I LIVE!
Sorry this took so long guys, IRL stuff happened that got in the way.
I Dont own RWBY.
Summer smiled at the looks of determination on the Belladonnas faces, clearly her words had a effect on the two faunus. Summer was actually looking forward to these next visions, mostly since she'll get to see more of her daughters future, but partially to see the other children as well.
Ruby and Yang, alongside other students, walk out of the ship and head down the paved path to the front of the school.
As Ruby and Yang take in Beacon Academy, they let out an awestruck, "Wow..."
"The view from Vale's got nothing on this!" the blonde exclaims.
Ruby is getting very excited by all the weapons she is seeing, "Ohmygosh, sis! That kid's got a collapsible staff! And she's got a fire sword!"
She tries to follow one of them, but Yang pulls her sister by the hood back towards her, "Ow! Ooww!"
"Did anyone else see that weird 2d effect?" Qrow asks the room.
His team raises their hands in response.
"Good, it's not just me."
"Easy there, little sister. They're just weapons!"
At these words team STRQ looked at their leader nervously. Summer was very much a weapons lover, not to the apparent degree of her daughter, but enough of one that those words...
"What! Just weapons!"
Would get a major reaction out of her. Team STRQ leans away from their ranting leader, not even Raven is willing to interrupt her when she is like this. Summer rants for a few minutes before burning out and allowing the video to continue.
Ruby looks a her sister like she is crazy before she begins to rant, "'Just weapons'? They're an extension of ourselves! They're a part of us! Oh, they're so cool!"
"Well, why can't you swoon over your own weapon? Aren't you happy with it?" Yang asks.
"Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose!" the girl said while basically cuddling her scythe, "I just really like seeing new ones. It's like meeting new people, but better..."
Raven gives a look at the sheepish Rose sitting on the couch. It was very clear which of her parents she took after, even outside of her looks.
"Ruby, come on, why don't you go try and make some friends of your own?" Yang asks as she pushes her sister's hood down over her face.
Ruby takes off her hood as she speaks "But... why would I need friends if I have you?"
"Well..." A group of other students surround Yang and they all dash down the road as she rushes through her sentence, "Actually, my friends are here. Gotta go catch up. 'Kay, see ya, bye!"
Summer has a frown on her face at this, even though Ruby probably did need to meet people on her own, Yang could have been less abrupt about it.
Ruby is set spinning from Yang's rapid departure, and yells after her sister, "Wait, where are you going?! Are we supposed to go to our dorms? Where are our dorms? Do we have dorms?" the hooded girl stops spinning while still reeling, "I don't know what I'm doing..."
Ruby falls backwards into a luggage cart, sending cases flying. Someone is standing over her.
"What are you doing?!"
The someone is revealed to be Weiss.
Josephine perks up at the sight of her future daughter, she was interested in seeing the kind of person she was.
"Uh, sorry!" Ruby apologises as she gets up.
But the heiress doesnt seem to care, "Sorry?! Do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused?"
"Uuhhh..."
"Give me that!" the heiress snatches the luggage that Ruby picked up and opens it to reveal its twinkling-sounding contents, "This is Dust - mined and purified from the Schnee quarry!"
"Uuuhhhh..."
"What are you, brain-dead?" Weiss asks while holding out a vial of red Dust and shutting the case, "Dust! Fire, water, lightning, energy!"
"I... I know..." Ruby starts coughing due to the Dust pouring into her face from the Dust vial Weiss is shaking.
"Are you even listening to me? Is any of this sinking in? What do you have to say for yourself?!"
Josephine had a small frown on her face, while what Ruby did was dangerous, her reaction was far meaner than necessary. And if the grumbling from the Summer was any indication, she thought so as well.
Josephine was very uncomfortable with this, since Winter was a very well behaved girl who did not think herself better than anyone, so why was her future other daughter acting like this?
And was she not taught Dust safety!? You don't shake a Dust vial, ever!
Ruby, who had been receiving more and more Dust to her face, finally sneezes, which promptly erupts into a full-blown explosion of flame, snowflakes, and electricity right on Weiss. The bottle the heiress had been holding flies over the courtyard and lands at the feet of Blake Belladonna, who picks it up and notices the Schnee Dust Company logo on the side as she looks up from a book and looks over at the scene.
"Well, that was inevitable," Glynda says, "Anyone would sneeze when they are having Dust flung in their faces."
"Unbelievable!" The now covered in soot Schnee exclaims, as the soot quickly disappears, "This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!"
