𝐈𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 (English)

Chapter 62

Ruby was in a sour mood when she woke up at 01:12am to loud knocking on her door. She'd been in the midst of a good dream that was already slipping from her memory, something involving monsters made of sweets that she'd been tasked to fight by eating them. Her stomach grumbled at the thought of it, and now she had to try and get back to sleep until breakfast.

The knocking on the door grew louder.

After that.

"Someone else handle it," Yang groaned, over from the top bunk on her side of the room. Ruby personally agreed that it should be the bottom bunkers who had to do it, seeing as how they didn't have to move as far, but she also knew that wouldn't happen.

Blake was excellent at simply refusing to do things she didn't want to, and Weiss would protest the thought of having to expose herself in her sleeping gown to goodness-knows-who at this hour of the night. So, with a sigh, Ruby dangled her feet over the edge of her bed and dropped to the ground like a rock. The impact jarred her sleepy body, whipping away the last ounces of sleep. Ruby groaned and yawned, rubbed at her eyes and plodded unhappily over to the door, yanking it open.

"What?" she snapped, in a very un-Ruby-like manner.

Sue her. It was 1am and a weekday to boot.

Pyrrha probably didn't deserve her spite, but the redhead was there in her armour and wearing a worried expression on her face. "Is Jaune here?" she asked, almost desperately.

Given the fatigue clouding her mind, Ruby actually turned around to check if Jaune was, in fact, somehow sleeping in their room. It took a few seconds of searching for Ruby to actually realise how stupid an idea that was, especially given Weiss and Blake would freak out and Yang really wasn't the type to bring her boyfriend to the dorm for that kind of fun. And it wasn't like Jaune was hiding under one of their beds.

"Uh. No. He's not here." Ruby yawned. "Why would he be here?"

"Because he's not in our dorm!"

"And that means he'd be here? As opposed to literally anywhere else on Remnant?"

"Ruby, please!" Pyrrha begged, which was so unlike her that Ruby felt a little bad for being so waspish. "Jaune never came back last night after he went to talk to you, and he isn't answering his calls and we can't find him anywhere!"

That woke Ruby up a little more. Jaune finding somewhere quiet to think after their chat was one thing, but that'd been over four hours ago. There was also the very real risk of Cinder out there, who had some vendetta against him and Blake for outing her to the authorities. Ruby shook her head wildly.

"Uh. Give me a second to get changed and wake the others."

Pyrrha nodded.

It took Ruby a few minutes to actually pull it off, not least of all because her team really didn't like losing sleep. It took much shaking and explanations that no, Jaune wasn't absent but missing, and that it was under suspicious circumstances. Eventually, the girls woke and got dressed, with Blake grumbling that Jaune was being a complete pain in her ass of late. Within five minutes, Team RWBY were filtering out into the gloomy corridors.

"I'll show you where we talked," Ruby said, "It was outside, but only against the school. We were sitting against the wall. We didn't leave the grounds or go into the forest."

They ran into Nora and Ren en route, with the two of them deciding to check the forest's edge for tracks, in case Jaune had decided to go off to train. It sounded like a terrible idea, and not one he'd make without at least forewarning someone. Once they had the spot she and Jaune had been talking, Yang whipped out her scroll and called his number. The ringtone came from nearby, and they quickly found his scroll face-down in the grass, the light from Yang's call making the grassy patch around it glow in the dark.