Jace pushed her over to the guy who'd she'd thrown the TNT back at. She gave him a look. "What is it with you and introducing me to people who hate me?"

"Nonsense, he'll love you."

"Kinda doubt that, bro..."

Jace ignored her cynical statement and waved at the gladiator cheerfully, who was reading a book-

Jesse's innards froze, and she walked forward. "That- that's Lukas's journal!" she exclaimed, eyes wide, slipping out from under her brother's arm and walking over to him.

The gladiator looked up to see Jesse. "You say something, tiny?" he asked, as Jace hustled over, tail wagging furiously. "'Cause I'm trying to read here."

"W-where did you get that book you're reading?" Jesse asked, hands shaking slightly as she stared at the gladiator.

The gladiator looked at the journal, and then back at Jesse. "This? Fished it out of some Respawn's inventory after he-" He made a sort of sound that sounded like he was hawking spit, drawing a finger across his neck, before smiling at Jesse, who was just staring at him with an incredulous look. "It's got tales of adventures, feelings, and other dumb stuff." He gave her another grin, before his eyes narrowed. "Hey, wait a minute- you're the pipsqueak that knocked me out of my tower!"

"Hi Slab," Jace cut in, "I think you two've already met. This is Jesse, my twin sister. But you can call her Cowgirl."

Jesse blinked, before turning around and smacking him on the back of the head, feeling her cheeks flush bright red. "Th-th-that was one time!" she exclaimed, trying to keep her voice low as her brother snickered.

"Yeah!" And Slab continued, although he seemed faintly amused and less annoyed, which may have been Jace's objective (smart bro she had), "and this belonged to that little blonde buddy of yours."

"Said 'little blonde buddy' would probably like it back, to be honest," Jesse said sheepishly, rubbing the back of her head. "But, I'll, um, I'll leave you to it- so, um, g'bye!"

"Yeah... I'm SLAB, THE IMMOVEABLE!" And he waved his arms in the air, the book flapping about in the air.

Jace and Jesse just blinked at him.

Slab took ahold of the book again, his face coloring a bit. "... and I would just like to read one more chapter..." he added, sheepishly.

Jesse chuckled and gave him a little wave, grabbing her brother by the arm and gently steering him away. "Cool, bye!" Her nervous smile faded and she gave her twin a flat look. "But seriously, please stop trying to introduce me to people who wanna kill me..."

Jace sniggered. "No promises, sis."

He led her to a gladiator standing in front of the portal, the left side of his face looking as though it had gone through a meat grinder. "This is Facemeat," Jace whispered, "he looks... kinda scary, but he's actually not too bad once you get to know him."

"Good to know," Jesse said meekly, before sheepishly waving at him. "Ah, hello..."

'Facemeat' glared at Jesse from where he was slouching on the steps. "Don't you 'hello' Facemeat!" And then he stood up, actually towering over Jesse. "Wait a minute! You're the cheater that blew up my friend, Slab! And Facemeat doesn't. Like. Cheaters."

"Hey, hey, cool it, Facemeat! She's my twin," and Jace gently clapped Jesse on the back, making her look at her brother.

Facemeat's face seemed to soften. "... I suppose I can see it in the eyes. You have very similar eyes, I guess. Well, don't just stand around and take up all of Facemeat's air!"

Jesse put her hands behind her back innocently. "Do you know where my friends are?" she asked, meekly.

"In the Mines... duh. And they're not going anywhere. Not on Facemeat's watch," Facemeat said, crossing his arms, one hand holding a rather large axe that Jesse really didn't want to go near.

"Please?" and Jesse put all of her hands together pleadingly. "Is there anything I can do to get them out?"

Facemeat hesitated, his face softening a little more. "Well... now that you mention it... Facemeat was busy slamming mad reps at the gym and missed lunchtime. Ya see? So Facemeat's hungry. Do something about that, and Facemeat'll think about getting your friends out."

Jesse gave him a nod and walked off with Jace, walking in circles. "Jace, is there a possibility we could go to the food stand?"

Jace shook his head. "I'm not sure it's a good idea- the food stand only allows people to get food at certain times a day- breakfast, lunchtime, and dinner. And Clutch is... pretty strict about her job. I'm not on that good terms with her- not since she yanked my tail a couple years back."

Jesse tried to restrain her giggles and failed.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yuk it up, but the point is we're not getting any food from her. So... now we just have to figure out..."

"Maybe Nell has an idea to get it? She did say I should just go and ask," and before Jace could say anything, Jesse was already trotting back over to the blonde, who hopped off her block upon seeing the spider hybrid. "Yo, Jesse. What can I help you with?"

"Well... actually, do you have any extra food?" Jesse asked, politely, as Jace came back over, tail wagging. "Jeez, you're fast, sis," he complained.

Nell seemed to think about it. "Well, um... if I had some wheat, I would totally give you some. Sadly, I DON'T have a secret stash, and if you DIDN'T ask, I WOULDN'T loan you some."

Jace blinked. "Huh. You learn a new thing every day."

Nell smirked a bit at her twin, and then winked at Jesse. "Wink." She started walking off, Jesse and Jace trailing after her and walking normally, while Nell tried to 'tiptoe'. They got some weird looks, but Jace just shrugged at most of the competitors and they shrugged it off.

So in that way, they made it to the other side of the village, and followed Nell behind a building.

A/N: Stopping point!

Ugh... I've gotten obsessed with RWBY. And MCSM. It's like a job where I juggle two things at the same time- watching episodes of RWBY... and writing this fanfic xD

ChoyofBonk: Hehe xD And somehow I am fast. I have no idea how, but okay, I'll take it.

rebekahtpe: Aww I was starting to like Penny too...

RapidSammi: Derpy Hooves (I'm sorry)

GuestPerson13: (evil grin)

NoItsBecky: Hehehe xD

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