Ruby Reacts to Blood Rose!
A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! The heartwarming of the last couple of chapters drained me of everything but the desire to HORRIBLY MENTALLY SCAR RUB-
I'm kidding. Nah. Would never do that to poor Rubes~ She's adorable! And anyway she got broken already, what with the whole 'mom disappeared when she was a kid' thing. Also, this is the wrong series for that crap. Go read a horror fic or something if you want broken Ruby. :P
Aaaanyway, a shout-out to Rapey Lemons, the author of Blood Rose, for allowing us to do a chapter on this amazing fic. Go read his work, it's far better written than this crap.
DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise we'd have PMMM shoutouts in RWBY (seriously has nobody else seen the Yang/Mami shipping potentials?!).
Blood Rose belongs to Rapey Lemons. Warning: The fic, should you chose to read it, is INCREDIBLY dark, gory, violent and contains a LOT of disturbing subtext. I take no responsibility for any mental scarring or nightmares caused by reading of this fic.
All mentioned properties and characters belong to their respective owners.
Ruby was sitting at her desk, twiddling her thumbs and fiddling with her Santa hat. It was the second day of the new year, and she was STILL waiting for the copy of Pokémon Omega Ruby she'd ordered for Christmas.
"The backlog must be immense..." The reaper noted, sighing as nobody had yet come to her door telling her there was a package. She decided to grab her picture of herself, Yang, Yin and Taiyang, taken together just this Christmas Day, looking at it fondly. She giggled, looking at Yin's embarrassed expression while being squished between her husband and daughter, as well as Yang's winking face, holding two fingers up over Ruby, who was waving at the camera.
"Oh, mom..." Ruby giggled. "...I've got to call her later and see how she is..." Sighing fondly and shaking her head, the girl turned on the computer.
"Might as well see if there's any good fanfics that updated..." Ruby booted up her account and went straight to the DustFiction archives.
"...huh...must be a slow day. Hardly anything's come up..." She noted to herself, frowning.
Suddenly, Blake climbed through the window, grunting, hauling a sack of tuna sandwiches behind her and slipping herself into the room, saluting Ruby. Swearing and cursing could be heard from below, and an explosion sounded off in the distance.
"'Sup."
Ruby didn't even flinch. "Hey, Blake. The usual?"
"Eh." The catgirl shrugged, throwing the sack onto her bunk. "What'cha doing?"
"Just trying to find something good to read." Ruby commented as Blake walked over to her, grabbing a chair to sit next to her with.
"Wait...what the heck? I have so many messages!" Ruby's eyes widened as she saw the pileup of ten messages in her account.
"Wonder what those are all for?" Blake inquired, munching on a tuna sandwich. "Open one."
Ruby nodded, complying with the request.
"Huh...Blood Rose?" The reaper tilted her head, curiously. "I wonder what that could be about?
"Okay, this fic sounds suspicious." Blake mused, rubbing her chin. "The title sounds manly, but if it's what I THINK it's about, it's probably-"
"About me as a vampire!" Ruby declared proudly, snapping her fingers. "Of course!"
"Exactly what I was thinking." Blake chuckled. "Vampire you HAS to be badass! I mean, you're already badass, but..."
"Yeah, this looks like a good fic. Still...I wonder why they didn't say anything about the plot..." Ruby said to Blake. "Was it because they thought it might be too obvious?"
"Probably." The catgirl shrugged. "Let's read it!"
Just then, Weiss walked in, stretching and exhaling deeply. Ruby turned to wave at her.
"Hey, Weiss!"
"Good morning, Ruby." The heiress smiled at her, pulling a chair out to sit next to her. "So...what's going on?"
"We were just about to read this one fic called 'Blood Rose'." Blake explained. "I think it might be about Ruby being a vampire."
"I'm pretty sure someone recommended that fic to that Elf pervert..." Weiss muttered. "Even so...I'm curious now. Vampire Ruby?"
Ruby nodded, giving her a enthusiastic giggle and smile. "Exactly why we're going to read it!"
"I don't want to read it anymore..." Ruby shuddered, having read the first chapter. She was staring wide-eyed at the screen, almost frozen in shock.
Weiss could only feebly mutter "P-Pervert...", herself horrified at the first chapter.
Blake, on the other hand, scoffed dismissively.
"I've seen Elfen Lied. This is nothing."
Moving to the mouse, she moved to the next chapter, before looking to her companions.
"Oh come on, you two are a bunch of lightweights." The catgirl scoffed.
"B-but...s-she just..." Ruby shuddered, shaking her head.
"A-and..."
"Oh, come on. Ruby, you blow Grimm up every day, what the hell is so scary about this?!"
"Grimm- okay, Grimm that isn't Cerberus or Edgar..." Weiss finally spoke after several minutes, looking around to see the tamed Beowolf Blake owned look up at her, whimpering slightly and going back to playing with Zwei, yelping in fear at the smaller dog's bark.
"...anyway, Grimm that aren't Cerberus or Edgar aren't exactly struggling under us as they get essentially violated."
"It's a fic, Weiss. I'm gonna read it, but if you two want out, it's okay. Besides, I'm too manly to get scared by this."
