"She is the worst partner, ever! Of all time!"

Blake looked up from her breakfast to see Ruby Rose sitting down across from her and her partner Yang. Yang, who was sitting on Blake's left, let out a sigh while rolling her eyes, "It's only been four days Ruby, you need to give her a chance."

"'Give her a chance'," Ruby said mocking Yang's voice and hair toss. "Pffth! She is hopeless, I tell you, hopeless."

"You are making this out to be bigger deal than it is," the target of Ruby's ire sat down next to the younger red head while nodding politely to the rest of the table. "Good morning everyone."

"So what is going on?" Blake asked, trying to be polite as Pyrrha and Yang answered Weiss. Blake assumed that the Schnee was being … well … a Schnee; arrogant, pushy and generally thinking she doesn't have to obey the rules others are required to follow. However, this was Ruby, so …

So Blake got a small shock when Ruby grabbed a strip of bacon off Weiss's tray and pointed at her partner while saying, "You're seventeen, Snowflake, how can you not have your vehicle operator license?"

"Wait? What?" Blake asked, blinking in surprise as Weiss gave the table a look of long suffering while slowly, and methodically, chewing her breakfast.

"That's what I said, Blake." Ruby said, not bothering to finish chewing on her stolen piece of beacon before speaking. "Come on, I know she is all rich and things, and probably have a billzion drivers at her beck and call but not to have her VOL after turning 16 is just … so fucking bizarre!"

"What is so strange about not having her license," Blake asked honestly. "I don't have mine either?"

"You're joking, right?" Ruby was so shocked by Blake's words; she doesn't seem to notice Weiss snatching her apple slice out of her hand. "How do you plan on getting around to do actual hunts without a VOL?"

"Hey, we have some of the best public transportation in the world, Ruby." Jaune said smugly, as if he was personally responsible for the trains running on time while sitting down in between Pyrrha and Blake.

"Well, yeah, sure, but what about outside the walls? How do you plan on getting around then?" Ruby asked while waving another piece of apple around.

"As full fledge Hunters, we have access to a wide variety of air craft to use beyond the wall." Ren said softly as Weiss snatch another apple away from the distracted Ruby, again.

Ruby pick up one of the two scrolls that Weiss was checking and sarcastically, although to Blake, it was also kind of amusing, saying "Yes, I am available for a hunt. Where? When? Oh gosh, darn it. The 8:15 just left, can you hold off for another hour? I should be able to get on that flight, lickedy split."

"Stop being a pest," Weiss snapped taking back her scroll. "And as I explained to you earlier, I will get my VOL before I graduate."

"Doesn't help me right now," Ruby grumbled as she absently chewed on a piece of bacon.

"How would Weiss having a VOL help you out? It's not as if she has a vehicle here anyways." Blake watched Weiss give her a look of annoyance while Ruby grinned … evilly. Blake suddenly felt as if she didn't want to know the answer.

"She doesn't …however … someone close to her does," Ruby said slyly with a grin Blake did not trust … at all.

"Doesn't matter anyways, does it?" Yang asked, slurping up the milk through a straw. "I know you and you won't let anyone drive your bike."

"Why would she need a VOL for a bike anyways? I had one when I was a kid, even had a little bell on the handle bars …" Jaune asked, then hunched down as Blake and the others gave him a look. "What?"

"Skipping the obvious question on how you were able to afford to have a motorcycle, aka a 'bike'", Blake said shaking her head at Jaune as she turns back to Ruby, who now sat there with a look of rap attention, with a just a hint of concern, on her face and her hands folded in front of her on the table. "Why would you wish to have such a contraption in the first place? They are extremely dangerous vehicles with no room for error. Only the most deranged, immature, thrill seeker, whom has no concept or concern for the danger he or she faces every second while they sit on that rolling death trap would wish to own one. Only someone with a death wish would …" Blake put her hand on her forehead, closing her eyes, she finished by saying, "Yang has one, doesn't she?"

"You better believe it, Blake." Yang said in her standard, cheerfully voice as she wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "Custom made by me, with Ruby's help, as well as my dad. Dad is transporting it over this weekend, in fact, so I can ride it on my off days. I am now duty bound to take you around the block, partner, to prove to you how safe it really is."

"You have my sympathies," Weiss told her as she checks both of her scrolls.

"Why would you …" Blake started to say but was cut off by her team leader slamming his tray down beside Yang.

"Good morning everyone," Steve said with a grin.

Steve then tipped a wink at the white hair heiress who appeared to be studying her scrolls and barely nodded in his direction as he called her 'Snow Angel'. When he made eye contact with Ruby, he narrowed his eyes and sneer at her. Neither Chris, their other teammate, or Steve, wanted anything to do with Ruby, citing that she was unfit to be able to attend a school like Beacon. Chris even went as far as to refuse to eat with them if she was present.

"I don't understand Yang, why would you want to ride one of those things," Blake started to asked, again, but was cut off this time by a screech coming from a couple tables over.

She glances over to see one of her fellow classmates being bullied by a humanist called Cardin Winchester. Cardin and his three bullies was taunting and laughing at the rabbit fauna named Velvet. The same girl who had tested Ruby at the trials.

"Disgraceful," Weiss said softly, which surprise Blake, she had assumed Weiss wouldn't care about Velvet.

"Why isn't she defending herself," Ruby asked so quietly Blake had trouble hearing her.

"Even you should know that answer, Rose," Steve said dismissively as he dug into his breakfast, missing Ruby flipping him the bird without taking her eyes off of Velvet. "No matter how much people wish it wasn't true, the sad fact is Fauna just isn't up to the challenge."

