Alternatively titled: Everyone Loves Wolf-Ruby. I am still learning how to write, so comments and critiques welcomed.

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Chapter 1: Initiation

"HAHAHAHAhA!"

"Ruby! This was a horrible idea!"

"Aww, come on! It's fun!"

"I fail to see how clinging onto a giant Nevermore for dear life can be fun!"

Weiss sighed as she thought back to how her day had gone so wrong.

That morning, she had woken up from a terrible dream of her first day. In the dream, some idiot had knocked over her dust suitcases and proceeded to sneeze and blew both of them into the stratosphere. Thankfully it was only a dream and her first day had gone without incident.

Upon waking, she had met with Pyrrha Nikos, the only other student she saw as a capable partner. There was one blonde guy, Jaune something-or-other, who seemed interested in her, but the boy was clearly out of his league. He didn't even know what a landing strategy was.

And to think Pyrrha was seemingly interested in him.

A few glyphs helped her landing and she took off before someone found Pyrrha… or her first. A rustle nearby grabbed her attention and she readied her weapon.

Three Beowolves burst from the undergrowth. Her eyes narrowed and her muscles tensed, ready to spring forward and impale them.

But they all ran pass her.

Without even looking back, they disappeared. If the Grimm were running from something, it might be another hunter. She cautiously pushed aside the branches and saw a gruesome scene.

Drenched in red, the figure of a small girl slaughtered the last Beowolf. Blood dripped from her hands and some must have splattered onto her face.

Forgetting the initiation for a moment, she looked into the girl's silvery eyes underneath the red hood. A chill shot down her spine as the eyes glazed with bloodlust stared back.

But in an instant, an innocent shine returned to them.

"Hiya! My names Ruby! Who are you?"

Being addressed snapped her out of her stupor. "Weiss. Weiss Schnee," she answered, awaiting the recognition that follows her name.

Instead, the girl just walked over to the bushes to gather leaves and wiped the blood away.

"Weiss. Weiss. Weiss. Weiss~"

"Ahem, yes?"

"Hmm?" the girl turned back around and tilted her head cutely.

"What do you want?"

"Nothing, I just felt like saying your name," Ruby grinned.

Weiss felt the heat creeping up her face. "W-well, stop it!"

Ruby certainly had skill; the carcasses strewn about were a testament to that. Weiss did not see Ruby at the launch, but she supposed she could be worse off. At least Ruby was not that blonde buffoon.

"I suppose this makes us partners," Weiss said tentatively.

Attempting to take control of the situation, she pointed in a direction and started walking. "This way then. I will not allow you to dilly-dally and make me suffer a lower grade."

Glancing back, she saw Ruby following along, though the girl was distracted by the most inane of movements from leaves to butterflies.

Weiss wasn't quite sure what happened, but somehow or other they ended up clinging to a giant Nevermore's talons.

What she was sure of was…

"This is going so far beyond stupid!"

"In a good way?"

"How can it possibly be good?!"

"Well, if you want off, we can always jump!"

"Are you insane?!"

And of course Ruby had already jumped. Before she even finished suggesting that course of action actually.

"Ahahahahahahaha!" her laugher echoed around the forest as she plummeted towards the ground.

Bracing herself, Weiss saw a blonde blur whizzed by and slammed into Ruby, sending both of them into a tree. A few people have already gathered by some ruins below, and Pyrrha ran towards them with a Deathstalker in tow.

Weiss let go and placed several glyphs to act as stepping-stones. Thank goodness she remembered she could do that, otherwise letting go without a means to land would have been fairly idiotic.

Once on the ground, she looked up to see Pyrrha using the Deathstalker's swipe to propel herself towards the group, putting a sizable distance between them. Weiss quickly made her way to join and was introduced to everyone.

"Yes, pleasantries aside, perhaps we should move quickly," she gestured to the two Grimm.

"Heh. Leave it to me," Ruby growled.

In an instant, Ruby flashed in front of the scorpion and attacked. Lashing out with her hands, sparks flew from wherever Ruby struck the creature's exoskeleton.

