I'M BACK!
I am truly sorry this took so long to get out but I started college this year and it is a major drain on your ability to write, so I don't honestly know how frequently I'll be able to write. I will still be putting any time I can into it but updates are probably going to be even more infrequent for now.
Anyway I will stop rambling and let you read the chapter.
I Don't own RWBY.
Many of the people in the room were excited to see what was going to happen, several of them were hoping to see their children in action or even just see their children at all. Several of the Hunters in the room chuckled at this as the vision began to play.
The image fades in to a character's eyes wearily opening and closing before they wake up fully and seeing an orange haired girl fill their view.
"Wake up, lazy butt!" the girl says before she dashes off to the side.
Raven looked over at her sometimes overly hyper partner, "Is it possible that you are related to her as well?"
Summer gave her sarcastic friend a look that clearly called her an absolute idiot. This triggered a non-verbal argument which, to anyone who wasn't them, looked like they were just staring at each other. Qrow and Taiyang spared them a glance for a single moment before returning their focus to the vision, these quiet conversations rarely lasted long.
A pink eyed Mistralian boy gets up with a groan as the girl hounds him.
At the sight of the boy An Ren gasped, covering her mouth with her hands. Her husband patted her on the shoulder with a smal smile on his face, neither of the Rens felt the need to announce how they felt, but most of the people in the room could tell just by how they reacted that the boy was likely their child.
"It's morning! It's morning! It's morning! It's morning!" the girl sings at her friend as she jumps around.
The boy sighs again and the scene changes to him brushing his teeth in the restroom while his friend continues to talk.
"I can't believe we've been at Beacon for a full twenty-four hours! Not that I thought we'd get kicked out or anything, I mean, you're the perfect student and I'm... well, I'm me! But it's just crazy, you know?"
"Does Beacon have shared washrooms?" Amelia couldn't help but ask.
Ozpin shook his head as the Beacon students began to laugh, "No, there is an area off of the ballroom that is really just a bunch of sinks and mirrors," at the looks of confusion from the people in the room, he elaborates, "We have things layed out that way so that people who don't need the washroom for anything other than brushing their teeth or hair can while those who need to do more can use the proper washrooms."
The confused people let out an "Ah," and return to the vision, the students from Beacon still laughing slightly from Amelias question.
The scene changes to the ballroom, where the two are readying themselves. The girl is brushing her hair and still chattering while the boy is tightening the strings on his sleeping bag.
"We've been friends for soooooooo long! What are the odds we'd still be together? Well, not "together-together..." Not that I'm not saying that you're not handsome; you are handsome, but that'd just be weird, right?"
Raven was staring at the vision with wariness, "That boy has a lot of patience to be able to put up with her for so long."
"Or he is just used to her after so many years," her twin threw in his thoughts on the matter.
Raven nodded after a moment, that did sound plausible.
The scene changes again as the two are in the middle of eating their breakfast, the non-stop talker having a pancake hanging from her mouth as she is still talking.
"Right! What was I thinking? But still, I hope we end up on the same team together!" the girl says this through the pancake in her mouth before she slurps it up, "Oohhhh! We should come up with some sort of plan, to make sure we end up on the same team together! What if we bribe the headmaster? No, that won't work. He has the school."
"Plus, if he allowed anyone to bribe him he will have to do all his paperwork by himself for a few weeks," Glynda said in response to the visions statement. Ozpins face went completely white when he heard this.
Seeing this made the people in the room wonder exactly how much paperwork he had, and a few of them almost asked that question...almost.
Though this statement did succeed at getting a semi-normal reaction out of Mr. Schnee, it was only him reaching to rub at his wrist, but it was something. He immediately returned to mumbling under his breath though so no one particularly cared.
The scene changes again as the two are readying themselves in the locker room, the boy loading his guns and the girl still talking.
"I know! We'll have some sort of signal! Like a distress signal! (gasps) A secret signal so we can find each other in the forest! Can you imitate a sloth?"
At this point even Summer was wondering if the girl was ever going to stop talking, though she still had to ask, "What do sloths even sound like?"
