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Camping
-Chapter 10 Start-
The oscillating saw almost whined as it shut off, the sound lingering in the air for a few moments before the saw was placed down. "Okay, that should be good." The doctor said as he carefully pulled the cast off of her left arm. "Your arm has actually healed faster than we thought it would." The doctor admitted as he looked at the mostly healed wounds on her arm. "Now that the bone has healed we'll need to remove the plates and some of the pins."
"When can she go into surgery?" Tai asked as he stared at the scars along his daughter's forearm.
The doctor pulled out his scroll, checking through the timetable, frowning slightly as he scrolled. "We can slot you in on Sunday." Dr Bismuth told them, booking the slot. "You'll need to arrive at eight so she can be prepped for surgery. She'll be in surgery at ten and will be ready to be discharged by eight pm."
"That sounds simple enough." Tai nodded, tearing his eyes away from his daughter. "What about her eye?"
"Give me a moment." The doctor replied, sitting down in front of the girl and reaching towards Ruby's eyepatch. "Close your eye please." He slowly pulled off the patch revealing the scar tissue around her eye. "That's a bit more healed than I thought it would be." He spoke under his breath.
The scar was even paler than her usual pale skin, looking almost like snow. The scar itself was unusual, looking like a starburst around her eye. The pale scar stretching out into an eight pointed star, the top and the sides being the longest parts of the scar.
"Open your eye please." He pulled out a torched, shining it into the girl's eye, watching how the iris and pupil reacted. "That's actually better than I thought." He directly told her before shrugging. "But that's Aura for you, it heals different people at different rates. You can go without the patch now, it's mostly healed. But if your eye starts hurting at any point put the patch back on, we don't want to undo any of the good work."
"Is that all for today?" Tai asked, his eyes lingering on the her left eye before he turned to face Bismuth.
"Yes, that's all for today." He agreed pulling out a splint for her left arm. "Just try not to jostle your arm before the surgery. I just need to talk to you in private and then I'll be done." He turned to her father for the last statement looking the man dead in the eye. The blond nodded as the doctor finished strapping the splint on.
She vacated the room fairly quickly, rolling her right wrist around, the splint having finally been removed. Her eyes were taking a moment to adjust to her surroundings, the pair having to work together for the first time in weeks. "That's better." She sighed as she sat down, falling almost bonelessly into the chair outside the doctor's room. "{Help}."
Over the past few days she had taken to reading through the tutorial, picking up little bits about her ability that she had previously missed. "{Quests}."
Quests
Quests - Quests are tasks that can be completed for additional rewards. These tasks can be anything from completing a dungeon, living through important events or even things as simple as doing chores. Depending on the importance and difficulty of the quest adjusts the rewards the quest rewards.
Rewards - Rewards are calculated by comparing the importance of the quest, the difficulty of the quest and the quest's repeatability. Quest rewards will usually use the format of {experience} {Lien} {optional item}
Optional tasks - These are additional tasks you can perform that aren't necessary to complete the quest. Completion of these tasks increases the rewards received from the quest.
Repeatable Quests - Repeatable quests are quests that can be repeated on a regular basis, usually dungeons and chores, and offer money and/or crafting items as opposed to experience. The exceptions being skill quests that award increased experience in a chosen skill. Each repeatable quest has an additional first time completion bonus.
Quest Hubs - Quest hubs are locations where you can pick and choose quests as opposed to having to find and trigger quests. These appear in multiple places like hunter job boards and notice boards. A daily quest hub is accessible from the quests menu but is restricted in the number of quests you can access.
'That'll be something to look at once my arm is better.' She nodded to herself, scrolling though all the options.
The door slammed open at that moment, her father walking from the room obviously agitated, clutching a crumpled brochure in his hand. His face was an unusual mix of anger, embarrassment and resignation. "Just think about it Mr Xiao-Long, I believe it would help."
"I'll think about it." He bit out, shoving the brochure into his pocket and walking towards Ruby. "Let's go." His voice was strained as he walked up to her, reaching his arm out to pull her up.
Ruby jumped to her feet, completely bypassing her father's hand, her right hand moving to the tutorial window and minimising it. "Let's go, I'm almost finished with Dungeon Quest 15. I wanna get my reward."
