Of Reapers and Scales

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(Ciel POV)

I let out an audible, exhausted sigh and slammed my head on my desk table, and let myself lay there for a few moments in excruciating...mental...agony.

Homework for hours… HOURS!

"One hour in and you're giving up so soon, Ciel?" Smirked my stupid brother from his stupid desk with stupidly gained confidence at my overwhelming despair.

"Shut up… I've been staring at paper for so long these last few days…" Just mentioning paper made me feel queasy, "I don't want to hear anything about paper for a while now…"

"Oh dear… I do hope I have more than enough paper to finish my paper written assignments…" Leo spoke in a mischievous tone while keeping his grin, "If not, I might have to go out and buy a few more packs of paper and put them out."

"You looking to get your ass kicked..?"

You might not expect it from Leo given how he usually is, but he can be surprisingly mischievous.

In my case, annoyingly sadistic…

"Who's kicking whose ass again? Remind me."

"Don't get full of yourself!" I said standing up and pointing at him, "We're still neck and and neck as is! And even though I have a problem with sitting around too long and not really being a fan of academics, I'm dealing with it pretty well!"

I stood up from my desk and grabbed my black dress vest with the two long coattails that reached the back of my knees and buttoned it on over my sleeveless white blouse. I checked my pleated black skirt to make sure everything was all good before moving to my bed and grabbing my black knee high boots with the white zippers and zipped them up, stomping my feet on the ground twice before standing up and posing in the mirror a few times.

Oh yeah. I look awesome.

More importantly…

"Prepare thy anoose Leo!" I said stopping at the door and spinning around to point at him, "I don't care how long it takes, but I am going to do better than you in academics! Your ass is mine!"

"I'm soooooo terrified…" he said sarcastically with a roll of his eyes.

Smug bastard…

"Where'd Foxy and big brother go?" I asked, noticing that they stepped out a while ago.

"They went to see the remake of 'IT'. Though they do enjoy movies, ms. Kitsukami isn't a big fan of horror films."

Ohoho! This might be your chance Foxy! A little timidness when enetering the theater, and when something gory or scary happens...pow! Total opportunity to cling onto him with pure, genuine, maiden-like feelings of fear! And then...staring deeply into one a others eyes...they slowly lean in and...and-!

"If you're done having pervetered thoughts, I suggest you go and go whatever it is you intended to do with your break."

"Oh just shove it…" I said waving him off as I left through the door.

Man… Leo can be such a pain to deal with at times…

Alright...I'm just gonna hit the cafeteria and grab something to eat. Then just go blow off steam at the practice arena. Maybe I could find some poor soul to be my sparring partner and tape a picture of Leo's face to them…

Ah, who am I kidding… I'm not that mean.

Unless you piss me off of course. Which is something no one wants. Not even the glorious, almighty Ezdouche would like me when I'm angry…

Still though, who could I have as a sparring partner?

Oh! Maybe that Nora Valkyrie chick! She looks ready and able to kick ass at any time. That, and it might be time to actually start getting along with other people and getting to know them.

"Socialization is a key component of making connections with others!" is something my big brother would say.

Alright, let's make some new friends.

"Ahahaha! What's this?!"

What's this? There's skanks somewhere in the air! Or harpies. Whichever floats your goat. Or-

You know, I'm not going to further with that thought.

Okay… What goes on in the halls of Beacon Academy today..?

I mean, you get your typical school-life nonsense here and there. But some people just don't know where the line is at times. Like these bitchzillas up ahead.

"You think this is cute? It's totally trash!"

Instead of knocking heads together, I hung back around the corner and glanced over it slightly to see three girls laughing and snickering, while the other, the fourth, was struggling to get something back. But the other two were keeping her back.

Typical… Three humans and one Faunus girl, a cute bunny rabbit no less! Ugh! So mean...

Sometimes I'm actually glad that I'm not technically categorized as a human…

Seriously though, what's up with people picking on that cute Velvet girl? First it's Douchrooster Cardin and his posse of wastes of skin. Now these skanks?

