The pond wasn't a particularly beautiful place, with the grass, bushes and trees and a path surrounded the pond itself, and the fishers can only enter the pond from a building not too far away, which its other side was the beginning of the path to the pond. There was a fishing platform at the east side of the pond, which wasn't too far away from the beginning of the path. Likewise, the west end of the pond also had a platform, and usually took a five-minute walk to be able to get there. Furthermore, wooden fences surrounded the pond and the building itself.
A car drove down the path that led to the fishing place. Yang was told via Taiyang that he used to go fishing down there, although Yang grinned at his comment that he found it quite boring, but he would be surprised that it was still open after all those years. She wasn't able to think of what places her team would want to go once they've completed their four years in Beacon, before briefly glancing at her right hand — now a yellow prosthetic due to a freak accident involving a Grimm, which she thought wasn't a really fond memory — then glanced to the windshield to find Ruby and Weiss in the backseats. Blake was sitting next to her, and she knew damn well that they both are into each other.
"Why a fishing pond," Weiss began, "out of all places?" The team was aware that they were going there, but had to go with Yang's suggestion as she was the only one who managed to come up with a suggestion.
"Come on, Weiss, it will be fun!" Ruby tried to convince her.
"Since when was waiting for a fish to take the bait fun?"
Blake shut the book she was reading — a 835 page-long hardback brick of book titled A Rabbit Among Wolves — and shot back: "I've heard that it's quite relaxing."
"Blake is right! Come on, Weiss, you should let out some stress after we've—"
"Is everything all right?" Yang directed Ruby with a question after she turned the steering wheel left.
Ruby, cheery as she ever is, replied, "Yeah, sis, just trying to get Weiss to get along with it."
As they drove down the dirt path, Yang angrily muttered, "Why don't they fix the damn road?" as the car bumped on the rocky ground.
Finally, after an hour of driving, Yang saw a sign, which read, 'The Dysme Fishing Spot' along the white colored fences. She turned right and drove into the spot, stopping at a parking spot near the building.
Yang turned the key clockwise, removed it as the engine shut off and put it into one of her pockets. She opened and got out of the car, seeing a white colored house with a double door — made of wood and glass — and featured a garden bed — decorated with cosmos bipinnatus or garden cosmos, with its flower's daisy-like petals sporting a pink-purple color in an unusually short bush of their own, being a single foot tall instead of the usual 2 feet or higher.
Ruby was the second to get out of the car, and opened up the boot to bring out a bag containing their fishing gear, and so forth. Weiss' eyes widened as she got out of the car and looked at the building, which almost reminded her of the Schnee manor. Blake also had a similar reaction, but leaned onto a more positive look of the calmness of the place itself.
"What is this place?" Weiss said calmly, admiring the surroundings as the birds chirped and the trees lightly blew, and the ambience of the whole place in general— it was far different from the busy nature of Beacon and the eerie silence of the Schnee manor.
Yang smiled at that, briefly realizing why her father settled down in Patch was due to environments like this.
After they had shared their opinions on the place, they headed inside the building. Ruby opened the door to find out that there was a counter on her left, near the entrance. The floor was made of nicely varnished oak hardwood, and the wall was made of minimalistic pine shiplap, also colored white as it is on the exterior. To her right were tables and chairs, and lamps equipped with Incandescent light bulbs hanging off the ceiling, emitting an orange lighting across the room to give it a comfortable environment. There were also signs advertising food — fish curry, fish stew and so forth, and water — and paintings: One of them featured a wooden background and a single action golden revolver with ivory grips placed over leaves, and featured two flies — one on the ivory grip, the other near a leaf — and a skull of what was possibly an iguana below the gun's barrel. There were also photographs of pervious visitors with their catches, ranging from medium to large.
"Hello, and welcome to the Dysme Fishing Spot!" The woman — according to the name on the counter, she's named Irving, and she wore a blue skirt that reached for her ankles and a shirt with tartan patterns, had short brown hair, and appeared to be in late 20s — greeted Ruby as she stepped in.
Ruby was startled by the sudden greeting, "Ah! Yang, there's—" She quickly realized it was the counter lady that greeted her. "…Hello?"
Yang joined in, "How much for an hour of fishing?"
She tapped a sign on a counter. 'Fifty lien per hour.' Yang then checked the time, before slapping down a hundred and fifty lien on the counter.