"Slow down." Her father chided her, the girl jerking back as she tried to dash off, her father's hand snagging the back of her cloak. "We've got to go to the store to get some groceries."
"Oh yeah, Yang has her camping thing." Ruby nodded, the pressure on her throat receding as her cloak was released. "I'll ask if she wants anything specific." She nodded pulling up her chat box.
RUBY - Dad and I are about to go shopping, do you want anything for your trip?
RUBY - Hello?
RUBY - Anyone there?
YANG - Ruby I'm in class I can't message you right now.
YANG - The 4 lrgst Ppl like Grape Sodas u cn gt.
RUBY - I thought you said you couldn't talk to me right now.
-You have been temporarily blocked by YANG XIAO LONG-
"I didn't know we could do that." Ruby stared at the message, clicking on it to get a timer to pop up. Seeing her father's confused look as they walked she elaborated. "She's blocked me until schools over."
"That's probably for the best." He nodded in response before shaking his head. "You need to be more careful about using your semblance in public. Wait until we're in the car."
She nodded slightly, going deep into thought as they passed into the bright morning outside. "Can I get one of those cyber-monocles?"
"You mean those new holographic computers from Atlas?" Her father asked, clicking his key to unlock his car. "Aren't they like 10,000 Lien for a barebones device?"
"I was just thinking that I could wear it to explain away my semblance, if I was interacting with anything it could be explained as me using the monocle." She trailed off towards the end, awkwardly looking at her father, the man staring at her over the car roof.
"While a good suggestion, we just don't have that kind of money." Her father sighed, opening the car door and getting into the driver's seat. "C'mon let's get under way."
[You have created the skill {Weapon Wheel}]
{Weapon Wheel} (Passive) [Lvl Max]
You gain the ability to shortcut up to 4 weapons allowing you to equip/unequip them without opening the inventory.
"Knife."
In a small flash of light the fire talon dropped into her right hand.
"Pistol."
The knife vanished in, light blooming from it's form as it was replaced by her marksman pistol.
"Knife."
"Pistol."
"Knife."
"Pistol."
"Ruby, please stop." Yang sighed from where she was standing, a steady thudding coming from the knife she was using to chop onions.
"But it's so cool." She whined, holding up the pistol. "Knife." She waved the knife at Yang showing how it had been swapped.
"Yes it's cool, but you've been doing it since I got back and I'm trying to cook for eight tonight." She replied, lifting the chopping board and swiping the onions into a hot frying pan.
"Eight?" Ruby blinked, turning from admiring her mother's knife to look at her sister in confusion. "Me; you, Dad, Uncle Qrow, Blau, Greg and Sett, that's seven."
"Yes, that is seven." Yang grinned slightly, reaching over and grabbing the chopped mushrooms next to her, dropping them in the pan, the oil hissing and spitting as moisture was released. "But I'm cooking for eight."
"Who else is coming?" Ruby asked, just getting a wooden spoon waved at her in response.
"You'll just have to wait and see." Yang shot back, swirling the onions and mushrooms around in the pan, getting a loud hiss from the oil.
The conversation was cut off by the door, the lock clicking open and their uncle walking through with his habitual slouch, pulling his sword from his back and placing it next to the door. "Hey Kids." He nodded, walking over to the sofa and bonelessly falling into it. "Where's your father?"
"He's just picking up the guys." Yang said as she continued to cook. "What's up with you? You look like crap."
The man took a large drink from his hip flask before answering, the alcohol almost escaping from his mouth. "I had a lot of meetings today, it was just a long day of talking with lots of different people. Ozpin, the Department of Education and Kite Systems."
"Aren't Kite Systems the ones who made the Sentinel?" Ruby asked, absently scratching her eye.
"Yup, we agreed on a settlement for your injuries." He nodded as the two dogs jumped onto his lap, lying down immediately. "Fifty grand." Ruby let out a small squeak at that amount, even as Yang dropped her spoon. "That's slightly more than we would probably get if we went to court but they don't want the negative publicity and hey, we avoid legal costs so it's even better for us."
"What'll we do with that much money?" Yang asked, looking at the man.
"Ten grand will be spent paying off the last of Ruby's hospital bills, other than that we'll have to have a talk." Qrow's voice was quiet as he tried to recline, his eyes closed as his head pointed towards the ceiling. "What did you girls get up to today?"
