"Sooo...Ruby can belly dance."
"YANG! THE FUCK!"
A pillow found its way into the face of the blonde brawler, courtesy of her younger sister. Team RWBY with the P and N of Team JNPR sat within their dorm, essentially bored out of their minds. The pouring rain that pounded on the window and the occasional boom of thunder exasperated their boredom and mixed it with annoyance. The Vytal Festival had been postponed due to a severe thunderstorm warning turning into a monsoon/hurricane. The problem was that everything had been shut down and the storm had been going for a week strong.
It had gotten so bad that everyone was essentially quarantined to their homes or Beacon grounds for the foreseeable future.
"As interesting as that is, why is it relevant?" Weiss asked as she sat trying to get a signal on her scroll. She had studied as much as she could and was just beyond bored now.
"Why is it interesting?" Ruby whined.
"Belly dancing is provocative and you, are not." Nora answered bluntly, laying on the floor right behind Yang, letting Blake pop popcorns in her mouth from across the room.
Blake nodded. "You always said you didn't know how to dance either."
"It's not really dancing…" Ruby argued. 'And I can be provocative if I want to.' She thought with a huff.
"I beg to differ." Pyrrha called with a confident smirk before standing up. Everyone's eyes were on the red head as she moved to the middle of the room, looks of realization dawning on everyone.
Ruby's eyes widened the most as Pyrrha rolled up the black t-shirt she was wearing and tied it in a knot right below her breasts. Without hesitation, she rose her arms in the air and began to roll her hips and stomach in a snake like way. She continued her gyrations for a full 10 seconds, turning as she danced to make sure everyone got a good look from all angles.
"Holy shit Pyr-pyr, when did you learn THAT?" Nora cried out.
Pyrrha shrugged and took her seat again, the blush on her cheeks showing that whatever confidence she had to do what she did had already vacated her. "My mother thought she was signing me up for an ethnic exotic dance class from Mistral. It was for 'social performance' skills. Social, as in concubines performing for their masters guests. Mother pulled me out but I had fun and paid to go back myself."
The room was quiet for a bit, the air feeling heavy with awkwardness.
"There's...so much to unpack there." Blake said what was on everyone's mind.
"You wanted to be a concubine?" Yang asked bluntly.
Pyrrha blushed again and shook her head rapidly. "Of course not, I was only 13." However, her mind drifted to a certain blonde haired boy and dark/red haired girl. 'Though for those two, I wouldn't mind.'
Ruby felt a pleasurable chill go down her back when her eyes caught Pyrrha's for a moment. She ignored it after a moment and sighed deeply, knowing what was coming next.
"Well what about Ruby? Why does she know how to belly dance?" Nora asked.
Before Yang could say anything, Ruby threw another pillow at her with enough force to knock her over.
"I'll tell them myself!" She argued. But before she could, Pyrrha held up a hand.
"How about a performance first?" The red head asked with a teasing, yet anticipatory grin.
"Oh! Yeah, are you as good as Pyrrha?" Nora added.
"I'm also curious of that." Blake called, moving to sit next to Nora, her eyes gleaming in excitement.
Ruby looked around at everyone seeming to be eager to see her dance. The blush that burned at her face was a mix of embarrassment and annoyance. At least she knew her bestie Weiss wouldn't-
"A-are you recording?" Ruby shrieked as Weiss held her scroll up towards her.
"For science." Weiss promptly said.
The reaper cursed inwardly. She was even already wearing her pajamas that consisted of a black tank top with a pink heart shaped grimm head, and white bottoms with dozens of pink rose heads on them. With all eyes on her, and Yang and Nora chanting her name, she audibly groaned before moving to the center of the room.
Doing as Pyrrha did, she rolled her shirt up to under her breast and tied it before slipping her pajama bottoms down just a tad bit so the top of her hips stuck out.
