Okay I'm back and the last chapter I forgot entirely to mention my eternal gratitude to my editor, please don't kill me Abiectio, they need me to write the story (*pouts and walks away to get rid of the knife and barrel of lye*-A). Any ways with that out of the way let's get back to plotting hard.
Chapter 14: The Banshee Part 2
Yang awoke with a sore back to the sun hitting her straight in the eyes, and if looks could kill, the sun would just have been destroyed. Sighing softly she stood up and started to crack her back. She looked at Ruby's bed and was seething at the empty bed. She looked to the only other bed Ruby could be in after she woke Yang up last night; Blake's. She saw Blake's and Ruby's head. She could see red streaks down her face. Yang walked over to Weiss and shook her gently. Weiss awoke and was about to give her a massive tongue lashing... until she looked to where Yang was pointing.
Yang pointed to the door. Weiss got up and followed Yang out. Yang gingerly closed the door so as to not wake the two sleeping Faunus. "Okay, now do mind telling me why you woke me up this early?" Weiss hissed with venom at being woken up so early. Weiss was not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, she hated everything about it. "Well besides of course the obvious fact I'm still angry for sleeping on the floor, I'm pretty sure Ruby had a nightmare because she is in Blake's arms with tear streaks down her face." Yang said as she stepped across the hallway and knocked on JNPR's dorm.
A bleary eyed Jaune opened it. "Yang please say you aren't going to use our shower again. It took me an hour to unclog the drain." Jaune said stepping aside to let Yang and the newly awoken Weiss in. "No, not today. Your shower sucks any ways." Yang said throwing herself onto Jaune's bed. "Oh a bed. How I miss them." Yang muttered shoving her face into Jaune's pillow.
"Ruby is asleep in Blake's arms... again. And she was crying. Sooo instead of waking them up and quite possibly losing the blanket and pillow they were gracious enough to give me last night, I decided to wake up princess and tell you guys." Yang said lifting her head before putting her head back down into the pillow. 'God damn loop holes'. Was all anyone could make out.
"Well, okay but why come in here? Couldn't you two get changed in your room and then go into Vale?" Jaune asked slightly unsure about her motives. "Besides to let you all know by the looks of it Blake is closer to revealing her feelings then Ruby is plus this way I can get a bed. Beds are great." Yang said barely lifting her head up so the others could hear her. She started to put her head down and attempted to fall asleep until Nora started to jump on the bed Yang was attempting to sleep on.
"Nora! Stop jumping on Jaune's bed." Ren said in his usual monotone voice. "But she is falling asleep and I'm wide awake and I want pancakes, and to see who is close to winning because the suspense is killing me, and can we go get some sloths? Oh could you imagine a Sloth carrying a plate of pancakes, he would become my favourite thing... sorry Ren but you would get downgraded to number four." Nora said as Ren helped her down.
"Wait... I know I'm going to regret this but fourth?" Weiss asked, already wanting to join Yang and go to sleep. It was early still on a Sunday morning. "Well he is already third behind pancakes and sloths. But if the first two things were to combine into one majestic being, I would die from an adorable overload." Nora said jumping onto Ren's back. "To the food house my trusty steed!" Nora shouted as Ren sighed.
"Nora, we need to get changed first and so does everyone else." Ren said trying to get Nora off his back. After what seemed like ten minutes but was closer to two Ren sat down on Nora's bed. Nora reluctantly got off his back. In a single motion as soon as her feet touched the ground she ran into the bathroom with a speed to rival Ruby. She walked out of the bathroom not even two minutes later in her normal attire. "By the way Ren you're showing more emotion than normal. It's kinda scary." Nora said jumping on Ren's back again.
After they all got changed they made their way to go get breakfast. By the time Weiss got to the table after assessing the quality of the food they were serving, Nora was on her third plate of pancakes. Ren however was trying to fend off Nora from the syrup he made.
The sun hit Ruby's face, instead of waking up like she would normally do she curled further into the soft warm thing she had her arms firmly wrapped around. It smelt oddly familiar, oddly smelt like something comforting, something relaxing. Kind of like a good new book. It kind of smelt like Blake. At that thought Ruby's eyes shot open and found her head nestled in Blake's bosom. She looked up and saw Blake reading a book.
Ruby yawned to alert Blake that she was awake without moving from her oddly comfortable position. Blake looked down and saw Ruby looking at her with a light red shade dusted over her face. "Good to see you're awake. Did you sleep any better?" Blake asked putting her book down and scratched Ruby's ears. "How did I get here? I only remember a loud scream last night. It was so scary." Ruby said, faintly remembering the awful noise that woke her up last night.