Everyone that heard the question stopped for a moment to think before shrugging or shaking their head in confusion, nobody could give her an answer on that.
"Nobody knows, okay, got it."
"Nora?" the boy finally replies
"Yes, Ren?" she responds.
Hearing this confirmed that the boy was the Mistralian couples child, this knowledge made the female of the couple grab her husband in a tight hug which, if the blue tint on his face was any indication, was beginning to suffocate him despite his clear happiness on the same fact. Thankfully his wife let go before he passed out.
Ren sheathes his weapons in his sleeves as he says, "I don't think sloths make a lot of noise."
Nora thinks about this statement for a moment before responding, "That's why it's perfect! No one will suspect we're working together!"
"Come on Nora, let's go." Ren says as he smiles and shuts his locker.
"Not 'together-together...'" she giggles.
Everyone in the room wondered why she felt the need to specify that.
Summer thought that she might actually care for him like that, but until she saw more proof, she would keep that thought to herself. Unknown to her, Amelia had a nearly identical thought to her own.
Ren heads out while a skipping Nora follows, passing Ruby and Yang as they are busy readying themselves.
Ruby notices them walk by while standing at her locker, "Wonder what those two are so worked up about?"
"Oh, who knows?" Yang responds, "So, you seem awfully chipper this morning!
"Yep!" she replies to her sister, "No more awkward small talk or "getting-to-know-you" stuff. Today, I get to let my sweetheart do the talking." she strokes her scythe and sighs happily as she says this.
Team STRQ gave their leader a look when they saw Rubys extremely introverted actions. The white cloaked Rose gave a nervous giggle at her teammates reactions to this, she was almost as bad as her future daughter when it came to preferring almost anything else over dealing with most people.
She just wished that trait hadn't passed on to her child.
"Well, remember, Ruby," Yang says, "you're not the only one going through initiation. If you wanna grow up, you're gonna have to meet new people and learn to work together."
"Ugh, you sound like Dad!" Ruby sighs in frustration as she shoves her weapon back into the locker, "Okay, first of all: What does meeting new people have to do with fighting? And secondly: I don't need people to help me grow up! I drink milk!"
"Okay, while I kind of agree with her on that first point," Summer said before she could get another look from her team, "That second part makes no sense to me."
"Well, she is only 15 Ms. Rose," Ozpin responded, "It's completely possible that it makes complete sense to her, the fact that she seems to be extremely introverted probably doesn't help matters at all."
Summer simply sighed in response.
"But what about when we form teams?" the blonde asks her sister, who suddenly becomes nervous.
"Um, I don't know, I... I'll just be on your team or something..."
Yang bringing her hair around her shoulder and strokes it as she says, "Maybe you should try being on someone else's team?"
"She is trying to force an introvert to interact with people she doesn't know, that will totally work," said Raven sarcastically.
"While I wouldn't have phrased it that way, I must agree with Ms. Branwen," Professor Ozpin said, "Trying to force someone who shies away from people to interact with other people isn't a good way to help them with social skills."
"My dear sister Yang," Ruby begins, getting up in her sisters face, "are you implying that you do not wish to be on the same team as me?"
Qrow was staring at the vision in shock, "Is Summers daughter guilt tripping her sister?"
Summer gave an evil smile with a gleam shining in her eye. The other members of team STRQ wondered if their leader ever intentionally guilt tripped them.
"What? No! Of course I do!" Yang responds in a panic, "I just thought... I don't know, maybe it would help you... break out of your shell!"
"What the-?! I don't need to 'break out of my shell'!" Ruby responds in an irritated tone of voice, "That's absolutely-"
"Ridiculous!" Jaune cuts her off as he suddenly walks in between the sisters, holding a map, presumably of the locker room, and looking lost, "There's no way I put my gear in locker 636 yesterday! I would've remembered having to count that high! Why does this have to happen today?"
Team STRQ began to laugh at the poor blondes confusion as Amelia looked worried for her child.
Jaune passes Weiss and Pyrrha as they ready themselves at their lockers.
"So, Pyrrha," Weiss said, "have you given any thought to whose team you'd like to be on? I'm sure everyone must be eager to unite with such a strong, well-known individual such as yourself!"
