From Dust We Are Born: Chapter 2

Disclaimer: *Walks in to RT with MLG airhorns* 1V1 M8 4 the rights 2 RWBY RT scrub.
1 hour later
Welp, that backfired. Don't own RWBY. I do however, owe some people a favor…orange bellied bastards…

AN: Well, this was surprisingly well received. Most people seem to like this. And yes, I know I took forever to update this. My mind is an adhd riddled cluster fuck. How I work is I bounce ideas and writing between things. Seeing as I'm currently writing 3 fics (9 Months to live, Roses are red, Violets are blue, and this) that's a lot of bouncing around. However, I'll try to give this the care it deserves, seeing as I have of yet to fuck it up. Now onto questions.
One person pointed out that since Pyrrha is of Greek relation, following the logic I used, Mistral should be Greece influenced nation, but since Neptune, Sage, and Scarlet have no relation that I shouldn't make such assumptions. Now, I must point out, Neptune is the name of the Roman god of the sea, and Rome conquered Greece, and added their culture. So…if anything that just supported my theory. A GAM- What do you mean it's trademarked, Editor of mine? Welp, Fuck this shit I'm out to the next chapter. *Jumps out window*

Editor: Where the hell does he even go?

"How did this happen?

"I mean, we're not even together together!"

"And last time I checked, 6 year old children don't just pop out of the snow!"

"I DON'T KNOW!" Jaune and Ruby panicked in the small pocket buried under the snow. The little girl, still unnamed lay resting in resting wrapped in the torn coat of Ironwood, snoozing blissfully unaware of the panic of the two young adults she was with.

"Okay, maybe for some reason the kid just mistook me for her dad" Jaune tried to say calmly "I mean, the kids parents are probably looking for her right now!"

Ruby seemed to agree with this logic, nodding her head. "Yeah, that was a silly idea. Me, with you? Together-together" She stated awkwardly and tense. Jaune knew he should have felt relieved by this statement, heck, that probably just saved him from Yang beating him within an inch of his life and preserved his jewels, but he felt kinda…sad. No, for now he needed to focus on getting Ruby, the kid, and himself out of this damn snow and back to the others with the mission objective. Then they could get Ironwood to help them find the little girl's parents.

"Hey Ruby, do you have any idea how deep we're buried?" Jaune asked, looking up at the snowy ceiling.

The huntress in training pondered for a moment before answering "I would say a good 5 to 6 feet of snow. We were outrunning A LOT of snow" She said, waving her hands around for effect.

Jaune paused for a moment, till he thought of something "I'm probably going to regret asking this, but how powerful is the sniper on your weapon?" He said, regret lacing his voice.

Ruby leaped up, fire burning in her eyes "HOW POWERUL?!" The short huntress exclaimed, pulling out the scythe/sniper rifle out with much bravado, causing Jaune to cringe "My baby can, with the right rounds, pierce through one end of a king taijitu and come out the other end with enough power left to kill a beowolf in one well-placed shot!"

Jaune took this into consideration. "Do you have any fire rounds for Crescent Rose?"

"Yeah, but what good would melting the ice do? We would be covered in water that would get frozen instantly"

Jaune got up, a spark of excitement in his eyes. "We're not going to melt the whole ice. We're gonna shoot a flare up to get our teams to come and save us. I mean, I mean, I'm sure they're probably fine"

Pyrrha sneezed suddenly, temporally stopping the fight between Nora and Yang and the full out racial argument between Weiss and Blake.

"Bless you Pyrrha" Ren said stoically as the chaos went rampant in the background.

"Thank you Ren. I just go the weirdest feeling that Jaune said something very, very wrong."

"Well, I'm sure our fearless leader is fine. After all, he does have the child prodigy with him."

"Yeah, but still…"

Ruby seemed to enjoy the idea. Loading a fire round from one of the special dust rounds Weiss had given her for her birthday, Ruby aimed the barrel toward the snowy ceiling. Focusing her aim towards the weakest point, she fired the high caliber scythed turned sniper rifle up, filling the tiny space with a loud boom, the round burning its way through the layers of snow. Hopefully, it was enough for their teams to find them.

The two sat there, waiting in the snowy cave. Both leaders were silent, since both where to awkward to talk and didn't want to address the small elephant in the room snoozing in Ruby's cloak. It was uncomfortable enough as it was with the two of them in such a tight enclosed space, but now a small child claiming the two of them to be their parents? Both weren't willing to open that big ol' can of awkward. They made enough as it was. But the silence gave them both the feeling of loneliness as time began to tick bye.

