A/N - Hi again, just want to say I hope you enjoy the story. Again this is my first time doing this and I'm enjoying it so I hope you do too. I'm not sure if I'll make a chapter each week, it may end up being every fortnight, due to work and stuff. Thank you and enjoy.
Disclaimer - I do not own RWBY.
Chapter 2 - Gift giving
Dreams. What's the purpose of them. Especially those that make absolutely no sense.
After the terribly interesting day Yang had and then falling asleep, she hoped for nice relaxing night. But her apparently 'tiny' brain gave her no choice in the matter. Her dreams were plagued with images of the many people she knew in beacon, all of which were covered with questions marks. While pushing through the many faces the message she received from the mysterious question mark was replayed over and over again. Never stopping, never slowing down. After finally reaching the last of the faces she was greeted by nothing but a blank picture which quickly engulfed her, tearing her out of the dream.
Yang, usually the last person to wake, and only after Ruby had shouted in her ear, shot straight up into very uncomfortable sitting position. As she did the covers flew off her and fell to the floor, leaving Yang upright in a state of panic. Covered in a cold sweat Yang quickly took in her surroundings, still unsure as to whether the dream was finally over. Realising that she was in her dorm, she tried to stop her heavy breathing and calm down before everyone else saw the state she was in. But much to her dismay, she woke up during the early hours of the morning when everyone was getting ready of lessons. This meant Ruby, Weiss and Blake were already awake and witnessed this sudden change in Yang's usual sleeping pattern. Well they would have if they weren't trapped under a duvet in that moment.
What a dream. No wait, nightmare. Damn. Haven't had one of those in ages. Wait how did I have a nightmare because of one stupid message.
Looking around the room she saw her roommates removing the last of the duvet. After everyone had freed themselves from capture, Ruby was the first to speak up.
"Yang, are you ok?"
"Huh, yeah sure. Just some wicked crazy dream that's all. Just made me jump." Yang exclaimed, still in a daze, trying to make the situation less embarrassing. But the cheery expression that usually plastered Yang's face was replaced by one containing a small amount of fear, which was just unnatural to the rest of the team.
"You know all this time I don't think I've ever seen you scared. Seeing your face like that kind of makes me feel like today's going to be a good day." Weiss said with a smug look on her face.
"Ha, Ha. Take a picture, it will last longer." Yang stated with a slight blush on her face from the embarrassment.
"You know what, I think I will." Weiss said while walking to the other side of the room smiling.
"Yang are you sure you're ok. That was the first time I've ever seen you have a nightmare." Blake asked finally deciding to join the conversation.
"Look, guys I'm fine seriously. Right let's just get read-"
*Flash*
A large blinding light filled the room. Shielding her eyes she waited for the flash to dissipate. After her eyesight was back to normal she was graced with the view of a very happy looking Weiss holding up her scroll, with the back end pointed at Yang.
"And saved. Now I'm going to take a shower." Weiss said quickly running to the bathroom, knowing what was bound to come next.
"Oh no, you did not! You better delete that or I will break you apart ice queen!" Yang shouted. She got up, and jumped off the bed to quickly follow Weiss. Reaching the bathroom door, she started to pound the door, almost knocking it down. "You better get out here right now, or I will destroy this door and then you."
Ruby and Blake who had been laughing to this point quickly realised how fast everything thing had escalated and quickly tried to calm Yang down and pry her off the door.
"Hey Yang, don't worry we will make sure she deletes it once she's out of the shower. Don't worry ok. Just leave the door alone, we need it ok, and I don't think Glynda will want to spend her time repairing our room like she did the food hall." Ruby quickly interjected. After hearing Ruby's words she finally started to calm down and receded back into the room and to her bed.
"Ok, now that that's sorted, I'm going to check if team JNPR is up yet and then we can go to lesson together." Ruby stated with a triumphant look on her face, after her incredible feat of calming Yang down. Using her semblance she quickly dashed out of the room leaving behind her signature pile of rose petals.
But almost as quickly as she left, Ruby returned to the room, walking in slowly while holding a box that looked like it was wrapped in ribbon.
"Errrr, Yang. You got a... present. I think."
