Author's Note: So, I've been told that a good idea is to start a new paragraph when a new character talks so I'm going to be trying that out so things might be a little different.
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Flying vehicles are a not exactly a new thing or restricted to the rich, so while Ruby has flown in bullheads before, the airship she was taking to Beacon was certainly something a little bit different. There were several large windows to look out of at the city of Vale, seats placed in front of said windows and holographic lights. Ruby was sitting at one of the window seats, looking out at the city. It looked so small and insignificant so far up high. Looking away from the window, she looks at the people seeking to become huntsmen and huntresses. Ruby is a little surprised at the wide diversity of humans and faunus, however it's clear that there is less faunus than humans here.
A few people seem to stick out to Ruby, the first being a girl with black hair and yellow eyes. The girl has some kind of rectangular sword on her back, with what appears to disconnect into something else, maybe a gun? She is wearing a black bow but after a few minutes of discreet observation, Ruby comes to the conclusion that the girl may be a faunus, given her reactions to people looking at her, her slight frown when a group of armoured guys nearby start insulting faunus without any care.
While Ruby may be a criminal, she isn't racist and believes that humans really shouldn't hate faunus since 'they are different and different is bad'. Honestly, Ruby thought it was funny how people go on about the White Fang and their terrorist acts when they do it since humans ridicule them and discriminate against them.
The second person that she notices is some girl with white hair and obviously an expensive dress with some kind of jacket, Ruby lacking the knowledge or care to know what it was called. What stands out to Ruby is her cold, calculating demeanour and a scar across her left eye. She has a rapier on her hip that has a revolver's chamber in the hilt. A few seconds pass as Ruby tries to work out who she is when a combination of her more predominate traits link together. Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company.
Roman had educated her years ago about bigger businesses like the SDC and the people that ran them since they had LOTS of power at their disposal. They had stolen dust from the SDC before and since knowledge is power, it would be handy to know who was a higher up in case they needed to do something like blackmail them and how they were likely to react. Ruby made a mental note to make sure that the heiress didn't know she had stolen from her company, that wouldn't end well.
A few other people stood out a little, like that hyper energetic girl that looked like she had a grenade launcher on her back, a blond guy in a little armour that looked like he was going to be sick, a quiet guy in a green coat that the hyper girl seemed to be talking to. Ruby watches as a news report starts on a holographic TV. The news report guy, Cyril, started talking about the robbery that Ruby and Roman had orchestrated to get her into Beacon, how Roman was still at large for people to tell police if they had information. It cut over to the known reporter, Lisa Lavender, who became talking about how White Fang disrupted a peaceful protest. Before she could continue talking about the recent attacks by the White Fang, the TV cut from the news to the professor, Glynda Goodwitch.
She gave a basic welcome and run down on what they will be doing at their time at Beacon. Ruby giggled at how Goodwitch had said everything, knowing it was probably a recording. As people started looking out the windows to get a better look at Beacon Academy, the blond guy from before looked like he was going to vomit.
Which he did, all over some really long, blond haired girl's boots.
Wait...long blond hair?
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Yang was typically a nice, chill person but right now, she was pretty annoyed. Her reason? Vomit on her shoes. The culprit? Some guy with airsickness. Walking away from the guy before she lost her temper and killed him, she went to the airship's on-board toilet and tried to clean as much puke off as she could. Back in the main cabin of the ship, she looked out a window at Beacon, taking in the sight. Yang had a few friends also going to Beacon, but honestly? Yang wanted to meet some new people during her time at Beacon, make new friends to annoy and joke with.
Looking around at the people near here, she caught a glimpse of some long red item. It had looked familiar to Yang, but she lost sight of it before she could even get up. As the ship started to descend to land at Beacon, Yang got up and started to move to the exit, Vomit Boy already waiting there looking sick again.
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Ruby watched Yang leave the airship before she got out herself. Now would not be the best time to meet up with her yet. Moving around quickly to avoid the girl, Ruby accidentally walked into a trolley with a lot of cases on it. Getting up, Ruby watched as the Schnee heiress walked up to her, looking quite unhappy.
