Hey everyone! Johno 343 is back with a new chapter for LARJ, I hope you guys enjoy this!
This last part will cover the ending of Volume 1 before it moves onto the holiday break Arc, right now me and my friend are seeing how everything Flow in Volume 2 before we put LARJ and AKJA in, so it might be awhile.
In the meantime, we'll try to keep you happy!
Arc 3: Re-start Chapter 9: My Answer
Remnant, Unknown Location, One Day after the Survival test
Sand dunes ran up and down, never ending from anyone's point of view. The sliver like sand danced with the wind as it twilled, tumbled and settled down with its brothers. The weather for this area was stuck between melting and freezing, anyone that had decided to live or even think about walking through this death trap here was either A: Drunk, B: Stupid, C: Lost.
Let's go with C, shall we?
From a Nevermore's point of view, one can easily spot a long trail of foot prints that covered a long distance, if that bird had any common sense or curiosity, it would have followed the path that the foot prints led to… a figure walking in the unforgiving desert.
The figure had his whole body covered in a makeshift rag cloak that covered his face. The only thing visible was the bottom half of his face that didn't express any emotion at all. His rags blew with the wind, waiting to cut the thread lose that they too could play with the sand.
However, that wasn't the case. The rag looking cloak fulfilled its duties to protect its wearer from the sand. The figure stopped moving before taking in a deep breath. As it raised its head to the sky, rumbling was the response to him before a drop of water hit him in the face. Thanks to the heat of the sand dunes, the water sizzled before turning into condensation, returning to the sky.
"…." The figure looked as the sand ahead of him before reaching inside of the cloak taking out a black canteen. Opening the lid the figure took a small sip of water before returning it back where it belonged. A sudden gush of wind attack him head on, making the ragged cloak flutter in the wind, revealing what was inside of the cloak.
Inside was a tight skin sleeveless shirt with a zip right down the middle. His Hakama pants were full black with two orange line running down the middle on both sides. His left arm was wrapped in bandages, but his right arm was covered in black and orange armour.
"…." As he took the impact head on, the wind ceased, returning to a gentle breeze. "There's going to be a storm soon." As he took another step, a sound of metal on sand could be heard as it continued, deep into the desert.
Beacon Academy - Team AKJA's Room
"Uuuwwaaaahh!" Alexandra woke up with a fright, her body covered in a film of sweat and sensation as if her heart was trying to escape from her chest. "Ha….hah…ahh."
She re-lived what she saw on glass mountain…only this time it was here.
Not Antonio.
No Jasna.
Not even the blue pervert.
Alexandra stood up by herself into the room as she looked on with horror… those faces were looking at her. Just like before, she stood there, shell-shocked and having no idea what to do.
"Help… us…'
"W-what…?"
'It hurts….'
"Stop it!"
'Make it…stop…"
"STOP!"
'I don't… want to live…. anymore... kill me…'
Alex body started breaking down as tears poured down her face. Her sobbing soon turned into screams similar to a wounded animal. It sounded hoarse and dreadful. Before she knew it, she held her desert eagles in her hands.
'Do it….end this….'
"I…" her voice managed to find itself, but in turn, her body was on autopilot, gripping her guns tightly she found strength in her legs.
'Please….end it all.'
"…" Alex's red eyes, stained with tears looked at the tube once more, but they were shrinking. The faces had disappeared. Instead...
There was disfigured face.
Of her.
'END IT!' the faces of Alex chimed. Alex breath began to shorten as she tried to stop her body, but it was no use, forced against her will she took aim at herself before pulling the trigger.
But instead of a bullet firing of, she heard a 'click' sound. Opening her eye she fired again, only to hear the same sound again.
'You… couldn't do it.' her face said as it looked at her. 'You couldn't save me… you couldn't free me... you couldn't end me... you ran away.'
"I DIDN'T RUN AWAY, THOSE MONSTERS! THEY FORCED ME AWAY!"
'Lies… all lies' Alex felt something cold and slimy touch her skin, looking down and she screamed.
A black ooze of slime started to engulf her, with another face of her looking at her, however… it had no eyes and nose…only ears and a mouth.
'You ran away… you are nothing but a coward' the face spoke before it ate more than half her body. Alex tried to escape, but it was no use. 'Alexandra…you failed to stop them… you have failed to become a huntress… but most of all...'
Alex screamed as the face ripped its eye lids open, revealing nothing but an empty socket, its mouth showed gnarly teeth forming a deranged smile.