I let out out a silent sigh of frustration before I rounded the corner to walk up to the group, one of them which pushed our cute little bunny rabbit towards the wall while she and her two other gremlin-looking friends continued laughing.

Hold on...is that..?

Yeah, I don't know her. All I know is what I could see. Long brown hair, sparkly brown eyes, and cute bunny ears that were folded against her head.

Wah… I'm getting heart palpitations just from seeing how cute she is…

Oh yeah, people to deal with. Fantasies later.

"Yo, what's going on here?" I asked approaching them smiling.

"Just having a bit of fun. You?" Asked the ringleader while one of her friends took a picture of the frightened Faunus girl.

Fun huh..?

"Hey, let me see that!" I asked while forcing my smile.

The girl who used her Scroll as the camera easily handed it over to me as I looked over the picture myself, where that girl had doodle over it with god knows how many indecent things.

"Nice…"

That was all I said while they gave me accepting glances and laughs.

That was before I clapped my hands together and crushed the girls Scroll to dust and sparks.

Looks of pure shock and disbelief came my way while I raised up my hand and blew the dust remains of their Scroll in their face, making them take a few steps back.

"H-Hey! What the hell?!"

"Yeah! Who do you think you are, bitch?"

Bringing out the big guns? My favorite.

"I'm the one who knocks, bitch." I replied in a colder tone than my usual while taking slow steps towards them, glaring at the group of three the entire time, "Though technically, I shouldn't call any of you three bitches, since you'd have to actually be smart to be a bitch. And trust me, none of you three are even remotely close to being smart."

One of them looked to move right at me, but I raised my hand up to stop her.

"Helpful hint for you gremlin looking skanks. If I just crushed your Scroll like it was nothing but a rice cracker, what do you think will happen if I get my hands on you?"

That made her stop.

"So you get it. Good. Here's another thing…" I said stopping before them, my form just a few inches shorter than they were, "Mess with this one again, and I'll break more than just your Scrolls. Got it?"

It was then they backed away slowly before dropping whatever it is they took from our lovely bunny maiden and ran for it.

I towards it and picked it up, seeing it was a cute bunny charm with a string on it.

I kinda want one too… But I had to give this one back.

"Here you are…" I said lending my hand to bring her up, making me notice she was taller than me.

I let out a silent sigh when I saw she was taller than me. Height is pretty much the only thing I'm just jealous about. Overall figure? Lean, mean, and nicely curved. My ass? Very desirable if I do say so myself. My boobs? Not as big as Foxy's, who's basically cup size E now, but I'm sitting comfortably at D now since last month. Hips? Absolutely delicious.

Overall, I am one fantastic looking gal if I do say so myself. I mean, so does basically everyone else, but that's not important now.

My jealousy of height is something to focus on another time. Right now, I have a cute bunny rabbit to talk and tend to.

"All good? Or do you need me to carry your loveliness to your next class? Or room?" I asked with a bow.

She raised a hand to her face and chuckled at my attempt at humor, my small self looking up to see her cute bunny ears perk up.

"No, I'm...quite fine. Thank you for your help."

"Seriously now, why do people have to go and pick on a cute thing like yourself?" I asked while noticing her jump a bit, "Say something they didn't like, or..?"

"No, nothing like that… It just...happens I guess…"

Man…

People can be assholes for no reason.

"You're Ciel, right?"

Woah! She knows my name?!

"Um…"

I don't know what to say here… Does she know me because of good things or bad things?

I swear Santa, I've been nice and very rarely naughty this year.

Okay, that's a bit of lie. Unless he counts harmless pranks.

"Maybe..?" I meekly said holding my hands behind my back.

"Ah, so I was right! You were on scene after they defeated the Hydra and killed that pack of Beowolves about to attack the group of evacuees."

Oh yeah! I almost forgot! Little ms. Rabbit was helping lead away some of the students when a pack almost pounced them. Thankfully I was there to handle them in one sweep.

"Well…you know, happy to help. And stuff." But my daring heroics aren't what's important at the moment, "Do you get picked on a lot?" I asked getting straight to it.

