She rose up on the bed she slept. A terrible pain slashing her head in half. She automatically touched her head with a groan. Luckily, it wasn't permanent as it started to fade away slowly. She just woke up so fast. Actually, where is she?
"Calm down." Said a middle aged woman at a desk. She was searching for something and when she found it, she walked closer to the faunus. "Here. Painkillers for your headache. It can be horrible." She offered the pill to her.
"I'm not fond of medicines." Informed Blake, looking at the stranger while narrowing her eyes. She looked like an average woman. Nothing outstanding on her. She also seemed kind but despite that, it didn't make the faunus to act nicely to her.
"As you wish. But it will hurt. Well, if you can endure it, then that's fine for me." As soon as she finished that sentence, another pain slashed through her head, like that woman caused it somehow. Of course it wasn't the case. The faunus held her head with her hands, trying to squeeze it to lower the throbbing. If this will be even worse, her head will blow up. There is no way she is going to endure this so she took the medicine out of that woman's hand and swallowed it dry. Then she started coughing because it stuck in her throat.
That woman just sighed and poured some water into a cup and handed it to the faunus. She took her time just to show what happens if you act before thinking it through. Blake didn't wait for the lady to hand it to her properly as she was so slow. She took it out of her hand and drank it like she stayed in the desert for days. The motion was so fast that even some got on the floor and on her shirt. Well, she was basically suffocating, so she needed water badly.
"You are a stubborn one." The woman said with her arms crossed whilst watching Blake consuming the water like crazy. When she finished, she started staring at her. Her rude expression was still on her face even though the woman just helped her.
"Are you a doctor or something?" Asked, not letting that rude attitude of hers go.
"Not really. I can heal people but I don't know the specifics in the field. I'm actually the landlady in this house." She said casually, like this power is not big of a deal.
"What do you mean house?" Well, it didn't seem like the faunus was so impressed with it. "We are supposed to be in a hotel."
"This is not a hotel, that's for sure. You already rented this out for a week, so you are staying here." She walked back to her desk, leaving Blake confused on the bed. She will have to ask the teacher why they aren't in the place they should be. The woman continued on.
"I can't do anything with your ear, though. I can only remove injuries on the skin and put bones back to the right place but I can't rewind the flesh that was once there. Whatever caused that, it remains." Blake just realized that this woman healed her and she is acting so impolite with her. She just can't trust anyone, but if someone is doing her a favor then that person doesn't deserve this treatment that she is showing.
"Uhm… Thank you…" Finally showing her appreciation while holding her arm in her lap, suddenly becoming shy. The woman turned around to look in her eyes.
"Don't worry about it. The other girl who was here had a scar and she didn't want to remove it. I guess it reminded her of something. It will become normal for you. Maybe it already has." Listened to Blake as she was talking about some other girl.
"Talking about scar. You had a nasty one. I managed to heal that. After that, I hope you don't mind it. Oh, and the horrible headache was only just the side effect. Believe me I know it's terrible. I healed myself before." This woman just kept going with her talking and Blake was stuck on the part where she was talking about a girl.
"How big is this house?" Asked it, like what the woman said just now wasn't that important. She now walked to the window, opening it. It was really hot in here. They need some air if they don't want to boil.
"It has four rooms. Also the main area where the kitchen is connected with the living room. Oh, and each room has a bathroom of course. It was pretty expensive to build up but since it's in business, I earn quite a lot of cash with it." She said proudly and still continues. Blake was only curious about how big it was. Although the next info she provided her was useful as well.
"Only you guys are staying for a week now, though. You have quite the numbers. It might be nice being on a school trip. Oh I loved those back in the day. Also, I just realized that I didn't mention this room. It's only a storage room apart from the main complex. I just stayed here because you guys had some injuries. You must have fought hard…" She was still going on.
Seriously, you couldn't stop this woman. It wouldn't be a surprise if she and Nora were related. And when she remembered back the old times it sounded like she was eighty years old not a woman in her thirties. But how she started this whole monologue confirmed that Weiss was here as well. She wasn't fighting so why? Actually, she might have joined in as she didn't remember the end of that whole commotion.
"The girl with the scar, Weiss, why was she here?" Blake asked. She showed her emotions the most in her entire stay here. It didn't stay unnoticed by the woman.
"Oh Weiss, yes. She had some graze on her knees and hands. Not that big of an injury, but I still healed her. The second time, she came to check up on you. I thought it was cute. But when I asked her about you, she wasn't sure what to say. I'm sorry for telling this without her approval, but she also said that you caused those injuries on her. That's why I'm not sure what's going on between you guys. Oh, youngsters these days. They are so unpredictable. Hard to tell what they are thinking all the time…"
At this point she was basically talking to herself as Blake couldn't get her head around what she just said. Did she seriously hurt her again? It must have been that time where she doesn't remember a thing. She was on top of the ship, fighting the intruder but after that, everything was blurry. The intruder! What happened to him? I hope we managed to catch him because he won't get away with this. She was thinking while that woman was still talking in the background.
