After more than 11 minutes Alabast brings himself back up above Ruby.
Ruby's eyes have a slight glaze over them as she looks up at Alabast. "Wow~"
Alabast takes his left hand from under Ruby's head and wipes his lips on the back of his hand. He puts his hand on the desk, opposite of his right hand. "I enjoyed it too"
Ruby grabs his collar.
*Whoosh!* *Crash!* *SLAM!*
"Ow" Alabast flatly says.
Ruby used her semblance and before Alabast knew what was happening he found himself on his back on the floor. Ruby had missed the desk behind Alabast and slammed him into the ground. Alabast's left side had hit the desk but had just sent it falling to the side. Now Ruby was straddling Alabast and was over him now.
Alabast's hair was splayed out on the floor beneath him. Luckily his tail wasn't crushed, because even with aura that hurts. He looks up at Ruby with his left eye while his right stays shut. "That was unexpected"
Ruby rubs the back of her head and smiles weakly. "Hehehe~" She chuckles weakly. "Yeah, I kinda missed….. I didn't expect you to be so big and heavy"
"Haaah~" Alabast shuts his left eye. "Hopefully the next time you carry me we won't crash"
"Yeah…" Ruby's nods her head. "…. but my result this time still seems to be what I intended"
Alabast puts his hands on Ruby's waist. "Wanted to take command?"
Ruby's face stays flushed like it has been. But her smile becomes that of someone gaining confidence. "I have gotten a little used to the role of leader"
Alabast firmly grips her waist. "Then you're probably one of the few people I don't mind bossing me around, Little Red"
"That's Ms. Rose to you" Ruby teases and then kisses him.
"Ms. Rose…. Now that sounds unnatural" Alabast jokes.
Ruby lays down on Alabast's chest, her head just under his and her ear pressed just next to his tie. She grabs the tie in her left hand and takes it out from his uniform and rolls it between her finger tips. "Yeah, I like being called Ruby or leader. Ms. Rose sounds way too formal"
Alabast can feel Ruby's hips. Ruby's skirt provides only one layer between his hands and her hips. They're thin and he feels like they're just asking to be held. Then he remembers something…. "Hey Ruby"
"What is it Alabast?" She asks and closes her eyes and listens to his rhythmic heartbeat.
Alabast glides his fingers up along her body. From her hips to the side of her abdomen. He punches her uniform and pulls it up slightly and untucks her shirt. He can feel her flinch as he does this. "Don't worry. I'm just getting some payback. I do remember you feeling up my abs before. And I want to return the favor"
"Mmmh!" Ruby moans slightly as Alabast's fingers go under her shirt and move along her sides. She's very ticklish and it's taking everything not to start squirming.
Alabast moves his hands up. He can't really feel her stomach. But he feels her smooth and warm skin as he feels her sides and back. "It's kinda hard to get to your stomach, can you get up a little?"
"Y-yeah" Ruby sits up. But she keeps a hold on his tie. "But I'm not gonna just let you have fun" She mischievously says.
And before Alabast can say anything in response she pulls on the tie and seals his lips. Ruby also puts her elbow on the ground and moves her right hand to Alabast's head and rubs his ear.
Alabast's eyes slightly widen before he closes them. He feels Ruby's tongue enter his mouth. He's surprised that Ruby has gotten this much better at kissing already. Granted they did just spend 11 minutes making out.
To not be out done Alabast moves his left hand to Ruby's stomach. It's smooth and flat. He can feel the muscles just beneath the skin. Ruby is strong, but her body doesn't give that impression when you look at it. She looks like a normal girl. But she's anything but normal to Alabast. His right hand moves back down along her figure to her hip and tightly holds it.
*Kchk*
The door to the room suddenly unlocks.
Before Ruby can even begin freaking out both herself and Alabast fall into the shadow beneath Alabast.
The next thing Ruby sees is the campus of Beacon and the big tower.
Ruby breaks the kiss and sits up.
Alabast looks up at the blue sky. "Whew, that was a close one"
"Are we.." Ruby looks around and it looks like they're on a roof.
"We're at another good spot on campus" Alabast sits up and Ruby slides down into his lap.
"Paahhhhh" Ruby releases a breath she was holding. She let go of Alabast's tie and ear once he sat up. Ruby puts her hands on her chest. "I think my heart stopped. Do you know who unlocked the door?"
Alabast closes his eyes. He looks into the room from a corner. The room is still dark so he is able to see thanks to his Faunus night-vision.
In the room is a man holding his cane and a coffee mug. He flicks the light on with his cane and looks at the knocked over desk. With his foot he effortlessly flicks it back to its upright position. The man then looks into the dark corner like he can see Alabast and takes a sip, he looks around the room one last time and shuts the lights off as he exits.
