Chương 68: Rosa
"You look like you had fun" Arthur said, a wide grin on his face as he watched Fairy give a tired first bump before letting it fall back to her wheelchairs armrest in exhaustion. "Good, I'm glad you enjoyed it" Arthur said, doing his best to avoid the glare he was getting from Ruby.
"Welcome back, how was it?" Summer asked.
"Fine, they already knew most of what happened from the others, they mostly just asked about my semblance and the man who attacked Fairy, apart from that, nothing really important" he said, nodding his head towards the others to indicate there was more but he would wait until they were alone, to which Summer gave him a short nod.
Walking up to the side of Summer, Arthur whispered to her "Did I do something, Ruby looks like she's going to skin me and Yang looks like she's going to funeral, also, why is Blake in the tree?" he asked looking up to see the eyes of Blake peeking through the leaves in the trees, her eyes soon disappearing when he made eye contact with her.
"No idea about Blake, she just bolted up it a minute or two before you arrived" She explained while Arthur scratched his cheek as he thought about how he had begun to stroke her cat ears, forgetting the importance that signified to certain faunus.
"Ruby on the other hand she's…" Summer was about to say but was interrupted when Ruby coughed into her hand, "…she wants to talk to you, I'll be over here." She said backing away from Arthur as Ruby began to walk towards him.
"Hey, Ruby, you okay" He asked nervously.
"Yes, actually a excited actually" she responded her glare wavering until she let out a sigh muttering "I can't pretend to be angry…" before straightening her back out her gaze turning into her usual warm smile, while Yang threw an invisible hat on the ground in frustration.
"Come on! You almost had it!" Yang shouted, and was promptly ignored.
Letting out a sigh of relief Arthur said "Oh, thank god, I thought you were going to skin me with how you were looking at me."
"I wouldn't do that you know? I like your skin where it is." She stated with a bright smile, standing on the tips of her toes and gave Arthur a quick peck on his lips, "Plus, it'd be really, really weird and disgusting if my boyfriend walked around without any skin on, I mean, I've seen skinned animals before but I don't think I could handle seeing a human or faunus skinless" she shivered.
"Yeah… that would be really disgusting" he shivered in turn, "So why were you looking at me like that?" he asked.
"Yang said if I did that you'd spill your guts to me, figuratively not literally that'd also be really gross" she responded giving another shudder at the morbid thought.
"Spill my guts about?" he questioned.
"About why you didn't tell me that I'm from a lineage of nearly extinct legendary warriors older than the kingdoms and humanity, all of which have the same silver eyes as me and are the strongest warriors that humanity ever had." She said excitement in her voice.
"Oh… that" Arthur calmly replied in realization "Wasn't really intending on hiding it from you, just thought it would be better for Summer to tell you about it, what with her being one as well, all I could tell you was what you were, but nothing about how to use it. And I honestly could only really tell you part of it, my insight on silver eyes is skin deep at best" he explained, "I would have told you eventually if Summer didn't do it first"
"Thank you" She said, her smile getting wider, "I knew you wouldn't hide anything like that from me. By the way, have you seen Weiss? She's been acting off since yesterday, she didn't even go to sleep last night, and she completely ignored me when I asked what was wrong." She asked, looking back to her rooms window in worry.
"Yeah… that's something we should really wait until she's ready to talk about, I'm not going to talk about it behind her back." He said shaking his head before continuing "for now she's sleeping. Though, I think it would be best if I check up on her before you, Yang and Blake go back to your room, just so I can talk with her a bit more and see how she's feeling, she's confided in me, so she'll probably be more comfortable talking with me." He said, also turning back to look at team RWBY's window with an equally as concerned expression. "Also, please, don't try to force it, stay concerned, but don't try to force it, she'll tell you when she's ready." He requested
"Okay, it's just… I've never seen her like that; she wouldn't even look at me when I offered to get her coffee, which is really weird, normally she'd at least turn around call me a dolt and continue what she was doing." Ruby said, still staring towards her room where Weiss was calmly sleeping.
