Terrible title, I know. Continuing on with the Volume 2 festivities, I decided to write something that actually contained Team RWBY. I hope I didn't butcher all of our favorite characters. But... y'know, artistic license and personal interpretation... right guys? I guess not. But, sorry in advance.
ElfCollaborator: This is the chapter eight I told you about. Feel free to do whatever you want.
A New Dawn
The day began like any other for the students of Beacon. Sunlight rained into the windows of the prestigious academy, awakening the sleep-logged students. Preparing for the day in very diverse rituals, the students eventually found themselves dressed in their uniforms – the black suit for the guys and the plaid skirt and brown jacket for the girls – and heading down towards the great dining hall of Beacon academy.
A bleary-eyed Ruby Rose trudged slowly into the dining hall alongside an equally exhausted Blake, Yang, Jaune, and Nora. The titular group of friends had spent the majority of the night watching the pirated channel from Team RWBY's dorm.
Not a single world was being exchanged between the group of students, for they were simply exhausted.
They roamed around the dining hall, like multi-colored zombies, moaning and groaning as they searched for the rest of their teams.
Ruby peered around the glorified cafeteria, trying to find her white-haired partner and teammate.
"Weiiiiiiiiiiis?" the red and black-haired girl groaned while looking around. "Hey guys, can you get me food? I'll go find Weiss."
While yawning Yang managed to say, "Sounds good, Ruby," before trudging off with everyone else to obtain breakfast while her little sister hunted down their elusive teammate.
"Weiiiiiiiis? Weiiiiii?" Ruby called, much to the confusion and annoyance of the other students in the room. "Weiss, where are you? Wei-?"
"Shh!" Weiss grabbed Ruby and set her down right next to her and, what had to be, Ren's currently vacated seat.
Seeing this, Ruby had a sudden moment of clarity and consciousness and awareness. She put her arm around Weiss – earning her an exasperated look from the white-haired girl, fully aware of what was happening next – and asked in a teasing voice, "So Weiss, how was last night, with Ren?"
Weiss looked away and pretended to be oblivious to what she knew her friend was leading up to. "It was nice. Far quieter than our room, that's for certain."
"That's not what I meant, Weiss," Ruby said with a slight huff. "I meant, did you guys do anything?"
"We studied for that test in Oobleck's…"
"No, no, no, did you do anything fun? With each other?" Ruby grinned suggestively and waggled her eyebrows.
"Ruby!" Weiss exclaimed every loudly, drawing the attention from a few of the other students, as well as allowing the rest of RWBY and JNPR to find them. "We did no such thing! How could you – Why would you – What are – Gah!"
Luckily, before Weiss could explode all of their friends returned with food. "Here Ruby, breakfast!" Yang announced.
Ruby pulled away from Weiss – much to the young girl's relief – and turned towards her older sister. "Cool! What did you get for me?!"
"Five blueberry pancakes with extra syrup, three strips of bacon also with syrup, and a chocolate chip cookie! How's that sound?!" Yang said cheerfully, clearly boosted by caffeine.
Ruby instantly shrugged off her drowsiness and ravenously devoured the sugary meal. She jumped up and down in jittery giddiness.
Fully aware of how her excitable friend operates, Weiss turned towards Ruby and resumed their conversation – albeit, with a different paradigm. "Hey Ruby, how was your night. It sounded like you guys had a lot of fun."
Weiss had expected Ruby to gush about the experience. After all, she absolutely loved seeing all kinds of new weaponry and fighting styles. However, what the young heiress didn't expect was the torrent of uncontrolled happiness spurred by sugar that escaped her partner's small mouth.
"Did we?! Oh Weiss, you should've been there! I mean, you were there for a while but then you left and missed all the super amazing things that happened next! This one guy had a super cool harpoon – spear thing that's also a gun and, and a… a… harpoon! Aahh! And guess what? This one girl had this weird, but cool, gourd that did all these cool, but weird, things. Then… then… there was another really cool girl with an amazing sword-rifle-gun thing and a shield-axe that… oh… you really should've been there, Weiss! You missed everything! Oh and… gah! I'm forgetting something! Oh yeah! There was this giant guy who could use all these really cool weapons. He had this giant red sword that could turn into a bow! And these gauntlets that were like Yang's except they were much larger and less explodey bits. And another pair of green gauntlets that did all of these cool things that… that… I can't explain to you. But I can show you! Oh Weiss, you should've seen how that guy tore through wave after wave of monsters. He was sooooooooooooooo cool!"
"Looks like someone's in love," Yang teased.
"Don't be silly," Ruby said with slightly less excitement. "And also, don't like and pretend that he isn't memorable to you!"
"Oh, he's definitely memorable. In more ways than one…" Yang said cheerfully, while waggling her eyebrows in a suggestive manner.
Ignoring her sister's comment, Ruby resumed gushing. "Oh Weiss, the best part is when this one guy took out a Nevermore by himself! He shot it in the mouth a few times before dropping several charges into its mouth and then… then… it blew up! It exploded! And it was amazing! Best night ever!" Ruby finally calmed down, relaxing from her sugar high.
"I see," Weiss moved to accept her breakfast from Blake and began eating slowly and politely.
With Ruby finally calm, Yang decided to casually address her white-haired teammate. "Hey Weiss, did you do anything with Ren last night?"
At that, Weiss just put her face in her palm and said nothing else.
Before Yang or Ruby (or Blake) could add more to embarrass the Schnee heiress, speakers around the school begin to blare an announcement: "will all students please head down to the entrance hall. We have something special to announce."
"It's them! I know it!" Ruby leapt from her seat and excitedly ran towards the entrance hall.
"We might as well follow her," Blake suggested, picking up her bowl of tuna and rice and following her ally.
"Agreed, come on Weiss." Yang started after the rest of her team and towards the entrance hall.
The heiress sighed. "I might as well tag along."
Once all of them RWBY left, Ren joined Nora and Jaune at the table with a cup of coffee.
"Hey Ren, where's Pyrrha?"
Sorry about the abrupt ending. I just couldn't think of a better way to end this...
Anyways, thank you, all of you who took the time to stick with this story, so far. But sad to say that I have to take a hiatus from this story. After all, I have other projects to work on. I'm sorry. But I won't forget about this story. In a week (or three), I'll be back to continue. Besides, I want to (and I know you do) focus on the actual canon stuff coming out in the next couple of months. So yeah, thanks for reading. And thanks for all of your encouragement. It means a lot.
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Have a nice life!
