63Lady Luck
Act I - Welcome To Beacon
"Relax, relax, I'm not here for your money." He turned to his henchmen. Hopefully they were better ones than last time. Roman was not happy with Junior's last bunch. "Grab the Dust."
He watched several of his henchmen begin to grab the Dust from the tubes on the wall, while another one demanded the uncut red crystals from the shopkeeper.
Ugh, red. Still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
No sooner had he thought this than one of his henchman went flying out the window.
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me. Again?!"
As he muttered this sentence he saw the girl who had tackled his man through the window. Although, he didn't see the henchman getting up. Only question was, knocked out or dead?
Roman watched as the girl stood, and bowed to him. She looked to be about the same age as Red was, but with a decidedly different colour scheme.
This girl had a black dress shirt on, with seemingly random streaks and splotches of both green and purple. She had dress pants with a similar scheme, but her combat boots were simple black.
She had a jacket on that looked like one a war veteran might wear, with a multitude of pockets. The jacket was a green so dark as to almost be black, with the cuffs being purple - it also appeared to have several armoured plates, mostly on the left arm from shoulder to wrist.
This strange girl also had a black top hat with a thin band of purple cloth around it, which had somehow stayed on despite going through a window.
On the top hat were a playing card stuck through the band of cloth, and a pair of goggles. The goggles had what appeared to be a crosshairs with a hole in the centre on one lens, with the other lens having an attachment that looked like it folded down. Probably to magnify certain things.
Overall, if Roman had to describe the look in one phrase, it would be: Deluded, Twisted Steampunk.
He finished looking over the girl's outfit and stared into her light blue eyes (or was it green? It was very difficult to tell; maybe they changed colours?), just as she looked into his, a grin on her face. She beckoned with one finger in a 'come hither' gesture.
"Okaay. Get her." He said pointedly to the henchmen.
"But... sir, that's Lady Luck."
Well, fuck.
He knew who Lady Luck was, if only by her reputation. She was a big name in the gambling community, especially the underground section. However, she was extremely unpopular. Not only did she seem to win every single game she played - although she only ever played games involving cards - but when an entire club full of people had gotten sick of it and tried to attack her...
Well. Only 4 people left that place alive, and they were the ones who hadn't tried to attack her. Junior, and apparently the man standing next to Roman, were 2 of them. That wasn't the worst part.
Apparently she'd killed them all with a mad grin on her face.
"Change of plans," Roman muttered as he aimed Melodic Cudgel in the direction of Lady Luck. As he fired, he shifted his aim slightly downward, so the round hit the road in front of the girl. As he ran for his life with the henchmen in tow, he managed to catch a glimpse of her back-flipping away from the explosion.
Good, that'll keep her occupied long enough for me to get to the Bullhead.
As he was flying away, there were a few thoughts running through his head.
She looked like the same age as Red. Not to mention stopping one of MY robberies as well. Something about this doesn't feel right.
Ah, who cares.
She just got lucky.
Author's Note:
Welcome to my second fic!
I dunno, I sorta thought it up on a whim. The OC was something inspired from a multitude of characters from various things, I don't even remember most of them.
As far as I know, I'll be going through most of team RWBY's adventures through at least Volumes 1 and 2... with a little addition in the form of "Lady Luck". Effectively, team RWBY is going to become team RWBYC (Rubies). With this will come a myriad of changes, not least to how some events play out.
For reference on what the outfit (particularly the jacket, hat and goggles) looks like, refer to the music video for The Ballad Of Mona Lisa, by Panic! At The Disco.
The steampunk-ish outfit he's wearing before he's killed is what I'm basing this off of, except with a different colour scheme, no splotches of weird paint, no pocket-watch on the collar, and instead of gears and weird metallic tassels, it's armour on the opposite arm. The jacket on "Lady Luck" is also a bit longer, down to her knees - more like a coat. Also, the hat sits at roughly a 20 degree angle to her head, no matter how far she tilts her head. She can be upside down and her jacket will be flipping up if it's open, but the hat will stay on.