Here is chapter 4! Read and enjoy!
Roman Torchwick, infamous crime lord of the city of Vale, one the top ten most wanted in Atlas, Vale, and Mistral, strolled casually down the street, Hei "Junior" Xiong's men in tow. Their target, a small all-night dust shop. ably named "From Dust till Dawn". Inside it's walls, Dust that Cinder and the White Fang needed anyways and, Roman's mouth twisted in smile, one little criminal.
I wonder whether I should have told them about Ruby?" Roman thought idly as the group of henchmen entered the shop. Eh, they'll find out soon enough. He approached the shopkeeper, took his cigar from his mouth, and smiled.
"Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a Dust shop open this late?" As one of the henchmen pointed his weapon at the now terrified man.
"P-please! Just take my lien and leave!" He said in a panicky voice, his hands thrown up into the air. His eyes wide and face dead white. He started to shake.
"Sh-sh-shh! Calm down." Roman said in a soothing voice. "We're not here for your money." He turned to the man on his left. "Grab the dust."
The henchmen moved off to complete the task, filling the travel canisters with every ounce of powered dust they could fit inside and every crystal they could place inside the crates. Roman leaned against the counter and waited, it shouldn't be long now.
"Alright, kid, put your hands where I can see 'em!"
Roman smiled. 1,2,3,4,5...
"Hey, I said hands in the air! You got a death wish or something?" The henchmen's rough voice was followed by a clear "Huh?"
6,7,8,9,10...
The clear voice filled the shop again. "Yes?"
"I said put your hands in the air, now!"
"Are you...robbing me?"
"YES!"
"Oh..."
That poor, poor idiot...
"HYAH!" The henchmen flew past Roman and crashed into the front wall of the shop. Roman glanced at his fallen body and gestured for another to take his place. The man rushed Ruby and pulled his gun. "FREEZE!"
The next thing that henchman know was just how thick the display window was as the girl yanked the gun effortlessly from his grasp, grabbed his suit coat and blasted both of them into the night air. The fallen henchie and the others glared out the broken window as Ruby slowly rose off the prone form of the men she used to break the window, Crescent Rose unfolding as she did so. Music from her headphones playing in the background, she met the glares of the henchmen with a darker glare of her own, she pirouetted her giant weapon of death around her body before slamming it down into the surface of the street. Ruby clicked off the headphones.
Roman joined his henchmen. "Okayyy..." She really was terrifying with that thing. "Get her!"
The henchmen didn't stand a chance, not even a small one. Laying all out there, they had their asses kicked by a fifteen-year-old girl, a very dangerous fifteen-year-old girl, possibly the most dangerous fifteen-year-old girl of all time. Roman walked out of the shop and stared down at the unmoving form of one of the henchies.
"Well, you were worth every cent. Truly, you were." Roman turned to Ruby. Time for act two. Neo had sent a text saying that a teacher from Beacon was watching. He called out to Ruby.
"Well, Red, I think we can all say this has been a eventful evening." He snuffed out his cigar with Melodic Cudgel. "And as much as I would love to stick around..." He raised the cane. "I'm afraid this is where we part ways."
The sights popped up. He fired the fire dust, knowing full well what Ruby would do. The squealing orb of fire launched itself towards the small girl, who leaped a full twenty feet into the air to avoid the blinding explosion and shards of road. She touched down back on the ground and spun, searching every speck of space for Roman, she spotted him climbing a ladder on the building a few yards away.
Well, that's awfully anti-dramatic. Ruby inclined her head to the shopkeeper, who was just climbing out of his store. "You okay if I go after him?"
"Uh huh."
She took off, running up to the building and using Crescent Rose's recoil to boast her way onto the building. Roman was just a few feet ahead,
"Hey!" She yelled after him, causing him to stop at the edge. "Persistent..." Ruby heard Roman mutter. Suddenly, a Bullhead appeared from nowhere, it's spotlight shining onto the small girl. Ruby glared at it, this wasn't necessarily part of the act, but she know who was driving the transport, Ruby's feeling towards Cinder were not the friendliest. Roman hoisted himself into the Bullhead and turned to look back down at Ruby. "End of the line, Red!" He showed Ruby the large fire dust crystal before throwing it at her. It rolled under her feet and Roman took aim, firing off a white dust round at the twinkling crystal. But before it could reach it, the teacher from Beacon dropped in to block the explosion.
"Whoa-ho-ho!" Roman whooped in mock glee. He looked back down. "Huh?" He stared at the violet shield which simmered in between the Bullhead and Ruby. The smoke cleared to revile a stern looking, blond woman with thin glasses and what appeared to be a riding crop.
