Chapter 53: Five-Star Hotspring Resort

7/31/15 So I want to tell you guys that I start having problems focusing on the story, the chapters may seem not as well done but that's just because I struggled with properly doing this story. So if the chapters seem a bit off in the future, that's because I literally was having some kind of strange moment where I couldn't think straight but still wanted to type (Still kind of in that stage right now). But, I'm not giving up on this story and will continue it until I am done with it properly. So apologies if things seem off, I would edit everything, but that's too much of a mental stress for me as I'm already almost ten chapters ahead of uploading.

"Ozpin did what?" Weiss asked in confusion as to what Ruby just said.

"Ozpin gave us reservations to a five-star hotspring!" Ruby said with her hands hips, standing proudly and victorious like she just beat up the final boss of a video game. "After everything that has happened with Blackmore, he has decided that we all deserve a long due rest!" Ruby explained.

"A five-star hotspring resort?" Blake asked before Ruby nodded her head. "The last time any of us went to one was way back when Wasure wasn't even official member of the team…" Blake said as she put her bookmark in her book and put it aside on her bed.

"Yep! And not all of us went now did we? I'm sure you and Weiss will love it!" Ruby said with a big smile on her face.

"It is true that the last time that we went to a hotspring it was at that one place on Ruby and Yang's home island, and it was just me and them. How much is the price or did Ozpin never tell you it?" Wasure asked as she sat on the foot of her bed, her back against the wall and her knees up to her chest.

"1 million Lien for just the usage of the hotspring and not even a nights stay!" Ruby said as her smile only got bigger while everyone else had their jaws drop. "All that say we go, declare your votes, speak now…" Ruby said.

"I" Blake said first.

"Who would say no?!" Weiss shouted.

"Cannonball!" Yang shouted as she jumped and did a cannonball and let her butt slam into the ground. She then started "swimming" across the floor.

"What are you all waiting for?" Wasure said, already at the door with her stuff packed and was waiting for them.

"Then it's settled! We are going to Mnt. Fruhling!" Ruby said as she quickly used her semblance and started packing.

One plane ride, train trip, car trip later at the base of Fruhling Mountain

"THAT'S MOUNTAIN FRUHLING?!" Weiss shouted in shock to see the giant mountain in front of them, and the stairs that seemed to travel up and out of sight, being covered by the trees.

"Yep! Everyone ready to start their ascend?" Ruby asked and everyone but Weiss said yes. "Right! Wasure! Create and ready the catapult!"

"I already did it…" Wasure said, leaning against a giant catapult with a large dish bowl.

"Isn't that… a bit extreme?" Weiss asked, a bead of sweat running down the side of her face.

"Weiss… either you want to spend a three day hike traveling horizontally upwards, soon to turn straight vertical and make us climb, or you would like to take the quick way and get as close as you can to the resort? If it makes you feel any better I'll throw you instead… though there is a 90% I'll miss and you'll fly over the mountain…" Wasure said coldly and calmly.

"What happened with you? You changed at the mention of how much this place costed…" Weiss said in her head before she felt someone grab her by the hips and put her in the catapults dish bowl.

"I never would have believed it!" Yang said as she stepped away from Weiss and the catapult after setting her down in it, "Weiss has volunteered to be the first one to be shot out of the catapult!" She said and Weiss's face turned paler than usual.

"I did not! You obviously put me here" She shouted in protest.

"How brave of you Weiss!" Ruby said, giving her a toothy smiled and a thumbs up.

"DID YOU NOT HEAR ME YOU DUNCE?!" Weiss shouted at the top of her lungs at Ruby who only continued to smile.

"Your sacrifice will not be forgotten or in vein…" Blake solemnly said as she had a black veil over her face while holding a black framed picture of Weiss smiling, it was like Blake knew Weiss was gonna die or something.

"Well thanks for the positive outlook…" Weiss said before she turned and looked to see Wasure turn a stick into a sword and walked towards the rope holding the catapult down.

"Please keep hands and feet close to your chest as you fly out out, Wasure Airline is not responsible for any loss of limbs or death or missing family members and friends… enjoy your flight…" Wasure said before cutting the rope and sent Weiss flying and screaming off towards the mountain before she, and her voice faded away.

