Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Wolf and Reaper. Enjoy the 2000-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.

(Vale, Beacon, Dance, Dance, Revolution.)

If there was anything that could make Azul blush, it was seeing how shy Ruby was… Then again, he was shy at the moment considering that this was the first… 'date' the duo had been on.

He wondered if calling Ruby his girlfriend was…. Crossing a line or so as she sat at the table with him as the others danced.

"Rubes?"

Azul asked as Ruby grunted and pulled at her feet… As much as she loved her sister, she wanted to kick Yang in the head for putting these… Heels as she believed Yang called them, on her.

"Stupid…. Azul, these lady stilts hurt…"

Ruby whined as Azul grunted in confirmation as he ripped at his tux… He wore the blasted thing out of respect for Ruby… He swore Vermillion and Yang would pay for making him wear it.

"I know… I hate these clothes, I like my cloak, I'd ask you to dance, but…."

Azul said with a blush, the teens looked at each other then looked away and shyly smiled, if there was one thing neither regretted… Even if they wouldn't admit it, it was that both enjoyed the company of the other, as surprised as Azul was that Ruby had asked him to the dance instead of vice versa… Something he wanted to kick himself for, he did enjoy being around the reaper.

"Eh, id rather be here…. Ok… That's it!"

Ruby said before she ripped at her heels, how did Weiss walk in these things? They dug into her feet and hurt like a shot from her beloved Crescent Rose.

Azul decided to calm the girl by holding her hand, both teens again looked at each other, they blushed again but smiled.

"Rubes… As much as I hate this formal monkey suit… And you hate those shoes… Yang would kill us if we ripped them off…. You sure you don't want to dance… Be not socially awkward?"

Azul asked, though neither he nor Ruby could dance… Well, according to Weiss, dance formally….

"Nope, you? I'm fine with this."

Ruby said as Azul looked at the dance floor, then back to his childhood friend.

"I'm good…. To being socially awkward?"

Azul replied as Ruby giggled and nodded, Azul chuckled before he turned to Ruby, he wanted to ask the question he had been thinking the entire time.

"Ruby…?"

Azul asked as Ruby turned to look at him as Azul was about to ask the question, fighting the blush he was going to have before the sound of muffled gunfire split the air.

It was a noise that went over the heads of the others in the room, as the music was very loud.

But to a Faunus like Azul and a weapons lover and expert like Ruby, both heard it.

Both looked at each other and then grinned, this would be much more fun than the silly 'Dance Date' Yang thought they were on.

"Want to do something fun on this date?"

Azul said as Ruby smirked and pulled off her heels before rushing to get her clothing as Azul rushed to his dorm to get Violet Shadow.

There were worse first dates… But for Ruby and Azul, this would be perfect.

(CCT tower, 2 minutes later.)

Azul took the elevator up just in time to see a masked lady knock an Atlesian soldier to the side, she took a scroll out and started to put it into the console.

It was shot out of her hand and shattered when it hit the ground.

"NO!"

Cinder yelled as Azul rested on his blade as the elevator descended, Cinder turned to him.

"You know I could hear your gunfire over the music, right? You're not very sneaky for someone who thinks they are…"

Azul stated as the girl drew a bow made out of glass and fired, Azul dashed away and the arrow slammed into the doors as Azul fired a barrage of bullets as he rushed her, she blocked them with the palm of her hand.

Azul blinked before he flipped into the air and slashed at the girl who leaned away before kicking Azul back.

He realized the technique from before, it was the woman from the Dust robbery months ago, he should have known something was familiar.

"You're the lady from that robbery a few months ago… The one who was blocking Ruby's shots…"

Azul said as he climbed to his feet before more arrows were loosed at him, he easily sped out of the way as the elevator opened and Ruby stepped out, Azul flipped off one of the consoles in the room and fired 3 shots which Cinder blocked, Azul grinned as Ruby slashed Cinder back, using the distraction to hit her.

Cinder swung at Ruby with the bow which separated into 2 swords, Ruby blocked them, Azul rushed Cinder and swung at her which was blocked, he turned and kicked her back as Ruby swung Crescent Rose at her head which was dodged when Cinder tilted back, the scythe swung by her face.

Despite this, it was clear the duo would overwhelm Cinder, she slashed at Azul as he blocked blow after blow, the glass swords clanging off Azul's metal ones as Ruby shot and swung at Cinder again, she blocked the shot but was battered back by the hit.

"I'd give up if I were you… You're not going to beat us…."

Azul said before Cinder blocked both weapons with her swords before she kicked a wave of fire at the couple.

Azul dove out of the way as Ruby dodged the flames, Azul blinked as Cinder grinned.

"You were saying, boy?"

