Hey Everyone it's October now so I hope you are all making plans for Halloween. Anyway Some shocking news I heard that Book 6 of A Song of Ice and Fire Winds of Winter is going to release on November 13 2023. I know it's almost 2 years from now but we can maybe look forward to it now that we have an actual release date and who knows maybe it will be released earlier. Time flies by. Anyway I do not own RWBY or Game of Thrones they belong to their respective owners I just own the OC's Enjoy
FIRE and BLOOD in Remnant
Dance Dance Sing Infiltration
Students are schmoozing at the dance as it continues during the night. Bartholomew Oobleck is seen to be listening intently as Peter Port laughs over some unheard anecdote. Ozpin is standing off to the side with Glynda Goodwitch until General Ironwood offers his hand for her to dance with him and Glynda accepts but rolls her eyes. Jaune approaches Ruby, who is standing pensively near the refreshment's tables.
"I see you're hiding at the punch bowl too." Jaune spoke up.
"Yep." Ruby said as an audible *pop* can be heard as Ruby emphasizes the "p".
"To the socially awkward." Jaune said as he held his glass up. Ruby giggles and they clink glasses.
"Sorry things didn't work out with Weiss." Ruby apologized.
"Meh, it's fine. Neptune's pretty "cool". I get why she went with him." Jaune replied.
"What do you mean?" Ruby asked.
"Well, come on, not many people can pull off blue hair." Jaune said and begins to drink his punch.
"No, I mean, Weiss came to the dance alone." Ruby said and Jaune chokes in surprise.
"Uh, what?" He asked as he turns to Ruby.
Weiss is shown trying desperately to coax life out of a wilting white rose. When she fails, she looks visibly upset.
"Yeah, she said that she had too much to focus on to worry about boys." Ruby said.
Laughter draws Weiss' attention to Sun, Blake, and Neptune as the latter entertains the others with some impressions and other silly faces. Jaune, shown to be observing as well, becomes visibly ticked.
"Hold my punch." Jaune spoke in a low growl as he hands Ruby his glass and no sooner than he vanishes from sight does she choose to drink from his cup. As Jaune makes his way across the room, shoving other students aside some of which were not even in his path, he stops short and watches as Pyrrha passes by. He watches her walk glumly up the stairs and seems to have a change of heart.
Pyrrha is on a balcony as Jaune approaches behind her.
"Hey, Pyrrha." Jaune calls out and Pyrrha turns around to face him.
"Hello, Jaune." Pyrrha says glumly.
"You, okay? I haven't seen you tonight." Jaune says approaching her.
"Arrived late, I'm afraid." Pyrrha said turning back to the balcony
"Well, you look really nice." Jaune complimented.
"Thank you." Pyrrha said.
"Your, uh, date isn't going to beat me up for saying that, is he?" Jaune asked nervously tipping on his toes.
"I think you're safe for tonight." Pyrrha replied.
"So, where is the guy?" Jaune asked rubbing his hands. Pyrrha turns back toward Jaune and her head sinks in melancholy before answering.
"There is no guy." She said sadly.
"What?" Jaune says as he chuffs nervously.
"Nobody asked me." Pyrrha said shaking her head glumly.
"But that's...You're Pyrrha Nikos!" Jaune said shrugging, dumbfounded before he continued. "H-How could nobody ask you?" Jaune asked.
Pyrrha turned towards the balcony. "I've been blessed with incredible talents and opportunities. I'm constantly surrounded by love and praise, but when you're placed on a pedestal like that for so long, you become separated from the people that put you there in the first place." She said and turns back to Jaune.
"Everyone assumes I'm too good for them. That I'm on a level they simply can't attain. It's become impossible to form any sort of meaningful relationship with people. That's what I like about you. When we met, you didn't even know my name and Draegon was the same he showed me that there is always someone stronger out there. You treated me just like anyone else. And thanks to you, I've made friendships that will last a lifetime. I guess, you're the kind of guy I wish I was here with. Someone who just saw me for me." Pyrrha said as she looks at Jaune and then walks away while Jaune simply stares in astonishment.
"W-Wai-!" Jaune tried to say as he watches as Pyrrha turns a corner. Neptune has appeared on the balcony, gesturing toward Jaune.
"Hey, uh, Jaune, right?" Neptune asked.
"Yeah." Jaune said and sighs.
"This party's pretty lame, huh? I mean, ballroom dancing. Pfft." Neptune states trying to be cool.
"Yeah." Jaune repeats and looks back out over the balcony.
"Cute girls, though, huh?" Neptune asks gesturing back to the dance
"Is that all you think about?" Jaune growls as he turns back to Neptune.
"Huh?" Neptune said confused raising his palms to waist level.
"Do you even care about the girls you're hitting on? How they feel about you?" Jaune asked.
"Whoa! Where's this coming from?" He asked throwing his palms up in surrender.
