Hello everyone it's time for another chapter in our team's adventure. Even if I sound like a broken record as always RWBY is owned by rooster teeth and its associates.
The routine for most of the week was the team wake up to someone from team CFVY and FRZE in their room standing guard. There were another two member's waiting outside the door, in full combat gear with loaded weapons. They walked the team to and from class, and unnecessary trips were prohibited for everyone's safety. As Friday came up Carmine became more and more anxious, he was seriously wondering if Schwartz could get past the two teams protecting them. It didn't help that Omar would say, "it doesn't matter how many people are surrounding us, if my cousin Beatrice says they're the best then we might as well stand out in the courtyard with a 'kill me' sign around our necks." As the end of the week approached Omar became more and more negative, to the point where Carmine demanded he leave the room to give him some peace and quiet.
Sitting in team RWBY's room Omar sat at Yang's desk reading his father's book, Blake had taken an interest in it as well due to the unique nature of how the words appeared. Ruby and Yang were playing their video game as Weiss tried to concentrate on her homework, "I've told you both a thousand times, KEEP THE VOLUME LOW!" Ruby snorted, "You're the loud one." Weiss gave her a death glare as she set her sights on Omar, "and you, go back to your own room, this is not a hangout spot."Omar looked up from his book, "I'm dead by the end of the week so what does it matter, besides Carmine kicked me out of my room." Yang breathed a heavy sigh, "Geez I can see why, you're not going to die by the end of the week. What ever happened to meeting your cousin?" looking at the clock he closed his book, "I was waiting for happy hour, it's been a while since we've seen each other so I figured catching up over drinks would be fine."
Omar, team RWBY, CFVY, FRZE, and his own team had boarded their bullhead as Vigil piloted them into town. On the plane Omar handed Carmine a large bundle of lien, looking it over Carmine asked, "what's this?" tilting his head to the side Omar wondered, "that should be about 100,000 lien, is it not enough?" everyone immediately turned when Omar said the number out loud, Carmine grew wide eyed as he stared at his hand, "why did you give me this!?" pulling out another bundle Omar twirled it in his hand, "figured what with all the shops opening up in preparation for the vital festival there'd be stuff you'd want to buy, so I'm giving you spending money." Weiss spoke up, "it is preposterous to be handing out that much money to anyone let alone carry that much!" Omar gave her a smirk, "what you don't walk around with several thousand lien in your pocket Miss Heiress?" Yang stood between the two of them, "alright calm down, Omar what's up?" Omar shrugged as the plane landed, when the ramp was fully lowered Omar replied over his shoulder as he walked off the plane, "If the city turns into a warzone head back to the plane, leave immediately, and don't wait for me ok." Carmine sighed, "Guess he's back somewhat." Delilah crossed her arms, "stubborn confidence, yeah I'd say he's almost back to normal."
Carmine and everyone else piled into the truck, as they pulled out of the airport they saw Omar walking toward the warehouse district. As Carmine drove into town Coco admired the interior, "this is a nice ride, yours?" Carmine shook his head, "not really, it technically belongs to the team." Coco nodded as she leaned back further into the leather seat, Freyja looked out the window asking, "This more tank then truck." Delilah laughed remembering the first time she saw the truck in action, "you are defiantly not wrong about that." Pulling into a parking space Carmine pulled out the bundle of lien, dividing as best he could into three shares he passed it out to Delilah and Levina. They already had plans about what stores they were going to visit while in town, Ruby declined a portion when Carmine offered. Filing out of the truck team CFVY and team FRZE surveyed the area making sure nothing seemed out of place. When everyone was out they went their separate ways trying not to think about what might happen.
Omar walked into a small liquor store heading to the back coolers, looking at the selection he sighed walking into the hard liquor aisle. Picking up a few bottles he walked back up to the front, the cashier was an older gentlemen who gave Omar a stern look. Crossing his arms he huffed, "I don't even need to ask for a card, get out I refuse to sell liquor to a minor." Looking around Omar asked, "Do you have any ice cream?" the old man stepped back confused before pointing to a small cooler off to the side of the register, opening the door Omar pulled out two small tubs of ice cream. Putting them on the counter he pushed all of the items he grabbed forward, the old man shook his head, "I'll sell you the ice cream but I still say no to the liquor." Breathing a heavy sigh Omar pulled out the large bundle of lien, pulling out roughly 15 grand he tossed it onto the counter, "take it and send you kids to a good school or move to a better house or do whatever with it really I don't care." The man stood stunned at the amount of money on the counter giving Omar the time to bag the items and walk out of the store, when the old man came back to his senses Omar was already down the street. As he crossed an ally he heard the sound of an umbrella open, turning around he saw the same pink and brown hair from when he was a kid, "it's been a while, Neo."
