I'm baaaack! I know I know. I bet you're wondering," What the hell man? 2-3 weeks my ass!" Well I'd like to apologize. School has been taking up literally all my time, and when I did have free time, I would fall asleep. So hopefully this lengthy chapter will free my name a little bit. I hope you like the next installment of this story.
"Ruby, behind you!" Ruby continues to stare at the opponent that she had just struck. Of course she isn't going to hear me. I'm way too far away. I start to make my speed glyphs to get over there on time. As I'm running, I aim a glyph behind her unknown assailant to quickly get him out of the way. Ruby turns around in time for him to say one sentence before I kick him through the glyph.
"My BFF!" Ruby excitedly exclaims.
"No." Come on Ruby, we're not just friends anymore.
Ruby gives a pouty face but quickly turns into a gleaming smile. "Fine. BGF."
"There you go." At that moment, the man Ruby previously hit starts running towards us. He somersaults over Ruby and heads straight for me. I barely have enough time to get up my weapon before he takes a lunge at me. What is he doing? It's so uncoordinated and Ruby can easily shoot him in the back. A hard metallic object slams through my right side though, knocking the breath out of me completely.
"How do you like my Ollie?" A cocky tone could be heard from Reese.
"Not in particular. I'll have you know you made one big mistake." I smirk.
"Oh? And what's that?"
A shot rings out and pelts Reese right in her smug face.
"Thanks Yang."
"Any time." Yang goes back to fighting her part of the battle. Reese was knocked out by aura level. I'd hope to have been knocked out too from that blast.
"Weiss! Ice Flower!" I hear our team name called out from my right. I look over to see Ruby zig-zagging in between her two enemies. I rush over to Ruby from how far I was knocked back.
"Checkmate!" Knowing that Blake has lost her opponent, I call out for our team name. As soon as I see Blake in my peripheral, I send a speed glyph her way and a time dilation glyph over towards Ruby. As the glyph hits Ruby, her speed is doubled, but to us it looks like she isn't moving. Her senses are heightened and not to my surprise, she lands two shots on both men and uses her Crescent Rose to sweep out their legs from beneath them.
"Bumblebee!" There's a blast that comes from the right and you see Yang flying through the air. I guess she wasn't done with her enemy because that rope still has a woman attached to it.
"Yang! Get rid of her already!" I yell angrily. She can't do a team attack if she's going to have weight slugging her around.
"Right!" Yang pulls on the rope, and right when she's about to land, slings the woman face first into the ground.
"Bumblebee, go!"
Yang sprints over and catches Blake's Gambol Shroud. Ruby hooks one man and slams him into the other. She rotates her weapon to sling them up in the air. At that moment, Blake slings Yang up and around, Yang giving one last scream of excitement as she punches down with an extra shotgun shot. Their bodies slap and bounce against the ground, with noticeable cracks on the ground.
"Jeez Yang. You went ham on those guys." Ruby shouts happily and high fives her sister. I felt really bad for those guys. No amount of aura can save you from all of that.
"Yeah. Look at my aura though." We all glance up and Yang's says sixteen out of one hundred. Fifteen is the cutoff.
"Yeah but… look at theirs." I cringe at the sight. All across the enemies side are zeros.
"Any more and you could have seriously injured them Yang." I scold. She was way too reckless.
"But, BUT. They didn't. They're still fine." Yang gleams with pride.
"Are we dead?" The two guys ask aloud to no one in particular.
"Yeah. They're totally fine Yang." I say in my most sarcastic tone.
"Hey now. We won. Let's just say heat of the battle and move on." Blake calmly says.
"Yeah, I'm starving. I think we deserve some sweet victory food." Ruby happily says, but happiness quickly fades as her stomach growls like twenty beowolves.
"I agree. Let's go before our stomachs start eating themselves." We all start to walk out of the coliseum.
"Hey Weiss, stomachs can't actually do that. Can they?" Ruby asks with curiosity, but a little nervous.
