Chapter 13.
Welcome to winterwood
These ill-reputed patrons slowly dancing through the pall
There's gossip on the edges of whispers in the halls
Every sordid socialite here is both stunning and a liar
They're begging me to go to hell
They're preaching to the choir
Hey everyone! Happy holidays and a happy new year! I hope everyone enjoys a new chapter of BTE, next chapter will be smuttier than this I promise, I just wanted to interject some story and make sure everyone knows the plot is still rolling with a much lighter chapter were more characters interact.
Without further ado, the next chapter of Better than ever~
Giving your aura to someone, letting it flow through you into them, taking theirs and returning it. It was intimate, and required complete concentration. Which perhaps was the reason why Jaune couldn't even connect his and Pyrrha's auras.
It was a shit task to begin with.
It was all wrong, all of it. Every vibration, every twitch of muscle, the thoughts racing through her head that he couldn't hear but he could feel. Aura was the totality of a person and she was just so MUCH.
It wasn't like Amber either. Amber was a lot but she was always trying to follow, to chase, Pyrrha isn't like that. Every time she dodged a training blast, every time she hit a dummy with perfect timing, Jaune could feel her reaching back, feel her trying to connect.
She wasn't meeting him half way, she was pushing the whole space herself and filling all of it until there was no room left for him.
"Time!" Winter chimed, the training bots slowly coming to a halt.
Pyrrha was breathing heavily but it was Jaune who felt exhausted. The red headed amazonian hardly looked like she had broken a sweat.
"Jaune, Why haven't you connected your aura to Pyrrha's yet? That's why we're training here isn't it?"
"Maybe he can't do it?" Qrow offered unhelpfully.
"I can do it." Jaune assured, a bashful little smile on his face. "Must just be and off day."
"This never happens to you? Want me to tell you it happens to the best of us?"
"Qrow, stop teasing the boy, his semblance is unlike anything we've ever seen, it would stand to reason that even he does not know how to properly use it yet." Glynda Goodwitch chastised in her regular teaching tone. "Do you remember how your semblance acted when it first awoke in you?"
Qrow thought for a moment then snickered at a memory he clearly held fondly.
"We'll take it from the top, you always perform better after the first few rounds." Winter spoke with a calm clearness that betrayed she had no understanding why both Qrow and Glynda were both snickering at her remark.
"Yes, well, maybe we should give them a break? We've been at it for hours now and both students need a break."
"No, miss Goodwitch, I'm sure I can do this."
"I think it's us that need a break, you to hold tight, me and the other 'teachers' will go grab some lunch and meet you back here in a half hour, alright?" Qrow yawned into an open palm, taking his flask out and already leaving, clearly having made up his mind.
"Rest up you two, we'll be back soon." Winter confirmed and followed the other two out, leaving Jaune and Pyrrha, alone for the first time since… since the roof he supposed.
They were training in a secret gym in the lowest level of the beacon tower. There were no cameras here, which was important because no one on staff was supposed to know this place even existed, let alone what was going on down here.
When the door closed and it was truly just them.
Jaune felt an immediate sense wash over him.
Awkwardness.
He really didn't like being alone with women when his girls were around or Amber wasn't behind it.
…
Was Amber behind this? Surely not.
He looked over at Pyrrha who it seemed was more interested in inspecting her spear and swinging her arms back and forth than looking at him. So Jaune pulled out his scroll and started to idly walk away.
Completely missing the turn and intake of air of Pyrrha trying to start conversation.
He texted quickly- "Hey Amber was this your doing?"
It was scary how quickly she responded back. "NO!" then a pause. "Unless it's good and then yes. Why? Are you sleeping with Winter?"
"Why would I be sleeping with winter?"
"No reason. Then no it's not my fault, whatever it is."
Jaune made a face and seemed to be content with that, putting his scroll back into-
"Are you trying to get to me sleep with Winter?!" His fingers were flying across the touch pad, feeling his blood pressure spike.
I mean she was a beautiful, curvy woman, she reminded him a lot of Pale, but she was his teacher! Well he had fucked Goodwitch. Even then, she was related to Weiss!
Although that would be kind of hot.
"Excuse me, Jaune?" The red head's voice shook him from his thoughts.
"Oh right, sorry Pyrrha, was lost in my own world there."
"Right. Well, how are you… doing?"
Jaune just stared blankly at her. How was he doing? "Fine… I suppose."
There was a gap in the conversation so wide you could fly an airplane through it. "And… you?"
"Oh! I'm… good, I suppose. Nora and Ren are good, great even. Orion is…"
"Orion is Orion, we know how he is."
"Precisely." She nodded enthusiastically. Smiling at the bit of fun they're having, even if it was bare minimum office banter. "And your team? I hope everyone is doing alright, Harpy especially."
"She's all recovered now, heading out with Amber and Team RWBY if I remember correctly."
"You're not going with them?"
Jaune gestured to the space around them, obviously he was here instead of there.
"Right, I- uh."
The silence continued.
"Think we're close?" She offered the sentence like a poorly crafted meal you were unsure if you wanted anything to see.
"Close" Jaune tried not to scuff but it sounded so appetizing.
"To connecting. Our auras. You know… the training." Pyrrha kicked her shoe against the ground.
"Ah… I uh… suppose. There is a lot of work to be done."
"Should I do anything differently?" She offered, looking over herself. "Should I move differently? I'm not sure how the others act or what they do that makes it so seamless."
"No, you're fine-" Shes not, and she knows it, stop lying to her. "- just keep at it and I'm sure we'll break through eventually."
"Are you sure? Maybe if I reach out with my aura again-" Pyrrha reached forward to take his hand, like she had during their placements, when she awoke his aura.
Jaune recoiled back the second her skin touched his. A mix of emotions welled across him, hurt, anger, disgust, annoyance- more but none of them were good. Then all of sudden he realized that she hadn't truly done anything wrong. And the look of shock, embarrassment and sadness that spread across her face was clear.
"I… shit, Pyrrha I'm sorry."
"No! No… I pushed it, sorry, I should have asked first." She tried to look bashful instead of hurt but the pain was hard to hide.
Jaune put his hand to his forehead, massaging the growing headache behind his skull. "Pyrrha- Listen. You're trying too hard, the whole thing, you're trying-" He let out an exasperated sigh. "Just- forget it, it's fine."
"I-" She paused and Jaune thought he might leave the room if she apologized one more time.
Thank the gods Jaune met Harpy, if the only people in his life were the lot from Beacon, Jaune was sure he would have grown up to be a whining toddler, barely able to handle a papercut. Jaune wasn't particularly a fan of hazing or bullying, but a strict leader like Ironwood, and the harsh words from Harpy, gave him a thick skin he now appreciated.
"I know we said we'd try and put things behind us, but this is all a lot, all of it is a lot, alright?"
Pyrrha just nodded solemnly in response.
She looked distant, and it made Jaune feel guilty. Which he didn't like because he shouldn't be the one feeling guilty.
They stood there for a few moments, long drawn seconds in the empty din of the hallway. They were next to the room that housed the Maiden, a girl named Amber strangely enough. It was a common enough name he supposed.
Still felt just as odd as this whole scenario.
"Should I…." She trailed off. Clearly she didn't know what to do. It wasn't like she was asking him what she should do, simply she had hoped something would come to mind and clearly had not.
