Weiss Reacts to Christmas Specials, Part 2!
A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! Today's the big payoff! That is, today's the not-so big payoff that everyone will probably hate or find boring, so on and so forth, but enough of my moping. Time for an announcement:
The next couple of chapters will most likely, probably, maybe, have these as their subjects; the last chapters of Chris7221's Emergence, The Draigg's The Weiss List, The Layman's fics, Rapey Lemons' Blood Rose, Madoka Magica, Fire Emblem Awakening, Pokemon Omega Ruby, and...something out of left field, the party game Mafia. How's that for an announcement? :P
Eh, let's get this chapter done before you get bored of my...well, typing. It's a nice font, Calibri. Or whatever font's the default on Fanfiction, I dunno. Not that you won't after this chapter; this one ended up being a doorstopper despite my best attempts. And by doorstopper, we mean almost 3x the normal length of a Reacts chapter! Which means you get 3x as much crappiness!
DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise Weiss plushies would be a thing in the series and they would be everywhere.
All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.
Weiss opened the door into RWBY dorm, sighing happily. She adjusted her bolero jacket, looking around the room. She could see Yang hastily shoving something into a cabinet and Blake still on the computer. She decided it was a better idea just not to ask what Yang was doing- previous experience had taught her just as much. The heiress could also notice that Ruby was in bed, her cookie-patterned blanket covering her whole body- presumably asleep.
"Oh, hey, Weiss." Yang waved at her, her usual teasing expression present. "How was the spa?"
"It was amazing." Weiss responded, sighing happily once more. "It was nice to get away from the chaos of this dorm for once."
"Yeah. Cost me an arm and a leg to get that spa appointment...especially at THAT spa..." Yang sighed, pouting slightly. "That spa better have been good."
"Heh...wait." Weiss held up a finger, before looking at Yang suspiciously. "...why did you randomly buy me a spa treatment?"
Yang shrugged casually. "You know, Christmas cheer, so on and so forth. And I just wanted to give my future little sister stuff~"
"I'm older than you, Yang."
"You're still smaller than me, now shush!" The brawler chuckled.
"P-Pfft...moron. Just because you have a s-stupidly large chest! G-get less fat!"
"Jelly? If you've got it, flaunt it~" Yang winked mischievously at her.
Weiss sighed, shaking her head and muttering under her breath for a moment, before turning to Ruby.
"Is Ruby asleep?"
Blake turned from her desk, nodding. "Mhm. She got tired early today."
"...it's just turned six. Is Ruby sick?" Weiss tilted her head in concern. "Do I need to get a nurse-"
"Nononono!" Yang flailed her hands about. "It's fine! Ruby's fine! Hahaha! She's just tired, no need to worry, haha! Hey, Weiss, why don't you go buy some sorbet?"
"I had some in Vale-"
"Sorbet, Weiss! Sorbet!" Yang herded her out of the room, ignoring the heiress' protests and shutting the door behind her.
When Blake was sure Weiss was out of earshot, Blake turned off the monitor and turned to Ruby's bed.
"She's gone. Resume the call."
A whispered "Thanks" could be heard from the mound that was Ruby's blanket, before her head popped out from underneath and she could be seen clutching a tablet to herself. The crimsonette tapped the screen.
Jaune and Miltia's voices ensued from the speakers.
"Huh? Ruby? Why'd you go silent?"
"Ruby, is everything okay there?"
Ruby responded in her muted voice. "It's fine, but Weiss got back earlier than we expected, so I needed to go silent for a while. Yang's distracting her for now."
"Right." Jaune sighed from his end. "Well, you got any ideas? We still need to get Weiss out of the way for tomorrow so we can do this without her catching on."
"Hey, I was gonna go watch that new movie over in Vale." Militia offered. "I think I could bring Weiss with me! It'd make sense for me to take her away for the rest of the day."
Jaune made an affirmative 'hm'. "So, me and Ruby stay here to do stuff?"
"Actually, Jaune, you might need to go with Velvet's team. We need to get everyone's gifts for Weiss and all of us are gonna be trussed up here setting everything up. Tell them they're gonna need more than just decorations."
"Oh?" The knight sounded slightly surprised. "O-okay. That sounds fair. Let's do this."
"Alright!" Miltia laughed. "We've got this settled. Is everyone in the loop?"
Ruby made another affirmative noise. "Blake and Yang knew already, I'm telling the other teams right now."
"Excellent!" Miltia cheered. "So...we've got everything set up!"
"W-wait! Shush! I think Weiss and Yang are coming!" Ruby quickly muted the call and shoved herself back into the blanket as Weiss burst into the room, grumbling.
"Yang, I swear, I-agh!" Weiss was interrupted by a sorbet being shoved into her mouth.
"Eat up, Weiss!"
"Q-quit that!" The heiress pulled the sorbet out. "D-dunce! What are you doing?! Are you trying to choke me?! Ugh." She held the sorbet in her hands, glaring at Yang.
"Some big sister you are."
"I-I have ways of showing people my love! Y-you don't understand me! Rubes would know!" The brawler shouted, before adding "A-and she's totally asleep! Yeah!"
Blake shrugged. "Totally."
Weiss raised an eyebrow. "I KNOW there's probably something up, but if there is, I'm just going to pray to whatever deity's up there that I'm not the target."
"Pretty sure O-Kamina-sama won't help you."
"Or O-Mami-sama."
"Or O-Haruhi-sama. Definitely-"
"STOP BOMBARDING ME WITH ANIME REFERENCES." Weiss yelled. "I only get the Mami one because you idiots made me watch that depressing anime with you, and the Kamina one because Blake is STILL convinced Jaune's dad IS Kamina!"
"He told me himself. If a man's got the balls to claim he's Kamina, while looking like Kamina, sounding exactly like him, he's Kamina." Blake shrugged, popping a tuna chunk into her mouth.
"Can't say you didn't enjoy Puella Magi, though." Yang said, smirking. "Admit it- you were squeeing over Kyoko.
It's okay, I have dr-"
"Shut up shut up SHUT UP!" The heiress yelled, covering her ears and shoving herself into bed.
"Ugh! Why do I live with a manliness-obsessed maniac and a stupidly well-endowed perverted troll..."
"That perverted troll's your sister-to-be~" Yang reminded her teasingly.
"S-shut up."
Fortunately for Ruby, Weiss could not hear the suppressed chuckling going on from Ruby's bunk, nor could she hear the tapping of her fingers as she sent messages to various people involved in the party planning.
