As the airship docked at Beacon, a particularly weak-bowled blonde rushed out to empty the rest of his stomach that wasn't already splattered over the ship's interior. Ruby and Yang walked out, admiring the sight of Beacon academy up close. And it was amazing.

"Look at it, Yang! Oh, it's so amazing!" Ruby gushed before her eyes travelled downwards and gasped. "Sis! Look at their weapons!"

Yang giggled at her sister. "Calm down Ruby, they're just weapons,"

"JUST weapons?! I have a severe misunderstanding if you didn't model your weapon after dad's gauntlets and Uncle Qrow's shotgun part, to perfectly incorporate you brawler style with what would be the most dangerous up-close firearm invented?" Ruby critically analysed.

"Whoa there sis, ease up on me will ya?" Yang put her hands up in defence. Ruby smirked at her sister's defeat. "Man, that battle analyses training Grim put you through really stuck with you, huh?" Ruby didn't satisfy Yang with an answer. "Look, all I'm saying is that you should have friends besides your sister, three non-sentient objects, a mysterious mentor who has the same name as humanity's greatest enemy, and a crow."

"Dust is not my friend." Ruby pouted, "He makes fun of me."

Yang rolled her eyes. "Look Grim asked me to help you find some real friends, not just metal ones."

"Okay… how are we going to do that?" Ruby asked.

"Step one: Leave Ruby alone to see how she does without me while I go hang with my friends," Yang said as a group of Yang's friends appeared and they all sped off, leaving Ruby in the dust.

"Wh-what?! Wait! Yang don't leave me!" Ruby cried after her sister as she disappeared into the distance. "Ohhhh. What am I going to do now-" Ruby suddenly crashed into a baggage cart. "AH!" she cried out as she caught herself with her flight along with saving half the luggage.

"What are you doing you idiot!" a shrill voice filled Ruby's ears as she winced at the sound.

"Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was-"

"Well, obviously you weren't! Do you have any idea what this is!?" a white-haired, white-dressed pale girl shouted at Ruby.

"Luggage?" Ruby sassed.

"Not just any old luggage! Dust! Mined and purified from the Schnee dust quarries!"

"And I care why?" Ruby continued to sass, only leading to the irritation of the girl.

"Because!" The girl waved a loose vial of dust to emphasize her point, "I just one of these many volatile cases of dust were to-"

Ruby swiftly pinched the top of the dust vial to stop the girl from shaking it. "Hold on there, Snow Cone,"

"Snow cone!?"

"You may want to stop shaking that volatile case of dust around." Ruby mocked. The girl's face contorted in rage.

"You are incredibly rude, and I will not-"

"And you're incredibly bitchy, what's your point?"

"How dare you! Do you know who I am!?"

"A bossy princess?"

"It's heiress actually." A new voice interrupted. The new arrival wore a black buttoned vest with coattails and a single silver button on the front. Underneath was a white, sleeveless, high necked, crop undershirt and white shorts with a zipper on the front of each leg. She had raven black hair with a bow of the same colour sitting atop it.

"Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, the largest private producer of energy propellant in the world."

Weiss harrumphed. "Well at least somebody recognises someone important when they see them-"

"The same company that uses inhumane production methods, exploits its workforce, and does business with more than several …questionable… partners." The black-themed girl continued. Weiss began sputtering at the severe call-out to her family. Seeing as there was no way to win the argument, Weiss quickly snatched vial back out of Ruby's grip and stormed off, tailed by a group of people carrying luggage.

Ruby turned to the stranger. "Hey, thanks for helping out, I'm not sure how much more of that I could take."

The stranger smiled. "Blake Belladonna."

"Huh?"

"My name, it's Blake Belladonna."

"Oh! Ruby Rose, Reaper Extraordinaire!" Ruby gave a mock-saluted. Blake raised an eyebrow as Ruby awkwardly put her arm down. "Well, I'll see you around?"

Blake smiled. "Hopefully." She replied before walking off. Once she was gone Ruby gave a fist-pump.

"Yes! Take that Yang! I'm not as socially stunted as you thought!" Was what Ruby proclaimed right before she tripped.

After being helped up by a nice boy named Jaune, Ruby made her way to the Reception hall with him, saying goodbye when she spied Yang.

"Hey, little sis! How'd you go?" Yang asked with a smirk. Ruby returned it with a confident smirk of her own.

"Hah! You need to eat your words Yang cuz' I made two friends already… I think!" She villainously laughed.

"Woah! Good one Rubes, I knew you had it in you!"

Ruby faltered. "Wait! No! This is meant to be the part where I make fun of you and say 'I told you so'!"

"Too bad, I always believed in you," Yang told her, rustling her hair.

"Noooo! My sweet precious victory!" Ruby drooped.

"Okay, okay. So who did you make friends with?"

Ruby perked up and scouted the room before pointing at Jaune. "Oh, that's Jaune! He's pretty nice but a bit…" Ruby trailed off giving an 'I don't know' look. "…dull? Anyway, the other person I met was Blake Belladonna, she seemed nice, not too sure if I could consider her a friend though."

