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Secret Santa.

(The transition scene is of Yang hanging up stockings on a fireplace. Only the stocking doesn’t stay up, since the nail pops out. Yang’s eyes change colour & she uses Ember Celica to keep the nail in.

To her horror, her punch breaks the fireplace & cracks the screen. It falls down, like bricks coming loose as the next skit is revealed behind the broken wall.)

Team RWBY, JNPR & Zwei sit in a circle around a large stack of presents that precariously stands above them. Ruby eagerly leans in to inspect hers but Weiss tuts her as the point to the top present to start with.

Yang cheers as the first present has her name on it, she opens it up but is surprised by the present before smirking. She reveals it to be a book named ‘Pun-ishment: a thousand terrible puns.’

Everyone glares towards Blake, who takes a second to realise they’re all looking at her.

“Why are you all looking at me?” Blake asks as her bow twitches to the sudden attention of the group.

“Blake, this is awesome, but it’s supposed to be ‘Secret’ Santa.” Yang confidently chuckles.

“I wasn’t the one who got you the book.” Blake insisted as Nora winked at her regardless of Blake’s adamance.

“It is most certainly like what you’d get Yang.” Weiss commented on, as she passed to Ruby her present.

Jaune whistles quietly in the background, with Nora realising it was him. She goes to reveal the revelation but Ren & Pyrrha get her to remain quiet. (They put their fingers to their lips and get Nora’s to do the same.)

Ruby had torn away the wrapping in a heartbeat, but was left puzzled by the items. There was a writing pad & a set of calligraphy pens, as Weiss gave a small smile.

“Your handwriting could use some improvement, so this should start you off to better penmanship.” Weiss smugly declares but is shocked by the huge smile on Ruby’s face.

“Thank you Weiss. Best, bestie, ever!” Ruby hugs Weiss tightly, catching Weiss off guard, much to the amusement of Yang & Blake.

Weiss silently sulks and huffs as they pass Zwei a present. It’s shaped like a bone with a giant bow on it. Zwei gives one pull of the ribbon and finds it’s not one bone, but several dozen making one giant version.

He races in circles in delight, as the the group are left wondering who got Zwei the gift. Ruby passes Blake her gift, thinking that Blake should like her book signed at long last.

Blake thanks Ruby & opens it to see it’s a signed copy of the ‘ howling’ series. She clutches it close to her heart while thinking, ‘they must never know it’s by Zwei, or that I’m his Secret Santa.’

Nora began fidgeting frantically, enough to get Ren’s attention & make the others concerned as she started to headstand.

“What’s wrong Nora?” Ren asked with a roll of his eyes.

“Everyone is going so slow. It’s Christmas! We should be picking up the pace, like tearing into that paper, so we can enjoy as many festive activities as possible.” She replied with a smirk & her arms outstretched into a cheer pose.

“Good things come to those that wait Nora.” Ren closes his eyes in exhausting an explanation, not noticing Nora grabbing a present from the stack.

“Here you go Ren.” She gives with a spring in her step, as she knew it was from her & that Ren would love it.

“Thank you. See Nora, good things come your way when you’re patient.” Ren begins to neatly pull at the bow till Jaune’s voice gets everyone’s attention.

“Nora? Please tell me you didn’t just do what I think you just did.” Jaune asks with wide eyes of fright.

“Well it was just sticking out, so I-“ Nora didn’t have time to finish as she saw what she had caused.

She had removed a key present that was keeping the other ones stacked & started the chain reaction of the other presents swaying to one side. Jaune whimpered ‘oh no’ before screaming as the presents toppled on them.

Ruby darted with her speed, crying out “timber” as they all started screaming too.

“Woo, that was a close one. Right team?” Ruby exhales as she turns to laugh it off.

Only to her horror the others are buried under the presents and are dazed, as Ruby helps the first person she finds. Pyrrha says she’s ‘ok’ while Nora’s feet stick up from the presents, with her frantically wiggling to free herself unsuccessfully. She lets out a muffled scream as REN frees himself and tries to get Nora out.

