Wonderful. Just wonderful. Ruby was forced to ride with her sister. She didn't have anything against her sister when it was just the pair. But, for whatever reason, it seemed that the phrase 'can you please shut the everliving fuck up people are staring and strange guys are walking over please please please stop' had absolutely no meaning to Yang Xiao Long. She just did not know when too much was too much. 'What's too much much?' you may wonder.

"Oh yeah, this is an absolutely fine sword. Nice and oiled too. Listen as it slides nice and gently into its sheath" fwwwwwwwwwwwwwwpp. That wasn't the sheath. That was Yang blowing a raspberry at this poor blonde boy.

"Mmmmm nice. This is simply fantastic. I really want to handle your sword a lot more, preferably somewhere private, but just feeling it I know I need more of this"

"You are the first person to notice just how hard I care for my sword" started the blonde boy "I take great pride of the care I give Crocea Mors. Polish it every night, gotta use the high quality oil or it might wear. Jaune Arc, nice to meet you"

"Yang Xiao Long, the pleasure will be mine, yours too if you use the right oil"

"That's the only way to do it. This here is Atlas-grade wind-dust oil that is most commonly used to prepare barrels for gravity dust. Perfectly slides. If dust residue won't stick to it, nothing will. This baby will be clean as new car regardless of how many Grimm it slays"

"Oooooo. I likey. Make sure you bring some m'kay?"

Ruby wondered just what was wrong with these two. Yang for certain knew what she was doing, mainly because half their time spent together was her flirting with her. It bothers her much more than it bothers you. This Jaune boy, Ruby actually had no idea if they were on equal or opposite wavelengths. Either Jaune was a weapons fanatic, or very, very naughty. Ruby suspected the latter, just because of how perfectly this was going for Yang.

"Oh I'll bring it all. I have here in this bag all kinds of goodies. We have burn-dust oil, you can really feel it when even a drop hits your skin, imagine being pierced by my sword coated in it."

"Oh, I can imagine alright"

Ruby wanted nothing more than to get off the airship as fast as humanly possible. Scratch that, not fast enough. She needed inhuman speeds to get away fast enough from these two… deviants. Whatever happened, she did not want to share a room with these two. Or be seen near them.

Fortunately, Jaune was interrupted before starting about Ice-oil by a certain Goodwitch on the holo-caster. It didn't really matter what she was talking about, Ruby wasn't listening. Likely it was a welcome message, please behave, and "... We will be arriving in 3 minutes. Please gather your belongings and congregate near the doors of the Bullhead"

Petals scattered ad Ruby rushed to the doors of the Bullhead. Regretably, two blondes still managed to find the space behind her. At least they aren't talking.

Today marks a monumental day in Ruby's life: she can train often and not be looked down upon. Everyone there wanted to be a huntsman or Huntress, and there would be no nagging about socializing from her uncle. After all, everybody there also had the same dream.

So she thought as the doors opened to Beacon.

"Uh Jaune?"

"Yes Yang?"

"Where's your luggage?"

"Ah shit, knew I forgot well. Better go grab it"

And off he went.

"Huh. Guess he's not the most punctual"

Neither was Ruby if she was being honest.

"Well, that's friend number 1. Ruby, where's yours?"

"Ugghhhh stop. You sound like Qrow"

"Who is right that you need friends. Look there's a girl your height right there. She's got a cool sword thingy. Ask her about that. Go"

And Yang shoved Ruby into this girl.

"What the he-"

"GottagofindJaunebye!"

"What are you doing?"

The girl had long black hair with white highlights. A scar marred the left side of her face, going right over her blue eye. She wore a button down short sleeve shirt and shorts. On her side was an open leather satchel.

"Uh…"

"Do you know what you could have done? I was carrying dust, if it got out there could be some serious issues"

Ruby pointed to the girls bag.

"You gotta be shitting me… I lost one ice cartridge. One!"

"Uh…"

"Find it!"

So they searched. It was hard with the sea of people walking buy, but they found it. In the hands of another black haired girl.

"Sorry, this nimrod next to me knocked it out of my bag, could I get my Dust back please"

Girl number 2 looked on with some confusion

"Pretty sure this isn't yours"

The first black haired girl looked at Ruby expectantly. Then waved her face in a beckoning way as if to say come here.

"C'mon. Tell her it's mine"

"Yeah… sorry… I knocked it out of her bag…"

The girl with the bow looked at the pair. She was clearly unconvinced.

"Look girl, bringing this midget with you won't change the fact that there is no way you're Weiss Schnee"

Not Weiss looked somewhat unfazed by this comment.

"Well I'm not Weiss Schnee- anymore"

Bow girl looked at no longer Weiss Schnee- with a very, very confused face.

"...what"

"I changed my name!" she looked genuinely happy to say that. The bow-topped girl looked even more confused than before.

"Why? And to what?"

"It's just Weiss now. No Schnee in me. And do I really need to answer why, or are you one of the hand-feds in my father's pocket?"

"Yeah… that's fair. I'm Blake, Blake Belladonna"

Weiss smirked to an almost evil-looking extent.

