I wake up to Altars on Fire playing, and it's been playing for a solid ten minutes. That's funny, because that's one of the songs I purchased to use as either a ringtone or an alarm... Wait…
Oh yeah… I made it my alarm. Whoops.
I get out of bed, nearly tripping in the process, and find my uniform. I take whatever I was wearing the night before and decorate my floor with it. Then, I grab my uniform and start throwing it on. It's Sunday, so we have to wear our uniforms around campus again. Something about "making a good impression" or whatever. Not Monday, but I'm already getting my ass handed to me by my sleep schedule. Fire.
I check my scroll while buttoning my pants. Fuck belts. I'm not wearing a belt. Belts are for fucking cowards. Plus, I already have my pants a bit tighter around the waist for this exact reason.
My shirt's on rather quickly, but I spend a couple seconds too long fumbling with my jacket. Whatever, it looks better unbuttoned, the professors can fucking bite me if they don't like it. I then brush my teeth and hair, almost putting toothpaste on the hairbrush somehow, and continue on. After spitting out some mouthwash, I find a pair of black socks, and hunt for my shoes.
They had been cleaned and dried by the ginger gun nut and he had put them somewhere in my room. I find my sneakers on my sofa for whatever great reason, and with a note on them, reading as follows:
"Here you go! I even cleaned your soles and everything. -Levi."
Perfect. Wait, they're untied? Oh, for… Ok, you see, I have this problem where when I tie my shoes, it lasts for either thirty seconds, or thirty years. It's due to this that I just never untie them when I get a good double knot, but Levi had gone as far as to clean the fucking laces separate.
Whatever, doesn't matter. After a few embarrassing failures to tie my shoes, I get it right, and step out of my room.
The halls are empty, seeing as the faculty have probably already started their day. I'm walking fast, and thanks to my height, it's giving me great ground. Once in the courtyard, I can see… Not a single person I know. Ok, probably in the cafeteria. While walking past, I can faintly hear Ruby say something about, "Sisters, friends… Weiss."
"Hey!" responds Weiss.
I continue to the doors, and walk inside. Lukas and Jade are sitting with Team RWBY, and Levi's with JPNR. Deciding to ask Levi about where he learned to clean shoes like that, I walk over and see Yang and Levi throwing food at one another and someone, probably Weiss, yelling about a binder or something. The food being thrown is currently peas, then it swaps to apples. I take a seat with my back to Team RWBY, and get hit in the back of the head by a fucking apple. I spin around and glare at Yang.
"Hey, watch this!" Nora shouts. I turn in time to watch as Weiss is nailed in the face with a pie by Nora. Team JPNR and Levi look horrified, while Team RWBY looks shocked, and Weiss looks pissed. Nora pulls me over, and says, "If a food fight starts, you're with us now."
Oh. Ok.
So, long story short, that's exactly what happened. I also may or may not have clocked Lukas with a waffle during the opening engagement. Students started fleeing, trying to save themselves, while the rest of the cafeteria turned into anarchy. So, here's how everything's looking. JPNR, Levi and I have made a nice fort out of tables. Why? Fuck you, that's why. RWBY, Lukas, and Jade are now going to try and take said castle. I'll say it now, that's not happening.
"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" is declared by Nora, our royal highness.
"Justice will be swift, justice will be painful!" Ruby shouts, obliterating a milk carton, "It will be delicious!" A war cry rings out as the attackers raise their fists and charge.
Our queen gives us an order, "Off with their heads!"
I put in my earbuds, and shortly after, Smell of the Game starts playing. Oh…
Hell.
Yeah.
I jump down, a makeshift cape made from a tablecloth or something flowing behind me as I fall, and I see Levi throw a few watermelons towards me. I punch them one after the other. They, along with other melons launched by the rest of the rightful defenders, go flying towards the enemy. As the barrage starts to land, Yang starts punching them away with turkey gauntlets. Lovely.
I turn to see Sparky himself charge at me. I crack a breadstick, putting it about the length of my sword, and clash bread with him.
"Aww, thought you'd win that easily? That's pathetic." I sneer, before kicking him backwards. I flip my sword, and get ready to rush him down.
