A/N Hey guys, I will end the poll for which pairing I will do on Wednesday, August 31 when I upload this chapter to so get your votes in quick! And yes, I know I am uploading this earlier than planned but I have self-imposed deadlines, and school, so I typed this up when I could. And one other note, any text like 'this' in italics is whispered to where only nearby faunus can hear.

Enjoy!

Chapter 3

The Memory

Ruby P.O.V.

As me and Blake walked towards the auditorium, I filled her in on what had just happened in the span of the months that I remember. While I talked, she just listened, never speaking until I was finished, then said, "Well, at least that explains one thing."

"And what would that be, if I may ask?"

"Why They thought you deserted them. You never reported in because you never even recalled that you worked for them."

"Ooohh! I do have one question though."

"Shoot."

"Why are you here?"

When I asked this, Blake went silent for a couple minutes before responding. "Uhh… Shouldn't we be at the auditorium by now?"

"I thought you knew where it was. I WAS following you, after all."

"I was following you, Ruby. Just stop and let me check my- HOLY FUCKING SHIT WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!" At this, we sprinted, well Blake sprinted, I jogged fast, towards the auditorium after getting our direction right. When we entered the auditorium, I heard Yang yell for me, which kinda hurt to be honest. Damn it Yang! Why does she always have to yell?! "Well, I guess I'll see you later Ruby. Don't want to keep your sister waiting for longer than a couple of minutes. Otherwise, who knows what she will do."

"Okay then! Bye Blake!"

After reaching Yang, I was pulled into another one of her lung crushing "hugs". She let go of me when I started begging for air. As I tried to tell her what happened during the time after she left me, the Ice Bitch, Weiss, showed up and started yelling at me, again.

"YOU! HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOUR FACE TO ME AGAIN!"

"Oh no, it's happening again!"

"Woah. You really did blow up."

"I tried to tell you, Yang. But did you believe me? No!"

As me and Yang were whispering this, Weiss was rattling off something about how the Schnee Dust Company was not responsible, blah blah blah. When she finished, Ozpin finally walked onto the stage and began his speech. I just tuned him out and looked around the room, noticing some of the older students had concerned looks on their faces, so I turned to look at Ozpin and noticed something was…off…about him today. When he finished talking I mentioned this to Yang.

"Yeah, he looked like his mind was elsewhere. I wonder what could've happened to cause Oz to space out like that."

"Well, there's no use standing here talking about it, let's head towards the ballroom."

"Okay, sis. Race ya!"

"You're on!"

Yang, really? You know I'll- "HEY! NOT FAIR YANG! CHEATER!"

"You used to always use your semblance, so I thought I should even the odds!"

As it turns out, Yang tied the laces of my boots together to stop me from running. Such a cheap move that I should've expected something like it from her. By the time I had untied my laces, she was already three-quarters of the way to the ballroom. Shit! If I win, it'll be by a nose, literally. You see this isn't the first time Yang has done this, that I can recall anyways. I was right by winning by a nose, as I caught up with her as she almost reached the doors and passed her by, narrowly avoiding a foot she stuck out to trip me.

"Yang, you should really stop that, otherwise I'll wear shoes without laces. What'll you do then, huh?"

[1 hour later] (Bathroom)

I was getting into my pjs in the bathroom when I heard someone trying to hide their footsteps. I immediately put my red headphones on my head to disguise my ears when I heard the footsteps pass by my stall, and shortly heard a muffled scream followed by what sounded like ice suddenly forming. Fuck, Yang. What did I tell you about sneaking up on people, especially strangers who you know nothing about? Because as soon as I opened the stall door a crack, I saw Yang still in her regular outfit frozen to the far wall. And who came out of the stall across from Yang other than the bitch herself, Weiss. As soon as I thought she noticed me, I pulled the door shut again and counted to ten to see if she would leave. I wasn't that lucky though as the door was suddenly forced open by an irritated Weiss.

"Just what are you hiding that you feel the need to close the door when I see your little, red head sticking out of the stall?"

"I-I-I don't k-kn-know what you are t-talking about" I'm fucked. She has me stuttering now. FUCK!

"I will find what it is that you're hiding, and when I do, the whole school will learn about it."

That is when I realized that Yang was behind the spoiled bitch, apparently having heard her threaten me and getting furious, getting ready to kill her. So I did the one thing I could do, which was save Weiss' ass from a brutal beating.

"Uhh… Weiss?"

"WHAT?!"

"Turn around."

"Why should I do th- ""Are you threatening my sister, bitch?"

I swear, when Weiss heard that come from Yang's mouth, she paled even more than snow, which is saying something.

"I'm screwed, aren't I?"

"Yup," me and Yang said together.

At that moment, black glyphs appeared on Yang's wrists and legs, along with my own legs, allowing Weiss to escape without getting mauled. After a couple of minutes after she left, the glyphs disappeared, letting go of me and Yang.

"That bitch better run!"

"Yang calm down. She will forget about the threat she made, but will remember the threat you made. Trust me."

*sigh* "Okay. But next time she threatens you, let me know. Alright?"

No. "Sure Yang!" I won't because you'll kill her. "If she threatens me again, I'll be sure to let you know."

"Alrighty then, let's get ready for tomorrow!"

[3 hours later] (Ballroom)

I was laying on my makeshift pallet in the floor, wearing my beowolf shirt along with my rose-print sweats, and cuddling with my corgi pillow, writing down everything that I experienced today, when Yang suddenly distracted me, flopping down on the pallet next to me.

"Watcha doin' sis?"

"Writing down everything that happened in case I somehow forget again."

