Cadorina
Cash blocked the assaults of Team RWBY jumping back, keeping his blade up for the next barrage. He shifted his eyes left and right, Ruby and Blake running towards him from both sides. Black tossed her tether at Cash. He dodged it, but noticed it took less effort then he thought. Blake nodded towards Ruby as her tether wrapped around her scythe. Blake pulled with both hands hard as she could, with Ruby rearing back her scythe blade. She was going to use Ruby as a giant Kusarigama. Ruby pulled the trigger on Crescent Rose which increased her speed, Cash intercepted her brush, pulling the trigger on his gunblade, making an explosion sending him flying back towards Blake. He spun and his blade me Ruby's and Blakes creating a shockwave from the impact.
Cash looked below, taking notice of a black glyph, keeping the two in place, Weiss behind them keeping her fingers straight her sword pointing down at the Glyph. Cash smiled at his tutor, proud of her creativity. Cash backed off and readied his blade at the sound of Yang's battle cry. Diving for a superman punch, Cash merely took a step back to dodge it. Yang took swings, taking no regard to planning her strikes. Cash dodged her side to side, as she tried harder to land a blow.
"(Still no personal change.)" Cash thought in disappointment, dodging Yang's crosses and jabs. He sheathed his Gunblade, which seemed to aggravate Yang as she swung harder, and when Cash's back was to her, her eyes glowed red. She went for another air strike, and Cash sidestepped her with nary a thought. He brought up his fist grasping his sheathed gunblade and tapped it against her face.
"Learn. Defense." Cash said, taking one eye to her, letting his fist fall.
"Would you Quit Saying That!" Yanged screamed as she exploded, her hair doing the same.
Cash didn't bother comprehending her shrilling. With a smile, he turned to the rest of Team RWBY. "Well done, I can see passing won't be a problem for you guys at the end of this semester." He said.
Ruby cheered pumping her scythe in the air, as Blake and Weiss fist bumped. "At top of rankings, I hope?" Weiss asked eagerly.
"Not up to me." Cash said with a snicker pointing as his mother.
"That will be all ladies, take a break." Glynda said, eager to move on to the next team.
Ruby waved at the gunblade wielder and walked to her sister to drag her away from further shrilling at him. Ceasing her tantrum, as her teammates uncomfortably walked to their seats. Team JNPR walked nervously passed them, as Ruby sat Yang down. With the source of her anger out of arm's length, Yang crossed her arms with a pout, and her eyes returned to lilac.
"Really Yang, I don't see why you can't stand him, I bet even Blake found something to like about him." Ruby said, pointing her thumb at the cat faunus.
"We happen to like the same reading material." Blake said, looking down at a book instead of the fighting below.
"All he says to me is "Learn Defense." Like I know what that means!? Doofus!" Yang said loudly, throwing her arms in the air with a snarl.
"He's just trying to help you, Yang, he's not saying that without reason." Weiss assured.
"He's basically saying I can't defend myself! If he'd seen what I did to some of the seedy punks I'd come across, he'd think twice!" Yang bragged. Ruby out of her sisters' sight, laid her eyes downcast, a frown forming on her face.
Ruby thought on how to make the two be on friendlier terms. With the last 2 months, Yang only grew more frustrated towards Cash's sentiments. Making it harder for the two to have any sort of genuine friendship. They were barely acquaintances.
As Ruby jarred her mind, getting more puzzled as her sister mumbled to herself, she could only hold her head in her hands. An idea then clicked in her mind and stood herself up straight with a smile.
As the class ended, Ruby made plans or the weekend to come. Saturday evening Ruby took the streets of vale with her sister, both in their huntsman attire.
"This is gonna be great, the pre-celebration for the Vytal festival at the docks is always the best!" Ruby said happily, with a jump.
"Any spending time I get to spend with my sister is always good." Yang said with a tender smile, making Ruby giggle.
"Up ahead!" Ruby shouted. Across the pier, banners decorated the square with words welcome, in red. Booths drawing crowds with games and showcases. Lights of red, orange and yellow illuminating the area, giving it a sense of celebration. Yang taking a childlike expression like her sister was ready to skip to the entrance, but she frowned upon seeing one person, in particular, awaiting them.
Cash stood smiling at the entrance waving at them, Ruby speeding ahead to meet him. Yang dully following.
"Hey Cash, will you look at this, it's so pretty, and there'll be fireworks at the end!" Ruby exclaimed, her mouth glistening over the thought of festival food.
"Can't wait. Hey Yang." Cash said, with a genuine positive greeting. He wore his grimm hoodie without his trenchcoat and worse his black pants.
"Hey." Yang said, biting down her bitterness. It wasn't like she outright hated him, but she had to find anything she liked about him.
