"So you ready?" Ruby asks missing her hood.
Alfarr sighs and makes sure his outfit is fitted right. "Somewhat."
"Well let's get this over with." Ruby says wrapping an arm around his before they walked in.
Alfarr tries to clear his throat. "Just so you know, I never done this."
"Same here." Ruby admits as they walk in and are greeted by Yang.
"Hey guys. You made it and not bad an outfit." She said looking them over.
"Yeah, you seen Blake yet sis?" Ruby asks.
Yang shakes her head. "Not really. I'm sure she's coming though."
"She being escorted then?" Ruby asks as Weiss walks up.
Yang shrugs. "Maybe, maybe not."
"Hey Weiss, how did it go with Neptune?" Ruby asks.
"Oh I decided against it. I was far too busy." Weiss tries.
Yang smirks. "Not good enough?"
"He shot you down huh?" Ruby asks.
Weiss shakes her head. "Nah, I did."
"Weiss, take Alfarr and dance." Ruby says.
Alfarr goes wide eyed. "Wait, what?"
"Wait Ruby." Weiss starts.
"That is an order." Ruby says.
Weiss stares at her and then slouches. "Don't I have a say?" Alfarr asks.
"Please." Ruby says giving him the puppy dog pout.
Alfarr stares at her before relenting. "Fine." He said slouching as he follows Weiss.
"So what dances do you know?" Weiss asks.
"…um none." Alfarr offers sheepishly.
Weiss raises an eyebrow. "None at all huh?"
"I got the basic gist of one, but that is it." Alfarr says.
Weiss sighs. "All right, what is it?"
"Waltz." Alfarr says.
Weiss smiles. "Good. Makes things easy."
"You lead?" Alfarr asks.
Weiss nods. "If you don't know."
"I am not confident enough to lead on it." Alfarr says spying Carby surrounded by many girls while sitting on a table.
Carby grins as he licks his lips at the sight of the sweet bowl placed in front of him as the girls all aw at him while the guys who got cheated out of a date is now glaring at him.
"Did you really make a fan club for him?" Alfarr asks.
"Still in the works, but with this, many who join." Weiss says getting him to the dance floor and has him hold her and start dancing.
Alfarr moans as he keeps trying to match up the moves, but was almost one step behind. "Sorry." He said quietly so the others nearby won't hear.
"It's ok, better than I thought after what you said." Weis says before the dance ended. "Thanks for the dance." Weiss says before curtsying.
Alfarr bows a bit. "No problem. I'm going to go for a walk." He said before walking off.
Weiss smiles as she walked off and soon Neptune came up and asked her to dance.
Alfarr sighs as he walks out the door and looks back to the slightly open door to the people still dancing. "Not ready for me."
Alfarr starts walking around, getting some fresh air when he heard a crash and went to investigate and found Ruby with her locker embedded in the ground. "Um…how did the locker get here?" He asks confused.
"Oh Alfarr." Ruby says getting her weapon out of the locker. "You mind coming with me?" Ruby asks offering him his weapons from her locker.
"How did it get here?" Alfarr asks.
"They were design to go anywhere." Ruby says.
Alfarr hums. "Maybe I should have one." He thinks to himself as he takes the blades.
"Want your bow as well?" Ruby asks.
Alfarr nods. "What's going on?" He asks taking the bow.
"Saw someone running across the roofs. I want to check it out." Ruby says.
Alfarr sighs as he looks to the blade a bit. "Alright, let's go." He said following her.
Ruby leads him to a tower where they spot the guards inside all knocked out. "Ok, now we know there is trouble." Alfarr says unsheathing his swords as they enter the elevator.
After getting out they start to look around. Alfarr more quietly than Ruby as she called out. "Hello." Before stumbling a little, not used to wearing high heels. Alfarr ducks behind a desk as he takes the left side of the room while she took the right, walking in the open.
"Hey. You shouldn't be up here." Ruby said as Alfarr peeks over some computers and sees another woman still typing away. Seeing this, Alfarr lowers himself a bit out of sight and sneaks closer. "Excuse me." Ruby tries again.
The masked woman rose from her seat and faces Ruby, not saying a thing.
Ruby smiles. "Um…you are not supposed to be here."
The woman then takes out something that released dust that formed into glass shard in an arch in front of her before launching them at Ruby.
Ruby yelps as she as she spins her scythe and blocks all of them before shooting back and the woman blocks the bullets with her palm. Seeing his opportunity, Alfarr charges in to try and cut off her arm, surprising the woman who barely dodges that but still received a cut on her forearm.
