Ruby Rose Meet Cyan Rubellite
Vale was starting to whine down as the sun began to set. Most shops would have closed long before now, well with a shop called Dust Till Dawn. the Name speaks for itself.
The old man at the counter was looking over some papers when a group of individuals walked through his store front. Most were in jet black suits with the only color on them being their red ties and sunglasses. Not to mention they all wore a fedora on their head.
But the head man of the group was completely different. He had Bright orange hair and a white overcoat. An ascot was about his neck and wore some black slacks, dress shoes. he walked with a fancy looking cane and a lit cigar between his lips. The most eye-catching thing was the bowler hat atop his bright hair.
He stepped forward. "Do you have any idea how hard it is to find an open Dust shop at this time a day?"
"Please, just take my money and Leave! I don't want no trouble!" The elder frantically replied.
"Sh, sh, sh." The bowler hat guy placated. "We're not here for the money..." He turned to the thugs next time. "Grab the dust."
The henchman then began to collect the dust. Bowler hat guy was talking to himself about the different variants of Dust. One thug noticed someone was by the front bay window.
"Oi hands up!" he said.
the person didn't acknowledge him. He walked up to the red hooded one and grabbed their shoulder. "I said hands up!"
It turned out to be a girl in goth clothing listening to music. She looked surprised and he pointed to his ears with an irritated look on his face.
"Yes?" she asked.
"Put your hands up and gimmie all you got." He said, pointing his weapon at her.
"Are your robbing me?" She asked. confused.
"Yes!" Exasperated at her amount of cluelessness.
"~Oh..."
She then Kicked him through the window.
Bowler hat guy heard the commotion and walked back out front. He saw a little slip of a girl next to his thug, Who was out cold. She then reached for something behind her back and the sound of a working mechanism could be heard. Suddenly a crimson scythe bigger than her was revealed. and she Swung it into the ground behind her and then clicked off her music.
Bowler hat guy was about to say something when a voice was heard.
"Hey, Roger thanks for letting use the shower in the back! Would it be okay if I crashed..." the voice trailed off as the owner of said voice came into view.
Out can a girl a little taller than Red. She had ruby red hair and a pair of red rabbit ears sticking out the top of her head. She wore a large white t-shirt and nothing else. A long red bushy tail swished behind her. She had a cloth tied around her eyes. She was carrying what looked like an instrument of some kind.
"The hell if going on?" She snapped with a hand propped on a hip.
Bowler hat sighed. "Well? Get them."
Thugs went after both females as Bowler hat guy watched red's battle.
The Faunus girl sighed. "Any Chance we could wait till I got some clothes on?"
A thug tried to deck her.
"Guess Not."
She then weaved and swerved. Dodging her opponents left and right. she then Jumped up making two guys knock out one another. She Smirked and motioned for them to come after her. The other three were pissed and charged her. She merely smiled and ran for the now broken bay window.
She jumped up cried, "Coming through!"
Bowler hat guy looked up in enough time to not only have a decent shot of the Fanus girl's undergarments but to also get her bare feet to spring broad off of his face.
She landed next to Red and brought out her giant Chakram. She then ran forward swinging it about like it was a toy. The last standing henchman was about to pull a gun on her. She smirked and threw her weapon and knocked out the guy before he could shoot. The hoop blade bounced off a nearby light post and came back towards her.
Catching it was one hand, She then shrunk the hoop and hid it within her instrument.
The man sighed. "Well, ladies it has been a pleasure. Especially you, playboy bunny. Didn't figure you for the thong type."
"You try having a tail above you ass and can't afford specialty panties!" Said funas girl snapped.
He shrugged, pointed his can at them. "But this is when we," The end of the cane flipped up into a cross hair. "Part ways."
"Shit!" The faunus cried as she dove out of the way. The Reaper girl just shot at it and canceled out the bullet.
The cloud it made was enough cover apparently for Bowler hat guy to dash up the fire escape of a nearby building.
"It alright if I go after him?" Reaper girl asked.
The Faunus waved her off. "I've got Old Roger. Go get em! Give him a good shot for me!"
