RWBY: Penny and the Tin Man

Hear no Evil

Sometime earlier in one of the dark and seemingly empty hallways of Beacon Academy, a lone boy made his way through in complete silence. Despite the fast pace at which he shuffled along and the almost perfect silence of the school not even his foot falls were audible. The moment the boy was about to reach the end of the hallway a suddenly storm of energetic pleas ripped through the silent halls behind him. The boy glanced back to see a set of bright amber colored eyes looking back at him. Stud at the other end of the hallway was his teammate a monkey faunus girl named Ember Whieldings. "There you are! Get back here so we can talk!" The girl said as she began to approach the boy. The boy showed no interest in facing the girl and quickly picked up speed.

"What hey Ruin, wait up! Come on would you stop already and just talk to me?! Listen to me just this once!" She shouted as she ran after him.

Both of them quickly found themselves in a full blown sprint at this point and the boy only slowed to glance at the girl with an apologetic look in his eyes before turning a corner. Ember soon rounded the corner herself only seconds later and Ruin had seemingly disappearing into thin air. "Dang it, I hate it when he does that! Why is it that, that guy never listen to me when it matters!?" Ember shouts angrily and in a volume that could wake the dead.

Realizing what time it was Ember quickly moves on, hoping that nobody had heard her little rant. She figured Ruin wouldn't be open about his problems, that was just the way he was but. Ember was undeterred as she continued her frantic search for teammate. Even though she didn't really think she would find him now. Since he had always been very good at hide and go seek since they were young. She just figured this search would make for a good chance to get familiar with the layout of the academy.

That is when Ember remembered a few places she had raced by during their so called tour and decided to start there. The first location she visited was the cafeteria. She has always had a bit of a sweet tooth. There had even been some cases in which her friends and or classmates had the gall to call her a glutton. The worst offender Ember had met so far was without a doubt her current teammate George Bolt. The boy just had not tact and Ember couldn't figure out if it was because he was just that stupid or he just didn't care. Realizing she had been lingering on unimportant thoughts for too long she pushed them to the back of her mind before pressing onward. She couldn't find any signs of Ruin in the cafeteria but she couldn't help but want to check out the menu now that she had the chance. She was impressed by the wide range of food that they had to offer. Back at her old in Atlas, school launch seemed more like an afterthought than something to look forward to. "Maybe this place won't be so bad." She thought to herself before writing down a few things she wanted to try on a napkin and leaving the cafeteria.

She soon found herself dipping into the academy's library. She wasn't really what you would call a big reader herself but, she felt it would be the kind of place Ruin may have gone for a distraction. The library's size was quite impressive and the wide range of material to choose from was far larger than that of Atlas combat schools. With that said she couldn't help but notice the large number of titles with questionable academic or tactical merit. "Seriously why would I need to know how to kill a Mockingbird?" She asked herself. "And don't even get me started on these pun books. I mean who reads these?" She asked as she picked one out and skimmed to the back to see the check out slip. "Now lets see here we got Cail P., Yang Xiao Long, Nora Valkyrie, Yang Xiao Long again, Weiss Schnee... Wait what? Could that be? No, I'm sure it's just somebody else with the same name." Realizing she was spending too much time here and that Ruin was still no where in sight she set the pun book back on the shelf and made her way towards the doors but. On her way out she spotted a small pile of books that had been pulled from the shelves and were stacked up on one of the tables. Ember stepped over to them and took a moment to look over the titles. "What do we get here? Pinocchio, Robotic Love, Faunus Human Relations, Faunus War History 101." She felt it was an odd group of books and couldn't help but wonder who got them out but, being the neat freak she was she quickly gathered them up and returned them to their proper place on the shelves before dunking out of the library.