Chapter 23: What Happened Last Night?


If it looked fun, Sun was going to do it no matter the consequences.

He once had a friend tell him that bad ideas make for great memories and that was something that he wholeheartedly agreed with.

Right now, though, he wished he could deck in the face whoever told him that.

"Uggh my head what did I do last night," Sun muttered to himself as he woke up with a head-splitting headache.

Where was he right now?

Looking around trying to gain his bearings Sun realized he was in Team JNPR's room…or what remained of it anyways.

The windows were shattered, there was a couch sticking through one of the walls, and the wall that was to the outside was gone replaced by a giant Nevermore pecking at a sleeping Jaune, wait… what?

"Jaune!" Sun screamed, "Wake Up!"

"Woah what's the emergency!" Jaune said as he woke up startled, "What the hell happened to my room!" He screamed as he looked around at what was left of Team JNPR's sleeping quarters.

"Uhh dude, that's not even our biggest problem right now."

"Not our biggest problem!" Jaune screamed back, "My room is completely destroyed!"

"Take a look behind you," Sun whispered as he pointed out the big elephant or rather bird in the room,

"Behind me what can you possibly be …oh," Jaune said as he followed Sun's finger.

The Giant Nevermore was right in Jaune's face as he turned around.

Out of nowhere the giant bird suddenly screamed a loud cry.

"Why is there a Nevermore here?" Jaune screamed,

"I don't know!" Sun screamed back.

"What are we going to do!?"

"Kill it obviously!"

"Where're our weapons!"

"I don't know!"

"How are we going to kill it then?!"

Just before Sun could answer the Nevermore flew up outside the building and dived beginning its attack.

"Uggh my head," a third voice suddenly called out, it was Mori.

As if it was in a cartoon the Nevermore stopped midair with a nervous look.

"Wait, do Grimm even get nervous looks?"

"Why is there a Nevermore here?" the brown-haired boy asked as he looked at the giant bird.

As if on cue the Nevermore suddenly turned around and started flying away as fast as possible.

"Well, that was new," Sun thought to himself.

"Jaune, what happened to your room?" Mori asked as he looked around, "And what was with the Nevermore?"

"I don't know!" the other blonde yelled back, "I just barely woke up!"

Now, Sun had been in a lot of strange situations but this one definitely took the cake.

What did they do last night?

Sun looked around the room in hopes of finding clues of what the hell happened.

"Now let's think," Jaune muttered, "What were we doing last night."

"If I remember correctly Yang found a new club that she wanted to check out," Mori said as he rubbed his forehead, "Ruby wanted to come along as well."

"I think Blake got dragged along as well," Sun said as the memories of yesterday started to fill in a little bit.

At that, both Mori and Jaune gave Sun a look.

"Stalker," One of them coughed into their hand.

"I didn't stalk her!" Sun said defending himself, "I was trying to hang out with her when all of a sudden Ruby came in and dragged her out and said, 'We are doing a girls night!'"

"Oh yeah!" Jaune exclaimed as he pounded his fist into his hand, "They invited Pyrrha and Nora as well."

"Didn't Weiss comment that they would do girls' night better than us?" Mori commented, "I think we got pissed about that and wanted to prove her wrong."

A depressing aura filled the room as they looked at the damage around them.

"At least we didn't end up in jail this time," Jaune commented as he rubbed his head in shame.

"And we didn't destroy a club!" Sun chipped in.

"So how did this end up happening anyway?" Mori asked as he looked throughout the room.

Before anyone could answer his question a loud crash suddenly rang out from the bathroom.

"What is that?" Jaune whispered in a scared voice.

"I don't know," Sun whispered back, "You don't think it's another Grimm do you?"

"Honestly I would not be surprised if there was," Jaune replied back, "Mori go check out."

"Why me?"

"Because you're capable of leveling buildings and tanking dust explosions in the face."

"Ahh, fair point."

Mori then went to the bathroom door and immediately opened it taking a stance ready to strike whatever was in there.

