Chapter 2: The Banquet
After the opening ceremony, Ruby went straight to where they were holding the banquet. There was so much food, but yet because of a limited amount of food each team leader was only able to invite one person from their team to come with them. When Ruby offered her team mates, both Weiss and Blake stepped down and decided to let Yang and Ruby have some time together. After all they were sisters, even though they look different and have different last names. Actually Ruby got asked about that a lot. Usually she would just give an escape goat answer and move to a different subject mainly because she really wasn't sure how to explain it.
The hall had nice carpet on the floor. There were chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, and large curtains were in the windows. A long table sat on one side of the room, on it was A large rotisserie chicken, or turkey. There were many dishes like scalloped potatoes, potato salad, Zucchini Gratin, cole slaw, corn risotto, pudding, bacon, macaroni and cheese, corn bread, chili, ribs, burgers, sausage, corn on the cob, lobster, shrimp, steaks. There was so much food that it all seemed endless.
"Wow I thought they had a limited amount of food," Yang joked when she saw the table.
"Well let's get some food and find our table!" Ruby said.
Yang agreed and the two of them ran to the table, each grabbing a plate and a mountain of food, the went to they're assigned table. Luckily they were assigned to the same table as Jaune and Pyrrha, but there were other teams also at this table. Most of them Ruby didn't recognize. She gave them a wave as she sat down, and they waved back.
"So who are you?" a pink haired girl asked.
"I'm Ruby Rose, and this my sister Yang," Ruby introduced herself.
"Hello Ruby, I'm Karlene Naroni, Leader of team KTAR," the pink haired girl said introducing herself.
"Well that a cool name," Yang said.
"So are you excited for the games Ruby? I know it's your first time participating in Leader Week," Karlene asked.
"Yeah I am excited," Ruby said.
"Oh she couldn't hold still this morning!" Yang commented," you think she was hyper or something."
Ruby gave a feigned chuckle as Yang said that. Looking down at the plate of food she had gotten for herself Ruby immediate picked up her fork and started to dig in. Ruby listened on as Yang and Karlene carried on the conversation. Although they seemed to talk about simple stuff really. Much like what life was like and stuff like that. Mostly about the good times they had. That and the times Ruby made mistakes. Which Ruby was a little upset at Yang for doing so.
"Yeah, well sometimes she's annoying but, she is also very predictable. Like whenever we play Truth or Dare, she always picks dare three times, then truth, then dare four times, then truth twice," Yang explained.
"Fhey, eh duh nawh!" Ruby interrupted, but since her it was hard to understand because her mouth was full.
"How interesting, that's sets you up for a deadly situation don't it?" Karlene said.
"Yeah," Yang replied, "one time, just to teach her a lesson, I dared her to run around the neighborhood nak.." Yang said before Ruby clasped her hand over Yang's mouth.
"I thought you said you wouldn't talk about that again!" Ruby scolded in frustration.
Almost at that moment the attention was grabbed by Professor Ozpin tapping his glass. He was calling for the attention of all in attendance. Then he waited for everyone to be seated and to be quiet. Ruby had almost forgotten that she was standing from trying to shut up Yang. Ruby promptly took her seat and Ozpin started speaking.
"Hello team leaders, and accompanying members. As you well know, today was the official start of Leader Week!" Ozpin announced, he waited for the cheering of a few stray people to calm down before continuing, "Also as you well know, tomorrow we have our first event which is Emerald Forest Frenzy. This is an exercise just like what you did when you all arrived here either this year or within the past three years. This is to decide who you team mates will be for during the team events. This event will start at nine o'clock a.m., also tomorrow we with have the Hammer Toss from twelve to three. The Torch Run will be from five to seven. Meals will be served in between events. Good luck leaders, and may the best person win."
After Ozpin finished with his announcement the whole hall went back to their eating and chattering. Ruby thought of the events that would happen tomorrow, hammers would be easy to throw obviously, racing around with a torch sounded precarious but it also sounded simple. The thing she would have to focus on the most was the Emerald Forest Frenzy. She had to ensure she got paired up with someone she knew. Which that would be Jaune, and now Karlene, maybe Karlene would get one of her friends.
After the meal they were dismissed and Ruby headed straight for bed, she needed to get enough rest in order to be fully energized in the morning. Once she was in her room and ready to sleep she pulled herself onto her bunk. Staring at the ceiling Ruby thought about tomorrow and what it would hold. She couldn't wait for the games to start. However she just hoped that she was good enough.