Hey all you RWBY fans! I'm just gonna keep this short. So sorry for such a long delay, I had exams last week and have been studying hard so I haven't really even been on my computer a lot. As I said earlier I appreciate reviews and stuff, be it bad or good. I understand I can't get all butthurt just because some people don't like my story, I respect that. So I'd like to thank the anonymous person that took the time to write his thoughts on the story. Firstly, I'm sorry I don't really understand depression to the point. Like I said I don't suffer from it so I can never truly know what it feels like to be clinically depressed. This is as best I can at relating to the illness. Secondly, I never said I was a professional writer. I am NOWHERE close to being one, I just like to write stories. It's just a hobby of mine. Anyone can write stories, but it takes true talent to make a good one. That's all I meant by it. Anyway, enjoy the next chapter and I will see if I can make the next 2 today or tomorrow.
Future Note: Fuck, if you've read the newest future notes from chapter 2 I don't need to say this every time. Fixed the wording, not the plot.
Chapter 6: Road Trip: Part 2
In Ruby's dream (Ruby's POV).
I walked through the calm evening forest. Watching the birds chirp and the animals run by. I smiled as I strolled through the quiet woods. All of a sudden, a rustling sound came from beside me. I sprung up and took out Crescent Rose in it's gun form, pointing it at the shaking bush. Out rolled a Faunus girl with white hair, bunny-like ears and a small white furry oval I assumed was a tail laying on her stomach. The girl flipped over and went into a seating position on the dirt floor. She looked up at me and jumped at the sight of my weapon pointed at her. "Oh sorry! I thought you were a grimm creature," I explained, sheathing my weapon back on my sache. "What's your name?"
"Weiss," The Faunus girl responded, "My name is Weiss." The bunny girl looked at me with the blankest of expressions.
"That's a cute name for a Faunus, bunny. Thing?" I responded, pondering her traits. Weiss frowned at my last comment, making me smack my head after realizing the dumb remark. "er, that's not what I meant. You look fine, I've just never really seen a bunny faunus out in the wild before. You look like an easy meal, no offence. What're you doing out here alone?"
Weiss sat there trying to remember what she was doing. "I.. don't know. I was walking with my family when we were attacked by an ursa. My father told me to run, so I ran. I didn't even bother to look back until a few minutes ago. I tripped on a root and hit my head. Now I don't even know where I am." Weiss finally said. She looked down in sadness. "I want my parents back."
Weiss begun to tear up, arms wrapped around her legs. "Hey, don't cry." I said as I walked up to her and rubbed her back. "I know, I'll help you find your mom and dad."
Weiss looked up at me. "Really?" She asked.
I nodded. "I've got a weapon, and a map of the forest. We can backtrack your footsteps. Come on!" I said as I helped her to her feet.
"W-wait. Before we go, what's your name?" Weiss asked. I smiled.
"Ruby Rose. My name is Ruby Rose."
"Ruby... Ruuuby.. Come on, wake up." A sweet, soft voice said as it rubbed my arm gently. I started to stir, opening my eyes to the sight of Weiss standing above me. "Hey sleepyhead, I made breakfast."
The heiress stood up beside me as I sat up. I rubbed my eyes and soon too got up as well, noticing a pan sitting beside the already going fire with egg remains in it. Weiss handed me a metal plate with eggs sunny-side up, venison we had last night and a cup of coffee with milk in it.
"Thanks." I said as I sat on the rock floor, taking a swig of my coffee before scoffing down my food.
"Slow down, we're not in a rush," Weiss said as she drunk from her metal mug, "Today's still fresh."
"I know I know, it's just a habit. I'm used to being in a rush most of the time." I said, taking a breather before I took another forkful of egg. "Where'd you get the eggs anyway?"
"I went out into the forest early in the morning and got them from a nest. There was a whole bunch of them so I took a few and came back. When I entered the cave again I saw you were still sleeping, so I decided to make breakfast. Payback for you making dinner last night." Weiss responded. I finally finished my breakfast as I gave the plate and mug back to Weiss, picking up Crescent Rose and flinging it on my belt. I looked out at the wonderful morning sky, noting the crispness to the morning air. It felt good in my lungs as I inhaled deeply.
"So, what's on the agenda today?" Weiss asked as she picked up the remaining china and put it in a big plastic tub.
"Not very sure. I was just thinking we should go back to the van," I said, stretching mid-sentence. "They're calling for a major rain storm today."
