Chapter 2

Headmaster Ozpin turned his attention to the elevator as the car arrived. The elevator to Ozpin's office opened to reveal Glynda Goodwitch and a group of students behind her. After Goodwitch exited the elevator Team RWBY filed out and revealed that the team was missing their leader. The first one to exit was Yang, Crescent Rose visibly strapped to the tall girl's back. Next came Blake carrying their leader's well known red cloak and what was presumably the young girl's scroll. Lastly Weiss entered his office carrying a small black puppy.

"Professor Goodwitch, to what do I owe the pleasure of having these three brought to me today?"

"Headmaster, these three were caught trying to sneak a pet onto the campus despite campus policies against this. Once confronted, they all but demanded to speak to you."

"Well then. Would you three care to explain, not only the violation of policies but the absence of your team leader?" Ozpin looked at each student separately, until Weiss approached his desk. Once she was in front of his desk, Weiss carefully placed the dog on his desk. Glynda instantly scowled and took a step towards the animal. Ozpin waved her back dismissively, stopping her approach.

The small puppy carefully stepped across the desk as if treading on sacred ground. The small animal sat down in front of the headmaster and the two made eye contact. One thought quickly went through the elder man's mind, 'It has silver eyes.'

The headmaster's thoughts were interrupted by Weiss finally speaking, "Headmaster, we believe that due to a confrontation with Roman Torchwick, Ruby was transformed into the husky puppy sitting before you."

"That is absolutely absur..."

"I believe you." The entire room was shocked into silence. Ozpin opened a drawer in his desk a pulled out a chocolate chip cookie. The headmaster waved the cookie in front of the husky, capturing her attention. He placed the cookie on the desk in front of her, and the moment his had was clear she attacked the cookie ferociously.

"With all do respect, how can you believe them?" Glynda asked while keeping her watchful gaze on the small animal.

"All animals in this world have an aura, and with training for combat they can develop strong auras. This pup here who couldn't be more than a month old has an aura as strong as a huntsman-in-training; saying that this dog is Miss Rose is not that farfetched of an idea considering it's aura. Now I assume you have a little more evidence behind this claim."

Blake pulled her scroll out and pulled up the security video from the dust shop. "Here is a video showing Roman using some type of dust rifle on Ruby. The weapon blocks the camera from anything, but when the weapon powered down the White Fang and Torchwick are seen leaving the store but no Ruby in sight. We then found Ruby in her current state wrapped in her cloak."

Weiss jumped back into the conversation, "I have a theory. The only thing taken from the store in the robbery was the well refined Nature dust. I think this new weapon somehow got past Ruby's aura and the nature dust caused the transformation."

Ozpin contemplated her idea for a moment, "That would make sense, but is a frightening thought. If someone has developed a way to bypass a person's aura, and it's in the hand of a dangerous organization like the White Fang, then this must be our top priority."

"What about Ruby though? We have to find a way to help her." Yang's worry for her sister was obvious.

"The best solution would be to extract the dust from her system and then stabilize her aura, but we need to know how they upset the balance of her aura in the first place. Unfortunately we will have to wait until we apprehend Roman Torchwick." The group's mood fell at Glynda's response, and Ruby let out another whimper in despair.

Ozpin quickly moved to comfort the student turned husky by petting her gently. Ruby visibly relaxed. 'Why does that always feel so good? No matter what it just makes me want to lay and let them keep petting me.'

Yang's scroll suddenly rang out. The blonde girl quickly answered the incoming call. "This is Yang."

"Blondie, it's Junior. Meet me at my club in two hours. A certain criminal 'mastermind' wants to have a chat with you about your 'new puppy', whatever that means. Come alone." The call quickly ended. Yang just stood there in shock for a moment before her rage kicked in. Eyes glowing red the blonde growled, "Roman Torchwick wants to 'chat' with me about my 'new puppy'."

"Well, that makes finding him easy." Weiss commented, trying to calm the hothead down.

