Tragedy of the Chessboard Ch. 1

Title might change. Some pre-story stuff that I don't want to an intro on {because if you've read any of my other stuff, I don't do intros because I actually dislike intros}. This takes place in the final year of school for RWBY. White Rose and Bumblebee is in effect, but doesn't really change their behavior too much, only terminology. Description fills in what to expect of this story otherwise.

He quietly lit up another cigar. He carefully looked over the map, and slammed his fist angrily on the table. They had ruined his operation, again! They were becoming a much larger issue, and it was coming time to stop them He needed her approval, but that shouldn't be too much of an issue. She could see exactly why he needed the girls out of the way. He looked over the pictures, the four images of the four girls, and he brought the tip of his cigar to each of them. Soon you will all burn, he thought. And when you do, I'll be right there to watch. He tossed the pictures to the side, and started to walk towards his employer.

Beacon Academy: Team RWBY's Dorm

The door opened up, and the four girls entered into the dorm. Ruby and Yang were loudly celebrating, while Weiss and Blake just looked on in silence.

"Yeah, we got him again," Yang exclaimed.

"We sure showed him," Ruby added in. They looked over to their silent teammates, and tried to get them to raise their energy. "Come on guys," Ruby whined. "We stopped Torchwick again. You guys can celebrate every once in a while." Weiss let out a heavy sigh, and looked down at their eager leader.

"Ruby," she said. "It's one win, and it's a minor win. There is no reason to celebrate this much."

"Come on Weiss, lighten up," Yang tried. "It's not just this win, it's all the others."

"Blake," Weiss said. "Help me out." Blake just shrugged, and jumped onto her bed. "Blake!"

"Sorry Weiss," Blake said. "You're on your own." Blake opened up her book, and started to read.

"And suddenly, she's clamming up," Yang mumbled.

"Thank you for not saying the cat has my tongue," Blake replied, without looking up at all.

"Eh, cat puns are overused." Ruby hadn't yet given up on her partner. She continued to pester and tease her, trying to get Weiss to celebrate a little bit.

"Come on Weiss," Ruby begged. "It's not just this win, it's all of the others that we have too. Just celebrate a little bit."

"Ruby," Weiss said. "You are nothing, if not persistent." Ruby's eyes got wide with hope. "But it won't work on me." Ruby deflated slightly.

"But Weeeeeiisssss," she whined. "Please? For me?" Weiss gave her partner a hard stare.

"No," she said, completely shutting down Ruby.

"Come on Weiss," Blake said. "You can't blatantly reject her like that."

"Watch me."

"Weiss," Yang said hostily. "Just remember, this is my little sister."

"And?" Weiss challenged. That was the wrong answer with Yang. Small flames started to dance around her.

"Don't, hurt, my, baby, sister," Yang said, breathing heavily in between each breath.

"Yang," Ruby said. "It's fine." All of the the flames dispersed, and Yang smiled.

"I know little sis," she said cheerfully. "I'm just giving her a hard time."

"After all this time," Weiss started. "And you still do that." Yang smiled, and nudged Weiss. Ruby smiled, but saw a message from Ozpin.

Do not think this is an excuse to get out of your classes. You'll be late if you don't hurry.

"Ah crap," Ruby stated. "I forgot about class." Everyone suddenly panicked, and grabbed their books.

Unknown Location

She let the fire dance in her hand. The scroll laid out in front of her displayed the four girls. All of them acting as they were, children. They were nothing more then children meddling in adult affairs, so why were they so effective against her? Either way, he had raised a good point to her. They needed to be taken care of, and that meant that she would have to find a way. No matter what, one of them was going to have to fall.

"Cinder," someone said. She turned angrily.

"What?" She asked, somewhat impatiently.

"What do you say to my proposition?"

"Well, Roman, I think you know the answer to that. We have no other choice but to deal with them. They've been doing nothing, but, causing us problems." She snuffed the flames in her hand. "They need to fall."

"What are we going to do?" Torchwick asked, holding out his cane. Cinder pondered this for a moment, but then made up her mind.

"We attack. We find a way to draw them out, and we take them down. Or even, we only need one to fall for now. The others will crumple at the sight. Think of it Roman, for so long, they're all that has been with each other. One will fall, and the others will begin to crumple with them." Torchwick smiled, and lit another one of his cigars.

"When do we begin?" He asked, puffing out some smoke from his cigar as he spoke.

"We begin the setup, right now."

Advanced Grimm Studies: Peter Port

Team RWBY ran into class just as the bell rang, and took their seats quickly.

"How kind of the hero's to rejoin us," Port said.

"Sorry," RWBY said in unison.

"It is fine, you made it in time for class. Now, let us begin. Who can tell me the weakest point on a Beowolf?" Someone raised their hand, and gave the correct answer. Port, of course, took that as a gateway into another one of his tales. Team RWBY stopped paying attention at that point. In the past, Weiss had tried to fight it. She had tried to stay interested in his stories, tried to go against the flow of her class. But there was never anything in them that was vital to class, and as soon as she realized this, she had stopped listening. Port had reached the point in the story that he became completely absorbed in his tale, no longer paying much attention to his students. Yang immediately leaned into Blake, and lightly rested her head on Blake's shoulder.

"Yang," Blake hissed. "Get off of me." Yang reluctantly lifted her head off of her partner's shoulder. Next, Yang tried to sneak her arm around Blake. Once again, Blake pushed away her arm.

"But Blakey," Yang whined. "Please."

"You sound like Ruby," Blake said simply, turning her attention to her book. Yang let out a deep sigh, finally giving up on trying to be romantic with her partner.

Weiss would of have killed for her partner to make romantic advances, anything but what she was doing. Ruby was quietly stacking her books on her pencils, seeing how high she could get it. Weiss just kept her eye on it, worried that it could topple at any moment.

"Ruby," she said cautiously. "I don't think you should do that."

"Uggh," Ruby said. "Why?"

"Because if it falls, we'll get in trouble." Ruby sighed, and complied with her partner's wishes. She slowly disassembled the stack, and went about placing her books in a stable stack.

"You never let me have fun," Ruby whined.

"I'm not supposed to," Weiss replied. Over the years, the two had developed a very strict relationship. Weiss kept Ruby's energy in check, while Ruby helped Weiss be less serious. It worked for them, but sometimes there was no happy compromise.

"And that is how I saved the town from the Beowolves," Port finished. "Now, onto your lesson. Open up your books to chapter 75."

Beacon Academy: Ozpin's Office

He looked down at his scroll, and flipped around through the police files. Despite all the success that RWBY was having, his ace still hadn't worked out where they were. He walked over to a chessboard, and carefully moved a black pawn several pieces up. He reached over to his scroll, and typed out a message.

Pawn to B 5

He set it down, and walked backed to his desk.

End: I did all I could to avoid a shorter chapter, but I didn't want to lay out all of the pieces. I apologize, hopefully the length will increase over time. Questions, comments, follows, favorites, and feedback is greatly appreciated, especially since this is a new story.