Hello my dearest readers. First thank you for all the nice things you've said to me. They've really kept me grounded. I especially wan to think spencerreidsgirlfriend,KidfireRyuu and Cook1ez. Thanks and I won't give up yet. I'm getting better I've been four whole days without causing any harm to myself o that's an accomplishment. Now enough about my life. I must remind you guys this story isn't just smut it has a plot so not every chapter has smut lie this. Sorry to disappoint. Also Nora's soulmate…..is coming in the next chapter, but I may or may not have taken your advice for using a CRDL member.
Credit: I don't own these characters Roster teeth does I'm just fucking with them.
Chapter 14: Where one man fails another one prospers.
Roman Torchwick awoke to unfamiliar soundings. He was in a large bedroom that was painted a dark wine red with black trim. The furnishings where all either black or red, and there was a huge frosted glass window on the far wall. He was lying in a bed with a red comforter, and then that's when he realized he was not alone. Next to him was his young mate Ruby Rose sleeping peacefully.
'Ruby? Then Ozpin must be in a meeting.' Roman thought.
'That idiot is trying to open the link.' Roman's instincts informed him.
'Viclean?' (V-clan) Roman asked his instincts.
'Yep.'
'We haven't talked in a while'
'That's because I've been pretty content with how our existence has played out so far.' His instincts answered.
'That has changed I believe?' Roman asked.
'Yes I was speaking to Ädelsten...' (E-del-st-ine)
'Ädelsten?'
'Yes, Ruby's instincts.'
'You can speak to each other?!'
'Yes, as soul mates we can speak to each other much like you can to Ozpin.'
'Oh. So wait you're mated to Ruby's and Ozpin's instincts?'
'Yes.'
'Well can you tell Bieg to make his human stop being a jackass?!' (Bu-eg) Roman stated suddenly remembering why ozpin wasn't in bed with him.
'Ha! Ozpin's instincts are just as stubborn and thick headed as Ozpin!' Viclean snorted.
'Thatseems fitting.' Ruby stirred next to Roman and he watched as her silver eyes fluttered open.
"Good morning Red." Roman leaned down and kissed his mates forehead.
"Morning Ro." Ruby yawned.
"So did you know that our instincts can communicate with each other?"
"Yep Addie told me she would be able to talk to our mates when I was younger."
"You're a debutant?" Roman asked slightly surprised.
"Yep." There was a knock at the door.
"Is everyone decent?" a female voice asked from behind the door.
"Yes we're clothed." Ro answered.
The door opened and in stepped captain Jamie Ironwood dressed in a silk blue night gown with a grey bathrobe over it. "Good morning Ruby, Roman." Jamie greeted.
"Good morning Captain." Ruby returned.
"Please Ruby call me Jamie."
"Oh. Well thank you for letting us stay here Jamie." Ruby said.
"Don't mention it. From what you said Ozpin needs some time to rethink his decisions."
"Ha, it'll be a while before that happens. He's more stubborn than me, and that's saying something." Roman snorted.
"Yes I've heard all about your stubbornness from my brother." Jamie chuckled.
"Speaking of your brother where the general is this morning?" Roman asked.
"He left early to go have breakfast with Miss. Nikos."
"Wait Pyrrha is actually dating the general?!" Ruby asked in surprise.
"Yes, and I can see the attraction. From what I've been told Miss. Nikos is quite the young huntress. With skills she seems to have she would make a perfect wife for a general." Jamie answered.
"That's nice and all, but can we get something to eat? I stormed out on Ozpin before we could get lunch." Roman said.
"Yes my friend Maxine and her mate Sam have already gotten it started." Jamie said.
"They're the lieutenant and major for Atlas' army correct?" Roman asked.
"Yes. Now the dinning room is just to the left of the den you saw when you came in, and don't worry while Ozpin knows you're here, he doesn't know where this condo is." With that said Jamie left the two to get ready.
"Ro, are we doing the right thing?" Ruby asked her mate.
'YES!' Both of their instincts answered.
"They seem to think so." Roman said. "Look red eventually Ozzie will come to his senses and apologize, but until then we can take care of each other."
"Okay Ro, but don't we need a dominate?" Ruby asked.
