Chapter 8:Extracurricular

Weeks later…

Pyrrha was standing there; holding her position, as the members of CRDL came running at her. Eventually, she launched her spear at Dove and then knocked Sky to the ground. Cardin unleashed a short column of fire from the red Dust crystal in his mace before Sky and he attempted to double-team Pyrrha.

Pyrrha threw her shield, which hit Cardin in the face and bounces back to hit Sky as well. She flipped backwards, through the air, to land on Sky, incapacitating him. Dove and Russel rushed her together, but she was able to drive them back as Cardin leaped in to smash at her with his mace.

Pyrrha opens fire with rifle-form Miló, but Russel covered Cardin, deflecting every shot with his daggers. He and Dove charged at Pyrrha, with Russel leaping into the air and performing a triple somersault; however, the attack is easily deflected. Russel and Dove proceed to strike at Pyrrha together, demonstrating precision through their ability to avoid hitting one another during the attack. Cardin attempts to capitalize on the distraction, but is unable to keep up with Pyrrha. Russel ducks in under Cardin for a surprise attack, but also proves himself unable to wear her down.

Dove moved in after Russel was knocked to the ground. After a couple of deflected swipes, he fired, with his sword, but she is able to bull right through using her shield. Although he was able to avoid her attack, Dove finds himself knocked out of the fight by an errant swing from Cardin, who moves in for one final assault. Pyrrha knocked Cardin into the air and then leaped to slam him into the ground, ending the match.

"And that's the match," Glynda said, approaching from behind Cardin, who was clutching his ribs.

The boy looked up and said "Lucky shot." He collapsed.

"Well done, Miss Nikos," Glynda continued. "You should have no problem qualifying for the tournament."

"Thank you, professor," Pyrrha said, now smiling.

The professor looked at the crowd of students, sitting patiently, and said "Alright, now I know that's a tough act to follow, but we have time for one more sparring match. Any volunteers?" She then looked at one student in particular. "Ms. Belladonna?"

As her name was called, Blake slammed a book she was reading shut, and started wide eyed at the professor.

"You've been rather docile for the past few classes. Why don't you-"

"I'll do it."

She looked to see a hand raised. "Mercury, is it? Well, let's find you an opponent."

"Actually," the grayed-haired boy started. "I wanna fight... her." He then pointed to the Amazonian goddess, making her confused.

"Me?"

"I'm afraid Miss Nikos has just finished the match. I recommend you choose another partner," Glynda said, as Pyrrha intervened.

"No, it's fine! I'd be happy to oblige."

Mercury strutted into the arena, visibly sizing up Pyrrha.

"Who you betting on," Felix whispered to Washington.

"We're not supposed to gamble on our students," Wash said. "But, if we were, I would be putting my money on Ms. Nikos."

Their spar begins when he makes the first attack and is knocked down. Recovering quickly, he deflects an attack and begins trading blows with Pyrrha until she knocks him back with her shield. As he landed, and looked at the red-haired girl, he tilted his head and gave a slight approving nod.

Ruby, who was watching the matched, looked behind to talk to Mercury's partner, Emerald. "Hey, your friend's doing pretty good," Ruby said, smiling as she put her attention towards the match. Emerald gave her a smile, but rolled her eyes when Ruby looked away.

Mercury unleashed a series of powerful strikes. Pyrrha allowed his kick to slam against her forearm, making Mercury give a surprised look. He managed to disarm her, a kick impaling her blade into the ground. As Mercury aimed his foot towards her face, Pyrrha used her Semblance to redirect the direction of Mercury's kick. As she charges him with her shield, he shoots off of it and turns his back to her. Pyrrha tried to rush him again.

"I forfeit," Mercury said to Glynda, making Pyrrha almost stumble next to him.

"You... don't even want to try," Pyrrha asked, sounding surprised.

"What's the point? You're a world-renowned fighter. We're obviously leagues apart."

After Mercury said this, Glynda said "In that case... Pyrrha Nikos is the victor of the match... again. Next time you might want to think a little harder before choosing an opponent."

"I'll be sure to do that."

As the bell ranged, indicating the end of class, Blake jolted awake and started to leave with her team. Before students left, Glynda shouted "That is all for today. And remember, the dance is this weekend. But you all have your first mission on Monday. I will not accept any excuses."

As everyone left, Mercury went up to Emerald and said "Learning is so much fun."

As Team RWB2Y exited the building, they failed to notice Sun, Neptune, and the rest of their team, SSSN. They finally noticed when Sun came running after them, yelling "Hey, Blake!" He grabbed Blake's shoulder, making her stop. "You uh, doing okay?"

