AN:... Wow, I haven't updated this in a while. Oh well, better late than never.
Conning a Conman
Wu had finally found it. A perfect cash cow, and no one could complain.
Here he was at the shady side of Vale looking at a table with a shady guy holding a cup game. Earlier, someone from the audience tried it and they won. However, since then no one could win because they couldn't keep up with the guy's quick hands. Wu knew that there was a chance that the guy wouldn't even have lien to give to the winners who were supposed to get double their bets if they found the pea under the right cup. But easy winnings were easy winnings.
"Hi there." Wu finally said from among the shady people gathered among the table, "I'd like to try my luck, if you don't mind."
The lanky game master grinned with dirty teeth as he figured he got a dumb animal to try. "Yes, right away, sir. What is your bet?"
"I think one lien should suffice for a warm up," Wu said as he put a tiny lien card on the table.
"Splendid!" Then the game master placed a dry pea on the table before also placing three cups on the table. One of which covered the pea. And then the guy shuffled them with impressive speed. Wu kept following the guy's movements with his eyes. "Now then, good sir. Where is the pea?"
Wu smirked, "That one." And pointed at the middle cup. The game master looked surprised as he lifted the cup and sure enough, there it was.
"I believe that makes two lien." Wu said with a smirk.
"Y-yes. " the shady man said, while the current audience was also surprised at this monkey getting it right.
But when the man reached for his money bag to get the necessary lien, Wu raised a hand. "No need for that, I'll try again."
"Are you sure?" The shady man tried to not sound hopeful.
"Yes, now start shuffling," Wu said as his silver furred tail swished in anticipation.
So again it went, the guy started using more complex moves and increased the speed which made Wu smile at the challenge.
"Where is it?" the shady man asked when he was done.
Wu made a show of contemplating which cup held the pea as the audience was also waiting with baited breath. "It's…that one." Wu said before pointing to the right one.
The man started sweating lightly. "Are you sure? You can still change your mind."
"Yeah, I'm sure." Wu said with a friendly smile. The game master lifted the cup and there was the pea. Wu relished the victory, "That's four lien."
"Will you…try again?" the shady game master asked, trying not to seem nervous.
"Yes, but add these to the pot as well," Wu said before taking out a hundred lien card.
"Whoa, that would make the next winning worth 208 lien." one of the previous victims said.
Now the game master lightened up, "As you wish." And then he was at it again. Now the guys hands were a blur. This showed that this guy was going easy on everyone. "Where is it?" The man asked with a small smile.
Wu smirked, "Right here." And then he tapped the middle cup.
The game master lost color from his face as he reached for the cup. Only to be intercepted by Wu. "I will lift it, if you don't mind?" Wu said pleasantly, but with an underlying threat in his tone.
"Uhh…no sir." the game master said and allowed Wu to lift the cup. The monkey won again.
"How is that freakshow so good?" Someone said in amazement.
"Aren't animals, like…dumb?" Another said.
Wu didn't pay attention to them and focused on the next part. "Add this to my previous winnings and it should be rounded up." Wu said as he added another 12 lien into the existing winnings. Raising it to 220.
"If that thing can pull this off, he'll get 440." A random person said with a look of anticipation.
But the game master was less so, because if this thing got it right again. He would lose nearly all he had earned. But…If he could win this, he would get the biggest payload of the day. "I accept."
"Excellent," Wu said, clapping his hands in excitement.
With that, the guy shuffled the cups that hid the pea one more time, hoping against hope that the monkey couldn't keep up. This time, it looked like Wu actually had trouble following, since he was frowning about something.
"Where is it now?" The game master said with a satisfied grin at this thing being in trouble.
Wu let out a sigh as he was reaching for the left cup. Only to surprise everyone when he grabbed the game master's hand and lifted it up, forcing the man's thumb up. "What is this?" Wu asked as he held the man's trapped hand with the thumb to all to see. At first the people looked confused at the finger.
And then someone saw it, "What's the pea doing there?" The pea was on the game master's finger, right under the slightly overgrown thumbnail.
