Chapter 5

"It's going to be okay Ruby." Yang whispered to her sister as they walked her towards Ozpin's office. Ruby didn't acknowledge her sister just continued to shuffle forward her head bowed, in fact if she wasn't being guided forward by Yang and Weiss she wouldn't even be moving.

"What do you think Ozpin is going to do when we get there?" Blake whispered to Yang while they walked.

"I, I don't know, something was very wrong, she, I don't think she was in control of her own actions, but, ohhh." Yang groaned clenching her free hand in frustration. "I just don't know what to do, I'm her big sister, and I can't even help her."

"None of us know what happened, you can't keep beating yourself up over it, the best thing we can do is show Ruby we are here for her and hope for the best." Blake replied attempting to comfort her frustrated partner.

"Blake is right Yang, whatever is wrong it's not something physical, so unfortunately Ruby may be the only one who can fix herself, and all we can do is sit back and give her whatever support and help we can." Weiss added from her position on the other side of Ruby.

"I don't know what happened, the burning, the screams, it wouldn't stop, I don't know what happened, I wasn't there, it wasn't me, but then it was, but, I, I." Just as quickly as Ruby regained her senses she dropped off into silence again.

"We know Ruby, we know." Weiss said soothingly still guiding Ruby as they neared the entrance to Ozpin's office.

"No, you don't." Ruby said straightening up and walking on her own separating herself from her two teammates as they arrived at Ozpins office.

Before anyone could knock Ozpin's voice sounded from the room within. "You may enter."

Ruby was the first to enter, her earlier emotional state seeming to have quickly changed. "Professor Ozpin, Sir." Weiss said but was interrupted by Ozpin raising his hand to tell her to stop.

"Please girls, sit." Ozpin softly said gesturing for them to comply with his request. "Now girls, before any of you speak I would like to talk first, if that's okay with you." No one in team RWBY argued with him they just sat quietly anxious to hear what he would say. "Ms Goodwitch has already informed me of what happened today, I have also looked at footage from the security cameras, however I would like to hear your own firsthand accounts, Ms Rose."

"Professor, as much as I would like to tell you what happened, I, I don't remember." Ruby replied nervously.

"Hmm, then how about you just tell me what you do remember, specifically start with Mr Winchester." Ozpin calmly replied.

"Cardin, well he's always been mean." Ruby stopped as someone else decided to add her opinion.

"He's always been an asshole more like!" Blake shouted thinking of all of Cardin's racial slurs.

"Ms Belladonna, please refrain from interrupting again." Ozpin snapped however only looking slightly disappointed and not angry.

"Well after Professor Port's class Cardin decided I would be the best target today and he brought up the attack, calling me weak and pathetic." Ruby's fists visibly clenched in anger. "I was so, angry and it just built all through Ms Goodwitch's class, so when she asked for volunteers to fight Cardin my hand was up before I even thought of what was happening." Stopping Ruby let out a shaky breath she never realised she had been holding in. "Except when the fight started I froze up, I don't know why but I freaked out and I couldn't move, then after Cardin threw me around the arena for a bit I just, blacked out." Ruby slumped down as she described her feelings during the earlier events.

"Interesting, please, what is the first thing you remember after blacking out?" Ozpin asked looking straight into Ruby's eyes.

"The next thing, the next thing I remember is Yang being pinned under me whilst Weiss held me back and everyone was yelling at me to stop."

"Strange, however, Ms Rose I believe you, while I'm not sure what exactly happened I am quite sure you did not wilfully bring harm to Mr Winchester, that being said you still did cause the injury of another student." Ozpin face seemed to hide all emotion. "You are confined to the academy grounds for the next 4 days, that means no trips to vale not even this weekend, also will be having personal training with me or another senior teacher after school hours starting next week to hopefully overcome your problems and ensure nothing like this happens again and for the duration of this training you are not to compete in any other combat exercises until such time as I deem you fit, understood." The entirety of team RWBY where ecstatic at this outcome particularly Weiss.

'I was worried for a while that Ruby was going to be expelled for this, and this way hopefully Professor Ozpin can help Ruby in whatever ways we can't.

"Thank you Professor" Ruby said firmly, looking much more hopeful than before.

"Do not thank me Miss Rose, I am only doing what I believe is best for all my students." Ozpin firmly stated. "Now, you all may return to your dorms, I'm sure you have all had a rough day and Ruby I expect you to meet me here after classes on Monday." To everyone surprise for some unknown reason Ozpin had decided to refer to Ruby by her first name.

(Team RWBY's dorm)

"Ozpin was quite sympathetic and level headed, makes me look up to him even more." Weiss said as the other members of her team lounged around there dorm room.

Without looking up from her book Blake replied. "What did you expect, there's a reason he is considered to be one of the best leaders of any huntsman."

"Hey guys." Ruby piped up flopping her head over the edge of her bed upside down, seemingly gone was her depressed and scared state from earlier.

"Yeah Ruby." Weiss replied whilst she polished and cleaned the individual pieces of her weapon.

"I guess because I'm in trouble then I can't go to Vale with you guys this afternoon to see that new Spruce Willis movie." Ruby pouted as she said this looking ridiculous with her head upside down.

"Damn I completely forgot about that, and I've been waiting all month to see it, I love how they decided to have the first screenings at night under the full moon because it's all about ghosts and spooky stuff." Yang called out from the bathroom where she was meticulously making sure her hair was perfect.

"Well I guess we will all have to see it another time." Weiss said turning to look at Ruby.

"What, no way, Yang already bought the tickets and I don't want you guys to miss out just because of me." Ruby yelled suddenly flipping causing her precariously hung bed to shake in a terrifying way.

