"Look daddy, they gave me an uniform!"
Jaune smiled as his daughter Tia happily spun in her brand new Beacon uniform. It had holes for her wings and tail, so she could move comfortable. Pyrrha bought her some casual clothes, and the little dragon-girl showed a preference for simple dresses. She refused shoes, and they decided her scaled feet were more than enough protection. And more importantly…
"Look, I'm even wearing panties!" She lifted her skirt revealing the blue and white stripped panties, forcing Jaune to cover his face.
"Tia! We already told you to not show your undergarments to others!" Pyrrha chastised the girl.
"But everyone saw them yesterday!"
"It was just us girls and we're family. No showing to boys, in public and especially to strangers." Pyrrha explained as she forced Tia to lay her skirt down. "Now, we need to go to Port's class."
"Is he weird like that other teacher?"
"No." Nora laughed at that and Pyrrha sighed. "Not in the same way."
Knocks on the door and Ren opened it. Glynda appeared and Tia smiled at her.
"Look auntie Glyn! Do I look good on my uniform? And I'm even wearing…" She was about to show her underwear but Pyrrha was able to avoid it. "But mommy, daddy is covering his face and there are only girls here!"
"I'm a boy." Ren stated and Tia laughed to his dismay.
"I'm here to give you this, Tia. It's your own scroll. You need to have it with you at all times, understood. I'll let your mother and father to explain how it works." Glynda gave the girl the device, greeted everyone and left.
"We'll… Tia! Don't eat it!" Pyrrha said as she pulled the scroll from the girl's mouth.
…
Port basically ignored the dragonet and started another one of his long, boring lectures, though somehow he fought what he believed to be a dragon when young. No one endured that class for long. Tia resisted for only five minutes and now was nested with her head on Jaune's lap. Jaune himself gave up after fifteen minutes. Even Nora was completely offline by twenty and in fact Ren used Port's voice in a record to make her sleep. And Weiss, the only one to still try to follow the lectures and the wild stories and off trailing the short mustachioed man was fan of, was sleeping with her head supported by Ruby's head.
"…and by the time reinforcement arrived, I already defeated a dozen Goliath with a salted mackerel!" The end of class bell rang, and everyone was glad it was loud enough to wake everyone up before Port could notice they were sleeping. "Oh, how sad my class is so short! I was going to reach the best part! Anyway, next class we will talk about Wyvern type Grimm. Read page 287 to 310 of the book, and I want a report about today's class as always. You're dismissed."
"I'm so glad we started recording this class." Blake said as she ended the recording on the scroll. They would what it fast forwarding from time to time to skip all the self-appraising the teacher was found of doing.
"So, what are our plans for this day?" Ren asked and they all stared at Jaune.
"Why are you all asking me?"
"Because you're our team leader, oh fearless one!" Nora started.
"Because we know whatever you chose, Pyrrha will choose, and then Tia, and we really want to spend time with Tia." Ruby added. Pyrrha blushed as that meant they all expected her to just follow Jaune around. Not that she would not do that, mind you.
"Because we are bored and don't want to think about it." Yang concluded and Jaune sighed.
"Well, I still have to see what costume my family sent to me. Hey, actually, how about we see what I got and then we all go to the city to buy everyone's costume?"
"Sounds like a plan." Blake agreed.
…
Jaune finished putting his costume, and was quite amazing. It was a beautiful scale mail jacket with golden trim and white scaled, with hardened leather covering its shoulders. The jacket covered his arms and extended to his knees. He also was wearing white leather boots and gloves, and a leather cape made in the form of a pair of dragon wings. On his head a complex leather helmet made to look like the head of a dragon.
"Daddy you look awesome!" Tia celebrated, as did Nora and Ruby. But even Weiss admitted he pulled that look well.
"Well, I might be a little ignorant here, but what exactly are you?" Yang questioned as she checked the gear.
"A dragoon." Jaune answered before removing the helmet.
"Don't you mean a dragon?" Yang asked back, and Jaune gave a small chuckle.
