Dealing with school and a grumpy Weiss, Ruby didn't have time the rest of the week to play the game.
Once the weekend rolled around she was more than ready to do a little mine diving with team JNPR and bumblebee. Before she could sit down at her computer though Weiss approached her.
"We should go shopping." She demanded.
"But I don't need anything and shouldn't spend any money I don't have to." Ruby said.
"Fine! If you don't want to go you should just say so! I'll go by myself then." Weiss snapped and stormed off.
"Jeez, what crawled up her butt and died?" Yang said from her spot on the bed with her back to her partner.
"I don't know." Ruby sighed.
"Have you tried talking to her about it?" Blake asked.
"Yeah, more than once but she won't talk to me." Ruby said, troubled. She was starting to see what Roman meant.
"I hope she cools off." Yang said, shaking her head.
"I don't think she could get any colder..." Ruby said, sitting down at her computer and logging on. She was the last to arrive, it seemed.
CookieHuntress joined the game.
Gamerdude: Awesome, the gang's all here!
LEGBREAKER: YES NOW WE CAN GO AND DO THE STUFF
LotusHuntsman: where should we all meet up?
LeaveMeAlone: I think Ruby's tree house is most central.
DeepestApology: Sounds like a plan then!
TheGreatOz has left the game.
Gamerdude: Lets go team! To the tree house!
TheGreatOz joined the game.
Gamerdude was blown up by creeper.
Gamerdude: Ren don't even.
LotusHuntsman: I told you so.
DeepestApology: Don't worry I grabbed all your gear!
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING PLAYING THAT GAME?" Weiss yelled at Ruby, giving the poor leader a mini heart attack.
"I'm playing it for fun like everyone else!" Ruby snapped back, unable to keep her cool this time.
"Why are you yelling at me?" Weiss asked, as if Ruby was completely in the wrong.
"Because, Weiss, you've done nothing but boss me around and be rude to me lately! I don't know what I did to upset you but if you don't tell me I can't fix it!" Ruby shot back.
"Hmf!" Weiss huffed, insulted and turning her back. "I honestly don't know what you are talking about. Your the one with the problem!"
Again Weiss stormed out of the room.
Ruby sighed heavily and turned back to the game, her mood much poorer then it was. She scrolled up the conversations to see if she missed anything.
DeepestApology: Don't worry I grabbed your gear!
Gamerdude: Thanks...
SunDragonofAwesome: It's this way right?
LeaveMeAlone: No Yang over here.
SunDragonOfAwesome: Oh! Ok, I see it now.
DeepestApology: Here's your stuff back.
GamerDude: Thanks.
TheGreatOz has left the game
LEGBREAKER: WHY IS IT YOU CAN'T HAVE THEIR BOWS WHEN YOU KILL THEM?
LotusHuntsman: It's a rare drop.
LEGBREAKER: BUT I WANNA SHOOT THINGS! IN THE KNEES!
SunDragonOfAwesome: Nora, you did not just make that reference.
LEGBREAKER: I MADE ALL THE REFERENCE
LeaveMeAlone: No.
Gamerdude: Ruby hellooooow I'm jumping up and down right in front of you here!
SunDragonOfAwesome: Weiss is yelling at her.
Gamerdude: Oh, that's what all the noise is.
TheGreatOz has joined the game.
LEGBREAKER: AWW I FOUND A DOGGY
LotusHuntsman: give it a bone. You got one from the skeleton right?
LEGBREAKER: HE FOLLOWS ME NOW!TheGreatOz has left the game.
Gamerdude: And if you feed him rotted flesh you can heal him without making him horny.
LEGBREAKER: ...
DeepestApology: ...
SunDragonOfAwesome: ...
LeaveMeAlone: ...
LotusHuntsman: ...
CookieHuntress: Juane no.
Perverted jokes out of the way the group was ready to go. They decided to wander east, as none of them had been that way yet. They were soon rewarded by tall trees with trailing vines in bright greens.
CookieHuntress: Cocoa beans...
LEGBREAKER: KITTTIIIEEEESSSS
LotusHuntsman: oh god.
LeaveMeAlone: Yang, we are getting vines.
Gamerdude: Oh my.
SunDragonOfAwesome: Jaune. No.
TheGreatOz Joined the game.
TheGreatOz was slain by zombie.
DeepestAplolgy: Ooo melons.
Gamerdude: Oh my...