She asked and advanced on the couple, her swords heated up as Azul rushed Cinder, sliding under a swing at his face and slashing Cinder on the leg, it didn't break her aura, but it forced her to turn before Ruby dashed to the back of the room, she cocked Crescent Rose as Cinder blasted Azul back as he leaped at her, his aura flared as Cinder kicked him to the ground when he attempted to rise.

"Any last requests, mutt? You cost me a lot right now… But killing you will make up for that…."

Cinder asked as Azul looked up at Cinder with a grin, she had been so distracted by trying to kill him, she didn't hear the cock of Ruby's weapon behind her.

"Yeah, you should have brought back up as I did…."

Azul said before Cinder turned just as Ruby fired and flew at her in a flash of rose petals, Cinder tried to block the attack with her blades, but Ruby slammed Crescent Rose's blade into her chest, it slammed Cinder into the wall, draining her aura, she growled and punched the ground, both teens flew into a console as Cinder shattered a window behind her.

"I underestimated you… But next time, I won't…. Enjoy your victory…"

Cinder growled as she leaped out the window, Ruby looked at Azul in amusement as both Hunters looked at each other.

"So…"

Ruby said as Azul rolled off the shattered console he had crashed into during the fight, he looked at Ruby for one of the first times without his glasses as he smiled.

"So…"

Azul said as Ruby smiled at him, he smiled back as he finally tried to ask his question once again.

"So… Are we boyfriend and girlfriend, Rubes? I don't know how dating works outside of the books…"

Azul said, scratching his head, Ruby was about to answer when the doors opened and a squad of Atlesian soldiers filed out, weapons ready before they noticed the duo.

General Ironwood stepped out from behind them, Azul remembered the man from the billboards in town, he picked up the infected scroll and noticed bits of glass

"Would either of you like to tell me why you're here? Or what happened here?"

The General asked, Azul walked closer to Ruby, both looked at the General.

Azul slipped his hand into Ruby's, hoping he had done it right as he had seen in the books and movies he and Ruby used to watch in the past.

"Yeah… It's a long story, sir…. Uh… I don't know what to call you…"

Azul said, Ruby squeezed his hand back, while Azul was shy, that was as good an answer to his question as any.

"General Ironwood, sir, that Scroll looks like it was from Mistral…. These two Beacon students couldn't have had it…. That and it looks like there was Dust all over the room… Like the signs of battle… Consistent with the scorch marks…"

One of the soldiers reported Ironwood nodded, he could guess that neither of the teens had broken into the room, they wouldn't have defeated the Atlesian soldiers here unless they were much more trained or heavily armed.

That and their weapons showed soot on them… So, neither had burned the room.

"One of you please escort the young gentlemen and his date back to the dance? I want a sweep of this room, if they didn't trash this room, then they were fighting someone who did…."

Ironwood ordered, the soldiers saluted while one of them motioned for Ruby and Azul to follow him.

"By the way… This was a fun date… And yes."

Ruby whispered, she looked down and blushed but both teens were content as they stepped into the elevator with the soldier as the elevator.

"Can one of you please tell me why you were up there? I can tell neither of you wanted to trash that room and neither of you has Fire Dust on you… Our visitors would have picked that up…"

The soldier asked, Azul turned to him, his hand never left Ruby's all the while.

"Some girl dressed in black with a glass bow and swords…. She was trying to put a scroll into the console when it shot it out of her hand…. We tried to stop her, but she ran away…. I don't know who she was, but we ran into her a few months ago at a Dust robbery in town… I don't know, but it had to take a guess, she's connected to those Dust Robberies around town…"

Azul said, the soldier nodded while turning to Ruby, he cleared his throat before speaking again.

"And did she do anything that stood out? Anything we can use to track her down?"

The soldier asked Ruby, who racked her brain to try and remember anything that would help.

She remembered the flash of fire…. The tattoos on the girl's clothing glowed when she fired at them.

"Yeah… She had tattoos that glowed when she launched flames at us… I think that's her semblance…"

Ruby said, the soldier nodded as the elevator reached the bottom, the trio walked out.

"Ok, I'll report this to the General… You kids go back to the dance, if she ran off, she could still be around the area and the last thing I want to see is someone else getting hurt… The security team the general placed here is knocked out and whoever broke in was well trained…"

The man said, Ruby and Azul nodded and walked away, Azul smiled at Ruby, she returned the gesture while the couple walked back to the dance.

Both agreed that this was the funniest dance they could have ever attended… And both were happy to be with each other.

Author Notes

Phew, another chapter is done! Woo! Ruby and Azul are finally together! I didn't want to make this chapter too long… And Ruby and Azul didn't seem the couple to like dancing… As for their fight with Cinder? They didn't beat her, they simply forced her to retreat…. The next chapter will be next weekend and will show the aftermath of the Dance and before the field trip. Until then, Lighting wolf out!