Through the shadows something moved silently in the main bedroom of the Bumblebee household. Yang just barely asleep and Blake absorbed by her book, neither suspected the ice cream Torchwick to suddenly appear at their bedside and grab Yang by the arm and start pulling her out of bed.
"Come on Blondie, let's go." Neo said.
"Wait, what?" Yang stammered as Blake glanced up from her book. The startled and pregnant blond grabbed the door frame. "Where are you taking me?!"
"To get chocolate and pepper milk shakes."
"Oh, alright then." Yang smiled, letting go of the door frame. "Weeeeee."
Blake chuckled and went back to her book.
They arrived at a late night food joint shortly after, the place putting as spicy of peppers into the shakes as the two women could handle.
"Not pregnant and I have to admit these are pretty good." Neo noted.
"See? I'm not crazy." Yang laughed. "So, I haven't heard of you raiding fridges lately, you been out of town?"
"Yes, Atlas, keeping the ice queen's bed warm." She replied slyly.
"Oh, My~."
"Yes, quite."
The two continued the semi-lewd banter as they enjoyed the spicy ice cream and the odd friendship they shared. That is, until Neo noticed Yang's eyes were red.
"Uh, what's up with the semblance of yours?"
"Hm?"
"Your eyes… You alright?"
"Been some pains over the past few minutes…" Yang admitted. "I'm sure it's noth-"
"What? What's wrong?" Neo frowned.
"Um…" Yang gave Neo a blank expression. "They're coming."
"What?"
"The babies."
"OH!" Neo stood so fast she sent her chair skittering away and the glasses on the table fell over. "OH NO, WHAT DO WE DO?!"
"Hospital?" Yang offered, trying to get up and remember to breathe.
Neo's eyes had turned white and she was flailing her arms about, having completely lost her composure. "UH! UM! HOSPITAL! RIGHT!" She rushed for the door, then ran back, realizing she'd left Yang behind. As she helped the blond back out of the shop she yelled to the teen behind the counter she'd pay later.
He didn't really seem to care.
Once in the car Neo ran red lights and stop signs, luckily it was late enough no one was out and she somehow had enough of her wits left to avoid speed traps. They reached a hospital in under ten minutes and again Neo rushed about in a panic as Yang tried to get out of the car.
"WHATDOWEDOWHATDOWEDO." Neo panicked as they headed for the emergency room.
"I don't know! I wasn't around for this part last time!" Yang snapped, slightly irritated having to deal with not only labor pains but an abnormally spastic Neo.
Once through the doors though the nurses ran over and took over helping Yang, leaving the panicked crime boss in the lobby.
"Uh, calls. . . I should make calls. . ." Neo stammered to herself as she got out the phone and quickly rummaged through her contacts. She hit one, little did she know it was not the one she wanted and it dialed.
"Hello?" Came a sleepy male voice.
"AAHM AT HOSPITAL IT'S HAPPENING WHAT DO I DO?"
"Neo…?" The man sounded confused. "What's happening, do you know what time it is?"
"JUST GET DOWN HERE." Neo exclaimed then hung up, only then realizing she'd missed Roman and dialed Junior by mistake.
She bit her lip in frustration and tried again, this time managing to call Roman.
"What." Roman groaned into his scroll.
"ROMAN HELP!"
"What's wrong?" He asked, waking quickly at her panicked tone, he knew it took a lot to shake his cousin.
"I STOLE THE PREGNANT MAMA AND NOW BABIES ARE COMING OUT HELP ME!"
"Wait, Neo, slow down, what's happening?" He pressed, sitting up and waking Ruby in the process.
"YANG, CHILDREN, HOSPITAL, NOW!"
"I'm on my way!" Roman assured, hanging up and barely thinking to throw clothes on.
"Eh?" Ruby frowned as Roman rushed out of the room.
Neo frowned at her scroll after Roman hung up then realized she should call Blake.
"What did you do?" Blake asked when she answered.
"I DIDN'T DO IT IT'S NOT MY FAULT."
"What?" Blake growled. "Explain."
"BABIES ARE HAPPENING I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO I REGRET EVERYTHING."
"Hospital?" Blake offered, calming down slightly as she realized Yang wasn't in some sort of danger.
"IS HERE, NO WE'RE HERE. I DON'T KNOW COME HERE!"
Blake sighed and hung up then quickly got dressed and went to get the girls up.
