Ruby loses the second round with more stakes added

Ruby tried to ignore the feeling of the air on her bare legs and the feeling of the grass on her feet. Normally she wouldn't pay it any mind at all but for some reason she was much more aware of it now that her legs were only bare because she lost her stockings and shoes in a bet.

Perhaps that ended up distracting her, causing some of her shots to be ever so slightly off. In a normal shooting booth that would have been fine. But this was a shooting booth designed for Hunters, where even a small change in accuracy could cause the shooter to lose out on a point.

Once again the ending buzzer sounded. And once again the results were a shock to Ruby. She ended up scoring 295 points, while May had scored 306. Her score had gone down by 6 while May's had actually improved by 1.

"And that's another round down." May said as she looked over at Ruby with a smirk. "Now give me my payment."

Ruby flushed. She was going to have to hand over something that would really leave her less than decent in front of a bunch of people. Her options were either her grey blouse or her black skirt with a rose emblem on it. Really, it depended on if she wanted to expose her black bra or her black panties to a bunch of strangers.

In the end, it was really another obvious choice. Exposing her bra and a large part of the skin on her upper body was much less embarrassing than showing her panties. Intellectually, there really wasn't much difference in skin exposure between her bra and the red bikini she wore to the beach or pool. But the fact that it was her underwear made it so much more embarrassing.

Seeing her hesitation, May gave her a mean smile. "Oh? Big Beacon student is afraid of following through on her bet?"

Ruby frowned at May before grabbing the bottom of her grey blouse and pulled it up and over her head, exposing her bra. The crowd loved it going by the cheering and whistling. Ruby refused to turn around and see how excited they were. She was already embarrassed enough at them seeing her mostly bare back and her bra straps. Showing them her bra clad breasts would be more than she could handle right now.

"There!" She said heatedly before throwing her blouse over to May, who caught it and set it down by her lost shoes and stockings.

"Oh come on Ruby, you're taking some of the fun out of this by not letting the crowd have a look. Tell you what, I'll give your friend over there an item of her clothing back if you agree that every time one of us loses a round, the loser has to face the crowd after they strip for 30 seconds."

Ruby glanced over at Velvet who was still to the side, tightly wrapping Ruby's red cloak around her nude body. She had a small crowd of her own around her, giving the barely decent Faunus lustful looks as well as occasionally snapping pictures on their scrolls, though they kept away from her at a respectable distance. Velvet looked a lot less sure of Ruby's victory at this point then she had been just a few minutes ago. But she looked at Ruby with a pleading look, obviously hoping for something that didn't leave her body so exposed.

Ruby was really tempted to tell May no since it was obvious the girl was just proposing this deal because she wanted to humiliate her. But if 30 seconds of embarrassment could help Velvet, then she would have to agree.

"Fine. I agree to that. I'll just have to wait until it backfires when it's your turn." Ruby said.

"You'll have to shoot better then." May taunted. "But 30 seconds first before I hand your friend some clothes. No covering up."

Ruby gulped and prepared herself, not helped by the sounds of the crowd who were happy at the new bet. Then she turned around, keeping her arms at her sides.

She was met with a loud cheer of course. Her bra wasn't the sexiest one she owned, but it showed off a decent amount of cleavage. Her breasts weren't nearly the size of Yang's but she still had a decent set to show off. Her bare midriff was also exposed, her stomach flat and toned by exercise. She noticed the crowd had grown since the start of the competition. No doubt word had spread of both her and Velvet's challenge as well as the stakes. Not only were there students and competitors from other schools but she also recognized several of her own classmates. With just a quick glance she saw a boy she knew from her world history class, starring wide eyed at her bra clad chest. A girl from her Grimm studies class who was giving her a thoughtful look. A few girls from Mistral who were laughing at her. Most prominent was team CRDL. They had seemed to have gotten their fill of Velvet and were now focusing on her, several of them taking pictures of her with their scrolls. Not that they were the only ones doing that. Everywhere her eyes darted she could see a scroll pointed at her.

The embarrassment she felt before was nothing to what she was feeling now as she counted the seconds in her head. A boy had never even seen her bra before, and yet dozens of boys were seeing it now. She felt hot at how flushed she was, feeling like every bit of her skin was turning red. She wanted to shield herself with hands or run away. Instead all she could do was stand still and stare at nothing in particular.

30 seconds seemed to take an eternity to pass but eventually it did. She rapidly turned around, breathing hard.

A small traitorous part of her pointed out that if she acted like that from just showing off her bra, then what would she act like if she had to show off her entire naked body to the crowd like Velvet had done.

"Well that was nice." May said. "And a deal is a deal. So here's something for your friend."

Ruby turned to May and quickly caught the thrown item. Dumbly, she realized it was Velvet's boots.

"HEY! This isn't what we agreed!" Ruby shouted. There was no way Velvet would be decent with just a pair of boots. Even her panties would have been better.

"I specified I'd give her an item of clothing." May pointed out. "I never specified which one. You should have negotiated."

Ruby was mad. Mad enough that her anger overcame her embarrassment. She tossed the boots over to Velvet since they were hers and picked up her rifle again.

"Alright, now you're going down." She said with certainty. This girl wanted to embarrass her? Fine, she'd just turn that right back around on her. Let her see what happens when a whole crowd of strangers look at, take pictures, and laugh at you.

"Fired up huh? Alright, bring it!" May said, excited that Ruby was now entirely in the game.

The buzzer sounded and the third round began.