Okay here I am once again this time I've had sleep and I have lotsa tasty ass caffeinated goodness with me as well. Any ways I hope you all are enjoying the story and remember if I get reviews they encourage me to type more.

Chapter 4: Children of Lir part 2

As Ruby fell backwards a bunch of heavy suitcases fell on her. The only thing she could hear besides a slight ringing from one box hitting her on the head, was someone yelling rather loudly. "What are you doing?! Do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused?!" Some white haired lady. Her scent was that of wild flowers in a field wet with dew. All in all it wasn't displeasing to Ruby. Just over powering.

"Do you even know what Dust is?! Fire! Water! Lightning! Ice!" She punctuated each word by shaking the vial. Dust was falling out of the vial. The dust began to irritate Ruby's sensitive nose. Ruby tried to with hold the sneeze as long as she could, oh how she tried to. Eventually the primal urge won out, and she sneezed. How she wished she didn't. If the slight burns wasn't enough it just seemed to enrage the woman further.

'I do suppose exploding isn't on the top of my list of things I want either but she doesn't need to be so loud. It was her fault after all, but this is starting to hurt my ears.' Ruby thought. "Jeez Princess it was your fault for shaking the damn bottle! All I did was sneeze!" Ruby shouted back hurting her ears further but it would be worth it in the end if she would just. Stop. Yelling.

"How dar-" She was cut off by another new comer. "Actually it's heiress. She is Weiss Schnee. Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company." The new comer said. She had flowing raven coloured hair with a black bow on her head. Ruby was distracted by the new comer. She seemed to be angering this Weiss girl but Ruby was distracted by this one new girl. Ruby would have attempted to aquire her scent but the previous explosion having damaged her noise all be it temporarily but she still couldn't sniff the air. Despite how much she wanted to.

Ruby realised just then and there who she had the discomfort of meeting. A Schnee. The biggest threat to the Faunus race since the great Faunus-Human war. Luckily whatever was said to Weiss caused her to be stormed off. Ruby turned to the newcomer and was about to thank her when she walked off. Ruby could have sworn she saw the bow twitch. But chalked that up to the wind.

Blake sauntered off thinking one simple thing. 'That damn wolf pup has no idea how much trouble she was in. Luckily enough she had that hood up. Hid her ears well enough.' Blake continued her path over to a nice secluded spot. She jumped on top of a branch and sat down opening a book, to start reading. To most it was nothing more then a form of busy work. Something just to eat up time.

To Blake, it was the single greatest thing. She turned to where she left off to go save the young wolf Faunus who was a bit to close to starting a fight with the biggest anti-Faunus family in history. As she flipped through the pages she recalled old memories of reading old stories. Some would call them folk-tales, but she always sought the grain of truth within them. Even if there was none, she still enjoyed them profusely. Simply because some of them her parents told her growing up.

"I hate this bow, but it is better to deal with the damn itchiness then deal with then the Schnee's at least." Blake said to no one in particular. She reclined and enjoyed the shade on her back, sun on her skin and a good book in her hands. She couldn't care if anyone heard but no one was to be found even though she would have heard them coming a mile off.

As Weiss stormed off, she could only think of two things. 'How DARE that Bitch recite off all that my bastard of a father did. Honestly I felt disgusted when I found that shit out. Now I get reminded about it.' But as her mind began to cool off she was assaulted with another thought. A much worse thought for someone of her stature. 'But that red cloak wearing dunce was kinda cute.'

Weiss instantly stopped dead in her tracks. She quickly as she could shook those thoughts out of her head to try and rid herself of those thoughts. "I am the heiress to a prestigious company. Thoughts like that will get me crucified if my father ever found out." Weiss said and finally took in her surroundings. 'I suppose it is because it is a forbidden fruit but still. I value my flesh where it is right now.' She thought as she looked at the small garden area to the side of the school.

She walked up to a small statue and took a seat at the base of it. 'On the bright side at least that bastard can't read my thoughts. Unless he built some monster device to do that... actually I wouldn't put it past him.' she began to laugh slightly. She looked around to see if anyone heard. She had the appearance to keep up. An appearance that her parents forced onto her, cold, stoic... heartless is more what Weiss would call it.

'Hell he would most likely only use it on me, because little miss daddy's princess would never do anything wrong.' She bitterly thought. She has always been displeased with her sister because she was the obvious favourite. While Weiss had hours upon hours of various studies from fencing forms to the evolution and need for different types of Dust to history of the kingdoms. How she hated it all, but Winter no she didn't need anything like that. If she wanted anything she got straight away, if Weiss wanted anything she had her studies doubled temporarily and it still pissed her off.

Before Weiss could lament further on her sister there was an announcement for the new comers to make their way to the assembly hall. Weiss sighed and stood up from her spot and walked towards her destination.

"Yang Xiao Long I am very angry at you! Do you have any idea the pain and suffering I went through after you ditched me!" Ruby shouted at her sister as she walked into the large hall. Yang quickly back pedalled and tried to get away but was met with a flurry of rose petals and a very angry looking Wolf staring at her.

"I. EXPLODED!" Ruby shouted pointing an accusatory finger at Yang. "Plus there was this really angry woman who wouldn't stop shouting and it hurt my ears and a large suitcase it me in the head and if I haven't mentioned yet. I EXPLODED!" Ruby continued her barrage of angry yelling at her sister.