"YoU FaIlEd YoUrSeLf!"
Alex closed her eyes to rid herself of that horrifying picture; her ear met a sound of a humming bird chipping near her window. Knowing that it was morning, the gun wielder quietly slipped on her bed and headed to the bathroom, today was another day of studying.
"I need to be stronger… I can't let myself be seen like that." She balled her hands into fist and looked at herself in the mirror. Dark bags hung from her eyes and her hair looked like she touched an electric ball. Her soft white skin was nowhere near what she had the previous nights. In total she looked like...
A nut case.
Beacon Academy - LARJ/JNPR room
"…" Juge stared at his scroll of the past few minutes, he didn't tap at anything nor did he explore the screen.
[Akashi: I found my answer! I'm coming back.]
Furrowing his brow he tried to find any hidden meaning in his comrade's message.
"What answer did you just find Mayhiro?" Juge pondered as his eye caught a certain fox faunus trying to get out of bed.
"Oow ow ow owo owowow" Riza cried as she struggled to get into a sitting position. The fox faunus of team LARJ was still sporting a large wound on her side that was patched up by a long roll of wrapping. Juge eyed his team mate as she gave a whimper of pain when she finally placed her foot on her floor.
"Riza, do you really think that you'll be able to attend classes in your current condition?" the young Velmón spoke casually to her. Her fox ears twitched as she gave a pained look.
"What do you think Juge?" Her voice was full of venom, which made Juge flinch. "I practically took a bullet for that whole test. Need I remind you that it was just so that you could win a stupid bet!?" She kenw that it was unfair as he was not the only person responsible, but right now the pain was drowning out her voice of reason.
"Well..." Juge sighed. 'Of course she is mad… you did place a comrade in harm's way.' He was scolding himself inside. "I already expressed my apologies yesterday renard-"
"Grrrr..." Riza Inari flashed her canine teeth. The brown haired man felt a shiver un down his spine.
"Riza… what else do you expect of me? I want to make up for this mess." He crossed his arms as he looked her in the eyes.
"…" Riza pondered for a small second before flashing a slow smile at him. At this point, Juge had cursed himself, he knew what was coming.
"Juge…"
"Carry my stuff for me today, you'll do that right, servant-boy?"
Team RWBY's Room
Weiss woke up.
But this time, she wasn't doing it by herself. It was none other than Ruby Rose, shaking her until she opened her eyes. "Weiss?" the red caped huntress looked over her with great concern "Are you alright?"
"…I'm fine." She dead panned as the white haired heiress pushed her gently out the way. "What time is it?"
"It's nearly time for class Princess" the blonde brawler known as Yang replied to her question, causing her eye to pop out like saucers.
"What!?" she nearly screamed, causing her team member to cover their ears "You decided to wake me up only now!?"
"Weiss!" Ruby called out.
"You guys are so inconsiderate!" she stomped her feet, showing her anger "Why would you decide to wake me up so late?"
"Princess." Yang said in a unusually small voice.
Weiss quickly jumped out of bed as she rushed towards her wardrobe, picking her school uniform she headed towards the bathroom. "This is unbelievable!"
"Weiss!" Blake shouted at her, this time Weiss turned back on her.
"What is it!?"
"Weiss…" Ruby was close to tears as she fidgeted with her skirt. "We've been trying to wake you for the past 3 hours… where you usually wake up."
This time Weiss turned white… even paler than usual.
"What?" she finally spoke up. "I…you guys-"
"Yes, all of us were trying to wake you up. Yang insisted on hitting you, but we managed to stop her." Blake spoke again. "Weiss… we all need to talk."
"…I- we don't have time for that!" Weiss fired back "I'm perfectly fine!"
"You haven't been for the past few days Princess, something is chewing you up… and you're doing a poor job covering it." Yang sat on her bed as crossed her arm over her chest. "Spill it."
"But classes-"
"Ozpin said that it's an option for those that attended the Survival Test to skip today's classes." Ruby said, this time it wasn't her normal voice; it was a voice filled with seriousness and concern. "Weiss, we're your team mates, what's happening to you?"
Weiss stared at them for a while before hanging her head, her fringe covering her eyes. "I'm sorry guys."
"Wh-"before Ruby could speak, Weiss dashed out their dorm in a blur of white, night gown and all. "Weiss!"
"Quick!" Yang jumped off her bed and ran to the door "After her!" Blake nodded as she followed after her partner. However, Ruby stood there in shock; she had never seen Weiss react like this.
