A Wizards Misadventures

~~Level Six~~

Far away beyond the known reaches of Oblivion, a woman dressed in armour made of thick bone and scales dropped to the ground, face-planting into asphalt. She groaned and looked upwards to see a desert in every direction, the only indication of life being the road she was conveniently dropped on. Despite being lost in a foreign land, however, the dragonborn grinned, eyes shining with happiness. She was one step closer to her hubby. As she prepared to set down the road, a clairvoyance spell glowed in her hand, ready to show her where her hubby was.

It would take a little more time, she had a whole world to cover after all, but she would find him. Eventually. And then she could finally get her prince in the messed up fairy tale that was her life.

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To lose a world

"He's gone," Ruby said, tasting the words on her tongue almost, as though saying it would make her believe it. "Abyss is… gone." No, it didn't work. She still felt like he'd pop up in the team's room and apologize, make some perfectly reasonable explanation, and go on to cook dinner and sit quietly and patiently while others asked him questions about where he had been.

Their first clue had been Pit, his unimaginatively named 'familiar'. Waking up to see a massive magical bear-snake creature on Abyss' bed had been almost normal. She had met Pit once briefly. She only seemed interested in sleeping and watching whatever Abyss did, so she just shrugged it off like she did to a lot of the stuff her brother did. She spoke a little with her through aura, something she was still sloppy at compared to Jaune or her brother, and found that the kataigida was as confused as she was about Abyss' sudden disappearance. She said she felt a wavepushshiftforce, where she communicated the alien feeling through aura, and suddenly she was asleep on Abyss' bed.

A week passed where Abyss was absent. After two days even Jaune was a little worried. After five days everyone from Atlas to Vacuo knew Abyss Mavros was missing and nobody knew where he was. After two weeks, huge search parties formed by the White Fang and Nature's Bounty, and in some cases even the SDC fanned out to look for him. Bounties for information were placed, speeches were made declaring a national emergency, and rallies were held as conspiracies cropped up. She even had to make a speech about her brother. Her! She, Ruby Rose, made a speech! In front of people! And she only stuttered twice!

But it wasn't yielding anything. Besides a few false alarms nothing was being found, though the search continued. Everyone on the 'in' agreed that he had travelled worlds and something had happened. What it was, exactly, nobody knew, but they knew that the balance of power in Remnant had shifted tremendously with Abyss missing. With him gone it was back to Ozpin and Salem making eyes at each other, neither knowing when Abyss would return, if ever.

But she knew. Ruby was just about certain that her brother was gone. Just like mom. He went off on his own and died doing something heroic. Without him it was just her and auntie and Yang trying her best to just be there, her team left behind as she tried to comfort her, treating her like glass almost and trying to be strong.

She sniffled. "Abyss is… go-" She choked, unable to say it again. Tears formed and fell but she refused to sob, instead slowly breathing raggedly as tears fell again down her face. And of course that was the moment a portal opened up behind her. She whirled around with wide eyes, wondering if her brother was back but just like she knew somewhere in her heart, it was her auntie, her bone mask on again. It had been so long since she had worn that mask that Ruby had forgotten about it, but she thought it meant something.