When Yang woke up the following saturday morning, her half Grimm half sister was sitting at one of the desks in their room, reading something on her scroll. After getting down from her bed, she moved towards Ruby, careful not to wake up the still sleeping heiress.
"Morning Sis, Whatcha reading?", she asked while leaning over her sister's shoulder to see for herself.
"Morning Yang", the wolf eared girl replied while turning to look at her teammate,"its an old legend Ozpin learned about from mom. It claims that the Grimm left people alone, but were still feared until a Young weaponsmith set out and killed of the eldest of them. What really confuses me is how the blade she used is described similar to mom's and that Rakka was cursed with silver eyes for her actions."
"Well not sure if you remember, but Summer once told us that she was inspired by an old story her mother told her when she made her weapon.", noticing the slight signs of worry on the parts of her sister's face that could move, she continued, "But let me just skim this real quick so I know what we're talking about"
Taking the scroll from her sister's hand she quickly read through the story that had her sister so worried. When she finished Yang looked over to the last occupied bed to make sure Weiss was still sleeping, before she spoke to her Sister, this time in a low whisper at first.
"Well I could see the first part as a cautionary thing about your secret, as the Grimm were still feared even when they weren't aggressive.", raising her voice for the next part, she continued after handing the scroll back,"The rest seems like a simple cautionary tale about being aware of consequences."
Seeing the redhead's lips raise in an slight smile, Yang felt she had accomplished her goal of comforting her sister. As she was moving back towards her bed to sit down, the door opened as Blake entered the room. When the two sisters look at their bow wearing teammate, they began to wonder how she managed to open the door with the package she was carrying.
"Ruby, this package arrived for you while I came back from my morning walk.", the black haired girl said, but before she was able to put it down in front of the team leader, it was already gone, a trail of rose petals leading from the desk, towards the redheads bed.
Surprised by that level of enthusiasm Blake asked: "So what did you expect to be delivered that got you so excited."
"Well,youseeIaskeddadtosendover-", Ruby began, tofast for anyone to understand what she was trying to say, until her Sister interrupted her.
"Ruby slow down a tad okay?"
Taking a deep breath the youngest of the students repeated herself, this time at understandable speeds,"Well, you see, I asked dad to send over my Grimmcide games so we could do a Boardgame night together.", as she continued her explanation Ruby was already opening up the parcel she held on her lap,"You know to have some fun, take a break from all the training and homework and maybe get to know each other better."
"That actually sounds like a good idea."
Putting an arm around Blake, Yang spoke up as well,"I have to agree with Blake, that sounds like it would be a lot of fun."
Before she talked again , the raven haired girl slipped out of the blond's grip,"But where would we be playing?"
Scratching at her canine ears, Ruby answered,"Well there are some smaller classrooms teams can reserve for study sessions, so I went ahead and reserved one for us."
Hearing this, Yang pulled her sister down from her bed, making sure not to drop the package and the first box Ruby had already removed from it.
"Oh look at you Rubes, planning all this on your own, you really are growing up."
"So when did you plan to start?" Blake inquired, looking at the box Ruby had pulled out of the parcel, which seemed slightly bigger than what should have fit inside.
"Well as it's supposed to be a board game night, was thinking after dinner so somewhere between 6 and 7 tonight."
"Sounds good.", Yang replied, but Blake was to confused to answer, as Ruby pulled another box out of the package that shouldn't have fit inside either.
When the evening finally came around, Ruby was already inside the small room, setting up the board when the rest of her team arrived. The half Grimm quickly set down the last counters before the rest of her team arrived at the table she had used.
"So you already choose the scenario for the first game Sis?"
"Yup, We're going with the simplest of the one against the rest Scenarios first."
"Before the two of you discuss what we are going to do.", Weiss spoke up, pulling back a chair to sit down while doing so," Would you mind explaining the rules for those of us who haven't played yet." After she finished, the hires gave a short wave towards Blake and herself.
"I was gonna get to that just now, see these figurines here?", Ruby began explaining as she pointed to a set of ten plastic models, some carefully painted, others bare, only the basic brown color of the plastic differentiating them from a set of black figurines.
"These are the survivors, each of you three is going to choose one of them to play as. Each of them has different abilities at the start and they gain different abilities the more Grimm they kill."
After this Ruby and Yang helped the rest of their team to choose the character they would be playing, explaining what the characters abilities did. In the end Weiss settled on a Dust sorcerer who started the game with a vial of burn Dust, allowing him to use fire to attack his enemies. Blake went with a young girl, which would be able to gain abilities aiding in both melee and ranged attacks later on, while Yang went with the same Barbarian she had used ever since she first tried him.
