Last Update I can squeeze in. Sorry guys, I really tried my best.
Disclaimer: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise somebody really would be pushed to the point of having their own bad day, Bálor Moonlight belongs to me, any other characters, entities, or properties mentioned within belong to their respective parent companies.
The rain would continue into the next day much to the surprise of everyone who occupied the grounds of Beacon, weather services called it a freak anomaly but insisted that there was nothing for the citizens to worry themselves over and to continue about their day.
For Yang Xiao Long the weather seemed to suit her mood perfectly, the brawler had been a pent-up storm of anger for long enough and it was time for her to get some well deserved payback.
"Some day we're having today eh sis? Can't believe the weather's being so crazy." the crimsonette would smile at her older sibling while sitting at her desk, no doubt working on a replacement weapon design after Yang had trashed one the day before.
"Yeah Rubes, it's pretty nutty out there. News says it's some sort of freak storm system." The golden maned Huntress would do her best to mask her irritation at the reaper's continued devotion to the wolf Faunus, but as she looked over at the pale haired heiress who was currently rubbing her temples in frustration she realized that her pain was a drop in the bucket compared to Weiss's own ocean of despair.
The youngest heir to the Schnee family fortune had been harboring unrequited feelings towards her sister Ruby for the longest time, at first the only thing that seemed to keep her from confessing her heart's true feelings was her own foolish pride. However, like every steadily running gag in their lives that would be disrupted by the arrival of the boy who had cruelly been named after a demon. Bálor and Ruby had something of a 'will they, won't they' dynamic, maintaining a steadfast air of friendship despite there seeming to be something deeper lurking just below the surface. "That bastard, he should had left well enough alone! I was willing to give him everything he could have possibly wanted!" Yang would clench her fist as the past played out in her mind: Like Ruby, she too had something of an intimate history with the then recently transferred wolf Faunus. The brawler had pursued him doggedly throughout his first few months at Beacon, using every ounce of feminine wile she could to win him over but only winning the day after looking within herself to realize that even someone like her could find love. However said love would prove fleeting as Bálor's love of wrestling-related puns, catchphrases and apparel would quickly wear out its novelty and the arguments would soon begin after that.
"I should've just burnt the whole fucking wardrobe sooner, then maybe he would get the message." The arguments while loud and somewhat hostile at points, their relationship still endured until the most recent anniversary of the death of her beloved step-mother Summer Rose that was usually marked by a lonely pilgrimage to her mother's grave by the red-hooded reaper herself. However this time things had once again been changed thanks to the introduction of Bálor as Ruby had talked the amber eyed wolf into joining her on her journey which had proven to be one snub too many for the blonde brawler as she had unceremoniously dumped the young man via a series of messages before completely laying waste to his dorm room in a fit of rage. Yang would be brought out of her road down memory lane by her scroll chiming once to confirm a message arriving for her, then another chime, and another, and another and another which would cause the buxom Huntress to grin mischievously.
"It's showtime."
Bálor would trudge out of his Faunus History class feeling burned out and exhausted after having to endure yet another fast paced but somehow long winded spiel from Professor Oobleck.
"How can someone who speaks so damn fast go for so long without a kind of break?" The wolf Faunus would lean against the wall tiredly as he tried to steady his nerves before falling to his knees as his vision began to blur and spin violently.
"What the..? What's going on here, I shouldn't be feeling this terrible! All I've been doing is keeping myself going on caffeine, I mean sure I had to steal the good Professor's cup of joe during class but-" That's when a cold realization finally dawned upon him as he thought back to the class in question: Bartholomew Oobleck was a notorious coffee drinker, more often then not keeping a cup of that thick black lava in a nearby mug when on campus and in a thermos when out on assignment. Yet that morning he hadn't taken a single sip during his entire lecture, choosing instead to leave his mug in range of the caffeine hungry Faunus who would swig it down without a second thought. "He must have spiked the coffee, but why would an instructor drug a student?" He would try to stand once again, only to see some individuals in Academy uniforms surrounding him. "Umm, can I help you guys?" The amber eyed Hunter would see their faces obscured by various colored dragon masks and feel his muscles tense up somewhat before receiving a hard shot to the stomach for his troubles, the usually crafty wolf crumpled to a heap before them with a groan.
