I'm back with a chapter or two! Still not done with that thing I started working on, but I'm making progress with it.
Hope you enjoy this chapter. I'm a bit proud of it myself, I like what I did with the dance this time. Not that I hated what I did the previous time… I'll shut up now.
Team SPWM Ch.12
Jyu yoku go wo seishimashite.
At the flat, rocky top of a mountain, at night, during a lighting storm.
Go yoku jyu mo tatsu.
AJ is sitting and gazing up at the clouds, watching the lighting that is striking around the mountain.
Muchu de kakko tsuketara.
Halfway down the mountain, during the day, a wildfire rages in the forest.
Hijyoberu ga naru.
Isaac casually walks through the flames, completely unaffected by them.
Gojyuppo ijyo mo saki aruite.
Further down the mountain, during the day, there is a small reservoir filled with water.
Chototsuoshin na sutairu.
Sam is sitting at the edge of the water and staring at his reflection in the calm waters.
Jiyu de kibunya no, Kimi ha doyattatte mushi.
At the bottom of the mountain, at night. Raymond is spread out on the ground, staring up with a depressed look as rain falls on him, and he doesn't even blink.
Dare ni mo tokenai nazo ga aru
Scene change as AJ suddenly finds himself standing in a clearing in the middle of a forest.
Fukidashita kaze ni furueteru
He looks around, trying to figure out where he is, when he sees a glowing white flower at his feet.
Kono meiro wo hodoite, yaru!
He leans forward and reaches for the flower, about to pick it up.
Kimi
But just before he does…
Ga waratta,
Aiden teleports in front of him, wielding both his blades, and AJ is just able to get both his blades out in time to block, creating sparks.
Ashita ha ame kai.
More sparks fly as both of them stand in place as they both swing their blades at each other, with every attack colliding with another.
Somei na hikari ga,
Through the flurry of blades AJ could see that Aiden was smirking at him, and he glared back as menacingly as he could.
Chika-
Aiden suddenly kicked to his right, hitting Raymond in the gut as he came to assist.
Chika,
He kicked to his left and hit Isaac in the gut as he finally got there.
Hikaru.
Without even looking, Aiden kicked behind him and hit Sam as he snuck up behind him.
Aiden kept smiling confidently as they all glared at him.
Me wo korasanakucha,
Then they all charged at once. He managed to spin around and counter all of their blades, with sparks flying everywhere.
Mirai ga kawatte shimau.
Aiden jumped over Sam, and now stood at the other end of the clearing.
Mae ni, kitto,
The four all turned to charge him, blades ready.
Kitto, ima wo,
Aiden simply sheathed his blades on his back and raised both his hands towards them as they approached him.
Saratte iku.
Dark tendrils came out of the ground and covered the four, deleting them from existence from his perspective, while everything went dark from their perspective.
Kimi to jyanakucha,
They all slowly got up onto their hands and knees. Looking around they saw only darkness.
Mirai ha, kawaite shimau.
They suddenly saw a very bright light amidst the darkness.
No kamo,
Something was inside the light.
Isoge,
A hand? They all reached out towards the hand.
Kitto,
No, it wasn't a hand… It was… a large white paw?
Ima wo,
They all touched the paw and suddenly they all glowed brightly with white light.
Waratte iku.
The white light grew and enveloped them.
They were now standing in the clearing again and in their second state, with their eyes closed, and with Aiden looking uncharacteristically shocked. Now their side of the field was filled with glowing white flowers.
All but AJ opened their eyes, now colored by their Semblances, and smiled confidently at Aiden with their weapons ready. A tear leaked out of both of AJ's eyes, despite them being closed. He opened his teary eyes and glared at Aiden before they charged again as the song came to an end.
Team SPWM Volume 2
A RWBY Fanfiction
The next morning it was breakfast time and teams RWBY, JNPR, and SPWM minus AJ and Isaac were all sat at the table and talking and laughing as usual. Only, Blake wasn't very focused on what everyone else was doing. She was waiting for AJ to come over so he could sit down and join their group again.
Her cat ears perked up as she finally saw him walk into the cafeteria. He got his food and then looked in their direction. She waved for him to come over and smiled at him, but he only looked at the group with a sad expression before walking over and sitting at a table on the other side of the building, alone.