"What? Expected me to be alone?" he asks.
"Huh?"
I turn to see Blake kick off of a vending machine at me. I block her attack, and send Lukas backwards with a nice left handed jab.
Levi's currently fighting with Weiss, the Atleasians clashing with Weiss wielding a swordfish, and Levi a couple table legs fashioned into a mace. They trade a few blows, but Levi suddenly takes a few steps backwards. "Fine then! Let's see if you can keep up with this, Ice Queen!" Suddenly, his body jolts, and he rushes at her, now seemingly overclocked. She can hardly hold steady before getting sent flying. Levi runs after her, and they continue dueling with Levi gradually gaining pressure, and Weiss looking like her defense is rapidly crumbling.
Jade has Jaune by the neck, and is singing that fucking song. "Cast out, undesirable. I was all alone…" Yeah, Jaune's fucked. She throws him into the air. Soon after, a window shatters as a vine comes in and catches him by the leg. It spins him around a few times before flinging him away, where many tables and chairs fall on top of him. A faint "Ow…" can be heard from the wreckage. Jade laughs loudly, and finishes the verse, "Over those bleak years I got the name… Commander of the Crows." Her laughter fills the room as more and more vegetation crawls through the shattered window, and even the vents.
Ren slides over to me, and manages to send Blake a good bit away with a solid kick. "I've got her, Doge! Deal with Lukas!" he says, before Blake teleports from out of his reach, and grabs a new breadstick. Ren twirls his leaks, and charges. They go back and forth, and honestly, neither of them gains any ground. To be expected, honestly. The last I see of them, Blake has Ren in the air, and after that I hear a crashing sound, so someone probably ate shit.
I rush at Lukas, and knock him several feet backwards. We clash once again, and I'm smirking as he starts to give in. Suddenly, he moves one of his hands from his stick, and, also suddenly, I'm sent flying by a beam of electricity. I can hear him laughing, and he's humming a song to himself. It's This is It by Oh the Larceny. I just fucking know it is. I get back up, coughing, and smile. A warm feeling rushes through my body, and you know what that means by now. "Oh? So we're doing that? Alright, Heretic, thou shalt be purged in holy hellfire!" I hold out my hand, and laugh maniacally while chasing him with a beam of flame, scorching anything caught in the crossfire. This turns out to be Yang and Pyrrha, and although friendly fire is something I usually take great care to avoid, these are necessary casualties in the name of the queen. The pair are sent flying, and I think Yang went out a window…
Speaking of Queen Nora, she's torn down a metal rod and made a hammer from skewering a watermelon. Ruby finds herself on the business end of it, and it sends her tumbling away. She then locks eyes with Jade, and the pair share a smile before clashing. Jade's using just her hands, and Nora has her mighty hammer. They duck to avoid my beam of fire, and Nora uses the chance to send Jade flying. Jade catches herself with a vine, and throws herself right back at Nora, who's sent tumbling into a vending machine. Now the floor's covered in soda, and more and more cans are tumbling free from what's left of the machine.
Levi runs back at Weiss, going for the finishing blow, but Weiss covers the ground in ketchup. Levi, however, power slides and manages to get his arm around her midsection, pulling her down with him. I can hear him singing whatever song he's listening to during the whole encounter, "Dead scared, 'cause I'm fearless in the head! Bang, bang, 'cause the needle's in the red! My, my, I can't lie! I need a shot again, that sweet adrenaline!" My whole team loves their music, huh? Levi gets up, and soccer kicks Weiss away, before being intercepted by Ruby. Due to Levi still being cracked out of his mind for the moment, he sends her spiraling over to land amongst a few trays.
