A/N
Thanks and sorry for the wait! Since I didn't get any responses for not doing an intro story for ROSE and SWDO, I will be doing just that. Two chapters at most, maybe 2 and a half tops, I am anxious myself to get on with HARPs story and see what happens next myself as it is, but we will be going back in time, back to initiation day. I did skip three weeks from when ROSE met HARP and then the capture of Hero, so I'm going to fill in that gap with a slightly new flavor of things. Unlike HARP, it will only be from the perspectives of Raspberry and Strawberry, taking it to a slightly lighter tone for a bit, or at least trying. We have much planned for the introduction of the teams, as well as even more after. Hope your ready for laughs, more baddassery, cuteness, some smut and major feels. So in the words of Hero, prepare yourselves! Aiming for a chapter a week if all goes right, and nine more to go after this one. Season two of Team HARP starts today! Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
I dedicate this chapter to my sister, and all of those who have lost a sibling, may they Rest in Peace...
Roses and Shadows: Chapter 11
Initiation day. Four weeks before the capture of Heliotrope Chroma...
"My humps, my humps, my lovely lady humps!" She sang as she rolled under a Ursa while shooting a spiked whip into its face, slamming it head first on the floor as she stood up behind it. She jumped onto it's back while using her free hand to change the song on her scroll, and placed Ripper, one of her pistols that could change into a whip with spikes, currently in her left hand, her main hand, directly behind the Ursa's head and fired. She kept her hand steady through the recoil as its head was blown off. "Cant touch this! Da na na na!" She started to sing, and dance on its back as it slowly started to dissolve away. Flipping off before she sunk through it and landed in a bow. "Taaa daaa! Well that's 11 Ursi, booooring! Well I suppose I should hide and find the twinie." She said to herself while reaching down and touching the Ursa before it fully dissolved, taking its form before running off. She was searching for her sister, wishing she had the ears like she did so she could hear better, but she was gifted with the tail instead. They should have come up with some sort of plan to find each other. She ran through trees and bushes as she spotted a redhead fighting off some Beowovles. "Geez, everyone wants to be a redhead." She said to herself. The girl was using two double bladed swords, and she took out two of them, as a 3rd lunged at her from the bushes. "Bonbon smash!" She called out as she lunged at the Beowolf, landing on its back and crushing it flat. The girl flourished her weapons at her, as she felt her semblance starting to wear off.
"The hell... A talking... Ursa?..." Her semblance wore off and she turned back into her normal form.
"Hehe, fooled ya! O M G, cool hair, and laters!" Raspberry said as she turned away to continue her search for her sister.
"Hey! Where the hell are you going?! Were suppose to be partners!..."
"Sorry, bad timing gotta run!" She took off into a sprint and disappeared into the trees. Feeling slightly bad, but the girl could handle herself. She needed to find her twin asap. It was starting to get late, and she may have already found her own partner, then she would be left all alone! She continued her mad dash as she tripped over a dead root, rolled and tumbled a few feet, and crashed into something soft, sort of. She was upside down on her head, as she started to right herself. She looked up and was staring into the face of a King Taijitu, gigantic two headed serpent like Grimm, mouth wide open as it screeched at her and instantly coiled around her. "Crap crap no no!" She tried to fight her way out of its grasp, but brute strength was not really her thing. And this Grimm was all muscle. "Think darn it, THINK!" It reared its head back as it prepared to strike her. "Maybe my aura will shatter it?" She said to herself, knowing she was already doomed. "Darn it Strawberry!" She closed her eyes tight as its head came down. *CHING* She slowly opened an eye, and seen a green staff lodged in its mouth, and going though it's head. The wielder, a girl with green hair, dark skin and big lilac eyes looked down on her with a straight face. Standing on one of the coils, she removed her staff from its mouth, and in a flash she was charging to the other head. She knocked it away as it tried to bite her, and her staff lit up with flames as she drove it into his head, and the grip around her loosened. "Yay!" She cried out while she wiggled her way free. The girl started walking back to her as she put her staff away.
"My name is Olivine, I suppose we are partners."
"That was amazing, but sorry I got to run!" She said as turned and started to head back the way she came. But in flash, the girl appeared in front of her and placed her hand on Raspberry's chest, stopping her in her tracks. "Hey!" Raspberry squealed,
"I don't think so." She said firmly while grabbing her arm. "I didn't save you just for you to run off and find someone else." She narrowed her eyes and licked her lips. "No, your mine kitty cat." She said in a sultry voice. Raspberry felt her heart starting to beat faster and her body temperature rise.
"Oh! Um, well, I'm flattered! But uh, hey look at the time!" She grabbed the girls hand, while focusing on her semblance to take the form of her, hoping to startle her into releasing her arm so she could make a quick get away. But it clearly failed as Olivine merely cocked her head and smirked.
"Now that, is a neat trick. Is this what I look like?" She ran her eyes up and down Raspberry who now looked like a duplicate of Olivine, though she knew her eyes were still red. She could never get the eyes to work. Olivine reached around and squeezed Raspberry's butt.
"Hey! No touchy!" She squealed.
"Its even nice and firm like mine." She said as she nodded in approval. "The way I see it, this is my ass anyway." She pushed her nose against hers, "Its like looking into a mirror, only your eyes are wrong."
"Geez, personal space much!?" Raspberry said as she took her normal form and poked Olivine's face with her tail, and then aimed for her ear trying to tickle it, maybe that would get her off. It slightly worked as she started giggling, but her grip was still firm on her arm. "Fine fine, sheesh! You win! Can you let go now?" She pleaded while Olivine narrowed her eyes and pressed her nose against hers again,
"You are just way too adorable you know that? Only if you promise you won't try to run off." She said firmly. Raspberry squirmed in her grasp, and sighed in defeat.
"You would probably chase me anyway. Darn it, sorry Straw, I hope your okay out there."
"Who are you talking to?"
"Hmm?" Raspberry looked back up at the emerald haired girl, "Oh, opps! Yeah yeah I promise!"
"Hmm, that will do, for now." She said as she let go of her arm, and rubbed it down making sure she didn't hurt her.
"Sheesh, your really aggressive huh?"
"I always get what I want." She said with a wink.
"Sooo... now what?" Totally unhappy with how this day was turning out, she sighed when Olivine shrugged at her question. "Well lets just get out of here, find the relic and leave this place."
"Oh cheer up kitty cat! Am I that offensive?"
Oh! No that's not it. I was just hoping to find my twin. Anyways... oh I'm Raspberry Bonbon B T Dubs." She said with a bow.
"Bee tee who's?" Raspberry giggled and jabbed her in the cheek with her tail again.
"Bee tee dubs, B T W, you know, by the way... sheesh."
"Oh, well, Olivine Lace... bee tee, dubs..." Raspberry cracked up, trying to cover her laughter with her hands.
"Well its a start I suppose. Really though, let out of here."
"Gee, tee..."
"Sheesh it's hopeless!" She cried out as she grabbed the taller girls hand and led her away...
