RWBY: Tinted Silver AU

by superslug2000

Cannon divergence AU, in which Ruby Rose is a part of Ozpin's web of saboteurs, covert assassins, and secret agents from the beginning. She, and a few other agents, get called to Beacon Academy by Ozpin, as he suspects that something is plotting and lurking nearby. Ruby also gets a request from Winter Shnee. Don't worry. I won't kill Pyrrha.

5. Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Molten silver and icy blue slid open to meet, only a few inches apart, thought processes identical at that moment. They both basked in each other's gaze for a second, Wait, what if yang sees this?! They both shot up and dove for their weapons when they heard the click of a camera shutter. Blake watching this, grinned. Yang started laughing and exclaimed, "Nice reaction!", having caught the dive and their stance for the deadly team attack - Iceflower.

"Delete photographs. Now." Growled Weiss.

"Or we delete your scroll." Said Ruby, shifting the barrel of Crescent Rose.

"Alright." She made a show of pressing the delete button. Fortunately, she already has backups, those are some good pictures, velvet would approve.

"This is serious Xiao Long, if my father gets a hint, I will end up getting shipped off to Atlas…" Weiss sighed, then said, "just tell no one and we should be fine.", blushing lightly.

Ruby lowered her scythe as what just happened finally processed. Her face suddenly matched her cape. "Weiss… did we? How did I end up on the lower bunk?" She asked, stumbling.

The Ice queen started moving closer to Ruby and hugged her "It's okay".

"Awww." Cooed Blake.

"No." She shot back, then whispered "Get us out of here."

Ruby picked up the heiress bridal style, then leapt out the window. Bumbleby instinctively rushed for the window, forgetting that most students at Beacon are strong enough to brush off any fall. They looked down, only to see the pavement below.

"They've gone and eloped...my little Rubysh grew up so fast."

Blake raised an eyebrow, and said "I doubt that, they are both too young to get married in vale."

Her semblance compounds nicely with her special ability as one of the fastest ways to travel on Remnant. In only a few minutes, she would be out of Vale; the laws are different outside the kingdoms."

"They are on the roof, they haven't left yet."

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Two huntresses watched at the vanishing stars, contemplating the nature of their relationship. "What should we do?" asked the scythe wielder.

"We could restock our dust and ammo, carry on like normal until it Yang stops tormenting us, but we both know that this strategy won't give either of us what we want." Stated the other one, who wielded a rapier.

"I know… Weiss…"

"Yes ruby?"

"Have we fallen in love?"

Weiss grinned, all the while blushing enough to put red stars to shame. Go for it Weiss, Ruby wants this, I want this. They both were watching each other's eyes. Remember what Winter told you… The heiress, in a sudden rush, was at Ruby's side, having managed to push her off balance, and into a dip.

Blood rushing in her ears, Weiss leaned in and pressed her own lips against Ruby's, relishing in the softness, the warmth that spread through the rest of her body. Their auras sizzled on contact, seeming to create arcs of plasma. They stayed there for a few seconds, just reveling in the close contact. She pulled back, and took in her partner's features. She responded to the initial question, "Isn't it painfully obvious?" Then, grunting with exertion, she pulled Ruby back onto her feet. Wow, she really is solid muscle… maybe we should forgo bunkbeds and share so those ropes don't break.

Ruby's blush was even brighter. She traced a thumb along Weiss's scar, then returned the kiss. this time it was slower, less sudden. Pulling back, she was able to calm down some, "… No one must know, right?" She asked.

It was Weiss's turn to be flustered. She had not been expecting that response. "Yes…"

"Can we still go out on dates?"

"Yes, but it must be completely hidden, our seem like we are just friends."

"Yay!"

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Ozpin took a gulp of hot ch- *ahem* 'coffee'. "Don't worry girls, your secret is safe." He muttered to himself. He always checked the hidden cameras in the early morning to make sure beacon is fully functioning and had not been overrun by grimm. He continued checking in on the rest of the students, most of whom were still asleep.

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"Yang, I've been thinking that we shouldn't torment them so much, they might really move to another kingdom." Said Blake.

Yang rested a hand on the door to the roof. She put a finger to her lips, then slowly pushed the door and peeped through the crack. Ruby was pulling away from Weiss's lips, whispering something.

"Shadow, what are they talking about?"

"Really, Punisher? We're using our code names?" Thank dust and ash that I'm not 'Catgirl'.

"We are sneaking about."

"Fine…"

'Shadow' listened for a few more seconds. "Ruby and Weiss, are together together, but both agree it should be a secret romance. They are planning to take each other out, and now they are heading back. Let's move", Blake summarized, not wanting to deal with the conundrum that is nested dialogue. They fled the scene.

"Take each other out…"

"Yeah, it seems they decided to die together. I'm sorry for your loss." Snarked Blake.

"No, this means that I get to give dating advice to Ruby!" Exclaimed Yang.

Blake gave an exasperated sigh.

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A few hours later, Beacon's library.

"Rennyy! Do we have to search this place?" pouted Nora.

