Here we are at Chapter 20. And so begins Volume 2 of RWBY (along with one of my favorite fight scenes in the show). I couldn't really think of what to do as a filler chapter before this, and with my limited time frame, I just decided to go right into it. I do not own RWBY. They belong to Roosterteeth. I only own my OCs. Here's chapter 20. Enjoy.
Chapter 20: Food Wars
…In the Beacon Cafeteria, just before the second semester…
It is around lunch hour as many students of Beacon Academy are in the cafeteria, eating and talking about various things, trying to enjoy themselves before classes start up again the next day. At one table, Team RWBY and Team KEPL are eating their lunches, with Khazhak across from Yang at the end of the table, followed by Reaper across from Blake, Porphyrius across from Weiss, and then Lloyd next to Porphyrius. Right now, Blake is looking in her note book, filled with notes, but these notes are on the White Fang and their activities. Blake looks intensely at the notes until Yang slides over to her left.
"Whatcha doing?" Yang playfully asks.
"Nothing. Just…going over notes from last semester," Blake lies, closing her book as Weiss tries to take a look at it before looking at her.
"Sure you are," Khazhak mutters, drinking some water with his eyes closed before he suddenly moves his head left in order to evade a thrown piece of food coming from behind him, which ends up caught by Yang in her mouth. "You're gonna have to do better than that. Nora," he says without looking back.
"Notes are lame," Yang says while eating the food.
Weiss, Blake, and Lloyd look back to the table behind them to see Team JNPR, with Nora flinging small pieces of food at Khazhak while the other members look on, smiling. Another piece of food gets flung at Khazhak, who easily evades the food without looking back, to which Yang catches the food in her mouth again, and gives Nora a thumbs up. Suddenly, Ruby comes up and places a giant binder filled with papers on the table, making everyone reel back except Khazhak who just looks on with wide eyes. The binder has the words, "Vytal Festival Activities. Property of Weiss Schnee" crossed out with red marker, and below them, in big red letters, is "Best Day Ever Activities!"
"Ahem. Sisters, friends…Weiss," Ruby says.
"Hey!" Weiss retorts.
"Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream," Ruby begins.
"This outta be good," Yang says to Blake before she catches a berry flung at her in her mouth, once more missing Khazhak.
"What does the little rose have in store for us this time?" Khazhak mutters to Reaper before turning back to Ruby.
"A dream that one day, the four of us would come together, as a team, and have the most fun anyone has ever had. EVER!" Ruby proclaims.
"Did you steal my binder?" Weiss accuses her.
"It has your name on it," Reaper points out.
"I am not a crook," Ruby says, her hands showing peace signs.
Blake raises an eyebrow, "What are you talking about?" she asks.
"I'm talking about kicking off this semester with a bang!" she says, pointing at Blake.
"I always kick my semesters off with a YANG," Yang makes a pun, much to everyone's displeasure as they shake their heads. "Eh, guys, am I right?" she asks.
"That was terrible, Yang," Khazhak says, hearing Nora booing behind him and then moves his head again as Nora throws an apple that hits Yang in the face. "Couldn't have said it better myself."
"Look guys, it's been a good two weeks, and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year, our second semester's going to be great. But, classes start back up tomorrow, which is why I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today," Ruby says.
"I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store," Weiss comments as Yang throws an apple back at Team JNPR's table, hearing something break on their side.
"I'm going with the second choice," Porphyrius says.
"I don't know…I think I might sit this one out," Blake tries to back out.
"Sit out or not, I think however we spend this last day, we should do it as a team…" Weiss says as Yang starts waving her hands while having a worried look on her face and saying "no" repeatedly.
Khazhak notices this and quickly moves, "Team, duck!" he quickly says and his team duck their heads.
Weiss stands up, "I for one think-," Weiss begins until a pie is thrown and hits her in the face.
Everyone at their table look back to see Nora in a throwing position before pointing her finger at Ren, who is facepalming, Pyrrha covering her mouth in shock, and Jaune going wide-eyed.
