A/N: Welcome to the not so new but definetly improved story! This chapter used to take up chapters 1-4. Enjoy!
RWBY
October 4th
Blonde brawler, Yang, was off doing her thing, whatever that was... Probably beating people up at a bar... She was known for that. Not that her father knew. Yang and her sister were visiting Vale, and the older girl had told Ruby to go 'occupy herself' for an hour or two.
When silver eyed Ruby had asked what she was supposed to do while Yang was busy, the yellow clad brawler pointed towards a shopping district. Ruby had followed her sister's gaze, and heard her rapid footsteps when the yellow clad brawler took off in the opposite direction. Jokes on her, I could catch up if I wanted too.
Make no mistake, Ruby understood time, it was an easy thing to grasp. That for some people a minute didn't speed by, or a second wasn't as fast as saying the word 'one.' But it really didn't matter to Ruby. So time went a little faster for her, she could slow her own perception down to just slightly faster than 'normal.' She just had to actively concentrate on it.
So as Ruby felt that she was trudging towards a store at a slow pace, other people saw a red clad girl with a folded weapon hidden beneath a cape, walking at a normal, if not hurried, speed towards a dust shop.
Not that anyone paid attention to her. She opened the door and heard a soft jingle from the bells above her head. The store owner was bent behind the counter, but poked his head up and nodded at her upon arrival, he then ducked back down under the counter. Odd guy...
Ruby walked past the different vials and canisters of dust, and marveled at the crystals. To the right of the counter was a fairly new invention, jewelry imbued with dust. Purely for looks, but if needed, could become a powerful tool for safety in the dangerous backstreets of Vale.
One necklace caught her eye, a small red pendant on a silver chain, the pendant was in the shape of a rose, but had a cross inlaid into the center. It was beautiful. It was way too expensive. Ruby moved towards the back of the store. Magazines lined the walls, some comics intermingled with them, but the magazines were what caught her eye. The hooded girl took out a pair of headphones, and picked up a magazine that read, "Arial Atlas: New Bullhead Creation"
The music and the magazine lured her into a peaceful state of unawareness to her surroundings. That is until she felt someone tap her shoulder. She turned around, her hood falling off in the process. A Man in a red and black suit, adorned with a bowler hat and sunglasses, had an angry look, but when her hood fell, it momentarily became one of exasperation, before he glared and pointed to his head.
Ruby took the hint, and removed her headphones, letting them rest around her neck, she was just in time to hear him ask, "d'ya got a death wish or somthin'?" Not knowing how to answer him, she gave him a confused, "yes?"
The man seemed off put for a moment, before regaining his composure, "put your hands in the air!" He brandished his weapon, a sort of small sword thing. Ruby took a look at it and cracked a small confused smile, "are you robbing me?"
"Yes!" Came the exasperated yell from the man, but his glare quickly left when she nodded her head, "ohhhhhh..." and smiled. The man didn't know what to do, that, Ruby could tell. She had him off guard, if he was confused, she might be able to...
She jumped into the air, and kicked outward with both feet. They collided with the man's stomach painfully. They both flew backwards and crashed through a window, even on a good day, that only happens with people weaker than a first year Signal student... Ruby thought to herself, taken back by how far the man had flown. She'd expected something, much less exiting.
The man was another story. That girl was fast, within a second she'd smiled, then she was in the air, then her feet were colliding with his ribs. People couldn't move that fast, could they? He felt the glass shatter behind him, but that was it. He would later wake up to find himself handcuffed to a Hospital bed, but no one cares about that.
Ruby also crashed through the window. She had been determined to follow through, and since the man had actually fell backward, she had flown by along with him. His body shielded her from the broken glass, 'that's what you get for trying to rob me,' and she landed, slightly ungracefully, on the ground.
Standing up, she noticed a few other people dressed exactly like the man who tried to rob her. She stood up and took the folded piece of metal from its place behind her back. It unfolded almost as quickly as its wielder could move, and Ruby twirled it a few times before implanting the huge scythe into the street.
The one man, who was dressed differently muttered, "Okayyyy..." Before looking at the men surrounding him, "what're you lookin' at!? Get her!" The men approached her, but found themselves dropping like flies. They, as well, would find themselves waking up in a hospital, all handcuffed to the beds, but still, no one cares about them.
The last one flew in the direction of the red-haired man, "well you all were worth every cent." he muttered, staring at the unconcious man. Far off in the distance, sirens could be heard. The two stood at a standstill until they were heard in close proximity, but Red-hair-white-suit-guy seemed unfazed, "Well, Red, this has been exiting, truly, it has, but I must be going now."
Ruby could sense the trouble, the moment he raised an odd looking cane. He shot a round of dust at her, but she easily dogged. When she looked around again, he was nowhere to be found, that is until his grip failed and he muttered a curse before continuing to climb up a ladder behind her.
Turning, Ruby asked the shopkeeper if he was okay, he nodded a yes, so she turned and used the momentum of shooting rounds of dust at the ground to propel herself, and her oversized scythe up the side of the building. When she reached the top, Red-Head guy was running across the roof,
"Hey!" Came her yell, after all, what else do you say when you want them to stop running away, yelling 'stop' seemed a bit rhetorical, after all, they were running away in the first place. The man did stop though, and Ruby could hear him mutter, "persistent." Ready to fight the man, Ruby raised her weapon.
Just as a bullhead rose into the air, where did that come from? She didn't move as the man climbed into the back of the flying contraption, and as it flew upwards, he yelled, "end of the line, Red!" And threw a red dust crystal at her. He then fired. Ruby expected an explosion, and that's what she heard, loud and overpowering.
However, it wasn't what she felt. Opening her eyes, she saw a woman in a purple cape push her glasses back into place before brandishing a wand-like weapon and attacking the ship directly. The last thing Ruby was expecting, even after the arrival of a purple caped woman, was a red clad woman appearing and attacking the older woman and the Red-caped girl with a sort of energy attack.
That put a stop to the purple-caped woman's attack, so Ruby tried her own. It did nothing, as the woman blocked every shot from her weapon, reverted into rifle form. After an explosion that Ruby was again shielded from by the mystery woman, the bullhead flew off into the distance.
Ruby then turned to look at the woman who had come to her aid, it was then that everything clicked, "your a huntress!"
To say the huntress was taken back by the speed at wich the girl spoke, was an understatement, but the woman could understand her perfectly fine, to the point that she frowned when Ruby exclaimed, "can I have your autograph?" The woman muttered an annoyed, "come with me." And grabbed the girl's wrist before leading the her off the roof.
To say Ruby was disappointed was an understatement, after getting to a police station, the woman, named Glynda, as Ruby had come to find out, had made her call her sister. Yang hadn't been surprised that Ruby had found some trouble, but it would take an hour for her to get all the way across the city of vale.
