Chapter III
AN
Review Time! Oh such yay, haha.
Yuuki Asuna-Chan— First of all, Can I just say you were my first waifu? Then it was Silica. I'd probably not be such a (ex) weeb weirdo if it wasn't for you! Anyways I'm glad SAO started me on my path for my love of anime which eventually led to RWBY! So yeah your right, It is kinda hard to see Velvet as a crime boss, but take into account, it might be hard but it's not impossible! Even, I love Velvet but I want to take her somewhere else. Characters like Ruby have such a set like a theme in my head like "oh, she's the protagonist, she's the prodigy who has to learn and grow and whatnot" right? Stuff like her and Nora borrows heavily from their original arcs and stuff and some of the later volume stuff. Velvet doesn't have quite as much in that sense, yeah I'm going use the books and how Monty described her, I wanna build on that. So yes, It might seem very hard to see, but it will happen. Just not how you picture it ;)
Wow, well, um...Story Time?
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The airship was loosely crowded, many people splitting up and socializing with those they thought were similar, be it in nature or personality. No matter that they were killers and soon to be masters of their craft, they were still kids at heart.
Ruby bumped into a few people as she walked through, trying to find Nora and Ren, who she lost in the crowded front section of the airship. She eventually gave up after a few minutes of searching and wanted to find somewhere to sit down and relax.
She finally got some air after squeezing through a conversation that a girl and two boys were having. She sat down at the small table she found and put in her favorite song at the time, relishing at this moment of calmness. It didn't last long. She heard what sounded like audible clicks of small heels come towards her.
And she knew that Nora wasn't wearing heels.
"Umm, excuse me!?"
Even while listening to her song she could tell it was the voice of a brat. God, how she hated her high pitched borderline annoying voice already, and it was one sentence!
"I said, excuse me!? Um, aren't you gonna apologize for walking between our conversation just now!?"
Ruby took it back, it was a god awful annoying voice and she wished she could end her right there and now.
A few people were beginning to look at them at this point, it seemed like the two boys she was talking to were trying their best to make her back off but she wasn't budging. Just Ruby's luck.
"Oh, looks like the princess found some early bait."
"On the bad side of the princess already? Thats a death wish..."
"Doesn't her family have ties to the Schnee's?"
"Yeah her dad's a big steel seller isn't he?"
Already, not even into the first day, she already made an enemy. Princess...Steel Seller. Ruby mulled over the context clues, scouring her built up knowing of the known syndicate families.
The name popped into her head. Rosie Monroe. Monroe Steel was a decently large company that came up through the Syndicate. It was well known for its shady business deals, from buying out smaller sellers to lowering prices just to out compete other sellers. The pieces all fit together.
"Umm, Hello!? Earth to dumb ass? I'm still waiting for your apology? You just ruined our conversation!"
Ruby just wished she could kill her at this point. Her mother could take her father's entire company without even batting an eyelash. She only need say the word, and the shadows would have done it in her stead.
She looked up a bit and saw that Nora and Ren were now in the forming crowd, she looked at Nora who smiled back before mouthing a few words.
Let her have it~
Ruby smiled before looking back down again, feeling all the needless bloodlust she accrued wanting to be let out so badly.
"Yo, earth to birdbrain!"
Rosie lifted her hand and began to move it towards Ruby's shoulder to try to shake her, but a hand shot out grabbing her tight. The force was already crushing.
"Hey! What are yo?—Ow! Who—?"
"Oh I'm sorry~! Is this to tight for you?"
Ruby giggled inside while she said that and closed her eyes. Her bloodlust was taking control at this point, and she was loving every second if it.
"Hey! I'm the—"
"princess, yeah yeah. Well, princess..."
Ruby pulled Rosie in close, before taking off her hood. Everyone could see the hair now. Already her tell tale Rose signature was showing. She felt Rosie shudder through her hand. She then opened her eyes.
Her pure silver eyes had blood red seeping into them. Rosie was scared now, she screwed up. She screwed up bad.
"Now, remind me again? Whose apologizing for 'disturbing our conversation?'"
Ruby imitated her voice with such a high pitched squeal that if the scene wasn't so tense she would have started laughing. She let her bloodlust seep out into the rest of the airship.
The pressure was unbelievable. Everyone had the chills and their hairs were standing up tall, ready to run away from the girl in red.
"I...I'm apologizing to you...I'm...I'm sorry for disturbing you...and calling y-you all those names..."
"Miss Rose..."
Ruby smiled before letting go of Rosie and watched her scurry off towards probably the bathroom to throw up her insides after that traumatic experience. Ruby pulled in her bloodlust and an audible sigh of relief was heard as people began to awkwardly try to make conversation again. Leaving a wide berth to little Red.
Red sighed before going back to her phone again. Maybe she shouldn't have gone so far, that was pretty mean of her. She felt like apologizing but how could she? After that show it'll look like she was a chump after all! Ruby just shrugged to nobody and decided the other girl was extreme too.
"That. Was. Amazing~~~!."
Nora had sat down next to Ruby, looking as if she was going crazy from the pleasure of watching Ruby verbally assault that girl just then. She was making such a cute face Ruby had trouble holding back her teases.
