RWBY: Rise of the King (Volume I-III)

V2 Chapter 4: The Dance

No One's Pov

A glum Ruby resting her head on her hand and staring into the distance before she is startled by someone slamming their palms on the table she is at.

Weiss was smiling. "I need you to pick a tablecloth."  Then she slides two squares over to Ruby, both seeming to be similar shades of white.

Ruby was confused. "Aren't they both the same?"

Weiss sighs in frustration. "I don't even know why I asked!"

Weiss walks out of the scene as Yang comes in carrying a massive sound speaker on her shoulder, which bounces her sister and the table she's moping on again to jump in the air when she drops it on the ground.

Yang brushes her hands as she approaches Ruby. "So, have you picked out a dress yet?" She asked her little sister.

"What's the point? Who cares about the dance if Blake and Kanji aren't going?" Ruby retorted.

"Oh, don't worry; she's going and so is Kanji . My little sister will have her dance with her crush . Yang said, which caused Ruby to. blush but Yang looks the other way exasperated. "Weiss! I thought we agreed: No doilies!"

Weiss walks up to Yang, pointing in her face. "If I don't get doilies, you don't get fog machines!"

The girls are interrupted by the sound of doors opening.

Neptune was walking in with Sun. "Your dance is gonna have fog machines?"

Weiss stepped up to him, becoming sweet. "We were thinking about it…"

"That's pretty cool." Neptune said.

Sun was acting suave to Weiss' ire. "You ladies all excited for dress-up?" He asked.

"Pfft... Yeah, right!" Ruby retorted.

"Laugh all you want. I'll be turning heads tomorrow night!" Yang remarked.

"What are you two wearing?" Weiss asked addressing Sun and Neptune

"Uuhhh... this?" Sun said gestures to his current shirtless outfit.

Neptune steps up and holds a hand in front of his friend's face. "Ignore him for he knows not what he says."

Sun knocks Neptune's hand away. "Hey, I may have moved to Mistral, but I grew up in Vacuo. It's not exactly a shirt-and-tie kind of place."

Yang was mirroring Ruby's and Weiss' looks of being told something extremely obvious. "Yeah, we noticed."

Sun then was rubbing the back of his head, preparing to ask: "Soooo... what does Blake think of all this? She still being all, y'know... Blake-y?"

"Obviously." Weiss answered turns and crossed her arms in disapproval. "And Kanji hadn't even shown his face after destroying that Mercury guy."

"I still can't think of a way to change her mind and get Kanji to come to the dance." Ruby said.

"Guys." Everyone looks at Yang  as she starts walking out. "Trust me; Blake and Kanji will be at the dance tomorrow."

The Faunus herself is sitting at one of the library tables with a holographic screen in front of her. She is obviously more sleep-deprived than ever, barely focusing on what she's seeing... until a small, bright red light appears on the screen. Moving up and down, Blake's eyes follow it down to her hand, then disappears entirely. She looks behind herself, obviously irritated, but no one walking among the tables is her culprit.

Turning back to the computer, she starts typing on the beeping keyboard before the laser dot appears on her hand briefly, prompting her to look around again and still find no one. The red point shows up on the screen, moving around in circles until Blake scowls and pounds her fists on the table. She stands up from her chair and finds the light on the floor, following it blindly through shelves of books until both the dot and its pursuer turn the corner, only for Blake to bump, shocked and shaken out of her more "animal" instincts, into...