What's this another update already! Well don't get used to it guys I still have lots of assignments to do. But my muse decided to visit me in the night and I wanted to write it down so I wouldn't forget it. It was originally meant to be dot points but before I knew it it was 2am and I'd written an entire chapter. So yeah hope you guys like it.

I don't own Ruby if I did we would have seen backstory about Summer already.

"What the hell?!"

Red's jaw dropped, the entire room looked like it had been hit with a nuke. There was a thick gooey substance covering everything from the walls to the beds, Fort Ruby had even collapsed on to Weiss's bed. Not to mention the burn marks along the floor and ceiling and what looked like fire extinguisher foam next to it. Noticing that there was smoke coming out of the dorm's kitchenette Red quickly opened the window before fearfully glancing in. The sight that greeted her wasn't much of a surprise, all the pots and pans were blackened or destroyed outright and smoke was escaping the closed oven. Quickly turning off the oven before it caught alight she looked around wondering what the hell had happened here.

Apparently the universe heard her because not ten seconds later the door opened and the rest of team RWBY walked in, covered with gunk and smelling of smoke. Upon noticing Red they smiled but then stopped in their tracks, seeing her seething with anger.

"Oh hey Ruby, you back already huh?" greeted Yang.

Red glared at her and Yang immediately shrunk under gaze. Red turned to look each one in the eye before facing palming with a sigh.

"One hour, I left you alone for one goddamn hour and look what happened!" she raged at them. "How the hell do you manage to destroy half the dorm and nearly burn down the other half in only one hour?!"

"It wasn't easy, we really had to it work at it," joked Yang.

They backed away as Red gave them a chilling smile and brought out Crescent Rose. As she vanished in a cloud of petals the rest of team RWBY heard the door close behind them. Turning they saw Red blocking their exit, her smile widening.

"You three have 30 seconds to explain how this happened or you all get to see just how much I remember about Crescent Rose," she threatened.

"Wait we can explain!" cried Yang.

30 minutes ago

"Yang what are we doing here?" asked Weiss.

"We're getting ready to apologise to Ruby," responded Yang.

"Okay we get that, but why did we take all these supplies from the cafeteria?" questioned Blake.

"Despite what you may think Ruby's favourite food isn't cookies, it's actually strawberries. So we're going to make her strawberry cupcakes as an apology," answered Yang.

"I didn't know you could cook," commented Weiss.

"Oh I can't Ruby did all the cooking but then again how hard could it be?" challenged Yang.

Blake just sighed, realizing this would probably end badly.

20 minutes ago

"Ok so it says to put the mixture in bowl and use the beater to mix it," instructed Yang.

Weiss nodded and started up the beater, causing the mixture to spray in her face. Yelping in surprise Weiss dropped the bowl and beater, the mixture began to spray everywhere, coating the dorm in thick globes of the stuff.

15 minutes ago

"Ok so our first attempt didn't go so well," admitted Yang. "So this time we're doing it differently, because we lost the premade mixture we have to make our own," she continued. "Ok Blake, it says to add oil to the pan followed by flour and eggs."

"How much oil?" asked Blake.

"Hmm it doesn't say, we're running out of time so just put in half to speed it up," answered Yang.

Shrugging Blake added the oil, unfortunately as soon as the flour was added the pot burst into flames. Jumping in surprise Blake accidently threw the pot into the bedroom area, instantly the flames began spreading. Panicking Weiss threw a bucket of water on the flames, unfortunately creating a fireball of extreme proportions. This fireball reached the ropes hanging Fort Ruby from the ceiling, eating through them greedily. With a loud groan Fort Ruby came tumbling down crushing most of Weiss's bed on impact, the flames continuing to spread.

5 minutes ago

"Ok this is it we're finally done, all we need to do is put it in the oven to cook," sighed an exhausted Yang. "It says to leave it in there for an hour at 60 degrees, damn no time. Ok so we'll put it up to 180 degrees and come back in 20 minutes."