(In the background, Blake’s bow is above the pile of presents, which Zwei tugs at to free her. Yang’s eyes turn red with her punching her way out of the presents. Meanwhile Weiss uses her glyphs to stop more presents falling on her.)

(Transition Scene: Team Rwby are wearing their Christmas Jumpers, except for Weiss, who’s holding hers with a puzzled & resentful expression.)

Santa’s Coming To Town.

Team RWBY’s dorm room is decked out from top to bottom with Christmas decorations, tinsel all around the beds, fake snow like a carpet laid across the floor and various odd trinkets hung around the room on string and rope.

Yet what surprised Weiss the most was the tree that filled the corner of the room, because it was tilting due to its height being too tall for the room. She was secretly amazed with the effort Ruby had done getting every inch of it decorated with baubles and ornaments that were Team RWBY’s individual emblems. Though Weiss insisted on protesting on the audacity Ruby had taken to overdo the room’s festive decorations.

“Seriously, how did you even get that tree in here?” Weiss demanded, still expecting the tree to tilt at any moment.

“Ruby can be very determined” Yang shrugged it off as if it was nothing out of the ordinary. “Especially when it involves Christmas. I mean she even made a chimney and a fire place like ours back home in Patch.”

Weiss turned around in disbelief to see Blake sat in an armchair, reading a ‘Christmas Carol’ by a roaring fire place, as Zwei yawned curled up near to her. Blake flicked the next page and gave Zwei a fuss of his ear. There was even a pile of neatly cut firewood that Weiss guessed was cut by Ruby’s scythe, which was perched next to it.

“How is that even possible?” Weiss scoffed, taken aback by the whole display.

“Festive magic Weiss.” Ruby smiled as she zipped to Weiss’ side and showed off her handiwork. “It can turn even the most bitter of enemies into besties!”

“I meant the fire place Ruby! How is it even-” Weiss began to demand, but seeing Ruby’s face of puzzlement, she decided to ask later. “Never mind, just please tell me you didn’t-” But before Weiss could finish asking, Ruby had gotten the team matching jumpers, with Weiss’ having the letter W knitted on it.

“Of course I did, especially for my BFF!” Ruby smirked with a huge grin, handing out a jumper to Yang.

“No.” Weiss protested in wearing the jumper, that was mostly white with red snowflakes, while Ruby was already in her’s, which was mostly red with white roses and the letter R.

“Come on Ice Queen, you don’t want to be the odd one out of this team do you?” Yang insisted with a wink, proudly displaying her bright yellow jumper with a bumblebee, with the letter Y in the centre, and black wool for details.

“Hardly Yang, because there’s at least one other team member who I seriously doubt would be caught dead wearing it. Am I right Blake?” Weiss smugly turned to Blake, who placed a bookmark to not loose her page.

“The jumper is rather nice Weiss. You shouldn’t judge it till you try it.” Blake calmly stated as she put the book down, revealing her black jumper, with a matching bumblebee knitted in yellow and the letter B in the centre.

“Seriously Blake, not you too?” Weiss couldn’t believe that even Blake was taking part in Ruby’s craziness.

“Come on Weiss, tis the season for knitted jumpers and being there for friends & family.” Ruby cheerfully added despite Weiss’ sulking. “Especially your Xmas Besties.” As she double blinks and inches closer to Weiss.

Weiss huffed and walks over to the vacant chair folding her arms in defiance, though she soon gets out of the seat as it was too uncomfortable for her.

“I mean I had to get everything ready for Santa or he won’t see how good I’ve… I mean WE’VE been this year.” Ruby explained while badly holding in her excitement at the thought of Santa Claus.

“Please tell me you’re not that childish.” Weiss dryly spoke as Ruby darted to add stockings to the chimney place, one each for the girls and a tiny one for Zwei.

“Come on Weiss, he knows if you’ve been mean or naughty, or nice all year, but if we’re all good for the next few hours, we can turn it around for you.” Ruby pleaded and then hastily added with Weiss’ cold glance. “I… mean… US! YES… us!”