As Mori swung the door open a large youth with dark hair around their age fell onto the ground looking sick.

"Yatsuhashi?" Mori said in a confused voice, "What are you doing here?"

"I was trying to be the voice of reason last night," the giant called Yatsuhashi said as he got up, "That obviously failed, and ughh my head what hit me last night."

"I'll tell you as soon as it hits me," Another voice called out, "And I knew you guys were completely crazy as soon as I laid my eyes on you."

It was a red-haired tanned skin youth who looked like he was around their age as well.

Sun couldn't help but notice that his eyes were completely White.

Mori seemed to want to say something, but it looked like he decided against it.

"Fox?" Mori asked as he settled on what he was going to say, "You're here as well?"

"Mori?" Jaune spoke up, "Do you know these guys?"

"We met last night," The one called Fox answered, "Though if you can remember that, I'd be sorely impressed."

"We are upperclassmen," Yatsuhashi commented, "Mori filled in for Fox for one of our missions while he was foodsick."

"I still say I had the more harrowing experience," Fox muttered.

"So, wait if you remember that, do you remember what happened last night?" Jaune asked.

"Bits and pieces," Yatsuhashi replied, "I remember Mori introducing us to you guys because you wanted to and I quote, 'One up the girls'"

Memories started to fill Sun's head.

"Oh yeah!" Sun commented, "I remember now, we were pissed that Weiss insulted our honor and we swore that we would one-up their girl's night with our own boy's night."

"We gathered in Jaune's room last night, and just as we were about to get ready, Neptune came in carrying in a large box," Mori muttered.

"And that large box had alcohol!" Jaune finished, "So it's Neptune's fault my room looks like a warzone!"

"Speaking of which where is Neptune?" Mori asked.

Sun looked around the room for his partner but there was no sign of him or his blue hair.

"Which ones Neptune again?" Yatsuhashi asked.

"I'm pretty sure he was the blue-haired sissy." Fox commented.

Sun wanted to defend his partner but…Fox wasn't wrong.

"Ehh he'll show up eventually, we need to quickly clean this up before Pyrrha and Nora get back," Jaune said in a panic, "Ren help me get the beds back…Ren?"

Jaune looked around the room for his teammate.

Sun looked around as well, Ren wasn't here as well, he was probably with Neptune.

"Mori!" Jaune yelled in a panic, "We lost Ren!"

"Do you remember where he was last?" Mori responded in an equal panic.

"You guys are showing a lot more concern for Ren than Neptune," Sun said as he raised an eyebrow at the two.

"Yeah but…" Jaune replied back.

"…Nora," Mori finished with a shutter.

"Wouldn't Weiss be mad that we lost Neptune though?" Sun asked.

"Ehh she'll get over it," Mori answered back.

Sun wanted to say something back but…they weren't wrong.

"By the way?" Jaune asked as he looked at the missing wall, "Do you know what was up with the Nevermore this morning?"

At this Yatsuhashi and Fox looked at each other in surprise.

"Nevermore? I can't believe that crazy son of a bitch did it," Fox said with an impressed look

"Mori, how did you do it? Yatsuhashi asked as he turned to the boy.

"Do what?" he asked in confusion.

"Only one of the most legendary things I've not seen," Fox commented, "Yatsuhashi told me you were pretty crazy, but I didn't know you were that insane."

"What did I do!?"

"You don't remember?" Yatsuhashi asked in surprise."

"Dude I can't even remember where my room is," Sun commented, "What did Mori do?"

"Last night after he sent monkey boy and the couch flying into the wall, he bragged that he could find a pet that was ten times better than that fleabag." Fox explained to the group, "After that the five of you left and we didn't see you again until this morning."

"So, the Nevermore was your fault!" Jaune screamed as he turned towards Mori with an accusatory look.

"Wait why did he send me through the wall?" Sun asked in confusion as he started to notice that he did feel really sore.

"Ehh it was an arm-wrestling contest, something about if he won, he got your name."

"My name?"

