Edit: I've gone back through my old chapters to rewrite them to flow better as well as grammer. Plot remains unchanged however.
Author's Note: So, I've been told that a good idea is to start a new paragraph when a new character talks so I'm going to be trying that out so things might be a little different.
Flying vehicles are a not exactly a new thing or restricted to the rich, so while Ruby had flown in bullheads before, the airship she was taking to Beacon was certainly something a little bit different. There were several large windows to look out of at the city of Vale, seats placed in front of said windows and holographic lights. Ruby was sat at one of the window seats, looking out at the city.
It looked so small and insignificant so far up high. Looking away from the window, she looked at the people seeking to become huntsmen and huntresses. Ruby was a little surprised at the wide diversity of humans and faunus, however it was clear that there is less faunus than humans here.
A few people seemed to stick out to Ruby, the first being a girl with black hair and yellow eyes. The girl had some kind of rectangular sword on her back, with what appeared to disconnect into something else, maybe a gun? She was wearing a black bow but after a few minutes of discreet observation, Ruby came to the conclusion that the girl may be a faunus, given her reactions to people looking at her, her slight frown when a group of armoured guys nearby started insulting the faunus without any care.
While Ruby may have been a criminal, she wasn't racist and believed that humans really shouldn't hate faunus since 'they are different and different is bad'.
Honestly, Ruby thought it was funny how people go on about the White Fang and their terrorist acts, when they commit them since humans ridicule them and discriminate against them.
The second person that she noticed is some girl with white hair and obviously an expensive dress with some kind of jacket, Ruby lacking the knowledge or care to know what it was called. What stood out to Ruby was her cold, calculating demeanour and a scar across her left eye. She had a rapier on her hip that had a revolver's chamber in the hilt. A few seconds passed as Ruby tried to work out who she was when a combination of her more predominate traits linked together.
Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company.
Roman had educated her years ago about bigger businesses like the SDC and the people that ran them since they had LOTS of power at their disposal. They had stolen dust from the SDC before and since knowledge is power, it would be handy to know who was a higher up in case they needed to do something like blackmail them and how they were likely to react.
Ruby made a mental note to make sure that the heiress didn't know she had stolen from her company, that wouldn't end well.
A few other people stood out a little, like that hyper energetic girl that looked like she had a grenade launcher on her back, a blond guy in a little armour that looked like he was going to be sick, a quiet guy in a green coat that the hyper girl seemed to be talking to.
Ruby watched as a news report starts on a holographic TV.
The news report guy, Cyril, started talking about the robbery that Ruby and Roman had orchestrated to get her into Beacon, how Roman was still at large for people to tell police if they had information. It cut over to the known reporter, Lisa Lavender, who became talking about how White Fang disrupted a peaceful protest.
Before she could continue talking about the recent attacks by the White Fang, the TV cut from the news to the professor, Glynda Goodwitch.
She gave a basic welcome and run down on what they will be doing at their time at Beacon. Ruby giggled at how Goodwitch had said everything, knowing it was probably a recording. As people started looking out the windows to get a better look at Beacon Academy, the blond guy from before looked like he was going to vomit.
Which he did, all over some really long, blond haired girl's boots.
Wait...long blond hair?
Yang was typically a nice, chill person but right now?
She was pretty annoyed.
Her reason?
Vomit on her shoes.
The culprit?
Some guy with airsickness.
Walking away from the guy before she lost her temper and killed him, she went to the airship's on-board toilet and tried to clean as much puke off as she could. Back in the main cabin of the ship, she looked out a window at Beacon, taking in the sight. Yang had a few friends also going to Beacon, but honestly? Yang wanted to meet some new people during her time at Beacon, make new friends to annoy and joke with.
Looking around at the people near here, she caught a glimpse of some long red clothing.
It had looked familiar to Yang, but she lost sight of it before she could even get up. As the ship started to descend to land at Beacon, Yang got up and started to move to the exit, Vomit Boy already waiting there looking sick again.
Ruby watched Yang leave the airship before she got out herself.
Now would not be the best time to meet up with her yet. Moving around quickly to avoid the girl, Ruby accidentally walked into a trolley with a lot of cases on it. Getting up, Ruby watched as the Schnee heiress walked up to her, looking quite unhappy.