"That idiot is going to get herself killed," Weiss muttered as she took off as well.

Closing the distance, she saw that Ruby's attacks were not doing much at all, aside from annoying the scorpion.

Oh Deathstalker, I somewhat understand that feeling well.

Unfortunately, Ruby did not notice this at all.

The poised stinger stabbed forward. Weiss raised a wall of ice, quickly encasing the stinger and both claws. This also had the benefit of grabbing Ruby's attention.

"Whoa!"

"You are so childish," Weiss berated the smaller girl. "And dim-witted, too hyperactive, and don't even get me started on your fighting style."

Ruby glanced back at the stuck scorpion. "Aww, come on! We can totally take this guy on," she pouted.

Weiss grabbed her wrist and dragged her back to the group. "Look, our objective is right in front of us. We don't have to waste time fighting them."

"Run and live, " Jaune nodded. "That's an idea I can get behind."

He picked up a white rook, leaving Ruby to pick the white knight.

A loud crack from the ice reminded them that there are still two large Grimm after them.

"If we're heading back to the school now, there's a way up that way," Ruby pointed. "There are these walkways that guy can't cross."

"Then let's move," Ren spoke. "Please lead the way."

Ruby nodded and sprinted off. She paused every once in a while to allow everyone else to catch up.

"Guys, heads up!" Jaune shouted.

A volley of feathers rained down and would have skewered them had they not heard the warning.

"Nora, distract it."

"On it!" The ginger girl took her weapon and fired several grenades that seemed to affect the Nevermore slightly.

Another volley was aimed straight at her, but Weiss grabbed her and propelled both of them away with a glyph.

"Go, go!" Pyrrha urged as she reached the edge of the walkway. She turned around along with Ren and Blake, and the three open-fired upon the Deathstalker to help buy time.

However, the moment they made it half way across the bridge, the Nevermore crashed into the foundations, separating the teams.

"We gotta get over there. They need help!" Jaune cried upon seeing Pyrrha, Ren, and Blake stranded with the Deathstalker.

"Leave it to me!" Nora shouted as she smashed the bridge to send both of them flying to help.

In a bizarre twist, Blake was pushed off the edge. She managed to swing onto the Nevermore, deal several ineffective slashes, and land next to Yang.

"It's tougher than it looks," she grimaced.

"Then let's hit it with everything we've got," Yang yells.

They readied and primed their weapons and fired at will.

The Nevermore simply dodged or shrugged off every shot. Crashing once again into the ruins, it destroyed most of their footholds.

Each girl quickly ran up the falling debris, eventually regaining ground. The moment she landed, Yang ran off to fire more shots at the bird.

"None of this is working," Weiss muttered.

"Weiss! Weiss! Plan!" Ruby shouted.

Throughout everything, Ruby had not been able to do much, lacking any form of ranged attack.

Does she really fight with her bare hands?

Ruby whispered the plan to Weiss who stared back incredulously.

"That's insane!" Weiss shouted. "And suicidal!"

Ruby flashed a grin before flashing to Yang and Blake to fill them in.

Weiss shook her head and started to prepare her glyphs. While she may not agree with the plan, it was certainly better than the lack of ideas she was having.

She looked up to see Yang jumping into the Nevermore's beak, firing shot after heated shot into its maw.

Yang jumped out the moment it was distracted, letting the bird careen into the cliff-side.

It tried to steady itself, but Weiss jumped forward and froze its tail-feathers to the rocks.

She flipped back onto the platform and glanced behind her to see Blake's weapon suspended between two pillars and stretched taunt by Blake and her clone. Loaded onto the makeshift slingshot was Ruby.

SNAP!

Ruby is launched forward by the slingshot. Weiss quickly formed a propulsion glyph right behind Ruby's feet as she passes. Yang followed up immediately by smashing the glyph with a punch.

Ruby accelerated into a red streak, a red lance to pierce the heart of the Nevermore.

Silence.

The Nevermore was like a statue. Only the jets of blood from its chest disturbed the solemn air.