Cheering they got up and left to return the remaining supplies back to the cafeteria. Yang smiled, boy was Ruby in for a surprise when she got back.

Red blinked before giving an exasperated sigh and sheathing Crescent Rose. Motioning for them to follow her she led them to the burnt out kitchenette. Opening the oven door smoke began filling the room, coughing all three of them looked at the charred remains of their hard work in front of them. All of them had a combination of looks of disappointment, confusion and rage, lots and lots of rage. Yang finally snapped screaming bloody murder she picked up the 'food' and chucked it out the window.

"Alright due to this incident, as my power as team leader, I am banning all three of you from ever cooking anywhere without me or someone qualified observing you," Red announced failing to hide her amusement.

Strangely enough none of them seemed too upset by this decision. Her customary smirk returning Red issued their punishment, cleaning the dorms, much to the dismay of Weiss.

"Hold on, you said that you did this in half an hour, so what did you do in the first half?" Red asked, confused.

All three shared looks before replying in unison, "nothing."

Red snorted, turning to walk to the door, "I know you're lying but quite frankly it's late and I'm tired, so I don't care."

"Hold on! Where are you going?" demanded Weiss.

"Team JNPR's room hopefully they won't mind me sleeping there tonight, after all I want to be alert for our excursion to Forever Falls," replied Red, closing the door behind her.

Forever Fall really was beautiful, the show didn't do it justice. Red smiled taking a deep breath of the sweet scented air.

"You seem awfully chipper this morning, something good happen?" asked Yang.

"Yeah it's the first time being out of Beacon remember? Plus look at this place it's beautiful," explained Red happily.

Glynda must have heard her, "yes students the forest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful but we are not her to sight see. Prof. Peach has asked all of you to collect samples from the trees deep inside this forest and I'm her to make sure none of you die while doing so. Each of you is to gather one jar of red sap, however this forest is full of the creatures of Grimm so be sure to stay by your teammates. We will rendezvous back here at 4 o'clock, have fun."

Red and Yang turned to each other grinning and joined the rest of their team to collect the sap. As they began collecting the sap Red couldn't escape the feeling that's she's forgetting something important. Shrugging she put the thought to the back of her mind and focused on enjoying her brief time out of Beacon. After collecting their sap team RWBY headed over to help JNPR, Jaune was sitting out since he was apparently allergic to the stuff.

Upon seeing Jaune Red's eyes widened in understanding before smiling, 'he was supposed to be helping Cardin at this point.' Her smile didn't last long though since Jaune was the one responsible for stopping Cardin from pranking Pyrrha. Looking around she noticed that team CRDL was missing, 'this can't be good.'

"Hey guys, where's Cardin and his lackeys?" she asked.

Everyone turned to look at her before shrugging. 'Damn it that was not what I was hoping for.'

"They disappeared a while ago, shortly after you guys walked off. Don't worry though even they're not that stupid to wonder off alone," informed Jaune.

Red nodded and struck up a conversation with Jaune but couldn't shake a familiar feeling. The last time she felt like this was right before the parkour accident. Frowning she grabbed Jaune and made her way over to their teams, 'I'm not making the same mistake twice.'

"Guys I think we should go, I've got a really bad feeling about this place," she suggested.

The teams looked at each other, clearly surprised that the previously cheerful Ruby suddenly seemed so worried or even scared. Deciding that anything that has Ruby worried is something dangerous both teams packed up as fast as possible and headed for the clearing.

As they were walking to the clearing Red suddenly felt something hit her, looking down she froze. There dripping off her torso was a large amount of sap. Hearing laughter coming from nearby she turned to see Cardin staring at her as he opened a box. The cold feeling of dread returned as Red saw the swarm being unleashed.

"Rapier Wasps RUN!" yelled Red before dashing off into the forest.

