"I-I-I'm sorry! I can correct this mistake." A man pleaded from the other side of the phone.

"I make very generous 'donations' to your academy and all I get in return is a bunch of idiots. Idiots that get their asses handed to them by three Beacon students!" Ruby growled out. "I thought Vacuo and Shade academy produced strong fighters but apparently I was wrong! Perhaps I should donate my money elsewhere, perhaps I'd have better luck with Mistral!"

The connections Ruby had in Vacuo that Qrow couldn't get answers to was in fact Shade Academy itself. Vacuo was a pretty lawless place with the academy being the closet thing they had to law enforcement. However that didn't mean Shade itself was innocent and incorruptible. Ruby made donations to the school or rather the headmasters bank account. In exchange she got some of their best fighters, former huntsman and huntresses, those who lost their license for questionable things. Those who washed out or otherwise were kicked out of Shade for poor grades or serious offenses. They never kicked people out for poor combat skills because they only excepted those with good skills.

You had to be tough to survive the wastelands and lawless cities of Vacuo. Even those who lost their hunting license or washed out of school tended to be strong. Ruby also had her selection of some of their top students and graduates as well. Plenty of people went to Shade simply to get stronger with no intentions of being hunters. Some of the people were already criminal's, gangster's, thief's and murderer's. No matter who they were though they all fell into line when dealing with or working for her.

Right now the headmaster of Shade Academy was begging for forgiveness. He made the mistake of screwing up by sending her weaklings, weaklings that were supposed to be the best of the best. This was something she had been wanting to take care of since Coco, Fox, and Yatsu beat all of her guards and bouncers up.

"Tha-That won't be necessary I promise! I'll make sure your new guards are the best of the best!" The man nervously sputtered out.

"They were already supposed to be the best of the best!" She yelled. "Do you think I'm stupid? I know all about you holding out on me because your more worried about winning that stupid Vytal tournament!"

"I'm sorry! I'll make it right I swear!" He responded.

"Oh I know you will, or rather your successor will." Ruby coldly said.

"My successor? I don't understa-" he was cut off as a loud thump could be heard.

"It's done." A new voice said from the phone.

"Good. You already know what to do next." Ruby said as she hung the phone up.

{Was that really necessary?} Neo signed as she stood next to Ruby.

"He was incompetent, and this was the second time he'd fucked up." Ruby said.

{That's not a good reason!} Neo shook her head. {Ruby this has to stop! You can't keep doing things like this!}

Neo didn't like how cruel Ruby could be sometimes, and it honestly made her sad to see Ruby do some of the things she does. She's gotten better recently with some things. Her mood has also improved some. She started getting better after the incident with Weiss a few hours before her and Velvet hooked up. Being around Velvet has seemed to improve things as well.

Three Months Ago - A Few Hours Before Velvet Confronted Ruby.

Because of Ruby's bad mood she decided she wanted to hurt Weiss but the way she wanted to, not even Neo agreed with it. Ruby had people follow Weiss around and even hired someone to hack into her electronics. Ruby hit the jackpot with what was found, perfect blackmail material. She had some people pick Weiss up when she was in Vale and alone. She was grabbed, bagged and pulled into a car. She was dragged into Ruby's office and thrown down onto her hands and knees where the bag was removed. Weiss lifted her head and saw Ruby sitting there behind her desk. Ruby dismissed the people who brought her Weiss.

"Ruby what the hell!" Weiss said with an annoyed and upset tone. "You could have just asked me to meet you here." Weiss stood up brushing herself off.

"True but that wouldn't have been as fun." Ruby chuckled. "The way you literally pissed yourself on the way here was rather hilarious."

"I-I didn't..." She started to say before Ruby cut her off with laughter.

"There are cameras in that van, so I saw it." Ruby laughed. "The perfect and fearless Weiss Schnee pissed herself."

"Did you bring me here just so you could make fun of me?" Weiss's face went red from embarrassment.