"I'll be right back." Blake said before standing up from her seat and walking over and sitting next to AJ. "What are you doing over here?" She asked, concerned.
"I'd rather stay away from the others for a bit, if you don't mind." He answered before eating a piece of his pancake.
"Why? They all forgive you." She pointed out and put a hand on his shoulder. "You should come join us. Weiss is the only one that might say anything about it, but even she knows that nothing is going to happen unless you use your Semblance to the point that you used it last night. We all know you didn't mean to do anything."
"It would be awkward if I came over and sat down now." He argued. "I would rather just wait till tomorrow or something."
She sighed in annoyance before noticing something. "Where's Isaac?"
"When I woke up he was asleep. I have no idea if he's even woken up yet." He answered.
"Hmm." She hummed in understanding. "So you aren't going to join us then?"
"I would rather not, no."
"Fine. I'm staying here then, let me just get my food." She said before walking off.
Later in the afternoon, Isaac was finally allowed to leave and joined them during lunch.
"Isaac! You're back!" Ruby said happily and quickly jumped up and hugged him before he made it half way to the table.
"Hi Ruby." Isaac smiled and hugged her back, as well as planting a kiss on her head through her hair, which she was starting to get used to and wasn't blushing as much from it.
"Are you okay after what happened yesterday?" Weiss asked when the couple sat down.
"Yeah, I'm fine! Just… a little confused." Isaac answered.
"AJ didn't do it on purpose, if that's what you were wondering." Raymond said.
"No, I figured that, actually." Isaac said.
"You did?" Weiss asked, somewhat surprised.
"Of course!" Isaac answered. "He would never do something like that to us! What I want to know is why that happened to him! He didn't even seem like he was human, like, did he even know what he was doing?"
"Apparently not." Raymond answered. "What we think happened was his Semblance got him so angry that his Faunus side took over and that's what attacked you."
"Oh!" Isaac exclaimed in understanding. "So he probably can't go into stage two anymore then?"
"We're still not sure about that." Raymond answered.
"Hey, where are Blake and AJ anyway?" Isaac asked.
"AJ went and sat over there so Blake went ahead and joined him." Yang answered and pointed over to where the two Faunus were at. "She probably didn't want him to be lonely or something."
"Were you lonely while we were gone, Isaac?" Ruby asked out of concern.
"No Ruby, I was fine." He answered to soothe her worries. "Although, the few hours I spent awake where I wasn't allowed to leave were kind of boring."
"Then here! Have a cookie!" Ruby happily said and handed him one of the many cookies she had on her plate.
"Wow! Thank you, Ruby!" Isaac said before he took a bite out of the cookie and saw how happy it made her that she had made him happy.
Both he and Yang were very surprised, because they knew more than anyone that she never shared her cookies with anyone.
The next day AJ tried sitting with them, and it wasn't as awkward as he expected. Though he figured that was because Blake was looking out for him and told them not to make things awkward. It helped that the members of Team JNPR genuinely had no idea about the event and didn't generate any awkwardness.
The next few days went on as normally as you would expect, though Team SPWM and Blake were keeping an eye on Aiden, with AJ and Raymond keeping an eye on Aiden's partners as well. AJ had noticed that Blake didn't have shadows under her eyes and she didn't seem all that tired. Though he had made sure to drill it into her head that she needed to get sleep and not focus too much on the investigation.
It should be mentioned that Aiden trying to flirt with Blake had become more common than Nora eating pancakes.
"So, Blake-" Aiden gets cut off by Blake.
"Aiden, would you just stop!?" She asked, irritated.
AJ wrapped an arm tightly around her and took one of her hands, intertwining his fingers with hers. "She's my Belladonna, she will never be yours, so just back off already!"
"Tsk… you are so uncool, dude." Aiden grumbled and walked away every time. Yet the next time he would come back and flirt as if he actually had a chance and she wasn't already taken and he hadn't been turned down before…
… multiple times!
