Welcome back readers, we will be continuing our adventures with the team as they try to help Jaune out. As always RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and its associates, my characters are my own.
As it turns out Delilah was the one to stumble onto Levina's plan to help Jaune, when she was in the library Delilah walked into the room Levina was in. At first Delilah apologized about barging in but since Levina was not paying attention Delilah decided to see what she was working on, from that point she told everyone else as they waited for Levina to make her move.
After class ended the teams detention began, Glynda was a border line dictator when it came to giving orders. The beginning week was cleaning up and fixing any damages they caused that night, after that it was physical training. Carmine's leg healed up to give him almost the same movement as before, his leg would still stiffen up if pushed to hard but Glynda kept watch on that. Omar and Delilah didn't have much trouble with the training so Glynda made their's harder by adding weights to their limbs, Levina was having enough trouble with the regular training so hers was not altered.
At the end of the week the team shambled back into their room exhausted, Delilah throwing the arm and leg weights down by her desk she struggled to climb her ladder. Flopping into the bed she loudly complained, "I can't believe Glynda would strap fifty pounds onto each arm and leg! What does she think we are!?" Carmine laid back in his chair forgoing the climb, "this is supposed to be a punishment remember." Delilah groaned as Levina climbed into her bed, "I'm sorry for getting everyone in trouble." Omar stumbled into the room last flopping onto the floor in the center of the room, the weights were still attached so the thud he made was louder than normal. A knocked on the door brought dread to everyone as Carmine lifted his head to see a red cloak standing in the doorway.
Ruby stood looking at team COLD utterly exhausted, Yang poked her head out from behind her sister, "heeeelllllooooooo." Omar tried to turn his body but only his head responded, opening his mouth to talk all that came out was a groan. Yang giggled walking into the room as she knelt down helping Omar remove the weights and flipped him onto his back, "Aww what's the matter, is Glynda's training to hard?" the baby voice she used brought out a look of unamusement as Omar weakly brought a hand up and booped her on the nose. Yang laughed leaning down kissing him on the forehead, "well then how does this sound, Me, Blake, Pyrrha, and Nora are going into town tomorrow to go to the club. Delilah, Levina wanna come with? Give the guys a night of rest?"
Delilah weakly raised a hand giving a thumbs up as Levina groaned yes, Ruby stepped into the room speaking up, "Yang you promised not to drink. I won't tell dad about you going out to the club but you have to promise not to come back passed out, ok?" Yang rolled her eyes as she got up giving her small sister a hug, "I know you care, and that's why I invited Del and Lev, to make extra sure I come back fine."
Ruby gave Yang a hard look as she knelt down next to Omar again who spoke up, "She'll be fine Ruby you have nothing to worry about." Yang gave a big smile before a thought struck her turning it into a frown, "wait…..when you say I'll be fine do you mean you're going to have your sister look out for me?" "No Yang, aside from my family and Maria you are the second strongest person I know." Yang grew back her smile giving him a sly look, "well aren't you Mr. smooth." "Delilah is a contender for second but you get favoritism since we're dating," Delilah raised a hand flipping him off as Yang got up, "ok so Del and Lev I need you two ready by six pm tomorrow." Delilah spoke up, "Carmine we're taking the plane and truck so don't plan anything." Carmine just groaned as Omar answered, "I have plans for Carmine, Jaune and Ren so don't worry." Yang nodded leaving with her sister as the team rested for the rest of the evening.
After the morning punishment Glynda gave the team the night off as well as the next day, "you students seem to be improving your behavior but you still need to complete your punishment. And since I am not a heartless witch I will give you the rest of the night and tomorrow off for some rest, the next teacher overseeing your punishment will take over on Monday, dismissed." The team was a little excited about what the evening held for them as the girls were going into town and Omar was planning something for the guys. As soon as they entered the room Omar quickly showered and changed taking the plane into town, Delilah was going to protest but relented when he explained it was just a pick up.
