Author's Note: Well I hope you all had a great New Years and Christmas if you do it. 2018, we are here. Also in this there is a little Volume 5 spoiler if you haven't watched to about episode 10 or so. I doubt that no one has watched any of Volume 5 but if you haven't? Go and watch it so I don't spoil nothing for you.
Edit: I had to change some errors.
Walking away from the amphitheatre, Ruby and her new team made their way, along with team JNPR, to the dorms. Everyone was tired but exhilarated that they had made it into Beacon. Departing from JNPR, whose room was opposite of RWBY's, said team walked into their room and all of them proceeded to crash onto their beds and fall asleep almost immediately.
A few minutes past as Ruby makes sure her teammates are actually sleeping. Stepping into their room's shower, she turned her scroll on and sent her dad images she discreetly took of her teammates and their names with the attached message, 'can you get some info on these people?' A moment passes before Roman replies, 'Give me a few days Red' Ruby withheld a giggle at her childhood nickname, seeing how her father had used it during her fight for maximum irony. Going back into her dorm's 'main' room, she got back into bed without making a sound.
Cinder was sitting with Emerald in a luxurious apartment, politely given to them by Torchwick, when her other subordinate walked in the room.
"Well, Leonardo has finished with the transcripts, we're good to go boss." Mercury says nonchalantly to the women sitting on a pair of couches. He pulled a chair out from a nearby table, sitting on it with the back in front of him. "Also, Torchwick has gotten wind of a major Schnee transport in a few weeks, so he's been planning that and will be busy for a bit." he finished his little report to Cinder.
Cinder has her little smile on her face that just screams danger. "And what about the girl?" she asks. Mercury can only put his hand on his neck, clearly not wanting to say something about it.
"Yeah, well uh..." Mercury stalls, "She MIGHT have been invited to Beacon by Ozpin after what happened." Cinder merely shrugs.
"No matter. She will not change anything." is all Cinder can say about this revelation.
That Morning
Ruby woke up around 5:30, yawning as she noticed her team was still asleep. She was a thief, she had grown up waking early in the morning. Going into the dorm's shower, she takes a quick shower and gets changed into her Beacon uniform. Clipping her cape to jacket without a second thought, she walks out of the bathroom. It's 5:57 and Blake has already woken up and waiting for Ruby. She gives Ruby a small good morning before disappearing into the bathroom. Ruby smiles before she sits on her bed, scroll in hand. It is showing a list of microscopic cameras she stole from an Atlas private security agency a few years ago. Tapping on camera 3, Ruby can see Blake in the bathroom as she gets undressed to have a shower.
No, Ruby doesn't have any interest in her, but smirks as she watches the girl take off her bow, showing black cat ears. She can only be pleased that she predicted her teammate was a Faunus. Faunus do get a lot of hatred from humans and Ruby can understand why she doesn't want anyone to know about her race, but Ruby feels that she should ask her about telling her other teammates too. Switching her scroll off her surveillance network, Ruby quietly pulls the small suitcase she brought with her to Beacon. She had packed light in case she needed to get out, a few pairs of clothes, her multi tool, gun cleaning kit and some personal items.
Waiting for her team to wake up and get ready, Ruby sat back and starts watching a cartoon on her scroll. Yang soon woke up, moving directly to the unoccupied shower and closing the door. Blake was already out and reading a book from a little stash of them she had, the one in her hand called 'Ninja's of Love', Ruby can only sigh in shame at her reading choices.
7:21, everyone is in uniform and prepared. Except Weiss who is still sleeping in her bed, rather adorably to be honest. Yang looks at her teammates, "Well then, who's up for waking up Ice Queen?" She says with a smirk.
Moving next to the sleeping Schnee, Ruby pulls out a whistle she nicked from a teacher with bright green, spiky hair. Taking a deep breath, she blows hard on it, making a very shrill whistle and waking Weiss up quickly. "Good Moooorrnnning Weiss!" Ruby shouts at her as Weiss falls off her bed. "Everyone else is ready, time to get up!"
Weiss looks over to see her team has already woke and gotten dressed. She can only help but be a little embarrassed and angry that she slept in. Scowling, Weiss walks off to the bathroom, like her team before her already. 30 minutes later, she walks out in her school uniform.