Neo lead him to her hideout, taking the bag from him she fished out the ice cream and put them in the freezer she had. Grabbing two glasses she placed one in front of him and one in front of her as she popped open one of the bottles. Looking around Omar sighed, "You know you could do a lot better than run down building number 5." Neo rolled her eyes as she signed, "We all can't live in the life of luxury." Omar cracked his knuckles as he signed back, "I thought Shelly fixed you vocal cords so you didn't have to use sign language?" Neo nodded, "she did but talking to much strains my throat." Omar smirked, "you can't be the only one that finds the situation ironic, before you'd never shut up, and now I can hear a pin drop." Neo flipped him two birds before signing, "Laugh all you want jerk, next time I'll leave your ass drowning." Omar chuckled before signing, "Thanks by the way…I really do appreciate it." Neo smiled pouring them both a glass, raising them up Neo spoke, "To family." Omar nodded as he touched glasses, "To family."
Delilah was walking with team RWBY as Coco and Velvet had dragged their partners into a nearby store, Weiss was anxiously looking around the large boats to see which one came from Vacuo. Ruby saw a nearby store had police tape in front of it, walking over they heard the detectives complain about the frequency of the robberies and the odd nature of stealing the inventory but leaving the money. Weiss went off on a tirade about the white fang, Blake retorted with a comment prompting an argument between the two. When Weiss made the comment that the only thing Faunus know how to do is lie cheat and steal Delilah spoke up, "Weiss do you really think I do that?" Blake immediately chimed in, "yes Weiss do you think Delilah is one of those degenerates you're speaking about?" Weiss stuttered as she tried to correct herself, "I didn't mean Delilah, she is ok. No I meant the Faunus in the white fang and their sympathizers." This sparked an even bigger argument between Weiss and Blake, Yang and Ruby rubbed Delilah's shoulders, "hey don't listen to her, you're our friend ok." Delilah nodded as Weiss and Blake grew louder.
Shouting from the dock broke their argument, when they looked at the direction of the shouting they saw a monkey Faunus hanging upside down from one of the street lamps. As the cops approached him he threw a banana peel at them and took off running, as he passed the group he turned and winked at Blake. As the cops chased after him Yang laughed, "well Weiss you wanted to see the competition, and there it goes." Weiss panicked, "quick we have to observe him!" the girls ran after the cops, Weiss was the closest and disappeared around a corner. Delilah heard her slam into something metal, when they all rounded the corner they saw Weiss on the ground on top of a girl. Yang cracked a smile, "geez Weiss at least buy her dinner first." Weiss huffed as the got up leaving the girl still on the ground, the girl greeted them, "salutations." Yang ask if the girl was ok and if she needed help getting up, as the girl flipped herself up Delilah heard the sounds of gears shifting inside the girl. Seeing a metal case harnessed to her back she attributed the sound to the case instead of the girl.
Levina and Carmine were walking by the stands being set up in preparation of the festival, Levina was glancing at the roof top when she saw someone looking over at them. Getting scared she bumped into Carmine, Freyja touched her shoulder, "worry not small one, it is simply brother checking roof top for making sure no one suspicious." Seeing only three of them she looked to the roof top again to see the person stand on the edge and wave at them, taking a breath she went back to looking at all of the various stalls.
Carmine and Delilah's group met back up at the hanger, Weiss and Blake were still arguing the entire time. Levina looked around asking, "Hey where's Omar?" everyone immediately went silent as they stared at the empty runway, Carmine fished out his scroll nervously opening it. Tapping the screen to wake it Vigil loaded up, "Hello sir is there anything I can help you with?" Carmine asked, "Where's Omar?" a loading screen appeared before Vigil turned into a GPS pin, "he is currently in one of the warehouses repurposed into a livable domicile enjoying drinks with his cousin, I do not detect any strange or unknown aura signatures near his position." Carmine, Delilah and Levina breathed a sigh of relief, Coco asked, "shouldn't he be with us right now?" Carmine looked out toward the city taking a breath as he considered his options. Delilah tapped him looking worried, Carmine smiled caressing her face, "he should be fine, and if we see on the news that the city is engulfed in flames we head back." Freyja raised an eyebrow, "you sure, these professionals assassins. He may need help." Carmine shook his head, "he's with his cousin right now, so we just have to trust him to make the correct judgement when the situation happens." Vigil started the engines piloting the bullhead out of the hanger and back to school.
