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It was a short walk through the Emerald Forest but that didn't stop the Grimm from attacking them at every turn. Luckily Cinder didn't have to do much fighting thanks to her new partner who was more than happy to kill everything in their path. Well happy was the wrong word she was more intensely focused on killing everything moving in her path, this was particularly terrifying because Cinder was sure she would have been cut down if not for the law of the school. It wasn't until she finished cutting down the most recent pack of Beowolves did Eve say something, "Is this going to become a recurring thing of me doing all the work while you pose?"
"I'm don't know what you're talking about," she said while gripping the bottom of her skirt and the right side of her blouse. Eve just gave her a distantly cold look shaking her head as they finally made it through to a clearing, this one had a stone temple. It was a round half circle temple of stone, the standing arches and columns of that were decaying and yet surprisingly strong stone. There were a lot of podiums with golden objects on top of them it was hard to tell from a distance, Cinder just turned to talk to Eve who was already missing. She had already made it to the ruins when Cinder found her, Cinder followed shortly after only to get there a few seconds later to see Eve intensely focusing on the chess pieces that where probably relics.
She continually wondered about the chess pieces until she asked Cinder, "Does it matter which piece we take?"
"Probably not. Ooh check if they have a black queen," she said halfheartedly not really caring which piece she got but simply more focused on making sure she and Ruby got on the same team.
"There's only one," Eve said as she pointed at a black queen on a podium in the back, "You want this one?"
"Nah, let's wait a bit before we decide," Eve raised an eyebrow as she was about to question this only to be stopped by Cinder interrupting her with another question, "You think we're the first one's here?"
"No," she motioned to the pieces missing from the podiums and said, "This place isn't that hard to find after all."
"Yea, I guess. I wonder..." She didn't finish that thought simply raising her hand to her mouth to allow herself to think. This thinking was stopped on a dime after a the shrill shriek of a girl, Cinder perked up upon hearing it and she was sure she'd heard that voice before.
Five minutes ago, Jaune Arc stood at the entrance to a cave that had several hand painted and not so cryptic warnings. Several of which were shaped like scorpions and people with spears fight said giant scorpion. He looked to Arslan and asked her, "You think the relics in there?"
"You go check and I'll wait out here for you to realize it isn't." She told him knowing from context that it definitely wasn't in there.
"You sure I mean we should at least check... right?" He said unclear of whether he should or shouldn't enter the cave. She just shook her head as he picked up stick to make a torch, she simply picked up a rock and through it like a cannon into the cave. There were several second before a loud rock shattering against something hard enough to sound unmoved. She looked back to him and spouted at him an inconsiderate remark.
"If there was anything important for us it wouldn't be hidden in a clearly Grimm infested cave. So put down the torch," she said as she knocked it out of his hand, "And get moving to the actual relics."
"Yeah that makes sense..." It didn't last long when he abandoned the cave idea for a rumbling to begin. Arslan's eyes narrowed as she spoke a loud once again.
"Ahh... crap," she turned to him and told him very frankly, "I hate you." That was when the rumbling became a crash as a massive scorpion emerged from a hole too small for it to fit, this caused the cave to blast open for a Death Stalker covered in grass and moss to emerge looking very angry after a rock was shattered on it's face. Jaune panicked as the stinger implanted itself into the ground an inch in front of him, on instinct he drew his sword and quickly stabbed the stinger in the base, yet the stinger dug itself out of the ground dragging him with it. As he hung from his sword like a ragdoll he cried out to Arslan.
"AAARSLAN HELP!"
"Let go!" She commanded him while he was still dangling on it's tail.
"I'm scared to hold on, but I'm terrified to let go!" She rolled her eyes at his thoughts of fear until the Death Stalker flung him like a catapult. This was gonna be a long 4 years with him as her partner, she thought as he screeched like a little girl while flying through the air. She debated whether to fight it or run, but when it turned to face her she decided against fighting and instead began running after the partner she hated. It was slower than her but that didn't mean she couldn't stay just out of its range.
Cinder was more sure than ever that the screech she was hearing was from her new pet. That meant he was at least alive so that spoke volumes about his luck and general ability to traverse a forest infested with Grimm, or he got partnered with someone strong and he was riding their coat trails just like she was. If that's what he was doing then she liked him even more than she did before. Eve spoke up to her as she was lost in thought, "You see that?"
