Azure hopped off his bike and started walking toward his hotel. He entered the building and walked past the desk, briefly exchanging greeting with the receptionist lady who had a light blush at seeing him.
As he walked up the plush stairs he saw someone in a leopard print jacket out of the corner of his eye. 'Oum, who the hell wears leopard print anymore, it looks like garbage.' Azure said, scoffing at the tacky individual.
When he finally reached his room, Azure made sure that his door, and windows were locked. He undressed, and lay on the bed in his black sleeveless shirt, and boxers.
[]Middle of the Night[]
Azure woke to a frustratingly familiar sensation rubbing against his crotch. 'Fucking…"
"Neo!" Azure shouted as he bolt upright and immediately glared at Neo, who was rubbing his manhood through his pajamas, practically salivating over the bulge. Neo just looked up at him and smirked, grabbing the hem of his pants.
"Oh no you don't!" Azure said as he flipped her over, holding her hand to the sides of her head.
Neo gained a blush and looked down to the side and hoarsely whispered, "Pl-please be gentle."
"Wh-wha?" Azure mumbled, a blush adorning his face as he sat up and fell onto his back.
Neo leapt onto Azure and adjusted herself so that she could lay her head on his chest. She sighed and used her finger to trace circles on his chest as he hugged her on instinct.
As the petite girl looked into the Azure's eyes, she lunged forward and planted a searing kiss right on his unprepared lips. She then looked deep into his eyes, and her could feel her in his soul. And he could feel hers, he could feel hope, vulnerability, sadness, excitement, and a healthy hint of lust.
Azure leaned down and planted his lips on hers. She was taken aback for a moment, but eagerly responded, before pushing her tongue up against his lips, begging for entrance. He accepted after but a moment's hesitation, and their tongues waged war for what felt like hours, though it was only minutes. As they pulled away from each other, they looked into the other's eyes once more.
'It's still really late, and you still don't have to head to Beacon until thursday, so for now, we sleep, and tomorrow we can go out and do something. Sound good?' Neo signed.
"That does sound nice." Azure said with a happy sigh.
'We don't have to be a full couple yet, Azure, I know you're still conflicted because of Summer.' Neo suggested, a sad smile on her face.
"No, there isn't any good reason to deny myself, and more importantly you, this little bit of happiness." Azure said, with a smile just as sad.
[]Next Day, 7:24 AM[]
Azure groggily opened his eyes and looked around, confused at what he was seeing for a moment. Then it came back to him, what he and Neo had talked about. A content smile blossomed on Azure's face as he looked down at his new, and first, girlfriend's head.
He slowly reached up and started running his fingers through her hair, then went and kissed her to wake her up. She slowly opened her eyes, and when they focused on him, she smiled into the kiss, and began to kiss back fervently.
"So, how was that for a wake up, short stuff?" Azure asked, immediately getting smacked on the back of the head by an annoyed Neo.
'Not everyone can be a giant like you, Mr. 'I'm one of the 2% people in the world over 6'5'.' Neo signed with an annoyed smile.
"Eh, well, have you looked into my taste in women? Do you think being short is a bad thing?" He asked jokingly. Neo just smiled and kissed him lightly.
'So, you big fluffy fox, do we have anything planned today, or are we just going to walk around and do some random thing?' Neo asked.
"Duplicitous: The Final Sign just came out, and I know that you absolutely love horror movies, much to my chagrin, but I thought that maybe you would like to see it?" Azure asked.
'Now that, my oh so 'tough' boyfriend, sounds wonderful.' Neo signed, giving him a peck on the cheek.
[]Outside Cinema 22, Eight Hours Later[]
"I just don't understand why his fingers had keys on them! Why didn't he keep them in his demon pocket or something! It would have made it much easier to use his hands." Azure said, ending on a pout. As his now official girlfrend just giggled at him through his whole rant.
She was obviously involved with some not so good people, so she had used her semblance to turn her hair almost completely pink, with a single brown lock, and made both her eyes brown. She wore semi-tight jeans and had on a tank top and pink and brown flannel under Azure's bomber jacket, which she had not stolen to hide behind, and a necklace Azure had gotten her long ago.
