Chapter 30: Bitch Cup
Character Change: Winter Schnee- Viralious Rose
Location: Atlas Academy: Team VIEW Dorm: Common Area
All eyes looked to the duffel bag sitting on the table in anticipation. Eyes shifted from the bag to Ifiral, back to the bag quickly before Ifiral sighed.
"You know you can open the damn bag. It's not going to bite." He says, sighing, reaching to open the bag, "Anyhow, I grabbed these things as a thank you for sticking with me after we went down to Mantle, also as an apology for getting us chased by a crazy katana-wielding terrorist."
"We willingly followed you, so you really don't need to apologize." Viralious says sighing.
Ifiral rolls his eyes before unzipping the bag revealing its contents… A shit ton of alcohol.
Picking up a bottle of vodka from the bag, Ifiral smirks, "Well then, let's celebrate being the top team going into our first mission."
"Is this really the best idea? We've got to pick our mission tomorrow." Eckhart says, raising an eyebrow.
"I know that but that's not until 3 tomorrow." Ifiral responds.
"Where did you get all this?! You're not able to leave campus and you're underage!" Winter calls out partially shocked.
Ifiral smirks, "Remember that lifting competition against Johanna."
"Oh god..." Viralious says facepalming while Eckhart walks over to the bag examining it.
"Well, after I beat her, she made a bet that she could beat me in an arm-wrestling competition. She made the wager that the loser had to do whatever the winner said." Ifiral smiles.
"You've got to be kidding me. You had her buy you all these boozes?" Viralious says with an exasperated sigh.
"I gave her money and told her to buy whatever she thought our team would like. Also told her to get whatever SHE wanted as extra payment." Ifiral clarifies.
"How much did you pay her?" Winter asks.
"Three hundred lien." Ifiral deadpans.
Viralious shakes his head.
Eckhart chuckles as he pulls out a tall bottle of Mistralian 151 rum, "She thinks one of us has expensive tastes."
"Damn straight, she picked a lot of great stuff." Ifiral huffs out with a smile.
Viralious rolls his eyes at the comment before grinning, "What did she get?"
Ifiral beams, "Well she got a little bit of everything. For specifics, she got two bottles of vodka, three different types of rum, one light, one dark and the 151 that Eckhart's holding. For the weaker stuff, she got us a bottle of tequila, two six packs of beer, eight hard lemonades and I think the whole store's stock of shooters."
Viralious blinks twice before sighing, "Going to be honest, I wasn't expecting that much."
Eckhart chuckles, "It's more than enough for the Atlas elite after a long night of business talks."
Viralious rolls his eyes before smirking, "Sounds like a fun night." His eyes then land on Winter who's staring at the duffel bag a bit nervous. Sighing, he walks over, "Nervous of getting caught?"
Winter looks at Viralious before sighing, "No… I mean no… maybe a little."
Viralious gives a small smile before saying, "No worries." before turning to Ifiral, "I think you should probably give this back to Johanna."
"WHAT!" Ifiral and Eckhart both say in surprise, "WHY!"
Viralious starts to speak before he's interrupted by Winter.
"It's fine if you guys' drink… I've just never had alcohol before." She says timidly.
"You're also nervous about getting caught." Viralious deadpans.
"Well… Who wouldn't be." Winter shoots back.
Ifiral scoffs before raising his hand, "Most people who like fun."
Viralious rolls his eyes, "Winter, if you feel uncomfortable just say it. Really, it's okay."
Winter looks him in his eyes before sighing, "It'll be alright… you guys should do what you want."
Viralious sighs, "Alright, but don't feel forced to do anything you're uncomfortable with." He then turns to Ifiral and rubs the bridge of his nose, "Alright Ifiral, you can keep it."
"You act like I was going to return it anyway." Ifiral jokes before walking over and locking the front door, "Now then who wants shots?"
Character Change: Viralious - Delphi Amethyst
Location: Atlas Academy: Team CARD Dorm: CD dorm room.
"Celica for fuck's sake can you please stop writing plans to ask Winter out on sticky notes and putting them on the mirror." Delphi sighs exasperatedly exiting the bathroom.
"Come on Delphi… I'm just trying to give your ideas." Celica coyly shoots back.
"You and I both know you're projecting." Delphi retorts.
"That obvious?" says Celica, missing her normal confident tone.
"Yes…" Delphi says, looking away. "Why don't you just talk to her."
"I mean… I think she's busy…" Celica side steps.
"You've been writing different hair brained schemes for asking her out for months. Just what are you afraid of?" Delphi stumbles out.
