WEDNESDAY
"So, what's your plan to kill me?" Weiss asked the faunus.
Blake couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah, like I'll tell you."
"You guys are gonna go at it, aren't ya?" Yang grinned.
"You better watch your cute ears and your back, Belladonna, because I'm coming after you," Weiss teasingly threatened.
"What? Are you going to have your minions do your dirty work as always?" Blake countered with a smirk.
A crowd slowly formed once again as Weiss and Blake had their staredown and "ooooooh'd" at the burn.
"Of course not," Weiss huffed. "In the end, I'll have to shoot you."
"I'd watch yourself 24/7 then…" Blake leaned in. "Because I refuse to lose."
"Fine," the white-haired girl huffed. "We'll see who ends up cracking under pressure first."
The two knew that now the game was just as much psychological as it was physical. They needed to pull out all their guns, literally and figuratively.
Pyrrha sighed. "Woah, things are getting heated..."
Yang whispered in Pear's ear. "Whose side are you on?"
Pyrrha held her chin in thought and she glanced back between Weiss and Blake. "I would have to say Blake just because she didn't shoot me. What about you?"
"I want both to win, but if I had to pick, Weiss." Yang replied.
"Why?" Pear was shocked the blonde wasn't on the kitten's side.
Yang shrugged. "Don't you think it would be hilarious if that tiny thing won?" the blonde laughed. "Oh, god. Beating EVERYONE, even against the big, tough, burly guys."
"That would be funny, but her reason for winning sucks!" Pear whined.
"We all had our own selfish reasons for winning," the blonde said. "But I do agree that she's the last person that needs the money."
"You never told me how good she was." Pear reminded.
Yang's eyes shifted to Weiss. "Maybe your level. I wish you saw the battle."
"So, no one else knows that she's pretending to be horrible?" Pear asked.
"Yep," Yang said while popping the p. "They just know she's good at strategy...but she knows I know, and I bet she already knows that I told you at some point."
That sent a shiver up Pear's spine. "Still betting on Blake."
Weiss was walking in the hallway towards her next class. She had a strange feeling that someone had been following her since the day started. She wasn't sure who was following her, but she felt a pair of eyes on her at all times.
I bet it's either Blake or a person on her side...good thing they can't do anything in school. This is just all part of her plan...too bad, Belladonna! You'll be the one to crack first!
Weiss sped up her pace to get further away from the rhythmic footsteps tailing her. Once she turned a corner, she stopped in her tracks, intent on getting a view of the stalker.
Once the stalker followed Weiss around the corner, the Ice Queen spun on her heel and caught a glimpse of red hair before the figure dove into the nearest trashcan. The trashcan tipped over with the stalker in it and caused a loud commotion.
Weiss walked over and placed her hands on her hips as she looked down at the stalker. "Dammit, Pyrrha! You're on Blake's side?"
"Eheheh," Pear barely managed a laugh as she tried to wiggle out of the trashcan. "Surprise?"
Weiss huffed and walked away, leaving Pyrrha behind.
"Wait!" Pyrrha pleaded. "I'm stuck!"
As if on cue, Mr. and Mrs. Port walked by and saw Pear's predicament.
Barbara leaned down. "Well, well, what do we have here?"
"Help a girl out?" Pyrrha weakly asked.
Mr. Port sighed. "Why should we? We won't be getting our burritos!"
Pear frowned. "Okay, okay. Tell you what, whoever wins, I'll make them pay for your guaranteed burritos."
The couple shrugged and leaned down. Barbara proceeded to pull out her purse and the two grabbed butcher knives to help Pyrrha out of the trash can.
"WHA-WHAT!? YOU CAN'T HAVE BUTCHER KNIVES IN SCHOOL!" Pear shrieked, hoping to attract attention.
"Sh, sh," Mrs. Port cooed. "This won't hurt."
Weiss heard shrieks in the distance and smirked when she knew it was Pyrrha.
After class, Weiss headed to the library to study during lunch. She cautiously surveyed her surroundings and concluded that she wasn't being followed anymore.
After pulling out a book from the bookshelf, she took a seat at one of the tables. Her full attention was focused on studying the material.
"Target sighted," Pear mumbled into her microphone.
Weiss' ears caught the statement. The library was very quiet after all.
"Excellent," a different voice said in Pear's earpiece. "Just keep watching her at all times, over."
"Roger that," Pear replied.
"Roger, what? Over." The voice asked.
Pyrrha sighed, "Roger that, over."
"That's better, over." The voice replied.
Weiss was fuming. That voice sure wasn't keeping it down and seemed like it was close to her.