"Hmm... I'm not quite sure." the crimsonette answers, "I was planning on letting the chips fall where they may."
"Well..." the heiress begins, "I was thinking maybe we could be on a team together."
Pyrrha replies to this statement enthusiastically, "Well, that sounds grand!"
"Great!" The background disappears into a thundercloud after Weiss says this as adopts a scheming pose and manic smile in her head.
"This will be perfect! The smartest girl in class combined with the strongest girl in class! Together we will be unstoppable! I can see it now! We'll be popular! We'll be celebrities! We'll get perfect grades! Nothing can come between us now!"
Josephine looked at her daughter in shock of her apparent attitude, she wanted to partner up with the girl simply because she was strong? She thought she would have kept her husband from instilling his lust for power into her other daughter.
Many of the Hunters looked annoyed at this line of thought as well. Making plans to try to team up was almost expected, but usually those arrangements were between people who knew how to work together. Deciding to partner up with someone for popularity was just wrong to them.
Ozpin simply sighed, having seen far too many of these attempts over his tenure as headmaster.
Jaune steps between the scheming Weiss and Pyrrha, who has a look on her face that says she can tell what is going through the heiress' head. He interrupts the girls train of thought with a quite bad pickup line, "You know what else is great? Me. Jaune Arc. Nice to meet you."
"You again?" Weiss asks the blonde irritably.
Pyrrha quickly moves herself into the blondes line of sight, "Nice to meet you, Jaune!"
"Well, at least she has manners," Amelia said, happy that the red-head was at least being polite to her son.
Stavros spoke up for the first time in a while, "If this girl is my daughter, and I think she is, then I would have made sure that she had a good sense of manners."
"Yeah, yeah." Jaune pushes Pyrrha to the side and continues talking to Weiss, while posing slightly, "So, Weiss," he says, "I couldn't help but overhear your fondness of me the other day."
Weiss is visibly annoyed, "Oh, you've got to be kidding me!"
"Don't worry! No need to be embarrassed!" Jaune said, trying to be charming, "So, been hearing rumors about teams! I was thinking you and me would make a good one! What do you say?" he asks the heiress, getting a little closer to her while doing so. Weiss turns her head away from him as Pyrrha speaks up, getting Jaunes attention.
"Actually, I think the teams are comprised of four students each, so-"
"You don't say." Jaune says, cutting her off as he moves closer to the red-haired girl, "Well, hot stuff, play your cards right and maybe you could join up with the winning team."
Stavros felt the sudden urge to kill the blonde on screen.
Amelia almost burst out laughing at the overprotective look on the face of the red-haired parent, it reminded her of her own husband when their eldest daughter got her first crush. Though she wasn't fully approving of her sons overly flirtatious actions.
Weiss quickly gets between the two, "Jaune, is it? Do you have any idea who you're talking to?" she asks the blonde, while indicating Pyrrha with her hand.
He replies in a flirtatious tone of voice, "Not in the slightest, snow angel."
Weiss once again indicates the red-head behind her, "This is Pyrrha."
Said person waves, "Hello again!"
"Pyrrha graduated top of her class at Sanctum!"
Jaune shrugged at this statement, "Never heard of it."
"Is this child actually from a hunter school?" Professor Goodwitch asked.
"He must be if he actually got into beacon, right Professor?" Summer asked in response.
Goodwitch shook her head, "He could have applied from outside of a hunter school, if so then the headmaster," here the professor levelled a glare at Ozpin, "saw something in the boys transcripts that he liked."
People in the room looked at Ozpin, who was conveniently not looking at anyone else in the room.
"She's won the Mistral Region Tournaments four years in a row!" Weiss says with a scoff, "A new record!"
Jaune shows his cluelessness by asking, "The what?"
Weiss loses her temper at Jaune and begins waving her arms rapidly in anger, "She's on the front of every Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes box!"
Jaune gasps at this, "That's you?!" he asks Pyrrha as the design of the cereal box in question is shown with Pyrrha's smiling face on it, "But they only do that for star athletes and cartoon characters!"
Raven facepalmed in exasperation as Summer held her head in her hands, "How stupid can someone possibly get!"
