RWBY: INFINITY CORE
Chapter Seven: First kiss
10 minutes after realizing Lucio was gone.
"Okay he is not in the store, we have checked everywhere", Yang says a little worried, " I agree he may have gone outside to wait for us," Ruby says pointing to the side door one the left side of the store. The girls made there way out of the store with there bags in hand and make there way out to the city.
Back to Lucio
"So—rey… Be—lla—donna?" It was basically all I could mutter after hearing him speak in the direction I was in, he then began to walk towards me placing the crystal core into a contain and clip it this side, he then stops a foot from where I am and looks me in the eye, for once in my life after having the same reoccurring vision I am able to finally see what he looks like, he is a middle aged man with a young looking face, a scar running down his left eye and fairly built and strong body structor. His eyes emitted a very faint red tint as he stood there right in front of me. My heart was pounding hard; sweat was dripping from my forehead; he then reaches his hand as if to touch me I froze in place; and closed my eyes. His hand grabbed at the air I was standing in front of, proving that I really wasn't there, I let out a sigh of relief until the man spoke again.
"You might be out of my grasp as of right now, but trust me Sorey, I know you are there, although premature, we will meet face to face very soon, and when we do, I will take what is mine and I will restore the world to how it is meant to be." with that said the world around me fades to black, and I open my eyes to see me a the fountain in the center of town.
I look around and see that I truly am back in the city of Vale, but even though I am back my heart won't stop racing, I lower my head grab my face and place my hands near the temple of my head and try to compose myself."He called me…. Sorey Bell—" it hit me, if I am not mistaken Blake's last name was belladonna… AHHHGGG, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON, WHAT THE HELL WAS HE TALKING ABOUT." I was screaming in my head trying so hard to be able to understand what is going on…. It is becoming extremely difficult for me to continue this way, I have to find answer's soon, I need to know more about me…. now matter what it takes.
'Why me, haven't I been thought enough", I said softly to myself, out of the corner of my eye, I see my squad mates coming from behind the corner of the building to my right.
"Lucio… Luc—, ahhhh Lucio" I hear Yang saying with the rest of the team saying my name, as they see me sitting on the fountain.
"Hey there you are we have been looking for you all over the place," Blake says standing over me with Yang on my other side.
"Are you okay Lucio," Yang says, in a worried town placing her hand on my shoulder. I stood up and brushed her hand off my shoulder and just nodded without looking at her, and started to walk forward ahead of the rest of the squad. I know they are just trying to help me, and I probably shouldn't have done that to Yang, but right now I just want to be alone. I turn around and grab the outfit from Weiss and turn to speak to them.
"Thank you all for helping me pick out the outfit," I looked at them and placed my fist at the palm of my hand and made a slight bow, "if you need me I will be in room, I — don't feel to good, and I am going to go lay down for awhile. I turn away from them and make my way home, not once looking back them. Deep down I shouldn't have acted that way to them, but I am just so confused and need some time to think.
As I walked away from the team, the all looked at me and was wondering what what wrong.
"Is he okay", Weiss said crossing her arms as Blake followered suit.
"I am sure he is fine, he probably has some things on his mind," Blake says turning to face Yang and see's that Yang's face is troubled, Blake makes her way to Yang and places a hand on her arm and gives her a warm smile, they soon follow behind me leaving Yang the last one.
"Liar…." Yang says to herself about what I said as she follows behind her team as they make there way to beacon.
Later on that night: 1037pm.
"He hasn't left his room all day," Blake says with concerned look, as she looks at similar faces around her.
"Did we do something", Ruby says looking at Weiss.
"No we didn't this literally came from now where, and I am sure none of us did something wrong… besides he is a big boy if he needs time to be alone, we should let him." Weiss says almost coldly, but still with some concern.
"None of you understand…." Yang says looking down at the ground, surprising her teammates. They all look at Yang and are trying to understand what she meant.
"What don't we know Yang." Ruby says walking to her sister, now concerned about her and her new teammate.
Yang looks up and see Ruby next to her and the rest of her friends looking at her. "its nothing…" she pauses after saying that and realized she said that aloud.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to say that aloud, I —a— am just worried about him.. that all." she says soon after she felt a hand on her should and looked up to see Blake, there looking warmly at Yang.
"Look lets just give him some time, I am sure this isn't something that would require us to worry this much, and we have to do is make sure to be supportive of him." Ruby says as she walks to my door and places an ear to, hear for me and wonder what I am doing.
The rest of the team nodded in agreement and they all head to bed, each one going into there respective beds. Yang climbs up on her bed and lay's there, looking up at the ceiling and then shifts her head to see the wall of my room where ruby's bed layed next to.
"You said you didn't want to be alone anymore…. Lucio", Yang whispered to herself as she started to drift off into sleep, hoping tomorrow would be better.
The next day hours before the dance.
"Ruby are you ready yet, you have been in the restroom for hours now," Weiss was screaming from behind the door.
"Would you wait I don't wear fancy dresses everyday, this lady prison will take some time to come to order," Ruby was yelling back.
