Most of the guests had left, but Ruby and the other former students decided to stay a while longer. They were all gathered up in Weiss's bedroom. Ruby and Yang were on the large bed, Jaune, Ren, and Nora were sharing the couch with Velvet on her girlfriend's lap. Weiss and Blake however where sharing the cardboard box Ruby found somewhere and brought in as a joke. It might've been a joke but the two of them then looked pretty cozy.

Weiss let out a quick chuckle "this does feel really nice."

"Suppressing your instincts mate." Velvet spoke up "trying to hide them make them really hard to ignore. Every time I tried to cover my ears wanted to go home and dig a hole as soon as I could."

"You're making that up," Weiss responded with a smile.

"Well, one way to find out," Yang said with a big smile on her face as she pulled out a familiar device.

"No don't, you can't do that to her!" Ruby said looking at the laser pointer.

Despite her sister's protest, Yang turned on the light and pointed it at the floor beneath Weiss. Her snow leopard tail perked up and she started watching it intensely getting ready to strike. Blake, however, was less interested or at least doing a good job of covering it. The heiress's tail started to twitch and she jumped out of the box.

"Okay, you made your point," Weiss remarked with a bit more force than she intended.

"You're just lucky I don't walk around with a ball of yarn." The blonde girl laughed before turning off the laser pointer.

Ren spoke up for the first time in a while "what I don't understand is if Jaune's power is strong enough to regrow her tail how come she still has a scar? And why is Yang still..." He had trouble finding the right way to say it.

"Suddenly left-handed." Yang supplied.

Everyone pondered that for a moment Nora and Velvet each fiddled with one of Velvet's bunny years. Yang studied her prosthetic again and Weiss stroked her tail. Ruby was the one who spoke up first "I think it has to do with emotional healing. Yang had to do a lot of soul-searching after she lost her arm and she came out stronger."

Weiss added "I looked at and accepted the scar on my face every day of my life. Meanwhile, I suppressed the memory of my tail and forgot it was missing until I was standing there with a good portion of Menagerie after the battle for Haven. Something in the back of my mind kept going this feels right. It hit me one night as I went to bed."

Jaune asked, "so what happened to it?"

Weiss stood right up and marched to him before answering the memory lit a fire in her "My father."

Ruby's and Yang's mouths hung open. Blake's cat ears were pressed back against her head, Nora accidentally launched Velvet and Ren responded with a disbelieving "what?"

After Velvet landed, Weiss continued. "The memories are still hazy, but I remember it was when I was really young and he just suddenly charged into my room. Soon after that, I remember a doctor I didn't recognize. My best guess is something triggered him to suddenly get sick of me liking it."

After a moment of silence, Weiss felt an unusual sensation she looked back to see Ruby in an unusual position "are you petting my tail?"

"Trying to break the tension" she responded with a sheepish smile.

Wiess, opened her mouth but received a pillow to the face instead "I think I know a better way!" Noria called out.

"Ohh you did not just throw a pillow at me!" Weiss called back.

The eight teenagers took battle stances, each with a pillow in hand. "One moment," Ruby said and she ejected her sister's prosthetic. "Don't want people to get hurt." And placed it in the farthest corner.

"No mercy mate." Velvet said as she walked Weiss.

After a few minutes of pillows flying everywhere, team RWBY victorious, the eight teenagers were laughing in a pile. They heard a new voice say "is it too late for me to crash this party?" Coco Adel was standing in the doorway, besides her weapon she had another large bag on her other shoulder "And I brought party favors. "

"You mean alcohol?" Ruby asked rhetorically "I think I'll pass."

"Agreed." Weiss started to say but she was cut off.

"It not every day somebody is suddenly a Faunus." Coco smiled "I have something special for you, Weiss." And she pulled a green bottle out of the bag.

Blake's ears started to perk up "is that what I think is?"

"Catnip Sake straight from Menagerie," Coco confirmed.

Weiss looked to Blake, her friend seemed very interested in the bottle. "Okay, I'll give it a try."

Coco produced a few glasses and a few more drinks including some brandy, wine, and mead. "Excellent." Coco began to pour out a glass for Weiss and handed it to her.

