Okay, lately I've been thinking about making a little side story about what Grim did when he was "The Grim Reaper". It might be a two part thing I'll do when I'm thinking about what I'm going to do for a later chapter. Without further ado, here's the chapter HURRAH!
Just Friends... Right?
Fire was exhausted, which was to be expected. He had swam for two days, fought Adam, got stabbed, and had barely eaten. Ruby almost had a mental break down when she saw the condition he was in. The rest of Team RWBY was shocked. What had happened to Fire while he was away? They knew he would be in pretty bad shape from fighting Adam, but he should have been completely healed by now. When they had finally managed to get him to the infirmary their clothes and hands where covered in blood, Ruby was crying, and Fire was barely breathing. The nurse had banned anyone from seeing him for at least three days. Because of the recent events concerning the White Fang and most of Beacon's students being hurt or mentally unsound at the moment, the Tournament had been rescheduled for next month. News of what happened to Fire quickly spread and everyone started becoming jumpy. What if what happened to Fire happened to them? They saw what they did to him and the few people that were with Fire at the docks when Adam attacked them. Blake still had a cast and was in a wheel chair, Penny had been killed (but was being repaired), Sun had his head nearly smashed open, and Ruby had lost her weapon and was always depressed.
After four days Fire had woken up. He looked at the clock. It was 4:04 am. He got up and looked around the room and saw everyone he knew, then he saw that Ruby was asleep in a chair next to his bed. He sighed, walked toward a window, and leaned on the window sill, poking his head out. He leaned back and looked over at Blake and saw her in the wheel chair. He felt horrible for what happened. If he had trained more, or told them to leave maybe he could have... He walked towards the door, but stopped. What was he doing? He would only hurt himself if he were to train. He sighed again and got back into bed. Tomorrow he'll have to train, but for now he'll rest. The next day he woke up and saw Ruby talking to Yang. He couldn't hear what they were saying, but he did hear his name a few times. "Hey, talking about people behind their backs is pretty rude." Yang and Ruby turned around and saw Fire grinning. "So, on a scale of one too ten, how much did you miss me?" Ruby tackled him, wrapping her arms around him. "Ruby... you're... crushing... me." Then Fire noticed she was crying.
"Don't ever do that again." Ruby said as she continued crying int his shoulder. Fire felt like he was going to throw up and his mind was a complete blank. He didn't really know how to handle this situation and was never really hugged... ever. So he decided to just hug her back.
"I-I won't." Fire was still a little shocked from the situation. Then he saw Blake and Yang taking pictures of him and Ruby with their scrolls. Yang thought Fire's face looked hilarious. His face was the reddest she's ever seen it and Blake just thought it was cute and loved romance. Fire, on the other hand, was getting annoyed. At least they're the only other people in the room. Ruby had finished crying and pulled away and saw his eyes were as big as plates and his face was redder than an apple.
"Um... Fire are you okay?"
Fire shook his head."Yeah, I'm fine." After a few more awkward moments that Fire didn't know how to handle he went to the cafeteria (after destroying Blake and Yang's scrolls). He sat down at the table he usually sat at and was enjoying a bottle of Cherry Cola until Team RWBY and JNPR crowded around him. Oh God. "So, now that you seem to be better... what happened?" Pyrrha asked. Fire sighed and told them the whole story (except for the clone part). "So then I "flew" back to Beacon and here we are now." Fire said, finishing his story.
"So wait, you can fly?" Blake asked, not believing a word that had just come out of Fire's mouth.
"Yeah, sure. If you don't believe me I'll show you after I'm done eating." After he finished his sandwich Fire walked to a clearing next to Beacon. He turned around and gave everyone a thumbs up as fire started to cover his body. He jumped into the air and started doing tricks to impress everyone. He was doing flips, making pictures with his trail of smoke, and so on. Nobody could believe it. Fire landed and was grinning. "Yeah, it's okay to tell me how awesome I am, and I am single if any of you ladies are interested." Yang pretended to barf and Weiss shot a fireball at him that just barely missed. After walking back to Beacon, Fire walked over to his "bed" and fell over. "Wow, that took a lot more outta me than I thought it would." Fire yawned and decided to relax by watching a movie. Yang had left with Weiss to go shopping or something, Blake left to go to the library, and Ruby went to the cafeteria for dinner. Fire was left to watch his movie in peace. He was watching a movie about a video game villain that wanted to be a good guy when Ruby walked in with at least eight boxes of cookies. Fire would make fun of her for her obsession but he was no better when it came to Cherry Cola. Ruby had nothing better to do so she sat down next to Fire (who immediately felt awkward).
After a few minutes Ruby decided to break the silence. "Fire, I'm sorry if this morning was embarrassing for you. Everything fell apart when you disappeared. Blake's leg and arm were broken, Crescent Rose was snapped in half, and everyone was sad and confused. I guess I just needed a shoulder to cry on."
"Don't worry about it, everything will get better at some point or another (I hope)." Fire was confident that eventually everything would go back to normal. Ruby leaned on his arm and put her head on his shoulder. Fire started to blush, he can't understand this kind of stuff! He doesn't know what to do in these situations! He was so confused. Why was Ruby treating him like this? It couldn't be love, Fire knew that for sure. He was annoying, cocky, insane, weird, and so on. Maybe Ruby is just sad and needs a friend... yeah, that's it. Fire yawned, it was getting late but he didn't feel like getting up. He started to doze off and he let sleep take him.
He wasn't in the void like he usually was. He was in a forest and there was snow everywhere. He looked around and saw a figure in a red hood kneeling at a cliff. He walked over and knelt beside the figure, imitating it mockingly of course. "Oh, you come here to pray too." Fire said with a smirk. "Yeah, praise Monty and all that BS that were a show on the internet, pffft people are crazy." The figure ignored him. Fire waved his hand in front of the figure. "Yoo hoo. Anybody home." No response. Fire reached to pull back the hood, but the figure nearly chopped his arm off with... wait is that Crescent Rose? The figure looked at Fire, revealing it was Ruby. "Oh, this makes sense now kind of." Ruby stared at him with dead eyes. "Yeah, nice talk. So, wanna go do something that isn't boring?" Silence. Fire was starting to get annoyed. It's like he was talking to a wall or something. Fire got tired of trying to get her to talk, so he picked up some snow and started molding it into a sphere. Ruby had started to walk away, but was hit by a snow ball that had gotten her in the arm. "Hey!" Ruby complained, but Fire merely threw another snowball at her. Ruby ran behind a tree as Fire started throwing more snowballs at her. He was about to throw another until he got nailed in the face with one. Fire quickly built a small hill out of the snow to give him some cover. Ruby giggled as she got him again. This went on for a while until Fire looked like a snowman. He raised his body temperature, melting the snow. "See, isn't that better than ignoring me?" Ruby nodded. "What are you doing here anyways?" Ruby asked but Fire merely shrugged. "I don't know, I' in a lot of pretty girls' dreams." Fire realized what he just said and started blushing. "Not that I think you're pretty, I mean ,er, you are pretty but I just um." Fire sighed. "Never mind." He looked down at the ground in defeat when Ruby walked over and hugged him. "Thanks." She said. Fire's face started turning redder, but he returned the hug. The dream started to fade as Fire woke up. He looked over to his right and saw Ruby had fallen asleep on his shoulder. He smiled and leaned back, enjoying the moment while he still could. If only it could always be like this.
There, I did something HURRAH! I've been writing this for a few days trying to put it all together. Hopefully my little romance filler thing wasn't to bad. Whelp see you later Camp Fire out.