Ruby woke up after being shaken by her sister, desperately trying to fight off her sleepiness she slapped her face with both of her hands. She heard a couple of giggles from the three girls in front of her. She looked away with a flustered look on her face.
Blake was the first to recover from her laughter and was very thankful that the little redhead didn't noticed her small blush.
After everyone packed up their essentials, they all moved into the cafeteria when they finished brushing their teeth. They sat down with Blake and Weiss sitting across from Ruby and Yang.
"Ruby, why do you only have cookies?" Weiss questionably looked at Ruby's plate then at the brunette.
"Why not?" She began eating the chocolate-chip cookies.
"It's just tha-" she stopped short after Yang shot her a glare. "-never mind."
Ruby was about to say something but her eyes traveled across the room being fixated on something. Everyone turned their heads in the direction of where she was looking only to lay their eyes on Professor Ozpin who was standing at the main door looking at the four. He waved them over, then walking out. The four quickly finished their meals and went outside, after the caught up to him Glynda arrived shortly after.
"Weiss Schnee, Ruby Rose, Yang Xiao Long, and Blake Belladonna, you all are being assigned a dorm." Glynda announced.
"Due to your actions yesterday, both Glynda and I have decided to move all of you into the same dorm room." Ozpin followed up.
All of them stood there dumbfounded, most of them knew how the dorm room choosing was random yet here they are being offered one, ahead of schedule even.
"I'll take that as a yes?" Opzin questioned, resulting in all of the girls to nod in union.
"Your room will be G17," Glynda sent each of them the room code to their scrolls, "All of your luggages should already be inside."
That being said both Ozpin and Glynda walked off towards the CCT tower.
"So... who wants to check out our room?" Ruby asked in a small tone.
Walking through the dorm felt off. Most of the students were being checked into rooms at the tower while Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang were already moving in. Their dorm room was comprised of six rooms, one main room connecting to each of the other rooms which were one bathroom and four small workshops. The main room had four beds and empty shelves while each of the workshops had tool racks and a small table in the center. Weiss and Blake began to unpack while Ruby moved into one of the workshops quickly settling in. Yang hung up posters, Blake filled up the empty shelves with various books and Weiss began settling in to the workshop opposite from Ruby's.
"I didn't know you enjoyed books," Ruby walked out of her workshop and stared at all the books Blake stacked on the shelves. "What kind of books do you like to read?"
"I love reading romance novels, otherwise I don't really have a preference." Blake placed a stack of books on a desk, realizing which book was on top she quickly snatched it and moved it away from Ruby's view.
"I like reading, especially fairy tales," She continued as she grabbed a metal case and moving it into her Workshop. That caught Blake's ears, she was about to ask Ruby if she wanted to go to the library sometime until Weiss started yelling.
"Yang! What did you do?!"
Not wanting to deal with the Ice Queen's wrath, both Ruby and Blake retreated into Ruby's Workshop closing the door behind them. Even with the door closed they can hear the muffled argument between the two. Blake looked around the small Workshop and was quite impressed of the redhead had done so far, she organized a small tool rack on the side, she set up three different tables that each had different parts of a massive weapon that she couldn't make out at the moment, and had set up a grinding stone in the back corner. She stopped looking around when the yelling outside suddenly stopped.
"Do you think they're finished?" Ruby said in a light voice.
"Maybe, should we check?"
The brunette nodded and they both walked towards the door. When they opened the door, both of them were shocked by the sight in front of them. Yang and Weiss stopped arguing and were caught kissing each other. Ruby ran out of the dorm room with Blake in tow while Yang was trying to apologize with Weiss blushing as dark as Ruby's surname.
After a couple of detours, Ruby and Blake arrived at the library. After chasing down Ruby and apologizing on the scroll, both Ruby and Blake decided to visit the library in hopes to try and forget today's event.
"Do you think they would have any fantasy books?" She peaked from one of the many bookshelves.
"I believe so, maybe it's on the second floor." Blake picked up a book, looked at it for a moment then placed back in the shelf.
"I don't know if it's on th-"
"Hey Red!" Someone called out from behind her. Ruby stood up straight, slightly terrified of why someone was calling to her.
Is it another bully? Did they come here for revenge? What do I do, what do I do?!
Before she could think the stranger stood in front of her. She was wearing sunglasses and a beret, with a handbag strapped on her shoulder.
"You're the one who helped the Faunus yesterday, right? She looked at her with an unwavering gaze, she slowly nodded afraid of what the older girl who do. She was slightly surprised when the she held out her hand, "Thank you for dealing with those idiots, Velvet got separated from us and we couldn't find her until your blond friend came by."
"It was no problem." She shook her hand with a firm grip, "I'm Ruby, what's your name?"
"The name's Coco, are you a student here?"
"Yes, I am," She tried to sound confident, "Are you also a new student?"
"I'm a third-year actually. I swear you new transfers get younger every year."
"Nope, I got enrolled two years early." She started twiddling her fingers.
"Really? Never heard of any student applying early."