Just as Pyrrha, Ruby began to roll her stomach and hips, yet it seemed just a bit more controlled and sensual than the older red head. Most everyone's jaws hit the floor as Ruby rolled her body in an almost hypnotic way. Truly hypnotic if the drool from Pyrrha and Weiss was any indication. When Ruby was able to bounce her hips repeatedly while still undulating her stomach, Pyrrha jumped up and grabbed the girl.
"A-alright, that's enough!" She called. Ruby buried her head in Pyrrha's chest, hugging the girl and hiding her embarrassment.
"Holy shit…" Blake and Nora called from the floor. Yang had a proud and smug grin.
"Told ya."
"You were keeping this to yourself?!" Weiss suddenly called.
All eyes fell on the heiress whom had the grace to blush and clear her throat.
"I-I mean, we all should be willing to share our skills with each other, combat oriented or not."
Everyone rolled their eyes at the girls clear subject change.
Blake stood up and sat back on her bed. "It still begs to question; Where did you learn to do that Ruby?"
The embarrassed reaper sat leaning against Pyrrha, with the older girl stroking her hair in comfort. With a sigh, Ruby held up four fingers. "I started learning when I was 4 years old. At first I was just looking for acrobatics and gymnastics on ViewTube. One of the channels I found had belly dancing as well. I wondered how someone could dance with their belly and got hooked. It was only after I showed dad and Uncle Qrow when I turned 10 that I realized how belly dancing could be considered erotic…"
"Yeah it can…" Weiss and Pyrrha mumbled together.
"Being real, Ruby, it's not just erotic though. Belly dancing takes inspiration from many cultures. It still is an art in and of itself." Blake explained.
"She knows. That's why she never stopped practicing even after dad and Uncle Qrow told her to stop." Yang chirped.
Ruby looked ready to throttle Yang but a squeeze from Pyrrha got her attention. "It's a wonderful thing and I'm glad I found someone else to share such a culturally significant dance with. We should practice together sometimes. You have a lot to show me it seems."
The words of Pyrrha made Ruby perk up a little. She hadn't thought of it like that. She didn't hate belly dancing, she just felt embarrassed about it.
"Weiss is right, by the way." Pyrrha started. "It could be fun to show what other skills or secrets we all have."
Nora hopped up first. "Oh, I got one!" Nora motioned for all the girls to vacate the floor and give her space. When they did, the girl spun onto her hands and began to do windmills and flares, breakdancing at a break neck speed. She ended in a one hand hand stand, her other limbs spread out in a bombastic display.
Everyone began to clap for her. Yang whistled. "When'd you learn how to do that?"
For a moment, the smile on Nora's face froze. The nervous look she gave the others made them worry. "Uh...Jaune taught me…" She admitted.
A silence fell over the room again as everyone seemed to lose their mirth. Yang was the first to recover and sighed.
"Alright, the elephant's in the room. Let's just address it."
Midway through the first week of the storm, Jaune began to distance himself from his friends. It clearly wasn't the same case as with Cardin, as Jaune still seemed happier than ever. However, whenever anyone wanted to hang out with him, he declined. Even when Weiss offered to study some things with him, he told her maybe another time.
By the end of the first week, everyone had gotten worried. Eventually Ren decided to see what was going on with Jaune. He went to talk to him on his own.
Then Ren started disappearing right alongside Jaune.
The girls had attempted to follow the two before, but Jaune was always able to make himself and Ren disappear. Though the girls scoured most of the Beacon Campus, they could never find where Ren and Jaune were going to hang out.
Now at the end of the second week, the absence of the two lone male teammates had brought a sense of emptiness to the group. No matter how much any of them questioned the two young men, they never received a real answer.
"Should we have an intervention?" Nora asked, her sadness calming her usual hyperactivity. She felt especially lonely with Ren disappearing all the time alongside their leader. Granted, she had started getting closer to everyone else, specifically Blake, in his absence. Still, Ren was like her second half. She felt incomplete without him.
Weiss scoffed. "Load of good that would do. They've been tight lipped about whatever they're doing. What could we possibly do to make them admit to where they've been?"
Yang suddenly had a light-bulb above her head. The other girls looked at her in confusion.