Unknown Forest
The cloaked figure had escaped the desert with pure luck.
As the figure stood underneath a large tree that provided shade he tumbled face first into the soft grass and a breeze blew over him.
"I thought a storm was coming…" He wheezed as sweat dripped down his face in large quantities, rolling to his back panting as he tried to refill his lungs with oxygen. "Where the Dust did I take the wrong turn? I thought I would have done it right. There wasn't any sign of a desert on our way there!" The voice groaned as he watched the trees sway.
"…I wonder how long before I get there? Dad could at least have given me a map for the way back." He wondered before his senses kicked in. the ground vibrated with each step from something that was closing in. The cloaked figure looked forward. "Great….just great."
A lone Beowulf crustily walked towards the figure, its jaws covered in saliva, its red eyes looking at the spread out figure with greed. It had found its meal of the day.
"As if walking in the desert wasn't hard enough." He was still dead tired, but being eaten here was not an option.
Standing up the figure gave a pained smirk as he raised his armoured arm towards the Beowulf. Giving it the flick the beast snarled. "Come then, let's dance!"
Howling, the Grimm stampeded its way towards the figure and it swung its arms to hit him. The person simply ducked before lunging to the left of it. The Grimm eyed it before turning his body around to meet its prey. Giving another roar it chased after him.
"Well… I can't use it just yet." The figure sighed "I guess I'll just use what I got." Turning around he narrowly dodged another direct claw to his midsection as he barrel rolled out of the way. "Wow… out of all the Beowulf I've face, you're the fastest! I wonder…" as the figure stood up, the Grimm continued to swipe with its bone like claws as the figure simply ducked or side stepped the beast.
"Wait for it..." The murmurs of the man in coat were followed by watching close at the Grimm's feet and hand patterns. "An opening… I know it."
Sure enough the Beowulf swung with most of its body mass giving the figure enough time to cock his armoured arm back. "Right there!" He landed an attack on the Grimm.
Grimm roared but felt something change inside of him…like he was becoming lighter every second; giving a confused noise it looked down at the place where the fist made contact.
"Heheh… Normally I wouldn't have dreamt of attacking you guys with my bare hands, but a couple of days really gives you time to think of reinventing you semblance you know?" Laying of the punch the cloaked figure spun around and kicked the Grimm in the same place he punch. This time the Grimm was sent flying past a couple of trees as if it was as light as a feather. it crashed into a tree and stuck there until regaining weight. Sighing in relief the figure watched as the Grimm stirred, but luckily...
...a large branch fell on top of its head, knocking it out.
"Well that was interesting." Loosening his joints the figure looked at the sky before it looked at the fallen Grimm.
"If I do this right… just maybe I can cut this short." The figure cracked a grin before reaching underneath its cloak and pulled out a long length of rope.
"It won't be long everyone."
Beacon - Team LARJ/JNPR joint dorm room
"Riza, you're the best~" Lucy sang as she helped Riza change into her school clothes in the bathroom. "Now put your leg in here~"
"Lucy, I'm not a kid, I know what goes where!" Riza groaned "Pyrrha! Nora!"
"Sorry Riza, I having too much fun on Ren's bed!" giggled the hammer user as she jumped of said bed for the 109th time. Ren just watched her as he fixed his tie.
"Jaune, classes start soon, why aren't you ready?" the gun wielder eyed his captain as he was looking at his scroll. However there was a big smile on his face. "Jaune?"
"Huh? Oh yeah, classes…" the blond haired hunter trailed off "Weren't we given the option to take a day off because of what happened yesterday?" he reasoned with him. However the red haired amazon woman glared at him. "What?"
"I'd expected more from you Jaune." She said in a disappointed tone. "Poor Riza is hurt."
"OUCH! LUCY, DON'T POKE MY STOMACH, YOU"LL REOPEN TO WOUND!"
"Sorry…. Pocky?"
"NO!"
"And you are far better off than she is, yet she is going to class." She narrowed her eyes. "What would Professor Mayhiro say about this?"
"Uh..." Jaune frowned "Probably not what you would expect."
"Why-Oh." Pyrrha also frowned, she was talking about a professor that didn't… exactly… play the part. Shaking her head she tried the direct method "A good captain always sets the standard so that his member have a code to follow. If you skip class, what will everyone else think about you?"
