Tia woke up the next morning and stretched, before staring down at the beds bellow. She saw her parents sleeping in their beds, and decided that was not the right way to do that. So she silently glided down and moved Jaune's duvet to open space. Then she moved to Pyrrha and removed her duvet carefully. Now all she needed was a way to move her mother to her father's bed.
"Hmm…. How I do this?" She whispered to herself with her hand under her chin in a thinking pose.
"Maybe I can hold her top and you her bottom and we move her to his side?" Tia moved to see Nora standing by her side striking the same pose.
"Auntie Nora, you're a genius!"
"I know!"
With that the two girls quickly moved Pyrrha into Jaune's bed, slowly and carefully to not wake neither, and both girls were happy that the champion had a heavy sleep. As soon as the redhead found herself by the side of her crush, she cuddled him, and he answered by groaning a little and cuddling her back. Tia use her tail to put the duvet back, and high-fived Nora. With that Tia decided it was time to use the bathroom (one of the most awkward moments for her and Pyrrha was learning how to use it).
Nora decided it was time to wake Ren up in her unique and gentle way.
She jumped on the bed tossing him of it.
"Morning, Ren!" She said with a toothy smile.
"Good morning, Nora. Just the two of us up?" Ren answered, so used to it by now that all he could do was go with the tide.
"Tia's in the bathroom, and look!" She pointed to Jaune and Pyrrha.
"I'm assume this is you and our niece's work."
"Yep. Did we do good?"
"Those two definitely can use some help." Ren consented as he too was tired of his friends wasting time when it was so clear they should be together, together.
"KYA!"
The scream prompted Jaune and Pyrrha to wake and they first stared at each other. They were together in bed, in each other arms. It was worse for Pyrrha as she was pressing her chest on him and had a leg over him. Worse, she was so shocked to find herself like that she just hugged him tighter, now her lips just so close to his they felt each other breaths. They were almost kissing when Tia came and jumped in their bed forcing the duo to sit.
"Mommy! Daddy! I'm peeling!" She yelled as she gave them a small piece of an unidentified material. It felt like a type of plastic at first, with some pattern on it. "I was washing my hands and it comes off!" She showed her arm, and they could see an area where the scales were shinier.
"Nora, get Weiss here ASAP!" Jaune ordered, and the girl saluted, opened the door, kicked team RWBY's door down and brought a kicking and screaming heiress with her, still in her pajamas.
"Let go of me you hooligan!" The heiress yelled.
"Our great leader summoned your presence! Tia's sick so you better help!"
"Tia is sick? Why are we wasting time!" As soon as Nora put her down Weiss rushed to Tia's side and examined her arm and the skin she gave Jaune. Team RWBY entered the room soon after.
"Auntie Weiss, why am I peeling? Am I sick?!" Tia said with tears in her eyes, Jaune and Pyrrha comforting their daughter.
"No, dear. You aren't sick. You are just shedding." Weiss explained softly.
"I see no small wooden tool house around..." Ruby said scratching her head.
"She is not building a shed, you dolt, she is shedding! Reptiles have to shed their skins off so they can grow. According to the books dragons do it too, and their first shedding happens close after they hatch. She will just lose some old skin and have a growth burst." Weiss explained, and they all sighed relieved. "It might itch a little, so I'll give you some lotion, dear."
"Thanks, Weiss." Jaune and Pyrrha said at the same time, and Tia hugged the heiress.
"So, do we know what this growth burst you be like? I mean, will she just get a few centimeters or will she become as big as a house?" Blake asked a more practical question.
…
They all decided to deal with each later. Yet they also decided to keep Tia outdoors, just in case she would change from adorable little girl to towering machine of destruction. Yet they still had to help with the Festival, so they couldn't keep her entertained. That created a problem for the eight teenagers.
"Why can't you divide my job while I entertain her?" Yang complained.
"Because I'm the most qualified for taking care of our princess." Weiss answered back.
"Jaune and I are her parents!" Pyrrha answered hoping to change that in a family outing.
"You know, you got into the role quite fast, didn't you?" Blake teased, and Pyrrha blushed a little. "We can always call Sun and Neptune to look at her."