"Does Yang and Blake know about this?" Weiss asked, a look of concern strewn on her face. I paused for a moment before I realized I never told them before departure.
"Well okay. We have one thing on our agenda today; get Yang & Blake and get the hell outta here before the storm rolls in." I said, pointing up in the sky in determination, though blocked by the forest so it looked like I was just pointing at the trees.
"Dunce!" Weiss proclaimed as she brought the tub of dishes with her. "I'll go wash these, you get everything packed up."
I nodded as Weiss disappeared in the treeline, whilst I went back into the cave and started rolling up the sleeping bags. My scroll started buzzing just as I finished the first bag, taking out my scroll to see a weather alert, the storm was picking up rapidly and already started in Vale. "Crap, we better get a move on!" I said quietly as if someone could hear me. I started to do Weiss' sleeping bag, later putting out the fire as Weiss came back.
"Weiss, we gotta problem." I said as I showed the alert to her.
"Shit, we gotta move!" Weiss exclaimed as she packed the clean dishes and threw her bag on her back. We walked out of the cave and begun treading through the deep bush, in hopes to beat mother nature and her unpredictable wrath.
Meanwhile, with team Bumblebee, half an hour earlier (Blake's POV).
I took in a whiff of something that smelled like apple pie, opening my eyes to find Yang cuddling up to me with her head in my collarbone as she slept soundly. I looked around the area, trying to piece together what happened last night. I remembered confessing my love to Yang, then I guess we ended up like this. I sat up, letting out a big yawn as I searched in Yang's mini cooler for any other food. I noticed a small box of cereal and some milk. Knowing it was hers, I left it for her to consume as I got up and sulked as I remembered we also ate all of the steak last night. I didn't realize how hungry I was until I started to eat it. It was like a delicacy to me, I hadn't eaten a good steak like that in awhile. Not since my time with the White Fang.
Yang started to stir, making soft moaning noises as she acknowledged it was morning. "mmmhm... Blake come back to bed..." Yang demanded in her drowsy tone of voice. I smirked a bit.
"Come on Yang, it's time to get up," I stated, shaking her sleeping bag. "Get up!"
Yang finally came to life as I started the fire again and put the grille over top the fire, putting a kettle full of water on afterwards.
"Blake.. Can you hand me my hairbrush..." Yang requested, still in a sleepy tone. I nodded as I walked up to the bag and threw her brush to her. Yang combed vigorously to get the knots out of her golden blonde hair, beginning to struggle as she got to the back of her head.
"Here, let me help." I requested, taking the comb out of her hands as I started to brush her hair. Yang sat there, half dead to the world. As I finally finished the kettle begun whistling on the grille.
"I'll go get your cereal." I said as I went over to the fire, removing the kettle and placing it on the ground for a moment. I fixed her breakfast and handed it off to her. Afterwards I poured the hot water through a paper filter filled with coffee grinds into mugs. When the water was out I placed it aside and started making our cups.
"Thanks." Yang said with her mouth full of cereal. "I got you some breakfast as well. It's in my bag."
I opened Yang's backpack to find another travel sized bag of cereal. "Thanks Yang." I said as I poured the milk and cereal into a bowl, sitting down beside the brute afterwards as we ate atop the ruins. It was calm and quiet, other than a slight breeze that whistled through the pillars every now and again.
"So Yang, what exactly happened last night?" I asked after finishing my breakfast as I put the bowl I used in Yang's backpack, breaking what felt like the longest silence. "I can't really remember."
"You don't?" Yang said, a look of surprise on her face.
"No I don't. Why, what happened?" I said. A bit of panic in my voice.
Yang laughed. "Oh nothing, I just wanted to see if you'd panic." She answered, afterwards punching her in the arm. "The only thing that happened was that you confessed your love to me."
I blushed as the blonde said that, making Yang giggle a bit.
"So Yang.. did you.. mean what you said." I asked, trying to look busy.
"Of course I was serious. I actually love you Blake, I wasn't making that up." Yang replied, with a serious tone to her voice. I let out a breath of relief. "You don't have to be worried, how 'bout after this trip we go out on a date. Whatdaya say?"
I smiled. "Of course," I replied, "I would love to."
The whole walk to the checkpoint was of the topic of the date. Yang rambled on at what we could do and where we could go and the times and the places, on and on until I finally said something that rendered Yang speechless.
