The next day after classes, Akira goes to the laundry room to do his own laundry as well cleaning the pieces of clothing he had found in the Lost Sea the previous night. After starting his laundry, Akira sits down in a nearby chair. He leans back in the chair so that it touches the wall, his feet on the table. Some memories of how he and Morgana would just chill by the laundromat as they washed clothes came to mind. A snort then emits from his nose as memories of his teacher, Ms Kawakami, was his maid and would do laundry for him once he got that far along the social link with her. After a bittersweet sigh leaves his lips, Akira minds his own business on his scroll, ignoring the few students that came by to grab their clothes or swap them. He only looks up when hearing the click of heels approach him. Akira smiles.

"Hello Pyrrha," Akira greets the redhead pleasantly.

"Hello!" Pyrrha greets, a small smile upon her face. "May I sit with you Akira?"

"Sure, I got nothing better to be doing," the messy raven haired male said. Pyrrha then takes a seat on the chair. Akira's onyx eyes look Pyrrha over, noticing that the female seemed a bit tense. He pokes the redhead. "Alright what's on your mind?"

"O-oh uh nothing! Don't worry about it! I don't want to burden you!" Pyrrha says, having been spooked. She had also waved her hands in front of herself as if to dispel any worry. A black eyebrow just arches in response.

"C'mon.. You can tell me. As a fellow leader, let me assist you!" Akira says, grinning a bit. Pyrrha sighs in defeat.

"If you insist... I.. I don't know if Ozpin making me the leader of my team was the right choice," the redheaded Huntress-In-Training admits.

"Why not? You're intelligent, you're a great fighter and you care about your teammates."

"You know how I'm the Invincible Girl?"

"More or less."

"I can't help but think that it was too easy of a choice to make - The Invincible Girl goes off to Beacon! Becomes team leader of her own team! She's going to have the best team out there!"

"Well Pyrrha... I can tell you that you have no need to worry about it being an easy choice. You DID come up with the plan to deal with the Arachne after all. What you need to focus on is not what people think, but on what you want," Akira says. Pyrrha smiles a bit upon hearing that.

"You're right Akira.. Thank you. It is time I focus on what I want, isn't it?" Pyrrha says. Akira grins and nods. He gets up to transfer his laundry into the dryer, and as he does so, the social link noise goes through his head. For the rest of the afternoon, Akira and Pyrrha just chat until both of their laundry was finished. When both sets of laundry were done, Akira and Pyrrha walk back to their dorms, only to part ways upon reaching their dorm doors. Akira enters his team's dorm and sets the laundry basket down and starts searching for whatever had been the paint covered clothes. He blinks as he holds up first a vibrant green sports bra and then a set of light blue basketball shorts. He grunts as a shoe hits his head.

"AKIRA-KUN! WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE A BRA IN YOUR HANDS?!" Minako shouts, having entered the dorm and yeeted her shoe at him. Yu glances behind him and sweatdrops.

"I washed the paint covered clothes and that was one of them," Akira grumbles as he rubs the back of his head from the shoe. Minato walks past his twin and over to Akira. He takes the sports bra from Akira and looks at it before looking at Minato. He throws it at her.

"It'll fit," the blue haired boy says bluntly. He ducks and Minako's other shoe sails over him, hitting Yu straight in the face.

"Will you please stop throwing your shoes at people Minako-senpai...?' Yu groans, rubbing his face.

"It's yeet!" both Akira and Minako correct. Minato just jabs his thumb towards the two in agreement when Yu looked at him.

"Not you too Minato-senpai..." Yu groans again, this time hanging his head in defeat.

"ANYWAYS! I'm sure there's some sort of beneficial property to it, so go try it on Minako-senpai!" Akira says. Minako scowls but goes into the bathroom to try the vibrant green sports bra on. She walks back out, her school shirt over it.

"I haven't noticed anything diff-" Minako starts, only to get buffeted by wind as Minato summons Norn. "MINATO!"

"...Just testing a theory," Minato says with a shrug, attempting to hide the small and sly grin that was threatening to appear on his lips.

"Oh, I see. Minako-senpai, look at your Aura levels," Yu says, understanding where Minato was going. Minako pulls out her scroll and blinks.

"Huh... normally I would have taken a lot of damage since I had Thor equipped.. But- oooohh I understand now," Minako says.

