The New Rose

Chapter 4-Revalations

The recording stopped and a million things were going through the WBY's minds. Ruby's new attitude made a lot of sense now, considering she heard all of the bad things that came out her teammates' mouths. Weiss, Blake, and Yang were all ashamed, how could they say those things? Even if they were in private, they shouldn't have said those things and it was coming back to bite them in the ass. How were they going to make up with Ruby now? They weren't sure if they would even forgive themselves if the shoe was on the other foot.

'Some team we are...how could we say those things about Ruby? How the hell are we going to make up with her? Is she even going to want to make up?' Weiss thought sadly.

'Her new attitude makes so much sense now. She wants nothing to do with us considering that is what we said we wanted. Oh, this is a nightmare...' Blake thought depressed.

'She must think I am the worse big sister ever and rightfully so. It was bad enough that we have been ditching Ruby, but now this? How are we going to make it up to her?' Yang thought sadly as tears were in her eyes.

Glynda Goodwitch looked at the trio and saw that they were regretting saying those things about Ruby, but they shouldn't have said them at all. Everyone has faults and you need to be ok with them, that is a part of life that cannot be avoided. They and team JNPR needed to know the errors of their ways and know that fixing the problem will not come easily. She promised Ruby that the recording would stay in this room and in a way it did, but she couldn't have this problem drag on forever. Gathering her thoughts, Glynda spoke.

"Yes well, you can imagine my surprise when Ruby played this recording for me. Though it did answer a lot of questions that were surrounding her new behavior, and it is clear to me that you all said these things behind her back. I can tell you all from experience that no one wants to be friends with people who do that, so I wonder how you can get Ruby to forgive you. However, after the recording stopped, she presented me with questions and frankly, I have the same ones. Starting with you Miss Schnee, when exactly are you going to get over this superiority complex you have?" Glynda asked sternly as Weiss widened her eyes in shock.

"W-what do you mean Professor Goodwitch?" Weiss asked nervously.

"You know exactly what I mean, ever since you weren't made leader you have had this petty jealousy of Ruby. Your solution to this? Focusing on everything she does wrong in order to bring her down and bring yourself up. Her grades are not as good as yours? Remind her of it constantly so it can put her down and make you feel good. She is younger than you? Call her a child repeatedly no matter how much it hurts her feelings, just so you can have some advantage of her. Now she was selected to be a part of the unit in Atlas instead of you. Not only that, I heard that she got the highest grade on an exam in Doctor Oobleck's class. That is what really made you angry today isn't it? Because Ruby has one upped you again, isn't that right?" Glynda said with disgust in her voice as her eyes narrowed.

Weiss flinched and widened her eyes in shock, she tried to make a retort, but nothing came out of her mouth. She knew that Professor Goodwitch was right, Weiss was still sour at the fact that she wasn't the leader and the fact that Ruby was younger than her. She hated being one-upped constantly by her young team leader, and just needed something to hold over her, just so she could feel confident and special. Coming to face that truth, Weiss felt sick to her stomach and had guilt surging through her body. Knowing that what Goodwitch said was true, Weiss held her head in shame.

"I see you are coming to grips with the error of your ways, that is the first step in making things right. Also, I nor Professor Ozpin forced you to be partners with Miss Rose or anyone in that matter. You are Ruby's partner because she was the first one you made eye contact with nothing else about it. And if you really want to be a great huntress, you need to see Ruby as a partner not a rival. Is that understood?" Glynda said sternly as Weiss looked at her with sad eyes and just nodded.