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Chapter Cover: Weiss dressed in her black robes with Myrtenaster in hand as the symbol of the Schnee family beneath her feet.

Chapter Nine

To Be a Huntress part 2

"No, No way."

Yang was standing in front of her younger sister with a frown upon her face. She had both of her hands crossed across her chest, her scowl growing even more at what she had just said. Just this Saturday morning, considering they didn't have any class so Yang was all to spend the day training but when she arrived at the place where Weiss had taken her the previous day, she was shocked beyond belief to see Ruby there as well.

"Wait…what are you doing here Ruby?" she asked shocked.

The younger girl turned toward her.

"I'm going to train to become a Huntress as well," Ruby answered her.

"You're what?" Yang said shocked, "No, I won't stand for it."

Ruby stared at her, the silver eyes showing nothing but determination from their depths.

"Why shouldn't I?" the younger girl asked, "I have Aura just as you do. If you are going to learn to fight back…then I decided I should learn as well."

"Ruby, I'm doing this to protect you and uncle Qrow," Yang told her, "I'm doing this so you don't have to fight."

Ruby actually got angry at her.

"So want to take everything on by yourself as usual?" she said, "You're just as you use to be when we were young. You never wanted me to actually do anything. You think you can always be the strong one. You always think you are the only one that can handle everything and Yang…I'm tired of being treated like I am second fiddle."

The girl approached her older sister.

"I want to be able to stand by your side," Ruby continued, "I want you to look at me as an equal Yang."

The blonde stared at her sister.

She never knew Ruby felt like that. She had always taken her priority as big sister and to be able to protect her little sister from anything. It was why she had started her training as a Huntress with Weiss in the first place, to be able to protect her as long as she could.

"All I want is to protect you," Yang told her, "You and uncle Qrow."

The small girl chuckled a little.

"If you want to protect us…then who is going to protect you Yang?" Ruby asked her, "You don't always have to do everything alone you know."

"I know…," Yang said, "I just…"

Ruby laughed.

"I know you want to keep me safe and trust me, it warm my heart to know how much you care for me Yang, but I also want to fight side by side with you…that is, if you will let me."

The blonde let out a sigh.

"You really determined about this aren't you?" she said.

Ruby nodded.

"Are you two done?"

The two girls turned to face Weiss Schnee. The white haired girl was standing there with her arms crossed with Qrow and the young man standing beside her. The blue eyed girl stared at the two of them, an annoyed look upon her delicate features.

Yang exchanged a glance with Ruby and the younger girl gave her an almost unnoticeable nod, before the two of them turned toward her.

"We're ready," she said.

Weiss's eyes seem to glow a little.

"Good," she said, "Let's continue the training."


The days continued on like this. The two girls continued their training with the Aura Sphere as they learn to control their Aura under Weiss's watchful eyes. The white haired girl never said anything to the duo as they trained, wanting the two girls to learn by themselves. She wanted them to learn how their Aura feels, how it reacted to them and how much of it they have. As the days passed, Weiss saw some improvement from the two girls as the moment they have the Sphere in their hands, their Aura activated almost subconsciously for them to start their training.

Thought, in her opinion, they still have a long way to go to have the perfect control that Weiss has. Weiss was curious about Ruby's Aura as the petals danced across the girl's body as her Aura danced through the air. It gave out an odd reddish glow around the smaller girl. It was a strange thing to have these two people in front of her, the members of the Rose Dragon Clan there and she was the one training them.

On their fifteenth day of training, the two girls were taking a break as Weiss was simply seating down by the side of the two girls. They were enjoying the lunch that Sebastian had brought them and the sisters were enjoying it immensely.

"Hey Weiss," Ruby said, "I wanted to ask you something?"

"Which is?"

"How long did it take you to finish this training?" the girl asked.

Weiss thought for a few moments. Yang seems to be also interested as she glanced toward the white haired girl. The Schnee girl placed her book upon the ground beside her.

"Five months," she answered.

The two girls stared at her shocked.

"F…Five months!" Ruby repeated, surprised.

"You must have been terrible at controlling your Aura then," Yang laughed.

"I was only seven years old at the time in my defense," the white haired girl told her picking up the Sphere that was beside Ruby.

It instantly light up with the girl's Aura and as before, no light escaped from within the orb she was holding.

