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Chapter 13
Ozpin's Office
Professor Ozpin was enjoying his afternoon drinking his coffee and looking out over the school. Then he heard the ding of the elevator and sighed. 'So much for my quiet morning.' He thought to himself before telling the group outside to come in.
When the door opened a pissed looking Glynda walked in followed by one Ruby Rose and Kyle.
"Hello Glynda, what seems to be the problem?" Ozpin asked before taking a sip from his mug.
"Just a few minutes ago Miss Rose here assaulted Team CRDL and cut off Mr. Winchester's hand." She responded calmly, but you could tell she was pissed.
Ozpin for his part merely raised an eyebrow from over his mug and looked from Ruby to the reaper. "Miss Rose… is what she said true? Did you assault a fellow team and dismember a fellow leader?"
"Yep." She said popping the 'p'. "They were trying to bully me because I accidentally bumped into Cardin this morning, and after finding out about the bullying policy here I decided to take care of the matter." She said with a smile.
Ozpin then looked to the reaper. "Is this why you called and asked about them this morning?" He asked.
"Yea she came and asked about it, so I decided to check with you. You're the one who said we let the children handle it themselves. I personally don't see the problem with how the matter was handled." Kyle responded with a grin towards Glynda who was fuming.
"Just because we encourage students to stand up for themselves doesn't mean that they can get away with seriously injuring another student!" Glynda yelled.
"That's enough Glynda." Ozpin said in a calming tone. "Miss Rose why did you go as far as you did in your… retaliation?" He asked.
"Well I didn't originally plan on taking off his hand. I did that because Professor Goodwitch said something about mutilating other students, which I hadn't done yet, so to prove my point I clarified for her what mutilation could be. Before that I had only stabbed his hand, and that would've healed within a few days and been good as new." Ruby replied happily like she wasn't talking about seriously injuring a person.
While she was talking Goodwitch was giving her a death glare that could've killed.
"I see." Ozpin said taking a sip from his mug. "Now the question is what to do about this incident."
"You could let me go with that slap on the wrist Professor Goodwitch mentioned the night we met." Ruby said hopefully.
"No, I don't think that will do for this situation." Glynda said through clenched teeth.
"I mean you could slap elsewhere, but at some point it isn't punishment anymore." The reaper offered with a sly smile. Glynda's vein was bulging and was about to explode.
"As much fun as it is to mess with our dear Glynda I don't think now is the time." Ozpin said bringing attention in the room back to him. Glynda sent a glare his way as well for the comment.
"Well headmaster what is my punishment." Ruby asked looking him in the eyes.
"While you didn't technically break any rules you still possibly crippled Mister Winchester for life. As such you will need to be kept under watch by one our faculty for a while to make sure you don't get into any more trouble." Ozpin said.
"What? You're just going to let her off with increased supervision?" Glynda almost screamed.
"While we do need all the hunters we can get it is fairly obvious to everyone here that in the grand scheme of things Team CRDL is not the most valuable team in this war against the Grimm, add on their lack of discipline, maturity, and the racist tendencies they have, and ultimately they aren't quite fit for the title huntsmen. Had she not cut off Mr. Winchester's hand then I might be thanking her for bringing them down to Remnant so to speak. In lieu of all this I will keep the current punishment, and now I just need to pick a teacher who can keep watch of her." Ozpin calmly responded.
The reaper was thinking, Glynda was fuming, and Ruby was waiting to see who her supervisor would be. After a moment Ozpin looked towards the reaper. "Well Kyle would you please keep a close watch over Miss Rose?" He asked.
Before he could answer Glynda spoke up. "Why would you pick him? He is one reason why she responded the way she did. If he keeps watch of her then nothing will change, and this might happen again!" Glynda said rather loudly.
"Does this mean you are volunteering for this responsibility?" Ozpin asked hiding a smile behind his mug.
"If only to make sure this doesn't happen again then yes." Glynda said crossing her arms and looking down towards Ruby who didn't seem to be listening anymore.
