Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY. I just watch it like crazy on Netflix, YouTube, and where ever else I can.
Just One Date
Volume 3
By: athrunzala
Chapter 15: One Last Date, Part 1
With their vacations drawing to a close, students were returning to Beacon Academy. In the midst of all of this, Team RWBY and Team JNPR were looking at their last year at Beacon. When this year ended, they would go their separate ways. None of them wanted this to happen at all.
"So… Ruby. What are your plans for after graduation?"
Blake was looking at their leader curiously. She and Weiss had been unusually quiet since their return. And, while she was used to some quiet, the couple's silence was almost unnatural.
"I really don't know. I just thought I'd travel for a bit. See the world, you know?"
The female Faunus smiled and nodded. She was just looking forward to being able to relax for a little bit, despite her knowledge that, as a Huntress, she would have to accept deployment orders from people. She had figured on just staying in a residence dormitory on campus and furthering her skills past what was normally taught.
Yang had already decided to move to Mistral with Neptune. Ren and Nora were tight lipped about their plans, which was unusual for the bouncier woman. Sun was just going to do the same as Ruby, except he was going to make Beacon his home base now. He actually considered becoming an instructor. Jaune and Pyrrha had wandered away from the group and were, as a result, immune from the questioning.
"Pyrrha, I know we're graduating and all this year…"
"Jaune, I know. Why don't we stay local?"
"Sta..wha?"
"Jaune, we can stay at the school after graduation, you know that, right?"
"Oh," the blonde's eyes widened slightly.
"So we can do that and not worry about where we will live at. Plus, we could tutor new students."
The blonde looked at his fiancé and smiled. Every day, he was reminded of why he wouldn't leave her for the world. She had taken a chance on him and he wasn't about to forget it. In fact, it was part of the reason he had started to fall for her in the first place. He had decided to pursue his chances with Weiss as so not to drag her down, however. When he finally got the message that Weiss wanted nothing to do with him after the dance in their second semester, he had firmly decided to be with Pyrrha and nobody else.
They had been walking around the edge of the campus and were walking back when…
"Mr. Arc! Ms. Nikos! Feeling rested?"
They turned around to see Russel Scarlet, Nero's teaching assistant and team mate, rushing towards them.
"Uh… what… uh… how can we help you?"
The taller male ducked behind Jaune before the pair could turn around.
"I swear, I did nothing! It was not me!"
Before they could be confused by his shouting, they saw Coco and Velvet storming towards them.
"Where is he?"
Jaune was about to turn around when he noticed that Russel was making a dust cloud and rushing away from the two women.
Pyrrha put a hand on the female Faunus' shoulder.
"What happened?"
Coco beat her former team mate to the punch.
"He decided to hit on us."
"Exactly. Up to and including grabbing our…" Velvet put a hand out to cover her backside.
Jaune was not thrilled with this. Just as he was about to storm off, Russel came flying back towards them, a volley of gunfire preceding him. As the rust-haired huntsman landed, he opened one eye slightly and smiled nervously.
"Heh heh heh…. Hello again, ladies."
Across the campus, the main group was startled to hear a series of explosions until they saw Fox and Yatsuhashi rushing off in the direction that they had seen Coco and Velvet head earlier. Ruby looked at Weiss.
"Wanna go and see?"
"No way. I'm not going anywhere near that."
"I'm going. Neptune! You coming with?"
The blue haired huntsman looked at his girlfriend.
"You know it!"
The pair then headed off in the direction of the explosions, leaving their companions slightly confused but satisfied that the resident nymphomaniacs weren't around. They had not had a whole lot of quiet over the vacation with them hanging around. Almost every last moment of their waking hours had seemingly been spent having sex, and the rest of Team JNPR and Team RWBY were tired of them hanging all over each other.
As they returned to their dormitories for the start of their last year, everything was going smoothly. Ruby and Weiss almost immediately climbed into their bed to get in some last minute sleep. They had been on a red-eye flight, and were very much exhausted. This gave Blake and Sun a chance to just talk, which they needed.
"So…. Staying on campus after graduation?"
"Yes, I think I will."
The blonde Faunus looked at his girlfriend.
"You… uh… mind if I join you?"
Blake shook her head. She wanted him to be there with her, more than she wanted to graduate.
"Sure. We'll work from here. Sun?"
"Yeah?"
"You wanted to be a teacher, right?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Why not teach here?"