"What you are doing right now took me less then four days to actually do it," Weiss continued, "To be able to contain the light of the Aura within the Sphere…that's what took me five months. It's a more advanced technique of what you are learning at the moment."

The two girls beside her were silent, learning about it.

"A…Are we going to have to learn that part too?" Yang asked, "Because just doing this is hard enough."

Weiss's lips turned up lightly at the corner at the girl's complaint.

"It will take the two of you years to actually learn it," she said, "I'm not training you to be the perfect Huntresses; I'm training you to become strong enough to protect your family."

The two sisters glanced at each other at that. Yang could see it in Ruby's face about the comment being the perfect Huntress. It was something the blonde came to realize with Weiss during the extended time of their training. The girl had hardly spoken to any of them about her family and not once Yang had seen a member of the Schnee Family in the Manor.

The place was as empty and as desolated as it had been when they had first arrived.

"Your break is over," Weiss said, breaking the blonde from her thought, "Get to it."


That night, Ruby Rose lied awake in her bed. The girl was staring at the ceiling of the room they were staying in. Their uncle Qrow had told them that the repairs around the house were almost finished meaning that they would be moving away from this place soon enough. Ruby didn't want to leave…to go back to that house where those Grimm had attacked them…

"Hey Ruby, you're awake?"

The girl blinked to herself before turning her gaze toward where Yang was. She had thought that her sister had fallen asleep with how quiet she was. Yang was never one know to be quiet if she had been awake at night.

"Yes," she said.

"Hey, haven't you seen how strange it was," Yang asked, "that there is no one living here other than Weiss and Sebastian."

Ruby had noticed it too.

"I did," she said, "I tried asking Weiss about it before but I didn't get anything."

Yang let out a soft hum.

"Well when I had asked her, she told me off," the blonde told her.

Ruby hummed, thinking about Weiss. The white haired girl was a strict one, and there was this authority in her voice that the young girl knew she couldn't help but obey, but Ruby knew deep down, Weiss isn't a bad person. Weiss had been truthful about everything so far and Ruby hadn't find anything that told her that the white haired girl was dishonest with them.

"It must have been lonely," she said softly, "Living in this place all by herself and fighting Grimm alone."

"She is a lonely one," Yang said.

"Hey Yang."

"What?"

"Do you think Weiss will be our friend if I asked her?"

Yang stayed silent for a few moments.

"Isn't she already our friend?" she asked, "I mean, she had been training us for at least a few days now."

"That's because we asked her to make us strong," Ruby told her, "we asked her to make us strong enough so we can fight the Grimm if they ever come after us we would be able to fight back…but this time, I want us to be her friends."

Yang let out a sigh.

"Then you just have to ask her," she said, "I can't even tell what is going on inside that girl's head."

"Okay," Ruby said.


The next day, when the two girls arrived at the location they have been training in for at least a month now, they found that Weiss was already there waiting for them and this time, the young man was there too. The guy was dressed in a sleeveless shirt with his hat still seating upon his head as he glanced toward the duo which approached him.

"Well, you two are finally here," he smirked.

He threw them each an Aura Sphere.

"Now show me how much the two of you have improved," he told them.

The two girls instantly filled up the sphere with their Aura and that time, the entire sphere was completely filled with their power, neither going overboard nor going out of control. Ruby frowned to herself as she glanced up toward the two across her and she noticed the calculating look in Weiss's eyes as they were doing before she nodded to herself.

"Alright, you can stop," she said.

The Aura subsided and Ruby could have sworn she had seen a look of approval within the depths of the blue eyed girl's eyes.

"Congratulations," she said, "You have completed this stage of training."

Ruby could feel pride grew within her at passing the training. Yang let out a whoop sound as she fist pumped toward the sky after their hard work had finally pay off. Weiss stood there silently waiting for the blonde to finish her celebration before starting to speak again.

"Now, I'm going to start your real training," she said, "Now that you've mastered the basic and know how to control your Aura to respectable levels, you two are ready to start your Huntress training."

"What are you talking about?" Yang asked, "The one with the Aura Sphere was Huntress training right?"

The young man let out a chuckle.

"No," he said, answering for Weiss, "That was Aura training, something taught to children before they start their true training. Weiss had decided to start with that training because it is something vital that a lot of people overlook. What the two of you just learned these past few weeks of training were the basics."

Yang stayed silent. Ruby was surprised. All that they were doing was just basics? She knew how difficult it was to control her Aura during the Sphere training. Just how strenuous was the actual training going to be?

