I'm sorry this is coming out so late, I've been having a rather hectic day and I just hadn't had time to write. Thankfully, everything should be calm from here on out. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter! Bye!

Glynda Goodwitch was angry…no, angry is not the right word. Angry is used when the person doesn't want to decimate people. Glynda Goodwitch wanted to decimate people. Six people in particular, actually. Crimson Shard, Skyler Snow, Neopolitan, Ebon Winter, Ruby Rose, and Yang Xiao Long. Who currently, along with Ruby, were suspended in midair by a telekinetic violet dust rope. Crimson, Skyler, and Neo still had their feet on the ground, and Ebon was sprawled all over the ground because she was, in fact, unconscious. Blood slowly dripping from a gash on her forehead. The road around them nearly obliterated, craters the size of a person and the many, many bullet holes making it near impassable.

"I wasn't the cause of this." Crimson said, holding out his hands in front of him. "I am not guilty of this crime." Goodwitch gave him a glare that killed all hope of getting out of this unscathed.

"OK, not in the mood for excuses."

She turned to to the two half-sisters by blood. "You two had promise, but you've thrown it all away. And for what, a bloody brawl?!"

The two didn't say anything, Glynda hadn't except them too, but she had expect shame and regret in their eyes, but instead, a iron wall was shrouding Ruby's eyes, showing nothing. In Yang's lilac eyes, there was anger, confusion, and a strange one that even Glynda couldn't identify, more confused then confusion and more- Glynda shock her head, What was she doing? She had a job to do.

"You two shall be expelled immediately and-"

"Glynda, stop." Ozpin's quiet voice sounded from behind the still fuming huntress. "Let them down." He glanced sternly at the two suspended huntress-in-training. "As long as they promised to stop fighting...for the time being." Ruby jerked her head in a quick nod while Yang nodded slowly. "Let them down, Glynda."

Her grip on her riding rod tightened. "But-"

"Glynda, let them down."

Three irritated signs later, both Yang and Ruby were on the ground, they turned away from each other, Ruby walking with Neo towards Beacon and Yang rushing to Ebon's side. Crimson and Skyler already jogging to catch up with Neo and Ruby. As soon as they caught up, Neo pointed at the both of them, than to Ruby, and than made a killing motion with her hand. "Ask her about it, and I will kill you." Crimson didn't doubt it. Skyler was sure of it. Before they got even a dozen yards away from the scene of the reunion though, Ozpin called them back.

"What?" Ruby said shortly. Her voice revealing nothing.

Ozpin took a minute to answer, looking at Ruby with a calm, curious, expression. "Miss Rose, I would like it if you and your friends could accompany me to my office." He took a sip from his mug. "Right now."

Ruby paused before nodding again.

"Wonderful, Glynda, if you can help Miss Xiao Long and Miss Winter to the infirmary." Ozpin sat off on a brisk walk, followed, somewhat cautiously, by Ruby's team. The cramped elevator ride up was silent, but just by looking at the stone-faced members of Cinder Fall's spies, no one would ever guess the waves of emotion running through them, but for Ruby, she just felt...cold. No wild emotions were threatening to break her apart. Like the calm before the storm. Only Ruby feared, when the storm finally came, it would be too vicious for her to survive. The elevator doors open, allowing them to enter the headmaster's spacious office in the clock tower. Ozpin sat behind the desk and looked over at the, thankfully, still unknown team of spies and assassins.

"So...what happened?" Another sip from the mug.

Ruby stepped forward, opened her mouth, then closed it. What could she say? "That so-called person down there was my half-sister who helped abuse me for most of my early life, who, along with a scum so vile that I refuse to even grace it with a name, left me on the streets of Vale to die. So, everything I told you that night was a total lie and I was actually raised by the infamous crime lord, Roman Torchwick, and sent to Beacon by a insane murderer to steal highly classified information. Oh, yes, that will work very well. While Ruby was trying to come up with a idea, Crimson stepped forward.

"It was my fault, headmaster. I said something to the blonde-"

"Miss Xiao Long."

"-I said something to Miss Xiao Long which made her and her friend come at me and Ruby and Neo here jumped to my defense. The situation quickly escalated into a brawl. I am truly sorry and it will never happen again." Crimson eyes were wide with apparent sincere sorrow and regret.

