Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Fight or Flight. Enjoy the 1000-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.

(Beacon Vale.)

Raven reclined on her bed and looked at the others.

Their beds, connected by metal rods like modern beds and not wood? They had been fused at the legs with Fire Dust, making them bunk beds. The group had quickly divvied up the beds and gotten settled in. Maize and Raven in one pair of beds, Tai and Sal in another.

They had then started to try sleeping… The keyword was TRYING.

Raven had donned a red and black kimono with a red sash around the middle. She had put Omen on the dresser along with her new scroll.

Maize had put his Scroll and the holster for Vindicta and Retribution next to Raven's weapons.

Tai had put his knuckleduster/grenade launcher: Wisecrack next to Night Bane.

Raven cleared her throat and looked at her feet before running a hand through her jet-black hair.

"I know none of us are sleeping yet…" Raven said before Maize reclined on the bed under her.

He wore a white tank top that exposed his arms along with a pair of pants that had Deathstalker and Blind Worms along with his symbol of a gunslinger with a pair of crossed armed revolvers in his hands.

"I'm reading a book about Grimm so I can kill them better… What about you, Tai? You're practicing the standup retinue I heard all the way here?" He looked at Tai who happened to wear a yellow t-shirt and long orange sweatpants which clashed about as much as they seemed to.

"Hey, I think we did a bang-up job at doing things, don't you, Sal?" Tai asked. Raven and Maize groaned at the stupid joke.

"We fought well… Your joke just fought, Tai." Sal looked at his long sleeve red shirt and tan shorts as the four teens sighed in boredom.

"We have an entire week to settle in… And yet I'm already bored. I went from gunslinging to mudslinging quick." Maize said before he grabbed towards his bandolier.

He grabbed a pack of cards from the gear and put it on his bed. Raven looked over the edge of her bed before swinging herself into Maize's.

This almost threw the gunslinger out of his bed while Raven looked over the cards.

"You know, there's a great way to get those without stealing… It's called 'asking'." Maize was ignored as Raven looked over the cards.

"These are Mistral Playing cards… You visited there?" She asked as Tai and Sal perked up.

"I did a little touring before I went to Vacuo. I got them from a trader I saved, he said to keep them as a good luck charm… I don't see them as such." Maize saw Sal and Tai start to talk amongst themselves.

"I don't steal off people, by the way… I'm a scavenger, I and my brother live with a group of… Rouges. You live in Vacuo, that kingdom isn't known for having good people, right?" Raven asked. Maize hummed and nodded after a moment.

"You don't look like a cutthroat… And I don't look like a thief or a pirate… Besides, thieves don't use swords, they use guns." Raven looked at the others.

"Tomorrow we spar with each other if we're going to be a team? We need to get a better understanding of our skills and weaknesses… Plus, I am the strongest, so I have authority." Raven said.

Maize rolled his eyes and then passed out a few cards to the group while he sighed.

"Something tells me we aren't going to get any sleep today or anytime soon… Anyone wants to play go fish?" Maize clenched his fist and hummed before looking back at his cards.

"Screw it, it's better than trying to sleep when I still got the smell of Dust in my nose…" Tai said before Sal did the same.

"Ok, everyone off my bed, Princess over there is already pushing it with her lamppost long legs…" Maize rolled out of bed and walked to the center of the room.

Raven, Sal, and Tai all stood around them before Raven flicked Maize on the head again.

He glared at her and rubbed his head as he passed out cards.

(30 minutes later 12:30 PM)

Raven looked at Maize before the gunslinger hummed.

"So Tai, why did you and Sal get recruited to the game… Also, I'm not letting you look at my hand just because you saved our asses, Branwen." Maize muttered. He had a bemused smile on his face as he looked at his deck.

"Oz recruited me when I was planning on being a teacher at Patch. I guess he just wanted less trouble from another school. I did use to live in Vale, maybe he got my number from that? Sal ended up coming from Mistral… Or maybe it was Atlas, you were a nomad from some group I believe?" Tai saw Maize and Raven raise eyebrows at this.

"'Oz'? oh, I could make a LONG list of jokes about that if I ever… I'm sorry, you are losing too bad to consider cheating too good for you?" Maize asked while the team continued to play.

They had no idea what would be coming their way, no idea at all about what was going to happen at the moment down the road…

"You looked at my cards first… Cowboy." Raven smirked while Tai put two cards in.

"This isn't that one card game, Tai!" Maize stated. Sal just hummed with amusement.

Author notes

Phew, another chapter is done! I apologize if this isn't good at fleshing out the characters, I am trying to. The next chapter is going to be on next Tuesday and will end up showing RUST sparing with each other and showing off the villain of the story. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!

Ps: Glynda is getting a chapter on Wednesday and Yang is on Sunday or Friday. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!