Hey! So a quick little comment review for those who did a review last chapter. Thank you The Blake Rose Reaper. I love to hear someone who prefers a different shipping say they love this story. Tbh I've never actually read a ladybug fanfic yet, if you have any good ones let me know in the reviews. I'll be more than happy to read them! and RedMage101. Thank you for confirming that with me. I'm sorry to say this, but that was an actual mistake I made. I MEANT to say Penny. Sorry, but thank you both for clarifying that. It would've sucked if he died along with the other two. Jane. I understand, I hope I said this before but if I didn't I wasn't trying to put you down or anything by it. I know you were just expressing your opinion and I totally support that. So thank you so much. Yeah, Ruby's a fucking badass. She wields a freakin scythe for god sakes and wears a hood like she's the Grimm Reaper's daughter (Blood Rose, or maybe, Rose of Death, you can decide that name). I think I've seen that manga book in my school library once. It looked awesome, but I don't have a library card or much time to really read it during schooltime so thank you anyway. I honestly hope they actually ship Whiterose in season 4. It's rearing down towards it so why the fuck not right? Thank you so much for the idea, I was actually thinking about it for another chapter but yeah, thank you. As for Neptune I got an idea from yours, so thanks again. Also thank you, Anonymous Guest for commenting. I wasn't gonna really much, I was gonna give this story sort of a 'slice of life' feel, but with a slight twist as there's magic and stuff. I'm also very happy to hear you tell me it's very comforting and that you can relate to Ruby's clinical depression. It makes me feel like I completed the goal I wanted to get when I started doing this story, which was make something other's will like. So thank you so much, Sir or ma'am. I'm happy to make you happy. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy!
A quick note, this starts back in Ruby's dream. For some reason (Plot) she only has this dream when she's near Weiss. I thought I should tell you guys before reading further in.
Future Edited; as of August 20 2016
Chapter 12: Bad Day
(Ruby's POV)
I stood still in the now calm field, with beowolf carcasses everywhere and Crescent Rose once again on my shoulders as I fell to the ground in pain and tiredness.
"Ruby!" The Faunus Weiss yelled as She lowered her shield and ran up to me, sliding down to my level as she took Crescent Rose off of me and placed it safely aside. The faunus girl touched my back with her full hand, making me wince in agony.
"A-aahh!" I yelped as I flinched in pain. The beowolves scratched me up pretty good, with bruises and cuts all over my body I wasn't even able to move.
"I'm so sorry for this." Weiss stated as she flipped me over as quickly as possible. I thought I was gonna faint. Actually, I did. I awoke not ten minutes later though. This time in excruciating pain as I jolted up, with Weiss holding me down.
"Hold on Ruby!" Weiss instructed as I squirmed in agony. The faunus held her hand out as a small red glyph appeared, placing said hand on the left side of my chest as the glyph began to beat rapidly. I listened to my heart beat as it began to slow down along with the pulse of Weiss' glyph, soon feeling the pain simmering until I was in relief as Weiss lifted her hand. Though the glyph stayed on my heart as she held me in her arms.
"There, are you alright?" Weiss asked.
"Yes." I said peacefully, making the faunus smile.
"Good. Now give me a moment, I'll be right back."
The snow bunny lowered me down to the ground as she ran off into the woods. I tried to move my body, but the glyph that was still beating with the rhythm of my heart made my muscles numb. I tried to holler for Weiss, but all that I could muster out of me was a small, low toned yelp that sounded more like a dying dog. I stared at the evening sky as I waited for Weiss. Suddenly I heard growling from the left of me, looking over to see half a live beowolf. It was severely injured, but still was able to move as it dragged it's carcass over to me with it's only limb, the left arm. I started to panic as I tried in all my power to move. But all I could do was flex my muscles, my body felt like a sandbag. I tried again to call for Weiss, somewhat successfully making a small noise. But it wasn't enough for the faunus girl to hear me, even with her white rabbit ears. Accepting my defeat, I started to think of all the great times I had as I waited for fate to strike me down. Was this what I deserved for helping this poor, innocent little white bunny faunus? Getting mauled by half a beowolf that was determined to kill me?