A rain of soda cans starts to land as Pyrrha pulls them around and slams Jade with like, a hundred. One whizzes past my head, and I turn to see Blake running at me. I stomp, and use a jet of flames behind me to launch myself at her. I'm smiling like a lunatic with flames quite literally in my eyes. We deflect off one another, and both slide to stop ourselves. She does it with much more grace than I, but that isn't the point. The lyrics of Smell of the Game continue blasting through my earbuds as I relentlessly rush down Blake. She's doing what she does best, making ground, and I'm doing what I do best, taking it. She teleports, I blast, she kicks, I punch, she slashes, I riposte. Unfortunately for her, though, I fight as dirty as she does, and stomp, a jet erupting behind her and causing her to fly right into my arms. "Listen, I love you, but all's fair in love and war. This counts as war." I say before swinging her around, and chuck her into the distance. Poor girl yells as she's flung into a table, and I give her a two finger salute. Just then I'm drop kicked by none other than Lukas. "Oh? Have we not had enough yet?" I say, dusting myself off.
"Please, I'm just getting started, Embers." he retorts, now holding several cans of soda.
"Try me, I dare you." I sneer, holding a ball of fire in my left hand, and a baguette in the other.
Yang and Jaune are currently in the most one sided fight of the century. Yang picks up a chair, and smacks him with it, breaking it, before roundhouse kicking him in the opposite direction, and finishes him off by socking him with a turkey. Jaune flies past Blake, who is now wielding many sausages linked together, and is also currently dashing over to where Lukas and I are.
Lukas slams the cans into the ground, and a cloud of sugary goodness clouds my vision. "No matter, Lukas, fire's indiscriminate!" I shout, and then slam a ball of flame at my feet. I then pick up a can, and throw it, nailing Lukas right in the nose. It bounces off of his face and explodes, drenching his hoodie. He stumbles, and glares, wiping his face.
"Oh we're playing that game are we?" Lukas asks. He then electrifies his fist and punches a vending machine, which jolts around for a moment. Then, I realize that it's pointing right at me, and it starts spewing can after can right at me. After eating seven or so cans to the arms and chest, I raise a wall of fire to protect myself, going from my legs and curving to protect the top of my head. The wall melts away most of the soda, and I drop it only to reveal Blake swinging her newfound weapon at me. I parry it with my fist, and just manage to jump away from a thrown bread spear from Lukas. After dodging and nailing Lukas with a fireball, Blake wraps me up with her sausages, the heretic, and Lukas gets his carb filled revenge. Smack after smack from the breadstick, with crumbs covering my chest and face. My eyes shine brighter for just a second, and the chorus hits. 'That is bullshit! Blazing! Still my heart is blazing! If I lose my wings, I don't need a new world order!' Man, I love this song. Suddenly I shout, and a burst of flaming energy knocks them both away. It also sends a couple tables flying.
Lukas catches himself, but hears footsteps behind him. He turns around and shocks Nora with a blast of electricity on instinct. Nora stops in her tracks for a moment as her hair stands on end and pink electricity starts to dance across her body. She then starts giggling and dashes at Lukas, hammer ready to crush him like a bug. "Hey, hey we can talk about thi-" Lukas pleads, before getting sent flying into a pillar. "WAAAAAH!" he screams before making contact and having the wind knocked out of him. The pillar breaks, and ends up almost landing on top of him, but Weiss grabs him by the hood and drags him to safety. "You actually saved me?" he asks.
"Of course I did, you idiot. You're more useful alive than dead." Weiss retorts.
"But I wouldn't have di-" Lukas starts, before Weiss shushes him.
"It's ok, I saved your life. You owe me now." Weiss then lays him on the floor, and starts going at Nora. Weiss gets sent soaring, and Ruby prevents her from hitting anything, laying the fallen warrior on the ground. She looks up, and uses a tray to grind across a table towards Nora.
As for Blake and I, she attempts one of her definitely not necessary backflips, and I lunge at her. I wrap my arms around her and slam her into a table. I then pull her off of the side and watch as she falls to the floor. I stand above her, laughing. "Thou shalt be a worthy sacrifice for the queen." I pick up a breadstick, and point it at Blake's chest, which is heaving. Mine is too, seeing as I'm also nearly out of breath. Blake glares at me while I hold her at breadpoint. Suddenly, though, it feels windy. Like, really windy.
Ruby has decided that she's ending it, and end it she does. She sweeps everyone on the defender side up, and slams us against the wall. I look to see a metric fuckton of fruits, meats, and vegetables lined up, just for us. Ruby smiles, and jumps clear of us, leaving us pinned against the cracked wall.