Summer sighed at her partners outburst but said nothing. There was really nothing that could be said that didn't sound like a bad excuse for why the blonde didn't know some obvious things.
Amelia wanted to jump to her sons defence, but she couldn't think of any defence that the black wearing huntress would actually listen to.
"Yeah," Pyrrha said, "it was pretty cool. Sadly, the cereal isn't very good for you."
"So," Weiss says appearing as the box image falls apart behind Pyrrha, "after hearing all of this, do you really think you're in a position to ask her to be on your team?"
Jaune hangs his head, "I guess not... Sorry..."
"Actually, Jaune," Pyrrha said, getting the blondes attention, "I think you'd make a great leader!"
Jaune immediately brightens up again, "D'oh, stop it!"
Amelia smiled at seeing someone willing to encourage her son.
"Seriously, please stop it." Weiss interjects, "This kind of behavior should not be encouraged!"
Amelias smile immediately disappeared at this, and deepened into a frown when shee saw Mr. Schnee nodding in agreement with this. She also saw the female of the Schnee couple glare at her husband, clearly there was a difference in opinion between the two Schnees.
"Sounds like Pyrrha's on board for Team Jaune. Spots are filling up quick!" Jaune leans in near to Weiss, "Now, I'm not supposed to do this, but maybe I could pull some strings, find a place for you. What do you say?"
Weiss quickly backs up, "All right, that's a bit too close! Pyrrha, a little help, please?!"
Jaune looks back just in time to see a spear strike him, sending the would-be leader flying off the screen, with the sound of the spear imbedding in something heard shortly after.
Pyrrha calls out to Jaune, "I'm sorry!"
"Welll, at least she apologized," Amelia sighed, she then noticed that the hunters in the group didn't have much of a reaction to the spear throw.
Taiyang saw her questioning look and decided to answer her unvoiced question, "Beacon is a combat school, if you can't deal with things like that, you probably shouldn't be there."
Amelia got slightly nervous for her child at the sight of the other hunters nodding in ageement with the blonde hunters explanation.
An announcement plays on the intercom system in Professor Goodwitchs voice, "Would all first-year students please report to Beacon Cliff for initiation? Again, all first-year students report to Beacon Cliff immediately."
Weiss passes Jaune as he hangs from the side of a locker on her way out. Pyrrha follows her, grabbing her spear from the boys hood and dropping Jaune to the ground.
As Pyrrha passes him she said, "It was nice meeting you!"
Jaune slumps against the locker and lets out a dishearted "Likewise..." to the athlete.
Qrow snickers at how sad the blonde looks before Summer glares at him from around his twin. He quickly stops laughing at the boys misfortune.
As Yang and Ruby approach the despondent boy the elder of the two girls asks, "Having some trouble there, lady-killer?"
"I don't understand." Jaune said, "My dad said all women look for is confidence! Where did I go wrong?" he accepts Ruby's offered hand and she helps to lift him back up to his feet.
"'Snow Angel' probably wasn't the best start." Yang advised him.
Amelia sighs, "That advice sounds very much like something my husband would have told our child."
The other women in the room are just laughing at the fact that the boy thought confidence was the only thing girls look for.
"Come on, Jaune, let's go." Ruby says as she leads Jaune out of the locker room by supporting him and his damaged self-esteem.
"Why is she supporting him?" Qrow asked, "He isn't actually hurt."
"Hey," Taiyang interjected, "A blow to self-esteem is a totally legit injury!"
His idealism was quickly shut down by a loud "No it's not!" from the other members of his team.
The scene switches to the Beacon Cliff, overlooking a forest, where several students, some of whom are unseen, are standing on silver tiles in front of a mug-holding Professor Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch with her tablet.
Ozpin begins to speak, "For years, you have trained to become warriors, and today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest."
Glynda takes over the speech for a moment, "Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of teams. Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates... today."
Ruby groans, "What? Ohhh..."
Ozpin picks up the speech where Professor Goodwitch dropped it "These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well."
Ruby groans again at hearing this.
Raven smirked at her partner, "Two groans at the thought of working with people she doesn't know, your daughter inherited quite a few of your traits."