Until then Ruby was stuck under the supervision of a cranky huntress, and a bunch of annoyed cops. Yup, best evening ever. But as she had just fought a bunch of robbers, she didn't express her one sided opinion. Meanwhile, Glynda had waisted no time in putting Ruby in an interrogation room.
"What were you expecting young lady? Jumping headfirst into danger is not what I'd call a good pastime. You put your's, and others' safety in jeopardy." She circled the young girl, and as she did so, Ruby argued back, "Hey, they started it!"
Frowning the woman, Glynda, turned to her and, with a stern voice, answered, "And I'm finishing it, if it were up to me, you'd get sent home with a pat on the back." She paused as Ruby visibly perked up, "and a slap on the wrist."
The woman slapped the table next to Ruby's hands with her weapon, causing the girl to squeak. "But, someone want's to speak to you." Oh God, I hope it's not Dad... Both females looked up when the door opened to show a man with a cup of coffee and a plate of cookies in his hands. Thank God it's not dad.
He took a step forward and stated, "Ruby Rose, you have silver eyes." Later Ruby would come to know that he was gauging her response to his statement. When nothing but stutters came from the fifteen year old girl, the green clad man changed the topic.
"I'm curious, where did a young girl like you, learn to use one of the worlds deadliest weapons?" Ruby froze, to anyone else, this situation looked pretty bad, a young girl who knew how to fight? Humanity, as a whole, was keen on making fast, logical assumptions, that many times, couldn't be farther from the truth.
"From Signal?" Her truthful answer held no levity and the man, in her eyes, continued his 'doubtful' questioning. "They taught you to use a scythe?" With any luck, this wouldn't get any worse, but then, Ruby had a habit of making things worse. "Uh, well, one teacher in particular, actually." Ruby muttered, her fight or flight instincts causing her to involuntarily look at the door, causing Glinda to frown. "Oh?"
When Ruby didn't elaborate, the man continued, "I only know of one other scythe wielder of that caliber. A dusty old crow" that earned a reaction, and the girl's entire demeaner lifted,
"Oh!" Ruby drew in an exited breath, "that's my uncle! I was worse then trash before he took me in. He taught me everything I know! I've only got three more years of training until I can try for Beacon."
The green-coffee man nodded to himself, "really?" Ruby gave a nod as well, and the man continued, "do you know who I am?" The girl gave another short nod, "you're Professor Ozpin, headmaster at Beacon."
Ruby was much more at ease with Ozpin then she initially was, upon meeting him. However, his next question caught her off guard, "You want to go to my school?" Her silver eyes lit up with hope and disbelief,
"more then anything in the world." The man, Ozpin, looked at Glynda before,
"Well okay." He said, as calmly as possible, after glancing at a less then pleased Glynda. Time stopped for Ruby for a moment. Usually this never happened, as her semblance always kept her perception of time faster than everyone else's.
However, in this moment, Ruby reached the previously untouched milestone of it stopping. she had to make sure she heard right, "Wait, what?"
"Classes start tomorrow, as you are underage, we will require a signature from your father, allowing you to attend a school meant for people 17 and older. I do understand, you will be turning fifteen soon?" He had Ruby fumbling for words, "Um, yes, a few months from now."
Ruby was off put, the crazy headmaster was rambling on, expecting her to keep up in all the confusion, which don't get her wrong, she did, but even for her, things seemed to be going a little fast. "Good-good, we can put fifteen on your transcripts, it would be an entirely different hurdle to cross if you were even one year younger then fifteen."
"You mean fourteen...?" Ruby muttered to herself, stealing a glance at Glynda, the woman just shrugged. Ozpin was busy handing her a manual and a parental consent form, when a calm Yang dejectedly followed a worried, boarder line panicked, Taiyang as he burst into the room yelling, "Ruby!"
"Uh, hi?" Ruby looked around her father, to her sister, and gave Yang a questioning glance, the older girl just shrugged. Ozpin however, seemed elated, "Good, you're here," he directed his words at Taiyang, but didn't give the man a moment to speak, instead he snatched the consent form out of Ruby's hand, and gave it to her father, "I trust you will sign this?"
Taiyang read the piece of paper, his eyes showing an array of overprotective, I'm the parent of a young teenager, emotions. He then cast an anger filled glance at Ozpin before looking to a puppy eyed Ruby. He sighed, looking defeated, before turning to Yang, who had hung back in all the commotion, "under one condition." he turned to Yang, "you,"
He pointedly looked at his eldest daughter, "look after Ruby. She gets hurt, she comes home, capeesh?"
Yang sighed, "okay, yea dad, I will." He narrowed his eyes, "No, you promise me, now." And Yang groaned in exasperation, "Yes father dearest, from the bottom of my heart, I promise thee, I will watch over Ruby Rose as though she was me'own daughter." Yang placed her right hand on her heart in mock earnestness. Taiyang sighed before signing the paper. "im going to regret this..." he muttered to himself.
"You and I need to talk, Oz." he stated, pointing at the gray haired, silver eyes man, "Of course." Ozpin nodded, "but first, I suggest you take your daughters home and prepare them for tomorrow. We'll talk after the ruckus dies down." His voice left no room for argument, and Tai huffed a breath of angry air before guiding his girls out of the room.
"Honestly Ruby, when I left you alone in Vale, I expected you to do something crazy, but seriously?" Yang talked as her sister crammed things into her three bags, left and right, she did however glance at her sister, who was already packed, having applied to beacon and gotten excepted a month in advance, "in the course of two hours, you took on a bunch of dust robbers and got excepted into Beacon almost three entire years early-"
"Hey, two on paper!" Ruby interrupted, and Yang continued,
"now if only you could make a few friends?" A corgi face pillow was promptly thrown at her,
"Yang!" Ruby stared at her, arms crossed and a juvenile frown painted on her face,
"Well it's true..." Yang muttered. Zwei, their tiny corgi woke up, he had been sleeping next to Yang's sitting form, on the Blonde haired girl's bed. He barked as the front door could be heard opening and closing.
The dog then ran out of the room, "guess Qrow's home." Yang observed, and looked to where Ruby was standing, only to find a cloud of rose petals gently falling to the ground. Sighing, she grabbed the broom. Qrow had just walked through the door when a shrill voice assaulted his eardrums,
"UNCLE QROOOOOOOWWWW!" A red rose petal blur attached itself to his arm, "Guess what!" Qrow's frowned, what did his niece do this time? He was about to answer when his scroll beeped, a message from Ozpin. He glanced at it, frowned again, and read the message, whilst the Red blur was still attached to him arm.
"You got accepted into Beacon?" Qrow asked, after reading the message, right in time Oz... Qrow was going to give the man a piece of his mind. "Your no fun..." Ruby muttered, allowing herself to slide off of Qrow's vertical arm, and land with a thud and an "oof."