The girl in the hood then took off after bowler hat guy.
The Funaus sighed, walking back over to the shopkeeper whose name was Roger. She helped him stand. "Easy there old timer, let get you calmed down." she helped his sit down on the chair behind the counter. "You want a cold one?" she asked him. He gave a tired nod. She then scampered into the back and took out a cold beer for him and then sat it on the counter.
"Cyan what're you doing sweeping up? That my job." He stated calmly taking a sip of his drink.
She snorted. "You just had a borderline heart attack. I'm cleaning up! It's what us young people can do." She continued with the cleaning up.
Soon enough a woman, with blonde hair and a purple cape walked up with reaper girl who looked sheepish.
"Young lady, I'm going to have to ask you to come with me." The woman demanded.
The fuanas now known as Cyan stared at the woman. "Can it wait till I know for a fact Roger will be okay?"
"I'm sorry but it can't."
She sighed. "One minute." Quickly walking over to the old man, she took out her scroll. "Okay, if you start feeling anything strange, call the emergency number I put in your scroll. That if you can call mine. I'm on speed dial. Okay?"
"Off with you now! It's only Glynda. She won't bite" Roger chuckled. "And stop babying me! I know what to do!"
Cyan rubbed her neck. "I worry about you Roger." she then walked over to the blonde woman, "Glynda was it?"
The woman gave a nod. "Glynda Goodwitch."
Reaper girl then introduced herself. "Hi, I'm Ruby! Ruby Rose! That was awesome what you did back there!"
Cyan stopped for a moment. 'Could it be?' She the shook her head. "Cyan Rubellite." They were about to go till, Roger shouted.
"IO Glynda! How about you fix my window!"
The woman sighed. "lazy as ever...." But did as asked. Suddenly all the glass shards flew back into their original place as the front store window.
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Cyan had lost track of time along the way, wondering if Ruby could be the same tiny baby she saw 13 years ago.
They entered the police station and were sat down in an interrogation room. Glynda then gave them the riot act.
"Do you both have any idea how dangerous that was?! You could have gotten your selves killed!" She ranted.
"But they started it!" Ruby cried out. Hoping it would make the woman see her logic.
Glynda ignored it. "If it was up to me, you'd sent home...with a pat on the back" Ruby's face perked up some. Glynda caught it. "And a slap on the wrist!" emphasizing it with a smack to the table with her riding crop.
Ruby jumped at the smack, quickly moving her hands away. Cyan's ears just twitched at the loud noise.
"But some would like to speak to you two." She stated and stepped to the side.
In came a gentleman. You looked to be in his late twenties. He has Silvery-white hair and a green suit on. His scarf was a slightly lighter green and a silver cross pin on it. He came in with a plate of cookies and a mug in one hand. How he was able to still hold his cane she didn't know.
Setting both on the table, he then rests his elbows on it as well folding his hands together and leaned his head on top of them.
"Ruby Rose...you have...Silver eyes..." He commented.
'So he knows....' Cyan thought. As she observed the man. He also had a small pair of sunglasses at the tip of his nose. His eyes were a hazel gold. Very pretty.
Ruby was completely thrown by the comment.
'And she doesn't....' Cyan sighed. 'I'll have to eventual fix that.'
Ozpin started to speak again. "So where did you learn to do this?" He asked while nodding towards the screen of Goodwitch's tablet.
At that moment Glynda started to show the video of the fight against Ruby and Torchwick.
"I gotta say Ruby. Your good." Th Faunus stated. She was given a small smile.
Ruby then answered, The man. "S-Signal Academy"
"They taught you to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?" He lifted a brow.
"Well, one teacher in particular." she elaborated.
Sliver, as Cyan began to mental refer to the man in front of her as, placed the plate of cookies he had been holding for a while onto the table. "I see" was his thoughtful reply.
Ruby took one; milliseconds after her tongue tasted the sugary treat she took another.
Cyan snagged three for her self seeing how she hadn't eaten yet and she was starving.
After that Ruby began to eat the cookies as fast as she could. "It's just I've only seen one other scythe-wielder of that skill before, a dusty old crow." He commented lightly.