Alfarr turns to look at her and sees patches of her dress glowing red as she seems to be using some arrows made from dust and he quickly moves out of the way and behind some desks. "What is with these people and using dust like a drug?" He asks himself before spinning out of the way of her attempt to cut him when she summons twin blade.
"Well this is different." Alfarr says taking a stance next to Ruby.
Ruby nods as she pulls the reloading mechanism back to reload before they hear the elevator and turn to see Ironwood coming in without a thought and both look back to see the woman gone.
"She couldn't have gotten far." Alfarr says about to take off looking when Ironwood called him to hold.
"Wait. Let me and my men handle this." Ironwood said holding up a hand.
"So you discovered your men knocked out like we did?" Alfarr says stopping before looking to Ruby who nods. Seeing that, Alfarr sheathes his swords.
Ruby groans as they sit up in the room while Ironwood's men searched. "Now we won't find her. That much trouble, she would be smart."
"Yeah, but take a look." Alfarr says unsheathing his sword, showing her blood on the blade.
Ruby blinks surprised. "You got in a cut."
"Wind dust. She misjudged the distance. I saw her eyes, they went wide." Alfarr says.
Ruby smiles. "Great job. Now we need to look for a woman with that cut."
"The problem is I got her forearm. That is easily hidden with long sleeves and can be explained away easily." Alfarr says.
Ruby groans and slouches. "Why is everything not easy."
"It's like the elder says. If it wasn't hard, it wouldn't be worthwhile." Alfarr says.
Ruby sighs. "Still like the easy route."
"Same here." Alfarr says before sheathing the sword and looking at her. "So…good night?" Alfarr asks.
Ruby nods. "Yeah, pretty good. Though didn't dance." She said trying to smile.
"Well…I'm not much of a dancer, but we could dance now?" Alfarr offers.
Ruby smiles fully and stands up and curtsy. "May I have this dance?"
"I would be delighted." Alfarr says getting up and starts dancing with her.
Ruby giggles as she dances with Alfarr, the bad waltz dancer.
The next morning, both Ruby and Alfarr were called to the headmaster's office where Ruby revealed a supposed base to the south east. Alfarr knew the woman never said anything about that, but kept his mouth shut about it.
"This may be dangerous for a whole group like her can be there. Of course, an army would strike up any attention, even a mouse. No, finding them first and then a full blown army would work. Maybe a scout." Ozpin said, lost in his own thoughts as Glynda and Ironwood discussed something.
"Now that is out of the way, Glynda, tell me why are there rumors of elves in Vale?" Ironwood asks, inside giddy about the prospect while composed on the outside.
Glynda sighs. "Yes, there may be or maybe a slight mutation from a fanus species."
"So there is an elf here." Ironwood says.
"I did not say that." Glynda says.
"Defending pretty quickly there." Ironwood says.
Glynda groans as she rubs her forehead.
"I must get my costume!" Ironwood exclaims.
"So what was this about the south east?" Alfarr asks.
Ruby sighs as she relaxes on her bed. "We got a trip planned. A scouting trip. How good are you at scouting?" She asks suspiciously.
"I made it into your city security and all without being detected. I bet if I wasn't curious that night, you still would have no idea I exist." Alfarr says.
Ruby smiles. "Well I'm glad you did become curious. It's been so much fun with you around."
"So I heard some guy came with a dress. What did I miss when I went out for air?" Alfarr asks.
Ruby giggles. "Yeah, a lost bet by Jaune. At least his date didn't seem to mind."
"Jaune…that's the leader of the team across the hall right?" Alfarr asks.
Ruby nods as she kicks her legs around. "Yep. Kinda funny, but I think he forgot he was wearing it after a while. Where's Carby by the way?"
Alfarr points to Yang's bed where Carby was sleeping.
Ruby smiles. "Aw, ain't he a cutie?" She asks as Carby was sleeping with some sweets and wrappers around him.
"So can you introduce me to them?" Alfarr asks.
Ruby nods. "Sure. Come on." She said getting up and heading out.
Alfarr follows Ruby and she knocks on the door across from them.
"Yes?" Jaune asks opening door.
"Hey Jaune, wanted to introduce you and your team to my friend." Ruby says gesturing to Alfarr.
Jaune smiles and waves. "Hi, Jaune here."
"Alfarr." Alfarr introduced extending a hand, but starts turning scarlet when he sees Nora in her underwear while reading.
Jaune smiles and shakes his hand. "Hi. So want to meet the rest of us?"
"Um…are they decent?" Alfarr asks making Jaune's eyes widen in realization.
Jaune laughs a little. "Don't worry. They're fine. Come on." He said opening the door and walking back in. "Nora, put something on, we have a guest."