"What are you doing!?" Weiss asked her, a look that said she was more concerned about her property than Ruby.
"Ugh, sorry about that..." Ruby apologised to her, picking a few cases up and putting them back on the trolley. One of them was taken by Weiss, who checked the dust vials inside it.
"Don't you know what this is? This is dust, mined and purified at the Schnee quarry!" Weiss lectured to her, pulling out a burn dust vial and inspects it for cracks. "You do know what dust is don't you?" Weiss questioned Ruby, who nodded her head. While Weiss inspected the vial, some dust leaked out in a cloud that drifted over to Ruby who was putting all the cases back on the trolley. Sniffing some of the dust, Ruby felt a sudden sneeze coming. Getting up, she sniffed for a second before sneezing, making the dust explode on both of the girls.
The vial carried by Weiss flew off and while the two girls thankfully remained unharmed, protected by their Auras if covered in ash.
A moment passed as the ash was blown off of them.
"You idiot! You could have blown us up!" Weiss yelled at Ruby with a fierce scowl, before starting to rant at Ruby who tuned the heiress out.
Once she finished, Ruby looked at her.
"I'm really sorry about that..." Ruby apologised again to her. She didn't even notice the dust when she sneezed.
It was an accident!
"Ugh you dolt, what are you doing here anyway? Aren't you a few years too young to be here?" Weiss questioned Ruby, noticing that she is a few years younger than herself.
"Uh, I was invited to be here by the Headmaster." Ruby explained to her, knowing that she probably won't believe her. Lo and behold, Weiss looked at her in disbelief.
"I doubt it. This isn't some combat school, here we fight monsters so watch where you're going!" Weiss scowled at Ruby, scowling at her rather cruelly. She turned her head upwards and away from Ruby, as if to say she is above her.
"I said I was sorry OK little miss princess!" Ruby retorted back, temper fraying at her attitude. Neither of them noticed a girl walk up to them with Weiss' dust vial until she spoke.
"Actually, she's an heiress, Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, biggest producer of Dust." the black-haired girl Ruby believed to be a faunus says to them. Weiss smirked at the girl's acknowledgement of who she is.
"Hmph, finally some recognition." Weiss preened with a superior tone. She quickly lost it as the girl went on to mention about the SDC having questionable business partners and controversial work conditions.
"How dare...the nerve of..." Weiss stammered to Ruby's delight, giggling lightly.
Weiss took the vial off the girl and stormed off.
Ruby shouted out to her, "I'll make it up to you!" before she sighed. Looking over at the possible faunus girl, Ruby noticed she had already left. Sighing again, Ruby walked off to the hall where the first years are meant to meet. As she was going there, the guy from the airship that vomited walked up to her.
"Hey, so any idea where we are meant to go?" The guy asked. He was about average height, blond and is wearing a little bit of plate armour over his jeans and jumper. He has a sheath attached to his belt, with a sword inside it. Ruby pointed at a building of to the left. There were still quite a few people heading inside, the black-haired girl and the Schnee both only just going inside. "Oh, right I see. Name's Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls of the tongue. What's your name?"
Ruby stared at him and giggles at him.
"My name's Ruby." A moment passed awkwardly. "So... what does your sword do?" Ruby asked him, trying make the situation less awkward for the two of them.
Jaune pulled his sheath off. "It's a family heirloom, the sheath turns into a shield for me. My great grandfather used it in the war." Ruby could tell he didn't seem to be very impressive with it.
"Well that can be useful for you, means you don't need a separate sheath or shield." Ruby reassured him. Jaune gave her a bit grateful nod, that someone thought his weapons weren't that bad. As they entered the hall, Ruby looked at him and said, "Well I'll see you around then Jaune." And as she walked off to take a seat, she heard him mutter to himself about finding a nice quirky person to talk to, making Ruby giggle.
Walking to take a seat, Ruby suddenly felt someone grab her shoulder. Turning quickly and raising a fist, Ruby quietly swore at herself for not noticing.
"Hey Ruby, remember me? I thought I saw your cape on the airship!"