October 5th
Two scythes clashed, rose petals scattered on the ground, two combatants rushed forwards, diagonally, backwards, even upwards-in Ruby's case, Qrow was giving his youngest niece her last sparring match with him before she went off to Beacon.
He landed and jumped backwards as Ruby landed and rushed towards him, using the added speed of her riffle's shots and her semblance to reach, and bash, Qrow's scythe with her own.
The man's scythe collapsed into a sword, easily evading her now much larger weapon, and with the back of the weapon, he easily batted her away.
But something was different about this match, he was more out of breath than usual, it was time to finish this. As Ruby, again, launched herself at him, Qrow, with speed that rivaled Ruby's, transformed his sword back, and used its scythe form to nock Ruby off her feet, ending the match.
Qrow put his weapon away as a panting Ruby got to her feet, "nice going kid."
"I.. I was closer... This time!" Ruby gasped excitedly in between breaths, causing Qrow to chuckle.
"The bullhead's going to take off soon!" Yang yelled at her father as he fussed over Ruby, telling her what to, and what not to do, and giving her last minute advise,
"Don't forget to call me at least once a day,"
Qrow shook his head, telling Ruby to ignore that comment,
"If there are any boys on your team, make a room divider,"
Qrow nodded at that one,
" and don't forget to do your laundry, also don't stay up later then ten on a school night. No all nighters!"
Qrow had to rein him in before the man could keep going. He gave the girls enough time to hug their father, smash Qrow into a death-hold-bear-hug-embrace, and make a beeline for the ship, before Taiyang could change his mind.
"We're on our way." Yang told a speechless Ruby as the bullhead started to take off.
The bullhead straightened out, and as Ruby ran over to the window in excitement, her sister grabbed her scroll out of the partially red head's hand, before taking out her own. As Yang searched through the settings on both scrolls, Ruby pressed her hands up on the glass, "look, Yang, you can see Patch from here!"
Ruby traced a hand over the glass, "there's Signal" her eyes drew slightly northward of the school on Patch, "and there's our... our home." Ruby's enthusiasm waned a little, as she looked at her home. Yang put both scrolls away and walked over to comfort her sister,
"Beacon's our home now." She said, putting an arm around the young teen,
"Yea... Hey did you figure it out?" Ruby was talking about the scrolls.
Yang shook her head, "I can't figure out how he does it." Yang muttered, just as a boy in somewhat flimsy armor ran past, towards a trash can where he lost his lunch. Unfortunately, the trash can wasn't very far away.
"Ew Yang, you have puke on your shoe!" Ruby jumped away rom her sister in disgust, and Ynag began to jump around in a circle, "Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew!" She got closer to Ruby on acident, and the girl jumped even farther back, "Stay away from me! Stay away from me! Stay away from me!"
Yang rushed to the bathroom, leaving Ruby to watch the bullhead draw nearer to a humongous school that she had only seen in pictures. Grand, illustrious, gaping, a whole new world, and Ruby was going to make sure she explored every bit of it.
In the center of the huge buildings and massive walkways, was the CCT Tower, the true Beacon of Vale, and Ruby felt as though she could look at it forever. Yang returned to her side as the bullhead began to sink towards the landing docks. One of the few main access points to the massive school. Yang was completely expecting it when her sister practically screeched, "we're here!" But that didn't make the noise hurt her's, or the many bystander's, ears any less.
The fourteen year old practically dragged her older sister of the bullhead, and stood in awe of the school's students. "Oh my gosh look at that! She has a bow-staff! He has an automatic gun! Look at her swords!"
She started to drift off aimlessly towards different weapons as they passed her. Yang had to pull her back into reality, literally, "Come on Rubes, they're just weapons." She regretted saying that the moment the words left her mouth.
"Just, weapons? They're an extension of ourselves! A part of us, they're so cool!" Yang knew she was digging her own grave,
"aren't you happy with Crescent Rose?"
"Of course! But everyone's weapons are really cool too!"Ruby was still staring at the weapons of other students,
"Then why don't you go make some friends with some of them? The people, not the weapons, you could talk about them?" The eighteen year old suggested. Ruby's face fell,
"why would I have to do that? I've got you?" Yang had to escape this situation, Ruby needed to have friends, it didn't matter that she was basically a high school freshmen being shoved into a a school with seniors and college kids, this kid needed to socialize.
"Well, actually," a group of kids she recognized from Signal passed by, "my friends are here and we're going to hang out got to go see you later, Bye!" The words came out of her mouth as quick as possible, and even though Ruby had no trouble following her, but Yang bolted, making sure to throw off her sister's balance to keep the girl from following.
"Wait, where are you going? Where are we supposed to go? What am I supposed to do?" Ruby gave up on her balance and fell backwards muttering, "Who am I kidding?" What she wasn't expecting was to land on a freakish amount of matching luggage, causing some bags to fly into the air. She cringed when a high pitch voice yelled, "what are you doing!?"
"Uhm..." Ruby picked herself up, rubbing her head as the last of the dizziness wore off, "Hey! I'm talking to you! Look!" The mystery pale girl took a bag that had flown a few feet away, opened it, and pulled out a vial of red colored dust, "This is dust, mined and purified..."
The girl was talking, but Ruby just stared at her blankly, wondering if the girl knew she was spreading volatile, explosive dust into the air. And that's when Ruby realized she needed to sneeze. this is going to hurt...
"Ah, ah, AH CHOOOO!" Thus was the moment Ruby Rose, a girl soon to be fifteen, passed a another milestone. She had successfully or unsuccessfully, depending how you look at it, exploded; the force of it had caused a large crater, just meters away from the side of the cliff the docks were located on top of.
Sitting inside the crater was the unharmed pale girl, and Ruby Rose, who'd just barely mustered enough protective aura in time. Neither one had noticed the vial fly out of the white clad girl's hand, but Ruby had noticed its absence. "You've got to be kidding me! You dunce! What are you even doing here? You look a little young to be attending a school like this!"
Ruby finally stood up, "uhm well..." She was cut off by the white haired girl, "Honestly, if I'd known this school excepted people like you-"
Ruby interuped her, "Look I'm sorry princess-" but a new voice interrupted her,
"It's heiress, actually." Heiress? What does that even mean? Ruby thought, as she took in the newcomer; she had a bow on her head, meticulously tied and perfectly placed, her cloths sported black and shades of purple, sharply contrasting the pale girl who stood gaping at her.
"Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee Dust Company. The suppliers of dust to the whole world." Pale girl, Weiss, seemed elated at first,
"finally, some recognition-" but it was quickly stamped out,
"The same company notorious for its questionable business decisions, and it's Faunus labor." The Weiss girl looked annoyed, and after exchanging a few words, grabbed the vial of dust from the newcomer, and stomped off.
"I'm sorry!" Ruby yelled after her before turning to thank the other girl.
