"Hurry everyone!" shouted an adult voice. "We want to make it to the ruins before nightfall!"

This voice came from a lanky looking man who wore a long brown greatcoat, a khaki buttoned safari shirt, with a yellow tie tucked under it, a pith helmet over his messy green hair. He also wore a pair of brown dress shoes, and a pair of round glasses so thick that you couldn't see his brown eyes.

A round of groans and grumbling met the man who simply ignored the group as he marched forward through the forest with leaves so vibrantly green they almost looked like emeralds hanging off the tree. Hence why this place the man and his charges were walking through was called the Emerald Forest.

Following behind him was Ruby and her class, all trudging through the forest early in the morning. All still sleepy and annoyed that they would have to wake up and walk through a forest that housed many Grimm that could attack them at any moment if they let their negative emotions get the better of them

"Don't know why he's in such a rush," growled Yang as a few sparks flew out of her hair. "He's not the one who had to wake up with no coffee."

"Quiet Yang," hushed Wiess. "Professor Oobleck is our teacher and we have to do his assignment if we want to pass."

"But Weiss," Ruby said with a tilt of her head. "Didn't you say a few bad words when we were all woken up at 5 and were told to get ready?"

"She sure filled up the swear jar today," Blake muttered in a dry tone but the small smile on her face showed she found the heiress' little tantrum was amusing to her.

"Quiet you dolt," Weiss growled as she yanked Ruby's hood over the young girls face, causing the huntress in training to flail her arms about.

"I'm blind!" the young huntress screamed. "I'm blind in a forest! The fortune cookie I had along with dinner was right!"

"Ruby," Weiss muttered with a sigh as she let go of her leader's hood. Letting said girl see yet again. "Stop being a kid, also you should know by now that those fortunes are just random writing on cheap paper."

"But I am a kid," Ruby pointed out. "And for your information, those silly fortunes can be quite accurate!"

"Don't know about that sis," Yang commented with a shrug. "The one I had told me to watch out for a bull with a sword."

"And mine told me about how my love life would be complicated because of a monkey and chameleon," Blake added in.

"Wait do you think the monkey part is about Su-," Yang was about to ask before a sharp whistle was heard.

"Keep up, ladies! We don't want to fall behind schedule!" Oobleck called from several yards ahead.

"Sorry professor!" Weiss shouted once how far behind her and her team was from the rest of the class. "Let's hurry up! And please don't get sidetracked again!"

"She does know she was the reason we stopped walking in the first place, right?" Blake muttered with a flat look, her bow twitching a few times in puzzlement.

"Give Weiss cream a break," Yang joked with a smile as the rest of team RWBY followed after their white themed teammate who was rushing back towards the class.

"Yeah," Ruby said in agreement. "She's just stressed with school work and these special classes."

"That reminds me," Blake trailed off as they caught up with the rest of the class. "Why are you carrying that sword from yesterday's test with Port?"

"Yeah," Yang added in as she looked at the plane looking sword hanging off her sisters back. "Why did you even bring it instead of Crescent Rose?"

Putting her hand on the hand of the sword Ruby gave it a squeeze before letting go with a sigh.

"Well Port said that he was going to put it away with the rest of the weapons until he could find somewhere to donate them like towards a village or two that would need them to help defend against Grimm, but when I told him I like it he said I could have it!"

"Sounds about right," Blake said with a nod. Their mustached teacher would do something like that. "Though, it still doesn't explain why you brought it and not your prized scythe."

A look of anger soon appeared on Ruby's face as she glared at a certain orange-haired girl in the crowd of walking students.

"Because Crescent Rose needs a clean up when we get back to school!" Ruby shouted in righteous anger. Causing a few students to quickly walk a few paces faster as to be away from the small, but scary huntress in training. "Because SOMEONE got maple syrup in every joint of her!"

"Sorry~," Pyrhha said with a sheepish smile as she apologized for Nora. said orange-haired teen let out a nervous laugh.

"How did she even do that? Yang muttered as she watched the members of team JNPR lecture Nora, more than likely reminding her she to make it up to Ruby.

"You don't want to know…," Ruby muttered before shaking her head to get back to the main topic. "Anyways I just thought it would be cool to use this sword and put what uncle Qrow taught me, besides I wanted to…," Ruby trailed off as she hid her face from Yang and Blak with her hood.

(Play: "Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX OST - Always On My Mind")

"You wanted to fight Grimm with it like mom," Yang stated as she saw her sister give a nod as she trudged through the forest with the rest of the group.

