HELLO! and welcom to my 7 or 8 chaptered shot one shots of my charaterss from my main story about bakugan! please read that and this tit'll give me confadance to keep writing and working on this! ^.^ so this is how this will woek every day from now till Valentine's Day i'll put up a chap a day. heres a tip each chap wont tell you who is teh main attraction till the end can you guess the main charater for each chapter?
HECK! here it is the first chapter of the Valentine's Day special
Valentine's Day special: 7 days of the stars
"Ah! Nothing like a Valentine's Day sale! EH?" asked Rubby as she sat in an office counting the day's sales and profits.
"Yup! Only one week left till Valentine's day" Beamed Seam as she organized Rubby's desk that had scattered papers all over the place, some about money, and some about the latest trends in the magical world.
"So what will be the next big sale item then?" Asked Summer sipping tea.
"Well, Mapleren came in the other day with a red and pink bracelet with silver hearts in a chain and a gem in the center." Suggested Seam showing Rubby a picture of the bracelet Rubby's secretary had brought in earlier that morning.
"Yup. So it'll go on sale for twenty dollars." said Manage, looking at the overall design of the bracelet and determining the cost of it.
"Twenty? How about twenty-five?" Suggested Scorch.
"I was thinking fifteen ninety-nine." Said Rubby, looking at the image of the bracelet.
"That works." Said the dream fairy's in unison.
"But the original price was fifty ninety-nine." Said Summer, looking up the previous cost of the bracelet.
"I know." Said Rubby, looking on the computer screen and compeering it to the paper she had in hand before jotting down a few notes then she turned the computer off and got ready to leave. It was getting late and she needed her sleep.
"Rubby. Are you ok?" Asked Seam worried about Rubby's health.
"I'm fine. Just finishing the filing for the paper work I have for the reports on the recent spike in sales for both worlds and the cammen video that needs to be edited." Said Rubby, then she disappeared in a burst of flames.
"Rubby..." Said Seam in worry as she looked at Rubby's messy desk and among the papers was photo frames of friends, family and… Sid. He was taken in Rubby's place in hell. Literally. Sadly for Rubby's freedom trapped Sid in the cage she once lived in. In the clutches of the devil.
"She still can't sleep at night right?" Asked Scorch turning to Summer and Seam whose faces fell at the question.
"Yes that night still haunts her still. Even after a year, she still holds the past tight, too tight." Sighed Seam sadly as she looked at the photo of Rubby of that summer.
"Just like Tammy." Added Summer sadly.
"Sid..." Sighed Rubby, looking up at the gray sky as the snow gently fell to the ground and landed softly in Rubby's hand before it disappeared leaving nothing behind.
"Sid, how are you?" Thought Rubby as she walked the streets of the city towards her home
"WHAT!" Exclaimed Rubby as she got up from her bed as someone had shown up on her door step in the middle of the night, waking her from her sleep. She grabbed her red silk night robe and walked to the door of her room angered to be woken so late at night.
"Mistress Rubby there's a guest at the door looking for you." Said the maid bowing her head in respect to Rubby who wasn't in the best mood to deal with any one this late let alone the fact that she had just had fallen asleep.
"Rubby?" Came a soft voice as Rubby turned to see Summer half awake from the little bed Rubby had made for her
"Go back to sleep, I'll deal with the jerk at my door." She said before closing the door quietly without waking any of the others who still were asleep in their beds as Rubby followed the maid to the front door of her home. Rubby dismissed the maid and once the maid was gone she sighed and snapped her fingers as a sound shield was put up. She did not need to wake the rest of the house just because of one ass who clearly cannot tell the time or care that they were waking others from the sleep they needed.
"WHAT!" Exclaimed Rubby as she opened her door to see the one thing she was hoping to not see till the sun was up. Then again, that would come in a few hours any ways.
