Chapter 6. Finally

Hey everyones! Just before you start reading, I just want to apologize for how long this chapter took to get out. I was just taking a break from all the writing while preparing for summer vacation. Just a short little apology. Again, sorry, and happy summer!

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Blake woke up, very early in the morning to find the scent of ash outside her dorm and down the hall. She also noticed the fact that their team leader was not in her bed sleeping.

The Cat Faunus groggily got out of bed, put on her bathrobe and decided to investigate.

As she got closer to the source, she noticed other smells, such as sugar, chocolate, and eggs. Turning at the hallway, she finally found the source inside Beacon's kitchen.

Slowly turning the door, she found...

A distressed Ruby, mixing a bowl of cookie dough. She was wearing a white apron, stained with ingredients, and a chef's hat. Her scroll was glowing on a nearby counter.

"Ruby? What are you doing?" She said. Ruby stopped what she was doing, her head slowly turning until her silver eyes locked with ambers.

"Uhh...hey Blake! What are you doing up so early in the..morning?" She hid the bowl behind her back and simply smiled.

"I smelled ash down the hallway. I could ask you the same thing." Looking around, the whole place was a mess. Cookie dough was everywhere, cafeteria supplies were scattered on the flooor and one of the kitchen ovens was smoking with a fire extinguisher beside it.

Blake glanced at Ruby. Her expression on her face asked her: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.

Ruby looked down at her feet. "Well...I was baking cookies.."

The Ninja crossed her arms. "Why?"

"Because...I wanted to?" She smiled. Blake simply facepalmed.

"Ruby, we have to be honest with each other. It's about Jaune isn't it?"

"Why does everyone keep assuming everything I do is about Jaune?"

"We don't. I think it's pretty obvious that over the past week you've been trying to make it up to Jaune losing his eye." Ruby shook her head. "Nu-uh!"

"During this week alone, you gave him several gifts. Four of them exploded, and two fell apart once you gave it to him. If I were him, I'd think you would be trying to kill me." She sighed.

"I know, I know! This time, I decided to do something simple. Yang told me to just bake him a batch of cookies!"

"And why did this happen?" She waved to the mess around her.

"I didn't know how to bake cookies, so I went online to find recipes."

Blake crossed her arms. "And then what happened?"

"Umm...I didn't get the recipes. They were too confusing."

"Couldn't you just ask someone else to help you?"

"Nobody knew how! Yang always bought them from a bakery down the street, and Weiss said that she might burn the entire kitchen down. Or freeze it. I don't presume you know how to cook, don't you?"

"As a matter of fact, I know the basics." Ruby's smile faltered, turning into a look of confusion. She tilted her head.

"You know how to cook?"

"White Fang training. I know how to hunt and cook. I picked up cookies from a cook book I found." Ruby suddenly got a bit flustered.

"Oh...sorry?" Blake shook her head, a small smile forming on her face. She walked towards Ruby and took the bowl of cookie dough. "Look, all you need to do is just..."

"...Take that cane of your's and shove it up your-" A tall bearded man in a black vest yelled at a man wearing a bowler hat and a fancy cane. Before the bearded man could even finish his sentence, Bowler Hat took his cane and smashed it against his face, sending him to the ground.

"Ah-ah-ah! Remember, this show is rated PG." He walked over to the man laying on the ground, then sighed.

"Look, Hei Xiong. We-" He pointed at himself, then him. "-Had a deal. You would give me a steady supply of information, and I promise not to ruin your life." The man, now identified as Hei Xiong coughed up some blood.

"I'm not going to let any more innocents die, Roman. That thing with the Breach? That was out of line. I don't work with murderers." Roman simply shook his head, and pointed his cane at Hei Xiong.

"But you would be letting innocents die. Refuse, and your little girls bite the big one." Roman turned around and started walking away. "Give me an answer in twenty-four hours, would be a shame if your club was burnt to the ground!" He called back. "Douchebag..." He muttered under his breath.

