"The cupcakes don't Tick Tock..." Speaking
"Or Donk Dink," Communications
'And never Tonk Tink/ Dick Dock.' Thinking
Forgiveness
"What to do what do to..." Natsu mumbles to himself as he wanders the halls of Beacon Academy aimlessly, pacing down the generic hallways of an everyday hunter academy filled with boredom. The Dragon Prince feels the need to call it a day and make a beeline to his room to sleep in his bed for the rest of the day, but due to the fact of story progression...this will not do. Dragneel stops in the middle of some random hallway as he scroll vibrates in his pocket, he takes his scroll out of his pocket on instinct and checks his notification.
It is a message from his blond haired girlfriend that he loves very very much, the message is titled Favor, he opens the message link and he reads the digital letters on the screen.
'Hey hotshot, I just heard you just got back from training, I wish I can be with you right now but Blake and I are doing errands for Professor Goodwitch down in Vale right now. I need a quick favor from you if that's okay, my dad just text me and he needs me to head back home to pick up Ruby because he's in a rush to his next mission. I told him about the errands and he said the strangest thing. He said, "Get this 'Hotshot' then, tell him to get Ruby for you, plus I want to meet him," Weird huh? I don't know how he found out about you but I think he knows that we're together. PS: Blake says hi,' He reads and he tilts his head as he thinks about how Yang's dad found out about his nickname.
"That's weird..." He mumbles as he re-reads the text again.
Dragneel then sends a reply to his beloved huntress-in-training, "Don't worry Yang I got this, you said you and Ruby live in Patch right? PS: Hi Blake :3" He texts then sends the message.
A few minutes later of waiting he gets a reply, 'Thanks babe, yeah we live in Patch, our house is by the western side of the island in the forest, you can't miss it. Don't worry about my dad, he's a nice guy once you get to know him. If he does anything weird just tell me and I'll deal with him later okay?' He reads.
He sends another reply to the reply,''Okay I'm heading out now, I'll see you and Blake later, I love you two!'' He sends the message and looks outside the window next to him, conveniently overseeing the coast of Vale with the island of Patch sitting on the horizon in the distance.
He gets one last message before he charges up his lighting powers, "Thanks again babe, we love you! XOXO!" He reads before he puts away his scroll and flashes into a golden light.
Patch: Xiao Long Residence
"This must be the place," Natsu mumbles to himself as he looks at a large two story cabin in front of him, hiding inside an opening in a forest of green trees. He smiles of the large looking home, isolated from the urban world, leaving only nature to comfort the cabin's inhabitants.
'I wonder what Yang's dad is like?' Natsu ponders as he approaches the door, completely forgetting that he met his mate's father before.
He stares at a wooden door as he takes a deep breath, and knocks on the door with two powerful hits with his fist.
"Who is it?" He hears someone yell from inside and footsteps approach the door.
"Hi, your daughter, Yang sent me to pick up-" Natsu starts but his eye widen as the door flings open and a fist comes flying toward his face.
A loud clack can be heard in front of the house as birds flap their little wings to get away from the approaching battle.
Natsu blankly stares in front of him to find his hand holding a fist with the fist's owner in the doorway smirking at him with his eyes closed.
"Nice reflexes there kid, normally I would of sent you back to those trees over there but you got yourself some quick instincts," The man praises and frees his hand from Natsu's grip and crosses his arms.
Natsu looks behind him to find a large tree with a big bullseye painted on its bark a few feet away from the house. Dragneel looks back at the man in the doorway and examines him.
The man is wearing a tan button up shirt with tan cargo shorts and black shoes. On his right arm he has a metal shoulder pad and a leather brace on his forearm that connects with a finger less glove. On his arm is a red ribbon right below his shoulder. The man has messy blond hair with a cow lick on top of his head, very similar to the young Yang Xiao Long.
At this moment Natsu knew, he knew this man, "TAI!" He yells as he points at the man in doorway in realization.
The man raises and eyebrow as he opens his eyes to reveal that they're light blue. He's mouth drops as he eyes widen, looking at the teen in front of him.
"NATSU!" He yells as he looks at Natsu, he's changed since the last time he seen him, he's more beefed up, and missing an eye.
"What are you doing here Tai?" Natsu lets bad memory and bad logic show as he asks his stupid question.
"What am I doing here? I should be asking you that, I live here, what are you doing here?!" Tai counters.
"Yang said her dad wanted me to pick up Ruby for her, is he here?" Natsu shows that he's still an idiot even though he's a complete badass in the field of combat.
Tai sighs of his clueless question, "Yes he's here, he's standing right in front of you..." He explains as he leans against the doorway with his arms still crossed.
