Some of this chapter was typed at RTX and I have to say, the RWBY panel was amazing to watch. There is going to be some awesome Volume 3 stuff that will be amazing to use as inspiration for my future fanfics for damn sure like new locations and some new characters (the most interesting character so far is Winter. Yes, she was shown at the panel and she looks amazing). So that's enough of me teasing stuff from the RWBY panel, here's Chapter 15… :D
By the way, this was heavily revised many times thanks to some ideas being scrapped. Originally there was going to be a Real Friends song again but I decided to pick another band and I said in an earlier chapter that Ruby has been listening to Knuckle Puck a lot so here's a Knuckle Puck song for this chapter. The song is called "But Why Would You Care?"
Ruby
This is bad. This is really, really bad. No, this is beyond horrible! No, this has got to be like the end of the world here! We saved people that now know how Yang and I look like, and that means they'll talk about it on the news and our parents will figure out that it's us! It reminds me of one of those movies that-
No Ruby, this isn't the time to think of a stupid movie that made you think that way… you might be screwed. I thought and made a muffled scream, making Yang turn to me, we were finally home. "Sis, is something wrong?" she asked.
I gave her a look of shock, noticing how calm she sounded. "What's wrong?! Mom and dad are going to find us and take us back home! I'll never see Weiss again and play more songs for her and… a-and-" I broke down and fell onto my knees, crying loudly. "They can't take me away from her!"
I felt her arms wrap around me and the warmth of her aura that began to get warmer as time passed. "Ruby… I swear, I'll make sure that you stay happy and even though it's ice queen that makes you happy…" I heard her mutter a curse about Weiss and sighed before continuing, "I'll do my best to keep you two together, no matter what." I moved myself so I could bury my head in her chest; she began to caress my hair soon after. "I promise sis." She said softly. I stayed like this for a while... well, until I thought I had no more tears to shed. Yang looked around and sighed for some reason. "Sis, it's snowing. We should get inside before we catch a cold."
I suddenly spoke before she could pull away. "Weiss isn't the only one that makes me happy Yang. I don't want to lose what we can all do together. There is just so much stuff we can do and because of what we did, we might not even get to do anything at all!"
I pulled away from her chest and looked up at her only to be met with a pair of red eyes. "We are not going to lose each other okay?! None of us will let that happen, especially me! We are not going to be miserable with this stupid talk about what we did! You make it sound like we did a crime or worse!" Tears fell from my eyes at a faster pace and I whimpered, making her eyes turn back to their normal lilac color. "Ruby… don't assume the worst for you and Weiss okay? And… sorry for getting angry; I didn't mean to scare you."
When she gets angry at someone we know, a feeling of anxiety flows into me but when it's me that angered her, I am terrified and I hope she doesn't do anything bad to me other than shout at my face. The thing that doesn't make want to run is the fact that she's my sister and her anger is for a reason that I caused… not just for no reason or she wants to hurt me. It's my fault that she's like this. But right now, I don't know if I should say anything or get up because of the snow that was beginning to fall again.
She helped me up and we went up the porch to the front door of our home. Yang turned her head to look at me. "Just... don't say anything about this Ruby... okay?" She asked. I nodded and she took out a pair of keys, one of four keys that was given to everyone that lived in the house thanks to Weiss planning ahead, and opened the door.
We both walked in and Yang yawned. "We're back!" She shouted.
I noticed Blake peek over one of the black leather couches and gave us a look of curiosity. "Did you two buy a TV?" She asked.
Yang gave her the brightest grin I have ever seen and shook her head. "No! We did not!" She said in an enthusiastic voice, which made me begin to laugh loudly.
The black-haired faunus glared at her. "So how are we going to watch movies together?!" She exclaimed, shocking Yang and I.
"C-calm down Blake, we'll just order it online." I said to her with a tone of fear.
"Since when did you get angry when movie night doesn't go as planned?" Yang asked. "But we're going to order it online because um… the store's closed!"
Blake growled. "Why didn't you check online in the first place to see if it was closed or not; oh, and I'm angry because you kept Weiss and I waiting for over three hours! We started to get worried!"
"Okay, first thing I have to say about that statement, Rubes and I did not take that long to go to ValeTech and travel back here. The second statement is the fact that the taxi driver was slow as hell, and three, traffic! Also I didn't know you cared about me Blakey."
Blake sighed and reached over to something on the couch and I realized it was her scroll as she tossed it to my sister with a quick flinging motion. "Well get online quick and buy the television so we can have a nice movie night… I'm kind of exhausted at the moment after taking care of Schnee here."
I lifted a brow at that comment. "What's wrong with Weiss?" I asked.
The cat faunus gestured Yang and I to walk to her and we did just that, reaching the couch a moment later and peeking over to see Weiss sleeping peacefully on her lap. "You do not want to know how worried she was, she even wanted to chase after you when the door closed." she said softly.
Yang chuckled quietly. "Geez, if she was sleeping, then wouldn't she have woken up after that argument we had?"