Hei Xiong grunted in pain, and managed to stand up. He whipped his scroll out of his pocket to call someone.

"Yeah, hey. No, I'm fine man. Look, you wouldn't know where to get some rocket fuel, would ya?"

"Emerald, what on Remnant are we doing out here, eight o'clock in the morning?" An annoyed Mercury said to the green haired girl.

Currently, they were hiding behind some bushes, eyeing a particular blonde with a pair of binoculars.

"Cinder told us to go find some information about this guy. He's been the spotlight of the Dust-net and Beacon for about a month now." Mercury took out her scroll to see anymore valuable information.

"Really? What's so special about Wonderboy then?" Mercury crossed his arms and rolled his eyes.

"Well, from MY report that I'm giving to Cinder, his name is Jaune Arc. Originally thought to be incompetent compared to everyone else at Beacon, the past month may have said otherwise." Mercury gained a little bit of interest. "Really?"

"Yes, really. You saw how he managed to escape Xiao Long, right?" Mercury simply did a "Tch" sound. "All he did was run away."

"Doesn't matter. Technically, he won that fight. Climbed the top of Beacon Tower, Yang forced a pilot to fly her there. When she got there, Xiao Long attempted to grab him. Instead, he kicked her in the stomach. Almost made her fall to her death, but he grabbed her at the last second." The silver haired boy scratched his chin.

"Hmm. So what? He landed a kick, what else is so special about him?" He glanced at the Blonde Knight. Right now, he was sitting behind a tree drawing in a little sketchbook.

"During the Vale Music Festival, he attended as a performer. From what I heard, he was very good. Judges gave him a "Ten out of Ten, would rate again" as a score."

"Those two factors alone got him a lot of popularity on social media and at Beacon." Emerald narrowed his eyes at the silver haired boy.

"Still not impressed?"

"Nope." Emerald smirked.

"Remember how he cooked for the entire school, including you and me? I recall you saying: "Man, who ever made that must come from the heavens themselves!" He grunted in response.

"And the most recent news, during a Grimm Extermination mission, Jaune Arc lead both teams RWBY and his own, JNPR."

"It was just an extermination mission. All you have to do is just kill as many Grimm as you can."

"That's not all. The highlight of the mission was when Jaune managed to save Ruby Rose, 15-year old Huntress prodigy who was bumped up two years from a Beowolf ready to rip her spine out. Although he saved his teammate, Jaune got severe scarring and lost his eye in the process." She glanced at Mercury again.

"Thanks for the report." He said, and started walking away. "Your welcome." She said smugly, before having an epiphany.

"Hey, did you just made me spill out that information so you wouldn't have to research anything!?" Mercury simply chuckled and kept on walking.

"Aagh! You jerk! I'm stealing your next several paychecks!" She took after her partner.

If Ruby was a dog faunus, wouldn't that mean cookies would be poisonous to her?

Speaking of cookies and poison, can Blake eat cookies? I think I read somewhere that cats can't eat chocolate or something.

Why is it that we've been wearing the exact same thing for the past few months?

Souls contain our energy, wills, aura, and emotions. If we lost contact with our soul, would the Grimm leave us alone forever?

If Velvet is apart of a second-year student team, why is she in my history class?

I don't recall seeing Blake getting launched off during Initiation.

Weiss is definitely a tsundere of sorts.

Wait, what the heck am I drawing?

Looking down at his sketchbook, it was a mess of sketches. Basically every random thing that occured in his thoughts was drawn on the page.

Wow, okay. That's actually pretty freakin' cool. Oh, hey Ruby. Why does she smell like cookies?

And yeah! That's it for this chapter. I know how long you guys were waiting, again sorry. I swears it on me mum that it won't take as long again for another chapter. This chapter was mainly meant to focus on the other characters of this story.

This is Kirkman, signing off.