RWBY: Lost and Forgotten

Chapter 49

Chrome

"Improved weapons?" I repeated Nora.

"Yeah, we've each got upgrades!" Yang said. "Even you." she tossed me my sword.

Catching it, it didn't seem any different except the hilt was a bit longer. "Upgrades, huh?"

"Here!" Weiss tossed me a bracelet. Catching it as well, I stared at it. "Pietro managed to 'tie' your sword to that bracelet. So now, you should be able to call your weapon back to your hand instead of just calling the blade back to the hilt."

"He also added this!" Ruby walked over and pressed a tiny button on the hilt. Once she pressed it, another blade sprung from the bottom of the hilt. Looking it over, Ruby grabbed the hilt and tugged, pulling the hilt in two. "Double bladed, can be parted in two, and can also be called back to you with the bracelet. And once it is called back, two hooks sprout from the blade."

"Neat. Really went all out."

"I told Pietro about your second sword and how it broke. Since we didn't have it with us, he made that. He even repaired mine." Blake said while showing her fixed weapon.

"Cool. I'll have to thank him." I had the second blade retreat into the hilt as I put the two halves back together. "Who's Pietro?"

"That old guy with the walking chair." Yang said. "Remember?"

"Oh. Guess I didn't hear him when he introduced himself." I placed my weapon on my back.

"Hey," a new voice said from behind. Glancing back, one of the Ace-Ops stood in the doorway. "Get to sleep. We're heading out early tomorrow." he then left.

"Heading out?"

"They have a lead on a Geist." Ruby told me. "And we're going in to help 'em out."

"When?"

"Tomorrow." Yang said as she stepped beside me.

Glancing around the room, everyone began doing their own thing again except for Ruby. She was just staring at me. Making eye contact, her eyes widened once she realized she was staring. "Oh! Sorry. Just not used to the new look. It's weird."

"Thanks..."

"Oh, no! Not weird as in 'bad'. I meant weird like you- it looks- I mean-" Ruby chuckled as she rubbed the back of her head. "You just look a lot like Blake with your hair dyed."

"I already said that." Yang told her younger sister.

"Doesn't make it any less true."

After a few seconds of silence, Jaune stood up. "Alright, I think it'd be best if we went to bed early."

"I agree." Weiss said. "We should all get some rest."

Jaune and the rest of his team left the room as Ruby, Blake and Weiss headed out, too, leaving me and Yang alone. Taking a step towards the door, I felt Yang grab my wrist. "Where are you going?"

Glancing back at her, I pointed to the door with my free hand. "To get some sleep?"

"This is the first time we've been alone in a while, Chrome." she told me. "You don't want to take advantage of a moment like this?"

"Oh! Uh..." I could feel my cheeks heat up. "What do you mean?"

"Well, you have your own room, right?" she asked.

"Yeah. Winter showed it to me before bringing me here. W-?"

"Great! Lead the way!"

"Okay..."

Taking Yang to my own room, since I didn't have a team with me, I opened the door to one of the "guest" rooms the academy had. They were mainly used for visiting friends and family from the different kingdoms, so they usually had one or two beds.

"It's pretty small." Yang said as she glanced around the room. "You don't feel claustrophobic?"

"I like it." I told her. "I prefer smaller places anyway." Yang kept glancing over the room. "So, what'd you want to do?"

"Spend time with you." she replied. "Like I said, there haven't been a whole lot of moments were it's just us. We need to grab as many as we can."

"Yang..."

"What we're doing, trying to stop Salem, it's dangerous. Which is why I want to spend as much time with you as possible. I don't care if we talk, make-out or if we just sit in silence." she told me. "I want to spend time with you."

I was speechless. I've never seen this side of Yang before. "Sorry." she rubbed her arm. "I guess that was a bit-"

Feeling waves of emotion surge through me at once caused me to move towards her, and, in one quick motion, latch my lips to hers. Pushing her against the wall, I didn't allow us to separate. Placing a hand by her head, I moved my lips to her neck and gently sucked.

"Chrome, I-" Yang began moaning as I gently nibbled her neck.

Pulling away for breath, I looked into her eyes. "You wanted this, right?"

She was silent as she stared back at me. I could tell she felt weird, not because of the situation, but because I was in control. To me, Yang always seemed to be the one in control. But, for now, I'm the one controlling this moment.

Staring down at her, Yang squirmed a bit. I could tell she had no idea how to handle the position I put her in. Waiting a few more seconds, I leaned forward and kissed her again. It was a quick kiss, just to get her mind back to the moment at hand.

"Chrome..." she looked up at me. The way she looked at me wasn't the way you'd expect Yang to look at you. Her cheeks were red and her eyes were filled with a type of want. She seemed shy. Nervous. All of the things you'd never think a girl like Yang would show.

Feeling a hand move under my shirt, I glanced down to see Yang's hand had begun exploring. She lifted my shirt over my head and tossed it away. Seeing my chest, Yang's eyes widened slightly as her fingers grazed over the scars I gained from Beacon.

Placing her hand against the line of teeth marks left over from the Beowulf that bit me, Yang looked into my eyes. Without a word, she kissed me, pushing the both of us towards the bed.

Falling backwards, Yang mounted me, taking her shirt off and tossing it before pressing her lips to mine. Moving from my lips to my ear, I felt her breath tickle my ear ever so slightly. "Take me."

The next day

Waking up to a knock on my door, I bolted upright as Yang kept sleeping. "Chrome, have you seen Yang?" the door slowly opened. "I haven't seen her at all this m-"

"Do not enter!" I shouted, cutting Ruby off. "I'm...changing."

"Oh, sorry." the door closed. "But have you seen Yang around? She never came to our room."

