Chapter Ten: Awakening, Part Two
Team BLAC along with Cerin and the former Team RWBY left the party when most others did. On their way out of the house, Ruby and Weiss pulled Bianca aside to talk to her about what had happened a few days ago.
"Has everything been okay for you since the incident with those boys?" Ruby asked.
"It's been getting better, some people still make fun of me, but it's been dying down as time goes on," Bianca replied.
"Good, because if it happens again, it won't be pretty for those ruffians," Weiss stated.
"You two don't have to worry that much, my teammates have my back, especially Cyrus," Bianca said.
"Your partner does seem like a nice boy, but I can't help this weird feeling I get around him, like there's something he's hiding," Weiss said.
"Ugh, not you too," Bianca said in annoyance.
"What do you mean by that?" Ruby inquired.
"It's nothing, it's just Alyssa thinks he and his brother are hiding something from us, you see, they lost their parents when they were really young, so I think she's confusing grief for lying," Bianca said.
"Oh, well, I'm sorry to hear that, but have you thought of looking into it more," Weiss said.
"No, not really, I saw it was a touchy subject for them, so I try not to force it," Bianca replied.
Alyssa then called out to Bianca from her mother's SUV, "hey B, we gotta go, it's getting late."
"Sorry, I gotta go, bye mom," Bianca said as she hugged Weiss, to which she reciprocated the action, "bye mom," Bianca continued as she hugged Ruby and she too reciprocated her daughter's hug.
"That was a nice party," Blake said as her, Team BLAC, Cerin and Yang drove away in Yang's SUV.
"Yeah, you could say it was… Pyrr-ific," Yang said with a large grin.
Blake, Bianca, Alyssa, and Lucas all simultaneously groaned at Yang's pun, while Cyrus chuckled slightly and Cerin burst out laughing.
As Team BLAC, Yang, Blake, and Cerin continued to drive home, Alyssa began to ask Cyrus and Lucas what it was like living on the street in Vale during their youth, and how they managed to get by.
"So, Luc, when you and your brother lived on the street, where did you guys sleep?" Alyssa asked.
"Wherever we could," Lucas replied nonchalantly.
"You guys couldn't've slept on the street all the time; didn't Sonny ever give you a place to crash?" Alyssa inquired.
"We didn't know Sonny till relatively recently, we only met him about two years ago," Cyrus cut in.
"You expect me to believe you guys just spent every night sleeping in the gutters," Alyssa said in disbelief.
"We made due," Lucas said nonchalantly.
Alyssa had begun to get a bit frustrated at her partner and his brother, but she didn't want to cause a scene in the car so she tried to keep her cool. Bianca had remained quiet even though Alyssa's constant questioning of their partners was starting to get on her nerves.
After they arrived at Alyssa's home the seven of them got out of the SUV and headed inside. They relaxed for the night and watched some T.V. together for a time, before Cerin headed off to play some video games in his room and Yang and Blake decided to go to bed. When they did this, Alyssa went and got Lucas and Cyrus each a blanket and pillow so they could crash on the couches for the night, then she set up a bedroll on the floor of her room for Bianca.
Team BLAC didn't go to sleep immediately after Alyssa's parents and brother, instead they stayed up a little while longer, during which time Alyssa started to question her teammates about their past once again.
"Hey, guys, quick question, what did you do for money when you were on the street?" Alyssa asked.
"We managed to rustle up some cash here and there," Lucas replied vaguely.
Hearing yet another vague answer set Alyssa off, she had become tired of the empty answers she was getting from her teammates and wanted them to cut the shit for once.
"Hey! For once can you give me a straight answer and quit fuckin' lying!" Alyssa yelled.
"Alyssa! Will you quit it! I am tired of you accusing our partners of lying about their past, they lost their parents, why can't you just accept that!?" Bianca jumped in as she had grown tired of Alyssa questioning their partners.
"Because they are obviously leaving something out!" Alyssa shouted back.
"What does it matter if they are, besides, I bet they aren't hiding anything, right guys… guys?" Bianca said.
Lucas and Cyrus had looked away from Bianca when she said this, they had a bit of shame on their faces. When Bianca saw this, she came to the realization that maybe they were hiding something.
"See, I told you!" Alyssa said, noting the brothers' shameful expressions.
"Ugh! You always have to try and beat me don't you, you always have to be right, you can't ever settle can you!" Bianca said in frustration.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Alyssa inquired aggressively.
"Hey, guys please sto…" Cyrus tried to say, but was cut off.
