LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 5: Chapter 5: A Night To Remember
Russ had finally worked up the courage to ask Ceril on a date. It wasn't the most beautiful or romantic of events but, in the end, she agreed.
After the crazy way they confessed their feelings, their relationship had became a little more…friendly…to say the least. They would give each other a wink or a smile as they passed in the hall. They even spent some time training together in Logan's new holo-training room that he deemed, "The Danger Room" for some reason.
The two planned to have their date in two week's time, to give time for planning. Russ wanted it to be absolutely perfect. In-between all the hustle and bustle of their every day lives, Russ was busy also making preparations. He had planned it all perfectly. With a little help from Layla, Russ knew it would be great.
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After what seemed like an eternity, the night of their date had finally arrived. Ceril, felt nervous, but in a good way. After freshening up, she put on a form fitting, low cut, pink, halter necked, backless cocktail style dress that went to barely above her knees. The light pink of the dress was the same color her tail was when she submerged herself in water.
The bottom of the dress had blue, sparkling gems that looked almost like splashes of water or waves. She wore a thin silver chain around her waist that had a black, starfish shaped gem as the clasp. Around her neck another thin silver chain, only this one had little pink and blue gems all along it and in the center a medium sized, black gem that seemed to shimmer with pink and blue iridescence.
Her blue hair was done with two braids running along the sides of her head, meeting in the back where an intricate, braided bun was set. Two pieces of hair hung down in the front, framing her face. The shoes on her feet were black, dressy, flats…Ceril didn't care much for high heels…and her finger nails were painted black, for contrast.
After taking one last look at herself in the mirror, Ceril nodded with confirmation and smiled.
"You look absolutely stunning" a voice said from the doorway.
Ceril turned around to see Layla, arms crossed, leaning on the doorframe. "Russ doesn't deserve you" she said with a chuckle and walked into the room to gove Ceril a hug. Ceril hugged her back, then, with her hands in her shoulders, looked at her and said, "I think he's not exactly what he seems" a little smirk appeared on her face.
"As long as you're happy and as long as he treats you right" Layla commanded with a smile.
"I am…and if he doesn't, he'll regret it!" Ceril said with a grin. She took one last look in the mirror, smiled at Layla, and headed towards the door.
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Meanwhile, Russ was in a panic. "What do I wear?" "I spent so much time planning everything else I forgot to get something to where!" He said frantically. He rushed back and forth, throwing things out of his dresser and closet. A knock sounded at the door, Russ froze. Looking at the clock he was worried what time it was. 'Oh sh*t!' He thought, 'Am I late?'.
Russ ran over to the door, looking at the video screen he could see the top of someone's head, as if they weren't quite tall enough for the camera to see them. "Hello?" The person said, "Russ are you in there?". As Russ watched the screen, the person must have stood on their tippy toes because then Russ saw their face.
It was the owner of this place and the leader of Earth, Logan.
Russ quickly opened the door, "Hey!" Russ began, "Look Logan, I don't have time to..." but before he could finish what he was saying, Logan raised a hand, "I'm only here to give you this" and raised what looked like a large, black trash bag. Logan continued, "You looked frantic, it was a little annoying, so I had my spiders make this for you." "Should be to your exact specifications."
Russ took the bag and looked at Logan, "Have you been watching me?" "And how do you know my exact measurements?" Russ said a little curious.
"Well, that's that, you're welcome." Logan said as he turned and walked off down the hall.
Russ was left in a stupor, staring down the hall after Logan. 'That guy…he's so strange…nice guy, but very, very strange' he thought to himself. Then, as if being slapped awake, he straightened up, eyes wide, "My date!" He said out loud. He didn't have much time left to get ready.
Quickly closing the door, Russ hurried back into the interior of his room and frantically started to get ready. Luckily he had already showered and was in his towel when Logan came, so he just needed to get dressed.
He opened the bag he had just received and inside was a black suit with a pink shirt and blue tie. The colors were not too dark and not too light, the blue of the tie reminded him of a certain someone and he smiled.
The tie, Russ noticed, had a black chain that wrapped around it. At the end was a blade that was connected to the chain. They looked exactly like the tattoos he had around his body and on the back of his hands. He tied his long blonde hair back into a ponytail, leaving one strand that wouldn't cooperate, hanging by his left eye.
As he looked at himself in the mirror, he thought 'Well, can't get any better than this', nodded, gave a wink, and pointed at himself in the in the mirror, making a clicking noise with his tongue and pointing with both hands. "That was so dumb…." A voice sounded from the corner of the room, "Please tell me you won't do that around Ceril".
Russ snapped his head in the direction of the voice, it was the black sword of course. Without hesitation Russ walked over and grabbed the sword.
"Wait, I was only kidding" the sword pleaded. Russ didn't care though. He walked out of the room, across the hall, and dropped the Black Sword into the laundry chute that was situated in the wall.
Russ bent down a bit so he could listened to the clanging of the sword dropping 3 levels through the chute. He smiled, wiped his hands together and said, "That takes care of that!".
At that moment, a certain person came walking down the hall.
Russ heard the sound of someone approaching, he turned, raising his head, and almost fell over. Standing in front of him was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. Theresa beautiful pink dress, the slender body, her tied up the way it was. Ceril was absolutely gorgeous and Russ, as usual, couldn't speak.
As Ceril walked down the hall, she saw Russ come out of his room carrying the black sword. She watched as he walked over to the laundry chute, opened it, and threw the sword in. Closing the chute he said "That takes care of that".
Ceril covered her mouth to stifle a laugh as she continued forward. At that moment Russ had turned and looked directly at her. His mouth fell open, his eyes widened.
Acting stunned by the look on Russ's face, Ceril stopped and looked around, "What is it?", she said, worry in her voice. She then stopped, smiled at him and said sweetly, "Hello Russ, having sword troubles?"
She covered her mouth and giggled a bit.
Russ, rubbing the back of his neck said, "Eh, it's nothing I can't handle". Then his eyes met hers and he said, "You look absolutely incredible!", his smile widening, "I mean you've always been beautiful, but…WOW!".
Ceril's cheeks started to heat up and she smiled back at Russ. "Thanks you!" She said. "You clean up quite well yourself" she said, giving him a playful wink.
Russ held out his arm, "well, shall we?". "The night is very young!" He said. With that Ceril linked her arm in his, smiled up at him, looking into his eyes, and the two headed off for their date.
Ceril was curious as to what the night would entail, as she had no clue what Russ had planned.
They started out with a simple dinner at a beautiful restaurant, in a very nice part of the city. I mean Logan Green owns this city and they are friends with Logan, so of course they have the best of everything.
After dinner they walked down the street looking in windows and talking and laughing with each other. At one point they passed a gaming den where people gather to play the latest new video games, Ceril HAD to go in. She challenged Russ to a game of block block, there was even one of the machines from the Penswi planet. But there was one particular game they played that was exceptionally difficult and it was one from a VERY, VERY long time ago, it was called Pong.
He then took her to a specialty treat shop where they specialize in treats from all over the universe. Ceril found some sort of black slime like delicacy, similar to something from her home world. Russ just got some Vanilla ice cream.
After a delectable meal, seeing the sites of the city, having a soul crushing defeat at the hands of his date at Pong, and a nice sweet treat. Russ had one more place he wanted to take her.