Chương 1877: 108
"What do you mean we're taking over the dance preparations!?"
Coco rolled her eyes, adjusting her sunglasses as she gave Cinder a flat stare. "Honeybuns, we're leaving on an urgent backup mission for a solid three weeks . We're not gonna be back in time for the dance in a week and a half, let alone have time to plan for it. Look, you four are the only ones I trust to get it done, if only because I know Neo knows how to throw a formal party. Bunbun, you have our brainstorming planner already, right?"
"Mhmm!" Velvet nodded, holding up an overfilled binder full of paper and post-its sticking out of it at odd angles, the entire thing a riotous clash of vivid colors that honestly kinda hurt to look at. "We've already got most of it set and ready, you just need to put the finishing touches together by… about a week before? Make sure the entire thing goes steady, y'know?"
"... Uh huh…" Cinder deadpanned flatly, rubbing her temples as she gingerly took the binder from Velvet and started leafing through it. "So what am I looking for here? I swear to fuck Coco, your organization style changes literally every time you have a new project going on. What's done, what's not?"
"Everything marked in green is done and on schedule, everything in yellow is in progress with price negotiations and narrowing down options, and everything in red is stuff that's not been done. Don't go to the stuff marked in black, that's where all the banned and vetoed stuff is," Coco answered, cocking her hip as she pointed to the little colored sticky note tabs on the side of each page. "It's ordered by priority, so you just need to pick a couple options for the last minute aesthetics and then make sure the decorations don't suck ass. Tasteful, but fancy. Y'know how it goes."
"... unfortunately, I do," Cinder sighed, shuddering as she handed the binder to Emerald and tried very hard not to think about glass statues and split nails, a mild grimace on her face before she regained control over herself and turned back to Coco. "By the way… before you guys leave tomorrow. What's your opinion on Team CALC? I haven't talked to them and they've avoided all of us on Team CMNE after their initial introductions a while ago."
"CALC… Calcite… Oh right, the rich bitches that move like assassins. Yeah no I haven't really talked to them at all. Even in class they don't really interact with anyone unless they have to and outside of that they're suuuuuper private. Bunbun? Fox? Yatsu?" Coco turned, asking each of her teammates in turn and receiving two responses in the negative and one in the positive from Yatsuhashi of all people. ".... When did you meet someone on Team CALC, Yatsu?"
"Was walking back to class on the way from the bathroom. One of them… Laurel, I think… tried to flirt with me and nearly grabbed my crotch. I told her that I'm gay and taken," Yatsuhashi deadpanned, then winked at Mercury, who sent finger guns right back.
Cinder rolled her eyes. Ugh. Those two were so terribly gay with each other.
"... Right. Why do you ask, CinCin?" Coco asked, slowly turning away from Yatsuhashi's awful flirting and back to the other gayest bitch in the hallway (other than her, of course) with a raised eyebrow. "Something must be up if you're all freaked out about 'em."
"Who's freaked out? I just… it's a long story. A really long story. A really long, shitty story that I- I don't know. Maybe they're less shitty now. Maybe they're better, but…" Cinder crossed her arms and frowned, tapping her heel against the floor and chewing her lip as Neo and Emerald both silently held onto her shoulders for support. "Charlotte and Anastasia Unicorn. They're my… they were my stepsisters. Before-"
"You don't have to tell me, Cinder. I can already tell it's a bad story," Coco interrupted, holding up a hand and shaking her head as she looked around the empty hallway with a mild frown. "Okay look, this is a pretty bad place to tell the story, and not a great time. I know you have your reasons, but you shouldn't tell me just because you're worried that your shitty ex-family is going to try and do something to you."
"I- yeah. Okay. Sorry," Cinder sighed and ducked her head slightly, leaning into the touches from her girlfriends before uncrossing her arms and looking over the entirety of Team CFVY. "Thanks for… not judging."
"Hey, we've all had shit we had to go through. It's why we're here to make the world a better place," Coco shrugged and gave Cinder a lopsided grin.
"I'm just here because Mercury needs to get taken down a peg," Fox snorted, rolling his pale, milky eyes and raising a middle finger vaguely where his ADA told him that the silver haired bastard was. "Bastard. I'm going to set you on fire one day, just you wait."
"Oh bring it on fuckface, you haven't managed it once in two years of Beacon. You're gonna have to try harder than that to set me on- FUCKING SHIT HOLY GODS MOTHER OF FUCK!"
