It was a quiet night in the city of Vale. In one of the shops, two teenagers perused the aisles. One was looking at some new weapons catalogs as she listened to music. She wore a hooded red cape over a black dress. The other attempted to look through the different uses of various types of dust. He wore a deep blue cape over a three-quarter sleeve shirt with matching blue armor on the left arm. The first was Ruby Rose. The second was Ravus Rose.

How long is this going to take? Ravus thought as he skimmed through the informational book, only really looking at the pictures. Dad's going to want us home soon.

Just as Ravus was about to tap Ruby's shoulder, a hand suddenly pulled at his shoulders. He turned around to see a large man dressed in a black suit with tinted red glasses. In his hand he held a long, blood red sword.

"Are you two deaf or something?" Ravus heard him accuse through his earbuds. Well, hello to you to dude. Ravus didn't reply but calmly tapped Ruby's shoulder. She quickly turned around, exposing her headphones underneath her red hood. The man pointed to his ears as he looked at Ruby.

"Yes?" Ruby asked, taking off the headphones. For good, measure Ravus took his earbuds out as well.

"I said, put your hands in the air, now!" The man said frustrated.

"Are you... robbing us?" Ruby asked.

"Yes!" He exclaimed.

"Ooohhh..." Without pause, Ruby attacked the man, propelling him to the other side of the store and into some metal containers. Here she goes again. Ravus thought, spotting a red headed man at the front desk gesturing for two more men toward him and Ruby.

"Freeze!" One of the men shouted, raising a gun at them. Ravus tuck-and-rolled behind the desk as he heard Ruby shout, followed by the sound of another window shattering. As Ravus stood up the second goon charged at him, a small blade in his left hand. Ravus dodge the blade and stuck out his leg, causing the man to tumble over himself and knock into another goon who was filling up a container filled with dust.

"Okayyy..." Ravus looked back up, seeing the red head looking at Ruby through the broken window. "Get her!" Ravus started to run toward her when something tripped him up. Ravus turned over on his back and saw another man looming over him.

"Smooth kid." He said, pointing a gun at Ravus' head. Ravus rolled his eyes and activated Shooting Star. The blade rapidly came up from beside his hip, grazing the man's shoulder. As the man stumbled back, gripping his shoulder, Ravus quickly got up and delivered a strong undercut with the handle of his weapon.

"Not too bad yourself." Ravus said aloud after the man fell back, knocked out. Ravus turned around at the sound of an explosion. He ran out of the shop to see Ruby and the shopkeep looking up at a building, where the red headed man was climbing up a ladder.

"You okay if I go after him?" Ruby asked the shopkeep. Before Ravus could ask if she would be ok going after the man, Ruby had sped off and was pursuing the man.

"So, what do we do know?" Ravus turned around and spotted more men in black suits with red glasses.

"Well, we could just take the dust." Another man said.

"Or you could drop the dust, leave, and I won't have to knock you out like your buddy inside." Ravus said swinging his sword around, hoping that they would be intimidated.

"You kidding kid?" The first man scoffed at Ravus. "With this much dust I might finally be able to quit working low jobs like this." As the man began putting the dust in his jacket, Ravus shot at the canister. Or more, he meant to just graze the canister but ended up actually shooting it. This caused an explosion of ice to form around the man's hand and shot icicles at the rest.

This really made the goons mad, causing three of them to charge at Ravus, long swords in hand. Ravus flipped back as two guys came from either side, a sharp clang coming from their connecting blades. While still in the air, Ravus shot a bullet to project himself forward. As he came down he sliced two of the men's blades and landed on the third. As the two came up from behind Ravus, he used the butt of his weapon to jab one's middle and made the other flip over his back onto the ground.

An explosion from the roof top refocused Ravus as his eyes darted up to where Ruby had chased the red headed man. Making a quick glance around for no more goons Ravus went after his sister.

As he made it to the roof Ravus covered his eyes from the wind generated by the airship on the other side. Along with Ruby stood a woman wearing a short purple cape and holding a riding staff. Who the? What the?

