Blake was happy to have found this local café. Nothing against the chain store at the hotel, but let's be honest, those places have no character. The most diversity you get out of those places is a different colored fabric on the standardized chairs they always have. Here you can actually get a taste of the town, both through the drinks and the atmosphere. Blake secretly commended the café for focusing more on local flavors rather than the popular drinks found at chain restaurants. She had to be leery of what she ordered the first time but was glad to find something just her taste.

The café itself had wood paneling walls reminiscent of native homes but with a smooth, sophisticated look. The walls were decorated with a few paintings of the area but were mostly bare. There were the usual tables and bar stools , both made from a similar wood to the paneling, to sit at by the large window as well as the lounge chairs were Blake regularly chose to sit. The chairs were right next to a community bookshelf for visitors to take and leave books as they wanted.

Blake went up to the server, ordering her usual herbal tea. She appreciated that only after her few visits the barista recognized her; and remembered how Blake preferred conversation to remain at a minimum. Taking her cup and placing a few coins into the tip jar, Blake began her way to her corner chair in the café.

Blake took her seat and pulled out her book. After having only started it during the vacation, she was satisfied with how far she had gotten.

"I would like a small coffee. Two sugars please." A familiar voice came from by the register. Blake looked up from her book as she heard light clicking.

"Weiss."

"Blake." She replied with a smile, setting down her drink next to Blake's. She had some folded paper under her arm as she took her seat. Most likely the newspaper. After Weiss sat down, they sat in silence. The only interruptions came from the lit sipping of drinks and shuffling of people outside.

Blake put a bookmark in between the pages as she finished another chapter, giving her eyes a rest from the small print.

"Good read?" Weiss asked.

"Uh huh." Blake replied. Weiss rarely asked about the stories that Blake read, they were either too morbid, too unrealistic, or too filthy for her taste, but Blake appreciated the small efforts to seem interested. "Anything notable in the paper?"

"The same old news." Weiss said. "Businesses are up, business are down. Attacks in this village, peace in the other. Honestly I feel I could be a psychic with how predictable some of these headlines can be."

"Well, predictability is a rarity for us." Blake commented, reflecting on their year at Beacon.

"But sometimes spontaneity is welcomed." Weiss added, secretly thankful for the times Ruby or Yang took her away from her books to enjoy herself for once. "How has the planning for the party been?" She asked.

"Well," Blake began to answer, taking a sip of her tea, "we have a venue, music, activities, and if all goes to plan, food."

"Well, to a successful party." Weiss said raising her coffee to Blake before taking a sip. With that they returned to their peaceful quiet once again. Despite not having seen eye to eye at first, both future huntresses were thankful to have found company in each other during quiet.

However, the quiet was quickly cut by the sharp crack of gun shots. They looked out the window as people hurried past. Blake and Weiss quickly grabbed their reading and went outside. As they reached the street a blast came from their right. As they looked on they saw smoke and heard more gun shots.

"That sounded like Yang's gauntlets." Blake commented as another blast came.

"And Ruby's scythe." Weiss added, a howl echoing down the street and faint smoke rising.

"Do you think they're in trouble?"

"In trouble or are the trouble?" Weiss replied, looking over at Blake. Blake raised her eyebrow at Weiss. "Regardless, we probably should help them." She slightly huffed standing up.

"You had to say spontaneity is welcomed." Blake commented as the two began running in the direction of their teammates.


"Why do you drag us into this kind of stuff?" Weiss shouted over the howling wind.

Ruby had decided that the best way to eliminate the Grimm was to blow them away. Yang manned the giant wind turbine, normally used as a form of clean energy, but was now being use as a giant fan. As Yang blasted the blades into motion, Blake and Weiss pushed Grimm into the jet stream while Ruby and local police fired at the Grimm as they flew past.

"You didn't have to show up." Ruby called back as she reloaded and blasted another Grimm.

"How could we not?" Weiss retorted, sending a Dust blast toward an oncoming jaguar grimm.

"You jinxed yourself Weiss." Blake called, slicing toward another Grimm.

"Don't encourage her!" Weiss shouted back, resulting in a smirk from Blake. Quickly, the Grimm perished and the few still remaining began retreating back to where ever they came from.

"Thank you all for your help ladies." A tall man came over to the four huntresses. "I will admit, I was uncertain if a task this large was safe for you, but you four certainly held your own out there.

"Just doing our job sir." Ruby said with a smile.

"I am especially impressed with your ability Ms. Schnee, if I may say so." The gentleman said with a small head bow. As he left, the rest of the original officers and response fighters followed him away.

"Well, he knows how to compliment a woman." Yang said with a smile.

"It definitely shows he's willing to be wrong." Blake added as the girls began leaving the scene.

"I honestly would't blame him." Weiss commented. "It's not necessarily a usual occurrence for two ladies to purposefully show up at the scene of a Grimm attack followed by two more."

"Especially if two of them are in dresses." Blake joked.

"Combat skirt." Weiss corrected. "And what where you two even thinking showing up here? And how did you even know about it?"

"Sun and Neptune." Yang said.

"Yeah, they had like a police radio and it said that there was a Grimm attack by the beach so we decided to help." Ruby explained with a smile.

"But how did you two know where we were?" Yang asked.

"We were at a café on the main street." Blake began. "We then heard blasts and saw the Grimm smoke."

"And once we determined that the blasts were coming from you specifically we figured you would need the back up." Weiss finished.

"You two were together? At a café?" The two nodded at Yang's question.

"Yeah. It was actually nice." Blake commented looking over at Weiss.

"I agree." Weiss said with a smile.

"Maybe it could be a regular thing for you two?" Ruby asked excited.

"Minus the Grimm of course." Weiss added.