Alright, this was a little longer than I would have liked but I spent more time than I'm happy to admit trying to think of a half decent name for this and even now I'm not a hundred percent. But let me know if you like the name or not, or if you have better ideas. Don't want to get twenty chapters in to change it.

Right one last thing if you are reading this than I would recommend that you read 'A Wolf Among the Roses' first as it is the prequel to this story and a lot of it you would not understand if you have not read it. Since this is a slight AU.

As a Wolf Faunus, Eli was often used to being on the difficult end of things but often he would be dropped into a situation that was something he had not expected by a long shot.

He walked into a Vale police station after being called late at night by Ozpin and Glynda because of an incident with his daughter. Walking over to the nearest officer he flashed his ID and he pointed down the hall where he could pick up on a strong familiar coffee smell that always seemed to hang around Ozpin.

Of course, the officer tried to hide it but he had been a little intimidated by the tall, black-haired man who even though he had given him a pleasant smile in greeting, he still had the look of someone who could beat him into the ground.

Seeing Ozpin waiting outside a room he could already take a guess that Ruby had done something outlandish if she had gotten the attention of her god-mother and Ozpin.

Eli sighed Ozpin filled him in on why Ruby was here as they waited outside the interrogation room where his step-daughter had been put, after stopping an armed robbery by herself.

Which, while impressive to him, had annoyed Glynda due to having to step in to stop any innocent people from getting injured because Ruby had let the fight stay on the streets before going to a nearby rooftop. Something which she would have done anyway, but she would not say that to anyone. She was a very proud woman.

"Thanks again Ozpin for giving me the heads up on this. I'd rather deal with it before Summer finds out and has my head. I honestly don't know what's been going on with those two lately. They seem to attract trouble." he said gently scratching his wolf-ear, only getting a smile from Ozpin as he drank his coffee.

Yang had been in an altercation in some nightclub she had snuck into. Long story short over a dozen armed men had been beaten up by a teenage girl and then she had trashed two bouncers, huntsman level, and then smacked the owner out of the window.

Honestly, they did not know whether to be angry or proud that she had done it. But needless to say, Tai and Raven, where dealing with her.

"Think nothing of it, Eli. I must admit I am impressed with the efforts of young Miss Rose." Ozpin said as they waited outside the room.

"Yeah you can thank Qrow for that…all the weapons to choose from and she chose a scythe of all things to have as a weapon. Besides saying that they are cool, I cannot argue with the results, she might even outshine Qrow someday." he chuckled as they were allowed to pass through the checkpoint that the Vale police department had them go through.

On the other side of the door, he heard Glynda say that she would have sent Ruby back home with a pat on the back and a slap on the wrist.

Which made him laugh inside as Glynda was Ruby's godmother as well as Luna's, the daughter that he and Summer had together.

And knew she would be the first to spoil her on her birthday besides Summer and Tai.

Ever since he had discovered that she and Qrow were an item he had been more than happy to appoint them as babysitters when they had spare time, which was even funnier than it sounded.

"Come on Glynda! Haven't got all night." a voice called through the door in a teasing tone, making Ruby go rigid.

"You called my dad!?" she whispered harshly, "Why?" she groaned, letting her head impact the table in frustration, knowing that it would take all her skill of manipulating her father to avoid her mother from finding out and stopping what would be the longest period of being grounded she had ever had.

As the door opened she saw her step-father, Eli Frost, walk in and with him was Professor Ozpin of Beacon, holding a plate of cookies and a coffee cup.

"Well, Ruby…care to explain why I was woken up in the middle of the night and called down to VPD headquarters?" Eli asked her, "And Qrow isn't even in Vale at the moment so I was curious." he and Ruby snickered as Glynda glared at him.

"Well I kinda got into a fight with…" she mumbled off but Eli caught it, it was hard to mumble around with him with his sharp hearing. That and he already knew anyway, he just wanted her to say it.

"Roman Torchwick? That it?" he asked getting a slow nod from Ruby, "Damn Rubes. You sure know how to make an impression." Eli said, praising Ruby for taking on Roman Torchwick of all people.