"Well just get the dress on, and I will help you fix yourself when your done." Weiss said trying to convince Ruby, behind her Blake and Yang where fixing there Dress and makeup, Blake was fixing her bow and is finishing up her eye makeup.
She stops and notices Yang looking towards Lucio's door, obviously worried about Lucio,…. it had been almost exactly 24 hours since they have seen him, and he locked his door, no one could see him to see if he was okay. Blake made her way to Yang's side and noticed she was still holding on to the brush she always uses to brush her hair. Blake then grabs the brush from Yang's hands, which caught the blonde off guard as she turned to see her partner move behind her and starts to brush her beautiful long blonde hair. Instead of protesting she allowed Blake to continue.
"You have feeling for him don't you…", Blake finally says she continues to brush her hair.
"I don't know, I feel something… and a part of me wants it to be love, but I just don't know I— I want to know how he feels first, I guess," she says as she looks at the mirror in front of her.
"But he won't come out of the room, so I can't talk to him, and I want to know what happened to him and why he is acting this way." Yang says clenching her fist in frustration.
"I wish I could do something or say something to help, but I am afraid I don't know what to say," Blake says trying to comfort Yang, as she finishes styling Yang's hair. She made her hair into a very stylish high pony tail, trying to mix up the way she normally does it. Yang looks at her new hair due and gives Blake a two thumbs up.
"Come on Yang we can enjoy this night together and figure out what we can do about Lucio, okay…", Blake says grabbing Yang's hands and helping her up. Finally the rest of team besides Lucio are ready to go all nice and beautiful they all begin to make there way out of the room with, Yang stays behind and make her way to Lucio's room. Yang knocked on Lucio's room and started to speak.
"L—Lucio, we are all about to make our way to the dance, and I— I um hope you can make it, I—I really hope you will come,…. I will save you a dance," with that said she turns away from Lucio's room and makes her way out of the door giving Luico's room door one more look and then closes the door.
In Lucio's room at the time of Yang saying goodbye to head to the dance.
I open my eyes from meditating on what happened yesterday trying to figure it out, but was unable to understand it; the first grimm; the man in the suit; that vision; and the name he said while looking at me; Sorey Belladonna. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't get myself to understand it. Then the other matter hit me, I have been in my room for 24 hours straight now, I have probably worried my team and especially Yang, I could tell from the way she sounded coming to my room.
I layed down on my bed and looked up at the ceiling. I always find myself looking at the ceiling, no matter how hard I try I can never stop, but I have grown accustom to it, it even makes me feel better and it always me to think.
"Would knowing the truth really change anything about me…", I thought to myself, I mean is it really important to me, I mean i have gone 12 years without knowing and it hasn't affected me nor even in the past has it driven me to pursue it so…. why should I do it now. After finally coming to my sense's I look at my clock on my scroll and see that it is now 8:45 the dance is in 15 minutes; I get off my bed; head to the shower; got myself to look presentable and put the suit on that Yang picked out for me. I looked myself in the mirror, no matter what happens or what is meant to happen, I know that I want to spend tonight with Yang. With that in mind I grabbed my scroll and placed in my jacket pocket and made my way out the door, and headed to the dance.
At the dance team RWBY has just made it and are the final team to arrive.
Team RWBY arrives at the ballroom that looked absolutely stunning, although in her minds, Yang and Weiss made a better one during the first attack on beacon. Since it was actually made by Nora and Pyrrha, it was obvious who did most of the work but nether the less it was still stunning. Most of the students were talking catching up and relaxing before Ozpin got up on the mic and began to spoke.
"Good evening everyone and welcome to 1st annal ceremonial Ball, on this day one year ago, we were attacked by a threat, that would end this peace we have had for generations. They almost succeeded…. at the cost of many soldiers from atlas, and dozen's of huntsman and huntress. On this day we not only celebrate their heroism, and their sacrifice for if it wasn't for them we would have been destroyed. So lets us celebrate and never forget… enjoy. With that Ozpin leaves the podium and the music kicks off wit an awesome beat, making most of the students hit the dance floor. Ruby, Blake, and Weiss all had a date to the dance, yeah Ruby got one… if you aren't surprised then something is wrong with you, he is in the same class as her. his is on team DRAK and his name is Dan Sparks. Blake went with sun not that isn't a surprise, and Weiss decided to go with Neptune who came down form Mistral. Blake lefts sun's side and turned around to see Yang's sitting down leaning on one of the table's hand under her chin, toying with her hair, Blake began heading towards Yang.
"Care for a dance fair maiden," Blake says to Yang to try and get Yang to cheer up, it worked semi, Yang let out a small grin and shook her head.
"Nah I am good, thank's kitten," she says to her partner, she looks behind Blake, and see's Sun standing there waiting for his date.
"You go, Sun is waiting for you trust me I am fine, but right now I will just enjoy my punch,' she says to her ember eyed partner, waving her hand giving her a smile. Blake puts her hand on Yang's shoulder then turns away from her. Yang's eyes fell from her friends back, back to her un sipped beverage and she's looks down at the noticeably sad express on the girls looking back at her, he let out light sigh and continued to see everyone around her enjoying there time. The dance is now in mid swing everyone is enjoying themselves even Yang who gets in on group dances with her team, then they finally play a slow song (think of the song every time we touch).
