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Bold is for attacks

Leona's POV

"YAA!" I yawned a bit sitting in my usual spot on the floor "She's not back yet."

"I have a feeling she's gonna be a while." Blake was sitting on her bed.

"Do you think Ruby's gonna be in trouble?" Yang asked.

"I don't see why, she fought off an intruder there's no reason to punish her." Weiss said trying to be too adult for the situation.

Apparently when she left the dance Ruby ended up seeing a suspicious person lurking around and rather than get back up from any of us she went in alone. The person snuck into one of the taller towers but thankfully Ruby got out mostly unscathed and there was minimal property damage, although I don't think the administration was thrilled with her.

"I'm back." Ruby sighed opening the door.

"Well, how'd it go?" Yang asked.

"It was fine." Ruby shrugged "They just asked if I knew who it was and if there was anything I could share. I…dropped a hint about Torchwick's hideout."

"So now we're on equal footing with them." I looked over "That and we better hope no one there was undercover or they'll know we're on to them."

"That was a risky move." Weiss said

"Yeah…but I think it was the right one." Blake tried to reassure Ruby.

"I hope so." She sighed.

"Oh I know what'll cheer you up." Yang smiled picking up a package "This came from dad."

"What is it?" Ruby asked.

"I don't know I haven't opened it, I figured I'd wait for you." Yang said.

"Oh boy something from home!" Ruby cheered ripping into it.

The tube popped open and a large scroll like tube slid onto the ground and bounced around like a jumping bean before growing legs and ears.

"It's…a dog?" Weiss looked down.

"Ruff!" the barked at her.

"It's Zwei!" Ruby cheered.

"He sent a dog?!" Blake yelled standing behind me in a somewhat nervous manner.

"Via the mail no less!" Weiss said.

"I take it that's not a normal way to transport a pet." I nodded looking at the tube "How'd it even fit?"

"Oh he does stuff like this all the time." Yang laughed as the stubby dog licked Ruby's face.

"Are you talking about your father or the dog?" Blake asked jumping up onto her bed.

"Are you seriously trying to tell me this mangy mutt is…" Weiss looked at the dog "So adorable and will live with us forever!"

"Please keep it far away from my belongings." Blake glared.

"In my tribe we don't have dogs." I growled "We mostly only raise farm like jungle animals, oxen and such…though we did have a monkey that hung around a lot like a pet."

"All first year students please report to the amphitheater." An announcements came over the PA.

"What do we do with the dog?" Blake asked "We can't leave it here, it'll pee all over. Not to mention this assembly is about those field work experiences."

"We can't leave the dog for a week." Weiss said.

"Oh look a letter." Yang reached into the tube "Dear girls, I've got to leave the island for a couple days so I'm sending Zwei to you to take care of, I included all the food you should need. Lots of Love Taiyang."

Yang dumped out the tube and a few dozen cans fell out.

"Wait I still don't get how that fit…" I wondered.

"Well he can't operate a can opener!" Weiss groaned.

"He'll manage let's go!" Yang headed out.

"HMPH!" Blake jumped across the room.

"I'll miss you so much new best friend." Weiss cooed.

"Bye dog." I blinked "Coming Ruby?"

"Uhh yeah one second." She called out.

Later

We headed to the assembly and listened to Ozpin speak for what felt like forever. It was all philosophical bull crap about colors and names and other nonsense kids our age don't give two you know what's about. The real meat of this assembly was that we were getting to go and shadow some real hunters and huntresses on a mission, honest fighting and field work, something right down my line.

"This is perfect, we just need to shadow someone in the southeast and maybe we can figure out more about Torchwick." Ruby smiled.

"Neo too." I added "But whatever it is let's make it something fun, I wanna kill stuff."

"Search and Destroy then." Weiss walked over to one of the boards.

"Look there, Quadrant 5." Ruby pointed typing our team in "It's in the southeast and needs Grimm cleared out."

"Mission unavailable to First Years." It buzzed.

"Wonderful." Weiss rolled her eyes.

"Any more ideas?" Blake asked.

"We mail ourselves there?" Ruby suggested.

"That's dumb." Weiss sighed.

"That's one option." Ozpin walked up behind us "It was determined that the concentration of Grimm in that area was too extreme for first years…seems that region is rather popular lately. And I can't shake this feeling you five will end up there no matter what job you choose."

"What makes you say that?" Ruby tried laughing him off.

"We can handle it." I grumbled "Let us go kill stuff."

"I still have many questions about the lot of you…but I get the feeling I'll never get the answers." He sighed "So how about this, rather than you all breaking the rules, let's just bend them."

He clicked a few buttons and overrode the system for us.

"We won't let you down." Ruby smiled.

"Don't thank me yet, it won't be easy so trust your huntsman and don't let him down, he can send you back if you are unsatisfactory." He walked away "Oh good luck."

"Sometimes I think that guy knows too much for his own good." I grumbled.

We grabbed our things and headed outside.

"That little pep talk of his was supposed to be uplifting right?" Yang asked.

"Well it was the truth." Blake shrugged.

"Who cares, the more danger the more fun the fights will be." I smiled.

On our way out there we passed by Velvet and her team who got back from their mission, they noted that there were a lot of Grimm about.

"We're not backing down!" Ruby cheered "Besides it won't just be us we'll have a huntsman too!"

"Hello ladies." Professor Oobleck greeted us "Ready to fight for your lives."

"Aw crap." Yang sighed.

"Fight for our lives?!" Weiss gasped a bit.

"Sounds great!" I laughed.

AN

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I don't know why but when I was writing this chapter I kept miswriting Blake and "Black" for some weird reason, I kept having to correct it.

Till Next Time!