I'M ALIVE!

The feeling of heat pressing against her face was what Ruby woke to. Her body was arching from abusing her semblance and from the crash earlier. The huntress in training struggled to lift her body upright, groaning from the effort it took to complete the simple action. Once she was up right she took in her surroundings.

The building she was inside was empty, since she couldn't feel a cold breeze she was certain there were no holes or anything in the building. Meaning it was the only one unharmed, it was also extremely dark in there making it difficult to see far from the fire that was besides her. "Power must be out…I wonder how it looks in here." Ruby whispered to herself, making sure to stay close to the flames to keep her body warm. It may have been warmer in the building than it was outside, but it was still cold.

"Be happy you can't see, Red." Ruby nearly jumped from the voice, reaching for Crescent Rose on reaction alone. Of course, her weapon wasn't on her back, leading to her grabbing at nothing. She quickly turned her attention to the amused face of Coco. "Nice reflexes." The second-year comment while rubbing her hands together in front of the fire. "As I was saying…Blake said there's blood everywhere. We're lucky we don't possess her night vision…My guess is the family in here was hiding. There are two things that could've happened. One, whatever that thing is was already in here…or It was one of the family members. Must have murdered them and only exited the building when the door was opened."

Ruby paled at the thought, if she had become that thing…Yang and her father would've hesitated with killing her or hurting her at all. They would've dead…just like the family here and Patch would've followed. The thought made her uncomfortable, "You think it was a human? But if Grimm could possess humans so easily it would've been done a lot more often. Why start now?" Ruby questioned the older girl, Ruby noticed her sunglasses were off for once allowing her brown glowing eyes to show for once. "Coco…your eyes…"

"Relax, Red these are contacts." She pointed to her glowing orbs, Ruby didn't bother questioning it though. "Anyways, I think either the Grimm are evolving, or someone is creating these Okia type Grimm. Both are possibilities…people have weaponized Grimm before."

Ruby nodded her head in understanding, she couldn't help but lock eyes with the girl for a split second. She wondered what her semblance was, Coco haven't told anyone. It would be smart to learn what it was in case one of the Grimm took her abilities. If they took Nora lightening abilities it would be useless unless hit by lightning dust or a bolt of lightning, Blakes shadows was something Ruby would be able to handle. Blake could most likely handle her speed semblance if the Grimm doesn't grow bone plating to protect it. "Where's Nora and Blake?" Ruby decided to ask, Coco semblance wouldn't be stolen if she still had her glasses on when they fought. She could keep her secret if it didn't endanger the rest of them.

"We had supplies on the ship, they went to collect them. We all going to need food in our system to keep our aura high. Plus, I'm sure you could use food." The second year exhaled, relaxing her shoulders slightly. "Ruby…Whatever we're facing here….it might be out of our league."

The door to the building suddenly busted open, Nora strolling in with a proud smile on her face. She was carrying a large amount of the food on the bullhead, "Nora reporting in! The food survived our crash landing!" She all but hopped over to the fire, collapsing besides Ruby. "Hi-Ya Ruby!" Before the red head could responds, her fellow huntress all but shoved a candy bar in her mouth.

Blake came in after, looking to be in deep thought as she closed the door behind her. She held suitcases, most likely possessing dust rounds for all of them. She watched Ruby and Nora argue a bit while she walked over and sat beside Coco. She placed the suitcase on the ground with thub, "This is all the dust we have left. The rest is in an unstable state, moving it could result in an explosion. "

Coco nodded her head in understanding, sighing lightly. "Did you look ahead? And what about contacting the school for back up?" The second year already knew the answer she was going to get. They were way too far from the school to get in contact with their scrolls, the only way was to use the radio in the bullhead which was most likely-

"The radio is destroyed, and we can't get any signal on our scrolls." Blake interrupted her thoughts, which lead to the brown hair huntress sighing once again. She rubbed her temples while awaiting Blakes next answer. "I looked ahead, staying out of sight of course. There's a stream of water that seems to lead down the mountain. At the top is a building…made of concrete. It looked like it hasn't been there before…that's the only lead we have. Unfortunately, it is a far distance away…it could take a bit of time to reach it."

"Okay…" Coco sat upright, getting ready to address her team. "Look guys…we don't have many options. Right now, there are only two since staying here isn't one of them. We can abandon the mission and head down the mountain to the best of our abilities and hope we get signals on our scrolls to contact Ozpin for backup. There's also the possibly of running into Grimm on the way down which would make things more difficult. Or we can continue the mission and head towards that mysterious building. However, they'll most likely have a way to contact the outside world which we could use to our advantage. However, the decision is not mine. It is ours as a team…so what should we do?"

"Going down would most likely lead to more trouble than anything else. Me and Ruby are built for speed and could escape danger easier than you two. But splitting up would put us at an even bigger disadvantage. Not to mention the negative emotions from this village might've attracted Grimm at the bottom…we would probably run into a lot of trouble. I think sticking together and facing whoever is up there is our best option. We are stronger as a team." Blake stated.

"She's right." Ruby added with a smile, proud of her teammate for choosing to continue their mission. "If anything comes at us when it the four of us than we are nearly unbeatable. Blake and I have the speed, You and Nora have the power. We balance each other out well."

Nora nodded in agreement, Coco couldn't help but smile at the group. She wouldn't mind going out with the first years again. "Before we go…I have something to say…" Nora lowered her head, the upbeat tone she was known for disappearing.

"Dr. Marlot…." Ruby and Blake both paled at the mention of the name. It had taken the combine efforts of team RWBY and JPRN to stop the man and his enhanced Grimm. In the end Nora was the one who delivered the killing blow to the powerful death claw. "What if he's behind this? He's the only person who…would even think about creating those things outside."

