Heyo! So I know I say this a ton, but I'd like to thank EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU viewer's, people who favourited/followed this story, etc. This story started out as just an idea, just something to pass the time as I sat in boring math class, or when I was riding on the bus home. I NEVER would've imagined it'd be any good and I doubted myself for a long time. When I posted my first few chapter's on this fanfiction, I was excited to see people reading it, and when I got my first review I thought it would be a bad comment saying this story was shit. To see people saying they can relate to the story and it makes them feel comfortable and happy, I felt happy. Not just because of the reviews and the comment's (cuz trust me, I've had a couple of them say it was shit) tell me they could understand the feeling, but because I felt inspired to do more, for them, for any of you reading this, etc. I'm not trying to boast or anything, but I felt like a leader to you awesome people who've viewed and favourited and followed my story. I think writer's understand what it feels like too to have an audience that likes your work. Who doesn't?
So for those of you who are still reading this, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is I'm ending my very first fanfiction story. I want to start fresh. The good news is I will post an update for the sequel to this story. I will give you guy's the link to it in the update so you know where to find it, if you are still interested in it. Also I might do the Faunus bunny Weiss AU soon, so for those interested in that as well, you can use the link to find out. So yeah. But I might not do it for another couple days to a week maybe, I'm not sure. I have driver's ed coming up soon and semester's are moving at full tilt now. Don't worry, I'll try to balance my time so that I can work on both. Back to the final chapter.
Story Note: It starts in Ruby's dream about the cookie ship. This is the semi-last day of summer break (When Blake got called up to Professor Ozpin's office). I tried my best to make it somewhat believable, yet dramatic and intriguing. Also the dream is not exactly what you'd expect, you'll just have to read it to find out...
Final Chapter 20: Forgetful
"Alright, batten down the hatches! Secure those lines! Make sure those sails are catching every bit of this wind, FULL SPEED AHEAD!"
Crew mates were running back and forth, attending to each bit of the ship as we kept up speed. The S.S. RWBY was in full-swing, in the dangerous milk ocean. The ship was a giant, sturdy chocolate chip ship. With the semblances of all four of the crew members on the flag. I walked up the stairs to the steering wheel, relieving Blake from the role as she ran down the other set of stairs to help her other crew mates. All of a sudden, the waves got choppy. I started to see pieces of British tea biscuits, chunks of French cookies. And a lot of floating chocolate chip's and raisin's.
"Cap'n! At the port bow!" Weiss called out. My eyes widened as I cranked the wheel to the right. "Raise the sails!"
The crew members rushed around and folded the sails up, cutting our speed down quite a bit. We JUST passed a peanut brittle rock, ever so closely. I turned the wheel to the left as we continued through the peanut brittle passageway. All of a sudden, a coffee biscuit emerged on the port side, It's blowhole shot up thousands of dark objects about the same small size. All of a sudden, those thousands of objects started landing in our ship.
"OREO'S! GET 'EM OFF ME!" Yang screamed as she tried to pull a couple of them off her fingers. More and more began to pile on the ship. I noticed there was a bunch of them chomping behind me as I found myself surrounded.
"Abandon ship!" I yelled. All of a sudden the coffee biscuit turned around and rammed right into our ship, causing it to break and all the crew members to enter the peanut, milk and Oreo infested water's.
"AAAHH! I'm allergic to Peanut's!" Blake yelled. Much to her doom, the ship hit a piece of peanut brittle rock, causing it to crumble and land right onto the poor shipmate's head. The swollen and bloody cat submerged into the water, drowning as her last screams could be heard in the milk.
"I-I'm allergic to mii-lK!" Yang said. Before she could finish she swelled up as the Oreo's kept biting her. Two giant ones clamped down hard on her arms, disabling her ability to dog paddle, her legs were so puffed up she could barely move them. "Lll!MMM!" Was all she could muster before her swollen body was also drowned. Not even giving her the last breath before sinking with the fishes.
"Weiss, look at me! Come towards me!" I said calmly, yet instructively. The frightened girl nodded as she began to swim up to me. As she got close another piece of brittle broke as it came towards us both.
