RWBY: Silver Eyes

Volume 1: Arc 1: Enter Beacon!

Chapter 2: Sleepover

"They see you as small and helpless, they see you as just a child, surprise when they find out that a warrior will soon run wild! Prepare for your greatest moments, prepare for your finest hour the dream that you've always dreamed is suddenly about to flower!"

-This Will Be the Day, Rooster Teeth

'Thank goodness for upper-classmen.' Ruby thought to herself as she approached the gathering area, Jaune walking parallel to her.

Apparently it was a common occurrence for Ozpin to troll his students all the while keeping a straight and ever serious face. That or he was crazy, both theories had merit. After all, incoming students – including herself – were given a pamphlet that tells them of an orientation, but said nothing of where or when it was; there is also mention of team formation to take place the next day, withholding the means of how those teams would be selected and why.

The more Ruby thought about it, the more she believed the lack of team information was beyond simply annoying incoming students. Ruby admitted to herself that Professor Ozpin's antics were not in question. No, the team creation process was being withheld, most likely to prevent the incoming hunters-in-training from trying to manipulate team formation for petty reasons: such as sticking with friends from lower hunter schools. Admittedly, there was merit to fighting with those you were familiar with, but there could be detriments to this strategy as well.

For instance, a team may form despite it's members not getting along simply because they wanted the path of least resistance and went with people they already knew. Or another example for this being detrimental, was if the team was too unbalanced, like having too many tanks or supportive roles without the other to back them up.

Unsurprisingly at this point, Ruby put her hands behind her head mumbling, "Troublesome." If she was going to manipulate team creation in her favor, she was going to actually have to try, and that required having to think about it. Not that she couldn't figure it out or hated thought experiments, but she still has to go through all the trouble to deduce it and she could still be wrong. That's pretty annoying.

Ruby's contemplation on team creation was put on hold as a familiar voice called out to her, the fact that a voice was calling out for her – frankly – narrowed down who it was quickly.

"Ruby, over here! I saved you a spot!" Yang called out to the scythe-bearer.

Ruby turned to Jaune, who had paused alongside her when entering the circular, open-roofed building, "Gotta go, Jaune, my sister's calling me. I'll see you after the ceremony, 'kay?" She turned and left before he could respond.

Didn't stop him from trying nonetheless, "Hey, wait! Great, where am I supposed to find another nice, quirky girl to talk to?"

Jaune left behind, Ruby approached her sister – bored posture remaining, her eyes and aura scanning the crowd.

Yang was the first to speak, "How's your first day going, little sis?"

Ruby yawned before replying, "Huh? Did you say something? I'm still caught up on the fact you claimed to have saved me a spot, despite the fact that everyone is standing around this courtyard aimlessly." And she was right, there was no particular order to how people inhabited the courtyard; no assigned seats - or any seats for that matter - just aimless chatter between various cliques and what was to be existing teams from previous school years.

"Oooh, feisty. That bad, huh?" Yang commented, amused slightly by her sisters apparent aggravation.

"Pros and cons. First you ditched me, a rich girl caught me using language and decided to lecture me – so I pissed her off with the help of a book cat ninja just to spite her. After the ninja girl left I talked with Jaune Arc, the blond from the airship, he's actually interesting when you get to know him. Oh! And the Grinch came along and Stole Christmas." Ruby finished completely seriously.

"…Are you being sarcastic?" Yang questioned, somewhat sarcastically.

"Only about the later, dear sister… maybe not." Ruby semi-admitted.

Yang just looked at her sister, non-believing, before noticing a hostile gaze coming their way.

Ruby, noticing her sister's distraction, turned to investigate and found a certain Weiss Schnee approaching them one stomp after another – an anime-like set of shark teeth grating together like tectonic plates.

Weiss spoke, more like growled, "You! You're that rude little girl from earlier! I demand…!"

"I apologize." Ruby interrupted before Weiss could finish.

The sudden unexpected apology from the girl once so crass stunned Weiss momentarily. It was also a bit shocking that the girl was able to essentially guess what Weiss was about to demand. Overall, it was long enough for her well-crafted reply to be made, "Huh?"

"I apologize." Ruby repeated.

Weiss narrowed her eyes, her composure regained. She wondered what the red, cloaked girl's game was; to shift being impolite to the polar opposite. Weiss bet to herself that after their encounter this girl must of realized what her last name meant and felt it best to apologize for her actions against the Schnee, against her father.