Ruby frowned at Roman's abandoned scroll and picked it up, checking the last call. Seeing it was from Neo she called her back.
"What is going on?"
"WHY ARE YOU NOT ROMAN?" Neo's panicked voice filtered over.
"Because he forgot his scroll and I'm wondering what put him in such a rush." Ruby replied flatly.
"YOU SISTER, KITTENS, NOW."
"Oh, I'm on my way!" Ruby stated, hanging up and heading out after quickly getting dressed. She excitedly called her father on her way out the door, though it would be a while before he'd get there, seeing as how he was in Patch.
"What is going on?" Junior asked as he walked up to a still frantic Neo.
"AAAAH!" She seemed almost incapable of words and for several moments made incoherent noises at him.
"She brought her pregnant friend in a few minutes ago and has been panicking ever since." The woman behind the desk offered. "The woman is currently in labor."
"Oh, Blondie's having her tots?" Junior turned back to Neo who nodded.
"I didn't mean to call you."
"Eh, it's fine, I'm up and I'm here I might as well stick around." He shrugged and went to sit down in one of the chairs along the wall.
Several minutes later Blake arrived, which confused Neo because she had called Roman before her.
"Watch them." Blake instructed Neo, leaving the triplets with her and going to the desk. After a few quick words she was taken through the doors Yang had been taken and was gone.
Next to show up was Ruby. "Where's Roman?"
"I DON'T KNOW!" Neo practically wailed.
"Okay…" Ruby glanced around nervously before going to the desk and explaining who she was, she too was taken to the delivery room.
Time ticked by.
Finally Roman arrived, looking exhausted after running the whole way, having forgotten he owned a car that had tried to eat him earlier that day. Or perhaps it was the day before at this point.
"RORO!" Neo ran over to him, shaken and traumatized.
"Uh." He frowned then flopped into a chair next to Junior.
"I REGRET EVERYTHING." Neo wailed.
"Has she had them yet?" Roman asked Junior.
"Don't think so, or she's not done yet, Ruby and Blake are with her though."
"Good."
"AAAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA"
"Neo, chill."
"Call your girlfriend or something." Junior suggested.
Neo did that, making incoherent noises and whining at Weiss until she could calm down.
Roman kept up with the kits, not minding looking after them, sleepy as they were.
"Kinda cute when they are sleeping." Junior admitted, Narzisse curled up in his lap.
"They are the best." Roman agreed, hugging the other two in his arms.
Weiss sat cross legged in the middle of her bed in her dark room frowning at the clock that displayed the time to be three in the morning as she listened to Neo's incapability to speak. When her multicolored girlfriend finally stopped for a breath Weiss spoke up.
"Are you hurt? Being tortured? Is a ransom expected of me?"
"No?" Neo squeaked.
"Then slow down and explain clearly because you aren't making any sense."
"It's, I… decided late night ice cream was something Yang needed but she went into labor while we were out." Neo said quietly, having worn herself out.
"Oh." Weiss smiled to herself in her lonely room. "That's good, I hope they're healthy."
"... me too."
They talked for a while, Weiss effectively calming Neo down to the point she could compose herself again.
"I need to go, it's past the point of being late and is now only a couple hours till I need to be up." Weiss said.
"Alright, sorry for waking you."
"It's fine. Tell Yang congratulations for me will you?"
"Yeah."
"I'll talk to you later."
"'Kay."
Weiss hung up, not looking at the time spent on her scroll, just falling back to her pillows. She found herself missing her old team and she wished them well.
Time seemed to drag by but finally one of the nurses came to tell those in the waiting room that they could see Yang and the babies now. They followed the nurse to Yang's room, Junior having given the still sleeping Narzisse to Neo, Roman carrying the other two sleeping girls.
They got to the room to find Blake holding a black fluffball wrapped in a blue blanket. Yang was carefully and almost awkwardly holding another bundle in a blue blanket. Both twins boys as the sonograms had predicted.
However, the mood in the room was oddly somber. Yang had tears in her eyes as she looked at the sleeping child in her arms and they weren't tears of joy.
Junior felt out of place in the less than happy moment so he bid a quiet congratulations and slipped back out of the room again.
"What…?" Roman asked, stepping closer. He feared the child in her arms wasn't breathing but once he got closer he saw the sleeping boy who had just a few wefts of blond hair on his head and was sleeping.
