Beacon only gave their students 30 days off every year. 2 weeks during summer, 8 days in the winter, 6 days during spring and 2 days during autumn. Today was the first day off in the spring, April 1st. Nobody knew why it had to be on April Fools' Day, but they were grateful for a break, no matter how many pranks were played.

Team RWBY and Team JNPR had decided to spend the day together. After all, who wouldn't want to spend a day off with their friends? They always did this during their breaks.

"So, what do you want to do today?" Yang asked at breakfast, her mouth full of pancakes as she spoke, earning a disapproving glare from Weiss which she ignored.

"Well, it's April Fools' Day, right?" Jaune said, a thoughtful frown forming on his face. "Why don't we play some pranks?"

"Ooh! That's a great idea!" Nora, who had been staring at the pancakes Yang had been consuming, clapped her hands, her trademark grin now in full view. "We could play pranks on each other!"

"How about one team pranks the other?" Pyrrha suggested.

"Yeah, let's do it!" Ruby fistpumped.

"Oh no, absolutely not," Weiss crossed her arms.

"Why not?" Yang questioned. "It'll be fun!"

"Because it's childish!" Weiss said, stabbing her sausage with her fork and taking a bite.

"C'mon, Weiss!" Ruby elbowed Weiss's side. "What's wrong with being childish every now and then?"

Weiss swallowed her food. "We are Hunters and Huntresses in training! We have no time for such things!"

"We have time now," Blake said flatly, eating her scrambled eggs.

"You're taking THEIR side?" Weiss said in disbelief, staring at the most stoic and logical member of their team. Blake nodded, not even sharing a glance at the heiress, who was now rubbing her temples, eyes shut in disapproval.

"Okay then!" Pyrrha said. "We can start the pranks after breakfast."

"Yes!" Ruby and Nora high-fived.

"Okay girls!" Yang plopped onto her bunk. "How do we prank Team JNPR?"

"Hmm…" Ruby thought deeply, her face scrunched up in concentration before her eyes widened. "Oh! How about- wait no, that wouldn't work…"

"Um…" Blake's eyebrows furrowed, but she couldn't think of anything either.

"Well, since we can't think of anything, how about we just call it off?" Weiss said, almost hopefully.

"No! We can't just call it off!" Ruby exclaimed. "We need to come up with the perfect idea!"

"She's right, Weiss. You need to be more patient," Blake agreed, nodding.

"Fine," Weiss grumbled, her arms now crossed.

"So, how do we prank Team RWBY?" Pyrrha mused.

"How about we steal some of Weiss's Dust?" Nora suggested.

"No, no, no! We can't do that!" Jaune panicked. "When she finds out it's us, she's going to kill us!"

"Hold on! I wasn't finished!" Nora grinned, to the displeasure of Ren. No matter what happened, that grin always got them in trouble somehow...

"I was going to say…"

"You still haven't thought of anything?" Weiss complained.

"Nope. Why don't we just go for a walk?" Ruby suggested. "Maybe we can get ideas that way."

"What do you mean?" Blake asked.

"Sometimes you get the best ideas in the weirdest ways or places," Ruby explained.

"Okay, let's go!" Without waiting for their responses, Yang opened the door and dragged her whole team out.

Magenta eyes looked through a crack in Team JNPR's door. Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang were walking out of their room and down the hall. A head peeked out of Team JNPR's room and watched the girls turn the corner.

"Wow, that was convenient..." Jaune muttered.

Go time.

Ren silently made his way over to the girls' dorm, thanking his lucky stars that Ruby left the door ajar. He stepped inside and searched for a case of Dust that could just be sitting around.

There was no Dust in plain sight, so he looked in different places. He noticed a book titled 'Ninjas of Love', the cover making him raise an eyebrow. Usually, he'd leave it alone, but Ren was curious...and he may or may not have an interest in anything ninja related. So, he picked it up and started reading the middle of the book.

Needless to say, Ren was the colour of a tomato after reading only a paragraph. He put the book back on Blake's bed, his eyes locked on to its cover as he struggled not to imagine the scenes he had just witnessed.

"I won't judge, but...What the heck does she read?" Ren said to himself.

Ren went back to looking for the Dust, which he later found under Weiss's bed. 'Of course,' Ren thought. 'Where else would it be?'

He opened the case and took out the vials with red Dust in them. He closed the case, put it back and retreated with the red Dust.

"Nice job, Ren," Pyrrha smiled, taking the Dust out of Ren's hands. "That was fast."

"No problem," Ren shrugged, sitting on his bed, trying to hide what remained of his blush from earlier.

"Now all we have to do is set up!" Nora said excitedly. "This'll be so much fun!"

"I'm not sure about this…" Jaune said nervously, scratching the back of his neck.

"Aw, don't worry Jaune-y boy!" Nora slapped a hand on his shoulder, causing him to lose some balance. "It's only a prank! Weiss can take a joke, right?"

Nora was the only one smiling. Everyone else was now suddenly worried.

"So that's the prank, Ruby?" Yang clarified.

"Yep! We just have to wait until dinner!" Ruby nodded.

"I have to say, I think it's a good idea," Blake said with a small smile. "What about you, Weiss?"

"I guess it's okay," Weiss opened the door to their dorm.

After Weiss stepped inside she tripped on a trip wire.

"Ow…" Weiss got up, her hand pressing a small button in the process.

