"Wake up!"
I was up and bouncing around the room excited for our first field trip! "Wake up Team Horison! Our first real mission is today so get up!" Noir was already up and wandered off to our bathroom to get changed but the boys looked confused.
"River we can lie in were only writing up uses for sap. We don't need to get there as early as the people actually going to forever fall." Silver tried to reason, only slightly masking the disappointment in his voice, and I went bright red with realisation. "Yeah about that. This is why Horati is the leader." He laughed at my obviously guilty looking face. "River what did you do?" I tried to look as innocent as possible but it obviously didn't work and Noir stuck her head out of the bathroom.
"She did all the work on Monday night and handed it in." Her head slunk back into the bathroom laughing at the boy's matching surprised faces. "I did mean to tell you but I forgot. This is precisely why you should make all the decisions and plans. I'm sorry." Without my big welding goggles holding my hair back, my long fridge fell over my face and covered my eyes as I looked down, trying to shrink as much as possible.
"River." I pushed my hair back over one eye and looked at Horati. "Aha?" He laughed happily and I let out a sigh I hadn't realised I was holding. "I'm good at combat decisions but less so on social ones. I will happily leave that to the rest of you." I screamed happily and launched at Horati, hugging him violently, but quickly fell back smiled and shrugged "Sorry I forget not everyone does hugs." I was suddenly surrounded by shadows and Noir materialised next to us. "Well I for one do."
"Oomf." I fell over onto the bed as Noir, who was a good few inches taller than me, launched into me with a hug. "She hugs!" I shouted and we all heard a loud bang on the wall next to us. "It's too early!" A member of Team RWBY had woken up and they obviously were used to hitting things, now including the wall. "Sorry!" I called out and Noir put her hand over my mouth, supressing loud laughs herself.
Horati grabbed his clothes and walked towards the boy's bathroom. "River?" I nodded and Noirs hand moved with my head. "Thankyou for the trip but I would prefer a slightly earlier knowledge next time." He smiled from ear to ear and hooked his long coat on the back of the door and disappeared as me and Noir high fived.
We stood in a circle in the middle of our room with all our collective armour and weapons. Silver stood with his rested over his shoulder and the edge of his coat billowing around him as though moved by an invisible wind. The silver blade of his staff glinting in the sunlight. Noir was opposite me and her black hair was pulled completely over to one side, exposing the cleanly shaven side and casting a black shadow over the other side of her face. Her only weapon, a small obsidian knife, tucked away in her long black boots which lead up to her fully black, leather shirt and boots. I stood with shurikens and throwing knives tucked away and my curved Kopis sword sheathed through my weapons belt. The blade rested softly on my hip and my long, lagoon blue tipped hair flowed behind me, held back by my welding goggles, in the same gentle breeze that was moving Silver and Horati's long coats.
Horati, our obvious leader, had a happy glint in his eyes as he scanned us all, his own weapon tucked away behind his coat and the deep blue of his gauntlet struck out against the red and black jacket. The sleeves were rolled up so that all the blue metal could be seen and it could harvest as much powerful light as possible. "Are you guys ready?" we all nodded and started to walk towards the door but I stopped and waved my hand. "What's wrong River why do you look like somethings wrong?" Horati asked concerned and I nervously ran my finger along the blade of my sword.
"I forgot to mention that we have to stay with Oobleck all day so we probably don't need all the weapons." Noir facepalmed as she remembered but the boys just shrugged. "Oh well, there's still going to be danger wherever we go so we might as well be prepared." Horati calmly said and I smiled happily, glad that we had him as a leader and Silver nodded. "Now we can get used to carrying all our stuff long distances!" He explained happily and they gestured for us to start towards the class room we needed to go to.
Oobleck was waiting for us and already started going into a long story about Forever Fall and adventures he once had. How dangerous it had been and still was, drinking heavily from a seemingly never empty cup of coffee every 5th word. I zoned most of it out and just followed him out with the rest of the team. After a few minutes everyone except Silver were actively ignoring his stories and lessons, choosing instead to focus on the exciting sky, trees and occasionally talking to each other. Silver however hung onto every word and I smiled at how happy he looked, even more happy now with how my plan had made everyone else happy too.
Horati had picked up a long, solid staff like stick and was expertly swinging it almost like a scythe into the occasional patches of long grass or simply the air around him. I wondered why he hadn't fashioned a staff for a weapon instead of just his sword and musket but he looked like he could do significant damage with just this piece of wood alone.
I went to ask him where he learnt to handle it so well when we made it to a clearing and Oobleck loudly informed us of it. "You are to stay here by myside, where I will keep a close eye on you! Is that clear?" He shouted and we all nodded and I sat down glumly, watching the other teams around us wander off to find some sap.
Ok i lied about the fighting although there was a rough hug from a good friend sooo. Next chapter will be action packed! Tchuss
