Ruby sat in a chair outside the principle's office of Signal academy's elementary wing . She hated being there. The white walls always felt like they were closing in on Ruby. Ruby also didnt like the secretary there who always seems so mean to the kids whenever they need to talk to her to either get permission to go home or talk to the principle.
Ruby could hear what the principle , Yang and her dad were talking about through the thin walls.
"Yang, I understand your intentions , But you cant just go punching people out even though they deserve it sometimes. You should have gone and gotten a teacher to intervene. That boy was to damaged to go to the nurses we had to send him to the hospital for a broken nose and possible concussion." said the principle. Yang rolled her eyes in response.
"Im not just going to sit on my ass and let some punks harass my sister." mumbled Yang. Principle Zamp sighed and leaned back in his chair. He knew the 9 year old blonde was a handfull but that flare is exaclty what makes a great huntress.
"And Tai..." the man addressed the other man sitting next to Yang.
"Please control your children. Its bad enough that the daughter of one of my own staff gets into fights all the time. I wont punish either of you because you both are in the wrong...Also I know it has been stressfull since the loss of your wife but remember that your always to comeback from your leave whenever you want." said Principal Zamp to Tai who looked like he hasnt slept in days and smelled a little bit like he drank too.
"Of coarse...Its just been hard for all of us since Summer died..." said the man sadly. Yang rolled her eyes.
'Its much harder on Ruby and you cant even act like a dad for her...' thought Yang.
"Understandable. I suggest you take Yang and Ruby home. Its been quiet an eventful day." said Principal Zamp as Tai and Yang got up from there seats.
"Thank you." said Tai as he and Yang walked out of the room.
When Yang saw Ruby she walked up to her and picked her up.
"Lets go home Ruby..." said Yang.
Ruby woke up to the sound of a loud buzzing sound and her friends cheering. When she rubbed the sleep from her eyes she noticed that she was on Pyrrha's shoulder and felt for some odd reason a want to stay on her shoulder.
Pyrrha noticed that Ruby was awake and smiled.
"Sleep well?" asked Pyrrha. Ruby yawned in response.
"It was ok...what happened?" Ruby asked curious as to what the cheering was all about.
"Your sister just beat cardin and he didnt even land a single scratch on her." Pyrrha said enthusiastically.
Ruby looked to the score board and say a picture of Yang with the words 'VICTOR' on top of it and her aura bar at 100%. She also saw Cardin's picture with the words 'DEFEATED' and his aura bar at 15%.
Ruby looked down from the stands and saw Yang with a cheeky smirk and Cardin storming out of the arena. Yang walked back up to the seats and was high fiving multiple people along the way.
"Damn Yang had no idea you could dodge that well." said Jaune. Yang gave him a proud smirk.
"Please, Cardin's swings may be strong but they are as slow as a snail. The only thing he has going for him is his strong aura that takes a while to go down." replied Yang taking a seat on the otherside of Ruby.
"Dud you like my match Rubes?" asked Yang ruffling the Red heads hair a little.
"I was asleep..." replied Ruby quietly. Yang chuckled .
"Atleast your honest."she replied.
The rest of combat class went by quickly to Ruby's liking. the only part she wasnt to happy of was when team JNPR had to go up and Ruby had to leave Pyrrha's shoulder.
When the class was over Ruby was thankful that she was now able to go back to the dorm and sleep of the rest of the day. Ruby was about to put the code to open her dorm door when she felt someone tap her shoulder.
"Hey Ruby, Me ,Blake and Weiss are going to be in Team JNPR's room to play a board game. You dont have to but if you want to play you can."said Yang.
Ruby just sighed. She felt annoyed whenever Yang tried to get her to do things when she was in these phases but knew that deep down inside she just wanted to help.
"Alright Yang...Give me 15 minutes to sleep and then ill think about joining..." replied Ruby. Yang's face lit up instantly. Surprised that she didnt have to pull Ruby's arm to get her to agree.
"Great." said Yang , turning around and walking into team JNPR's dorm room. When Ruby entered her dorm room she didnt even have the energy to change clothes much less climb up onto her bunk bed , she just plopped down on Weiss's bed and closed her eyes. Hoping that sleep will take over her soon.
Ruby was sitting in the same spot that she was sitting yesterday when Daniel bothered her. The day wasnt particularly different , it was the same dreading to wake up and go to school, cry a little bit at recess , sleep a little in class and hope lunch passes by fast so she could go home a pretty average day for Ruby. Only difference was she had gotten some strange looks from other kids.
Ruby heard some footsteps coming closer behind her. She knew that they were walking up to her since there was nobody else near her.
"Hey cry baby." Ruby heard a masculin voice say behind her. Ruby turned around because the Boy sounded much older than the kids her age.