"No you Dolt! It was just a little joke."
"That was a joke?" Yang asks.
"Don't judge me. I'm just beginning."
"It's not that. I thought you were serious too."
I have no words. I loudly face palm that should leave a sizable red mark on my forehead. Ruby, the sweet but naïve little kid. And then Yang, the complete idiot. I hope it doesn't run in the family. I don't want to meet a mix of Ruby's and Yang's genetics, and I know that sounds extremely rude.
When we walk out of the coliseum, the savory smells from the fairgrounds are immediately wafted into my nostrils. The happy squeals of people running around, enjoying their new found company of new found friends. The festival has always been lively, and it's one of my favorite events in the entire world. Ruby tugs on my sleeve, motioning that the rest of the team was going to this noodle place. When we all get over there, we take our seats on the unusually comfortable stools.
"I'll take the usual." Yang says. I glance over and the old man that seems to work everywhere slides a hot fresh bowl of noodles to Yang.
"Oooo. I'll take the same."
"Do you have anything with a low salt content?" The old man gives me a confused look and slides a bowl my way.
I notice a movement in my peripheral and in five seconds flat, a bowl of fresh fish is slid Blake's way. She starts to drool and gets this sparkle in her eyes you see about twice in a lifetime.
"Food is on me." I pull out my nice blue Schnee dust company debit card and hand it to the nice man.
"Oh Weiss. What's the occasion?" Yang sweetly asks me. I know she's trying to tease me.
"We had a great fight and I have plenty of money left to use. So why not?" Suddenly my card is thrown back at me, sticking into the counter. A big red declined sign flashes on the cash register that says denied. "That doesn't make any sense. I was barely in my weekly allowance."
"We'll pay for it." A voice calls out from the left. We all look over to see Emerald, Mercury, and Cinder.
"Oh you don't have to do that." I smile and put up my hand, motioning to stop their nice gesture.
"Oh? And why is that? Are we not friends?" Emerald says.
"No we are! It's just, it seems awfully inconvenient."
"It'll be fine. Thank you guys." Ruby smiles sweetly and invites them over to the leftover seats.
Mercury whispers something to Cinder and she nods. I decide not to inquire about it. Probably a team thing or something personal. Emerald takes out her wallet and pays for all seven of our meals.
"So Cinder, how did your team do in the team match?" Ruby asks politely.
"We did fairly decent. Your teammates put up quite a fight. I think they made me break a sweat." Cinder brushes her locks back, sort of cockily.
"Where's your fourth team member? I don't see them around…" Blake asks.
"She had to go home. Family business I suppose."
Cinder glances at Blake and Blake sort of curls up. Did Cinder do something? Blake looked a little scared. All the while, slurping sounds can be heard throughout the conversation.
"Out of you guys, who are you taking to the doubles?" Mercury asks.
"Well we haven't really decided yet. I was thinking when we watched some more matches we would decide." Ruby says, all the while noodles are stuffed in her mouth.
"That is so disgusting and rude Ruby. Didn't your parents tell you not to talk with your mouth full?" I angrily assault her.
"No. We do it all the time! Isn't that right sis?"
Yang nods in agreement while slurping up more noodles.
"I still think you should learn basic manners though."
"Ok, Princess. I'll learn some." Ruby sarcastically says.
"Princess? It sounds like a pet name." Cinder scoffs.
"It's Weiss' nickname. She's my Princess and I'm her Dolt. It's super duper cute!" Ruby squeals with happiness.
"You… own each other?" Emerald squints her eyes in confusion.
"No, silly. We're dating."
Cinder perks up after that. "Oh, you girls are dating? That's so… great."
Cinder looks at Mercury and he nods.
"Well ladies, I'm off. I'll see you guys later." Mercury strolls away from the table and holds up a peace sign.
"See you later. If we see you in the doubles or finals, we won't go easy on ya." Yang calls out.