The next day, December the 24th...
The scent of batter filled the air and awoke Weiss, still slumbering. The heiress pulled off her sleep mask, looking up at the counter and stove within the dorm to see Blake cooking something.
"Ugh..." The heiress muttered, getting up slowly and rubbing her eyes. "What time is it?"
"Eight in the morning." Blake said without turning around. She dipped a slice of bread into the batter, before laying it out on a pan to cook. "Heard you like French toast, yes?"
"...wow." Weiss blinked, a small smile adorning her lips. "How did you know?"
"Actually, I guessed that." Blake responded, completely sincerely. "Didn't think you really liked it..."
"And I'm thinking that the caramelised blueberry syrup was a guess too?"
Ruby raised her hand meekly. "Actually, that was my idea. Morning, Weiss!" Running over to her, the crimsonette kissed her on the cheek and hugged her tightly.
"Morning, Ruby." Weiss returned the kiss lovingly, before hugging her more tightly. "And thanks, but you didn't need to-"
"Of course I did!" Ruby scoffed. "I'm your girlfriend. I have to do girlfriendy things!"
"I cooked the French toast, in case you forgot." Blake reminded her drily.
Weiss tilted her head. "Wait, I thought you couldn't cook."
"Yang can't cook." The catgirl corrected her. "I learnt how to cook from the best. My dad.
After all...cooking is one of the MANLIEST ACTIVITIES OUT THERE!"
"See, I was waiting for that." Yang said, walking into the room from their bathroom, combing her hair. "...a-and I'm not THAT bad of a cook!"
"You can only cook instant noodles, ramen and instant macaroni cheese." Blake shot back.
"But it's a good bowl of instant noodles!" Yang protested.
Weiss sighed. "And here I thought you people had this Christmas tradition of 'peace on Earth' or something."
"Oh, Weiss." Blake chuckled. "You clearly haven't grown up with my family."
Ruby giggled. "Or ours."
"Figures." The heiress rolled her eyes, pulling herself out of bed just as Blake finished cooking. "Well, are we going to eat?"
Blake slipped the French toast onto a plate. "Yep. Weiss gets first dibs."
The heiress looked at her curiously. "Why- hey, wait. Don't tell me you're going to try to drag me into Christmassy stuff. I told you, I don't need it. I'm fine without it."
"Not at all!" Blake looked offended. "Can't I do manly things for people now?!"
"Cooking French toast and blueberry syrup is manly?"
"COOKING IS A MANLY ACTIVITY!" The catgirl declared, donning her triangular shades and pointing at Weiss. "You can't grasp the true manliness of cuisine until you truly engage in it! After all, food is a man's fuel! Nobody can be manly without it!"
Ruby giggled and set down the bowl of syrup and the plate of toast, dusting it with sugar. "Come on, let's just have a normal meal."
"Please." Weiss added, sighing in exasperation and sitting down next to Ruby in the dorm's table.
Minutes later...
Weiss blinked, frozen in shock, swallowing the last of her toast, topped with the syrup Ruby made.
Ruby looked worriedly at her. "Well? Did you like it?"
"Like it..." The heiress uttered quietly, before turning slowly to Blake. "...Belladonna..."
"Hm?"
"What sort of sorcery did you use to make bread fried in batter taste so...delicious?!"
"Manliness. And actual skill in cooking." Blake said, a smug smile on her face.
Yang crossed her arms and pouted. "Hmph. I-I could cook like that!"
"Yeah, right." The catgirl shot back. "I'll believe that one day."
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door. Ruby's eyes lit up, as she tapped Weiss on the shoulder.
"Hey, Weiss, you hear that?"
"Huh?" The heiress looked over at the door, before standing up and going over to it. "I wonder who's knocking at nine in the-"
Militia greeted her, waving. "Hiiii!"
"Hello, Miltiades..." Weiss looked slightly confused. "I thought you'd be with your sister today."
"Oh," She shrugged, waving it off. "She's off with her boyfriend again. Call me Milly!"
"Right. So...why are you here?"
"I just wanted to invite you to watch this new movie with me! You know...that one?" Milly passed her a ticket, which the heiress examined.
"...eh, sure, why not. I've got nothing planned anyway." Weiss shrugged casually. "Let me just take a shower and I'll meet you in a bit."
She walked off into the bathroom Yang just exited. When they were sure she was out of earshot, Ruby turned to Miltiades.
"Are you ready to distract her for the whole day?"
Milly gave her a salute, looking as serious as she could. "Yes sir!"
Yang looked to her sister. "Are the others getting ready?"
"Cardin's taking everyone by bus into Vale. Jaune's already coming with them." Ruby said, checking her phone and closing it. "Coco and Yatsuhashi are en-route to the kitchens, and Ren said Professor Fall was willing to let us borrow her room for the party."
"Phase One of the operation is a-go!" Yang announced, pumping her fist.
Milly shuddered with anticipation. "I'm so excited! This feels all weird, going behind Weiss' back like this!"
"If Weiss knew, she'd try to shut it down because she'd think we're being idiots for celebrating something she doesn't need." Blake scoffed. "This is the only way we could fulfil Siegfried's requests without Weiss knowing."
Ruby placed her hand out. "Team?"
Yang, Blake and Milly placed their hands atop hers, before raising them. "Team!"
"Let's go! Operation Mega Awesome Weiss Christmas, resume!"
Meanwhile, at the bus stop outside Beacon...
Norn , Elsa and Velvet waited near the station with Jaune and Vivi. Velvet cooed quietly to her little plushie companion, who was sitting on her shoulder.
"We'll buy Weiss-sempai the best gift ever..." The bunnygirl said with an insane giggle. "I swear, we'll beat all your gifts!"
"Pipipipi." Vivi shrugged, petting Velvet's hair and shaking her head. "Pipipipipi."
Norn looked at her with a flat face. "I am uncertain that material possessions can be given an objective rating on a scale involving the suitability of a gift."
"She wasn't serious, Norn." Jaune reminded her. "Or at least, she wasn't talking about a 'scale' existing. If that's supposed to be a thing."
"Her wording implied otherwise, Master Arc."
Elsa was still staring at the bus pass Ruby had bought her the other night, blinking.
"Jaune, can you...teach me how to use a bus pass?"
"Huh? What do you mean you-oh, right..." The knight nodded. "You...don't know much about the real world yet, huh? I forgot..."
