So. I have no apology for the ending of the next two chapters. And since I said thag I would have the next 2 out by today or tomorrow, I decided that you are stuck with this ones ending for a bit. =^) I hope you guys like this chapter.

POV: Ruby Rose

"Go? Go where?" Weiss asks me confused.

"You will see my love." I respond. "But first, you have gifts to open. Let's go." I can see the excitement flash in her eyes. I take out my scroll and dig through my recent contacts list to find the taxis number. After a few seconds of searching, and a overly excited Weiss pressing her body against my left arm. My scroll in my right. Finally, after about thirty seconds of searching, I find the number and start a call.

After three rings the driver from earlier picks up. "Hello? Rodrik's taxi service. How can I help you?"

"Hello Mr Rodrik. I'm Ruby Rose. You just drove me and my girlfriend to the Vale county office. I need you to come pick us up and take us to our flight. Could you do that for us?"

"Yeah sure. What time?" His deep voice speaks into the phone.

"How about, right now or in the next ten minutes?" I say. Weiss is giving me a strange look, though she hasn't moved away. "Could you do that?"

"I'll take the ten minutes. I have a passenger as of now. I just picked them up but there spot is only five minutes from you guys. I'll be there soon." My ears twitch in annoyance.

"Ok thanks." I hang up and growl slightly. "Well, it will be longer than we may have wanted. I think we should go-" I freeze my speech in place.

"Ruby what's-"

"Shh." I cut her off. I stretch my senses that are heightened by my Faunus heritage. Tap… tap… tap. "Weiss we need to go." I can smell the sweat of a man sneaking up on someone. Tap tap tap.

"But why? What's wrong?" She asks with a hint of fear in her eyes. I turn and grab Weiss and, gently, prod her forward.

"Someone is after us Weiss. We need to go. Now."

"But Ruby how can you…" I twitch my ears and suck some air through my nose. "Oh right. Duh." She turns and we begin to run. I look over my shoulder and I see a man in a seen black and blue trench coat with the hood he added chasing us. The coat is buttoned up and he is holding a black sword with a white handle. "Damn. Jonathan would have to catch us as we left our weapons." "Weiss!" I call. "Well be better off if we split up and meet at the bull head. He's after me. You go right I'll keep straight. I'll be there I promise but right now you have to trust me. Contact Ozpin and let him know that the "Ghost Protectorate" is after me and I need an e-vac. That exact phrasing. Now go." She takes the next left, with her scroll already up against her ear. "Ok, you want me; you got me."

POV: Weiss Schnee.

My scroll just keeps ringing, and ringing, and ringing. "DAMNIT Ozpin! Do you ever answer your scroll?" After what seems like forever the line is answered. "Hello, you have reached the desk of the headmaster. What could I assist you with?"

"Oh thank dust. Ozpin, listen close cause Ruby told me something's that are a little confusing. So please bear with me a she specified to use exact terms. She said that the 'Ghost Protectorate' Is on her. And that she needs an e-vac. We separated and I am at the bullhead we flew in on. What does it all mean?"

"I afraid that I am unable to answer that question at this time. But all I can tell you is that if the both of you want to get out at the same time then you better go find Ruby."

"I will sir."

POV: ?

"What are we gonna do Oz!" I shout at Ozpin. "My niece is out there being chased by her rival with no weapon. Now granted she is the best hand to hand fighter in the group but she's keeping that too herself. Now you sent Weiss to catch up. Even if Ruby knows how to analyze a situation she will crawl right back into her shell. We can't allow this to-"

"I'm gonna have to stop you right there. Ruby can handle herself. I have seen it on FAR too many occasions. She is one of us after all."

POV: Ruby Rose.

"I'm glad I sent Weiss away. Now I have to deal with him. My worst enemy." I spin to face him. He stops on the other side of the road. "Look Jonathan, I know tou have wanted this for awhile, but if you wait a few days I'll come too you. Trust me. I still want revenge."

"Ruby I don't want revenge. Hell the only reason I want you dead is because I know you want to kill me." He shouts at me. "Ruby, we were friends. And what happened wasn't my fault You should-"

"SHUT UP!" I shout at him. "You know what you did. You know that you are the reason I don't have my… my… m-mother. And you will pay."

Ruby's past.

No POV.

"Momma, Momma! Can I go play with Jonathan?" A five year old Ruby asked her mother, Summer Rose.

"Yes, my beautiful flower. But stay in the back yard. I don't want you getting lost again." Summer says sweetly. "After that we can have cookies. Ok?"