"This day can't possibly get any worse."
When he awakened once again he found himself tied to a chair, his hands restrained by magnetic cuffs as a projector slowly being lowered in front of him.
"Gahhh, this is feeling like the start of every bad spy movie ever made!" Bálor would sniff the air, finding no hint of a scent belonging to anyone besides himself. "Well, at least my kidnappers were smart enough to leave any clues as to who they are. Sooo partial credit!"
He would laugh at his own joke even as the projector began playing a video, and seeing as he had no other option then to sit there and watch as the familiar opening tones of Q-Brick's "Shot'em" began to stream throughout the room, brining a grin to the restrained Faunus's face.
"Well at least the idiots who kidnapped me have some good taste, or they did their research." But as quickly as the Bullet Club's anthem began, it would quickly fade out and be replaced with two of the founding members of the renegade faction, "Machine Gun" Karl Anderson and Luke "Doc" Gallows sitting in front of a camera, dressed in street clothes and looking relaxed with a can of Bud Light Lime in hand.
"Okayyy, am I getting the video version of the Talk n' Shop Podcast now?"
"My name is Chad Allegra, and I work under the name "Machine Gun" Karl Anderson."
Bálor would gulp as Doc Gallows finished the introduction with his real name and the alias he worked under before pausing to take a long swig of his drink before letting out a loud belch.
"Wait..why are they using their real names and acting professional, that's not funny..that not funny at all!"
"Yeah so, it's recently come to our attention that one of our fans has recently been walking around Remnant working our gimmick and repping the Biz-Kizzle and we appreciate the love brother but-" Gallows would belch again before glaring into the camera and picking it up. "We appreciate you working the gimmick but not when it means cutting into our business you little shit-stain!" The camera feed would be interrupted with footage of the amphitheater several months ago as the wolf Faunus made his Bullet Club inspired entrance prior to the fight with Team CRDL, Gallows would begin speaking again even as Bálor watched Bullet Club shirts rained down upon his classmates. "Who the fuck do you think you are giving away our merch and taking food off Chad's kid's table, then you have the nerve to use our "Too Sweet" and crotch chops to try and get your jabroni ass over?!"
Bálor would shake his head as Doc Gallows continued to accuse him of gimmick infringement and theft. "No! No way I ordered those shirts myself, I blew so much lien to make sure everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves. Even the staff!" The wolf Faunus would flush in embarrassment as he remembered that it was just a recording as the video switched back to Anderson and Gallows watching on as their biggest fan laid waste to his opponents without mercy. "Ouch, dude this is a Shoot, definitely a fuckin' Shoot." Gallows would flinch suddenly before looking back at the camera with disgust. "Jesus Christ you almost took that kid's eye out! Are you completely stupid or-" The video would cut forward to a scene of Anderson sitting alone, looking stern and disappointed as a father who had just seen his son hauled off to jail for a serious crime.
"Well..not really sure what Drew and I just watched but, it sure as fuck wasn't pretty." The veteran grappler would pause and take a drink of his beer before crushing the empty can. "You know, I've been doing this for a lot of years. Seen a lot of good guys go down some dark roads and take liberties with other guys in the ring, but what you tried to do was damn near homicide. I dunno what the big wigs at that school plan to do to ya but- hold on what was this kid's name again?" The camera man would give out the wolf Faunus's name earning a slight chuckle from the Bullet Club's head honcho. "Nah, c'mon man seriously what's the guys name?" The silver haired Hunter would snarl as Anderson burst out laughing as the cameraman gave his name once again.
"Stop it…Stop it…" The video would start skipping as it repeated Machine Gun's laughter again and again. "STOP IT!" His amber eyes would glow harshly as the chair burst apart from the force of his Semblance, surprising even its user as he stumbled to the cold floor around him.
