A/N: This took a little longer than I wanted to write, a day longer, but that's not the reason why I didn't post it earlier. My computer's driver broke and given how old it was, I just decided to get a new laptop instead since it was worth more than getting it repaired to last a few more years. I didn't have the money readily on hand, so I couldn't get the computer right away, and I've only recently gotten it fully set-up, which is why the update took so long. Sorry about that, but nothing I could really do about it.

On a more cheerful note, it's a pleasant surprise to see everyone enjoying the story as much as they are, including their guesses in the reviews ^_^. Here's Night Two out of Seven! I'll try to get the next one out as soon as possible!

(Also, it's kinda funny I'm posting this on Halloween, a complete coincidence seriously.)

I DONT OWN RWBY

Night Two

The doors of the main entrance to the academy closed with a soft click, leaving him standing in the silent lobby, alone. He held up the tablet that he was given at the guard post, some guy in his twenties called Mercury in place of Emerald. It auto-connected to the system mainframe, allowing him to access all of the features he had yesterday. He flicked through the cameras, finding nobody to be out of their usual places.

'Time to explore...' He mused with a grimace, silently hoping none of the animatronics would move.

He only took a few steps before a small glint to his left caught his attention, and upon approaching it found that it was - to his surprise - another note, suspending by the weird toothpick that Weiss had used yesterday. Removing and dropping the toothpick, he picked up the note and read it.

Room B2-2

'Why does she want me to go there? For what?' He frowned, but reluctantly found himself walking towards the room regardless. If it was Weiss the one who left the note, why? Nora and Ruby had said her programming never wore off, so why was she leaving 'hints'? Hints for what he didn't know. Did the programming turn off after six am, was that why the note was here? But then again Weiss had left the note yesterday just minutes before six am. It was all so confusing. Something big was going on and he had zero idea what it was.

The stairs under him creaked as he walked, his flashlight flickering about the walls. The air wasn't as thick as yesterday, but far from clean, prompting him to turn on the ventilation system again. Checking the cameras again just to be safe, he reached the empty room for B2-2, hesitating before he pushed it open. It was, as he expected, completely dark inside. Boxes were organised into several piles that thinned out the higher they went, all of them either empty or sealed after a brief moment of inspection. However when his light met the walls did he notice something equal parts puzzling and worrying.

Tally marks. The entire back wall was lined with them, four vertical and a diagonal one over it to amount to five. There dozens, maybe even hundreds of them. His flashlight flicked to the left and right walls, only to reveal they were also covered with more marks. The floor and ceiling weren't exempt from it either, although the latter held less of them, as if someone was still in the process of marking down whatever it was they were marking. Days? Number of guards? It could be anything. The markings weren't chalk either, instead they were faint grooves dug into the walls, thin and delicately made. The cone of light traced over all of them and he turned around to inspect the door and the adjacent wall-

Only for his cobalt eyes to meet icy blue ones.

He froze up on the spot, his breath hitching in his throat as he stared into the cool eyes of Weiss, standing in the open doorway. He hadn't heard her coming - he hadn't heard anything at all, she had been as silent as a mouse despite wearing heels. Weiss didn't move either, her face showing no expression as she stared straight into his cobalt ones. If the air had been thick before, now it was downright suffocating, like he'd die if he breathed too loudly. The silence dragged on for nearly a minute before Weiss huffed, turning on her heel.

''Return to your office, Arc.''

With that she simply turned and left, walking back towards her room. Jaune remained frozen for several minutes, simply staring at the doorway where she walked away before shaking himself out of it. Hesitantly he peeked out into the hall, finding that Weiss' room door was closed, the camera confirming that, albeit Weiss was sitting on her bed, doing an odd motion of clapping the bottom of her palms together and then her knuckles, over and over again repetitively. Ruby was halfway off of her bed, likely signalling she was going to move and Nora was also partially moved from her original spot. Realising the danger, Jaune quickly began to make his way back to the office at a fast walk, careful to not make much noise.

