Chapter 6
RWBY is owned and created by Rooster Teeth, and Monty Oum,
not me. If I did own RWBY, there would be blood on the weapons when they hit someone.
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The tip of crescent rose was deflected to the right by a minimal amount of gravity, it's wielder slid past, leaving rose petals in her wake. Ruby Rose recovered quickly, transforming the weapon back from 'war scythe' mode as she skirted around her sparring partner at hyper sonic speeds. With the remaining momentum, she horizontally spun the scythe, forcing her opponent to blast herself back.
The horizontal spin was turned into an overhand swing that halted at the hip, allowing Ruby to fire off four shots with the 'sniper' part of Crescent rose. She raced the last shot, knowing that a force field poised to deflect bullets is useless against an object that's already on the ground.
Weiss Schnee was not so easily defeated, and recently thought up a defense against all high-speed objects, but it's untested. Her 'regular' force fields are hemispheres that have a significantly higher resistance than its surroundings. This causes objects entering the bubble to be forced into the ground. People can still enter this bubble. The new force field is a hemisphere with less resistance than its surroundings, causing projectiles (and hopefully hypersonic dolts) to be refracted upwards.
As expected, Ruby was pushed into the air… by a few inches. They both stumbled, rolled and skidded to the edge of the arena. Ruby ended up on top, but the length of Crescent Rose was useless when your opponents are close enough to kiss. Weiss tapped her partner's throat with her blade. "Like I said, I won't go easy on you, no matter the circumstances."
Ruby blinked, sensing the double entendre in the heiress's words. She stood up, pulling her secret girlfriend with her. She cracked a small smile and responded, "Don't worry, I won't hold back either." This is how we express their feelings. "Now let's fight right handed!" She switched so her non-dominant hand was on the trigger.
Weiss also switched hands. "Challenge accepted."
The heiress was promptly knocked off her feet. As she pulled Weiss onto her feet, Ruby said, "Yang and Blake are going off to do whatever they do when settling gambling debts, uh can we mm-" She was flustered, her cheeks getting closer to her cloak. Finally deciding on the suggestion, "Shall we get some air?" The two of them where already sparring again.
Neither of them were strangers to speaking indirectly. Ruby learned from her less – legal exploits, and Weiss grew up in the Schnee household. Sometimes, high society is downright savage with their hidden insults and veiled threats.
They were both in the bind, blade against blade. Weiss acted first, making a wind dust glyph below her partner's feet, causing the same lack of friction used in air hockey. She was able to push Ruby back and followed up with a jab. Her opponent, however, was fast. Ruby practically teleported to the side and used the leverage of Crescent Rose to perform a disarm, sending Myrtenaster behind her.
Weiss, backing away, discretely cast a few glyphs on her rapier, drawing from a small vial up her sleeve. Finally responding, she said, "I accept." Myrtenaster spun through the air, glanced off Ruby's aura, and landed in its wielder's hand.
They continued their sparring for a while, Weiss was revealed to noticeably better at dueling.
Trying to get in the first hit instead of fighting until aura depletion helps with those situations where anti-aura dust is involved.
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Later:
Ruby set down the large picnic blanket that she had borrowed from team JNPR. As she looked off the edge, something occurred to her. There were no doors to the balcony, and carrying Weiss while wall running to the top of a tower? Maybe Weiss could use a glyph... aha. Ruby remembered that anyone can manually draw glyphs with dust, it's just utterly useless on the battle field. The Schnee semblance is just so incredibly powerful because it creates perfect glyphs quickly.
The power of technology will show the way! The young huntress pulled up her scroll and searched for some very simple gravity dust runes. The theory behind runes was complicated, a field Ruby had never delved into before. Of course, all she needed was the shape, and which spots to 'charge' with aura. She pulled a gravity round and her multi tool from her belt and jumped off the balcony. There were still 2 hours before the date. Plenty of time to draw on the ground.
After a few minutes of botched glyphs that sent her flying, weren't strong enough, or simply fizzled and pushed weakly in all directions, Ruby found a rune that pushed things steadily to the height of the balcony. (Good thing gravity dust is not explosive like red dust.) After testing the dust, it's time to figure out what to bring - to the kitchen! Most people wouldn't expect, but Ruby is a skilled cook. Of course, Yang and Ren are almost godlike in the kitchen, and the younger girl is easily overshadowed.
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Blake glanced at Yang's abs, then at Sun's. Those glorious, glorious muscles. Truly, she could never pick between either of these blondes. The best part though, she doesn't have to. She took a sip of Stardust coffee.
"And then Neptune shackled the killer, and that's how we became junior detectives. We have badges, so you know it's official." Concluded Sun, taking a sip from the cup held by his tail. "So, what has your team been up to?"