"Huh," she looked at Eve the moment she said that. She was looking up to the sky as if she was looking for a sound, when Cinder followed her eye line she saw a red object falling from the sky. This made little sense as if it was a Grimm raining from the sky until it became closer and more defined, and when it finally became clear enough she heard in a shrieking tone.
"Heads up!" The small girl falling from the sky called out to them as she descended at an incredible speed, Cinder's eyes went wide as she moved to catch her sister before she hit the ground in a splat. But prior to any of her scheming she usually did a knight in shining armor caught her instead, well more he collided with her before either of them could hit the ground. This flung both of them into a tree where he hung upside down from a tree branch while Ruby was on the one just below him. When both of them regained sense she looked at him and with a slight giggle said, "I'm sorry Cinder threw you like that."
"Oh she didn't, I just happened to conveniently already be flying through the air." They both gave each other a look and laughed in unison, but what she said struck a cord with him when he asked her with a little more than no worry in his voice, "Wait has Cinder thrown people like this on a regular basis?"
"You can't prove anything!" Cinder shouted from the ground when she got to the tree with both of them in it. Ruby just shrugged her shoulders as if to not confirm or deny anything that he asked. He noticed something though almost like the light in her eyes faded right after she was done laughing, but this didn't affect Ruby as she just jumped down from the tree landing in Cinder's arms like a princess only for Cinder to say, "Aw, just like when you were a baby."
"Put me down people are watching," Ruby said as she began flailing her arms to get her sister to drop her, it made plenty of progress because Cinder dropped her like a bag of bricks. When Ruby got up she patted all the dirt now on her off before asking her sister, "So what did I miss?"
"Not much, we found the relics and had yet to decide which to take."
"Oohh, I want the black queen."
"Sorry, there aren't anymore of those."
"Awww, then black bishop." She said as in the blink of an eye darted to the ruins to look at the chess pieces. She was already there before Cinder finished blinking, leaving her sister behind. Cinder shook her head as she went to move to catch up with her sister, only to be called out by the boy in the tree.
"Hey... could you... lend a little hand?" He hung there waiting for her to react, and she did in fact stare at him for several seconds with a dull look until she finally reacted. Once again with an uproarious laughter she pointed at him, making him shrink into the look of a puppy once again. It wasn't until she was done laughing did she tell him something.
"You're just stuck- HAHA, in a tree- He, you shouldn't need help with that." She said while she kept interrupting herself with laughter while she flicked a tear from her eye. On the other side of the field Eve was watching carefully as Ruby picked up the black bishop piece, she did it as quickly as she arrived but she spent a little too much time playing with it. Eve followed suit and grabbed the other black bishop unthinkingly not really caring why these pieces mattered. But she was stopped when she asked a question to the smaller girl.
"Weren't you supposed to get a partner before coming here?" This made Ruby's eyes shoot wide when the girl realized her partner wasn't around. She looked around the ruins and then shouted.
"Where is Weiss?" Eve just looked up when a shadow passed over head to see a bright white spec on the wing of a massive bird.
"Is that her?" Eve said while pointing towards the Nevermore, when Ruby saw this she relaxed and nonchalantly confirmed her compatriots question.
"That is her. Why has she not jumped yet?" The calm in her voice both disturbed and confused Eve but that was a question for another time, when Ruby was distracted by a tap on her shoulder. She turned to see the silver woman from yesterday asking a question.
"Hey, which of these things are we supposed to take?" She asked a question that made no sense to the girl. That was until a green girl who grabbed a black rook and shouted to her friend.
"Merc!"
"What?" Emerald was looking to get out of this situation before it started, but that wasn't what mattered to Mercury still trying to make friends. She just shook her head as Mercury limped over to her. When Ruby turned back to Eve she was nowhere to be found simply just standing in the field looking up at the Nevermore, it wasn't until they heard a even higher pitched scream as they saw a snowflake fall from the sky.
"SOMEBODY CATCH ME!" Shouted the white girl, to which Eve was standing nearly directly under were she was falling. It wasn't until several seconds from the ground did Eve react to the white girls presence. Her hair began to glow as Cinder noticed them, a falling girl and a one so clearly ready to react in a viscous way. Cinder reacted to the girl by dropping Jaune from her hands allowing him to fall on his face and shouting to her new partner.
