"Mommy, he's scaring me…" Tia said as Dr. Oobleck spent the first fifteen minutes of class just staring at the dragon-girl and sipping from his coffee.
"Dr. Oobleck, shouldn't you start… teaching, maybe?" Jaune asked and the professor finally acknowledged his existence.
"Mr. Arc, we are in front of a life form never seen again in millennia! A living, unique creature with features no one ever expected to be! I think instead we should research this event in more detail!"
"Nobody is researching my little girl!" Pyrrha said as she embraced Tia protectively, fully assuming her motherly role.
"I assure you it is in the name of science, Ms. Nikos!"
"Doctor, with all due respect, you aren't going near her." Jaune said as he put himself between Tia and the overly eager doctor.
"But Mr. Arc…"
"No." Pyrrha and Jaune said together, getting up and taking Tia with them. The rest of their friends followed soon after as it was clear Dr. Oobleck wasn't going to teach his class. He sipped his coffee and started scheming. For science.
…
"OK, Tia, new rule. Dr. Oobleck is clearly out of his mind and you will not come close to him without mom or dad, OK?" Pyrrha suggested as they decided to spend their time in the library.
"OK, mommy. Auntie Renny, what's this place?" She asked as she stared at the shelves filled with books.
"It's a library; it's made for reading…" Ren eyed his friends as they were setting a Remnant: The Game board and sighed before returning to Tia. "…and I'm a boy, so I'm your uncle Ren." He couldn't believe he was accepting his teammates just birthed a dragon-girl. And he could accept a lot of things.
"Auntie Nora, why Auntie Renny thinks she's a boy?" Ren sighed in defeat.
"OK, since we're here, we should as well see everything we can about dragons and dragon-people." Weiss suggested as she put a pile of books on the table. Tia grabbed one and stared at its pages.
"Mommy, what are those?" Mia asked as she tried to decipher the mysterious objects on front of her.
"Books, sweetheart. We write knowledge on them so we can pass this to other people." Pyrrha explained in her soft, motherly voice.
"How you pass them on with those weird drawings?"
"Tia… you don't know how to read?" Pyrrha asked and Tia shook her read. It made sense since she was just a day old… despite this being the only thing that made sense on having a dragon-girl as a daughter.
"Let's fix this then. Ruby, can you fetch me some fairy tale books? If possible those with big letters, short texts and beautiful illustrations?" Jaune asked and in a bloom of petals Ruby disappeared and reappeared with a dozen books. "Thanks, Rubes. Come here, Tia, I'll teach you how to read."
"You?" Weiss said and Yang slapped the heiress head on the back. Weiss growled but decided to not say another word. She grabbed a very old book with what appeared to be snake leather cover and started to read it. It was titled the Draconomicum… for Dummies, 3rd edition.
Tia was seated on Jaune's lap, very focused as he read the stories for her. Pyrrha was by their side smiling and reading a comic book; a habit she took from her partner. Yang, Blake, Ruby and Nora were playing the board game. Weiss was really into her reading, while Ren was studying with a history book the subject Oobleck was supposed to teach, glad people were not doing a fuss. Two hours quickly passed this way.
And then the loudly sound of a growl filled the library, and all eyes were cast on Tia.
"Sorry, I'm hungry again." She apologized with her hands on her tummy.
"Well, it's almost lunch time. So why not we go to the cafeteria?" Ren suggested as he closed his books.
"I'm surprised you're hungry already, sweet. You ate a lot for breakfast." Yang commented as they started putting their game away.
"That's because dragonets, the proper term for a young dragon, have big appetites, but as she grow older she will feel less hungry and can get to the point of being able to go one year without feeding." Weiss explained as she closed her book but took it with her.
"I can't even imagine skipping a meal." Ruby stated and the group soon left the library and arrived at the cafeteria.
Once again Tia's tray was pure meat. It was two whole pork legs, a turkey and several chicken nuggets. The dragon-girl ate sloppily but happily, receiving a few warm stares from her 'family', especially Yang and Ruby.
