Chapter 25: Best Laid Plans

Holla at ya boy, The Draigg! I'm back with another chapter for my peeps! Before I lay some sick words on ya, you should know that Monty Oum makes RWBY, not me. That being said, let's start this up, yo!

Weiss was now having a good idea why Wednesday was traditionally called Hump Day. It seemed like a ton of work had just been dumped on her today. Not only did she have to make up all the lectures she missed during yesterday's pajama misadventure earlier today, but Ruby decided to gather all of her musical team in her room to go over the fine points of her plan. At least this was better than meeting in the Theater Club office. She would rather stay in the comfort of Team RWBY's dorm room than be in the cramped, industrial strength cleaner smelling office.

Currently, Weiss was sitting next to Ruby on their bottom bunk. Jaune and Pyrrha were sitting opposite of them on the other bunk, Ren and Nora were sitting at the work desk, and Velvet was standing against the wall. Yang couldn't join the group today, since she wanted to check on Blake at the Medical Ward.

Ruby was interested in getting this meeting done soon, so she could bring out the snacks that Weiss bought for everyone. So, she immediately started talking once everyone got settled in.

"Okay, theater team! I hope you guys are ready! I certainly am!", Ruby exclaimed. The others agreed in various degrees. Ren shrugged, Velvet, Jaune, and Pyrrha nodded, and Nora punched the air in excitement.

"Okay!", Ruby cheered, pulling out her scroll. "I hope you guys read over the song list yesterday. So, I you did, you should know what to expect.".

Ren immediately piped up. "Why exactly do we need some foreign pop in here? It just seems thrown in there for no reason.", he observed.

Ruby immediately responded, almost as if she expected someone to bring that up. "Well, I made a promise to Blake to put it in. I can't disappoint my friend, can I?", she justified.

Everyone else nodded in agreement. Ren sighed and let the topic drop. He just accepted that he would never fully understand anyone that went to Beacon.

"Anywhooo~, any questions?", Ruby asked the assembly. Velvet raised her hand.

"You don't need to raise your hand, Velvs.", Ruby noted. Velvet dropped her arm and started to speak.

"I know we got a field to have the show in, but what about a stage?", Velvet asked. Admittedly, she had brought up a good point. It was at this point that Weiss spoke up.

"Don't worry, I can take care of that.", Weiss said, her voice filled with confidence.

"B-but how?", asked Velvet, slightly confused.

"I'm a Schnee! There's nothing I CAN'T get!", Weiss boasted. A sly grin crossed her face. Now she was feeling a little proud of being rich. Sure, money can't buy happiness, but it sure as hell can help.

"Awesome!", Ruby declared, hugging Weiss. She was still a little uncomfortable hugging Ruby ever since yesterday's lunch incident, but she decided to return the hug anyway.

"Are you guys going to need costumes?", Pyrrha asked. Given her previous job, it would only be natural to ask if she was needed.

"Well, I know Blake would insist on having something flashy for the pop part. What do you think, Ren?", asked Ruby. All attention focused on Ren.

"Why are you asking me?", Ren questioned. He had an idea why, but then again he wanted to believe that his friends wouldn't bring up the obvious.

"Because you're… you know… of that persuasion?", Ruby tried to justify.

Ren's idea was proven correct. "So, you want my advice on foreign pop costumes, because I have ancestors from the Eastern Kingdoms?", he said in an even tone.

"Well, I wouldn't put it THAT way… but you probably have some idea of what those pop stars dress up like, right?", Ruby explained her reasoning.

Ren pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance. What did he do to deserve dealing with these people? And what made it worse, he did have an idea. He did listen to a lot of that pop when he was younger. But that was only a phase, damn it!

"If I help you, can you just never talk about my ancestry again?", bargained Ren. He couldn't stand people constantly making weird assumptions on his culture.

"I can't exactly promise that…", Ruby admitted, playing with her fingers. "But what I CAN promise is that you'll get to have some ice cream, my treat!", Ruby offered. How can anybody say no to ice cream?

Ren gave her a blank look. He was absolutely tired of all of this crap. Sighing, he gave in. He was willing to do anything to get past everyone destroying his culture. Why him? It was always him. Was this all just some sick joke the universe was playing on him?

"…Sure. Just… whatever. I don't care anymore.", he relented.

"Yay! So, what do they wear?", Ruby gushed with enthusiasm.