Ruby is standing by the door, Yang and Blake sitting on nearby chairs. "Well then, now your awake, we can start working on decorating our room." Ruby declares to WBY. "We have we have an hour and 10 minutes before classes start at 9, so let's get into it!" Ruby says enthusiastically.
30 minutes later, the curtains had been trimmed by Ruby, Yang's poster of Achieve Men on the wall behind her bed, Blake and Weiss's books; different in every way, Weiss's are educational while Blake's are stories, some more than others, on shelves, tables next to the door, a picture of Forever Fall on the wall. Only problem was the beds, they kinda took a lot of space and there wasn't much left.
"Weeeell, this is a problem." Yang says rather nonchalantly. Ruby starts examining the situation and comes to two easy solutions.
"Ok team. We either chuck some of our stuff out, which I don't think anyone wants, or we replace the beds with something." Ruby explains to her team, their expressions clearly saying Option 1 wasn't going to happen. "Well then, any suggestions to replace the beds?" Ruby asks.
"Hmm, maybe replace with them with bunk beds?" Yang surprisingly says first, to which Blake nods. "It would be efficient." she rationalises. Weiss looks a little effy about it however.
"How would we get them up here from Vale? Not to mention it would be somewhat wasteful of the beds we have." Weiss counters their scheme. Ruby admits, she has a good point.
A few minutes pass before Ruby declares, "Alright then, we use anything we have and make these beds into bunks!" Weiss looks positively horrified at her suggestion, while Yang is smiling, eager to try it. Blake is being Blake. "We can put it to a vote then Weiss." Ruby tells her. 3 votes yes, 1 no.
20 minutes later, the four beds have been turned into 2 makeshift bunks. The one on the left, Weiss's and Ruby's, has Weiss on the bottom, her bed unaltered while Ruby's is somehow hanging from the roof via nails and rope. It has a canopy over it, helping it stay up. Hopefully it's stronger than it looks.
Blake's and Yang's on the other hand are much less crazy, Blake on bottom bunk and Yang on top with the help on several of Blake's thicker books, pun not intended. Examining their handiwork, Ruby checks the time, 8:43. They have 17 minutes to get ready for class and to get there. Opening their door, Ruby walks across the hall, over to JNPR's room. Knocking twice, she waits a minute before Jaune opens the door, looking tired.
"Morning Jaune, how was your sleep?" Ruby politely asks her friend. Jaune yawns loudly to himself. It appears he and his team had just woken up, judging by what little she can see past Jaune. "By the way, you have 15 minutes before class starts." Ruby mentions to the bedraggled JNPR, causing them to explode into action. Jaune is accidentally knocked over by Pyrrha as she tries to grab her weapons from behind the door.
'Oh, Sorry Jaune!" Pyrrha says to her partner, who gets up and shakes his head a little.
"It's fine Pyrrha." He says to her nicely. Ruby watches as she walks back across to her room. She gets a feeling that Pyrrha and Jaune are going to be close friends if not more, judging by their reactions. Sometimes, Ruby would be amazed by how people tend not to notice things about people. Then again, being raised a thief, by a thief and a professional teenage assassin, tends to develop traits that normal people tend to not have.
Shrugging to herself, Ruby enters her room, her team ready to go. "Alright Team RWBY! Let's finish checking we're done here for now and then get to class." Last minute preparations ensure, though thankfully there is no issues to be concerned yet. Leaving their room with 10 minutes left, JNPR gets out of their room, looking slight dishevelled compare to RWBY, but still acceptable. The two teams walk down to their first class, Grimm Studies. Ruby notices that Ozpin and Miss Goodwitch are outside Beacon Tower and watch as they go past, Miss Goodwitch is checking the time on her watch.
Grimm Studies: a class meant to teach Huntsmen and Huntresses in training about all the kinds of nasties out there. It was, quite honestly to Ruby, shocking that their teacher was the overweight man in the red jacket, Professor Port. He certainly didn't seem like that kind that would be good in a fight against Grimm, but looks can be deceiving, and Ruby had no doubt, pass her initial surprise, that he was probably making out he wasn't very dangerous, yet was indeed. After all, a Beacon teacher would have to be an outstanding Huntsman/Huntress. He didn't have a weapon on him, but a blunderbuss with an axe on its stock was mounted on the wall.
