Ruby awoke with a start to see that she was in Cinder's room once again. Her right arm as well as her legs were covered in bandages due to the previous injuries she had suffered after the attack on the factory.
Ruby sat herself up with a small groan but instantly remembered something. She looked to her left to see Cinder sleeping beside her, her face buried in the pillow next to Ruby.
Ruby reached over and shook Cinder's shoulder lightly in an attempt to wake the older girl.
Cinder stirred with a groan as Ruby continued shaking her, eventually opening her eyes partially and sitting up.
"What do you want Ruby?" Cinder asked groggily, her eyes still half lidded.
Ruby smiled and leaned over, quickly pressing a kiss to the older girl's cheek before saying "That, was from Sapphire."
"Oh? So you have met my sister. It seems Summer entrusted the task of your training to her after all." Cinder said this matter of factly, almost as if she knew Ruby was being visited by Sapphire.
"What do you mean?" Ruby asked, lots of confusion being evident in her voice.
"I mean your mother isn't dead Ruby. It was all a lie created by Ozpin." Cinder had turned back to Ruby at this point, looking her in the eyes now.
Before Ruby could speak she continued.
"Your mother was my sister's mentor, she trained her to be what she is now. She never died, she simply had to leave. Although Summer kept coming back to check on you every year, watching you grow I guess."
Ruby was already confused enough and this seemed to make it worse. "What? How do you even know this?"
"My sister tells me about it all the time when we meet up. She's off in Patch with your mother." Cinder now realized this is the part where Ruby questions and she explains, so she readied herself for it, and readied herself to not give away any unneeded information. The act was working after all.
"Sapphire already told me that. But, I have a question. How does Sapphire reach my dreams?" Ruby's hands clenched together tightly. She was panicking a little bit at the newfound information.
"Well, she is your mother's student. Summer has given the task of watching over you to my sister, Sapphire. She watches over the development of your powers, and makes sure they head in the right direction. Summer doesn't just use her aura morphing for fighting, she can use it to get into other people's heads. That's what she taught to Sapphire, so Sapphire can communicate with you from afar."
"But... why did my mom leave? Why did Ozpin tell Yang and I she was dead? Most of all..." Ruby spoke with tears in her eyes "Why didn't she tell me?"
Cinder was unsure what to do for a moment, she had never had to comfort a girl crying before. Wait, yes she had. Her sister, Sapphire. She remembered the times she had to comfort the girl when she had come to her crying.
So, Cinder remembered what Sapphire had told her to do once she explained things to Ruby, and pulled her into a hug.
Clearly it worked as Ruby buried her head into Cinder's right shoulder as she returned the hug, now the sobs that had started up were slightly muffled.
Cinder wasn't quite sure what to do as she kept hugging Ruby, patting the girl's back gently.
"Ruby, I'm sorry, but those aren't questions I can answer. My sister has only told me what I have told you." Cinder had a concerned look on her face, and a guilty one as well. But she shook it off so Ruby wouldn't notice.
"I just want my Mommy back... can't we go see her?" Ruby asked with a sniffle, a small amount of hope in her voice when she spoke.
Cinder had to hide the fact that she thought it was absolutely adorable that Ruby just referred to Summer as "mommy". She also had to hide her excitement that things were working out just fine.
"Ruby, I'm sorry to say this, but we can't. With the way things are now we won't be able to leave town for a while, it takes a lot to get a person with a high criminal record through security." Cinder felt bad breaking this to the younger girl, but it was the only way to move things in the direction she needed.
Ruby looked up from where her head was buried in Cinder's shoulder.
"How about we just blow up the security? You said we had plans to take over Vale, right? Then I say one of the first tasks we work on is destroying the police." Ruby's face had turned to one of determination, her mouth turning from a frown to a smirk.
Cinder was surprised Ruby was the one to propose a violent idea, but smirked back at the younger girl anyway. It seemed Ruby was now more aboard with the idea than ever.
"Ruby, you just read my mind. I had plans to destroy the police, but I figured gaining more men and firepower should come first." Cinder was excited for the idea, especially since she knew Ruby would volunteer herself for it.
"Well, then I'll work on destroying the police." Ruby had a smile on her face, a determined one at that.
"Ruby, I don't want you getting any more beat up than you already are. I would feel even worse about myself knowing I sent you into danger once again." Cinder was showing more compassion to Ruby, and it only seemed to wrile Ruby up further, to Cinder's relief.
"Oh please, don't worry about me, Cinder. Look." Ruby carefully peeled a bandage off, and revealed the stab in her leg was already fully healed.
"Fine, Ruby. I'll let you handle it in your own way, I guess. In the mean time, I am going to think of a way you can get yourself a weapon nobody will recognize, and hopefully one that will be of more use to you." Cinder stood, and began stretching. "But you're going to have to go get your original one. I need a base for design."
/*/*/*/*/
Ruby laid on the black leather couch in Cinder's living room, one hand on her belly and the other along with her arm covering her face.
