Gruß Genossen.

When Ruby woke up in Richie's bed, she was disappointed to see that he wasn't there, but she took pleasure in finding that the ink on the note he left her was still moist.

My Dearest Rose,

I'm afraid that I had to leave a little earlier than I expected and I just couldn't wake you up, you look much too precious when you're sleeping.

Make sure you have everything before you leave for Beacon, I don't think we will be able to leave to pick anything up until after initiation.

I love you more than anything in the world, and the only reason I left you alone was that I will see you again soon

-Your loving fiancé, Richie

Ruby's ears curled in an adorable way that would have made Richie go crazy.

"Oh, that's so sweet." She cooed to herself, "I'd better get ready to go though."

She pulled the bell cord to ring for a few maids and began to prepare herself for them to dress her. She had bought a pair of high heels made specifically for combat that she was dying to try!

Meanwhile, Yang wasn't used to having much more than the maid that helped clean her house, so the comparatively large amount of maids -three to be exact- slightly startled her when the arrived in her room when she woke up. Jaune, on the other hand, was not surprised, as he had many servants employed by his family.

Eventually, after they were all finished dressing, it was finally time to leave for Beacon. Their bags had been packed for them, with their private items in smaller bags they had packed themselves.

"You know Yang, I find myself quite relieved to find that you are accompanying us to Beacon" Jaune smiled, "I was worried that without your presence, our time there wouldn't nearly have the excitement it will now."

Yang laughed, "Oh stop it Jauney, I may be the life of the party, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been that bad if I wasn't coming with you guys" she shrugged with a smirk, "besides, there was no way I wasn't coming to Beacon with you guys!" She ended with a laugh.

Ruby's tail swung back and forth at the enthusiasm of her cousin, Yang was a very fun person to be around, up to a point anyway.

"Hey, Rubes?"

She looked up, "Yes Jaune?

Jaune gestured to her tail, "You might want to tie that up soon, we don't want anyone accidentally stepping on it or something when we're on the bullhead."

Ruby blushed, "Oh right, definitely don't want that." She winced at the thought, Jaune had accidentally stepped on her tail when they were children. It hadn't been something she'd call a 'painless experience' by any means whatsoever. He'd, of course, apologized profusely to her after he realized his mistake.

The kronprinzessin-to-be quickly wrapped her tail around her waist and secured it underneath her skirt, so it couldn't be yanked, or even seen, by a random passerby. Her hood could easily be put up to prevent any racists from seeing her lupine ears as well.

She supposed they may have been going a little overboard to prevent harassment, but she'd never been anywhere but Patch whenever she left Prussia, and they didn't truly know how racists would react to a normal Faunus. Let alone a Prussian one. Chances would not be taken when it came to royalty.

Of course, due to this, once they had gotten on board the bullhead Ruby had put her hood on in order to stop any eyes from seeing her precious ears.

One thing that wasn't surprising however, was the fact that Jaune was leaning against a wall and breathing deeply in order to control his nausea.

It seemed that his motion sickness was included in bullheads instead of just dirigibles.

Ruby giggled a little at the young man's pained grimace. It was a rare sight to see Jaune so out of sorts during an important event, as he was usually composed in front of others. Especially if his sisters were around.

"You alright there Vomit Boy?" Yang asked boisterously, a large smile showed plenty of her pristine teeth.

He glared at her, "Yang, I haven't even been sick yet, calm down."

Yang's eyes lit up even more than they already were, "Ha! So you admit that you're going to be sick!"

"Keep distracting me and I'll make sure it gets on your shoes."

Ruby laughed at the banter between her cousin and close friend, but it was interrupted by a peculiar buzzing sound.

The phrase, "What's that?" and variants of it began to echo throughout the crowd, and many were beginning to stare out of the windows of the bullhead. This obviously caught Ruby's attention, and she quickly used her semblance to get to the windows before they could become so crowded she wouldn't see whatever was out there.

When she looked out, she was given the gift of seeing about one-hundred single-seat fighter planes. Each one had the Iron Cross on each side of the fuselage and two on each side of the wings.

She smiled and gently fondled her own Iron Cross, it was a necklace with a red and white striped black band and was given to her by Richie for her fifteenth birthday and had a small inscription in the middle.

There were a few jeers in the crowd at the sight of the fighters, but most were simply gawking at the sight.

Many pilots knew of their audience and we're doing various amazing tricks that no other nation's aircraft could do, Prussians had the lightest and most agile planes of all the kingdoms. Whether they were fighters or bombers.

But the fighter that caught her eye was a blood-red triplane, a Fokker Dr.I to be exact, with its Iron Cross next to a beautiful crown. It was Richie's personal fighter, and the crown on the side was a heavily modified version of the German State Crown.