I lean over to Ruby's ear. "I wonder what all this whispering is about. Seems a little… fishy. Do you think we should tell Ozpin just in case?"
"Why would we do that? They're whispering and everything because maybe it is team strategy or something. Don't get too worked up." Ruby whispers back.
"Ok. You're right." I lean back over and gain my posture again.
"So how long have you two been dating?" Cinder leans in while she asks. It looks like the stance you want to do when you're trying to gossip.
"It's been… a week now. Right Weiss?"
I nod my head. It hasn't been very long, but I still feel close to Ruby. It's not that I'm super clingy or rush into love, but I knew Ruby for a little under a year. Our relationship grew into what it is now. I say she's the love of my life, but in reality, we haven't been dating that long. I can't just go and flat out say that I love Ruby. It would be way too soon. I care about Ruby with all my ice cold heart, but that does not mean that I could say, "I love you." At least not yet.
"That isn't very long. I would have thought longer. A little disappointing if I do say so myself." Cinder smirks and leans back.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Ruby sounds offended.
"I'm just saying that someone could have come in and swooped up that little diamond for themselves." Cinder points at me. "And you wouldn't have anyone like that in your life. I think you should have waited less."
"Actually Cinder, I'm glad she did it when she did. Plus, how could someone like someone after just a couple weeks of knowing them?"
"Well um… that's how I felt when I first met you." Ruby looks at me with a total serious expression.
Oh shit. How do I get out of this one Weiss?
"Um… well… Ruby. What matters now is that we are in a very happy relationship. Right?" I nervously sweat.
"Of course! That's all that matters!" Ruby smiles and goes back to finishing the rest of her food. That was a close one.
Cinder leans back and smiles. "I think that we have had enough time sitting around here. I think we are about to head off. You four have… fun." Cinder grabs Emerald and start walking in a different direction from where Mercury left.
Blake leans over to me. "Cinder looked at me and her eyes glowed. Like… they were on fire or something. She looked at that exact moment like she wanted to end everyone right here right now. Maybe I'm paranoid or something, but it still freaked me out a little."
"It's ok. They seemed a little shady anyways. Ruby said not to worry about it though, so we might as well listen."
Blake nods in acknowledgment. I'm just happy there isn't this looming shadow it feels like that just towers over everyone.
"Weiss, I don't like the way she talked about you. You're mine and no one else's, right?" Ruby asks suspiciously.
"Ruby Rose, are you jealous?" I tease.
"What. M-me? Nonsense! I could never be… jealous." Ruby turns away back to her finished bowl. She taps it and the man takes the bowl from her.
"Sure you aren't." I roll my eyes and tap my bowl as well.
"Want to watch more of the matches guys?" Yang taps her bowl and glances at us.
"Sure. We need to watch team JNPR! They were being called over the intercom for a while, so I'm guessing that they just started their match." Ruby says and gets up rom her stool.
"I agree. It would be nice to watch team JNPR and CFVY compete. Cheer on our teammates and everything." Yang stands up and stretches.
"Sure why not. I still have some energy in the tank. Especially after that amazing meal." Blake removes herself from the stool and rubs her now plump stomach.
I just nod and stand up. No matter what Ruby says, I'll still be a little suspicious. Just like how I'm still suspicious from Blake. I know she removed herself from the White Fang, but anyone can change. I've seen it myself. My older sister used to be such a loving and caring sister. She still is, but in an extremely different way. She picked up from my father that beating me would make it possible for me to learn from my mistakes and make me remember to not do it again. I don't think Blake would go back, but I always have my suspicion. It's the same way with Cinder and anyone else.
"Is something wrong Weiss?" Ruby asks me.
"Everything is fine Ruby. Thank you." I smile and start walking to the seating.
