Red Roses, White Scales
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
Chapter 11
What a day
Beacon Academy, Room of Team RWBY
A week passed since, Mikhail's fight with Pyrrha and somehow, everybody in Team RWBY had already a daily routine.
"So guys, what's the plan for today?" Yang asked after everyone was finished, changing into their uniforms.
"Dunno, what is our fearless leader planning?" Ruby asked her brother, who was sitting on their bed.
It was announced, by Professor Ozpin, that today's classes will end at 12 o'clock. The reason was, that every team should use the rest of the day, to 'bond' and started to know each other.
"Mmmh," Mikhail tapped his chin, while his tail appeared and waggled "How about going to Vale for lunch first?"
"Yay lunch!" Ruby bounced up "I want…."
"No sweets!" Her brother rebuked, while he bopped her nose with his tail tip.
Meanwhile Weiss quirked an eyebrow "It is amazing how you can move that thing so easily, despite being a human."
Her leader shrugged "Hey my tail is really handy, I mean I can fight with it and use it for multi-tasking, like cooking, cleaning and maybe some tricks….."
"Well I can't say that you aren't a pseudo-faunus….still…."
Blake rolled her eyes "Weiss how many times does he need to say, he is a human," She looked back at his tail "Who comes to have the physiology similar of a Faunus. Or will you even have prejudice against him?"
"Of course not!" She denied "It is just he is like a faunus….."
"You really hate faunus do you?"
Weiss glared at her team mate "I don't hate them. I just don't particularly trust them."
"Even though our leader is a pseudo? Typical….."
"What does this mean!?" Weiss stood up and looked with stern at Blake.
"Enough!" Mikhail intervened "This is really not the time for child-play, both of you stop now." And glared, with seriousness in his eyes, at them.
"I, *sigh* understand." Blake replied in a calm manner and sat back.
"Humpf!" Weiss huffed, sat down and pointed her nose up.
Ruby sat beside her twin and whispered "Good work."
Her brother smiled and pat her head, which she enjoyed by leaning it more towards him.
And finally Yang was finished and came out of the bathroom "So finished." She sat down left to Mikhail "So what are we doing on our bonding day?" She noticed his tail and snatched it. Then she laid it on her lap and started to stroke it gently.
"We are going to Vale for lunch first. Then we look what the day gives us."
"I'm okay with it!" She nodded and looked at the tail on her lap "Man little bro, I must say, you have one muscular thing. It is so long, strong and thick.
Weiss choked on air while Blake broke out of her reading bubble at look at Yang with raised brows.
"You….you are a filthy-mouthed impeccable!" Weiss, flushed, ranted her blonde teammate which grinned, because of the reaction of her.
"Hey Weiss, Yang is right I mean how strong Mikhail's tail is." Ruby touched the mid-section of the tail.
"Buh!" Mikhail tried not too hard to laugh at his sister's innocence. Sometimes it is painful and yet cute to see how artlessness she was.
"And it's true I mean look how thick and strong that it….." She turned around and looked at her brother "Kinda big as your junk."
Now even Blake blushed a little bit while hearing that.
"You…I just can't take it anymore!" Weiss stood up and walked out of the room.
"Wait Weiss" Ruby followed her second BFF after Mikhail, while he shook his head.
"Really sis, jokes about your own brother's penis?"
Yang shrugged and stood up "Come on let's go."
"Yeah, yeah…" He let his tail dissolve and Blake jumped down from her bed.
Before both of them exited the room, Mikhail called her out "Blake?"
"Yes?"
"About yesterday…."
Her eyes went wide and her cheeks turned slightly red. After they came back, Yang asked both of them what they were doing. After 15 minutes of calming her down, they could finally sleep, but wrong, because Weiss wanted to know, why Mikhail had an early copy of Black Song, White Scales.
Mikhail, who was in reality, Michael Peyt, answered her, the same way, he did with Blake. Needless to say, that heiress was furious. Weiss always asked for an early copy, even her sister, who also came to love his books, tried to reason with them; even Schnee Dust Company couldn't get an early copy from him.
She wanted to ask, who is friend was, but Mikhail didn't told her….well he was the author so he could make the decisions.
Also he didn't want to let anyone known, that he wrote Ninjas of Love only because he thought that Ninjas were awesome and cool. His love for them appeared, when he was in the eastern lands of his home world.
