Edit (06/18/16): Not much change other than minor errors.

Beacon Academy.

Only a summer has passed since Ruby Rose had graduated from Signal Academy. From there, she would be able to see her sister, Yang Xiao Long, every day of the week or at least she hoped she would see her every day of the week until she graduated Beacon Academy and become a huntress and leave her to the large and huge and enormously large Academy. Just thinking about it, Ruby was already slightly depressed from the mere thought of entering the hunter-slash-huntress school. But she would get to spend time with her sister nonetheless and become a huntress that Ruby had longed for in years.

Today was the last day of summer and the day that Ruby Rose was going to Beacon Academy. She packed all the necessities that she would need that included her clothing, toiletries, her scroll that was neatly tucked into a definitely-washed-and-clean sock-that she-hadn't-worn-since-she-was-a-little-child-growing-up-in-Patch, her black pillow with a red rose sewn over it, ten boxes of ammunition for her weapon, and enough Lien for buying ammo for her weapon in the event she runs out of ammo cases and it would last Ruby for at least two semesters at Beacon. Ruby's signature cape and weapon was always on her so they didn't go inside the luggage that Ruby was going to carry all the way to Beacon.

Ruby's dad was waiting for her outside with a local friend on the car while she dragged her bag all the way to him and she gave it to him as soon as she reached the car which he put in the trunk of the car. Ruby's dad drove them all the way to the airlift that was headed to Vale and from there, both of them would go their separate ways, Ruby to Beacon via airship, her dad would drop off at a stop and get a ride to Signal Academy where he taught students to create their own weapons and hone their fighting skills in preparation for the hunter-slash-huntress academies all over Remnant. Once they reached the airport, Ruby's dad had his friend drive their car all the way back to their house and paid him in advance for the help. Being very close friends that they were, he rejected the offer and said that they could use it more than he would be able to so they should just keep it instead. Having nothing to say since his friend was more than well off, Ruby's dad just smiled and thanked his friend before leaving him in the island of Patch.

During the ride, Ruby talked a lot with his dad since she wouldn't be able to see him a lot except for video calls via Cross Continental Transmit System or the CCTS as some would call it and he would suddenly drop by at Beacon because he had a "day off" and visit Ruby and Yang. A few hours passed by, having the most fun that Ruby could get from his dad before the airship stopped by near Vale and Ruby's dad said his farewells to Ruby and wished her good luck with her first semester at Beacon. Before he left, he gave her daughter a goodbye and see-you-later kiss on her forehead before stepping out of the airship. Once out, Ruby stood up by the window and waved at her dad as the airship elevated and took off.

Having no one else to talk to now that his dad was gone, she took her bag and opened it to take out the sock that her scroll was in and closed the bag and put the bag at the side of her seat. She then unwrapped the sock and retrieved her scroll that was inside the sock and opened up her scroll only to find out that her sister had called her at least ten times and Ruby wasn't able to answer any of the calls because it was stored away properly not unlike some sister she knew who somehow "lost" her scroll at the day she was supposed to leave for Beacon. Having nothing to do, Ruby called Yang and she immediately picked up.

"Oh hey, Ruby!" Yang exclaimed through the scroll making Ruby create a distance between her ears and her scroll. "Fancy talking to you after thirteen missed calls."

"Hi, Yang," she replied briefly and sighed, "Dad just got off the airship a couple minutes ago and I have nothing to do so can we talk until I get there? I missed you so much because someone didn't go home at all during the summer…"

"Sure," she said enthusiastically, "Anything for my baby sis. Anyway, remember the Blake person I've been talking about for the past two years? Well, I've been doing something to get their attention and guess what?"

"What?" Ruby asked rather bluntly.

"Aww, come on Ruby. I won't tell you until you guess." Yang's voice was somewhat giddy from anticipation from Ruby's answer.

"Um… Is he your boyfriend or something?" Ruby was confused as how to answer her sister's question.

"You'll find out soon, Rubes," Yang said laughing a bit.

"Ugh! Then why was I guessing in the first place?" Ruby retorted childishly, "I'm going to hang up now, Yang." Ruby pulled her phone away from her ear and when she was about to end the call, Yang shouted through the scroll, "Ruby, wait! We haven't talked in two months!"

"It's not my fault that you were gone for two months, Yang. I was so lonely with just dad and Zwei at home. Dad was also sad that you didn't visit us and it was just dad and I. But we had so much fun even without you." At this point, Ruby was just making Yang jealous that she didn't come home to Patch for the summer, "We visited mom and we went to a birthday party with dad's friend's son. He was still four years old but he was SO cute and adorable! Dad even played your favorite and my favorite video games with me!"