"I'm really, really sorry!" said an apologetic Ruby Rose.
"Ugh, you complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?"
Ruby tries to speak up, "Well, I-I..."
The heiress cuts her off, "This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice, you know! We're here to fight monsters, so... watch where you're going!"
Ruby finally snaps back at Weiss, "Hey, I said I was sorry, princess!"
"And her patience runs out, took a while, didn't it?" Qrow asks his team.
"She reminds me even more of Summer now," his sister responded, "They are both kind until their patience runs dry, then they become vicious."
Summer pointedly ignores the siblings conversation in an effort to preserve dignity.
"It's heiress, actually." Ruby and Weiss look over to see Blake approach with the previously launched Dust bottle, "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."
"Finally! Some recognition!" A smugly smiling Weiss exclaimed.
Blake was quick to destroy said smugness, "The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."
"THat sounds about right." Raven says decisively, Josephine gives her husband a dirty look at her infuriated husband at hearing what has happened to her fathers company.
Jaques was yelling impotently about how "The animals should be glad they even have jobs!"
Everyone else suddenly realised why that barrier seperating the Schnees from everyone else was there. They really wanted to hit Jaques right about now.
Weiss begins getting angry again as Ruby chuckles at her expense, "Wha- How dare- The nerve of... Ugh!" The heiress gets up in Blake's face and takes the bottle from her, walking off in a huff as her helpers gather the luggage and follow.
Ruby yells to the storming Weiss, "I promise I'll make this up to you!" she sighs before turning to Blake "I guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day... So, what's..." she sees Blake walking off as well, then falls to the ground on her back depressed, "Welcome to Beacon..." she remains on the ground until a shadow comes over her.
Jaune walks over holding out his hand, "Hey... I'm Jaune."
Ruby takes his hand and pulls herself up, "Ruby, aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?"
"I think that boy is my son." Amelia says.
"Why do you think that?" asks Stavros, speakingup for the first time.
"He looks like my husband with my colouring."
Beacon inside the walls are filled with scenic trees, arching architecture, and a winding road alongside a river, down which Ruby and Jaune are walking.
Jaune was speaking to Ruby, "All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!"
Ruby was laughing as she responded, "Look, I'm sorry! Vomit Boy was the first thing that came to mind."
Team STRQ begins laughing at the title.
"Oh, yeah? What if I called you Crater Face?"
The rest of the room begins to laugh or chuckle alongside team STRQ.
"Hey, that explosion was an accident!" The cloaked girl responded.
"Well, the name's Jaune Arc! Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue - ladies love it!"
"Sure they do kid." Qrow says, while the girls in the room all look sceptically at the screen.
"Do they?" Ruby asked sceptically.
"They will!" Jaune responds in a panic, "Well, I-I hope they will. My mom always says that... Never mind."
Ruby giggles before a short, awkward silence falls between the two, "So... I got this thing!" she says as she pulls out Crescent Rose and stabs it into the ground.
Jaune backpedals awy from the blade, "Whoa! Is that a scythe?"
"It's also a customizable high-impact sniper rifle!"
"A-wha...?" Jaune asks with a look of confusion.
Qrow and Summer both blanked out for a moment, Qrow in a fantasy about that scythe, and Summer mentally putting together blueprints for that weapon. their partner both sigh at the, very familiar, scene in front of them.
Meanwhile, Amelia was looking just as confused as her son.
Ruby cocks it while smiling and says, "It's also a gun."
"Oh. That's cool!" Jaune says.
"So what've you got?" the reaper asks enthusiastically.
"Oh! I, uh..." Jaune flounders for a moment before he unsheathes a blade "I got this sword!"
"Ooooohh!"
"Yeah, and I've got a shield, too!" he gets his scabbard and raises his arm as the metal expands into his shield.
"Oh!" Amelia gasps, "That's Crocea Mors, my great-grandfathers sword."
Summer gave the sword an appraising look before nodding in acceptance, not that it really meant anything.
"So, what do they do?" Ruby asks as she touches the shield.
Jaune fumbles with the shield for a moment as it retracts off his arm, expands, and retracts again before puts it back on his arm and finally shrinking it down and placing it on his belt, before responding, "The shield gets smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just... put it away..."
"But... wouldn't it weigh the same?" Ruby asks.
"Yeah, it does..." Jaune responds degectedly.
The hunters all laugh at that statemen, to them that was entertaining.
