Author's Note: Thanks to Gh0st495 for mentioning that I forgot to give Ruby a false surname while in Beacon. Ruby's surname is Rose, but has it briefly changed to ensure her infiltration goes smoothly. I'll probably not be able to update over Christmas Day and Boxing Day, family gathering though I get some time to myself to write a bit. Also, I found how to do that bloody line.
The Sun was shining, Birds singing. On days like this, the kids at Beacon...
Woke up to someone yelling, "It's Morning, It's Morning, It's Morning, iiiitt's Moooorning!"
Ruby yawned as she sat up. She saw that hyperactive girl from yesterday was running around the same guy in the tailcoat, talking about how it was morning. How much sugar did that girl consume? Ruby couldn't help but smirk as a guy in a green brimmed hat with one side folded up in military style walked up behind the girl.
"Thank you for lettin' us know it's 7 in the morning." He said to the girl before wondering off to the cafeteria. Ruby giggled at what he had said before getting up herself. Looking over at her friend, she saw that Yang was only just waking up even after that racket.
"Good morning." Ruby says to Yang, who yawns and stretches her arms. Ruby gets her usual clothes and goes to get dress somewhere a bit more private.
Ruby watched as everyone started getting out weapons and equipment for initiation. There was a diverse selection, from all kinds of weapons. Yang had her two bracers she called Ember Celcia, Jaune had his sword, Croceas Mors, Pyrrha's weapons were called Milo and Akouo ((I don't know how to do symbols)). A few other people noticed to have interesting or cool weapons, like the three from that morning. The girl's grenade launcher also turned into a big two-handed hammer. The tailcoat guy had a pair of machine pistols with knives attached to them for CQC and the last guy had a rugged shotgun that seemed to work fine and a knife that seems to be able to be imbued with dust. Blake's sword was also a handgun and appeared to in fact have another sword inside it, the rectangular blade also being a sheath.
Ruby casually turned around when she walked into someone. She moved quickly to avoid being squished by a MASSIVE shoulder mounted weapon. The girl carrying it seemed to have no trouble keeping her grip on it. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't see you." she says to Ruby.
Looking at her, the first thing Ruby notices is her white furry ears that look like an arctic fox's. She also has a little fur on her neck. She is also very tall, easily towering over Ruby. Wearing a modified miko outfit that is predominately white and a few strips of red, a black skirt, thigh high stockings and heeled shoes. She also has long brown hair. The girl seems to be an overly nice person as she looks like she might have hurt Ruby anyway.
"It's ok, I'm fine. What's your name? Mine's Ruby." Ruby politely says to the girl.
Looking down a little at Ruby, she says, "My name is Olivia White, I'm sorry about almost squishing you." Ruby looks at her weapon and she can only look in awe of it. It has a basic shape of a 'U' sideways, the top extended out backwards a bit. The top features a barrel that looks like it's made to shoot rockets, but Ruby can't find any hint of what it shoots. On each side of it, are two small cannons located above Olivia's head, in line with the main barrel. Looking at it, Ruby wonders how on earth can she carry it.
"Oh, are you looking at my weapon?" Olivia asks, to which Ruby silently nods. "Well, this is the Wave Mk.2, it is a railgun with two 20mm atlesian turrets located on it. It was made by my mother and the man she works with. I am the only one capable of using it via my semblance, the control of gravity near me within a metre." Olivia looks at Ruby a little sheepishly, "I added the turrets myself since I wanted a more available option. The railgun takes some time to charge between shots."
Ruby nods at her, thinking about how make the weapon better in some way, "Well, that is really cool, I guess I'll see you later then?" Ruby says to Olivia, who smiles and nods before walking away.
Ruby was about to leave when she saw Jaune stuck in a cube of ice, Pyrrha looking at it and appeared to be shaking, while Yang was just chuckling and shaking her head. Walking over, Jaune saw her and yelled out, "Ruby! Little help please, these two just won't stop laughing!" As Ruby comes closer she can see that they are both laughing at his predicament. The guy with the military hat popped up behind Jaune, with a smirk.
"Jaune here decided to try and get it on with that Schnee chick and try to organise teamin' with her. So, she froze him. You could say he's idea got a cold reception." he says, earning a fresh round of laughter from Pyrrha and Yang. "Yeah so here I am, tryin' to melt the ice with Irwin here while these two watch." Dennis briefly shows Ruby his knife, it's blade red from burn dust and quickly sticks it back into the ice cube.