Letting out a sigh Yang picked up the pace so she was walking side by side with her little sister. The blond beauty then reached out and gave Ruby a one-armed hug, making sure not to break their stride through the forest.

"No need to be embarrassed sis," Yang said as she reached out with her other hand and pulled off Ruby's hood. "Mom was awesome and you just learned something new about her that I didn't even know about."

And that was true. Yang might've known Summer longer than her half-sister, but not even she knew what their mother's weapon was. Their father and uncle were pretty tight-lipped about things involving Summer, at least when it came to her time as a huntress, it was almost like there was something more about her than just being a really great huntress that they didn't want to talk about. It was a subject that they avoided even more than the subject of Yang's biological mom, Raven Branwen, a topic that would just have Tai look away from his eldest daughter and her uncle to drink more.

'And yet anything about Summer's time as a huntress has them do everything to change the subject,' the busty blonde thought with a frown.

(END SONG)

Shaking her head Yang went back to focusing on her little sister. Giving Ruby a tighter hug the brawler gave her leader a kiss to the forehead while ruffling the young reapers hair, much to said girl's embarrassment.

(Play: "Kingdom Hearts 3 - Laughter and Merriment")

"Yaaang!" Ruby cried out in embarrassment as she tried to shove her laughing older sister away. "Why do you have to be so embarrassing!?"

"Sorry little sis," Yang said with an impish smile as she tightens the hold she had on Ruby to keep her from getting away as she kept ruffling her sister's dark hair. "I just love you so much, I can't help but tease you."

"Stooop!"

"Never~!"

The sisterly bonding kept going even as the other students started to whisper or even laugh at the scene happening. Much to Weiss's annoyance once she came back to see what was taking them so long to catch up. Said heiress tried prying the two sisters apart so they would focus but only ended up getting caught in Yang's grasp and ended up joining her young leader's fate.

'What am I going to do with these three?' Blake thought with a smile as she watched the Schnee heiress thrash in Yang's arms like a caged badger, throwing insults as she tried to escape the blonde's grasp as Ruby just sighed and just resigned herself to her current fate until Yang got bored of the teasing.

Sadly the fun had to end as Blake spotted a structure peaking above the forest and the students that were ahead of them all gathering a short distance away. The bow wearing member of team RWBY quickly figured that this must be where they would be taking their second big test.

"Guess I have to stop the show," the cat Faunus muttered as she walked behind Yang who still had her last two teammates in headlocks, letting out a sigh Blake raised her right hand and flicked one of Yang's ears.

(END SONG)

"Eep!" Yang said as she let go of Ruby and Weiss as she rubbed her sore ear while turning towards Blake with a glare. "Blake~! What the heck was that for!?"

"We made it to the spot," Blake said as she gave her blonde friend a slight glare of annoyance. Pointing behind Yang the Faunus told her. "You should go on ahead to make sure Professor Oobleck doesn't get angry at us for keeping the class waiting. I'll go check and make sure you didn't break our leader and the team's princess."

"Oh, ha… ha," Weiss said as she tried to get up while rubbing her sore neck.

Rolling her eyes Yang gave Blake a shrug and a smile as she started walking towards the group ahead.

"Sure thing kitty cat," Yang said while giving Blake a two-finger salute before quicking her pace towards the gathered students while Blake went to check up on her two disoriented teammates.

"You two ok?" Blake asked as she looked at her friends as they tried to pick themselves up after the manhandling Yang gave them.

The Schnee heiress was the first to stand up as she gave Blake a thankful look as she tried to get her legs to stop wobbling.

"Remind me to buy a statue in your honor later," Weiss said with a straight face as she started walking towards the gathered students all the while muttering about blonde apes and not being able to feel her neck for a week. This left Blake with helping her young leader up as the younger sister of yang gave Blake a grateful look.

"Thanks, Blake," Ruby said with a bright smile as she quickly followed after Weiss. "Now let's hurry before Wiess gets angry at us like she's angry at Yang."

"Good idea," Blake said with a small smile as she shook her head at her team's antics. They could be silly but it's what she loved about them. "Lead the way leader."

As the two girls soon caught up to the rest of the class where their teacher was waiting patiently for them to join up with the rest of the class.

"Well, it's good to see everyone is accounted for," Oobleck commented as he adjusted his glasses while giving team RWBY a slightly pointed stare. Said team couldn't help either let out a nervous chuckle or cover their face in embarrassment.