"Do you not think I'm capable of being your dominate for the time being?" Roman feigned a look of hurt. "Why Ruby your words wound me." With a dramatic gasp Roman left the bed, and a giggling Ruby, and headed down to breakfast.
'What are we going to do with him?'
'I don't know Addie' Ruby replied her instincts and followed Roman downstairs.
At a dinner in the city:
"So Ruby and Mr. Torchwick are staying with you and your sister?" Pyrrha asked James over breakfast.
"Yes. Being an old friend of ozpin I know how he can get sometimes. Especially being a dominate." James replied.
"That's really sweet of you James."
"Well I try. I'm sure would have done the same." James reached for his date's hand. "I apologize for having our last date interrupted. I was truly enjoying my time with you yesterday."
"Oh it's fine. You've made up for it with breakfast." Pyrrha smiled placing her hand in his.
"That's great, but I was wondering if you were busy later?"
"Well Nora and I planned on going shopping this afternoon. Why?"
"There is a small gathering for some higher officials and I would love to take you as my date." James replied.
"Why I would love to! When?"
"This evening at nine o'clock."
"That sounds wonderful."
"Excellent! I'll come and retrieve you from beacon at eight thirty."
"That's perfect, what should I wear?"
"Something formal."
"Alright. Now I really need to go shopping."
"I need to be getting back to the condo. Do you need to be dropped off at the campus?"
"No, I'll just have Nora met me here."
"Alright." James stood to leave. "I'll see you this evening."
Pyrrha stood and placed a kiss on James' cheek. "Till this evening." she purred in his ear.
'Well she seems interested.' James said to his instincts.
He got a scoff in return.
'What's your problem Vedere!?'
'You! I do not like this red head!'
'Why not? She's the perfect mate!'
'I know! I just don't like the way her aura feels. I'm not getting a romantic vibe from it.'
'Well we've only been on two dates let's give it some time.'
'If you say so.' Vedere replied as James got into his car and drove back to complex where his condo was located.
He took the elevator of the complex to the top floor. Entering is condo he was greeted with the smell of bacon and freshly made biscuits.
"James?" his sister called.
"Yes Jamie it's me. Who else would it be?" James walked into the kitchen where his sister was make in a pot of tea.
"Well I sent Sam out for some doughnuts from the bakery." She replied.
"Oh. Are Ruby and Roman awake?" James leaned against the counter.
"Yes they're at the table eating." Jamie replied. "How was your date?"
"Fantastic. Pyrrha is absolutely amazing. She's beautiful, intelligent and mature." James smiled.
"Whoa. Slow down Romeo, it's only been two days."
"Yes I know but I really enjoy being with her."
"Did you ask her to the party?" Jamie asked her love struck brother.
"Yes I'm picking her up at eight thirty." James replied.
"It seems you really like this girl. Just…be careful James." Jamie looked at her brother sincerely.
"Jamie I'm nearly forty! I'm not some academy boy with a crush on his math teacher!"
"I know that James! I just don't want you to get your hopes up and end up with a broken heart…again."
"Pyrrha is not Ozpin." James scowled.
Jamie sighed, "Whatever James. You should go say high to our guest."
James walked to the door, "Jamie I know you're just looking out for me, but I can handle myself." James entered the dining room. The room was a light blue with white trim. The table was rectangular and a dark wooden color. Ruby and Roman were sitting next to each other each with a plate of breakfast. In front of them. His friend Major was sitting across from them.
"Well Ruby what if you gave it an entirely new motor all together?" Maxine asked the young huntress.
"That wouldn't do any good. It's not the motor that's the problem." Ruby replied.
James cleared his throat "I see you've two have gotten settled in." James said.
"Oh. Good morning General." Roman greeted.
"Mr. Torchwick. Ruby." James returned. "What are you and Maxie discussing?"
"Told you not to call me that James!" Maxine scowled.
"Doesn't mean I had to listen." James challenged.
"Well to answer your question Ruby and I were discussing a way to fix Sam's weapon." Maxine said.
"You are?" James sat down across from Ruby. "What do you believe is wrong young huntress?"
"Well it seems that the chamber is working perfectly, yet it's not letting the rods through the barrels." Ruby held up a pistol like weapon that had two barrels, yet instead of shooting regular bullets the gun shot high voltage miniature rods into its target. "Also the motor seems to be working fine."