"…I'm a goody two-shoes?" Jaune said. Before she could yell at him he stopped her "I know what you're trying to say, but even hunters and huntresses like us need a break. I'm sure it'll just be another study session where we could be doing the exact same thing as what we're doing now."
"I don't believe this." Pyrrha's voice was small "Jaune." Giving a 'humph' she turned her heels and grabbed her books. "Fine, if you want to be like that, then fine! I'll just go to class with LARJ then!"
"Pyrrha...?" Jaune watched as she walked out of the room. Riza and Lucy had finished putting on her clothes "Guys…?"
"Sorry Jaune, but anything can happen." Riza said. "I'm banged up, but I won't neglect my studies… even if I have to endure… and walk very… slowly." Lucy saw her friend in need and walked in front of her. "Lucy?"
"Climb on" Lucy grinned as she crouched down into the piggyback position. Causing the fox faunus to blush.
"No way, no how!" Riza shouted before she gave a cry of pain, holding her side. "…F-fine… just this once!" Gingerly putting her leg in Lucy's arm loops she clung onto her back lightly "Be gentle here…"
"Okay~" Lucy smiled "Jugey…can you carry our stuff to mustachio man's class please?"
"At least it's not everyone's bags this time… fine, I'll be there soon Lucy, Riza." The two nodded as they ventured to their classes.
"Ren?" Jaune called out to his team mate.
"Sorry, not happening."
"Nora?"
"Wherever Ren goes, I go!" Nora tumbled before landing safely "Pyrrha will be happy if you changed you mind now silly!"
"Nobody wants to skip classes with me?" He looked disappointed. "Fine." The blond rubbed his hair "I'll catch up with you guys soon." Nora cheered as Ren gave a warm smile.
"See you soon captain." The two walked out of their joint room, leaving Jaune and Juge alone.
"You got his message, right?" Juge stopped organizing his team's books. "That's why you're smiling."
"Yeah… he's coming back." He grinned "I though he left us for good." The young Velmón looked at him before laughing.
"Impossible. He won't keel over and die like that. I knew he would be back… but when?"
Before the two could speak another word, Team JNPR's door opened wide with a bang (Also scaring Jaune) before a familiar white blur entered the room and the bath room.
"G-GHOST!" Arc screamed as he hid under the sheets "They are real!"
"That wasn't a ghost Jaune." Juge placed a hand on his forehead "That was-"
"Juge!" before Juge could speak, the blonde brawler walked into the room, followed by the rest of team RWBY. "Do you know where princess ran off to?" she asked him as she continued to walk towards him. "Morning by the way!" she grinned at him.
"Morning Yang." He replied with a strained smile. "To answer your question… No…Weiss didn't enter here."
"Aww!" Ruby pouted. "I could of sworn she entered here…"
"There's no point wasting our time. We'll cut our losses and head to class." Blake shook her head. "She needs to sit down or she will be heading on a collision course."
The two sisters nodded, Blake and Ruby headed out of the door, however Yang stayed.
"Uhh…Yang?" Juge wondered why Yang didn't go with her team mates.
"Hm?"
"Aren't you going with them?"
"We can catch up to them." Yang smiled. However, the sentence caused the young Velmón to raise an eyebrow.
"We?"
"Yeah, you and me: we!" Yang looked at him with a expression that said 'Don't be so slow.' Juge took a while to process this before he nodded, it would be wise not to turn her down… he had enough trouble for one morning.
"Right, let me get my team's books and head out." Grabbing the last of Lucy's and Riza's books he lifted them up and walked towards the door.
"Righto!" Yang agreed with him. "What are you carrying their stuff for?"
"All because of the bet Yang." He said with a titbit of regret.
"All because of the bet." Yang repeated while her mouth made on 'O' shape. "You're back to servant boy status, aren't you?"
"Somewhat." The word pierced his head.
Pitying her fellow comrade she patted him on the shoulder before heading out.
Jaune was left alone, but not in the same room. The bathroom door on the girl's side slowly opened before revealing none other than Weiss Schnee. "…are they gone?"
"Y-yeah." Jaune stammered "W-why are you here?" The Heiress glowered.
"That's none of you concern Arc." She replied harshly before closing the door again. Jaune could have pursued further, but he had enough on his plate right now. He had to confess that he was wrong to his most trusted team mate. The Hunter quickly exchanged his sleepwear to his uniform before grabbing his bag and headed off, leaving the heiress to herself.
