Oh god! Oh god! Oh god!

Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!

These were the last thoughts of Jaune Arc and Ruby Rose respectively as both soared through the air, with the latter trying to catch the former. The young girl mentally cursed her blonde friend for the stupid decision to enroll at a combat school without any experience. Jaune, if that fall doesn't kill you. I WILL.

The only thing the auraless could do was flail around while plummeting to his death. With every passing second, the closer the boy got to the ground. Attempting to close the distance between the two, the ex-vigilante kept her posture straight with her cloak wrapped around her body, allowing her to gain more speed, almost like a bullet. She felt the wind fly past her face as she soared.

Although the ex-vigilante was close, she knew she wouldn't be able to reach the boy in time. Ruby's desperation and fear grew as the blonde was about to smack face first into the ground, most likely breaking all his bones and killing him upon impact.

Miraculously, the Arc boy was saved by a familiar bronze javelin catching him and pinning him towards a nearby tree. From a distance, the owner of the spear could be heard. "I'm sorry!"

Relief washed over Ruby as she watched Jaune get pinned to a tree. He may have been an idiot for doing what he did, but he was still her friend that needed help. Although, that doesn't mean he won't get an earful from her later, and boy does she have a lot to lecture him for. But she'll cross that bridge once she gets there.

Time for her to look for her own partner. Pyrrha took Jaune, gods only knew where Yang was, and right now she was running out of potential options. Time was now of the essence for her.

With her own cloak, Ruby used it as a glider to not only slow her descent, but also allow her to maneuver through the air.

First thing she needed was a vantage point to scout out for any potential partners. Lucky for her, the emerald forest is a terrain filled with enough tall trees and cliffs to give her that advantage. With that, Ruby glided down to the closest tall tree and landed herself down onto one of its long branches.

Now, how am I going to find myself a partner? As said by the headmaster and mistress, they were supposed to gain a partner through chance, which means they also have a way of tracking who the students would be paired up with. That gave the young girl a thought.

There must be cameras around the forest to oversee their performance. They're grading how well each of them would work with their partners. But that couldn't be the only way they were watching them. Cameras would always have blindspots and there were far too many of them to just be monitored via camera. There must be an alternative way.

Ruby glanced down to herself until an idea popped in her head. She quickly pulled out her scroll and began tapping away.

Scrolls have the function of monitoring our aura and health so that must be how he is able to easily monitor us. He's connected to all of our scrolls. However, what most don't know is that it's a two-way street, meaning while he can see everyone else, someone with the right tools can do this.

And within a couple seconds, she now had full access to Ozpin's scroll tablet, giving her the location of all cameras and students nearby. If Bruce could see me now, he would kill me for getting the Remote Hacking Device on my phone. Ruby chuckled to herself at the thought before going over who was near her vicinity. As luck would have it, the closest student to her, with the exception of Jaune and Pyrrha, was none other than Weiss Schnee.

Joy filled the ex-vigilante at the prospect of being paired with her old friend. The heiress may have changed in personality, but she was still one of Ruby's closest friends before. Glimpses of her old friend were still there. She was not going to give up on her that easily.

And so, Ruby went off to the heiress' location.

Today, things weren't going so well for Weiss Schnee. While things started off great, like befriending Pyrrha Nikos and perfecting her own landing strategy, things have only gone downhill from there.

First, she almost paired up with the weird blonde boy from earlier. The thought of her being on his team was already unpleasant, but being partners with him? That would be a nightmare in itself. Fortunately for her, he was already paired up with someone else.

Unfortunately, that brings the second bad thing that has happened to her today. Pyrrha Nikos, the one person Weiss had been aiming to be partnered with, was the other person that paired with Jaune Arc. If she hadn't been mad before, she surely was now. There went her plans for a perfect team.

And to add the cherry on top of her bad day, she was now surrounded by over a dozen Beowolves.