"Oh no…" Khazhak mutters, knowing what's coming next.
Just outside the cafeteria, Sun Wukong is talking with his friend, Neptune Vasilias, as they reach the entrance.
"Okay, they're just in here. I'm really excited for you to meet them, so be cool, okay? You're gonna be cool, right?" Sun asks.
"Dude…" Neptune comments, striking a pose with his arms crossed, and him showing a nice shiny white smile.
"…Good point," Sun says.
The two then enter the cafeteria, only for Sun to have a big smile and Neptune to have a shocked face, as all of the students start running past them.
"FOOD FIGHT!" some of them shout.
Nora laughs, "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" She shouts as Team JNPR stand atop some lunch tables stacked on top of each other like a fortress that almost reaches the ceiling.
In front of them, some lunch tables, and food, have been knock to the side or the floor with only a single row of tables with some food on them still standing. On the other side of the cafeteria is Team RWBY while off to one side in the middle is Team KEPL.
Ruby stands one leg on a table, making the food bounce up for a moment, all the while holding a carton of milk.
"Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful!" she yells, crushing the milk carton while pointing at Team JNPR. "It will be DELICIOUS!" She yells, pumping her fist in the air as her teammates join her, screaming, and ready for battle.
"Off with their heads!" Nora says as she jumps down behind a table with watermelons all over it.
Ren flips over one tray with three watermelons on it, landing on it which makes them jump up before he kicks them towards Team RWBY, Jaune grabs one watermelon on the ground before throwing it at them, Pyrrha throws two watermelons, and Nora tosses up the table, sending all the watermelons on it at them. Meanwhile, Team KEPL look on.
"So, are we getting in on this action?" Lloyd asks.
"Well, I'm leaving. I'm not sticking-," Khazhak begins before a random watermelon crashes into his face and bursts open. His teammates slowly take a step back before he wipes the watermelon pieces off his face, a scowl clear on it. "Team KEPL…We're going to war," he angrily mutters.
"Yang, turkey!" Ruby tells Yang, to which the blonde brawler grabs two turkeys and wears them like boxing gloves, smashing her fist together like with her own weapons.
Yang smashes two watermelons in the air before back-flipping to evade another one. She the starts running forward while simultaneously smashing seven more watermelons at her. Blake then jumps over her, rolling on the ground while grabbing two bread baguettes and starts running with Yang behind her. Using the bread baguettes like her swords, Blake takes out two watermelons and then Yang jumps over her, kicking another watermelon in the air, before landing and launching her turkey gloves like rounds from her shotgun gauntlets. Pyrrha rolls out of the way of the turkey rounds, but Jaune gets hit by one of them before he turns around only to be hit by the second one, knocking him out for the rest of the fight. Pyrrha grabs a long bread baguette and looks up to see Blake dropping down on her. Pyrrha slides back to evade Blake stabbing her with the bread baguettes, and goes to attack Blake with hers. However, just as they were about to clash, Khazhak suddenly shows up, with two long bread baguettes being used as swords, and he clashes his bread baguettes with both of theirs while in between them.
"Khazhak?!" Blake yells.
"The thing about war…There's always a third party," He says while eyeing Blake before turning to Pyrrha. "And it's usually the third party that wins the war," he says.