Natsu takes a moment to put the puzzle pieces together, 'Where? I don't see him-Oh-Oh that's not good,' Natsu realizes that Tai is the father of Yang Xiao Long and Ruby Rose.
"Do you get it now Natsu?" Tai asks, assuming the shocked look on Natsu's face is a cue of his realization.
Natsu nods his head slowly as he scolds himself for not figuring this out before.
Tai gets off the door way and walks inside while he waves his hand for Natsu to follow him, "So you're Hotshot huh?" He starts.
Dragneel follows Taiyang into the cabin and nods his head, "That's me, Yang gave me that nickname when we first met on the first day of school," He explains as he follows Tai into the kitchen of the cabin.
Tai heads over to the sink leans against it while facing the room with his arms crossed. Natsu takes a seat at the kitchen table, "Yeah I know, Yang and Ruby told me a lot about you 'Hotshot' especially Ruby, she's brings you up in every letter she sends me. I should of known Hotshot was you Natsu, a guy with odd-looking hair, I can't believe that you would go to Beacon, why would you need to go to school when you can send Grimm running with their tails between their legs?" Tai asks.
"Well you know why Tai," Natsu says, making Tai think of any important things Natsu has told him before.
"The Wyvern Tai, I went to Beacon to find out more about the thing but no one knows anything about it," Natsu continues.
Tai nods his head as he remembers Natsu telling him about avenging his father when they first met...when Summer died.
"Then why stay?" Tai asks.
Natsu shrugs,"I guess you can say Beacon is sort of my home now,"
"Your home?"
"Yeah, for all my life I have been wandering the world in search of that Wyvern but with no luck. I thought it was time to settle down, things lead to one thing then another and I end up in Beacon Academy as an assistant," He explains.
Tai hums to his story, "So you're not staying at Beacon to stay with my daughter?"
Natsu tilts his head,"For Yang, why would I do that?" He asks, Natsu would never hinder Yang's life by staying with her, he would want her to be happy and successful in life, even if that mean that she would have to leave him.
"Natsu as Yang's and Ruby's father I know that they would never tell me about their opinions on boys or if they should get a boyfriend, but that doesn't mean I'm stupid. Yang and Ruby speak highly of you in their letters, how you helped Ruby when you first met her, how you befriended my daughters and stood by their side when they need help. I have my suspicions that you have a...special relationship...with at least one of my daughters, with my guess, I would say Yang," Tai explains.
The Dragon Prince is about to explain how he feels about his special blond dragon and the cute speed demon, Tai holds up his hand, "Let me finish," He interrupts.
Dragneel sighs and nods,"Natsu I may be completely wrong about this whole thing and you three can be just best friends, but as their father I have my suspicions so I'll say this right here and now just to get it out of the way. So just hear me out, man-to-man, if you are dating one of my daughters, I'm fine with it..." Tai starts, making Natsu's eye widen of his coolness with Yang or Ruby have him as their boyfriend.
This reaction only makes Tai raises his finger, "Ah let me finish, if you're dating one of my daughters Natsu, I'm fine with it, you're a good guy I know that, but listen to this. I can tell that you are not the type to break a girl's heart so here's my only favor I ask of you, when they need a shoulder to cry on, a hand to lift them back on their feet, a friend that they can count on, promise me that you will be there for them. No matter how hard it gets, be by their side when they need you most, can you do that for me Natsu?" Tai asks, staring directly into Natsu's eye firmly, setting the situation's gravity on Natsu.
After a moment of awkward silence, Natsu nods his head determinedly,"Tai don't worry, I got their back, I'll be their when they need me, I promise," Natsu swears, staring back at the father with the same intensity.
Tai nods his head, "Good, let's go get Ruby and I'll send you two on your way back to Beacon," He plans and walks toward the back door of the house.
Natsu looks at his hands then turns them into fists, 'I'll be at their side, no matter what!' He declares and gets up and follows Tai to the back of the house.
He walks down the hallway to find Tai standing in front of the back door, with the door open, and he watches Tai whistle loudly as if he was calling someone.
Natsu hears the scampering of something small run toward him with the sounds of a tag following behind it.
He turns around to find a four legged ball of cuteness run between his legs and stops in front of Tai panting with his tail wagging happily, its Ruby's and Yang's best friend Zwei.
"Good boy, let's go," Tai pets the small dog on the head then walks out to the backyard.
Natsu follows the two to the backyard to find an open dirt field surrounding the backyard that can be used as sort of training ground, a place very similar to a feature Natsu and Mabel's home had.
"Where's is Ruby now?" Natsu asks.
"Oh she's visiting Summer right now, Ruby can't leave Rosie alone for too long, she likes to keep her company every chance she gets," Tai explains as he looks in the direction of Summer Rose's grave, sitting on a cliff over looking the coast of the island.
