A/N: Full Author's note at the bottom.

I do NOT own RWBY or its characters, they belong to Monty Oum...and RoosterTeeth Productions.

"You know, I'm kinda surprised you haven't tried some silly plan on me and Pyrrha doesn't have you in a death rip of some sort right now."

"I have my moments of peace."

For 1 day, just one day, Lie Ren decided to actually have some quiet time between him and his blond leader of their team. Sitting on the edge of one of the lowest buildings on the school campus. They were only a mere 25 feet from the ground below which happened to be a flower bed. The sun was setting, making the sky a bright orange while the last clouds dispersed from the sky.

Usually they say staring at the sun would give you eye cancer.

'Or some bull crap about your eyes deteriorating.'

The real reason why the duo were out on this ledge with their legs dangling over the sides was for a calm..talk.

'Can you believe it? I'm actually not getting Jaune into some messed up situation right now.' No really, it was by some miracle when Fox from team CFVY came by and Ren said he was going to have a friendly chat with Jaune.

'Oh trust me, justifying friendly is having 2 mega-sized juice boxes sipping on them quietly while watching the sunset...you'd almost think this was some plot device in a yaoi.'

"But really Ren, whatever you may be up to, thanks for inviting me up here."

The stoic gave a sigh when he let his lips fall from the juice box. "For the last time, I'm not up to anything." Remaining calm as ever from the accusation. Jaune had a right to be fearful from Ren's excursions out into the public with Jaune and their senior Fox and sometimes the members of team SSSN. Ren may have been quiet before, but his mind was a different matter, inside was like a multitude of ideas waiting to be sprung.

'So what do you want to play?'

'Monopoly-'

'No! Screw that game and its real life game devices that make you grow up sooner rather than later.'

'You mean life commitments like marriage?'

'That's LIFE, stupid.'

'You're stupid.'

'Crap Jaune's been talking to us for the past 2 minutes and we didn't notice, say something!'

"Uuhhh.."

'Oh my god I'm so dumb sometimes.'

'That's all of the time.'

"Shut up.'

"You ok Ren?" The blodn waved his hand in front of his friend's face. "I asked where was Nora right now." Seeing his magenta eyes flicker back and forth like he didn't know what to do. The realization of an impending plan being on Ren's mind. "Wait..don't tell me-"

"Your lack of faith in me as a friend is very disturbing Jaune. " he mocked sarcastically in his face, taking another audible sip of his juice.

"Your faith in me for Halloween when I wanted you to be the X-Ray to my Vav costume was disturbing!" Jaune exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air.

'I told him why that wouldn't work, Pyrrha had already made herself a female X-Ray outfit to go with blunderboy's outfit but by the time she was ready, that chick with weird eyes already made him pass out for the night...well technically it was a surprise so I didn't tell him Pyrrha was in wait to go with him.

And secondly..'

"I told you if you ever came within 10 feet of me with that thing I would feed you to an Ursa Major myself." No matter how soul-crushing his tone was to his stupefied leader. Jaune looked as if tears were about to form in his eyes. "Please stop the fake waterworks, you're going to make it rain before the sun sets." Well that was totally intentional. He stopped his outing face to just stare at Ren. Seemingly both males were frozen, then gradually, the corners of their mouths started turning upwards into grins.

Then full on laughter was heard. Ren was quieter but he laughed none the less out into the open. "You know me too much, brother." Jaune noted while wiping a small tear from his eye.

That statement made Ren stop his laughing. Of course, Jaune had mentioned said being like a brother he never had to him, but Ren being Ren, not knowing at the time what to say, thought it was just a polite way of saying 'friend.'

'I keep forgetting he actually means that, growing up with 7 sister and all. Jaune seems like the type of guy who takes things very literal.'

And he was right. An Arc promise was a promise as plain as day when a book that Ren had highly wanted to read that was on his wishlist 'Tales of the Wanderer' was available at Vale's bookstore. But it being a highly sought out novel, it sold out within minutes and no matter where he had looked, he could not find it. Other sources also pointing to how the books value had gone up so much it was definitely out of his price range from it skyrocketing. Jaune seeing his 'brother' so down , made a promise to him and said he would get the book for him. Ren still forgetting Jaune's Arc promise at the dance and just how serious he was, blindly said yes. It was the first time in a long time when Jaune Arc, several days later appeared before a very shocked Ren with said book in hand looking positively run down in the middle of their dorm room.

'I remember Nora taking exactly 63 photos of my face in 63 different angles and then posting it Oum knows everywhere.'

'It was a joyous occasion for her, no one has ever seen our face in a state of shock before...that is except our entire team now. I don't think Jaune remembers though, he collapsed midway trying to hand it to us.'

'Good, one less person knows.'

Ren had never had this feeling before, of having a sibling since he was an only child. This feeling, he liked this feeling, though they wouldn't be brothers by blood, they would be by heart. In the midst of their merrymaking...

"Boop!"