"They are all gone." She muttered to herself. She had already made a fool of herself before running past all those students in her night gown, it'll be suicide for her reputation if she did it again, she prayed that no one could recognize her.
She looked down as she praised herself for grabbing all her uniform before she ran away. "At least I can be happy about that." She looked up to see herself in the mirror, that same face as guilt.
"You finally get your wish… you wanted me gone… my weapon has been banned and taken from me… and I'm going first thing in the morning
Crushing my dream… maybe my downfall will be your way to the top Weiss Schnee."
"I... just wanted him to stop being so lazy…I just wanted him to stop." She whispered to herself as she placed her uniform neatly on the bench. "I didn't mean to chase him away from here." Closing her eyes she paused for a moment. "This is weird…getting changed in a bathroom, that's not mine."
She slowly disrobed herself as she slowly looked away. "It'll be quick, that's all!" quickly taking her under garments off she opened the door to the shower and turned on the valve, the gushing of hot water poured from the head, slightly turn on the cold water, she felt blissful warmth on her hand before stepping into the shower.
"You probably worry too much. Akashi isn't perfect, but he wouldn't hold a grudge against you because of that."
"But! You weren't there! How he looked at me back then!"
Weiss gently put the back of her head against the shower walls and closed her eyes.
'Remember what your were taught. Be courteous, be polite, be in control, but most of all, be the one to stand out.' She remembers the words she was taught at a young age.
"But not like this… The way I am now...!" she slammed her fist against the wall.
"I'm supposed to be the best team mate for RWBY." She gasped. "But I am not even able to talk to them about my mistakes."
She slowly sank down the wall. The only sound was coming from the dribbling water inside the shower.
Professor Port's class
"Here you go Riza, Lucy." Juge announced as Riza was trying to find a comfortable position. Juge shook his head as his partner yelped in pain and clutched her stomach. "I think your speech is being impaired by you injury Riza, why not take the day off?"
"Haha. Very funny Juge-KYAAAA!" Riza cried again "It's hurts."
"Renard, be wise about this and go back to the dorms, if it'll put your mind to ease I'll write down notes for you."
"How many times do I have to tell you…don't call me that!" She winced "But guess… I do have trouble to talk or walk." She sighed. "Lucy… can you take me back?" Riza asked her captain.
"Sure~ But it'll be more pockies for me~"
'Is that your taxi fee...?' Rolling her eye Riza stood up before Lucy got into the piggyback position.
"Take every note possible Juge. I'm seriously counting on you!" Riza glared at him. Juge nodded before the two set course back to their dorm. The blue-vested hunter sighed before he banged his head on his desk.
"Awww…don't be like that Jugey!" the voice of Yang rang through his ears "At least you can have some relaxation time. We can just sit here and talk quietly ~"
"Really, Yang? That would be love-"
"About our next bet!" Yang threw her arm over his shoulders and brought him closer to her and laughed.
"-ly." Juge silently cried in defeat.
A couple of seats away Team AKJA was looking at them, a certain orange haired brawler was gritting her teeth. "Damn pig..."
"Easy there Jasna. There's no need to kill someone over some friendly contact. Yang and Juge are friends after all, and Yang was the one who instigated the interaction."
"I don't care; He's too close to her!" She spat back at him. "I'm going to stop-"
"You'll do no such thing." Antonio grabbed her arm and stopped her "Everyone is sore from yesterdays fiasco, you could do with a bit of rest too dear Jasna."
A flash of anger ran across her eye before looking at them "Tch." Sitting back down the orange haired brawler crossed her arms. "I'm perfectly fine."
THUD!
Alex slammed her books on the table, gaining the two's attention. Instantly Jasna face lighted up. "Alex, where did you-"
"Don't. Talk to me." Alex seethed, not bothering to look at them. Her female comrade frowned as Antonio looked at her.
'She's still shaken up from that incident at Glass Mountain.' Antonio was a man who knew what do to do at those times.
He, along with Jasna stayed quiet.
Team LARJ/JNPR's room
Weiss slowly emerged from the bathroom, dressed in her school uniform as she looked around the room "So they still haven't decided to fix the wall."
Flashback: Team RWBY's room
"Woah! Did you guys hear about Jaune's room!?" Ruby dashed into the room with much energy that she started jumping about.
"Whoa, whoa there crazy little sister!" Yang laughed as she placed her hand on her head, stopping her altogether Blake and Weiss looked on.
"Come on Ruby, what's got you so hyper all of a sudden?" Blake eyed her. Ruby gave a loud squeal.