Weiss looked at it suspiciously for a moment and gave it an inquisitive smell. It didn't smell too bad. She took a sip, enjoyed it, and slowly drank down the whole thing. It wasn't long before the whole group at least had a taste of something. Ruby and Jaune turned up their noses at any of the available options so Coco gave the lemon-lime soda. Ren was the only human that wanted to try the sake along with Blake and Velvet. Yang took a swig of the brandy. Nora seemed to really take to the mead.

"Too bad Pyrrha couldn't be here." Yang mused. Which prompted the other people there to hold up their glasses and say "To Pyrrha." Before taking another gulp.

"Maybe she can be," Weiss exclaimed.

"This must be some strong sake." Blake laughed.

Weiss said, "No, I'm serious maybe she can be."

"Are you feeling alright?" Ruby looked at Weiss.

"I'm feeling great," Weiss said before running to her closet. She rummaged through it and came out with what looked like a board game at first. She rejoined the group and presented it to the rest of them.

"A spirit board?" Yang said looking out what was in her friend's hands "things are either scam or are nothing but trouble."

"People shouldn't mess with the afterlife and alcohol on the same night," Coco added

"I can't believe you have one of those." Retorted Blake.

"I was very lonely before I went to Beacon," Weiss admitted looking somber for a moment. Regardless, she opened the box and set up the board and pointer.

"Crikey she's serious!" Velvet exclaimed.

"I'm going to give it a try." Jaune sat down next to Weiss. Soon they were joined by Nora followed by Ruby, Ren, and Blake. After a moment Yang joined them. Velvet and Coco remained standing back but not far enough away so they couldn't see it.

Weiss closed her eyes and put her hands on the pointer "Pyrrha Nikos, your friends would like to call you from the great beyond? Pyrrha Nikos, are you with us here tonight?" And the other 6 put their hands on the pointer.

It began to move. "H-E-L-L-O A-G-A-I-N" it spelled out.

"It's her," Nora said with a small smile on her face and a tear in her eye.

"I-M-S-O-R-R-Y" the board then spelled out.

"I'm not buying it," Yang said removing her hand prompting everybody to disengage and look at her.

Before anybody got the chance to reprimand her they heard "Crikey." Coming from Ren followed by "Great now I'm doing it." His eyes were glued on the board and the rest of the group saw that the pointer was still moving on its own, as nobody was touching it. "J-A-U-N-E" it spelled out.

"You don't have to apologize to me." the blonde boy replied. "You did what was right."

It went to the no before spelling out "I-M-I-S-S-Y-O-U"

"Jaune is your only regret?" Nora asked.

The pointer went over to the yes.

"I was a fool," Jaune replied. "I could've had the most amazing girl at school and I was pining over an ice queen."

"I'm sitting right here," Weiss responded.

"N-I-C-E-T-A-I-L" the pointer spelled out.

"Thank you." Weiss smiled as she said it.

"R-U-B-Y" the board spelled out.

"Yes, what is it Pyrrha?" The silver eyed girl responded.

"Y-O-U-R-E-M-O-M-S-A-Y-S-H-E-L-L-O"

Ruby covered her mouth with her hands. "Hello mom," She called out. "Couldn't she say that herself?"

"I guess things really can only summon one spirit per day," Wess responded.

"I-M-S-O-R-R-Y" the board spelled.

"You don't have to be sorry we all got to hear from you again," Ruby responded

"Anything else Pyrrha?" Weiss said.

"I-M-P-R-O-U-D-O-F-A-L-L-O-F-Y-O-U"

"Thank you." The whole group said.

"I-H-A-V-E-T-O-G-O-N-O-W"

"We understand," Weiss said.

"Give mom a big hug for me," Ruby added.

The pointer moved to "yes" and then to "goodbye."

"Are you okay in there?" Klein called in.

"We're all fine," Weiss said fighting back tears. "I think everyone is staying the night. Could you bring in some extra blankets and pillows?"

"But there are two boys in there."

"It's alright Klein," Weiss answered.

After the blankets were brought in Weiss and Blake settled back into the box. Ruby and Yang shared the bed. Nora laid out on the couch with Velvet on top of her. Coco sprawled out on a chair. Ren got into a corner and Jaune made a nest next to the board. Soon enough everyone was fast asleep.