RWBY: Faith Restored (Book 1)

The King's Reign Begins

A Week Later

Ruby woke up to feel the sun shine down on her so she kept her eyes closed before sitting up to see she was in her room in the cabin in Patch. The door opened and Summer came through. She sighed in relief before sitting down on Ruby's bed and hugged her daughter tightly "Oh thank the Brothers, you're awake!" Ruby looked at her "Mom? What happened?" Summer let go and sighed "Beacon is overrun with Grimm. Vale is trying to piece itself back together." Ruby looked down before asking "What about Vlad?"

Summer answered "He took his castle with him and moved to Atlas to console Willow. After-" "Weiss! Where is she!?" Summer had a look sadness and said "We haven't found her yet. But Atlas is working on trying to find her. We know the Blood Fang don't have her. If they did, they'd be broadcasting it." Ruby took a sigh of relief before asking "Black and Yang?" Summer lowered her head "Yang is a tough girl. She'll get through this." Ruby noticed that her mother avoided Blake so she asked "Can I see Yang?" Summer nodded and helped her up.

Ruby walked to Yang's room and asked "Yang?" The blonde fighter looked her left to look at Ruby who gasped at the state of her eyes. Yang's eyes were red. Not the kind when her semblance was activated. Instead, the red that happens when one is crying. She said "Hey Ruby..." Ruby looked down at her arms which were bandaged stumps and Yang followed her eyes to look at her arms before saying "It's just a flesh wound, Ruby." Yang laughed for a second before it turned into cries to which Ruby rushed over and hugged her bigger sister. Yang tried wrapping her arms around Ruby as she cried on her younger sister's shoulder. Ruby looked at Yang and asked "Yang, where's Blake?" Yang sniffles and answered "She was here... At least for the first three days. Then, she was gone... She left a note saying... She was going home to Menagerie." At that point, Yang's tears were dry but she still wanted to cry more. Ruby looked down before wrapping her arms around her sister to comfort her.

Summer and Taiyang watched the scene sadly before Taiyang went to grab the three boxes that were on the table. Summer opened the day more and asked "Hey girls, we have something for you two." Taiyang came upstairs and said "I know Christmas was a couple days ago, but we got some special deliveries from Atlas." Taiyang put down two long rectangular boxes down on Yang's bed and handed Ruby a small cube box. He opened the two long boxes to reveal two silver metal arms. Yang's eyes widen and asks "H-how?" Summer answered "We were afraid we would've had to work harder or pull some favors to get these for you but Old Jimmy gave us these in hopes you would continue the valiant effort you put into defending the people."

Ruby looked at the box before opening it and gasping at the sight. A metallic eyeball colored silver. Taiyang said "We got a surgeon in town willing to help put the eye in." Yang looked at her new arms before asking "Dad, can you... Help me put them on?" He smiled and grabbed one of her arms and said "Now, this is going to hurt a bit since it has to dig into your skeletal structure as well as nervous system to move properly, OK?" Yang took deep breaths before nodding and leaving herself for the pain.

A couple hours later

Ruby stepped outside to look at her family. Her black eye patch was still on so she removed it and gasped. Everything was the same color. However, now she had a heads up display of the aura of her parents as well as hers and her heart rate. It was essentially a scroll in her brain. "I can see everything... I can see your aura levels. Your heart rates... Everything!" Ruby was excited as she hugged her mother, father, and sister. Yang was finally able to hug back as her arms felt like the real thing. Things were slowly but surely started to get better.