The trip only lasted two and a half hours, Omar came back wheeling a cart covered with a blanket. Jaune and Ren stopped by the room as Carmine was getting the food from the cafeteria, Ren set up the table for the food as Jaune laid out the games they would play by the console. Delilah and Levina were in Team RWBY's room with Pyrrha and Nora waiting for Yang and Blake to get ready.
As the day turned into evening Carmine handed Delilah the keys to the plane and truck, "please be careful ok, I don't care if the truck or plane get damaged but come back safely." Delilah sighed happily leaning forward kissing Carmine's worry away, "I'll be fine, I have Levina with me." Levina gave Carmine a thumbs up as Yang shouted, "ALRIGHT GIRLS NIGHT OFFFICIALLY BEGINS!" Omar gave a worried sigh as Pyrrha patted him on the shoulder, "don't worry me and Nora will make sure the night goes smoothly." Omar nodded as Yang walked up giving him a big hug, he held her for a bit longer than a normal hug would be as he whispered, "Please don't do anything that'd force me to call my sister." Yang touched foreheads as she gently eased his worries with a kiss, "stop worrying we'll be fine, and what happened to all that confidence from earlier?" returning the kiss Omar smiled, "yeah you're right, sorry, have fun." With the goodbyes done the group separated, the girls followed Yang and Delilah while the boys followed Carmine.
Carmine lead the way as Omar pulled out his scroll as he started to text, Jaune and Ren followed behind them as Carmine asked, "are you texting your sister that the girls will be in town?" Omar shook his head, "nope, I'm preemptively stopping a camp fire from turning into a hellish inferno." Carmine gave him a confused look as they reached their room, wheeling the covered cart by the food Carmine questioned, "What do you mean?" Omar pulled the blanket off of the cart revealing a large assortment of various liquors, "I raided my sister's bar, while I took the non-expensive bottles I just wanted to let her know before she decides to nuke the dorm." Jaune saw the bottles nervously rubbing his hands, "umm I didn't know there'd be liquor involved, is it ok if I just go back to my room now?" Omar put a hand on his shoulder, "Jaune we aren't leaving the room so no one will see this, and we aren't going to pressure you to finish a bottle. But it is customary for everyone to have one shot before we start the night, after that you don't have to drink anymore ok?" Jaune had an internal struggle until Ren placed a reassuring hand on him, "Jaune we can trust them, they would not intentionally place us in harm's way."
After pouring four shots into glasses he made Omar rose his, "to a night of fun, where limits will be tested and bonds will be formed." Carmine chuckled as he rose his along with everyone else, Omar and Carmine downed theirs quickly as Jaune starred at his for a few seconds before gulping the whole thing down. Ren just stood silently unmoving, his glass was inches from his mouth as he suddenly leaned back to far. Omar grabbed the glass and Ren's arm, Ren had passed out from the smell alone as Carmine helped him to the floor.
Omar finished Ren's shot as Carmine poured another one for himself, Jaune starred at his glass intently until Carmine asked, "what's wrong, you're not gonna pass out are you?" Jaune shook his head, "no…it's just that it tasted like water." Omar picked up the bottle and smelled it, "well it smell like liquor…let's see." Pouring himself a bigger shot he downed it, "nope tastes fine to me." Pouring Jaune another with that same amount he poured himself he put the bottle down, "try that." Jaune nodded as he downed the drink, handing the glass back he stated, "Yeah I don't taste anything, it's just like water." Carmine cautioned, "Ok then, you can drink more if you want but the moment you start to feel funny tell us. I can clearly taste the liquor but if you can't then there might be a delayed response or something, we don't want your liver dying on us so be careful." Jaune nodded as they sat down to play.
