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The airbus swayed slightly to one side as it came in to land. Yang could hear the engine's roaring hard as they slowed their descent, bringing the ship to a gentle touchdown. The door popped and hissed as it opened and revealed a small staircase allowing the passengers to disembark. While Yang normally would just make her way out of the ship with everyone else, filing out in the slow procession that was people going about their business, today she was pulled along by her hand. She laughed and let herself be drug through the crowd, it wasn't that different from when Ruby was too excited to get to a bakery or some weapons show. But, this wasn't her sister, this was a bubbly little redhead named Nora.

"C'mon Yang! Hurry up." Yang laughed as she pulled her through the throng of people trying to get off. Most people made way for them and those who didn't, Nora not so subtly pushed to the side.

"Excuse us, sorry, kind of in a hurry. Sorry. 'Scuse us." Yang apologized as she was drug along. They emerged into the sunlight and Nora threw both her arms up into the air.

"Ahh we're finally out of there." the redhead spun a happy little circle before grabbing Yang by both hands again and spinning her along with her. They both came to a stop, giggling and catching their breath, "Okay partner, where are we headed?"

"Well I usually go to Junior's place. I don't know a lot of other bars in town and he and I have an understanding now so I keep coming back." Yang glanced around the streets that stretched out from the airbus landing pad, more than a little disoriented from their twirl. Others were making their way out of the ship now, more than a few casting a derisive glance at the pair who had been so eager to force their way out of the ship just to then stand on the landing pad. Yang found the sign she was looking for and pointed, "Yeah it's just down that way, maybe a little further than we wanna walk though."

"Oh come on, we can walk and cabs are sooooo expensive" Nora was bouncing on her heels in anticipation.

"You're really excited to go out drinking Nora. I don't mind, just..uhh why?" Yang put her hands on her hips and regarded the other girl curiously.

"Oh no reason. Just you know. Pyrrha doesn't drink because her body is a temple and all that. So then Jaune doesn't drink because if Pyrrha doesn't drink then Jaune doesn't either. And Ren, Ren is Ren." Nora stopped bouncing and cocked her head to the side, "So are we going or what?"

"Yeah we're going, but we are not walking. It'll take way too long." Nora started to protest but Yang held out a hand to stop her, "Don't worry, we aren't taking a cab either. Come on." Yang waved her hand and walked towards the landing pad's parking garage. Nora rolled her head to the other side but then shrugged and skipped off after Yang.

The wind whipped past them as Yang slid around a corner and kicked the bike forward, pulling hard on the accelerator to push out of the turn. Nora whooped in excitement, pumping one fist in the air and keeping her other arm firmly around Yang's midsection. Yang grinned from under her sunglasses and pushed the bike faster, not everyone took to her driving style so well and it was nice to have someone along for the ride that appreciated what she and her bike were capable of. Yang pulled the brakes and skidded to a halt at the curb outside Junior's club.

Yang let her left leg fall to the curb and steadied the bike before removing her helmet and sunglasses, shaking her blonde locks free. Nora kicked her feet out and thrust both hands up in the air.

"That was awesome!" Nora screamed, Yang swung her other leg off the bike and held it up with one hand, helping Nora off with the other. She turned to the bouncer, a large man with a dark mustache wearing sunglasses and a finely tailored black suit. The man shrank under her violet gaze and flinched when she thrust her hand forward, clutching a 20 Lien bill.

"You will walk this to the lot. You will not start the engine. Understood." Yang leveled an incredibly serious look at the man and Nora tucked her helmet in the bike's storage area.

"Listen Miss. I am not a valet." he squared his shoulders to Yang and crossed his thick, muscled arms. Yang let her face fall into an easy smile.

"Great! Thanks so much." She tucked the bill in his jacket pocket, gave it a little pat and walked right past the shocked man, Nora followed behind spinning to give the man a playful wink as he turned and watched them strut right past him and a rather large line, into the bar.

