Chapter 6: Come Together, Right Now
Man, getting to write this chapter was incredibly tedious. Not old did my laptop throw a complete hissy-fit, but it's hard drive decided to completely fry itself as well. So, since it would cost an ass-load of cash to just repair everything, I just got a new one and transferred over my files instead. Man, that was annoying. But, at least this one looks cooler. But, enough about me and my petty issues, you're here for a story! So, just remember that I don't own anything I write about, especially RWBY. Now, go forth, and read!
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Some time passed. In fact, enough time had passed that it was time for the members of Teams RWBY and JNPR had to meet up back at the front lobby. In other words, that meant that they had spent roughly three hours at the aquarium already. That was just enough time to see whatever bullshit you wanted to at an aquarium to its fullest. Or at least, that's what Yang thought. After all, how many of them actually had the attention span to stare at a bunch of fish for a long time?
Speaking of Yang Xiao Long, she was strolling down the hallway alongside Blake. She had her fun at the ball pit, but now all Yang wanted was to go back to Beacon. She was sure that Blake felt the same, considering how tired she looked.
Deciding to cheer her girlfriend up, Yang lifted her fish plushie to Blake's face and began to go, "Bloop bloop bloop blorp,".
Blake sighed and her shoulders slumped. Didn't Yang understand that the novelty of her little act had diminished within the first few minutes of doing it? Yet again, it was entirely like Yang to run a joke into the ground. "Yang? Please?" she asked, hoping to get Yang to stop.
Yang gave an incredulous shrug. "Hey babe, I'm just tryin' to light your mood," she explained. Blake shot up her eyebrow at her in response.
"What makes you think I need that?" the cat Faunus drawled out.
"Come on, it's written all over your face. You're tired, I get it," Yang said as she ribbed Blake gently.
If there was another thing to add to the list of things Yang was good at (alongside punching things and having an impressive chest to boot), it was that she possessed an empathy like that of a cool mom. Unfortunately, Yang sometimes went a little overboard with her comfort, like now, for instance. Blake honestly felt like Yang was treating her as if she was five, or some other young age. Brightly colored stuffed animals just didn't work on her.
Sighing, Blake replied, "While the concern is noted, think we can just hurry back to the lobby? The sooner back to Beacon, the better,". Barring the obvious fact that marine life is more interesting to eat than it was to look at, she also wanted to get back in time to work on another chapter for her fan fiction. After all, Blake did like keeping a tight updating schedule. She had fans, damn it, and she wasn't going to deny them smut!
Yang dropped the stuffed fish. "Sure, if you want. Wanna race there?" she asked, her led muscles tensing.
"I'm fine, thank you," Blake quickly responded. Yang felt a little disappointed, but she let her legs relax.
"Okay… we'll just walk then…" she mumbled. She decided to keep regular pace with Blake. At least there was no real hurry for them to get to the lobby.
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Nora was virtually inconsolable after what she witnessed earlier in the day. Even with Ren sitting by her side in the lobby didn't seem to improve her mood. She had gotten attached to Claude the dolphin in the short time she knew it, and now she was having trouble letting it go.
Okay, maybe that isn't the best description of how she was reacting. Instead of 'having trouble letting it go', it was more like 'crying so much that the mixture of mucus and tears made for a good facial moisturizer'. Well, if such a metaphor was a good one, anyway. The point being made here was that Nora was an absolute wreck.
"A-an-and *sniffle* tha-tha b-bow was gonna look good!" Nora sobbed into Ren's arm. By now, the large stain on Ren's shirt was so saturated that he could feel Nora's snot through the thick fabric. Yet again, when you were a friend of Nora's for so long, you just kind of rolled with whatever she doled out on you.
"I'm sure he's in a better place, Nora," soothed Ren. It was a nice thought, anyway. Sure, he could tell her that her dolphin friend was currently being digested by a ravenous sea-beast, but that would just be needlessly cruel. He wasn't heartless, you know.
"R-really?" Nora choked out.