Weiss stomped her foot and shouted. "Ruby, we aren't just going to ditch you to go see some stupid movie!"

"Weiss I am not letting you guys stay here and miss out on having fun just to babysit me." Ruby shouted back at Weiss swinging off over her bed to stand in front of Weiss.

"Ruby we are a team and have to be here for each other." Weiss countered stepping forward and pocking Ruby in the chest.

Not backing down Ruby grabbed Weiss's hand and held it to their side and closed the short distance between them to where their faces where inches apart. "Yes and as a team we have been through a lot over the past few days, so some time out will be good to help everyone relieve some stress, and just because I can't be there doesn't mean everyone else should miss out, what kind of team leader would I be if I made everyone miss out because of my own short comings." However seeing that Weiss was not backing down Ruby decided to play her last card by whipping out the puppy dog eyes and pouty face. "Please Weiss, if you all just stay here I'll feel really bad and upset."

Realising how close they were Weiss began to blush furiously as Ruby finished begging. Turning her head to the side Weiss mumbled her reply just clear enough for everyone to hear. "Well okay, I'll go, but just to keep you from mopping around the room and driving us nuts."

"Ahh, Weiss's Tsundere moments are so cute aren't they." Yang said to Blake as she sprawled out next to her to lie down, not really worried that she was on Blake's bed and not her own.

Weiss turned towards the Blonde and snapped. "What did you say?"

"Ah, um, I, I said we should probably get ready soon, if we want to get into Vale in time to grab something to eat before the movie." Yang stuttered rubbing the back of her head awkwardly.

"Nice save Mama Bear." Blake said lowering her book to look at the blonde brawler.

"Was that your attempt at a nickname Kitty Cat?" Yang asked smirking.

"Maybe." Blake replied.

"Well, I can come up with some better ones I think, how about Goldilocks or Fireball or." Yang was however cut off by Blake getting up off the bed and adding.

"Yeah, but I think Mama Bear suits you better."

"Hey where are you going?" Yang called out as Blake walked away.

"You did say we should get ready, didn't you." Blake replied showing one of her rare smiles.

(A couple hours later)

"You're sure you're fine?" Yang asked her sister as they headed for the door.

"For the last time go, I'll just play some video games or read a book till you get back." Ruby replied pushing her sister towards the door.

"Okay, but call us if you need anything." Yang relented and walked out the door.

'Finally.' Ruby thought to herself. 'Now what to do, maybe Blake has a good book I can borrow.' As she got up, wrapping her cloak around her as a comfort.

(That night)

'Hm, this book is pretty good, a lot better than that first one I started reading, Ninjas of Love, I can't believe Blake is into that kind of stuff' Ruby thought to herself as she moved to place the short story she had borrowed from Blake back where she got it.

"Ahhhh." Ruby screamed in pain as her chest flared up in a familiar pain, yet this time it was different, stronger. Stumbling over to the window she tore the curtains apart to look up at the clear night sky as the pain lessened but began to spread to her entire body.

'What is happening to me?' Ruby thought through the pain as she looked to the night sky, lit up brightly by the many stars and the full moon. Turning Ruby stumbled over to a mirror her sister had recently set up next to her and Blake's bed. Placing her hands either side Ruby stared into the mirror and was shocked by one thing in particular. 'Since when did my eyes turn silver and gold?' However before she could ponder this further she doubled over as the pain she felt increased tenfold, this pain was quickly replaced by the euphoric feeling of adrenaline coursing through her veins. All this she felt in the course of a few seconds before it felt like her very muscles and bones where stretching and breaking and she succumbed to the blackness of unconsciousness.

(Entrance to the beacon dorms same time)

"The movie was way over hyped." Weiss stated as the entered the building where Beacons dorms where.

"Yeah but it certainly wasn't one of the worst movies I've seen recently, but it certainly didn't have anywhere near enough action." Yang added as the entered the corridor where there dorm was.

"Of course you would say that Yang, is being a Huntress not enough action for you." Blake quipped looking smirking at her partner.

"Well yeah but." However Yang stopped when they heard a loud crash coming from their dorm followed by the sound of glass smashing. "Ruby." Yang said before charging towards their dorm closely followed by Weiss and Blake.

Upon arrival at their dorm they found it trashed, most of their stuff had been knocked all over the place, the beds had been pushed aside, shards of mirror and glass lay across the room and finally there was what appeared to be a set of claw marks on the wall like something had taken a swipe at it.

"What happened, where's Ruby?" Yang said as she looked around the room in shock.

"Yang, Weiss look at this." Blake said holding up a large shard of mirror covered in blood and the Pyjamas Ruby had been wearing when they left now torn up.

Suddenly a terrifying roar echoed from outside chilling everyone to the bone as it sounded strangely familiar however none realized why.

"It must have taken Ruby." Yang said as she walked towards the window.

"Wait Yang what if Ruby." Weiss said however was cut off by a very angry Yang.

"That thing has obviously taken Ruby, I'm not going to sit here and let her die." Yang growled climbing onto the window ledge.

"Then we go together, as a team." Weiss said firmly obviously having regained her composure.

(Authors notes)

Wow, the second half of this chapter came out much better than I had expected. How far into the chapter did it take you guys to realise I was going to have Ruby's first transformation this chapter.

You guys have blown my mind so far with the support for this story so please keep it up and tell me what you think of this chapter.

Finally for the Bumblebee poll I'm giving everyone till I post chapter 6 before I close the poll and the decision will be set, so please vote if you haven't already done so.

P.S. Let me know if you spot any mistakes I've made in this chapter, seriously I will admit when I proof read this chapter I had used Ruby instead of RWBY at least 3 times which made me want to slap myself.