Rude Ruby
...
A flurry of violent red tore through the air, mercilessly attacking Cardin from every direction.
Despite being built like a tank, even tanks had limits to their durability. Swinging wildly with his mace only got him damaged more, and any opening he didn't even mean to make was punished by a scythe attack. Whenever he tried to back off, he got assaulted ruthlessly by sniper rounds, and when he approached, the exact same punishments were always dealt to him.
It was an extremely odd matchup in Combat Class, but also turned out to be incredibly one-sided for some reason.
"Darn!" Cardin growled as he swung his mace, causing Ruby to back off with an unamused frown. "How about you stop zipping around like a brat and fight!"
Ruby refused to listen to both of his requests. Zipping straight up, she leapt, grabbing the back of his head, as she pulled it straight down against her knee. The entire world spun as he felt his eyes roll, though Ruby showed him no mercy and knocked him down to the ground with an overhead punch.
And she punched. And again, and again, every single punch landing against his face. Straddling on his battered armor to render him unable to move, she swung each punch harder than the last.
"W-Wait, I forf- UGH!"
"Haaah?" Ruby grinned as she punched his jaw especially hard. "Speak up, you fucking doofus."
"I for- UGH! I- ARGH! S-Stop! Ple- UGH!"
"I'll start punching your dick if you don't say it correctly, asswipe! What did you say, huh?!"
Laughing as he whimpered and cried, Ruby knocked the aura out of Cardin as she quickly landed in another punch, finally feeling his bones properly colliding against her knuckles. It only stopped when Glynda shouted.
"Enough! Mr. Winchester's aura is down. The fight is over."
Her eyes losing their excitement, Ruby rolled her eyes as she got off Cardin, stepping harshly on his crotch as she walked away. He choked, curling into a fetal position as he lay still on the arena.
"I couldn't even feel his balls, let alone a dick," Ruby mumbled as she left the arena. "Is he actually a girl, or...?"
Nora Valkyrie believed something weird was happening in Team RWBY.
So, so weird! Just the other day, they seemed so busy being happy and partying together in a weekend. Just what could've happened to make them the center of attention in a negative light?
Seriously, her tolerance for weird stuff? Totally high, if anyone asked her. But in the words of her own mind, in which she just made up within the past few seconds, "wew, lad." Super weird rumors of RWBY spread in the cafeteria, most of them happening to center around a certain red rose.
She couldn't believe it. Some of the rumors said she tried to molest her own team leader, Jaune, while others claimed she chainsmoked in her own dormitory. Such lies!
...Ruby did seem to be acting odd, though, that's for sure.
"Aaaaand that's why I'm here!" Nora exclaimed, sitting next to Blake.
In fact, Blake was the only person from Team RWBY to be present in the cafeteria. Weiss had to serve detention time for both trying to strangle Ruby in the cafeteria while simultaneously threatening to throw Ruby off the peak of Mountain Glenn the other day. The Schnee heiress insisted that Ruby kept taunting her to do it because "it was kinky." Yang, on the other hand, had yet to show up for yet another day. She only showed up in class now, though much to Nora's amazement, the poofiness of the golden dragon's hair seemed to have deflated...
But that was nothing in the face of Nora Valkyrie! They should totally feel honored that she decided not to bring Ren's pancakes with her- they'd be totally jealous.
Blake stared long and hard at Nora. While the Valkyrie smiled back, said smile almost wavered when she realized the dark-haired girl refused to do anything else.
"...Remnant to Blakey?" Nora chimed.
Her ribbon moving with her head as it shook, Blake sighed. "Nora," she began, finally speaking up to the excited girl, "I know how you feel, and I actually appreciate your thoughts. But... this isn't a problem you should solve."
"Pffffft, what gives?"
Slamming the table, Blake pulled Nora's collar as she almost rammed her forehead against the orange-haired girl's. Amber eyes trembled as they peered into startled blue ones, Blake's scowl far more menacing than anyone could expect her to make.
"Don't. Pft. At me."
"..."
Silence satisfied Blake Belladonna as she pulled away, resting her head on her arms as she leaned against the table.
"...Seriously, Blake, what's going on?" Nora couldn't help but ask, her tone gaining a bit of an edge to it. Cheerful she might be, she wasn't outright stupid to notice just how paranoid Blake seemed at the moment.
"Ah," Blake mumbled, pointing weakly behind Nora. "Here she comes."
Who?
A quick turn answered her question as Nora smiled widely. Her smile, however, quickly turned into a look of confusion. The look only intensified as she watched Ruby approach closer and closer.
"Out of the fucking way or I'll run you over," she growled, pushing aside a poor brown-haired man.
Dark circles under her eyes, a frown that made Cardin Winchester of all people to cower before her...
And not to mention, was that iced tea in her water bottle? Ruby would never do that!
"H-Hey, Ruby!" Nora exclaimed, waving at the girl as she sat across the two. "Renny said he had to go talk some things out with Pyrrah. Not sure why but everyone's been acting all-"
BAM!
Nora did not jump at the sudden noise, though she did end up pausing. Staring at Ruby, she watched the red rose wilt and sigh in the heaviest way possible.
"Jesus Christ on a glorified stick," Ruby muttered angrily, "I think I put my fucking weapon in the wrong locker. If anyone takes it I'm going to pull out their intestines straight out of their asshole and hang it like it came out of a Black Friday sale."
"..."
Nora stared at Ruby with wide eyes, glancing between her and Blake incredulously.
"Trust me," the cat Faunus whispered. "That thing isn't Ruby."
Well... She looked like Ruby, yeah, and she probably was. Maybe just not a side of Ruby Nora had met before?
Either way, she could tell why RWBY was having such a harsh time. When their young, optimistic leader ended up transforming into whatever she was at the moment, it wasn't hard to imagine how quickly everything could fall apart.
"Maybe you could go back and put it in the right locker?" Nora suggested with a small smile.
Glaring up from the table, Ruby growled, "Are you actually telling me to put effort right now?"
"Well, why not?"
Ruby let out a groan as she shook her head. "Fucking titty monster weeb baits," she grumbled to herself as she looked away from Nora.
"Hey, Ruby, nice fight, by the way!" Nora perked up, though she held an uncertain tone despite her efforts. "You kinda really did go out to break a leg, yeah?"
"That shit was so one-sided you might as well call it a Civil RIghts movement."
Nora blinked, retaining her smile as best as she could as she wondered what else she could say to cheer up Ruby.
Soon, the orange-haired girl smiled and nodded as she tried playing along. "Well, I guess you could call it a miracle! Miracles don't happen without effort, usually. Renny knows that more than anyone!"
Ruby fell quiet at that as a thoughtful look entered her uncharacteristically negative face. She nodded to herself, as if agreeing with Nora on the statement.
"Yeah, I get what you mean."
"Wowie, you do?!"
"Because it'd be a fucking miracle if your parents were alive."
Shortly after, Nora joined Weiss in detention for calling her weapon locker through the cafeteria roof.