(Combat class four days after the night on the town)
Everyone was currently watching Pyrrah mop the floor with Team CRDL but Quenton was paying more attention to Blake because over the course of the past few days she has been eating and sleeping les as well. Quenton was concerned for her but he wasn't the only one her team, his team as well as JNPR were all worried about her, but Quenton knew what this sort of thing did to people because he did the same exact thing once. Just as he was finishing his thought he heard, "Miss Belladonna, you've been rather docile these past few classes. Why don't you..." Prof. Goodwitch was then interrupted by a hand raising behind them.
"I'll do it" said a voice from behind them and when he looked back he saw it was Mercury Black one of the students from Haven academy.
"Mercury is it very well. Lets find you an opponent."
"Actually I want to fight her." as he pointed to Pyrrah.
"Me?" asked Pyrrah.
"I am afraid Miss Nikos has already finished a match I suggest you pick another partner." said Prof. Goodwitch.
"Actually, Prof. how about we make it a Three on Three match." said Quenton after he noticed how Mercury looked at Pyrrah with a weird glint in his eyes and he noticed that Wyatt saw that as well.
"And who else are you suggesting would be fighting as well mister Quenton?" asked Goodwitch.
"I suggest his tow teammates and him versus Wyatt, Pyrrah and I."
"Are you alright with this Mister Black?"
"Yeah and I am sure my teammates feel the same." said Mercury.
With that Quenton and Wyatt headed down to the arena followed by Mercury and his teammates Emerald and a tall girl dressed in Black pants with red samurai thigh armor on her left thigh and a shin guard on her right, She was also wearing a samurai chest piece and shoulder armor over a brown shirt, if Quenton could remember correctly her name was Jas but he didn't know her last name. But as soon as the where all in the arena the all lined up across from one another, across from Wyatt was Jas who had a Katana strapped to her side across from Pyrrah was Mercury and across from Quenton was Emerald. As soon as Goodwitch started the match Quenton pulled out his trench knives and went straight for Emerald, but the weird thing was that she just disappeared from in front of him and he sensed her behind him so he quickly activated his tail ring which extended in to a three blades in the form of a triangle and blocked her revolver sickle with it. He quickly turned and started his attack once again after a few punches that were blocked he switched over to his revolver mode and started blasting to which she disappeared once again and this time appeared to his side at a closer range and managed to strike his right side but on the screen his aura barley moved he then knocked her back with a swing of his tail, he turned to continue the attack when she and her teammates all forfeited. Goodwitch then proclaimed them the winners of the match but something felt off about the way Emerald fought almost like she was only testing him.
After getting out of the arena they all headed back to their dorms when Quenton turned around a looked to Blake who had her nose buried in her journal that had notes on the White Fang investigation, She had become obsessed with finding out what they are planning ever since hearing about them moving all sorts of materials and men to southeast Vale. So he walked up next to her and very quickly put a finger on the page that she was reading and quickly closed and snatched the book from, it took her a moment to realized what had happened to which she turned to Quenton with a glare and said, "Quenton give me back my book."
"I will but I need to ask you something first." said Quenton.
"Alright what is it?" Blake said with a annoyed look on her face to which he could now clearly see the bags that were forming under her eyes.
"Well I wanted to know if you would take a break from your search and want to go to the cherry tree garden again?"
"I am sorry Quenton but I just can't do that not when we have no idea what the White Fang are planning." she then grabbed the book and walked back to her team dorm.
Quenton just sighed he was hoping to try and convince her to take a brake without telling her that story a story that still haunts him. He walked back to his dorm to see his team already doing home work and personal projects with Ulf sleeping on Rosy's bed he had got a bit bigger now when then when they first got him he now came up to just below Wyatt's knee and he was still growing. He sat next to Wyatt at his own desk and pulled out a photo of one of the only people in the White Fang besides Blake that he could call family, Jason Naga a snake Faunus that he was partnered with and also the one that he had failed. He put the picture away and heard Wyatt say, "So are you going to the dance Quenton."
"I don't know yet, I am still trying to convince Blake to go and take a break." said Quenton.
"She still not giving up."
"nope but I will try again tomorrow."
Just then Wyatt's scroll started vibrating, he grabbed it and looked at the screen then look to Quenton and said, "Well looks like you are going to have some help tomorrow as well, because Yang is going to try and convince her to."
Quenton nodded and went looked back at his desk where he then pulled out Pain and Mercy and pulled off his tail ring Guardian and started to preform maintenance on them.
(The Next Day in the Ballroom.)
