Chapter 2
The Dawning
Ruby stared at the screen before pulling out her cracked scroll. "Do you have a spare scroll laying around?" Ruby asked fanatically.
"I believe that we do Miss Rose, if you will give me one minute to get you it." Ozpin stated before walking over to one of the many cabinets in his office. He returned with a scroll that was quickly yanked from his hands. Ruby quickly disassembled the cracked one and the new one and put the old one's hard drive into the new one before reassembling it. "What are you doing Miss Rose?" Ozpin questioned while watching with slight interest.
"Confirming a suspicion that I have." She stated before pulling up her transcript file and handing Ozpin the scroll. It showed the last time that it had been updated on the day of the Vytal Festival before the attacks started. The information matched the previous one but was different in the aspect of her father which was listed as Taiyang Xiao Long. Ozpin gave a look of shock at the date that the scroll had its information had been updated and the fact that Ruby's father was different.
"Well, this is quite a predicament. What do you plan to do now Miss Rose?"
"Well, seeing as I never planned to jump back in time and to a different dimension, I have no clue. " She replied blandly while staring at the sunset before yawning. "Probably get some sleep, it would be a nice change to sleep in a real bed."
"If you want, you may stay in one of the spare teacher's rooms but I recommend that try to avoid Qrow's room as you look so much like the late Summer Rose that it would break him." Ozpin offered as he walked over and grabbed a spare master key to allow her to get into her room. Ruby froze upon hearing that Qrow was a teacher at Beacon instead of being at Signal.
"Qrow is here?" Ruby gasped.
"Was he not a teacher in your dimension?" Ozpin asked confused. "After all he is one of the we have here."
"No, he was a teacher, but he taught at Signal Academy." Ruby meekly replied. She sighed before grabbing the key and started walking towards the elevator. "What room will be mine?"
Ruby woke up the next morning on her couch and thought back on the last twenty four hours. She pulled out her scroll and looked at the time, 56 am. She sighed before getting up and started to get ready for the day. She had her first hot shower in the last year. She looked around the room and found that a set of clothes that looked similar to the school uniform lay on her bed. She quickly dressed in it before picking up her cloak, old and tattered, and folding it up and putting it on the table. She than walked out of her room and to Ozpin's office while avoiding the look that some of the teachers were giving her. She heard a voice coming from around the corner that caused her to freeze. "Glynda, I need to see Ozpin right now." It was Qrow. Ruby cursed her luck and peaked around the corner.
"As much as I wish that I could, Ozpin has requested that no one is to go up there this morning as he has a meeting that he has to take care of." Glynda shoot back while looking at her scroll to try to determine who Ozpin was having a meeting with but was immediately meet with security clearance blocking her out. She groaned in annoyance before seeing Ruby out of the corner of her eye and turned towards her, Qrow also turned towards her. "Who are you?"
Ruby cursed her luck even more before stepping out into the hall and started to walk towards them, both with a look of shock at seeing the woman that looked so much like Summer Rose. "Summer?" Qrow choked out as his eyes started to water from seeing a person that looked so much like his late wife.
"I am sorry, but I am not Summer." Ruby replied sadly to Qrow before turning to Glynda. "I best be heading up now, if you will excuse me." Ruby stated while walking past the still shocked Glynda. Ruby entered the elevator right as Qrow managed to snap back to his senses and she watched as Qrow ran towards it to try to get answers. She gave him a sad smile right before the door closed and the elevator started to go up to Ozpin's office. She sighed and tried not to think back on the look on Qrow's face. She sighed as she walked out of the elevator when it stopped in Ozpin's office and sat down in front of his desk.
"So Miss Rose, have you thought of what you plan to do now?" Ozpin asked while drinking some of his coffee and gestured to a cup of coffee that sat on the desk. She picked it up and took a sip of it.
"I don't entirely know, I was expecting to either go down fighting against Salem or to die than. I didn't have anything planned besides to save the world." Ruby began to ponder on what to do now that she was in a different dimension. "I may go and fight against Salem again but I fear that that will just create an endless cycle until I die of me hopping Dimensions."