"We are so sorry professor, we were held up because…," Weiss muttered as she tried to come up with an exceptional reason for lagging behind. Fortunately Ruby sprung in to help her friend.

"We were looking over our supplies!" Ruby shouted, Getting the professor's attention. Reaching behind her from under her cloak the young leader pulled out a backpack and held it out for all to see.

"You always say how anything could happen while searching through Ruins," Ruby said in a hurry as she was pretty much making this up as she goes. "So I wanted to make sure we had everything just in case before we dived into the ruins!"

The young reaper held her breath as she watched Oobleck silently stare at her for a few agonizing seconds before the glasses-wearing teacher nodded his head in approval.

"Excellent!" Oobleck said as he started zipping around at an extreme pace. All the while lecturing the entire class just as fast.

"When exploring the relics of old, you should never take chances!" the teacher said as he zipped around checking the other teams to see if they had everything.

(Play: "Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover - Cases of Foretellers")

Quickly zipping back to the center of the open field in front of the ruins the green-haired man quickly gestured towards said monument.

"Especially with the Ruins we shall be going into!" Oobleck said as they observed the structures before them. Everything looked to be carved seemingly straight out of the walls and ground themselves. It looked like what once may have been a town or small city, but due to varying states of disrepair, it now looked more like a maze. Some areas still seemed relatively intact, enough so that some of the carvings in the side look almost readable. Others had been so worn away and destroyed that their relatively straight lines were the only clue that they had once been structures.

On top of it all, it felt eerily silent, with the only natural sounds being winds that almost felt like a mournful sigh.

"This place…," Blake muttered as she had to keep her cat ears from folding backwards in worry. "Feels so dead."

"Well I mean they are ruins Blake," Yang said with a shrug. Though she herself had to keep a shudder from going up her spine as she stared at the imposing walls that hovered over her and the rest of the class.

"It looks like a swarm of Grimm had taken this place out," Ren muttered. A haunted look in his eyes as deep frown. Though whatever he was thinking about ended when Nora placed a hand on his shoulder.

"This place is so old," Pyrrha said softly as she walked towards one of the walls and brushed her hand over the hard surface. Feeling every groove from the carvings, and each crack from the ages.

"And dangerous," Oobleck said as he grabbed Pyrrha away just in time for a piece of the wall to come off from the top and land were she just was. "The number of accidents that have occurred in this area has made it too dangerous for any team of normal arcologies to explore."

"Must be hard for any Grimm to live here though," Jaune said. Looking at the bright side as he let out a sigh at the thought of having to go through this literal death maze.

"That would be true young Arc… if there were any Grimm in these ruins at all," Oobleck said in a serious tone.

This bit of knowledge shocked the students as a few even dropped their weapons in shock. A place completely void of Grimm was too alien of a thought to think about. The only safe haven where the four kingdoms, and even then that was something that might not last.

"Th-That… That's impossible!" Weiss stated, her thoughts going back to everything she had ever read and been taught about the Grimm that would suggest they would behave in such a way.

"Is there something… about this place that keeps them away?" Blake asked, curious but also scared of the answer.

"Truthfully I don't know," Oobleck said honestly, a bit of his pride being hurt to admit it. "We have no clue why the creatures of Grimm avoid this area. Honestly, it baffles me after what little we know of this place."

"What do you mean Profesor?" Ruby asked.

"Further inside are signs of battle," Oobleck said as he walked near the entrance. "And even old pieces of armor but no remains, not even bone dust."

Pulling out a flask the teacher open it up and took a swig of piping hot coffee.

"And it was an intense fight too," he said as he gestured towards the student to follow him inside. "You will see once we make it far enough into the ruins."

As the class followed their teacher into the ruins, they soon found out what he meant.

As they walked down the pathways between the buildings it began to feel less and less like they were entering ruins and more like they were being funneled down a corridor. Despite being able to still see the sky and some of the buildings and walls having massive holes in them it started to feel claustrophobic like the walls were closing in. At the same time, the air felt… stale, like no plant or animal life had been here for millennia.

It also didn't help that they saw both claw marks littering the walls and parts the stone walls that were warped as if the walls were melted from intense heat.

"What could have done this?" Pyrrha asks while keeping a lookout for any hazards. Her close call outside the ruins still had her on edge. "These claw marks are too small to be from any Beowulf, and there are no known Grimm in these parts that can use fire attacks, let alone generate flames hot enough to melt stone."

"Maybe the fire was from the people who lived here?" Nora asked. "I know if Grimm were in my town I would melt them!"