"No." Her laughter calmed down. "I brought you here because I figured you would find these photos very interesting." Ruby smirked as she slide a folder across her desk.

Weiss picked the folder up, opened it and started looking at the photos. Her face twisted into one of shock, horror, embarrassment and shame. Some of the pictures were selfies showing her naked and posing. Other photos showed her in sexual acts with the monkey faunus Sun Wukong. Ruby figured that if Weiss slept with anyone that it would be Neptune. But Sun? That was unexpected, especially given how she would frequently treat him. It turned out that the two had hooked up during the time when Ruby was still at Beacon.

Neptune was an in the closet gay and only pretending to have a thing with Weiss. He wanted to hide his sexuality and Weiss wanted to hide her relationship. So the two pretended to date while she would secretly sneak off to meet Sun. In public she acted like she hated him and it surprisingly worked, not even Ruby had suspected it. Weiss wasn't stupid and knew there was only one reason Ruby would show her these, she wanted something.

"H-H-How d-did you get these?" Weiss nervously asked.

"I have my ways." Ruby grinned.

"Wha-what do you want?" The white haired girl asked. "Is it money? Cause-cause I can do that."

"Why would I want money? I have plenty of money." She chuckled. "What I want is you're head between my legs." Ruby had a rather malevolent smirk on her face as she spoke.

"I don't understand." Weiss said with a blush of embarrassment and shock.

"Oh Weiss, weiss, Weiss." Ruby shook her head. "Your not that stupid. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Your even blushing about it."

"I-I...I'm not doing that!" The Schnee raised her voice. "I'm straight and that's-that's...just no!"

"Well then I guess everyone including daddy Schnee is going to see these pictures." Another smirk crossed the dark haired girls lips.

"Wait! Plea-Please don't." Weiss practically begged. "The-There has to be something else."

"There's nothing else you have that I want." She tilted her head. "The deals simple ice queen, you come over here and use that little silver tongue of yours on my precious kitty cat. In exchange these pictures go bye bye, never to be seen again."

"E-Even if you released those, even if my father would have a fit he and the SDC would still come after you, regardless of the fact that your on the board of directors." Weiss hesitantly said trying to get out of this.

Weiss knowing about Ruby's connection with the SDC didn't surprise her. Honestly she knew they would look into things and try to find out what she's been up to. There's somethings that just can't be completely hidden or kept quiet. However her connection to the SDC was far more than what they think, especially Weiss.

"That's where your wrong Weiss." Ruby couldn't help but smile. "I'm not just on the the board of directors, I own the SDC."

"That's a complete lie! That's impossible!" The other girl raised her voice.

"It's far from impossible." Ruby sat back in her chair with a smug look on her face. "You're father made his company public to try and improve his and the company's image. But he made sure the stock shares would cost to much for anyone but a handful of people to buy. What he didn't count on was someone he didn't expect buying up almost all the shares and thus owning most of the company."

"But that-that...means..."Weiss was stuttering and trailing off.

"That your not the heiress to the SDC anymore. Your families wealth is what ever I decide it is." Yet again another smirk. "How does it feel Weiss? Huh tell me, how does it feel to know that everything you have right now you only have because I allow it? How does it feel to know that all that bragging you do makes you look stupid now?"

It wasn't hard for Ruby to buy out the SDC from under Jaques's nose. The man was so arrogant that it made him blind and showed how dumb he truly was. He wanted to improve his public image and make it seem like he did in fact care. So to do that he took the company public. He figured that by telling people, both human and faunus alike that they could own a part of the company, and have a say in its dealings would make him look good. But he made sure the stocks would be to expensive for most people to even purchase. There was really only a handful of people who had the money to buy any. However there were some people who could afford it that people didn't know about, Ruby was one of these people.