"What are you doing!?" Weiss asked her, a look that said she was more concerned about her property than Ruby.
"Ugh, sorry about that..." Ruby apologises to her, picking a few cases up and putting them back on the trolley. One of them is taken by Weiss, who checks the dust vials inside it.
"Don't you know what this is? This is dust, mined and purified at the Schnee quarry!" Weiss lectures to Ruby, pulling out a burn dust vial and inspects it for cracks. "You do know what dust is don't you?" Weiss questions Ruby, who nods her head. While Weiss inspects the vial, some dust leaks out in a cloud that drifts over to Ruby who is putting all the cases back on the trolley. Sniffing some of the dust, Ruby feels a sneeze coming. Getting up, she sniffs for a second before sneezing, making the dust explode on both of the girls. The vial carried by Weiss flies off and while the two girls are unharmed, protected by their Aura's, they are briefly covered in ash.
A moment passes as the ash is blow off of them. "You idiot! You could have blown us up!" Weiss yells at Ruby, before going on a little rant. Once she finishes, Ruby looks at her.
"I'm really sorry about that..." Ruby apologises again to her. She didn't even notice the dust when she sneezed. It was an accident!
"Ugh you dolt, what are you doing here anyway? Aren't you a few years too young to be here?" Weiss questions Ruby, noticing that she is a few years younger than herself.
"Uh, I was invited to be here by the Headmaster." Ruby explains to her, knowing that she probably won't believe her. Lo and behold, Weiss looks at her in disbelief.
"I doubt it. This isn't some combat school, here we fight monsters so watch where you're going!" Weiss tells Ruby, scowling at her rather cruelly. She turns her head upwards and away from Ruby, as if to say she is above her.
"I said I was sorry OK little miss princess!" Ruby retorts back, getting angry at her attitude. Neither of them notice a girl walk up to them with Weiss' dust vial until she speaks.
"Actually, she's an heiress, Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, biggest producer of Dust." the black-haired girl Ruby believes may be a faunus says to them. Weiss smirks at the girl's acknowledgement of who she is.
"Hmph, finally some recognition." Weiss says with a superior tone. She quickly loses it as the girl goes on to talk about the SDC having questionable business partners and controversial work conditions. "How dare...the nerve of..." Weiss stammers to Ruby's delight, giggling lightly. Weiss takes the vial off the girl and walks off.
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Ruby shouts out to her, "I'll make it up to you!" before she sighs. Looking over at the possible faunus girl, Ruby notice she has already left. Sighing again, Ruby walks off to the hall where the first years are meant to meet. As she is going there, the guy from the airship that vomited walks up to her.
"Hey, so any idea where we are meant to go?" the guy asks. He's about average height, blond and is wearing a little bit of plate armour over his jeans and jumper. He has a sheath attached to his belt, with a sword inside it. Ruby points at a building of to the left. There are still quite a few people heading inside, the black-haired girl and the Schnee both only just going inside. "Oh, right I see. Name's Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls of the tongue. What's your name?"
Ruby look at him and giggles at him. "My name's Ruby." A moment passes awkwardly. "So... what does your sword do?" Ruby asks him, trying make it less awkward for the two of them.
Jaune pulls his sheath off. "It's a family heirloom, the sheath turns into a shield for me. My great grandfather used it in the war." Ruby can tell he doesn't seem to be very impressive with it.
"Well that can be useful for you, means you don't need a separate sheath or shield." Ruby reassures him. Jaune looks a bit grateful that someone thinks it's not that bad. As they enter the hall, Ruby looks at him and says, "Well I'll see you around then Jaune." And as she walks off to take a seat, she hears him mutter to himself about finding a nice quirky person to talk to, making Ruby giggle.
Walking to take a seat, Ruby suddenly feels someone grab her shoulder. Turning quickly and raising a fist, Ruby quietly swears at herself for not noticing.