Khazhak then pushes the both of them back before he attacks Pyrrha first, spinning his body while slashing at her with his bread baguettes, making Pyrrha block the attacks while being pushed back. Blake comes in from behind Khazhak, but Khazhak back kicks her, and then front kicks Pyrrha before performing a downward slash with his left bread baguette and then making a right slash as he spins at Blake from behind him. He then does three more slashes, with Blake blocking the first two and then using her semblance to evade the third. Pyrrha comes back again, and Khazhak rolls backwards to avoid Blake's counterattack and simultaneously pushing off his hands and kicking Pyrrha, who blocks the attack. Blake charges at Khazhak again, but Khazhak blocks her downward slash with his left baguette and then makes an upward slash with his right, which sends Blake into the air. While in the air, Blake throws her right baguette at him while Pyrrha comes at his rear again. Khazhak blocks the thrown baguette before dropping his own and then elbowing Pyrrha in the gut with his right elbow. Everything goes slow motion as Pyrrha releases her baguette before flying back, and then Khazhak, with the same arm, punches three baguettes all at once, sending them flying at Yang as the slow motion ends. Yang punches one, kicks the second, but the third hits her stomach, knocking her to the ground. As Yang hits the ground, Ruby comes in, using a food tray like a snowboard, and slides across the row of table. But as she's moving, she sees French fries flying at her like bullets, and picks up another tray to use as a shield. She looks at her right so see Porphyrius with his signature weapon firing French fries at her.
"Hey! That's no fair!" she complains while evading his attack.
"There's only one rule in war: survive! Not my fault if you get beat!" he retorts as he continues his attack.
Ruby evades the fire for another moment before she jumps in the air and tries to hit Khazhak with her tray. Khazhak counters with a roundhouse kick that knocks her back and then jumps out of the way before Ren and Nora can get at him, forcing them to go after Ruby instead. Ruby jumps back as Weiss comes forth with a ketchup bottle. Using it like her sword, Weiss unleashes a spray of ketchup across the floor in front of her, making Ren slip, fall, and slide across it until he passes them and crashes into some tables with food like a bowling ball. As Ren flies in the air, Nora jumps onto and runs along a table before jumping off of it and grabbing a metal pole on the wall. She breaks it off the wall, and then sticks it into a watermelon as she lands, turning it into a Warhammer like her weapon. She spins and prepares to smash it at Weiss, but Ruby moves in front of her and takes the hit, knocking her back while Weiss rolls to the side and grabs a swordfish with her left hand. Using it like her normal sword, Weis shoots over and stabs it at Nora, making her jump back. Nora quickly recovers and jumps at Weiss, but before they clash, Lloyd shows up, holding six knives in between his knuckles similar to his claws, and stops both of their attacks.
Lloyd laughs almost evilly, "Let's have some fun!" he maniacally says.
Lloyd pushes them back before he swipes his left knives at Weiss and then swings his right at Nora. Weiss begins stabbing her swordfish at Lloyd, who blocks or deflects the attacks. Nora jumps over them, preparing to smash them both, but Weiss and Lloyd notice and jump back, making Nora miss. Nora runs at Weiss and begins spinning her watermelon hammer a few times while Weiss tries to strike her with her sword. However, just before Nora knocks her back, Lloyd grabs the end of her watermelon hammer, and flings her across the cafeteria behind him. Weiss takes this chance to strike at Lloyd, but Lloyd catches the swordfish's blade in between his left knives. He pulls them up, leaving Weiss open for him to perform a powerful front kick, hitting her and causing a shockwave as she gets sent flying back, taking some tables with her, and crashes into a pillar at one end of the cafeteria, knocking her unconscious. As the pillar breaks and begins to fall down along with Weiss, Ruby sees this and jumps up to catch Weiss, landing with her carrying Weiss bridal-style as she remains unconscious.
"Weiss! Weiss! Don't leave me! NOOOOOOOO!" Ruby dramatically cries as the pillar crashes on the ground behind them before Yang runs behind them.
