A/N: Hey guys! I take a really long time at writing! Sorry for the wait. I hope you enjoyed the last chapter, even if it ended on a little bit of a sad note. A big thank you to all those who sent in review! They really give me a motivation boost and tells me what you guys like to see. So keep sending those reviews my way! The door contest is still on, I received a couple of entries and I'd love if more of you sent in drawings or however you decide to do it.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy chapter 6 of An Arc of White Snowflakes!

Life Advice: Don't write bad chapters

Weiss simply ran.

Feelings of helplessness and shame flooded her body.

A darkness she hated slammed into her mind, her memory.

She whispered, "No…" Almost crying. She had ended up back at her dorm. Slamming the door open she burst into the room. Terror, almost.

The first day. She couldn't believe it. Already.

Thought she was stronger. One shout.

Two hard faces overlap. Blonde and White. Softening...or not.

Her happy place. Her safe place.

Jaune had urged team Nebula to go to class, he promised them he would take care of it.

Ruby sat in shock, torn between chasing after Weiss who had looked terrified, and staying to comfort Jaune who looked absolutely downtrodden. Even Ruby could tell that Jaune was regretting blowing up at Weiss, having no clue it would have the reaction it did.

Ruby spoke up hesitantly, "Jaune? You know it's not your fault, right?"

Jaune just sighed. "It really is. I was too harsh on Weiss. I...was in another time."

Even Ren looked slightly surprised at this statement. "Jaune, I suggest we find Ms. Schn-er...Weiss. Whatever the cause, the situation still needs resolved."

Jaune looked a little miserable, but still nodded all the same. Ruby, using her semblance, sprinted on ahead to go and find Weiss. She headed for the dorm room as that was the most likely place for her to be. She burst into the door and stopped in her tracks, flabbergasted at what lay before her.

On the floor was a white glowing ball. Upon closer inspection, she could see the intricate markings that littered the sphere. She had seen Weiss fight the Lirym, and so she knew the basics of her semblance, glyphs. Ruby was astounded to find a ball made entirely of glyphs sitting on the floor of their dorm. And she could guess who was inside.

"Weiss" Ruby said, "I know you're in there." She waited for a minute but only heard the soft sounds of sobbing coming from the ball. Ruby didn't know what to do, so she did what her mom had always done for her, she started singing.

"Red like roses fills my dreams and brings me to the place you rest." she started singing, "White is cold and always yearning, burdened by a royal test. Black the beast descends from shadows. Yellow beauty burns….gold." As the sound of Ruby's voice lilted and rang throughout the room, patches of glyphs began to dissolve around Weiss' cage. Finally, after several minutes of Ruby serenading the sobbing heiress, Weiss lay on the ground, devoid of any glyphs. Ruby gently crawled over to her and pulled the slightly taller girl onto her lap.

Ruby only acted like Yang used to act towards her. She held her, simply stroking her hair and shushing the poor girl. She didn't quite know what had happened, all she cared about was comforting the crying girl in front of her.

Jaune and Ren eventually burst into the room. By that time, Weiss was sound asleep on Ruby's lap, exhausted from the emotional turmoil she had just been through.

"Thank you, Ruby. I can take over now, she's my partner."

Ruby didn't say anything, merely letting Jaune pick up the surprisingly lithe girl. 'She's light for how much of an attitude she has.' Jaune thought, though not unkindly. He gently carried her over and placed her on her bed, grateful that it was the bottom one, climbing the ladder with her would have been difficult. He pulled the covers up over her, and took a seat beside the bed.

"You two should head to class, explain why you're late and why Weiss and I won't be there."

"Jaune, we can stay." Ren stated calmly.

"No, it's fine. I know she's your teammate, but she's my partner and she probably won't want everybody here when she wakes up." Ruby and Ren nodded in understanding before gathering their things and heading to class.

Jaune shook his head, upset that he had somehow hurt her in just the right way to make her, the proud heiress, collapse into a sobbing mess. 'Weiss, I-I'm...I'm so sorry.'

Weiss slowly opened her eyes. She could feel weariness and aching throughout her body. It took her a while before she remember what had happened. She had broken down, the shout from Jaune unintentionally dredging up memories she would rather forget about.

She supposed she shouldn't be surprised at the pain in her limbs and head, considering she cried herself to sleep on the floor. Although she didn't understand how she had gotten here. This was her bed, she could clearly see the bottom of Jaune's bunk hanging above her. Her memory was blurry after she had hidden in her shell, a necessity she had formed...from something she'd, again, rather forget.

