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Almost done with the plot of volume 1.
BTW, I don't own RWBY, only my OC.
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Chapter 12: A lucky rabbit's foot.
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It was the day.
5:59 pm.
I was wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and black dress pants, which I had bought in Vale with team RWBY as fashion consultants. Except Yang, she lost the title when she suggested a t-shit with the legend "Huntsman in the streets, Grimm in the sheets". I combed my hair back using hair gel so the image change was a big surprise for the girls, who always saw me with my tousled short hair. They also gave advices about what I had to do being with a girl.
"If you're going to a restaurant, open the door for her and help her to sit." Weiss said while checking my shirt.
"Even if you don't understand what she's saying, always reply with a 'Really?' or 'Interesting'." Yang advised fixing my hair.
"You both like books so it can be a good topic of conversation, so exploit it." Blake said applying a perfume that smelled like hell but she swore it was perfect for the occasion.
"Most of all…" Ruby started who swore she had a date before with a guy from Signal name Connor Rhean, Chrono Ghea. I don't remember. His name sounded like gonorrhea.
"Don't be too yourself!" RWBY said in synch.
"What do you mean?" I was confused. I was cool. Really. Don't judge.
"Where do we start?" Blake wondered.
"When you get bored, you start ignoring everything and play games in your scroll." Weiss started.
I only did that once in the cafeteria. And in Grimm Studies. And in Science class. And sometimes in the room.
"When you're talking about something you like, you talk too much and you don't let others give their opinion." Yang continued.
Hey, she asked if I knew Serenity band and I gave a good review of the song the actual and former members and their discography. I loved power metal.
"And, when you get nervous, you play with your locket" Ruby finished.
"That's not true." I objected.
"You're doing it right now." The leader indicated.
I looked down and I saw my right thumb and index finger touching the silver locket on my neck which I always wore under my uniform and usual gakuran. It had engraved the emblem that Alice Noir used to wear: a bird with outstretched wings with a sword inside, representing the inner strength that people had. She left me use being her student and my family didn't have a particular emblem.
"Why don't you take it off today?" Ruby offered trying to take it off.
"NO!" I roared stepping back and scaring everyone in the room "I'm sorry but I can't do that." I apologized after I could calm down.
I couldn't lose it. It was a gift from Alice. The last one I had when she was alive.
After getting more advices, I left before Yang started her lesson about kisses, like the vacuo kiss.
Once again I was nervous and playing with my locket until I heard Velvet's voice.
"Did I make you wait too much time?"
She wore a scarlet dress with black accents that fell to her knees with a black purse. I If I hadn't had control of my body at that time, my jaw would have fallen to the ground creating a crater like Ruby was going to do on the first day. Her face started blushing after all the time I was stared at her.
"Everything is alright?" she asked shyly.
I shook all the impure thoughts off from my mind and answered:
"Yes. Everything is good." I offered my right arm "Shall we go?"
Then we started our way to the dropship to Vale, with the feeling we were observed.
We were in the dropship when Velvet said the first word:
"Are you fine?"
"Y-yes. I'm good. Why you ask?" I said trying to hide my nerves.
"Your hands are shaking."
I looked down to see my hands shaking like crazy. I clench them in a fist each one, finishing their trembling.
"Sorry." I felt embarrassed "It's my first time in a date."
"Really?!" the said bunny girl shout out loud before placing her hands on her mouth, while the people inside looked at us curious. With a normal tone of voice, Velvet said:
"I thought you were the kind of guy who always had a girl to hang out every day."
"If you mean team RWBY, actually they drag me out against my will." I explained remembering the time when they forced me to go to Vale for shopping. Ruby said it was "bonding time", but they just needed someone to carry their bags. Sadly, my only male friends were Jaune and Ren, and I didn't used to talk a lot with the latter. "What about you?"
"Sometimes I'm with Yatsuhashi or Fox when Coco's not around." She said with a smile "Oh! Those are my teammates. Together we are team CVFY."
