Notes: I don't have a lot to say about this chapter other than if you have not been readying Penny and the Tin Man lately now may be a good time to start.
Knight in Cail
The sound of glass slamming against wood rings out through the bar of the busy dance club as Cail the Snail Girl sets down her now empty drinking glass. "Another kind sir!"
Junior gases over the girl with his arms folded and a troubled expression painted on his face. "Cail that's your third glass and you haven't answered a single one of my questions. You know you can trust me right?"
Cail shifts in her seat and seems to find new interest in her empty glass. "Oh come on you know I become a lot more talkative once I get my fourth drink in me. Besides I don't recall you telling me what I want to hear ether."
"What would be the point? You probably already know everything I know about them and it's next to nothing to begin with."
Cail chuckles slightly and leans back into her seat. "If that were true I would have already been on my way but. I know there is still something you are holding back. Something you are desperately trying not to think about. It makes me really want to know what it is."
"Forget it Cail! I know your tricks and this is one I am holding onto."
"Stingy aren't we?" Cail pouted before throwing her arms up in the air and shouting. "Fine then how about we trade!? I will let you in on what I am up too and you give me the information your hiding. Just don't complain to me if you don't like it."
"Fine but I am not going first." Junior says leaning over the bar.
"We can go at the same time then. All we got to do is shake on it." Cail says before extending her hand out in front of the Junior.
"Fine!" Junior then extends his hand out to grasp Cail's. The moment their hands meet Cail's aura lights up and Junior quickly jumps backward breaking their contact. "Ahh what was that just now!?" Junior says before he feels a sharp pain in his head which was soon followed by a flood of memories. Some were his own but the rest were new, they belonged to the snail girl. "I see you have learned a few new tricks Cail. I got to say I didn't think you would be working for that man. If the white fang catches on to you, they will kill you."
Cail's face is seemingly split in two by a massive grin. "Your information was very interesting as well Junior. I didn't think there would be such a big fish so close to home. I guess I will be able to spend more time with my hubby after all." Cail quickly turns and hops off her chair. "As for the whole them killing me thing, well they can try."
"Well good luck to you Cail and remember me and you never spoke got me?"
"Ya whatever man you sound like my classmates." Cail said waving him off. Then suddenly a loud scream erupted from the back of the club followed by the sound of a cheering crowd. Cail looks back towards the crowd that had gathered for the arm wrestling competition and notices her teammates leading a very angry Cardin away. Cardin was gripping his arm like it was in pain. Cail quickly rushed over to see what had happened. "Oh my Cardin are you alright? What happened to you?"
"Numb nuts over here got the idea to challenge the winner." Robin said in between chuckles. "Oh what was the line you said again? Oh I remember "There is no way a woman is stronger than me!" ha ha ha oh man that was great."
"Oh shut it you bitch she got lucky."
"Sure she did carrot top and I am the Queen of England."
"England? Never heard of the place." Cardin retorted.
"Ya nether of I. How about you Ursy?" Sophia cut in.
Ursula placed a hand on her chin and look like she was in deep thought for a moment. "I think it was a powerful country that existed before the four major kingdoms were established. It lost most of its population to grimm attacks and collapsed."
"You know we could have gone without the history lessen Ursula." Robin stated.
Cail cleared her throat to get their attention."Gees guys I leave you alone with Cardin for a moment and you go and break him. There is still a lot I want to do with him tonight!" Cail shouts throwing her arms up in the air in annoyance.
"Oh would you relax Cail! It's not even broken, it just got dislocated!" Robin shouts as she grabs hold of Cardin's arm and forces it back into its socket.
"Ouch! Why you I am going to…" Cardin pulls back his fist for a punch but stops when he realizes his arm is feeling a lot better now. "Oh hey that's not bad thanks Goth girl."
"I am not Goth I am Punk get it right!"
"Sure whatever you say. Now then you said you had a few other plans? I have kind of had it with this place." Cardin says as he turns toward Cail.
"Ya I came up with a few things we can do tonight in case I got board with something." Cail reached inside her hand bag and pulled out a piece of paper covered in what appeared to be words but. Decoding Cail's chicken scratch is only a select few can do. And some times Cail herself does not fall into that category. "Oh crap I was half asleep when I was writing this! Well whatever." Cail crumpled up the paper and chucked it aside. "I already know one thing I really want to do."
"What's that? Cardin said fighting back a laugh.
"We came all this way and we didn't even have a dance! No way am I leaving before we do!" Cail shouted as she grabbed onto Cardin's arm and dragged him onto the dance floor.
"Fine but I get to choose the next place you hear me!?"
Cail smiled back at him. "You got it big guy. Now lets buggy!"
Cail's teammates were standing right outside the dance floor watching Cail and Cardin dance. "Wow Cail really sucks at dancing huh?" Robin inquired.
"Well the girl does have two left feet." Ursula chuckled.
"True but it looks like she has having fun right?" Sophia interjected.
"Ya it does… Hey have ether of you two ever seen Cail have fun? I mean without anyone getting hurt? Robin inquired.
Both Ursula and Sophia shrugged. "I guess those two really do make a good match after all." Ursula added.
Then another voice cut in from the side. "Hey guys what are you standing around for?!"