"Ozpin sent us to take out an entire horde with team JNPR…" Yang and Blake quickly told their less interesting story of how they scythed through the grimm horde, leaving no survivors. "At the end of the battle, I lost a bet and must go through that, and Ruby has a date."
"Don't worry, I'll be gentle." Purred Blake.
Sun laughed. "It's not really that bad, we ended up doing the same thing last week.", he said, consoling yang.
"It's not that, it's just obvious that Ruby will sneak out to her date while we are occupied, and we won't be able to check on them." Groaned Yang.
"Who is she dating anyway?" Queried the monkey faunus.
Yang glanced around. She whispered, "Ruby is very serious about nobody knowing, they even threatened to get their weapons involved to keep the secret."
"Let's do it right now, that way we have plenty of time to spy on our leader." Blake prompted.
"Alright, let's do this." Yang confirmed, finishing her coffee.
As the trio left the café, Blake glanced up at beacon tower, and winked.
…
The sniper on top of beacon lowered her scope. Good work shadow. Now to get Weiss…Phase 3 initiated.
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Weiss stepped into the gardens, scanning the area. Nobody. Then she saw the petals drifting to the ground. She followed the trail around some hedges and to a fountain. Ruby perched on it's edge, wrapped in the blood red cloak. Weiss tried to stem the nervousness as she glanced about, then called out, "Ruby!". But got no response. She came closer. "Ruby?"
Ruby sensed something and looked up to Weiss standing on her side. The hood fell, revealing a set of headphones. She leapt up and immediately pulled her partner into a hug. "Weissy! You're here!"
That's when Weiss heard it: -the day we're waiting for, this will be the day we open up the door-. "Ruby, Is that…"
"Hmm?" Ruby pulled down her headphones, allowing Weiss to hear it clearly. -your absolution;
Hope you're ready for a revolution-
I thought she was a classic rock person?
"Let's go." Said Weiss.
"Follow me."
The pair left the garden and approached the tower. Ruby activated the rings of black powder she had left on the ground, steadily pushed them upwards- like an elevator.
"When did you learn how to use dust?"
"…I make my own bullets…"
"I mean- when did you learn Glyphs?"
"Just now! You just have to *technical explanation on various shapes, frequencies, and line widths that go into glyphs*"
If only that dolt (genius?) payed attention in class, she would be unparalleled. "Hmf. You are going to have to spend a lot more time using glyphs before you can say you know anything… Time you should spend studying."
"Ah, we're here.", said Ruby as she hopped off the force elevator. Weiss followed suit, used to invisible platforms. The 'balcony' was more of a wide ledge that circled the tower, as it didn't have any railings, or doors. A basket lay in the center of a blanket.
"Are we allowed up here?"
"Shh, look."
The kingdom (Roughly the size of Egypt) lay before them, from the villas in 1st class district, the internal forests, to the walled off ruins. This is a view few have seen before; a view Ozpin regularly takes in with 'Coffee'.
"Thank you, for showing me this…"
Ruby was adjusting the scope of her rifle. "Look through the scope, we can see everything that happens from up here!"
Weiss was intrigued. She lay down next to ruby and peered through the scope. "Oh, there's the rest of our team- they seem to be searching for us. Ah, a white van full of guys wearing masks. Ruby, it's time to do our job." She rolled over, allowing Ruby to take the shot.
Ruby held up a few rounds "Cold Thorns."
In response, Weiss bound destructive 'drill' glyphs to the bullets with a quick motion. "Don't forget their getaway car."
Ruby deployed her silencer. After making the proper calculations, a click sounded from the chamber, and a bullet sliced the air. After a second, it made contact, leaving a gaping hole through the engine block. The driver dove out of the van, but there was no explosion. The bolt was pulled back, and another shot disabled the sports car that rolled up to the entrance.
"You're beautiful." Weiss pulled Ruby towards her.
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Ozpin walked around the curve of a balcony, 'coffee' on hand. Then he saw Weiss on top of ruby, a cookie clutched in her hand. They seemed to be Sharing - mouth to mouth. He calmly observed,turned on his heels, and strode away, concealing his footsteps. On the other side of the building, he chuckled. And Goodwitch wonders why we don't have separated dormitories by sex. People often forget about Remnant's bisexual majority. He drained the cup. I expect that Weiss will release her emotional repression that has gone as far as to affect her growth. She also the one who can make Ruby study. I ship it. He finished his cup with that thought.
A/N:
So, it turns out that Romance isn't really my specialty. That's why I got stuck, then forgot about this story for 2 months. To be expected, as I never even met someone that I'm 'interested' in. It even got to the point where I faked having 'crushes' to get my parents off my case- A lot simpler than explaining philosophy.