Thornless Rose

Disclaimer: I don't own Prince of Tennis or the original canon characters.

Summary: Dragons are the bane of the human race. The dragons nearly killed our ancestors. They are greedy for power. They are violent and cruel and do not care about humans' well-being in the slightest…but is that really true? Rewrite of Dragon's Master.


"Dragon" – Normal Speech

'Dragon' – Normal Thoughts

Dragon – Telepathy (thoughts only)


Don't Let Her Get Bored!

"Rose-chan can sure be scary when she is bored nya…" Eiji said with obvious fear in his voice as he lay on his bed in the medical ward of the mansion.

"Remind Ore-sama to build some courts around here if Rose ever…and Ore-sama means EVER…comes by again," Atobe said agreeing with a nod of his head.

"Don't let your guard down," Tezuka said sitting in his chair with his arms on the armrests.

"Says another person who got scared," Yukimura pointed out with a chuckle.

"She is just way too scary at times," Momo commented while lying on his stomach with a small wince.

"Do you think that Ryoma will be alright when he talks to her?" Fuji asked lying on his back on the bed.

Ryoma was the only one that wasn't hurt by whatever the group was talking about. Obviously, Rose was the cause if their conversation was anything to talk about.


"I really have to work on his entire 'I'm bored' thing of mine. It's going to be really troublesome if I don't," Rose commented to herself as she sat down in a nearby patch of forest ground with flowers with her hands behind her back to keep her balanced as she let her legs lie on the grass.

"You got that right Rose," Ryoma replied walking up to her careful not to crush any of the flowers around them. He had decided to go and see what Rose was doing after the day's…accident. The other regulars were resting in the medical ward because of it.

She looked over her shoulder to see him. She had a somewhat guilty look on her face from taking out her boredom on the regulars.

"Hey Ryo. What's up?" she asked as he sat down next to her.

"Nothing much going on really. The others are just discussing what happened today."

"Oh…that…" Rose said with a sheepish look on her face. Scratching her chin lightly, she said, "I went way out of control there."

"You think Ro?" Ryoma asked with a raised eyebrow.

Thinking back to it, Rose remembered the reason why she went out of control with them in the first place.


~Flashback Start~

She had been bored during the vacation. All they had been doing was going on the beach or letting her explore somewhere.

"I am bored!" Rose complained aloud to Ryoma as they sat on the forest edge.

Ryoma sighed before commenting, "Sorry but Monkey King doesn't have any tennis courts for anyone to play on over here."

"That idiot Atobe," Rose commented with a sigh. "He's a tennis player for crying out loud. He should at least think to have built at least one court here even if it is a beach. Now what are we supposed to do?" Rose questioned with a small pout.

"Shut up brats!" Atobe yelled after hearing Rose as he was walking along the beach side.

"Oh~, he did not just call me a brat and tell me to shut up," Rose said with a narrowed stare at the Hyotei tennis captain's back as he continued to walk.

"Uh oh," Ryoma commented with a sigh. "Monkey King! I think you should take that back! Right now!" he yelled to the captain hoping the warning would get to him quickly.

"Why?" Atobe scoffed. "She's just a little girl. She can't do anything to Ore-sama?" he finished with a hair flip and a smug smile on his face as he plainly forgot that she could transform into a dragon for payback.

Ryoma gulped before standing up and walking a few steps away from Rose.

"Oh heck no," Rose drawled out with an angry tick. "No one calls me a little girl when I'm around and bored at the same time," she said glaring daggers at the captain.

Atobe glanced over at Ryoma confused at what the girl was saying and noticed the boy mouth the words 'Run away!' to him. He didn't understand the message at first and only realized it too late when Rose had transformed into her Pegasus form with a loud whinny and stomped on the ground.

As soon as he saw the girl transform, Atobe had started running for it.

"Just let me at him this once," Rose said with a narrowed glare in the direction Atobe was running. "I really want to hurt him right now…he was annoying before but now it's just gone a bit too far…"

Ryoma gulped before nodding his head in reply. He wasn't stupid enough to go against a mad female who could transform into a legend…he still valued his life after all. Sure, Rose wouldn't actually kill him, but maiming or hurting him was a different story…

Rose just smiled a smug smile before counting down the seconds before she went after Atobe. After all, it wouldn't be too much fun if she caught him easily.

'Ten…nine…eight…seven…' Rose counted in her head as she stomped her feet into the ground to get a good feel for the forest ground around her.

'Six…five…four…three…two…' she grinned which startled Ryoma a bit as he moved further away from her. 'One!' she mentally yelled before digging her feet into the ground before pushing off and galloping in the same direction that she had seen Atobe run in.

Ryoma just stared after her before murmuring under his breath, "Monkey King and the others that get involved with this are so dead…" With that thought in mind, he started jogging on the same path that both Atobe and Rose had taken in order to catch up to them and hopefully stop whatever destruction Rose was going to cause…


"Move out of Ore-sama's way!" Atobe yelled as he ran past everyone.

The others blinked before one of them caught his sleeve and pulled him back.

"What is going on Atobe?" Tezuka asked with a raised eyebrow at the near frantic look on the Hyotei Captain's face.

"Well, Ore-sama heard Rose and Echizen talking about how Ore-sama does not have tennis courts here. Then Ore-sama called her a brat, and she got angry. The next thing Ore-sama knew, she had transformed into a horse and started chasing Ore-sama!" Atobe yelled frantically before trying to pull away and run again.