Sumer covered her face with her hands to hide her blush, feeling embarrassed that her introversion was inherited so strongly by her daughter.
"That being said," Ozpin continues, "the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years."
Ruby gains a shocked expression as the world seems to crack like glass and fall apart as she lets out a loud "Whaaaat?!"
The room burst into laughter at this image, even Summer gave a small giggle at the look of shock on her daughters face. Summer saw both Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch with small smiles showing that they were also entertained by thhe red-cloaked girls reaction.
Nora turns to Ren, "See? I told you-!"
Ozpin continues, "After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest." Ozpin continues to speak as the image pans to show the size of the forest, "You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path... or you will die."
Jaune laughs nervously and then gulps loudly at this statement.
Amelia started to panic when she heard what Ozpin said, especially since all of the hunters were nodding in agreement.
Ozpin quickly covers the rest of the speech, "You will be monitored and graded through the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one and return to the top of the cliff. We will reguard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?"
Jaune raises his hand, "Yeah, um, sir?"
Ozpin ignores him, "Good! Now, take your positions."
"Why are you just ignoring him?" Amelia asks the headmaster.
Ozpin looks at the blonde parent, "I am likely not answering him because he should alreay have any necessary knowlege from the speech I gave."
"He might also just find the poor boys confusion entertaining," Glynda interjected quickly.
The fact that Ozpin wasn't looking at anyone told the room that Professor Goodwitch was completely correct about the headmaster enjoying himself at Jaunes expence.
Everyone strikes a pose on their tile. Nora crouches low, Ren wields his weapons, Yang raises her fists, Ruby readies her body, and Jaune is still raising his hand.
"Uh, sir? I've got, um... a question." Jaune says as the tile under Weiss rises up into a springboard, rocketing her into the air and over the forest, Jaune doesn't notice this as he continues to talk to Ozpin, "So, this landing... strategy thing... Uh, wha-what is it? You're, like, dropping us off or something?"
"No." Ozpin says in a matter of fact tone, "You will be falling."
Jaune fails to notice more students being thrown, "Oh, uh, I see... So, like, did you hand out parachutes for us?"
The hunters adopt a look of worry for the blonde boy at hearing that. Save for Raven, who had a completely bored expression like she had already written him off.
"No. You will be using your own 'landing strategy.'" Ozpin seems to be barely paying attention to his questions.
Jaune fails to see an excited Nora and Ren getting launched by their platforms, "Uh-huh... Yeah."
On her turn, Yang winks at her younger sister, puts on a pair of aviators, and flies off with a "Woo-hoooooooo!" a second before Ruby joins her.
"So, what exactly is a landing strategYYY!..." Jaunes question is cut off as he is sent flying, his question turning into a yell.
Amelia gasped at the sight of her son being sent flying, while team STRQ simply gave Ozpin a look, which changed into a glare when they saw him smiling.
The headmaster enjoyed sending his students flying a little too much.
The scene follows him to show the students now making their way down into the forest below under the eyes of the teachers. Ozpin, for his part, simply takes a sip of his drink before the scene goes black.
The vision returns to an overhead view of Emerald Forest, where a black bird is flying slowly and magnificently, right up to the moment it gives a final shriek and Ruby crashes through it in a burst of feathers as she plummets downward.
"Birdie, no!"
"Birdie, no!" Summer cried out at the same time as her daughter.
She quickly gave a glare to her laughing teammates, which silenced the two boys but Raven simply kept laughing.
Professor Ozpin smiled slightly at the shared reaction between mother and daughter, it was always refreshing to see how similar a parent and child could be when you know the parent from a younger age.
Ruby fires off a few rounds from her weapon to slow her down, then turns the weapon into its scythe form to catch the branch of a tree in her blade and fall downward at a slower pace.
Weiss, armed with her rapier, summons a white snowflake circle under her and leaps off of it to the forest below.
Josephine smiled at the sight of her daughter utilising their families power to accomplish something of worth, even if this was only the beginning of her journey.
