So this is my new story. Don't worry, I'm not stopping Fairy Tail SOT, but I've decided to write something else, just to write something else, plus I really like my idea for this, so I hope you guys do as well. So this is a story for a series I just got into, RWBY. This is, however, a very different story. The major differences include, but are not limited to,

1. Ruby is a wolf Faunus.

2. Weiss is still a prissy little bitch at the beginning of the year at beacon, but just not nearly as much, and only really in flashbacks

3. A different team exists in place of team CRDL, and I have named it team LAVA, and you will see the members starting next chapter.

4. This may be the biggest. There are no serious big plots. The team chasing torchwick, the white fang, the fall of beacon, all of those will not happen. Mercury, emerald, and cinder don't even exist (as of yet). This is mostly a story about the characters at a school setting. There are still Grimm and weapons and huntsman and all that, though.

MAJOR EDIT: there will be serious plots later on. I became extremely unsatisfied with writing only light plots, and ultimately scrapped them. So yeah, there will be conflicts and stuff.

Anyway. Let's get started and see if this story turns out any good. I don't own RWBY, but you know that.

EDIT 3/2/17: Changed the first five chapters from present to past tense. This is because it just works better in most cases. Also I made some minor edits and just basically touched up the story.


Ruby POV

I woke up in the my precariously placed bed, hung up by ropes that most would say could snap any moment. I looked around and saw that Blake and Yang were gone. Sliding out of my bed, and onto the floor rather loudly, I heard a groan from behind me. I looked behind me to see that Weiss, my partner, was still asleep. Being as quiet as I can, I grabbed clothes from the dresser, and went into the bathroom. I stripped down and started the shower, as I looked back on the past five months of my life, in an attempt to figure out when Weiss and I really became friends. I remembered our first meeting as I stepped into the water.


Five months earlier

I was on the ground outside my new school, Beacon Academy. I had just been ditched by my sister, Yang Xiao Long, and I had no idea what to do. I could only try to figure it out for a second, before hearing a girl begin to yell at me. "What are you doing?"

"Sorry!" I said, now noticing that I had fallen on top of several boxes.

"Sorry!?" She asked as I stood up. "Do you have any idea of the damage you could have done?" The white haired girl asked, with words that seemed like they were carefully chosen, but flowed out of her mouth so eloquently that I concluded that she had been taught to speak so stiffly. As I handed the girl one of her boxes, the girl started ranting about the contents of the boxes, and she started waving bottles of dust at my face.

Partly ignoring the angry girl's words, I began to look at her, noticing that she was not bad looking. My ogling was interrupted by dust making its way up my nose. "Ah...ah...choo!" I sneezed, causing dust to explode everywhere. I fell back to the ground and saw nothing but red. Once the dust cleared, the yelling began once more, causing me to stand up and involuntarily bow my head in shame. Somehow, my hood fell off, revealing my canine ears, stopping the white haired girl in her tracks. I looked up, confused, and saw that this girl is blushing profusely.

"I'm...I am...be more careful!" She yells as she grabs her things and runs off, leaving me very confused.


Present

I chuckled lightly at the memory as I finished my shower and dried off. I finished getting ready to do...next to nothing today, and left the bathroom. I glanced next to me on my way out, and saw that Weiss was still asleep. I dismissed it, because it was our day off, and went to the couch and flipped the tv on with the remote. After watching some comedy for a while, I heard a buzz from my phone. I picked it up and saw a text from Yang.

Ruby, wake Weiss up and get outside, we're going out to eat.

I glanced over to Weiss, and then the time, and concluded that maybe I should wake her up.

I don't know how long it will take, but I'll try to get her up.

Hurry! We have cookies!

After reading that, I nearly sprinted to Weiss' bed. "Hey Weiss," I whispered. "It's time to get up. It's almost noon." Weiss jumped up.

"Ruby, why didn't you wake me up sooner?!" She yelled half heartedly before yawning. I couldn't help but notice the rare sight of her hair let down, as opposed to being in a ponytail.

"Because you've been working really hard this week. I thought you deserved sleep." I shrugged. "Sorry for trying to be nice."

"You don't really have to try..." she said under her breath as she got up.

"What was that?" I asked, teasing her. She turned red, and quickly went over to the dresser. "You forget about my hearing a lot." I said with a grin. She wouldn't meet my eyes. "Well, good to know you don't hate me." I said. "Just be glad I'm not as bad as Blake. Jeez she can probably hear thoughts." I got my scroll. "Don't be too long. Yang said we're going out to eat." I said, walking out the door.

An hour later, the four of us got in Blake's car and went on our way to a resturaunt. I continued attempting to recall when Weiss and I became friends.


Five months earlier

I ran through the forest. "Yang! Yang!" I yelled, running through the forest. As I saw a figure in the distance, I screeched to a halt, and locked eyes with my apparent new partner, the girl from before. "Uh..." I tried to find words, but simply couldn't.

"Its you." She said.

"I'm so sorry for before-" the girl cut me off.

"It's fine." She sighed. "I guess..." she inhaled. "I...may...have overreacted." She said through gritted teeth. She seemed physically pained to say that.

"Ok...Well I'm Ruby Rose." I held out my hand. The girl shook it.

"I'm Weiss Schnee. Now let's go." My tail began to wag as I followed Weiss.


Present

The car came to a halt, snapping me out of my daydream. I noticed that it wasn't really a resturaunt, but a bar. Clearly Yang tricked us into thinking we weren't getting day drunk. We filed out of the car and went into the bar. After sitting down at a booth, Yang already began to be...well...Yang.