When the teams told each other how their secret missions went, the guys had to lie about the last part of the mission. The guys hated having to lie about things, which they had been doing since they first met the teams. Lying about where they were from and what they used to do before coming to Beacon, or what schools they went to before Beacon. They tried as hard as they could to give them false truths rather than just not tell them anything, because they didn't want to seem untrustworthy. Isaac, Sam, and AJ hated it even more when it became lying to their girlfriends, but it was a very bad idea in their opinion to tell the truth right now. Maybe once they didn't know the future they could tell them, but even then, they have to admit that they've been lying ever since they first met them. The three boys all dreaded the reactions from Blake, Ruby, and Weiss when they found out about that.
'But, there's no point thinking about that now.' AJ thought. 'All we can do now is… enjoy watching Cardin and his team get their asses kicked!'
*Ass kicking intensifies*
"And that's the match!" Glynda announced.
"Lucky shot…" Cardin said before passing out.
'No, wait, he just fell over… they made it look like he passed out or something in the show…' AJ thought.
"Well done Miss Nikos." Glynda complimented. "You should have no problem qualifying for the tournament."
"Thank you, Professor." Pyrrha said politely.
"Alright, now I know that that's a tough act to follow, but we have time for one more sparring match." Glynda started. "Any volunteers? Miss Belladonna? You haven't sparred in the past few classes, why don't you-"
"I'll do it!"
AJ and Raymond both went wide eyed and as they realized that that wasn't Mercury who spoke, and they both turned to the voice that they had become accustomed to lately.
"Aiden, is it? Very well. Let's find you an opponent." Glynda said and started looking through the list of names in her scroll.
Mercury glared at Aiden, "That was my job!" Aiden could almost hear him saying, and he simply smiled back at him, only making Mercury angrier.
"Actually. I want to fight… him!"
Glynda began double checking the protective field to make sure it was ready to handle the punishment it would most likely take with this fight.
"Of fucking course…" AJ mumbled angrily.
"And if I win, I get Blake!" Aiden exclaimed.
"Yeah… no." AJ deadpanned before standing up. He looked down when he felt Blake's hand grab his.
"Be careful, okay?" She asked out of concern.
"Of course." He promised and planted a kiss on her hand before letting go of it and walking down onto the stage.
"Alright Mr. Uncool." Aiden started as he got out one of his swords and wielded it in his left hand. "You can be uncool all you want, but here is where I'm gonna beat you down, and I'll get to show how cool I really am." He said confidently.
"What is with your obsession with cool?" AJ couldn't help but ask as he got out Bakeneko in its standard lever-action rifle form.
"Cool is all that matters!" Aiden shouted.
"If you two are done…" Glynda started, and they both quieted down. "Ready? Begin!"
AJ started off quickly and fired off three shots at Aiden, but Aiden deployed his shield that was attached to his right wrist and blocked the shots before charging. AJ mecha-shifted Bakeneko into sword form and met Aiden half way, their blades clashed and they stared each other down, bright green-gold staring at a deep dark blue. Then AJ noticed that Aiden's blades looked different from what he remembered. They weren't the straight blades colored the normal color of steel, they were shaped more like katana blades, and they were colored brown, like AJ's blades.
"Did you get new swords?" AJ asked out of curiosity.
"Yeah, I uh… 'found' them!" Aiden answered with his usual grin, before teleporting behind AJ and whispering to him. "I found some weak little Huntsman in training, all on his own, and killed him and took these swords off of him!" Aiden laughed while AJ spun around and swung at him. He blocked the attack and AJ took a step back and glared at him. "I like them better than my old blades. They're cooler, and I colored them brown."
"Let me guess, cause you think brown is a cool color?" AJ guessed before firing a blast of electricity from his hands, which Aiden dodged by teleporting behind AJ and slicing him in the back.
"No, it's honestly just because brown is my favorite color." Aiden answered before teleporting again and slicing his opponent in the back again. "What's yours?"
AJ turned and glared at Aiden, annoyed that he kept getting hit without being able to fight back, before he smiled dangerously. "Can't you tell?" A yellow streak suddenly shot out towards Aiden and he quickly brought his blades up to block the attack. "Yellow." AJ answered before dashing around to Aiden's side. "And seriously? Dual katanas? That makes no sense! You're not supposed to have two of those!" He exclaimed before swinging his sword at Aiden's side.
