"So, the last episode was a part one and now this one is the continuation of the last episode?" Ruby asks, wondering if she has that right. Raider gives the girl a nod, making the girl turn her head back to the screen.
"So if this is a continuation, then what we're going to see in this episode is Ozpin giving his speech, us being thrown into the ballroom because we don't have dorms, and Ruby very awkwardly meeting Blake for the first time," Yang says, giving a pretty good summary of some of the things she remembers from that day.
"Pretty much, basically," Was Raider's short, simple answer.
*Volume Intro*
Scene: Ruby and Jaune were seen walking into a large mess hall. A bunch of kids were in the crowd, with Yang being the most noticeable because she actually had color. "Ruby! Over here, I saved you a spot!" Yang waved to her sister, getting her attention.
"Oh, hey, I gotta go, see you after the ceremony!" Ruby was off, Jaune trying to get her attention back. "Hey, wait! Ah great, where am I supposed to find another nice quirky girl to talk to?"
"Sorry, I didn't see you behind me," Jaunes says apologetically. Pyrrha tells him that he has nothing to worry about and she doesn't take any offense to it.
As Jaune walks away, Pyrrha is shown. Watching Jaune walk away.
Scene: Yang is standing next to her sister, who is crossing her arms and frowning at Yang. "How's your first day going little sister?" Ruby responds angrily, "You mean since you ditched me and I exploded?"
"Yikes, meltdown already?"
"No, I literally exploded a hole in front of the school. And there was some fire, and I think some ice." Yang just leans in with a teasing smile, "Are you being sarcastic?"
"No other me, she blew using Schnee dust and could have seriously hurt herself. She's running up to you, wondering why we left her behind!" Yang yells with a small eye twitch.
Annoyed at both her past counterpart and herself. What kind of good sister leaves their baby to fend for themselves in a new environment where they have no clue on what to do and just want to stick next to someone who they're familiar with.
Ruby scoffed, "I wish, I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage and then she yelled at me and then I sneezed and then I exploded." As she was going on, Weiss was being made known behind her. "And then she yelled again, and I felt really, really bad and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me."
"You!" Weiss yells at Ruby, to which the small girl hops into her sister's arms. "Oh god, it's happening again!"
"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff." Yang dawns on the realization. "Oh my God, you really exploded."
Ruby released herself from Yang's arms. "It was an accident, it was an accident!"
Weiss then places a pamphlet in Ruby's face, the title reading 'Dust for Dummies'. "The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustainable operating a Schnee Dust Company product. Although, not mandatory. The Schnee Family highly encourages their customers to read and familiarize themselves with this easy to follow guide of dust application practice in the field."
The group was honestly worried for the girl. Did her parents make her memorize that entire thing or did she just do it out of complete boredom. Either way, both answers are extremely bad.
Ruby voiced her confusion, "Um, what?"
"You really want to start making things up to me?" Ruby answered apprehensively "Absolutely." Weiss shoved the pamphlet in Ruby's arms, "Read this and don't ever speak to me again."
"And just look how much that backfired on you Ice Queen." Weiss grumbled and turned to Yang, "Don't call me that."
"Look, uh, it sounds like you got off on the wrong foot. Why don't you start over and try to be friends, okay?"
"So, what do you say Weiss, friends?" Ruby asks with hope in her eyes.
Weiss took one look at the girl and let out a small sigh and smile, "Friends."
"Yeah, great idea sis. Hello Weiss, I'm Ruby, want to hang out? We could go shopping for school supplies." Weiss responded with a stupid amount of sarcasm. "Yeah! And we can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys like tall, blonde and scraggly over there." Weiss says, pointing her thumb back at Jaune, who only looked at the conversation with confusion.
Ruby, thinking she's serious, asks excitedly "Wow really?"
Weiss answers with the most deadpan expression, "NO."
"Ouch," Yang mumerred, getting a tiny laugh out of the Faunus next to her.
Someone coughs into the microphone and all their attention is brought to Ozpin. "I'll keep this brief, you have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But, I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose."
"Yeesh, tell us how you really feel," Nora whispers to herself.
"Well doesn't he make us feel better about ourselves," Yang adds, crossing her arms.
"Direction, you assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step." Ozpin begins to walk away from the stage and Glynda takes his place. "You will gather in the ballroom tonight, tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready, you are dismissed."
The camera goes back to Weiss, Yang and Ruby. Jaune, who was in the background, walks off screen. "He seemed…off." Yang says. "It was almost like he wasn't even there," Ruby continues.
Jaune comes back on screen and directs his statement at Jaune, "I'm a natural blond y'know." Weiss just brings a hand to her face.
Weiss didn't need to say anything for Jaune to understand that she was not interested. Though he couldn't lie that it stung, time heals all wounds.
Scene: It's night time at Beacon. And all students have their sleeping bags out in the ballroom.
Ruby is in her PJs, writing in her journal, and Yang crashes down next to her. But it looked like that landing would have hurt, "It's like a big slumber party!"
Ruby responds without looking up from her writing, "I don't think dad would approve of all the boys though."
"I know I do," Yang continues with a smirk. The camera shows three shirtless men. One being in a headlock with another and the other showing off his muscles. But Yang's vision is ruined when Jaune comes waltzing with his one piece PJs. Yang's smirk fall's into a cringe.