"Roxanne we need you by the scene" Said the officer tipping his hat in respect to his superior. Rubby gave the officer an annoyed angry look. He knew better then to bother her in the middle of the night, expectedly when she had classes in the morning, a ton of work from the elders back in the magical kingdom to do by the end of the week. She sighed knowing that whatever it was the person was not going to leave without her and she might as well as just go to get it over with. So she grabbed her long red coat and left with him to his car that was parked in the drive way like he'd was in a hurry to get out and away from the car as possible
"You had to wake me?" Asked Rubby, angry as she got in the car and put her seat belt on while the officer did the same.
"I'm sorry Roxanne but they said to call you so I had to. Trust me if they did not tell me so I'd never would have even driven past your house at all." He said starting the car and driving out of the driveway.
"So what now?" Asked Rubby annoyed still as she tied her hair back and fixed her face to rid of the sleepy look.
"Shooting. Canabar Street, by the bar; Cha Cha Moo Bar and Grill." Responded the cop as she turned on the sirens and lights to get through traffic faster as the cars were taking too long to turn or change lanes.
"Wow... You couldn't wake Austin instead?" She sighed rolling her eyes as the cop drove in the opposite lanes at a fast speed with the sirens going to tell cars and other vehicles to move out of the way.
"The higher ups said to wake you, and he's in New York City. Nice try though." He said with a catchy smirk.
"Not trying, and you know better than to use pick up lines like that one on me." She said glaring at him.
"Sorry. The boys said I should get out more. You know get a girl..." Began the cop nervously, he knew Rubby had a bad temper and he had already poured gasoline on himself when he woke Rubby. He did not need to get the fire started by pissing her off. "Yea... Not me." Said Rubby, still angry with the cop for waking her in the middle of the night, as she pulled out a cigarette.
"Hey don't smoke." Said the cop annoyed as he did a sharp turn in to the ally way and speed along quickly then back on to the road startling cars
"It's my meds, not a regular cigarette. Plus I don't smoke." Said Rubby as she lit her cigarette.
"Well, if it looks like one, then it is one to me." He said this time he was changing lanes very quickly.
"It tastes like chocolate, and when it's done I can eat it like a pretzel stick." Said Rubby as she exhaled towards him.
"Ok, I'm sold." He said eyeing the end of the cigarette that gave off no smoke at all, even when Rubby exhaled, nothing came out, unlike a regular cigarette that would give off some smoke, hers didn't, not one cloud. Soon they arrived at the bar.
"Well this is it." He said looking ahead as a crowd had formed behind the police tape and the investigation on the crime was still going.
"Thanks Jack." Said Rubby as she finished her cigarette and began chewing it like a pretzel stick as she walked on scene.
"No problem Roxanne." Said Jack, tipping his hat to Rubby as she waved backwards a bit before ducking below the yellow police tape and on to the crime scene.
"Hey Rox, what took ya so long?" Asked a voice as Rubby turned to see the young detective.
"Wow, they called you too?" Asked Rubby raising a brow knowing that to bug her this late too was not a smart idea they had a job to do the next day and without proper sleep you can't really do anything well.
"Ha ha. Yea, they did and they dragged her too, so I had to wake Max and drag him with me. He's sleeping in the van." Said the young detective pointing to the black police van behind her.
"Well they just love us like that you know." Said Rubby sarcastically.
"Yup, just can't let us sleep at night." Said the voice rolling her eyes as her words were just as sarcastic as Rubby's.
"Any ways, let's get going Tammy, we have a job to do and I want to go home and sleep." Said Rubby turning to the scene.
"Eh! Rox! Tam!" Said a cop waving with his clipboard at the two girls as they approached.
"Hey Mick, what's up?" Asked Rubby as another cop handed her a pair of white gloves and she put them on as well as Tammy.
"Shot in the back below the shoulder plate, alive, but barely, shot around 11:01PM, four meters from the curb, white, healthy female, eighteen, five foot four, 170lbs, hazel eyes, no meds, no record, good grades, brown hair, black coat, gray hand bag, white tee and blue jeans and white shoes." Said Mick looking at his clipboard.