"Uh, isn't the light-bulb supposed to be on when you have an idea?" Blake asked.
Yang looked up and flicked the bulb. It flickered dimly.
"…"
"Ignoring that." Yang started with a huff. "How about we get them to play truth or dare with us?"
Everyone seemed contemplative, truly mulling the idea over. It wasn't a great idea, but they really had run out of options.
However, a lightbulb popped up over Nora's head, shining brightly. Yang's eyes widened, but before she could complain, Nora jumped up.
"Oh! I've got a game we could play! I saw it in this fanfic called Full Tilt Specials and it looked interesting. It's a card drinking game called Debauchery Kingdom!"
Everyone's interests was piqued, however, for different reasons.
Weiss rolled her eyes "First off, even if the legal drinking age in Vale is 16, we aren't allowed to have alcohol on school grounds-"
"Says who?" Nora interrupted her.
"The rules!" Weiss argued.
"Actually…" Pyrrha started with a blush. "There is no such rule. In the Beacon Handbook, it only says that students are not allowed to go to classes inebriated."
"There's a handbook?" Yang questioned. Then she paused. "Wait, why do you know that Pyrrha?"
The red head blushed deeper. "Um...me and Jaune would sometimes partake in spirits to unwind after a particularly grueling training session. Nora and Ren joined in after a while."
Team RWBY was floored at finding out that their sister team regularly partook in alcohol.
Weiss was both appalled and a little jealous of the team. "W-well, that doesn't excuse the fact that Ruby is only 15."
"Actually…" Ruby started, blushing just as Pyrrha.
"No…" Weiss groaned.
"My birthday was on Halloween last week." The reaper shrugged.
Everyone's eyes widened again. Weiss looked hurt that she had missed her partners birthday. She looked between Ruby and Yang, seeing them both looking away. Yang in shame, Ruby in indifference.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Weiss asked softly. Pyrrha once again pulled the reaper close, sensing that there was a deeper reason for the younger girl to conceal her birthday.
Ruby sighed, leaning into Pyrrha for comfort. "We found out about my mothers death on my 5th birthday. Ever since then I just haven't celebrated. It's better for people to just celebrate Halloween instead."
Yang gave a mirthless chuckle. "We tried to get her to celebrate, but it she's always been adamant. She made it clear that she didn't want anyone to know about her birthday here."
The sobering mood in the room made Ruby feel guilty. She tried to put on a smile. "But Halloween is still my favorite holiday! We can just focus on the spooky time instead making the day about me!"
Weiss still looked conflicted. "I wish...you would have told us at least…" She argued weakly.
Ruby's guilt returned and she couldn't look her partner in the eye. "Sorry…" Was all she could mumble.
"Well...since Ruby apparently IS 16, we can still do the game then!" Nora tried to lift the mood.
Blake smirked, lazily eating the popcorn she had been feeding Nora. "Where would we get the alcohol from? Not like we can head into Vale during this storm."
Nora jumped up with a beaming smile. "Oh, we've already got that covered! We stocked up once we heard that we were going to be on lock down! You name it, we probably got it!"
Yang quirked an eyebrow. "Strawberry Sunrise Mimosa?"
"Jaune can make it. We have the ingredients!"
Blake was amused. "Whiskey Sour?"
"Easy! Jaune makes those for us when we don't have a lot of time before bed."
Weiss, trying to get over the hurt from before sighed. "Dom Perignon Rose?"
"Expensive tastes for the expensive lady!" Nora confirmed.
Yang gagged. "Yuck, straight wine?"
Nora shrugged. "Ren likes to partake. I'm impartial."
The Schnee heiress rolled her eyes at Yang. "Pina-Colada's are fine as well if I have to drink with the unrefined."
"Jaeger bombs?" Ruby asked. All eyes fell on the youngest of the group. Yang's eyes flashed red for a second.
"Ruby…" She started dangerously.
The reaper just shrugged again. "What? Uncle Qrow started letting me drink when I turned 14 because he mentioned mom could drink like a sailor. I'm apparently a very cool drunk."