Though the question if they even listened for noise was left unanswered, it was better to just remain on the safe side.

The swivel chair creaked slightly as he sat down on it, pulling up the tablet and checking over the place. None of them had moved. Sighing Jaune leaned back in his seat, flicking in between Nora and Ruby, keeping an eye on both. Nearly ten minutes passed without either of them having moved, including Weiss. He briefly considered exploring once more, but immediately quashed that idea under the potential threat of Nora or Ruby 'hurting' him. Just as he flicked to Ruby's camera a loud slam reached his ears, prompting him to immediate check on Nora, only to find her door wide open, already running.

The left door slammed down a second later, Nora running into it two seconds later and letting out a whine. However unlike the previous night she did not speak, instead simply repeated 'let me in' over and over and over again, in the exact same whining tone and with complete consistency. He tried to ignore it by focusing on Ruby to make sure she didn't sneak up on him like last time, but it plucked at his heart strings to hear the ginger animatronic whine such pleads. Ruby didn't move from her location either, yet the hairs on the back of his neck suddenly stood up for no reason.

Then suddenly, silence.

Jaune blinked, looking around him. Nora had not only gone silent, but what was more concerning was the ventilation had just stopped - not slowed down, simply flat-out stopped without warning. He checked the camera of the left hall, revealing a downtrodden Nora walking away from the door and returning to the lobby, heading towards the cafeteria. He didn't dare let her escape his sight or the sight of the cameras. She trudged through Hall B and to the bathroom before entering it, her form disappearing into the pitch-black room. Listening to the audio all he heard was a quiet, indecipherable mumbling, seemingly repeating itself.

Quiet yet quick steps broke him from his focused listening, flicking to the right hall, then to the lobby where he found Ruby standing, smiling widely with an unseeing stare. Taking a breath, he closed the right door whilst unlocking the left one before changing back to the lobby camera, only to find Ruby gone. The left hallway was empty, thankfully, but his heart leapt out of his chest when quick, repeating bangs struck the right door. It only lasted for about six seconds, followed by a few seconds of heavy breathing before faint footsteps began to carry the animatronic away. That animatronic being Ruby, still looking completely (insanely) happy despite breathing slightly heavily.

He watched her go back up the right staircase, prompting him to unlock the door. Despite the sound echoing throughout the entire building, she apparently didn't notice, instead continued walking back to her room and returning to the exact same position as she had been in at the start of the night. With Nora and Ruby taken care of for the time being - he doubted they were done for the night - he pulled up the systems panel and tried to activate the ventilation, only to find it was already activated. That made him frown, why would the sound just stop-

The beeping of his watch startled him out of his thoughts, his eyes snapping to the small device in disbelief, '1 AM?! It's barely been five minutes!'

Was it broken? That was the first thing that came to mind, yet it had worked perfectly well yesterday and even matched up with the clocks in the hospital. Unless it had broken suddenly on the way to work, his only explanation was that 'time just flew when you were getting hunted by potentially murderous robots'. Maybe he should trademark that.

A quiet, almost distant bang reached his ears, immediately making him tense and springing him into action. Hall A1 and A2, clear. Lobby and Hall B, clear. Hall C1 and C2, clear. Cafeteria, clear. It was only when he switched to the kitchen camera when something quite immediately became obvious. Firstly the fashionista was faced towards the camera, her sunglasses pulled down slightly to show her raised eyebrow, yet remained unmoving. The bunny-girl on the other hand was not there at all. He swapped through all of the cameras, yet couldn't find her anywhere.

'Maybe she's hiding?' The thought came out of nowhere, yet he was inclined to believe it. He swapped back to the kitchen again, mildly surprised to find Nora now present, sitting on the edge of the counter with a rusty fork in her hands, poised to stab at the wall in front of her. Ignoring that, he swapped to the cafeteria. He went over it with a more careful gaze, checking nobody was potentially hiding behind any of the low tables, but finding nothing. He was about to check Hall B when he noticed two protrusions at the far end of the room, hidden behind a tipped-over table. If he focused enough he could almost make out the whites of the eyes of the bunny-girl, hidden behind it.

