"Next, Ruby Rose."
Another day in Beacon, another unexpected stuff happening to Ruby, Yang pushed the crying child to the front, everyone quickly realized it's yellow and the red from before, it was the sisters that were giving them much trouble on the gate, one that basically blasted the forest to half, and the other that seems to be uncatchable, or rather "claimed" by Yang so no one can touch her, really.
"Yang… why are there many people looking down on us!" Ruby tries to escape as she starts running towards the exit, but her cape is what makes her stay. "Yang!"'
"Ah, there you are." Glynda closing onto Ruby, blocking her sight to the exit. "Good job Yang, we will take good care of her for now."
"Yang! Don't sell me to this witch!" Ruby cried again, some giggling could be heard from the crowd.
"Ruby! Come on, I thought we discussed this before." Yang takes the scared child on her shoulder, trying to calm her as Ruby's still a child. "I brought you biscuits, I will be there when you need me, alright?"
"Yang .!"
"It's a yes Ruby, come up now." Glynda points her crop directly to Ruby. "The so-called 'witch' is going to teach you the basics of the discipline."
(squeak)
The volume in the hall rises as Ruby steps onto the stage, Yang let her little sister facing Glynda alone, ignoring the crowd and loud noises, little red could only focus her own heartbeat and every insignificant movement she could see on sight, there's Glynda and a large open place where there aren't a lot of covers, three well-armored guards are placed onto the stage soon, under Glynda commands.
"Defenders of the Beacon, I heard from an old man that you could handle three of them." Glynda pushed her glasses slightly, Yang and the other two girls would soon put their attention on Ozpin, he's sitting above the watchtower.
"Ok, he's clearly moving his head towards the other direction." Weiss crosses her arms.
"Ruby! Just keep calm and it will be alright! Okay?" Yang tries to cheer Ruby up, and soon the three defenders are already on their way towards Ruby, their size is nearly three times of hers, each holding a sword almost as big as her Crescent.
(Target acquired)
Ruby clearly gets the abnormal and terrifying sounds from the golem guards, she is looking rather nervous while holding her scythe closer to her heart. "This doesn't look too good Crescent…"
"Let see if you could withstand a year 3 test as Ozpin said." Glynda signaling the green lights, and soon the battle is on.
"What!" Ruby's voice soon covered by the huge explosion sound as the three defenders fired missiles towards her, and it's not just a few but a barrage of them in supersonic speed, the crowd soon became quiet as they thought Ruby was done.
"Hey… Yang?" Weiss looks at Glynda, she's a little surprised Glynda didn't announce anything yet.
- (Glynda's flashback) -
"Ozpin, what's this all about?" An hour ago, Glynda walks to his office with quite a number of signed documents, she is greeted by Ozpin with a smile, who sat comfortably in his office like always.
"Oh Glynda, so glad you can come if you don't mind, how about giving Ruby a helping hand."
"Wait, that's what I'm asking! Why she's able to fight against the defenders! Ruby doesn't have any battle records before!" Glynda doesn't understand Ozpin's proposal.
"Oh Glynda." Ozpin takes a slightly uneasy breath. "What if I tell you she's the daughter of Summer Rose?"
"That… monster?" Glynda's not buying it. "Impossible! She's been missing for years! And Ruby, she doesn't seem like it."
"Yes, but Ruby is here." Ozpin gets to his coffee machine. "...I still haven't got any news from Qrow yet, either do Taiyang."
"Then how do you know she's Summer Rose's daughter and not someone else's!"
"That's why I have you to find out." A taste of freshly brewed coffee, Ozpin's manipulative face is hard to ignore. "Aren't you interested too, Glynda? After all these years… huh? huhu~"
- (end of Glynda's flashback)
Smoke Disappearing, everyone except Yang is surprised to see Ruby is still standing more than just fine on the field, her hand is holding a scythe-like before, and it always feels so light as she hops on the ground.
"Phew… not sure why but I survived… hehe…" Ruby awkwardly grinned, she's feeling a bit comfortable with the hall finally becoming quiet, but she's still nervous as people are still looking at her from all sides, seeing what Ruby is capable of, Glynda looks as if she foresees where it will be going.
"I see, daughter of Summer Rose." Glynda raises her crop, she's unlike anything before. "I shall defea-, examine you!"
"Did you just say defeat?! .!"
Ruby's answer is left unanswered as few more missiles along with Glynda's lighting magic beam striking from above, the stage looks deadly and horrible, people could smell the burn, feel the heat, and most importantly the loud sounds with all kinds of attacks onto Ruby, the crowd is speechless as it becomes clear that the firepower is overused.