And though Weiss didn't show it, she became shocked when the girl continued – explaining herself.

"It's just," Ruby began, "I don't appreciate my skills and placement in this academy being belittled by other's opinions of my age." Ruby's eye's focused themselves on the older girl's, "Much like how you don't appreciate your skills and achievements belittled by other's opinions of your father's skills, and 'accomplishments'."

"…" The silence spoke more than any word could.

Ruby, feeling that an understanding had been established, offered her hand to the Schnee Heir. "Ruby Rose, nice to meet you."

Weiss stared at the offering for a moment before sighing and taking it in her own, with a shake to accompany it, "Weiss Schnee, the feeling is… mutual."

Before any other interaction could take place, a sudden noise from the loudspeakers drew everyone's attention.

It was Professor Ozpin at the microphone, with Glynda Goodwitch flanking him.

"Ahem… I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you and all I see is wasted energy in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."

'Indeed.' Ruby mused to herself. She understood what he meant, and was quite familiar with what he referred to a 'first step.' A lot of people were becoming huntsmen and huntresses because of the romance behind it or how cool it was. That was what the children at Signal were like. None of them had a reason to fight, and to simply 'protect the people' was a slapstick answer that not many really thought about what that would entail. It had taken a couple of years of time and thought and study before she had figured out her answer, 'Thanks Uncle Qrow."

While distracted by her own musings, Ozpin stepped away and simply walked off the stage, Professor Glynda was quick to take his place. "You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed!"

Ruby couldn't help but grumble to herself, "Now they tell us where to go."

Ignoring her little sister's pouting, Yang commented, "He seemed kind of off."

Ruby nodded, agreeing, before adding, "It's almost like he wasn't ever there."

The crowd dispersing, seeking to grab their nighttime belongings and put their weapons and gear in their assigned lockers. Before leaving to do the same, Ruby turned to Weiss once more and said a simply 'See you later' before vanishing – leaving rose petals in her wake; one of which managed to lounge itself into Jaune's gaping mouth at having seen a girl seemingly teleport.

"Gakgh!" Guess who.

Ruby was sitting in a meditative stance on her sleeping bag within the ballroom. Her aura spiraling and circling around and within her, occasionally visible if one was paying attention. If they paid even more attention, they would notice that the area around her eyes were glowing the brightest. Not only was it an easy, if slow, way to help grow one's aura – it was also using for enhancing one's concentration and patience. Ruby normally did this to relax before sleeping for long periods of time. Well, actually, she did this before she slept in general, with few exceptions.

Ruby didn't sleep well; whenever she entered REM sleep… the dreams were not pleasant. The meditating helped, but she found it best to simply break up the normal eight hours of sleep into smaller naps. She figured being diurnal or nocturnal was too cliché and would inhibit missions that waned into the later hours. Not that she knew exactly what missions Hunters went on specifically, but it seemed logical enough a thing to happen.

But Ruby's attention wasn't on these things she already knew. As promised she was contemplating how the team formations would be done.

The first thing she concluded was that combat of some sort was to be expected. When applying for Beacon officially, she knew Signal sent information in regards to her style of fighting and such related information. This was something universal amongst those who applied, even if they didn't attend a lower hunter academy previously there would be some sort of substitution to supplement the same categories. Ruby believed that Ozpin, however, would like to see for himself the skills of his incoming students rather than trust words on paper or the images of a video.

The second thing she determined is that whether it was decided or not, she and Yang would mostly like end up on the same team. Family and siblings, even more so, tended to be put together due to having stronger – already existing – aura bonds as well as familiarity/teamwork with each other's fighting styles. It helped that their respective combat roles didn't clash with each others; Yang was a tank with a Semblance that made her impossible to beat unless you knew how to counter her, and Ruby herself was a close and long range fighter that could deal lots of damage, and was fast enough to get away before taking damage herself. Yang could tank a bunch of Grimm, and Ruby would be able to make sure Yang didn't go overwhelmed whilst also avoiding damage herself.