Yang watched the shocked look on Ruby's face both escalate and calm down at the same time. She had seen her leave the airship and waited for her to enter the hall so Yang could surprise her. It seemed her plan worked perfectly.
"So, how are you? I haven't seen you since we bet up Junior and his thugs." Yang questioned with a friendly smile.
"Uh, yeah, well um, someone I know needed some help with some things so uh yeah, busy helping him." Ruby explained Yang. Yang looked at Ruby, with her red cape and gun scythe on her back, black top and combat skirt. Yang just now realised that she only looked to be about fifteen.
"Hey, how old are you? You look fifteen but you need to be seventeen to apply to Beacon." Yang asked her with a curious frown her. Ruby opened her mouth to speak, but seemed to have second thoughts on what to say.
She sighed loudly.
"The headmaster invited me to Beacon two years early since I got into a fight with Roman Torchwick and Miss Goodwitch came and helped me after he started to escape. But he did get away on a bullhead." Ruby quietly and quickly explained to Yang. Apparently Torchwick had been a huntsman trainee at Beacon but left in his third year. So, Yang could see why they would offer her to come here early. She must certainly have the combat skills to get in, if she beat Torchwick.
"Cool, you must be really skilled then eh? It would cool to see if we get in the same team." Yang said with a friendly smile at her new friend. Ruby nodded her head nervously at Yang's remark. Before Yang could say anymore, Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon Academy came onto the stage to address the first years.
One long and honest strange speech from the headmaster later, Miss Goodwitch explained that they would staying in the ballroom tonight and initiation was tomorrow and cryptically telling them to "Be Ready", and dismissed them.
Yang shared a confused glance with her new friend, "You know, he seemed kinda...off."
Ruby nodded her head and replied, "Yeah, it's almost like he wasn't even there."
To Yang? Ruby seemed to be wondering about what was up with the headmaster, but in truth, Ruby was very worried. Maybe he found out that she was related to Torchwick, or something else...
Shaking her head, Ruby remembered the words her dad told her, that she should try and make friends and enjoy herself as she spent her time there.
With that in mind, Ruby and Yang both left the hall together as they went to the ballroom to get somewhere to sleep.
That Night...
Qrow liked to finish missions that Oz gave him quickly and make his way back casually, taking his time to do whatever he wanted. Except this time, Oz had someone he wanted Qrow to train, claiming that they had a scythe too and was good with it...and might be related to Summer.
It was years ago, but Qrow never forgot her death.
When he, along with a small police force found her, he was pissed.
Oz's little faction all agreed that Summer was likely murdered by one of Salem's pawns, so Qrow had spent the last few years looking for the people or person responsible for her murder, to no avail. So, after all this time, the first fresh leak of possible information about Summer shows up and Qrow was determined to find out if she knows anything.
Arriving at Beacon, Qrow flew into the ballroom via an open window in the balcony. Looking at the picture Oz supplied him, he quickly spotted this 'Ruby' girl.
She looked like Summer quite a damn bit.
Same hair colour, had a red cape she just finished neatly folding. But she stood out with her silver eyes.
Silver eyes, a rare ability.
Looking around, Qrow was rather surprised when he noticed that she was talking with Yang. He knew his niece was very open but considering that this is likely the first time they have met, it's a little ironic that someone that could possibly have info about Yang's step mother was friends with her already.
Staring down at them from the shadows, he watched as the girl looks up at his direction. Even though he was in pitch darkness up there, he got a feeling she knew she was being watched.
Ruby always caught a nagging feeling in the back of her head when she was being watched.
Turning around, she looked up and saw a slight silhouette on the balcony above them. She could only watch it for a few seconds as it seemed to realise she spotted whoever was there and disappeared. Frowning briefly, Ruby looked away as she lied down and grabbed her scroll, messaging her dad that she was in Beacon, made two friends and may have someone watching her.
Roman messages back a simple, 'I'll have Neo look into it.' Smiling to herself, she looked up and the first thing she saw was Yang looking down at her.
"Hey, who are you talking to?" Yang questioned her, Ruby jumping in surprise.
