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Welcome to chapter 3! I got a review with advice about writing on the iPod, and thanks, I'll keep it in mind. On that note, this is the last one to be moved from iPod to FanFiction. I'm also going to have to ask for two OCs from people to act as bodyguards for the Schnees along side Ruby. They will likely have 10 to 20 years experience as guards, but before that, who knows? Also, no Faunus, this is the Schnees we're talking about here. As always, feedback and suggestions are appreciated! Sparkle free vampire goodness awaits! Oh, and sorry for the massive wait, I got very lazy.

Ruby started her very important morning by waking up at 7, which had become a very beneficial habit over the last few months. Also, Soyka was scary as hell when she was made to be late. Rubbing at her eyes to clear them, she stumbled into the shower with only a vague sense that something major was going on. At some point during her shower, she actually woke up and shouted about being late and having to hurry. This created a needless rush as she scrambled to get ready, not noticing that she still had more than two hours until the interviews started. As she was about to work on her makeup, she remembered that she had to reassemble her sweet heart. This caused a whole slew of muttered curses as she changed again so she wouldn't ruin her new dress. Most of the alterations were cosmetic so that it wouldn't be easily recognized, such as it being sleeker and now being a dark red with pale gold accents, but there were two actual improvements. A new serrated blade was in place, and she could now fire elemental dust rounds without wrecking the firing mechanism. Have money, will tinker. After her work was finished and properly admired, she cleaned up and got back into her dress, just finishing as Soyka burst into the room.

"Damn girl, you look good! And you smell tasty! Awesome combo, but you've got to have some sort of trinket to go with that," she stated, "I'm fairly sure I've got a nice set of earrings that would suit. Now, give me that makeup box, and no arguments, I'm 567 years old and Queen class, I know my shit."

With a small sigh and a glance at the clock, showing she had the time to spare, she grudgingly allowed Soyka to do her thing. Time passed and eventually, she was done, showing that she hadn't just been boasting. With a small 'oh' of rememberance, Soyka rushed off to her room and returned with two small rose shaped earrings made of gold. Ruby gave many thanks, saying that she would pay Soyka back somehow. They headed downstairs for their breakfast bl- soup and met David there. When they were finished, Ruby saw that the time was slightly after her desired departure time, so she knew that she would have to really run to make it. As she was leaving she heard David and Soyka call out goodbyes and wishes of good luck, and as she stepped onto the street she activated her semblance and dissappeared in a burst of slightly wilted petals. The world seemed to slow around her as she ran at top speed for the arenas, running along the road to avoid pedestrians. She burst through the doors to the arena with minutes to spare, skidding to a halt at the reception desk. The receptionist barely raised an eyebrow before waving here through to the first stage.

An hour or so later Ruby practically skipped out of the interview room, and had to restrain her self from doing a victory dance. From the way the interviewers had been listening to her answers, she figured that she had pulled it off almost perfectly. She had been told to head to the arena proper to wait her turn.

"Now I get yo let my sweetheart do the talking," she said to herself with a smile that looked slightly scary with her fangs.

With the smile morphing into a full blown grin she strolled up to the doors to the waiting room and saw tow other people there, both of them looking much more experienced than the not-so-intimidating Ruby. They both looked her over and the one with the knives gave her a lecherous wink, which went completely over her head. After a few minutes of waiting the one who had a generic gun-blade slung over his shoulder stood and walked out into the arena. It looked like Winker was going to try talking to her so she pointedly pulled Crescent Rose out and did a last minute check, which had the desired effect. A small girl toting a huge scythe could do wonders in the field of discouragement. Later on it was just Ruby sitting there when she was notified of it being her turn to fight. When she stood she had a brief moment of nervousness and whispered something about normal knees before heading out into the arena. They swung open and she finally saw the area that she would be fighting in, and she couldn't help but think that it was rather plain; just a large open space with a sandy floor and two sets of doors, one of which she had walked out of. There were also a few stains that smelt of blood, and fresh blood at that, which could mean one of two things. Either this might actually be challenging, or there had been some weaklings ahead of her. She shook herself a little then, realizing that her thoughts had gone predatory very quickly. Rein it in Rubes, can't be getting out of hand like that.

"Scarlett Bloom, please prepare for the test, it shall begin in fifteen seconds," the proctor announced over the intercom, and then started to count down.

Ruby quickly pulled out the better than ever Crescent Rose 2.0 and shifted it to its shotgun mode and tensed as the count reached ten seconds to go. She checked her ammo and made sure the chamber wasn't jammed, then stilled.

"Three… two… one… GO!" was the call for it to begin, and the gates across from her slammed open.

What Ruby saw was slightly disappointing, just a score or so of standard security drones poured towards her, with almost all of them going in for melee combat, blades at the ready. She waited until they got close, then started blasting, aiming to take as many out from this wave before she moved into close combat. She activated a burst of her semblance, almost teleporting up to the droids and switching CR into it's scythe form and started slashing away at them. She had cleared out around seven of them with her first attack, and as she tore through them she smiled. Too easy. With a final spin she slammed the point of CR's blade into the ground and fired her last shot, taking the head off the final bot.

As she stood admiring her handiwork , one of her observers commented, "That hardly seemed like a challenge for her, she could definitely be one of the top candidates to protect my daughter."

While she was being discussed, Ruby was thinking to herself that the fight had been a huge disappointment. So she did the only logical thing; ask for a better one.

"Hey, ah, could I get a bit of a challenge? Something bigger than a few androids?"

The judges murmured amongst themselves before the host of the interviews interrupted with, "She wants a challenge? Send out a spider droid."

"But sir, the risk of that is huge! The difficulty gap between those droids and a spider droid is too large!" one of the more concerned judges protested, sounding worried.

"Do it, I want to see how good she really is," was all that was said in response, forcing the judges and proctor to cave.

Ruby heard an announcement for her to prepare herself again for the next enemy. She stood across from the gates as they swung open and the new foe stepped into the light. What she saw was going to be fun to fight. The droid took the initiative and locked onto her before firing a quick barrage at her which was dodged through as she moved towards it. When she was close enough she leapt and slashed at the it, almost cleaving through the main gun before it was blocked at the last moment and she was flung back. Right after touching down she dashed in again and aimed for a leg joint. She was winding up for a recoil-enhanced swing when she heard an annoyingly familiar voice shout at her.

"YOU!" was the simple message, and yet she knew who it was and she froze in shock as her head swiveled towards the voice and she locked eyes with the girl from the alleyway.

To say Ruby was surprised was an understatement, and her thoughts could be summed up with 'not again!'. She was about to say something of the sort when she felt a sharp pain blossom in her gut. Looking down, she saw a blade almost as long as her arm had sprouted from the leg of the droid and was currently impaling her. She grunted in pain as it was viciously ripped out of her horizontally, practically gutting her. she was dazed and shocked at the sight of her blood and the disturbing sense of lust it stirred in her. Ruby dropped Crescent Rose with a clatter as a veil of red clouded her vision. Her sight snapped back up to the droid as she began to growl low in her throat. The monster was out, and it wanted to play.