I think I sat on this one long enough. Time to show my RWBY worth by finally writing the fanfiction I said I was going to.
So, here it is. Ruby Rose: Reaper of Grimm
Disclaimer: RedDragonforce 1 doesn't own RWBY. RIP Monty and bless RT for continuing the main story and Chibi!
(Story Begin)
(Chapter Begin)
Ruby couldn't believe who she found randomly in a Dust Shop of all things. While reading her favorite Weapons Magazine (in more ways than one), who had shown up other than Roman Torchwick, a highlighted Target back at the office. While Targets had assigned members to take care of them, Roman's was lasting longer than normal. Ruby couldn't say anything, because she hadn't taken out her own current primary target, and it's been 2 years since she was assigned that target. Ruby felt bored at the hired help Roman sent after her. It was really their fault though, people knew not to disturb her reading.
"You were worth every cent, truly you were," commented Roman, about as dryly as she was bored. She couldn't help but agree with him, "Well Red, I think we can say this has been an eventful evening."
'Not nearly enough,' thought Ruby, mentally rolling her eyes at him. He put out his cigar as Sirens were now within earshot, 'Oh great, what's he gonna do: shoot me with his cane?'
"And as much as I'd love to stick around," continued Roman, bringing up his cane, "I'm afraid this..." the end opened up, revealing a reticle, "is where we part ways."
'Of course he did,' sighed Ruby, before he fired.
Ruby used her Sniper-Scythe (one of the best weapons ever in her no-so-humble opinion), to avoid the blast, but lost sight of him after she landed and got her bearings. Looking around, she noticed Roman heading up an escape ladder to a nearby roof.
Turning to the Store Owner, someone she knew for a while now, "You okay if I go after him?" she asked. When he nodded, she moved quickly to catch up with Roman on the roof.
Upon landing on the roof, she got his attention. "Hey!" she called out, attempting to stall for time.
"Persistant," muttered Roman, but Ruby heard him anyways.
'Hey, if Death couldn't stop me, then you certainly can't,' thought Ruby, getting ready for a real tussle when an airship came up from the other side of the building. It's light shown on her, blinding her long enough for Roman to get on it.
"End of the line, Red!" called out Roman, holding up the Fire Dust Crystal in front of him before tossing it out in front of her and blasting it.
Ruby covered her face, prepared to tank the hit when she sensed someone land between her and the Dust Crystal and conjured a shield, blocking the explosion from reaching her. Moving her arm, she saw Glynda Goodwitch standing in front her, ready to fight. Ruby would have squeed if she still wasn't in a fight. Ruby felt content at watching Glynda at work, knocking the ship off its axis. Suddenly, a darkhaired woman replaced Roman, her face in shadow, but Ruby knew that dress anywhere. She was proven further correct when the eyes glowed golden as she used Fire to counteract Glynda's Ice. Ruby realized she had to intervene and brought back her Scythe into her Sniper mode, but all her shots were blocked by the woman's hand, her Oum-damned hand!
'That's cheating!' whined Ruby in her head, but let it go as the woman set a series of mines and before Ruby could react, Glynda already sent her forward to avoid the small explosions.
Collecting herself and putting away her weapon since the Airship was out of range and it was getting late in which she had to meet up with Yang and return home. She was starting her third year at Signal within two days after all. Turning to Glynda there was only one thing to say.
"Can I have your Autograph!" squeed Ruby. (What? She's a fan.)
She did not get her Autograph. Furthermore she was in an interrogation room! She's 15! Okay, sure it's standard procedure, but she's not a criminal! The worst thing she was guilty of was collateral damage while using self-defense, and that's covered under self-defense! But, Ruby soldiered on and endured the scolding from Glynda, which was quite useless because the 'dangers' she was talking about that happened tonight weren't anywhere near as dangerous as some of her recent missions for the office. Glynda eventually stepped aside and allowed someone to enter. That someone was Ozpin. THE Ozpin of legend, well a short legend because Ozpin's legend had only really begun roughly 25-ish years ago by becoming the youngest Headmaster of an Academy.
