When Ruby dreamed, she dreamed of unfamiliar violence. It was always a different place, somewhere that could not have been on Remnant, she didn't know how she knew this but she knew it all the same. She hovered above a city the likes of which she had never seen, twisting spires of blue and grey that seemed to repel reality dominated the skylines, its streets were a labyrinthine design that seemed to come from deranged mind of a madman. To Ruby it was both beautiful and revolting in equal measure, a part of her was happy to see it burn, something about the aura of this place revolted her to her core. Fires illuminated the falling the sky and the chaotic streets below as the city's inhabitants fought in its depths and she watched it all like an uncaring God.

She watched it's people die as giants in armor of Red and silver and helms of Black advanced on them with cold fury and destroyed them with barking weapons that unleashed explosive death upon them. Men and women died in droves and the monsters that slaughtered them did not give them a second thought as they marched over the dead. This scene played out throughout the vast metropolis as whole groups of these warriors continued to try and converge at the central spire at the city's heart. One of these groups drew her attention, a bloodied band of warriors in heavy plate, each bearing all manner of lightening wreathed weapons from axes, claws, swords and even a scythe. They advanced upon their foe without resistance as any weapons fired at them failed to penetrate. With every step they took they forced the hordes of men and women back and killed any who failed to flee.

Ruby should have felt appalled by this slaughter, she should have been revolted by what the red clad giants were doing, but she didn't and she couldn't understand why. Something in her blood told her this was a mercy, the fact she thought this made her feel nearly equally disgusted with herself; was she not trying to be a huntress, a protector of humanity? She looked back to the rest of the burning city as one its great spires fell, it all felt wrong, every inch of it. She turned her attention back to the cadre of warriors as they made a left at the next street intersection which would take them strait to city center; yet it didn't, it was a dead end in all direction save the way the group came?That couldn't be right, there was no dead end there before she looked away, how did?

Suddenly the walls around the giants burst apart and hordes of crazed monsters raced out to meet the red clad giants. They were an assortment of madness with too many eyes, gnashing needle teeth, mounds of mutating flesh, mouths that gave no sound as they silently screamed, they were nightmare made real and they came for blood. They charged from all directions and flooded the giants like an avalanche trying to overwhelm them in numbers as they trampled over their own kind that were too slow to keep pace with the horde. They died by the dozens every second to the giants, but their numbers showed. The first of the giants fell as three creatures of horns, fanged teeth and sadistic smiles slammed into his side and forced him to the ground as an avalanche of the damned fell upon him and formed a literal mountain of bodies as they tried to tear him apart. Soon chunks of meat, Metal and gore spilled out of the mound as the giant was torn apart and even feasted upon by more of the creatures.

Ruby felt her heart sink at the warrior's death, he should not have died like that. Sadly he was not the last, each of them fought like legends but one by one they succumbed. The second died after it slayed one of the larger beasts with his talons ripping into mutated flesh as the beast tried to crush his skull with its massive scaled arms, but he was soon overrun as another of the massive creatures slammed into him as its massive horns broke through the armor and gored the giant who took his killer with him before expiring. A third was burned alive and killed any beast he could in his death throes after a creature jumped and exploded on top of him in a burst of multi colored flame. Five remained remained standing by the end, back to back as they tried to fight off the storm of bodies.

Ruby floated down to the field of the dead and bent down to one of the dead giants whose body was face up and surrounded by those he slew. It's armor was bathed in crimson blood and the lenses of its knightly helm were dead and cold. She eyed each of the claw marks, rents and tears of his armor. To see one of them die to these creatures caused her grief; grief and anger. She looked to the horde of monsters as they surrounded and fought against the last five, they would die soon, the beat's numbers guaranteed it. She felt tears drop from her face, she did not wish them to die, she didn't know why but she wanted them to live. The beasts stopped suddenly as if sensing something growing and they started to run, its presence becoming palpable in the air and Ruby felt power flow through her. Her rage and grief at the deaths these monsters threw all presence of mercy from her and she felt something begin to swirl around her, like a God about unleash its holy wrath, and she knew she could not contain it; she would not even try. Power flew out of her in a burst of light and its illumination blinded her to everything and blotted out the dream and replaced it with blank whiteness. It faded just as quickly as it came and Ruby found herself surrounded by the ashes of the dead as the five giants stared at her. None of them moved, unsure of how to address her, they simply stared in bewilderment. Their leader took the first step toward her, his scythe held in one hand as he looked over her and moved his hand to her as if to touch her and see if she was real and…

"Ruby get up we're going to be late!" Ruby jolted awake as Yang shook her frantically.

"I'm awake, I'm awake!" Ruby yelled as she tried to get her bearings, Yang stopped shaking her and moved to her dresser in a rush,

"What's going on?" Ruby asked groggily and hoping her sister had a good reason for this.

"Ruby you slept through your alarm." Yang said quickly before tossing a set of clothes at her sister. Ruby looked to her alarm which spelled out ten fifteen. Shit.