Getting off the bed, Yang slowly and wearily walked over to where Ruby was. Finally reaching her sister she took the present and gave it a little look over to try and figure out who sent it and what it was. The package was wrapped in a blue and yellow stripped gift wrap, and had a cream ribbon intricately wrapped around the box which was tied into a beautiful bow at the top. On the top of the present was a small tag hanging off the side. Flipping it over, the tag read 'To: Yang' with the From part left blank.
Yang quickly looked at her fellow teammates, hoping for some kind of reaction to the mysterious gift. After a short moment of silence, and getting no response from the ever so quiet Blake still engrossed in her book, or the hyperactive Ruby staring at Yang waiting for her to do something, she decided to open the present.
Making sure not to damage the item inside, Yang quickly ripped the paper off as fast as possible, since patience was not her strong suit. After the shredded paper had settled on the floor, Yang was left with a box which had a clear lid. What she could see in the box left Yang shocked and very confused.
Once she realised something interesting was happening, Blake decided to join in on the action and finally put her book down. Walking over to Yang and Ruby she noticed the young leader waving in Yang's face trying to get her to respond. As Blake reached the two sisters she finally saw what all the commotion was, and what had caused Yang to literally freeze on the spot. Inside the box was chocolate cut into the shape of a heart, which was covered in red and white icing. The words that were written across the chocolate caused her to stifle a small giggle. Across the top it had the words 'Yang and Neptune', and underneath was 'Together Forever' written even larger. Both phrases were written in white icing very elegantly. All in all it was a very professionally made cake.
As Yang stood there still frozen from the sudden shock, Ruby was still trying to wake her up having enlisted Blake's help to do so. While both members of the team were trying and failing to bring Yang back to her senses, Weiss had finally finished showering. Walking out of the bathroom, Weiss was graced with the sight of both Ruby and Blake shaking Yang, who was holding some sort of box. Walking over to the rest of her team to try and figure out what was going on, she finally noticed what was in said box. A wave of fury quickly engulfed Weiss, which caused both Ruby and Blake to back away as fast as possible.
Yang finally woke from her shock as a large wave of heat hit her. Wow, where did that come from. It's normally me who's the hot one. She quickly looked around the room to see what the situation had turned into. As she turned she first noticed a very afraid Ruby and as usual a cool and calm looking Blake slowly backing away from her. As she was about to ask what was going on she was interrupted by another burst of heat and some very stern words from Weiss.
"How could you!"
Wow, the ice queen is really burning up. I never thought it was possible. How could I? How could I what?
Snapping back to reality she was faced with a very tiny and furious princess.
"How could you!"
"Wait, what did I do?" Yang quickly pleaded, trying to keep the ice queen from exploding. As she stood there she saw Weiss quickly look down then back up. Following Weiss's movement, she finally realised what all the fuss was about.
"You know I like him, how could you. What, once you heard he broke up with me, you just go after him yourself!" Weiss shouted. While this was going on Blake had quietly crept back to her bed, sat down and took out her book again. But, every so often she would take a peak to see how far the conversation had escalated. Ruby stood there trying her hardest to calm Weiss down but with no luck, as nothing was going to bring the ice queen out of her rage.
"Woah, Woah hold on there ice queen. Look he asked me out, but I said-"
"What, so you said yes, even though we only just broke up!" Weiss quickly interrupted Yang, letting her rage get the better of her.
At the fear of Weiss attacking someone, Yang quickly put the gift down and grabbed a hold of Weiss's shoulders.
"Weiss, listen. He asked me out, yes. But I said no, ok. I would never do that to a friend ok, and you know he's not even that great, I mean the reasons why he asked me out were just stupid."
"Really" Weiss said looking up at Yang with slight tears in her eyes. Realising that the situation was in hand, she took her hands of Weiss's shoulders and let out a well deserved sigh. As she relaxed she noticed Ruby sitting on her bed looking down at the floor with a sad looking expression on her face.
I wonder what's got her all upset. I'll ask her after Weiss finishes rambling.
Returning back to the conversation, Yang was met with a slightly blushing Weiss going on and on about how much she liked Neptune.