"Stay out of this!" Both Bianca and Alyssa shouted at Cyrus.
"This isn't about me questioning them, it's about the tournament isn't it, you're just mad because I beat you and people started to ridicule you for losing to a blind opponent!" Alyssa shouted.
"No, it's not!" Bianca yelled.
"Don't lie!" Alyssa shouted back, "Oh, look at me, I'm Bianca Rose, I can't handle criticism," Alyssa continued mockingly.
"At least I'm not afraid of my past!" Bianca shouted angrily.
"You know what, I'm not doing this anymore, I'm going for a walk!" Alyssa said as she got up from the couch and stormed out of the house.
Blake and Yang had been awoken by Team BLAC's argument, despite being disgruntled by the shouting match going on downstairs, they decided to stay out of it as they remembered that their team had a few spats in their day. They knew it was important for them to solve their own problems as a team. They would only get involved if they absolutely needed to.
"I'll go after her," Lucas said, and promptly left after Alyssa.
Bianca let out a large sigh and grasped her head, she had given herself a headache in that shouting match with her cousin, meanwhile Cyrus, who was sitting on the couch perpendicular from Bianca's, had a regretful look on his face.
"Cyrus…" Bianca said.
"What?" he asked.
"Did you and your brother really lie to me and Alyssa when we talked?" Bianca inquired.
"It's… complicated, I wouldn't say we lied, more like we told a 'half-truth', but that's from our point of view, Alyssa obviously 'sees' it another way," Cyrus said.
"Do you wanna ta…" Bianca said, but was cut off.
"Not without Lucas," Cyrus stated bluntly.
Alyssa was walking down the street when she sensed her partner following her, she stopped and turned to confront him.
"Stop following me." She stated.
"Alyssa, you're my partner, I'm supposed to look out for you," Lucas said.
"I don't want to talk to you, your brother, or Bianca right now… Leave. Me. Alone." Alyssa commanded and then continued walking.
Despite Alyssa's command, Lucas kept following her, but from a distance, he was sure to stay out of the range of her semblance, she may be mad, but her semblance was not flaring up like it normally did when she was.
As Alyssa walked through town, the cool night air blew around her body, it was calming and comforting to her, she particularly liked how the breeze felt on her cat ears. She was still angry with Cyrus and Lucas… and her cousin, but this walk was helping relieve some of that anger.
As Alyssa reached the commercial distract, Lucas used his semblance to leap to the top of the buildings, so he could keep a better eye on her and make sure she would be okay, he knew Vale after dark wasn't the best place, even though it had improved significantly in the past few years.
As Lucas was trailing Alyssa he heard a creepy manic laugh come from behind him, but when he stopped to look where the sound came from, there was nothing there. When Lucas looked back to where Alyssa was, he found he had lost sight of her.
Alyssa continued to walk and let the cool night breeze flow around her body, but this sensation had caused her to become distracted and lose track of her surroundings.
Suddenly something heavy and hard hit her over the head, knocking her out, she could vaguely feel two men drag her by her arms into a nearby alley.
"This her, boss?" One of the men asked.
"Let see, blonde, check. Faunus, check. Blind…" another man said, then opened one of Alyssa's eyes, "check, yup, it's her boys," he continued.
Alyssa then came to and sensed about a dozen men around her. She could tell by their baggy clothing and accents that they were gang bangers, some of their voices she recognized as the men who tried to rob her on one of her nightly walks. She could also feel she was being restrained by two of the men, they each had one of her arms in a tight grip.
"Well would you look at that, sleeping beauty's awake," the lead thug said.
"Oh, well if it isn't the alley trash, who tried to rob a blind girl," Alyssa retorted.
"Oooh, still feisty I see, you know, my jaw is still a little stiff from our fight," the lead thug said.
"That's what you get for underestimating your opponent, now, why don't you tell your boys here to let me go before things get ugly," Alyssa stated confidently.
"HA! And what are you gonna do without those toys of yours, your no match for us without your shot gauntlets and boots," the lead thug said with a laugh.
"Let me go and let's test that theory," Alyssa commanded.
The lead thug walked up to Alyssa and knelt in front of her, getting eye to eye with the blonde faunus, when he did this, he looked over her face, before stopping on the scar under her left eye.
"How'd you get that scar blondie?" He asked with condescending curiousness.
"You should know, you gave it to me," Alyssa shot back.
"I'll tell ya what blondie," the lead thug said as he began to uncomfortably caress Alyssa's face, "let's have some fun before I break that pretty face of yours anymore," he continued.