"Are you alright?"
She smiled "Don't worry. I am okay, but still thanks for asking.
"Okay. Let's go." He turned around and didn't notice that Blake took a short glance at his rear.
'Snap out of it, Blake…..' She shook her head and followed Mikhail.
XXX
City of Vale, Restaurant
"So hungry~!" Ruby groaned as she and the others finally went in a restaurant. It was her and her family's favorite. The deserts here are for her the best, especially the strawberry cake. Naturally she and Mikhail sat together. Ruby right to him, and Yang left to him.
The waitress came in and gave the menu cards.
"So what are we gonna do, after eating?" Yang asked while stretching her arms up, and causing her boobs to jiggle. Weiss, who noticed that, twitched and put her head in the card.
"I know! Let's go to the weapon shops, I need some ammo for my sweetheart!"
Blake and Weiss looked with raised brow at Yang and Mikhail.
"Ruby is into weapons."
"Hey, I am not into weapons….there are just more interesting than people…."
Mikhail smiled at his sister's antics "Come on don't quarrel, you girls can have what you what. I pay for you."
"Really!?" Both sisters looked at him with glinting eyes "Yay!" Both of them hugged their brother and immediately looked what they would order.
He glanced back at the heiress and Faunus "Come on you two, order how much you like."
"This is….."
"Ah look at this," He pointed at the fish menu "They have tuna and makrel!" Mikhail knew, that if there is tuna, Blake would accept the fact that he paid.
Which worked, she immediately looked at the fish foods and Mikhail looked at Weiss, who sighed and yet smiled because of the offer.
"It isn't necessary. I can pay for myself."
"Weiss," He waggled his finger "I insist to pay for you all. I am the leader, at least let me pay as a celebration for having an awesome team."
"I..."
"Come on Weiss."
She sighed "Fine, have it your way." Yet she was somehow happy, happy to know, that she wasn't being used as cash cow.
"Thank you, so choose something."
"Already did; this here." She pointed at a salad and Mikhail nodded.
"I want this Mikhail!"
He looked at it "Ruby first normal food than a dessert."
She pouted and continued to look at it "Then a….hm….Chicken Nuggets."
"Okay!"
"I want this!" Yang shoved her card before his face while pointing at her chosen food, a XXL BBQ-hamburger.
"Okay, Blake?"
"Tuna…" She said instantly, almost demanding "Tuna steaks."
"Good," He looked at the waitress, who walked to them.
"You want to order?"
"Yes, we like to have chicken nuggets the big portion, a Vale-special salad, tuna steak and a XXL-BBQ-burger," He rubbed his hands "For me four salami-pizzas, five turkey-sandwiches and seven hot-dogs."
Weiss and Blake looked bewildered at their leader. They saw his sisters munching down a lot. How Yang could hold her figure with so much fat, and Ruby her slender figure with so much sugar, was a mystery….they blamed it again on their teammate's genes.
She tapped everything on her scroll "And drinks?"
Mikhail already knew what his sisters wants "Three strawberry sodas," He looked at Weiss and Blake.
"Coffee with cream and one sugar." Weiss answered.
"Black tea for me, please." Blake nodded.
"Make it two black teas."
The waitress nodded "Good, thank you very much." She walked away.
XXX
After some time, their food came. And everybody started to eat.
"Mikhail, do you really intend to eat so much?"
"Sure, Weiss, my Semblance accelerates my metabolism, so I need to eat more…doctor's order."
"Hmph," Yang pouted "Lucky. You can eat everything you want and don't get fat." She hammered her foot on his shin.
"Ouch! Hey! At least I am not picky with food." He looked at Ruby too, who glared.
"I don't like broccoli!" She threw her fist in the air.
The heiress rolled her eyes "Come on let's eat."
The three siblings nodded, while Blake was already in paradise eating her food.
Before Mikhail started to eat, he looked at his team…..
"Hey could you at least have some manners and eat in a not-so-cavemen-way!?"
"Kewp twalking Icqe Qween!" Yang replied with full mouth.
"No manners!" She shook her head and began to put dressing on her salad.
While Ruby looked with wide eyes "Blake you eat that tuna really fast."