"MONSTERS! DEMONS! Prowlers of the NIGHT! Yes, the creatures of Grimm have many names, I merely refer to them as PREY! Haha!" Professor Port says dramatically to the class, to no one's response. Ruby can only sigh in disappointment. An awkward moment passes, before he continues, "And you shall too, after you graduated from this prestigious academy." Ruby dozes off as he goes on about typical hero stuff and some story about himself, much to Weiss's displeasure that she is sleeping in class.
Ruby goes onto her scroll and checks if Neo is busy, to which it seems like she isn't. The two stepsisters start texting each other, further annoying Weiss. Giggling at a picture Neo sent her, Ruby accidentally kicks Weiss's shin, making Weiss scowl at her. Port notices this, looking at the two expectantly. Ruby hides her phone with rapid agility, not wanting it to be taking off her in case someone checks it.
Port finishes his story, before saying to the class, "Who thinks they have the traits of a Huntsman?" to which Weiss viciously holds her hand up, declaring, "I do, sir!" Port looks at her, please someone seemed to take his's story seriously.
"Good, let's find out then." He says to her, gesturing to the cage in the class. While shadows in the cage made it hard to see what was in it, the grunts and snorts sounded like a Boarbatusk. Weiss got up and left to get changed into her combat gear. Arriving back at the class, Weiss draws her rapier, and assumes a stance in front of the cage. Port had gotten the Blunderaxe and was standing next to the cage, probably to open it with the axe instead of something normal, like a key.
"Go Weiss!' Yang shouted out. Blake too shouted out to her to fight well.
"You got this!" Ruby encouraged her partner, to which Weiss merely scowls at her.
"Alright, let the match begin!" Port shouts, and hacks the lock off, and as expected, a Boarbatusk wonders out, looking pissed.
Knocking the Grimm on its back with a glyph, Weiss creates another one behind, jumps onto it and accelerates herself at the boar's stomach, killing it. Weiss takes some deep breaths as Port congratulates her. Telling the class to be vigilant and to read the assigned readings, the class beings to leave, with Weiss walking out angrily.
"What's her problem?" Jaune mutters to Ruby. Ruby looks at the leaving Weiss with a slight, concerned frown. Quickly packing her things, Ruby goes and quickly catches up with her.
"Weiss! What's the problem with you?" Ruby says at her once she is within talking distance. Weiss turns around and looks at he angrily.
"My problem? It the fact you're supposed to be a leader, yet unless we are in a dangerous situation, you are only a nuisance!" Weiss remarks to Ruby curtly. Ruby only looks at her a raised eyebrow.
"Really now? And let me guess and say that you think I don't deserve to be the Leader of the team?" Ruby questions Weiss with an authority that makes Weiss almost flinch at the sudden change of character.
"You did nothing to be made leader and quite frankly? I think Ozpin made a mistake. You act like a child when out of a confrontation, and while I have studied and trained for this while you just showed up and bet one criminal and somehow your supposed to be better than everyone else here?" Weiss rants rudely to her partner, much to Ruby's growing frustration. Ruby knew that if Weiss knew just who she was, she wouldn't think this. Then again, if she knew who she was, she would probably attack and try and arrest her.
Before Ruby can comeback with something, Weiss walks away, leaving Ruby alone in the corridor. Ruby gets a feeling of sixth sense and realises that someone is walking up behind her. Acting on instinct, Ruby draws Crescent Rose, which she carried with her all day via habit, and swiftly turns on her foot, swing her baby so that the blade will be at someone's neck or upper body, depending on height. However, her scythe is deflected by a black cane, and Ruby realises just who she almost attacked.
"Oh? Professor Ozpin? I am so sorry!" Ruby quickly apologises and collapses her scythe. The headmaster merely smiles and shrugs at Ruby's action, genuinely impressed by her reaction.
