A love of steel
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or Cress
Chapter 2: Love Proportional to Skill and back to Love
Loyalty is one thing, love is another.
It was much later, when the rest of the Team RWBY returned and hit the sacks. Ember Celica slept in Yang's embrace, occasionally giggled in her sleep. Myrtenaster also slept with her owner except they were on the separate edges of the bed. Weiss valued her sleeping privacy and Myrtenaster does respect her master's wish. However that did not stop her from 'unconsciously' snuggling towards her master in her sleep. It would be harder to notice Gambol Shroud, for he was not in the room but reading on the tree just by their window, learning to read a novel while serving as a night guard for the team ever since the Roman and his Melodic Cudgel incident. Cress was nowhere to be seen.
That was, in the eye of Gambol Shroud at least.
He was not there, he is now. His loyalty to Ruby was unrivalled, so it became to his skills too. Although Ruby might still not be able to handle him to his fullest potential, Cress looked forward fighting side by side with Ruby as the strongest huntress in Vale, one which he knew she would be.
However loyalty was not the only emotion in him that was unrivalled. Such as now, Cress stood by Ruby's bed, very bothered by the missing last step of the maintenance. Ruby did not clearly remember every step she did for every maintenance but Cress did. There was nothing about Ruby he would forget after all.
He sat by the side of Ruby's bed and his finger flickered Ruby's hair. He hesitated. That last step was not really necessary. Ruby even compensated by kissing the Crescent Rose and confessed to him. He really should not be doing this when Ruby was not awake.
Unfortunately, self-control was not one of the skills which became unrivalled, especially when your owner did not have notable self-control in the first place. He bent down and kissed Ruby in the lips, it cleared his mind in at instant. He savoured Ruby's lips as long as his mind could handle and backed off before he overheated his mind.
Last step: Kissing Ruby. Checked.
Then Cress just stood there, too fluster to do anything else but cool down. He looked down at Ruby's sleeping face. He leaned down toward her face again but just to give a small peck to her forehead. Just before he left, he leaned towards her ear and whispered softly.
"Sweet dreams, my huntress."
Gambol Shroud sighed when Cress finally left the room, probably to kill some poor Grimms in the Emerald Forest to let out his embarrassment for all the crimes he could not hold back from doing. Closing the book in his hand, he spent the rest of the night reflecting why he could not detect Cress entering the room, and on the similar cases which disturbingly happened before.
A/N: Okay, using the equation 'Turning Cress's loyalty to love' turned out to have created a quite disturbing yandere Cress. Cress could be a gentleman but I feel that it could be more fun if there were more side to him XD.
Introducing some other weapons relation with their master as well as foreshadowing Roman's cane, Melodic Cudgel (I never knew it had a name).
Roman: "Pay attention and you might learn something."
Thanks darkester, TheTypewriterv, jakillking999, BlueBaronJack and max French for the reviews! And I really need you guys to review about this… Cress. He would not be acting like this most of the time so no worries XD.
And Read and Review! I am going to continue this one since it's easy to write (which next chapters are going to be shorter but sweeter). I promised chapter immediate within two days if it reach 4 reviews per chapter! If it's easy for me to write a chapter, it's easier for you all to leave one review XD.
See you guys soon!