Blake shut the book she was reading and said "I'm fine."

"So I hear that there's this dance going on this weekend, and it sounds pretty lame, but you and me, I'm thinking, not as lame, huh?"

"What?"

"The dance! This weekend! You wanna go, or what?"

"I don't have time for a stupid dance. I thought you of all people would get that."

Blake walked past her team, making them all worried. Ruby looked back at Sun, who sank from the rejection.

Blue Team were sitting at one of the cafeteria tables, recovering, and bitching, form the fights.

"Man, that was bullcrap,"Tucker said, holding on to his injured arm.

"Oh, quit being a baby," Tex said.

"Baby?! You literally dislocated my arm! And I thought it was really uncool of you to punch my balls."

"Well, now you know."

"So," Church started. "The, um, dance is coming up this weekend. And seeing that I have a girlfriend, who are you guys taking?"

"That…is a very good question," Tucker said, eying a certain Amazon girl. "Be right back."

As Tucker left to flirt, Church asked Caboose "What about you, Caboose? Do you somehow have a secret crush, or somehow a girl has a crush on you?"

"Well, um, yeah, I kinda do," Caboose said.

"Well, good for you."

"But, the problem is that…I don't know how to ask her."

Pyrrha walked down the courtyard, as she was stopped by an aqua colored student.

"Hey, baby," Tucker said.

"Oh, hello Tucker," Pyrrha said.

"So, you know who I am."

"Um, yes. You kept getting punched by your teammate…in the-"

"Whoawhoawhoa, ok. You don't need to remind me."

"Now, if you excuse me, I need to go back to my dorm."

Before she began to leave, Tucker said "Wait, but I need-"

She ignored him, though, as she noticed her partner. "Oh, Jaune!"

Jaune heard someone yell his name, as he turned to see Pyrrha next to him.

"Oh, Pyrrha," Jaune said. "What's up?"

As the two chatted, Tucker stood there, confused. "What the fuck just happened?"

The rest of Blue Team went back to where they were staying. It was basically two bases, each team having one.

"So, Caboose, who's the lucky girl," Church asked.

"Oh, you don't know her," Caboose began. "Her name is Penny."

"Yeah, of course I don't f- waitwaitwwait! Is this 'Penny' girl the girl you made blush."

"Yes…what does 'blush' mean?"

"Yeah, ok. First thing first is having the courage to ask her out. So, why don't you practice on Tex. She's…feminine enough."

"Hey," Tex yelled.

"Yeah, ok."

As they began, Tucker came into the base and said "Hey guys, something really weird happened."

"Shut up, Tucker," Church said. "We're practicing."

"Umm…Tex," Caboose began.

"Practicing what?"

"Tex, since you haven't hurt me in a while, I think that we should go to the dance together, and hold hands, and I would like to be called your boyfriend…"

"That," Tex said. "Would be great. I am really…happy you said this to me."

"Wait, what," Tucker shouted. "Tex?! When did you break up with Church?! And are you out of your mind!? Why don't you ditch Caboose and be with me!? I will rock your fucking world!"

Tex just stood there, as she looked at Church.

"Hey don't look at me! He's not part of the plan."

She looked back at Tucker and punched him in the face.

"Ow! Son of a bitch!"

As Tucker was punched, Caboose said "Um, yeah. I think I'm going to try my way and not Tucker's."

"You what?" Blake was very angry after what her team told her to do. After going back to their dorm, Blake was told by her team to sit down. She and Yang sat on her bed, while Ruby and Weiss sat on Weiss' bed, and Bill and Legion sitting on the bookshelf.

"We want you to go to the dance," Ruby said again.

"That's ridiculous."

Yang place her hand onto the Faunus's shoulder and said "Blake, we're worried about you. This investigation is starting to mess with your head."

Weiss started to list the things that were wrong with it. "You can't sleep, you hardly eat, and to be honest, your grades have been suffering."

"You think I care about grades? People's lives are at stake!"

"We know," Yang replied. "And we're also trying to figure out what Torchwick is up to."

"But, with the information we gather, we kinda figured out what is happening," Bill said, trying to cheer her up.

"But there's still unanswered questions," Blake stated.

Ruby said "Blake, you won't be able to find anything if you can't even keep your eyes open!"

"All we're asking is that you take it easy for one day," Yang replied.

Weiss then said "It will be fun! Yang, Bill, and I will make sure of it."

"Yeah! We're planning the whole event," Yang said, causing the bed to bounce.

"Excuse me," Blake said.

"Team CFVY's away mission lasted quite longer than expected," Weiss explained.