"C'mon lets go!" Ruby said, taking each of them by the arm and dashing into the festival. Booth upon booth caught Ruby's eye as she left nothing but rose petals in her wake to the pastures of amusement.
From a ring toss, which Ruby participated with Cash, as her sister watched. Cash was unfamiliar with the carnival game and relied upon Ruby to instruct him. After a successful attempt, Cash flurried 5 rings on the bottles, gaining a fist bump from Ruby.
Next booth, Cash spectated as Yang stepped up to a dart throw popping balloons. Without looking at the targets she dispatched the varied colored balloons one after another, she finished with spitting the last dart center masse upon a blue balloon. Yang flexed an arm with a smirk, as Ruby awed at her sisters, getting starry-eyed, practically floating. Cash smirked as the sisters had their moment.
Amidst looking for the next game to play, Ruby pointed at a classic milk bottle pyramid knock em down game. The trio approached the booth, her companions happily following. The vendor enthusiastically welcomed them.
"Welcome, young ones, knock down the bottles and win a prize." They said, pointing at the varied plushies and stuffed toys decorating the ceiling of the booth.
"OooooooooooOOh, I want them all!" Ruby exclaimed, gawking at the stuffed toys over her head.
"Hmph." Cash smiled and approached the vendor. "How many prizes per knockdown?" he asked.
"Knock down all the bottles on one pyramid you get one prize." The vendor said happily. "Just hold up your lien card on the scanner there and I'll hand the balls. I also take cash." the vendor added, pointing to the device rigged onto the right support beam of the booth.
Cash put up his card to the scanner and received three balls. He whistled as he took up a ball and preceded to smash it into the stack of bottles and bring it all down.
"Well done." The vendor said, grabbing a pink bear plushy down the rack and presented it in front of Cash. Cash nodded towards Ruby, needing no other signal she scooped up the teddy bear in her arms and hugged it mercilessly. Before Ruby could thank him, Cash proceeded to throw another ball, dispatching another bottle pyramid.
Ruby gleefully gasped, already prepared to take her next prize. Cash knocked down another and proceeded to pay for more balls on the funds device. Ruby began jumping vigorously, childishly cheering with her new stuffed animals.
Yang, as she watched Cash repeat the process, began to scowl, and when he finished knocking down 6 more stacks, she huffed and displayed her lien card to the scanner. "Set me up." She said as the vendor was re-setting the bottle.
Ruby gaped at her sister and friend, standing side by side laying waste to bottles falling to the floor. Prize upon prize piled up next to Ruby as the pair spared no effort in making work of the obstacles. With no more stuffed animals on the rack or ceiling, Ruby was surrounded by plush toys and jumped in the air victory. The vendor laughed manically fawning over the lien cards Cash and Yang used to buy all the throws, basking in the success of his new funds.
Down the row of booths Cash, Yang, and Ruby walked, with stares coming from a lot of jealous children. Ruby carried her prizes gained from the efforts of her sibling and gunblade wielder. Cash walked behind smiling, contrast to Yang who seemed warily irritated folding her arms around her head.
"This is great! They're all mine!" Ruby shouted, smiling audaciously. With a quick spin, she turned to the two behind her, startling them. She charged them and wrapped an arm around each of her benefactors, somehow without dropping the stuffed animals. "I love you both so much!" she screamed, her head near Yang's shoulder and Cash's stomach. Yang gave her a tender smile and put her arms around the young girl. Cash could only blush, scratching his head nervously.
"U-uh, we better go get something to eat. You two can go find us a spot to sit." Cash suggested trying to hide his blush. Yang found this peculiar but continued to hold her sister.
"Yeah, sure. C'mon Yang!" Ruby said grabbing her by the hand and tugging her towards the direction she was walking beforehand.
"Yeah-sure." Yang agreed, following her sisters lead. Cash let out a sigh, relaxing in relief.
The siblings entered an area full of benches with umbrellas. Happily awaiting Cash to come back with nourishment. The sisters inspected animal plushy after another, Ruby constantly trying to find one perfect for Yang. Upon stopping upon the pony, Yang tried to dissuade her from giving it to her.
"(He won that one…)" Yang thought, putting on a fake smile to hide her inner scowl.
As Ruby pondered which to pick next, she felt a tap on her shoulder. Ruby looked behind to see Cash hovering over her with a smile. "Guess what I found?" he said giddily.
Ruby noticed Cash kept his arms behind his back. He revealed a snack box. "Strawberry cookies." He said. In the box were cookies ingrained with small strawberries, Ruby immediately gave a small scream, and took the box from Cash to feast on the confection.
"I remember you saying strawberries were your favorite food." Cash said taking a seat next to Yang. Ruby scrambled to Cash, and placed herself on his lap, catching him and Yang off guard.