"DON'T DO IT EVE!" The glowing haired girl had her hand on the handle of her sword and Ruby could swear the world was slowing down at what she saw. She began running to the woman who was preparing to cut another in half. She wouldn't make it in time, but she just needed to stop the woman from cutting Weiss apart. The world was slowing down for all those that watched the event unfold until Eve released her grip on her sword. She in one swift motion lifted her leg and delivered a swift vertical kick to Weiss's abs. Her legs formed a perfectly vertical line slowing the much smaller girl from terminal velocity to a much less painful light thud, the taller girl just replied to stopping her fall in an entirely unconcerned manner.
"There I kicked you. Why'd you want someone to kick you? You should have asked for someone to catch you instead," she said this callously to the girl lying on the ground who was currently recoiling on the ground after having her abs kicked in. She was coughing up a storm from having the wind knocked out of her and probably a little blood as well. It made no sense to the stunned observers as they watched the woman berating the other on the ground. This was until Weiss choked out her reply.
"I said catch me, you imbecile." It was a strained response to the woman's rough treatment. When Ruby finally got to her she asked the question that no one was thinking.
"Why did you not jump?"
"How can that be the first question you ask after I've had my ribs collapsed by this meat head." She said that more as a statement than an actual question but that didn't really affect Ruby, as she just helped her partner to her feet and spouted off something unrelated.
"Welp, all is well that end swell. I got the relic so we can get out of here without any trouble." She smiled at that clearly not caring about what the rest of people in the area were doing. But this earned her more than a few odd looks, but these looks where stalled when the screech of a loud Death Stalker tore through several of their eardrums. They all turned to see a blonde woman flying through the air landing right at the feet of the ruined temple. They all turned to see the Death Stalker emerge from the forest, well carved it's way through was probably the better phrase. Tired, out of breathe and a little more than not annoyed that she was still being chased by a massive beast she shouted to the group of them.
"If you're not too busy, GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND HELP!" she shouted the last part only to receive the final answer from a caped red girl.
"I would rather not, this seems like a lot to handle," she said while shaking her hand to ward off question of the people around her. After Cinder heard that a worried look formed on her face as if she had just heard her sister swear up a storm. Cinder moved to Ruby getting right next to her, and held her sister's shoulder and whispering something in her ear. When she heard it her eyes immediately began to sparkle as if she realized something she had just forgotten. She replied to her own reply, "I mean, it is the duty of huntresses to help each other in trying times."
She charged at the massive Death Stalker only for the Nevermore to begin circling her. The woman was distracted by the Death Stalker firing wildly with reckless abandon, only for most of the bullets to bounce off of it. The Nevermore began flinging it's feather's at her forming walls of feathers to prevent her encroach on the Death Stalker, until finally a feather stuck itself into her cape and pinned her to the ground. The Death Stalker took this as it's chance to strike, raising it's tail at the girl. When Cinder saw this she began running towards her sister, while screaming, "THIS ISN'T WHAT I MEANT!"
She wasn't fast enough, she broke out into a full sprint to catch up to her sister but was getting nowhere near her sister fast. That was until Weiss slid passed her like she was ice skating right up until she caught up with the Red hooded girl. She summoned a wall of ice blocking the death stalker's stinger in the ground right next to Ruby. She just gave a humph and proclaimed, "You know for someone so fast you should probably be fast enough to know when you need help. So don't forget to ask for it next time."
"Right... help, sorry I forgot to ask." She said while rubbing the back of her head as what she just said was almost for Weiss's benefit more than her's. When Cinder caught up to them she hugged Ruby even harder than on the airship whispering something else into her ear. This made Ruby's face change once again but this time instead of hope she transformed into confidence and determination. They all made their way in a panic back to the ruins only for Arslan to berate them all.
"Well great you managed to pin it in place now all you have to do is KILL IT!" She informed the others of the entire need to get rid of the beast until Ruby informed them the reality of the situation.
"I mean we really do not, what is stopping us from running right now?" They all looked at her both with confusion and understanding until she finished, "That is right we do not have to kill it we just have to take the relics and flee the scene. As long as we can get out of range of them before they get to us then we have won, and even if we can not get away we can always draw them to a place where we can set a trap for them."
