Eclipse - Act 1 - The Healing

Chapter 12 - Family

Ruby

The gentle hooting voice of an owl echoes from outside the cranked window, the Fractured Moon watching silently in the dark starry night sky. Inside of Team S.S.S.N's dormitory are the three members of Team R.W.B, asleep in the beds loaned to them by the gentlemen who admittedly sleep quite happily on the floor. Scarlet's hand close to the palm of Sage's where they lay. Sun laid in the corner right by Blake's bed and Neptune close to Weiss', her hand actually near his blue hair, she must have been caressing it ever so gently when he fell asleep.

Ruby however is the one alone, yet she is happy with that – has never really felt she needed to have a boyfriend of girlfriend in her life. All she ever wanted was to help people, to bring happiness everywhere she would go and stop the Creatures of Grimm from taking anymore lives. She wears her black pyjama top and white and red striped bottoms as she sleeps there, her scroll on the bedside table.

The scroll starts beeping and vibrating on the desk, with a piece of music playing that she recognises – called "All Our Days". She moans as she lays in her bed, groaning as she mutters through her dreams. "Mom...where are you?" She whispers softly, until she gasps, waking up from her dream, looking around to see everyone still asleep in their positions. Her eyes pan round to see the scroll that hails her ear, so she sits up and rubs her silver eyes with her fists closed.

Reaching over to it, she grasps the closed scroll, flicking it open and revealing the glass screen inside, and the face on it. She raises a brow when she sees that it is her kind and loving father – Taiyang Xiao Long. She immediately answers it, since he has always been the overprotective one in the family, if someone had not picked up the scroll immediately then may the gods have mercy. Because he would be going mad, calling repeatedly and even calling the cops to make sure that she is okay.

Wouldn't be the first time.

She opens the scroll and with a softly spoken hushed voice she answers, both because she is bleary eyes and does not want to risk waking them up. Weiss especially, she does not like getting woken up when she is asleep, she can still feel the bruise on the back of her head when she pranked her once when she was asleep. They never did it again, that was for certain.

"Hey dad...what's up?" She whispers groggily, rubbing her eye again as she yawns, totally cool with being woken up like that. Well...clearly it was not just the scroll that woke her up, it was whatever that dream was that she was having.

Something about Summer.

"Sorry honey, I didn't mean to wake you up...but I couldn't wait any longer." He explains with a sigh, and Ruby sits forward, trying to keep as quiet as she possibly can to not wake everybody up right now.

"It's okay...what do you mean?" She asks her father curiously, he falls silent for a moment, knowing that her reaction will either be that of great concern or ecstasy...or both at different points since her sister's situation is not perfect right now. "Dad?"

"Yang...she's woken up." Taiyang informs her, Ruby's silver eyes bulge from their sockets and a high-pitched squeal builds and builds. She cannot contain it for any longer, squeaking with happiness to know her sister is alive.

"She's okay?" She cheers, accidentally waking everyone up, and Weiss tenses, eyes bursting open as she slowly sits up with messy white hair, glaring at her teammate with annoyance. "Sorry..." She softly whimpers, shrinking into her shoulders. Blake and Sun both groan as they rub their faces, knackered from being woken up so early in the night.

"Ruby...what's going on?" Blake groans as she sits up, Neptune does the same, looking around as he scratches the back of his head. Scarlet and Sage both sit up as they look at Ruby whom awkwardly sits there on her scroll, squeezing her eyes shut with embarrassment and guilt for waking them all up.