Who had walked away. "Yea Ruby, go make some friends, it shouldn't be that hard..." Ruby muttered, falling back to the ground, inside the crater. For a minute or two, which meant five or six minutes in Ruby's case, the girl was left to her own devises, laying flat on her back, listening to the birds, well, a crow actually, as she lay in the middle of a crater caused by her own sneeze.
Best day ever. That is until she noticed a rather plain boy, who didn't even really have a traditional color scheme reaching out a hand to her, "Uh, heh, need a hand?" Ruby looked up, and a ghost of a smile graced her lips, as she grabbed the outstretched hand and allowed it to help pull her out of the crater. The next words that came out of her mouth, Ruby would regret forever,
"hey, aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?" The two began walking, as Jaune answered,
"I'm never going to live that down am I?"
"No Vomit Boy, I don't think you will." Ruby stated, giving the unnamed boy her own nickname,
"Hey, motion sickness is a very common issue, transportation is much harder, and studies should be conducted to fix this problem-" Ruby had a sneaking suspicion,
"You've never flown on an airship before, have you?" She was right, the kid who was much taller then her looked down in embarrassment,
"No..." The two sunk into an uneasy silence, until Ruby broke it,
"So uh, I've got this thing..." Ruby took out, and unfolded her weapon into scythe form, causing the boy to jump back a little,
"Woah, is that a scythe?"
"It's also a highly customized 42 caliber sniper rifle." Ruby stated, folding it into riffle form,
"A what?" Ruby chambered it,
"It's also a gun." She then unloaded it and put it away.
"Ohh." The conversation stopped and Ruby began scrambling to keep it going,
"So what do you have?"
"Um..." Jaune fumbled with a weapon attached to his belt, "I've got a sword," he pulled a normal looking sword out of its sheath, then took off the sheath and let it unfold, "and a shield..." He inwardly swallowed when he realized he had the girl's undivided attention,
"Ooo, what does it do?" Ruby stared in awe at it,
"Um well," Jaune was scrambling to find a cool use for his weapon, "The shield gets smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it," he demonstrated, "I can just, put it away..." Ruby thought that was pretty strange, and voiced her question,
"But, doesn't it still weigh the same?" Jaune again looked at the ground,
"Yea it does..." He then looked back at her, "So what's your name?"
"Ruby, Ruby Rose, and yours?" Ruby returned the question,
"Jaune Arc, simple, sweat rolls off the tongue, ladies love it." Ruby had to force herself not to laugh, "Do they?" Jaune shrugged, and sheepishly told her,
"Uhm well, it's what my mom says..."
"Ahh." Ruby looked around at the fountain they were passing by, "So, uh, Jaune, where are we even going?" Jaune looked around in slight panic,
"What? I was following you." That was when a recennt acquaintance of Ruby's walked by,
"Hey! Ms. Glynda! I think we're lost..." The woman sighed, and pointed the two in the direction of the auditorium before continuing there herself. At a much slower pace, just to give the two lost kids some extra time. The duo made it to the auditorium a few minutes before the designated time, causing the two to let out breaths of relief.
A voice called out among the wave of people lining up, Yang, calling to her little sister, "Ruby! I saved you a spot!" Ruby turned to her new friend,
"Oh, that's my sister, gotta go, bye Jaune!" She took off towards her sister, rose petals spreading onto the floor behind her.
"How does she do that?" Jaune muttered, picking up a rose petal off the ground, it was real, soft and delicate.
Ruby made it to her sister, who asked her about any new friends, "What, after you ditched me, and I exploded?"
"Meltdown already?" Yang was beginning to wonder if Ruby's presence at the school was a good thing. that was until, she heard her sister's answer,
"No, I fell into a girls luggage and she yelled at me and there was dust and I exploded and there was a crater, and fire, and lightning, and I think some ice?" Now Yang simply thought her sister was insane, unless,
"Are you being sarcastic?" She asked, hoping to God that she was, "No, I-" Ruby hadn't noticed Weiss sneaking up on her until,
"You!"
"Oh God it's happening again!" The fourteen year old jumped into the safety of her sister's arms as Weiss continued,
"You could've blown us off the side of the cliff!" Realization dawned on poor Yang,
"Oh my God you really exploded." Ruby got off of her sister and waved her hands in front of her,
"It was an accident!" Ruby yelled, just before a pamphlet was shoved into her hands,
"Read this and don't ever talk to me again."
"Umm." Ruby had no words for that, so she just stuck the 'Dust for Dummies' pamphlet into her pocket. The microphone on stage was tapped on, making a binging sound echo throughout the building. It was Glynda, Glynda Goodwitch. First Glynda gave an introduction to the first year students. She then called up Ozpin, introducing him as Professor. After a boring speech, the man walked away from the stage, leaving the students to their own devises.
"well that was a thing..." Yang muttered to Ruby
"It was like he wasn't even there..." Ruby agreed. The man had seemed distant, rehearsed, let he had vacuumed out his own emotions.
That night Ruby sat writing a letter to Qrow, telling him about everything that happened, it was addressed to his classroom at Signal as to not have her father looking at it first. Yang was still messing with the scrolls. After changing a few settings, a Bing was heard from Yangs scroll,
"Hey it's Dad!" Yang tapped on the message, "he says, 'stop messing with the settings on your scroll...'" Yang looked up at Ruby, who shrugged, "I'll never know how he does it!" Yang exasperatedly dropped the scrolls onto her sleeping bag and plopped down next to Ruby, "so, watcha doing?"
"Writing a letter to the gang back at Signal."
It was partially true, Ruby did have one friend at Signal, but a gang was a bit of an overstatement. "Lame!" Yang knew who the letter was for, Ruby only had one friend still at Signal, Uncle Qrow. "So how many friends 'you make today?"
"None." Ruby answered without any thought to it,
"Hey, there's Jaune. See? Plus one friend." Yang tried to be uplifting, but Ruby wasn't having it,
"I'm pretty sure Weiss counts as a negative friend, back to zero."
"Your impossible." Yang muttered, rolling back onto her sleeping bag in mock sleepiness. Ruby soon looked up and around at her setting,
"hey..." Yang rolled back over,
"what?" Ruby's attention was pointed elsewhere however, and she clarified,
"That girl." It wasn't much of a clarification,
"Elaboration please?" Ruby groaned inwardly, before explaining to her sister,
"She kinda helped me out when I ran into Weiss earlier today."
"Plus two friends!" Yang was up and about faster than you could say semblance, and grabbed Ruby's wrist, easily overpowering her and dragging her over to the mysterious, black clad girl. The girl looked up as they approached, "Hello!" Came the cherry voice of Yang, dragging her struggling little sister behind her,
"uh hi." The girl answered, obviously not much for conversation.
"I believe you've met my sister?"