"WEISS!" I screamed. Using every last ounce of speed, I swam towards the scared crew mate, I tried to reach out for her, but just missed as the rock pierced the girl. I seen her eyes widen as she tried to grab my hand, but the brittle was too heavy and the girl was unable to take a good last breath. I dove under the cold milky ocean as I searched for the girl. Air bubbles and blood flew up as I watched her arms disappear in the white milky ocean. My heart started to break as I raced back for air. I emerged again, gasping for air. I was the last survivor on a small ship. I started to cry as I got on a piece of broken cookie debris floating in the milky ocean. I noticed an object that looked familiar as I dog-paddled over to it. I picked it up, it was Weiss' knife, she used it to cut rope and other things. I spun the knife and held it upside-down in my hand, blade towards me. I quickly stabbed myself in the stomach. Blood spouted out of my mouth as I shook in pain. I screamed as I pulled knife out of my gut, falling back on the debris in agony. I put all I could into pushing myself up again. This time, I spun the blade right-side up, blade facing towards me. I brought the knife to my neck.
"I'll be with you soon, Weiss." I said finally as I took a deep breath. I pushed the blade onto my flesh and quickly jolted my hand right. I could feel the blood spurting out as the momentum from the jolt knocked me back into the water. A pool of blood filled the milky waters. I tried to breathe in, but all that I could muster was a blood curdle followed by my sinking body. I watched as the blood and my breath flowed to the top as I continued to sink to the bottom. Darkness encased me as I let out my last breath and closed my eyes, Allowing death to take me away in this cold, milky hell.
(Hehe you reader's thought it'd be a happy dream. Surprise I'm a cruel bitch.)
I jolted up, screaming and panting heavily. I felt a hand touch my arm and I jolted, turning around to see Weiss with a worried/scared look as she held her hands apart in sign of peace. My eyes widened and soon welled up as I jumped into Weiss' arms, crying heavily as she calmly rubbed my back and played with my hair, saying the exact same words over, and over, and over again like a cassette.
"It's okay, it was a bad dream, I'm right here sweetheart." She kept saying.
Several minutes rolled by, as I laid in Weiss' arms. She began to hum quietly, her calm and comfortable voice soon lulled me back to sleep.
I awoke again, still wrapped in Weiss' embrace as I rose from her.
"W-what happened?" I asked her, looking around the room. I couldn't remember what occured, but I assumed I fell asleep in Weiss' arms as we sat against the wall.
"You woke up screaming! How do you not remember?!" Weiss exclaimed. I looked at her.
"I did?! Did I say anything?!" I asked.
"No, you were just terrified for some reason! When I went to grab your arm you spazzed out, your eyes looked like you just seen a murder. Then you started to cry and you jumped into my arms. I was able to calm you down, but the look on your face... Are you okay sweetie?" Weiss explained, looking at me worriedly again. I looked at her with the same expression
"I don't know."
About an Hour later, in the cafeteria...
Blake's scroll started to ring, The black cat-girl pulled it out of her pocket and pressed the answer button
"Hello, Blake Belladona speaking." Blake answered. We could hear the person speaking on the other end of the call. "Wait, what's going on?" Blake asked. The caller spoke again, and soon Blake held her scroll in front of her face, ending the call.
"Who was that?" Weiss asked as she took a sip from her teacup.
"Yang," Blake answered. "She told me to meet her at professor Ozpin's office, but I don't know why. I gotta go see what's up, I'll see you guys later!"
And with that, Blake got up and walked towards the exit. I face-palmed
"Huuhh, that's my sister, always getting into trouble." I blurted. Weiss let out a giggle, as we continued to eat our breakfast. Weiss got up and put her teacup down.
"Wait here, I'll be right back." The ivory-haired girl said as she left the bench. I hadn't noticed that all of the others left too. I was a little upset that they didn't even say goodbye or anything, they just up-and left. Weiss came back a couple minutes later with another teacup.
"Jeez Weiss, I know you like your tea but seriously." I joked. Weiss rolled her eyes.
