3: The Site
Ruby looked around. They had picked their spot for camping near the edge of the Emerald Forest. It was a good idea. Camping in the middle within Grimm infested areas sounded more like suicide. Then she turned around to look at the others. Noah had all the supplies being carried by his left hand alone. He was clearly a very strong Huntsman.
Ruby paid attention to the clothing of team NOVL. Noah was wearing blue jeans, and a green shirt underneath a brown trench coat. His shoes were brow and looked heavy. He was also wearing some spiked and bladed bracers. Oscar was wearing a plain white buttoned shirt, and black jeans, with white sneakers. His appearance, simple. He had two short swords that were rather broad attached to his belt. Ruby thought that they looked like guillotines. She could see Oscar's logo on his shirt pocket, which was a circle made of chains, and a sword in the middle. Then she looked at Victor. Victor was wearing a black shirt, grey pants, and black joggers. A sword was slung behind him, but from the angle she was seeing, she could only see the handle. With his black hair, red eyes, and rather depressed face, Ruby had to admit it. He looked gothic. On the other hand, Lavender looked the most cheerful. She was wearing a yellow shirt, a light blue jacket, her glasses did not hide her green eyes, high heeled shoes which looked similar to Weiss's. She was also wearing a belt which had the symbol of the Schnee Dust Company Security; the symbol of the company within a triangular shield. She was once again having her satchel with her.
Ruby then looked at both her team and team JNPR. They all looked pretty happy. Then she looked at the sun. The sun was still about 3 hours away from sundown. Ruby then said, "All right, so Noah?"
Noah turned his head.
"Um… so what's your weapon?"
Noah looked rather taken aback, and put up his fists, with the bracers showing clearly, and he said, "Here they are."
Ruby at first thought he was talking about his fists, and said, "Everybody knows their fists can work like weapons, silly!"
Oscar suddenly appeared behind her and said, "He's talking about his bracers. Don't you see the blades and spikes?"
Ruby then looked at the irregular spikes, and then the blades on the bracers. Noah sighed and said, "Oscar, please tell her."
Oscar then straightened himself and explained, "He's technophobic. He will definitely defend himself from advanced stuff, but his phobia prevents him from USING it."
Ruby looked sympathetically at Noah. A phobia which prevents you from using advanced and awesome weaponry? Could the world be this unfair?!
"Relax, he does fine even with those," Oscar said, "He can easily fight bigger blades with determination and will. And punches."
Noah then said, "OK Oscar, that's enough."
When Oscar headed off, Ruby asked, "Don't you ever wish that you could use advanced weaponry?"
Noah said, "You have no idea."
Yang noticed that Victor was, as usual, by himself. He was putting down some of the stuff they would need for the night. Yang smiled. Time to give him a dose of Yang-icilin.
Victor was setting a point for which the tent would be set for his team, when a shotgun shell dropped close to him from nowhere. He bent to pick it up, when Yang bent to pick it up too, and said, "Sorry! My bad!"
Both hands touched together.
Yang drew her hand back instantly.
It was a hot day, but his hand was colder than ice. In fact, the moment she had touched his hand, she had felt all of his pain and sadness suddenly wash into her. It was like her happiness was stored in a canyon, and a huge earthquake had just damaged the sunny mountains and cast dark clouds.
She felt his pain. She felt his misery. But most of all, felt his sadness and negativity. It was so overwhelming he fell over. When she opened her eyes, Nora, Victor, and Ruby were standing over.
Ruby: Are you okay? You passed out for like 10 seconds.
Nora looked at Victor and demanded, "What did you do to her?"
Victor perked up, and Yang noticed that his eye color changed from red to blue and even his voice changed to a sort of monotone, "What did I do to her?"
Nora tore at him, "You touched her! And then she passed out!"
Yang sat up, saying, "We just both held hands for a split second."
Ruby and Nora looked at each other. Then they both quickly walked away, and started to whisper to each other. Yang noticed his eye color had changed from blue to red again. Victor looked at Yang, and once again, the beauty of her face took him away. The blonde hair, the eyes, how they were looking at him…
"Um, you okay?" Yang asked, again being slightly disturbed by the way Victor had been staring at her.
Victor looked away, and said in his normal voice and not the strange monotone, "I'm fine. Thanks for saving me from your friends. They looked like they were ready to tear me apart."
Yang laughed, and said, "Yeah, my sister is very defensive of me, even though she's the smaller one."
There was a silence, and Yang said, "Why is your hand so cold?"
Victor looked at her, and said, "I… may have… drowned in my sorrows…I don't feel cold, but every person who's touched me have said the same thing."
Yang looked at his face, and saw a look of hurt come over his face. Clearly the subject was hurting him. Then she decided to change it. "Why are you always so depressed?"
Victor didn't look at her, and said, "You won't understand. I don't think most people would."
Yang then reached her hand to touch his arm, but he drew it away, saying, "You'll pass out again."
She noticed there was a flower near him. It looked pretty. The moment he touched it, though, it died instantly. Victor looked even more hurt. Yang was amazed at the level of negativity within him. If it could kill flowers and make people pass out just by touching him, not to mention make him colder and he couldn't even feel it, then she needed some new tactics…
Lavender kept drilling Weiss with annoying conversation, and Weiss had to resist slapping her at least 34 times. Weiss wanted to observe the camping spot, which was a rather good spot, but Lavender's presence was reducing the tranquility of the area. Then Lavender said, "So you have a Multi Action Dust Rapier? (Weiss wanted to use the Multi Action Dust power in her face) I have a Multi Action Dust weapon too!"
Weiss was prepared for Lavender possessing a Multi Action Dust Dagger, but Lavender instead pulled out a plushie panda. Lavender mumbled, "Would you hold V please?"
Weiss looked at the plush toy (or 'V'.) It certainly looked like a panda, but for some reason, it had a slight weight. Suddenly, the head actually jerked up, looked at Weiss directly, and said in a robotic voice, "Hands off." The hand of the panda turned into a giant robot fist, which looked too big for the body, and it immediately punched Weiss (Right Cross!). Weiss fell down, and for some reason, felt insulted. She got up, and spat at Lavender, "You and your little…. Robot has dared to punch me! You have insulted my honor and dignity!" (this was really just an excuse to get Lavender to go away.)
Lavender quickly picked V up, and said, "I'm so sorry! I'm surprised V doesn't know you. He was made by the Schnee Dust Company as my bodyguard. HE's been around with me since I was a little kid."
Weiss looked at Lavender. "Bodyguard?"
"Yeah! He's got giant fists, chainguns, flamethrowers, a wrecking ball, a giant sword…"
Weiss didn't listen to the other contraptions within V. Why didn't her father ever give her a bodyguard?
Suddenly, Victor butted in, and Yang saw that once again, his eyes had changed color to blue, and he spoke in that weird monotone again, "Well, dear Ice Queen, if your honor and dignity have been insulted, then why don't you challenge Lavender to a duel? That way, you can regain your dignity and honor through victory, and make her feel ashamed of herself!"
Lavender muttered, "I already feel ashamed…"
Weiss thought about it. Maybe beating the crap out of Lavender would be fun.
Next Chapter: Weiss vs Lavender!