They all gave each other looks until Mercury spoke up and said, "I can't exactly run at the moment." She said as she motioned to her broken heel, Cinder just shook her head and rolled her eyes as she walked up to Mercury. Cinder grabbed her foot and took the boot while forming a small glass heel in her hand affixing it into place just enough before melting it together once again. Mercury piped up while squirming, "That hurt's."
"Stop being a baby I'm fixing your shoe for free, least you can do is not complain." Cinder said as she finished. She took a few steps making sure that the patch actually worked instead of shattering instantly. With the patch done they all gave the final look and with several nods Jaune grabbed a black rook as they all broke into a sprint in the opposite direction of the Death Stalker. Ruby lead the pack as they all followed behind her sound reasoning, until she stopped on a stone overlooking the ruins Cinder caught a glimpse of this and it was something that would stick with her for a while. Her sister wasn't making sure they were following her because she cared she was counting the number of them with a cold and calculating look on her face. It worried Cinder when she saw this, it was just like when they were children and she would always make all the other kids on the playground cry. No threat of punishment or actual punishment ever stopped her she just continued to until they were crying whenever they were in her way or had slighted her at all. Ruby had gotten better in her eyes but the last few minutes had made her question this growth.
"What are you looking at?" Eve questioned Cinder as she had stopped to watch her sister.
"Nothing, just though I saw a ghost."
"Get moving that thing is breaking out of the ice!" Weiss interrupted as she passed at the back of the pack. They all followed the red girl intently only surprised when the Death Stalker actually shattered the icy prison it was trapped in. With the Nevermore circling above they had to act quickly beasts above and behind they had to move quickly to deal with their big unpleasant friends.
"From this point on it is a game of cat and mouse. So do not die otherwise those of us that do not will have to drag your corpse along with!" The cold and detached way Ruby said this frightened more than a few of the people she was running with but it was still motivational. The path they were all on was flanked on both sides by by stone ruins similar to the temple, yet it was creating a perfect funnel directing them straight forward. The Grimm no doubt knew it as well leading them to a cliff they had no hope of crossing without the bridge. When the Nevermore caught up they spread out to both sides trying to split its focus so that no one target would stick out among the rest. Until Emerald pointed for Mercury to the center of the field they where in.
"Cover Us!"
"Got it," she said with a grin before moving in between the two sides of the ruins. The Nevermore flung its feathers at her to which she effortlessly dodged until she came to a halt on top of one of the feathers where she began kicking wildly sending bullet after bullet the birds way. It didn't do much but knock it several feet off course but that bought enough time for the others to reach the bridge. She didn't have enough time to follow them when the Death Stalker emerged from the forest and closed the distance between them, she didn't have time to react well enough when it reached her and swiped at her with both of it's pincers.
Cinder took noticed of this and slid underneath the left pincer as the yellow accents on her dress began to glow, primarily the left half, it only took a second but that seemed like an eternity for her when she began forming a massive translucent shard of black glass. She launched it straight up through the base of the pincer without slowing her slide getting just out of range of the pincers. While she ran passed Mercury noticed Cinder's left sleeve was burnt and frayed this distraction could only be allowed little thought when Cinder told Mercury as she passed, "We better get a move on or she will leave us for dead!"
The Death Stalker recoiled as the two woman followed after only to be launched by two glyphs forming underneath them. Jaune then finally took notice of his current lack of a sword running through all the worst possibilities as his family sword went missing in combat to only see it where he left it, embedded in the tail of the Death Stalker. He held up the rear facing the Death Stalker plotting a way to get it back that wouldn't eviscerate him. With everyone getting onto the bridge he didn't have much hope for getting it back, until the Nevermore came flying through the bridge destroying it and knocking them back, but it's real devastation came in the form of the group being split up. Jaune, Emerald, Arslan and Cinder were stuck on the cliff face while Ruby, Weiss and Eve were on a precarious stone ruin overlooking a large chasm, while the unlucky Mercury was in a free fall.
"Why is it always me?" She questioned the gods, the Nevermore flew right at her in the air. Like staring down the barrel of the gun it takes a strong person not to flinch and she didn't even come close as it opened its beak to swallow her only to be stopped by her not being there at all. She launched herself up towards the sky where she successfully hit the destroyed remains of the bridge shattering her aura.