"U-um...o-okay..." Ruby nodded slowly. "I suppose I can..r-read it with you.."
"You're SERIOUSLY going to go along with her?!"
Blake shrugged. "See? That's my little badass there!"
Weiss stared at her, dumbfounded. "H-hey! I'm the only one allowed to call her pet names, i-idiot!"
The catgirl shrugged again. "Just read it, we have a chapter to make and a duty to the fans."
"I swear, you are such a weird person..." Weiss exhaled deeply, but turned to the screen.
"Fine, I'll read it. You're never going to stop teasing us about not being manly if we don't."
"You're perfectly free to leave." Blake corrected her. "I'm just saying, it's a fic with blood in it. We've read stuff like this before and watched stuff like this before."
"She has a point." Ruby nodded, breathing deeply and looking to Weiss. "So, next chapter?"
Weiss sighed irritably. "Still can't believe we're definitely reading it..."
With that, the girls began to tumble down the path of the dark fic, beginning with the second chapter.
...
All three girls had the same idea.
"Ruby did it."
"I did it."
"Ruby's as guilty as sin."
"Hey! Blake!"
Blake shrugged. "Sorry. Still, I'm betting Ruby did it."
"You think?" Weiss drily commented. "The fic's called Blood Rose."
"I kinda figured out I was behind it when I- actually, this is confusing me." Ruby shook her head hastily. "Okay, I figured out it was crazy-me when crazy-me started asking all these weird questions and stuff about Velvet's accident. And she was way too unconcerned, too..."
"Also, the fic's called Blood Rose."
"Never know, it could be about Adam." Blake shrugged. "He's got this whole rose thing too."
"But Blood Rose, and Ruby Rose." The heiress explained, sighing. "What are you not getting?"
"Eh. Next chapter!" Blake declared.
Ruby looked at the screen again. "Hey, did anyone notice that thing at the beginning? I think it was crazy-me who was supposed to be brooding there. I think..."
"Guilty as charged." Blake declared as they read about psychotic Ruby attempting to finish the job on Velvet. "Also, damn, you got owned!"
"Well, that's to be expected. It's Velvet." Ruby shrugged.
Weiss shuddered at the thought. "If that Velvet was anything like our Velvet, Ruby would be a smear on the floor by now."
"Point taken." Ruby nodded slowly. "I'd probably be a pretty fine smear...still, pretty awesome how Velvet took down crazy-me."
Weiss then cringed at Blake's somewhat indecent actions in the story. "...Blake...you pervert..."
"T-that's not true at all." Blake shook her head hastily. "I-I just think of Yang as a friend! That's all! A very...pretty...friend. I-It wouldn't be manly!"
"Right, I believe you." Weiss sighed, secretly noting down Blake's insecurity for later- if she was right about her hunch, then the sheer amount of revenge possible for the time she pined after Ruby was irresistible.
"Good."
Ruby changed chapter and skipped down. "...oooooh, Yang and Blake~"
"W-what?" Blake looked at the part in question.
Said part, of course, was Yang and Blake doing very indecent things.
"...t-this is UNMANLY! I'd be on top any-I mean, I-I don't like Yang in that way!" The catgirl declared, with just a hint of red on her cheeks.
Weiss merely gave her an enigmatic smile.
"I completely believe you, Belladonna."
Blake saw her smile and her heart sank.
"...crap. Karma's getting back at me, isn't it?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, dear Blake~" Weiss replied in a singsong voice. "I'm merely telling the truth~"
Blake sighed in exasperation. Weiss, on the other hand, rubbed her hands together gleefully.
This was perfect.
"Well...that was...earlier than I expected." Blake blinked, surprised. "I'd expected him to hold Ruby's whole 'I butcher people and get off on it' thing a secret for at least until the tenth chapter..."
"I don't know whether to hug crazy-me or get her arrested." Ruby shuddered. "Seriously, she does it because she wants someone to love her or something...but seriously, is eating people the only way to do it?!"
Weiss nodded. "Mhm. That…...got dark very quickly. Well, darker than it already was."
"Next chapter." Blake demanded. "I must see what happened to psycho!Ruby. Now!"
"Okay, okay." Weiss grumbled as she changed the chapter.
...
"...how were you capable of surviving ten trained Hunters AND a pair of King Taijitu?" Weiss raised an eyebrow.
"Luck and plot armor." Blake quipped. "I'll bet you anything this person has absolutely no idea she's living with a murdering cannibal..."
"What in Oum's name..." Weiss shuddered, reading the author's notes. "...so...Ruby's got a gore fetish AND- oh, Oum help me, I think I MIGHT be sick..."
"You're not alone..." Ruby didn't seem all too fine herself. "...I knew this would be dark, but..."
"Babies." Blake shrugged.
"H-How are you not disgusted?!" The heiress looked at her in disbelief.
"Elfen Lied, Parasyte...oh, and I grew up around a Grimm. And I LOVE horror movies." Blake chuckled. "And don't forget, I'm also ex-White Fang. You SERIOUSLY think this stuff scares me?
Pfft. I'm too badass to be scared by this."
"...badassery doesn't preclude...nausea..."