"Well perhaps it's what propels the rods that's the problem." James suggested. "What does it use air compression or a powder based explosion?"
"Well it's a slightly older model so it uses a controlled explosion to push the electric charges forward." Ruby answered.
"Well in that case-"
"Okay if you two are just gonna nerd over weapons I'm going back to bed." Roman kissed Ruby on her cheek before he left for their room.
"Yeah one can only take so much talk about weapon parts. I'm going to go see if Sam's back yet." Maxine too left.
"I see your friends also don't get weapons." Ruby said.
"They just don't understand that a good weapon can change everything." James sighed. "Though I'm not used to someone your age taking such joy in them."
"I've always been like this. Even before Signal I obsessed over the fine art of weapons." Ruby blushed.
"No need to be embarrassed, I too have an intense love of the beautiful art of combat and its tools." James chuckled.
"So you understand my love for this?" Ruby pulled out Crescent rose.
"Why of course! She's your baby. Crescent rose I believe is her name."
"Yep. My team thinks I'm insane for treating her like a child, but that's what she is. My big red grim killing child." Ruby smiled fondly and James couldn't help but return it. This girl was more than her innocent outward appearance. She was smart, powerful and had a calming aura around her that seemed to brighten a room. Tough why her physical appearance said innocent her silver eyes screamed determination, and had a glint that seemed to say "Try me, and you'll regret it." James could see why fate placed her with Ozpin and Roman.
Jamie stood in the doorway with her cup of tea and smiled at the pair.
Time skip to seven o'clock.
James came down stairs dressed to impress. He wore a dark grey suit with a light red shirt and golden button. He had his army medals display over his right arm.
"Well look at you General you sure know how to clean up." Roman complimented.
"Why think you Mr. Torchwick." James said strained his collar.
"Where are you going?" Ruby asked, taking in the general's appearance.
"To a gathering of highly important people. I'm sure if you were on speaking terms with your mate he would have brought you and Roman along." James answered.
"Roman maybe, but not me." Ruby said.
"Ozzie would have brought you along. Actually we had planned on taking you dress shopping yesterday but…" Roman said.
"He probably still wouldn't have taken me." Ruby pouted.
"Ruby why don't you think Ozpin would have taken you?" asked Jamie who was listening to the conversation with Maxine and Sam. All dressed in formal clothing.
"It doesn't matter…" Ruby mumbled.
"Ruby-"Roman said softly.
"It's nothing okay!" Ruby yelled.
"Ruby Rose! As a dominate I order you to tell me what's wrong!" James yelled back. James knew that as an Dominate if he wanted he could assert control over any submissive that wasn't near their fated dominate. He didn't want to order Ruby but he could tell something was bothering her.
"It's just…I'm just a little girl compared to all the other mated girls in beacon. It just seems that Ozzie and Ro would be better off with someone older. I mean who would want to be mated to an ignorant child." Ruby slumped in her chair.
"Ruby!" roman pulled his mate into his lap "I don't want to hear you ever say such a thing. You're not ignorant and you're defiantly more mature than half of those brats at beacon."
"Roman's right Ruby. I mean how many sixteen year olds do you know can wield a full scythe with as if it were a feather." Jamie.
"But, I'm not special. Ozpin is the headmaster for an important school. Isn't he expected to bring someone to 'show off'? I don't exactly fit the description. I don't even know how to dance properly."
"Ruby while it is expected of someone with a higher class standing to bring a worthy complain to social events that has nothing to do with their fated partner or partners." James explained.
"My brother's right. No matter your previous social standing you would have been accepted by most in the upper class once you were announced as Ozpin's mate. Which I believe he might have done tonight." Jamie.
"As for the dancing thing Red it's really easy to learn, or fake." Roman said.
"Fake?"
"Of course the criminal would know how to fake dancing." Sam snorted.
"Ex-criminal thank you very much." Roma stood and made his way over to Jamie. "May I have this dace Madame?" Roman mock bowed.
"Why yes I would Mr. Torchwick." The two proceed to twirl around the room appearing to be a complicated dance number, but if one looked closely you could see Roman was simply putting one foot in front of the other.
"Ruby would you like to dance?" Ruby turned form Roman and Jamie to see James extending a hand to her.
"There's no music." Ruby said and suddenly the room was filled with the sounds of classical music. Everyone turned to see Penny dressed in a short formal green dress, stand with a guard. She seemed to be emitting the music.