Tai turns back to Natsu to find him staring at him with his eye widen, "Natsu? You alright?"
"S-Summer Rose..." He mumbles and his breathing quickens.
"Yeah, Summer," Tai mumbles and raises an eyebrow at Natsu's state.
"Ruby Rose..." Natsu mumbles his best friend's name.
Tai takes a moment to figure out what's wrong with Natsu and he quickly finds out that Natsu didn't know Ruby's mother is...Summer. This is when Tai grabs Natsu by the shoulders and shakes him to get his attention.
"Hey, get yourself together, you got to let it go. She's gone okay," Tai starts but Natsu shakes his head and frees himself from his grip.
"It was my fault she's dead! If it wasn't for me, she would be alive today!" Natsu breaks. Summer is a sensitive subject for Natsu, he remembers vividly of when he last saw Summer, bleeding in his arms, slowly dying in front of him. He blames himself for causing her death even though he found her in the state she was. If he only did something than just watched her die is what he always say when he thinks of Summer and how he could of changed things.
"Natsu! Listen to me, Summer died years ago, did I blame you for her death, yes, but did you kill her, no! You need to move on, let her death be your motivation to never let anything like that ever happen again," Tai tries to persuade Natsu but he only nods his head no and he can feel a surge of power consume his body.
Tai eyes squint as he decides that Natsu won't give in so easily, stubborn the teen is, just like he is, and Tai only knows one thing that can stop Natsu's madness. If Natsu can't reason with words, Tai will just reason with his fists.
Zwei whines as he feels a battle start to fire up, so he slowly backs away from the two hunters to watch from a safe distance.
"Natsu, if you can't accept that Summer is gone, then I guess I have to beat it into your skull," Tai threatens and lifts his hands into the air to prepare himself for combat.
Natsu only looks at his shaking hands as they start to heat up, a creating a crackling flame around his hands, a dark flame that only grows the more Natsu thinks of the life Summer would have if he saved her.
"If you I beat you here and now, you have to move on, but if you beat me, then I'll leave you alone," Tai sets up the rules of this spar of acceptance.
Natsu breaths deeply and slowly as he hears Tai's words, a fight is what he needs to release his pain in a physical way. The Dread Hunter doesn't respond with words but with actions, he accepts the spar and readies himself for combat.
Tai nods his head of the teen's actions and the two begin to slowly circle around each other in the dirt field. Growing impatient Tai makes the first move and charges Natsu with his battle cry and sends Natsu a three-hit combo of back to back punches. As Tai lets off three punches aimed at Natsu's face, Natsu easily dodges the punches, swaying side-to-side in a ghost-like matter, making Tai see his punches go through Natsu like he was fighting a phantom.
Taiyang panics as Natsu cocks back his fist for a counter, but the harden Veteran uses his quick instincts to quickly catch his fist aimed for his stomach. He looks at Natsu to see his blank expression, "Wake up Natsu!" Tai yells and headbutts Natsu to stagger him back. The attack works and the teen staggers back while rubbing his forehead.
Using this window to finish the fight quickly, Tai runs at Natsu once more but this time he slides to Natsu's feet like he was playing baseball. He then sweep kicks Natsu to send the teen off his feet and into the air. As Natsu crashes hard on the dirt that he loses his breath in his chest, but this isn't the end of Tai's assault as he raises his elbow then slams it down on Natsu's chest.
The Dread Hunter gasps for air as a stinging pain takes his air from his lungs. Tai rolls back and jumps back to his feet away from Natsu to give him some room. The hunter breaths slowly and watches a dirt cloud form around Natsu's body.
Taiyang waits for Natsu to charge him from the dust cloud but he grows worried as the dust cloud grows bigger, and consumes Tai. He's completely blind in the dirt cloud so he resorts to his hearing to find Natsu. He closes his eyes and uses his ears to find Natsu.
In the completely silence in the dirt cloud he hears quick footsteps running around him like a ninja quickly dashes toward his position. Tai grits his teeth as he feels a presence in front of him to he steps back with his fist cocked back and steps forward to unleashes a devastating right hook.
Tai screams as puts all his strength into the attack but he feels his fist only smash the air in front of him. He opens his eyes to find he only punched a hole in the dust cloud as it begins to dissipate.
'Where did he go?!' He thinks as he looks around the dying dirt cloud for Natsu but he sees nothing.
"Right behind you..." He hears a whisper but before he can react, Natsu sends a bone-crushing uppercut to his ribs to send him stepping to the side. In all the chaos The Dread Hunter kicks Tai's left leg to send him on his knee.