"I'm here." Yang said as she sat up before I could speak. She held the blanket to her chest to cover her exposed breasts.

There were a few seconds of silence. "Isn't...Chrome...changing though?" Ruby asked.

"More like 'getting dressed'." Yang replied. "The both of us."

"Oh... O-! Oh, my God! Yang!" Ruby's footsteps moved away from the door until they could no longer be heard.

"Yang?" I said softly.

"Yeah?"

"Why did you-?"

"Well, it's going to get out eventually." she cut me off. "Might as well get it out of the way now."

"Right."

Another knock at the door got our attention. "Get ready!" came one of the Ace-Ops voices. "We're heading out in 20!"

"Guess we gotta get up." Yang said as she slid out of bed.

20 minutes later

"So, we're headed towards a mine?" I asked. Me and team RWBY were inside of a Manta.

"It's where the Geist is!" Clover, the 'leader' of the Ace-Ops, said over comms. Coming over the mine, Clover spoke again. "Let's make it happen, people."

The Manta door opened and we all glanced at each other. Yang and her team jumped from the ship as I stayed back for a few seconds.

Following after them, I fell for a few seconds before creating a single glyph under me as I neared the ground. Jumping off the glyph, I grabbed onto a lampost and used my momentum to swing around it twice before letting go, backflipping in the air. Hitting the ground, I rolled to my feet, landing me right next to Yang.

"This is Alpha squad. LZ's clear. Proceeding on foot." Clover said. "You've all got fancy new Scrolls, so don't forget to use 'em. Keep your eyes and ears open. I want an update if you encounter the target. Alpha out."

I pulled out my scroll to see the aura levels of Yang and the others before putting it away. Glancing around, I saw Weiss was wiping snow off of something. Heading over to her, I saw a piece of metal with the letters SDC on it.

"Schnee Dust Company..." I said softly.

Weiss sighed softly. "Yep..."

"Hm." walking ahead of them, I approached the mine. Seeing a cave in, I came to a stop as I looked over the rocks.

"There's been a cave-in in the main entrance. Not sure if it's recent or was caused by the original accident. Either way, we'll have to do a little problem solving." Harriet said.

Looking around the rocks, I noticed a small gap between them. "Hey, Harriet?"

"Hm?"

"I found a way through." I told her.

"It's pretty dark. Think you can squeeze through?" she asked me.

"Most likely." moving towards the gap, I turned my body and began moving through it. Reaching the other side, I got stuck a bit but managed to free myself as I got to the other side. "Made it."

"See anything, Chrome?"

I glanced around at my surroundings. "Mine carts. Mostly debris. No dust."

"Great, then it should be safe to blast our way through."

"Alright. I'm-" I was cut off as the Geist suddenly lunged at me. Raising my weapon to block its claw, I slid back from the force.

"Chrome?!"

"Chrome, stand back!"

Moving away from the cave in, the rocks were suddenly and forcefully blasted. Shielding my face from the rocks, Harriet, Marrow, Yang and her team rushed to help, shooting at the Geist.

It quickly fled. "Don't let it get away!"

All of us quickly gave chase, only to stop once a Centinel burrowed its way out of the ground. It lunged at Yang who quickly shot at it, causing it to reel back in pain before burrowing into the ground again.

Once it did, more Centinels came out of the floor and walls of the tunnel. "That's disgusting!"

Yang and her team rushed forward and I was quick to join.

Slashing my blade at the first Centinel, I had my second blade spring from the bottom of my hilt as I slashed again. Moving my weapon left to right, I kept slashing, ending my attack by pulling my weapon in two and slashing at the Centinel in a horizontal motion, cutting the head clean off.

Turning to another Centinel, it came rushing towards me. Raising my weapon, I spun around and threw it at the creature. Once it sunk in, I used my bracelet to call it back. The hooks kept the blade from coming out, pulling the Centinel towards me.

As it reached me, I spun around and cut the head off with my second blade.

"This is Bravo! We found the target, but it fled deeper into the mine. Engaging Centinels!" Harriet said.

After less than a minute, only one Centinel remained. "I got it!" Ruby said. However, Harriet rushed forward, killing it before Ruby had the chance to move.

"This is Alpha! We've engaged the target!" Clover said. "All squads head to our position!" after about a minute, Clover spoke again. "Charlie, Bravo, you should be able to cut off the target at the heart of the mine. Qrow and I won't be far behind."

Following the others, we came to a small opening in the use caution. "This room is highly active with Dust energy. Triggering it could ruin the launch site."

"And vaporize us. How is that always second with you?"

A low rumble suddenly caught our attention. Looking to the ceiling, the Geist was in a large piece of ice. It jumped down from the ceiling, crashing through a stone arch on its way to the ground in front of us.

"It added dust to its body? How are we supposed to-?"

"Elm!"

Watching as the Ace-Ops used their semblances to hold the Geist in place, they kept calling each others names when they needed to assist. Once the Geist couldn't move, Clover used his weapon to pull the Geist from the ice.

Harriet rushed over and finished it off. "Whoa..."

"Harriet!" looking over, I saw a piece of dust in the air. Harriet tried to catch it when a sudden red blurr beat her to it. Ruby sat with the crystal in her arms.

"Thought you said your Semblance was like mine." Harriet said.

"It… is?" Ruby said, confused.

"I've seen other speed Semblances before, but that was different. I think there's more going on than you think."

"Wait until she sees what she can do with her eyes." Yang whispered to me.

"Heh." I chuckled. Glancing around, I saw Clover and Qrow leap down.

"Atlas Control, this is Clover. Mission accomplished."

End of chapter 49