"Wear plenty of bows and lace. And don't forget the skirts. Keep them short enough to show some leg, but long enough to keep it family friendly.", Ren recalled from his old memories.

Ren still had all of those old posters of pop stars in his room back home. He should probably burn those when he had the chance. He should also toss that tree costume Nora made while he was at it. She had insisted on keeping it regardless, and stuffed it into the closet to keep it out of the way. It was only a matter of time when she did something weird with it.

Ruby was taking notes on her scroll. If one were to read what she was typing, her notes would read:

Dresses: Maybe combat skirts? Get Yang and Blake's measurements.

Lace: How much is too much? Get several yards just to be safe.

Bows: Ties or weapon type? See if I can combine the two.

Headsets are cool. Check prices.

Do cool team poses? Maybe a group formation? Make it extremely awesome!

"Thanks, Ren!", Ruby cheered as she finished her notes. Ren groaned in response. What kind of monster would he accidentally create now?

"Hey, uh, guys?", Jaune piped up, "How exactly should we advertise the show? You know, get out the word?".

He had also brought up a good point. Ruby mulled of his words, tapping her chin. Posters were nice. But, the thing was is that they didn't have the right permits to post them up. But wait! Maybe they didn't have to post them at all!

"We can do an air drop of flyers!", Ruby suggested. This got her odd looks. "We've got people who can go in the air, right? Let's just have them do that and drop posters!", she further explained.

"Well, I can use my glyphs…", Weiss concurred. At those words, Velvet dove under the bed to hide. The word 'glyphs' had brought up some traumatic memories. She never wanted to fly with Weiss again. Everyone stared at the bed as Velvet started to whimper in fear.

"No, please don't do that! No! NOOOOO!", Velvet cried in fear from under the bed.

"Relax, Velvet! We won't have you do it at all!", reassured Ruby. It didn't really work. She could feel Velvet curl into a ball under where she was sitting.

"I don't wanna fly, I don't wanna fly, I don't wanna fly, I don't wanna fly…", Velvet started to mutter to herself.

"What happened to her?", Nora asked, confused at her friend's actions.

"I may have… launched Velvet in my glyphs… a lot.", Weiss explained, rubbing the back of her neck. To be honest, she was feeling pretty bad about it. It was really weird knowing that she had personally caused Velvet to wet herself a few days ago. She was sure Velvet had started to choke up when she had to go to her room to change.

"Can you please come out?", Pyrrha asked.

"NO!", screeched a still terrified Velvet. It was apparent she wouldn't come out from under the bed for a while. Unknown to the others, Velvet had started shiver uncontrollably.

Weiss sighed. "Look, I'm sorry that I kept on launching you in the air repeatedly, okay? Can you just come out now?", she apologized.

It seemed to work, since Velvet's rabbit ears poked out from under the bed a little bit. "R-really? Y-you m-mean it-t?", Velvet stuttered.

"Of course. Why would I lie about this?", Weiss asked rhetorically.

Velvet's head fully poked out from under the bed. Unfortunately, it was right underneath Weiss' legs. A blush fell across Velvet's nose.

"L-lewd…", Velvet whispered to herself. It was quite the view. Weiss was wearing her panties with the snowman design today. It was kind of funny that such a mature person would wear such childish underwear.

Weiss noticed where Velvet's gaze was and blushed in anger. She started to stomp her feet around Velvet's head.

"Pervert! Stop looking up my skirt!", Weiss cried. Velvet gave a yelp of terror and went back to hiding under the bed. One step forward, two steps back. Oh well. They needed to get on with the meeting. They would just have to deal with Velvet later.

"Any other questions?", Ruby asked. Nobody replied to her query. Ruby took this to be a good sign.

"Great! Get out the snacks, Weiss!", Ruby ordered. Weiss put her hands on her hips and looked at Ruby sternly.

"Not until you say please, Ruby.", she said.

"Please! Come on! Please?!", Ruby pleaded. She used her best sad looking eyes. Weiss immediately crumbled inwardly at the sight. Now she felt like she just kicked an adorable puppy. Weiss rushed over to the drink corner where the snacks were. She just wanted Ruby to stop her heartbreaking look.

Placing the packages of cookies on the desk near Ren and Nora, the work group (minus Velvet) gathered around the food. Ruby launched herself at the package of chocolate chip cookies and tackled it to the floor. She started to rip apart the plastic wrappings with her teeth. It was quite the spectacle.