"It's alright, Miss Roslinen, it is rare that people realise that I walk up behind them and react like you did." Ozpin says kindly to the young girl, who looks concerned at what she almost did. "But never mind that. It seems your chat with Miss Schnee didn't go exactly well." He continues, much to Ruby's surprise. He been here for a while and Ruby is shocked she didn't notice him sooner. While Ruby is a very self-confident person, she can't help but wonder if Weiss had a point and Ozpin did make a mistake. She does have the skills and ability to be an ideal leader, she was young, and youth makes older people believe that they are not capable due to it.
"Sir, did you make a mistake of making leader of Team RWBY?" Ruby asks Ozpin, who slightly chuckles and smiles at what she said, as if it was a funny joke.
"Well, that remains to be seen as of yet." He says to Ruby. "It has only been a day, so it is impossible for me to have made a mistake of making you leader of your team. Trust me when I say I have made more mistakes then any man, women or child." Ozpin says with an almost impossible to detect frown on his face, and said in such a way that seems highly concerning. He quickly covers this up before Ruby can notice more to it. "But I do not consider you appointment as leader to be one of them. Do you Ruby? Being a team leader isn't just a title, you set an example towards others, else they will not act how they should. It is a daunting responsibility, but I believe that you are the one in your team, capable of being this person." Ozpin takes a sip from his coffee mug, "I suggest taking some time to think about how you will uphold your duty." Ozpin walks away, leaving Ruby with his advice and information. While Ruby does take account of what he said, she is more concerned into how he acted when he said had made more mistakes then anyone in existence. Looking out at a balcony, Ruby notices Professor Port walking away from Weiss.
Qrow watches as Ruby looks at her teammate, who had been talking with old Port, ironically along the same lines of Ruby's chat with Oz. Qrow saw that Oz had slipped up, giving away a little suspicion to the girl, though he doubt she knew about his true, immortal, nature, it never help to give a hint your something more than you seem. Qrow wondered why he still hasn't informed the girl that she will be taking lessons from him, but it's not much of a problem to him.
Qrow can't help but notice that Ruby is both so similar yet different to Summer. She is just as nice and kind, with that kind of aura of command, yet she seems more brutal in fighting, and seems to understand more subtle hints from people trained to hide them. Qrow is also, privately, suspicious of her surname. Ruby may not be an uncommon name, but Roslinen was not the kind of surname one would find in Vale. Mistral or Atlas maybe, but not here.
Scoffing to himself, Qrow discreetly left the corridor from behind the pillar he was leaning against.
Later that night, Ruby had fallen asleep, reading through and making notes of the books assigned to them by Professor Port, and while Ruby knew about half of what was in them, she figured she better read them and record what she didn't know anyway. Sleeping lightly and constantly alert, she heard someone open the door, probably Weiss since she had been in earlier. Feigning deeper sleep than she actually was, Ruby heard whoever open their door step up on Weiss's bed, likely looking at her. She heard a slight gasp, definitely Weiss's by the sound of it. She was probably surprised by the unearthly sight of Ruby actually doing something like studying. Feeling Weiss shake her shoulder, Ruby continued her act of being sleepier then she was, "Huh? Oh Weiss? Sorry, I feel asleep studying." Ruby said to her partner, who put her hand on her mouth and made a shushing gesture with her hand. Ruby almost reacted how you'd expect a criminal to, but managed to not react. There was no way she had been discovered already!
Or had she already been caught?
"How do you like your coffee?" Weiss quietly asks her, much to Ruby's relief. Ruby notices she has her mug and realises what she is asking.
"Oh uh, cream and five sugars." Ruby answers, no signs of her panic evident in her voice.
Weiss sighs before getting down and somehow quickly gets some coffee. Probably made it beforehand. "Here." She says, giving Ruby her full mug. Usually Ruby didn't take coffee, unless she was help her dad overnight with something, or if they recently pulled a robbery and need to stay awake in case something went up.
"Oh? Thank you Weiss." Ruby says in complete honesty, for some reason Weiss seems to be more accommodating then before. Perhaps her talk with Port made her think about something. Or maybe she is doing what a lot of the hired help Roman hired tried to do and kiss his ass for more jobs, not being fired, more pay etc.