The beowolf finally neared me. When it was about a meter-or-so away it stopped and went into a readied position, ready to pounce on me like a piece of easy meat. I closed my eyes as I heard it leap into the air, taking in a deep breath as I awaited death.
"No!" Weiss screamed, later hearing the grimm bounce off something. I opened my eyes to see one of Weiss' glyphs in front of my paralyzed body, and the beowolf slightly past it yelping in pain. The glyph closed as Weiss ran up, grabbing my scythe as the beowolf recovered and jumped up in the air. Soon it was impaled by the pointed edge of my weapon, being dragged back in the ground as the faunus girl pulled the trigger on Crescent Rose and splitting the grimm's head in half vertically. The snow Faunus panted as she let go of my weapon.
"Oh my god Ruby, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to leave you helpless like that!" Weiss exclaimed as she ran up to me, tears in her eyes. "I'm so sorry.."
"It's okay Weiss, just patch me up please." I said with fatigue in my tone. Weiss nodded, still crying as she took out bandages from a container beside her.
"I saw this first-aid kit fly into the woods as you were fighting those creatures off. I knew it didn't go far, so I went to go get it. That's when I heard the grimm back at the field, and I remembered you aren't able to move because of the painkilling glyph." Weiss explained as she finished bandaging me up, taking the red glyph off my chest. I felt a little pain at first, but it then disappeared as I laid beside the faunus. Tear drops falling on the ground as she looked down. "You don't have to do this for me anymore, I won't trouble you again."
The white faunus girl started to arise, though stopped when I grabbed her hand. Weiss looked at me with pure sorrow in her eyes.
"It's okay Weiss, I'm just glad you came to my rescue. You stopped my excruciating pain and you bandaged me up. Plus, you killed that grimm before it attacked me. Thank you." I weighed in as the area started to fade around me. "Thank you.."
"Wait. Ruby, Ruby!"
"Ruby, Ruuby~"
I began to stir as I listened to my girlfriend call my name in a soft, whimsical tone of voice.
"Ruby, wake up hun," The white haired girl spoke again. I felt a soft, gentle hand on my shoulder as it started to course my arm gently, back and forth. "Ruuuby.."
"Mmmm..." I groaned in disappointment. "No."
"Come on hun, they're making a special breakfast in town!" Weiss proclaimed as she tried to wake me up, "you can't just say no to life."
"Yes I can," I said stubbornly. "Watch me."
"How about if you get up now we can come back here afterwards and you can cuddle up with me, how does that sound?" Weiss bargained. I thought about it silently for about a few minutes. Finally coming to terms in my own mind, I rubbed my eyes as I rose from my sleeping position and turned my head. Weiss was sitting on the bed next to me, poking me on the nose and smiling as she got up. 'Did she just boop me? I thought only Nora could do that?!'
"Come on, they're making french toast at that café you like. Blake texted me that earlier this morning when she went out with Yang." Weiss explained.
"Oh yeah I forgot, it's french week down at that café. They're making french fries and other french thingy's there." I stated, making Weiss chuckle at my wording.
"You really don't know your culture de francais, do you?" Weiss questioned. I shook my head as I got out of bed, got dressed and left the dormitory as we walked together into Vale.
Half an hour of walking (plus another 30 minutes of riding in an airship) later.
Man, the café was packed. There was a line that stretched almost to the end of the block. Upon finding this out Weiss and I smacked our foreheads in sync.
"Shit, This line's so big! It'll take at least another hour to get a seat here!" I stated as we waited at the end of the line.
"Ruby. Whatever you want to do, I'm down with it. We could go back and I could make some french toast and coffee if you like?" Weiss suggested. I shook my head.
