A figure dressed in black and red clothing walks through the silent woods known as the snowy forest. Not really having an exact location of were she was going. She was just walking aimlessly, very deep in thought. Remembering the the events of the past week.

"Guys! We got this! We just need to practice a little harder!" said a very enthusiastic, but desperate voice.

"Ruby, I'm tired. We're all tired. We can't train anymore. We need to rest." said another voice, one that was must more quiet.

"BUT WEISS IF WE DON'T PRACTICE WE'LL NEVER GET ANY GOOD!" Ruby screamed loud across the gymnasium. Her voice echoing off the walls.

"DAMMIT RUBY! STOP SCREAMING SO LOUD!" said the third voice in the room, this one coming from a usually bubbly blond, but now she was very agitated.

"Please, Ruby, Weiss, Yang, stop talking for just a minute. Then we can-" Blake cut herself off, as she realized that no one was listing, but paying attention to the two figures that were in the doorway of the entrance to the gym.

"Girls." The Headmaster of their school spoke, Professor Ozpin, and his assistance, Glynda Goodwitch, coming up next to him.

"Headmaster" Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang all said in unison, bowing their heads in respect.

"Girls, I am going to get straight to the point, have spoken with your teachers and they have all told me the same things, your all falling behind in all your class and your missions have had poor results in the past few weeks," each girl paled, or more like blanched (because their skin is pale already) at his words and the tone of his voice, "as you know at this school failure is not except able, and your progress doesn't seem to increase as the days go by," 'NO! DON'T SAY IT!' each girls thought as he continued, "so I have no choice but to expel you from this school. Everyone has a job to do and you and your team don't meet the expectations. I expect all of you to be to be out the main gates by the end of the day."

Then he left. Without giving a single chance for Team RWBY to try and redeem themselves. He had dropped a complete bombshell on them. All of the girls starred wide eyed at the door were their headmaster, or former headmaster, once stood. After a long dead silence, the first to react to the news was Yang.

"AHHHH! THIS IS BULLSHIT! I CAN'T BELIEVE HIM! HE JUST EXPELLED THE BEST TEAM IN THIS DAMN SCHOOL! THAT STUPID FUCKER!" and Yang continued to scream profanities at nobody in particular.

Everyone was reacting in other different ways. Weiss was mumbling to herself about how "it was a mistake," or "they have the wrong team". Blake had her fists clenched so hard to her sides that her knuckles turned white and glared daggers at the floor. Ruby, on the other hand, had her bangs covering her eyes and stayed silent the whole time this was going on. Then she spoke through gritted teeth,

"Lets go."

Everyone stopped what they were doing and and starred at their leader. Ruby felt everyone's gaze on her. She looked up, disappointment and sadness in her eyes, and spoke again, this time in a more demanding voice.

"Didn't you hear me? Lets. Go."

No one wanted to mess with an angered Ruby, especially when she was beyond pissed off. Everyone complied and started to head out the door for their dorms. They all packed there things, grabbed their weapons, and by the end of the day, walked through the front gates and got the hell out of their, neither one of them looking back.

Ruby tried desperately to shake the horrible memory out of her head. She pulled her hood over her head and wrapped her cloak tighter around her petite body. She failed. Even worse she failed her team. The team she tried so hard to keep together. They had had a good streak going for them in the beginning, even if it was a rocky start . They thought they were the shit. The best of the best. They were unstoppable. Then the unfortunate turn of events happened.

On one of their most important missions, Ruby got captured, Weiss was knocked unconscious, Blake got severely injured, and Yang was unable to get their objective. Even though she was by herself, and no one blamed her for it, she still beat herself up about it. How could everything have gone so wrong in such a short amount of time? Everything went all down hill from their. Everyone was questioning themselves and each other. Were they really as good as they thought they were?

Ruby was brought out of her thoughts when she heard a snap come from behind her and a very menacing growl. Scratch that. Make it several growls. She spun around and looked to see who was behind her. She smirked as see saw her opponent. Or opponents. The Beowolves.

"Finally. I haven't seen you Bastards in a while. Thought you may have run away from me." Ruby said cockily. In response, the pack of beowolves just snarled at her. Then advanced towards her.

Ruby's smirk grew wider and when they had gotten closes enough to her, she disappeared into a mass of rose petals. Then she reappeared behind the pack. She unsheathed her weapon, Crescent Rose, loaded one of her cross magazine and, and with her ninja like silence, advanced toward them from behind, catching them off guard. A slice over here, a bullet over there, and in the next couple of minutes, the pack of beowolves were all killed and disintegrated into rose petals, leaving behind red energy balls. Ruby unloaded the cross magazine and collected the balls of energy into it.

Deciding that she had spent enough time out by herself, Ruby started to walk back towards the city, were her friends were in their temporary apartment. Little did Ruby know that someone had been watching from a distance. The unknown figure took out a mirror, breathed on it, and started to draw numbers on it. The mirror beeped several times until another figure appeared in the reflection of the mirror on the otherside.