"Yeah, he was yelling something about how 'there could be only one!' It was weird."

Mori put his head into his hand in shame in response to Fox's comments.

"…wait?" Jaune interrupted before Sun could inquire more, "Fleabag?"

"That dog you were taking care of," Yatsuhashi explained.

"I don't have a dog."

"The corgi?"

"Oh, you mean Zwei, he's not our dog he's Ruby's and Yang's pet," Jaune answered back.

"So why did you have him last night?" Yatsuhashi asked.

"I had him last night?"

"Trust me I was not drunk enough to hallucinate a dog."

At that Jaune put his finger on his chin as he tried to remember why he had Zwei.

"Ohh, I remember now!" He exclaimed, "that's because Ruby asked me to watch him for their girls' night," Jaune said as he explained Zwei's presence, "It was either me or Mori and well…"

"I would've just dropped that little monster off at the pound," Mori finished.

"So, did you give him back?"

"No Ruby said she would come to pick him up in the morning," Jaune answered back.

Suddenly a panic look appeared on his face.

"Oh no,"

"What?" Sun asked.

Jaune frantically searched the room.

"We lost Zwei as well!" He yelled in a panic.

"With any luck, he was probably breakfast for that Nevermore," Mori muttered.

"Mori take this seriously we need to find Zwei and Ren!"

"Can't we just find Ren?" Mori whined.

"No!" Jaune said back, "I promised Ruby I would take care of him and an Arc always keeps his word."

"You can break your word one time, right?"

"Mori if we lost Zwei do you know what will happen?"

"Blissful peace," Mori replied with an enlightened look.

"No! we get a sad Ruby; do you want to see a sad Ruby, a Ruby who will look at both of us with her puppy dog eyes and say to us 'you lost Zwei?' in a sad voice."

Mori put his hand on his chin as he began to think about it.

It took about a minute before he put his hand down and sighed in defeat.

"Fine, we can try to find Zwei as well."

"What about Neptune?" Sun asked in concern for his partner.

"What about Neptune," Fox answered.

"Neptune will be fine," Jaune cut in, "We need to find Ren and Zwei right now, Sun, Mori let's try to find them in Vale."

Sun nodded as he got dressed and grabbed his weapon.

"Yatsu, Fox you two stay behind in case the two come back." Jaune directed as he finished getting ready. "And clean up the room before my teammates come back."

"Got it!" Yatsuhashi said with a salute.

"Wait why are we cleaning up his room?" Fox asked in confusion.

Yatsuhashi shrugged as he went over to the couch, "Help me move this couch out of the wall."

"Oh yeah have the blind person be the mover…real progressive guys," Fox muttered as he went to grab the other side.

"Hopefully we can find Ren and Zwei," Jaune muttered as they left the room.

Sun wanted to add in Neptune as well, but he decided against it.

Neptune was a big boy who could take care of himself.

Hell, Sun left Neptune on his own all the time.

He'd be fine, what was the worst that can happen to his partner.


Jaune could only gulp as he stared at the large group of people.

They looked very unfriendly and Jaune didn't have much backup himself.

Mori was halfway across the city and he really only had Sun to support him.

Normally, that wouldn't be a problem as Sun was pretty strong and most of these men were just your average thug, however, there were two girls that were among the giant group that looked really dangerous.

"How did I get myself into this mess?" Jaune thought to himself.

Two hours ago.

Jaune was in a panic right now, he had no idea where Ren or Zwei was. They had been trying to retrace their steps in order to locate the two but so far they have had no luck so far.

"Where are they!? "Jaune yelled.

"We'll find them eventually," Mori commented.

"Can't you smell them?" Sun asked as he turned towards the brunette, "Like that time you tracked me?"

Jaune's heart started to soar, of course, they can use Mori's amazing sense of smell!

"Can't"

Jaune's heart immediately dropped like a brick.

"Why!?" he cried.

"Ever since I woke up my sense of smell has been messed up," He commented as he rubbed his nose, "I don't know why but I can't smell a thing right now."