Still, she was on the other side of the building, so nothing for him to immediately worry about. Switching through the cameras once more he began to pay extra attention to detail encase there was something he should be keeping an eye out for. Nora was still in the kitchen, Ruby was lying on her bedroom floor, poised to leap at the door for whatever reason with a wide grin, Velvet still appeared to be in the cafeteria and Weiss was still doing that odd hand rhythm. With a sigh he leaned his upper torso forward slightly, twisting about and getting several satisfying clicks as he stretched without standing.

Hmmmmmm

Jaune blinked, surprised as he looked up at the ventilation hatch near the ceiling, said hatch being a simple grate. Only now the humming of the ventilation system was back, accompanied by a fresh blast of air. Odd. He writ it off as the system malfunctioning, since like Cinder said the whole building was quite old. However when he checked back at the cameras he tensed as he realised in his faint time of distraction several animatronics had moved; Velvet was now missing, Ruby was now in the right hall, Nora was in the cafeteria and the Spartan from before had also now moved into the left hall. Her expression... her eyes were shadowed, yet her shoulders were shaking, as if suppressing sobs or laughs, an almost loving smile mixed with a deranged smile on her face.

He switched to Hall B, spotting Nora creeping down it. What he noticed after a few moments however was the bathroom door slightly ajar, the blackness inside offset by the pair of bunny ears peeking out from it, a smile of perfect white teeth almost illuminated in the darkness, wide eyes staring straight at the camera unnervingly. He swapped to the lobby camera as Nora entered, Ruby present on the right staircase with a matching smile full of teeth.

Jaune gulped, heaving a deep breath as his sweaty hands clenched around the tablet, prepared to react. It was good he was prepared, as Nora suddenly broke out into a mad sprint for his right door, which closed a split second before she reached it. When he checked the lobby he found Ruby was almost at the left hall, frozen as the camera remained on her. With a cautious frown, he closed the left door before going back to the lobby camera. While Ruby had not reacted physically, facially her smile seemed to have dimmed slightly, although given the poor lighting it could've just been a trick of the mind - but hey, it made him feel better.

The trudging footsteps to his right alerted him of Nora leaving, confirmed with a quick glance at the camera. Ruby had also moved, nearly halfway across the room and facing Hall B. He changed to the Hall B camera to check on the bunny, only to find the bunny-girl was no longer there, the bathroom door completely closed. He checked the lobby, Ruby and Nora now having gone, but no signs of the bunny. He went through every camera, paying close detail to them, but didn't find her anywhere on any of the cameras. Listening to the bathroom audio gave him no help either, just quiet background static.

With heavy reluctance he opened both the left and right doors, checking the adjacent halls just to be sure, a relieved sigh escaping him when he found nothing. The beeping of his watch though made him cast a frown down at it, now not so much surprised as he was simply confused.

'Is this what it feels like to be old?' He mused, drawing a long sigh, 'Time passing by without you noticing?'

He shook the thought away. He was on the job, no time to feel old yet. He flicked through the screens, finding nothing exactly to worry about yet - aside from the still-missing bunny-girl. He was however broken from his viewing by the sounds of heavy footsteps, breaking the silence of the building. He checked both halls before checking the lobby, tensing up at the sight of the unnamed Spartan, twisted-loving grin still on her face as she stood stock-still just on the lip of entering the left hall. Quickly opening the systems panel he closed the left door down. That taken care of he swapped to the cafeteria camera, finding Ruby and Nora sitting at one of the tables, blankly staring at one another in utter silence, almost as if they didn't register the other was there.

''Welcome back Jaune...''

He froze up, eyes flickering to the closed door where the voice came from, breathy and heavy.

A giggle came from the Spartan followed by a loud exhale of air, ''Open the door Jaune...''