"That Hammer guy... Nanashi?" Ruby ponders before getting back on track "Team LARJ's hammer guy broke down the wall between Jaune and their team's dorm rooms, now they get a double room together!"
"What!?" Weiss yelled "Why aren't they taking action and fix that wall!?"
"Well... I guess they didn't mind sharing both rooms!" Ruby made her mind up "I saw them discussing how to set their rooms up!" Ruby smiled "I wanted a shared room too..."
"You wanted bunk beds, now you want more people in rooms?" Weiss raised an eyebrow.
"The more the merrier right?" The caped huntress nodded "I wonder which side... maybe I should choose-"
"You will do no such thing!" Weiss covered Ruby's mouth with her hands "Think of the consequences of your actions!"
"But double space..." Ruby put a puppy face on.
"I would have to agree, having more room could be more beneficial for us." Blake placed her reason in, getting Ruby to become happy once again. It wasn't easy to determine if she was serious.
"No, means no!" Weiss stated. "I went along with bunk beds, but destroying academy property and joining rooms with another team is a no!" Weiss turned her back on them. "What would happen if it was an all-boys team on both of our sides?"
"I wouldn't mind" Yang purred, causing the heiress to growl.
"Whatever, no means no and that's final!"
"Aww... cookie dough!" Ruby gave up in frustration. "I wonder if we could make it look like an accident..."
Weiss didn't reply as she returned to unpacking.
"Double room... how insane is that?"
Back to real time:
"This is what it looks like." The Heiress commented on a more detailed view of the room. One side was the boys side, evident by Jaune's thrown PJ's, Ren's guns holsters and Juge's 'organised space'. On the other side was the girls side... Weiss frowned as she saw Lucy's and Nora's personal area. "How does Inari put up with her... Lucy is twice as bad as Ruby."
Then her eyes met his bed space.
"..." Weiss gaze focused as she looked on Akashi's bed. She made a few hesitant steps towards it.. "Well... your lifestyle tells us a lot about your personality." This space looked almost like it was cut out of a forest hut...
She looked around the cramped quarters of Mayhiro's bed, seeing everything on his bed side table, his books, a picture of his family and the note he left his team. The huntress slowly picked it up and read it carefully.
[To everyone,
My hammer was banned by Ozpin. They said I can't stay at Beacon unless I get a new weapon...
I have to go to a certain place. Don't ask for me. I will not return until I have done what is necessary.
- Akashi Mayhiro]
"Just how long? It's been weeks Mayhiro." She frowned slightly before squinting her eyes. There was dust on the paper.
"Figures, no one has touched his stuff except for..." Placing the paper on his bed she looked at a certain box of treats from a certain captain. It too had a note on it.
[Accept these treats from me, LARJ Misses you~]
[I swear, when you come back you can expect a huge yelling from me!]
[We wrote this if you decided to come back the same way you left. Welcome back Akashi.]
"They all care about him, even though he left them behind... because of me." Weiss felt her heart sink deeper. "Just come back you fool." Weiss slowly sat on his bed as looked at the room once more. "Maybe... having double rooms wouldn't be so bad."
"We're here~" Weiss' head shot up as the door on the girls room opened up, revealing none other than Lucy Stripes with Riza on her back. Instantly Lucy looked eyes met with hers. "Look, we have company~!"
"Really?"Riza cried "Who at this tim- Weiss!?" Riza cried out before cringing. "Gngh... what are you doing here?"
"Oh!" Weiss shot up instantly "I well- it's a long story."
"Weissy is looking for my pockies~" Lucy sang "You'll never find them~"
"What?!" Weiss shouted out. "Why would I go for your infernal treats? It's bad enough I have deal with Ruby's cookie fetish, but dealing with two of that kind?" She crossed her arms in a 'x' like fashion "Nope!"
Lucy gasped before tears flooded her eyes "Y-you don't like pockies?" she sniffled before her bottom lip wobbled.
"Lucy, if you going to do anything, please for the love of dust, put me on my bed first." Riza begged her. "I can't take anymore." Her words were aimed at her pain AND at the conversation.
"…Sniff…." Lucy nodded before walking over to the fox faunus' bed, as she laid her down gently Lucy busted into tears and ran out of the room melodramatically "Wahhh~"
"Weiss hates pockies!" her cry died down as she ran back to class… surprisingly. Leaving The two nobles to the room.
"How are you Riza?" Weiss broke the silence "You did take a nasty dive during that test."
