Colosseum - Spectator Thread

[Ruby Rose]

CHAPTER 7
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Dear Diary,

I'm going to get through this recap swiftly; let briefly me just say it included a payload of whining from Weiss as I frequently lost her throughout the encroaching, boisterous crowd. One may have looked at the crowd and shouted, "Wow, it's so beautiful!"... but to someone of my height it just felt like a tsunami, encasing all the colours in the spectrum. I looked for centuries for Rin, but my efforts ended in a big fat zilch, as if he had just become erased from the Omniverse by the big boy's thumb. However... over the time that I spent scouring the flocks of spectators for the fire boy, I discovered a peculiar application on the Dataverse, labeled 'PesterOmni'. Through it, I actually chatted with various other Colosseum spectators, some extremely nice (like gardenGnostic and primordialPersistence) while others... lemme just say I didn't take an immediate liking to their horrendous behaviour.

Through this application, I organized a meet up with gardenGnostic (creator of the app) in the stands. My clue; a girl with dog ears. But I couldn't find her in the stands! I was beginning to give up on everyone (not you Weiss, you know I love ya), until I discovered the Carnival games and food and stuff nearby! My day was finally beginning to liven up!

"Ruby, can you please not act like a child in a candy store?!" Weiss grunted behind me, and I swept around, skirt flourishing in a wild dance. "Ohh, come on, Weiss!" I complained, wiping my eyes in jest. "Just a little bit of fun... pleeeeeease?" I pleaded with her, stopping stock still.

"No."

"Come ooooon..."

"Ruby, I said n-"

"Pretty please with a cherry on top? And cream? And cho-"

"Ugh, FINE!" The ivory-haired Huntress conceded, and I stuck my tongue out. "Thank you, Snow Angel!" I teased, before spinning back around to check out the amusement stalls at my disposal. There were ball-throwing games, food stalls, it was bliss just looking at everything! But I wondered... what were we supposed to pay with?!

To experiment, I motioned Weiss to a nearby stall selling some kind of... hot-dog... thing. Whatever they were, they looked yummy! With a sigh signalling I was terribly irking her, Weiss reluctantly clicked her way over to me, hands defiantly on her hips. "Hey! Could I please get two of those?" I called over the counter to the stall keeper, who's rear was turned in my direction. No response. "U-uhm, excuse me...?"

"Hey!" Weiss shouted, and a pandemonium of clatters and thumps responded in a choir of destruction. The round-faced woman peered over the counter, and Weiss pointed down at me, frowning. The pudgy female smacked herself in the forehead and grinned sheepishly. "O-oh, I apologize! W-what would you like, miss?" She asked, crimson creeping into her plump cheeks like a pair of giant red spiders. "Two of those, please!" I ordered again, my grin notwithstanding, as I pointed at the hotdog-thingies in the back of the stall. Obeying her customer's orders, she simply spun around, retrieved the food from their heated homes and passed them to us.

I blinked my argent eyes in confusion. "D-don't I have to pay?" I asked, mystified. The woman laughed a hearty laugh. "Why, of course not, dear! This is all crafted from Omnillium, we have plenty!" She informed me, and my lips read a large 'O'.

"And this is why I don't let you shop alone, you dunce." Weiss scolded me and gave me a light smack on the head, before munching into her bun.

That kept her silent for quite some time, out of fear of possibly igniting everything in her immediate vicinity.

We continued to stroll - and yes, I did grab Weiss a bottle of water - until we found a peculiar looking girl, taking out cans with a toy rifle like a professional. My eyes widened in joy, first at her skill with a rifle... and then at the fact that she had a pair of cute little dog ears! I began to skip up to her, Weiss chugging her beverage in the background... and recoiled as some grey-skinned, candy-horned guy passed in front of me. I ducked around the other side of gardenGnostic and poked her playfully in the ribs.

"Heya!" I greeted her, extending a hand. "I'm Ruby Rose... but you might know me as dairyDiarist!" I introduced myself, beaming brightly.