A/N Hey guys, this was finished sooner than planned, so I'm publishing this on the same day. Now, just a heads up, we have a couple of new items in the story denoting different things. Bold text surrounded by * indicates sounds, anything surrounded by brackets underneath the P.O.V. indication indicates time, anything surrounded by parentheses underneath P.O.V. indicates place, and underlined italics are used only for flashbacks. Now remember, just italics indicates thoughts, but there will be no thoughts in flashbacks. Enjoy!
Chapter 2
Reunion
Ruby P.O.V.
(outside bullhead, before takeoff)
Woah! This is amazing! I was admiring the view of the bullhead from outside before I left for Beacon Academy. Before today, I have never even been in one, but by the end of the day, that will no longer be true. I can't believe this is- "Oof!" Some busty, blonde chick came out of nowhere and knocked me down to the ground. I guess it didn't help that I grabbed her sleeve and pulled her with me. As we lay there face to face, trying to get up, I said, "Watch where you're going!"
She just stopped moving and looked at me with her lilac eyes. Wait, who do I know with lilac eyes? "RUBY!" I winced as she yelled that right in my ears, both sets.
Ugh. Only one person I can remember who can reach that volume, and on purpose. "Yang? Is that you?"
She helped me to my feet, only to punch me down to my ass again.
"WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN!? UNCLE QROW AND I HAVE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR YOU FOR TEN YEARS! TEN! FUCKING! YEARS!" Yang yelled in my face, in front of everyone.
"I'm sorry," I muttered.
"'I'M SORRY'? IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF? IF YOU REALLY WERE SORRY, YOU WOULD TELL ME WHERE IN FUCKING HELL YOU HAVE BEEN FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS!"
"Yang, if you will lower your voice, I will answer the best I can, but you are starting to draw a crowd," I attempt to reason to her.
"OH, I'M SORRY! IS THIS IS UNCOMFORTABLE FOR YOU! WELL TOO BAD SIS! I AM GOING TO STAY AT THIS VOLUME UNTIL YOU GIVE ME A GOOD ASS ANSWER!" she yelled back, refusing to see reason.
I kept my voice low and level to get my point across when I said, "Yang, now is neither the time nor the place to make a scene. I will explain everything I can when we get on the bullhead and get on our way to Beacon. But right now, I need you to calm down and think rationally before you do something stupid."
That seemed to work as the ever slowly rising fire around my sister started to dissipate. "You had better tell me everything, otherwise you- Wait! Did you say 'get on OUR way to Beacon'?" she asked, wonder and confusion in her voice.
"Yes, I did. Now we better hurry up before it leaves without us," I said as i went to turn around. Before I turned around, though, I saw a glint in her eye. "YAANNG? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
She was walking towards me slowly with her arms outstretched for a hug, but I saw something that indicated it was anything but that. When she got within arms reach I remembered something she used to do before my memory loss.
"YANG! DON'T YOU DARE!" I yell at her, trying to run away.
"Too late, Rubes!" At this, she grabbed me in a headlock, making it look like she was giving me a fucking noogie, when she was really just petting my wolf ears. I tried not to nuzzle her hand when she abruptly pulled it away. "HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THE DOORS ARE CLOSING, WE GOTTA GO!" Yang said, right in my ears again.
We grabbed our stuff, and I only beat Yang to the bullhead due to her getting a head start and me using my semblance. We were huffing and puffing (A/N pun intended) and grinning like nothing ever happened by the time the doors closed and we were on our way to Beacon Academy.
Ruby P.O.V.
[2 hours later] (inside bullhead, mid-flight)
"OOOH! I CAN'T BELIEVE MY LITTLE SISTER IS GOING TO BEACON WITH ME!" Yang was hugging me worse than the death grip of an Ursa Major.
"Please... Stop..." I had finally gotten Yang convinced that I couldn't remember ten years of my life up until a few months ago. Fucking hell! I forgot how stubborn Yang can be.
"I'm just happy that my little sis got accepted two years early! Without going to Signal either! You're going to be the bee's knees!" Fucking hell. Is this how she's going to be now?
"I don't want to be the bee's knees, or any other kind of 'knees'. I just want to be a normal girl with normal knees," I replied.
At this point, a mugshot of the ass-hat who tried to kill me appeared on the news, saying he is the one behind all the dust robberies (Tell me something I don't know Lisa Lavender.) and that he was suspected of working with the White fang. I don't know why, but when I heard this it felt like a hundred Ursa Majors where piled on top of me.
"Rubes," Yang's voice brought me back to reality, "do you know this bastard?"
"Y-y-yeah. I kind of stopped him from robbing From Dust to Dawn, and almost had him before he escaped. *Almost killing me in his getaway.*"
"Wow, I am proud of you."*smack* "But think before you ever take on a dangerous criminal ON YOUR OWN!" Yang said, slapping me in the face.
"OUCH! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" I asked in rage, my cheek stinging from the impact.
"FOR ALMOST GETTING YOURSELF KILLED!"
I guess I said the part about almost dying out loud. Oops. So I just sat there while Yang went on her tirade, but I just tuned her out while I looked around the bullhead. It was then that I noticed a boy who was green in the face, looking for a trashcan. I saw him heading our way, about to blow, so I stood up and took a few unnoticed steps back from Yang.
When he reached her, I had the right idea in stepping back as... "EEEW! YAAANNG, YOU GOT PUKE ON YOUR SHOES!"
