Uh… hi! I'm Ruby! But you probably already knew that Seeing as we are posting this on a fan-fiction site. Why is it called fan-fiction? Doesn't the FF get mixed up with Final Fantasy (I played those games on Raye's xbox 13 is my favorite, the gun-blade is cool)?

Soooo

Yeah. Uh, I was going to write about our first few days here, But seeing as quite a bit of it after the whole "remodeling incident" is a bit of a blur, something about a club and stuff, I'm going to skip ahead a week, don't worry! Yang is covering the first few days! I was kinda boring, I had a really bad headache and a tummy ache and I lost my lunch a lot. Raye was really nice, he gave me medicine to help with the headache and told me to sleep. It helped a little. I guess what the say is true, you always get sick on vacation. Heh, as Raye sometimes says, sucks to be me. Well not me, I'm a huntress in training! I slay monsters and beat up terrorists! I'm cool! I. Drink. Milk.

I'm gonna start us off with something fun! Mostly a movie night at Raye's place that Yang said Raye said was okay.

Yang LIED. Also the reason why the door was locked, never trust Yang with permission. She never gives it and never asks for it.

It was about 6:00 according to my watch. I was wearing pair of slim, dark jeans (they were really itchy, I missed my Combat skirt), My combat boots and a red T-shirt. Exactly as yang had requested everyone dress, as in, dress in what Raye calls normal clothes and the rest of us call Grimm dressing. As in dress like this and you get eaten by Grimm.

Raye almost got mauled last time; it wasn't funny.

Yang was dressed in her usual duster jacket and shirt, but had leggings on instead of her usual shorts. Blake was dressed in a white shirt, a black jacket and dark jeans (yay! Matching jeans!). Weiss was in an entirely white ensemble of white jeans a white belt and, you guessed it, a white collared shirt.

"What are we even doing here?" Weiss asked as Yang slid a makeshift card into the keycard scanner.

"Because, Raye is refusing to show us a TV show called RWBY. He has three seasons of the damn thing. it has our Team name as the title and we can't watch it? How's that fair?" Yang explained

"What if it shows the future? Thing's Monty Oum planned for us to do? Raye knew about the White Fang and about some woman Cinder! Torchwick was shocked at how much info he had about his operations." Blake pointed out. Yang's eyes widened but so did her grin. Yang is really nice, she's like, super-sis but she also has a horrible mischievous streak and unfortunately talk of predictions of the future just got gears in her mind turning.

'What if I get to find out what happens to Team RWBY after graduation? Or who my next romantic relationship is with? Or how to stop Ruby's cookie addiction?"

I moaned at the last one.

"Yaaaang, I don't have an addiction!" I argued.

"Ruby, Remember our little bet last year?" Weiss asked.

"The one about Blake or the one about Neptune, or the one about Glynda and Ozpin?" I asked. In my defense, bets were an incredibly popular pastime for Yang and the upperclassmen (mostly Team CFVY), and she (and Team CFVY) rubbed off on all of us.

"None of those you Dolt! The one about you have only one cookie a day for a month!" Weiss exclaimed, She'd mellowed out a lot since I had exploded upon meeting her two years ago, that didn't mean she didn't have her moments but eh, what can you do?

"You could ravage her."

"Raye! You said PG12! PG12!" Ruby exclaimed. She spun around in the chair. "How did you sneak up on me? Not even Blake does that… a lot."

"I need to survive your sister, your partner and occasionally Winter's tirades at others. Sneakiness helps a lot."

"Trouble in paradise?" Ruby asked, a mischievous grin coming to her face.

"We're not dating." Raye replied calmly.

"Not that you don't want to." Ruby teased, her grin glowing as Raye attempted to stammer a response.

"You should ask her out, take your own advice! You know Jaune and Pyrrha are."

"Which advice?" Raye asked, suddenly concerned.