'I thought it was sorta creepy.' Neo typed, using her phone since she only let him hear her voice, weak as it may be.
"I thought the whole concept was pretty creepy. An almost all powerful force manipulating people's emotions, and making them do things they wouldn't do in a million years, like abusing their child? That shits terrifying." Azure explained.
'I agree.' She simply messaged. A minute later, a notification came on Neo's scroll, interrupting their conversation. When she sees it, her face falls. She sighs and turned to Azure.
"You gotta go?" He asks softly, with and understanding tone. Neo just looks down and nods, while biting her lip. "It's fine, you and I are official now, so I'm finally happy, since I have someone to love, and who loves me back." He said with a smile wrapping her in a hug.
"I don't know what I did to deserve someone so wonderful." Neo whispered in his ear.
"You stood by me in my lowest, and now that I'm rising, your pushing me up, and encouraging my ascent, and for that, I could never thank or repay you enough." Azure said before kissing her forehead. With that Neo gave him one last kiss, and her image shattered leaving a softly smiling Azure in its wake.
"Wait a second… She took my jacket!" Azure shouted.
[]Next Day, Bullhead, 2:24 PM[]
'This ride is boring as fuck.' Azure sighed in thought as he stared out the window of the bullhead that was taking him and many others to Beacon Academy, the top Hunter Academy in the Kingdom of Vale, and one of the first four academies formed at the initial making of Huntsman Academies over eighty years ago.
'I wish something interesting would happen.' He thought as he closed his eyes, his hand holding up his chin. Just as he said that a boy around his age but only about six foot rushed passed him in an attempt to get to a garbage can in the corner of the aircraft.
"Good first impression kid, Already throwing up and we aren't even there yet...Bravo~." Azure heard in a very familiar and distinct voice.
"No." He said, standing up straight. "No!" He exclaimed turning around. "NO!" He shouted spotting the person he was thinking of, yellow hoodie over a black shirt that goes up their neck, black spandex shorts and black zipper boots up to calf-length with medium length black hair, although about one-fourth of it is white on the front of their left side. "NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" He screamed, drawing the attention of a few nearby people.
"Azure?" They said as they spotted him, blue eyes locking onto his form..
"NO!" He shouted turning the other direction.
"No way!" The person said, jump hugging him. "I can't believe someone as unskilled and insipid as you could even make it here! How have you been? All silent and brooding or angry glares and rude comments?"
"More of the hoping to never see your fucked up ass again, Nero." Azure said.
"Hurtful, But that's typical for you now isn't it?" He said, while jumping off him and moving in front of him as he continued speaking "Y'know...Ever since your sorry ass was kicked to the curb you did get a bit aggressive, like a dog on a leash! Not that that's too far off from the truth."
"Y'know, Nero, the only reason your entrails aren't hung all over the place like party decorations, is because I know that no matter how much of an ass you can be, no matter how racist, and sick, you are still someone who would protect the people they care about, and I respect that. But one more toe out of line, and you die. In a place like this I don't have to hold back, but you do, unless you want everyone knowing your little secret, Mr. Schnee-Belladonna." Azure said, hand wrapped around Nero's throat, and pushing him against the bullhead walls.
"You know, usually you buy dinner for someone before this kinda thing but if you wanna just go to hate sex that's fine too. Right Argent?" Grabbing what he can of the Fox Faunus's wrist and squeezing in an attempt to have him let go. "I might even get you a collar if you're good enough." Nero choked out.
Azure grinned and his pupils turned into slits, and his irises started to glow. "Sorry, but I prefer to keep pets, not be one." Azure said, digging his nails into Nero's throat hard enough to draw a bit of blood before his aura sealed it. Azure dropped his grin and let Nero drop onto his feet.
Glaring up at the behemoth in front of him he sighs "This is going to be fun...Let's see how long it takes before you get someone killed...Again."
