update: First chapter has been updated with minor improvements.
So here is another chapter.
"What do you want me to do?"
"..."
"There is none left."
"..."
At the back of a store there was a man having a one sided argument with a silent girl. The man wore a grey and black jacket with black pants. He had grey hair. His name was Mercury.
The girl wore a brown hoodie with brown sweat pants. The hood was pulled up to hide her pink and brown hair. Her name was Neo.
"Look Neo we have been to twenty three different stores and none of them have what you are looking for." Mercury said while he had his hand placed on his forehead.
Neo just stood there with her arms crossed and glared at him.
"I will buy you any other kind of ice cream that you want and as much of it as you want but not the pumpkin Pete's. there is no more left in all of Vale and there is nothing I can do about it."
Neo responded to this by lowering her arms to her side and tilting her head down to hide her face from Mercury.
"I'm sorry, okay Ne-" Mercury stopped when he saw Neo's face. Her sad pouting face with her hands clasped together just under her chin.
"Neo please." Mercury begged.
Neo continued to pout.
"There is nothing I can do, literally nothing I can do."
Neo didn't stop.
"You can't find it in the stores, you can't find it online you can't even find it on the black market!"
Neo pouting intensifies.
Mercury couldn't take much more of this. His legs felt weak and were shaking. "Is this how I die?" Mercury asked himself. He thought he was done for until he heard a voice from a familiar someone standing by one of the freezers.
"Wow, out here too I guess."
The voice caught Neo's attention and she stopped her pouting to look in the direction of the voice. When she saw who it was she quickly walked up to him and tugged at his right sleeve with a smile on her face.
Mercury thought that this would have been a perfect time to escape but his legs still felt too weak to really move fast enough to get away from the crazed ice cream girl. He was also kind of curious as to why Neo was happy to see this very familiar guy with messy blonde hair.
"Wait, isn't that the guy with the onesie?" Mercury thought to himself.
"Yeah, that's Jaune Arc." Mercury confirmed to himself.
Jaune noticed the tugging on his sleeve and looked down to see the short girl he had just met the other day.
"Hey... You. Sorry, I didn't get your name the other day." Jaune said sheepishly.
Neo's smile faltered a little but quickly returned when she looked back at Mercury and gestured for him to come over to her.
Mercury did just that and stood next to Neo not sure what she wanted him to do. All three stood there for about thirty seconds until Neo got annoyed and finally kicked Mercury and Neo then pointed at herself and then at Jaune.
"Ow! What was that fo- oh." Mercury realized that Neo wanted him to tell Jaune her name.
"Her name is Neo" Mercury stated.
"Ah, nice to finally know your name." Jaune said while shaking Neo's hand.
The silence only lasted about five seconds this time before Neo kicked Mercury again and pointed at him and then at Jaune.
"Stop that!" Mercury cleared his throat before introducing himself. "My name is Mercury Black, nice to meet you." Mercury said sarcastically.
"Nice to meet you to, I'm Jaune Arc." Jaune held out his hand for Mercury to shake and while Mercury hesitated he did shake hands with Jaune.
"So, what are you two doing here?" Jaune asks Neo and Mercury.
Mercury points a finger at Neo and says. "She has been dragging me all over Vale looking for Pumpkin Pete's ice cream."
"I can't find any either. How many stores have you been to?"
"Twenty three."
Jaune whistles at Mercury's answer. "Wow, it must have been really popular."
"Yeah, tell me about it."
While Mercury and Jaune were talking Neo pulled out her scroll and tried to look up again whether or not you could order Pumpkin Pete's ice cream online. When she saw that she still couldn't but she did find out where she could get some and she knew that Mercury would not go for the idea but there was a certain blonde knight that might.
Jaune felt something tug at his sleeve and when he looked down he saw Neo holding up her scroll and pointing at it. Jaune took the scroll and read what was on it.
Momo and Nana's corner store, Pumpkin Pete's ice cream in stock and on sale for only 7.99!
Jaune looked at Neo questioningly. "Neo, that store is in the next town which is like thirty miles away."