They wait for a few more minutes for Jaune to thaw, while Dennis and Yang keep making puns at Jaune's expense, making Pyrrha and Ruby laugh more and more.
Arriving at the cliff that Ruby had her little dual with Neo, Headmaster Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch were waiting for them and directed them onto several launch pads. Ozpin gave them instructions of what to do: Go to the Forest Temple and take one of the Relics there, then make their way back to the cliff. He also warned them to kill any grimm they encounter without hesitation. Looking at them with a smirk, he says to them, "Now I know you have heard about the selection of teams, so you want to pick someone you can work well with. On that note, the first person you lay eyes on is your partner for the rest of your time here."
Ruby sees a wide array of reactions from what was said; Jaune gulps, Yang smiles at her with a silly expression, Pyrrha continues to look professional, the hyper girl called Nora says to the tailcoat guy, Ren, "See? I told you!", Dennis casually spins his knife around his fingers, Olivia politely smiles and adjusts her grip on the Wave Mk.2, Weiss frowns slightly but otherwise maintains a professional demeanour and Blake looks uncaring. Ruby herself knew this as part of her education from her dad, so she smiles casually at Yang.
Giving Professor Goodwitch a hand gesture, she beings sending students rocketing into the Emerald Forest, Dennis is first, followed by Olivia and a few other students.
Yang pulled out a pair of aviators and put them on as she got launched, Ruby braced herself as she felt her launch pad click mechanically. Before she was launched, she briefly heard Jaune talking to Ozpin about landing strategies. Ruby has a feeling that if Jaune doesn't even know what a landing strategy is, he may not be who he claims, but she can't think more about this as she is launched into the air. Shortly following her is Jaune, who is screaming on his way down. Mid-flight Ruby saw what appeared to be a destroyed temple. Having her bearings, Ruby prepares to land.
Firing twice to slow herself down, Ruby swung her scythe around a tree, spinning around it before landing on the ground. Carefully and quickly checking her surroundings, Ruby proceeds to go towards where she saw the jungle temple. As she jogs there at a steady pace, Ruby remembers the words of Ozpin, that the first person they see will be their partner. Honestly, Ruby doesn't really mind who she is teamed with. Yang would be fun as a teammate, Jaune didn't seem like the kind who could fight well but he seemed to be very determined to be here, Pyrrha was apparently a renowned fighter in Mistral so having her would be very advantageous, that girl Nora and her friend Ren don't seem like much, but Ruby didn't doubt they were probably rather skilled to be here, Blake was a wildcard, Ruby had no idea what to think of her but there is more to her than it seemed. Thinking about who would be best for her to team with practically, Ruby didn't notice the person in front of her until she ran into them.
"Ugh, sorry about that..." Ruby says, getting up and rubbing her head where she knocked it against the other persons skull. Offering a hand for them, Ruby pulls them up from where they were lying down.
It was the one person she forgot...
Weiss Schnee.
"Oh, you again." Weiss says to Ruby, clearly somewhat displeased by her new teammate. She looks at Ruby before muttering to herself, "Well it could be worse. Come on then, this does not make us friends though."
Ruby watches as Weiss walks off, Ruby follows her shortly. A few seconds pass when they hear someone struggling, to which they see Jaune, hang on the tree by a spear that looks like Pyrrha's. Jaune gives them an embarrassed chuckle as he tries to pull the spear lodged into the tree out. Weiss, seeing who it is, walks back the way they came.
"Sorry Jaune!" Ruby shouts to him before she leaves to tell Weiss where they need to go.
Jaune watched as Ruby left him stuck in the tree. As he tried to pull Pyrrha's spear out, another pair showed up, that Dennis guy and a girl who had a positively massive cannon on her shoulder, WITH ONE ARM!
"Damn mate, stuck again?" Dennis says to Jaune, with a raised eyebrow. "Well, you just hang in there, I'm sure that Pyrrha chick's gonna come get'cha. Liv, let's go, temples this way." The girl looked like she wanted to help, but couldn't fault that Pyrrha was likely coming to help anyway. Leaving him like Ruby and Weiss did, Jaune stops struggling and sighs.
"So, still looking for a teammate?" he looks up at Pyrrha, who is standing there with a mischievous smile.
"Very funny Pyrrha. Get me down please." Jaune says to her with a huff.