Alyssa tried to free herself from the two larger men's grips at this point, but it was no use, they were much to strong.
As the lead thug groped her, Alyssa began to tear up, and experienced flashbacks of before she had her semblance, when she was nothing but a helpless little blind girl. As these memories came flooding back, her tears became larger and she struggled even harder to break free, but it was all for not.
"Get your hands off her!" A voice shouted from the rooftops.
A glyph in the shape of Lucas' emblem then appeared on the ground as Lucas fell from the rooftop. He landed with the glyph breaking his fall.
Upon seeing Lucas several of the men in the alley took fearful steps back, another man began repeating the same phrase, and the lead thug stepped away from Alyssa to confront Lucas.
"La muerte gris, La muerte gris, La muerte gris," a man said fearfully and then took off running out of the alley.
"Rojan, get back here!" The lead thug commanded.
"Hell naw vato, I wanna live!" The man shouted back as he continued to run.
"Wait, if he's here, then where's…" One of the large men holding Alyssa said.
After hearing this, several of the men began to get even more fearful looks on their faces as they looked around hastily for someone else… for Cyrus.
"Come on guy's get it together," the lead thug commanded, "look, he doesn't even have his weapons, and there's eleven of us and one of him," he continued.
"Hey, Flynn, how about you let my friend go," Lucas said to the lead thug.
"Oh, Lucas, Lucas, Lucas, I can't do that, you see, I have a bone to pick with your friend here, I can't just let her go after what she did to me and my boys," Flynn said.
"So, you're admitting you got beat up by a blind girl," Lucas said with a light laugh.
"I'm not admitting shit to you," Flynn said sharply, "now run along, this doesn't concern you," he continued.
"Oh yes it does," Lucas said and then raised his fists, ready for a fight.
"Are you mad, you're out numbered eleven to one, and you don't have your weapons, what can you do," Flynn said.
"Eleven to two," Lucas said confidently.
"What?" Flynn inquired with a bewildered tone.
Lucas then attacked the two guys holding down Alyssa, he hit one of them with and elbow to the face, and another with a roundhouse kick to the jaw.
Alyssa quickly got up and stood back to back with Lucas as they thugs surrounded them, she too readied herself for combat.
"You good to fight?" Lucas asked.
"Thanks, but I'm still mad at you," Alyssa replied.
"I'll take that as a yes," Lucas said with a smirk.
A few of the thugs charged Alyssa and Lucas as they stood back to back, these first few attackers were dispatched with ease, but they weren't knocked out of the fight.
One of the large men that had been holding down Alyssa charged her and swung a large lead pipe at her head.
Since Alyssa didn't have her heavy gauntlets to protect her, she opted to parry his strike instead of blocking it, after doing so, she hit the man with an elbow strike in his nose.
The large man stumbled backwards in pain as he held his now broken and bleeding nose, after a second, he got an angry look on his face and charged Alyssa once more.
Alyssa counter charged the man, as he swung his pipe, Alyssa dodged the strike by dropping to her right, as she did this, she threw a kick to the man's head.
Alyssa's kick staggered the man, and she took advantage of this, as the man tried to regain his composure, Alyssa spun on her hands and wrapped her legs around his torso taking him to the ground, she then promptly kneed him in the face, knocking him out cold.
While Alyssa was dealing with the large man, Lucas fought a couple of smaller thugs.
As one of the thugs swung his brass-knuckled fist at Lucas, he dodged the strike and hooked his arm under the thug's, Lucas then flung the thug to the ground, using the momentum of his punch against him.
The second thug then grabbed Lucas from behind, but Lucas quickly flung him off, spun around, and delivered a few punches to his face, knocking him out.
The thug Lucas had thrown onto the ground, got back up and swung at him once more.
Lucas caught his arm and quite viciously broke it, causing the man to drop to the ground riving in pain, while holding his dangling arm.
Alyssa and Lucas found themselves back to back once again, the second large man, along with a few other thugs rushed them.
"Alyssa, switch!" Lucas yelled.
Lucas then ducked under while Alyssa rolled over his back, when they did this, they each struck an opponent.
Alyssa struck one of her opponents with a thunderous downward punch, sending his face into the concreate, after this, her semblance began to flare up and her eyes faded from white to red.
Lucas uppercut the large man and sent him stumbling backwards, he then tripped over the other large man's body, knocking himself out when he hit the ground.
Alyssa and Lucas kicked the crap out of a few more of the thugs before Flynn decided to get involved.