"Unfortunately…" she said with her cute bunny ears drooping a bit.

"Don't think about it all too much. They're just a bunch of ignorant jerks." I comforted, "They got a problem with you, find me and I'll sort 'em out!"

She giggled at my statement as I posed, saying "Thank you. I'll make sure to do that. You...must be really strong if you can crush a Scroll so easily. Into powder no less…"

"Hehehe… Well, I'm just a really tough cookie is all. So I don't forget, what's your name?"

"Oh... I'm Velvet. Velvet Scarletina."

"You already know who I am, so… Yeah. Despite running into real jerks, it was nice to actually meet you. See ya around."

"See you too." She said as we waved goodbye to each other before moving off in opposite directions.

She's really nice. I mean, come on, why do people need to pick on the nice ones so much? It's just dumb. And pointless. I mean, my brother and I pick on each other a lot, but we do it for shits and giggles and at least and have fun with it.

Seriously humanity, get your shit together concerning the Faunus. It's getting real old.


It didn't take long to get to the training range, where a few students were testing out their weapons, practicing their aim, or just duking it out with one another.

One thing I do love besides my brothers and pretzel bread is good old fashioned fighting. An excellent way to get the blood pumping and going. And hey, a good workout too.

There were a few faces I recognized here and there, just some people that said "hi" and "hello" in the hallway and the like.

Now that I think about it, Leo and I don't have actual friends, do we? I mean, we're working on ELAA, Ezdouche's team, but Leo and I have yet to meet any of them. Except he who shall not be blabbered about, but that doesn't really count, does it?

Still...making ACTUAL friends isn't exactly the easiest thing in the whole wide world. It isn't as simple as just walking up and introducing yourself anymore. You kinda have to build up a relationship a bit, gain trust between each other and all that. Hardest part is making friends with someone who has a few or a lot of differences with you. Not easy, but not impossible.

I let out a sigh before I found a wide, empty booth for a practice target range. I may not exactly have anything projectile-like, but my weapon can extend up to fifteen meters. Might as well practice my precision.

Extending my hand, white and black Aura formed in my hands, taking on the shape of a scythe. My scythe's blade was colored white and was five feet long, having a half circle notch on the sharp edge curve of the blade near where it was attached to the pole. From the point where the blade emerged, it emerged from the mouth of a black human looking skull at the top end of the pole. And from where the skull was located, the pole adorned a small black rib cage.

The long pole of my scythe resembled that of a skeleton's spine that was slightly curved where the rib cage was located, also colored black, the pole ending in a lower backbone, the ligaments between each segment colored a pure white. My scythe overall stood two feet taller than me, about seven feet last I checked.

Damn… I just realized my own weapon is taller than me…

Time to work out some frustration I guess.

I took a firm hold of my sycthe with both hands and slightly straightened the curve of the pole to activate its alternate form. The scythe's blade shifted to the top of the pole, taking on the form of a spear slightly.

My hands shifted lower towards the end of the pole near the backbone-like end while holding it horizontally in front of me, point of my weapon aimed right at the target…

If there was one in front of me.

Son of a… I forgot to hit start…

I quickly smashed the button off to my side, noticing that the difficulty was set to "Master". Whoever set it to Master must be really good… Or just has misplaced expectations.

My head spun towards the range when hearing the counter hit "Five" and I lowered myself slightly to keep an even and balanced stance. As soon as it hit zero, I was off faster than a lightning bolt using maniac and thrusted my scythe-spear forward with blinding speed, hitting my first target as soon as it popped up.

The targets kept coming up one after another, and I coinitued thrusting my weapon forward as it extended and contracted accordingly to the different distances and angles of the targets popping up one after another.

Who needs guns when you have a weapon like mine?

I chuckled at the impressed awes of everyone passing by as I continued moving my arm faster than what mot could be able to track, my weapon continuously hitting its targets and not missing a single one. The program began increasing the variation between locations, distances, and number of targets popping up at once. I just kept adapting to the numerous variations and kept blowing apart my targets with my furiously fast stabs, not breaking a sweat in the slightest.