This should make us even, she punched and slapped me, I did not warn her about vomit boy before he blew, tied. "GROSS! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!"
Ruby P.O.V.
[30 minutes later] (outside bullhead, Beacon Academy grounds)
When the doors finally opened, Vomit Boy was the first out, still sick. As soon as I walked out, I saw all of the cool and unique weapons.
"OOH! THAT GIRL HAS A FIRE SWORD! AND THAT GUY HAS A GIANT CHAKRAM! A~AAH! Ugh!"
I was roughly pulled by the tail end of my cloak, only to hear Yang say, "I thought you were happy with Crescent Rose." At the mention of my sweetheart's name, I pulled her out in a second in her scythe form, cuddling with her in my arms.
"I am. I also like to see new weapons, because one can tell a lot about a person just by what the use in battle," I tried to explain.
"Well, why don't you go and try to make some friends?" Yang asked, putting her nosy ass in my private life.
By now, I had put Rose back into her carry form and stored her in the small of my back, replying, "Why would I do that when I have you?"
"Weellllll... My-friends-are-here-so-bye!" she said in rapid succession as she ran towards a group of people waiting for her.
"YAAANNNGGG!" *sigh* "Now what am I supposed to do?" I ask the empty air.
As I turned around, I ran into a luggage cart filled with suitcases with a vaguely familiar logo on them.
"Watch where you're going, you dolt!" an unknown voice yelled at me.
When I looked up to see who was yelling at me, my eyes were held by light blue eyes. As I saw that those eyes belonged to a vaguely familiar face, not one from my dreams, but one I think I've seen before, the blue-eyed girl continued yelling, shaking a vial filled with fire dust with a broken seal.
"Uhh...Aahh...AAAH-CHOO!" I sneeze, attempting to warn her about the seal, causing a huge explosion from the floating dust.
OH SHIT! Well, there goes one potential friend. As the smoke settled, she just stared angrily at me.
"I-I-I'm sorry," I said meekly.
"'I'M SORRY'? IS THAT ALL YOU CAN SAY? YOU ARE JUST LUCKY WE DIDN'T GET BLOWN OFF THE CLIFF!" the girl yelled at me. Why does everyone like yelling at me?
I was getting tired of all this yelling directed at me and my sensitive ears, so I did some yelling of my own. "I SAID I WAS FUCKING SORRY, PRINCESS!"
That is when an eerily familiar voice said from behind me, "It's heiress, actually."
Both me and the heiress turned to face the voice, and what I saw made me want to scream. Standing there behind us was a girl about two years older than me, with a pale complexion, yellow eyes, and black hair with a matching bow on top of it. It's you! The girl from my dreams!
She continued speaking, "That's Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company."
The girl, who I now know as Weiss, the Ice Bitch, replied, "Finally some recogni-"
"The same company known for its questionable partners and controversial labor laws," the girl said, interrupting Weiss.
At this, Weiss was at a loss for words and stormed off towards the school, and the girl that had subsequently saved me from her wrath just walked right past me.
"WAIT!" I yelled for her.
She stopped in her tracks and looked over her shoulder at me, and asked, "Well? Aren't you coming?"
Ruby P.O.V.
[ten years ago]
I lay there on the ground, waiting for the Huntsman to attack me, until I felt a gentle hand on my shoulder.
"It's alright, he won't hurt you anytime soon."
As I looked up, I saw a boy two years older than me with red-tinted hair, and behind him I saw the Huntsman that had been about to hit me flat on his back.
"I-i-is he...?" I try to ask, but I'm shaking too much.
"No, he's just unconscious, though he doesn't deserve to live. Come on," the boy said, clearly understanding what I was trying to ask.
I followed him for about an hour until we reached an abandoned warehouse. In that hour, I had learned that the boy's name is Adam Taurus and he was a bull faunus, and in turn I told him my name and faunus heritage.
"Well, here we are Ruby. Home sweet home," he told me when he stopped to open the door, and as we stepped inside, I was amazed at all the different faunus, so many crammed in one place.
"Where are we Adam?" I ask as we walk though the warehouse, towards a curtained area in the back.
"Welcome to the home of the White Fang."
When we reached the curtain, a black-haired girl with matching cat ears emerged, looking at Adam with barely contained rage, fervently asking, "And just where have you been exactly? I have had to cover for you all day!"
I stepped in front of Adam to protect him from this girl when he just chuckled and pushed me aside softly, replying, "In case you haven't noticed, Blake, I was trying to save this little one from a Huntsman that was trying to kill her."
This seemed to mellow the girl, Blake, out a little. "
Well, I wouldn't be calling her a little one, she looks to be only two years younger than us. And why the hood?" she asked, that last comment directed at me with those yellow eyes of hers. I nervously lowered my hood to reveal my ears. "Oh. You're a wolf faunus, huh? Well, I don't suppose you would be willing to leave would you?"
I shook my head indicating "No" and clutched Adam's arm. Blake chuckled at this.
"Well, Adam, seems like you have a hound now. Might as well get her a spot to sleep," she said.
"M-my name is Ruby," I manage to get out before Blake walks away.
Ruby P.O.V.
[present time]
"BLAKE!" I ran to her and flung my arms around her.
"It's good to see you to Ruby, but where have you been? THEY have been looking for you for months," Blake asked.
"Well... I'll explain later. Can we just go to the auditorium please?"
"Okay. Okay. Let's go."
