The Hunter's Shop

Side Story: Ruby and the Tonitrus

No One's POV:

*Night before White Fang: Part Two*

Ruby was inside her room, looking at the Tonitrus on her desk while Yang, Blake, and Weiss were out doing their own things. This gave Ruby a bit of peace and quiet, allowing her to see the innards of this weapon. What could it have inside? What is it made of? How powerful is it? All questions that would soon be answered.

She then sits down in her chair, beginning to dismantle the very weapon in front of her. The Tonitrus then lost the bludgeon, a copper ball inside it. She then opened up the handle, exposing the technology inside it. It was crude, wires in place and a small engine installed. What fuelled the Tonitrus? It's not lighting dust, because there is no dust in sight.

This made Ruby excited, if this weapon had no dust, that meant this weapon truly was old. Older than the refinement of dust, older than her, and maybe even older than her dad. She then looked at the engine, it was small and compact, but how did it produce so much energy? How did it make the Tonitrus so powerful if it's so small?

She then took out the engine in the Tonitrus, looking at it and seeing what makes it so different. She then looked at her scroll, it was almost dead....

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She began to put the cables of the engine into the charging port. She then turned it on, it's electric hum taking life. The scroll began to charge immediately, reaching its max in such a short time. Ruby then pulled out the cables, not wanting to start an electrical fire in her dorm room.

Ruby's POV:

Ruby: "Such a powerful engine! No wonder this thing's so powerful!"

I began to put the Tonitrus back together. It was such a simple design but it was super powerful! Though, what's the Tonitrus made of? It has to be steel, wouldn't it? With this little curiosity, she couldn't stop herself from looking at it. She then began to look at the Tonitrus's frame, it's metal dark yet durable. It had a faint smell to it, its scent was horrible.

Ruby: "Oh my Oum! That smells horrible! Did Jaune spill something on it!?"

Ruby then quickly got her cleaning kit and a mask to wear. She was gonna clean this thing until it was spotless! Maybe that will get rid of its stench! However, as she began cleaning, the gunk that had leaked into the frame of the Tonitrus was.... Disgusting to say the least, but also very much disturbing.

It was blood, or, at least dried blood from ages ago. How long has it been since this thing was last cleaned? The blood also had small bits, small bits of burnt meat, charred from the electricity the Tonitrus produces. The site of it all was starting to get to Ruby. Her stomach grew weak from seeing the blood that had been dried in the weapon, but having to pull out the viscera was now clawing at her, making her feel queasy, sickened by the gunk and meat that had been left in the Tonitrus.

Finally, Ruby couldn't hold out and stopped the cleaning. She got up and dumped the gore she had gotten into a trashcan before going to the bathroom, cleaning her hands of said gore. She scrubbed her hands together, more and more until she felt like her hands were truly clean. However, with all this gore, it made her wonder...

Who was the owner of such a weapon, and why is it full of dried blood?

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Could it be human blood?

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The idea of this being used to hunt others was sickening, which finally got Ruby's stomach to give. She fell to the ground and threw up into a trashcan. The weight of such speculation had made her crack, spilling her guts into the trash with the idea that the Tonitrus was a murderer's very tool for slaughter.