"What would you do to save this world, Mr Nash?" a woman asked me.
Turning around I see it's Salem "Me, a lot, kill, start wars, fight gods even, but the answer is a lot, but not everything," I answered not taking my eyes off her.
"As I thought, you're just like him, and to think the gods may have sent me a blessing in disguise," she said sighing, observing closer she wasn't disappointed, more broken, like a wish for death.
"So what's this then some sort of dream magic?" I asked looking around the room.
"In a way, at the moment I'm viewing you through a seer Grimm, you know young cinder told me about you, how you evaded her attempt on your life, you must be quite the figure for her to request for her to start her own army against you," she said looking at me.
"Yeah, well not for lack of trying I can assure you that," I said observing my surroundings, "may I ask you a question, ma'am?" I asked her calmly.
"You just did, but go ahead," she responded with a smirk.
"What would you do to get that final release of death, to be reunited with Ozma, to be finally at peace?" I asked her firmly.
"That I will answer by my actions boy, perhaps you can prove yourself against my pawns and then you might find yourself at my answer, daylight is coming soon, you should wake up and hide the seer, it will do no harm, I can assure you that, I find that my company tends to be quite the downer, don't be afraid to chat," she said before releasing me to the void of sleep.
- morning -
I get up to see a seer Grimm resting on my desk, it seems to be inactive, I pick it up and stash it away in a footlocker and put it into my inventory, after pulling it out and putting it back in a few times to find everything intact I shrug and put on a fresh set of clothes, "alright then world, let's see what crap I have to contend with today," I said before pouring myself a glass of whiskey and downing it.
I hear a knocking on my door, "come in," I said looking at it.
"Morning sir, I uhh wanted to let you know that Lieutenant Taurus wanted to speak with you about something," my secretary said poking her head in.
"Alright send him a message that I'll be there in a couple of minutes, I need to freshen up," I replied.
"Yes sir," she left and closed the door behind her, guess I should see what Adam is gonna bug me about today.
- Jackson Military Base, Industrial Vale -
Walking out of my office and yes I sleep in my office, it's convenient, sue me okay, I see Adam waiting for me outside taking a drink of beer.
"Morning lieutenant, little early for drinking ain't it?" I asked smirking.
"You slam back a glass of 86 proof whiskey in the morning, I'm allowed a beer," he said to shut me down.
"Alright I concede, you needed to talk to me about something?" I asked him.
"Yeah, vale asked us to perform security detail for the Vytal festival, the 101 starts in Beacon tomorrow, guess we won't be getting that break just yet," Adam informed me.
"How joyous, alright then get the station comms set up, and we'll be on our way," I said dismissing him.
"Yes sir," he said walking off.
Guess I better head up to beacon, I wonder if Ozpin has been informed about this development.
- Beacon -
Walking off of a Bullhead, I head straight up to Ozpin's office, "Uhh headmaster? You get the news?" I asked walking off the elevator.
"Depends on what news you're talking about," he said.
"The fact that the council has stuck me on security duty," I said scratching my neck.
"Hmm, yes I have, congratulations on that by the way, I hope you will still be able to attend your classes," he said before taking a swig of his coffee.
"Yeah, should be able to, hey look if there's anything I can do to make this whole situation less awkward for everyone involved, feel free to just let me know," I said before taking my leave.
Heading down to the base level I run into Weiss, "gah, oh it's you, how are you?" she asked me.
"Me, I'm doing fine, what are you doing here?" I asked her.
"Just here to retrieve some- err you know it's best if you didn't know," she answered.
"Hmm, alright, well at least let me help you up onto your feet," I said sticking my hand out.
"Sure," she said grabbing it and getting up.
"Well uh, you know where the rest of your team is, I have some weird news to break to them," I asked her.
"Hmm, well outside of ruby, I know that the rest of my team is in Vale, what did you need to tall them?" she asked back.
"Well, apparently Vale wanted my army to take over security for the Vytal Festival, which is a righteous pain in the ass, thought I should let my friends know about it before the bulk of the 101 shows up and leaving everyone confused," I said smiling awkwardly.
"Well I'll see to it that they are alerted, I mean you could also text us, you do have a scroll," she said pulling hers out.
"Yeah, well outside of some programs for school, mine is filled to the brim with army applications and contacts, I really should get a second one to have your guys contacts," I said to her.
"Well you can always purchase one here, this is a CCT tower, and they do have vendors on the second floor," Weiss said pointing to a floor map nearby.
"Huh, guess I should get that done now, alright well I'll see ya later," I said walking off.
"I'm coming with you, the second floor is also where I need to head to," she said walking off with me to the elevator.
Heading up to the second floor I shot a question to Weiss, "hey I heard that Coco is planning the dance coming up soon right?"
"Yes, why?"
"I was just curious, I have a foolish idea I was gonna run by her," I said shrugging.
"What is it?" she asked me.
"I was gonna see if she was needing a band because I think between you, your team, and Jaune's team, you all might make an interesting music group," I said looking straight ahead, gotta sell this whole half-joke of an idea.
"I mean sure we might, but what instruments would we all play, and how fast do you think we can learn to play them?" she asked with a tone of curiosity.
"I mean you and Ruby and would be the lead singers, with ruby doubling as a guitarist and you doubling as a pianist, Jaune would be on backstage and acoustic guitar, Nora would play the drums, Pyhhra and Yang could be on bass, I think Blake knows how to play the violin and the keyboard, ren would...I don't actually know, male lead singer?, Penny could be DJ, I mean either way we can always get more people as other students show up for the Vytal festival, I think there's a team in atlas who has a person who literally has a trumpet for a weapon, I mean he has to know how to play one right?" I said listing off instruments and people, I mean they feel like the best fit for the said instruments.
"Hmm, seems viable, I mean we would need to draft up the music and also find some classics to play, but yeah seems viable, you just need to run it past Coco, which will be a task in itself," she said rolling her eyes.
"I mean if I can somehow convince her to go on a coffee date with me, right after I came back from active combat, I think I can talk her into it," I said smirking.
"Well, then I guess I have two jobs today then...unless you're willing to help?" she said looking up at me.
"I don't see why not, I mean I got nothing else planned for today, I just came back from active combat and I just gave my men a two-week pass, so there's nothing coming up as far as I can tell, I mean I'll need some of them to give up some of their past time to work as guards due to this whole council asking us to work security detail, but yeah I'm free," I said with a hint of annoyance at the council.
The elevator dinged.
"Oh looks like we arrived at our destination, ladies first," I said in a snooty manner, gesturing for her to go first.
"Why thank you," she said smirking, guess she gets a kick out of making fun of the rich too, makes sense I guess. We head our separate ways for the moment, she went to one of the main comms terminals, and I went to go purchase a new scroll to have a personal life.
- end -
Alright then, 'nother chapter done and I clearly have plans, plans that involve music and no fighting, I feel like I have earned it after a full week of combat and a hostage situation.
Anyway, as always feel free to let me know anything you want me to know in the reviews below, and have a great day!