"How could you just turn her down like that?" Jaune asked as he opened his arms wide.
"Wait, h-who?" Neptune asked confused.
"Weiss!" Jaune answered
"I, uh... it, uh... it just didn't work out, you know?" Neptune said slowly.
"What? You think that you're too cool, too many other options? Weiss Schnee asked you to the dance. What in the world could possibly keep you from go…" Jaune said angry but Neptune cut him off?
"I can't dance!" Neptune said quickly while looking shamefully at the ground.
"Beg your pardon?" Jaune asked calmly.
"I can't dance, man!" Neptune repeated.
"But... you're so cool!" Jaune emphasized.
"Thank you. I try really, really hard." Neptune said feeling complimented.
"You would rather break a girl's heart and go to a dance alone than just admit to everyone that you can't move in rhythm to music?" Jaune asked with a raised eyebrow.
"That about sums it up, yeah." Neptune answers.
"Well, I certainly feel a lot better about myself." Jaune said turning back to the balcony.
"Please don't tell anybody. Look, if you want Weiss, she's all yours. I don't wanna get in your way." Neptune said raising his palms.
Jaune turns back towards Neptune and places his palms on the stone banister. "Do you like her?" He asked.
"Yeah, I mean I don't know her too well yet, but she seems pretty cool." Neptune replied.
"Then just go talk to her. No pickup lines, no suave moves, just be yourself. I've heard that's the way to go. Jaune said as he crosses his arms.
"Yeah, but then…" Neptune started but Jaune cut him off.
"Hey! You don't have to look cool all the time. In all honesty, if you could be a little less cool, I'd really appreciate it." Jaune asked.
Neptune considers Jaune's advice. "Yeah, okay." Neptune replied.
"Go talk to her. I guarantee it'll make her night." Jaune answered.
"Thanks. You're a really cool guy, Jaune." Neptune approaches Jaune, holding his fist out for a bump.
Jaune approaches Neptune. "Alright, don't lie to my face." He said and the two of them bump fists and Neptune walks away.
Jaune sighs, "All right, only one thing left to do." He said before walking off.
Yang and Draegon are leaning on a handrail and overlooking the festivities from a second tier they didn't want to do too much dancing and preferred to just hang out. Ruby approaches and leans on the rail.
"You know? I think we really needed this." Yang said and looked at Draegon who nodded.
"It has been a while since I did something like this but it's nice to relax and have fun," He said and saw Blake and Sun are slow dancing while Ren and Nora appear to be Waltzing, Penny is seen to be dancing alone, guarded by two Atlas Soldiers.
"Yeah, and you did a great job planning it too!" Ruby complimented.
Yang reaches over to Ruby, "Aw, thanks!" she said as she crushes Ruby in a one-arm hug as she flails frantically and Draegon chuckled a little, "It wasn't all me, though. Weiss did a lot too." Yang added. Ruby stops struggling and looks down at Weiss. Neptune approaches and rubs his neck nervously. Weiss invites him to sit with her.
"Tomorrow it's back to work." Yang chuffs.
"I'm sure we can handle whatever gets thrown at us." Ruby said when all of a sudden fit of laughter and giggles draw their attention below. "Ex-cept for that." Ruby said.
"What the Hell," Draegon said as he raised an eyebrow.
Jaune pushes past some students to Pyrrha who turns around to see...
"Jaune?" Pyrrha said shocked because he is shown to now be wearing a white dress with a blue ribbon.
"Eh, a promise is a promise." Jaune said shrugging his shoulders.
Pyrrha smiling... then giggling... then laughing aloud, "Jaune! You didn't have to!" she said.
"Hey, an Arc never goes back on his word. Now do you wanna stand there and laugh at me, or do you wanna dance?" Jaune said extending his hand to Pyrrha.
Pyrrha offering her own hand and smiles, "I would love to dance." She said and Jaune pulls her to him and sweeps her away. "Oh!" Pyrrha giggled excitedly.
"Ren. This... is...happening!" Nora said flailing excitedly.
"Wait, what "is happening"?" Ren asked confused while looking at the audience.
Nora grabs Ren and drags him out onto the dance floor with Pyrrha and Jaune. JNPR performs a short but elaborately choreographed dance in sink, culminating in Jaune spinning Pyrrha.
"I had no idea you were a dancer." Pyrrha said surprised.
"Yeah, well, these things tend to happen when you grow up with seven sisters." Jaune said as he dips Pyrrha and then spins her away.
Neptune and Weiss are watching the dancers.
"So, what made you change your mind?" Weiss asked.
"Huh?" Neptune asked confused.
"You, said you were embarrassed at first. What made you come talk to me?" Weiss clarified.
"You're looking at him." Neptune said as they watch Jaune dancing with Pyrrha. "You got some good friends looking out for ya." Neptune added.
