Ozpin's Little Rose
Chapter 4: It begins
The night had passed quietly, Ruby and Yang were currently on one of the many airships heading to Beacon Academy. And the blonde brawler found herself hugging her sister to death.
"Oh I still can't believe my little sister is coming to Beacon with me, this is the best day ever!"
"Please... stop." Ruby barely managed to squeak out.
"Oh what's wrong with you? You are going to Beacon a whole 2 years early. You are going to be like a super-girl."
"I don't want to be super girl, or an awesome girl, or any of that I want to be a normal huntress girl going to school."
Yang looks at her oddly "What wrong with you I thought you'd be happy?"
Ruby paused as she considered her response, " Well I am, it's just I don't want others to see me as anything special."
"But you are special Ruby." Yang said as she pulled her sister into a side-hug.
The two girls stayed silent for a while while watching the monitor present the news. It showed a mug shot of Roman Torchwick, as well as showing pictures of Ruby fighting the thugs that Roman had with him.
It made Ruby uncomfortable. However that feeling soon changed when Professor Goodwitch appeared on a hologram welcoming the new students.
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Ozpin was not happy when he saw the news. Truthfully, Glynda didn't understand why, surely the headmaster knew this was an inevitability, after all, if news was happening, then the press would almost certainly get their hands on it.
"Professor, is something bothering you?" Goodwitch asked.
Ozpin sighed, hand against his temples "I didn't want the news presenting Ruby as their star attraction."
Glynda thought for a moment before replying, "I don't understand why you would you be bothered about something like that?"
"There are many reasons why I don't want Ruby presented on television, we both know the potential she holds, and the unwanted attention that brings".
"Is this about her eyes, or is there something else you are not telling me?" Goodwitch asked with concern riddling her features.
Even though it was common for Ozpin to have secrets, even from her, she definitely didn't appreciate the secrecy he always held.
"It is a touchy subject, I may tell you about it some time, however at the moment I don't feel like talking about it."
She looked at him with a gaze that could kill a beowolf,
He sighed, yes he could definitely feel a headache coming on. "If you must know ask Ironwood."
She nodded and made a mental note to ask James about it later.
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Ruby and Yang had just got off of the airship, Yang and Ruby soaked in the sight of the academy before Ruby found her first distraction.
"Oh Yang look at all these weapons!"
"Ruby calm down, they're just weapons."
"Just weapons?! Yang they're an extension of ourselves, a part of us!"
"Okay I get it, I GET IT, but aren't you happy with yours?"
The shifting of gears was heard, when Yang turned around she saw Ruby hugging her scythe.
"Of course I love Crescent Rose. I just like seeing new ones it's like meeting new people, only better." Ruby said, mumbling the last part.
"Ruby" Yang said with slight concern as she pulled her sister's hood over her face. "You need meet other people" she finished sternly.
"Why would I need other people when I could hang out with you." Ruby asked meekly.
"Well" Yang said drawing out the word, "My friends are here, we want to catch up. See yeah Ruby!"
And with that, Yang and her friends ran off.
"Hey wait! Don't we need to go find our dorm rooms? Where are are rooms? Do we even have dorms?" Ruby said before whimpering "I don't know what I'm doing."
Just then Ruby landed on someone's luggage. "What do you think you are doing?!"
Ruby looked up to see a woman clad in a white knee length skirt, pale jacket, she also wore a small white tiara that matched her hair and pale skin.
"What are you doing!" yelled the girl, if there was one way to describe her voice it would be 'prissy'.
"Be Careful with that it is dust!"
Ruby, still on the ground mealy replied, "Sorry".
"Sorry?" the girl replied, almost mockingly, "Do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused!?".
The next minute passed painfully slow for Ruby as she continued to be berated by the girl clad in white. The yelling stopped when she felt something tickle her nose, she looked up, then sneezed.
BOOM!
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"If I had to guess I say Ruby Rose just meet Miss. Schnee." Ozpin said as he looked out the window.
"Ozpin, how would you possibly know that?"
"Because that what happened when Qrow first met Winter."
At hearing that Glynda smiled, planning on asking Qrow all about that encounter.
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"You complete dolt! You could of gotten us all killed! What are you even doing here?! Aren't you a little young to be here?! We're here to fight monsters! You need to watch where you are going!"
"I said I was sorry Princess!"
"It's heiress actually."
At that moment a girl clad in black walked over to the two. "Weiss Schnee second heiress to the Schnee dust company."
"Thank you finally some recognition."
"The same company known for controversial working conditions and shady business partners."
Weiss' words got stuck in her throat. "How dare you!" she managed to say before storming off.
At that moment Ruby thought of something that would have made Yang proud."Doesn't Schnee sound a lot like sneeze?"
At that moment both Weiss and Blake looked at her. Which made Ruby feel a little bit uncomfortable, the sound of crickets chirping could be heard as an awkward silence encapsulated the three of them.
"Um sorry it just popped into my head I didn't mean anything by it."
At that moment Blake started to giggle when Weiss was still in shock at what she just heard. She hadn't even thought about it before Ruby said it.
She continued to walk away in anger as Blake's giggling soon suppressed itself.
As Ruby started to look back at Blake she was already leaving. Ruby laid on the ground hoping that it would swallow her whole.
After a moment a tall boy approached her. "Need a hand."
Ruby took the boy's hand and he pulled her up.