"I mean…*Sigh* Delphi, there are two people I like, and neither one of them are going to notice me." Celica responds.
"So, tell them." Delphi deadpans.
"I know at least one will say no." Celica responds looking down.
"And you're afraid of the answer from Winter." Delphi responds by piecing it together.
Celica just nods.
Delphi walks over to Celica and wraps a hand around her and says "I believe you should just tell her." before leaving and walking out.
Celica looks at the door sadly before saying, "It's not that simple Delphi… those notes aren't for Winter…"
Character Change: Delphi Amethyst - Viralious Rose
Location: Atlas Academy: Team VIEW Dorm: Common area.
The night was going off fairly well, currently Team VIEW was gathered in the common area drinking and just talking about a few simple topics. Truth was they were just being friends.
Ifiral raises his cup full of 151 rum and points to Eckhart, "So I'm kinda surprised that you're actually breaking the rules."
Eckhart laughs, "Sometimes you have to break the rules… Besides everyone in Atlas has a drink after a long day. For dust sake it's one of our top exports."
"Damn straight." Ifiral responds, taking a drink.
Viralious gets up and grabs a beer from the bag before an idea jumps into his head, "Why don't we play a game of beer pong?"
Ifiral raises an eyebrow before saying, "We've got an odd number of people drinking here."
Winter, who's been abstaining, gets up and sighs, "I can play, I guess."
"I'll drink for her if that makes it fair." Viralious responds.
"Perfect, then I'll partner with Ifiral. Be prepared to drink a lot tonight Viralious." Eckhart shoots back and starts moving the table to the middle of the room.
Winter rolls her eyes as Viralious and ifiral move to fill cups with water and place them on the table, "I'm sure that I'll be able to beat you in a simple game of 'beer pong.'"
This gets Eckhart to laugh, "Alright then can you explain the rules for me."
Winter stumbles before speaking, "Well… you drink the beer."
"I mean, she's not technically wrong, but it's not even close." Ifiral jokes finishing setting up the cups.
"I mean to be fair I wouldn't have known if my uncle wasn't an alcoholic." Viralious says grabbing two small ping pong balls.
Viralious quickly goes through the rules of beer pong before tossing a ball to Ifiral.
"Eyes to Eyes" Viralious and Ifiral say in unison before tossing the balls toward the cups. Only Viralious makes it into the cup.
"Nice shot." Eckhart says before grabbing the ball from the water, "So each cup take a drink and if you lose, finish the cup."
"Better than putting actual beer in the cups." Viralious jokes before looking Eckhart in the eye, "No semblances."
Eckhart just smirks, saying he won't need it.
Viralious starts the game by taking the shot but narrowly misses the front most cup.
Winter steps up and takes her first shot and surprisingly makes it into the middle most cup.
Seeing this both Ifiral and Eckhart burst into laughter.
"What's so funny?" Winter asks, confused.
"You got the bitch cup." Ifiral answers.
"What's that even mean?" Winter responds.
"It's an alternate rule set saying that you have to shoot your shots until you make another cup." Viralious explains.
"That's extremely stupid." Winter responds.
"I agree, but it's the rules." Viralious says.
The game goes on for a while before eventually it becomes a nail-biting game at the end with both teams only having one cup remaining. However, after what felt forever Winter eventually takes the final shot winning the game for her and Viralious.
"Fuck." Ifiral says starting to down the rest of his drink.
"Damn, Winter you're a lot better at this than I expected." Eckhart responds, finishing his cup as well.
Winter looks around before sighing, "What do you recommend?"
"Recommend what?" Viralious asks, taking a sip of beer.
"What would you recommend having to drink?" Winter responds.
It's as if a record scratch occurred as all three of them before Ifiral responds, "How fast do you want to get drunk?"
Viralious cuts in, "I recommend the lemonades as they are weaker and sweeter, something that you should probably go with for your first-time drinking."
Eckhart just laughs lightly saying to Winter, "What Viralious was saying is that you probably can't handle your drink."
Winter's eyebrow twitches lightly before turning to Ifiral and says, "I'll take a shot of what you were drinking."
Ifiral smirks while Viralious is giving all of the stop signals that he can muster.
Ifiral hands her a shot glass and pours a shot of 151 Mistralian rum.
Winter looks down at the dark liquid sitting in the glass contemplating if this was a horrible idea.
It would probably look worse if I chickened out.
She takes one look at Viralious seeing him give her one last "this is a bad idea look" before she quickly takes the shot.
The fiery liquid goes down in one quick motion earning a hum of praise from Ifiral, a second later she starts coughing rapidly, Viralious seeing that this was going to happen hands her a bottle of water saying to drink it slowly.