Ozpin looked at Crimson closely. The silence stretched on to last several minutes before Ozpin finally spoke. "Make sure it doesn't, Mr. Shard, make sure it doesn't." He looked back over the rest of them.

"You'll not be expelled, but this does not mean you are out of trouble, you will report to Prof. Goodwitch as soon as you leave and trust me when I say to you." Ozpin leaned in closer. "You will be watched closely for the rest of your stay here at Beacon." He leaned back and took another sip. "You may leave."

Once Ruby's team were back into the elevator, Skyler turned to Crimson. "That was a-"

"-Spur of the moment excuse that sounds at least semi-plausible." Crimson interrupted. He shrugged. "Wasn't the worst one I ever came up with."

"I take it you've done this before?"

"Once or twice. You can't really be found in a top-secret Atlas military base and get away with it by saying: "Uh..I was lost?" That sorta thing gets you shot."

Ruby raised her eyebrows. "Top-secret Atlas military base?"

"Yeah, top-secret Atlas military base."

"Return to the main hall and, I warn you, one step out of line and you'll be on the first ship back to Vale." Prof. Goodwitch stared firmly at them before turning away. The team strolled down towards the main hall, They walked in silence, unbroken even by Neo glancing ever so often at Ruby with worried eyes, wondering when the storm will break. Before they reached the hall, however, they saw the blond teen that had been throwing up outside the Airship. He appeared lost, Ruby's eyes focused in on him.

"Hey, isn't that Vomit boy." Crimson broke out into muffled snickers. He glance amusingly at Ruby. "Vomit boy?" His voice threatening to break out into roaring laughter. The sliver-eyed girl shrugged. "First thing that came to mind."

"Well, I'm not complaining." Crimson turned back to the confused vomit boy. "You think we should help him? Because I don't think he knows where he is going." Skyler nodded. "Sure, lets go win some friend points." He walked over to him. "Hello, you need help?"

The blond teenager looked over at him. "Um, yes." He looked around. "You would think that they would make things here easier to find, but..." He trailed off as he gestured around him. "Oh, the name is Jaune Arc, by the way. Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it!"

Skyler smiled. "Do they?" The rest of the team joined Jaune and Skyler.

Jaune put up his hands. "They will! Well, I hope they will. I mean, my mom always said...never mine." Jaune broke off as the smiles on Skyler and Crimson's faces grew. "Anyways, what's your names?" Jaune inquired, looking from face to face. Skyler clapped his hands together. "How rude of me. My name is Skyler Snow." He offered his hand out to Jaune who took it with a small pause. "How it is with the ladies, you may ask, it's smooth, dashing, and leaves them down to blushes and smiles."

Ruby could almost hear Crimson's eyes roll. "The name is Crimson Shard." Not to be outdone by Skyler, however, he added. "Extraordinaire at pretty much everything."

Neo closed her eyes and sighed at the two male's antics before nudging Ruby. "This here is Neopolitan, more commonly called Neo by friends." Ruby decided to go with the flow. "And called nothing by enemies because they'er all too scared of her to even say her name-OW!" A pink parasol smacked Ruby's shoulder. "My name is Ruby Rose." She said, casting Neo a dark look. "And I have this thing." She unfolded Crescent Rose and slammed it down on the cobblestone.

"WHOA!" Jaune jumped back. He pointed at the scythe. "Is that a Scythe?!"

Ruby nodded proudly, emotion creeping back into her. "It's also a customizable, high impact velocity sniper rifle."

"A wha-?"

Ruby cocked it. "It's also a gun."

"Oh." Jaune nodded. "That's cool!"

Ruby held Crescent Rose off the ground. "So, what do you got?" A subtle gleam of a weapons fanatic coming into her eyes as she stared expectantly at Jaune who suddenly looked a little unconformable.

"Oh-uh, I got this sword." He drew out a simple, but well-made, iron sword. Skyler was semi-impressed. Crocea Mors, not bad.

"Oooooh."

Jaune brightened. "Yeah, I've got an shield too." The sword sheath unfolded into a steal gold and white shield. Also very well-made. Ruby leaned in to touch it.

"So, what do they do-" As soon as Ruby placed her fingertips on the shield's surface, it sprung out of Jaune's hand, folding and unfolding from between a shield and a sheath, and causing Jaune to fumble for it, thankfully, he didn't drop either the sword or the shield.