"Oh wow", someone whispered loudly next to her said in wonder. She looked to her left to see the awed person.

It was a pale skinned girl with turquoise eyes and orange hair, she was a little taller than Ruby, and was dressed in a pink skirt slightly shorter than her own. What really caught Ruby's eye, however, was that the girl seemed to have some sort of grenade launcher on her back.

Before she could ask the girl about her weapon though, Beacon came fully into view after being obscured by the cliff face and the mountain adjoining it.

The beautiful squadron of planes split off from Richie to presumably return to their home airbase, and the Kronprinz began to fly around and do stunts around the massive bullhead that the future Beacon students were on. He flew within six feet of the very window Ruby and the orange-haired girl were looking out of.

"So much for remaining undetected," Ruby mumbled.

He continued to wondrous stunts and tricks in the plane in order to perform to the audience he knew he had occupying the bullhead.

The people that had jeered before began to quiet down as a group but instead began to rant individually about the Kingdom of Prussia to anyone within earshot.

She frowned at their words. She was quite patriotic after all, it came with being royalty.

Richie continued to buzz around and perform tricks even as the bullhead landed, though said had slowed down and reduced in extravagance quite a bit by then.

After she and Ruby had gotten off of the bullhead, Yang squeezed Ruby one more time, "Alright Rubes! I'mgonnagoseemyfriendsbye!" She said very quickly before essentially jumping into a crowd of people Ruby assumed were said 'friends'.

Blinking rapidly in an attempt to clear mental cobwebs, she put her hood up and began to walk towards where she assumed the entrance to Beacon was.

However, as she did so, Richie had decided to do a particular peculiar stunt involving a rose, and dropping said rose out of the plane while flying ridiculously low.

Due to this, Ruby was startled by the sudden presence of a thornless rose flying into her face, having been dropped by a deceptively quiet triplane. Her reaction was naturally to grab at the object and jump back, which subsequently caused her to trip backward over somebody's luggage.

"What are you doing?!" someone screeched next to her ear, which caused said ear to ring due to its enhanced sense. She looked up to see the person who had the offending voice as she got up.

The girl in front of her was slightly taller than her and seemed to be partial to the color white, considering everything from her shoes to her hair was white or opal. Something else Ruby noticed was the furious look on the girl's face.

"You absolute dolt! Do you know what could have happened?!" Ruby winced at the volume.

"My apologies miss, I didn't see your luggage there, let me help pick them up."

"NO! Don't touch them you stupid klutz!"

Now that angered Ruby.

She subtly bared her fangs at the girl.

"Listen you little stuck up dullard! I was having an absolutely wonderful morning before I tripped over your luggage, but I wasn't going to be petty about you leaving it in the middle of the walkway like some plebeian moron! But then you refused to accept my apology and began to treat me like trash!?" Ruby very rarely became angry, but this girl had pressed all of the wrong buttons and she was going to pay for it.

"God forbid something like a little kitten should stumble on your path! You would probably treat it as little more than street trash!"

The girl's face became one of intense shock for a few moments before she responded. "How dare you!? Do you even know who I am!? Or my status!?"

That was the last nail in the coffin, Ruby's pupils became pinpricks and her lips pulled back to bare her razor-sharp fangs better as her lupine instincts began to overrule her usual control herself.

"Compared to me?! A nobody twenty thousand kilometers below Hell itself!" was the last coherent thought she could vocalize, though she barely managed to stop herself from growling.

However, the introduction of a third party managed to stop Ruby from, quite literally, attempting to tear the girl's throat out with her teeth.

"She's Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."

Ruby turned quickly to the voice her Iron Cross jingled slightly, her mouth closed and pupils dilated as she cemented control over her instincts.

The voice belonged to a girl with amber eyes, long black hair, and a bow on the top of her head.

"Finally some recognition!" The girl in white, now named Weiss Schnee, spoke.

But the girl with the bow wasn't finished. "The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."

"Wha- How dare- The nerve of... Ugh!" With that highly intelligent rebuttal, Weiss stormed off.

Ruby sighed and turned to the girl in black. "Hey, thanks for- huh?"

However, said girl in black had apparently decided to leave, as Ruby was greeted by her retreating form.

Ruby sighed again and looked down a little dejected. Luckily, a familiar friend came to the rescue.

"Are you alright Ruby?" came the voice of Jaune.

She looked up to see him, he was dressed in some light armor that was painted white, some blue jeans, and what looked like a hoodie?

"Oh hey, Jaune. You didn't see that did you?" she asked a little nervously.

Her question was answered when he laughed.