Slowly, it fell forward into the ravine.

Ruby hung onto the rock-face with one hand. She breathed heavily while covered head to toe in blood, but waved and grinned to the girls that helped her.

The moment they returned, Weiss and Ruby were ordered to the headmaster's office where Professor Ozpin and Glynda Goodwitch awaited.

Glynda took one look at Ruby before flicking her riding crop. Every speck of blood on the girl was pulled off and sent down the drain.

Ruby started to grin at her thankfully but immediately wilted from the severity of Glynda's glare. Glynda took Ruby to another room, leaving Weiss alone with Ozpin.

"I must say I am impressed, Ms. Schnee. Not many students can take on an adult Nevermore and win, and certainly never during initiation."

"Not at all, sir," Weiss blushed at the praise. "But truth be told, Ruby came up with the plan."

"Ah yes, what do you make of her?"

Rash. Impulsive. Deliriously happy. Insufferably optimistic. Fast. Strong.

"While I believe Pyrrha and I would have been the best match, Ruby is suitably skilled."

"I see," Ozpin sipped his coffee. "Come with me for a bit, Ms. Schnee."

He led her to another room. A one-way glass wall stood between them and Ruby being chastised by Glynda.

"You went against specific instructions not to enter the forest and disrupted the initiation. Furthermore, you endangered not only yourself but several students."

With every word, Ruby seemed to shrink smaller and smaller into her chair.

"Anything you have to say for yourself?"

"Is Weiss going to be okay?" Ruby whispered.

"You see Ms. Schnee," Ozpin addressed Weiss while keeping his gaze on the scene in front of him. "Due to circumstances, Ruby is staying at Beacon, under the care of the faculty. She was not supposed to be in the forest today, and would certainly not be entering as a student for another two years."

Weiss gaped at him in shock.

"Unfortunately, as you are not a student, Ms. Schnee is left without a partner," Glynda explained. "Which also means she technically fails the initiation."

"T-then I'll become a student!" Ruby shouted. "Then she won't fail, right?"

"Impossible," Glynda shot her down immediately. "Putting aside the age issue, you are not ready."

"Then I'll just have to be ready," Ruby argued. "I can't let Weiss get in trouble because of me."

"Are you truly prepared for that, Ruby?" Ozpin spoke.

Ruby must have heard him because she starts looking wildly around the room.

"Yeah. I don't care what it takes, but I'll become a student. I'll become Weiss' partner! And I'll be the best partner she's ever had!"

"Bold words. Well then, there's only one issue at hand."

Ozpin pressed a button on the wall and the section slid out of view, revealing Ozpin and Weiss.

"What do you think, Ms. Schnee?"

Extra:

On their way back, everyone talked excitedly about the battle they just had. Taking on two Grimm that might have been decades, if not centuries, old is no mean feat. Ruby had impressed everyone with her plan, though the girl still walked behind everyone, dripping blood everywhere.

"So we need to come up with a super awesome name for that attack!" Nora shouted. "That way, if you guys need to use it again, you'd be ready."

"Hopefully, we never will," Weiss muttered. The plan had been reckless at best and a small part of her worried for the girl when she was hurled like a javelin.

"You could just call it, throw Ruby at the opponent," Jaune suggested.

"Nope," Yang spoke, popping the 'p'. "We need to come up with the longest, coolest, most ridiculous name ever."

And so they went back and forth adding more and more needless words onto the unnecessary name. Blake, Pyrrha, and even Ren offered suggestions during various parts of the process.

"Okay so here's the name!" Nora announced while bouncing up and down.

[Red Rose Sign] ~ Ruinous Barbed Heartseeking Thorn Transcending the Bonds of Friendship - Scarlet Spear of Striking Death Flight (featuring Ruby Rose)

"It's got everything," Yang nodded. "It's got square brackets, it's got parentheses, it's got a dash, it's got one of those squiggly thing."

Weiss face-palmed. Was this what she had to look forward to for the next four years?

Alternative Alternative title: How many references did you catch?

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