TheGreatOz: Jaune, no.
TheGreatOz left the game.
CookieHuntress: Come on guys! We are almost there!
Gamerdude: I'm going to conquer all these trees.
DeepestApology: I'll pick up your gear!
Once in the jungle they started searching for what they each wanted, Blake and Yang collecting vines, not on trees with cocoa beans though. Ren found a pond and started fishing.
Nora... Nora terrorized the Ocelot population.
Ruby started collecting as many cocoa beans as she could find.
Jaune failed at climbing.
Gamerdude fell from a high place.
CookieHuntress: I'm gonna make sooo many cookiess~
LEGBREAKER: YOU GONNA SHARE?
LeaveMeAlone: Nora, theres more kitties.
Gamerdude was slain by skeleton
LEGBREAKER: I AM ON MY WAY NOW
LotusHuntsman: Nora, come here. Take these fish.
LotusHuntsman: good, now hold the fish in your hand, sneak over to the kitties and wait. Try not to look directly at them though.
LEGBREAKER: OK!
LEGBREAKER: DO I NEED TO COOK THE FISH?
LotusHuntsman: No, they like them raw.
Gamerdude: Like they like their women?
LotusHuntsman: ... no.
Gamerdude fell from a high place.
SunDragonOfAwesome: I think we should make these vines into a net so Jaune can stop dying.
LeaveMeAlone: He'd still find a way to die.
Gamerdude: Hey!
Gamerdude fell to his death.
LeaveMeAlone: My case in point.
Suddenly there was loud screaming coming from the room across the hall, Ruby and the other quickly realizing it was Nora.
LEGBREAKER: FNREAIGVAEI;GVHUA;IORGRIOAGIOJER;GHGRHIGRIHGRIHGHGR
LEGBREAKER: REFEJFKFIHRGEOGJRIGTHFHGHGRGIEEIJGTRR!JIOFEAUG904F9340
LEGBREAKER: IT TURNED INTO A PUSSY CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
That was followed by a loud thump as Nora fell out of her chair.
LotusHuntsman: someone please help, my partner is insane.
Gamerdude: Wow, I had no idea.,mkljuhiygf
There was another crash as Juane unexpectedly joined Nora in the floor with an, "Ahhgg!"
"Sorry! I knew what you were going to say!" Pyrrha's voice followed.
SunDragonOfAwesome: Oh common Ren, we all know you love her.
LotusHuntsman: I'm in love with a mad woman.
CookieHuntress: Guys it's getting dark...
LEGBREAKER: YOU LOVE ME?
LotusHuntsman: Well that's not a thing I just go around telling everyone...
There was another crash in JNPR's room.
In game, Blake walked over to Ren's avatar and put him in a box of leaves, Yang did the same for Nora before climbing into a tree with Ruby.
Pyrrha made a box of melons to hide Juane then used them to build herself out of range of mobs.
And they settled in to wait out the night this way.
SunDragonOfAwesome: Juane, I swear if you make jokes about melons I will come over there and you will wish it was Pyrrha who hit you.
Gamerdude fell to his death.
Everyone stared at their screens in disbelief.
"Only Jaune." Ruby sighed out loud.
Gamerdude: I got bored. I broke the rule, never mine under yourself...
TheGreatOz has joined the game.
TheGreatOz: Is everyone done being perverted?
DeepestAplolgy: Juane is still playing so maybe not, I'm sorry.
SunDragonOfAwesome: He has died quite a lot though, it's been very satisfying.
TheGreatOz: Good.
Gamerdude: OHHH MY GAWD YOU GUYS ARE SO MISSING THIS!
CookieHuntress: Do we wanna know?
Gamerdude: Nora tackled Ren, has him pinned to the floor and is just like, bonking her face on his and rubbing him like a cat does!
Gamerdude: ! and his face... his face is the color of a tomato! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahhahaha!
TheGreatOz has left the game.
Juane's laughter was audible from the other room.
DeepestAplolgy: Guys, I'm a little worried, hes not moving...
SunDragonOfAwesome: I'm sure he's just enjoying it.
DeepestApology:... um... okie.
CookieHuntress: And so that day was the last we ever saw of our friend Ren. Whom was killed by his love with too much love.
DeepestApology: Oh good he moved. Rens still alive everyone!
Gamerdude: he moved alright, rolled and pinned her and kissed her! Like a boss. And he's returning to the game now.
