RWBYKNIGHTS 2.0: Volume 1

Chapter 21: The Bet

Night had already fallen when Weiss reached the dormitories. As team RWBY's room was at the last floor, it took some time for her to scale up the building. Yet as she ascended to the last floor, where a lounge room was also stationed at, she just so happened to meet one other person. Yelena. Who then made her way towards the Schnee with worry of her previous fight.

"Are... are you alright?" Yelena scanned Weiss for any form of wound or damage from the previous fight. She still wasn't comfortable with the idea of aura taking the brunt of any damage, having lived her whole life in the constant presence of death. Yet as she did, her eyes suddenly locked onto Weiss's expression, she was... surprised. Surprised Yelena was asking for her well-being, enough to stop her in her tracks temporarily.

"I'm fine, and besides, what do you care about?" The Schnee quickly collected herself as she returned to walking, 'A Faunus asking a Schnee if they are alright... has she lived in the woods her entire life?'

"Well, that charge looked painful, and-"

"Like I said, I am fine, I can take more than a hit, aura or no aura..." Weiss swatted away Yelena's queries as she began to walk faster, enough for the cautus to take the hint and stop. Though coincidentally, Yelena stopped right in front of her dorm, with Free having watched the entire exchange unfold.

"Give up on her already, that's THE Weiss Schnee, from the Schnee nobility. The most asshole asshole to ever be an asshole, inherited directly from her certified asshole father. She's probably gonna go to her dorm, start yelling at her team, they fight, the team splits, no more team RWBY, end of story." The boy shrugged as he was quietly tuning his mechanical arm with a screwdriver, his fingers reflexively jolting with each tool turn, "As brilliant as Ruby is for her age, if she can't keep her team from crumbling, then big man upstairs would have no choice but to change the positions of his chess pieces."

"Ruby may have been at fault for interrupting her, but to go that far?" Yelena couldn't help but chuckle at the absurdity. She had seen so many absurd things before, but such action was highly unnecessary. 

"Man, you're really are up north from Atlas huh... That's just how Atlas nobility are..." Free turned into their dorm room, eyeing Cardin reading a textbook on his bed, "Scratch that, that's how every noble family acts in all four kingdoms. Some kind of familial pride bullshit making them a pain in the ass 24/7..."

"So this is how my father felt in the military..." Yelena sighed as she remembered the stories her father told her before his Oripathy infection. 

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"I just... wanted to show her some support, y'know... as a team thing." Ruby sighed as she looked up at the empty ceiling, lying on one of the elevated beds.

"C'mon sis, it is kinda our fault, though what's the worst she's gonna say? It was only a single mishap." Yang explained with ease, also resting on the lower beds at the other side, with Blake on top, still silently reading her novel.

"Well, it's only been three days, and you already know how she tends to be." Ruby couldn't help but keep her worry, a worry that Yang had opted to 'try' and ignore.

"Ah well-"

"Ruby!" Weiss suddenly barges in, the suddenness enough to bring the two sisters to stand up.

"Hey Weiss, so... sorry for what happened earlier, we were just trying to cheer you on. That's all." Yang, being the straightforward person that she was, simply apologized, though failed to realized that Weiss wasn't even looking at her. She was looking at Ruby.

"S-sorry, Weiss... I know I screwed up with your fight, but it's just like what Yang said..."

"Save it, Ruby, of course, you wouldn't know any better than to cause me a battle that I could have won easily. You aren't even supposed to be here."