Yang grabs two more turkey boxing gloves, while Ren from the opposite side grabs two leeks. Just as the two are about to clash, Porphyrius shows up and fires off more French fries with his weapon at them. Yang and Ren are forced to take cover behind some tables, but they already fell into the trap. From behind them, Khazhak shows up with two more baguettes as swords and kicks another table at them. Yang and Ren jump over the attack, but then Yang gets pelted by French fries from Porphyrius while Ren tries to defend himself from Khazhak. The two exchange food blades as Khazhak swings his right baguette at him, followed by a low swing with his left. Ren avoids both attacks and then counters with a few swings from his leeks. However, at one point, Khazhak catches one of his leeks with his mouth, pulling it out of Ren's grip and spitting it out. Khazhak then goes in for the kill by swinging his baguettes wildly, knocking Ren's remaining leek out of his hands. Khazhak then makes a few successful hits with his baguettes before spin kicking Ren right into the table castle that Nora made, causing it to collapse. Meanwhile, Yang runs behind a few more tables to avoid Porphyrius' assault, and then smashes her turkey fists into the ground to send the tables bouncing up into the air. She then punches each of them at Porphyrius, forcing him to jump back and make a temporary retreat.
Yang then jumps back when Nora smashes her watermelon hammer at her. Yang and Nora charge at each other, with Yang throwing a right fist while Nora swings her hammer upwards. Nora's hammer smashes Yang first, breaking it and sending Yang flying THROUGH the ceiling, making a huge hole in it. Blake backflips to avoid the falling debris before she grabs a line of hotdogs connected together and uses it as a whip. Spinning the hotdog whip a few times, she swings it at Nora, hitting her and sending her colliding into a soda machine behind her, causing soda cans to poor out of the broken machine. Nora rolls on the ground while grabbing two and throws one of them at Blake like a grenade. Blake jumps back as it explodes in a purple explosion and does a few backflips. Nora throws more soda grenades at her, to which Blake evades. However, when Nora throws another soda grenade, it gets knock away in mid-air by another string of hotdogs. Blake and Nora look to see none other than Reaper with two long strings of hotdogs tied around his body and arms, two long strands getting dragged behind him. Reaper just chuckles before he flings the two strands at Blake and Nora, who fail to avoid the strands as they wrap around them like rope.
"Now then, dance. Dance to the waltz that I am playing!" Reaper yells as he begins spinning his body and the strands, forcing Blake and Nora to get pulled along for the ride.
Reaper begins sending them into the walls, onto the floors, and into various tables and other debris as he continues to swing them around, gaining momentum and control of his swings. Eventually, he pulls the two strands in opposite directions, which causes Blake and Nora to come crashing into each other. Reaper then reveres his motion, pulling the strands away, which sends them flying in opposite directions, Nora into some tables, and Blake into a wall at the end of the cafeteria, knocking her out. Pyrrha then starts to get up as she sees the soda cans spilled around her. Using her semblance of polarity, she controls the cans and sends them flying in a massive swarm at Reaper. But, just as Reaper was about to get hit, Lloyd jumps in front of him, activating his steel skin semblance, and acts like a shield for him. However, Pyrrha moves some cans around Lloyd's left side, and they continue to close in on Reaper. Suddenly, Khazhak jumps in and uses his lightning semblance, shooting lightning bolts at the cans, which makes them fall onto the ground.
Ruby then gets back up with a serious expression on her face. She takes a sprinter's position before activating her semblance, and zooming over through the cafeteria towards Teams KEPL and JNPR. The immense speed of her sprint causes any debris around her to be pulled along with her. Khazhak sees this and thinks quickly.
"Team, KEPL, fall back!" He orders, and they take cover behind some tables on the side of the cafeteria, away from Ruby's reach.
As the members of Team JNPR regain their bearings, Ruby starts spinning, masking her cloak wrap around her like a red cyclone, making the debris being pulled spin with her. As she zips by Jaune and Ren, they get caught in the pull with the debris, and then Nora and Pyrrha get caught along with them. As Ruby nears the other side of the cafeteria, Ruby flips and slides on the floor, stopping just before the wall, which causes the wall to get damaged and cracked from the force of her move. The members of Team JNPR crash into the wall, and the torrent of food gets closer to them. But, just before Ruby is about to jump up to avoid the attack, Khazhak appears behind her.
"Hey, little rose," he says before grabbing her arms, preventing her escape.
