[Contains stuffing and pre established expansion, same as Part 1]
All eyes were on Ruby as she strutted into the cafeteria. Weiss did not even know that Ruby knew how to strut, yet here she was strutting like a natural, with plenty of bounce in her step in more than one way. Yes, Weiss had to admit it to herself, she was jealous of Ruby, even if she did a decent job of hiding it from everyone else.
The partners made their way over to the serving table and served up for themselves some spaghetti and meatballs. Ruby's plate was a veritable mountain of food, filling the plate and rising up a fair distance. Seeing this, Weiss decided to emulate Ruby, filling her plate to match. It was not easy, as all of the weight from the food was almost too much for Weiss to comfortably hold in one hand. Her arm started to shake right as she put the last of her food on, just in time for her to ditch the serving spoon and grab her plate with both hands steadying herself.
"You okay Weiss?" Ruby asked, genuinely concerned.
"Of course, I'm fine," Weiss dismissed.
"Gotcha, gotcha. So what's with all the food?" Ruby asked again as the pair made their way towards Team RWBY and JNPR's regular table. The real answer was that Weiss wanted to be like Ruby, tall, attractive, and strong, powerful even, but Weiss thought that sounded weird.
"Oh, I… skipped lunch by accident," was what Weiss said instead.
"Ooh, you must be starving. I'm such a big eater now I've usually got enough in the tank to make it to the next meal, but Yang says skipping meals isn't good for you. Apparently, it messes up your metabolism or something," Ruby rambled as she and Weiss ambled. When they sat down, Team JNPR was awestruck at the newly improved Ruby Rose. "Hey guys, great to see you again!" Ruby chirped, her trademark cheeriness clearly having not changed one bit.
"Uh, h-hello again," Pyrrha got out as she found her voice first.
"You, uh, look different," Jaune commented, clearly trying to sound diplomatic.
"Yeah, you're a total beefcake now!" Nora exclaimed. The look on her face was several shades more excited than the rest of her team's. Quiet Ren just nodded in agreement.
"I know, right? Summer's been good to me," Ruby bragged as she flexed and patted her mighty bicep.
"A-all that, just over summer?" Jaune queried. "Now I feel like I've been slacking."
"No, not at all," Pyrrha tried to reassure her partner. "It just happens at different rates for everyone." Nora leaned right in towards Ruby with a question clearly ready.
"Okay, serious question, how'd you get those killer thighs?" Nora asked, staring very intently at Ruby's tree trunk thighs.
"Oh, you know, hard work, exercise, and plenty of milk. Plus, these shorts help make them look bigger," Ruby explained as if it was not a big deal that she was so, so much bigger than before.
"Note that down Renny, note that down!" Nora called out as she nudged Ren. The quiet young lad fished out his scroll with his spare hand and made some notes, as Weiss did the same mentally, while Nora kept talking. "Ooh, speaking of which, those thighs aren't all flash and no boom are they?" she asked.
"Uh… maybe?" Ruby replied, an eyebrow raised in confusion.
"I'm asking if those thighs are as strong as they look," Nora quickly clarified.
"Oooh… yeah, they're pretty strong," Ruby answered modestly.
"Are they strong enough to crush a watermelon?" Nora questioned, though it would have been more accurate to say she was challenging Ruby, producing a watermelon and placing it on the table between the two of them, presenting the challenger to Ruby.
"Nora, where did you get that from?" Ren asked, clearly perplexed, looking all around Nora for where she could have possibly hidden it.
"Don't worry about it," she answered with a quick and quiet stage whisper before turning back to Ruby. "So, can ya do it?" Ruby eyed it up, giving it a thoughtful look, before picking it up and walking around to the end of the table with a confident grin on her lips.
"Yeah, I think I've got this," Ruby asserted.
"You got this Ruby!" Yang cheered. Weiss was still powering through her veritable mountain of food as she watched, while Blake was beginning to blush as she ogled Ruby. Fortunately for Blake, all the action was down the other end of the table, so all eyes were well away from her and no one could see her threatening to short circuit at any moment. Nora watched intently, her desire to see this happen very obvious just from how she was observing what was happening, while the rest of Team JNPR was less dramatic about this, though still very much watching to see what was about to happen. Ruby nestled the watermelon between her thighs and gave it a few gentle test squeezes.
"Oh man, this is a sturdy one," Ruby commented as she shifted the watermelon around to find if there were any obvious weak spots. Once she was satisfied with her position, she locked her feet together, pointing her toes inwards, and squeezed with all her might.