"Thanks"
"No problem, I'm Jaune by the way."
"Ruby." She replied,
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The two ended up walking together casually chatting.
"So why did you help me back their?"
"Well my Mom always said that a stranger is just, a Friend you haven't met yet."
Silence surrounded them for a while until Ruby decided to break it.
"So" she said dragging out the word, "I've got this thing"
At that moment Ruby pulled out Crescent Rose.
Jaune jumped backwards in surprise, "Wow is that a scythe?"
"It is also a high impact sniper rifle"
"A what?"
"It's also a gun."
"Oh."
"So what do you have." Ruby asked.
"Well I got this sword." Jaune said while pulling his weapon from its sheath.
"Oh"
"And this shield too, when I get tired I can shrink it and put it away."
"Won't it...?"
"Yes I know." Jaune said knowing exactly what she was going to say.
"Well I'm a bit of a dork when it comes to weapons, I guess I went a little overboard when making Crescent Rose" Ruby said as she proudly displayed the scythe.
"Wait you made that?" Asked Jaune in surprise,
"Of course, everybody at Signal makes their own weapons. Didn't you make yours?"
"No my great, great grandfather used it during the war." He said while sighing.
"Sounds more like an antique. But hey, many people go for the classics."
"Yeah classics."
"So do you know where we are?"
"No I was following you. Do you think there is a map somewhere?"
At hearing that Ruby began to giggle, completely oblivious that the two were being watched.
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Ozpin saw Ruby and Jaune going the wrong way. "Glynda you go on ahead I forgot to take care of something that just can't be put off any longer"
"And what might that be?" she said, not believing him for a second.
"Oh something in my private quarters. I can take care of it, but you should go on ahead. And make sure Miss Rose gets to the auditorium, after all Ruby's the daughter of Taiyang Xiao Long. And I know you remember them from when you were a student here since your were in the same grade as them."
As soon as Glynda heard him say his name, memories flooded back to her. Tai's pranks, Qrow trying to pick a fight all the time and Raven's very short temper. Oh That short temper of Raven's always lead to a building falling down.
Memories about Qrow and Raven that made her blood freeze, those two had gotten into a lot of trouble that she had to clean up, quite literally in some case.
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As soon as his colleague left he followed Ruby and Jaune to make sure the young girl was safe. He took a picture of Jaune and put a side note saying to keep an eye on him. Ozpin my not be Ruby's dad but he was her Grandfather and he was not going to let any boy take advantage of her.
Some would call his actions paranoia, Ozpin however called it being prepared.
Soon after he heard them saying that they were lost he had one thought. *About time they noticed.*
Ozpin decided to walk up to them. "Perhaps I can help."
"Professor Ozpin what are you doing here?" The young reaper asked.
"Well I had some business to attend to, however I was just heading to the auditorium when I saw the two of you."
"Oh okay" Ruby said, she felt a tinge of disappointment from not getting a proper answer
"Alright then follow me."
"Right." Jaune said awkwardly.
And with that the three of them made their way to the main hall.
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As the three walked Ruby got bored. "So, Professor Ozpin, how do you know Uncle Qrow?
Ozpin thought about what to say before replying. "Well for starters I was here even before he was a Student here at Beacon"
"Really?"
"Yes also he and his team were good friends with my daughter."
The three of them chatted for awhile until they all stood in the doorway of a building.
Ozpin turned to look at the building in front of him, the auditorium, their destination.
"Good well here we are. Why don't you two join the rest of the new students? I need to go find Professor Goodwitch."
And with that they parted ways.
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At that moment Yang called out to Ruby. "Hey Ruby I saved you a spot!"
"Oh that is my sister I got to go, see you later Jaune ."
"Hey wait! Ah man now where am I going to meet another cute, quirky girl to talk to?"
Ruby made her way to Yang. "So how's your first day so far?
"You mean since you left me and I exploded!"
"Yeesh, melt down already?" Yang asked
"No I literally exploded in front of the school, there was fire and I think some ice."
"Are you being sarcastic?" Yang replied.
"I wish there was this girl yelling at me and I really, really just wanted her to stop!"
At that moment Weiss came out of nowhere. "You!"
"Oh Oum it's happening again!" Ruby screamed as she jumped into her sister's arms
"Your lucky we didn't explode off the school!" Weiss yelled.
"Oh my god you really exploded."
"It was an accident. It was an accident!" Ruby said while glancing at a brochure in the Heiress's hands "Whats this?"
At that moment Weiss stared past the pamphlet and started to talking in a fast high pitched tone.
"Um?" was Ruby's only reply
"You want to make it up to me?" Weiss asked.
"Yes?" was Ruby's reply.
"Then please read this and never speak to me again."
At that moment Yang decided to step in. "Look you two just got off on the wrong foot. Why not start over?"
"Great idea sis" Ruby said.
"Hi my name is Ruby do you want to hangout sometime?"
"Yeah and we can paint our nails and go shopping for school supplies and talk about clothes and cute boys like tall blond and straggly over there." Weiss said while pointing at Jaune.
"Really?" Ruby asked hopefully.
Seconds passed, "Ah No."
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Ozpin was looking for Miss Goodwitch while feeling good about himself after his brief chat with his granddaughter.
He soon found the woman and proceeded to address the students.
"I'll make this brief" he started before he cycled through the speech he did every year.