Alabast opens his eyes and looks at Ruby. His left hand still under her shirt. "It was Ozpin. He just went in and fixed the desk we knocked over. It seems somebody heard our little crash"
Ruby puts her hands on her head and worriedly looks at Alabast. "Do you think he saw us?!"
Alabast takes his hand from under her shirt and puts it on her hands on her head. "I covered the room in Darkness. Even if there were cameras I covered them"
Ruby looks at Alabast chest. "That would have been so awkward if you didn't get us out of there"
Alabast shrugs. "Yeah. But I feel like it's a good thing we stopped where we did"
Ruby looks up at him with big puppy-dog eyes. "We're stopping?"
Alabast falls onto his back. "We don't have to."
She turns around and lays her back on Alabast's chest. She opens her arms out wide and lets them fall to the ground. "No, it's alright. I kinda just want to spend some time alone with you"
"We can lay here for as long as you want" Alabast holds his arms out like Ruby. His chest slowly rising and falling with Ruby on it.
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In team RWBY's room that weekend
*knock* *knock* *knock*
Ruby dashed towards the door with rose petals falling to the floor behind her.
Weiss stomps her foot. "I JUST cleaned up the others petals!"
Yang and Blake chuckle to themselves.
Ruby opens the door and sees Alabast and Pyrrha in the hallway.
Alabast is wearing ripped jeans and a black hoodie. Pyrrha is wearing tights, a red skirt, a white shirt, and a brown jacket. Her red hair in her usual ponytail.
"Come in! Come in! Come in!" Ruby ushers them inside and closes the door behind the pair. She then bursts into petals and goes to her bed held in the air by rope from the ceiling.
Weiss sees more petals fall to the ground. "Oh for-….. Whatever" She goes and sits under her bunk.
"Long morning?" Alabast asks.
He looks at the others' clothes. They aren't wearing their usual outfits.
Ruby is wearing a long sleeved shirt. On top of the shirt is a black pinafore. A red skirt. She also has her usual cloak, tights, and boots.
Yang's outfit consists of a deep-collared cream vest worn over a low cut black shirt; both are covered by a dark gray shrug with a raised collar. Three-quarter sleeves adorned with a single black stripe down the outside of each sleeve, and gold cuffs. A black mini skirt is worn under the cream vest.A pair of crooked black belts with gold accents are slung around her hip, with a purple piece of fabric attached to the left-rear section of the lower belt. She wears thigh high stockings attached to her miniskirt by garter-belts on the front and back of each thigh, decorated with four golden studs above her knee.
Blake's outfit consists of a white, v-neck, zip-up crop shirt with a black hem and three-quarter sleeves. Black pants that have a vertical gray stripe on the outer side of each leg and a black belt. Black high-heel boots. And her bow that sits upon her head that hides her cat ears.
Weiss is wearing a white, double-breasted pea coat with black piping, cuffs, and buttons over a white, pleated full skirt with black lace trim. She also wears a pair of white, thigh-high boots with black heels and lace-topped black stockings.
"We've been a little…. restless" Blake admits as she moves some of her hair behind her ear.
Yang throws her left arm around Blake'a neck and points at her. "Yeah, and you've been the most restless. I thought cats like to sleep and be lazy?"
Blake narrows her eyes at Yang but doesn't respond.
Alabast looks at the girls and then at his jeans and hoodie. "If I knew we were dressing up I'd have put some more thought into my outfit"
Pyrrha grabs the sleeve of Alabast's hoodie and slightly moves it side to side. "You look good~, don't worry about it"
Alabast rolls his eyes. "Easy for you girls to say. You all look pretty in almost anything you wear"
"Aww~" Pyrrha wraps her arms around Alabast's arm.
Yang smirks "Don't worry. You look pretty too"
Alabast hangs his head. "You know that's not what I meant"
"Alright, we're all beautiful!" Ruby says and grabs everyone's attention. "Guys, today's the day! The investigation begins!" She shouts and leaps off her bed with her arms raised in excitement. As she lands on the ground she barely misses Weiss with her landing.
Weiss has to quickly move back on her bed to not have Ruby land on her legs. "I'm glad to see we're taking this so~ seriously". She sarcastically says.
Yang lets Blake go and walks towards the window. She turns to face Weiss and puts her left hand on her hip. "Hey, we've got a plan! That's..." She looks around the rooms ceiling. "…..moderately serious"
"Right!" Ruby looks around at her teammates and friends. "Everyone remember their roles?"
Pyrrha let's Alabast go and Weiss stands up from the bed.
Weiss moves next to Alabast and looks at Ruby. "You and I will head to the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies" She places her right hand over her chest. "Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem"
Blake holds her hands behind her back. "The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If I can get in, I can hopefully find out what they're planning"
Yang crosses her arms over her chest and a leans to her left side and looks at Blake. "I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows 'everything' going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be TOO hard..."
