In the town on the edge of Patch, Cinder, Summer and Ruby are there for a visit at the Coureur's Orphanage. The small amass of crowd shows almost the entirety of Patch's population. Yellow grain sand and clear blue sky, Cinder had decided to roll up her leggings and shirts, while Summer still has her entire body is covered by her cloak. "You're going to get a heat stroke if you keep your cloak like that, Summer."
Summer pats Cinder on her head, irritating her, "I'll be fine."
"Stop patting my head."
Summer pouts at her, "You're never cheerful of anything, are you?"
"Nope." Cinder says. She pushes up two legs that she is holding and peeks behind her and sees a head of black hair, "You still got a tight grip, Ruby?"
"Yeah." Ruby says, being piggybacked by Cinder. She looks around the town, seeing the brick buildings and shacks on the beach "This is where you live?"
"Not exactly but yeah, this is where I live." Cinder's face gives to a small smile. She feels a uncomfortable stare above her, true to her guts, Summer is looking at her with a smile, "What?"
"Is that a smile?" She looks at her with shining eyes. Cinder smiles dies down, "Aww." Her younger daughter laughs at her, "Ohh."
"Cindy?"
"Yes Ruby?"
"Do you have a mommy?"
Cinder looks down at her shoes, hair hanging down to her eyes, Summer sees this, "Ruby-"
"No. I'm a orphan. That means I have no mommy. Or daddy." Cinder answers.
Ruby looks confused, "But why? Didn't they love you?"
"I don't really know, I've been in the orphanage for 6 years. So far, a lot of mommies and daddies avoid me, some take a look at me and go away. Some even take me home and a few days later, I'm back in the orphanage."
Her young mind continues to ask, "Why? Do they hate you?"
"I need to get back to the orphanage. I have two kids to take care of." Cinder answers once more.
"Jade and Silver." Summer says.
"Yeah, though their names are-"
"Cin-Cin!" A young girl with short green hair runs up to her.
Cinder, understandably steps to the side, "Hold it, Em! I got a passenger onboard." She turns around and the green haired girl sees Ruby.
Her eyes "Hello! My name is-"
"EMERALD!" The three girls and mother look forward and see a boy, about the same age as Emerald, comes to them, moving his crutches and balancing himself with his wooden leg on his left. He finally gets to them and whacks Emerald on the butt.
"Ow! What was for, you butthead!?"
"That's for leaving me, dumbface!" He shouts at her.
Cinder kneels down to get Ruby off her back, the young girl does so and the two bickering children stop once feeling the stare of Cinder. "Emerald, Mercury."
"Oh that's why they're named-" Summer mutters out loudly before realizing the young eyes set on her, "Right." She zips her mouth and sees how Cinder looks at them.
"How was your day, you two?" She says, uncharacteristically caring.
Mercury goes to speak but is overridden by Emerald, "Well, me and Merc got your mail and we started to fix our beds, drew some pictures, ate some toast and-" She gets a flick on her forehead, "Ow!"
"I asked both of you on how your day was, not just you Emerald." Cinder says.
She looks at Mercury, who looks at her with a raised eyebrow, "Sorry."
"Mercury. How are you." Cinder asks.
"Well, I'm getting better with the cruh-crua-cruc-"
"Crutches." She corrects.
"Yes, I'm getting better with them. The wooden leg is helping as well." Cinder smiles and ruffles Mercury's hair, who is visibly mad, "Hey! No touching the hair."
Cinder does a short laugh. "Alright you two, I'll leave you with a child that is your age." Cinder looks at Summer's cloak, behind her is where Ruby is. "Ruby. Come meet them."
Ruby looks at the two with the same shyness but walk in front of her mom, "Hi. My name is Ruby."
"Hello Ruby!" Emerald puts her hands on her hips, "My name is Emerald!"
"Mercury." The grey haired boy says to her. "Want to see our secret cubby?" Ruby looks to Summer who gives her daughter rose a nod. She nods back to Mercury, "Alright, follow us and we'll show you."
As they walk and hop away, Summer looks at Cinder with a smile, "What?"
"Nothing. Just looking."
"Stop it!" A girl voice shouts. Cinder looks to the beach and sees a girl with brown hair getting ganged up by three boys. Her ears are being pulled by the tall boy, "It hurts!"
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"Look at it, it's real!" The tall boy and the other two laugh at her agony. He goes to pull again but his wrist is grabbed by a pale white hand.
"She said stop it, so stop it." Cinder says, near deadened but still threatening.
The tall boy laughs, "Why? It's fun."
"It's hurting her."
"And why are you going to do?" He asks mockingly.
"I'll beat you."
The three boys laugh at Cinder, "Did you hear that!?"
"Yeah, a girl thinks she can beat up Cardin!"
"Ha! That's a real-" a fist comes to his face. He reactively lets go of her ear and holds his bleeding nose, "Owww!"
"Cardin!" A older woman, probably her mother runs and kneels down to him, "Oh Cardin, are you alright?"
"That mean girl hit me!"
Summer walks calmly to Cinder, which Cinder walks back to. Cardin's mother goes to her face, "This's your daughter? You need to control her!"
The older rose looks at her with feign confusion, "This isn't my kid, I have no control over her."
"Well then, take this girl into that-"
"AAAHHHHH!" The two mothers look back and see that the boys' pants are on fire. They run away as Cinder whistles innocently as she can. The mother runs to them as Cinder kneels down to the victim.
"Are you alright?" Cinder says. The girl nods to her. "You can talk to me. I'm Cinder."
"Velvet."
"Do those boys bully you?"
"Every time they see me." Tears begin to form in the girl's eyes.
"Hey, no tears are needed." She holds Velvet and gets her on her feet. She stands a staggering height compared to Cinder's, "Wow, you are more taller then I thought." Cinder chuckles, "That's kind of cool."
"Cool?" Velvet says confusingly, "You think I'm cool?"
"Yeah you are." Velvet finally smiles at Cinder.
"And you don't care that I'm a Faunus?"
"So?"
"Wow. I better get back to my mom." Velvet walks away, smiling that she found someone. "Thanks, Cinder." She whispers to herself.
The amber-eyed girl feels a stare above her again, "What?"
"Oh nothing." Summer looks with hope, "Lets find the kids at their cubby."
Cinder begins to walk with Summer trailing, "I know where it is. It's behind the Orphanage."
"Lead the way, Cin-Cin." Summer teases.
"Only Emerald is allowed to call me that."
(Author's Note)
The Orphanage is near a beach because why not? Where there is a Cinder, there has to be a Emerald and Mercury. And I got to say, I'm going to love writing these guys and their adapted personalities. Also, since these are shorts, I can write these in one, two days tops.
Reviews/s
Chyllus: I'll try not to.
darkvampirekisses: She'll probably set a fire on your shoes when you try to hug her.
HeartOfChaos13: (C1) It is. (C2) Right now.
Hope you enjoyed this short, review and have a nice day Reading.