"Cinder, I'm so bored." Ruby groaned out, having been laying there for a while.
"It's not my job to entertain you Ruby, you're capable of doing that yourself. But..." Cinder stopped speaking for a moment as she walked into the living room. "Maybe we can entertain eachother."
At this Ruby frowned a bit. "What do you m-" but she cut herself off as she suddenly felt a weight go down on her hips.
Ruby moved her arm to see Cinder had straddled her and was looking down at her with a seductive smile printed on her face.
Ruby felt her face heat up as Cinder began leaning towards Ruby, Ruby biting her lip as she did so.
Cinder grabbed Ruby's hands and moved them around to her behind as she kept leaning forward, smirking widely when Ruby's face turned a deep red.
"Cinder... I'm scared." Ruby managed to get out. She really had no idea what to do with her hands, she had no idea what to do at all for that matter.
"Why is that?" Cinder asked with a slight look of confusion, her eyes staring deeply into Ruby's.
"I... I don't know what I'm doing. You're my first girlfriend and this is the first time anything like this has happened to me." Ruby's face truly did show lots of fear.
"Well, I can show you what to do." Cinder replaced her smirk with a sweet smile as she spoke, trying to comfort Ruby.
"Um... later, please." With that Ruby pushed her legs up and knocked Cinder onto the carpet. The moment Cinder landed Ruby was up and on her way out the door. "I'll call you later. Bye."
Cinder sat in a daze on the floor, holding her forehead as she watched Ruby leave. "Damn her... I was excited to get my hands on her merchandise."
/*/*/*/*/
Ruby walked the streets of Vale, mindlessly stepping past people as she kept her eyes focused ahead of her. She had been thinking about what had just transpired with Cinder, and it upset her that she couldn't handle that at the moment. She had found herself wanting to feel up on Cinder, but couldn't due to fear. Now Cinder had invited her, and Ruby was scared and confused as to how she should react.
The only thing that snapped Ruby out of her Cinder-induced daze would be the rain that had just started pooring down. Anyone on the streets ran for cover from the rain, including Ruby.
Ruby didn't much care for the rain, but she didn't feel like going to meet up with her team mates and whatnot sopping wet. Besides, Yang might fuss about her having a cold or something.
So, Ruby decided to take a look inside the shop's umbrella she just took cover under. What she saw startled her, not as much the items inside the shop, as Ruby's own reflection.
In the reflection stood Ruby, but also not Ruby. Her jacket was replaced with a white and red colored cloak that flapped wildly in the wind behind her. Her outfit no longer consisted of jeans and combat boots. It now had silver greaves replacing the boots and the jeans were now war pants, small amounts of amor being woven into them and having a chain or two hanging off. But the one feature that struck Ruby the hardest was the fact that her normal mix of black hair was now replaced with white.
This... couldn't be Ruby, right? No, it wasn't. Ruby shook her head, and patted her cheeks to snap out of whatever this was, and was happy to see her normal self in the reflection.
It didn't take too long for the rain to clear up, and soon enough Ruby was on her way to Beacon, where she would meet up with her team mates and recover her weapon.
/*/*/*/*/
Oddly enough, the dorm was completely empty. Nobody was there, and Ruby didn't exactly feel like looking. She figured she could just call Yang later and tell her she dropped by to find nobody there.
Though, something seemed odd about the room. The emptiness sure, but the way everyone's beds were. Weiss and Blake always made their beds before leaving, while Yang and Ruby didn't care.
But, all of the beds except for Ruby's were entirely messy, and the blankets were sprawled about. Ruby's bed had been made by Weiss presumably, doing it out of habit, and not exact care for the girl.
Ruby didn't think about it too much, and decided to simply grab her Crescent Rose off of her bed, and walk out of the dorm.
/*/*/*/*/
Ruby walked out of Beacon into the courtyard with Crescent Rose in hand,
The rain from earlier had stopped now, the sky clearing but still remaining gray.
Ruby smiled as she kept walking but her smile turned into a frown as she noticed a large group of students started running past her, fear and panic clear on their faces.
Ruby looked around for a moment to see what they were running from when her eyes landed on the statue in the center of the courtyard.
There, stood a large Beowulf with a strange purple aura glowing off of it. It seemed bigger than a usual Beowulf, a lot bigger. To the point where the statue seemed kind of small compared to it. It's arms had small traces of glyphs circling off of them as well as more purple aura.
The Beowulf turned to face Ruby and let out a loud howl the moment it's eyes laid upon her, the howl forcing Ruby to cover her ears at how loud it was. The howl seemed to shake the ground itself, a few cracks splintering themselves through the pavement.
Once the howl had finished, Ruby uncovered her ears.
"Okay, whatever the hell you are, it seems like now would be a good time to kill you." With that statement Ruby folded out Crescent Rose, the massive scythe extending to twice the size of Ruby as she aimed it at the creature.
The beowulf stepped out from behind the statue and at least ten feet in front of Ruby, preparing itself for a battle, a battle it was going to get.