Destiny No More

Chapter 27

"Here's to the Headmaster!" Coco raised her glass. "For deciding not to be an overbearing di-"

"Coco!" Velvet snapped.

"Hear, hear!" Fox went to tap his glass against Coco's, missing by a solid foot before tilting it back and drinking.

Pyrrha smiled and laughed lightly at Coco's enthusiasm, taking a drink from her own milkshake.

"So you'll be staying at Beacon for the time being?" Yatsuhashi, while not as vocal in his support, smiled softly at the news.

"I'll be staying for the foreseeable future." Pyrrha answered. "Ozpin said he wouldn't force me to go anywhere."

"That's nice of him." Coco scoffed, no doubt rolling her eyes behind her glasses.

"Quite the generous guy." Fox added, seemingly agreeing with Coco's sentiment.

"He wasn't trying to be like that." Pyrrha felt she had to defend him. "He was just doing what he thought was right."

Team CFVY looked among themselves for a moment, clearly passing some kind of message along without her, before looking up to her.

"How can you apologize for other people?" Coco asked, causing Pyrrha to wince slightly.

Each of them watched her closely, even Velvet seeming to demand an answer.

"S-sorry." Pyrrha rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly.

Coco sighed but smiled. "It's good to know you aren't going anywhere."

Pyrrha smiled back. "I won't be."

"So what's the plan then?" Fox asked. "I know Yatsu plans to head home in a week to see his family, but in the meantime we could do something fun... Aside from fighting terrorists I mean."

"We do have a month before classes start back up again." Velvet added.

"Hmm," Coco brought a hand to her chin as she thought. "You're only going to Mistral for two weeks right?" She waited for Yatsuhashi to nod before continuing. "Then you'll be back for the summer festival."

Pyrrha tilted her head in confusion. "Summer festival?"

"It's a yearly tradition here in Vale." Velvet informed her.

"It's not as big a deal as the Vytal festival but the organizers will probably still try to put on a good show." Coco explained. "No tournament, but plenty of things to do."

It was the first Pyrrha had ever heard about it, though to be fair she hadn't spent much time in Vale before Beacon. Had her team managed to finish their first year however, it would have been likely that they all would have gone in between the years.

Shaking her head, she focused on the present. "That sounds like fun."

"It's still a couple weeks out though, so in the meantime?" Fox asked.

He and Coco went back and forth discussing ideas, Pyrrha mostly staying out of it since she didn't really know what Valve had to offer. Aside from the occasional trip with her team, she hadn't actually seen much of the city. Most of their activities had been planned by Jaune, Ren and Nora... well, Jaune and Ren anyway.

"So, what are you going to name it?" Velvet spoke softly so as not to interrupt the rest of her team's conversation.

"What do you mean?" Pyrrha looked to her friend, seeing her looking down at the weapon she had laid over her lap. She had refused to leave it behind in her room when Coco decided they had to go out and celebrate. "I... don't know yet. I haven't put much thought into it honestly."