The third thing she deduced is that teams are specialized in some way. Ruby couldn't be specifically sure how they were determined in this regard, for the same reason she knew little about Hunters' missions. However, she could make a guess about certain individuals. After all, not all huntsman and huntresses are created equally. No, eight students (including herself) were different from the rest – stronger too:

Jaune Arc, inexperienced yet with an aura larger than her own. How exactly he got into Beacon is a mystery, but if trained he would become a force to be reckoned with. A classic hero's load out, his style will probably come to overpowering his opponent and if that doesn't work at first than his goal changes to outlast his opponent. It's hard to say anything about Jaune other than his potential and mindset are interesting.

Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee family. Trained with the best tutors money can buy, an expert with the rapier – no doubt – and large amounts of resources and potential. Her aura flowed with the utmost precision and control, not a single amount wasted. Ruby knew that the Schnee family had a rare Semblance that is inherited through blood, but that abilities of that Semblance are closely guarded. Nevertheless, Weiss struck Ruby as a long and short-range fighter as well as a support class.

Ninja Book Cat Girl, the one who must be hiding something. To run off so suddenly, that even she missed it, spoke of high levels of stealth skills. Her weapon undoubtedly was meant for multiple quick attacks, with a large amount of automatic fire if needed; the ribbon on her arm, attached to the blade was most likely used for swinging or some other high-speed movement. She probably quickly attacks a target, ninja-like, using high mobility to avoid being hit and a high rate of fire weapon rate of fire to ward off or surprise her foe as well as a recoil boost. Though the gun was speculation at this point, there was no proof of one in the time she glanced at it. Her weapon didn't look like it could deal with heavy armor, most likely a hit and run, stealth attack type of fighter,

Yang Xiao Long, the one with hair related anger issues. Seriously, however, her sister was a powerhouse wielding immense strength and endurance/stamina in hand-to-hand combat, combined with a Semblance that channeled enemy damage into her own. Yang's only real weaknesses are someone or something faster than she is or someone with a long reaching weapon, which the later can be avoided as a problem if they are inexperienced with their weapon or too slow in comparison to her sister – who was no slowpoke.

The ginger wearing the pink, Ruby hadn't gotten her name yet, but it was quickly apparent that the girl was a strong warrior. Her aura was constantly moving, zig-zagging to and fro, like lightning. And said aura was strong, approaching her own in its normal state – no doubt from being constantly stressed while conscious as it was. No wonder that girl was so hyper, her semblance was probably linked.

Next was the black haired male, who accompanied the orange haired girl. He initially made it on the list for being able to calmly understand and interact with the speedy ginger. Further review suggested that while his aura levels aren't impressive, they were far from average. He moved with precision, much like his aura of which he seemed to have impressive amounts of control over. His physical appearance suggested decent speed and perhaps a skill in acrobatics. She hadn't seen his weapon along with the ginger's. His eye's while lazy, were also sharp at the same time – taking everything in around him. He probably developed the skill having to accompany his companion. He was probably a tactician, but she couldn't tell for sure with the limited observations she had of him.

Of course, there was Pyrrha Nikos, valedictorian of Sanctum and winner of the Mistral Regional Tournament four years in a row, and not to forget mascot of Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes. Ruby had seen the latest tournament and could appreciate her skill with a spear/rifle and shield were impressive. Capable of handling and tracking multiple opponents at once, she was just shy of being a soldier. Her semblance was well concealed despite being televised in multiple matches, which added to her skill.

And finally was herself, the one who was admitted two-years early and well… to say anything more would be redundant reminding herself and would be telling wouldn't it now? Maybe putting herself in a list of the top 8 was arrogant… if it weren't true.

Ruby's deep concentration was abruptly disrupted by a pillow to the face, sent at a velocity which threw her head flying back to her pillow with an 'Umph!' quickly followed by a muffled 'Ouch!'

Ruby knew of only one arm that could do such a thing… she needed to make more acquaintances; the rest of the eight would be nice she supposed.

Yang threw herself onto the sleeping bag next to her, "It's like a big slumber party!"

Ruby sat up, grabbing a canteen and taking a swig – causing Yang to frown – before retorting, "I don't think dad would approve of all the boys though."

As if prompted, Yang felt the need to counter, "I know I do." The noise Yang made dare not be repeated. Thankfully, the sight of Jaune in a blue rabbit onesie stopped any perverted thoughts and noises Yang had.

Her lady-boner gone, Yang turned serious asking, "Hey, what's that and that?" pointing to her canteen and pillow respectively.

Ruby glanced at were Yang pointed, her gaze settling on the canteen, "…Noooothing."