"I don't know-" He knew exactly what would help.
But she was a mess of rattling waves and distributing her waters even more by telling her what was wrong. She needed to get over herself, to just stop being such a-
"Was connecting with your team this hard or am I just a special case?"
Her nervous laugh trying to make light of the situation, brightened it just a little, broke him out of the tail spin. "Huh? I… " he thought about that for a second. "Harpy and Pale got it real easy, it was Amber I had the hardest time connecting with, actually."
"Really?" Pyrrha genuinely looked surprised by that. "The puppy dog who won't leave your side?"
Jaune felt himself smiling, thinking back to the first couple times he used his semblance after it manifested. "I know. Pale required more work than Harpy, Harpy was by far the easiest. She reached out and it was like fitting into a glove. She expected as much of me as I did her. The connection was weak, weakest by far when it formed, but it was easy to sew together, maybe because it was so satellite."
"Then Pale fought me a bit, she kept trying to push when I would pull, or go left as I went right. We were stumbling all over each other because we kept trying to be the one to do everything for the other. Like we could just make the connection through sheer force of will alone."
His eyes turned to Pyrrha and he didn't see her like he did on the roof, as a mentor, nor as he did at the festival as a backstabber.
She was looking at him the same way, a little lost, unsure.
Scared.
He and Pale figured out their problems by talking about it. By being vulnerable and letting the other carry the weight when one couldn't. By being there for each other in all things. Not simply thinking they could form the whole connection by themselves.
"I'm stupid." he sighed, wiping the shame from his face with the whole of his palm.
With Pale they never really had problems, but when two people both try to be the martyr in a situation it can breed almost a sense of resentment. This situation was different, but the principle was the same.
"I'm not talking to you, am I?" She gave him a weird look when he said that. "Like I'm saying things." He clarified "But I'm not- yo- communicating."
"Well, I wouldn't expect you to trust me right away, like you said these things take time."
"They do, I know, but- but I'm not telling you that, I'm telling you what I need and I'm just getting mad at you for trying." She made a face like she wasn't sure how to feel, maybe she was a little hurt, maybe a little worried, insulted?
That was after all the hard part about this, vulnerability, misunderstanding. What he said and what she heard could be two completely different things. He wasn't trying to insult her, or tell her she was making him mad, but the words were hard to get out.
"I didn't know, I'm so-" She cut herself off, remembering not to apologize.
Which of course only spiked his blood pressure.
"No- that. Exactly that. I want you to stop apologizing not because it makes me upset, or because it makes me angry, you just don't have anything to be sorry about. I want to be past that, I want us to be better and constantly bringing up how sorry you are makes it hard to be- well- better."
She looked at him for a long time, chewing her lip, eyes moving over the landscape of his face with an intense and piercing gaze. This was the challenge of the whole thing, this trust and communication. She needed to take him at face value, needed to trust that there was no malice or double meaning to his words.
Almost reflexly it looked like she sunk into herself, blame was easy to assign to oneself in times like this.
"Oh… Alright.. Okay, I…." She couldn't find the right words, but stole that feeling of trepidation from her gut and boiled it over that fire in her heart. "I… I don't want to apologize either. I'm sorry I did what I did to you, I have no idea Ozpin would take such drastic measures and kick you out like he did, but what I did was the right thing to do." She looked at him flatly, challenging him almost, if they were going to be honest, they were going to be honest. "I've blamed myself for ruining our friendship, I've beaten myself up about it enough, but I did the right thing, even if Ozpin didn't"
Which must have been hard for her to criticize a faculty member.
Jaune felt his blood rise on the back of his neck, felt it boil just under the skin.
But he pushed that feeling deep into his stomach. "I'm better for what you did, but I can't say it didn't hurt. And you trying to put things back to the way they were, trying that hard to be my friend, you're getting in your own way, it just takes time."
"I know but it feels like I'm being a bad person if I just let it lie, like I'm letting a wound fester if I'm not actively trying to solve the problem."
"Maybe you and Pale are a lot alike." Jaune couldn't help but smirk at that, crossing his arms over his chest and admiring the small similarities between the two.
She smiled at that too.
"So we're just going to run in circles with one of us upset, huh?"
Jaune shook his head. "No we just need to meet in the middle, it's how this whole thing works, we can't keep pulling on one side of the aura, trying to push against each other, any of it, we have to work together and find some common ground."
Pyrrha stepped from one foot to the other, arms swaying with the tension trying to leave her body. "So how do we do that? Any ideas?"
Jaune shrugged. "I'm all ears, but I'm glad we're at least not sitting in silence anymore."
They sat down, across from each other but each leaning against one of the pillars that held up this mighty tower.
"Think we should do trust falls?" She offered, which got a little laugh out of them. "How did it work for you and your team? You and Pale needed to work past it, how did that happen?"
Jaune felt his cheeks flush, the answer was a very aggressive night of safe words and learning to use them. If it hadn't been for Harpy suggesting it, they wouldn't have thought about it. After that it was a lot of talking through things and communication. But the sex certainly helped.
"Uhh…. well thats…."
She must have known what he was getting at, since her cheeks flushed too. "Oh."
They sat in silence again for a moment.
"We could…" She trailed off. Not finishing the sentence but leaving the sentiment in the air.
"We could..?" he trailed off too, more asking her to clarify, but quickly he realized what she meant and the noise peaked.
"If it is what helped before, I wouldn't be opposed to… you know… if it helps us control the maiden powers."
Jaune looked her over, the subtle sweat, the way her armor dug into her chest from his position, her legs spreading ever so slightly so he could see the curve of her thigh from this vantage point. She certainly was good looking.
"No… I think that's- I have a girlfrien- I have girlfriends, you know that."
Pyrrha couldn't meet his gaze. "But you slept with Nora and Ren, as well as miss Goodwitch, I presume others as well?"
Jaune tried not to sweat. Of course she knew that he slept with her teammates.
"I… Yes, but that's… more for my team than me. It's complicated…"
Of course Pyrrha already knew all this, Pale has told her after all. Maybe she just wanted to see if the tall woman was lying. Maybe she just wanted to see what would happen. To be honest she didn't have a plan going into this and she was still unsure of what to say next.
"What's complicated about it?"
"I don't really do the deciding, my girl- my teammates decide for me, we talk about it-" which felt like a lie since most of the time Harpy or Amber just put a girl in front of him and got his cock out. So no real talking there.
"Oh.." She looked to the side and had a face like she was trying to put some puzzle pieces together. "So they don't like me? Or…"
Was that cruel? Or was it a fair question, it was hard to tell.
"I mean-"
"Because you've fucked the rest of my team."
"I haven't slept with Orion."
Pyrrha rolled her eyes. "No one wants to sleep with Orion." Her chin found a place in her palm. "I get it, they have reason to not like me. We'll find something else to help us find common ground I'm sure."
Jaune felt something like an apology worm it's way onto his tongue but bit it back before the thing could slither off.
He was under no obligation to fuck every woman in existant. Even if Amber sometimes acted like it was her duty to fulfill that goal.
But before he could answer at all the door opened with a loud and dramatic gush of air, signaling the return of their instructors, though really only Ironwood and Ozpin. "That will be all for today, some other issues have come up and I think it best you two rest and try this against tomorrow, I'm sure we'll make some headway soon."