"Hm? What are you girls doing around that catapult?" A stranger said as he passed them by, seeing them winding it back up.

"We're using the catapult to get to the resort at the top of this mountain…" Ruby said.

"That doesn't really need to be necessary… there's a lift over there…" The stranger said and pointed to the distance to show a large lifter waiting at the station. It was one of those lifters that move on a wire rope and were used for large number of people to be in at once. "If you take that… you'll reach the resort in possibly 20 minutes. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go..." The stranger said and everyone stared at the lift silently, thinking about Weiss and how it looked like she hadn't come close to hitting the top of the mountain or near it.

"Whoops…" All four of them said at the same.

It wasn't long before they all hopped on the lift and were soon on there way to the resort, though they were as silent as mice for the longest time. The only noises were that of the lift straining itself from being on a metal wire, and the faint sound of the engine humming.

"H-Hey…" Wasure finally said and everyone looked up at her. "Do you think we acted a bit out of place because of the price for this resort?" She asked everyone.

"What? Pffftt…. that's a bit harsh to say, we never would… act… out of…" Yang didn't finish that sentence as the room went silent again.

"Weiss is gonna kill us once she gets to the resort…" Ruby said.

"Yep…" Blake said, knowing they screwed up.

"Let's just pray she at least lets us dig our graves and get to bathe in the springs before she gets to the resort and find us…" Wasure said, really hoping that she at least can die in a place possible to be called heaven on Earth.

They arrived to the landing dock on the lift on the mountain in roughly 20 minutes like the stranger had said, and they could see the resort in the distance from the platform they were getting on as they got off the lifter. They had grabbed their stuff and made their way to the resort building which was roughly a 3 minute walk to the front door before they entered the building. The lobby was wide with a sort of strange, modern and ancient japanese architectural design.

The floor was clean and waxed hardwood floor with nearly a scratch, the frames for entranceways and doors were designed to fit that of the modern era, but were made of bamboo wood. The air felt calming and smelled nice as the smell of incense was burning somewhere. The lobby held many chairs for those either simply sitting in the lobby, or were waiting for someone, each seeming rather comfy from just looking at them.

"Welcome to The Grand Oaks Resort…" The woman at the check-in desk said with a smile, she was wearing a light red kimono with a scattered cherry petal design. "Have you made a reservation? This place is awfully full and doesn't have any rooms not already taken." She said with a slight chuckle.

"Ah yes, we are here under reservations for the name, Ozpin." Ruby said as she walked up to the desk, finishing her sentence to see the woman search through the computer's data as she looked at the screen.

"Ah yes, I have you right here… you're Ruby Rose?" The woman asked and Ruby nodded with a smile. "Great, though… I only see four of you… where is Weiss Schnee?" She asked, looking at the four girls.

"Weiss is… gonna be here later… it's hard to explain." Ruby said, not really wanting to say they shot her up the mountain with a catapult and then learned about the lift.

"I understand, would you like someone to carry your stuff to your rooms and be showed around?" The woman asked.

"We're good, will take care of ourselves." Ruby answered before was given two different room keys and some spare keys.

They walked their way to their rooms which were on the top floor below the penthouse. They easily found their rooms as there wasn't that many rooms on their floor and their names were on a little sign hanging on the doors.

"Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna" Were on one of the signs on on of the doors, and other had "Yang Xiao Long, Wasure Rarete Ita" on the other door's little sign.

"Why were we given two rooms?" Ruby asked.

"Maybe they couldn't fit a group of five?" Wasure assumed before they opened their doors and walked in to let their jaws drop at the space and class of the room. It really was material to call that of a five stars. The beds were soft, given that Yang fell asleep on one the moment she pushed her hand down on the mattress, the TV had more channels than one needed (probably still would have nothing good on), the windows held a view of the landscape from on top of the mountain and everything down below, and the bathrooms weren't small and had big expensive soaps and shampoos instead of something small.

"There is way more space than needed to let us all sleep in the same room… you could fit like ten people in just one and still be able to find a place to sleep comfortably…" Wasure said before she opened a door on the wall and saw Ruby reaching out to grab the handle on the otherside.

"Oh! So the rooms connect!" Ruby said with a jump, "She scared me there for a minute…" Ruby thought in her mind as she wasn't expecting the door to open as she was reaching for it.