Several hours had passed as they switched between several video games, Ren had awoken to the laughter as he scratched his head. Omar had made tray tables for everyone so they could have a place to put their plate of food and drinking glass. Ren was poured soda as Omar passed the controller to Jaune, "see if you can beat that bastard this time." Jaune nodded taking a big swig from his glass, they had switched to beer since Jaune had almost chugged a full bottle of vodka with no apparent side effects. Carmine sat in a sort of Zen state, he had yet to be defeated in the past half hour since they started Street Fighter 4. Carmine's eyes would discharge electricity before any match started, and from there he would proceed to curb stomp everyone. Jaune picked Sakura as Carmine picked Bison again.
"K.O. Perfect Victory!" the games announcer exclaimed as Jaune put his controller down, Carmine grabbed his cup downing the entire thing. Looking at Jaune with a hazy expression he gritted, "You cheated! There's no way you could have gone that entire match without one slip up!" Omar put a hand on his shoulder, "Carmine, you lost, take it like a man. Besides you were the one playing not me or Ren." Carmine huffed getting up pouring himself more to drink. Ren asked if they could change games to one he was more familiar with, Carmine grumbled something close to a 'fine' as Ren swapped the discs.
Ren sat playing Need for Speed as Carmine leaned out the window to get some fresh air, Jaune and Omar sat at the table eating. Omar wiped his mouth waiting for Jaune to finish when he asked, "Jaune are you in some kind of trouble?" Jaune turned pure white as he choked down his food, "wwwwhat are you talking about, I'm fine!" Omar sighed, "Jaune everyone's seen how Cardin orders you around like a lapdog. If he has something on you, you can tell me, we're friends." Jaune grew defensive, "what no, no, Cardin's just messing around like always. Besides helping him out is something a friend does for another friend." Omar sighed again knowing that Jaune was not going to open up about the issue, so he decided to switch topics to a more interesting one. "So then you have a crush on Weiss?" Jaune threw his hands up trying to cover Omar's mouth as he nervously looked around, "shush about that, she might hear you!"
"Jaune Weiss could care less about your more than obvious crush. Let me ask you this though, how do you feel about Pyrrha?" Jaune tilted his head, "she's a nice girl what of it?" Omar face palmed taking a deep breath, "Jaune let me ask you something?" "Sure go ahead." "Have you ever noticed Pyrrha giving you more attention than others?" "What do you mean?" "has she studied with you on a subject you know she's good at but your struggling with, has she offered to train you, does she somehow pick a dessert that you like and she doesn't only to give you said dessert?" Jaune just stared blankly as Omar turned to Carmine, "Carmine I 'ma hit him." Jaune leaned back scared as Carmine objected, "No, cause you'll get blood on the carpet and Delilah would kill us if we messed up the room while she was gone."
Omar crossed his arms grumbling as he snapped at Jaune, "Jaune have you ever thought that maybe Pyrrha might like you more than a friend?" Jaune waved off the question, "Come on, Pyrrha can have any guy she likes why would she settle for me?" Omar huffed deciding to give Jaune a little more awareness, "Then why do you think Weiss would settle for you?" Jaune kept quiet as Carmine walked over slapping Omar in the arm, "I think you should stop drinking now, the filter between you head and mouth is starting to fail." Omar got up wobbling slightly, "don't even get me started on you." Carmine rolled his eyes, "this ought to be good." Omar downed the rest of his drink as his face started to turn red, "you think you're so tough just cause you're the leader, you wouldn't last ten minutes doing the training I did when I was a kid." Carmine sighed, "Are we really back to this again?" "I would be….leader…..what was I saying?" Carmine sighed, "nothing, sit back down." "Oh….ok."
As the evening passed Omar became more verbal with his words, Carmine had stopped drinking after seeing how animated Omar was becoming. Jaune had finished nearly an entire twelve case on his own as well as three separate bottles of liquor, the only noticeable change was the slight flush in his face. Ren had forgone drinking entirely opting to be the responsible one of the group.
It was close to two in the morning when Carmine decided it was time to turn in, he didn't hear when Levina dragged Delilah into the room or when Nora and Yang decided to flop down on the floor next to them.
The next story will be about the girls evening, so look forward to that!