I...*Sniffle*...Don't own RWBY...
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"Love tears hearts, shatters minds, and breaks lives. But when it breaks hearts, tears minds, and shatters a life, that is when you can say you've truly loved and lived."
-Me-
"You see, when I was little I used to have Fairy Tale romances in my 'to do' list. It was when my first heartbreak came that I learnt that life is like a Fairy Tale afterwards; only, it's twisted, the kind of Fairy Tale the hero doesn't get the girl in. That was when my eyes opened."
-A friend of mine-
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"You know, Ozpin, I've wandered around your school for nearly two hours, and I haven't seen her yet." Qrow's accusatory tone didn't go amiss by Glynda, who shot him a disapproving scowl before softening when Ozpin spoke. Ruby was her main concern; she was like a lost puppy, and she was going to help Ruby find her way back, baby steps at a time.
Ozpin simply allowed his former teammate to vent steam, and sipped on his coffee as he did so- no one knew where Ozpin got his coffee; many a student and teacher had speculated his semblance was materialising coffee cups filled with steaming coffee out of thin air, but that later proved false; Ozpin was a part of the common folk- he had no semblance, and even though he did wish to have so, he did not feel envious for those with the destructive powers, those that could level entire cities and destroy thousands of homes, all because their power go to their once glory filled heads, their once heroic minds shattered by the illusion of their natural power and the wanting to gain more of it.
When Qrow finally vented his frustration, he took a large gulp from his coffee; Ozpin just eyed him curiously.
"Qrow, have I ever told you that you need to savour coffee, and not gulp it down like some sort of cheap alcohol?" Ozpin jokingly inquired, to which Qrow gave a wry smile and a chuckle in return.
"Yes you have, my friend, too many times to count." He gulped down more of his coffee, emptying the cup in one fluid motion. "...Now, onto the business at hand. I would like to discuss our agreement, Ozpin."
"What, pray tell, was this agreement, Qrow?" Glynda impatiently barked, causing Ozpin to almost drop his cup in surprise. For some reason, Glynda had been...edgier, that usual.
"Well...the deal was that he got to teach here, and see his niece, in exchange for him not telling her mother." Ozpin calmly replied, but inside he was hoping Glynda wouldn't explode with rage at the absurdity it possessed.
She merely asked another question. "Who is his niece?"
Ozpin turned to Qrow with inquiring eyes, to which Qrow just shook his head, indicating that he was going to answer the question, not him.
"You see, Glynda, my niece is the very same student you've decided to make your pet."
"My pet...?" Realisation dawned on her with the grace of a charging Ursa. "You mean Ruby!?"
Qrow just nodded. Glynda then frowned. "Do not call her a pet." Glynda said, almost pleadingly but the apprehension of a warning was there.
Qrow just inquired with his eyes, to which Ozpin sighed and took over, leaving Glynda to settle down lest she throw Qrow from the roof of Beacon. "Qrow, Ruby's a Faunus."
"Oh..." was all the man could say. He knew of her, but not of what she was. This next bit was going to get interesting then. "What kind of Faunus?"
Ozpin's eyes widened in surprise; his eyebrows hovering above the rim of his glasses. "You honestly don't know?"
Qrow went on defence. "How was I supposed to? I only just learned of her existence a few weeks ago, and that she was a Faunus just now." Qrow began to glare, but Ozpin placated him with his hands raised as if to calm him; it did the trick, as he quietly stewed.
Ozpin was wondering how to deliver the news; directly or bluntly? Well, there wasn't much of a difference in this situation.
"Qrow...your niece, Ruby, is the last remaining Wolf Faunus."
Just like that, as soon as Ozpin ended his sentence, Qrow shot out of his chair with a look of mixed pain and anger; both directed at himself for unknown reasons.
"She...She's Reaper, isn't she?" Qrow shakily asked, to which Glynda nodded her head and Ozpin sipped his coffee, as if that was a good enough answer for the now panicked man. "I need to see her. Now."
