This one is a tad weird, but my prompt was 'the one with the thumb!' What else do you do with that?

As always, I hope you enjoy!


"Come on, come on," Weiss muttered as she rapidly pulled open every drawer on her side of the room. "It has to be here somewhere!"

"Don't worry, Weiss, I'm sure we'll find it. It couldn't have gone very far…" Blake reassured the heiress as she carefully checked the drawers built into their desks, leaving no trace that she had been rifling through her teammates belongings.

"I know it's here in the room somewhere…I made sure to hide it in a bag that I never use…but then Ruby decided to 'help' clean the room and moved it!"

"Then it's going to be here somewhere, we just need to figure out where Ruby thought would be the best place to put it."

"If we can't find it while they're out, I'm going to have to think of a really good gift to give Ruby last minute…and I don't know if I can eat that many cookies again…" Weiss held her hand over her stomach, the memory of just how sickening her last apology gift had been making her to feel a tad queasy.

"You just need to think like Ruby does. If you were Ruby and were trying to clean the room - where would you put it?"

The heiress thought momentarily on that question before she snapped her fingers together when the idea came to her.

"She probably moved it underneath the bed so it was out of the way!"

No sooner had the words left her mouth had she dove to the floor, pulling bags out from under her bed and scouring through them. After a few minutes with no success, she quickly moved over to Blake's bed and began repeating the process.

"I'll look in that one!" Blake cried out when Weiss had pulled the Faunus girl's own suitcase from underneath the bed. She rushed forward and hastily removed the luggage from Weiss' grasp, clutching it to her chest closely but not opening it up.

Weiss merely rolled her eyes and turned back to the more important task at hand.

"We all know you hide those books in there, you know," her muffled voice slipped out from under the bed while several more boxes were pushed into view.

Blake's eyes grew wide at the admission.

"H-how do you know?"

"Yang found them like three days after we moved in," Weiss answered as she emerged with the last of the bags and boxes. "She convinced us not to say anything to you though."

Blake was floored, especially by the nonchalance in Weiss' tone when discussing what Blake considered to be an even bigger secret than her Faunus heritage. She stared at the girl, expecting more of an explanation to come out, but Weiss simply ignored her – far too focused on the new containers in the middle of the floor. Figuring that she was better off without drawing too much attention to the subject, Blake went back to searching the desk drawers.

Sitting amongst the pile of random containers she had collected, Weiss began opening them all in rapid succession, tossing them aside when she knew they did not hold what she was searching for. That's when a small brown box (which was definitely not what she was searching for) caught the girl's attention.

"Hmm…" Weiss muttered as she curiously picked up the package. "I wonder what – OH MY GOD!"

Blake jumped when she heard Weiss' scream, spinning around to find the heiress now standing pressed against the far wall with her hands thrown up in the air, eyes wide in terror.

"What is it?" Blake asked, eyes scanning the ground for anything dangerous that she should be worried about.

"It's…it's…a THUMB!" Weiss screeched, jabbing her finger towards the tiny box she had thrown onto the ground.

Her ears twitching in disbelief, Blake cautiously crept towards the overturned item. Stretching her arm out as far as it would reach, she flipped over the box in one fluid motion, instantly jumping backwards when she confirmed what Weiss was screaming about.

There was a thumb…on the floor.

The two girls stared at the severed appendage for what felt like hours before Weiss finally said something, her voice still shrill and panicked.

"Why does your girlfriend have a THUMB in a box under your bed?"

"What makes you think this is Yang's?" Blake yelled back at the girl, voice in an equal level of distress. "Why couldn't that be Ruby's thumb?"

"One, because I checked this morning and Ruby had both of her beautiful thumbs still attached to her hands. And two, because Yang's name is written on the box!" Weiss shot back, pointing to the discarded lid laying on the floor. Blake stepped over and scooped up the lid, finding that Yang's name was, in fact, printed on the front.

She sighed.

"Well I don't know why she has a thumb!" Blake replied in exasperation, finding the evidence far too damning against her girlfriend to try to argue any longer.

Studying the lid, more text caught her eye.

"Ridley's Magic Emporium…" she read aloud, before the light bulb clicked in her mind.

"…It's a fake thumb," Blake said, bending down to more closely examine the object just to make completely sure. Once her suspicion was confirmed, she picked the object up - causing Weiss to let out a small shriek.

"See? It's made of rubber," she commented, squishing the item between her fingers to prove her words. She tossed it to Weiss so the girl could see for herself, but the heiress merely squealed in fear and jumped onto her bed to avoid allowing it to touch her.

"Come on, Weiss, it's fake!"

Blake walked over and picked up the thumb again, placing it carefully back in its box.

"I don't care if it's fake…it's still gross," Weiss replied in a huff, but slid down from her bed once the item was safely stashed away. "Why would Yang have a fake thumb, anyway?"

"Hmmm…" Blake mused as she tapped the top of the box lightly with one finger. Her eyes lit up when she figured it out.

"I bet she's planning to pull a prank on us."

Weiss' eyes widened at the realization before they narrowed into thoughtful consideration.