"No, I'm pretty sure you'd smash them," Jaune joked.

"I'd break their legs!" the hammer welding girl said with a huge grin.

"While I'm glad to see you two enjoying yourselves, we need to stay focused," Oobleck said. Though he did reach into his coat and pulled out a book before tossing it to team JNPR and Team RWBY, Ruby being the one to catch the book. "But if you are curious that book has photos of the armor of the people who once lived here."

Opening up the book the group gathered around Ruby to take a look at the many photos in the book.

The armor must've once looked incredible, an interesting combination of spikes in some areas of defense, but sleek fins in others, and smooth in between. They looked both elegant and powerful at the same time and seems to convey a feeling of speed and agility. But the armors' former glory had faded, both from time and damage. All of them were rusted, crumbling at the seams. Some looked as if they had been cracked open, hacked apart, or even melted.

"So it wasn't the people throwing around the fire," Yang muttered as she saw how warped the armor was.

"Or," Blake muttered with a haunted look. "It wasn't just a fight between humans and Grimm."

Looking at her teammate in shock Wiess yelled. "And what!? Do you think people would rather fight themselves instead of fighting the Grimm."

"It wouldn't be the first time," the black-themed teen muttered while giving them a pointed look. Memories of humans and Faunus fighting each other even with the Grimm surrounding them.

As the two argued with the rest of the group trying to keep the two from getting to angry Ruby was left to look around as most of the class ether looked around the area or sat down to rest before they would have to get back to the little tour around the ruins.

As she passed by one of the long destroyed houses something caught her eye, a figure in the distance. It looked like a woman, dressed in a light purple shirt, a white dress, and pink hooded cloak with gold trimmings and green gems. Her hood was pulled up to hide her face, and hiding it, even more, was a white fox mask with blue trim, only revealing the bottom half of her face. Before Ruby could even say anything the woman turned and walked past one of the building corners, disappearing from sight. Without thinking Ruby sprinted after her, turning the corner only to see the woman had somehow made it, several yards down the path, already turning the next corner.

"Hey!" Ruby shouted and sprinted after her. No matter how fast she ran, even going so far as to use her semblance, the woman was also turning the corner a good distance away, far faster than should have been possible. After several turned corners Ruby stopped, the woman having completely disappeared around the last corner.

(SONG END)

"Where did she go?" Ruby wondered as she looked around, noticing she was in what looked like a place where people would gather for special events. There was even a stone pillar at the center. Though right now Ruby just realized something.

"I'm lost," Ruby sighed. Wonderin if she would need to yell to get the other's attention, though Ruby didn't want Weiss to figure out that she wandered off. She didn't feel like getting yelled at.

Grumbling the red-themed girl started weighing her options, all the while not noticing the shadows around her getting darker as some VERY familiar creatures started crawling out.

(Play Kingdom Hearts III - Ever-Blooming Dark)

"What the!?" gasp out Ruby as a cold feeling in her heart sprang up and her trained instinct kicked in as she dove to the side. Barely avoiding an attack from the same creatures from her dreams!

"You!?" she cried as she spotted even more of the small creatures she fought in her dreams. "What are you doing here!?"

They, of course, didn't answer, as even more of them showed up, some of them even looking different from their smaller brethren. A new breed of monsters was amongst the little shadows two orb-like monsters with large mouths with cartoonishly sharp teeth beady little yellow eyes, and Ruby needed to hold back a gag at the three tentacles sprouting from them. Two on the head and one at the bottom.

'At least it isn't the big one,' Ruby thought as she grabbed her sword and unsheathed it. Getting into a stance Ruby waited for them to make the first move.

As some of the smaller ones rushed her, while others sank into the ground and quickly moved around the floor. The two larger ones seemed to just calmly float along, as if not that interested in her. She slashed at the small ones that rushed at her, dodging out of the way of their lunges as they left themselves open. When the ones that seeped into the ground came back up she slashed at a few of them before they could attack, destroying them.

So far everything was going easily for Ruby, the small shadow creatures weren't that powerful or smart, even Beowolves would've been more difficult, but she didn't want to tire herself out and despite thinning them out, there were still plenty of them. Not mention-

Cutting off her thoughts she heard a strange noise coming from behind. She turned to see one of the larger creatures rushing straight at her, snapping its jaws. It sped at her much quicker than the smaller ones, and she barely had enough time to roll out of the way. She stood to recover before feeling a sharp slash at her back. She cried out in pain gritting her teeth and turning to slash the smaller one that hat scratched her. 'Dang it, dodging the big one left me off guard. Maybe I should take out the big ones first.'