Ozpin however didn't look so sure, his gaze was serious and level.
Ironwood continued. "Mr. Arc, you should go prepare for the next round with your team, Miss Gold is prepared for the semi-finals I presume?"
It was a moment of hesitation, not because he wasn't sure she was ready. He knew that Penny, Coco and Sun were all terrifying threats for the next round of the festival, but he was sure Amber could beat any of them.
"Of course she's ready." he assured him with an eager and sly smile.
"Very good. Dismissed, soldier."
And perhaps it was a surprise to Pyrrha to see Jaune's hand move up to his forehead and his heels push together, saluting to her superior officer before stepping away. Not waiting for her to follow after him.
Fetch.
Amber loved fetch, running, chasing, throwing the ball back and then running for it again. At one point someone told her it felt problematic to play fetch because other people would see her more like an animal than a person.
But she didn't really understand something fun being problematic. It felt silly to her, she enjoyed it and it didn't seem worthwhile being mad for something she enjoyed.
But more than that, Amber had her own game of fetch, one she preferred greatly over tossing a frisbee in the park. This game always involved her favorite people and was always fun for everyone involved.
Which is of course part of the reason she was sitting cross legged on a bed in the dorm rooms of beacon, looking intently at the splay out of weapon parts between Ruby and Harpy, a mixture of Beacon's, Haven's and Atlas's girls all around them.
"See, that's the part I can't get to move right!" Ruby pouted, looking over something that looked like a metal pole with a spring around it. Harpy seemed to know what it was right away and quickly taking down some notes.
"I think… maybe if we tried-"
Amber stopped paying attention, once math got involved in fighting she realized nerds could make anything boring if they tried hard enough.
Her attention was stolen by that of the black and white cat-girl faunus who was staring at her from across the room. Though it wasn't how people normally looked at her, with annoyance, confusion or violent sexual desire.
Which was her favorite.
But this girl looked at her with a mistrust mixed with fear. She supposed the cat faunus didn't like dogs. Even though she wasn't a dog, she was a wolf, which was in her mind a pretty big distinction.
The room was filled with girls, they all decided to get together and have a girl's night, since the dinner had gone so well. Emerald, Ruby, Harpy, Yang, Ren, Nora, Blake, Weiss, Penny, as well as of course Coco and Velvet. It wasn't a massive room so some of the girls were rather pressed together. Harpy and Ruby had claimed the floor, Blake was on one, structurally question bunk bed with Yang and Emerald above her.
Cinder was sitting on a desk that Lia Ren and Weiss were studying at. With Velvet and Coco sitting in a chair nearby, one in the other's lap. which left Nora and Amber sitting on a bunk with Penny above them, happily kicking her feet.
Emerald was looking down at the ground where all the weapon parts were, obviously trying to keep up, with very little success judging from the look on her face.
There was some music in the background that Harpy had picked out, something with a lot of sounds that Amber found pleasing and enjoyable. She liked music, liked it a lot. She wondered if Faunus invented it first or humans had.
"You ever listen to anything besides rock and emo, Harp?" Coco lulled her head back to ask the question.
"Why would I listen to bad music?"
"Oh come on, there's tones of other music to listen to."
"If I need a good recommendation for what to play at a funeral, I'll ask."
"Whoa you've got a bite to you, real spitfire, I can dig it." Coco just laughed off the barb, though only Ruby and Amber really knew that Harpy didn't mean it. "I was just wondering if you had any others you liked."
"Right… I- I like other kinds'a music, Jazz, hip-hop, I can put some on instead." Harpy looked a little red in the cheeks, she wasn't used to being around so many people. At least ones who actually cared about what she said.
"Nah, I like this. You have good taste, Harp."
The normally bitterly mean girl couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, trying to focus back on her weapons.
It was actually the burly blonde who spoke up next. "Damn, look at you Coco, cool and collected, as always. Doesn't it worry you she might be your night big fight though?"
Harpy scoffed at the same time Coco laughed. "I mean she might! But all the more reason for us to be friends, right?"
Yang just shook her head, then flinched like she was hit with something. "Oh, shit, right, sorry Em, Cinder, I didn't mean to bring it up."
Cinder's laugh was like a sweet melody. "Don't worry a hair on your hair-"
"I would never."
"- The better team won, simple as that."
Velvet made a sound like she wasn't sure. Like there was something she didn't believe about that.
"What's up bun?"
"Nothing… I just… It's strange, it's not like I think we deserved to lose…"
Cinder cut in again. "Don't sell yourselves short, you're far more capable than you might think."
The conversation droned on in the background, but Amber noticed that Velvet was picking up on something. She might not be very confrontational, but she could tell very plainly when someone was feigning being nice.
It was Amber who could feel it, clear as day, that Cinder wasn't just lying, she hated to even be here. It radiated off her like waves in a storm. It was a malice and hatred that was laying under the surface. Everything that Harpy tried to be on the outside, Cinder was just below the skin.
The wolf girl wasn't sure why she was like that. Maybe because she lot.
Pale had told her about people who don't take losing well, which was why Amber had to let people win sometimes.
Which felt weird because Amber never felt bad about losing, every time she play fought with her family it was fun no matter who won or lost.
It was, however, odd. The amount of hatred brewing just under the surface. It was hard to be near someone like that, It made Amber feel like her skin was on fire in the worst way. Normally when she dealt with negative emotions of other people it was annoyance or pity, condensation. It was like bugs crawling all over her, but this was like being bitten by fire ants.
"What about you, Amber?"
The wolf girl tuned back in to see Nora with her head dangling over the edge.
"Huh?" Amber tilted her head to the side, letting her ears flop around with the motion.
"-So fucking cute" Coco practically squeeled.
"-Annoying" Blake tried to finish that sentence for her.
"Are you excited for the next match?" Nora asked again. "It could be Coco or Penny, you know."
Amber's mouth dropped "I could fight Penny?!"
"You didn't know that?" Yang looked gobsmacked, like that was ridiculous.
"Yeah, Coco and Velvet won, Penny and her… uh partner won, and Sun and Neptune won, So you could fight any of them."
Amber looked positively brimming with excitement and energy, her hands clenching up by her shoulders like she might spring away from all of them. "Can I fight all of them?"
Some of the girls couldn't help but laugh at that, obviously entertained by the wolf girl's antics.
Penny covered her mouth like she was enjoying the playful little jokes. "You might be surprised, friend Amber, I'll be a lot more difficult than you may think!"
Coco waved her hand. "I'll let you two smack it out, let me deal with those playboys, they'll be putty in my hands."
Ruby turned her head to Blake, "Do you think it's going to be Neptune or Sun fighting?"
"Why would I know that?"
No one needed to answer, as the cat-girl looked around helplessly trying to find someone who didn't know she was seeing Sun.
"I think Sun is going to fight? I think he told me but it was in one of those speeches he always gives."
"Speeches?" Penny asked with a quizzical tone.
Blake rolled her eyes. "He always goes on these, like, long speeches, I don't know what to call them. He just starts talking and doesn't stop, he's not really talking about anything, he just likes the sound of his own voice."
Weiss laughed, though it was a sharp tone, once that made Amber's skin crawl, Harpy too judging by the look of her.
"Sounds like two teammates we have too."
"What's the deal with you two anyway? Fucking?" Harpy leaned away, stretching out a nice crack in her spine.