She shrugged and continued to eat her meal
Meanwhile their leader chuckled and looked with melancholia out of the window, at the blue sky 'After living for all these millennia…..After losing all that I loved and believed in…..All that remained inside me was loneliness…I thought that could never love someone and something again…..But now that I have a family, a team, comrades and friends….Maybe….maybe I am finally free…From the eternal cycle….that bound me to the world for all time….'
"Mikhail?" The pseudo-faunus shook his head and was broken from his thoughts, when Yang called out to him, her face full of worry "Are you alright?"
"Y-yes, sorry I was just deep in thoughts….hey who stole my pizza!?"
While Mikhail fumed in rage for this stolen food…Yang was out of her thought….'Again he had this look on his face…..'
XXX
"Ahhh!" Yang groaned, while she finished her third burger and was finally full; the others as well.
"So guys," Ruby eat the last bit of her cake "Wanna go to the weapon shop?"
"Sure," Blake shrugged "I need some ammo, too."
"I need dust for my Myrtenaster." Weiss added.
"Okay," Mikhail raised his fist "Let's go….but first," He took a handkerchief and wiped Ruby's mouth, which was full of cream.
Blake found it somehow amusing and yet adorable, how Mikhail spoiled his sisters. He was really like super-bro. She found it somehow awkward, that he even made their laundries. Normally a boy in his age, would be reluctant to wash the underwear of his sisters; the same for sisters. But she heard, how Mikhail took care of everything, after their mother's death….Blake was somehow jealous at those siblings.
"To the weapon shop!" He threw it on the empty plate and then paid for the food.
XXX
"Yay!" Ruby bounced like a bunny, when she and her team entered the weapon shop. Not even after second, she zipped with the help of her Semblance, from one thing to another "Oh my gosh, the new Vacou Revolver-Whip came out…oh oh and there is the RW-7 Atlas Dust-Rifle!"
Weiss and Blake looked at her siblings, who had various reactions. Yang put her fists on her hips and sighed, while Mikhail just smiled.
"Your …." Blake started….
"I know and say it again, my twin is a weapon maniac…..unfortunately it doesn't really help her with her people skills."
"Mike and I tried like ever, to solve that problem…." She looked back at Ruby, who gushed over a grenade-launcher mace…"And it doesn't seem, that it will be solved in next time."
Both siblings sighed.
"Well," Weiss walked past them "I need to buy dust."
Blake parted, too "I need some ammo."
Now Yang and Mikhail were now alone "So sis."
"Mmh?"
"Wanna tease Ruby?"
Yang gave her brother a proud smile'Best. Brother. Ever.'
XXX
"You guys are so mean to me!" Ruby yelled out, when she was walking before her team. She was angry and embarrassed, because of her siblings' teasing.
"Come on Rubes, don't be so thorny!" Yang made a pun and looked at her teammates.
"Really?" Weiss rolled her eyes, while putting her forefinger on her forehead.
Blake sighed and Mikhail….he downright ignored his sister, while just looking up, admiring the blue sky of Vale.
"You guys are so mean!" Yang ran forwards towards Ruby and hugged her "Rubes they are so mean to me!"
"Get off me!" While the hooded girl tried desperately to shake off her busty sister.
"Your sisters are downright weird." Weiss stated something obvious, in her opinion, as she walked besides her leader."
"Yeah, but that is how my family is, and I love them, no matter how awkward they are." He put his hands behind his head and smiled "They are my nutjobs…"
'Aren't you weird, too?' The heiress thought to herself, since Mikhail was really close to his sister and had his own quirks, but even though he teased her, Mikhail was still nice and caring to her. True, she did last time, something really stupid. But he wasn't really angry. Something she wasn't used, thanks to her father…..
"Well, I am strange, too. But no one is downright perfect."
Weiss twitched, could Mikhail actually red her mind 'Well, I am actually kind of jealous…..' Weiss really loved her sister, but somehow, she felt really distant to her at the same time. It also didn't help, that Winter took a stricter military attitude, after joining Atlas Military.
"Well, at least you are honest." Blake walked to his right and continued to observe Yang's and Ruby's fight.
"Whatever, wanna go there?" He stopped and pointed out at a bookstore, called Tukson's Book Trade.
Blake's eyes widened. She knew who Tukson was, a former member of the White Fang. But unlike her, he left them, shortly after their change. Tukson was, despite being his appearance, a rather peaceful Faunus.
