A/N Sorry for that short break there; had a pretty insane weekend. Want to thank Kinzaibatsu91 one last time for allowing me to do this, and once more; your art rocks! Can't wait to see what you come up with next! [Though I'm loving the Glynder stuff] Enjoy~
Chapter 3. Tornado.
Blake Belladonna, in layman's terms, felt odd. Something had been amiss all week, or rather, the past few weeks. It all started with Ruby disappearances. Her red-clad teammate had begun to share most of her free - time with some tall mischievous woman who seemingly popped into existence from who knows where.
Blake didn't know the exact details of what happened, all she knew is that it was something about Ruby, a room full of danger, door bills, and Cinder. Blake tied the name of Cinder to the mystery woman herself -who else could it be, right?
It'd seemed as though the 'room' in question was the current cause of her teammates ails. First Weiss started acting strange; she was super quiet and even a little sad? Blake wasn't sure. Then Yang started acting the same way, instead of her boisterous and happy-go-lucky attitude; Yang was acting similar to Weiss -quiet and instead of sad, she looked as though she just seen the dead rise from the soil. The blonde had been edgy and paranoid ever since her own adventure to 'the room'.
At first Blake paid no mind, enjoying the odd silence that blanketed their room whenever it was just the three of them. After the short span of one week however, Blake was fed up with the exorbitant silence in their dorm. She hated to admit it, but the constant bickering of Ruby and Weiss, and the awkward advances of her blonde haired partner were things Blake had grown accustomed to, and it just felt wrong for her teammates to act in such a manor that mirrored her own personality.
Team RWBY had room for one introvert. Not Three.
So after a little stint of brainstorming, Blake sought out to find Yang; as she was the person who had the most recent encounter with the 'room'. The raven-haired girl of team RWBY checked all likely places her blonde partner would likely be; the training arena, their dorm room, and even the library (Though she knew that last one would yield no positive results...)
After what seemed like hours, Blake decided to call it quits as she hadn't planned on doing this investigation today; there was a rather tempting book calling her name from the library.
That fates had a different plan for Blake Belladonna today...
Sighing in content, Blake decided to leave her dorm room and begin her trek to the library; she wanted nothing more than to grab as many books as possible and spend this Saturday afternoon in solitude.
Walking with a sense of purpose, Blake rounded a corner into one of Beacon's many large corridors, only to spot a familiar yellow speck slowly walking in the other direction.
She hurried her pace and caught up to the alluding Yang, and just within a few feet Blake called out; "Yang where have you been? Ever since the room thing you've be-"
"Blake..." Yang cut Blake off; her tone was empty and distraught. "That room..."
Blake ceased her movements and eyed Yang with inquiry and question, allowing for the blonde to finish whatever it was she had to say.
"Don't ever go there." She continued. "It's cursed." Her tone dropped to a barely audible whisper. Before Blake could even speak, Yang had begun to walk away, head bowed and hands deep in her pockets; the hallmarks of disdain.
As Blake watched the mass of blonde slowly disappear in the distance, her mind began to wonder what exactly caused the problems plaguing her teammates.
"What happened in that room anyway?" Blake spoke, slowly inching her way down a path leading back to the team RWBY dorm room.
It wasn't long until she found her way back to the little dorm she called home, only this time she found both a sad Weiss and a blank Yang sitting on their beds looking off into space, neither of them even noticing Blake's entrance into the room. Shrugging, Blake sat on her own bed and reached for a nearby book, she really didn't want to play detective right now, but the looks on her teammate's faces was making her skin crawl.
'They both look like the end of the world is near...'
That was it, Blake couldn't take it anymore, bounding up from her spot, the Faunus made her way to the door and slipped out, both the heiress and the brawler didn't even move an inch as the door closed in their Faunus teammates wake.
As the door clicked shut, Blake instantly made her way down the hall. She had no idea where the, as Yang called it; "Cursed room" was located; the only lead she had was that Cinder was here for the Vytal festival, so that means the room was likely in the eastern sector.
So the Faunus struck out on her own. Her mission: figure out what the heck is going on, seriously!
'And Ruby..." She mulled. 'Why didn't she say anything about it? This is all so weird...'
After several minutes of aimless walking; Blake was close to giving up her search and figured that retreating to the library was a good idea until this all blew over.