"What!?" The cat's face burned bright red. "That's totally inappropriate.
"Why, you saw me doing it?"
Everyone who didn't already know gasped and turned their heads. All except for Penny who clearly didn't understand what 'fucking' is. There were a hundred questions on the tip of everyone's tongue.
"I didn't- You- that's not how that wor- You showed me, I didn't ask to see that!"
"You called me, sure I answered but you guys are the ones who didn't hang up."
Ruby was practically hiding in her cloak at this point and Weiss was aghast, more red than white. It was only Yang who was laughing her ass off.
"So I ask again, You fucking?"
Blake's mouth moved, trying to find the words. "No- not yet, no I suppose no. I want romance, I want to be courted, I'm not some slut."
"So I'm a slut?"
"I didn't-"
"I mean you're right, but it's still mean to say."
That got a good laugh from most of the girls, sending Blake to lean back into her book and cover her face. But that just left space in the conversation open to even more questions for the punk girl. "You answered while you were having sex?" Emerald looked terrified at that. "Remind me never to call you."
"I just wanted to fuck with 'em."
"Amber are you okay with that, did you know?" Velvet asked, more with a curious tone, some part of her was interested in the idea.
Though it was Harpy who answered again. "I don't think they saw much of Amber, it was mostly Jaune."
"Jaune?! Jaune arc?" This time it was Cinder who looked surprised.
"Yup! Most of you saw, actually. It was really fun!" Amber added in.
At this point Yang turned her head away.
"What's fucking?" Penny asked innocently.
The whole room went silent.
"Penny?" Yang looked at her with an eyebrow raised. "Have you had the talk yet?"
"Of course!" Penny shot right up at that. "When forming trade routes across vast arctic distances the key thing to remember is-"
"Not that one." Harpy pointed one finger up.
"Particles will act as expected until observed by an outside-"
"Not that one." Two fingers.
"Dad says things about Ironwood that he doesn't mean when he's angry and Ironwood isn't aloud to know what things in particular, it would hurt his feelings."
"Not-" Harpy paused. "We should talk about that one later. No, the third one."
"When two parents love each other very much, they have many options to make children-" She paused. "Are you and Jaune in love?!"
Harpy practically spat her stomach out. "Fuck- I mean, we bone, but love? I love Amber for sure."
"I love Jaune! And I love Harpy!"
"Wait, now I'm even more confused." Emerald shook her head. "Who's dating who?"
"They're all just a bunch of deviant sex fiends." Weiss shot out, closing her book hard. "Now can we please stop talking about this?!"
There was another silence in the room.
"There's no need to be embarrassed, Weiss." Cinder curled the words over her tongue. There was a playfulness to it that sounded genuine, Amber couldn't help but feel some kind of mocking tone to it that was tinged by her semblance.
Which really wasn't fair to Cinder, she felt. Amber's semblance always worked on overdrive when she's in a large crowd and this small space makes every emotion feel ten times bigger.
"I'm not-"
"Sex is completely normal."
"Oh! Sex! Intercourse! I've read about that in textbooks!" Penny nodded enthusiastically.
"Exactly." Cinder waved her palm. "No reason the Schnee heiress shouldn't know about the miracle of sex, right?"
"That prude?" Harpy rolled her eyes.
"I'm not a prude simple because I have standards."
"C tier dick from guy with room temperature IQ is a fucked up standard."
"Oh shit!" Yang snapped her fingers. "How will Ice queen respond!?"
"Please don't egg them on." Blake rolled her eyes.
"You're sleeping with Jaune, it doesn't get much more C-tier than that." The heiress scoffed and flicked her hair over her shoulder. "Whatever Amelia Pale sees in the two of you is beyond me."
Amber felt a little bit of anger stir in her gut, but luckily Harpy was there to jab back before Amber broke the girl's arm. "Jaune? C-tier? Are you kidding me? Bitch, He's pulled 3 of the baddest bitches in Atlas, fucked Nora and Ren-"
Ren nearly spat out her tea.
Nora just shrugged. "I like big dick, sue me."
"-Then he fucked Miss Goodwitch too-"
"No way!" Yang was holding her head with both hands like she was terrified of it falling off. "Jaune has game?!"
"-I call that grade A prime beef, sister."
"I-I, whatever, I am and Heiress, I have to be more selective than a town bike, the rest of you can catch whatever he's carrying and spread it around yourselves."
"Gross." Ren murmured from behind her book.
"Come on Weiss, Harpy, we're all friends here, there's really no need to be like this." It was Ruby now, trying to settle the rising tension.
Cinder however had no intention of letting the tension settle. Instead she finally started to shred of light of glee and excitement the second she could poke her fingers into everyone's business. All the while she wore the same face as always.
"Well we do have first hand accounts, don't we? We can see how he holds up."
Amber could finally agree with that! The girl said something that made sense! "Oh! You guys wanna hear how when he puts my ankles up by my head he can pound directly into my-"
"NO!" Weiss and Ruby both shouted with some measure of fear and embarrassment. It was Blake who looked and felt the most excited.
"Hahahah, you guys are a riot!" Emerald was laughing earnestly and with her whole heart.
"What about you then, Heiress, Little kitty-cat over there, you two are the ones who keep talking about love. How's 'love' treating you?"
Amber felt a little sting in her heart. She loved Jaune, and he loved her. She tried to bite back the need to correct the woman, but let out a small sound like a stammer before the conversation moved on.
"Sun is- Romantic. We haven't- I don't… This is too weird."
"But we need to educate some of the girls here on love, Penny's only read about it in books!" Cinder reasoned.
"I… I uh… fine.. Sun and I haven't kissed yet, we've held hands, he's nice but every time he talks I just want to smack him, if he'd ever shut up I'd kiss him, maybe more."
Penny tilted her head.
Cinder couldn't help but let out a laugh. "You've held hands? Darling, how adorable."
" Hey! I-" Blake couldn't think of a comeback and bit her lip, looking like she'd throw hands if pressed.
"Hey, I think it's really cute, you're good for waiting." Yang assured her. Which seemed to do the trick.
"And you, Ice queen?"
Wiess looked from cinder to Blake. "I've… had a good night with a boy before. Neptune and I went on a date, he was a gentleman and we shared a kiss."
"Just a kiss?"
"I…." Weiss stammered, kicking her toe into the floor. "He touched my butt, and I felt him over his pants, but that was all."
"Oh such a tease, too scared to go into his boxers?"
"As if! I'm not scared of some boy." Weiss rolled her eyes and crossed her arms indignantly. "I am a proper heiress, I hadn't even intended to touch him in such a vulgar way. Nor I let him do that to me, simply when he moved my hand and his own, I dared not to embarrass him until the following day, as a lady should!"
"No you should really tell a guy to stop if you don't like it." Harpy chimed in. "Kick his nuts in if he doesn't listen."
"So chaste."
"Well bun-bun and I-"
Velvet quickly cut off her girlfriend. "Whoa, look at the time! We should really get back to training, huh?!"
Coco couldn't help but smile. "Alright, Bun, you're right, I know you let me stay long so I could have some fun. But we should really be going."
That got a gasp from Nora on the top bunk. "Oh! Renny! Pyrrha is done with her special training, we should go to lunch with her!"
