Chapter 8

Ruby was in shock, as was the rest of her team. Why were they in shock? Well... their most recent teammate was the brother of one of the most famous huntresses ever, who they were currently showing around Beacon. Thankfully Ozpin arrived shortly to drag Angelina away to a meeting about her schedule for her stay in Beacon which was no mean feat.

"Nooo I want to stay with my baby brother!" she cried latching around his neck.

"Help me…..please" he croaked all but begging.

Finally after many promises of catching up and telling her all about Beacon and his team, Ryke was finally released and able to breath only to be caught in a head lock by Yang.

"Professor if you'll excuse us we need to have team meeting" Ruby said as her team walked out the door.

Ryke was flung into the dorm followed by a group of mildly angry people and a click from the lock in the door.

"Why?" Ruby started arms crossed.

"Why what?" Ryke replied, surprised at the sudden aggressive atmosphere.

"Why didn't you tell us that you were Angelina's brother!?" Blake bluntly said.

"What in the same way you told everyone about you being a Faunus?" he sarcastically answered.

Yang was quick to defend her partner "That's different".

"Is it really?" he began standing "Soon as you tell people something they see you as that and only that, not your own person. I've been ignored completely at family gatherings because they all wanted to get photos with her! I've been swarmed by reporters and they only stopped because Angie threatened them and after that I asked her to not mention me again. I told my own sister to not talk about me her public appearances!"

Ryke finished his breathing heavy, his eyes strong but not scary they were almost pleading.

"I'm sorry" Ruby apologised her eyes sad and verging on tears "I guess I was a little shocked that she was related to you and we just didn't think"

The rest of them nodded and murmured in agreement.

Ryke sighed, appeased "It's fine I probably shouldn't have lost my cool" he said exhaling deeply "Anyway I'm really gonna need all of you to help me control her'"

"Help?" Weiss said confused.

"Yeah hopefully with you lot Angie will be inclined to stay in close proximity to me and not wander off and break something expensive…again" he let out with a annoyed sigh.

"Okay!" Ruby said back to her usual zeal "Operation Sister-Trap begins now!"

When the time for dinner had come round Ryke was already regretting getting his friends involved as he was now in his dorm eating the takeaway that Angelina had bought for them listening to her telling embarrassing stories about him.

"Oh my god really?" Ruby said astonished covering her mouth so her honey chilli chicken didn't fly everywhere.

"Yeah trust me and mum where in stiches" Angelina said.

"I hate you so much" he grumbled into his curry.

"Aaaah Ryke you're so cute when you blush" Yang teased.

"Yeah you look like a wittle red wobin" His sister added causing shadows to flare to his knees for half a second.

The room erupted with laughter as he turned even redder and curled his wings around him slightly for what good that did him.

"I don't think we've ever seen you like this Ryke" Weiss said.

"EVEN FUCKING WEISS" he shouted in his mind.

"Oh I remember one time about two or three years ago when I was still in Beacon a few of my friends stayed in my house and he was sparring with one of them and whatever way he tried to throw a punch she deflected it. Apparently he got frustrated and was deflected right into grabbing her boob"

Ryke interrupted her by quickly walking out saying something about going into town to buy milk for their fridge. Soon as the door closed the entire room just exploded with laughter. After about five minutes they had finally recovered and Angelina asked for their attention.

"Okay ladies I'm going to ask you a question and I need you to answer me with complete honesty..."

They all agreed and leant forward in anticipation and curiosity.

"What do you think of Ryke?" She asked with serious expression.

Before anyone had even though of what to say Yang's arm was up in an instant with a finger point at her sister.

"Ruby has a crush on him" She declared with a grin

Silence met Ruby as they all turned her each with different expressions, Yang had an amused smirk, Weiss looked at her with a small smile, Blake had one brow raised and a knowing grin.

Angelina meanwhile had her hands on her hips giving Ruby an appraising look, but everything about her said that she was happy about this development.

Ruby suddenly had an outburst of words in attempt to persuade them otherwise "What I don't like him, I means he's a good friend and all but I don't like-like him that's just-" she stopped herself as she saw them all looking at her with disbelieving looks. Giving out a sigh Ruby brought her legs together and her hands on her lap fidgeting, her gaze fixed firmly on the ground.

"I like him" Ruby whispered in the lowest voice she could but they all heard it.

"Aaaah my little sis has a crush!" Yang said as she put her arm round her blushing sister "Don't worry we'll help you out"

"What if he doesn't like me? I mean I'm two years younger and there are plenty of other girls who are more appealing than me because they're more... developed, and probably more willing to do adult stuff with him" Ruby let all of her feelings out almost tearing up in the process.

"Ruby" Angelina said her voice was calm and caring "trust me he likes you. I mean number one, I've saw at the way he's looked and acted around you all day and he does seem more at ease and outgoing when he's with you. Number two, Ryke won't care if you're younger than him he'll be amazed someone was attracted to him at all. Number three, he has the romantic and sexual experience of a brick so he's not looking for people to have 'adult activities' with".

"Really?" Ruby asked her eyes bright with hope.

"Oh most certainly now what specifically do you like about him?"

Ruby was grilled with questions till Ryke arrived back at eleven with two litres of milk.

"Took you long enough" Angelina teased as he came through the door.

"Oh shut up I decided to walk" He said with annoyance.

"You must have been in a bad mood" His sister continued.

"Ugh" he groaned "I'm going to bed see you in the morning" he said but with a noticeable shiver through his body which made his sister worried.