"Probably all of it." Ruby replied nonchalantly, turning back to continue writing. She smiled as she heard Raye curse and rush off, probably to disavow his more… snarky advice.

She quietly fist-pumped, Xiao Long genes to the rescue! Rose genes made her cute, But the Xiao Longs (at least Yang) had a storied history of messing with people. Which really was the only way to deal with Raye. The one time they tied him up with Winter in a closet really didn't help.

"I remember!" I argued defensively. I didn't, but I wouldn't admit that.

"Oh ho ho! I remember that one. Ruby had to eat only one cookie a day for a month and if she did, you'd give her a cartload of Gravity Dust." Yang said grinning as she picked the magnetic lock. "She didn't last twenty minutes. What did she have to do for you again?"

"Nothing too painful."

Then I had a flashback, horrifying images, no cookies, brussel sprouts…

'Heels." I had to wear high heels for a month. I hiss recalling a fate even worse than no cookies. After all I had raided the cookie pantry every night. But whenever Weiss was around (which was almost all the time) I had to wear high heels.

"I'm still not sure I have totally forgiven you for that." I said to Weiss.

"Please, three people asked you out to the dance when you were wearing those heels."

"And none of them ended up going!" Yang said as the lock clicked as the door opened "nailed it." She finished. Pulling the door open. "All aboard the RWBY express! Time for a movie night!"

Two hours later Raye returned.

When Raye got in the first thing he saw was Yang curled up in a ball, clutching her arm. His first reaction was to be pissed, they (not me I'm the cute innocent one) had broken into his apartment, again! But it soon faded to worry as he realized Yang look absolutely petrified.

"Yang…"

"It's still here. It's still here. It's still here. It's still here. It's still here. It's still here. It's still here. It's still here. It's still here. It's still here." She muttered,

"Okay, Blake what the hell is going on?" He called out, A shuffling in the closet was all he heard, Marching over he opened it up. Two frightened golden eyes greeted him.

"Adam isn't here. Adam isn't here. Adam isn't here. Adam isn't here." Bake chanted.

"What the actual fu-"

"RAYE!" Raye turned to see Weiss march up to him. She pointed a finger at him. 'How dare you keep such critical information from us! You should have told us this is going to happen!"

"Huh?"

"The Vytal festival! The White fang! How dare you keep such critical information from us! Yang loses an arm! Pyrrha dies!"

'Weiss-"

"I don't care about you excuses, maybe you wanted to inform others first, but we can stop this, we just have to alert Ironwood and Ozpin." Weiss began to pace.

The sound of bawling came from the other side of the couch. IT DEFINTELY WASN"T ME!

"Weiss, what did you do?" Raye asked.

'ME? I did nothing! It is you who didn't tell us about these movies about us that tell us the future!" She said pointing to the image on the tv screen.

"RAYE!" A person who was totally adorable but NOT ME exclaimed clinging to his leg. 'Pyrrha comes back right? Right? Penny doesn't die! It's a trick right?"

"Weiss, Ruby-"

"You made Ruby cry! What are you going to do you big… big…" Weiss thought for a minute. "meanie!"

Raye stared at her incredulously. He closed his eyes took a big breath and exhaled. "Weiss, what year are you in at beacon?"

"Third!"

"And when does the show you just watched take place?"

'Evidently the future since it hasn't happened yet!"

"Did you just watch volume three?" Raye asked. Weiss paused a possibility dawning on her. If she had watched the third in series it would likely be assumed that the time period had already been established which meant…

"Yes Weiss, the supposed Battle of Beacon takes place your first year."

"So we forgot it?" Weiss concluded. Slamming a fist into her open palm. It was clear that their memories had been erased after Pyrrha was revived to spare them the horrors they had experienced.

"How are you… I can't… WINTER!" Raye screamed, giving up on rationality. A clatter of heels came from outside. Winter landed on Raye's balcony, dressed in PJs.

"What happened Raye? Intruders? Grimm?"

"Your sister!" Raye screamed.