Jaune and Pyrrha continue to dance. Ren and Nora do a kind of disco dance, Sun and Blake join the mix and Penny and an Atlas guard are showing doing the "robot". Soon a stage light comes on and Yang is seen holding a microphone.
"Well, I think that was a great dance we all saw wouldn't you agree," Yang said and everyone cheered before she continued. "Now I have a special plan next, my date Draegon Targaryen is going to be singing for us all." Yang said as another stage light shined closely to her revealing a surprised Draegon.
"Wait what, I never agreed to that, Yang what did you do?" Draegon asked as he pointed to Yang. Yang just smiled innocently.
"I may have added to the brochure that you were going to sing tonight since you have a really good voice, besides I think you should share it with everyone, am I right," Yang asked to the rest of the crowed that cheered.
"No way I'm not doing this," Draegon said as he crossed his arms and looked away.
"Oh, come on, no need to be shy. Unless you're scared," Yang said smugly and some of the dancers laughed.
"Draegon, Draegon, Draegon," Yang started and then everyone was chanting his name. All of team JNPR along with Sun, Neptune, Weiss, Blake, and Ruby smiled and chanted as well. Draegon sighed and rub his temples.
"Alright fine you want a song. I'll give you the most awesome song I know," Draegon shouted and everyone cheered as Draegon pulled out his scroll and put in a few commands to the robots playing the DJ near the other instruments. Soon the lights went out and a dark blue light was turned on and everyone was curious about what was going on. Ozpin raised an eyebrow and Glynda looked around surprised. Soon a beat was heard and everyone got excited for some reason. More music was added and team RWBY looked at each other but saw no sign of Draegon. Suddenly a stage light shined again and Draegon had a head set on and was walking onto the stage and began singing.
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, (Oh lord)
And I've been waiting for this moment, for all my life, (Oh lord)
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord, (Oh lord)
Everyone was shocked by his voice and were cheering but Draegon cancelled their cheers out and continued to sing.
Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend
But I don't know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So, you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies.
And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, (Oh lord)
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, (Oh lord)
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life oh Lord, (Oh Lord)
Well I remember, I remember don't worry
How could I ever forget
It's the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep this silence up
No you don't fool me
The hurt doesn't show, but the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me
Draegon walks to a set of drums and starts playing them causing everyone to cheer. As he continues to sing while playing.
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, (Oh lord)
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh lord, (Oh lord)
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh lord
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh lord, (Oh lord, Oh lord)
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh lord, (Oh lord)
I can feel it in the air tonight, Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment all my life, oh Lord, Lord.
"That was IN THE AIR TONIGHT by Phill Collins," Draegon shouted and everyone cheered at Draegon. Draegon bowed and walked off stage and soon regular music was being played and people went back to dancing.
Yang walks up to him smiling. "We are never doing that again clear," Draegon said and pointed at Yang.
"No promises, besides you have a nice voice," Yang smiled cheeky.
"Thanks I guess, but to be honest when I sang to you by yourself I wanted it to be special without everyone knowing," Draegon said and he blushed a little. Yang gave a sympathetic smile and then leaned over and kissed Draegon on the cheek making both of them blush a little.
"That's sweet i'll remember that," Yang nodded to him.
"Well, I need some air so I'll be right back," Draegon said quickly since he didn't know how to respond to Yangs kiss and Yang nodded and went to go talk with Blake, Weiss, Sun, and Neptune since she didn't know why she did that.
Mercury and Emerald are shown to be observing the students from the next tier.
"It appears all the dancers have partners." Emerald spoke up.
"How long do I have?" Cinder asked as she heard from an ear-bud.
"You should probably be home by midnight, to be safe." Mercury added.
Cinder is shown to be somewhere outside, holding her fingers to her ear. "I'll keep my eye on the clock."
Ruby sees Draegon heading out so she too made her way to the exit, as they walk out of the dance and into the night for some fresh air. They soon see a figure running along the rooftops. They look at each other and then move to pursue.
Outside the Cross Continental Transmit System Tower, Cinder dressed as a cat burglar, stealthily approaches an armed guard. She knife-hands the back of his head, rendering him unconscious with a stunned grin on his face. She drags him behind some bushes.
Inside the building, Cinder approaches more guards.
Atlas Soldier 1 speaks up "Excuse me, no one's allowed in this area." but Cinder continues to approach. "Stop!" He commanded. The soldier opens fire when Cinder does not heed him. She charges in and manages to overpower him, punching the soldier then grabbing his arm. Cinder kicks another soldier and uses the first one's gun to take him out. She then kicks the soldier's knee and throws him against a handrail. Two more soldiers rush her wielding batons. Cinder flash-forges a pair of black blades from fire Dust and slashes at both of them. Batting the first aside she advances on the second and strikes him before sweeping both legs. The first soldier recovers but she blocks each swing with her blades. After blocking a kick, she elbows then shoves him to the floor. As he tries to get back up, she flips over to kick him in the head, checking for more guards before moving on.