Ren descends, with Nora briefly being seen while falling past him, and flips over in the air, aligning himself to use StormFlower's blades to spiral around the trunk of a large tree and hit the ground. He brushes off his clothes before looking up to see a blonde blur by the name of Yang fly overhead.
"Woo-hoo! Yeah! Alley-oop!"
Yang is soaring over the treetops, using her gauntlets and their shots to push herself further and further north through the air, spinning and laughing with each blast, even when she crashes through the leaves of a tree and leaps off two trunks to tumble to the ground.
Yang lets out a "Nailed it!" as she runs off farther into the forest.
Taiyang looked like he was mentally scoring the blonde girls landing, to him it was a perfect ten landing. Something he himself would do.
His team also realised this second part and seemed to fall into a moment of sadness that there would one day be a person who caused just as much trouble as the T in team STRQ.
Pyrrha, her weapon in sword form and armed with a shield, crashes through several trees with her shield in front of her, and lands on a branch. She immediately shifts her blade into a rifle and looks through the scope at Jaune as he continues to scream and fall helplessly. Pyrrha quickly transforms her weapon again to its spear form, takes a short moment to evaluate her throw, and rockets the javelin deep into the forest until a "THUNK!" is heard.
Jaune's "Thank you!" can be heard in the distance
Pyrrha waves in the direction of the blonde, "I'm sorry!"
"Does she ever stop apologizing?" Raven asked confusedly.
Summer looked at her partner, "Apologizing isn't necessarily a bad thing, Raven."
"It is still unnecessary for her to continuously apologize."
Everyone in the room watched Summer and Raven devolve into an argument, which the male half of their team ignored. The two were different enough that they got into these kinds of arguments almost daily, they never argue about anything truly important though.
In the middle of the forest, Ruby lands in a crouch, then darts off with a single mantra in her mind.
"Gotta find Yang! Gotta find Yang, gotta find Yang, gotta find..." Ruby quickly changes from thinking to speaking out loud, "Yang! Yaaaang!" she shouts. She begins to think again as images of her partnered with others show above her head in a rough, doodley artstyle, "Oh, this is bad, this is really bad... What if I can't find her? What if someone finds her first? Well, there's always Jaune. He's nice. He's funny! ...I don't think he's very good in a fight, though." The images change from Jaune helping her up, to them laughing, then to Jaune being eaten by beowolves. She continues thinking, "Ooh! What about Blake?! So mysterious, so calm... Plus she likes books! Then again, I'm not sure I'd be able to hold a conversation with her... Ugh!" The iamges show Blake sitting with a smile, to her surrounded by books, then to her inching away from a babbling Ruby before the cloaked girl shakes her head to clear it. "Okay... Who else do I know in this school? There's Yang, Jaune, Blake, aaaand..."
Those in the room had a sudden sense of foreboding as to who the girl was going be partnered with.
Qrow held his head in his hands, it seemed that both Roses attracted people who operated on entirely different rules from themselves.
Time seems to slow down as Ruby skids to a halt in front of Weiss as she is turning to face her. She stops just in time for their eyes to meet and a pregnant pause follows. This ends when Weiss turns on her heel and walks the other way.
Ruby follows her slightly before stopping, "Wait! Where are you going?!" she kicks the ground dejectedly, "We're supposed to be teammates..."
"Walking away won't help," Ozpin said, "We keep an eye on the cameras for cases like this."
The hunters looked surprised at this, they didn't think the staff cared overly much about that.
Weiss is seen struggling through the forest, giving an occasional grunt or "Ow!" as she pushes plants out of her way. She brushes herself off and sighs in relief just before she hears a voice above her.
Jaune is shown struggling to free himself from Pyrrhas spear, which is once again piercing through his hood, "Come on, come on! Stupid...!"
Weiss sees as he gives up trying to pull it out. He looks down and sees Weiss, giving an embarrassed wave and laugh. Weiss simply heads back in the direction she came from and Jaune groans in dejection.
Qrow deadpanned, "Well, she seems to be high maintenece."
Josephine would have liked to defend her daughter from the male twin, but he was (unfortunately) correct about his assumption. Her daughter did seem to be very high maintenence.
Weiss passes by Ruby and pulls on her hood, "By no means does this make us friends."
