Vale is a busy town, what happened last night has made patrols become more frequently, and shops setting up the cameras.
Yang found her little sister, she slept outside of her motel, just behind the big signpost in this busy little area, Yang knew it's her old habit again, which Ruby isn't comfortable with things she never knew before, from cozy bed to other technological advanced items including TV and scrolls. Yang can't help but look at Ruby as she is like a living cavegirl of this age.
If it wasn't her knowledge of weaponry, Ruby would not be able to understand half of these amazing devices that she likes very much, especially last night, she has a good impression of the headphones, they can be a good sound detector if changed some inner parts, while also used to focus on the music.
"Two years, you haven't familiarized yourself in town yet?" Yang looks around on Ruby's little hideout she made for herself, she could find some dead rats and other disgusting insects as well. "Look, do not show others what you really are, people will think you are barbaric… and crazy..."
"Yang .! Please…" Ruby didn't feel too comfortable when Yang pulled her out of her hideout and into Yang's room, she knows her big sis is going to clean her up before starting another day, but before she escapes, Yang pulls her cape from behind.
"No Bargain! Today big sis will tell you how to become a girl!"
(Bathroom scene)
"Why would people clean themselves up when it only makes grimm easier to smell them out?" Ruby resists, but Yang continues to spray water on her hair.
"...because there's no grimm in the city! And huntresses like us are supposed to protect them from the wild." Yang's grin looks uneasy. "AND not live with the wild!"
"But, but, I only know how to kill grimm."
"That's why you need to learn how to deal with other people too! You can't be like this forever." Yang sprays shampoo into Ruby's eyes.
"YAhhh!" Seeing Ruby's suffering, Yang laughs.
"...see? It's much better now." Yang crosses her arms and looks how well she dresses up Ruby, she can't believe a tomboy like her would have a chance to participate in dressing another girl! Although Ruby's battle skirt is pretty much the same.
"Huh." Ruby feels a bit insecure as she quickly rearms herself with three different pocket knives and her red cape, Crescent her scythe would hide behind her back, seeing this Yang still remember as Ruby carries that big gun-scythe into the city, the cops are all on her thinking she's bandit or something. 'Do I look strange?"
"Nah, you're pretty good I say." Yang looks aside, chuckles, it seems Ruby is a girl after all she thought, after some serious fixing.
"Thanks sis! I will try to not grab everyone's attention like last time."
Flashback as Yang remembered the way Ruby takes on her scythe on her shoulder, everyone on the street is shocked, normally holding a weapon publicly would only mean huntsmen or huntresses but Ruby, she is just too young to hold a weapon, let alone a weapon like Crescent.
"Say, I'm a little curious, what brings you here this time?" Yang packing up her things, her new student I.D of the Beacon could be seen on her bed still, along with her other gauntlets.
"Oh it's nothing… I just want to say hi and will be looking for a new place for grimm soon!"
"Wait… where do you come from?"
"Our home?"
"That's easily 6 thousand kilometers… How did you get here?" Yang pretends to be calm.
"Uh…" Ruby could see Yang's face become a little more calm and scary, it's the tension she didn't like at all! "I use Crescent and burn off my rounds, it's really nothing sis! Trust me!"
"You what with that thing?"
"Fly?" Yang gives herself a slap on her face, why would common sense apply to Ruby if she barely knows any?
"Look Ruby, you don't burn your rounds to fly! I mean, how can you fly with a scythe that's twice your size!"
"Ahm… I… you know… just to get… fast?" Ruby blushes as Yang puts her face closer to her, the wild little red isn't sure what to say next. "And… ummm… cape so… please…"
"Ruby look, don't tell anyone about how you get here ok? I have a beacon to study and will not always be there for you…" Yang's voice became smaller, but clear. "Just promise me on this one ok?"
"No problem sis!" Ruby smiles as she thought it's an easy rule to follow, but Yang on the other hand, feels as if something wrong will happen very soon, her instinct and past experience with Ruby predict this too well.
"Just go home after you brought your supply!" Yang stops worrying.
Ruby watches as Yang runs down the street and disappears in the crowd, Ruby now looking from the top, the building landscape of the city Vale, the people here look friendly and there aren't trees and bushes to hide from danger, she wonders what hides beneath the roads and buildings around her, it feels compact and stress.
Soon made her way to a nearby forest area not far from the city, she could see the tower as big as her thumb, it is the quiet and more undeveloped land she familiar with, she tasted some plants she thought to be herbs and seeing footprints of people as well as animals, but no sign of any grimm she sighs, wanting to hunt some but guessing it's not today.
"Maybe I should go back after all (sigh)"
"Heeeelp!" Ruby heard a sound of a man far from her location, a quick turn around and she soon founds someone is under this weird hole.
