Chapter 8: The Beginning

"Auuuuah." Ruby stretched her arms as she yawned. The sunset is so beautiful from here. She thought as she gazed out to the horizon. The wind blew in Ruby's face and ruffled her hair. Creek. The door to her dorm opened up slowly. Weiss entered with a servers platter in her hands.

"Ruby!" Weiss yelled out as soon as the door closed. Ruby naturally winced at the sound of her voice. "What?" Ruby asked innocently. "Don't what me! What are you doing out of bed?" Weiss was as stern as always with her words. "I-I just got up to stretch and get some fresh air i-its not like a left the dorm."

Ruby stammered trying to find the words to retort to Weiss. "I don't want to hear it Ruby get back in bed now!" It felt as if the walls shook when Weiss spoke. Ruby slouched down and slowly got off the window seal. "Fine." Ruby mumbled under her breath. Ruby looked back up at Weiss and went to speak, but before she could speak she was interrupted by Weiss pointing her finger at her bed. As if given up Ruby resigned to her bed.

Weiss sat down the platter of food on Ruby's night stand and let out a sigh. "Here I brought you something to eat. I thought you might be hungry." "Ooo, what did you get me?" Ruby's face lit up as wondered what was on the menu. Weiss lifted the cover on the platter to show a medium rare steak basking in a broth at the bottom of the plate. Ruby's mouth instantly began to water.

Weiss removed the other to cover to reveal some creamy mashed potatoes and some steamed vegetables. "Aww, thanks Weiss!" Ruby said with high spirits as she started to dig into her food. Weiss sat in the chair next to Ruby's bed and watched her enjoy herself for a few minutes. Weiss grinned as she watched the puppy like girl in front of her viciously bite at the steak on her fork.

'She's so cute' Weiss quickly caught her way of thinking and stopped it. "So." Weiss broke the silence. Ruby froze and looked over at Weiss with steak still hanging out of her mouth. "How have you been feeling?" Weiss met her eyes briefly only to quickly avert them. 'Why can't I look her in the eyes?' Weiss thought trying to hide her confused embarrassment. "I've been feeling much better!" Ruby said with a cheery attitude. "Although I am still really sore." She lowly trailed off hoping Weiss wouldn't hear that part.

"Well maybe If you would listen to me then you wouldn't be in this predicament now would you." Weiss said reinforcing her earlier request to not use her semblance for her. Ruby stuffed another piece of steak in her mouth with a pouty face. "Like I wolf evher dew that." Ruby said with her mouth full of juicy meat.

"Well as your punishment I'm leaving." Weiss said knowing full well she had to leave anyway. Ruby's heart instantly sank at the words she heard. "Not for good right?" Ruby looked into Weiss's eyes with her puppy dog eyes. Weiss felt as if an arrow had pierced her heart.

'That is so not fair!' Weiss was yelling in her head. Weiss sighed "No not for good but I will be gone for a few days." "Where are you going?" Ruby asked curiously. "Don't worry about it just know that I will be back." "But Weiss-" "Don't but me." Weiss cut off Ruby. "Just get some more rest and be ready for school when I get back."

"Ugh I'm tired of just lying in bed." Ruby tried to protest. "I don't care your either going to relax and get better or you can find another partner." Weiss retorted back quickly. With those last words Weiss left out of the dorm. "Phew, now to take care of the unnecessary." She said to herself as she walked down the hall.

"Oh, hey Weiss." Weiss snapped out of her thought and looked up to see yang waving at her down the hallway. Weiss waved back and walked toward yang. "Whats up Weiss." Yang asked. Weiss sighed "Going to the headmaster's office." Yang put her hand over her mouth and gasped.

"What did the ice queen do this time?" Yang said jokingly. "That's not funny." Weiss said flatly. "Oh, then why are you going there wait I get it he wants some of your money for the school. Yang blurted out. "Are you done with your stupid guesses?" Weiss asked coldly. Yang propped her chin between her thumb and finger.