"Aren't you, the girl that exploded?" Black hair girl turned her attention to Ruby,
"um, hello, I'm Ruby..." Ruby stood awkwardly, still using her sister as a shield from this not so new person,
"and I'm Yang!" A small smile appeared on the girls face, probably from amusement,
"Blake." The girl stated shortly, looking up at the two, no one spoke for a minute or two, but it felt like hours to Ruby.
"Well this is nice..." Yang muttered, looking around for a way out, luckily Ruby started a conversation for once.
"What're you reading?" Blake seemed exited that the girl was interested in the book, most people didn't like reading much anymore,
"Um, a story, about a man, with two souls. Each fighting for control over his body." She knew that she'd weirded the Yang girl out when her only answer was,
"Um okay..." Yang muttered, feeling completely lost as the conversation between the two bookworms continued. After a bit, she interjected, trying to be a part of the conversation, but it somehow ended in a sisterly cat fight.
"Would you be quiet! Some of us are trying to sleep!" Weiss was back, and the moment she noticed Ruby and to a lesser extent, Yang, she yelled, "Oh Not you again!" Sadly this worked against her as Yang yelled the same thing, at the same time.
A yelling dual between Yang and Weiss ensued, and Ruby gave Blake a pleading look, Blake sighed, and blew out her candles. She hoped that would put an end to it, and it did. She heard Ruby whisper, "thank you." Before she continued to read her book, after all, the moon gave enough light, right?
RWBY
October 6th
Waking up on the floor of the auditorium amidst around a hundred students was a monumental first for Ruby. Seeing a hyperactive 'pink girl' jumping around a 'green boy' was certainly strange, as was seeing the Weiss girl, as well as Blake rush to the bathroom as soon as they woke up, respectively. Yang's spot on the floor, next to Ruby, was empty.
The sleeping bag was gone as well. Letting out a breath of air, Ruby got up and collected her belongings. She walked into the bathroom to find lines of other people. It didn't help that the sink area, was ancient, but updated, and co-Ed because of its ancientcy. After a few hours of aimlessly finding her way to the cafeteria she spotted Yang, "Yang! Where've you been?" Yang, being Yang, was surrounded by her friends, and didn't hear her little sister. Sighing Ruby grabbed a plate.
Cookies. Cookies everywhere. Well not everywhere. But there was a counter filled with them. So, with a plate filled up with strawberries, and piled high with cookies, Ruby sat in the back most corner of the cafeteria.
An empty table just to herself. Well it was empty until Jaune sat down next to her with a plate of waffles, "Hey Ruby." Ruby looked over at him, acknowledging his presence,
"Hi, Jaune." Jaune didn't say anything else, but began to eat his food. Thus the two were content in eating in silence. All was quiet for the two, until Professor Goodwitch's voice was heard over the loud speakers,
"Would all first years please collect your belongings from the auditorium, finish eating, and report to the locker rooms. Initiation will begin in one hour."
With that, the intercom turned off, and the normal noise of a cafeteria continued,
"So what do you think they'll have us do?" Jaune asked, genuinely curious, and Ruby sighed, thinking for a moment before answering,
"My Dad and Uncle were on a team with me and Yang's mom, and a woman named Raven, so I guess we'll get split into teams of four." Jaune looked confused,
"Huh... How do ya think they'll do that?" Ruby shrugged, swallowing a cookie,
"Dunno, Uncle Qrow said the had to navigate a huge system of caves..." She now had Jaune's undivided attention,
"Caves?" Not that she realized it. Ruby just began to explain any question he asked,
"Yea, he said one of the entrances was guarded by an ancient death stalker, and that if you could kill it, you automatically passed."
"Did they?" Jaune looked exited at the prospect, but was quickly shot down by Ruby's answer,
"No, as far as Qrow knows, it's still there..." Jaune looked down at his food,
"Oh... Cool."
"Yup." The two fairly new friends threw away their plates and began the long walk to the locker rooms,
"you know where your going this time, right?" Jaune asked, looking down at the much shorter girl, who smiled and continued walking,
"Nope."
"... Students will receive one rocket propelled locker for the duration of their stay here at Beacon..." Ruby was only half listening by now, she was walking next to Jaune looking for the locker with a number that matched the one on the paper given to her. She was rudely interrupted from her number-search by Jaune's yell,
"Woah, hey!"
Then the slam of a locker. Ruby looked up just in time to see another first year shove her friend into a locker and press a few buttons, "Hey!" She yelled as the locker took off. Crescent Rose was attached to Ruby's belt, giving the girl an air of confidence as she stood her ground. The boy, at least two years older than her stopped laughing and stood up to his full height. He towered over her and smirked.
"What, do you think your doing?"
Times like these made Ruby hate how high and girly her voice sounded, but looking around, Professor Goodwitch was nowhere to be found. Plus this guy just shoved her friend into a locker and sent it God knows where; minor details, right?
The rest of the first years, excluding Yang, who for the first time that day, realized what exactly her little sister was doing, continued on with their lives.
"Ruby..." Yang stepped forward to stop the girl, but a red-headed girl wearing golden armor stopped her,
"let her do this on her own." Yang had never seen this girl before, but she looked vaguely familiar, so she stopped moving, but continued to watch and see if she should step in. The boy took a step towards Ruby,
"Just who do you think you are, if I had half a mind I'd-" The 4'11" girl deployed her 6'7" scythe and a took a step forward as well, catching the boy off guard,
"wait, what is that?" He asked the young reaper, Ruby smirked,
"A sniper rifle."
"Wait... A what?"
"Its highly customized." Ruby supplemented, waving the 'rifle' in scythe form around nonchalantly, "however, I may have to use it, if you bother my friend ever again." She gave a hand signal that her sister, watching nervously from the sidelines, recognized immediately.
Yang threw the piece of paper with her locker number and combination, she'd already memorized the information anyway, like a frisbee towards her sister who, without looking, moved her 'rifle' slightly, and with a movement of half a foot, sliced the piece of paper in two, moving the 'rifle' back to its earlier position, she sliced the paper again, causing the paper to begin falling towards the floor in four perfectly symmetrical pieces.
The entire endeavor took less then a second, and Ruby still had that infernal smile on her face, the boy she recognized as Cardin, his face however, had morphed into one of horror, "yea, yea, stay away from me, and I'll stay away from you... And your friends."
As he said the word 'friends' he filled all his hate into one gesture, and the boy turned and hurried away, his friends, who had sidelined the whole thing, hurried after him. Ruby reattached a folded Crescent Rose to her belt, and picked up the pieces of paper that belonged to her sister as Yang walked towards her, the red haired girl hung back though, and Yang had regrettably, forgotten about her.
"So you ready for today?" Yang asked as Ruby handed the eviscerated paper back to her and turned to try to open her locker,
"Yup, no more small talk, crescent rose can do the talking now." Ruby finally got her locker open, and looked into the empty space it housed.
"Why don't you at least try meeting new people? Who'll you be on a team with?" Yang asked as Ruby put crescent rose in her locker,
"I'll just be on a team with you, and Jaune, and maybe Blake too."