Where could that girl be... Where is everyone else for that matter. She had landed maybe what, 2 hours ago, not a single sign of a creature of Grimm, or, any other student. She checked her scroll to confirm that, nope its been 23 minutes. She sighed as she kept walking through the forest. She was expecting her sister to sneak up on her in the form of some type of Grimm and try to scare her. She hated when her sister took on a Grimm form. Ras was definitely the immature one, so childish, such a basic redhead, so annoying at times, but, she was her sister. And she loved her sister more then life itself, her twin was all she had left in Remnant. She was use to her twins antics by now, after 17 years, and after constantly being with her. This was the longest they had been apart for so long, and she was really starting to miss the constant poking and prodding she always did with her tail. The two were inseparable, though they were nothing alike in the slightest. Besides the fact that they had the same nose, lips, ears, height, eye color, hair color, and skin color, and looked similar, they were completely different. Especially in there choice of clothing and styling. That, and the difference in cat parts are all that made them different, and the personalities. They often clashed as sisters normally did, and though her sister was the childlike one, she was a expert fighter and an excellent shot when it came to handguns. Though the brains were with Strawberry. She giggled at the thought. Technically Raspberry was a few seconds older, but she was the "bigger sister". Strawberry shook her head trying to clear it, realizing she had been standing in the same spot day dreaming for longer the she thought. Well not that smart huh... She looked around, trying to get a bearing on her location. Close to activating her semblance so she could get some height. Sitting down on the floor now, she began to focus.
"You think this is really a good place to be resting?" Someone said directly in her ear and she jumped up while pulling her Rapier out and got into a defensive stance. She looked around but seen no one. "No, your not under attack." The voice said again as if it was a inch away from her ear.
"Show yourself!" She called out to the voice,
"Oh my bad, look on your left shoulder." Slightly hesitant, as this could be a trap, she slowly moved her eyes to her shoulder... and cocked her head at what she saw there, as it waved up at her. Sitting on her shoulder looked like a, tiny man the size of a ant. He jumped off, and suddenly he was in front of her, full size, blond hair and orange eyes, black button up with a orange jacket over it, and black cargo pants. He had a orange bandanna cover the lower portion of his mouth, and he bowed to her. "Sorry to startle you." the boy said with a chuckle under just breath.
"How long were you there?" She narrowed her eyes at him.
"About 10 minutes, I'm shocked you didn't hear me land on you with those cute pink ears." He replied and shrugged. "I would have said hi, but I was hoping I'd see you get into some action with some Grimm to see if you were worthy to be my partner or not."
"Well excuse me little boy! I'll have you know I'm more then capable of taking care of myself and don't need you relaxing on me like a flea!" He grabbed his stomach as if she had just shot him.
"Damnn girl! Nice analogy there." She couldn't believe he had just been sitting on her for that long.
"How rude! You must be a flea, or else what kind of man are you?"
"Billionaire, playboy, genius, black belt, and my hands are considered lethal weapons in 4 kingdoms. And then there's the face." He said with a wink. "But hey, your pretty good looking yourself. And by the way, my hands aren't only used for breaking bones." He winked again,
"Oh no, no no..." she scoffed at him. "You are trash, and I am leaving. Please don't follow me." She said as she turned before he could answer.
"Suit yourself cupcake." She was not going to put up with a stuck up, obnoxious, self centered pretty boy like that. Part of her was hoping it was her sister messing with her, but she would have picked up on the eyes. No way in hell was she being partnered with him. She continued back the way she came, starting to feel helpless, as she noticed a set of black boots under some bushes. She pulled her sword back out as she slowly made her way over. As she pushed a part of the bush aside using her weapon, a sword came arcing for her and stopped just at her throat. She looked down at the man before her, dark hair, eye patch over his right eye, his free hand was over his stomach which was oozing... BLOOD!
"Are you okay?!" She said while ignoring the blade at her throat as she dropped to the floor beside him and started to check his wound, but he wouldn't move his hand. He was breathing deeply, and had beads of sweat all on his face. "You need to let me check this."
"Ill be fine, just go away." He said in a weak voice.
"I can't just leave you, I wont." She looked down back at his wound, and pulled a bandage from one of her pouches. "I worked with the nurses back in my old school, you have to trust me."
"I don't have to do anything... you need to leave... before it comes back." He closed his eye and took a deep breath.
"Before wha-" A loud cry rang out, she recognized it as a Deathstalker. She gently placed her hand on his cheek, and he opened his eye to look at her. "Look, I'm going to need your help to take it on, now we can do this the easy way, or the hard way. What's it going to be?" She asked him.
"Fine..." he said after taking a deep breath, and removing his hand from his stomach. It was worse then she thought, he had a huge hole that was leaking blood.
"This is going to hurt..." she said as she coated the end of her blade with fire dust and grabbed his hand. "Just hold tight and focus on my eyes." She said with a warm smile. He looked up at her as she pressed her now burning blade against his wound, searing it closed as he squeezed her hand with all his strength, and bit back his screams, as his face twisted in agony. After she made sure it was fully sealed, she took a few bandages and placed them on his now cauterized wound, and applied pressure to it, making sure it stuck in place. "Your aura?" She asked. He closed his eyes and shook his head. She smiled back down at him, "After this, your going to owe me. In payment, I want you to tell me how you ended up like this." She placed her hand over the bandage,
"No don't!" He tried to say, as her hand started to glow and she transferred part of her aura to him, and she seen the pain in his face and eye start to subside, and his wound slightly heal. She picked up her scroll to check her own aura, 75%. She had given him at least 25% more which would be enough for now. "I, I don't know what to say..." he bowed his head as she stood up and held her hand out.
"You can start by telling me your name, I'm Strawberry, Strawberry Bonbon." He looked at her and grasped her hand and she helped him up to his feet. He smiled,
"Wenge Rider. That's a really sweet name."
"Why thank you." She said with a blush. "Well we should probably deal with the Deathstalker, here." She pulled him close to her and he wrapped his arms around her. She sheathed her Rapier and pulled out her one handed crossbow and set it to grapple mode. Shooting high in the tree, it pulled them up to a higher branch to get a better sight advantage as she perked her ears to listen out for it.
"Over there." He said, and she followed to where he was pointing. She caught sight of it moving slowly around, searching, possibly for him. "There were two of them, I managed to kill one, but the other one snuck up on me." He chuckled, "Guess I took to long to find a partner huh."
"Well, you got me now." She said as she rubbed his shoulder. "But I need you to stay up here and cover me." She pulled her rapier back out as she readied herself to jump back down as he grabbed her arm, preventing her from leaving.
"No. No way am I going to have you rescue me, patch me up, give me some of your aura, then have you fight alone. No way." Still facing away from him, she allowed the smile that started to blossom on her face fully bloom.
"Is it because I'm a girl?"
"Urm..." he hesitated, "that's, not fair... but no not really. But if I collapse down there, I'm sure you will carry me back right?" He said with a gentle squeeze and she couldn't help but laugh.
"Well, that all depends on how much you weigh." They both chuckled. She turned to meet his eyes, a more serious look on her face. "Are you sure?" He glanced down at the approaching Grimm and thought about it first, then met her eyes and nodded.
"If we're going to be partners, I cant have you going in alone. Clearly, you would do the same for me." She nodded.
"Together then." She held her hand out and he took it. Together, they jumped from the branch towards the unsuspecting Grimm...
"Ohh Razzzy!" She turned her head to see her sister behind her with her hand up calling her over.
"Strawberry! O M G... Who the heck is this guy?!" She pointed with her tail to the tall guy next to her sister, dark haired... eye patch wearing... scar on his face... sexy looking... broad shoulders... chiseled face... she started to feel her body get hot.
"Hello! Stop staring at my partner you little smut!"
"Huh?..." she shook her head and blushed, "I mean... you got a partner other then me!"
"Ah em." Olivine cleared her throat beside her and Raspberry nearly jumped out of her skin, forgetting all about her own partner.
"Look who's talking sis." Raspberry glanced up at Olivine.
"Hey I didn't have a choice!" She exclaimed as she ran over to her sister, nearly making her fall over as she engulfed her in a hug.
"We all have a choice."
"Not me!"
"Seriously?" Her sister asked.