Technically, I could use my Semblance to sort of stop time in increments of seconds and take my time.

But that'd be cheating. After all, I'm all natural baby!

The final row of targets popped up and I thrusted my weapon forwards a final time as it penetrated the entire row of targets in one, quick, precise stab. After that was said and done, I made my weapon contract and revert into its scythe form and propped it upright, looking up at the monitor a good distance away to see…

"Hell yeah! Perfect score!"

I slightly jumped when I heard the cheer of the large group of students that gathered behind me. I mean holy crap, there was a lot of them.

Meh… I'll roll with it. Flatter me more mortals! Mwahahahahahaahahaha!


A bit of talking and high fives later, I went towards one of the water coolers nearby and got myself a nice cup of cold water. I mean, I wasn't tired or anything, but hey, waters nice. Plus there was that whole speech big brother gave Leo and me a while back about blending in and acting natural and- yeah, didn't listen to that one all too much.

Point is? Act like I'm tired. I mean, no human can't be tired after doing all that. Unfortunately, I didn't work up a swear from that, so sweat was a no go. Water had to do.

"Y-You…"

Me? Hello random person who is..? Oh, there you are!

I zeroed in on the voice and saw a fellow little reaper in black and red with a nice red cloak looking at me with shock and awe, shivering almost as if I just scared the living daylights out of her.

"Um, me..?" I replied.

"You..!"

Me?!

"You broke my record..!" Was all she whined out tearfully.

Record?

I looked up at the monitor, noticing my perfect score completely overlap the previous holder of the "Master" level record.

Huh, her name is Ruby Rose…

"Using a melee weapon too! How?! Tell me your secrets!"

She literally just switched from sobbing to totally eager to learn how in the hell I managed that. But damn is she cute and adorable…

"I'm just a tough cookie is all." I said reusing my explanation for our lovely bunny rabbit from before.

"Woah..! You must be super strong if you can do something like that…"

"Heh… Yes I am…" I said proudly rubbing my knuckles against my shirt, "So were you the one who held the previous record? Ruby…" my glance moved to the screen again before moving back to the girl in front of me, "Rose?"

"Yeah…" she said with a sad sigh

"Sorry. Nothing personal or anything…"

"Well, no worries. But you have to tell me what your weapon is! I mean, it's so so cool!"

It is a cool weapon…

"It's custom made, so you're not gonna find this bad boy anywhere else out there."

"Woah! Mines custom made too! Did you make yours too?"

"Um…" That was kind of hard to answer since it's a bit...complicated, "Yeah, pretty much." I said looking over my scythe.

"No guns or any projectiles?"

"Don't need 'em. I've got a fancy trick I use for that besides just extending and contracting my weapon."

"Can you show me?"

I'm only showing her because she asked nicely. I-It's totally not because she's cute or anything. Nope. Not at all…

"A-Alright alright! I'll, uh, show you how it's done." I said stepping out onto the range in our section, "Alright, pop a shot at me with your...sniper...scythe thingy."

"Wha-?! I, uh… Are you sure..?"

"Yeah yeah, relax. It's part of the trick. Come on." I said gesturing for her to hurry.

With swift dexterity from cute little red, she unholstered her weapon and took aim at my center of mass.

She's definitely got that focused look about her. No wonder she was at the top of the list for the firing range. But there was also that look of hesitation in her. Which meant…

Before I could finish that thought, I saw her squeeze the trigger and fire her weapon. Just before she did pull the trigger, I raised up my hand and opened up a small rift of black and white Aura, letting Ruby's bullet pass into the void before it closed.

"Woah! What was that?!"

"That, my little red…" I said appearing, to her surprise, immediately next to her, "is a part of my Semblance. Watch."

I placed my hand on her shoulder and extended my hand forward, the rift opening in front of my palm and shooting out ten exact replicas of Ruby's absorbed bullets, the two of us watching them hit numerous bullseyes of the remaining dummies on the range.

Looking back to Ruby, I saw that adorable shining awe of hers before she placed both hands on my shoulders, saying "Will you be my friend?!"