She seemed so sure of her answer, Yang's heart plummeted at the thought of her sister spending four years at a school and not knowing anyone. Especially considering she'd done that at Signal for seven years.
"But Ruby, you can't grow if you don't meet new people..." Yang played with her hair, a nervous tick of hers that she'd had since she was little.
"My dearest sister Yang, are you implying that you do not wish to be on a team with me?" Well she got it partially right...
"NO! No, I'm just saying, you should make some new friends, break out of your shell a little-"
"And how to you propose I do that!? It's absolutely-" Ruby was cut off by her friend Jaune returning, gear and all, to the locker room from wherever it was he had been launched off to,
"Ridiculous!"
Both girls stopped and watched in mock horror as he, wearing his gear, continued, "I know my locker shouldn't have that high a number, there's no way I put my gear into this one!" Ruby started towards him to stop him, but Yang grabbed her arm,
"let him figure it out himself..."
In the back of her mind she realized she was mirroring the red-headed girl's words, but at that moment she didn't really care, as the intercom roared to life again,
"would all first year students please report to Beacon Cliffs, initiation will begin in twenty minutes." When Yang's attention returned to Ruby, the girl was gone. She could see her running after Jaune. Yang sighed, and began making her way towards Beacon Cliffs.
"Well, you are the one who tried hitting on her." Ruby explained to a complaining Jaune. A complaining Jaune who wasn't hearing her side of the argument,
"But it was totally uncalled for!" Ruby shrugged indifferently, it wasn't him that was hurt, it was his ego,
"Confidence isn't everything." Jaune threw his hands downwards in annoyance,
"Now you tell me? So what do they look for?" He seemed genuinely curious, but Ruby was just fourteen, and she had no interest in that sort of thing, she did have a boy of insight though,
"I don't know, my sister says its different for everyone." Jaune changed the subject, probably realizing his ignorance,
"So, are you guys, like, twins or something?"
Ruby was taken back by his suggestion, and stopped walking for a second before continuing on and catching back up to her new friend,
"What no! She's around three years older than me." Jaune seemed surprised, but he didn't comment on it. Ruby and Jaune were walking towards Beacon Cliffs, a relatively short walk for a relatively short talk; either way, the two caught up with Yang just as they arrived.
"All arriving students, please stand on these platforms." Glynda and Ozpin were standing, their backs to the cliff, watching the students arrive. Once all the students arrived, Ozpin began speaking,
"for years, you have trained to become warriors, and today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." This was all he said, so Glynda elaborated,
"I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about teams of four, well each of you will be given teammates today." She chose to ignore the red-hooded girl when she screeched
"What!?" In horror and Ozpin, also ignoring her, continued,
"These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time at Beacon, so it is best to be paired with someone with whom you can work well."
He paused when Ruby Rose groaned again, he had to fight off a smirk as he continued,
"That being said, the first person you meet eyes with after landing, will be your partner, for the next four years." Ruby's horrified,
"WHAT!?" Drowned out the 'pink girl's' words to the 'green boy' and Ozpin continued, thoroughly enjoying the reactions of the first years,
"After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest, you will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene."
"You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics, each pair must choose a relic and make their way back to the cliff. Your grade will depend on your ability as well as performance, any questions?"
Glynda asked, knowing full and well, they probably wouldn't be answered. Ruby watched as Jaune raised his hand and in a small voice asked,
"yeah, um, sir?" Ozpin either didn't hear him, or, most likely, ignored him,
"Good! Now take your positions." Ruby watched her friend in worry as Jaune looked around in horror before trying again
"uh, sir? I've got a question." Ruby could almost laugh as he didn't notice the students being launched into the air, by the platforms they were standing on,
"about this landing strategy, you're, like, dropping us off or something?" More and more students were launched and Jaune still didn't notice,
"no, you will be falling." Glynda was surprised Ozpin even answered the question. It, however, was getting harder for Ozpin to keep a strait face,
"oh, uh, ok, so did you, like, hand out parachutes?"
Pink girl and green boy got launched, and Jaune still didn't notice, "no, you will use your own skill." Jaune froze, and his eyes widened upon realization of what exactly was going to happen, his terrified yell pierced Ruby's, and, to a lesser extent, Yang's ears,
"Wait, what!?" Yang got launched next to Ruby, and Jaune bagan to silently panic in place, and as Ruby got launched, he got enough courage to ask,
"so what's a landing strate-GYYYYYYYYY-" Jaune had been launched. Ozpin hid his smile by taking a sip of coffee and watching the students fly, and Jaune, spiral...
Flying through the air wasn't a first for Ruby, her scythe had enough force to let her go airborn when she shot a round, and she was completely ready for landing, until a crow came lazily flying out of nowhere. Ruby crashed into it, and upon realization, screamed,
"BIRDIE! NOOOOOOO!" She managed to free the bird from falling to its doom, and took out her scythe. Firing off a few rounds, Ruby's decent slowed until she was actually going back upwards every time she fired.
Soon she was at the tree line, where she used her scythe to grab onto branches as she landed, in a runners position, scythe curled around behind her. She could hear Jaune screaming, well, until a stab sound was heard, and his, "thank you!" Echoed around the whole forest, along with one of the girls he tried to hit on answering back,
"I'm sorry!" It was probably the red head, she heard from some gossiping kids that her name was Pyrrah, so, she guessed Jaune would be fine. However, the first thought on her mind was, gotta find Yang, gotta find Yang gotta find-
"Yang!"
Again she hated her voice, calling out for her sister, in her mind, made her sound like a dying cat,
"Yang!" But the need to find her sister outweighed that,
"Yang!" While running she considered the worst case scenarios, well there's always, Jaune, her own mind berated her for that, he's nice, the beration didn't stop, he's funny... Yea, she agreed with her mind, I don't think he would do well in a fight though...
An image of Jaune being eaten by beowolves shot in and out of her mind, and she quickly thought about another person, completely oblivious to the rose petals trailing behind her, oh yea, there's Blake, so mysterious. A picture of Blake inching away from her as she tried to talk to her, shot into her head, but I probably wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with her...
The petals multiplied as she unconsciously ran faster, scattering themselves on the ground wherever she went, real, soft, VERY out of place rose petals, okay, who else do I know here... There's Yang, Jaune, Blake, and... Someone was ahead of her. Ruby needed to stop, but she was going to fast, she closed her eyes and readied for the impact.
Weiss was minding her own business and looking for Pyrrah when a rose petal drifted into her view. After landing, she had been alone in a forest, for the first time in her life. More rose petals landed around her, and she looked in the direction they were coming from.
It was that girl in the red hood again, and she was running pretty fast... Rose petals were flying everywhere now, and it slowly dawned on Weiss that this girl had her eyes closed. She's going to hit me! The thought crossed Weiss' mind far too late as the younger girl bowled her over. Rose petals flying and causing a small layer of red to cover them.
