CAT: RWBY
Title: When the Ruby is Shattered
Rating: M
Pairing: Main SugerRush, (Side) Freezerburn, Arkos, (One-sided) Ladybug.
Summary: For the last several months the WBY of RWBY have neglected their young leader and teammate Ruby Rose. Now close to the point of breaking down emotionally, Ruby has chosen to go a different route. If she can't be the best team leader and teammate, She'll be the Best Solo Huntress ever!
What's up everyone! If you live in America I hope you had a 'yanging' independence Day. If you live in another part of the world I hope you had a wonderful week. Anyway onto the Review Response
Spark681: Overkill is definitely not something you want to play with. Especially since they leave by the Motto 'Overkill looks after its own'.
RayD2kill: I don't mind blunt and I don't mind constitutive criticism. What I do have a problem with is when I feel like I'm under attack. I'm known at my job for being a dependable guy who has absolutely no problem standing up for myself and even taking on those in positions above me, when justified. While not an excuse when I was younger I had a bad habit of mixing my words and letters up. While not as big a problem now I still do it from time to time. I don't take things to heart, but I will respond in the manner befitting the tone of the message/ review received.
TheBlackDragonn: Glad you enjoyed the chapters.
NeoiluzaF: Glad you enjoying the story. Yeah I tend to mix up words/spelling from time to time when I'm not careful
"What have we done," speech
"I no longer need you all," thought/ Flashback
"Team RWBY is dead to me," Communications/television/Radio
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Chapter 7: A lesson in Humility
Location: Beacon Academy
Place: Gym
Time: 0800 (Friday) (1)
Beacon was created over 80 years ago when Technology like Bullheads, Sand-rails, and the like were in their infancy. Nowadays not only were they commonplace, but even private citizens could land a Bullhead for the cost of about 200,000 lien. So Beacon had been a state of the Art facility MANY years ago, but with funding from the Kingdom, affordable tuition, and donations they were able to keep the school up to date. They even had a small fleet of Bullheads on standby at their airfield.
It also had a state of the art gym where people could train and spar against donated Atlas bots, a full cardio room, and several dumbbells and weight racks. It was dream come true for most of the students there. Ruby Rose was currently here squatting with about 150 pounds on her shoulders. She had her haired tied back in a high ponytail, wearing a black sports bra, red yoga shorts that seemed to have a metallic shine to them, black knees pads, and black and red running shoes. Her hands were wrapped in tape, but since so much of her skin was now bare it revealed a few changes that most people would have never known about or thought Ruby would get. First was that Ruby now had a defined four pack, not overly muscled but a good deal so, second was the fact that ruby had a few tattoos now. The most prominent being the ouroboros on her neck, a Maiden in a red cloak standing before a dragon on her back with the tail wrapping around to the front right side and stopping on her ribs, and finally a lighting infused Rose on her right arm.
"17...18...19... 20!" groaned Ruby standing to her full height and racking the weights. She hunched over dripping sweat, from her fifth set.
Stepping back from the rack she grabbed her towel and began to wipe her face, arms and chest down. She then grabbed her water bottle and took a nice swig from the bottle. She knew that a few of the guys in the area were looking at her or more specifically her ass. She honestly didn't care much. THe old Ruby would have, but after working with Overkill for she lost much of her embarrassment. They did what Coco couldn't do and brought her out of her shell. Coco had actually told Ruby once that if she were into girls she'd totally hit on Ruby just because of her thighs and ass alone. Yeah. Coco was apparently an ass girl if her stories of taking as many as three guys up there was anything to go by. If anyone had to take a guess at who had corrupted Ruby's mind, and said Yang, they'd be off by miles. it was Coco who had messed with her mind in the hormonal teenager department.
"AHHH!" yelped Ruby as a firm hand smacked her backside hard. Grabbing it in pain and rubbing it she turned to the culprit with a glare. "Dammit Coco! What have I told you about smacking my ass!"