Ruby is overjoyed as she's dragged away into the bushes by her hood, "You came back!"
Summer smiled at her daughters joy at having the Schnee girl come back, her daughter clearly looked on the bright side of everything.
Raven shook her head at the optimistic attitude of the Rose family.
Jaune sees the scene and begins waving his arms to get attention, "Wait! Come back! Who's going to get me down from here?!"
"Jaune?" said boy looks down at to see the girl whose spear is holding him to the tree, "Do you... have any spots left on your team?"
Jaune crosses his arms, "Very funny..." he eventually looks down at her and gives a smile, which she returns.
Amelia sighed, "Aw, their so cute together!"
Stavros' recent overprotective streak acted up at this statement, though he did restain himself. He could see, based on the twinkle in her eye, that the blonde womans comment had been equal parts total truth and an attempt to make him uncomfortable.
Amelia pouted at seeing that her trick didn't work.
The scene changes to Weiss trudging through the forest, with Ruby back a ways behind her.
"What's the hurry?" Ruby asks the heiress.
Weiss responds irritably, "I will not let my mission be delayed because you're too slow! I swear, if I get a bad grade because of your-" the heiress is startled by the sudden appearance of a smiling Ruby, "What the...?"
Ruby looks incredily peppy, "I'm not slow, see? You don't have to worry about me!"
Several of the civilians in the room jumped at the sudden appearance of the red-cloaked girl.
It also startled Taiyang, "Holy crap, how did she do that?"
His teammates stared at him, and Qrow asked, "Do you not remember the very first vision we saw? The girls semblance is speed."
Taiyang slowly began to blush as he realised that he had forgotten that for a moment. Qrow chuckled at his partners embarrassment.
Weiss looks behind her, slightly amazed, "When did...?"
"Weiss, just because I don't exactly know how to deal with people doesn't mean I don't know how to deal with monsters!" Ruby wraps an arm around a skeptical Weiss' shoulders, "You're about to see a whole different side of me today, Weiss, and after it's all over, you're going to be like, 'Wow! That Ruby girl is really, really cool... and I wanna be her friend!'" the younger girl says this last part somewhat mousily.
"She... sounds kind of desperate for friends." Qrow said, wierded out.
Summer shook her head, "She is trying to make a better impression on the girl after their first meeting. She isn't doing it very well, but she is trying."
Qrow shrugged his shoulders, despite her introverted nature Summer understands people better than he does.
Ruby disappears in a shower of rose petals, which Weiss waves away from her face just as she hears crackling and rustling in the bushes around her.
"You may be fast, but you still excel at wasting time!" Weiss calls out to Ruby, though she hears only noises from the bushes. "Ruby?" the forest darkens around the heiress, forcing Weiss to lean in to try and find her new partner as a pair of red eyes are seen behind her, "Ruby...?"
"And she just ditched her partner," Summer sighed, "She really isn't doing well at making Weiss like her.
Qrow just began to cackle at Summers despondent face.
The scene begins to revolve around Weiss, showing multiple pairs of red eyes staring at her from the bushes and a deep growl is heard. She turns around and she spots a large, jagged beowolf emerging from a bush and approaching her.
Weiss calls out to her partner, "Ruby!"
The beowolf roars as the scene goes black.
"Well," Summer said, "Ignoring the ominous end note, this was quite the nice vision. We saw more of our future children, and we get to see some of their combat abilities."
Many of the people in the room smiled at the thought of their children. The Belladonnas were slightly sad that Blake had not shown up in this vision. Josephine for her part had a worried look on her face, her daughter was being attacked by grimm at the end of the vision, after all.
When the room calmed down the wall shimmered and began playing the next vision.
MERRY CHRISTMAS OR WHATEVER EQUIVALENT HOLIDAY YOU CELEBRATE!
As I said in the A/N at the top, I am a college student now so I will be having less time to work on my writing once my winter break ends. I am going to be trying to get a writing cycle done before I go back, but the next Generation STRQ chapter might not be for a while.
It feels like the chapter fell in qualty around the middle of the chapter, let me know if you guys agree with me, and any mistakes I might have made.
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