"No. We've already walked half an hour just to get here, I don't want to go back to school knowing we came here for nothing," I answered. "If you truly support my decision, we'll wait for a table."
Weiss nodded. "Okay hun. Whatever you want."
I smiled as the line moved up. "Thanks Weiss, it means a lot to me."
We waited another hour and forty-five minutes for us to be next on the list. To make it even better it actually started to SNOW the whole time we waited. Yep, middle of summer break in August and it's fucking snowing. It wasn't staying on the ground or anything, but the way it blew in our faces as we waited to get in the café was taunting. I was moderately warm, the leggings and the big cape helped keep my body heat somewhat decent. But I looked over to Weiss, who was shivering in her dress and bolero jacket. I adjusted my cape, twisting it over to my right shoulder as I threw it around Weiss. The poor little snow-white girl clung to it like her last chance at warmth. I also wrapped my arms around her, making sure they were fully pressed down against the Weissicle.
"T-t-thanks Ruby." Weiss stuttered, grasping at me like I was a heater.
"Weiss, If you're cold, just wait by the side of the shop here. At least the wind won't be blowing at you." I reasoned. Weiss shook her head.
"N-no, I'm gonna suffer with my love. I-I won't let you freeze here w-while I stand out of the wind." Weiss replied.
"Next!" I heard the employee say. Weiss and I hurried in as a blast of warm air pulled us into the cafe, taking a seat at the finally available table. The place was packed, conversations drowned out the music and the beeping machines as the barista's took orders.
"Hi there, what would you two like today?" One of the barista's asked as we looked through the menu's.
"Can we both have the french toast breakfast special, and 2 coffees, double-double?" Weiss ordered as she put down her menu.
"Oh. I'm sorry miss, we're all out of french toast." The barista replied. I looked up at her in shock.
"W-what?!" I exclaimed. The barista turned her gaze to me.
"Yeah. Sorry, but you were just too late. The previous customer before you got the last plateful. Is there anything else I can get you though?" The barista asked.
I spaced out. 'What. Fucking. Luck.' I sat in the warming café, staring at the table in shock of the news.
"We waited.. almost two hours... In the blowing snow.. freezing... All this to hear that the one thing I just wanted today, was just fresh-out..." I murmured quietly in huge sadness, my heart breaking into little pieces as I looked at the grain pattern of the wooden table we were seated at.
"We have cinnamon-toasted strudels miss, would you like that instead?" The barista offered. I shook my head.
"Just the coffee for me." I said in a disappointed tone, though loud enough for her to hear.
"Could I try that actually? That'll be all." Weiss ordered. The girl nodded as she filled out a piece of paper with our orders.
"Alright. It'll be here momentarily." The woman said as she went back to the counters.
"Almost two hours..." I repeated. Weiss grabbed my hand.
"Hey, are you alright?" Weiss asked in a sympathetic tone. I shook my head. "Oh, I'm sorry hun. How about we share the cinnamon strudel I ordered?"
I shook my head again, making Weiss' grip on my hand tighten. "Alright, how about I make you some fresh when we go back to Beacon?"
"I was hoping we could walk around Vale for a little bit, but the weather is not getting better out there. Can we just go back and cuddle up in your bed after this?" I asked. Weiss gave me a strange look, like she was hiding something.
"Well, I would say yes to your request, but..." Weiss paused.
"What?" I asked, getting frustrated.
"The housekeeping crew the school has is cleaning our dormitory today. They said they were gonna start at 12:30 this afternoon, that's why I woke you up. I knew you didn't get the memo, so I thought going out here for the morning would kill most of the time," Weiss explained, checking her scroll. "They started.. about an hour or two ago. They said they wouldn't be finished until 6:00 in the afternoon."
