HEY! YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS? IT A DAY OF LOVE, POEMS, FLOWERS AND MORE IMPORTANTLY CHOCOLATE!
HAHAH! JK! BUT FOR REAL ITS VALENTINES DAY! AND FANFICS NEEDS A VALENTINE'S DAY OMAKE SPECIAL, ENJOY AND GOOD LUCK ON YOUR CONFESSIONS OF YOU TRUE LOVE! WHOEVER HE/SHE MAY BE.
FYI: I DON'T OWN RWBY OR ANY OF THEIR CHARACTERS (THEIR OWN BY ROOSTERTEETH AND MONTY OUM). THE FOLLOWING IS A FAN BASE RELEASE. PLEASE CONTINUE SUPPORTING THE OFFICIAL RELEASE!
Omake: Valentine's Day special
It's was the day of love, confession, poems and most importantly, chocolate! The women of Salem's inner circle gather together in aprons and in the kitchen. Salem stares right at them with a calm smile with cooking utensils and ingredients before them. With a blackboard behind her written chocolate in big and bold. At first, both Cinder and Emerald weren't sure why they were summoned here by Salem until they looked closely at the cooking utensils, especially the hearts shaped and chocolate bar templates and realized.
"Umm…My Queen…what is this?" Cinder hesitates, fearing the worst, while Emerald blushes, knowing the answer. While Salem smiles towards the two of amusement at their reaction, especially Emerald.
"Dear Cinder isn't obvious. To make chocolate. And do you know why we're making chocolate?" her arms cross while gently pinching her chin seductively, stating the obvious.
"For Ve-Valentine's day?" Emerald stutters while Salem gives her a close smile.
"Very good, Emerald. And do you know who are you going to make it for?"
Emerald nods with a flush face, too embarrassed to answer out loud. Knowing that Salem was teasing her, Cinder couldn't help but groan while pinching the bridge of her nose at the situation.
"My Queen, may I ask why we are making chocolate for Jaune? Especially on valentine's day?"
"oh, Cinder, I have many reasons to teach you, girls, how to make chocolate so irresistible that man will fall to you. Like herding sheep to a pen, ready for slaughter." She grins both seductively and sadistically that both women literally felt a cold chill down their spines while their faces flush red.
"M-my Queen, there isn't need for me to be part of this…training. And I don't think it would be necessary for me to use to seduce a man." As Cinder seductively flicks her thick lock, showing both grace and beauty, Emerald couldn't help but blush with such a sight. Giving a triumph smirks towards Salem, proving her point, but Salem's smiles didn't falter nor frown.
"Tell me, Cinder. What was the last time you've been with a man?"
Immediately that question froze Cinder on the spot of both shame and embarrassment. Her exterior front instantly shatters within the second like glass, now regretting it. As far as Cinder could remember, her last relationship was the day she remembered the true cruelty of humanity. The day she finally realized that this world that the gods created is a dog eat dog world, the survival of the fittest, every man for himself. She learned that from her former Teacher, Rhodes. The first trained Huntsman she killed, though she would admit it wasn't much of a challenge. Then again, Rhodes was a coward and a fool.
"taking in your silence as a response. I take it you have never been with a proper gentleman. And I assure you, as both a Mother and Woman, you'll never see another man like Jaune." Salem smirks triumphs as she walks to a pantry and opens the door, pulling out a tray and placing it before the women and surprised what lay before them, actually fermented cocoa beans. To some, it might not be much unless you either live on a cocoa farm in Vacuo or an Altas elite who could afford it and hired a trained chef to make chocolate out of it. But upon closer inspection, these beans look slightly different from what they know from seeing on the CCT web. From what they remember, Cocoa beans are usually dark brown in colour, but these beans are slightly a dark, murky red. Cinder couldn't help but be in denial of what was before her. She couldn't help it as she picked up one of the red beans and snapped it in half and saw a bright red core in the centre widen her eyes in shock and disbelief at what she was holding.
"Before you ladies are one hundred per cent rare, Vacuo Red raise cocoa beans," Salem announces, confirming Cinders assumption. That in her hand is Remnant's most rare and the most valuable cocoa beans, the Red Cocoa beans. Selling a single bean is enough to buy ten bullheads. It was so rare during the Faunus war was close to extinction. Due to the popularity of these beans back then, they were targeted by the human's side. They stole and destroyed the farms to ensure the Faunus won't recover the red beans. They kept the beans for themselves after the war, and till today, they refused to return them to the Faunus. Even the council of Remanent made it illegal for Faunus to either farm or possess Vacuo Red Raise cocoa beans without legal documentation and to be supervised by Alta's military, despite the country's borders and jurisdiction.