Then all hell broke loose. Things went downhill fast. There was blood, screams, police, and even spilt milk….

All things I'm going to skip.

Anyway, the end result was that Raye would supervise us watching the rest of the series when he thought we had recovered from the trauma. He was a little vexed that third year huntresses in training were traumatized by a video though.

On the other hand, he has ever since, called Weiss and me "White Rose" I still don't get where that comes from. Maybe from the bakery event the next day? That was fun.

"Ruby, how you can call it fun is beyond me. We practically-"

"Shush! You'll ruin the surprise! I still have a thousand words to use AND I WILL USE THEM!"

"You don't need to caps the entire sentence!"

"IT ADDS DRAMA! DRAMA I SAY!"

"What is it with you and drama? I am never letting you read Shakespeare again."

"Then I will sneak a ninja's of love book into your book bag!"

"They're in English."

"So...?"

"We're in Japan."

"…"

"But Ruby, if you do that, say goodbye to me sharing Oreo cookies with you on movie nights."

"You don't have the guts."

"Try me."

"…" Ruby vanished in a whirl of rose petals, only to reappear seconds later, carrying a stack of Oreo cookie boxes. "They're mine! All mine!" She cackled. She picked up the computer and vanished with it a second later, ignoring Raye's demands for his computer.

"Yang! Your sister's acting weird again!" Raye shouted.

Now that I am free of Raye's tyranny (and his stranglehold over these delicious mint and chocolate cookies). I can continue to write to my hearts content!

So the next day, we were all feeling a little less traumatized by our experiences. Raye took us out to a nearby bakery. There we were in normal clothes. Yang as in a pair of khaki's and a collared shirt with leather boots. Blake in Dark jeans and a black jacket (it was spring and it was HOT how was she not sweaty and icky?) I was in jeans and a red shirt, Weiss was in a long white dress.

In other words we stuck out like a sore thumb.

"Hurry up guys, this place gets a massive line when it opens!" Raye urged, walking a little faster.

Raye was of course, talking about a now popular hangout spot for those from Remnant. We can't read the actual name of the place (it's in that weird picture writing called Kanji), we just call it the Melon Bar.

It was the first time we went, so we had no idea it would become a popular spot, but at the time, sugary bread with ice cream was too good an offer to pass up! It was almost as good as cookies (it was also conveniently next to a bakery so I got cookies too!)

We approached the Melon Bar. There wasn't a line in was only 1:00 in the afternoon after all. Boy, was it hot I could see the sweat dripping off Blake, even Yang would later complain about it, and she lights herself on fire when she's angry!

Anyway, sugary melon bread, combined with vanilla and chocolate ice cream in one goopy, cool delicious sandwich? Way too good to pass up. Plus, Raye paid!

Raye handed over the money mumbling about the expense and that we should be getting jobs (we had jobs! It's called being a student!). Anyway we all stood at a nearby table, there weren't any chairs anyway.

"it's so hot out." Weiss complained.

Blake's response was perfect. She dropped her ice cream sandwich on the table, and her bright red face soon followed, smattering the ice cream everywhere.

Raye swore.

"Bad words!" somebody (NOT ME!) shouted.

"It's in my hair!" Yang exclaimed, more in frustration than horror. Half the ice cream had landed in her hair and was currently melting down her face.

Raye ignored the inevitable powder keg called Yang.

"I think she's having heatstroke! We need to get her to a hospital!"

"But her ears!" Weiss pointed out. Raye swore again.

"Bad words!"

"Shut it Ruby!"

"Get this out of my hair!" Yang screamed bursting into flame.

"Yang! Not here!" Raye begged. But she had already ignited her clothes, and unfortunately my clothes as well.

