Ruby was back in her team dorm waiting for her team to get back from shopping. But to pass the time Weiss said she could play her Xbox, after hiding GTA 5. Which Yang appreciated from the gaming heiress so Ruby decided to check out Lightning Returns Final Fantasy XIII. Ruby was an FFXIII fangirl, having a costume of Serah Farron from the first two games and at home she had a neck lace like Lightning's one she had in the game. But she could not bring herself to finish the first game, and repeatedly rage quit the second one, so she decided she would experience the third one.
When she entered the game Ruby discovered she was placed in a combination of forest and farmlands. Ruby looked around in awe at the graphics and monster and the creatures
"CHOCOBOS!" she squeed as she saw the bright yellow bird that looked like a cross of a chicken and an emu, All rideable. Like Blake and Weiss Ruby had a large collection of plushies. From Wolves to Teddy Bears, her biggest plushie was her Bright Yellow Chocobo plushie, with a chick plushie with it. She loved Chocobo. She even named one of her pet chickens Choco. So here she was playing Final Fantasy.
She explored the area and attacked the enemies which were weird blobs of jelly, weird tree winged things, small white penguin like goblins, all of them she dealt with using the schema Weiss had preselected, which were the costume based off of previous Final Fantasy characters like Yuna, and Aerith. She used the FFX-2 costume to cut down the jelly like monsters before switching to the FFXIII costume to take care of some of the goblins. She also discovered a White Chocobo.
"Ah, A white Chocobo, I didn't know they could be white!" she exclaimed before moaned "I just sounded like Vanille"
It was a little later when she discovered the customization menu. Ruby looked through the costume when she spotted the default costume still had a empty colourization slot
"I'll mod this one" Ruby said as she changed the pockets to Red and the Lining as Black and everything else as White. After she had changed the colour Ruby paused before slowly selecting a weapon called Overture, which once she did, started to tear up, because what she had just did basically made Lightning Farron from Final Fantasy look almost like her mother Huntress Summer Rose, who she and Yang lost a long time ago.
"Mum?" she asked as tears started to trickle down her cheeks before she started to cry.
"Finally, we're back, but seriously Yang, did you have to by six different bras, why not just get two?" Weiss asked
"Hey each one I got have a specific purpose, such as a sports bra, formal bra, two everyday" Yang said as she unlocked the door and walked in to see a crying Ruby.
"RUBY!" Yang shouted running over to her sister and snatching her up in a warm and loving hug. Weiss and Blake also came over showing concern.
"Ruby, what's wrong!" Weiss said
"Mum" Ruby whimpered
"Mum, Hey what brought this on?" Yang asked stroking Ruby's hair softly
"Shit" Blake cursed seeing the screen
"Blake?" Weiss asked leaving the sisters alone for a while
"For years they were rumours that various hunters were the inspiration for the different characters of Final Fantasy. And one of the rumoured names was a huntress by the name of Summer Rose, and the character weapons were based off of the weapons the hunters used" Blake said
"So what?" Weiss asked not really getting it
"Yang, is this what your mother looked like?" Blake asked indicating the Lightning on screen
"Yeah, kind of her hair was a dark red and her eyes were silver, but that's basically mum" Yang sighed
"Ruby's feeling of losing her mother must have been triggered by it" Weiss said turning the system off.
"Come on Ruby, let's get you some cookies" Yang said softly leading Ruby off.
"Okay" Ruby sniffled being led out.
"Dammit, it seem that something always happens to Ruby whenever she gets on your Xbox" Blake said pulling out a manga.
"I know, but what can we do, I doubt she'll ever have a normal gaming session" Weiss said downhearted.
"Why don't you play against her like I did?" Blake asked
"Yeah, but in what game?" Weiss said flicking through her folder. "She's into anime isn't she?" Weiss asked
"Yeah, why?" Blake asked looking at the game Weiss was thinking off. "I think she'll like it" the Faunus smiled.
"Cool, can you find her for me?" Weiss asked
"Sure" Blake said leaving the room, when she did Weiss saw something that didn't make sense. A pile of white rose petals on the floor right next to where Ruby was found crying.
"Huh?" Weiss asked looking around the room, to see an envelope on her desk. "Who left that there?" she picked up the envelope, to see it contain a note.
'Thank you for looking after my daughter. Summer'
"Ruby's mother? Could she be alive?" Weiss said looking around.
Outside on a branch a older looking Ruby smiled as she saw what good friends her youngest child had. Summer Rose then used her teleportation semblance to leave
"Ruby, Yang...I love you" her voice said as it travelled on the wind.