I snapped, making me laughed a little. My laughing made me laugh some more, longer now, it progressed on as the barista gave us our coffee's. I picked my beverage up, still laughing, and paused as I took a big swig of coffee, swallowing the liquid before continuing to laugh. I didn't stop either, I laughed as much as the pain was in myself. It started to hurt my gut from the amount of laughter.
"R-Ruby, are you okay? You're starting to scare me a bit." Weiss said with a worried look on her, making me laugh at that too.
"Everything's great! My day has been just been fan-fucking-tastic! I was awoken from a good dream early this morning, yanked out of bed and dressed so that I could go out early, starving and craving a coffee and french toast ever since we left, AND stood in line freezing both our asses just because my greedy fucking self wanted to get some french toast for almost two hours to find out that they 'surprisingly' ran out of it because the customer before us ordered the last one. Now I want to go back home and rest some more, because tired and cold and hungry as I am, I'd at least be happy cuddling up to my loved one in a warm bed, but I can't because some minimum wage employee's are cleaning our room for the rest of the day as it snows. So yeah, Everything's awesome! I'm tired, disappointed, and cold." I said in a sarcastically happy tone, getting up and making my way to the door.
"I'm going for a walk." I told Weiss as I left the café, noticing the next person with the happiest of looks as I exited. "Sorry bud, all the tables are still full." I said as I walked through the cold wind, his happy face turning sour as he looked down in disappointment. I crossed the snowy street and stepped up on the sidewalk across the road. But just as I did, I felt my feet slip away to the side as I spun 45 degrees. I looked up at the sky as I hit my head, passing out from the impact of my fall.
"RUBY!" A female voice screamed in the distance. I could hear the woman run up to me, feet crunching in the snow as she slid down to the ground beside me. I felt her pick me up. Her touch was warm and soft, like a caring angel.
"Ruby, wake up!" The female voice said again. I could hear her crying, but I couldn't register who it was. "Please, wake up Ruby!"
I opened my eyes slowly, blinking a couple of times as I tried to regain my vision. I finally focused the pictures in front of me. I saw Weiss holding me in her arms, tears streaming down her face as she parted my hair to the side. "Ruby!" Weiss cried as she buried her head into my chest. She looked back up at me. "Are you okay?!"
I couldn't speak. For some reason, words didn't register in my mind. I tried to show her I was alright by sitting straight forward, that only seemed to make things worse as I fell back into Weiss' arms. "OHMYGOD! SOMEONE CALL 9-1-1!" Weiss screamed in panic as she looked for someone around her, soon hearing someone talking to emergency services. Weiss moved my chin up, making eye contact with me. "Listen hun, don't move, don't fall asleep, alright? I need you to stay awake." Weiss said to me in seriousness, "you're going to be alright."
"M-my head hurts." I finally spoke. My eyelids started to get heavy though. As much as I wanted to do as Weiss demanded, I couldn't fight it as I felt my eyes slowly shutting.
"No Ruby, stay awake." Weiss ordered. "Stay awake!"
Weiss shook me around vigorously, trying to keep me awake as I laid in her arms. But it felt like I was being rocked to me as I closed my eyes and let sleep take the best of me.
"Ruby! RUBY! RRRUUUUUBBBYYY!"
Alright. I was actually gonna put in a homophobic in the part where she was explaining why everything was great, but I'll save that for later on in the story. Also, I should tell you guys now, because I'm probably gonna get a bunch of people telling me the same thing; "summer break's not in August.". So I want to CLARIFY. I wrote all this based on OUR provincial system. For those who don't know in Canada summer break starts in July and ends in August (the more you know, TM). That's also why I end words usually spelled 'OR' instead with 'OUR'. That's how we write it in Canada. Stuff like 'Honour, Valour, Colour, vapour, etc', I think you get the idea. So anyway, and true story, this actually HAPPENED in Canada once. It actually snowed on the summer break once. It didn't stay long though. I exaggerated it a bit to give the story a better feel to it, but yeah. So anyways, I hope to read your comments and as always. Stay tuned.