Ozpin talked to Ruby for a moment, seemingly ignoring Eli and Glynda having a small argument about Ruby's actions in the background, however, they stopped when Ozpin offered Ruby a place at Beacon. For the start of the new year of students.

"What?" Eli snapped his head round, "Oz can I have a word with you?" Eli asked calmly, all but dragging his boss and friend out of the room and into the hall, making sure the door was closed behind him.

"Have you switched to decaf? Because Ruby is still two years away from going to Beacon. She hasn't even finished at Signal yet." Eli said trying to make sense of Ozpin's choice to offer Ruby early admission.

"Don't you have faith in her skills?" Ozpin asked, knowing full well that Eli would defend his daughter, and he was right.

"I don't lack faith in her skills as a huntress. Her weapon combined with her semblance makes her a force to be reckoned with but from an educational point of view, she will be missing out on two years of material that she would get from Signal. I don't want her to get too far out of her depth, every other student will have an advantage over her and…" Eli started before stopping, his gaze leveling at Ozpin.

"You said when you first talked with her in there that she had Silver Eyes. You want her to do the same as Summer don't you?" Eli secretly cursed the day that Ozpin and Qrow explained everything to him, about the maidens, the Grimm, and the Silver Eyed Warriors. It had taken him nearly a month to look at Summer normally again.

"Eli I know you don't approve of some of my methods, but Ruby needs to be trained to be the best huntress she can be. Other forces at work will not wait two years for her to enter Beacon on her own." Ozpin told Eli, his voice betraying the seriousness of the situation.

"You will be with her for the next four years Eli, I know you will make sure she has the support she needs. She has four parents, all accomplished hunters and huntress's, two of which are teachers." Eli stayed silent before nodding.

"Your right…your crafty but your right. If you want to do it go ahead but I'm not telling Summer. That can be you." Eli said cracking a smile, he sure as hell wasn't going to do it. Ozpin could explain it all to Summer, he had enough on his plate at the moment anyway.

Walking back into the room he gave a nod of his head to Ruby, "Come on kiddo. Let's get you home." nodding she hopped off her chair, giving Glynda a quick hug on the way out. Getting a small blush from the woman, while she tried to keep her teaching persona on at all times, all it took was a hug or smile from Ruby to break her. Though in Eli's opinion Luna was worse.

It was a few days later and a number of calls from Summer as Eli waited for the new year of students to arrive. Ruby and Yang included.

He would be directing them to the hall where they would be bedding down for the night before their initiation the next day. He had been questioning himself about telling the girls not to mention their relation to him, at least not just blurting it out, otherwise, it could cause trouble.

Some students may give them a hard time for being related to a teacher, everyone wanted them to have a normal school experience.

He had arrived at the auditorium where he heard Ozpin giving his speech as he walked in and headed up onto the stage as Ozpin finished. Checking that it had taken a little longer than he had thought to get all the students in, it was now quite late in the afternoon.

"Everyone! Attention please, if you'll follow me I will show you to where you'll be bunking for the night. And I would highly recommend you don't cause trouble…it would be very unwise." Eli announced as he headed up through the crowd of students as they started to follow him.

"My name is Eli Frost, I will be a teacher of yours here for the next four years. I also would not recommend picking a fight on your first day here, either against a student or teacher. Because I do have authority from Ozpin himself to get involved if I have too." as they left the auditorium he checked the new message in his scroll from Glynda.

Ruby had a small incident in the main quad. She had a run in with Weiss Schnee.

Eli groaned internally as they reached the hall where the students would sleep.

"Alright find a place and settle down. Lights out are at ten. The canteen is just down the hall if you are hungry, I'll be back in thirty minutes to check on you." heading back down the hall to make a call.

"Hello dear. Are Ruby and Yang alright?" Summer asked as Eli held back a laugh.

"I'm fine too. But they're fine, Ruby had a run in with Weiss Schnee according to Glynda. Maybe shook her confidence a bit." Eli said but he knew that Ruby would bounce back.

