(EN) RWBY OC: Team KNRD (Volume 1)

Chapter 12: Nightmare

(Two weeks later, Night's POV)

It was evening, after the meal, as usual, I was sitting on my bed, playing the guitar, Resare was on her Scroll, Krystal was talking to her father. Suddenly, Dragon suddenly enters in the room.

"You'll never guess what I saw!" He tells us.

"What ?" I asked him uninterested.

"Jaune hangs out with Cardin!" He tells us. The whole team was shocked.

Cardin !? Winchester !? "I asked him, my voice raised.

"Yeah!" He replied, moving his head up and down.

"No, but is he nuts, or what?" Resare asks, frustrated.

"Probably, to dare to hang out with that bastard." I answered her

"Since when ?" Krystal asks.

"Two weeks, apparently." Dragon answers her

"Aaaahh ... That's why we hardly saw him lately" I said.

"It's just bullshit ... Why would he hang out with the motherfucker who bullying him?" Resare asks.

"Who knows." Krystal answers her, who closes her Scroll. "We better go to bed, we're going on an excursion tomorrow." Krystal tells us.

"Okay." We all answered. I get up and put my guitar on its base in front of my bed.

"Tomorrow is likely to be charged." Dragon told us, taking off his t-shirt.

"We're just going to the Forest of Forever Fall, there's nothing to worry about." Resare answers him, who also removes his clothes, remaining in sports underwear. For my part, I take off my t-shirt and put myself under the sheets.

"Well, good night everyone." Krystal tells us.

"Good night" we all three answer.

"By the way Night, if you can't sleep you can always wake me up." Krystal told me.

"Thanks but no thanks." I replied before pulling the curtain and falling asleep.

(During the night, Krystal's POV)

It must have been around 3:00 am and I couldn't sleep. Yet I have a deep sleep, but I do not sleep. Must say that hearing the snores of Dragon does not help. But that night, it wasn't just that. I felt like I heard moans coming from Night's bed. I didn't know what was going on, so I wasn't paying attention.

"No ... Emerald ..." I heard a moan. It was Night. I get up from my bed and walk over to his before pulling the curtain lightly. What I saw horrified me. Night was asleep, moving, his fists so clenched his fingernails dig into his palms, causing him to bleed. He was crying a lot, as if he had a cascade of tears under his eyes. I couldn't believe it, he who is normally so calm, so strong and so serious, was crying hot tears in his sleep like a child.

"Night! Night! Wake up!!" I called to him, shaking him. He opened his eyes suddenly before looking up at me.

"K ... Krystal?" He call me, red eyes, caused by tears. Seeing him like that, I couldn't help but grab him and hug him.

"It's okay, it's okay..." I whispered to him, patting his back. I felt him put his hands timidly on my back and put his head on my shoulder.

"I'm sorry ..." he told me between two sobs.

"It's okay, it's okay" I whispered reassuringly. I hugged him for 10 minutes before he calmed down. "Tell me everything." I whispered to him.

"Okay, but not here." He said to me, having regained his composure. He stands up, grabs his torn jacket and puts on his shoes. From my side, I just content myself with my slippers. Night grabs me by the wrist before activating his semblance. We went out the window to go into the courtyard. Once we got to the bottom, we resumed our human form.

"So ?" I asked him. Without answering me, Night sits down on the floor against the wall of the building before looking at the floor. I kneel down in front of him and grab his right hand.

"You have short fingernails and you can get your hands to bleed with it anyway ..." I sighed. "Night ... It's not normal ..." I told him, worried.

"It's to hide this that I wear gloves." He told me.

"And ... Who is Emerald? I heard you whisper that name." I asked him.

"She's ... my little sister ...." he answered weakly.

"Tell me about your nightmare, please?" I asked him. Night looks up at me before looking at the ground again.

"I was ... in some kind of very dark mansion ... only lit by the light of a blood moon ... A voice was calling me ... And when I came to her ... I ... I saw my dying sister ... with a spear stuck in her chest..." he explains to me.

"You ... have been having these nightmares for a long time?" I asked him.

"Two years. But it was not as frequent, at the beginning ... Before, I did two a month ... then two in two weeks ... Now I'm at two a week .. ." He told me. "I did everything to make my sister happy, even though I had nothing! And now she's gone with a criminal. It's been two years since I have heard from her ... don't know if she's on the loose ... or if she's still alive ... "he tells me.

"And if she comes back to you, how would you react?" I asked him. Night sighs heavily.

"I don't know. Should I be glad to see her after all this time? Or should I be angry for her actions and what she dared to tell me?" He answers me.

"Tell you what ?" I asked him.

"That I was a weak asshole." He answered me. Bullshit! Her brother does everything to protect her and make her happy and that's how she thanks him ?!

"So ... didn't you have anyone to support you?" I asked him.

"Not for the first month." He replied, "One night while I was working, one of the clients told me he wanted my sister to die. I couldn't resist so I hit him. Again ... and again. " He said to me, ashamed before raising his bleeding right hand, showing me two fingers.

"Two hits. Two more hits and I killed him. And I didn't know it" He told me, in shame. "But I didn't kill him because a Huntress had stopped me. That Huntress was Professor Goodwitch," he told me.

"Really ?" I asked him surprised.

"Yeah. If I'm here today, it's because of her. She stopped me from killing a citizen, got me out of jail, and allowed me to join Beacon." He admits to me "I didn't even know how to hold a sword two years ago. It was she who convinced Ozpin to get me out of the mess I got myself into. I ... owe her a lot. ... For everything she did for me ... "He confesses to me before smiling shyly.

"Glynda... was the first person to take care of me without giving up on me... She gave me food, drink, a place to sleep and a future." He told me.

"At least you had a rampart during those two years. That's something." I answered him before taking his hands. "You're not alone now. You have a team you can count on." I tell him reassuringly. "At the slightest problem, talk to me, even if you have to wake me up during the night." I said.

"That's nice thanks." He replied with a smile.

"Come on, shall we go back to bed?" I suggested to him.

"If you want." He replied before getting up. He comes up to me and grabs me by the arm before turning us into smoke to return to the bedroom to end our night.

END OF CHAPTER 12