"Ok, Momma. Thank you!" Ruby shouts and flings herself on her mother. She runs outside and comes across none other than Jonathan Cobalt himself. "Come on, Johnny! Let's go play!" They ran around outside for hours. They were playing some game that Summer couldn't keep track of.

"Summer! Could you help me for a sec?" Taiyang Xiao Long, Ruby's dad, called from inside the house. That's when Summer went inside.

Outside Johnathan had stopped running around and begin to bounce from one foot to another with his knees pressed together. "Ruby, I'll be back soon. I gotta go!" He says and rushes into the house. After a second Ruby runs in too, and freezes in her spot. What she sees terrifies her to the point that she wanted to look away and die. But she couldn't.

She looked into the room and saw Summer Rose, her mother, lying dead on the floor. With a tiny someone standing there with a blood stained knife in his hand. "J-Jonathan? What are you doing?"

"Ruby, I can explain." He started.

"Explain what?!" She yelled. The girl of only five years of age stared at the bloody, lifeless carcass lying on the kitchen floor. "What did you do to Mamma?!" With the simplest of understandings of life and death, the only thought that was being processed in Ruby's mind was the fact that her mother was not coming back. The happy, radiant smile her mother always bathed her in is now a pale, crimson mess that rivals the healthy shade of red the objects that the five year old's first and last name refers to. As any child would do, Little Ruby's immediate thought is to get him back. A shove for a shove, an eye for an eye, or in this case, a life for a life.

"I'm gonna kill you!" Little Ruby shouted and rushed for the silverware drawer. That same drawer she was taught to never go into for any reason. She's well aware that the contents could cause harm in the wrong hands, but a child's emotions leaves them unaware of their sense of right and wrong.

From the drawer she produced a butcher knife. A blade that's carved many a meal for her and her family to enjoy. The sweet scent of her mother's food taints her thoughts when she realizes she'll never have those blissful meals and happy conversations in the dining room any more. The love that's been placed into the cooking utensil now tainted by the hate and anger of such an innocent soul. With knife in hand she turns to Jonathan, "Momma's gone. She's gone because of you! Why can't you just disappear!?" Ruby says and rushes at Jonathan. When she attempts to stab him, she realizes that it won't work because the edge of the knife is squared off. Instead, she tries to follow up with a violent, uncontrolled swipe that slices through the air in her way. The harsh, exaggerated motion misses its mark, allowing the young boy a chance to escape the house with his head still attached to his body.

"Momma." Ruby whispers to herself as she drops the knife. She turns, and bends over to cradle her mother's body. "Momma I don't want you to die. What about Papa, what about Yang? Momma? Wake up, please? Papa can't cook like you. Yang doesn't know how to tuck me in right. Only you can do that. What will we do? Momma?"

Suddenly, a large, heavy hand drops onto Ruby's shoulder. When she looks over her shoulder she sees her dad looking down at her. He quickly wraps his arms around Ruby, the widower embracing his daughter as she begins to sob.

Ruby's past.

A few days later.

Five year old Ruby had grown so much in the last three days. She went from being the happy, pure angel her mother raised her to be into a cold-hearted girl that's taken to embracing the more primal desires of her faunus heritage: The urge to hunt, and the urge to kill gather within her with the image of her mother's killer forever turning her vision red. She refused to speak for the past few days, however, that silence is broken after her mother's funeral. After the ceremony, when the priest asked for everyone that wanted to say something to stand up, all eyes focused on the small figure in red that began to make her way to the front of the room without a word, glance, or a break in her stride. As she looked throughout the room, her new glare piercing and forcing even the bravest of adults to avert their eyes, the young girl clears her throat.

"Whether or not you believe me," Ruby begins, her words cold and meaningful. Where most would be unable to speak, or would break into tears the second they speak their first syllable, Ruby was the opposite. She stands composed with her next words having been premeditated and rehearsed in the darkest depths of her mind. "No matter what you say I do or don't know I can tell you that I know who my mother's killer is, and I will finish what we started. I swear by the coffin she lays in now that I will kill Jonathan Cobalt."

At that moment it was clear that the young girl Summer Rose had raised had been buried in that same coffin beside her.

I'm totally kidding about the next update being tomorrow. I was just trying to piss people off. But in not that much of an asshole. What I would like though is some opinions. So you guys think that Jonathan Cobalt is what Ruby thinks he is? Or is he more? Sometime soon I will be starting another story that goes into Cobalts backstory and will follow closely to this. But please review. I want to know people still like this story.