(AN1)
"Ruby Rose," greeted Ozpin, walking in with cookies and a mug a coffee (three guesses as to who the coffee went to). He bent down to get closer look at her, "You have... Silver Eyes."
And there it was. Her Family's bloodline, the Silver Eyes. Not many can actually discern her Silver from other people's Gray eyes, though shining ever so slightly brighter helped. Of course, she could will her eyes to shine even brighter if she really wanted to. If she learned one thing from Death, it was the secret behind her Silver Eyes... and her Mother's side of the family. Though it was concerning that her eyes was what he opened with.
"Ye... Yes," confirmed Ruby.
"So... where did you learn to do this?" asked Ozpin referring to the security footage provided to Glynda, more curious than his voice implied, despite not sounding surprised at all.
"Signal Academy," replied Ruby, she wasn't going to lie to Ozpin about basic information that wasn't an actual secret.
"They taught you how to use one of the most Dangerous weapons ever designed?" questioned Ozpin.
"Well... one teacher in particular," said Ruby, knowing who both of them were concluding.
"I see..." said Ozpin, finally setting down the cookies in front of her.
Ruby figured they weren't poisoned, given the circumstances, and opted to at least taste one... before shoving a half-dozen down. (Hey, she was a growing girl and chocolate chip cookies happened to be her second favorite food in Remnant.)
"It's just that I've only seen one other Scythe Wielder of that level of Skill before..." continued Ozpin, "A dusty old Crow(Qrow)."
"Well that is my Uncle Qrow Branwen for you," said Ruby, clearing her mouth of cookie, "I had no luck with weapons before he took me under his wing. Now I'm a Scythe Master!"
Ruby flourished that statement with a few 'ninja' moves. Hey, even if she doesn't like to brag normally, who says she can't have fun every now and again.
"So I noticed," said Ozpin, showing nothing of his true expression behind schooled features, "And what is an adorable girl, like yourself, doing at a school that trains warriors?"
"Well..." replied Ruby, letting all pretense drop, "I want to be a Huntress."
"You want to slay monsters?" asked Ozpin, in a layered way.
"Pretty much," said Ruby, "I've only got 2 years left at Signal and I plan on attending Beacon afterwards. It's like the Best School locally. My Father's a retired Huntsman and my mother was a Huntress. They always taught me it was better to help others if we can, and I want to do all that I can to help others, so doing what you love and loving what you're doing is an ideal job, so Huntress it was. My sister's starting at Beacon this year going for basically the same goal, so it the more the merrier."
"Do you know who I am?" asked Ozpin... finally.
"Professor Ozpin, Youngest Headmaster in history, or at least Beacon's history," replied Ruby.
"Hello," greeted Ozpin again, properly this time.
"Nice to meet you," Ruby replied.
"You want to come to my school?" asked Ozpin, again a layered question.
"Words fail how much I want to go there," answered Ruby.
Ozpin and Glynda shared a look, before Glynda rolled her eyes.
'Victory!' cheered Ruby internally, 'Though I would have been content to go without the lecture.'
"Very well, you're approved," said Ozpin.
It took all my skill not to smirk while acting surprised.
"For... for real?" asked Ruby, feigning surprise rather well.
"Yes. The paperwork will be handled with Signal. You simply need to report to the transport tomorrow by 2PM," added Glynda.
Ruby followed them out and was allowed to head home to get ready for Beacon tomorrow. As Ruby walked along the way to the transport to Patch Island, she walked by Junior's bar. It was a neat little Information Hub. Ruby had used it once or twice for minor missions inside Vale before, when the office didn't have a lot of information. Ironic given the nature of her work. Suddenly, one of the windows shattered as the Owner, known as Junior, flew out of it. Her sister, oddly enough, jumped out two seconds later.
"Yang? What the hell! You said you were meeting a few friends before school!"
"That's... a long story."
"Bright Eyes, is that you?" groaned Junior, looking at Ruby.
"Hey Junior. Is that my Sister's hair you're holding?"