The bookworm's cheeks turned the faintest shade of red. "I...have to spend my time learning about the aspects of the world I don't know...e-excuse me if the idea seems burdensome-"
"It's simple, Elsa-chan." Velvet explained. "You show that pass to the driver when we get on- the driver will be the guy in the booth with a steering wheel at the front- and he'll let you on. "
"O-Oh..." Elsa's eyes turned a fraction of an inch downwards.
Jaune checked his watch. "Huh...where are Cardin and Melanie? They were supposed to meet us down here right now..."
"Hello, Jaune-kun."
"Hiiiii!"
Jaune's eyes widened a fraction as he saw Pyrrha and Minako amble down the sidewalk towards them. Norn scanned them with her eyes, while Velvet tilted her head curiously.
"Wait a minute, I thought those two were supposed to help with Yang and Coco!"
"I...politely persuaded Cardin that letting me help Jaune-kun would be beneficial." Pyrrha responded coolly, standing next to Jaune- perhaps a bit too near.
"And Melanie decided that if Cardin was staying, so was she!" Minako stood to the side Pyrrha wasn't, also uncomfortably close to Jaune.
Vivi rubbed the back of her head. "Pipipipipi."
"Yup, Vivi...a lover's tug of war..." Velvet chuckled.
Norn tilted her head, and the Persocom turned to Jaune.
"I sense that their alibis for this sudden change of plan may not be accurate, nor their motives for doing so pure."
The knight gave her an exasperated look as he felt Pyrrha wrap her arms around his arm.
"Gee, you think?"
"I am not programmed to recognize that tone in a human voice, Master Arc. Perhaps that was sarcasm?" Norn replied, a little too drily for her statement to be wholly true.
"Most definitely not like Aigis..." Minako muttered.
"Is there something I missed?" Elsa inquired plaintively, unaware entirely of what was going on.
"Trust me, this is one thing you don't need to learn..."
The knight sighed as the girls to his side were shooting each other weird glances of mixed respect and hostility.
The bus' engine could be heard nearby, yet Jaune felt like this was going to be a long day.
Meanwhile, in the kitchens...
"Nice job, grabbing the key off of Port to get us in here." Fox whistled, congratulating Nora. The girl shrugged.
"It was easy. I'm just too adorable for anyone to resist! I AM the Queen of the Castle, after all."
"You two, keep it down." Yatsuhashi cautioned them. "It's all well and good if Professor Fall catches us, but if Professor Peach, or, Oum forbid, Goodwitch, does..."
"Relax, Yatsu~" Nora laughed, moving past him. "Nobody will catch us!"
"Don't call me Yatsu." The boy responded coldly.
"Get used to it, Yats-ooof!" Fox was cut short by an elbow to the stomach. Yatsuhashi strolled behind Nora.
Coco followed behind happily, bobbing her head.
"I can't believe they actually trusted us to cook for everyone!" She said enthusiastically.
Yatsuhashi looked towards Nora, who was making a racket while screaming about pancake mix.
"I can't believe that either, Coco."
"Man...you hit like a truck..." Fox grunted, rubbing his stomach as he stumbled forward. "...so...where do we start?"
"We need enough food for fifteen people. Start looking for the large stoves and ovens." Yatsuhashi ordered.
"Got it..." Fox headed off in another direction to find those, along with Coco.
"I'll wait for Minako to show up. Nora...do your thing."
"Seriously?" Nora's eyes lit up. Yatsuhashi, reluctant though he was to allow Nora of all people to go mad in the kitchens, slowly gave her a nod.
The girl's mouth slowly curled into a borderline-psychotic grin as she rubbed her hands together in insane glee.
"Heeheehee...pancakes...PANCAKES PANCAKES PANCAKES!"
"I suggest Jaune-kun follow me to this shop here." Pyrrha said, hanging on tightly to Jaune's right arm. "It has a good selection of decorations."
"No, to THIS one!" Minako responded, clutching his left hand. "It's much better!"
"My idea."
"No, mine!"
Jaune sighed, exasperated. "Someone help me..."
Norn raised a finger. "Actually, I have a proposition. How about Master Arc, Miss Schnee and I visit one store and you two and Miss Scarlatina the other?"
Minako and Pyrrha glared at her, responding with a resounding "No."
Suddenly, Jaune's phone vibrated in his pocket. Minako and Pyrrha glared at each other.
"I'll get that, Jaune-kun..."
"No, let me!"
"I'll get it myself!" Jaune wrenched himself from both of them, before shoving his hand into his pocket and reading the message.
"Apparently we got a list of gifts we gotta grab for people."
"Huh?" Velvet tilted her head and read into the list.
"Okay, Coco wants us to grab a shark-themed ski-hat, Ren wants us to grab some of those nice imported chocolates from Vacuo, Nora a bunch of pancake themed plushies, and Yang-" He froze, reading Yang's request. Jaune's cheeks turned red as he slowly realised what she was asking for.
"...dear Oum, Yang. Seriously?!"
Pyrrha raised a finger. "And thus, I will ac-"
"No, you will not, Miss Nikos." Norn cut her off brusquely.
Minako looked over to her hopefully. "Does that mean that-"
"No." The robot maid shook her head before wrapping her arms around Minako and Pyrrha's, and dragging them away. "You and Miss Nikos will help me find decorations for the party."
Minako pouted and tried to cross her arms as much as possible. "Y-you're boring!"
"B-but...J-Jaune-kun..." The spearmaiden frowned at Norn as she was dragged away by the Persocom maid, leaving Jaune, Elsa, Velvet and Vivi behind.
Jaune sighed, shaking her head. "Yang, I swear..."
"What did she ask for?" Velvet inquired.
"...a dakimakura. Special order from a certain store." The knight muttered, facepalming. "She's already ordered it and all we're doing is picking it up."
"...does that mean we're passing by that place?" Velvet inquired, her eyes shimmering with excitement.
"Uh...yea-"
"We're going there."
"I thought that going to such a store was the preserve of perverts." Elsa commented quietly. "That is what Weiss tells me..."
"N-nonsense, non-perverts can go to stores like that!" The bunnygirl retorted. "I-It's for special people to go to, not perverts! There's a difference!"
"I see." The bookworm quietly noted that for future reference.
Jaune sighed, knowing there was no arguing with Velvet, not in this state.
"Very well, we'll pay that store a visit. Don't blame me if we get called perverts from walking into those."
"Yaaaay!"