"Ugh! If you want a job done right you gotta do it yourself," Flynn said.
Flynn then pulled out a pair of balisong knives and twirled them in his hands, before rushing Alyssa and Lucas.
Flynn landed a few nice strikes on Alyssa and Lucas, knocking them back, it was then, the last of his thugs charged the two of them.
Alyssa and Lucas parried and blocked the blows of these thugs for a few moments, before knocking them back with a series of quick strikes.
One of the thugs rushed Alyssa once more, he swung a metal baseball bat at her head, but she quickly dodged this strike by windmilling down to her hands.
Once on the ground, Alyssa hit the thug with a series of powerful flare kicks, knocking him to the ground, she quickly jumped up and delivered a downward kick to the thug, incapacitating him.
Lucas quickly dispatch the rest of the remaining thugs before he and Alyssa turned their attention back to Flynn.
Alyssa and Lucas charged Flynn and hit him with some heavy blows, putting him on the back foot.
He quickly regained his composure and began to skillfully parry and block both Alyssa and Lucas' blows, but they also parried his.
Lucas then hit Flynn with a surprise uppercut, sending him flying, Alyssa then delivered the finisher, a seven-twenty quadruple kick, knocking him out and sending him flying out of the alley and into the street.
After seeing this, the thugs that weren't already knocked out cold, ran off, or rather limped away with their tails between their legs, both figuratively and literally.
After the fight was over, Alyssa's cat ears twitched slightly as she sensed something… someone.
"Someone's watching us," Alyssa said.
Lucas began to look around, on a roof across the street he saw a figure. The figure was dressed in a white hooded scarf, with baggy white pants, white cloth wraps around their chest and hands, and white slip on shoes. This person resembled the boy who was watching Bianca on their initiation, except the color they wore, and they were a girl.
Lucas couldn't make out very much on the girl's face as her hood was covering most of it, all he could see was some long and straight black hair hang out of it, and a large manic smile.
"Oooh, you two are gonna be fun," she said manically, before then quickly rushing away from them.
Lucas then turned back to Alyssa who was still standing next to him, "well, she was defiantly something," he said.
"Yeah, whatever," Alyssa said as she walked past Lucas and out of the alley.
Lucas quickly jogged to catch up with his partner and walk her home.
"So, I take it those were the guys who you clobbered for trying to rob you?" Lucas asked rhetorically.
"You know, I had it under control, I didn't need saving," Alyssa stated bluntly.
"Bullshit, had I not been there, who knows what they would've done to you," Lucas shot back.
"I'm not a damsel in distress, I don't need saving!" Alyssa yelled, as a tear fell from her eye.
"Alyssa…" Lucas said softly.
Alyssa fell to her knees and grasped herself by the shoulders, she began to bawl, "I felt so vulnerable, like I was that helpless blind girl again," she said.
Lucas went to comfort his partner, but she shoved him away and jumped to her feet as her semblance began to flare up once more.
"And how in the hell do those thugs know you, I want a straight answer, no more vague runarounds!" She yelled as tears continued falling from her eyes.
"Fine, I'll tell you, but on two conditions, one, Cyrus has to be around, it's his story too, and two, you have to tell me what's up with this 'helpless blind girl' thing all of a sudden," Lucas said.
Alyssa took a deep breath before speaking, "remember on our first night after initiation, how I said I had to persevere more than anything?" Alyssa asked softly.
"Yeah, why?" Lucas inquired.
"It's because I didn't get my semblance when most people do," Alyssa stated softly, "It didn't manifest till I was almost twelve, as you know, most people get theirs between ages six and eight… For those four years after my eighth birthday, all I could do was hope and pray… I think I prayed to every god ever thought of, even though I don't fancy myself much of a believer in a higher power. I wanted to be a huntress so bad, just like my parents and another…" she continued.
"Another?" Lucas asked.
"You heard of Fox Alistair?" Alyssa asked with a soft tone.
"Yeah, not as famous as your parents, but I've heard of him," Lucas replied.
"Then you know he's blind… Like me," Alyssa said softly, "Behind my parents, he was my favorite huntsman, I felt that once I got my semblance I could be like him, a blind warrior, but my hopes were dashed when my semblance didn't manifest. I tried to stay happy around my parents, but when I was alone, I'd wallow in my own self-pity, I felt like I'd always be that 'helpless blind girl' or the 'damsel in distress', not the hero, but then it happened, one day I woke up and found I could 'see', not 'see' like you, B, or Cyrus, but I could sense the world around me… sensory projection, the perfect semblance for a blind person. Ever since then, I was determined never to look back, but the prospect of becoming that 'helpless blind girl' again still hangs over my shoulder every day, like a dark shadow," she continued.
