"Can someone remind me again why we're walking out here?" Jaune asks.
Neptune, Sun, Ren, Jaune, Mercury, and Alabast are walking through campus.
"Because we're doing guys night!" Sun starts walking backwards at the front of the group. "No girls, just us guys!"
"Okayyyyyy…. And why exactly are we doing this?" Jaune looks at the others.
Mercury has his hands in his pockets. "Yeah, and why am I tagging along?"
Neptune has his arms behind his head as he walks. "Because we have all been friends, or acquaintances, for a few weeks and us guys haven't had a chance to hang out with just us. And why couldn't Cole and Dazz join us Jaune?"
"They will, they'll just be a bit late" Jaune scratches his head. "They didn't really say why, they had something to do I guess"
Ren closes his eyes. "I am glad to get away from Nora for a little bit. She's been extra….. Nora… today"
Alabast puts his hand on Rens shoulder and nods. They have another two weeks until the dance and they were just told that they will be doing a mission. Each team will follow a professional Huntsman or Huntress on a mission. The teachers are calling it a field trip since most will leave the students outside of Beacon for a little while, about a week, depending on what mission they choose. Basically Nora is excited about the field trip and is waiting for Ren to ask her to the dance.
Alabast has already asked Ruby, Blake, Yang, and Weiss to the dance. They all said yes, although Blake showed some hesitation in her answer.
Mercury closes his eyes. "And what will we be doing? We are just walking in circles right now"
"I know we haven't decided what to do" Sun puts his hands on his hips.
"No. I literally mean we've been walking in circles" Mercury motions with his arms around them. "Literal circles"
"Oh" Sun smiles widely. "So what do we plan on doing?" He ignores his blunder and asks.
"Dude" Neptune points at Sun. "You've been wanting to hang out with everyone for days. You've even made a list of things to do. Just open your damn notebook"
Sun pats his shirt only to move to his front pockets and then his back pockets. He finds his scroll and pulls it out. "Oh yeah. Forgot about that"
Mercury places his right hand on his forehead. "Am I surrounded by idiots?"
"I've also got a list!" Jaune pulls out a notebook. "What do you have in yours Sun?"
"Let's see here" Sun swipes through some images until he gets to his list. "Ah, here we go. I've got watching sports, freeze tag, snacks, hanging out, talking, truth or dare, tag, board games, hide and seek, wrestling, movie night, food, tree climbing, NOT talking about girls,…." Sun looks up at Ren and Alabast. "…, go dancing, cards against Humans and Faunus if we get closer, playing sports, and a few others" Sun looks up from his scroll towards Jaune. "What do you have?"
Jaune puffs his chest out and dangles his notebook. "I've got go-carting, gardening, collect insects, golfing, toss a frisbee around, go fish, hiking, visit an animal shelter, and if we're feeling spicy we can just laze about. I've also got some more but they feel a little childish to say now and out loud"
Mercury throws his right arm around the back of Jaune's neck. "Cmon 'dude'. What's more childish than a few things that have already been said. Sun said tag and you said go fish and bug collecting. What has you so embarrassed on the list?" He tries to sneak a peak but Jaune closes the notepad and crams it in his front pocket of his jeans, somewhere Mercury isn't really willing to go to try and steal it at this moment.
"Hey! Tag is a timeless activity! Your age doesn't matter and only those able to keep up or come up with a cunning plan can survive in the ruthless game of tag! And that's not talking about the teamwork needed for freeze tag and other variations! You don't know the thrill of barely getting away from the person who is it and watching that person struggle to climb up to get you!" Sun points his finger at Mercury.
Neptune pats Sun's shoulder. "You tend to make your own rules and cheat"
"It's tag! Haven't any of you heard the rule of tag?" Sun looks at the other guys. "Cmon! 'All is fair in love, war, and tag!' None of you have heard that before?!"
"Why do I even try?" Neptune face palms and hangs his head.
"What about a…." Mercury lets go of Jaune. "….horror movie~"
Jaune's eyes widen slightly and holds up a shaky finger. "D-does it… have…. to be horror? Why not a love story or something?"
