(ง •̀_•́)ง (ember_celica) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2016-05-21 19:26:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, li-ming, yang xiao long |
“Everything...was goin’ so good too…”
Who: Yang and Li
What: Yang has nightmares
When: recent
Where: Their apartment
Status: complete
Rating: Pg-13, RWBY v3 mid season spoilers
The tournament had been amazing. Team RWBY had fought well and they were all in sync and Yang was so pumped. Watching their friends kick butt had been just as awesome and Yang probably cheered as loud as anyone else for JNPR(Juniper).
The doubles match with Weiss had been well...infuriating. Neon Katt’s taunts had gotten to her and she’d nearly let her anger get the better of her before she and Weiss had pulled off a win.
They’d decided to field her for the singles match, since Weiss had taken the brunt of the damage and she was also their heaviest hitter. Yang looked up as she was the first name called. Her opponent was Mercury. Easy Peasy.
The battle was over almost too quickly. He was good, but she was better, despite his attack style being one of her weaknesses. A win for RWBY and a win for Beacon!
Except Mercury had attacked her. After the battle was over and her back was turned, he’d attacked her and she’d defended herself. He’d been hurt, but that wasn’t her fault. She defended herself.
So why were they pointing guns at her, and why did the screen above them show her attacking him?
Yang crawled out of bed, stumbling out of her room in shock.
To Yang’s credit, Li was already awake. Sometimes she kept odd hours, but that was how it was with a musician. Sometimes she was up late making demos in GarageBand of melodies in her head. Sometimes they were only fragments, and sometimes she managed to string some together to make actual songs later.
This time, she wasn’t messing around in GarageBand, and instead was simply reading. She didn’t have her headphones on, which was why she heard the stumbling. Frowning, Li wondered what was going on. Had Yang gotten drunk? Or was it something else? Marking her place, she set her book aside, then came out of her room.
“Yang? Are you alright?” She asked as she flipped on the light in the hallway.
Yang looked at Li, her expression like she’d seen a ghost and her hair a wild, untamed blonde mane. “I uh. Yeah. I’m totally fine. Everything is cool. Fine. Nothings wrong.” She laughed nervously.
Li didn’t need to be an expert to recognize the look of having seen a ghost on Yang’s face. She’d obviously had a rough night. A dream, perhaps? “Are you certain? I was not certain if you were drunk or needing help or anything of the sort.”
“I … kind of wish I was drunk right now,” Yang admitted, sagging heavily against the wall, resting her hands on her knees. “How do you know if you’re going crazy or not? I mean, if you see things that didn’t happen. Like saw them realistically enough to react as though they were real?”
And the part that had really gotten to her was her team. They were so horrified and she wasn’t entirely sure they believed her.
Li drew closer to Yang. “I suppose it would depend. I am not entirely certain that one would really know if they were going crazy. My first inclination would be to see if anyone saw whatever it was that you saw.” She hadn’t exactly had experience with someone who was crazy so she couldn’t say for certain on that matter.
“No one did.” Yang shook her head. “But I swear I saw it. I swear I saw him attack me.” Had it been a semblance? Had someone tricked her into seeing something that wasn’t there? I didn’t make any sense. “Everything...was goin’ so good too…”
“Perhaps perception was distorted somehow? I do not know if magic is prevalent in your dreams, but I know of magic in mine that can bend time around itself. Perhaps something similar, only a distortion of space, may have occurred?” Li suggested. “I am sorry that things seem to not have ended well at all for you. Though perhaps you shall figure out what happened in the future?” She was trying to be optimistic.
“Nothing like real magic. It’s more of a science…” But she wasn’t sure how to properly explain Dust when she didn’t understand it much herself. “I know the basics. Each person has a unique ability, a semblance. I don’t remember if I told you about mine or not. And I hope I find out what happened. I can’t have my sister and my best friends looking at me like that…”
“You told me a little about it. Though I am sorry that your sister and best friends did not see what you did. With luck that will be sorted out quickly.” Or so she hoped anyway. These dream things were quite strange like that, to be honest.
“I spent my whole life working on this, on becoming a huntress,” Yang whispered. “And now I don’t know what’s gonna happen. People aren’t going to trust me. Did I do all that for nothing?” She looked at Li. “I know we haven’t known each other for long, but do I look like someone that would attack someone without being provoked?”
Li frowned softly. “No, you do not. You certainly are more the type to fight only when provoked or when something like the stormtroopers happened. But that is what happened to you? Someone made it seem like you attacked someone else unprovoked?”
“Yeah…” Yang nodded her head. “I heard him threaten me and then he charged me. And this was after the match was over. So I reacted, and it injured him. Then they started pointing guns at me and the replay on the jumbotron showed me walking up to him and attacking him!”
Li’s frown only deepened. “Yet no one saw the attack on you without it being displayed on the jumbotron? It would seem someone could have easily manipulated the images on the jumbotron screen, but one would think the real world version of events would have been noticed by someone other than you.”
“It was all live. Everyone in the stands, everyone at home, the whole world saw me attack a defenseless man!” Yang pounded her fist into the wall. “It’s...it’s not fair. It didn’t happen that way. Maybe I went crazy.”
“Unless someone used some sort of trickery or magic to distort reality, someone watching you and not the projection on the jumbotron should have seen the other man attacked you.” Li reasoned. “It is not fair, but perhaps someone distorted reality, and not just doctored the projection, to make it look as though you attacked without provocation? Someone must want you either dead or dishonored to go to that length.”
“..anything is possible.” But everyone thought she was crazy. Or did it on purpose. Maybe both. She hoped she got to clear her name. “Thanks...I don’t think anyone thought about that...over there. But I dunno who’s in it so personally, yanno?”
“I understand. I do hope you can have it figured out because that is not a situation anyone should be in.” Li was hoping it was some trickery, that someone wanted Yang out of the way and found that the best way to do it. Which meant she also hoped that Yang got to track that person down and punch them into oblivion for it.
“Thanks. You’re awesome, you know that?” Yang stepped closer and wrapped her arm around Li. She squeezed, literally lifting the other woman up effortlessly as she did so. It was really lonely without her team, and she really hated it. Li really helped.
“I do what I can.” Li said with a soft smile. She gave Yang a hug, then she had to blink a bit as Yang lifted her off the floor. Now, Li wasn’t the smallest person ever. She was 5’6”, but she also weighed next to nothing.
Considering it Yang could probably bench press her entire team plus JNPR Li was light. She could easily parade her around on her shoulder if she wanted. She wondered if that would impress someone if she was interested in them. A thought!
“I think I’m starving. Want something?”
“Sure. What do you have the taste for?” Li asked. She was pretty easy-going when it came to food. She hadn’t yet tried something that she didn’t like. Or more to the point, she hadn’t tried anything that she abjectly hated.
Tuna, Yang thought, and snickered to herself. Out loud, she replied. “I’m kinda feeling like something really spicy. How about you?” Maybe Thai. Thai sounded good.
“Spicy sounds good to me.” Li said with a smile. She had quite a palette, which worked to her favor being in a new country with different kinds of food that she’d never had before.
“Sounds great!” Feeling a little better, Yang put Li down, finally. “Get ready, we’re gonna go get Thai!”