"Team CVFY…" I repeated the team's name pronouncing it as 'Coffee' "Sometimes I wonder which method Ozpin uses to name the teams."
"I heard you technically don't have a team. You were a special unit."
"Yep." I confirmed "Special Unit K. Or Special K."
Yang still used joke every time she was eating the cereal with same name as my unit. I was tempted to grab her head and splash it right in the bowl, but that would mean I'd had to grab her hair and the punishment for that was death… or the nutcracker. I heard the last guy who defied her had his jewels crushed and he spoke in a shrill voice for a week.
I felt my hands shaking again then something warm on one of them. Another hand stopped their shake.
"Relax." Velvet calmed me down with a sweet smile "Just let's have fun tonight."
Everything went better than I expected. We went to watch the movie (my treat) and it was great. After that, the arcade where I got a plush beowolf which I gave to Velvet as a present and she beat me in a fighting game (even if I was serious the whole time. Gamer pride smashed). Before we knew it, we were back to the courtyard at 10:30 sitting on a bench.
"And I said 'Now that's a katana'." I finished the joke before we burst in laughs.
A small silence fell while we recovered the air.
"I really enjoyed this night." Velvet was the first one to talk.
"Me too."
"Kai, can I ask you a question? I want you to answer me honestly."
"Shoot."
"I want know the real reason why you defended me." Her brown eyes begged me.
"Ok. How do I start?" I thought. "I grew up in Aztlan, in the southeast of Vale next to Lake Zephyr. Since I was 5, a huntress trained me to become a huntsman after I broke into her cabin and stole her spear after being forced to do it by some kids. The way she caught me was… amazing: she kept appearing in a red lighting in front of me no matter how so far I went. I was so impressed so I begged her to take me as her student."
"Who?" Velvet asked her name.
"Alice Noir".
"No way! The Crimson Thunder?!"
"The same." I answered remembering her nickname.
"I've heard a lot of histories about her. She was going to be an amazing huntress until she…" she stopped "I'm sorry."
"You don't need to apologize. She would have loved to be remembered by her achievements." I said remembering all those times she told me about her missions even if I had listened before.
"Please. Continue."
"After she passed away, I kept training and studying in her library every time I could so I was doing at school. However, people are envious. Books disappeared. Notebooks shredded. Pencils and pens broken. They did everything to break me. But I didn't pay attention to anything the made. Until one day..."
I made a pause. I took a deep breath and continued.
"I went to the cabin after school and what I found was…" I didn't finish the sentence and I clenched my hands so hard that I felt nails digging into the palms. "The windows broken. The plants we care together, ruined. I found three of the guys who always bothered me inside destroying everything they found. I lost control and rushed toward them. Before I knew it, two of them were on the grass outside with broken bones after I used aura against them while the third one ran away crying. They stopped bullying me after that day."
"So everything was solved." Velvet guessed.
She was wrong. No. Not for me. When their parents started investigating what happened, I was the only one to blame even if there were a lot to evidence saying otherwise. My father preferred to believe them than me and payed their therapies for the broken bones. I was grounded for a long time for defending the memory of my friend. I was supposed to be in my room and I wasn't allowed to train but my mom supported me like she always did, so I still did it in secret with her covering my back. In that time, it took a while to restore the cabin back to normal because what really mattered was hidden, but getting new windows and fixing the books was pain in the ass.
But I couldn't tell that part of the story to her.
"Yes. They didn't bully me again." The flavor of the lie burned in my mouth. "That's why I faced Cardin that day: because I know the pain of been nullied and I don't wish it for anyone."
I closed my eyes and breathed deeply, controlling my once forgotten wrath. Luckily my hands weren't bleeding like last time. Once controlled, I looked at Velvet, who was thoughtful.
"I…" Velvet started saying "Can I tell you something? But I don't want you to freak out."