"It's good to see you're awake."

She turned her head and was surprised to see Jaune sitting next to her bed, quietly staring at the wall, contemplating.

"I...why are you here?"

Jaune paused a moment before answering. Still not looking at her, he replied "I wasn't here earlier, when I yelled at you. I was...in another time and another place."

Weiss was surprised by this, but didn't show it. "What do you mean?"

Jaune sighed "I was in a different organization before I attended beacon. I did some things that I was proud of, and...some things I wasn't so proud of. I can't really tell you more, it's a little bit of a secret. Just...during that time you learned to be hard. Or you didn't survive long."

"I...see." Weiss was surprised and curious about the knight's now mysterious past, but she chose not to pry.

"Weiss, I'm sorry that my outburst affected you so much."

"No, I...It wasn't you. It was just something that I've dealt with before."

Weiss and Jaune just sat their, admittedly a little awkwardly, but sat there nonetheless. Jaune reluctantly broke the silence, "Weiss, we need to talk." He sat up and turned to face Weiss. "This started because you...decided that you weren't a part of this team."

Weiss looked a bit affronted at this statement, but in the back of her mind she knew this was true, she had denied her teammates in every way that made them a team.

"If you want to be a part of this team, then you need to act like you are. We are a team, and that means that everybody is equal. You can't look down on Ruby because she's younger. You can't ignore me as leader because you don't deem me worthy. You have to accept that things are as they are, or you can leave."

Weiss was a bit stunned, she hadn't even considered being rejected from her team. No, she reconsidered, so far it was just the people she had been living with, not her team. If she wanted to really be a part of this team, they had to see each other as equals, not as a superior forced to deal with what they deemed lower class.

Weiss took a deep breath before replying, "Alright, I'll do my best to be a part of the team."

Jaune just smiled and something in Weiss stirred, but she didn't recognize it.

The two of them just sat there in silence, the quiet almost luring Weiss back to sleep. Suddenly, Ruby burst through the door and rushed over to Weiss.

"Ohmygosh, areyouok?!"

Weiss was momentarily stunned by Ruby's speed, and surprisingly, her caring. She could barely believe that Ruby was being this kind when she had treated her so poorly. Ruby wrapped her arms around the startled heiress and snuggled her head into her side. Weiss' back stiffened at the unexpected contact. Jaune saw her open her mouth, pause, and then relax into the bed and into Ruby's hug. He even saw Ren's eyes widen at the unusual action.

Weiss spoke up, uncharacteristically soft and hesitant for her usual tone, "I'm fine, Ruby. I...I appreciate your kindness."

Ruby said something unintelligible into Weiss side.

"Ruby, get off of Weiss, I think she's fine." Ren said.

She slowly let go of Weiss and dropped to the floor, just sitting and smiling at Weiss.

"I'm just glad you're ok."

"But...why? I haven't been anything but mean to you."

Ruby looked like she was momentarily confused, like it was a stupid question, before replying with a big smile on her face. "Silly, teams are like family, we always support each other, even if we disagree sometimes."

Jaune was surprised at the startlingly perceptive insight from Ruby, and Ren just smiled softly. Weiss just gave a small smile and a sigh.

The next morning was not pleasant. They had stayed up late last night, consisting of a large amount of simple conversation about any topic that came to mind, with even Weiss participating every once in awhile. This had led to everyone falling asleep at interspersed periods, leading to one forgotten thing.

"Hey, uh, Weiss?" Ruby poked Weiss' cheek hesitantly. "Um...It's like, almost nine and I thought-"

Weiss jumped out of bed with shock in her eyes and sprinted to the bathroom. Ruby, startled at the sudden action, fell on her butt beside Weiss' bed. Jaune jolted awake at the sound of the door slamming. He sat up and looked confusedly at Ren and Ruby who were rushing around the room. Well, Ruby was rushing, Ren had seemingly, magically, gotten dressed in about two minutes, and was now sitting calmly and reading by the desk that had been provided.

"Jaune, time." Ren said. Jaune blearily glanced over at the (surprise!) bunny shaped clock on his nightstand. His eyes widened as he saw the time. He jumped out of bed and ran over to his closet and got his stuff. No way wanting to get dressed in front of Ruby (awk-ward!), he ran over to the bathroom and flung open the door, not hearing Ruby's shout as she realized exactly what was just about to happen.