Those next five seconds felt like an eternity for Ruby and for everyone watching until, suddenly, there was an almighty boom. The watermelon exploded open, splitting down the middle and spilling its red innards all over the floor and all over Ruby's boots. The rest of the table cheered for Ruby's accomplishment while Ruby punched the air in celebration, only for it to be interrupted by...
"Excuse me!" called out a very stern voice that everyone immediately recognised as belonging to Professor Goodwitch. "I don't know who you are, but you shouldn't be doing that here." Ruby whirled around, her cape flapping as she moved, and saw Goodwitch approaching rapidly.
"I'm sorry Professor, I'll clean it up," Ruby quickly apologised, putting her hands up in surrender. As she spoke, Glynda slowed to a stop, a look of realisation hitting her very suddenly.
"Ruby Rose? Is that you?" Goodwitch asked incredulously.
"Yeah, heh, I've been getting that a lot today," Ruby laughed off as she rubbed the back of her head. "Guess this really was a big growth spurt."
"W-well then, you still should not be doing that in here," Glynda reiterated, pointing to the exploded remnants of the watermelon, which Nora was picking at to find something edible in the wreckage. "However, I'll let you off with a warning right now, since the school year doesn't officially start until tomorrow. You're one of our star students, please try to set a good example for the new students arriving tomorrow."
"Uh, th-thanks Professor!" Ruby said, blushing from the compliment and shooting Glynda a totally unnecessary salute entirely on instinct. "I'll, uh, start cleaning up now."
"I'll help," Blake added, shooting to Ruby's side from out of nowhere in the blink of an eye with a handful of paper towels.
"Oh, thanks Blake," Ruby chirped as Professor Goodwitch turned and left, still shaking her head in disbelief that Ruby Rose of all people looked like that all of a sudden. Ruby began wiping the watermelon juice off of herself while Blake scooped up the demolished remains of the watermelon, specifically the parts that Nora hadn't already eaten, and disposed of it.
"So, Ruby, do you and those thunder thighs want a new best friend? I gotta get in on whatever you're doing," Nora enthused.
"I don't know how much help I'll be, the workouts were mostly Yang's idea," Ruby admitted.
"Yeah, and I dunno how they turned Ruby into… well… all of this," Yang added, gesturing to her sister.
"Hey, I'll give it a shot. I'm always happy to try out new stuff if it helps me be a better Grimm butt-kicker," Nora said eagerly.
"Oh, oh, that reminds me, Yang, remember that big dragon Grimm thing we fought over the break?" Ruby excitedly asked.
"Hell yeah I do! Wanna tell the story?" Yang offered. Ruby was beaming and literally jumped at the chance to give her account.
As Ruby got into her story, Cinder was seated at the neighbouring table, growing paler.
"Sh-she did what? How?" she was whispering to herself. The story was beyond belief, but so were a lot of other things lately, so Cinder was inclined to believe it, especially coming from a font of incorruptible pure pureness like Ruby. Cinder doubted that Ruby even knew how to lie, that was how annoyingly innocent she seemed.
"Cinder, is something wrong?" Emerald quietly asked, leaning over to help keep things private. Cinder jumped slightly at Emerald's voice and did her best to play it cool.
"Oh, it's nothing you need to worry about. I'm not even worried about it," Cinder attempted to downplay things. Emerald was not entirely convinced, but it was what Cinder said, so it was what she was going to believe.
"I dunno, that sounds like a pretty tough Grimm, and it doesn't sound like she had that much trouble with it," Mercury commented, holding an ice pack over the black eye he got from the beating Neo had given him.
"Oh, that's just standard Huntsman bluster, nothing to take seriously," Cinder dismissed. In her mind, she was making a note to check up on Mountain Glenn sometime soon and attempt to verify Ruby's claims.
Meanwhile, Neo was as quiet as ever as she chowed down on her dinner. She was gazing at Ruby as she gave her animated retelling of the adventure she and Yang went on. There was so much moving that Neo was keenly focused on. There was the jiggling of Ruby's thighs and rear, there was the bouncing of Ruby's chest, the flexing of Ruby's multitude of muscles, just so much for Neo to admire. She even ended up unintentionally letting out wistful sighs as she watched and mooned over Ruby. The rest of the table made the wise decision to tactfully ignore Neo for now.
"... and that's how Yang and I suplexed a dragon Grimm thing," Ruby finished, absolutely beaming with pride.
"Whoa, that's so cool," Jaune said in awe.
"I agree. Hopefully, we can do that together some time. A-as partners, of course," Pyrrha added.
