2 Time-Champs
A tempo of mashed buttons echoed the dorm room, as Ruby and Sig sat in front of the HoloTV, Ruby had a blanket over her head, with a cookie in her mouth, pressing buttons on the controller. Sig, even while sitting stood above her doing the same.
"Ya see kid, controllers not just a sophisticated weapon, for a more civilized time, it's the only way to play!" Sig declared proudly.
Ruby swallowed the cookie. "Teach me more Master Haaaaallll." Ruby said entranced in the gaming she was experiencing. Squall walked in through the door. "They still going at it?" he asked.
"Yes, it's best 24 out of 36." Julius said looking to Squall holding his deceptively cold expression.
Squall took a seat on the desk with multiple dust bullets. A a few more rounds between Sig and Ruby. The door opened, to reveal Cash in a black Trench coat and pants, with a black hoodie underneath. The hoodie has a Grim design that has the head on the hood, the eyes on either side of the hood, and the jagged jaw surrounding the collar, looping between the hoodie strings.
"Time to go." Cash said, bringing attention to his team and Ruby. Squall grabbed a handful of bullets, and pulled up a Gunblade, with broadsword type blade, and a revolvers chamber make like his brothers, but his stuck more to the original design of the gun handle. He also grabbed the coat on the chair and put it on. Sig put down the controller, and opened the bottom drawer under his bed and grabbed what looked like a little white stick and, put it around his waist. Julius got up and started walking to the door, taking a more stalwart expression.
Team CSHS and Ruby stood outside the door of their dorm room, Ruby getting a clear look at them all, gave a quiet "woah", nodding in approval seeing them together.
"It was nice getting to see you all, I hope you'll be safe." Ruby said interlocking her hands.
"We'll be gone for possibly 4 days, but I"ll see you and everyone on Wednesday, for "Team Margins"" Cash said pulling his hood up covering his face, making it look like he was in fact a humanoid grim.
"It's a walk in the park, it's just far that's all." Sig assured her.
"We best get moving." Squall said turning his head to the elevator.
"It's been fun." Ruby said trying to keep up beat, but then gave a small frown.
"You can keep playing along if you want." Sig said pointing his thumb to their room.
"Reaaaallllyyy!?" Ruby asked with glee.
"Yeah just remember too the lock the door on your way out." Sig said as he walked off to the elevator with his team in tow.
"I will! Good luck guys!" Ruby said waving at them. Ruby turned to their room, and re-entered the room cheerfully and began to play the game once again intensely. As a few hours passed by, the teenager, rose her arms to stretch and let out a relaxing sigh. She got up with a spring and proceeded out the door, locking it , checking twice for good measure.
Ruby proceeded down the halls, happily and went on to her business.
3 days passed, and now we find ourselves in the Mess Hall in Beacon. Our heroes team RWBY, were eating and talking. Not too far was Team JNPR watching Nora balance a spoon on her nose.
"And it's so COOOOL, Squall is totally the Blake in their team." Ruby exclaimed. Blake perked up at this, and raised her eyebrow.
"Sheesh Ruby you hang out with these guys ONCE and their the salt of the earth to you." Yang said taking a bite out of a carrot.
"Honestly, I think your getting obsessed." Weiss said, playing with her carrots.
"I am not! I just think their cool, and they were nice." Ruby argued taking fast bites out of her food.
Yang stared her sister for a moment. A bell rang of in her head. "Ruby, could you…have a crush on this guy?" Yang asked, making Ruby spit out her food.
"No! Of course not! That's totally not it! Never!" Ruby defended. Yang continued to stare at her, with Blake and Weiss. "I'm…gonna head to my next class now, I"ll see guys for Oobleck's class." Ruby said taking her tray, and walking towards the exit door. She noticed Nora and lifted her tray up. "Hey Nora, you want the rest of my food?" she said across to the table across. Nora popped to her in puff of wind.
"Don't mind if do!" Nora happily took the tray and began eating like a hyena. Ruby continued to the exit leaving her teammates behind and Nora feasting.
The three girls stared at each other, pondering their leaders actions. "I'm thinking this guy has shady intentions." Yang said with reeling suspicions, plucking a grape into her mouth.
"I don't know, sounds like the guy is just being honestly kind, his team seems to like her." Blake said neutrally.
"One things for certain, he's MUCH too old for her." Weiss said as-of-matter factly.
"I think we don't have to worry about that. Yang's just being cautious. And Paranoid." Blake chimed, that last part in, which annoyed Yang.
"One thing does kind of get me though." Weiss said.
"What?" Yang replied.
"Ruby said Squall was Cash's brother and that they both had the same mother but…when I looked at the Vytal Festival results from two years ago, it said his last name was "Leonhart."" Weiss explained. Both girls perked up and looked at each other, trying to think of what to make of this.
Ruby made her way down the halls, humming to herself. As she appoached the elevator, she saw a man holding a packing, tapping his foot waiting at the elevator, he was wearing a postman's delivery uniform. He looked agitated and was murmuring to himself.
"Dammit, bad enough I'm not sure where to go, all they gave me was the address, and just put the room floor on this sticky note!" the delivery man grumbled. He felt a tap at his shoulder. He looked to see Ruby.
"Hi, need some help?" she asked.
He looked like he set to rant again, but seeing Ruby's genuine urging face, changed his demeanor. "I, uh,…..can't really nail down where to go for this delivery." The delivery man said putting up the sticky note.