I think he looks adorable… Pyrrha was going to keep that thought to herself in the darkest pits of her mind.
"What's that?" Yang asks when seeing Ruby continue to write. "A letter to the gang back at Signal, I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going."
"Aww, that's so cute!" Yang baby's her sister, but Ruby retaliates by throwing a pillow in her sister's face. "Shut up! I didn't get to take my friends with me to school. It's weird not knowing anyone here."
"Ruby, it's okay, we know it was a big adjustment for you. And look now, you're thriving and you've got all of us!" Yang shouts, hooking an arm around her sister to bring her into a side hug.
"What about Jaune? He's nice?" She says as if it's a question.
"I'm going to choose to pretend that that didn't come out like a question," Jaune says with a deadpan expression.
"There you go! Plus one friend, that's a 100% increase." It was then Ruby moved, turning from her stomach to her back with her arms pillowing her head. "Pretty sure Weiss counts as a negative friend, back to zero."
"There's no such thing as negative friends. You just made one friend and one enemy." Of course, this got Yang another pillow to the face.
"We're not enemies anymore!" Ruby states happily.
"Look, it's only been one day, trust me you got friends all around you. You just haven't met them yet." The glow of a flame catches the girl's attention. The two sit up to see Blake, reading.
"That girl…"
"You know her?"
"Not really, she saw what happened this morning, but left before I could say anything." Yang then grabs Ruby's arm, "Welp, now's your chance." Ruby calls out in protest. "Wait, what are you doing?"
The screen changes to show Blake looking up from her book, wondering what the noise was. Only looking to see Yang dragging a grumpy Ruby over to her. "Hel~oooo!"
Though at the time Blake was a little annoyed by the two, she looks back on this memory with fondness, glad that the two walked up to her.
Ruby finally freed herself from her sister, but Yang didn't pay any heed. "I believe you two may know each other?" Blake responds questioningly, "Aren't you that girl who exploded?"
"Uh, yeah. My name is Ruby, but you can just call me crater- actually you could just call me Ruby."
Facepalms are spread all throughout the room.
Blake doesn't look up from her book, "Ok." Realizing this wasn't worth any of her time. Yang 'whispers' to her sister, being completely heard by Blake. "What are you doing?" "I don't know, help me." The two turn back to Blake with big creepy smiles. "So, what's your name?"
"Knowing you could hear that makes it twenty times more embarrassing!" Ruby groans to herself.
Blake sighs and gives Yang a single glance, "Blake." "Well Blake, I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister, I like your bow." Blake's voice sounds like it came out as a hiss, "Thanks." Yang just keeps talking, sounding more awkward each second, "It goes great with your Pajamas."
"Right…" Yang and Ruby return nervous glances with each other. "Nice night, don't you think?" Blake at that moment, has enough of the two. "Yes, it's lovely, almost as lovely as this book."
…
"That I will continue to read."
…
"As soon as you leave."
"Man, we really suck at taking hints," Yang says, stating the obvious.
"For someone who gives out hints, you sure don't know one when you see one," Ruby says, deciding to tease her sister even though she couldn't catch the hint either.
"Yeah, this girl's a lost cause." Ruby ignored her sister, "What's it about?" Blake looks surprised. "Your book, does it have a name?"
"Well, it's about a man with two souls, each fighting for control over his body."
Yang looks uninterested, "Oh yeah, that's real lovely."
"I love books, Yang used to read me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monsters, they're one of the reasons I want to be a huntress." Blake gave a small chuckle, "Why is that? Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"
"Well, I'm hoping we all will."
Ruby knows that was just her naive talking. The world isn't like a fairytale and it never will be.
"As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books. Someone who fought for what was right and who protected people who couldn't protect themselves."
Blake finally begins to set her book down, "That's very ambitious for a child, unfortunately the real world isn't the same as a fairytale."
"Well, that's why we're here, to make it better." Yang coos in admiration, and brings her into a large hug, "I'm so proud of my baby sister!" Ruby yells at Yang to cut it out. She punches Yang in the face before the two get themselves into a cartoonish scruffle.
"From a third person point of view that is hilarious!" Nora laughs, about to fall off the edge of her seat.
"Well, Ruby, Yang, it's a pleasure to-" Blake was cut off by Weiss, and that was when the two girls stopped, Ruby holding onto Yang's foot. "What in the world is going on over here? Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?" Yang and Weiss make eye contact and yell at the same time, "Oh no, not you again!"
Ruby shushes them both, "Guys she's right, people are trying to sleep."
"Oh, now you're on my side."
Blake realizing she wasn't going to get any reading done, puts down her book.
"I was always on your side!"
"Yeah, what's your problem with my sister, she's just being nice!"
Weiss screams back, "She's a hazard to my health!"
Blake grabs the candelabra, and blows out the flames. And the screen goes black.
*Outro Music*
"I don't know about you guys, but this honestly gonna feel like a pleasant trip down memory lane. What do you all think?" Ruby asks quizzically.
A couple of them wouldn't mind sticking around for a bit to watch these episodes, it's honestly kind of fun to do this.
"Yeah, it would be nice to relax for a bit, considering everything that has happened these past couple of days." Yang agrees, kicking back her feet and resting her arms behind her head, giving them a little stretch.