Ruby speaks up while giggling, "Well, I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons, sooo... I guess I did go a little overboard when designing it."
"Wait - you made that?!" Jaune asks incredulously.
"Of course!" Ruby responds, "All students at Signal forge their own weapons! Didn't you make yours?"
"It's a hand-me-down. My great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war." Jaune answered
"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me!" Ruby laughs, "Well, I like it! Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days."
Summer sighed in agreement with her daughter, while the other hunters, sans Ozpin, didn't seem to care all that much. They were more along the lines of; if it kills grimm, it works.
Jaune sheathes his sword, "Yeah, the classics..."
Ruby continues moving again as she speaks, "So why'd you help me out back there? In the courtyard?"
"Eh, why not?" Jaune asks while walking beside her, "My mom always says, 'Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet.'"
"Hmm." Ruby looks around before asking, "Hey, where are we going?"
Many people face palm at this statement. How do you not realise where you are going when you are trying to find the orientation. Better question, why doesn't beacon put signs or something?
A question to bring up with Ozpin later.
"Oh, I don't know! I was following you," as the scene fades to black his words continue, "Y-You think there might be a directory? Maybe a food court? Some kind of recognizable landmark? Is, uh... Is that a 'no'?"
Ruby's laughing voice is heard, "That's a 'no'."
The Screen blacks out for a moment before transitioning to a view of Ruby and Jaune entering Beacon Academy's giant auditorium, filled to the brim with people. Ruby looks over when she hears Yang's voice.
"Ruby!" the blonde calls, waving at her sister, "Over here! I saved you a spot!
Ruby starts to head over to her sister after saying to Jaune, "Oh! Hey, I-I gotta go! I'll see you after the ceremony!"
"Hey, wait!" he calls after her before sighing, "Ah, great. Where am I supposed to find another nice, quirky girl to talk to?!" he moves off screen to reveal Pyrrha standing behind him, hand on her hip as she watches him walk away.
"Behind you." Amelia tries to tell her son.
Meanwhile Stavros is looking at Pyrrha with a look of surprise, apparently he had not actually expected to see his child in these visions.
Once Ruby joins her, with arms crossed and a look of irritation on her face, Yang asks, "How's your first day going, little sister?"
"You mean since you ditched me and I exploded?" Ruby responded in irritation.
"Yikes! Meltdown already?" Yang asked.
"No, I literally exploded a hole in front of the school!" Ruby says in irritation, "And there was some fire, and I think some ice...?"
"Are you being sarcastic?" Yang asked with a broad smile.
Ruby scoffs at her sister and begins speaking as the camera pans around to reveal Weiss behind her, "I wish! I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage, and then she yelled at me, and then I sneezed, and then I exploded, and then she yelled at me again, and I felt really, really bad, and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me!"
"You!"
Ruby quickly jumps into her sister's arms in a panic at the sound of Weiss' voice, "Oh, God, it's happening again!"
"That is a very Summer reaction." Raven said, with Tai and Qrow nodding in agreement before they see the Look, that Summer was giving the two, getting them to quiet down.
Raven is one of the only people immue to the Look that Summer has. Much to the hooded girls annoyance.
"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!"
Yang looked at her sister in shock, "Oh, my God, you really exploded..."
"It was an accident." Ruby protested as she got out of her sisters arms and turned to Weiss, "It was an accident!" she reiterated as Weiss holds up a pamphlet titled "DUST for dummies and other Inadequate Individuals" to her.
Josephine looked at the pamphlet in shock, she had jokingly proposed such a pamphlet at one point but he didn't think that it would ever be actually made.
"What's this?"
Weiss begins listing off policies to a clueless and confused Ruby, going faster and higher pitched with each word, "The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company product. Although not mandatory, the Schnee Family highly encourages their customers to read and familiarize themselves with this easy to follow guide to Dust applications and practices in the field."
"Uuhhh...?"
Many of the viewers stared at the screen in confusion, even the Schnees barely caught what Weiss had said.
Summer blinked few times before she rubbed her head and decided to just move on from trying to understand that before she gave herself a headache.
"You really wanna start making things up to me?" Weiss asks.
"Absolutely?" Ruby responds hesitantly.
Weiss hands the pamphlet to Ruby as she says, "Read this, and don't ever speak to me again."
Yang attempts to find a middle ground for the two, "Look, uh, it sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot. Why don't you start over and try to be friends, okay?"