"WHY AM I JUST HEARING ABOUT THIS?" Yang shouted.
"He told me not to tell you. He was afraid you'd be a terrible drunk like your mother."
Yang rose a hand to protest, but her words died in her throat. "You know, I'll take that L."
She couldn't deny that she wasn't the best at holding her liquor. Junior's club wasn't the first one she had destroyed…
"Anyway, how is this game played Nora?" Blake asked.
Weiss gasped at the faunus. "Out of everyone, I thought you'd be above childish games Blake!"
"Something called Debauchery Kingdom has got to be interesting. You can't tell me you're not a little bit interested." She retorted. The heiress blushed and turned up her nose.
"The very fact that it has Debauchery in the name means it's going to be extremely uncivilized!"
"That's what makes it fun!" Nora cheered.
Weiss growled in frustration. Her own team knew she was putting up an act. The heiress had mellowed out after Blake revealed she was a faunus. She seemed like she wanted to start having more fun. She wanted to at least to pretend to still hold up the facade of a high class elegant lady.
Seeing that Weiss wasn't going to protest any longer, Nora ran back to team JNPR's room and returned with a deck of cards. "Alright, so if I remember correctly, the game is played with the same number of cards as there are participants." She pulled out her scroll and began to check over the rules again. Afterward, she began to sort through the cards, placing face cards in a pile and numbered cards as their own deck. Then she counted cards up to the number of people, minus Jaune and Ren.
"The way the game works is everyone will pull a card from this stack." She placed a hand on the smaller stack of cards. "These are regular number cards, ranging 1-10. They aren't really important." She placed a hand on the bigger deck. "These are the face cards. Jack through Ace."
The valkyrie pulled a card from the face deck and placed it on top of the smaller stack. She began to shuffle the cards. "We all draw from this deck. There are 6 cards, 5 normal cards and the 1 face card I added. Everyone who draws a normal card is a peasant. Whoever draws a face card is in control of the game. Depending on the face card you draw, you will have a certain power."
When everyone nodded that they understood, she continued. "If you draw a Jack, you have the ability to ask a Truth or Dare question to any peasant at the table. If you draw a Queen, you can make a rule that everyone at the table has to follow. Two Queen rules can be in play at any time. If you draw a King, you can give a command to anyone, including the whole table. The command must be completed immediately. If you draw an Ace, you can do any of the things I just mentioned, your choice."
The girls all nodded with varying degrees of excitement. Yang smirked. "This actually sounds really fun."
Ruby nodded and blushed. "But it also sounds like very embarrassing things can happen."
"And sexy!" Yang chirped.
"What are you planning?" Weiss asked worriedly.
Yang just shot the Schnee heiress a mischievous grin. Weiss feared for her chastity all of a sudden.
Nora whispered into Pyrrha's ear and the taller girl smiled before nodding. The two girls left the room again for a few minutes before returning with arms full of alcohol and shot glasses.
"Holy cow, you guys weren't kidding." Yang whistled.
"The reason for the alcohol!" Nora started, opening a bottle of Absolut and pouring it into everyone's shot glasses. "If you fail to do a task or refuse, you have to take a shot! Every time you take a shot, we'll place another cup down for you. Every time you fail or refuse a task, you have to take one more shot. We can cap this at a certain number if anyone is afraid of going too far."
"Three or four shots should be reasonable." Blake answered.
"Wait, shouldn't we wait for Ren and Jaune before we start playing?" Weiss tried to interject.
"We can just do a few practice rounds. We don't even need to drink if you don't want." Nora offered.
Weiss huffed but agreed. The girls crowded around on the floor, their excitement for the game almost palpable. They all began to draw cards, keeping them face down. (I'm using a random name picker to choose who draws and what they get to truly make this random.)
"Alright, flip on three. 1...2...3!" Nora cheered.
Everyone flipped their cards…
"All hail King Pyrrha!" Yang called out.
The red head blushed at the attention, indeed holding a king card. "So I get to give an order to anyone?"
Nora nodded. "To a single person or everyone!"