"Two guys walking around with a little girl… Yeah, not suspicious at all." Yang answered her partner, and she had to concede they would get way more unwanted attention than what they would like.
"Ms. Goodwitch need to supervise everyone, as all the staff, even Doc. Coco and Velvet are away in a mission…" Jaune numbered.
"I can see if my friend Penny is free!" Tia suggested and called the android on her scroll. "Aww, her scroll is out of reach."
"Maybe I can help." They turned around to see the mint-haired transfer student approaching them. "I used to babysit before going to the Hunter school. Emerald Sustrai, nice too meet you all, though he met before."
"Oh yeah, you're with your boyfriend, that Mercury guy." Ruby said, making her laugh.
"Mercury is not my boyfriend. He's so far from my type I wonder how we are even friends. Anyway, for thirty lien I'll keep an eye on the girl. I promise to not take her anywhere dangerous."
"Well, we do need someone to look at Tia… And you're a Huntress in training too..." Pyrrha wondered, knowing that being a Hunter didn't mean being a nice person, considering Cardin and all.
"If that make you all feel safer, you just need to activate the GPS tracker on her scroll. We share contacts and all is good." Emerald explained, and the group made a circle to discuss it, sometimes a head popping up to stare at the girl. After a few moments of deliberation they came to an agreement about the issue.
"Very well, here twenty, the rest when she come back. Call us if any trouble happens. She has a big appetite, but don't let she eat random animals around. She's also shedding skin, so don't get scared." Pyrrha said as they exchanged information while Jaune and Ren activated the GPS tracker on Tia's scroll. "Don't let Dr. Oobleck near her. He's a bit too eager to learn about her. She likes Dust crystal, but don't let her eat too much or she goes in a sugar high."
"Understood. You really acts like her mother. She is luck." Emerald commented and Pyrrha blushed a little. "Anyway, hey little one, ready to go?" Tia shyly hid behind Jaune, one eye locked on Emerald. "Don't be afraid, I promise I won't hurt you."
"Daddy, she's soooo pretty!" Tia commented, and Emerald blushed a little. She wasn't used to have people call her pretty.
"Come on, you're surrounded of pretty girls." The red-eyed girl answered with a smile. Tia finally came forward.
"You're as pretty as my aunties, even auntie Renny!" Ren face-palmed, while Weiss scoffed as she was sure she was prettier than any of them, especially a boy. Emerald felt incredible pleased hearing her words, as it was not always that someone would honestly say to her she was beautiful. "Are you really going to play with me?"
"Yes, Tia." The dragonet blushed a little but smiled, and that made Emerald smile honestly this time.
…
"Are we 100% sure this is a good idea?" Mercury asked as he and Cinder watched from a secluded stall Emerald tricking the Beacon students to let her take Tia.
"Emerald knows how to deal with subtlety. Besides, for now I want information about that girl. If she is a danger to my plans, I will get rid of her now while she is a child. But if we can utilize her, if the legendary powers of dragons really exist in that girl, then we will capture her."
"I'd just capture her now, try to get her on our side or kill her. Less work."
"And that's why I'm the one giving orders and you the one obeying. There's too many eyes on her right now." Cinder concluded as her eyes flickered brightly.
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"So, all we need to do is follow the aberration that Jauney boy adopted and we get extra credits?" Cardin asked as Oobleck gave him a long range camera.
"Language, Mr. Winchester. That dragonet is a unique specimen that need to be properly documented. I'd do it myself, but certain circumstances are making it impossible for me to." The fact was Glynda put a tracker on him and would fire him if he got closer than a hundred meters from Tia.
"You got a deal. We'll make sure to register every move they do." Cardin said and left with his team. Oobleck sighed, being forced to compromise his morals for Science. He just hoped History would forgive him.
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Emerald felt happiness.
It was an odd and rare feeling for her. But watching Tia eating her weight in meat while talking certainly felt great. The small girl wasn't shying away to tell all Emerald wanted to know, making her whole job easier. Of course sometimes the dragonet would blab about unnecessary knowledge, and Emerald now knew Nora liked to walk around naked the room, prompting lots of yelling. But the thief certainly had worst missions before. In fact, this one was right in the top spot as the best mission ever.