"But now we know it's just a trick."

Blake grinned back at her teammate, both of them having the same thought at the exact same tie.

"Let's see what happens when her prank doesn't work."


~A few days later~

"Hey, Ruby, can you help me cut this piece of wood in half? It needs to be smaller for the Vale replica we're building."

"Sure!" Ruby replied, hopping down from her perch upon her bed to help her older sister. The brunette pulled out Crescent Rose, expanding her weapon to full size.

In a matter of seconds, the available space in the room was cut in half by the sheer size of the brunette's weapon.

"Ruby, must you use Crescent Rose in here?" Weiss asked disdainfully from her own bed, textbook still open in her hands.

The brunette sent a sheepish grin back towards her girlfriend.

"It will only take a second, Weiss. I promise!"

Weiss arched an eyebrow and shot a look towards Blake, who was observing the interaction carefully overtop of her own book.

"Ok Ruby, I just need you to cut this rightttt….there. See the line I drew?" Yang instructed while she held the thin piece of wood up in the air, tapping her index finger against a thin black line.

Ruby nodded, lining up Crescent Rose exactly where the line was located. She slowly drew the weapon back and forth several times, making sure her angle was lined up perfectly. Drawing the scythe back one more time, she swung it forward quickly.

The sound of the two pieces of wood clattering to the ground was accompanied by Yang's loud cry of pain.

"My thumb! Ruby!" the blonde cried out, holding onto her right hand as blood spewed from the wound, quickly covering the girl's hands and dripping to the floor.

"OH MY GOD! Yang!" Ruby cried out hysterically, flapping her arms in the air as she rushed to her sister's side.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't…are you…Weiss, what do we do?"

Ruby and Yang both stared in shock as Weiss calmly stood from her bed and walked over to the two sisters, not a single drop of alarm evident in her demeanor.

"Blake and I are going to head down to dinner now," Weiss remarked, wrinkling her nose in disgust when she looked at the severed thumb lying on the ground. "Ruby, I suggest you and this nitwit clean up this bloody mess before you come join us."

The two sisters watched in dismay as the heiress stepped coolly around the mess on the floor and headed out the door. They turned in unison to find Blake preparing to follow Weiss out, just as unperturbed as the heiress about what had just occurred.

Blake walked up to Yang and leaned close to the girl, making sure to avoid the blood on the blonde's hands.

"But you're my nitwit," the Faunus girl whispered into Yang's ear before pulling away and placing a feather light kiss on her partner's cheek. She smirked at the confused expression on Yang's face as she followed Weiss out into the hallway.

Left alone in the room, Yang turned to Ruby in amazement.

"Uh…" she began, unclenching her fists to throw the empty packet of fake blood into the trash can. "That was not the reaction I was expecting…"

Ruby nodded her head rapidly, bending down to retrieve the fake thumb from the floor.

"And it looks so real too!" she remarked.

Yang walked over to wipe her hands off on a dirty towel before scratching her head in puzzlement.

"I don't get it. Your panic was so real! It almost made me worry, even though I knew what was going on!"

Ruby beamed with pride at her sister's compliment.

"Thank you! And your scream was amazing. For a second there, I thought that maybe I actually had cut your thumb off!"

Yang grinned as the two girls set about cleaning up their mess.

"…But you know…your panic might have been just a little bit over the top," Yang said slowly as she threw some paper towels into the trash. "The fearless leader of Team RWBY probably wouldn't freak out that much over a severed thumb…"

Ruby frowned while she stacked the two pieces of wood on top of her desk.

"What about your scream? It was way too shrill," the brunette shot back.

"Shrill?" Yang sputtered out in a high pitched voice, before laughing at herself.

"We just both need to do better next time," the blonde concluded as she brushed off her hands and surveyed their completed work.

"Next time?" Ruby asked, looking up at her sister in curiosity. "Will we do a thumb again next time?"

Yang shook her head as she wrapped an arm around Ruby's shoulders and guided her little sister out the door.

"No Ruby - next time we're going to go for something much bigger. And maybe you can be the one who gets injured…Blake doesn't seem to have much concern for my well being…"


"Well, they certainly weren't expecting that reaction, were they?" Blake giggled while she walked with Weiss towards the cafeteria, remembering Yang's flabbergasted reaction.

"Serves her right for trying to pull a prank on us!" Weiss huffed. "Maybe next time – hey! Nora!"

The redhead stopped and turned towards them, waving happily.

"Nora, where did you get that bag?" Weiss demanded, stalking up to the oblivious girl and gesturing towards the small purse currently slung around Nora's shoulder.

"Ruby gave it to me a few days ago! It's it cute? It even came with this pretty necklace hidden inside one of the pockets!" Nora pointed proudly towards the silver necklace that was hanging around her neck.

Weiss sighed as she pinched the bridge of her nose in defeat.

"Yes, it is very cute," she replied sullenly, abruptly walking away from the sunny girl.

"So…" Blake began hesitantly, jogging two steps to keep up with her teammate.

"Back to the cookie factory we go…" Weiss mumbled as they stepped into the bustling dining hall.