Thanks to her dealings in prison, and the things she did for Little Miss Malachite she had more than enough money. In fact Ruby had managed to amass so much money she could easily have been counted as one of the wealthiest people in Remnant. That was before she even took over the SDC. It took a full week before Jaques and his people realized their mistake. It was so easy for her to take his company, and the look on his face to find out a teen outsmarted him was priceless. She would say it would have been nice to have had a picture of it, however she did in fact have a picture of it.

Ruby owned 90% of the SDC with 7% being given to Little Miss Malachite. Which left Jaques and his people with a combined 3%. Most people didn't know about it but Jaques literally had a heart attack after the discovery. She didn't want it to be widely known that she owned it. So she kept Jaques as the face of the company and let people continue to think he was in charge. The man was practically a shell of his former self and nothing but a puppet. Of course it didn't take long for Winter to find out but she was quickly silenced. Winter certainly didn't want intimate video footage of her and Ironwood to be released. And the wife Willow Schnee was to much of a drunk to care.

"All that smugness and self righteousness you always seem to have, and here you are now as nothing more than a false heiress." Ruby laughed at her.

"Ru-Ruby I-I..." Weiss started but Ruby cut her off.

"Now either you do as I requested or I ruin your life further." She smiled at Weiss.

"Please..." Weiss begged with tears in her eye's.

"My finger might just slip and press the send button." Ruby held her scroll up. The screen showed an open mail file that was ready to send the pictures out with Ruby's finger hovering over the button.

Weiss was crying as she slowly started walking towards Ruby who was smirking at her. Ruby was relishing in watching the white haired girl cry. She had gotten back at Yang and Blake already, while constantly getting back at Beacon as a whole on a regular basis. Now she was going to get back at the youngest Schnee woman. As Weiss stood before her and went to kneel in front of her the girl was grabbed and pulled away. Neo stood there between Ruby and Weiss with a look of disapproval on her face.

"Neo what are you doing? I'm busy!" Ruby asked.

{I'm not letting you do this. It's going to far.} Neo signed.

"To far!? If anything it's not going far enough!" Ruby growled out.

{This isn't you.} Neo had a sad face. {Seeing them again is affecting you, you need to get a handle on yourself.}

"I'm perfectly in control!"

{No your not!} Neo shook her head. {Ruby let this go, please.}

"How can you expect me to let this go!?"

{Because it's in the past and you don't need them. You have me.} Neo placed a hand on Ruby's shoulder. {Do you remember the promise I made you?}

"You would always stand by my side and always help keep me from crossing certain lines." Ruby's facial expressions softened. "Of course I remember." Taking a deep breath she looked up at Weiss. "Go, get out of here."

"Wha-what?" Weiss was confused.

"I said get the fuck out of here." Ruby told her. "No one will see the pictures, you have my word."

Ruby let Weiss leave while having all intentions of keeping her word. With a simple push of the button she deleted every copy of the photos and made sure there would be no copies. Neo was right, she was losing herself, losing control. Her behavior was becoming erratic and her judgment skewed. She needed to let some things from her past go before she lost herself.

Present Time

"I do what I have to!" Ruby raised her voice. "Besides he's not dead."

{Then what did you do?} Neo asked.

"He's going to wake up in an Atlas prison with all sorts of charges on him." Ruby sat back in her office chair as she took a drink from her glass.

{Oh...} Neo awkwardly said. {So what now then?} Neo questioned.

"I don't know about you but I need a break." Ruby sighed.

{Going to hang out with that stupid bunny of yours I take it?} Neo said with a look of jealousy that went unnoticed by Ruby.

"That bunny has a name. And don't call Velvet stupid." Ruby said with an annoyed tone. "Neo what has been your problem lately? You constantly seem to have an attitude towards Velvet and your mean to her."

It's been three months since Velvet and Ruby started dating. So far it was going really well. Actually there is the issue of Neo and how she's been petty when it comes to Velvet. Pushing her out of the way, bumping into her on purpose, calling her names and even glaring at her constantly. She has even interrupted their intimate times together which was annoying as hell. Ruby had no idea what had gotten into Neo and didn't know why she disliked Velvet so much. Velvet has been nothing but nice to Neo and hasn't had a single bad word to say about her despite her treatment. Neo's attitude was getting on Ruby's nerves.