The girl in question smirked at her. Coco was three years older then Ruby and was a Second year student and 4 months out from their third year. Coco as quite a tall girl, standing at 5'10, being 6 feet even when she wore her designer boots with pointed heels, her brown hair was cut neat and short with a long bang that bleed into caramel tresses, her dark brown eyes were often hidden behind shades, were currently on full display revealing mischievous intent to her friend. She wore a pair of brown spandex boy shorts, bronze colored that was tight on her with a golden target on it with the word 'Hitwoman' styled across a black bulls-eye in White.
Coco flexed her right hand. "Not to do it, but how can I not when your ass is so bouncy and meaty Rubes. If I wasn't straight as a board...," started Coco.
"You'd eat my cheeks and make me your baby mama," said Ruby with a roll of her eyes.
Coco gave a mock glare. "Smart ass," said Coco.
Ruby smirked at the brunette. " Love you too Co. Where is Bunbun at?" asked the crimsontte using the nickname Velvet allowed only her close friends to use. "Normally you and your partner are attached at the hip,"
"Bunbun is riding Monkey-boy's cock at the moment," snorted Coco. "Kicked Me, Yatsu, and Foxy out of the room while they play,"
Ruby frowned hearing this. While she knew that Sun was an unwilling pertinent in cheating on her, the fact that he was dating/sleeping with one of her good friends didn't put him in a good light in her eyes. The duo had yet to talk about what happened, but Sun and Ruby had a bond from before everything happened. They met, Ruby instantly liked the goofball Sun. Ruby had called him 'the male version of Yang' because of how similar they were to each other. (2)
Shaking her head to rid herself of the thoughts she looked back at Coco. "So what do you plan on doing?" asked Ruby.
Coco shrugged her shoulders. "We just got back from a Joint mission with Team SNNN. We have a few days off from classes. I already filed our report with Goodwitch. We head back to classes Monday," said Coco.
Ruby nodded to her friend in understanding. She also resumed classes with her 'team' Monday. She would have to talk with Ozpin about her role in the team since she technically abandoned the role of leader and Weiss took it as her partner by Defacto placement. Giving Coco a goodbye hug and kiss on the cheek she made her back to her room to shower and change. It took her about 10 minutes to get from the gym to the dorm room. Opening the door she saw that Weiss and Yang were gone. Blake was sitting on her bed reading a book in her Yukata-style pajamas. She was still amazed that they actually left the room the same since the day Ruby left. She was sure that they would have gotten proper bunk-beds at least. But then again none of them had any common sense to speak of.
Blake looked up from her book to see Ruby standing there. She frowned as the younger woman didn't even bother to acknowledge her. Ruby walked over to her dresser and grabbed some clothes before walking over to the bathroom and shutting the door. Blake sat down her book and walked over to the door. She knew from past experience that Ruby didn't lock the bathroom door. Opening said door she saw that Ruby had already stripped herself of her clothes and had just turned the shower on. Looking at her she had to admire that tattoo's that Ruby now had, the one that was strange to her was the lightning rose. To Blake it didn't have any meaning. At least as far as she knew.
"What do you want Blake? I really want to take a shower and your distributing me," said Ruby with exasperation
"We need to talk Ruby," said Blake leaning on the door frame.
Ruby throw a glance over her shoulder at the Cat Faunus who broke her heart. "If it's not mission or team related then I don't really want to hear it," said Ruby turning her back to Blake.
The Cat Faunus frowned at her, before walking forward. "I know that your pissed off at me at the moment, but you have to understand that as the daughter of the Chieftain and Future leader of Menagaire I have duties I have to uphold. One of them is procuring an heir. Which i can't do if i'm in a female only relationship. That's the reason i hid our relationship. Once i had an Heir we could reveal our relationship and everyone would get what they wanted,"
Ruby rounded on her before marching up to her. "What about your duty as a teammate? Your duty then was to follow my orders, but you didn't do that! What about your duty as a friend? When you came out as a Faunus and Former white Fang cult groupie I stood up for you, but you left me a fucking lone! What about your duty when you were my fucking girlfriend!? I really liked you Blake, but you chose satisfaction over an honest relationship! So as far as I'm concerned you and your Oum damned duties can just fuck right off, because I didn't deserve any of the shit I put up with last time i was here!" growled the silver eyed girl, her eyes shimmering slightly in her rage.