"Everyone. This guy is a conman who's been conning you all of your hard earned cash." Wu announced to everyone, which earned looks of anger at the poor conman.
"W-wait. This thing put it there!" The conman cried out in fear.
"Oh yeah?" One of the conned people said before grabbing all the cups and lifting them. And of course, no pea. "Then why is it not under any of these?"
"Th-that's..." The conman was now sweating bullets.
"Get him!" One of the con victims said and soon the angry mob started beating the guy.
As this was happening, Wu picked up the money bag along with all his previously used lien before running off.
With Wu having gotten a safe distance away, he let out a grin as he counted his earnings. "Another amateur cleaned." Wu said in smug satisfaction of cleaning another poor conman.
This was his best money-making scheme by far. Play along with con-artists and then steal all their cash. Either by winning, or causing them to get mobbed while he stole all the cash. And what were they gonna do, call the cops? Wu did a little research and all these guys would be arrested on sight. That's not to say that some of them didn't try to weasel out of payment. Either by trying to use honeyed words, or pulling a gun on Wu's face. Sadly, the said guns were a minor annoyance to a Blade. Especially when the said gun sometimes disappeared from the victim's hand when it was pressed against the trickster's forehead.
Jarring Problem
"Urgghh! Open up, jar!" Ruby cried out as she was trying to get a pickle jar open, "Release my tasty pickles!"
Roze, who had been watching with a pitying look finally decided to end Ruby's suffering, "Do you need help with that?"
"Fine…but only because I'm starving." Ruby muttered as she handed over the jar with a downcast look.
"Don't worry, I'll get it open in a jiffy." Roze promised before getting to it. Only to be surprised when he couldn't open it either, no matter how hard he gripped or twisted. "…How tight are these things made?"
"Guess that means no pickles for me." Ruby said sadly.
"Why don't we ask Yang for help?" Roze suggested helpfully.
"No! You never ask Yang for help with jars!" Ruby said in alarm
"Why not?" Roze looked mildly confused.
"My big sister sense is tingling." Said Yang who seemed to appear out of nowhere. Then she saw the source of Ruby's problems, "What's that? A jar of pickles?!"
"Yes, could you perhaps open it?" Roze said, while Ruby was trying to signal her Blade not to. "Ruby said she was starving." And now Ruby looked ready to give up all hope.
"I knew it!" Yang exclaimed as she snatched the jar and glared at it like it had somehow wronged her. "You dare to make my baby sister hungry? You're going down."
"Oh no." Ruby said before hiding behind Roze.
"Uhh…Ruby?" Roze said, thinking his Driver was overreacting.
"Taste…My…Fury!" Yang shouted out as she struggled with the jar.
Roze didn't get worried until Yang started using Ember Celica to blast the offending thing.
It took a moment, but Ruby dared to peek out from behind Roze's back to see Yang's progress. And to the red reaper's shock, her mighty big sis was panting heavily. Unable to open the jar.
"How the heck is this thing still closed." Yang said as her eyes turned red.
"Yang! No!" Ruby screamed before snatching the jar from Yang to prevent the blonde from going berserk.
"Ruby, I'm not giving up." Yang said with a determined look, despite shaking her hands and fingers to get them to stop cramping.
Something that Roze quirked an eyebrow at. "…Okay, if Yang can't get it open, then there's only one thing left to do." Roze said, earning the two's attention.
"What's that?" Ruby was the first to ask.
In the Blade dorm, Dragunov gave the three a blanched look, "You want me to what?"
"We want you to open this jar." Roze said as he offered the jarring container to the dragon.
"…I'm not your personal can opener." Dragunov dead-panned.
"Yang can't open it." Roze said as if that explained everything.
"What?" Dragunov stared at his now red cheeked Driver who looked down in shame. And then he burst into laughter, "Seriously? A mere jar bested you?!" Dragunov doubled over in laughter.
"…Will you help us or not?" Yang growled out, planning to push her Blade into the deep end of the pool later.