"Totally. She came up to me all like, 'you kitty cat, your mine!'" She said in a deep menacing voice.
"I sound nothing like that at all." Olivine replied. "But, she is correct. She is, MINE." Strawberry raised an eyebrow.
"Hmmm... I see..."
"O M G, I was looking all over for you when a stupid snake tried to attack me, and I needed a little help from her." She pointed at Olivine.
"Excuse me, 'her' has a name, and I saved your life, kitty cat."
"What did I tell you about calling me that!" She said as she poked her in the face with her tail, all the while her sister was giggling.
"Trust me, if she pokes you with her tail, she likes you."
"Huh?!" Raspberry blushed. "Its not like that!"
"Excuse me." The dark haired boy stepped up and offered his hand to Raspberry. "In a way I'm in the same boat, your sister saved my life as well."
"Aww it was nothing." Strawberry quickly said while twirling a piece of her hair.
"Nonetheless, I owe her my life. And it's a pleasure to meet her sister. Wenge Rider." Olivine stepped up and shook his hand first.
"Olivine Lace." She said seductively.
"Hey I seen him first!" She called out as she wrapped herself around his arm, as Olivine wrapped herself around his other arm.
"Are you okay big boy?" Olivine asked. "We could trade it you like?"
"Darn sis, not only did you get a different partner, but you got a cute boy!" Wenge started to blush and glanced back at Strawberry who looked hot with rage herself.
"Uhh..." he shrugged, "Sorry ladies but I'm taken."
"Hmm, that's a shame." Olivine said, not releasing her grip on him.
"Umm, a little help please Strawberry?" Strawberry finally made her way over and ripped Raspberry off of his arm.
"Heyy! Be gentle! I've been manhandled enough for one day!"
"Excuse me?" Olivine let go and glared at Raspberry.
"Don't hurt me! Help sis!"
"Your on your own! I feel bad for you!" She giggled as she wrapped her arm through Wenge's and led him up the steps to the temple, more like ruins. Olivine continued to glare at Raspberry, who shrugged.
"Be mad if you want, let's figure out what this relic thing is."
"Found it... I think." She heard her sister call out. "And some other people as well."
Raspberry and Olivine made there way up the steps to where her sister was, and she met eyes with a certain redheaded, green eyed girl.
"You!" She spat out as she made her way over to her, hand cocked as she was about to slap her, but as she swung her hand, Olivine was there and caught it.
"What, do you think you are doing?" Olivine asked.
"This bitch just left me to fend for myself!" She said as she spat on he floor.
"Grosss!" Raspberry squealed. "I'm sort of glad I did."
"What?! You fuc-" Olivine used her free hand to pull her staff off her back and it was instantly near her throat, glowing red. The red head narrowed her eyes on it, as another redhead, who Ras suspected was her partner dropped to the floor, and aimed a long barreled sniper rifle in there direction.
"I'd think twice before doing anything stupid..."
"HELL FRIGGING LOWWW!" Raspberry cried out as she put her hand on Olivine's staff to lower it. "Listen, I was just looking for my twin, which I clearly failed at finding. You obvi have some attachment issues being you seem to have a fully capable partner. So let's call it even. I'll probably never see you anyways." She narrowed her eyes at Raspberry, and she noticed Strawberry had her hand on Asuna, the name of her rapier, and had her eyes fixed on the one with the rifle, but she put her hands back to her sides.
"She partly correct, we are here for the same reasons. And we're on the same team against the Grimm. So every one just relax. Its really not that serious." Strawberry turned away and made her way over to one of the pedestals.
"So, what's it going to be?" Olivine asked,
"Fine..." The redhead said. "Come on Ebony, we got what we needed. I'll be seeing you around kid." She winked at Raspberry and the two took off. She sighed while Olivine placed her staff back on her back, and place a hand on Raspberry's shoulder.
"To far Olive. We cant be fighting our future classmates, but... thanks." She said as she started to make her way towards her sister.
"Sorry. She seemed to have a clear intent to injure, and I won't let that happen." Seemingly out of nowhere, two people appeared out of thin air, a pale girl, deer faunus if she had to guess, with blue hair, and a blond hottie with orange eyes who spoke up first,
"Well that was interesting. Now this one is worthy." He said while patting the blue haired girls back. He turned to face Raspberry, "Nice to see you again cup... wait." He looked between Raspberry and Strawberry as he finally understood what was going on. "Twins? One with car ears, the other with a tail... dammmn..."
"Yup, looked what you totally missed out on pretty boy!" Ras said, knowing from the look on her sisters face she had encountered this guy before and he possibly gave her a hard time. Which was confirmed when her sister smirked. "Sad, cause your damn fineeee. Mmmmm!"
"I do have a thing for blonde's." Olivine said.
"Geez, can you find your own!" Raspberry replied.
"Anyways..." The blond said with a slight frown, as he turned toward his blue headed faunus partner, who didn't look to happy herself. "I got all I need right here. And we got our relic already, Diamond let's split." The girl sighed and followed him down the steps and away from the "temple".
"Now, where was I?" Raspberry asked
"The relic." Olivine said.
"So how does this work Berry?" She shrugged,
"I'm not sure, there are only two pieces left. The king and the queen. I took that queen, so that leaves the king for you. We can only hope it's opposed pieces that make teams. I'm not really sure." She replied while biting her nail.
"Lets hope." She said as she picked up the King chest piece. "Well I suppose we should like, get out of here as well huh?" Strawberry glanced towards her teammate and he nodded.
"Right, let's get back then."
"Led by... Heliotrope Chroma." *clapping*
"Heyyyy, that cat boy is pretty cute!" Raspberry said as she elbowed her sister.
"You think everyone is cute." She started to poke her with her tail when she heard her name get called.
"Raspberry Bonbon," Ozpin called out.
"Ohhh, come on sis!"
"I'm not sure..." Strawberry replied sadly.
"Olivine Lace, Sangria Roja, and Ebony Sinon."
"Who's that?" She said out loud to no one in particular as she made her way up to the stage. Ebony, that sounded familiar though. They both made it to the stage, and she noticed two more red heads with green eyes both making there way up the steps. "Stang!"
"Is that..."
"Yup! I'm totally doomed!" The first redhead, the one named Sangria had the most stank face she had ever seen as she made her way over to Ras and Olive.
"You four retrieved the king pieces. From this day forward you will work together as... Team ROSE. Led by... Raspberry Bonbon." *clapping*
"Say what now?" Raspberry questioned,
"Hell no!" Sangria called out as the auditorium went silent and all eyes turned on her. "I refuse t-"
"Miss Roja, if you have concerns about your team, you can bring them to me later. If you don't want to be apart of it, you can go back home, which personally I think would be a waste. If not, please refrain from interrupting me again." He said sternly. She narrowed her eyes at Ozpin, then at Raspberry, and let out a big sigh.
"Whatever..."
"Good. Now please make your way to the courtyard to get acquainted with your new team." The girl Sangria was the first one off the stage and was already out the door before the rest of the team even made it off the stage. Ebony reached out to Raspberry's arm,
"Hey, sorry about what happened out there. She was pretty pissed you had left her though..."
"As if, don't you mean IS pissed. I mean, she has you now, it's not like I was rude to her... was I?" Ebony shrugged as they made there way down, "Hold up, I mean, y'all can go, I just want to see who my sister gets teamed up with.
"We will be outside waiting then, don't want Sangria to feel I left her too." Ebony said while turning and making for the exit.
"Strawberry Bonbon, Wenge Rider, Diamond Dun, and Ochre Sillowine. You four retrieved the king pieces. From this day forward you will work together as... Team SWDO. Led by... Strawberry Bonbon. *clapping*
"Yay sis!" Ras called out while clapping.