"Hmm?" Ren felt a small pressure on top of his head. He looked up to see a very happy Nora with a finger poked in his head. "Hi Nora." Having been acknowledged, the short red made her way in between the duo which was a struggle since Jaune and Ren were sitting right next to each other. Jaune grumbled a bit and almost fell off the side of the building in her quest to move them apart.

"I'm surprised Ren doesn't have you in a hospital yet!" Stating her mind to the world positively gleaming at Jaune. He only offered a very loud straw drinking sound to her as he turned away, being fake hurt.

"Heeeyyy! I don't have a juice box!" Immediately voicing her concern. A surprising cold touch met the side of her arm and when she looked down, to see a smaller juice box pressed against her arm, offered by Ren silently. Now happy again, she took it and punched the detachable straw into the hole.

"Thanks Ren!~"

"And here I don't get a juice box of friendship?" Another voice came from their backs. Walking forward was the last remaining member of their team, Pyrrha Nikos. Ren turned around to the crimson red-head with a look of indifference on his face with the straw still in his mouth.

"You'll be compensated after 'you-know-what' has been infiltrated."

She smiled back to him. "And is it safe to say that 'you-know-what' will be transferred to 'you-know-who' when said matter is over?"

"Of course." Finally throwing a juice box in her direction. She caught it with a smirk while Jaune looked on in confusion. "Ok, what was that about?" Giving the two a look right as Pyrrha situated herself next to Jaune.

"An understanding." was her only reply.

'Speaking of which, Ozpin owes me money-'

'Not the time! We'll discuss that later.'

But now was a time for peace..and tranquility. The 4 of them looking off into the sunset as friends would. He almost wished this could last forever and a day. Days like this where they didn't have to fight Grimm and act like normal teenagers. He knew these times would eventually come to a close and they would be called upon again, they did sign up for this career path, it was their duty to follow it through.

'I'm going to die from the sweetness, I need more chaotic in my life.'

"So Jaune, did you tell Nora that right below us are the ripest blueberries for the picking for special pancakes tomorrow?" He could just see the immediate smile burning on Nora's face looking at him to have her gaze turn downwards.

"GERONIMMMOO!" And with that his own partner dove down to the bushes below. Her sliding off the edge left Jaune kind of off balance but he caught himself in time as to not fall over. When he settled, Ren looked over to Jaune and the two made eye contact for a few tense seconds.

"Well, go help her." The enunciation in his tone, he lightly shoved Jaune forward and his leader was sent down as well. Just before he could make the drop, Ren grabbed his juice box out of his hand. "I'll hold on to this while you do that." Making his voice loud enough for him to hear him. When he went back to his own box, he glanced towards Pyrrha. He had to do a double take from the glare he was receiving right now.

"What? Jaune's fine." To make sure he peeked over the edge. "Jaune's fine right?"

"He's fine!" Nora yelled back to him from below.

"See he's fine." Ren mustered after leaning back to the Spartan. She still eyed him warily. "What? You want pancakes too don't you?" Pyrrha couldn't lie to herself, everyone wanted pancakes when Ren made them. Finally having gotten her to understand, she too hopped off the ledge in tow after Jaune, seeing her red hair disappear over the edge.

'Suckers.'

Lifting back up his right hand to continue his drink. He took a couple of sips before taking the straw out of his mouth a strange look on his face.

'Wait a minute..'

Raising the box to his face. Clearly, this was blueberry when his own drink was the cherry one, now inspecting his left hand with his own box in hand.

'Welp, that was Jaunes'.'

"...Huh." Finally realizing what he'd just done. He didn't know how long it took for it to hit but it was gradually there slowly sinking.

"Eh." Brushing it off like it was noting, he stuck the same blueberry flavored drinks straw back in his mouth to continue drinking.

Today was a good day.

A/N: I want to express my deepest sympathies to anyone feeling the passing of Monty Oum. He was a great inspiration to other animators, artists, in general. He was a great talent that as taken from the world too soon. I..wanted to present this on a happier note, but as he would say 'Keep Moving Forward'. SO I present this..shoddy piece I wrote for #CreativeForMonty. I thought I would do something creative and not present a less than chaotic chapter...that will come later.

I may not have known him that well but when we met at A-kon 2011 and he too expressed my love for Final Fantasy Versus XIII (which is now Final Fantasy XV), we got along quite well and well...could not stop talking about it that we often talked on fb back then. But regardless, he was a person I met, and he cared about everyone around him. And now that he's gone...well, a lot of us have been feeling the void left in its wake.

I wrote this quickly to do something productive besides working on the next chapter of The Cowardly Lion which should be out very soon...no seriously you can throw a chair at me for taking so long. Dragon Age: Inquisition, new patch for Final Fantasy XIV has had me well...occupied. I am still recovering from the death of my sisters' beloved dog as well who was also my dog.

BUT! They can never be truly forgotten as long as we keep them in memory. Right now Monty's probably outfitting the angels with customizable scythe-rifles.

I'll...see you all later when I update The Cowardly Lion. Go listen to your favorite song, watch your favorite Let's Play and eat something good. Until then...see you later!

R.I.P. Monty Oum.