Blake didn't say anything as she pushed Ruby to a wall. The push had some force behind it, enough to make Ruby's head bounce off the marble and daze her for a second. Before Ruby could recover, Blake pushed her lips to Ruby's in a bruising and heated kiss. Ruby moaned into the kiss as she grabbed Blake's arms to force her off of her. Blake grabbed Ruby's arms and forced them above her head as she used her knee and rubbed Ruby's crotch. Blake slipped some tongue into the kiss and began to wrestle with Ruby's tongue. Ruby tried to push Blake's tongue out of her mouth, but Blake was a REALLY good kisser, and her tongue was rouge so it added something different to her kisses. Ruby actually felt herself become moist from Blake's actions.
Blake broke the kiss, leaving a trail of saliva between them. Both were panting hard and with flushed faces. Before anything else could happen Blake went in and started to bite and suck on Ruby's neck. Ruby let a moan escape her lips. It took her a moment but she focused herself and pushed Aura into her arms adding strength to them and broke Blake's grip on her hands, before pushing her away.
"What the fuck Blake!" yelled Ruby, rage clear in her voice and body language.
Blake started at Ruby. "That's just a taste of the things that you missed out on when in a real relationship. That pleasure you felt was nothing compared to some of the things you could feel. Can still feel. All you have to do is stop sulking and we can go back to being team RWBY. Who knows we might even have another chance together," said the black haired girl.
Ruby glared, before slapping Blake across her face. "Get the fuck out of here and you better be gone by the time I'm done with my shower, otherwise I'm going to hurt you really, really bad!" said Ruby.
Blake backed out of the bathroom and shut the door behind her. Ruby looked at herself In the mirror and noticed that she had a hicky on on her neck from Blake. Ruby growled in anger, before punching the mirror, leaving behind a spider-webbed creak.
Location: Beacon Academy
Place: Cafetiere
Time: 1200 (Friday)
Yang sat in the cafetiere eating a small meal as she looked pictures on her scroll. Pictures of herself and Ruby from when they were younger. Before Beacon, before all this mess. As she looked though them she came upon one picture that she wanted to delete, but couldn't bring herself to do so. It was a picture of Ruby when she was about 10 along with a woman. The woman was probably as tall as Yang was now, with Curves that could drive men to suicide with breasts that were at least an E if not EE cup, waist length red hair tied in three slipknot ponytails, blue eyes, wearing a green button up shirt with a few buttons undone, a sleeveless brown half jacket, and blue jean capris that went over her waist with 5 buttons in them, open toed high heels. Attached to her waist were a pair of tomahawk pistols.
"I take it everything is going well Yang," came a smooth and very calm voice.
Yang looked up at Lie Ren. Ren was Nora's Partner and brother. Or at least as close to a sibling as one could get without any romantic feelings. Ren had grown in the last few months were once he stood at the same height as Yang he was now closer to Yatsuhashi's height, seeing as how Ren now stood at 6'3" he was also much buffer then he had been before, his pink eyes currently set in a state that made it hard for her to understand what he was thinking, he no longer tied his long black hair, instead allowing it to be be free with a single pink strip in his hair, he wore his school uniform since classes were over for the day.
"What do you want Ren?" asked Yang not really wishing to speak with the normally silent boy.
"I just wanted to make conversation Yang. Especially since Jaune and Pyrrha are sparing today and Nora is currently freaking out about her crush being back," said Ren with a laugh in his voice.
Yang groaned hearing this. They had only been back a day and already Nora was starting to try and cling to Ruby like a lifeline. Yang wasn't about to let that happen. Ruby didn't need the distraction of a relationship right now. What she needed was a chance to rekindle their team bond. Maybe she would even try to get Blake to be her girlfriend again. Yang knew on some level that it was probably not a good idea for Ruby and Blake to be together after what happened, but she hoped that they could workout whatever was going on between them and get back together. At least for the sake of Team RWBY.