"What is the matter Blake?" Weiss tilted her head, with crossed arms.
"Nothing…It is just my favorite book store." She tried to smile, which was really hard for her sometimes. She wasn't really someone who shows much emotion.
"Cool! Mine, too!" Mikhail beamed, hearing her statement.
XXX
Mikhail and Blake entered the bookstore, since Weiss was looking for new clothes and Yang the same. Also Yang said, even though she read books, she wasn't that nerdy.
Ruby simply wanted to look for new weapons and was window shopping.
"Never thought, I would see you and your twin separated." Blake asked with her usual calm tone, and yet with amusement in it.
Her leader rolled his eyes "I love my sister, and she is my best friend; we are almost always together, but that doesn't mean we stop breathing when we are parted….also she should work on being alone. You know….."
Of course she knew. Ruby was not someone, who is really sociable. Blake knew, that she was actually a kind-hearted, adorable and yet dorky girl. It is hard, not to hate her, but also not to ignore her. But what does she knew….Blake was also not the most social being.
It was also hard to understand, that Mikhail was her twin. He is, on the contrary, sociable, easy to talk and somehow he had a charisma, which made people actually like him….maybe a little bit naive. He was also like Ruby kind and playful. But for someone in his age, Mikhail was also wise and strong. She admit, after observing him and Pyrrha fighting, that she wouldn't stand long against, him or her, especially after seeing him activating his full Semblance.
Their fight, strained both so much that they even needed to go to the nursery room because of exhaustion and some broken bones. When both of them woke up she and the others visited them. Needless to say, the surprise was big, when other people were in that room visiting him, too.
It was amusing to see, that Pyrrha and Mikhail had already fan clubs. Even more, when, admirers from both genders were presents. Th best was, to see Yang scaring the girls and boys.
Blake immediately blushed, when the thought of Mikhail and other boys appeared in her mind, leaving some rather…..intruding pictures in her head.
'Well not that I wouldn't understand them, Mikhail is a really nice person, he is strong, kind, helpful, handsome. He would be a good dating material and he is for the Faunus rights…..Wait!' Since when popped such thoughts out? Her blush hardened and she tried to shake off those…..
"Come on Blake!" She was brought out of her mind, when Mikhail was between in the shelves, looking for new readings.
Blake sighed and walked towards counter, when a male person came from through the counter door
"Welcome to Tukson's Book Trade, Home to every book under the sun." Tukson is a tall man who wore a short-sleeved beige shirt with black accents and a zipper on it, pulled down to a point below his collarbone.
Beneath this, he wore a white undershirt. His hair was cleanly cut, and he had noticeable sideburns, along with hairy, muscular arms.
"Hello Tukson." Blake smiled, at the sight of her long friend, who reacted rather happier.
"Blake my little kitten!" He threw his arms up and went out of from the counter. When Tukson was close to her, he put his hand on her shoulder and smiled "How are doing?"
"Fine." She shrugged "You?"
"Well, pretty good. I have my books and make some money with it, like ever."
Blake's face became softer and she sighed in a good way.
"So why are you here? Unfortunately, I still don't have Ninjas….." He was interrupted, when she held her hands before her, to interrupt him "Okay….But at least, I have the other books you wanted."
She nodded in satisfaction.
"By the way," He looked around "I heard a male voice, too." He nudged her with his elbow "Did you finally found someone real, instead of your books?"
Her smiled faded and became a scowl, while her cheeks turned slightly red "Funny, really funny…."
"Don't be…."
Then Mikhail emerged from the books and shelves "Blake I found something….oh hey Tukson." He greeted the male Faunus and walked towards the two felines.
"Mike?" Tukson raised a brow and looked between him and Blake, he chuckled "Well, I'll be a Monkey-Faunus' uncle. It seems that opposites really attract themselves."
"Wait, what?" Both of them twitched, and blushed.
"Wow, already in synch?" He chuckled again.
"No!" Both of them cried out, and glanced at each other "We are…." After shouting again in synch, they looked away in embarrassment.
"Aha….So Mike, does your family finally allow you, having a girlfriend?"
Mikhail, while being flustered, slapped his palm on his face…..
XXX
"So Blake," Tukson leaned forward on the counter, while Blake looked at one of her new books "Never thought of you as girl who likes younger man," She twitched and hid her face with the reading "More of someone who likes the older ones."
