A/N: Greetings community! I hope you enjoy this next chapter. I had a lot of fun writing this one, and it is my favourite so far.
The school day had come to an end and the group of hunters-in-training were headed to the cafeteria, after working up an appetite. On the way, they where greeted by team CFVY whom had just left Dr. Oobleck's class. Naturally this meant that the four second years were all bored out of their minds.
"Hey guys!" Ruby waved energetically, practically bouncing in place. "You just get out of Professor Oobleck's?"
A faint "It's Doctor Oobleck" could be heard from down the hall, not that anyone payed the remark any notice...
"Good to see you too, little red. What got you so... Bouncy?" Coco asked, greeting the group with a fond wave of her own.
"We just got out of combat class, so naturally Ruby is uncontainable." Weiss grinned. "It is rather odd though, Ruby didn't actually spar with anyone today."
"Stupid rotation." Ruby mumbled under her breath.
"Well we just finished a lecture on the origin of the Vytal festival tournament. I may be looking forward to it but that doesn't mean I wanna listen to Oobleck lecture me about it for an hour..." Coco shivered. "Plus the guy talks so fast, you can only just make out what he is saying."
"I can understand what he says just fine." Ruby stated in confusion.
"Ruby just because you live life five times faster than normal doesn't mean the rest of us do." Yang said, poking her sister in the ribs. "The guy can talk a mile a minute, and keep it up for an hour, I dunno about the rest of you but I don't have that kind of stamina..."
Ruby squirmed away from the blonde's poking finger with a "hands off."
"Well thats what we are here for Yang, to fight monsters, to learn how to better fight monsters and to exercise so that we have the strength to fight bigger monsters."
By the time Ruby had finished, the group had reached the cafeteria. Velvet walked to the serving table, and asked what everybody wanted. Meanwhile Jaune pulled out chairs for the ladies in the group, and Ren went to pick out drinks.
"Milk for me please Ren." Ruby called out.
"I would like milk also." Blake added.
"Can I get syrup?"
"No Nora..." Ren called back.
"Aww."
When the three teams sat down the conversation moved to the repairs in Vale after the breach.
"Cannot believe that so much damage was fixed so fast."
"Well we have Goodwitch to thank for it Jaune." Coco replied.
"Yeah, she really saved out behinds, can you imagine what could have happened if she had arrived any later?" Yang asked.
"I'm sure the Atlasian military could have handled the Grimm, but I will admit that the damage would have been far more severe."
"Weiss I hate to break it to you but those androids are pants. They don't have an Aura, so their weapons are near useless against the Grimm. Shame really, I still think they're super cool." Ruby presented her input.
"They performed well within operational standard." Weiss rebutted.
"You could see for yourself that their rifles weren't powerful enough to kill the bigger Grimm, a bullhead killed an Ursa that was behind me using two chin mounted Gatling guns and that took six rounds. but Coco uses her Minigun, and she can cut giant Nevermores in half with three. I know that those bullet calibers where the same but Coco can strengthen each shot with her Aura."
Ruby argued animatedly, Making hand motions as she talked. Nora provided sound effects in the background.
"Ok so individually the androids may not be anything special, but Atlas could produce thousands of androids in a single year, but a single hunter requires at least 4 years of training."
"And how much does that cost Weiss? The parts, the weapons, the maintenance?"
"So maybe the process Isn't cheap, but think Ruby; no more hunters need lose their lives anymore."
"If you truly believed that, then you wouldn't be here! Why bother training to be a huntress if all the problems in the world can be solved by those machines?"
Weiss was stunned into silence by her leader. She was right, Weiss may say that she had faith in the Atlasian knights but it wasn't really true. She did not trust the safety of the kingdoms to the hands of machines.
"Enough with the heavy, the point is that the town square is repaired, and the people injured are going to be ok, right?" Yang cut in. "Nobody was seriously hurt right?"
"From what I heard , the majority of the Grimm were focused on us" Ruby answered in a sombre tone. "But I did hear that a few people didn't make it."
"Don't feel responsible for the actions of the white fang... We did what we could, and we saved lives." Blake chimed in. "We are still only first years, and we held off the Grimm for long enough until help arrived."
"Yeah, people think you guys are heroes!" Nora exclaimed loudly.
"Your team performed admirably." Ren smiled reassuringly.
"Well you guys helped out too... I mean Jaune was the first on scene..."
"Thanks Ruby, but really we were just in the right place at the right time, I swear."
"Ooh phooey, you should have seen him, he went all serious." Nora replied. "He was all like, 'Take us into the city!' And the pilot of our bullhead nearly wet himself..."
"It wasn't that impressive..."
"Don't sell yourself short Jaune, I think you handled the situation very well."
"Pyrrha speaks the truth, you demonstrated outstanding leadership over the situation. People owe their lives to your actions."
"Thanks Ren, Nora, Pyrrha. You guys are the best."
"Yay for Team JNPR!" Nora exclaimed.
"Hooray for Team RWBY!" Ruby joined in.
"You guys are cute."
"Coco... Why do you have to ruin the moment." Ruby pouted.