"You know, even though you feel you don't ever need saving, I'll always have your back, and so will Cyrus and Bianca," Lucas said.
"Thanks Luc," Alyssa said as she wiped away her tears.
"No problem," Lucas replied.
Lucas and Alyssa walked back to her home after their street fight. Once they arrived home, Alyssa and Bianca reconciled for their brief spat earlier. Once Team BLAC was all together, they sat down around the front room couches and Lucas began to talk about he and his brother's past, Cyrus was visibly disturbed, as he was about to relive some memories he'd rather forget.
"So, you two want hear our whole past, no halve truths, I can tell you right now, I don't know what you'll think of us once we tell you, you'll probably never want to see us again," Lucas stated.
Bianca and Alyssa sat at attention, ready to hear their partners' story, they gave nods of readiness for the confession.
"So, first, our father, he wasn't really a huntsman, he was a low-level crime lord from right here in Vale, Reed Harkin was his name, and our mother, Indigo Grey, was a prostitute that he knocked up one night," Lucas said, "Needless to say, but he was a deadbeat at best, never around, never payed child support, nothing," he continued.
Bianca and Alyssa were taking this new news well, but the worst was yet to come.
"Our mom struggled to provide for us, she even considered putting us up for adoption so we could have a good life, but then she met someone around the time Cyrus and I turned six, a young monkey faunus huntress, recently graduated from Beacon, Maize Xantha, they hit it off near immediately, at this point Cyrus and I thought our young lives were going to be better from then on… oh how wrong we were," Lucas said, he then rubbed his eyes to keep himself from tearing up, "she pulled our family out of the gutters and we moved to the suburbs in the residential district, our mom and step mom then had a baby together, our half-sister, Iris Xantha. We thought our life was perfect… but then He came back," Lucas continued, at this point he had begun to tear up.
"You gonna be okay Lucas?" Bianca asked.
"Yeah, I'll be fine," Lucas said with a sniffle as he wiped away his tears, "Reed busted into our house one day, I guess he wasn't happy we had a good life and had pretty much forgotten about him. Our step mom fought him and his thugs, but they overpowered and killed her, our mother managed to get us out of the house, but when she tried to run out with our sister, Reed shot and killed both of them, she was barely a year old," he continued.
"Oh my god…" Bianca said as she covered her mouth in shock
"I now understand why you didn't tell us everything at first," Alyssa said softly.
"There's more," Cyrus said somberly.
"Yeah, we lived on the street for a while, like we told you before, but not for very long, we started working as couriers for Hei Xiong, you probably know of him by his nickname, 'Junior,' Lucas said.
"Oh, you mean the owner of 'Junior's Club', right?" Bianca inquired.
"Yeah, that Hei Xiong," Lucas replied, "we worked for him for a while, just little stuff here and there, but then as we got older, we started doing more, not just for Junior, but for all types of people in the Vale underground, mostly as hired muscle or… hitmen… We kept secret with our identities when we did those things, people started calling us the Grey Death and the Black Beast, that's why those thugs were scared, our reputations precede us, and they knew that when one of us was around, the other was always close by, also, we worked with their boss, Flynn, more than once, that's how we knew each other," Lucas continued.
Cyrus still said nothing as he sat in silence, reliving all the horrible things he had done in that part of his life. Bianca got up from where she was sitting and sat by Cyrus to comfort him, he looked like he needed it right now.
"Cyrus was in pretty deep, doing the work we did almost cost him his humanity, we both have our demons, but I can't even fathom how many he has," Lucas said, "around two years ago I decided to get us out after a job we were contracted to do, some guy owed some powerful people a lot of money and he didn't pay up, we got hired to kill them and when we received information about the target, we saw it was our father," he continued.
"So, did you guys… ya know, do the job?" Alyssa asked.
"Yeah, we tracked him down and killed him," Lucas said.
"Don't sugar coat it, we didn't kill him… I killed him, put Caliburn right through his chest, and you know what… it felt good, I don't know why, but that's the one thing I don't regret," Cyrus said bluntly.