CookieHuntress: Oh good, the sun is coming up.
LotusHuntsman: Did you really need to tell team RWBY all that?
LeaveMeAlone: I'm kinda glad Ozpin logged out when he did.
Gamerdude: It's more like team RBY, Weiss isn't playing so..
LotusHuntsman: Can we trade leaders? Maybe you girls could teach Juane how to keep a secret or at least his mouth shut?
SunDragonOfAwesome: No, you cannot have our RubyOAwesome. We might consider trading him for Weiss though.
Gamerdude: Hey!
CookieHuntress: Aww, thanks!
It was a 'speak of the devil' moment as Weiss picked just then to return.
"You totally missed out Ruby, they had all the best sales on today! There was even a shop selling cloaks like yours!" Weiss said.
"I could say the same to you though, Juane couldn't stop being-" Ruby was saying but Weiss cut her off.
"I don't care."
Ruby turned back to her computer without another word.
CookieHuntress: See anymore cocoa beans anywhere guys?
LotusHuntsman: No, I think you got them all.
Ruby pretended she didn't see Yang's worried glance.
The room was quiet other than the sound of clicking keyboards and mouses.
DeepestApology: This has been a very eventful trip!
SunDragonOfAwesome: You can say that again!
With that everyone made the trip back to their respective bases and arranged their items.
Gamerdude: We are gonna go out and get a bite to eat, you girls wanna come with?
SunDragonOfAwesome: I'm down with that.
LeaveMeAlone: Sounds good.
Gamerdude: Ruby?
CookieHuntress: I think I'll pass, thanks though.
Gamerdude: You sure?
CookieHuntress: yeah.
LEGBREAKER has left the game.
Gamerdude: ok.
LotusHuntsman has left the game.
LeaveMeAlone has left the game.
DeepestApology has left the game.
Gamerdude has left the game.
SunDragonOfAwesome has left the game.
Bumblebee shut off their laptops, stood and stretched before heading for the door. Yang Paused in front of Weiss though. "I don't know what your problem is but I suggest you either work it out or stop taking it out on my sister. Understand?"
"There isn't a problem." Weiss snapped and returned to what she was doing.
Yang stomped off before doing something she might regret.
"You sure you don't wanna come with?" Blake asked.
"Yes." Ruby sighed. "I'm not hungry."
Bumblebee left with team JNPR.
Ruby stared unseeing at her computer screen which still showed the game she was now alone in.
Weiss continued pulling tags and putting away her new clothes, yet the tension was heavy once again. Ruby found herself wanting to be somewhere else, anywhere else. She didn't understand why Weiss had suddenly started acting this way towards her and she was quickly not wanting to be around anyone.
Ruby logged off the game, got up and headed for the door.
"Where are you going?" Weiss demanded.
Ruby didn't hold back the sour look. "None of your business Ice Queen."
Weiss gave her a shocked, almost pained look but at this point Ruby no longer cared and left without another word.
Ruby took off out of the dorm at a quick walk, angry, hurt, and not sure what to do about it. Her eyes were almost glued to the ground as she walked and thought, trying to work something out in her head. As she thought about things her pace slowed down, she wasn't sure where she was but she didn't care either. She should have at least been watching where she was going though for she bumped right into someone, causing both to fall.
"Hey! Watch it!" Came Cardin's voice.
"Oh, sorry..." Ruby said, starting to stand.
Cardin was on his feet faster though and pulled her up, remaining closer than she'd like.
"I'll forgive you if you give me a lil kiss." he said, pulling her closer.
"Forget it!" She said, trying to wiggle away, but with her head already a mess she couldn't think to break his hold just yet.
"Something had to be on your mind for you to be sulking like that. Is that little Schnee girl giving you problems?" He asked, not letting go.
Ruby froze. Were things so obvious that even a self-centered jerk like this had noticed?
"How bout you go out with me tonight, eh? I'll make you forget all about her." he said.
Ruby really didn't like him or his tone or his controlling attitude. With a twist of her body and use of her semblance she was free of Cardin's hold in a cloud of rose petals. Once she was a comfortable distance she stopped and turned to face him.
"First off, no. Second - No. and third, no. Also, if you want to pick up girls, holding them against their will is not the way to do it. So, while the answer will not only always be no, but not ever ever. You might wanna be less of a meanie jerkface!" With that Ruby took off into town, not wanting to get attacked without her weapon on her.
