I know what everyone is thinking, "It isn't soon for a new chapter?" Well my plan was to publish this chapter next week, but I'm going to be busy (school exams week) so I decided to publish this as soon as possible. But, well, let's forget that and start with this.

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"Where I am?" That was the first question that Ruby Rose asked herself when she opened her eyes. There was no doubt that she was in a room. She sat on the bed and began to look around trying to understand what was going on. For a moment she thought that she was alone, but that thought disappeared for her mind when she heard a voice.

"Good morning, sleepyhead."

It wasn't necessary to search for the owner of that voice, she quickly hugged her dad and he didn´t wait to return the hug. Ruby was still confused, but now she felt a little more calm; her uncle was there too but he didn´t say anything.

"Dad, uncle Qrow, what happened? Where we are?"

"You don't remember anything?" Taiyang asked.

"I…"

She remembered that Beacon had become a war field, she had gathered with Weiss and after that…..after that…..she and Weiss met up with…..Yang! Ruby remembered when she saw her sister without an arm, her face was filled with terror as she looked from her father to her uncle.

"Dad! Yang's…."

"She is fine," Qrow answered. "She'll recover physically, but I can't say the same about her emotional state."

"We went to see her in the morning but she…." his voice sounded sad, very sad. "She looked so depressed, I know that she is strong but.…it will be difficult."

Depressed? Yang? Of course she would be depressed, losing an arm had to be a very traumatic experience, and the phantom pains weren't going to help her to forget that. The room plunged into silence, the atmosphere heavy and no one wanting to talk. Ruby was trying to remember more but then her memories arrived at the moment in which she….

"Pyrrha!" she exclaimed and immediately she grabbed her father's shoulders. "How long have I have been unconscious? What happened to Pyrrha? How did the battle of Beacon end? Where we are!?"

"Ruby, relax."

Taiyang took his daughter by the shoulders and then he and Qrow told her what happened. First, her friend, Pyrrha Nikos, and she were found by Weiss, both girls unconscious on the first floor of the Beacon tower. Right now Beacon was overrun with Grimm thanks to the dragon frozen in the highest point of the school tower. Ozpin had disappeared. They were in some kind of hospital in a safe place of Vale where every person who was hurt in the battle was resting. Finally, Ruby was unconscious only for one night, so in other words that day was "the day after the battle".

"Thank God, Pyrrha is fine," Ruby said feeling more relaxed. "But how did that dragon end up frozen?"

"That is what we want to know," Qrow said. When he saw his niece, her silver eyes to be more specific, he knew the hidden power of those silver eyes. But the fact that Ruby was found in a place far from the frozen Grimm didn't make sense. "Okay kiddo, what's the last thing that you remember?"

"The last thing…."

Ruby remembered that she was on the way to Pyrrha's battle against Cinder, but she didn't make it and then….then something very important came to her memories - she had reached the highest point of the tower but then she was stopped by a pair of girls, one with blue eyes and the other one with purple eyes. One of them said to her, "Sorry but you can't pass this point." After that the blue-eyed girl sprayed her with something that made her feel disoriented and tired, and then the purple-eyes girl told her, "We really sorry but this is necessary."

"And I fainted after that."

After hearing that, Qrow was a little more relieved - Ruby wasn't the one who freeze the Grimm. But that feeling quickly disappeared. If Ruby didn't freeze the dragon, then who did it? Who were the girls who left her unconscious? What was happening? He really had a lot of questions in his head right then.

"I´m going to see Yang."

Ruby got out of the bed. She decided to leave the room, but before she could make it her father took one of her shoulders, and said to her that at the moment Yang was very sensitive, in the emotional way, and to not be surprised if the blonde asked to be alone. After that Ruby left the room. The first thing that she saw was two members of the team JNPR. She felt a little disappointed since she expected to see Weiss and Blake, but the more probable thing was that they were outside of Yang's room.

"Ruby!" Ren said. "How are you?"

"I'm fine, my dad and uncle said that I was only unconscious, I don't have any wounds and….How is Pyrrha? And where is Jaune?"

"She's fine," the black-haired guy said. "She has a wound in her foot, nothing serious, and she still unconscious but she'll fine. Jaune is with her, he doesn't want to leave her until she wakes up."

"Ruby!" Nora exclaimed as she hugged the girl. "We really wanted to see you! But your dad saw Ren with bad eyes and your uncle smelled like alcohol and I didn't like that, so we decided to stay here, I'm very glad that you are fine!"

"T-thanks Nora" Ruby said as best as she could, she made for Nora finish her hug since as more time passed she felt the missing of air. "I'm going to see Yang. Do you guys know if Weiss and Blake are outside of Yang's room?"

And then when Nora and Ren looked at each other after that question, Ruby thought that was a very strange gesture so she asked what was happening.

"You didn´t know?" Ren said. "Weiss's father came for her this morning. He said that they will return to Atlas and Blake has been missing since yesterday."

"What!?" she exclaimed.

"Listen," Ren continued. "Right now Vale is a mess and Weiss's father thinks that she will be better in Atlas. And Blake…."

"What happened to her? Tell me!"

"We don't know," Nora said. "Blake….she just….She just disappeared! We were with her in the evacuation ship, we leave her alone for a moment and then she just….Poof!"

"Why they didn´t prevent Weiss's dad from taking her away? Why didn't they go after Blake?" Ruby really wanted to say those questions aloud but she didn't - she was the leader, so the responsibility of caring for her teammates was her's and not someone else's. She decided to say goodbye to her friends and went to the room where her sister was.

When she arrived at Yang's room..…her body couldn't move. Ruby wanted to go into that room but she couldn't. What would she do to encourage her? How should she react to seeing Yang without an arm? Does she know what happened to Weiss and Blake? Should she tell Yang about it? There were so many questions in her head but even through it, she gathered all her courage and she touched the door.

