finely skewered grimm
well diced wolves
"Well, give em hell" Ruby vanishes, leaving behind the bunrt rose petals, A pair of eyes vanish from the crowd, and the rest dart at Emma, revealing a horde of beowolves. She bends over and spins her spear on her back, the tip slashing any beowolf that gets too close. With one push of a button, the blunt end of the spear opens into a barrel, then fires a musket shot out, and it rips through multiple beowolves. Ruby bounds back over to Emma, who jumps over her and stabs a pursuing beowolf's face, while Ruby slices through the ones in front of her.
"Well, this is kinda fun" Emma rolls behind Ruby, who spins her scythe in front of her to create a shield, which Emma shoots through with her Carbine, the bullets going quickly through the scythe without hitting it.
"Until one gouges out your eye, heh"
Emma smiles at the huntress and continues the hail of bullets.
" Ruby cheers, while Emma smiles at Ruby and pulls her spear out.
"That was really fun, I think I'm going to
"So no one can tell who you are and try to throw you in jail"
"Fine…what would I need to change?"
"A different hair and eye color would be good, and as long as we stay away from Goodwitch you shouldn't get noticed, since Ozpin wont really care after my assurances"
"…But I like my hair…"
"I like it too but we gotta be safe, I don't want you going to jail"
"Like they could take me"
"Then they'd kill you…"
"...A change of looks sounds good now"
"Alright, come on then"
After several visits to the general store, each time to try a different hair dye or contact lens color, Emma finally settles on a new style, albeit reluctantly. Her new style is short hair, colored solid black, with blue highlights on the edges. Grace uses her semblance to change Emma's eye color to a dark red, the same color as Ruby's hair, using the colored contacts as a reference. Emma dresses in a white shirt with long sleeves and black lines along the sleeves to make a feather pattern contrasting her weapon's. She also wears a pair of faded black blue jeans.
"Grace changed your eye color?"
"She said that her semblance was light manipulation"
"Your semblance is a voice in your head that has it's own semblance?"
"She may not even be my semblance, I could just be insane"
"True"
"Excuse me Miss Rose."
'Oh my god I'm going to kill her' "Yes Goodwitch?"
Emma looks away, pretending to try and read a sign on one of the shops.
"I have a message from Ozpin, he wanted me to deliver it before you left"
"Spit it out already" She rolls her eyes.
"Ozpin wants you to check out a known grimm hotspot near the Mistral Chasm."
"Thank you, now go back to Beacon and continue kissing ass"
"Miss Rose! That language is-"
"Not tolerated at Beacon. But wait, this isn't Beacon is it? And I'm not a student anymore, so fuck off" Ruby grabs Emma's arm and pulls her along with her, leaving Goodwitch practically steaming with anger.
"You really pissed her off"
"Good, dumb bitch has done nothing but piss me off since the incident. Telling me it was all my fault and scolding me not even a week after they had died" The anger in her voice was quite evident and Emma places her arm around Ruby and rubs her shoulder as they walk.
"Just don't kill her, ok?"
"I'll wait till there won't be any witnesses" She lets out a sarcastic and dry sounding laugh.
They walked in silence, Emma fearing Ruby might turn around and murder Goodwitch on a whim, while Ruby has flashbacks to the scolding she recieved by Goodwitch. After an hour of walking the two stopped in a resturant and ordered some food. Ruby getting a steak with some assorted vegetables, while Emma had a lobster, shell already removed by the cook.
"So your semblance, it controls light?"
"She, and I guess. During her fight with another hunter she continually made weapons of shadows"
"How'd the fight go?"
"…He was killed…"
"Oh… explains why your a wanted criminal among the kingdoms"
"I wasn't in control though!"
"Don't really think they care Raven"
Emma cuts off a piece of the lobster and eats it while Ruby discusses a dream she had, where she had killed werewolf like grimm at her mother's grave, then went on to have a near similar experience trying to save a family trapped in a cemetery by beowolves. It served it's purpose by cutting the tension in the air, which Emma hadn't really noticed, despite creating it.
Several minutes after eating, Ruby and Emma were racing across the rooftops towards their apartment building. A few times the cannon fired, scaring Emma shitless, enough so that a few times she stumbled, and once she fell.
When they make it back to their apartment Ruby opens up her scroll and calls Ozpin to see what he has planned for her to do.
"Hello Ruby" Ozpin's face flashed on the screen, he was wearing a normally unusual smile, but Ruby and Ozpin had grown into good friends during the grieving of the rest of team RWBY.
"Hey Oz" Ruby smiles back. "Whatcha got for me?"
"Reports of a few deadly grimm ransacking supply routes far south from your location, boarbatusks mainly, but the area is home to an abundance of Death Stalkers and Hydra swarms. Ah, here we are, the name is Blackheart Woods, hello Emma, I trust you'll be helping Miss Rose?"
Within a moment shock and fear swept over Emma. How on Remnant could he possibly know?
"You have no need to be worked up Miss Currow, since Ruby is with you right now I doubt you're the evil graverobber Goodwitch went on about, but did you really kill Kenny?"
"Uh huh, it was an accident though, my semblance took over…"
Ozpin gives her a confused stare, but Ruby waves her hand as if to say drop it, so he does.
"I trust the mission pay has been adequate"
"Yep"
"Need any ammo refills?"
"Nope"
"OZPIN OPEN THIS DOOR"
"Oh...Goodwitch is here"
Ruby smiles. "Bye"
"Please tell me you did not call her anything"
"Not ye- "OZPIN"
"Gotta go, bye"
And with that moment, the door was broken down by a furious woman, who immediately started nagging to Ozpin about keeping Ruby on a tighter leash and giving her training in proper manners, something Ozpin was, sadly, getting very used to, while Ruby smiled and turned off her scroll.
"So, Blackheart Woods? Sounds nice"
"Largest concentration of Hydras found within seven years, only one still in one piece after being found, plus gigantic Death Stalker nests. Gonna be a blast…"
"And I have to go too huh?"
"Yep"
"God, damn, it"
The two exchange some jokes and go to sleep, Ruby staring at the window in anticipation, not fully noticing how Emma was pressed against her until a few minutes later, then realized it would be awkward to shove her away now, so she lets her stay there, and soon the reaper is slaying beowolves in her dreams.
