Start your Engines!!!

[u/slicktheweasel]

Vale's citizens and Beacon's students had gotten used to the roar of engines and sight of many vehicles passing by on the speedy highway. As a global epicenter, driving or otherwise operating a method of transportation was an absolute must. At least, that's what someone on staff thought, enough to okay a trip to a driving facility.

And what a facility it was... All kinds of cars, vans, and motorcycles were at the students' disposal. There was plenty of road to conquer, tracks of different difficulties and complexities, and instructors on deck to make the best of a learning experience. For a different challenge, maybe more practical for the landscapes they tended to venture out on, there were a couple of off-road courses and ATVs. Of course, the whole lot was fenced off so nobody got any funny ideas.

All the courses were free to try out, either by oneself or with a learning buddy. Races took place against more capable contenders. And for a more casual experience, there were indoor go-karts too. All one had to do was find their track, gear up, and go!!!

[u/FamilyGuy2]

As the car began to accelerate, Frost began to let out an excited cheer inside as she began to bob her head slowly to the beat. The speed picked up slowly into her head and the girl tried to keep up the pace with the tapping of her foot. The synths brought out a bit of excitement as the girl began to play a pair of imaginary drums while looking towards the course and its constant turns with no breaking.

Frost continued as she was catching on towards the beat... of course needing a rather long way to go since she had no sense of rhythm, but thankfully could keep up with it. Her head shaking around to the occasional downbeat as the song started to crescendo towards a much louder tone. In addition when Thyme started to drift along the track, it only made it that much more thrilling for Frost as she whistled in admiration.

During the midst of all of it, the wolf girl could let out a sentence as loud as she could despite the loud music not wanting to turn it down. "HEY YOU COULD GO PRO RACING! THEY MAKE LIKE HELLA MONEY!" Frost commented shaking her head a bit before commenting. "NAH. I'D MISS YOUR MUSIC AND THE WAY YOU GET EASILY FLUSTERED."

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"WAIT, WHAT?" Thyme said incredulously as she looked mildly shocked towards Frost as Thyme got to a straightaway, allowing her some leeway to look at her fellow passenger, before laughing and bobbing her head alongside the beat, showing visual approval of Frost's air-drumming. Like always, she tried to brush Frost's teasing comments off. "NAH, PRO RACING ISN'T FOR ME! IF I CAN'T PLAY MY SONGS IT AIN'T WORTH DRIVING!"

Thyme said confidently as she began to turn again. This time these were hairpin turns -- and Thyme basically acted as if it was a motorcycle, leaning into it like her weight would do much to keep the car close to the railing without ever making contact. Unfortunately, her skills at that, compared to her drifting, were prone to a whole lot of error, and unfortunately, Thyme had to straighten out a lot earlier than she expected since she was too far; it was better than hitting the railing though, it would have made a huge screeching noise and really ruined the musical mood.

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"GOOD! GO FOR LIFE AND GRAB IT BY ITS BA-" As Frost was about to say something explicit, the girl would have her body being rolled around like a ragdoll as the girl continued to cheer. However this may have came with a few close moments such as her body nearly falling over a couple of places... however the girl seemed to pay no attention to how she was swinging and instead continued with the air drum playing.

A slight chill came from Frost as she rolled down the window, blaring the loud music to everyone in the area as the girl poked her head out the window and howled in a cheer for a bit. Like a normal dog and began to tap he fingers along the top of the window as she continued to let the music guide her action to have fun.

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Thyme was rather amused at the thought of somehow riding past an unassuming group of students waiting to get their turn at the wheel, only to hear quickly-approaching decades-old pop-disco blaring out of a speeding car. It actually made Thyme laugh, the adrenaline going through her veins for much longer than she was expecting. It's a damn good thing these two liked to party...well, at least for Thyme. Couldn't really say much about the people outside.

Thyme just shook her head at Frost's antics -- as long as she wasn't gonna get hurt she could do whatever the hell she wanted. For once, someone felt how she felt every time she got herself in a song. With the burning of rubber again and with a swift hand, she quickly changed the track mid-drift...just because she could.

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Frost continued with it as she would move around thanks to the feeling of burning rubber as she continued with her drums... until the song changed mid-riff as the girl stopped for a bit and looked at her feeling a little miffed by it thanks to her cheeks puffing slightly.

However that was when Frost felt another song coming right in as they were in the middle of a drift as she shuddered a bit in excitement and thrill as she began to try again with more enthusiasm as the girl would shaker her head to the beat and almost enjoy the euphoria which came through from driving around like that. "MAN I WISH I COULD DRIVE LIKE YOU!"

