Ruby Rose | Team RWBY (eyesofsilver) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2017-10-03 20:22:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, ruby rose, weiss schnee |
Who: Ruby Rose and Weiss
What: Jungle Temple
When: 28 September
Where: Near UC Irvine, to the Jungle Temple, and back
Warnings: Violence
Status: Log | Complete
It wasn’t hard to see that they were dealing with another weird Orange County thing. Ruby had done some fighting with the..mercenaries were they? She wasn’t sure. But the other day she had been unable to get Crescent Rose into Scythe mode and when she had used the rifle setting? Well, instead of dust and bullets, rose petals had shot out instead. Which… weird. Okay may not completely weird as her semblance in her dreams was speed, which left being a trail of rose petals. But Crescent Rose hadn’t worked that day all the same.
Still. She also had classes she needed to get to - this wasn’t like the dreams where classes were meant to train you to fight and be prepared for the creatures of Grimm. Which meant that weird things happening weren’t really an excuse for missing class. Especially during the first week and first day of instruction at that. Of course, she was also running late and so she was running when all of a sudden she wasn’t near campus but….
In a room?
What?
Eyes narrowed, Ruby reached back and was thankful she had Crescent Rose with her. (Well of course she did, Ruby had taken to always keeping her weapon on her out of habit from the dreams and then just… Orange County lessons.) She didn’t have too long to try and figure out what was going on though because suddenly she found herself surrounded by Grimm of varying sizes and strengths. She was alone. But she could handle herself.
Jumping into action, Ruby started to fight the Grimm. She didn’t have time to call for backup, and she didn’t even know where she was. All she could do was fight. Each wave was stronger than the other but she felt her adrenaline pumping and kept going forward.
She always went forward. To fight, she suppressed and internalized. She was the optimistic one. So even if she did feel that bit of concern from the Dreams, how they had failed to figure out who had broken into Beacon even though they’d managed to catch some bad guys and the Grimm had been taken care of (even though she should have been able to stop the train before it broke through), she didn’t put too much thought into it. Because this wasn’t Remnant.
So when she suddenly found herself facing off against…. She wasn’t sure. They weren’t a Grimm, that much was certain. She remembered what Doctor Oobleck had said about the Goliaths. That the longer a Grimm survived, they were able to start learning. Even as she was getting backed up and taking hits (and she didn’t have a fully formed Aura yet unlike the Dreams), she was wondering if it was possible for Grimm to become human.
Worried?
It was hard to say. And now that they were more close, Ruby couldn’t even get a hit in as she was not good at hand to hand combat. That was Yang’s specialty. She was long distance and … managing to knock off the mask, Ruby stared in shock as she stared at… herself? No. Not herself. It had been fourteen years but she recognized the woman in front of her.
“Mom…?”
Why was her mom fighting her? Hurting her? Stunned, Ruby was kicked into the wall and she pushed herself up.
“Don’t you recognize me? It’s Ruby!”
Yang had always said she was ‘super mom’. And Ruby’s memories of her were always good. So why was she doing this?
She had left them.
All she had needed was her mom and she remembered being told she wasn’t coming back. One day there, the next gone. People left. And she had always known that somewhere. She just didn’t think about it.
“Fight me.”
“No! You’re my mom I can’t fight you!”
Pushing herself up, Ruby tried to go to Summer, only to be thrown back and hit her head.
“You’re weak if you can’t fight your enemies.”
“You’re not my enemy though…”
She was confused. Why was this happening? Why did this pit in her stomach hurt? She felt blood dripping into her eye but she was trying to reach out to her mom. And suddenly she was being hugged and it shocked Ruby how much she had wanted to hug her mother until she was able to. But that moment was quickly ruined when she heard the whispered words.
“Everyone you trust and love will end up leaving you and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Pulling away, Ruby’s eyes widened as she saw Summer suddenly covered in blood and coughing up dirt.
“MOM!”
“You have failed.”
The words were loud and Ruby covered her ears before blinking and finding herself back on a sidewalk, breathing labored as bruises had taken to forming and the cuts and gashes remained. What had just happened?