Nora hums as she looks up and sees the new elf kid. "Oh." She said getting up and heading to her dresser.
"One moment please." Jaune says.
Alfarr turns to Ruby. "Is that one always like that?"
Ruby shrugs. "Sometimes…maybe a lot."
"Ok, she is decent." Jaune says.
Ruby and Alfarr walks in to see the entire team were in.
"So how was the dance?" Ruby asks.
"We made the newspaper. Voted most memorable dance." Nora shows them the article.
Ruby smiles and giggles as Jaune is on the front cover with him in the dress.
Jaune chuckles, embarrassed a little.
"So this is Alfarr, my friend who acted as my date last night." Ruby introduces.
Nora smiles and gives a little wave. "Hi there."
"It's ok. They're nice." Ruby encouraged.
Alfarr sighs, knowing what she was getting at and lowers his hood, showing them his ears.
They all gasps and get up and get close. "Wow." Nora said as she looks closely at his ears
"Alfarr, nice to meet you all." Alfarr says.
The team was still looking at the ears. "How is this possible?" Jaune asks.
"Yeah, yeah I have heard it before. I look like an elf." Alfarr says.
Ren chuckles. "Looks like those fantasy games out there."
"Ren, you have been in my stuff again." Nora accused.
Ren backs off and holds up his hands in defense. "No I haven't. I just have seen it around."
"You have too." Nora accused.
"Uh oh, another lovers quarrel." Phyrra says with Nora and Ren too busy to register the comment.
Jaune groans as he rubs his head. "Not again."
"Well it's nice to meet you." Phyrra says extending a hand to shake Alfarr's. As Alfarr shakes her hand, Ruby noticed she was happier than usual.
Alfarr sighs. "Nice to meet you too. So is this normal?" He asks pointing to Ren and Nora.
"From time to time. They have only recently come out of the closet for each other." Phyrra says.
"We did not!" Both Nora and Ren yell as they lean close to her face angrily with their cheeks touching.
"Well it was nice meeting all of you." Alfarr says pulling up his hood.
Phyrra smiles. "Nice to meet you too."
Ruby waves to them as she and Alfarr leaves. "That was good, right?" Ruby asks.
"Better than I first expected when you insisted." Alfarr says.
Ruby giggles as they back inside their room and find the other team there. "Hey, how long were we gone?" Ruby asks confused.
"A few minutes' top." Alfarr says.
Yang smirks. "Yeah and the mail is in and here is one from dad." She said holding up a cylinder.
"Oh, something from home." Ruby says excited before flying somehow onto Yang's back and reaching for it with her arms flailing wildly.
Yang chuckles as she opens it. "Alright, alright." She said before realizing that nothing was coming out and shakes it a bit before a mess of black fur comes out in a tube shape.
"What that?" Alfarr asks before it moved and seemed to transform into a small dog.
Ruby gasps. "It's Zwei!" She yells jumping up and seems to have the dog's head floating around her.
Carby meeps and wakes up hearing that.
"Competition Carby." Alfarr jokes.
Carby narrows his eyes at the happy dog as he kept panting and wins over Weiss who starts baby talking to him.
Alfarr chuckles as he sees Blake getting onto her bed as Zwei tries to get her to come down and play.
"Something wrong?" Alfarr asks.
Blake points to her ears.
"Ah, cats and dogs." Alfarr says reaching down and pats Zwei's head before going to sit with Carby.
"Meeps meep meeps, meep meep, meep meep!" Carby yells.
"What did he say?" Yang asks as she empties out the rest of the small package for the many cans of dog food and a can opener as Zwei jumps into them.
Alfarr hums. "I think he said 'Cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria!' Right?" He asks looking at him.
Carby nods. "Meep."
"All first year students please report to the amphitheater." The intercom sounded out.
"Well that settles it. Come on everyone, Zwei will be here when we get back." Yang says walking away with all but Ruby following.
"So you fought a huge war between all the kingdoms around eighty plus years ago?" Alfarr asks as Carby rode on his shoulder as Ruby tried to register her team, but was blocked.
"What the heck?" Ruby asks as she kept getting a blocked message.
Alfarr was about to say something when Professor Ozpin walks up and start talking to the girls, completely losing him not long after they started, but Ozpin did register team RWBY to the mission and offer some words of warning and encouragement before turning to Alfarr. "By the way, I'm temporarily assigning you to the team since you are already involved."
Alfarr slouches. "Dang it."
All the girls and Carby try to cheer him up as Ozpin chuckles and zooms off.
"Well that was depressing." Yang says as they got out of there.