“I’ll be studying, somewhere where there isn’t any of… THIS.” Weiss pointed to the decorations as she stormed off out of the room.

“What’s her problem?” Yang asked Blake, still disappointed at Weiss’ attitude.

“She comes from Atlas, so snow and ice isn’t probably her idea of Christmas.” Blake guessed as the fire continued to crackle.

“Well, by the end of Christmas Eve she’ll be celebrating with all us or my name isn’t Ruby Rose, the red-haired cape wearer.” She boldly declared to the world before bursting into red petals after her teammate.

“She’s going to do something crazy isn’t she?” Blake asked as she turned to Yang, with a sigh at Ruby’s recklessness.

“Yeah, but it’s not the first time she’s gone all out for Christmas. There was this one time when-”

The screen cuts to Yang’s flashback (as she spoke to Blake) of a startled Tai at the house decorated in so many lights and decorations, that the doors and windows are covered and a younger Ruby is tangled in the wires while holding a star twice Tai’s size. As Zwei barks, wearing a red light up nose and a woollen jumper that Ruby knitted, with loose threads were running on the ground.

Qrow meanwhile is asleep from drinking eggnog, even as Zwei’s loose threads tangle him and drag him along the porch of the house. The screen cuts back to Yang and Blake, both concerned for Weiss and Ruby.

“We’re going to watch out for them and keep them out of trouble, aren’t we?” Blake queried, knowing the answer already.

“I’d normally say they’d be fine, but my gut is telling me to keep an eye on them.” Yang insisted as she grabbed a shopping list.

“Come on then. You too Zwei.” Blake tapped her legs to get his attention, who eagerly followed them.

“Well, we can grab some salt, pepper, spices and nutmeg along the way. You know, some seasonings for the Christmas dinner, and give some ‘seasons greetings’ to the other teams too.” Yang nudged Blake with her arm at the Christmas pun she had just told.

Blake just shook her head in embarrassment at falling for Yang’s festive pun, as the three headed after Ruby & Weiss.

(Transition Scene: Nora tries undoing the Christmas lights that Ren is tangled up in. Only one touch of Nora’s hands lights up each bulb, making her smile while Ren sulks at still being tangled up.)

Mistletoe.

“Oh Jaune, we have mistletoe.” Pyrrha points as she finishes setting up the tinsel around the shelves.

“Oh, where?” Jaune asks, completely unaware that its right above him and Pyrrha, tied to her weapon Milo, which she’s holding behind her back.

“Just here.” Pyrrha points out up, slowly grinning wider as she inches closer to Jaune.

“Oh…” Jaune says with a surprise as Pyrrha nervously waits for a response.

Though Pyrrha’s resolve instantly breaks with the continued silence, as she speedily states that they don’t have to do the custom of kissing as she stops mid word on ‘kissing’.

“Um… Pyrrha?” Jaune asks as Pyrrha sheepishly hides her flustered face.

“Yes Jaune?” Pyrrha asks, just as Jaune gives her a quick delicate kiss. Pyrrha’s face turns as red as her hair in an instant.

“Well, it is a seasonal tradition and we were both under it.” Jaune shakes it off as nothing, not noticing Pyrrha has spaced out from the shock and overflowing affection in her face.

“I-” Pyrrha mumbles, still shocked and flustered. Jaune gets her to lay down in bed, thinking its eggnog that’s got Pyrrha burning red. She nods and agrees to his misunderstanding, still shaken from the mistletoe kiss.

“I’ll see you soon Pyrrha.” Jaune calls out as he leaves, with a boyish grin on his face. “Got to go grab that last present before the stores shut. Hope you get well for tomorrow. It’s the big day for jolly old St. Nick after-all.” Pyrrha curls up in bed, sheepishly hiding her reddened face behind the pillow.

(Transition Scene: Roman and Neo spin their weapons that turn out to be giant candy canes instead. They are both shocked and delighted at the sugary treat in their hands.)

I got tagged by @lilparfaitbun thank you. (Sorry for being inactive lately.)

