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Chapter 7:
Day Trip
Daybreak was at hand; the first rays of sunlight were already shining through the repaired curtains of team RWBY's dorm. Right onto the face of a raven-haired Faunus sleeping peacefully on top of her friend's stomach.
Blake's nose wrinkled a bit as her body began to bathe in the sunlight. It didn't wake her up, she just melted deeper into the warmth instead, her feline Faunus instincts showing themselves. It was just so comfortable she thought, as she nuzzled even more in the smooth skin of her partner. In her opinion nothing could compare to the wonderful heat emanating from Yang's whole body.
She just wanted to sleep a bit longer, it was a Saturday after all. It would be inhumane to wake her up early in the weekend, especially with that tiring week behind her back. Unfortunately for her, some of her friends weren't exactly 'normal', although Blake definitely wasn't either; at 5 inches tall, even Weiss' tiara was bigger than she was.
Lifting a lazy eyelid she looked at Ruby, who was sleeping peacefully on top of the life threatening contraption she called a bed. She was almost hanging off the edge of it but somehow had managed to trap herself in her bedsheets in a way that it saved her from tumbling to the floor. Observing the girl better, Blake realized Ruby was still wearing that weird Grimm sleeping mask but wasn't actually wearing it like she was supposed to.
Dread filled her as the rays of sunlight crept closer to her team leader.
Suddenly the sun didn't seem that friendly in Blake's eyes - it became her arch nemesis, trying to fill the room with the blood red light of sunrise, beginning to bathe Ruby's pillow in rays.
'No, don't do it! Why? What have I ever done to you, oh mighty flaming ball of fire, to deserve this fate?'
But her mental plea of mercy was unheard as light crept over the scythe wielder petite face. Silver eyes shot open. Ruby gracefully leapt out of bed before landing on the ground and inhaling air like she was about to exclaim something very loudly.
'Oh, for fu-'
"GOOOOOD MORNING, TEAM RWBY!" Ruby shouted excitedly.
The reactions of her teammates were mixed. Yang almost jumped out of Blake's bed, startled to death. Blake had to hold on to Yang's belly button for dear life to not slide off her partner's smooth skin and probably fall to her death.
Weiss simply groaned and threw her pillow with all her might, hitting Ruby square in the face. The scythe wielder stumbled to the ground as Weiss had been able to put a surprising amount of force behind her projectile.
"Oooow…" Ruby whined as she rubbed her head.
"Don't startle me like that, Ruby, I could have hurt Blake!" Yang scolded her sister as soon as she had seen her partner's dire situation.
"Sorry Blake, I didn't know you were sleeping there." Ruby said sheepishly as she came closer to the pair on top of Blake's bed. "You do look very cute though."
The girl in question didn't really know how to respond. "Thanks, I guess? I forgive you, but please don't do that again." Blake gave her team leader a small smile before saying under her breath: "Or a pillow to the face will seem like your best friend after I'm done with you."
"Anyway, what are we doing today that is so incredibly urgent we need to be woken up at this ungodly hour?" Weiss muttered as she groggily crept out of bed. Her hair, which was normally tied together in a neat off-center ponytail was flowing freely and almost looked like Yang's untamable manes.
"I don't know," Ruby replied sheepishly, she knew she was stepping into dangerous territory, Morning Weiss was not a nice person - Ruby had heard tales of SDC staff being hospitalised for the simple act of attempting to wake Weiss up early for a company meeting.
Weiss was beginning to fume at the thought of being woken up this early for absolutely no reason. Luckily for Ruby, her sister was there to help her out.
"Why don't we go to Vale today? If we're quick we'll be able to catch one of the early flights, and you know how crowded they get around lunchtime, especially in the weekends," Yang quickly said. This seemed to calm the heiress down.
"Fine, you're lucky that I need some more Dust for Myrtenaster anyway," Weiss said before disappearing in the bathroom. "And somebody please fix the medicine cabinet!"
Blake tried to get her partner's attention. "Yang?"
"Yes, kitten, what is it?" Yang said with a warm smile. It seemed that she always couldn't help but smile when she looked at the little girl, even she didn't have an idea why.
Normally Blake would have scolded Yang for making fun of her heritage or size, but the affectionate way the words were spoken got her blushing a bit instead. She knew Yang never meant harm with her words, but she couldn't help but ask herself if she meant something at all with them.