After Omar and Neo finished the three bottles he brought Neo went into a separate room and pulled out more bottles, she had signed that they were her partners but that he wouldn't mind. They continued to drink well into the night, Omar had asked at one point if her partner would be back soon but her reply was the when he was casing a job he could be gone for days. At some point during the drunken haze Omar could swear he heard the sound of a hammer hitting something, looking at the bottle and Neo sitting tipsy in her seat he brushed off the sound to the drink.
The sound of the hammer grew louder and louder as Omar stirred in his sleep, lifting his head he didn't see Neo sitting across from him. Taking a look around he saw that he was sitting at a wooden table much different from the one him and Neo were sitting at. The walls had various hammers and thongs lining it, there was a table off to the side with various size chisels strewn about. Getting up he could hear the sound of something crackle, going through the only door he could see he entered a room with a large blacksmith furnace. A water trough was off to the side, there was a lot of smoke limiting the visibility inside. Seeing a window he walked towards it when someone spoke up, "thanks it was getting a little stuffy in here." The voice made Omar nearly jump onto the anvil behind him as a man was sitting down holding a hammer and a pair of tongs. When he settled down and opened the window the air cleared enough for him to see that the man that spoke was very old, he had on a dirty cloth bandana, a thick white gi, and a leather vest worn on top of the gi with leather gloves. The man's face was covered in soot so any physical features were hard to make out. Using the tongs the man picked up a red hot blade from the coal and set it on a small anvil next to him, using the hammer he struck the blade several times.
Looking around the room Omar was about to ask something when the man spoke up, "I know who you are, but you are not ready for me to make your weapon yet. Come back later when you need it most, and leave the window open on your way out." Omar stood confused and asked, "Who are you?" the man not looking up from his work answered, "the blacksmith, now off with you." Tilting his head he stared at the man confused until he felt a tug on his shoulder, Neo was tugging on his shirt trying to waking him up.
Lifting his head he could see she was scared, looking around he didn't see anything different. It was the same rundown room he remembered before falling asleep, there were no tools and the room was not filled with smoke it was just as it was before. Neo lifted his chin roughly checking his face, putting two fingers on his neck he could see her silently count. Poking her on the forehead he asked, "What's wrong?" Neo took a deep breath as she sat back down, rubbing the bridge of her nose she held up a finger for him to wait for her response. After a few deep breaths she signed, "When I woke up I saw you sleeping so I tried to wake you up but you weren't breathing, and I couldn't feel your heart beat. I thought you died, I was about to call my partner to come back." Reaching a hand out he rubbed her head ruffling her hair, "I'm fine, don't worry alright. If something was wrong you know Mavis would have been the first to know and would have been already on her way." Neo laughed nodding her head, getting up she went to the freezer and pulled out the tubs of ice cream grabbing two spoons. Setting one down in front of him she sat back down, looking idly around she smirked before digging in.
Carmine sat reading a book on his bed, Delilah and Levina were at the table with Velvet and Freyja doing some work when Ruby burst into the room. Everyone saw her out of breath and grew worried, Carmine closing his book asked, "hey Ruby what's up?" Ruby looked around the room franticly before answering, "Blake ran off, turns out she's a Faunus, but she ran away before we could say anything." Delilah scratched her head, "Ruby….we kinda know already that she's a Faunus." Ruby looked shocked, "how'd you guys already know!?" Levina answered, "I was trained to spot a Faunus trying to disguise themselves, and her bow kinda gave her away every time her ears twitched." Delilah added, "I figured it out from her scent the first time I met her." Carmine hopped down from his bunk, "same with Delilah, and I'm pretty sure Omar already knows." Ruby waved her hands around, "ok so you know she's a Faunus, can you guys help us find her? We really need to talk to her." Carmine nodded, "sure no problem, we can start first thing in the morning." Ruby grew more frantic, "why won't you help now!?" Carmine looked at the clock on his desk, "Ruby it's already late, and if she ran off she may want to be alone right now. She may even come back in the morning, and if she doesn't we can help you look for her." Freyja cleared her throat, "You will not be looking for Faunus friend, it too dangerous to be running around at this time. Small red girl will have to be searching alone." Ruby looked deflated until Carmine pulled out his scroll, "I'll text Omar and tell him Blake may be in town and that he should tell us if he sees her, who knows he may find her before you do." Ruby smiled widely as she hugged Carmine before running back to her room.