Hello there, it's Christmas Eve. And I hope you have been good this year, why? Because I don't want anymore elves down in the coal mines. I mean Santa has to get it somewhere right? Right now I'm listening to Johnathan Young's metal cover of Hellfire from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
"Hey where's Deku?" Uraraka asked.
"I'm here!" He said from where Kaminari, Mina, Kiri and he were playing Blackjack, he was losing badly.
"So Rose, what type of weapons would you suggest for moi?" Yuga asked.
"Since you have the whole knight in shining armor, a sword and shield." I say quickly as I pull out a tray off cookies that is quickly swarmed, leaving me with none. "Hey you have to let it cool."
Chapter 39: Shopping scare, Leaving for camp
We all had agreed to go shopping for camp, and so here I was in a black tank top and black camo cargo pants, in the middle of a fully colorful mall. "So Ruby what are you looking for?" Kiri asked as we started to split up. I held his hand as I looked around. "I don't really need much. How about you?" I asked.
"Really I could go for a bite." He said as we veered towards the food court. "What do you want?"
"Hmmmm I want... a burger with a large fry and medium coke." I say as I drag him to the fast food area.
"That sound's good." We get in the line and I rest my head on his shoulder.
"I've been thinking." I said quietly.
"About what?" He asked.
"The future, I know I'll have to choose eventually, but two worlds can't expect a teenager to make that choice. We'll... we'll find a way eventually." I felt like some weight had been lifted off of my shoulder.
"But what of your family?" He asked.
"I'll have to talk to them, but they should understand." I smiled. "Though don't get on Yang's bad side. She won't be too happy about you."
"Oh and why is that?" He asked, "Protective older sibling?"
"She's certainly that, but she could give All Might a run for his money with her power." I giggled.
"Then I'll be a proper man in her sight." He winked.
"You better be, cause I'll have to deal with my dad." We ordered our food and went to a table away from everyone else. We ate in a happy silence, but there was still a awkwardness to it.
"Ruby, when your able to go back... would you come back here?" He asked.
"I made up my mind about that, I want to be here with you guys, Kyoka, Momo, Mina, even Sero have made me so happy, Tenya and I had our misadventure and I don't think I could bring myself to say goodbye, I know I can't live in two worlds. So I want to be a hero here with you. It's selfish I know, but it's what I want, for us." I looked up at him and smiled.
He grabbed my hand. "We'll find a way to make this work. After all your a warrior." We quickly finished eating and went to do some shopping, I even tried on a bikini, but when Mina saw me she insisted on girl shopping with Momo, Kiri got dragged away with Bakugo and Kaminari.
"Guys, I don't need four bikinis." I said as I escaped the clothes booth, my face a bright red.
"Oh come on. one more." Mina pushed me back in with a rose print swimsuit.
"After all you want to look your best for Kirishima." Momo added. she had several large bags stacked up on a cart.
"I only tried that on a as joke." I whined, but put it on anyways. This was a more expensive one with a half skirt that looked like red petals and it hid most of my chest. When I stepped out for them to see I still had a deep blush.
"You look so cute!" Mina exclaimed. The pink girl had taste. And I did like this one a bit more then most.
"I feel naked." I squirmed in it.
"I think that's enough, let's go pay for all of this." Momo nodded. I got back into my clothes and looked at the pile of summer clothes they had made me buy. 'Why?'
As we walked about I spotted Uraraka and Deku down on the ground level, with them was a guy in a black hoodie, something was familiar about him, then I sensed it, his soul, 'Wait that's the guy that organized the attack at the U.S.J.' I looked again and saw that his hand was around the back of Deku's neck, He stood up letting go of Deku who gasped for breath. My eyes followed him as he left the building.
"What's the matter Ruby?" Mina asked. I just looked at her and mouthed villain. "Are you sure?"
"I never forget a aura. It was him the guy that's leads the League." I looked at the two girls a grim expression on my face.
The Mall was shut down and we were questioned, and my feeling was right, it was Shigaraki who had been the one to threaten Deku. "Ruby, what are you thinking?" Pyrrha asked as I paced back and forth, now we were back at my place
"I think Torchwick is watching us. He knew where we were at when we were fighting Stain, he's planning something." I stopped pacing.
"Ruby, you getting obsessed with the League." Kyoka pointed out. "You always looking for news about them, especially since The Hero Killer was caught."
"We have to leave it to the pros and the police." Tenya said. "I don't think we can avoid punishment a second time."
"But I can't just do nothing, our enemies are out there planning their next move and we don't know what it is." I looked at them with my arms held to my chest. "Their gathering power and members, now they won't just be thugs, they will have actual threats among them. If the Hero Killer is really part of them, who knows how many more there are like him. I have seen radicles in action, it only brings misery."
"But this isn't Remnant, you just can't go looking for villains Ruby." Pyrrha stood up.
"We just can't sit around waiting for graduation, they won't wait and they won't care." I countered, "Torchwick is after me, and you know what he's capable of if he is given the chance."
"And what do you expect to do about it? Like you said, we have no Idea what their next move is. But I agree we can't just wait." Bakugo stood up.
"We wait for them to come for us." Todoroki spoke up. "Their leader and Torchwick have grudges against our class, so they won't wait to long."
"Then we bring them down. By any means necessary." Kirishima stood up as well.
We waited for the bus at UA, I had a few bags and a case for dust and my weapons. I was snapping my fingers with powdered fire dust between them making small plumes of red flames. "What are you, a magician?" Aizawa asked from his sleeping bag on the other side of the bench.
"It's relaxing," I leaned back. "Fire Dust is one of the most common place elements in the world. Second only to Lightning dust. Some Hunters would use fire dust in whats called a Hunter's pond, bends in rivers that have been walled off with smooth stones and a slab in the bottom to heat the water. We had made one a fair ways into the woods back home." I sighed remembering the hours I would waste in the steaming water. "Some people believed that it cleansed the aura and soul. The trees around them would have their aura's unlocked to keep grimm away." The bus pulled up and I was pulled from the happy memory.
"Everyone sit in your assigned seats!" Tenya called out as everyone picked up their stuff.
'Training camp, I wonder what we will be doing?' I wondered in my head.
And this is done. And now I will spend the next few days with my family.