Finally Jaune spoke. "So…how's your team doing?

"The usual. Yang being…Yang, Blake reading and hunting for leads on the White Fang in her free time, and Weiss is being the slave driver of homework as usual. I swear, she is the only one who ever forces someone to actually take notes in Port's!" She said

"Wait, she actually forces you to take notes for Port? What can you even take notes on! Ugghhh." Jaune said, shudder at thoughts of the mustached professor's 'lessons'

"So, how your team doing?" Ruby asked

"Well, you know. Nora being up to her usual shinegans and Ren trying and failing to reign them in. But me and Pyrrha have made decent progress on my swordplay!" Jaune said happily

"Oh. Well that's good" She said halfheartedly. Ruby felt a small sting at how happy Jaune seemed to be with all the training with Pyrrha. Then again, they were partners, but still…She needed to talk to Yang about this. She'd know what to do."So…any idea exactly as to what this thing that makes it so important" Jaune said, gesturing towards the football shaped object that lay wrapped in the ruined coat of Ironwood. Hopefully, he wasn't too attached to that coat…

"Maybe it's some super cool weapon that can transform into a really cool gun or some other weapon!" Ruby said, joy and childhood wonder filling her eyes.

"Is everything about weapons with you?" Jaune jokily said, only to be punched in the arm.

"Crescent Rose is the only weapon for me and you know it!" Ruby said, feigning offense as she hugged said scythe collapsible sniper rifle close to her

However, the conversations where cut off as the little girl begin to stir. Silver eyes blinked open as the girl looked towards Jaune and Ruby, slowly rubbing the drowsiness from her eyes.

"Hello there" Jaune said softly, hoping not to scare the poor girl "Can you tell me your name and where your parents are?"

The girl looked confused "I…don't remember…" She said softly.

"Your name or your parents?" Ruby asked.

The girl put her head down "…Both"

Ruby looked at the girl with an emotion Jaune did not recognize. "Do you remembering anything, where you live, how old you are?"

The poor girl could only shake her head as tears began to form "The only thing I do is that my mommy and daddy hunters…" Ruby gave the small child hug. To Jaune, it must have been some horrid experience with the grimm that caused the poor child to block any and all memory of much of anything.

"Don't worry, we'll look over you till we find your parents." Ruby said, giving Jaune a look

"That's right" He said, still hesitant. It has not his place, but could he really say no to two sets of big silver puppy eyes? "My name is Jaune, and this is Ruby. We're both hunters in training at Beacon." Jaune said, trying to reassure the poor girl.

The girl merely nodded to the blonde knight.

Ruby decided to try to lighten the mood "Well, why don't you try to come up with a name for yourself!? That could be fun!"

The girl merely looked down "I don't know. I don't think I have any good ideas..."

Ruby shook her head "Nonsense! Anybody can have a name, and not even the first one needs to be the best! Heck, I first called Jaune Vomit Boy when I met him!"

"MOTION SICKNESS IS MORE COMMON THAN YOU THINK!"

"Don't mind him. Just try what feels right to you!"

The girl tilted her head, mind hard at work. Finally, she seemed to come across a good one "Summer! Because I like the warm fuzzy feeling of it and you get to spend time with your family more!"

Ruby seemed to be taken back...she didn't want to tell the girl, how could she, but her own heart was mourning for her mother right now.

Jaune, seeing Ruby's discomfort, quickly took action "You don't come off as a Summer...How about Spring! Even kind of fits, considering we found you beneath the snow, and you seem to be as sweet as a spring flower!" Jaune said, ruffling the girl's red tinted golden locks.

The Girl nodded her head, and Ruby seemed much more comfortable. "I'm...Spring..." She said, slowly, a smile slowly lighting up her face "I'm Spring!"

"Well, me and Jaune's teammates should be here soon... I think" Ruby said, then a thought occurred. "Jaune, how are we gonna explain Spring to them!?"

"Well, I don't know, I just have avoid leaving her alone in a room with Nora and all should be fine"

"BUT WEISS. AND A SMALL CHILD"

Oh god...the poor child wouldn't stand a chance.

"Yeah...I can see Ice Queen might be a bit of a challenge..." Jaune said.

Ruby noticed something Jaune said "Ice Queen? Why not your Usual Snow Angel?"

"Lets just say this experience has official ruined anything I might have found attractive of anything cold. Your partner included."

Spring finally spoke up "Who's Ice?"

"Nononono, Weiss, not ice Sweetie" Ruby corrected her

"She's not completely wrong though..." Jaune said, getting a giggle from Spring.