"I realized this yesterday, but, I don't exactly have a spare pair of clothing. I mean, sleeping in my combat outfit once is fine, but if this… problem… doesn't fix itself, then-" Blake said with a frown before Yang cut her off because she could notice the pain in the raven-haired girl's eyes when she spoke about her affection.
"Yeah, I realized that too, we should get you some spare pair of clothing." Yang said quickly, this seemed to break Blake out of her thoughts as her frown disappeared.
"I don't think they have anything my size in the stores, I'm afraid." Blake deadpanned.
"Hmmm… That's true, what are we going to do?" Yang asked no in particular with a pensive expression.
"Oh! Oh! I know! I could make you some clothes!" Ruby exclaimed excitedly.
"You?" Weiss said coming out of the bathroom wearing a more casual outfit. "I'm sorry, but I doubt you have any skill in the fine art of sewing, seeing as how much of a klutz you are sometimes."
"But… But… I didn't just make Crescent Rose myself, I made my battle outfit too…" Ruby muttered, looking like a sad puppy.
"Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that. That would work." Yang backed her sister up as best she could without incurring the wrath of the white dragon.
Weiss rewarded the sisters' efforts with a pleasantly surprised expression. "Well, I guess you're not such of a dunce after all. We'll have to get some materials and equipment too while we're in Vale I guess."
"Say Weiss, can't you sew too?" Yang asked the heiress.
"Yes, in fact I can. Why?" Weiss replied with a confused look.
This made Ruby's eyes go wide. "Oh Weiss, why don't you help me out then? We could sew together!"
The heiress simply said: "No."
The scythe wielder played her trump card after hearing this: her silver eyes went wide, and her bottom lip jutted into a pout, quivering slightly for maximum effect. She looked directly into Weiss' eyes, positioning her hands together in a begging gesture. "Please Weiss? I bet my sweetheart you could make much more beautiful clothes than I ever could," Ruby pleaded, trying to charm her as much as possible.
The effects of Ruby's charm offensive were immediate; Weiss' hard facial expression softened, she squeezed her eyes firmly shut, and tried to look away, but the damage had already been done to her resolve.
"Fine," Weiss sighed, but she couldn't help to smile at little bit at her energetic partner.
"Yaaaay!"
Blake interrupted the banter of the red and white duo: "I appreciate the gesture, but you guys really don't have to do this, I will be fine. I don't want to be a burden."
To everyone's surprise it was Weiss who spoke up, with her facial expression hard again: "Blake, you are *not* a burden. It's not your fault you are this size - it's mine if anything - I was the one who gave you that Dust in the first place. We're doing what we have to do as your teammates. Besides, it's the least I can do after what happened."
The little girl give the heiress an appreciative smile. "Thanks Weiss."
"There is still one problem though. What are we going to do with Blake if we're going to Vale?" Yang asked the other girls.
"Leaving her here seems like a terrible idea, you know, with Nora sleeping in the room across ours." Weiss started.
"That means that we have to take her with us to Vale, the thing is it we can't let other people see her and I don't have a bag or something to hide her in." Yang mused, before she turned to Blake.
"Me neither, unless I take my ammo belt with me, but I doubt she'll be comfortable inside there." Ruby said.
"I think I've got something that might work." Weiss pulled out a snow white purse from one of the shelves of her closet. "It's got enough space to keep her comfortable for long enough. What do you think, Blake?"
"Sure, I'll manage." Blake sounded confident, but she didn't really know what to think of Weiss carrying her around in her purse. Luckily for her Weiss spoke up again: "Yang, I think you should carry her, I'm pretty sure she trusts you the most out of everyone in this room." She handed Yang the little purse, it looked almost comical as it contradicted immensely with Yang's broad figure.
If Blake was honest, the prospect of riding around in a purse for a whole day wasn't the most exciting thing ever, but at least she was being carried by her partner. If there was one person she felt at complete ease with, it was her.
Yang scooped her up gently, before carefully depositing in the bag. She almost closed the zipper, but decided against it as she feared Blake would suffer from the lack of oxygen or the lack of lighting.
