About thirty minutes later, team RWBY was assembled outside the forest with their weapons, save for Ruby who instead had a backpack filled with four long ropes, a tarp, and some water in case they got thirsty.

As they walked, no one was really in the mood to talk until Yang said: "Jaune and Pyrrha should just admit that they like each other. I mean they're perfect for each other."

"Oh please, Pyrrha is a seasoned warrior, Jaune is incompetent as a fighter!" said Weiss.

"I dont think you're giving Jaune enough credit, Weiss, I mean you're the one who saw him behead an Ursa Major in the Forever Fall." said Blake.

"Pyrrha was the one who made sure that Jaune's shield would take the Ursa's hit and that why he could even behead it in the first place!"

"That's why they're perfect! for each other! They support each other, not to mention Jaune treats her right." said Yang.

"Do you like Jaune?" asked Ruby.

"No! I mean, My first impression of Jaune was him when he puked on my shoes on the airship coming into Beacon, he hasn't puked on my shoes since, but still… holy crap." She was staring at the fallen trees that just a few meters in front of them. The logs themselves were about three feet tall. "How'd this happen?"

"That would have been me." said Ruby. "I...err… tried to pen off the Ursa to prevent him from getting close to the school by chopping trees and turning them into barricades." Ruby didn't like lying to her teammates, but she didn't want to tell them that she felt lonely so she chopped down some trees out of anger. What would they think?

"Good thinking, but we'll have to drag the Ursa around all these logs." said Blake.

"Well the sooner we find the Ursa, the better." said Weiss. "Where is it Ruby?" Ruby promptly climbed up the nearest log and looked around.

"Right there." And Ruby pointed to an area that was at the group's eleven o' clock. All the team climbed the log to join Ruby and saw the sight.

A gargantuan black mass of fur and bone stood about five meters away from them. The Ursa had not yet rotted, it had only been a day and it had been undisturbed for the most part. It's bone armor had gotten a little yellow with with decay, but the fur was still intact.

"You never said it was this big." said Weiss.

"That's what she said." said Yang, smirking.

"Yang!" said Ruby, who struggled to hold back a laugh. Even Blake couldn't help but smile at the joke.

"Let's get this over with." said Weiss, who was trying her best to ignore the joke.

As they approached the Ursa, Ruby pulled out the tarp from her backpack. As a team, they managed to shove the carcass onto the tarp. It wasn't easy, they couldn't roll the body over to the tarp because the bone spike protruding out of the back, so Weiss had use her glyphs to lift one end of the Ursa while the rest of the team put the tarp under it. Weiss would have used her glyphs to bring the Ursa back the whole way back, but stamina wasn't Weiss's strong suit. At most, she could hold a glyph in place for, at most, ten seconds at a time. Once they got they got the Ursa on the tarp, they tied the four ropes to four eyelets that were on the same side of the tarp. After a five minute water break, they each grabbed a rope, slung it over their shoulders and heaved. It wasn't terribly hard to pull, the fact that they were splitting the load helped a lot, as well as the tarp's reduced friction. They may as well have been hiking.

"So what's the blacksmith like?" asked Weiss as she pulled her rope.

"Well, he's actually pretty young."

"Like in his twenties?" asked Yang.

"No, he's a year older than me."

"Seriously?" asked Weiss. "How many underage people are at this school?"

"Well, as I recall, I think two years ago, the head blacksmith at Beacon retired so they needed someone to fill the spot." said Blake. "I didn't realize that Ozpin would hire someone so young."

"I think labor laws prevent children from working unless they are receiving a formal education. Maybe he's a student as well." said Ruby.

"Is he cute?" asked Yang.

"Oh come on!" said Ruby. "The first thing you ask if I meet a boy is if he's cute!"

"Well? Is he? Tell me what he looks like!"

"Um… lemme think. He's about a foot taller than me, he's got black curly hair. He's buff, but all blacksmiths are strong, its a side effect of their work. His face, it;s a bit dirty, but I caught him while he was working, of course his face would be dirty."

"Wait a minute, you caught him working in the morning, on a Sunday, before anyone else was awake?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Nothing, it's just, well, he sounds like the guy my father would hire. From a business standpoint, Ozpin chose well."

"Well, he did strike me as a hard worker…"

"Is he handsome?" teased Yang. Ruby knew she would ask so she gave Yang's teasing question with a teasing answer.

"Meh, he's alright. Oh look! We're here!" Before them laid Beacon academy in all it's glory. They stopped pulling the load and felt a slight relief.

"Wait… now what?" said Weiss. "We've got the Ursa here, what do we do now?"

"I asked for a favor from Professor Port." said Ruby. "He knows how to skin an Ursa. He should be meeting us here in a couple of minutes." she said, looking at her watch. It was almost ten-thirty in the morning.

"Hello there children!" Professor Port made himself visible from the courtyard just to the left of the group. He approached the group with a duffel bag.

"Hey Professor." said Blake. "Here's the ursa Ruby mentioned to you."

Port's eyes widened. "You never mentioned the beast was this big!" he said.

Yang started to whisper: "That's what she…"

"NO!" said Ruby, loudly under her breath.

"Very well then Ms. Rose, would you like the head of the beast so you can mount it on your wall?" he said,

"Actually… yeah but I'd rather you made it so I could wear it as a mask."

"Very well, and our deal remains the same?"

"Yes."

"Very well then. It's best if I skin it outside so as not to make a mess indoors. I'll need at least two assistants to help skin it."

"I don't mind." said Weiss.

"I have an errand I need to run.. so…yeah." said Yang. Ruby knew what Yang was really thinking. She had gotten uncomfortable with Port's flirting, whether he was just messing around or not, it was too creepy for Yang to deal with. Port hadn't done anything criminal or even remotely harassing, he just made Yang feel uncomfortable.

"I'm free for the next couple of hours anyways." said Blake.

"Then that's settled." Said Ruby, she turned to Professor Port and said: "Once the pelt's been sold you'll get the ten percent we agreed on."

"Wait what?" said Weiss with a look of confusion.

"I offered Professor Port ten percent from my cut of the money to skin the Ursa. Everyone else gets their twenty-five percent, Professor Port gets ten percent, I get fifteen percent." she said.

"Are you sure Ruby?" asked Yang.

"Yeah, besides, I've already made the deal. Weiss, if you are going to ask why I didnt ask you…"

"No, it was a good move, You got the fur skinned by a professional. Besides, it's none of my business how you spend your cut of the money." said Weiss, a bit relieved. Blake rolled her eyes as if to say: 'Okay, whatever'.

"All right then. I should go to the blacksmith's place then, see how the repairs are going." said Ruby who turned and left in the direction of the forge.

"I'll go with you." said Yang, who went in the direction of her sister.

"You just want to see if he's cute!"

" Actually, I want him to check out my gauntlets."