The Faunus Girl

Sharing With an Old Friend

Another school day in the books for us Beacon Students, our group decides to spend the rest of the day in the library. The original plan was to use this time to study, but more than half of us are goofing off.

Team RWBY play a board game and half of Team JNPR are studying, Iberis watches the board game with admiration in his eyes. We both sit off to the side, Iberis watching the game as I try to read a book with the ensuing noise from the other tables.

I'm able to tune out most of their screams and yelling in order to digest the story I have chosen for the time being. A woman with red hair giving up her whole life to go on the run to fight an evil organization, she's settling down for the night when...

"HAHAHAHA!" Her voice catches my attention, I look over towards the table and see Weiss standing and laughing. "YES! FEAR THE ALMIGHTY POWER OF MY FORCES! COWER AS THEY PILLAGE YOUR HOMES AND WEEP AS THEY TAKE YOUR CHILDREN FROM YOUR VERY ARMS—"

Yang holds up a card in her teammate's face, "Trap card."

"Huh?"

Yang quickly rearranges the whole board, "Your armies have been destroyed."

Weiss starts to cry, "I hate this game of emotions we play!"

Ruby jumps into the heiress' lap hugging her tightly, "Stay strong, Weiss. We'll make it through this together."

She hugs her team leader back, "Shut up! Don't touch me!" I laugh at the two of them, because I know that Weiss actually cares about her leader a lot more than she lets on.

"Hey can I play?" A voice snaps me from my thoughts.

"Sorry Jaune, we've already got four people." Ruby answers.

"Besides, this game requires a certain level of tactical cunning that I seriously doubt you possess." Weiss rolls her eyes at the blonde boy.

"Uhh...you attacked your own navel fleet two turns ago." Yang laughs.

"Bring it on, Ice Queen! I'll have you know that I've been told that I'm a natural, born leader!" Jaune boasts.

She gives him a suspicious look, "By who? Your mother?"

"And Pyrrha!" He defends.

The red head perks up from her seat, "Hello again!"

I smile to myself, as if I would ever be able to forget her. I couldn't forget any of them, even if I tried.

"Come on let me play your hand for a turn." He begs.

Weiss clutches her cards to her chest, "I'm not trusting you with the good citizens of Vacuo!"

"Why not?! You've trusted me with way more important stuff before! I mean you told us all that Blake is secretly a Fau—"

Pyrrha rushes over to her team leader to cover his mouth, "Fun-loving person whom we all admire and respect!"

I roll my eyes in amusement and go back to my book, hoping to see what happened to the protagonist I had been following for the past few hundred pages.

Another voice breaks my concentration, "'Sup losers?"

Sun shows up with Neptune next to us, "Hey Sun!" Ruby greets.

"Ruby, Yang, Blake, Ice Queen..." Sun starts, making me laugh.

"Why does everyone keep calling me that!?" Weiss cries.

"I never got a chance to formally introduce you to my old friend." Sun explains.

"Uh...aren't libraries for reading?" Neptune asks the room.