Rumour has that Atlas has the last remaining Vacuo Red Raise Cocoa beans and trying to crossbreed the beans to make a superior Cocoa bean. However, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't beat Vacuo Red Raise sweet fragrant aroma, bright red attractive colour, the sweet-bitter taste of pure cocoa beans and the clean, crisp, sharp snap when broken.
"M-My Queen! How did you get Vacuo Red Raise Cocoa beans?" Cinder shouts in panic. Even Emerald is surprised to see Cinder Shouting at Salem in disbelief. Yet Salem didn't act or respond negatively to Cinder's response but simply gave her a neutral stare.
"they were grown and fermented at the garden." She replies nonchalantly, surprising the two women, even more, giving Salem questionable looks.
"Garden? What Garden?"
"Evernight castle has a garden?"
"Yes, Evernight Castle has an underground garden that's being well maintained and cared for by the Grimm seers. And It was Jaune who came back with the Vacuo Red Raise cocoa beans during the Faunus war. He knew that the humans would go after the Vacuo Red Raise cocoa beans and convince his Faunus allies to take some to be preserved till the time came. However, he soon discovered that the Vacuo Red Raise cocoa beans can't be preserved unless fermented. So he had no choice but to cultivate the beans in the garden. And we've are now the only active plantation that grew the Vacuo Red Raise cocoa beans." This awed both Cinder and Emerald to be standing on top of a gold mine. And this all started during the Faunus wars, meaning there must be hundreds of giant creates filled with Vacuo Red Raise cocoa beans. Seeing their expression, Salem couldn't help but smirk the two women. She couldn't help but continue to spout more of Jaune's feats.
"And Vacuo Red Raise cocoa beans isn't the only thing he brought to the garden. He even collects different species of florae. That is considered extinct in Remnant's society, such as the Tranquility Frost Rose, the Ember Westerland, the Violet's Lavender Pride and the Red palette Black Rose. That Remant call the Grimm Rose these days. And many more of his collection that was considered a "hobby" for him back then. But now, Ironically, he turns my Evernight Castle into an ark."
She couldn't help but smile at the irony placed upon her castle. At first, she was against Jaune's antic of saving meagre and pointless plants that won't have value to her cause, destroying Remnant and humanity. Seeing her son pointlessly wasting his time mending the fields, caring for plants, bringing in more plants of his attention than their cause infuriates her.
Even stood against her when she had enough of Jaune's time wasted in this garden and ordered her Grimm to destroy everything. But he rebelled against her with a sharp ping in her heart. It was Ozmas all over again. So order more of her Grimm to destroy the garden, yet Jaune was able to repel the Grimm with ease, and that's not what surprised her. It was that he didn't kill them. He only punched and kicked them away from the garden, which soon became one of their many arguments like every mother and child has. She demanded why her son would waste valuable time and resources on a Garden. He bellows with all his might and rages out a single name, a name she has long forgotten.
"For Eve!"
That name…that name was enough for her to let it go and let Jaune continue his work, but with a demand added that the garden would be her sanctuary for her peace of mind. Jaune agreed to her terms and created from what she would describe in one word a Utopia. She shakes her head, realizing she is getting distracted and faces the two women with a stern look.
"Now, ladies, the process of making the chocolate is simple. Since the shells have already been separated with nips. All we need to do is simply grind with added sugar till it forms into a smooth, creamy texture." Salem demonstrates, grabbing a hand full of the Cocoa nips and throwing them into a blender with a tablespoon of sugar and letting the blender run till the nips became a smooth, creamy consistency. As she pours it out to a chocolate bar mould, both women almost drool when they both see the creamy red shine with its sweet fragrant aroma.
"and that is how you make dark red Raise chocolate. For milk chocolate, just add in milk powder. If you wish to be creative, please, by all means. We have plenty of ingredients, and Jaune loves different varieties of chocolates."
"With that in mind. What do you say a small competition, between you two of who can make the best chocolate?" this piques the two women's attention when they turn to Salem.
"And mind you, I won't be judging. It would be Jaune who will decide the winner. And knowing Jaune, he will give the winner his favour of their desire. Which could be anything."