Whatever this crazy OC stuff was, Weiss was not a fan. She’d already ruined everything by texting her dad instead of Team RWBY about the performance she was going to do. She’d known from the terse voicemail she’d gotten after she didn’t respond to the phone call. She hadn’t answered because she hadn’t been answering. Then when she listened to the voicemail he left, she knew what had happened. She hadn’t tried to reach out to anyone again until later.
So almost running into Ruby covered in cuts, gashes, and bruises made her come to an immediate halt. She hadn’t exactly told the girls about what happened and she’d been planning to call him and pretend she’d been joking, but then he’d cut her off. She was still trying to figure out how to deal with it.
“Ruby? What are you doing here? What happened?”
Looking around frantically for any sign of Grimm or her mom, Ruby instead blinked as Weiss was there. And asking what she was doing there. Where was here anyway? Everything was still such a jumble in her head from what she had seen (no, it felt too real to just be seen) that she wasn’t really aware of her surroundings. She wasn’t really even aware that she was bleeding.
“Weiss? How...wait, where are we?”
Finally somewhat out of her haze of confusion, the teen started placing the general location. Okay. Weird.
“Um. I don’t know? There were Grimm and my mom but not my mom?” It was confusing and she really didn’t know what to make of it. Or the voice telling her that she had failed. Failed what though? Though if she were honest with herself, it was her mom whispering how everyone would leave her and there was nothing that she could do that had really stuck with her. Things she had always known on a subconscious level, that she never paid attention to that had made her less inclined to actually branch out and talk to people (she was friendly she just didn’t go out of her way for it and preferred her projects).... But to have to fight her mom, to be told she couldn’t see enemies and failing…
It was a lot and not something she really wanted to think about. She was still worried that there were Grimm in the area but it was as if they had only been in the room.
“I was in a room and then back here…” Which obviously made very little sense. But that was probably par the course for Orange County.
Weiss didn’t understand what she was talking about at all. “The Grimm are here?” She didn’t see anything here. She also didn’t see Ruby’s mom. She didn’t see anything by Ruby pacing and looking really confused. Weiss wasn’t exactly the friendliest of people and she didn’t always care, but this was different. Even with everything she was dealing with, she felt bad for Ruby.
Sighing, she walked a little closer to her and lightly grabbed her arm. “Come on. We have to get you somewhere to get this looked at. I don’t know anything about stitches and so I’m not going to do that for you.” She paused, looking around. No one was going to let them drive in a car with Ruby bleeding like this. This probably meant that she was going to have to call an ambulance. She wished that Yang or Blake were here. They were probably better at this.
“I don’t know what you saw or what happened, but obviously you got hurt. You might want to come up with a different story, though, for the people who are going to help you stop bleeding. Just saying.”
“Maybe? I don’t know anymore.” And she really didn’t like that fact. Even if she got caught up in things, Ruby genuinely wanted to help people. Which meant that Grimm actually being on the loose would be a bad thing. Then again, after dealing with the mercenaries before she couldn’t be sure if Grimm were there. Plus, there was no destruction, no panic…..
The one good thing was that they were near the campus, which meant that there was always the option of just going to the student health center. Or Ruby could just go get cleaned up in a bathroom but somehow even in her confusion about what had happened, Weiss probably wouldn’t go for that. Of course, then her uncle would probably know because he was one of her emergency contacts and since he was on campus….
“Think they’ll believe that I fell out of a tree?”
Weiss looked her up and down before saying, “How far up in the tree were you?” Because that was basically the only way they were going to believe that. Also she didn’t look like she had any broken anything, which was a relief. If only she could call Klein and ask him to come or really anyone. Ugh. She couldn’t even pay for a cab right now. Everything was horrible.
“Come on. We have to go...somewhere.” She wasn’t sure if her phone was still acting up, but she had exactly ten missed calls from her father and definitely not enough desire to respond to any of them. “You can still walk okay? Should I call Wierd--” Weiss stopped herself from finishing that nickname. It was one thing to call him Weird Uncle in her head and probably another to call him Weird Uncle to Ruby. “Uh...your uncle?”
