Chapter Nine: A plan
It had been a month since the students had taken the initiation exam and the new teams were made. There was, however, one student that missed the test, which meant that there was one incomplete team.
One the night they were finally allowed into their dorm rooms, Jezie was the first one there. She stood at her bed unpacking what little belongings she had, putting up a couple random posters on the wall by the bed she had chosen as her own. After she finished unpacking her things, she pulled out a book to read while she waited for the other members of her team to arrive. She didn't have to wait very long; she had just sat down when the door opened again and a short girl with light pink hair walked in, followed by a girl who looked almost exactly like her with the same coloured hair.
Jezie, wanting to make a good impression on the members of the team she was going to lead, stood, "welcome to the room, my name is Jezebel, but I prefer Jezie," she introduced herself.
"How the FUCK can one girl be so tall?!" the first girl blurted out as she looked up at the 6"1' form that was Jezebel.
"Star, don't be rude" the other girl that had entered scolded the girl she called Star, "Sorry about that, she doesn't seem to think before she speaks…. I'm Nova, that…" she motioned to the girl in front of her, "Is my twin sister, Starlight" she finished, brushing past her to get further into the room so she could choose a bed and unpack her things.
"But seriously though, you are really tall… how are you so tall?" Star said, taking the bed that was closest to her sister's bed and unpacking her things.
"I, u-umm, I guess it runs in my family, my mom was quite tall," Jezie replied to Star, sitting back down on her bed.
There was an awkward silence in the room as the three introverts sat reading their own books after the introductions had happened. Jezebel was reading a book called 'Hush, Hush,' and it was about a girl who fell in love with a fallen angel. Nova was reading the second volume of 'The man with two souls,' which she had borrowed from Blake a couple days ago. Star was reading a magazine and listening to music on her scroll through headphones that had her initials on them.
"I hope they find the missing girl," Jezie muttered, breaking the silence.
Nova looked up from her book, her blue eyes meeting Jezie's forest green ones, "I'm sure they will, they are trained professionals after all," she replied trying to reassure her.
"What if they don't? Or what if they do and it's too late?" Her eyes searched hers frantically, her book now forgotten as she worried about the girl she never got to meet. Her ears were flat against her head and her tail wagged anxiously.
"Jezie, please relax, they will find her, I promise," she got up, moving to sit beside her on the bed.
"What are you two babbling about over there?" Star piped up, setting her magazine down and taking off her headphones.
"I'm worried about the missing girl, and I'm also worried that they won't find her," Jezie explained, her voice high pitched but quiet.
"I think we all are but, we just have to be patient and let the teachers find her, unless we try to find her ourselves. The only problem there is we don't know where to start or anything like that" Star replied.
"Wait, I think I remember Ozpin saying something about a boy named Neptune being the last to see her," Nova muttered, half talking to herself as she tried to remember all the Ozpin had said during the assembly.
"Great! Let's find this Neptune kid and see what he knows," Jezie shot off her bed, her tail wagged excitedly at finally having something to do.
"Settle down there, it's getting late, it's almost lights out," Nova said, putting a hand in front of Jezebel to keep her from rushing out the door.
"Nova is right, it is late, and we are all tired, people don't think properly when they are tired. Why don't we get some sleep and we'll go find him in the morning" Starlight chimed in.
"...yeah you guys are right…" Jezie replied softly, sitting back down on her bed, her wolf ears drooping a little, her tail curling around her.
The next morning
Starlight was the first one awake, she quietly got dressed and left the dorm to go for a walk, lost in thought as she wandered the halls eventually bumping into someone.
She tumbled to the ground with a soft thud, "oof, ouch" she exclaimed, rubbed her backside as she stood up.
The student she had walked into turned around and it was none other than Zeriph, "Star, you are the last person I thought I'd see this early"
"I have to admit, you were pretty low on my list of people I thought I'd see…..." she replied, dusting herself off as she started to walk away.
He ran after her, "Hey, wait, let's hang out, catch up and what not."
"I'd like to, but I have somewhere to be" she continued walking, diligently trying to ignore him, he didn't know that she'd caught him with another girl.
"Oh, come on~ it'll be fun~" he crooned, taking hold of her arm and shoving her into a broom closet, locking the door behind them,
"What the fuck, Zeriph?!" she snapped, catching herself before she went tumbling into the shelves of cleaning supplies.
Zeriph didn't say anything, he pushed her to the ground, straddling her as he started to take off her clothes…