"Guess so, I honestly thought this would have been a secondary room leading off somewhere with how big our room is." Wasure said as she looked inside their room to be almost the exact same, everything was just mirrored to their room.

"There must be so little rooms because they take up so much space." Ruby said as she and Blake stepped inside Wasure and Yang's room and sat down on the bed across from the one Yang was sleeping on while Wasure sat down next to her. "This place really is nice, did you see the bathtubs? They are as big as freaking hot tubs and are in the ground like one!" Ruby said smiling widely.

"I looked at the guide for guests about the resort's events and there are plenty of things to do here." Blake said as she pulled out a little slip of paper and looked at it. "There's the hot springs of course, but there's a lot of messages we can try, lots of food…" At that moment Yang's ears twitched and she quickly sat up and looked at what Blake had to say, wide awake, "I guess it's not only five star class because of its luxury and comfort, but also for the multiple things available…" Blake said as she looked away from the paper and saw Yang drooling as her imagination of the amount of food was overwhelming her mind… and taste buds.

"So what do you think we should do first? Ozpin made reservations as long as a week for us, so we can plan on what we should do, we might even do everything twice or three times!" Ruby said smiling at the thought of doing the things she would really like more than once.

"Weiss won't be too angry with us if she's halfway up the mountain or close to the top, you did say it's a three day trip by foot while we are here for a whole week." Wasure said before seeing Ruby give a sheepish smile.

"Actually… that's the quickest time anyone has gotten up the mountain, it takes about a week or more to get up if you take your time. The mountain is full of Grimm… that's why I told everyone to take their weapons with them…" Ruby said with a slight nervous chuckle.

"Ruby…" Wasure said and grabbed the young leader's attention, "You're gonna die first, you know that right?" Wasure said and Ruby gave off another sheepish smile and laugh.

"Well I think we should all go and enjoy what we originally came here for!" Yang said as she jumped up and grinned at the thought while seeing everyone else nod at her.

Hot springs

"Cannonball!" Yang shouted as she jumped straight into the spring naked while bringing her knees to her chest. "Ahh… the water feels really warm and good…" She said after surfacing.

"Yang, that was rather rude, what if someone else was in or you tripped and hit your head?" Ruby said as she and the others walked towards the spring, wearing swimsuits.

"Ruby, we're the only ones here! Besides, this spring is big enough to be considered a freaking pool!" Yang said as she span around the center of the giant circular hot spring before stopping and spotting a woman swimming only a few feet from her, staring at her with an annoyed look while the part of her body above water was drenched. "Ah… s-sorry…" Yang apologized to the woman. "I swear she wasn't there when I jumped in… must have simply not seen her." She thought.

"It's fine, I can see you really were excited to get in so there's no need to apologize." The woman said as she swam towards the edge and sat down on a ledge that went around the spring while still being mostly under the surface of the water. Her annoyed look changed, though the aura of her being a bit ticked off still hung in the air as she took a sit down on the ledge.

"Hey Wasure! Come join me here in the center!" Yang said as the others started to get in.

"Yang, didn't you forget?" Wasure said, only to make Yang look confused, "I can't swim…" She continued before Yang's expression changed to a one that said, "How the fuck could I forget?"

"That won't be a problem with this hot spring…" The woman said and grabbed everyone's attention. "The water here is naturally rising from the mountain, there is also a white Dust mineral bank within the ground and when the water rises the Dust flows up with it and helps anyone within naturally stay afloat, you could even hold your breath for as long as you want in this water without drowning…" She explained.

"It's a lot like the springs back home…" Ruby said softly before she heard a scream and looked to see Yang pull Wasure in while she was still getting in.

"Damn it Yang! What if my bikini top fell off when you did that?!" Wasure shouted at the grinning Yang after floating back to the surface.

"Relax! This is the woman's hot spring, you can get naked and it would be natural because these are used to bathe in. No man is gonna dare enter here without being kicked out and reported to the staff…" Yang said with a grin.

"You mean you don't know?" The woman asked and grabbed everyone's attention once again. "The men's hot spring is under construction as it isn't naturally made or has the white Dust property like this one does, so they are trying to fix that, currently this hot spring is the only one available and is currently a universal hot spring." She said and everyone looked at her surprised. "There's a time for men, a time for women, and a time for both genders… that last one is now…" She added.