"The only ones I would care got killed are the people I know and care about, and unfortunately you happen to be one of those, so if you would work with me for once, no one has to get hurt." Azure said, actual hope in his eyes, one of the few times in his life.
"What if I want them to get hurt, what then Argent?"
"Ok, someone IMPORTANT like Weiss, or Blake, or Summer's kid, Ruby."
"Why should I care about Summer's kid?"
"There are people you consider important, and people I consider important, we'll protect our own, and each others, otherwise, neither of us will be happy." The Fox Faunus said as he stuffed his hands in his pockets and walked out of the bullhead doors.
"If you can guarantee that Weiss and Blake will have your full support whenever they need it then...I guess I will have to keep the baggage safe." Blue eyes track the Faunus as he leaves "He doesn't know what he's getting into…What else is new?"
As Azure walked along the stone path with Nero who was following with so little presence he was practically not even there, he heard a small explosion to his right. Looking over in that direction, he saw Ruby sitting in a crater, covered in soot, and a white haired girl with light-blue eyes, also covered in soot, glaring at her.
She was wearing an icicle themed tiara, over the bun tail she wore and a thigh length strapless dress with color gradation from white to the same blue as her eyes. A small piece of black lace sits in the front of her neckline and the hem of the dress is scalloped and stitched to resemble snowflakes, with layers of white tulle under the skirt. Over this she wears a bell sleeved bolero with the same color gradation as her dress from shoulder to wrist, lined in red and with a ruffled collar. On the front of the bolero is a snowflake design.
She wears a small apple pendant on a silver chain and thin, rectangular silver earrings. Her boots are white, wedged heeled and higher at the back than the front. They have a small silver decoration across the top of the foot and are lined in red. A thin white sash is tied around her waist with a pouch attached to the back.
"Unbelievable! This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!" The girl in white shouted at Ruby.
"I'm really, REALLY, sorry!" Ruby exclaimed poking her fingers together.
"Ugh, you complete DOLT!" The girl yelled. "What are you even doing here, aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?!"
"I, I, uhm…" Ruby said, an embarrassed blush on her face, and tears forming in her eyes.
"This isn't the average hunter's academy! It's not all sparing and practice you know!" She continued. "We're here to fight monsters! So watch where you're going, dolt!" the girl harrumphed at the end.
At that, Ruby's tears dried and an angry look appeared in her eyes, as they glew a bit. "Hey, I said I was sorry, Princess!" She shouted back.
"Its heiress actually." Another girl said. The girl had amber eyes and long, black hair. A ribbon is tied with a large bow on the top of her head, and she was wearing purple eyeshadow in the cateye style. She wears a black buttoned vest with coattails and a single silver button on the front. Underneath this is a white, sleeveless, high necked, crop undershirt and white shorts with a zipper on the front of each leg, emblazoned with the YKK logo.
She also wears black low-heeled boots and full stockings with a color gradation of black to purple at her ankles. Her emblem is visible on the outside of both thighs just below her shorts in white. It looked like black licks of flame surrounding an oval on the bottom. On her left arm is a detached sleeve with a silver cuff around her bicep, and black ribbons are wrapped around both forearms. A small, loose scarf is wrapped around her neck and a gray magnetic backpack is strapped to her back, mostly hidden by her hair.
"Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world." The girl with the bow continued.
"Finally, some recognition." Weiss said haughtily.
"The same company known for its controversial, at best, and at worst, disgusting treatment of its Faunus workers, and heavily theorised to be involved with multiple scandals, murders, and disappearances." Azure said as he walked into the conversation. "Hey, Red." He continued.
"AZURE!" Ruby shouted, as she glomped him.
"Hm? Is someone hanging on me? I can't tell." He said looking around with a foxy grin.
"I'm not that small!" Ruby said lightly pounding her fist onto his hooded head.
"How dare you say something like that about my family's company!" Weiss shouted as she glared at Azure.
"He's not wrong, but let's not forget their questionable business partners." The girl in black said with a small, practically unnoticeable smile. This caused Ruby and Azure to chuckle, especially when the pompous heiress started to sputter out excuses and rude comments.
