AN: So I'm going to start out by saying sorry. I know this fic is not very popular, but I still fell kind of bad for making you wait this long. Either way I also need to say that I wont be able to update every weekend (Life amiright!). Anyway, remember to review!
Ruby was having a great time! Having climbed the fence, she was jumping and climbing over everything, running to the top of the building and "Ricolaing" to the sleeping city around her. It was the most fun she had by herself in a long time. She didn't want it to end because she felt like she was on a real adventure! Not one of the fake ones she would go on with her friends, but a real one like the ones Yang would read to her before bed, the stories about shining knights, beautiful princesses, and horrible monsters. Those were always her favorites, and now she was on one of her own... minus shining knights, beautiful princesses, and horrible monsters. Or at least she hoped there were no monsters.
"I got to remember to show this place to everyone back at school someti-" Ruby was cut short by a shearing pain on the back of her head.
"What was that you little, rat?" asked a commanding voice from behind her "Tell someone about this place? He he, I don't think so!"
"Wh-who are you?" said a very dazed Ruby Rose, more than a little frightened.
"Who am I?" responded the strange man. "Don't worry your little head over it, you won't have one soon enough anyway."
Ruby, starting to regain her balance, turned over to see the man in front of her. He was short and plump with pretty ragged clothing, and he smelled like he didn't even remotely understand the concept of hygiene. She also noticed he had a hammer strapped to his belt; he did not look like a construction worker so she assumed that he must be a thug.
"Hey!" yelled the man. "You still with me, or are you trembling with fear! Muahahaha!" Ruby was definitely nervous about this guy. He didn't seem overly threatening, but she still knew she had no chance against him, but it seemed that he had not noticed she was a girl yet. She could use that to her advantage. So with the best manly voice she could muster, which was better than you may think, she said:
"Hey! Who the hell do you think you are!" The man, obviously surprised by the now standing person's bravado toward him, looked at Ruby shocked.
"Da' fucked you say to me, little boy?" the man retaliated. "I'll pound your face in!"
The man, now enraged, came at Ruby with a slow pace, and Ruby realized her plan did not work so she darted around and away from him. Her hood must have blown off at some point because she heard the man yell a few obscene remarks directed from her back.
"Get back here you little brat!." The man yelled, but it was getting fainter.
When Ruby was sure she had lost him she stopped behind a pillar. She had no idea she had run down as many floors as she did, but she could certainly feel it. Her legs burned with a passion that forced her to sit down, she was panting pretty badly too.
'I hope that's the last of that guy.' She thought. 'I need to get out of here, and fast!'
"Hey! Where'd ya' go ya little brat!" came a very winded and angry voice.
"Uh oh" said Ruby to herself as she turned to see the man coming closer to the pillar she was taking solace behind. Unfortunately for Ruby though, the man saw her and immediately started picking up speed toward her. She ran out from the pillar and the chase was on again.
Eventually when she thought she was through and her legs were about to give out, they did, but not in the way she thought they were going to. Instead, she realized she had run full force into a man. He had a long black-leather jacket on with its hood up. The jacket reached his ankles and was over a black t-shirt. He had black cargo pants on as well. He was also wearing a fabric bracelet around his wrist that was tattered and dirty, and she could only barely make out that it was at one time white.
He, unfazed by her hitting him, just looked down on her with obvious irritation, and walked around and in front of her. He was facing the now still man who, by the look of him, was very confused.
"Who the hell are you?" asked the thug.
"I should ask the same of you, attacking a girl half your size? No, scratch that much less than half your size." The man in black said with a slight chuckle.
"That's it! You're dead now, punk!" Retorted the thug with a menacing glare.
The thug unlatched his hammer from his belt and charged at Black, she couldn't think of anything better to call him currently, and before he even breached half the distance between the two, Black was behind him. The thug turned around with a grunt of frustration, clumsily swinging his hammer as he did so, but it was too late. His unconscious body fell with an audible "thunk" on the floor.
Ruby was both horrified and relieved at the same time. On one hand, this hooded man just saved her life, but on the other, he was worse than the thug! Ruby didn't know how to react to this man or this situation? Should she thank him for helping her, or continue to run for her life? He was so fast, though, it puts her usually speedy legs to shame! She knew she would never outrun him, instead she would face him, even if she had no chance and would surely be kill-Ruby was cut off by the now hoodless man kneeling before her and staring at her with blood red eyes.