Winter quickly and gladly accepts the bottle of water and immediately begins to wash the remnants of the dark rum down. After she's finished, Eckhart hands her one of the hard lemonades saying, "You'll probably like the taste of this one a bit more."
Winter rolls her eyes before popping the cap off and taking a sip. After what feels like forever she admits that maybe Viralious was right at the start and she should have just drank these instead of "That cursed liquid."
Viralious chuckles before saying, "Who's up for a rematch?"
"How about Beer Die?" Ifiral shoots back.
"I'm down." Eckhart says.
The night eventually continues on with multiple different games and having a blast. Eventually after multiple different games and what feels like an unending amount of booze the four just sit in the common area talking. Glancing over to the duffel bag grabbing two shooters of pink Whitney for him and Winter he notices that it's starting to look a bit dry with only a few beers, a half bottle of vodka and various shooters remaining.
Handing the shooter to Winter they both knock it back before there's a knock at the door.
This immediately catches everyone off guard. Viralious is the first to react and immediately looks through the peephole and sees familiar turquoise fox ears.
Breathing a sigh of relief quickly tells his team to ease their fears, before opening the door, "What's up, Celica?"
"Well, I wanted to see what you guys were up to." Celica says looking inside and seeing what obviously looks like an ended game of beer pong before putting her face in a pout "Looks like you guys were having fun… should have invited us."
Viralious chuckles, "I'll keep that in mind for next time. So, what brings you over?"
Celica looks around before sighing "Honestly I'm bored and Delphi doesn't want to do anything, I'd ask to join you, but it looks like you guys are already winding down tonight." she ends up looking a little crestfallen.
"How about tomorrow we do a joint-team bonding activity after we pick our first missions?" Viralious responds with.
Celica smiles before saying, "That sounds wonderful. Have a good night, everyone." and exits the dorm.
Viralious sighs before sighing and checking the time on his scroll.
12:33 AM
-6 C Cloudy
One alarm set for 12:00 PM
Viralious does a double take at the time before questioning why Celica would be visiting them at this time. But the truth is that's a question for another time because they have to be up and pick their mission at 3 PM.
Sighing Viralious looks at his team and immediately notices everyone is at a different level of intoxication. Currently Ifiral is doing the best which is a surprise as he's consistently been drinking the strongest of everything. Him and Eckhart were both on the cusp of being drunk as they were drinking a few shots and slightly weaker drinks.
Winter however was definitely not going to remember this in the morning.
Shaking his head Viralious is about to say they should call it a night before Winter starts making the signature "I'm about to vomit face".
Immediately Viralious quickly grabs a plastic bag from the bag hanging near the trash can and rushes over,handing it to Winter "I think that you should probably go to the bathroom as it seems like you're about to throw up."
Winter looks up at Viralious confused before saying "Why would I go to the bathroom in a plastic bag?"
Ifiral facepalms before Winter vomits into the plastic bag.
"Motherfucker, I just cleaned this couch!" Eckhart says.
A/N
Hey guys, sorry about the month-long delay with this chapter, I will admit that this hiatus has become a lot longer than I initially wanted it to be… and sadly I cannot say that it is exactly over. The past month I've been extremely busy, and the truth is I was only able to get the time to write this chapter because my Quantum Physics professor decided to have mercy and not give us homework this week.
I will do what I can to keep this story updated regularly but I have not been able to get the buffer up to the point where I can confidently say that the hiatus is over. I will make sure that you don't sit for a month without an update this time.
Now then onto the story: This chapter is half a bit of fun and half set up and is based off of some of the parties that I went to before life started kicking my ass, Parents, if you're afraid of your kids going to college becoming alcoholics suggest they become physics/engineering majors they won't have time to drink.
AmoebaHewdraw's Note: Do keep in mind that being a physics/engineering major could also give students a reason to drink. Signed, a creative writing major.
Not a ton to talk about so I'll leave it here, next chapter should hopefully be longer as I know this chapter was also a bit shorter than the last few but that was honestly by design. Next chapter should be longer and be an interlude continuing a bit of the story with Team RWBY during their time in Atlas (Ciel is going to have a great morning.)
Speaking of RWBY, I hope everyone is enjoying Volume 9. It's too early to make a decision on it yet but I think it's not bad so far.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment or send me a DM.
This is where I would like to thank my editor AmoebaHewdraw for coming back and reviewing the spelling on this story. I honestly owe him a bottle of Maker's Mark for coming back after a month break.
Until next time Xcom Out.