'That was easier than I thought it would be.' Ozpin thought to himself. 'Had I just assigned her to it she probably would've objected to babysitting.'
"Ozpin I'm curious what kind of war against the Grimm is this?" Kyle asked ignoring everything that had just happened in the past thirty seconds.
"It is just as I said a war against the Grimm." He replied.
"Interesting, so if this is a war so to speak then the enemy must have a commander." Kyle said looking to see if Ozpin would react.
Visibly he didn't react, but he paused before answering. "What would make you think that?" He asked.
"Just some prior life experience I guess. I remember one name in particular that I heard a few times… hmm what was it? Oh right I believe the name was Salem." Kyle said with a smile.
"Where did you hear that name?" Ozpin asked narrowing his eyes. It would be a big problem to have any information leaks especially regarding this situation.
"Oh you know just in passing. I've learned a lot during my short life."
"Just how much do you know then about this Salem person?" Ozpin asked.
"I know bits and pieces for one she makes poor Glynda here look like a cute little puppy." Kyle said with a smirk.
"That's a scary thought." Ruby said wincing at the thought of someone that much scarier than Glynda.
"Indeed, but do you know anything else?" Ozpin asked curiously.
"I know enough to know that you seem to be losing this little chess match of yours." Kyle said.
"What would lead you to believe that?" Ozpin asked with a frown.
"Well for one you welcomed two murderers into your school with open arms." He said gesturing to himself and his protégé. "And two I heard from a little bird that you're down a maiden." He finished.
Ozpin looked from the reaper to Ruby. "How much do the both of you know?" He asked warily.
"I know enough, and she is still learning." He replied. "In fact, I was going to teach her a little about the seasons, but I thought that there might be someone better suited to tell that one. For instance, someone who might've been there." He suggested with a small smile.
Ruby looked excited while Ozpin just sighed. "You know a lot more than I would've liked." He admitted.
"Alright if you both will promise to keep what you know a secret then I will tell you a story or two." He said.
"Ozpin you aren't seriously thinking about telling them are you?!" Goodwitch asked.
"Glynda it appears that at least some of what I'm about to tell them they already know, and if we give them the full story then hopefully they'll stand with us rather than against us." Ozpin said calmly.
"Only time will tell on that one, but for now I believe it's story time." Kyle said looking to an excited Ruby.
"Alright then let's begin. Once upon a time…"
With WBY
Weiss, Yang, and Blake were all sitting in their dorm room thinking about what had just happened and trying to believe what they just witnessed.
'This can't be happening… why… Why… WHY!? Why did you do that Rubes… and why did you seem to enjoy it? Where did my baby sister go…?' Yang's mind was going a mile a minute trying to figure everything out and it was just making it worse.
'Cold she looked so… cold… and that smile on her face… do we really even know her at all? Who or what is Ruby Rose?' Weiss asked herself. She was struggling to see which Ruby was the real one. The happy cheerful one from when they first met or the one that appeared today.
'Again… it's happening again… even after leaving the fang I've met another person like him… even if they deserved it that doesn't mean what happened to them was right… I guess I now know why I always felt nervous around her… a primal instinctive fear…' Blake thought. Blake was terrified. Ruby her leader her friend seems to be another Adam…
All in all, they didn't know what to think about what they saw, and they were just waiting to see what would happen to their leader.
With PNJR
Team PNJR was somewhat shocked to say the least. With their sister team's leader basically assaulting another team in the middle of the day, albeit for good reasons, they were at a loss for words. Pyrrha looked around at her silent teammates. While it was common for Ren to be quiet Nora was almost never quiet or still, but right now she was both.
"Well that happened." Jaune said to his teammates.
"Yes… it's hard to believe but you're right. We just saw our friend dismember another student while beating up three others." Pyrrha said with a sigh.
Nora who had been quiet ever since the incident spoke up. "I don't get it. The Ruby we know would never do something like this. I always talk about breaking their legs, but I never would have gone that far."
"Yes you're right the Ruby we know wouldn't do that, so that begs the question do we really know her at all? Is Ruby the friend we all have been getting to know over the time we have been here, or is she someone else entirely?" Ren asked.