The swarm followed her, completely ignoring her friends, the scent of the sap driving them into a frenzy. 'Ok think if they're like the wasps back home then all I need to do is find a river or lake to lose them,' she thought, racing through the underbrush. As the chase went on Red became even more grateful for Ruby's semblance, as it was the only thing keeping her ahead of the swarm. Finally after what seemed like hours Red arrived in a clearing with a flowing river, seeing her chance she dove in and waited.

When it seemed that the wasps had finally given up, Red sighed in relief. However the sigh died in her throat as the current began to grow rough, dashing her against rocks as she struggled to stay afloat. Gasping Red tried to get out but her chase with the Rapier wasps had left her exhausted, both physically and mentally. It was all she could do to grab on to a nearby floating log before blacking out completely.

Happiness – Requiem from the blind alchemist - FMA Brotherhood OST

There was silence in the room, no sounds of the birds chirping, people chatting or the wind blowing. Just silence. It suited Ruby just fine, gave her time for her thoughts as she waited. A man walked up to the pedestal to begin the ceremony, followed by dad and Uncle Qrow. Recognizing that as the signal Ruby began to play, her notes creating a haunting melody as people became completely still. As her song came to an end Ruby got up from the piano and walked over to the pedestal. Taking a deep breath to calm her emotions she began.

"God saw you getting tired

and a cure was not to be

so he put his arms around you

and whispered, 'Come to Me'

With tearful eyes we watched you

and saw you pass away

and although we love you dearly

we could not make you stay.

A Golden heart stopped beating

hard working hands at rest.

God broke our hearts to prove to us

He only takes the best."

Ruby choked, tears welling in her eyes. She felt someone grab her arm and give it a gentle squeeze. Looking to her side she saw her sister Yang giving her a supporting nod. Wiping the tears from her eyes Ruby continued.

"It's lonesome here without you

We miss you so each day,

Our lives aren't the same

Since you went away.

When days are sad and lonely,

And everything goes wrong,

We seem to hear you whisper,

'Cheer up and carry on.'

Each time we see your picture,

You seem to smile and say,

'Don't cry, I'm in God's keeping,

We'll meet again someday.'"

As everyone began leaving Ruby continued to stare at the coffin. Clenching her fists, her make up a complete ruin. It was her fault, if it wasn't for her none of this would have happened.

"I'm so sorry mom," she whispered.

"Ruby she wouldn't want you to act like this and she doesn't blame you, you know that," came a male voice from behind.

Turning she saw her Uncle Qrow, with a sad expression on his face as he looked on at the coffin. Kneeling down he gave Ruby a hug as she cried onto his shoulder. Breaking free from the hug, Ruby wiped the tears away before looking up at Qrow.

"Uncle Qrow, I want to become stronger. I don't want anyone else to feel like this, please will you teach me?" she begged.

Qrow looked her in the eyes, "very well but on one condition, you have to start smiling again."

Slowly opening her eyes Red wiped the remnants of tears from them, 'well that was… enlightening' she thought with a frown. Groaning she attempted to stand up before toppling over, her legs buckling under the weight. Sitting down she took note of her surroundings, definitely not somewhere seen in the show meaning she had no idea where she was. 'Maybe my scroll could tell me.' Bringing out her scroll threw that option away out the window. It was completely broken not even a single part of it didn't have a crack in it, 'great just perfect.' Laying down on the ground Red began debating her next move, when a very familiar sound came from behind her. Blood draining from her face Red turned to see an Ursa major emerging from the woods, looking directly at her.

"Oh shit…"

Well what did you guys think? Also for those who are wondering I didn't think up that poem, it was from my Grandma's funeral a couple of years ago called Come With Me or God saw you getting tired (depending on who you talk to). I'm not really religious but that poem was nice so I decided to include it. As for the kitchen scene that was actually based off me, granted it didn't escalated to their proportions but I did nearly burn down the house, I couldn't resist putting it in. The reason that the fireball was created when Weiss threw water on it is because it is a Grease Fire and let me tell you they are terrifying.