Chapter 5: The Roses Fall

The Apartment: Weiss and Ruby's Room

The roses lie in bed on a lazy Sunday morning. Weiss as usual is the first to get up, and stumbles into the kitchen, realizing that Yang didn't set the coffee pot to begin brewing. She began to get angry at the blonde, but she soon remembered that Yang was not home. "Dust. I guess that they got a hotel room because Blake insisted that they don't expose Ruby to any more of Yang's drunkenness. I guess I'll have to wait for my coffee…"

Weiss decided it was her turn to cook breakfast this morning, normally Ruby or Blake, and even sometimes Yang makes breakfast. But today she had decided that she would cook for Ruby, and give her a nice breakfast in bed. There was one problem though. Weiss did not truly know how to cook. She could boil the water for the freeze dried food that they were provided for missions, but she never learned how to cook anything else. "I guess I could look up how to make pancakes on my scroll. How hard could it be?"

Weiss pulled her scroll off the charging dock in the kitchen, and opened it to it's tablet form, placing it on a stand. She opened it to the CCW and searched how to make pancakes. "Simple! One egg, flour, sugar, milk, and baking powder."

She began to rummage through the cupboards and fridge, as they did bring some food supplies from their small fridge back at Beacon, but not much. "Well, It looks like everything is here for a few pancakes. Enough for both of us to eat hopefully. The page did not say what temperature to put the pancakes in at though… I guess I'll start at a medium setting and hopefully that should work."

Weiss began to mix the ingredients together as she continued to look back to the scroll for reference on measurements. She poured the batter for the first pancake into the pan and attempted to turn the stovetop on. But after the first click, it sputtered out and did not produce a flame. "Well, this is a bit of a problem. I guess I could try to start it with one of my glyphs…"

She then headed into the small armory to grab a vial of Dust to use to start the flames. After reaching the kitchen, she creates a small glyph inside the stovetop. Ice shards begin forming around the bottom of the pan. "Dust damn it! I grabbed a vial of Ice Dust! Ok, don't panic Weiss, we can remedy this… Oh, right! Yang should have plenty of Fire Dust in her locker!"

She trotted off into the armory once more to open Yang's locker, but she soon discovered that Yang had changed her password from her previous one to a new code. "Well, I guess my cooking attempt is in vain…"

Weiss tromped into the kitchen fists balled at her sides. "Stupid stove! Why will you not work!" She yelled. Having no regard for silence at this point as anger flooded her mind over not being able to make breakfast for her girlfriend.

Back inside the white rose's room, Ruby began to stir as she listened to her girlfriend shout at the stove and proceed to kick it once, soon realizing it was made out of metal. A faint obscenity could be heard in the distance which was something rare from the usually proper minded heiress. "Ugh… Weiss… I'm trying to sleep…" Ruby arose and put on her slippers to see what Weiss was shouting at.

Ruby entered the kitchen to see an infuriated Weiss bashing the stovetop. "Ugh… Why will this insufferable stove not work?!" Weiss shouted.

"Weiss, why are you shouting at our stove?" Ruby questioned her white haired girlfriend.

"Oh! Ruby! You were supposed to still be in bed! I was going to make you a nice breakfast in bed!"

"Well, thanks for trying Weiss, but next time leave the cooking to me or Blake."

"I guess we could go out for breakfast. I heard there's a small diner just around the corner from here that we could eat at."

"All right! So, who's paying?"

"Oh Dust! We don't have any money… Blake and Yang probably have all of theirs because they went to the bar last night, so we are dry on lien until they get back." Weiss slightly panicked.

"What if we just go get Blake and Yang and bring them to breakfast with us?" Ruby remembered that Blake and Yang weren't home.

"That would work I guess."

Ruby and Weiss got ready for the day and set out to pick Blake and Yang up from the hotel they normally go to. However, they noticed a small cube sitting on the ground outside their apartment, with a button on it. "I wonder what this is! Did you order something Weiss?" Ruby wondered what could be inside the small cube.

"I didn't order anything, did you?" Weiss retorted.

"Nope! But, normally something like this could be a trap, but come on we are Huntresses now! We're ready for anything! Let's press it!" Ruby pressed on the button and the cube opened up to a small projector.

"Greetings Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee, My master wishes you to go to the enclosed coordinates if you wish to see the other half of your team again. Thank you and have a wonderful day."

"Well, that's not good! Blake and Yang got kidnapped!" Ruby exclaimed.

"But, this could be a trap Ruby! Someone could have just said that they kidnapped them, just to trap us!" Weiss stated back at her distraught girlfriend.

"Well, let's check the hotel first, then we'll go to the coordinates this guy says they are at." Ruby reasoned.

"Ok, then breakfast can wait."

At the hotel

"Well, we're here."