"It doesn't feel good to have your heroes mock you does it, Bálor Moonlight?" A voice would speak out from the sound system wired throughout the room, surprising the captive Faunus who looked around manically for its source. "Don't bother looking around for an exit to this room, you won't find it. Besides, Mister Allegra and Mister Hankinson weren't the only ones with some words for you." The amber eyed Hunter would snarl at the mysterious voice as he sniffed the air again. "Don't you know it's rude for Marks to use a wrestler's real name?! If that really was Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows they'd smack you across the mouth!" The voice would laugh at his harsh words before the projector hummed to life again, this time showing Ruby sitting quietly at her desk with a paper and drawing pencil in her hand, humming a tune as she tapped her desk in thought.
"Ruby..?" Bálor would sigh in relief as he saw the face of his best friend and confidant, they had been through a lot following their pilgrimage to the grave of Summer Rose. Polishing and fine-tuning their Vaudevillain routine to the point that they often spent their free time performing in the promenade of Vale, the children enjoying Ruby's jester makeup and watching in amazement at his own feats of strength. "Little Rose, I really wish you were here right now, you'd know exactly what to say in this situation to make me smile." He would start walking up to the projector, his hand reaching out to stroke the crimsonette's cheek. "Bálor, my trusty partner- besides Weiss and Crescent Rose of course." The person behind the camera would clear their throat, causing the cookie loving Huntress to squeal in surprise and turn around in her chair. "What the- how'd you get in here?" The screen would switch to pure static before coming back to seeing the crimsonette sitting alone on her bunk bed, the camera-person asking her what she thought about the wolf.
"What do I think of him..?" Ruby would smile happily before her expression would turn frighteningly serious. "I hate him." She would leap down from the bunk bed and start heading for the door.
"Wait, why would you hate him? You two are a part of a popular street act in the city of Vale, you two are almost constantly seen together, and there's even been talk of you designing a weapon for him." The individual holding the camera would rush to keep up with her. "C'mon Ruby you gotta give me something here!" She would finally stop and turn to face the camera with tears in her silver eyes. "Fine! You wanna know why I hate Bálor? Because I'm tired of trying to get his attention, I've been embracing this whole Bullet Club thing hoping that maybe he would notice me and stop chasing after girls like Yang, or Blake!" She would start walking off again as the wolf Faunus would shake his head incredulously at her words, not knowing how to react.
"Wait Ruby that doesn't make any sense, I thought your sister broke up with him a couple months ago! Why would he even give her the time of day?" Again Ruby would stop in her tracks and face the confused soul holding the camera. "Ya know what, that's what I keep asking myself every time Yang starts making an ass of herself in public! She starts acting up and he always gets angry, always loses his cool!" She would grab the camera and look straight into the lens. "LOOK at ME! NOTICE ME! I'M the one who's been by your side before she even realized she sort of wanted you as some kind of faux-boyfriend!" Her silver eyes would burn like pools of molten lead, causing the distraught Bálor to flinch back from the projector as if he had actually felt the fires of her anger. "I give, and I give, and I give and I give and I give hoping that MAYBE the next adventure, or the next gimmick, or the next heart-to-heart talk we have will FINALLY be the one that clicks inside that fucked up little brain of yours and let you know that 'Hey, this girl actually loves me despite my stupid little sob stories!'" The reaper would set the camera on the ground to show her standing in the empty halls of the dorm areas and kneel down to look into it. "I'm so tired of giving everything I am and getting nothing in return, I'm sick of being the bridesmaid and never the bride! I hate you Bálor Birugderc Moonlight, GO JUMP OFF A FUCKING LEDGE!" The video would stop abruptly as the room he was trapped in became flooded with light, revealing the dais of the amphitheatre dais and the seats occupied by several people in those strange dragon masks.
"Wh-what is this!" The wolf Faunus would shield his eyes from the bright lights of the amphitheatre would blind the disoriented young man before he caught the scent of a familiar hair product in the air. "Yang..?"
"FIRE!" The brawler would cackle madly as she and her fellow pranksters let loose with a volley of eggs, pelting the once arrogant Hunter with a floor of eggshells and yolk as their victim stumbled around blindly as the hits kept coming.