"Which means that anything vibrant green will give wind resistance! I bet that light blue is ice!" Akira beams. He then yeets the basketball shorts at Minato, a light whap as the shorts hit Minato's face. The blue haired Wild Card holds the shorts and goes to the bathroom to change. He also switches to Surt. Immediately after stepping out, he was hit with a large ice block, courtesy of Minako.

"Light blue is ice," Minato says. Akira grins.

"Alright I was right!" the leader of Team AMMY cheers. "So until the twins have their full capacity again, we need to keep a look out for those clothes! We should all also keep an eye out for anything that might increase our Aura levels!"

"However, I recommend you only wear those odd clothes while in the Lost Sea," Yu says to the twins, who both stare at him.

"No shit," the twins say in sync.

"I suppose that was obvious... Wasn't it?" Yu says, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Yuuuup," Akira says, popping the p. "Minako-senpai! Did you find the entrance to the Lost Sea today?"

"I did. It's in the cafeteria. Are we going today?" Minako replies.

"Depends - how do people feel today? Cause I feel magnificent!" Akira grins.

"I'm down for it. We need to find Summer and save her as soon as possible," Yu says, Minato nodding the agreement.

"Sounds like we're going then!" Minako cheers. She was ready to fight some more. Since there was plenty of hours still left in the day, Team AMMY gets to work on the homework assignments they had, helping each other out when necessary. Ruby had been passing by to her dorm when she had heard Minako shout at Akira, so she paused to see if the conversation was anything interesting. To make it not too suspicious, Ruby had leaned against the wall while scrolling on her scroll. She was not surprised to hear the weird Persona-thingies being summoned as she assumed that was normal for the Arisato twins. However, her ears perked up upon hearing mention the Lost Sea. She connected that to the weird sea that was in Professor Port's room last night. The young Huntress-In-Training nearly dropped her scroll when Yu said her mother's name and saving her. She then zips off to her dorm's room. Ruby needed to talk to Pyrrha and while her sister was on the same team, Ruby knew that Yang wouldn't handle this information easy. Much to her relief however, only Pyrrha was in the room.

"Pyrrha! I have something urgent to talk to you about!" Ruby says to the tall female in the room. Pyrrha looks over.

"Alright. What's on your mind Ruby?" Pyrrha asks, her green eyes showing concern.

"First you gotta promise not to tell ANYONE about what I'm about to tell you!"

"Of course. Cross my heart and hope to die."

"So I was lingering near Team AMMY's room cause I heard Minako yelling at Akira and was curious about what they were talking about. At one point Yu mentioned something called the Lost Sea. I think Team AMMY goes to this other world to fight Grimm? I'm not sure what it was but I did follow them last night and they went into Professor Port's classroom. And get this - there was this weird sea portal in the floor! And that's not even the craziest thing! They talked about rescuing my mom! My mom is still alive!" Ruby explains, her words getting faster as she spoke her arms flailing as she did so. Pyrrha was shocked by all of this information.

"That... That is very surprising," the redheaded girl says.

"We gotta help them! We just gotta help them save my mom!" Ruby exclaims. Pyrrha stands up from her desk and puts her hands gently on Ruby's shoulder.

"Ruby... We can't just go rushing in to help them. I know you want to save your mother, but we don't know anything about this Lost Sea place," Pyrrha starts out. Ruby's face falls upon hearing her partner's words and her shoulders slump. "However, I will follow after Team AMMY tonight with you and maybe we can take a peak into what this Lost Sea is."

"OHMAIOUM! THANK YOU PYRRHA! YOU'RE THE BEST!" Ruby shouts as she basically tackles Pyrrha to the floor, hugging her tightly. Pyrrha hadn't expected Ruby to tackle her so she fell to the floor, a small oof escaping her lips. However, she just laughs and hugs Ruby back.

"You're welcome Ruby," Pyrrha replies. A small blush was on her face but so was a smile.

Later that night...

Ruby and Pyrrha waited for Yang and Blake to be soundly asleep before quickly slipping into their combat gear. Pyrrha lightly cracks their door open and waits for Team AMMY to pop out of their dorm so she and Ruby could follow. Soon enough, Team AMMY files out of their dorm, Minako leading the way this time. Pyrrha and Ruby wait a few before following and stay at a safe distance as to not be detected. Ruby blinks when seeing they were headed towards the cafeteria this time. Conveniently, there were two potted plants and the NR of Team NBRY each take a potted plant to hide in or behind while Akira picked the door to the cafeteria.

