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[System Message]

"Speech"

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'Thoughts'

{Party Chat}

Ice Cream Trailer

- Patch, Vale, Xiao-Long/Rose/Uwzal/Branwen Home -

Neo's Theme: "Mad Hatter" - Melanie Martinez

- 2 Hours After the end of Shadow Trailer -

"Slow down, Neo," said her mom, Carmel Politan. "After all, you don't want them to think I starve you, do you? Or is it something other than the meal that has you so excited?"

Neo whirls around on the path and narrows her eyes at her mother before signing. "And what exactly do you mean by that, mother?"

"I'm just saying that I was never this excited to see my 'Male Best Friend' when I was your age," Her mother said teasingly. "Neo, you're sixteen; is that really all that you consider him?"

In lieu of an answer, Neo whirls around her face, slightly red, quickly covers it up with her Semblance, and then knocks on the door. The expression on her face was unmistakably one of excitement.

The door opens, revealing not the dark-haired, silver-eyed jaguar faunus she was hoping for but a tall, skinny man with graying black hair, red eyes, a five o'clock shadow, and a hip flask he was currently drinking from.

Honestly, Qrow," The elder Politans voice came from behind the younger. "Do you ever stop drinking? You should at least not do it when you're staying here. What if one of the kids got a hold of that flask? What would happen then?"

"Well," said the gravelly voice of the drunkard in question. "Yang would go crazy punching everything in sight until she passed out; Ruby would probably die of liver failure; and if Ciar got into it, well, you'd probably have a grandkid or two nine months later.

Well, I guess I'll tell Tai you were the one that caused Yang to break her exterior wall and a dozen trees," called another male voice from inside.

As her mother sputtered at Qrow's blunt, unrepentant statement, Neo looked past the drunken huntsman to see her best friend Ciar. Still covering her blushing with her semblance, she gestures between their heads, their signal to open up the Private Messaging Chat.

Neo:{Please tell me you already have a plan to get back at him for that?}

Ciar(Host):{Of course I do. Though the plan may have to be adjusted slightly, I fear I may have underestimated The Drunk's ability to piss me off!}

Neo: {Well, whatever it is, I want in.}

Ciar(Host):{I was counting on it. The main part of my plan involves bribing Ruby to give him some of my Looks Great Surprise, while saying she made it and smiling cutely at him, which, as you know...

Neo:{Will take both of us to do properly, training against me and...

Ciar(Host):{Shopping for weapons mods with me, yeah, I know, but at least she's the easiest of my pseudo-sisters to bribe into helping us.}

Neo:{Yeah, Yang would probably just start laughing, make it worse, and earn her own helping of Looks Great Surprise. Though how exactly you managed to make a meal that looks and smells like the picture for whatever recipe you're trying to make and yet tastes like you made it in a clogged truckstop toilet bowl is one of the larger mysteries surrounding your semblance.}

Ciar(Host):{Honestly, I have no idea either. But yeah, Yang would totally earn her own serving of it if she found out.}

- One week later -

- Politan/Rose/Uwzal/Xiao-Long Training Area, Patch -

In a large clearing in the woods, three teenagers can be seen chatting as they get ready for a sparring match. The two girls readied their weapons, and the boy prepared to act as a referee, his new robe seeming to give off wisps of shadows even in the early afternoon sunlight.

"The look on his face when he ate it!" laughed the boy. "Revenge was sweet, at least for us anyway."

Wow, Ruby," Signed the shorter of the two girls. "I never knew just how devious you could be, 'I made this and wanted you to try it but it's the first time I made this recipe so let me know if it's any good.' He was trying so hard not to let what he thought about it show on his face. Though I think the fact that you had a plate of what looked like the exact same dish that you were eating quite happily really brought the whole thing to another level. You're probably the third most devious person I've ever met."

"Guys! Stop it!" says the last teen, slightly embarrassed about her two friends teasing. "And who is ahead of me on that list?"

"Well, Ciar is number two," Neo signs before pausing slightly. "And at the top of that list is Jimmy Vanille."