Neo looked at Jaune and again started pouting.
Mercury had to look away. "Jaune no!" He thought Jaune was a goner until Jaune spoke.
"You can pout all you want but I'm not taking you to that store". Jaune said calmly.
This shocked Neo and made her stop pouting. This also shocked Mercury and he looked back at Neo and Jaune to see a shocked Neo.
Mercury had to know. "How did you?"
"I come from a family with seven sisters and they all know how to give someone "The look" so I figured out how to resist it".
Mercury grabbed Jaune by the shoulders, looked him in the eyes and demanded. "TEACH ME!"
Jaune slowly removed Mercury's hands from his shoulders. "I will teach you apprentice but first, she needs some ice cream."
Mercury looks at a no longer shocked but disappointed Neo. He then leans over to whisper into Jaune's hear. "But, there is no more of that ice cream."
Jaune then whispered into Mercury's ear. "I have something back at my dorm that might help."
Neo must have heard him because she was right beside Jaune in an instant smiling and hopping up and down excitedly.
"Sorry, I forgot to ask if you were okay with going to beacon for a little while." Jaune said as he scratched the back of his head nervously.
Neo continued to hop.
"I'll take that as a yes."
Hopping Neo.
"Okay then. Let me just make a quick call and we're also going to need to pick up a few things then we can head off to Beacon." Jaune pulled out his scroll and went outside to make a scroll call.
Mercury turned to Neo and asked. "Are you nuts?!"
Neo's hop started to slow down and she tilted her head looking at Mercury with a questioning look.
"Weren't there people who have seen you with Roman?"
"...?"
"You know, four girls."
"...?"
"*Sigh* Girl with a red hood, one with white hair, one with a black bow and one with rather noticeable um... gauntlets."
"...!"
"There you go."
Neo forgot about those girls. She started to panic a little until she got an idea. Neo pulled back her hood to reveal her hair being completely dark brown instead of a mix of pink and brown.
"You really think that will keep them from recognizing you?" Mercury asked.
Neo just shrugged and pulled her hood back up.
"You really are nuts. Like ice cream with nuts, right?"
Jaune walked back into the store to see Neo waving and smiling innocently at him while Mercury was on the floor with his arms covering his stomach.
Jaune decided not to ask.
"Okay, before we go we need to pick up a few things."
Neo nodded and skipped over to Jaune while Mercury got up slowly.
On their way to Jaune's dorm carrying a few bags of items picked up from the store. Neo kept her hood up and head down to hide her face. Jaune didn't think much of this though, he figured she was just shy.
They entered the dorm room and found it empty. On the bed to the far left was a box. Jaune had everyone set their bags down on the floor while he opened up the box.
In the box was one Winter Weiss cream ice cream maker. Jaune then proceeded to add the ingredients to the machine. Some milk, sugar, whipping cream, vanilla extract and finally he opened a box of Pumpkin Pete's cereal and poured some of it into the machine. Jaune then plugged the machine in and turned it on.
"Now we wait." Jaune said proudly with his hands on his hips.
Jaune turned around to see Mercury sitting on the next bed over with his head in his hands while Neo was gone... gone? He turned around again to see Neo kneeling in front of the bed staring at the ice cream maker.
"So, what're we going to do for like the next two hours?" Mercury asked slightly annoyed.
Jaune walked over to Mercury and placed a hand on his shoulder. "We begin your training."
Mercury removed his face from his hands with a wide grin. "Yes, sensei."
"Alrighty then. I have a friend coming over to help with your training." At that moment there was a knock on the door.
"That must be her." Jaune went over and opened the door to reveal a girl wearing a red cloak.
Mercury's eyes widened in shock before he looked over at Neo who was still staring at the ice cream machine with her hood still up.
"Hey Jaune."
"Hey Ruby, Thanks for coming."
Jaune went over to the study desk and picked up the plate of chocolate chip cookies and he looked at Mercury trying to hold back his smile.
"Your training begins."
Mercury's only response was a loud gulp.
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Also for the record I have no idea how an ice cream maker works.