"I had the doctors, I'm going to have the plates and pins removed from my left arm on Sunday." Ruby supplied, before waving her pistol towards her Uncle and swapping it with the Flame Talon. "I also unlocked a new skill."
"I had school, Scathach was…" Yang let out an angry breath.
"What is her problem with us?" Ruby growled uncharacteristically. "No one will tell me."
"It's complicated." Her Uncle waved her off. "Your father and I will call her out on her dumb ideas and she doesn't like that."
"She's also not a huntress." Yang chimed in, smirking devilishly. Qrow shot up, sitting quickly and staring at his blonde niece in slight horror.
"Please tell me you haven't said that in front of her?" He asked with incredulous horror. "Yang that is really not okay."
"But she was a duelist before she joined the school." Yang shot back, taking the frying pan off the heat. "I looked her up, she was famous in the dueling circuits. She finished her training at Haven academy and joined her first tournament three months later."
"She did become a huntress Yang." Qrow slowly informed her. "She went on her first mission as the teams second in command and ended it as the only survivor."
Yang froze at that, swallowing roughly as Qrow continued. "My problems and your father's problems with Scathach are our problems and they are legitimate issues. Don't cause trouble just because of some bullshit superiority complex. Just don't."
The room was deathly silent as that sank in, Qrow lying back on the sofa again. Yang almost robotically turned back to the pan, dumping chopped tomatoes into a new pan with several different herbs and spices.
The silence was broken by clicking open again admitting their father and a small crowd of students; Blau, Greg, Sett and…
"Jeanne?"
"This is a very good bolognese." Jeanne smiled lightly at Yang, as she ate. The girl grinning in response to the compliment. "Not exactly traditional but it is very nice."
"Know much about traditional bolognese' Jeanne?" Tai asked as he twirled some spaghetti around his fork, getting as much sauce and mince as he could onto the pasta.
"My Father really enjoys traditional cooking, in fact he hates people changing traditional recipes." She smiled slightly her face looking an odd mix of fond and strained. "Bolognese was one of the ones he made most often because of how quick it was to make on a school night."
"That's why I made it, first time cooking for eight." Yang nodded, turning to her friends. "Well, aren't you losers gonna praise me?"
"It's very nice Yang." Greg nodded as he placed his cutlery down to grab a bit more food from the bowl in the middle of the table. Blau let out an agreeing grunt as her cheeks were almost ballooning with pasta, sauce smeared around her lips.
Yang slowly turned to her last friend, who was looking at her with a raised eyebrow. Sett slowly lifted his fork to his mouth, placing the spaghetti in his mouth and beginning to chew. He was completely blank faced as he ate the mouthful, just staring Yang in the eyes unblinkingly. "It could use a bit more salt."
Yang didn't break eye contact as she lifted her own fork, pulling the spaghetti into her mouth. She chewed it slowly, just staring Sett in the eyes, swallowing before replying. "Fair enough." She nodded before turning back to her own food.
"Well, that was unusually intense." Jeanne said, looking between the two.
"Oh no that was fairly normal." Greg nodded as he placed his cutlery down, pushing his now empty plate away from him. "Yang and Sett's relationship can be summed up as mutual torment."
"So their relationship is…" Jeanne was smirking as she began but froze in slight horror as she saw Tai watching her. "I don't think I should finish my sentence."
"Oh no, finish what you were saying." Tai smirked at the panic on her face gesturing for her to continue. The blonde stared down at her plate, her cheeks reddening as she was stared at by everyone at the table.
"So, why are you here Jeanne? No one's told me." Ruby broke the silence, addressing the girl who jumped on the question.
"Well you've been out of school for nearly a month, so me and the girls are gonna help you catch up." Jeanne replied, turning fully towards the girl. "Mei, Poppy and Tracey have agreed to help you study as well." She clarified at Ruby's confused face. "I'm just the one who came to pick you up."
"After dinner I'll be dropping you off at the dorms and I'll pick you up tomorrow at six." Tai added, mixing his bolognese in with his spaghetti, lifting the pasta to his lips and taking a bite. "Yang this pasta is really good, how many times did you practice it?"
"Four or five times, it kept sticking together after I cut it." She replied, twirling her fork to pick up her own mouthful.
"Wait, you made the pasta as well?" Jeanne blinked, looking down at the pasta. "My father doesn't make his own pasta."