"Well shit-" is all I get out before the six of us, JPNR, Levi, and I are pelted again and again, and again, and again. There's no doubt that we lost, despite everything, the heretics prevailed. One by one, we fall off the wall, and land on the ground.
"I love these guys." Sun says, who was watching the whole time along with some guy who's now just purple. Said purple guy scowls at him, before the doors are thrown open by none other than Miss Glynda Goodwitch herself. She uses her telekinesis to start putting everything back into place, which includes…
Oh. Oh that's bad. I'm not supposed to fly.
"WAIT WAIT WAIT LET ME TAKE THIS OFF FIRST!" I shout in desperation as I'm, along with the tablecloth on my back, flung across the room to… the roof? Oh, now that I think about it, we don't have table cloths. This was a banner of some sorts, and it was hanging on the roof, wasn't it?
"Children, please, do not play with your food." Goodwitch says. Nora burps in response, and I come falling down, my banner cape gone, and slam into a table.
"FUCK FUCK FU-" is what everyone is treated to during my descent, followed by a very loud smack. "Ow…" I groan, and roll off of the table onto the floor. After a second, I try to get up only for Blake to lightly step on my back, giggling.
"I win." she says.
"That is a lie and we both know it. I had you and Sparky dead to rights, and-"
She cuts me off and applies a little more pressure, "You're the one on the floor, not me, Hon." I just grumble and accept my fate. She has a point. I am indeed the one on the floor. Eventually she relents, and I'm allowed to stand up again. Blake grabs my arm and helps me stand up. Looking over, I can see that Ozpin and Glynda are having some sort of conversation, but probably doesn't matter much. They don't look mad, so we probably aren't getting expelled.
"So, Sun, who's blue hair and pronouns?" Levi asks, peeling a slice of bacon off of his blazer. He starts moving towards his mouth, but Ren lightly slaps it away.
"Wh-what? What do you me-" Blue Hair and Pronouns starts, before being cut off by Sun.
"He's Neptune. I was actually bringing him to introduce him to you guys."
Lukas hums before speaking, "Hmm… I dunno."
I brush myself off, and flick a bit of egg onto
Blake, who frowns at me for said action. "What do you mean, 'I dunno?' Guy seems chill. You're just outwardly hostile to everyone when you first meet them." I say.
"That is not true." Lukas replies.
"Yeah huh. I can name five people you disliked at first sight. Me, Jade, Levi, Weiss, and… uh… Cardin?" While I speak, I count each name on a finger.
"All of those are completely justified." Lukas chimes.
"Yeah? Well… uh… Y'know what? Fuck you. Bitch." I say, crossing my arms and looking to the side.
"How mature…" Blake mutters.
"Anyways, uh, let me introduce you to each of them." Sun says, still sporting a smile.
"Actually, I kind of was taking my group of idiots to the training grounds. After that little shitshow, we need to do some work." I say.
Yang laughs, and pats my back, "He's mad that he lost, especially to his girlfriend."
"Oh, what the hell ever. No, I'm mad that despite getting jumped I still won. Unacceptable, Lukas." I say.
"Are you not going to get mad at Blake, too?" Jade asks.
"Now why would I ever do that? Do I strike you as suicidal?" I ask. I then shut down the response that I know is coming, "Answer that and I set you on fire. Now, c'mon, we're going. Catch you later, Sun, and the guy who's name I forgot."
The guy who's name I forgot goes to say something, but ends up not saying anything.
My team and I depart to one of the several arenas set up in the training area, and we grab our real weapons. Nothing beats actual steel, even if aura infused bread comes really damn close.
"So!" I start, getting everyone's attention. I then blank on what I was going to say. "Uh…"
"Inspiring." sneers Lukas.
"Fuck off. Ok, uh, so, we're just going to spar and stuff. Simple really. We need to decide on the teams, though. Lukas and I always team up, so that just leaves who I take, and who Lukas takes…"
"I volunteer!" Jade exclaims.
"Elaborate." I say while stretching.
"Your team!"
"Fire. Alright, Levi, you're with Lukas." I say, heading over to the opposite side of the area.