Cyan hummed. 'So She did learn from him. He taught her well."
With a mouth full of cookies Ruby talked again. "Mmmm, Thash Muh unkul (That's my uncle)"
At seeing Ruby talking with her mouth full Silver and herself arched eyebrows. 'What has that drunk been teaching her?' Cyan eyed the young girl.
Soon as Ruby heard her words she wiped her face and tried again. "Sorry that's my Uncle Qrow, he's a teacher at Signal, I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing, and now I'm all like Hooowaaah! Witchaaa!"
Cyan snorted.
"Ah Miss Rubellite, I have not forgotten you. Where did you learn this?" Sliver used Glynda's scroll to show her, her own fight with the thugs. Cyan had to admit, she didn't realize how she looked to others while fighting. She looked like a dancer.
She turned to the man. "Mostly just mixing dancing with common sense in the fight. I'm mostly self taught."
"So you decided on a giant Chakram?" He asked.
Ruby's eyes grew large. Cyan knew, she was a weapons junky, when she crept toward the guitar on her back. She leaned away slightly and turned to Silver.
Cyan decided to take offense to that. "OI! you have no idea on how it took to make that Chakram! And give it dust infusers. Not to mention it's not my only weapon. I have two others."
Silver made a placating motion. "My Apologies Miss Rubellite. I didn't mean to offend."
As soon as Ruby was done moving comically and creeping out the faunus girl, Silver spoke again.
"So I've noticed."
He then sat down in front of her. "And what is two adorable girls such as yourselves doing at a school designed to train warriors?"
"Well" Ruby whispered before pausing for a second.
"I want to be a huntress."
"You want to slay monsters?" He asked.
"Yeah, I only have two more years of training at Signal, and then I'm going to apply to Beacon."
"You see, my sister's starting there this year, and she's trying to become a huntress, and I'm trying to become a huntress 'cause I want to help people, my parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, 'Hey I might as well make a career out of it'" Upon saying that she let out a little giggle before accelerating her speech again.
He turned to Cyan. "And you Miss Rubellite? What are you doing with a very unique weapon that hasn't been seen in battle field before?"
She rubbed the back of her neck with a sigh. "I'm Going to be straight with you Sliver." He cocked his had slightly at the new nick name but didn't correct her.
"I was once a part of the WhiteFang. I was, and still am, good friends with Ghira. But when things just went from bad to worse. I left for a mission I had put on hold for too long." She sighed. "There is a quote I live by; "Freedom is the Right of ALL Sentient Beings." Rich, poor, Human, Faunus... if your in need of aid. I will give it. Even if I have to stand alone."
Silver looked at her with a different sort of look in his eyes. Cyan swore she saw, respect and agreement.
"Do you know who I am?" Silver then asked them.
Cyan had no clue, she didn't pay much to anything other than music and helping others.
Apparently the hooded wonder did. "Your Professor Ozpin, you're the headmaster of Beacon."
He gave a nod. "Hello"
Ruby returned with a bow"Nice to meet you."
Cyan gave a smile. "Pleasure."
"So you want to come to my school?" He asked red.
"More than anything." the Sythress replied.
Ozpin looked towards Glynda who just rolls her eyes.
Cyan had to hold in a snicker. 'Oh yeah. I think I like them already.'
Ozpin then turned to Ruby.
"Well okay."
Ruby began to smile a wide smile and was about to jump for joy. But Ozpin interrupted her before she even started. "Now Miss Rose I'm sure your family is worried about you. So why don't you go home and tell them the good news, oh and give your father this letter for me. You'll leave with your sister to go to Beacon the day after tomorrow."
"Oh right I almost forgot what time it is. Thank you Professor Ozpin." With that Ruby took the letter and ran off to go home.
Cyan, chuckled. "She really should ease up on the sugar."
"Now Miss Rubllite-" Ozpin started.
"Please, Silver, call me Cyan." The girl stated.
"Miss Cyan, what would you say to coming to my school?" He asked.