"Hey Ruby, remember me? I thought I saw your cape on the airship!"
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Yang watched the shocked look on Ruby's face both escalate and calm down at the same time. She had seen her leave the airship and waited for her to enter the hall for Yang to surprise her. It seemed her plan worked perfectly. "So, how are you? I haven't seen you since we bet up Junior and his thugs."
"Uh yeah well um, my dad needed some help with some things so uh yeah, busy helping him." Ruby tells Yang. Yang looks at Ruby, with her red cape and gun scythe on her back, black top and combat skirt. Yang just realised that she only looks 15.
"Hey how old are you? You look 15 but you need to be 17 to apply to Beacon." Yang asks her. Ruby opens her mouth to speak, but seems to have second thoughts on what to say. She sighs loudly.
"The headmaster invited me to Beacon two years early since I got into a fight with Roman Torchwick and Miss Goodwitch came and helped me after he started to escape. But he did get away on a bullhead." Ruby quietly and quickly explains to Yang. Apparently Torchwick was a huntsman trainee at Beacon but left in his third year. So, Yang could see why they would offer her to come here early. She must certainly have the combat skills to get in if she bet Torchwick.
"Cool, you must be really skilled then eh? It would cool to see if we get in the same team." Yang tells her friend. Ruby nods her head nervously at Yang's remark. Before Yang can say anymore, Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon Academy comes onto the stage to address the first years.
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One long and honest strange speech from the headmaster later, Miss Goodwitch tells them that they will stay in the ballroom tonight and initiation is tomorrow and cryptically telling them to "Be Ready", and dismisses them. Yang says to her new friend, "You know, he seemed kinda...off."
Ruby nods her head and says, "Yeah, it's almost like he wasn't even there." To Yang? Ruby seems to be wondering about what was up with the headmaster, but in truth, Ruby is very worried. Maybe he found out that she was related to Torchwick, or something else. Shaking her head, Ruby remembers the words her dad told her, that she should try and make friends and enjoy herself as she spent her time there.
With that in mind, Ruby and Yang both left the hall together as they went to the ballroom to get somewhere to sleep.
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That Night...
Qrow liked to finish missions that Oz gave him quickly and make his way back casually, taking his time to do whatever he wanted. Except this time, Oz had someone he wanted Qrow to train, claiming that they had a scythe too and was good with it...and might be related to Summer.
It was years ago, but Qrow never forgot her death. When he, along with a small police force found her, he was pissed. Oz's little faction all agreed that Summer was likely murdered by one of Salem's pawns, so Qrow spent the last few years looking for the people or person responsible for her murder, to no avail. So, after all this time, the first fresh leak of possible information about Summer shows up and Qrow is determined to find out if she knows anything.
Arriving at Beacon, Qrow flies into the ballroom via an open window in the balcony. Looking at the picture Oz supplied him, he quickly spots this 'Ruby' girl. She looks like Summer a bit, same hair colour, has a red cape she just finished neatly folding. But she stands out with her silver eyes. Silver eyes, a rare ability. Looking around, Qrow is rather surprised when he notices that she's talking with Yang. He knows his niece is very open but considering that this is likely the first time they have met, it's a little ironic that someone that could possibly have info about Yang's step mum is friends with her already.
Staring down at them from the shadows, he watches as the girl looks up at his direction. Even though he is in pitch darkness up here, he gets a feeling she know she is being watched.
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Ruby gets a nagging feeling in the back of her head when she's being watched. Turning around, she looks up and sees a slight silhouette on the balcony above them. She can only watch it for a few seconds as it seems to realise she sees whoever is there and disappears. Frowning briefly, Ruby looks away as she lies downs and grabs her scroll, messaging her dad that she's in Beacon, made two friends and may have someone watching her. Roman messages back 'I'll have Neo look into it.'. Smiling to herself, she looks up and the first thing she sees is Yang looking down at her.
"Hey, who are you talking to?" Yang questions her, Ruby jumping in surprise.
