Summary: Weiss commits arson.

*I would too

Weiss almost fell asleep to the sounds of her droning car engine and radio. As she stared out of the open window with unfocused eyes, the breeze whispered into her ears as if it was singing a sweet lullaby. Her hair was tousled backwards by the breeze, and Weiss found nature's touch comforting.

"Doing okay over there?"

Weiss looked over to Ruby, who was currently driving cautiously with both hands on the wheel. "Mmhm," she hummed sluggishly in response.

"Sleepy?" Ruby smiled, her eyes stayed sharply focused on the one lane road.

"Just a little bit." Weiss let out a big yawn as she rubbed the corner of her eyes. "But this is nice. We don't usually get days off like this, since we're always swamped with missions. Let's remember to thank Blake for recommending Menagerie and accommodating us for this trip."

"It's definitely different compared to being in Vale or Atlas," Ruby noted. "I like it."

"Not as many pavements and buildings, and a lot more wildlife and nature," Weiss agreed, a faint sigh escaping her lips. "It's a nice change in scenery. How long will it take until we get to Blake's villa?"

"Dunno," Ruby shrugged her shoulders. She started to drum her fingers against the steering wheel because the car in front of them was going below the speed limit. "I think at this rate, maybe in a couple of hours. Why do you ask?"

"I can drive if you're feeling too tired," Weiss offered.

"Nah, I got it babe. Go take a short nap or something."

"Mm, okay."

Ruby reached over to the radio and adjusted the volume until she found a perfect compromise. It was loud enough to hear the lyrics, but soft enough to allow Weiss to sleep peacefully.

Another hour deep into the relaxing drive, Ruby's brain was now on autopilot. Her mind had zoned out, but her eyes paid all the necessary attention to the road. Suddenly, a blood curdling scream from the passenger seat made her jump straight up. Her foot nearly slammed on the brakes until she remembered there was a car trailing along behind her.

"P-Pull over, Ruby!" Weiss stuttered.

"What for?" Ruby's eyebrows furrowed in confusion because she couldn't take her eyes off the road. The road was now starting to wind, with some sharp bends. She certainly did not want to cause an accident. "What's wrong? Why do we need to pull over?"

"Because there's a fucking giant spider that's the size of my face sitting on the ceiling of this car!"

Ruby quickly glanced to see what Weiss was shrieking about. And just as Weiss had described earlier, there was indeed a 'fucking giant spider that's the size of her face'. The hairy, long legged arachnid was casually hitching a free ride as it hung upside down on the car ceiling.

"That's one huge spider," Ruby whistled, at its impressive size. "I wonder how it got in."

"I don't care how it got in! I want it out." Weiss shouted. "Pull over, Ruby."

"Uh, Weiss… I can't pull over."

"And why not?!"

"There's no shoulder I can pull over to."

"Ruby, there's a fucking giant spider in our car and it's— oh my god it's moving. It's fucking moving."

Weiss nearly leaped into Ruby's lap as the freakishly large spider crawled closer towards her.

"Babe, stop — I'm driving."

"There's a spider right there. It's right there! Oh fuck me, I'm going to die. I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to —"

"Yeah, from a car crash if you don't calm down!" Ruby interjected with a huge huff. "Look, you'll be fine," she tried to calm Weiss down. "Take a deep breath and relax. It's just a huntsman spider. They're mostly harmless."

"Mostly harmless?" Weiss snuck a glance at the spider, but her brain did a one-eighty once she saw too many eyes and fangs like a shark. She turned to Ruby with pleading eyes while her hands grabbed Ruby's shirt. "Please pull over."

"Weiss, I can't. Stopping on a one lane road is going to cause traffic, or worse, an accident. Just bear with it for a few more minutes. I promise I'll pull over when I get the chance."

"Can't you see that my life is in danger?!" Weiss, a licensed huntress with more than five years experience under her belt, cried out. The furtive glances she sent to the spider continued to fuel her fear and anxiety even more. "It's crawling. Oh my god, why is it crawling closer. No, no, no, no, no, no. Tell it to stop crawling. Ruby, tell it stop crawling."

Ruby tried to make the situation better. "Spider, I uhh… command you to stop moving…?"

"It's still fucking crawling!" Weiss screamed at the top of her lungs. "I can't be here anymore. I'm moving to the back seat."

Weiss whipped her seatbelt free and scrambled over the center console to the back. After she pulled herself upright onto the seat, her stomach dropped. The spider was frolicking its way to the back of the car as if it was attracted to her misery.