Whatever Mercury was about to say was quickly interrupted by Neo promptly setting him on fire with an aerosol can and a lighter that she'd retrieved from seemingly nowhere, the smug little gremlin blasting Mercury's ass with flames until he bodily threw himself out of the very much closed window to land in the conveniently located water feature located below.
Coco blinked. "... Wow, this conversation's got everything. Responsibility shirking, familial revenge plots, trauma, Fox's terrible taste in jokes, Mercury getting set on fire, casual destruction of school property…"
"And ice cream now, apparently," Cinder muttered as she found a cone of her favorite chocolate fudge ice cream in her hand, because Neo was… terrifying and was really good at hiding things on her body in a way that literally no one else could match, even after she'd shown Emerald and Mercury some of her tricks. "... Neo where did you even get this from?"
Neo just smirked, very pointedly avoiding any semblance of an answer in favor of walking up to Cinder and burying her face into the prominently heart shaped boob window that the eldest dragon sister had left there at Neo's request.
"... Right. Okay. Cool. Great." Cinder sighed, then rolled her eyes as she looked over at Coco. "We'll get the dance done. I promise we won't fuck with it… too much. You don't mind if we spike the punch, right?"
"Considering that we're having two bowls of spiked and non-spiked punch, please don't spike the clean punch bowl," Coco deadpanned, then shrugged with a light smirk. "But other than that, go ahead. By the way, I know why we're in our combat outfits cuz we're leaving really early tomorrow, but why're you guys dressed up all fancy?"
"Sparring class. Goodwitch told us to come in combat gear instead of wasting time changing out of our uniforms, so… y'know. Oh- right! Have you seen the list for the Tournament yet? That's up now," Cinder grinned, puffing out her chest (much to Neo's delight). "CMNE got in!"
"Hey, nice! We got in too! Bunch'a people from Beacon representing this year- lotta people from other schools too, including the smaller ones. CRDL qualified too, somehow. "
"Really? I thought they weren't like… at all good at fighting…" Cinder muttered, taking a few licks of her ice cream cone and silently wishing her Semblance wasn't superheating sometimes, because it meant that she had to eat ice cream really fast or else it'd just melt everywhere twice as fast as normal just from her passive body temperature.
"They're not, but they're just good enough to get into the tournament proper. Reeeeally long odds though, I checked some of the betting sites out on the 'Net, and they're so low in the rankings that unless they pull out something really big or really nasty, they're not gonna get anyone betting on them unless it's either as a joke or a desperate long shot," Coco snorted, then tilted her head as she tapped her chin. "Saw the baby teams got in too. RWBYP and JNPR. Think they'll let a five man actually fight this year?"
"Probably not, they never did before. Someone's gonna have to sit out, but no one on RWBYP is gonna wanna actually do that," Emerald cut in, speaking up and pulling up her scroll. "Ruby and Yang are way too into fighting, Weiss is too stubborn, Penny wants to impress Ruby, and Blake… Blake might sit out of the first round, but then again she'll also want to stay and fight side by side with the rest of her team. She and Ruby are partners, after all."
"... Y'know, sometimes I kinda forget that it's Blake that's supposed to be Rubathy's partner and not Penny," Cinder muttered, then looked down at Neo, who had stopped moving at some point. "Neo dear, I know you like my tits but if you're going to suffocate yourself in them could we not do it in the hallway?"
Neo, meanwhile, just shook her head and pressed herself further against Cinder.
"... Right. Okay."
"Heh, well. They've got good odds whatever the case may be- all four of 'em are absolutely ridiculous and JNPR only has lower odds because the team balance is weirder. I give 'em even odds on making it to at least the quarter finals, if not the actual finals. 'Course, that means they gotta beat me n' Yatsu and…" Coco shrugged, grinning with an overwhelming amount of self confidence. "C'mon. It's me."
"If she actually wanted to beat you she'd wreck you in an instant," Cinder deadpanned. "Reminder that Ruby's gun is chambered for gunship rounds and that she's faster than literally anyone else in the school."
"Speed ain't everything, Cinderoo."
"She's also capable of using a one ton weight as a light workout. For bicep curls."
"... Yatsu?"
"I can't even deadlift a ton, Coco. I think even Professor Port's only up to a ton and a half on a deadlift too."
"... Ah. Shit."
"Yeah."
"Fuuuuck."
"Mhmm."
"Dammit. There goes the prize money… at least Beacon still gets the trophy, though."
"Yyyyyyyyup."
Notes:
I don't have enough gags about the various members of Team CMNE setting each other on fire as a prank. I should write that more often, maybe.
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