Chapter 6

When it came to being bored, Ruby found many ways to find amusement. One of them was listening to a cool band that she came across when on an errand with her father. At least she thought they were a band, though what really mattered to her was the music quality. The songs really energized her and made her want to do something awesome. And that was what sparked her latest idea.

As soon as she was able to, she was quick to rush up to share her thought with her older sisters. She was delayed when her parents had her do chores around the house. Since one of those chores involved handling Zwei, it took a little longer than it should have. She only regained her focus when she thought she heard Weiss muttering something about wasting time. Once she was done, she rushed through the door, and said, "You Guys, I just had the greatest idea ever."

All three heads turned to look towards their baby sister. Yang, and Weiss were battling it out in a video game again with Yang taking a heavy lead. Blake was currently reading a book as usual, happily lost in her stories. Ruby once again lost focus as she tried to examine the book a little further since it looked familiar. However, her focus was brought back when Blake asked, "What was the idea?"

"Huh?" Ruby replied before remembering what she wanted to say, "Oh yeah. What if we started our own band?"

All three sisters looked at the wolf Faunus with curious confusion. Yang was the first to delve further into this, "What brought this idea up?"

"I was just listening to some awesome music, and I thought that it'd be cool to make some awesome music as well," Ruby answered, "You know, why not?"

"But why?" Weiss asked, though not entirely opposed to the idea.

"Well it wouldn't be too hard to do. Maybe a bit of practice but we can get it done. I could play the drums, Yang could take on the guitar, Weiss can be our singer, and Blake already has some musical talent."

Ruby's statement wasn't entirely inaccurate to be fair. She heard Weiss singing by herself a few times, and when their parents weren't around, she was often on the family piano playing a few things she learned from somewhere Ruby didn't know. Blake expressed an interest in playing the violin which led to her taking private lessons. And after Yang found their dad's old guitar, she learned how to play a few chords, though playing them correctly took a while especially when two of her sisters had super strong hearing. And while Ruby hadn't learned to play any instruments, she would often tap along with the beat of the percussion. To her, it sounded like the perfect set up for a band.

"Sounds awesome," Yang said as she set her controller aside, "I've been dying to rock out on dad's guitar for a while."

"I guess we can give it a shot if everyone's up to it," Weiss said as she followed Yang's actions, "After all, we are somewhat musically gifted."

Honestly, Weiss was perhaps more enthusiastic about the idea than Ruby was. Ever since she learned to play the piano, she had been dying to find someone to play music with. Sure she got to share her talent with Blake, but just one person wasn't enough for this Atlesian child. Playing with all three of her sisters was certainly something she'd be down for. But all they needed was for Blake to agree, which was why all three heads looked to their other sister.

"Fine," Blake sighed as she put her book down, "Just please nothing too…over the top."

"Girl band," Ruby said as the four rushed down to the garage.

Normally the garage was taken up by the Xiao Long-Rose family car, but Summer And Tai were out running errands. So they had free access to set up in the garage. It didn't take long since they decided that they didn't need the piano for this. They did find an old drum set which the girls were convinced was initially their uncle's, though it was still intact so they weren't completely sure. Once they were all set, they got to the next part: the costumes.

This part did take a while since while Weiss was good with sewing, she wasn't really fast with it. But she was able to get cool looks for all four girls such as a snazzy new hood for Ruby, a fancy hat for Blake, a jacket for Yang, and a new skirt for herself which were the biggest changes. Blake got the makeup done for all four children at the request of Ruby. While they got all that set up when their parents were home, they kept practicing while the grown ups were away.

As the weeks went by, they started getting better until they had actual songs ready. And all four girls couldn't help but marvel at their success. Though the most vocal of all of them was the oldest child Yang who immediately cried out, "You're not ready for our rock! We will melt your boooones!"

"Yeah!" all four girls paused when they heard an extra voice that definitely didn't sound like one of them.

They all turned to look towards the source, and found their parents at the doorway of the garage that led inside the house. Though instead of their mom holding the camera, they saw the device in the hands of their dad. And the camera was definitely recording so they caught everything that they were doing with proud parental smiles on their faces as well as what the four of them call the 'time to be embarrassing parents' grins. And Taiyang was quick to get started, "Alright, smile for the camera girls."

Yang was first to complain as she groaned, "Daaaad, we were trying to melt people's bones."

"You can do that and smile sweetie," Summer replied before looking at the next oldest child, "You sure you got enough eyeliner on your face Blake?"

"It was meant to make me cooler mom," Blake complained.

Tai then looked to the next child, "So why the frost blue colors for Weiss?"

"Ruby said that it worked better for me since it goes with my eyes," Weiss answered honestly without any complaint in her voice.

Finally Summer drew attention to Ruby who had rose pedals all around her. Ruby simply smiled cautiously, and said, "Sorry."

"Well since we're here," Tai began as he and Summer moved to face all four of their girls, still pointing at their daughters, "Would you mind giving us a private performance please?"

Yang groaned again, "You're the worst."