Aiden' blocked the attack, but just barely. He knew he needed to stay ahead of AJ's speed, so he teleported again. The instant Aiden disappeared, time froze for AJ as he moved at the speed of light to spin around and parry the attack to his side, leaving Aiden open for two slashes across his chest armor. Though much like Cardin, the armor did little and his Aura had to take the hit. Aiden glared at AJ and saw that he was going for a lunge. Aiden brought up his shield again to deflect the attack, then angrily bashed AJ away with the shield.
Aiden teleported behind AJ and lunged, but AJ had been practicing with the new power that his team had gotten, and moving at the speed of light didn't exhaust him as much as it used to, so he did it again. He dashed to the side and then spun clockwise, elbowing his opponent in the side of his head. While Aiden was reeling, AJ pulled out his pistol and fired two shots into Aiden's side.
Aiden fell over from the shots and laughed weakly before looking up at AJ. "Keep being uncool, and I might stop holding back." He threatened.
AJ wasn't amused.
Aiden left his blade on the ground and shot up to try and punch AJ, with his forest green Aura taking a mist like form around his hands and feet. AJ dropped his weapons and put his hand up to block it and put his Aura into his hand so he would be ready to block, only Aiden teleported to his left side before the hit reached his hand. AJ spun quickly to his left and deflected the swing past him with his left hand, then swung at Aiden's face with his right. Aiden leaned forward to avoid the hit before teleporting again, this time mid-air behind AJ and swinging his leg horizontally towards AJ's head. AJ spun around quickly, ready to block an attack, but he wasn't expecting the attack to be that high up when he turned around and was unable to block in time.
"That's what you get for being-" Aiden was cut off by AJ suddenly blinking to his side. AJ tripped Aiden's right foot forward with his own, while simultaneously pushing Aiden's upper body backwards, fully tripping him and sending him on his way to the ground. As Aiden fell, AJ built up electricity into his right hand and smashed his fist into Aiden's gut just before he hit the ground, making the force of him hitting the ground that much greater, and cracking the floor.
"Please just stay down you annoying son of a-" AJ was forced to stop talking when Aiden teleported again. He spun around to find the attack, and saw that Aiden had only teleported to his sword, so AJ ran over and picked up his blade and pistol, which became another blade. Aiden took out his other katana so they both had dual swords.
They both appeared in the middle of the arena and clashed blades. Aiden decided to rest his Semblance for a moment and tried to beat AJ in an actual sword fight. The flurry of blades that followed showed that they were equally matched in the swordplay department, with both of them taking a few hits.
Aiden growled in annoyance. "I am so done with your uncoolness!" Then teleported behind AJ again. AJ quickly moved to Aiden's side and spun around, clotheslining Aiden with one arm and knocking him flat on his back.
"What I just did there, that was cool. Not uncool, cool." AJ said as he looked down at him.
Aiden caught him off guard when he teleported and sliced AJ in the back again. "Shut up!" Aiden yelled angrily.
While just the thought of Aiden annoyed AJ, and the fact that he was fighting this guy annoyed him, and every time he was hit by him annoyed him, he smiled when he thought of what to say next. "For someone who likes to be cool, you sure do lose your cool easily."
Aiden growled again and was completely losing his cool vibe again. "STOP!" He teleported above AJ with both his blades above his head, glowing with green misty Aura, before slamming the blades down where AJ stood. AJ had dashed to the side with only minor assistance from his Semblance. "BEING!" Aiden ran at AJ with both his blades to his left side. AJ turned his left blade into a shield to deflect the attacks, only the force behind the attacks sent him into the wall. "UN-" AJ dashed to the side as Aiden slammed into the wall where he once was, and turned around with his rifle ready. "COOOOOL!" Aiden teleported half the distance to him, and his armor, hair, and clothes had turned green and were glowing brightly. AJ's Semblance shot up to second state when he felt the power that was coming from Aiden and put a lot of Aura into Bakeneko as it became a sword again in an attempt to block the attack. The result of the two Aura's colliding was a large explosion, and both of them being on the ground. What surprised and actually somewhat worried Glynda was how they still had Aura to spare after all that.
"Alright, this match is over!" Glynda decided. "Both of you need to stop before you destroy the school!"