Team ORWQ was currently helping Yang and Weiss set up the dance due to Team CFVY's mission extending for a few more days. Quenton was working on setting up the speakers as Wyatt and Yang lifted them over to position, he then heard Weiss slam her hands down on the table in front of Ruby and said, "I need you to pick a table cloth." as she slid to identical squares of cloth towards her.
Ruby looked at the squares and said, "Uhh, aren't they the same?"
Weiss sighed and said, "I don't even know why I asked."
As she was walking away Rosy said from across the room, "The one on the Right Weiss."
"Thank you Rosy!"
Then Wyatt and Yang set a couple of speakers down next to Ruby and walked over to her, "So have you picked out a dress yet?" asked Yang.
Ruby replied with a sad look on her face, "what's the point if Blake isn't going?"
"Oh don't worry she's going. Weiss I thought we agreed no doilies!"
"If I don't get doilies, you don't get fog machines." said Weiss
Just then Neptune and Sun walked in to the room and Neptune said, "You dance is going to have fog machines?"
"We were thinking about it."
"That's cool."
"You guys all excited for dress up?" asked Sun.
"Pfft, Yeah right." scoffed Ruby.
"Laugh all you want, Wyatt Pyrrah and I will be turning heads tomorrow night." said Yang as Wyatt gave her a hug from behind.
"What are you two wearing?" asked Weiss
To which Sun scoffed and said, "Uhh, this."
"Ignore him for he knows not what he says." said Neptune.
"Hey I might of moved to Mistral but I grew up in Vacuo it's not exactly a shirt and tie kind of place."
"We noticed that." said Orange who was currently on the upper level tying off some streamers.
"So what dose Blake think of all this...she still being all...Blakey?"
"Well I have an idea to get her to go...speaking of which het Yang don't we need to pick up something." said Quenton.
Yang nodded and the both of them went to the library where they saw Blake sitting at one of the Terminals. Yang then pulled out a laser pointer and started to get Blake's attention she looked to Quenton who nodded and went to one of the open classrooms close to the library. He leaned against the teachers desk at the front of the class and waited for Blake and Yang to which he didn't have to wait long. As they walked in Yang took a seat on the desk next to him as Blake paced in front of them, "Yang, Quenton if you are going to tell me to stop, you guys should save your breath."
"We aren't telling you to stop." said Quenton.
Yang then finished with, "We telling you to slow down."
"We don't have the luxury of slowing down." said Blake
"Blake, Slowing down is a necessity. Because if you don't you will probably miss thing that will help you." said Quenton as he got up and walked over to her.
"No the necessity is stopping Torchwick."
"And we will but first please listen to me and Yang please?"
Blake looked at Quenton and then to Yang hesitant at first then she sat next to Yang. "Well Quenton since this was your Idea why don't you go first." said Yang.
Quenton sat next to Blake and said, "Back when we were still in the White Fang I had a partner named Jason Naga that I saw as family and he was the only other one besides you Blake. He was also the first one I told my suspicions to about the White Fang, well one day we were on a mission to go after some bandits in the area near our base of operations at the time. We had tracked them fro five days straight trying to find them but we didn't, we were so tired that I didn't notice the tripwire in front of him until it was to late a dust grenade went off. I was thrown back into a tree and was dazed, when I came back to my scenes I looked around for Jason.
"I then saw him propped up against a tree opposite mine and when I got their I saw him with his lower half missing. I didn't know what to do so I sat down next to him and just cried, I had just lost my best friend and I thought it was my fault because it was my idea that we try and find those bandits. Then it turns out that the bandits had left our area two days before he hit the tripwire." Quenton got up and said, "I got to go I hope to see you tomorrow Blake."
He walked out of the classroom and went to the cherry tree garden and leaned against a tree and just watched the sunset fade away, he ended up passing out only to be woken up the next morning by the sun. He went back to his dorm and saw no one was in there so he went and took a shower and started getting his suit ready. He walked out of the room later in a black and white stripped zoot suit with a long coat that was left unbuttoned, as he was walking to the dance he heard, " You look handsome but I still think you look better in your other clothes." he turned and saw Blake in a royal purple dress with matching bow.
"And you look beautiful as always." which made Blake blush and turn away.
"Well I just wanted to say I am sorry for what happened to your partner Quenton and also I am sorry for worrying you before."
"It's alright Blake I forgive and I know that you are just wanting to make the world a better place. But we can worry about that tomorrow for now would you like for me to escort you to the dance?" said Quenton as he held out his arm to her.
"I would love to," she took his arm and they started to walk to the dance together, but Blake then said, " We also might have to talk with Wyatt soon as well."
"Why is that?"
"Because after you left Yang told me her story and well she got mad when I had refused to listen, well she got mad and her eyes changed to red but the difference was that they were slited like a dragons."