"No, no. A dragoon is a type of mounted knight. Some legends say they rode friendly dragons too, so it's quite fitting considering our current circunstances. So, what do you think, Pyr?" Jaune said as he spun for the redhead.
Don't jump on him, don't jump on him, don't jump on him.
"I think you look quite handsome, Jaune. But now I wonder what my costume should be." She finally answered, not jumping on him.
"I might have the perfect idea. So, how about we all go to the city and buy our costumes? I'm pretty sure our little girl here needs a costume too." Jaune said as he petted his daughter, she purred and hugged him.
He undressed of the dragoon armor and put his regular gear, and the group chatted happily in their way to the bullhead. Tia was now with her casual clothing, a long sleeved pink dress with frilly silver endings. As always she didn't wear any shoes. The group finally boarded the bullhead, and as they talked about their plans in the city.
They failed to notice the shady figure following them.
…
"I'm never flying inside those birds again…" Tia lamented as she finished vomiting on a trash can with her father on another. Apparently she did inherit some traits from her parents.
"Quite funny you have motion sickness when you can fly." Blake wondered as she held the girl's hair back. Pyrrha was helping Jaune with his own troubles.
"And I'm going back by myself!" She affirmed as she finished depositing her lunch on the bin.
"Here, sweetheart, a Dust crystal to take the bad taste away." Pyrrha gave her daughter a red crystal, and as Tia sucked on it happily, her horns becoming as red as the crystal.
"What do Dust taste? Every time I lick them they just taste like quartz." Nobody was surprised Nora knew the taste of quartz, or that she tasted Dust.
"Blue ones taste like the toothpaste daddy makes me brush my teeth with. This red ones tastes like strawberries." Tia explained, and Yang already told Ruby to NOT eat red Dust. It was surprising how the petit redhead would try new things without thinking.
"Anyway, we should hurry to the costume store. I want to find the perfect costume for the Festival." Weiss stated as she led the group.
"Wouldn't you have some private costume maker to tailor you a fancy one?" Blake wondered and Weiss nodded a little dejected.
"Usually, but… I don't want to be the center of attentions… Like Ruby like to say, this year I want to be a normal girl with normal knees…" Weiss was soon victim of Yang's bear hugs.
"You little precious ice queen!"
"LET GO OF ME YOU BARBARIAN!"
As they joked and played around they finally arrived at the biggest, best costume store in all Vale, Who The Heck Are You?. The store was filled from ground to roof with all kinds of costumes, and they all dispersed to find the perfect costume. The first pair to arrive with costumes was Ren and Nora, and they really found the perfect costumes, as Ren was dressed as Loki and Nora as Thor.
"I'm surprised you're not sloths." Jaune commented as he gave an appraising look on their costumes.
"The ones they have smell really funky." Ren commented, and was glad to not be on one of those.
"How about the hammer?" Jaune asked as he was the only one who didn't need a costume, so he just waited for his friends.
"I will provide the hammer. HAMMER TIME!" Nora sing sang and started dancing. After a while Yang came dressed as Leone and Blake as Akame from Akame Ga Kill.
"How do I look?" Yang said showing Jaune her cleavage. The boy fainted slightly. "See, I told you he would like." Blake just rolled her eyes.
"Daddy! Wake up and look at my costume!" Tia came after, and she was wearing a green fairy dress. Jaune was forced to wake up and smiled as the girl happily spun for him.
"You look like a fairy dragon princess, sweetheart." He commented, and she blushed and smiled. Weiss came after, and looked very disappointed without a costume.
"What's the problem, princess? The costumes are too cheap for your tastes?" Yang teased, and Weiss scoffed.
"No! I just couldn't find one I like…" She justified, and then she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around. "Ruby, I said… AAAAAHHHHH!" The heiress shrieked as Ruby appeared covered in a black garment and with her scythe on hand.
"I'm Death! Destroyer of worlds, reaper of souls!"
"Damn it Ruby! I almost had a heart attack!" Ruby giggled and smiled evilly.
"I bet I can scare everyone on the Festival!"