Weiss had been rushing through her bathroom routine, even disregarding her usual time and care spent on her precious hair. She had simply jumped in the shower, rinsed and conditioned, and then jumped out. She hadn't even bothered with the plethora of care products that were strewn about the room. She had just gotten out the shower with a towel wrapped around her when the door was flung wide open.

Jaune had flung the door open and was about to rush in when he noticed something, the room was warm, like someone had just...showered. Realization came too late as he looked up to see a lithe, pale body standing in the bathroom. He barely had time to register this before a piercing scream split the air.

Face flushed like a firestorm, Weiss let out a startled scream of embarrassment. Raising a single hand, while making sure to keep herself well covered, she created a propulsion glyph between herself and Jaune. Flicking her wrist, the glyph activated, sending Jaune flying backwards out of the room. Weiss couldn't believe the nerve of this...this...hooligan! He had dared to barge into the room to spy on her naked!

Ruby watched, startled as Jaune flew backwards out of the bathroom. Clothes falling out of his arms along the way, he slammed into the opposite wall of their dorm, creating a Jaune sized dent. She heard the bathroom door slam as she rushed over to check on Jaune. She knelt down by his side and helped him sit up.

"Ya know, Jaune," Ruby said with wry smile on her face, "you should probably knock before barging into the bathroom.

Jaune just slumped back down against the wall, "You don't say."

Ren just sat by the desk, looking to be reading, but silently watching with an almost imperceptible smile upon his face.

Team ARSL skid to a stop just outside of the door to Port's room. They opened the door and slowly walked in. At their entrance, the professor called out in his jovial tone. "Ah! Good to see you've decided to attend class today! If I may ask why you were late?"

Jaune was about to explain the situation when Ruby spoke up. "Sorry. I...kinda got us lost." She rubbed the back of her head in fake sheepishness.

"Well…" Port said, considering, "I suppose I can give you a pass this once. It is only your second day after all." He turned back to the class, allowing Jaune, Weiss, Ruby, and Ren to find seats near the middle, next to team NBVL.

Yang leaned over as they sat down. "So, what held you guys up? All we could hear as we left was the sound of something hitting the wall."

Jaune felt his face go warm as he struggled to keep a straight face. Weiss just stared straight down as she struggled to keep her own flaming face in check. Yang couldn't believe the reactions she was getting! This was going to be good!

"So, judging by these two," Yang said, grinning and gesturing to Weiss and Jaune, "something very...interesting...must have happened. Care to spill?"

Ren didn't say a word as Ruby naïvely started on the story. "Well, we woke up late, and Weiss ran to the bathroom and then Jau-!" Jaune quickly reached over and put a hand over her mouth. Ruby, at first, tried to keep talking and then tried to pull his hand off of her mouth. She couldn't, and Jaune removed his hand from her mouth.

"Nothing happened! Nothing! It was fine! Hehe…" Jaune tried to reassure team Nebula.

Yang only gave a sceptical look as she whispered to Jaune, "I will find out, and I will never let you forget it."

Jaune noticed Ruby's terrified look at these words. "Ruuuuby...why do you look like you've seen a ghost."

Ruby just swallowed and looked at Jaune with haunted eyes. "Jaune," She said slowly, "You have no idea what that phrase means. She will hunt you forever, that's not an exaggeration."

Yang just smiled ferally, and a little ball of dread settled into the pit of Jaune's stomach.

The day passed quickly. Before Jaune even realized it, it was time for their Strategy 1-on-1. They approached the giant techno-behemoth of a door, Ruby still being all excited for the tech they were about to use. The door again hissed open and they walked over to the cubicle they'd be using, the walls in block stripes of yellow, white, red, and green, denoting their individual color schemes.

As they settled down, Falke explained their set up for the day.

"So, here's what's going on. You all are going to be scanned using these here FPM's - Fighting Proficiency Monitors." He gestured to a row of four holographic tables set up in the cubicle. Each table was hooked up to a metallic circlet that also fed into a tablet version of a scroll placed next to each Holotable.

Falke explained. "These circlets are hooked up to receive signals from your brain. In short, you will be controlling a miniaturized version of yourself in a simulated fight. You will think of how you would respond to a situation and the Holotables will simulated your response and the FPM's will monitor and record your individual capabilities and statistics, and send them to the main database. Then, whenever we would use the Holotables later, you won't have to wear the circlets every time you want to do something. The database will know whether you are able to perform a certain action or not, and will act accordingly."

