"So, let me see if I have this straight," The white haired girl asked, busily rubbing her forehead to try and deter the headache she could feel beginning to form, "This little girl here, the one that is currently laying upside-down on your couch, reading a children's book, is both your adopted baby sister...and currently one of the most infamous sky pirates amongst the bounty list..."
"Yeah, I think that about sums it up Weiss," Yang replied, relaxing back against the couch she was currently sharing with the red-haired 15-year old.
"Oh god, did I fall off of the lookout point, and am having the most ridiculous hallucinations ever," Weiss replied, falling back further into the chair she was occupying, and held her head in her hands.
"If it makes you feel any better, I didn't believe her when she first told me either," Yang offered weakly, as the younger girl, who seemed all but unaware of the conversation, had her tongue sticking out in concentration, and seemed to be attempting an acrobatic feat to get off of the couch and the uncomfortable position she had managed to contort herself into.
Ruby, who had indeed been paying at least some attention to the conversation, finally felt like adding her two pieces in, and stopped mid-contortion to glare at her big sister, "Hey, why would anyone lie about something like that? it's like painting a big, unneccessary target on yourself."
"Which you continue to do everyday, my dear little sister, as you are constantly frequenting the bars in search of rumors to find..." Yang was abruptly cut off by the redhead as she jumped at the girl, and covered her mouth.
"Shut up Yang, princess here doesn't need to know about that," Ruby hissed in an unusually serious tone, the glare she also shot her sister further pushing her point home.
Weiss blinked in surprise for several seconds as the two seemed to have a silent conversation with only their eyes, but finally her mind clicked to what the redhead had just said, and her temper predictably flared, "Excuse me, I am not a princess you washed up little street rat, I am..."
"Yeah, Yeah, no one cares princess," Yang replied in a teasing tone, partially to get a rise out of the other girl, while Ruby had returned to her storybook without another word.
"What did you say, Blondie!" The white haired girl screeched, but was promptly ignored as Yang turned back to her distracted little sister.
"So Ruby, did you manage to find anything?" The blonde asked casually, though Weiss thought she'd felt a change in the air around the room.
"No, it was another wild goose chase," The redhead replied without looking up from her tome, "Which means I have to find a new lead."
"Well hey, that means you get to hang around beacon for a while, at least, and hey, maybe we can go and visit Blake while you're in town, she's been rather worried about you," The older girl suggested.
Weiss was almost startled when the redhead's eyes seemed to all but light up at the mention of this unknown "Blake", and for some reason she felt her heart clench uncomfortably in her chest. Blake happened to be a boy's name. She brushed off this momentary oddity in exchange for watching the younger girl's reaction.
"Oh Yeah, and I definitely have to check out the library, and resupply, and go visit Uncle Crow...and..." The way the younger girl trailed off at the end made Weiss think there was something less pleasant for her to do, but for the life of her she couldn't imagine what.
The way Yang laid her hand upon her younger sister's shoulder though told Weiss all that she needed to know, so she put the questions in her mind aside for the moment, "Well, I do hope your stay will be brief, sky pirate. We don't need even more of your kind around here to threaten Beacon."
The mere venom in the girl's words seemed to effect the 15-year old, who flinched back, and whimpered at the comment, unable to say anything in her favour. Thankfully Yang was still there to speak up for the meek girl, "Oi, don't go talking that way to my sister, especially when you're in my house Princess."
"Like she's any different from the sky pirates that are constantly stealing from our harbours, pillaging our supplies, and making lower beacon entirely useless for the rest of us!" Weiss could feel the fire burning up inside, and knew that once she really got started, there wouldn't be any hope of stopping her rants.
"That's enough, both of you," Ruby's strict, no-nonsense voice broke through the two girls in mid-glaring contest, and the girl's face had seemingly morphed, no longer that of an innocent child. Now it radiated confidence, hardness, and the realities of life, in a way that would not allow any argument in her choice.
Both girls took one look at Ruby, and backed down immediately, though Yang tried to find words to argue with her baby sister, eventually she just gave up and retook her lounging position upon the couch with a muffled, "Fine, you don't need to go all captain Rose on us."
Weiss watched in shock as the girl's stern face all but melted, and a very bright grin replaced it, as the girl fell back onto the couch beside her big sister, as if nothing had ever happened.
'At first I would never expect her to be a sky pirate, but the way she turns on her commanding features, there can't be any doubt she is one, and a strong one at that,' The white-haired girl thought to herself, thereby missing the rest of the pairs conversation.
"So I'm going down to the library first, see if Blake is in, then off to visit with Uncle Crow, Crescent Rose could definitely use a tune-up," The younger girl announced.
Eyes widening again, it was only then that Weiss noticed the large weapon that was mostly hidden underneath the girl's long cape, sitting innocently within it's sheathe, ready to be withdrawn at a moments notice.
"Let's just hope that the Police don't find out that you're here sis, we do not need a repeat of the last time you came into port," Yang said with a huff of annoyance, which the girl didn't seem to agree with.
"Aww c'mon, that was a lot of fun, we even got Uncle to come out of his lab to see me off!" The 15-year old boasted.
"Yeah, to distract the guards and bail your cute little butt out so you wouldn't get captured," Yang snapped back, but the way both girls burst into laughter seemed to clear up the air between them.
Finding her eyes trailing over to the redhead, Weiss growled and turned away from the two idiots, and prepared to excuse herself, not wanting to be anywhere near these two when the guards found a sky pirate in upper beacon.
Just as she was beginning to get up though, she found herself once again at the mercy of those surprisingly beautiful silver eyes, and was stopped dead in her tracks, "Hey Weiss, would you like to come and meet some of my friends? I promise, none of them are sky pirates...though Blake can be a bit...abrasive."
"A bit?" Yang commented from nearby, but Ruby hissed for her to be quiet, and the blonde conceded, though in her own mind she was chastising the redhead for even thinking of inviting someone so anti-pirate along. Knowing the heiress, she wouldn't put it past her to sound the alarm and get her little sister caught on purpose.
"I'll have you know that I have far better things to do with my time then spend it on outlaws and their reject friends," Weiss snapped back at the girl, which nearly made yang want to punch her, but the younger girl stopped her in her tracks with just one arm, "Please Weiss, I promise on my honour that nothing bad will happen to you."
"Your honour huh, how much honour does a sky pirate have," The white-haired girl asked, which made Yang growl.
"Follow us and you'll find out," The redhead challenged, making Weiss take a step back.
Biting her lip, Weiss weighed her options carefully. On the one hand, being associated with a sky pirate of any kind already could put her into a world of trouble, especially with her father, but for a supposedly renowned, world-wanted sky pirate, multiply that ten-fold, and you would have the guards on you in a second.
On the other hand, merely the thought of never seeing the girl in the red cloak again made her heart clench in that same, uncomfortable way, and she did admit, if only to herself, that she was curious what kind of companions a sky pirate could make in a lawful place like beacon.
Finally finished with her internal musing, Weiss made the choice that would begin the ball rolling for the rest of her life, and what she would unwittingly agree to would change her life forever.
"Fine, I'm in," and the white haired girl's only response was a pair of identical mischievous grins, which made her heart drop into her stomach.
'Oh god what did I agree to,' She would later think to herself.