With that thought she charged at the one that hadn't moved yet, slashing and destroying a few of the smaller ones in the way before jumping to slash at it. Just before she struck it suddenly moved erratically, almost like it was being smacked between two tennis rackets. One of its random movements slammed itself into her side, knocking the wind out of her and sending her tumbling to the ground. Ruby struggled to catch her breath as she got to her hands and knees, seeing some of the smaller ones moving in for the kill. Summoning up her strength she slashes and destroyed a few before rolling out of the way, and then using her semblance to put some more distance between them as she caught her breath.

'Okay, maybe don't go for the big ones yet,' she thought as she panted. She raised her weapon and tried to slow her breathing. 'Take it slow. Wait for your chance.' Ruby held her guard and went on the defensive, moving only to avoid the smaller creatures attacks and attacking in response, destroying them easily as she conserved energy, all the while making sure to position herself so the two larger ones were never out of her sight.

Soon enough one of the charged at her like before. She waited for it to get to close to stop and used her semblance to get above and behind it, slash it in the back. It obviously wasn't going down so easily so she slashed it a few more times before sending it away with a powerful swing. Despite being injured and clearly damaged it still went back to it's lazy floating from before. 'What's with these things? Even Grimm aren't this dumb.' Ruby jumped back a few yards to make sure the other one was in her view as well and went back to her counter-only strategy. She noticed that the swarm of smaller creatures were finally starting to thin, enough that she could actually count how many were left.

Again one of the charged and she prepared her semblance, only to hear the other one was coming at her at the same time from the other direction. She braced herself and used her semblance to dodge to the side before looping around to finish off the one she hit before with a powerful spinning slash. Not letting up she attacked the other one with a flurry of slashed before using her semblance to rocket herself at it. With a battle cry, she stabbed into the monster, her force smashing it into the ground with her before it burst into nothing but dark fumes. She took a moment to catch her breath, and it wasn't much longer before she easily dispatched the rest, finally finishing the skirmish. Ruby practically collapsed to her knees, using her sword to keep herself up as she gasped for breath.

(SONG END)

"Miss Rose!" yelled a voice as said girl looked up and saw her Teacher running towards her.

"Miss Rose are you alright?," Oobleck said as he rushed to his student's side and helped put her up. "Good gracious, girl what in the blazes happened here?"

"I…," Ruby was about to say before stopping. She couldn't tell her teacher that monsters from her dream became real. And they weren't Grimm ether. For one they had yellow eyes. All Grimm had red eyes, never any other colors. They also disappeared way too quickly when beaten.

Also, these creatures seem too… primal to her. Grimm could be wild for sure but these… things gave off a feeling that made Ruby's heart tighten at the mere thought of them.

No, she couldn't tell anyone about them just yet. She couldn't risk being deemed crazy. Let alone bringing any stress to her friends.

As the young girl stayed silent, leaving her teacher to give her a worried look before he helped her up.

"Miss Rose, you're injured. What exactly happened to you?" Oobleck asked, more sternly this time.

"I… I was attacked by some Grimm. Not strong, and not many, but… they caught me off guard, because… you said that Grimm didn't come here. I'm sorry about worrying you." she lied, trying to come up with the most reasonable excuse for her injuries.

The professor stared at the young girl before letting out a tired sigh. "Very well. We'll take you back to the nurse's office when we get back," he said before walking towards the pillar at the center of the area.

Brushing a hand over the surface, the professor muttered. "So you fought Grimm in this area… how ironic."

Looking at her teacher as he placed his hand on the pillar, the red-themed teen asked while walking towards him.

"You know about this place professor?" Ruby asked as she stopped next to him as Oobleck kept examining the old pillar.

Looking away from the pillar Oobleck gave his youngest student a nod before going back to examining the pillar.

"Yes miss Rose," Oobleck said. "This was the place where we found most of the armor that you saw in the book I loaned you. Most of them surrounding this pillar in a way that looked like they were defending it."

"They were defending a pillar?" Ruby asked as she looked at the pillar and noticed some strange writing and images on it. While she couldn't make out the writing she could at least see the carved pictures that showed what looked like a battle going on with figures donning the same armor from the book (in better condition of course) and welding strange-looking swords.

And above the battlefield was a giant heart that hovered over them like ether a sun or moon. This giant heart that looked like it was shining over them filled Ruby with a strange feeling.