"Oh come on she's not that bad..."

"..."

"Okay, she's gotten better. After all, didn't you say strangers are just friends you haven't met yet?" Ruby said, hands on her hip.

Suddenly, the cave around them began to collapse. Seeing the snow begin to pile around them, Jaune grabbed Ruby and Spring and pulled them into his arms. The cave quickly closed in, the 3 of them completely covered in snow.

"You okay Crater Face?" Jaune asked, breathing slowly.

Ruby let out a soft moan "Little warning next time before you decide to tackle me" She said, voice muffled as her head was in his chest. "What about you Spring?"

The poor girl was swooshed under Ruby, covered in her red cloak "M'Fine"

Quickly Jaune began to realize just how close he and Ruby where, as he began to to notice the soft bumps pressed against him...oh god, be strong, think mom with frying pan, think angry Yang...

It seemed Jaune's prayers where answered, as the snow atop them was blasted away

"WE FOUND THEM! WAIT, THIS BETTER NOT BE WHAT I THINK IT IS ARC!"

Or maybe they where his nightmares becoming a reality. That one really weird nightmare from that time he tried some of Ozpin's coffee on a dare.

Ruby and Jaune both bolted up from the snow, quickly seperating "IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!" Both cried out at the same time.

"Hello" All eyes of the renuited teams turned to the small head poking out from Ruby's cloak. Blonde hair with burnt crimson ends and silver eyes looked to them.

"Um...When did you and Jaune have a kid, Ruby?" Blake asked the question running through NPR and WBY's minds before all chaos broke lose.

Omake: The roast of the Weiss Schnee

AN: Just to clarify, I do not hate Weiss. I actual really liked her in Volume 3. but I think we can all agree in Volume 1 she was kinda a bitch. And if there's one thing my friends have taught me, they're your friends because they know too much about you for otherwise. In all seriousness, do not take this omake as any prejudices I against Weiss.

It was a normal day at Beacon.

Said no one ever.

Today, Yang had decided that if you wanted something done, you do it right. So she decided to have an official roast of Weiss.

"Remind me again why I agreed to this?" The person in question asked, impatient and ticked as usual.

Yang merely grinned back "Well, you didn't actually"

"Why did I get stuck with the most dysfunctional team in the history of Remnant?"

"Oh come Weiss cream, we know you warmed up to us! That's why we're doing this! To show you how much we care by insulting you!"

"I'm beginning to understand why Ruby is the way she is…" Weiss deadpanned.

Yang rolled her eyes "Alrighty, first up we have…P-Money! Walk right up to the mic, my friend!"

Pyrrha Nikos walked up to the mic "Um…what am I doing again?"

"Roasting Weiss!" Yang called from the back.

"Oh…um…Weiss…you're a very…strict?" The amazon hesitated

Yang face palmed "Oh come, you're better than that P Money!"

"Alight." Pyrrha said, recollected herself "Weiss, you by far are one of the most self-centered people I know. To you, the world doesn't revolve around the sun, but rather a cold, dark black hole that is best summed up as yourself. I pity those who would try to date you, seeing as you're so cold they'll just get frostbite every time they try to get close to you." She said, as the crowd erupted into one collective "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH"

"Dang, P Money, and I thought I spit fire when I fight!" Yang said, taking the mic from the Pyrrha as she seemed embarrassed, mouthing a sorry to Weiss. "Next up, Blakey!"

"Yang, its Blake and you know it." The cat faunus deadpanned.

"And last night I was Mistress, but hey, what are names!" Yang winked as Blake slapped her hand to her face.

The dark cat faunus took the stage. "Well, where do I start. I met Weiss, doing the things Schnees seem to do best. Yelling at poor little girls and waving their valuables around carelessly. As soon as I had her check her privileges I left. But apparently I must have looked in the broken mirror, cause low and behold, I got stuck to the closet of the spoiled girl cliche humanity will get."

"Dang, I would worry about melting with all these sick burns Weiss Cream" Yang called out. as the roast finally came to an end. Even Zwei stepped up and delivered an extra brutal yip. The Schnee heiress merely looked to Yang, and smiled. Not the thank you smile, but the I will bathe in the blood of my enemies tonight smile.

"Thanks Yang. I hope you're ready for yours next week"

Yang was completely caught off guard "What."

"Why of course!" The heiress replied "And don't worry, I'll make sure to bring in the other teams from Haven and Mistral to join the fun. Maybe that Neon girl. You two seemed to get along. Well totaloo!"

Yang stood in the room, herself all alone in it.

"What."