Chapter 2:

1 week ago

"I'm tired. How 'bout you Weiss?" Ruby Rose asked her friend walking beside her.

"Well I'm not tired so much as I'm sore." Weiss Schnee replied.

"You guys are sore…did you even do anything?" Blake Belladonna, stretching her arms above her head, asked. "I mean it was practice for the assignment."

"Wait what assignment?" Ruby asks.

"Oh sis…um you didn't hear?" Yang Xiao Long, Ruby's sister asks with a confused look on her face. "I thought the professor talked to everybody. Everybody on team RWBY that is."

"Yes that does seem strange." Blake muses

"How so?" Asks Weiss. They had all stopped next to a fountain.

"Well think about it. Ruby, has the professor talked to you at all about the assignment?" Blake asks. "You're our team captain, and as our leader you should know."

Ruby suddenly hears snarls. Where her friends were there are now creatures of grim. Ruby had killed lots of the creatures. Yet for some reason she couldn't move her feet or arms. She looked down and fell through the ground into an empty void. As she attempted to scream she just fell faster. Mercifully a voice interrupted the scary sensation of falling. "Ruby Wake up. You look pale what's wrong?" It was Weiss.

"I was having a nightmare, or a very strange dream." Ruby yawned. She got out of bed dressed only in her pajamas. She looked at her dear friend Weiss. "I know that I'm usually the one to get up early and wake you guys…sorry."

"Oh that's okay. I just got back from talking with the professor. He wanted me to tell you something." Weiss said.

"Okay…wait hold on. What time is it?" Ruby asks, looking around at her teammates sleeping. She goes to the curtains covering the window. Drawing them aside she looks out. It's still dark. "Is it midnight?"

"No actually it's an hour before you usually get up. I woke up early on purpose because I wanted to have some time to talk to you." Weiss said. She looked Ruby up and down. Her eyes widened. "Have you been working out? Because, dang girl, you are actually starting to look athletic."

"Me no…I've just been practicing with Crescent Rose a lot more. I've experimented moving around more obstacles with her. The other day I thought it would be a good idea to try and focus my aura more. That way I could fire aura-coated bullets that would give me more lift. Then I could move around in more ways and do it quicker." Ruby says as she walks over to the bathroom.

Weiss walks over to Ruby's nightstand. "Nice duffel bag. What's it for? Oh wait let me guess…hiding your cookies?"

Ruby, looking slightly stunned stops and asks, "How did you know?"

"Honestly why is it that all you ever eat is cookies? Why are you laughing at me?" Weiss asks.

Ruby with a smirk on her face replies. "That's not actually mine. That worn brown treated leather satchel next to it is mine. Could you hand it to me? I need it."

Weiss picks it up. Instead of giving it to her friend, she decides to toy with her a little, jokingly of course. "What's in it? Your diary?"

Ruby blinks not expecting the question. "Um no not my diary but everything else…let me explain. So when I started training with Crescent Rose I decided that it would be best to have something I could carry with me everywhere, and also to have it carry everything I need. That way I could load it up with a lot of practice supplies so I could perform workouts for longer periods of time. I also figured it would come in handy on adventures."

After this explanation Weiss hands the leather satchel over to Ruby. Ruby then walking to the bathroom puts it on the counter. Opening it she takes out her usual bathroom routine supplies. Then she took a shower, thoroughly using soap while doing it. After the shower she brushed her teeth. She then combed her hair. Dissatisfied she then, sighing, messed it up with her hands. She sighs again and smooths it out careful to tuck the long strands behind her ears. Ruby's hair had gotten longer.

"Ruby once you're done can we talk?" Weiss asks on the other side of the bathroom door. "I need to tell you about what the professor told me."

"Sure thing Weiss. Um do you think I should cut my hair? If so how short?" Ruby asked only because she cared about Weiss's opinion. This was attributed to a crush on the white haired girl that Ruby had developed in the short time she got to know her.

"Just cut it short enough so it won't get in your eyes. That's what I've been doing for years." Weiss replied voice lowered so as not to wake Yang and Blake from their seemingly peaceful sleep.

After cutting it short so it hung above her ears and out of her eyes, Ruby had a thought about her crush on Weiss. Afterwards thinking on it she dressed in her red cloths, and tightening the shoulder strap so it fit snugly across her chest and back. She then donned her red cloak, keeping the hood down. Ruby then stepped out of the bathroom coming face to face with Weiss, who was only a short distance away. Ruby put her back against the now closed bathroom door. "Alright let's talk. Why did the professor want talk to you?" Ruby asks her question.

"Well, he wanted to tell me two things. The first was that he wanted me to tell you to come meet him as soon as possible. The second thing is that the scouts have discovered a new threat." Weiss said.

"What kind of threat?" Ruby asks.

"Well it's from the creatures of grim. New ones are being discovered at an alarming rate. Usually they're only seen from a distance, since whenever scouts get to close they die. So the scouts only had the chance to observe them, not discover any fighting patterns. That being so warriors can't kill them before they reproduce." Weiss says.

"Wait what!?…Oh sorry. What do you mean by 'reproduce'?" Ruby interjects.

"Creatures of grim have to reproduce somehow. How do you think there are so many of them? Now there are the normal ones that are hard enough to deal with as it is. Now when you get a so-called super grim, you don't want more of them. However since not one of the scouts have found a way to kill them they will be a major problem since they're not being eliminated." Weiss says.

"So he needs someone to get rid of them, right?" Ruby asks.

"Naturally. That's where you come in." Weiss says. "He told me he had an idea for getting rid of the new super creatures of grim. However seeing as how you're the team captain he wanted to tell you first, then you could tell us."

"Well then I shall go see him. But first I should wake the others up. They need to have breakfast. So do you Weiss." Ruby says. She sighs; her crush on Weiss was quite strong now. "Go get cleaned up, I'll wake the others. After that I'll tell them what you told me."

Ruby in her typical morning fashion blew the whistle around her neck that she always carried. She then explained to Yang and Blake what Weiss had told her. Ruby sighed again, this time not because of Weiss, but because of the new challenge that had just arisen. Her responsibility as a leader to spearhead the charge against this new threat, it left her feeling slightly uncertain as to what the future would hold. It also left her, of course, a little nervous.

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