Dusk Till Dawn
Ruby and Neo stood at the corner of the store looking over Dust modifications. "Are you sure Ozpin would let us mess with his cane," Neo asked her eyes far more on her Ice cream cone which Ruby claims is far more of a tower than anything else. "I mean that cane is older than Beacon itself."
Ruby just shrugged, "What's the worst that could happen?"
Neo gave her a deadpan look "Literally everything! Remember, we've been on that ride before. I have the scars to prove it." Ruby just dismissed her tri-colored companion with a wave. "And anyway, why would he need dust modifications? Can't he bend the fabric of time to his will?"
"Yes, BUT having more options for him is always useful," Ruby bounced back triumphantly getting an eye roll from Neo.
As the two girls continued bickering in their heads they didn't notice the group of men dressed in black walking into the store followed by a redheaded man.
The store clerk looked up from the cash register only to see the barel of a cane gun being pointed at him. He slowly moved his hands towards the neat stacks of lien inside the register only to be stopped by a shake of the gun.
"Do you know how infuriating it was to find a dust store this late, at a night like this?" the ginger-haired weirdo asked, gaining a whimper from the store clerk. "Well, then if you can't guess my patience isn't all that high. And right now, I don't need your lien. All I want you to do is to unlock all of your display cases so my armed associates and I can grab all of your dust."
As the shopkeeper hurried to unlock all of the dust, one of the faceless goons walked towards the duo still having their mental conversation.
"'Ey, you two, hands up!" The man ordered but was ignored.
"Why would he need a flamethrower?!" Neo looked on at her redheaded partner.
"Hey!" the man growled louder but was ignored again.
"Spider grimm," Ruby replied while staring off into the distance. Neo just shook her head, "No more sugar before bed for you."
"That's it!" he yelled.
"We both know that won't happen," Ruby retorted. Neo shook her head and sighed as she went to devour her next scoop of ice cream. However, just before her tongue reached its second-most desired thing, a crimson blade cleaved through it. She then could only watch in horror as the tower was split into both sides falling to the floor.
When the several wet splats reached Ruby's ears, she turned around only to see nothing. She continued to look around until a Crash from the front of the store caused her to jump.
Ruby turned around only to see Neo beating on a man with her ice cream cone, that was somehow doing more damage to the victim than it received. Ruby just rolled her eyes and started to make her way towards Neo, she did not want to deal with going to court in the charges of assault…again.
But as she made her way up front, she found a gaudy man with orange hair glaring at her and Neo with the rest of his goons. "So, we have a couple of heroes tonight. Well boys, show them why heroes only exist in storybooks," The man said menacingly.
Or at least it would have been menacing if Neo had stopped beating the man with her ice cream cone and Ruby not conversing with the shopkeeper. "Old man, We'll take this outside, you just call the cops," she called out cheerfully, to which the man nodded reluctantly.
"Do you two have no sense of self-preservation or something?" Roman asked as he and the other goons stared incredulously.
Ruby didn't respond immediately, instead, she pried Neo off the first goon with promises of more ice cream and cuddles later.
As Neo finally calmed down both girls turned around, to see a very annoyed Roman. "Umm, and you are?" Ruby looked on into the goons her ears peeking up at the sound of a couple of hesitant gulps as the redhead thief commanded them to attack.
Roman was seething. How DARE these two runts not know his name! The smirk he had on his face disappeared when his remaining men dropped their weapons and walked away. "Where the hell are all of you going?" Roman yelled.
"The boss would kill all of us if we hurt two of his repeat customers," One of the goons yelled behind him.
Roman was ready to shoot them as they ran down the street...
Which he did.
Several times.
Finally Roman turned back to the girls. "Well, normally I'd be ordering a bunch of goons to teach you girls a lesson, but they just flew the coup," He sighed while overdramatically gesturing with his arms. While he has always had a flair for the dramatic, Roman also used the movement to chamber an ice dust round.
Ruby shrugged, "Your fault for hiring Frank and them. They're decent guys, but they won't risk their lives and jobs for a quick buck."
"Thanks for the advice. I'll take my leave if you don't mind," Roman snarled before bringing up his cane. "Chao," was all the warning they had before Roman fired. Ice now encased their feet as Roman made his hasty exit.