Weiss looked at her like her pride didn't want her to, but she knew she had to say something. "Ruby...I think you will make for an excellent leader," Weiss says to her, which anyone could tell she was being as honest as she could, "But just so you know, I am going to be the best teammate you will ever have." She finishes, sounding pleased that she managed to be honest with her. Weiss steps off her bed and walks out, not before say to Ruby. "Hey Ruby? As a little girl, I have always wanted bunk beds." Ruby can't help but be pleased with her partner.
Looking down at her notes, she closes her notebook up and packs her books into a somewhat neat pile on one of the desks. Getting back on her bed, Ruby pulls out her scroll, checking to see if Roman had gotten any intel on her team. There was one message from Neo, asking her to meet tomorrow for practise, and another from her dad. Quickly texting Neo that she'll be there, Ruby opens the file from her dad. It contains a file with information about Yang Xiao Long: citizen of the Kingdom of Vale, lives on the isle of Patch with her father and pet corgi, trained at Signal academy. There was some information about her physically, but Ruby skipped over the unimportant parts, seeing if she had any weaknesses, though her aura made finding any impossible. Apparently, she owns a custom motorcycle too. Looking into her abilities and skills, she is a predominately CQC orientated fighter and her aura was in the higher levels. Her semblance however made Ruby very concerned, power to take hits and use them to improve her own. If Ruby got caught, Yang would be an issue if she tried to stop her, prolonged fights with her would make stronger, yet hit too much and she gets stronger.
Ruby spends some time working out a way to beat Yang should it come down to it before continuing the document. Other than some reports from her teachers speaking about her hotheadedness, the only other thing that stood out was her family relations. Father, Taiyang Xiao Long, infamous CQC fighter of team STQR, one of the best teams ever produced by Beacon, teacher at Signal academy. Ruby chuckled at the 'Like Father, Like Daughter' relation between the two. While Ruby could find this funny, she WAS a little scared about her other parentage. Her father left a note her saying getting this info was hard and he lost a few good informants for it, and hoped it was worth it. Mother: Raven Branwen, the notorious leader of the Branwen Tribe, currently based in Mistral it seems, fellow member of Team STQR, famous for deadly fighting skills with a sword. Yang also had an Uncle, Qrow Branwen, who wasn't like his sister and was still a Huntsman, he turns out to be a teacher at Signal, other member of STQR, famous user of a scythe and one of the best ever with it.
Ruby looks at this information with something of a chill down her spine. Every major criminal knew of the Branwen tribe, and what happened when you messed with them, Ruby included. Apparently, Yang had little to no interaction with her mother, but Ruby knew that if something happened to Yang, her mother may intervene or hunt Ruby down. Her father on the other hand, would be less of an issue, seeing how he wasn't nearby and not likely to hunt her down like an animal. Qrow Branwen, judging by the more available information on the two men of STQR, would probably hunt her down in drunken anger, yet it seemed he was more than capable fighting drunk, according to police records.
Looking down, Roman said he may be able to get some information about Weiss, he was completely unable to get anything on Blake. Blake...Ruby wondered if she was an ex-criminal or knew how to hide herself from society. Then again, due to racial influences it doesn't surprise Ruby that Blake might try to hide much about her from most people.
Looking at the time, 11:47, Ruby yawns before heading off to sleep properly.
Qrow looked the time on his scroll, 3:29 AM. Putting his scroll away and looking over the direction's Oz had given him to team RWBY's room. Walking down the hall, he stopped at their door before knocking on the door, quietly as to not wake up more people than he needed to. A few seconds pass and Qrow goes to knock again when his target opens the door.
"Hello? Can I help you?" Ruby asks him, rubbing her sleepy eyes a little. Qrow looks at her, noticing that she has her weapon in her hand behind her. Strange habit for a fifteen-year-old, but not impossible. He used to do it in the tribe so it's not like he can judge.
"Ozpin sent me to get you, we want to have a chat with you." Qrow says ambiguously, to which suddenly makes the girl seem to wake up and look at him suspiciously. It was as if she concerned about something...
"Why? I haven't done anything wrong?" Ruby questions Qrow with that same look of disbelief. Qrow sighs in frustration at her, wondering why he even agreed to become a teacher.
Qrow gives her a 'stop messing around with me' look, "Just come with me, you are not in trouble." Ruby looks behind her, probably seeing if they woke anyone up.
"Fine, give me a minute to get dressed." She says, closing the door.