"Roger that…" AJ said groggily as he sat up and was no longer in his second state/stage.
"Damn it…" Aiden grumbled, then looked at AJ and angrily mouthed out "You'll get yours." Before getting up and walking away.
The bell rang and Glynda sighed before turning to the class that was still recovering from the explosion. "Remember, the dance is this weekend, but you all have your first mission on Monday! I will not except any excuses! And if anyone is injured then please make your may to the medical room."
Blake and the others walked down to the arena where AJ was taking a moment to rest.
"Are you okay?" Blake asked immediately.
"Why did you go into that second stage of yours again!?" Weiss asked angrily.
"Alright, normally I would disagree with Weiss, but I was kind of scared for a moment when I saw you get all yellowy again." Yang said.
"Yellowy, cause that's a word." Raymond commented.
"I didn't mean to!" AJ defended. "You weren't as close as I was! You didn't feel the power that was coming from him! It felt like I was going to die if I didn't go into the second state right then and there! Besides, I'm fine! I can go into that stage for short times without anything happening!" He pointed out.
"Don't you remember me saying not to do that near us!?" Weiss asked.
"Oh yeah! You did say that, didn't you?" AJ said sheepishly.
Weiss sighed in annoyance and Sam put an arm around her to try and calm her down.
"Sorry if I scared you, Ruby." AJ said as he looked up at the girl in red.
"It's okay!" She said with a smile. "I had Isaac and there was also the barrier so I wasn't that worried."
"Good. Well, anyway, I'll be fine." AJ said as he finally stood up. 'To think that that guy was holding back! I'd rather not fight him again… might not have any choice but to go into the second state if I fight him again, and that wouldn't end well.'
The teams headed out of the amphitheater and waved to Sun and his team as they walked by them. The rest of the day went by fairly normally, and as the day ended the guys were saying goodnight to their girlfriends when they decided to act.
"So Ruby, remember that Glynda mentioned a dance this weekend?" Isaac asked.
"Yeah!"
"Do you wanna go with me to that dance?" He asked.
"Uhhh… sure!" Ruby answered hesitantly.
"What's wrong? Don't like dances?" He guessed.
"Not really. I don't like dressing all fancy and stuff like that." She answered. "And I barely got away with wearing flats when we went on our date! I'm not sure Yang will let me do that at this dance…"
"Well we'll try to make sure you wear flats then." He said with a chuckle. "But even then, just enjoy the dance, alright? Whatever happens, let's just have fun!"
His advice made her smile again. "Right! Just like our date! I just have to lighten up and enjoy it, right?"
"Right! Just smile as much as you can!" He requested. "Well, see you tomorrow then."
"Right! Goodnight!"
"Goodnight."
She kissed him on the cheek and he kissed her forehead before they went their separate ways.
"So, you wanna go to the dance this weekend?" Sam asked Weiss.
"I was wondering when you were going to ask me." She commented and chuckled. "Of course, Sam. Though I hope you know how to dance."
"I have some practice." He said proudly. "Well, goodnight then."
"Goodnight Sam."
And they kissed before going their separate ways.
AJ stared at Blake now and compared her to how she was in the show. He was so glad he had kept that problem from happening.
"Blake?" He asked the girl sitting next to him on her bed.
"Hmm?"
"Would you like to go to that dance with me?" He asked.
"Oh! You want to go to that?" She asked, surprised.
"As much as I would rather not, I've never been to any of those school dances, and I figured going to one with you wouldn't be that bad." He explained. "The others are going to be there anyway, might as well."
She smiled at him. "Well then I would love to go to the dance with you."
"Alright, great!" He exclaimed and hugged her. "Don't worry, I took dance lessons! I went through hell for you, so I wouldn't embarrass you!" He said dramatically.
She chuckled and returned the hug. "Dork. I wouldn't have been embarrassed if you couldn't dance. We could have just not danced if you didn't want too."
"Well that won't be happening. I did not go through hell for nothing!"
"Alright, alright. We'll dance!" She conceded and they both laughed.
"You saw what Aiden did in my fight, right?" AJ asked Raymond when they walked into their dorm.
"Yep." Raymond answered. "You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Probably." AJ answered before going to bed.
"Sam!" Yang yelled across the ballroom.