"Ah! You dolt! What are you doing, do you know how idiotic it is to run around a forest like that!?" With that Weiss picked herself up, leaving Ruby crumpled on the ground under a layer of... Rose petals? Roses didn't grow in the forest... Whatever, it didn't matter. Weiss walked away, there was no way she would partner with that girl.
The forest was much more thick than she previously thought and upon seeing Jaune stuck to a tree, with Pyrrah's weapon sticking to his hoodie, she decided Ruby was the better choice. Sighing she walked back to the girl who was looking at all the rose petals with her arms crossed.
Ruby heard Weiss walk away, but honestly, if the girl hated her then it was fine with her. She picked herself up and looked in dismay at all the rose petals around her. She crossed her arms wondering if she should pick some of them up, but looking into the direction she had come from, she realized that picking up enough rose petals to make a pathway around two miles long through the forest, was a bad idea.
She was about ready to walk in a different direction, when Weiss came back, Ruby had barely been able to muster a "huh?" As Weiss began dragging her by the hood through the forest,
"your better than barf boy." Barf? Ruby only heard that term from some of the adults and a few of the kids on patch who copied their parents, it sounded weird to her.
"Uh, can you let go of me?" Ruby asked, as she was dragged backwards, she could see that she was still generating rose petals, which was really weird considering she wasn't using her semblance anymore, she'd have to ask Yang about it... Weiss unhanded her, and continued walking,
"you'd better hurry up, if I get a bad grade because of you-"
Ruby hadn't meant to use her semblance again, but the look on Weiss' face was priceless, especially when more rose petals scattered and Weiss realized they were coming from Ruby, in fact it looked like they were generating from her cape,
"see Weiss, I'm not slow, and I can totally fight monsters!" She wanted nothing more than to laugh at the girl as she looked to where Ruby was, to where she was now, but she sensed something in the bushes. Unknown to her, or her teammate, who couldn't see her eyes, her silver eyes flashed briefly before she bolted towards the sound.
She could hear Weiss grumbling about her disappearance, but she was preoccupied. Grimm, tons of them, from her vantage point, she could see them surrounding the spot where she had been, and where her partner currently was. Just a few more seconds...
NOW! she bolted towards the closest Grimm, and slashed it. It tumbled backwards and began to dissipate, "what are you doing!? I could've killed you!?" Weiss' voice brought her back to reality, and she looked at the tree that Weiss was pointing at. It was on flames, and quickly spreading,
"you'll have to try harder than that..." Ruby chambered Crescent, and took an offensive stance, she could feel,the heat of the fire as it began to inch closer, but frankly, she had been in worse situations. Weiss however had other plans, she grabbed the younger girl and ran.
"what are you doing, we could've taken them!" Ruby yelled when Weiss finally stopped running and stood panting,
"well maybe if you hadn't jumped in front of me I wouldn't have set the forest on fire!"
"Hey, at least I can fight on my own!" Ruby fought back, but Weiss wasn't having any of it,
"Who said I can't! Now come on!" She began walking and Ruby let off some steam by slicing her scythe in the direction of a tree, cutting it down in the process.
After walking around in circles for a bit, Ruby sat down as Weiss started walking back and forth,
"it's this way." Weiss' author active, yet extremely bossy, voice stated. Ruby sighed and picked up a leaf,
"No it isn't..." She muttered, and Weiss walked back the other direction,
"I'm kidding its this way," she let the let the leaf fall,
"try going north..." Ruby muttered again, watching Weiss walk west.
"Oh it's not like you know where we are either!" Ruby groaned inwardly,
"No, but I know where we need to go!" Ruby stood up and pointed north,
"Oh really!?"
"Yes! Ozpin said to go north! Why are you so bossy? You don't need to control everything!" Ruby yelled, dealing with this girl was exasperating, and it only continued,
"Oh, shut up, your one to talk!" Ruby groaned, out loud this time before trying again,
"We just need to go north!" She screeched, but before Weiss could answer, a loud cry sounded above then, causing the two to look up. A huge bird, a Nevermore, flew overhead,
"We should ride that thing!" Ruby yelled, and grabbed Weiss' wrist,
"Wait! What!? No, RUBY, WAIT! WHAT ARE YOU DOOOOIIIINGGGG!" Ruby had used Crescent Rose to launch the two upwards and grabbed onto the talons. The bird was already on its way to attack them anyway.
Luckily for them, having lost sight of its prey, the bird began to head north. "Ruby, this is a terrible idea!" Weiss screamed, holding on for dear life, she looked up at Ruby who seemed... Way to calm for this situation, her answer sold it,
"It's okay, we're fine!" Weiss tried again,
"Ruby, this is a 'horrible' idea!" Ruby, however, was soooo done with this girl,
"Then why don't we just jump!?" Ruby could see the ruins below them so she jumped, she could hear Weiss yell,
"oh you insufferable little red brat!" But Ruby was already falling. She could see her sister and Blake below, so she couldn't use Crescent Rose to stop her fall,
"heads up!" She yelled, and watched Yang look up in horror, until something crashed into her. Rose petals were falling all around the ruins and the few people who were there, and Ruby found herself sitting in a tree,
"hey Ruby..." Jaune was upside down, but before she could question how he got there, a death-stalker burst through the tree line chasing Pyrrah Nikos. Ruby jumped down from the trees as an ursa came running in with pink girl and green boy on its back, the boy yelled the girls name after the Ursa fell and she had disappeared,
"Nora!" He yelled. After landing, Ruby heard Yang, ask,
"Ruby?" She looked up at her sister,
"Yang!" The pink girl jumped between the two sisters and yelled,
"Nora!" a slightly annoyed Green boy came running up and stood panting, out of breath as Nora stated,
"Ren." as Jaune yelled,
"Pyrrah!" When she got tossed like a rogdoll towards the strange group of kids,
"THAT'S IT!" Yangs eyes turned red, and her hair caught on fire, "would everybody just shut up for two seconds before something crazy happens again!?" Two seconds of Nora humming and Ren catching his breath as Pyrrah picked herself up, passed by, and Ruby tugged on her older sister's sleeve,
"uh, Yang?"
"What!?" She yelled, and looked down at her sister, who pointed upwards. Everyone, minus Jaune, who was still in the tree, looked up just as the bird circled around them,
"how could you leave me!?" Weiss was still on the Nevermore's talons,
"I said jump!" Ruby yelled up to her, and Blake muttered,
"she's going to fall..."
"She'll be fine." Ruby assured them, just as Weiss lost her grip on the Nevermore,
"she's falling." Ren deadpanned. The group watched as Jaune jumped out of the tree, grabbed Weiss, then they both fell to the ground. Meanwhile the deathstalker began running towards the group.. When Jaune and Weiss reached the others, Yang, always one for sarcasm, stated,
"great! The gangs all here. Now we can all die together!" Rose petals scattered as without a word, Ruby raced towards the deathstalker, and bounced off of it...
