To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
-George Washington
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Chapter 3-
When they arrived at the school they were quickly shown around and shown where they would be sleeping for the moment, a simple dorm room with two beds and a bathroom inside.
Once this was all done they were taken to the arena so Neo could show off her skills in combat, but instead of fighting Ruby they had gotten a second year team to do it.
"Team CFVY, meet Neo she is going to be your opponent today." Glynda said from the stands with Ruby and Ozpin standing next to her.
"All four of us against just her?" The leader, Coco asked confused.
"Yes, you may begin when ready." Glynda said, her tone brokering no argument.
"Are you sure she can handle four of them?" Ozpin asked the girl next to her.
"I'm sure, I've seen her against worse odds." Ruby informed the older man.
Neo had a wide smile on her face as she bowed to her four opponents, as she stood up straight her eyes had changed from brown to one pink and one brown eye as she waited for them to attack.
They had been allowed weapons but Coco felt hers was too destructive to fight so instead run towards Neo swinging her bag at her.
Neo effortlessly dodged the attack with a flip but as soon as she landed the rabbit Faunus, Velvet was already in the air with her foot outstretched.
She had landed with her hand on the ground as she spotted Velvet, pushing herself up again she avoided the attack and landed on the ground silently.
Seeing one of them standing still with his weapons by his side she looked confused at him before having to dodge the much larger man with an equally large sword.
This was how the battle went with Neo dodging attack after attack, none of the participants aura's being touched at all.
Neo had noticed early on that one of them was standing still and deciding to take him out first she jumped over Coco's back, placing a hand to push her down while she performed another flip and kicked the one man in the face.
He was shocked by the attack as he flew towards the wall, the one kick depleting his aura into the red instantly.
Up in the stands Glynda gasped as she saw the damage the single kick did, turning to Ruby who was smiling widely she asked, "What was that?"
"That was Neo, her preferred style of fighting is to simply wear down her opponent until they are tired, she can last a long time as it all comes naturally to her. She saw an opportunity there and she took it, he's blind isn't he?" Ruby informed them both before asking them a question.
"He is, he relies on his extremely good hearing in order to fight however he has never come across someone who is completely silent like that." Glynda told Ruby.
"Ah I see, but to answer your question about Neo it is part of her semblance in a way. She has the ability to teleport and for illusion, because of this she is able to displace herself and use her aura, to the point that she can actually increase the force of her attacks." Ruby informed the two.
"But normally you can see the Aura manifest itself when they do it." Glynda asked.
"Well as you know Aura is used as a shield and for protection and it varies on strength person to person, however in the same way we can create barriers with it and can increase our abilities with it also, and as you stated it would be more visible. But we can both put it into small bursts, so we can actually make small explosions with it, or even direct it to a certain point of out body. In this case her foot." Ruby explained to the older woman.
"How were you able to do that?" Glynda asked.
"With a lot of time and patience, it makes for highly efficient hand to hand combat and let us take people out quickly." Ruby explained to them.
By this point Neo had already taken out the rest of the team, using their time being stunned by the fact she had taken Fox out in one hit.
Finishing up the fight Neo bowed towards her staggering opponents before leaving the arena. After the fight, which easily impressed the two teachers the two girls had retreated to their small dorm room but instead of using both beds they were laying on one, talking.
"So you want to join Roman's side?" Ruby asked.
"I think it would help." Neo said, turning onto her side to face Ruby.
"I think so to, when do you think it'll happen?" Ruby asked.
Neo shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know, I'll put it out there that I'm looking for work but no one knows what I really do so it should be alright." Neo said.
"If you say, but just be careful ok?" Ruby said.
"Aren't I always?" Neo said with a smirk, "But it'll take a little bit for everything to be set up so I can just enjoy being here." Neo said as she pulled Ruby into a hug.
Ruby awkwardly returned the hug as Neo smiled and rested her head underneath Ruby's chin, the two slowly falling asleep with each other.
Up inside Beacon tower Ozpin sat at his desk with Glynda Goodwitch looking over his shoulder down at the scroll on the desk.
The first message on the screen was what Ozpin had sent to his old friend and partner Qrow, who he had told that Ruby was at his school now.
The next message she sent was to the other former teammate of his, Mizu Amsel who was partners with Summer and the four of them made up a team. He was unsure what to say to the woman she hadn't spoken to in almost twenty years, leaving it alone he instead opened up a picture of the four of them all together.
The picture was in their final year of school, just before graduation the four of them were all smiling and hugging each other for the photo.
The following week went by quickly for the two girls as they kept to themselves and leaving the students alone, when all the new students started to arrive Ruby and Neo both went to have a look.