The other thing Neo had been doing was she started wearing extremely tight, revealing clothes. She would accidentally on purpose drop things in front of Ruby and bend over to pick things up. When she would bend over however she would always make sure her ass or breasts were right in her face. Right now while standing in front of her desk Neo was wearing a dress that barley even held her breasts in. Ruby had no idea what's gotten into the other woman. Everything was going right over Ruby's head much to the dismay of Neo.

Velvet on the other hand started practically jumping Ruby's bones in front of Neo and anyone else, she was even trying to bite Ruby on her shoulder. Velvet had no idea she was doing it and was always confused when Ruby brought it up. Velvet didn't seem to realize that she was instinctually trying to mark her territory. That territory just so happened to be Ruby. Ruby was obviously confused about the whole ordeal and Neo as you can imagine didn't like it.

{I simply don't like her. Do I need a reason?} Neo said.

"Yes! You can't just not have a reason." Ruby told her.

{Look I just don't think she belongs here and I especially don't think she's the right match for you.} Neo told her as she leaned down on Ruby's desk giving her a clean line of sight down her shirt.

"Neo you have never liked any girl I've been with." Ruby didn't even notice what Neo was doing.

{True, but this is the first time you've actually dated one of the girls you bedded.} This time Neo sat down and then stretched out on her side on top of Ruby desk. She was making sure all her curves really stuck out.

"Neo! Don't lay on my desk!" Ruby raised her voice slightly in irritation. "This is an office not a bedroom or a living room."

{But your desk is comfortable.} Neo signed with a smirk on her face. She rolled on to her back propping herself up on her elbows making sure her chest was pushed out.

"NEO!" Ruby stood up out of her chair. "You just pushed a bunch of stuff off my desk!" Her hands flew up in annoyance. "Get off my desk!"

Neo rolled her eye's in frustration as she hopped of the desk.

"What has gotten into you lately!?" Ruby asked her.

Neo was being like this because she wanted Ruby to notice her. She also did it because she didn't like Velvet. Although there was another reason as it wasn't just the jealousy. There was two things that happened because of Velvet that made Neo despise the girl.

2 Months Ago

Ruby and velvet had been going rather strong so far with little issue. That was until Velvet said something that freaked Ruby out bad enough to become more self destructive than usual. It wasn't a bad thing that was said, well not to most people it wouldn't be bad. To Ruby however it was very bad, at least in her mind it was. Ruby and velvet were laying in bed with Vel snuggled up to her. They were both awake having just had sex and had yet to fall to alseep. It was then that the words slipped from Velvets mouth.

"I love you." The words fell from the bunny girls lips.

Ruby's eye's shot open in shock as her heart beat skyrocketed. Velvet just said she loved her. Love...love...she loved her, Velvet loves her. No, no she can't love her, no one loves her. Velvet couldn't really love her could she? She knows Velvet cares but love? If Velvet did love her then was she even capable of loving her back? Ruby was panicking, she didn't know what to do, what to think or even what to say. She quickly got up, got dressed and walked out of the apartment leaving a confused and worried Velvet laying there. It only took a few minutes for it to click in her head. Ruby walked out because of what she said.

Ruby didn't know how to handle the onslaught of emotional turmoil going on in her head. She went down to one of the clubs back rooms where she inhaled drugs and drank herself into a stupor. She was being impulsive and reckless in how she was dealing with things. When one of Ruby's dancers walked in not knowing she was in there Ruby grabbed her. She kissed the woman who immediately reciprocated. It wasn't the first time Ruby had slept with one of her female dancers and not the first time she's done this specifically on impulse. She didn't want to think about anything right now. She didn't want to deal with emotions either, she especially didn't want to deal with the concept of love. She just wanted to feel pleasure and bliss, to lose herself.

