Chapter 5 - The Badge and the Burden

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*RWBY and its characters all belong to Roosterteeth and Mounty Oum. This is simply a fanfiction to honour their works.*

Inside of the Team RWBY's dorm room. Weiss is sleeping soundly in her bed. Her eyes flutter open and she stretches her arms, yawning.

Ruby, now dressed in her school uniform, but still with her signature cape, slowly creeps up to Weiss's side and blows a whistle, startling Weiss and making her fall off the bed.

"Good morning, team RWBY!" Ruby greets enthusiastically.

"What in the world is wrong with you?" Weiss responds from the floor, glaring at Ruby.

Ruby ignores the question. "Now that you're awake, we can officially begin our first order of business."

"Excuse me?" Weiss asks, brushing the dust off of her as she gets up.

"Decorating!" Yang says cheerfully, standing next to Blake, both in school uniforms and Yang holding an assortment of items, ranging from a puppy-shaped pillow, headphones, and additional hair care products such as a brush and a another brand of shampoo - this one having the picture of a bushido to display its brand.

Weiss swung her head at the two. "What?!"

Blake grins at her partners antics as she lifts up her suitcase. "We still have to unpack." The suitcase opens, dumping out spare blankets, a book, a toothbrush, and toothpaste. "And clean."

Weiss was far from amused, and Ruby used the moment to blare the whistle in front of her face for a second time. Weiss stopped herself from crying out but still fell on her butt from the surprise.

"Alright!" Ruby positioned herself in the center of the room, the smile proving to be permanent. "Weiss, Blake, Yang, and their fearless leader Ruby have begun their first mission. Banzai!" She raises her fist in the air.

"Banzai!" Yang and Blake stand either side of Ruby, doing the same pose.

Once again on the floor, Weiss sighs at her teammates antics.

Yang puts up a poster of a boy band. Weiss, now in uniform, positions a painting of the Forever Fall forest to perfection and walks away. Blake is putting her books on the shelves, including a copy of 'Ninjas of Love' which causes her to blush and glance around to make sure no one sees it.

Ruby uses the end of Crescent Rose to hang up the curtains. But once finished, as she turns around she accidentally slashes the curtains in half.

The girls all stand back and view the different things that have been put up. Including the curtains that are sown back together. However several beds are crammed together in the centre of the room to make space.

"This isn't going to work." Weiss comments on the state of the room.

"It is a bit cramped." Blake admits.

"Maybe we should ditch some of our stuff..." Yang proposes.

“Or,” Ruby contemplates, her eyes scanning the room.. “We could ditch the beds…” Gasping at a sudden idea, Ruby bounces up and down with excitement. “And replace them with bunk beds!”

"Umm, that sounds incredibly dangerous." Weiss warns.

"And super-awesome!" Yang counters.

"It does seem efficient." Blake says.

Weiss stares at the black and yellow duo in disbelief. "Well, we should put it to a vote!"

"I think we just did." Ruby points out.

After several minutes of hazzardly putting together bunk beds, the girls step back again to view their work.

"Objective: Complete!" Ruby announces.

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