“Very high up in order to have a signal for my phone?” It wouldn’t have been the first time Ruby did something like that for a project. Either looking for a signal because of a dead zone, or trying to test something only to lose her footing. Because it wasn’t like she wanted to make up a story that could get to someone in trouble. So falling out of a tree seemed the best option.
“Student Health should be close by…” That was the one good thing about their location. “But yeah, I can walk.” Then the question about Qrow. Had Weiss not shown up, there was a chance that Ruby would have called her uncle when she thought she was lost because he would understand better about what was going on than her dad would. But at the question.
“I don’t think so. I mean, if we go to student health and they think something is really wrong, they’ll call him anyway since he’s my emergency contact and already on campus since he’s a professor.”
“Fine.” Weiss let out a long sigh before taking Ruby’s hand and hoping that she wouldn’t think about it too much. Later, when she was sure that Ruby wasn’t going to die, she’d maybe talk to her about what happened. Or maybe she’d wait to see how everything was going for her before she revealed the fact that her life was basically over. She wasn’t able to do anything anymore and she was going to have to find a new place and A JOB SHE GUESSED. Ugh. It was over.
“Okay. Then we won’t call him unless we have to.” Or well...she guessed someone else would call, but whatever. She was going to walk Ruby all the way to the health place at the school and then they’d figure everything out from there. “Are you sure you’re okay?”
Lucky for Weiss, Ruby didn’t think anything of the hand taking. Part of it was just because she was completely confused and trying to make sense of what had happened in the room with the Grimm and her mother and she didn’t really want to think about the whispered words. What they meant, things she’d felt on a subconscious level. No. She was working to push it all down again and not deal with it like always.
Still, she’d want to help Weiss if she knew that something was wrong. But that wasn’t in the cards at that exact moment.
Nodding some in agreement that they wouldn’t call Qrow unless they had to. Or well the Student Health Center. It was a logical choice to make and the least to cause too much drama. There was enough going on already. But then she blinked at the question and nodded, slipping back into her normal mode of optimistic and not worrying about herself without even noticing it or thinking about it.
“Yep. I mean, a bit confused but I’m okay.”
Weiss stared at her for a moment. She seemed back to her normal Ruby self, but Weiss wasn’t really sure that she was her normal Ruby self. She’d worry about Ruby’s emotional well-being after she’d made sure she didn’t bleed out on the pavement or something equally unfortunate.
She was carefully devising a story to tell the Health Center about what happened. Something that made sense. Not falling out of a tree. That was the stupidest fake story she’d ever heard. But coming up with her own story was...well, at least she mostly just looked like she got into a scuffle. Bullies. Weiss could always blame bullies. Ruby was probably the sort of person who…maybe got bullied. Who knew? Maybe not...at least not by anyone that wasn’t her. Weiss would find out somehow.
Until then, she’d come up with an appropriate story, which would probably turn into a dramatic re-telling of an event that never actually occurred, but she’d make it believable at least.
Fell out of a tree, indeed.
Well, it was true that Ruby got bullied given her the fact she was youngest in her year and didn’t stand up for herself. Others she stood up for, but generally not herself. However it wasn’t something Ruby ever thought much about as she was content to just go on with her life.
Still, getting to the Student Health Center wasn’t too difficult. There were a few curious looks given her state, but no one stopped them and thus they managed to get to their destination easy enough. The real trick of course was answering the questions that were bound to occur. All things considered, she knew that her uncle would undoubtedly believe the falling out of a tree story - and it meant no one got in trouble.
“Thanks for helping me get here, Weiss. I can handle the rest if you have somewhere else to be.”
Weiss rolled her eyes. “Just shut up and accept that I’m here. Also don’t say anything stupid.” Plus, Weiss was more than happy to make up things and pretend like she didn’t know people based on the fact that they weren’t important enough for her to put their names or faces to memory. It wasn’t like people wouldn’t believe it. She was a Schnee. She could play the part of the Ice Queen who didn’t care about people.
“Plus, I already did what it was I was supposed to be doing.” She was pretty sure that Yang would have smacked her on the head for leaving anyway. Yeah, she could definitely pretend it was that she was worried Yang would hit her on the head with her metal arm. That was believable.