"Waaait, I thought dragons had 4 legs, not 2," Nora pointed out.
"Eh, it's got all the other dragon stuff," Yang brought up. "Besides, dragons are pretty much anything snakey and powerful enough to call a dragon unless it's, like, an intentional subversion. Plus, it's nice if they represent something in a story. For example, in Ruby's story, it represents us being badasses 'cause we kicked its ass."
"I always forget you're a nerd when it comes to stories and stuff," Nora teased.
"Psh, that's just me being a classy lady, right Blake?" Yang defended with a nonchalant shrug as she nudged Blake. It was probably best that she physically got Blake's attention, as Blake was mentally in another universe, a universe where Ruby was doing unspeakably dirty things to her. Fortunately, Blake was doing a very good job at keeping a straight face despite such thoughts running through her head.
"Huh, wha-yeah, sure," Blake fumbled to say, having very suddenly been brought back to reality.
"See? Super classy thing to be a nerd about," Yang insisted. Any further comments were interrupted by a sudden gust of wind going one way, and then the other, accompanied by a red blur. Ruby disappeared for a mere moment, as her plate went from empty to full again in the blink of an eye. "Still hungry?" Yang asked lightheartedly.
"You know it! I'm still a growing girl after all, and I gotta eat," Ruby bragged, making three-quarters of Team JNPR, as well as the other half of Team RWBY, go pale.
"St-still growing?" Jaune stammered.
"Yep!" Ruby chirped before digging in.
"Oh dear," Weiss murmured as she rubbed her belly. Her waist sash was starting to feel snug and her belly was definitely feeling satisfied, like she should be stopping now. However, she could tell that she was going to go well past 'satisfied' at this rate. Little did she notice that Yang's eyes were wandering towards that slowly growing belly of Weiss'.
After that, dinner went on much more normally, if one ignored the fact that Ruby put away enough food for an average family, even if the two parents and their two or three kids were big eaters. Ruby went beyond 'big eater' status, she basically had a black hole for a stomach. Of course, that did not mean the effects of such a gastronomical achievement were invisible, Ruby did have a big, round belly to show for it. It looked like she had swallowed a fully inflated basketball whole, but she did not even break a sweat. This was likely helped by her subtly loosening her corset over the course of the meal in just the right places for it to still hug her robust figure.
Weiss was a very different story. She threw in the towel much earlier, but not before she finished off her first plate. She knew she could not match Ruby's eating abilities. She doubted anyone could, with the possible exception of Nora, who Weiss had barely matched. Nora made it look easy, though, and Ruby made it look effortless. Having not eaten as much food, Weiss was not sporting as much of a belly as Ruby, but it was still enough to be noticeable. Her belly pressed tightly against her slim fitting combat skirt and pushed against her sash, undoing it without her needing to make a conscious decision to do anything about it. Weiss' body was not at all happy about having had to put away so much food, as her stomach ached like Weis had never felt before. It gurgled and groaned loudly in protest, it probably would have gone on strike and set up a picket line if she had made the obviously bad decision to try to eat any more. Her breathing was shallow and laboured, needing the air badly to catch her breath but not wanting to risk upsetting her already irritated stomach.
As the two teams finished their dinners and returned to their rooms was strolling like she was taking a literal walk in the park, ignoring the mountain of food in her stomach. That had almost all eyes on her, mostly in disbelief but with one pair of amber eyes looking at the stuffed beefcake Ruby with barely hidden horniness. There were two exceptions to this, however. Weiss was so darn full that she barely even knew what continent she was on, her hands were cradling her belly with the utmost care and her legs were on autopilot, following the rest of the team to Team RWBY's dorm room so she could collapse into a food coma. The other exception was Yang. Her eyes were glued to Weiss' overstuffed form, the only ones focused on Weiss. Everyone else was focused on Ruby, but Yang had a whole summer to get used to that sight. This, on the other hand, was new. Behind those lilac eyes of Yang's was a mind that very suddenly had some stuff it needed to work through, but was not particularly eager to reveal that information to anyone and was barely willing to admit it to Yang herself.
As the two teams split off for the night, Team RWBY ducked into their room. As soon as she could, Weiss squeezed out of her too snug combat skirt and into an equally snug nightgown. Fortunately, Blake was still gawking at Ruby and Ruby and Yang were playing a few sets of Immortal Combat. Normally the gorefest on screen would have elicited some kind of comment from Weiss, but all that came out of Weiss' mouth was a groan that sounded vaguely like 'good night' before she crawled into bed and fell asleep almost immediately. The sun had barely gone down, the menacing techno soundtrack of Ruby and Yang's game was blaring away, but Weiss was so full that none of that mattered, her body needed some rest and it needed it now.