"Tia, this isn't the proper way for a lady to eat." Weiss said, in a surprisingly soft tone. The girl stared at the heiress with an inquiring look. "Your face and hands are covered in grease. You need to use a fork and a knife."
"But auntie Weiss, this is too much trouble!" She defended herself.
"I know, but you don't want people thinking your parents didn't raise you properly, so as your aunt I'll teach you proper manners." Weiss explained, and she was cooed by the people at the table.
"Look at you, such a caring auntie." Yang teased with a big smirk.
"I knew under all the ice there was a heart!" Nora chimed in, making Weiss roll her eyes.
"Please! I won't allow this innocent child grow to be a barbarian like some of you. It's just the right thing to do!"
"Will you teach me how to take care of my hair too, auntie Weiss?" Tia asked, and the heiress melted on her, using her napkin to clean her dirty mouth.
"Of course, dear. Your aunt Weiss will make sure you become a lady. If you want I'll even tutor you. Your dumb father probably isn't the best option."
"For your information, Tia already learned how to read. I'm going to teach her languages… But I hope Nora will teach her Math. Nora's really good with math." Jaune commented and there was a brief moment of shocked disbelief as everyone stared at Nora.
"Hey, you don't go flying around with well placed explosions without knowing your Math!" She defended herself.
"Anyway, I doubt Tia learned how to read just in the few hours in the library…" Weiss doubted, but Blake gave Tia one of those Schnee Company pamphlets and the girl read it perfectly. "…wait a minute…" Weiss grabbed the Draconomicum. "Ah, here… dragonets are born with high intelligence and are able to learn incredible fast. They also have a prodigious genetic memory, and are born with great knowledge about the natural world, making them prodigious hunters."
"And daddy's a great teacher." Tia said proudly, receiving pets from Jaune and actually purring like a cat.
"So, how about we share the duty of teaching Tia? We see what subjects we're the best at and soon she'll be at the same level as us." Ruby suggested and they all set up a schedule for lessons.
*DINGDONG* Please could Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos and Tia Arc Nikos proceed to the headmaster office?
"Maybe they found something about her?" Blake wondered, and she noticed Jaune sighing as he cleaned the girl's hands and mouth with his napkin, while Pyrrha was red faced and fuming at listening her surname together with Jaune's.
"I hope it is good news. Let's go, Pyr." The redhead and the dragon-girl stood up.
"Mommy, can I go outside first?" Tia asked while blushing.
"Why, sweetheart?"
"I need to poop…" she confessed.
"Just use the bathroom."
"What is a bathroom?" Tia asked, and Pyrrha blushed and stared at Jaune.
"Don't look at me. I'm never; ever entering in a girl's bathroom in a school where every girl could castrate me with one hand." Jaune defended himself with his hands up in the air.
"Oh, and we would." Yang smirked but her eyes told Jaune to not take that threat lightly.
…
"Maika?"
Jaune was surprised to see his eldest sister there. Maika was wearing a long yellow dress and had her hair in a big braid and stared at the trio with a serious expression while her green eyes set upon the dragon-girl. By her side was a wooden crate with the Arc crest on it. In the room were Ozpin and Glynda too and both held the same serious expression.
"Who's she, daddy?" Tia asked as she eyed the older Arc girl.
"She's my older sister Maika."
"So, she's my auntie too?" Maika was already hugging the cute girl and rubbing her cheek against Tia's, all seriousness dispelled.
"I'm, I'm so your auntie! Heavens, little brother, I always knew your children with Pyrrha would be cute, but this is too much!" Maika said between giggles, and once again the redhead's brain stopped working as she realized Jaune's family imagined them together.
"Ms. Arc, don't we have a very serious issue to solve?" Glynda said, and Maika reluctantly let go of her niece and returned to the serious expression she had.
"So, uh, what this is all about?" Jaune finally said, Pyrrha too busy in her delusions about being married to be helpful.
"Mr. Arc, you know the story behind the Festival of Dragons, right?" Ozpin stated between sips of coffee, and Jaune nodded. "You see, the dragon defeated that day cast a curse upon the heroes that defeated him: that one day, a dragon born from their children would come, and he would take its body and return as a might force to destroy humanity."