"Let's not forget how the White Fang's fangs aren't so white anymore, between all the Theft, Murder and disappearances…" Speaking up and moving to stand near Weiss, Nero continues on while looking directly at the Azure "Oh, That sounds familiar, almost like I just heard someone say something like that about an actually honorable business."
"Precisely! The ones doing these things and blaming them on the SDC are those beasts in the White Fang!" Weiss exclaimed, thankful for a way to continue in an argument she thought she had no hope of winning.
"I will be the first to admit that the White Fang has done a good few bad things in the past few years, but what about all the SDC funded Faunus trafficking and dungeons full of faunus sex slaves and rape victims. I won't deny that they have done shit like hijacking trains, but they have some use, and only need reform, as their current leader isn't the best person for this time.
"But if people like you and Nero here, are the people who go on to run the world, then people like Sienna Khan will be needed, as Faunus will be literal slaves again, forced to do what their 'Master'
commands them to." Azure said, keeping a calm voice and tone, as well as look, despite the maelstrom of anger and frustration swirling within him.
"What he is saying is true, that is exactly how it was before the Faunus Revolution, and if faunus don't start getting equal rights, and respect, then it's going to be the same as it was back then." The girl in the bow said, a glare fixed on Nero and Weiss, before walking away.
"C'mon, Red, let's go, Nero probably wants to talk to Ice Bitch here." Azure said, walking away. Ruby followed behind him with a snicker and didn't look back at the Schnee heiress, and the strange boy.
As the Fox Faunus and his silver eyed companion walked the pathway, a scraggly blonde boy walked up to them. "Hey, um, you guys look like you know where you're going, so, do you happen to know where we go for orientation?" The boy asked.
Azure and Ruby just looked to each other, then back to the blonde, and said at the same time. "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?" At that the boy groaned then launched into a rant about how motion sickness was a common problem.
"All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!" He finished a few minutes later as they were walking.
"Look, I'm sorry, but Vomit-Boy was the first thing that came to mind!" Ruby apologized.
"Oh yeah, well what if I called you Crater-Face?" The blond asked rhetorically. At that Azure burst out in laughter.
"Hey, that explosion was an accident!" Ruby defended.
"Well the name's Jaune Arc! Short, sweet rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it." He stated with bravado.
"Do they?" Azure deadpanned.
"Th-They will!" Jaune proclaimed. "At least I hope they will. I mean my mom says that… Never mind." He sighed. Ruby just snickered and the area was overcome with a semi-awkward silence.
"Soo, I got this thing." Ruby said as she took out her scythe, Crescent Rose, and slammed the head into the ground. As its name implies, Crescent Rose's frame is colored rose red with black trims, with its large scythe blade forged into a crescent shape. It had multiple modes, the one she had it on her lower back in; the storage mode, then the scythe mode she extended it into, where it fully extends into the form of a scythe, allowing it to be used as a mid-to-close-range bladed melee weapon. This form also doubles as a long-barrel sniper rifle for long-range shots without giving up the melee capabilities of the scythe.
"WHOA!" Jaune yelped when she hit the ground. "Is that a scythe?"
"It's also a customizable high impact sniper rifle." She said, holding the bolt.
"A wha-" Jaune started to ask before Azure cut him off.
"It's also a gun." Azure said as Ruby chambered a round.
"Oh. Thats cool!" Jaune smiled.
"So what've you got?" Ruby asked excited.
"Oh, uh- I've got this sword!" Jaune said as he held up a sword. The sword itself is a simple longsword with a blue handle and a golden cross-guard. "And I also have this shield!" Jaune gripped the sheath and it transformed into a shield. The shield is white with a gold trim, displaying a golden emblem in the center.
"Ohhhh!" Ruby admired the weapon, while Azure raised an eyebrow, as he had seen the same sword and shield in some of his mentor's books.
"I like it!" Azure said, patting Jaune on the back, causing him to lose balance and have to fumble for his shield.
