I'm glad that people liked Bumblebee's room, but now I'm curious if the lack of a response to Ruby and Weiss' room means it's not as good. Oh well. I hope you like this chapter.

Chapter 54: Movie Night and a Test

Rose Quarter, Ruby and Weiss' Residence

Ruby let out a sigh as she stepped out of the bath room in her pajamas. She walked down the stairs to the living room, dropping down next to Weiss and wrapping an arm around the fox's shoulders. "I think I'm going to love this place," the wolf said as she snuggled against her mate, admiring how she looked in the pajamas from their time on Patch.

Weiss nuzzled against Ruby's neck with a smile. "Definitely. Although we'll have to fill some of the empty rooms eventually," she said, getting a nod from the wolf before she grinned seductively, climbing into the other girl's lap. She leaned forward, whispering in the girl's ear. "We don't have to worry about anyone walking in on us either…" she said, almost purring.

Ruby grinned back. "Wow Weiss, I guess letting your animal side out made you pretty playful, didn't it?" she teased, grabbing the other girl's ass and blinking in surprise. "No underwear tonight? You don't really have an excuse this time." Weiss gave the girl a playful smile.

"There's only one person who's going to know, right?" she said before planting a kiss on her mate's lips. "Once Yang and Blake leave, we'll go to bed and snuggle, okay?"

Ruby smiled. "Sure… You start training tomorrow after all."

Weiss let out a frustrated sigh. "What should I expect?"

Ruby hummed. "Well, manipulating Dust is something you should be able to do easily, but actually activating it is going to be the hard part. It took me weeks to get it figured out before Mountain Glenn and even then, all I could do was prime Burn Dust to destroy the tunnel."

Weiss nodded and went to speak when the doorbell rang. She let out a sigh and stood up, heading toward the door. She opened it with a smile, looking at the Bumblebee pair on the other side. "I didn't expect the two of you to get here this fast," she said simply, getting a grin from the blonde.

"Aw, you sound like you didn't want us here yet, Weiss," Yang said with a grin. The White Rose rolled her eyes and stepped aside, letting them in. "We didn't really have much to unpack, so we just grabbed a few movies and came over."

Ruby nodded and took the stack from her sister, setting them on the table before looking through them. "We've never been able to finish this one on our own," Ruby said, discarding a horror movie.

"I'm not really in the mood for an action movie," Weiss said. Ruby nodded and looked at the other two, getting a shrug before she tossed a few movies onto the reject pile.

The group spent a few minutes discussing the remaining movies, with Ruby and Yang telling their partners about each one when asked, until they picked a simple romance. The two couples quickly retreated to their own couches. Weiss settled in, resting on top of Ruby as the wolf's tail wrapped around her. Yang wrapped her arm around Blake and the cat faunus rested her head on the blonde's shoulder.

The movie they had chosen was, according to Ruby and Yang, based off a story from the time of the Great War and the first in a series. As Weiss and Blake watched, they quickly learned that it was following a young soldier from Mantle during an ambush gone wrong. Going off reports that the King of Vale would be moving through the area, Mantle sent a group of soldiers to the forests to the far north of Sanus to stage an ambush. Unbeknownst to them, however, the kingdom of Vale had come to suspect a traitor in their ranks was feeding intel to Mantle and Mistral, leading to a battalion lead by a detachment of the king's personal guard being sent in the king's place.

After a bloody battle, only one soldier from Mantle was left alive, but was spared when a woman from the king's guard managed to convince her companions that he might be able to identify the traitor if they take him back to Vale. Her superior, one of the highest-ranking captains in the king's guard, reluctantly agreed. Along the way, the woman attempted to get the man to reveal anything he knew, only for him to refuse.

On the third night, while the Valian army was sleeping, a swarm of Grimm attacked, quickly cutting through the defenders. Weiss watched, wide-eyed as the elite Valian soldiers fought fiercely against a Mammoth, struggling to take the beast down while the rest of the army fought a group of Beowolfs and Ursai. The woman, realizing that there was no way they could defend the camp, was forced to cut her prisoner free to help her fight out into the woods. The two quickly ran, leaving behind the sound of the carnage. Now lost in the wilderness, the two soldiers were forced to work together for survival. As days stretched on, the two continued to wander aimlessly, the man knowing that the woman would lead him to Vale and captivity, but knowing he would die on his own in the unfamiliar land. The early evenings were spent talking about home as they opened up to each other. Eventually, the man admitted that he wasn't comfortable with Mantle's policies and wished to live elsewhere, but that the war prevented him from doing that even before he was forced into Mantle's military.

The two continued on, slowly falling for each other but neither wanting to admit it as they struggled to maintain their distance from each other. One night, the woman, unable to sleep earlier, fell asleep on her watch. The members of Team RWBY watched as a Boarbatusk charged at her sleeping form with a roar, startling the woman out of her sleep in time to see the man push her to the ground, taking a tusk to the side. Weiss and Blake let out a cry as he fell to the side, the woman screaming before killing the beast. Guilt-ridden, she quickly tended to his wound and sat next to him, sobbing quietly at her failure. Blake let out a sad sigh as she thought of how much this was like her situation after the Battle of Beacon, only for Yang to give her a reassuring squeeze.