"So a hit and run." Said Tammy, looking at the blood stains on the ground where the girl had been shot.
"We got the call three minutes after she was shot and the trucks arrived two minutes later." Added Mick handing the girl's information to Rubby.
"Why is there no tent up?" Asked Rubby, looking angrily at the cold gray sky as the snow was still falling. Then a giant transparent roof formed above the area about fifty square kilometres in with and length collecting the snow then melting it in to air so it wouldn't cover up any of the evidence in the crime scene.
"Sorry, my fault." Said Mick, starching the back of his head. "Slipped my mind." Rubby smacked him with the papers she had in hand.
"How are you a cop again?" Sighed Rubby as she looked for the girl.
"She's by the ambulance car the paramedics gave her treatment already." Said Tina as she walked up towards Tammy and Rubby.
"Thanks." Said Rubby as Tina started to get pictures of the scene as Rubby walked over to the ambulance car. Thought Rubby as she saw the girl "Hello there." Said Rubby kindly as she approached the girl sniffed a bit when she saw her as the cold winds blew her white tee and tasseled her hair.
"Hello." Sniffed the girl as she sat forward a bit.
"So what happened?" Asked Rubby smiling.
"I was walking home from work and I somehow got lost and wandered here so I went in to the bar to get directions then when I left the bar I was shot then I blacked out." Replied the girl as she started to shiver a bit.
"MASASP right?" Asked Rubby noticing the earring she had on was giving off a magical stream
"MASASP?" Asked the girl confused by the word, as she did not know what it meant.
"The Magical Academy Studying Aboard for Students Program" Said Rubby explaining it to the girl.
"Ah!... Um, yes. I'm under the MASASP, water district, class 5, enchantress rank." Said the girl as a barrier appeared around the ambulance car and the air began to warm up.
"So what happened?" Asked Rubby again.
"I was walking home from work and I'm not familiar to earth yet because I just started my term this month. So, I still do not know the city so well compared to back home in Waterney town. That's why I got lost and wandered here that's when I realized I could cast a tracker spell to retrace my steps but I forgot how to cast it so I went in to the bar to get directions then when I left the bar I got shot then I passed out." Said the girl.
"Did you notice the presence of the one who shot you?" Asked Rubby.
"Now that you mentioned it I did. But it was so faint I thought it may have been a dog or a cat so I didn't care about it. If I had known that they were going to shoot me I may have been more careful." Said the girl looking down in shame that she had made such a careless mistake that could have killed her.
"Don't beat yourself up over what happened just learn from this so you won't make the same mistake twice, because next time you may just end up dead." Said Rubby giving the girl some advice that could help her in the feature.
"I did sense something else but by the time I could react I was shot and then I had blacked out." Said the girl.
"What did you sense?" Asked Rubby knowing that every detail given could bring the one who shot her to justice.
"I don't know…it was very faint and it disappeared so quickly I couldn't tell what it was." Said the girl.
"It?" Asked Rubby, hinting that there was more to it and that she had to tell.
"Yes it. It was a moving so quickly I couldn't catch it." Said the girl pointing to the building in the distance.
"All right thank you." Said Rubby before she left.
"Wait!" Exclaimed the girl cling to Rubby's coat.
"Is something the matter?" Asked Rubby turning to see the girl.
"How am I going to go home?" Asked the girl nervous. It made sense to Rubby; she was just shot in the dead of night who knows if she may be shot again. She had every right to be afraid to go home alone. Rubby sighed at this and waved for Jack to come over.
"Is something the matter Roxanne?" Asked Jack worried that Rubby was still mad at him for waking her in the middle of the night.
"This is Jack, he's your ride home." Said Rubby gesturing to Jack who suddenly looked like he was hit by a baseball bat.
"Oh! Um… Hello." Said the girl shyly, as she hid her face because a deep red blush had appeared on her face as well as Jack's. Rubby smirked, her job was done now he would not have to keep hitting on girls with lame pick up lines that do not work. She then smiled and turned to leave them alone.