"Don't ignore the pincers focus, but don't forget to focus on the tail that's the bigger threat!" Cinder exclaimed as she dodged several jabs from it's pincers. Only when Mercury climbed up onto the bridge did she see the turmoil that was being caused by the Death Stalker, regardless of her aura she kicked the ground throwing her forward and did several spins to build up momentum for the final blow of kicking it in the face. It collapsed for a second before taking a shot with it's tail, hitting right were Mercury was standing, Jaune in the confusion drew his sword from its tail. Mercury dodge thoughtlessly as she backed into Cinder knocking her off that section of the bridge.
As Cinder fell she created a fireball that propelled her up to the Nevermore, where she summoned two Midnight black swords as she slashed down the back of the bird until she jumped off of its back landing on the center platform of the structure. Right next to where Ruby, Weiss and Eve were standing, she still had to ask, "Any ideas?"
"I got one." Ruby said calmly with no emotion on her face.
"Will it end with one of us dying or more importantly me being nude again?"
"I do not have an idea." Ruby replied to her sisters rebuttal, this only allowed for a few seconds of calm thinking only to be drowned out by the other four people fighting a Death Stalker. It slashed with it's right pincer still having a massive shard of glass stuck through the other preventing much movement, Jaune lifted his shield blocking the claw allowing his partner to run up to it and give a heavy open palmed jab. The Death Stalker recoiled but had really no effect after the hit, she fled a few feet back to a safe distance only to state afterwards.
"What is that thing's carapace made out of? I can't even deliver a strong enough jab to shatter it." When Jaune heard that he looked at the shard of glass and began to think why had that gotten through. He looked over the beast for several seconds to see that it hadn't broken through the armor it hit a weak spot and went straight through, the answer wasn't to break the shell it was to hit it from it's softer insides. When he came up with that thought her arrived at another none of them had any real piercing weapons to get far enough through, well except for his sword. That if he could get in would work- his planning was interrupted by the Death Stalker attacking with its tail once again instead of aiming for them it hit the bridge going right through disrupting the balance of it. They all panicked but Jaune told them his plan or more along the line of screeched at them.
"Emerald can you restrain the right pincer?" She just gave a worried look before nodding her head. She looked to Mercury who gave her a boost off the ground by sliding her boot under the smaller green girls feet and catapulting her towards the scorpion. She flicked out her sickle blades only to stab them into the joint of the Death Stalker, that didn't stop her though they just separated as chains kept them together. She landed just barely on the face of the cliff before she ran around a pillar locking the chains in place and restraining the claw.
"Now what?" Mercury asked only to be astonished by what happened next when Jaune let out a boisterous battle cry while charging the Scorpion. It didn't go too well when the left pincer nearly took his legs, but that didn't matter to him when he drove his sword right into one of it's eyes. His fool hardy plan got several looks from the other two only for him to shout out.
"Arslan hit it again!" Her eyes went wide at that part as Mercury once again slid her leg underneath a person without warning them. Arslan scrambled to remain balanced but that didn't last long when she was launched towards the eyes of the grimm once again delivering an open palm strike to the sword that was currently embedded in it's eye. It shot right through into the ground. She landed hard into the ground on the other side of it, Mercury gracefully landed right next to her as Jaune was flung into a pillar several feet away, it took him several seconds to get up. While they had slain their beast the others were not as lucky.
They where all jumping crumbling wreckage to crumbling wreckage trying to keep from falling to their death. They spent several seconds making every step more precarious than the last, but that didn't slow any of them down. When they made it back up to stable ground they all let out and onslaught of bullets and dust doing no damage at all leading Weiss to exclaim, "We're barely denting it right now how are we supposed to kill it?"
"I have an idea," Ruby dropped again, receiving mixed looks most prevalent of which was Cinder's fear. She didn't want to ask the person that would do something heinous to her for fun, she was beside herself when she had to ask the question that was growing in her mind.
"What is this foolish plan then?" Weiss asked for her.
"Pin the Nevermore to the wall," she said that directed as Weiss then she turned to Eve and asked, "What is the largest thing you can cut through?"