"Yang, It's me, Ruby."

She didn't receive any response but she decided to enter the room. Ruby could feel her eyes fill with tears when she looked at her sister, she looked so discouraged, so weak, so helpless. There were no traces of the Yang who was always full of energy and happy. The person who was in front of her was totally opposite to the elder sister that she knew.

"Hey." Yang said, her voice lacking the energy that she always used to have. "How are you?"

"I´m fine, I don't have any wounds. But I'm the one who needs to ask that."

"I'll live."

"And I'm happy for that." She didn't know what to say now. "Hey….I know that this isn't the best moment to say it but I saw Ren and Nora and they told me that…"

"Weiss's dad took her back to Atlas and Blake is….missing." She sounded sad saying that part.

"I didn't know that they came to see you." Seriously, either Nora or Ren could have told her that Yang already knew about it.

"They didn't come, Weiss told me that before she went."

"I see…..Well that leaves us with half of team RWBY, but don't worry I'll see what I can do to bring Weiss back! After that we can start to look for Blake and then -"

"Ruby, could you leave me alone? I'm not okay."

" - we will be together again." It was what she was going to say, but after what Taiyang said to her….she was awaiting that request, "Okay," Ruby said and before she left the room. She hugged Yang, that was her way to say "I'm here for you".

"I love you."

After these words Ruby felt how her big sister was returning the hug. Yang's hug felt weak but the force was increasing little by little.

"I love you, too."

And then Ruby left the room. For a moment she didn't want to leave Yang alone, but if that was what she wanted then she must respect her decision. When she closed the door behind her she slowly dropped to the floor until she was sitting.

What kind of sister was she? What kind of friend was she? And the most important question, What kind of leader was she? She wasn't able to give Yang emotional support, she wasn't able to prevent Blake's disappearance, and when Weiss's dad came for her….she wasn't there to stop it. If she hadn't been unconscious, she would have been able to stop Blake 's disappearance, and she could have unleashed a great argument and not allowed the return of Weiss to Atlas. Then the three of them, in this moment, would be giving Yang the support that she needed. But that was not possible - she wasn't able to keep her team together, she had failed her sister, her partner, her friend, everyone.

"Maybe….I'm a bad leader after all," Ruby said to herself.

"I think you are a good leader."

She almost cried of fright, but her mouth was covered before that could happen. The person responsible was a girl that she never seen before, furthermore, how had she not noticed her? But right now Ruby had a more important thought in her head….the mysterious girl looked exactly like her, in the face, in the height, and they had the same red hood. But the girl's hair was a dull red and longer than her own hair, and most importantly…

"She has silver eyes," Ruby thought. "Like me."

"Ruby Rose," the girl said. "Right now you have two options, you can come with me without resistance, or I force you to."

The word "confused" was not enough to describe how Ruby felt in those moments. First off, how did that girl know her name? And second, no matter which of the two options she chose, she would have to go to some unknown place. The red-hooded girl removed her hand for Ruby's mouth under the condition of don't scream.

"Who are you?" Ruby asked.

"Listen, that is something that I can't say right now, but I can tell you this, you can call me Su and I'm the leader of team SSMR"

"Team SSMR?" Ruby said it slowly. She didn't remember any team with that name in the tournament. "Wait.…Where are you taking me and why do you want to take me with you?"

"I want to take you back to Beacon. Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and my teammates are waiting for us."

Bring her back to Beacon? That place was a nest of Grimm at the moment! That wasn't even the important thing though; that girl, Su, said that Weiss and Blake were in Beacon but how could that be possible? And then Ruby start to really look at the mysterious girl's eyes, silver eyes meeting silver eyes, and for some reason Ruby felt that she could trust that girl.

"But Beacon is a nest of Grimm right now."

"Well…" Su started to say, "Beacon only lost the amphitheater, the dining hall, half of the library….in retrospect only the dorms and the Beacon tower are fine but the school isn't a total nest. The Grimm are coming little by little. The school will be a nest in winter, but right now it's fine. Now which of the two options are you going to take?"

"I will go with you." Ruby said firmly. "But we'll need a ship to reach Beacon."

"Let's just say that one of the White fang ships was "damaged" during the fight and they left it at the school."

"I don't like how you said the word damaged."

Leaving the "hospital" wasn't difficult, they just went to one of the few empty rooms and the window was their exit ticket. After that Ruby and Su went to the city. It was a long trip and when they reached the city.…..It was sad. Almost all of the buildings were destroyed and the place was completely deserted. The consequences of the Battle of Beacon were horrible and then Ruby began to think about all that had been lost in the battle: the school, the peace…..Penny.

Then the two girls were in front of a White fang ship. Su touched the metal door.

"Silver, it's me, open the door!"

The door opened and a girl with blue eyes quickly came out of the ship. Ruby was in shock that blue-eyed girl look like the girl who left her unconscious, but she couldn't say anything because the blue-eyed girl - whose name was Silver according to Su - was hugging Su. Or better said, Silver was hugging her big sister.

"Sister!" Silver said. "I'm glad to see you again!"

"Come on, we were separated for only one day!"

After that the three girls boarded the ship. Ruby had many questions, about Su, about Silver, about what was happening. She began to wonder if she had made the right decision, but the answers could wait. Right now Ruby only cared about arriving at Beacon, seeing Weiss and Blake, and giving Weiss a very big and strong hug.

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Next chapter: W and S.

And that's all, the next three chapter will be about how team SSMR is gathering team RWBY, I'll try to post the next chapter the Saturday or the Sunday of the next week so please be patient and I hope everyone has enjoyed the chapter, see you next time.

Atte. Kaze-chan.