Walking through the Emerald Forest with Weiss wasn't very hard. They heard gunfire and fighting every so often, but so far had managed to not have to engage any Grimm. Ruby knew she would have little trouble with the average grimm, Roman had taught her how to defend herself when she first built Crescent Rose, so Ruby spent her time observing Weiss. She was dress in the same outfit from the other day, rapier at her side. One skill that Neo had taught her was to observe one's weapon and fighting style to find exploitable flaws. Weiss's use of a rapier meant she was probably trained like a fencer, since her weapon had a thin blade and wasn't made for hacking or slashing. The revolver cylinder in the hilt was loaded with dust, making that her ranged weapon choice. Dust can be very useful, depending on how you use it, but Ruby guesses that Weiss may rely on Dust to give her an advantage against enemies with heavy weapons that her rapier wouldn't be able to handle alone.
Interestingly, when her dad had been teaching her about the more powerful people on Remnant, the Schnees had a hereditary semblance, rather rare, that allowed them to make special glyphs that allowed them to do a myriad of different things, from powering allies to boosting one's speed. However, one powerful but well-hidden ability that Roman had to pay much to get the information for was that they could 'summon' defeated enemies. Ruby didn't exactly know what this meant, but Ruby wondered if Weiss could do this.
As Ruby spent her time coming up with ways to counter Weiss, Weiss herself was discreetly examining what she knew of Ruby. Weiss admittedly did not know much about her yet, other than her weapon of choice was a scythe/sniper rifle, was somewhat childish and seemed very confident...for a 15 year old. Weiss figured that she should probably find out how Ruby got into the prestigious school.
"So then, if we are going to be a team, I want to know how you entered Beacon." Weiss suddenly says to Ruby, who doesn't flinch at Weiss's question. Looking over at her, Ruby starts explaining how she ended up coming to Beacon, how she deat the notorious criminal Roman Torchwick and got him to retreat after he tried robbing a dust store. Weiss looked her in disbelief. Torchwick had been stealing Schnee wares for a long time now and had proven himself to be a rather dangerous individual. For Ruby to have beaten him would have either been luck or some other detriment to the thief. But Weiss holds her tongue when she mentions that the headmaster and Professor Goodwitch both saw what happened.
"Well, if they decided to let you enter Beacon early, I guess I'll have to accept it." Weiss says quietly, mostly to herself however Ruby's experienced ears hear what she said. Weiss watches a bird, a crow to be precise, fly past them. "Well then, I guess we had better hurry to..." Weiss starts say to Ruby, but is silenced when Ruby had stopped and has her hand on her weapon. "We are being followed." Ruby says to her teammate, extending Crescent Rose into its scythe form. Weiss, noticing the serious tone the normally happy girl has, draws her rapier as well.
Ruby suddenly turns 180 degrees and fires her gun into a bush and a loud yelp is heard, followed by a mad rush of activity around them. A large pack of Beowolves appears from their hiding places, surrounding the girls. Both of them prepare themselves for the coming fight. "Do you have much ice dust?" Ruby asks Weiss, who nods in confirmation. "Ok, freeze the larger ones, then take out the smaller ones before they have a chance to break the ice." Weiss nods once more, Ruby's plan making logical sense.
Qrow watched as the Schnee froze most the larger Beowolves like Ruby had instructed. They then started cutting up the smaller ones, they were lacking much in the defensive area, with a distinct lack of armoured plates that older grimm had. These wolves were barely five years old, judging by their size. The Schnee was very much like her sister, Winter, with that rapier. Qrow had a certain...disliking...of most Schnees, they tended to act superior to everyone and where rather obnoxious. Carlia Schnee, Winter and Weiss's mother, was very polite to everyone she met, the rest of them however were just plain annoying.
Watching Ruby, he could see why Oz wanted him to train her. Ruby swung her scythe around her skilfully chopping up two beowolves that tried acting in sync. Firing her scythe behind her, headshots another one and using the moment from the bullet to speed herself forwards, she kicks one of the larger ones that has broken free of the ice right in the face. Pushing of its head, Ruby plants the scythe into the ground, swings it so the gun is aimed at it's head and fires again. She dodges claws from another one, she swings her scythe at it, slicing its head off. Firing her weapon once more, she blocks a set of claws trying to swipe at Schnee, who turns around and stabs in in the head, over Ruby's scythe. Schnee uses her glyph to make her teammate gain a temporary speed boost, who starts running, spinning like a spin top and cutting Beowolve limbs of with ease.