"Love story?" Mercury sarcastically repeats. "You could have at least settled for an action movie"
Jaune slouches his shoulders. "That's part of 'or something'"
Neptune steps in. "We don't have to do a movie" He swipes his left hand through his blue hair and looks at Ren and Alabast. "You two are being quiet, what do you whine we should do?"
"I am fine with mostly anything" Ren simply responds.
Mercury smirks. "I'm sure Nora takes advantage of that a lot" He says in a suggestive tone.
Ren closes his eyes, not getting Mercury's tone. "Nora is the reason my answer is my answer"
Mercury nods and looks satisfied with himself.
Everybody chooses to ignore that and moves on.
"I am fine with whatever" Alabast says in an uncaring tone. He's just glad he doesn't have to go get a suit yet. He plans on procrastinating that for a bit, it's gonna be a pain to get one. But not impossible.
'These two make it so easy' Mercury thinks to himself as he looks at Alabast. "I'm sure that's why you are dating five women at once-"
*FWOoosh!* *Slam!*
Mercury was standing and looking at Alabast from about 15 feet away. But now he is on his back and looking into Alabast's eye that isn't covered by his hair.
As soon as Alabast heard Mercury he was done with his attitude. Alabast held back when Mercury talked about Nora and Ren since Ren either didn't care or didn't get the not funny joke.
Alabast lashed out with his left hand and his Darkness acted as an extension for his arm as he grabbed Mercury's face in an instant and drove him down into the pavement.
The next second and Alabast was crouched over Mercury and looking down at the technically legless man.
Mercury hadn't expected this, maybe a bit of push back for his statement. Or maybe a little bit of altercation, but not to be completely dominated in a second. Sure he wasn't expecting full blown combat, but it wasn't an excuse to get out on his back. Mercury plans to never let this happen again, but right now Alabast is holding a candle to his official boss' scary factor.
Alabast's hand is covered in his Darkness and he glares into Mercury's eyes. "I don't know if you were trying to be funny or not but I don't care. I'm going to forget what you just said and recommend you never say that or anything like that again. And while you're at it, leave Ren and Nora's relationship alone. Do I make myself clear?"
Mercury is decently calm in this situation. And his mind is more stuck on the fact this guy almost lost to 'Seraphina' when they fought. But his speed just now was much faster than before. Much faster than when he almost caught Seraphina off guard that time when he got really serious or whatever. 'Guess this is worth the slight humiliation. I just 'love' studying'
"It was just a joke man. I didn't mean anything by it" Mercury taps Alabast's arm that is holds in face and is surprised how it feels. It's weird to say the least, the Darkness around it makes it feel harder than steel but still kinda like skin and flesh.
"Nobody is laughing" Alabast presses Mercurys head further into the pavement.
"Y-Yeah. I get that now" Mercury flinches from the pressure applied to his skull. Aura is definitely keeping his skull intact. "Listen, w-why don't we restart and I won't bring up your girls. How does that sound?"
"Sounds like you're smarter than I gave you credit for" Alabast says. As he stands up he takes his hand off Mercury's face and grabs his shoulder and stands him up. Then he lets Mercury go and walks back over to Alabast.
Mercury dusts himself off. "Thanks for helping me up" He mumbles, clearly unhappy.
Sun and Neptune look at each other, unsure of how to move past what just happened.
Jaune awkwardly stands next to Mercury. On second the guy next to him was joking around and the next the guy was planted into the pavement. And the jokes weren't funny at all. Jaune would rather listen to Yang's puns that don't make the cut than to listen to Mercury's jokes. "So Uhm…. Oh hey!" He waves his arm over his head at two guys. "Cole! Dazz! Over here!"
The two guys see Jaune and begin walking over.
Jaune walks a few steps towards them and greets them. "Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't we all introduce ourselves? Like full name, team, and an interesting fact!"
Mercury puts his hands back in his pockets. "What like we're in preschoo-"
"That sounds great!" Sun jumps in. "I'll go first!"
Sun points his right thumb at his chest and his left hand on his hip. He stands tall with his chest puffed out and his blond monkey tail flicking around behind him. "The name is Sun Wukong! Leader of team SSSN, pronounced sun, from Haven Academy. But I myself am from Vacuo. And I'm a monkey Faunus!" He waves his tail at the two newcomers.