As Tai drops he feels Natsu's hand grab his head to keep him still, he then feels a knee crash into his left temple. He then falls on his fours while a painful headache emits from the blow. Natsu doesn't stop as he kicks Tai's gut to send him flopping on his stomach.
Tai grunts as he spits out the dirt in his mouth, 'That's what I get for being out of the field for so long,' He thinks as he feels Natsu ready a stomp.
Taiyang quickly evades and rolls out of harm's way then spins his legs into the air to give himself enough time to get back on his feet. Sadly Natsu doesn't give him much time to work with as he walks up to Tai and gives him the go old one two three knock out combo. Tai is too tired to defend so Natsu lands all the shots, left, right, Natsu smacks Tai around but Natsu readies himself for what can be the finishing blow.
As Tai staggers back from the bone-shattering hooks, he hears a flame ignite. He doesn't see Natsu light up his left hand in his dark flame. The attack is too quick to evade and Natsu has ensured himself a victory as he fires his fist upward toward Tai's chin.
Zwei coves his eyes with his paws as Natsu lands a devastating uppercut to Tai's chin that creates a shockwave of air to violently burst from the two opponents. The force of Natsu's uppercut is so powerful that Tai is jumped off his feet several inches off the ground then he his sent crashes back down to the ground.
Tai lands on his back and feels the air escape his lungs, he groans as he feels fatigue take over his body. He has enough energy to keep one eye open to see Natsu, he sees Natsu standing before him with his left fist covered in a black flame. Natsu is just a black silhouette and the only thing he can't make out through his pain, is a tear coming down Natsu's cheek.
"Ha...eh...we're using powers...okay...why didn't...you say so?" Tai mumbles through the pain coming from his head and face as he feels his rage to make Natsu move on turn into a physical form of a golden flame.
'Time to get serious,' Tai declares as he plans his next assault.
With Ruby Minutes Before The Fight
"Natsu is an amazing guy Mom, he's smart, strong, and...and he's kinda of...cute," Ruby stands in front of a stone tombstone planted into the soil a few feet from the cliff in front of Ruby.
The speed demon blushes a little thinking about Natsu and confessing to her mother of her feelings about The Dread Hunter. She never thought she would never fall in love with Natsu. Mostly because of Yang teasing her about Natsu's cute antics whenever she and Natsu hang out.
After the Halloween dance Ruby's feeling grew for the hunter the more she found common likes between her and Natsu, especially their common interest in weapons, attachments, types of weapons, history of weapons, use of weapons, anything that has to do with weapons in general. She never thought she would find someone else with the same likes and that made Natsu a little bit more irresistible
"I know you'll love Natsu, he reminds me a lot of Dad once it comes to eating *chuckle*, remember the story you told me when Dad took you out on a date and he end up eating all the food. Natsu is just like that, Ooo, there was this one time when Yang, Jaune, Pyrrha, Blake, Weiss, Ren, Nora, and I had this huge food fight the beginning of second semester and Natsu lost it once he saw all the wasted food. He made the exact same face Dad does when Yang used to drop food on the floor when we were little, Oh you should of seen his face!" Ruby softly smiles to herself, remembering Natsu's food breakdown of all the wasted food on the best day ever of her school career.
After reflecting over the good times of the past she changes to subject, "Mom? Can I ask you a question?" Ruby asks, thinking of getting something off her chest.
'What's on your mind?' Ruby hears in her head, she has this strange connection with her mother when she visits her. She can, imagine, what her mother would say if she was with her. She doesn't know why she does this but she doesn't mind, it's a habit, a good habit to keep her bond with her mother strong as when she was alive.
She then feels a warm feeling on her face that makes her draw to the sunset on the horizon dividing the endless blue sea and the peaceful orange skies.
"When you fell in love with Dad, was it hard for you to move on after...she...left?" Ruby nervously asks, she never touched this subject of her complex parent situation, she knows how Yang is technically her step-sister due to the fact that her mother is another woman named Raven. She doesn't know the whole story, but she knows that before she was born, Tai was married to a woman named Raven and she left for some odd reason. Summer stayed with Tai to raise Yang and, obviously, love blossomed between the two and Ruby was born in product of their love.
When she was younger she would ask why Yang keeps asking to see Mom when Summer was right next to her, but all she got was, 'She's looking for her real momma Rosie.'
Ruby didn't know what that meant at the time but she went along with the explanation, why she didn't ask when she was older was because she thought it was a sensitive subject for everyone.
'Rosie,' She hears Summer say her name in a questionable tone.
This is when Ruby panics and she shakes her hands in front of her, "Y-you don't have to answer that Mom, I-I was just curious," Ruby stutters with a big blush on her face.
'No no it's find Rosie, I think it's time to tell you anyway, you are a grown woman now aren't you Ruby?' Summer chuckles cutely, making her daughter calm down.