"Come on Raspberry." Olivine said while grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the exit.
"But, but!" She tried to squirm from her grasp, knowing it was utterly pointless. "Sheesh! Do you really need to pull me around like this! I'm not a kid you know!"
"Sureee..." Olivine replied as they made there way out...
"Looks like it's me and you Strawberry cupcake." Ochre said with a smirk,
"Actually, it's all of us." Wenge said while removing Ochre's hand from her shoulder. She really hopped they didn't fight over her, and hopped even more that none tried, as she was here for one purpose. And it didn't involve boys. Strawberry turned her attention to the blue hair girl, Diamond, who was holding one of her arms and had her eyes focused somewhere else. She had never really introduced herself to her.
"Diamond." She said while taking a step closer to the girl as she turned her head in her direction. Strawberry, now cheesing, held her hand out. "We were never really formally introduced. My friends call me Berry, you can too if you like. I know Strawberry is a bit long for some or, I don't know, I suppose it's only one more syllable, but it always seemed easier to other people..." she covered her mouth, "Sorry I'm babbling aren't I."
"Not its ok hehe." Diamond giggled. "I've never really had any nicknames before, just mostly... Bambii..." she looked away as her face turned red. "I'm just thankful I got teamed up with another female, and a faunus at that, I mean, that sounds wrong!" She blushed, "I just mean I can't imagine how it would have been with three boys, or anti faunus teammates. But you seem use to the attention." They giggled together,
"More or less. I just feel horrible for you, I mean..." she glanced toward the blond,
"I'm not deaf, or blind you know." Ochre snapped, "I can actually hear as good as you." She wiggled her cat ears,
"I doubt that grapefruit." Strawberry replied.
"What did you call me?" Strawberry rolled her eyes before answering,
"Anyways, I believe we are suppose to go to the courtyard and find our dorms." Strawberry led her team to the courtyard where a short girl with a red cape was waving in there direction. Strawberry looked around, then back at the girl and pointed to herself.
"Yup!" The girl exclaimed, as her and the rest of team SWDO made there way over to her. "Hi! My name is-"
"Ruby Rose, 18, winner of the Vytal Tournament, expert scythe wielder, status, active." Ochre interrupted. "Now she's worthy."
"Oh, not again..." Ruby said under her breath while shaking her head.
"Don't mind him, in fact, you can completely ignore him." Strawberry chuckled.
"You should have seen me and my partner when we first met..." Ruby said under her breath again,
"Oh, I'll get you to warm up to me cupcake." Ochre said with a wink.
"Anyways, I'm Strawberry, this is Wenge, Diamond, and Ochre." She pointed to each in turn as Wenge nodded politely, Diamond smiled and waved, and Ochre winked.
"Its nice to meet you all, and welcome to Beacon! Best school on Remnant!" She said excitedly. "If you guys don't mind, I can give you the tour today. Orientation is tomorrow but my partner and teammates are MIA and we don't technically start until next week as 3rd years, so I have a lot of free time." She smiled,
"Why don't you start yet?" Diamond asked,
"Well as a 3rd year students," she said while waving them on to follow her into the building, "our first week back is spent on a search and destroy mission, to make sure we are still in practice after summer break."
"So cool!" Diamond exclaimed,
"Yeah!" Ruby replied, "Even if I spent my whole summer killing Grimm... anyways. Weiss is visiting Atlas and won't be back until Tuesday, Blake, is being Blake, and my sister, well..." as if on que,
"Rubes!" Ruby turned her head to the approaching blond brawler who was stretching as she made her way over.
"Yang? What are you doing here?" Ruby asked.
"Oh you know, just yanging around," She said with a grin and Ruby shook her head.
"I thought you decided to sleep in for the day." Yang came over and engulfed her younger sister in a headlock while playing with her hair.
"Yeahh, not like I need the beauty sleep," she said with a wink, "but I forgot to pick Zweii up some food so I'm headed to Vale for a bit. What cha up too sis?" Ruby elbowed her sister, finally getting herself free and smoothing her clothes down.
"Just showing the new first years around." She turned to show them as a whole. "Meet team SWDO, Strawberry, Wenge, Diamond and Ochre. Guys meet-"
"Yang Xiao Long, the pleasure is mine." Ochre said as he walked up to the other blond and reached for her hand and gently kissed it.
"Woah back up there buddy!" She said while putting her hand on his face and pushing him away. Strawberry, Ruby and Diamond broke out in laughter.
"Man, your starting to remind me more and more of my sister."
"Is that a bad or good thing?" He asked
"Bad, I do call Raspberry a smut after all." She giggled,
"Raspberry..." Yang said. "Bonbon?" Strawberry nodded,
"Yep, she's my twin."
"Gotcha, I'm suppose to meet and help them for orientation tomorrow. Small world. Anyways, I'll catch y'all later." She said while walking out the door while waving her hand.
"Well, let's continue on with the tour guys!" Ruby led them round the school, showing them all the important rooms, though the teachers were not all around yet, they did get to meet Professor Goodwitch, who seemed like a nice teacher...
Day three of classes, Thursday, almost close to the weekend. It seemed to go by pretty fast, not that Ras was complaining. She scooped another piece of cake into her mouth as the rest of her team ate there lunches. Her team got along good for the most part, though her and Sangria were still clashing badly. They had already gotten into three fights, two verbal, and one physical, not her fault of course! The girl was just a pro at keeping a grudge. She turned a eye towards her as she was reading a comic book, and finishing up a piece of pie she had.
"Hit me Ras!" Raspberry picked up another strawberry and flung it towards Ebony's mouth, but it hit her lip, bounced off, and pegged Sangria in her nose, and landed in her tea. Her eyes shot up and narrowed towards her.
"Hehe, sorry San-" She started to say as she ducked and avoided the remains of her pie as it crashed into some behind her.
"Food fight!" Someone called out. Though everyone behind them erupted into throwing food, there table stood silent. Raspberry kept her gaze on Sangria, and as they locked eyes, everyone else stared at them. Waiting for the next moment, to see if this would turn into yet another fight.
"Well then, if that's how you want to play it..." Raspberry said with a smirk as she picked up the rest of the milk she was drinking,
"You wouldn't dare." Sangria narrowed her eyes.
"Tsk tsk. Girl, have you learned nothing?!" She said while she tossed the remains of her beverage at the girl. She really thought she was playing, because she sat there and took it all in the face, as it dripped down on her lap. Ras noticed she was looking down and she was breathing heavy. In an instant, she grabbed a long untouched bread stick and speared it at Raspberry, sending her flying into the table behind her. She looked up to see her fellow red head in the air, diving at her bread stick first. "What the hell kind of bread sticks are these?!" She screamed as she rolled out of the way and Sangria came crashing down where she just was. She ducked under a random flying turkey while picking up a plate of cake and hurled it in her direction. Sangria ducked under and it hit... "Opps! Sorry sis!" The plate fell on her lap, and her face was covered in whip cream and icing. "Hehe." She giggled, "Now your a Strawberry shortcaOOMPFF!" Ras was cut off as she was hit twice with the bread sticks that seemed to be made of stone, Sangria now holding one in each hand, gripped in the middle like she did with her weapons.
"Ill kill you bitch!" She cried out as she lunged at her. Raspberry ducked and rolled under a table, desperate to find some type of weapon. She came up on the other side and seen a plate stacked full of ribs, so she started grabbing them and hurling them towards Sangria, as she twirled the bread sticks, blocking the juicy ballistic pieces of meat.