"Hurry up and get dressed, the airship leaves at eleven, with or without us!" Yang said as she hurried out with Ruby's bag, most likely taking it to the car. Ruby needed no more encouragement and got dressed with as much speed as she could, but it was odd she never slept threw her alarm before; it was usually too obnoxiously loud for that to be possible. She didn't it much thought and rushed out the door without a second thought, she could think on the dream later.

"About time hurry and get in before." Summer paused at the front door as if noticing something.

"What?"

"Stand in front of the beam for a minute." Summer ordered as she went back outside with her youngest. The beam in question was on the porch of the house and had marked lines on one side.

"I measured you two days ago and you were six feet two inches and already your three inches taller, which means Yang is probably six feet eight at this rate I wouldn't be surprised if both of you were ten feet tall by the time you graduate, if that's the case we may need a bigger doorway and a bigger house." Summer muttered to herself.

"Hey guys hurry up we're gonna be late!" Yang yelled as she placed the last of the bags in the trunk of the car.

"We're coming, slow down Yang we'll be fine." Summer stated as she and Ruby made their way to the car. Once summer started driving they managed to make up for lost time which thankfully made Yang relax a little.

"You talked to Dad lately?" Summer shook her head

"He's still hasn't called, I'm starting to get worried."

"Hey I'm sure if he could call he would, Still I do wish we could have told him goodbye in person before we left. You'll tell him we'll be fine?" Yang asked

"I'll tell him, though That will probably be the only time we'll talk to each other considering how often the Hunter Corps send him out on hunts. Though with you two gone I might join him."

"Your planning on going out of retirement?" Ruby asked surprised.

"I've been thinking about it, Though the examination will be a pain in the ass to go threw, especially since I'm out of practice.

"Well your probably not that rusty, you trained me after all, well you and uncle Qrow." Yang chuckled

"More like Drunkle Qrow with how much he drinks out of his flask." Yang said under her breath. The three were quiet for a moment as the car stopped at a red light.

"Are you two sure you wanna go threw with this? You don't have to go if you don't want to." Summer asked looking at her daughters evaporating any levity from the car.

"I'll be fine Ma." States Yang

"We both will, don't worry." Ruby finished.

"I should be the one telling you that." Summer said with a sigh as she put the car back in motion.

"Just be careful Ozpin's one of the craftiest people I've ever met, and your entering his nest."

"We'll keep our guard up if he tries anything we'll be ready."

"I hope you will be Yang, cause something tells me he's already has us where he wants us and I really hate that damn feeling." The trio made it the airport without much difficulty and with time to spare and after the arduous process of turning in their tickets began unpacking their luggage onto a conveyer which took it to the loading docks. Summer grabbed Ruby's ammunition case and immediately noticed the contents.

"Ruby come here." Ruby did so quickly after putting the rest of her luggage on the conveyer.

"What is it?" Ruby asked, summer took out one of the magazines from the massive case.

"These are Aura Breaker rounds."

"Yeah I know, I made them."

"Ruby one of these can shoot threw a person's aura in one shot, and it's used exclusively by Atlesian special forces. Going in with sixteen magazines of them is going to draw attention, especially since they tend to check ammo crates for incoming students." Ruby bit her lip, she hadn't considered her cache of ammunition would be checked.

"I thought having them would be a good precaution." Ruby replied. Summer sighed then turned ruby around and grabbed four of the magazines

"It wasn't a bad idea, but a bad execution." Summer looked around eying every visible camera at the luggage drop off, none were watching for the moment. She zipped open Ruby's back pack.

"Sixteen in a case gets noticed, but if you put four in your carry on, which is never checked for Beacon students, especially for first years security thinks they put all their weapons with their luggage; their not wrong but it's something we can use." Summer zipped up the bag and turned a Ruby around, then took out the remaining twelve magazines and handed Ruby the Case. It was almost time for her to go.

"If you need anything."

"I know mom." Ruby smiled reassuringly, Summer gave a sad smile before bringing her daughter into a hug, Ruby returned it after putting down the case.

"Hey what am I chopped liver." Yang said with her arms out. Summer laughed and had her arm stretched out so Yang could join in. They stayed like that for a long moment.

"FINAL BOARDING FOR BEACON ACADEMY STUDENTS BEGINS IN FIVE MINUTES. ALL FIRST YEAR BEACON STUDENTS REPORT TO THE GATE." The announcement speaker broke the three's moment rather rudely and they separated.

"Guess it's time for me to go." Her voice broke for a moment, the mask she taught Ruby to wear had started to show cracks.

"Will you be okay?"

"This is like the third time you asked. We'll be fine, both of us, you'll see us before you know it." Yang replied. Summer nodded.

"Alright, call when you can okay, at least let me know you two haven't burned down the school." Yang gave a dry laugh at that.

"No promises."

Security was as lax as Summer said, they didn't bother to check their bags; in Ruby's mind it was a fatal error. Her and Yang were some of the last to board the airship and it was only once they were onboard the Ruby realized the sheer enormity of people present. Excluding the crew there were probably hundreds of people on the massive airship, Ruby didn't realize this many people were accepted this year. It didn't make sense really only two to three hundred students enter the academy every year but the number of people on the airship seemed to exceed that; there was at least twice that number present.

