Nikos Gym

Ruby arrived at the gym ahead of time, from what Pyrrha had told her, she was heading there after class. A much-needed talk was all she had mentioned in her text, but this still left Ruby confused as to what she wanted.

Ruby decided to head in and get some work on the bench bars done, as she arrived she walked to the receptionist sat at the front desk. A young rather muscular man with blonde hair.

As Ruby approached she reached for her membership card, it usually kept a log of how many hours you did in the gym every time you visited so you could view your progress online.

The only problem was that Ruby couldn't seem to find her membership card. She checked her wallet, her pockets yet still no membership card. "Ah, no, this isn't good. Not good at all" Ruby fretted when she kept patting herself down to double then triple check herself.

"Won't you be needing this?" A familiar voice spoke out to her, turning around she saw Emerald in her usual beige sports top and jade green shorts. She was holding out Ruby's membership card between her index and middle finger pointing it towards the dark-haired girl.

"Emerald! Oh, thank you so much! You're a lifesaver!" Ruby took the card from Emerald and the two had their cards scanned, the receptionist nodded and smiled as the two girls walked off.

"I can't believe it's been two weeks since we first met" Ruby smiled as Emerald made sure her bag strap was secured around her shoulder.

"Time flies by right? Anyway, how have you been?" Emerald asked as the two made their way to a section of the gym that was rather quiet oddly enough.

Ruby saw Magnhild and shivered, she did not want to relive that experience. "I've been great! I'm waiting for my friend, something to do with a talk and she's meeting another friend of mine here"

Emerald looked worried for a moment, before leaning in closer to Ruby. "Please tell me it's not the one crazy about weights" Ruby shook her head and Emerald breathed a sigh of relief.

"Do you mind being a partner for me? I should be fine, but don't want to hurt myself" Emerald smiled as she patted Ruby on the back.

"Sure thing, gym buddies right?" Ruby returned the smile.

After spending roughly an hour doing bench presses, Ruby offered to let Emerald have a go but she refused, saying she only wanted to do some exercise on the treadmill.

Eventually, Pyrrha arrived although her red hair was frazzled and frayed. It was obvious she was completely stressed out and had no idea what to do.

Ruby stopped with the weights and decided to move onto the treadmills, but after she introduced Emerald to Pyrrha.

"Ruby, there you are! Who's this?" She gestured to Emerald who gave the red head a blank stare in return.

"Pyrrha this is Emerald. She's a gym buddy of mine, she also avoids Nora cause...well it's Nora and this is her natural habitat" Emerald let out a snicker when Ruby roasted her friend, even Pyrrha couldn't help but smirk at the comment.

"Pleasure to meet you Emerald, I'm-"

"Pyrrha Nikos, your family own this gym. You're also a known professional fighter in Mistral" Emerald sounded rather informative, but Pyrrha wasn't surprised.

"Well, yes I am, but please I am just a person" Pyrrha humbly responded.

After, Emerald and Ruby made their way to the treadmills whilst Pyrrha went and changed into her gym wear.

Stepping onto the conveyors and putting in the distance they wanted to cover, Emerald, spoke up to Ruby.

"I'm going to listen to some music alright?"

"That's fine, might be wise to help you focus" Pyrrha walked up behind Ruby wearing a burgundy sports bra donning the symbol of a gold spear through a shield on the front.

She also tied her hair up into a ponytail and let the tips drape over her shoulders before flinging it so that it flowed like a river down her back.

Her burgundy shorts that had some gold coloured trim to them made her lower legs stand out.

Ruby just glanced back at Pyrrha how could she not have noticed the broad wide shoulders, the well-defined arms and chiselled abs and the muscle on those calves.

"If I were single, I'd be flirting with Pyrrha so much right now" Ruby tried not to let her thoughts lead her astray. Pyrrha wanted to talk about something rather urgent.

Ruby started her running regime, as Pyrrha set hers up, did some stretching and then got right to it with little to no delay.

"So...you needed to talk?"

"Jaune" Pyrrha replied flatly but more as if she were afraid.

"What about Jaune?" Ruby asked as Pyrrha's eyes widened, her face went pale much like Weiss' and she had this thousand yard stare off into the distance.

"How do I ask him out?" If Ruby had been going on a treadmill for the first time, she would have tripped.

"You, like like him?" Ruby responded just watching Pyrrha as she didn't even blink for the next few moments.

"I'm head over heels for him, how do I do it?"

"Just ask to speak with him and then ask if he wants to be your boyfriend?" Ruby replied as Pyrrha slowed down.

"I CAN'T! I don't know how, I'm freaking out, what if he says no? What if he doesn't like me back?"

Ruby tried to speak to calm the girl who was starting to get a little louder when she spoke since other customers just stopped to look briefly.

"What if he still likes Weiss, and what if it makes our friendship awkward! We share a room. WE SHARE A ROOM!" Pyrrha shrieked, this was a whole new side that made Ruby wish she hadn't sent that picture of her to him.

Emerald who was listening to music on incredibly low volume had instead been listening to their conversation.

Decided to interrupt before Pyrrha's shouting irritated customers even more. Pretending to pull out her music player and pausing the current track

"You're disturbing the customers so much, I can hear you over my music" Pyrrha looked at Emerald who held one of her ear pieces in her hand.

"What's the problem?" Emerald asked concerned that Pyrrha might have a mental breakdown any moment.

"She's just having problems asking this guy out that she likes. Don't worry I'm in a relationship myself so I'll help her"

This caught Emerald's attention "You're in a relationship? No offence but I think your partner deserves a medal keeping up with you" A smirk on her face as Ruby gave her a look of disdain, before smiling.

"It's the other way around, I have to put up with them"

Thirty minutes passed, between Ruby trying to calm Pyrrha down and give her tips and Emerald deciding the only good piece of information was that Ruby has a relationship, nothing else was of use.

"Hey!" Jaune called out to the group, a white tank top and blue shorts made usually for sparring practice, he didn't look all that tough, but looks can be deceiving.

"Who're you?" Emerald asked as she slowed down and got off the treadmill.

"I'm Jaune, and you are?" He asked staring the green haired girl down, not to be rude but mainly since he was a little cautious about her somewhat snappy behaviour.

"Jaune, this is Emerald. She's Ruby's gym buddy" Pyrrha chimed in as she much like Ruby finished their runs and came to a complete stop.

"Hey Ruby, your girlfriend is waiting out front for you" Jaune informed as Ruby's eyes lit up with joy, she gathered her things and waved bye to Emerald and Pyrrha but spoke to Jaune before leaving.

"You are so fucked, have fun!" Ruby grinned as she walked away.

Jaune sighed and clasped his hands together before responding as Pyrrha had this expression between "I'm going to kill you" and "Please stay and help me!"

"I'm totally fucked"

I do not own RWBY, the show and its characters belong to RoosterTeeth and their writers.

A/N: Here's the third short, anyone able to guess where this is going?

Hope you like it, have a good day and for the record, I have roughly three more shorts left.