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One week. That is how long Ruby has been in this time. At least that is how long she has been awake in this time.

Nothing really happened over the week. Ruby was forced to sit and rest almost the whole time. "No doing anything over strenuous for the next week or so." That was the doctor's orders a week ago when she was let out of the hospital.

She also got her things back and her friends were confused about the knife as they had never seen it. They didn't ask about it since they knew of past Ruby's obsession with weapons, not that this Ruby didn't. She was just.. subdued... No she didn't just knock that person out to get a better look at his weapon...

The team had to pull Ruby back from obsessing to much about weapons and thus they decided that for the time being, Ruby's Cresent Rose is being confiscated from her. Ruby really hated it, so what if she is more gung ho then ever about weapons. The Grimm are an extremely real threat and with the knowledge that it is possible for the Grimm to get in the city...

Well at least she still has the knife. The knife isn't even hers but it would still be a useful weapon if she ever engaged in combat. She had decided that she would wait for the rest of her teamates to fall asleep before she went off to find Jeremie and to get his help. She was also glad that she had yet to run into Cinder and her two lackies, since she knew that nothing but death would stop her from attacking them.

And wouldn't that put a damper on her plans. No she couldn't openly attack and fight them. The consequences of those actions would ruin everything. To kill another human is a big deal that can be handled in a number of ways, but it is also majorly frowned upon because of the fact that Hunters and Huntresses are in short supply. So no she had to play this strategically if she wants to be able to take down Salem and the Grimm as well.

And that plan couldn't be put into action until she had Jeremie here, since she knew that he was pretty strong being able to take on that beowolf with no weapon. He would be a strong ally that would be able to aid humanity against the Grimm. It was always that wasn't it. The Grimm are always the great threat, they are always on of humanity's biggest problems.

Ruby knew though that with the Vytal Festival in a few months she had no time to rest. She knew that the Festival was when Cinder and her group would unleash the Grimm on everyone destroying Beacon. So she knew the time frame she had to get everything she needed for stopping the attack in the first place.

It was why she was getting up now, while the rest of her team was sound asleep. She got up quietly and proceeded to get dressed in an all black variant of her normal attire without the cape. She decided that she wouldn't need her cape as everyone would be asleep and no one would ever know she was gone. After she got dressed and grabbed the knife, Ruby departed from Team RWBY's room.


Yang knew something was up with Ruby, yet she didn't know what. Ruby was acting different, more distant to the team. It was apparent and disconcerning, since Ruby tried to act like nothing was wrong when the whole team could see something was. She would often go off on her own and would actively stay away from Team JNPR.

She wracked her brain trying to figure out why things seemed so off, so wrong. Yang could not for the life of her think of why this was, and she was even collaberating ideas with the rest of the team. Yang also noticed that Ruby was also less innocent and more cold in certain things. She was way more serious on specific matters, like weapons.

Weapons was always a fun hobby for Ruby, but now it seemed like it was an overwhelming obsession that is now actively hurting people. It is scary to see Ruby act like that when not even a month ago she was more calm about weapons. And here Ruby is sneaking out of their dorm in the middle of the night.

Yang just as quitely got up and put some clothes on and quitely followed Ruby to see what she was up to. Ruby had walked down the halls with a purpose, Yang noticed. The question is where was she going and why? It wasn't long after that Ruby had left the halls and walked to the helipads. There Professor Ozpin, of all people, walked up to her and began to talk to her. Yang decided to get close enough to actually hear what they were talking about.


Ruby felt herself getting angry. 'So close.' But no, of course Ozpin had to just know that she was going to do this tonight. She couldn't help but berate herself for being so careless as to not think Ozpin wouldn't have his ways of knowing. She hid her emotions and plastered on her 'innocent' smile that she always used when engaging with people she really didn't want to deal with.

Ozpin seemed to take note of this as he looked her over, strangely without a coffee mug in his hand or near his person. Ruby found this sight particulary odd, as Ozpin always had a mug with him. "It is a lovely night for a walk isn't it, Ms. Rose."

So starting of simple, what was he planning? "It is, but I would like to be alone right now thank you very much, Headmaster." She didn't care if she came off rude, since she was in a hurry and Ozpin, in her mind, was not to be trusted as of yet. She couldn't help noticing that he held an amused look at her response.

"I see that you are in a quite impatient mood, Ms. Rose, so I'll try to keep this brief then." Ozpin seemed to turn serious as his gaze seemed to bear into Ruby. "You are not alone in this endeavor of yours, even if you believe that you are." Ruby snorted at that.

"You also need to know that I am here to help. It is why I became the headmaster of a combat school." Ruby looked incredulous at that. "What is the purpose of trying to save humanity if all you have are enemies? Ms. Rose, I know you don't trust me, I wouldn't either, but I want you to know that I will help you at all costs."