"I gotta say, seeing a lady of your status get so upset at someone was one of the funniest things I've seen in quite a while."

Ruby pouted, "Shut up Vomit boy!"

Jaune gaped, "Hey! You know how common motion sickness is in my family!"

Luckily for them, the impending battle of wits was interrupted by Richard's triplane gliding very slowly about five feet above the ground nearby with the engine off. They both looked over to see the plane abruptly pull up, eliminating all remaining forward momentum and causing it to drop the last few feet straight down.

"Show off," Jaune mumbled as Richard exited the plane.

He took off his flying cap and jacket and put them back in the plane before retrieving his pickelhaube from the flying machine.

"Hello!" He said cheerfully as he approached them, "Did I miss anything interesting?"

Jaune spoke up before Ruby could, "I'm afraid so friend, it seems that your wife-to-be has made an enemy within five minutes of landing."

Ruby winced a little when Richard looked at her, "I didn't intend to antagonize her! She was just so rude, and I couldn't control myself!"

Richard chuckled and patted her head through her hood, "It's alright Ruby, we all make mistakes." He smiled at her, "Besides, with how friendly you are, I'm sure she'll forgive you eventually."

Jaune seemed to remember something, "Oh that's right! I forgot to tell you two, but we'll be sleeping in the ballroom tonight." He scratched the back of his head, "I'm not sure why though."

"Oh, wonderful! It'll be like a big sleepover!" Ruby exclaimed.

Richard laughed a little, "Well, let's get going then alright?"

The auditorium was quite large, enough to hold all of the first-year students entering the school, and a decent amount of reporters that wished to film the event for morale purposes.

"Ruby! Over here! I saved you a spot!" Yang called from a short distance away, she had commandeered three seats beside her own for her friends and cousin to sit at.

Jaune looked to his friends, "You two go ahead, I'm going to do a quick check on the luggage," he said pointing to the baggage cart with their items on it about twenty feet away.

Ruby replied quickly, "OkayJauneIgottagotalkwithYangbye!" before speeding off to her cousin.

Both Richard and Jaune blinked, "Alright Jaune, I'll see you in a few minutes." Richard waved as he walked away and Jaune waved back.

When Jaune arrived at the baggage cart, he grabbed one of his own pieces of luggage first, it was a violin case.

Before he could open it to check it's condition, another person who had decided to check their luggage called out, "Look out!" and he felt a brief pressure on his foot as the impact of a suitcase impacting it was cushioned by his Aura and boot. He heard an "I'm sorry" as he looked down. Jaune quickly put his violin case back and picked the suitcase up.

"Oh don't worry about it, my boot is insulated and my Aura protected me otherwise." He said as he handed the case to a beautiful redheaded woman with sparkling green eyes.

She blushed and smiled, "Sorry, I suppose I should look out better."

He smiled back at her, "It's of no consequence. My name is Jaune, may I inquire yours?"

She blushed a little harder and held out her hand, "I'm Pyrrha Nikos."

He took her outstretched hand and pressed his lips to her knuckles, causing the red color of her face to increase in intensity.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Miss Nikos, but I'm afraid that I must go sit down. The Headmaster is about to start his speech." Jaune said as he drew away from her hand.

The redhead smiled widely at him, "Oh please, call me Pyrrha, goodbye."

He smiled back, "Auf wiedersehen," he called as he walked away.

'What a lovely young woman," he thought to himself.

As he approached he saw Weiss Schnee ranting to an apologetic Richard and Ruby before pointing to him and saying, "...and talk about cute boys like tall, blonde, and scraggly over there!"

He blinked at the girl's words, he wasn't scraggly, was he? He worked out! Maybe not at much as Richard, bit still!

Richard scoffed. "Miss Schnee, I understand that you are upset at Ruby, but it wasn't malicious, and your rudeness toward her and Jaune is completely inappropriate." He declared after Jaune walked up next to them.

Yang spoke up before Weiss could retort, "Guys! Shut up, the Headmaster is coming onstage."

Sure enough, both Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch had walked up onstage.

He cleared his throat and spoke into the microphone. "I'll... keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction." He stopped for a split-second as the students whispered among themselves. "You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."

When he was finished, he stepped down and Professor Goodwitch took his place, "You will gather in the ballroom tonight; tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."

Yang spoke up again, "Huh" she looked towards her friends and Weiss, "He seemed kind of distracted."

"Yeah," Ruby replied, "I would think he would be better concentrated."

Richard looked to her, "He likely has quite a bit on his mind, I'm sure his job is quite stressful."

"Well, let's get going to the ballroom; we still have to set up our tents."