Ruby puts the pamphlet away as she speaks, "Yeah! Great idea, sis!" she holds out her hand as she clears her throat and tries to properly introduce herself, "Hello, Weiss! I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out? We can go shopping for school supplies!"
Near everyone looked at the screen with incredulous looks, this girl need to learn how to interact with people better if she thought that school shopping was a good bonding activity.
Weiss fakes enthusiasm as she responds, "Yeah! And we can paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about cute boys, like tall, blond, and scraggly over there!" she points at Jaune, in the background, who picks up on the mention.
"Wow, really?!" Ruby asks.
Weiss gives Ruby death look before responding, "No."
The girls' attention is drawn to the stage, where Professor Ozpin is readying the microphone, with Glynda beside him.
"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." He continues his speech even as the students whisper among themselves, "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."
The non-hunters all look at Ozpin with a look that questioned his sanity on their faces, while the hunters in the room all sighed in exasperation. Clearly Ozpin had not changed all that much in the years between now and these visions.
They were actually somewhat saddened by this.
As Ozpin leaves, Glynda steps up to speak at the microphone, "You will gather in the ballroom tonight; tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."
"He seemed kind of... off." Yang said.
Ruby agreed with her sister, "It's almost like he wasn't even there."
Jaune, oblivious to the conversation, approaches Weiss from the side, "I'm a natural blond, you know!"
Weiss puts her hand to her face in exasperation.
The first night at Beacon, students are splayed out in sleeping bags. Ruby, in her pajamas and with a sleeping mask around her head, is writing in a journal when Yang crashes next to her, similarly dressed.
"It's like a big slumber party!" The blonde says as she lands.
Ruby responds without looking up, "I don't think Dad would approve of all the boys, though."
"Of course I wouldn't!" Taiyang proclaimed. Meanwhile both Summer and Raven were looking at him like he was insane. He sadly missed these looks and continued to act like a buffoon for a few minutes longer before Raven quieted him down with a simple, "Shut up Tai."
"I know I do!" Yang purrs as she watches several muscular, shirtless guys... until Jaune, dressed in feetie pajamas, waves to her, which makes her groan before she returns her attention back to Ruby, "What's that?"
"A letter to the gang back at Signal." Ruby replied, "I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going."
"Aw, that's so cuuuute!" Yang teased, beforea pillow is launched into her face to silence her.
"Shut up!" Ruby said, "I didn't get to take my friends with me to school! It's weird not knowing anyone here!"
"What about Jaune?" Yang asks, "He's... nice! There you go! Plus one friend! That's a hundred percent increase!
Ruby rolls onto her back as she responds, "Pretty sure Weiss counts as a negative friend. Back to zero..."
"That girl needs more confidence," Amelia said, "Hopefully she'll get some soon."
Summer was happy that someone else was caring about her future daughter.
Yang tries to cheer up her sister, "There's no such things as negative friends! You just made one friend and one enemy!" she promptly gets hit with another pillow, this time looking like a dog, right to the face.
"Look, it's only been one day. Trust me; you've got friends all around you! You just haven't met them yet!" Yang tells her sister in a serious tone.
The two sisters notice a candle being lit nearby, and Blake is seen leaning against a wall, reading her book.
"That girl..."
"You know her?" Yang asked.
"Not really." Ruby said, "She saw what happened this morning, but left before I could say anything."
"Well, now's your chance!" Yang grabs Ruby's arm and lifts her up.
"Wait! What are you doing?!" Ruby cries.
Summer, Raven and Qrow all sigh, this girl is certainly Tai's daughter all right. The amount of times he has done something similar to them is so far beyond counting at this point, it's not even funny.
Blake looks over the top of her book to see Ruby unsuccessfully struggling against Yang's grip as she leads her sister over to Blake's spot before letting go.
"Hel-looooo!" Yang sings, "I believe you two may know each other?"
"Aren't you... that girl that exploded?" Blake asks.
"Great wy to be remembered." Qrow couldn't help but snark.
"Uh, yeah!" Ruby replied, "My name's Ruby! But you can just call me Crater..." she trails off as she smiles, embarrassed, "Actually, you can just call me Ruby."
Blake is back to reading her book as she responds, "Okay."
"What are you doing?" Yang whispers to Ruby.
"I don't know - help me!" Ruby whispers back as she goes back to smiling.
"She really needs to learn some social skills." Glynda said, while Ozpin just smiled, he liked seeing children act like children.
"So... What's your name?" Yang asks the black haired girl.
Said girl sighs as she's distracted from her book yet again, "Blake."