"Ruby!" Yang yelled as the Nevermore pinned the girl with a spray of feathers, and the deathstalker went in for the kill.
Glyphs materialized and Weiss zoomed towards the deathstalker, and froze its deadly tail before it could kill the fourteen year old. "You are so childish!" Weiss yelled as Ruby opened her eyes, "and hyperactive. And don't even get me started on your fighting style." Ruby stared up at Weiss, as the girl began to walk away, "And I suppose, I can be a bit, difficult. So how about we stop fighting and showing off, and work together?"
"I'm not trying to show off." Ruby stated quietly, causing Weiss to stop walking, "I just want to prove that I can do this." Weiss sighed to herself, and turned to look at Ruby, still pinned to the ground by the feather,
"your fine." She stated, and removed the seven foot tall feather from the girl's cape. Weiss walked away, leaving Ruby to look around the wall of ice, to see the rest of the death stalker, struggling to free itself from the ice-wall,
"woah..." Ruby whispered.
"Ruby!" Yang wrapped her sister in a death hug and yelled, "are you okay!?"
"Yea, yea, I'm fine." Ruby answered, brushing off her combat skirt,
"We need to go!" Pyrrah yelled, watching the Nevermore circle back again, "we don't need to fight these things." She said gently, as she joined Yang in front of Ruby, the rest of the group joining up behind her.
"Yea," Jaune added, "we just need to get the relics and get back to the cliff." Once every pair had retrieved a relic, the group took off running,
"where do you think all these ruins come from?" Ruby absentmindedly asked as she ran alongside Ren, who just shrugged in return. They came across an ancient bridge, and bolted across, towards an ancient complex built in the middle of a canyon. The Nevermore came and destroyed the bridge, scattering the group, three back to the main land, and the rest onto the complex. Jaune looked over to where Pyrrah, Ren, and Blake were fighting the deathstalker on the other side of the ravine,
"we need to get over there, they need help!" He yelled at Nora, who smiled,
"let's go then!"
"But I can't make that jump!" If it was possible, Nora's smile got even bigger, and in one swift motion, she knocked Jaune back, and used her hammer to slam down on the edge of the broken bridge. She effectively created a catapult, and while she and Jaune flew to the other side of the ravine, Ruby slashed at the Nevermore when it got too close, after a few seconds, she saw Blake jump up onto the complex, how she'd gotten over to this side was a mystery to Ruby.
Weiss landed next to Ruby, yang and Blake on her other side, the group let off a torrent of dust filled, long range, attacks, all of witch barely did anything to the Nevermore, "none of this is working." Weiss stated as Yang jumped up and fired rounds into the bird's mouth.
Ruby looked around, and watched the group, looking for ideas. Blake had a stretchy ribbon, Weiss had glyphs, Ruby had speed, Yang had strength... "I've got a plan."
"Better be good." Weiss answered, but all she got back was,
"cover me!" And the girl ran to go fill in the other two girls. In swift motions, Blake threw part of her weapon towards Yang as the yellow girl landed from bashing the Nevermore towards the cliff, Yang caught it, and the two girls pulled it taught. Weiss was waiting for the Nevermore by the cliff, and when it crashed, she froze its tail in one place before hurrying towards the line of stretchy ribbon.
She reached it just as Ruby landed on it with her scythe. As the ribbon stretched towards Weiss, she created a glyph to keep it in place, "of course you would come up with a plan like this!" She stated, as she aimed the glyph towards the Nevermore as it struggled,
"Can you make the shot?" Ruby asked, staring intently at the bird, Weiss sighed and in a voice filled with sarcasm, she reiterated the question,
"can I?" She never expected Ruby to take it seriously, "can you?" Weiss couldn't believe her ears, but there wasn't much more time, the bird could break free of the ice any second now,
"Of course I can!" Without letting Ruby get anymore words in, Weiss watched the glyph turn red from the other girl's semblance, before releasing it. A shower of rose petals flew everywhere as Ruby flew towards the Nevermore, shooting rounds every so often to make herself go faster. Her grabbed the bird by the throat as she landed on the side of the cliff.
Glyphs of pure white appeared in a line from under her feet to the top of the cliff, they turned red as soon as Ruby touched them, and soon she, and her insane amount of rose petals flew upwards towards the top of the cliff, the glyphs not only helping her stay on the cliff, but when she touched them with her semblance, helping her to go even faster.
She reached the top, and with a good portion of her strength, heaved crescent rose around and decapitated the Grimm. It's head landed next to her as its body fell back down the side of the cliff. Rose petals began to pile up, making a carpet in a two to three meter ring around her.
She looked down the cliff to see not only Yang, Blake, and Weiss looking up at her, but also Pyrrah, Jaune, Ren, and Nora looking up at her as well. She was on the cliff, she'd reached the top. She had her relic so she and Weiss had passed. Now how were they going to get everyone else up the cliff?
It turned out they only needed to make it to the cliff, not up it... Oh well, Ruby laughed inwardly. It was priceless to see the look on Glynda Goodwich's face when they'd come to collect the eight kids, only to find the youngest already at the top. As it turned out, Ren, Nora, Jaune and Pyrrah were all on one team, Jaune was officially the leader of team JNPR, pronounced Juniper.
Ruby hoped he didn't royally mess anything up. When Ozpin called out Ruby and her teammates, she shared a smug look with her sister, as the girl sighed in defeat. It turned out that she would be on a team with her sister for four years. Who had the last laugh now Yang? Her joy turned into confusion when she was named leader of team RWBY, and she stared at Ozpin, questioning him with her gaze.
His face, though looking straight at her, gave her no answer on why she was named leader of a bunch of kids almost three years older then her. Then again, even if she was ready to apply to beacon, she had skipped a grade, fourth grade to be exact... Students entered Signal in third grade. Third grade was the year for learning what kind of weapons worked best with you.
Because Ruby couldn't find a weapon other than a rifle that worked for her, her uncle had helped her build a scythe to try. The scythe had worked perfectly, and was the only one in the school.
So instead of working to build her weapon in fourth grade and learning to use it that year as well, Ruby had accidentally crammed learning how to use any weapon, as well as making her own, into the span of a year. The school had agreed that they couldn't just hold her back so she would be the same exact age as her peers, so she had gone from third to fifth grade at the end of the year.
So Ruby found herself two years ahead of her peers but three years ahead of people her age. And it didn't help that student had ranging ages at this school. She'd seen a few first year that couldn't be any younger then at least twenty, and that was stretching it. Some looked boarder line thirty, witch was weird, but kind of cool in a Ruby, the youngest kid in the entirety of Beacon was named leader of a team that shared her name. She was ready for a year of confusion.