"Alright let's go talk to the receptionist and see if Blake checked them in for a room." Weiss stated.

Weiss and Ruby walked into the small reception room. A nice young woman was stationed behind the counter and welcomed Weiss and Ruby into the humble hotel. "What can I do for you two young ladies?"

"Hello Miss, we'd like to check if a Miss Blake Belladonna or Yang Xiao Long has checked into a room here."

"One minute, let me see if they're here."

The receptionist tapped on her keyboard looking to see if either Blake or Yang had booked a room for the night.

"I'm sorry Miss, neither of them have a room booked." The receptionist told Weiss.

"Great... That means that hologram was right. Well, thanks anyways miss!"

The two walked out of the hotel reception room crestfallen that the black and yellow pair had indeed been kidnapped.

"Well, let's go to those coordinates! We have to find Blake and Yang!" Ruby exclaimed.

"We have to go in with a plan though Ruby. We can't go in guns blazing, otherwise we might get trapped ourselves!" Weiss retorted.

"Ok…"

The two decided to go in back to back, covering each other. Ruby's scythe would be able to protect both of them at long distances and medium distances, while Weiss' glyphs and sword would cover the closer range combat.

At the coordinates

"Well sir, it looks like the girls got the message." Sebastian stated.

"Thanks for letting me know, This should be a cinch. I know how they fight, so knocking them out without harming em isn't gonna be difficult."

"I would caution you, Ruby can be quite the strategist, so do be on your guard."

"Thanks for the warning Sebastian! But, I should be able to handle them with Muspell"

"Anytime Sir!"

A small red car pulled up to the building that was housing their future captor.

"Sir, they are here."

"Good. This should be fun!"

Ruby and Weiss exited their small red sports car and pulled out their weapons from its trunk. Ruby uncollapsed her scythe into its sniper rifle form as she did not need the blade just yet.

"You are taking point Ruby. Remember the plan?"

"Yes Weiss I remember the plan…"

Ruby took point with Weiss at her backside in case anyone decided to come in from the door behind them. The two walked cautiously into the dark warehouse, unaware that their captor was waiting in the shadows.

Reuben decided that his rapier, Muspell would do the trick for dispatching the two without harm, as the weapon was able to be used as a rudimentary crushing weapon with it's hilt. He did still have his trusty pistols as backup, incase the engagement went south.

"Blake! Yang! Are you in here?!" Ruby called out to the shadows.

"Looks like it's showtime!" Reuben thought as he closed his eyes and on his left hand appeared a red rose symbol not unlike Ruby's own symbol.

"No, but I am!" Reuben flashed between the two girls spinning to hit Weiss first in the back of her head with the hilt of Muspell, with Ruby dazed at his blinding speed.

"One down! One to go!" Reuben shouted in excitement.

"Weiss No!" Ruby shouted as she ran to her fallen partner who had taken quite the blow as she was knocked several feet away from the hilt strike.

Reuben was poised to make another strike to incapacitate Ruby, but she whipped around bashing him with the side of her sniper rifle.

"Oof, nice improv kid! But, that's not gonna get you too far against a hunter of my caliber."

"I don't know who you are, or why you are attacking us. But there is one thing I do know, and that's the fact that I'm gonna beat you!" Ruby shouted triumphantly.

"Heard it a thousand times kid, and it's gonna take more than triumphant shouts to beat me."

Reuben breathed in and closed his eyes as the Schnee family symbol appeared on his left hand. Ruby rushed at him, trying to close the gap between her and him, but her effort was futile as she was blasted away by a glyph and knocked into a steel pillar.

"Oomph! Ow... That... hurt..."

"Now's my chance!"

Reuben dashed to Ruby's dazed form and gave her a sharp rap on the head to knock her unconscious.

"Well done Sir! You have successfully captured the trainees without disturbing the local police, or other huntsman!" Sebastian said with an ecstatic tone.

"Thank you Sebastian, I always do my finest work." Reuben said to his companion.

"Now, is the van ready? I need to make my getaway pretty soon before the cops or huntsmen DO show up."

"Yes Sir, the van is ready to go."

"Thanks Sebastian! You are a true lifesaver!"

Reuben went through his process to activate his semblance, and a flaming fist appeared on his left hand. He hefted the two girls on his shoulders and moved them to his van. "Finally, I have all of the trainees it's gonna be an interesting few weeks. At least I don't have to try to match them one for one, just something similar enough to give them a way to learn how to shore up their weaknesses."

"Oh, wow these two were alot lighter compared to Blake and Yang... Didn't even need that old dragon's power afterall."

AN: Sorry that it's taken THIS long for me to publish this chapter... I've been swamped with so much crap lately, and so the next chapter might take the same amount of time this one did, but at the same time it might not.