"Thank you," Irving said to her as she accepted the payment, before her eyes widened at Weiss as she passed by her. Thankfully, the Schnee did not notice that she was surprised at her arriving in the fishing pond as her green, but Irving was briefly frozen after they left for the pond to let what she had saw sink in.
The team walked out of the building and prepared the fishing equipment: Hooks, lures, rods, lines and foldable chairs, just in case. And a six pack of energy drinks for Yang.
Once Yang unfolded and placed a chair at one of the fishing platforms, she reeled in the rod's line. After the line was long enough, she pressed the button on the reel and raised the rod up, before quickly sweeping the rod and disengaged the reel button to throw the lure into the water.
After the lure has been thrown into the water, she went over to her chair and placed down the fishing rod. Then she cracked open a still-cold can of Tamaraw — featuring 36mg of caffeine per 100ml, and reportedly had its origins in Mistral, but was popularized by a Atlesian — and gave it a sip as she waited for the fish to take the lure.
Blake unfolded a chair next to her and asked Yang, "Do you mind?"
"No, not at all," Yang answered, smiling as she drank the excessively caffeinated drink.
Once she had the go ahead, Blake placed her fishing equipment next to her seat and sat down onto her seat, opening the brick of a hardback book. Yang noticed that, too, and gave her a question: "You're not thinking of fishing, aren't you?"
"Not really, I have no interest in fishing. I only came here of the calm environment."
Yang smirked at that comment, while also gulping some of the energy drink and then placed it down on the chair's left. She also pulled out her golden-colored aviators' sunglasses and put it on, although she briefly pulled it down to glance at what Blake was reading.
Of course, the cat Faunus noticed, quickly putting the bookmark in the center of the book and then shut the book, staring at Yang with her wide eyes and an embarrassed look— complete with a blush. The other resisted her urge to laugh, only letting out a giggle at the situation, before putting her hand around Blake and gave her a kiss on a cheek.
Weiss tried to cast the rod, but failing spectacularly in her attempt to do so. Ruby sat on the grass with her cast rod placed next to her, waiting for the fish to catch the lure.
The Schnee tried again, before the line got stuck in her hair and briefly screamed after she discovered that it was stuck in her hair when she pulled the rod, causing her to scream.
"Weiss!" Ruby noticed her panic, standing up and rushed to the rescue. She told Weiss to stay still as she tried to get the line out of her hair, which Weiss tried her best to do so, let alone for trembling. Thankfully, the hook did not cut open any part of her and cause a medical mess, but Ruby finally got it out.
Weiss was panting on the ground, and eventually said, "Ruby, can you cast the rod for me? I don't f—"
"Hey, are you okay over there?" Yang yelled from the other side of the pond as she heard the screaming.
"Yes, we are!" Ruby yelled back, "Weiss got scared by a fish!"
Weiss wasn't pleased. "Hey!" She got a devilish grin from Ruby in response, plus her moving her away before she casted the rod.
Once the lure dropped into the water, Ruby handed Weiss the rod before heading back to her spot. Likewise, Weiss headed back to her chair and placed the stick near her seat, before placing her arms on her legs and hands on her cheeks as she waited for the lure to be caught.
However, Weiss saw the lure flicker on the water, and she got up on her seat, confused. She picked up the rod, and the fish began moving, pulling Weiss as she unknowingly pressed the reel button. She fought back the fish's force by pulling the rod back…
…Eventually she won, and managed to drag the fish out of water. Ruby enviously widened her eyes at her as she managed to get a fish. Weiss tried to pull the reel back, but struggled. She ungrabbed her left hand, and the line was loose. Then, she used her left hand to grab the reel handle and pulled it close to her.
"What did you get, Weiss?" Ruby walked over, and her eyes widened at Weiss' loot: An oval fish with a strange, compressed appearance with its eyes being high up near the fin, and the small mouth resembling a beak of a bird. It also had a tough skin beneath the grey colored scales, and the grey fins had shades of blue — A balistes capriscus: grey triggerfish. In Weiss' case, it is 16 inches long. "How the hell…"
"Hah!" Weiss smugly showed off her catch as she took the fish off the hook and onto her hands. She felt slightly disgusted by the leathery feel the skin had, but she was too busy to complain, "Now, what can you get, Ruby?"
"How did it get here?" Ruby asked concerningly, looking back at the pond as she tried to understand how did it get into the pond.
"Why don't you take that to Blake, you dolt—"
"Hey!"
"Alright, alright, let's take it to Blake and Yang."