Blake's look darkened for a moment before going back to her normal, expressionless self. "Well she's probably a heavy sleeper?"
I wanted to prod her about what was wrong but I decided not to say anything for now. Yang sat down on the couch adjacent to the two and started going through Blake's scroll. "Well, let's just hope that they have the TV Rubes and I were wanting. Wake Weiss when we need her credit card info okay?" Blake nodded and slowly got up from the couch, making sure that Weiss was still asleep when she laid her down gently and sat down beside Yang. "Did you guys order internet service?" she asked. Oh yeah, why didn't I think of that? I thought and mentally kicked myself.
Blake nodded. "She… called up some people secretly from the SDC that she trusts to create our internet service here, free of charge."
My eyes widened and I could tell Yang was doing the same. "Damn, was Weiss knowing about her plan of leaving her place before she met Ruby?!" she exclaimed.
I shushed her quickly. "You're going to wake up Weiss if you keep shouting." Yang lifted her hands up in a surrender pose and went back to looking through the ValeTech website. I looked down at Weiss, then the stairs and decided to head up. "Hey sis, I'm going to be in the studio, if Weiss wakes up, let her know okay?"
Yang looked up at me with a smile. "You got it sis… practicing with your guitar and vocals again?" she asked.
I nodded. "I've been listening to some new songs and I really want to cover them."
"Do you mind me asking what's the band that makes you want to practice right now?"
"Knuckle Puck?"
"Of course… I'm guessing you heard about them after hearing a lot of Real Friends?"
"Yep."
She sighed softly. "Thought so… well, don't keep me from letting you practice."
I hummed in acknowledgement and started making my way up the stairs, quietly rushing to the studio.
I opened the door and walked in, closing it behind me and I grabbed Roseline from the wall hanger nearby with one hand before heading into the recording booth. I thought about recording my cover session but it's my first time covering these songs so the obvious decision was to not do such a thing. It's better not to record my mistakes. I thought and sighed as I grabbed a chair I could sit on.
Everything was untouched since the first session I had in here so I pulled up the chair in front of the microphone I told Yang to bring the day before and I changed the tuning to D Sharp again since the last song I played, Obstacles, was in E Standard. I took a deep breath and strummed the first chord, beginning my cover.
these hands are broken and calloused, but nobody seems to notice.
and you yelled it into permanence.
have you ever come to hate the very thing that you helped to create?
cause that's how I feel everyday.
I am expendable, but I guess that's just the way things go.
I'm a ghost in foreign postal codes losing faith in what brings you hope.
For some reason, I felt like I could relate to this song in so many ways… but the relations were unknown to me which stayed in my mind after singing the first set of lyrics.
on the outside looking in
or on the inside sitting in the corner. it's all the same to me.
it's all the same to me.
i got my hopes up. I thought I was out of the shadows.
but I'm buried six feet underneath what I worked four years to achieve.
The thoughts that were forming in my head continued to multiply. The lyrics made me feel for any person that feels like this.
while they were sleeping.
while you were sleeping.
I am expendable, but i guess that's just the way things go.
I'm a ghost in foreign postal codes losing faith in what brings you hope.
I felt lost in it all, the lyrics I mean. I closed my eyes, thinking about stopping but the imagery that played out in my head was what kept me going. This song was playing a story in my mind.
home alone where all of my doubts are born.
home alone where all of my fears are formed.
Home was where all my fears formed. I was finding the relations already.
I'm sick and tired of hating who I've become
it's getting worse every day I spend home alone
writing myself to death stands in place of sleep.
I am an unlocked door and you're a fucking thief.
I'm just an open book… but my fears were the only things that stayed hidden. And I never want them to appear for all to see.
you could hear me out, but why would you care?
no, why would you care at all?
and you could hear me out, but why would you care?
no, why would you care at all?
I'm sick and tired of hating who I've become
it's getting worse every day I spend home alone
writing myself to death stands in place of sleep.
I am an unlocked door and you're a fucking thief.
yeah you're a fucking thief.
I strummed the last few chords and opened my eyes again, breathing heavily and realizing that someone else was in the studio… it was Weiss herself. She went up to the microphone that was set on the audio board and I heard her voice in the intercom above the glass window. "Are you okay Ruby?" she asked.
I don't know if I should tell her the thoughts I was having but my mouth ran faster than my thoughts could process. "Yeah… I'm alright." I said softly. I just said my first lie to my own girlfriend.
Ugh! I felt like I did a shitty job with this chapter. Anyways, please leave a review of what you thought about this chapter and I recommend you guys listen to Knuckle Puck because they are an awesome pop punk band that's just as awesome as Real Friends. And with that, I will be tuning out for this chapter. Stay classy… also if you have questions about this story and want to know where I'm going to take it, then tune into my Twitch stream tonight at 11 PM CST. I'm going to do a whole sitting of RE4 on PC and I'll be happy to take questions you all have. The link to my Twitch channel is on my profile so take a look and follow so you won't miss it. :)
Alright… Stay Classy everyone!