Ruby quickly gets her phone out and texts Neo, who was having a nice dream about killing some of Junior's more annoying thugs. Ruby tells her she may be compromised and to get ready to bust her out.
Quickly changing into her clothes and packing her stuff, she steps outside, the guy leaning against the wall. She can't really tell what his face looks like in the dark hallways as most the lights are out, but he seems to be a tall, lean guy with some kind of weapon on his back. He appears to be wearing some semi-formal/casual wear with a cape on his back, though the colour is hard to make out.
Walking into Beacon Tower, the light on there, she realises that the man is in fact, Qrow Branwen. Ruby feels herself shiver once she realises she is being taking to the Headmaster of Beacon by one of the most dangerous Huntsmen to exist.
Inside the elevator, she feels her scroll vibrate in her pocket. Pulling it out and angling it so Qrow can't see it, it's a text from Neo saying she was ready and need a location, to which Ruby quickly types that she's at Beacon Tower. Putting the phone away, Ruby see's Qrow looking at her, eyebrow raised.
"Oh? Weiss just asked where I was, I told her I was here." Ruby smoothly lies to the older man, who merely looks away, seemingly accepting what she said.
Waiting for the elevator to go up, Ruby has a quick look at her surroundings. She notices that the 4 main levels, Headmaster's Office, CCT floors one and two, and lobby are open to students, but there is a fifth button, a basement area, that has a key slot for it and says, 'Authorised Staff Only'. Making a mental note about it, Ruby hears a ding, signalling that they were on the top floor. Stepping out of the elevator and into a small secretary's office, Miss Goodwitch, as the Headmaster's assistant and also Combat Teacher, was sitting behind a desk, writing out forms. She looked up at the pair that walked in, "Hmph, Qrow, Ozpin's waiting for you inside." She says to Qrow like she'd rather he was not there.
"Thanks, Glyn." Qrow replies, which seems to annoy Miss Goodwitch more. Ruby feels a little sorry for her, having someone she didn't like to show up while doing so much school paperwork that Ozpin had probably left for her.
Walking into the office, there wasn't much spectacular about it, gears above them turning and making clock sounds. Keeping the the same theme of the school, with a greyish colouring and and a few pillars in the corners of the room, with a small alcove over the door, Ozpin was sitting on a high backed, metal chair that looked like something straight out of a sci-fi film. A glass, curved desk in front of him with the same theme as the chair. On the desk was his iconic mug, filled with coffee and his cane was leaning against the edge of the desk. A massive clock that double as a window was behind the man himself, probably to look out of.
Walking up to the desk, Qrow leaning against one of the nearby pillars, Ruby looks at the Headmaster.
"You called for me Professor?" Ruby asks politely, keeping an eye on Qrow in case he tries to attack her. All he does is pull out a flask and take a drink from it.
"Miss Roslinen, Mr Branwen is not going to attack you and you are not here because you're in trouble." Ozpin says to the girl, noticing her looking at Qrow. Ruby gives a small sigh of relief.
Looking back at Ozpin, she asks, "Well, uh...why am I here then sir?" Ozpin smiles kindly, as if her question, as typical as it was, was funny to him.
"Ruby, I would like to make you an offer. This is not anything strange or obscene, but an offer to improve yourself. The man behind you, if you don't know, is Qrow Branwen. He is one of the deadliest men alive, trained in the art of using a scythe. He is also a good friend of mine and has agreed to train you when he can as a favour. While this doesn't mean you get out of Miss Goodwitch's classes, you may find that Qrow will be able to help you greatly with your combat skills." Ozpin lays out the deal to Ruby.
Ruby anaylises what she has been told quickly. She has an opportunity to be trained by Qrow Branwen! But she can sense that they may be after something from her, while she doubts they suspect who she is, they might be up to something else. However, this might be a way to get some better, personal information about Qrow, such as semblance, approximate aura strength which will help is she needs to escape. Deciding to risk it for the biscuit, Ruby looks at Ozpin.
"Alright then sir, I'll do it. but is there something you need off me?" Ruby asks to which Ozpin shakes his head.
"No, you don't need to do anything except listen to Mr Branwen and do as he instructs." Ozpin tells Ruby, who nods her head in confirmation.