"So, how long did it take for you to build that?" Ruby asked.
"Uhhh, build?" Jaune asked, confused.
"Yeah, everyone in Signal had to build their own weapons, so I assumed it was the same in the other academies." Ruby explained.
"Not everyone went to combat schools to get here, Red. I had just applied the morning before we fought Roman, so I would have probably had to take a test, but I got that bypassed. But others can do the same, if they just trained on their own or with their families, like Ice Bitch probably did." Azure explained.
"Ohhh!" Ruby exclaimed in realisation.
"Yeah, this is a hand-me-down from my great grandpa, he fought in the Great War." Jaune said with a smile. At that Ruby nodded in understanding. "So, I forgot to ask you two your names didn't I?" Jaune said embarrassed.
"Ruby Rose."
"Argent Azure, but I would prefer if you called me Azure." The two introduced themselves as Jaune turned his attention towards Azure.
"Cool, well, Azure, what kind of weapon do you have?" Jaune asked.
"Well, I have these trench knives that can turn into revolvers, and see these sheath looking things?" Azure started. Both of his companions nodded at his question. "Well, if I attach my knives to them, then send a pulse of aura through it, I can turn them into longswords, which is the weapon my mother specialized in." Azure explained.
"Then what's that box on your back?" Ruby asked.
"Well, that's the weapon of my other mentor, and the first person I ever had a crush on to be honest. She disappeared, and the only thing left of her was this and her cloak, which I gave the latter of the two to her teammate, since I found a letter inside the box addressing this to me." He said sadly, a lone tear going down is face.
"What was her name?" Ruby questioned sadly.
"I'll tell you later." In a momentary lapse of melancholy, Azure's eyes glaze over as if he was seeing a picture from the past, when he looked at Ruby. "Anyway, let's get going."
"Umm, on that note, where ARE we going?" Jaune asked.
"I was following you." Ruby said.
"You think there might be a directory?" Jaune looked around nervously. "Maybe a food court? Some sort of recognizable landmark? I… Uh, is that a no?"
"That's a no." Ruby giggled.
"Relax guys, I know where we're going." Azure said with a smirk, his ears twitching under his hood.
[]Auditorium[]
Just as they entered the Auditorium, a blonde girl about four rows from the back and seven rows from the front waved at them.
"RUBY! I saved you a spot!" She shouted.
"Who's that?" Azures asked as he looked at the girl with false confusion written all over his face.
"That's my sister, Yang." Ruby said. Yang is a fair-skinned young girl with lilac eyes and bright golden hair worn loose that fades to pale gold at the tips with a cowlick sticking out at the top. She wears a tan jacket that bares her midriff, with golden brown piping and short, puffy sleeves with black cuffs that feature two gold buttons. Underneath this, she wears a low cut yellow crop top with a flaming anatomical heart emblem on the left breast in black.
She also wears a brown belt covered by a pleated brown piece of material reaching from hip to hip around the back of her waist, with her emblem emblazoned on the right-most pleat in gold. Underneath this is a longer, white, asymmetrical piece of material reaching to her knee on the right side, as well as a pair of black mini-shorts. She wears a pair of brown, knee-high boots and orange over-the-knee socks, with the right sock pushed down just below the knee. A purplish-gray bandanna is tied around her left knee. An orange infinity scarf and black fingerless gloves complete her outfit.
"See you later guys!" Ruby waves as she rushes over to her sister. Azure shrugs and waves at Jaune after exchanging scroll numbers and walks off into the crowd.
"Now where am I going to find a nice, quirky person to talk to?" Jaune sighed.
[]With Ruby and Yang[]
When Ruby settled herself beside Yang, with her arms crossed, the older girl started the conversation. "How's your first day going, Little Sister?"
"You mean since you ditched me and I exploded?!" Ruby whipped her head towards Yang and exclaimed accusingly.
"Yikes. Meltdown already?"
"No. I literally exploded a hole in front of the school! There was a fire, and I think some ice?" Ruby put a hand on her chin as if it would help her think.
"Are you being sarcastic?" Yang asked teasingly.
