The Shadow of Fire
Chapter 4: Puppy!
"You know exactly what I want, and I won't be convinced otherwise."
"Yes I know! Please stop overreacting!" Ruby groaned at her panicking teammate, rolling her silver eyes.
Weiss's right eye kept twitching, because as Ruby would speak, her tail would flicker around, her ears would move around, and her pointy teeth would become visible to the outside world.
"You're a Faunus..."
"Yeah..." Ruby said slowly, tilting her head. "You said that already..."
"You... How... You're a Faunus?"
"Weiss! I get it! I'm a hybrid animal-person. I GET IT!" Ruby exclaimed, her eyes slowly watering up. She had already been treated like an outsider due to her age, but with this... Cardin and his group would never leave her alone.
Weiss blinked a few times before quickly shaking her head, her platinum blonde hair rotating around quickly. "NO! No no no, that's not what I meant at all Ruby." Weiss said quickly, giving Ruby an extremely awkward hug. "I didn't mean that at all, you just misinterpreted me."
Ruby tried to blink back the tears that plagued her orbs of sight, failing miserably. Ruby suddenly began sobbing uncontrollably, the tears flowing out of her eyes like a fountain as she let out the most painful sounds of fear and sadness.
"Shhh..." Weiss said quietly, a pitiful attempt at trying to comfort the petit teen. Weiss rubbed Ruby's arms gently, trying her best to give a calm environment to Ruby. The young heiress thought for a few seconds before reaching for Ruby's ears.
The Schnee daughter attempted this action after recalling a conversation that she witnessed between her other two teammates, Blake and Yang.
"Kitty cat."
"Shut up Yang." Blake retorted, flipping a page in her novel, attempting to ignore the brawler and catch up on some much needed reading.
"Meow for me."
"No."
"Don't make this end in a "cat-astrophe" Blakey!" Yang joked, grabbing both of Blake's ears, causing the Faunus to freeze, instantly all anger subsiding from the Faunus teen.
"Blakey, be nice."
Blake started letting out meows in enjoyment, the feeling of Yang's fingers on her ears stimulated her body with warmth and comfort, making her feel safe. Yang saw that Blake had finally calmed her anger and slowly began to move her hands away from the cat ears.
Blake's own hands flung up to grasp hold of Yang's flinging the book across the room in the process. "No! Keep them there!" Blake hissed, the look of need and excitement was glowing from her Aura.
Yang gave a small laugh before succumbing to the Faunus's wishes, massaging the sensitive ears. "You'll do anything as long as I pet your ears." She said before continuing her assault on Blake's ears.
Weiss poked her head out of her covers and narrowed her eyes on the two, somehow storing the entire conversation deep within the core of her mind for unknown reasons.
As Weiss's fingers connected with Ruby's ears, the younger teen absolutely froze, her eyes ceased movement along with the tail.
"Ruby?" Weiss asked, waiting for the reacting that Blake had given Yang a while back.
The young heiress bit her lips slightly, suddenly taking in the pros and cons of this situation. The pros were very standard. For example, she could finally have a pet. Weiss had always dreamed of having a pet, but Geist was always looking out for any danger that could transpire among the Schnee estate and as the Schnee Dust Company owner, he had to protect his only successor. A puppy would be a "security risk" towards Weiss's safety and position as a heiress. Another great benefit was the squirt bottle she had bought for those hot summer days would have a new use in order to prevent Ruby from stealing any cookies from the "community" RWBY cookie jar.
Then the cons began to settle in, overcoming the pros. The major con was being a wolf. Even at such a young age, a "puppy" wolf stage at best, Ruby could do a large amount of damage. As a Faunus, real or genetically created, she could revert to her animal self at anytime. Weiss loved to read books about animals as a child but the one animal that she feared was the wolf, mostly due to the reading material at her age.
Upon reading a book about the life of a wolf, the young Schnee, 6 at the time, had witnessed page after page about wolf's hunting and ripping out their pray's throats for meals. To her knowledge at the time, all wolf's were evil.