"And you're telling me this because…" Jaune already knew the answer. He just didn't want to say it.
"One of those heroes was an Arc. Arthuria Arc, to be exact." Maika stated, and Jaune face palmed. Of course his long storied and filled with heroes' family would be involved in that. "So, to avoid the curse, there's a ritual you, as the Arc that birthed this dragonet, should do."
"Daddy, I don't want to destroy humanity!" Tia begged, and he petted her head.
"Dad won't allow it, sweetheart. So, this ritual, what it's exactly?" He questioned his sister, already dreading the answer.
"There are two ways, of course. Death to the one who birthed the dragon, which I must say everyone here agree we're NOT murdering my brother." Maika glanced at Ozpin and Glynda and the two nodded. It was not that they couldn't kill Jaune, which would be easy. They feared his seven sisters and their destructive power. "Or you can find a bride and marry by the Festival of Dragons."
A moment of silence.
Pyrrha finally left her dream world, only to get in another imagining her marriage during the Festival.
Tia left a relieved sigh.
Jaune had the most logical, predictable reaction over that situation.
He laughed his ass out loud.
"That was a good one, sis. Marriage or death! For a second I believed you."He noticed that Maika, Glynda and Ozpin kept the straight faces. Tia just tilted her head in confusion while Pyrrha was still daydreaming. "Oh heavens this isn't a joke!"
"Actually, several international laws older than any of us dictate that is the case." Ozpin informed Jaune and he shook his head in disbelief.
"This is ridiculous! We don't have a law like that! Let me check the Great Book of Laws of Remnant!" Jaune grabbed the conveniently placed book by his side, one that was the size of Tia, and opened it. "Marriage, marriage, marriage… HA! Here it's! Marriage or DEATH! Uh… Talk about being extreme…"
"So, you see, Jauney, you either marry by the Festival by the end of the month, or either we have to sacrifice you or poor Tia will become possessed by an evil dragon spirit." Maika summarized.
"Daddy!" Tia begged with her big shiny eyes.
"Marriage it is…" Jaune assented.
"YES!" Pyrrha shouted all of sudden, and all eyes sat on her, making her blush and look away.
"But how am I to find a bride in such short notice?" Jaune questioned. BY YOUR SIDE DUMBASS! Pyrrha thought.
"Oh, we already have a bride in sight. See, the Arc Council, for the first time in its registered story, have decided on what they consider to be the perfect bride for you. Someone who we're sure will keep you and Tia from trouble." Maika started, and Pyrrha crossed her fingers. "Glynda."
"WHAT!" The blondes and the redhead stood up in shock.
"She is mature, beautiful, sexy and I know you think she's the best teacher here." Maika explained, making Glynda slightly happy and Pyrrha slightly murderous.
"I'm not marrying my student, Maika. You can't force me to!" The blonde professor stated and Pyrrha calmed down, letting go her plans to make the teacher suffer a series of deadly accidents.
"It's the law, Glynda." Maika answered and both the teacher and the Spartan grabbed the Great Book.
"Who the hell wrote this book?" Glynda asked as indeed she was to be forced into marriage, unless…
"Of course, if Mr. Arc here find a willing bride by the Festival, you won't need to be married, Glynda. Though at your age…" Ozpin started and a glyph zapped him into silence.
"Sorry about it, little brother. I would stay and help you with the bride searching and marriage but Chia needs my help back home with the Festival. We're having record visitors this year. Oh, on the bright side, here's your costume." Maika gave him the crate, kissed his forehead and hugged Tia. "I'll see you soon, your little cute dragonet!"
"Bye, auntie Maika."
"Great, where I'll find a willing bride to marry in a month?!" Jaune lamented.
LOOK BY YOUR SIDE YOU LOVABLE, CUTE IDIOT!
…
"Ha! Very funny! Marriage or death. For a second I almost believed you all." Jaune gave Weiss the Great Book of Laws of Remnant. "This certainly gives a new meaning to 'shotgun marriage'."
"They even put 'death' in all caps and the exclamation point at the end. They ARE serious." Ruby commented as she also read the book.
