Ruby: Chapter 2

Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belong to DC comics and the WB. I own nothing from them. I just write fanfics for a living and for my entertainment.

A/N: The character Ruby, Liz, Drake, and Moon belongs to me. This will set in 2004. Also I may put new characters in this fanfic

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The bell rang and everyone poured out of their homeroom classes, they are heading to their first period, which Dinah has Psychology class. "Wow, this is going to be fun"

"Yeah, I wonder how cool, this class will be, because I heard Psychology class is fun," said Ruby, as she is walking down the halls, with Dinah, "I have a question, do you have a boyfriend?"

Dinah laughs, "No, I wish, but I have few crushes"

"Like who?"

"Well, I tell you at lunch, because some of the guys, doesn't know I like them, and I don't know how they will like react"

"Okay, hey, that girl Liz, she is really nice"

"Yeah, she is a type of person, you can tell her everything, lets say most of the stuff, that is teenager related, she been there and done that, she is the best person you can trust, than those guidance counselor, except for Wade, he was a understandable person, before he was murdered"

"Oh, I'm sorry about Wade"

"Its okay, I'm over it now and the murderer is lock up in the loony bin"

"Okay cool, good thing for that crazy person or whoever that person is, lock away" Dinah nods and they headed to their first class, Dinah walks into the class and she sits down and also Ruby also takes a seat as well.

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Barbara is writing some stuff on the chalkboard, preparing for English class, she is writing stuff, like what you need for the rest of the year, what book they are going to read about in a couple of days ect.

Each minute, few new kids walks into the class, Barbara is teaching freshman year for this year, Barbara looks at them and she greets them all, "Welcome to New Gotham High" the freshman students nod their heads and they begin to take their seats, "Feel free to sit anywhere you want to" They nod and some said 'ok'. Barbara finishes writing on the chalkboard and she turns her wheelchair around and she checks her watch and the bell is ready to rang, she notices few more freshman students runs into the class, before they are late, finally the bell rings, "Okay class, before we start we need to go over some rules" she presses a button on her wheelchair and she made it move to the door and she closes it, "Anyone who comes late after the second warning bell ring, your tardy, and one of the rules, if your late for your first period, you get automatic session, all I can say, get to class on time and don't be late"

A teen raises his hand, "Ms. Gordon?"

"Yes?" Barbara turns her head at the teen

"I moved from this town and I heard this town is running around, with a race called Metahumans is this true?"

"Maybe, but Metahumans are like people, just gifted, any more questions, other than Metahumans?"

No one raises their hands, "Okay, I will ask someone to pass out a piece of paper and write some stuff, like what is your name, age, and what you like to do on your spare time, this is a way, I can understand you"

"I will," said a boy, "By the way, I'm Kyle" he stands up, "Where's the lined paper?" Barbara points him where it is, Kyle nods and he walks over to the mini table and takes a bunch of lined paper and starts to hand it out to each student and finally for himself.

"You may begin, you will have 10-15 minutes to complete this" Barbara wheels away and she sits behind her desk.

***

Helena is behind the bar counter, at the Dark Horse, she is serving the paying customers, beer and alcohol ect, she notices Reese walks into the bar and he walks down the stairs and he goes up to Helena, "Can I help you?" as she smiled at Reese

"Water please; I'm still on duty, but sort of on a break"

Helena picks up a glass cup behind her and she begins to put some ice cubes into the glass and she walks up to this thingy and she begins to pour freshly water into the glass cup, "Here you ok" Reese hands her the money and gave her a tip, "Thanks, so Reese anything new? In the crime world in New Gotham?"

"Yes, the whole police department is searching for this person, we have no clue its a male or female"

"What did this person do?" she said in a lone tone of voice, so her boss or any customers won't eavesdrop to their conversation.

"Someone stealing ancient artifacts from the New Gotham Museum, kind of weird though, a criminal stealing in the day, but never gets caught, we been working on this case all day and finally I got a break" he takes a sip on the water and he then puts his glass down, "I'm thinking, maybe you can ask your boss, to leave a bit early and help me with this"

"I can't, my boss at the point, is putting me near to extinction toward my job" she turns her head and notices her boss watching her every move, "I don't want to lose my job, because this is the best day job, I got"

"What about Liz?"

"She works at the school, she is this person that handles trouble teens and break up fights, in a way, and she is a guidance counselor, because she is understandable and helps you get out of problems or major issues"

"And what about Drake?"

"Babysitting his daughter Moon, while Liz is at work"

"Great" he mutters under his breathe, "Thanks for the drink Helena" He stands up and walks away.

"I'm guessing this is serious," said Helena, talking to herself, as she takes the glass water and she dumps it in the sink and she puts the glass cup in the dishwashing machine. She notices few more men enters the bar and they begin to order what drinks they want.

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New Gotham Museum (Day)

A shadow figure moves around on the walls and it heads towards an ancient artifact and it climbs up, where its behind held and it grabs it and the alarm goes off, the shadow takes off with the artifact and the shadows enters another shadow and vanishes.

The security guards and the cops run into the room and they saw no one, "What the heck? How these people can takes off so quickly?" said one of the security guards

"It must be one of those weird people with magical gifts," said one of the cops

"Well, let's track them down one by one and find who is the person taking the artifacts and why," said another cop

"Good point, let's capture them all and hunt them down one by one," said one of the security guards

They all agreed on their plan to catch the crook who is stealing stuff out of the museum and this is not good for the metahuman world, because most of the people in New Gotham are Metahumans and also, the Metahumans are going to be hunted one by one, probably till there are no more.

***

"So Dinah, are you," said Ruby

"Me what?" said in a silent tone of voice

"Metahuman?"

"Yeah"

"Cool, like what powers?"

"Can we talk about this later on?"

"Ruby Sampson and Dinah (I forgot her last name)!" yelled the teacher, "No talking, while doing this activity!"

The two nod and they continue to work, Ruby seems not to sit still, well, she feels a bit hyper, Ruby raises her hand, "Can I go to the ladies room?"

"Did you start on the activity?"

"A little bit"

"No, finish it, and then you can go"

"But its emergency!" Finally the teacher gave in and nod his head and she could go, Ruby stands up and she takes the clipboard and she write her name, the place she is going, and the time she is exiting the class, Ruby finishes writing and she exits out of the classroom and she heads to the ladies room, she enters it and she went inside a giant stall and she notices a shadow appearing out of nowhere, with the ancient artifact and the shadow enters her body, "Well done" she said to herself, she looks at the artifact, "Two down and 15 to go"

(Chapter 3 coming up soon)