I admittedly screamed, having your shirt light on fire was a new feeling, As was Weiss leaping forward and pouring a soda on me to put it out. Unfortunately, she lost her balance (I blame the Heels!) and she fell forward onto me. It was an interesting day, fortunately Raye was able to get it to calm down. All that happened was a scorched sidewalk, Yang wearing Blake's jacket (her shirt was nearly a pile of ash by that point) and several people taking pictures. it reminded me of last weeks club incident, fortunately there wasn't a repeat of the aftermath and we headed home quickly thereafter. best of all there were no hard feelings with the Melon bar's staff (a new thing for Yang in particular).

Needless to say, the melon bar is now where we hang out, supposedly the little event got them more customers than ever, so we get ice cream sandwiches for free EVERY DAY! Yang said that's not a good thing, I don't really get it.

Soon after my clothes did get a little tight though. Maybe they shrunk?

Well they fit fine now and we still go once every other week, so no problems there!

Eventually we got back the the apartment building without any problems. Yang was bright red, embarrassed by the state of her clothes, Weiss was also blushing and giving me the silent treatment and Raye was currently carrying Blake piggy back style. Overall, it was a fairly normal day for team RWBY.

Although really I would have liked a piggy back ride, my feet hurt.

When we finally got to the second floor, Winter was waiting for us.

"Where have you been?" She asked.

"Melon shop." Raye said.

"A what?"

"Never mind, just out."

"Some crazy witch lady calling herself Salem is waiting in your apartment."

"What?" Raye exclaimed dropping Blake ashis jaw dropped and his arms went limp.

"How did she get in?" he asked

Winter shrugged.

Raye moaned.

The meeting with Salem lasted awhile, mostly because she said he would have to fireproof several apartments. He agreed without complaint, but seemed exhausted. He even said he was lucky not to be dead. Yang wanted details. He said he would do that later.

Well, all is well that ends well!

Yang's chapter should be up early. I'm really sorry about this chapter, It's not the best, but I didn't want to give Ruby a criminal record yet...

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Omake:

Salem, what are you doing here? Raye asked.

Salem turned around, a giant grin on her face.

"Why, I am here to say hello, see how things are going and tell you that Cinder and her friends are coming."

"Hi, well and CINDER HAS FRIENDS?" Raye exclaimed as the last section.

"the boy with silver hair and the girl with green hair."

"Aren't those her subordinates?"

"Friends, subordinates, slaves, same difference." Salem said waving it off.

"So when are they coming?"

'Right now." Salem said pulling open a closet from which Emerald and Mercury (with two black eyes) scrambled out of the closet.

"Where's Cinder?" Raye asked.

'here." She said, walking out of the kitchen area carrying a pot full of boiling oil. She was using fire from her hand to heat the pot.

"Okay." Raye said weakly, noting to add more locks to the doors.

"Foie gras?" She offered, showing him the pot.

The aroma was mouthwatering. He debated taking anything offered by Cinder Fall including controversial foodstuffs. But eventually shrugged and held out a hand, deciding eating foie gras was infinitely preferable to being murdered. "Sure." He said.

His eyes widened as she reached into the pot of boiling oil and pulled out a fried ball. With a slight grin she held it in front of him.

"Say ahh." She said.

She put the delicious, oily ball in his mouth.

"I wonder where she got this?" he thought, closing his eyes to somewhat guiltily savor the taste. When he swallowed, he opened his eyes to see bloody footprint from the kitchen right to where Cinder was standing.

"Cinder, may I ask where you got the duck liver?"

"From a duck." Cinder said with a slight grin.

"And where is said duck?" Raye asked. Cinder smiled widely, clearly enjoying his discomfort.

"Why, liver is best cooked fresh of course." She replied.

"I agree." Salem said nodding sagely. 'And the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

"Where did you get this duck?" Raye asked, doing his best to ignore the second part of Salem's opinion.

"There weren't any really fresh ones at the market, so I got creative."

At the nearby zoo, there was a sign in front of the Laysan Teal duck enclosure, apologizing for their absence, reporting a nearby fire had been the cause. And that they would be back soon, until then, they would be staying at the home of one Cinder Fall.