Music:A tall handsome stranger rode into townWith fire in his eyes burning red as sundown

*a petal of roses exploded back to ruby as she fell on her knees breathing heavily*

Music:His boots were all dusty, his coat open wide Six ways of dying hung low on his side

*Ruby tried to activate her semblance again but fell on her face a second later she has completely overused her semblance*

Ruby:f..f...fuck.... Come...come on don't give up just yet you bastard....

Music:He went in the town hall asking for me They told him that I was still town deputy

*Ruby said breathlessly to herself as she stumbled to get on her 2 feet, only for her to feel a deep pain in her gut and send flying to a house*

Music:I sent him to prison to pay for his crime He killed a guard on the Santa Fe line

* ruby crashed through a window coughing up blood her vision blurry as she stumbled to the ground*

Music: He spread word around town that my time had come My notch was already carved on his gun

*. Ruby groaned seeing double as she tried to reach for defense but a foot crushed her hand hard making her scream*

Winter: I'll... I'll say this again you little nuisance....

*Winter said blood trickling down her forehead, her military uniform filled with cuts and tears*

Music:He's laughin' and braggin' and having his fun It's all a show for he knows I won't ru...

* One of the soldiers behind winter shot the gramophone stopping the music. Winter's uniform was ruined thanks to ruby and she had some cuts a bruises, but she has more experience so ruby was the one that took the real beating. Ruby was flipped over and she felt the tip of winter's sword on her neck*

Winter:by orders of commander ironwood you are under arrest for the killing of...

*Winter closed her eyes as she felt something wet touch her face. She took some deep calming breaths as Ruby's blood covered saliva slowly went down, ruby gave her a bloody grin*

Ruby;why don't you bite me?

*That was the last thing ruby said before winter slammed her foot on Ruby's mouth breaking one of her front tooth clean off her mouth*

Present

Commercial:join the atlas military today!

*The commercial continued to play some more patriotic propaganda, as Ruby licked her pure golden tooth looking at it while she waited for glynda to come back with the food*

Ray:oh my God shut up

Maria:no I'm serious he totally like said that! He has a major crush on you

Jenny;omg you have to ask him go the school dance

*Ruby glanced at the other people in the food court, more specifically at a table in front of her's. There was this groups of girls around Ruby's age talking about boys, clothes just regular girl stuff. Ruby glanced down at the bags of clothes she was forced to buy*

Ruby"I.... I don't get it, why do they get so exited over clothes and I don't?"

*Ruby thought to herself, while behind ruby glynda was watching ruby watch the girls. She made her presence known sitting down with the food tray*

Glynda:see something you like?

Ruby:just checking my surroundings making sure no one tries to sneak up on me

*Ruby said lying mostly for herself. Glynda hummed as she grabbed a fry*

Glynda:I see, you know beacon academy has a dance every year

Ruby:why would I care about that?

Glynda:I'm just saying you might like getting all dolled up instead of....

*Glynda gestured to all of ruby, ruby rolled her eyes she hesitated for a moment but she took her bandana down so she could eat*

Ruby:yeah, get me all dolled up so people can make fun of the freak

Glynda:freak? Why would you call yourself that? Do you feel like a freak?

*Glynda asked already making a mental note for later. Ruby kept eating, her gaze never leaving the group of girls, not being able to understand them. Sadly for her that made her vulnerable*

Ruby: that's what the white fang called me when they found out I was born a human. I'm not a human anymore but since I wasn't born a faunus I can't play with them either. I don't belong anywhere....

*Ruby said, one of the girls finally noticed ruby and smiled at her, ruby flinched and looked down at her food putting her bandana back on, closing whatever vulnerability was open*

Glynda:hm, I can see how that could be hard on a person to feel like you don't belong anywhere

Ruby:hard? Please, fighting a whole team of atlas soldiers and robots was hard, falling on the air and having to crash land on a lake was hard, fighting and losing to a dragon Grimm and escaping by the skin of my teeth was hard. Not fitting in? Like I give two cents about if people like me or not

*Ruby said putting back up her defensives and glynda knew that*

Glynda"that's enough for now let's not scare her away"

Glynda: you've faced a dragon Grimm?