"Open wide! Hehe... oww!" She got knocked slightly forward and slipped on some cake, or pie that was on the floor. She seen a few apples on the floor, and a bread stick, so she grabbed the bread stick, channeled her aura into it and started batting the apples towards Sangria as she tried to charge Raspberry. She ducked under one, batted one away, which smacked Wenge in the face, who was currently going hand to hand, or more like turkey to turkey with Ochre, and she caught Sangria in the leg with one. She stumbled but kept moving forward as she whacked Raspberry in the face and sent her crashing into another wall. "Geez, she really is trying to kill me!" She barely dodged a flying bread stick, and picked up a bunch of sausage links, and used it to parry her bread stick as she got closer. She twirled it around and blocked another strike from her as the links wrapped around her bread stick, and she yanked it from her hand while kicking an apple at her face. She staggered back from the hit, while Raspberry swiped the links across her face, midsection, then legs, sending her back even more. A random turkey flew toward her head, snapping it and knocking her over.
"Uhh, I just did my hair guys, I'm out!" Diamond, one of the SWDO members called out as she disappeared from plain sight. Raspberry reached out and touched a random person, taking on there form so Sangria wouldn't find her when she got back up on her feet. She found her twin and Olivine in a giggle fit, ducking under a table, while hurling the remains of pie and cake across the room.
"This is the most fun I've ever..." Strawberry went down as she was hit in the face with half a watermelon, and it exploded as it hit her, the remaining chucks rained down on Olivine's head.
"My hair!" She yelled out and grabbed a nearby bread stick and flipped over the table into the crowd of people. Ebony was under a table as well, shaking and cracking open soda cans as she tossed them into the air across the cafeteria. Clearly it was a free for all, and the simple pie that was meant for her face, turned into a cafeteria wide food fight.
"Hero catch!" Ariel called out as a long bread stick flew in his direction and he caught it, while sweeping it low to block an apple, then bringing the suedo blade up to bat five more apples away. He seen Ariel lift her hand up and it started to spark. "Ari no! It's just food!"
"But my hair!" He spared a glance at her, and her hair was packed with cake. Girls and there damn hair. He back flipped to avoid a flying watermelon thrown from Peach, as Rouge charged him with a sword fish.
"Rocket, Peach, you traitors!" He called out as his teammate tried to batter her way through his defenses. "You know you can't win right?" He teased as he blocked all of her strikes and speared her in the chest which sent her flying. Peach jumped into the air and caught her, while flinging another watermelon in his direction. He tried to parry it but his bread stick broke and it smashed into his lower regions. His eyes twisted in pain as he crumpled to the floor.
"Oooooo, sorry Jaws! No kids for you guys! I think you should-" Rouge was interrupted as a bucket of chocolate syrup poured on her head, and she froze and squealed as it ran down her. "Eeeekkk!" Snapping her neck to the left, the dust head stood a few feet away, grinning,
"Coco for the Coffee brat!" She winked before vanishing in a puff of smoke. All that was left near where she was, was Destin who had Chris pinned to the floor under a turkey. Upon turning and seeing Rouge in her rage, he held his hands up in surrender.
"Way to abandon your leader Kay!"
"Damn it! HARP, ATTACK!" Rouge called out as a milk cartoon flew out and exploded on her face and she turned back to see Ariel, eyes black and checking on Hero.
"That's what you get Rocket!"Ariel called out as she glanced back in Rouges direction.
"Oh its on Jaws!" She blasted her way over to Ariel, cake in hand, and she smashed it into her face, but at that same moment Ariel had stuffed her hand in a turkey and uppercut Rouge in her chest, sending her flying into the air. Ariel looked at Peach who only caught her as she fell. "You want some too?!" She asked and Peach while the remains of the cake dripped down her face, Peach shook her head in defeat,
"No thanks, victory is yours!" She replied while ducking under more random flying food. Rouge looked up at her, who was completely covered in all types of food with a frown,
"We don't give up that easy Groot!" She said. Ariel looked down into Hero's eyes.
"Hero, talk to me!" He grunted, a tear rolling down his eye.
"M... my... my nuts..." A few feet away, Rouge burst out into laughter, as she was hit in the face with more cake, which splattered on Peach as well. Rouge looked up at Peach, grabbed her sides and fell onto the floor in more laughter.
"Hooo crap Groot you should see your face! Ah man, it's like prep school at Atlas all over again! We use to do this weekly!" Rouge said,
"Maybe that's why they held you back?" Destin called out. While wiping her face off, Rouge stuffed a apple in Cinis and fired at the Spartans head, which he slapped away with his hand. "That all you got? Bring it!"
"Aim low!" Kayreen called out from somewhere high. Rouge instantly stuffed Cin and Pulv with apples and fired as soon as she got them in line. Four shots, three misses, one hit dead on target.
"Nut shot!" Rouge cried out and jumped for joy as the Spartans face mirrored Hero's, and he dropped to his knees.
"Rocket the Nut cracker, yeah!" Chris cheered.
"We are going to be in so much trouble." Peach said,
"Hey, that red head started it by pegging Jaws in the face with pie. Now it's just cafe wid- look out!" Peach ducked as soda cans started hitting the floor near them and exploded, drenching them in sticky liquids.
"I can't wait to shower! Peach, get out us out of here!" Ariel cried out as Hero limped his way over, and Ariel helped him. They all touched Peaches shoulder,
"Hang on!" She said while looking at the entrance...
Sangria was scanning left and right looking for her, Raspberry tried to be as inconspicuous as possible as she made her way around the table to try to get behind her. She ducked under a flying swordfish and some pancakes as she picked up two cups of juice. She crept up behind Sangria, who snapped her neck behind, but it was too late. Raspberry dumped the cups over her head, and Sangria shivered from the cold liquid, and her green eyes were burning.
"I, am going, TO MURD-"
"STUDENTS!" a loud voice called out and the cafeteria instantly went silently. "Everyone out, NOW! SANGRIA ROJA AND RASPBERRY BONBON, OZPIN'S OFFICE NOW!" Raspberry cringed at the tone of the Professor, she had nev-*SLAP* Sangria whacked her across her face and she fell to the floor, holding her burning cheek.
"What the hell is your problem!" She normally tried to avoid cussing, but it slipped, totally not her fault. Strawberry and Olivine were instantly by her side in case she tried that again, and Ebony was holding her back. "You have issues!'
"I told you I'd-"
"Silence!" Goodwitch yelled out, as Sangria's mouth snapped shut. "If you don't make your way up to Ozpin's office right NOW, you both are going to have a serious problem with me. Am I clear?!"
"Hi mom!" Some random blond with blue eyes called out,
"Out NOW!" She yelled at the girl who giggled and vanished in a cloud of smoke and dust. Goodwitch turned her attention back to her and Sangria. "Did you two not hear me?!"
"Yes mam!" Raspberry said while picking herself up and made for the door. Ugh, this was going to suck. But what the heck was this girls problem with her? She really did have some serious issues she needed to work out...
He sipped his coffee before looking over the two girls. The first one, reddish pink hair, full of cake and other food products, had Leia buns, and a bun on the top back of her hair as well. She also had two big bells, one on each bun, as well as a bell around her neck. Between the bells, the rose necklace and rose's she had in her hair, he knew she was Raspberry Bonbon. The other girl, dark red hair, piercing green eyes with red framed eye glasses, currently stained with juice, cake, BBQ sauce if Ozpin had to guess, as well as her hair. Sangria Roja. Both needed a change of clothes badly, and a shower. He glanced at his computer pulling up a few records, and took another sip of his drink.
"Soo..." He started, "three fights, and now you both start a food fight."
