The sun raised up over the horizon, casting shadows upon the ground. In an apartment in the residential district of Vale, two people, a faunus and a human, slept on. That is, until an alarm started blaring its tunes. The human sleeping closest to the alarm's hand snapped out and turned it off, while the faunus had jumped up and fallen off her bed in fright. Sitting up, the human groaned, rubbing his face, the faunus did the same, except for she stretched out on the floor.

"Does your alarm have to be that blaring?" Kira asked from her position on the floor.

"Yes, it helps me wake up," Silver answered simply, getting out of bed.

Kira just groaned and tried to sit up, only to find she was trapped by her own blankets. Groaning again to show her displeasure, she started shifting to untangle herself from the blankets. Minutes passed by and she was nearly there, and she heard the bathroom's shower starting up. Another few minutes of struggling passed by and the water was cut off, and Kira could feel the blankets loosening. Another few minutes of struggling, and she thought that she just got herself tangled again.

Silver came out of the shower and raised an eyebrow at Kira's condition. She looked up pathetically at him. "Help, please," she pleaded. Rolling his eyes, Silver grabbed a corner of the blanket and pulled.

Kira was sent spiraling and tumbled to the floor, the blanket being successfully removed of her person. With an eyebrow raised, Silver rolled the blanket up on his arm and held it out to Kira, who took it with more dignity than someone who had just been trapped in it should've been. Tossing it onto the futon, she walked into the small kitchen they had in the apartment.

In there, was the armor Silver used as Raidriar. And it was cooking. This was normal. It was normal now, because the first time it did it, she freaked out. Slightly. (Her brain just short-circuited, but came online a few seconds later.)

It apparently also has a personality now. "Good morning, Silver, Kira," It greeted them, flipping another pancake.

Kira yawned and stretched, "Morning, Raidriar. What's for breakfast?"

Raidriar held the pan over his shoulder, sending the pancake that was on there landing onto the plate that was set on the main counter. Landing onto a stack of pancakes. "Pancakes," it answered, flipping another one on the pan.

"That's good, Raidriar, you can stop now," Silver said, sitting down and pulled a few pancakes onto his plate.

The animated suit of flexible armor shifted its head to look at Silver, "Who said I wanted to stop?"

"We have enough pancakes to feed Nora, Raid, we have enough."

The suit of armor paused in flipping another pancake and looked at the stack. "Oh." It stated, then shrugged and started to clean the dishes off in the nearby sink. After putting the latest pancake on the stack, of course.

Kira and Silver ate in silence, only interrupted by the sound of cutlery and Raidriar's washing. Finishing up the meal, Silver and Kira continued to get ready for work at From Dust Till Dawn.

The early morning light shone upon the city, giving it the wonderful cool-heat that's associated with spring or summer mornings. The crowds weren't horrible, as they wont to be during the cool morning air, but it was also the actual opening of the Fairgrounds up near Beacon Academy which meant that there was more people there, than in the city. Traversing the city at his usual breakneck speeds, Silver and Kira made it to FDTD with plenty of time to spare.

Entering the store, they were met with a rush of air-conditioned air, cooling themselves off from their walk. Knowing that Tom was in the back- probably- Silver started up the countertop's cashier while Kira started checking inventory. Making sure that the cashier didn't malfunction, Silver moved over to checking the Dust Crystals in the strongbox beneath the counter.

Making sure that they were properly contained and stable, he took them out and set them on the velvet of the glass counter-case. Kira, meanwhile, went through each row checking that there was enough of them to last until lunchtime- if not, she quickly went to the back, gave Tom, who was tinkering in the back, a chirpy greeting, which he returned, and grabbed the required item, returning to the front and storing it in the shelf that needed it.

After doing this several more times for various items, she started on the Powder Dust tubes. Checking each one to make sure it was filled up to the topmost line- visible to those who were actively looking for it- she refilled the ones that didn't have it fully filled, using the stepladder to reach the top.

Putting the stepladder back in the maintenance closet, she called out to Silver, "Done!"

"Alright! And, we, are, open!" he called out dramatically, flipping the sign to 'OPEN' on the door.

As soon as Silver flipped the sign, Tom came out of the back, grinning widely, "Well, guys, I can officially say that the van's back in working order and we can now move Dust crates up to the booth by tomorrow at the latest!"

"Sweet! I've been waiting to see the full, finished festival grounds for a while now. Are we going to be closed down here while we load and unload?" Silver asked, stepping back behind the counter.

Tom nodded thoughtfully. "Yes, that might be best, seeing as I only have you two working for me right now," he chuckled, Silver and Kira grinning along with him. "Alright! Let's get to work people, we don't have all day," Tom announced, stretching and heading into the back.

Silver looked at Kira, "You heard the man, let's get ready."

Hours passed as they worked in the store, Tom came regularly to restock and refill the containers as people came and went, getting their Dust as they did so.

The sun traveled across the sky as they worked, and as people came and went. Silver, Kira, and Tom had their lunch break, but soon went back to working, but it was slower in the afternoons than the mornings. The sun was setting and the moon was glowing brightly in the sky when they closed up; ever since the incident with Torchwick, Tom made sure to close up earlier than before. As Silver and Kira were walking home, Kira spoke up, "So," she trailed off.

"So," Silver repeated.

"We're, an 'item'? Now," Kira finished her thought.

Silver nodded, "Apparently so."

"Is, is this really going to change anything?" She asked.

Silver thought about it for a moment, "Not really, I don't really see us doing anything different in terms of living together. I mean, we could sleep in the same bed, but I don't think you'd want to do that just yet." Kira shook her head, she didn't really want to do that, not yet. "So, it really changes nothing. It's just official that we're together now."

"So, we just go on like normal, except it'll be a little more awkward than normal?"

"Probably. To be fair, I've never really done the whole 'dating' thing before, so it's new."

"Yeah. . ." They walked on in silence once more, only the faint sounds of cars provided noise. Suddenly, Kira's eyebrow's creased, "Say, Silver, how'd Raidriar gain sentience?"

"Truthfully?" he looked over at Kira, who nodded, "I have no idea."

"Really?"

"Really. One moment he was just a suit of armor, the next he was walking around talking." Silver frowned, thinking about how that happened, "I think, think, I just wondered 'what if Raidriar was real?' and that happened." He shrugged. "Magic works in mysterious ways, I suppose."

"Yeah," Kira muttered, feeling a shiver of cold run through her right arm.

It wasn't cold outside.

So, here we have a bit of 'slice of life' bit here, and, well, i think i did good.

I have ideas for the next few chapters, so be prepared for the end of Season 2 here.

Enjoy!

-FreohrWK