RWBY: Lost and Forgotten
Chapter 51
Chrome
"Chrome!" I bolted upright as a voice shouted my name rather authoritatively. Blinking the blurriness away from my eyes, I saw my sister, Winter, standing in the middle of my room with her hands behind her back.
"Winter?" I said groggily.
"Get up and get dressed." she ordered me.
"What's going on?"
"You're coming with me." she stated. "Get up."
Laying my head back down, I let out an exhausted sigh. "I meant now!" my covers were yanked off of me, causing me to roll out of bed and wake me up completely as I hit the ground.
Getting to my feet, I rubbed my neck. "Now, get dressed." Winter turned around and left the room. "I'll be waiting outside."
Once the door closed, I ran a hand down my face before rubbing my eye. "Alright..." changing into my black jeans, white T and black jacket, I left the room.
"Good." Winter said once she saw me. "Follow me."
"Where are we going?"
"I'll be training you." she replied. "While you're here, I've set up a private training room for you, Weiss and myself." she told me. "We'll be the only ones to have access to it, along with General Ironwood."
"There aren't any cameras, right?" I asked.
"Of course not."
Entering the giant room, Weiss walked to the center before turning around to face me. "So, what will we be doing in here exactly?"
"Testing and strengthening your semblance." she replied. "I assume Weiss told you that we Schnee's can summon?"
"I actually overheard you mention that, too." I rubbed the back of my head.
"And have you made any attempt to summon?"
"Once...?" I said with an unsure shrug.
Winter shook her head. "Let's start with something small." holding out her hand, a glyph appeared in her palm. After a few seconds, a white and blue sparrow emerged from the glyph.
"Whoa!"
"Just imagine what it is you want to summon and watch as it comes to your aid." Winter told me. "The bigger the summon, the more aura it takes." she had her summon vanish. "Lets start off slow. Try to summon a sparrow."
"Okay..." holding out my hand, I created a small glyph in my palm. Picturing the sparrow, I watched as my glyph shrunk and expanded a few times. Picturing the sparrow in more detail, I closed my eyes. After a few seconds, a soft chirp came from my palm.
Opening my eyes, a sparrow stood in the palm of my hand. "Heheh." chuckled.
"First try." Winter said softly. "Impressive. You seem to have a lot less trouble than Weiss."
The sparrow leapt out of my hand and began flying around the room. "What's next?" I asked, turning to Winter.
"Let's try something bigger." she said.
"What'd you have in mind?"
"Summon a Beowolf." she told me.
"Uh... Alright..." I turned to the center of the room and held out my palm. Making a glyph appear before me, I began thinking of the beast. But my glyph just shrunk and expanded before blinking away.
"Again!" Winter ordered.
Shaking my head, I cleared all of my thoughts, thinking only of the Beowolf in as much detail as possible. Creating another glyph, this one did the same as the last, expanding and shrinking before disappearing entirely.
"Damn!" I shook my head again. "You got this, Chrome."
Raising my hand to create a third glyph, I tried once more to picture the Grimm. But my glyph just blinked away again.
Sighing, I let my arm drop to my side. Winter approached me and placed a hand on my shoulder. After a few seconds of silence, she spoke. "You can do this, Chrome."
Nodding my head, Winter backed a few feet away. Holding my hand out again, I created another glyph and began picturing the Beowolf.
Imagining the creature before me, I took a few slow, deep, breaths as I concentrated. After a few seconds, I opened my eyes to see my glyph had vanished again.
"Hmph..." Winter grunted. "We can pick this up tomorrow. Let's move on to other techniques."
"Wait." I told her. "I can do this. Just, let me try one more time."
"No." Winter stepped to my side. "We will continue this later. As for now, I want to see your fighting style."
"My fighting style?"
"Yes." she nodded. "I want to see how good you are."
"Well, what'd-" I stopped as Winter drew her weapon from its sheath. "Oh."
Hours later
Sparring with Winter had left me rather exhausted. I was currently on one knee, taking deep, slow, breaths as I held onto my weapon, keeping myself from falling over. Winter, however, didn't seem to have broken a sweat.
"Your fighting style could use a little more finess." she told me. "Your defense could use some improvement, too." she added.
Catching my breath, I stood back up. "What do you suggest?"
"We are going to train together for the coming days." she replied. "I'll help improve your fighting as well as your ability to summon." she glanced around the room. "We will pick this up tomorrow. As for now, you should get some rest. Your aura must be running quite low."
Nodding, I sheathed my weapon and headed for the doors. Walking out of the training room, I entered the elevator and descended to the floor my room was on. Once the doors opened, I walked over to my room and went inside.
Heading over to the bed, I fell into it and closed my eyes.
End of chapter 51