"But she started it! I was jus-" he held a hand up to forestall any comments from the team leader.
"We are going to get to the bottom of this, right now." He turned to Sangria. "Tell me, the day I made you a team, you had strong protests about your team leader. Clearly there was something you didn't like. Care to tell me?" She hesitated before answering, but took are deep breath before she did.
"You made her, HER, team leader, but when we found each other in the forest, she left me. She disobeyed the rules you set for us, yet you still made her a leader, my leader. The one who left me alone in the forest!" He turned towards Raspberry.
"Is that true Miss Bonbon?" He was fully aware that she had left her, and even tried to leave the second girl, but he had his reasons for choosing her to lead the team. He had made many mistakes in his life, but he knew this was not one of them. Raspberry bowed her head before she answered.
"Yes Professor, it's true." He could hear the regret in her normally cheerful and bubbly voice as she grabbed her tail with both hands which was between her legs, and she kept her head down.
"I see... what were your reasons for leaving her?"
"I was hoping to find my sister, I was searching for her." She replied, her voice steady and even, though she still kept her head down. Sangria's glare seemed to soften just a TINY bit.
"Why was it so important to find your sister?" He asked her.
"I, I was scared..." her voice slightly broke, "we have never been apart for more then an hour our entire life. I, I couldn't fathom what it would be like without her on my team, or as a partner."
"Miss Bonbon, I think some time apart is just what you two would need. Help you break out of your shell, help you to grow. You don't need your twin, she may be apart of you, but YOU, are your own person. And you my dear, are magnificent." She nodded. "As well as you Sangria, don't discount that. You both are amazing women, but this is only the start. Nothing is perfected overnight." He noticed Sangria was slightly looking at Raspberry, who was still, holding her tail, and had her head down, like a cat being scolded... well, I suppose that's exactly how this is happening. "Ill tell you what, Sangria, since you like to fight so much, next spar class will be you and your leader." Sangria's head snapped towards Ozpin and her eyes widened in shock, still no change in Raspberry, "No mater the outcome, I don't want to hear about anymore conflicts, or fights, or someone will be going home. But, if you win Sangria, I will leave the choice of leader to you. You can be leader, or you can pass it on to someone else. Does that seem fair to you two?" Raspberry was the first to answer, surprisingly.
"Yes Professor Ozpin." Sangria glanced towards Raspberry who was still shamed, and nodded,
"Yeah, that works for me."
"Good. Now, go change your clothes and take a shower. And prepare yourselves, spar class is later tonight." They both nodded. "Well that's it for now, I'll will see you students later. Raspberry bowed her head and turned towards the elevator, and Sangria simply turned and walked away. What did he just get himself into?...
One of her favorite past times, she thought as she stepped out of the shower, grabbed her towel and proceeded to dry herself off. After drying to satisfaction, she put on the bare minimum, and grabbed her brush and blow dryer, and started to do her hair. Blowing it out while brushing out the few knots, she grabbed her green hair ties and put her hair up in her signature ringlet pigtails, and re braided the lock of her hair near her left ear. Wiping the mirror free of the condensation, she took a final look at herself. Pleased, she turned and opened the door and reached for her eye glasses on the small table near the bathroom door. Happy that she was clean from all the cake and other foods, and happy that her room was still vacant. She hung her towel up near her bed, and made her way over to her dresser. Grabbing, and sliding into one of her usual green skirts, and putting her usual green blouse on. She started to put on her green leggings as the door to the room opened, and Diamond came in with a wave and a smile.
"Hi Strawberry." Strawberry gave her a full toothed smile, and half closed her eyes with a wave.
"How was class?" She asked.
"It was ok, nice and quiet." She said with a chuckle, "I copied an extra set of notes for you. I figured you would be here cleaning all the cake out."
"Oh, thank you Diamond! And yeah." She replied while slipping her heels on. "It took forever to get it all out."
"Was it worth it?" Diamond asked as she sat on her bed and put her books down.
"Totally. Well," she fingered the small bump on her forehead, "I mean it was fun. It just hair right?"
"Maybe to you!" They both chuckled. "I would have thought you would be more worried about getting the cake in your ears though?" She asked.
"Some got in them, but I was thorough when I cleaned them. When you have a sister like mine, you have to be." Her scroll started to vibrate across the room, and she made her way over to it. "Where are the boys by the way?"
"They skipped to help clean up." Strawberry stopped dead in her tracks, glancing at Ochre's bed that was a mess. Clothes, books, some food wrappers, his blanket was bunched into a ball and pushed into the corner. Wenge's on the other hand was neat and tidy.
"The same Ochre who thinks we are his maid?" Diamond tried to cover her mouth as she burst out in laughter, and Strawberry joined in as she continued her way over to their desk.
"Oh yes, but Professor Goodwitch gave them no choice." She said in between her laughter,
"Ok, now that I believe. When he comes back I'm going to have a serious chat with him about his bed, that is gross!"
"Agreed!" Diamond said, "Ill back you up."
"Appreciate it." She picked up her scroll and read the message on it. *NEED TO TALK ASAP! I'M ON THE ROOF! HURRY!* "Well, duty calls." She said while stuffing her scroll in her pocket and putting her green headband on.
"Problems?" Diamond asked, and she shook her head,
"Nothing I can't handle, but I'll see you in spar class." She waved and smiled while heading out of the door and down the hall. She reached the steps and walked all the way to the top, went outside, and found her sister hanging upside down on a poll, hanging from her tail.
"Are we cats or monkeys now?" She asked,
"Berry!" She exclaimed and fell to the floor, rolled, and leaped into her sisters waiting arms.
"Whats wrong Ras?" She asked as she petted her sisters hair.
"Ughhhh, it's Sangria. I don't know what her deal is, and she totally tried to kill me, like W T F?" She wrapped her arms tighter around Strawberry. "And now we have to spar. And Ozpin said who ever wins, gets to be team leader."
"So what are you going to do."
"I don't know... I thought we had made progress today, I mean it's just food right? But sheesh. I feel like she's going to go all out, just so she can be leader and probably make my life hell. I never even wanted to be a leader. I just wanted to be with you..." she felt for her sister, her new teammate had been a bit extreme. She was as aggressive as her green haired partner, but in a worse way.
"I know, me too. But look at it this way, it's good to expand your relationships. And maybe if she does beat you, maybe it won't be as rough."
"Geez, great pep talk sis."
"Well... there is some reason for the way she is. One thing I know, everyone acts the way they do, for a certain reason." Thinking back, the reason her and her sister were so inseparable was due to the fact they never knew there parents. From living on there own, to multiple foster parents, the only people they could ever count on was each other. And through the years that bond was solidified. They relied on each other, trusted each other with more then just their lives. Strawberry and Raspberry were like ice, and cream. They complemented each other perfectly. She pulled her away slightly, and held both of her cheeks and looked in her eyes, the same red eyes she had, sometimes it was like looking into a mirror. "What I'm saying is, she wants to put you in her place, maybe you should let her, humble yourself, show her you mean well and your sorry for leaving her. Maybe she will open up to you, and you can move past this bump you guys are on. She just wants to smack you around a little bit, take her anger out. What have you got to lose?"
"My face, my tail, any chance a cute boy will think my fighting is awesome!?" Strawberry giggled, "I'm serious! Shes tougher then she looks!"
"And so are you Ras. Your the toughest girl I know. Who else whips Grimm into shape, then dances on there corpses?" Raspberry finally broke a grin.
