Ruby opened her eyes. The whining still filled the air, and she felt empty. Empty and broken. Pyrrha had been a genuinely good person, risking her life for others, always kind and generous. And what did she get? This! Incinerated into aura and her semblance and being blown away!

Ruby sighed. The grimm stood, a white glow shurrounding it. Ruby thought for a second about finishing it off, but that seemed like it might mess up something important related to her power.

Stalking down to the cellar, where she knew Ozpin had disappeared, she stood, thinking about the circle of fire that revolved around Cinder as she fought. The brunette shook her head. What? She hadn't know anything about this fight. Nothing whatsoever. So why did she feel a pull towards the metal aura transfer boxes? She knew what had happened, of course. Weiss had sent her a scrolltext, and told her of Ozpin.

But she shouldn't have felt the subtle pull of all the metal in the room. Dismissing it, Ruby went up to the weapons room. She had some changes to make.

Dutifully pulling wrenches out, Ruby set her beauty down on the workbench. First the outer mantle came off. With a spark of dust, Ruby let a little flare in her hand. What she was about to try could completely ruin Crescent Rose, it was an extremely rare and slightly dangerous technique, and Ruby didn't even know how to do it. But her loss and instinct told her that if she ever wanted something like this, the only opportunity would be now. Or never.

Aura, pure and red-silver, danced in her hand like a flame. Ruby let her loss roar in pain as she tossed the now large bundle of aura on her weapon, one she had worked on for her entire life.

And slowly but surely, green eyes appeared at the very top of the scythe. Just two green eyes, that were emerald like Pyrrha's. Beautiful eyes that expressed how willing she was to help. And from there, the red metal in her scythe, her symbol, slowly heating itself and transforming into the shimmering mirror of titanium, beautifully heated into a rainbow. "Of course," said Ruby aloud, for she had used titanium along with the teensiest bit of her aura trapped inside that made it red. Now Crescent Rose was no longer a symbol of something she had failed to save, and bitterness. It was a symbol of a beautiful life which was celebrated and remembered.

Walking through the streets of Beacon with Weiss, with Yang and Blake still out there with team JNPR. Ruby and Weiss charged for an Ursa that was lumbering towards them. Ruby screamed, for the second time that day, she felt unbearable loss. As she screamed, a thin stream of brightly shining yellow light wrapped itself around her scythe, beautifying it even further. Again, the small petite girl brought herself to her feet while Weiss created ice, trapped everybody, and then stepped forwards and created the glyphs that shot the grimm into the air, while she shot her dust rockets at them.

But that was not enough. Her aura was visibly low, for Weiss was struggling to catch her breath.

Aura Weiss was a master of, for Myrtenaster channeled it directly in case she ever needed it in the case that her glyphs were failing her.

As Weiss got pinned down by Ursae, Ruby lost it. With a cry of effort and anger, black gloves appeared on her hands, delicate and glowing with black shining around them. With a crash, the girl brought up her hands and brought them down, the metal slicing through all the grimm, and then she raised her hands out to her sides. Weiss looked up from where she was sitting, only to see Ruby using other people's weapons with apparent ease and their semblances too. She fainted, as hunters had warned against other weapon changes. This seemed different, however.

Weapon changes were frowned upon because it took a long time to connect them to the aura and to train with them sufficiently, and one was never doubted by their own, original weapon of choice. No matter how much you trained with a new one, you could still forget how to use it, or not be in control when under high pressure.

Weiss awoke a very short time after and shook her head slightly. Ruby was still using Penny's swords with practiced ease, and Weiss smiled a little bit. Ruby was absolutely winning this fight against hordes of grimm, quite easily too at that. The way she handled her weapon was not a weapon change for sure, Weiss decided. It was something much deeper than that, more powerful, and she would have to talk to Ozpin. Except he was missing.

Because her head was hurting, Weiss lay and rested herself while Ruby fought on, with skill that only Ozpin, Glynda, or Winter had ever shown before.

Weiss awoke, to find the streets completely clear of grimm. Ruby was pulling her up to her feet, and she was unharmed completely and still completely functional.

Weiss decided that anger was logical at the moment. Extremely logical, perhaps even. She stood up to her full height, her bright blue, icy aura flaring. Apparently she had been resting for at least an hour, because her aura wasn't at full strength but it was certainly up to fighting now.

"Ruby Rose! What was that?"

Ruby visibly shrunk.

"I-I don't even know…"

Weiss took a look at her weapon. Her eyes widened.

"Ruby. Look me in the eye and tell me Cinder Fall did not do that, and neither did my sister."

The girl looked at Weiss, tears streaming down her face.

"N-no, I made it. Winter is over there fighting, and Cinder k-killed Pyrrha. I thought you knew."

Weiss shook her head.

"Ruby, what you did is immensely powerful. I'm not saying it was wrong, it was absolutely right, but- something like that only two people have the power to do."

Ruby sniffled pitifully. "R-really?"

Weiss smiled.

"Yes, Ruby. Winter is immensely powerful. She's not a maiden, but she's something special. When she first met Ozpin, she nearly killed him. He surprised her by setting his coffee glass too loudly and startled her. And she hadn't even trained or graduated from Beacon yetcc. What I'm trying to say is that only two people that are immensely powerful could have done this, and they didn't. Ever. And Cinder? You saw her fighting. And her dust and semblance and all that."

Weiss struck again.

"I'm saying that this has never ever happened before. And that somehow you did something only somebody far more advanced and powerful should have been able to do."

Ruby looked at her weapon. It still glowed with the yellow band.

