to the tent . Ruby sighs once he's in the tent and looks up at the stars . She really hopes Qrows right and they do find something .After all this is the beginning of a long journey.
A/N: That concludes the end of chapter 3 . Once again I hope you all enjoyed and stay tuned for more .
Up next : Chapter 4 : Welcome to Ragnarok .