"Yeah. He's probably doing… the dolphin stuff that he likes. Forever," Ren replied. To be honest, he didn't know much about dolphins, except that they were sea dwelling mammals, they seemed friendly, and they tasted good. But, talking about how great Claude would have tasted certainly wouldn't help matters right now.
It was around this point that Blake and Yang walked into the lobby at a relaxed pace. Seeing their acquaintances sitting near the exit on a long bench, Team Bumblebee decided to meet up with them.
"Yo! How's your trip?" Yang asked, before looking at Nora. "Whoa. What's wrong?" she asked Ren.
Ren shifted his gaze around, and then covered Nora's ears. She probably wouldn't react well to him talking directly about the dolphin's death. "We went to the Kraken display. There was a dolphin and… it wasn't a pretty sight," he explained in a low voice.
"D-did the Kraken eat it?" Yang asked, a little shocked. How the hell did she miss out on a great show like that?
Ren nodded and let go of Nora's ears. He hoped that Yang would understand why the two of them were like this, and just let things be. Naturally, he was proven dead wrong when Yang spoke up again.
Unfortunately for all involved parties, Yang couldn't hold back the great pun that clicked in her mind. "I guess that dolphin's sleeping with the fishes!" she blurted out. Then, dropping her plushie and covering her mouth quickly, Yang realized how bad of a situation she had gotten herself into.
Nora let go of Ren and stood up slowly. There was something else in her eyes. It was something that would make a lesser man piss his pants and faint immediately. It was a look that said 'you don' fucked up now'.
"Claude…! CLAUDE! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Nora screamed as she swiftly grabbed Yang by the collar and began to drag her out into the parking lot. As much as Yang tried to struggle against her grip, it was no good. An Angry Nora was a Crazy Strong Nora.
"Fuck! Fuck! Help!" Yang cried out before she was dragged out of the twin glass doors.
Ren and Blake shared a quick, terrified look. When two people like that fought, it was like god damn Ragnarok was happening. But, they had to intervene. They were their partners, after all. So bracing themselves, they followed after the pair.
Hey, at least they might die an honorable death in battle.
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"It was so rad! I mean, how can something that glows in the dark NOT be, am I right?!" Jaune gushed to Ruby.
In an odd stroke of luck, as if it was a contrived coincidence, Jaune and Pyrrha stumbled upon Weiss and Ruby exiting the Kraken exhibit. Judging by the expressions they had, they were disappointed by what they had seen.
"I know! Better than that sleepy ol' Kraken!" Ruby fan-girled. When she and Weiss tried to get a good look at the Kraken, it was asleep at the back of its rocky home. So, all the pair really saw of it was a stray tentacle poking out of the cave's mouth. It was a thoroughly disappointing experience, that much was certain.
While the respective team leaders of RWBY and JNPR were having fangasms over cool sea life, Weiss and Pyrrha were trying to make polite conversation.
"So, what did you like the most here?" Pyrrha asked the heiress.
Weiss had to think a little on that one. She only really looked at exhibits to buy time to find the Kraken exhibit, so she didn't really pay much attention to them. "I… The clown fish, I guess…" Weiss eventually decided. At least their unique coloring stood out easily in her mind.
"Oh… I liked all the plants!" Pyrrha offered without asking.
"Any interesting ones?" Weiss asked back.
"Sure! The kelp was—" Pyrrha began to explain before bumping into Jaune, who had stopped in his tracks. Pyrrha was thrown off balance, and landed on the ground on her rear.
"Oof! Sorry for bumping into you!" apologized Pyrrha as she stood back up. When Jaune gave no reply, she followed his gaze to see an awful sight.
Now Weiss, Ruby, Pyrrha, and Jaunne were greeted by a view of complete carnage outside of the lobby's large windows. Then, they rushed out of the now shattered glass doors to get a better look.
The parking lot looked like it had suffered from heavy shelling. Cars were everywhere, and so were an excessive amount of craters. To their left was the remains of the van they got here in, with some of their weapons scattered on the ground. For some reason, Ren's, Nora's, Blake's, and Yang's were missing from the pile.