"Mom..." Ruby blushes more and scratches her head sheepishly, she hates when Summer brought that up, I mean who doesn't like their parents rubbing it in that you're growing up.
'I'll take that as a yes, for your question, no. Raven had something very important to do that forced her to leave us behind. Raven just decided to leave, your father pleaded for her to stay but she declined and they had a huge fight right before Raven left. They may of left on bad terms but I know that they still care about one another. After she left, your father was left devastated and heart-broken. I couldn't stand the whole dilemma between two of my closest friends. So I comforted Tai and helped him raise Yang for a few months then your father told me that he loves me, and the rest is history,' Summer tells her tale of the fall out in the Xiao Long family.
Ruby nods her head of the story, gaining an another piece of the grand puzzle of what happen before she was born.
'But you didn't ask to hear about old family history, what's really on your mind Rosie?' Summer asks.
Ruby's eyes widen and she begins to feel extremely nervous so she starts to mumble to herself while she fidgets in place, ''I...ah...I was wondering...I was wondering..." Ruby mumbles.
'Yes?' Summer asks.
After a moment of silence Ruby shakes her head, "Nevermind, it's a dumb question," Ruby tries to play it off, but she can tell that if Summer was right in front of her, she would be staring at her with a is-it-really? look.
Rose sighs and gives in to her mother's power to make her reveal her darkest secrets, "It's Natsu, I...I like him," Ruby confesses shyly while hiding behind her cowl.
'Really? Ruby Rose has taken a liking to another boy, oh Ruby you've grown so much!' She hears, making Ruby blush harder than before.
"Mom stop..." She mumbles.
'What's he like, I know you told me about Natsu before but tell me, why do you like him?'
"Well, he's really nice to me, always happy to see me, we always spend time with each other, and he's is always there for me when I need help. Like this one time Blake was at the docks in Vale and she was fighting the White Fang, then out of nowhere Natsu was there to back her up with Sun. I don't know how he does it but Natsu is always there when we need him," Ruby explains.
'You mean when you need him?'
"W-hat?! I-I don't know what you're talking a-about!" Ruby stutters.
'He sounds like a wonderful boy, what are you waiting for Ruby? Go tell him how you feel, he sounds like he likes you as well. Just you wait, you'll see that he likes you as much as you like him.'
"Natsu, liking me?"
'Yes, he sounds a lot like your father, he did the same for Raven and for me when he had his heart set on a woman. If you said Natsu is like your father, then this must be a sign that he is the one for you Ruby I just know it.'
This fills Ruby with joy that she has a change of getting with Natsu but there is always the problem, she's not the only one that wants him, and she has her suspicions that she already lost the battle before it even begun.
"But there's a problem."
'Well, there's always a problem isn't there Rosie, so what is it?'
"I'm not the only one that likes Natsu Mom and I don't know what to do..."
'Sounds familiar, what's her name?'
Ruby crookedly smiles at her, "Well you see...it's not one girl, but many girls Mom, the list goes on that I can't use my fingers to count them all. To make things worse, Yang likes him too."
'That is a problem...'
"What should I do Mom?"
'What I think, you should just-' Summer starts but an explosion interrupts her.
Ruby snaps around to the direction of the loud clack and she realizes that the sound came from home.
'You should go check on your father, he must of left the oven on again, I'll be here Rosie. Go on now...'
Ruby looks back to Summer's grave and nods, "Okay, I'm off, it was a good talk Mom, I'll see you later!" The speed demon says her good byes to her mother while she dashes off back home using her semblance, leaving a trail of rose petals behind her.
'Till next time Rosie...' Summer whispers and a figure in a white cloak can be seen standing in front of Summer's grave watches Ruby return home. The figure stands in place for a few moments before a strong wind takes the cloak off the cliff and down to the seas below. As if the figure never existed in the first place.
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The young hunter with silver eyes dashes through the woods and reaches her home in the middle of the sea of green in record time. She slows down to a jog then stops in place in the tree line just before the backyard of the large cabin.
She feels her heart skip a beat as she spots a familiar face standing her backyard. It's the one and only Natsu Dragneel looking at her father, who is on his knee, a few yards away from him.
'Natsu!' She exclaims and begins to approach him but she stops of the hostile aura in the air.
Rose watches Natsu slowly walks up to her father and holds out his hand, "Let's call it a draw for now, we'll finish this another time," Natsu offers.
Tai looks up to him breathing heavily and slightly bruised, "Like we're ending the fi- Oh...yeah next time we'll finish this, about time I left for Mistral anyway," Tai agrees and grabs Natsu's forearm then pulls himself up to his feet.