More memories of the night before started to surface in Jaune's memory, more specifically memories of Ghost peppers being stuffed up a spiky-haired brunettes nose.

"Let's focus on just finding them," Jaune said as he tried to move past the conversation, "Any ideas of where they can possibly be?"

Just before they could answer Jaune's scroll started to ring. Jaune pulled it out took a look at who was calling saw who it was and immediately gulped.

"Hello?" Jaune said tepidly.

"Jaune, where are you right now?" the voice on the other side of the scroll asked with a firm voice.

"Who is it?" Mori whispered.

"It's Pyrrha," Jaune whispered back, "she's asking where I am right now."

"Just tell her you're out," Sun responded back.

"I'm just out right now," Jaune said as he took Sun's advice.

"Out where?"

"Ohh just in the city you know, why?"

"I just have a few questions for you Jaune, more specifically what happened to our outside wall?"

"And where's Zwei!" another voice rang out from the scroll.

Jaune gulped as he realized that Ruby was there as well.

"Hey, Ruby Zwei is with us right now, don't worry he was a good boy and so today I decided I wanted to get him a treat."

"Jaune, you didn't answer my question of what happened to our room?"

"Oh, you know Pyrrha just…boy's stuff, hey I'll explain the rest later I need to help Neptune with his hair."

Jaune quickly hung up.

"You think that worked?" he asked the other two.

"Neptune does take a long time with his hair," Sun replied.

"Hopefully, you bought us some time," Mori said as he started to look through his pockets.

"Uhh, Mori,"

"Yes, Jaune?"

"Why are you looking through your pockets right now?"

"I'm trying to see if I can find anything maybe we can get a clue to see where we were last night."

Jaune thought that was a good idea so he started to look through his pockets as well, as he was searching, he found something that he realized he didn't have before.

It was a business card.

"What is it?" Sun asked.

"I don't know," Jaune replied, "It says Juniors."

"Well let's follow it," Mori said as he looked at the address, "It doesn't look like it's too far from here."

Jaune nodded as they made their way to the location on the car.

The first thing he noticed when he got there was that it looked like it was a club, and then he noticed the elephant in the room or in this case the hole in the wall.

"I think we may have been here last night," Sun commented.

"…Yeah," Jaune replied in a depressed tone.

The trio entered the club hoping to find their missing companions.

It was empty with just a large man wiping down a table.

"You!" the man screamed as soon as he noticed them.

"Uh oh," Jaune thought to himself.

"You guys have got a lot of nerve coming back here after what you did last night to my club!"

"His club?" Jaune thought to himself, "That must be Junior."

"uhh, What did we do sir?" Jaune asked nervously.

"What did you do?" Junior repeated back angrily, "What did you do!? Only the craziest thing I have ever seen in my life, what kind of morons, people barge into a club with a Nevermore and introduce it as a pet?"

Mori put his head down in shame.

"Sorry about that sir," Jaune meekly replied.

"Oh, I want more than a sorry, especially after you can see what you guys caused last night!"

"I'm really sorry about what we did to your club last night sir," Jaune replied, "We'll reimburse you for the damages."

At that, the man snorted, "Look at money bags over here thinking he can reimburse me for the damages."

"How much is it?" Jaune nervously asked.

"Take a look kid." He replied as he threw Jaune a list.

The boy's eye bulged, as he saw the total.

"That is a lot of Zero's" Sun whistled.

"I don't think I 've seen that much money in my life," Jaune commented.

"No remember there's Weiss," Mori pointed out, "She's an heiress remember?"

"Oh yeah."

"Still think you can reimburse me, kid?" Junior asked as he folded his arms, "Because if you don't make up for what you guys did you are not seeing your two friends again!"

Jaune immediately caught the last part.

"Wait, friends?" He asked nervously, that must be Ren and Neptune!

"Yeah they came here after you knuckleheads finished destroying the place," Junior replied, "And unless you can pay me back, you aren't seeing them again!"