"Ugh, I wish." The petite girl scoffed. "I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage! And then she yelled at me, then I sneezed!" Behind her Weiss was lurking like a hungry shark looking for its next meal, Nero by her side with his hood up looking uninterested but ready for action as Ruby complained. "And then I exploded! And then she yelled again, and I felt really, REALLY bad, and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me!"
"YOU!" Weiss shouted, sending Ruby into Yangs arms.
"OH OUM IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!" Ruby cried.
"Oh my Oum you really exploded…" Yang said lowly with wide eyes.
"It was an accident!" Ruby exclaimed while jumping out of Yang's arms.
Weiss shoves a pamphlet into Ruby's face with a glare. "What's this?" Ruby asks.
"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company Product. Although not mandatory the Schnee Family highly encourages their customers to read and familiarize themselves with this easy to follow guide to Dust application and practice in the field." Weiss explains robotically, her words seeming to speed up the longer her little speech gets.
"Uhh." Ruby hums.
"You really wanna start making things up to me?" Weiss asks.
"Absolutely!" Ruby stands straighter and a tad closer.
"Read this and don't ever speak to me again!" Weiss says literally shoving the paper into Ruby's face, causing Yang's eyes to darken a few shades, and a watching Azure's eyes to glow a bit. In response to the two getting seemingly more agitated Nero moves his gaze to keep an eye on the situation as he subtly inches closer to Weiss in case anything should happen.
"Look, uhh. It seems you two got off on the wrong foot!" Yang started, trying to play peacekeeper. "Why don't you start over and try to be friends, ok?"
"Yeah, great idea sis!" Ruby turns to Weiss and extends her hand to shake the aforementioned limb with Weiss. "Hello Weiss! I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out? We can go shopping for school supplies."
"Yeah! And we can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys like, tall, blue and.." Weiss started to mock but was cut off by Azure.
"Handsome, Chiseled, Roguish, Dashing?" He suggested, while Ruby tried to hold back a laugh.
"I was going to say rascally." Weiss said glaring at the man.
"So, devilish? Is that what you settled on?" Azure asked with a grin.
"You are so narcissistic!" Weiss stamped her foot in aggravation and glared at him.
"Devilish.. yeah, right." Nero said sarcastically.
"So you're complimenting Azure now, have a crush lil man?" Yang asked with a grin.
"Hardly, he cries too much and is an emotional wreck with aggressive tendencies. Plus, he isn't even handsome, he looks like roadkill." Nero replies instantly as he smirks up at Yang.
"Hey, I'm more handsome than my Uncle and you fuck him on a regular basis, midget." Azure shot back at Nero, staring at him with a mocking smirk.
"You know that's a lie, you're unprepossessing and appalling, meanwhile, Qrow is actually hot. Real daddy material if you ask me" Nero nods as he finishes his sentence with a sly smile, more proud of the fact he sleeps with Qrow than anything.
"Hey! I've been told I look like him, in fact he and I look a lot like grandpa Ichigo!"
"HOLD UP!" Yang shouted as she put together what they were saying. "Qrow? As in Qrow Branwen?" Her jaw agape, and Ruby had a massive blush on her face.
"Yep, my Uncle and the midget's repeated fuck buddy." Azure said offhandedly.
"B-B-But! That's my Uncle!" Yang shouted at him.
"THAT'S WHY YOU LOOK SO FAMILIAR!" Azure said, fist hitting his palm.
"So, are you my half brother or something?" Yang asked, slightly angered.
"Nah, Raven's my Aunt, im her and Qrow's half sister's kid." Azure said, causing Yang's anger to settle somewhat.
"S-So that means that Nero, d-d-did, y-ya'know with Uncle Qrow." Ruby stuttered red faced.
At that all people in the conversation, excluding Azure and Nero blushed, as Nero and Weiss had disappeared suddenly.
"Thats an image I REALLY don't want stuck in my head." Yang groaned while Ruby kept muttering 'Ew'.