"Well, better they have a doctor ready then." Jaune replied, and Tia jumped in happiness and flew to the roof and got down with a doctor costume.
"Auntie Weiss, I think that would be great on you and would match auntie Ruby costume."
"In a black humor kind of way." Blake added, but the catgirl actually found the combination funny.
"Actually, I think that is a great idea. Thanks, dear." Weiss took the costume and got to try it.
"Now, all's left is Pyrrha. Have you seen her, Tia?" Jaune asked, but the dragon-girl was focused on something. It was yellow, long and furry. She armed the attack and lunged at the mysterious thing, biting it hard and making its owner yell loudly and run around with the dragon-girl attached to its tail.
"Sun?" Blake asked but the monkey boy kept yelling in pain as Tia tried to eat his tail.
"Tia Arc Nikos, let it go of Sun's tail now! You know you shouldn't eat things you find around. You don't know where that have being!" Tia did as Jaune ordered, while Sun wrapped his tail in bandages.
"I'll let you know I keep my tail clean and cared, thank you." Sun complained.
"What are you even doing here?" Weiss questioned.
"We asked permission to come to the Festival here. Back at our school is quite boring so we realized here we would have more fun. And I think we were quite right. So, who's the little cannibal?" Neptune asked as he approached and Tia showed her tongue towards him.
"Tia, those are Sun and Neptune, friends from another school. Sun, Neptune, this is mine and Pyrrha's daughter, Tia." The two boys stared at him, her, nodded and accepted the situation…
Nah, they started laughing their ass off.
…
"You know, I'm really impressed they put it in the form of law." Sun commented as he held the Great Book of Laws.
"I'm more impressed they have a copy of this book here. It's quite the big book." Neptune added.
"So, have you two decided what your costumes will be?" Yang asked.
"Not yet, I was thinking of going as Son Goku, but Neptune refuses to be Bulma." Sun explained.
"I told you I'm not going as a girl."
"Why not? I mean, Jaune here wore a dress at the dance and he rocked it."
"That's because my daddy is awesome!" Tia said proudly.
"I like your daughter. She's cool." Sun commented and the girl smiled at him. "Man, when she hit puberty you'll have so much trouble."
"She hits puberty, and I hit any vulture flying over her." Jaune put it simple. "Anyway, I'm going to find Pyrrha. Blake, do you mind looking at Tia?" The catgirl just extended her arms and Tia came towards her.
…
"Hey, Pyrrha."
The girl looked up and panicked a little because Jaune found her hidden behind some costumes, depressed because she didn't found any costume she thought it matched with his, and now she was worrying about what to do about it, and now her crush found her moping in the ground while hugging her knees.
But she was Pyrrha Nikos, four times Mistral champion, Goddess of Victory, Invincible Girl, Pumpkin's Pete mascot! She would not be caught in such defenseless position, so she did took action to get away from that situation.
She tried to get up and run, just to hit her head in one of the shelves and sit back, both hands on top of her head. Jaune chuckled and sat by her site, awfully close, making her blush madly.
"What's troubling you?"
"What? Trouble? Me? Nothing's troubling me, Jaune. I'm perfectly fine. You don't need to worry about anything because…" He shut her rant with a gentle finger on her lips.
"We have being partners for a long time now, and I know you don't usually go hiding beneath the kinky costumes section if everything is alright." Jaune explained, and Pyrrha finally noticed she was indeed in the sexy section, and there was even a 'Sexy Nikos' costume. She started contemplating seppuku. "Now, tell me."
"I just… couldn't find any costume that matches yours…" She admitted, and he smiled and pushed her into a hug. She couldn't be happier.
"Pyr, you know we have at least three weeks to find a costume, right?" Pyrrha buried her red face on his neck, because how could she have forgot they had time to buy it! "And all your friends are here, so all you need is to ask and we will help with your costume."
"I am sorry… It's just… I never really celebrated the Festival and I want everything to be perfect…"
"Pyr, with our group of friends, do you think we'll ever do something that won't end in chaos?" She agreed with a nod that was the case. "Now, I know the perfect costume for you, and I know how to make it, if you allow me to."
