"Turn ur autocorrect on!!!!!!!"
"Chill out. If mom's worried about anyone it me (─‿‿─)"
"Um I don't own a computer .-. You sure ur schedule's all booked up?? Don't u work in that bowling place? Sister!! Let's go bowling!!! :DD"
"Srry. Ur still little to me. I just don't want anyone stressing u out or making you feel bad."
"Cool. SPEAKING OF! Ur living in a dorm now, right? Bet it's pretty cozy, sharing a roof with all those smart, mature college students. Got your eye on anyone? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"
Couldja blame a girl for asking? :|
The rest of the bike ride home was spent in a still slightly dizzy haze, the night sky doing its best to glimmer faintly past the vibrancy of the city's lights. Thankfully it wasn't a long ride, and a half hour later Ruby yawned as she finished locking her bike up and slipped quietly through the dorms entrance. The dorm was a large building, and while as new as the rest of the college, the headmaster had been keen on giving the university a very stately, prestigious air, and the red brick and vines looked like a well kept building a century older than it was. Not that Ruby was even paying slight attention. She was exhausted. How the heck was she supposed to go do stuff with Ciri
after work tomorrow? sure she didn't have class on friday, but that didn't mean she'd be any more awake once work was over.
Granted the mild head trauma probably didn't help =w=.
She sighed and resigned herself to the fact she was either going to have to caffienate like it was finals week or just fall asleep halfway through... err... whatever they were going to do. Now that she thought about it Ciri hadn't even given the
slightest hint about what that was, and a nervous frown flittered across her face as the prospect. Ciri's 'have I ever steered you wrong?' echoing in her mind as memories of the nacho incident of July danced in her head. Horrifying,
terrible memories. "
So much cheese." she muttered to herself with a shiver as she reached the final steps to her floor. She crossed the short distance to her door shortly after and quietly as possible slit her keycard through the reader, the door unlocking with a click before she edged it open to peek inside. Weiss was in her bed on one side of the room, the covers hiding the heiress save for the soft, regular ups and downs as the girl breathed. Ruby let out a sigh of relief as she pushed the door the rest of the way open and started to creep inside. She really didn't think she had the mental energy to deal with another argument with the girl.
So of course the dizzy spell hit halfway across the room. She blinked as she stumbled, put her left foot in front of her right just as her right started to lift, and could only let out a resigned "
ohcrap-" before she crashed into her night stand. Weiss Schnee wasn't exactly the lightest sleeper in Parrel, but
that was certainly enough to wake her up, and she yelped in surprise herself at the noise and whirled on the noise. Fencing foil snatched off the ground near her bed to ward off whatever foul intruder had thought to take advantage of her sleeping-
"
...Seriously?"
Ruby groaned as she pushed herself off the nighstand to flop back onto her bed, rubbing at her forehead as she closed her eyes to do her best to fight the pain. "...Hey Weiss. Sorry I just-" she started to sit up and found herself staring blankly at the sight before her. "
...You do know that doesn't actually have any point or edge on it right-"
"-I am perfectly aware!" She snapped with a growl, nonetheless lowering her 'sword' "It was simply for the... intimidation factor."
"
...The intimidation factor of a floppy metal stick with less of an edge than a butter knife?" Ruby asked, more genuinely confused than sarcastic.
"
...Just shut up and tell me what just happened." Weiss said with a flat growl. "
And what the hell happened to your face? Did you get into a fight?" Weiss said, disapproval and mild surprise crossing her face at the idea of the inept but admittedly (obnoxiously) sweet Ruby hitting someone.
"
N-no! I just... err..." Ruby started with a strong, affronted glare but it died faster than it had come. Did she
really want to tell Weiss she'd crashed facefirst into a freaking wall with her bike? Was not being thought of as a girl who got into fights worse than being thought of as even
more of a moron than her dormmate already considered her. "
It was... umm... well its just none of your business." She finally settled on as she turned and flopped onto her bed. Weiss gave an affronted scoff and narrowed her eyes at Ruby's back "
Excuse me? If my roommate is getting into fights or whatever happened then it certainly is my right to know! what if your opponent shows up here?"
"I'm pretty sure they won't" Ruby said with a dry snort at the thought of the building trundling across town to take vengeance.
"
...So it was a fight!"
"
N-no, thats not what, I didn't mean... ugh. Just forget about it. Please." Ruby said as she pulled the covers over her head with a miserable sigh.
Weiss stared for a few more seconds before she huffed and shook her head, throwing her covers back over herself with as much sass as one could.
"Whatever. Just make sure it doesn't come back on me, idiot. And you better change before you fall asleep, I do not want this room smelling like crummy bowling alley!"