Ruby had been weird around Velvet since that night. Ruby hasn't been all there in the head either, her mind had been mixed up and confused. There was one point when Neo went to check on Ruby just to find her extremely high and drunk. When Neo tried talking to her she didn't get far because Ruby pinned her against the wall.

"I want you Neo." Ruby whispered in her ear. "I need you."

Then Ruby kissed her hard and passionately. Neo's eye's went wide with shock before she gave in. She kissed Ruby back as they both let their hands wonder. Neo has wanted this for so long, wanted Ruby for so long. Now here she was against a wall with Ruby in her arms and their lips together. She finally had what she always wanted. But then she realized something, this was wrong. Ruby was high, drunk and would no doubt not remember any of this once she came down from it. She wanted Ruby but not like this. She wanted it to be special, wanted Ruby to be sober and to feel the same way about her. But this was wrong in so many ways and she refused to take advantage of Ruby like this because of her own feelings.

Neo broke the kiss off and gently pushed Ruby back as she headed for the door. Of course Ruby got upset and threw a fit but she wouldn't remember any of this anyways. Neo left the room with tears in her eye's and cried when she made it back to her own apartment. Neo knew that Velvet telling Ruby that she loved her was messing with her head which Neo hated. Neo knew it could be her chance to move in and snatch Ruby for herself. But Ruby needed to be sober for that and Neo didn't want to interfere with their relationship no matter how much wanted to. Sure she might try sway Ruby to want her but would never directly get into their way. If she was the reason the two broke up then Ruby would more than likely freak out and any chance Neo had would disappear.

It would be several days later when Velvet would stop by and find Ruby on the floor and not moving. When Ruby wouldn't wake up Velvet didn't know what to do and panicked. She called Neo for help who quickly bursted into the apartment. She saw Ruby lying there unconscious as she choked and spit up vomit. She rolled Ruby on her side so she wouldn't choke and suffocate. She made Velvet leave and have junior rush up. Neo always had junior keep some medical stuff on hand incase this ever happened. Junior also knew to call the personal doctor they kept on call as well.

Ruby ultimately ended up being fine and recovered a after a few days. Neo however was angry at Velvets stupidity and lack of common since when it came to that situation. The bunny girl had pretty much just stood there while Ruby was suffocating on vomit. At least she had called for help. After Ruby had recovered she and Velvet talked about things. She explained why she had been acting weird and even confessed to cheating on her. Ruby was many things but a cheater wasn't one of them at least she never use to be. The fact that she ended up doing something she despised bothered her to no end. She expected Velvet to break things off but she didn't. Velvet forgave her and rather quickly to. A little to quickly most people would say, while others would say she shouldn't be forgiven at all.

Ruby might not have seen it but Neo did. Neo knew that Velvet still mostly saw Ruby as the same girl she met at Beacon. That being the case the multi-colored girl wondered if what they had would actually last. Part of her wanted it to fail because of how much she loved Ruby. But the other wanted Ruby to be happy no matter what, even if she wasn't the reason for that happiness. No matter what though she still hated the rabbit girl for stealing 'HER' precious Rose.

Present Time

{Nothing forget it!} She signed to Ruby before making a grumble of irritation. {You're pet rabbit is here anyways.} Neo said as she looked over to the doorway were Velvet was now standing. She walked out of the office bumping into velvet on the way out.

Velvet walked in and was amazed at Ruby's well decorated office. This was the first time she'd been in here since this was one of a handful of places Velvet wasn't allowed into with out Ruby's express permission. Thankfully Velvet did have permission today since Ruby texted her the okay before Neo's little display.

The office was black and red much like the rest of the club. Paintings lined the walls and statues sat on tables. There was plenty of roses spread out throughout the room. The room had a two way glass wall that allowed you to look out into the club with out anyone being able to in see in. A large dark stained oak desk sat in the room with a matching cushioned chair. On the wall behind the desk hung what was obviously the weapon the clubs name came from. Ruby's old scythe/sniper rifle combination weapon looked clean and well taken care off. The weapon even looked like it had been upgraded on top of a new paint job. Crescent Rose was now a dark grey with a matte finish that had a flaming rose engraved on it.

