Red Queen

Hunt VI: Turmoil

Rose paced around her friend's room wondering whether she was wrong for what she did.

"Rose maybe you should just talk to her?" says her friend.

"I would if I didn't run away from her Gladio."

Gladiolus is one of Snapdragon's; Antirrhinum; friends he's a sophomore.

"Well, how do you feel after kissing her Rose?"

"I... I don't know." Rose said to him standing in the center of the room with her arms crossed.

Gladiolus proceeded to get up, he walked to Rose. He stood in front of her and took her hand.

"What are you doing, let go."

"I'm trying to help you."

Gladiolus proceed to move Rose's hand under his shirt, letting Rose feel his chest.

"How do you feel now Rose, do you get the same feeling from me that you got from Yucca?"

I stood there with my hand on Gladio's chest, it was hard and muscular. It wasn't like Yucca's body, it wasn't the same.

"No, I don't get the same feeling at all."

Gladio then took my hand away from his chest, then he told me to close my eyes.

"Close your eyes, there's one more thing I need you to do."

"Ok," I say to him.

Gladiolus then lightly pressed his lips against mine, kissing me.

"How'd you feel about that?" he asked me.

"I didn't feel anything. It wasn't anything like when I kissed Yucca."

He smiled at me, which I thought was weird.

"So I was right, you do like Yucca."

"Of course I do you dolt."

His face then became serious and he looked me straight into my eyes.

"Tell me, how did it feel when you kissed her."

I paused for a moment before answering his question.

"It was, amazing. Like nothing I've ever felt before."

"You're in love Rose."

"Love..."

-Meanwhile in the campus courtyard-

I kissed Rose, should I have done that? I don't know it felt like the right thing to do at the time.

Yucca sat there in silence contemplating on whether or not she should have kissed Rose or not. She didn't know, all she knew is that she wanted to be with Rose.

I've sat out here long enough, I'm going back to my room and I'll wait for her there.

Yucca had begun to get up when she was suddenly grabbed and dragged away towards the back of the campus grounds.

"Look at what we got here."

"Just look at her ain't she a cute one."

Yucca could barely see their faces but she could tell they were very drunk.

"Why are you doing this, let me go."

One of the men had placed a knife up to Yucca's throat, she stopped moving scared of what they might do to her.

"Now listen girl you wouldn't want to end up with another scar on that pretty face would you?"

"No..." Yucca said her voice trembling in fear.

"Good now just stay still got it."

One of the men had ripped her shirt, exposing her chest, he then proceeds to grab her breast and force a kiss on her chest. Tears began to flow from her eyes as his lips made contact with her skin.

"She taste just as good as she looks, I just can't help myself."

"Look at her, is she crying? That's even better!" Said the other man holding her against the wall.

They then proceed to rip her bra off, exposing her breast.

Yucca suddenly kicked one of them off of her and started running as fast as she could. All she could think about was Rose.

"Rose, please save me!"

-Gladiolus Room-

"Rose, please save me!"

The two of them both jumped up and looked at each other.

"Yucca's in trouble!" Rose shouted as she ran out of his room, Gladiolus right behind her.

They both ran as fast as they could, with Yucca's voice growing louder with each second passing by.

Yucca then fell, she could barely see with the dim lights and her eyes flooded with tears.

"Looks like we caught up to you girly."

"Now that isn't nice is it, kicking me like that."

With the help of the lights, she could make out that both of them had blonde hair and that they were both around their early 20's.

He garbed her pushing her down onto her back, she tried to force him off of her but she stopped as he punched her in her face.

"You stupid Northern trash, thinks she's stronger than me? Don't make me laugh, one hit and your already all out of fight such a shame."

He grabbed her neck, choking her.

"Let's see how long you'll last."

Yucca's eyes filled with tears and she began to struggle to breathe, suddenly she could breathe again. She looked up to see what had stopped him from choking her, then her eyes opened wide as she had seen her hero, Rose.

"You bastards did you do this to Yucca?" Rose said enraged at the state Yucca was in.

"Hold still I got you," Gladiolus says to Yucca and carries her off to a side to clean her face up.

Rose then proceeds to break the blonde's nose nearly smashing his face with the sheer force of her punch.

"Bro are you ok?" the other blonde asks.

"You made Yucca cry, you messed up her face, I'll kill you!" Rose yells at him, her eyes filled with rage as she jumps onto the other blonde smashing his face in.

Gladiolus had cleaned up Yucca's face as best he could, but she would need medical treatment to get the swelling on her face down.

"That should do for now, but you'll need to see a doctor to check out your face."

Yucca nodded her head then pointed to Rose.

"Please... Stop Rose... Before she really kills them."

Gladiolus then looks over to Rose to see what Yucca meant by that.

Gladiolus rushed over to Rose, who was still punching the now unconscious blonde.

"Easy now, he's down Rose, won."

Gladiolus stopped Rose's fist from causing any more damage and walked her over to Yucca.

"Rose..." Yucca could barely muster the will to talk.

"Don't talk Yucca, let's get you to someplace safe first," Rose said before picking Yucca up in her arms.

This time Yucca I'll make sure to stay by your side.