Rounding a corner that looked exactly like the rest, Blake was pretty sure she was lost at this point; everything looked the same! She made several u-turns, circles and stops to try and gain her bearings. Almost as if th-
"Top or bottom? I'll let you choose."
A voice...
Blake's bow twitched in curiosity, she never heard that voice before probably not th-
"I got bottom last time so I'll take top!"
She stopped dead in her aimless tracks, her body instantly going rigid at that oh-so familiar voice coming from the other side of the wall. An easily excitable, hyperactive voice; belonging to none other than Ruby Rose herself.
For a second, Blake felt relived at the fact her endless wandering wasn't wasted; finding exactly what she was looking for. After her short stint of relief, Blake's emotions switched to worry and intense intrigue.
"T-That voice! Ruby!"
Putting two and two together she guessed the other person in the room was Cinder herself; doing Grimm-knows-what to Ruby. Amber orbs went wide as Blake inched closer to the wall; listening intently...
"It's fun being top!"
She placed her head as close as possible to the wall
Not once did it cross her mind that perhaps she should give the girls some due privacy. From what she had seen/heard from Weiss and Yang; gave Blake the intuition that Cinder was always up to no good.
"Such and adorable little puppy you are being happy over it~"
"I'm not a puppy!"
"What?!" Blake whisper - shrieked, body now seemingly apart of the wall. Her mind slowly putting together the words that left their mouths -suggesting lewd acts that mirrored some of those books she recently read.
"Aww your face is all red~ I'm just teasing you Ruby!"
"Let's just start the 'game'! I'm on top!"
Sweat beaded Blake's forehead, her ears twitching madly at the words that graced them.
"Now little Rose... positions doesn't matter, we shall see who DOMINATES who..."
Okay! That's it. Who does this woman think she is? Blake removed herself from the wall, she drew her arms in front of her face, and began to charge her aura. Not even thinking to use the door; Blake lurched forward, directly towards the wall, bracing herself for impact.
KRAASHHH!
The Faunus smashed through the wall, obliterating the frail Sheetrock laden wood; small chunks flying in every which direction.
She landed not far from the massive, gaping hole in the wall, leaning over in a combat pose; small chunks of drywall littered by her feet.
"Stop this 'game' right now!" She demanded. "I'm gonna... oh!" Her eyes focused on the scene before her; expecting to see acts she'd rather not describe. Instead, those amber eyes focused on a much more... puzzling room.
There, right next to the hole she made, was Ruby and that Cinder woman, although she looked young enough to be a senior student.
Both girls sitting on the floor, game controllers in hand, playing what seemed to be Mario Kart 3. She assumed that Ruby was indeed on top, in spit screen that is.
"Errr..." Blake stammered, the awkwardness of the situation slowly sinking in. She noted the looks on their faces; Ruby showing a worried expression, whilst Cinder had annoyance plastered across her features.
Blake felt the heat of embarrassment rise in her cheeks, all three girls not saying a word, making the room as awkward as it could get.
"..."
Being somewhat smart in her next move, Blake decided the best thing to do was to leave rather than to end up like Weiss and Yang and get caught in Cinder's warpath. She turned away and jumped back through the comically large hole, not even saying a word.
As Blake disappeared, Ruby watched as Cinder almost shattered the controller in her current death-grip. Instead, her ebony-haired friend dropped the plastic and shot up, angrily staring at the hole Blake had so diligently created.
"WHAT WAS THAT?! AN INSTANT TORNADO?! I'm being attack by living natural DISASTERS!" Cinder squalled. Her voice booming down the hallways, thanks to Blake's hole that is...
Ruby recoiled at Cinder's outburst, the third one in two weeks. She grabbed Cinder's downed controller and poked her side with it, ushering the girl to sit back down.
Cinder took Ruby's gesture and sat back down, her eyes flickered in anger as she realized she was in eighth place.
Cinder elicited a long sigh and continued to tap away at the controller. "I'll give you the bill so you can give it to her later. For now, let's just play." Cinder exhaustively spoke.
"I'm sorry for all of that." Ruby attempted to console her irate friend. "They're just a bit too concerned about me."
Cinder sighed again, what the heck did Ruby's friends think they were doing? Baking cookies, sewing capes, and playing classic video games doesn't condone such violence, does it?
Weird...
A/N Finish! Well... not really. The Zwei chapter will be up sometime on Friday. Might as well do the whole thing right? See ya then! And thank you all!
-ARMV7