Soon two guards are on an elevator. When one spoke up.
"Hey, man, do you know the Wi-Fi password?" Atlas Soldier 2 asked.
"It's Beacon, but replace the E with a 3 and add a pound symbol to the end." Atlas Soldier 3 replied.
The elevator door opens to show Cinder waiting. One of the guards notices the fallen men outside. Both guards grow apprehensive as Cinder casually walks onto the elevator, the doors closing as she turns around. Thrashing sounds can be heard from outside the elevator.
Outside the building, Ruby and Draegon approach and see the unconscious guard. Ruby gasps while Draegon narrows his eyes and they both pull out their Scrolls, dialing for their weapon lockers, which crashes into the courtyard side by side and opens to reveal Crescent Rose for Ruby and Blackfyre for Draegon since he was cleaning Dark Sister in his room and left it there.
Inside the building, the elevator doors open to show Cinder examining a Scroll. The two guards are knocked out.
"Oh! That's handy." Cinder said as she pockets the Scroll and walks out of the elevator and toward the control consoles nearby.
"A party guest is leaving." Emerald said via earbud.
"Which one?" Cinder asks while sighing.
Emerald is shown to be dancing with Mercury.
"Ironwood." Emerald whispered.
Ironwood is walking out the door as Ozpin gives his send-off.
"I guess the generals had enough fun for one night." Mercury said into his ear bud.
A random code appears on a computer screen and is shown to change into a Queen chess piece.
"Should we intervene?" Mercury asked.
The other monitors in the room light up.
"No... we're done here." Cinder said. As she starts to walk away, she notices the elevator doors opening. Ruby and Draegon step out of the elevator slowly side by side, brandishing their weapons.
"Hello?" Ruby asks as she stumbles due to her high-heeled shoes. "Is anyone there? Hello?" Ruby asked again and Draegon looks around slowly tightening his grip on Blackfyre as it shimmered under the moonlight.
Cinder smirks confidently then rises from her hiding place and steps out toward Ruby and Draegon.
"Excuse me? You know, it's not a masquerade party, so why don't you take off that-!" Ruby starts but Cinder produces a container of dust from her belt expelling a cloud that glows. Condensing into glass shards that go flying at them. Ruby and Draegon dodge it and Draegon narrows his eyes.
"I don't think she's here for the party Ruby," Draegon said as he dashes forward with Blackfyre in hand.
Ruby then opens fires but Cinder blocks each shot with her hand as parts of the outfit glow. She once again summons a pair of blades and blocks as Draegon brings a downwards slash and Cinder is pushed a little from Draegon strength, Ruby launches herself forward but Cinder breaks away from Draegon and dodges. Her eyes and outfit glowing again as she combines the blades into a bow and fires three arrows. Ruby stumbles back and Draegon narrows his eyes and jumps back as well from the resulting explosion and they all stare each other down. But their fight is interrupted by the appearance of Ironwood on the nearby elevator. Draegon sees him and is a bit surprised and Ruby is visibly glad to see him until they notice that Cinder has disappeared.
"Crap," Draegon said disappointed in himself for taking his eyes off the enemy.
In a hallway, Cinder discards two bracelets and her mask to change from her stealth suit into a black dress and enters the dance. Two guards following her crush the bracelets underfoot and are visibly confused at the sight of the crowded dance hall. Over various people including Neptune dancing and having a good time as they walk back out.
Emerald and Mercury are still dancing together as Cinder taps Emerald's shoulder.
"Oh, may I cut in?" Cinder asks and Emerald steps aside.
"Of course." Emerald said and leaves as Cinder begins to dance with Mercury.
"And how's your night been?" Mercury asks smoothly.
"Mmm... a little more exciting than expected." Cinder said a little surprised at how strong Draegon actually was.
"Should we be worried?" Mercury asks.
"Hardly... They'll be scratching their heads long after we finished what we came here for." Cinder said confidently.
"So, then what now?" Mercury asks.
"Enjoy the rest of the night. After all, it is a party." Cinder said.
The scene pans away from the two showing the rest of the party. Jaune and Pyrrha are sitting at a table, Sun and Blake are dancing, there is a squad of red and yellow soldiers outside and Ironwood is shown approaching Ruby and Draegon who are both sitting down discouraged before one of the Queen chess piece appears on the computer screen and the clock chimes midnight.
Well what you think, I like the Song IN the AIR TONIGHT and I hope you readers do as well but it belongs to Phill Collins. Anyway Short chapter but I hope you guys enjoy it. To the GUEST who keeps commenting that I should kill and wound Cinder and her lackeys along with all other bad guys. Patience my friend your bloodlust will be satisfied soon. Have a good day everyone.