"Who is that Yang?" asked Ren pointing to the picture.
Yang came out of her thoughts as Ren looked at the picture. "This is Krimson Moon. She was a teacher at Signal Academy for about 2-3 years. Ruby took a shine to her when she taught basic survival skills. This was about when Ruby was 11 and Krimson was in her last year of teaching," said Yang.
"She looks kind and like a very powerful huntress," said Ren.
"Yeah... She really was," said Yang, not wanting to really talk about the woman who tried to replace Summer- and to some extent Yang- In Ruby's heart.
Location: Beacon Academy
Place: Glynda's Arena Classroom
Time: 0900 (Monday)
Glynda Goodwitch, Deputy Headmistress and head of the Disciplinary committee would be lying if she said that she wasn't glad to see Ruby sitting back in the sands of her class. She would be lying if she said that she missed her -arguably- favorite student. Hen she frist met Ruby during the Dust Till Dawn robbery she had actually watched the entire fight for a few moments. She honestly didn't plan on interfering until either the girl won or was in danger. When Roman threw the Fire dust crystal at her feet she had to intervene. Ruby had impressed the blonde teacher, but ever the teacher at heart she had to make it clear that the silver eyed girls actions had consequences.
So seeing the girl back in her class was like a breath of fresh air. Her changes brought some concern, especially the Tattoo on her neck. She had dealing with Overkill in the past when she had been an active huntress. She didn't approve of what they did or their methods, but that was neither here nor there. She needed to get on with her lesson.
"Today students we have a full schedule ahead so it would be prudent to start off. As she has been in an apprenticeship for the past 6 months I would like Miss Rose to come down here," said Glynda.
Ruby got up and made her way down the stairs. She wore her red cloak, but Glynda didn't see her prized weapon Crescent Rose attached to her magnetic-holster on the small of her back where it would normally reside. She didn't see any weapon on Ruby to be honest. She also had a small Hex-a-gon floating around her. Something that Glynda saw no use in having. But personally her Semblance was OP according to several students who had either seen her in action or fought with her.
"How are you doing professor?" asked Ruby with a smile.
"I am quite well. Thank you for asking. Is there anyone you would like to face off with? Or a team perhaps?" asked Glynda.
"Blake," said Ruby as her features went blank.
People began to whisper as they heard what Ruby had said. Many of them knew Blake and Ruby had had some sort of 'relationship' before Ruby's departure. It had soured the relations with their 'ally' teams CFVY, JNPR, and SNNN as well as any friends they had outside of those teams. Of course that didn't stop team RWBY from being one of the strongest if not the strongest first year team. Even with Ruby leaving they were still formidable opponents in their own right.
Blake got up and walked down to the arena to face her ex. Out of all the members of Team RWBY Blake had the most practical experience and was the teams Defaco stealth agent and information gatherer when needed. While Ruby was a prodigy according to many of the professors and even third and Fourth year students she was also the least skilled member of the team. Out of their daily spars- when they had them- Ruby had never won a single match against any member of her team in singles combat. Sure she had managed an upset against Cardin.
"Ruby surrender. I don't want to hurt you," said Blake unsheathing her sword.
Ruby didn't say a word as her hands went behind her back and came out with a pair of dark red Tomahawk pistols. Yang's eyes widened seeing that weapon. It was much different from the ones that Krimson used. These were more modernized then the flintlock style that Krimson had, closer to a 45. caliber 1911 pistol with an extended barrel, it also had a curved handle at the end. On the underside near the middle of the weapon was a small magazine and where the handle began to curve was the trigger. Raising one above her head and the other moved in front of her chest, and moved her left foot to the front.
Glynda looked between the girls. "Begin," said Glynda.
Blake barley had a second to block the first strike that came from a twisting axe slash, before Ruby followed up with uppercut slash. It was only thinks to the automatic defense of her semblance that allowed her to get out of the way by leaving behind a shadow that lost it 's head. Blake attacked back by trying to wrap her ribbon around Ruby and managed to capture her. Blake charged up her blade using her aura and unleashed a purple bladed arc. As the arc neared Ruby Cos appeared between them and glowed, creating a shimmering red hard-light shield, blocking the attack. Blake was shocked by this, not realizing that the Hex-a-gon had more then Operations functions.
