"Mama?" Ruby started.

"Yes honey?"

"Umm, well… why are you standing on the roof?" she inquired.

"Ohh, that. That's just my semblance. I can shift my gravity to anything, meaning I can walk on walls, on rooves, up trees…" she trailed off listing more surfaces when Qrow added, "Up Beacon tower, the underside of a Nevermore, the back of an Ursa, Glynda's head,"

Glaring at her husband, summer continued, "It basically allows me to walk, run, sit, jump," here Qrow inserted, "Fall over on," getting him another glare before she continued, "any surface, and it means that anything about my person, namely my cloak, always falls in the direction of my feet, handy huh,"

"Yep, I totally agree, only, why are you upside down now?" Ruby questioned.

"Oh, that's just how I cook, I am a horrible chef when on the ground but standing on the roof however…" Summer handed her, her plate for Ruby to try the wildwood pie. Quickly scoffing the slice, Ruby sighed in satisfaction before continuing on from her mother, "I get it, you're pretty good,"

This caused summer to grin with giddy pride at her daughters' praise as she came down from the roof and handed Ruby the plate of cookies she had been holding. Just as the plate left her hand however, she heard a startled cry from Qrow, "No!" he said.

But it was too late. The cookies were gone. Qrow sighed morosely at his wife's mistake, 'giving my daughter a whole plate of cookies, what was she thinking?' He paused for a second 'dau ghter, huh? Feels natural to say that,' he was drawn from his momentary distraction by a light tap on the shoulder and a small package pressed into his palm. Opening it he found it full of Summers famous Qrow cookies, sort of like chocolate chip but some secret Rose family ingredient for eighteen and older only. Giving a small and contented smile he kissed his wife saying, "Thanks Sum,"

Hugging his daughter, he asked, "Hey do you want to see something cool?" to which Ruby nodded eagerly. He turned to Summer who raised an inquisitive eyebrow as he started to grin. Rolling her eyes, she nodded. Turning back to Ruby, Qrow asked, "Have you ever seen two trained hunter partners fight Ruby?"

She shook her head in awe and Qrow continued, "Well then, you're about to get your cape blown off, cause me and Sum, we were the best of the best, hell we were beating up Ozpin by our third year, especially with our partner attacks,"

"We certainly were amazing. The question is, are we still? Do you remember them all?" summer asked Qrow.

He nodded and grinned, "Like it was yesterday," he said, and the trio walked off into the forest surrounding patch to find a Beowulf pack or Ursa.

After a short while, the air around them seemed to darken and fill with the red glowing eyes of a Beowulf pack. They formed a defensive circle, and drew their weapons when Qrow suddenly said to Summer, "Who do you think should go first?"

Summer only looked at him puzzled and shrugged letting him continue, "Because I think our little girl should go first, so we can both assess her fighting ability since starting at Beacon. Or in your case, Sum, since she was three. I think you'll find she has dramatically improved since then,"

Rubys' head whipped towards her father, "Really, daddy, really?!" he gave a gentle nod in response and she turned to her mother who nodded as well. The Beowolves surrounding them saw this as an opening and one of them attacked. Without even looking Ruby, still facing her mother, spun her scythe, cleaving the Beowulf clean in half. This caused both parents eyes to widen, which didn't go unnoticed by their ecstatic daughter.

Shifting into his crow form, Qrow flew up to one of the thick branches above them and Summer turned and ran up the tree to join him. From the air Summer started to get worried, realising the pack was bigger than she had initially thought. Sensing her worry, Qrow turned to her and said in a reassuring voice, "Don't worry Sum, she's handled far, far worse,"

Oddly, this didn't reassure her at all. She turned to watch as the whole pack descended on her daughter. Unfazed ruby merely hooked her arms around her scythe and spun using her semblance, slaughtering the first layer and knocking all the others back. This did reassure Summer, who could now see that her daughter was more that capable.

Ruby however, was wanting to show off more. She swung her scythe in precise, and extremely fast, circles. So caught up in her fighting that she didn't notice that her scythe had started to glow slightly, or for that matter her eyes, which had become sharper and more focused. She sensed a Grimm behind her and, once more without looking, cut its head of with her scythe, still defending her front. Glancing up she saw her father wink at her, a sign it was time for her end move. So, jumping from the Grimms' head, she soared straight up through the air, smiling at her mother who smiled back proudly, she started her decent, spinning her weapon faster and faster, landing and dismembering all the Grimm, even the Grimm out of range, such was the force of this attack, which was only greatened by the silver glow coming from the red clad girl.

Hopping down from the tree and clapping wildly came her parents, Ruby giving a small curtsey. Both of them ran to hug her, her mother whispering in her ear, "I'm so proud of you my girl," then louder, so that Qrow could hear, "You know, you're better that your father was at this stage of his training. On top of that you are two years younger than he was,"

At this Qrow bristled good naturedly and added, "You've got better aim than your mother did too," the three of them laughed and moved on to find another pack of Grimm.

Eventually the threesome stumbled across a small herd of Ursa, with even a couple of Ursa majors in the mix. Climbing the nearest tree, ruby watched from above as her parents did, as said duo engaged the Grimm. Given as there were only about nine or ten Ursa in total, the battle went fairly quickly, but it still gave Ruby the chance to see both her parents in action.

They stood back to back, weapons drawn, waiting. The first Ursa attacked from the side and was easily defeated by one of Summers chain axes. The second and third attacked from Qrows side and were easily dispatched. As this happened Summer sniped the fourth, fifth and sixth before only three Ursa majors were left. Stepping forward and turning towards Qrow, Summer whipped her chain axe towards Qrow who jumped of the blade and high into the air. On the axes second rotation it caught him around the foot, swinging him in a wide arc towards all three other Ursa, where he cleaved straight through them with his scythe.

There were a few other similar battles after this where the trio worked in perfect tandem together, but eventually it was time to go home for dinner. Noticing the date on her scroll, Ruby quickly realised that in a few weeks' time, she would have to head back to beacon for her second year. Excited at the prospect of another year at Beacon but saddened at the thought of losing time with her mother. Telling her parents this on the journey home, they smiled at her and told her not to worry and that the next few weeks would be a blast and that by the time she returned to Beacon, she would be ready for the year ahead.

And so, she was. Ruby barely noticed the weeks passing and when it was finally time to start packing her bags, she was ready to face anything. Walking outside to head to the airship, she saw another two sets of luggage. One was the expected yellow pile of bags belonging to her sister, but the other set was a neat white suitcase with blood red lining and the name Summer Rose embroidered on with the same coloured thread.

Ruby squealed in happiness as she realised what this meant. Her mother was coming with her!

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