Ruby woke up and sat on her bed with her back still feeling like crap. Careful not to wake up the rest of her team, she trudged over to the bathroom and looked at her back: It was less purple, but otherwise, no change. After taking care of her morning routine she wrote a note saying:

I went to the blacksmith's forge - Ruby

Yang would have dragged her there anyways, but she thought it would be best if she went alone, she didn't want Yang speaking on her behalf all the time. This was one time she could stand to be alone. As quietly as possible, she gathered all the parts of her scythe and tiptoed out of her room. As she struggled to shut the door behind her while carrying her broken scythe in both arms, a voice said: "Lemme help you with that." It was Jaune, up and about in his footy pajamas. He went over to the door and shut it.

"What happened to your scythe?" he asked, pointing at the bundle in Ruby's arms.

"Well, I was in the walking in the woods minding my own business..."

"Really?" he said smiling and crossing his arms.

"I was!" she said, smiling in return. "I was walking in the woods and I got attacked by an Ursa Major."

"Wow, and you're not injured?"

"You should've seen the other guy." Jaune laughed at that. "So what are you doing up?" asked Ruby.

"Nora snores, I was sleeping out in the hallway." Jaune pointed to the nearest bench which had a pillow and a blanket on it.

"And you are the only one who is bothered by it?" said Ruby smirking.

"Ren and Pyrrha can fall asleep pretty fast, before Nora can start snoring."

"Oh man, that sucks."

"Not for them. Speaking of which, why are you up this early?"

"Im going to the blacksmith's forge to get my scythe fixed."

"Oh you're off to see Ross?"

"Didn't know his name was Ross."

"Ruby! You know better than to go see someone you don't even know!" said Jaune

sarcastically."Anyways, I should go take a shower before someone else uses all the hot water, tell Ross I said hi."

"Don't take all the hot water from your teammates."

"Will do."

Ruby turned and walked down the hallway, down the stairway, out of the gates of the dorm, and walked the cobblestone pathway till she reached the fountain. Forever fall was to the east of Beacon Academy, meaning it was right behind the academy in the very back. She would have gone through the building's front door and out the back as opposed to walking around the main auditorium, but she had no choice seeing it was too early for the doors to be unlocked. So she went around it following the wall of the building until she finally saw the forge.

It was a rather large cabin with walls of metal sheeting. As Ruby got closer she could see bolts. It had a black chimney made of bricks that was bellowing smoke, meaning that Ross was in the forge. Ruby had encountered her fair share of blacksmiths and knew that they got up early, to heat up their forges and get some work done while they were at it. Ruby's hands were full with her scythe, so she had to kick the door with her feet. This was one of those doors that split into two halves, a top and a bottom. The top section opened up to reveal a kid not much older than Ruby with black curly hair and a black thick metal apron. He wore gloves of the same fashion and goggles that he placed above his eyes for the moment. He was rather tall, perhaps a foot taller than Ruby.

"Can I help you?" he asked with a rather blank expression.

"Are you Ross?" asked Ruby.

"I am, and you?"

"Ruby." From his left, he pulled out a small piece of paper which read "ORDER FORM". He wrote down 'Ruby'

"I take it you need that repaired?" he nodded over to the scythe.

"Yeah…" Ruby held her scythe a little closer. She was hesitant to put her scythe in someone else's hands.

"I get that a lot." said Ross, out of the blue.

"What?" said Ruby

"A lot of students from Signal grow attached to their weapons. You probably designed it yourself, forged it yourself, and wielded it yourself. You don't want to put your craft in someone else's hands because you don't know the outcome and you are afraid that I will screw up."

Faced with the truth, Ruby could only respond with:

"Sounds about right. Not to mention, a lot of the blacksmiths i encounter are rather old, you cant be much older than… what sixteen?"

"Not bad. Guess how many months and I'll throw in a magazine of bullets." Ruby studied him.

"Sixteen years, four months?

"Nope, seven, but I'll throw in the magazine anyways."

Reluctantly, Ruby whispered: "Deal."

"I heard that." said Ross, jokingly.

"I'm suing you if you screw up."

"I'm going to take that seriously." His face changed and became more stern and serious. "Now is there anything in particular you would like?"

"What do you mean?"

"I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you don't want the blade replaced, just put back together."

"Yeah…"

"I can do that."

Ruby paused, and hesitated to just take Ross's word for it. Still... he couldn't be all that bad if Ozpin hired him.

Ruby shoved her craft into Ross's hands. "I'll be back at one o' clock, and if she isn't in pristine condition, I'm gonna…!" Ruby paused, looking in her head for a good threat. Finally she yelled: "I'm gonna break your legs!"

And with that Ruby stormed back to her dorm.