The two tents they had set up were for Richard and Ruby, then Yang and Jaune. They had brought them for privacy reasons. Royalty deserved only the best after all.

Ruby and Yang were sitting inside their tent, Yang was on her scroll, and Ruby was writing in a notebook.

"Watcha writing Rubes?" Yang asked her curiously.

"A letter to our friends back in the vaterland. I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going."

"Aw, that's so cuuuute!"

Yang's gushing was cut off by Ruby throwing a pillow at her face.

"Stille! I wasn't able to bring any friends besides Jaune with me to school, unlike yourself. It's strange not knowing anyone."

Yang waved her hand dismissively, "Don't sweat it Rubes, your super nice! Just be yourself and you'll have friends crawling all over you."

"I don't think Richie would want anyone but himself crawling all over me…" Ruby mumbled.

"Huh?"

"Don't worry about it!"

Suddenly, as if its only purpose was to save Ruby from embarrassment, piano music began to play outside of the tent.

Yang raised an eyebrow, "Who's playing the piano?"

Ruby, however, knew exactly who it was.

"Oooh! I've got to get my cello!" She exclaimed as she quickly ran out to where they put their luggage.

Yang blinked, "Wuh? Hey Ruby! Wait!" The confused Yang took off after her cousin.

By the time she caught up to her, Ruby had started coming back with a large cello case.

"You know how to play the cello?" Yang asked confused.

Ruby nodded eagerly, her face split by a large smile, "Bass too! Richie taught me how!" She bolted off again to the corner of the room where said Richie was warming up on the Grand Piano that laid in the corner.

'When did that get there?' Yang thought curiously.

Once she got next to Richie, Ruby began to pluck at the strings of her cello in a steady beat that became 'energetic' every few beats, and Richie began to play a song and, surprisingly, sing.

Hot August night

And the leaves hanging down

And the grass on the ground smelling sweet

They played a little more energetically for a few seconds, and people began to look over to them.

Move up the road

To the outside of town

And the sound of that good gospel beat

They were energetic again, and more people began to look over.

Sits a ragged tent

The sang began to increase in intensity

Where there ain't no trees

And that gospel group

Telling you and me

Richie began to sing quite loudly

It's love, Brother Love say

Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show

Pack up the babies

And grab the old ladies

And everyone goes

'Cause everyone knows

Brother Love's show

The music calmed down to its original intensity, and people began to gather around the two music players.

Room gets suddenly still

And when you'd almost bet

You could hear yourself sweat, he walks in

Eyes black as coal

And when he lifts his face

Every ear in the place is on him

The intensity began to build once again.

Starting soft and slow

Like a small earthquake

And when he lets go

The intensity peaks and people started dancing to the music. Yang herself was dancing especially energetically to it, and she failed to notice a certain black-haired amber-eyed girl begin to walk over to the couple playing the music. She had an excited look in her eyes.

Half the valley shakes

It's love, Brother Love say

Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show

Pack up the babies

And grab the old ladies

And everyone goes

'Cause everyone knows

'Bout Brother Love's show

The music calms again, and Ruby began to sing backup vocals.

Hallelujah, brothers

Halle-hallelujah

I said brothers

(Hallelujah) Now you got yourself two good hands

(Halle-hallelujah) And when your brother is troubled,

You gotta reach out your one hand for him

(Hallelujah) 'Cause that's what it's there for

The viewers began to get enraptured by the song, some tapped feet while others clapped or nodded heads.

(Halle-hallelujah) And when your heart is troubled,

You gotta reach out your other hand

(Hallelujah) Reach it out to the man up there

(Halle-hallelujah) 'Cause that's what he's there for

Take my hand in yours

Walk with me this day

In my heart I know

I will never stray

Halle, halle, halle, halle, halle, halle, halle, halle

Love, Brother Love say

Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show

Pack up the babies

And grab the old ladies

And everyone goes

I say love, Brother Love say

Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show

(Halle, halle)

At this point people began to sing along for the last few lines.

Pack up the babies

And grab the old ladies

And everyone goes

Love, Brother Love say

Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show

Many of the soon-to-be students clapped at the performance of the popular Prussian rock song. Ruby looked up to see a certain orange-haired girl whoop and shake a young man that appeared to be from Mistral judging from his clothes and physical appearance.

These things Richie and Ruby expected, what wasn't expected was the amber-eyed girl that helped Ruby with Weiss appearing and wrapping herself around Richie from behind and rubbing her cheek into his back.

"Meister..."

Sorry, it took so long, but I wasn't satisfied with this chapter for the longest time, but at least it's finally of reasonable length.

Remember to review! Really, it gives me insight into what I should do and your reactions!

And thanks to joeyginise for all the help with ideas!