A/N
Alrighty, back to the main story we go.
"Alright, you can set me down here." I said as I faced Yang, who currently had my arm slung over her shoulder.
"I can't believe you convinced us into escorting you out." She muttered as she set me down on an elevated patch of grass, overviewing some grassy plains made for students to train in. "You're not supposed to be walking after what happened."
"It's not like I'm gonna be training with you guys in any way, not after what happened. And like you all said, soloing that Giant Nevermore was proof enough that I'm strong enough to join the tournament." I pouted as team JNPR and RWBY formed a circle and gathered around me.
"That is only if you make a full recovery." Weiss scolded, making sure to emphasize some words to make her point clear while pointing her finger accusingly at me.
"Yeah yeah Ice Queen, if I'm in good enough shape to almost walk on two feet, I'm sure I'll be good enough to fight in 2 days." I smirked as I laid on the grass.
Weiss huffed and crossed her arms at her overused nickname, but didn't say anything afterwards. The other's didn't look too convinced however, and just looked at each other uneasily.
...
"What are you all waiting for?" I chuckled, taking a sip from a bottle of water. "Give me a good show."
"Right... we don't have much time before lunch, we should get started." The red haired champion said as she unsheated Milo in her left hand, deploying her shield on her right. "Should we split it into singles, doubles or should we immidiately start with team fights?"
"I think I can do all 3." Yang chuckled as she flexed both her shoulders.
"Don't get too cocky. Phyrra could counter you in every way possible, don't forget that." I smirked, getting a pout in return from the blonde brawler as her shoulders slumped, as if she suddenly just realized the fact.
"I think we should start off with teams immediately." Jaune pitched in. "After lunch, we could have more energy to focus on singles and doubles, since those two require more concentration.'
"That's actually... Not a bad idea." Weiss said as she put her hands to her chin.
"Let's go!" Ruby cheered gleefully as she jumped up in the air, and the others around them nodded in agreement.
"Alright girls, good luck." I waved off as they made it into the fields.
Could've been my imagination, but I think I saw Ruby wave back with a confident smile on her face.
Maybe a bit of a blush on her cheeks too.
Must've been the heat from the sun.
After the group positioned themselves on opposite sides, they all looked over to my side, getting me to nod in return. I raised my hand, and jerked it down in front of me, signalling for them to start.
Phyrra leaped into action, immidiately charging forward to engage with Weiss, their weapons met with a deafening clang, while the others retreated to their respective sides.
Ruby started to fire at Phyrra's direction, causing her to break her current standstill with Weiss and raise her shields, all while Ren did the same, aiming both his gunblades at Weiss, who blocked with a defensive white glyph and retreated back as Yang charged forward to take down the red headed champion.
A few minutes later, I felt a hand on my shoulders, squeezing it, giving it a good grip.
"Evans." I smiled, not bothering to glance back as my eyes were glued to the start of the match.
"Louis." He responded, taking a seat beside me.
"How did you get out first? I call bullshit." I chuckled. "You were standing right beside me."
"Meh, it's not like you touched me before that fight. Sprained both ankles and got a clean blow on my chest, sent me crashing into some trees, but other then that I'm good. Nothing too serious.
You?"
"Just a small splinter." I replied with a smirk. "Tis but a scratch."
"Nothing but a flesh wound." Evans chuckled back.
"Doc said I gotta rest for at least 4 more days, not counting this one, but I digress. How about you? Think we're good to go?"
"Hmph. Who do they think they're talking to?" He scoffed, then leaned back on both hands for support to let out a small chuckle. "My body is ready."
...
...
"Listen... I'm sorry about dragging you to fight that Giant Nevermore with me... I knew that, chances were, with my 'Overdrive' I can take it down on my own, yet I still insisted that you came along to try and ground it, to kill it off naturally. You didn't even want to deal with it, an-."
"Don't." He cut off, eyes still on the fight.
"Don't...?"
"Don't apologize." He turned to faced me with a small smile. "For your information, I do want to deal with some Grimm of higher level sooner or later, I was just waiting for you to ask. Besides, we'd never push our limits if we keep sticking to the small fries."
"Are you saying going on a killing spree is boring?"
"No, it's just that..."
...
...
"Ok maybe I am saying that." He admitted after a moment of thought.
"I knew it." I deadpanned.
"I mean, it's like setting a game on very easy y'know. Besides, we needed something to clear our mind from nostalgia, and that helped. I should be thanking you, you have nothing to apologize for."
"I'm glad you could... knock it off?"
"Ugh... Thanks Yang 2.0" He groaned, putting one palm to his face.
"How about the way I took down that Nevermore? Did I... blow you off your feet?"
Evans glared at me.
"Okay... I'll stop now. But honestly what'cha think?"