Ruby:heh yeah, found there cave one day boy was that a hell of a journey

Glynda:tell me about it. I'm sure it's a great story

*Ruby looked at glynda confused, while glynda just gave her a patient smile*

Ruby:why do you want to know that?

Glynda:oh simple curiosity, since I'm pretty sure not even ozpin has seen one of those let alone fight one. They're the rarest species of Grimm, well that and the wendigo Grimm

*Ruby flinched her eyes going as small as pin needles and instinctually went for her guns that weren't there. She let a low growl
As she forced her hands back on the table sending a small glare to glynda, who was looking at ruby as if she was some pet project, at least that's how ruby saw it in reality glynda was just a concerned teacher*

Ruby;don't! Mention that thing I hate that thing and I don't want to be reminded of that thing are we clear?

Glynda:yes, my apologies I didn't know that was such a trigger word for you

Ruby: well now you do

*Ruby said in a harsh tone as he tail slowly calmed down and ruby took a few bites of her meal to distract her mind from having flashbacks of that thing*

Meanwhile with tai

*We see him on his scroll digging up everything he can about this rose of vacuo when the door was knocked. Tai got up from his chair and opened the door seeing qrow there*

Qrow:man....you look like shit

*Qrow said honestly, tai eyes were red from lack of sleep and coffee, his face had a 9 a clock shadow with a few strands of hair coming out in random direction, and he smelled like qrow does at the ens of the night when he goes to a bar*

Tai:thanks, nice to see you too come in

*Tai walked back inside with Arie following him. The inside was just as messy as tai, unwashed plates and mugs, uneaten food, little critters running around the floor*

Qrow:you know I can buy you a cleaning service right?

*Tai ignored him and walked to the wall. Qrow walked next to him seeing the wall filled with information and news articles about the rose of vacuo*

Qrow:you've been busy

Tai:yeah, this rose has over 50 kills that we know off the numbers could be more. She's knowned for being a slave that frees other slaves, has a cactus juice addiction. And silver eyes, SILVER EYES QROW!!

Qrow:summer wasn't the only one who had them tai, look I think you're just making a mountain out of a mole heel

Tai:oh! So there's just another person called ruby rose?!

Qrow: there's about 4.8 million people on what's left of this world before Salem got to it so yeah. And last I checked but ruby wasn't a faunus

*Qrow placed a chair behind tai who sat on it extremely tired*

Qrow:i just feel like you're grasping at straws since you want to desperately that summer rose legacy lives on

Tai; she's also my daughter you ass

Qrow:yes and when summer died you became way more attached to rubes according to yang

Tai;so you'll take the word of a then 6 year old but not your best friend?

Qrow:.... I mean

Tai;pfff you ass

*Tai said chuckling as he kicked playfully qrow's shins. Qrow gave a crooked grin as he grabbed tai and placed his hand around his shoulder*

Qrow:come on let get you to bed, if it will give you peace of mind I'll go to beacon and keep an eye out for her

Tai:fine, but don't tell ozpin I don't need his cryptic ass meddling with my family anymore

Qrow: still haven't forgiven him huh? You know summer was his and Glynda's friend he was also heartbroken when the news reached him

*They made it to Tai's room laying him down. Tai was frowning looking another way the thought of ozpin always left him in a foul mood*

Tai;he was the one that gave her the secret solo mission when we all were available. It's his! Fault that she's not here

Qrow:short stack could've said no, she could've requested us to join her but she didn't. I loved her god knows we all did, but she had the worse hero complex in beacon always with the mentality that she can do things alone so that her friends and family wouldn't suffer. Get some sleep tai I'll be here when you wake up and we can have an actual discussion

*Qrow left to sleep in the guest room, tai turned around and saw a picture frame of him and Summer together on there wedding day in city hall. He sighed and closed his eyes going to sleep*

Tai:it's his fault...

*Tai said years of denial clear from his tone, summer quickly changed to a normal human with flaws to a goddess that made everything better in tai's mind*

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