Ruby was sitting on the edge of the fountain watching the new students arrived, she watched as a blonde boy had gone over to Weiss Schnee, knocking over her suitcases and causing an explosion of red dust.
She also watched as another girl had stepped in to inform the boy who Weiss was, while at the same time speaking out about the questionable labour of the Schnee Dust industry.
Which Ruby knew all about, having helped some Faunus escape from a Schnee dust mine and help them start new lives, however it was getting harder for her to do this.
Ruby smiled as she watched Weiss Schnee stomp off away from the blonde boy and the other girl, who had turned to see Ruby smiling at them.
Instant recognition crossed over Blake's face as she said, "Pup." She stated, walking over to Ruby.
"Cat, nice speech." Ruby said with a smile.
"It's only the truth, she looks like she needs to be put in her place." Blake said.
"Suppose so, but then again you couldn't really talk too much could you?" Ruby said.
"How do you mean?" Blake asked, confused.
Ruby just stood up, leaning to whisper into Blake's ear, "Oh well Nightshade has quite the shaded history." Ruby said with a slight smile, leaving a stunned Blake behind.
After the small discussion Ruby had gone straight to her room to find Neo performing exercises, she was currently doing a handstand with a single hand and her legs doing the splits in the air.
Ruby moved silently in the room so she wouldn't distract Neo, laying down on the bed she waited for Neo to finish.
"I can talk and exercise at the same time." Neo said calmly.
"I know." Ruby said while picking up a book next to the bed.
"Well I thought you would be asking about who I found." Neo said while at the same time moving her legs up towards the ceiling.
"Well I found Nightshade, or rather Blake not long ago." Ruby said while reading at the same time.
"Really? She got in then." Neo said as she lowered herself to the ground until she was parallel to the ground, holding herself up with one arm.
"She did, she also spoke to Weiss Schnee, mentioning about the questionable labour of her families business." Ruby informed her.
"Well that must have been interesting to see." Neo said, her voice straining slightly.
Ruby just hummed in reply as she turned a page in her book, her attention almost completely focused on the book.
"Well I found someone interesting today, can you guess who?" Neo asked.
"Nope." Ruby stated.
"Well she's a tall blonde girl with quite a large chest and uses shotgun gauntlets. She's quite something as well, when I went to speak to her she was quite cheerful and hugging with her friends a lot as well." Neo said playfully.
"Oh really?" Ruby said, slightly disinterested.
"Are you even listening to me?" Neo asked.
"Of course dear." Ruby said once more sounding disinterested.
Frowning at Ruby, whose attention was purely on her book and not on what Neo was saying. Smirking Neo stood up as she came up with a plan.
Ruby's attention was focused on her book to the point she hadn't noticed Neo not talking and moving around the room.
It wasn't until she felt a weight against her stomach and legs, unsure what it came from it wasn't until she felt hands move underneath her shirt.
"Huh?" Ruby said as she put down her book until she felt fingers push into her ribs causing her to throw her book and squirmed on the bed.
Neo was smirking as she caused Ruby to move but was stuck underneath Neo's weight on her body, "Payback." Neo said evilly.
Before Ruby could stop Neo the girl's hands started to attack Ruby's sides, causing Ruby to squirm underneath the shorter girl.
After five minutes of pure tickling torture Ruby was finally given a chance to breathe again while Neo had her head against Ruby's chest, one hand stroking Ruby's head and her ears.
This caused Ruby to softly whimper in delight as she felt her ears being played with as she felt Neo massage the sore ears from being hidden under hear headphones all the time.
Neo smiled as she leaned her head against Ruby's chest as the wolf wrapped her arms tightly around Neo, whimpering softly in delight as Neo kept massaging her ears.
The two girls soon feel asleep with Neo on top of Ruby who had wrapped her protectively in her arms alongside nuzzling into the girls neck.
A/N
Ok so some ideas have been borrowed from other theories about Aura and the like from other places, although the nature of it is sound. You see it often in films and games where a shield is used differently to be an offensive weapon instead of defensive and I can give some examples of that.
Not much more to say really, this will be irregular updates because I simply do not know when I will write more for this as it seems like it's going to be a long story so I might focus on a couple other stories I can get done fairly quickly.
Last note I have gotten a PS4 and been playing a lot of Destiny however I don't have any friends, meaning I can't do strikes without searching for random people but I'm not a big fan of that. Also I really want to do the raids and such so if anyone would like to play my PSN name is RavenRose8 and just add me and I'll accept. I have a mic and a level 25-26 hunter at the moment.
Anyway thanks for reading and please review, they make me release stuff faster.