"AH! YANG DON'T DO THAT!" Ruby shouted before acknowledging her question with an embarrassed glare. "I was messaging my dad to tell him I'm got here no issues." Yang shrugged, accepting what she said. Looking around, Ruby noticed that Jaune was still in the clothes he was wearing today, talking to a red-haired girl wearing a pair of blood red flannel pyjamas.
She had a circlet on her head that looked golden and nearby her side was a sword and shield combo, the sword looking like a short sword of Mistral design and coloured red and gold while a golden round shield with elaborate markings on it made up the other part of the combo.
It looked like Jaune had made a friend other than Ruby since the girl started laughing at something he said. Looking in a different direction, Ruby saw the black-haired girl from earlier today reading a book.
Getting up, she walked over to her.
"Hey, you're that girl from earlier, I didn't get to ask you your name." Ruby politely greeted with a smile.
The girl looked up from her book and curtly responded, "Blake."
Ruby nodded her head and waited for her to say something else.
An awkward moment passed as the girl read her book and Ruby awkwardly stood there.
"Weeell, it was nice to meet you Blake, see you around?" Ruby awkwardly asked the girl. Who continued to not react and gaze focused entirely on her book. Walking back to her spot, she noticed Yang talking to someone in front of her, but Ruby couldn't quite make out who. Walking around to see who it is, Ruby became face to face with Weiss Schnee.
""Not you again!"" the girls shout in sync, much to Yang's confusion.
Weiss was the first to say something, "What are you doing here, are you trying to follow me?" to which Yang went to open her mouth but was cut off by Ruby.
"I'm sleeping right here, what are you doing here talking to my friend?" Ruby complained and right as Yang was about to tell Ruby what Weiss was doing, Jaune came over with the redhead girl.
"Hey Ruby, have you met Pyrrha yet?" Jaune asked his friend, the girl called Pyrrha, who gave them all a polite, "Hello there."
Yang, tired of everyone cutting her off, let her hair flare out as she shouted at them all.
"Shut it! Let me talk already!" Her eyes have turned red as she spoke this. "Ruby, Weiss just wanted me to give her something that got knocked over here. Weiss, I am friends with Ruby and we are hanging out together here. Hello Pyrrha, Vomit Boy."
Jaune waited a few seconds to let Yang calm down before saying, "Actually my name is Jaune, Jaune Arc.
Ten minutes later, everyone is sleeping soundly.
Well not everyone.
Getting out of bed and grabbing Crescent Rose, Ruby snuck past some sleeping people as she ghosted outside the ballroom. Stopping only briefly so that one of the professors, a rather fat older man with a very big moustache, could glance away at the perfect time for her to use her semblance to speed past him. He was probably meant to stop students from leaving in the night.
Making her way to a cliff overlooking the Emerald Forest, she waited there for little before Neo arrived. As the mute appeared, Ruby pulled her into a tight hug.
"Hey sis, how are you?" Ruby asked her pseudo sister, who merely shrugged in return.
"So, are we doing any practise tonight are you just saying hi?" Ruby asked. Neo twirled out her Umbrella, resting it on her shoulder.
Ruby smiled, and pulled out her weapon, extending it to its full scythe form. Ruby knew that Neo is a very skilled fighter and had basically no chance of beating her, but she was always fun to practise with. After a moment passes, Ruby fired her gun to start the fight, launching her flying at Neo, who blocked it with ease, and kicked Ruby back. Swing her umbrella around, she opened it and reclined on a log nearby, smiling at Ruby. Accepting her challenge, Ruby charged at Neo, swinging her scythe behind her as they started their friendly dual.
Neo teleported them back to their house. Roman was out, likely dealing with Cinder and her goons, so Ruby took her time to have a shower before getting Neo to take her back to Beacon. Ruby waved goodbye to Neo and stealthed her way back into the ballroom, this time having to sneak past Miss Goodwitch, who almost noticed her, but a mix of being tired, darkness and Ruby's semblance allowing her to get by unseen. As soon as Ruby lied down, she felt herself immediately drift off to sleep. Tomorrow was going to be an interesting day.
Author's Note: And that's it for Chapter 6.
Next Chapter will feature some OC's my brother thought up. They won't have much importance story wise, I just feel like including them and if they get enough love, I might make a one-shot or a short story about them if that is wanted.
