Chapter 7

Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren

OK super late with this one, as inspiration for the girls' dresses didn't want to appear. But at last they're here and I'm finally finished with RWBYRSWeek.

It was rare that Beacon held any kind of celebratory occasion. The students were expected to be exceptional at all times and many of them were. If they were to hold a party for every time a student broke a record in any class or training assignment, there'd be so many parties no one would get anything done. But this time it was different, this party wasn't because the students' work had paid off, it was because they were doing it so diligently without complaint.

Ozpin had told them that there were numerous "uprisings" amongst the students in the past years of Beacon Academy's existence. Ren had wondered at this point if he meant that the students had rebelled against the teachers for being given such strenuous tasks but Ozpin had assured them that that wasn't the case. The students who were much like themselves had grown cocky as their Aura grew and their limitations as people became less and less. This ultimately caused high tensions between the students and outbreaks of violence were almost every day occurrences. It eventually grew to such an extent that the existence of an unofficial "leaderboard" came about, where the students would take part in underground fighting tournaments in order to improve their rank and hopefully stand at the top and declare themselves as the strongest. The "tradition" died out over the years and the faculty was eventually able to move in and put a stop to it altogether. The next year of peace that they had, was their current one.

Beacon had decided to give the students a reward the faculty felt that they deserved; a dance. The majority of the girls had cheered at this outcome much to the irritation of the boys. Ren had even overheard a boy in the first five seconds of the announcement say that he wasn't going, that he had better things to do with his time. Ren wasn't particularly bothered either way about attending or not. He could see the pros and cons quite easily. But in the end, as he sat on the edge of his bed, he realised it didn't matter, he'd get dragged along anyway if Nora wanted to go.

Jaune sat behind him, leaning on his back as Ren did his. They had both opted for simple suits. Ren's was black with a hot, pink tie that Nora had insisted he wear because "it matched his eyes". Ren didn't argue, he didn't have a tie and Nora was kind enough to pick one out for him so he figured it would be rude not to wear it. Jaune is his navy, blue, pinstripe suit sighed and rubbed his face for what must've been the hundredth time. He fiddled with the tips of his golden tie in agitation, or that was what Ren suspected, there was also the possibility that Jaune new if he messed his tie up enough Pyrrha would have to step in to his comfort zone in order to fix it. He was so hopeless.

But luckily the boys didn't have to wait too much longer as a voice called from the other side of the bathroom door.

"Reeeen~~" Nora called. "Are you guys ready?"

The boys looked at each other and shrugged but stood up none the less to face the door.

"Yeah." He called back. "All set on our end."

In the next few moments the bathroom door opened and the boys had a hard time comprehending what they were seeing. Both of them had gone the whole hog on this one. Pyrrha wore a long, smooth, white dress with a golden sash over her right shoulder that came down and looped near her left hip. The pale material complemented her tan skin beautifully, it really wouldn't be hard to assume that she was royalty from some far away land and just as Ren suspected, she instantly spied Jaune's crooked tie.

She stepped right up to him and curled her slender fingers around it. It was unfortunate for Jaune that he got a pretty clear view of her bountiful cleavage when watching her fix his tie.

She had also uncharacteristically let her hair down and gone to a lot of trouble to curl it in to little, crimson ringlets. When Jaune plucked up the courage to actually look her in the eye, he was quickly mesmerised by the transformation the tigress had undergone.

However, Ren found that he was having trouble pulling his eyes away from his childhood friend. Her gleaming, silvery dress looked incredible as it clung tightly to her well built torso, almost like latex. But at the waist she also wore a turquoise petticoat so that she could still walk with her long, driven strides. Her matching, silver, princess gloves almost looked like gauntlets.

Nora's own girlish fingers reached up and tucked a lock of her swept back hair behind her ear as she uncharacteristically shifted her weight from foot to foot in timidity. In the couple of times that Ren saw her actually meet his eyes he managed to spot that she had used subtle dustings of eyeliner and eye shadow, making her dazzling eyes seem all that much brighter.

"How do I look?" She finally asked as she looked at the floor.

Ren took her hand and she looked up at him hopefully.

"You look positively radiant."

Hope you all enjoyed reading through all of these. I had a good time making them but I still need to work on my timekeeping a little more. Blast me a review if you have something to mention, it's always good to here from the readers.