A loud slam came, the sound of a fist hit the metal of the door, ''I only want to be with you again...''

''How do you know my name?'' Jaune replied, his voice shaking slightly from the completely unnerving voice she used. He didn't hear what she said, instead all he got was indecipherable mutters, disturbing glee in her low tone as she slowly, repetitively bashing her fist against the metal. He tried to push it out of his mind, but every thud against the door jolted him back to it, like a reflex. Soon however the animatronic fell silent, her banging stopping and muttering silent. When he checked the camera her face was completely unreadable, blank eyes staring at the door. Without any more words she straightened up, turned, and walked away, her heavy footfalls fading the further she got. Only once she reached the left staircase did he unlock the left door.

He sighed, slouching in his chair as he attempted to calm his racing heart.

''Hey Jaune!''

''Gah!'' He cried out in surprise, recoiling away from the person that popped in his right door. The world flipped as he fell on his back with a choked grunt, the tablet still grasped in his hands and narrowly missing the edge of the left doorframe. He cringed from the bright light that shone overhead, the animatronic that frightened him spewing apologies. Blinking the spots out of his eyes, he pushed himself onto his side, awkwardly removing his legs from the chair before standing back up. To both his relief and surprise the person who scared him was Nora, who awkwardly stood in the doorway, looking to be warring between leaving and staying.

''Nora?'' He sighed, ''Please don't surprise me like that.''

''...sorry Jaune.'' Nora replied, shame-faced and kicking her foot like a scolded child. The action reminded him very much of the past, when Hazel got scolded by the teacher for something or another, sometimes even breaking down into tears from the harsh verbal reprimand.

He sighed, crossing the small distance of the office and pulling Nora into a hug. Her short height of 5'1 was tiny compared to his 6'1, and while she seemed to be more muscular than him, he still towered over her. Neither said anything, just standing there as he waited until she felt better - he had experience with this after all. He didn't know how long passed before Nora eventually responded, said response being by almost nuzzling into his chest, turquoise eyes looked up at him and a small smile growing on her face.

''Thanks.'' She merely said.

He smiled in return, but that smile faltered slightly when the overhead light suddenly flickered, continuing for several seconds before suddenly going out. His tablet beeped, prompting him to pull it up and see an alert warning that the generator was malfunctioning, the utility tunnel door unlocking. The idea that one of the animatronics might be doing this didn't help his nerves at all. He spared a glance at Nora who was also looking at the tablet, before she raised her head with her trademark smile.

''Can you stay here and keep an eye on things?'' Jaune asked, making the girl bob her head.

''Yep!'' She cheered, spinning and landing in his chair, having taken the tablet out of his hands without him noticing. She hummed a tune under her breath as she simply sat there watching the screen, assuring him she'd do as he asked.

He repressed a sigh, picking up his flashlight, 'Here we go...'

His footsteps were muffled slightly by the soft burgundy carpet as he walked, hunched over slightly as he scanned the whole lobby with the flashlight before moving on. If he listened close enough he could faintly hear the depressions of the wood in the distance, signalling someone was moving around, although he couldn't tell where. When he reached Hall B he was greeted with nothing but an empty hall, thankfully, but he also couldn't see Ruby in the cafeteria either. Hesitant to the point he was muffling his breathing with his free hand he crept up to the ominously open black door, peeking down into the steam tunnel.

Unlike the cameras his eyes had adapted to the darkness, allowing him to see simple hall that went straight to a more open square layout, featuring a bronze-coloured generator and what looked like instructions taped onto the wall next to it. Several lines of pipes were on the right-hand wall, yet there was still a small amount of space behind it, barely big enough for someone of his height to stand. Red lights surrounded by small metal cages hung on the left wall, barely illuminating it enough with the only real source of light at the end of the hall was a single regular light that dangled above the generator, currently flickering on and off.

