Story note: Due to confusion Surrex's words will now be in bold and Ruby's thoughts/conversations with surrex will be in italics. Italics in quotes = Ruby mumbling to Surrex.

Chapter 2

Ruby sat in another waiting room while Professor Ozpin made the necessary paperwork to get her into Beacon.

What were you thinking! You're going to get us killed! Surrex hissed.

"Oh come on you're always talking about blending in. This is the perfect place to do so! Like hiding in plain sight." Ruby said.

No it's not! It's the perfect place to be killed!

"Nope you played that card eight years ago with my dad and I'm not falling for it again."

He would have killed us.

"We could have at least tried to talk to him."

It's kinda hard to talk when there's a sword through your…

Surrex was cut of as the door opened and a group of five made their way in. Professor Ozpin, the blonde women she learned was Professor Goodwitch, a white haired girl, a black haired girl, and... Yang! Ruby's hand immediately shot up to pull up her hood. She would have been able to play off her eyes and teeth by lying about being fanus, but not with Yang. Ruby was really regretting her hasty decision.

Told you so.

"Shut up!" Ruby hissed.

"Um Ms. Rose?" Ozpin asked looking a little concerned.

"Oh! Um… I Uh…" Ruby stuttered.

"Ruby!" Yang yelled while barreling towards her. Ruby started to panic, but before she could find a quick escape Yang was already tackling her into a hug. "Ruby I can't believe it's you! Where have you been! What happened to you! We have to call dad!"

"Uh… sis! Choking!" Ruby gasped through Yang's crushing hug.

"Oh! Sorry!" Yang gasped dropping Ruby. Ruby coughed from her lack of oxygen.

"Thanks… for not killing me sis. I saw the light just a little more and I would have been gone."

"Oh come one Ruby! It wasn't that bad!" Yang said cheerfully.

"Ehem!" the white haired girl interrupted the family reunion. "Do you mind filling us in or are you two dimwits going to play around all day."

She's a charmer isn't she

"I can see that." Ruby laughed to herself.

"What are you laughing at!" the white haired girl groaned. "I should have known you'd be a brat. You're too young to be here."

"Well excuse me princess, but last time I checked I saved you back in the forest." Ruby said mockingly.

"Why you!"

"Now now let's calm down you'll be a team after all." Ozpin said trying to calm the girls. "Allow me to introduce you to each other. This young lady is Weiss Schnee, The young Ms. with the bow is Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long seems to already left an impression, and Ms. Ruby Rose the girl clad in red. Together you four will form team RWBY lead by Ms. Rose."

"What!" Weiss yelled. "Why is she the leader! She's clearly unqualified to lead a team!"

Oh this is going to be interesting eh?

After a long "argument" that consisted of Weiss yelling about Ruby's incompetence, Weiss's anger finally died down and she grudgingly conceded to her new team leader. The group moved their way to their dorms chatting along the way.

"So Ruby where have you been for the past eight years!" Yang fawned over little sister. "We've got to get you back home to see dad! Or maybe not he may burst into tears when he sees you." Yang continued to chatter excitedly.

"Can I ask something" Blake interrupted Yang. Blake turned to look at Ruby. "Why are you hiding behind your hood?"

She gets right to the point doesn't she?

"W-Well y-you know… this and that… eh he." Ruby mumbled trying to stall for time.

"Yeah why are you still wearing that hood Rubes?" Yang chimed in.

"Um the thing is… Hey! Look it's our dorm let's go check it out!" Ruby called while retreating into the room. The four girls entered the basic dorm room with four beds, dressers, desks, and an adjoining bathroom.

"W-Wow would you look at that! It's pretty nice isn't it eh he…" Ruby's mind was going at thousand miles an hour. What could be an excuse to her physical changes? A disease? A natural mutation? Some unknown power?

The mass collection of stupidity?

"Oh shut up."

"What?" The other three girls said in unison.

"Oh! Nothing just uh… talking to myself." Ruby said laughing it off. Ruby moved around the room looking around trying to act busy.

"You know Rubes you still didn't answer our question." Ruby looked to see Yang creeping towards her with her arms reached outward. This wasn't going to end well. Yang pounced on Ruby going for her hood laughing maniacally.

"No! Yang wait!" Ruby yelped as she went down with a thud tackled by Yang.

"You're not getting out of…" Yang stopped mid sentence as she stared into Ruby's animalistic flowing silver eyes. "Ruby… what…" Ruby was panicking at this point. She needed an excuse and fast.