"Well, baby sis, now that you're going to attend Beacon with me, we're going to have more fun than you did with dad. Anyway, I'll be there at the airport in a while so I might be late and call me when you get here," Yang stated excitedly, "Oh and once you get here, I'll introduce you the Blake I've been talking about and-" Yang paused momentarily, "Speaking of Blake, she just somehow dropped by and I got to go! See you later, Rubes! Love you! Bye!" Yang ended the call abruptly and Ruby was left hanging on the call. Ruby, feeling a little down with finally nothing to do for the rest of the trip to Beacon, started playing games of her scroll to pass the time.

A little less than an hour had passed when the airship arrived at the runway near the academy, Ruby stood up from her seat and grabbed the handle of her rather large luggage and dragged it towards the exit. She had packed eleven pairs of the same clothing and too much ammunition for her to even carry around. So she struggled lifting his bag even with two hands. As she neared the exit, the weight of her bag had magically reduced and Ruby looked behind her and saw a green-haired, teenage boy about the same age as Ruby.

"Hey, Ruby," he stated while helping Ruby carry her luggage, "Haven't seen you since we graduated from Signal. Violette and Luke were calling you through scrolls but they couldn't reach you for some reason and you didn't tell any of us where you would be so we all just assumed you were going to another academy."

"Oh," Ruby tried to laugh it off, "I was home with my dad. Zwei broke my scroll as soon as I got home so I sent it for repairs. Apparently, Zwei drooling all over my scroll and chewing everything up made it stay at the repair guy for the entirety of the month. Luckily, all the data on scroll was salvaged," Ruby chuckled, "I'm sorry for not telling you guys. I wanted to send you guys some letters but all the addresses I had was on my phone. My dad picked me up right after we graduated and we went straight home at Patch to celebrate. We didn't get to see Yang all throughout summer though." Ruby looked a little bit forlorn at the mention of her sister's name but cheered up immediately that she was going to see Yang in a couple of minutes. "So Greene, what'd you guys do over the summer?"

"Eh… um," Greene shrugged his shoulders, still helping Ruby with her heavy luggage while carrying his own on his back, "Nothing much. The twins went to Atlas and the other guys didn't really show up much except when they thought you were coming to Vale for some reason. I told them that you wouldn't show up and they all were like, 'Greene, you're just hopeless'." A smirk grew on Greene's face as he recollected the events that had happened that day. "And they all came home disappointed. I think everyone from Beacon just missed you Ruby. I mean, you just swent missing after we got out of Signal."

"I get the point, Greene," Ruby now pouting, "Now, could you just help me get this heavy thing inside. It's freezing and Yang's waiting for me."

"Alright, alright. Just stop making that face."

Ruby formed a smile on her face and looked straight up towards the airport. It took Ruby and Greene a few minutes to enter the building and from there, Greene placed Ruby's bag on the floor gently and bid Ruby farewell saying that his uncle was going to pick him up somewhere in Downtown Vale. Ruby waved him goodbye and looked at her heavy bag as soon as Greene was nowhere in sight. As soon as Greene had left, she noticed a green and red wallet that was on the floor where Greene had stood on not too long ago. She placed her bag on the ground momentarily and picked up the wallet. Ruby opened the wallet to look for identification and saw that it was her friend's so she decided to keep the wallet somewhere on one of her pockets and just give it to him when he sees her at the academy. She then dragged her bag once more on her own and continued towards the drop zone area where she would meet Yang. Ruby walked for a good ten minutes before she even saw a glimpse of her sister's golden hair. Yang, on the other hand, wasn't paying attention to the people passing through the drop zone area instead, she was talking to a black-haired girl wearing a black bow on top of her head and a black best with a white undershirt. Wanting to surprise her sister, Ruby, stopped dragging her bag across the floor and snuck up to her sister and the black-haired girl noticed what she was doing but chose to ignore her.

"YANG!" she shouted, jumping up on her sister's back and giving her a big hug.

"Ruby!" choked from the Ruby's sudden hug from her bag, "How's my baby sis doing?" Ruby didn't respond verbally but tightened her hug. "I missed you too, Rubes. I had a reason why I couldn't go back home with dad. I'll tell you all about it after your initiation at Beacon. Trust me. It's going to be fun."

