Kapitel 80: The Hunter of Beacon
"Where'd you two go?" Yang asked, eyes squinted in suspicion as both she and Ruby scanned Pyrrha and Arthur, noticing the slight redness to her eyes as if she'd been crying. She also noticed that Arthur seemed to be a lot calmer than he had been earlier in the day, having seemingly dealt with whatever was bothering him. "You two just disappeared, didn't even answer your Scrolls" She said, as both Pyrrha and Arthur took the only remaining seats next to Nora and Ren.
"Yeah! You should have seen ms. Goodwitch! It was so weird, it's like she didn't even realize you were gone! How'd you do it? Did you brainwash her and make her forget about you!? Teach meeee" Nora said bouncing on her seat, eyes sparkling as she stared into a Pyrrha's surprised eyes as she pleaded Pyrrha to teach herm her ways of brainwashing.
"Nora… just eat your food…" Ren muttered, tired after hours of dealing with Nora's constant babbling of aliens, brainwashing and pancakes, "Please…" he begged.
"Food!?" Nora yelped like a dog that had learnt how to speak as she began to inhale everything on her plate, then looking to Ren, who had frozen when he felt her gaze on him, doing his best to ignore her, but every time he looked between her and his food she seemed to just get closer, without making a single sound.
"You okay Pyrrha?" Ruby questioned, "Your eyes are all red, you look like you've been crying" she pointed out, looking between her and Arthur, suspicion evident in her gaze as Arthur and Pyrrha had been alone for quite a while, and Pyrrha happens to come back like that.
"Oh, I'm perfectly fine, just got a little emotional, while me and Arthur were chatting" she explained, a light smile on her face.
"Riiiggghhhttt" Nora said, rolling her eyes, her words muffled as she spoke with her mouth full, "Girl, You look like you confessed to him, he rejected you and you just decided to 'stay friends'" she said, quickly losing interest in the conversation and returned to inhaling Ren's food.
The table went silent for a moment apart from Arthur who began to quickly pound on his chest, having started choking on food from what Nora said, while everyone else looked to Pyrrha who was staring wide eyed at Nora, who soon noticed this and locked her eyes with Pyrrha's for a second before looking to the food in front of her and back to Pyrrha, her arms slowly wrapping around it while she gave a look of 'Mine' to Pyrrha.
After a few seconds of silence Pyrrha began to giggle and wave her hand to dismiss the thought "No, no, nothing like that" she said, while Arthur felt a buzz coming from his pocket where his scroll, "We were simply talking about our homes, and I got a little emotional telling him a story from a few years ago" she explained, her eyes catching sight of Jaune carrying numerous trays in his hands and one atop his head, while following Cardin around, the sight bringing a frown to her face as she quickly turned back to the others at her table.
Pyrrha's words brought a breath of relief to Ruby, but this was quickly snuffed out as Nora decided to ignore what Pyrrha had just said, "Riigghhtt" Nora replied, sound incredibly unconvinced, using her fork as an baton to indicate, "No need to hide it, Arthur's a good boy, he'll take care of it, after all he's got the NORA STAMP OF APPROVAL!" she shouted as Arthur quickly felt his head be thrown backwards as Nora not so gently get him in the forehead with a bright pink 'Approved' stamp.
Once again the table turned silent as everyone was unsure of how to process Nora's seemingly lack of human normalcy, having instead opted for the Nora form of normalcy which in essence was unnormalcy, and lots of sugar.
After Nora's not so gentle stamping of him Arthur remained still, his mind to preoccupied with the message he'd been sent on his Scroll, that being a strangely, bird's eye view of Arthur resting atop Pyrrha's lap, under a tree while she gently stroked his head. The message of course having been sent by a certain drunken crow, the picture also came with a message, 'I wonder how Ruby and Yang'd feel about this?' the message of course trying it's best to intimidate Arthur. Yet, after a moment Arthur couldn't help but chuckle at the image of a crow holding a Scroll in one of its claws while using the other to press a button to take a picture.
The others at the table were left dumbstruck at Nora's usual insanity, which somehow still left them all speechless, Ren was left groaning, exasperated at his partners bubbly, unpredictable nature. Pyrrha, turned slightly rosy, but not to the point of being obvious, her disciplined, calm nature still shining through.
Then Ruby and Yang, who were constantly whispering between each other, only stopping when they both felt a vibration coming from their Scrolls, and the last two of Blake and Weiss, Blake, was quiet, still writing into her scroll, often stopping to scratch her head and cast her eyes to Arthur for a moment before returning to writing. And lastly Weiss, who was doing her best to ignore everything going on and just continued to calmly eat her meal.
"Nora…" Arthur said as he began to try and wipe his head clean of the shinning glittery stamp on his head with a napkin, "Never do that again" he requested, licking his thumb he began to rub and clean off the ink, "It coming off?" he said turning towards Pyrrha who was seated next to him, his hand holding his hair up.
"Yes, here" Pyrrha said, chuckling as she too licked her thumb and began to rub off a spot Arthur had missed, "You missed a spot, there, all gone".
"Thanks" he responded going over his forehead one last time with his napkin, his gaze falling to Ruby and Yang who were looking between their Scrolls, Arthur, Pyrrha and each other. Realizing what had just happened Arthur stop them, "Ruby, Yang, before you start overthinking, the story before that happened, is that I passed out from aura exhaustion, Pyrrha ended up caring for me until I woke up" he explained, only getting silent, judgemental stares from the two, and particularly envious ones from Yang, who commented, "I'm getting really tired of sitting out, you do know that right?", causing Arthur to let out an awkward laugh.