"You got that right..." Ruby muttered. "J-just get to the next chapter already..."
Blake sighed, but complied, reading the chapter while the other two recovered.
"A doe Faunus nurse who se- yep, she's dead." The catgirl noted. "Seriously, how many 'too good for this sinful earth' flags did you have to trigger?"
"H-how can you tell?" Ruby inquired, swallowing as the last of her nausea left her.
"This is a dark fic. This 'Alys' girl is innocent. A freaking DOE Faunus. And she takes a complete maniac in out of the kindness of her pure heart." Blake said, tapping her fingers with every point. "Excuse me, that's just waving a huge flag saying "hey plot murder me now"!"
"You never know, maybe she's a badass in hiding." Weiss shrugged. "I'm pretty sure you have those in your repertoire of badass archetypes."
The catgirl shook her head. "Doubt it. She doesn't seem like a badass pacifist type. Or a badass in hiding type. She'll be dead before the story ends, I'm telling you now."
Ruby looked somewhat worried. "If that's the case, awww...I kinda actually liked that character."
"Welcome to darkfic land, Ruby." Blake announced. "Although...those poor soldiers..."
"He got away from a nest of those things without dying?" Weiss stared in surprise at the screen. "Well, we know why he's the leader of the Academy Guards."
With that, the girls advanced to the next chapter.
"...wow, Ruby. You JUST met her and you did...that...with her already?" Weiss' eyelid twitched.
"Weiss, quit being jealous of the fictional soon-to-be-dead girl." Blake scolded her.
"I-I'm not jealous!"
"And why would she be jealous?" Ruby glanced at Blake. "Instead of a psycho Ruby, she has adorable, innocent little me~"
Blake scoffed. "Hardly innocent, Ruby. Your dreams proved that wrong."
The reaper blushed and stared at her. "Y-you-"
"Oh, Weiss...p-please..." Blake teasingly said, copying Ruby's voice. "I know what you think about, Rose, you can't hide from me. It's okay, perfectly normal- you DID grow up with Yang..."
"Pervert." Weiss smacked Blake on the back of her head, causing the catgirl to wince and glare at her.
"W-what was that for?!"
"Don't listen in to perverted things like that or you're no better!"
"You read yaoi manga. Shush." The catgirl waved her off. "Anyway...daaaamn. Ruby settled in quickly."
"See? Maybe she won't die!" Ruby said hopefully.
Blake laughed dismissively. "Doubt it. She's as doomed as a redshirt."
"Fifty Lien says Alys lives. And we have to read the WHOLE fic." Weiss finally declared, just to shut Blake up.
The catgirl smirked confidently, extending her hand. "Deal. If I win, by the way, you're buying me the new Ninjas of Love novel. I really want it- it's the one where Jigoro finally, finally, admits he's in love with Fujiko and goes into the shogun Haruo-"
The heiress shook it quickly to shut her up. "Fine, fine, you're on. Now shush!"
"Oh dear...looks like they might be on to story me..." The reaper noted. "D'you think they'll catch her?"
"Probably. Onto next chapter!" Blake declared.
...
"...as much as she is insane...I kinda feel sorry for story!me." Ruby frowned slightly, looking at the screen. "I mean...she lost her first love..."
"There's sixty chapters and technically they never said she was dead per se..." Weiss reminded her.
Blake scoffed. "Might as well give me the fifty Lien now-"
"NOT UNTIL WE FINISH THE STORY!" Weiss snapped.
"Just saying, Alys' survival doesn't exactly look fine..." Blake sighed. "So...that fight."
"Pretty brutal..." The reaper shuddered. "I can't imagine you guys doing that to me...and you wouldn't, right?"
Weiss shook her head, staring at her as if she was a fool. "Never! You're my girlfriend, you dunce!"
"You're not exactly a psychopath, and we're not exactly a bunch of idiots who'll turn on you instantly." Blake scoffed. "But if you are, just so you know, I WILL sick the Gurren Lagann on you."
Ruby shook her head, chuckling. "No need, Blake, I think I get it..."
"Good. Just so we're clear, Ruby, no eating people. Or killing them. Or you get beaten up by a giant mecha."
"I...don't think I plan to-"
"Excellent, then I never have to use the Shonen Hero Protocol." The catgirl said frankly.
Ruby stared at her. "Y-you actually had a protocol-"
"I-It was for good reasons! A LOT of writers like making you crazy! I had to in case Elf did too!"
Weiss glared at her. "That's just absurd. Ruby's too adorable. And stupid."
"Hey!"
"But she's too stupid in a nice way! And good hearted."
"So's THIS Ruby..." Blake reminded her.
Suddenly...
"Hey, guys." Yang walked in, stretching her arms. "Oh. You're all reading a fanfic? What is it?"
"I'll take a bit to explain." Weiss stated.
"Eh. Go ahead." The brawler grabbed a beanbag and pulled it over to the rest of the team. "I've got time."
END
A/N: Next time, the second part. We've only covered 10 chapters, but let's see if we can manage 50.
So, I hope you enjoyed that, leave your ideas, reviews, comments, thoughts, suggestions and criticisms and I hope you have a GREAT day! Until next time!