Before anyone could get a word in, male voices could be heard and everyone turned and looked to see a group of men open the door and start walking in, all wearing swimming trunks.

"This is bad… I don't have a swimsuit on and I'm not dating men at the moment… but Wasure on the other hand…" Yang thought before grabbing Wasure by the shoulders and pushed her underwater.

"My… looks like your rude friend has decided to borrow your other friend's swimsuit…" The woman said with a grin as everyone but the closing men watched Yang push Wasure under.

Blake looked at the woman and raised an eyebrow, "That grin looks familiar… where have I seen it?" She thought before she saw a faint image of Onmyō grinning next to the woman. "No way!" Blake thought as she thought of Onmyō while looking at this woman and noticed the similarity. They both had dark blue eyes, white hair (though the woman's was much longer and not spiked), and their grins were exactly the same! "Mam…" Blake said and grabbed the woman's attention, "Are you related to someone named Onmyō?" She asked, not wanting to ask if she was him.

"You know him? He's actually my brother." The woman said before Ruby and Blake's jaws dropped in disbelief. "We look really alike because we got most of our mother's looks, but if he was right next to me, you'd notice a few differences." She explained. "My name is Gin, who are you?" She asked.

"T-This is Blake Belladonna and I'm Ruby Rose. The two blondes are Wasure and Yang, Yang is my sister." Ruby said before the two blondes surfaced just as the men had walked around the other side of the spring and sat across from the girls, chatting amongst themselves, the majority of them being in their 30's and 40's while a few were in their 20's from their looks.

"You two were down there for a while…" Blake said before she noticed Wasure blushing and Yang grinning as she swam towards them and sat on the ledge, wearing Wasure's bikini.

"Wasure put up a fight, luckily she's not used to swimming or being underwater so she was really slow and weak…" Yang said softly, grinning as how Wasure had on arm wrapped around her breasts while she tried to swim by to them casually.

"I can't use my semblance and just sink to the bottom and wait the men out like Gin said where I can hold my breath infinitely… I floated up to the top even now while I'm weighing heavier than a gold right now…" Wasure said in her head, "Thankfully the water is foggy because of the heated water…" She thought before finally making her way to the ledge, but she came across a problem. The ledge was just below her stomach. "As long as no one notices…" Wasure said as she moved between Ruby and Blake who scooted to give Wasure just enough room to lean over the ledge and put her forearms in front of her breasts to keep them covered. "If any of those men notices this… I will kill you…" Wasure whispered to Yang who gave a slight chuckle.

"Excuse me…" A male voice said and Wasure tensed up at the voice and the sound of water being pushed got closer. "I saw you all sitting over here and thought you would like some…" He paused as he saw that there was no bikini string or anything on Wasure's back and his face started to turn red, but he calmed himself and his blushing died before it could be noticed. "I thought you would have liked some company…" He said before there was the sound of the door opening and some of the people turned and looked to see a tall man step in, it was Onmyō, and team RWWBY was surprised to see him.

"Hey Onmyō!" Gin said and waved at the spiked hair giant.

"Yo, I see you already made the people I got reservations for!" Onmyō responded and everyone but the man and Gin looked confused. "Ozpin didn't tell you? I own this building, it's my home!" Onmyō said and laughed.

"These must be some "entertainers" the owner knows… well there goes my shot with that one blonde wearing the swimsuit…" The man thought as he mentally sighed. "Who would have thought that the little girl would be a prost-..." The man stopped in his thoughts as Gin was staring at him with a death stare that started to make him sweat in nervousness.

"So wait, Ozpin didn't buy us rooms, you reserved them yourself? How do you even own this place if you were in prison not too long ago?" Ruby asked.

"Onmyō and Gin are both rich and their family has the rights to this mountain. They have owned this resort ever since the birth of mankind, hard to believe I know…" Wasure answered.

"Wait, I thought Onmyō only had one brother and sister." Blake said, remembering her encounter with the white haired man in the kimono when she went searching for Wasure in Emerald Forest.