When Ruby turned around she saw a boy who Ruby guessed must have been atleast 15 years old who looked a lot like Daniel. Ruby noticed that he was wearing the signal academy outfit like Ruby only he had a patch at the corner that said '9th grade'.
"What do you want?" Ruby asked quietly. The boy smiled.
"Your sister beat up my baby brother. Now im her to get back at your sister by beating you up." sneered the boy while pulling out brass knuckles that had dust canisters imbedded into the sides.
'Whoa a huntsman weapon...You can only start making your own when you become 12 years old' thought Ruby, admiring the weapon until she registered what the boy said and started to panic.
"Wait! I didnt do anything , dont hurt me!" Ruby yelled but since she was in a more or less isolated area of the playground nobody can hear her from the screams of children playing. and the boy had his back to the crowd so nobody could see what he was doing.
"Fat chance crybaby!" the boy said Raising his fist in the air with a smile on his face.
Ruby closed her eyes bracing herself for the beating. But a few seconds had passed and Ruby didnt feel a thing. Ruby opened her eyes slowly and saw a strange scene.
The boy who was about to punch Ruby was frozen...Not like in a block of ice ,it was as if he was frozen in time. The only part of him moving was his eyes moving sporadically in their sockets. Ruby was about to get up and run away when she heard someone start to chuckle then a girl with long red hair, blue eyes and pale skin walked between the boy and Ruby.
"Now now what kind of 14 or 15 year old picks on a 7 year old?" the red headed girl asked only to start giggling moments later.
"Oh thats right your frozen and cant talk! My mistake." said the red head laughing at her own joke. Ruby looked at the patch on her uniform and noticed that it said '3rd grade' the same grade that Ruby was in.
"You know you older class jerks might underestimate us just because we didnt craft our weapons yet but some of us have our aura's and on rare occasions our semblance. And you just happen to be stuck in mine right now." said The red head laughing at her own joke again. Then the red head had a dangerous look in her eyes and a sinister grin on her face.
"We also get a few of weapons to practice with to choose our weapons in the future. Like these." said The red head while flicking her wrist and a combat knife appeared in her hand in a flash and moving it up to the boys eye and was getting dangerously close. The look in the boys eyes suggested he was starting to panic. as he should.
"You know these may not be the best quality weapons but they are still SHARP! " The red head enfesized the word sharp by slamming the knife into the boys leg and buried it to the hilt and kept it in his leg.
Ruby was expecting a scream of pure agony but nothing came. Only the boys eyes twitching back and forth from obviouse pain.
"I forgot to mention that my semblance isnt just freezing people in place. It lets me control every muscle in there body...Including aura, which is why it didnt block the knife,your voice, which is why you cant scream in pain, and pretty much anything that is flesh ,bones and blood...The only thing i let people keep when i use my semblance is there eyes so they could see what im doing to them ...and the muscles that control pain so they could feel everything im doing to them." the red head whispered in the boys ear the last sentence and giggled sinisterly.
The red head then turned to Ruby and held her hand out to Ruby to help her up.
"Oh sorry! Guess i got carried away there. Are you okay?" The red head asked as Ruby grabbed her hand and got up.
"Im ok..."Ruby was a little shy, she hasnt talked to any of the other kids in a while unless she absolutely had too.
"Good, id hate the thought of not being able to save you in time and give this scum bag what he wants." said the red head gesturing to the boy with a knife in his leg.
"And you, I dont care what your name is or who your daddy is , if you come near this girl again ill do much worse and dont even try telling the principle or something cause ill tell them i did it in self defense cause you tried to beat a girl half your age. Besides i doubt you would want to tell someone you got your ass kicked by a 7 year old girl now would you?" said The red head to the still frozen boy in a mocking tone as she grabbed Ruby and walked away from the him.
"What a loser...Im Jessica by the way." said Jessica extending her hand out for Ruby to shake.
"Ruby..." replied Ruby shaking Jessica's hand.
"I know im in almost all your classes...But we never actually spoke a sentence to eachother..." said Jessica quiety. Ruby was feeling shy and didnt reply.
"Anyway ill take you to a spot where no one will bother you...Oh! do you want to hear the the sound of instant karma!?" Jessica asked enthusiastically once they got a good distance away from the boy.
"Uhhm...sure" Ruby replied not really knowing what she was talking about. Jessica then closed her eyes and smirked. Then she snapped her fingers. A second later a agonizing scream of pain was heard coming from the direction of the boy who tried to hurt Ruby.
Authers note: HOLY CRAP! why do i do my best writing at 12:00 at night (-_-)...Seeing as its so late i wont be doing the usual checking for grammar mistakes. if there are any please tell me and i hope you enjoyed this chapter.