"Are you hurt?" he asked
Wolf was staring at Red, who was obviously in shock, and asked again:
"He did not hurt you correct?" Wolf asked concerned.
He noticed the girls eyes start to dart around the room, obviously looking for an escape route, and tried to put her at ease.
"I'm not going to hurt you, it's alright." This seemed to settle the girl somewhat. So Wolf asked again:
'Are you all right?" This time the girl started to stand, so he did the same. When she was up Wolf could see her better. He guessed that she was about 8 years old, had black hair, and school clothes underneath her cloak, he found said cloak very familiar somehow? He also saw that she had beautiful silver eyes. He had only seen them on one other person before.
'Qrow?' Wolf questioned himself. 'She has to be related to him. I can't believe I did not see it sooner! That cloak especially!'
"Yea, I think I'm alright. Um, thank you…I think." She was visibly tense.
"What is your name miss?" Asked Wolf in the most calming tone he could muster.
"My name is…ummm…A-Amanda!" responded the girl, obviously lying. "Yep, that's me! Amanda…Amanda…B-Burns?"
"You're lying to me. Please don't do that, I really have no time for it." Wolf responded, still keeping his cool tone. "Now, what is your name?"
"The girl, defeated, gave in and told the truth. "My n-name is Ruby R-Rose, sir."
This, Wolf knew, was no lie. Hell, he knew the Roses probably better than she did, and she certainly had her Uncle's eyes. After all these years he never thought he would ever see a Rose ever again.
"Ummm, sir?" came the girls voice, disturbing him from his thoughts. "I told you my name, and it's only right you tell me yours.
Wolf, brought back to the present, figured there was no extra harm that could be done since she has already seen his face.
"You can call me, Wolf." he said, giving a little bow for effect. It seemed to make the girl a little more at ease and even make her smile. Wolf celebrated this inwardly as a small win.
"That's pretty lame." Ruby said, stifling a laugh.
Wolf feigned hurt and said. "Oh, you wound me so, Miss Rose!" This made Ruby smile which Wolf was glad to see. She had been through a lot in the last few minutes alone, obviously.
Of course, any relative to Qrow would have to be tough as nails, and Wolf could see Ruby was all that and more just by looking at her. He would not ask her about her family though, who can tell what she knows. If he were to tell her anything it would only give her more cause to remember him anyway.
"Well now that pleasantries are out of the way, what is a young girl such as yourself doing out in the most dangerous part of Vale, in the middle of the night, and alone of all things?" asked Wolf.
"Well…you have to promise not to tell anyone, okay?" the girl seemed a little worried, but Wolf, not knowing who he would tell, agreed.
"Alright, I promise. So wha-"Wolf was abruptly cut off by the girl who abruptly threw her pinkie in his face.
"Pinkie promise?" asked the girl, still looking skeptical.
"What is a…how you say… "pinkie promise"?" Wolf asked, very confused at the notion of using any external appendage for promising.
"What!? You've never done a pinkie promise!?" said an absolutely flabbergasted Ruby Rose. She legitimately looked like someone had just kicked her.
"Ummm…no." responded a still very confused Wolf.
"What the heck kind of rock did you crawl out of!?" yelled Ruby, almost sounding insulted.
"Hey now, I'm sorry I have bigger problems in my life tha…I'm not having this discussion with you. Just do it and be done, I'm begging you!" and so she did. They intertwined pinkie fingers and she retold the story of how she was forced by her sister, almost killed by a rat, found the lot, and how she ran into that psychopath.
"Well, that is quite the story you have there." said Wolf, with a bit of a chuckle slipping out. "I'm afraid playtime is over though, and it's time you went home. This is no place for children." Wolf put some sternness in that last sentence to try and help it hit home in the girls mind.
"Well I would not call it playtime, but…I guess you're right Wolfie." said Ruby with a bit of sadness seeping into her voice.
"Wait, what did you call me?" Wolf was totally taken back by that name she had called him. It was something he had not heard in a very long time, a lifetime really.
"Huh? Oh, Wolfie? Sorry I thought it was a nicer name than Wolf. Wolf sounds so mean and nasty. Wolfie is fluffy!" Said Ruby, with an incredible amount of excitement in her voice.
"Heh, yea…I guess it is." Wolf was immediately taken back to before that day, before all his problems started, before he lost everything...
So theres my dumb little "action" sequence ha ha, and the plot thickens a little! Hope you enjoyed it, but remember to review!