"Hello. Lord Death. Your assumptions were correct. She is a meister and does have a demon weapon." said the unknown figure.

"Ah! Excellent Sid! Ok now that we know I need you to come back to academy at once. I will have a meister and weapon pair recruit the girl." said the man in the mirror know as Lord Death.

"Understood."

"Alright. Bye!"

The mirror went black and Lord Death was gone. Sid then began to make his way back to Death City. Ruby was still completely unaware of her shadow, but sensed that she was being watched. Then the feeling was gone.

Maka and Soul were making their way to the Death Room, on a special request from Lord Death himself. Soul began to speak,

"I wonder why Lord Death needed us so soon."

"Whatever it is, it must be important. Anything that comes from Lord Death is always important." Maka replied.

"You should reword that sentence more carefully. Anything that comes from Lord Death some times isn't as important as he makes it seems to be."

"Don't doubt Lord Death! MAKA CHOP!"

The book in Maka's hand made contact with Soul's head, causing small amounts of blood to squirt out of his head.

"Jesus Maka you didn't have to scramble my freaking brains." said the irritated albino.

Maka just 'hmp' and they both continued to walk towards their destination. When they finally got there, they saw Lord Death waiting eagerly for them, or as eagerly as a man with a skull mask on can seem.

"Ah! Hello Maka and Soul, listen I need a favor them the two go you. I need you two to recruit a new meister and her weapon. She is very important and she possesses a high level of skill. She was last seen in a forest making her way to Olympia, Washington. You don't mind do you?" Lord Death said in his usually cheery voice.

"Yes! I do mind! It's late and I want to go to slee-" the demon scythe spoke again, this time in an agitated tone. But was cut off when a book, the one belonging to his meister, came down on his head again. He then passed out on the floor, blood squirting from his head again.

"No, of course not! We would be happy to recruit the new student!" The blonde said in an overly cheery voice.

"Ah! Excellent! Well I'll see you later! Good luck! Bye!" Lord Death waved at them to leave. Then all of a sudden, Maka's father, Spirit came out of nowhere and grabbed Maka by the feet.

"MAKA! Please be careful! Your father loves you! Don't get into any trouble! Please don-" he never got to finish his sentence because Maka's book, for the third time that night, came down on someone's head. Blood then squirted from Spirit's cranium.

Soul then came to and saw that his meister was leaving and quickly got up and followed her. They made their way out the death room, out the front entrance to the academy, and walked to their apartment. Soul then got the keys to his motorcycle and they were on their way to Olympia,Washington.

Ruby had finally made it home to her apartment she shared with her friends. The walk from the forest to their apartment was longer than she expected. She had wandered to out too much into the forest when she was in thought and got lost and turned around a couple of times. She unlocked the door and noticed that it was silent, but not really caring enough to find out why. It was really late at night, or morning really but the sky was still dark. It was almost 12 in the morning. Completely exhausted, Ruby placed Crescent rose against the wall and just fell face first in the couch, melting into the cushions. She sighed in exhaustion, her eyes began to close as her sleepiness took over her mind and blacked out.

She then woke up with a jolt as she heard the doorbell ring. 'Dammit! Who's at the door!' Ruby thought as she pulled one of the pillow over her head. 'Weiss or Blake will get it eventually'. But the doorbell continued to ring, and she didn't hear the shuffle of feet going towards the door. Slightly worried that no one was getting the door and cranky that the stupid thing was keeping her up, she got up and answered the door.

In the doorway stood a boy with white hair and red eyes, looking somewhat bored, dressed in light brown pants, orange shirt and black jacket with dark brown shoes and a girl? Yeah a girl with pale blond hair in pig tails and green eyes dressed in a red plaid skirt, white blouse, striped tie, yellow sweater, a tench coat buttoned up all the way, black boots with white buckles and white gloves. The girl opened her mouth to speak,

"Hi, I'm Maka Albarn and this is my partner, Soul Eater. Are you Ruby?"

Ruby stared at them for a couple a seconds, trying to get out of her drowsiness. She came to her senses and replied,

"Yeah. What's it to you? I was trying to sleep so this better be important."

"Well we are students at the DWMA which stands for Death Weapon Meister Academy or Shibusen, which ever you briefer, and we are here to recruit you-"

"What! Students? Academy? Recruit me? Screw that! I'm done with school for awhile. It's retarded and stupid. And it's a waste of time. This was a waste of my time. Good. Bye." As Ruby began to close the door, a foot stopped it from closing completely.

"Hey! Hear us out! We came a long way to find you and this is important!" The boy spoke, the one called Soul.

Ruby debated for a couple of seconds and just decided to let them in. 'To hell with it' she thought. She opened the door and motioned then to follow her. She took them to the kitchen and they all took a seat.

