Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5999656-20160207063839/@comment-5999656-20160211000445

Fen gave a scornful look to Raizel. Funny how some rough-and-tumble girl from off the streets had the guts to talk to her like that.

"I'd also like to avoid joining any team with assholes on it."

Platinum stiffened and half-turned, shooting a dagger-like glance at the beanie-wearing teenager. Fen unconsciously drew back. Clearly her best friend was pissed, and Fen knew that she'd gone too far.

Platinum then cocked an eyebrow at Raizel, thoroughly unimpressed by her rough attitude and casual swearing. Her hands balled into fists, but she was good enough to avoid provoking a second fistfight. She took several deep, slow, breaths, then spoke.

"You know what? Go ahead. Go back and ask Ozpin if you can leave this team, and see what he tells you. That goes for all of us," she said, raising her voice. "Get the fuck out of here and ask the faculty to leave this team. I might be the leader here, but I'm not gonna take any bullcrap about 'I don't wanna be here'. So get out."

Platinum's yellowish-orange eyes were positively blazing at this point, and she began to stalk out, but not before roughly grabbing Fen and pulling the girl behind her.

"And you're coming with me," she hissed. Turning to the other girls, she called, "Once you've figured it out, come and talk to me. Because the simple fact is that we're stuck together for the next four years, so you'd better get used to it fast."

Platinum dragged Fen with her out the room, and set off at a rapid stride down the hall, down five flights of staircases, and outside the dormitories. Fen followed silently, compelled by her troubled devotion to trying to fix a situation which before she would have never entered into. But obviously her attempt to have a stronger will was just wrecking her closest relationship outside of her family. Why was having moral strength so difficult?

''Because I'm a criminal. ''Not necessarily true; Fen hadn't committed any crimes yet. But the weight of the crimes she would commit in the future drove her to such guilty thinking. It was her internal conflict that was actually making her weaker mentally than she had been before the kidnapping. One thing was painfully clear: she couldn't tell anyone about it. And that was the worst.

Fen followed Platinum as she exited the building and turned the corner. Finally, her leader whirled around.

"What the hell is your problem?!"

"W-what are you talking about?"

"Where did this attitude come from?! All of a sudden you can't talk to people without pissing them off!"

"How was I supposed to know she'd react like that?! Normal people can take a joke!"

"Yeah, but these aren't normal people! These are the world's top soldiers, and they're not gonna take insults lightly!" Platinum leaned forward. "So what's your problem? What happened?"

Fen bit her lip before answering. "You know what happened."

"Okay, so you got kidnapped, but that's not enough. Did they do anything to you in that place?"

"No, nothing really, I -"

"So what happened?!'

Fen took several steps back, and she unconsciously reached in her jacket for a weapon that wasn't there, then immediately felt guilty about it. She dropped her hand to her side. She couldn't think of a good answer, because all she could think of was a looping phrase: Nine dragons nine dragons nine dragons...

Platinum scoffed and straightened up, crossing her arms as she did so.

"So why don't you want to be in a team?"

"Because I don't need one." The answer was brief, inadequate.

"Oh? And why is that? You do realize that this team exists for your sake, right?" Platinum's eyes narrowed. "We're here to make sure that what happened two weeks ago never happens to you again."

"Because... because I can take care of myself."

To be continued...