This is a library! Shut it or I'll shut it for you!
Pyrrha continued to watch Weiss. "This is boring," she said into the microphone.
"This is what? Over," the voice asked for clarification.
"So I HAVE to say over?" Pear asked the voice.
"Have to say what? Over." The voice replied.
"So I HAVE to say over?" Pear sighed, losing patience.
"Have to say what? Over," the voice replied.
"Wait, so I have to say over even when my sentence ends with over...? Over." Pear said.
"Ah, that's much better, over." The voice replied.
Pyrrha fumed. "SCREW THIS, BLAKE."
"Screw what? Over." Blake easily replied.
"YOU!" Weiss angrily approached the end of the aisle. "What the hell are you doing, following me around?!"
Pear panicked and spoke into the microphone. "Abort mission! Abort mission!"
"Abort what? Over," the faunus asked.
Pyrrha's eye twitched. "ABORT MISSION," she proceeded to knock over a bookshelf to block Weiss' view of her.
The shelf tumbled down and Weiss flipped out of the way, escaping with her life.
Pear walked out of the library and muttered. "...over."
Weiss scanned the scene and saw the aftermath. The bookshelf Pyrrha slammed into was leaning on the others, if Weiss didn't hold them up, the whole library would collapse in a domino effect.
"That's a whole lot of not my problem," Weiss said out loud as she took her leave.
As she exited the library, she heard several screams and crashing noises shaking the school.
"Give me that," Blake grabbed Pear's microphone and earpiece. "Yeah, you're done. Stealth just isn't your thing, over."
Pear scowled. "Over!" she yelled with finality and knocked Blake's cheese fries out of her grasp.
A beacon was sent out. "BeaconHS_Assassins2015: Just so you know, if you can't shoot your target by friday, there will be a sudden death! So good luck and go all out."
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Weiss, Yang, Ren, Neptune and Ruby were walking in the middle of the street. Each of them was armed and ready for an ambush. Weiss felt safe knowing her companions were on her side for one reason or another.
The group was out to hopefully catch Blake Belladonna, but that's easier said than done. Assassins has to end by Friday, if there wasn't a winner by then, there would be an issue.
Dim streetlights flickered in the pitch black darkness. This was their only source of light, so getting a visual would be a challenge. They neared Blake's house, which was pretty close to Weiss' house. They decided to walk to show Blake that she would be outnumbered, so she would come to her senses and give up.
They thought that this would be their final attack, and planned accordingly.
"Alright," Weiss turned around to face the group. "Just cover me at all times and hopefully Belladonna will surrender."
"Blakey won't just give up," the blonde chimed. "She's probably planned something too."
"I'm willing to bet she has her own minions," Ruby said. "Didn't you say Pyrrha was on her side?"
"Yes, and if Pyrrha is on Blake's side, so is Jaune." Weiss concluded. "But I wouldn't worry too much about him."
Ruby snickered. "He's so hopeless."
"I'm also willing to bet that Velvet and Coco are with Blake," Weiss mused. "Coco would do anything for the legendary bellabooty, and Velvet is a fellow faunus."
The group continued walking down the street until Blake's house came into view.
"Alright," the white-haired girl said. "Ruby, I want you two to scope out the area."
"On it, boss!" Ruby gave a salute as she bolted off.
"Ren, Neptune and Yang, you'll be staying with me." Weiss said.
Suddenly, there was a squeal in the distance that sounded distinctly like Ruby's.
Yang, Neptune and Ren got in their fighting stances with their guns pointed in different directions.
A figure appeared from the shadows. "Hello, Weiss. You have your lackeys at it again, I see."
Yang fumed. "What did you do to Rubes!?"
Blake laughed. "Don't worry, she's...in a better place…"
Meanwhile…
Ruby squealed in delight. "Oh! A cookie!" she picked up the cookie and ate it.
She then saw that there was a trail of cookies leading to Blake's house.
"Oh, a piece of cookie!" Red picked it up and ate it. "Oh! A piece of cookie!"
She kept following the long trail...and enjoying the sweet deliciousness that were chocolate chip cookies, completely forgetting about the plan.
"You...you monster!" Yang yelled and launched herself at Blake.
Blake dodged the attack and sprinted straight for the Ice Queen, but Ren and Neptune shielded her.
"What do you guys get if you protect her?!" Blake shouted as she stepped back. "She doesn't even need the money!"
"Don't act like you're alone, Belladonna." Weiss crossed her arms. "You can tell them they can come out now."
The faunus sighed. "There really is no tricking you." she snapped her fingers.