Soft taps were the only sound in the room as he crept down the hall, eyes darting around the room for any potential attackers. He reached the end of the hall without incident, but it was only under the light by the generator did he notice something. Another animatronic. She was female like all the others, dressed in a fashion not dissimilar with a doll, with ginger hair that curled at the sides and a pink bow on her head, unseeing green eyes with dilated pupils. She was slumped against the wall near the generator, a small backpack on her back and a metal box behind her with multiple warning labels on it. She didn't seem to notice him, thankfully, and didn't react when he passed in front of her, so it was safe to assume that she wasn't working.

However, that also meant that there was another animatronic to possibly worry about.

That was something to worry about later though, for now he needed to focus on fixing the generator. According to the instructions on the wall the temporary fix was to simply hold down the red button on the side until he heard it go silent, wait four seconds, then hold it in for another for seconds until it started up. Rinse and repeat until the overhead light, the closest thing to the generator, stopped flickering. He did as the instructions said, having to use a fair amount of force to actually push the button in. It worked on the first time, the light above him no longer flickering and the generator humming gently.

He didn't relax yet though, not when his nerves were still alight with the prospect of being found by any of the animatronics. He turned and began walking away at a quiet but quick pace, keeping half a gaze on the animatronic by the generator and half a gaze on the door up ahead. He was only halfway when suddenly had a strange feeling shoot up his spine, like a cool breeze just blew by, or like being watched-

CLANG

His eyes snapped to the source of the sound, immediately relaxing when he saw it was just an old scoop spoon.

That relaxation faded as a question suddenly appeared in his head, cold dread filling his stomach.

What was a scoop spoon doing in a utility tunnel?

Someone tapped his shoulder, his head whipping around to the person... but nobody was there. He felt someone brush up against his back and he turned to look as fast as he could, yet nobody was with him, the only sound being his own heavy breathing. He felt it again a few moments later, although this time it was much less subtle. Arms wrapped around his neck and a body pressed up against his back, quite short if he were to guess, but his mind was elsewhere - namely the sudden... dangerous feeling he had, like a knife was right in front of his throat. Like if he moved an inch forward he'd cut himself, that he was millimetres from touching the sharp edge of a knife and his body was screaming at him to not do it, yet he couldn't see it.

Then suddenly the feeling was gone, along with the feeling of the body against his back. Reluctantly he looked behind him, but once again found nobody. He took a single step towards the door, and when nothing occurred he continued, albeit at a much faster pace. Unless he had suddenly gone full-blown paranoid, there were also ghosts to worry about. Fantastic.

As he reached the stairs those he suddenly collided with something, or more specifically something collided with him, harshly. He fell onto his back and narrowly missed bashing his skull on the concrete, yet even with using an arm to soften his blow the sudden jolt create spots in his vision, disappearing as he blinked rapidly. When he realised who was above him, however, his blood ran cold. The bunny girl from earlier sat atop him, leaning over him with a wide smile and wide-open eyes, panting heavily and shaking slightly.

''H-Hi Jaune...'' She said, her high-pitched voice trembling slightly, leaning closer to him.

''Wha-'' His question was cut off in a way he certainly didn't expect, that being her lips suddenly meeting his. The mere action left him in shock, paralysed as the animatronic above him gently, almost alluringly kissed him.

It was only when the room started getting darker did he realise something was wrong, how short of breath he felt. A glance down revealed, to his panic, that the animatronic had both hands tightly wrapped around his neck, choking the life out of him and he didn't even realise. He tried to push her off of him but found he lacked the strength to do so, his vision darkening further as he tried to pry her fingers off, only making her grip tighter, the terrifying look of disturbed glee on her face not leaving.

'Is this how I die?' The thought came to him, his arms weakly trying to pull hers off of him. His vision got progressively darker and his lungs burned for oxygen, his eyelids beginning to flicker as darkness called for him.

Turns out, he wouldn't be dying yet.

''Ruby~ kick!''