"-so even though he broke up with me I still kind of like him. I mean he's so cool and calm. Oh and he has such a great smile-"
Dust, I've never heard her talk so much. I hope this doesn't go on much longer. Trying to get away from the conversation again she looked back around the room. First she was met with Blake, still reading her book like nothing had happened over the last few minutes. Continuing around the room she noticed Ruby still hunched over, depressed, even more so than before.
What is wrong with her. She only started getting upset once Weiss started talking about Neptune. Does she like Neptune perhaps. Although I don't think I've ever heard her mention him, like ever. So why is she so...Ohhh...Really of all the people to fall for she falls for the ice queen. Looks like I'm going to have to have the talk with my dear sister.
At this new revelation into her sisters life, she was quickly interrupted by Weiss dashing out of the room.
"I'm going to go find Neptune and sort this mess out." Weiss exclaimed before shutting the door.
Before she could say anything in response to the most likely terrible idea, Weiss had already vanished.
Several minutes later Weiss returned with Neptune in tow. Neptune looking completely confused by the situation, but all became clear after he saw the heart shaped chocolate.
"Ok, I did not send you that. After everything that happened yesterday, why would I do something as embarrassing as that." Neptune stated trying to regain his composure as Weiss, Yang and Ruby all stared at him.
"Oh that's good. So who sent it then?" Weiss quickly asked after a short sigh of relief. While all this commotion was going on team JNPR all peered around the still open door to see what was going on, before quietly entering.
Now with everyone in the conversation, even Blake rose from her book to join in, the discussion turned into figuring out who the sender was. Yang ended up standing in the middle of the room being bombarded with tonnes of suggestions. Some said it was probably some students who saw Yang yesterday and was pulling a prank on her. Others still thought it was Neptune, but he just didn't want to admit it. A few suggestions were that it was some of their friends pulling the prank on her. Nora was still stuck on the idea of it being sloths that sent the chocolate for some weird reason.
While this was going on Ruby had broken out of her somewhat sad state, rose and walked over to the very unprotected and tasty looking chocolate. Slowly opening the box while everyone was distracted, she reached in to break a piece of the chocolate off. Pulling it out she noticed the piece was a lot heavier than she thought. Looking at the chocolate she took she realised she had a whole half of the chocolate heart in her hand. Thinking nothing of it she took a bite. Although at that moment she hadn't noticed the silence that had engulfed the room.
"Wow, that tastes amazing." Ruby squealed with excitement at the amazing flavour of the chocolate. As she spoke she turned around to see the rest of her friends staring at her with disbelieve.
"What it is. It's not my fault it tastes amaz-" Ruby was cut off half way in her statement as a new taste to the chocolate made itself known. The sweet, sweet taste of burning chillies. Hot and spicy food was not Rubies forte, which was easy to see when her face turned red and she began, coughing and hiccupping trying to find something to drink.
"Wat- *hiccup*-er, *cough* need some water. *cough* Quickly it's really ho- *hiccup*-t. Someone please." Ruby pleaded in and amongst the hiccups and with tears in her eyes.
Quickly running out of the room, Pyrrha grabbed a glass of water from the kitchen and hurried back to team RWBY's dorm. After Ruby gulped down the last of the drink, she sat on the edge of the bed hunched over with both Blake and Pyrrha, sitting next to her trying to calm her down. Yang left quickly after seeing Ruby struggle with the heat and returned with more drinks for her to help ease the heat.
After Ruby thanked Blake, Pyrrha and her sister. Yang ventured over to the piece of chocolate that was still left in the box. Said piece was the right half of the heart, with one side of it being a jagged edge.
That jagged side looks like it was cut cleanly. Like it was meant to be broken. But why make a broken piece of chocolate.
Looking to the other half of the box, where the recently deceased left side of the chocolate used to reside, the letter 'u' was at the top, with 'eaker' in the middle and another 'u' at the very bottom. There was also part of a curved line that ran through the part with 'eaker'. Quickly realising the rest of the message was hidden under the other slice of chocolate, she took the last piece out. She was now left with the full message that read, 'You heartbreaker you', with a question mark drawn underneath the whole phrase.
What the-, ohh. Sure why not. Why wouldn't it be the new annoyance in my life, I mean it was bad enough they messed with me at the start and now my friends too. So, should I tell everyone else about the question mark. Wait no, terrible idea Yang, I wouldn't hear the last of it if Weiss saw the message on my scroll. Once she realises that's what was annoying me yesterday, she'll use it as blackmail or something in some way or another. The amount of terrible puns she'll try to use about it. Yang shivered at the thought of Weiss getting one up on her.