"
...Ted's is not crummy" Was all Ruby really had the energy to muster sullenly in response, but she nonetheless forced herself to get back up and rifle through her drawers for pajamas.
A few minutes later she was brushing her teeth after the worlds quickest and laziest shower, and finally checking her phone before she crashed. She rolled her eyes at the first few parts, Yang inadvertently doing her best to fight off Ruby's miserable mood. Right up until the last message that had her almost choke on her toothbrush in surprise that really shouldn't have been surprising at this point but seriously why???? >_< She finished up and flopped onto her bed phone at the ready to send of what she didn't know was going to be the last text message of her normal life.
'
1. nvr 2. I dun think mom has evr had 2 wrry bout u tbh 3. just have mom & dad send u 1! say it a gift for me 2! but sre mybe just not tmrrow 4. it ok but I an adult now I want chances 2 prove it 5. GOODNIGHT YANG >:((((((((('
She hit send and tossed the phone on to her night stand. ("
you're going to break it if you keep doing that" "Please just go to sleep Weiss T~T") She sighed and rubbed at her eyes, doing her best to ignore the dull headache at the back of her head. Somewhere in the back of her mind there was a thought about how going to sleep with a bump like hers could be really bad, but she was just too tired to care. As her eyes fluttered shut, all she could think about was how she really just wanted today to be over. Hoping desperately tomorrow would suck just a little bit less.
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//Chapter 1: Initial Convergence//
@ All
Sleep takes you whenever it normally would, but it is not to dreams your minds go. You feel as if you're falling, swallowed up by darkness, and for the briefest of moments you feel more alone than you ever had in your entire life. As if you are the only thing that ever had or ever will exist.
Then another joins you in the swirling shadows. You crash together as you fall, two very different minds that are somehow the same person. faint memories begin to intertwine, along with the sharp focus of this last day. You feel one self falling away, but a few memories still cling to you. You are alone again.
Another presence tears into the darkness, something far darker, far greater, and far more terrifying than any one being has any right to be. Yet it seems as confused and surprised as you are for a moment, staring at you as if you are a fascinating bug that has crawled across its path. It snatches at your formless mind even as you to rebel against this sight, your conscious self threatening to tear itself apart at the idea that this Never-Meant-To-Be which has you in its grasp could possibly exist.
"Good. You all will do nicely"
The voice hits you like a freight train, and your memory of this encounter shatters save for vague rememberances of something you should have never seen.
You wake up. Memories of a day in a life that was never yours in a place called Parrel sharp in your mind, and faint traces of the rest of that life gliding beneath the surface.
You are not where you fell asleep last.
you may never wake up there again.
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???,?????,????, Point Zero
For her part, Ruby Rose, huntress in training and leader of the super-awesome-cool team RWBY, woke up with a mild concussion she had not gone to sleep with e_e. She sat up with a jolt as whatever godawful nightmare that was finally ended, clutching her head as she groaned. "
Ugh. Ok. Never ever ever trying one of Weiss' cooking attempts before bed again. What time is....it?"
It probably should have hit her when her when her backside felt metal instead of bed, but this was not team RWBY's dorm she was in.
The chamber was vast. Metal walls went high into the air to form a domed ceiling, dull grey with a massive '
TESTING CHAMBER 023' emblazoned on part of the wall. a single set of massive blast doors was set into the wall to the right of Ruby, the foot of thick steel tossed into the hall beyond and crumpled like bits of paper. the rest of the walls weren't in better shape, the formerly perfect half circle dented and stressed with chunks of metal scattered across the floor. Likewise, a set of extremely thick glass partway up the wall on another side of the room had been utterly shattered, the control room on the other side in complete disarray. None of that caught Ruby's attention. No, the massive, techincal...
thing that stood in the center of the room did. A tower that went all the way up to the ceiling from the floor with a small section missing in the middle... is what it probably looked like before the huge, purple laser that was still humming with energy apparently shot up from the bottom half to blast apart the top half of the tower and through the ceiling into the unknown above them. The sound was eeriely quiet save for that quiet hum and the occasional 'WHUMP' as the beam pulsed erratically.
Ruby didn't say anything except an extremely small "ow" when she pinched herself, staring blankly at the sight before her. What... what was going on? what was that? Dust??? Where the heckles was she and who were all these other people scattered around- wait no one was Yang! And that was Ciri getting up! Wait. Who the heck was Ciri? She didn't know a Ciri.
Yes I do she works at the bowling alley with me!
Wait. What bowling alley? I don't have a job I'm a freaking huntress in training I don't have time for that.
Then why do I remember a bowling alley????
"
...U-umm... hello? Do... do anyone of you know whats going on?" She finally asked, hesitantly waving her hand to wave at everyone she didn't know and didn't remember knowing before she remembered knowing
ow her brain.
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