"Are you ok?" Ruby asked her seeing her expression.

"What? Oh yeah I'm fine just thinking..." She smiled "Anyway time for bed! I shall see you tomorrow"

Angelina walked out of the room shouting in her goodbye to Ryke and was responded with a grunt.

The next day.

Ruby woke up very excited as she was going to spend the entire with her idol. Around half ten came a very rapid series of knocks at the door. Ruby opened it up to find Angelina's smiling face.

"Ready?" She asked entering the room

"Yeah, well we are. The others are trying to wake up Ryke" Ruby said with a laugh as she brushed her hair.

Weiss then stuck her head around to door with a panicked expression.

"Angelina something's wrong with Ryke!"

The sword wielder was quickly up and in the room while being shadowed by Ruby who gasped at what she saw.

Ryke was in his bed violently shivering, pulling the blankets and his wings around himself his face was a deathly pale and lips purple, his face almost looked like he was in pain. Angelina wasted no time in dishing out orders.

"Weiss go find Goodwitch tell her Ryke's had a relapse she'll know what it means!" Even though she was not used to taking orders Weiss knew the situation was dire so she nodded and ran out.

Angelina turned to Blake and Yang "How quick can you get to town?"

"Four minutes" Yang said confidently.

Angelina quickly wrote down a list "Excellent I need you to get these as fast as you it'll be best if you split up"

Once they got the list they bolted out of the door.

"What about me?" Ruby asked.

"Ruby what we do now decides wither or not he lives or dies..."

"Right" Ruby said with determination "What do we do?"

"We need to keep him as warm as possible. Get any thin thermal clothing you have and put it over him and take off the quilt it'll only get in the way also put his coat over him if anything it'll comfort him"

"Oh my cloak!" Ruby said quickly unfastening it and replacing the quilt with "It's made of special fabric that changes its properties depending on the wearer"

"Perfect!" she responded eyes wide

At that moment Professor Goodwitch arrived along with Weiss carrying an IV drip.

"How long has he been like this?" She asked preparing the drip

"Don't know, but judging by the severity of it an hour, maybe an hour and a half" Angelina replied "Ryke if you can hear me we're going to turn you over so we can get to your arm".

They turned him over and attached the drip to the inside of his right wrist. Blake and Yang quickly returned with medicine and were ushered out of the room along it Weiss and Ruby as more medical staff arrived.

It was a long tense wait through the morning before the door opened and the medical staff and Goodwitch walked out.

"How is he?" Ruby asked for all of them

"He'll live but will be asleep for a week maybe more" She answered almost relieved.

"What happened?" Blake said concerned.

"I think Angelina's the more appropriate person to answer that" The Professor answered leaving the team to enter their room.

Deciding to find out what happened to Ryke they quietly walked in to find Angelina sitting on the bed beside him with a sad look in her eyes.

"Um Angelina" Yang said grabbing her attention "What's happened to Ryke?"

"Let's go back into the room I'll explain everything" She said.

Team RWBY sat in Weiss and Ruby's bunk and Angelina took the other.

"Well what happened to Ryke was an aura relapse, it is when a person's aura levels drop to usually fatal levels" The atmosphere of the room froze.

"What does that mean that Ryke will…" Ruby couldn't finish as she started to choke up.

"No no no he'll live" Angelina gave a small smile waving her hands.

"But how did this start?" Weiss said confused.

"When he was five he and our dad went into the forest to train and they were ambushed by Grimm. Dad died protecting Ryke and Ryke lost his eye. The pain of losing his eye and grief of dad dying sent Ryke into what could only be described as an aura overdrive which caused so much strain on his body that he can no longer use aura like other people, and the power surge from then still causes severe drops in his aura, which is what happened today" Angelina finished.

Ruby was shaking and sobbing into Yang's shoulder who was trying to stay strong but tears were flowing down her cheeks. Blake sat with her head in her hands not making a noise and Weiss and her hand over her mouth attempting to say something.

"Ryke didn't say anything because he blames himself for dad's death and he is embarrassed that he can be rendered useless so quickly" Angelina sighed.

"But we wouldn't blame him he knows that!" Ruby choked out.

"I know but he's stubborn like that anyway you go have lunch I'll stay here" Angelina standing up.

"No you go we'll stay" Ruby said defiantly.

"He's my brother"

"But he's our teammate and quite frankly you look like you need a strong coffee"

"Oh yeah... I suppose I haven't ate or drank anything since dinner yesterday" Angelina laughed nervously.

They all headed down apart from Ruby who managed to eat that morning and decided to look after him. She walked into his room and pulled up a chair beside him with her back to the door. Ryke's face was no longer as pale as he was and his lips where back to normal but he was still shivering though he didn't look like he was in pain. Ruby blushed slightly when she saw him curled under her cloak. Slowly she put her hand on his cheek and stroked it with her thumb causing him to unconsciously nuzzle into her palm almost make her almost squeal.

"Something tells me you have more than a crush on him"

Ruby stood up and spun round to find Angelina leaning against the door.

"Angelina um I was just" Ruby said in an attempt to formulate an answer.

"Ruby it's okay come on let him rest I brought you some

Author's Note: Hey guys i hope you enjoyed this chapter, massive thanks to xXIyra16Xx and the Righter Righter for proof reading all my chapters. The updates will slow down after the next chapter since school is starting back but they will not stop. As always feel free to favourite and follow and please review it help me write and i enjoy reading them.

Till next time, Terminiaterc.