Alex and Koan were busy helping Yang move more of the heavy sound equipment, while Weiss was busy planning and Ruby sat at one of the tables depressed
Weiss Slammed her hands down on the table before ruby getting her attention" I need you to pick a table cloth" she said sliding two almost identical pieces of table cloth in front of her
"Aren't they both the same?" She asked with a quizzical look.
Weiss sighed and said, "I don t even know why I asked."
Alex placed a hand down on Ruby's shoulder " you still worried about Blake" Alex asked
"She just so focused on taking down Torchwick and the White Fang I'm worried she's going to burn herself out" Ruby said
" I'll tell you one thing she is stubborn. But I get why she's doing it." Alex said
" What do you mean" Ruby asked
"Like she said, Blake was part of the White Fang since she was little but now the Fang she knew is gone and their goal with it. She just can't stand by a let them cause more pain for man and Faunus. But the way she's going about it, she's going to be too exhausted to do anything I told her not to worry but you know Blake." Alex said
Yang walked in behind them carrying a speaker setting it down it caused Ruby and the table to bounce. Yang proceeded to walk up to Ruby and Alex " So you picked out a dress yet, Ruby?"
"What's the point? who cares about the dance if Blake isn't going?" Ruby said
"Oh, don't worry she's going." Yang said.
Ruby and Alex looked at her in confusion as to why yang would say that so confidently
"So how about you Alex, Koan you guys still need to get your suits for the party" Yang said
"Yes, picked mine up after I found out you guys were planning the party" Alex said
"Got it" Koan said
"Alright, we are set." Yang said before turning a different direction calling out "Weiss! I thought we agreed, no doilies."
Weiss walked up to yang and said, "If I don't get doilies, you don't get fog machines?"
Then a set of doors opened and Sun and Neptune walked in Neptune asked, "Your dance is going to have fog machines?"
"We were thinking about it" Weiss said
"That's sound awesome." Koan said
The Sun asked, "You lady's all exited for dress up."
"Pfft, yeah right." Ruby replied
Yang then said" Laugh all you want. I'll be turning heads tomorrow night."
"Yea, just try not to kill them doing it." Koan said earning a (hey!) from yang, before realizing the joke, and laughed along with them.
"Ok, I'll admit that was a good one." Yang said
"What are the two of you wearing" Weiss asked Neptune and Sun
"Uh, this" Sun said indicating to the cloth's he was currently wearing.
Neptune quickly shushed him "Ignore him, for he knows not what he says."
"Hey, I may have moved to Mistral, but I grew up in Vacuo. It's not exactly a shirt and tie kind of place." Sun said
"Yeah, we've noticed." Yang said
"So, uh... what does Blake think of all this? she still being ya know… Blakey." Sun asked
"Obviously!" Weiss deadpanned
"I still can't think of a way to change her mind." Ruby said
Then yang said "Guys, trust me. Blake's going to be at the party tomorrow." and strode off.
/
Blake sat at one of the many terminals present in the library continuing her research on the white fang. A small red dot appeared on the screen catching her attention her eyes followed the dot until it vanished.
Blake let out an annoyed growl, her amber eye's scanning the room for the source before returning to her work, their it was again popping up in the center disrupting her work, swirling around on the screen, her eyes followed it almost hypnotically Blake clenched her teeth slamming her hands down on the desk rising out of her seat.
The dot appeared on the floor, following it across the library increasing her speed to stomp on it, eventually bumping into yang "Hellooooo~" She said in a sing song voice
"What are you-"
Yang cut in" We need to talk "
"Yah!"
/
Blake was pacing back and forth inside one of the empty classroom's Yang sat cross legged "Yang, if you're going to tell me to stop you may as well save your breath."
"I don't want you to stop, I want you to slow down." Yang said
"We don't have the luxury to slow down." Blake argued
"It's not a luxury, it's a necessity." Yang said
"The necessity is stopping Torchwick." Blake said
"And were going to but first you have to sit down and listen to what I have to say." Yang said gesturing to the spot in front of her.
"Fine" Blake responded taking a seat.
"Ruby and I grew up on Patch an island just off the coast of vale. Our parents were huntsmen, our dad taught at signal and our mom would take on missions around the kingdom. Her name was Summer Rose. And she was like, super mom baker of cookies and slayer of giant monsters. And then one day she left for a mission and never came back. It was tough, Ruby was really torn, up but I think she was still too young to get what was really going on, Ya know.
"And my dad just kind of, shut down. It wasn't long before I learned why Summer wasn't the first love he'd lost. She was the second. The first was my mom." Blake's face shifted to shock "He wouldn't tell me everything but I learned the two of them had been on the same team together with Summer and Qrow. And that she'd left me with him just after I was born. No one had seen her since."
"Why did she leave you?" Blake asked
"That question" Yang answered with a sigh"... why I didn't know the answer but I was determined to find out. It was all I thought about. I would ask anybody I could what they knew about her. Then one day I found something what I thought was a clue that could lead me to answers or maybe even my mother. I waited for dad to leave the house put Ruby in a wagon and headed out.
"I must have walked for hours I had cuts and bruises and was totally exasperated. But I wasn't going to let anything stop me when we finally got there, I could barely stand. But I didn't care I had made it. And then I saw them those burning red eye's there we were a toddler asleep in the back of a wagon and a stupid girl too exhausted to even cry for help."