"What!?"
"Would you get over here and tell Weiss that we won't have doilies!?" Yang demanded.
"What makes you think I'm going to help you!?" Sam asked in response. "I might just side with her, you know!?"
"Just stay out of this, Sam!" Weiss ordered.
"Oh don't worry, I will!" Sam said and went back to his work.
Team RWBY was supposed to finish the work on the ballroom so it would be ready for the dance, and since the guys were hanging out with them, they were proper gentleman and offered to help them. Which left Isaac and Yang carrying the massive sound systems and everyone else working on the various decorations.
AJ and Raymond noticed that Sun and Neptune never came in, and nothing of note happened while the two teams decorated everything.
It was now the night of the dance, and in the all guys dorm, the guys were all ready for their dates, or just going to the dance to hang out with everyone. It was the same in the RWBY dorm, everyone was dressed nicely and ready to go out to the ballroom. AJ and Raymond had started going over what had happened in canon in terms of the dance, and what would probably happen now, but AJ was sidetracked by what he and Blake were going to do and abruptly left the dorm to go meet Blake. Raymond however, kept his focus, and realized what he would have to do.
With a serious look on his face, Raymond left the dorm after his teammates did, and walked right past them all as he headed for the ballroom.
"Wow… you look amazing, Blake." He heard AJ say as he walked by.
Blake chuckled at his stunned expression. "You look good too! Come on! Let's go!"
"You look fine, Ruby, don't worry." Isaac said. "I see you were able to get away with flats."
"Thankfully!" Ruby said with a sigh of relief.
"You look as beautiful as ever, Weiss." Sam complimented.
"And you look very handsome as well, Sam." Weiss responded.
"Of course I do." He mumbled just loud enough for her to hear him, and she punched him in the shoulder, making him laugh. The only reason he did it was for her reaction.
Raymond made it before the others and entered the ballroom.
"Hey there Ray! Nice suit!" Yang commented.
"Thanks. You look good too, Yang." He responded. "Hey, umm… I didn't come with a date. Do you maybe have time to have a dance with me later?"
"Of course! Just a few more minutes and I'll come find you, alright?" Yang asked.
"Alright." Raymond nodded and went to find a seat and wait.
"Hey! The couples are all here!" Yang exclaimed as her teammates and their boyfriends all walked in together.
"Hey, Yang, did Raymond come through here already?" AJ asked.
"Yeah! He's just over there." Yang pointed in Raymond's direction and Raymond waved at them.
"Alright, just wondering. Thanks." AJ said.
"Do you want to go dance now, or later?" Blake asked him.
"I might as well dance a bit now… why not both?" He responded.
"Sure." She said and they found a spot amongst the other dancers.
"Can we dance later?" Ruby asked Isaac.
"Sure, but we will be dancing later." He said.
"Alright, I just really would like to sit down for a little bit, and maybe get some punch." Ruby explained.
"That's fine. Let's do that." He said and they walked away.
"Alright, you said you could dance. Let's see how well you can actually dance." Weiss said to Sam.
He gave a smirk that said 'challenge accepted'. "Alright, fine." And they both went to the dance floor as well.
"You guys are just in time!" Yang said to the people walking in.
"Wouldn't miss it for the world." Mercury said as he and Emerald walked in.
'Weird. I thought Aiden would be here and bother AJ and Blake… Where is he then?' Raymond thought, then noticed Yang walk up to him.
"Well, you wanted a dance, right?" She asked him, and held a hand out to him.
He nodded. "Right." And took her hand as they went to have a dance.
"You're better than I thought you would be." Weiss commented as she and Sam finished their dance and went to find a seat.
"Well, I did say I had practice." He responded.
"For someone who said they hate dancing, you seem to be enjoying this." Blake said with a smile.
"Eh, my issues with it kind of go away when it's you that I'm dancing with." He responded, making her blush lightly. "It helps that I practiced, though. That really helps."
"Hey, you're not half bad a dancer." Yang commented.
"Well, my team kind of spent some time down in Vale getting dance lessons, believe it or not." Raymond admitted.
"Really? All of you did?" Yang asked, surprised.
"Yeah. What was interesting was we saw Jaune there a couple of times." Raymond said.