The young man approached them and he was holding two objects in his hands.

"What are those?" Yang asked.

"Those objects will force the two of you into your Huntress form," he told them, "Considering that you two can't do that yet, this object will help you understand how to transition from your normal human form to your Huntress form. It may even help you transform from normal and vice versa."

Ruby took hold of the object that was extended toward her. She found that it was a Rose shaped pendant. She placed it around her wrist just as Yang did with her own and then suddenly it was like a ripping feeling surged through Ruby's body. It was like she was being forced through a very tight space and it causes the girl to tighten her eyes shut at the uncomfortable feeling until it dissipated.

The girl opened her eyes and glanced down at herself. She was wearing a red cloak now which danced softly around her. The girl realized that it wasn't robes like the ones Weiss wore but they were a coat. A gothic Lolita dress was beneath the coat as she opened it all of it themed with red and black as the boots she was wearing as well.

The girl glanced at Yang beside her.

The blonde's outfit had changed as well. The first thing she noticed was that Yang's hair seems to have grown in size as they reached all the way down to her butt now. The woman was wearing fingerless gloves along with a form fitting jacket and a scarf around her neck. She had short pants on along with knee-high boots upon her feet.

"Y…Yang?"

The girl glanced at her.

"Ruby…woah, what are you wearing?" the blonde asked with a smirk.

"I should ask you the same thing," Ruby told her with a small smirk of her own.

The shorter girl glanced toward Weiss.

"I had expected us to be wearing something similar to yours Weiss," the girl said.

"What a Huntsman or a Huntress wear represent their Clan," the white haired girl spoke out, "and it seems that despite not having grown up with the Rose Dragon Clan, the two of you managed to represent them quite well in your outfits and colors."

The white haired girl's body glowed as she was once again wearing the black robes upon her body. Her white hair danced in the wind created by her rise in Aura. Her eyes shone a bright blue color as she released her power.

"Now, we are going to begin the second stage of this training," she said, "Summoning out your weapons."

A small frown appears upon Yang's face.

"Summon out our weapons?" she repeated.

Weiss raised her hand and then a sheathed sword appeared in her hand. The girl lowered the weapon down.

"Each Huntsman and Huntress is born with a weapon," she said, "It's in the very essence of their being and their only way to battle against the Grimm. Without your weapons, you are useless in battle a Huntsman or Huntress that is useless in battle is a dead one."

The glow in her eyes intensified as she placed her hand upon the handle of her weapon and with a ring, the long blade was out, gleaming brightly with the amount of Aura Weiss was releasing.

"And the only way to forge a true weapon capable of slaying Grimm is through battle," she said, "Since I can't face the two of you by myself to achieve the desired need to materialize the weapon, I have asked my good friend here to help me with that."

The man raised his hand and touched his hat.

"I'm usually a behind the scenes kind of guy," he said, "But considering how important this stage is to any Huntresses, I was more than happy to help."

"W…Wait a minute," Yang said, "Are you saying that we are going to have to fight against the two of you?"

Weiss stared up at her.

"That's exactly what I am saying," she said.

"How the hell are we going to be able to put up a fight?" Yang yelled at her, "We don't have any weapons."

Suddenly the young man was in front of her causing Yang to step back in shock at how fast he had moved in the split second it had taken her to blink. The young man then placed a hand upon the ground they were standing.

"Dust Level 20, Displacement," he said.

A black circle instantly formed beneath the duo before they were both swallowed up by it and then they were gone.

"Yang," Ruby yelled but before she could move a wave of ice passed right in front of her, causing the girl to stop in her movements.

Ruby turned her gaze toward Weiss who had her sword raised straight toward the younger girl. Her blue eyes showed no sign of the warmth or any time of emotions. It was empty and void of anything. The white haired girl then lowered her sword down as she stared straight at her.

The Aura around Weiss's form was growing even stronger as ice started to appear upon the ground beneath her feet and even the air felt cold as push of smoke appeared in front of Ruby's breath…

T…This level of power, Ruby thought, It's even more powerful than the time she used it on Yang…and the look in her eyes…

Then Weiss charged straight at her and Ruby found the blade coming down straight toward her head.

The second stage of training starts...and Ruby is on the brick of death...

Next Time: To Forge the Weapons to Kill

Jacques0 out.

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