"We might as well have been served on a silver platter. But as look would have it our uncle showed up just in time. My stubbornness should have gotten us killed that night" Yang said her head hanging low
"Yang I'm sorry that happened to you... and I understand what your trying to tell me but this is different. I'm not a child, and this isn't just a search for answers. I can't just-"
"I TOLD you, I'm not telling you to stop. I haven't today I still want to know what happened to my mother and why she left me. But I will never let that search control me. We're going to find the answers were looking for, Blake. But if we destroy ourselves in the process then what good are we?"
"You don't understand! I'm the only one Who can do this "Blake said
No, you don't understand! If Roman Torchwick walked through that door what would you do?" Yang demanded her eye's now crimson red
"I'd fight him!" Blake said
"You'd lose!" Yang said shoving Blake
"I can stop him!" Blake yelled
"You can't even stop me!" Yang yelled shoving Blake against the desk, Yang walked up to Blake wrapping her arms around her "I'm not asking you to stop Just please... get some rest. Not just for you but for the people you care about." Yang said walking towards the entrance "And if you think about coming out tomorrow, I think a certain Ranger might be happy to see you there."
"W-what?" Blake said Yang only chuckled
"I've seen the way you look at him, those subtle looks you gave him you're not fooling anyone." And with that she left leaving behind a flustered Blake.
/
Alex was surprised when he learned Blake had agreed to come and even more so when she asked him. He wouldn't deny he held mutual feelings towards her Which is one of the reasons he now stood outside her dorm waiting. He wore a black suit with dark blue trimmings with a navy-blue tie.
"I hate these things" He muttered adjusting the tie so he wouldn't suffocate
"I knew you'd look better in a tie" he turned and stopped dead
Blake, stood in the doorway wearing a sleeveless purple dress that stopped around her knees, with a dark grey slightly see through blouse and a black belt around her waist with a black collar around her neck, he was slightly stunned "Whoa, you look beautiful" he uttered.
Blake smiled a crimson bluish appearing on her cheeks, before she walked up to him locking her arm around his getting a little closer the two began walking down the hall. "So, what made you want to come along?" Alex asked
"I had someone, put things into perspective for me." Blake said, " that reminds me my first dance is already spoken for."
"Well I hope I'll be allowed the second" Alex said
"Of course," Blake said smiling
/
The hall was filled with couples dancing along to the music, Blake and yang were currently dancing together while Alex stood alongside Ruby, Koan and Weiss each wearing a dress matching their signature colors. It was hard to decide whether to call ruby Beautiful or adorable, although she still had trouble with those 'lady stilts' as she called them.
Yang beckoned Alex over the two bowing to one another as he took her place. Offering his hand, she took it drawing her closer, placing his right hand on her waist while she placed here's on his left shoulder the two began to waltz moving along with the music.
"So, you can dance" She said
"I fight intergalactic criminals for a living, and you thought I couldn't dance." Alex said raising an eyebrow causing her to laugh.
"A friend taught me a while ago, Kate insisted I learned just in case." Blake picking up on what he just said
"Kate?" she asked
Alex eyes widened realizing what he said, " She was my partner a long time ago." He said his smile had now vanished" she...died on a mission a few years ago"
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring up a bad memory. "she said looking downcast
" It's alright" Alex said " I've come to terms with it. Enough dwelling on the past let's have some fun tonight." Alex gave a reassuring smile before the two continued their dance.
"I told you she would come" Yang said
"Mission accomplished" Weiss said
"So, what do we do now?" Ruby asked
"Just have some fun. *Ahem* Shall we miss Xiao long" Koan said in a gentlemanly fashion
Yang giggled at his action " yes we shall" Yang replied taking his hand and heading to the dance floor while Weiss went off on her own leaving ruby alone
" Does that mean I can change out of these stupid things and into my hood now." Ruby said hopefully "Stupid lady stilts" she groaned
"Not enjoying yourself?" Ozpin Asked walking up alongside Ruby.
"Oh no. ha-ha everything's fine" Ruby said nervously "I'm just not much of a dansey, pansey... dansey girl."
"Well, you can't spend your entire life on the battle field. Even if you may want to."
"Yeah, that lessons been floating around allot lately." Ruby said crossing her arms over her chest
"If you think about it fighting and dancing aren't so different two partners interlocked. Heh, although one wrong move on the ballroom merely leads to a swollen foot."
"Or a twisted ankle." Ruby said
"It's not everyday friends get to come together like this." Ozpin said looking around the room at the young couples "Time has a way of testing our bonds. But it's nights like these that can help keep them stronger than ever. Night's like these are one's we'll never forget"
The sound of the door opening got Ruby's attention "You guys are just in time" Yang said While Emerald and Mercury walked in. Mercury wearing a black orange lined suit with a matching Orange bow tie, While Emerald wore a black and green dress
Along with Yasmin and her team Peter Garnet, Carol White and Oliver Night.
She wore a sleeveless dark blue dress with Yellow linings stopping just above her knees, with black stockings leading down to a pair of heels.
Peter wore a Grey suit, Crimson highlight's. with a dark violate tie
Carol wore a Purple Dress with White laces a while the skirt was dark grey reaching down a little past her knees. She also had a white corset and stockings leading down to a pair of White heels
Oliver wore a Generic black dress suit and overcoat with a black bow tie.
"Wouldn't miss it for the world" Mercury said the other four nodding in agreement.
"Then again why would we" another voice spoke up a boy around Their age stepped out from behind them he had jet black hair with dark red eye's, he wore a black suit with red linings along with a red tie and black dress shoes "After all things are just getting started." he said with a sinister smile.
'To Be Continued'