RWBY: Fate and Destiny - Volume 1

Chapter 2: Ruby Rose

Legends. Stories scattered through time. Mankind has grown quite fond of recounting the exploits of heroes and villains, forgetting so easily that we are remnants, byproducts, of a forgotten past.

Man, born from dust, was strong, wise, and resourceful, but he was born into an unforgiving world. An inevitable darkness — creatures of destruction — the creatures of Grimm - set their sights on man and all of his creations. These forces clashed, and it seemed the darkness was intent on returning man's brief existence to the void.

However, even the smallest spark of hope is enough to ignite change, and in time, man's passion, resourcefulness, and ingenuity led them to the tools that would help even the odds. This power was appropriately named "Dust".

Nature's wrath in hand, man lit their way through the darkness, and in the shadow's absence came strength, civilization, and most importantly, life. But even the most brilliant lights eventually flicker and die. And when they are gone... darkness will return.

So you may prepare your guardians, build your monuments to a so-called "free world", but take heed... there will be no victory in strength.

X

It was the early hours of a spring's night in the commercial section of Vale, the buildings stood tall as shadows began to cover the tight alleyways, a man with curved ginger hair and a bowler hat began to smoke a cigar as he made his way through, his clothes consisted of a white coat with red lining.

This man was followed by hired henchmen for a job, while they headed past the crowded streets people were frightened by their presence and kept their distance. They saw a shop called "From Dust till Dawn" they entered the small shop, busting the door open to reveal their presence, an old balding man was at the counter, who was surprised by the sudden entry.

The criminals stared at crystals that were concealed by glass, with different colours and shapes, the ginger discards his cigar, folds his arms and proceeds to talk to the shop keep "do you have any idea how hard it is to find a dust shop this time of day?" as he said this one of the henchmen proceeds to threaten the old man with a gun.

"Please, just take my lien and leave" he begged but was shushed the younger man.

"Calm down, we're not here for your money" he replies, the man orders the goons to "grab the dust" and they comply.

One of the henchmen open a small black box, they each grab a small tube and make their way toward a group of larger coloured tubes, sucking the colour out of them.

"Give us the crystals, firm and uncut" another man orders the shop-keep, he does as he is told and begins to hand them over.

The last goon then sees a Young girl wearing a black dress and a red hooded cape playing music through her headphones, she was looking at some books, the goon draws a katana and begins to threaten the girl "alright kid put your hands where I can see 'em" however he was ignored, he then asks again "hey I said hands in the air, you got a Deathwish or somethin" he grabs the girl by the shoulder, making her hood fall down and startling her, revealing black hair with dark red highlights.

The girl takes off her headphones and asked the man "did you want something?"

"I said put your hands in the air, now" he was growing impatient.

"Are you robbing me?" The girl asked.

"Yes"

"Oh" the girl realised what was going on and reacted by punching the man against the wall, of the other goons approaches the girl and points his gun at her yelling "freeze"

She grabs the man and sends him flying out of the window while following, she pulls out a transforming scythe from under her hood and swings it around before planting in into the ground.

The ginger man looked cautiously at the girl and to his goons who were doing nothing "what are you waiting for, get her" the man orders, the henchmen run outside towards the girl.

One man tries to plunge his katana into her, she reacts by jumping and roundhouse kicks him in the face, she takes her scythe out of the street and spins around in a circle while firing a bullet and hits another goon with the blunt edge of her weapon, sending him into the air and knocks another to the ground.

She uses her bullets to dodge incoming enemy fire from a tommy gun and runs into one guy, knocking him into air and into the ground, then she spins again with her weapon and knocks the last goon next to the man wearing white, who was now wielding a cane.

"You were worth every lien, truly you were" he says to the man lying next to him, the gingers attention turns to the girl as he approaches her "well red I think we can all say it's an eventful evening" he says to the girl while taking his cigar out of his mouth, throwing it to the ground and snuffing it out, sirens were getting closer and he didn't want to be here for much longer "and as much as I'd love to stick around, I'm afraid this is where we part ways" he points his weapon at the girl and fires an explosive shot out of it.