"Special training?" Cinder seemed to be genuinely curious in that, which wasn't a surprise. Amber was curious about it too. Jaune and Pyrrha were both meeting with Ozpin and Ironwood without anyone being able to know what they were up to.
Even Pale was in the dark.
"Yeah just something Ozpin has her doing, perks of being the best on Campus I 'spose."
"Second best." Coco corrected with a laugh.
Ren, Nora, Coco and Velvet made their leave with fond goodbyes, leaving the rest of the girls to stew in that marinade left behind.
"Back on topic" Cinder mused, to the groan of Blake. "We've heard from team RWBY, what about the Atlas golden team?"
"What about us?" Harpy quipped.
"How is Jaune, Romantic, a beast in the bedroom?"
"I really don't want to hear this." Blake rolled her eyes.
"Besides it's not like him banging a bunch of easy-" There was a threatening glare from Amber and Harpy both as Weiss began to speak. "- I suppose Miss Goodwitch and Miss Pale are both excellent judges of character, so he can't be terrible."
Amber took a moment, just a small one to feel around the room.
There was a strange eagerness from most of the women. One she had carefully cultivated. Yang had heard, Ruby was already so innocently intrigued, Penny already knew what a great guy he was. Then there was Cinder who seemed particularly, and strangely, giddy to hear the details. But it was Blake and Weiss that were the most interesting, embarrassment and eagerness mixed together, they were ashamed, maybe to be a part of this conversation. Or maybe that they were so interested in it.
"Jaune is-" Harpy started, a finger to her lip. "Great at cooking, he makes our favorites all the time. He takes us on dates, really considerate ones you know? Like he took me to a shooting range once, even practiced with a rifle beforehand so he wouldn't be completely lost."
"He's so romantic!" the wolf girl barked in. "He took care of me when I was feeling down, made me breakfast in bed. Clever dog he is, always knows when I'm faking to get easy breakfast though."
"He bought Pale roses on her birthday. He covers for me when I skip classes to smoke."
"Balls! He brings me a new ball to throw around in the park. I love baseball, he took me to a game one time!"
"Then there's the sex!" Harpy nearly threw her head back. "You wanna talk about 'over the pants?' You can hardly keep pants on around him. I swear he could go for hours!"
"Sometimes I wonder if it us who are keeping up with him, or him who are keeping up with us." Amber nodded sagely and wrongly.
"Pinky dick Jaune can go all night? No way." Weiss dropped her posh demeanor to jab in an insult.
"Pinky dick? Hah!" Harpy had no mirth to her faux laugh. "Jaune is organ displacingly big, upsettingly big sometimes. There's no easy breezy sex with that monster."
"Bullshit."
"You wanna see?" Amber pulled out her scroll. Weiss called her bluff. One swipe of a lock screen later and the whole group of girls was gathered around looking at a picture of Jaune fresh out of the shower.
The picture had been taken by Amber, who was still in the shower, and you could see everything, jaune's back was turned to the scroll, so his well defined back, building muscles after months of rigorous exercise, a tight, firm ass that looked deliciously fine. But more over in front of him was a mirror, one that allowed everyone to see his row of abs, his chest flexing while he dried his hair, and of course, a length of cock meat that was half hard still from a shower fucking that left Amber's knees weak.
Even half soft the length of Schlong was still nearing more than most men sported fully hard. It was thick and still had a prominent vein that one could imagine pulsing.
The best part was his face was in frame, no one could deny it was him.
"Holy shit." Blake breathed, a shake to her voice that she didn't intend.
"Thats… Ugh…" Weiss whined and pushed the scroll back to Amber. "Gross, I can't believe you showed that to us, what an invasion of his privacy!"
"Damn, who knew Jaune was packing some Sch-meat?" Yang idly whistled.
"You're the one who looked, Princess." Harpy stuck her tongue out.
"Is a bigger one better?" Ruby wondered aloud.
"Whoa now! My little sis probably shouldn't be seeing that, sorry Rubes, I shoulda stopped you from seeing that."
"Yang I'm an adult, I'm allowed to see co- dicks."
"Barely an adult kiddo."
"Are bigger one's better?" Penny asked aloud, furrowing her brow. "I've never seen one in person before, is that large?"
"Huge." Harpy confirmed.
"Above average." Cinder contested. "But bigger ones are… different. Smaller ones are better for smaller girls. Big can hurt-" Her attention turned to Weiss now. "So you don't have to worry do you, Weiss?"
"Zing, Gottem!" Yang called out, accepting the reached out high-five from Amber.
"I won't have to worry because sex is for procreation, not some frivolous activity performed because of a whim."
"Damn, G, you need to get laid asap." Amber shook her head. "Fur-real."
"Nice pun." Yang and Amber high fived again. "I see you champ, good shit."
"Yeah you really sound like a bitch who's never had her pussy ate." Harpy shook her head. "Neptune doesn't like the taste of fish? That's ironic."
"We are on absolute fire tonight girls." Yang was pumping her arms.
"Which is equally ironic." Emerald added, causing Yang and Amber to lose their absolute fucking minds.
"Ate… out?" Weiss looked at Harpy like she was stupid.
"You've never had Oral?"
"Like sucking c-d-" She stammered "Putting it in my mouth? That's disgusting."
"Girl you have not lived until you've choked on a fat schlong of Jaune dong, it's tight as balls." Amber nodded agreeing with herself.
"No, like having him lick your lady bits, it feels really good, the female orgasm isn't a myth just because your daddy never made your mom cum."
"MY FAMILY!" Weiss was about to go on tirade, but realized the company she was in, and has many talks with Ruby and Blake about not bringing up her family all the time, especially now that they knew about Blake. "You know what? It's really not worth getting worked up over Jaune."
Under her breath she muttered. "Even if he does look good in that picture."
Harpy let that one go with a victory and relaxed into a chair. "What about you Cinder, you made us talk a lot, you and that gray haired guy a couple?"
"Mercury?" Cinder couldn't help but laugh. "Goddess no."
Why did Amber feel a hint of jealousy off Emerald? Did the green haired girl like Cinder?
"So who then?"
"I suppose I had a man once, a while ago now, hardly worth mentioning. He taught me-" She looked at Harpy and for a moment that malice faded. "He taught me a lot, how to use my talents for more than just what others wanted of me. Made sure I was good with my hands." She gave the group a wink.
"Atta girl." Harpy nodded in agreement. "They aren't good for much, but at least men are good for a shag."
"Cheers to that." Yang agreed.
"So what's the deal with… Jaune? Guy is really lucky if he just gets to fuck his whole team." Emerald spoke up, clearly interested in how the relationship works.
"Thats the hard one." Harpy started to answer, but Amber cut her off.
"See. Okay, so I'm dating Jaune, and harpy and pale, and Jaune is dating me and harpy and Jaune and harpy is dating Jaune and pale and harpy-" Amber stopped and counted on her fingers. "No Harpy is dating Jaune and me and Pale, and… did I already go over who I'm dating?"
"Uh… it's complicated is probably the best answer."
"So you're all in a quadrouple…. Thing…" Yang started, carrying on from where Emerald left off.
But emerald quickly picked it back up. "Yeah, this four-way relationship. Why is he also fucking Nora and Ren and everyone else?"
"Not everyone else, gosh no, at least not yet." Amber waved her hand, though that answer was more concerning than the question was.
