Wake up.
Yang opens her eyes, the voice of Mettle jolting her awake like a splash of ice water at her face. She rubs her eyes, checking the time on her scroll.
"Seriously? 6 AM?" Yang groaned. Once again, her semblance woke her up at an unbearable hour.
You have no idea when classes start. Waking up this early should give you at least two hours to bathe, eat and prepare for classes. You should have read the official schedule the academy had given you, instead of relying on your semblance.
Yang got up as Mettle lectured her. There was no use going back to sleep as her semblance would just wake her up again. She wonders why Mettle only refers to itself in the second person, and not just call itself 'Mettle', or 'Me'. Eh, just something to think about later.
Focus.
"Oh what, I can't think in my own head?" Yang says aloud, annoyed.
You can think in the shower. You're wasting time.
"It's six in the morning! I think we have all the time in-"
"Yang?" A voice not from Yang or her head cuts in. Yang slowly turns, seeing Blake sitting up in her bed, staring at her.
"Are you... arguing with yourself?" Blake asks, concerned, confused and cringing somehow at the same time.
"Maybe." Yang half-admits. She quickly tries to change the subject. "What are you doing up this early?"
"I'm usually up this early. Are we ignoring-"
"Yup." Yang says, popping the 'P'. She walks over to Ruby's bed, kicking the headboard and jolting her awake.
"Huh!? Wazzaht?" Ruby jumps up waving her arms and half-blinded by an eye mask.
"Wake up your partner Rubes. Leader's orders!" Yang says, quickly grabbing a towel and her uniform from her bag, and running for the bathroom connected to their dorm. "Taking a shower. See ya!"
"Yang!" "Yaaang..." Blake and Ruby shout, but their great leader has already shut the door.
Blake sighed as Yang left, looking over to Ruby who was rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"Is it early? It feels like it's early..." The youngest of the team murmured, removing her eye mask and getting out of bed.
"Is your sister usually like that?" Blake asks, frowning.
"Sometimes. She's always hogging the hot water from the shower and she takes so long-"
"No, not that." Blake interrupts, still concerned for Yang. "Does she usually... Talk to herself? She was just joking, right?"
Ruby stills, her mouth setting into a line. "That's... private." She hesitates, before continuing. "Yang's kinda sensitive about that. You should ask her yourself."
Before Blake could ask more, Ruby gets out of bed, moving over to Weiss to wake her. The conversation clearly over, Blake sighs and gets out of bed as well. Might as well unpack...
Unbeknownst to Blake and Ruby, Weiss was already awake. She was startled by the slamming of the door, and managed to overhear their conversation.
Weiss had no idea what to think. Xiao-Long didn't seem to have any mental issues, but then again, her sister all but confirmed it.
Maybe Yang was just stressed? Perhaps she was just trying to calm herself down... Either way, this new information was disturbing to Weiss. What kind of leadership should she expect from Yang?-
Fweeee!
"Gah!" Weiss, startled, jumped out of bed. She looks up to see Ruby, still in her pyjamas and grinning, holdings a whistle.
"What is wrong with you?!" Weiss exclaims from the floor, frustrated with her absolute dolt of a partner.
"Sorry Weiss! Just trying to wake you up!"
"I was already awake you dolt!"
Giggling sheepishly, Ruby says a quick "Sorry!" before going back to her bed, unpacking her luggage. Weiss huffed before getting up from bed. Her childish partner was yet another thing gone wrong in Beacon.
First she had a fifteen-year old as a partner instead of someone like Pyrrha Nikos, then she was passed over as a leader by an irritating blonde (twice she may add. At least she wasn't going to be bossed around by Jaune Arc.) who was also Ruby's sister! The only thing worse would be if their final teammate was secretly White Fang!
Blake sneezed suddenly. Great, their dorm was dusty as well.
Yang, washed and fully dressed, opens the bathroom door to be greeted by Weiss screaming at Ruby, with Blake standing near the door.
"Good luck dear leader." Blake says, looking at the two partners as she enters the bathroom.
Yang sighed. Right, she's the leader now, which means that whatever's riling Weiss up was her responsibility as well.
You were in the shower for ten minutes. How have those two gotten into another argument already?
"Alright you two, what's wrong?" Yang asks, going for the 'big-sister' look. It helped that both Weiss and Ruby were shorter than her. Ruby looked to the ground sheepishly, while Weiss glared up at her.
"Weiss started it!"
"Oh don't be so childish." Weiss snaps at Ruby.
"I just asked why you looked so angry! You don't have to be so mean!"
"And you were invading my personal space!-"
"Okay, that's enough." Yang says, butting in. "Weiss, stay away from Ruby. Ruby, stay away from Weiss." She commands. Weiss stalks off to her side of the room while Ruby walked in the other direction. Yang sighs.
That won't work forever. They're partners. You can't separate them indefinitely.
Yang ignores the voice in her head, deciding to check on the schedule Beacon gave her. Mettle did have a point on her having to have checked the schedule sooner. But in her defense, it was already late and she wanted to sleep.
"So classes start at nine. That would have been good to know..." Yang murmured, scanning over the sheet.
It was 6:30 now. They had plenty of time. Yang decides to unpack her belongings, now that there wasn't anything left to do except wait for the rest of her team to get ready.
The room's looking pretty bare though. Would be nice to decorate-
"We should make bunk beds!"
"Ruby no-"
Aaand they were fighting again. Yang sighs, walking back to the arguing partners. She hopes that Ruby and Weiss get along soon. Team LBSR does have four more years left together after all.