All Ravus could do was watch as the mysterious woman battled against the airship and a second mysterious woman on board. In what felt like a moment though the airship was flying away and all that was left of the event were Ruby, Ravus, and the woman. What's Dad gonna say when he finds out about this one…

"Oh, I can't believe my baby siblings are going to Beacon with me! This is the best day ever!"

"Please stop." Ruby gasped.

"Yes, please stop." Ravus coughed out next to his sister. He gasped slightly as Yang released them.

"But I'm so proud of you two!" Yang said bouncing.

"Really, Sis, it was nothing." Ruby dismissed the complement. Ravus crossed his arms and rolled his eyes

"What do you mean? It was incredible! Everyone at Beacon is going to think you two are the bee's knees."

"I don't want to be the "bee's knees", okay? I don't want to be any kind of knees! I just want to be a normal girl with normal knees."

"Yeah. As normal as anyone can be after fighting of a guy that shoots flares from a cane." Ravus commented disinterested. Ruby glared at Ravus who smirked at her.

"What's with you two? Aren't you excited?" Yang asked cheery.

"Of course I'm excited... I just..." Ruby sighed looking over at Ravus and then back at Yang. "We got moved ahead two years. I don't want people to think I'm special or anything." Yang walked over between Ruby and Ravus, wrapping an comforting arm around each of them.

"But you are special." She said with a smile. "Both of you." Ravus attempted to give a smile back then walked over to the other side of the airship and looked down at the world below. Both special? Just because we're twins doesn't mean we are the same. Ravus looked back at his sisters together. Yang who could punch a hole straight through a tree and Ruby who took to fighting the moment Uncle Qrow had decided they were old enough to learn from him.

"Hey, you alright?" Ravus looked over to Aero standing next to him. He wore a steel grey zip up hoodie and acid jeans that Yang liked to call frost bitten due to Aero's naturally white hair. Ravus smirked in response. Ever since Aero had joined the Xiao Long house ten years ago, he slowly grew to be a brother to Ravus, Ruby, and Yang.

"Just fine." Ravus responded, arms crossed over himself.

"Fine is not a description of oneself. It's better used for describing the appealing qualities of another." Aero countered. "Come on bro, what's wrong?" Ravus sighed and looked over at Aero.

"It's just another school." Ravus replied. "How is Beacon special compared to Signal? People do just fine there."

"Yes, but Signal isn't a permanent place to stay." Aero began explaining. "Signal helps you get into Beacon."

"Can't I get into Beacon on my own time?" Ravus interrupted.

"Well, depending on how much time you spend watching the world go by rather than studying I think Beacon might be a good change for you." Ravus glared slightly at Aero at the mention of how he spends his free time. "Signals' goal is to help get you into Beacon, which in turn prepares students for the world."

"Can't the world wait?" Aero smiled lightly at Ravus' comment as a hologram of a woman came up in front of the window.

"Hello, and welcome to Beacon! My name is Glynda Goodwitch. You are among a privileged few who have received the honor ..." Ravus quickly lost focus the announcement and became engrossed in thought as he looked out the window.

The privileged few? I don't know anyone else who's been bumped up two years into an academy for Huntsman. Well… Ravus glanced back over at Ruby. No one who didn't deserve it. Ruby is amazing. Me…

Ravus tried to stare into space rather than encourage his train of thought, but it was hard. Fighting was in the family and everyone is great at it. Both his Dad and Uncle are Huntsmen. Yang is a firecracker who nearly blasted a jerk who made fun of Ravus and Ruby. Aero was a straight A student at Signal who most likely would become the next Headmaster. And then Ruby, whom Ravus has been nearly inseparable from since birth, who is an indescribable kind of special. All of their friends followed Ruby around on random adventures and took to fighting like a fish to water.

A groan nearby brought Ravus back to Earth, but apparently going back to Earth was exactly what the other poor guy wanted. The tall groaning blonde in a black sweatshirt and white chest-plate hunched over and ran past Yang and Ruby, drips of probably vomit coming from between his fingers covering his mouth.

Well, maybe, going to Beacon won't be all bad. It might keep Ruby from running into the forest and fighting a whole pack of Beowolves again.