"Well you know her, and she seemed friendly, so I say that'll be a win."

Ruby groaned. "That's more than I can say for Weiss Schnee."

Yang raised an eyebrow. "Schnee? As in Schnee Dust company?"

"Yep."

"And you said what?"

"I sassed her and called her a bitch."

It was then told as a legend, that on that day, a laugh echoed through the halls of Beacon that deafened everyone there. But that is just a tale…

"You're kidding!" Yang cried as she rolled around on the floor in fits of laughter, waiting for Ruby to tell her it was all a joke. When she didn't Yang almost passed out from lack of air as tears rolled down her face. "Only you Ruby! Only you could do something of this scale before you even start at Beacon!"

"It doesn't help that she's standing behind me right now," Ruby said glumly as Yang looked behind her sister and quickly stifled another laughing fit.

"You!" Weiss yelled at Ruby, "I demand that you apologize to me, Now!"

"Okay."

"Wait what?" Weiss asked confused, not expecting to get this far.

"Look, I think we both overreacted a little and said some stuff we shouldn't've. So, Weiss Schnee, I, Ruby Rose, apologize for antagonizing you and will restrain myself from doing so in the future." Ruby apologized. Weiss snapped out of her trance and huffed.

"Very well. As a figure of such high standing as myself, I can realize when I may have let go of my temper a bit. I am sorry." She shook Ruby's hand. "By no means does this make us friends." Wiess stared dead into Ruby's silver eyes, before her own widened a bit.

"Well, it's better than enemies." Ruby nodded before a microphone crackled to life.

As the pair of Xiao-Long/Rose sisters awoke the next morning after an impromptu slumber party in Beacon's great hall, seeing Blake again and introducing her to Yang, they began their day to become huntresses of Beacon.

"Good morning Yang," Ruby yawned as she stretched, "How did you sleep?"

"Hngh… go away, dad…" Ruby smiled devilishly at her sleeping sister. She carefully sneaked over to Yang and got right up to her face and gave her nose a tickle. As Yang's eye's fluttered open, Ruby sprung.

"*BUURRRRRP*" Ruby let out a long, quite unfeminine, burb right in Yang's face which had the desired intention as Yang shot straight up whilst she pinched her nose and tried waving the residual burp away.

"AW! Ruby that was horrible! I can still smell the booze on your breath!" Yang cried, still jealous that Grim had taught Ruby how to safely drink alcohol without a hangover on one of their training trips. Any time Yang tried to mimic it, she ended up being even more hungover, resulting in Tai catching her.

Ruby had apparently snuck a considerable stash of liquor into Beacon, where Ruby had spent the better part of the last night playing a one-sided drinking game where she was the only one who drank. Oum, she envied Ruby.

Meanwhile, Ruby was laughing at her elder sister's distress.

"Today is the day!" Ruby exclaimed as she drew her weapon from the lockers, "I can finally make friends the best way I know how; with weapons!"

"That is the only way you know how Ruby," Yang began ribbing, "And it has made you exactly three friends, all of which you are currently carrying." Yang's face softened. "C'mon Ruby, you need some more friends, people to rely on."

"Ugh, you sound like Grim."

"Oum knows she's your voice of reason."

Ruby glared at her sister. "Suck an egg, Yang."

"C'mon Rubes, I was just making a yolk"

Ruby's glare intensified. "I hate you with every inch of my being."

"That's not a lot of inches."

Ruby promptly shot Yang with Executioner.

Eventually, all the students congregated at a cliff overlooking the infamous Emerald Forest of Beacon. Living up to its name, the forest glistened with a deep grin in every direction.

Each student stood atop a shiny metal plate as Ozpin gave a speech.

"For years, you have trained to become warriors, and today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest."

"Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumours about the assignment of 'teams'." Glynda Goodwitch continued, "Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates... today."

"Kind of abrupt, don't you think?" Ruby whispered to yang, who now had a bruise on her head from shielding Executioner's attack.

Ozpin went on with his speech. "These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well."

"Makes sense" Ruby continued to whisper.

"That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years."

Ruby blanched. "…What?"

"After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path... or you will die." Ozpin told them seriously. "You will be monitored and graded through the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene unless you are on the verge of death itself, so make sure you are antiquely prepared. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one and return to the top of the cliff. We will regard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately. If you do at any point during the initiation decide you cannot complete the task, you may signal for your extraction. This will, however, will result in you not entering Beacon, and will be sent home at the end of the exercise. Are there any questions?"

Jaune raised his hand. "Yeah, um, sir?"

"Yes, Mr Arc?"

"How are we going to get down there?"

"Oh, I am so glad you asked Jaune, Glynda?" Glynda handed Ozpin a tablet. "If you'd please look to your left."

All the students looked to the leftmost person there, which happened to be a pink-haired girl with three whip-swords strapped to her back. Ozpin tapped a button on his pad which activated a springboard that flung the pink girl right into the forest. All the students looked back to Ozpin.

"That, will be how you get to the forest, Mr Arc."

Jaune slumped.

"Why did I even ask?"