Vivi rolled her plushie eyes. "Pipipi..."
"I-I did NOT totally go there to get one of Weiss! Don't be silly!"
"Pi?" Vivi gave her an incredulous look.
"...s-shut up. Y-you don't know anything!"
Jaune sighed, tucking his phone away in his pocket and searching for the site map.
"Alright, let's go find that shark hat. I think they sell those over at the Schnee Clothing Post, but first, we've got to find that map..." He wandered off in the direction he thought it would be, as Elsa and Velvet followed him.
Elsa studied the stores around them, her slightly agape mouth being the only expression of wonder and curiosity visible on her flat face.
"Velvet...what is a dakimakura?"The bookworm inquired.
"I'd say it, but Elf-kun doesn't want anyone to spoil the surprise." Velvet sighed. "But they are incredibly...interesting objects~"
"Pipipipi!"
"...that's j-just a low blow, Vivi! H-How could you?!"
Vivi shrugged. "Pipipipi."
"I-It's not true! I thought a plushie wouldn't be so sarcastic..."
The plushie simply pulled out a pair of black sunglasses and donned them. "Pi pi pi."
Elsa nodded slowly. "...interesting. I might have to search this-"
"Nonononono!" Jaune shook his head hurriedly. "D-don't look for one of those! Trust me, you'd be better off not doing so!"
"Huh? Why?"
"I-It's not a thing you look for just casually!"
Vivi facepalmed. "Pipi pipiii pipipip pipii."
"Y-you try explaining what one of those things is to her!"
"Pi." Vivi shook her head slowly and licked her vanilla sorbet. "Pipipi."
The bookworm looked down slightly. "I won't push the matter further if it is clearly bothering you."
"...t-thanks." Jaune sighed in relief, before muttering "Dammit, Yang..." under his breath.
Meanwhile, in the kitchens...
"Nora..." Yatsuhashi calmly intoned, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Just what are you doing?"
Nora slowly turned to him, a crazed look in her eyes. She was clutching a wooden spoon covered in batter and her apron and oven gloves were splatted with the same.
"Pancake..."
"Huh?"
"PANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKE" Nora yelled, before returning to furiously mixing pancake batter and giggling maniacally. It seemed she was in a state of ecstasy, finally being able to cook the one dish she loved truly.
Yatsuhashi sighed, shaking his head. "Still waiting on Minako...Coco, how is your part going?"
Coco smiled at him, turning from her stove. "Oh, the pasta's going well enough. I should have the sauce finished soon."
"Okay."
"Why don't you try cooking?" She asked sweetly. "I'm sure you could do it."
"I..." Yatsuhashi chuckled nervously, rubbing the back of his head. "I'm not sure I'm exactly the best person for that..."
Coco chuckled good-naturedly. "Really? I bet you could! You can do anything if you set your mind to it, Yatsu!"
"Uh...t-thanks, really."
Fox rolled his eyes. "Seriously, you two just gotta get a-" He was interrupted once more by an elbow to the gut by Yatsuhashi. The boy doubled over in pain, clutching his gut.
"S-shut up."
"Ow..."
Nora hefted her large bowl of batter, still giggling to herself quietly, and began moving slowly over to the stoves, muttering to herself.
"Yes, my children, at last...we will have our chance to honor the great pancake sloth..."
Yatsuhashi sighed, pulling his phone out. "Ugh...I'd better check with Yang. " He punched in her number quickly.
"Hello, Yang?"
"Yatsuhashi!" The brawler greeted him from the phone. "Hey, listen-"
"Where's Minako?"
"We were about to ask you where Pyrrha was. Well, I was- Cardin's busy trying to get all the dust out of the room, and I mean the dust, not capital-D Dust, he really IS a clean freak-"
"Cardin?" Yatsuhashi raised an eyebrow. "I thought he was with Jaune."
"Apparently Pyrrha told-oh, I am such a moron." The sound of Yang's palm slapping her forehead could be heard over the phone.
"Minako and Pyrrha lied to Cardin and Melanie to go with Jaune's group."
"Figures." The swordsman sighed. "Pyrrha probably went because of Jaune, and Minako went along to troll her. Thanks, Yang."
"No problem! Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to go grab the bag of dust from when Weiss vacuumed the dorm last week so I can shove it somewhere where Cardin can see." Yang said, giggling. "It'll be hilarious..."
Yatsuhashi hung up.
"Minako ditched us for Pyrrha and Jaune, Fox...Fox?"
Fox was on the floor, struggling under Espresso's pin. She was groping him in the hug, and she smiled hungrily at him, giggling.
"Oh, I love it when you struggle~"
"G-gah! G-get her off of me! D-dammit, w-why did one of her personalities have to be a pervert?!"
Yatsuhashi exhaled sharply, looking around at Nora, who was still pumping the pan full of pancake batter.
"Damn it, Ruby."
Ruby waltzed into Cinder's classroom, looking around. The tables and chairs normally in the room were gone, presumably shoved away by the others. Cardin was glaring at Yang while furiously sweeping the floor to remove a mound of dirt. A vacuum bag lay discarded in a bin nearby, next to Yang herself, who was suppressing laughter, while attempting to hang a sign on the ceiling saying "Merry Christmas, Weiss!", alongside boughs of mistletoe.
Blake, in the Lagann, was outside, moving furniture into the room with Ren and Melanie passing large tables and other large pieces of equipment into the room. A table stood in the middle of the room, with a mound of gifts for Weiss next to it.
Yang smiled at her sister, waving at her. "Hey, sis-whoa."
Ruby giggled, displaying her form-fitting Santa outfit and black stockings, complete with Santa hat perched lopsided over her head. "You like? Melanie told me this'd be a good outfit."
Yang smiled. "Well, I know Weiss is getting lucky tonight."
"Y-Yang!" Ruby yelled, blushing. "D-don't say things like that!"
"I meant she's getting lucky in terms of getting a party, Rubes." The brawler sighed deeply and theatrically. "Sometimes, I think you're more perverted than me."
"I'm pretty sure that wasn't what you thought of, Yang." Ren commented drily. "I doubt someone like you would never miss an opportunity to make an innuendo."
"You're right." The brawler winked. "But seriously, Rubes, you look amazing in that."
"Thanks...although it's kinda weird now that you said...that..." The reaper said, cringing slightly. "Hey, wait a minute, where's Pyrrha?"
"She ditched us to run off with Jaune and dumped Cardin and Mel here." Yang sighed. "Minako did the same."