"Jaune, if it's you, you can do anything you want with me." I mean it, my adorkable knight.
"Let's not say that aloud ever again…"He chuckled and they helped each other up… and hit their heads in the shelves.
…
Pyrrha was now wearing a pair of furry boots, a red toga with golden strings wrapping it on her body and accentuating her curves, a feathery cape and hat and held a staff that ended in flowers. She was blushing a little as everyone cast their eyes upon her, then they all gave her a thumbs up.
"So, what am I dressing as?" She asked as she stared herself at a mirror.
"According to a legend involving dragoons, one hero had the help of the Witch of the Woods in defeating an evil army." Jaune explained, and Pyrrha smiled at him. "They even ended up marrying in the end."
"I'm mar… taking this." She answered and they all smiled. "Now, let's pay for all this and go back to Beacon… Where's Tia?"
"Oh, she's with Blake." Ruby informed, and Blake appeared on cue.
"Did Tia come back inside? She said she wanted to show something to her parents."
Silence.
A little more silence.
"TIA!"
And there's the panic.
…
Dr. Oobleck wasn't just an archeologist, paleontologist, historian and teacher. He was an accomplished Huntsman that many times was tasked to bring Grimm alive, together with his partner Prof. Port. So capturing a dragonet wasn't exactly a challenge. All he had to do was attract her with an impromptu barbecue in a dark alley, and put a bag around her.
He of course would ask for forgiveness later, but the progress of science couldn't be delayed, and he wouldn't let anything to stay between the progress of science and himself, even if it meant enraging a few of his students. Besides, he wasn't as heartless as that could make it seen. He wouldn't hurt the poor girl, just run some harmless tests. It would only take a few months.
…
"I swear to heavens if someone hurt our baby girl…" Yang said as they started searching for Tia.
"Don't worry Yang, I'll skewer the bastards. Then Nora will break their legs." Pyrrha said as she already prepared Miló.
"Nora Valkyrie! Leg breaker extraordinary!"
"I don't think we should worry so much. Do you know dragonets have incredible sharp claws that can cut through steel?" Weiss commented. Yet she prepared her rapier.
…
"Weird… The bag is so light. It's almost like I'm not carrying anything, but that's ridiculous! It's made of steel wire!" Oobleck stopped and checked the bag. It was now cut in several places. And Tia stood there in the alley, staring at him angrily. "Calm down, little one, I just want to do some experiments with you." The dragon-girl started fuming, quite literally. "Don't waste your energy, I'm wearing fireproof armor! It can withstand several hundred degrees! And not counting my Aura!"
Tia showed him her claws. Then she moved her hand to show their full length like a cat and with a swift movement she shredded the fireproof suit into tiny pieces. And since she recently ate a fire Dust crystal, Dr. Oobleck indeed acquired a knowledge of what is worst than dragon fire.
Double dragon fire.
…
"Do you think that was her?" Sun asked as a giant ball of fire was seen from between some buildings, then lots and lots of painful screams.
"That's our girl, alright." Yang answered, and soon Tia came flying towards them, landing on Pyrrha's arms.
"Sorry mommy, some weirdo tried put me on a bag, but I already got rid of him." She answered and Pyrrha hugged her daughter tight, soon joined by Jaune.
"I was so worried, but thankfully you're alright. Now, how about we go back to Beacon and have dinner?" Pyrrha suggested.
"Can I go flying by myself? I really don't want to ride that stupid metal bird…"
"If I could, I would fly like you, sweetheart. But I prefer to vomit with you by my side so I know you're safe." Jaune spoke and Tia nodded.
"He's really into this fatherhood thing. If I was a girl, I'd want him to be the father of my children." Sun commented.
"Jaune was always a caring individual." Ren added and Tia eyed the boys.
"But auntie Renny, aren't you and auntie Nora together?"
"We're not exactly together, together…" Nora answered with an awkward chuckle.
"Wait, auntie? I thought you were a boy?" Sun said in surprise.