"Excuse me?" Blake ask her leader, trying to keep her voice even. She had hoped being here at Beacon she could get away from this small minded thinking. However, it seemed that even here, she would be subject to hatred and racism, and apparently by her own team. She should have known better, if the Schnee was …

"Yes, what a sad day it was when we took off their chains," Weiss said so dryly, she could have been a desert, throwing Blake's thoughts into confusion.

"I wouldn't go that far, Miss Schnee," Steve said hesitantly, as if he was also confused by Weiss's tone. "It isn't their fault that they have neither the mental or physical compactly to measure up to humans. Slavery was wrong but so is setting them up for failure by allowing them to believe the myth that they are equal to humans."

"Bigotry disguised as concern is still bigotry, Mr. Faunte," Weiss Schnee, the heiress to the greatest example of the evil corporations in the world said with a dismissive wave of her hand. "So spare me your self-deceptive excuses, I have heard them many times before and by those who claim to be the smartest people in the world. If the Fauna has a whole was as unintelligent and cowardly as many of your kind profess, then why do we have the threat of the White Fang hanging over our heads?"

"Ooh, using logic, so wickedly unfair of you, Snowflake."

Ruby let out a giggle as Weiss shot her a look of strained annoyance, which might have been fake, but Blake wasn't as sure anymore since she wasn't sure about her abilities in reading Schnee any longer. It took only seconds to totally make Blake question every assumption she had had about the white hair girl.

Pyrrha jumped into the conversation with both feet by saying, "Regardless of where you stand on the Fauna Rights, and how incredibly wrong certain people are about the fauna; Cardin is supposed to be a Hunter. He should not be performing as if he was some ruffian on a street corner, trying to steal from little old ladies who happen to be walking by."

"I wonder why isn't her team helping her defending herself?" Yang asked.

"Perhaps she is more concern with the repercussion from the school," Blake suggested, knowing full well that she could easily handle whatever Cardin threw at her. Especially, after watching her fight Ruby at the trials. Still, the sad truth was when a fauna fights a human, no matter how justified, was always assumed to be the instigator and never the victim.

"Or maybe she knows her limitation," Steve said easily.

"Hey, look guys, I was wrong; they are real," they all heard Cardin snicker as he pulled on her ears. His team and him laughed loudly as Velvet struggled and cried, trying to get out of his grip.

"Disgusting," Weiss repeated as Velvet finally was able to wiggle loose and ran, in tears, from the dining hall.

"And yet, not surprising," Steve said sadly.

"I meant his actions," Weiss said in a frosty tone.

"Now, Miss Schnee; he is just messing around, he probably doesn't mean any real harm …"

"Oh yes, the old mistaken believe that 'boys will be boys' and they will one day grow up; no doubt the …"

"Hey, I'll meet you outside, Snowflake," Ruby rudely interrupting by giving her partner a shoulder bump and then patting Weiss on the head as she walked away.

"Take your tray with you … get back here and … I am not your maid, Rose!" Weiss huffed as Ruby sauntered away, she seemed to be swinging her hips a bit more than usual. "And you left your shoes behind, again!" Weiss snapped out as Blake heard her slamming things down on the trays. Blake for her part, was watching Ruby's path through the dining hall. Ruby seems to be working her way over to Cardin's table, instead of heading directly outside. "I swear; it is like living with a three-year-old somedays."

Blake smirked at Weiss and was about to make a comment when, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Ruby give anyone watching two large hip swings and then she spun on her stocking feet and grabbed Cardin by the head.

"Hey guys, you were right, his ears are real!" Ruby shouted over the blood curling screaming coming from Cardin. She hung on to him even as he tried to stand, not easy as he was a full head taller than her. By using her body as leverage, however, she was able to pressure him to bend over and force him to the ground.

And screaming the whole time.

"Oh bloody … Yang!" Weiss snapped as the whole table stood up.

"On it," Yang sang out as she sped up her walk to get ahead of the rest of the gang.

"You little bitch!" Cardin snapped as he finally wiggled loose. Ruby, smirking, lowered herself in to a combat stance as he advanced on her. "I'm going to enjoy beating the shit out of you."

"Yeah, you and what army-y-y-y," Ruby yelped as Yang scooped her up and threw her over her shoulders, heading towards the exit. "Hey! God damn-nit, put me down you, you -you oversize walking mammary gland!"

Weiss, for her part, threw up a glyph, slamming it into Cardin, stopping him from following her partner. "Stop right there, Cardin."

"What the hell is wrong with that kid?" Cardin yelled, his face staying red from anger. "Did you see her attack me? It is about time someone taught that spaz a lesson."

"Just chill out, Cardin," Steve said holding up his hands and stepping up in front of him, with Blake and Weiss behind him. "No harm was done …"

"That's bullshit, Steve, and you know it. That little slut tries to pull my ears off and you say no harm done?"

"Like you did to Velvet?" Blake growled out.

"Me and the boys were just having a bit of fun, Blake, no one important was harmed." Cardin all but spits out as he tried to loom over Blake.

"So was she, apparently," Blake said, refusing to be intimated. "Since no one 'important' was harmed."

"Blake," Steve hissed before returning to Cardin. "Look, we will deal with her, okay?"

"I will deal with this myself. After all, you only give a dog one shot at biting you, then you put it down."

"I agree," Weiss said pushing her way forward. "However, you will stay away from Ruby. I need her to graduate and I don't have the time to find a hole to hide you broken, bloody carcass."

"Cute, really funny Schnee. Whatever, you guys want to protect the stupid bitch, fine. But if she gets in my way again, I will take care of this my way."