"Sounds good. Any limitations?" Levi asks, drawing his maul, and weighing it in his hands.
"Yeah, no killing." I say, and shrug while spinning Hell's Retriever. "Everything else goes. We'll start whenever…" I look around, as I try to think of something. I give up, and just form a fireball, and toss it into the air. Then I just hold it there for the remainder of my little spiel. "…whenever the fireball falls. So, with that being said…" I flick my wrist down, and open my hand. The sphere of flames slams into the ground, and all four of us quickly get to work.
Levi and I are the first to clash, with Lukas and Jade dodging and chasing, respectively. Levi attempts to kick me off balance, and follow up with a downward slam. While he does destabilize me, I jump backwards and treat him to a bolt of fire from my fingertip. He staggers, and that gives me enough time to get my footing back, which in turn allows me to retaliate with a bit more force. My gladius stab attempts are blocked, but do you know what can't be blocked easily? That's right, dragon's breath!
"Gah! Fucking damn it!" Levi shouts while staggering. Snickering a bit, I slam a fresh pair of shells into my gun, and flick it closed just in time to see Levi has decided to headbutt me. I clutch my forehead with my left hand and stumble backwards before shaking it off. Upon looking at Levi again, one could see that he's switched Zum Sieger to its machine gun configuration. As he pulls the trigger, my eyes widen, and I quickly raise a wall of fire to block the hits. Dust flies about from the sides of the makeshift barrier, and I'm having to put more aura into keeping it up than I'd like. Right, my field, my rules. Let's see him keep up with this…
Levi watches as three of my incendiary grenades fly out from behind the wall, all exploding in different spots near him. They don't directly hit him, instead just sort of coating the area around him. I then drop the wall, and grab control of the fires before pulling them in. Levi has little choice but to overdrive, and catapults himself out of the inferno by using his hammer.
"Oh fuck-" I get out, before Levi finishes dashing forward, and slams his pommel into my nose, knocking the glow out of my eyes, literally. With my senses going all blurry and my eyes watering for a moment, I drop control of the flames and the glow fades. Levi puts the fucking smackdown on me, and unsurprisingly, getting a maul slammed into the side of your head doesn't feel amazing. Apparently I've dropped my sword at some point too, seeing as my right hand is now empty. With my left hand clutching my face, and my right hand held out in front of me, I finally manage to get some well deserved payback. My eyes flare with reddish orange as I force a ton of aura through my hand, and blast Levi a solid thirty feet backwards. I don't waste any time on rushing at him, and continuing the brawl.
Meanwhile, Lukas and Jade are going at it. Well… kind of? Lukas is an amazing team fighter, despite what I said to him after the foodfight. The problem is that it's just him and Jade, an extremely aggressive zoner type fighter. While yes, he is managing to dodge a number of the spikes of stone and torrents of plant mass being thrown at him, he can't get any hits in. In the off chance that he gets a shot off from his revolver, and in the even more off chance that it hits, Jade literally just shrugs it off. Eventually Lukas makes a minor mistake, and Jade gets a firm grab on his leg with a vine. He's dragged into her not-so-loving arms, and slammed into the ground. She picks him up by the collar, and throws him into the air, where a vine catches him. He's then flung into a wall, and held to it by the plethora of plants now covering him. There's even a few flowers growing around him, as he struggles in vain to break free. Jade then bounces towards him before hitting him with the meanest dropkick this side of the kingdom. Stone spikes sprout from her shoes as she flings herself at Lukas with the vines. Lukas's aura breaks, and in one final defiant gesture, spits out electricity all around him, zapping the hell out of Jade. Plants, while being damaged by electricity regardless, also have much better accessibility to nitrogen post getting struck by lightning, causing rapid growth. This means that while Jade is out of the fight for a minute, she'll be back up quickly.
With Lukas taking a forced nap, Jade sets her sights on Levi and I. Both of us have lost our weapons at some point or another, and are just pummeling the hell out of each other. I'm better at hand to hand in general, but Levi's semblance puts him above me whenever it's active. The playing field is leveled by the pyrokinetic tomfuckery I possess, and no ground is being made. I hear Jade whistle, and I get ready for what's about to happen. Vines suddenly wrap around Levi's limbs, leaving him exposed.