"He wants to talk to me alone in two hours at Junior's club. I'm going to go beat a solution out of him." Yang stormed out of the office and entered the elevator.

'Please be careful Yang'

"For now, take care of Miss Rose. Hopefully Miss Xiao-Long will be successful in her information gathering."

When Yang arrived at Junior's club, the proprietor was waiting for her. Before he could say a word, Yang lept off of Bumblebee and grabbed the front of his shirt, shoving him against the wall.

"Where is Torchwick?!"

"Calm down Blondie, I'm just the middle contact! If you let me go and follow me I'll take you to him." Letting him down, Yang quickly fell in behind him. Junior led her through the club and to his private office.

Yang tried to enter the office but Junior stopped her, "I don't care what you two are up to, but don't ruin my office."

"Fine." Junior entered the office and Yang quickly followed. Roman Torchwick was leaning up against the back wall.

"Hello Blondie, how's Red?" Yang rushed across the room, but before she got there Roman raised his hands. "Hang on there, I'm not here to antagonize you."

"I'm going to give you thirty seconds to explain yourself and to tell me how to help my sister!"

"Red's your sis? Didn't know that." Yang's scowl deepened, her eyes glowing red. "Anyways, I have a deal for you."

"What do you want?" Yang questioned.

Roman casually grabbed a briefcase and opened it on top of the desk. Inside were several canisters of nature dust and a few vials of a clear liquid. "The liquid is the chemical we used to get past a person's aura and all of the refined nature dust from the dust shop where we ran into Red. Here's the deal; I give you all of this and the current location of the dust blunderbuss the Fang are using. In return, you forget I was involved."

"And what has changed your mind?"

"I am a businessman, and chaos is not good for business. The White Fang plan on configuring the process and turn humans into Faunus to cause pandemonium, which is bad for my business. This is a win-win Blonde. You get to stop the Fang's nefarious plans and save your sister while I walk free. Do you accept?"

"Yes. For your cooperation I'll get Headmaster Ozpin to drop the bounty on your head."

A grin spread across Roman's face. He closed the briefcase and opened his scroll. A tone on Yang's scroll told her that she got a message. "That message has the coordinates of the lab where the anti-aura serum was invented and created. The blunderbuss is there as well. Wonderful doing business with you."

Grabbing the briefcase, Yang sprinted back to her bike and drove back to Beacon.

Ozpin and Glynda were discussing the current situation when Yang entered the headmaster's office. Approaching the desk, the blonde carefully placed the briefcase on the desk. Yang opened the case to show its contents.

"Roman Torchwick traded all of the Fang's refined nature dust, samples of what they call the 'anti-aura serum', and the location of the facility where the serum was created in exchange for us forgetting he was involved. I agreed to his conditions to get this briefcase."

Ozpin sighed, "While it would have been better to apprehend him, we will not go back on your word. The bounty for Roman will be dropped in compensation for his cooperation. Now Glynda, please start analysing this serum so we can return Miss Rose to her normal state." With a nod, Goodwitch grabbed the briefcase and left the office.

"Now Miss Xiao-Long, I believe you have the location of the facility?" With a nod, Yang forwarded Roman's message to the headmaster's scroll. "Thank you. We will have a team of hunters put together to raid the facility." Yang was about to speak up when Ozpin gestured for her to remain silent. "You should return to your team and let them know that we should have a cure for Miss Rose soon. We will send for you when it's ready, so refrain from leaving campus. You are dismissed."

"Yes Headmaster." Yang left the office and returned to her dorm room.

In their dorm, Weiss and Blake got ready for bed while Ruby just laid out of the way. Blake still seemed to avoid her like the plague. Ruby sighed internally, 'I know Blake is a cat faunus and she doesn't like Zwei being here, but come on! It's me, Ruby!'

Watching Blake slowly inch towards her bed while trying to keep as much distance from her was the last straw for the haystack of frustration Ruby had built today. As soon as Blake was on her bed Ruby jumped up with her. Blake let out a hiss as she back into the corner of her bed and in response Ruby let out a growl. Blake instinctively tried to kick the intruder away, but Weiss caught her foot before it could hit Ruby.