"You mean like here here? At Beacon?"
"Yeah. That way, you don't need to worry about where you are going to be at, you know?"
Sun put his hand behind his head and looked over at her. He then casually reached out a hand and pulled her close.
"Sounds good."
They then kept walking as Blake leaned her head in to rest it on Sun's arm. They would keep on walking until they got back to Sun's dorm room, as he and his team had transferred to Beacon. They entered and cuddled up next to each other on the couch.
Back at the scene of the carnage, Jaune had drawn his weapon. Russel had made a pass at Pyrrha's chest. Even the star athlete had her weapon drawn. There was going to be blood, had Glynda not shown up and stopped the assault of students, graduates, and weapons on the perverse instructor.
"Russel Scarlet. If you would follow me, that would be appreciated. As for the rest of you, I know you have somewhere else to be and other, far more constructive things, to do. So go do them."
The assault party disbanded, with Jaune and Pyrrha continuing their walk, Yang and Neptune tracking down an empty closet for purposes that they knew all too well, and Coco and Velvet walking off to the library, followed closely by Fox and Yatsuhashi.
This left the blonde female and the rusty-haired male alone to talk.
"You can't continue to act like this on campus. You know that, right?"
"I know. But it isn't fun just following the rules all the time, ya know?"
"Russel, I don't want to tell Professor Terra to drop you back off in custody, but I will not hesitate if this behavior continues."
"No need to tell me, Glynda. They're here to collect him."
Russel and Glynda turned around to see Nero walking forward with two members of Vale's finest. Russel shrank back, putting his hands in his pockets, his shoulders drooping.
"Rusty, they aren't here to arrest you. Just take you outside of Vale. You are free to go. You did the time they set."
"Oh."
"Just, do me one favor," Nero said, his eyes narrowing in slight annoyance.
"Anything."
"Don't lead things into town AND stay away from the students. Seriously."
"Sure thing man."
"I swear, if I see you back here before a class reunion for us, there will be hell to pay."
With his warning issued, the swordsman walked off to meet up with Oobleck, as they were supposed to have breakfast together.
Glynda sighed and walked off to Ozpin's office, ready to deliver the report that their guest was gone.
A few hours later, and Jaune was in a heated match with Ren in the sparring arena. Both of them in front of the new freshmen. Ren went in for a shot, and the blonde ducked under it, bringing his shield up and into his opponent's legs, destabilizing him enough to send him tumbling across the floor and into a ring-out.
As the lights returned to their normal levels, Glynda walked forward.
"As you can all see, Mr. Arc has, in fact, won the match, as Mr. Ren is out of the arena."
She walked over to Jaune.
"Well done, Mr. Arc. I see you have been practicing."
Jaune, however, was more concerned about Ren. He walked over and extended his hand to help his team mate up.
"You alright?"
"Jaune, that was fun. Let's do it again some time."
"Sure thing, Ren. We'll do it again. For now though, let's get you off the floor."
Ren reached out his hand in agreement, and he and Jaune then walked out of the room just as the tone signaling the end of the class sounded.
Back in the dorms, Pyrrha, Weiss, and Nora were talking about the upcoming weekend.
"Any plans this weekend?"
"Ren and I are gonna go see a new movie."
Nora was still bouncing on the beds. Despite the passage of time, she was still hyperactive. Pyrrha looked over at Weiss.
"Why do you ask?"
"Well, it's kinda odd, but…"
She went on to explain that it was coming up on Ruby's birthday, and she wanted to throw her a surprise party. This wouldn't be possible without their help, as Ruby was almost inseparable from her fiancé. So they would have to find a way to discuss everything with the heiress without the younger woman knowing it. All they knew was that Ruby would not know what hit her.
To Be Continued…
A.n./ - I like parties. You like parties. Well… these kinds of parties, anyway. Just to give you a better idea of the passage of time in this series:
Volumes 1 and 2 of the ACTUAL canon are what I consider to be one year.
Volume 1 of this was 1 year. (So that takes care of anybody being younger than 16.)
Volume 2 is another year. (Minimum age [Ruby] is 17.)
Most of this Volume was 1 year. (Ruby is 18.)
In the next chapter, expect to see:
The Volume 3 finale.
A party for one character (I suck at those as well, I think).
An announcement about the sequel. Yes. I said sequel.
Expect the chapter to be somewhat shorter as well.