Yang, unconvinced in the slightest, reached for the canteen only to be stopped by a foot courtesy of Ruby Rose Inc.

Ruby's reaction confirming her suspicions, Yang backed down, knowing she couldn't do much to get Ruby aside from using her disappointed older sister voice. "Ya' know, I may go to bars and such, but it's not like I actually drink anything they serve." She passively commented in her disappointed older sister voice. "I can't forgive Uncle Qrow for getting you into that stuff."

Ruby rolled her eyes at her elder's words, having heard them before. "It wasn't his fault, you know. He was intoxicated at the time."

"That's sort of my point." Yang interrupted.

Undeterred, Ruby continued to defend her Uncle, "It's my choice, it's not like he forces me or anything, Yang. Although I won't deny that our drunken stupors together are hilarious."

"Perhaps," Yang begrudgingly admitted. It was pretty damn funny, 'That's My Uncle!' indeed. "But that doesn't excuse what alcohol does to your brain!"

"Relax!" Ruby chided, "Uncle taught me how to use aura to prevent any associated brain damage and what-not. It's why he can be so bad-ass and drunk at the same time."

Yang blinked, this was the first time that was ever mentioned. "And you decide to tell me you can do this now, because…?!"

Ruby tilted her head slightly, like a confused fox, "Eh? I hadn't mentioned that before? No? Well, that's how we do it! …Banzai?"

Yang merely slammed her head into her retrieved pillow, groaning upset at the missed opportunities.

Ruby merely laughed at her sister's misery, before taking a big swig – a blush starting to form across her cheeks. Despite drinking often, Ruby was still quite the lightweight.

Yang removed her face from the pillow, adding one more accusation, "So that's were all our lien goes." Ruby merely shrugged, finding the pros worth the cons. "You have property damage, I have booze." Yang grinned a little at that. "I'll be sure to teach you how to do it later if you're interested, big sis." Yang's grin increased by 120%. Best. Little. Sister. Ever.

The grin was not too last. After all, Yang hadn't forgotten about the second half of her question. "And the other thing?" she motioned with her eyes, to the lump coming from Ruby's pillow.

Ruby pouted, her banter having failed to lure her sister away from part two of her sister's inquiry. Begrudgingly, Ruby reached underneath the pillow revealed a gun.

"The Quantum Defender."

The Quantum Defender, it was a blaster and also a short sword, with the gun form being its main form. It was a dust energy weapon, ammunition taken from the wielder's aura and focused through a Trizyrium Dust Crystal. The blaster was styled reminiscent of a metal dinosaur, a silver face and snout and teeth which took the shape of trapezoids, it's lower jaw a blood red and it's upper jaw and skull a hollow black triangle without its base and a similar blood red filling the hollow portion – a smaller deep gold triangle within the red; the deep gold being the same color of its eyes – which glow when the gun is active.

Sword mode activates with the right miniscule application of aura, causing the grip to become the hilt and the sharp bit of the sword comes out of the dinosaur's 'mouth'. The blade was sharp on both ends and was about 2.5 feet long or .762 meters, depending on if you lived out in the villages in the wilderness or the Four Kingdoms.

The Quantum Defender was one of Ruby's favorite creations and she carried on her person constantly as a backup weapon. Ruby didn't care much for hand-to-hand combat like her sister. She always figured that her scythe and speed combo would deal with any enemy she may encounter, but if she somehow lost Crescent Rose it was good to have at least something to fend off her opponent until she could get her 'precious' back.

Yang understood the argument, she's heard it before, but she can't help but see it as a girl who can't trust the world enough to be unarmed anywhere and anytime. So when Yang saw the familiar blaster, a look of sadness and pity slowly crept onto her expression, and with a whisper she said, "…really Ruby?" heartbroken.

She was a horrible big sister.

'If only that night never happened. If I wasn't such an idiot.'

Ruby had recognized the look of sorrow on her elder's face, 'She's blaming herself again.' Ruby knew that Yang would often blame herself for what happened on that night. When Yang had taken her little sister Ruby to run after her mysteriously vanished mother.

Frankly, Ruby hated when her sister got like this. Looking back, Ruby knew that Yang's thought process at the time wasn't one of logic and thought, but of emotion and passion. Yang couldn't be blamed for the inevitable arrival of Grimm when she was in such emotion distress of losing her step-mom, Ruby knew that Yang wasn't thinking right at the time and has never blamed her for what happened that night.

