Ruby Rose, youngest sister of the Xiao-Long family was currently sitting at the Vet's office sniffling as she nibbled on what remained of her glorious cookie stash. Zwei had stumbled upon it and tore it to shreds and although Ruby had been incredibly upset about the whole ordeal, nothing was worst than having to make sure Zwei wasn't poisoned from all the chocolate chips he ate.
Two blonde figures were talking with the doctor as Zwei laid curled up in the younger of the two blond's arms. Ruby gazed up at the two blondes and each of them stared back.
Yang rubbed the small corgi in her arms as she looked at Ruby and gave a smile. "Don't worry Rubes, Zwei will be okay you managed to discover him fast enough that there will be no permanent damage to his insides." Yang gave the dog over to the young girl and she snuggled him.
"However to have a stash of cookies behind our backs... What punishment shall we deal you today sis?" Yang flashed a mischievous grin.
Ruby paled as her sister seemed to grow bigger with a menacing aura and glowing eyes when a hand was placed on the blond girl's shoulder.
A haggard man who seemed drained of energy spoke in a slow tone. "I think Zwei almost dying seems to be a punishment in itself, although we can ban cookies for a week."
Yang's eyes soften as she glanced at the man, her lips became a slight frown and she nodded, wiping away the brief set of emotions that appeared on her face.
"That's a great idea dad! Come on Rubes lets hurry home so I can throw away all the cookies." Yang teased.
Ruby sat frozen on the spot. No more cookies? How will she live? A deep sense of dread filled her as she thought about how the week will go without her one true savior.
The series of images that popped into her mind already sent her mind reeling and she clutched her head.
"Nuh uh, I won't let you! How can you do something so horrible Yang!" Ruby pouted and she moved to run as fast as she could to the house.
Something deep within seemed to awaken and with a burst of speed Ruby tore out of the office in a burst of rose petals.
Ruby had to save her savior. One wouldn't think of cookies when thinking of saviors but to Ruby Rose it was the thing that melted away the pains of school and social awkwardness. It allowed her to forget that people were big jerks and that she wasn't just a kid. It brighten her day and no one was going to take that away from her.
Ruby moved as her surroundings became a blur, rose petals scattered to the wind and soon she was speeding down the path that lead toward her own home.
She threw open the front door and kicked off her shoes, else Yang will nag her about it later and force her to clean up the mud she trekked in, and she arrived at the kitchen to see a man with the cookie jar in his hands. The man raised an eyebrow at the young girl but to Ruby who saw the jar it was all that was needed for her to see red.
With a great cry she dashed forward to wretch the jar from the man's hands but he simply lifted it out of reach and smirked at her.
"Whoa there Ruby you're not going to say hello to your dear ole uncle after he took the time to come here?"
"Cookies! Don't you dare throw them away! I need them!" the young girl cried and the older man raised a curious brow.
"And what, my dear niece, has caused such a craze? I won't give em back till you answer me seriously." A hand smacked the man in the face and he growled.
"Look, we can talk now or we can talk after I trash these circles of sugary death."
The threat to her cookie's existence was enough for the young reaper to stand stock still as she pouted at the older man.
"Not cool drunkle Qrow, not cool."
"But I'm you're uncle. I'm always cool" Qrow smirked and he patted Ruby on her head and she struggled to escape from his grasp.
"Look, explain to me why you were home in such a rush. I just got a call from Yang about this training thing I "promised" to do." Qrow made air quotes when he said the word promise and then under his breathe he whispered.
"Must have been while I was drunk." and Ruby perked up.
"Training! Yes! We are to find a weapon for me as well I want to be a Huntress!" Ruby started to buzz with excitement as she threw out all of her worries cookie related as the prospect of training with Qrow filled her mind.
"Where should we start first? Should we work on stances? Oh! Oh! How about we find some problems and fix them up? Yeah! Saving the people sounds like something ah huntress should be doing?" Ruby was zooming here and there as she daydreamed about the epic life that awaited her. Finally she could follow her awesome mom and be just as awesome as her.
"Whoa there, slow down Ruby. If we're to start anywhere we'll start with the basics. We have to first find out which style of combat suits you the most."
"Style of combat?" Ruby looked at her uncle, eyebrows raised and eyes radiating confusion.
"A style of combat is important, it is how you fight the Grim. You can't just expect to run forward and stab the damn thing"
"You can't?"
"Ruby... this is real life. Not one of your stories that your mother used to read you to bed." Qrow growled.
"I understand Uncle Qrow!" Ruby puffed up and Qrow could clearly see she didn't.
"You ready for this pipsqueak?"
"Yes Uncl... Hey!"
It was afternoon. That was what Ruby thought about when she stared at the amber sky. To be more precise Ruby thought it was probably sunset.
She'd love to head inside and eat dinner... if she could muster the strength to even move a finger.
Nearby her a man was leaning on a sword as he observed the younger girl sprawled spread-eagle on the ground.
"You suck at this." the man sighed and Ruby struggled to respond but her tongue felt like a sack of cement and refused to move.
She also attempted to move her hand up to give him the bird but her hand also refused to respond. Then again, it was probably better that she couldn't else her Uncle would have a lengthy talk of where she learned such a thing.
"Alright Pipsqueak, time to get you home and into bed so we can do this tom..." The hand reaching her froze as a noise came from the opposite side of the clearing.
Ruby managed to muster enough strength to turn her head toward the sound to see a large shadow lumbering out of the trees.
An Ursa, the plates melding into the skin as spikes protruded from the body. Its large paws crashed and made the ground rumble with each step as it moved. It didn't seem to notice the two humans as it went on its day but Qrow took a step back to reach for his sword and a small snap seemed to silence all noise.