The girl above him had enough time to blink in confusion before a boot crashed against the back of her head, making her (thankfully) release him and was sent tumbling over him and down the hall. Jaune greedily sucked in fresh air, dimly being aware of someone - Ruby, he realised after a brief moment - helped pull him to his feet and gently pushed him towards the exit. He stumbled all the way, falling onto all fours when he reached the top, still reeling from the shock of it.

''C'mon Jaune.'' The familiar voice of Ruby ushered, ''Velvet will get up soon!''

Velvet. Well at least he knew her name now, he thought idly as he ungracefully stumbled back towards his office. Subtly or care was at the back of his mind as he half-jogged, half-stumbled away from the large metal door, Ruby only a few steps behind him. When he went down the right hall adjacent to the office he was relieved nobody was at either of the doors, Nora still sat in his chair. She hopped off without a word, eyes still looking down at the tablet as she took a seat on the floor next to the radiator. The chair rattled slightly as he plopped down into it, Ruby coming in a moment later and sitting next to Nora.

At a gesture, Nora wordlessly relinquished the tablet to him. Once both of the doors closed he released a sigh, leaving the device on his lap. The two animatronics at his feet remained quiet as he massaged his face, his breathing gradually evening out and his heartbeat returning to normal levels. The ventilation once again malfunctioned, no sound or fresh air coming through, which he hoped wasn't a sign the generator was about to break again.

''So...'' Ruby broke the silence, her tone bashful, ''That was Velvet... she's much nicer normally, I promise.''

''So she doesn't choke people normally?'' Jaune sarcastically shot back.

''...not really, no.'' The red-clad girl replied sheepishly, before her eyes flickered to something on his desk, ''Are those... cookies?''

Blinking at the sudden change of subject, he looked over his shoulder, realising he had brought the bag of cookies he had been idly eating earlier with him. ''Yeah...?''

''Can I have one?'' Ruby asked, rocking back and forth eagerly.

''Sure...?'' He said uncertainly, fishing a cookie out and holding it out to her. He wasn't sure and a little worried about giving food to a robot, since in most cases animatronics weren't built to actually eat human food, or any food for that matter. Ruby took the cookie without a shred of hesitation, bringing it to her mouth and chomping a large bite out of the cookie. She let out a muffled squeal of ecstasy and fell on her back, like a baby being tickled, writhing joyfully.

Turning a bewildered look at Nora, he asked, ''Is she... alright?''

''Yep.'' Nora smiled, ''She just really likes cookies.''

As if to punctuate that fact, Ruby let out a muffled cry of 'I almost forgot what they tasted like!', eagerly munching away on what was left. It made sense in Jaune's mind, in a weird way. If this building was as old as he thought it was, then she wouldn't have had the chance to eat any food for a long while. Maybe she was a teacher, or an assistant here? Either way, maybe she was fed cookies, maybe like a reward for helping for something.

His attention was grabbed as his watch beeped, and to his shock it said it was turning over to five, which was definitely a surprise - two hours could not have passed so quickly, it wasn't even possible. At first he thought it was him just not noticing, but unless he had passed out when he was getting choked or took a lot longer creeping over to the utility tunnel, two hours couldn't have possibly passed so quickly. He considered asking Ruby or Nora whether or not he was going crazy, but dismissed the thought reluctantly, encase 'bad things' happened.

Still had zero clue what that entailed.

''Can I have another?'' Ruby asked, licking up the cookie crumbs on her lips.

''I don't mind.'' He smiled, handing over the rest of the bag, watching fondly as Ruby all but tore into the cookies, devouring them eagerly. However his fondness was broken as he heard heavy footfalls coming from the left hall, instantly reminding him of both the other animatronics and the creepy one in particular. He instantly pulled up his tablet, flicked to the systems tab and closed the left door, the heavy metal crashing down a moment later. Silence reigned, Ruby having quietening down (but still avidly munching away) and Nora just sitting next to him, her chin resting on his knee.

''U-Um... excuse me?'' A familiar yet oddly polite voice spoke up, hesitance clear in her voice, ''I-I just wanted to apologise.''