Ruby released her hold on Yang and asked her to help her carry her bag for her. Yang agreed and came with Ruby towards her bag which looked small until Yang lifted the bag up and was shocked at the difference of weight and looks. "Looks like someone over packed their stuff." Ruby smiled slightly embarrassed at the stuff she had. Greene hadn't complained. Maybe he was just being nice, Ruby pouted, making an annoyed face to Yang who just laughed it off.

"Yang, you told me earlier that you were going to introduce me to this Blake guy. So where is he?" Ruby asked innocently. The black-haired girl hear this and glared at Yang and she realized that that her name was a unisex name so she did not tell Ruby that she was actually a girl.

"So… uh… Ruby meet Blake," she pointed at the black-haired girl. Then she faced Blake, "Blake meet Ruby." She scratched the back of her head and smiled in embarrassment at the fact that she forgot to mention that Blake was actually a girl. Blake just scoffed and turned to Ruby.

"Hi, my name's Blake Belladonna," Blake said and Ruby acknowledged her by sticking her hand out for a shake and Blake returned the gesture, "I'm your sister's um…," Blake directed her eyes behind Ruby as if looking for the right word, "teammate."

"I- uh… I'm Ruby Rose, I'm Yang's sister," Blake then helped Ruby with carrying her luggage since it was so heavy for Ruby alone but with the three of them, the bag seemed like it weighed almost nothing. The trio exited the airport and called for a cab right outside the drop zone area. Yang then put Ruby's luggage at the trunk of the car and sat at the passenger seat. "To Beacon Academy." The driver nodded and started driving towards Beacon.

When the cab reached Beacon, the large castle-like academy, the trio headed to the first year locker room while carrying Ruby's large bag, barely making it in time when the announcement called the first years in for the initiation at the Beacon Cliff. Ruby store her bag on a random locker that she chose which had the number 374 and sat on a nearby bench while her legs were stretched outwards and Yang smiled at her sister without saying a word. Travelling from Patch to Vale was pretty tiring considering that Ruby was now going to be an official student of Beacon in a couple of minutes.

"Alright, sis," Yang said, giving her sister a big hug, "we can't be here so have fun. I'll be at your team selecting ceremony at the amphitheater after the initiation and most importantly have fun, Rubes and take care of yourself. Don't go overexerting yourself out there." Yang gave Ruby another big hug before Blake told her that they needed to leave as a staff went up to the stage and addressed all the first years. "Oh and uh," Yang said at the door before leaving, "You should come with me after the ceremony at my team's dorm room. Blake and I made some of your favorite cookies earlier this morning so they'll still be kind of fresh when we get to my dorm room."

"Thank you so much, Yang!" Ruby's eyes widened when she hear that she would be having cookies, her favorite treat-slash-food-meal of every single day since she was born, "I'll see you later Yang." The red-haired girl then gave her sister another big hug before leaving the locker rooms, opposite from where was Yang was exiting.

Ruby arrived at the cliffs where first year students were gathered. She then made her way through the crowd in order to look for a Greene who was supposed to be here at the initiation as well. Ruby stretched her feet in order to get a better view of people over the top of their heads. She was looking for a spiky green-haired head which was apparently hard because there were a bunch of people that had the same kind of green hair. Ruby groaned as her master plan was foiled in a mere thirty seconds. So Ruby resorted to looking for him on two feet flat on the ground. Ruby continued walking through the crowd searching for her green-haired friend.

While walking through the crowd, she saw an opening between two fellow students and she took that route to get out of the cramped space so that she could have a better view of the people. Once she got out of the crowded space, she was suddenly met by a red-haired, golden-plated armor wearing guy. "Hey, Ruby! Nice to you see you here!"

"Irvine, do you know where Greene is?" Ruby looked somewhat tired and got a nod from Irvine, "Come on, follow me. Greene's with the rest of the guys. I just got here a couple minutes ago too but they found me." Irvine took her by the wrist and guided her back through the crowd and maneuvered their way until they saw a group of five teenagers conversing with one another and making and laughing at dirty jokes. Guys… typical…, Ruby thought to herself.

"Hey guys!" Ruby shouted out to the group of boys. They all turned around and faced her and have the red-haired girl with the same expression that Ruby couldn't fully understand so she chose to ignore it and just smiled and waved at the group of boys.

"Ruby, where've you been? We all thought that you moved away or something," exclaimed a white-haired boy with purple accents on his hair and wearing a white suit and a purple tie.