"Jaune was getting dance lessons too?" Yang asked.
"No, he was a volunteer helping us learn to dance." Raymond said, shocking her.
"Vomit Boy can dance!?" Yang exclaimed. "Huh. I never would have thought."
"Alright, there's one thing that I still don't like about this whole dance." AJ started as he and Blake sat down after their dance.
"What?"
"The freaking music! It's boring!" AJ whined. He saw Pyrrha walking up the steps and Jaune following her. He tilted his head in confusion. 'Weird. I thought Jaune would try and go with Pyrrha since Sam had Weiss. Oh! Maybe if their team does their dance then the music will stop being boring!'
"What is it?" She asked him.
"Nothing. Thought I saw something." He lied.
"Do you think you saw Aiden? Is that it?" Blake guessed.
He went with it. "Uh… yeah. At least I thought it was him, but it was probably nothing."
When Raymond and Yang finished dancing they joined Ruby and Isaac.
"This has been pretty fun so far." Raymond commented as they sat down.
"Yeah, I think we really needed this." Yang said.
"Yeah!" Ruby agreed. "And we all did a great job planning it! Thanks for helping us you guys!"
"Anything for my little rose." Isaac said lovingly and kissed her on the head.
"Anytime." Raymond said. "It was actually kind of nice to be doing work that wasn't school work, or killing Grimm, or sparring."
"Although I wouldn't mind more of those last two." Yang commented, then sighed. "And tomorrow it's back to doing all that lame work…"
"I'm sure we'll be fine." Isaac said.
"Yeah! Our teams can beat whatever is thrown at us!"
"Umm…" Isaac started.
"Except for that?" Raymond guessed.
"Yeah…" Ruby answered.
Blake started chuckling. "What is it?" AJ asked, and Blake simply pointed to where she was looking.
Jaune was in a dress, and was approaching Pyrrha. Everyone quickly began looking to the source of the laughter that Jaune completely ignored.
"I'm sorry I didn't ask you earlier." Jaune started. "But I'm here now, and a promise is a promise."
Pyrrha couldn't hold back her laughter. "Jaune, you didn't have to!" She said between laughs.
"Like I said, a promise is a promise. An Ark never goes back on his word!" Jaune responded. "Now are you gonna stand there and laugh at me, or do you want to dance?" He held out a hand to her.
Pyrrha took his hand. "I, would love too!"
'Yes! Boring music is over!' AJ mentally cheered.
And suddenly the laughter turned to cheering as the mood in the ballroom shifted and everyone that was standing broke out dancing.
Raymond looked up and saw Emerald and Mercury looking over everyone and remembered how canon went. 'Well, here we go.' "This is fun to watch and all, but I gotta use the restroom. Be right back." He said before walking away.
As he expected, all the guards in front of the building were knocked out and poorly hidden. He found the elevator where two more guards were knocked out and went up said elevator.
"I know someone's in here. Come out, now." Raymond said threateningly.
To his surprise, Cinder obeyed his command and stood up from her hiding spot.
"Hi there!" Raymond said with a false smile. "This isn't a masquerade party, you know?" He dropped the fake smile. "So take off the mask!"
Cinder responded just as she had done in canon with glass crystals being created and fired at him. He created a wall between them to block the attack. He created a sword in both of his hands and lunged at her. She created dual daggers of glass and deflected his attacks easily, but when she struck back, he was also able to keep up with her attacks.
Neither knew that the other was holding back.
Raymond let out a pulse of energy from his hands to throw her back, and she recovered mid-air, turning her glass into a bow with three arrows primed and ready. She let loose her arrows and he created a wall to block the attacks. The wall was intentionally weak and shattered from the attacks and he was hit in the chest by one of the arrows. He fell on his back and groaned a bit before looking up, and she was gone.
He sighed. 'Well, we won't have to follow canon for much longer, then we can change things.' He then heard the elevator open behind him and saw General Ironwood standing inside it. "Sorry, I tried to stop them but they got away." 'Seriously! Where is Aiden!?'
Back in the ballroom, AJ had an idea.
"I'll be right back, okay?"
"Sure. What are you doing?" Blake asked as he stood up.
"You'll see." He said as he walked away and headed towards the DJ's.