All three of the girls turned to face the voice and there stud Yang Xiao Long wearing a black and white suit and with her long blond hair pulled back into a pony tail. They all seemed to speak in sync with each other. "Hey Yang! Thanks again for the invite! By the way nice going in that arm wrestling competition!"
"Ya that was nothing special. Coco is a tuff nut to crack but no match for these guns." Yang gloated while flexing her arms. Which cause the three girls to each give her a strange look. "Ha ha ha… Anyway why are you guys standing around you should be dancing or… Hey how about we do some shots!? Junior get some shots ready their on me!" The three girls each shrugged and walked over to the bar to join Yang.
A few shots later Yang looked over at the dancing snail girl. "So Cail decided to come huh? You guys talk about her all the time but I rarely ever see her."
"Well she rarely ever bothers with classes or practice and she gets injured all the time so spends a lot of time in the off campus hospital." Ursula explains.
"Ya and she does not like to talk about her self ether." Sophia continues.
"That's right and when you finally do get manage to get her talking all she seems to do is ask questions without giving you time to answer them." Robin adds.
"What she does that to everyone?" Yang inquires.
"Yes has she quizzed you as well?" Ursula asks.
"Ya it was right after a sparing match I had, she seemed very interested in my semblance for some reason."
"Ha there is no surprise there, not if you ask me at least! Cail is a masochist after all. I bet a semblance that makes you stronger as you get hurt sounds like a dream."
"You think so Robin?" Yang looks like she is deep in though for a moment. "Hey what is Cail's semblance anyway?"
The group just looks at one another and shakes their heads. "We have no idea. Like we mentioned Cail never talks about herself. We don't know her semblance, her last name, or even what school she attended before coming to Beacon." Sophia states.
"What that's crazy!? Surely you would have heard her last name come up in role call right!?"
"Well we don't share a lot of classes with Cail and she tends to skip many of them. When we finally do get a class together the professor seems to ignore her." Sophia continued.
"Wow that seems kind of sad." Yang says with frown on her face.
"I doubt that Cail sees it that way." Robin chimed in.
Ursula cleared her throat before speaking. "Anyway if you are so interested in Cail maybe you should just go over and talk to her yourself Yang."
"You know what your right I mean she is right over… there.." Yang looked around the dance floor but Cail and Cardin were no were in sight.
Robin chuckled slightly. "I guess they got bored with dancing."
Two figures step out of the nightclub one griping his large chest and chuckling and the other biting her lip and foaming with anger. The large boy turns toward the foaming girl and begins to speak. "Gees you are a bad dancer! I didn't think it was possible be that bad but don't worry everyone's bad at something right."
The girl's anger seems to fade slightly. "Kind of like how you are bad at puzzles, tests, and keeping your anger under control."
"Why you little! I was trying to…"
A grin appears on Cail's face. "See what I mean? Also ya I know you were trying to make me feel better, thank. Though I am not ashamed for I am the greatest huntress in training alive as well as a fairly good singer."
Cardin raised an eyebrow. "Cail you can sing?"
"Well not as well as Ursula but I use to perform when I was young." Cail said proudly.
"I think I would like to see that." Cardin said while trying to imagine Cail singing on stage.
Cail's grin became wider. "Alright I guess that makes are next stop karaoke!"
"Wait does that mean I have to sing as well!?" Cardin said in a panic.
"Of course it does Cardin dear. It wouldn't be fair if only one of sang after all right?" Cail quickly grabbed hold of Cardin's and am rushed off.
The busy night at Junior's club was slowing down and he notices a new customer walk up to the bar and take a seat. "Can I get you anything missy?"
The girl was a white haired rabbit faunus with pale skin. She looked up from the pocket watch she seemed to be focused on. "No thanks I am just waiting on somebody. She should be here shortly."
"Alright just let me know if you decide to get anything."
A few moments later the pair of Cardin and Cail rushes in through the doors. Cardin looks around for a moment before turning toward Cail and opening his mouth. "I can't believe you forgot your bag."
"Ya well I had a few tonight alright!" Cail retorts before she spots Yang wiping down a table in the middle of the club. She quickly runs over to her. "Yang have you seen my bag!? I think I forgot it here earlier."
"Oh Cail ya we tried to call you but released your scroll was in the bag so we just decided to let the girls take it back home with them."
"Well that's good, at least we know it was not stolen." Cardin says.
Cail sighs in relief before speaking. "Ya I had a lot of my favorite stuff in there."
Then a new voice cut in from behind the group. "Hello Cail you're right on time."
Cail instantly stiffens before slowly turning her head to face the source of the voice. Cardin notices that Cail seems to go white as a ghost when she sees the white rabbit faunus before them. "Hey who the heck are you!?" Cardin shouts.
"Oh just an old friend of Cail's, we go way back don't we?"
Cail seems to choke out the following words. "Alas what are you doing here!?"
"You already know why I am here Cail. I am here to bring you back."
Cail's brows narrow. "Alas how about we talk outside in privet?"
"Sure Cail why don't you lead the way." Alas says motioning toward the doors.
The pair quickly proceeded out the doors of the club and Cardin and Yang are left to one question. "What the heck was that out!?