A RWBY fanfic

The Hunters of Beacon: Team MRCK (Merc)

Chapter 8

I woke up at 10:00 that morning, honestly the best sleep I had in ages. I was still worried that I'd completely screw up the date. But after a pep talk with Kasey and her reassurances that I'll do fine. I was getting dressed for the date in the bathroom. I had a collared white button up shirt, black tie, black slacks, and black dress shoes. I looked at myself, and thought I looked good. I even used some cologne. Soon it was time to get Weiss. As promised she was waiting in the common area. She had a light blue mid-calf length dress and was wearing her usual makeup, except she was wearing ice blue lipstick.

She was examining me as she said, "You look nice, Matthew."

"You look great as well. Well let's get to my car. I hope you enjoy the restaurant we're going to." I say smiling.

We walked to my car; Weiss's reaction wasn't what I expected. In fact she didn't even know what kind of car it was. So after we got in, I began to explain the car to her. She understood, but she had never been in such a vehicle before. She was looking the whole inside over. She didn't seem impressed, but didn't seem disgusted either. She did however find the engine and sound system impressive.

We made it to the restaurant on time, got seated but the whole time she was fidgeting in her seat. We ordered drinks; I didn't want to get drunk, so I went for soda. Weiss on the other hand ordered red wine. She was rather quiet while we waited for the drinks and for the waiter to take our order.

"Weiss, are you alright?" I'm concerned over the fact she seems so down.

"Of course I am." She replied in her typical icy tone.

"Well how about we ditch the movie and take a walk around town?" I suggest.

"That sounds good. What else do you have planned?"

"Well after that I'd take you for a drive around an empty lot of dirt near the outskirts of town. Just to get the adrenaline going."

"What do you mean?" She asked quizzically.

"You've never driven or have been driven on the luxury of dirt at high speeds? Or fishtailed a turn and just turned into the skid and pulled out of it?"

"What kind of barbarian sport is that!?"

"Weiss please calm down. Don't knock it till you try it."

"Oh alright. I'll try it." She said.

The waiter brought our drinks and took our orders, Weiss ordered a salad and I ordered a chicken fried steak. Weiss took a drink of hers and her mood seemed to lighten up. Of course alcohol would make one feel better. Why I didn't think of that I'll never know. But it probably had something to do with the fact that I had to drive.

"How's the wine Weiss?" I ask, noticing how seemed she enjoyed it.

"It's good; this has a nice smooth taste."

"How many do you plan on drinking?" I ask jokingly.

"Just one, I don't want to be drunk."

"I understand."

We got our food soon after, we ate and didn't talk much. It didn't bother me much, but I didn't want to disturb her.

By the time we had left the restaurant it was dark out. We started a walk around town, remembering that the car was still at the restaurant. Truthfully I was getting annoyed at Weiss's attitude since the date started. We walked for a few blocks before Weiss said anything.

"Matthew, I'm sorry for how I acted back there. I just panicked." She apologized, her tone still a bit icy.

"It's fine; I just wasn't expecting that kind of reaction."

We continued our walk, not really having any form of conversation. Anytime I tried to start a conversation I would get either get shot down or she would reply in her icy tones. 'Well this date isn't going so well.' But I didn't say anything about it. We kept walking looking at various shops, and on occasion making some small talk when one of us saw something interesting. We were walking along an empty street when a group of thugs ambushed us. They were armed with pistols and were kinda threatening considering that neither of us had our weapons. Because why would you have weapons on a date? I made a mental note to not take Kasey's advice on no weapons again.

"Hey you two, why don't you both give me your money and valuables or you both die and we take them." A thug said menacingly.

"Give us a moment guy."

"Fine you have two minutes. Don't try anything funny."

Weiss was scared because not only did she not have Myrtenaster but if they figured out she was the Schnee heiress, she would likely be kidnapped. I was only mildly concerned because I could take them all without weapons, thanks to Kasey's training with my aura control.

"Weiss don't listen to them. I got this." I said determined to fight them.

"We don't have our weapons!" She whisper yelled.

"Don't worry I know what I'm doing. By the way do you have any dust with you? I only have two energy crystals."

"I have two ice and two fire." She gave me her dust crystals.

"Good, that's all I need. I have an idea." I tell with a smile.

"Well it better not get us killed."

"HEY, your time is up." The thug yelled.

"And you ain't getting nothing!" I yell back

They all began to fire their pistols at us. I put up my aura shield while Weiss had begun to cringe waiting for the end. She looked at me and saw that I was holding my shield up. I was fusing the dust crystals with my aura. Basically an incendiary bomb by combining an energy crystal and the two fire crystals and an ice bomb with the other energy and the two ice crystals. After they begin to reload I lowered the shield, threw the incendiary and it exploded. As it exploded I had begun to manipulate the fire so surround us both in a curtain of fire. Then I threw the ice one and manipulated it to freeze over the fire so it would act as a temporary barrier.

"Weiss cast that air step glyph."

"I won't be able to focus it as well without Myrtenaster."

"That's ok. Grab my arm and cast it through me. I'll focus it using my aura."

"Um, ok?" She defiantly didn't like this plan. But considering that the thugs were constantly shooting the ice, it wasn't going to hold for long.

She cast it through me and after I focused it I picked up Weiss and jumped back several blocks closer to the restaurant.

"Weiss, let's go back to the car." I sigh.

"Alright, sounds fine."

We got back to my car, I decided against driving off road tonight. We were sitting in my car just waiting for one of us to make some kind of a suggestion. Weiss surprisingly was the first to speak up.

"Matt that was very brave of you. But I need to get my mind off of what just happened." She said visibly disturbed.

"Well I know only one way to solve this. You want to go to a bar, or just simply go and get some booze and we drink here in the car?" I ask.

"Well I can't be seen out at some bar, so I guess its option two."

"Alright let's go."

We drove to a local store, and walked in. I was browsing through the rows of alcohol, trying to find a particular whiskey. After a few minutes I found a bottle of the original Jack Daniels. I found Weiss walking towards me holding a bottle of vodka.

"So Weiss you enjoy vodka?" I ask jokingly

"It's my favorite alcoholic beverage." She replied, looking almost ashamed.

We bought our alcohol and drove to that empty parking lot I drove to when I talked to Josh and Chariti.

We got into the back seat, opened our drinks and began drinking. Soon we were both a little buzzed when I began to talk to Weiss.

"Hey Weiss, how's the vodka?"

"It's great. I love vodka, you know. Hey how's your whiskey?" She said, starting to get a little drunk.

"It's good." I take a drink from the bottle before finishing my sentence. "I wish this stuff would last longer."

After a while Weiss became rather drunk, about half of her bottle of vodka empty. I had drunk most of my own bottle. We both were pretty drunk.

"Heeeyyy, Maaatt! I feel amazing!" Shouted a very drunk Weiss.

"Me too, Weiss. But I have something to tell you. I think we should remain friends, this isn't going to work. I'm sorry." I say, not wanting to hurt her feelings.

"It's ok, I agree actually. But since this is the last time, may we sleep together? Because there is only one back seat and I get nightmares when I'm drunk." She said innocently and expressed the innocence on her face.

Now my kindness combined with my drunken state I really can't say no to such an innocent face. "Alright, Weiss. Just for tonight. But first let me get a blanket out of the trunk."

I got the blanket and held on to the car while I got back in. Soon we were sleeping with my arms around Weiss as she snuggled close to me. After a few minutes I could hear that she was asleep. I was laying awake thinking, 'Well this is nice, but it's only for one night. Weiss just isn't my type. I hope she was as understanding tomorrow as she was tonight.' Soon I felt myself fall asleep.