Colosseum - Spectator Thread

[Ruby Rose]

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I waved sweetly to the midnight-adorned girl, but her attention flew elsewhere abruptly. A sudden vibration and ringing at my waist tore me away from saying 'hi' for an unforeseeable amount of time as well. A loud gulp escaped my throat as I scanned the insane amount of PesterOmni replies that had been made. Why didn't this silly thing tell me about these before?! I asked in my head, terribly irate. Making the decision to check the rest at a later point, I simply flew to the latest response and viewed the post by 'blazingExorcist', telling some people to look up.

BE: One is wearing a black dress/cloak thing with green star-like sparkles all over it and white dog ears sticking out of her black hair.
BE: The other one is wearing mostly red and black.
BE: Has some red mechanical contraption hidden under her red cloak.

"Wait a second..." I mumbled. I would have said 'that sounds like me and GG!', buuuuut I was busy tilting my head to stare at the GIANT LIZARD FLYING IN THE AIR ABOVE US! It was so cool, it was like I was in some kinda fairy tale! Well... I guess I kinda was, being in the Omniverse and all but it was still so awesome!

My mouth fell open as wide as an Ursa trap as the dragon plummeted as quickly as a stone, but as graceful as an autumn leaf towards the dusty earth below. The watch on his wrist WAS cool, but I was still more focused on the fact that he was a dragon! Jade gracefully strode to meet the dragon, and I clumsily skipped along beside her. I simply waved to begin with, but when I realised that GG was performing a delicate curtsy, I changed my simple act to follow suit with a rather ditzy one of my own. Do you know how weird it is to curtsy in boots?

Hosting such a short stature proved very underwhelming in my case; I mean, there was this giant dragon towering over me! I felt so puny... thankfully, my focus was stolen from the depressing matter by the black-haired girl's greeting. She mentioned us both being named after gemstones... but I had no clue what her name was! I could probably find it in the PesterOmni memo or something later, unless she chose to introduce herself to BE right then. I looked over at Weiss, and noticed her attention set on some kind of ivory dog, with green energy arcing from its bland fur and... featureless face? Oh well, Weiss seemed to be having a blast tending to the hound, and I couldn't help but laugh at Weiss's fawning over the dog, much like she had with Zwei.

Speaking of which, maybe summoning him might be a good idea!

I cocked my head curiously when GG set to work summoning something before our eyes. I remembered watching Shulk do the same for his heat-proof clothing; watching the spectral material weave itself into a chosen shape was a dazzling sight, like watching a spider weave a glowy, colourful web. With time, out popped a small creature, glistening with some kind of glossy casing.

Silver orbs scanned the frog in delight, surprise, amusement, bewilderment and did I mention delight? I gratefully and tenderly took the frog from GG's hands, and as my flesh brushed along the sheen encasing the creature, my senses informed be the enveloping gloss was in fact ice. This was supported by GG telling me it would 'thaw'. "Thank you so much!" I shouted, staring at the frog still, prior to look at the girl and wrapping my arms around her in a large bear hug. Letting go, my silver eyes laid once more upon the frozen statue in my palms. "I'm gonna name you Garnet." I whispered adoringly, barely audible enough for GG and BE to hear.

She proceeded to craft yet another creation, producing a snow-white frog, and I didn't have to guess who it was for. My vision swung around to Weiss as her icy blue orbs were set on the dazzling creature GG had weaved. My fingers idly brushed the crimson, icy ridges of Garnet's flesh, as all eyes mused over the spectacular being brought into existence, not to mention all ears completely ignoring the rude, grey-skinned thing.

Finally blazingExorcist received his wonderful gift, and boy did it look awesome! If I didn't know better, I would have suspected it to be a small version of its owner! My mind was stolen by a small *blip* at my hip, and I swiftly whipped out my Scroll with the finesse of a gunslinger, viewing the PesterOmni... message...

I didn't exactly understand what was being said in the contents of the message, but it acted as some kind of trigger for gardenGnostic; the midnight girl seemed to just shut down before me, as if the words themselves menacingly clawed her insides apart. Worry washing over me like a tsunami, I rushed up to her and flung my arms around her, barely keeping Garnet safely in my palm.