"Damn, another one..." Tia complained as she removed another piece of old skin from her tail.
"So, you will become a huge dragon like in the books or just a dragon-girl adult size?"
"Auntie Nora says she wants me to be a big dragon cause she wants to fly on me, but daddy said something about 'no one is riding my daughter'." Emerald burst laughing. It was clear the knight was also an overprotective father. "Mommy says she wants me to be a child for as long as possible. But I want to be big girl like you so I can go wherever I want. But not too big to not scare people, and also so I can live with mommy and daddy forever."
"I thought Jaune and Pyrrha weren't dating..." Emerald wondered, and while it was clear as day something was happening between those two, it was also clear they weren't dating yet.
"What dating mean?"
"Dating means when two people really like each other and want to spend time together." Emerald explained. Tia got pensive for a moment.
"So like auntie Renny and Auntie Nora."
"Isn't Ren a boy?"
"Why everyone says that? You all confuse the poor girl! Anyway… Are… are you dating someone, Emerald?" Tia asked shyly, staring at her plate. The older girl suppressed a giggle, apparently the little dragonet was developing a puppy crush on her.
"No, I'm not together with anyone."
"Great! I mean, not that you aren't pretty! I'm pretty sure lots of people would like to date you!" Tia then started devouring her food, making Emerald laughs a little. It was simple too cute.
…
"So, your father need to marry by the Festival?" Emerald asked as the two girls walked around Beacon, oblivious to team CRDL following them and taking pictures.
"Yeah, or else I'll become a big bad dragon. Daddy and Auntie Glyn will marry if he doesn't ask my mommy to. I don't know why they don't just marry each other already."
"Adults tend to make even the most simple things unneeded complicated." The mint-haired girl said in support.
"You tell me. I hope I can convince him to get together with mommy by them. Auntie Nora and I are already setting plans in motion. I think auntie Ruby is into it too, but he tends to mess up."
…
"Ruby, how exactly you did this?" Jaune asked as he and Pyrrha were wrapped together with the clothe they were using to make decorations. The champion was blushing madly as his hand was resting in her butt. "Please unwrap us!"
"Just a minute!" Ruby said as she delayed the operation the most she could, while receiving thumbs up from Nora.
"Please do! What is this soft thing?" Jaune asked as he squeezed Pyrrha's behind.
"YIIIIP!"
…
"So, enough about me. I think we only talked about my life. I mean, I'm interesting, but I'm still just a few days old. How about you? I bet you have many interesting stories!" Tia asked as she held Emerald's hands. The older girl sighed. Yes, she had stories, but none of them was fit to the ears of such pure girl. "For example, how about your family?"
"I don't have one..." Emerald said bitterly.
She never had the luck Tia had to find a loving family, even if a chaotic and messy one like hers, and grew up in an orphanage with other children, to an infancy of aggression and abuse from the people managing the place. When she ran away, the people that took her in were only slight better, a bunch of thieves that used her young age to do their jobs. Then when one of them tried to get on bed with her, she answered by pushing a knife on his unmentionables. It was when she was running from the gang that Cinder saved her, burned every one of them down.
Cinder was her queen.
But not her family.
"Emerald, are you alright?" Tia asked with such genuine concerned that the older girl felt a bit of anger toward the dragonet. She had luck to had met people that simple took her in and were rising her as real family. And the dragon girl probably wasn't aware of it.
"Sorry, just… I don't have good memories of my family." Emerald said trying to end the topic.
"Daddy said once family is not just blood ties and living in the same house. Family is the people you choose to share everything, good or bad." Tia said in a wise tone unfitting for her young appearance. Emerald sighed, feeling belittled by her target. She needed to vent.
"Hey, you want to be a Huntress too, right? Why not spar with me?" Emerald suggested with a fake smile.
"Yeah! Let's go!" Tia grabbed the girl's hand and dragged her to the arena.
…
"I am sorry!" Pyrrha shouted as she had no idea how her feet got tangled in the power cables they were passing and felt on Jaune… the boy's face buried between her ample bosom.
"HMF!" Was his only answer as Ruby and Nora smiled.
