"Nora, STOP!"

Nora immediately stopped reading and raised her head when she heard Weiss shout at her from across the table.

Her friends were all looking at her like she had just grown a second head and then murdered someone. They also had varied levels of shock, confusion, disgust or just being downright baffled written all over their faces. In a café, Nora and her teammates from team JNPR, along with her friends from team RWBY and Ruby's new friend Penny (whom Nora had somehow managed to get to come to the café), were all sitting at a table. It was a slow day for the café and there weren't any customers apart from them, which was good, because the room was dead silent for a few seconds after Weiss's shout, which made Nora stop reading out loud. The café staff, for their troubles, were mostly ignoring the students sitting at the large table, only paying attention when they ordered something and wisely opting to stay out of whatever teenage drama was going on there.

"What?", Nora asked. "What's up, Weiss? Something you wanna say?" "S-Something I want to-something I want t-to-", Weiss rambled, looking like she was about to suffer a mental breakdown and barely able to form a coherent sentence. "SOMETHING I WANT TO SAY? For the love of all that is good and pure, where do I even start? What the hell did you just read to us?", the Schnee heiress asked, not even caring about swearing despite her strict upbringing, due to the sheer insanity that was brought to her by the pancake-loving hammer girl sitting a few meters away from her. Without a word, Ren stood up, slowly walked to the nearest window in a robot-like fashion to open it up and let some fresh air in the room, then took a deep breath and massaged his temples to help clear his mind and organize his thoughts. He and Nora had been BFFs for a long time and he was mostly used to her insanity and shenanigans, but even he has his limits. Besides, even by Nora's standards, this was all too surreal.

"What do you mean?", Nora asked. "I told you guys that this is my first fanfiction and I wanted to read it aloud to you guys to get your opinion on it."

"Yeah, we get that part.", Jaune spoke up. "But why is it so, you know, freaking bizarre? I mean, no offense and all, and we know that you're you, Nora. But even for you, this is a bit much, isn't it?"

"Whaaaaaaat? No it iiiiiiissssssnnnn't…" Nora replied as she put her scroll down. "I mean, sure, I wrote it after suffering a concussion during a training exercise gone wrong, I hadn't slept in about four days at the time so I was sleep deprived, and I also thought that the mole people were secretly ruling the government, and I may or may not have also drank a cup of that-thing-you-guys-said-I-should-never-ever-drink, but-"

She was suddenly cut off with a loud "WHAT?!" from her all her friends, except for Penny. They knew how bad Nora could get when she was on coffee. Weird hallucinations, loss of consciousness, mad ramblings, the list goes on…honestly, she makes Doctor Oobleck look tame by comparison. "I know, I know", Nora said in her defense. "I know I'm not supposed to drink coffee, and maybe I would've remembered that if I my mind had been in the right place in all, but hey, you guys have to admit, It made me way more creative!"

"Sure, if by "more creative" you mean "completely insane", replied Weiss. "Aw, come on, Weiss-cream", Yang interjected, trying to calm down her teammate and having mostly recovered from her confusion. "I know that this whole thing is weird, but it was obviously never meant to be taken seriousl-"

"I KNOW THAT, YANG!" Weiss screeched at her buxom teammate before trying to regain her composure. "Sorry about that, Yang. Yes, I am aware that this fanfiction is obviously meant to be taken with a grain of salt, and I get that Nora wasn't exactly in her right mind when she wrote it, but still! Leaving aside the obvious weirdness of writing a fanfiction about your friends and then inviting them over to read it out loud to them, there's just…I mean-"

"Yeah, I get you, Weiss." Ruby rose from her seat (no pun intended this time), having also mostly recovered from her shock and knowing what her partner was going to say before she even said it. "I mean, she made me have a sorta-quasi-maybe romantic relationship with some guy named Oscar, she gave me a rocket launcher arm and chainsaw ovaries (note to self: research cybernetic enhancements later to see if getting a rocket launcher arm is actually possible and see if it's legal to get if you're underage), she-"

"Ruby, no.", Interjected Yang.

"What? Yang, What are you-"

"I know they sound awesome, but you can't get a rocket launcher arm or chainsaw ovaries."

"What? Yang, how did you even know what I was-"

"Because I'm your big sister and I know how your mind works. If I let you turn yourself into a cyborg, Dad would get a heart attack. And then he would kill us."

"Aw…(dang, foiled again)", Ruby lamented in disappointment.

"For what it's worth", Pyrrha nervously added to support Nora a bit and so that she wouldn't feel too down. "I think that the fusion between me and Penny was awesome! Especially the weird part about the fusion being half-robot for some reason! Right, Penny?"

"Oh, um, yes, friend Pyrrha!" Penny added a bit nervously as well, trying to hide her discomfort. "We are both definitely normal meat people! No robots here!"

Normally, the other teens around the table would've questioned the strange wording of Penny's remark, but they had more bizarre things to worry about right now.

"Right, then.", Blake spoke up. "In any case, why was I the bad guy? And what was up with turning me into a space dominatrix?"

"Yeah, and what the heck is an "Ewok" or a "Cybertronian", anyway? And who was that Oscar guy you kept bringing up?", Jaune interjected.

"And what was up with you portraying me in such an erotic manner?" Ren asked. "I mean, I get that you probably didn't mean any of it since you were both sleep deprived and high as a kite on caffeine when you wrote this, but still."

"Oh, um, yeah! Totally didn't mean any of that!", Nora nervously spoke up in her defense, blushing and avoiding to look at her crush. "As for your other questions, well, I know that Blake likes to read porn and-"

"Ninjas of Love isn't porn, Nora! It's literature!" frantically interrupted Blake while blushing like a tomato.