Blake sat down onto the velvet floor of the probably very expensive and custom-made purse, typical Schnee stuff. She felt the bag being lifted as Yang took it and walked out of the room with the rest of her team.
The experience of being carried like this was… weird, Blake wasn't really sure how to describe it.
It was like she was sitting in some sort of elevator, only if elevators would move horizontally and would be made of velvet and leather.
Not that it was the most comfortable ride ever, even though Yang had lift the zipper open. Every time the purse got shaken by something, Blake had to fight the different pieces of makeup that rolled around with her.
'How can a girl have this much makeup?' She muttered angry as a package of eyeliner hit her square in the chest. 'This is ridiculous!' The girls had forgotten to take them all out of the bag in their hurry to catch the airship.
When the bag wasn't shaken or swaying too wildly and when she wasn't cursing the boxes and tubes of makeup, she felt awfully lonely and felt like the walls were closing in on her - it was incredibly claustrophobic. She already knew it was going to be a challenge for her to endure the trip.
She decided that she wasn't going to complain against Yang or Weiss however. She was happy enough that they were willing to go out of their way for her and she didn't want to become a bigger burden than she already was.
When the outside noises were suddenly muted and she could see a roof above her head instead of the clear blue sky, she realized they had arrived in the airship and that it was relatively calm. It seemed Yang's plan to go extra early had worked.
A hand, Blake assumed it was Yang's, intruded the bag and carefully grabbed Blake out of the bag. She got dropped on top of the blonde's other hand. Looking around she could see that there were luckily no strangers in sight and that the rest of her team was observing her. Blake really appreciated their concern, but it was getting kind of creepy and intimidating, the way people were looking at her like she was some kind of lab rat. The fact that she was about the same size didn't really help either.
Yang booming voice broke the silence: "How are you holding up, Blake? Is it not too crammed in there?"
"No no, it's fine. I'll be okay for the rest of the trip don't worry," Blake half lied, she didn't like lying against her partner, but again, she didn't want to be a bigger burden than she already was. Ruby and Weiss decided to leave the two alone and walked towards one of the huge windows to look at the scenery passing by.
"That's great! I'll hold you like this for the rest of the flight if you're okay with that. I don't think anyone is gonna walk in here, I checked and there were barely any people aboard." Yang smiled, she liked holding Blake. She enjoyed the feeling of her partner being so close, she didn't really know why herself but it always made her feel lighthearted.
Blake relaxed visibly and began staring out of the window behind Yang, she saw the mountains and the red trees of Forever Fall passing by. She had always found them beautiful, she noticed that they didn't look any different than before, despite her size difference. It made her realize that the world just continued on, like she hadn't just changed into a 5-inch midget. She found it both saddening and heartening at the same time.
She was rudely interrupted as the door opened and a flight stewardess walked in.
Yang was quick to act, she closed her hand to shield Blake once more from the hungry eyes of strangers. Luckily it seemed she had been just in time, as the stewardess walked further without noticing a thing.
Ruby and Weiss were just a surprised as the black and yellow duo by the interruption and Ruby whispered to Yang: "Did she see her?"
"No, I don't think so," Yang answered.
"Even though she didn't see Blake, that was way too close. What if it happens again? I think it's better if we leave her in my purse, it's too dangerous." Weiss reasoned as she walked over.
"She's right. Sorry Blakey, I'm afraid you'll have to stay in here," Yang said before lowering the little girl into the bag once again.
The last thing Blake could see out of the window before the velvet surface of the inside of the bag once again covered her vision, were the first buildings of Vale and she was suddenly overwhelmed by anguish. Back in the dorm she had thought it would have been a good idea to go with her team, but right now she was having some serious second thoughts…
A/N:
Shout out to my two fantastic editors: Duranda1 and Heatrules!
Remember when I said I would be able to write a lot during this break? Well, life kinda happened and it had me scraping for the time to write... Sorry people!
My chapters (including this one) are also going to be a bit shorter from now on. It's to make that deadline of one a week a bit more doable and it's also to get the stress of long chapters of my back. So long story short, they are going to be shorter, but I will upload them more frequently.
Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, it's a bit different than the last one.
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Yang: It looks interesting...
Blake: You are not seriously telling me that you enjoy it, are you?
*Yang gives her a grin that says it all.*
*Blake facepalms*
Blake: Oh, for fu-