*Baam* She closed her book and hammered it on the table, glaring really, really hard at Tuskon.
"Okay, okay…sorry…so he knows that you are a Faunus?"
She nodded.
"And that you were….."
Blake shook her head and reached for another book.
"Good….I understand….but I hope you know what you are doing Blake."
"I know Tukson….." Both of them at glanced Mikhail, who was still going through another book and then faced each other "But I think," She glanced back at Mikhail, who had a book in his hand and waved with a big smile to her "I think….can trust him with that matter…." She smiled lightly and put the other books in the bag."
"Well," He leaned back and stood again "I only hope that you can be happy."
Blake nodded, Mikhail walked towards….of course, he could easily hear what they are saying, but that would be downright wrong. He isn't like Yang and Ruby, who try to find everything out and let their curiosity take over.
"I want this one, Tukson." He gave it to the faunus and glanced at Blake's ones "Wow, that are many books…."
She blushed slightly and took the bag "At least I have something for the next week to amuse myself, but I really wish to see Ninjas of Love again…" She put the money on the table "Goodbye Tukson." And turned around.
"I will there be in another minute."
Blake nodded and exited the store, leaving the other Faunus and Pseudo-Faunus alone.
Mikhail turned around and saw that Tukson looked with amusement at him "What?"
"It is just, didn't you say, that you like women with white hair and bossy character…..I mean you even have a crush on Winter Schnee, which I don't ever understand…."
Mikhail almost choked on air and flushed furiously "I had a crush on Winter…but….." He saw Tukson's grin and scowled "You are a jackass…." He threw the liens on the counter.
He shrugged and wanted to put the book in the bag, but before Mikhail could take it, the Faunus jerked it back, causing Mikhail to raise a brow.
"Mikhail…." He sighed "Blake is someone, I knew for a long time, I saw her literally grew up," Tukson threw it towards Mikhail, who caught "Please, look after her…."
He nodded "I promise with my life….by the way.
"Yeah?"
"I heard from my contacts and Uncle, that Adam Taurus is here in Vale, so be careful."
Tukson's eyes widened "Got it…thanks…By the way?" Mikhail turned around "Please write Ninja of Love 2 for her and…..me…."
He chuckled "Sure. You both are the first ones to have a copy." But still blushing, for writing such a book, and blaming himself for his past youth….
XXX
"So…we were just gone for just an hour, and what happened to you?" Mikhail tilted his head, seeing his twin literally drowning in bags full of clothes."
"Well, a sexy girl needs some sexy clothes." Yang shrugged with her shoulders while smirking.
"Sure," Weiss rolled her eyes, slightly irritated because Yang made fun of her, when they were buying underwear. It seems that Yang's chest grew bigger, much to Weiss' disdain.
"So much…clothes…." Ruby stood up and used her Semblance and rushed towards her brother "Mikhail, never let me alone, with….with those girls!" She wined and sobbed, while leaning her head on his chest.
Blake and Mikhail exchanged glances and smiled.
"There, there!" He patted the head of his sister, who still sobbed.
~BA-Dump
"Hgh!" Suddenly Mikhail had that feeling again; in pain he clutched his chest.
"Mikhail?" Ruby who parted her head from his chest, felt his Aura activating and shrieked in terror, when his silver eye began to bleed "Yang!"
Blake reacted fast as possible, and helped his twin to support their leader. In the last days, Mikhail had some of cases of dizziness, but this time it was much worse.
The blonde and the heiress stopped quarreling.
"Mike!" She let her bags fall and ran to her brother. "Mikhail what is wrong, answer."
"My chest….my mouth it hurts…." Mikhail became unconscious; he could only hear the desperate cries of his sisters and teammates...and then everything went dark.
Here is another chapter!
By the way, before you ask, the world of Drakengard is Earth, Midgard was, before the Holy Roman Empire was destroyed by the Dragons, Europe. That means that there are the other lands, as Japan etc.
It's written in the Drakengard timeline, no kidding really. Somehow the dragons turned everything upside down and started to burn and destroy everything.
In Mikhail's journeys, he even said, that he was on a continent with strange animals, like horses with long necks and big cats with manes. He even tamed them and played and lived with them for years.
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