"That's… really complicated." Harpy reasoned. Hoping they would just leave it at that.
"You can't stop him from cheating, he's just too horny for the three of you?" Blake reasoned. "Seems like Jaune."
"No really it's our idea, if anything he's probably really tired of it." Though that explanation from Amber raised even more questions.
"I'm confused, so you all take part in procreation?" Penny poked her head in this time.
"No.. see. Penny, sex can be a lot of fun if you do it right-"
"And with someone you love!" Amber added in.
"Right, I suppose. Gross. But since Pale and Amber and I guess also Jaune are really hot, and good at sex, we all want to do it together, because it feels good."
"Interesting, thank you friend Harpy! I did not know sex could be done for pleasure."
"Neither does Weiss am I right?" Yang got another high-five for that one.
"There's a lot of stuff you can do that isn't just for making babies." Cinder explained, getting an evil grin on her face and clearly directing it at Weiss. Though Amber could feel the bursting wealth of excitement from the cat-woman across the room. "Oral, of course, sucking ~Cock~, Licking ~pussy~."
Each word made Weiss more and more uncomfortable.
"There's handjobs, fingering, biting, don't get me started on toys~ Vibrators, beads, leashes, whips, handcuffs~" Each word was a sultry little tone that bore into the hearts of the girls around them. Even Ruby was looking with rapt attention.
"Mmm~ what else am I missing?"
"Headpats." Amber nodded.
"Missing a lot." Harpy smirked. "Foot stuff."
"Foot stuff?" Weiss looked repulsed by the idea.
"It's not for everyone, same with armpits." Cinder agreed.
"Disgusting."
"Then there's titty fucking, sliding a big hard cock between your tits." Harpy growled out, thriving on the energy of the room.
"Edging, getting them right on the edge, to the point they're shaking and whimpering and begging for release." Cinder added onto the sentiment.
"Roleplay, picking characters from a show and acting out as them."
"Blindfolds! Oh how did I forget blindfolds and bondage."
"Strap ons, I see why boys get a big head about it, nothing like have a foot of plastic cock slapping across a bent over fat ass~."
"Oh.. Harpy, you're a dirty girl, you must have quite the collection." Cinder mused.
"I'll show you mine if you show me yours."
"Mmm~ some other time, perhaps. Anal, now that's a treat."
"Anal?!" Weiss practically threw the word up. "T-t-t-t-t-that's, how could you?! WHAT!?"
A few girls in the room looked equally confused, Penny, Ruby, surprisingly Amber as well.
"What you've never had a boy pressure you for anal? Count yourselves lucky." Cinder rolled her eyes like she was reliving the chore of turning a brat down.
"Right?" Yang join with an exasperated sigh.
Which might have been the wrong thing to do because Ruby turned to her older sister with a mix of excitement and fear.
"You've done Anal? How?! What… what even happens?"
Yang flinched like someone was threatening to punch her. She looked down at her sister and couldn't help but feel a tension of awkwardness, trying to explain anal to her younger kin.
"Well… It's like… So like, its the same as a guy putting inside your hoo-ha-"
"Hoo-ha, really?" Emerald scoffed.
"-yeh, like normal sex, but instead he puts it in your ass. I've never done it, really gross, I imagine it's painful too."
Harpy's eyes were glued to the blonde, her mind already whirling. To think of all the things they've done with Jaune, none of the girls have done anal.
"Well it's more than that, you'll really want to plug your ears for this one, Weiss. You can rub his cock between your asscheeks, stick a thumb in there while he fucks you, if you're really a slut and make sure it's clean, you can even have him lick it, like he's eating you out." Cinder reveled in the depraved nature of the conversation, corrupting the youth with ideas of pleasurable sex.
"Could you do that to him too?" Penny asked more out of curiosity than an actual desire to perform the act.
"Why would you?"
Though even as she said it, there was an almost radiant glow coming from Amber, eyes wide with brand new possibilities.
"That's so gross." Blake tried to laugh it all off, like she wasn't practically shaking.
She was no doubt the kinkiest of her team, Amber could sense that without the need for her semblance. Blake was constantly reading barely hidden erotica novels, filled to the brim with deviancies, this conversation was hardly out of her wheelhouse.
The only difference was she hadn't actually done any of the things in those books. Cinder and Harpy had.
Amber too, but she looked too cute to be guilty of any of that.
"We're missing a big one~" each note rolling off cinder's tongue and over her lips like snake venom, sizzling in the air like fire. Her next idea what dangerous.
"Cucking~" Cinder practically growled the word, obviously one she found some joy in.
"What-ing?" Yang raised an eyebrow.
"Cuckoldry, it's where your partner watches when you fuck someone else. It's a humiliation kink."
"What the fuck?" Yang looked more aghast at that than any of the previous deviances. "So cheating?"
"No they're all aware of it, everyone is a consenting adult, the men get off on having their partner stolen from them, then enjoy being talked down to and treated poorly."
The room sat with that in an uncomfortable silence. It was clear no one was into that.
Except Harpy.
She was turned away, obviously not willing to see anyone looking at her and maybe realizing there was something hidden deep in there.
"What's wrong, Gray? No quip for that one?"
Harpy gulped and was forced to look at everyone now staring at her. The punk girl was sweating now, this was the opposite of what she wanted.
"Oh~ Struck a nerve with that one? You secretly want Jaune to watch you fuck other guys? Want him to cry and jerk off while you tell him how much better another-"
"NO! Goddess no!" Harpy pushed hair out of her face, feeling like she might throw up at the idea. "Fuck, thats- no it's not my thing."
Though of course she protested too much. There was a misbelief that hung through the girls. Everyone except for Amber, who knew exactly what Harpy liked.
"I… Fuck, everyone, alright? I'll spit it out, just stop looking at me like I'm a chopped liver, fuck." Harpy gulped and cleared her throat, trying to make herself look as casual as possible, like this wasn't a big deal. "I like it the other way around, I like watching him fuck other girls."
Yang was equally aghast and confused, but now that was a direction to it.
Cinder just showed off her propensity to domination, that she liked to be the one humiliating. Harpy was the one now saying she enjoyed being humiliated, liked being talked down to.
"Wh- but he's so good to you?" Penny seemed the most confused. "Why would you want him to be mean to you?"
"Penny…" Harpy started but looked around, it was clear everyone was looking at her differently now. She could feel the nerve causing her to coil inwards. She hated this, she got her hopes up she might be accepted by friends and suddenly it was all crashing down, "I- don't, it's not like- I mean."
"I like being treated mean too." Blake offered, maybe before she realized that she had said it. Her face turned bright red. She'd seen Harpy spiraling and came to her rescue.
Amber would remember this.
"What.. I mean… like I like a dominant man, pulling my hair-"
"Couldn't be me" Yang interjected.
"Spitting on me, slapping my-" She stopped herself looking at everyone else.
"Ass?" Cinder offered, which judging by the reaction she got, was spot on.
Harpy tried to cover herself too, offering to add in; "I mean it's more like I like having threesomes, girls are hot and Jaune is hot, I like when we bang other girls together. There just is something sexy about watching him rail someone else, it's like watching porn where I get to spit on the girl and tell her to suck my boyfriend's cock better."
That seemed to win over the hearts of most, Yang and Blake understood more at least.
Weiss, Penny and Ruby still couldn't wrap their heads around the idea that being mean during sex could be fun.
