Last time-RWBY discovered that Andre Toulon's puppets are alive.
This time-?
Sorry if I was out of action again guys, studies are a pain.
It had been 2 hours since Ruby had awakened all the puppets she had found in Andre's trunk, and now they were all sitting on the floor in front of her, with a large stack of paper in front of them. Their master soon returned with a bowl filled with pens.
"Ok," she said, "since you guys can't talk, you're going to write your names on the pieces of paper in front of you, just so I can get to know you more." The puppets began to take sheets of paper from the stack, grab pens from the bowl, and begin to write their names, all except for the bladed one, who just carved his name into the paper. When they were finished, they held the name tags in front of them, and Ruby went to each of them one by one. She started off with the large one with a small head, who's name happened to be 'Pinhead'. "Pfft, well that figures." She giggled. The next one was the female puppet, who had written down 'Leech Woman'. "Why are you called that?" Ruby asked. The puppet responded by opening its mouth, and regurgitating a leech, that started to crawl around. "O..kay," the new puppet master said, disgusted, "I know I'm never going to eat again." Up next was the Mechanical puppet, named 'Torch'. But before Ruby could ask why he was called that, a stream of flames shot out of the slot on his right hand. Ruby screamed for him to stop, which he eventually did. She ran into the living room, grabbed a fire extinguisher, and put out the fire. "Please don't do that indoors." She tiredly whimpered.
Soon enough, Ruby had learned all the puppet's names. The opera doll was 'Kahn', the bladed one was 'Blade', the skeleton surgeon was 'Dr. Death', the six-armed cowboy was 'Six Shooter', the ninja was 'Ninja', the one with a drill on its head was 'Tunneler', and the jester was 'Jester'. Despite the fact that they were walking puppets, with weapons, and a mind of their own, Ruby wasn't scared of them. In fact, she found them to be cool. Some of their abilities were impressive as well, for example, Six Shooter had six miniature guns that actually worked, and Ninja was a master martial artist. But she also knew that these dolls were sentient, and had their own emotions and feelings.
"Guys, I swear, for as long as I am your puppet master, I will take care of all of you with the best of my ability." She stated, placing her hands on her hips. The dolls all cheered for their new master.
Over the course of a few days, Ruby gave the dolls the lay of the land, and taught them basic rules. Rule number one, stay hidden when she isn't around, so that anyone else who enters the dorm doesn't see them. Rule number two, do not antagonize Zwei. Rule number three, and this was the important one, absolutely NO killing. If it wasn't obvious, the dolls had the abilities and tools for murdering, which would not be accepted by Ruby. The puppets stuck to the rules.
One day, while Ruby was reading Jester one of Blake's "romance" novels, a knock came from the door, followed by Jaune's voice.
"Oh crap, HIDE!" She shouted. The dolls scrambled, hiding in the closet, behind the bookshelf, and under the beds. After they were all hidden, Ruby walked over to the door, and opened it up.
"Hey Ruby," Jaune said, "I just came by to see if you wanted to head to the arcade with my team, since you have nothing else to with your team gone." The blond knight entered the dorm, and stepped on something. He lifted his foot, and saw a tiny scalpel, which he picked up. "Since when did you have medical equipment?" he asked. Ruby's eyes darted around the room, until she saw Dr. Death, shushing her from behind a picture.
"Uh, it was for a project for Ooblek." The redhead blurted, "He wanted us to dissect a Beowolf cub." Jaune raised an eyebrow, but before he could ask anything else, Ruby grabbed the scalpel from his hand, pushed him out of the dorm, and shut the door. Jaune just looked confused, he knew that Ruby was a bit odd, but she was never THIS odd. He got up, and walked back to his dorm, taking the "shoving out the door" as her way of saying "no". After that whole ordeal, Ruby whispered to the puppets that it was safe to come out of hiding. They all emerged from their hiding places, and resumed what they were doing before all this nonsense. But before Ruby could go back to reading, she gave Dr. Death his scalpel back. "You really need to keep track of your stuff Death." she deadpanned.