Rules: Answer twenty questions and tag 20 followers you’d like to know better.

Name: It’s Ash.

Nickname: So many to choose. Subs, Subley, Menos, Dalek, but mostly known as aab0289. (Think serial number for a storm trooper.)

Sign: Libra

Height: 5'9 (though some argue I’m 5'10)

Orientation: heterosexual. (Some of my family think that I cannot be friends with anyone who isn’t heterosexual, but I have no I’ll will to them for their preference.)

Nationality: British. (Though people have mistaken my accent for pretty much every nationality at one point or another.)

Favourite fruit: Not particularly a fan of fruits, but I do love strawberry yoghurts (bit-less) & blackcurrant juice.

Favourite season: Very tough one. I like Autumn for the smell of leaves, but Spring has the longer days and not too hot. Summer days are the best to lay out carefree & winter has Christmas. So a tie with Autumn & Spring.

Favourite book: There’s three, the 1st by Roald Dahl Charlie & the chocolate factory. It was the first book I ever got to choose to read for myself than just given to me & expected to read. (When growing up, I struggled with words & teachers said I wouldn’t do well in future. I laugh at them now.) The second is Harry Potter with 2 books. Chamber of Secrets, I was terrified to read it for the spiders my brother teased but it was instantly one of the best for it. Then Order of the Phoenix, not only cos it would be the first of the last three I’d out read my brother, but it connected with me unlike the others. I truly felt what it was like for the characters, all that frustration and anxiety. The third is Nightrise, part of the power of five series. Not only because it’s done by one of my all time fav authors but it’s a perfect blend of real terror mixed with supernatural.

Favourite flower: Roses. I do like others but the names allude me.

Favourite scent: New books with ink, the smell of autumn leaves & pine trees with fire (Xmas scent).

Favourite colour: red, mostly the softer shades, though I am liking orange more lately. Though I do like shades of blue & purple too.

Favourite animal: Dogs, which is ironic cos a child I had a terrifying encounter with one that made me afraid of them. Then we went to get one for the family, I was reluctant to extremes. The white Alsatian knew instantly I was the one with fear, so it singled me out & showed me that I didn’t have to be afraid of her. Since then, I’m normally the one making friends to dogs who don’t like people. I also like cats, rabbits & I’ll include dragons for the heck of it.

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Has to be hot chocolate. While I love the smell of teas and especially coffee mixed with rain, I can’t drink either of those. (British & I don’t like tea, yes that is a recurring thing for me.)

Average amount of sleep: I try to get 8hrs, but realistically it’s 5-6 most days & Fridays/Saturdays being the only days I ever get more.

Cats or dogs: Dogs. I do love cats but tends to be dogs who love back more. Plus mum won’t have another cat. (We’ve had evil drivers kill so many in our are, including our own and the neighbours.)

Favourite fictional character: nick diamond from the diamond brother stories, grew up with that character who had to be the mature one to get them out of insane situations and yet still provide fantastic snarky comments.

Number of blankets I sleep with: Odd question. Just 1 mostly, unless it’s winter & bitterly cold outside.

Dream trip: Would be to go to USA, specifically New York City & Austin Texas. Ever since I saw Home Alone 2, I always wanted to see the sights of the city itself but obviously 1 can no longer be done, so the memorial for ground zero would be the alternative there. Plus I’ve always wanted to see the city with Roosterteeth & funimation as a huge fan of both. I’d love to do tours of both but that’s extremely unlikely with the long flights. I’d love to see Japan too, just to see the places that’s featured in my fav anime, though I wouldn’t know half the food there.

And now 20 people to tag: @squidfiction @little-trash-baby-mercury-black @zyptoskid @actualagentcarolina @tanglecolors @the-heart-alchemist @gaelfox @dumbrwby @ask-team-clst @scribbly-blue-hearts @blvke-b @norikat @omgsoasian @ookaminoki @jen-jen-rose @juunishi-master @just-another-rwby-oc-story @phoenix-of-death @montyoumproject @kyoko-chi

I’d like to wish all my friends and followers all the best for Christmas tomorrow & for those who don’t celebrate Christmas, I wish them a fantastic day for any holiday they wish to celebrate.