"Yang, this isn't funny." Cardin grumbled. "You KNOW I hate dirty things!"
Yang merely stuck her tongue out at him mischievously. "Sucks to be you~"
Suddenly, Yang's phone rang. "Hm?" She whipped it out of her pocket, picking up the call. "Hello?"
"It's Milly."
Yang looked up. "Guys, it's Milly."
"P-put it on speakerphone!" Ruby leaned in to her. "I want to know what's going on with Weiss!"
Yang did so. "Um, Milly, what's up?"
Miltiades sounded fairly worried. "Um...the movie ended faster than expected and Weiss wants to go home now."
"Seriously?" Ren raised an eyebrow. "Stall her! We still need Jaune's group back here and the others haven't got the food yet!"
"Um...um..." Milly could be heard frantically looking around. "I-I know! I'll drag her to a spa for the next couple of hours! Will you guys be ready by then?!"
"We should be. Thanks, Milly. Good luck!" Yang said cheerfully.
Milly sighed in relief. "Okay. Catch you around! Hey, Weiss! Spa!"
"I already went yes-"
"Spaaaaa!"
"G-gah! Militades!"
The call went dead. Ren frowned.
"We're going to need Jaune's group to hurry it up. Weiss and Milly are at the shopping center. They can't be far from each other."
Ruby nodded quickly. "You're right, I should check on them, and also on Pyrrha and Minako..." Pulling out her phone quickly, she quickly made a call to Norn.
"Hey, Norn? Norn, it's Ruby. What's going on out there?"
At the shopping center...
Norn answered the call with her inbuilt functionality to do so.
"Yes, Miss Rose?"
"What's going on? Is Jaune with you?"
"No." The Persocom responded flatly. "I believe we have worse issues."
She was currently keeping Pyrrha from running after Jaune with one hand. Minako was off in the corner of the shop they were in, giggling at Pyrrha and grabbing some Christmas decorations.
"Jaaaaune-kuuuun..." Pyrrha moaned disappointedly. "Heeeelp meee..."
"Miss Nikos' behaviour is somewhat different from her normal personality." Norn stated. "I am restraining her to keep her on task."
"Nah." Blake called over from Ruby's side of the call. "Pyrrha's always like that. She's normal unless it's anything to do with Jaune. It's kinda toned down since the Animecon, though..."
Suddenly, Pyrrha managed to wrench herself free of Norn's grasp. The robot maid could only watch as Pyrrha tripped into a nearby shelf, bringing it down and knocking herself out. Norn could only sigh at that.
"Excuse me, Miss Rose." She hung up, walking off to help Pyrrha out. Minako ran over, looking concerned.
"Is Pyrrha alright?"
"She can take worse than that." Norn reassured her. "I'm surprised she managed to break out. My chassis is designed to take stresses excess of five giga-mecha and my hands have a grip rating of three giga-mecha."
"That's a unit of measurement now?"
"Miss Belladonna claims it is. The likelihood of it being a fabrication for her own amusement is almost one-hundred percent."
"Ah..." Minako nodded slowly as she crouched by Pyrrha, who was out cold.
"...yeah, we're probably gonna need someone to look at that."
Minutes later...
Jaune felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He whipped it out, looking at the caller.
"Ruby?"
He answered it. "Hey, Ruby. What's going on?"
"Jaune, is everything alright? Nobody knocked out?"
"Nobody kn-why would someone be knocked out?!"
"N-nothing!" Ruby yelled from the phone. "What's the status on the gifts? Did you grab them yet?"
"Most of them." The knight said, sighing somewhat. "We had to pull Velvet away from the Weiss-branded chocolates- which they apparently sell now. Whose stupid idea was to sell chocolates with Weiss' face on them?"
Some struggling could be heard from the other side of the call, followed by a squeal from Ruby.
Shortly, Yang took the phone. "Hey, Jaune. Did you grab the...thing I asked you to yet?"
Jaune sighed in exasperation. "No. We're just outside that store. We're grabbing it now."
Yang giggled mischievously. "Thaaaaanks~"
"Yaaaaang! Why did you do thaaaat?!" That was Ruby, groaning slightly in pain. "Meanie..."
"Anything else you guys nee-"
"Jaune?" Velvet tapped him on the shoulder. Her voice sounded slightly concerned.
"Hm?"
"We may have a problem. Look behind you."
Jaune did so, and his eyes widened as he turned around to see Weiss and Miltiades walking towards them. Milly had a small bump on her head which she was rubbing , while Weiss looked highly irritated.
"Moron...I told you I didn't need to go into the spa again..."
"Ow..." Milly pouted. "Did you need to hit me so hard?"
Jaune whispered harshly into the phone. "Guys! Weiss just showed up!
"Crap!" Yang cried.
Ren could be heard in the background, muttering something like "I told you so". Jaune couldn't make it out exactly, but that is what it seemed to sound like.
"Uh, Yang, what do I do?! She's getting REALLY close!"
"Um..um...figure something out! Quickly! Do it now! Weiss can't know we're doing this!"
"But-"
"Jaune?" Weiss tapped him on the shoulder. "What're you doing here?"
"Gaaah!" The knight jumped away from her, pocketing his phone quickly. "Weiss! I didn't expect you here today!"
"Neither did I. I thought you were doing something else today with your family to celebrate Christmas."
Jaune rubbed the back of his head nervously, chuckling slowly. "Well, dad's going on a man's night out with your dad, my uncle and a couple of other people, and my mom's out on a girl's night with your mom and everyone else..."
"Heh. I forgot about that." Weiss said, chuckling slightly. "Hey, by the way, what are you doing shopping at a store like this?"
"Eh? What are you-" Jaune turned around to see the shop she was referring to. Its windows were stocked full of figurines of various anime and video game characters, as well as props and the like and rare manga that even Jaune had never seen before.
"Oh, here? I just came to pick up some Figmas, that's all."
"Figmas?"
"Figurines. I came to...err...pick up a Hatsune Miku figma! Yeah!" The knight nodded. "T-that works..."
"Didn't think you were into that." Weiss scoffed, "Ah, well. If I didn't know any better, I'd have thought you were a pervert. Apparently Yang buys those weird body pillow things from here..."
Jaune blushed slightly. "Hehe...yeah..."
Velvet had to restrain a laugh, before looking over at Weiss. "Heeeey Weiss-sempai!"
She proceeded to glomp her tightly, sending her stumbling back a little.
