Chapter 18
Night had fallen on Vale and all the lights a Beacon were off, all except the main hall. Every student and teacher were taking seats in the hall. The stage were the students finished their initiations was redecorated to look colorful and fun. The stage had red curtains on it to signify that a show was about to start. Once everyone had taken their seats, Ozpin stepped onto the stage and faced everyone.
"Good evening everyone." He started, "Tonight, one of our students is going to perform for all of you. To most of you he is a total stranger, to some he is a friend, to Vale he is a hero. So, without further ado, allow me to welcome to the stage, Theodore Constantine."
Ozpin said that last part while gesturing to his left. The lights focused on big puff of black smoke. When the smoke cleared, Theodore stood smiling and waving at everyone in a black and white tuxedo complete with a top hat. The crowed clapped and cheered at seeing this feat. Theodore walked up to Ozpin and shook his hand. The headmaster smiled and then walked off the stage. Everyone finally calmed down so that the young magician could speak.
"Hello everyone!" he said, "I am so happy to see so many faces here tonight. I've got plenty of magic tricks instore for you guys to see, but for my first trick I need a volunteer. Does anyone want to be part of this magic trick?"
Lots of students, mostly girls, raised their hands at the request. Theodore was having a hard time picking so he came up with an idea. He pulled a dice from his pocket and held it in his right hand.
"I'm going to throw this dice to you guys!" he stated, "Whoever catches it will be the one to be apart of this magic trick!"
He casually threw the dice and watched it fly. Lots of girls reached for the dice but missed. It landed in the hands of Blake. She had a surprised look on her face at the predicament. She was hoping to not go up on stage, but nevertheless showed that she caught the dice.
"Ah, Miss Belladonna!" Theodore shouted, "Please, come on up!"
Blake slowly made her way to the stage and stood in front of Theodore with a partial smile on her face. Theodore once again reached into his pocket and pulled a deck of cards out and held them in his right hand.
"In my hand is a deck of cards." He said, "Now, you are going to pick a card and not show is to me. Once you have memorized your card, please put it back in the deck. I will shuffle the deck and see if I found the right card, OK?"
"OK." Blake replied. She picked a card from the deck, looked at it, memorized it, and placed it back without showing Theodore. The magician then proceeded to shuffle the deck with out looking to everyone's amazement, even Blake's. About ten seconds of shuffling he stopped. Theodore then looked a Blake.
"Your card was the queen of spades, right?" he said aloud which earned him a surprised look from Blake.
"Y-yes." She answered causing the crowd to gasp in shock.
"I got it right, but I just can't seem to find it in the deck." While he was still looking, Blake's right human ear felt clogged, so she was using her pinkie finger to try and unclog it. Theodore looked up at her and said, "Oh wait! I remember where it is!"
He then reached over with his left hand and pulled the queen of spades card out of Blake's ear. The disguised Faunus had a look of surprise on her face while everyone just started to clap and cheer. Blake eventually also started to clap with a smile on her face. Theodore then helped her down the stage and back to her seat.
"What kind of a lame trick was that?!" someone in the crowed shouted. Theodore didn't have to ask who said that. He already knew it was Cardin. Turning to where he could see Cardin he shouted to him.
"Since you doubt what I can do Cardin, you can be the volunteer for my next trick." Theodore said. Cardin walked up to the stage with a smirk on his face. Theodore joined on the stage and snapped his fingers. In a puff of blue smoke, a table with a 6'5" box with three compartments and 2.5' saw on it appeared.
"My next trick will be cutting you into three pieces." Theodore stated, "Your head in the top, torso with arms in the middle, and legs in the bottom. Is there anyone in the audience who think that I can't do it?!"
Only three people raised their hands and that was the rest of team CRDL. Theodore then gestured for Cardin to lay in the box. The bully complied and laid himself inside. Theodore then closed the lids and put the locks in place. He then grabbed the saw and started sawing in different sections. Once he was finished he separated the three parts and put them upright on the table. Theodore then opened the doors of each compartment and everyone gasped to see Cardin's head in one, his torso with arms in the middle, and legs at the end.
"What?" Cardin asked to everyone while trying to look around, which was difficult because his head was in the box, "What are you looking at?! I told you he couldn't do it. His tricks are nothing but- "
Cardin didn't get to finish as he felt the box he was in move. He saw both his legs and torso in the other two boxes. His face turned pale at seeing that he was literally in three pieces. Theodore then casually waved his hand and Cardin just vanished getting a surprised gasp from the crowd. Cardin then reappeared in one piece. He started to hug himself, which caused the whole crowd to laugh. The bully quietly marched off the stage with an angry look on his face.
"Now that I have proven the unbeliever wrong," Theodore stated, "who else like to be part of my next trick?"
A lot of people raised their hands at the request. The young magician did the same routine and threw a block of dice into the crowd. This time, it landed into the hands of Ruby Rose who had a smile on her face. She immediately ran up to the stage at full speed, rose petals trailing behind her. She stopped just a few feet in front of Theodore with excitement written all over her face.
"Someone is excited." Theodore said with a smile, "Good evening Miss Rose. Are you ready to participate in this trick?"
"YES! YES! YES!" Ruby screamed with joy.
"Okay. Okay. By the way, did I mention this was a duo participant trick?" Theodore asked while snapping his fingers. In the next moment, Yang appeared in a yellow puff of smoke with surprise written all over her face. The crowd was shocked at what they saw, especially the rest of Team RWBY. Yang had been in her seat one minute and the next she was up on stage.