When we get to the seating, team JNPR is in the middle of their match. Juane just threw Pyrrha into the air to deflect an oncoming sniper bullet to protect Nora. Her semblance is basically supercharged from the lightning that strikes her and soon, extremely explosive grenades launch out of her weapon. They rocket the entire stadium and the sniper is soon revealed, standing next to her teammates. Juane makes a leading charge stance, but no movement can be seen. He quickly turns around and you can see that he isn't very happy.
"Come on guys! Finish them already!" Ruby yells while cupping her hands.
"What's wrong with them? It's like they lost all fighting power." I say. Nothing can be heard obviously, but Juane looks pretty salty. He face palms and the next movement is Nora slamming the entire team out of the ring. Yang laughs and Blake pulls out her wallet, handing tons of money to Yang.
"What is this about?" I ask. Some sort of bet I assume.
"Blakey here said that Pyrrha would get the last hit in. I bet that it would be Nora. And I just won." Yang smiles with pride and happiness.
"Do you guys do this all the time?" I sarcastically ask.
"Not all the time. Just the times when I know I'm going to be right." Yang chuckles.
"Whatever. The chances were in my favor and you just lucked out." Blake scoffs and turns around.
I grin a little. These moments are the one's I live for. Where we can all hang out as a team and have a little fun here and there. I still haven't forgotten my job though, and I hope no one else has. Cinder seems a little off, but I think that's her personality. I mean, she did pay for our lunch. Anyone who buys food for someone else is like a saint.
"How about you Weiss?" Ruby asks.
"Huh? Sorry, I wasn't listening." I blatantly say.
"I said do you want to watch any more matches? Team SSSN is coming up real soon!" Ruby excitedly squeals.
"I suppose I could watch some more matches. After that one I will want to leave though. I'm getting quite tired." I yawn slowly. This action makes Ruby yawn as well.
"Stop that. Yawning is way to contagious. I mean the author just did it now."
"What are you even talking about Ruby?" I give her a puzzling look.
"Nothing. Talking to myself."
"You're so weird Ruby. But, I think it's cute. Only a little though. You're mostly just stupid." I cross my arms.
"You right. But I know you love my stupidity." Ruby puts on a smug look.
"Yeah right." I sigh.
"Weiss have you ever read manga?" Blake asks.
"Man-ga? No. What even is that?" What's with all these new terms popping up?
"They're basically Japanese books. And there's sometimes this girl character that starts to have feelings for someone, but she's still rude to her lover. A 'tsundere' is what she is called. And you fit her perfectly." Blake stifles a laugh. Ruby and Yang as well.
"I am NOT like that!" I tilt my head down and feel my cheeks getting red.
"Sure you're not, Princess." Ruby lightly punches my shoulder.
"And now for our next contestants! Team SSSN from Vacuo and team CFVY from Beacon!"
"It's Coco's and Sun's team! This should be a great fight." Yang excitedly exclaims in Blake's ears.
"Could we please not do that next time?" Blake squints her eyes and puts her hand up, flicking her wrist.
"I'll try Blake. No promises though." Yang smirks. Blake sighs shortly after.
I turn towards to see my previous crush's team and Coco's team standing in the very center. The screens start to spin and it's revealed that an ocean is on Sun's side and a forest on the other. Neptune freezes up and won't even communicate.
"Oh no." Blake tilts her head down in anguish.
"What's with him?" I ask. Is he sick?
"Neptune is… afraid of water." Blake explains.
Well that's a little ironic.
"Three, two, one. Begin!"
At that moment, Neptune zooms across to the forest area.
"Neptune, what are you doing!?" Sun yells out.
"Strategy!" Neptune yells back.
The rest of the team goes towards team CFVY. Coco takes her minigun form and starts to lay down fire so everyone else can get close. Team SSSN splits up and everyone has at least one member paired up. Yatsuhashi took Sun, Velvet took Neptune, Coco took Scarlet and Fox took that one green haired boy. I never caught his name.
Coco easily beats Scarlet by bashing him to oblivion. Right when he started to counter Coco, she switched to her gun form and unloaded basically a whole clip into him.
