Nexus: Nexus was in crowd that had gathered to look at the fire, he knew the cause of it and was concerned for Vanir and Niren when they were lead to Ozpin's office, he was more concerned when Mithril walked over to him, he expected anger but instead got a hug from his team leader. "Good to see you again, get Rennic and Torque as well as the other's from LVTN, we need to talk." Mithril said to him, making Nexus sigh in relief. He wouldn't die today.
It took Nexus a while to find the other members of his team and the rest of LVTN, he only found them after getting a message from Ruby, apparently they decided to hang out in the library after class was over. "Hey Mithril, the others are in the library, should we meet them there?" Nexus asked after calling her. "Yeah, I'm just getting changed right just head over there." Mithril said, Nexus did his best not to picture anything that would make Vanir want to break his back over Gram's pommel.
Nexus sat in a chair listening to the antics of Ruby and her team, he found it a fresh change of pace from the last view months of his life while the others had fun in their own way, three years of learning and fighting had left them mature and prone to being quite and for the most part reading or finding some form of work to do in order to fill up the hours they had after class.
"Hey Nexus, you want in?" Rennic asked him, holding up some cards, Rennic enjoyed blackjack almost as much as he enjoyed forcing the rest of them out of the room whenever he actually managed to get a female student to sleep with him. "Why so I can beat you like I always do?" Nexus asked, a smile on his face as Rennic began separating cards for them. "Ah but you see, this time I will win." Rennic said as he began to pass cards out between himself, Nexus, Torque, Talia, and Yang.
"Damnit Nexus, how the hell do you always win?!" Rennic shouted as quietly as he could, once again Nexus had soundly beat Rennic, despite the obvious attempt at cheating on Rennic's part. "The numbers are in my favor, you have a very poor method of shuffling the deck Rennic." Nexus said, sliding the lien into a pouch on his belt and smiling, he had little to no use for it given his mechanical nature but he could at least buy something for his team with it.
"Alright, let's get this little meeting started then." Mithril said after she walked up the stairs and saw the large group of people sitting in front of her, Nexus nodded and leaned back in his chair, eager to get things underway.
Vanir Argent: "That could have been much worse." Vanir said to Niren as the two of them walked to the library, Mithril had sent them a message shortly after they left Ozpins office, several detentions earned and half the money in their savings accounts cleared out to repay the damages, apparently Cardin wasn't as well off as he thought he was and couldn't pay the bill, that's when Niren suggested it.
"What, Mithril, Ozpin, or our accounts being drained by at least half of what we had?" Niren asked him after cracking some of his fingers and earning a glare from Vanir. "Aside from Mithril and Ozpin, the only bad thing was the fact that I'm down by at least a quarter of a million lien." Vanir said, already missing the hard earned money. Niren only shrugged before they reached the door and held it open for Vanir.
"Like I said, it could be much worse than it is." Niren said as they let their eyes adjust to the lighting.
Rennic Arcadius: Rennic had fallen asleep shortly after the meeting ended, for the most part Mithril just wanted to catch up with her team and LVTN so he had nothing else to do until he felt someone poking him. "Hey, wanna play a round?" Yang asked him while holding up some cards to the board game that they had brought out, he could see Weiss and Ruby both holding each other as they cried, clearly beaten by Yang, Blake meanwhile didn't care too much about the game.
"Sure why not, might be better than Nexus beating me at my own game." He said, dragging his chair over to their table and getting shown his choice of armies. Rennic smiled when he saw an army that suited him perfectly, Clansmen those who left the kingdoms of their own will or were forced out for not agreeing with the rulers of their respective kingdoms, in short Rennics own people, as well as Torques and Talias.
"Why choose the clans? They have little to no benefits at the start." Weiss asked him as the game began anew and Rennic set up his borders, he had overall five camps each with their own differences and perks, he knew that someone would try and wipe him out given how weak he seamed.
"Aside from them being the people that I was born to I feel like they may be useful if played right." Rennic said as Ruby and Yang began to build their forces, with Yang attacking his clan within her own borders, Rennic smiled as he began his turn and forced the blondes forces back quickly.
After several rounds of fighting between him and Yang, Rennic had finally managed to beat her and add her kingdom to his clan's, next was Weiss, followed by Ruby. "Dang, that wasn't too bad Rennic." Yang said after she set her cards down, she was out of the game and forced to spectate and Rennic soundly crushed Weiss and meet stiff resistance from Ruby for more turns that either Yang or Weiss combined, ending in a victory for Rennic.
"Good game Miss Rose, haven't had fun like that in a while, might bring one of these back to my little brother and his friends when I get some time to head back to Mistral." Rennic said, shaking Ruby's hand and returning his cards, he could see Mithril waving to him from the corner of his eye and knew she needed him for something. "Maybe we can play another round later." He said before bowing, it felt like the polite thing to do.
Vanir Argent: Vanir and Niren walked around the bookshelf that Mithril had talked about and saw the six of them sitting at a table, with team RWBY just a few tables away from them playing a board game. "So, how are things?" Vanir asked after sitting down next to Mithril and letting her lean her head against his shoulder for a few minutes.
"Just enjoying having the rest of the day off on the school grounds instead of trying to find something to do in the city." Talia said, she was reading one of her romance novels that Niren had bought for her, while Niren himself was looking for a decent book to read, Lirril was drawing while looking at team RWBY. Rennic and Torque both ended up playing another round of blackjack against Nexus which made Vanir chuckle, they would never beat him.
"So how'd that little meeting go?" Mithril asked Vanir, looking up at him as he popped his jaw before answering. "Well, we have several detentions for after the festival when class start up again, and both of us lost a sizable amount of money." Vanir said, trying not to draw too much attention to this bit of conversation. "How much?" Mithril asked him calmly, Vanir knew the look in her eyes though since everyone was wondering exactly how much money he and Niren had at their disposal.
"Quarter million each." Vanir said quietly, trying to keep himself from looking angry at that, the others however were not so calm, Talia spit out the drink she had purchased all over Nexus, Rennic, and Torque, Lirril dropped her pencil, Rennic and Torque both started coughing as they choked on their own drinks. Meanwhile Niren and Nexus both sighed at Vanir's answer.
"You had at least a million lien just sitting there?!" Mithril said in surprise at the large sum of money that had just been lost forever. "Yeah, it was saved up after several years of hard work, and now because of Cardin we just lost a third of our money, not really a thing to be happy about." Vanir said before standing up and stretching. "I think you should be happy you have me, and such great friends Vanir." Mithril said before giving Vanir a kiss and leading him away from the other and out of the library, the two of them needed to talk about things that the others had no business hearing.