Just as Jaune was about to argue with Junior about how illegal that was he felt himself almost collapse onto the floor as a heavy atmosphere filled the room.

Junior on the other hand wasn't as lucky as the man was now on all fours trembling.

"You know sir," Mori coldly replied with a blank face, "I apologize for what we did but I don't like the fact that you are holding my friend's hostage."

It looked like the man was trying to reply but it seemed like he was struggling to form even words.

Uh oh, this was not good, Mori was seriously pissed. Even though Jaune was pissed as well that Ren was being held hostage it would be a bad idea if the situation escalated.

"Hey Mori, calm down, he has a point in that we did destroy his club so we do need to repay him," Jaune said as he tried to placate his friend's wrath, "Even though we can't pay him back with Lien, I'm sure there are other ways around that right sir?" Jaune asked as he turned to the trembling bar owner.

Jaune sighed in relief as it seemed like the man had enough bodily function and common sense to quickly nod yes.

That seemed to placate Mori as the atmosphere surrounding them was lifted.

"Remind me never to leave him with the bill again," Sun whispered to Jaune.

Jaune only nodded in agreement, pissing off Mori was very high on Jaune's do not do list.

"Man, you are a scary kid when you aren't drunk," Junior muttered as he got back up, "In hindsight maybe I shouldn't have messed with the kid that can tame a nevermore."

"So, what can we do to pay you back?" Jaune asked.

"Yes, what can we do to get our friends back sir?" Mori repeated coldly.

"G-g-give me a second to think about it," Junior said as he put his hand on his chin, "Ahh I have an important delivery but the delivery guy just called in sick, so if you can deliver that package I'll set your friends free and we'll be good to go!" He said as he clapped his hands.

"Just a delivery?" Jaune thought to himself.

That shouldn't be too hard, he delivered the paper all the time in Ansel.

"Are you sure that's enough to pay you back?" Jaune asked dubiously, "That seems a bit easy,"

"Just make the delivery, promise me you'll never come back, and I'll give you your friends," Junior replied. "I'll just be happy to never see him again," He replied as he pointed to Mori.

Jaune nodded as he accepted Junior's terms.

This looked like it was going to be a lot easier than he had thought.

The easy delivery soon started to feel abnormal when one of Junior's men brought a suspicious-looking suitcase and told the trio where they had to deliver it to.

It was a shady part of town but with Mori around Jaune felt like he could go to the Grimmlands and still be safe.

Then Mori left saying he thought he caught a whiff of Zwei.

Jaune didn't mind it as much as it seemed like they had a lead on the dog.

When he and Sun got close to the location is when things started to really go off the rails.

Just as they were near the meeting spot a big group suddenly converged on the two and the leader angrily demanded they hand over what they had to them.]

Jaune obviously refused because he needed to safely deliver the package in order to get Ren back.

The group didn't take kindly to Jaunes refusal as they suddenly pulled guns on him.

Luckily he and Sun were able to react in time but unfortunately had become separated and they were each hiding behind walls trying to take cover fire waiting for their weapons to arrive.

"When is that stupid locker getting here?" Jaune thought to himself, "I really should take the initiative like Ruby and learn hand ot hand from Mori and Ren."

A loud boom suddenly occurred next to Jaune.

"Weapons are here!" Sun chimed as he showed off his staff.

Jaune sighed in relief as he grabbed Crocea Mors, unsheathed it, activated the shield, and charged right into the group.

The gang stood no chance as he and Sun were able to make quick work of the thugs.

"Why did they want this package so much?" Sun asked as he finished knocking out a gang member.

"…I don't know," Jaune replied, "Whatever it is it must be super valuable."

"…I'm going to take a look," Sun said as he tried to take the package from Jaune.

"Wait no!" Jaune replied as he tried to stop Sun, it was to no avail as the monkey Faunus easily overpowered him.

"…holy crap," Sun said as he looked in the suitcase, "Jaune you need to take a look at this."