Blake was shocked. The fact that something so important was forgotten to the point Jaune and Pyrrha hatched a dragon egg and no one made sure to warn people about NOT doing it as it was the only thing keeping an ancient evil that put the entire Remnant more at risk than the creatures of Grimm was baffling to say the least. And why they had to force Jaune to marry someone because of some magical ritual was also some ridiculous elaborated prank made by already dead people. At least this was how Blake saw it.
Ruby and Nora were taking it well. Actually, too well. Ruby already demanded to be the bride's maid while Nora wanted to be the groom best man. Ren would try to explain to her that she couldn't do it due to the fact she was a girl but nothing could stop her from getting the role.
It was Pyrrha that reacted the most funny. She just kept staring at the dejected Jaune as he rested his head on the table in their Dust Manipulation class. Of course, if she knew birthing a dragon would force a marriage with Jaune and a daughter, she would have done that ages ago and now she really needed to clue that dense blonde about the fact she was eager to marry him.
"Why you don't just marry anyone and divorce after the fact?" Ren suggested, and most of them just face palmed over the easy solution.
"Because 'marriage' here is in the old sense of the word." Jaune explained still with his head on the table.
"Old sense?" Ruby questioned.
"It means they have to have sex too." Blake deadpanned, receiving dead glares from Yang, for blurting the world sex in front of a now red and fuming Ruby, and from Pyrrha, for saying the world sex in front of Tia. The Faunus girl immediately hid her face in her book.
"I don't get it? Why daddy need to marry? He already have mommy." Tia stated and received a hug from Pyrrha. At least her own daughter was on her side.
"I don't want to force anyone into a marriage, sweetheart. I want it to be because of love and not because the end is nigh." Jaune explained petting his daughter, and Pyrrha was about to burst her desire but alas! This story still is far from over so Glynda Goodwitch entered the room and cut her.
"Everyone sit down. As you can see we have a special student with us. Ms. Arc Nikos has special permission to study with us at least until the Festival of Dragons for reasons we WON'T disclose in public." She eyes team RWBY and JNPR and they understood they wouldn't mention the situation. "Today's class is to learn how to refine raw Dust crystal into powder to use in your equipment, a great skill to have while on the field. Be careful as Dust in powder form is extreme volatile."
"You know all about it, right Ruby." Weiss growled at her partner filled with the sweet memories of their first meeting. Ruby just chuckled nervously.
"Tia, your parents will be a little busy, so sit close and watch us doing our job and don't touch anything, OK?" Pyrrha said sweetly, and Tia nodded.
While the duo was busy transforming crystals in powder and not blowing themselves up, Tia noticed the bowl with Dust crystals and used her tail to grab one. She gave it a sniff and then she started sucking on it like a lollipop. She was sucking on a dark blue crystal, and slowly her horns became dark blue too.
"OK, now for the ice Dust…" Pyrrha said and looked at the bowl to see it was missing. She looked around and saw that Tia had it on her mouth. She pushed the crystal of her mouth and noticed half of it was missing. "Tia!"
"Aww… those Dust crystals tastes so good… and my breath is fresh now." She commented as she used her thin and long tongue to feel her teeth.
"Tia, those crystals are not candy!" Pyrrha chastised and the dragon-girl stared down.
"But mommy, they taste good…" The Spartan sighed and gently ruffled the dragon-girl's hair.
"When we end classes I'll get you some, OK?" Tia smiled and nodded.
The class finished without any more incidents and they returned to their dorms. As they talked and walked Pyrrha stared at Jaune and wondered how she could hint him she would be pleased to be his bride and wife, and even… She blushed madly when the thought of him taking her, since she haven't even had her first kiss yet.
"Oof!" They stopped by their dorms where Zwei was expecting them.
"Hi Zwei, how was your day?" Ruby asked and the dog barked again, shaking his tiny tail.
"Hmm…" Tia stared at the tiny dog and drooled a little, slowly walking towards the unaware dog.
"Awww, she likes him!" Weiss cooed, failing to notice the girl's tail going side to side.
"Snack…" Tia murmured, and Zwei danger sense triggered. He started jumping back as she approached, and then she jumped at the little dog. He turned around and started running. "Come back here you delicious snack!" Tia shouted and she flew, quite literally, after Zwei, and as she did so Jaune noticed something.