"You really are a kinky slut, aren't you, Harpy?" Cinder couldn't help but laugh, clearly enjoying herself.
"I'm not making any offers if that's what any of you are thinking. I'm selective as fuck." She warned, mostly just to defuse the tension. "And the important thing is to remember that no matter your kink, do it safely."
"Yes Miss Harpy Ma'am!" Amber saluted poorly.
"There will be homework on this."
"Wait but I wasn't taking notes!" Penny seemed genuinely distressed.
"So now we all know waaaay too much about each other, this was a successful girl's night, I'd say." Yang smiled bright and cheerfully, leaning back and laying flat on her bed, her chest heaving with the movement.
"I'd say we know the right amount, besides you've seen me covered in cum, and now you know all my kinks, all I know about you is that you like making fun of Weiss as much as I do."
"Hey!" The shrill coil of Weiss's voice cut through Harpy's speech.
"Hey, I'm an open book."
"And I know a bunch about the big boobed blondey!" Amber added with an enthusiastic nod. Which was more worrying than anything that wolf girl ever could have said. "Like: she's got a nice butt and likes to work on her arms!"
"Aww" Yang cooed.
"And she liked BIG DICK but thinks Jaune soft is big, which is silly."
"Aww?" quirking her brow at the statement.
"She can take a punch like a champ! She likes girly boys and hasn't done anal!" Amber looked extremely pleased with herself, and why shouldn't she? She remembered so many things about this lady. Except for her name.
"Ah. Well some of that is right."
"So come on, spill then, you're the only other non-virgin here."
"The kitty-cat isn't a virgin either." Amber pointed out.
"Blake?" Yang looked over at the deeply red fuanus who was burying her face into a pillow.
"How did you know?!" The kat mewled in agony of embarrassment.
"I didn't for sure, but I do now!"
"Goddess." Blake cursed.
"-Anyway-" Harpy cut back in. "So you're into boys in dresses?"
"Hell no, I mean, I've never tried it, but I'm pretty sure it's not my thing. I told Amber I liked softer boys, meatheads don't really do it for me. A buddy for the gym would be nice, but I don't need some macho man to feel intimidated by me, you feel?"
"I can kick any man's ass, so I feel you, sister. But if not that, what're you into? Huh? What gets that engine ticking and starts your fire?"
"I-" Yang looked like she might answer but her attention was stolen by the worried and timid look of her sister. "Right, probably not the best company to be spilling these beans."
Harpy looked to Ruby, her friend here, and had at some point forgotten the two girls were related. Who could blame her? They look nothing alike.
"Right, sorry forgot you were- you know, new to all of this, if you want we can change the subject."
"Bit late for that." Weiss chimed in.
"No, it's alright, you're my bud, Jaune's my bud, everyone here is my buddy, I'm glad to know you're all having heathy, good time, sexy times." Ruby tried to make her smile look like she was keeping up in the conversation. Her discomfort didn't come from a lack of enjoyment, but rather a lack of understanding. She couldn't relate and that made her feel other in the conversation, Amber realized.
"So Yang, c'mon, don't need to hold back for me! It could only bring us closer, right?"
Miss Xiao long didn't look like she was so sure, but with an assuring nod from her sister the heavy titted blonde rolled onto her side, laying so that her tits were pressed together by her arm and the bed.
"Right, well- I uh, I guess I like it rough, you know, like everyone does- want someone with the strength to fuck me hard, or let me ride them hard."
"And girls?" Amber asked
Yang just laughed. "Already told you, I like men, girls are fun, like I love me a pair of titties, but I'm all the way into cock, the only pussy I like seeing is my own."
"What about you Ruby? Hear anything you like, no need to be shy." Cinder pressed the younger girl, barely legal, a smart kid that studied her way into the academy.
"Me? I wouldn't really know, I've kissed a few boys in highschool. I- uh- Goosh, you're right yang this is harder with you here."
"That's what she said." Amber went looking for a high-five but was left hanging, instead she kept her hand raised through the rest of the conversation.
Ruby continued. "I mean, I got- uh fingered by a boy, and it was really nice, but we had to stop because Dad got home."
"Sis?! Who? Don't tell me it was that dweeb Darryl Dusk."
"He's not a dweeb! He was sweet!"
"He was nice because he wanted in your pants!"
"Well he got there." Harpy muttered.
"I guess, as to what sounds good? I don't know, big seems scary, like-" She indicated towards Amber's scroll, referring to Jaune. "That looks like it would split me in two."
"It might" the wold girl agreed."
"But I suppose toy sounded fun, it's a lot like my weapons, it makes a lot more sense than a dick."
At some point during this, Cinder had stood up and had shown Emerald something on her scroll. "Hey, Em and I need to head out, this was fun though, invite us again next time." She paused. "And Harpy if you ever want someone to make your dreams come true."
The sultry woman gave the punk chick a wink.
"I don't think I'm ready for anything like a- what did you call it? Blowjob?" I don't think my mouth can go that far."
The two left with Ruby still frantically worrying about the logistics of sex.
"Don't worry sis, most cocks aren't that big."
"I hadn't considered that larger ones may be uncomfortable." Penny looked deep in thought.
"Penny can you even-?" Harpy shut her mouth, realizing that most of the other people here didn't know her secret. That was supposed to be an Atlas secret. "Have you, rather, done anything?"
Nice save, it sounded natural, even if it did raise a few eyebrows.
"Nope!" The simple answer came easily. "I've never been on a date."
"Well we have to fix that, don't we, you want us to set you up with someone?" Yang extended a hand, which has the unintended action of nearly making her chest spill out of her sleezy little tanktop.
"Set me up?"
"On a date."
"Well Ruby is nice, and Jaune sounds like he is very fun, if I was going to spend time with anyone I would want it to be them."
"I don't think she gets it." Blake murmured.
A solemn agreement from Weiss "no duh."
Down the hall, far enough they were sure the other little girls couldn't hear them. Emerald and Cinder finally met up with her partner, Mercury.
"Well, was it more petty little banter or did you find something useful out this time?" The boy's harsh tone betrayed his annoyance.
"Thankfully this time, we actually did find something of use."
"Thank fuck. Then we can stop pretending to like these losers and move already?"
"On the contrary." Cinder mused, a sly smile on her face. "We only might have a lead, you remember that Nikos girl you fought? It looks like she's training with Ozpin."
"And?"
"And my dear boy, that means she either is in training to be the next maiden, or can help us find out who is." Cinder explained. "Finally all of this skulking will have been for something. Their prattling little lives are so dreadfully boring."
"I know right? Sex obsessed weirdos." Emerald shook her head. "Got them talking though, let their guards down."
"And they'll keep giving us information the closer we get. We still have a lot of planning to do before we can enact our plans. This upcoming dance will be a perfect distraction, and a great way for us to move without suspicion."
"We still have to play nice with these losers?" Mercury scoffed, leaning against the walls. "I'd rather just pick the fight, we know we can win it."
"Patience, Boy." Cinder curled a finger under his jaw and let her nail drag over his skin. "If we move too fast we'll run the risk of messing something up, and this needs to be perfect."
Cinder had to restrain herself from letting out an evil and maniacal laugh.