Hello everyone, I’m making this quick post because I’m about to head to hospital & I’ll likely not be posting for awhile. (I hope to post soon & get back to a more routine schedule with my stories that are currently on hiatus.)

I dread hospitals (previous bad exps) but the sooner it’s done, the sooner I’m out & can get back to writing. So with luck I’ll be posting soon & back to regular routine.

Update: Doctors have said the equipment wasn’t fully working, so no op or long stay in the hospital today. (Silver lining, doctors were happy with results despite the machine not ready for the op, so tablets/meds are working and could mean no op if it proves successful.)

Sorry that this skit is being posted after Halloween, I hope you all enjoy it all the same.

I hope you all had a great Halloween this year.

Surprise Party.

Ruby waits in the dorm room as the other members of Team RWBY pass her, not one of them noticing her with the calendar marked October 31st. (Ruby is ecstatic about the date, but her upset face worsens with each member of her team walking past her.) Ruby sulks off screen, with the others peeking a glance to make sure she’s gone.

“Do you think she suspects anything?” Blake asks as Weiss starts with the banner that reads out ‘Happy Birthday Ruby’.

“Nope.” Yang smirks as she fetches out her scroll to call the others. “Come on we’re going to do this with a Yang.”

Both Weiss and Blake roll their eyes, while Yang starts sending instructions to Team JNPR.

The scene cuts to Ruby sitting alone on a bench in the school grounds, a tear forming in her eyes. Penny is about to greet Ruby with a ‘hello’ but stops to see Ruby upset.

“What is the matter Ruby?” Penny asks as she joins Ruby on the bench.

“Oh, hey Penny. It’s October 31st.” Ruby tries to act more cheerful but clearly isn't working.

“You mean the dress up as strange things for sugary treats day?” Penny enquires to confirm the traditions of Halloween.

“Yeah, its Halloween, but it's actually my birthday. Though none of my friends know its my birthday today. So I’m just celebrating here, alone.” Ruby sulks but Penny picks her up like she's the doll this time.

“Well, Ruby my friend, we’ll find the others so we can celebrate you birthday. Then you’ll be celebrating your birthday and Halloween.” Penny smiles as Ruby tries wiggling out of her grip yet it doesn't work.

Penny then scans for the other members of Team RWBY & JNPR, one by one they are found as they try to hide what they’ve been assigned to get for Ruby’s party. Jaune, hides the presents by fitting them into his sheath, but it begins to bulge into a shield. Pyrrha refutes that they’re getting any cakes, as she waves to Ren to hide. (Only Nora is so keen on eating some other cakes in the store as Ren struggles to hide himself and her.)

Blake uses her shadow clone to distract Penny, as she turns the corner, only Ruby’s speed spooks Blake to jump in the air. (Blake displays cat-like reflexes as she lands on her feet.) They see Weiss at a dress shop, as she insists its a costume for herself. Weiss ends up wearing a new version of Ruby’s hood (her volume 4 version) despite it clearly not being Weiss’ size. It cuts to Yang chilling in the dorm, as Ruby sulks with tears in her eyes.

“What’s got your festive spirit so low? Bad haul of trick or treating?” Yang smoothly asks as Ruby and Penny enter the dorm.

“Yang, no-one remembered my birthday.” Ruby still sulks, about to slump onto her bed in depression.

“No! Surely they haven’t.” Yang fakes a gasp of horror and shock. “I’m sure they just want to say-” She makes a dramatic pause as the others jump out of their hiding spots.

“Surprise!” They all cheer, as the banner falls down into place, while Jaune’s shield pops out all the presents, with Ruby’s expression turns from a pout to a smile and then giddy with excitement.

“WARNING, HOSTILES DETECTED! Target system online.” Penny warns, her eyes glowing red as she powers up and her swords start floating and the others gulp in unison.