I may have been wrong about saying making friends isn't so easy…

Damn...I can't believe I'm getting a bit shy like Leo does around new people…

"W-Well, lucky you then, um, person!" I awkwardly replied.

"My name is-"

"I know I know. It's Ruby. I was just messing with you a bit." I said bumping my hip against hers.

She bumped back, or at least tried to and bounced off me, and we both shared a good laugh from that.

"I heard you put a Nevermore to the chopping block during initiation. Like, total decap ready and served."

"Yeah, that was pretty cool… But whoever that guy was that took out that Hydra… He's all kinds of cool…"

"Really now?" Hey big brother, looks like you've got a fan, "You know, I actually do know him."

"You do?!"

"Yup. He's my big brother."

"No way!"

"Yes way. I'll introduce him to you next time."

"Ruby!" Said a random as they snuck up and lifted my new friend up into the air with a hug.

"Ugh..! Nora..! Can't...breath..!"

"Oh, sorry." Said the orange haired newcomer as she dropped Ruby to her feet.

"Ciel, this is my friend Nora."

"Heyo!"

"Hi..?" I said waving awkwardly.

So this is Nora. She seems...really cheery...

"By the way, someone broke your record Ruby!"

"Thanks for reminding me…"

"Who could've done that?"

All I did was clear my throat, drawing the attention of both as they saw me raising myself up using my toes.

"It was you?!"

"Totes."

"Ciel's a new students this semester like us. Most importantly, she's really really cool."

Heh… Yeah, I guess I am pretty cool…

"Are you the coolest of the cool?" Asked Nora eyeing me suspiciously as she got close to me.

"Um…" Please believe me, please believe me, please believe me, "Si señorita..?"

"Hmmm… She checks out."

Whew… I swear, she might've tired breaking my legs or something if she was convinced otherwise.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm starving!" Said Nora.

"Oh! And they have pancakes for breakfast too!"

"Really?!" I heard Nora ask with pure excitement on her tone.

She must really like pancakes, because holy cow, her smile is brighter than a glow stick right now.

"I can do for some pancakes. It's been a long while since I ate…"

"Breakfast?" Asked Ruby.

Oh crap. Good job tipping them off Ciel.

"Y-Yeah, kinda skipped out on breakfast. Hehehehehe…"

"That's no good! Let's get some pancakes in you!"

"Seconded!" Said Ruby as both she and Nora began dragging me off towards what I assumed to be my doom.

Just kidding. I knew they were taking me to the cafeteria.

"Which one of you here is the strongest?!"

Moi! But I'm not looking for a fight right now… So…

"Surely you lot aren't the best to offer?! Isn't there anyone else?!"

She's really uppity…

"That's her 57th victory already…" Ruby whispered as the three of us turned to look in the direction of the girl's voice ringing through the air.

"Yeah… I mean, I'm tough, but I wouldn't really want to dance with her anytime soon."

"Why not? She can't be that bad." I said to the two of them.

"She's literally knocked out every opponent within under ten seconds."

Oh.

Well, shit.

"Alright…" I said letting out a sigh, "Give me two minutes."

"Wha-?! Ciel?!" Said Ruby holding my arm to stop me from moving forward, "What are you doing?! She'll beat you up!"

"Well, someone's gotta settle her down. Better me."

"Are you sure that's a good idea?"

"Relax. Remember that bit about being a tough cookie?"

"Yeah…"

"Then give me two minutes and I'll give you a good idea of what I meant." I said patting her shoulder before taking a step or so forward.

"Is there no one else than can challenge me?!"

Now that I can see her, isn't she the dragon Faunus that helped take care of the Hydra? And I swear I saw her before initiation…

But she's definitely got he others scared. I mean really, these guys are literally frozen. Maybe there's some that aren't so chicken about facing her, but after 57 wins, I'm assuming they'd know they wouldn't be leaving without a few broken bones if they challenged her.

And again, doesn't seem like she's going to clam down, so...I guess I should do something about it.

"Yeah, I got a challenge for you right here!"