An hour later, Ruby was in the bathroom, applying a new coat of red hair dye to her tips. When she finished, she wrapped a towel around her head, and stepped out of the bathroom, only to find Leech Woman standing there. "Oh, hey LW," she greeted her miniature girlfriend, "what's up?" The leech spewing puppet didn't say anything, but pointed to the bottle of dye in her master's hand. "Oh this, this is just my hair dye," she explained, "gotta keep my signature look somehow." The doll then pointed to her own hair, and Ruby knew what she wanted. "You want me to dye your hair?" she inferred. The purple doll nodded. Ruby searched through the cabinet, to see if she can find a different colored dye. She eventually found a dark blue dye that she used while going through her "goth phase". She motioned for Leech Woman to come into the bathroom, and once she did, she picked her up and placed her on the sink. For the next minute or two, the other puppets were waiting outside the room, wondering what their master was doing with Leech Woman. Just then, the door slowly creaked open, and both LW and Ruby walked out of the bathroom. LW's hair now had dark blue tips, and a few glitters here and there. Blade's jaw dropped, and his spikes popped out of his eyes. "So, what do you guys think?" Ruby asked, with her hands covered with dye. She grabbed a small fan, placed it near Leech Woman, and turned it on. The wind from the fan blew through her dyed hair, as she walked towards the others like a runway model. Jester fainted, Torch's eyes glowed red, and Blade just stood there, mesmerized by her, until she was blown away by the wind. "Sorry." Ruby hollered.
For the next couple of days, Ruby was just playing with the puppets, and got to know their personalities a bit more. She thought that being the Puppet Master would be 'a piece of strawberry shortcake', until one day. She and the puppets were watching TV, when she noticed the time, quarter to nine.
"Ok guys, that's enough tv for today." She stated, as she turned the tv off, and went off to the bathroom to get herself ready for bed. After that, she called the puppets one by one, and they came rushing to her side. All of them, except one, Jester. He was still on the couch, with a sad expression on his face. "Jester, you coming?!" Ruby shouted from the other room. The clown puppet hopped of the couch, and slowly walked towards his master, almost as if he was weak, and struggling to move. He only managed to take three steps forward, before he collapsed onto the floor. "JESTER!" Ruby cried, as she ran over to him, and picked him up. She asked the puppet what was wrong, and all he did was weakly point to the beaker of elixir on the bed stand. Without thinking, the red head springed into action. She used her semblance to dash back to the bathroom to get a syringe, and quickly injected the serum into Jester. Soon enough, his face reverted back to its original state, as he began to move around again. Ruby sighed and looked at the serum, and then at the other puppets. 'I guess they need this stuff to stay alive.' She thought to herself. She got the puppets to line up one by one, and injected the serum into them, draining the beaker completely. After that whole ordeal was over, Ruby sat on Weiss's bottom bunk, and looked at the puppets with tears in her eyes.
"I'm so sorry." She said through her cries, "I'm sorry for not taking care of you guys the right way, I should've given you the serum earlier, but I HAD to be stupid, and play around with all of you." She softly began to cry, placing her hands in her eyes. The puppets all looked at each other, feeling sad for their master. They went over to her, and gave her a colossal group hug. Ruby soon felt better, but then realized something, "We need to get more of it, how did Andre make it?" Pinhead went over to the bed stand, grabbed Andre's old notebook, and handed it to her. Ruby skimmed the pages, until she found the notes that talked about the elixir, and found the ingredients necessary to make it. One of them was brain matter. "Where the hell are we going to get that?" she asked herself. Then, it hit her, the morgue. She quickly placed the puppets into the trunk, and silently snuck out of Beacon.
Ok, finally done. Sorry for the long wait guys, school studies are a pain. In case you didn't get it, this chapter was basically made to show Ruby bonding with the puppets, and realizing that being the Puppet Master is a big responsibility. You're probably asking me, "Where's the horror at?" Don't worry, it'll come soon enough. Until then, leave a review telling me why you like, or dislike the story. Til next time, PEACE OUT!