"Oh and Jack" Began Rubby as Jack jumped a bit as well as the girl who was also surprised.
"Um… Yes Rubby?" Asked Jack worried.
"Don't stay up too late, I still need that report from you." Said Rubby smirking.
"Uh… Yes ma'am!" Exclaimed Jack bowing as Rubby left.
"Sister!" Exclaimed Tina as Rubby turned to see Tina waving papers.
"Hey, what's up?" Asked Rubby as Tina handed her more papers. That was just what she needed. More things to do, a report. Adding to the report that would add to the work pile that was piling up on her desk already.
"I looked up some more information on her." Said Tina as Rubby looked over Tina's findings. "Her name is Marie Clearwater Waltestions, she's studying at Rainfall high school, twelfth grade, straight A's in all her classes."
"Ok thanks." Said Rubby as she looked at the page about her marks back in the magical academy water district.
"She's also the youngest daughter out of 6 kids in her family; Waltestions Trading Inc, they're not very well known, but they do major trades with the big company's like Sony and Microsoft." Added Tammy as she walked up to Rubby with more papers in hand, just what Rubby wanted to have, more papers to hull home.
"Well according to her she sensed something by that building over there." Said Rubby, pointing in to the distance.
"No time flowers were triggered though but the one when she was shot." Said Tammy handing Rubby a disk drive that contained the footage of the bar's security footage as well as the image that the time flower caught when it was triggered.
"So our shooter has no aura or magic then?" Asked Rubby looking at the disk drive she held.
"Possible, but the possibilities of that are quite slim but none the less we need to get Return on the scene to get the full details on the shooting, thus we can't go any further in this case till that happens" Said Tammy as she turned to leave.
"Where you going?" Asked a cop as she got out of a cop car and walked over.
"Well, well, well, you got woken up too? Or were you in bed?" Asked Rubby smugly.
"Yes miss slut I was in bed asleep!" Snapped the cop in Rubby's face.
"Oh with whom I wonder? The boss's bro maybe?" Challenged Rubby with a smirk as the cop stepped back in shock then regained her composure quickly. 'Gotcha.' Thought Rubby evilly. 'Another way to get out of work soot free.'
"Oh ya and you?" Asked the cop challenging Rubby as she gave a confidant smirk.
"Working. I have stacks of paper to do, much better than getting in the pants of men, that's for sure" Said Rubby as she left leaving the cop utterly speechless. Once again Rubby had turned the tables and sent her challenger in to the pits of hell. "Well I better get going then. Tammy I leave you to finish this up. I've got a press with the nut in the morning to attend to then a photo to do with Lu then I'll see you later to get on with the show." Added Rubby as she waved and left.
"Rubby?'' Came a familiar voice as Rubby turned to see Keith and Mira behind the yellow police tape with shocked faces to see Rubby here of all places.
'And I'm stuck doing another job. Great.' "Hey Keith, Mira what's up?" Asked Rubby as she ducked bellow the yellow police tape to the other side.
"How come you're here?" Asked Mira worried that Rubby was on a crime scene.
"It's a part-time job, no worries. I'll be there for the tournament later this week." Said Rubby reassuring Mira.
"So you're a detective, manager, pop star, model, actress, brawler, gym leader, a princess, and a high school student all at the same time?" Asked Keith impressed that Rubby could manage between all her jobs and still have time to relax.
"You forgot to mention that I'm also an Magical Academy Examiner, shop owner, assassin, daughter of the CEO of the Sun Light Inc; where inspiration meets the light, and errand girl for Sapphire" Said Rubby counting off the things Keith forgot to mention.
"You're an assassin?" Asked Helios, popping open in disbelief that Rubby could be assassin as well.
"Yes. I'm an assassin as well and I can still have time to chill out like this." Said Rubby.