"With what we know, The only people on campus capable of becoming the maiden are Coco Adel, Pyrrha Nikos, Yang Xiao long, Amber Gold, Winter Schnee and Penny Polendina. We've crossed the Polendina girl off the list, which means we need to be sure we're going after the right girls."
The two were listening intently. But it was Emerald who spoke up. "How do we know its them?"
"They're the only ones with an aura strong enough to hold the Maiden powers, not to mention they're the best in their classes as huntresses. Going by the security cameras. We know exactly who is meeting with Ozpin, Ironwood or that bastard Qrow."
Cinder paused and chewed her lip.
"Based on that information the likelihood of it being Winter is the highest, Nikos the second highest, Then the wolf girl, with Xiao-long and Coco tied for least likely. All of them are likely suspects though, so we need to make sure we're crossing names off. This special training that Miss Nikos is undergoing seems most interesting."
"So we should look into her first?" Mercury concluded, putting his fist into his palm.
"On the contrary, we avoid her as much as we can. It would look suspicious for us to be looking into the most obvious person, if it is her there would be more eyes on her than anyone. In fact she could be a red herring."
"But they don't know we're here?" Emerald asked it more like a question, thats how they could be students in the first place, because no one knew their faces.
"Only a fool or a simpleton would underestimate their enemy and I took you for neither, Emerald." Cinder looked down the bridge of her nose with a threatening intention towards the green haired girl, making their room turn cold. "Ironwood and Ozpin have been battle Salem their whole lives, we would be idiots for taking them lightly."
"Then what's the plan, boss lady?"
"Well, Mercury. Emerald will continue to stay in the good graces of that Ruby girl, that will let her stay close to the Xiao-long. You will try and befriend then boys of Coco Adel's team, as well as that boy Mercury. Through him you'll be able to stay close to Weiss Schnee and by extension her sister, Winter. It is a long trail, but sadly getting close to the generals right hand may be harder than the rest. We may need a plan to lure her out."
"And you?"
"I'm going to try and get close to Nikos and Gold."
"You aren't actually going to sleep with that guy, are you?" Emerald asked, half disgusted, half terrified.
"I've slept with less attractive people for worse reasons." Cinder sent the snide remark in the direction of Mercury, who the jab was not lost on.
"Fuck you too, cunt."
"If you do your job properly." She agreed.
"I will work with our friends in town to devise a way to suss out if Winter Schnee is the maiden or not. Perhaps we can kill two birds with one stone afterall." Her mewling little chuckle was sinister as it was deliciously ripe with venom.
By the end of the night, everyone departed back to their own rooms, some of the girls were walking each other across the dorm rooms, Yang and Amber talking animatedly about the next day at the gym. Ruby having already said goodbye to Harpy, Weiss having left at some point to avoid the conversations about sex.
She was washing her hands in the sink on a communal bathroom for the floor. Weiss tried to get the mental images of Jaune out of her head, tried to not think about his hard… throbbing- and how much moaning there was.
Was Jaune really that good? It couldn't be.
The door to the bathroom creaked open and Weiss half expected to see him standing there.
She gasped.
Was that excitement?! FUCK NO.
The girl standing there was less than impressed to see the Schnee girl. Harpy Gray. The least likable member of… well, person, ever.
"Oh… hey." Weiss managed to stammer out. "Come to be even more floozy here? I don't much care for it-"
Harpy stepped right up to her, close enough that weiss had to take a cautionary step back to avoid being knocked over.
"Hey what ar-"
"Shut up."
"I-"
"I said shut the fuck up!" The growling shout forced the smaller girl's voice back down her throat. Weiss's eyes wide with shock. "Jaune asked me to play nice so I'm not beating your fucking face in, princess bitch."
"Excuse me!?" Weiss looked horrified, insulted and angry in a way that looked like she might throw a punch first.
Harpy wasn't so lucky.
"I'm sick and tired of listening to you talk shit about him, understand? I don't care about you, your family or whatever bullshit is going on with your fucked up life. But if I ever hear you say anything about Jaune aga-"
"Or what?"
Weiss stepped forward, fists clenched and jaw set. "Little miss mean girl is going to corner me in the bathroom and threaten me again?"
A pause, one where Harpy debated saying what was really going through her mind. "I kicked your ass once, I can do it again."
Weiss just stared ahead, daring her to.
Instead Harpy took a different approach. "Jaune is give you a second chance, all of you, not just your flat, petty ass."
Weiss resented that, her ass was perky and bubbly. She had an immaculate ass.
"I'll stand for a lot of shit, but you keep Jaune's name out of your mouth. I've been to Juive, I know how to hurt you in places that won't leave marks."
There was a real threat there, one that Weiss believed. She knew about delinquents like this one. She heard about all the terrible things they did to each other every time her mother was drunk, or her father wanted to scare her.
"What is so special about Jaune, Huh? You all act like the air he breathes is rainbows. Amber and Pale practically float behind him, Pyrrha is obsessed and you're stalking me to a bathroom to threaten me over him?"
"Jaune… this team he made, us, everything we're doing." Harpy could feel something catch in her throat. Weiss flinched, not like she was scared but like she hadn't expected that. "They mean everything to me. He came back here, scared shitless, like a little bitch, scared."
She shook her head. "Jaune isn't scared of shit, not me, not Grimm, he isn't scared of the pressures, the responsibility, not the future. He's braver than anyone I've ever met but he was terrified to come back here, to face a spoiled little princess and a woman who can hardly string a sentence together without an apology in it."
"I.." Weiss stammered.
"You, everyone here, was the worst thing that ever happened to him and you don't even know it. You joke about him and talk shit and then laugh whenever anyone says he has a small dick, or he's a loser or he's a coward. It makes me fucking sick, because he was the one tossed out, we were the ones who you betrayed and he still forgave you!"
Weiss was stunned, mouth hanging out with a look of shock.
Harpy felt her cheeks hot, burning with rage and anger, all of the emotions she'd thought she buried with Pyrrha just came flooding back.
"He's proved himself over and over again and still you insult him at every turn, huh?"
"You've been insulting me all night!"
"That's me! Not him!"
Their shouting was getting so loud that they were both sure anyone in the hallway could hear it. "You… really care about him, huh? I heard you shout about him being your boyfriend during the match. I saw you talking to Pyrrha the whole time but I only heard that bit."
"Well.. he is. And I do. So fucking… stop being a bitch, alright?"
The tone was silent now. Both of them standing there without saying anything until Harpy turned around sharply on her heel and stormed out of the bathroom.
Her pace pushed her well past the others saying goodbye. It turns out they hadn't heard her, because she walked past Amber and Yang, still talking.
Amber could feel the emotions swirling in the air. She knew it wasn't her place to talk to Harpy or Weiss. Not yet, Harp needed a little bit of time to cool off.
"So we'll see you around 6?" Amber asked, making sure to confirm the date.
"Amber…"
"Yeah?"
"I don't know. It's just a little weird, you know? I like you guys and all but it's all a little sudden, a little too forward. I need some time to think it over."
"Well, I'll have him ready for 6, if you want to stop by, be my guest. If not I'll send you a video of it, kay?" The wolf girl gave her a little wink and leaned forward to give the busty girl a big hug. Whispering into her ear when she did. "See if you really can handle that big cock or if you're just big talk~"
The wolf girl pulled away and pranced after her teammate, waving at the stunned blonde with an eager twirl of her fingers.
To be continued.