"So how are we supposed to tell the rest of the team?" I asked. Yang stood there, thinking about what to say.
"To be honest," The blonde brute finally started after hard concentration of thought. "I hadn't planned it yet, I didn't think I'd get this far."
I sighed. "Well," I concluded. "We'll have to say something when they find out."
Yang patted me on the back. "Don't worry, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it." She said. And with that she continued her ramblings, though I didn't pay much attention. I was more concerned about the sudden choppy winds that just arose from out of nowhere. My instinct's were going off like a strobe light, I could sense a storm arising from the distance.
"What's wrong?" Yang asked, breaking away at her rambling of the date.
"I have a bad feeling. This wind doesn't just show up like this without warning of something major to come. I have a feeling it's something big." I stated, suddenly stopping in my tracks.
"What? What's wrong now?" Yang repeated. I turned around and pointed at the sky behind us, the clouds were dark as coal and erupting with lightning.
"That."
We started to pick up the pace with the quickly descending storm headed straight for us. All of a sudden it began to rain, hard. So hard that our vision was obscured not as far as 15 feet in front of us. We started to fight the rain and the wind blowing at us. All of a sudden, we saw two figures coming straight for us. We both readied our weapons as the two figures came out of the bush. It was none other than Team Ice Flowers (Now White Rose).
(Ruby's POV)
We walked up to Blake and Yang. "Ruby, Weiss," Yang stated as we neared them. "Are we ever glad you're here."
"We need to get back to the van." I demanded. The team all nodded as they followed closely behind as we ventured off.
We ran through the bushes, the forest looked like it was dancing madly as the storm had picked up more and more. Finally, after what felt like forever, we made it to the parking lot entrance. Everyone slowed down a pace as we begun to walk now towards the entrance of the trail gate. All of a sudden, a crack of thunder followed by a quick flash of lightning came down, hitting a nearby tree and snapping it clean off it's base. I looked over to see it was in a collision course in Weiss' direction, coming in fast.
"Weiss!" I shouted. Acting fast on my feet, I pushed the heiress out of the way. Weiss tumbled away from the falling tree, landing on her knees. I raised my hands as the tree collapsed onto me, hitting my head hard. I started to black out, and the last thing I heard was Weiss scream "RUBY!" Before I closed my eyes.
I heard feint noises all around me, but I couldn't register what was going on. The sound of a hospital gurney rolling on the tile floor. a soft hand on my forehead for a moment before it disappeared as I lost consciousness again. I finally awoke in a hospital bed.
"Hey there, welcome back. How're you feeling Ruby?" A kind woman asked me from my bedside. I tried to focus in on her, but my eyes had a hard time making out the woman's appearance.
"Where am I?" I replied in a slightly rough voice. I tried to focus on my surroundings, to no use. "Everything's blurry."
"You're in the on-campus Beacon hospital. You are lucky to be alive, any bigger of a blow to your head and you could've had severe brain damage."
Those last words frightened me a little as the hairs on the back of my neck stood straight. I held my forehead in pain. "My head really hurts."
"I'll go get you some pain meds, don't fall asleep. I'll be just a moment." The woman said as she walked out of the room. As she left the rest of team RWBY came into the room.
"Ruby!" A blurry Yang shouted as she jumped at me, giving me a tight bear hug. "Oh my god, I was so worried! You nearly scared me to death, I was afraid I'd lose you!" The blonde started to cry, though holding it together as she let go of me and fell back with the other teammates.
"YOU COMPLETE DUNCE! What the hell were you thinking?!" A blurry and angry Weiss yelled as she walked up to me. I could tell she was worried a lot as well. "Risking your life like that, are you insane!?"
I shook my head. "I was only looking out for you Weiss, I wasn't going to let you get hurt." I responded.
Weiss came up to me, giving me just as big a hug as Yang. "Please don't do that EVER again. You scared me when I saw you get hit by that tree," Weiss said, her words were caring and sympathetic now. "Just warn me next time."
I nodded as she tightened her hold on me, letting me go a moment later.
The team said their goodbyes as the nurse walked into the room, handing me a couple pills and some water. "Now, we're gonna have to keep you here for the night, make sure you're okay. You need to stay awake though." The nurse explained as I washed down the painkillers. I nodded in acknowledgement and she left the room. This was gonna be one long night, but I knew I did the right thing. Saving Weiss from the falling branch, it made me feel like a hero almost. Like Prince Charming.
And Weiss was my princess.