"Okay...everyone say their favorite color!"
"What? That's so boring!" Nora whined.
Weiss smirked. "Some of us have some decency to not make this a truly deplorable game!"
Pyrrha shook her head. "Well, I also don't want to get too risque so early either. We should wait for Jaune and Ren to really get into it, right?"
Weiss withered at Pyrrha's words. "Not you too…"
"We have our orders ladies!" Nora sighed. "My favorite colors are pink and green, for obvious reasons."
Yang chuckled. "Red is my favorite color actually, with Gold a close second."
"White and Black...I feel this is pretty cliché. But I also like orange because of falling leaves." Blake admitted.
"Red, Black, and Blue." Ruby answered.
"Blue?" Pyrrha questioned.
Ruby shrugged. "I like to look at the sky and swim sometimes." She didn't admit that it was also the eye color of a certain blonde knight that she could get lost in sometimes.
"Blue, silver, and purple." Weiss answered.
"My own are red, blue, and brown." Pyrrha answered, though she didn't have to.
Though it was simple command, everyone was surprised that they didn't really know each others favorite colors. Something as simple as that had been lost within their time at Beacon.
Nora gathered up the cards. "Alright, set that King card aside Pyrrha. That's pretty much how the game is played. Do you guys want to do a few more before waiting for the boys?"
Everyone nodded enthusiastically. Nora happily shuffled the cards once more, placing another face card in. "1...2..3!"
Everyone flipped.
"I'm Queen of the Castle~" Nora sang, waving the Queen of Hearts in her fingers. The tension in the room grew as Nora gave a smirk that promised embarrassment. "My rule shall be, for all of thee! Whenever a shot must be taken, the drinker is in for a spankin!"
"Why are you rhyming?" Weiss asked.
"Silence! Do not interrupt your queen!"
Weiss squeaked and nodded.
Nora continued. "In other words, if you fail a challenge or dare, lie on a truth, or whenever you have to take a penalty shot, the person with the face card gets to spank ya!"
The blushes that went around the room would make an apple jealous. Blake fidgeted where she sat. If she didn't want one of her fetishes getting out, she would need to avoid drinking at all costs.
"Okay, maybe we should stop here and call Jaune and Ren now." Pyrrha suggested. "I believe we have a better grasps of the rules."
"We are NOT starting over though! My rule still stands!" Nora argued.
"You really want to get spanked huh?" Yang teased.
Nora rolled her eyes. "Oh please, like I'm gonna so no to a dare or not answer truthfully. I'm looking forward to seeing your red behinds."
Ruby grimaced at that. She hated being spanked. It just reminded her of all the times she would get in trouble when she was younger...actually, wasn't it usually Yang in trouble? ACTUALLY, DIDN'T YANG GET HER IN TROUBLE MOST OF THE TIME?
Ruby glared at her elder sister with the intensity of a thousand suns. Yang just smiled obliviously as she continued to chat with Nora.
"I'll call them." Pyrrha offered and pulled out her scroll.
The night would continue as the storm raged on.
Alright, I decided to do an authors note at the end only for this chapter. Hello and welcome all! If you're new here, I'm Nekoshade. For the uninitiated, that means you can expect this story to be extremely explicit, go off the rails, and probably be abandoned for a few years after a handful of chapters. (I'm so sorry.)
To those who have been with me for years, I'm back! Sort of…
Those in the know, I gave birth to my first son on September 22nd, 2023. That's the reason for the longer than usual hiatus, and unfortunately, I probably won't be jumping back into my bigger projects for a while longer as I get adjusted to taking care of my son at home.
SO! For this story, I'm treating it closer to All Mighty Maelstrom and Full Tilt Specials in which this is absolutely not to be taken seriously for the most part. I will try to tell a coherent story within the madness, but for the most part, this is just meant to be mostly mindless fun. The chapters will remain short and may seem to abruptly end, but this can hopefully hold everyone over until I get back to Blade Dancer and my other stories. I hope to hear from everyone again!
Til Next Time Loves~