Weiss looked was suitably impressed, Jaune even noticed her eyebrows raise and her eyes widen in surprise when the professor mentioned the brain signal receiving function. And even though Jaune hadn't known Weiss that long, he did know her well enough that he could tell she was extremely impressed.

Each of them sat down and Falke started the simulation and dividers rose up between each table so they could only focus on the task at hand. On the leftmost table a miniature Jaune rose up, however, without any weapons. Jaune focused just a little bit and a white glow engendered in both of his hands, forming his weapons just like in real life. He practiced moving his avatar around the wooded area he had ended up in. He had spawned in a clearing in the middle of a decently wooded area. The slight aerial view gave him about a thirty foot scale radius of sight.

Jaune wandered a bit and saw a couple wooden targets jutting out of the ground. He shifted Crocea Mors into the crossbow on his left arm, took aim, and fired. The razor sharp blade entered the rightmost target, cut straight through the back and hit the next target in line as the boomerang returned to him. Jaune smiled, satisfied that his avatar had weapons that were just as good as his real ones.

Jaune saw a few beowolves approach from behind his avatar. He turned around and began to fight.

"I have to say, I am rather impressed with the way the Holotable depicted such realistic movements." Ren stated as they walked through the door and into the hallway.

"I know! It was sooooo coool!" Jaune swore he could almost see little stars in her eyes as she fangirled over the technology."

Weiss gave a derisive snort, at both Ren's comment and, in her eyes, Ruby's absolutely appalling mannerisms. "Hmph! That machine did not do my abilities justice! It wouldn't let me do half the things I would have been able to do in a real fight."

Jaune looked at Ren and they exchanged a knowing look. During the simulation, while Ruby had been too absorbed by the sight of her own, pixelated awesomeness, Jaune and Ren had both leaned over to see what had happened to Weiss after a small screech was heard from her table. Apparently, the heiress was attempting one of the many combos she had known, finishing up with a glyph empowered dash towards an enemy. Unfortunately, the beowolf had dodged, leaving a surprised Weiss to plunge her rapier halfway into the tree that it had been standing right in front of. As the grimm turned around with a backhand strike, Weiss didn't even panic. Unfazed, she whirled around to deliver a swift jab to the creature's abdomen, only...when she spun around, she found that she didn't actually...have her sword in her hand. Shock adorned her features as she watched her avatar struggle to pull the sword out of the tree. The actual Weiss was too surprised to do anything but watch as the beowolf completed the swing. She watched as her character was knocked to the ground and the eviscerated, shattering in a burst of pixels.

"It's okay, Weiss." Jaune said, done reminiscing. "It's okay to get stuck on a certain issue. You just need the strength to figure it out."

Weiss spun around, just now realizing that Jaune had seen that embarrassing debacle. Her face slowly flushed red as she stuttered for a retort.

"Don't be ashamed, Weiss. After all, you did give a treemendous effort."

Desperate, Weiss looked at Ruby's wide eyed face. She almost collapsed in relief as she noticed her confused expression.

Ruby was taken aback by the odd look Weiss gave her. "Uh, I really don't get what's going on."

She became even more confused after Jaune and Ren exchanged one last look, and Jaune burst out laughing. Even Ren had a smile on his face. Weiss straightened her back and turned around, not trusting herself to show her bright red face to them. She couldn't believe that those...those dunces had seen that embarrassment. Her father had drilled into to her from a young age, Never let other people see you as anything but your best, Weiss. You will only bring dishonor to the Schnee name.

Well, she thought, It's a little late for that now, but I'll still try my best.

After her face had returned to normal, she spun back around to face the rest of her team. "Now, if the two of you are done goofing off," She glared at Ren and Jaune who each blanched in turn. "I, for one, would like to study. So, if any of you jokers want to disturb me…" Weiss left the threat to the others imagination as she twirled around, skirt spinning, and marched away with her nose in the air. Jaune couldn't help but sigh internally as she left. He had tried to get her to see that she was part of a team, and he thought she had seen his point. Given that, he tried to include her in the team, like they were all friends, and Jaune thought that a little ribbing would make her relax.

Well, I guess there are some things that a Schnee will just have to be stubborn on. Apparently, her pride is one of them.

Well I'm really sorry that this chapter feels like garbage to me. I wanted to get something out, but...meh. I need a reset to start the next chapter. Sorry for the wait.

On a side note, I'm still looking for entries for the drawing contest. Full details are in the A/N: of the last chapter. Submit entries to hudsonstouffer9696 and list fanfiction as the subject. Thanks! And now I realize that I never put up the template...ok then, well it's up now.

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