Those words raised my guard. What was she going to say? Did she observe me while I was sleeping? Did she stalk me all the time? Did she had an altar hidden from her teammates with pictures of me where she had strands of my hair taken while I sleep?
"Um… sure?" I said with a hand close to my scroll in case I needed to call my locked and defend myself from a possible yandere.
"After what happened in the cafeteria, I started observing you."
Strike one.
"I watched some of your fights and how you were with other people."
Strike two.
"And, for a moment, I thought I fell in love with you." She said blushed.
Alright, strike two and half.
"But in the end, I just admire you." She said looking at my eyes.
"What do you mean?" I asked confused.
"I admire the way you always you're there to help your friends and..." she paused "me. Even still strong and skillful, you are humble without boasting of what you have or can do. I believe you've gone through a lot of this and here you are, strong and invincible."
"Oh." I said realizing I was in the admired-zone.
Nobody said a word after that.
Then someone coughed.
A girl wearing cocoa-colored shirt with a dark brown waist cincher, a beret on her hair and dark brown pants.
"Coco!" Velvet was surprised "Kaiden, she's Coco, my leader."
"A pleasure." I greeted.
She only nodded her head and looked at her teammate.
"It's getting late, V." the girl said.
"Ok." She stood up taking her stuffed beowolf with her "Thank you, Kaiden. I really enjoyed everything." She said with a smile before walking away with her leader.
I was heading to the building where my dorm was when…
"Wait!" I heard Velvet calling me.
When I turned around, I felt some hands on my head and saw the faunus girl at few centimeters of my face.
"Just a little present." She said before pulling my head towards her.
I felt my lips getting in touch with hers. Instinctively I wrapped my arms around her and let my body do the rest. Sweet. Soft. Warm The words couldn't describe what I was feeling that moment which I thought it lasted forever. We split up slowly looking directly at the eyes. My mind was having a breakdown voltage and couldn't think correctly.
"That was a present for you." She whispered caressing my face "Good night."
"Uh huh" it was smartest thing I could say with a brain on strike.
Then I just saw her running to join her leader and head to their dorm.
I don't know how I did it, but I returned to my room staggering like a brainless fool. A lucky brainless fool.
When I opened the door, four pair of eyes were staring at with a grin.
"So, how did it go?" Yang asked from her bed.
For a moment, I could see Ruby hiding a pair of binoculars under her pillow but I was in such a good mood so I ignored and replied:
"Good. We had fun."
"So much fun?" Blake asked with a smirk.
"What are you talking about, Ms. Belladona?" I questioned taking my clothes from the closet.
"Don't pay her attention." Weiss angry at her teammate question.
"So are you dating now?" Ruby was the last one to ask, with half of a binocular sticking out of the pillow.
"Not really. We're just friends"
"Aw. Don't worry, Kai. Maybe someday you'll find someone." The leader encouraged me.
"Thank you, Rubes. Good night, RWBY."
"Good night!" the girls said together before I closed the bathroom door.
That night had been great.
I didn't get angry when I found the four sinks made a mess with makeup and strange shit used for the hair.
I didn't mind seeing the little bag where I kept my hair gel, razor blade, aftershave lotion and other sruffon the ground.
I didn't care to see the same claw-shaped scar on the left side of my chest in the mirror.
Then I took the little orange bottle from my bag. It was half full of pills. In one side, there was a little label with a warning:
WARNING!
Do not ingest more than prescribed.
1 tablet a week.
Possible side effects: fatigue or tiredness, increased appetite, nausea
Those side effects were the reason I took the pills every Friday, so the next day I would be dealing them without affecting my classes.
It was a great night so I took one of those huge pills and threw it into my mouth and felt it sour as fuck flavor. But I didn't mind. After all, antidepressants are not candy.
I'm sorry, Velvet. I wasn't so strong and invincible as you thought.
And another chapter done!
If you thought my OC was so OP after being through hell and still with not consequenses, you were wrong.
See you later!
