A/N: Welcome back! This week I decided to add a bit more gay shit to this dragon in the woods AU so hopefully that isn't too disappointing. I just really like writing fantasy stuff with these two.

Queen Sydon: Thank you very much my friend! Indeed! It's a concept that I also quite enjoy: moving past predetermined stigmas and scary interiors to find love makes that good lovey dovey shit that I overdose on constantly. The cop idea sounds quite interesting! I will put that on the list! Thanks!

Magicantix: Well here you go friend! More lesbian dragon! I'm glad you enjoy it! I think I will in the future do more with that giving Sucy a proper childhood idea, there's some good story ideas floating around in here! Thanks!

Shigiya: FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH HUMANS, DRAGON IS MY NEW GIRLFRIEND.

TheOdaMan: Thank you friend! Ever since that sleeping beauty shit trigger pulled in episode 8, medieval AUs just fit with this pairing.

A Potato: Thank you very much friend! I'm so glad you enjoyed.

Guest: Thank you so much my friend! You're awesome too!

Some Random Dude: Hahah I did know that! Yuri!Sucy is all around a really cool concept and piece of Sucy's cognition. I would love to write more stuff including her! And I agree! It gives you just enough to draw your own conclusions and lets the fans run with it from there!

I hope you enjoy!

Time tended be difficult to determine in a place that never got any brighter or darker, but if Akko had to guess, it had been roughly a week since the great serpent had allowed her to stay.

Sucy.

That's what the beast asked to be called when 'Miss Dragon' wasn't good enough for her overly social new companion.

"You humans care too much about names." She had scoffed, curling back up around her pile of sharp metal and leaving the girl to her chores.

Indeed, Atsuko wasn't staying with the dragon for free, there was a large list of things she had to do every day: remove the fallen leaves and twigs from Sucy's scales, go hunting for dinner, gather any scraps of metal or abandoned weapons she could find along the way.

She never asked about the weapon pile she was slowly adding to; dragon's were fiercely protective of their hoards after all. The brunette was lucky to be allowed to borrow the bow, and had to run after missed arrows to retrieve them as Sucy's later conditions dictated.

Bending down to pick up one of said missed arrows, Akko sighed. She had chosen a bow at complete random, with absolutely no prior knowledge or experience with the weapon; it showed.

Her first kill hadn't even been using the arrows, just a single overzealous swing to a deer's head with the steel limb. The guilty weight in her chest when the animal laid still cemented the moment as her worst achievement.

It took an immense amount of walking to locate any signs of life in the forest, and though it was difficult to differentiate one tree from another, Akko could always find her way back by the echoing vibration of the dragon's snoring.

Hours passed since she set out, and with only a single rabbit to show for it. As instructed to when her hunts gave small game, the brunette scrounged around the forest floor for fungi of a very specific shade; the same colour as the sunset just before night swallowed all, a slightly purple shade of blue.

"I'd rather not have to eat something like this, but we both need calories." The great beast huffed as her guest popped three of the shrooms in her maw, stepping back as she reared up and breathed an ethereal blue mist over the fallen animal.

The resulting meal was filling sure, but tasted airy and diluted, like a fruit that had been peeled and left to soak in the river.

It didn't feel good when she failed to procure a decently sized meal; Sucy stomached her presence, allowed her to huddle close when the lack of sun became chilling, and deserved better than bland rabbit meat. But the idea of going back to the humans alone didn't appeal either; she was expected to die, not crawl back and beg for food.

Her brooding was interrupted upon returning to the clearing however: the great beast was not slumbering in her usual spot, instead irritably rubbing her long neck against a dead tree.

Smelling her servant's arrival Sucy groaned, stomping over to the squire's side and presenting the offending spot. "Scratch. Now." She demanded, sitting down with a thud that shook the canopy above.

It was a sudden and rather scary call, causing Akko to drop her bow and kill, rushing to the beast's side. "Here?" She questioned, placing a hand on one of the large obsidian scales for Sucy to give further direction.

"Left... No, more." She ordered, neck muscles twitching slightly under the scaly skin. "Now down... scratch there."

Nervously moving her fingers up and down, Akko relieved her companion of the dastardly itch, a steady vibration moving up the brunette's arm as the dragon hummed in contented pleasure.

By her old understanding, dragons didn't usually make such sounds, instead sticking to deep growls and ear shattering roars. Perhaps it was because of her abnormally long exposure, but Atsuko found herself rethinking things that were once common knowledge.

Dragons were said to be fierce and aggressive, but Sucy was more lazy than anything, spending most of her time curled up around her weapon hoard and sleeping; almost purring at a scratch to her neck like a giant coldblooded cat.

"We should grow things to add to our food." The brunette thought aloud ten minutes later as she sat against Sucy, one hand turning the meat above the fire and the other lazily petting the beast's newfound favourite spot.

The dragon hummed before remembering herself and making a soft coughing noise. "Don't you need sunlight for that?" She teased half-assedly. "And gardening skill?"

Akko redoubled her scratching efforts in order to silence the sassy lizard, smiling when her eyes fell shut and nostrils blew a sigh of smoldering hot air.

"We could knock down some of the trees and create an actual clearing?" She offered with a slight shrug, taking the makeshift rotisserie off of the fire and sticking the end in the ground to cool. "I would need seeds from somewhere though..."

Sucy huffed impassively like she usually did when anxious or grumpy, though this time round didn't force the human girl to sit somewhere else. It was not until she was partway finished with her magically enlarged feast that the dragon responded.

"We could go into one of the nearby towns..." Sucy murmured, sounding uncharacteristically unsure of her own suggestion. "I could cause a distraction and you could steal seed packets."

The squire turned her head, looking at the way the dragon's large black scales gave way to smaller purple ones. "Is..." She started with hesitation, carefully moving her hand closer to Sucy's head. "Is that safe? I don't want them to hurt you..."

Their eyes met, two wide red rubies to one, and a tense silence hung in the air like thick fog. Sucy's face was unreadable, her visible eye continually moving as if searching for something on the girl's face- deception maybe; malice that wasn't there.

Two puffs of air, sounding like a chuckle of sorts escaped the dragon's nostrils, a slight tweak at the edge of her lips revealing that it was at least partly comprised of joy.

"You're cute." The beast said suddenly, grasping Akko's shirt with her front teeth and lifting the girl onto her back. "But no puny human is getting past these scales."

Akko giggled, leaning forward to hug as much of the dragon as possible. "I guess that makes me pretty special then?"

A heavy sigh, sounding oddly wistful entered the girl's ear through the body beneath her. It had only been a little over a week, and here she was laying atop a deadly beast, closer than any human had ever been before.

"I guess you are."

A/N: I'm on a time constraint so no endnote here lel. kthxiloveyouallbye