Before now any of the other members would have claimed for the former to be true rather than the latter, but right now they left his question unanswered.
With Cinder and her crew
"So what do you think of that one?" Mercury asked the group when they got back to their room.
"You mean the red-hooded girl?" Cinder asked. "I think she is interesting, and she reminds me a bit of our other 'teammate.'"
Emerald shivered at that. "I don't know if I like her it's bad enough we are working with one psycho. I don't like the idea of another one running around." She said.
"Who knows maybe she'll get kicked out for attacking another student." Mercury suggested.
"I doubt it she didn't look too worried about getting taken to the headmaster, so she is probably close with Ozpin or another faculty member." Cinder said putting a finger to her chin.
"Maybe she is close with the reaper. None of the other students we've seen here would even think to do something like that with a smile on their face." Mercury added.
Neo was just listening to their conversation smiling on the inside at their reactions. 'It's cute how out of the loop they are when it comes to them.' She thought.
Her thoughtful amusement was cut short when she heard her 'teammate' saying something directed at her. Neo quirked an eyebrow in question.
"I asked you what your thoughts on this girl might be." Cinder repeated somewhat annoyed.
"She is alright in my book. Anyone willing to do something like that in a room full of hunters and huntresses in training has caught my attention."
"I see but do you think she might be willing to work with us? She could be very useful, but if we don't play this right then all of our planning would have been a waste." Cinder replied.
"Well one thing we know is that whether she works with us or not she is dangerous. She has that air around her." Mercury said.
"You're right we will have to keep a close eye on her." Cinder said with a dark smile.
With Ruby
Ruby sat in Ozpin's office taking in everything she had just heard. 'Alright Ruby think. Magic eye powers. Sure. Magic mask and scythe along with successor marks. Why not. Immortal fucking wizard with enough power to super power four lines of maidens with magic. It's a bit of a stretch, but hey at least it kind of makes sense. Maybe.'
While she was taking it all in Ozpin was drinking his coffee with a bit of added vodka. 'I never pictured myself giving this information away under these circumstances.' He thought with a sigh.
Glynda and the reaper were just silent and waiting to see what the young Rose's reaction would be.
"Alright sure why not." Ruby said surprising two of the people in the room. Glynda and Ozpin never thought she would believe it that easily. "You have any more interesting stories or cool abilities?"
"Maybe he does, but that's enough for one day." Kyle said with a laugh before turning to leave with Ruby following. "You coming Glynda? You did volunteer to watch her remember." He said with a smirk. 'Ozpin played her perfectly dear Oum.'
"Yes of course." She said following them.
With that the trio left leaving Ozpin to his own thoughts. When the door had closed he turned in his chair and looked out the windows surprised to see that the sun had gone down, and the shattered moon had risen. 'That took much longer than I thought.' He thought to himself before taking another sip from his mug.
"So how long are you gonna follow me because I'll be honest I like you professor, but I don't want you watching me sleep or anything." Ruby said with a grin.
"I won't take it that far Ms. Rose I will just supervise you during the day whenever you're at Beacon." Glynda responded.
"Then do you really need to follow me to my dorm it's already nighttime?" the Rose asked.
"I am accompanying you to your room to inform the rest of your team on what your punishment is."
"Well I'll leave you two to it I have a bed with my name on it." The reaper said with a wave as he left the two.
After a few moments Glynda looked to Ruby. "Miss Rose what is your relationship to that man?" She asked curious. She knew about her being his prodigy, but she didn't understand how it happened.
"He is my mentor of course, and would you stop saying Miss Rose just call me Ruby." The red reaper replied.
"I will not look unprofessional by calling a student by their first name so casually even if you ask me to." Glynda responded.
"But we are alone right now no one would see you being unprofessional." She tried again.
"No I will not call you by your first name even if we are alone. Now I was wondering how you met the reaper." Goodwitch asked.
Ruby saw her chance. "A-a-ah no questions unless you agree to call me Ruby at least when we are alone like this."