She had seen Ruby practice with it a few times. But she had never seen it close enough to really notice the upgrades and entire change of its look. She did ask once why the change in color and Ruby said it was because it lets it blend in better in the dark. Ruby explained that black actually sticks out at night more than people think. Dark grey's and navy blue's actually blend in better at night. Velvet naively didn't understand why that mattered to Ruby. Ruby didn't exactly want to tell her that it made it easier for her to use it on someone in the dark.

The office was beautiful but to Velvet, Ruby was far more beautiful. Ever since she got together with Ruby, Velvet has been so happy and felt like she was in heaven. Ruby treated her good and always made sure she was safe. True to her word Ruby was always spoiling her. Jewelry, clothes, fancy dinners, electronics, you name it, Ruby would buy it for her as a gift. At one point Ruby paid the entirety of Velvet's school costs and loans leaving her with no debt. Velvet still felt weird accepting things from her like this but she knew Ruby enjoyed doing it and wouldn't take no for an answer. Ruby's words were 'what's the point of having all this money if I can't spend it on things, especially things for my girlfriend'.

Ruby might try and hide it but Velvet knew she cared about her. Ruby was stubborn, closed off, cold and distant but Velvet could see past that facade she put up. She could see that inside, Ruby was still a good person but she could also see the sadness and pain.

Velvet might be happy being with Ruby but Coco wasn't. Coco felt that Ruby wasn't good for her and definitely wasn't a good influence. The bunny girl has been missing a lot of classes, partying more and failing to do homework. She wasn't even showing up at the dorm most of the time anymore either. She seemed to always be with Ruby 90 percent of the time. Coco tried to bring up her concerns but Velvet would just get an attitude with her and shrug her off. Velvet use to never get attitudes like that and never use to talk to her or anyone else like she did sometimes. The bunny girl was more aggressive during the times she would go to combat class or go on a team mission. Obviously Ruby had been training with her and teaching her somethings. But the way Velvet would sometimes go at opponents with little to no mercy was scaring Coco.

One of the biggest issues though was that their friendship has been rather rocky, and all because of Ruby's little surprise for Velvet.

1 Month Ago

It turned out that Velvet and Ruby's birthday was on the same day. So to celebrate Ruby had a little surprise for Velvet. She talked to coco about this surprise, at first Coco always said no but eventually relented and agreed to it. The very thing Ruby was asking of her was the same thing Velvet had been trying to get her to do since she started dating Ruby. Honestly Velvet was getting on her nervous about it.

"I already said no Velvet." Coco said with a very displeased look on her face.

"Why not!?" Velvet asked.

"Because it's not normal!" Coco deadpanned. "Seriously Vel who the hell asks her best friend to sleep with her girlfriend while she watches!? Like what the fuck!"

"You already said she was hot so I don't see what the big deal is." The bunny girl tilted her head.

"Jesus Vel!" Coco shook her head. "The big deal is that she's 'YOU'RE' girlfriend!"

"But I'm giving you permission!" Velvet argued.

"NO!" The other woman said.

That was how their conversation went almost every other day. Yes Coco did find Ruby hot especially with the really short hair, the back tattoo and all those toned muscles. But honestly she didn't like Ruby, at least this version of her. She might not have known Ruby that well when she was at Beacon. However she knew enough to know that she wasn't a shady bitch like she is now. If Coco knew about Ruby cheating on velvet then she definitely would have went from disliking her to hating her.

One day though as their birthday's got closer Ruby had approached Coco. She bluntly asked her about having a threesome as a gift for Velvet. The stylish woman was dumb founded at Ruby's bluntness. At first every time Ruby asked her she turned her down especially when she offered to pay her. Offering to pay her actually pissed her off big time because she wasn't some prostitute. Eventually however Ruby finally talked her into it. She didn't know why she finally agreed but she did. Maybe she was just tired of being asked and gave into peer pressure.