"It's a dropoff for Squall LeonHart, I know the rooms in Beacon are identified by the Team Names in alphabetical order, but I'm caught in what floor to go to. And worse, I can't tell if the number on here is supposed to a 6 or a 9." He explained.
"Squall? Hmmmmmm. Their dorms on the sixth floor, but-if you like…" Ruby trailed off
20 minutes later Ruby arrived in a lecture hall, with Glynda Goodwitch standing at the center. "Hurry in students, this class is short to make time, for my class after this." The students sat at their desks and made sure to pay attention as Glynda went on with her lecture on Emergency protocol on Pro Jobs and procedure.
The class short as it was, seemed longer. "That'll be all students, I"ll see you in the room next door, for more "Dust Utility"" Glynda said as she began fumbling with her Tablet Scroll. While sorting through a few files, she wasn't paying attention, when Ruby approached her. When noticed red shoes visible trough her scroll, she blinked.
"Huh!?" Glynda was alarmed to see Ruby holding out a package. A moment of silence, with Glynda not sure what she was doing.
"I believe this if for you." Ruby said with a smile, shifting the box towards her.
"Uuuuuh?" Glynda eyed the package, though unsure put away her scroll and took the box in her hands, she found it surprisingly light. She put it on the podium's stand, and began to look it over.
Ruby peaked around her shoulders to with childish interest. As Glynda walked around the back of the podium to see the whole package, she looked up to Ruby with her usual stiff expression.
"You want to know whats inside don't you?" she asked., but more like stated. Ruby laughed nervously, sweating but still manage to give a nod.
"Well come and see, it's not use standing there eye balling me like I'm hiding something." Glynda said as she started to open the box. Ruby rushed to her side to look, with great anticipation. Glynda let the folds of the package loose and stared down to see a bag with a strap around it and made of leather. It was tan, and zipped up.
"Huh?" Ruby uttered not sure what is was supposed to be. "is it some kind of fashion bag? Well that would make sense, Yang loves those and has a few lying around." Ruby thought removing her eyes from the bag.
Glynda picked up the bag, holding it to her face examining it. "Hmmmmm." She placed her fingers on the zipper and opened it. An explosion came out of the bag, and alarmed the two, as sparkling dust rained down upon Glynda, as the rush of air died down, Glynda opened one eye upon the bag. When it looked like there nothing else going to happen, Glynda almost threw the bag down, but saw a stem poke out the opening. Glynda blinked in confusion, as more stems poked out almost rapidly. In one second the buds exploded magnificently into Petunias and formed a portrait.
Ruby widened her eyes. In a precise coercion of the flowers they formed a picture of Cash and Glynda. Glynda let out a soft breath. She pulled the bag to her face, the flowers covering her mouth. She stared meaningfully at the flowers in a dazed state.
"Petunias…" She said quietly, taking in the air of the flowers. Ruby was keeping a wide smile and gave quick laugh. "I told that idiot, it was no big deal." Glynda said, as it seemed she forgot Ruby was there.
"Happy Birthday Professor GoodWitch." Ruby said happily, as she walked away from the podium to the exit's door.
The next day the first-year students were in the class "Team Margins" facing Cash, some looked a little roughed up, others looked-A whole lot worse. Cash was facing Team CRDL and had heaphones on, while jumping around them, and only blocking with his Gunblade.
Ruby sat up top viewing the fight with a smile on her face, while her team waited for their turn. With a sheath of his sword, Cash ended the conflict, and pulled out one of the headphones.
"You guys aren't lacking in cooperation, though you seem to be limited by your morbid qualities." Cash said lowering his headphone. Cardin growled as he and his team went back up the stairs. Himself grudgingly. "Next Team!" Cash said working his neck, as it cracked. Team Ruby rose up and hurried down to the arena.
As Ruby pulled out her scythe, Cash stared at her for a moment. He gave her a wink and a smirk, as he put a hand on his gunblade.
Her teammates were confused at this, though Ruby smiled in turn and took her stance with her scythe.
Cash drew his gunblade and the air rushed out around him. Ruby charged him and Cash slammed his sword down, pulling the trigger, making a rush of air rise up and caused Ruby to cover her face. When she looked up to see Cash up in the air near the ceiling, she jumped up and engaged him, as he blocked her strike, they smiled at each other. Their exchanges seemed almost like a conversation. Her sister charged up to her, making to tackle him to the wall. Ruby spun her scythe, as Blake threw the tether to Yang, Yang grabbed the scythe end and moved it across Cash's stomach. From below Weiss fired off multiple projectiles of ice, as they homed in on Cash, Blake and Yang tugged on the tether line, pulling Cash towards the wall, Yang stuck the scythe in the wall and Blake put her weight against the wall. He put his gunblade up and swung it down pulling the trigger, making an explosion erupt and blowing all the girls away. Blake and Yang landed hard on the ground. Ruby managed to land with a slide streaking across the floor next to Weiss.
With a spin of scythe, Ruby readied herself to engage the gunblade wielder once again. Cash landed down in front of her. He pointed his gunblade at her, as if making a challenge. Ruby spun her Crescent Rose and slammed the front of it towards Cash. Both cocked their heads acknowledging they were in agreement.
Glynda looked at as her son as he continued to fight the girls. She giggled as she smiled at the boy.
Chapter END