A few hours later the sisters finished up their sets with Yang taking the final match after Ruby made the possibly unwise decision to switch off of her main character to one she was much less familiar with in a bout of overconfidence.
"Welp, it's getting late, we ought to get ready for bed," Yang groaned as she stretched her arms and back.
"Yeah, yeah," Ruby grumbled, still a little salty over her loss. One thing she absolutely could win every time, no matter what, was the race to the bathroom to get changed and ready for bed. In the blink of an eye a red blur and a trail of petals raced from Ruby's seat to her clothing storage and then to the bathroom, all before Yang had even finished stretching. It was a real unwinnable matchup, and everyone knew it.
Not long later, Ruby strode out in her pyjamas. However, it was not the tank top and flannel pyjama pants that the rest of her team was familiar with. She still had the tank top, sure, but before it only revealed a teeny tiny strip of midriff, less than an inch normally, a little more than an inch if she had her arms up above her head. Now, however, it had to contend with Ruby having shot up almost a foot and carrying a bust that made Yang look average. With all of that, Ruby's tank top only managed to go down enough to cover her breast from the front and her shoulder blades from the back. What it absolutely did not cover was one hell of an eight pack, a chiseled set of abs, a powerful core, all emphasised by the fact that Ruby's previously full belly had gone back down to its normal size just over the course of a few hours. Just seeing that was enough for Blake to fall in love, or maybe just lust, all over again, but it got worse, or better depending on your point of view. Ruby had swapped out her pyjama pants for a pair of off-white boyshorts, similar to Yang's sleepwear. However, Yang's shorts were a little loose, still a snug fit but with a little bit of give. Ruby's shorts, on the other hand, were basically skin-tight, not unlike the shorts she wore with her combat gear. Those shorts had Ruby's cloak to cover up the view from the back, but not these shorts. Everything was in full view, and Blake was drinking in that view like it was water and she was in the desert. Ruby's plump but perky posterior bounced and wobbled with every step, lighting Blake's mind on fire with all kinds of deviant thoughts, and those incredibly juicy thighs did not help matters.
With Ruby's new height and strength, making her way up to her bunk was a cinch, even easier than ever before. The ropes holding up Ruby's bed made a slightly concerning creaking sound, but once Ruby stopped moving everything seemed to be fine, just in time for Yang to step out in her pyjamas.
"You sure you're not getting too big for the top bunk?" Yang opined.
"Nuh uh, you're not making me a bottom bunk girl," Ruby defied. "I have tasted the top bunk's power, and I'm never giving it up," she declared, getting so overdramatic that she could be accused of chewing the scenery if she were doing this on stage or on a screen.
"Yeah, yeah, say that again when your growth spurt ends," Yang dismissed light-heartedly. That comment had both Ruby and Blake thinking. How big was Ruby going to get? Her stomach had worked through all that food from dinner very quickly, so she was almost certainly going to wake up a little bit bigger in the morning, but what was going to happen after that? Was Ruby just going to keep growing and growing, leaving her team in the dust and turning into a veritable giant? Was she going to peter out before getting the chance to reach such dizzying heights? Or was she going to start growing more out than up? All of these were valid possibilities, and there was no real way for anyone to know how this was going to turn out until the future. Two things were absolutely certain, however.
Firstly, Blake was going to enjoy the view, no matter what happened.
And secondly, Ruby was not the scrawny little girl she used to be, and would never be that again.
[AN: Just like the last part, this was written for a Watcher on DeviantArt disturbed-yui. This was definitely more of a chill chapter, definitely more of a focus on reactions and such to Ruby's growth. Man, it's gotta be wild to go on holiday, come back, and your short friend's now taller than you. Blake doesn't seem to mind though.
Speaking of DeviantArt, if you'll excuse me getting real for a sec, that's where I'm focusing most of my attention and where it's easiest to get a hold of me, with AO3 being my secondary. Heck, I've even skipped posting my last few stories here. To be honest, I just prefer those sites. DeviantArt makes it much easier when it comes to getting these stories in front of the kinds of people who like them and AO3's tagging system does much the same. Any multi-chapter fics that I haven't finished on here will still get new chapters, but any new stories are probably just gonna be on AO3 and DeviantArt. I hope to see you over there, but I totally get it if you just wanna stick with just this site.