"Greene told me everything that happened during the summer. My dad took me back home as soon as graduation ended and Zwei broke my scroll so yeah…" Ruby scratched the back of her head and smiled weakly to show that she was sorry for leaving the six boys in the dark for two months, "Oh and Greene's here's your wallet. You dropped it earlier today before you left the airport." Greene was confused but he placed his hand to where he usually kept his wallet and felt that it was nonexistent. On the other hand, Ruby rummaged all through her pockets before pulling out Greene's wallet and gave it to him.

Greene's eyes had a scared look when he realized that Ruby had his wallet. "D-did you look inside my wallet?" he asked nervously, his face turning all red from fear and embarrassment that Ruby might have actually peeked into an area of the wallet that he never shows to anyone, not even his sisters.

"Yeah, I didn't know whose wallet it was so I had to look for something so that I could return it to the owner and now, I've returned to you," Ruby gave a cheerful smile which entranced the green-haired boy in a daze-like state.

"Uh, yeah… thanks, I guess," he said quickly and turned around as fast as he could so that no one would be able to see the redness that was forming on his entire face.

"You guys heard any rumors on how we're going to be teamed up?"

"I heard from someone this morning that we would be teamed up based on our skills. I'm not really sure if that's how we're going to get teamed up. I don't know about you guys but I'm definitely am going to try on this one for real."

"Hmph," a feminine voice behind Ruby scoffed, "You all just going to show off and see who would be the best just to get paired up with Ruby." The red-haired girl turned around and saw a violet-girl who was wearing a white and violet blouse and a combat skirt, just like herself.

"Vi!"

"Hey, Ruby! I missed you so much," giving the red-haired girl a wide hug, "Where've you been? I thought you left me or something…"

"Aww, you know I'd never do that!" Ruby exclaimed with a toothy grin, "I've just been at home with dad and Zwei broke my scroll."

"Did you bring cute wittle Zwei with you?" Vi asked clearly wanting to play with the dog.

"Dad wanted to keep Zwei with uncle just to annoy him. Dad thinks that Zwei needs to spend some time with uncle Qrow. But dad will probably send him the usual way. You know how he is." Ruby was happy that she was able to see her best friend again since their graduation from Signal Academy. Vi sighed in defeat that she wasn't going to see the cute and adorable dog for a while.

The two have been best friends ever since their first birthdays which coincidentally landed on the same day. The two girls had also shared everything between each other whether it be secrets like who they liked. Being Ruby, she had not noticed any boy that was to her liking while growing up. Ruby was probably busy falling in love with weapons rather than actual people. If Ruby was honest at the moment, she'd most likely reject everyone's advances towards her, if there were any, and she'd marry her own sweetheart Crescent Rose.

A tall blonde woman near the cliffs stood up straight and somehow was able to amplify her own voice as she was heard by the guys and the two girls who were farthest from the crowd that had gathered nearby.

"All first year students please step on one pedestal. You may not share your launch pads with each other." The entire student body did as the woman asked. Vi and Ruby stood next to each other while waiting to be launched into the Emerald Forest. "Your partners for your entire stay here at Beacon will be chosen today. The first person that your eyes will meet with will be your partner for your next four years here at Beacon. I suggest that you meet a student that you know you will work well with. You're objective for this initiation is to find a ruins in the middle of the forest and you and your partner will pick a relic and return here as fast as possible. You will have to stay vigilant as none of the staff at Beacon will help. If not, then you will die. You will not be graded for anything other than your success at returning here alive. That will be all and good luck to all of you."

A bunch of students were groaning when they heard how their partners would be chosen.

"Hey, Ruby."

"Yeah?"

"Good luck out there!" Vi extended her arm towards the red-haired girl and clenched her fist. Ruby saw this and returned a fist bump, "Let's try to meet each other as fast as possible."

"You too Vi! And yeah, let's be partners like old times!"

One by one, the first year students of Beacon who were standing at the pedestals were being catapulted into the air to the forest. As Ruby's and Vi's turn neared, the readied themselves into a stance and secured their gear. Not a second later, VI was launched into the air along with the rest of the first years and Ruby soon followed afterwards.

Ruby, while flying in the air, looked in the general area where Vi was heading and took out Crescent Rose and transformed it into its scythe form and pointed the end of the barrel towards the ground. She accelerated faster and faster towards the ground and was nearing the ground and Ruby started firing her Sniper-Scythe to break and reduce the velocity that she was plummeting at to the ground.

When her descent was slowed down enough from the recoil of her weapon, the red-haired girl extended her scythe forward to latch onto a tree. With her impact on the tree, she slid down the trunk of the tree.

Now safely on the ground and not flying in the air, Ruby started running to where she thinks Vi would have landed.