Pollinated Juniper Berries
PART 11
The whole of the Arc family had descended on the aisle of Patch and the sisters wereâŚeverywhere.
Yang: âWhich one is that again?â Blake just shrugged.
Blake: âI wish Weiss were here instead of me. She would be able to remember their names.â
Yang: âThe one with the baby and hot wife is named Saphron.â
Blake: âThe hot wifeâs name is Terra.â Nora dances by, Adrian in her arms.
Nora: âAnd Iâm Nora! This adorable little guy is Adrian.â Adrian was giggling as she swung him around.
One of the girls was bending Rubyâs ear. A pilot, if Yang remembered correctly. She and Ruby hit it off as tech heads.
The twins were monopolizing Pyrrha. Six years younger than Ruby, they were fascinated by Pyrrha and Weiss. They regularly asked Weiss to sing with them, or tried to follow Pyrrha on a run. Yang kinda found them annoying but they didnât hero-worship her so it wasnât that bad. However the one Yang was asking about was rubbing something into the back of Jauneâs foot. He wasnât healing as well as he should and THIS daughter was in medical school. Top of her class, her dad bragged often and loudly.
Tai: âThatâs Xanthe. Sheâs the third oldest. Flavia, the oldest, is the one that went to town with Ren, Weiss, and Jaqueline. Caltha is Rubeâs new friend and a fighter pilot for the Atlas military. Amber and Aurelia are the super-fans, and Orla is the youngestâŚâ
Nora: âThat hates all of us for taking her big brother away.â
Blake: âWow, sir how did you remember all their names so quickly.â
Tai: âDonât call me sir. And remember Iâm a teacher with a whole gym full of new kids every year. Also, Iâm a combat instructor, they have to trust and respect me. It keeps them safe from themselves and each other. So I gotta remember their names, it helps EARN that.â
Pyrrha: âWell sir, if you donât mind me interrupting, Beacon will be needing a new combat instructor. Have you considered applying?â
Tai: âPyrrha, donât call me sir, and no Iâm staying here. Iâm happiest here, at least for now. Especially when my two girls are homeâŚand theirâŚwhat do yâall call it again?â
Ren: *walking over with several bags of groceries* âOctuple.â
Tai: âHey everyone! Groceries are here! Help bringing them in and putting them away means you get to eat later.â Nora and Adrian both pout up at him. âNoraâs exempt from this sheâs on Adrian duty.â
Orla: âJauneâs absent too! His foot still hurts. Oh and Pyrrha, sheâs got a baby in her tummy!â
Jaune ruffled his youngest sisterâs hair as he limped towards the truck.
Jaune: âActually helping them will help me heal quicker.â Orla beams up at him like he just said the smartest thing ever.
Pyrrha: âAnd staying active will help me when itâs time to give birth.â Orla scowled at the tall redhead.
âŚ..DinnerâŚ..
Several large blankets were laid out and people were sitting wherever to eat their meals.
Weiss: âI will miss you when youâre gone.â
Winter: âAnd I you, sister. However my leave is used up. Have you considered taking up Ironwoodâs offer? With Beaconâs first year dorms and classrooms still under repair Atlas Academy has offered to let anyone who wants finish their first year there.â
Ren: âWe will not.â Everyone stopped eating to stare at the Mistralian.
Pyrrha: âRen, honey, is there something youâre not telling us?â
Orla looked across at Pyrrha in disgust.
Ren: âYes, but I was hoping to hold off saying anything until it was just us.â
Ishmael: âDonât trust us yet son?â
Ren: âIt isnât that. But what prompted my answer isnât anything I have proof of andâŚitâs bad. â
Weiss: âWhatâs the matter? Why would you need proof?â
Ren: âYour father sent an extraction team to Beacon.â
Winter: âYes we are aware. I was told they were killed at the forge.â
Ren: âI spoke to them before they were killed. Their team leader strongly implied that Mr. Schnee had put a bounty on any member of our octuple that wasnât Weiss.â
Jaune: âSo we wonât be going to Atlas then. Haven and Shade have made the same offer. How safe would Weiss be there from her father, and the rest of us from Adam?â Yangâs glass shatters in her robotic hand, startling all the Arc girls except Caltha.
Yang: âSorry, sorry. Still getting the hang of this thing.â
Ishmael: âI studied at Shade. Itâs fairly easy for anyone to get in and around there. But anyone recognizable as a Schnee employee would have a hard time.â
Weiss: âSo I might have to dye my hair black and start acting quite unlike myself Nora.â
Nora: âHA! Pass this to Weissy.â She gives Ren a kiss on the cheek. He then leans past the oldest Arc daughter to kiss Jauneâs cheek. Jaune scoots Orla aside to kiss Rubyâs. The kiss makes its way to Weiss who smiles in delight.
Weiss: âThank you Nora.â
Orla: âIâm confused. Whoâs dating who?â
Pyrrha: âWhat was that sweetie?â Orla scowls at the champion again. Pyrrhaâs face falls.
Jacqueline: âI told you, Orla, theyâre all dating each other. Theyâre all equals in the relationship.â
Orla: âBut whose is it?â
Jaune: âIs what, âLa?â Orla rolls her eyes and points at Pyrrhaâs stomach.
Orla: âThe BABY! Whose is it?â
RWBYJNPR: âOurs!â


















