After sitting in bed for a half an hour Ruby's scroll began to go off with a loud beep. Ruby lept out of her bed and turned the alarm off. "TEAM RWBY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!" Ruby's shout received a groan of protest from Yang."School doesn't start for another three hours why are we up?" Yang lifted her head as her blonde mane cover her head in a mass of tangled hair. I pulled myself from my bed and joined Ruby in the middle of the room.
"There are four of us and one bathroom so we need to be up early if we want to be on time and ready for class," Yang grunted and plopped back down into bed. "Momma needs time to get her beatiful hair ready so I'll go first. Just give me a minute." Ruby chuckled as Yang flipped her hair only adding to the mess. "Ok, I'll go after Yang but first someone needs to wake up Blake." On her bed, Blake was sound asleep under the covers paying no attention to the world around her. "I think she can sleep in a little longer. She probably had a rough night."
Ruby scratched her head trying to understand what I meant. "What do you mean she had a rough night. We all went to bed at the same time." a small laugh escaped me as I looked down at my team leader. "You and Yang are definitely sisters. You could probably sleep through a tornado." Ruby eyes fell toward the ground and a smile appeared on her face. "Don't tell me you actually slept through a tornado?" Jeez, what is up with their family. "It missed our house by a couple hundred feet so it really didn't matter. I could only shake my head at Ruby as Yang snoring could be heard as she fell back to sleep. "Wake up your sister so that the rest of us can get ready. I'll wake up Blake."
Ruby strode over to Yang's bedside and grabbed onto the sheets and pulled them as hard as she could. Yang was dragged away with the sheets spinning like a log then hit the ground with a loud thud. "Great Googly Moogly! What The Fuck!" Yang began throwing wild punches at her sister as she tangled herself up more and more in the sheets. "Yang no swearing. That's bad for you. Now get in the shower." Yang grumbled grabbed her uniform then headed into the bathroom.
I made my way over to Blake's bed where Blake was curled up like a cat under the sheets. Putting my hand on her shoulder I shook it making her wake up. BLake turned and blinked her eyes rapidly as she adjusted to the lights. "Hmph, wha what do you want." Blake just looked up her face showing how sleep drunk she was. "It's time to get ready for school. Yang's in the shower so you should be able to get in when she's done. Oh, and might want to fix your you know." I pointed to the top of my head and flicked up my ears. Blake hands shot up and began to fix her bow.
"Hey, boone what was that?" Ruby was looking at me from across the room with an awestruck face look on her face. "Do do you have ears." I turned toward Ruby and knew I wasn't going to be able to hide it so I decided to pop up my ears. "What you mean these?" Ruby shot across the room tackling me to the ground. I tried to get away as she dragged me to the ground and tangled me up with her legs. "They are so cute." Ruby grabbed hold of my ears and began to pet them.
"How could you hide this from me. They are so cool." As Ruby grabbed my ears I felt my chest begin to tighten up and my skin start to burn. "Ruby please let go." I tried to keep calm but the feelings kept building and I knew I wasn't going to be able to control myself much longer. I shot up from the ground as Ruby let go unable to keep her grasp. "I'm sorry Boone I went too far."
I felt bad as Ruby began to apologize even though it wasn't her fault. "No, Ruby it's ok. I'm just not used to all this. It's been a very long time since I spent time goofing off instead of …." I trailed off remembering that she didn't really know what happened to me. "I just need to work myself up to this. Instead of jumping in headfirst." Ruby got off of the ground and gave me a large smile. "It's ok. Whatever happened it doesn't matter. We are your team and are job is to protect each other."
What Ruby said was right I was no longer stuck in the forest. I was with my team who will protect me and I will do the same. "Thank you, Ruby, for understanding. Next time just ask before you grab them." Ruby's smile got so big she had to close her eyes. "You shouldn't hide them. They make you look really cool. If I was a Faunus I would be proud and show off who I was instead of hiding."
Blake slumped into her bed taking in Ruby's words. I knew they hit a soft spot in her armor. I couldn't force her to tell anyone if I myself hid stuff from them too. After a while, the water in the bathroom shut off and we could hear Yang moving around. Fifteen minutes later Yang basically kicked the door open and walked into the room while she combed her hair.
The second she saw my ears she stopped and a devilish grin crossed her face. "You look Purrfect!" Three sets of hands facepalmed in disbelief of the terrible pun. What? You have to be kitten me that was pretty pawsome."
I couldn't help but look at Ruby trying to form words stunned by Yang. "Does she do this all the time." Ruby nodded and shook her head in disappointment. "If Yang has the opportunity she strikes." Yang smile grew even more. "I can't hold back they flow out of me like water in a river. Furreal." Ruby lept into the air and slapped Yang across the back of the head with a slap that resonated through the halls. "No bad Yang that was enough."