"We should probably head back to our dorm guys." Coco smiled. "We will see you tomorrow."
"Bye guys." "Goodbye." "See ya later."
Team CFVY made their way to the exit, passing the members of team CRDL. On his way past, Cardin clipped Velvet with his shoulder.
"Watch it, freak." Cardin said under his breath, so that her team members did not hear. Unfortunately for Cardin, the members of RWBY and JNPR noticed and they planned to do something about it.
"Your pushing your luck Winchester, can you imagine the mess Yatsuhashi would make of you if he caught you in the act?" Yang spat angrily.
"I dunno what your talking about, if the Faunas freak is hurting then maybe she shouldn't be attending Beacon. Not my fault if she cant handle herself."
"Its funny, as I recall Velvet performed exceptionally on the day of the breach. Although I don't remember you or your team being present."
"Cram it Nikos." Cardin replied hotly.
"You know that if she wanted to, Velvet could hand you your ass?" Jaune asked.
"She simply chooses to rise above your bigotry." Blake added."
At this point the heated argument had caught the attention of the rest of the cafeteria. "You don't wanna cause a scene do you Cardin?" Yang asked. "Nora, I think that we should take him outside for a little chat."
"Ohhh, we can break his legs!" Nora joyfully replied.
"I had something else in mind." Yang smirked, turning to face Cardin with a look of malice. She proceeded to forcibly march Cardin from the hall, while Nora gleefully scared off the rest of his team.
"I'm sure they will be right back." Ruby stated. "They will be right back right?" She then asked, doubt creeping into her voice.
"I'm certain that Yang won't go overboard on what should be considered Cardin's punishment." Pyrrha said, in an attempt to reassure Ruby.
"You remember that Nora is going with her right Pyrrha?" Weiss asked. "As I recall, she has a penchant for trying to break the legs of people who annoy her."
"Nora has a pension?" Ruby questioned, feeling confused.
"No you dunce. A penchant, as in a habit of, or great liking for." Weiss corrected sternly. The heiress shook her head at having to explain yet another new word to her team leader. Admittedly Ruby's vocabulary was improving but if she wanted to be taken seriously then she would need further lessons.
"Ohhh... Thanks Weiss!" Ruby replied. She had started to ignore most of Weiss's put downs and insults, as she knew that they were only out of annoyance at having to correct her. She was grateful to Weiss, she didn't have to go to the effort to help her, but cared enough about her that she wanted her to improve.
"Ren, do you mind you and I find somewhere private to talk?" Weiss asked. "It's about that subject we discussed at the library."
"Of course Weiss." Ren replied in his taciturn nature.
"Hey, Nora's back." Jaune pointed out as the ginger girl ran over to the table, a maniacal grin on her face. "Hey Nora. That was fast. How did it go?"
"You aren't going to be expelled for whatever it is you did are you?" Ren asked, concern slipping into his voice.
"Nope. You are going to want to watch this though." Nora said happily in a sing song voice, pointing to where Yang entered, dragging Cardin along by the neck.
"Ladies and Gentlemen. Cardin here has something he would like you all to know!" Yang announced loudly, gaining the attention of the student body.
"Jaune, pull out your scroll and start recording." Nora whisper shouted. The knight immediately complied.
Cardin sighed heavily as he moved to stand on a table, so as to be easily seen. He took his place, only looking at his feet.
"I just want everyone to know, that I suck... And that I'm a girl... And that I like to wear ribbons in my hair... And that I want to kiss all the boys.
The cafeteria erupted into laughter and a number of students fell out of their seats, holding their sides.
"This is so going up on the web. That was gold, Ruby your sister is a genius... Please remind me never to get on her bad side." Jaune chuckled, wiping a tear from his eye.
"Well that was a thing." Yang said while taking her seat. "So, you guys enjoy the show?"
"It was rather amusing..." Weiss let a small smile slip. "If a little immature."
"I'm just glad that the two of you didn't get into any trouble." Blake added.
"Team CFVY is gunna be disappointed at missing that." Ruby said with a grin. "Although, Jaune did capture it on camera... Nora's idea."
"Don't mess with Nora's friends and Nora wont mess with you!" Nora exclaimed.
"Must you refer to yourself in the third person?" Weiss asked.
"Huh? What person? Who is this person? Why are they watching me? Where are they? What do they want?" Nora panicked, jumping into Ren's lap in fright. "Protect me Ren!"
Ren let out a puff of air at Nora's animated landing. "She means why are you calling yourself Nora?" Ren attempted to correct.
"Well what else am I supposed to call me? I'm Nora." The hammer wielder replied in confusion.
Weiss let out a sigh, at least Ruby was not that difficult to deal with. 'How in the world has Ren retained his sanity after putting up with her for so long?' She thought to herself.
The group finished lunch in a good mood, as team CRDL stalked out of the room, heads down and faces red in embarrassment.
A/N: OK guys, thats the chapter. I would greatly appreciate it, if you took the time to leave a review. I hope you enjoyed yourself.
The Quiet Bibliophile.