Glynda grimaced. 'I really want to know more about the relation between those two…' "Alright… fine." She sighed. "Ruby how did you meet Kyle?" She asked.
"To be honest I just happened to be at the right place at the right time." She admitted. "A few years back I had run away from home because of… family issues. Sometime during my travels as I liked to call it I had come to Vale. I didn't really know it at the time because I had never really gone to Vale much growing up, but I stumbled my way into the bad side of town looking for a cheap place to stay. Back then I still wasn't much of a fighter, but I did have my semblance to get out of most situations, so I was alright just got to experience some of the darker sides of humanity a little earlier than I probably should have." She said with a quiet laugh.
"At the time I thought that I walked into the wrong area because I heard screams and the sound of fighting. Back then I let my curiosity get the best of me when in any other situation I should've ran the other way. When I got to where the noise had come from it had already stopped, and when I looked around the corner I saw a horrendous scene and I just couldn't move I was frozen in place. What I saw when I looked over there was one figure in black standing over four others. The figure in black was holding a scythe in one hand and was facing away from me. After looking at him and staring at his weapon for a moment I finally looked down to the bodies on the ground. Each corpse was missing their respective heads and I could see a few of them a few feet away from the bodies with their weapons strewn about. I looked back up and saw the glow of his eyes through the slits in his mask and realized he was looking straight at me. I was still frozen in place and fearing for my life all the while I was thinking I needed to get away, but my legs just wouldn't obey. He looked at me for a moment and seemed to be looking into my eyes I guess I mean it was hard to tell, and after a moment or two he turned back around and said something to me 'Run away girl. Run and cling to that precious life of yours.' He had said when he started walking away. I'm not sure why, but that was when I decided I had done enough running. I ran away from my family. I ran away from any problems I faced. My dust-damned semblance is running, so instead of running away like I had been I decided I was tired of running away and decided to follow him." She said with a pause.
"Knowing him now it's pretty obvious that he knew I was following him, and back then I think I realized it too, but I didn't really care. From what I had seen so far, I had a feeling that he could fight, and we both know that to be very true. I guess that's the reason I followed him. I was tired of running and wanted to learn to fight great reasoning to follow a murderer I know." Ruby laughed again. "Anyways back to the story after a few minutes of walking he turned back around and told me to leave. When I said no again he asked why and I told him that I wanted him to train me. That was obviously not what he was expecting because he took off his mask and looked at me like I had grown a second head. He asked 'Why on Remnant would you want me to train you? Better question why would I want to train you?' And being the kid I am I gave very kiddish reasons. 'I want to learn how to fight and am tired of running away. The second answer is because.'
'Because why?' He had asked me. I responded, 'Just because.' And he quickly said no and was about to walk away again, but I used my semblance to run up and grab the back of his cloak determined to get what I wanted. I kept up this little game that we were playing, and I guess he was bored because he didn't just disappear on me, he has a habit of doing that, but he kept standing there then walking a bit before stopping again and repeating the process. I don't know why after that whole thing he eventually said yes, but that night was the first night of my new life. The rest as they say is history. It started soon after with his hellish training, and long story short here I am." Ruby said. She remembered that night well, and although slightly terrifying it was fun. The most she had had in years.
Glynda didn't really know what to make of the girl's story. It made sense, but that one answer brought so many more questions. Questions she would apparently not be getting tonight seeing as how they had been standing outside Ruby's dorm room for a while.
"Well this has been fun, but now we need to talk to your team." She said.
"Alright!" Ruby chirped happily. With the fact that this day started terribly and ended like this with her not getting kicked out and being able to hear a few more stories she honestly couldn't care less about what would happen next.
She opened the door and saw her team still awake and looking at her when she opened the door.
"Hey guys." She said happily walking in followed by Professor Goodwitch.
"Students I am here to let you all know that because of the incident earlier today Ms. Rose will be under my supervision while on campus at Beacon until further notice." She said before turning around and walking outside and closing the door behind her.
"So how was the rest of your day guys?" Ruby asked with a smile.