Neo and Ruby stood there mildly dazed by the act. Not because of the act itself, but because the man actually had the audacity to do it.
Ruby drew her wakizashi and stabbed the ice. Drawing a red dust cartridge and inserting it at the base of the hilt she waited a bit watching the blade turn red and the ice started to melt.
"Oh man, my boots have water in them," Neo complained stepping a few times just to make sure.
"Quit complaining we have a robber to catch," Ruby exclaimed as she grabbed Neo and made their way to the roof.
"Do we have to," Neo sighed looking down at her cone.
"Yes we have to," Ruby walked towards the alleyway. Neo took one last look at her cone before following Ruby. "Strawberry Ice Cream, ready?" Ruby asked, to which Neo nodded gleefully.
Roman looked back just in time to see a pink and red petal storm careening straight for him. Spouting a few expletives, he doubled his escape efforts. Which didn't mean much as the two girls appeared in front of them right in his path to his getaway vehicle. 'I should have expected this,' " Well then as it seems that you two have made it tonight's mission to be a royal thorn in my side I bet both of you want to know why I am doing this," Roman smirked, no "hero" would ever resist his monologue. 'Okay got to ham it up for this one need to think of something tragic something poetic,' As Roman analyzed the situation he noticed that the two girls were talking or at least moving their lips to imitate speech along with the fact that they made no sound. 'Well, then either the tri-colored one can cancel noise or I blew out my ears while firing at Junior's men,' As Roman kept thinking he barely noticed that 'Ruby' had shattered?
Roman's eyes widened as he moved his cane up blocking the thin blade from making contact with his glorious hair. Roman's instinct kicked in as he dogged an axe kick from the ice cream themed girl. As the battle raged on three things caught his eye. First, the two fought in perfect unison covering for each other's opening making it really irritating to hit the little runts. As he parried one of Ruby's thrusts towards his throat, he got a better look at the parasol the other girl used as he blocked another swing coming towards him. Which brought up the second thing why did the mismatched girl and her parasol remind him of someone. 'Has she been on the news or…' Roman's thoughts were cut short as he pushed her away with the base of his cane, as he got a little bit of rest his last thing came to mind. WHERE IN THE HELL WAS HIS BACK UP. When he heard the bullhead's engine he smirked 'Speak of the devil.'
"Well as both of you can see my ride's here and while our little roughhousing was fun I must bid you adieu," Roman pointed his hook up and smiled a sweet smile as the handle shoot up and tied itself to the bullhead. It took only two seconds for him to land on the bullhead and as it started to rise he smirked one final time before dropping a dust charge which landed right in between them 'perfect like usual,' and as he watched the explosive go off he gave a nod.
He turned to see a gold pair of eyes look towards him he only smirked she might be his paycheck but that sure as hell doesn't mean he will lose his style to accommodate her. He was about to comment something witty when the bullhead stopped moving he looked down and noticed famed huntress and deputy of beacon Glynda Goodwitch pointing her riding crop at him. "We have a hunter on our hands!"
Roman looked back to the pair of eyes only to see an eye roll and glared as it stood up. He walked around her and sat down in the pilot seat. He knew what he needed to do but he wanted to at least catch a small glimpse as to what his boss was capable of doing.
Ruby, Glynda, and Neo all looked up at the figure before them. All three of their eyes widened when they saw the orange flame come out of the girl's right eye.
The woman raised her arm but didn't get a chance to do anything as she was kicked in the stomach as flaming petals past through the bullhead. She didn't have much time to recover as a blade was put against her eye. "Move and you lose it," Ruby growled her ears standing up her eyes slightly brighter than usual.
Neo would have been laughing like a maniac if it didn't kill her to do so, so she decided to smile and prepare herself to extract Ruby.
Roman could only stare in bewilderment and fear as little Red kept shifting her eyes between him and her boss who was still knocked down. He was prepared to rat out all of his associates for a lighter sentence but as he went down the list of people in his head, his bosses hands started to glow along with the flame coming out of her eye, then she released the energy as a shockwave knocking Red out of the bullhead.
Ruby crossed her arms as she started to fall, grunting a bit as Neo's heels dug into her forearms before jumping off her.