"You could always come and work here at Beacon." Ozpin offered as he stared at her to see her reaction. Ruby stopped cold when he said that and looked him dead in the eye.
"Would that really be okay? I mean, what would I even do here?" Ruby questioned as she thought about what would possibly be soething that she could teach.
"Well, you are one of the most seasoned huntresses now due to your time travel, dimension hope situation. Why not take over combat class for Glynda? Your expertise would be much appreciated as someone who has mastered many weapons." He replied while looking at the sword on her side and her scythe that lay in it's compact form on her back. "May I ask where you acquired the sword from?"
"I got it from an old friend, but that is not relevant right now. I will take your offer on teaching combat class for now. When do I start?" Ruby asked as she stood up while Ozpin gave a smile before reaching in his desk and pulling out a list of students.
"Why right now Miss Rose, you better hurry or you will be late on the first day you teach." Ozpin laughed out as Ruby dashed to the elevator after taking the list and set off for her class. Ozpin turned around and stared off in the distance as he debated how this new piece would fit on the board and how Remnant would be affected.
"Good Morning Team RWBY!" Ruby Branwen Rose shouted at Weiss, who had been sent rearing to the floor from Ruby blowing a whistle in her ear. Ruby sent her team a grin before moving towards the door.
"What are you doing and where are you going?" Weiss shot at Ruby while giving her a glare for the rude wake up call.
"I was waking you up as class starts in an hour and you should be getting ready to go. As for where I am going is to get breakfast, I will see you at class. Bye." Ruby stated as she quickly turned and slammed the door before heading towards the cafeteria. She was going to meet with some off the people she had become friends with when her father had taken her to Beacon to do training last year. She entered the cafeteria and let out a grin upon seeing her friends. She quickly ran over and engulfed the first two into a hug, "Velvet, Coco! It's so good to see you again!" Ruby gushed out as the two girls grinned and returned the hug. However, as they were letting go and Ruby sat between them, the cafeteria became quiet and everyone was staring at the entrance. Ruby followed everyone's glance and noticed Ozpin talking to a woman dressed in a black cloak and a modified version of the school uniform from what she could see, that had her back to Ruby. Because she was both curious and still need to go back to get food, ruby stood up and walked over to the two people. "Good morning Professor Ozpin, who is this?" Ruby questioned when she made it to the duo. She noticed the woman tense at the sound of Ruby's voice before starting to walk over to get some food.
"That woman is the new combat teacher here at Beacon, you all should met her later today when you have her class." Ozpin announced to the students and than turned and walked out of the room. Ruby quickly used her semblance to rush over to the woman and tried to get her attention. "Good morning Ma'am, I can't wait to take your-" Ruby stopped cold when the woman turned to her. The woman had silver eyes that pierced the soul, blackish red hair the went just past her shoulders, nut most importantly, looked just like her mother, "Mom?" Ruby whispered out while trying not to start crying. The woman just gave her a sad smile and shook her head.
"I am sorry Ruby, but I am not your mother." The woman apologized before grabbing her food and started heading to the door of the cafeteria and left. Ruby quickly and silently rushed back over to her friends and latched on to Velvet. The tears were starting to flow out of her eyes as she buried her head into Velvet's shoulder while both Velvet and Coco attempted to comfort her.
Out in the hall, the older Ruby made her way to her classroom and set her food on her desk before dropping to the floor in front of her desk and started to think how she would explain who she was to Ruby and Qrow about why she looked like Summer. She sighed and got back up and used her semblance to finish the meal in a second and started to get things set up for her class. She wouldn't want to fail on the first day.
Well, there was chapter 2, hope you enjoyed. I plan to upload once every 2-3 weeks, next chapter will hopefully be up by Christmas but no promises. All comments are appreciated and help improve me, s don't forget to leave one. Anyways, Tuxedo Mask Reborn out/