“No Penny, wait! They’re not attacking. This is a surprise party! They remembered my birthday!” Ruby rushes to explain as she points to the cake, the presents, the banner and the hastily nodding heads of the others.

“Oh-” Penny immediately stops as she realises and cheerfully adds, “Surprise!”

It changes to everyone enjoying the party, with Ruby now dressed as a vampire and Penny as a clown, with Jaune (dressed as Hunt-sman) being spooked by Penny’s clown costume.

Yang is dressed as Frankenstein giving Blake a drink, whose dressed as a zombie against her wishes. (She sulks as Zwei walks by, his costume is of a werewolf.)

Ren is in a flower costume, asking ‘why am I wearing this?’ To which Nora responds with ‘cos only you can make it look hot- I mean COOL.’ She hastily chuckles as she’s dressed in a bumblebee outfit.

Weiss is in a mummy costume as she looks around to see where Pyrrha is. Pyrrha wanders in as a ghost (a bed sheet with holes and her hair poking out of the back like a ponytail), scarring Jaune off screen, as she cries out ‘Sorry!’

“Happy Birthday sis.” Yang declares as Ruby thanks her and hugs her, claiming she's the best big sister anyone could ask for.

(Transition scene: Ruby jumps out of a coffin, acting like a vampire as the scene slowly reveals it's actually upside down, as Ruby falls from the ceiling.)

Jack-O-Lanterns.

Eerie Halloween music (Toccata & Fugue specifically) is played on an organ as a series of pumpkins are placed in a neat row. It’s revealed that Neo is the one playing the organ while Roman is the one neatly placing the pumpkins in a line.

“Is that really necessary?” Roman interrupts the music as he places the last pumpkin into place.

Neo scoffs with a sign that reads: I’m setting the mood.

“Remind me again why we’re here?” Mercury is revealed to be in the room as he assumes a position behind one of the pumpkins.

“Carving contest remember, best pumpkin wins.” Emerald smirks as she readies her weapon.

Cinder sits with a pamphlet in her hand, ‘how to improve one’s nefariousness and better underlings’ as she uses her pumpkin as a table. Roman and Neo are looking more jolly and excited as he calls out, “Let the competition begin!”

Mercury begins by blasting his pumpkin with his kick, only the round cuts through the pumpkin and causes it to cave in on itself. Emerald then slashes away at her pumpkin, only stopping to see that she's cut it to ribbons. Cinder sits there with hers on fire as she says, “Don’t ask.”

Roman presents his which is his emblem logo carved into it. Neo presents hers which is a smiley face, the others shrugging at it, clearly not thinking it’s scary enough. Roman smartens up his outfit, smugly showing off his pumpkin despite Neo’s protest of her’s being equally worthy.

Neo produces pumpkin spice drinks that were made from her pumpkin, which they all love including Cinder. Though Neo holds up a sign that only the audience can see, ‘a little bribery here & there go a long way’ as she winks with fingers crossed.

“Well, well, well, is it a trick or is it a treat?” Came a voice, that had them looking around and Neo shrugging.

“Who said that?!” Roman shouted as the voice replied.

“Me.” The pumpkin mouthed in Neo’s hands as it started to float out of her hands and then its face changed to a menacing glare as it started moving to say, “Boo.”

They all screamed and ran out of the room, Emerald and Mercury colliding into each other while Roman drags Neo with him off screen and Cinder throws fireballs in terror. The pumpkin all alone floats down as it laughs, slowly rotating to reveal the Grimm face on the other side.

Floyd snorts with a maniacal laugh while the others are still screaming and running in terror, as the skit starts to transition over.

(Transition scene: a collection of Grimm, including a Geist, a Creep and a Beowolf are frolicking with trick or treat bags full of candy. They cross the screen from right to left as the scene becomes the next skit.)

Ghost Stories.

A group of Grimm sit around a campfire with a flashlight passing between them.

“What’s with Floyd?” Tom a Creep Grimm asks as Floyd nervously fidgeting in his spot around the crackling fire.

“It’s a long story.” Jim, another Geist Grimm, sighs as he passes smores to the next Grimm.