"Winter's sister? Maybe she just needs time. You did say she said that Weiss was somewhat of a perfectionist. So maybe she just needs some time to settle in. Besides they might not even be on the same team." Summer said and Eli hoped that Weiss was nowhere near Ruby or Yang. They did not deserve to have to deal with a spoilt brat for four years.

"I wouldn't hold my breath…but I'll keep an eye on them, I promise." he said as he heard Summer giggle.

"Remember to send me pictures if you can. I want to see my girls in action." Summer almost pleaded which just made Eli laugh. Ever since she found out that Ruby was joining Yang at Beacon she had been bouncing around in excitement. Something he enjoyed thinking about.

"Yang…do we have to pretend we don't know him?" Ruby asked her sister, in regards to Eli. When she first saw him she wanted to hug him, he was so proud of her and she knew it but she just wanted to hug him.

"I don't think we should preach it to the whole school, we could just act like normal students. Besides it's not like we'll never see him." Yang said trying to reassure her sister, while she loved Tai there was a bond between Ruby and Eli that was just as strong. Everyone saw it.

"I know…but…" Ruby started to say but let out a sigh, she knew being at Beacon was going to be different than Signal but she knew she could do it.

"Besides Rubes you can make a lot of new friends and it won't be much of a problem will it? I mean what about Jaune and that girl who helped you earlier?" Yang hoped to cheer her up after she exploded in the academy grounds.

"Look isn't that her now?" Yang asked, pointing to the black haired and amber eyed girl who was setting up her sleeping bag next to the wall, before pulling out a thick book.

Blake had decided to read a few chapters of her book before getting a bite to eat, it was one she had been waiting to enjoy for a while, but it was interrupted by the same young girl she had seen in the quad.

She tried not to look, keeping her focus on her book instead. But seeing her strangely beautiful silver eyes and looking so shy and adorable, it made it impossible.

"Can I help you?" she asked trying to sound as calm and monotone as possible, partly because she really wanted to just hug the young girl. It was part of her she wished she had better control over, she had a soft spot for cuteness.

"Um…my name is Ruby. I just wanted to thank you for earlier. I didn't get a chance to, you know back in the quad." she said as Yang gave her the thumbs up and introduced herself.

"It's not a problem. But just try not to set her off in the future. She seems like the sort with a short fuse." Blake said calmly as Ruby smiled warmly at her.

"Crap! Ruby, you need to call Luna, you said you'd call her once we got here." Yang suddenly cut in and Ruby quickly realised that she did not have her scroll with her and neither did Yang. They would be given scrolls to use during their four years here which also acted as keys to their dorm rooms.

"I almost forgot…but we don't get our scrolls until we get assigned teams." she lamented, "Do you think we could ask…?" Ruby started to question her sister but Yang just shook her head.

"Use a public terminal Rubes…" Yang said as she saw Blake's confused look, "Sorry. Luna is our little sister.".

"Must be nice having a sibling, let alone two." Blake said looking at the two sisters as they tried to figure out how they could call their sibling. Ruby gave Blake one last thanks before rushing out of the room to find a public terminal.

"Sorry…she is really trying to be the best sister ever. That's meant to be my job." Yang chuckled as she sat down next to Blake, "Where are you from then Blakey? Ruby and I are from Patch, though we go to and from Vale a bit.".

Blake took a moment to think of an answer before speaking, "Vacuo." she was a little hesitant to answer but just seemed happy to say anything to continue the conversation.

"Wow that's hot…but can I ask why come to Beacon?" Yang asked as Blake turned the book she was reading over and placed it on her lap.

"Yang…I'm sorry but don't you think that's a little personal? We have just met and while you seem friendly enough I don't really know you all that well." Blake admitted, trying to sound friendly enough so she does not end up insulting Yang.

"True…but I'll bring you around Blake. We'll be the best of buds." she laughed as Ruby ran back in and skidded to a stop.

"I couldn't find…phew sorry." Ruby said regaining her balance, "I couldn't find a terminal Yang." even with all the running she had clearly been doing Blake was surprised that Ruby was not really out of breath.