Ruby slightly jumps as Tai looks at her, "Ruby, I'm heading out now, Natsu here will be taking you back to Beacon. Yang couldn't make because of some errands," Tai explains as he walks to the back door of the cabin.
"O-okay, stay safe Dad, I love you!" Ruby yells at her dad, making Taiyang wave at her before stepping inside with Zwei at his six.
As Tai heads inside to gather his things, Natsu turns to Ruby and gives her a big smile, "So this is your place Ruby this is awesome! How have you been?" Natsu greets.
Ruby smiles at him and runs at him full speed, sending the small hunter into Natsu's arms. Natsu slightly takes a step back as Ruby rests her head on his chest while holding him tightly.
"I missed you so much," She mumbles.
This warms Natsu's heart as he rubs her back comfortingly, "I told you I'll be back didn't I?" He whispers in her ear and holds her tightly like she was his girl. Well she is his girl but whatever.
"N-Natsu?" Ruby's face turns a bright red from the romantic feeling of having Natsu's strong arms around her waist.
"I missed you too my best friend of the whole wide world!" Natsu cheers.
Natsu's friendly response calms Ruby down and she chuckles, "So what happened on that ship, what was it like living on an airship? Oh did you see any new weapons?!" Ruby rants on about Natsu's adventure as a specialist-in-training.
Dragneel squeezes her playfully, "I'll tell you everything once we- hey do you wanna show me around or do you want to head back now?" He changes subjects mid-sentence because of his curiosity of Ruby's home. It looks so much like his house back when he was with Mabel and he would enjoy a house tour before they head back to Beacon.
He doesn't get an answer but he notices Ruby's expression changes from happy to slightly embarrassed or shy.
'This is it...okay Mom...I'll tell him today,' Ruby plans and looks at Natsu shyly.
'Ruby you are just the cutest thing!' Natsu thinks and plans to do all sorts of things to Ruby to keep her cuteness all to himself.
To Natsu's surprise, the little red hunter goes on her tippy toes and plants her lips on his. This leaves the son of Mother Nature frozen in place, unable to react, he would of never thought the sweet innocent team leader of RWBY would make the first move, but he wasn't going to leave Ruby unrewarded for her efforts.
Ruby breaks off the kiss and sways side-to-side with her hands behind her back, "Natsu, I don't know if you know this but you are very special to me. Ever since I met you in Vale you have been with me this entire time. You are my first friend and I don't know where I'd be without you. Never in my life I would of thought to feel that way I feel when I think of you. I...I just want to be around you, ever since the Halloween dance I felt you can make my day a whole lot better, and I know why you make me feel this way," Ruby tries to explain her feelings.
"Ruby..." Natsu mumbles, feeling his heart melt from her words, love works in mysterious ways.
"Natsu, what I mean is...I love you. I love you very very much!" Ruby cheers with a nod and smiles at him.
Those three words send Natsu to his instincts so he immediately goes for another kiss but the sounds of a door stop him in his tracks.
"Ruby! Zwei wants to take me to the port so stay here until he comes back okay!?" Tai yells from the front of the house, making Ruby jump and Natsu turns around.
"Y-yeah! We'll be here!" Ruby assures.
The two then wait in silence as they hear two sets of footsteps head off toward the island's docks, "I guess we're staying heh heh..." Ruby sheepishly mumbles, a little embarrass to have her confession interrupted by her father.
Luckily Natsu is the kind of person that won't something so petty as a interruption stop this moment between his Ruby, so he adds a little more heat into the fire by giving his new lover a loving hug and giving him one of his own kisses, one of many kisses he'll give to Ruby Rose.
"I don't mean to burst your bubble Ruby, but I think I love you more," Natsu teases.
"Ha ha, you sure about that, come inside I'll show you around," Ruby chuckles and walks toward the back door of the cabin she calls home and opens it.
Natsu pumps his fist into the air, "Alright cabin tour!" He whispers to himself then follows his little red ridding hood into the cabin.
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For the next 20 minutes, Ruby showed Natsu the various rooms of her home from the kitchen to the shack outside her house that acts as her dad's storage room and Yang's garage for Bumblebee.
Now the two best friends sit in Ruby's room, which is awfully plain with the standard single bed with a red blanket and white pillow, wooden floors, a wood bedside table, a dresser, and a window by the bedside that overlooks the backyard of the house. Her room is in this plain form due to the fact that she has all of her things in her dorm at Beacon.
Currently Ruby sits on her bed with her tall tough boyfriend, Natsu, sitting next to her with their hands interlocked and her boyfriend is talking about his experience with Weiss's sister Winter, obviously not mentioning the part when he pounded his Ice Queen that one bath they took together.
