Chapter 1: The Drama Begins!
For the past week Ruby had been jumpy. It was strange behavior for the normally peppy girl, and honestly her teammates were beginning to worry. They missed the old ruby, the one who convinced them to get bunk beds so they wouldn't have to throw some stuff out, the one who thought cat ears were kinda cute, the one who yang believed would never work up the guts to admit to having a crush on a certain someone, and whenever said person was brought up with the subject of "confessing" would act like a smitten preschooler...
Ok that last one sounded kinda like an insult (and seems strangely familiar), but you get the point!
It all started about a week ago...
The team had just gotten back from a certain mission, and where just now recovering from the events that had transpired a few weeks ago. (The breach had been a big deal, and the team had been worried about their leader...who had been caught by the enemy, but seemed fine) Then Ruby started acting "off", and claiming that someone had taken the cookies she had made before they left. Obviously her team denied it, and while she had accused them of the act, she quickly dropped it due to their alibis.
However, that just caused her to blame Team JNPR, or more specifically, everyone but the leader. (as Ruby claimed he wouldn't do it)
What followed was a ridiculous interrogation that ended with said team being rather annoyed with the girl, and said girls own team followed (however, one member in particular began to grow rather worried). Regardless, the matter was dropped, but not forgotten.
A few days later it (apparently) happened again, and once again ruby was freaking out. However, by this point both her own team, and Team JNPR just to ignored her.
In retrospect, Yang should of seen the events that followed coming from a mile away. Maybe then she could of saved her...
Ruby Rose was the leader of Team RWBY for a reason. That reason wasn't because she was a talented little girl surrounded by people much older than her, nor was it because she was adorable. It was because she was a natural, and now this natural leader was mad!
She wasn't sure who, but someone (or something) had been stealing her cookies. When she first started noticing she thought nothing of it, it was likely just one of her teammates taking a few for themselves. Then she was missing the entire jar, and now she wanted answers!
Admittedly accusing her teammates, and friends wasn't the smartest thing to do, but she had been angry at that point, and not thinking clearly. Now she only felt guilty. She hadn't trusted her friends when push came to shove, and now they were avoiding her. She vowed to fix this somehow, but first came the task of solving this mystery!
("but where do I start?") she thought. Ruby was alone in the room, having been "ditched" by her teammates. It was likely because of her actions , not like she could blame them. While it gave her room to think, it also made her feel even worse. It was lonely being alone. ("I can't think that way now, it's the cookie thief's fault!") she reasoned. Suddenly realization hit her like a tone of bricks, and she decided to make her way to the only person she was sure would know what to do, but paused.
("I can't ask for help on this.") she thought, ("I have to do this on my own, otherwise nothing will change!") with her mind made up she returned to her previous position in the room, and relaxed. She would figure this out on her own. There was no need to trouble others for her failures. With a new found resolve, Ruby Rose planned her next move. Her counter attack began now!
Meanwhile, her teammates were doing their own things as opposed to the rational thing, such as realizing there was something wrong. Regardless, they were conveniently doing these "things" together.
What were these things you ask?
Why it was an intervention in the cafeteria, and they were discussing their current problem while eating the special of the day.
"She's just over-reacting, that dunce always does things like this." Weiss reasoned "If we ignore her she'll come to her senses, and apologize. There's no need to do anything."
"I hope you're right..." Blake muttered "at least she stopped digging though the laundry." she added, but her eyes never left her book.
"I don't know, I just have this bad feeling..." Yang muttered "Like if we don't do something now, it'll escalate into something beyond our control..."
"You're over thinking it." Weiss reassured her "besides, what can that dunce possible do that's as bad as this?"
"I suppose you're right." Yang agreed
"I know I am, now then let's get started on that homework!" Weiss began "We can deal with the Ruby insanity problem after midterms!" She finished, and the other two agreed. They'd deal with it later.
With that the window of opportunity closed.
A few days had passed sense then, and Ruby seemed to have forgotten all about the cookie incident. This pleased her teammates, but they decided that she needed to learn her lesson, and went their own ways to study. Perhaps they would have realized something was up had they stayed?
Perhaps it would of made what was to come less of a drag?
"So it took the bait again did it?" Ruby muttered as she wrote down what she had gathered from the recent incident. It seemed like whoever/whatever this was knew how to sneak into her teams room, and make off with a pot of cookies without alerting them of it's presence (Those pots were expensive!) Knowing this it was safe to assume that she was dealing with a professional.
"A professional huh?" she said it aloud to make sense of it, and realized what this would have implied.
"I see, so a professional." she muttered "and that could only mean one thing."
"I can't be the only victim!"
A/N: Edited a bit before I post the next chapter, I wonder if anyone saw this coming~