"Yeah, right.", interjected Ruby in a deadpan tone. "It's aimed at adult audiences, it's got erotic scenes in it, like the one with the big katana and it literally has the word love in the title. Face it Blake, you've been reading porn this entire time." At that statement, Yang slowly turned towards her little sister to glare at her. "And how exactly do you know that, little sis?"

"Oh, um…well, you see…" Ruby mumbled as her expression turned to shock and horror, realizing that she accidentally confessed out loud to having read Blake's por-literature stash. "I, uh…"

"Wait, you've read all my books? Without asking my permission?!"

"That's not important! Did you hear what she wrote about me? Eating albinos? Fantasizing about getting ravished by giant tongues?" Weiss barked, even closer to a mental breakdown.

"Guys, guys!" Nora replied. "Like I said, I wasn't in my right mind when I wrote this. I just…sort of got to a keyboard, started typing whatever was going through my mind, and that was pretty much it! I don't know all the answers anymore and what I remember from back then is a bit of a blur, so if you really wanna know, you'd have to go back in time and ask me at the time when I wrote it. Oh, hey, you know what? That sounds like a great idea! Ren, can we-"

"No, Nora", cut off Ren as he knew exactly what his nutty friend was about to suggest. "We are not making a time machine just so you can go back to the past to talk to your concussed, sleep-deprived and high on caffeine past self".

"Aw…", Nora sighted in disappointment. "Look Nora", Jaune spoke up, wanting to defuse the madness a little. "We're not against you wanting to…"express" your creativity or anything like that, but next time you get a sudden urge to write fanfiction out of nowhere, please make sure that you're mentally healthy (as much as you can be, anyway) and that you don't drink coffee before writing it, okay?"

"Yes!", Pyrrha added. "I'm sure that you can write great stories even when you're your normal self! Right, everyone?" But Yang, Blake and Ruby were having a quiet argument in the background about literature, so they weren't listening all that well. Apart from Nora's teammates, Penny and Weiss were the only ones paying attention. "I do not quite understand this "fanfiction" that you are speaking of", admitted Penny. "But I know that writing and storytelling are both skills that can be polished with time. If you keep trying, I am sure that you will get better, friend Nora!" Penny gave Nora a big smile and a thumbs up as a show of confidence".

Weiss sighted as she rubbed her temples with her fingers. "Ugh…very well. Look, I understand that you probably meant no offense and that you didn't mean to write…whatever that was, but I understand that this was your first attempt at doing this, so I suppose you should get some leeway. And besides, it's not like this was posted online or anything like that, so no one will read such embarrassing material about us."

Nora suddenly had a wide-eyed expression on her face and she looked nervous. "Um, yeah, about that…" Having known Nora the longest, Ren immediately recognized her "I did something really stupid and you'll probably want to punch me in the face when I tell you what it is" face and sensed that something was about to go horribly wrong. He braced himself for the storm and started slowly backing away from the barely sane Schnee heiress. Weiss also saw Nora' nervous expression and grew increasingly concerned as a result. "Nora? You didn't post it online, right?"

"Well, like I said, I wasn't exactly thinking straight, so, I may or may not have already posted it online a few days ago when I was still out of my mind.", Nora added nervously. The room suddenly fell dead silent. For a few seconds, it was so quiet that you could hear a metal pin drop on the floor.

"…What?"

"Yeah, you see, Weiss, I didn't gather all of you here just to read my story out loud to you guys. I also wanted to warn you all that a few dozen people have already read it, so…we're now sort-of famous. I didn't warn you guys earlier because as I said before, my memories are a bit blurry and I only learned about it today. And even if I take it down from the site I posted it at, it's already been reposted by other people on multiple sites, so…sorry?" At first, Weiss was speechless. Then, her eye started twitching. Then, she started…chuckling? "Hey, look on the bright side, Weiss-cream!", Yang said nervously. "I mean, it could've been way worse! At least she didn't make weird porn of you and Ruby doing the-"

"-the police hasn't been able to figure out exactly what happened, which is not helped by the lack of coherent witnesses. From what they could gather, a group of high-schoolers, which included the nominated heiress of the Schnee Dust Company Weiss Schnee, were having some kind of argument in the café, then Miss Schnee suddenly had a mental breakdown and started chasing an unidentified female student with red hair while laughing like a maniac. Nobody knows exactly what happened after that, but Miss Schnee was apparently simultaneously laughing like a lunatic and screaming in rage while yelling nonsensical statements about hoses, legs, clones, and I quote: "fire flowers". The other students then tried to restrain Miss Schnee, which caused the situation to escalate and ended with the entire city block being encased in frozen coffee and hot dogs. We may never truly know exactly what happened for this result to occur or what was the cause of Miss Schnee's sudden mental breakdown, but the students have apparently been given detention and have been assigned to help clean up the city block as further punishment for trashing it in the first place. Miss Schnee is currently commited to a mental ward and is being heavily medicated while doctors try to stop her from trying to murder every bright red-haired female she sees and calling them "Nora". Miraculously, nobody has been injured or killed during the ensuing chaos. This has been Lisa Lavender, Vale News Network."

Nora turned off the TV. She sighted as she contemplated everything that had happened, as well as the entire days she and her friends had to help undo the damage to the city block where the incident occurred. But she wasn't completely sad. If anything, this all just made her even more determined to improve her writing skills for the future. After all, having good writing skills isn't just good for writing weird fanfics online. It can also be helpful for other things like schoolwork and general paperwork, both of which are things she'll have to do a lot of, if she wants to be a huntress. She took the last bite out of her pancake breakfast, washed herself up, got dressed in her Beacon uniform and went on her way to class with her friends. And she left on her table a document containing the same papers that she had read out loud to her friends a few days ago, during the "incident".

A little story called: Me And My Friends Go On A Little Adventure!