Coco nodded her head in understanding, "We'll keep that in mind. In the meantime, eat and regain your strength. We have work to do."

Ruby yawned while stretching, her body was still sore from the fight with the amazon. She glanced at the girl still sleeping on the bench and couldn't help but smile at the sight. Pyrrha may be a powerful warrior but she was just as beautiful as she was strong. Ruby reached out to ruffle her hair softly which woke her up. "We should probably get back to the dorms, Pyrrha."

"Oh may…didn't mean to doze off." The taller girl stood up and stretched, her bones popping from the action. The sound of a stick snapping lead to Pyrrha twisting around and nearly punching Yang straight in the face. "Oh! Sorry!"

"Jeez Pyrrha…I'm not very quiet! Why it took so long for you to see me approaching?" Yang asked with a grin on her face. Ruby was frowning at her of course, Yang expected nothing else at this point really.

"I'm still a little off after my spar with Ruby." Pyrrha answered honestly, she hasn't been this tired in a while. She certainly was skipping her morning jog instead she'll sleep in for once.

"What do you want, Yang?" Ruby asked with her arms folded across her chest. Yang eyes landed on Ruby's single eye for a second before glancing at the eyepatch.

"Oh just came to fetch you! I have some errands to run and I need the fastest person I can find to assist me with them!" She winked at her younger sister. The duo ended up just staring at each other, Yang with a hopeful look in her eyes while Ruby looked about ready to slap her.

"Perhaps some bonding time would be a good thing." Pyrrha added with a weak smile. "I don't think I ever seen you two go out without the rest of the team before."

Ruby sighed when the two pairs of eyes locked onto her, awaiting her response. "Fine…" Yang screamed in victory while delivering a rather rough punch into Pyrrha's arm as thanks. "Where are we going?" Ruby asked.

"To Vale of course!" The blond grabbed Ruby's arm, basically dragging the girl. "Thanks, Pyrrha!" She screamed. Pyrrha couldn't help but giggle at the pout Ruby was sending her way.

When the duo bored the airship, Yang stopped vibrating with excitement as she thought of what to talk about with Ruby. "Rubes you know I love you right?" She asked nervously.

"Yes Yang. I know you love me very much." She rolled her single eye, wondering where this was going exactly. The two wasn't really on good terms, maybe this was her way of making up for it. "Look if you're doing this as an apology you don't have to. "

"Well that's part of the reason." Yang smiled before grabbing both of Ruby hands in hers and giving a nice squeeze. "I been neglecting you. I miss us having fun together…I just want to rekindle the flame I guess. So what do you say Ruby? You'll be the fire wood and I'll be the matches!"

Ruby swallowed, some thoughts she been suppressing was coming to the surface again."…wouldn't I be the roses?" She asked weakly, her mind elsewhere. She couldn't help but smile a little when Yang's smile seems to brighten even more.

"No one sets Roses on fire, silly." Yang couldn't help but grin as the airship landed in vale. She all but dragged Ruby while chatting a mile per minute about getting their hair done and shopping. She stopped when the loud growl from Ruby's stomach interrupted her. "Ohhh~" She sang.

"Oh shut up, Yang." Ruby rolled her eye, knowing where the girl was going with the grin on her face. Of course, this lead to her sister erupting with laughter. "I'm hungry. It was an exhausting match."

"I know the perfect place to eat!" The blonde folded her arms behind her head while walking off. Ruby followed behind her, her thoughts going elsewhere.

The problem with training with Revan was keeping it secret. She didn't mind not telling everyone else, they didn't have any connections with the woman. But Yang was a different story, she been searching everywhere for her mother and never found her. It just didn't feel right, knowing that Yang would stay up late trying to find any information on the women while Ruby trained with her.

'Maybe I should tell her.' Ruby thought, biting onto her finger nails as she did so. 'But what if…what if we end up in the same position as before with Grimm or Adam. I need to be stronger….i need to have the strength to prevent anything like that from happening every again….If…something happened to my sister…I"LL MURDER EVERY PIECE OF SHIT IN THE WHITE FANG!'

Ruby's thoughts were interrupted when Yang grabbed her arm, causing her eye to focus on her blonde sister. Ruby flinched slightly when Yang pushed up her sleeve just enough to reveal the burn she received from using Yang's gauntlets. "I didn't realize how much pain you were in since the hospital and I'm sorry for that…. Sorry that something you created for me caused this type of harm." Yang gently ran her fingers up and down the burn scar…" I promise…I won't every let something like this happen to you again!"

Ruby stared into the purple eyes that burned with a passion. "Yang…" Her voice ended up getting struck as she struggles to decide if she should tell her secret or not. Yang just made a promise, one that she intended to keep. The two couldn't be more different than another but the one thing they had in common was the love they possessed for each other, which is why…"I love you." She couldn't tell her about Revan. She couldn't relay on her sister to keep her safe, she couldn't go back to how she used to be. She needed her strength to become strong enough

To Kill Adam.

"I love you too!" Yang exclaimed as two burgers were placed down in front of them. Ruby just now realize they were sitting in a restaurant.

The duo sat there enjoying the food they were delivered until an alert went off on Ruby's phone. She stared at it for a moment before sighing. "Ozpin wants to see me…."

Yang groan, "Tell him to go kiss ass or something we are bonding right now."

"I think he'll be upset if I curse at him a second time." Ruby response while getting up, "Look like we'll have to do this another time. "I'll see you later sis. Enjoy Vale for me and don't get messing up any clubs."

Ruby turned to leave while looking down at her scroll.

'Get back to the school; We're going out to fix one last issue with you.'

- Raven.

So when writing this i was going to make the interractions between Yang and Ruby more intense and longer but ended up not doing it simply because i was exhausted beyond measure from work.

Anywahys We find out what Raven plan for Ruby is soon.