Qrow watches as they mop up the last of the wolves. He can tell Ruby has a natural skill with the scythe, and is very proficient with it. She has a different way of fighting, using her guns momentum to allow her to swing her scythe with greater velocity. Qrow smiles to himself, glad the Oz finally has found someone that should be interesting to train and also may have intel about Summer. He watches her cheer to herself after as the two girls walk off towards the ruins.
Making their way to the forest temple, Ruby and Weiss soon arrived there. They found several chess pieces inside the temple, a good amount had already been taken by the other students.
"Well, I assume we need to take one of these with us." Weiss says to her teammate. Ruby notices that Weiss sounds kinder then before, perhaps she is impressed by how well they took down the beowolves?
"Seems so. So, what should we take?" Ruby replies. As they look over them, Yang shows up with, surprisingly enough, Blake in tow.
"Hiya, Ruby, Weiss-cream." Yang greets the two girls. Weiss gives her an indignant "Hey!" at Yang's nickname. "So, do we need to take one of these?" Yang asks.
Ruby nods, "Think so." She notices that there is two of every kind of piece. Two white rooks, two black bishops. Perhaps teams are formed based on who takes which set. Ruby watches as Yang picks up the white horse.
"How about a cute little horsey?" Yang shouts over to her partner. Blake shrugs, obviously not to concerned. Ruby grabs the other white horse, showing to Weiss. Weiss seems to have figured it out too and nods.
As they get ready to move out, a large Ursa starts running at the temple, straight for them. Ruby quickly aims at it; however it collapses right in front of them. Nora and Ren appear from behind it. It seems that they had rode it there. Nora starts looking at her dead Ursa, looking a little sad. "Awww, I think I broke it." Nora says with a frown.
Ren gets up, taking deep breathes of exhaustion. "Nora, we are NOT doing that again." Ren says to his childhood friend. Who promptly ignores him, too busy looking at the chess pieces. She grabs the white rook and holds it above her, before singing about her 'being the queen of the castle' to which Ren shouts at her, "NORA!". Nora casually says, "Coming Ren!" like she never got yelled at. She obviously has a few screws loose.
Ruby thinks that there is no way they can get interrupted again. Right?
Wrong.
Ruby spies Jaune and Pyrrha sprinting towards them, being chased by a Deathstalker.
Yep. jinxed it.
Ruby grabs the white rook piece for Jaune and Pyrrha as they are getting closer. Weiss fires off a ice crystal, freezing the Deathstalker's legs, giving Jaune and Pyrrha enough time to get to them. Ruby hands them the rook. "So yeah, I might have pissed of a Deathstalker..." Jaune admits to them when they hear the sound of a large Nevermore flying towards them. "As we were running away from that." Jaune finishes.
One collective sigh and face palm later, Ruby tells the group, "Well, we don't have to fight them, we can just get back to the cliff and the teachers can help us kill them." Looking around her little group, Ruby can see that they collectively agree.
Jaune says, "Sounds like a plan, run and live. Hey Weiss, can you try and slow down the Nevermore a little?"
"Can I?" Weiss says arrogantly, to which Jaune seems to go and ask if she can. "Of Course, I can!" She says again.
The group starts running, Weiss pauses briefly on a hill, sending several large icicles at the Nevermore, which causes it to move away, trying to avoid being hit. The Deathstalker breaks free of its restraints, and begins chasing them again.
They make their way to the cliff, the Nevermore and Deathstalker following them. Ruby yells to Weiss and Nora, "Slow them down so we can get across!" Weiss turns around and, using her glyphs, she freezes the ground in front of the Deathstalker, making it trip and slide into some ruins. Nora pulls out Magnhild, firing at the Nevermore like an AA battery, causing it to fly away, out of her line of sight. Weiss grabs Nora and uses her glyphs to catch up to the group. The Nevermore flies at them, trying to break the bridge separating them and the cliff face. Jaune, seeing it coming, yells out, "Yang, Pyrrha, the Nevermore's back!" he points it out for them. Yang jumps down off the bridge, using her Ember Celica to fly out and hit it in the face. Hard. Prying its mouth open, Yang fires shot after shot into it.