Everyone looks at Alabast.
"Ren and Nora are already down in Vale. Nora dragged Ren out of bed and straight out the doors. They can be contacted if we need them and they will contact us if they find something" Alabast puts his hands on his hips. "Pyrrha is going with Yang. And I…." He looks at the upper corner of the room. "...am not going with Blake because they would recognize me easily" He looks at the others. "So what AM I doing?"
"You can join me an Pyrrha" Yang suggests. "You might remember who my contact is when we get there"
"Orrrrr~" Ruby balls her fists and holds them to her chest and bounces up and down on her feet. "You can join me and Weiss! We can go and check out the communications tower out together!"
Alabast taps his foot on the ground. I don't like leaving Blake alone but I can't help it in this case. He looks at Ruby. "I'll join you and Weiss for this one" Alabast turns to Yang. "You'll have to tell me how it goes and who your contact is after"
"Booo~!" Yang gives a thumbs down. "You're gonna be missing the party"
Pyrrha walks over to Yang. And they high-five eachother.
Alabast shrugs.
"Great! We'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found" Ruby pumps her fist. "Let's do this!"
"Yeah!"
Everyone looks towards the window and sees Sun hanging upside down from his tail.
Blake, Yang, Pyrrha, Ruby, and Weiss all jump back further into the room. Alabast was already far enough away.
"Sun!" Blake shouts alarmed.
Yang points at his tail. "How did you get up there?"
Sun sits with his legs crossed like he's sitting on the ground. "Ah, it's easy; I do it all the time"
Weiss angrily looks at Sun. "You do WHAT?!"
"I climb trees all the time!" He says nonchalantly.
Alabast retreats the rope of Darkness he had ready to strangle the monkey Faunus.
Weiss narrows her eyes at Sun. Not sure if she should buy his excuse.
"So" Sun swings himself into the room and lands on his feet. "are we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?"
Blake steps forward. "WE~ are going to investigate the situation... as a 'team'~" She motions at the others in the room.
Sun points at Alabast and Pyrrha. "But they aren't on your team"
Ruby steps forward now. "They're our twin team, it's different. Sorry, Sun. We don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to"
"Psh! That's dumb!" Sun smiles. "We should always get friends involved! That's why I brought Neptune!" He gestures over his shoulder with his thumb.
Everyone pokes their head out the window. Ruby is at the bottom followed by Weiss, Blake, Yang, Pyrrha, and Alabast.
"Sup?" Neptune greets them.
Ruby tilts her head. "How…. did you even…. get up here?"
Neptune smirks. "I have my ways"
There is a very thin and small ledge that goes around the building. Neptune has his heels on the ledge, his back to the building, and his arms out trying to hold onto the building behind him.
Neptune looks down. "Seriously, though, can I come in? We're like, 'really' high up right now" He asks nervously.
Neptune gets inside the room and Ruby rehashes the plan.
"Alright. Me and Alabast are going with Weiss. Sun, you can go with Blake since she doesn't have a partner. And Neptune can join Pyrrha and Yang! Everyone good?"
Sun walks over and stands next to Blake and gives her a smile and thumbs up. Blake just rolls her eyes and shakes her head with a small smile.
Neptune doesn't move as he looks at Alabast in fear. He saw the black rope that came from the shadows towads Sun. He had left it alone since he was scared about falling, but now that he has something to firmly stand on he remembers the rope and the incident in the library.
"Cmon Neptune" Ruby pushes Neptune towards Yang and Pyrrha. She then goes back to her original spot. "Now is everyone good?"
Everyone nods.
"Alright! Then let's get going!" Ruby grabs the back of Weiss' collar and drags her out of the room.
"Wha-? Why me?" Weiss complains as she gets dragged away.
Alabast grabs Sun by the collar of his shirt. "Protect her. You hear me?"
Sun holds his hands up. "Chill out bro. I was gonna do that without you asking"
Alabast let's go of Suns shirt. "Just making sure. You be careful too. Take this seriously"
"Serious?" Sun smirks and pops his collar. "I always am serious"
Alabast turns around towards the door. "See you girls later. Stay safe"
Yang waves to Alabast. "Safe is my middle name" She leans in towards Pyrrha. "We are definitely not going to stay safe. It's gonna be a blast of a time"
Pyrrha holds her hands behind her back. "I think you meant 'Bast' of a time?"
Yang puts her around Pyrrha and grabs the back of Neptune's collar before she walks out. "We're gonna have a GREAT time together. I can feel it!"
Neptune stays rigid as he gets pulled out of the room. He waves helplessly at Sun as he disappears around the door.
Sun turns towards Blake. "So… White Fang again?"
Blake begins walking out the door with Sun following her. "White Fang…..again"