The young girls eyes opened and sat up to remove the sand in them. The room was still dark from the night sky. Very rarely did Ruby ever wake up this early. More often than not a cookie from her secret stash would help right back to sleep. This time it was different. After showing down silently on the treat she lay back down and stared up at the white canopy above her. After trying for an hour to go back to sleep but failing she gave up and started to think about what had happened the day before. She couldn't get out of her head the battle they had fought. The whole train crashing and fighting off countless Grimm kept her up even more. More than once in that fight I could have died the young leader thought. Something she didn't like to think about was about losing in those types of fights; dying and leaving this world so soon. She looked over to the other bunk beds and saw her older sister Yang; sprayed out in her bed with her blonde hair looking a mess. Hmm, no wonder she takes so long in the shower. She then looked under her sisters bed to Blakes. The faunus was sleeping with her head facing Weiss's bed .She then looked back up at Yangs bed but then did a double take and looked back down at Blake. As she looked back she saw Blakes open eyes looking at her. Ruby let out a quiet yelp and jumped a little and the shock. Blake smiled at the reaction.
"Couldn't sleep?" Blake asked concerned.
"Yea, not even my cookie helped. I can't stop thinking about what happened yesterday, the whole fighting and being captured thing's really got me awake.
Blake looked with sympathy at her young team leader. "Neither can I".
Ruby was confused "Weren't you just sleeping before?"
"Trying to but I couldn't; I don't know how those two manage to" Blake whispered.
Ruby looked down at the bunk under and saw Weiss. Sleeping quietly with her white hair as perfect as always; and with a cute dog cuddled up to her.
"I think Zwei helped with that, and Yang can sleep for a long time if she wants to" Ruby whispered over to the Faunus. "Weiss wouldn't want anyone knowing this but she was terrified fighting that guy with the chainsaw" Ruby whispered in quiet in fear that the ice princess would be able to her them in her deep sleep.
Blake looked down at the white head. "How do you know that?"
"She told me afterwards; don't tell her I told you please" Ruby said slightly worried that Blake might actually tell Weiss.
Blake lightly laughed at the young girl being worried. "Don't worry Ruby I won't tell her, or Yang".
"Thanks, Weiss would be mad if she found out I told you; but even more mad if she found out that Yang knew about it" Ruby chuckled after her sentence.
"Don't worry" Blake replied.
Ruby nodded then as silently as she could, climbed down from her bed and sneaked over to the desk. "Uh Blake could you close your eyes for a second?"
Blake smiled more and closed her eyes and Ruby quickly opened a red draw; marking it as hers and pulled out a bag of cookies and grabbed out two treats. She closed it again and went over to Blake.
"Ok open them" Ruby whispered and Blake obliged.
When she opened them she saw the young leader with her hand extending out to her with a cookie for her.
"Do you want it; it'll help you sleep, maybe" Ruby grinned as wide as she could.
The faunus grabbed the treat and mouthed thanks and took a bite along with Ruby. As the youngest bit down Yang started to stir in her sleep. Rubys shoulders were up to her chin, scared that she just woke up older sister. Thankfully she stopped and Ruby could only hear her breathing again. The two let out a sigh of relief as Ruby went back climbed back into bed. When she did she looked back over to Blake and smiled as she had eaten the cookie already.
"We don't hang out a lot do we?" Ruby asked looking over to her faunus friend.
Blake was slightly confused by this. "Yea we do, don't we?"
"We only really hang out at school, I can't remember the last time the four of us just went into town and just hanged out; as friends, not teammates" Ruby said with downing voice.
"Oh Ruby, we are friends; all four of us; even Yang and Weiss are friends, to an extent. But you're right; I can't remember the last time we hanged out as friends either. Maybe we should do just that, the weekend is soon and maybe we could do something as friends" Blake said and could see the red girls spirits rise.
"We could see a movie; I heard the movie version of Ninjas of Love just came out and I know you like that book" Ruby smirked at Blakes shocked reaction.
"Ho-how do you know that?"
"You're not very good at hiding your books Blake, unlike me with my candy and cookie stash" Ruby said with pride.
"You hide them in your red draw, not very discreet leader Ruby" now it was Blakes turn to smirk.