Her ears moved a bit in thought. "Are you sure? I haven't had any official transcripts till a few days ago. Also me being Ex-Fang member, many would frown about that."
Ozpin gave a nod. "It's true that some would nay say about you. But then again, not many people would need to know now would they?"
Her brows vanish in her bangs. Was this bishonen of a man for real?
"True... But isn't a bit late for my application? and scroll wise..." She reached into her bra and pulled out an extremely old scroll model. "I only have a model one, it doesn't even show my aura levels, I've always had to just deal with low energy when fighting."
He sat back and rested his hand top his cane. "Those can be easily fixed. I can ask you a few questions and Glynda and fill in the form."
See no down side gave a nod.
"So what is Your name and birth place and date?"
"Cyan Rubellite, Vale and Feb. 29." She replied.
Ozpin gave a nod. "What is your age and height?"
Cyan decided to go with the play a student card. "I'm Seventeen and four foot nine."
"How about your health and the reason you cover your eyes?" He requested.
She gave an un-lady like snort. "Knew you'd ask that." She hummed wondering if she should tell him the truth. "Well I'm blind but not." She didn't.
"How is that possable?" Glynda asked.
She shrugged. "I'm not sure. I've just always been able to just know what around me. not to mention my hearing is even better then a normal Rabbit faunus."
"Very well." Ozpin stated. not wanting to pry too much. "Lastly Weapons and Semblance."
"My weapons and a guitar-gun called Echo and a giant dust Chakram named Xia." She smirked. "My semblance....is very unique. It can do multiple things but it needs on thing besides aura."
Silver leaned forward. "And that is?"
"Music." She stated.
"Like Flynt Coal of Atlas Academy?" he asked.
"Yes and no." She hummed. "You understand the theory behind magic right?" They both gave a nod. Magic was rarely practice anymore. Very few even believed in it.
"We'll my semblance is akin to magic. I call it Spellsong. What ever song I play, or record my self playing, something will happen." She explained.
"A small demonstration perhaps?" Ozpin asked.
"Okay I think I know the very thing, just don't tell anyone about this one song."
She swung around her guitar and began to play a slow melody.
Then she began to sing.
"I close my eyes only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity"
Ozpin was astounded by he voice. it was firm but gentle, almost a balm to his soul. Glynda looked to have began to relax.
'Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind"
They were bot stunned when five different dust crystals began to form in the air in front of them as they slowly rotated around cyan as she played.
"Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind"
Ozpin was reminded of the something he read many years ago, but could quite remember what it was. The now fully form crystals still floated and began to glow in time with Cyan's song.
"Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
everything is dust in the wind"
The Crystals then laid them selves down on the table in front of them. Cyan opened her eyes to see Silver contemplating an Glynda poking a Burn Crystal with her cattle crop.
"And that was only a small demonstration?" he asked.
She gave a nod. "That song I used, to extract dust from the air to form the main crystals. They work fully and I can do much more than this."
He gave her a smile. "I'll see you the day after tomorrow. Welcome to Beacon Academy." he handed her a new scroll.
Cyan looked at it with a smile and then stood up with him. "It was nice meeting you Silver, Glynda. See you guys at Beacon!" She then walked out.
Ozpin then noticed she wasn't wearing anything but that t-shirt. Seeing how her tail made the hem ride up and flash him.
"S-she was like that the whole time?" He asked Glynda with a strangled voice.
His deputy gave a nod. "Yes, it seems she was using the shower at Roger's shop when the battle started."
Picking up his pace, Opzin was able to catch up to Cyan. "Miss Cyan, a moment please!" He called after her.
She turned around and found Ozpin walking up to her. "Silver is everything alright?"
He handed her his over coat to his suit. "I had just noticed your...attire. This might help with the night's chill."
Cyan carefully grabbed the coat and put it over herself. She was practically swimming in it. She smiled at him. "Thank you, Ozpin. I'll make sure to return it after orientation." She then walked off with a wave.
Glynda walked over to him. "She's a student Oz." she quietly stated.
She watched has his shoulders sag. "I know." He replied softly.
They then walked back to Beacon, one much quieter than the other.