"Jeez Ruby don't over react. Granted I'm sure the yelling was bad and it hurt your ears and I'm sorry about the whole you getting hit with a suitcase but I'm sure everything wasn't as bad as you said." Yang said trying to reassure Ruby but was restraining a laugh. "Yang I know you want to laugh but just remember you cant replace your bed easily here." Ruby said staring into Yang's easy to convey her message clear. If Yang laughs the next time it wont be an accident the next time.

Before Yang could make some snappy retort a small white haired woman who was behind Ruby. She let herself be known with one simple word. "YOU!" She shouted, causing Ruby to jump up into Yang's arms. "Ah Yang the she devil is back!" Ruby managed to get out as she tried to bury herself into Yang's arms.

"I'll excuse that remark but I'm obligated to give you this." Weiss said thrusting a pamphlet into Ruby and walked off. "You see she is loud and my nose is already messed up from the explosion. Plus my ears hurt from the yelling." Ruby pouted getting down from Yang's arms.

Between the constant assault on her hearing on that day alone, Ruby couldn't really hear the speech Ozpin gave but she knew if she wanted the foot notes she could just ask Yang or that Jaune guy who was with Ruby until she found Yang. But the speech was probably something just for inspiration for anyone who was still undecided about becoming a hunter or a huntress.

Ruby was laying on a cot next to Yang. Yang was talking about something involving the initiation Ruby was too distracted by a raven haired girl perched against the wall reading a book. Yang quickly caught her sister's lack of attention and followed her line of sight, to find the exact same person. "Ruby I swear if I come into a room and catch you handcuffing yourself to a bed frame because your in heat I'll go and have you spaded." Yang said earning a glare from Ruby.

"Yang, my heat schedule is still a month and a half away. No she just has something about her. She was the one who saved me from that Schnee." Ruby said earning a look of slight disgust from Yang. "Far too much information. I don't go around telling you when I'm hormonal." Yang said laughing at the face Ruby was making.

"No but I can smell it. Trust me that is far worse." Ruby said shaking her head. "Well let's go over to talk to her." Yang said picking Ruby up and walking over to the raven haired girl.

As Yang approached the girl, she in turned looked up from her book. "I know you. Your that girl that exploded." The girl said looking at Ruby. "Yeah that's me." Ruby said kicking the ground with a slippered shoe.

"Oh my god you actually exploded." Yang muttered in the background. "Hey I'm Yang you already met my sister Ruby. What's your name?" She said extending her hand which was taken. "I'm Blake. And you are disturbing my reading time." The girl now identified as Blake said.

"What's it about?" Ruby asked taking a seat next to Blake. Then the scent finally got to Ruby. She knew what was different. Ruby decided not to call her on it just yet. Ruby knew some Faunus were not trusting of Humans. Some did have it far rougher than what Ruby experienced.

"It is about a man with two souls and each fighting to take control." Blake deadpanned. "Oh does that mean your going to read to me?" Ruby said putting her head on Blake's lap.

"Ah. I don't recall ever saying that." Blake said not exactly offended by the assumption just shocked. "Trust me Blake if you don't read to her she will become a whiny bitch and then she proceeds to pout and it is a lot easier to read to her." Yang said walking away.

"Well according to her I should read to you but it wont be from this. I have a different book all together." Blake said putting the book she was reading down and took another one and flipped to a page. "Hey Blake, Why do you hide?" Ruby asked before she could start.

"Took you long enough to notice. I hide because I don't have the best experience with humans." Blake said looking into Ruby's eyes. "Hey that explosion messed with my nose. And neither do I but Yang and her dad adopted me and have been nothing but loving." Ruby said starting to get comfortable.

"To the point Dad wanted me to cover my ears in case something bad happens because Yang would break every bone in their body." Ruby said laughing at how she felt Blake relaxing. "Yeah but in my experience their was no one like that." Blake said showing her book to signal she wanted to read for Ruby.

"Sorry. Go ahead." Ruby said "Do you know of the story of the 'Children of Lir'?" Blake asked.

"Not fully Yang and my dad would tell two different variations of them. But it is a favourite." Ruby said getting further more into Blake's lap. "Lir was the god of the Ocean. When Bodb Derag became the king of the gods. Lir was outraged, Bodb gave onto Lir to please him one of his Daughters. Aoibh. Aoibh gave Lir four children. Unfortunately Aoibh got sick and died.

Her children began to miss her terribly. Wanting to keep Lir and his children happy, Bodb sent a second daughter, Aoife. Unlike her sister, Aoife hated Lir's children. Or more specifically the love they had. So she hatched a plan to get rid of them.

Ona visit to Bodb's house she asked one of their servants to kill them. He was outraged that she would ask such a thing and refused. She then attempted to kill them, but when she had to she found that she lacked the courage.

She went back and found a new plan. She invited them all to a lake to play, during their playing she casts an evil spell. It turned them into swans. Until the heard a specific bell. Upon learning of this Bodb turned his own daughter into a demon of air for the rest of time.

The spent 900 years as swans until the heard that chime from a saint. The spent time in every region until the heard it." Blake looked down and saw Ruby was asleep she began to scowl until she saw Yang walk over and pick her up and walked back with her in her arms.

'I guess some just happen to have all the luck' Blake thought. Nothing bitter but slightly envious at how lucky Ruby was to have a loving family.

Author's Note:

Okay so I know I butchered that story and did just a quick version but it is easily one of my favourites. It has been used a lot in different thing like songs and they are even mentioned in a story of king Arthur. So please let me know what you think and again look for the actual story it is a great one.