*Ring* *ring* Velvet heard her scroll (the RWBY universe's version of a smartphone) ringing on the nightstand beside her. She groaned and reached over to pick it up. "A call from an unknown number?" She said when she saw the number. It was about 10:30 at night, and her friends were out on a mission. Velvet stayed behind because Cocco "didn't want her to get hurt". Velvet answered the call, and asked, "Who's there?" a deep voice replied, "Who is this?" Velvet was confused. "You called, shouldn't you know?" "You tell me. Who is this?" Velvet sighed and said, "Velvet. You?" "Who do you think?" Velvet looked at the number on her scroll. Again, she didn't recognize the number. "Cardin?" "Is that your guess?" Velvet sighed, "Look, I don't like games. Who are you, and why are you calling me?" There was a slight pause, before the person on the other end said, "Your killer." Velvet staggered back, before rushing to the doors and locking them. "Who are you, and why are you-" the person on the other line interrupted, "Why'd you lock the doors? You know, in movies, that never stops the killer anyways." Velvet stood there, appalled, before she started to slowly back away from the door. "I-I'm warning you, I-I can-" Velvet started stuttering. The man on the other line chuckled, "What's wrong, big-ears? Never felt a knife cut through your flesh and scrape the bone beneath...?" "You're sick!" Velvet screamed into the scroll and hung up, right before she turned around, and saw a man wearing black robes and a thin white ghost mask behind her. He held a knife high in the air in his right hand. Velvet screamed, as the man swung the knife down and stabbed her in the neck. Velvet fell to the ground, her aura doing nothing to help her. She felt her blood covering the floor beneath her, and she looked up, to see the man rip the knife out of her skin. She rolled over, the pain overwhelming her, and looked out the open window that the man undoubtedly must have climbed through to sneak up on her. It became hard to move, and Velvet saw the man hold the knife threateningly just above her forehead, slowly bringing it down to touch her skin. Velvet moved her arm with all her might, and swung her arm to hit the man in the side of his face. She didn't think it was much force, but it was apparently enough to knock the man over to the side. He rolled over on the ground, bumping into the bed next to him. He rubbed his head, clearly hurting, but Velvet could not possibly conceive of it being worse than her own. Velvet slowly started to crawl to the closed door in front of her. Maybe, just maybe she could escape! She crawled and crawled, and heard the *shink* of the knife, and with a final look at the knife above her, she closed her eyes as death overtook her.
Ruby woke from her sleep. Her team was already getting prepared for the day's classes. She yawned into her hand, and stepped out of bed, stretching her back before she started rummaging through her drawers for a change of clothes. She then heard Yang gasp, looking at her scroll. Ruby looked over to her sister, and saw terror in her eyes, her hand over her mouth. "Yang? What's wrong?" Yang dropped the device, and ran out of the room into the hallway, still dressed in her pajamas. "What happe-" Ruby then looked at the scroll, and her face mimicked her sister. There was a school alert: "Student killed last night". Ruby dashed after her sister, eventually catching up with her, and viewed the crime scene. There was police tape covering the dorm room of team CFYV. Well, now it was more like team CFY. There were guards outside the door, and a crying Cocco begging a guard to enter, her teammates holding her back from punching the man in the face for doing his job. Tears streamed down her face as she shouted, "LET ME SEE! I NEED TO GET IN THERE, WHOEVER DID THIS I'LL KILL THEM!" Ruby fell to her knees, this isn't happening...this isn't happening… She kept thinking to herself. Velvet was murdered last night.