Everyone turned to look at me wide eyed and surprised, like I belonged in an asylum or something. With all the chattering I could hear, it sounded like the majority was unsure if I'd win, much less get a scratch on the dragons Faunus. But there were the few that had some faith in me.

Thank you those few.

Eventually, people cleared away enough to make a path between me and our...tan skinned, pale-blond haired dragon Faunus.

Her height was making me a bit jealous…

That, and...well...she's actually kinda hot…

No pun intended there.

When enough people moved aside, my bright sky blue eyes finally met her violet, slit pupil eyes. The pupils were a bit off-putting, but not by a lot. If anything, the beautiful shine in her violet colored irises more than made up for it.

W-What am I saying…

I noticed something a bit curious about her. She seemed...shifty when we locked eyes…

I mean, I was a bit shifty too for…other reasons.

"Y-You wish to challenge me..?" She asked breaking eye contact with me.

"Y-Yeah! That's right! So...um...prepare yourself! 'Cause I'm, uh, gonna get you! Yeah…"

Totally the voice of confidence there.

"T-Then draw..! Uh…"

"Ciel's my name. Best not forget it."

"Musashi… Musashi Ryūjinhonō is my name, little warrior…"

Did she just call me little..?

I saw her take a sigh to relax herself before she glared at me, ready to move.

"Alright, overly tall gecko…" I said raising my hand to her head as I instantly appeared before her, "I thought about knocking you out, but since I like you a bit, I'll let you off easy."

Not giving her the chance to react, I quickly brought my center finger and thumb together and flicked our dear dragon Faunus in the head. There was a decent amount of force behind the flick, given how when my finger made contact with her forehead, a faint and tiny shock wave occurred on impact, making her stagger back until she finally fell on her rear.

So, let's break down what I did.

One, I stopped time for a few moments and stepped up to her. Two, I raised my hand to her head. Three, I used a invisibly thin barrier of Aura to funnel the force from my flick into a focused point. Four, the force was strong and targeted enough to travel through her entire head and deliver a concussive shock to her system, disorienting her greatly.

Short of it? She's gonna have trouble standing for a few minutes.

All I did next was wave my index finger around in loops with a satisfied smirk, turned around, and made my way back towards Ruby and Nora, both of them staring at me in awe as I approached.

"So...about those pancakes…"


"I can't believe it! You just flicked her forehead and..! And..! Boom! Over!" Said Ruby mimicking my movements while holding her fork.

"That was totally crazy! Are you like super strong?!" Asked Nora finishing her tenth plate of pancakes.

"Heck yeah!" I said finishing finishing a slice, "With all the training I did, I'm strong enough as is. But a part of my power has more of a focus on strength."

"What do you mean?" Asked Ruby after finishing her cup of milk.

"Well, concerning my abilities, they have more of focus on strength and speed. My brother Leo is more focused on speed and precision. My big brother Dante, well, he's got a balance of strength, speed, and precision. Then again, he is the best of the best."

Am I hugely biased towards my big brother? Hell yes I am. Am I puffing up his skills like a blowfish? Yeah, but it isn't for show. He killed the freaking Hydra. That says enough about what he can do to everyone here.

Then again, they don't know he killed a mother freaking God. Well, technically an Angel with power like a God, but hey, still counts.

Still, they don't need to know those facts. Hopefully they never will.

"Who trained him? Your big brother?" Asked Ruby.

"Well… He's learned from a lot of people. It's why he's really well rounded when it comes to all types of combat. I reckon he could beat me with a scythe."

"He uses a Longsword, doesn't he?" Asked Ruby while Nora continued to devour the pile of pancakes at our table, "I can't remember all too well from the Hydra fight… I got hit pretty hard."

"Yeah, a Longsword is his go-to weapon. But he can use a lot of other things. Even firearms, but, he's not a big fan of them."

"Well…" started Nora before scarfing down a whole four pancakes, "You're all stabby shabby with your cool extendo scythe. What's your brother do when he has to hit something far away?"

"He can throw his sword at them."

That made Nora laugh.

"What? It's true! But he doesn't do that so often. He's got swords he can make from his Aura that hover and levitate, and shoot forward faster than any bullet!"