"Can I tell anyone? Or do you want me to keep it secret?" Ruby asks Ozpin, who once again shakes his head, telling her to tell whoever she wanted. "If that's all, can I go now sir?" Ruby inquires politely, wanting to give this info to Neo and her dad as soon as possible.
"No Miss Roslinen, that will be all, you may go now." Ozpin dismisses Ruby, who walks out of his office. Ozpin looks over at Qrow, eyebrow raised. "So, Qrow, Miss Roslinen has a agreed to it. You can begin whenever you like, just don't interfere to much with her classes too much please?" Qrow gives his boss a dismissive sigh, before turning into a crow and flying out through the roof.
Ruby quickly runs back to her dorm with her semblance, opening the door quietly, trying to not wake her team up.
Which doesn't matter as they are awake, and looked relieved when she walks in. Yang getting up first and walking up to her. "Ruby! Where were you? Blake woke up and saw you were gone." Ruby is rather surprised that Blake noticed she was gone and woke everyone up. She certainly doesn't look too concerned.
"Oh, Ozpin just needed to have a conversation with me and called me over to his office." Ruby explains to her team, deciding if she should tell them. Weiss looks at her with an inquisitive look.
"What did he have to talk about?" She asks Ruby, who shrugs, deciding to tell them.
"Professor Ozpin want to talk about me being tutored privately by a man called Qrow Branwen, who is a famous scythe user." Ruby tells her team, before realising the look on Yang's face. She completely forgot they were related.
"Really? So, my uncle is here to train you eh?" Yang says to Ruby, who feigns surprise that the two are Uncle and Niece. The reactions from the other two however are genuine. "Well, considering he doesn't teacher people very often, good luck with him. He knows what he is doing and is very good at it. Can you let me know when you go and train with him, I want to have a chat with him." Yang continues with a vicious look on her face that says said chat will likely be her trying to beat him up.
Ruby agrees to let Yang know, it will be funny plus give a better idea on Yang's fighting skills and Qrow's too. Reassuring Weiss that nothing else happened and she wasn't lying, (for once Ruby notes), team RWBY calms down and heads back off to sleep. Ruby quickly text Roman the good news, who congratulated her on her opportunity to improve her skills and learn about the infamous Branwen. Ruby smiles at her dad's praise before turning her scroll off and going to sleep.
Roman smiled at the message his little girl sent. She was in a good position to learn her weapon, better then he or Neo could teach her, and she will probably end up a close friend with a highly skilled Huntsmen. Putting his scroll down, he looked over at Neo, who was playing some game on her scroll.
"Neo, Ruby is being trained by Qrow Branwen." Roman says shortly to the occasionally psychopathic girl, who blinks before shivering at the news. Roman didn't know much about Neo before they met, other than she was highly trained and had history with the Branwen Twins.
"Don't worry, hopefully he won't do anything bad to her and she will get better, maybe better then you..." Roman trails off, much to Neo's annoyance, who throws a pillow at him. "I'm just joking, calm down!" Roman laughs at Neo, who has an angry frown at him.
Roman hopes, lowkey, that Ruby may learn something about Neo. Not to use against her, but in case it ever may be of use. Looking back at his scroll, Roman looks at the information complied about Weiss Schnee, Ruby's teammate. Other than some basic family information on Weiss and her relations with each, Roman couldn't find any information Ruby didn't already know.
Roman looks over at the one piece of information he could find on this 'Blake Belladona'. Apparently, she is from Menagerie and her family lives there. Also, she had left when she was younger, but Roman's informants were unable to find anything else yet. Sighing to himself, Roman gets up and walks over to the whiteboard he uses for planning heists, working out some of the finer details for the robbery in the next few weeks. It pays to account for any possible problems that can arise in a criminal's line of work.
Author's Note: Another Chapter down, more story done.
Sorry about not updating, Christmas was a hectic time and I'm currently visiting family up North until the 18th, so I will be trying to get at least a chapter per week if I am able plus I need to work on making the chapters progressively longer...and I need to watch episode 12 when it goes free on RT's site, I am so hyped for it. Too much to do, so little time.
Any advice or helpful criticism is always appreciated, AD