"Cos, DFR!" yelled Ruby.
Three small hard light circles appeared as Cos opened fire with wind dust rounds. Blake was forced away as she drew the second blade/sheath of Grambal Shroud Ruby closed her eyes and waited for a few seconds before she turned into a tornado of roses and slipped the bonds and charged at Blake, sliding along the ground and hooking her ankle, she pulled and flipped her. Blake managed to flip with the attack and not fall on her face. Landing on all fours she lashed out with a kick that managed to catch Ruby in the chest. Ruby rolled with the kick and got into a crouching position, before opening fire. Several rounds hit Blake, but her Aura managed to take the brunt of the damage. Blake jumped into the air and unleashed crossed arcing waves at Ruby. Ruby looked at the arcs, before she vanished making the waves miss her. Landing on the ground she looked around and didn't see Ruby. She saw Cos floating in standby mode, but not the reaper herself.
Then She heard her.
Jumping backwards a slash missed her by several inches, taking some of her hair! She ducked a slash and then a shadow took a slash to her mid section forcing her to roll backwards. Ruby appeared before her a second later, not holding her two tomahawks, but a double bladed scythe. With a three foot long blades on each side and the blades were double sided. Blake cursed as she turned Grambol shroud into gun mode, only to find that the weapon shot out of her hand by Ruby. With the momentum she flipped the weapon around and fired again, the slug hit Blake and Spun her around, only to meet with a slash to to stomach stunning her. What followed was a string of slashes, stabs, kicks and shots! Before she knew it, she was in a whirlwind of pain as Ruby went about absolutely tearing her apart with just her speed. As quick as it started it stopped, as Ruby wrapped a hand around the back of her shirt and throw her into one of the arena walls.
Blake gasped in pain as she fell to the ground on her hands and knees as she saw a scythe held to her neck. She looked up to see Ruby standing there with Cos trained on her ready to fire.
"That's enough. The winner of this match is Ruby Rose," said Glynda as she began going though what happened.
Ruby broke down her weapons and put them behind her back. "Don't ever think that I'm that weak girl again. The Ruby who would let you, Yang, and Weiss run over her is gone. If you failed to learn this lesson in humility, then I'll be happy to teach you again Blake," said the crimosnette.
Yang and Weiss ran past Ruby to Blake. A few short words were exchanged between the girls. Blake was helped to her feet by the freezer-burn couple. Blake groaned as they helped her back to the stands. As they sat her down, Weiss looked at Ruby as she was speaking with Nora. The White haired girl looked at the Arena and shivered. Throughout the entire match Ruby had only used her semblance once, and she only used it to escape Blake's ribbon. If Ruby managed to have that type of speed without her semblance, then Nobody in beacon could currently match the little red reaper.
Yang looked at her girlfriend and had a pretty good guess about what she was thinking, but she had her own thoughts. Particularly the weapon that Ruby used. They were the same as Krimson's.
What the hell happened to Ruby over the out there to make her not only stronger, but more vicious?
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And Cut. That was a fun chapter to write. Blake really pushed what Ruby will and won't allow in this one. I've actually seen people try and 'force' their ex's back with them in this way before. It's not pretty and it's Defenitlly not fun when your accused of 'sleeping with said girlfriend. Although I will say that1/8 times The Ex-boyfriend was right and I was actually with said girl. Although that was almost 11 years ago now, but what can you do?
A/N
1: I know I normally use the Zodiac as months here, but I've been tired- as well as lazy-. Every time I make a new story I have to make an entire calendar just for that story and it takes me a LONG ASS time to do it. I'm still working on it so please bare without the dates for a little bit longer. I know I can use the regular calendar months, but ancient times, as well as fantasy worlds don't always go by today's calendar cycle.
2: Someone prove me wrong! They are similar on so many levels they could easily have been flipped/ put in each others roles and NO ONE would have been able to say there was a huge difference. Team RWBS and SNNY