Ozpin, as if in the knowing on his old friend's feelings, nodded, finished his coffee, and grabbed his cane before leaving the office, Glynda and a fast-walking Qrow behind.
Destination: Team RWBY's dorm.
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"Look at her, she needs new clothing!"
"And I'm telling you, she's fine with what she has on!"
"SHE'S NOT FINE!"
"YES SHE GODDAMN IS!"
Yang and Weiss had been arguing like this for at least an hour, but Blake had stopped keeping track, tending to a shaking Reaper. Reaper had arrived at her dorm an hour ago, and this, somehow, made her the topic of her clothing, which caused Weiss to argue that she needed new clothes, and Yang to back her up saying that she doesn't and she's fine with what she has.
Blake was currently tending to a cowering Reaper, who was situated on her lap with her head buried in her raven hair. On the way to her dorm, Reaper had met with Glynda and declined the offer she accepted of moving into her dorm, saying she needed to get used to leading a team. Glynda just nodded and walked off to Ozpin's room.
B-B-Bla-Blake...?" Reaper's shaking voice came from her small place within her neck, and Blake was bubbling with rage at the two of them scaring Reaper. She had arrived with the pretence of getting to know her team better, but instead got a shouting match and Blake helping her cope.
Blake was a too reserved person, however, to stop them from arguing, and so, Reaper felt she had to do something.
Blake placed a warm hand over the back of Reaper's neck and pushed her away slightly so she could see Reaper's face.
She gasped.
Reaper's eyes, usually silver, were dancing on the edge of black, shaking this way and that. She saw a small grin rise to Reaper's lips, but she could see the fight Reaper was putting up internally. She saw the grin lower into a frown, only to rise higher into a smile, them to a grimace, and finally the insane toothy smile that she had quickly- maybe too quickly- compared with Reaper to being insane.
Reaper lost the battle to keep her sanity once more, and was now slipped under the blankets of its warm embrace.
Blake helped the insane Reaper to the floor, and Weiss and Yang stopped their shouting match.
Both looked visibly scared, Yang more so for good reasons.
"Now..."Reaper said slowly, as if talking to children. She suddenly tilted her head sideways, so sharply that Yang could hear her neck crack. Reaper suddenly did the same to the other side before gently tilting her head to one side like a curious child; an insane curious child with a grin that the Devil himself would be scared of."...Let's...ugh...calm down..."
Blake noticed the struggle was now external within Ruby, and went to help. She grabbed her by the shoulders and spun her around, staring into crazed black orbs.
But the thing that scared her was the length of Reaper's internal and external battle; she was fighting with her sanity and insanity. Her eyes kept flickering from black orbs to silver pupils, her grin faltering and rising again, but the worst thing? Her eyes conveyed both insanity and sorrow, both insane joy and normal fear.
But Ruby lost the battle, and began her signature laughter; it started low, as a chuckle, before it turned into a giggle, then a sniggering fit, then a full blown laugh, her eyes dancing around their sockets and her entire form bending over to laugh at the ground.
"We need to play a game!" Ruby shouted through her laughing fit, still staring at the floor. She then rose, still laughing, her entire body lolling to one side as if she were dead, her limbs swinging limply. Then she swung to another side, still emitting that nightmarish laughter, as Weiss and Yang could only watch on in horror and...Slight confusion. Had their shouting caused this? No matter, they just stared, shock pinning them in place.
Yang hazarded a question to the insane leader of hers, who was, admittedly, cute. "Um...W-What kind of game?"
Reaper stopped her limp swinging of her body and stood stock still, still laughing with that insane smile on her face, her sharp teeth showing as she began walking towards them. She stopped halfway and frowned- mockingly, of course- for a second before erupting into laughter again.
"We can play...a fighting game!"
"Ooohh, like Tekken?" Yang asked. This earned a small jab in the ribs by Weiss.
Blake tried to put on her most soothing voice, and spoke softly to Reaper. "Reaper..." Reaper swung her head to Blake before mockingly saluting her and falling to a fit of giggles again. "Is this game going to be violent?" she asked sweetly, hoping Weiss and Yang got where she was going.