"Well, it's good to see you've gone for a massive upgrade. You basically Darth Maule'd your weapon." He pointed out.
"It's not that great though..." I said with a faint smile as I grabbed both obsidian hilts from my waist, unbuckling them to put them into view. "30 seconds was all I could get, I couldn't push it further. And to make matters worse, Ironwood found out."
"Woah, about Star Dust?"
"Yeah... said that he saw the footage. So far Atlas Military is the only one in Remenant that has it, the only one that uses it legally anyways. You shouldn't though, just to be safe."
"I'll be sure to keep an eye out when I do." He agreed.
...
...
"Speaking of Darth Maul, have you thanked Ruby yet?" Evans asked.
"What do you mean?"
"You didn't know?" He raised his brow and chuckled as he pointed at the hilts grasped in my hands. "She was the one who gave Rose Nasty a paint job."
She... What?
"She didn't tell me anything..." I muttered.
"Probably afraid you'll get mad if you found out." Evans shrugged.
"Why would I be? It's a good paint job. And by the looks of it, she hasn't modified or tinkered with it, or tried to reload my weapon with other sorts of dust. Being the weapon junkie she is, I should be grateful."
"Maybe because... It looks edgy as fuck?"
"She's gonna have to do a lot more then that to piss me off." I snickered. "Besides, I sort of like these small intricate patterns she carved out resembling a rose. Reminds me of car decals."
"Maybe she thinks you're still mad at her for not allowing you to join in the Vytal Tournament." Evans shrugged again.
My eyes then snapped back to the fight and stared as the black haired leader's scyhte met Jaune's shield. With a snicker, she fired Cresent Rose, blowing Jaune off his feet while the force of the recoil caused to herself was slowed down by the black glyphs Weiss conjured up.
Phyrra then caught Jaune, skidding a few meters on the grassy terrian, all while Nora fired into the ground, enshrouding them with pink smoke to give the couple some time to recover. Ren then fired at anybody who tried to enter the smoke, and Nora mecha shifted Magnhild into a sledgehammer, and jumped up high for an overhead swing, only to get intercepted by Yang's explosive slug shots.
"You do realize I was never mad at her in the first place." I continued. "She, or anybody else in fact, wasn't wrong to say we're weak. The closest thing we've got to this in the real world is martial art courses. And even then, those aren't even comparable to what we have now."
"Hey, tell that to her." Evans said, raising his hands. "I'm just trying to give you a different point of view. I don't have a semblance yet, and even if I do, I doubt it'll be to read minds or insert thoughts."
"You never know man. It's a russian roulette."
I smiled at that advice and agreed to his advice.
"Yeah... I'll thank Rub-"
"Heads up."
I spread my legs right on time for an ice spike to shoot in between with a loud twang, barely missing my crotch by a mere hair's breadth.
"Really Ice Queen?!" I yelled aloud as I stood up, waving my fist in the air. "You did that on purpose didn't you?!"
"Blame vomit boy for deflecting it!" Weiss snapped back as she tried to hold Nora in place with a black glyph.
"Ugh..." I rolled my eyes and settled to Evans's right. "Thanks."
"Anytime."
...
...
"Think the plan is gonna work?" He asked, raising a brow. "We only have one shot at this."
"You're making it sound like I've seen through 14 million six hundred and five ways this could go down." I muttered, putting my hands together as he scoffed it off.
"It'd better." I said flatly as I hugged my knees. "Because I don't know what I'm gonna do if it doesn't."
Later...
"Come on, let's get them sweat off your shoulders before we go eat." I insisted as I led the 4 girls into the dorm rooms, whom almost all responded with defeated sighs.
Never have I seen them so bummed out before.
They did their best after all.
"Hey..." The scarlet reaper tiredly called out from the drawers, snapping me into reality. "Has anybody seen my underwear?"
What
"What do you mean Ruby?" I asked as I closed the doors, thinking this conversation is better done in private. "Didn't you get back here a week ago?"
"Yeah." She admitted, raising a brow. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"Well..." I mumbled as I saw Yang enter the bathroom, apparently too exhausted to care. Or, she'd learn to trust me enough. "In the one week you've been back, you didn't use your underwear?"
"I do!" She perked up, blushing slightly as she understood that I had no ill intentions behind my words.
"But I always used the ones I brought from home first, and I just ran out." She pointed both of her fingers towards her briefcase, currently open and full of dirty laundry.
"You sure you didn't misplace it?" Weiss asked, raising a brow. "With how messy you are, I'd recommend you search again."
"No..." Ruby muttered as she rumaged through her drawers. "Even if I did, there's a whole stack of it. I'm sure I'd left some of it in here before I went back."