"Well, Blake, I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister! I like your bow!"
"Thanks!" Blake responds, clearly getting irritated.
"It goes great with your... pajamas!" Yang says, clearly floundering.
"Right..." Blake says as she returns to her book.
"Nice night, don't you think?" Yang asks as Ruby laughs uncomfortably.
"She's trying to force it a little too hard," Summer said, "It's nice that she's trying but she won't get anywhere anytime soon."
"Yes - it's lovely! Almost as lovely as this book!" Blake says in hope the sisters will take the hint as they stand there, "That I will continue to read." Ruby and Yang still don't take the hint, "As soon as you leave!" Blake has clearly given up on subtlety.
"Yeah, this girl's a lost cause." Yang tells Ruby.
The Belladonnas bristle at this comment even as they are telling themselves that she may not mean anything rude by it.
Ruby ignores her sister to ask Blake, "What's it about?"
"Huh?" Blake asks in surprise.
"Your book." Ruby clarified, "Does it have a name?"
"Well... i-it's about a man with two souls, each fighting for control over his body." Blake says.
Raven perks up at the sound of that, it sounded like something she might like. Qrow looked at his sister and instantly knew that either he or Tai, or both, were going to be dragged around as pack mulesby the girls for a shopping trip, mostly ummer shopping while Raven looks for anything interesting. Including that book now.
"Oh, yeah... That's real lovely!" Yang says sarcastically.
"I love books." Ruby said, "Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monsters... They're one of the reasons I want to be a Huntress!"
"And why is that?" Blake asks while laughing, "Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"
"Well, I'm hoping we all will." Ruby says, "As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books... Someone who fought for what was right, and protected people who couldn't protect themselves!"
"That's... very ambitious for a child." Blake says before her smile turns into a frown, "Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale."
"Well, that's why we're here! To make it better." Ruby says with absolute belief.
Summer smiled at the vision, Ruby followed a viewpoint very similar to her own. Fight to help people, not for your own gain or to hurt anyone. Raven rolled her eyes but kept silent, she may not personally follow that belief, but Summer did, and she wasn't going to insult Summers beliefs. At least, not out loud.
"Oh, I am so proud of my baby sister!" Yang says ruining the atmosphere and lifting Ruby into the air.
"Cut it out!" Ruby cries while kicking out, before the hug evolves into a dust cloud of fighting limbs and flying stars.
Blake laughs slightly at the scene, "Well, Ruby, Yang, it's a pleasure to ha-"
Weiss storms into the scene in her own pajamas as Ruby traps Yang's leg cutting off what Blake was about to say, "What in the world is going on over here?! Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?"
"That is a very good point," Glynda said sternly, "They themselves should be asleep already."
Taiyang and Qrow didn't see what was wrong but most of the females in the room agreed with Glynda, they should be asleep, along with everyone else.
Weiss and Yang spot each other and simultaniously cry out, "Oh, not you again!"
"Shh! Guys, she's right! People are trying to sleep!" Ruby says.
"Oh, now you're on my side!" Weiss exclaims.
"I was always on your side!"
"Yeah, what's your problem with my sister?" Yang asks, "She's only trying to be nice!"
"She's a hazard to my health!" Weiss states.
Blake, who rolls her eyes at the fight, simply closes her book, reaches over to grab her candle, and blows it out, enveloping the scene in black.
"Well this was an interesting vision," Ozpin said, "We leaned much about the young miss Rose and her sister, we also met miss Arc's son."
Amelia smiled at the mention of her son, and Summer seemed to have enjoyed seeing herr daughter. Josephine Schnee, on the other hand was frowning again. She still could not understand why her daughter acted the way she did. Josephine hoped that future visions would give her the knowledge about her daughters past.
Once the viewers stopped speaking amongst themselves the wall shimmered, and the next vision began to play.
Once again I apologise for how long this took, I feel like this chapter is a bit lackluster, but maybe it's just me. Let me know please!
I have a bit of an announcement to make. Once I complete this next writing cycle (Which is now up on my profile) I will be pausing work on my main stories for a small while to write some extra stories that I can have ready so I can release something Semi-regularly. The extra stuff, will most likely be some romancy stories I have been wanting to write, and maybe Bandicoot Potters. To clarify, I will write the chapters for RWBY Drive and Miraculous Souls before I do the extra work. The break likely won't be very long but i thought my readers would like to know.
Anyway, please Read and Review! I'll see you all in the next chapter of RWBY Drive.