"Yes Nora, if we can figure out how Ruby eats grimm, it would reveal more about the nature of grimm, what powers them."

"Can't we just smash them all?"

"I'll make pancakes."

Nora started drooling.

"You start on the left side of the Aura section I will start on the other side, we'll meet in the middle. Look for anything describing leeching, or unique auric traits. It isn't a semblance."

"For the pancakes!" yelled Nora

An inexplicable 'shhhhhh' came from all corners of the large library. For the pancakes eh? Ren started searching through various books, when he found something relevant, he skimmed through the index. Nora was also working through the books at top speed; most wouldn't expect very good book skills from Nora. They are wrong. Involve pancakes and Nora is good a everything.

After half an hour, he had found literal tons of books that that had some mention of aura leeching semblances, Semblances that stole the aura from kills, there was even an off-hand mention of someone who had such a strange aura that seemed to suck in energy from everyone in the vicinity, like a black hole. But they were all abilities that took power from people. Sighing, Ren opened his scroll. Maybe the Grimm Slayer's forums dredged up something useful.

Grimm Reapers

FlowerNinjaSenpai: I have noticed that a huntress in training seems to go through massive- hour long grimm exterminations without losing any aura, despite dealing with the high acceleration of her fighting style and extensive use of her semblance. I focused my senses and discovered that she gets energy from every grimm she kills.

This is not a semblance.

UrsaOilWrestler: She could have two semblances- the man with two souls managed to keep both semblances even after fusing together.

TheLegend47: Wow your girl is overpowered.

AdorableIcecreamGirl: …

R█████████: Look for something on heritable auric traits. Tell nobody what you find.

Azathoththeprimalchaos: *angry tentacle noises*

AdorableIcecreamGirl: *Evil French noises*

The forums then devolved into a growling match between mute and chaotic outer god.

Ren closed his scroll. The internet. Sure attract strange people. R█████████why is your name blocked out? He went to a nearby terminal and searched 'genetics aura' on its database. There was a massive tome sitting somewhere in the library titled 'Hereditary Auric Traits'. It turned out to be right in the middle of the huge section on aura.

He found the book, it wasn't easy to miss. At least 5 inches thick, on the top shelf. Nora turned the corner ahead of him, humming. "Oh, hi Ren!" she yelled. This time, an even louder 'SHHH!' sounded from the all corners of the library.

"Nora, I found something.", he whispered, "This book."

The orange haired girl pushed a sliding ladder over and climbed up. Ren looked up, then away. He really shouldn't be staring. She grabbed the book and climbed down. "Let's read then."

They flipped through the extensive introduction, explaining some basics of genetics, where exactly one can find Aura related traits. It took a whole quarter of the book, the subject matter would be interesting enough to real nerds that could understand this stuff, and the author knew to make the writing not as dry as many high level intellectual texts might be. After skipping through, they came upon a 10-page list of hereditary traits, listed alphabetically with a page number assigned to them. Most of them had the label of semblance, but a few were other abilities. The ironically named 'Kleben' bloodline, for example, has aura that is constantly slick, they are immune to friction. These non-semblance traits are extremely uncommon, and many are recessive. One name caught Ren's eye: Silver Eyes; Ruby has the silver eyes. He turned all the way to the page, a page that only had a few sentences: The silver-eyed warriors are not creatures of legend; they are creatures of myth. Such little is known, but we do have mentions of them in ancient texts. It is said that the Grimm die when the silver eyes are upon them. Other stories refer to thos with silver eyes are born killers, that can fight endlessly against the grimm, without using all their aura.

"Wow, Ruby gets superpowers."

"Yes Nora, and you get pancakes. Let's check this out, there is more stuff in this book." Like the Arc family.

"Even though this was just a library trip, I enjoyed this date. Boop."

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Ruby stood on the top of beacon tower, watching vale, sometimes using her scope to zoom in. Where should she take Weiss for a date? After taking in the best view in Vale, she reflected on Yang's advice.

…

"Can you give me any specific tactical advice? I've heard the general things before." Complained Ruby.

"Okay my young pupil… Weiss won't be impressed by expensive restaurants, and has already experienced the best- places that you can't afford." Said Yang, fingers poised to grab her sunglasses.

Ruby braced her mind, the puns, they cometh.

"Here's one idea, though it's too crazy for a first date. Spend the night in another kingdom, you are the fastest moving object on remnant. You can even go to vacuo and enjoy dates." Yang lowered her sunglasses.

Ruby placed a hand against her forehead, turned tail, and left for the window.

"Wait!", commanded yang, she grabbed her sister's hand. "Make sure you keep your nails trimmed. Though yours are fine right now."

"Yang!"

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Ruby Took In the view again. The best view in Vale… She jumped down to a balcony. Perfect.

A/N:

Please,

give me advice to improve my writing, thank you.

Now I'm setting up for the things that will be different in my au.

I'm going to use Ozpin's cane text art too cut to different scenes from now on. (It does have some temporal abilities) It's simple, and doesn't require all of those '░' characters.