RWBY Ruby goes to Haven

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)

The morning after saving Winter who had stayed the night at Haven for some reason, Ruby woke up to her scroll vibrating beside her.

"Hello?" Ruby asked groggily as she answered it.

"Hey sis. How's Haven treating you?" Ruby's older sister Yang asked cheerfully.

"Fine. Got initiation this morning. How's Beacon?" Ruby asked sitting up and rubbing the sleep out of one of her eyes.

"Eh it's okay, bout to start initiation myself. There are some pretty hot guys here at least." Yang said causing Ruby to roll her eyes.

"Just don't make me an Aunty yet or tell me about your conquests and I don't care." Ruby said earning a squawk from her sister.

"Cubling? Who is that?" Arslan asked entering the room and seeing Ruby on her scroll.

"My older sister, Yang, she's a student at Beacon. Yang that's Arslan, one of my classmates." Ruby said causing Arslan to nod slightly.

"You should get ready Cubling. Initiation is in twenty minutes." Arslan said causing Ruby to smile at her slightly.

"Thanks Arslan. I'll call you before bed tonight sis, okay?" Ruby asked talking back into her scroll and earning an affirmative and a 'kick some ass Ru' from the elder of the two. Ruby smiled as she hung up before using her semblance to get dressed and ready in record time.

"Your speed is impressive, Cub. Here. Let me walk with so that the others do not try and attack you." Arslan said smiling at Ruby, pulling the girl to her side protectively.

"Thanks! You know you kind of remind me of my sister." Ruby said smiling up at the lioness who blinked at this for a second.

"How so?" Arslan asked curiously as she looked at the tiny girl that looked even smaller than normal beside her.

"Well you're both really warm. Yang has a fire/energy related semblance that makes her really warm and you're as warm as she is. You're both blonds…and you're both tall! You two also try to keep other people from attacking me!" Ruby ticked the reasons off of her fingers, causing Arslan to smile slightly.

"You are a cubling. A lion and lioness will always protect cublings." Arslan said shrugging the rest of it off easily, with a secretive smile at the fire part.

"Oh that makes sense." Ruby said blinking slightly before smiling and causing Arslan to nuzzle the top of her head slightly.

"Indeed it does little cub." Arslan said causing Ruby to giggle at the affectionate gesture before the two of them arrived at the arena where the new initiates were gathering.

"Good it is time for the initiation to begin. Unlike Beacon, where you are launched off of a cliff into a Grimm infested forest,…we actually care about our students health here. All of your names have been entered into the computer system and if you look on the screen you can see the selector." Sylvia said five minutes before initiation was due to start, directing everyone's attention to the large screen above her. Looking up everyone saw a list with all of their names and a picture beside their names on the screen that was split into two halves.

Ruby was suitably distracted from what she was saying when she realized that her sister would be launched into a forest right off of the bat!

"The system will cycle through your profile, listed skills, and any available information on you and then pair you with the person best suited to help you grow and learn as a hunter or huntress. After that is done each pair of partners will be cycled through the system again and matched with another pair to form a four man team that will help you grow and improve." Sylvia said causing everyone to nod slightly, that sounded better than being launched into a forest at least. Ruby finally started tuning in as soon as she heard a spar mentioned.

"After the team placements are done there will be spars to determine who is the top team to start with, the title for that team will be Alpha team and the runner up will be Beta Team and so on and so forth. Here at Heaven it isn't how hard you try that determines your position, it is how strong you are both alone and as a team. If you are not strong you will not survive to protect the weak." Sylvia said harshly, causing a few of the weaker willed teens to wince or look scared. Ruby wasn't fazed though…she could tell it was just the woman's way of making sure her students didn't die easily or any time soon.

"Being the strongest in the team spars will grant you several perks as a team such as the best of the freshmen rooms, the best bathing water, and some leeway on what you do so long as you remain the strongest and do not tarnish our school's proud and strong name." Sylvia said earning a few greedy or ambitious mutters from the other students, Ruby, Arslan and a few others were quiet and unbothered by this.

"After the team spars there will be pair spars, one set of partners versus another set until there is only one pair of partners left standing. The top pair will be the Alpha Pair, runner up is Beta Pair and I'm sure you get the idea. The higher up in the rankings in Pair spars gives the two partners more leeway than the lower ranking ones, this does not apply to their teammates. If one pair of partners was the Alpha Pair but their teammates were the Delta Pair then the Alpha Pair would be in charge over their Delta teammates and get more leeway with what they do or say." Sylvia said causing everyone to nod, it seemed like those that didn't know ahead of time were learning quickly that here…power meant everything. If you were the strongest, you were on top and got away with more.

"Finally before we are finished for today we will have singles Fights. One on one combat until finally there is a single student left at the top. For this student there is a new title that no one else in their year will have unless they beat that student in a fight in Combat Class. All of those fights will be one on one. The top student in the Singles Fight will be known as the Omega Student. The best of the year. Very rarely does any Omega student keep their status for more than a month so be warned." Sylvia said causing almost all of the students except Ruby and Arslan to murmur to each other at this. Ruby's eyes gleamed in determination, the best of the best…that's what she wanted to be…and she was going to work hard to get that title!

"The Omega student will be the student in charge of their year. Often the Omega students are referred to as the 'General' or 'Commander' of their year. If Grimm were to breach the school all of the years are expected to either find their Omega or a teacher or myself to get their orders. You do not go off halfcocked at this school. If you don't have all of the intel, do not go on the mission. I do not wish to bury any of you because you went off without thinking first." Sylvia said causing the students to gulp at the burying part while Ruby smiled slightly. She knew the woman cared for her students. Sylvia looked around and noticed everyone seemed to have taken what she said to heart, she caught Ruby's eye and smiled slightly at the girl who gave her a grin in return.

Sylvia's next words caused everyone to hold their breath as the screen began cycling.

"Good now we'll begin selecting the partners. System Start!"