Chapter 3

First class

(Ruby= younger Ruby)

(Ruby= older Ruby)

Ruby slowly managed to stop her crying. Velvet continued to rub Ruby's back, "Who was that Ruby?" Velvet questioned when Ruby finally removed her head from Velvet's shoulder. Velvet reached into her pocket and pulled out a handkerchief out of her pocket and handed it to Ruby. Ruby grabbed it and wiped away the trails from her tears.

"I don't know but she looks just like my mother." Ruby replied back sombrely as she handed back the handkerchief to Velvet and gave her a small smile in thanks. Velvet got up and walked with Ruby over to get her breakfast and to where Ruby's team had sat when they entered the cafeteria. Velvet hugged her from behind before she picked up her food.

"Don't worry, I will be here for you no matter what." Velvet whispered into Ruby's ear and gave it a small nibble. She than took a step back and walked with her over to team RWBY. Ruby pulled her hood over her head to hide the blush that started to spread on her face.

Ruby paced back and forth in her class trying to decide on how she was going to teach the class and what she was going to call herself. She sighed as she glanced at her scroll and searched through all known channels, legal and illegal ones, for Cinder Fall. Cinder had always been difficult to track down but not to the point where no record of Cinder existed. She sat down reluctantly at her desk. Without a way of finding Cinder, she would have to wait for Cinder to come to her and than would have to acquire more information from there. She sighed as the door to the class was opening and students started to file in. She glanced at the clock, 8:55. Class started in five minutes so she pulled out her roster of students. As she glanced through she found that the first class today was going to be the first years. She sighed as the bell rang and stood up. "Hello Class, I am the new combat instructor. You may call me Miss. Red. Any questions?" Ruby asked while the room started to fill up with whispers of the students talking amongst themselves discussing the new teacher. Cardin Winchester rose his hand, "Yes Mr. Winchester?" Ruby called on him and braced herself for what he was to say.

"What exactly can you teach us, you look like you only recently graduated and aren't much older than us, so what exactly can you teach us?" Cardin questioned rudley which lead to the class mummering with those that agreed with him and those who were uncertain about what to do. "In fact, I think that any of us here could probably beat you." Ruby started to laugh at that comment, "Well Team CRDL, your leader just volunteered you guys to have the first match of this class." Ruby gave a wolf grin at them as the entire class fell to silence. She started to move down to the training area and turned back to the students who hadn't moved an inch, "Well, what are you waiting for? We don't have all day." Ruby stated impatiently.

It was Dove who spoke up, "Wait, you mean that the four of us are going to fight you?" Ruby just gave a simple nod and turned and continued walking to the arena. "Guys, as much as I hate to say it, but something feels off about this." His teammates snorted and snickered as him as they shoved past him and grabbed out their weapons and approached the arena. Dove sighed sadly in defeat before grabbing his sword and following his team. When they entered the arena, Ruby walked to the far side and picked up a weapon that was leaning on the wall, it was at first a large sword, but she pressed a button on the hilt and it split into two long swords which she spun around in her hands while walking to the middle of the arena. Cardin signaled his team to circle around her and to attack on his mark.

Ruby was quickly surrounded and just gave a small chuckle before dashing forward towards Sky who swung with his halberd only for Ruby to slide under the swing and sweeping his legs out from under him. She quickly kicked the weapon away from its fallen owner before turning back to the others and ducking in time to dodge a blow from one of Russell's knife and bringing her sword up to parry away his other knife on his next swing. She quickly spun around and delivered a kick into his exposed stomach sending him to the other side of the room. She ducked under a Cardin's mace as he tried to land a hit while she was looking the other way. As Cardin swung the mace back and than over his head in a downward slam, Ruby Just gave a wolfish grin while dropping the sword in her left hand and bring it upwards. Many people were shocked at the teachers rash movement and many of the students turned away to avoid seeing the devastating hit land. Cardin gave a smug look thinking he had secured a decisive blow but was shocked when she grabbed it and acted as a counter force lifting Cardin into the air with relative ease and ignoring the ground shattering below her from stopping the mace. Cardin let out a scream as he was thrown into the pair of Russell and Sky who had just managed to recover knocking all three out.