A horrifying image of Ruby chomping down on Weiss throat instantly imprinted itself upon her clouded mind, adding to the fear and confusion that had already settled in.
"W-Weiss..." Ruby muttered out, her breath seemed rushed, as if she couldn't make any other words out.
"Yes Ruby?" Weiss asked, slowly moving her hands away from the ears. If she was correct about Ruby's wolf-mode, then this moment could be the end of her life.
Ruby's hands flew upward exactly as Blake's had all those days ago, firmly attaching Weiss pale hands to her ears. "Keep there no move." Ruby said, ignoring how grammatically incorrect her request was.
Weiss nodded her head and kept her hands on the teen's ears, slowly moving the tip of the ear in-between her thumb and index finger, causing small squeaks and pants from Ruby.
"You're just like a puppy." Weiss commented, scratching behind Ruby's right ear.
"Up shut, fingers good." Ruby replied, her tail wagging around at quick speeds. All signs of sadness were now replaced by happy chirps from the young redhead.
Weiss leaned forward a tad to continue her assault on the scythe wielders ears, her icy orbs locking with Ruby's own, which were looking off into the distance.
"Ruby?" Weiss asked.
Weiss got no response aside from Ruby's wagging tail. 'She must be in a trance...' The heiress's thought.
A thought came to Weiss's mind, a strange thought.
'She looks so cute as a wolf, exactly like a puppy. Wow... She is REALLY cute. Okay Weiss calm down... Wait... She can't hear me, and she seems to be in a trance... This is my lucky break!' Weiss thought quickly and looked behind her quickly, then to her sides for any cameras.
None, excellent.
Weiss inched her face forward, feeling Ruby's animalistic puffs of air from her throat upon her pale skin. Weiss's own face was burning a dark crimson. The young heiress allowed a small sly smile to expand across her face as she cupped Ruby's with her left hand, still massaging the ear with the right.
Weiss's lips were only inches away from Ruby's, all it would take is a swift motion forward and then what's done is done, no one would know, except Weiss's diary, well hidden within a secret compartment inside her pillow. Although uncomfortable, it worked. No one in the entire academy would even think about messing with her things, for everything the heiress owned was under the Schnee Dust Company's protection and not one person would be able to escape their wrath. However, she was determined to keep it hidden from any boys that were close to her such as Jaune and Ren... Well, they weren't THAT close to her. Weiss hadn't ever felt very close to any one before, much less a guy.
"Who needs boys anyway..."
Weiss tilted her head to the side and moved her far forward just a tad, only centimeters from those gorgeous lips...
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" Orion shouted as he crashed through the door that closed off the room back first. His godly body slammed into one of the medical cabinets a few feet away, the metal bending into a mold of his form. "What the fuck?!" He shouted towards the door.
Weiss jumped back, putting as much distance as possible between herself and the adorable mess that was Ruby Rose.
"Dang it Orion!" Weiss shouted at the mangled God across the room. "You have the worst timing. Ever. Of all time!"
"WHERE IS SHE?!" A female, and very pissed off, voice yelled into the room. Whoever it was had their Aura levels dangerously high, the powerful magic bending the metal around the door.
Yang walked in the room. Well, walked is a minor way to describe what Weiss was witnessing. As Yang's feet made contact with the flooring, the marble tile would slowly bend into a perfect mold of her footprints. The brawlers weapons, Ember Celica, was activated and ready for combat, her blonde hair was now glowing an orange-ish shade that was radiating Aura off her being. Her once calm eyes were replaced with red balls of death and bloodlust, hell bend on killing anything and anyone in her path to reach her goal.
And Weiss was right across from her.
Yang turned to face Weiss with the look of pure anger engraved in stone upon her face. "YOU!" Yang shouted at the top of her lungs, suddenly sprinting towards Weiss, her right hand positioned into a fist.
Weiss ducked and activated a large white Glyph to block the oncoming attack. Yang had no time to dodge the new barrier and slammed her fist into it.
