Team Ruby faces Glynda's end of quarter assessment.

Ruby winced as she watched another unfortunate team get thrown back like scraps of paper beneath Professor Glynda's riding crop. Her semblance decimating the teams before they even got a chance to try and attack her.

"What kind of end of quarter test is this?" Ruby heard one boy ask, one who was still nursing a heavily bruised arm from when he had been thrown back.

Ruby would feel inclined to agree with him, that was, if she wasn't bouncing in her shoes with excitement. They were getting a chance to show off their skills against a real huntress, how often does that happen? And it wasn't like the mission was to actually beat her, they just had to land one blow on her.

Also, she felt that they could do this. Not to be cocky, but this had to be the perfect challenge for her team. It was a test to see how well the teams could work together, without verbal communication. Glynda herself was blindfolded to give the teams some help, but Ruby suspected that she used the dead silence in the arena to pick out where the students were attacking from.

Weiss and Blake already had the basics of combat commands in sign language, something that Ruby planned to use to her full advantage.

"Team RWBY, get ready." Glynda called out as the previous fighters were sent back.

"Ready?" Ruby turned to her teammates, signing them a quick message.

All three nodded in confirmation, and Ruby returned the grin that Yang shot her.

Once they had entered the arena, Ruby signaled for each to take a position on a side.

"Begin when you're ready." Glynda instructed, readying her stance.

Making sure all eyes were on her, Ruby quickly signed, "Here is the plan."

Ruby pointed to Wiess. "First surround in ice." Then to Blake. "Attack from above." And last to Yang. "Attack through the ice, try to be faster than Blake."

"Ready? Go." Ruby gave the command, darting forward as her team sprang into action. She circled around, waiting for the perfect opening as her plan was set into motion.

Blake was sent flying as expected, but used her semblance to land on her feet. Ruby slowed down to hastily sign. "Keep going."

Yang was sent flying through the ice soon afterwards, but she was soon on her feet and giving Ruby a thumbs up. A hit. They were passing by this point, but might as well go further, right?

With a quick motion to Weiss, Ruby darted forwards. Slipping through the small opening Weiss created for her.

Once inside, Ruby could see that Glynda was mostly focusing on destroying the ice, but couldn't stop the new crystals from popping up after she leveled them.

Blake dropped in from the sky, lashing out with gambol shroud in an attempt to lasso Glynda. Ruby propelled herself forwards, catching Glynda in the curve of her scythe as she moved to avoid Blake.

"Stop the fight!" Glynda ordered, taking off her blindfold to look at mess of ice shards that now decorated the floor. Sighing, she looked back to the team, who were now gathered and awaiting her report.

"Excellent work. Although your strategy itself could use some work. You had the right idea, but your execution was lacking. Overall though, you are the highest scoring team for the day with two successful hits."

Ruby smiled as Yang let out a small cheer, Weiss simply hummed while Blake remained impassive.

"We did it!" Ruby gave a little jump as they walked back, squirming when Yang reached down to ruffle her hair.

"Of course we did, silly." Yang teased. "What else did you expect?"