"So, you have any plans for the rest of the day?" he asked as he walked back to where Yang, Summer and Fairy were along with Ruby, Blake still peeking through the leaves every now and then but quickly disappearing back in when Arthur noticed her.
"Not really, we could get some practice in before dinner, get some homework done, study" Yang muttered, sounding incredibly bored. "Could also go into town for a bit, I know this club downtown we could go to" she added, nudging Arthur's arm while giving him a wink "Maybe, just the two of us." She whispered into his ear.
"I don't really do clubbing, and with you, I'm pretty sure my chances of getting impaled again would triple." Arthur retorted with a wide grin, "But, I'm sure we could figure something out" he whispered into her ear, wrapping one arm around her back while trailing his other over her cheek and pinching her chin he turned her face up towards him, causing her to gulp in anticipation and close her eyes in anticipation.
But just as she closed her eyes Arthur released her and took a few steps. Opening her eyes Yang stared at Arthur with bleary eyes for a moment which quickly cleared up as a vein appeared on her temple and she grit her teeth, "Again!? Come on! That was the third time now, can't you just go all the way for once!?" She complained, before crossing her arms and mumbling to herself, "This close… This close to a good night!" she said holding her index and thumb a centimetre apart from each other.
"Aren't you the ambitious one" Arthur said feeling sweat drip down his cheek at the predatory gaze Yang was sending him, which he quickly avoided by turning to Summer and Ruby who were sending him judging looks, but both ended up letting out a tired sigh before they both simultaneously said "What are we going to do with you…".
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"And this is my room" Arthur said as he wheeled Fairy in alongside Ruby, Yang, Summer and Blake, who was the furthest back of them all, having only been prevented from running to her room when she was told Arthur would be going there to check on Weiss.
The moment Fairy entered the room her eyes darted every which way, eventually coming to rest upon the giant stuffed bear wearing knights armour in the corner, on it's lap a blanket where a large black and red egg lay. Her eyes sparkled as she not so subtly pointed towards it with an 'Onwards steed!' expression on her face.
Chuckling Arthur pushed her to sir Fluffles, expecting that that was what she was interested in, yet as they got closer he noticed her gaze was stuck firmly on the egg resting on it's lap. "Are you interested in the egg?" Arthur asked, getting a nod and "Mmm!" from Fairy.
"It's actually an egg for a grimm, apparently it was created from a pool of black liquid after I was saved by Byakko, a type of grimm" Hearing that Fairy stared at the egg with even more intrigue than before as she raised her hand and brought it closer to it, and as if it could feel her presence the egg gave a slight shudder as her finger touched it, causing her to quickly pull her hand back.
Laughing slightly Arthur said "Looks like it likes you, but let's let it rest, if it's able to shake like that then it won't be much longer before it hatches." he said roughly rubbing his hand into Fairy's hair which she quickly tried to swat away with puffed up cheeks.
"Anyways" he said turning around along with Fairy in her wheelchair, "I'll go check on Weiss now, It's getting late now, and I'm sure you three would like to get to bed some time soon" looking outside he could see the courtyard wreathed in darkness, only illuminated by a slight bluish tinge from the moon.
"I can sleep here! Preferably without clothes though!" Yang said throwing her hand into the air, a lecherous glint in her eyes, which only caused Arthur, Summer, Ruby and Blake to roll their eyes and slightly blush as they imagined the scene for themselves instead.
"Yang, keep your head out of the gutter, there's a child here, plus, until I can find another room for her, she'll be sleeping here, so no fun times for you." Arthur explained, "Oh, that reminds me, I've been meaning to ask, but where are you staying, Summer? Did Ozpin set up a room for you? You can't be running back to Patch everyday, can you?" he asked.
"Why do you wanna know, deciding to go night crawling?" Yang teased "Not that I'd mind" she added.
"…" was the resounding thought in the room as everyone but Fairy let out a tired sigh and either rolled their eyes or blankly stared at Yang. Fairy on the other hand, saw something interesting and rolled herself over to it, the thing being a red acoustic guitar with a golden dragon engraving on it.