Nobody was expecting a meal and a show. But man, watching Ruby devour those cookies was like watching some sort of nature documentary. Ren was sure that the way Ruby ate those cookies would put some lions to shame. For some reason, she was making weird growling noises as she shoved her face into the package. Ruby was crouched on all fours as she cookie crumbs flew all over the room.

Finally finishing off the prey that was the cookies, Ruby raised her head and let out a mighty howl. Then realizing what she was doing, quickly stood up and brushed crumbs off of her dress. Everyone was staring at her.

"S-sorry… I got a little carried away there…", Ruby apologized, embarrassed. In the process of devouring the cookies she had managed to get crumbs and saliva all over the floor, and scare Velvet even further. There was no way she would come out now.

Nora clapped and jumped up and down. "Wow! Can you do that again?", she cheered. Ren put his arm firmly on her shoulder.

"No, Nora.", he evenly stated. Nora stopped bouncing and looked a little disappointed. Dejected, she decided to eat some sugar cookies. Ren never let her have some fun.

"Can't come out, Ruby'll eat me. Can't come out, Ruby'll eat me. Can't come out, Ruby'll eat me…", was Velvet's new terrified chant. Predatory animals ALWAYS hunted rabbits. It was a part of nature, after all. The others could hear her frantic whispering coming from under the bed.

Everyone decided from then on to eat their snacks in silence. Overall, the group felt that this meeting had gone pretty well. Sure, Velvet was now completely scared out of her wits, but that was a regular occurrence, anyway.

It was now nine o'clock at night. The work group had left over two hours ago. Or, most of them had. Velvet never came out from under the bed. But, she was pretty quiet now, so she wasn't bothering anybody.

Yang had gotten back from the Medical Ward forty five minutes ago. Her visit to Blake's room had gone well. Or, rather as well it can go considering she still had some head trauma. At least she was starting to get some of her old mindset back. But for some reason, she kept on calling Yang 'Bai' for some reason. Oh well, it was close enough.

Currently, Team RWY was in their beds, Yang completely entangled in their covers, and Weiss and Ruby cuddling each other. They hadn't fallen asleep yet. Ruby couldn't since she was still on her sugar rush from earlier. It was a bad idea to let Ruby eat that many cookies. Now, Ruby was chatting a mile a minute in Weiss' ear.

"So then I was like, 'No way!', and the bear was like 'Yes way.", and then we played some tennis for thirty days. But then the toaster cheated, so we had to do a tie breaker in the marshmallow pool!", Ruby gushed, recalling a vivid dream she had the other day. Whenever Weiss tried to stop her ranting, Ruby just kept on talking anyway.

"Ruby, honey, that's great. But please, can we just go to sleep now?", Weiss pleaded. They had classes tomorrow. If they wanted to get to breakfast in time, they needed their rest.

"Ohh, I just can't! Come on, let's do something!", Ruby declared as she started to straddle Weiss. Even if it was meant as a playful gesture, Weiss still couldn't help but blush at the sexual connotation. Velvet was still under the bed! They couldn't do it with her still there!

"No, let her watch. I WANT her to watch us.", Weiss' inner exhibitionist told her. Weiss tried to force the thought out of her head. Why did her lewd thoughts always happen while she was wearing her pajamas, anyway?

"Hell, you can have her join in on the fun! Just pull on those ears and spank her! Make her squeal! Make Velvet yours and Ruby's plaything!", her train of thought continued. No, Weiss wasn't Blake, damn it! Stop thinking like her! Weiss shifted uncomfortably where she lie, getting aroused by her thoughts.

"Do it in front of the window! Show everyone that writhing, naked mass of love! DO IT!", her mind commanded of her. Weiss needed to stop thinking before her inner sex fiend took over. Sighing, she gently pushed Ruby off the top of her.

"Do whatever you want. Just don't wake me.", Weiss whispered to Ruby. She then turned over on her side, trying to fall asleep.

Ruby briefly huffed in annoyance. Then, she decided to count the small bumps of the stucco walls in her head.

Nothing sexy would happen tonight for anybody.

There you guys have it! Another chapter done! While I bet you enjoyed it, just let know what you really think in the reviews section, okay? Well, this is The Draigg, signing off until next time.