"Anything as long as I can reach it," she said while unsheathing her blade ever so little.
"Good," she turned to Cinder and said the final thing, "How much rope can you make?"
Cinder let out a dry sigh when she said, "As much as you need."
All of their eyes met for a second before they broke apart, Eve began running directly up the stone pillars to get to the same level as the bird, she then jumped wildly and recklessly onto the Nevermore slashing and shooting every part of it on the way up its back. The action didn't take long for her to make it that far only to deliver a strong kick to the back of it's head throwing it into the higher cliff face. She jumped down and made her way back to the others as Weiss skated by stabbing the Nevermore's tail freezing it into place. She proudly proclaimed to the rest of the party, "Got it."
"I can't believe I'm doing this," Cinder stated as she climbed up a pillar while at the same time burning her clothes off turning them into a ball. When she reached the top she flung half of the ball to a pillar on the other side, only for it to be caught by her sister on the other side. Ruby declared at Weiss as Eve slammed right into the center of the rope. It elastically held together while she landed in Weiss's Glyph only to ask.
"You can make the shot right."
"Can I?" Eve turned her head and asked a question.
"Can you-"
"Of course I can!" She formed several Glyphs in front of where Eve was going.
"Launch." She fired it sending her at the speed of sound, nearly shattering the sound barrier on her way up. Before she got there she leveled her sword and only a few inches from it's neck she fired a shot from blush making the sword fly out like a bullet. In on swift motion she spun her arm around and severed the head of the Nevermore like it was nothing. They all saw as it's head came flying off of it's body as it began to dissolve. Most of them stood in awe of woman who severed a Nevermore head, one of them not being Ruby who just dropped the rope she was holding, much to Cinder's chagrin.
"Ruby! Those where my clothes!" Ruby just shrugged her shoulders. They began to argue as the cloth began to fade from sight as the part in Cinder's hand decayed like dust, Weiss was less interested in events that where transpiring between them as she was looking for Eve who had yet to emerge from the carcass of the dissolving Grimm. After it dissolved she walked towards the cliff face only to see Eve cartoonishly stuck in a wall. Weiss rushed over to her friend as she fell from the wall, landing hard. She gave a little laugh until the the Weiss finally got to her side. The glasses Eve was wearing had been shattered and when Weiss saw it she was surprised. A small scar over her left eyebrow along with some of the prettiest blue eyes.
"I told you I could make the shot."
"You did." Eve responded casually.
"And that makes team CRDL." Roman said as he gave a speech about how heroic they were but that didn't stop Ruby from talking during it.
"That could have gone entirely worse, loosing a few cloths is nothing comparatively to getting a few scars. It could have been as bad as your Signal entrance test, did that guy ever recover by the way?" She asked her sister who was just trying to cool down after the long day of combat.
"No, I think Charles is still in the hospital." she said mindlessly this conversation calmed the other two people on the team but at the same time raised several questions in Weiss's eyes. Cinder was just wearing a nice big Pumpkin Pete hoodie over her underwear, she wasn't happy with the looks from all of the people but that didn't make the situation any less worse. Yes she liked to draw looks but that had a time and a place, not here and now. Jaune on the other hand may not of liked to have his bare chest exposed to the masses, clearly a little cold as well as embarrassed. His armor covered his more delicate bits but that didn't make him any less uncomfortable.
"Why were you wearing sunglasses for so long?" Weiss questioned Eve.
"I'm hiding from the law after committing several terrorist acts. I was told that it would hide my identity better," the way she said that made Weiss almost a hundred percent sure she was lying.
"Jaune Arc, Arslan Altan, Mercury Black, Emerald Sustrai you shall form team JAME (Jasmine)," Roman said barely having them lined up on stage, surprised by the semi nudity of Jaune, "Heh, lead by Jaune Arc. Good luck with that."
He said the last part under his breathe half expecting it to not be picked up by the microphone when he got a lot of looks from the people in the crowd. He quickly moved onto the next team before he was booed by the crowd, "Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Eve Taurus, and Cinder Fall you all form team RECW (Recolor)," he paused once again, "Lead by Ruby Rose."
This last one got him tons of glares and angry looks as he phoned in the last team name. He took this with stride by declaring to the crowd, "FUCK. ALL. OF. YOU. BITCHES." He said clearly having a psychotic break after a long day of work, "So I phoned in the last one, the previous team was lucky they were this close to being named team James. It could have been a lot worse and you all know it, so one team was named poorly so what sue me."