Neptune elbows Sun. "Laying it on a little thick there" He gives his charismatic smile to Cole and Dazz. "Sorry about my oversharing leader. I'm Neptune Vasilias, a member of team SSSN. And an interesting fact would be that I'm pretty cool" He grins and his teeth sparkle. Neptune also sends a wink at the new arrivals.
Cole's eyes widen slightly and a blush briefly goes across his face. He then begins talking in a quiet and seemingly shy tone. "H-Hello. My name is Cole Onyx, but you can call me Nyx. I'm a member of team JBOA, Jerboa. An interesting fact would be that even if I look young I'm actually already 18"
Cole is 4 foot 11. He has very pale skin, almost as pale as Ruby. His eyes are a light pink color that he paints his nails to mimic. He has black hair that is a little long and left a little messy, it ends midway down the back of his neck while his bangs go between his eyes and stop just above where his nose starts. Cole also has one silver earring on each ear. He wears a black school uniform that reminds Alabast of the Japanese school uniforms he would see in anime with the white buttoned dress shirt underneath a black jacket and tucked into black pants. The thing that sticks out the most about him is his pretty face and how young he looks. A 'legal shota' so to speak.
"Nice to meet you!" Sun loudly greets the small boy and puts his arm around Sun.
Neptune lightly slaps Suns hand off. "Glad you can make it Nyx"
Cole's pink eyes sparkle as he looks up at Neptune. "Glad we could make it"
"Ahem!" Dazz coughs into the back of his hand. "Hey everyone, I'm Dazz Biscotti. I'm also a member of team JBOA, Jerboa. And before you ask, yes. Biscotti does sound like some royal family, and that's because I actually am from a small royal family. But I'd rather not talk about my family situation"
Dazz is 5 foot 10. He has brown hair and gray eyes. There is a scar a few inches below his left eye on his cheek. He wears a white tshirt beneath a blue jacket that has the shoulders and hood a dark gray color. He also wears black jeans. For accessories he has a necklace with a blue gem and he wears a glove on his right hand that goes halfway up his forearm. There also his a holster looking thing across his chest that goes diagonally from his right hip up to his left shoulder.
"Hey, no worries!" Sun walks up to him and shakes his hand enthusiastically. "We don't really talk about families anyway, and you'd be the first royal person I've met….." Sun lets Dazz's hand go and taps his chin. "Unless we include Weiss Schnee. But she's more rich than royalty? Ah whatever! Next person to introduce themselves is~" He begins pointing between Ren, Alabast, and Mercury as he tries to decide who is gonna go next.
"If we're actually doing this…." Mercury mumbles to himself before closing his eyes and smiling at the two new guys. "I'm Mercury Black. I'm part of team CMES, pronounced….." He waves his right hand through the air. "….Chimes~" He then puts his hand back in his pocket. "And a fun fact. Hmmmm~. I guess it would be that I'm one of a few fighters on Remnant that primarily fight with their legs"
Nyx looks at Mercury. "You do know that we are also in the same combat class as you, right?"
Mercury looks down at the small guy. "You are? Guess I didn't see you"
Dazz raises an eyebrow. "That was almost funny"
Mercury shrugs. "Wasn't meant to be"
Sun speaks up. "Ok! Next we have Ren" He points with both his hands and leans back slightly.
Ren closes his eyes. "I am Lie Ren. Member of team ANVL, anvil. And a fun fact….." He thinks for a little bit.
"Is that pink in your hair natural?" Nyx asks with envy in his eyes.
Ren opens his eyes and looks at Nyx. "It is natural"
"That's cool" Nyx grabs some of his messy hair. "I wish I had some pink in my hair. It's just black and always a hassle to keep tame" He looks at Alabast's hair that looks spiky and messy.
Alabast narrows his eyes. "This IS my hair being tame"
Nyx let's his hair go and reaches into his pocket and pulls out a strawberry milk. "Same" He rolls his eyes as he stabs the straw into the milk box.
"You're turn now Alabast" Sun says and points his monkey tail at Alabast's chest.