"Psh, with those eyes, hair and skin?" Tia added, and everyone stared at Ren, now in doubt. He just sighed and wondered why his luck was going so bad.
…
"What happened to you? Why are you bald?" Glynda asked Dr. Oobleck as he finally arrived back at Beacon, now sporting a shiny bald head.
"Just decided to try a new look."
"Very well... Now, do you mind explaining to me why you required from the armory a sack made with steel wires, a fireproof suit and a reinforced Grimm cage?"
"Oh, hmmm… I was planning to test Grimm resistance against fire."
"I see…" Glynda grabbed Oobleck by his tie. "Now, I hope you are telling me the truth, Dr. Oobleck, because I don't want to discover my niece had an encounter with you. And that the EXPENSIVE equipment you took was returned in prime condition!"
Oobleck wondered what was worse: Glynda or double fire. He was going with Glynda.
…
"Oh, they put it already." Jaune commented ad they entered in JNPR's room. A red hammock was installed in the ceiling and Tia smiled and jumped on it, curling on a ball and giving a relaxed smile full of contentment.
"Oooh, that's almost as cool as bunker beds!" Ruby commented as she stared up.
"Yeah, I want one of those now. Anyway, we better get going to the guest wing. We'll see you all at dinner." Sun started. "Bye, Tia. It was cool to meet you, but next time, no biting!"
"Bye Uncle Sun. It was nice to meet you and your boyfriend." Tia answered from her hammock.
"We aren't dating." Neptune corrected.
"Pffft, yeah yeah, next you'll tell me Auntie Nora and Auntie Renny aren't together-together, or that Auntie Weiss and Auntie Ruby ain't a couple." Tia spoke as she rolled her hair, creating utter amusement for some, and utter embarrassment to others.
"Are we a couple, Weiss?" Ruby wondered innocently, receiving a shocked stared from Weiss.
"Why would you even consider that?" The heiress answered trying to not yell in anger.
"We aren't… together… together…" Nora said a little bit too sadly.
"You adults are so confusing." Tia concluded.
"Anyway, see you all later." Neptune said and took Sun with him.
"I must say, it is quite a professional installation you did here, Arc. Way better than our 'bunker' beds." Weiss stated as she looked at the hammock from where Tia swung slightly.
"Oh, I didn't do it. You can require the Beacon administration for special items in case you have a justifiable need for them. So we requested the hammock and they installed it." Jaune explained.
"And that includes the mini-fridge?" Yang asked as she saw the appliance between the two pair of beds.
"Yeah. And the electric kettle too. Ren is having some night terrors so he needed some tea to relax." Pyrrha explained. Ren was having nightmares about a sugar high Nora and needed the tea to relax. The mini-fridge was because they all liked a midnight snack. "You can get quite a nice range of appliances and furniture there, including nightstands, lockers, special beds and chairs…"
"Bunker beds?" Weiss questioned.
"Yeah, but he are good like this." Nora said as she jumped on her bed tossing bacon bits to Tia and the girl used her tongue to get them.
"Oh. So, we didn't need to create improvised death traps, we could just fill a form?" Weiss said in a calm, icy, deadly tone. No one else from team RWBY could be seen in the room. "Excuse me while I murder my teammates a little bit." With that she left the room and entered hers, and they could hear a lot of yelling and things breaking.
"Oh well." Jaune wondered and as he turned Pyrrha gave him a soft, loving hug. "Uh… What I did to deserve this?"
"Besides being a great partner and helping me with so many things, and making my time at Beacon one of the best times of my life? Nothing." She said, and Jaune blushed at it, but returned the hug.
"Seems very little considering how much you did for me, Pyr." Jaune answered and he gave her a smile. She blushed a little and was about to finally say it…
"HELP ME!" Ruby stormed the room and hide behind them, as Weiss came with unfocused eyes and maniacal laughing.
"Bunker beds…" She said in a scary voice as she armed her rapier. Ren slowly opened the window…
"Team JNPR… RUN!" Jaune ordered as everyone including Tia jumped the window.