"So, what the hell was so important that you pressed the doorbell like maniacs and had to wake me up at-" she looked at the time "-7 am to talk to me? It better be really important, or else-" she pointed at Crescent Rose "-I'm chasing you guys down with my Crescent Rose." the raven haired girl said with an edge in her voice.

Maka and Soul both gulped. The weapon did look rather menacing, but they were sure it was nothing they couldn't handle. Maka started to talk again,

"Well, like I said before, we go to an academy were our duty as meisters, me, is to feed our weapons, Soul, 99 evil souls and 1 witch's soul. We collect evil souls to keep the world at peace. We work to create a Death scythe, weapon of the Grim Reaper, Death. But I'm sure you knew some of that considering you have a demon weapon and have demonstrated that you can collect evil souls. Speaking of which, your partner hasn't turned back to a human. Is he or she scared to come out?"

Ruby was now more confused as ever. Meisters? Demon weapons? Weapons turing into humans? Genders? Evil souls? Witches? Death scythe? Grim reaper? What!? Ruby gave them the most confused and annoyed look she could muster. It was too early to be dealing with this kinda of crap. Her head hurt from trying to understand what the hell this chick was saying. She put her head in her hands and messaged her temples.

"You have no idea what the hell we're saying, do you?" Soul asked.

"Umm…kinda? I don't know. All I really get is that this academy of yours keeps the world from turning to shit. And I mean if all this stuff is real, prove it to me."

Maka and Soul both looked at each other and nodded. Maka closed her eyes and began to concentrate. She opened her eyes and look at Ruby's soul.

"Your name is Ruby Rose. Your 15 years old. You are immature, goofy, and somewhat over confident. You have a very strong bond with 3 other girls. Your attitude can change from extremely happy to murderous in seconds when provoked or threatened by anyone. The color of your soul is red."

Ruby looked at the girl shocked. She was able to read the girl as if she were an open book. And she just met her!

"Also," Maka continued, "your weapon, Crescent Rose I believe you said, has a soul. Although, I'm having trouble reading it, something seems to be blocking my soul perception."

She was amazed, but she still wasn't convinced. Soul saw this and stood up and changed into his weapon form. Maka grabbed him, twirled him around and slung him over her shoulder. Ruby's jaw dropped at the sight of this…magic? Well she'd seen Weiss do magic before but this seemed unreal. Finally convinced, the sniper-scythe wielding girl chuckled and said,

"Ok. You convinced me. That was really fucking cool and I believe you. But I can't really just join your academy. I have friends and a sister that I need to be with and I'm kinda enjoying my vacation away from school. Also, my weapon isn't alive, even if you do say so. It can't change from human to weapon, and vice versa, like you can."

"They can come with you as long as they have weapons like yours. And don't worry, once we get back to the academy we'll have Lord Death check it out. It does have a soul but I don't really know why it won't changed back." the albino said in his weapon form, his face showing in the reflection of his red blade.

Ruby considered for a moment.

"Ok. Fine. I'll join. I just have to tell my friends and sister about this. But first I'm gonna get a drink and something to eat-" Ruby stood up and Soul change back in to his human form"-you guys want anything?"

Maka and him shook their head for no. Ruby nodded and went to the fridge to grab the milk and orange juice when she noticed something pasted on the door of the fridge. It was a note. She plucked from its place on the fridge and began to read it to herself in her head.

Dear Ruby,

We all did what you did and went places to clear out heads about what happened this week. We probably won't be back anytime soon so don't worry about us. Weiss went to the pond, Blake went to the train tracks, and I went to the club, just in case we take too long and you need us. Love you! Don't break anything and don't get into trouble.

With love,

Yang :3

Ruby sighed. 'Great now I have to go hunting for them. And they just had to pick all the places that are as far as hell' Ruby thought. She groaned. The meister and weapon partners heard the noise and wondered what was wrong.

"We'll guys guess what I just found out. All my friends are all out in different places and their super far away from here so now we have to go hunting for them." Ruby said with sarcastic enthusiasm and with a fake smile on her face.

Maka and Soul both frowned at the news and sighed.

"These things can never be easily, can they?." The blonde haired girl asked her weapon.

"Nope." said weapon replied.

Then they all just sigh exaggeratedly loud.

"Well lets go." Ruby said as she picked up Crescent Rose, put up her hood, and started to head towards the front door. Soul gave her a funny look.

"Your not going to eat?" he questioned.

"What time do you want this done at?" Ruby answered with another question. Maka and Soul looked at each other.

"End of the day."

"Then no."

Ruby then left out the front door and Maka and Soul soon followed. They were all outside and Maka and Soul both got on Soul's motorcycle. Soul motioned Ruby to get on, she did and Soul looked at her.

"So we're we headed?" the white haired boy asked.

"To a pond on the south side of town. We'll pick up Weiss first. I'll tell you how to get there when were on the road." the silver eyed girl answered.

Soul nodded and started the engine. Then the trio was off.