Reaper paused her laughing for a minute, as if to think, before giggling again. "Yep!" her insane laughter filled the room once more.
Blake spoke again, realising that Reaper responded in this state with calmness and sweetness. "Well, don't you think that maybe you should go to sleep? It's been a long day and you look exhausted." She tried, but Reaper just bent at an odd angle, her body bent almost ninety degrees left with her head tilted so she could see Blake upside-down.
"I don't need to sleep!" she began laughing again, titling from left to right, then bending backwards so she could see Weiss and Yang- both clearly shaken by what they were seeing- without turning around. "Do you two have a game we can play? Can we go hunting? Can shoot someone!? Can we stab something!?" She then stared, almost patiently at the two, waiting for an answer.
"W-Well...we could..."Weiss was about to give up already, before she spotted Blake staring at Reaper while she was bent over. She saw Blake's eyes drift to Reaper's chest, then back to the ceiling where they seemed to take some sort of interest in the cracks it contained. "How about we play 'Sleeping Beauty'?"
Reaper looked generally curious, even in her insane state. "What's that?" she then began giggling, though it was restrained this time, almost forced but not quite. It seemed that reasoning also got her to listen. Her smile was still as wide as ever, and it still gave off that feel of insanity, though, and her eyes were still dancing around, focusing on one thing for at least a micro-second.
"Well..." Yang started, but found herself unable to. That crazed smile was something she was sure to see in her deepest, darkest nightmares and the laughter... well, that would be everywhere she went now. She cleared her throat. "Well...it's a Fairy Tale..."
Somehow, the prospect of a Fairy Tale caught Reaper's already divided attention. "Fairy Tales...? What are you, five!?" Reaper burst out in laughter, and Blake giggled to herself at what she said. Reaper, albeit insane, was quite the funny person, it seemed; Blake hasn't even giggled in at least a year, so this was surprisingly refreshing, and it brought up reminiscent times of happiness...before she abandoned Adam. She shook her head to rid the memories approaching her, and turned her attention to the keeled over Ruby, who was once again laughing at the floor.
Weiss huffed, completely forgetting who she was talking to and what state she was in. "Well, I'll have you know, Reaper, I used to be called a lot of Fairy Tale names-"
Reaper laughed again, her eyes spinning in their sockets while she looked at Weiss. "Like Ice Queen!" she exclaimed, and Yang burst in to tears laughing along with her, holding her sides as she did so; Reaper seemed to calm down, even in her insanity-induced state, and her laughter turned into giggles. Her grin was still its usual scary length, her sharpened teeth glinting in the soft reflection of the outdoor sunlight.
Weiss just huffed, but a small smile played on her lips. She had to admit; Reaper was, even though she was insane, a fun person to be around. This revelation only served to make her feel even guiltier of when they first got acquainted. She shook her head, almost violently, and smiled to herself again.
She noticed that Reaper was calming down, and Blake wrapped her arms around her and brought her to Blake's bed, where Reaper promptly fell asleep.
Weiss noticed Blake had Reaper's head on her lap and was idly stroking her hair as she read from a book- no doubt one of her romance books. Contrary to popular belief, Blake's books were simple romance stories with the occasional M rated material, but other than that they were legit books, as she had so argued the first day they met; Ninjas of Love...just the title said it all. It had ninjas, which fell in love, the end. That was it for Weiss. The title, to her, said it all.
She looked at Blake, who had her hand entangled with Reaper's soft red and black hair, and noticed the two wolf ears.
Despite her proper behaviour, Weiss walked over and sat on the opposite end of Reaper, where her feet were and she carefully scooted over closer, almost but not quite beneath Reaper's curled feet.
"Blake..." As Weiss whispered this, she thought she could see Blake's bow twitch. She just put it down to the craziness of today. Out of the corner of her eyes she could see Yang plop down on the floor next to the window and trace small lines on the wall; it was amazing what the blond brawler could do to keep herself occupied.