Speaking of Yang and Nora, the angry pair was duking it out in the middle of the largest crater. If the others had to guess, there was some kind of argument that spiraled wildly out of control until the both of them resorted to weapons. It was by some stroke of luck that the aquarium wasn't completely vaporized.
Right now, the two were in locked stance. Yang and Nora were straining against the long handle of Magnhild, Nora's hammer/grenade launcher. Yang was trying to block Nora's swing, but it was looking like Nora was overpowering her. Only strained grunts were heard from the pair.
Nora then decided to break the lock by hitting the trigger and launching a grenade. The struggle was broken, and the two combatants were thrown in opposite directions. Yang smashed into a light pole, and Nora altered her trajectory mid-air by firing another grenade. She landed on her feet, then ran over to the crumpled form of Yang.
However, when Nora raised her hammer to deliver the finishing blow on Yang's head, the blonde boxer shot up and quickly jabbed Nora in the stomach. She had only been playing possum, and now was her turn to damage Nora. Tossing the redhead into the air with one hand, Yang waited a brief second for Nora to begin her descent.
But, instead of landing, Yang began to air-juggle Nora with her fists. Her hands moved rapidly, and delivered blow after blow on Nora. Yang screamed her kiai, "ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAROAORAROAORAORAORAORA!" as she unleashed punch after punch. Her Ember Celica had long run out of ammo, and she was now relying on the metal portion of her gauntlets to deal damage.
"ORA!" Yang finished with a large uppercut, which launched Nora onto the hood of a destroyed sedan. Yang climbed onto the hood to deal out more hits, but was stopped when Nora kneed her in her crotch. Letting out a squeak of agony, Yang slumped off of the hood and onto the hard pavement.
Nora dragged herself off of the hood, and limped over to Yang, who was clutching her family treasure and writing on the ground in pain. There was so much she could take before it wore her out, and crotch shots were one certain way to drain her aura rapidly.
Nora hefted Magnhild over her head, read to deal the final blow. "FOR CLAUDE!" she dramatically yelled at the top of her lungs.
The world seemed to slow down for the horrified Weiss, Ruby, Jaune, and Pyrrha. They honestly thought that Nora was going to kill Yang. But then, they saw two figures come out of hiding behind a wrecked SUV. It was Blake and Ren!
The both of them dashed in the direction of Nora and Yang. Blake hurled a small stone at Nora, and it landed against her back. Of course, with Blake being the ninja that she was, hit a vital pressure point that completely paralyzed Nora. The furious red head slumped unceremoniously to the floor.
When Blake and Ren reached the now incapacitated pair, the first thing Blake did was tie up Nora's limbs with the ribbon portion of Gambol Shroud. Ren moved over to Yang, who had managed to crawl over to Nora.
"Sorry," Ren quickly apologized, "But this is for your own good,". He raised one of his pistols over Yang's head.
"Wha? Oh son of a—" Yang's curse was cut short by Ren pistol-whipping her unconscious.
Blake glared at Ren. "Was that really necessary?" she seethed.
"We were running out of options," defended Ren.
Deciding not to press the issue further, Blake hefted the now restrained Nora, who had resumed uncontrollably crying, over her shoulder. Ren followed Blake's lead and began to drag Yang over to where the rest of his friends stood in shock.
Blake stopped in front of her team/friends. "You might want to call a cab," she barked at them, before dumping Nora on a bench and sitting down. Ren didn't say anything as he dragged Yang over to Ruby. He dumped her sister at her feet, and then walked over to the one non-demolished vending machine to get a drink.
The best the group could do was look over the carnage, frozen in their horror. How could have something like this have happened? Well, if one thing was for sure, their teammates weren't going to be hearing the last of this any time soon.
Who knew a trip to the aquarium could go so bad?
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I bet you didn't expect a fight to be in this this story! But really, I had no idea it would have one when I started to write this story, either. So, it's a surprise for everyone! Horray! Anyway, feel free to tell me what you thought of the fight, and the story overall with a review or message shot over my way! This is The Draigg, signing off for now!