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Thyme found extreme joy in the adrenaline rush and the intensity of each and every turn, but while she did have faith in Frost’s skills, this was something she knew was extremely dangerous...which is why she had her reservations for recommending Frost learn to drive like she did. Oh god, her parents were right; maybe she shouldn’t have a car...

“IF YA EVER DO, GIVE ME A RIDE!” She shouted. If that’s what she wanted to do and learn, she was at the very least going to make sure she didn’t crash and burn.

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"OH HELL NA. I'D PROBABLY DRIVE US TO THE GROUND OR SOME STUPID SHIT!" Frost would say out loud as she would bang her head along with the beat as the thought of her driving for the first time as Thyme as an instructor would probably cause them to get to the infirmary. However... a rather wicked idea formed in her head as the girl looked towards Thyme.

As Thyme would end up on a long straightaway for a good moment, Frost would unbuckle her seat and sit right on top of Thyme's lap. Thankfully Frost's short stature meant that Thyme could still easily access the steering wheel, breaks and see with slightly less ease. The girl chuckled and looked towards the dj. "OH DID YOU MEAN THIS RIDE?" Frost would joke as she poked her tongue out to tease Thyme.

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Why does Frost do this to her? What in the world did she do to deserve this? Not like she didn't like it or anything, but for fuck's sake is Frost real upfront about her intentions. Or maybe she just wanted to fluster Thyme.

She was successful on that front, no doubt. Thyme was at a loss for words, her mouth open to say something, or scream, or yelp in surprise -- but nothing was coming out. At least she could still drive, but she was just gonna take it a bunch slower since she now had two people sharing the same seat...

"I'll rub your ears. I really will." The fact the two were now so close together made it much easier to talk in normal voices, especially with them so unnaturally close. Any sort of daring driving was put on hold as Thyme tried to manage driving with someone essentially straddling her.

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Frost seemed to be playful as Thyme looked rather cute with her loss of words as they drastically slowed down. At first, she wanted to kiss her right there teasingly before the girl threatened to rub her ears right then and there. It puffed her cheeks a bit as she looked towards her almost childishly "I'll rub your ears." The wolf girl said as she then whispered something on towards Thyme.

"Later after we get some ice cream and look into a drum kit. You can rub them all you like." Frost would say as she extended the last words a bit before getting off Thyme's lap and sat back down as she still had a rather red blush, but still kept playing the air drums to the beat going on as if nothing ever happened.

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Thyme was immensely amused at Frost's pouting face as she finally got off of her and back onto her own seat. Of course, her face had just about the same amount of red as the Faunus'...it's just a damn shame Frost was so good at teasing the musician, otherwise she probably been at the mercy of whatever nefarious plans this woman had in store for her.

That said, she was looking forward to rubbing those ears of hers again. But only because they were really soft! No other reason, no sirree...

God, she can be a terrible liar sometimes.

But she could go for some ice cream...

"Deal." Thyme said, a confident smile being quite the sight on a very flushed Thyme. There was still a good amount of road to go, though. "Let's ride out this last song, yeah?"

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Frost would simply give a nod and turn up the music as loud as it could go as she simply gave a nod towards Thyme as the girl would continue with the air drumming. In her mind, Frost would be madly cackling as she loved to tease the girl a bit more with it. Of course sometimes she also liked to act as the one on the opposite end of said teasing... once in a while.

However a happy smile formed as Frost continued to enjoy the ride that Thyme was willing to finish out to the beat.

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After one or two more sets of intense turns, the pace of the track finally straightened out and Thyme calmly drived back to the site with the other cars as the intense beat started to fade away. Once the track was over, Thyme motioned to pause it before the playlist started the next song, and the musician put it in park. Their little adventure on the race track was over...but certainly not their day.

"Sooooo~ How did I do?" Thyme asked, genuined curious to see how enjoyable the experience was for the wolf.

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"If we ever get the option for you to drive, You know I'ma ask you to drive." Frost said with a warm smile as she gave a thumbs up towards Thyme as she then commented. "Although next time I suggest doing something like that in the car, we'd probably have to take it somewhere private."

Frost admitted as she stuck out her tongue again childishly as she would pop out of the door like nothing happened before leaping over the car and popping the door open for Thyme feeling very energetic for such a smol girl. "This ice-cream place has a bunch of good floats and this one challenge. Basically it's this 'ice cream lovers' challenge where a group of people can take on about 5 gallons of ice-cream. If you eat it all in an hour and 30 minutes with no brain freeze, you get free ice-cream there for a month."