"Agh! Velvet! W-watch it!"
"I-I'm sorry...I-I just wanted to hug you~"
"G-gah! G-get off of me!"
Milly tried to wrench the bunnygirl off of her, to no avail. Velvet was already rubbing her cheek into Weiss' chest, sighing happily.
"Y-you pervert! C-can't I spend one day without you doing that?!"
"The flat chest~ All hail its flatness~"
"G-GAH!" Weiss shoved Velvet off of her, knocking Vivi onto the floor, blushing heavily. "S-stupid pervert! M-My chest is NOT FLAT! NOT! FLAT!"
"...S-so tsundere...i-it's moe..." Velvet squeed happily, her face planted firmly into the floor.
"Ugh." The heiress grumbled. "Screw it. Milly, I'm going home." Weiss began strolling towards the exit, and Milly gave Jaune a panicked look.
"W-what do I do?! I have to stop her!"
"Do something! I dunno!" The knight flailed around. "S-something! They aren't ready yet!"
Milly looked around hurriedly, before seeing a sorbet store. She snapped her fingers.
"Were you talking to Yang just now?" The girl turned back to Jaune, who nodded.
"Yeah."
"Ask how long they'll need. And how long are you gonna be?"
"Give or take? Fifteen minutes- five to pick my stuff up here, ten to get back to Beacon." The knight said as he returned to his call.
"Hey, Yang-"
"Jaune, what's going on there?! It sounds like chaos!" That was Ruby, sounding concerned. Yang's whimpering could be heard in the background. Jaune declared it a good idea not to ask.
"H-How long are you guys gonna be? Milly needs to know so she can distract Weiss a bit longer!"
"Give us half an hour. The food guys should be done by then."
"Okay, thanks!" Jaune hung up. "Half an hour."
"Distract her for half an hour. Got it." Milly nodded quickly before running after Weiss. "Hey! Weiss! Vanilla sorbet! It's on me!"
"WHAT WHERE" The heiress looked to the girl in red as she dragged her towards the sorbet parlor, leaving Jaune, Vivi and Velvet there.
Velvet sighed happily, her face still muffled. "Ahh...that's all I wanted for Christmas, rubbing my cheek on my Weiss-sempai~"
Elsa returned from the toilets, sighing. "Okay, Jaune. I am ready now. What are we searching for next?"
"A...dakimakura...." Jaune shuddered. "Still don't understand why she asked for that. Or pre-ordered a special one, for that matter..."
"Explain."
"Well..." The boy rubbed the back of his head nervously. "How do I say this? Technically, those things are hug pillows, made for people to rest on and stuff. You know, for medical reasons. That's what it meant back in Japan.
However, somehow, over here, it now means...erm...pillows with...em..." Jaune blushed slightly, embarrassed at having to explain this. "...people printed on them."
"People?" Elsa tilted her head slightly.
"L-Let's just say these...people...a-aren't really...erm...modestly dressed..." Jaune said, laughing nervously, muttering "Or dressed at all, really..." under his breath.
Elsa's cheeks rouged, as she looked away slightly- the best way for her to express her embarrassment at asking. "Oh."
"Y-yeah." The knight exhaled deeply. "L-Let's just get it quickly, hide it in a large bag and go. Velvet will probably still be in shock by the time we're done."
"Weiss-sempai is so moe~" Velvet mumbled on the floor, huddled up in a ball and rolling about.
Elsa nodded slowly. "Good idea. Let us get this done as fast as possible."
Ruby put down the phone. "Okay, guys, we've got half an hour, thirty-five minutes tops, to get all of the transferring done! Now!"
"W-what about the decorations?" Melanie inquired.
"We'll just have to go without, unless we can keep Weiss out of this room when she gets back." Yang explained. "We don't have an ETA on Norn yet, and Jaune's not with them, he's with...wait, who's he with?"
"Velvet, Vivi, and presumably Weiss' sister."
"Right. Ladies, gentlemen...Yang..." Ren announced, earning him a glare from the brawler. "We have a job to do!"
"Chop chop!" Ruby yelled, before squeeing with joy, pumping her fists. "I-I've always WANTED to say that!"
Suddenly, a soot-covered Yatsuhashi burst into the room, panting and clutching his knees. Cardin sighed irritably.
"Hey!" The warrior yelled. "Do you mind?! I just CLEANED that-"
He ignored Cardin apart from a customary grunt, before turning to the reaper.
"Ruby. I need your assistance. Immediately." The swordsman signalled her to follow him. "Something's gone horribly wrong."
"Huh?" The crimsonette looked confused. She adjusted her Santa hat and moved the collar of her clothes slightly. "I wonder what's going on in the kitchens..."
The kitchens...
"P-Put it out!" Fox yelled, grabbing a fire extinguisher and pointing the nozzle at the fires that had sprouted in the kitchen. "Latte! LATTE!"
"Eeep!" Coco's shy, fearful personality ran away from the flames, hiding behind a stove. Nora, meanwhile, had a bundle of pancakes in her arms, running away from the conflagration.
"Noooo! D-don't burn my babies! Keep it away! KEEP IT AWAY!"
Ruby could only stare in shock for a moment, before turning to Yatsuhashi. "...h-how did it turn out like this?"
"For the first time, it wasn't an antic. One of the stoves malfunctioned and set itself aflame." Yatsuhashi said with a tired voice, grabbing a fire extinguisher. "We've been trying to put the fire out for the last ten minutes. We need help, now."
"D-don't worry! I've got this!" Ruby took out Crescent Rose, before unfolding it into a scythe. "Get out of the way!"
Fox, Yatsuhashi, Latte and Nora moved away as the reaper ran at the fire, before spinning herself around rapidly, sucking the fire into a wheel around her or putting them out around her. As soon as she saw they were around her, Ruby halted her spinning and swept across the wheel, dissipating the last into ashes and smoke. The ashes were sucked away into the exhaust fans, leaving almost no trace except for charred countertops and the burned remains of Coco's food.
Latte whimpered. "M-my food..."
"Dammit." Fox groaned. "It's all ruined!"
Nora shook her head, raising her hand in triumph. "Never fear! I'm here to make it all better!" She raised her mound of pancakes above her head.
"WE STILL HAVE PANCAKES!"
"Yes, of course." Yatsuhashi sighed. "Pancakes. Right."
Ruby gave her a small smile. "Yeah, it's not ruined! Right?"