"Hey Ruby, I found som-" Blake stopped a few feet away from Ruby and Coco holding a small book bag, "Who's your friend?"
"I'm Coco, i heard that you're also responsible for saving our bunny?" Coco held out her hand just as she did with Ruby.
"Ruby was the one who helped her, Yang and I arrived a while later after someone told us that she was in trouble."
"Well you helped out in the end, that's all that matters." Coco patted her on the shoulder, "Hey, maybe next time we could show them what it feels to be in the receiving end?"
Both Ruby and Blake chuckled in response with Blake being first to recover. "Sure, that would be quite a sight."
Coco gave a small wave before leaving the library, they both waved back and went back into the library in search of a couple more books.
"I really hope that Ruby doesn't act weird around us..." Yang picked up her tray from the counter.
"It's your fault that you started it." Weiss looked away with a flustered look on her face.
"Hey, in my defense I thought they left the room." She was about to sit down until something caught her eyes across the room. Weiss tried looking in where she was looking at but with no avail.
"What's wrong?" Weiss tapped Yang on the shoulder.
"Isn't that the guy from yesterday?" She pointed towards one of the far tables in the back where the blond boy was sitting with a redhead girl who were in a conversation with another guy with a pink streak in his hair and an orange-haired girl who was clinging his arm.
"Yeah, I believe so. Why d-" Weiss didn't get to finish as Yang dragged her across the cafeteria until they stood in front of their table.
"-so how are we going to divide the room and- oh, can I help you?" The blond turned towards their direction.
"Do you mind if we sit here?" She gestured towards the table.
"No-no it's fine. If you don't mind me asking but where were you guys during the registration earlier?"
"Registrations? For what?" Weiss sat down looking at the him.
"For our dorm rooms? The whole morning everyone was being assigned their rooms and their roommates." He replied back.
"But I thought-"
"We got our room early." Yang interrupted. "We were unpacking everything in the morning."
"Really?!" The orange-haired girl spoke up, "They gave you guys a room already?!"
"Y-yes we moved in already." Weiss suddenly taken aback by the orange girl's loudness.
"What room did are you all get?!"
"Nora behave."
"Sorry, but what room did you all get!"
"I think we got room G17." Yang pulled out her scroll for confirmation.
"Really, well it looks like we're neighbors!" Nora flashed her scroll showing the room number G16.
"That's nice, I'm Yang Xiao Long and this is Weiss Schnee." Who bowed in response to her name.
"I'm Jaune Ark, this is Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, and Lie Ren." He pointed to each of them as he introduced them.
"Who are your other roommates?" Pyrrha chimed in.
"They're Blake and my little sister Ruby Rose."
"Will we get to meet them?" Ren asked.
"Eventually, when they show up." Weiss grumbled.
They all sat quietly eating their lunches, until Nora finally broke the silence.
"Soooo, did yall hear about the sparring classes?"
"Aren't you suppose to bring your own custom weapon for those?" Jaune asked.
"Yep! My Magnhild and I are going to break some bones in there!" Nora placed a large metal case on the table covered in pink hearts and small lightning bolts.
"Nora no weapons on the table."
"Sorry Ren." Nora placed the case next to her feet, "So what are your guys weapons?"
"My weapon is a- hold on," Jaune pulled out his buzzing scroll and opened up the notifications, "Is it just me or does it seem that the White Fang is always on the news?"
"What do you mean?" Pyrrha looked at him with an eyebrow raised.
"It's just that, up until now we barely heard anything about the terrorist group."
"Yeah, it so bad that even the local police began investigating the Faunus living in the rural areas." Nora brought up.
"But aren't the White Fang a group of Faunus that are fighting for Faunus Rights?" Pyrrha looked at both of them with more confusion than before.
"The White Fang are just a bunch of liars, thieves, and murderers. A group of degenerates who focus on violence and murder rather than negotiating for peace."
Everyone turned towards the voice who spoke, only to see Weiss looking down on the table with a distraught look in her eyes.
"Weiss you okay there?" Yang looked at her with more concern than shock.
"I-I'm fine, sorry." Weiss turned away only to be pulled into a hug by Yang.
"There there," Yang patted her back. Weiss was about to say something but was stopped and enjoyed the comfort that she was in, until Ruby came over.
"Hey Weiss, hey Yang!" She sat down placing her tray of cookies on the table and took off her red hoodie, "Who are your new friends?"
"I'll explain later, Weiss and I are going to head back to the dorm."
"Alright, catch you later." She watched them both leave then turned towards the others, "So... hi?"
"You look a lot younger than I thought," Nora kept looking at Ruby with one of her eyebrows raised, "Are you using makeup? Or is it genetic? Ooh don't tell me, you have a secret way to make yourself look younger?!"
"Actually..." Ruby paused slightly before continuing on her story.
"They seem nice," Ruby and Blake were walking through one of the many gardens that Beacon provided, there weren't many students walking through the garden as most were setting up in the dorms at the moment leaving the black and red duo strolling through the empty garden. After lunch was over they waved their goodbyes and Blake showed Ruby the rest of the school that she couldn't see the day prior. "Who do you think maintains all these gardens? There are so many of them."