"Surprisingly it was easy to cope with my motion sickness, I didn't feel sick at all during my training, I felt like I was standing on solid ground when I was on that ship. Normally I would of threw up my lunch if I was that thing," Natsu jokes about his motion sickness.
Ruby laughs cutely, "That sounds like a lot like Jaune, when Yang and I were moving to Vale, Jaune was there on the same airship we where on and he looked horrible. His face was green and he looked like he was going to throw up at any second."
Natsu's eye widen's, "Jaune has motion sickness? How come I don't know about that!? I thought people with motion sickness stick together!?" Natsu rants and thinks of confronting Jaune about this common enemy of transportation the next training session he has with Pyrrha.
"Yeah he has motion sickness, it kinda makes since why Jaune wouldn't tell you about his motion sickness, he really look up to you," Ruby notes, thinking of all those times Jaune would try to convince Ruby to help her study Natsu. Mostly he wanted help with fighting but one time he wanted to study how Natsu acts around the opposite sex.
"No he doesn't, if Jaune looked up to me, he would be like my student or something, trying to learn everything I know, but we never do that," Natsu dismisses the idea of Jaune idolizing him.
'Then what are those training sessions with him silly?' Ruby thinks and starts to laugh of Natsu's clueless.
"What's so funny Ruby?" Natsu asks and feels his heart melt to her laugh, he finds it her laugh extremely adorable.
Ruby only scoots closer to him and rests her head on his shoulder, "Nothing, don't worry about it," Ruby plays it off and smiles to Natsu's calming aura as she cuddles closer to him.
Natsu smiles of having the cute team leader hugging his arm very calming, he then remembers the last time he was like this with Ruby, after the Halloween dance, when they shared their first kiss together. That night he got her a present, and that makes him think of giving her something to remember this moment. Then he hears the clink of his necklace inside his pocket, he couldn't wear the necklace because it would be uncomfortable for him while wearing a tie so he keep his necklace in his pocket.
He pulls out his special necklace and looks at it, the red 'Ruby' and black chain is perfect for his girlfriend. Ruby looks at the necklace and tilts her head, "That's your necklace right? I thought it was gold?" Ruby asks remember when they found his broken necklace off Cardin.
"No this isn't my necklace, it's your necklace," Natsu corrects and smiles at her.
Ruby's eyes widen, "No Natsu I can't take this, your mom gave this to you, you should keep it Natsu," Ruby resists but Natsu ignores her as he puts the necklace around her pale neck.
When he finishes, he leans back to get a good view of Ruby, "Perfect, don't worry Ruby, this necklace is very special to me and I want to give my necklace to someone very special. Someone that has a very special place in my heart," Natsu explains and spots a mirror on the bedside table so he picks it up and shows Ruby her reflection.
Ruby feels her heart tighten of his words as she looks at her reflection in the mirror, she rubs the ruby of the necklace and notices that it is almost like the necklace was made for her in some weird way. The black and red colors of the necklace are her favorite colors, she can't to feel that Natsu was the one for her.
The pure love she feels for Natsu makes her tear up in joy as she kisses him passionately, 'Thank you Thank you Thank you!' She thinks and gently holds his cheeks.
She can't help to feel that meeting Natsu was the best thing that ever happened to her, from the day they met from the day they kissed, Natsu changed her life for the better and she wants to spend the rest of her days with him.
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But be careful for what you wish for...
Tread Carefully
"ATTENTION! General Orchid and General Ironwood on deck!" A speaker announces as a room filled of people of all shapes and sizes, but all of them are wearing the same green fatigues.
The room of people salute as the chibi bunny faunus of the Vale army, General Orchid, walks in front of the room with chibi General Ironwood right behind her.
The two takes their places in front of the crowd of saluting soldiers, "At ease," Ironwood assures and the soldiers all put their hands behind their backs in respect for the Generals.
"Readers, General Ironwood and I have created our own chibi short to ask all of you a large favor," Orchid starts, breaking the fourth wall.
"That is right General Orchid, we need your help, there is a battle approaching ahead and we may or may not have insufficient troops in our armies to intercept the enemies of humanity," Ironwood explains and places a scroll on the table in front of him to activate a hologram of the members of VPS and the last remaining member of ATSU, Ashley.
"We only have a handful of soldiers, around 10, to fight against this approaching battle that, intel suggests, will consist of Grimm Hoards and White Fang terrorists. With our current numbers, the Fall Of Beacon, the Fall of Vale is inevitable without reinforcements," Orchid explains.
"Our favor, join us, fight by our side to keep this threat against the people of Vale at bay. We will provide the weapons, we just need soldiers to enlist, we just need you," Ironwood drops the bomb on YOU, the reader, breaking the fourth wall.