"Umm Rubes… what happened earlier." Yang asked the first of them to speak up.
"When? At lunch?" Ruby asked tilting her head to the side.
"Yes at lunch you dolt." Weiss said with a scowl.
"What about it then?" Ruby asked sitting in one of the desk chairs.
All eyes were on her confusion and shock were the most prominent looks they wore.
"What do you mean what about it?! You attacked and severely injured fellow students!" Blake shouted breaking her quiet. The other two just nodded in agreement.
"It seemed like they were trying to bully me, so after asking a faculty member about it I was told that we are to resolve issues between students ourselves. That's why I did it, and the only reason they really had to get mad was that they thought I went too far." She replied.
"Do you not think you went too far? Cardin lost his hand they couldn't reattach it, and now he can't fight anymore. Don't you feel bad about that?" Yang asked.
'Hmm keep up the act or let them see a more real part of me. Hmm…Fuck it!' Ruby thought before a mad grin appeared on her face. "No not really if I'm being honest." She laughed. "I don't have a reason to really feel bad. He was a racist bully, so I decided to take him down a peg or in this case a limb. Besides I only cut his hand off because Goodwitch said something about mutilation when I really hadn't mutilated anything. With his aura a blade through the hand would have taken maybe a day or two to heal and would have been as good as new. Therefore, it wasn't mutilation." She finished with a smile.
Her teammates were stunned by what she said and the fact that she, their cute innocent looking leader, was the one to say it. Especially with that smile.
"How… How can you be okay with that? How can you act like harming your fellow students is no big deal!" Blake said getting louder throughout the sentence.
"Maybe because it isn't a big deal." Ruby said with a giggle. "In case you forgot on our first day here Kyle killed a would-be student, and guess what for some reason that escapes the both of us he wasn't stopped or fired afterwards. Seeing as we are both still here neither events were 'big deals' in Ozpin's eyes."
"That doesn't make it okay Ruby!" Yang shouted. "Just because you didn't break any rules doesn't mean that what you did was the right thing."
"The right thing huh." Ruby said more to herself than anyone else. "What is the right thing in your eyes?" She asked looking to her dear sister.
"The right thing would have been to let us help you as a team and not just attack them like a mad beowolf." She replied.
"Is that what you believe the right thing to be in that situation? Well to me I did the right thing. Right and wrong is all a matter of perspective, so in my eyes what I did was probably the best thing to do. The problem stopped, and as an added bonus if you'd like to call it that is that they are all still alive." Ruby said with a nod of her head.
"Who… who are you?" Yang asked quietly looking to the ground. "What have you done with my sister…?"
Ruby frowned. "What do you mean? I am your little sister." She said.
"No you're not! My little sister would never have done something like that to another person!" Yang shouted with tears falling down her cheeks.
Ruby's face went from a frown to a neutral expression where she just looked at her 'sister'.
"You know Yang… I spent so much time worrying about how you, dad, and Qrow would treat me if I came back. You've just helped me realize something. I don't really care anymore. If you don't like who I am now then so be it. Regardless of your feelings, and this goes for all of you. Regardless of your feelings I am still your team leader. Deal with that how you will, but for now I'll leave you to your thoughts." She said leaving out of the room.
When she left no one moved. Yang still had tears running down her cheeks and the others were lost in their own thoughts.
With Ruby
Ruby had just finished sending a text before heading up the stairs to the roof. When she got there a girl with tri-colored hair was waiting for her.
"Hey Neo." She greeted with a sigh.
"What's the matter?" She signed.
It's been a long day is all." She said walking and sitting at the edge of the roof with her feet hanging off the side. Neo sat next to her and Ruby leaned against her.
"Tell me about it." Neo signed.
"Well I believe you saw what happened at lunch." She paused. When Neo nodded she went on. "What'd you think of that?"
Neo just smirked and kissed her. "I loved it, and it caught the attention of my 'teammates'." Not sure how you do air quotes in sign language, but it just happened.