"AH! YANG DON'T DO THAT!" Ruby shouts before acknowledging her question. "I was messaging my dad to tell him I'm got here no issues." Yang shrugs, accepting what she said. Looking around notices that Jaune is still in the clothes he was wearing today, talking to a red-haired girl wearing a pair of blood red flannel pyjamas. She has a circlet on her head that looks golden and nearby her is a sword and shield combo, the sword looks like a short sword of Mistral design and coloured red and gold while a golden round shield with elaborate markings on it makes up the other part of the combo.
It looks like Jaune has made a friend other than Ruby since the girl starts laughing at something he has said. Looking in a different direction, Ruby sees the black-haired girl from earlier today reading a book. Getting up, she walks over to her. "Hey, you're that girl from earlier, I didn't get to ask you your name."
The girl looks up from her book and says shortly, "Blake." Ruby nods her head and waits for her to say something else. An awkward moment passes as the girl reads her book and Ruby stands there.
"Weeell, it was nice to meet you Blake, see you around?" Ruby awkwardly says to the girl. Who doesn't react and continues reading her book. Walking back to her spot, she notices Yang talking to someone in front of her, but Ruby can't see who. Walking around to see who it is, Ruby becomes face to face with Weiss Schnee.
""Not you again!"" the girls say in sync, much to Yang's confusion.
Weiss is the first to say something, "What are you doing here, are you trying to follow me?" to which Yang is about to explain but is cut off by Ruby.
"I'm sleeping right here, what are you doing here talking to my friend?" Ruby complains and right as Yang is about to tell Ruby what Weiss was doing, Jaune comes over with the redhead girl.
"Hey Ruby, have you met Pyrrha yet?" Jaune asks his friend, the girl called Pyrrha says to the three girls politely, "Hello there."
Yang, tired of everyone cutting her off, yells at them all, "Shut it! Let me talk already!" Her eyes have turned red as she says this. "Ruby, Weiss just wanted me to give her something that got knocked over here. Weiss, I am friends with Ruby and we are hanging out together here. Hello Pyrrha, Vomit Boy."
Jaune waits a few seconds to let Yang calm down before saying, "Actually my name is Jaune, Jaune Arc.
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Ten minutes later, everyone is sleeping soundly.
Well not everyone.
Getting out of bed and grabbing Crescent Rose, Ruby sneaks past some sleeping people as she goes outside the ballroom. Stopping only briefly so that one of the professors, a rather fat older man with a very big moustache, looks away at the perfect time for her to use her semblance to speed past him. He was probably meant to stop students from leaving in the night. Making her way to a cliff overlooking the Emerald Forest, she waits there for little for Neo to arrive. When she does, Ruby hugs her.
"Hey sis, how are you?" Ruby asks her pseudo sister, who merely shrugs in return. "So, are we doing any practise tonight are you just saying hi?" Ruby asks. Neo pulls out her Umbrella, holding it on her shoulder. Ruby smiles, and pulls out her weapon, extending it to its full scythe form. Ruby knows that Neo is a very skilled fighter and has basically no chance of beating her, but she is fun to practise with. After a moment passes, Ruby fires her gun to start the fight, launching her flying at Neo, who blocks it with ease, and kicks Ruby back. Swing her umbrella around, she opens it and takes a seat on a log nearby, smiling at Ruby. Accepting her challenge, Ruby charges at Neo, swing her scythe behind her as they start their friendly dual.
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Neo teleports them back to their house. Roman is out, dealing with Cinder and her goons, so Ruby takes her time to have a shower before getting Neo to take her back to Beacon. Ruby waves good bye to Neo and sneaks back into the ballroom, this time having to sneak past Miss Goodwitch, who almost sees her, but a mix of being tired, darkness and Ruby's semblance allows her to get by unseen. As soon as Ruby lies down, she falls asleep. Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day.
Author's Note: And that's it for Chapter 6.
Next Chapter will feature some OC's my brother thought up. They won't have much importance story wise, I just feel like including them and if they get enough love, I might make a one-shot or a short story about them if that is wanted.