But what stood out the most was the image of 5 figures that stood out the most. Each one of them wearing robes and wearing animal masks.

One wore a mask of a bear and was the biggest of the 5 and his weapon was also huge. Looking more like a cross between an ax and a sword.

Another wore a mask of a snake and looked female with how elegant she looked. She wielded a blade that looked like a mass of thorns shaped into something resembling a sword.

The third person wore a leopard mask and his weapon almost looked like lightning bolts sprouting from his hand and took form in the shape of a sword..

The fourth person wore a mask of a unicorn, and his sword almost looked like he wielded a star in the shape of a sword.

"Wonder why all these weapons their using look like…, "Keys?" Ruby muttered before taking a look at the final person and was stunned at what she saw.

The final person who's weapon almost looked like a cloud in the shape of a blade, who looked like she was trying to stop the others from fighting wore a… fox mask.

'No way,' Ruby thought as she took a step back. There was no way the girl she saw earlier was the same one in the carvings.

Not noticing his students panic the teacher continued with his speech.

"Yes," Oobleck said. "It was believed that whatever is written on this pillar might be the very history of the people who lived here."

"But… How could that be something worth dying over? Isn't it just some writing?" she asked.

"Ruby, the history of a people can be more important than their own lives. To be able to pass what you know on to the future can be worth even extinction."

Ruby stared at the pillar for a bit longer, wondering what it could possibly say, when someone familiar caught her eye. Coming from behind the pillar was the same woman in the Fox mask she saw before. "Y-You!" she exclaimed, pointing at her.

"Miss Rose? Are you alright?" Oobleck asked.

"Wh-What? You don't-?" Ruby began to ask, only to stop as the woman phased right through the Professor as she walked, her body becoming mist for a moment before reassembling. Ruby stared, still trying to process what she was seeing, as she saw the woman gently run her fingers along the pillar. Despite her mask covering most of her face, she somehow looked… sad. The woman then turned to her and began to speak, but she didn't hear her voice. Instead, she found herself compelled to repeat what she read from the woman's lips.

(Play: "Kingdom Hearts 1.5HD - Kairi III")

"Long ago, people lived in peace, bathed in the warmth of light."

"Everyone loved the light. Then people began to fight over it."

"They wanted to keep it for themselves. And darkness was born in their hearts."

"The darkness spread, swallowing the light and many people's hearts."

"It covered everything, and the world disappeared. But small fragments of light survived... in the hearts of children."

"With these fragments of light, children rebuilt the lost world. It's the world we live in now. But the true light sleeps deep within the darkness."

"That's why the worlds are still scattered, divided from each other. But someday, a door to the innermost darkness will open, and the true light will return."

(SONG END)

Those last words worried Ruby. Opening a door? Like the voice in her dreams said…

'What door?' Ruby thought as her head started to hurt but thankfully her train of thought was interrupted by Oobleck calling out to her.

"... Miss Rose… how did you do that?" Oobleck asked, looking absolutely shocked, something she had never seen.

"W-what?" Ruby asked groggily. Not realizing what she did. And when she turned back to where the masked girl was, Ruby wasn't surprised that she was gone again.

'Figures,' Ruby thought with a flat star towards were the masked girl was once standing. But she had to look back towards her teacher when he gently coughed to get her attention

"Miss Rose? You seem to be uncharacteristically silent today," he noted with a raised eyebrow.

"S-sorry Professor," Ruby mumbled as she looked away. "I'm just tired… and confused."

"I see… Well, we've spent enough time here, and you need to get back to get those wounds looked at. Everyone else should be waiting for us, so let's head back."

"Ok," Ruby said as she followed her teacher out of the gathering area to find the others. While also dreading the thought of hearing Weiss rant at her for wandering off and getting hurt.

And as the two left to go find the rest of the class, the same mask girl appeared next to the pillar as she watched the two leave, more specifically she watched Ruby leave as a frown was seen on her face as she looked at the red-themed girl.

She then spoke in a soft and caring tone that was laced with sadness as a tear slid down her cheek.

"So listen, child. Even in the deepest darkness, there will always be a light to guide you."

"Believe in the light, and the darkness will never defeat you."

"Your heart will shine with its power and push the darkness away."

With that, the girl put her hands together in a form of prayer as she started to glow and her form started to break apart into particles of light.

"May your heart be your guiding key."

And with that, the girl disappeared as the last bit of her turned into small wisps of light and floated up into the sky.

So ends the second day.

You don't have much time left before your life is changed, forever little rose.

Chapter end.

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