"Unfortunately..." replied Junior, letting go of the hair.
"Yang, we talked about this!"
"You talked, I said no," grumped Yang, folding her arms.
(AN2)
"Yang..." sighed Ruby, shaking her head, "Let's go home. You wouldn't believe the day I had."
"Really? Do tell!"
"Fine..." said Ruby's, rolling her eyes, she began to tell Yang her adventure at the Dust Store, leaving out Ozpin and her admittance into Beacon early. She wanted to save that for the transport tomorrow.
The next morning, Ozpin and Glynda were reviewing Ruby's file before the transport was set to leave, making sure everything was in order.
"Should we have told her?" asked Glynda.
"About what?" asked Ozpin, taking a sip of that sweet nectar from the Gods.
"That we know she's..." started Glynda.
"Not yet. Maybe in a few days once she's settled. If you didn't notice, she was fully aware of her Eyes."
"She never said anything or gave away anything in her body language."
"She did. She said Yes, as in a full and complete yes to Silver Eyes. If she didn't know, she would have shown confusion, she didn't."
"Hmm... And about the other thing?"
"Tai told us to let her come to us about it. It's a bit hard to understand it though. Even for me."
"Well, you would be more likely to believe it because..."
"Yes, there is that. But don't worry. Things are going to be fine. I won't make the same mistakes as I did with her mother."
The girls got packed the next morning while Tai was getting his stuff ready. Since he was a Teacher, he had to head out early for the Faculty Meeting that day. Last Minute, but Tai said he wasn't surprised. Last Minute Meetings were part of the job. Plus, since Qrow was out, he had to be there doubly so. Yang was still unaware of Ruby's transfer and didn't pay attention as Ruby had her stuff with her as they headed out to the Beacon Transport Ship for New Students. Yang did get curious when Ruby followed her on board.
"Ruby, I know you're gonna miss me while I'm Beacon, but you don't have to follow me there," said Yang, "Besides, you got to report to Signal before the day's up."
"I left out something about yesterday..." replied Ruby, letting a little smirk appear.
"What happened," said Yang, suddenly becoming concerned.
"Ozpin spoke to me about the incident while I was with Glynda and invited me to transfer to Beacon Early..."
"What!? No way!" exclaimed Yang, hugging Ruby, "Oh I can't believe my little sister gets to go to Beacon with me. This is the best day ever!"
"Yang," deadpanned Ruby, "Stop. You're embarrassing us."
"And you don't really feel it, do you, Ruby?" said Yang, letting go of Ruby with a serious expression.
"It's dulled, but yes. It's still embarrassing," said Ruby, "Also exciting. A dulled sense of excitement since the initial feeling left."
"Does it still hurt?" asked Yang.
"Only on bad days, which hasn't happened in a while," replied Ruby, placing her hand over her heart.
"Well, moving ahead two years will certainly get the school buzzing. That doesn't happen too often. It didn't happen to our parents, that's for sure," continued Yang.
"That's because my Mom is the first of the Rose family to attend an Academy," replied Ruby, "I don't want people to think I'm special. It'll draw too much unwanted attention."
"Well, the truth is that you ARE special. Summer always said so. Next time we see her, I'm sure she'll be thrilled to hear about this."
"Speaking of which, I'll need to find some time to report in tonight without anyone noticing. I have to update my primary mission folder."
"So she's here then. Give it time. She'll slip up and you can get her."
Their conversation was cut short by the news being turned on and it was covering the attempted Robbery last night, without mentioning Ruby by name of course. The news moved onto the White Fang before Glynda appeared in Hologram form, replacing the news.
"Hello and welcome to Beacon," said Glynda, "I am Professor Glynda Goodwitch. You have been among the few selected to attend Beacon Academy starting this year. Our world has entered a time of Peace and it's up to us to maintain that Peace. As future Huntsmen, it will be your job to protect the people from those that threaten them."