The girl jumps high in the air to avoid it, when she landed she had realised he had gotten away, red looks around to look for the man and finds him climbing a ladder, the shop keep looks from inside the shop and the girl asks him "you ok if I go after him" the old man grunts in affirmation and she begins to pursue the thief.

They both make it to the rooftop of the nearest building; the girl calls to the man and he stops.

"Persistent" he utters under his breath, then a small airship comes from under the building, the side door opens allowing the man to enter, he climbs on and shouts at the girl "end of the line red!" he pulls out a red crystal and throws it at the girl, he shoots at it and suddenly a blonde woman with glasses wearing white and purple jumps in from nowhere, protecting the girl and appearing briefly invisible for a second.

The ginger man gloats at victory but it was short lived, he sees the woman protecting the small girl with a purple barrier, it then disappears, then the woman shoots magic projectiles out of her wand, causing the ship to stir.

The ginger man heads to the cockpit of the ship, the pilot was a woman with long black hair who wore a red and yellow dress "we've got a huntress" the man announces to the woman, she heads towards the door while leaving the man to fly the ship.

It begins to fly away but the older huntress had summoned dark clouds above it, icicles come pouring out from them, leaving the ship to take damage, the raven-haired woman stares at the two on the roof while concealing her face and she shoots a fireball at them, the blonds deflects it onto the roof of the building, leaving only residue, then she summons an explosion from under the huntress, who manages to avoid it.

The blonde reforms the debris from the roof into a weapon and fires it at the airship, the other woman shoots fire at it causing it to dissipate, it then reforms and damages it slightly, the ship gets surrounded by debris then the girl in a red dress causes them to incinerate with her powers, then the caped girl fires at the ship with her projectiles as it tries to get away but the mysterious figure blocks the attacks, she then summons more explosions and they both roll away.

The airship then blasts off as fast as it could to escape while they where distracted, it was too late.

The young girl then speaks to the older person "you're a huntress, can I have your autograph?!" the older woman was not amused by this however.

X

An hour later at the nearby police precinct in a dimly lit room, the young girl was being questioned by the woman "I hope you realize your actions tonight will not be taken lightly young lady, your actions have put others in great danger" despite stopping a robbery the girl was being lectured about endangering others.

"They started it" the caped girl replies angrily, she didn't deserve to be treated like this she thought.

"If it were up to me you'd be sent, home, with a pat on the back, and a slap on the wrist" the woman then nearly lashes at her with a small whip "but, there's someone here that would like to talk to meet you"

Then entered a man with white hair and a dark green suit, he was holding a plate of cookies in one hand and a mug of hot chocolate in the other "Ruby Rose, it's been too long" he says as he enters the room, he then leans into her face, noticing the colour of her eyes "you have silver eyes" he says to the girl.

She was confused "how do you know me?" Ruby asks.

"Your parents went to the Academy that I run when they was younger, which is where I assume you learned how to do this" he says as he gestures towards the small holographic screen with a recording of the events that had happened prior.

"Yea, dad taught me at Signal Academy"

"He taught you how to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?" he began to chuckle slightly "sounds just like him" the man says as he places the plate of cookies down on the table, Ruby then begins to start eating them.

After Ruby cleared her mouth she said "I've always looked up to him and I want to be a huntress, so I can help others in need just like him and mom did, which is why I chose a scythe"

"So I've noticed" the man replied with a smile on his face "you want to slay monsters then?" he asked.

"Yea, I've only got 2 more years left at Signal, then I'm going to apply to Beacon, see my cousin's starting there this year and she's becoming a huntress too, and huntsmen and huntresses are so cool and exciting" the young Rose got excited.

"Do you know who I am?" the man with glasses asked

"You're Professor Ozpin, you're the headmaster at Beacon" she answered

"Hello"

"Nice to meet you"

"You want to come to my school"

"More than anything"

"Well okay then, come on, we best bring you home before your father gets any more worried"

"Okay"

They headed out of the room and set off towards Ruby's home island of Patch, which was near to the mainland.