"Even tougher then you?" She questioned. Strawberry raised an eyebrow,
"You already know the answer to that, but you won't here me say it!" Raspberry's grin turned upside down, and her eyes grew twice there size, as she grabbed her tail and stared into her eyes. "Oh fine, cheater! You're even tougher then me."
"Thanks sis." She pulled her back into a hug.
"There's nothing to worry about. It will all work itself out, I promise. I love you Ras." She said while stroking her hair.
"I love you more sis." She replied as her tail wrapped around the two of them. She let the embrace slacken, as she looked her sister in the eye.
"So you ready for spar class?" She asked,
"Oh I'm ready, I need to get Rip and Strip though. I'll tell Olivine to meet me at my locker and escort me. I'll see you later Berry!" She said as she poked her face with her tail and made for the door. Strawberry stood there, gazing out at the valley, and wondering how the match would play out...
This spar class was heating up! Literally! The teams she knew as HARP and DICK, were doing back to back one on one matches. It started with the two cuties that were the leaders, a cat faunus named Heliotrope, and a pink armored guy who was know as The Spartan throughout the school. The two teams had been growing in popularity already over the past few days, they always did have interesting intense spars. And the teams did have some weird characters, like the ones sparring now. They were on the final match, Rouge Adel vs Ivory Canary. Some type of bird faunus that used a staff, and had the voice or a dragon, and a small petite fashionista that had these awesome arm blasters. She was known throughout the school as Rocket, younger sister to someone in a team called CFVY. She didn't know much about them, she just knew they were seniors, and apparently one of the most popular teams attending the school, nobody messed with them. Raspberry had seen parts of the leaked initiation video, and the girl had guts! She hadn't won any spars yet, but when it came to Grimm, she was definitely someone you wanted watching your back, or high above looking over you.
"O M G! That Rocket girl is totally B A!" Her partner Olivine shrugged,
"She's not all that. I bet I could take her." She replied flatly. She knew her partner was good, and the fastest human she had ever met, but if Rocket was to land one or two hits, she would be done, her and Ebony might make a good match. Even if Rocket is more mobile, all Ebony would need is one shot, and so far from what she can tell, Ebony never missed a shot. Ever. Unfortunately the only people they had been going up against was each other, and her sources told her they would be sparring her sisters team. The bird faunus fought like Olive and though the bow staff user was way faster, and landed way more hits, Rockets fire balls were aura shredding. She couldn't take much of a beating, but she sure hit hard ASF! She remembered first seeing her and the White Knight teaming up against the snow cat and the mermaid looking girl, though they lost, her having an extra shield made her even more B A. At first she thought the bird faunus would take her out, as she lead in aura, but then Rouge made a come back when Ivory lost her weapons, and she landed a hard shot at the girl, though she deflected it, it still tore through her. They came together, staff on burning blade, as Rouge uppercut her chest with a burning fist that sent Ivory soaring into the air.
"I didn't know she was so strong!" Raspberry said as Rouge blasted up and her hand was burning red, inches away from connecting with Ivory's face when she opened her mouth and let out another sonic scream, and a huge explosion erupted. "Ohhh, pretty lig-"
"AHHHHHHRRRGRGGGGGGRR!" Someone cried out and she heard gasps all around the room. She focused on Rouge as she crashed hard to the floor, and fell on her knees, arm smoking, well, more like arm gone and bleeding out.
"Peach!"
"Hold on!" She heard two people call out, and suddenly there was three more people inside the area, crowded around the fallen girl. Heliotrope went on the defense of the confused Ivory, while the mermaid iced over what was left of her shoulder, and the white knight picked her up and sprinted out the door.
"Holy shit..." Olivine said as the three Professors headed over to them, letting the knight leave, and then the rest of them.
"Silence, please." Professor Ozpin called out. "Things like this can happen from time to time, but I assure you Rouge will be fine. We have the best doctor in Vale here, and we are always prepared for a situation such as this." As he spoke, she noticed Professor Goodwitch waved her wand a few times, and the blood in the arena cleared up. "As always, we can never let a injury stop us from doing what must be done, and we have one more match before class is over."
"Damn, that's harsh." Ebony commented. Raspberry looked down at her hands, still even after this he wants to continue class? Something is wrong with this guy.
"Raspberry Bonbon, and Sangria Roja, please make your way down." Her head snapped up at the mention of her name, and she turned her head towards Sangria who was already halfway down the stairs.
"Someone is excited..." she commented under breath.
"Is he serious?" She heard someone mutter as she made her way down as well.
"Did Goodwitch just clean up the blood like nothing just happened?" Someone else said.
"That's Ozpin for you." Another voice called out. Ozpin whispered to Goodwitch, and she left the classroom, as Raspberry went up the steps and into the arena, taking care not to slip on any left over blood, even though the floor was spotless. She shivered slightly, and the barriers went up. She looked up at Sangria who had a straight face on, and was in a fighting stance, both her blades in her hands. She was more then ready. Raspberry took her pistols out and twirled them in between her fingers expertly, before getting into her own combat stance. Her heart was pounding though she wouldn't show it.
"Good luck Sangria." She said in a calm voice, not trying to sound sarcastic or come off any type of rude way. Sangria didn't flinch, nor blink, not even a squint. She just stood there, ready to go.
"Begin!" Ozpin called out...
The two red heads wasted no time. Raspberry started taking shot after shot from the hip at Sangria, while she spun her blades blocking the bullets and charged at her. One of Raspberry's pistols changed into its whip form, and she swung it up to parry one of Sangria's blades, while front flipping over her, and landing a shot near the back of her head with her other gun. Sangria rolled to the floor, and swung one of her blades in a low sweep, going for her legs as she landed, while Raspberry whipped her gun down, sweeping the metal whip to catch her blade. Sangria lunged at her elbow first, catching Raspberry in her chest which sent her staggering back, and instead of using a blade, she brought her fist square in her face, then quickly dropped low and swept her leg out, tripping Raspberry, and sending her crashing to the floor. She rolled to the right just in time to avoid Sangria's blade, as it stuck into the floor, but she got caught as her other blade flew out and struck her in the chest. Strawberry cringed as her sister grabbed her chest in pain while using her other hand to swing her whip up and parry another blow coming in at her face. Raspberry swung both whips low, catching Sangria's legs and making her crash to the floor, and took shots at her midsection which Sangria managed to deflect while on her back.
"What do you think?" Wenge asked her, as Sangria rolled back up on her feet and charged Raspberry.