Ruby felt deflated at knowing her secret wasn't very secret now. "Don't worry again I won't tell Weiss or Yang about it. Now try and get some rest, that's what I'm going to do" Blake said before turning over and tried to sleep.
Ruby did the same, and thankfully sleep finally came to her and she entered the world of dreams. She was in a large field surrounded by bright cherry trees. She was at peace; there was no sound except for the sound of a light breeze. She was alone but had crescent rose drawn and ready for an unknown reason. She breathed in and could smell a sweet smell coming from all around her. She started to walk ahead. Walking onward Ruby looked around and admired the beauty around her. That was until a Beowolf burst from the ground in front of her. Ruby was slightly frightened at the surprise but threw that emotion away and readied herself for a fight. Using her semblance the red hood girl charged at high speed and slashed her scythe and the Grimm. She fell flat on her face. It had no effect; she turned around and saw the Beowolf still standing with no injury at all. It roared as loud as it could and moved towards the young girl. Ruby not giving up, stood up then went and met it halfway. Using her strength she slashed across the chest of the beast. Once again it had no effect on the Grimm. Realising she couldn't win she started to back away. Then it was right in front of her, the black monster slashed at her and threw away crescent rose as Ruby tried to defend with it. Ruby looked in horror as her weapon flew across the grass, and then her attention went back to the Grimm. As it moved towards her she slowly walked back; arms across her face hoping that somehow that it keep her from injury. The leader kept walking back then tried to use her semblance but found that she didn't have the energy to move anywhere at high speed. She tripped on a rock behind her and fell onto her back. The Beowolf was right in front of her. The beast reared up high; ready to kill its prey. Then it let out a roar and fell to ground. It wasn't moving as Ruby moved away her arms from her face to see what was happening. To her happiness and surprise stood a young woman dressed in white.
"Weiss" Ruby screamed out in joy and sped towards Weiss ready to hug her with all her might.
She shot back up; lightly breathing with a smile on her face. The rays of the sun were starting to come through the curtains. Ruby took out her scroll from under her pillow and looked at the time.
"Aw six thirty in the morning" she moaned.
Can't go back to sleep now; the others will be up in an hour so what's the point. Then her thoughts turned back to her dream; the dream of her; and Weiss. She kept thinking about that dream until her scroll vibrated and received a message. She looked down to see a message from Glynda Goodwitch.
To Ruby Rose
With the events that happened yesterday Ozpin and I feel that it's only right that your team along with team JNPR the day off from classes.
P.S You did a good job yesterday.
Goodwitch
Ruby let out a sigh of relief at the fact she didn't have to worry about class for the day. She lay back down and slowly relaxed, remembering to deactivate her alarm before doing so. Slowly Ruby drifted back off to sleep. Her dream was blank this time as she woke up with the sun barrelling into the room. As she sat so did the Faunus.
"What time is it?" Blake groggily asked.
"Nine twenty" Ruby said looking at her scroll.
"NINE TWENTY!" Blake, Weiss and Yang yelled in unison.
"Ruby you dolt why did you set the alarm now we're twenty minutes late" Weiss said; obviously angry at her leader.
The three girls rushed to get their uniforms on: Zwei getting thrown from his nap on Weiss's bed, when Ruby spoke up over their nasty grumbling.
"Guys we don't have class Goodwitch gave us the day off".
The trio froze in and looked up at Ruby; still in her pyjamas as they were already half into their uniforms. Ruby put on a cheeky grin.
"Surprise"
"Um what?" Yang asked.
"Yea Goodwitch messaged me; we get the day off and don't have classes again till Monday…..surprise" Ruby slowly threw up her arms.
"Ok, so what do we do then?" Yang asked.
The four of them thought until Blake spoke up.
"I have an idea, why do we go see a movie. It's been a long time since the four of us hanged out outside of school".
"That sounds good to me" Weiss nodded at the proposal.
Blake looked up at Ruby and winked, remembering the chat they had earlier that night.
"Ok, but as long as it's not that Ninjas of Love film. I know how much you like that book but I don't want to see, and I don't think princess over here does and I'm not letting Ruby watch a film like that" Yang let out.
"Actually I liked the book" their leader spoke out then grinned.
"Wait what, you read that thing?" Yang asked; not expecting her little sister to have read that stuff. "Ruby that book's meant for young adults, not teens".