When Ruby continued to explain the rules, Weiss noticed that Ruby had not taken a character for herself.
"Ruby, why haven't you chosen a Character?"
"I already have", the half Grimm replied, pointing at the miniature version of an alpha Beowulf sitting before her, "I will be playing as the Alpha leading the Grimm."
After she finished, the three survivors were placed inside the village and began to scout out the remains, hoping to gather enough resources to survive the trek to the next town over. Between the turns filled with slaying the grimm, breaking down doors and looting houses, the girls talked about many different things.
"So Weiss, Blake where did you guys learn to fight?", Yang asked, trying to distract from the fact that the door she had just opened revealed a small horde of Creeps and a Beowulf.
"My father spared no expense to hire the best private instructors you could find in Atlas who used only the most sophisticated of training equipment."
"That explains why just stared at the Beowulfs during initiation and how you didn't know the Boarbatusk weak spot.", Ruby exclaimed, turning Weiss' proud smile into a slight frown as her relatively recent failure were recounted.
"That is sadly true, due to security concerns I was not able to train against actual Grimm more than a few times and even then there was always my sister Winter nearby.", Weiss tried to justify herself before she glanced at Blake, waiting for her story.
Blake let out a sigh, probably realizing that she would not get away without telling her story, "I grew up outside the kingdoms, and if you can't fight of the Grimm to defend yourself, you won't survive too long out there.", taking a short breath, she turned towards the remaining to teammates, "And what about you two?"
"Well I just went to Signal Academy as many others here have, bute Ruby", she grabbed onto her sister's shoulder, " managed to get into their Accelerated Curriculum at 12 after training day and night with our Uncle for close to a year."
As Yang's grin widened when she telled the others about her sister's achievement, Ruby herself would be blushing red like her cloak, if her face didn't consist of bone.
"Guys how about we focus back on the game, after all I just drew a Goliath for the next spawn.", Ruby spoke up, holding up the mentioned card.
The Blonde's grin was immediately replaced with a mouth hanging open in shock, "You got to be kidding me!"
"How bad could that be?", Weiss asked unfamiliar with both the game rules and the actual Grimm species mentioned, "after all we have managed to -", the words died in her throat when Ruby pulled the model that belonged to the card out of the box, the Grimm elephant was at least twice as big as any other miniature that was on the board at them moment.
To the immense relief to the three survivor players they did manage to take down the Goliath, although Blake's Character died in the process, which prompted the cat Faunus to leave for the night, while the other girls played on.
"So Weiss did you do anything for fun back at home", Ruby asked after the first game was finally over, while she and Yang set up a new scenario.
"Well I always liked singing, but the most fun I had was when my sister invited me to join her and her friends for a game of Dusttech.", the heiress answered an honest smile gracing her lips.
"Uh that's the game with the Giant combat machines right?", Yang asked, eyes glistening with excitement.
"Yes, but they were playing the corresponding roleplaying game."
"Uh can you get the rules sent over for our next game night?", Ruby asked, just as excited as her sister seemed to be.
"I guess so."
Early the next morning, Blake was woken by a sudden loud noise. Opening her eyes and taking a look around the team's room, she quickly noticed Ruby standing next to a fallen over chair, already dressed in her full uniform. IT struck the Cat Faunus as odd how the girl was already awake, after all when she had left it had already been close to midnight.
"Ruby why are you already up";blake asked, rubbing the last vestiges of sleep from her eyes while sitting up, "Or better question how are you already up? It's only", a quick glance towards the nearest clock told her it was 5:50," It's not even six in the morning?"
"What do you mean?", Ruby asked, her mask probably hiding a confused expression judging by her tone of voice, "I'm always awake at this time in the morning."
"Even after you played a Board game with Yang and Weiss for who knows how long?"
"Yes?", Ruby replied seeming unsure herself.
"So you want me to believe that what 4 hours of sleep at most are enough for you?"
"I got more than enough sleep tonight."
"Well in that case please be quiet I am trying to sleep.", with that Blake turned her back towards her fellow Faunus, still suspicious of her explanation as the cat Faunus drifted back to sleep.
So as always thanks for reading, Critique and Comments welcome.
Also I finally got to put one of the three scenes, I have been looking forward to write since this idea began forming, to paper at the ned of my buffer.
Further more, I am also looking for a Betareader willing to help with my Dialogue.