"Well...the shield gets smaller.." He chuckled nervously. "So...when I get tired of carrying it I can just..put it away." He shifted from foot to foot. Ruby looked at the shield, which was now a sheathe. "But, wouldn't it just weigh the same?"

Jaune visibly deflated. "Yeah, it does."

Ruby laughed a little nervously as she spoke. "Well, I'm kinda of a dork when it comes to weapons. I guess I did go a little overboard in designing mine." Holding up her blood-red scythe. Jaune appeared shocked.

"Wait, you made that!" He pointed at the huge death-weapon. Ruby nodded.

"Of course, all students at...Signal forge their own weapons." Or anyone who wants the perfect weapon. Jaune looked at Ruby and then at the rest of her team. Crimson wiggled his eyebrows , Skyler nodded, and Neo open her parasol and set it on her shoulders. While none of them actually attended Signal, they had all made their own weapons. Ruby looked up at Jaune's face.

"Didn't you make yours?"

Jaune looked down at his sword. "It's a hand-me-down, my great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war."

"...Sounds more like a family heirloom to me!" Ruby chuckled. "Well, I like it! Not many people have a appreciation for the classics these days."

"Yeah, the classics." Jaune said, a little false cheeriness in his voice. Ruby mentally face-palmed. The classics? Great, I just called his sword old...well, it is old, but not a bad old, but to him that might sound like- *face-palm*.

"So, anyway do you know we are?" Jaune asked, looking back at Skyler who looked around and...looked around again.

"Well...um..mmm." He looked over at Ruby. "I don't know why they made this place so big, it seems to me like they could have gotten along just fine with a smaller area." They all stared at each other, except Neo who had her face in her hand in despair at this team of hers. Jaune spoke up.

"Do you think there might be a directory?"

Silence.

"Maybe a food court?" Ruby laughed as Jaune continued with a smile small on his face.

"Some sort of recognizable landmark?" Ruby snorted with suppressed laughter.

"is uh...is that a "no"?"

Ruby smiled. "That's a no."

They finally made it to the hall where Neo made sure that Yang and her friend were not anywhere remotely near Ruby. Lucky for them, Yang and Ebom were still in the infirmary. Jaune, on the other hand, spotted someone else entirely.

"Who is that?!" He gasped, pointing to the white-clad figure of Weiss Schnee. Unfortunately for him, Crimson's eyes zoomed on the situation like homing missiles and a smile split across his face.

"That, dear Jaune, is a piece of art. A lovely woman known for her kindness and always giving any person who ask her out for an date, a chance." He put an arm around the hopeful, smiling Jaune. "Currently, she is single and, if truth be told, rather lonely."

Jaune's eyes widened. "She is?" Crimson nodded solemnly, all traces of happiness wiped off his face.

"Oh, yes."

He let go of Jaune's shoulders. "Of course, we shouldn't be talking too much about her. Respect the lady's privacy, you know."

Crimson stepped away and watched Jaune out of the corner of his eye. "She likes blonds, just for you to know." That was it. Jaune took a deep breath and set off towards Weiss. As soon as he was out of earshot, Crimson started to laugh.

"I love this place!" He choked out through the glee. "So much fun just waiting to happen!"

Skyler looked down and shook his head. "Oh, that was very mature." Crimson waved him away.

"He'll be fine." A few minutes later, there was an affronted gasp, and a sharp slap echoed across the hall. Crimson burst out laughing again. Suddenly, feedback from a microphone caused Crimson to reside into muffled snorts. The headmaster's voice sounded out across the wide room. "I'll keep this brief." He pushed up his glasses.

"You have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you finish you plan to dedicated your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you and all I see is wasted energy." His eyes came to linger on Ruby and her team. "In need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step." He stepped away from the microphone and walked off the stage. Glynda stepped forward.

"You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins." She looked out over the crowd. "Be ready. You are dismissed!"

"All I'm saying is that my energy has not been wasteful, granted it wasn't necessarily for what you call "moral things". But it was never wasted!" Crimson plopped back down on his cot. "Wasted energy." He muttered. Skyler sighed and propped his fedora up, covering his eyes.