"No, no, no, no," Weiss sobbed. "Stop following me. Please stop following me. Stop coming closer, please stop—"

"—Weiss, you need to stop screaming—"

"—oh my fucking god, I'm going to die. Ruby, it's above me. It's literally right above me. I need to get out, now."

Weiss reached for the door handle and yanked it to open. However, the child lock feature trapped her inside like a caged prisoner.

"Ruby, unlock the damn door." Weiss yelled, as she kept pulling on the door handle.

"I'm not letting you jump out," Ruby said firmly. "It's just an oversized spider that's hitch hiking with us."

"With a face of a mutated, man-eating alien," Weiss hissed. "I'd rather take my chances with road rash than to be next to that… thing! Let. Me. Out. Now."

"I'm not unlocking the door."

"Then roll down the back windows!" Weiss screeched at her.

"I'm not letting you jump out through the windows either."

"Open the windows," Weiss snarled. "That way the spider can crawl back outside where it came from and I can be — oh no, no, no, no, no, it's crawling on the window now. It's crawling down the fucking window. Look at what you've done, Ruby!"

Weiss scrambled to the opposite side of the car with her back pressed against the door. The shrieking never stopped, and Ruby genuinely didn't know what would happen first: her eardrums bursting or Weiss breaking the door open. With a sigh, she lowered the windows far enough where the spider would be able to squeeze through, but not Weiss.

"Roll the window back up! Roll it back up!" Weiss hissed.

"But you just said you wanted the window down..."

"It's too late for that, you dolt! Are you trying to get me killed?! It's now a few extra steps from scuttling its way down the window! Roll it back up!"

"Ugggh," Ruby groaned out loud and did as she was told. She endured another very long minute of her girlfriend constantly screaming — not the good kind, mind you — and her only saving grace was a shoulder that appeared up ahead. "Weiss, I'm pulling over right now."

Once Ruby pulled the car into park and undid the child safety lock, Weiss barreled out of the car. She stood ten feet away as Ruby took her time getting out from the driver's side.

Ruby bravely opened the door to the back seat and checked around the car. "Where's the spider?"

"It's huge. You can't miss it."

"I don't see it anywhere."

"What do you mean you 'don't see it anywhere'?" Weiss shouted exasperatedly, flailing her hands. "It was right there a minute ago."

"I don't see it," Ruby said again, shrugging. She even checked underneath the seats. "Weiss, I don't see the spider anymore."

The color on Weiss' face drained, as if her soul had permanently left her body. "So it's somewhere in the car…?"

"It probably climbed outside while you weren't looking."

"It's inside the car," Weiss said in disbelief. "Great. We lost a huge ass spider inside the fucking car."

Ruby scratched her cheek as she watched Weiss pace back and forth. "What do you want to do? Continue driving, or…?"

"Pop open the trunk," Weiss ordered.

Ruby hesitated. "Why...?"

"I said pop it open."

Choosing not to argue with her highly anxious and irritated girlfriend, Ruby relented with a sigh. With much reluctance, she opened the trunk for Weiss and watched her rummage through their luggages. What she didn't expect was Weiss to pull out Myrtenaster.

"Wait, Weiss, what are you doing—"

"This car needs to go."

"No, wait, hun, let's be reasonable—"

It was too late. Weiss had reloaded dust into her weapon's chamber and set the car on fire. Ruby watched in horror as the car went up inflames. Scrap metal exploded high to the sky, piece by piece. Flabbergasted, Ruby face-palmed.

"That car was a rental…"

"I'll reimburse them," Weiss said dryly, not a single regret on her face.

"Our luggage?"

"Replaceable."

Ruby squeezed the bridge of her nose and let out the biggest sigh of the year. She retrieved Crescent Rose from the trunk, the only thing that made it out alive from that burning wreck.

Ruby sucked in her cheeks. "Soo, we're walking?"

Not like they had any other choice anyway.

"We're walking," Weiss nodded.

'In a spider infested land,' Ruby wanted to put that out there, but she kept that thought to herself. She wouldn't know how Blake would feel if Weiss were to set Menagerie on fire and wipe it off the map.

"Ruby?"

"Hm?"

"We are never coming to Menagerie again."

Whiterose Free-For-All Prompt: Spider

You can check out a compilation of prompts written by different authors on A03. It is under Whiterose Free-For-All by TheGreatWeissShark.