"Sure, sure." Dragunov said before taking the jar from Roze. "Now I get to have something to laugh at you for the next few-Ungh!" Dragunov was cut off when his yank on the lid didn't make the thing budge. Then the dragon visibly strained against the jar as he tried to pry it open.
"…Are you freaking/fudging kidding me?!" Ruby and Roze let out in unison as Dragunov's cracks glowed red.
"You lousy- I will not be bested by a mere JAR!" Dragunov roared as he now gave everything he had into opening this lousy jar that dared to try and mock him.
*Crlack*
Everyone stared in disbelief at the jar. Most of all Dragunov who stared at the lid he had pried off. "…How the */¤=)/&`¤&¤`¤ is that even possible?!" Dragunov swore at the lid he was holding, along with the top portion of the jar that cracked off from the bottom. And yet somehow the lid itself hadn't budged on the seams.
"Give me that." Roze said before snatching the torn off top and examined the thing using his Keen Eye. "...Is this a joke?" Roze questioned in disbelief.
"What? What is it?" Ruby asked, now curious on how the jar would get destroyed before letting its lid come off.
"The spiral is malformed, preventing the lid from moving." Roze said as he lowered the destroyed top, "No wonder Yang and I couldn't open it. Actually, how was the lid even put on?"
*Crack*
Everyone was startled by the sound of something breaking.
"NOOOO!" Ruby cried as she realized that Dragunov had clenched the hand still holding onto the rest of the jar into a fist in anger. Crushing the jar, and the pickles inside. "My pickles…" Ruby whimpered at being denied food.
"…Draggie, I want to show you something cool." Yang said with an eerie look, "Follow me if you will. Of course, you are free to keep guessing." The blonde finished as she strutted outside, but she did give Roze a look and mouthed, "Make yourself useful." Even as Dragunov moved to follow out of curiosity.
Roze barely understood it and moved to hug poor Ruby. "Umm... Ruby, I can try and bake some cookies for you if you want."
Ruby looked up to her Blade, now crying tears of happiness, "…I love you."
"I love you too." Roze said while patting Ruby's head.
The two were then startled by a furious roar by Yang from somewhere outside before Ember Celica's gunshots were heard. Followed by something big splashing into the deep end of Beacon's pool.
Freezing Madness
Whitley and Jacques struggled against the grips of Atlesian soldiers. After Jacques was arrested for his numerous crimes against humanity, he was now at the mercy of the next in line for the Schnee Company. For all intents and purposes, it should be Whitley, but the idiotic boy went and actually went physical on the officers arresting his father. Which allowed the officers to slap cuffs on him for assaulting an officer of the law and for obstruction of justice.
Of course, the trial was but a formality with the overwhelming amount of evidence provided by Jacques' turncoat Blade Aizen. Something that made the Schnee patriarch wail in despair, demanding to know why.
"What did you expect? Treating me the way you did." Was Aizen's exact reply.
Anyway, after the trial, Jacques and Whitley were brought to the businessman's office in the manor. Or, rather, what used to be Jacques' office. There were some minor changes to the furniture, most notably, Jacques' potrait was replaced by that of Weiss. With the said white haired girl sitting in the chair her father used to sit on so many times before. With Dahlia standing on the girl's right, hands crossed under her generous bosom. Aizen was standing on Weiss' left, looking at his former Driver with almost extatically smug glee.
"Hello, father." Weiss said with a very frosty smile that reveled in her father's anguish, before turning the menacing visage to Whitley, "Little brother." Weiss made sure to put extra emphasis on "little". "I'm sure you both must be wondering, why you are here and not in prison serving your time."
"Weiss, you will let us both go this instant and tell the judge that everything was a lie, or I will-"
"You will what?" Aizen interrupted, "Weiss has been made the CEO, seeing as your son was just as idiotic as his father. We have all the power, you can just stand there and sputter your empty threats."
"I wasn't speaking to you! You piece of trash!" Jacques snapped at Aizen who immediately pulled his weapons in their bow form on the man.
