Disclaimer: I own nothing but my laser guided thermite zebra.
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Teams RWBY and LEGN chatted happily with team RLMS, catching each other up on current events as they headed for the last class of the day. Yang and Lucy quickly turned the discussion to the new outfits of wizards.
Juvia was wearing a dark blue kevlar turtleneck sweater with a white jacket over the top of it, she also had a long lighter blue skirt that went down past her knees, she had black boots and a white beanie that had a blue teru teru bōzu displayed on the front, her hair flowed freely.
Wendy, who was holding Carla in her arms, was wearing a white, buttoned up blouse with a black tie and red armoured suit vest, she also wore a black skirt and leggings, with white and pink sneakers adorning her feet, her hair was in pigtails done up with red ribbons.
Lisanna was wearing was a cream coloured T-shirt and purple jean shorts, she had various pieces of light metal armour, much like Jaune's, on her chest, shoulders and thighs, the outer edging was purple and the main inside parts were the same cream colour as her shirt, she had white soled purple canvas shoes and hair hair was unrestrained and slightly unkempt as she was still unused to caring for it whilst having cat ears present. Blake quietly offered to help her.
"Soooo…" Ruby began "…what weapons do you guys use?"
Yang ruffled her sisters hair good-naturedly at the predictable question.
"Why should we tell ya that shrimp?" Gajeel challenged "we aren't gonna gave ya any advantages to your te-"
"Juvia uses a water Dust powered umbrella" Juvia said blankly.
"Water girl!" Gajeel yelled at his old friend.
"I use multi-Dust clawed gauntlets and boots" Lisanna said smiling.
"…Really Mini-Mira?" Gajeel sighed but smirked as he called her a name he knew would annoy her. And it did.
"What about you Wendy?" Ruby asked curiously.
"Oh, I-I use eh…what were they called?" She muttered to herself "oh yeah, I use dust propellent dispersal gauntlets and boots."
"Like flamethrowers?" Ruby asked in surprise.
"Yes! But I use wind Dust instead."
"Really? Isn't that hard to control?"
"A little at first but as a Sky Dragon Slayer I got the hang of it quickly."
"Wow…that's really impressive!"
Wendy blushed slightly from the praise.
Carla smirked and decided to speak up "Ah young love, I approve Wendy."
Both girls began blushing heavily and started sputtering denials, much to the amusement of everyone else.
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"…You guys catch up with each other, we have some errands to run" Team RWBY split off from the wizards in Vale and Sun dragged Neptune away from Juvia. Gray had used that distraction to escape from his stalker and had been wandering around the city for some time. He had zoned out slightly which led him to to bump into a rather short lady and accidentally made her drop her ice-cream.
"Ah shit, my bad" he stared down at the fallen confection, then he just shrugged "ah well, I'll just buy ya a new one, how's that sound?"
He turned and looked at the woman. Her dual toned hair reminded him a Totomaru of Phantom Lord but with brown and pink instead of black and white. The was just looking sadly at her deceased frozen treat.
"I'll make it a double helping of each."
The lady looked up at him with a large smile on her face.
"Lead on milady" he gestured to the city at large and offered his arm. She rolled her eyes but take the proffered arm and led him to a nearby ice cream cart where he got her the promised compensation and he got himself a mint choc-chip ice cream.
"This is nice" he said after he tasted it.
She however, was looking at him strangely.
"What?"
She pointed at his chest.
"What?" he looked down and saw his shirt was missing "AH SHIT! Where'd it go?!"
She giggled noiselessly as he ran around to find his shirt and put it back on.
"Sorry 'bout that, happens all the time."
She raised an eyebrow 'Why?'
"My Semblance is ice based, person who trained me was similar and part of the training was stripping down in the snow, so it became a subconscious habit."
She stared blankly 'Really?'
"Hey! I dare you to find someone better with the cold than me" he said with a smile.
She fined serious thought for a moment then shrugged 'You win' she then checked her scroll and sighed.
"You gotta be somewhere?"
She nodded.
"Well" he held his hand out "it was nice meeting you, the name's Gray."
She typed on her scroll "I'm Neo."
"Nice to meet you Neo" he said with a smile.
Neo put her scroll away and took his hand, Gray, guided by instinct, didn't shake her hand. He leaned forward and kissed it. Neo blushed slightly but leaned in and gave him a peck on the check. Gray gained his own blush and Neo left with a small wave.
"See ya" Gray mumbled dazedly. He was feeling pretty good while he watched her leave but that turned to a feeling of eldritch dread creeping down his neck as he turned and saw Juvia. Her head shrouded in a black miasma and her eyes glowed pure white.
"LoVE riVaL."
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Natsu was wandering through Vale when he smelled the familiar scent of rose petals nearby. He rounded the corner and his heart nearly stopped. Ruby had fallen to the ground in front of an approaching truck. He started moving even as Penny moved Ruby out of the way.
*BANG*
*BANG*
Penny blinked in confusion as flames died down around her.
"You okay Penny?"
She looked up and saw Natsu smiling down at her. She figured that he had pulled her from in front of the truck at the last second.
"Natsu!" Ruby called out "where'd you come from?! That was awesome!"
Natsu gave a smile and thumbs up at the praise and Penny looked around at her friend and spotted the soldiers in the street behind her…and they spotted her.
"Oh no" Penny took off running down an alley and her friends swiftly followed. On the way Natsu smashed a wooden support leg and sent crates tumbling down behind them. They soon caught up to the panicking girl.
"Penny!" Natsu called to her "what's wrong?!"
"N-Nothing! Everything's fine!" Penny denied and hiccuped "I don't want to talk about it."
"Penny if you tell us what's wrong…" Natsu began.
"…We can help you!" Ruby finished.
"No, no, no…you wouldn't understand."