"I've got a little apartment I've rented in the city. The trips not that bad, I can make it back and forth a few seconds or minutes depending on traffic." She said, "Not as extravagant as this…" she said throwing her hands out to his room "But it's enough, I only really go there to sleep, otherwise I'm just wandering around Vale, here, training you or just writing."
"You write?" Arthur asked in surprise, not really expecting Summer to be a writer.
"Yeah, I haven't really had much to do the last few years, so I just sort of ended up writing, got a book or two published and into the top charts." She said in a not so subtle gloating voice.
"Oh, really? What are they called? I'd love to read them sometime" Arthur said, while Summer felt a slight twitch on her lip as she began to awkwardly laugh.
"Their actually really good, moms got a talent with words, me and Ruby read her first book, Children of Menace, though we were forbidden from ever touching her second one, 'Trapped in Silk'" Yang said, causing Blake's jaw to fall to the ground as she stared at Summer. "Whenever I tried to read a copy she'd swat it out of my hand and disappear with it seconds later, got to the point where I just built a metal cabinet, locked myself in there with a lamp and some air dust and rolled myself into a river, didn't help as the moment I opened it a hand crashed through the wall, grabbed the book and disappeared, leaving me trapped in a metal box with a fist sized hole in it at the bottom of a river. Luckily I brought my gauntlets with me so I just Spruce Leaded myself out with a one inch punch" Yang said with a happy smile as she reminisced, while chuckling at the extent Yang would go to read a book and the extent Summer would go to stop her from reading said book.
"Though, funnily enough, I did end up reading it once I got to Beacon" Yang said grinning at Summer who had suddenly grew a mortified expression on her face "Funny, you try to stop me and my partner just so happens to have a copy hidden under her pillow, funny how fate works" now it was Blake's turn to go full on mortification as her cheeks turned red and her mouth shut.
"Trust me Arthur, read it and make mom a happy lady, she'll appreciate it" Yang said, nudging her mother with her shoulder "Won't you 'Rosie'" she whispered only loud enough for Summer to hear with a massive grin causing Summer's face to explode into a nearly Velvet level of steam.
"Why'd reading a book make mom 'a happy lady'?" Ruby asked, the most confused and innocent look on her face, while Arthur just sighed at the naïve and pure Ruby.
"You see Ruby, mom really wants to-"
"Nothing! It wouldn't make me happy, absolutely not, nope, no way!" Summer interrupted with a frenzied expression as she forced her hand over Yang's mouth and nose while also pushing her down onto the bed where they were seated, her knee crushing Yang's stomach forcing her to breath harder as she began to struggle for air and clawed at Summer's arms, who just began to push down harder until finally Yang's eyes rolled into the back of her skull and Summer let her go, leaving Yang lying there, mouth open as a small white wisp escaped from her mouth, while Ruby tilted her head in confusion at her mother's sudden actions.
"Did you just…" Arthur was about to ask if she had just killed her daughter.
"She'll be fine" Summer once again interrupted, wiping the sweat off her brow as her expression turned to its usual kind and warm tone, "She's had worse" she added with an unnervingly tranquil smile that sent shivers down Arthur's spine.
"You're Rosa Sommers?" Blake muttered as she moved next to Summer, and began to speak with her an excited glint in her eyes but as quiet as they both could.
"Guess, I'll check on Weiss now…" He muttered scratching his head and turning to leave, but stopping and turning around when he heard a strum coming from his guitar, there he saw Fairy was sitting in front of it with a frown on her face.
"Do you know how to play?" Arthur asked as he kneeled next to her.
Fairy shook her head and brought her hands in front of herself, staring depressedly at her fingers that refused to close properly, "Mama… want to… teash…" she muttered.
Arthur's expression softened and a small and weak smile formed on his face, "Why don't I teach you then?" he said giving Fairy a light hug as she responded with her usual hum of agreement or general happiness, "for now, I'll play you something before we go to bed, okay?"
"Mhm!" she said her frown turning into a bright smile.
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Alternate Chapter names: [HoudYangi] [Spruce Lead] [Desperate HouseYangs]
My puns are as bad as Yangs are…
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