The shock wave that was emitted by Ember Celica sent Yang rocketing backwards into a shelf of bandages and pillows, all falling down upon the teen, burying her under the equipment.
"What the Hell Yang!" Weiss shouted to the buried teen, her anger causing her swear, which was very uncommon for her.
Yang poked her head out of the mound of pillows, her eyes still glowing with red. "I trusted you! You wouldn't let anything happen to her!" Yang retorted, struggling to escape the "death trap" that were the pillows.
"Yang, what in Orion's name are you talking about."
"Hey! Keep my name to a minimum missy!" Orion called out, attempting to get out of the wall. "How the hell did she make contact with me..." Orion mumbled under his breath.
"The nurse on the ground floor told us that she was hurt. YOU didn't protect her." Yang growled at her icy teammate.
"And that she was getting better." Blake corrected the brawler, walking into view from the door. "You ran before she finished talking, sweetheart." Blake added before walking over to her girlfriend. "You need to calm down or I won't talk to you for a week." The Faunus girl finished.
Yang's face paled and eyes immediately turned to their normal color, allowing Weiss to lower her Glyph defense. "Fine..." She mumbled.
"Yes, she is fine Yang." Weiss reassured the blonde. 'I would be better if you hadn't interrupted... Those lips were almost mine!' The young Schnee thought, her face turning a light crimson.
Orion pulled himself out of the rubble, giving an angry grunt as he stood up to full height, towering over all of the girls. "You are very strong my dear." Orion commented to Yang, who had yet to escape the trap.
"Thanks... Sorry for that mister..." She muttered, finally escaping the trap.
"Orion. The feeling is mutual." The God said calmly, looking towards Ruby. "I see that the young one is well?"
"Well yeah, she is. I guess... I don't know if that," Weiss said and gestured to the wolf girl behind her. "Counts as "well.""
Ruby blinked a few times quickly, shaking her head furiously before scanning the room slowly, taking in all her new surroundings, her ears perking up along with her tail. "Blake? Yang?"
Yang's face changed into an inhuman smile as she saw her little sister lock eyes with her. "RUBY!" Yang cried out, charging across the room and an incredible speed, nearly trampling Weiss in the process. The brawler crushed Ruby in a massive Ursa hug, she sound of a bone cracking filled Weiss's eardrums. "I missed you sooooooo much! You look like a puppy!"
"Need air. Hard breath. Help!" Ruby grunted out before Weiss ripped the bubbly brawler off of the petit teen.
"Don't hospitalize her again Yang. I don't think Dust can fix a broken spine." Weiss joked, laughing slightly.
All eyes flew directly to the young Schnee heiress, Yang's and Ruby's widened in surprise.
"W-what?"
"You... Made a joke... Are we dead, passed into a land of dreams and wonder?" Yang asked to no one in particular.
Weiss's face turned a dark shade of red, her left eye twitching. "How dare you! I always make jokes! I'm not some dunce like you Yang." Weiss giggled again. "See? Another joke."
Ruby gave a small giggle in return along with Blake who gave a small grin. Yang looked absolutely furious while Orion simply looked from girl to girl.
"Is this all you ever do?" The God asked the group. "I mean, don't you all have Huntress training to be working on at Beacon while Ruby is recovering Orion questioned.
"Well," Yang began. "Not a whole lot goes on around here unless we are training. We've already done out training for the day an-"
Zud zud zud zud... BOOM!
A colossal explosion shook the hospital room, sending Yang and Blake to the floor while Weiss gripped onto Ruby's arms.
"What was that?!" Yang shouted, slowly rising up as sirens blared to life outside of the room. The group of five minus Ruby rushed to the small glass window that exposed the outside world and saw a large cloud of black smoke rising from the docks.
"It's Saturn." Orion muttered under his breath. "He is trying to steal the Dust shipments..."
"Key word is trying."
Orion and the three 17 year old Huntress's in training turned to face Ruby, who had slowly rose out of her hospital bed, Crescent Rose in its compact form clenched in her left hand.
"I'm going to get some payback."