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Enough awkward talk from me, to the chapter!

WHOOSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!

"Gooooooooood morning team!" A shrill voice shrieked loudly, waking team RWBY from their slumber. The three members of team RWBY reacted almost simultaneously.

"Five more minutes, Ruby." She said, falling back to sleep almost instantly. Blake got up, without opening her eyes, and walked to the bathroom so she didn't have to suffer through one of her team mates receiving the whistle of death.

Ruby's eyes opened, surprised. She popped her head over the side of her bed to look down, and sure enough, there was Weiss, standing between the two bunk beds and smiling ecstatically. Her eyes were closed, but even so, her entire body seemed to radiate joy.

"Weiss, what are you doing?" She asked, yawning and stretching. She looked to her scroll. It was six AM. "Ughh, it's only six." Ruby yawned, and went to continue, only to be interrupted by Weiss.

"Rise and shine, it's a lovely day!" She sang out, eyes shooting open and doing a strange, carefree dance back and forth in front of the bed.

"Weiss, why're you so happy? It's kind of creeping me out." Ruby said, looking out her window and noticing the sun was beginning to rise.

"Why wouldn't I be happy at the start of a new day for me to enjoy with my best friends?" Weiss asked, shivering in excitement at the prospect.

"You're never up this early! Three days ago you almost stabbed me when I woke you up on a weekend!" Ruby replied, recalling the event, feeling this argument would go on for a while. Just then, Blake walked back in, having changed into her normal attire. She stopped, staring back and forth between Ruby, who was sitting dazed on her bed, and Weiss, who was standing there with a ridiculous grin on her face, having literally leapt in the air in excitement when Blake walked in.

Weiss ran up and hugged her, quite hard, knocking the breath from Blake. "Yaaaaay! Blake's back!" She cried in excitement, leaping back from the confused Faunus and running back to Ruby's bed. "Come one Ruby! Let's go get an early breakfast before class!" Weiss grabbed Myrtenaster and bolting out the door, running past Blake, who still hadn't moved. As they passed the door to team JNPR's room, a shrill, feminine shriek of terror sounded, but they ignored it. Jaune had bad days.

Blake, Ruby and Yang absentmindedly ate in amazement as they watched Weiss dash around to various tables, being friendly to the few students up this early. They had decided it definitely wasn't a trick, nothing in the world could convince Weiss to act like that.

"Should we take her the hospital wing?" Ruby asked.

"Probably. Clearly somethings wrong with princess." Yang replied.

"I know what you mean." Pyrrha added.

"What does who mean?" Weiss asked from behind her. About half a foot behind her.

"GAAAAHHHH!" Ruby yelled, leaping back in surprise, knocking over her chair and nearly falling to the ground. A series of thuds indicated everyone else had had a similar reaction. "WEISS! WHERE DID YOU COME FROM!"

Weiss smiled in a friendly way, pointing to a table on the other side of the dining hall, where some slightly shocked and confused first years were eating. "You guys were talking, so I wanted to join in and have a lovely discussion!" She said with such sincerity everyone was too shocked to reply. "So, Yang. Who's this 'princess' you were talking about, hmm? Got a bit of a crush on this mystery woman?" She said with a smirk

"WHAT?!" Yang yelled. "No, Weiss we were... we..." Yang started laughing. "So Weiss, you finally learned to talk dirty! I guess I'm rubbing off on you! Anyway, come with me!" She said, jogging off to the medical wing, Weiss skipping behind her.

The rest of the group, and even some strangers who had been watching the loud, strange outburst from the group, sat in stunned silence.

"So... What's wrong with snow angel today?" Jaune asked.

"We don't know. She's been acting like that all morning." Ruby replied. "Hey, where're Ren and Nora?" She asked.

Blake face palmed.

"What? It is weirdly quite." Ruby replied, trying to look as dignified as she could while pouting at Blake. The older girl sighed, got up and left. "So, anyway Jaune, where are they?"

Jaune looked at Pyrrha, who was trying to avoid his gaze. Giving up, Jaune looked back to Ruby. He laughed nervously and gulped.

"It's kinda... hard to explain." He looked to Pyrrha, who also looked extremely awkward. He was saved from answering when someone seemingly appeared behind him, and tapped him on the shoulder, causing him to jump. Ruby craned her neck to try and get a better look at them, but their entire body was completely obscured by various pieces of clothing.

"Director, the mission was successful, the package has been retrieved." Said the figure, placing a briefcase in front of Jaune. Jaune nodded nervously. They had a subtle hint of a french accent, but sounded calm and reserved, almost bored.

"That will be all that is required of you, Agent Alaska." Pyrrha replied, nodding towards the figure, Alaska, who saluted back and vanished into the shadows.

Jaune let out a nervous breath. "That was Nora. She's been acting strange since this morning, and thinks she's some kind of secret agent."

"That's strange for Nora?" Ruby asked, snorting.

"Well, no." Pyrrha interjected. "What's strange is that since this morning she's been acting... Well, you just saw yourself. She's been moving around like some kind of ninja. When Jaune woke up, she was standing above him dressed like she was now. Didn't you notice the scream earlier?"

"So that's what that was? Well, we were kinda preoccupied by Weiss..." Ruby replied, and Jaune and Pyrrha nodded. Enough had been said with how Weiss was acting of late.

"Anyway, When I woke up she demanded I send her on a mission, so I told her the first thing that came into my mind, to go get some doughnuts..." At this point, Jaune trailed off in embarrassment, and Pyrrha picked up.

"Then she said 'yes, director' and vanished before we could say anything."

"So... The briefcase is full of doughnuts?" Ruby asked. Jaune and Pyrrha exchanged a nervous glance.