"They aren't exactly my brother and sister, Gin here, is a blood relative…" Onmyō said as he sat down next to Gin on the ledge of the hot spring. "Is something the matter?" Onmyō asked as he noticed Gin wasn't exactly looking happy with that death stare she was giving to the man. She didn't respond and Onmyō soon traced her gaze to find her staring at the man. "You over there! Come here!" Onmyō said and waved the man over before he got over to him and Gin.

"She's been staring at me like that for a while now if that's what you're wondering and I have done nothing wrong…" The man quickly said, only to get Onmyō to shake his head with a smile.

"It's not that, but might I ask who you are? I remember every face of everyone that walks into my resort, but I don't recognize you at all…" Onmyō asked calmly.

"Oh, I'm Lugner Schnee… I'm part of the Schnee family, not a well known family member like Weiss or Winter." The man said before Onmyō looked at him seriously before snapping his finger and the man was suddenly sucked under the surface of the water, not to surface again.

"He isn't dead." Onmyō said to everyone that was watching. "I just kicked him out and he's at the foot of the mountain, straight down to the bottom." He explained, "I know he was lying and if anyone tries to when they around me it won't work…" He said and everyone went silent for a moment before the group of men started talking again, much softer this time.

"Ruby, would you and your friends like to visit me and Onmyō in the penthouse after you are done here?" Gin asked, pulling the girls out of their daze of what just they saw.

"S-Sure…" Ruby said, a bit nervous that she might screw something up and get kicked out.

"Don't act so tense, we have to keep our name as one of the best resorts and keeping people like that man out is part of the business. Oh Onmyō…" Gin said to reassure Ruby and the others before she whispered in Onmyō's ear and he nodded and smiled.

"Hey you guys over there!" Onmyō said and grabbed the group of men's attention. "Do you think you can turn around and look the other way for just a moment?" He asked and made all the men looked confused. "There's a woman here who didn't know the springs were currently registered at universal times and feels overly exposed… so please turn around for her to leave…" He said only to get most of the men to turn while two of them stayed and kept looking, large grins on their faces.

"Sure… I'm sure she simply didn't know and walked in her naked, not to tease us or anything…" One of them said, he was possibly in his 40's range, the one next to him was probably in his 30's.

"Hey you with the blonde hair in the water, come over here, I wanna get a look at that swimsuit you're wearing…" The 30's year old man said with a chuckle.

"Hey, I'd stop that if you don't want to get your butt kicked…" One of the men that had turned around said but his warning was only shrugged off.

"Not gonna come over? Then I'll come over myself…" The 40's year old man said as he pushed himself off the ledge and started swimming towards Wasure who started to get tense while trying not to panic.

"Fermol Tuyan…" Onmyō said and grabbed the man swimming towards Wasure his attention, making him stop and float about near the center of the hot spring. "I really would refrain from doing that… she is an esteemed guest that I wished here along with her friends… personally. Touch them…" Onmyō said and the hot and steamy room suddenly went ice cold, "...and I'll kill you." He said before there was dead silence.

"Mr. Chūsei, have you forgotten who I am? I am the King of Wulton, the small country to the Southeast. Having me killed would rage war on you and your business, I'd have 3,000 troops march up this mountain by foot and claim it my own before having 6,000 men storm this building and take your head!" The man who Onmyō called out said, only to see the spiky haired man swim towards the man and grab the back of his head and threw him out of the spring and on his side where he rolled till he hit a wall.

"What power does a dead man have over me? You are on my land, staying in one of my rooms, and messing with my personally invited guests. I have every right to kill you, and I have waged more than a million wars unlike your so called country that is more like an acre long of land than a country." Onmyō said as Fermol got up and looked pissed. "Gin, what do you think I should do to this man?" He asked, only to see his sister get out of the water and wrap herself with a towel.

She grabbed the man that wouldn't turn around who was in his 30's and led him towards the door while grabbing the man called Fermol on her way towards the door, holding them both with a arm. "I'll take care of everything…" She said and led the men out of the hot spring, only for Onmyō to have a hand on his face and shake his head.

Once they left Onmyō got out and grabbed a towel before helping Wasure out of the pool and let her wrap the towel around her body, being glad that she no longer had to worry about being seen naked, as the towel concealed her body pretty well.

"Perhaps we should all leave and head to the penthouse…" Onmyō suggested before the girls agreed and made their way out with a towel.