Yang then makes her way back to the table as everyone gets there date's and hit the floor.
Yang see's her sister, Weiss, and Blake; along with the rest of her friends form JNPR and the ones she met through her time at Beacon. She looks around and decided that maybe she should just go home, she gets up; and grabs her bag, then as she turns to leave a tall man; in a black suit with a bright baby blue outlining and pants with a lone strip down the side.
"Evening beautiful,"I say that took almost every single ounce of my courage to say. She looks at me with wide lilac eyes to her disbelieve that I showed up. Then those eyes turned red in anger, as she just crosses her arms and just looks at me.
"I—I know that you are mad at me, and to be honest you have every right to be, there are a lot of things going through my mind; and lots of questions without any answers…. I — I shouldn't have acted that way to the team and… especially you… Yang," I say as I can see her eyes fade from red to lilac and her arms lightened as they fell to her waist.
"What is wrong Lucio," Yang says to me as she approaches me and places a hand on my cheek, gosh I can never forget how warm her hands are, they always make me feel like I am at home.
"I will tell you everything… but tonight I want to enjoy this with you," I say bowing my head and laying my hand out to grab Yang's hand, and lead her to the dance floor.
This moment will be a time I will never forget, I lead Yang to the dance floor, I looked at her eyes and moved closer; I wrapped my arm around her waist and brought her closer and grabbed her hand in mine, and we followed suit with the song. Moving in swing and twirling flowing the rest of the couples, even bumping into the rest of the team, they obviously see me and Yang and all giving their smiles and thumps up. In the midst of the song people were switching partners in sync, soon yang and I were no longer a pair, she switched off, soon my next partner was a faunus girl with rabbit ears, she was super cute and had a big smile, and soon changed again, soon it was Ruby.
"its about time you got here," Ruby says to me as we danced," You know if your going to tell her, I couldn't think of another time to do it," I looked at her trying to convince her that I didn't know what she was talking about…. obviously not working
"How did you know," I said to her.
"Its been pretty obvious… well at least to all of us, but apparently not to you nor Yang." she said with a chuckle, we then changed partners again, this time Weiss.
"Well look who finally decided to join the living again," Weiss says with a sly grin as we began to dance.
"Yeah figured the fresh air could do me some good," I said trying to be witty, as she let out a small chuckle.
"Well next time you are going through a hard time or if anything is on your mind, come to your team, cause whether or not you like it we are always going to be here for you." she says in a serious tone.
"I know and I will… Thanks Weiss.," as we switch partners again and then Blake becomes my partner in the dance.
"Took you long enough to get here," Blake says to me, with a playful tone.
"You know everyone has been saying that… but I guess I do deserve that, I acted distant when I shouldn't have. Things have been… hard for me and…" She stops me and places a finger on my mouth.
"That doesn't matter to me right now, what will you do now…" She looks at me with very familiar eye's. I pondered this reaction, but I mainly thought about what she said.
"I will do what is right in my heart…" probably sounding super cheesy; but I answered her honestly and with a serious face still looking at those familiar eyes.
"Okay, go get 'em tiger," she says pushing me away from her and Yang landed back in my arms, I know it myself; but I had the biggest smile on my face, I take one more look around and see the rest of the team with there dates. I then grab Yang's hand and lead her outside of the ballroom near one of the balcony's. on the upper level.
It was a beautiful cool night, the moon was out and it was clear; and calm. Yang and I make our way to ledge and looked out into the distant together. I turn to face her as she does the same.
"You look so beautiful, you know," I say to her with a smile.
"Well you know, makeup and stylish hair will do that to a girl," she says with a grin and points to her face.
"Even without all of that you.. you were always beautiful to me a-aand don't even get me started with your beautiful eyes… even when they turn red," I say with my serious yet playful tone.
"And honestly I know i have only been apart of the team for a couple of days, and I already know what my heart is say and I want to spend my time here with you; I know I probably don't make sense and honestly I am confused to, but I— I…." a finger is placed on my lips as the blonde haired girl shakes her head and starts to chuckle.
"You really talk to much you know that right, I am confused to; but right now at this time I am not, I know now what I want and what I want… is to give us a try," as she speaks she gets closer to me and puts her hands in the back of my head as she brings me in, I close my eyes and I feel her lips on mine as we embrace in our kiss, her lips were soft, gentle, and of course warm.
That night was a memory that will stay with me forever it was the day I got my first kiss, and since it was the day the girl of my dream opened my heart and gave me something, I didn't think I would ever receive….
"…. Love…" as a tear streamed down my face as we continued to kiss, soon the night came to an end, and the dance was over,…
That would be the last night of our normal lives….
The fight for mankind will soon begin….
"isn't that right," a tall man in a coat says looking to his left as a female in a red dress makes her way to his side.
"Things are going to get very interesting.. my lord," the female says finally getting to his side.
"Proceed to phase 2… and bring him to me…..
Cinder…" the man says.
"Yes, my lord"…..