"Let us try Penny" Natsu said gently "trust us."
"You two are my friends, right? You promise you're my fr-"
Penny was cut off when both Natsu and Ruby hugged her "Of course we are Penny" they said in unison.
"Guys I'm…I'm not a real girl" she lifted her left hand and showed them a patch where Natsu's flames had burnt through her false skin.
"Of course you're real, you sure as hell ain't imaginary" Natsu declared as he smiled down at her.
"He's right" Ruby agreed "you think just because you have nuts and bolts instead of squishy guts means you aren't a real girl? You have a heart and a soul, I…we can feel it."
Penny was so happy she hugged her two friends. A.K.A. she crushed the everliving hell out of them.
"I can see why your father would too protect such a delicate flower" Ruby said in a pained voice.
She let them go and Natsu fell to the ground "Oh he's very sweet, my father's the one that built me, I'm sure you would just love him!"
"Wow he built you all by himself?"
"I think one of my ribs went into my lung" Natsu groaned.
"Well almost, he also had some help from mister Ironwood."
"My body is trying to die…why will no-one help me?"
"The General?" Ruby looked confused "Wait. Is that why the soldiers were after you?"
"I'm so cold."
"They like to protect me too!" Penny said happily.
"Ruby if I die…look after Happy…and you can have my cookie stash."
"They don't think you can protect yourself?" Ruby asked sceptically.
"Why is everything going dark?"
"They don't think I'm ready right, one day it'll be my job to save the world, but I still have a lot to learn, that's why my father let me come to the Vytal Festival, I want to see what it's like in the rest of the world and test myself in the tournament."
"I see a light!"
"Penny what're you talking about? Save the world from what? We're in a time of peace."
"I can see the gates waiting for me…it's so inviting."
"That's not what Mr Ironwood said."
Their thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of the soldiers shouts coming closer to them.
"You have to hide" Penny said fretfully.
"We won't let them take you!" Natsu declared suddenly on his feet.
"It's okay Natsu" Penny smiled "They're not bad people, I just don't want you two to get in trouble, just promise me you two won't tell anyone about my secret."
"I promise" they said in unison.
"Aye sir!"
They looked up and saw Happy floating above them.
"Did that flying cat just talk?" Penny question.
"Happy!" Natsu called "Ninja time!"
"NINJA!" They both shouted as Natsu threw a handful of flames at the ground and produced a smokescreen and both boy and cat had disappeared, Penny recovered and threw Ruby into a dumpster and left with the soldiers after lying, badly, to them.
"Ruby?" Natsu said as he peaked into the dumpster, Ruby burst out and clung onto Natsu. All was silent for a few seconds.
"Well Wendy will be devastated" Natsu said cheekily.
"You too! WHY?!"
"It's fun" Happy said simply.
"And true, going by the blush."
Ruby grumbled and blushed more but, much to her relief her Scroll rang and she answered it.
"Everyone!" Blake's voice rang out from the Scroll "if you can hear me we need ba-"
"HHHEEEELLLPPPP!" Sun screamed "they got a robot, and it's big, REALLY BIG."
Natsu and Ruby looked at each other, grinned excitedly and set off.
"That Torchwick guys in it! But…it didn't eat him, he's like controlling it…or something…HURRY!"
Ruby was jumping along the rooftops with her Semblance while Happy was carrying Natsu along. They soon saw a robot sliding around on an iced over highway, Happy accelerated to Max Speed while Natsu prepared his fists. Natsu slammed into the mech with a double punch and sent it flying off the highway. By the time Natsu had landed team RWBY had set up a smoke, or rather, a steam-screen to blind Torchwick but the mech had deployed lasers to, seemingly, help it locate them. Natsu wasted no time and rushed it and unleashed a flurry of shotgun strikes. Roman hit him back and what seemed to be a large blast of water hit the mech in the back. Gray appeared and sliced at its leg with his Dust blades, freezing the water and trapping it.
"You guys thought you could have fun without us?" Gray said as he and Juvia met up with the group.
Before any response was made Roman got a shot off and knocked them all down, making some lose their weapons.
Something awakened and burned within Weiss. An energy that desperately needed a release. She instinctually put her fist to her open palm and shouted.
"DUST MAKE: FLAME SPIRES!"
She slammed her palms to the ground and red, crystalline spikes erupted from the ground around the mech. Piercing it in several places before they glowed and a split second later exploded into a raging inferno. Natsu let it burn for half a minute before devouring it. They saw Roman pick herself off the ground.
"Just got this clean" he grumbled "well ki-"
He was interrupted by Natsu who fired a shot at him but it was quickly blocked by a parasol. The woman who held the parasol and revealed herself to be Neo, her smile faltered when she saw Gray. But Gray gave her a small grin and winked at her. She blushed and smiled back in response. Juvia growled with rage and shot a blast of boiling water at Neo. It impacted her but she and Roman seemed to shatter and in the distance they saw a bullhead take to the skies.
"So Gray…when did you start liking bad girls" Happy teased him.
Gray seemed to panic "Uh, uh…weren't Sun and Neptune with you guys?" He asked team RWBY in desperation to evade the question. But they had fled in the face of Juvia's dark horror bringing rage. So he joined them in the escape.
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Authors Note: Yes. Possibilities of a Grey and Neo ship! Popsicles? Whatever. If you have a ship name for that let me know. Also let me know who you think Juvia should be with. Because Juvia does deserve someone! Anyways tell me what you think of the new wizards updated outfits. Any and all feedback is appreciated.
Now I know some of you are iffy about NatsuxPenny, I haven't committed to that idea myself yet, however if it happened I'm confident the ship name would be 'Clueless Couple'.
They both have an air of innocence around them, because I doubt either of they have any clue about romance.
Anyways.
Don't worry, be happy and I'll see you all laters.