Lurking Darkness

Semblance Practice

"Wow Y/n. You were amazing." You see Ruby Rose with giant eyes staring at you.

"Thanks Ruby. I have that fight owed all to my Semblance. Did you notice what happened in the beginning?" You begin quizzing her. Yang is also curious.

"No, even I don't know and I was there with Yang." Weiss interjects.

"I knew Yang would come straight for me. I raised my heat as fast as I could, because of it, she couldn't really hurt me that much." Yang looks at you.

"Your Semblance is cheap, you get to deal damage out but not feel it." She pouts.

"Only reason I could get that high, and even that low in the match was because day in, and day out, I've been meditating and controlling my Semblance, going from hot to cold periodically throughout the day." You demonstrate by lowering the temp, then quickly raising it, then lowering it about 5 times. You pause and take a break.

"How are you getting that cold so fast?" Weiss asks.

"I think of people I dislike or Grimm that troubled me. The exact opposite for heating up quickly, I think of those I have to protect, those I love. You guys, Pyrrha, Blake, my family, etc."

"Awww Y/n loves Blake." Yang hits you two with a smile.

"Well I gotta go, I'll be ba—!"

"Ah ah ah... Come here. You owe me and Team JNPR a clean room." Ruby looks at Blake.

"Ummm what?" Ruby scratches her head.

"You'll see Ruby."

"Uuugh dammit I almost got away with it too." You continue to lower and raise your heat.

"Not that easy firecracker. Go get a maid outfit and we'll all see you tonight." You smirk at her.
She glares menacingly.

"Y/n your semblance control is getting crazy, how long have you been practicing?"

"Since I got cleared from the hospital after Cardin."

"That's been a while." Weiss looks at you.
"Correct, it was also a stipulation of me fighting here, I almost have full mastery over my Semblance." You continue to concentrate for the next hour, just raising and lowering your body temperature, from the 140s to the low 10s. Taking a 30 second break in between each attempt.

"And done." You finish your practice with a 150 degrees F to -20 degrees F. That last one drained your Aura incredibly fast.

"Good job Y/n." Blake is supporting you, rubbing your back.

"Thank you beautiful." You smile warmly at her and kiss her cheek.

"Aw the lovebirds having fun?" You turn around and see Yang Xiao Long, standing in the doorframe, in a maids outfit.
In a maid's outfit..
Even Blake was taken aback from how small the outfit was on her. You look at her and see some blood rush to her cheeks.

"Glad to see you all like.." she smugs at everyone. Ruby almost sees her older sister.

"Ruby, don't look." Weiss cover her eyes.

"Wha?! Now I'm going to want to see even more!" Ruby tries getting past Weiss to see the  thing forbidden to her eyes.

"Umm? Firecracker?"

"Yeah Y/n?" You look at Yang.

"That wasn't—." You look behind Yang and see a dark haired, drunk old guy.

"UNCLE QROW!!" Yang screams as she runs to the restroom, slamming the door in shame.

"UNCLE QROW??" Ruby speeds over to him, using her Semblance.

"Oooohhh it's so good to see you!! Did you miss me? Did you miss me!?" She has sparkles in her eyes. He stares at her for a second before responding.

"Nope." He smiles back. Then rubs a hole in her hair.

"So, who're you and why were you drooling at my niece?" He stare daggers in your direction.

"Uncle Qrow! I promise it's not what it looked like!" You hear Yang yell from behind the bathroom door. He doesn't look convinced.

"Then what was it Yang?" Anger slowly rises in his voice.

"I... may have lost a bet.." she says softly. Qrow looks surprised, his head tilts to the side and he slowly chuckles.

"You... LOST... a bet?!" Qrow begins laughing his drunkenness off.

"Who did YOU lose a bet to Firecracker!?" He is still laughing. Yang emerges from the restroom in her regular attire.

"You were just interrogating him." She points to you.

"I bet that me and Weiss would beat him in the doubles round and we ended up losing to him." He looks at you again.

"You're that Aspro kid? Well kid, I gotta give it to you, you're incredibly skilled if you're able to beat a Schnee AND my niece in a handicapped match. Color me impressed."

"Tha-Thank you?"

"So kid, that still didn't answer why my niece was dressed up as a maid with possibly the shortest skirt she could've found."

"The bet was if they beat me, I clean RWBY's dorm room in a male outfit, if I won, Yang would clean JNPR's dorm room in a female maid outfit, for a month."

"Wow firecracker, you really were confident huh?" He looks back at her.

"Maybe a little too confident." Weiss chuckles. You tell Qrow how you became the only one man team in Beacon. How you and Pyrrha Nikos grew up together and are best friends. You explained that you're the reason the sparring facility is still under construction. How you were out of commission for 3 weeks, missing all the fun team RWBY was in. You explained your semblance and everything that has happened since you arrived at Beacon.

"Well, no wonder you are the only one man team here. You are exceptional. Congrats kid."
You nod and he nods back.

"But please don't stare at my niece again." You look at Blake, who also looked guilty.

"Yes sir." You say with a sweat. You look back at Blake.

"Well Blake, I got to go, finals are tomorrow and I have to rest." As you go to stand up, you lose your footing, luckily Blake is there to catch you. Qrow chuckles a bit.

"Are you okay Y/n?" She looks worried.

"Yea I'm fine, just slipped, I'll see you tomorrow, love you."

"I love you too."

Finals are next! I only wonder who's going to fight who? Oh well, guess you gotta read ahead to figure out. Thanks again for reading! -P