"No wait, don't do that you all can and it will ruin the school even further." Cinder had already dragged Ruby off the stage at this point and they were quickly followed by the rest of her team. People began to throw tomatoes and assorted objects at him while booing him, Neo walked on stage and caught a can of soda. Objects stopped flying shortly after she got up there, just simply from her presence did she stop the soon to be riot. She popped the lid of the soda and downed it before she tossed it on the ground. She pointed to the back of the theater, and for a few seconds no one moved. Until a countdown clock appeared right behind her on the big screen, 5. Everyone looked panicked, 4. Everyone got up and ran, 3. The exits where clogged by this point preventing enough people to get out, 2. A wall was blown open allowing people to escape, 1. Nothing happened but at this point there was no one in the amphitheater. She walked over to Roman's crumpled body covered in tomatoes and other canned goods.
"Thanks Neo." He said as he looked up through his arms. She sat on the ground next to him and began rubbing his back in an affectionate way. When he finally took notice he sat up and said, "I needed that."
She smiled coyly as she walked away from him, he put a cigar in his mouth and lit it. He sat there for a second before he said aloud to no one in particular, "She stole my fucking wallet."
When they all entered the dorm, Weiss and Eve both crashed and immediately went to bed. Ruby on the other hand had taken a quick look around the campus investigating for monsters probably, but when she finally settled down for bed she was surprised to see Cinder still awake sitting on her bed. The moment she entered the room she knew she was in for a lecture, because their eyes locked for a few seconds. Ruby averted them quickly after but she couldn't sleep with Cinder on her bed like that. Cinder's eyes just tracked her around the room until finally she said, "So how was your day?"
"Cut the crap Ruby. What happened today?"
"I do not know what you are talking about." Ruby just continually averted her eyes from her sister's gaze.
"You haven't said a contraction since I saw you again in the Emerald Forest. That is always the sign..."
"I am fine." Ruby said as she finished getting dressed.
"Really cause it looked like you quit caring about people halfway through the test."
"So what? You never care about people, yet you always get on me about caring for them. I mean in just one day at Beacon you already made a slave, how am I any different? Why am I always held to a higher standard?" Cinder grabbed Ruby and dragged her to her bed where they sat, all the while Cinder made Ruby look her in the eyes.
"Because you are a better person than us," Cinder said with tears in her eyes, "I hold you to a higher standard because I know you are capable of it, I have witnessed you hurt people with you're words and I have witness what it did to you. So please don't go back to that." The look in Ruby's eyes said it all that entire impassioned speech and she didn't feel a thing for her. Her older sister and she didn't feel anything, almost like she was sitting with a stranger. She had been faking it for a while now but when that wasn't enough she did partake in the age old tradition of going to the doctor and getting doped up. Instead of mood stabilizers she was taking mood destabilizers making her wild and erratic but those could only last so long and she didn't exactly get them from a doctor. She couldn't hurt Cinder like that telling her that she had been faking having emotions around her for years... that would... hurt... her? This was going to be a difficult year.
"I won't go back to that." She said while giving a fake smile that was a meant to reassure her sister more than anything. This satisfied Cinder for now as she stood up and went to bed herself, at least Cinder was bad at telling when her sister lies to her.
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For those of you that are wondering Ruby is a sociopath. Why? To have her be more borderline unstable and manipulative, she will shine more later on in the story. Cinder's going to be her moral compass for the time being, so that will be more nonsensical. Message me if you have any ideas but she is probably going to devolve into a Dennis Reynolds level of sociopath. Maybe a bit more.
Eve doesn't have the scar on her face but it is somewhere, this will make it more complicated of a reveal but there will be a reveal... eventually.
One glaring exclusion from the cast is Pyrrha so I will settle the question yes she will be in... eventually. She instead of coming to Beacon went to Haven but she was still the winner of the Mistral Regional tournament four years in a row.
Cinder doesn't have the maiden power but she can still manipulate glass as her semblance is still Scorching Caress she will use it a lot differently. She also does this by using large portions of her dresses, which will also have her having a massive habit of making cloths and that will show through.