Latte was quietly sobbing behind Yatsuhashi, who was patting her quietly on the back. He gave Ruby a grim look.
"Unless you can grab some new food in the next thirty minutes..."
"We can always deliver!" Fox suggested. "I mean, Siegfried's paying for it, right?"
"We shouldn't mooch off him too much." Ruby responded. "Come on, we'd be abusing his generosity, even if he's a pretty cool guy."
"Good point." Yatsuhashi sighed. "Right, any other ideas?"
Ruby's phone rang. She sighed, picking it up.
"Yeah, hello?"
"I-It's Milly! Weiss is on her way!"
"What?!" Ruby shrieked. "T-that's...w-we're not ready! We don't have everything ready!"
"Should I get pancakes over to the room soon?" Nora said enthusiastically, practically bursting with joy. "Pleeaaaase?"
Ruby nodded. "Y-yeah! Do it! Let's go! Milly, where's Weiss right now?"
"She's on a bus back!"
"And do you know where Jaune, Velvet, Vivi and Elsa are?"
"They got on the bus before the one she caught. I think I saw Norn go with them, so Minako and Pyrrha are probably with them..."
"Okay, that's good, that's good...thanks!" Ruby hung up, before looking to Yatsuhashi. "You and Fox can clean up here, right?"
"Yeah, but-"
"Okay, thanks!" The crimsonette ran off. "I need to warn the others that Weiss is coming back soon!"
Fox exhaled sharply, watching her run off.
"...dammit, Ruby. Well-"
"Already on it." Yatsuhashi was already working on cleaning the ashes off of the floor with a broom. He'd also left a small sweeping pan for Fox to use.
"...aw man! There's so much of the stuff!"
"Don't blame me. You two left the pasta on the stove when it set on fire. You should've put those on a counter.
Now clean up. You get the small pan."
"Dammit, Yatsu-OW!"
"Sorry. I must have not seen you there."
"Guys, guys, guys!" Ruby said, panicking as she burst into the classroom. "Guys! We don't have time! Weiss is- what the..."
The table in the middle was destroyed by a fallen part of the ceiling, with Oobleck and Port looking down through the hole, fairly concerned looks in their eyes. Cardin was hastily sweeping it up, while Melanie was picking up the chunks. Ren was running off, presumably to get Professor Faust to clean the place up properly. Yang was looking around frantically.
"W-what happened?!"
"The ceiling just fell and messed everything up." Yang responded. "Wait, what did you say about Weiss?!"
"Weiss is coming. She's on her way!"
"C-crap! Where's Norn?! Where's Jaune?!"
"They should be on their way here before Weiss, but we won't have a lot of time. Also, all the food got burned because of a fire in the kitchens..." The reaper sighed sadly. "This is going badly..."
"Not entirely. We still have the gifts, right? And Norn still has the decor-"
Just that moment, Norn walked in, dragging an unconscious Pyrrha in. Minako looked sheepishly at her, shaking her head. Yang looked up.
"Did you get the-"
"We were kicked out of the shop after Miss Arisato attempted to pull her Evoker out to heal Miss Nikos and it was mistaken for a real gun." Norn enunciated. "We got no chance to acquire the decorations at all."
"I-In my defense, I-I didn't expect that to happen!" The girl protested. "A-and she had a SPEAR on her back! A SPEAR!"
Ren grumbled. "So, our room's trashed, the food's burned, we have no decorations...please tell me Jaune did his job right."
Ruby sighed in exasperation. "Come on...how did everything go so wrong?!"
"I knew something would blow up." Blake called from the window. "It's Murphy's Law. When you least expect it, something will go wrong."
"That's Finagle's Law, Blake, not Murphy's Law..." Yang corrected her bluntly.
"...yeah, whatever." The catgirl shrugged, surveying the room as Nora burst in with a cart of pancakes, wheeling them in and completely ignoring the setting, before running out to grab more.
Fortunately, Jaune came in, grunting with the weight of two bags and the body pillow Yang had ordered, with Velvet, Elsa and Vivi trudging behind them. Luckily, he'd had them prewrapped.
Yang sighed in relief. "At least he got the pillow!"
Ruby stared at her. "You ordered one of those?"
"As a gift for Weiss~" The brawler giggled. "I have something planned for her~"
Cardin just stared at her. "...t-that's just wrong, Yang."
"You people are a bunch of prudes." Yang said, waving them off dismissively. "I'm the only fun person around here."
Yatsuhashi had the fortune of coming in just as she said that, in time to return with a quip.
"And yet you hardly have any fun by your definition."
Yang could only stare at him in open-mouthed shock.
Just then, however, the sound of an irritated Weiss could be heard from the hall, screaming for Milly to let her go. Ruby froze, looking to Blake.
"W-what do we do?"
"FACE YOUR FATE LIKE A REAL MAN!" The catgirl declared proudly. "Or...if you're a boring non-manly person, shut the door, hide, make no sounds and hope she doesn't notice anything."
"...I like that plan." Ruby nodded and ducked under a table near the wall, with everyone following suit. Nora burst in with a cart of pancakes and was dragged underneath by Ren, who interrupted her questions by shoving his lips onto hers.
"Mmpm...hmm..." Nora sank into the kiss, shutting the door almost lazily...
...just in time for Weiss to pass that part of the hall.
"Gah! What is WRONG with you today?! You moron!"
"S-sorry! I-I was just having so much fun with you!" Milly responded. "I-I..."
"Ugh..." The heiress sighed. "Fine...I accept your apology...but...j-just don't do it again!" Strolling past the door, Weiss looked at it briefly.
"...hm...open...perhaps Cinder can-wait, no. I don't want to know what Cinder's doing. It's Cinder..." Weiss said, shuddering and leaving the door unopened.
Ren pulled away just as she left earshot, and Nora sighed dreamily.
"Ohohoh...Ren...that was sudden..." The girl giggled happily.
Ruby sighed in relief. "Okay. Good. Now...we just have one thing to do, I suppose-"
"Hang on, Cinder was busy trolling Miss Hond-"
Weiss burst into the room to see everyone hiding underneath tables, several wrapped gifts next to a mound of debris Weiss swore was a table once, a large plate of pancakes next to a cart full of the same, with syrup and all- and finally, a small, slightly bent Christmas tree in the corner of the room on a table. The only other decor the room contained was a slightly lopsided sign saying "Merry Christmas, Weiss!", slightly tainted with dust from the hole in the ceiling above.