"Ehem." Came from the stage, drawing everyone's attention. "I'll...make this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft, and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the safety and protection of the people. But I look amongst you and all I see is wasted energy," At this many bristled and glared at Ozpin, some others shrinking back. "in need of purpose, direction.
You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step." With that said, the pale haired Headmaster walked off stage and Glynda took his place.
"Tomorrow your initiation begins, be ready. You are dismissed." The strict woman said with a light glare towards the students.
"He seemed kinda... off." Yang murmured.
"Yeah, almost like he wasn't all there." Ruby turned and made eye contact with her sister, having a conversation wordlessly.
"I'm a natural bluenette y'know." Azure said matter-of-factly.
[]8:19 PM, Ballroom, Beacon Academy[]
Ruby lay on her sleeping bag that was unrolled on the floor of the ballroom the teachers had directed all the students to to sleep for the night. Ruby was focusing on papers strewn about in front of her, writing notes, and was obviously in pajamas.
Ruby's pajamas consist of a black tank top featuring a heart-shaped Beowolf design on the chest and long white pants decorated with pink roses. She also wears a black sleeping mask decorated with triangular red eyes.
"It's like a big slumber party!" Yang flopped down onto her own bedroll and turned to her little sister.
"I don't think dad would approve of all the boys though." Ruby said, not looking away from her writing.
"I know I do." Yang purred out, looking over all the boys flexing toward her. At that moment two boys, no one boy, and a MAN, walked into her line of sight. She unconsciously licked her lips.
Both males looked her and her sisters way and smiled, one awkwardly and one happily. The first was Jaune, who actually looked good in sky blue pajama pants, and no shirt, which he seemed uncomfortable with. And Azure, who looked… 'Delicious, Dazzling, HOT' Yang thought to herself, as she looked Azure's muscles and bounty of scars, which Jaune had a few of as well.
"Mama, like…" Yang mumbled as Azure waved at them and bid farewell to Jaune. "So, what'cha doin' Rubes?" Yang leaned to get a closer look at what Ruby was writing.
"A letter to the gang back at Signal." Ruby said offhandedly and continued writing. "I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going." She said, finally looking up from said letters.
"Aww, that's so cuuuuute!" Yang teased Ruby, and promptly got a pillow to the face and and a "Shut up!" from said mini-reaper.
"I didn't get to take my friends to school with me to school like you. It's weird not knowing anyone here." Ruby sighed as her put her head on her corgi pillow.
"What about Jaune, and Azure?" Yang smiled down at her little sister. "They're cool. There ya go! Plus two friends, that's, like, a two hundred percent increase." Yang tried to figure out the math for a moment but gave up, too tired to think about it too much.
"Pretty sure Weiss and that Nero guy count as Negative friends, back to zero." Ruby flipped onto her back, putting her arms behind her head as she chatted with her sister.
"There's no such thing as negative friends, you just made two friends and two enemies!" Yang tried, and failed, to reassure her sister, getting a corgi face to, well, the face. "Look, it's only been one day." Yang started calmly, with a small smile as she handed Ruby back her pillow. "Trust me, you've got friends all around you, you just haven't met them yet." Ruby smiled a little, then heard a page flipping, very loudly.
She sat up and saw a girll whose pajamas consisted of a black, long-sleeved, yukata-style shirt with white edging over a purple undershirt, and a matching skirt. A black obi is wrapped around her waist and tied with a black and white string, and she had a black bow sitting atop her head. She didn't notice Ruby looking at her, since she was reading.
"That girl…" Ruby trailed off.
"You know her?" Yang turned curious, sisterly eyes towards Ruby, plans already forming despite her tiredness.
"She saw what happened this morning, but left before I could say anything." At that Yang turned a smirk towards the bow-wearing girl.
"Welp, now's your chance!" Yang sprung over and grabbed Ruby's arm, dragging her semi-gently to standing, then toward the pale girl.
"HEY WAIT! What're you doing?!" Ruby cried as she got dragged towards the quiet girl.
Said girl looked up from her book as she heard Yang and Ruby walking over. Well Yang was walking, Ruby was being dragged behind.
