A/N: Yet another fic dedicated to the adventure of RWBY Quest. This time revolving around Ruby's unique condition. Only in Rubes' POV. I'll be writing this along with the release of any RWBY Quest updates. I'm hoping to be able to portray the thoughts of Ruby, something that we don't always get to see. It's kinda like those Twitch Plays Pokemon fics, I guess, but maybe less intense.

Edit 2/07/16 [ALL]: Lots of fixes for the earlier chapters; mostly grammatical and tidying up the bits that didn't flow properly. Added more "thoughts" into the story where they weren't previously, and altered some of the others to match up with Quest more accurately. A major update for chapter 35, as apparently I accidentally left out a large segment of the Quest (whoops).

Ruby stands in her dark dorm room. This will be the day. Today, she is escaping from school. She doesn't know what time it is, but it's dark outside.

She has a lot on her mind. Too much. The only clear thought that stands out to her is that she needs to find her friends and escape with them. Save herself and them.

Beacon is not safe.

Something tells her that she should look through her inventory to find something to brighten up the place. She has a flashlight and spare batteries, but she decides to save those for when she really needs them. Instead she walks over to the light switch on the wall and flicks it on.

The room becomes illuminated by the fluorescent lights overhead, and she finds that she is alone in the room. Even though she can clearly see this, something whispers in the back of her mind to search the bunks. She does so, and further confirms that she is the only one in here.

Another thought crosses her mind, telling her to scour the bookshelf for a heavy book that she could swing around easily. Ruby's not sure why she would want to do that with a book, but she goes to look for one anyway, finding a large tome labeled Beacon: A History.

Thoughts of her beloved weapon, Crescent Rose, hover in her mind, but she knows that it lies in the armory inside her personal locker. She intends to retrieve it soon, after figuring out where her friends are. With this thought in mind she heads toward the door and takes a step outside.

She looks down the hall and immediately spots her partner, Weiss Schnee, on the floor. She looks fearful and is crawling backwards away from something. Then Ruby sees a strange dark creature looming over the pale girl and slowly approaching her.

Being weaponless Ruby had no way to attack, then she remembered the heavy book. Guess it was a good thing she grabbed it.

Using her Semblance Ruby rushes to the rescue, slamming the giant textbook over the creature's head. She hears its skull crack from the impact, but the creature ignores her, as if nothing had happened, and continues its advance on Weiss.

A flurry of thoughts invade Ruby's mind, telling her to pick up Weiss and run. However it seems the dark creature had the same thought, as it scoops up Weiss before Ruby can react.

Ruby remembers that she's carrying a flashlight and pulls it out. She turns it on and shines the bright light into the monster's eyes, hoping to blind it or that it would drop Weiss trying to shield its eyes. It recoils and turns to flee down the hallway, taking Weiss with it.

A sudden thought urges Ruby to tell Weiss to knee the creature in the face. Though when she shouts this command out to her, the pale girl does not respond and remains motionless, seemingly too shocked to do anything.

Multiple ideas race through her mind, all of them leading to a single thought.

Okay! Time to try something else!

Ruby activates her Semblance again and chases after the monster. She almost reaches them but the monster doesn't even look at her. Suddenly a pain erupts from her chest, and her vision fills with rose red blood spraying from a large cut.

Ruby falls to the floor, body numb and twitching slightly. She tastes the blood in her mouth and can feel it pool around her body. She feels so tired. Slowly her eye lids begin to flutter and close.

Everything goes black.

Wake up.

Ruby's eyes shoot open and quickly flick back and forth, surveying her immediate surroundings. She notices that she's no longer lying on the hard tile floor of the hall, but in the comforting embrace of a soft bed and covers.

Slowly sitting up she glances down at her body to find her torso completely wrapped in sterile white bandages. Someone had found her and dressed her wounds.

She looks around the room again and sees two figures standing not too far from her.

Oh hey!

Ruby knows these guys. She tries to sit up and call their attention but a sharp pain stops her. Her chest still hurts. There's also a brief throbbing in her head as she hears…voices?

Where's Weiss!?

Check inventory.

Identify companions.

Ruby first checks her inventory, finding that she no longer has the textbook or flashlight. She must have dropped them in the hall.

The two figures see that she's awake and approach. It's Blake and Ren.

She asks them about the monster and Weiss. Ren tells her that she was the only one they found after hearing all the commotion.

"Are you sure of what you saw?" He asks her. "These days, they do things to your brain."

Ruby isn't sure how to reply to that. Instead she looks to Blake and inquires what kind of items they have.

"Do you have any weapons?"

The two shrug and Blake informs her that their weapons are also in their lockers. Ruby sighs, she already knew that would be the answer, but it didn't hurt to ask anyway.

She asks Blake if they might have anything that can be used as a weapon. Blake procures a metal rod of some sort. She tells Ruby that she would rather hold on to it though, considering the condition Ruby is in, she doesn't want to be without protection.

Perform self diagnosis of chest wounds.

Ruby examines her injuries. She's doing pretty well considering that she took a direct hit.

She begins to activate her aura in order to speed up the healing process, but Blake stops her. Tells her that she should conserve her aura, that it would take too much out of her and she should rest.

Ruby doesn't want to rest.

She needs to find Weiss.

A/N: So I'll end chapter one there; seems to be a decent place to stop. I don't want to make chapters too long, even though the flow of reading would be easier with longer chapters. We'll see how you guys like it, if it bothers you too much then I'll make longer chapters. That just means it'll take longer for updates to appear. In case you were wondering, this chapter is about 883 words, excluding the A/N. Not a lot I know. As I said, if you think longer chapters would be better let me know, otherwise they'll all be near 1k words (when including A/N) depending on the content. Tell me your thoughts of this chapter overall in a review. I would very much like to hear your opinions. Thank you for reading!