Ruby poked her head out from underneath a table. "...merry Christmas?" She laughed nervously.
Weiss merely looked around the place, shocked.
Blake poked her head out from the Lagann, which was still flying outside the window. "...Weiss?"
Yang looked worried. "Weiss? Talk. Don't just stand there! Talk..."
"I..."
Velvet and Vivi merely looked up at her, watching her closely.
"..."
Ruby crawled out from underneath the table. "Weiss..." She approached her slowly, going to put her hand on her shoulder-
"D-did you...plan this?"
"Huh?" The reaper tilted her head.
"I-I said, Ruby, did you plan this?" Weiss' voice trembled while asking her.
"...y-yes..." Ruby swallowed. "I-I'm sorry..."
For a moment, nothing moved or made a sound.
One could hear a pin drop in the room.
Weiss let out a sob. She looked to Ruby, her eyes tearing up.
"Ruby..."
"I-I can fix this! I can take this down! I-I-"
"You dunce..." Weiss choked out, wiping her eyes on her sleeve. "...you are an actual dunce..."
"H-hu-" Ruby was then interrupted by Weiss pulling her face towards hers, pressing her lips upon Ruby's lovingly.
"Mmph!"
She pulled back, giggling after a while. "...Ruby...you are a dunce, you know that?"
"Y-yeah-"
"You...went through all this effort to put this together...for me...after I said I didn't need it? All that distracting, that scheming...was for me?"
"Well, actually-" Yang was about to speak before Blake clamped her hand over her mouth.
"Shut up!"
"Mmph!"
"Well..." Ruby laughed nervously, blushing. "I-It kinda went wrong...I mean, Norn got kicked out before she could buy the decorations, the kitchen had a fire where everything burned, something crashed from the rooms above..."
Weiss laughed it off. "Oh, don't be so worried. I love it." She hugged her girlfriend tightly. "And by the way...that costume...looks nice on you.
Thank you, Ruby. Thanks...everyone."
Ruby blushed, giggling into Weiss' shoulder. "She loves my costume...hehe..."
Nora cheered. "Yay! Can we have pancakes now? Huh? PANCAKES?!"
Yang pulled Blake's hand off of her mouth and climbed out. "No, no, NO! We have to let the guest of honor open her gifts first!"
"I-I'm hardly the guest of honor." Weiss scoffed dismissively.
"Oh, please. You have your name plastered over the venue." Yang waved back dismissively, before sidling up to Weiss. "Now OPEN them! Open the big one first! I think you'll like that one!"
Weiss looked at her suspiciously. "...I'll open the floppy one first." She picked the floppy one first, opening the wrapper carefully- and yet Yang and Ruby could see the childlike glee with which she opened her gift.
It was, after all, her first Christmas.
"A-A shark ski hat!" Weiss lifted the hat above her. "I-It's beautiful!"
Blake chuckled. "I had that ordered from a manly place! Of course it's awesome!"
"Thanks, Blake." Weiss chuckled, shaking her head and putting the hat down, lifting a boxed one next.
"I wonder what this one is..." The heiress murmured, before opening it.
It was a finely crafted shark plushie with her rapier, a tiara and a cape. Across its belly in cursive stitching were the words 'W. Schnee'. A tag labelled 'From: Cardin and Melanie' was attached to its tail.
Cardin laughed. "Heheh...I made that one a couple of weeks ago. Most of us had our gifts ready, really."
"Thanks..." Weiss hugged it tightly to her chest. "I love it. He's now Lord Sharky the Furious!"
"Now open the big one! That's mine! That's mine!" Yang urged her, practically jumping up and down as she did so.
"Okay, okay!" Weiss said, sighing and shaking her head as she went over to it. "Okay, I'll open it. I'm just-"
As she did so, she stopped talking, realising what it was.
It was a body pillow with Ruby on it. And Ruby...wasn't exactly very well dressed on it.
And by this, we mean she was hardly dressed at all. Her shy expression on the pillow didn't help.
Weiss looked at it in shock. "...w-wha..."
Ruby was merely frozen, staring at the pillow. "...Yang..."
Yang was doubled over in laughter. "Oh, I knew Weiss would enjoy it..."
"I-I'm not enjoying i-it, you moron!" The heiress turned to her and yelled, blushing. "S-stupid dunce! W-why would you buy me this?! I-It's so perverted!"
"Oh, don't give me that. I just bought it for when she goes on missions and stuff! So you can always have Ruby next to you~"
"P-PERVERT!"
Velvet merely smiled. "I hope she enjoys my gift."
"Why? Is it a trap?" Yatsuhashi asked, expecting the answer he dreaded to be a-
"No."
"No?" He looked curiously at her.
"No." The bunnygirl responded simply. "It's a cake. Red velvet."
"...this is the perfect opportunity! Why don't you try and kidnap her?!" Fox looked almost creeped out by her attitude.
Velvet sighed. "I have...reasons. Excuse me."
Crawling out of the table, Velvet calmly exited the room, but not before depositing Vivi somewhere on a table to party.
"Pipipipi?"
"No, I'll just be a moment."
"Pi..." Vivi spied her suspiciously, but let her leave the room, before joining everyone else in watching Weiss open her gifts happily.
Needless to say, the night was full of feasting, joy, gifts and shenanigans, as everyone participated in the fun that night, most of all Weiss. Indeed, her joy was felt by all that night, especially Ruby, despite the terrible conditions in which the party was forged. Velvet was gone for most of the night, only returning shortly before midnight approached, seeming slightly more sombre, but she too was in the mood to have fun.
And when the time approached, and Christmas Eve truly began, the two kissed once more underneath the mistletoe, with Yang providing a cheering track...
...and of course, Norn dragging her out of the room to shut her up when she began suggesting perverted things to do.
Regardless to say, the next day, when the parents of all came to visit, Siegfried didn't need to ask if Weiss had had a good time that night.
Her ecstatic expression and the small skip in her step was enough to tell him everything.
END
A/N: WOOOO! That was a DOORSTOPPER! My god, nearly 9k words...for a fic that never really breaks 4k...oh, well, here goes nothing. Don't expect things with so many words, by the way- this is a special chapter, after all, and I felt I had to get it right this time.
So, next normal chapter; Ruby Reacts to Blood Rose! Oh, yes. This is happening. Haha. Ahahah. AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!
I hope you enjoyed this, leave your ideas, reviews, criticisms, suggestions, thoughts and comments, and I hope you have a GREAT day! Until next time!