After the bidding was when the trouble really started.
Originally just between Winter and Eclipse (of course) but then the lights went out. Not a big deal in normal houses but the lights never went out in the manor.
They had a circuit breaker that Apollo knew how to fix but the last time he had to was when he was twelve and Esteban blew up the wires.
Someone had turned out the lights.
"What the fuck?" Esteban muttered.
"What?"
"Someone cut the lights."
"Is there another performance?"
"No..." He handed Nox his drink. "I'll be back."
"Dad." Eclipse walked up to him and tugged on his sleeve as if she wasn't almost as tall as him. "Dad, what happened?"
"I don't know. Esteban–"
"I didn't do it this time."
"Esteban, I swear to every single god if you blew something up again." Apollo hissed as he joined them.
"Why is everyone assuming–"
Then an explosion went off.
Everyone began panicking, which was reasonable, and Zeus got up on stage.
"Everyone head to the emergency exit! We will sort this out quickly!"
"Yeah, I'm out of here. Thanks for the drink Dio!" And with that Nox teleported out of there.
"Did they just steal my fucking wine?!"
"Your what?"
"Not the important part right now! We need to get everyone out. I have a feeling I know what's going on."
"Eclipse, why are we evacuating people?" Ruby asked as she and the rest of the group hurried up to them.
"The lights don't just go out here. Even storms don't cause a blackout." she explained. "I think they might be here."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm barely sure of anything these days." she grimaced and started ordering, "Yang, Ruby, Blake, you guys check the second floor. Nora, Ren, Jaune, will check the third floor. Oscar, Apollo, Essie, check the basement. Dad, Mama, Auntie, make sure everyone gets out safe. Me and Weiss will check the ground floor."
"On it."
"I don't like being ordered–"
"Esteban, shut the fuck up and come with us."
"And what are we to do, Charis?" Maria asked.
"You and Qrow make sure that nobody gets in the manor."
"Alright." Qrow sighed and downed the rest of his drink.
They split up, Apollo having to drag Esteban to the basement while Oscar followed behind, and Eclipse groaned.
Why couldn't she have one good night?
"Who are we looking for?" Weiss asked as they maneuvered through the crowd. Most of the people had cleared out by now but there were some lingering. "Who do you think is here?"
"I- okay I didn't wanna say it earlier but I felt a familiar presence here." Eclipse crossed her arms. "I think Neo is back."
"What? But I thought..."
"She was using her Semblance. I don't even know where she could be. That's why I need everyone out of here."
"In case there's a fight."
"Exactly. Gods, this could turn into another massacre. If I didn't come home–"
"If you didn't come home they would still be looking for you and probably end up in just as much danger anyways. You chose to be a Huntress to protect people now let's do our job."
"Yeah. Alright."
They weren't counting on Neo to be there as herself, hell, she might not even be by herself. But what they also weren't counting on was finding Whitley standing by the entrance to the ballroom.
"What are you doing here?"
"Did you forget you invited me?"
"No, you-" Patience is so hard when people are assholes. "I mean why aren't you leaving?"
"I'm waiting for Apollo."
"Shit."
"Don't let Father hear you speaking like that."
"Dammit, okay just stay with us."
"Why should I?"
"Whitley are you suicidal?"
"No. What?"
"Then you'd do well to stick by us 'cause otherwise you could die."
He seemed to think over it for a minute before sighing and joining them. "Don't think you get to order me around Thea."
"Whatever. ...wait–" she pulled out her new Scroll and called someone.
"Who are you–"
"Shut up. Essie, I need you to do something."
"What is it?"
"Turn into Tadaomi–"
"Who?"
"Alfred."
"Oh. Sure, why?"
"One of the people here is a shapeshifter of some kind and I need you to change between different forms to make sure she can't fool you guys."
"No problem. Byeee!"
"See ya." she tucked her Scroll back in her dress and sighed. "So we have something partially taken care of."
"What if she doesn't look like someone you guys know?"
"...we'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it I guess."
But then...
...they heard Apollo scream.
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