"Enough!" Weiss said in a commanding tone. "Aizen, stand down."
Aizen lowered the bow with an annoyed look, "My apologies, Miss Schnee. I fear that your father still manages to raise my ire."
"Understandable," Weiss said with a kind smile, before changing her expression to cold indifference as she returned her attention to the male portion of her family. "Now, the reason you two are here is because I was allowed free reign on your sentencing. Oh I had to promise Ironwood with a good deal on Dust in order for that to happen, but I consider it a worthy investment." Weiss explained as she seemingly inspected her perfect nails.
"You ungrateful bitch!" Whitley snapped at his older sister, "Father gave us everything we ever wanted, and you betray him like this! How could you do this to such a great man?!"
Weiss actually laughed at Whitley's attempt to defend their father. And then she saw that the boy looked confused, "Oh, you were serious? Let me laugh harder." And then Weiss laughed an evil laugh fit for an evil noblewoman. Jacques and Whitley's faces turned red with anger, but they could do nothing as Aizen and Dahlia were watching the two like a pair of hawks. Or rather, like a pair of vultures waiting to feast on corpses of beaten and battered animals. It took a moment but Weiss was able to gather her bearings, "Now, let's get serious, I have planned some…major renovations to the manor. First off, there is too much white in the halls, I think a little warmer colors would do wonders give this place some much needed warmth. Also, Whitley's room will be converted to a new music room where mother and I can practice singing or playing piano together. Oh, how I've missed the times mother would sometimes sing along with me." At the last part, Weiss looked like she was having a pleasant dream. "As for the yard, I think I will ask the heating in there to be cut off so I can have a wonderful blanket of snow. And of course, two ice sculptures that will forever remind me of this day of triumph."
"Sculptures of what?" Jacques questioned, feeling furious of his daughter undoing all the work that went into making this magnificent manor.
"On your knees." Weiss said menacingly.
"What?" Whitley question before noticing that Aizen had once again drawn his weapon, this time as twin swords.
"I believe Miss Schnee just told you to get on your knees." Aizen said as he stepped forward from his position. Dahlia also had her bitball ready.
Jacques and Whitley reluctantly complied and got on their knees.
"Okay, hands next to your heads." Weiss then instructed, "A little wider... A little higher. No, a little lower... Perfect." Weiss then had the most menacing look she ever had in her entire life. "Dahlia, ice them!"
"With pleasure, Weiss." Dahlia replied before unleashing a palmful of coldness upon Jacques and Whitley who could only scream for an instant before they were covered by a layer of ice.
Soon enough, in the place of Jacques and Whitley were what looked like two ice sculptures that contained the two. Both of them in the position Weiss instructed them to. Although with the addition of icy yokes around their wrists and neck, that had frozen chains, forever locking them into kneeling position. Worst of all, their looks of horror were forever frozen there as their eyes darted within their ice-shell frantically.
"There, now please put those things into the front entrance to show the world what happens to those who would dare to oppose me." Weiss said before cackling evilly as the thunder sounded outside.
*Slap*
"What the-?!" Weiss questioned as she got up in her bed that the gang had rented in Mor Ardain inn. Then she saw her team staring at her with highly worried looks.
"Weiss, what kind of dream were you having?" Blake asked with a look of worry that had just a tinge of fear in it.
"Why are you asking that?" Weiss said as she rubbed her cheek before glaring at Yang who was the only one within striking distance. The blonde oaf dared to look proud of her accomplishment.
"Because you were cackling in your sleep." Ruby said, looking highly freaked out. The youngest girl rubbed her arms, "It actually gave me the chills."
Weiss' cheeks reddened as she realized she had talked during one of the best dreams she's had in her entire life. Although part of that red came from a tiny dose of rage at it being interrupted so meanly.
Comforting Shadow
For the last few weeks Blake had had better sleep than she had in…forever. She wasn't sure what it was that made her have such good night's sleep, but several mornings she would wake up feeling like the world was just perfect. Her good mood did diminish to her normal stoic self as the days progressed, but she still felt almost as cheerful as Ruby and Nora.