Junior's club was a chic, high class establishment meant for dancing and partying, lots of drinking and blowing off steam. It was also a convincing front for Junior's underground syndicate of thieves, mercenaries, information brokers and smugglers. In Vale, Junior was the man to know if you wanted something done or needed to know what others were trying to keep secret. He was not a man to constantly flex his influence, he existed more in a passive state, confident that he was widely known and well respected. But, when Yang walked into the already crowded club, her red headed companion following eagerly behind, Junior felt a shiver run up his spine. He stood and signaled for several of his men to follow him. His two personal guards, Melanie and Militia noted his movement and sat up in their reclined chairs. Junior and his boys made their way across the floor unobtrusively, catching Yang and Nora just past the entrance.

"Miss Xiao Long, how nice of you to join us tonight." He forced a false smile out under his dark sunglasses. His men were tense, they fingered their holsters and shifted in their shoes, "You're here to dance I hope."

"Oh yeah Junior, we're here to dance and drink and have a good time." Yang gave him a huge smile and planted both hands on her hips, "By the way, this is my friend, Nora." Yang put her hands out to the side, displaying Nora like a prize on a gameshow. The other girl waved, emphatic and smiling. Yang turned her serious look back on Junior, "I expect her to get the same treatment as me."

"Oh of course, any friend of yours is welcome in my club. Enjoy yourselves ladies." Junior waved his arm with far too much flourish and motioned them further into the club. Nora jumped at the chance and strode forward, Yang held back just slightly and whispered to Junior.

"I can't make any promises though, she's kind of a crazy one." She broke into a fit of laughter and caught up with her friend, leaving a very worried and anxious Junior praying for his club's well being.

The music was loud, bass notes resonating against the glass dance floor, making the whole building rattle with the force of the music. Yang caught up to Nora and grabbed her around the shoulder, leaning in close so that she would be heard.

"Let's grab a drink real quick before we hit the floor." Nora nodded and Yang pulled her over towards the bar. The bar stools were all full so Yang and Nora squeezed their way in between two patrons who had their backs turned to each other and grabbed the barkeeper's attention.

"Oh Miss Xiao Long. What can I get you tonight? Strawberry sunrise?" The man grabbed a glass from under the counter and went to begin filling it.

"No, no. Actually tonight, ummm.." Yang put a finger to her chin and tapped methodically, thinking hard.

"Two Big Ursas please" Nora held out two fingers and the bartender smiled.

"Coming right up" he turned to the counter behind him and prepped two shot glasses with an assortment of drinks that made a white and black mixture float foggily in the glass, before turning back to the pair and placing the glasses in front of them.

"Wo-ho, alright then. Starting the night off big." Yang smiled and lifted her glass to Nora. Nora grabbed hers and turned to face Yang. They were pressed close together by the other bodies at the bar so they were almost touching at the hips, leaning back so there was room for their arms and glasses in between them.

"Is there any other way?" they both smiled and clinked their small glasses together gently, being sure not to spill any of the precious drink. They both rocked their heads back and took the shots, then slammed the glasses upside down on the counter with a satisfied gasp.

"I wouldn't expect any less from huntresses." the bartender smiled and took their glasses back. Yang reached for her wallet and he held out a hand, "I could never charge a huntress for slaying an Ursa. You two go dance." Yang and Nora's faces both split into wide grins.

"You got it!" Nora grabbed Yang by the hand and pulled her away towards the dance floor. Yang pulled back just enough to thank the bartender and then she was gone, swallowed in the mass of bodies on the dance floor.