After waiting a minute for Weiss to continue and finding nothing else, Blake sighed, closed her book and ran her hands through Reaper's hair, which got her a satisfied growl.
"Yes Weiss?"
"Well...you like Reaper right?" Weiss herself wasn't sure where she was going with this, and the expected answer to that came.
Blake's cheeks lit up slightly and she smiled as she felt Reaper wriggle to get closer to her unconsciously. "I'm...not sure where you're going with this."
Weiss just sighed awkwardly. "Yeah...I'm not quite sure myself." After a minute of silence, Weiss spoke up again. "So, you like her, right?"
"Yes..." Blake tentatively answered.
"And you're all protective of her right?" behind her she could hear Yang getting up with a sigh.
"...Yes..." This time her answer was more of a question, as if asking where this was going.
Before Weiss could say anything else, Yang angrily spoke, keeping her voice low for Reaper's sake. "She's askin' if you wanna date Reapy McLoony over there."
Blake's face lit up and she mumbled her answer quiet enough so no one could hear and just loud enough so that they could be called words.
Weiss leaned in more. "Sorry, what was that?" she knew the answer though, and although on the surface she was happy, below, deep down in her ice cold heart, she was anything but.
"I said...!" Blake almost shouted, but kept it borderline. For a minute she felt Reaper shift herself as if to wake up, but thankfully to them all she didn't. "...Yes..." she whispered, but this time they both heard.
Yang, surprisingly, just smiled instead of her usual teasing and just patted Blake on the back as she walked over to her. "Well done, you admitted your feelings! So, now what are you gonna do about it?" she glanced at Reaper, then back to Blake. "She isn't exactly the most stable of people, you know..."
Blake seemed to be thinking for a second, but her mind was made up in the forest when they first saw each other. "Well...I'll just tell her I want to be more than friends, and I'll sort of...guide her through the whole relationship thing."
Weiss turned her head sharply to her. "And if she doesn't want to?"
Blake just sagged her shoulders, hands no longer moving in Reaper's hair. "Well...I'll just be a good friend to her then."
Before anyone could get anything out, the door knocked. Yang shot up and plastered on a cheery smile, before skipping over to the door and throwing open the door. Her tone, though, was anything but cheery; it was filled with confusion at the visitor- more of visitors- at their dorm.
"Professor Ozpin?" she was utterly perplexed; why was Ozpin here and who was the person with him?
"Hello, Miss Xiao Long." Glynda answered from behind the two of them.
"Um...not to be rude, but what are you doing here?" she inquired, and Weiss ha dot shake her head at the aggressiveness of the question; if anything, it sounded rude and annoying.
Qrow spoke up from behind the two. "Well...I'm here to see my niece. Is she in there?"
"Uhuh..." Yang was completely brain dead now- Ozpin, her head master, was here with Glynda Goodwitch, and now some guy was claiming to find his niece? To top her day off, Reaper had gone insane due to her and Weiss' fighting? This day was getting...well...odd. She was going to have a bath later, get the knots out of her neck...relax and maybe fall asleep later.
Weiss turned up next to Yang shoved her brain-dead body aside. "Move dunce!" she coughed politely and turned to look at the man. She saw the red flecks at the tips of his head and recognized him almost immediately as the man that turned up earlier in that limo.
"Sorry...now, who is your niece? I'm sure we can direct you to her." It was all said with practised politeness, but there was gentility within her voice.
Qrow smiled politely back at her, his grey eyes shining with genuine relief. "Well, her name is Ruby."
Weiss seemed to search her head for a second, before nothing came up. "I'm sorry sir, but there isn't anyone in this school by that name..." She turned to Ozpin and saw him casually sipping his coffee, as if watching the events of this meeting between Weiss and Qrow unfold. Glynda just had her head in her hands and was shaking it about roughly.
"Oh, right, I guess she hasn't told you her real name." Qrow said with a hint of sympathy in his voice.
"Real name...?" Weiss was completely confused now; maybe she was going brain-dead like Yang?
"Her real name is Ruby Rose, but you know her as Reaper."
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