"Alright. I challenge you guys to a drinking contest."

"No." Blake said immediately, almost too quickly.

"Yeah, I'm not sure that's a good idea." I said. Being only just of legal drinking age in Vale, I was still uncomfortable drinking. Then, something entirely unexpected happened.

"Okay. What are the stakes?" Asked Weiss, of all people. We looked at her in disbelief. "What?" We continued to stare. "What?" She asked once more.

"Well..." I began. "It's just that...you're...um..." I tried to choose my words carefully.

"A stick in the mud." Yang butted in. Weiss looked offended.

"I am not!" She said.

"Alright ice queen, if I win, you have to obey me for a week." Yang seemed proud of that one. "Any week I choose." Weiss answered coolly,

"Okay, and if I win, you'll obey me for any week I choose. Sound fair?" Weiss held out her hand. Yang shook it smirking at her unoriginality.

"Alright, then." Said Yang. Blake whispered to me, low enough that only I could hear it,

"You might want to get a drink, I feel like this will take a while." The waitress came to take our order.

"I'll take 40 shots of the strongest shit you have." Said Yang, smirking at Weiss.

"I'll have the same." She said, confidently.

"I'll just have a beer." I said.

"Me too." Blake said, opening up a book. The waitress brought the trays over, and I took a sip of my drink.

"Alright, Weiss. I'm giving you one last chance to back out." Says Yang, still wearing a smirk, almost knowing that it egged Weiss on.

"No way, hothead. Schnees do not back down from a challenge." She proved her point by taking a shot. "Your move."

"I can't wait to have the almighty ice queen at my command." Said Yang before taking three shots. And thus, the race Was on. Both girls tried to outdo each other, eventually becoming even. I retreated back to my memories, going through the five months since we met, trying to pinpoint when we became good friends.


Five months earlier

I sat on a rock, watching Weiss walk back and forth. "No, it's this way. I'm absolutely sure of it." I moved to get up, until, "No, wait. I think it was this way." She said, turning around to go the other way.

"Um, Weiss? Sit down and take a breath. You've been walking that same path back and forth for the past fifteen minutes, I think." She pondered it.

"Yeah, I guess." She said, sitting on a rock across from me. "So, uh, I'll be honest. You look a little young to be in beacon."

"Uh, yeah," I said, scratching the back of my head. "One of the teachers here saw and helped me stop a crime. Then Professor Ozpin met with me and he decided to move me up two years. I'm only fifteen."

"I'm jealous. You must be good. I really am sorry for yelling at you before. I'm just under a lot of pressure." I was very curious.

"Pressure? Why?" And then it hit me. "Wait. You're name is Schnee. Oh my god I feel stupid."

"Don't. I really don't wanna parade it around."

"Why not? You could probably get anything you want with that. You're an heiress. Everyone knows your name."

"But that's the problem. I don't want handouts, I don't want anything I didn't earn myself. Also, with my name I could just as easily get killed."

"Why?" I ask, not knowing something I probably should have known.

"You don't get out much, do you?" I shook my head.

"I've lived on an island with my sister and my father all my life, and they never really told me about anything bad, they were overprotective."

"Well, have you heard of the white fang?" I shook my head. "Well they were a Faunus equality group, but now they're terrorists, trying to wipe out humans. However, my father would have me believe that all Faunus are like that." She said with a bitterness in her voice. "I only realized that he was an idiot when I started to think for myself." She looked at me. "You're just like everyone else. If you're nice, I'll treat you nice, and if you're not, then I won't; just like anyone." It was silent for a bit.

"I've never really thought of myself as a Faunus. The only people I knew were my dad, my sister and my uncle, none of whom ever brought it up. I only realized people saw such a difference between us when I got to signal academy. But yeah, you're right. Aside from the night vision, super hearing, super smelling, wolf ears and a tail, I'm really just like you." I said, trying to lighten the mood. She giggled, making my tail wag. "Well. We should probably go, if we're ever gonna get out of this forest." I got up. "So...uh...which way do we go?"


Present

The second set of trays were brought after only fifteen minutes, and both girls were a mess. "You won't win Weissy," slurred Yang. "I can...I can hold my liquor." She was right. Weiss looked like she was gonna pass out. Her face was as red as my cloak, and she was wobbling.

"I...will not...lose." It actually took 30 seconds for her to figure out which words to use. She took another shot and tries to steady herself on the table. She failed. Weiss tumbled to the floor, passing out as Yang pumped her fist in victory, passing out in her chair moments later. I used my semblance to rush to Weiss' side as Blake finally looked up from her book.

"Weiss? Wake up, Weiss!" I said, shaking the girl until she groaned and tried to get up.

"Ugh, why is the room spinning?" Asked Weiss. I hugged Weiss and brought her back up to the booth. "Ruby, you're so nice to me. You always help me out." She slurred.

"Okay, we gotta get back to the dorm. Blake can you help me with them?"

"Um, okay, but do you know how to deal with a drunk Weiss?" She said, grabbing Weiss' wallet and digging out her credit card.

"No, I've never seen her get drunk!" I said before calling over the waitress to pay.

"Well, I think we know someone who has." Blake's right. After dragging the drunk girls to the car and starting the car, I dug out her scroll and go into her contacts. I selected one of them and wrote the text.

Apollo, we need your help. Meet us at our dorm. Weiss is really drunk.