Hmm, I don't know that I'd call him devious per se," the jaguar faunus began upon noticing the downward spiral his friend's thoughts seemed to be on. "Conniving, scheming, unscrupulous, treacherous, and crooked—all of those things I'd say describe him better than devious. I mean, the difference may be in connotation rather than denotation. There is still a significant difference between the two terms. Some might even say an insurmountable…"

"Let's just fight already!" The black and red reaper cut off her pseudo-brother's word vomit while their mute friend shook with laughter, indicating that she had been jolted out of her funk.

"Ahem." Ciar cleared his throat before beginning to speak in his best announcer voice. "Alright, this will be a fight until Aura levels reach the red zone or you go out of bounds. The bounds for the purpose of this fight will be the edge of the clearing. If at any time I see an attack that would completely shatter your opponent's Aura, I will stop the attack, and the attacker will lose. So girls, keep it clean out there. Fighters to your sides, BEGIN!"

As one, the two girls leapt at each other. Their weapons came to bear in an instant. The younger girl whirls her scythe around her as she fires a round behind her to boost her speed, while the older girl opens her umbrella wide, spinning it to give off a disorienting effect before her form shatters like glass.

Ruby spins around to see Neo smirking at her from the other side of the clearing, leaning on Hush.

"Come on, teleportings, no fair!" Ruby whined before turning into a swirling cloud of rose petals and speeding across the clearing before delivering another whirling slashing attack with her scythe. Neo went to block it, and then as soon as the scythe came in contact with her umbrella, she shattered like glass once more.

Ruby whirls around in search of her opponent and instead see's Yang running towards her.

"Yang? What are you doing here?" She asks, the sight of her older sister catching her off guard.

A kick from her left side is followed by Hush knocking her back. Ruby turns to see Neo standing there, smirking again, with her umbrella over her shoulder.

Ruby quickly shifts Crescent Rose into sniper mode and starts firing repeatedly at Neo, who just opens up Hush and blocks the shots while moving forward. The blade hidden in Hush's tip comes out mid-charge, and as Ruby moved to block it, she felt its sharp point dig into her back. Before she could react, Neo's boots were once again striking her head, the heels especially leaving their mark as they struck. Once, twice, and then Ruby saw Neo cartwheeling away from her.

Stopping her acrobatic display, Neo looked back at the younger girl and smirked back at her with Hush resting on her shoulder. She beckoned at Ruby with the universal 'Come at me' gesture.

"Oh, you're asking for it now, ice cream head," Ruby cried out in response to the provocation before disappearing into a swarm of rose petals. She released a flurry of wild slashes around the clearing, shattering Neo's illusions like glass with nearly everyone, and just as Crescent Rose swung towards what was surely the real one, the voice of their Ref rang out across the clearing.

"Ruby, your Aura is in the red," Ciar called, causing the red reaper to stumble as she stopped suddenly pinwheeling her arms to maintain her balance. "And seriously, ice cream head, That hasn't been original since the first day of Signal."

Aww, man, I thought I had that," Ruby grumbled, pouting at the two older teens. "And leave me alone; it was the first thing that popped into my mind."

"Alright, alright, calm down, sis. We'll take you to From Dust Till Dawn to get the newest weapon mod catalog you wanted tonight, okay?" Ciar responded placatingly.

Neo:{We? Dragging me along with you I see.}

Ciar(Host):{Yep. You'll just make it all so much more fun, you know? Or are you saying you don't want an extra excuse to hang out?}

"You guys are doing that weird talking inside Ciar's head thing, aren't you?" Ruby says, interrupting the two's silent conversation. "Or are you guys just staring into each other's eyes for no reason?"

"Zip it, Rubes," a blushing Ciar growled. "Come on, let's get to Vale. We need to be able to catch the last ship back after we're done."

Secretly blushing as well but being careful to hide it with her semblance, Neo skipped behind the two bickering siblings as they made their way to the docks to head towards Vale.