"Why? Why would she do this..?" Bálor would cry out in pain as a few of the eggs turned out to be frozen solid, making the humiliation he was currently feeling all the worse. "The Bullet Club…Ruby…all these people in the stands, how did she convince them all to help her?" The wolf would curl up in a fetal position even as the eggs became mostly hardened projectiles, causing him to scream in agony.
"Do you get it now B?!" She would signal for the group to hold their fire as she made her way down onto the dais, dragging her now defeated sweetheart to his feet before proceeding to slap him viciously. "Do you finally understand how it feels to have your world destroyed?! Your reputation ruined!" The brawler would then kick him viciously in the ribs as he tried to crawl away to safety, her Semblance flaring to life as her eyes burned red. "I WOULD'VE GIVEN YOU EVERYTHING!" A few of the masked people would make their way down to the dais, attempting to hold her back. "Let me go! I'm not finished!"
Bálor would stumble upstairs to the nearest exit and crash through the doors as he ran away as fast as he could, the hurtful words of his heroes, his ex, and even his best friend repeating over and over as he made his way outside into the courtyard, passing by a surprised Jaune Arc.
"Hey Bálor what happened-" The knight would stop as he got a good look at the frantic Faunus. "HEY!" Team JNPR's leader would start chasing after him, only to nearly crash into Ruby. "Woah, Ruby look out!" The fair haired young man would stop short of nailing the crimsonette who looked up at him in shock.
"Jaune, what's wrong with you where's the fire?" Ruby would carefully try to juggle the various blueprints she had been hard at work on for most of the day and her umbrella to shield herself from the rain.
"Bálor just passed by me, he looked like he had been beaten up with a carton of eggs. Yolk, eggshells, bruises-" Jaune would pause to catch his breath while the crimsonette just dropped the blueprints she had been holding.
"Which way did he go Jaune, for the love of Dust tell me which way!"
Jaune would point towards Beacon Tower wordlessly, only to be rewarded by a flurry of rose petals and an umbrella that had been left behind.
It may not seem like much of a prank at first (especially to those who haven't been following the saga of my OC so I'll try and break it down for the uninitiated:
Bálor had it rough as a kid growing up in the prisons of Vacuo, Pro Wrestling was a way of escaping the harsh realities that often came with it. The Bullet Club especially were special to him as the group embodied the freedom that comes with doing whatever you wanted without consequence. So to have two of their most prominent members (outside of AJ Styles) accuse him of taking things too far and calling him a jabroni (wrestling speak for "loser" or "geek") is the most hurtful thing that someone like him who uses their mannerisms as a way to pay tribute to the men who inspired him to embrace freedom was a very hurtful thing.
In the case of Ruby, she really has been trying to do everything she can short of lemony stuff to get him to notice her as something more than a tag team partner in the "Vaudevillains" or the-littlest-fangirl-that-could back in the Bullet Club days. Eventually she'd reach a point where she'd either stop trying or blow her stack and say every hurtful thing under the sun, however as you can probably tell by the end of this chapter something ain't quite right seeing as our favorite Red Hood bolted off after him.
The eggs? That's obvious.
I had hoped to update my Neo fanfic "Silent Aria" tonight but I head back to class tomorrow, but if you're a fan of Neo give it a read.
For the record I have a poll up on my profile page asking you guys to vote on which one of my open stories I should devote the rest of September to completing: You have this fic,
Addiction (starring the Schnee sisters and our reluctant hero as Papa Schnee is on his deathbed and looking for a successor.)
Machinations of Darkness (A RWBY/KH Crossover where villains plot the downfall of Remnant, and each other.)
Mmm Gorgeous (A CFVY fanfic devoted to the still untapped dynamic between the team that showed up at the end of Volume 2)
Peaches of Blood (An AU look at Conversations where the OC turns twisted psycho) and
Silent Aria (Neo plans to leave Cinder's side and do her own thing as a mute/assassin)
If any of these ideas sound awesome to you then give them a read and (hopefully) a vote in the poll because it's gonna close at 10 PM Monday night! That's 10 pacific time! Err Mountain Standard time, whatever time zone Arizona's in
Until then, I've gotta go to bed for five hours and then wake up and go try to make something of myself
Review if you want, PM if you must, but hopefully all your days are good