The night it happened she was nervous as hell. Not only was she going to be having sex with Ruby while Velvet watched, but she was also going to be having sex with Velvet. She could handle the sex with Ruby part but sex with Velvet well... That part had her uncertain and she didn't know why. But right now it was happening.

There she was embarrassingly laying naked on Ruby's bed. She could hear Ruby and Velvet talking. Then she saw Ruby bring a blind folded Velvet in and sat her down on a chair that was right beside the bed. She handcuffed Vel to the chair and stripped down. Ruby sat on Velvet's lap kissing and touching her. She was getting the bunny riled up by teasing her. Finally the blind fold was taken off. Velvet looked at Ruby and then at Coco and blushed. Coco herself couldn't help but blush to.

Coco looked at the women and like before she still thought Ruby was very attractive. When she looked at Velvet however she couldn't help but find her heart beat flutter. Velvet was stunning and Coco couldn't pull her eyes away as they drifted up and down the woman's body. The way she stared made Velvet blush even more.

Velvet watched with enthusiasm as Ruby and Coco had sex with each other. She couldn't take her eye's off of Coco the whole time even though her girlfriend was right there. And Coco herself never took her eye's of off Velvet. The two girls had kept constant eye contact through out the whole thing. Even when a Wo et was finally involved their eye's still kept trained on each other. The way their heart beats got faster while staring at each didn't go un-noticed to them. A feeling that bubbled up in their stomachs that they had felt before around each other but never understood.

That feeling was something they understand now. All these feelings Velvet was getting was making her conflicted. She loved Ruby right? There was no way she could possibly have feelings for her best friend Coco right? Did it matter regardless? She was with Ruby and that was that.

Present Day

"I-I'm not interrupting anything am i?" Velvet asked.

"Your fine. I just finished up the last thing I had to do today." Ruby sighed a breath of relief. "At least as far as I know."

"So we can spend the rest of the day to together?" Vel tilted her head cutely.

"Yes Vel, we can spend the rest of the day together." She smiled.

"So I wanted to ask you something." Velvet shyly looked at Ruby.

"Okay..." Ruby raised a brow.

"Well as you know, because of that attack on Beacon all of us had to repeat that entire year of school and it put the Vytal festival on hold." Vel started to explain.

"Yes, what about it?" Ruby asked.

"Well their doing the Vytal festival that was ruined all over again which means another dance and well." Velvet started fidgeting. "So-well...would you...go to the dance with me?"

"I..." Ruby frowned. "I can't Vel I'm sorry. After everything that happened, I just don't think I could do it."

"Oh..." Velvet deflated.

"Besides I'm busy that night with performing my duties as a council woman by making an appearance at..." Ruby flipped through her appointment book. "...the Vytal dance." She said as her eye's quickly widened and she looked at the book again. "WHAT! No that can't be right." She looked at it again re-reading it. "God damn it!" Ruby groaned.

"So I guess you can go with me then, since you don't seem to have a choice." Velvet regained her smile.

"Beacon is the last place I ever wanted to step foot in." Ruby ground her teeth in annoyance. "Nope, I don't care! I'm not doing it!"

"Ruby you have to go, you can't just skip out on your responsibilities." The faunus told her.

"This coming from the girl who has been skipping class a lot." She grinned. "Not to mention not doing homework, picking fights with classmates and getting rather aggressive during your combat class."

"I have no idea what your talking about." The bunny girl blushed as she turned her head away.

"Despite you being a hypocrite right now your still right." Ruby sighed. "Unfortunately this isn't something I can or should skip. On a positive side it will give me a chance to piss a lot of people off all out once." She chuckled.

"I guess that is a positive...I think." Vel said.

"Besides what could possibly go wrong." Ruby said.