"Hi." Ruby arrives and brings hope on this stranger's face. "Do you live here?"
"Of course not! Please help me get out of here! I'm trapped!"
…
"My name's Jaune, I'm looking my way to Beacon but I'm lost!" The blonde teenager checks his map again. "Do you know a way out? Hehehe..."
Ruby points at the tower, but Jaune shakes his head. "No that's the city center! I've been there before! By the way, what's your name?"
"Ruby, hmm, why do people want to go to Beacon?" She asks as she recalls Yang is going there too.
"Oh how you wouldn't know? It's the place that teaches people to become huntsman and huntress!" Jaune looks more than surprised. "Well, I suppose I am hoping I can be one with my current level… I'm still far from it, you see (sigh)…"
"Ah I see…" Ruby stares at Jaune and secretly sniffs him. "You don't fight grimm?"
"I do? It's a requirement to enter the Beacon, the ability to slay grimm."
Ruby enhances her senses again, and tries to smell the grimm out of Jaune, grabbing his hand and tasting his finger, Jaunce is unsure.
"Yikes! What are you doing?"
"You did kill grimm." Ruby nods. "But you didn't fight it."
Jaune is shocked that the girl he met not long ago found out his truth, he would quickly fall a few steps back. "How did you know!"
"It's a clean kill too, I kinda miss that." Ruby smells her own finger. "Do you want to taste mine too? It didn't feel too great I can tell."
"Woah young lady… I think you must be someone Beacon sent to test me! I apologize if I do anything wrong!" Jaune quickly lowers his head, but Ruby isn't so sure what he's doing by holding his hand down together on the ground.
"You didn't know this?" Ruby looks confused.
"The grimm and the smell? I… don't call myself an expert on grimm so no chances, hahaha…" Jaune looks as Ruby pulls out her small pocket knife, in a short moment, he could see there's two more underneath her skirt. "!?"
"Come here Jaune."
"Ar,are… are you sure?"
Ruby comes closer, Jaune closes his eyes as he thought Ruby is going to harm her, but instead she is letting him holding the knife.
"Grimm weakness is mostly on the neck," Ruby brings his hand up to her chin and slowly moves down with the knife almost cutting Ruby's skin. "The head, usually bulky but also quite vulnerable on this area, but you could use the fact they care about their back more and strike directly to the front."
"!" Jaune's hand is clearly shaking as Ruby points the knife towards her own eye, the silver eye girl seems fearless and holding his scared hand strong, Jaune confused if girls these days are as strong as Ruby.
"If you could hide your instinct well enough, grimm wouldn't even react to you as you are invisible," Ruby says as she hides away her presence. "They won't have time to react, and the hunt will end sooner."
Jaune gulps as Ruby finally releases him, from the uncontrollable heartbeats to a sudden silence, he could feel Ruby manipulate his unconscious mind too well, it almost like magic, unlike anything he encounters before.
"That's... awesome!" Jaune quickly shakes Ruby's hand and starts feeling he's breathing again. "...so, can you tell me where Beacon… pretty please?"
"Where my sister is? Hmm she told me not to go near that place."
...
AHHHHHHHHH
Imagine being shot from a cannon and suddenly found himself in a middle of nowhere, Jaune could feel that immersive G-force rushing towards his head then his leg and the rest of the body without any constraint, if it wasn't Ruby fire a few counter shots, Jaune could see himself in heaven any minute now.
"Not my best leap but that should do." Ruby does a backflip as she lands, Jayne on the other hand hangs on the tree, Ruby quickly helps the almost fainted kid down.
"Come on Jaune, Beacon is almost there!" Ruby could see there are many people gathered near the entrance, thinking where Yang might be; she decided to hide from them.
"...ah we here?" Jaune couldn't remember his too exciting flying experience, he took his first baby step and soon saw Beacon from a distance. "Hey, we are here!"
"OK, before Yang found me I gotta go."
"Ruby?" Yang's sudden appearance shocks Ruby to hide behind Jaune, and soon try to fade away. "Ruby! I know it's you!"
"Hehe hi sis..."
Jaune's a little surprise to see another new student like Yang would scare Ruby to such an extent, as almost there's a food chain going on before he enters the school.
[Oh my… am I really dead by now?]
"... you know I have many questions." Yang pulls Ruby over, while looking at Jaune. "What's your name, handsome boy?"
"Jaune… Jaune Ark!" Jaune quickly greeted Yang. "I wouldn't know you have such a talented sister!"
"Huh?" Yang's reaction gives Jaune an even bigger misunderstanding, is Ruby not even worthy in her eyes? "Name's Yang, I'm very sorry if my sister did anything to you, are you alright?"
"Y...yes! More than fine!"
"Ruby get over here! I haven't done it with you yet!" Yang pulled her ears and face, she feels like a mother at the moment. "You seriously think you can get away after all these crap?"