"Ohhh, there was a hidden message. Know what it means?" Nora said excitedly jumping up and down next to Yang, almost knocking the other piece of chocolate out of her hand.
"Well since they made it look like it was from Neptune, I guess it's about Yang saying no to him." Weiss stated with a slight smile, now knowing for sure Neptune was in the clear.
"Well at least we know it was some sort of prank, and not Neptune trying to fulfil some hopeless infatuation with me. No offense Neptune." Yang joked, trying not give away that she knew who actually sent the gift.
"None taken. Everything's cool Yang." Neptune said with his signature smile.
At Neptune's final comment, thankful it was over, everyone started to slowly leave the room still chatting about the events that had just occurred. The only people left in the room was team RWBY. Blake had quickly moved back to her bed once everyone had started to leave, and quickly took out her book and started reading, yet again. Wow that girl needs a new hobby. Weiss moved over to her desk and started to look at her notes for an up and coming test. Ruby had finally regained her composure after the life threatening piece of chocolate, and having to listen to Weiss fawning over Neptune. While everyone got back into their usual daily routine, Yang stood next to the box still holding the piece of chocolate, relieved that everything was finally over. Noticing it starting to melt, most likely due to her semblance, she took a bite out of the chocolaty heart.
Wow that is good. The chilli has a really nice kick to it too. I love it. Now all I need to know is who made the damn thing.
Buzz.
Noticing her scroll go off, Yang placed what was left of the heart back into the box and grabbed a couple of tissues to get rid of the sticky melted chocolate from her hands.
Dust, I bet its Nora with some stupid idea as to who sent the box. Probably something to do with a sloth again, or maybe pancakes this time.
Pulling out her phone she saw who the message was from. Dreading what the new message was going to say she reluctantly opened it.
'I hope you got my present, I made it just for you. A fiery treat for a fiery girl. I really hope it didn't cause too much of a problem between you and your friends, I just didn't know whose name to put on the chocolate. Then since it was a heart and all, it only made sense to put your boyfriends name down. But it seems like it wasn't meant to be, such a shame. Also I hope Ruby feels better soon, having a one sided crush is never a good way to live, especially when that crush already has her eyes on someone else. So, the way I see it, maybe someone should really tell Weiss how Ruby feels, to give her a push and get them together, before it's too late. But it could also end up destroying their friendship forever, and that's the beauty of it, who knows what will happen. Now I don't know about you, but don't worry, I definitely won't tell a soul. Yet.'
Standing there her eyes slowly changed into a furious red, and her hair heated up. The chocolate also quickly melted due to the sudden heat change.
Oh, no way. They had better not mess with my sister. If they do-
Buzz
Surprised at a second message and losing her train of thought, she quickly opened it up to read its most likely annoying contents.
'But now back to the game at hand, it doesn't seem your trying very hard to figure out who I am. So I am going to give you a hint, because obviously you don't have enough intelligence to win at a child's game. Also I'm feeling generous, so let's cut the number of guess's in half shall we. So I want you to take your boyfriends gender, then add 'f' and 'e' on the front. I hope it's not too hard for you to figure out what it spells. Now try not to get too stressed out, I don't want you to start getting wrinkles on that pretty face of yours. You may stop attracting guy's attentions if you did, and we can't have you feeling all alone with no one to love you now can we. All that said and done I think you need to get some rest after having such a strenuous day, then tomorrow we shall continue this conversation, and you may get to ask me some questions as well. But that doesn't mean my answers are all going to be true though. Bye for now, blondie.'
Wait, it's been a girl messing with me all this time. What a b-,no calm down Yang. If you keep getting angry, everyone's going to notice and start asking questions. Questions I probably don't want to or can't answer.
After deciding enough was enough Yang put her scroll down and headed to her bed. She then quickly passed out from keeping her anger pent up inside her and drifted off into a hopefully peaceful slumber. A slumber that kept her from seeing a flash of light on the rooftop opposite their dorm room.
I'll deal with her tomorrow. Then finally I'll get some answers.
