Chapter 3 Interlude
Author's Note: Thanks to Neema Amiry for being literally 3 out of my 4 reviews
Dust Till Dawn
Day 1
Ruby Rose stood inside a Dust shop reading a magazine. She would have left a while ago since she finished the magazine fifteen minutes before but something told her to stay for a while longer. The door jingled as several men walked in the shop.
"Alright kid put your hands where I can see them. Hey I said hands in the air you got a deathwish or something." A cold steel took over Ruby before not knowing what she was saying said "No. but you do." She then unfolded Crescent Rose into gun form and put a round into his stomach point blank, it didn't kill the man due to aura, but he'd still need medical attention after he regained consciousness.
Another uniformed robber came at the gunshot and took aim at Ruby seeing her and the downed man. The unfortunate robber had only just aimed when a bullet caught him in the chest sending him out the window. "What the? Get her!" the orange haired ringleader of the robbers said.
The three robbers remaining rushed Ruby. The first was taken out in short range melee combat Ruby wielding the rifle form of Crescent Rose in what can only be called Gun Kata deflecting his blade and battering him with her rifle before she ended the fight with the machete wielding goon with a strike to the back of the neck with her weapon's rifle form. The second goon was taken out with all the speed of the first with Ruby batting away his drawn machete with her rifle before twirling around him and firing a round point blank into his back. The third was perhaps the luckiest catching a slash to the chest from an unfolded Crescent Rose that only left a small but debilitating cut across his torso. Ruby then proceeded to leave the shop via window to chase the ringleader of the crooks.
The orange haired man, Roman Torchwick, took no chances with witty dialogue and fired a shot from his cane at Ruby to at the very least delay her before running off up a ladder to his robbery's emergency extraction point. He just had to get there and there would be a bullhead there for emergency extraction. Some scary kid isn't exactly the police but one look at that girl's eyes had him running. She had murder in those eyes, they were silver but they looked more like cold unyielding steel. He heard footsteps behind him, he glanced back shit it was her. Engines roared behind him, thank god the bullhead. He took out a burn crystal and threw it at the Red and black garbed monster of a girl. He took aim at the girl only to see her doing the same. Their eyes met. Roman hesitated how could he not he saw bloody death reflected in those silver orbs.
The memories of the one who summoned the blood god of the hunt reigned supreme in Ruby's body. It was only the fact that Ruby's body and weapon were not as strong as the memories remembered that kept her from killing the goons. It wasn't due to malice that she tried to kill them she just needed blood spilt to attract the god of the hunt. That god was the only chance she had at ending the hunt stopping the menace and the god only listened when blood was involved. She slid her hand along her scythe blade before whispering a small prayer as she ran her bloodied hand over the chamber of her sniper scythe. The blood glowed before disappearing as it infused the round in the chamber. A twirl with the sniper scythe aimed it at her oddly familiar foe before a telekinetic push shoved her out of position. The blood infused round went wide as it fired taking a chunk out of the bullhead.
The memories faded and Ruby regained herself as the huntress started to fight the criminals in the bullhead. The fight went on for a minute before Ruby asked the huntress for her autograph. Two buildings away on the roof Sanguine sat with a vicious grin while drinking heavily from a Pungent Blood Cocktail.
Beacon
First Day of Classes - Nighttime
On one of the many rooftops of Beacon Sanguine sat drinking from a Pungent Blood Cocktail. He shivered lightly in delight, the pungent fermented blood in the bottle was a calming influence especially after having to deal with humans all day. Oh the urge to rip and tear to feast on blood galore but he had to restrain himself to appear human in the eyes of his class and team.
"Hey… Uh Sanguine. You mind if I join you up here?" His contractor had come to him, he wondered why even as he said "Sure." His contractor the little girl who could grow up into a hunter capable of spilling enough blood that he would take notice even while asleep. She wasn't the first worshipper he had ever had but she was the only one to ever truly gain his attention. "Hey uh what are you drinking? Is it good?" Sanguine smiled a kind smile, well it would be kind if he didn't have horrifying teeth and a face that refused to emote humanly. Ruby seemed to get the message anyways as he offered "You want some? It's sweet"
"Sure" Ruby said as she accepted the offered bottle and took a swig. "You're right it is sweet, metallic but sweet." The two sat for some time into the night drinking down the bottle of blood. "Ya know thanks for what you said earlier today. It made me feel better and Weiss even came and apologised for being mean earlier." "I spoke nothing but the truth and if it helped all the better"
Training Hall, Beacon
After the realisation of The Dream
"You said that you'd show us future Ruby's memories, so why are we in the training hall?" Yang asked Sanguine as team RWBYS walked into the training hall in their combat outfits with weapons at the ready. "I said I'd show you the effect of Ruby's future memories not the memories themselves" Sanguine clarified. "Blake go over to the simulator start, Yang and Weiss stand back, Ruby front and center" Sanguine said taking control of the situation.
Sanguine walked up to Ruby and pulled out the Rakuyo and cut a slit on his finger. A deft movement wiped some blood underneath Ruby's nose and slipped some in her mouth. Ruby's eyes dilated. "Start the training sim" Sanguine told Blake who immediately pushed the start simulation button on the training room control panel. Hardlight grimm imitations appeared and began advancing on Ruby. The dilated silver eyes went cold and hard seeing the grimm.
A beowolf was the first hardlight grimm formed and the first grimm to Ruby. A slash across the chest left it dissipating, it was just deep enough to disembowel the grimm and disrupt the hardlight. Three more beowolves approached only to be delimbed then beheaded by the scythe blade. Seven more beowolves approached only for Ruby to flicker in place before her body seemingly erupted with rose petals, the beowolves were rent apart. From then they barely saw Ruby as she was flickering from place to place and beowolves just died where they stood.
The session ended and Ruby collapsed into a deep sleep. "Wow Ruby gets all sort of badass when she has her future memories" Yang commented "There is a reason why she is one of the few to ever gain the attention of the god of the hunt." Sanguine replied
Author's Note: short chapter because I took a couple days off. Be back with the main story next chapter be back with longer chapters next chapter too.