"Like have an entire day with him while treating you with true love and affection…." Salem says nonchalantly while noticing Emerald's face with interest.
"Or gifting you the respect you deserve with power two. And Jaune will deliver that I can promise." As Salem smirk toward Cinder, Cinder blush in slightly annoyed, fully knowing that Salem is baiting her to participate. With that said, both Cinder and Emerald stare at each other with determination and immediately rashes through the kitchen and begin experimenting and creating with different varieties of chocolates. This both surprise and amaze Salem of both women creativity. But by the end of the day, both Cinder and Emerald have created different varieties enough to cater for a small party. However, they can only choose one to give to Jaune.
Emerald decided to use her favourite and name it after herself, calling it the jewellery mix. It's a small block of milk chocolate with different coloured soft clear candy cores in the centre of the chocolates. All in various flavours depending on the colour of the candy. So far, she has only made three flavours, green is mint, red is strawberry, and blue is blueberry. As they're artistically etched into the chocolate. That you could mistake it as actually jewellery. During her time as a thief, she has seen plenty of jewellery and knows what makes them so appealing. The aim was to have Jaune enjoy eating chocolates with her together.
Cinder, however, was undecided and chose the simplest one she got, which she calls that dark chocolate bomb. The way she prepared her chocolate was an in a size of a ping pong ball. The outer shell is a hundred per cent dark chocolate encasing a sweet cherry sauce with a hard caramel core. The aim wasn't meant to be eaten but dropped in a cup of hot milk to melt and flavour the milk. Her objective was to find a way for Jaune to relax as she noticed that Jaune hadn't taken a break from his studies.
The day has arrived to present the fruits of their labour to Jaune Emerald was first to find Jaune, peeking over the corner seeing Jaune heading in her direction. She looked away for a moment and took in a deep breath to calm her pacing heart with a hue of a red flush over her face. She went over her plan and decided on a quick approach. Jump in front of Jaune, hand her chocolates, and say, "Please accept these as a token of my appreciation!".
That is what she's going to do. She waited patiently and listened to the sound of steps slowly approaching. As soon as the steps came loud enough, she closed her eyes firmly, jumped before him, blocking his path, reaching out her arms to him with her chocolates in hand and shouted with embarrassment and determination.
"Please take these as a token of my appreciation!"
Silence filled the air, slowly eating Emeralds confidences bit by bit, unsure what was happening till she heard a snort. A snort all too well she recognizes; he's laughing at her. At that moment, her reality shatters. She thought deep down, he was one. The one who would save her at a moment's notice. The one who would be by her side. The one who she will kill for. But in the end, they're all the same, care for no one but themselves. Almost close in a verge in tears and about to run away till.
"Oh, my Gods Em! Are you really that desperate?"
She immediately opened her eyes and looked up and saw before her that it wasn't Jaune but Mercury. She sees Jaune flipping over a clipboard at hand, over Merc's shoulder, unaware of her situation. She was relieved and disgusted that it was Merc and not Jaune, while Mercury laughed at Emerald. It soon got to her nerves, and she immediately threw the rigid box of chocolates to Mercury's face that he landed on his ass.
"Go to hell, Merc!" she shouts and walks away in a fury.
"Ow…what the was that about?" while Merc watches, rubbing the pian off his cheek.
"you okay?"
He looks over his shoulder and sees Jaune reach his hand down for Merc to grab on to, and he pulls him up off the floor.
"Yeah. I'm okay, thanks, man."
"Did something happen between you two?" he asked, oblivious of the situation.
"no idea, and I don't' want to know." He picked up the box and opened it and to their surprise, it was chocolates and picked the blue one.
"Although, these ain't bad. You wanna try?" Merc passes the box to Jaune and picks up the green one.
"Hmm!? Wow, It's been a while since I tried mint chocolate."
"really? Huh, the one I ate tastes like blueberry."
"Flavour Chocolate, clever girl." Jaune praise
"Yeah, and I hate to admit it, they even look like jewellery. Never thought Em, to be the artistic type." Merc crocks a brow surprise while both men continue sampling the chocolate while discussing their plans for the day.
Cinder was getting annoyed and losing her patients as she pushed a cart of her chocolates, one already in the two empty mugs with a pitcher of warm milk ready to serve. But the problem was that she had difficulty time finding Jaune. She almost searched everywhere for Jaune, even in his room. The only place she didn't check was at the Library. Though she should've started there now that she thinks about it. She opened the door and peeked through the crack to see if he was inside, and what luck, she caught him reading a text on the study.