"So what's going on?" Asked Mira looking behind Rubby where the cops kept working with the crime scene at hand.
"Shooting, but the victim is fine." Said Rubby. "Say, why are you up so later?" Asked Rubby looking at her watch for the time.
"I was working late in the lab so Keith came to pick me up." Explained Mira.
"Oh. Hey that reminds me! Did you get the data sheets on the collabanationd sequence I sent you last week?" Asked Rubby.
"Oh! Yes I did. Thank you so much I was having such a headache with the binary compounds for the molecular structure of the callanairy conspire lift. The data sheets you gave me save me a lot of work with the rosaritenbg function and the embelation function would have taken me days to get my results." said Mira in relief.
"Well technically you can use the embelation function first then use the rosaritenbg function to find some of the information on the data sheet I gave you, but it won't give you all of it." Said Rubby.
"Right, right! Because it'll only give you one eighth of the information on the sheet and one eighth of anything, can't really help you with anything." Said Mira.
"Do you get anything they are talking about?" Asked Helios looking over to Keith, who watched them chatter away about some function and cell structure.
"Half and half." Said Keith.
"Well if you know half and I get half then that's good enough for me." Said Helios, watching the two chatter away.
"Any ways want to go home together?" Asked Rubby.
"Achoo!" Sneezed Rubby as she walked in to her massive home. Like Marucho, her family was rolling in dough and lots of it to.
"Sick?" Asked Helios looking at the giant crystal chandelier.
"Na. Just the cold" Said Rubby as her coat disappeared and she was back in a blood red tube top and black leggings.
"No wonder." Said Keith.
"Ha, ha, ha." Said Rubby as she locked the door.
"Welcome back Miss. Rubby." Came a voice as a maid with a red blouse and a black skirt with red flats walked in to the main foyer.
"Oh Violet. Hey sorry to wake you." Said Rubby as the maid walked over and bowed in respect to Rubby.
"No, I was already up. I've had trouble sleeping lately." Said Violet as Rubby walked passed her in to the kitchen followed by Keith.
"Well here." Said Rubby opening a cupboard and taking out a vial of black triangle shaped pills.
"Take this and you'll sleep like a baby." Said Rubby, tossing it at Violet who caught it with one hand, while Rubby rummaged in the cupboard for something else. "And this for nightmares." Said Rubby tossing another vial to violet this time the vial held pink cloud shaped pills as Violet caught it as well.
"But miss!" Began Violet in protest of the cloud shaped pills.
"Take it, that's an order." Said Rubby angrily as she shut the cupboard door and reached in to another for a glass. Keith sighed seeing that Rubby was not too short to reach the glass.
"Here let me." Said Keith as he easily reached the glass where Rubby had to struggle to get it.
"Thanks." Said Rubby passing the glass to Violet while a bottle appeared in her free hand and she poured the contents into the glass.
"Drink this with the pills, otherwise you might not wake up." Said Rubby as the bottle disappeared.
"Thank you Miss." Bowed the maid as she turned and left.
"You have a maid?" Asked Helios popping open.
"Plural. Maids. But she's my head maid." Said Rubby looking at the clock '12:00 am just great.' Thought Rubby "Keith it's getting late, you might as well as camp out here for the night." Sighed Rubby.
"Ok then I'll call Mira to let her know…" Began Keith, pulling out his phone only to have Rubby show her Iphone 4 to him.
'Hey. It's getting late and it's not safe walking home alone at night, so I'll lend him a spare room for the night.' Read the message on her phone then Rubby clicked send and it was on its way to Mira.
"Well, then where is the guest room?" Asked Keith looking above.
"Torichic will show you the way to the masters guest room." Said Rubby, as a Torichic appeared.
"Tor!" Exclaimed Torichic as Rubby disappeared in a burst of flames.
12:30 AM
"Rubby?" Asked Keith, as he had been woken up by a strange vision of fear and loss. So he sought out for Rubby who may be able to help him get back to sleep. He opened the door to Rubby's room quietly, knowing that Rubby was easily angered and was not to be messed with while she was angry.
