A/N: Double chapter upload! Enjoy!
Rock could feel the tension radiating from Weiss and Gold on an almost physical level. Both were silent, despite Yang, Ruby and Chariot's highly flamboyant enthusiam. Strength, Blake and Dead Master were quiet, as usual.
"How will we be able to find a place on the beach if we can't locate Silver?" Blake suddenly spoke up, her tone sounding serious.
"What do you mean? He's not that hard to miss." Rock replied, scanning the sky ahead of them. There were quite a few winged people flying about, and numerous seagulls, but none of them had Silver's distinctive elegant confidence in the air... or his massive fucking wings either...
Actually...
"Wait... you're right! I can't see him anywhere!" Rock scanned the air again, unable to find Silver at all!
"I saw him go straight ahead, then he went to the right. I lost track of him behind a billboard." Blake explained. "He has his phone, right?"
"Yeah, he does. Speaking of which, Blake... Do you have one as well? We had a bit of trouble trying to get ahold of you." Rock asked as she lead Weiss and Gold onto the sand covered parking lot at the edge of the sand.
"No, I don't have a phone at the moment. I accidentally broke it on the weekend. It's being repaired." Blake explained with a pink tinge to her cheeks.
"If you don't mind me asking, how did you break it?" Gold suddenly asked, glancing over her shoulder to look at Blake.
"Nothing spectacular. I just dropped it and the screen shattered." Blake replied, waving her hand to swat a bug that was buzzing around her face.
"There he is! I see Silver!" Chariot suddenly exclaimed, pointing frantically into the air directly ahead of them. "He's circling... Oomph!"
Chariot suddenly crashed into the sand with a dull thump. Immediately Rock released Weiss and Gold, then came to her side.
"Chariot, are you alright?" Rock asked, helping Chariot to get back upright.
"Rock, her wheels don't have any traction on the sand. Let me help her." Strength appeared on Chariot's other side, and for the first time, Rock noticed that Strength was carrying a backpack, as was Chariot.
"I'm fine! The sand just stops my normal legs from spinning, that's all!" Chariot's carefree happiness made Rock give an understanding nod, then she rose to her feet.
"We'll wait for you, no big deal." Rock announced as she snatched Weiss and Gold by the arms again.
"Suit yourselves." Strength gave a shrug of her huge arms, then crouched down for Chariot to extract her replacement wheels from her backpack. "I brought your feet as well, Chariot."
"Perfect!" Chariot pulled out a pair of wheels, slightly smaller, but thicker than her usual ones. She then sat upright and expertly replaced them with her normal ones. "Now I can go swimming with everyone!"
Patiently waiting for them to finish, Rock glanced in the direction that Chariot had initially pointed out Silver's location, and spotted him hovering at least thirty feet above the sand, facing the water.
"All done! Your turn Strength!" Chariot's voice broke through Rock's thoughts, and she turned to see Strength extracting a much, much smaller pair of arm augmentations from Chariot's backpack.
"Strength... if you have arms like that, why do you have such... large ones?" Weiss asked, confusion all over her face.
"Personal preference." Strength replied as she dexterously detached her right arm from her shoulder, causing it to clench into a fist - much like how Silver's wings folded - and drop with a hefty thud. "But these ones are custom designed for athletics, including swimming."
She positioned the smaller arm into place, then it gave a mechanical clicking sound, and she experimentally flexed the fingers of the new hand. With a satisfied nod, she repeated the process for her other arm, dropping it to the ground with another loud thud.
"Is there anything else you want to ask, Weiss? I thought you knew about the augmentations your father's company created." Rock asked, curious at her question.
"I actually don't know that much about limb augmentations, to be honest." Weiss replied, watching as Strength and Chariot grabbed their respective components in their arms and began to carry them effortlessly. "I know more about the energy programs, though."
"And the White Fang." Blake commented, her ever present hair bow giving a pointed twitch.
"Yes, that is true. Now, shall we rejoin Silver and finally enjoy our afternoon?" Weiss asked as she glanced at Strength and Chariot, who were now both ready to continue walking.
"Good, let's go then!" Rock lead Weiss and Gold across the sand, passing numerous people that openly stared at their strange predicament.
When they arrived close enough to where Silver was waiting, Rock released Weiss and Gold, then knelt down to the sand. "Good spot, babe! Care to join us on the ground?" She teased him loudly over the sounds of children playing nearby and the pounding waves.