"I'm sorrrrryyyyyy." Ruby cheek stretched by Yang's strong arm, Jaune looks at the sisters as they are having their time.
"Girls, don't we have to go now?"
"Ah yes! I will get to you next time! You better behave, Ruby!" Yang runs towards the entrance and Jaune follows, Ruby looks as most students rush towards the entrance suddenly, she isn't sure why.
"Good morning newcomers! As you can see the gate is closed permanently for today, but don't worry, there's a way to get in, but you will have to do my little quest." Ozpin's voice could be heard across the forest, and around Beacon, the seniors are looking from the far inside, with many confused.
"The quest is simple, you just have to find this one girl and bring her to the gate, all of you will fail if no one make it."
"Ruby…?"
"?!" Ruby hides herself in the bush, she can't believe her pictures are all over the sky and above Beacon, now Yang and Jaune shocked but Ruby is nowhere on sight.
"Ruby Come OUT!"
"Hell no! There are so many people looking at me!" Ruby feels a bit terrified, into the forest she goes, Yang leads the charge and pushes over some people, the big sister looks more than just terrified.
"NO ONE IS GOING TO TOUCH MY SISTER!"
Jaune and the others soon stop as they hear an explosion in the forest, and a few more following, a couple heavy blasts blow a line of trees and a big chunk of land off the ground, followed by some brave ones and "booom", some students are blasted out like they were nothing to Yang, many students are still undeciding if they want to follow Yang into the woods but soon did as they have no other choice.
"Come on! You sneaky rat! Arghhhhh!" Yang literally terraforms the land as she walks in straight lines back and forward, Ruby hides her presence and looks as her angry sister run by, the others follow the lead, mostly scared.
"Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god, what have I done? I shouldn't go to Beacon!"
(stare)
"!" Ruby could see a girl in black dress looking at her in the dark, her eyes are yellow bright, almost identical to a cat's eye.
"Hello? Are you there?"
The person didn't reply, but some flashing happens around Ruby, she could feel the bushes moving.
"Target acquire." Blake jumps out from behind, her blades reached Ruby's cape but soon found out her body couldn't move as Ruby caught her instead with her scythe covering her neck and head.
Now Blake can feel the sharp blade just a finger away from her death, with Ruby's innocent grin looking rather deadly somehow.
"Hi." Ruby asks warmly. "Are you looking for me too? Your weird skills are surprisingly interesting :D I can't believe what I just saw."
"Tsk." Blade quickly gave up and put her blades on the ground, Ruby sniffs, her instinct told her Blake isn't done yet.
"...so, I suppose there's only two of us here, hehe… do you know why they want to catch me?" Ruby acts a bit shy. "I'm not a good tasting food you know, I taste really bad! Really really bad!"
"When do you know I'm here." Blake isn't interested in Ruby's childishness.
"Hmm, I'm not sure." Ruby giggles. "I could see you when you're in that bush."
"!" Blake remains calm but she's surprised by Ruby's answer, Ruby seems to know her before all of this begins.
"Oh no offense, I didn't come and greet you because I'm too busy looking for Yang… She's scary when angry." Ruby pulls back her scythe and Blake quickly grabs her blades, she isn't trusting on Ruby yet.
"Can you go with me to the gate?" Blake tried her diplomatic route before going violence route. "Look, there's no one there already, it should be fine now."
"Hmm OK." Ruby jumps down from the rock and trees, Blake wonders as this is her first time seeing someone as young as Ruby moves faster than her, she still remembers when Ruby caught her off guard with her scythe, the speed, and the sound of hell under her chin, almost as if Ruby is challenging her skill and even teasing her.
"The gate does open~" Ruby celebrates as she shakes Blake's hands, she learns this watching Yang before, the little red really believes it's all over. "Now please tell that angry Yang, I'm going home! Forever!"
"Oh no you don't Ruby Rose." Ozpin walks out the gate with Glynda, the woman behind him isn't looking too friendly. "Welcome to Beacon I should say."
"Eh!" Ruby hides herself in the bushes again, but this time everyone can see she jumps into another one nearby. "Yang is going to kill me!"
"..." Blake watches as both sides play, the happy headmaster and the insecure girl, she looks behind, and saw Yang is out of the forest.
"Where's Ruby! Why did the gate open?" Grab on Blake's arm, Yang shakes her as there's no tomorrow.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh…." Blake could hear her voice echoing, she tries to point at Ruby but found out she's already on the ground. "Damn, I didn't harm her you know."
"Look ninja lady, you don't tell me, I tell you!" Yang with her fist ready.
"Calm down girls, I prefer you don't let her run away again." Ozpin helps Blake as he takes Ruby's hand and pulls her out gently from the bush. "Welcome to Beacon everyone. Party's over."