Chapter 21: Women, women everywhere
It's the final count down! … No seriously, there are only about four more chapters after this until the end of volume two. Now onto the story.
Roosterteeth owns all. Expect my Oc's, I own that.
I walk around in my stuffy suit looking for Weiss. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find her. I guess our spat combined with being rejected by Neptune was a little hard on her. Hehe, hard on. In reality, I probably should have found her by now but I keep running into people who want to dance with me. Velvet, Blake, Andrea, Neo, wait what. As soon as I realized who I had just danced with she disappeared. Well that was weird.
Oh well, I'll find her eventually. First I have to start some other ships. I go to the back of the room where someone is hiding in the shadows. "Hey, did you get the coupon I asked for?" the figure just nodded and hands me a slip of paper that reads 'this coupon dictates the user has one free dance with Yang Xiao Long. All painful twists, broken bones, or snapped vertebrae received during dance are not the fault of Mrs. Xiao Long.' I nod as they rush away dropping something in the process. "Excuse me, you dropped these Ozpin." A hand quickly snatched them and the professor moves off.
I walk over to Yang and present her with the coupon. "How did you get this?!" she asks, her eyes turning red.
"Now, now Yang. That's not important, what is important is that you go and dance with Nathan." At this she looks down and moves her feet. "It's just for one night. Who knows, you may even like it." I say as I walk away. I look and notice Neptune with Blake and Sun. I teleport to the bathroom and change into a butler uniform, I also put on some glasses and a fake mustache. When I got out I "accidentally," bumped into another butler and managed to catch his tray. I went to the kitchen and got some cakes, one in the shape of a banana that tasted like fish and the other in the shape of fish that tasted like banana, and put then on the tray. With my disguise complete and my tools aboard I head over to the trio. Before I get there Neptune heads to talk to Jaune. I reach them as Neptune goes out of ear shot.
"Excuse me sirs, but would you be interested in these here? I was told by a young gentleman that you would love these." I said in a fake snobby accent.
"I'm sorry but no." Blake said obviously not recognizing me.
'But I insist." I say and put a banana shaped one in her mouth. She was shocked at first but soon started to chew and even smiled. When she was done with the first one she continued to take more off of the tray and shovel them into her mouth. "And you sir?" I ask Sun.
"Ok, just don't shove it in." He said fearfully. He then reached out and took a fish shaped one and started to eat it. "Hey, this is just like my family's multi Faunus recipe for cakes. There's only one person who knows this other than, hmm!" that last part was because I shoved a lot of them in his mouth and ran. I was just in time to hear Blake scream in joy and question him about making her more. The best way to get guys, and apparently Blake's, is through their stomachs. I smile and go change.
As I go out I was confronted by a slightly panicking John. "Damien! Damien! Cortana just asked me to dance with her! What do I do! I can't dance!" I calmly waited for him to finish before applying my treatment.
Slap! "Calm down! You've fought psycho midgets and robots before! You can do anything!" Slap.
"Thanks, Damien. But why did you slap me the second time?" he asked rubbing his cheek.
"That will probably be the only time I can do that, I need to savor it." I say before Turing around and heading toward a distinct blue head. I manage to catch up to Neptune just as he was about to reach Weiss. Luckily she hadn't seen him. I wrap my arm around his and cover his mouth. "Nope, I just got out of my rut for her. Besides, I've got something better in mind for you." he begins to sweat as I drag him toward the youngest member of my team. I shove him toward her and laugh as I see them tumble into each other. I chuckle softly before hiding.
"Wow, sorry about that I was pushed. You ok?" he asked Gabby.
She just sighed before answering as he helped her up. She ruffled with her dress, what looked like a white and blue variation of the Malachite twin's dresses, and said "yeah, I'm just sad I couldn't find anyone to ask to the dance, too weird for most guys I guess." She looked down at her blue heels and sighed again.
They stood there awkwardly before Neptune finally said, "Do you want to dance?" apparently she was so surprised that she couldn't speak. So with a huge smile and a twinkle in her eye she just nodded and he awkwardly led her out onto the dance floor where he would learn something important. Both of them were horrible dancers.