"Pretty sure that isn't you"

Ruby was more confused than Blake was a second ago. If anything, she was certain these two people knew each other and we're playing a very elaborate prank on her. Not only did she supposedly lose Weiss Schnee- no actually just Weiss's- dust, but the daughter of the leader of the White Fang is the one who found it. About ten minutes ago, she would have been certain this encounter would devolve to a full on war with eye contact. But now? She had no idea what to think.

"Yeah okay. I'm part cat. Haha." Her bow wiggled. "Laugh it up folks, the Princess of Menagerie is afraid to show her heritage"

"...I'm Ruby by the way…"

"Did you run away and steal from your father's organization because they are growing worse each passing day?" Ruby was completely ignored, "Because my father basically disowned me. I stole this dust," Weiss motioned to her bag, "and almost got away without getting caught. Father found me on the airship, holding a copy of my application to Beacon. His ultimatum: 'Prove your worth as the Heiress or you won't be' Then he slashed my eye and threw me this rapier" Ruby quickly analyzed the sword on Weiss's hip. How she hadn't noticed before was beyond her

It was a revolving rapier. Carved into the blade were rivets for Dust-suspensions to travel down. Two chambers were filled, the rest were empty.

"So princess, what's your story?"

"You were pretty accurate. My father left the White Fang, Sienna Khan took over, and things went down-hill fast. I had to get out as soon as possible after watching mentor, Adam Taurus, slaughter a number of SDC workers on a train in the forever fall. Not higher ups, not officers, five random workers operating a train who were probably getting paid minimum wage. But, I managed to snag some of the Dust going to the White Fang, and it's here in this bag. Need a refill?"

"Why thank you. You are the nicest terrorist I have ever met"

"Fuck off"

Blake opened the bag. Out of it spilled an impossible amount of 'romantic novels', model magazines, What the… Why would you carry physical copies of hentai comics and DVDs, calendars from a restaurant called Zooters, and a singular Blu-ray disc for a documentary on Faunus rights by a man named Steve Edwin. Right next to pornography of people cosplaying as Steve Edwin.

Yeesh. Rule 34 is irrefutable. If it exists, there is a porn of it. Wait. I exist. Is there porn of… me? Oh God.

Everybody turned a shade of red akin to Ruby's cloak. Except Weiss.

"I can see this is where the White Fang get their motivation from. Very interesting. Ah look at this one Blake: 'Big, Hard trouble in Petite Kuo Kuana'"

Blake had no response. Instead she reached into her other bag and grabbed a red vial and attempted to throw it into the pile. Burn the evidence. Weiss caught it by some miracle.

"Now now, I know you want to succeed here. If it takes, oh look at that 'Elephant Faunus tied up and ridden by tiny mouse girl', to wake up in the morning then I think you should keep it. And definitely not because I'm interested and going to steal them- woah. 'Two Horses one human' That's a little much there don't you think Blake?"

Blake's response was to rip her hand from Weiss's grip. Then drink the fucking dust. Is she insane?! Yes. Yes she was. She started spitting fire, destroying all of it. Even the Steve Edwin Blu-ray. Weiss had to move to not get burned.

Once Blake stopped spitting fire, she ate an uncut water dust crystal. By the luck of god, she was both unscathed and okay. But everything smelled of burning plastic.

"Let's get out of here befor-"

"Before what?"

A witch blocked their path.

Choose your options:

1 Fight

2 Reason

-Do nothing and wait a turn

4 Run away.

"Before what girls? Before you scorch Beacon's pavement, or get caught by the dean? Because whatever it is, it's too late now"

Weiss pointed her rapier at the scorched path. She used her water dust and wind dust like a pressure washer, cleaning the whole area in all of 3 seconds.

"You know what girl. I like you. See Ruby, this is how you get on my good list. Clean up"

"I did! I was literally stopping a robbery which could have very well ended worse and with Torchwick getting away with more dust!"

The two girls with black hair faced the partial redhead. Then looked at each other. Then back to Ruby. Blake spoke first. "You're the Ruby Rose? I thought she was 15. How are you even here and not at… what's the school on Patch?"

Weiss spoke now "Signal, I believe. But that at least explains your… stature relative to everyone else"

Ruby was overwhelmed. As you probably are too, reading this. She had been called short two times too many today. But she was already on the chopping block with Goodbitch. Play it cool. If you have nothing good to say, say nothing. So she just waved.

"You can thank Mrs…"

"Weiss"

"... here for all of you getting off without a hitch. I see this shenanigans again you're being stuck with Saturday detention with Oobleck"

It sounded a lot nicer than it probably was. Detention without Goodwitch couldn't be that bad right?

Ruby couldn't have known this yet, but she was so, so very wrong.

AN Sorry about not uploading on time. My ISP decided I needed to upgrade and cut my service. But hey, now I've got 600 mbps download speed. Also. This is just an intermediary work I'm bullshitting my way through while I work on another work. It's going to be a mercury black focused fic. If I can balance a decent writing schedule, first chapters should be out sometime in December. It's going to be huge and probably not at all what you're expecting. Stay tuned for another hopeful Saturday upload. Which will not happen if I get a PS5. Just saying