With astounding grace and precision, Silver descended to the sand without kicking up a cloud of dust upon impact. He folded his wings and handed Rock her towel back, which included her swimsuit.
"Best place I could find for all ten of us." Silver replied, then glanced at the nearby changing room. "Let's get changed after we stake our claim to the spot."
"Why bother with those disgusting change rooms? We came prepared." Gold spoke up as she dropped her towel bag to the sand and started to pull her shirt over her head. Dead Master imitated her action, likewise removing her tank top.
"What in the world?! Do you two have no modesty?!" Weiss immediately sparked off at Gold, completely forgetting about Rock's threat from earlier.
"Actually, Weiss..." Yang spoke up from behind her. "We had the same idea. The change rooms here are pretty bad."
Rock, Silver and Weiss turned to see Ruby and Yang both without their shirts, their swimsuits had been hidden underneath the entire time, just like Gold and Dead Master.
"What about you two?" Rock asked Chariot and Strength, who shook their heads. "Well, I guess you four will have to wait for us to get back from the change rooms." She indicated the two pairs of sisters, already finished stripping out of their outer clothes.
"Take your time, I'm just gonna be taking in the sights." Yang's gaze and tone had suddenly become extremely seductive as she noticed several guys staring at her body.
By the time that Rock, Weiss, Strength and Chariot had returned from the change rooms, Yang and Gold were already laid back on their towels: Yang was tanning whilst Gold was reading a novel. But, all around them were dozens of guys, some being discrete, others blatantly staring, at their amazing figures.
"Figures that she'd draw in all of their attention." Weiss grumbled to herself upon catching sight of Yang's bright yellow bikini.
"Sounds like you're jealous, Weiss." Rock smirked, carrying her towel under her arm.
"W-what!? Jealous? As if!" Weiss shot back almost instantly, further deepening the truth.
"Nothing to be ashamed of. I have no tits either." Rock further taunted Weiss, who instantly clutched her own modest chest. "But I definitely have an amazing ass, so that's my trade off."
"Be quiet! I'll have you know..." Weiss began, but the sound of Silver landing behind them caused her to inhale sharply, startled by the sound.
"Do she got the booty?" Silver spoke in a singsong voice as hiss hands snaked their way around Rock's waist as he kissed the back of her neck. "She do~!" He chuckled. "All that matters, in my opinion."
"Not you too!" Weiss snapped at Silver, who simply held up the tip of his wing inches from her face to silence her angry comment.
"Remember what I told you... I doubt dropping from the pier will be very entertaining for you, Weiss." Rock raised an eyebrow pointedly as Silver lowered his wing when they reached Yang and Gold.
"The little ones already ran to the water, didn't like all the boys staring at their older sisters." Gold commented without removing her gaze from her book.
"You're not going to join us?" Silver asked, his gaze narrowed.
"I'm working on my tan." Yang replied, pushing her aviator sunglasses up further on her nose. "I'll get to it later."
"And you have a book to read." Rock stated the obvious answer for Gold.
"Bingo!" Gold gave a thumbs up.
"Chariot? Strength?" Rock turned to the final pair of sisters, who gave each other a knowing glance.
"Sand castles." They spoke at the exact same time before they took off down to the water, where admittedly, the sand was best for making sand castles.
"Weiss? What about you?" Silver raised an eyebrow, half expecting Weiss to avoid Gold altogether and go wandering off.
"You expect me to act as childish as them, don't you? I could hear it in your voice, Silver." Weiss scoffed as she deposited her towel bag in among the pile of everyone else's belongings. "I will be fine on my own, you need not worry about me."
"Don't start any bullshit, and at least check back here once in a while, since it sounds like you clearly want to wander the beach alone." Rock huffed, knowing that it was a futile effort. Weiss was as stubborn as a mule, and twice that in her pride.
"Rock, it's fine. We came here to have fun. C'mon, give me a hand with my wings, I want to join Ruby and Dead Master in the water." Silver put his hand on Rock's shoulder to calm her down.
Rock held Weiss' gaze for a split second longer before giving a sigh and performing the now familiar task of removing Silver's wings. She placed them alongside the pile of bags and towels, then followed him to the water, the tension from arguing with Weiss fading away entirely by the time her toes touched the water... and she received a faceful of water that Silver splashed in her direction.
A/N: Weiss is in a bad mood about Rock teasing her about her tits, but this actually has significance to the plot, believe it or not!
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