X

Inside a small house on Patch there was a man with slicked back black hair and a stubble, the man wore a white and grey shirt and a red cape, he was drinking from a small flask on the couch while watching the news about the robbery that had taken place. Then the door bell rang, he got up from the couch and opened the door, revealing Ruby and Ozpin on the other side.

"Hey dad sorry I'm late" Ruby apologized

Ruby's father pulls her into a hug "Ruby, there you are, I was worried about you"

"I know, I'm sorry"

"I was so worried about you, petals"

"Ok dad, you can let go now" they stop hugging and Ruby sits down on the couch while he talks to the headmaster.

"Yo Oz, what brings you here" The man asks.

"Hello Qrow, I was just bringing Ruby back home after a brief meeting with her and I've decided to let her skip 2 years of Signal and head straight to Beacon, if that is alright with you of course"

"Huh, my little girl Skipping ahead of everyone else, sure why not" Qrow took another sip of his alcohol and turned towards his daughter "you looking forward to it Ruby?" he asked

"I sure am"

"Initiation starts in 2 weeks" the man added "I should be going now, it is getting late, it was nice meeting you miss Rose"

"Bye Professor"

"See ya Oz"

The headmaster then left and Qrow closed the door.

X

2 weeks had passed and Ruby and her cousin Yang were on a large carrier airship that was taking them to Beacon Academy.

"I can't believe my baby cousin is going to Beacon with me, this is the best day ever!" Yang exclaims as she hugged her tightly.

"Please stop" the younger girl barely managed to speak due to being crushed by her cousin.

"But I'm so proud of you" The blonde says as she lets go.

"Really cus, it was nothing" Ruby says rather dejectedly

"What do you mean it was incredible, everyone at Beacon is gonna think you're the bees knees"

"I don't wanna be the bees knees, I don't want to be any kind of knees, I just want to be a normal girl with normal knees" The younger cousin was feeling anxious as she was the youngest girl to be accepted.

"What is with you, aren't you excited"

"Of course, I'm excited, it's just, I got moved ahead 2 years, I just don't want people to think I'm special or anything"

Yang puts her arm around Ruby and says "but you are special" Yang's talk was swiftly cut off by a news bulletin

"The robbery was led by nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick, who continues to evade authorities" the news then shows a mugshot of the person that Ruby had fought prior to meeting the headmaster "if you have any information on his whereabouts please contact the Vale police department, back to you lisa" the screen cuts to a woman with silver hair sitting at a news desk"

"Thank you, Cyril" the woman on the tv says, "this Saturday's Faunus civil rights protest turned dark when members of the white fang disrupted the ceremony" there was a picture of people with animal ears holding signs on the bulletin, "the once peaceful organisation has now disrupted-" the screen shut off, interrupting the broadcast.

A hologram of the lady Ruby had seen weeks prior appears in the middle of the carrier, she begins to speak to the initiates as they stood around it "hello and welcome to Beacon!"

Yang asks, "who's that?"

"My name is Glynda Goodwitch" the huntress quickly responded "you are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious Academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future huntsmen and huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world." The hologram disappears.

Ruby was impressed by the view of the city and around it, letting out a "wow!" "look you can see signal from up here!" the younger cousin points out, "I guess home isn't far away after all"

The older cousin puts her arm around the smaller girl "Beacon's our home now she says"

A clearly sick blonde boy in silver armour and a hoodie with jeans rushes past the two, trying to hold it in.

"Well, I guess the view isn't for everyone" Yang says.

"It was a nice moment while it lasted" Ruby adds.

"I wonder who we're gonna meet"

"I just hope they're better than vomit boy"

Beacon was in sight, its tower shining from below, they had made it.

Authors notes

Qrow is Ruby's father in this one, I liked the idea so I went with it, not much change so far but next chapters will be changed further

RWBY is property of Rooster Teeth and was created by the late Monty Oum, I do not own it