"And their cookies, this day couldn't get any better!" Ruby exclaimed continuing to eat the strawberry cookies.
Yang unsure what to think, simply looked at how happy Ruby was as her sister offered her one, she happily began to dig in with her. Cash fidgeted nervously as the two ate away at the food.
Swallowing a cookie Ruby looked up at him. "C'mon Cash, have some!" Ruby said, positioning the box in between her and Yang.
Cash still caught off guard from Ruby sitting in his lap, began to devour the cookies, to Ruby's gratification. Yang eyed him and Ruby and began to think somberly of the 3rd year, her sister had grown more than fond of him, it was like watching her interact with their uncle qrow. He had been watching out for her as well as she had. That was more than enough to remove any previous animosity beforehand, that was albeit petty.
Yang moved her head against his shoulder, letting it rest upon it, as she continued to peck at strawberry cookies with her sister. Cash was taken by surprise and wasn't sure what to do. He only smiled in and ate with the sisters.
10 minutes later, the box was empty and Ruby let out a sigh of satisfaction. Her sister stood up and stretched her arms letting out a sigh under her breath.
Cash tossed the empty box into a trash can. With her appetite sated Ruby looked up at the sky, noticing it was well past twilight, and the stars were starting to glimmer. "Ah, its almost time for the fireworks show, I'm gonna get us fireworks so illegal, all inhabitants of Remnant will quake in fear of our greatness!" Ruby roared. She began skipping to the booths but realized her stuffed animals were still on the bench.
Catching this Cash, waved her towards her current path. "Go ahead I've got these." He said assuring Ruby.
Ruby nodded and proceeded to the main area to seek fireworks. Cash began to round up the stuffed animals but noticed that Yang was still with him. She watched him as if she had something to ask.
"You can go with you with your sister, if you want." Cash said, gathering the rest of the plushies.
"Why were you afraid when Ruby said she loved us?" Yang said, making the atmosphere like the inside of a pressurized mechanism. "You act like no ones told you they loved you before." Yang asked, fully serious intent in her voice. Cash with his back to Yang and kneeling at the bench, was silent.
"Before my mother no had said that to me before." Cash said finally, breaking the silence.
"No one? Not even Squall?" Yang asked.
"We've taken care of each other since before double digits, but were not that kind of brothers, I'm not used to hearing it, I'm still feeling when Glynda said it to me. I've never had that, not that I earned it." Cash said.
"But no one…even with what you've done, that's awful." Yang said on the brink of tears.
"Yang when I was 6 I broke out of a mental facility." Cash explained, increasing the tension in the air even further. This comment threw Yang for a loop but did her best to hold her composure.
"Surprised?" Cash asked.
"I want to say no, Ruby didn't tell us everything you told her, but I got the idea. A very clear idea." Yang uttered.
"Yang, I used to not be allowed in here." Cash said.
"Huh?" Yang said, confused at this.
"I come anywhere near the pre-celebration, everyone made sure to clear me away." Cash said, neutrally to the sentence.
"WHAT!?" Yang said, her eyes flickered red briefly.
"With good reason. If you knew me back then, then you-ghk!" Cash almost lost his balance at contact behind, as he was still to his knees. Yang had latched herself to his back, nestling her head on his left shoulder.
"Everybody has the right to seek fun, adventure, and the freedom to do so." Yang said softly, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"How can you say that?" Cash said, shaken at Yang's gesture.
"Its something Ruby would say, and she's not here right now. Sooo….will I do?" she asked. Cash turned his head slowly to meet Yangs comforting smile. Their noses were almost touching. Cash inspected her eyes and Yang seemed to be doing the same. "I hate your eyes." Cash said quietly, but genuinely
"Take a picture, it'll last longer." Yang replied unfazed but inched closer to him. Cash reflexively did the same. Before they could do anything more, Yang's ear picked up a rushing wind and looked behind her to see rose petals erupting around the docks.
"Ruby's coming back, we better ready for the fireworks show, it's her whole favorite thing to do every year." Yang elaborated and gave Cash a quick kiss on the cheek. She walked away to await her sister.
Cash sat silent for a brief moment, then returned to grabbing the stuffed animals to move. Ruby came with an abundant amount of fireworks in hand to as she put it "make the sky fall". The trio walked to the area, labeled with signs of launching fireworks. Ruby could barely contain herself ready jump to beacon tower and back in anticipation. The area was no longer illuminated by lights of the booths, but now of firecrackers and Roman candles, as the other participants readied their other fireworks for the display.
"Oh here, here is great." Ruby said, planting the majority the fireworks down while she prepared. Cash and Yang overlooked the young girl, standing next to the mountain of stuffed animals they'd won earlier.
