"Zwei, you're supposed to be a Salty Sea Dog! Not a sleepy sea dog." Ruby said to the sleeping Corgi on her bed. Surrounding the sleeping pup was a pile of lien and assorted jewelry.
"Ahoy, matey!" Nora called as she jumped into the room. "Found some more loot to add to our booty." She dropped a pile of clothes onto the floor and stood proud. In addition to her usual fighting attire, she now had a crimson red scarf wrapped around her head with the tails trailing down her back along with a belt around her hip with a bag hanging off the side. "Ye can't play pirate without costumes!" She finished triumphantly.
"Wow, Nora, were did you get this?" Ruby asked rummaging through the pile of clothes. "And if you wanted a costume so much where is your hat?"
"Ren took it away." Nora frowned. "He said he hid it somewhere in his room."
"So you were able to find this stuff but not your hat?" Ruby asked, taking out an eyepatch she found in the pile."
"He and Jaune were both in their room when I went to check." Nora said glumly. "I was gonna sneak in after they left but they locked the door behind them. I was able to swipe this as they left though." She said, gesturing to the belt around her waist.
"Wait, is that Jaune's?" Ruby asked in slight disbelief. She then took another look at the sash around her head. "And is that Pyrrha's?"
"Yup." Nora perked up with pride. "And all them landlubbers are gonna have to pay with doubloons to get their stuff back." Nora said with a pirate voice while holding up two coins. "Chocolate doubloons."
Ruby looked down at the eye patch in her hand. This is a ribbon. Blake's ribbon! She then began frantically looking and sorting through the clothes that Nora snagged. Yang's long pants, Weiss' scarf, some sunglasses, Sun's shirt, Neptune's goggles, a tie, gloves. She got everyone.
Ruby looked back up at Nora, unsure if she should be scared or impressed with the red head's antics. Somehow she was able to swipe actual treasure from nearly all their teammates and already planned how they'd get it back.
"I guess I should have believed Ren when he said you were a prankster." Ruby replied to Nora with a smile. "But those little tricks won't do ye much good on my ship!" Ruby called, pulling a back scrubber from the shower out from under her cape as a sword.
"Well, you're gonna be scrubbing the deck when I'm done with you!" Nora shouted back, pulling out the umbrella from the bin next to the door.
Soon the hotel room was a blur of color as Ruby and Nora battled over domain of their 'ship'. Though Nora thought she could easily take advantage and win their fake war by utilizing the myriads of outlets available, she reconsidered, not wanting to take the fun out of their make believe.
"Surrender!" Nora shouted as she stood on the bed, momentarily towering over her equal in height. "For I have the high ground, you'll never defeat me!"
"We're pirates, not space warriors." Ruby responded, lunging at Nora with her weapon. "You'll be walking the plank for this mutiny!" She called as she tripped Nora, forcing her to tuck and roll back onto the floor.
Eventually, they lay collapsed on the floor, both too tired to continue. Zwei, who had been watching with great interest, hopped off the bed and walked over to Ruby.
"Zwei." Ruby giggled as the dog licked her face.
"Maybe Zwei is the captain." Nora said rolling over. "He made us do the dirty work while he got to lounge with all the booty." Ruby giggled again as she sat up and put Zwei on her lap.
"I suppose. But all this plundering has made me hungry." She said scratching the back or Zwei's ears.
"True." Nora agreed, her stomach rumbling loudly. "How about some, ice cream?" She asked raising her eyebrow with a sly smile.
"Ah yeah!" Ruby said, Zwei preventing her from jumping up immediately. "We're heading to land Captain Zwei." She said placing the dog on the ground. Zwei barked in approval and went to rest back on Ruby's bed.
Ruby and Nora headed down to the main street that Weiss had raved about while on the plane ride. The only problem about the main street was that Nora and Ruby had never been down it.
"So, do you know if there is actually an ice cream parlor down here?" Ruby asked aloud.
"Your guess is as good as mine. However, I do know you should have kept the sash on from when we were playing." Nora responded, still proudly displaying her swiped sash and belt.
"Not to sound like its owner, but it wasn't my color. I don't do blue and white." Ruby responded, glad in her usual battle clothes.
"No, she looks good on you. You looked like a, like a White Rose!" Nora smiled at her cleverness.
"White Rose, huh?" Ruby thought aloud. "I kinda like the sound of that." She smiled. "But I like the sound of that better!" She shouted, pointing to the gentleman standing underneath a green and grey banner.
"Ice cream." He called absent minded. "New flavors, new location, same quality."
"I think we found our treasure." Nora said to Ruby as they walked through the door and up to the front counter. A young lady was working the counter.
"So what kind of booty do you have here?" Nora asked in her pirate voice.
"Um, we don't have booty. We have ice cream." The worker said very confused at Nora.
"Oh." Ruby said, disappointed at her lack of enthusiasm. "Well, what flavours do ye have?" She asked in her own pirate voice. "Rum? I'd love a good taste of that running down me throat." The worker looked Ruby up and down, questioning the petite red heads sanity.
"No." She responded. "But we do have a new batch of Neopolitan Ice Cream." She gestured to a container of ice cream underneath the glass.
"Isn't it spelled Neapolitan?" Ruby asked, peering toward the label.
"No." She responded, blinking blankly at Ruby and Nora.
"Okay," Ruby drew out, looking at the options. "I think I'll have two scoops of Cookies and Cream in a bowl please."
"And I'll have three scoops of Bubblegum in a Waffle Cone!" Nora added excited. The first worker started on Nora's request as another worker came from the workers area to get Ruby's. She was even smaller than Ruby with short hair.
"Have we met before?" Ruby asked as the worker scooped out the ice cream from the large container. The girl just smiled. "Uh, is that a yes or a no?"
"Nope. And that'll be 8.59 please." The first worker said quickly as she added up their food. "Now are you sure you don't want to try our Neopolitan?" The she asked again as the second girl handed the Ruby and Nora their sweets. "One taste is all it takes."
"Nope." Ruby smiled taking a spoonful of ice cream into her mouth. "I'm good."
"Me too." Nora agreed, tasting her ice cream.
"Well, are you at least going to pay?" The worker asked, the annoyance evident in her voice.
"Of course we are!" Nora smiled, starting to rummage through her pockets.
"I don't know how without your scroll" A monotone voice came from behind the girls. In through the shop doors came Ren and Jaune, with Ren holding out a scroll and pink and grey wallet.
"What?" Nora asked confused, as Jaune went up and paid for the girl's food. "I couldn't have dropped it."
"You didn't drop it." Ren responded with a small smile, handing Nora back her belongings. "You forgot it. Jaune and I went looking for you and found it stashed in a pile of lien and jewelry on the floor." Nora smiled embarrassedly at Ren as she put her things in her pockets.
"And that was only after Weiss started screaming about her sunglasses going missing." Jaune added, looking at Ruby who had begun to turn red.
"We needed treasure to protect." Ruby said, glancing over at Nora.
"Did that have to include Pyrrha's sash and my belt?" Jaune asked gesturing to Nora's costume.
"Maybe." Nora responded smugly. "Why was Weiss looking for her sunglasses anyway?"
"She wanted to relax at the beach." Ren answered. "And she couldn't do that without her sunglasses."
"The beach!" Nora and Ruby simultaneously exclaimed. "We could make a sand castle!" The two girls began running excitedly back in the direction of the resort, leaving Jaune and Ren in their wake.
"Wait, Nora!" Jaune called after them. "Give me back my belt!"