"Cyrus almost lost himself that day, I almost lost my brother, so I made the decision to leave and I brought him with me, I wasn't about to lose the only family I had left. When we got out, we borrowed some money from some less than reputable people, a loan that we needed help paying back, that's how we met Sonny, you already know that story," Lucas said, "after that, Cyrus started fighting in underground fighting pits, that's how he got so good at unarmed combat, and how we managed to get by, it also helped that Sonny let us crash at his place from time to time," he continued.
Cyrus got up from the couch and headed to the backyard for some air, he needed it after reliving those memories.
Bianca got up and went after him as Lucas and Alyssa stayed seated on the couch.
"I'm sorry, I should've never forced you to tell us," Alyssa said softly.
"No, it's fine, we needed this, no more bottling up our emotions and hiding our past, if it was anyone we could've opened up to, I'm glad it was you and Bianca," Lucas said.
"You need a hug?" Alyssa asked.
"I'm good, but thanks anyway," Lucas replied.
Cyrus was sitting on the bench in Alyssa's backyard, staring up at the night sky with tears falling down his cheeks.
The sliding glass door opened and Bianca stepped out, she walked over and sat next to Cyrus, when she did this, she placed her hand on his which was resting on his knee.
Cyrus noticed her, but he couldn't bring himself to look at his partner, the shame and regret he felt for what he had done in his past was too great for him to bare.
"How can you even look at me after learning about what we… what I did," Cyrus said somberly.
"It's the past Cyrus, everyone has their inner demons, their skeletons in their closet, you can't let the past dictate who you are, but let it be a lesson that strengthens the person you'll become," Bianca stated.
"But, I was evil, I was a horrible person back then," Cyrus said.
"Exactly," Bianca stated softly.
"What do you mean?" Cyrus inquired.
"You were that person, but you aren't anymore, be the person you want to be, not the person you think you are," Bianca said.
"That still doesn't change what I did," Cyrus said.
"Everyone deserves a second chance," Bianca said softly.
"Not me," Cyrus replied somberly, "how anyone would want to be friends with someone like me I'll never know," he continued.
"Cyrus, I… I…" Bianca hesitated to say as she began to blush.
Seeing Cyrus in so much despair made Bianca want to tell him how she felt so bad, maybe it would bring him out of his depression if he knew how she felt about him. But, for whatever reason, the words got stuck in her throat. She took a deep breath and let it out with a sigh, clearing the blush from her face.
"Cyrus, I just want you to know, I'm here for you, I'll always be here for you, especially since you were there for me," Bianca said.
She couldn't say what she wanted to say, even though she was screaming it inside, she just couldn't say it, however, her words still seemed to help her partner.
Cyrus went from staring at the night sky, to looking at Bianca. His silver eyes gazed into hers, this action made the blush return to Bianca's face. Before she knew it, he wrapped his arms around her and grasped her in a hug.
"Thank you… thank you so much," Cyrus said with a weep.
As the night progressed Team BLAC decided to call it a day. Bianca and Alyssa had learned what their partners were hiding from them, but they didn't regret hearing it, they were grateful that they opened up to them. They didn't care about what Cyrus and Lucas did in their past, that's not them anymore… everyone deserves a second chance.
The next morning, Alyssa and Bianca awoke at around the same time as Alyssa's parents, they were busy waking up the others for the day, Yang woke up Cerin and Blake went to wake up the Grey brothers, who were asleep on the front room couches.
"Hey, time to wake up you two," Blake said as she lightly shook the both of them.
"Mmm… Five more minutes," Cyrus mumbled.
Blake stood up from her slightly bent position and got a mischievous smile on her face, "oh honey, I need help waking up the boys, I think a little Xiao Long touch is needed," she said.
Blake then moved the coffee table away from the couches as Yang walked downstairs from the bedrooms to the front room. She stood between the two couches and firmly grasped the blankets of Cyrus and Lucas.
"Time to wake up boys!" Yang shouted and then forcefully yanked the blankets off Cyrus and Lucas, causing them to fall off the couches and onto the floor.
Bianca, Alyssa and Cerin were watching the scene from the second-floor hallway that overlooked the front room. They broke out laughing after Yang flung them out of bed and onto the floor.
"Well… I guess it's time to get up," Cyrus said, his voice being muffled by the pillow that had fallen on his head.
Lucas grumbled a bit at being woken up so aggressively, but there wasn't anything he could do about it.
"Thanks honey," Blake said.
"No problem Blakey," Yang replied.
Blake then pecked Yang on the lips quickly before she headed upstairs to finish getting ready for the day.
After they all finished getting ready and ate breakfast, Yang took Cerin to Coastal Academy, while Blake headed up to Beacon with Team BLAC.