"Let it go, Zombie boy. People are trying to sleep." Crimson snorted, looking around the brightly lit room, where the murmur of voices could be heard all around them. "The only person whose trying to sleep is you." He crossed his arms, he had taken a shower that night, much to Skyler's surprise.

"What?" Crimson had demanded when he walked in with his hair brushed to the side and damp, hanging down past his left shoulder. "I went four days with that thing up and since today is a impotent occasion, I would like to start fresh." Skyler had just shrugged and tried not to laugh. The four of team had then staked out a spot for themselves by one of the large windows on the side of the ballroom, none of them felt comfortable sleeping in the middle of the room.

"So, why are you trying to go to sleep this early?" Ruby asked as it was only eight p.m. Skyler looked at Ruby from under the brim of his hat. "Initiation, I rather have a clear head and rested body for being launched over a cliff tomorrow." Crimson propped his self up on a elbow and looked over at him.

"A cliff? We are being chucked off a cliff for our initiation tomorrow?"

Skyler shrugged. "Well, not just a cliff, there's also something about retrieving some object or something. I'm not real sure."

"But we're being thrown off a cliff?" Skyler nodded.

"Uh, I knew Ozpin was more sadistic then he let on." Crimson laid back down and looked thoughtful. "I need some more Dust, then." Crimson mused to his self. He looked around the room."Mmm, Dust, Dust, Dust, Dust-Aha!"

He pointed to large stack of white cases in the far corner of the room. "Dust!" He looked over at the rest of them. "Does anyone else want any?"

Skyler raised a eyebrow. "You're not going to steal that, are you?"

Crimson looked over at him. "You know, Snowball, you're right. I'm not going to steal that Dust." Nodding, he turned to Ruby. "Ruby, what is your specialty again?" He smiled at her, a smile that she returned with vigor.

"Funny you should ask, Crimson, funny you should ask."

Later that evening, Weiss Schnee came raging up to the group. She composed herself enough to speak without yelling. "Do any of you know what happened to four cases of Dust that I had in my possession?"

"No."

"No"

"Nope."

Neo shrugged.

Weiss narrowed her glacier-blue eyes at them before turning away. Ruby watched her go. "Do you think she believes us?"

"Not at all."

"Not even an little bit."

Neo just grinned at Ruby from her cot, pink and white pajamas blending well with pink and brown hair and eyes. Ruby grinned back, feeling pleased for the first time today. The storm might break, but it would have to wait for another night. Another time.

"Trash! Garbage! Mistake!" The darkness hurled insults like stones at Ruby, who was drenched in blood, seeping wounds all over her body as shadowy figures pulled at her, trying to drag her down into a dark, dark place. A place where Ruby knew she'll never be able to climb her way out again. "You are the reason your mother is dead! Why then, do you think you are worthy of love!" The darkness swallowed her. Taking away the light from Ruby's sight.

NO, NO, NO!

Ruby woke up gasping, shaking so violently she fell off the bed with a muted thud. Her voice gone in a silent scream of agony, not agony of the body, but a deeper agony of the heart. I can't do it again! She thought hopelessly. I can't survive another nightmare, I can't!

A hand touched Ruby's shoulder. The contact caused her to roll over and swipe at the person who...Neo caught the blow, her own tears running down her face as she took in the view of Ruby like this. "Oh, Ruby..." She picked up the shaking girl and crushed her in a hug, not caring when Ruby's tears stained the pink fabric of her bedclothes. Her only care to protect Ruby from the monsters both outside in the world and inside her own head. "Never again."

The two girls crouched on the floor for a uncounted amount of time. Finally, Ruby stood up, pulling Neo with her, back to the cot. "I really don't want to go to sleep alone."

Neo hugged her as they laid down on the small mattress. "And I really don't want to let you go."

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Two shadowy figures stared inside the ballroom from their perch on the window-still. Dressed in white uniforms with masks carved in the likeness of the Creatures of Grimm. They stared down at the girl on the bed...and the much shorter girl who lay beside her.

"Is that her? The Target?" The taller of the two said, peering at them. "She looks a bit...unstable."

The short one scoffed. "Good, then the commander and her match." He shook his head. "Yes, that's her. That's the Target."

"Good, let's go." The taller one vanished into the darkness of the night. The short one moved as if about to go, then paused and narrowed his eyes at the red-haired girl. "Adam Taurus will be seeing you soon, mutilator."

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