"So I one upped him there? Awesome." Yang nodded happily. "Make sure to let him know a twelve year old beat him."
"Careful Yang, your ego is showing." Qrow drawled out, putting his fork down on his empty plate.
"Hey, if you've got it, flaunt it." Blau flipped her short hair dramatically towards Yang.
"This coming from the girl who is banned from cooking because she nearly blew up the dorm kitchen when cooking baked beans." Jeanne smiled sweetly as Blau blanched at that reminder, getting curious looks from the younger children and smirks from the two teachers.
"How do you blow up a kitchen with baked beans?" Blau's cheeks turned scarlet, her eyes turning downwards to stare at the floor.
"She tried to cook the beans in the can because she didn't want to wash up, but she didn't open the can and decided to throw some burn dust on the hob to speed it up." Jeanne explained, before making an explosion noise, parting her hands quickly. "The can exploded like a frag grenade, it's why she ended up having to spend two months in detention during her second year."
"And that's how we met." Yang nodded with a nostalgic smile. "I brought a pillow to math class and took a nap. I got two weeks of detention and was put in the seat next to you, but you never did tell me what your detention was for."
"I blew up baked beans, you happy?" Blau folded her arms across her chest, pouting as she turned her eyes downwards.
"Ah don't worry about it kid." Qrow said, looking towards Blau. "The first night after me and Tai were teamed up we were asleep in our dorms and he ended up blowing up the room because he wasn't used to other people sleeping in the same room as him."
"Hey, I was woke up by what sounded like a growl." Tai defended himself before being cut off by Qrow.
"It was Summer snoring." Qrow deadpanned, causing most of the kids to snort, Jeanne and Greg hiding it behind their hands.
"You cut Raven's bed in half." Tai fired back, all heads swivelling to Qrow.
"I jumped up and threw at an attack because there was an explosion, you exploded the room from a snore." Qrow rolled his eyes at Tai's attempted deflection, pushing his plate away from him and kicking back. "Alright, who's taking Ruby and Jeanne to the dorms and who's helping Yang set up?"
Tai rolled his eyes, looking pointedly at the flask of whiskey that was balancing on the end of the table. "I'm taking the girls, you're setting up the campsite. I don't want you to get a ticket for driving under the influence without a licence… again."
"Great, pleasure doing business with you." He nodded, standing up and moving over to the sofa. "We'll set up in half an hour, wake me then." With that he leaned back closing his eyes and reclining, the pair of corgis jumping up to join him.
"We'll head off in a quarter of an hour. Ruby, if you're finished go pack a bag for the night." Taiyang nodded towards the girl. "I'll just clean up before we go."
"I'll help." Jeanne immediately cut in, standing up and grabbing her plate and Qrow's abandoned plate, stacking it up quickly and beginning to move around the table, adding the other plates to the pile.
"I'll go pack a bag then." Ruby nodded, standing up before skipping towards the stairs, her smile wide. An entire day of studying with the seventh years, that was a good day for her.
-Chapter 10 Finish-
AN - Hey guys, sorry this took so long but I've found myself hesitant to work on this fic while Volume 6 was being published.
This was due to something I encountered when writing The Rose and The Maelstrom, I would write something and would almost immediately have it rendered moot by the next episode. I have a group of fics I can work on, but my serious fics like this I just can't bring myself to work on this one during that time period.
I've also had a bit of a mental breakdown, I'm on the mend and I'm reevaluating myself atm but it's getting somewhat better.
Anyway apology over.
The next arc is Yang-centric if you can't tell, I hope it'll be fun for us all.
I have a request for you guys as well. I am working on a Marvel fic, the main character is someone from our world who has gamer powers. What should their superhero name be, I want it to be game related but not obviously so.
My current favourite name is Switch but I'm open for others.
The main characters name is Elizabeth Wren. She has blonde shoulder length hair and brown eyes. She doesn't hide her face and is a bit of a jack of all trades. She was also a boy in our world so take that into consideration.
If anyone wants to, you can design superhero outfits for her I would love the inspiration and all of you will get shout outs, for the names and any outfits. You can just describe anything if you wish but please do it over a pm so I can keep ideas to myself until I use them.
Thank you all and thank you for your patience with me, it means so much.
Raisuke.