"Helloooo!" Yang greeted in a sing-song voice as she waved. Ruby finally wrenched her arm free, and crossed it with her other, starting to grumble. "I believe you two may know each other?" Yang put her hands on her hips and smiled warmly at the book-reading girl.
"Aren't you that girl that exploded?" The mystery girl asked.
"Uhh, yeah! My names Ruby." Our little-red-riding-reaper said as she held her hand out, deciding to be civil. "But you could just call me… crater… Actually you can just call me Ruby." She settled on, as she wasn't very socially intelligent, at least when it came to nicknames.
"Ok…" The sitting girl replied, uninterested.
"What are you doing?!" Yang whisper yelled at Ruby.
"I don't know, help me!" Ruby whisper yelled back.
"SO! What's your name?" Yang asked the soon to be named girl.
"Blake." She answered simply.
"Well, Blake, I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister!" Yang said cheerfully. "I like your bow!"
"Thanks." Blake said plainly.
"It goes great with your, pajamas!" Yang said, with a random pause before pajamas, he mental factory slowly shutting down, getting ready for sleep.
"Right…" Blake mumbled. Ruby and Yang just turned to each other, trying to find a topic for conversation, Ruby found one, but Yang beat her to the punch by asking a totally different one.
"It's a nice night, don't ya think?: Yang asked.
"Yes. It's lovely. Almost as lovely as this book… That I will continue to read." Blake was about to start reading again but then she noticed something. "As soon as you leave." She said.
"Yeah, this girl's a lost cause." Yang said, turning to walk away.
"What's it about?" Ruby asked suddenly.
"Huh?" Blake asked, surprised.
"Your book. Does it have a name?" Ruby continued.
"Well, it's about a man with two souls, each fighting for control over his body." She explained.
"Oh yeah, thats real lovely." Yang said sarcastically.
"I love books." Ruby stepped forward. "Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monsters… They're on of the reasons I wanna be a huntress."
"Why is that?" Blake asked with a small, good natured chuckle. "Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"
"Im hoping we all will. As a kid, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books. Someone who fought for what was right, and who protected the people who couldn't protect themselves."
"That's, very ambitious for a child." Blake said, a small smile on her lips, before it turned to a frown. "Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale."
"Well, that's why we're here… To make it better." Ruby proclaimed. All three girls turned their head to the left as they heard sniffling.
"Ahhh, so riveting, truly astonishing!" Azure said as he dried almost nonexistent tears, since Blake had caught a single one rolling down but he wiped it away.
"What is going ON here?" Came the shrill voice of the rare Ice Bi- Weiss. "Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?"
"Uggghhh, it's the Ice Bitch! Why do I have to deal with you again.
"Be quiet, you beast!" She shouted at Azure, since she noticed his faunus traits.
"Racist, just like your bastard of a father, having to blackmail his way into a wealthy family." Azure glared at Weiss with the coldness of deep space. Weiss was about to retort when she noticed a warm feeling, and a stinging sensation on her cheek. She raised a hand to it and it came away wet with blood.
"W-What?! How did you!" She tried to form sentences but the words wouldn't come out.
"You should probably get that cut checked out, and try to find out how you got it, so it doesn't happen again." Azure said, but no one could detect the malice in his voice.
"Yeah, and the rest of us should probably get to sleep." Ruby said, leading Yang back to their bedrolls. Azure walked away and laid on his bedroll, right next to Jaune.
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Scotus: Hey, everybody! ClubOfHearts and I, who also did a bit of Beta-ing~
Hearts: I keep him from looking dumb :3
Scotus: ~for a few chapters of my stories, present you… A ROSE OF BLUE FLAME! Chapter 2. Pls leave a review and fav/follow ! I appreciate all of them.
Sorry I haven't updated anything yet, besides this, I havent started on IWD, but I'm about a quarter of the way done with Fox of All Trades. And there definitely wasn't a tiny retcon in the last chapter.
Anyway, bye guys and gals, and check back soon!