"I don't know, its too early to tell. But her semblance is pretty much useless in a one on one fight like this." She replied with a grimace as Raspberry took another hit. Sangria was relentless with her strikes, twirling both her double bladed staffs in blurs as she aimed for any place on Raspberry's body. She had to relay most on flipping and ducking to avoid getting chopped up. She flicked her whips in front of her as they sparked up with electricity flowing through them and front flipped over Sangria, catching her three times with her whips, dropping the girl to her knees as she held her blades up to parry the rest. If there was one thing Raspberry was good at, it was flipping and rolling and running. She was flexible and agile, well she is a cat faunus. She sprinted away while reloading her guns, switching to ice dust, as she fired from her hip at the floor in front of Sangria who was chasing her, and she slipped and fell hard onto her ass. Raspberry took advantage of her fall and charged back towards her while changing one pistol to whip form, bringing it down hard onto where Sangria was lying on the floor. She brought both blades up, and blocked her sparking whip, but Raspberry took another shot at point blank range at her leg, encasing it in ice, as well as dropping her aura more, and she jammed her heel into Sangria's open knee. Currently Sangria was leading in aura, 68% to 57%, but Raspberry was slowly knocking it down. Strawberry was sure she was going easy on her. Ripper and Stripper were powerful when she used the proper ammo, but so far she had only used ice dust, and her regular ammo. Sangria rolled to the side and jumped to her feet, running her blade along her leg to shatter the ice it was stuck in. Raspberry brought both whips up diagonally as Sangria twirled her blades to block them. In a flash, Sangria thrust her blade towards Raspberry's face and connected, knocking her head back and slamming her on her back. She cried out and jumped on Raspberry's chest, holding her arms down, and started punching her in the face. The class was silent through the onslaught, and Raspberry's tail came up and whacked Sangria in face, momentarily distracting her, and she was able to get a hand free, shot Sangria in her leg, chest, then face, which made her stumble to the side. She shot again as Sangria rolled to the left of her, and Raspberry used her tail to spring herself back to her feet as Sangria spun, leg up and out as her heel connected with Raspberry's chin, spinning her and making her drop to a knee. Relentless. As Sangria came in for another blow, Strawberry noticed her sister close her eyes, and her head was down. She had her weapons in her hands, and would have been able to counter if she whipped them up fast enough, but she chose not to. She had given up. Sangria slashed across her head twice, as she fell back, she jabbed her blade into Raspberry's chest,
"Match!" She didn't let up as she twirled her blades and brought them towards her face again, then chest. Strawberry shot to her feet as she noticed the red flicker across her sisters body, her aura shattering, as Sangria went in for a final blow. But she was stopped in her tracks, and frozen in place.
"What the hell, Professor!" Strawberry called out as she glanced towards Ozpin, and seen a blond with her arm out, she recognized her as Professor Goodwitche's daughter. She looked back towards the ring to see Sangria standing over her sister, still frozen in place.
"I guess you win, heh," *cough cough* Strawberry noticed she coughed up blood.
"Ras!" Strawberry jumped up and ran down towards the arena, team ROSE following.
"Damn, these spars have been getting intense." She heard someone say as she ran down. She reached the steps and leaped up them and ran towards her sister, knocking Sangria out of the way.
"What, is wrong with you!"
"I.." Sangria shook her head,
"Actually I don't want to hear it you crazy bitch!" She knelled down to her sister, and placed her hand on her forehead. "Ras, speak to me!"
"Geez, I'm okay sis." She coughed again, she smiled as Strawberry wiped a drop of blood from her lips. "Is it over Ozpin?" She asked. Strawberry looked up and noticed Ozpin was standing behind her, as well as Qrow, all of Team ROSE, as well as Wenge.
"Yes it's over Miss Bonbon. Please take her to the infirmary." Strawberry ignored him as she touched her sisters face and focused her aura into her finger tips, transferring half of her aura to her.
"Ohhh yeahh... I love it when you do that sis." Raspberry moaned, sounding better already. Strawberry smiled lightly, stood up and held her hand out, Raspberry took it, and she helped her sister back to her feet.
"She use to help the nurses in her old school.." Wenge remarked to Ozpin.
"So it would seem. However, I'd still like her to visit the infirmary, before, you two meet me in my office." He nodded at Raspberry and Sangria before he turned to address the whole class, while Raspberry fully stood up. "Class is dismissed." Everyone turned to leave when Raspberry turned to Olivine.
"Ill catch you later at the room Olive. Umm, Sangria, can you come with me?" Raspberry reached out and touched her shoulder, knocking her out of her daydream with a shake and a shiver. She turned towards Ras and nodded. "Ill catch you later sis." Ras said as she poked her face with her tail. Wenge stood by Strawberry as everyone made there way from the class.
"So what now?" He asked, "Dinner before we check on your sister... it sounds like she's going to be busy." She raised a eyebrow at him as Diamond and Ochre walked over to her. Ochre placed a hand on her shoulder,
"You okay cupcake?" She understood what her sister had done, the girl wanted to beat her, so she let her beat her. Even though she almost took it too far. She was proud of her, though it was reckless to let her guard down like that, she was trying to prove a point.
"Yeah I'm fine. Yeah why not," she shrugged, "Lets get some food."
"Busy day huh." Wenge commented, "Something tells me you know a lot more about what's going on though." She nodded as they walked down the bustling hallway to the cafe.
"Its... a long story."
"Something to do with all of there crazy fighting if I had to guess. Hopefully its all settled."
"Yeah hopefully." She absently replied, feeling a hand on her shoulder she turned to look into his one good eye. Around her age if she had to guess. She knew not everyone had a happy upbringing, not everyone did, her and her sister certainly didn't.
"You alright?" He asked,
"Sorry, just spacing out. I'm good, don't worry." She replied with a smile, which he returned.
"You can talk to me about anything you know, if there is something that is bothering you. I owe you my life."
"Thank you Wenge." He reached out and squeezed her hand, before turning his attention to the door of the cafe, and holding it open, letting his teammates pass him on the way in. Wenge, cold, quiet, and calculated. Though he always had an ear to listen, he wasn't much for chatter. Unlike his blond counterpart,
"So that fight was pretty intense huh, your sister, she seems worthy. Does she have a boyfrie-" Somehow, under no control of her own, her hand flew out, aiming for his pretty face. His was instantly up, as he gripped her wrist just inches away from his face, which now wore a huge smirk. "Now now shortcake, that was not very nice."
"Problem?" Wenge asked beside her,
"Shortcake was about to ruin the face, touchy subject of the sister huh?"
"NO!" Strawberry called out, regretting the reflexes of her hand, and regretting the coming apology she would now have to now give him. He released her hand,
"Damn, well I wont bother you with the subject. But that wont stop me." Strawberry instinctively narrowed her eyes at him, the defense modes for her sister starting to kick in. Either Grimm, or boy that didn't deserve her. Sadly, she knew deep down her twin could never resist this pretty boy. "Stang girl, you REALLY don't like me huh." He chuckled and shrugged. "Four years shortcake, you'll warm up to me." He said with a wink. She sort of felt sorry,
"Its not that I don't LIKE you..."
"Ohhhh! So your just mad I'd pick your sister over you!" Sorry moment passed, and she felt her hand rise up again, but this time Wenge was holding it, stopping her from striking Ochre. "Two twins to fight over me, meh, nothing new I suppose." He shrugged and turned to get on line. Wenge and Diamond looked over Strawberry.
"I'm sorry guys... I just seen her get her butt handed to her and-"
"Oh its ok!" Diamond exclaimed, "I understand fully. But really, you, well, all of use better just find a way to put up with it right? We are a team, and like he said, four years. That's a long time."
"She's right. As much as I want to punch in his perfect teeth, I'm trying to put my team before my grudges." At least they understood her.
"You guys are right, but I'm still sorry for losing it." Like her sister, she knew she would have her own trials in leading her own team, and getting along with them all. She took a deep breath before leading the two on the line behind Ochre, and she tapped his shoulder. He turned with a grin on his face.
"Back for more shortcake?"
"Tell me what you want to eat, then go save us some seats, please." She tried on her best smile, and hoped it would win him over, seduction and persuasion not her strong suits. Ochre looked her up and down,
"Oh, I know what I'm hungry for," he smirked, "but today I'll settle for a fish dumpling salad."
"Ohhhh fish!" Escaped her lips, Diamond giggled and Wenge snorted.
"Cat to a fault." Ochre chuckled as he turned and started to look for a open table. Wenge leaned in a bit closer,
"See, not bad at all. Just ignore about 95% of what he says and you will be fine!" Diamond broke into more giggles and Strawberry joined her. This was how her team started, Team SWDO...
Updated: 3/2/2016
A/N; And there we have it, the beginning of two new teams. What's in store for them, and just how will these groups of students play a crucial role in the rescue of Hero? Only one way to find out!
