RWBY Shorts

Team Wonderland

Alfonse March shuffled the cards of his deck in the corner, paying close attention to one card in particular. He was practicing an old trick he had learned, where someone picks a card from your deck and puts it back without showing it. You then shuffle the deck and flick the side of it with your finger, causing the chosen card to fly out of the deck. It was a basic trick, really, but something felt off. The timing of the cards was off. As if his deck had been tampered with. Again.

"Ed, did you touch my cards?" he asked his brother.

Edward March looked up from the puzzle box he was trying to open. Al had bought it for him because he had insisted that it was a safe place to keep his scroll, and indeed it was. For when the scroll was placed inside and the lid shut, no one could figure out how to open it. Besides just breaking it, of course.

"What?" he said dumbly.

"I said, did you touch my cards?" Al asked again.

"Yesterday."

"Why?" Al growled, growing angry. He hated it when people messed up his deck. He always left it in the right order so he could know where each card was. Some would call it cheating or foul play. He preferred to call it, preparation.

"You asked me to pick a card, so I did." Al briefly recalled the trick he practiced on his brother the day before.

"That's not what I — … never mind."

As Alfonse shuffled back through the deck for the third time, the door to the dorm room burst open. The brothers both stopped and stared at the figure that appeared within the doorway; one with awe, the other with amusement. Through the opening walked a long-haired lady clad in tan armor, a pair of twin swords upon her back. Ed gained a nervous grin and greeted her enthusiastically.

"Hey, Alice!"

Light brown eyes glared at him like a hawk, causing him to flinch. Upon seeing his reaction, her gaze relaxed, and she sighed.

"For the last time. My name is Allison, not Alice, ok?"

Still smiling, Ed shouted,

"Yes, Alice!"

Allison groaned into her hand while Al just started laughing.

"So, Alice," he began earning a glare, "what do you have in store for us today?"

The girl straightened up her posture and cleared her throat before beginning.

"As your team leader, I have decided that we should all go into the Emerald Forest and train there."

"Sounds good, let's go," Al said, collecting his cards, which still felt off. Ed put down his puzzle box and reached for a rifle in the corner, slinging it on his back.

"Ready!" he yelled.

"Not so loud," said a voice in the corner.

The three turned to look at the last member of their team, who was lying in bed, one eye cracked open.

"Mell, come on, team training."

"Yeah, get up already."

"You sleep a lot."

With a groan, the black-haired boy got up. He wearily reached under his bed for his weapon and followed after the others, who were chatting away noisily.

Just another day for Team Wonderland.

END