"You found some cookies though didn't you?" Yang asked giving her sister a questioning look, "Cut back past the cafeteria?" she could tell Ruby was about to deny it but Yang reached over and brushed some crumbs away from the corner of Ruby's mouth.

The three of them laughed and Blake for a moment hoped that she would be on the same team as at least one of the sisters, she knew it would be easier for her to get through the next four years if she could get along with her team.

Once night had fallen and the students were asleep, Eli made one last check before turning in for the night himself, he had been going over student documents so he knew what he could expect from them. And while some had promise others were less than impressive.

"I'll speak to Ozpin in the morning about it…something isn't right about those documents." he mumbled to himself as he nursed a cup of coffee while drinking it late at night was not the ideal thing to do, he was almost asleep on his feet at the moment.

"Eli…" he heard a whisper from the door and saw a set of silver eyes looking at him.

"Ruby you should be asleep." he said quietly, not wanting to wake anyone, "You've got to get your rest for tomorrow. Big day after all.".

"Could you apologise to Luna for not calling her…I couldn't find a public terminal and I don't have a scroll…" Eli could tell she was getting upset at not being able to call but Eli just waved it off.

"I already called her for you Ruby. She understands. Now go to sleep. You're going to need it, trust me." he said before taking a mouthful of coffee.

"Thanks…dad." Ruby said being careful to be very quiet when she said it, "See you later.".

"No problem, be sure to do your best tomorrow." Eli said as he waited until Ruby had disappeared back inside the hall before continuing on his way to his room.

Part of him did not want to pretend Ruby was just another student but he knew that she deserved a normal time at Beacon without other students treating her differently because her father was a teacher.

He sighed to himself, it was going to be a long four years.

The next morning while the students were getting ready Eli headed up to speak to Ozpin.

"Eli what can I do for you? I thought you'd be getting ready to watch the initiation this morning." Ozpin said from his desk.

"I was hoping you could shine some light on this student…because there is a lot of pieces that do not make any sense. Like being in two schools at the same time…" Eli said dropping the file onto Ozpin's desk before sitting down.

"Oh yes…. I can understand your concerns but rest assured I would not have accepted Mr. Arc into Beacon if I did not believe he could not achieve his own success here." he explained, earning a groan of annoyance from Eli.

"He's green Oz. Even Luna has more training than he does. Whoever he is on a team with is going to be picking up the slack for the next four years. Is it fair to them that they will be watching his back, while he may not be able to watch theirs?" Eli argued, "If you have a plan for all this Oz then, by all means, fill me in. Because this kid might end up being a danger to his whole team.".

"Your right…but trust me, Eli. Mr. Arc will surprise you, while he may not match the others in their fighting abilities I do believe he will excel elsewhere." Ozpin said with such confidence in his voice that part of Eli actually believed him.

"Alright, I'll go along with this Oz…I'm not happy with it but I will say this…" Eli said getting to his feet, "If so much as one student gets hurt because of him then we will be having this conversation again." Eli said before leaving and part of Ozpin hoped that he would not have a repeat of this conversation.

After being launched off the top of the cliff and into the Emerald Forest, Ruby thought that she might not have the best of luck ahead of her as she hit a bird after being catapulted into the air.

She managed to land in the forest after using Crescent Rose to slow her descent with the help of a couple of tree's, of course, said tree's now had large cuts in them.

She wanted to either find Yang or Blake as she hurried through the forest. Before they had headed out to the launch pads she had another run-in with Weiss and needless to say it did not end well, in fact, she thought it may have been worse than their first meeting in the quad when she exploded because of her shaking dust in her face.

She really did not want to be on the same team as Weiss, it was clear that she had made the heiress hate her and did not want to deal with that for four years.

"Please let me find Yang or Blake…Please." honestly she would be happy with anyone but Weiss, she would be hard to deal with in the long run and if she ever found out about Luna. She knew Eli had said Winter Schnee was a nice enough person but Weiss had made herself stand out as a spoilt rich girl. According to Yang at least.

Stepping out into a clearing while she was still deep in thought she came face to face with her partner.

Leaving the partner as a mystery for the time being. But some people might be able to figure it out. Maybe. Possibly.