Glynda ended the welcome here and allowed them to see the sights outside of the transport and they saw across the landscape. Ruby and Yang could even see Signal in the distance, reminding Ruby of her friends she might no longer see for two years. Unfortunately, one person was suffering from motion sickness, causing Ruby to sigh and bring out a barf bag, passing it off to the person before he ralphed his lunch into it.
"How d'you know?" asked Yang.
Ruby gave her a look. Yang understood then. Ruby's place of work had basic information. Though how she knew she'd meet a motion sick person today was only something Ruby could have found out if she planned it.
"Wait, did you plan this?" asked Yang.
"Maaaybeeee..." grinned Ruby, before frowning again, "It's not like I can get a full picture. Death's not particularly keen on spoiling the future, but he does give hints, maybe a personnel folder with a photo and minimal information. His just had 'Motion Sickness' along with two other blurbs, including his name. It's not like I can form an opinion based on that."
"I guess you're right," sighed Yang, "Imagine if you didn't?"
"Vomit on your shoes," said Ruby, "Why? Because the universe loves Karma."
"Of course it does," said Yang, "just because I'm have a Masters in Puns, doesn't mean the Universe needs to hold it over my head."
"Well... we'll see once we get to Beacon."
The girls smiled as Beacon grew ever closer, starting their next adventure... maybe together as well.
(Chapter End)
(Volume One Theme Song lyrics)
They see you as Small and Helpless
They see you as just a Child
Surprised when they find out that a
WARRIOR will soon run wild
Prepare for your greatest moments
Prepare for your finest hour
The Dream that you've always dreamed is
SUDDENLY about to Flower
We are Lightning straying from the Thunder
Miracles of Ancient Wonder
This will be the day we've waited for
This will be the day we open up the door
I don't want to hear your Absolution
Hope you're ready for a Revolution
Welcome to a World of New Solutions
Welcome to a world of Bloody Evolutions
In time... your heart will open minds
A story will be told
And Victory is IN a Simple Soul
Okay, that is the first chapter: episode 1 plus the final scene of the Yellow Trailer - as that's the chronology (at least what I believe it to be. Let me know if I'm wrong) - and a miscellaneous scene as well. The Parenthesis are mainly fourth wall pokes and things you'd be aware of having watched the show. Hopefully you get the jokes and references made, as well as the no nonsense mystery as to who the characters are. I'm horrible at descriptions (at least not as good as other people) so I just have their names and people can either watch the show or look up a photo on how people look.
For those who are new, check out my other stories to get a sense of how I write. I love rewriting a show from pre-established dialogue and events and changing it ever so slightly so that it's basically interwoven into the actual timeline. Any Changes I make are intentional as we know what's going on from having watched all five completed Volumes at this time... or because of the story Elements I'm implementing into this particular story.
Also, the premise for the story is in the description. No elements from Soul Eater intentionally added. I've only seen like 1.5 episodes and I'm clearly getting lucky if I describe something accurate that show does in reference to what I'm doing here. What I'm doing here is soul-y for this RWBY fic. This is basically just the start, so don't expect Moon Shattering spoilers this early.
AN1: Given the timeframe we have on Ozpin, he is over 50. He was already Headmaster by the time STRQ applied to Beacon, and he let all four of them in. Because they would be 17 at the time with his minimal age of 29, then he's twelve years older than them at bare minimum. STRQ's age in the current day is roughly 39-41. They started at 17, completed four years of Beacon. Yang's earliest time of being Born would be nearly a year later (if a shotgun wedding out of Graduation, but that's assuming a bit much), so basically when STRQ is 21-22 when Yang was Born, and that's at the earliest. Add 17-18 years and they are 38-40 at bare minimum going into Volume 5 and 6. Ozpin being 12+ years older, makes him 50+. Mic Drop! So I lowball it, but pad a few years for good measure.
AN2: Looks like Yang watched DBZA Bald This Way. (It's a good video, and I'm not being paid to advertise.)
So... Here's to my RWBY Fanfic. I thought of this WAY back in V3, and I wanted to let the story proceed so what I change doesn't harder to work around as the show moves forward. But with 5 Volumes to work with now... I can work around it better.
Until next time...
Later,
RDF1