"I. WILL. COOK. YOUR. INSIDES!" Yang yells with each shot. It starts to fall down, Yang back flips of it and Pyrrha, using her semblance subtly, makes Yang fly back far enough that she lands on the bridge. The Nevermore crashes into the cliff face, stunned.
Ruby looks at Blake, "Blake hook your whip to these pillars, Weiss make a glyph behind me!" Ruby instructs them, as she extends Crescent Rose and uses Blake's whip as a massive ballista. Weiss, aiming Ruby so she will hit the Nevermore's neck, looks at her.
"This is a crazy plan." Weiss states, to which Ruby smirks before yelling, "NOW!". She is launched forwards, her scythe making contact with the Nevermore's neck. Ruby begins firing behind her, running up a cliff. Weiss summons enough glpyhs so that Ruby won't fall and as soon as she reaches the top, she ends up taking Nevermore's head off. She stands up there as they see her complete her feat.
Jaune, having grabbed Pyrrha, Ren and Nora, doesn't notice this as they are busy dealing with the Deathstalker at the front of the bridge. Jaune notices that it's stinger is loosely hanging on. Pyrrha engages it first, deflecting one of its massive pincers with her shield. Jaune bashes the other away with his own shield. They both dodge back, letting Nora run at it and smash its head with Magnhild. Ren, runs at it while it is stunned by Nora's hit. He jumps up and lands on its tail. He fires at the stinger, trying to make it break off. The Deathstalker, noticing what he is doing, flings its tail forward and Ren, not expecting this, is sent flying into the bridge behind them. Pyrrha and Jaune charge at it, Jaune blocking a pincer so Pyrrha has a chance to throw her shield at the stinger, cutting it off and causing the Deathstalker to start flailing in pain.
Pyrrha, Jaune and Nora get back as the grimm starts causing the segment of bridge under it to break apart and the Deathstalker falls to its death. However, this causes the rest of the bridge to start breaking. Jaune and co. start running as fast as they can across the breaking bridge, barely making it back. It's only now they notice that Ruby killed the Nevermore. Getting up, Jaune helps his group get up as they make their way over to others.
No one noticed the girl with pink and brown hair standing by some trees on the cliff, who was smiling at Ruby. Her scroll had recorded the whole thing.
"Dennis Jinx, Nova and Giger Nuclar and Olivia White, you four have collected the black Rook pieces. As such, you shall now be known as Team DNGO, led by Dennis Jinx." There was a respectable amount of clapping for the new team. Ruby was happy that the other two people she knew were on a team. After them were a team of 4 guys, who got the black bishop pieces. They were called Team CRDL, led by a brute of a guy called Cardin Winchester. Ruby knew that his family own several successful weapon shops in Vale and she had stolen a lot of gear from them to make her scythe.
Ozpin called up Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora and Ren. Since they had the white rook pieces, they became Team JNPR, led by, to Ruby's happy surprise, Jaune Arc. Ruby could tell that something about him was false, and he wasn't a great fighter, but Ruby knew he had nothing to do with Cinder, so she didn't mind.
Ozpin called her and the last three people up. "Ruby Roslinen, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long. You four collected the white knight pieces. From this day on, you shall be known as, Team RWBY. Led by, Ruby Roslinen." Ozpin pause for a moment for the applause to die down. "It seems, this is going to be...an interesting year."
Qrow watched as the newly instated Team RWBY left for their new dorm. Ozpin walked up to him, a questioning look on the headmaster's face. "So, do you believe me now?" Ozpin asks, knowing what Qrow will say.
"Alright then, I'll train her. I'll see if I can get any intel about Summer." Qrow says to Ozpin who smiles and walks away.
Roman finishes watching his girl killing a Nevermore. He's impressed at her achievement and proud of her. But she did stand out a quite a lot from that.
"Neo, I need you keep watching her, this means she should be fine, but she might stand out to Cinder when she goes into the school. Make sure that she stays safe."
Neo nods at Roman in confirmation.
I'd just like to point out that a few characters will appear a little OOC such as Weiss's interactions with Ruby. Ruby is more mature then in Canon and thus means Weiss thinks a little more of her. The hat Dennis the OC wears is the same hat worn by the Australian Military if you want a better idea of it.
I was going to forget the fight here, but figured I'll change it a bit when I couldn't think of a decent way to skip over it.
If anyone like the OC Team DNGO, I am willing to add them into the story ever so often, though they won't have any main story relevance. Or I might make a oneshot for them. Something like that.
Until next time, AD