"Uh… isn't that a bit overkill…?" Blake looks aside at Yang, what she sees Yang is too calm to be true.
"I know her, Ruby Rose."
The stage had a big hole in the middle of it, after endless attack and barrage, Glynda gasps uncontrollably after three minutes of non-stop maximum firepower, alongside with the three golems that keep crashing down the ground like it's made of sand, they ran out of missiles a long time ago but didn't stop attacking.
[Why is she still alive…]
Glynda can't believe when seeing her device is showing Ruby's aura remain pretty much full, almost as she hasn't received any damage, for a moment it reminds her of her battle with Summer Rose, the ridiculous power that anyone can only dream of, not knowing if it's jealousy or just anger towards Summer's talent, Glynda didn't want to acknowledge her awesomeness.
"Maybe next time Glynda~ Next time." Glynda still remembers Summer's words, her sassy looks is what makes Glynda's face turn red and get mad, she recalls the humiliation too well.
"I can't accept this! It's not even fair!" Glynda shouts painfully but soon she realizes who she's facing now is Ruby but not Summer, Ruby's merciless looks bring her back to reality faster than she realizes, she's wrong in wanting to kill her, she's not supposed to be treating Ruby badly because of Summer, she realizes this too late.
"...Hey." Ruby used almost all of her will power, her voice sounds peaceful.
[I'm so death.]
Glynda's expression changed from anger to scared, she didn't even realize Ruby just disappear from sight, Glynda didn't want to know where she went, the defenders weren't responding to Ruby either, as she just makes them stop for some reason, there are so many questions left unanswered, yet before Glynda dare to turn back to look around, Ruby is near the edge of the stage.
"Can I leave now, please! .!"
A simple cut on the shield. "Bye!" Ozpin clearly sweating when he sees his best shield breaks so easily, the students didn't get it at first, as they are still confused how Ruby can just walk away even though the battle is not over, the shield is still present on stage.
"...Hey, that shield is powered right?" Blake asking Yang. "What's her scythe even made of…"
"I don't know." Yang stood up. "...But I have other things to worry about."
Blake watches as Yang leaves the hall, Blake decides to follow, but soon find out Weiss approaches her from behind.
"I think we need to talk."
"Huh?" Blake's sharp stare didn't go unnoticed, her hidden blades are ready. "You sure?"
"Have you heard about..." Weiss looks concerned. "...the missing wolf in Atlas?"
"Go on."
...
"RUBY!"
Yang found the scared child sitting not far away from Beacon's outer wall, Crescent is her friend, Ruby is playing with her knives and scythe as Yang went closer.
"...ruby, are you crying?"
"I'm not crying." Ruby turns around and quickly hides behind her hood. "I just feel scared…"
"...why?"
"It feels like grimm." Ruby couldn't hide her laughter as she cried at the same time. "Mom is right… I can really do it if I want."
Ruby starts to vomit, Yang quickly tries to hold her up.
"What's wrong with you!"
"Sis please." Ruby's voice sounded weaker than before. "...leave."
"Not gonna happen." Yang holds tight on her fist. "You won't get your cookies if you keep this up!"
Ruby rests herself on Yang's shoulder, breathing uncontrollably yet crying with tears dropping down from her chin, Yang hugs Ruby as she just doesn't know what to do, her little sister is not only special but also different, she didn't want to see Ruby being cold and deadly like she was hunting in the forest before, it's the other side of Ruby that Yang doesn't like to see, it just doesn't feel right.
"It's alright, I'm sorry, should have stopped Glynda just now." Yang patting on Ruby. "I get you cookies, I already promise you."
"...Is she alright?" Yang noticed Blake and Weiss are here as well.
"Yeah… she just… collapsed under pressure, nothing else." Yang turns the two away. "Can you help me?"
Yang carrying Ruby back to their room, after feeling comfortable enough, she decides to ask what happened after the battle.
"Well, it shows Ruby was defeated however, Glynda is still wordless on stage," Weiss explained. "...and soon it will be the team's arrangements announced by Ozpin himself, I just hope I can get into one good team."
"Oh." Yang acts as she suddenly realizes something. "... team of four?"
"Congratulations to Team RWBY! This team will be led by the promising young huntress Ruby Rose!"
The three girls could feel as their jaws drop to the ground, but Ruby isn't sure what's that all about, she just recovered from cookies.