The man woke up the next day to find the woman still on watch, cheeks stained with tears and eyes showing her exhaustion. The moment she realized he was alive and awake, the woman wrapped him in a hug, burying her head into his shoulder and sobbing openly, apologizing for her mistake. The man let out a sigh and pushed her away slightly, giving her a quick kiss before telling her that he could never be angry at her. The two spent the next few days enjoying their time together, the woman helping her beloved with his wounds. One day, an early model airship flew overhead and the two realized what was happening; Mantle had found them first. The man begged the woman to leave him, arguing that Mantle taking her prisoner was far worse than dying. When she made it clear she would never abandon him, the man gave her a small pendant and promised that he would survive the war and that he wouldn't rest until he found her again.

The members of Team RWBY cried silently as the woman returned the promise, giving the man a gentle kiss. Before she left the man revealed the name of the traitor in the Valian ranks. The woman bid farewell, clutching the pendant to her chest as she ran. Weiss let out a frustrated cry as a group of Mantle's soldiers walked into the clearing and the screen went black.

"What happens next?!" she cried out.

"You're going to need to wait for part two," Yang said in a singsong voice. Weiss and Blake let out a groan as the blonde put the movie away.

Weiss let out a yawn and nuzzled against her mate. "Can we go to bed now?" she said tiredly.

Ruby smiled and gave her a quick peck. "Sure. Let me just see Yang and Blake out, alright angel?" the wolf asked. Weiss nodded lightly, a subtle blush on her face as she stood up and went upstairs. Ruby stood up and walked over to the door with the Bumblebee pair. "I'm glad we did this… even if we got too into the movie to actually talk…" Ruby said with a smile.

Yang grinned. "Hey, look at it this way, now you get to have alone time with Weiss!"

Ruby blushed and looked away meekly. "Um… Probably not considering she starts her training tomorrow. She's going to need her sleep."

Yang nodded, frowning slightly. "Right, I forgot about that… Well, we'll see the two of you tomorrow then! Good night!"

Ruby nodded and waved to them before closing the door, locking it before heading upstairs. She opened the door and looked at the bed. She froze when she realized that the fox's shoulders were bare. "Weiss, are you…" she asked meekly, causing her mate to look at her.

"What? I liked the feeling of sleeping like this last time," she said with a slight blush. Ruby looked at her, blushing lightly. "Well? Are you going to just stand there or are you going to come to bed?" Ruby jumped and smiled for a moment before walking over towards the tablet attached to the wall, tapping it a few times. "What are you doing?" Weiss asked before Ruby stripped down.

"Well, you wanted to cuddle, and you wanted to sleep naked, so I figured I'd drop the temperature in the room just a little bit, so we can keep each other nice and warm," Ruby said, sliding under the blankets and wrapping her arms around her mate's stomach. "This feels so natural, actually," she hummed to herself, relishing the skin contact. "Is this alright?" she asked meekly.

Weiss rolled her eyes as she moved closer to the wolf, letting out a content sigh. "Dolt, it's fine. We've done more than just cuddle before after all…" Ruby let out a sheepish laugh before Weiss spoke up again. "How about we sleep like this from now on?"

Ruby grinned and planted a kiss on the fox's cheek. "Sure, just don't get mad at me if I can't keep my hands to myself," she said.

"Don't worry about it, dolt," Weiss said, the term taking on an endearing tone. "After all, I'm sure we'd both like it."

Citadel Grounds, with Ruby, Weiss, Winter, and Aurelius

The Blue Rose glanced at the three in front of him before letting out a sigh. "Alright then, today's the day. Weiss," he started, causing the fox's ears to perk up. "Today, you're going to start learning everything there is about being a Rose. Dust manipulation, the Rose Storm, and perhaps even the Vigil eventually. For now, we'll focus on what you'll have the least difficulty with." He quickly handed Weiss a Burn crystal. The White Rose blinked in confusion as Aurelius handed one to Winter as well. "Assuming you both know how to control Dust with assistance, you will be required to draw the power from this Dust crystal, without assistance, and increase the temperature of a specially designed room in the Citadel Tower by one to three degrees. This will be the test you need to pass to continue."

Weiss looked up at him in confusion. "I don't understand how this is what we need to learn in order to pass. We can already control Dust."

Ruby was the one to speak up. "You use Myrtenaster to use the Dust and help control it though. It's not the same thing and this is much harder, like I said. You need to be able to draw precise amounts of power from the crystal. Too much and it could explode, like what happened at Mountain Glenn. Too little, and you can't accomplish your task." The two sisters looked at the Dust crystals in their hands nervously.

"Don't worry, for what I want you to do, it's unlikely you'd be able to do more than cook yourself… Which is why the rooms are set up to release energy from a Frost lattice to drop the temperature if it increases by more than three degrees exactly. I've made sure that you don't have to worry about more than mild burns, which we can heal quickly enough anyways. You may make an attempt at any time and ask me for advice if you wish. However, just remember that in the end, neither Ruby nor I can help you with the final step of the process."

The two sisters looked at the Burn crystals in their hand with a sigh. This was going to be a long day… If they were lucky.

Sorry for the wait. I was having a hard time figuring out what to do about the movie night scene until I decided to just write a summary for a fake movie plot. I'm not sure how it came out though.

Let me know what you think.