This mystery kept on until Yang felt like investigating, first she went through Blake's bed, not finding anything unusual about it. Next, the blonde decided to check what her partner ate. Again, nothing out of the ordinary. Then she wondered if Blake had some new smut books that might be the cause. So, she went to Blake's not-so-hidden stash to check on if there were some new books. Another dead end. Yang also had half a mind to think that Blake was seeing someone, but she wasn't showing the signs of typical lovestruck girl. Then one day a theory crossed her mind. Perhaps whatever is affecting Blake's sleep is not something the kitty cat does, but rather something that Nox does. After all, the dark Blade was known to try and make his Driver's life whenever he thought it would benefit her.
Which leads to Yang getting into the Blade dorm and rummaging through a drawer that judging by the few contents there was assigned to Nox. And then she found something that was out of place, something that made the blonde bombshell grin evilly at the possibilities of what this thing could do in the right hands, or very wrong ones in this case.
The next day, Blake woke up with a happy look again. Not as happy as yesterday, but the black haired kitty cat still felt like this day would be perfect. A feeling she has found not unpleasant. "Morning, Blake." Weiss said as she had finished brushing her hair.
"Morning Weiss," Blake said with a smile as she prepared to get her today's change of clothes before going into the bathroom to get changed. Until she sniffed the air.
"What is it Blake?" Ruby asked, noting how the faunus was sniffing the air like she was in some kind of trance.
"Blake?" Weiss let out nervously as the sniffing catgirl was getting closer to her. "EEEK!" And then all of a sudden Blake tried to bury her face into Weiss' blouse covered chest. "Blake! What's wrong with you?! Get off of me!" The icy girl screamed as her cheeks turned red.
As if in response, Dahlia burst into the dorm from outside after hearing her Driver's screaming. "What's going on here?!" Dahlia demanded before her concerned look turned into a blanched one as she saw Blake hugging Weiss' torso while rubbing her face into the icy Driver's still developing bust.
All the while Yang was laughing her head off in the side.
Finally, Weiss actually kneed Blake in the abdomen, forcing the faunus to release her, before the molested girl ran behind Dahlia.
As Blake got up, blinking in confusion, the ice bunny gave a frosty look to Blake," You better have a very good explanation for this."
"Whuh? What happened?" Blake said, sounding delirious. As she said this, Nox also got inside, with Dragunov also getting in carefully.
"You just started molesting me, you perverted furry!" Weiss shouted accusingly, visibly shaken by the sudden assault.
"What did you call me?!" Blake got offended by that last word.
Neither of them noticed Dragunov sniffing the air. "Hold up!" Dragunov said with raised voice, earning everyone's attention. Then he sniffed the air more, like a bloodhound tracking a prey. "What's that smell?" Dragunov said as he sniffed the air, moving closer to the source. Then his gaze fell upon Weiss. Then he sniffed his way towards the white-haired girl, a little too close to her chest for Weiss' comfort. "It's coming from you, Weissy." Dragunov finally said before taking a long whiff of the foreign scent coming off of Weiss.
"What did you wash yourself with? This isn't your usual shampoo." Dragunov asked as Yang kept laughing like a maniac while Ruby looked utterly confused.
"Smell?" Weiss said before grabbing the front of her blouse and sniffed it. Her blouse smelled like some sort of... herb concentrate. How she missed it before was beyond her. "Some kind of…herb?" the girl said as much. At this point Nox's visible eye widened significantly at hearing that.
Then the ninja Blade started scanning the room, noticing that Yang was now snickering. Nox narrowed his eye at her.
"What? Do you want some of this?" Yang asked while pointing at herself suggestively. Although she seemed unusually nervous at the stare she was getting. Before anyone could say anything the dark Blade dashed in and patted his hands all over Yang's body.