"Excuse me?" He asked and the DJ's turned towards him. "After that one song, I think the ballroom dance theme is a bit broken. So… can I suggest a song? You don't have to, but if you could, that would be great."
"I see your point. What song do you want then?" One of the DJ's asked.
"Hey, Blake, come on!" AJ said excitedly as he grabbed Blake's hand and pulled her up.
"What!? What is it!?" She asked, confused.
"I got a song going for us." He answered, then motioned for Isaac and Sam to come up with their dates.
"What is it?" Isaac asked when he, Ruby, Sam, and Weiss all met up with AJ and Blake on the dance floor.
"I got a song going for all of us, get ready." He explained before he and Blake walked away to find a spot to dance.
"So I guess we're finally gonna dance." Isaac said to Ruby.
Ruby sighed. "Alright, I'll try. I'm not sure I'll do that good though…"
He grabbed her by the chin and made her look up at him. "What did I tell you?"
"Smile." She answered and smiled again. "Alright, I'm ready to dance!"
"Good! Let's go!" He said and they both walked away to find a spot as other dancers started coming over to the dance floor.
"I hope he picked a good song…" Weiss said.
"Knowing him, probably not…" Sam said.
The song is 'Gold (feat. Casey Lee Williams)' by Jeff Williams. Make sure to listen to the song, it's better that way.
"…Or maybe it'll actually be an appropriate song!" Sam added.
Blake realized what the song was as it began, and then as they began dancing to the song AJ started singing it to her.
Dream of anything, I'll make it all come true!
Everything you need, is all I have for you!
His eyes were solely on her and she could see that his eyes were filled with love, all of it for her.
I'm forever, always by your side,
Whenever you need a friend, never far behind.
If the stars all fall, when there's no more light,
And the moon should crumble, it will be alright.
And so she started singing along with him.
Don't you worry about the dark,
I will light up the night with the love in my heart.
I will burn like the sun, I will keep you safe and warm.
'Leave it to AJ to pick a song like this!' Yang thought as she watched her friends all dancing with their loves.
They had all heard this song before, and it was at that point that Isaac realized why AJ said he had picked the song for 'all of us.'
So Isaac started singing the next part of the song to Ruby.
Like the smell of a rose on a summer's day, I will be there to take all your fears away.
Ruby blushed as he sang that part to her.
With a touch of my hand I will turn your life to,
Gold!
With a touch of my hand, I'll turn your life to gold.
Let's have everything, nothing we cannot do.
Every heart just beaming, every sky turns blue.
AJ cupped his hand to Blake's cheek as he sang the next part.
I'm so happy, just to have you here. Smiles bringing sunshine, worries disappear.
She blushed and smiled brightly at him and began singing with him again.
When the days turn dark, and we start to fall,
I will pick you up and we will fix it all.
Ruby now joined in the singing as well.
Don't you worry about the dark, I will light up the night with the love in my heart.
I will burn like the sun, I will keep you safe and warm.
And as much as she blushed, she managed to sing along to her part of the song as well.
Like the smell of a rose on a summer's day, I will be there to take all your fears away.
With a touch of my hand, I will turn your life to gold…
Gold…
The pace of everyone's dancing slowed down to match the song, but Blake, AJ, and Isaac still kept singing.
Don't worry, I've got you. Nothing will ever harm you.
I'm close by, I'll stay here. Through all things, I will be near.
Close your eyes, don't you cry.
Love's around you, in time you'll fly.
Sam and Weiss both smiled as they gave in and started singing along as well.
Don't you worry about the dark, I will light up the night with the love in my heart.
I will burn like the sun, I will keep you safe and warm.
Like the smell of a rose on a summer's day, I will be there to take all your fears away.
With a touch of my hand I will turn your life to,
AJ and Blake embraced each other and kissed each other deeply, Isaac took Ruby's hand and leaned forward to plant a kiss on it, and Sam and Weiss both locked their hands together and planted a soft kiss on each other's lips.
Gold!
The six of them all lovingly stared into each other's eyes as the song came to an end.
With a touch of my hand, I will turn your life to gold.
Like I said some number of chapters ago, hopeless romantic.
Hope you all are enjoying, and I hope you have a great day.