Alfarr groans. "Not as much as me."
"Hey, team CFVY is back." A student running by said and Alfarr's head immediately shot up.
Ruby smiles. "Go on and see them while we pack."
"Carby, if you will." Alfarr says.
Carby hearing this takes a deep breath before letting out a loud. "MEEEEEEEEP!"
Alfarr smiles as he turns to the rest. "I'll see you guys lat…" Alfarr was cut off when Velvet tackled him. "Ow."
"Carby, how are you?" Velvet asks holding up Carby as she sits on Alfarr's back.
Alfarr groans as he tries to get up. "Help…organs…crushing…"
Coco chuckles as he walks over and lifts up Velvet and Carby without bothering them and places them on Fox's back and picks up Alfarr. "You okay?"
"I'm good. Half expected something like that when I had Carby call for Velvet there." Alfarr says.
Coco chuckles. "Yeah, kinda expected that too. What we miss?"
"A first year male student lost a bet and wore a dress to the dance stole the show and someone broke in on the dance night." Alfarr says.
Coco pulls her glasses down a bit to see him correctly. "Broke in?"
"Yeah, knock out six to eight guards in all." Alfarr says.
Coco clicks her tongue. "So you have the guy?"
"Was a she and she got away." Alfarr says.
Coco sighs. "Well…can't be helped. So what are you guys doing now and is that a dog?" She asks seeing the head peek out from Ruby's bag before heading back in.
"Where?" Alfarr asks turning, but not seeing it.
Coco raises an eyebrow. "The one in Ruby's bag." She said pointing.
"I don't see one." Fox says.
"Oh right, there's talk of forming a Carby fan club." Alfarr says.
Velvet gasps and rushes up to him. "Where do I sign up?" She asks as Carby seems to be smug again.
"Still in the works. Talk to Weiss of team RWBY." Alfarr whispers the latter part as the team leaves.
Velvet squeals in excitement as she nuzzles Carby. "I'm so excited."
"Also Yang gave me something to help him play." Alfarr says smirking.
Velvet leans over. "Oh?" She asks still excited.
Alfarr takes out a laser pointer and shines it on the ground. Carby jumps for it and grab it as Alfarr leads him around.
"Any requests?" Alfarr asks as Carby keeps trying to catch the dot.
Velvet giggles. "Can I?" She asks holding out her hand.
Alfarr gives her the laser pointer.
Velvet giggles and keeps pointing it around as everyone watches and laugh. "So…what are you going to do now?" Coco asks Alfarr.
Alfarr sighs. "Got to work with team RWBY for a bit. A so tough mission they locked it out of the selections."
Coco raises an eyebrow. "And they are letting first years in?"
Alfarr chuckles nervously as he rubs the back of his head. "Yeah, must have seen something that is maybe related to the White Fang."
Coco sighs. "That makes sense. You be careful, okay? I don't want to have some extra weapons to remember you by."
"Yeah, don't keep your girlfriend worrying." Fox says causing people to talk and gossip.
Fox's grin was then wiped by the many rocks pelting his face and then falling to the ground. "Worth…it."
"Fox needs to learn to stop when ahead." Velvet says leading Carby to Fox's down form.
Coco sighs as she throws the rock she had behind her. "It's Fox. What are you going to do? Anyways, make sure you come back or little Carby is going to be depressed and soon the fan club of girls will be depressed and you will only be remembered for making most of the girls of this school be depressed. Got it?" She asks Alfarr frowning as she leans toward him.
"Yes ma'am." Alfarr says nervously.
Coco then leans back and smiles. "Good. Now get out of here."
"You going to keep Carby in line?" Alfarr asks.
They look to Carby tilting his head at Fox's form as he groans and opens his eyes to Carby holding a rock over his head. "Crap." He said before Carby drops the rock.
"I think Carby will keep himself and Fox in line than us." Coco said smirking at the many possibilities.
"He has designs to become an overlord." Alfarr whispers to Coco.
Coco looks to him. "I don't doubt it. You better go before he tries it on you." She whispers back as Carby stands against a flag planted on Fox as Velvet takes pictures.
"So…um…when I get back…can we…" Alfarr trails off.
"Yes, we will spend time together." Coco says.
Alfarr only blushes scarlet as he realized she knew.
"Oh boy, when she says that, it usually means shopping." Fox says bringing his head up.
Carby knocks him out with a rock and keeps looking proud as he held a flag.
"Well I best go." Alfarr says.
Coco waves him off as Velvet kept taking pictures. "Isn't that out of film?" She asks and Velvet open it to find the film already gone.
"Dang it."