Ruby was the first to realize, "Wait… how did you know what we were looking at… and why did you pass out again?" she questioned, confusion on her face, which quickly spread to Yang who also added, "Yeah, what she said".
"I got the same picture and a not so threatening message along with it" he said, chuckling as he passed his Scroll to Ruby, who quickly opened it, seeing the same picture she had gotten along with a message, only difference being on Arthur's Scroll it was from an unknown number.
"Why would uncle Qrow send this to you… and us for that, how'd he even get it?" she muttered scratching her head in confusion, "How do you even know him?"
Just as Arthur was about to answer he felt an impending sense as if something was quickly coming towards him, turning his head up Arthur saw a rapidly approaching red apple hurtling towards his face. Yet, luckily he had sensed it quick enough that he raised his hand, and quickly caught it before it hit him. Looking at the apple, Arthur then turned to the ceiling seeing a crow glaring down at him.
Smirking, Arthur gave the crow a wink and took a bite from the apple and said aloud, "Thanks for the apple, bird brain!" and turned back to Ruby and Yang who were scanning the roof for where the apple could have come from.
"Where did… why is there a bird in the dining hall?" Yang said, her eyes locking on the crow, her head tilting in confusion, "That can't be hygienic…"
"It's fine ignore it, it's been following me for a while now" Arthur said, taking another bite from his 'gifted' apple.
"Can I pet it!?" Nora nearly screamed, staring up at it like a girl seeing a cute puppy. The crow physically shivering at her gaze.
"What? N- actually, yes, yes you can, you just have to catch it first" Arthur answered, an evil grin forming on his face, which got wider as he watched Nora disappear into smoke, appearing halfway up one of the dining hall walls, two ice picks in her hands and climbing goggles on her head, 'How does she do that?' Arthur rapidly blinked, not comprehending the magic that was Nora high on sugar and seeing something she wants to touch.
"Nora!" Ren shouted and quickly chased after her, constantly following her as she climbed the dining room like a professional mountain climber. "Get down from there!" he called, getting a reply from Nora of, "NO! me want touch birdy!" her climbing picks now changing to claw as she began to skill fully jam them into the roof, swinging from point to point. Ren let out a tired groan, muttering, "You know what… I'm going to bed…" while exiting the hall, having given up on Nora's escapade.
"You still haven't told us why you got a message from our uncle" Yang pointed out.
"Oh, that, I actually have no idea, I never gave him my number, I'm not really that into befriending drunken old men halfway to kidney failure, Summer introduced him to me" he quickly answered
"And the passing out?" Ruby furthered.
"Oh, I was experimenting, trying to figure a few things out and I ended up going a little too far with how much aura I used, I'm fine by the way"
"We know, you always are" Both Ruby and Yang simultaneously said, moments later a bright pink and orange blur crashed next to their table, this being Nora, having finally fallen from the ceiling, "I'll get you one day birdy" Nora muttered and eerie cackle coming from her as she stared up at the crow which she felt was giving her a 'bring it' smile, "Ohh… you're gonna get it birdy"
"I'm… just going to ignore that" Arthur muttered, his eyes following as Nora began to prowl around the hall, frantically muttering things involving explosions, tanks, elephant guns as well as her general musings of 'what would a crow taste like?'.
"Probably for the best…" Ruby replied, a strange smile on her face as Nora ploughed through a table where people were eating, throwing their food into the air as she picked it up and threw it at the bird.
"Are we sure her semblance is electricity absorption? Cause honestly at this point I'm convinced it's some weird amalgamation of whatever she needs, whenever she needs…" Arthur mused, slightly intimidated as he began to imagine Nora's eyes releasing blue lightning, moments later a loud crack of thunder resounded throughout the hall, causing everyone to flinch and nearly dive under their tables. Apart from Nora, who was standing proudly atop a pile of tables and chairs, hair standing on end, in her hand a large iron spherical headed morning star pulsating with visible blue lightning, a weapon perfect for hunting the beasts that haunt dreams.
"The fuck she get that!?" Arthur screamed, "You know what, I don't want to know, Ruby, Yang, you want to talk I'll be in my room, I feel like the roofs gonna fall any time now, and knowing my luck, on me" he said, throwing his hands up and standing from the table, "If not, I'll see you all tomorrow, good night" he said, soon getting ones from everyone else.
Before leaving Arthur turned around to Pyrrha, "Oh, Pyrrha, does Saturday evening sound good?" he asked, immediately alerting both Yang, Ruby and Blake… who's bow twitched, her hands stopping her writing for a moment before returning. And Weiss, who was still doing her best to ignore the constant loud crashes and crackling of electricity coming from Nora, who sent a stray bolt her way, the bolt crashing into her tea cup, destroying it and causing her to blankly stare at the cup the had been just centimetres from her lips, "You know what, I'll walk back with you" she said standing, doing her best to hide the sound of her teeth grinding together in annoyance.
"Oh, yes, I don't think I have anything planned then, shall I meet you at your room then around six good?" Pyrrha calmly replied, now immediately perking Ruby and Yang up, as they listened.
"That's fine with me, I'll tell you if anything comes up on my end, so I should be free, till then, have a good night" He said saying his good byes to The last four at the table, and began to walk along with Weiss back to their dorms.
Pyrrha turned back to the remaining team members of RWBY, a worried expression on her face as she felt Ruby and Yang's piercing gaze on her, "C-can I help you two?" she asked as a chunk of roof fell onto the seat Arthur had just been sitting on.
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Alternate Chapter names: [Discovery of gravity] [I dream, you dream, we all dream for, KILL THE BIRD!] [Sparkly Nora] [Touchy Birdy] [101 ways to climb a canteen for dummies]
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