"A lot longer," Bill added.

"So, the three of us decided to pick up where they left off. And now we can make sure you can have the perfect night," Yang replied.

"And once it's all over, we'll return for our search, rested and ready," Weiss said, smiling.

"So what do ya think," Ruby asked.

After a few moments of silence, Blake angrily said "I think this is a colossal waste of time." She got up and went towards the door. "I'll be in the library."

As she exited the room, Yang sighed. "Great."

"She can't keep going like this," Weiss stated.

"We'll figure something out," Bill said.

"Sir" Legion started. "It's time for are weekly training session."

"Whelp, time to go." He turned around, opened the window, and said "Legion, stay her and make the popcorn."

"Yes,sir!"

"See ya guy's later!"

As Bill climbed up, the rest of the team heard a knock at the door. Weiss went up to it and opened it. She was surprised by the sight. Ruby, Yang, and Legion heard a guitar noise and started to investigate.

"What's going o-oh," Legion said.

Jaune was in front of the door, with a guitar in his arms. "Weiss," he sang, winking at the heiress. Her response was to slam the door in his face. As she did this, Weiss heard the boy's pleads. "Oh, come on, open the door! I promise not to sing." After thinking about it, she opened the door, but was met with more singing.

"I lied! Weiss Schu-nee, will you accompany me, to the dance on... Sunday!"

"Are you done," Weiss asked.

"Yes?"

"No." She shut the door once more, looking back at her team, who were staring at her. "What?"

The sisters were standing on the side of the bottom beds, standing on the side of the bottom beds, as Yang said "And that is why they call you the Ice Queen." Ruby saw her predicament, and collapsed.

"Why are you guys disappointed in me? You already know that I'm interested in someone else!"

"Yeah, but you could've let him down more...gently."

"He'll find someone else for the dance. Besides, I already have a date."

Ruby stood up and said "Date or no date, none of this will matter if we can't get Blake to go."

On the roof of the building, Pyrrha and Jaune were sparring, with Jaune having the upper hand. This ended as Pyrrha swept his legs out from under him.

As he was defeated, Pyrrha laughed and said "Well done! Your swordplay's improved immensely."

"I couldn't have done it without you," Jaune said, as Pyrrha helped him up.

"What do you think, Bill," Pyrrha asked.

Bill and Legion were sitting on the crate, watching the spar while eating popcorn.

"Eh, better than last time," Bill said.

She looked back at her partner and said "So, are you ready to move on to Aura?"

"I'm actually thinking that maybe we skip Aura for tonight," Jaune said. "Might go on a jog or something."

"Come on, I know you get frustrated. But you must keep trying. I'm sure you'll discover your Semblance any day now."

"That's not it. It's just... It's dumb."

"What is it?" She approached the blonde boy and said "Jaune, you know you can tell me."

Before he told her his problem, he noticed Bill and Legion gesturing their body, telling him 'no'."

Jaune ignored him and confessed his problems. "It's... Weiss."

This made Pyrrha's face fall, as she said "Oh. What about her?"

"I asked her to the dance and she shot me down. Heh. Big surprise, right?

"Well, I believe the saying goes: There's... plenty of fish in the sea."

"That's easy for you to say. You've probably got guys clamoring over each other just to ask you out."

She laughed half-heartedly. "You'd be surprised."

"Oh please. If you don't get a date to the dance, I'll wear a dress. Heh."

As Jaune entered the building, Pyrrha's smiled felled, and she looked upset.

"That dense motherf-"

"Not now Legion," Bill muttered.

"And finally, Pyrrha Nikos," Emerald said, using her Scroll for the list.

The three were in their dorms, as Mercury, reading the same book he stole, and Emerald were on the floor while Cinder was on a bed, sewing a black dress.

"Ah, the invincible girl."

"She's smart, but I wouldn't say invincible," Mercury said, still reading.

"Do tell."

"Her semblance is Polarity. But you'd never know just by watching," Emerald added.

Mercury stopped reading and said "After she made contact with my boots, she was able to move them around however she wanted. But she only made slight adjustments."

"Just enough to make it look like she's untouchable. She doesn't broadcast her power, so it puts her opponent at a disadvantage."

Cinder, still sewing, said "Hmm... People assume that she's fated for victory, when she's really taking fate into her own hands. Interesting. Add her to the list."

As Emerald did so, Mercury said "You should be able to take her no problem."

"It's not about overpowering an enemy. It's about taking away what power they have. And we will, in time."

Mercury lay back down and groaned. "I hate waiting."

"Don't worry, Mercury. We have a fun weekend ahead of us."