Key:

'Thoughts.'

*Actions*

Meant to be noticed

"Talking."


"Why hello girls! Who's ready to fight for their lives!?"

'You have got to be kidding me.'


'I cannot believe we have to go to Mount Gleen with Professor Oobleck!'

"Doctor Oobleck to you Ms. Rose! I did not earn a Phd for nothing!" Oobleck Shouts.

"What? How did-"

"Don't question it." Yang says.

"So, professor Oobleck I didn't know you were a fighter, or doctor."

"I admit, I fancy myself more of an intellectual, but I can assure you, as a Huntsman, I have had my Fair share of tussles."

Ruby is scratching her head, "...Like the mushroom?"

"Those are Truffles." Blake answers.

"Like the sprout?"

Yang leans over, "Those are brussels."

Ruby continues to scratch at her head.

"Besides! My expertise in the field of history as well as my dabbling in the archaeological surveys, our dear headmaster saw it fit to assign me to this particular... assignment!"

Weiss speaks up, "What does history have to due with this?"

"Well what a preposterous question you silly girl, why history is the backbone of our very society!" Oobleck finishes by slamming his fist into his palm, "And the Liver! And probably the kidneys if I were to wager."

Weiss once again speaks up, "And that means?"

"The Southeast quadrant outside of Vale is home to wild forests and deep caves… But, it is also the location to one of the kingdom's greatest failures."

"Mountain Glenn."


6 Hours later


"Ah, wonderful! A textbook campfire!" Oobleck blurs into the room.

"Fire!" Ruby falls to her knees in front of the campfire, "So warm…"

"Very good! Eat your dinners and hurry to bed, We have a lot of ground to cover tomorrow, and we'll need you to take turns keeping watch over our temporary abode! Any volunteers?"

"Here." Ruby raises her hand and Oobleck blurs away.

Ruby gets up to walk away, "Hey Ruby?" Yang stops her before she can walk away.

"Yeah?"

"Did, Oobleck ask you about why you wanted to become a huntress? I mean what did you tell him?"

"Hm, no he didn't. Weird, Good night gu-"

"Wait!" Yang interrupts again. "ne more thing, are you okay? Like, from this Morning?"

"Oh! Uh, yeah, I think so, I had forgotten about it until you had reminded me."

"...Good."

"Anyways, good night guys."

Ruby had not forgotten.


1 Hour later


"Argh…" Ruby just could not figure out what that nightmare was about! Or why she volunteered for first watch, she was already so tired.

"Dreams slowly get harder to remember, so maybe that had something to do with it? No,wait, she has to focus on keeping watch, Oobleck and her team expect her to keep watch! Why did she have to volunteer for this? But why was Roman in her dreams, with her mom as well, how they possibly know each other? Wasn't Roman like 20? Wait! Was that a beowulf? Why did her birthmark itch so much!' Her birthmark shaped like a sickle, it caused no shortage of misery while on this mission. It started to itch all the way back on campus, and now she felt like she had to scratch it constantly. 'Argh, too many questions! Too many thoughts! ...I need to take a walk...'

"Argh, Screw it! C'mon Zwei lets take a walk. Nobody will notice if we're gone for five minutes right?" 'Right?'


As Ruby and Zwei are walking down the street, Zwei dashes around the corner, barking can be heard.

"Wait, Zwei! Where are you going? Keep it down!" Trying to keep to a whisper Ruby follows Zwei around a corner.

"What was that?"

Ruby inhales, and yanks around the corner she previously passed, before peeking around the very same corner.

"What was what?"

From out of nowhere there are now, two, previously unseen men standing in the middle of the road.

"I thought I heard a beowulf, or somethin'."

"Whatever, let's just finish our patrol and get back to base, this place gives me the creeps."

'Crap, I should probably follow them, shouldn't I?'

The two mysterious people pass around the bend in the road and Ruby then stands up and starts following them.

Over 5 minutes later, they pass a final corner and stop, Ruby rushes to stop her forward momentum and falls back behind the corner.

Standing back up Ruby thinks, 'These guys must be deaf.' and peeks around the corner to see them walk up to a metal door and go inside.

"This is it! This is it!" Ruby attempts to keep her voice down as she pulls out her scroll to contact her team.


"...Why?" Low signal. Of course she had low signal. she scratches her birthmark, it practically burns now. "Ah, come on we have to go get the others."

She turns to walk back down the street while thinking to herself, not noticing the cracks in the road.

*Crack*

"Huh?" Ruby Looks down in fear. Pausing her walk, and the scratching of her head.

*Cra-Koom*

Zwei sprints forwards but Ruby isn't quick enough, and when the floor collapses she falls, grabbing onto the ledge.

"Shit." She curses.

Hanging off a ledge over a chasm who knows how deep is not a preferable scenario for her to be in. And even then her hair, lightly tipped by Orange hangs in front of her eyes, which means she can only barely see the ledge she is on, and Crescent Rose just out of her grasp.

'Have. To. Get Up.' She slowly starts to lift herself up, and then gets on her elbows. 'This is it! The final stretch!' She reaches her leg up and...

*Crack*

She stalls, holding her breath like it will stop the inevitable. And when the ledge gives way, all she can do is scream.


*Slam*

She lands, not knowing how far she fell. 'But it couldn't have been very long. I am still conscious, and Adrenalin levels are probably still low.' Getting up and glancing around, she freezes.

Why is she on top of an underground building in an underground city?

The two men from earlier slam open a door behind her, start to yell and point their guns at Ruby while advancing on her position.

"Freeze, put your hands up!" "Who are you?"

Ruby gasps, turns around and tries to fall back a step, before arriving at a ledge. Then she reaches to her back belt out instinct before remembering she dropped Crescent Rose. Almost cursing herself, she looks back at the men slowly advancing towards her, and opens her mouth to negotiate as they walk towards her.

"Uh… I can Explain!"

The two men stop and look at each other, then Sprint forward, one of them swinging a fist.

Ruby doesn't get the chance to use her semblance.

"Goodnight."

*Wham*