"...Uh…"
"Sir! Why would you put us into the same group!" Weiss blasts into Ozpin's office, she didn't expect to only find out Glynda looking soullessly at the wall. "Oh."
"Ozpin is not here." Glynda slowly turned around. "Uhm, Weiss Schnee, sorry to disappoint you."
"Uhm… sorry to bother you, but may I ask you about the team grouping?" Weiss could sense Glynda still hadn't recovered. "I found it unreasonable to appoint fourteen years old to lead us!"
"I also found it unreasonable when a fourteen years old girl just…"
"Professor?"
"Ah sorry, the team and team leader is selected based on best matching personality and skills balancing, we only have one unfortunate case so far in ten years, and…" Glynda becomes more self-aware.
"Hold on." Weiss interrupt. "Can we change the group or leader in this case?"
"I'm afraid not, enjoy your time in school~" Ozpin comes into his office with a brand new coffee machine, but Weiss stops him. "Oh please, can't you see this stuff is a bit heavy?"
"Sir! We need to talk about this."
"Ah, no worries! No worries! We can talk about this! But would you let me put this thing down first!"
Ozpin now facing team RWBY in his office, Yang 'reminded' Ruby by kicking her leg when she attempted to run away while Blake and Weiss waited patiently.
"I suppose you girls have lots of fun flying with Ruby the other day, I was wearing my pajamas and I heard something outside… and I was like oh, that's not a Beowulf." Ozpin laughs but the others just stay quiet. "Uhm there's a joke."
Ruby giggles but quickly stops when the other three stare at her.
"Sir, I'm more interested in why you put her as our group leader." Blake observing Ruby closely. "As in you know her true value."
"Oh yes definitely." Ozpin laughed. "But I would love to tell you if you girls promise me not to tell anyone."
"As in her silver eyes warrior blood?"
"More than that." Ozpin nods at Yang. "You see there's always a difference between legend and reality, if someone knows better, it would be Ruby herself, as in doing your mother told you anything before?"
Ruby shakes her head. "Nope, mom just taught me how to kill grimm and survive in the wild, I didn't know I had a dad until 8."
"Any chance we can meet her?"
"That would be hard, she left me to my dad and Yang years ago, she didn't say anything after that." The girls are rather surprised to hear Ruby talk about her stuff so openly, well they never asked before.
"You can't go sniff her out? Little sister." Yang pitching Ruby's nose while having fun in the process.
"Ah stop it .!" Ruby escaped. "Didn't dad know something too?"
"Nah, if he knows anything, he slips it out in seconds." Yang quickly rejected the idea.
"Judging by your name, I suppose he's Taiyang."
"That's correct, you know my dad?" Yang asks curiously. "How about my mom? Do you know where she went too?"
"Raven, stubborn and proud." Ozpin tries to recall. "I believe she vanished anonymously with Taiyang and reappeared two years ago to send me a relic."
"Where's she? Where's she?"
"Uh… aren't you concerned about privacy?"
"Nah she's my mom, it's going to be fine." Yang could feel she's on the same page with Ozpin. "...I can get you in touch with Taiyang if you want."
(cough cough)
"Deal."
[How can he be the headmaster in Beacon?] Both Weiss and Blake questioned, but Ozpin is far from finish.
"...so how about the team?" Weiss asks. "I don't agree that we're in the same team, yet alone let Ruby become the team leader."
Ruby nods as Weiss hinting at her. "...see."
"Well about that, there's a rule to it if you want to change your team leader." Ozpin pulls slides out of nowhere from the ceiling.
((First, two of you must agree to a duel! Any rules except permanent death are welcome.))
((Second, the winner will become the new team leader! Other punishment or rewards are forbidden.))
((Lastly, the duel must be held with a sizeable crowd as witnesses.))
"Ah yes, will you accept my challenge and lose to me willfully Ruby Rose?" Weiss quickly grabs over her hand, gently as her hands and grin may be, Weiss showing her passive-aggressive side too well.
(squeak)
"No Weiss! I don't want to fight anyone now! Not again!" Ruby seems to be traumatized.
"I can train you if you want! Come with me now!" Weiss tries to pull Ruby but clearly wild red has more strength.
"Yang! Why are you not helping me! Your cute sister is being pulled away!"
Yang waves her hand at Ruby. "It's fine~ I don't see Weiss can do anything to you."
"!"
The door closes before them as somethings can be heard falling on the other side of the door, followed by Glynda's scream and windows being crashed.
Ozpin takes a peak from his door, he quickly puts down his glasses and cleans it. "... there goes my other coffee machine."