"Aww! That's sooo cute!" *poomph* I threw my regular pillow at her, the corgi reminds me of home for some reason, so I didn't want to ruin that.

"Shut up! Unlike you, I don't know if I'll lose my memory again. Plus, I don't know anyone here."

"What about that girl you showed up to the auditorium with?"

"You mean Blake?"

"See! Another friend!" 'Now where is she?' Yang whispered this last part to herself but I still heard it. "There she is!"

"W-WAIT! YANG! WHAT'RE YOU DOING?!"

I have no idea why I asked, because it was obvious that she was dragging me towards where Blake sat reading a book.

"Hello! I believe you two know each other."

At this, Blake looked up from her book, saw me and started to feign ignorance.

"Aren't you the- ""She knows, Blake." "Okay then." At this she relaxed a little, but had an unasked question in her eye. 'Does she know?' Blake whispered only to me. I gave an imperceptible shake of my head. "You must be Yang."

"Yup! Nice to meet you!" Now Yang was approaching me with her arms open. "Oh I'm so proud of you!" As she said this, she wrapped me in one of her rib-crushing hugs.

"Yang! Cut it out!"

At this point, I was embarrassed to no end, so I did the only reasonable thing I could. I started punching Yang. That is, until Her Bitchiness, Weiss, came over complaining about the noise. Then we got in an argument until Blake blew out her candelabra, silencing Weiss and Yang. As they reluctantly tried to make their way back to their beds in the dark, I had some time alone with Blake.

"Thanks."

"Don't mention it."

"Hey, uhh… Blake?"

"Yes Ruby?"

"Could you tell me more about what happened to me?"

"I guess I can. We have nothing else to do until tomorrow. I think the only important thing that happened right after Adam brought you to us was the initiation. The leaders had you go into the forest and wipe out a large pack of beowolves."

"I think it's starting to come back to me. Yeah! I had just finished making Crescent Rose, right?"

"Yeah, and we, actually Adam, bought you a new red cloak to commemorate it."

Third-person P.O.V.

[Eight years ago]

Ruby was walking towards the designated clearing, just like instructed. When she got there, there were beowolves as far as the eye could see. Three made to attack her, but Ruby activated her semblance and jumped above them, doing a slight turn to where her left side was facing downwards, and pulling Crescent Rose out in its sniper form. After aligning the shot, Ruby pulled the trigger while falling, using the recoil to soften her landing, then sprinted towards the least packed area of the clearing, shooting any beowolf in her way. As soon as the last beowolf in her path was down, Ruby allowed Crescent Rose to extend to its full scythe form, planting the business end in the ground as she did so.

As the other beowolves charged her, she was firing shot after shot until one got to close for comfort. Using her instincts, Ruby spun on Crescent Rose's shaft, kicking the beowolf as she did so. When it was far enough behind her and another took its place at the front of the scythe, Ruby pulled the trigger, killing the beowolf in front and simultaneously dislodging Crescent Rose from the ground, sending it spinning, with Ruby still on it, towards the one that charged past her earlier, impaling it as Ruby landed. As Ruby torn her sweetheart out of the beowolf that was already dissipating, the others caught up to her. As soon has both hands were on Crescent Rose, Ruby started slicing them to pieces. Eventually, Ruby had enough of fighting the Grimm on the ground, so she swung her scythe around the neck of one, climbing on its back in the process. As soon as she reached the highest she could go, she fired, decapitating the Grimm and launching herself back into the sky.

When the Grimm were roughly below her, they jumped up to meet her, rather than have a repeat of earlier. As Ruby fell, again, she left Crescent Rose in its scythe form and decided to use the Grimm to slow her descent instead. When the first beowolf reached her, Ruby landed on its back while slicing it in half, then jumped back into the air, doing this to the next four or five Grimm before landing. Almost as soon as her feet touched the ground, more beowolves appeared from the forest on the far side of the clearing. Deciding to end this fight quickly, Ruby changed magazines to one filled with gravity-dust rounds. As soon as she did, she positioned Crescent Rose to where it would face behind her, and fired, causing her to be thrown forward with great force due to the recoil of the new rounds.

When she met the horde of Grimm, she kept firing as she sliced through them, and about halfway through, she started spinning sideways to slice a few in half. By the time all the Grimm were either decapitated or thoroughly minced, Ruby was out of bullets, but had accomplished what she had been told to do. When she got back to the warehouse, she was met with applause and cheers, and was guided to her sleeping quarters by a worried Adam.

"You alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine Adam. Really, I am."

"You look like you went through a lot, and I don't want you to over work yourself."

By this point, Blake had walked in. "Leave the girl alone Adam. Can't you tell she handled herself pretty well."

"Unlike you, Blake, I didn't have a front row seat to the fight, and I didn't want one either."

"Don't start fussing over me Adam, I can take care of myself now. After all, I have Crescent Rose now, right?"

"Well, that isn't for me to say, Rubes. You still have to go and see the leader."

"Alright, alright, I will! Geez! Can't a girl get any rest after defeating a hundred or so beowolves in her first fight?"

"No." "Definitely not." Blake and Adam told Ruby at the same time. By now, Ruby had little to do other than see the leader of the White Fang and finish her initiation. After about thirty or so minutes in the "conference room", which was just twelve tents put together in the darkest corner of the warehouse, Ruby came back out sporting a new mask, confirming her spot in the White Fang for life.

A/N Alright! That is another chapter down, and many more to go! Just fyi, I do not believe in planning before I write. I let the story take its own course as I write. The only exception will of course be the pairings. I have also finally come up with a name and some cover art for my OC story which I will be posting only on FF, but if you want updates you can visit my Tumblr, which should have the URL in my profile. See you guys in three weeks or so.

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