"Hm." The woman pushed her glasses up her nose before shooting multiple violet dust strikes with a wave of her crop. They hit the side of the Bullhead, nearly causing Roman to fall back out. He growled and entered the cockpit where a tall woman in a minidress was piloting the ship.
"We got a huntress!" Roman told her as he took over piloting when the women stood up and marched into the bay. Fire and Dust collided as the two skilled woman fought, using the other's attacks against each other. Ruby herself, partly folding down her scythe, emptied her entire clip at the bulkhead. Of course, the women blocked it. The woman waved her hand and the ground beneath Ruby's and the teacher's feet glow bright orange, with a wave of her riding crop the huntress propelled the two of them forward as the roof exploded. The Bullhead door closed and it took off into the night's sky. The huntress and Ruby were left alone on the roof. Ruby turned to look at the huntress.
"You're a Huntress!" She looked at the teacher in admiration. "Can I have your autograph?" Ruby was nearly squealing with fangirl excitement that any good student of Signal should have. The huntress looked stonily at her.
"Is that a no?"
Inside the Bullhead, Roman looked back out the cockpit, back towards the roof where he left Ruby with the huntress, a frown on his face and worry in his eyes. "You better be right about this, Cinder."
Cinder flicked her fingers lazily at him. "You seemed awfully worried for a harden criminal. Are you worried that the huntress will find out that our dear, little Ruby is a vicious criminal? Anyway, what's she got to lose, they won't kill her." Cinder turned back to the view passing outside the cockpit windows. Roman turned back to flying the Bullhead.
"Her family, she has her family to lose."
*After the interrogation with Ozpin*
"Just for the record, I'm wary of Professor Ozpin's decision." Pro. Goodwitch said as she walked Ruby back out of the police station. "You seem a bit..."
"What, young!" Ruby said indignantly, she wasn't that much younger than the other students at Beacon. Goodwitch shook her head. "No, eccentric."
"Oh...well..." There was truth to what the huntress said. The display inside the interrogation room wasn't all a act. One thing bothered Ruby, though...ok, technically two things bothered her. She mentioned her uncle and biological family, long ago, Ruby swore to herself that she would never, under any circumstances, mention her those people, at all. Uncle Qrow wasn't too bad, though it still hurt to think of him, but...them! Ruby shook her head and clenched her hands into fists as rage fill her heart, pure rage and hate. Her eyes turned from shining to flashing like sliver lighting. Her body started to shake. Something she said in the room came back to her. "My sister is starting this year." Ruby wondered if that was true, when she was a child she knew that..that person wanted to be a huntress, but was that still true? If it wasn't then there was nothing to worry about, but if she was attending Beacon this year...
"Here we are, Ms Rose, Ms Rose?"
Ruby snapped back to reality and found herself outside, in front of the large office that had the bronze letters "VPD" fixed above the doors. "Oh, sorry! I was..uh...thinking."
Goodwitch sighed. "Please, Ms. Rose! Keep the daydreams to a minimum!" Ruby saluted in response. Goodwitch sighed again. "Be at the Bullhead station early tomorrow, don't be late and I'll see you at Beacon."
Shaking her head, the professor went back into the station. Left alone, Ruby scuffed the sidewalk with her boots before turning to the east, after a hour she arrived in front of a large industrial warehouse, this was Roman Torchwick's main base and Ruby's home for over three years now, this is where she lived with Neo and Roman and had her privacy ruined by Cinder Fall.
Damn control freak. Ruby thought to herself as she pull open the huge doors a crack and slipped inside. "HELLO!" She called out into the vast warehouse.
Ruby!" Roman and Neo came down the spiral star case next to the door and came sliding to a stop in front of her. "Are you alright?"
"Pifft!" Ruby waved Roman's concern away. "I'm fine Rome', sheesh, you worry too much, I'm fine!." She linked arms with Neo and Roman, and headed back towards the staircase which lead to the loft in which they lived. "People...we're going places."
"I assumed it worked then?"
Like a charm, I'm leaving in the morning. Oh, what about my team?"
Roman smiled. "All taken care of."
"Really? Who are they then?" Ruby turned her head to look at Roman.
Roman looked discreetly over at Neo who winked back. "You'll like them, well, some of them at least." Roman grimaced at some horrible memory of the past
Ruby saw the flinch and frowned. "Roman...who am I going to be force to live with for four years?"
Roman scratched his chin.
"Roman?"
"..."
"Roman?!"
"I'm sure it will be fine!"
So, Ruby is getting into Beacon and God-knows-who-else is coming with her! Thank you for reading this and leave a review if it so pleases you! OCs, revelations, and unwelcoming reunions are coming up, so I'll see you in the next chapter!