"What, it has…..good character development; yea I liked that"
"Yea that's why you like" Weiss sarcastically said to her team mate. "But like I said a movie does sound like something we could do".
"Okay then. I call first for the shower" Yang said then bolted off into the on suite.
"HEY" the others yelled but were to slow to react to the blonde.
"Well might as well see what movies are on later and choose which one to see" Ruby said then opened up her scroll.
Blake sat back down on her bed then looked over the heiress. "You sure you don't want to see Ninjas of Love?" Blake asked then fully opened her eyes to try and persuade Weiss.
"Yes I'm sure, wouldn't matter anyway; Ruby is only 15; she's too young to see that kind of film" Weiss said signalling to the youngest; still sitting up in her bunk.
"Hey I'm sitting right here y'know" the little leader said while scrolling through the internet.
Blake and Weiss looked up at her; Blake narrowed her eyes and saw what Ruby was really looking at.
"Ruby are looking at pictures of puppies again?" she said; already knowing the answer was yes.
"No, don't be stupid, I have Zwei for that" Ruby said then pointed down to Weiss's bed.
The two looked over and saw the dog cuddled up in the blankets and sleeping soundly.
"Naw how cute" Weiss said. Zwei was probably the only thing that could get the heiress to act like that.
"I'm still not completely ok with a dog sleeping in the room, how much longer is he staying here?" Blake asked.
"Just a few more days, and don't worry Blake he really likes you, well he really likes nearly everyone" Ruby said back down to her friend.
"Anyway, Ruby did you find a movie yet?" Weiss asked.
"Yep I did; and it's one I think all four of us will like" She said with a proud smile.
The three then started to sort out their clothes for the day when the bathroom door opened. The blonde already dressed. "Don't worry guys I left some hot water for ya, so which movie we going to see?" she asked while walking over to her bed.
"Ruby says it's a surprise, and I'm next in the shower" Weiss said walking into the room with a towel.
"Ok then well I'm going to get some grub, you guys wanna join me before Nora eats all the syrup again?.
"Na, I think I'll wait and have a shower first, what about you Blake? Ruby asked not looking up from her scroll of cute puppies.
"I might just wait here with you Ruby, I'll catch up with you after I've washed up" Blake said to Yang.
"Ok then, cya guys soon and Ruby, that movie you picked better be good" Yang said then left the room.
Time went by with only the sound of the shower running and Blake flipping through the pages of a book she was deep into. That silence was broken when Ruby asked Blake a question.
"Blake can I tell you something?"
Blake looked up from her book and at Ruby; seeing her face she knew what she wanted to say was important.
"Sure, what is it?" the faunus said putting her book to the side and focusing on Ruby.
"Well last night I had a dream" Ruby started off.
Blake nodded "Ok"
"Well I was fighting this Beowolf, but none of my attacks were hitting it. Soon it had me corned and I thought I was going to die, until, until" Ruby couldn't say the last part.
"Ruby, don't worry. If you want me to keep whatever you're going to say private I will, you can tell me" Blake said sincerely.
"Thanks Blake; you're a great friend" Ruby let out a sigh. "Weiss was in my dream, she killed the Beowolf and I was so happy to see her. I went to hug her but then I woke up".
"You dreamt of Weiss?" Blake asked, becoming more interest in her leaders dream.
"Yea, just me and Weiss." Ruby then looked down at her own bed.
"Do like Weiss Ruby, more than as a friend?" Blake asked.
"Is it wrong if I do?" Ruby asked anticipating the worst.
"No of course not, it's perfectly fine, do you like her?"
"Yea, I- I do, since our field trip I've started to like her alot. Please don't tell her Blake, I don't think she thinks the same of me".
"Don't worry Ruby, I won't. But I think at some point you should tell Weiss this, it'll be better to get if off your chest then to never tell her, and who knows, maybe Weiss does feel the same about you" Blake said then gave Ruby a smile, Ruby smiled back.
"Thanks but, I just don't know if that's something I could tell her" Ruby said, slightly sad.
"Well I won't tell her or Yang about, I don't break my word" Blake nodded.
Ruby sighed then nodded, hoping deep down that Blake would tell her. It would be easier than telling her myself. Maybe one day I will