"Pyr, dear, when you fixed Tia's 'dress', did you provided her with underwear?" He asked, and Pyrrha was about to say something, stopped to think and…
"I knew I forgot something…"
"ZWEI!" Ruby yelled and zoomed after her dog and niece.
…
Cardin wasn't having a good day. First, that damned dragon-girl made him bald. Second, he couldn't relieve his stress on the bunny Faunus because she was with her team and they scared him. Second, he failed his math test again. He wondered why. And thirdly, he couldn't understand why good things only happened to Jaune. The guy was a dork, clumsy, faked his way at Beacon, yet was always surrounded by beautiful girls, and had Pyrrha Invincible Girl Nikos as partner and now he had a fucking dragon. Life was unfair, he declared in his mind, as he was way more deserving of that good luck.
"Oof!" Cardin stared down and saw Zwei hiding between his legs and smirked, grabbing the little dog and staring at his face.
"Well, well. What do we have here? You know what, little fella? I'll have some fun with you." Zwei gulped.
"Let go of my snack!" Tia ordered as she landed in front of him.
"Oh no, it is you again you freak!" Cardin groaned, but them he realized she was alone there, and he was twice her height and many times larger. And now he was wearing his armor and had his mace. He dropped Zwei and grabbed his weapon. "I was really wanting to thank you for my new look." His bald head shone under the sunlight.
"Oh, you're welcome, but you have a big head... And so, so bald!" Cardin almost fell down over the comment and growled, and tried to smash Tia with his mace, but the dragonet reacted by using her dragon breath. Except instead of fire she expelled a cloud that froze the bully in a block of ice.
"Hey, Cardin… Cardin! Get the freak!" The rest of his team yelled as they came from a corner and charged, only to stop on their heels when a wind blew her skirt up. Dove had a nose bleed and the other two just stood there, shocked. Tia then blew her freezing breath against them and her horns slowly became white again. With team CRDL out of the way, she turned back to Zwei.
"Come here, my delicious little snack. I bet you are all soft and tasty!" She was about to jump on the dog when someone pulled her tail. "Hey! Auntie Yang!"
"Sorry, sweet, but Zwei is part of the family and we don't eat family."
"But look at him! He's so fat and tender!" Tia answered as she eyed the little dog that was now safe on Ruby's arms.
"According to the Draconomicum, dragons see anything smaller than they as prey." Weiss explained calmly. "Yet, a proper lady won't hunt and kill her own food… unless it's an emergency."
"Ah, I get it now! Zwei is emergency food! OK, I won't eat him unless it's an emergency." Tia stated happily. The wind once again blew her skirt up.
"Pyrrha, take her to town and for heaven's sake get her some panties and I'm never saying this again." Jaune groaned while some nervous chuckles were heard around.
"Come on Tia, I'll take you to buy some clothes… Where I'll even find a store that sells dragonet clothes?" Pyrrha wondered.
"I know some Faunus stores. I'm pretty sure we can find some clothes we can adapt." Blake offered, and the girls group left, though Ren and Jaune decided they would never, ever go buying underwear with them.
Team CRDL remained frozen in place.
…
On the top of the roof, Dr. Oobleck, in full field gear, made notes about the occurrences, carrying a big pair of binoculars with him. He, as a scientist, had the obligation to observe and learn, and nothing would stop him from doing his job. He would follow and take notes of every step the dragonet took, and when the opportunity arises, he would conduct a more detailed research.
For Science.
And nothing would stop him. No rain, no snow, no Glynda… Wait, Glynda?
"Dr. Oobleck, what are you doing up here? Some students called me believing a pervert was staring with binoculars. And I find you here, with binoculars, cameras and is that a telescope?"
"I can explain. I'm just using this to observe the dragonet Mr. Arc found." Glynda grabbed one of the cameras with the big lens and shuffled between the pictures. Unfortunately for Dr. Oobleck, he left the camera in auto mode and it captured on particular, panties free picture.
"DOCTOR OOBLECK!"