Jaune went over to the boy and his jaw dropped as he caught a look at what was inside.

It was drugs, a lot of them in fact, and they looked quite illegal.

"W-w-were we about to be drug dealers?" Sun nervously asked.

Jaune nodded as he realized that the club owner probably wasn't as clean as he initially thought.

"We need to talk to Junior," He replied with a serious tone.

Present.

When Jaune returned back to the club, it was a lot more packed than when he was there earlier. Too bad the new people didn't look like customers.

"I see you've returned," Junior said with a displeased look, "and you still have the package."

"Yeah, about that," Jaune angrily spat back, "We took a look at what we were delivering, and I don't believe this place is as reputable as it looks."

"Look kid, it was a simple deal you deliver the package you get your friends back."

"We would have never accepted if we knew were delivering drugs!" Jaune yelled back.

"So, I guess the deal is off," Junior said in a serious tone.

"I guess it is,"

"I guess you don't want to see your friends again,"

"I guess we'll just take them back by force." Jaune angrily replied.

At that Junior laughed.

"You two, against all my men?" Junior said as he spread his arms out, "You don't even have that scary kid with you and even if you did, I doubt you'd stand much of a chance."

Even though Jaune agreed that without Mori right now this fight looked hopeless, he didn't care.

He'd do whatever it took to save Ren and Neptune.


"You have got to be kidding me!" Mori cried in frustration.

He thought he had found that damn corgi when he caught a whiff of it while doing the delivery, so Mori went to go chase after the dog.

The only thought on his mind as he was chasing after the smell was convincing himself to not trade in his tiger pelt for a corgi one.

He was very tempted to make the fashion switch when he finally caught up to his lead and found out what he was chasing after.

"It's just Neptune!" Mori cried out.

It turned out his "lead" was just Neptune in the back of a moving garbage truck wearing Zwei's collar…What the hell did they do last night?

"Just Neptune…Just Neptune!?" the Blue haired boy cried back, "I have been stuck in the back of this garbage truck all day and the first thing you say to me it's just Neptune?"

"Why do you have Zwei's collar on you?"

"I don't know! I just found it on me as I woke up!"

"Agghh!" Mori cried out with his hands in his hair.

He'd rather fight through the Gods' realm again than do this seemingly impossible task!

"You uhh you ok dude?" Neptune asked in concern.

"…I'm fine, I'm fine," Mori said as he tried to calm down, "Let's just go back to Juniors and meet up with Jaune and Sun, hopefully, they were able to finish their delivery and get Ren back."

"…What?"

"Just don't worry about it."

He'd worry about finding Zwei another time, he didn't trust that man Junior and based on the number of times Jaune had called him on his scroll, he had a feeling that their delivery was a lot more than it seemed.

His suspicions were proven correct when he got back to the club and it looked like Sun and Jaune were in the middle of a huge fight.

"Why are we back here!?" Neptune asked as his jaw dropped.

Mori looked over at Neptune with a questioning look.

"I was here with Yang when we were investigating the White Fang," Neptune explained, "Apparently the owner of this bar was connected with Roman Torchwick."

Ahh, everything was making sense now, from the threatening tone the man held towards them to the seedy delivery, with his connection to Torchwick, Junior was almost definitely part of the criminal underworld.

Now that he took a closer look at Junior's men, they did look familiar to the ones that Torchwick used the first time he met him.

Mori didn't know why but it seemed like trouble just seemed to be naturally attracted to him…or Jaune.

Only Jaune could find himself in the middle of a massive brawl.

Still though, despite the bad position the two blondes were in they were actually doing really well, for the most part, the grunts stood no chance against the two.

Sun was hacking and maneuvering with ease around the grunts, he currently had a good setup with Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang in their staff form, if the guards got too close he'd knock them out quickly with his superior staff skills too far, and for range, he'd use the gun part of it too blast opponents who were too far away from his reach.

The fact that Sun was doing well was no surprise, despite his laidback personality he really was quite strong, so strong in fact, Mori wouldn't be surprised if the boy won the Vytal tournament.