"H-hey, what's wrong?" I asked quietly, running over the post in my head. The writer - egregiousInquisitor - mentioned someone by the name of Adam. "D-do you-" I started, but a cautious look shot at me from my snowy partner warned me otherwise. "Umm..." I couldn't think of anything to say; usually it was me being calmed down by Ozpin or Yang or someone.

I was grateful that I didn't have to diffuse the emotional time bomb in front of me. Instead, a pair of hovering, geometric crystals stole the limelight, and all eyes zoned in on the mysterious objects, as well as the child between them. She was... strange. Grey skinned, like a painting that took a dip in the river. Her midnight-black hair was matted and seemed to be somewhere between oily and stiff. A pair of golden eyes, the shade of candle lights, peeped out from underneath the ebony curtain.

At first glance, one might have been repulsed from the child, but once I focused on each individual feature, intrigue fueled my mind, and I found myself frequently scanning over her. Shaking my head to clear my thoughts, I set my sights on the crystals, whom began to introduce themselves in a somewhat jumbled manner, referring to GG as 'Jade Harley'. Ahh, gotcha, I see what she meant now, I mused, grinning over the revelation of her name.

A sharp barking erupted from beside Jade, and my boots left the ground for at least a second. I had completely forgotten about Jade's dog! Weiss, permission to call me a dunce; granted. A loud chuckle burst from my lips as Jade struggled to restrain her snow-white hound.

The floaty thingies spoke again, and a sudden image entered my mind, of a strange, ethereal, verdant man in armour. Dunno why, never saw him before, but I'm sure it meant something. I tore my meandering thoughts from that and back to the grey-skinned girl who casually approached the dog beside Jade. A beaming grin split my lips when the young female wrapped her arms around 'Bec', as I finally remembered his name was.

Oh, and the horned guy spoke again. I ignored him again.

Jade proceeded to ask if the objects were with someone named 'Nealaphh'. A hand went to my sharp chin as I entered a state of reminiscence. Nealaphh... Nealaphh... where have I heard that name before? Then it struck me; he was primordialPersistence on PesterOmni! Wow, I couldn't believe how many PO users I was getting to know!

The escorts asked if Jade could take care of the girl, Rebecca, since they weren't exactly fit for such a task. My head perked up in interest, but I held my tongue. The reasoning for her being alone struck me as sorrowful... buuuuut I didn't exactly have any way to empathise. To my delight, Jade gladly accepted the girl, and I had to force down my desire to jump for joy for the sake of looking professional.

I allowed Jade her time to ask questions about Rebecca's needs, and instead strolled off to meet Weiss. "Uh... sorry I ditched you." I apologized, rubbing my head, Garnet hanging in my limp arm by my side. However, she didn't seem to fussed at me leaving her, since the dragon man had approached her. I politely stood off to the side as the mythical creature introduced himself as 'Axorn', after a spiel curiosity and... stuff. Once he had introduced himself, I proceeded to do the same. "Nice to meet you, Axorn! My name's Ruby Rose but you can call me-" Oh no, I just about pulled the same mistake I did with Blake! "Scratch that, just call me Ruby..." I corrected, sighing and rubbing my neck nervously.

Phew. Crisis averted.

I decided to allow the two seemingly opposite people, at least in stature and attire, get to know each other, and instead utilised my time to peruse some of the unexplored depths of the Dataverse on my Scroll. However, it really didn't take me long to find something that made my heart skip a beat. It was titled, 'RWBY - Please reply'. Wanna take a crack at who the creator was? Yeah, it was my sister; Yang, and for a moment I rubbed eyes, believing I was dreaming... but the messageboard was really there.

It read;

Team RWBY - this is B and Y here. If you’re out there somewhere, please respond as soon as you can. Add us as contacts to your Scrolls (our contact names are our full names) so you can speak to us privately. We don’t want to risk arranging a meeting publicly in an unknown world.

Sincerely,
-B and Y

P.S. W, if you didn’t like your eye color, you could have worn colored contact lenses instead of having your eyes removed ;)

P.P.S. B is trying to erase all of what I wrote above!

My heart raced as I read the message. It was Yang alright. I laughed a smidgen at the second P.S., but I was stuck on the first for a while, until finally I burst into laughter after realising she was referring to Omni!

Although it was exciting, spectacular news, I had no wish to interrupt Weiss during her meeting with her new friend. While I waited, I posted a message in response.