"Hey! Hands off?!" Yang tried to swat the offending hands away, but somehow Nox avoided the flailing limbs. Then Yang shifted her attention to smacking the offending Blade himself. Except the dark Blade somehow kept avoiding Yang's fists and even her legs when the blonde resorted to trying to kick him. "Hey! Where do you think you're touching?!" Yang's eyes turned red when she felt his hand in her hair, followed by both breasts. Finally, Nox stuck his fingers into Yang's cleavage before the blonde swatted at him again. Fortunately for Nox, he finally backed off, now with a small spray bottle in between his clawed fingers that intruded the fleshy valley.
The dark Blade waved the small bottle in front of himself while using his other hand to bring out his scroll. "So you were the one who stole my bottle." Nox gave Yang a cross-glare. "I have been looking for this since yesterday."
As much as Yang felt angry about having been body checked, she now looked nervous at being caught red handed.
The bottle was suddenly yanked from Nox's hand by Dragunov who red the label. "Catnip spray?" The dragon said in disbelief, before the bottle's owner snatched it back.
"Yang did you spray my blouse with that stuff?!" Weiss cried out accusingly.
"Uhh... yeah." Yang said nervously as she got two sets of icy glares directed at her by the frosty Driver and her Blade who now knew what caused Blake's weird behavior.
"Nox." Blake then said firmly, earning her Blade's attention. The now very miffed cat faunus was pointing at the bottle in the ninja's hand, "Explain. Now!"
"Several weeks ago, I made a discovery of you becoming happy whenever you smell catnip, my lady. So I took the liberty of purchasing some and spraying it upon your pillow every few nights to guarantee you a good night's sleep." Nox showed on his scroll while bowing down.
"Every few nights?" Blake parroted, now her happy mood making sense. "How come my pillow hasn't stained?"
"I do hope my lady is not suggesting I do not switch the pillow cover regularly to prevent this." Nox showed again on his scroll.
Blake let out a weary sigh. "I'm not even mad at you Nox. But it was stupid of you to let it get stolen."
"I await my punishment, my lady. Whatever it may be." Nox looked resigned to his fate.
"…I'll think about that later. Right now, I just want to get breakfast." Blake wasn't in the mood to deal with this right now. But she did glare at Yang, "Don't. Ever. Do that again."
"Got it." Yang didn't know Blake was capable of emitting bloodlust.
Fortunately, the cat faunus was more interested in getting breakfast than being angry at the blonde oaf. Of course, she still had to quickly change her clothes first.
The said blonde oaf breathed a sigh of relief, before finding herself chest deep in an iceblock. "What and how?!"
"Blake may be done with you, but we're not." Dahlia said icily as she lowered her palm, "I believe you need to cool off a little."
Dragunov had the nerve to laugh at the pun that was done at Yang's expense.
"Drag, get me out of this." Yang said as she struggled against the hard ice. All the while Blake exited the team's bathroom in her normal clothing, not even acknowledging her partner's state.
"Hmm…Nope." Dragunov said before doing an about face and walking out.
"Hey! You can't just leave me here!" Yang cried out as she struggled harder.
"Why not?" The sad part was, Dragunov sounded like he genuinely didn't understand what the problem was. Except his face made an impression of a cat that ate the canary.
"Dahlia, let's leave this brute, come on Ruby." Weiss said as she strutted out with Dahlia in tow.
Ruby also moved to follow. "Ruby, please don't leave your big sis like this." Yang pleaded.
"Sorry, Yang." Ruby said with a lamenting look, "But you brought this on yourself." And then the red caped girl left, leaving Yang to scream for help into her icy bonds. The ice would melt eventually, but that could be hours from now. Hopefully Yang learns not to make jokes that make others feel betrayed or violated.
AN: There we go, a conman gets conned by the emperor of conning. A jar gave such jarring problems... Eh? Ahem, anyway, Weiss got to dream of putting his bastard of a father and Shitley on ice. Not gonna lie, that scene was inspired by certain segment in Zootopia. Finally, a little cat joke on Blake's expense by Yang. Which then backfired.
If anyone has suggestions for scenes, you can PM me those, I will credit whoever gave me the idea, unless asked not to.