Nora and Yang took to dancing like starved prisoners to a banquet. They jumped to the middle of the dance floor and moved with wild abandon. They moved their hands and shook their hips, whipping their heads to the beat and letting go in a way neither of them could with their teams. The DJ wore a large cartoonish bear head and pumped one fist in the air as he flowed from track to track. Neon lights in tall glass pillars flashed in time with the music, the whole floor illuminated from beneath pulsed with the crowd. Eight or nine songs in, the DJ's transitions were so smooth it was hard to tell sometimes, Yang looked to Nora and motioned with her head over towards the tables. Nora nodded her head and they worked their way out of the throng of people. They found an empty table and propped themselves up on the high stools, looking out over the floor.

"Okay Yang, you were right. This is like the best club ever." Nora was breathless with excitement, clenching the side of the table hard to contain herself. Yang threw her head back and laughed, shaking her hair out she reached back with one hand to pull some of it off her sweaty back.

"I told you. It's the place to be." She raised her hand and caught an employee's attention, the man jumped with a slight start and ran off towards the bar.

"Dang Yang," Nora giggled at her own rhyme, "You've got them running scared. What did you do?"

"Oh nothing. I just had some questions and they didn't have the right answers." Yang laughed and glanced around the building, "It really needed a remodel anyways, it looks much better now." Nora burst out laughing, rocking in her chair as the man returned, carrying a sealed bottle in a small bucket of ice with two glasses. He set them on their table and waited for Yang to say something.

"That's good for now. Just put it on my tab." The man nodded his head at Yang's response and walked away with a sigh of relief. Nora locked onto the bottle and her eyes went wide.

"Is that all for us?" Nora, slid one glass over to herself slowly.

"Yeah why the hell not. Like you said, we never get to go out like this. Blake is so quiet and Weiss has a stick way too far up her butt. Ruby would probably have fun but she's still too young so here we are." Yank cracked the bottle open and poured a small amount in each glass, then set the bottle down and lifted her glass to Nora. The redhead followed suit, "To us, the fun ones."

"The hot ones!" Nora clinked her glass against Yangs and they both downed their drinks, "Oh my Oum that's delicious."

"Yeah, it's from Vacuo. Junior's is one of the only places in Vale that gets it in all the time. Another reason I always come here." Yang refilled their glasses and they drank again.

The two girls sat at their table and talked happily about everything going on in their lives. The drinks helped loosen them up and got rid of a lot of the more formal barriers that existed between them because of their teams. They found they had a lot in common, from their rash, compulsive nature to their horrible sense of humor. Outside of the school setting, away from the stresses of life at Beacon and the pressure of becoming Huntresses their tensions eased. They made their way through most of the bottle and got to the point where even they were rather tipsy before they slowed their pace. Nora and Yang were both swaying a bit from side to side and the jokes had gotten even worse than usual before two men approached their table.

"Hey ladies, enjoying the club tonight?" the men came over and leaned against the table. One was tall, clean cut with slicked back black hair and stylish clothes. He put one elbow on the table and leaned down so his head was level with the seated girls. The other was a little big, with a thick neck and rounded arms. He had a rough shadow of beard running up his chin line and down over his neck. He crossed both arms on the table and leaned in, breathing heavily from what Yang hoped was the exertion of dancing.

"Oh yeah, it's great." Nora turned with her usual bubbly excitement to the two men. Yang sat up and tried to concentrate through the haze of drink in her mind, cautious.

"You two looked like you were having a good time. We thought maybe we'd come over, have a good time with you." the thin man flashed a smile at Yang and the big man chuckled, shaking up and down.

"Oh no, we're real boring. Just talking about school stuff really." Nora waved a hand at him, laughing, and finished what was left in her glass. The skinnier of the two men who seemed to be the real talker of the pair slid up onto one of the stolls around their table, putting himself next to Yang. She tensed a little as the man put his arms on the table now much closer to her.

"You're students? Should you really be out drinking? This is no place for high school girls." he gave Yang a coy smile and lowered his eyelids a little, implying far more than he said.

"We're actually attending Beacon. We're Huntresses in training." Yang was not comfortable with these men or anything they had in mind. The man leaned back and held up his hands in mock shock and defense. He looked to his friend.

