Chapter 30: J-Poppin'
Sieg Zeon! It's The Draigg here, with another model of this story for you guys! After painting it red and making it three times faster, I hope you'll like it! Now, I should let you soldiers know that I don't own the registration of RWBY, or any other media I utilize in the battlefield of writing. Now, for the Zabi family, let's begin!
Overall, the visit to the Medical Ward went well on Sunday. After that sisterly bonding moment with Yang and Ruby, their visit didn't last long after that. So, they had promised to bring Velvet some pants for Velvet, and left for the dorm room. The rest of that day was spent on working on homework. The teachers had really dumped it on them in one go. They needed to get it done early, so they could pick up Yang and Velvet on Monday morning.
Speaking of Monday morning, it wasn't going well for a variety of reasons. For starters, Weiss and Ruby forgot to get Velvet's waist size. So, they decided to just pack a bag full of different sized pants, just in case. Also, once they arrived at the cafeteria, Weiss and Ruby found out that they were all out of any good food. The pair was absolutely starving this morning.
"And so then I dove into the pool of melted butter, where the Fey King was waiting for me!", Nora dramatically exclaimed, describing her latest dream. Since Ren hadn't intervened so far, that meant that her memory was still fresh this morning.
Ruby and Weiss weren't paying too much attention. Instead, they were eying the breakfast that their friends were enjoying. Weiss' mouth was watering at the sight of the vegetarian omelet that Pyrrha was currently eating. Ruby was flat out drooling, thinking of stealing the sugary cereal Jaune had in front of him.
Ren had noticed this, and shifted his plate closer to himself. Nobody would lay a hand on his toast other than himself! However, his movement only drew attention to himself. He could feel Ruby and Weiss' eyes drilling into his breakfast.
"Heyyyyy… Ren, my pal, my friend. How about uh… giving me some toast?", Ruby asked, trying her best to look innocent. Ren wasn't buying her act in the slightest.
"Ruby, please! Don't bother Ren like that!", scolded Weiss. Her plan of attack was to make it look like she was on Ren's side. It was a better idea than just flat out begging.
However, Ren regarded Weiss with suspicion as well. He saw that hunger in her body language. It looked like she was trying to eat his toast with her eyes.
Hoping to put an end to this annoyance, he looked at Ruby and Weiss directly. Staring at them, he shoved a piece of toast in his mouth. Chewing it, he furrowed his brow at the two. He dared them to do something about it.
Ruby gasped, and weakly reached out to the toast in Ren's hand. "Aww…", she whimpered. Ruby's stomach audibly growled.
"It's okay Ruby.", Weiss said, pulling down Ruby's hand. She did this while giving a death glare at Ren. Ren could care less how she felt. It was his food, not hers. He sure as hell needed the energy from the food to deal with Nora all day.
Weiss glanced at her scroll. Oh no! They needed to leave now to pick up Yang and Velvet! Grabbing Ruby as she tried to swipe one of Nora's pancakes, she excused themselves from the table.
"Sorry, but we have to go. Come, Ruby.", Weiss said quickly. Pulling Ruby along behind her, the pair left the cafeteria. However, in their hurry, they had forgotten the bag full of pants. They didn't even notice as they walked to the Medical Ward.
Meanwhile, in Room 339…
"Come on, Velvet, are you gonna get out of bed, or what?", Yang asked. It was a good thing she had her jacket to cover up the large tear in her shirt. Velvet, however, wasn't as lucky.
"I-I'm fine, thank you.", replied Velvet, clinging the bed sheets tighter.
Now that Velvet wasn't afraid for her life, she could fully worry about not having any pants or skirt to wear. As a result, she refused to get out of bed. Velvet didn't want to expose herself to everyone like that. It was either walk out of the room without pants, or in a hospital gown. Neither option was good. She really hoped that Weiss and Ruby would pull through for her.
So, when Team White Rose walked into the room, she expected to be carrying some pants. But, to her horror, she didn't see them with anything.
"Wha-what about the pants?", Velvet asked in shock. How could they possibly forget?
Ruby and Weiss froze in their tracks as Velvet opened her mouth. Oh crap, they left the pants bag behind!