"Hey Blake!" Ruby walked onto their fishing platform. Blake still has her face stuck to the book while Yang also peeked over to what the Faunus was reading.
Blake turned around in her seat after passing over the hardback to Yang, telling her to stay on that page. "What is it, Rub—" She saw Weiss' catch and tapped Yang's shoulder, who passed the book back to her and turned around. Yang pulled the aviator down from the bridge of her nose and was surprised at the catch. "…where did you get this?" Blake directed the question to Weiss.
"The pond, why you ask?" Weiss answered, overloaded with the pride from her achievement of catching an unusual species of fish.
Blake's eyes widened at the revelation. "Is the pond a sub-tropical water? How did that balistes c—"
"What?"
"Grey triggerfish. I think they're usually in Mistrali waters, from what I've read."
Weiss scoffed, before she smugly said, "Does it look like I ca—" Weiss stopped talking as Yang stared at her with the 'utter one more syllable and I will have you killed right here' look. Weiss eyed to Blake, who was equally disappointed as Yang. Her available palm was raised, before she softly said, "I'm sorry."
Yang heard the water move, and she quickly placed the shades back to where it was, then she grabbed the rod and stood up. She held the reel button as she fought with the fish, and she won with more ease than difficulty, and a large fish flew up to the sky, landing near the team.
It was a catfish, or according to Blake, ictalurus punctatus — Channel catfish. Yang's catch was a massive 38 inches. Yang almost appeared to be wrestling with it as she tried to get it in her hands after she got the hook off. Although the rest of the team had their eyes widened at Yang's catch, Ruby giggled at how she looks like she was wrestling with it, eventually managing to hold it up — Yang was absolutely having the time of her life.
Weiss appeared completely destroyed at Yang's catch. Instead of the pride she put on, it was replaced by envy for the brawler's grey catfish. "Yeah, sis!" Ruby cheered, putting up a hand which Yang replied with a high five.
"Now, where's your catch?" Yang asked her sister.
Ruby's eyes widened, "Ah! I'll be right back, promise!" She broke off to discover her fishing rod being dragged away by a fish that she missed.
She turned into a dash of petals to catch up with the rod and appeared in front of its trajectory. She kneeled down and grabbed the rod, then tried to pull the fish out: The fish won, and she was dragged across the grass and while she was brought across, she yelled, "Yaaaaaaang!" among other cries for help.
Yang noticed the cry for help, and quickly ran over to her. "Give back my sister, you bastard!" She yelled as she began to run for the rod. Thankfully, she managed to get the rod in time and bring it to a halt, then finally, brought the fish up to the shore.
Ruby was panting from the sudden chaos as she got up to her knees. "Thanks, Yang…" She said weakly before looking at her catch: It was about 11 inches. Her eyes widened that it was an average sized fish instead of a large fish that dragged her away. "What's that?"
Blake walked onto the scene, holding the seabass for Yang. "Seabass, or Dicentrarchus labrax," she provided the information.
"Don't worry, sis," Yang reassured Ruby. "You've got a pretty good catch!"
"Yeah," Ruby replied, standing up, "that's good to hear." She then giggled and suggested, "So, do we get a group photo after this?"
Yang brightened at her sister's suggestion, "Hell yeah! Blake, can you take the photo?"
"Alright, then," Blake agreed.
Later, Weiss, Yang and Ruby grouped together, with the background being the pond itself, and then there is, Weiss, holding the triggerfish in her right hand and was clearly envious of Yang's massive catfish, which required two hands to hold it. Ruby, however, was smiling awkwardly while holding out her seabass. Behind the camera, however, was Blake, although she made no attempts to try and show that she was there — although it was confirmed that she was there by a note written behind the photo, which now stays in a frame in the Xiao Long cabin. As for the fish, it stayed back in the pond.
A/N: Hello, and thanks for reading this dumb little fanfic that I've wrote in two days. I think I went a bit overboard with the descriptions (e.g the painting in the fishing spot, which was supposed to be a reference to The Man with The Golden Gun's novel), but I think it's a pretty fun experience.
And yes, the title is intentionally overly serious: It's supposed to be an affectionate parody of thriller novels and movies. I tried my best to research about the fish they caught, with some details left out (Artistic licence doesn't hurt, right?). In general, this silly one shot was a waste of time, and I may have a better one coming in the next month or two.
Also, I haven't read A Rabbit Among Wolves, the only reason I referenced this Coeur fic was because Faunus.