"Yeah, that's well and truly enough of that." I say, before cocking back, and nailing him in the nose with a fistful of aura. There's an explosion of flames from the hit, and Levi spirals backwards. A small smirk is visible on my face as I shake my fist. Levi groans, but eventually sits up, as I offer him my hand. He takes it, and I pull him to his feet. He's a little unsteady for the time being, but gets back into things pretty quickly. Jade, Levi, and I look over at Lukas, who slowly comes to.
"Did we win…?" Lukas asks before taking a long sip from his thermos.
"No. No we did not." Levi says.
"Right, that went decently well, I'd say." I say. Upon seeing that there's still some fire blazing from my grenades, I hold out my hand in order to absorb the energy and help my aura out a bit. It's such a cool little thing that I really need to experiment with some more. "So, round two?"
Later that day, combat drill after combat drill being wrapped up, everyone's chilling in the library. Team RWBY is playing a board game, JPNR is reading. Well, minus Nora. She's napping. Jaune is, well, I would say studying, but that's because he's being forced by Pyrrha. Then there's DAIS…
"One last kiss!" Lukas sings.
"I love you like an alcoholic!" Levi chimes in.
"One last kiss!" I sing.
"I love you like a statuette." Jade sings.
"One last kiss!" Lukas and I sing in shaky harmony.
"I need you, like I need a broken leg!" Jade and Levi sing.
Yeah, we're… listen, group karaoke was the winner when we voted. Jade's scroll is being used, and we're all bunched up together. Due to us now being in combat gear, it's a tight squeeze. Lukas looks how he does when he's in casual gear, but Levi and I are in our full armor, and Jade's rocking a form fitting sleeveless crop top, and shorts. Truly a spectacle.
"You're all idiots." Weiss says. Us four collectively shrug.
Jaune tries to play a round with Weiss' hand, to which she tells him that she doesn't trust him with the people of… I wasn't paying attention.
Jaune says, "Well, you've trusted me with deeper secrets! Like how Blake is a fau-"
Pyrrha clammers out of her chair and claps her hand over his mouth and finishes his words, "Fun loving person!"
Jade tilts her head and speaks, "Don't you mean fau-"
I clap my hand over Jade's mouth, and give her a "please don't" look. "Yup! A fun loving person! Just look at-"
"Mlem." is that sound that Jade makes when she licks my hand. I jump back, and wipe my hand on my pteruges.
"Jade! What the fuck!?" I shout.
She giggles and shrugs, while I continue wiping my hand on my leg. "And quit fucking with my cape!" I say, swatting her giggly self away.
Suddenly, Sun walks in, along with Blue Hair and Goggles Guy. "Sup losers." Sun says.
I give a small wave, before turning off the song. "I'm picking the next one, by the way. It's my turn." I say, and hand Jade her scroll.
"Ok, so, you guys never got the chance to really meet my friend. Guys, this is Neptune. Neptune, this is guys." Sun says.
"So is this the part where you introduce us, or…?" Lukas asks.
"Good point." Sun says. "Happy go lucky is Ruby. Cold and snarky is Weiss. Dark and brooding is Blake. Flaming hot is Yang. Blond guy is Jaune. You know Pyrrha from the cereal box. Bubbly and sleeping is Nora. Emo number two is Ren. Anger issues and insomnia is Doge. The tall ginger is Levi. Tall, tan, and terrifying is Jade. Last but not least, short and cocky is Lukas." Sun says, pointing to each of us as he speaks.
"Can I change my description?" I ask, raising my hand.
"No. You kicked me out of a window." Sun replies. I pout in return.
"You too?" Lukas asks.
"Wow…" Neptune says. He looks at all twelve of us, and nods. "I picked up on basically none of that, you went too fast."
"You'll figure it out." Sun dismissively says, walking over to us.
"Oh. Ok." Neptune resigns. "So, why are you guys doing… this in a library? Isn't it meant to be, I don't know, quiet?"
"Thank you!" Ren exclaims, rousing Nora, who was napping on Ren's book.
"Pancakes!" Nora half shouts.