"There is now." James lifted ruby from her seat. He place her hands on his chest, and put one of his own in her back and the other around her waist. HE ignored the purr of content from Vedere. James proceeded to lead Ruby around the room carefully avoiding the other dancing pairs.
"General if I recall correctly you have to pick up your companion for this evening in thirty minutes." The guard with Penny informed them half an hour later.
"It seems it's time for us to leave." James told his sister and friends before turning to ruby. "You're an excellent dancer. Not once did you step on my feet." James told the redhead, getting a charming smile in return.
"Will you two be alright by yourselves?" Asked Sam helping Maxine put on her coat.
"We won't destroy your house." Roman rolled his eyes.
"I mean will you be alright without a dominate here?" Sam asked tone a little firmer making both Ruby and Roman tense.
"Sammie love they'll be fine. No one know that there are subs without their dominate here." Maxine said.
"Alright we'll be back late so no need to wait up for us." Jamie called leaving.
"Say hi to Ozzie for us." Ruby called behind them
"Will do little hood." James said before leaving with penny.
"Little hood? Do I even want to know?" Roman asked Ruby.
"Nope." Ruby giggled.
"Whatever you say. So how about we make some popcorn and put that eighty inch T.V to good use." Roman smirked.
"Can we have cookie to?"
"Why not." The two redheads settled down for a lazy evening.
Time skip to nine o'clock at a ballroom in the city:
"So how are Ruby and Torchwick doing?" Pyrrha asked her date. She was wearing a wine red floor length evening gown trimmed in gold. She had been brough to the part and introduced as the generals potential mate.
"They're fine. I had a slight problem with Ruby earlier but fixed it." James was enjoying his evening with his date who acted the perfect role for a general's compainion. She curtsied to the right people and acted poietly with manners and grace.
"You seem quite taken with Ruby." James looked at his date. Her voice portrayed no emotion but for a moment he though he saw a flash of jealousy in her eyes.
"Yes, my instincts have been quite protective of her since Ozpin formally introduced us." James dispelled her fears.
"Oh. Maybe she's a member of your soul family."
"Soul family? "James questioned.
"A soul family general is believed to be made up of people one's soul is connected to on a celestial level like soul mate but more of a paternal or sibling connection rather than romantic." The pair turned to see Ozpin standing behind them. He had slight bags under his eyes.
"Ozpin." James nodded his head.
"James I trust my mates are well?"
"Yes they're fine and Miss Rose told me to pass a hello on to you." James relayed ruby's greeting.
"Tell her and Roman that i-i. Tell them I said hello and I hope they are taking care of each other."
"Will do." With that Ozpin left the pair.
"He looks like hasn't slept lately." Pyrrha commented.
"Well that's the effects of harming one's mates. I just hope he fixes this before Ruby and roman are harmed. Especially Ruby I don't think she would handle it." There it was that flash in her eyes again.
"We shouldn't let this disturb our evening. Come let's mingle." The general lead Pyrrha over to some diplomats and the night continued.
Later the general went home with his sister and was greeted with the sight of the two mates cuddled on the couch sleeping peacefully. 'Ozpin you better fix this.' He thought as placed a blanket over the sleeping forms.
Another one finished! Well things are getting interesting huh? Also sorry for no smut but you must remember this story does have plot to it. So to answer a few questions Destiny Xavier. I can't put a full smut scene with them yet because their relationship hasn't got there yet. Also about Nora's mate they're coming in the next chapter! Any way a quick recap:
Mates
Ozpin-Roman-Ruby.
Jaune-Ren-Sun-Neptune
Weiss-Glynda
Yang-Blake-Junior
Maxine-Sam
Jamie-unknown
Nora-unknown
James-Pyrrha (maybe)
Pyrrha- James (maybe)
Cardin-unknown
Instincts:
Ruby: Ädelsten (German; Gemstone)
Ozpin: Bieg (Polish; Gear)
Roman: Viclean (Romanian; Sly)
James: Vedere (Italian; See)
Pyrrha: Dans (French; Within)
Cardin: Schen (German: Watching)
So there's a little guide for you. Hmm I wonder what cinder's been up too. Oh well we'll see soon. Any way hope you enjoyed and remember reviews make writers happy.