"No, it's not for me you dunce. Here," She gave me the teacup. "This should help your mind, as well as your body and immune system. Try it, it's really good!"
I took the teacup off it's plate and brought it to my nose, taking in a whiff of it. It smelt of tea leaves (Duh) and a hint of lemon. After examining it, I tilted the cup pressed on my mouth, taking in it's natural flavouring. I swallowed it with content.
"That's actually really good. What kinda tea is this?" I asked the heiress. She took a sip of hers as well.
"It's called Macha Green Tea. It's supposed to help with the brain's cognitive functions along with aid your body's system. I've had it imported all the way from Mistral." Weiss answered. I looked at her funny.
"Did you read that off the description on the box? Cause that sounds ridiculously rehearsed." I teased, giggling at my own joke. Weiss smacked my arm.
"You're a dolt, you know that?" Weiss proclaimed.
"Yeah, but I'm your dolt." I answered.
"..But you're my dolt." Weiss admitted. We continued to sip our tea alone together. That's when I remembered something.
"That was a little rude, how team JNPR just up-and left like that, they didn't even say goodbye." I pouted. Weiss gave me a confused look.
"They said goodbye to all of us, the team said they had to do last minute school shopping and they should probably get on it early, remember?" Weiss answered.
"I-I.. don't remember." I said. "I don't even recall seeing the whole team, just Ren and Nora."
Weiss chocked on her tea. "W-what?!" She asked, still chocking on her tea. "Please tell me you're, Cough, joking."
I shook my head. Weiss got up and took my hand. "That's it, I'm taking you to the doctor's."
Two Hours of Testing Later...
I sat on the patient's table, Weiss sat in front of me as we waited for the doctor to come back with the results. He'd probably tell me I had something really bad, like a brain tumour or Alzheimer's or something. Finally the doctor walked in to his office.
"Ah, Ruby. Weiss, good to see you two," The doc greeted with a content smile. He sat down in his office chair and typed something up on his computer. "How's everything going?"
"It's been alright, Doc," I half lied. "It's just, I've been forgetting parts of my day, I don't know why. I was told by my friend Weiss that I woke up screaming, I don't even remember what I dreamt of. Then, I went to the cafeteria. There's usually 4 people in a team, and I was sitting with half of another team. They left apparently with the other half of their team and I don't even remember seeing or hearing them go."
"Hhmmm. Interesting," The doc said. "Tell me, have you been sleeping well?"
I nodded. "Somewhat. I've been kinda getting to sleep late this past week. I've just been kinda busy."
"And have you been taking your medication?"
My eyes widened. "No, I forgot last night, now that you mention it, I didn't take it yesterday either. It just slipped my mind."
"Well, that's a start. It says here that you've had some concussion's this summer. That could influence loss of memory. One more thing; are you stressed out at all? Something that's bugging you a lot?" The doctor asked. I thought about it.
"Not really. I mean, I'm a little sad school's starting up soon, but I'm not totally freaked out that semester's are starting back up."
After conversating between the doc and I, he finally came to a conclusion, looking at his computer.
"Well, it's nothing to be worried about. Ruby, you are a perfectly healthy girl, with a somewhat stable mind. My best conclusion here is that lack of sleep and the concussion's you've had are just slowing down your perception. Something that goes by quickly won't pick up in your mind until some time. My suggestion is that you go to bed early from now on, take your medicine routinely still and eat and drink healthy food's that promote good mental health. Smoothies, fruit, milk."
"Milk." I repeated, remembering some of the dream I had.
"Yes, anything with dairy products should help with bone growth as well as mind growth. If your problem still occurs, come back and see me."
And with that, we were able to leave. I took my medication right away, making sure to read the label cautiously. We went to the training area back at Beacon, getting our weapons from our locker first and then walking into the room.
"So tonight, you're going to bed at eight o' clock, understand?" Weiss instructed as I slashed through robot practice dummies, shooting a couple with the .45 calibre rifle.
"Milk, ocean.." I muttered quietly, I jumped up in the air and firing a round, making me spin with great speed as the dummy's head was cut into fourth's.
"Ruby! Did you hear me?!" Weiss repeated. I landed on the floor.