The Ursa turned to face the noise and took into its sights the two figures not made out of negative energy and that was all it needed to give a ferocious roar.
Qrow cursed. Ruby assumed he cursed, the roar drowned out his voice. The huntsmen jumped back and grabbed his weapon and surged forward with a kick off the ground.
The Ursa responded by rearing up onto his hind legs and slamming down on the man who diverted the attack and sliced the leg.
Ruby found the energy to pushed herself up onto her legs despite her muscles screeching for her to just collapse and rest.
Behind her the two battlers kept going at it as one duck and dodged while cutting the beast while the beast was using its immense power to reshape the landscape with each missed attack.
Ruby limped over to the nearest tree to get out of the clearing as intense combat happened behind her and after a mighty roar and thundering steps. Ruby finally made it to the tree and that was when she saw the shadow.
"Look out!" a voice screams and Ruby whirled around to see the Ursa ready to slam its paws down.
Everything became slow as her Uncle dashed forward, in his hands his weapon started to spin as it en-longed itself and the blade curved into a scythe.
The scythe rush forward as the swing clipped through the armor and the muscles of the grim and Qrow tackled the young girl out of the way as the upper body of the grim fell onto him.
Ruby sat paralyzed at the events that transpired.
She had almost died... Qrow saved her... Qrow pushed her out of the way and the beast fell on him... THE URSA FELL ON HER UNCLE!.
Ruby moved over with haste, as much as she could move with her tired body but she moved over to her Uncle's figure with his scythe by his side.
This weapon cleaved the Grim? It chopped the full Ursa into two... it was a powerful weapon... something that could save lives in an instant. Something a Hero would use.
Ruby's mind turned back to Qrow and he groaned from under the mass of negativity.
"Qrow! Uncle! Are you okay?" Ruby bombarded the poor man with question after question of his health.
He groaned and opened one eye to look at his adorable niece all safe and sound and he was happy that nothing happened to her.
"Ruby... I'm fine... get off me!" He growled, more so from pain than annoyance.
Ruby jumped back as she saw the figure of the grim dissolving into nothing and the man moved to get up.
"Uncle Qrow... That. Was. Awesome!" Ruby cheered and promptly collapsed when her legs couldn't support her anymore.
"I want a scythe!" Ruby declared from the ground and Qrow glanced at her. "Scythes are difficult weapons to use... and someone with your stature shouldn't be able to wield one." Uncle Qrow explained.
"I don't care... I want one." Ruby pouted.
Qrow just took a deep look at Ruby's adamant eyes and he sighed and popped open his flask and took a drink. "Fine fine, I'll order the parts. Lets get training."
Its been a few weeks now and Ruby started to get better at using a pole-arm weapon
The actual parts haven't came in yet but Qrow had put together a mock scythe with a wooden pole and curved weights.
Currently Ruby was sitting on a bench as she and her uncle took a break from their weekly training regime.
Ruby wiped dirt and sweat from her brow as she tore the drink from her uncle's grasp and chugged it down without a care in the world.
"Hey there Pipsqueak, you should slow down before you choke yourself." Qrow hummed and he took a swig from his flask.
"You can't choke on water!" Ruby made to argue but bits went down the wrong tube and Ruby spent the next few minutes hacking away as she attempt to remove the water from her throat.
Qrow didn't attempt to help her. Instead he took his sweet time laughing his ass off and slapping his knees.
As they both calmed down Ruby thought about how lucky she was to have Uncle Qrow teach her about her fighting style.
She picked up a sniper during Signal and she had already made plans to work it into the scythe she was getting.
Think of Qrow, there was that strange thing that Yang had said to him before.
Something with dots and numbers? What were they? dot seven? dot six? Maybe she could ask her uncle about it. It wasn't like it was a secret... was it?
"Uncle Qrow? I got a question to ask you? Ruby asked the man next to her and he finished his drink before giving one lazy eye toward her.
"Sure thing squirt, go ahead!"
"First, I'm not a squirt. Second what does Dot Six mean?"
Qrow gave her a look. It screamed that he had an idea of what it was but he wished to hide it... like how she hide her cookie stash. "Dot Six? Where did you hear that from?"
"Yang told you on the phone the day before we started training!" Ruby explained and Qrow put a hand on his chin.
"Where did she hear that from?"
Ruby thought about it for a bit before she realized the answer came up as a blank. Now that you mention it, Yang had this weird change in behavior ever since that day. She seemed more reserve, less interested in the boy at school and more into training.
Sure she still cracked the puns and still was an annoying older sister and she still went out to those weird social parties that she like to attend.
"I don't know where she heard it from. I just know she said it to you when she asked you to come train me." Ruby stated.
Qrow gave a nervous laugh that Ruby failed to pick up. "Come on squirt. Training is done for the day.
Ruby jumped up and cheered before she went toward the house, eager to play with Zwei. Qrow watched her closely before he made to take off. He had someone he had to talk to.
Is that a nevermore? Is that a bullhead? Its Falcon coming down with an authors note for you all.
Hello! chapter two of this the quest to find out if Yang is a time traveler slowly unravels. I was conflicted if I should include a special Qrow interaction but I decided to remove it in favor of letting the mystery remain.
What is Dot Six? did Ruby miss something? Who does Qrow have to talk to? What might happen next chapter. You'll find out next week when this fic is updated.
Regarding an update schedule I currently have two fics I want to update on a weekly basis.
My Sister is a Time Traveler? on Tuesdays
and
Duality on Wednesdays.
If you've never heard of Duality, then its a fic for the My Hero Academia fandom which features Tokoyami coming to terms with having Dark Shadow inside of him in a world which rejects people with powers. Basically X-men.
Enough talk. See you next week!
Next Update- 7/3 (Expected)