Blossoming Rose

The black bowler hat wearing, orange haired, cane wielding thief stride into a little Dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale expecting it to be an easy snatch and grab. But when one of his boys was sent flying through a window that plan changed. "Okayyy… Get her."

Ruby Rose twisted slightly using her body weight to kick one robber in the face while using her beloved Crescent Rose to hit one guy into a wall baseball style then knocking the third to their bosses' feet. "Three down in thirty seconds" she muttered to herself three times as she closed her eyes and rocked on her heels as she gently knocked her fist against her leg.

Roman blinked as he thought "What is up with this girl?" then he promptly booked it up the staircase he saw. When Ruby opened her eyes, she saw him and used her scythe's sniper rifle to get to the roof immediately after him.

Roman dropped his cigar and muttered more to himself than to her. "Persistent." Then to her he said "End of the line Red." Before tossing a Dust crystal, opening the bottom of his cane and blowing the crystal up. "Whoa-ho-ho-ho." But it was short lived because a Huntress had showed up to the party and protected Red. He grunted then tossed his cane into the bullhead as he shouted "We got a Huntress!" and let his companion fight.

Ruby muttered to herself "Dust crystals can explode. How'd I forget that?" she did the same ritual again in the exact same order. But that wasn't the most important thing to focus on as she turned her scythe into a sniper rifle and opened fire but all her shots were blocked.

In the end the criminals got away which annoyed Ruby but not as much as being treated rudely by the huntress.

"Glynda please. Ruby Rose… you have silver eyes." A middle-aged man with silver hair and brown eyes walked in. "Uh, um." "My apologizes. I'm Professor Ozpin and this is Glynda Goodwitch. We work at Beacon Academy. Nice to meet you Ruby." Ozpin held out his hand but instead of taking it Ruby blinked and muttered "Professor Ozpin and Glynda Goodwitch" three times. Ozpin watched the ritual silently, that blank yet studying gaze never wandered.

"Ruby. How'd an adorable girl like you learn to fight?" Ruby answered almost immediately "My uncle… He thought it'd be good to learn to channel my ritualistic behavior into something I can master." "Ritualistic behavior?" Ruby nodded, her eyes looking down at the table.

"I was born Autistic… Thankfully I'm very high functioning but I still have rituals I like to do... Usually my sister keeps me in check but with her going to Beacon in…. Two days now and me being at Signal for two more years well…" Ruby paused to catch her breath. While she did so Ozpin shot a glance at Glynda who had an eyebrow raised. Glynda kneeled to whisper in Ozpin's ear. "I know you well enough to know what you're planning and I'll go along with it but I will not coddle her and I can almost guarantee that the students wont either." Ozpin nodded then looked at Ruby "How would you like to go to Beacon? This year?"

Welcome to something a little Different and thanks for reading. I've actually had this idea since the first chapter of Scattered Petals and I finally decided to work on it. I encourage you to Like, Favorite and Review. Any and all feedback helps.

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