Ruby was about to open her mouth to say something when Ozpin tossed keys to her. "For your little trip. I do hope that it is a success." Ruby gives off a small smirk before turning around and running to the ship she was taking. As she left though she missed Ozpin say one last thing. "It is all up to you Qrow, I hope you find what you are looking for."


Ruby didn't know how she felt about her 'conversation' she just had with Ozpin. She had been thinking it over for the past hour she was flying, and still couldn't conjure up a clear thought on why he would help like that. She couldn't figure out his angle in this situation. What would he gain from this?

She scowled unable to find any plausible reason that man would even help in this situation. He knew that she was from the future, that much she did know. It made this all the more aggravating to not know his motives. She couldn't understand Ozpin at all. Was he or was he not working with Salem? Her fingers gripped the controls so hard, Ruby could feel the slight strain on the machine.

Her thoughts turned to other things, such as how she kept avoiding Jaune and his team. She didn't know how she could face them knowing that everytime she just thinks of them it all she sees is their deaths. In return she starts to feel angry, kinda like now. She took a few breaths to calm herself down.

She looked out carefully realizing that she was nearing her destination and began to scan the ground for a landing zone. As she scoped out for it, she also to a mental check of all the things she needed with her when she confronted the man. She also hoped that he would not just fille her when she enters the cave for waking him. She almost laughed at the thought.

As she found a place to land she began to think of her Uncle Qrow and how she has seemingly avoided him as well. She wasn't sure how she was going to tell him the truth about her situation. She felt that her uncle had the right to know but at the same time it was something she felt he shouldn't know. It was something that her friends and family shouldn't be burdened with, it was the whole reason she came back in the first place.

She could feel her determination hardening as she resolved to allow her family to remain unburdened by her situation. She noticed idly that she had landed the craft and was already stepping into the forest she knew to be close to Jeremie's cave. It was strange to think that she was deftly calm here. She shook her head as she took off to the foot of the cave, where this whole situation started.


Jeremie was suprised to say the least. This person had found this cave and was armed with only a... Wait! That knife was familiar. He looked at her square in he face prepared for a fight. "Who are you and where did you get that knife?"

The girl laughed and tossed him the knife. "Well, I'm Ruby Rose nice to meet you, and for how I got the knife. Heh, it was a peace offering you gave me." Jeremie caught the knife with some confusion before understanding dawned on his face. He couldn't help but to smirk as the implacations arose until he stopped as a new thought hit him.

The now unarmed girl must have realized that he was speculating that she was a potential enemy because she threw her hands up to placate him and spoke. "You also said to tell you 'if Razoul wasn't dead I would have killed him myself for doing that.' He spoke like you knew what he would mean by that." All tensions left Jeremie at that as he just began to laugh.

Ruby frowned at him, but he didn't care as it was true. He finally stopped laughing and began to spin the knife around in his hand. "So Ms. Rose, it would seem that this is a 'you scratch my back I scratch yours' situation." He shook his head. "You help me kill the four generals and I help you stop that dreaded future from happening. Well and also to help you get some revenge on one Cinder Fall."

Jeremie couldn't help but smirk at Ruby's dumbfounded look. "How did you know that is the agreemenat?" He laughed as she tried to make sense of the situation, but she would never be able to on her own. Or at least Jeremie thought so.

He then used his free hand to point to his skull. "All I did was read your mind for what the situation was." At her fearful look he laughed. "No I didn't look at any of your private thoughts. All I needed and took was the agreement between the two of us."

The girl shook her head as she looked resolute at him. "I have one question I hope you can help me answer." At Jeremie's curious nod she continued. "You see that the Queen of the Grimm is someone that we know as Salem, but in a dream I had when I awoke in this time Ozpin called her something else. He didn't get to say the whole name but he was able to get part of it out, Luna."

Jermeie looked about to say something but allowed Ruby to finish what she was saying. "I also found out one other thing, she had a master. She also mentioned that her master was the one that created the Grimm." Jeremie felt such an influx of anger on his part that the next thing he knew, the knife was gone from his hand and embedded into the wall to his left.

He noticed the fear from the energy he was sensing close by with grim satisfaction. "So Lunavos survived, why am I not surprised." Jeremie just begins to darkly chuckle. "You Ms. Rose will help me kill those four generals and I will help you kill Cinder Fall, but you will the Ms. Queen to me." He noticed that Ruby was quick to agree to his change in plans while he retreived his knife from the wall.

As he worked on pulling his knife from the wall he decided that their unknown guest should be made known. "So Mr. stalker man..." Ruby looked very startled at that. "...Why don't you come out of the shadows and join our conversation."

Jeremie noticed that Ruby had gone pale slightly when the man came out of the shadows. She also only muttered confused. "Uncle Qrow?"


Hey guys sorry for the cliffhanger there, but that is where I felt I should leave it. Tell me what you think. I would also want to try and see what you guys think would be a good weapon for Jeremie later on. Should he not use a weapon, or even the knife he gave Ruby to give back to himself? Or do you guys think that he should get his own custom RWBY style weapon and if so what type do you want to see.