"Cmon!" Yang said spotting a pair of empty seats in the corner, talk about good luck. They took the seats quickly before anyone else; though it was hard to miss the eyes following them. They were used to it even back in patch people seemed to notice the two easily, as if something about them demanded to be noticed. That same unnatural aura also served to keep most away, neither of the two had many friends; though admittedly Ruby did not mind this. The stares did persist until Yang looked in the perpetrators direction and caused them to turn away; she was terrifying when she needed to be.

"That's going to be annoying to deal with." Yang muttered as she sat down.

"Its not like we haven't gone threw it before."

"Well this time we don't know if their watching due to Ozpin or just curiosity."

"Maybe they are watching us because their afraid."

"Probably, at least it will keep them off us, at least till after orientation."

"Orientation, right which isss?" Yang looked at her with a raised eyebrow

"You didn't read the email about orientation did you?"

"I was making sure we were good on ammunition for the next three months." Ruby stayed remembering how much time she spent over the last two days in the basement at her forge making ammunition. Yang sighed

"Why don't you just buy ammunition like a normal person?"

"Yang do you anyone else who can make dust rounds as well as I can? Besides it's cheaper then buying them, the Schnees control the Dust trade and make ammunition way overpriced especially given how their made. Their barely decent at the best of times and if your unlucky a defective round will blow your hand off, remember." Ruby said taping her left hand for emphases.

"Oh don't remind me I'm surprised my hand didn't get blown off." Yang said Rubbing her own hand at the memory.

"Point taken. Anyway so my understanding is when we land we are given some time to take our bags to the ballroom, so we'll probably sleeping there. After that we have a meeting in the Main Auditorium and after that we have the rest of the day to ourselves till initiation tomorrow."

"So Ozpin probably won't be trying something tonight since were sleeping in the same room as a few hundred students." Ruby said in a whisper that only Yang could hear, she replied with her own.

"I doubt it, but I suppose even he has some limits. We shouldn't keep our guard down, though the fact you skipped two years will cause some attention at least for a little while he probably won't go for you until it passes." Ruby shook her head and slightly grimaced.

"I would rather not have that much attention thank you. I'm perfectly fine outside the lime light."

"When has that ever been an option for us, In case you haven't notice we have an unnatural ability to draw attention to ourselves." Yang stated pointing to the lingering onlookers. They turned away once they realized they were spotted.

"We probably won't have our weapon's on us if he does try something." Ruby says getting back on topic.

"Good thing you have your speed and I have my fists then. That should be enough to fight our way out if we need to, or at least keep us going long enough to find our weapons." Yang said with certainty she then took notice to the new screen regarding the White Fang infiltrating yet peaceful Faunus Rights protest.

"They don't give up do they?" Yang asked

"No, no they don't. Why would they considering the kingdoms don't do anything to stop their attacks or outright provoke them in Atlas's case." Ruby states as she payed back in her seat. She had some sympathy for the Faunus, but the recent attacks were not the right way to go about making things better.

"It only makes things worse for everyone. Maybe we can change that." Ruby muttered

"How about we graduate first before we start trying to fix the world." Yang replied. As she said that Multiple holo projections appeared replacing the Vale news, gaining their attention.

"Hey isn't that the huntress you met?" Yang asked Ruby nodded in response. The crowds on the ship suited for a moment as the hologram began to speak.

"Hello and welcome to Beacon. My name is Glynda Goodwitch, you are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace and as future huntsman and huntresses it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world." The Hologram faded after that and men and women crowded to the windows. Yang got up first and moved to the closest window and Ruby was quick to follow.

The view of Vale and the surrounding landscapes was an awe inspiring sight. Beneath the clouds and the rolling blue sky they would see the buildings of Vale and the surrounding country side. Cars and people move through the streets below like ants and the golden sun gave the whole cityscape a radiant beauty. But to Ruby it felt small. She thought back to the city from her dream, which despite its twisted nature was far more grand then this. Still this view did have its benefits.

"I can see Patch from here." She pointed to an island in the background surrounded by a crystal clear sea and far away towers of Signal academy.

"Well at least home won't be so far away." Ruby stated, considering everything how could that not be good news. Yang placed an arm over her on her sister's shoulder.

"Yeah, it's not that far after all." Yang stated with a small smile. However such a touching moment could not last forever as someone rushed behind them to the nearest receptacle.

"I guess it's not for everyone." Yang stated with slight sympathy. The two then smelled something foul.

"Looks like some puke got on your shoe." Ruby's face scrunched up for a moment as she noticed.

"Aw gross! I'll be back I'll go grab my second pair. " Yang said before moving off in a hurry to get out of the now vomit covered boot. Ruby looked as her sister went back to their bags, the. Back to the window Beacon was coming into view, it would not be long now.

Authors note: I know this chapter is a bit shorter then the last two, but I wanted to get something out for you guys before the holidays and especially finals start to hit. So as you can probably guess the next chapter will take a bit longer to come around, at worst the next chapter will be out in Early January, but in all likelihood ill post something out during winter break when I don't have finals to worry about and have more time to write. Until next time, Lupercal!