If anything that night show is a marker of Ruby learning something much… deeper about herself.

A story for another day.

Right now, her older sister needed her.

Putting her hand on her elders shoulder, simultaneously hiding the blaster once more, she motioned to her elder to stand up. Nodding, tears in her eyes, the elder rose. They looked each other in the eye for a moment before suddenly embrace, several students who were still awake observed the tender scene between young and older sister.

…And were devastatingly surprised when the younger suddenly grabbed the front of the elder's shirt, pulling away in the process, before suddenly punching Yang across the face – enough force to send the yellow-haired beauty flying, crashing into one of the pillars outlining the windows.

Ruby, crouched slightly with white anime-style eyes and sharp shark teeth proclaimed to the recovering blonde, "Idiot!"

Instantly recovering and appearing in front of Ruby with the speed of the same girl's Semblance, a very angry yelled at the younger sister, "The hell was that for, shorty!"

"What do you think, genius!"

"You fucking punched me in the face!"

"Yeah! For being a idiot, genius!"

"You wanna go?!"

"Bring it, Bitch!"

Before the huntresses could proceed to duke it out, an increasingly familiar voice interrupted them, "What in the world is going on over here!? Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep!?"

Yang, eyes red and personally infuriated at being interrupted from enacting older sister style justice, turned to Weiss practically yelling, "Oh, not you again!"

Suddenly realizing where she was and what everyone was supposed to be doing, Ruby suddenly felt like sobering up very quickly, "Shh! Guys, she's right! People are trying to sleep!"

Hearing Ruby's admittance to her point led Weiss to comment, "Oh, now you're on my side!"

Upset, and in reality, still drunk Ruby retorted, "I was always on your side!"

A fourth and familiar voice made itself known, "People are also trying to read." A candle was lit revealing the book ninja cat herself.

Definitely drunk, Ruby exclaimed to herself without thinking, "The Book Cat Ninja from this morning!"

Multiple things happened at once. For one, Weiss merely gaped at the nickname, recognizing the face of the particular individual as well. Yang, anger forgotten (as planned), fell over with laughter – realizing that Ruby wasn't 100% present. And thankfully for Ms. Belladonna's secret, Ruby was too unfocused to notice Blake's eyes widen at the mention of 'cat'.

'How the…!' Blake thought to herself before recovering – realizing that it was mere coincidence and that the girl in front of her was… let's just say not serious like earlier that morning, "It's proper etiquette to tell others one's name before asking for theirs…"

Despite being intoxicated, Ruby was present enough to get the hint, "My name is Ruby, *hic*, Rose." Having recovered herself from the ground, Yang decided to add (laughing at Ruby's hiccup), "The name's Yang Xiao Long, Ruby's older sister." Surprisingly Weiss also added her two-cents, "Weiss Schnee, not that we covered that already or anything." With that she looked away with a 'Hmph!' as if disinterested. Truthfully, Weiss was still miffed about the conversation from earlier that day, but even she wanted to know the name of the one who could disappear so suddenly.

With a small smile, as if amused with the Schnee heiress' antics, the fourth girl answered, "Blake Belladona."

Ruby returned the smile to the bowed ninja, "Nice to meet you."

Overall, a normal night.

Authors Notes:

Hello those who read! I'm going to try and keep any authors notes short as to not mess with the word count.

I might as well state here as a disclaimer that I obviously don't own RWBY, but I have to as is tradition and necessity.

Also! Thanks to all who have favorited, followed, and/or reviewed this story! I have been surprised with the amount of attention this story has gotten when you relate it to the word-count and everything. SO thank you!

Anyway, if you didn't get the reference for the Quantum Defender, it's from Power Rangers: Time Force, because that was the shit when I was growing up. I also defend Ruby having multiple weapons for a couple of reasons, one of which relating the the events that I continue to tease to you all - Don't worry! We will revisit that fateful night... eventually. Anyway, I feel as a lover of weapons, Ruby would build various weapons she would never plan on using as well as those she would, the practical reason is already mentioned in story.

That's all for da notes! See you all next time on RWBY: Silver Eyes: Initiation and Team Formation - Hey! That Rhymes! Part 2 !

P.S. The Quantum Defender link: wiki/DV_Defender#DV_Defender

EDIT: Removed Japanese

EDIT 2: Added some comma's and added analysis