With a name like his, he'd better be strong.

Then there was Jaune, he was surrounded on all sides but he was in no danger, with his understanding of position and strategy combined with the combination of his aura and shield, he'd barely take any damage and with the technique, he had learned from Pyrrha once someone was within range of his sword it was good night.

Mori really was proud of Jaune for how well had been doing, it had been a month since the Breach, and Jaune had only grown exponentially, especially after the spar they had.

It wouldn't be long before Jaune would catch up to the others, everything was starting to slow down for him, and he was starting to be able to fight the way he wanted to.

Most of these guards were too weak to provide the two any sort of challenge, there were really only two on Junior's side who'd be any match to his friends.

They were twin girls who were standing next to him, from the outside they looked like they would belong in the red-light district, but Mori didn't judge a book by its cover, they were several tiers higher than the regular mooks that Junior had.

At first, they didn't look too interested in fighting but then Junior turned towards them and angrily asked if they were going to continue to do their nails or would they actually fight.

The twins shared an annoyed look before descending into the fight.

"Neptune, let's join," Mori said as he decided to join the fight now.

"You sure?" Neptune asked, "They look like they are doing fine."

Mori nodded as he jumped into the fray, Sun and Jaune would be fine against large numbers and they'd be fine against those two, one on one, they wouldn't be able to do both at once.

"I'll take that as a yes," Neptune sighed as he followed Mori into the fight.

In an instant, Mori unleashed his intent as he landed in the club.

All eyes in the fight were now on him and Neptune.

Mori could notice the twins look at him with interest while Junior could only pale at his sight.

"W-w-ha-" It seemed like he was trying to say something but it seemed like Mori's impression on the man had made him scared shitless.

Jaune on the other hand had the exact opposite reaction

"You're finally here!" He said as he let out a sigh of relief.

"Sorry I'm late," Mori said with a grin, "But I'd like to join in on the fun."

"Man, you sure know how to make an entrance," Sun said as he got ready to fight one of the twins.

Mori could only smile at Sun's compliment, it was a topic that Ruby had begging him to teach her, how to make a dramatic entrance.

It was a good technique for lower-level opponents as it can throw people completely off guard, of course, a dramatic entrance was useless unless one pressed their advantage and that's what Mori did.

Immediately launching one of his kicks he began his cleanup of Junior's men.

Firing off renewal techniques Mori mowed down the grunts with precision and ease.

Keeping control of his power Mori used just enough to knock out his opponents.

To be honest these grunts were too easy for him and this fight wasn't that fun.

He would have rather taken on the twins at once, but he decided against it, as the experience would be good for Jaune and Sun.

Mori's earlier prediction of they would be fine was right as his two friends were doing well in their respective matchup.

It looked like this fight was going to wrap up soon, as the arrival of him and Neptune turned the fight from a brawl to a massacre in their favor.

After catching Sun land a knockout blow on the one in the red dress, Mori eyed Junior and began to make his way to the man.

"S-s-someone, stop him!" The man screamed in desperation.

His orders were useless as Mori went through the guards with the same amount of ease as walking across the schoolyard.

Soon Mori was in front of the criminal just as it looked like Jaune had landed a winning blow against the twin in the white dress.

"Back! Stay back!" Junior screamed as he stumbled onto the ground.

Mori ignored him as he made his way close him, crouched down, and looked Junior straight in the eyes.

"I think you know what I want," Mori said softly but firmly as he made his intentions clear, "So, give me my friends back."

The man nodded as he turned to one of his men and directed them to get the hostages.

Mori only nodded in satisfaction as he got up.

He couldn't help but notice the puddle that had formed between the crime lord's legs though.

"Man I am glad you are here, Mori" Jaune said as he sheathed Crocea Mors, "Were you able to find Zwei?" he asked hopefully.

"No, I just found Neptune,"

"Dangit Just Neptune?" Jaune asked disappointedly.