Her only response was a snarl from her "Don't remind me, I still have to get Juge back for that."
"Interesting, are you going to be like Yang, and order him to do everything you desire?" She looked as her with an amused look.
"No. I'm far too kind hearted for that… and more considerate to others." She replied with a hint of joking as her blue eyes stared at the ceiling. "Weiss?"
"Yes?"
"Why are you in our room?"
"….."
"Weiss?"
"...You said you're my friends, right?" Riza's eye widened as she forced herself to look at her. 'Friends' was not in the part of Weiss' vocabulary she used often. "Back at the tea party we had, we said that we would all be friends right?"
"Of… course…" Riza slowly tried to get up and winced, seeing her in pain the heiress walked towards her a help her into a sitting position with a pillow behind her back. "Thanks Weiss. You can seat on my bed if you want." Nodding slowly, she sat down next to her.
"I… ran out on my team mates this morning." Weiss started. Riza stayed silent "And this morning they said they had to wake me up… I usually wake up by myself before everyone else."
Riza still stayed silent.
"I feel like I decline on my progress… I feel sluggish, slow minded, and… I really don't have an appetite to eat anything." Weiss looked at the ground.
"Weiss….I think everyone picked up on your behaviour for the past few days." Riza paused "And I think it has something to do with an idiot named Akashi Mayhiro."
"…yes." Weiss didn't try to deny it, the more she did, the more horrible she felt. "It all started when he left."
"…something happened between you two right?" Riza looked on "Tell me what happened, and I'll give you my answer."
"Alright then." Weiss sighed "It was back when we got the test results."
Professor Port's class
"Pyrrha."
"…."
"Pyrrha~" Jaune tried to speak with her, but she wouldn't have any of it. "I'm sorry."
"That's nice." Pyrrha said quietly. Jaune buried his hands in his face.
Arc had tried to talk to her, but failed at every single attempt. He looked to Ren and Nora, both shrugging at his signs for help. Sighing in defeat, Jaune groaned and banged his head on the table.
"Please end my life."
Far away from everyone else, even Team CDRL, sat the phantom of AKJA as he looked at his friend fail and trying to patch things up with Pyrrha.
"Help." Kirk was relieved when Port had decided to call the class as he decided to rest himself. He took his (2nd) trusty camera out and turned it on and headed to files. If the white heiress thought that he only had one camera she was very, very wrong.
As he looked through the photos of Beacon girls and the scenery, he smiled as he looked at the photo of the red haired huntress standing proud with JNPR. "Perfect."
Slowly taking out a large display book, he opened it to the new page and pulled out a small tray of coloured pencils and started working. "Help friend, I don't want him to be sad."
Kirk hummed a tune to himself as the rest of the students continued what they were doing.
"Juge, how about this?"
"Yang… please let me concentrate on the lecture."
"Blake I'm worried about Weiss!"
"I know, but right now we have no idea where she is."
"Weiss hates pockies!"
"Wah, Lucy when did you come in?!" Ruby jerked back.
"Anto!"
"Jasna dear, control yourself."
It seemed like another hectic day at Beacon.
Grassy Plains
"I can tell you one thing, its sure beats the hell out of walking!" The man grinned as he felt the wind cool his face. Riding the Beowulf like a horse the figure managed to make a reign for it while it slept with the long rope. It was hard at first, but it seemed to 'submit' and carried the rider (unwillingly) on its back.
As it weaved through the dense forest the figure managed to stay calm… although.
"It hurts…my butt is hurting!" He cried out as he rubbed it gently. "But I can't risk walking again!" the Beowulf cried before running even faster. "Yeah yeah, your services are coming to an end soon, just shut up for a bit will you?" The cloaked man barked. "I'm trying to find where Beacon is." The eye on the man spotted a clearing up ahead as the Grimm crashed onto the site. Pulling hard it stopped as it tried to fight the reign on it.
"First thing first, if we get home it'll be smooth sailing for the both of us, and if you don't complain on the way, I'll be kind enough to let you go, how's that for a deal?"
The Grimm stayed silent.
"I'll take the silence as a yes." The cloaked man said "And home was in... " sighing he closed his eyes and cleared his mind to remember the route they took to Promethean. "Northwest." Clicking his tongue, he gently jabbed his heels into the Grimm's side signalling to resume running.
To which the Grimm obliged. Surprisingly enough.
Team LARJ/JNPR room
"...and that's when he left the note." Weiss finished up her story. Riza was more than surprised.