"Khazhak?! What are you-," begins but then looks back at the debris coming towards her. "No, wait! No, no, no, no, NO!" she screams.
"RUBY BARRIER!" Khazhak playfully yells as he uses Ruby's body as a shield.
The torrent of food comes at them. Some debris hits Ruby, coating her in different colors from the different foods, while the rest hit Team JNPR and the wall behind Khazhak. The rest of Team KEPL look on at the sight as Ruby and Team JNPR get bombarded with food, while Khazhak remains untouched.
"The horror of it all," Lloyd playfully says, laughing at the sight.
After the onslaught ends, Khazhak drops Ruby, who has her entire front side COVERED in food. Team JNPR soon peel off the wall behind them, leaving their body outlines in the food painted wall as they fall to the ground.
"No fair," Ruby pouts at Khazhak.
"All's fair in love and war', as the saying goes, little rose," Khazhak says, wiping his hands and shoulders of any food debris. "And with that, the winner of this war is Team KEPL," he proclaims.
Meanwhile, Sun looks on with a smile on his face, "I love these guys," he says, looking at Neptune…who is covered from head to toe in grape soda and has a scowl on his face.
Suddenly, the doors behind them are slammed open and Glynda Goodwitch walks in, looking livid. She the uses her semblance to clean up the whole cafeteria, making it practically spotless.
"Children, PLEASE. Do not play with your food," she practically orders as she adjusts her glasses.
The members of Teams RWBY and JNPR walk up, covered in food, while Team KEPL walk by them with practically no food anywhere on their bodies. Nora makes a loud burp, and then Yang finally falls back down through the ceiling, hitting the ground hard when she lands by her teammates. Goodwitch growls a little more, but then Professor Ozpin shows up, and puts a hand on her shoulder to calm her down.
"Let it go," he says.
Goodwitch sighs, "They're supposed to be the defenders of the world," she replies as they look at the members of Team RWBY laughing at each other from all the food they have on them.
"And they will be, but right now they're still children. So why not let them play the part?" Ozpin says and then begins to walk away as Glynda watches him leave. "After all…It isn't a role they'll have forever. Isn't that right, Mr. Rairyu?" Ozpin asks, turning to Khazhak.
Khazhak looks between him and Team RWBY for a moment.
"…He's right, Professor Goodwitch. As future huntsmen and huntresses, tough trials and dark challenges await them. They won't be able to laugh or smile like this in the future because of that. So I say, let them have this time to laugh and smile like this for now…Heh, I envy them in that aspect," Khazhak explains.
"How so?" Goodwitch asks, getting curious.
Khazhak looks down solemnly, "My teammates and I were forced to grow up faster than other kids our age. We can no longer laugh and smile like them. They still have that light in them, but we lost our lights long ago," Khazhak says.
"I…I see your point, I guess," Goodwitch replies. "I forgot about what Ozpin said about them.. NO child should have to go through that at their ages when it happened, even if they wanted to become future huntsmen. I guess I can see the nobility in Ozpin's words."
…Later that night, in Team KEPL's room…
Team KEPL are back in their dorm room, with Lloyd playing on his scroll on his bed, Porphyrius reading a book, Reaper drinking some water through a hole in his mask, and Khazhak looking out their window with his arms crossed, deep in thought. After a moment, Khazhak turns to his teammates.
"Team KEPL, listen up," he gets their attention. "While we haven't seen much action since the night at the docks last semester, we can't let our guard down. Whoever is behind these chain of events is plotting something, and it's going to be big," he says.
"So, what do you want us to do, Khazhak?" Reaper asks.
Khazhak thinks for a moment, "We don't know who they are, or what they are planning. So all I can say for now is that we have to be vigilant…and we have to be ready," he says. "Or else who knows how many innocent people may die from this."
And that's the chapter. That food fight was the best ever in my opinion. It was awesome! A new semester brings new challenges for our two teams. Will they be ready for them? Until then, please Read and Review.