This wouldn't be a problem for her, as she could use this as a chance to impress anyone watching her, especially the headmaster and headmistress of the academy. She was already in her perfect stance, loaded Myrtenaster with a vial of fire dust, and was ready to attack.

But what pissed her off most was that she hadn't even had the chance to attack. Because, out of nowhere, a couple objects flew past her face and the Beowolves behind her suddenly exploded.

She hadn't had time to think before the entire area around her was covered in smoke. Weiss coughed and heaved while waving the smoke out of her face.

Something then jumped down from the trees and began attacking the grimm around her. While the fog may have masked the figure, there was no mistaking the familiar movements to the heiress, causing her eyes to widen in shock. No...it can't be…

A pit had sunk into Weiss' stomach as she slowly walked back. The bombs, the way the figure moved around, the flow of the cape. The heiress couldn't help but freeze and caress the scar she had from years ago..

"Boss? What do we do? Schnee ain't willing to negotiate."

"Then we will send him a message. It was never about money. It was all about-"

*BOOM*

"Sorry for randomly dropping in," A familiar voice said before facing the lone Schnee. "It looked like you needed some help."

The voice only strengthened the girl's assurance on the identity of the person. Weiss couldn't really believe it was…

Ruby. The girl from yesterday. Her initial shock of the situation turned into disappointment before shifting into unbridled anger.

"You again?! Do you have any idea what you've done!?" Weiss yelled at the girl, causing the latter to shrink a bit at her tone. "I had everything under control until you popped up out of nowhere!"

"Look, I thought-"

"Well, you thought wrong! It's because of you that I could've started a forest fire!"

"But-"

"And now because of that, I-"

"Would you shut up for 5 seconds and let me explain!"

This finally got Weiss to quiet down. Nobody in her life has ever yelled at her like that, with the exception of her own father. Not only that, while she had only recently met this girl the previous day, it was clear to Weiss that she was a very patient and forgiving person, so it came as a surprise to see her blow up. Perhaps she overreacted.

With silence in the air and everyone calm, Ruby started. "Before you go on and explain to me different ways on how I could've messed everything up for you, let me ask you a couple things: Were you or were you not aware that you were surrounded by Beowolves?"

Weiss nodded. Ruby continued.

"And you believe you had the entire situation under your control?"

Again, she nodded.

"But were you aware that you were less than 3 seconds away from being a Beowolf chew toy?"

Now that kept the girl quiet. She was so sure that she had them all where she wanted them. Perhaps it was an exaggeration-

"Those Beowolves had you surrounded on all sides. That's what they do to those they believe are weak prey. It's done to misdirect which of the pack would attack first. With a weapon like yours, even with fire dust, you wouldn't be able to properly defend yourself from all of them at the same time. The worst part was that you didn't even realize what was happening because you were too busy focusing on both your stance and how to attack."

The heiress went completely silent. To think that she was seconds close to becoming mortally wounded or, worse, dead. Weiss was disappointed in herself. She was training to become a huntress, yet here she was acting like a spoiled brat that she had despised to be a few years ago. Before she could apologize, Ruby again cut her off.

"Look, I don't want to get in your way of becoming a huntress, but I think it's in both of our best interest to work together to achieve that goal, even if it means making a couple mistakes and fixing them here and there. So what do you say? Willing to partner up with Ruby Rose?"

Ruby then brought forth her hand in a way that resembled Weiss' first meeting with Robin. Genuine, authentic, and no ulterior motive. It was scary, to say the least, on how reminiscent this was to that experience, but the girl digressed for now before shaking Ruby's hand.

"Partners it is then."

Sorry for the long wait. I have re-edited almost the entire story (Omakes included) by fixing some errors, rewrote some scenes, and even adding more scenes to enhance aspects of the story. Volume 1 of the story is almost about to wrap up so I hope ya'll enjoy this in the mean time. I would like to thank you all for the support, please leave a review or a comment on the story, and I hope you enjoy.

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