Alabast's tail slowly moves side to side behind him. "My name is Alabast Noir. I am the leader of team ANVL"
Dazz walks up next to Nyx and looks at Alabast. "Is that it? Nothing interesting or fun about you?"
Nyx studies Alabast's body from head to toe. "Clearly there are a few things interesting AND fun about him"
"My Faunus traits? I have a few extra, so what" Alabast folds his arms across his chest.
Nyx narrows his eyes. "Right. The Faunus traits"
Alabast tilts his head. "What is that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing". Nyx simply begins drinking the strawberry milk and continues gazing at Alabast's body.
Jaune moves between Nyx and Dazz. "Don't mind him Alabast" He then goes to Alabast's side and whispers into his ear. "He bats for the other team"
Alabast turns and looks at Jaune. "What is that supposed to mean? Are we going to be playing a sport now that everyone is here?"
"What?" Jaune drops his face into his palms. "No, that's not what I meant"
Nyx then looks at Ren's pale pink eyes. "So what are we going to do?"
Ren shrugs and looks to Sun.
Sun puts his hands on his hips. "How about we-"
"Wait!" Jaune holds his hands out, then he points at himself. "I haven't introduced myself yet~…" He complains.
"Oh, my bad" Sun motions for Jaune to continue.
Jaune points his thumb at his chest. "The names Jaune Arc. It's short, sweet, rolls right off the tongue, ladies love it" He looks around and sees that it still doesn't work. "Aherm. I'm leader of team JBOA, pronounced Jerboa. Apparently it's a color mixture of brown and orange. But when I looked it up I only found an adorable little rodent that I wish to one day have as a pet. And a fun fact about me is that I'm a fan of the classics"
"Classics of what?" Neptune asks.
Jaune's smile falters, but then it comes back. "Almost anything. Music, weapons, movies…. Y'know?"
Neptune shrugs. "Guess I do now"
"So, Sun, right?" Dazz asks the blond monkey Faunus.
"Yep, that's my name, don't wear it out ok?" Sun jokes.
"Noted" Dazz gives a thumbs up but then drops his hand to his side. "You were going to say what we planned on doing earlier. What is it?"
Cole looks at Suns bare chest and abs. "Whatever it is, I'm in" He continues sipping the strawberry milk.
Sun claps his hands. "Right! Now that everyone is here and acquainted with each other we can start something now"
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Jaune grins madly. "GO FISH!!!"
"Bloody hell" Mercury picks a card up from the stack of cards.
"Heh" Jaune chuckles to himself. "Now Alabast" He evilly turns to face the wolf Faunus. "Give me yourrrrr~... Queens!"
Alabast's ears fall and he looks at his cards in his hand. "Why must you be so cruel" He hands over two queens.
Jaune takes the cards into his hand. "Because I might finally have the chance to win now that I'm not playing against my 7 sisters" He places his 4 queens down on the table. "And that's ANOTHER 4 of a kind. Thanks Alabast"
Alabast closes his eyes and gives a mocking smile to Jaune. "You are SO very welcome, friend"
Jaune now has 4 of the 13 groups of cards.
"Since I just 'caught' a fish…." Jaune explains as he decides on what card he wants next. His turn continues for as long as he continues catching fish. "….. Ren"
Ren slowly turns his head towards Jaune. "You wouldn't…."
"Oh…." Jaune nods his head. "…. I definitely would" He points at Ren. "Give me your Jacks!"
Ren pulls a card from his hand. "Just take it you demon"
Jaune takes the card and places 4 jacks on the table. "It's all coming together" He then looks at Sun.
"No! You can't!" Sun holds his cards to his chest.
"Sun" Jaune holds his hand out already expecting to take some cards. "I can and I WILL! Give me your 6's!"
A gleams goes across Sun's eyes. "Hah!"
"No! Impossible!" Jaune takes his hand back.
"Impossible? No" Sun shakes his head. "Just improbable. Now go fish!"
Jaune takes a card from the extremely thin deck of cards. He has 5 of the 13 groups of cards.
Sun has 2
Mercury and Neptune have 1
And the others are just suffering through this torture.
