i was in my current outfit, just outside of my old house. when two people went up to the door. one guy that was a tad too muscular, and the other was a scorpion faunus. i could tell because of the tail. they knocked on the door, and askes something of dad, something i was too far away to hear. when dad suddenly punched the guy in the face. the buff guy shoved some dust crystals into his arms, fire i was assuming, as his punched ignited his hand on fire. i reached for Black Blade, but then i was with yang. we were in my old room, playing, when i started to smell smoke.

the fire had started. yang quickly grabbed my arm, and started rushing us downstairs. and we saw dads dead corpse. it had a puncture wound in the gut, the same size as the faunus' tail. then, yang shoved me out the door. even if this was a dream, i refused to watch yang die again. i felt me eye light up, and i summoned ★Rock Cannon. since this was a dream, i could defy any rules of reality, and i shot the beam of energy, blasting the piece of burning wood that was about to crush yang. i felt my eye flare up, and i went in and grabbed yang. she seemed shocked at the stunt i pulled. either that or my burning eye. but then, i felt something pierce my gut. i felt my eye's flame slowly flicker into nothing, and i looked down. i saw the end of a stinger... a scorpion stinger. i looked over at yang, and she had been punched. her head covered in blood. i felt myself die. "no... yang"

i woke up in a cold sweat, panting. i could feel that my eye was burning. i looked over at the clock, saying that it was 7:45. i looked around, having felt the stares of my teamates.
"are you okay, ruby" yomi asked. i didn't awnser. yomi knew that i had a nightmare. she had asked me a few years back. i never told her what it was about, and yomi took the hint. "who's yang, you said her name while you were sleeping" blake asked. "she was my sister" i said. "so you CAN speak full sentences" weiss said in suprise, "and here i thought you were stupid". i ignored her comment, and let myself regain my composure.

"you said was, indicating something happened" blake said. "she died, crushed" i said. "you never told me anything about having a family before you started living with us" yomi said. "are you guys familiar with the name summer rose" i asked. "yeah, she was part of one of the greatest teams to graduate beacon, team STRQ. she also died six years ago. wait, now that i think about it, you share the same last name. are you two related" yomi asked. "she was my mother, do any of you know how she died" i asked. "of course, she was killed after her house burned down, along with the rest of her family. at least they think so, as the body of their youngest was never found... wait, your the youngest aren't you" weiss asked.

"yeah, i was their youngest. watched yang get crushed by that burning log, after pushing me out of the way. lived on the streets for two years, before yomi's family took me in, and raised me for the other four. i was nine at the time, and I'm guessing you understand how traumatizing that was. I've mostly gotten over it, but my coping methods weren't the best, as they were developed by a nine year old naive kid" i said. "might as well prepare for class" I said, grabbing my uniform, and going into our dorms bathroom to get changed.

after i put the uniform on, i put my jacket over it, and walked out of the restroom. i was about to sit down on my bed, when i heard a knock at the door. weiss, being the closest to the door, opened it. i didn't get to see much of who was out their, because weiss slammed the door, after muttering 'creepy old man', but i recognized who it was. getting off my bed, i went over to the door, and let the guy in. "RUBY! why would you let this creepy old man into our dorm. people like that are typically rapists" weiss shouted. "he's creepy, but my uncle's no rapist" i said. "UNLCE" weiss shouted, "but you look nothing alike". "because we're not technically related. he's yang's uncle. we were half-siblings" I said, "also, i hope your not too sensitive to the smell of alcohol". of course, uncle qrow thought this was a great time to take a sip from his flask. "you told 'em about yang, eh, suprising. thought you weren't one for talking anymore" qrow asked. "anyways, i just came to say hi, and good luck in class, kiddo" qrow said, walking out of our dorm. "that was... something" blake said.

(after the jaune arc)

i was currently fighting a guy called cardin. he was a bully who had tormented one of our friends from team JNPR, named jaune, a few days ago. he's cocky, and uses a one small mace. nobody in this class has seen me fight yet, other than my team and potentially Mrs Glynda, so everyone thinks i use only a simple katana. although i don't think I'll have to use ★Rock Cannon, let alone Black Blade to beat this guy.

"fight" Mrs Glynda said. cardin rushed at me, holding his mace back, abd bringing it down when he nears me, although I jump back before he can hit me. i faint a punch, causing him to swing the scythe for my head, but i drop down, and kick him, sweeping him off his feet. cardin quickly pulled himself back up. he seemed pissed, and my expressionless face probably didn't help.

i quickly glanced at the screen holding a visual representation of our auras. cardins had barely dropped, but then again, it was a single low-sweep. it wouldn't hurt cardin too much if I put more force into my attacks, his aura was more defensive, unlike mine. mine didn't actually protect me from damage, but it did increase my healing factor faster than if I had more defensive aura. and I had a fair bit of aura, more than average, so i could take some beatings.

cardin swung his mace, and i jumped back, but he must have anticipated this, and had extended his swing, hitting me, and severely bruising my rib. my blue blood leaking down my side a little. everyone was clearly shocked at how little my aura protected me, cardin included. he looked at the screen, and saw my aura was lowering a bit. then he looked back at me. sure the blood was still there, but i was no longer bruised, and my cuts had closed. he swung his mace at my gut again, but a ducked under it, and sent in a punch. i quickly took not that his crotch was un-armoured. 'big mistake' i thought. my fist connected woth his crotch, and, despite having aura, he was instantly crippled. i heard many people cringing at the site. i looked up at his aura, seeing that it was currently taken down ten percent. i had used much more force than i had intented. not that it mattered, he kinda deserved it. i kicked him in his gut, taking his aura down, maybe three percent, leaving him at roughly 87 percent. i only needed to bring him down roughly 60 percent more, before i won the match.

cardin shakily stood up, still recovering from the blow to his crotch. he gave me a pissed off look that clearly meant 'you gonna use your damn weapon, or are you looking down on me'. okay, not really, but it was probably what he was thinking. complying I grabbed the hilt of Black Blade, and unsheathed the katana. he swung down his mace, and I held Black Blade up, and, despite my frail appearance, held the blade in place while also holding back cardins heavy weapon. cardin kicked me in the gut, knocking me to the floor, and causing me to loose grip on Black Blade.

i started summoning ★Rock Cannon, but he was going to hit me before i could properly summon my huge cannon, so i stopped summoning that, rolled to the side, and summoned my much smaller pistol like weapon, known as Seven-Shots. it is a small handgun, which, as it's name suggests, has 7 shots in it's magazine, before i have to use a small amount of my aura to reload it. i quickly unloaded all seven shots at cardin, 5 of which hit. i wasn't quite as accurate with Seven-Shots as i was with ★Rock Cannon, but it was still potentially lethal. the 5 shots brought cardin down to roughly 40 percent. quickly glancing at the class, they seemed pretty shocked at my ability to summon my pistol.

cardi, didn't let his shock phase him for long, as he lunged at me again. he swung his mace down, which i was barely able to dodge. i used this opportunity to start reloading Seven-Shots, before he could charge up another swing. after cardin swung his weapon again, i shot him three more times, bringing him down to dangerously low aura.

"ruby rose is the winner" Mrs Glynda called out. Seven-Shots dissapeared in blue flames, as i went back to pick up Black Blade.