"Wow, we better watch out." he laughed and turned back to the girls, "I knew you looked strong, must be real firm under all those fancy clothes." He slowly started to reach a hand towards Yang and she clenched her fist but Nora put an arm around her shoulder.

"Oh yeah, I make her keep in shape." Nora laughed and pulled Yang over to lean into her. Yang relaxed a little as the man retracted his hand and folded it back into his grip, resting his clenched hands on the table.

"Really? You two are together? Beacon must be a fun place with girls like you around." he looked to Nora now and the bigger man stood up, putting his hands in his pockets.

"Oh yeah, she's the best." Nora gave Yang a quick kiss on the cheek. Yang blushed a little but didn't flinch away. She put her arm around Nora's waist and pulled the redhead to her, causing a little yelp of joy. Nora grinned at her and playfully pushed at Yang's shoulder, "Hey now, we're still out in public."

"So, you two planning on going back tonight or do you wanna come out with us?" The thinner man leaned in hungrily. Yang turned away from Nora to regard him cooly, the mix of adrenaline from the situation and confusion or excitement from whatever Nora was doing dulling the alcohol a little.

"Get a clue buddy. Buzz off." Yang clenched her free hand into a fist under the table. The man started to move forward again, reaching his hand out towards Yang's free arm. Yang let loose of Nora and slid off her stool to stand face to face with the man. He smiled, apparently thinking she was getting down to meet him and put his hand on her shoulder. She looked down at his hand and slowly back up to him, "You're gonna wanna move that."

"Oh yeah? Where would you like it?" The man's smile was abruptly cut off by the sound of breaking glass and a thunk, audible over the music. Several people at nearby tables turned to look and a few of Junior's men started over from their spots along the walls. Nora had smashed the remainder of the bottle on the bigger man's head, he was rather close to Nora so Yang figured he had been trying what the thin man had been trying with her. Yang turned back and regarded the remaining man who was dumbfounded. She smirked and punched him square in the gut. He doubled over and coughed hard.

"Oh you little-" just then two of Junior's men arrived behind him, one took the liberty of hitting him on the back of the head with his night stick, knocking him out cold on the floor.

"Miss Xiao Long. We're very sorry. They won't be allowed back in the club. And uh…" he looked about a little, "that bottle is on the house, obviously." several others arrived and they drug the two men off. Those who had turned to watch the scene unfold returned to their drinks, confident that it had been handled. Yang gave them a nod of approval and turned back to Nora who was handing the broken bottle neck to another employee.

"Wow, I'm so sorry. That never happens here." Yang rubbed the back of her head, beginning to apologize.

"Are you kidding? That was great!" Nora wrapped Yang in a tight hug and the blonde smiled grabbing her friend back, "We got to dance, we got to talk and drink for free and I got to smash someone's head!"

"Yeah, I guess it wasn't all bad was it." they pulled out of the hug but Nora kept a hold of Yang's hands.

"We made a pretty good couple too didn't we?" she smiled at Yang and jabbed her in the ribs with her elbow.

"Yeah, what was that?" she looked at her friend curiously, "I mean, just...what?"

"Well you know, I thought it might get those creeps to stop bugging us, which it didn't, but it was kinda fun too right? Like what if we were a couple, this would kinda be a date then wouldn't it?" Nora rolled her head to one side and laughed at the idea.

"Yeah I guess it kinda would." Yang blushed a little but told herself it was just the alcohol coming back since the situation died down and she was relaxing again, "Come on, let's go dance some more." and with that Yang drug Nora out onto the dance floor, walking in beat to the rhythm and hoping Nora hadn't realized how red her face was.

A/N - So this is only my second published story but I have really been overwhelmed by the response here. Thank you to everyone who has read my previous piece and those of you reading this one. Special thanks to my wonderful reviewers, story-de're, Dongyrn, The Dark Deceiver, swimfeared, ShowMeYourFury.