Blinking in surprise, he stared at the door as he replied, ''Apologise?''

''Yes... I was under the influence earlier, and I fear we may have gotten off on the wrong foot...''

''You were drunk?'' Jaune asked, 'influence' registering as 'drunk' in his brain.

Spluttering came from the other side of the door, ''W-What?! No! I meant the po-programming!''

''O-Oh, right.'' He had the decency to chuckle bashfully, realising his blunder, ''Sorry.''

''I am sorry also.'' The formerly creepy girl apologised, her voice more audible as he opened the door, allowing him to see her ashamed face. ''I do hope we can still be friends.''

''Yeah.'' He agreed, making her smile, ''What's your name?''

He swore he saw a flicker of pain in her eyes, but it was gone a second later.

''I'm... Pyrrha.'' She smiled, shifting slightly, ''What is your name?''

''You don't know?'' He asked in surprise, vividly recalling how she called him by his name earlier. Confusion showed on Pyrrha's face, tilting her head as if to convey she didn't understand if she should have known.

''I do not.'' She simply replied, now frowning.

''It's Jaune.'' He smiled, noting that fact down in his head, leaving out his last name. Before Pyrrha could reply to that, Ruby hopped up onto his lap, a wide smile on her face.

She sent a beaming smile at him, ''Thanks for the cookies Jaune! Bring some more tomorrow!''

Ruby surprised him as she gave him a peck on the cheek, her own cheeks tinted pink as she gave a goodbye wave before vanishing out the door with haste. From beside him, Nora pouted and gave him a peck on the other cheek, cheerfully giving a goodbye as she left. He sat there in his chair stunned for a long minute before simply shaking it off, trying in vain to remove the heat from his cheeks. The heat returned when he noticing Pyrrha was still in the room, smiling uncomfortably.

''Well it's been nice meeting you Jaune.'' Pyrrha smiled, pushing herself to her feet, ''I must be going now...''

She hesitated before suddenly crossing the distance between them, ensnaring him in a hug. He didn't resist, not that he would've been quick enough to do so anyway. He wrapped his arms around her, uncertain yet old brotherly instincts guiding him to comfort her. A long minute passed before she slowly pulled away, staring at him with sorrowful emerald eyes for reasons he didn't understand. He blinked and the moment after she was at the door, still staring at him sadly.

''Please remember...'' He swore he heard her whisper, yet her lips didn't move.

He remained in the same position even after she left, a frown marring his features as he silently thought over what she just said, or what she might've said unless he was going crazy. The air conditioning came back on a moment later, humming as fresh air blew into the room. He thought he heard movements in the halls, but after checking the cameras he found both were empty, meaning he probably was going crazy. The beeping of his watch alerted him as the clock turned over to six am, the main doors creaking opening in tandem. With a sigh he pushed himself out of the chair, gathered his things, and walked towards the exit.

He shivered slightly in the morning breeze, casting a glance around the room before heading towards the exit. He spotted another note, likely left by Weiss given the strange toothpick she used to hold it in place. Taking the note off the wall, he began making his way out of the industrial district, trying not to shiver in the cold.

You may be the 'Guard', but you should be beware of the 'Warden' and the 'Jailer'... and the Prisoner

Had he looked back just then, he would've noticed a pair of caramel eyes watching from the darkness of the school.

A/N: Dun~ Dun~ DUUUN~!

So, now Jaune has met Velvet and Pyrrha! A bit more oriented on spookiness this chapter, also pointing out to Jaune that they will very much kill him if he isn't careful. A quick peek at Penny, who has remained inactive throughout the night. Lots of little hints throughout the chapter.

What does Weiss' notes mean? Why does she leave them?

Also for the little question game I did last chapter (if you can call it that): there were 8 animatronics active tonight! One was subtle, one was incredibly subtle, and one didn't move from their spot!

And finally... who was that at the end of the chapter?

Until next time!