"Not that I don't mind being part of a magic show," Yang said, "but why am I up here?"
"Because you and your little sister are going to help in this trick." Theodore said while holding his hands out with a napkin on each, "Hidden under each napkin is an object that is part of the trick. You and your sister will remove the napkin, hold each item, and apply both to see what happens."
Yang and Ruby looked at each other with puzzled looks before looking back at Theodore with looks of determination. Ruby reached for Theodore's right hand while Yang reached for his left. Both girls removed the napkins from his hands and saw the objects. In Theodore's left were two small seed and in his right were two small glasses of water.
"I'm guessing you both figured out what to do?" Theodore asked with an encouraging tone. Ruby and Yang both nodded at him with smiles on their faces. Both girls took a cup and seed in one hand each. Once they had, Ruby and Yang placed the seeds in the cups at the same time. When the seeds reached the bottoms of the cups, yellow and red smoke exploded at the same time. When the smoke cleared, instead of cups with water and seeds in them, the two sisters were holding a bouquet of flowers in their hands. Yang had yellow lily's while Ruby was holding red roses. Both girls had surprised looks on their faces while the crowd was cheering and clapping like crazy.
"Weren't expecting that were you?" Theodore asked with a smile. Ruby and Yang just shook their heads. They were about to walk off the stage when the young magician stopped them with a raised hand. He bent down and picked up a red rose from the floor of the stage. Ruby realized she mush have dropped it while she was turning to walk off stage. She was expecting Theodore to place the rose with the others but was surprised to see him place the flower in her hair.
"You're just like the flower. A beautiful rose." Theodore commented to Ruby. This caused the young huntress in training to blush and hide her face behind the roses. Her older sister, however, gave Theodore a menacing look with her eyes turning from iliac to red. Theodore raised his hands in a surrendering matter saying, 'It was just a compliment.' This caused the crowd to laugh, even Yang laughed. Both sisters walked off the stage with their flowers and smiles on their faces.
"Okay. Now that the awkward situation is over," Theodore addressed the crowd making everyone laugh again, "I can move on to my next trick. For this one, however, I'll need a whole team. Do I have any volunteers?"
More hands were raised at the question. Theodore looked around the room while holding his right hand up while pointing his fore finger at the ceiling.
"All right. I choose," Theodore said, bringing his hand down, pointing at a familiar team, "Team JNPR!"
Hearing their team name called, JNPR walked up onto the stage with smiles on their faces. Theodore turned to them with a box of eggs in his hands.
"I want each of you to take two eggs." He told them, "When you do, I will take off my hat. I want you to place the eggs in the hat, and out of the hat will come a surprise. Understand?"
Team JNPR nodded their heads in understanding. Each of them took two eggs as they were told. Once they had the eggs in their hands, Theodore removed his hat and held it to them in his right hand, with the opening facing up. All four members put the eggs in the hat one person at a time, in the order of Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora. Once the eggs were in, Theodore waved his left hand over it five times and then did something unexpected. He raised his right hand, made it a fist, and drove it into the hat, crushing the eggs.
Everyone heard the crunching sounds and thought the worst. That Theodore had messed up on his trick. They got a shock, though, when the young magician pulled his hand out. Instead of broken eggs on his hand, he held a 5x1 ft. claymore sword in his hand causing everyone to gasp, even Team JNPR. He then handed the sword to Jaune while saying 'This is for you.' The knight reached for the hilt of the sword and grabbed it. Once Theodore let go, the weight of the weapon, being 130 lb., nearly made Jaune fall on his face. Everyone laughed at what happened, even the rest of Team JNPR. Once Jaune got a firm grip, he hoisted the sword over his shoulder and walked off the stage, back to his seat with the rest of the team following. Before he left, he said a small 'Thank you' to Theodore. Everyone clapped once again after seeing the feat.
"Surprises can happen in the most unexpected ways." Theodore said to the crowd while putting his hat back on his head.
Theodore did many more tricks for the next hour, getting many more applause from the crowd. After his next trick, he pulled the sleeve on his left arm to look at his watch. After seeing the time, he addressed the crowd.
"Everyone, I'm sorry to say but it is time for the show to end." Theodore said, earning a sad 'aww' from the crowd, "I know. It's sad, but before I exit the stage, I would like to do one final trick for you all."
Theodore started to wave his hand that emitted a blue glow. A thousand small lights that looked like fireflies started flying around at very fast speeds. They then came into one location, over Theodore's head. Those lights created an image of Beacon academy for ten seconds before erupting into miniature fireworks.
Everyone clapped and cheered at this amazing feat. Theodore took one more bow before taking a long cloth and waving it around himself. The cloth fell to the floor and the young magician had vanished. Once the cheering and clapping had died down everyone left their seats and started for their dorms, wondering where the young magician had vanished to.
Theodore walked alone to his dorm with his hat in his left hand. He was just about to open his door when he heard a voice.
"Your show was very impressive." Said the voice of Professor Ozpin. Theodore turned to see the headmaster with a smile on his face. "My favorite was when you did the card trick on Miss Belladonna. I seen many versions of that trick, but never done with real magic. Tell me, how did you get all of those lights into the room?"
"A good magician never reveals his secrets. Good night, Professor." Theodore replied with a smile of his own. He then entered his room to turn in for the night.