"So… you are fanus?" Blake broke the silence.

Perfect a distraction!

Like that'll help.

Oh shut up and help me think!

"You two didn't know?" Weiss questioned "when we met in the forest I saw that she was. Why were you trying to hide it from these two Ruby?"

"Maybe she felt threatened by someone." Blake said accusingly.

"Excuse me!"

"Well it is a well known fact how the Schnee Dust Company feels towards fanus. Maybe she didn't want those feelings directed towards her."

"Why you! She didn't hide from me she hid from you two."

"Perhaps it was simply she didn't recognize you at first."

"Hey! Things are getting tense so… why don't we take some time to cool off. Ok? Everyone can go their separate ways for now think about what's happened and we can possibly not kill each sound good?" Ruby asked… well more pleaded, but same thing. The heiress and Blake grudgingly agreed and Yang seemed to be in a far of place of thought. So the heiress stormed off first with Blake leaving shortly after, but in the other direction. Ruby had to wriggle free of Yang's grip to try and make a hasty escape.

"Ruby wait! what?" Yang called out still in a daze. Ruby guess that her sudden appearance and physical changes were just a little too much for the over protective sister.

"Just hang out here Yang I'll explain when everyone's back. Ok?"

"Yeah… Ok." Yang said recovering from her daze.

Ruby closed the door and let out a long sigh.

Why did you stop their fighting? Their anger was delicious and we haven't feed in a while. It would have proven beneficial to us.

"Because I can't have my… our team tearing itself apart on the first day"

Ruby sprinted down the halls of Beacon at full speed. Library! Library! Where's the Library!

Going to go look for an excuse?

"What do you think!"

Ruby made a sharp turn at the end of the hall promptly smashing into a blond haired boy. She shot back up her adrenaline still pumping.

"Oh! I'm so sorry I was in a rush and well…" Ruby apologized while helping the boy up.

"It's alright it's not the worst thing that's happened to me." The blond boy replied.

"Well I'm really sorry, but I've got something really important to do so I'll make it up to you some other time." Ruby called already disappearing down the halls. A few minutes of top speed running Ruby crashed through the library's doors. Stumbling she made her way to one of the computers breathing hard. Ok now all I need to do is…

"Ruby?" a voice called. What now! Ruby turned around to see Blake.

"Oh h-hey Blake… h-how's it going?" I can't catch a break today.

"What are you doing here?' Blake asked taking a seat next to her.

"Oh you know just… browsing."

"You came here in quite a rush"

"Well I was just uh, excited. Yeah... excited"

"What's bothering you Ruby? Does it have to do with your fanus heritage?" Blake asked seemingly genuinely concerned.

"Well you see I may possibly have not been born like this…" Blake's eyebrow went up.

"So you mean you had late acting genes?"

"What?"

That doesn't even sound like a real thing.

'Late acting genes" Blake began "there when you have distant fanus relatives and have a few fanus genes. It's pretty rare, but sometimes those genes activate later in life."

"Uh yeah that's exactly what I have and I was just having a hard time explaining to Yang. Yup that's it. Totally. One hundred percent."

This is the most convenient turn of event we've had in awhile.

I know right!

"Thanks Blake you really helped me out!" Ruby told Blake as she hugged her.

"I-I um…" Blake was clearly flustered "you're welcome."

"I'll see you in a little!" Ruby called running off before Blake could respond.

A few hours later and a very tense and awkward conversation in the girl's dorm room everything was sorted out.

"Wow Rubes I would've never guessed something like that ran in the family." Yang talked while plopping onto her bed.

"W-Well it probably comes from my mom's side Yang."

"Eh you're probably right." Yang laughed "I'm glad we cleared that up, but…" Yang looked over at Weiss and Blake. "Things are still tense."

You should have them fight it out.

"You should shut up."

"Ruby?" Yang turned away from the others to look at her.

"Oh I was just uh… Yeah we should find a way to distract them."

"I'll take the heiress. I think it would just add fuel to the fire if you went with her." Yang got and walked over to Weiss.

"What are you!" Before Weiss could move Yang was already throwing Weiss over her shoulder.

"Come on princess let's go before you two start a catfight."

"What! let me down! I swear I'm gonna…" Weiss's yelling echoed down the hallway.

"What was that about?" Blake asked.

"Well you two seemed at each other's throats so Yang and I thought we should split you up for now. Though I didn't expect her to do that."

"You two are really strange. You know that?"

Eh more like the three of us.