The small torpedo flew towards the false maiden with her own powers in full rage. Her powers summoned a small blizzard that wrapped around her.
The false maiden had just enough time to call forth a wall of flame to defend herself. When the two forces collided, cold mixed with hot and the air between the maidens erupted with a cyclonic fury.
The artificial airburst ripped the winter maiden and the bullhead apart.
"Ragh, what are you doing back there, I asked you to save our asses, not crash us," Roman hollered back at his dark passenger. The false maiden simply regained her composure and growled at him man, "just use the distance to our advantage and get us out of here."
"Fine," Roman huffed as he forced the stick in the direction of the docks, "I would have turned the job down if I knew there were more of you."
The false maiden glared at the man before remembering that he was, in fact, still needed for her mission, "Just do your job."
Back at the street, Neo laid there, hanging to consciousness while Ruby rushed to her side. "Neo!" the wolf screamed, "are you okay?"
"Yeah, just a bit winded," Neo sighed over the bond, to which Ruby just stared at her. "I thought we swore off puns?" Ruby said dryly. Neo shrugged, "It was too good to pass up."
"Yeah, just don't let mom know," Ruby shook her head.
"Don't let mom know what, exactly?" Raven asked, startling both girls.
After a few calming breaths, Ruby sheepishly replied, "That you're the most amazing mom ever?" Neo just nodded vigorously to try and help sell the story. Raven, however, looking very nonplussed sighed, "I'd be flattered if you two hadn't just broken every rule we set for you two going out. Now come on, your grandfather will deal with the police, but we still need you to go so no one gets suspicious."
The girls turned to each other in horror.
"I guess that's it for our cookies and ice cream for the next forever," Ruby sighed as Neo just sulked, both already missing their favorite treats.
Police Station
Raven wasn't sure what to expect when she saw Ozpin's smirk as they entered the police station and as they were ushered into an interrogation room.
Ozpin turned to both girls grinding "Girls you don't know how much work you two have done for me," Ruby and Neo looked at him strangely. Ozpin immediately realized why and started to rummage through his coat.
As he pulled out a greenish envelope it was instantly snatched from him, by Glynda. "You can't back out of this now Glynda, especially not now," Glynda just glared as she held onto the envelope. "The stars have aligned so now we don't need to pull strings or makeup stories as to why they are in," Glynda kept glaring until she got a call from one Neonate, she uncharacteristically gave Ozpin the letter and bolted out of the police station.
Ruby and Neo watched on confused until the envelope was handed to them. As the flipped over the envelope. Ruby screamed while Neo imitated screaming before both passed out.
Raven sighed as ozpin looked slightly dejected. "You wrote that one yourself didn't you," Getting a dejected nod she sighed as she picked up both girls one under each arm. "Come on, you'll have more chances to be the proud grandfather later," Ozpin had left the room leaving Raven to just think for a minute. 'Summer she made it she's finally ready,' Raven thought only to jump a bit as Shin stared up at her one eye staring directly at her the other switching between Ruby and Neo. "What are you staring at?" Raven asked as she walked out of the room, prepared to see where her Loud Summer and Quiet Winter's new chapter would unfold
Eden: just for clarification (this took longer than it should have)
Ruby: started the story at 2 and is now 15 right now birthday hallows eve
Neo: 16 older born July 11th same year as Ruby
Freshmen (Weiss, Blake etc) :18
CFVY :19-20
Emerald: 21 born 21st January
Winter: 24 born the 21st of March
Karamel: would have been 36 now and was born June 19th
STRQ and Glynda: Started story at 22-23 are now in their 40-41 (this is if Raven and Tai only waited a couple of months after graduation to have Yang)
Summer is the oldest beings born on April 30th
Qrow and Raven are next being born May 19th with Raven being born 2 minutes before Qrow
Glynda is next being born in August 25th
Tai last being born the 30th of December
Willow is 46 now and was born on February 24
Viridi(grandma Rose) and Ozpin: both 30 when they had Summer and now are both 70 Viridi was born July 11th she will get more information, later on, don't you worry
This body of Ozpin oddly enough shares a birthday with Glynda on August 25th