"This is my chance!" she grins as she opens the door and enters, but to be an encounter with her most petite favourite ally Tyrian Callows. Blocking her path with a wide cackling grin across his face.
"Hehehe…My, oh my Cinder, what are you doing here?" he cackles menacingly, sending shivers down to Cinder's spine to be in the same presence of this crazy zealot.
"None of your business." She flat out states.
"I'm just here to deliver something to the prince. That's it." Looking away to avoid eye contact with Tyrian.
"then you don't mind if I inspect the item in question if you don't mind." he smiles as Cinder just scuff, annoyed as he inspects the tray. When his eyes landed on the chocolates, he stared a few moments and clicked and realized what Cinder was delivering and what day it happened to be.
He laughs loudly as if he heard the most hilarious joke he had ever heard and couldn't stop.
"By the Goddess! This is precious! The Great False Maiden, Cinder Fall! Has become a lovesick little girl! Who would've thought the stern False Maiden feels the love! Love of all things! To be honest, I thought you were the type of woman who doesn't care for such trivial emotions. Guess I set my expectations too high for you!" he laughs loudly towards Cinder as her patients have left and refuse to let Tyrian stomp on her pride and principles. Quickly grab one of her chocolate bombs and flick it straight to Tyrian's throat, resulting in him choking on the chocolate.
Gasping for air with a ball of chocolate stuck on his throat, thrashing his legs around, punching his stomach to cough out the ball, but to no avail.
"and you ruined the mood, Tyrian. I hope you choke on it and die for all I care." As she walks away with a smile across her face to see Tyrian's face turning blue while gagging for air. Leaving the man to die. He deserves it in the most humiliating way possible for all she cares.
Meanwhile, Jaune was reading an old text of the silver-eyed warriors. In all honesty, he never met one in person, let alone fought one from what Salem and Raven said about their powers to have the ability to petrify Grimm into stone. Points to his theory that the Silver-eyed warrior's power originates from the Brother of Creation. Why he is not surprised first Ozmas wasn't enough and now a clan?
"The Brother of light must be either desperate or stupid." He scoffs at the thought, then he hears an unfamiliar gagging sound behind him and turns to have his eyes enlarge in shock. Seeing Tyrian on the floor, face slowly turning blue and clearly showing his choking.
"Tyrian!" He shouts and rushes over to Tyrian and quickly grabs over his waist in one arm while slamming his other hand on Tyrian's back five times to help him cough whatever he's choking on. But it didn't work, and he quickly repositioned himself to Tyrian's back, with both hands on his abdomen and began thrusting into his stomach hard and deep. However, even though Jaune is trying to save Tyrian's life, in reality, Jaune is literally crushing Tyrian's internal organs, and he's pretty sure that his back is a bruise, and he thinks a few of his ribs crack from those hits he received from the back. He would rather choke on the chocolate than this torture.
Till finally, on the sixth thrust, Tyrian spat out the chocolate as he coughs and gasps for air, signalling Jaune to stop and let go of Tyrian, giving room to breathe.
"You okay Tyrian?"
"yes, I am. Thank you, my prince! For saving this lowly servant from such a humiliating state. I will not let a chance go to waste." He bows deeply to the prince as Jaune waves his hands to stop Tyrian to go through such extremes of formalities. "how does mom stand it?" he questioned himself.
"it's fine Tyrian. Just be careful from now on."
"Of course. I will take my leave. Need to have a word with the False Maiden." As Tyrian leaves the room, Jaune sighs of relief with the danger while scratching the back of his head.
"By the dust, what is going on today?" confused and stressed by the event that transpired today, Jaune could help but groan such a stressful day.
"Maybe mums right. I've been overworking myself…" as he pulls out a small pouch with a tied red ribbon on top. He opened the small bag, smiled at the content, pulled out a small heart shape chocolate, and ate it with smooth melting texture in his mouth of the bitter-sweet chocolate made by his mom. He couldn't help but smile as the taste is heavenly, on the best chocolate he ever had.
"I still don't understand why mom keeps making these chocolates and only giving them to me. When is supposed to be the day you give it to a lover. Not your child…" he sighs, embarrassed and depressed.
"haa…maybe mom is right. I've been too coup up in the castle for too long. I need to get out… perhaps I should try one of those social gatherings that Emerald talked about. What was that place called that Cinder suggested….The Club, was it?"
Next chapter release: Feb 28th