"Woah…" said the both of them in awe.

Yeah, woah.

"But that's not the best part." I waved my hand for them to bring them in close, and they did so, "His best technique is massive super high density Aura Wave attacks made from his Aura! They're so devastating he could level a while mountain if he put his all in it"

"Woah~!"

"Yeah!"

I'm supremely biased towards my big brother.

Bias aside, I heard people around us going silent as someone approached. Ruby and Nora looked as though Death had come for them.

When I turned around, I saw the same person I met minutes ago standing behind me. Holding pancakes. Instead of doing what I was slightly expecting her to do, she just sat down next to me, keeping her eyes trained on her plate of pancakes. Musashi took a flew glances back and forth between us, but said nothing, picking up her fork and knife and setting in on her meal.

I looked to Ruby and Nora, but they only looked back at me, unable to say anything. Though, what was there to say? I mean, we weren't going to say "Hey, go the hell away".

Maybe… Just maybe she…

"You cool off?" I asked keeping face as best as possible.

"Y-Yes…" she simply replied.

"Cool. Heh, get it? Cool? Cool off? Cause she's a dragon?"

I looked to Ruby and Nora, but they gave me only awakward chuckles. Musashi surprisingly chuckled at my joke.

"That was a good one, Little Ciel."

"L-Little?!"

"You are smaller than I am. Though...you may very well be stronger. I was disgraced with defeat at your hands so easily. So...I'd reckon I'd be allowed with a nickname that I've given you as comfort for my defeat."

Well...I did beat her with a flick to the forehead…

"F-Fine… I guess I'll let it go then… But none of you get to call me short! Got it?!" I said looking at my two new friends.

"Hey, I'm pretty short myself, so...no complaints here."

"Yeah, I mean, you aren't even that short anyway." Said Nora shrugging her shoulders before looking to Musashi, "Hey, you gonna eat those?"

"Yes, I will eat these." She said moving her plate away

"Nora, never steal a dragons food. Lest you want to be burned."

"Got it."

"Wise words spoken." Affirmed Musashi before she took another bite of her pancakes.

"Speaking of wise...did any of you finish Oobleck's essay assignment?"

"Ugh, Ruby! You just reminded me!" Said Nora very much depressed.

"Sorry…"

"The man speaks far too fast for me to understand at times…" added Musashi.

"I got it done." I spoke up, all three of their eyes on me, "I'll help you guys out after this if you want."

"You really mean it?!" Said Ruby nearly leaping out of her seat, holding my hands.

"Y-Yeah...I'll help you guys out…"

"We're saved!" Said Nora flopping on the table, crying tears of joy.

"It's of no consequence if you assist us?" Asked Musashi.

"Nah, my brother Leo's just going to try to mess with me the entire time if I go back. So I'm just going to go back and kick him out." I told them

"Where's he going to go if we kick him out?" Ruby asked me.

"Eh, the library maybe. Don't worry about the small details so much."

It was nice to do this. Hang out with people. Make new friends. I am friendly and everything, but I never really had friends before. Well, I did, but…

My first friend was basically Foxy. And I met her three months ago with my brother.

Here's to hoping I can keep these friends.


This week I did a focus on Ciel and making some new friends in the process. Part of the first act is expanding on relationships while introducing everyone involved for now. Next week you'll be getting a pretty interesting development in the making. Take your guesses as to what it might be.

Well, that's it for now, so with that...

I highly recommend you all go check out the freaking amazing collab Xera Stark and I are currently working on concerning his story XSRA's Flame. His story overall is absolutely fantastic and is a must read, so I suggest you read from the very start. I've said it once and will say it again, you won't want to miss out on this story.

Not only that, but check out his other awesome and highly entertaining story Rogue Huntsmen. It's just pure awesomeness bundled into one story. Trust me, you'll love it. And hey! Go check out HydraFLow's story Lost in Binary! It's equally as awesome and entertaining, definitely worth spending the time reading and enjoying.

Questions? Ask them anytime. I will try to answer without spoiling.

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Bye-bye now!