Velvet seemed like she was struggling a little, but Yatsuhashi took a short break away from Sun and kicked Neptune down. Velvet took his head as he was falling and kneed him to the face.
"Oooo. That's going to hurt in the morning." I say.
Fox starts to use his twin blade gauntlets and starts to block the slow but heavy attacks coming from that boy. Fox sweeps the boys feet away from him and he lands with a hard thud. The boy gets back up and swings again, but Fox spins over the swing and slices up the back of him. That's another one down.
"Where has Sun gone?" Ruby asks.
Huh. Very peculiar. It's like he up and disappeared. All four members of CFVY start to scratch their head and cautiously go into the forest area. It's all quiet until you see Velvet fly out from the side and a loud buzzer can be heard.
"Wait what happened?" Yang asks.
"Ohhh. Sun is literally hanging out in the trees." Blake realizes.
A shot can be heard and a couple of smack and Yatuhashi is down. Minigun bullets fly out from the forest and another buzzer is heard. Coco is down.
"How in the world?" I say. This is a little disappointing.
Suddenly Sun and Fox come out fighting from the trees. There's a holographic figure following the same but mirrored moves of Sun. All Fox can do is block the constant attacks and keep backing up. The hologram shatters in a poof of dust and Fox uses one swift kick to Sun's head, knocking him out.
"And that's the match! And one a quick and exciting one at that! Team CFVY is the winner!" Port yells out.
"Sun has gotten amazing with his semblance. It used to just shatter once it made one hit." I say. I wonder how long he's been training with it.
"Yeah. I was surprised too. It's quite amazing." Blake says. "Too bad they lost though."
"We have to figure out how he did that! It was a one versus four and he took out three all by himself!" Ruby screams. I guess she wants tips as well.
We all get up and walk out the coliseum. As we're leaving though, we encounter Cinder again.
"Amazing match, right Cinder?" Yang says.
"I am intrigued in how that monkey boy was able to swiftly take out three people." Cinder says smoothly, but her words feel cold to my ears.
"His name is Sun." Blake shoots out.
"So defending. I wonder why that is…" Cinder points to her own head and taps it. She winks and walks away.
"Is my bow off?" Blake shoots her hands up and feels, anxiety coating her voice.
"No Blake. Maybe she just thinks that but doesn't know. Trying to get in your head." Yang coldly says. She sounds mad.
We follow behind Cinder to get to the tunnel where Sun will come out. It takes a while to get everyone up and stable enough to walk out of the coliseum. Finally, we see everyone staggering out of the tunnel.
"Sun that was amazing! How did you get your semblance that good so fast?" Ruby's eyes are basically sparkling in awe.
"Lots and lots of training. For about the past four weeks, I've trained from seven in the morning to seven at night. Whenever I couldn't use my semblance anymore, I'd rest for thirty minutes and continue." Sun smiles and puts his hand behind his head, rubbing the back of it.
"I'm going to do that!" Ruby jumps up and down.
"Ruby, how would you even do that? You barely get up at two in the afternoon." I tease.
"What? I don't know what you're talking about." Ruby blushes from embarrassment.
"If you really want to, I'll wake you up at seven." Sun offers.
"Um. No. If you wake me up before nine, I will kill you." Yang threatens.
"I'll set an alarm and put in headphones so it just plays in my ears."
"Sounds good. Well I need to go ice my entire body. I'll see you guys later." Sun starts to leave but Cinder stops him.
"Hey, Sun is it?" Cinder snakes out her words.
"Yeah. Do I know you?" Sun squints at her.
"Not yet. But soon you will. I would like to know if I could train with you as well. See your training techniques." Cinder rubs Sun's arm.
"What the hell is wrong with you Cinder?" Blake shoots out.
"Whoa, whoa. Language missy. I just want to see how he trains. Do you like him or something?" Cinder glares at Blake.