"Finally it's my turn again" Dazz says exhausted. "I thought my brain was going to explode from remembering everybody's cards they need"
Dazz somehow finishes 3 groups of cards and finishes the game.
"Yes!" Jaune jumps to his feet. "I've finally managed to win a game! Take that Saphron!" He points at the roof of the gazebo they are in.
"Is that one of your sisters?" Neptune asks as he puts his hands behind his head.
Jaune sits back down and brings all the cards together and hands them to Dazz on his left. "Yeah, she's the oldest"
Neptune leans back and closes his eyes, but leaves his left eye slightly open. "Older huh?"
Mercury picks up on what Neptune is hinting at. He leans forward and puts his elbows on his thighs. "Is she… hot? I'm assuming she's a blond, care to confirm?"
"Dude!" Jaune gives a disgusted look to Mercury.
"Relax Jaune" Neptune gives a friendly smile. "We're just getting to know each other. And you have 7 sisters right?"
Jaune narrows his eyes at Neptune and Mercury. "Hmmmmm. Yeah, I've got 7. Why?"
"Just asking" Neptune shrugs. "And I think older women are kinda where it's at"
Sun hits Neptune hard on his back. "No you don't. You would flirt with any girl if you got the chance"
Neptune Troyes to rub his back as the stinging fades away. "Nuh-uh! I have certain criteria ok?! And I make sure every girl is within a certain age range. It's not my fault the max age is a bit high"
Mercury smirks. "Are we talkin like you wanna come home from a mission and be coddled? Or something a little more frisky?"
Neptune folds his arms across his chest. "No comment"
Nyx looks into the distance. "Older could be better. And being papered doesn't seem bad"
Dazz smacks his face. "Dude, you're just imagining their body"
"And so what if I am? I can't help it if muscles make my mouth water" Nyx states as he takes another strawberry milk from his pocket.
"Muscles? They're fine" Mercury waves his hand. "But it's if the girl has the right personality. I don't like being bossed around and humiliated, but if a certain type of women started bossing me around I don't think I could say no. Although, having the whip in your hands for a relationship is much better in my opinion"
Sun strokes his chin with his right hand. "You might be onto something"
Neptune shakes his head. "You certainly do like hearing yourself talk so I think we all know which side you are on"
"What?" Sun shakes his head now. "No. I'd say that my woman would have to know what she wants. She would also want to travel. I can't sit in one place for too long without getting restless. So if she bosses me around a bit I wouldn't mind as long as she doesn't cramp my style"
"I actually wouldn't mind being completely controlled"
Everyone turns to Jaune and just stare at him.
Jaune feels the gazes of everyone and realizes he said that out loud. "I meant that in the way that I like a woman taking charge! Knowing what she wants, how to get it, and being able to do it herself! No, that still doesn't sound right. I like it when a woman is kind but does and says what needs to be done! One that will help me out and not ridicule me for my short comings!"
"We get it Jaune" Sun smirks. "You don't need to worry, there is no kink shaming here. We're all friends-ish here. This is a safe place-"
Sun's eyes snap open and looks at Alabast. "Shoot! We weren't supposed to be talking about girls!"
Nyx closes his eyes and holds the strawberry milk with both hands. "I wasn't" He mutters so quietly to himself that not even Alabast could hear.
"Who cares" Alabast shrugs and tilts his head. "As long as nobody is purposefully rude or mocks someone it should be fine"
"Sweet" Sun smiles lazily. "So time for the real question of men"
The gazebo goes silent as everyone looks at eachother and Dazz sets the deck of cards to the side.
"Tits or ass?" Sun asks in a dead serious tone.
"Dude, at least have some tact" Neptune rolls his eyes.
"Fine" Sun rests his elbow on his thigh and leans his cheek on his fist.
"Big or small boobs?"
"Dude" Neptune exhaustedly glares at Sun. "Big all day man"
"Really?" Mercury doesn't how this is Neptunes answer. "I've gotta say that small is alright. But not completely flat you know. Just enough to know she has some but not so much that they bounce all over the place whenever they run or walk"
"Firm is best" Nyx comments quietly.
Alabast looks at Ren.
"At least we are all getting along" Ren says as he tries to not lose any more braincells.