I then notice that team JNPR is dancing in the middle of the room. After the main number when Jaune is dancing with Pyrrha he twists her. I smile and manage to teleport a block in front of her foot and she trips, right on everyone's favorite goof ball. While falling their lips meet and the whole room notices as they break apart and they break out in cheers. Surprising everyone, Pyrrha goes in for another. I smile and go out to the balcony where the last person on my list remains. I go and find Weiss tearing up. "Hey." I say, causing her to turn around.
"Oh, sniff, what do you want?" she asks, trying to cover up her tears.
"Everyone's in there, happy. And I want you to be as well. Look," I say as I move closer to her and mover her hands away from her eyes so she could see me. "I'm sorry for making you jealous. I really care for you and don't want to lose that. Now come on." At that we got up and I held out my hand for her. "Those guys need to be shown how it's done." She smile s and we go in and dance. Best day of my life.
Andrea's POV
Worst. Day. Ever. First I can't find a date to the dance, than I had to, take care of, team CRDl. Finally my dress for the dance was ruined and now is purple. Purple! How does yellow become Purple!? Oh well, so I come out for some air and I see Ruby going to the CCT and I think, she can't be that antisocial, could she? I should follow her just to make sure she's ok. So I follow her all the way to the CCT just to see her go inside. I notice that her locker landed here. That's weird. Then I also see the guards knocked out unconscious. I pull out my scroll and soon my weapon locker appears. I open to see my precious Zeus's Bane. But it would be kind of cramped to fight with it indoors. So I condense it down into a Dao and run into the building.
-X-
That elevator took forever! But I got out just in time to realize that appearing might be bad. I need the element of surprise. When the door opens I see Ruby and this girl in a black suit- holly shit she's hot! Um, ignoring that thought. Just as she shoots some glass arrows at Ruby I launch some lightning to intercept it, but Ruby's bullets go faster and they hit her instead.
Oops.
When the dust settles the elevator doors open again in time for us to realize that even with my bolts, the girl had disappeared. 'Um, am I in trouble?" Ruby asked the general. He just smiled and shook his head before going to the scorch mark on the ground.
"What happened here? I heard shots being fired but this looks like it came from lightning." He said while rubbing the black soot between his fingers.
"Oh! Right, so there was this woman in all black with glass heels and in the middle of the awesome fight that I was totally winning this lighting came from nowhere!" What? Oh, that's right. I was still cloaked. Maybe it's for the best that I don't appear now. I sure hope this doesn't lead to some unforeseen misunderstanding later on.
"Alright now, go back to the party. You should be enjoying yourself right now. We'll talk tomorrow." Ruby frowns but nods and goes back to the party, leaving Ironwood to stay. And thus began the most nervous soliloquy I have ever had the misfortune to sit through. "This kind of marking only comes out of dust, and even then never in rounds. This queen that Qrow told us about is said to use dust attacks but only fire based ones. Could she have another accomplice? Whatever the case I can't rest until I have the answers." And with that he leaves.
Damien told us all about this "Queen." I think I'll go and see her for myself. And after I was complete sure that Ironwood wasn't there I left and mingled with the people dancing until I got to the pair I was looking for. "Mind if I but in?" I ask Mercury. He frowns before turning to his partner. The woman who was without a doubt the woman I had just shocked nodded and we got in our positions with her leading. "Well I must say it is a surprise to see you here. Normally if you commit a crime it's not a good idea to stay near the scene of the crime."
She just smiled. "But that is why I am. Doing the unexpected can draw suspicion away from you, Andrea." I freeze up, shocked that she knows my name. "What? Surprised that I know your name? Well you shouldn't be you were the one who told it to me." I couldn't remember that, but it had to be true. How? "Oh and one more thing," she says as she leans closer to me. "Your old master says hi." And she turns to go leaving me standing there shocked and on the verge of a panic attack. This is a problem.
And I know just who'd be able to fix it.
And that's a wrap. Now things start to separate from the main story line. It'll still be awhile until I go completely off script and into the wonderland that is my imagination, but it's coming. I'd like to take a moment and thank you, the reader, and all the other people who have stuck with this story so far. I never expected to get anywhere near this popular so thank you.
And now for the bad news.
I am going on a trip and after that things get busy. So I won't really be able to update for a while, the rest of May at the least. So as usual, follow, fav, and review.
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