"Well I still had a few more but I guess I can save them for later. So Boone why didn't you tell before you were a Faunus." I shrugged trying to think of how to respond. "I've only known you guys for like a day and a half plus it wasn't that important." Yang's mouth gaped open clearly not excepting my response. Blake shot off her bed and into the bathroom. "While you guys talk about this I'm gonna get ready." The door slammed shut and Yang returned her gaze to me.
"You should learn to trust us. We are your teammates." Yang was right I needed to trust these people more but how was I supposed to. I spent the last three years trying to survive a Grimm infested forest that spans the entire top of a continent. Plus these girls knew nothing about me and I knew nothing about them. "I know that as teammates we need to trust each other. However, trust is earned and shouldn't be blindly given." Ruby and Yang both looked as if they understood what I meant but Ruby stepped in where I left off. "You may be right but we are a team and even if it's a small amount of trust right now that is all we need."
The next hour went by without a problem as Blake Yang and I got ready for classes. The girls were dressed in a red plaid skirt a brown jacket with a tan vest. Under the vest they each wore a white dress shirt with a red ribbon around the collar. I was dressed in black combat boots and pants a plain red t-shirt with my biker jacket.
Hey, Boone, you're not in your uniform." I knew Ruby was going to bring this up but I wasn't going to wear a stupid uniform. "Ya, I don't think that will ever happen." Ruby gave me puppy dog eyes that twinkled in the light. "But it's against schools rules." "Still don't care." Yang let a gasp shocked by what I had said. "How did her puppy eyes not work on you. They work on everyone." I looked back at Ruby who was still staring at me. "Ya, I don't know why but it just doesn't do anything."
Ruby gave a defeated sigh and moved her gaze to the rest of the room. "This place is a disaster. There isn't enough room for all our stuff and four beds." Ruby was right there was just too much stuff and not enough room. "If we only had two beds we would have a lot more room." Ruby stared at Blake like she was some type of goddess. "Blake you're right we only need two beds." Yang's hand shot off in the air with lightning speed. "Dibs on sleeping with the cat." Both mine and Blake's face began to turn red causing Yang to have a questioning look on her face. Ruby interrupted before Yang could ask any questions. "That's not what I meant. We should turn our beds into bunk beds."
"That's actually not a bad Idea. We would have room." We all agreed with what Blake had to say. "As a team leader, I saw we put it to a vote all who vote for bunk beds raise your hand." Four hands shot into the air confirming the results. "Ok team RWBY let's get to work."
I don't know what it exactly sounded like to everyone in the halls who walked by our room but I believe I had an Idea. It probably sounded like someone had decided to completely remodel the room and had brought in every possible loud tool and turned them on at the same time.
When we were done we had successfully created "bunk beds". Ruby's bed hung above mine held up by ropes tied to the ceiling. Ruby also decided she wanted to have a fort so she had tied a sheet above her bed and declared it Fort Rose. Yang's bed had been stacked on top of Blake's bed using various books Blake brought with her. "So what happens when you want to read one of those." Blake realized that she wasn't going to be able to read any of the books now that the were left in control of the bunk bed gods.
I turned on my scroll to check how much time we had left before class. "Hey, Ruby what time do classes start again. "Oh at nine we all have Grimm studies with Professor Port." I held up my phone to Ruby and her face instantly shifted to one of pure fear. "It's 8:55. We have 5 minutes to get to class." Ruby began to panic running around the room talking about how we would be late on the first day. "Don't worry Ruby I have a way we can get to class in time. How are you guys at free running." ruby stopped instantly and gave me a puzzling look.
The next thing we knew we were all sprinting across the school's rooftops jumping from building to building and over ledges. Three minutes later we were on top of the building Ports class was in. Ruby ran over to the roof door and began to shake it. "It's locked how are we supposed to get in now?"
"Say do the classrooms have windows." It only took a second before Blake answered my question. "Ya, they are all lecture halls so each has a set of windows." A few seconds later I had a plan and began to direct everyone on what to do. "Ruby text team JNPR and ask them to open one of the windows. Blake, we need to use Gambol Shroud to rappel down to the window." Yang transformed Into its whip form and anchored it to a pipe on the roof then leaped off the side. "Ok, Yang goes next then ruby and finally me."
From inside the classroom, JNPR had opened the window and Blake flew through it as she went down the side of the building. Next came Yang then Ruby. As I was climbing down Gambol Shroud came undone and I began to fall. I reached out my hand and grabbed onto the ledge of the window. A loud gasp escaped from a few people but I wasn't worried. We had only need to rappel down a single story and the drop from the window was only twenty feet. The most it would have done was busted an ankle even that wouldn't be bad because my Aura would heal it in just a few hours.
Tighten my grip on the ledge I pulled myself into the classroom. The entire room of students stared at us as Pyrrha closed the window. "Did we make it." the second I finished Professor Port walked into the classroom. "Ok students please take your seats. Class is about to start." All of us got into our seats and smiled at each other. This might end up being pretty fun.
