5: Some scary (and some not so scary) stories
The time was 7:30 PM, fire was burning bright, and the three teams were seated around it. Then, Noah clapped his hands together, "First I would like to thank you all for coming with me. It is better to enjoy these traditions and events in groups, right?"
Yeah, right, Weiss said to herself mentally. She felt insulted by getting punched in the face by Lavender's robot, but even worse, her honor and dignity had been damaged by her so called No. 1 fan, Lavender.
Noah went on, "So therefore, I say, how about a toast?"
All of the hunters raised whatever drink they had (In Blake's case, milk in a bottle) and said, "Toast!"
Jaune's face lit up. "How about we tell scary stories? It's Hollow Eve, after all, and we are around a camp fire!"
"I don't know, Jaune," Noah said, his smile fading. "I don't want that a story come up that's so scary that somebody won't be able to sleep."
Jaune then smiled dangerously. "You scared?"
Noah looked up, with a face that said, "Challenge accepted."
"All right," Noah asked, "Whose scary story first?"
Jaune's hand shot up first.
"Anybody?" Noah said, ignoring Jaune, "Anybody? Anyone? No one? All right… Jaune….. go ahead…."
Jaune then straightened himself, and said, "My oldest sister always told this story."
There was a guy and a girl, who were basically a couple. Boy, were those two in love. They used to go everywhere together, do everything together, and… you get the point. So one day, they decide to drive up to this point where couples usually go.
At this, Ruby looked at Yang and Victor, and tried to picture them together.
Well, on the way, their car stopped. The radio also stopped working. The guy got out to see what was wrong. They were on a deserted highway, and then, the girl got worried when 2 minutes went by, but the guy didn't return. Then, a hand broke in through the window, and the last thing which the girl remembered was having an axe driven right through her eyes.
Ruby was sitting on the edge of her log, clearly scared. Even Blake and Yang looked shaken. But Weiss, being the snotty old sister she is, said, "That can't be possible. Was the girl having no Aura to protect her?"
Then everybody looked at Jaune.
"DAMN IT YOU RUINED IT!" Jaune exclaimed.
Weiss looked proud with herself.
Then Lavender raised her hand, and said, "I have a story."
Weiss smirked, "I bet it's good."
So there was a village, and in the village was a girl. She was twisted. Not literally, but mentally. Yes, she was a, what you call er, a part-jerk, part-psycho…whatever.
Weiss noticed Lavender's tone was changing. Instead of friendly and of a girl she wanted to punch, it started sounding more like a girl who has gone through plenty of horrors, and it has hardened her.
Well, one day, she got angry with a boy, just because she was in a bad mood and he got in her way. So she beated him up, with her bare hands, because the insane are stronger than we are.
She was even speaking in a way that made it look like she was actually 35 but looked 17.
The boy was the village leader's son. And boy, was he mad. So he told the girl to go to the woods, and to return when she had spent a night in there. But don't reason with the insane, they just won't listen. When do they listen?
OK, now Weiss was starting to creeped out.
She went into the woods. It was the night of Hollow Eve, and in the woods, it is said that Hollow Eve is when the Stitch comes out. What is the Stitch? That's what everybody called it. They had not seen much of it, but what they had seen of it was unpleasant. It looked more like a skeleton than a being, a human skeleton. The skin, looked made of cloth than flesh. It had many tendrils of cloth coming out of its head, and hands. And it's mouth could open into four mandibles. That way, you could see its teeth. They were made to grind. Flesh…from bone.
It was so formal. TOO formal.
So the girl went into the woods, and she was just feeling like punching and killing any animal she could find. Too bad it was the Stitch. It's tendrils latched on to her. She screamed, but Stitchy toke no notice. He wrapped his tendrils around her mouth, and then around everywhere. She broke within his grasp, and finally, the Stitch fitted it's mouth to her head, breaking into her body its many tongues with suckers on them.
The next day, the people found her. What happened to her?
Lavender was looking at the group in front of her. She had a look which nobody had seen before on her. It was a look of malice, of pure evil. She had a twisted grin on her face.
Her skin was there, so were her bones. But …..she…. was…..empty. No blood. No innards. Empty!
Lavender stood up, and laughed in such a horrific voice, Weiss screamed out loud. Everybody had been greatly unsettled and were about to scream, but Weiss's scream was what stopped them from screaming.
Oscar stood up, "Um.. .Lavender, that was a….nice story."
Lavender looked at him, and said, "Who is this Lavender you speak of?"
Oscar pinched her, bringing her back to reality.
"OW! Oscar! Huh?"
She saw everybody looking at Weiss, who had gone completely white, and was fidgeting.
"Weiss?" Pyrrha asked, "Are you….scared?"
Weiss immediately snapped out of whatever was holding her, realizing Lavender had humiliated her even further. Weiss had never been afraid of anything. She had fought Giant's Armor, and many Grimm. And Lavender's stupid… STORY had scared her?
Noah said, "Um… I think that's enough stories for now…."
NEXT CHAPTER: Weiss plans to kill Lavender while yang decides to make her move on Victor.