"Yeah? You kinky masochistic girl. You know that look would be cute if you weren't getting off to watching her be abused just now."
Nora just giggled, it was usual for them to poke fun at the other like this. While it's up in the air for Nora, Ruby knew pretty well which way she went, and nobody could blame her for wanting to jokingly flirt and tease her best friend sometimes right?
"But wow Red! That was quite a show!"
"Yes, I agree as well, though, don't you think you pushed it a bit too far?"
Leave it to Ren to sneakily pull up a chair without her noticing, and leave it to Nora to immediately start playing with his ponytail. She wished those two would get a room already.
"Yeah, I might've...and I might've made sure everyone was scared of me? So thats great?"
Ruby sighed and lowered her head into her arms while Ren and Nora looked at her before looking at each other.
They knew it was hard for Ruby, having to deal with the Rose name and living up to everything, but it was even harder to deal with the people around her.
She was so bad at interacting with people, it was amazing that she even had Nora and Ren as friends.
Ruby just sighed into her arms, before picking herself back up and slapping her cheeks lightly. It was better to focus in the positives after all.
Never show your feelings.
"Ahem, Can you all hear me?"
The sides of the room flickered bright as a hologram popped up, showing what appeared to be a women. Ruby instantly knew who she was, while most of the lower caste teens looked onwards waiting to her her name.
Glynda Goodwitch was a longtime friend of Summer Rose. Goodwitch came from a then unknown family, and like many others, she idolized Summer. Even though they were a year separated, Glynda and Summer grew close. Eventually, they began to work together once outside of Beacon. Glynda quickly rose through the ranks and owed it very much to her longtime friend Summer.
Since then, she was elected as the youngest teacher to date to work as a professor at Beacon Academy, ousting a certain grey haired man by a couple of years.
"My name is Glynda Goodwitch, many of you may not know me personally, but I have worked with the Syndicate for quite a long time."
Hushed whispers began among the students. They all heard the name Goodwitch, but not many saw her. She preferred to stay outside the spheres of many families and remain at Beacon. And when she did work, it was flawless without any mistake.
You can thank Summer for that.
"This message is meant to inform you that your baggage will be dropped off to your rooms while they are prepared. All new students are to report to Beacon Hall, which can be found across from where the dorms will be."
"This information and more can be found in the quad."
"And welcome to Beacon Academy."
The hologram turned off and on queue, Beacon Academy appeared in view of the large scale windows.
Most students flocked towards the sides to look at the school coming into view, while some looked to the other side, towards what was once home. Vale City was small. It was getting smaller and smaller by the second as they rose higher towards the Academy, farther away from the hustle and bustle of normal life.
Many of them wouldn't live to see normal life after this.
Ruby had come here prior with the rest of her graduating class, a perk of attending each region's junior academy—the ability to see the regional school before the other candidates could.
Unlike the rest of the Vale students though, Ruby had visited Beacon prior. When she was a small child, her mother had brought her along with her when she came to visit Glynda after returning from a week long syndicate assigned mission.
There was another girl there too, hiding behind her mother, while all three of them, Glynda, Summer and the woman, all conversed.
Maybe I'll see that girl again? Who was she...?
"Heya, Red! Come on, the ships docking!"
Nora's excited voice broke her out of her small stupor as she began to bounce around, with the strong hand of Ren being the only thing stopping the bundle of raging energy from being let loose on the unexpecting teens.
"We'll be out in a minute."
Ruby nodded at Ren's comment before seeing the wave of people rushing to the door, to be able to be the first ones out. To be the first ones to touch the soil where next four years will live and die.
The airship jolted as the locking mechanism connected the ship to the platform, letting the bridge to the platform connect. The doors flashed a green on the sides, as they began to open. The early fall light perked through the doors.
Beacon Academy was here.
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Her airship doors opened letting her walk freely out onto the platform.
The platform was large, and the influx of students was already overwhelming to the girl. Her timid nature was beginning to get the best of her, but she steeled herself.
Now was not the time for silly childish worries. She had goals to accomplish, things to do, and people to meet.
A dash of red penetrated her peripheral vision on the platform across from hers.
Had she found her already?
Her Grim Reaper?
AN
I don't know if I love this chapter because it's so out of character or hate it because of it. Honestly just saying the red bleeding into Ruby's eyes is just a background thought. Don't think to much of it yet. I'm testing the waters in how I'm going to do this story. In fact, honestly I've thought of changing the entire premise?
Like crime school I love. But I don't know exactly how I wanna write Velvet as a crime boss thinking about it now. Like As I said before, I love Velvet, and honestly I have a pretty clear destination where I want her character to go mentally. I just don't know thematically. Same for Ruby, I know where I wanna go, I don't know how to get there.
Because I wanna keep playing off this whole magic system the RWBY has set up and work off that while introducing new things I wanna set up.
Its 5 AM right now and I've just been thinking over a lot of stuff. Been writing this story for nearly two years, I'm counting my first account because that story is still up.
If anything It'll be less of a crime boss, and more of a tactician, IFO (in field operator) type system, where people like Summer are in a class of their own.
Well, thanks for reading my ramble? I might delete this part from the chapter but who knows?
Its been real. See you in the next two to three weeks or so
Stay easy.