"Huh? Sorry, I was lost in thought." I answered honestly. The AI's paused as I was spun around, wrapped in Weiss' embrace. "W-Weiss, I-I'm sorry I was just-"
"I'm worried about you, alright? When stuff like this happens... I worry a lot about you." Weiss whispered in my ear, compassion and concern at the same time in her voice.
"It's okay Weiss, it's just a faze. I'll be back to normal in no time." I answered.
"I hope so."
I dropped Crescent Rose and began to rub the heiress' back. She let go of me a few minutes later.
"How about we have a sparring match, Get our mind's ready for combat school again." I invited. Weiss smiled.
"Okay, I'll take you up on that offer, don't think I'll go easy on you though!" Weiss smirked. She used her glyphs to move her to one side of the arena, I used my speed to get to the other side. The bots all sat down on the sidelines as if they were the crowd.
"THREE!" We both began to count down.
"TWO!" We shouted at the same time.
"One." I whispered in my head, getting ready to fight.
One Hour Later...
I panted heavily, using Crescent Rose for balance as I kneeled on the floor. I looked over to Weiss, she was doing the exact same as me. I got up and walked over to my ivory-haired girlfriend, holding out my hand as she seen me walking up to her. The heiress accepted my gesture as I pulled her to her feet again.
"Pant, that was fun." Weiss claimed, still trying to catch her breath as she sheathed Myrtenaster. I nodded in agreement.
"Huff, you wanna, huff. Get some ice cream?" I requested. Weiss thought about it.
"How about we get some dinner first?" Weiss asked. I nodded.
"Sure, I could eat."
After dinner, and ice cream. Me and Weiss walked back to our dorm's. We both changed into our sleepwear and proceeded on to brushing our teeth. After Weiss instructed me to sit on the desk chair that sat in our room's. She brought a first aid kit with her as she knelt down in front of me, grabbing my wrists and turning them as she examined my arm. New bandages were taped onto my arms. Weiss took off the tape carefully and removed both the bandages. The scars were nothing more than white marks on my arm's now. Weiss smiled.
"Perfect. Just before school started too," Weiss exclaimed. "Just in case though."
The heiress smeared some kind of white cream on my arm. She put the lid back on the container and placed it on the desk.
"This'll make the scars fade away. It's a vitamin-E enriched oil, it's good for the skin too," Weiss explained. "Just remind me to put some on your cut's every night before bed."
I nodded in compliance to her instructions. Snickering a bit. Weiss gave me a weird look. "What? What's so funny?"
"Oh, it's nothing. I think you'd make a good mother one day Weiss." I answered, making the white haired girl blush.
"Thanks Ruby."
I sat on Weiss' bed, waiting for her to come to bed with me. Weiss came out of the kitchen with a small cup of water in one hand, and my prescription medication in the other. She placed the water down and uncapped my med bottle, taking out one of my pills and placing it on the bookshelf. She placed the cap back on my bottle and placed it on the bookshelf, picking up the pill and water and giving it to me. I washed down the pill and gave the cup back to the heiress, who placed it on the bookshelf. Weiss tucked me into bed.
"Aren't you coming to bed with me?" I asked. She shook her head.
"I gotta go to the library, but I'll stay with you until you fall asleep."
Weiss sat next to me as she swept my hair to the side. She sung an old folk-tune to me. One that my mum used to sing so long-ago. It brought me back to when I was a child back on the little island of Patch, watching the star's dance as my mother would sing the song to me. I let the good memories of my childhood envelop in my mind as I slowly drifted to sleep, and listened to Weiss as she hummed the last few notes of the song.
Will Ruby ever remember her dream? Will Weiss be a good mother? Will I stop talking like this? Maybe. So I know it probably wasn't the best last chapter of this story, but I just wanted to do something with her nightmare's again and her forgetfulness. Anyway. I will post a concluding chapter to end this story, giving you people the link's to the next stories. Or you can just look on my profile and find them too. Either way, I will see you in my next story (or stories, depending on when you read this), and the same thing I said when I started this shit; stay tuned!