Team RWBY were having a quiet afternoon in their room. Yang was listening to her favourite band, The Achieve Men. Blake was reading her newest book in silence, in her own little world. Weiss was polishing Myrtenaster and checking the Dust chamber within it. Ruby, however, was laying on her stomach, on her bed, bored out of her mind. She gave a quiet yawn as she gazed off into space, trying to think of something to engage her mind. Suddenly, a buzz came from her pocket as her Scroll began vibrating. Taking it out of her pocket, she pressed the button to open it and answered the call.
"Hello?" Ruby greeted, careful not to make her voice too loud. To Weiss and Blake, the voice on the line was too muffled to hear, while Yang couldn't hear anything but her music.
"Oh, hey! …Yeah, I've been good, how about you?" Ruby engaged in the conversation as she shifted her body onto her back to get more comfortable. Weiss and Blake began to grow slightly curious as to who was calling, but remained silent out of respect for Ruby's privacy.
"Business' been slow, then? …Aw, that sucks. I'm kinda bored too. …Yeah, everyone else is just kinda doing their own thing." Ruby said, a bit of dullness in her voice, showing how bored she was. Weiss and Blake grew ever more curious as Yang took off her headphones and realised that Ruby was on the Scroll.
"…Yeah, we could totally hang out! I don't have any lessons and if we stay out of everyone's way, we'll be fine. We could check out Vale! I've been meaning to since I got to Beacon!" Ruby grew more and more excited at the proposition, causing the curiosity within her teammates to peak.
"Yeah, you wouldn't get a chance to sightsee, would you? …Yeah, just come to my room and we'll go when you get here. …You won't make a mess, will you? …Oh, alright, cool. …See you!" Ruby ended the call excitedly as she jumped off of her bed finally realising the three sets of eyes on her.
"Who was that?" Yang asked. Suddenly, a strange, black, glowing pentagram appeared on the floor of the room next to Ruby.
"Well, speak of the reaper…" Ruby said under her breathe before in a flash of black light, Aura appear in all of his leather-clad glory. Causing every girl in the room to jump a foot in the air. Yang, Weiss and Blake out of shock, Ruby out of delight.
"Aura!" Ruby exclaimed as she thrusted her arms into the air.
"Hello, Ruby. Are you ready?" Aura asked, causing Ruby to nod happily and the rest of Team RWBY to take on a look of shock.
"This is the one you were talking to?!" Weiss exclaimed with a hint of disgust.
"…Yes, Weiss. He was the one I was talking to." Ruby replied levelly, standing her ground. Aura awkwardly began to back away to stay out of their way. As Ruby and Weiss began to argue on Ruby's taste in friends, Yang got off of her bed and stood next to Aura as the two watched the two shorter girls argue.
"…Yeah… Weiss doesn't like ya." Yang said, stating the obvious.
"I figured. What about you?" Aura asked. Yang seemed to contemplate her answer before replying.
"Well… There is a part of me that's just scared and wants to break your bones. …If you had bones." Yang said.
"Oh, I can make bones." Aura said, interrupting her thought.
"…Wait, really?" Yang asked, suddenly interested. Aura suddenly covered his body with a flash of azure light before it dissipated. Aura then removed his hood to reveal that he'd actually given himself a skeletal body. He looked over to Yang as she stared back.
"How do I look?" Aura asked, his new jawbone moving as he spoke. There was no doubt in Yang's mind that he truly looked like the Grim Reaper now. But, she also knew that there was only one thing that she could possibly say.
"Heavier." Yang said.
"'Heavier'?" Aura asked in confusion.
"Yeah. At least a skele-ton heavier!" Yang said with a wide grin, causing Ruby, Weiss and Blake to facepalm in complete unison.
"Dust, damn it, Yang!" Weiss exclaimed, disgusted at the pun.
"I thought it was okay." Aura said casually. Everyone looked slightly shocked at Aura's new body, but his statement about Yang's pun was, surprisingly, more shocking to them. Even Yang looked surprised, albeit more pleasantly surprised.
"You're kidding." Blake said, more of a statement than a question.
"Oh, come now. Who doesn't enjoy some friendly… ribbing?" Aura said with emphasis on the last word as he ran his finger along his cloak, where his ribs were. Yang's eyes seemed to sparkle as everyone else groaned and had to stop themselves from slapping their faces.
"…Nevermind. You're cool. Mind if I head to Vale with you guys?" Yang said excitedly as she draped her arm over Aura's shoulders in a friendly manner.
"As long as you don't make any more puns, then fine." Ruby said, recovering from the puns.
"Oh, come now, Ruby. There's no need to… punish you sister so." Aura said with a distinct smirk in his voice. Ruby groaned as Yang laughed. Aura began to walk out the door, but was pulled back by Yang.
"You're not going out wearing that!" Yang exclaimed. Aura looked down at his leather robe, silently wondering what was wrong with it.
"He can't go out looking like he was picked clean by a butcher!" Weiss exclaimed.
"Oh, come on, Weiss. Weird things happen all the time. I'm sure he won't attract too much attention." Ruby said as Yang was flicking through some kind of magazine with Aura looking at it.
"And what if he does? What kind of person is going to look at… him… and think he's normal?" Weiss hesitated on the word 'him', careful not to agitate Ruby by saying something else. Suddenly, there was a flash of azure light, causing Ruby and Weiss to turn their attention to the source. Aura was now wearing a pair of black jeans, a black hooded jacket, a black, buttoned, military-style jacket with the buttons undone and a pair of black boots. He placed a black soft cap on the top of his skull and a pair of leather gloves over his bony hands.
"This should cover me up from at least passing glances, right?" Aura said.
"Since when was that something you could do?" Weiss asked.
"You've only known me for a day, Miss Schnee. I can do a lot of things." Aura said as he began to walk out of the room, Yang and Ruby in tow. The words seemed to replay in Weiss' mind. Her curiosity seemed to grow inside her about Aura's apparent 'many' abilities.
'This could be interesting.' Weiss thought to herself.
Would have been done sooner, but I watched the season finale of RWBY halfway through writing this.
…I kinda lost my drive a bit. My heart could barely take it…