"You got scared and tried to wake Yang up to no avail, noticed I was awake and I offered to let you sleep in my bed after I said I didn't hear anything." Blake said continuing to scratch her ears. "Where are the others?" Ruby asked with a slight hesitation in her voice, not wanting to disengage from the comfortable contact she had with Blake. "Yang woke Weiss up and they both went with JNPR to go get something to eat. Do you want to go get something to eat or what?" Blake asked stopping her scratching.
"Yeah... but can you continue to scratch me ears? I need to normally tell Yang where to scratch but I don't for you." Ruby asked sheepishly at the awkward question she posed. "Maybe later, it's ten in the morning. I'll do it next time I read to you." Blake said and instantly felt bad at the expression on Ruby's face. Blake wanted to kick puppies because that way the pain would more bearable. "Okay but only if you pinky promise me." Ruby said with eyes the size of dinner plates and her bottom lip jutting out, and Blake could have sworn her eyes were getting moist as the illegally adorable Ruby extended her pinky.
"Fine, I promise you next time I read to you, I'll scratch your ears." Blake hooked her pinky into Ruby's. "Now we should get up to get changed so we can go get food and I can think of a story to tell you." Blake said as Ruby pouted as she released Blake from her arms and whimpered at the loss for some unknown reason to her. Blake felt like a puzzle piece missing from her. If Yang wouldn't mock her or gloat over her Ruby would ask her. Unfortunately, Yang would do just that which meant that left Weiss, Pyrrha, or Nora.
'Nora would yell it and hurt my ears but also let Yang know. Weiss would simply make some comment of how she doesn't know anything about true feelings. That leaves Pyrrha, she is quiet enough and would understand it somewhat.' Ruby thought as she trudged into the bathroom to get changed. Blake meanwhile got changed in the room. After Ruby got changed she knocked on the door asking Blake if she was changed. "It's okay Ruby, I'm changed." Blake said.
The quickly walked into the dining hall and took a seat next to their friends. Blake had put on her bow to Ruby's dismay. She personally loathed the feeling of having her ears confined in anything. It always hurt and annoyed her further and always lead her temper, which was already on a short fuse, to grow a shorter one, but Ruby understood why she did it. Some people don't like Faunus and in her experience, some Faunus don't like her.
The look they got from the group was one of shock like Ruby accidentally ate their cookies. "Is there something on my face?" Ruby asked quickly wiping her face. "No Ruby it looks like you were crying." Pyrrha said, wiping her mouth with a napkin Ruby could only assume she had set in her lap. "I wasn't crying that I can remember." Ruby said and started to eat the food she had in front of her.
Before anyone could comment on how weird that sounded Ozpin came onto the intercom system and made an announcement. "Would Miss Ruby Rose come to my office? Again, Miss Ruby Rose to my office." With that he turned the system off. "Why does Ozzypants want to talk to me?" Ruby asked standing up. "Perhaps he is trying to educate you on how to pronounce his name." Weiss quipped.
If Ruby heard the comment Weiss made, she choose to ignore it. Ruby just stood and began to trudge towards a scary new destination. As she approached the door she knocked lightly in case she was in big trouble for something. Professor Goodwitch opened the door and gestured Ruby to step in. "Have a seat Miss Rose," Ozpin told her, gesturing to an empty chair. Ruby quickly took the seat. The atmosphere of the room was sombre at best.
"Ruby I called you here because I have terrible news to tell you. Your dad was sent on a mission last month and is yet to return, he is presumed dead." Ozpin said looking Ruby straight in her eyes to convey how serious the matter is. "What?! Dad is missing?! Shouldn't Yang be here too?" Ruby asked tears beginning to well in her eyes. "It isn't Tai, Ruby. I mean your biological father. The one who held up your adoption for so long. Legally, I'm meant to tell you after I informed your legal guardian who would decide whether or not to let you know. Tai told me to tell you." Ozpin said, noticing the slightly relaxed demeanour Ruby acquired.
"Oh... I didn't know him though." Ruby spoke sadly for the missing relative she never knew. "Like I said I'm legally obligated to inform you, I have also sent a team to ascertain for certain his fate and recover his body if necessary, you are dismissed." Ozpin said in a slightly monotone, almost robotic voice. Ruby quickly left and ran to her dorm room.
Author's Note:
Okay so that chapter is done and it is also the only myth my family believes in which is a different story all together. Again I'd like to thank the amazing skills of my editor. And leave a review please I do enjoy reading them. By the way how many of you know any of these stories?