As Summer woke up the next morning her firsts thoughts were not anything responsible like, 'what do I make for dinner,' or, 'where will we live,' or even, 'who else can we scare,' it was in fact, 'I want a better look at Ruby's weapon,' so reaching over the sleeping body of her husband, she saw the time was eight. Recalling what she knew of everyone's sleeping habits she figured that Tai would still be asleep as would Qrow, Yang would probably be getting up fairly soon-ish, likely to train. But, if she knew Ruby, she would have been awake for hours already training her aura, getting in some exercise and practising with her semblance and weapon, then would have gone back to sleep, making none the wiser. This thought made Summer beam with pride at her daughters' dedication to becoming a huntress. But it also gave her an idea.

Walking around the house until she located Ruby's bedroom, she walked inside to find her daughter wide awake and staring at the ceiling. Poking her head around the corner and whispering a gentle, "Hey Ruby," Summer gestured for Ruby to come closer to the door.

Wondering what was up with her mother, after getting over the initial excitement of her not being a dream, walked quietly to the doorway and asked, "Yeah, what?"

"Get dressed, grab your weapon and meet me outside," Summer replied.

Doing just that Ruby ran back into the room, careful not to disturb the sleeping form of her sister, she jumped out the window and landed neatly in front of her waiting mother. Immediately summer held out her hands and said with a childish impatience, "I want to examine your weapon, do you want to examine mine?"

Ruby gave an eager wordless nod and the pair swapped weapons. Upon closer inspection ruby could see the intricate detail in the design of her mothers' weapon. The blade of the chain axes was engraved with a swirling rose vine, winding delicately up the blades. Looking closer she saw that on every third chain link there was also a rose symbol, running all the way to the hilt, which was wrapped in white leather with a black leather diamond weave, each black patch with a droplet of red. Swinging the weapon upward, retracting the chain, and mecha-shifting them into the twin katanas, she found a similar pattern on the blade and hilt. Finally, putting the two blades together, they shifted and joined, quickly forming a sniper rifle. It was sleek and elegant, Ruby could tell it held the same rounds as she did, but had a slower firing rate. This, however, could be easily fixed.

She was about to hand it back when she spotted a careful engraving along the edge of the sniper rifles scope.

"So, Corvus Rose, huh," Ruby said, reading out the weapons name. her mother jolted somewhat at this statement causing ruby some alarm, "What's wrong mum?"

"Nothing," Summer assured, "Except that only a very fine and skilled eye could spot the name so quickly. Even your father didn't spot it until third year. I see with your weapon you've put a lot of time and effort into its maintenance, you must care for it very much,"

"Of course! My sweetheart deserves only the best! A weapon is an extension of our selves, of our very souls! Any idiot who treats their weapon differently is not worthy of mine or my precious' attention. I wouldn't give them the time of day," Ruby rambled excitedly.

"Finally, someone who understands the importance weapons. You know, I was looking at the sniper part of your weapon and I noticed a change in the mechanism compared to mine. What's with that?" Summer asked, "Does it do something to the firing rate or strength of the shot?"

"Yep!" Ruby squealed along with her mother, "I have some spare parts I can help you upgrade your weapon with, or we could wait and do it at beacon!"

Both mother and daughter jumped up and down, squealing even more until they heard another voice speak up, "Oh my god, there's two of you,"

This came from Yang, of course, who had been watching them fangirl over their weapons and had brought down Ember Celica to practise with.

"Hey, I know," Yang continued, looking at Summer, "Why don't you help my little sis improve her accuracy! No kidding, Ruby is a prodigy, but there's always room for improvement, right?"

Summer nodded in agreement and consent and Ruby beamed. As the two went off together Yangs' father joined her and they both began training as well.

By the time the mother and daughter pair returned home, it was lunch time. So, pulling out her old recipe book from under the floor boards, she handed it to Ruby to choose which meal she wanted. Ruby wanted all of them. Laughing, her mother said, "Ok then, I'll make you a surprise lunch and then later a surprise dinner! Now, out of the kitchen, no peeking,"

Hurriedly, Ruby bolted out of the kitchen, a trail of rose petals in her wake. Heading up to her room she detoured to check on her father who she found still asleep where they left him last night. Finally siting on her bed, she was about to pick up where she left off in her self assigned history books or grim studies books when she heard footsteps. Looking around and into the hallway, she could not locate the source of the noise.

Figuring it must just be her imagination, Ruby was about started to read. Soon she heard her mothers' call from the kitchen asking her to fetch Qrow as she came. As ruby wandered down stairs to her father she saw something strange occur. It was as if her father was sleep walking, just slowly meandering in the general direction of the kitchen, following the noticeable smell of chocolate chip cookies and something else. Ruby found it startlingly familiar and followed the smell as well. She watched her father open his eyes and walk directly to the kitchen, fully awake, where he flung open the door, embraced and kissed his wife (Getting over the same initial excitement as Ruby had that same morning) and exclaimed, "Gosh I missed wildwood pie!"

As weird as she found this, it did not come close to the odd sight in front of her. Her mother was just finishing plating the meal, which by itself is fairly normal, but she did it upside down. By which I mean, standing on the roof.

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