"Well... not exactly. You see, Nora somehow got the packet of doughnuts in literally five seconds, and she asked Jaune, or 'the Director' as she's been calling him, for another assignment. By then I was awake and asked what was going on, and she saluted me, telling me she was asking for a mission. I was really tired and... I asked her to go get some dust from the store, we were running low and... Well, things went like that for a while, her vanishing and reappearing with what we asked for. Then Jaune, who had almost fallen asleep, responded with a BRILLIANT idea he had."

Jaune gulped, and sunk back into his chair, as if wishing he could disappear. His face was more red then a fire.

Pyrrha sighed, before handing the briefcase over to Ruby. "It's probably best if you just look yourself. Before you do, I want you to know I've made sure Jaune is THOROUGHLY regretting his actions."

Ruby nodded, curious and began to open the briefcase... and froze in place, her eyes shooting open wide, her face going pale as a ghost and her mouth opening and closing like a fish. Jaune buried this face into his knees, as if hoping he could hide there.

"..." Ruby stared, disbelieving. "I...Is...is t-hi..." A loud thunk could be heard as Ruby hit the floor, having fainted.

"Are you sure she's okay, doctor?" Yang asked for the tenth time in the last minute. The doctor sighed.

'Miss Xiao Long, I'm sure. There is nothing to be concerned about, miss Schnee over there is not the first case we have had. Ozpin has researched the problem in great length, and it is harmless, and will pass in a day or two."

Yang nodded. "Thanks, doc." She turned and opened the door to the room Weiss was in, only to be knocked to the ground.

"Y-y-yang! That place was t-terrible!" Weiss yelled, crying and hugging Yang. "Please don't ever make me go back there again! The mean lady hurt me!"

Yang sighed, hefting Weiss off of her.

"Go back to the dorm and you don't have to come here again." Yang said. As soon as she had finished, Weiss's creepy smile made a brief reappearance, before she vanished, sprinting as quickly as she could to the dorm.

"Thanks for your help, sorry about the fuss!" Yang called out to the doctor, walking after Weiss. Who knew she'd react so badly to getting a blood test?

She walked absent mindedly back towards the dorm, thinking of all the teasing material she'd get out of the photo's she'd taken on her scroll of Weiss, grinning to herself. She decided she couldn't wait until Weiss was back to normal, which the doctor had said would take about a day.

She was broken from her thoughts, by being tackled hugged by a crying and terrified Ruby.

"Hey Ruby! Wait!" Jaune's voice called out from around the corner, down a different hallway.

"YANG! HURT JAUNE HE'S BULLYING ME!" Ruby screeched, letting go of Yang and falling into a ball.

Jaune rounded the corner to a furious Yang, realizing his mistake, and trying to back up, but he was already exhausted from chasing after Ruby. She had - luckily - been too distraught to use her semblance, or else he would never have caught her.

Or in this case, maybe it wasn't so lucky. Yang dashed at Jaune, who whimpered and instinctively threw up his arms to try and protect him, completely having forgotten he was holding his scroll. The burning heat faded away, and Jaune realize he wasn't dead. The hallway was silent except for a sobbing Ruby, and he nervously opened his eyes to see Yang staring at the picture that was still open in his tablet. The one Nora had gotten for him.

Yang chuckled. Louder and louder, until she collapsed to the floor, rolling around and crying tears of joy, laughing hysterically, so hard it hurt. She quickly regained enough of her composure she was able to speak. "Rub-y!" Yang said, before breaking down into another fit of giggles.

Jaune looked to where Ruby was, only to see she had vanished in a flash of rose petals. Jaune sighed. He hadn't been thinking straight, he hadn't wanted for her to be hurt.

"Ruby... Open the door!" Yang yelled at the closed, locked, and apparently fortified doorway to team RWBY's dorm. Ruby had locked herself in there over an hour ago, after physically throwing Weiss into the hallway, and Yang had already tried to break it down.

"NO! I HATE YOU! GO AWAY!" Ruby's voice yelled back, before her steady sobs continued.

Blake, Jaune and Pyrrha stood behind Yang, all seriously concerned for the leader. Weiss stood behind them, beaming happily and seemingly unaware of the situation. When Blake had shown up, asking Ruby what was wrong and just to let her in to talk to her, was the only time Ruby had even been composed enough to converse properly. Then Yang had shown her the picture, and even the quite Faunus had broken down, laughing hysterically.

"C'mon Ruby! We have class!" Jaune called.

"DON'T CARE! NOW GO AWAY OR I'LL COME OUT WITH CRESCENT ROSE!" Ruby yelled in reply, and the group, minus Weiss, all unconsciously took a step back. They had seen what Ruby could do with that Scythe, they did not want to be on the receiving end.

Yang sighed. "Ruby, the joke isn't funny if you-" Yang was interrupted.

"JUST GO!" Ruby screamed.

"Don't worry Ruby, I promise by tonight we'll have..." Yang laid heavy emphasis on her next word. "MAID it up to y-"

She was interrupted by the blade of Crescent Rose slicing through the door like warm cheese, headed straight for her head, and it would've hit her had she not leapt back in time.

"Okay! Okay! We get the message, we're leaving already! We're sorry, okay?" Yang said, before the group walked off.

Ruby withdrew her beloved Scythe, and collapsed onto her bed, cradling it and weeping. Her beloved weapon would never make fun of her like they did.

Why did they have to find out? She thought to herself. She had only taken the job to try and save up a little Lien for her surprise gift to them all.

How did they get a photo of me during one of my shifts as a waitress...

Thank you very much for reading the first chapter of my fic. I hope you enjoyed, and any reviews, etc. are much appreciated. I apoligise if any part seems a little rushed or out of character, I'm fairly new to this sort of thing.

Sincerely,

Knight of Valor