Ruby only gave Roman a sad look when he glanced at her in confusion. He glanced back down at Yang, gently sitting on the edge of her bed and laying Sombra and Lila gently across her legs before looking closer at the child in her arms.
"This is Soleil." Yang said quietly, her voice cracking a bit. She shifted the blankets so Roman could she the boy's back and the strange bulge which explained why she was holding him so strangely. Other than that he looked like a regular human baby. "He didn't cry when he was born and he's been unconscious ever since… The doctors don't think he's going to make it…" Yang's voice broke and she fell into quiet sobs.
Neo's eyes went white again and her expression matched her sudden heartbreak. "What about the other one?"
"He's fine, this is Sorin." Blake offered, showing the awake and content faunus newborn. He didn't have cat ears on his head like Blake and the triplets but he was covered in black fur with violet eyes.
Neo nodded and offered a sad smile before glancing back at the child in Yang's arms.
"I may never see him open his eyes." She sobbed quietly.
"Don't lose hope, he still has a chance." Ruby offered.
"What chance?!" Yang snapped, eyes flaring red as she looked up at her sister who shrank back under the brunt of her sister's pained rage.
"Mama?" Sombra's sleepy voice reached them and all eyes turned on the little kit. Sombra sat up, rubbing her eyes and when she saw the baby she gasped. "Is dis my browder?"
"Yes…" Yang said softly, her eyes fading back to violate. "His name is Soleil and he…. He may not be able to play with you like other children."
Sombra frowned at that, softly and very gently reaching up and poking his little cheek. "That's okay, that's just who he is." It didn't seem to bother her that her brother would be different but not a soul in the room could bare to tell the kit that he may not live long either.
"This is your other brother, Sorin." Blake said, leaning closer so she could see.
"Hi." She waved at him when she realized he was awake. He made soft, kitten-like squeaky sounds at her in reply, causing her to giggle.
It was a couple hours later when Taiyang finally arrived to meet his newest grandchildren, the other two girls awake and have gotten the chance to meet their brothers.
After seeing the dark mood Blake pulled Taiyang aside and explained the situation to him, away from the girls so they wouldn't hear, no one wanted them to have to suffer the worry that he might die. He returned to the room and replaced Roman in the spot on the bed, talking with Yang softly. She wouldn't let anyone hold Soleil, she wouldn't let him go, the hospital staff said there was nothing they could do for the boy so she refused to let him go. She was still talking with her father, Roman and Neo asleep in chairs across the room and Ruby sitting on the foot of the bed when the sun rose and its first rays of light filtered through the windows. Blake's shadow fell over the triplets as the light flooded in, shining over Yang and Soleil.
When that happened Soleil very suddenly started to cry. Very loud and very healthy. In the midst of his fussing and fit they all got to glimpse his eyes, a bright red like Yang's when she was angry.
Roman and Neo were startled awake, but when they realized who was crying they almost joined the kid, though it was happy tears.
Blake relaxed for the first time in hours and Taiyang let out a long sigh and smiled.
Yang was caught between laughs and sobs.
"I told you." Ruby smiled.
No sooner had she said that did Soleil's cries took a very pained edge. Yang tensed and quickly pushed the blankets away from his back, investigating what she'd felt and indeed, something inside the bulge was moving.
"What's wrong?!" Lila squeaked in panic.
Everyone froze, terrified.
Soleil cried harder as the sun grew brighter and shined stronger on him.
Roman ran to the doorway and screamed for a doctor and one quickly joined them, stunned to silence when he saw the moving bulge under the baby's skin.
"What's happening?!" Yang demanded but the doctor had no answer for her.
Soleil screamed in pain and the triplets huddled together, afraid.
Yang adjusted her hold, keeping his head supported but not touching the bulge in fear of causing him more pain. The skin on his back was quickly getting very dry and brittle then quite suddenly there was a loud crack and something black burst forth from the bulge, the skin that had kept that area covered peeling away like a bad sunburn.
He stopped crying, gasping for air.
Everyone stared in stunned silence as Soleil contently flexed a pair of black wings.
Taiyang was the first to speak.
"My great grandfather wasn't crazy." He said softly, reaching up to run his fingers along the velvety little wings.
"I don't…. understand." Yang said, staring at her son in complete shock.
"My great grandfather used to tell me that his grandfather was a dragon faunus and that that's how we got our family name…. I thought he was crazy." Her father explained.
"But Dragon Faunus are nearly extinct!" Blake blurted, astounded.