Blake stomps her foot and turns the other way, walking off.
"Wait, hold up Blake!" Yang calls out, running after her.
I look at Cinder and her eyes are glowing, but soon after, fade away. She's such a drama starter.
"I'll go with Ruby in the morning then." I say politely.
"Weiss, you don't have to. I know you don't want to really get up in the morning." Ruby laughs nervously.
"Rude. Just because of that, I'm going to." I cross my arms.
"What is going on in my life…" Sun turns around and scratches his head.
I take Ruby's arm and take her away from Cinder.
"Why didn't you want me to train with you?" I ask coldly.
"Well, I thought that you were extremely good and you didn't need any more training. Plus, I know you trained a lot as a kid and everything so I just thought-"
"Training is the essence of my life Ruby." I sigh and lift up my skirt a little, showing a couple battle scars.
"I know it is and you're extremely good. If you want to come with me in the morning, I'll wake you up as well." Ruby smiles and my heart melts.
"We will go train together." I smirk a little but it quickly fades away.
Ruby extends her arms, signaling for a hug. I sigh and lock into an embrace. We hold together for about fifteen seconds before we both separate.
"Let's go find Blake and Yang." I turn around and Ruby grabs my hand. "Wha- Ruby!"
"But I want to hold hands. Please?" Ruby puckers her lips and gives her puppy dog face.
I grunt. "Fine." I loosely hold her hand in mine.
Ruby smiles and interlaces our fingers. I can't believe I'm even doing this.
As we are walking, Ruby starts to get closer to me and lays her head on my arm. People start to give us weird looks and whispers can be heard from around us on our hunt.
"Um… Ruby.. people are staring and talking about us." I start to nervously sweat.
"I know. They are just haters." Ruby laughs and holds onto my arm tighter.
"I just don't want-"
As we turn the corner, I bump into someone cold.
"Watch it you buffoon!" A cold voice slithers down my back.
I look up and freeze.
"Little sister! It's good to-" She looks down and sees me and Ruby holding hands. "Oh."
My face turns twenty shades redder. I quickly remove my hand from Ruby and cross my arms, turning away quickly. I look away from Ruby and my older sister, Winter.
"Well… this is awkward." Ruby creeps the words out of her mouth.
"Weiss, you know I don't care about your sexuality. I'm not going to tell father about it." Winter puts her hand on my cold shoulder.
"Why would he care about us though?" Ruby questions.
"Do you not know? My father will-"
"Wait." I interrupt. "Ruby, I don't want you to worry once I tell you this, ok?"
"Ok…" Ruby gives me a questionable look.
I take a deep breath in. "My father said he would disown me if… if he ever found out I was dating a girl."
Ruby's face loses all expression. "W-what?" she stutters. Tears start to form in her eyes.
"No, wait. Ruby. Please don't cry." My heart starts to shatter. The next thing I know, Ruby is gone in a flash of rose petals.
"She'll get over it, Weiss."
I don't care about that. The very fact that I, her girlfriend, made her cry. I clench my fists and start to chase after the fallen rose petals.
"Weiss, finish your business with her and find me later. You have my number." She continues her path to wherever she was going.
I need to find Ruby and explain to her that I still have strong feelings for her. I have to tell her that… that I love her. That's the only way to save this. I continue the path until the trail ends at the edge of the Emerald forest. She must of gone to her favorite place.
By the time I reach the place she asked me out, she isn't there.
"What a pitiful shame. It looks like you lost her." That voice founds familiar.
I look around and see Cinder hiding in the trees.
"How did you find this place? Where's Ruby?"
I start to unclip my weapon, but the next thing I hear is rustling and I'm knocked unconscious.
Bum bum buuuum! Storyline? Cliffhangers? Fanbase, you've never done this before! Well this was my original idea. It wasn't only going to be a love story. I have to be sadistic at some point. Stay tuned for the next chapter. And, if you want, you should check out our new stories!