"Was that seriously their prank?" Yang laughed heartily. "That was all they could come up with?"

They didn't notice a bucket tipping over above them. Red Dust spilled on the heads of Blake, Weiss and Ruby. It caused their hair to catch fire.

"AHHHHH!" Blake and Ruby ran into the bathroom and into the shower. Blake turned the water to it's coldest setting and ice-cold water rained down on them, putting out the fire. Not too much of their hair burnt off.

Weiss, on the other hand, was screaming like a banshee.

"GAH! Get it off getitoffgetitoff!"

Yang had to push Weiss into the shower with Blake and Ruby to put the fire out. She laughed at them.

"Ahaha! Oh man! Woo!" Yang pointed at them. "Guys, guys. Okay, you gotta step out. I'm sweaty and haven't washed up in days."

"That was not cool," Weiss grumbled as they stepped out of the bathroom.

"Well, technically it was…" Ruby joked. "The water was cold…"

So was the look the shivering Weiss gave her. Well, they were all shivering.

A few seconds after Yang stepped in the shower, there was a blood-curdling shriek.

"THIS IS WAR!" Yang burst out of the bathroom, wearing her short shorts and low-cut crop top, soaking wet except for her hair. It was on fire. That's why she was carrying a toilet plunger and charging at the door leading to the hallway.

"THIS IS SPARTA!" Yang kicked down Team JNPR's door.

"…This can't be good," Weiss looked out of their door as Yang stormed into Team JNPR's dorm.

"Who put red Dust in my shampoo…?" Yang said darkly, raising the toilet plunger.

"…He did it," Nora said as she, Ren and Pyrrha pointed to Jaune. Yang turned to him.

"Stop! Don't hurt me! You're scaring me!" Jaune stared at Yang's red eyes in fear.

"Yang, stop it!" Ruby ran into the room, grabbing Yang's wrist. "It's not worth it!"

Yang's eyes went back to normal. "Fine. I'll get you for this, Jaune!" by now the small fire in her hair was gone, and she and Ruby walked away.

"Weiss, we three are going to get some starch," Yang said, dropping the plunger as they entered their dorm. "Blake, stay behind. Make sure Team JNPR doesn't come in here."

"Sure," Blake said. "But shouldn't you put more clothes on and dry off?"

"Yeah, I'll get on it."

It was dinner time, 6:00 pm. Team RWBY had set up their prank while Team JNPR had gone for dinner, so they were late.

"Heya guys!" Nora waved them over.

"What took you so long?" Pyrrha asked as the girls sat down with their food.

"You're not going to kill me are you?" Jaune asked Yang, covering his face with his hands.

"No, I'm not all that mad anymore," Yang laughed a little. "I thought it was a pretty good prank. Why?"

"Jaune was expecting Weiss to take it to heart, not you," Pyrrha said, laughing a bit too.

"What? Why me?" Weiss looked offended.

Pyrrha's expression was unreadable. "Uh… no reason…"

"Hold on," Weiss pieced it together. "You stole my Dust, didn't you?"

Team JNPR was silent.

"You did, didn't you?!" Weiss exclaimed in anger, slamming her hands on the table. "Who did it?"

"I did," Ren said.

"You were snooping around in our room?" Weiss blinked.

'OhGoddammit' Blake thought, her face visibly paling. 'He didn't find it, did he?'

"Blake? Are you okay?" Ruby asked. "You look paler than usual."

"Yeah, I-I'm fine," Blake looked away, trying to hide the blush on her face. When she glanced back at the group, Ren gave her a knowing smile, then an assuring nod. 'Your secret's safe with me,' it communicated.

"So, have you thought of a prank yet?" Jaune asked Team RWBY.

"Of course we have!" Ruby grinned. "It's better than yours!"

"Sure it is," Pyrrha joked, though her smile showed that she was curious to see what RWBY had in store for them.

"Nothing is funnier than hearing you panicking over your hair!" Nora stuck her tongue out. Ruby did the same back to her.

"We'll see," Yang playfully crossed her arms.

The students at Beacon were getting ready for bed, and some were already asleep. Not Team JNPR though. After all, it was hard to sleep when all of your pajamas were covered with food.

Pyrrha waddled over to Team RWBY's dorm, clenched her fist and swung her body back and forth to knock. Blake opened the door.

"Yes?" Blake said with the straightest face she could muster.

"You know exactly why I'm here," Pyrrha said, giving Blake a small glare. "You starched our clothes!"

It was true, Team RWBY starched their pajamas stiff.

"Is that Pyrrha?" Weiss appeared beside Blake. The heiress started laughing.

"It's not funny," Pyrrha glared at her.

"Yeah! It's not funny!" Nora sumo-stomped her way over. The ridiculous walk managed to get a snort out of Weiss.

Ruby and Yang were quick to join their partners, and after seeing JNPR's reactions, they doubled over laughing.

"How do you get this stuff out?" Jaune waddled over, his arms stiffer than boards as they hung ridiculously out to his sides, his onesie pajamas whiter than a cloud.

"Um…" Blake smiled, succeeding in containing her laughter. "This'll take a while… but here's a book on it!" She dropped a thin book on the floor and closed the door. Lots of laughter were heard from their dorm.

'Great…' Pyrrha thought, trying to bend over to get the book. 'She did that on purpose.'

"Come on!" Nora put her foot on the book, sliding it over to their door. "Let's get this stuff out!"