Ruby suddenly felt a sharp pain in her side and realised that in her time of showing of she had forgotten all about the last member of the team standing, Dove. Dove quickly went for a feint to the left before going into a jab at her exposed backside. Had any other person been standing there, Dove would have hit and allowed an even bigger opening to be exposed but his strike was blocked with the sword in Ruby's right hand and was quickly knocked onto the defensive. A single hit from Ruby's sword sent his sword flying even though he did his best to parry and ended up with a sword at his throat forcing him to yield. Ruby smirked before picking up her sword that she dropped, putting it back together and gave a small grin to Dove as he slowly picked up his sword while his teammates dragged themselves to their seats.

"Alright class, I know that there isn't much time left but I want you all to partner up and face of against anyone in this class. Ruby sat down as the students quickly paired up and got to work with a new fear of their teacher. Ruby just grinned and stared at the student who was showing the most promise in this dimensions class.

Ruby groaned as she entered the staff lounge and plopped onto the couch while groaning in annoyance. Her first class was easy but the following two had no real fighters and had instead just asked her a million and one questions. "Hard first day?" Asked the other teacher in the room and Ruby froze at his voice, sitting at the table by the door was Qrow and she realized she wasn't going to get out of this room without him interrogating her first. "Well pardon me, my bad, The names Qrow Branwen. Who are you?"

"My name I go by now is Red," Ruby said as she tried to move towards the door but was blocked by Qrow blocking it by putting himself in front of the door. "Is there any reason that you are blocking the door?" Ruby questioned while bracing herself for the onslaught that Qrow was going to ask her.

"Why do you look so much like Summer Rose, and more importantly, who are you actually, I know for a fact that Ozpin wouldn't just suddenly hire someone as the combat instructor without informing anyone." Qrow stated while narrowing his eyes and looking her over. As she looked into his eyes she could feel the hate and sadness radiating from them which bore into her. She had known the look from the last time she had looked in the mirror as it was like looking into the abyss.

Ruby sighed as she stared at him before pulling out her scroll, unlocking it, pulling up her file, and hand it to him and started her story, "The reason I look like Summer Rose is because she is my mother. I come from a parallel dimension where my mother married Tiayang and had me as a child. It ran mostly the same as this one, but in my time, the world fell and everything turned to ruin. I am here now to make sure that doesn't happen." Ruby snagged the scroll back from a wide eyed and shocked Qrow and shoved him out of the way before making her exit from the room. "Have a good day, Professor Branwen." And with that Ruby shut the door and started to head to her room to get away from everyone at the school.

Ruby sat silently in the dorm room with her team who were discussing the classes they had had for the day. She thought back to the combat class they had attended and couldn't get past the fact that the professor looked just like her mother. Ruby suddenly was startled by a hand being waved in front of her face, "Hello? Remnant to my favorite cousin, did you hear what I asked you? What are your thoughts on the new combat instructor?" Yang questioned her as she blushed at realizing everyone was staring at her. Wiess just gave a sigh of disappointment for her not paying attention while Blake just rolled her eyes at the cousin's antics.

"Sorry, I thought that the new combat instructor was rather interesting and pretty skilled as she took down those four arrogant students, but I feel like I know her from somewhere even though I have never met her before in my life." Ruby stated while thinking back to earlier when she had confronted the women who looked so much like her mother but at the same time did not. She sighed as she heard some knocking on the door and went over to get it and was greeted by the sight of her dad who looked like he had just seen a ghost.

"Ruby there's something that we need to talk about." Qrow declared as he grabbed her hand and directed her out of the room and closed the door. "The reason I need to talk to you is due to the new teacher here at Beacon Miss Red."

Well hope you all enjoyed this new instalment to the story, I will say it does feel good to write again but at the same time I remember the stress this brings me. I just want to thank the friend of mine who I showed this to the other day and was encouraged by her to continue my work. This has been great to start up again and depending on feedback I will try to put up more but as you can tell I am not exactly a stable writer when it comes to consistency. Well please review as it helps me in the future and as always, ~Tuxedo Mask Reborn out~