"Its great seeing Ruby like this." Cash said, with a chuckle.
"Yeah, I have the best little sister," Yang said with a sweet smile.
"Yeah, I'd do anything to have her see me the same way you do." Cash as his smile became sadder.
"Me?" Yang exclaimed.
"Yeah, you've got to be with Ruby her whole life, even if I was lucky enough to meet Ruby earlier all she would've found was a monss-" Yang interrupted Cash from pulling his hood over his head. Cash had no time think or act as Yang closed the distance between them getting into his face once again.
"She already thinks of you as her actual brother." She said firmly, also moving his hand away from his hood.
Cash flinched hearing this but shook it off. "I've never had a little sister, but trying to think of Ruby that way-" Cash trail off.
"You're always telling me things, now listen to this. She already thinks of you that way, not a passing fangirl phase, genuinely a big brother. Like me." Yang said letting go of his hand, letting it drop to his side.
Cash stood silence more in shock. He could only stare at the young girl affixing the fireworks.
"You oughta hear the way she talks about you when she's not afraid that you might not feel the same way." Yang said.
"Thank you, Yang." Cash said softly, as a firework set off into the sky starting the show.
"No problem." Yang stood her going red, as she played with her hair. More fireworks began to rocket off around them.
"Guys!" Ruby called, making the pair perk up in response. "The first volley is ready, lets start!" Ruby said with a fist in the air. 3 rocket style fireworks were tied together going from small, medium, to big. They were colored from red, yellow, and black. The two nodded at the girl and ran to ignite it with her.
With their hands extending roman candle, all three rockets were ignited. The trio let their eyes follow the fireworks into the night sky and explode with the other rockets. Ruby stared dazzled, as the flash of red, black, and yellow erupted in a blaze. Her sister no different, as Cash was happy just to share in the excitement.
Ruby was quick to select the next to launch, urging her sister to pick another. Without warning lighting away rockets into the sky. Yang grabbed a few and began to illuminate her own. As she started to ignite her intended picks, she noticed Cash was only staring at his roman candle, content with simply watching. Before Yang could finish she stopped herself from igniting her last one and set the two aside to launch from the ground. She tapped on Cash's shoulder to get his attention and brought up the rocket in her hand.
"You've never got to come here, right? This can be your true first solo fireworks launch." She said with a sweet smile. Cash looked at the firework, it was light yellow, with green stripes and the top was auburn. He slowly took it, and with Yang watching him he ignited the fuse and placed the rocket at his feet, to wait for its ascension
As the hissing finished, the firework flew and kept flying, catching Cash surprised when it went higher than all the other fireworks. Finally, it exploded in a flash of bright sparkling purple light that imitated stardust.
Cash watched in childlike wonder at the prospect and the others that went after it. Yang satisfied with her work, returned to Ruby's side to the bundle of fireworks.
After a few more mid-sized ones the sisters broke out the biggest one they had, ¼ of the height of Ruby, maybe more, and fat as an Ursa.
"Alright, sis prepare the big bang ballistic Xiao Long!" Yang commanded pointing her finger right at the sky taking a pose. "Yes, sir!" Ruby with Cash tow aimed the bulbous rocket like a mortar cannon, as Cash held the body Ruby lit the fuse and took hold as well. With a wild smirk Yang watched as the fat boy took to the sky and created long stretching dragon that overtook all other fireworks and intimidated part of the crowd.
"Hell yeaaaaah!" Yang roared putting her hands in the rock symbol, her cheers joined by Ruby and Cash who lifted Ruby on his shoulder in triumph. After their short celebration, the rest of their fireworks were dispatched posthaste. When they arrived at their last firework, Yang and Cash stepped aside to let her have the final curtain call on their night. With gratefulness and unending cheer gracing her she took a few steps forward to set up the last launch.
While her back was to her sister and pending brother. Cash inched closer to Yang, responding by making no gesture that she was going to move away from him. He put his head to hers and beckoned her to look at his eyes. With a blushing smile, she turned to his gaze and moved to put their foreheads together. Cash kissed her softly on the lips and Yang kissed back, lapping her tongue, to impression he could deepen the kiss. He wrapped an arm around her and kissed her more firmly and in response Yang put her arms around his neck, taking his embrace.
Ruby had launched the sky rocket and adorned the illuminated sky as the other festival goers launched theirs. Throughout all of this, Cash and Yang did continue their kiss.
A ways off, another blonde watched the ensuing romance of the pair. Glynda, her glasses teeming with the light of the moon, could only smile full of relief that her son made another stride in his life. "Way to go, son." On the brink tears, she exited the docks swiftly knowing that was now not the only woman in her sons' life that he would fight to protect. Regardless of his past, these were the people that he would beg to have in his life.
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