Ruby Rose
I ran.
I had to find them. I knew they were out there, somewhere. They had to be. I just had to find
them.
I don't know. I wasn't thinking. I was acting. Seeing them again... I couldn't just sit there. I
had to do something. Something.
Isn't running more of Blake's thing? Blake!
Yang would love this city. Why was my sister never there when I needed her the most?
I even missed Weiss. I know she hated me, and we still had our problems, but I missed her.
I had to find them. All of them. They were here, I just had to find them. I could find them.
The window opened, which is good because I'd feel bad breaking their window. It had a
screen, though, which I knocked out, and I did feel bad about that.
The apartment was only four storeys up, so landing was easy. There was some bushes under
the window, but I missed them and landed on the sidewalk.
I had to go back to where I arrived. If they were here, it would be there. It was outside the
city, some kind of field, near a big road. It was pretty far away.
I only kind of remembered how I got to the apartment from the train station. I could see the
railway, which ran the same way as the road, but I couldn't see the station. I ran a few blocks
down the street one way before realizing it was the wrong way.
There were some people on the street, because it was the morning in a big city. I noticed that
there was more variety than the people in Vale, but mostly I was just trying to avoid them.
Some of them gave me funny looks as I ran past.
They said that this world was nothing like Remnant, but it looked pretty similar. It was a
city, with towers and shops and roads and cars and trains and... no airships. Okay, other than
a few things, it was pretty much the same. They couldn't have no Dust, no Grimm, no Aura.
That was impossible!
But I had felt the lack of Aura. I hadn't seen any Dust, or any reference to the Grimm. And
apparently the people here thought the girl in red running through the streets leaving a trail
of rose petals was strange. Well, even more strange than the people back in Vale would find
it.
No time to think. I had to find them. I could get answers after I found them.
With one hand, I grabbed Crescent Rose and unfolded it. I stuck the scythe end into the
ground and gave myself a burst of speed, launching myself in the air. I flipped over once
before landing on the railway track. They'd told us not to use our weapons in a city at
Signal, but this was an emergency! Besides, it's not like I actually fired it!
The railway track went two ways... duh. To the left was the way we came in. I think Cliff
said that went to Vancouver, and this is Burnaby, which is part of Greater Vancouver. So that
would be west. Which means the other way is east.
When I wandered into the city, the sun had just finished setting in front of me. Which meant
that I had actually gone west, then when we took the train we went east again. And maybe
north a bit? But I think from here I had to go east.
What if we'd gone farther than I had on the train? What if the sun didn't rise the same way
on this planet? What if my sense of direction was just plain wrong? I couldn't worry about
that. Not now.
I ran down the railway track, beside where the train went. A few times the train went by and
I had to be careful not to get knocked off the track. I don't know how long it took, but
eventually the track started to loop around. I could see a bridge in the distance.
I remember crossing a bridge to get into the city. I don't know if it was the same bridge, but
I decided to cross it anyway. I was pretty sure I was crossing the same water, at least. I'd
travelled much further than it looked, and I was getting tired. I could really use some water
and cookies. I willed myself to keep going.
The track soon started to curve south, well, I guess it was south. I knew I had to go south.
Well, I thought I had to go south. And maybe further west.
I shook my head. Trying to figure out where I had gone with logic wasn't working. I just had
to go where it felt right and hope that I got it right. I hopped off the track. The track was
wrong. I know I'd come here on a big road, and I headed toward where I thought it was.
Again, people were giving me strange looks. And a few of them were holding up their
scrolls. I ignored them. If they knew they would understand. This was important!
Eventually, I found the big road. One way went toward the city, the other went toward...
more city. I think I came from the right, so I went the other way. The road had lots of ways
off, but none of them felt right. So I stayed on it.
Then the city started thinning out, and I knew that I was in the right place. I made it! Well,
not quite, but I knew I was almost there. Then I could find Weiss and Blake and Yang and
we could get back to Remnant.
But what if they weren't there. What if I was the only one that made it through... through
whatever it was that brought us here? Wouldn't I have found them before if they came
through? What if I was the only one left? What if I was alone on this weird world?
No. They made it. They were here. They had to be. I shouted, "Weiss! Blake! Yang! Are
you-"
"I was wondering when you'd show up."