"Recessive genes are funny that way…" The doctor said, finally pulling himself together.
Soleil made happy, scratchy squeaky sounds as he flexed his wings and looked up at the faces in the room with the open wonder only a newborn could have.
The doctor checked the baby over again and stated that he was healthy and would be fine now.
The triplets finally edged closer again, all wanting to touch his wings, they were gentle and he didn't seem to mind it.
Neo got a picture of the two newborns and their parents before wishing everyone well and heading home, she was tired and it had been a far longer night than she had intended.
Yang finally let others hold Soleil and she held Sorin for a bit, his sisters getting him to bat at their fingers when they wiggled them in his face but when it became clear that Yang needed to rest the nurses started showing everyone out, taking the babies to the nursery.
Weiss was in the middle of paperwork when her scroll buzzed, with a sigh she picked it up and looked, it was a picture message and a moment later she was glad she'd taken the time to look, smiling at the message Neo had sent with the picture of the newborn kitten and dragon faunus twins.
It wasn't long after returning home from the hospital that Yang's worry over Soleil renewed all over again as she quickly realized the child didn't sleep. He'd be calm and quiet, almost sickly at night, causing her to sit with him often, rocking him and his brother in a chair as she hummed a soft and soothing tune. A few times she could get him to doze while she sat in the full sun of mid afternoon but it was typically short lived.
Trips to the doctor were frequent but as best the doctor could tell the boy was healthy. It was yet another of these trips, Yang sitting in the doctor's office as he told her he'd decided to contact a semblance expert and have him have a look at the boy. She agreed and continued waiting as the doctor went to fetch the other man, leaving her to her thoughts, Sorin and Soleil were about two months old and it felt like Soleil was turning out to be a very unusual boy. Yet his brother seemed much more normal and while she didn't really mind, she loved them both no matter how they turned out, but she did worry how others would treat them growing up...
Yang was still sitting anxiously as the newcomer entered the room, kneeling wordlessly to look her child over, checking various things before finally turning to look up at her.
"As unusual as it is, your doctor is right, his semblance is already active and likely has been since he was born from what I can tell."
"Is that what's causing him not to sleep though?"
The man nodded. "Think of his semblance as similar to that of solar technology. He is literally absorbing the light of the sun, it gives his body all the energy and most benefits that would normally be gained from sleeping."
"Oh… I think I get it.."
"There is more to it, though. It may develop and become stronger over time as he gains control of the solar energy but, I am quite certain if he is allowed to truly fall asleep, especially at night or in the dark, he will die."
"We'll be careful not to let that happen." She stated firmly, determined. She'd let Blake and the rest of the family know this once she got home to prevent any mistakes. This did set her mind to some extent though and she visibly relaxed. "Thank you for figuring this out."
"It's no trouble, don't be afraid to contact me again if anything else of this nature arises." He said and handed her his card before leaving.
Ever so relieved she hugged her son tightly but gently before standing and heading for the door as well, thanking the doctor on her way out, he had remained at the door so as not to crowd the others.
He gave a bright smile and replied. "I'm just glad that little mystery is solved, have a safe trip home Mrs Xiao Long."
Humming her reply she left, pausing outside and smiling down at her son as he squealed happily in the warm sunlight, admiring the slight glow of his blond hair and the gold markings that started becoming apparent along the forearms of his velvety wings.
She couldn't think of anything more beautiful at that moment.
A/N: Oh my gawd. this chapter flowed so well at times and I had a horrible time at others!
That aside I'm actually really happy so far with how I'm doing here in the story, I'm sorry it's taking so long to get out now but things in my life have been quite chaotic and it's often hard to find time to sit and write right now. Still, I'm not giving up and I have a bunch of other fics in the mix as well that I'm excited about getting to the point I can start sharing them here with you guys.
That's not all either!
I've also started a youtube channel, I'm playing older and retro games and am considering doing scary story/creepypasta readings as well as maybe readings of some of my fan fics/original shorts. At the time of me typing this though I only have Let's play's up, Morrowind and Spiro the dragon.
If you are interested in seeing me fail at games or just curious to hear my voice *though my mic is really cheep so I sound a little odd to those who know me irl* go to youtube and search for 'Werewaffle' my channel and some of my videos should pop up.
As always I love feedback from you guys so if you have any suggestions or advice for me here or on my youtube channel feel free to pm/review here or comment over there. This A/N is getting a bit long winded so I'll sign off.
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