"Honestly, we should just ask Headmaster Ozpin for a copy of all the keys," Minako says.

"After we save Summer," Minato says to his twin. Yu nodded in agreement. Akira gets the door open.

"Lady, Gentleman and I suppose other! I present the cafeteria~" Akira says, looking at Minako, Minato and Yu in turn. He had bowed with a flutter of his coat to add a dramatic flair.

"Why is Minato-senpai called a gentleman and I'm 'other'?" Yu asks, squinting at Akira.

"...Cause Narukami Harassment Squad," Minato answers, smirking a bit. Akira just gives Yu a cheeky little shit grin.

"Minako-senpai..?" Yu asks.

"I'm with them Yu-kun! Someone's gotta be the butt of all the jokes! And there's no Junpei-kun with us soooo," Minako answers.

"And there's no Ryuji-kun either," Akira points out.

"And no Yusuke-kun..." Yu sighs. "Is this my punishment for being cool in my school?"

"Yup," Minato says bluntly before walking after hearing the crashing waves start. The rest of Team AMMY follows Minato and they all enter the Lost Sea. After a few minutes, Ruby and Pyrrha step out of their hiding spots and enter the cafeteria. Ruby immediately goes over to the blue-green swirling light. Pyrrha looked around the cafeteria and saw that the only difference was the swirling light that Ruby was next to. Pyrrha then goes over to join her partner.

"So they just hopped into this swirling light?" Pyrrha asks, arching a red eyebrow.

"Apparently! Should we investigate? Obviously there's a way out," Ruby says, looking up.

"I suppose a small peak wouldn't hurt," Pyrrha says. "Hold onto my hand so we don't get separated."

"Good thinking!" Ruby says. After taking Pyrrha's hand, the two jump into the swirling light. The two Huntresses-In-Training gasp when they hit the bottom and took in their surroundings - the blue-green sand, the shitty fake water patterns on the walls, the dark, never-ending abyss above them. The two walk carefully around this floor and notice that Team AMMY was not near them.

"This is so weird.. It's like we're under the sea yet we can breathe..." Pyrrha says. She approaches the rather large shell and gingerly touches it. She eeps in surprise when a small display of floor selection popped up. Ruby looks over having heard Pyrrha eep and comes over.

"Whoa, so this clam thing allows up to go deeper?" Ruby asks, amazed.

"Apparently. We can go to the 13th floor from here.. Which means there is something that would allow us to go to the next floor from here.." Pyrrha says, looking around. She eventually spotted the swirling whirlpool and assumed that would lead them down. Ruby had found the violent stream of exit bubbles.

"I think I found the exit!" Ruby calls out to Pyrrha.

"And I found the next floor entrance," Pyrrha calls back. Ruby then bounds back over to Pyrrha's side.

"Oo! Let's go! At least one floor! Pleeeaaasssseeee?" Ruby says to Pyrrha, using the puppy eyes. Pyrrha, who didn't want to go, sighs in defeat.

"Alright. But one floor only!" Pyrrha says. Ruby cheers and after grabbing onto Pyrrha, she jumps in. The pair was not surprised by their surroundings this time. Drawing their weapons, the two start carefully exploring this floor. Ruby let out a yelp of surprise when a small bird Grimm had launched ice at her.

"PYRRHA! THESE GRIMM CAN USE DUST ATTACKS!" Ruby calls out as she immediately leaps up to dispel the small bird Grimm. Pyrrha helped get rid of the small flock of Grimm birds that had appeared.

"We definitely should not be here. Let's try to find an exit and fast!" Pyrrha says. Ruby nods in agreement and after collapsing Crescent Rose, she wraps her arms around Pyrrha. Using her Semblance to zip around and do her best to avoid the Grimm, Ruby finds a small clam shell that resembled the bigger one. Ruby skids to a stop and sets Pyrrha down. She and Pyrrha then use the clam shell and they return to the entrance.

"Holy crap! That was so weird! But we gotta keep quiet about this until we get answers from Team AMMY!" Ruby says.

"Agreed. However, let's get back to our dorm for now," Pyrrha says. She grabs Ruby's hand and gently tugs her towards the exit bubbles. Once stepping into the bubbles, the two shoot up through the abyss and are soon enough spat out onto the floor of the cafeteria... Ruby on Pyrrha's lap. Blushing heavily, Ruby gets off and helps Pyrrha up. After dusting herself off, Pyrrha heads out of the cafeteria with Ruby and back to their dorm.