"It's okay, just search for it throroughly throughout the room. I'm sure you'll find them eventually." Blake comforted.
...
Vrrr
Hm? Oh, it's Evans...
I wonder what he wan-
My eyes widened as my eyeballs almost popped out of it's sockets.
"Louis?" Blake asked. "Is everything okay?"
"U-uh yeah..." I muttered. "I'll uhh... meet you guys in the cafeteria alright?"
"You aren't gonna bathe?" Blake asked, raising a brow.
"I didn't really join in on the training, so I'm not too sweaty. I'll be sure to take one afterwards." I promised. "See you guys later."
"Why do you look so nervous?" Weiss asked. "Is something wrong?"
"Y-yeah n-no... it's fine, everything's fine." I mumbled as I went out.
Weiss's POV
The door closed with a louder then usual slam, causing the rest of team RWBY to jolt up.
"Yeah... something's definitely wrong." Weiss mumbled as she crossed her arms.
"Is he still mad at us for not allowing him to go to the Tournament?" Ruby asked timidly, sinking to her knees.
"No Ruby, I don't think that's the case." Blake replied, picking the little leader up by her small shoulders. "If he was, he would've asked us to leave a week ago when we visited."
"Agreed." she nodded. "Something else is wrong, and I don't think it has anything to do with team RWBY."
"Well... let's trust him to handle it shall we?" Blake said calmly. "We don't want him to misunderstand our intentions again."
"Yeah..." Ruby said.
"Let's just trust him on this one." Weiss agreed, nodding again. "I'm sure it's not a major issue, otherwise I'm sure he'll come to us."
"Done!" Yang yelled as she went out with a towel over her golden locks. "Hey, where's Louis?"
Louis's POV
We lended him a guest dorm and THIS is what he does?!
Piece of shit!
Ungrateful son of a-
SLAM
"DEEEEERIIIICK!" I yelled as I kicked the doors open to see the room in complete shipwreck. A dissaray of scarlet, vermillion, pink and ivory under garments scattered across the room, mostly covered in white, musky liquid.
"Oops." Derrick raised his hands and smiled innocently as he sat upright in bed, with a blanket covering his naked bottom half underneath, with Evans already by his side, arms crossed and giving him a death glare.
"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!" I shouted in his face as I slammed the doors shut behind me. "WHAT HAPPENED TO LAYING LOW?!"
"Hey I am laying low." he shrugged off. "She didn't know it was me did she?"
"What happened to the promise?!" Evans asked louder then usual, the bite in his tone indicated that the once, usually calm man, has something on his nerves.
"We left you for a fucking month to train! We almost died! And were you doing?! A MONTH FOR FUCKS SAKE! You had but ONE job!"
"Look, the deal was to not touch Neo and Ruby... directly."
I unbuckled Rose Nasty and extended it's blades. "Do I look like I'm in the mood to play loopholes?"
"Okay, look I'm sorr-"
"YOU'RE ANYTHING BUT!"
"Louis... calm down man." Evans sighed, rubbing his nose ridge.
"Eaaaaaaasssy there bro... Easy and check out my Yeeeeeezy's." Derrick moaned, as if he'd just been smoking some substance for the past hour, and pointed at his feet, which for some reason still had his shoes on.
"What do you recommend we do? Leave him be?!" I asked, throwing my arms up in the air.
"I would very much like that." Derrick snickered, getting 2 hardened glares in return.
Evans slung his shoulder around me as he jabbed his scroll, and then smiled as he looked back.
"Make sure you enjoy yourself, okay?" He said.
'Are you crazy?!' I mouthed to him, but his expression didn't change.
Oh...
he has a plan.
"Yeah uhh... I'm gonna leave you to it then." I said as we left the room.
"What do you have in mind?" I asked, voice dropping to a whisper as I walked a few meters away from the door.
"Backup. Just watch, no talk."
Minutes passed, and after a few moments of impatience, I heard tapping of heels breaking the silence.
No way...
The malachite twins, each carrying an identical briefcase with their respective colours, came into view as they strolled down the hallways.
"You... want to give him strippers?" I asked.
"Shh, just watch, no talk." He beamed confidently at me as I sighed back.
Maybe that Nevermore's impact had messed with his head.
I'm just gonna roll with it.
Behind them, a towering man with a formal red tie and black suit stepped into view, also carrying a bulky case... Apparently.
Hei xiong.
Or... Junior.
Yeah... Evans has lost his marbles.
"Evans." Junior greeted, loosening his tie as he cleared his throat, not even sparing a glance towards me. "Where is the client?"
"In there Mr J." He pointed at the dorm room Derrick is in. "Let me just write the safe word."
Wait a minute...
Safe word?
"Sure, take your time." The red one, Melanie if I'm not mistaken, replied.