"Ohh… poopie.", Ruby muttered under her breath. She turned to Weiss. "What should we do?", she asked.
"We should… umm…", Weiss pondered. If they went back to the cafeteria to get the pants, then they would be late for class. Or, they could ditch Velvet and get there on time. Or, the third option was that Velvet could swallow her pride and just go with them in her current state.
Maybe there was something they could use to cover up Velvet. Weiss looked around the room for something suitable for Velvet to wear. All she saw was Blake asleep in her bed. Wait! Blake's clothes! They were folded up next to her!
Swiping Blake's shorts, but leaving the stockings, Weiss tossed the clothes at Velvet.
"Get dressed. We're leaving in ten minutes.", ordered Weiss as she walked out of the room. Ruby followed after her.
"Wait! We're just going to take Blake's pants?", Ruby asked as she walked behind Weiss.
"Oh, I'm sure she won't mind. Plus we'll bring her a pair tomorrow.", Weiss said, waving away Ruby's current concerns. They had a bigger one right now, anyway. The both of them were starving. Their path took them directly to the vending machines.
Seeing a pack of cookies, Ruby tried to grab at them. Her hand was blocked by the glass display window. Embarrassed at how desperate she was, Ruby looked over to Weiss.
"Can I have cookies for breakfast?', she pleaded. Maybe her sad eyes would work better on Weiss than they did on Ren.
Weiss considered this in her head. On the one hand, Ruby having sugar this early was always a bad idea. But, on the other hand, they were pretty cheap. And, damn, those puppy-dog eyes were melting her heart. Ruby was too excellent at manipulation for her own good.
Relenting, Weiss put some lien in the slot and bought two bags of cookies. She needed to eat, too. Weiss didn't even care if it was unhealthy, empty calories. It felt like her stomach was trying to eat itself.
Sitting down in the lobby, Ruby and Weiss munched on their cookies, and watched some cheesy morning news show. If it wasn't for the fact that they were picking up their friends at the hospital, Weiss wished they could do something like this more often. It was nice to relax with your girlfriend. Given their hectic work schedule, they couldn't do this often.
Yang and Velvet walked over to them a few minutes later, fully dressed. To say that Velvet looked odd was an understatement. Since she was wearing her uniform at the time of the fight, she still had her blouse and jacket. However, the white shorts that were stolen from Blake really clashed with the formal looking top half of her body. Plus, Velvet felt uncomfortable showing that much of her legs. Oh well, at least it was better than nothing.
Standing up, Weiss grabbed Ruby's empty bag and threw away their trash. Facing the others, she offered, "Let's go to class, shall we?".
The motley team walked out of the doors, read to deal with the day.
Later that day, Ruby had messaged the others to show up to Team RWBY's dorm room for some impromptu practice. Team JNPR didn't mind, since they were neighbors, anyway. Velvet protested a little, but then she relented when Ruby convinced her that practice was absolutely necessary tonight.
So, when the time came, everyone except the still incapacitated Blake arrived to the dorm room. Ruby decided today would be dedicated to one specific subject: foreign pop. And, feeling the need to get in the mood, Ruby struck a pose when everyone got settled in.
She had spread her legs apart as far as they could go, put one hand on her hip, and the other one tugged at her shirt collar. Naturally, everyone was confused at her posing. Why did she keep on insisting on doing poses?
Once she dropped the pose, Ruby announced, "Thanks for coming, everyone! Now, we're focusing on something special today!". She looked directly at Ren. "You probably have a good idea what it is.", she said.
Ren rolled his eyes and sighed. Just because he had eastern blood running through his veins, that didn't mean that he was obsessed with everything his culture had made. "Oh, I bet I do.", Ren muttered under his breath.
Turning back to everyone, Ruby declared, "That's right! Pop music! Now, can you all take out your scrolls?". As the group did so, Ruby smiled to herself. So far, so good.
"Now, if you look at the song list I sent you, there are two choices for the pop song. We either have, 'Just Communication' or 'Rhythm Emotion'. Which one do you guys want? I mean, I'm fine with either choice you make.", Ruby explained further.
"Why just those two?", Jaune asked. It stuck him as odd when she only gave them two choices.