"Ah he needs you to help keep the food frozen because the freezers broke." Weiss stared blankly at Yang. "I'm leaving now." Weiss said simply and started to walk off. "No wait!" Yang shouted out to make Weiss stop. Weiss turned around and said. "What?" "How is Ruby doing?" "She's fine you can go see her if you want make sure she stays in bed though. She refuses to just rest it seems.

Yang let out a chuckle "yea that sounds like my little sister." Yang said honestly. "Well make sure she stays in bed, oh and if she doesn't tell her I'll find out." "Scary, wait does that mean your stalking my little sister?" "Is there no end to your sarcasm?" Weiss starting to get frustrated. "Yea it ends but it has lots of fuel." Weiss rolled her eyes and walked off. "Bye ice queen." Yang said waving her goodbye. Weiss ignored the comment and kept walking.

Weiss sighed as she pressed the button for the elevator. "Don't feel like doing this." Weiss said to herself. Ding. The elevator door opened and Weiss stepped in and typed in a number. The door closed behind her and the elevator began to ascend. Ding. The elevator doors opened and the first thing Weiss saw was OzPin sitting behind his desk sipping his coffee.

'Great.' Weiss thought. "Come in Ms. Schnee take a seat. Weiss sighed but began to walk toward the desk. Weiss pulled up the chair and sat down. It was silent for moments as if one was waiting for the other to talk first. "Are you feeling better?" OzPin asked bluntly.

"I'm fine." Weiss answered. "Then you can go over what happened that night with me now." 'Doesn't beat around the bush does he.' Weiss shrugged off the thought. "Well how much do you want to know?" Weiss hoped it wasn't too much. "Everything." OzPin said simply.

Weiss inhaled deeply then exhaled. "Well father came by to scold me for not showing up to an aria I was supposed to perform, and when I couldn't give a good excuse so he punished me." Weiss was staring at her lap as she spoke. "Punish being something more you do to your lover than your daughter I presume." OzPin summed up. "It's not like that!" Weiss retorted subconsciously.

"Hmm, so what happened that night you were ok with?" Oz-Pin took another sip from his mug. "N…..No not exactly." Weiss stumbled on her words. "Ms. Schnee let me be frank do you want to press charges on your father." "For what?" Weiss asked. "OzPin raised an eyebrow.

"You know the answer just as well as I do Ms. Schnee." OzPin Peered into Weiss's eyes. "No I can deal with this myself." Weiss said firmly. OzPin observed Weiss for a moment then spoke up again. "If you ever need our help we are here just keep in mind that your father does live in another land, so we can't get him until we have your help."

"Oh, before I leave headmaster is it okay if I have a few days off." Ozpin took a sip from his mug. "And why do you need time off." OzPin inquired. "I received a letter from my father telling me to return to Atlas at once." "And you're going to just listen to him?" Ozpin was curious.

"No its just required if I'm going to rebuild the Schnee dust company." "Hmm I see very well I can give you two days but no more." "Thank you very much, Ozpin, can I leave now." Weiss hoped for the answer to be yes. "That's fine." "Thank-" Weiss got cut off by the professor.

"But do keep in mind that we will keep in touch." Weiss rolled her eyes and got up from the chair. Weiss wanted to leap into the elevator, but kept her composure and walked to it instead. Ding, the elevator opened up and Weiss quickly stepped in and typed in the numbers to get back to the bottom floor.

Creak. Weiss slowly opened the door to the dorm in hopes not to wake up Ruby. She poked her head in the dorm and looked around to see Ruby in bed sound asleep. 'Good girl.' Weiss chuckled to herself as she thought about Ruby's reaction. Weiss entered the room and grabbed her luggage and opened it up.

She packed a few changes of clothes in her luggage along with some dust for her weapon just in case. "Oh." Weiss pulled at a small back of cookies she made herself and put them on Ruby's night stand with a note attached to them. Weiss zipped up her luggage and quietly exited her room. "Time to go to Atlas." Weiss shivered at the thought.