"Just remember to pay in advance." The white one, Militaldes, replied.
"It's all here." Evans said as he took out a huge stack of lien from his wallet.
"You sure?" I asked, raising my brow. "That's a ton of lien."
"Hey, it's his money." Junior said as he stared me down. "Let him do what he wants."
"Blondie is my teammate. I'd rather not call her here to clear up any misunderstandings, unless you prefer otherwise?" I said as I squinted my eyes, causing the trio's to widen and shake their heads.
"Thought so." I scoffed.
"For what he did, it's worth it. Besides, I got some to spare." Evans shrugged off, handing the piece of paper and the lien in Junior's hands.
After a quick count, Junior nodded, and waited outside with us while the twins went inside.
"Oh... hello there ladies." Derrick's voice cooed. "What can I help you with?"
"Actually, we would like to be the ones helping you~" The one of the twins purred back.
"You're such a strong man, surely you could handle more then one of us." The other teased.
"O...ohoho... hehe... yes, I'm sure I can." Derrick replied.
"Good~" One said, then a few clicks could be heard as one of them probably unlocked their briefcases.
"Alright, got it." Evans said as he tapped his scroll. "You could go in now Mr J."
What's he talking about?
"Alright Evans, pleasure doing business with you." Junior said, throwing a dirty glare at me before going in himself.
The door clicked shut.
"J-junior?" Derrick stammers could be heard from inside the room. "What are you doing here?"
"Just... here to watch the girls." Junior replied from within, cracking his knuckles... or his neck.
Evans smirked as he tilted his scroll towards me, causing my eyes to widen as he tapped it.
The doors to Derrick's dorm rooms, clicked and locked into place.
"So..." I started, completely confused as to what is happening.
"Now... we wait." Evans whistled, tapping his scroll again as loud music started to blare from within the room, along with the muffled sounds of Derrick screaming.
In a few seconds, the music grew deafeningly loud, and the cracking of bullwhips could be heard. However, Derrick's shrill screams managed to penetrate through.
"I like you"
CRACKLE
"OW!"
"cause you got that something"
CRACKLE
"that I need in my life so give it to me.
Cause you got that."
"STOO-!"
CRACKLE.
"ANGH!"
Out of nowhere, grunting from what I assume was Junior... pierced the afternoon air.
"Like you cause you got that something"
"I GIVE UP! PLEASE! DON'T PUT IT IN-"
"UNGH!"
"NOOOOOO! IT'S TOO BIIG IT'S TOO BIIIIGGG!"
"...Cause you got that."
...
I chortled in a laugh and clung onto the walls.
"What the hell..." I mumbled as I clung to my stomach with tears coming out of my eyes. "How?"
Evans shrugged in return. "It's a long time coming. I just... couldn't get away with it on earth."
...
"Cause you got that"
"Safe word! Yes! Uhhh... AH-!"
"HMPH!"
"Uugghh... Uvuvueuvue- AH!"
"HNGH!"
"Uvuvuevuevue Enyetu- BAH!"
CRACKLE
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
...
"Let's uhh... leave them to it shall we?" Evans asked as he shook the mental image of what could be happening in the room off.
"Y-yeah... lets..." I smirked, still unable to recover from what Evans had just done.
As we walked out of the guest dorms and into the open, I was greeted by the red rose.
"Hey Louis." She smiled. "You seem to look... better."
"Y-yeah." I chortled, still imagining what Edgy D is going through. "Sorry if I scared you back in the room."
"I-it's okay!" Ruby said quickly. "I didn't manage to find my underwear though..."
Me and Evans just spared glances at each other, and I nodded.
"Yeah let's uhh..." I said as I slung my arm over her shoulder. "Maybe after lunch we can head to town, let's buy you some new ones. My treat."
"R-really?!" Ruby jittered up and down before coughing into a fist and then putting both hands behind her back, rocking back and forth. "I mean... if it's not too much to ask..."
"I don't mind, besides we got time to spare." I smiled. "Let's go to the cafeteria... shall we?"
A/N
Yeah... this is why you don't mess with Evans. Anyways, I guess it's about time for that 'date' to happen, since Louis feels partly responsible as well. Evans did his part, now it's time for Louis to do his.
Reviewer Sessions
Zombiedudecolleti: Relax Liam Neeson. I know that rushing stuff will kill any direction or passion put into this project. Learned that the hard way. Just sit back, and enjoy the show. I'll be sure to take my time on it, not for perfection, but for you guys (And me) to enjoy.
sacke110: Glad to see the postive review on the Omake. I honestly didn't think much would like it as they have to go back and forth, feeling like snippets. Noted, story has to flow with ups and downs after all. Hope this chapter answered your question for Edgy D tho xD.