"What's up?" Asked Rubby from inside her room. Surprised that he had not woken up Rubby yet she was still awake, and even more surprised when he went in to see the door to the balcony wide open and the silk curtains dancing in the cold winter winds. But what really surprised Keith was that Rubby was sitting in the balcony ledge with a cigarette in her mouth and was in a strapless red dress that flowed to her knees with a sweet heart neck line, with her long red hair untied and flowing in the wind as well.
"How come you're awake?" Stuttered Keith stunned by the natural beauty Rubby had. He never knew any one like her. So head string, so strong could look so sad.
"Can't sleep" Shrugged Rubby, inhaling as her cigarette then letting out a breath of frosty white air. As her cigarette was finished, she ate it like a pretzel stick. Keith shook his head to clear his thoughts.
"Is it because you gave your medicine to Violet?" Asked Keith worried for Rubby's health as he walked over to join Rubby on the balcony. Rubby shifted aside as she let on leg swing over the balcony and the other put up on the balcony.
"Half and half. I can sleep but then I keep wakening every now and then." Said Rubby, trying to hide the pain inside, as the nightmare of losing Sid flashed in her mind. She may have hidden it from her face but the pain of losing a loved one shone deeply in her eyes. The pain of losing Sid had hit her hard over the last few months. She even did therapy with Amy but the pain still was there. This caught Keith's eye as he pulled her in to a hug.
"Keith!" Said Rubby in a hushed as Keith held her close to his chest.
"Please don't keep your feeling locked up like that. I watched that tear Lilly apart… And I can't stand to see you go through that as well… Please." Said Keith in pain as he remembered when Lilly had called that evening a few years ago. She was so scared and upset. It tore him apart as much as it was for Lilly. He felt her body tense up and she moved to push him back and avoided his eyes as hers were on the verge of crying. She hated for others to see this side of her, only Sid ever saw this and he's gone.
"Please don't act like you know what I'm going through because you have no clue." Said Rubby trying not to stutter her words as her emotions was beginning to over flow. The pain she had held for so long was on the verge of spilling out in tears and she didn't want Keith to see it.
"I'm not because I know. I… I had to let Lilly go. When I found out that she loved him I was torn apart. Yet I'm happy for her. Happy to see her happy to be with Shun. I loved her. I really did, but I was no match for the love Shun had for Lilly, so I had to let her go. I knew she'd be happier with Shun then me. I can see it in your eyes Rubby. The pain of losing a loved one." Said Keith grabbing Rubby by the shoulders forcing her to look at him but she kept her gaze to the floor. She was starting to cry and she didn't want him to see.
"Rubby..." Began Keith softly yet pleadingly.
"What do you know? It's my fault he's dead!" Exclaimed Rubby, pushing Keith away, she couldn't hold it any more the pain she's held for months on end finally spilled out. The pain she couldn't hold it in any longer, the pain, the heartache, the endless nights haunted by the nightmare of losing Sid, the same fact replaying in her face over and over again each time adding to her pain. Sid was dead because of her.
"He?" Asked Keith with an angry tone as Rubby quickly realized what she said and turned away in regret of her sudden outburst as her tears sizzled away followed by her usual smirk that reappeared.
"He is an old friend." Said Rubby turning away and walking back to her desk where the stacks of papers on her desk await approval and also await to be sent off.
"Rubby..." Began Keith trying to reason with her.
"Keith just leave. Please. I've got work to do." Said Rubby as she pulled out another cigarette. Keith grew restless of Rubby's attitude and grabbed her arm. Pulling her in to a deep and passionate kiss. Then he pushed her in to his chest hugging her tight.
"You can't escape the past Rubby but you can embrace the present to pave the future for better results in life" Said Keith softly in to her ear causing Rubby to flush bright red as her cheeks heated up.
"Keith" Said Rubby in utter shock.
THE END
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