"Weiss, we need to go see Yang. She's hurt. I can tell."

Weiss looked around. "Ruby, we need to talk to Ozpin about this. Right away."

With a snap of her fingers, a bird went flying over the rooftops, shining blue as her eyes, but softer and more pure.

The bird alighted on her shoulder. "Good." The bird promptly vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Alright" snapped Weiss, clearly shaken, "Ozpin's upstairs. In his office. He used his time dilation to vanish into his office." Her hate and disdain clear, she turned on her heel.

Ozpin sat calmly at his desk.

"And you say this has never happened before, right, Ms. Rose?"

The reply was confirming.

"Ruby, what happened tonight was a legend. You have become- pardon my words - a fairytale."

Weiss interjected.

"What happened is the point here, not fairy tales, Professor Ozpin!"

Amused, he drank out of his cup again and set it down delicately before answering.

"She cared enough about her friends to in a sense honor them. She saw Pyrrha die and created a symbol of her, and her tears were shed when Penny died. You must realize she has silver eyes. They grant her tremendous power to grant wrongs, to express grief, and to mourn. I have a suspicion that her grief, dedication, pure soul, and eyes all contributed to this. Winter also. You see, she sent her birds to check on Ruby while Ruby was knocked out."

At this, he turned to Weiss.

"Weiss, the birds couldn't touch Ruby."

Weiss gasped. Ozpin merely sent a small bird that appeared through a burning ring towards her.

"And the monster- she let it lie frozen -defeat" she muttered.

Professor Ozpin smiled.

"Ruby, you are literally now a legend. You have tremendous power,that anybody can see. But Ruby, that does not make you any more of a huntress. It is your fault that you have this power, not an accident. So do not think of it as bestowed power" -he looked at Weiss- "but as something that your team lent you and you made extraordinary use of it. Eventually you team will become a legend. No doubt, but you are the first. Do not let that slow you. Yes, Weiss, eventually you will find such power too. Believe me", he said rather gently, "Ruby has not acquired these powers because of personal gain. She has gained them because of her loss, pain, and sorrow, and to become so powerful a lot of things that hurt her came her way. And she will protect the kingdom with it. So this was an act of selflessness. Do believe me."

Weiss poked Ruby playfully in the back.

"But Ruby" She looked at Professor Ozpin, and quickly sent a bird his way.

Ozpin smiled again. Ruby started to get frustrated at this.

"Tell me, Miss Rose, did you ever think of Mrs. Nikos as more than a friend?"

Ruby quickly shook her head. "She did mentor me though."

Ozpin's smile faded.

"As in, help you fight?"

Ruby nodded solemnly.

"Ah, I see. Ms Rose, if you are up to it, I would like to dismiss you. This settles the matter, and to be very frank, the city has too many grimm. Please, if you can, do kill them. They are so pesky!"

"Will do." Ruby stood and strode to the elevator.

Then a sudden thought struck her hard.

"Professor? The tower was ruined. But you office is still….working?"

He smiled. "Glynda was able to fix it for now along with Winter and Mrs. Nikos' help. Mrs. Nikos' semblance is exactly the same as Pyrrha's. And Winter's disassembly, well you know, she's worked a lot on it with her glyphs and her birds."

"Alright then. Thank you."

On second thought, Ruby felt she'd rather jump out the window. The elevator was still ruined, and Weiss's glyphs were the things that got them here."

Without a second thought, Ruby's swords fired small laser blasts to get her to the ground safely. Weiss was using her black glyphs, jumping from glyph to glyph quite nimbly.

A grimm came up and multiple beowolf growled. Weiss watched in awe as her friend easily rotated her hands, this looked like a fun weapon. Weiss was not to be outdone, however. Standing on her glyph and concentrating, Weiss did what she had only ever done twice: her stand.

The one, giant bird stood and howled, and Ruby scattered. With one fell swoop, the beowolf all tipped and disintegrated not into rose petals, but ice crystals.

But Weiss was tired, and the bird only worked for one attack. She flew through the air, too tired to sustain her glyph any longer. And that is when Ruby Rose used her speed.

Ruby worked through with laser beams in the configuration, she was excited once she got that hang of it. "Hm. WEISS! THIS WEAPON IS SO COOL! THE STRINGS ARE DUST-INFUSED AND MADE OF COMPRESSED DUST AND STEEL I MEAN YOU CAN INFUSE YOUR AURA IF YOU NEED IT AND IT WILL GET STRONGER LASER BLASTS THAT'S WHAT PENNY DOES BUT I MEAN-"

And Ruby Rose flung her arms out as if hugging a friend, but much more violently. Weiss perceived a light green shockwave floating merrily towards her, then she collapsed again.

Ruby looked down at her.

"Aww, that's no fun. But this semblance is cool, it explains the lasers that Penny could build up!"

Weiss blinked.

A face was looking down at her.

"Weiss? Weiss? Are you okay?"

Weiss decided she'd rather sleep.

Ruby was really getting the hang of all these weapons. It was time to switch back to Crescent Rose. Pyrrha's eyes looked back at all the grimm, and Ruby's default weapon made quick work of all the grimm in a near vicinity.

Then, without warning, Ruby shook Weiss.

"Weiss, I used up a lot of aura. You really need to fight, or else I'm going to break it and that takes so much longer to regenerate."

Weiss groaned and got to her feet. There were no grimm left in the area. The heiress decided she'd be fancy and summoned up a ring of glyphs. Then she went to bed again, in the middle of burning Beacon. In the middle of the road. How elegant.