"Just Neptune!" The subject in question screamed, "Just Neptune! Do you know what I have been through today! Why am I always the one treated like the butt monkey!"

"Because that's usually me," Jaune replied as he turned to the blue-haired boy."

"I think that might be racist," Mori and Sun said in unison.

"Wait," Jaune said as it looked like he realized something "If Neptune's here who's the other friend with Ren?"

Mori was about to answer but then he realized he had no idea.

Their questions were soon answered as they brought the two "Friends" into the room.

"Who the hell is this?" Jaune screamed at Junior.

"These are your friends!" Junior explained, "They came after you left looking for a blonde-haired monkey Faunus."

It took a bit, but Mori began to recognize who the two were, after all, they were-

"Scarlett, Sage!" Sun shouted, "What are you guys doing here?"

Members of Sun's team SSSN.

"What are we doing here!?" the redhead known as Scarlett repeated angrily as he turned towards his partner "Get a load of this Sage, he's asking what are we doing here!"

"Looks like our great leader forgot about the 'invitation he gave us last night," Sage angrily replied as he turned towards his leader, "you sent us a text message, last night saying to join you guys and what do we get when we arrive but a destroyed club and an angry-looking man who threatened that if we didn't pay him back for ruining his club he wouldn't let us go!"

"I've needed to use the bathroom for three hours!" Scarlett whined.

"You could always do what Junior did and let mother nature take its course," Neptune quipped

The man in question didn't seem to enjoy the joke as he glared at him causing Neptune to meekly start to back away.

Mori in turn glared at Junior to back off and the man immediately paled and apologized.

"No! No! No!" Jaune screamed as he started to pull his hair, "These guys can't be it you've got have more right?" He begged as he grabbed Junior by the vest.

"Thanks for caring for us," Sage said with an annoyed look.

"Join the club," Neptune snarked

"Look, I don't know who the hell you are talking about but these guys are it," Junior said as he tried to shake off Jaune, "There's no one else!"

"You've got to be kidding me!" Jaune cried, "You have to at least remember the Mistralian boy with us or at least a dog!"

"Yes, both in fact were with you but they left with you guys on that blasted Nevermore that destroyed my wall."

"Wait," Mori said as he caught something, "We left, on a Nevermore?"

Junior turned towards him, "Yeah you left flying on a Nevermore," He answered, "It was the craziest thing I had ever seen."

So that meant that both Ren and Zwei were with them for most of the night, if that was the case unless they both fell off they should be at Beacon, but that didn't make sense they weren't in the room…right?

Bits and pieces started to fall in Mori's head, as he realized there was one place they hadn't looked.

"…I think I know where to look," Mori said as he turned towards Jaune, "Follow me." He then started to make his way back to Beacon.

Jaune complied as he followed after him.

Sun also joined as he leaped to join the two.

"I'll see you guys later!" He shouted towards his team.

"Is he abandoning us again?" Scarlett asked in disbelief.

"…He is," Neptune said with a sigh.

Mori could only hope that he was correct as he barged his way onto the rooftop.

He soon let out a sigh of relief.

"They're here!" Jaune said happily.

"You have got to be kidding me," Sun complained.

It was Ren and Zwei, both knocked on top of the rooftop.

Mori could only internally slap himself in the face for not looking on top of the roof, it was the place he was at the most!

At the sound of noise Ren and Zwei, started to stir.

"Sun, Mori, Jaune," He said with a tired tone as he got up, "Why does my head hurt? What did we do last night?"

"Yes, I'd be very interested to know what you boys have been up to." A voice interrupted before any of the three could answer Ren's question.

The three boys gave a collective gulp as they turned around and realized the owner of the voice.

It was a Goodwitch who looked very unhappy.

Mori didn't know it but at that moment all three of them shared the same thought.

"We are never doing a boy's night again."


Hello again, TMT here with another release, sorry for the inconsistent release times, work has just really ramped up and it looks like it'll be like that until end of April. Other than that I hope you guys have enjoyed the latest chapter and I will see you again with the next update.