"Saa…we should start running then," Fuji said getting everyone's attention.

"Why?" Oshitari questioned.

All he got in reply was Fuji pointing down the path that Atobe had run from.

Eiji stared in the direction Fuji pointed in and widened his eyes. "Rose is galloping toward us!" he yelled before turning around and already starting to run. "Run before she kills you!" he yelled.

He didn't need to say that twice as the others immediately started running right after he completed his first sentence about Rose.


"Well isn't that interesting," Rose said slowing down her pace just a bit to fall behind more while still keeping the regulars in her sights. "So he got the other regulars involved? This is going to be much more fun than I thought," she muttered to herself before turning to the side sharply and disappearing into the forest area.

She galloped around the area looking for a good area and chance to spring on them and scare the living daylights out of them. "I really have to stop paying attention to Fuji and Yukimura. They really are rubbing off on me," she muttered under her breath as she slowed her pace and just treaded lightly.

"There they are," she muttered as she noticed them bending over at the waist to catch their breaths from running.

"Do you think we lost her?" she heard Kirihara say as he straightened back up.

"Not sure," Ann said while panting as she stood back up.

"She is fast, but at least we outran her," Choutarou said as he looked around and over everyone.

"How is everyone?" they all heard from a different direction.

Rose turned her head to see Ryoma walking up toward them while panting. 'He was most likely jogging after them all to make sure that I didn't overdo it probably…' she thought to herself before taking a deep breath and holding it.

"We are all fine. Luckily Rose didn't catch up to us," Yukimura said with a small smile on his face as he straightened up to look at Ryoma.

"Really?" Ryoma asked with a raised eyebrow getting their attention. "I would have thought that she would have caught up to you by now. She's quite fast, especially as a Pegasus from what myths say. They are one of the fastest land creatures in myth after all."

"So wait a minute," Gakuto commented. "If she is a Pegasus at the moment and they are the fastest land creatures in myth…then where is she?"

"Right here!" they heard a voice yell before a shadow passed over them and crashed to the ground creating a large cloud of smoke.

Waving their hands in front of their faces and coughing from the smoke, they somehow managed to wave the smoke away to see what had stopped in front of them.

Widening their eyes, they saw Rose in her Pegasus form with a smirk on her lips and devious eyes as she faced them with one leg already up and stomping the ground as if she was about to charge at them.

Leaning forward, Rose narrowed her eyes at the group before charging forward and successfully knocking several of the regulars down to the ground. Turning on the spot, she galloped over to where she knocked Atobe down and raised her upper body up to put all of her weight on her hind legs.

She gave him quite the scare as she kicked her front legs in the air before stomping them down.

"Ah!" Atobe shrieked scared that his life would be over just because of one creature's anger. He closed his eyes waiting for the pain until he heard laughter.

Looking up, he saw that Rose had stomped on the ground right next to his head, and I mean right next to his head as if she was just one inch closer, she would have hurt him pretty badly.

The entire group was traumatized about how close she came to pretty much killing Atobe with that stomp and couldn't move even as she walked off of Atobe and just stood by him.

"Well that was certainly funny," Rose commented as she looked around. She knocked a majority of the tennis players to the ground pretty harshly, she concluded, as there were a few bruises and marks here and there on many of the regulars. Especially Atobe considering he was the one she was gunning for in the first place.

The group was still too shocked to move, so, with a sigh, Rose and Ryoma helped get them all back to the resort they were staying at and into the medical ward for the entire group to heal.

~Flashback End~


"Oh do shut up Ryo. You know how I get when I get bored," Rose said with a giggle at the end.

"Get used to it Ro," Ryoma said with a roll of his eyes before looking out around the field. "We won't leave for another few days and we have pretty much done everything here that can be done."

"Do you want to go explore the sea with everyone?" Rose asked turning her head to look at Ryoma.

"What?" was the reply she got along with a confused face.

"I could make it so that we can explore the ocean with everyone. That is…if they would like," she said with a sheepish smile on her face at the end.

"Let's go ahead and ask them then," Ryoma commented standing up from the ground and holding out a hand for Rose to take.

After pulling herself up, Rose headed back to the mansion along with Ryoma and found the regulars finally being able to get out of bed after the bruises and marks had healed a bit.

As soon as the two had entered the room, the regulars tensed up and quickly said hello to avoid making her mad before backing up a bit or pulling up the covers a bit more for those who hadn't gotten out of bed yet.

Rose just looked a bit sheepish as she stared at them backing away a bit. In order to break the awkward silence, she said, "Does anyone want to go explore the ocean tomorrow?"

The regulars stopped moving and instead looked at her in surprise.

Seeing the looks, she explained, "I realized the only things we haven't done at all in this trip are exploring the ocean, the forest, and the mountain. We still have a few days left, so I thought that maybe we could go explore?" she said with a questioning tone at the end.

"One question," Shishido said getting the girl to turn to him. "How?"

"That will be easy. I am a dragon of wind and water, so it should be no problem to create air bubbles for you to use to breathe underwater," she said proudly with a large smile on her face.

"Don't get too cocky now," Ryoma said with a smirk which got a pout from her.

The regulars all looked at her and then looked at the captains of the group. Once they received a nod, they all yelled, "Yahoo!"

Many of the group had to cover their ears to avoid breaking their eardrums from the outburst.

Glaring at them for nearly breaking her ears, Rose said, "We'll go explore the sea tomorrow, the forest in two days, and the mountain range in three days. We can relax on the other days."

"Right!"