Not that Weiss had done more… aggressive actions to her teammate.
That Weiss was pouring her heart out to her. To a faunus even.
"Ever since that, I've been feeling terrible about what I did to him." She admitted "I can't think straight. I'm pushed my teammates away too. My inconsiderate words crushed a person's dream and pushed him out of Beacon."
"Well… what use is he as a hunter if he doesn't have a weapon, Weiss?" Riza consoled her. "But otherwise… you feel bad about saying all those things about him right?"
"Yeah…"
Inari sighed. "I'll tell you this Weiss, but keep it to yourself." She breathed in to ease the pain, she shouldn't be in the same position for this long. "Akashi was home-schooled."
"Home-schooled?" The heiress repeated "Didn't he attend a school like Signal or Sanctum?"
"He did, but he was pulled out of AC Academy by his Parent. He was subjected to bullying and was outcast from the others."
"His talent." Weiss pieced them together "They must have done the same thing I did."
"I'm sure you're not that bad Weiss." The faunus chided. "But my point is - and I speak for everyone here - that you had no right to put down Akashi." She glared at her "Everyone here earned the right to attend Beacon; it was a figurative 'slap in the face' for him, especially coming from someone from such high standing as yourself."
"…." All that she could do was listen to the girl's words next to her.
"With that being said, you may have urged Akashi to… I don't know… maybe change for the better?" Riza sounded unsure. "I mean. There is some moments where you want to just punch him in the face. That goes for Juge too, but that's between us." She winked at her, making Weiss smile.
"Heheh….don't get me started on my team Inari." Weiss' smile began to grow, she quickly looked at the door and leaned closer to her. "How do you put up with Lucy?!"
"I do what she does sometimes, 'zone' out." She smirked. "It doesn't take much to make her happy; she's like a child most of the time. Ruby can be serious by herself, Lucy needs to be forced to get serious." She nodded at her answer.
Weiss felt happy. She hadn't felt like this for a long time, having a simple conversation with someone, she felt that plague of guilt fade away. "Weiss?"
"Hm?"
"You're… smiling… that's something I haven't seen for some time." Riza smiled back. "It looks good on you."
"Be quite Inari. I'm happy because I'm finally getting this off my chest" Weiss placed a hand over her chest " But I still don't know about…"
"About?"
"Mayhiro." she finally said.
"That's easy, he's an easy going guy Weiss, just say you're sorry." Riza spoke, but Weiss shook her head.
"It's not that easy. I reopened some old wounds and I don't think a simple sorry will cut it." She rebutted. "I'll think about it, but I have to apologize to my teammates too. They didn't deserve what I did this morning."
"...heh." Riza smirked. "You're finally starting to open up more." Weiss blushed as she looked away.
"Don't try to be so observant!" Looking back at her, her face softened "Need help laying back down?"
"Yeah, that would be terrific." Nodding, she helped her lay down on her pillow. "Many thanks."
"It's fine." She nodded "Want me to find Lucy?"
"Nah, I'll be fine, take care Weiss!" Riza gave her the thumbs up. Weiss nodded with an even bigger smile as he walked out the room.
"Oh and there is something else..." Weiss stopped as she heard Riza say those words. "Please call me Riza from now on. Using my last name sounds really stuck up, don't you think?" The blonde girl winked.
"...I'll think about it."
'I guess… not all Faunas are trash.' She headed back to her room to gather her books, but stopped as the bell rang. "It's been that long?"
"Weiss!" The heiress turned around to see her teammates running towards her "You're not running this time!"
Instead of frowning, the heiress smiled, causing her team to step back "I'm sorry everyone-"
"She is making a run for it!" Ruby cried as she tackled her. "You're not running until you tell us what happened!" Yang was also holding Weiss' arms and Blake closed off the escape route.
"Exactly Ruby, I am going to tell you what's wrong with me." Ruby was shocked at the sudden change in attitude.
"Weiss? Are you okay?"
"I am feeling better than the last couple days." She nodded "But you mind telling me this over lunch… I am hungry you know."
"Uh… sure." Yang gave the okay as they walked towards the mess hall. The blond brawler leaned towards Blake. "You think someone gave her the 'happy pills'?"
That comment earned a hard fist to the gut "Ouch!"
"Don't say that, she'll tell us…and I have a feeling she found her answer."
Till next time...witch will be by the end of this week...hopefully!
Johno 343 and Bugdevil