"If you, reader, are willing to fight with us, there are risks when you join. I must warn you that you have high chance that you will die in this fight. We could all die in this battle, again intel suggests that we are outnumbered 1:2 so we are expecting heavy casualties on both sides, but on the flip side, we are expecting reinforcements from the hunters of Beacon Academy and the hunters attending the Vytal festival," Orchids explains the risks of war.
"Whether we win this war is by the number of soldiers we have before this battle begins, so without further ado, here are the basic classes we offer for you reader," Ironwood starts the class introduction and switches the hologram of two symbols, one is a soldier saluting and the other is an armored vehicle.
"We are offering two types of soldiers, Infantry or Pilots. Infantry consists of all the foot soldiers of both Vale's and Atlas's army. For Vale, infantry fills with law enforcements, such as Police officers and SWAT team units, and soldiers, such as riflemen, sharpshooters, automatic riflemen, and field medics. The specifics will be listed below in the author after this chibi short," Orchid explains while a video plays in the background of soldiers training at a bootcamp then it changes to several armored vehicles driving around and shooting at things off camera.
"Then we have the pilots, pilots are soldiers that specialized in the use of armored vehicles in the field of battle. Currently Vale needs pilots for two types of vehicles, ground and air vehicles. We need pilots for our Challenger 2 tanks, our BTR-80 Apc's, our Bullheads, and our A10 Warthogs," Orchids continues and the video shows a large jet firing its 30mm minigun at a small shack, which blows up from the storm of bullets.
"And that's for Vale's army, now for Atlas, there's strong then Atlas strong. We require infantry riflemen but for pilots we needs people to use our new Paladins-290's, our Dropships, bullheads, and people to maintain our Doomsday strike in our airships," Ironwood explains.
"Details are in the author notes below, any questions, ask for FE and he'll answer any questions you have. Are you ready to fight for humanity? Against the evils of the world with brothers and sisters by your side? If you are, good luck out there soldier, you'll need it, and tread carefully!" Orchid explains and everyone salutes that sends a powerful aura in the room.
"DISMISSED!" General Orchid and General Ironwood both yell and nod to all the soldiers in front of them then they leave the room.
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War is on the way, are you ready for it?
HEY! I'm alive and well and posted another chapter. I got a lot of things to say so I'll skip the reasons for my absence.
GUESTS REVIEW
Bustsroc- No, Natsu will stay his good human form.
Guest- Yeah me too, now their small form will only be a good memory. Just ticking and tocking away.
You may be wondering why hasn't Tai notice that Natsu was 16 when Summer died and now he's 17 when finds out that he is hotshot is due the the fact that the maidens don't want him to know that sooo...tricks with the mind were made.
I'm surprised no one cared I gave MN a name, but it okay I don't care...sniffle sniffle.
For the last Chibi (Sing It) The song names in which RWBY sang are as follows:
Yang: The Killers- Mr. Brightside
Blake: David Bowie- The Man Who Sold The World
Weiss: Kingdom Hearts- Simple and Clean
Ruby: (Oh why did I do this) Bigge Smalls- Warning
Hey...Hey Listen: Code word Tick Tock
Now below is the official list of the OC insert, question comments and concerns just PM me. If you are a guest and you want to join up, fill out the list below in a review and give me a name so I can give you credit for the Oc.
Rule and such are *Off the top of my head* Only submission per person, um, keep it serious I don't want your nickname to be Pussyslayer420blazeit keep it realistic. Other Rules I'll think of later but this submission thing will end before the Fall of Beacon so several chapter ahead from now so yeah.
~ "Insert Quote" ~
~ First Name ~
~ Middle Name {Optional} ~
~ Last Name ~
~ Nickname {Optional} ~
~ Call-sign {Optional} ~
~ Race {Human or Faunus} ~
~ Faction {Atlas or Vale} ~
~ Role ~
~ {Vale Roles: Pilot, Infantry, Police Officer, or SWAT } ~
~ {Atlas Roles: Pilot or Infantry} ~
~ Vehicle {Pilots Only} ~
~ {Vale Vehicles: Challenger 2 Tank, APC, Bullhead, or A10-Warthog} ~
~ {Atlas Vehicles: Paladin, Dropship, Bullhead, or Airship} ~
~ Gender ~
~ Age ~
~ Height ~
~ Weight ~
~ Personality ~
~ Weapon{s} ~
~ Weapon{s} Appearance ~
~ Weapon{s} Abilities ~
~ Abilities ~
~ Relationships {Optional} ~
~ History {Back story} ~
~ White Fang or Grimm ~
~ Extra Information {Optional} ~
Thanks to LDV-V' Qrow N' Roses for this template! ~('w'~)
If you like this chapter then good for you
Till Next Time