"Blake, don't hit Ruby! She's in the body of a fragile puppy right now! And Ruby, don't antagonize Blake! You know she's not comfortable around dogs!" The two continued to glare at each other.

Weiss sighed in frustration as she picked Ruby up off of Blake's bed. Weiss crossed the room and laid down on her own bed and brought Ruby with her. "Since I assume that the floor is uncomfortable you can sleep with me for now." 'Oh thank god. The floor is so hard and it hurts to lay on it for long'

Blake spoke up from across the room, "Remember Weiss, that's Ruby not your new puppy. Don't fawn over her like you did with Zweii."

"Hush you. Since you would refuse to let her sleep with you and the other beds are too high for her, the logical solution is to let her sleep with me."

Blake seemed to refuse to let this be the end of her teasing, "Right, and it has nothing to do with how adorable you think she is?"

Weiss instantly blushed, not wanting Ruby to know the truth. "Shut up or I'll put Ruby back on your bed."

Blake's eyes narrowed, "You wouldn't dare."

Weiss turned back with a smug smile on her face, "Try me."

Before she could respond the door to the room opened and Yang entered. Weiss immediately noticed the defeated look on her face. "Yang what happened?"

Yang made her way over and sat down on Blake's bed. "Ozpin has confined us to the campus. We can't help with anything anymore."

"What did you get from Torchwick that started this?" Blake asked as she started rubbing Yang's back trying to relax her partner.

"In return for amnesty from his crimes relating to this incident he handed over everything we needed. Samples of the serum, their entire supply of refined nature dust, and the location of the facility that created the serum which is where the new rifle is."

Weiss sat up excitedly and Ruby ran over and jumped into Yang's lap. 'They can turn me back?!' Following her instincts, Ruby started to lick Yang's face. "Ruby! Stop that! It tickles!" Refusing to stop, Yang had to grab the small husky and hold her out at arm's length. Ruby was panting slightly with her tail wagging behind her. Yang had to suppress a squeal from the cuteness overload.

In a rare moment of letting her guard down, Weiss did squeal and quickly scooped Ruby into a tight hug, "Aw Ruby you're soo cute!" Once she realized what she did, Weiss quickly put Ruby down while her face was completely covered in blush.

"Ruby, I'm sorry for my lack of control." 'Oh Weiss, if only I could tell you that I thought you were cuter.'

"Back to what I was saying, Ozpin is organizing a raid on the facility and we won't be allowed to help! We just have to wait for Ozpin to tell us that Glynda has the cure for Ruby and we have no idea how long that'll take!" Yang fell backwards, covering her eyes with her left arm.

"On the bright side, at least we know we can cure Ruby. We'll have our fearless leader back soon." Blake mentioned, still trying to calm the raging blonde.

"You're right Blake. For now all we can do is get some rest and hope for the best." Yang quickly changed into her night clothes.

Before Yang hopped up into her bed she turned to Ruby. "Ruby, do you want to sleep with me?" Ruby glanced up at Weiss with a pleading look.

"Well Yang, according to Weiss..."

"Shut up Blake, I can tell that Ruby wants to. Just be careful Yang. A fall from that high could possibly kill Ruby."

"Aww, the Ice Queen cares! Don't worry Weiss, I wouldn't dare be negligent when it comes to my sister's safety." Yang placed Ruby on her bunk then jumped up. Once Yang was comfortable Ruby curled up against her sister's stomach. Yang scratched behind Ruby's ears for a moment before she pulled the blanket so that it covered all ot Ruby except her head.

"Goodnight Ruby." 'Goodnight Yang. You're the best sister I could hope to have.'

Author's Note: Ruby is on her way of returning to being human; she just has to wait for Glynda to be ready. I'm having a lot of fun writing this, so I fave a few more chapter in store! More cute adventures are ahead for Ruby the Husky Puppy! See you all soon!