"They fit in the most.", justified Ruby.
"And how do you expect us to pick one if we haven't heard them before?", Weiss also pointed out. Even if she was Ruby's girlfriend, Weiss still had no clue what really went on in Ruby's head.
"Look, I'm just asking for an opinion, okay? Just tell me something!", Ruby said. She was losing her patience. This should be a simple decision!
"Well, I'm putting in my vote for 'Rhythm Emotion'.", Pyrrha decided.
"But you haven't even listened to it!", Ren said, exasperated.
"The title sounds nice.", Pyrrha said.
Ren hung his head low. He could have sworn that these people were smarter when he first met them. Well, at least Nora stayed the same. Yet again, that wasn't saying much. Looking over at her scroll, she was messing around on the drawing application. Noticing Ren looking at her, Nora showed him her picture. It was two stick figures, holding hands under a smiling sun. One had the word 'me' overhead, the other one had 'Ren'. Nora beamed proudly at her handiwork.
It was a good thing nobody he knew could read minds, Ren mused to himself. Otherwise, they would be driven mad trying to figure Nora out.
"Good job.", Ren flatly stated, humoring Nora. Well, if it made her happy, he didn't have much ground to dispute what she did. He turned his attention back to the discussion at hand.
"Ruby, if you wrote the song list, why don't you just pick the song yourself?", Weiss questioned.
Ruby didn't know how to answer that. To be honest, she didn't think this part through too well. Both songs were so good! She just couldn't pick one over the other! And she really should have seen her friend's indecision coming miles away. They were helping her set up, not write the show, after all.
"Fine! I'll decide myself!", she declared. She stomped over to the desk and pulled out her headphones. Plugging them into her scroll, she started to listen to the songs repeatedly.
Twenty five minutes later, Ruby made no progress whatsoever. Nobody had anything to do, so they had just decided to leave. Velvet in particular was a little miffed. She didn't want to show up today in the first place, and it amounted to nothing.
With the room empty except the members of Team RWY, Ruby continued to repeat the songs. Yang and Weiss were getting a little worried. It wasn't healthy to sit around listening to the same songs for nearly a half hour.
"Err, Rubes? You can stop now.", Yang said, trying to put her hand on Ruby's shoulder. Ruby hissed at Yang and kept on listening to the songs. Yang retracted her hand in surprise. Who in their right mind hissed at people?
Turning to Weiss, Yang shrugged. They didn't know what to do to get Ruby back to reality. But, if they didn't think of something, both knew that Ruby would stay up for days trying to decide. She was already focusing, with her eyes closed in concentration.
Team Freezerburn huddled together to form a plan. Hopefully, whatever they could think of would work.
"Ohh Rubyyyyy~! Look what I've gotttt~!", Weiss called, holding a cookie that she had pulled out of Ruby's emergency stash. Her senses picking up the signs of a cookie nearby, Ruby opened her eyes.
"Ohh! Cookie! MINE.", Ruby thought as she spotted the treat in Weiss' hand. Getting out of her seat, Ruby reached out with both hands for the cookie.
"Great! She fell for the bait!", Weiss thought to herself. Now it was all up to Yang.
Sneaking behind her sister, Yang ripped the headphones off of Ruby's head. Confused, Ruby's head darted between her headphones and the cookie. Wait! That was a trick? But… cookies never betrayed her!
"Come on Ruby, I've got a treat for you...", Weiss purred as she shoved the cookie down her shirt. Now, Ruby couldn't resist what was in front of her.
"Hey! That wasn't part of the plan!", protested Yang.
"It is now. You might want to leave the room for about… ten minutes.", Weiss retorted. Ruby was already starting to paw at Weiss' blouse.
Grumbling, Yang walked out of the room and slammed the door behind her. Man, it felt weird to be exiled out of the dorm room. Especially at the hands of her sister! Slumping against the door, Yang tried to distract herself. She didn't want to hear her sister banging the Ice Princess.
Well, it was a good of time as any to listen to the songs Ruby recommended. Since she still had Ruby's headphones, she plugged them into her own scroll. Listening to the songs, Yang realized that Ruby had a point. It was hard to say which one was better.
Hopefully, someone would make a choice along the way.
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