Jaune, Pyrrha, Velvet, and Coco rose from the bushes and into the dim streetlight.
"As expected…" the white-haired girl mumbled.
"GET THEM!" Blake announced and began chasing after Weiss.
Before Blake could reach Weiss, however, a car honked at the group because they needed to cross the street.
"Ugh, guys." Neptune pointed. "Car. There's a car coming."
Everyone sighed and stepped onto the sidewalk for the car to pass.
The person in the car rolled the window down and shouted. "You kids better take this somewhere else or I'm calling the cops!"
"THEY'RE WATER GUNS, ASSHOLE!" Blake shot the person inside and scoped the scene for her target, only to find she was gone.
"SHIT!" Blake exclaimed. "Pyrrha, Jaune, Velvet, Coco: keep these guys distracted while I go after Weiss!"
The car drove away while the driver yelled. "YOU ROTTEN KIDS!"
The group battled it out with Weiss' allies as Blake chased the white-haired girl.
Blake frantically looked around the area. She couldn't afford to be ambushed, so she stayed hidden in the shadows. She figured that Weiss would probably head home to think of a new plan, so Blake scampered to the castle. Just as she arrived, she saw Weiss walk through the giant gates that separated the castle from the outside.
You're not getting away if I can help it!
The faunus jumped out of the shadows and on top of the gate in time to see Weiss look behind her shoulder. Blake wasted no time and shot her water gun multiple times at the white-haired girl.
Weiss did several back flips and avoided the barrage of streams. "GUARDS!" She yelled and sprinted into her home.
What the hell?! Blake thought. No one told me she could pull those moves!
Guards came rushing out and tried to apprehend Blake, but she jumped away and into the shadows once more.
THURSDAY
Weiss took the liberty of following the faunus around this time. Blake almost got her out the night before, so she wanted to be extra cautious.
Blake noticed that she was being followed and swiftly went into the men's bathroom.
The white-haired girl was shocked that Blake would do that to shake her off, but followed her into the restroom nonetheless.
Firmly in the bathroom, Weiss looked around to see that Blake was out of sight.
Where the hell did she go?
Weiss decided to check each stall. She kicked them open, and on the last one, revealed a shitting Jaune fiddling on his phone.
"A-Ah! Weiss?!" Jaune let out a girly shriek. "What are you doing here?!"
Weiss glowered and slammed the door shut, trying to get the image out of her head.
Blake smirked and knew she won that round. As she crawled in the vents, she heard Jaune's scream echo for what seemed like miles.
Sorry, not sorry, Jaune. She giggled.
The faunus knew that Weiss had an after school activity that lasted until it was past 3:15 P.M. That meant that Blake could shoot her target in the parking lot and it would be allowed.
When she saw Weiss walking to her car alone, she jumped out and sprinted to shoot her in the back.
Weiss heard the rapid footsteps and quickly snapped her fingers once.
Blake wondered why she would do that, but continued pursuing her target.
Neptune rolled over a car directly next to Blake and tackled her to the ground.
"Wha-what the hell?!" Blake shouted. "Where'd you come from!?"
Neptune got off her. "It's all-good, Weiss!" he gave a thumbs up. "You're safe to go home!"
"Thanks, Neptune!" Weiss waved and drove away.
"What the fuck?!" Blake yelped as she watched her target get away safely.
Blake stopped by the library to grab one of her favorite book series. The copies were running out and the faunus figured it was now or never. Blake of course never set foot out in public without her trustee water gun holstered on her back.
As she pulled the book off the shelf, she noticed blue hair peaking out of the corner of an aisle.
Great...it's Neptune.
Blake remained calm and dialed Ruby's number and moved further back in the store. After the call, she hung up and waited...
Neptune's phone rang and he frantically picked it up. He was supposed to be stealthy and on a mission, dammit!
"Yeah, Ruby?" He asked in an annoyed tone.
"Hey, Neptune!" Ruby beamed. "Blake told me to call you to distract you!"
"Wait, what?!"
"Yep!" Red chirped. "She's probably gone by now!"
Neptune looked over and noticed Blake had disappeared. "Shit…"
"Neptune?" Ruby asked. "You there?"
Blake sighed as she crawled through the vents.
Why the hell do I know every ventilation system in Remnant?
Toto: Hopefully you guys caught the Family Guy references!
And can we please talk about how freaking amazing volume 3 is going to be!? A NEW TEAM, QROW AND WINTER'S DESIGNS AND THE BATTLE FIELD LOOK BEAST!
I leave for college on the 16th, so I hope to finish this story for you guys before then! Two chapters to go!