"Listen, the library is a place of endless possibilities. It's a great place to read, but it can be so much more..." I say, a smile on my face and a whimsical look in my eyes.
"Ok… like what?" Neptune asks.
"Now that… is a great question. That's why Lukas will be answering it." I say, pushing Lukas forward.
"Excuse you? You're the one who's always here with Blake. Tell us about how versatile the corner is for making out, why don't you?" Lukas snickers.
I scoff, and roll my eyes. "I told you, jackass, we haven't done that yet."
"Suuuuure…" Lukas says, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Whatever. Blake, can you back me up? Blake?" I look over at her. I walk to her side, and gently shake her after placing my hand on her shoulder. "Hey, Blake? You with us?"
Blake, who was somewhat zoned out, snaps back to reality at my touch. "What? Yes? Uh, yeah, he's right." She then offers me a slight smile before returning to whatever world she's caught herself up in.
I sigh and facepalm. "Thank you, Dear…" She just nods, and continues spacing out. Something must have come up after the food fight, or something, because this is a bit uncharacteristic of her. Actually, no, who the fuck am I kidding? Blake being withdrawn and moody, and the sky's blue. Like, c'mon, think, you dumbass. Still, I can hate myself later, I should probably ask her if something's going on, right? "Hey, on a more serious note, are you alright? You seem a bit detached… even more so than normal."
She meets my gaze, and I can see a bit of confliction in her eyes. She then nods and speaks, "I'm fine. Just thinking about things, I guess."
I sigh, knowing well enough that that's all I'm getting out of her for the time being. "Well, if you want to talk, just let me know. I want to be there if you need me to, I guess." I say.
She nods, and after a few seconds, stands up and grabs her stuff. "I think I'm going to go lay down for a little bit. I'll see you later." She says, before walking off. Half of me wants to go after her, but she clearly wants to be left alone… right?
Yang can obviously see the confliction on my face, and she speaks up, "We'll talk to her later. Don't dwell on it, it's just Blake being Blake."
I sigh. "You're probably right. Still, makes me feel kind of useless when she gets like this." I say, watching the door to the library close behind Blake.
"Oh, you're not useless. Don't even. Now, go back to keeping your idiots entertained. I still have a game to win."
I nod, and head back over to the others. I lean against a bookshelf while my team and Sun continue singing, Meanwhile, my brain just keeps thinking about the whole ordeal. Is there something that I missed? Has something been building up that I never noticed? She'd tell me if something was wrong, right? This is probably going to keep me up tonight, isn't it? Oh well, there's not really much I can do other than give her space.
"Well, you gonna join us in the fun, or just sit there moping?" Levi asks.
I shoot a glare at him, but it isn't fully effective due to the small smile on my lips at the comment, "Excuse you, but I'm having plenty of fun moping, thank you very much."
"And he says he's not emo…" Lukas sneers.
"Oh, fuck right off. I'm not- We're not doing this today. I'm picking the next song, jackass." I say before storming over, and grabbing the scroll. A couple seconds later, I'm blanking, and think back to the song that was playing in the fight club. Not a second later, "Bubblegum Bitch" starts playing. All of us minus Jade get into it once again, and I take note of this. I tap Jade's shoulder to get her attention. "Hey, you alright?"
"Oh, um, yes. I was just remembering somebody…" she says, a thoughtful look on her face. I nod, and decide that if she wants to elaborate, she will. Seeing as she doesn't, I just go back to screwing off with everyone, Jade eventually joining back in on the next song. We'll be here for a while at this rate…
HI! I'M A FEW DAYS LATE, BUT WHO CARES? So, as promised, Chapter Twelve. Ngl, the main antagonist (writer's block) dropped a tungsten cube on my head, and that's why I'm a few days late. Truly my bad, but what can you do?
But yeah, there you have it! So, yeah, I am very much back in school, and I actually need to be going to bed soon if I want to get the proper amount of sleep. That's for fucking cowards, however, so that's not happening.
As stated last chapter, I'm upping the minimum expectation to two weeks, and the max to three weeks. Other than that, nothing's changed.
As always, thanks for reading, and I'll (hopefully lol) see you on time in a few weeks!