"Uhm…" Started talking, or at least giving out sounds so the woman's attention would go to her. "Thank you for the help… but I should go now." She said while standing up slowly.
"Of course. But next time be more careful. I will be around sometimes so you can ask for help anytime. Take care." She replied and also pushed an apple into her hands then waving after her when she left the room. It felt like they met so many times even though they just met. That woman was so nice to her and she treated her like a pile of trash at first. But at least she showed her gratitude at the end. She didn't even ask her name. Maybe next time.
The thing is that she had no idea where to go. She didn't even know where their room was. Maybe it's better they aren't staying in a hotel cause that would be a maze. Actually, she didn't have much of an option as she could only walk straight forward. Well, that is, if she doesn't jump out of the window. No point in that, I guess. So she started walking while biting a peace out of the fruit. Not long after that, she found herself in a place that looked like an ante-room. There was a huge door with beautiful decorations carved in it. Only seeing this door you could tell this house is an expensive one. The rent shouldn't be cheap. How is the school affording this? And why are they staying here? The hotel where the others stay must have been a five star as well.
The door misled her as she opened it and saw a pretty average living room. It wasn't bad but not what she expected by looking at the door. She actually thought she would wander into a rich mansion the first time in her life, but she was left disappointed. It wasn't bad or scummy. It was just average. But who she found was doing something she would never thought would happen to see once in her entire lifetime.
Yang was standing there and was….. cleaning? Something must have possessed her. She wouldn't do it on her own volition. She was holding a broom, cleaning the floor at the moment. It would be way easier with a vacuum cleaner but maybe they don't have that. Blake's mouth was open as she couldn't believe what she was seeing. What remained of the apple was stuck in her sharp fangs. Not even considering that she might have to clean as well. She was organised but these past few days, she felt like she doesn't care about it anymore.
Yang was humming in her head because she felt like she needed some tune to make this way more interesting. They even confiscated her scroll so she didn't have anything to kill time while she was sweeping the nothingness. She got to the refrain of the song where she turned her broom into a guitar and hummed the song loudly. She was having a concert to herself when she noticed Blake was standing there, her jaw dropped. And with that, the red apple fell on the floor now. Another thing to clean up. But the faunus looked really stupid.
"Waah!" She got scared. Her heart actually stopped for a moment and she stood there like a soldier now. Although, the face that the faunus made was so funny she started laughing hysterically. Hearing and seeing this, Blake dropped the dumb face and smiled. Yang was tearing up as she managed to calm down.
"Finally, something fun…" She said while wiping the tears away from her eyes. "...But you are going to clean that up." She said as she leaned on the broom that she jabbed onto the floor, pointing on the apple that fell apart when it reached the ground. She crossed her legs as she was resting on the equipment. Blake walked close to her. She will clean that up later.
"Are you sure you are yourself?" Asked the faunus, observing her up and down. She formed a magnifying glass with her fingers, demonstrating her examination.
"Sure." Replied the blonde while pushing her hand down so she doesn't make fun of her. "You can join me if you want. You have to clean too, anyway." She was a bit sad but happy at the same time. At least she won't be alone, but on the other hand Blake has to suffer as well.
"Really?" She was surprised. Not that much, though as she expected it deep down. She just didn't want to believe it. She can start with that mess that she just created.
"Yeah. Remember our fight? Well… We shouldn't have done that it seems. That's our punishment. And we are all here because the team has to be responsible for the consequences as a whole and blah blah blah…" She dragged it out, making it seem boring.
"Okay, uncool stuff. Doesn't this school teach combat training? Then why can't we fight?" She had a point. It was a problem as well, but that wasn't the biggest problem.
"Well, we did destroy half of the storage room. Some high cost equipment was there as they told me. We pay it off with this. That's why they sent us here and not to the hotel." Yang informed her with the details. At least she knows now why they are here. Maybe it's not that bad. At least there are not many people here. And if they just have to clean, that's not disastrous.
"What about Team JNPR?" She was curious why that group was sent here as well. What exactly did that team do?
"Oh… the show off to other students. Also… that food fight we mentioned? Actually now that I remember that… almost everyone was involved, instead of you and Weiss. So I guess Weiss is the only innocent one here." Blake started laughing at that.
"Who would have thought of that, right?" She said, really amused. On the other hand, Yang didn't seem to laugh at it. She looked like she was remembering something. She stood straight now and put down the broom, leaning it to the wall.
"Do you remember what happened… on the ship?" This question came out of nowhere and it made Blake cease the laughing.
She had no idea, because she didn't remember at all, but she had a guess...