During combat training, Ruby was paired with Cardin to spar. Cardin thought she would be easy, but that was only because she went easy on people she didn't know and her friends, Cardin was the exception to both of those, he wasn't her friend, and she did know him, in fact she didn't like him. It took a lot to earn Ruby's hatred, but Cardin always picked on Jaune, her boyfriend. Sparring was the only time she could let out her frustrations towards him, as Jaune refused to let her, or anyone for that matter, intervene with his own problems, even though Ruby insisted that his problems were her problems now, Jaune REALLY didn't like that idea, but was fine with her problems becoming his. Ruby didn't understand it, but decided that she wouldn't intervene unless it involved her, or her team.

As soon as the match started, Ruby used her semblance and slid under his legs, sweeping them out from under him, he rolled and managed to land on his feet, while she used her momentum from the slide, and kicked off the ground, launching herself into the air. She landed, hands first on top of his head, but due to her lesser weight, she didn't knock him off balance until, she put one hand on his shoulder and used her legs to take his out from under him, again. This time making sure he couldn't roll back to his feet.

After class, Cardin was infuriated. She had humiliated him, and he knew was going to get back at her for it. He also knew that her next class was without her team, and without anyone else who knew her, just Cardin.

He noticed that when she parted ways with her friends, she was running a bit late, but she didn't. The hallways were always this empty on her way to that class.

Cardin began to walk a little faster behind her, when her cloak moved, he saw that she didn't have her scythe. He looked around; no one was around.

He tapped on her shoulder, and she turned around, before she could react, he hit her. Hard. So hard that blood flew out of her nose and spattered on the lockers twenty feet away.

Her aura was down. And now she would focus it all on her now bleeding nose, leaving the rest of her body open.

"What the hell, Cardi—!?" He hit her in the stomach this time, and she began to fall to her knees, clutching her abdomen. As she went down, her face was level with Cardin's knee, which, shortly after, made contact with her mouth. Her head hit the tile floor with a loud smack.

Her head had hit the floor so hard that it dented it. Cardin them left her there. He knew he couldn't be late, that would make him the prime suspect. He wiped the blood off of his hands and pants.

Ten minutes after class started, Goodwitch came on the intercom, "Attention Professors, we are now in an emergency medical lockdown." She told them.

The professor for that class locked the door, and continued teaching.

After Goodwitch had gone on the intercom, she went and grabbed Yang from her class. "Am I in trouble?" Yang asked as the two went down the hallway. Goodwitch shook her head. "No..." she said. "Someone attacked your sister."

Yang's face went from nervousness to relief to worry. "Oh my God, is she okay?"

"We haven't had a chance to get a 100 percent analysis, but we think she has a broken nose, and at least a skull fracture. We just need you, being her legal guardian for the time being, to fill out some forms in case she has to go into surgery."

"Surgery?!"

"It's possible that her skull was bashed open, and if that's true, then they're gonna have to remove the fragments, because if they don't then some of the said fragments could get lodged into her brain and she would die."

"Why would someone do something like that?"

"Oh, I have a few ideas."

She took Yang to where Ruby was being handled, and Yang spent the next two hours filling out all kinds of paperwork, eventually having to call her father, who had been in the middle of a class.

"Yang, you know not to call me when I'm in class." He said.

"This is important."

"I hope so."

"Someone attacked Ruby in the hallways, and now I have to fill out all this paperwork that I don't know all the answers to."

She heard him put his hand over the mouthpiece, probably having to tell his class that he was leaving. "Sorry, but something's come up. I gotta go." Then she heard a shuffling noise. Running. "Are you at the Beacon infirmary, or one of the city hospitals?"

"Vale General."

"Okay. I'll be there as soon as I can. Okay?"

"Okay."