Ruby smiled. "I figured as much. The punishment I got turned into me hearing another story. I'll tell you about it later, but after that my new supervisor Professor Goodwitch and I went and talked to my team. They didn't take it as well which doesn't surprise me in the least. In fact, I think the majority of my 'friends' here are gonna be giving me a wide berth." She finished with another sigh.
"Well you know I'm here for you along with Kyle." She signed with a smile.
"I know." Ruby returned the smile. "It's scary to think about where I'd be if I hadn't met you all you know?"
"I've never liked 'what ifs' I prefer to just roll with what I have and steal what I don't if possible." The young psycho giggled.
"Yea that sounds like you." Ruby giggled with her.
"Hey Neo?" Ruby called to the girl.
Neo gave her a signature questioning eyebrow.
"Can I spend the night in your team's room tonight? I would ask Kyle, but this might be a smarter move." Ruby said not adding in that she just wanted to spend the night with her again.
Neo thought for a moment before shrugging. "You've interested Cinder already. If she thinks I'm seducing you or something then she might be more willing to add you in to their little plan then we both might learn more." She signed.
"Yea that makes sense, and it's not hard to act like that towards each other we already go on dates and kiss and stuff…" Ruby said trailing off with a blush.
"You are too cute when you blush you know that?" Neo signed.
Before Ruby could answer a pair of lips were pushed to hers. They stayed like that for a few more minutes until they both broke apart now wearing matching blushes.
"Anyways let's get back my 'glorious' leader is probably flipping shit with me being gone for so long, and her not knowing what I'm doing. She's a major control freak." Neo laughed her silent laugh.
"She's gonna hate us together then we are kind of chaotic." Ruby said standing up.
"We're chaotic alone don't worry it's just more fun together." Neo said standing up and taking Ruby's hand. In a flash of white light, the pair was inside what Ruby could only assume was Neo's dorm room. In the room were three individuals looking at them with varying looks. Cinder was sitting on her bed looking at them shocked and slightly annoyed. Mercury and Emerald were sitting on the floor in front of her with wide eyes. They were just shocked and confused. On Emerald's end there was a hint of fear in her eyes.
"Neo… why did you bring… Ruby was it? To our room." Cinder asked now very much annoyed they had been talking about their plan and now they had an uninvited guest.
Neo just shrugged and sat down on her bed leaving room for Ruby who sat next to her with a smile.
"It's good to see you all again." Ruby said with a wave.
"Likewise." Mercury said. "It's always nice to see another cute girl around here." He gave a winning smile to Ruby who gave an even brighter smile back.
"If you try and make a move on me I will castrate you." She said happily.
Emerald snorted breaking out of her silence while Neo was laughing at his paling face.
Cinder actually laughed. "You know I think I like you." She said after she stopped laughing.
"Oh really? Even after seeing what I did today?" Ruby asked feigning ignorance to who they were.
"What you mean what happened to that brutish young man and his team? That was justified in my opinion and considering you're still here I imagine the staff either didn't care or just cared about a small part of what happened like that last slash you made." She said with a hint of a smile.
"You're right." Ruby said. "The biggest thing was taking off his hand, but it doesn't matter he wasn't much of a hunter anyways." She shrugged.
"You're quite the interesting girl aren't you." Cinder said.
"Why thank you." Ruby said with a smile.
Neo laid back onto the bed pulling Ruby with her who just giggled and pulled the blanket over them. "While it was nice talking to you all I think she wants to sleep." Ruby said cuddling up to her ice cream girl.
"We can talk another time." Cinder said with a smile. 'This might work out.' She thought.
'That was easy enough.' Neo and Ruby both thought as they started to fall asleep. Ruby was the big spoon again.
With Kyle
"Well the meeting with her team went about as well as we expected." He said to no one. He had been sitting on the top of the roof that Ruby happened to meet up with Neo on for a few hours just looking up at the sky. That is until those two showed up then he just listened to bits and pieces of what had happened. "They've come up with quite the little plan Roman. I hope they don't get in over their heads." He finished before vanishing from where he was sitting.
A/N: Well that was indeed a thing. Hope you all enjoy.
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