"I don't know, maybe we can ask one of the teachers tomorrow," Blake joked.
"Maybe," a buzzing sound interrupted the silence around them as Ruby scrambled to get her scroll from her pocket. She looked over the message and her eyes lit up as she read it. "I'm sorry Blake but I have to go."
"Why? What's wrong?"
"Something came in the mail for me," She pocketed her scroll and started to turned towards the dorms, "It was fun hanging out with you, maybe we can do it again sometime?!" She yelled as she started to run towards the dorms.
Blake watched the redhead ran off as she stood there feeling slightly depressed to see her leave. The feeling was short lived however as she felt someone lightly tap her shoulder from behind her.
"Hey kitty cat."
Blake turned around to see a another student who was wearing a shirt that revealed his abs and was waving his monkey tail from behind him. "It's nice to see you too Sun."
"Whatcha doing here? Shouldn't you be with your roommates unpacking in the dorms?"
"I could ask the same," Blake took a look around for any other students that were still in the garden. After checking again and happy that there weren't any she turned back to Sun, "It's been a while Sun, how's your roommates?"
'Oh they're nice, they don't mind me being a Faunus and all as well which is a plus." Sun looked around for any other students, "You know you don't need to wear that here." He pointed towards her bow.
"It's just a safety net, there are students here that are still racist towards us."
'Really? I thought that Beacon was a safe place for both humans and Faunus." Sun looked at her in dismay, "It's like wherever we go in the four kingdoms, there's nowhere that's safe for the Faunus."
"It doesn't help that the White Fang are becoming more active too," Blake's ears dropped slightly just mentioning that, "Do you, even think that we will ever be treated equally by the humans?"
"It's possible, I mean Sage said he saw a human girl yesterday that tried helping out another Faunus from bullies." Sun tried to brighten the mood.
Blake shot him a curious look with one eyebrow raised.
"It's true! Sage said he saw a young girl standing up for a Faunus the other day." Sun wasn't sure if the other Faunus actually believed him. Both of them stood there in awkward silence of a while, trying to change the topic Sun spoke up again, "Soo... when are you going to tell your roommates that you're a Faunus?"
"I-I don't know, I'm not sure if they like the Faunus or think that they're going to react poorly with it."
"Come on, it can't be that bad."
"I have a Schnee as a roommate Sun."
"I retract that previous statement." Sun quickly replied.
Blake looked at her scroll for the time, it's barely evening yet it looks as the rest of the upperclassmen are starting to head back to the dorm rooms.
"It's getting late, we should head back to our rooms."
"Yeah alright, it was nice catching up Blake."
"Likewise Sun, see you again sometime."
"You too! And stop acting like a loner sometimes, besides Weiss you have two other friends with you that you can get along with."
Blake nodded in reply before heading back towards the her room.
I wonder what they would think of me if they knew I was a Faunus?
Blake already saw Ruby helping out another Faunus, but she didn't know if was just in the moment or that she truly wasn't a Faunus hater. All of these thoughts however quickly stopped as she heard drilling from outside the room. With her additional ears or not the drilling was quite audible from inside the room, Blake swiped her scroll across the scanner and quickly stepped inside. The noise was coming from Ruby's workshop, Yang nor Weiss was in the room so it had to be Ruby who was working on something in there. She knocked on Ruby's door, and waited for a response. After a while with no response she knocked again slightly louder, she heard something fall behind the door and after a little bit the door opened with a familiar brunette peeking through.
"Oh hey Blake! Can I help you?"
"What's with the drilling?" Blake shot a curious look at her.
"Uh, just adding some attachments to my workshop. I promise that this is the only time that it will be this loud." She flashed a cheerful grin at Blake, "Is there anything else you need?"
"Two things actually. Where's Yang and Weiss?"
"I don't know, they weren't here when I got back." She looked around the room scanning to see if they left a note or not, "Maybe they went out for a stroll?"
"I'll ask them when they get back, and the last thing is- do you want- to go to the library again sometime?" Blake scratched the back of her head while nervously looking away from Ruby.
"Sure! Maybe we can find some more books that you like, alright nice talking to you Blake."
"You too Ruby," Blake watched her go back into her workshop and after a while the drilling continued. Blake walked over to her bed and slipped on her earbuds, trying to cancel out the loud noises that was echoing around the room.
How am I going to tell them, especially Ruby?
She looked back towards Ruby's workshop, she'll tell them when the time comes. Hopefully she'll be prepared to tell them by then, right?
"Do you think we should head back now Yang?" Weiss and Yang stopped near the cafe that they stopped at yesterday. "It's getting late and we start up classes tomorrow."
"Hey Weiss, 10 lien says that Ruby will ask out first." Yang looked at Weiss with a smug look while Weiss looked back at her in confusion.
"What are you talking about Yang? Ask who out first?"
"You'll know," Yang pulled out her scroll and looked at the time, "Yeahhh we should probably head back now."
"You're the one who dragged us both out here."
"I know."