…
"You're good!" Tia praised as she flew avoiding Emerald's gunfire.
Damn, she is fast! And strong! And damn resilient! I know she isn't really their daughter, but she has the talent of the mother and the stubbornness of the father! If she wasn't so young and inexperienced I'd have lost already!
Tia started firing small fireballs from her mouth, forcing Emerald to jump and dodge acrobatically while answering with several shots. The battle was going on for a good ten minutes when something was thrown at Tia, some type of net, forcing her down. Emerald ran towards her and started helping to get the net off.
"How you did this?" Tia asked as she used her teeth to cut the metal threads of the net.
"It wasn't me!" Emerald answered finally freeing Tia. They turned when they heard footsteps.
"It was me." Mercury approached with a smug face. "That's why true Hunters fight in pairs, so one can help the other. But I must say, Emerald, being beaten by a baby..."
"I'm not a baby!" Tia protested, puffing her cheeks.
"Aren't you just a few days old? A baby to me."
"And she wasn't beating me. My Aura levels were bigger than hers until someone decided to mess up my spar." Emerald shouted, angry because he interfered, and was interfering, with her mission.
"Yeah, yeah. I was wondering if I could have a round with the baby girl here."
"Now that I softened her for you? Fat chance." Emerald retorted, Tia hiding behind her.
"Who's he? I don't like him, he is a jerk!"
"This is my… partner, Mercury. And being a jerk is his usual self." The mint-haired girl answered back.
"So why be his partner? You can have a better one!"
"Oh, I doubt there's someone as awesome as me. Or as handsome." Mercury answered back to the dragonet.
"Wrong twice, Mercury. But then again, being wrong is what you do best." Emerald retorted, and Tia laughed a little, receiving a displeased stare from the boy.
"You should learn to not laugh at others that can kick you down, little girl." She answered by showing him her long tongue. "I guess a little spanking is in order."
"Whoa, hold your horses. I'm her babysitter and she's my responsibility." Fuck off, Cinder said it is my mission.
"Sorry partner, but bad kids need a good spanking." Emerald froze in place, the phrase making her remember the days back at the orphanage. Mercury approached Tia, and committed a simple mistake. A lesson about fire.
Tia breathed a fire tongue, and Mercury kneel to dodge.
"You missed." He said with a smug smile.
"Have I?" Tia answered, and Mercury smelled something burning.
"MY HAIR!" He started running side to side. Tia ignored him and turned to Emerald.
"Hey, are you alright?" The dragonet shook Emerald from her thoughts.
"Yeah, yeah. Is he on fire?" She asked, and Tia blushed and stared down. "Awesome." Tia stared up in surprise. "OK, let's go somewhere else."
…
"You know, I'm starting to suspect something is not right..." Pyrrha wondered as she was sitting on Jaune's lap after falling from the stairs… that last step was mysteriously greased.
"Well, for starters you're still in my lap." Jaune said with a might blush.
"I am sorry..."
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"You're still in my lap..." Jaune said again.
"I know." Pyrrha answered… yet no signs of moving.
…
"Here!" Tia gave a soda can to Emerald, and the two girls started drinking.
"You know, you're lucky it was them that found you. Anyone else could be not so good." Emerald commented, and Tia pondered on it as she shed a little more skin and removed it with her tail.
"Yeah. But my auntie Ruby says it is us that make our own happy ending. If you're not happy, it's not the end." Emerald laughed at that naivety.
"Not everyone can have a happy ending."
"Then I'll be sure we have one!" Tia proudly stated jumping on the bench, and Emerald laughed loudly at her.
"Here they are!" They turned around to see Tia's family approaching. The dragonet smiled greatly as she saw Jaune and Pyrrha were holding hands.
"Hey, guys. So, something to tell us?" Emerald asked pointing to Jaune and Pyrrha's hands.
"Yes, don't let the glue close to Nora. We are actually stuck." Jaune said as he moved his hand with Pyrrha. Not that the champion was minding it. "We are actually going to see if Prof. Peach have a solvent."
"You all know you're wearing gloves and just need to remove them, right?" The green-haired girl suggested, and Jaune groaned.
"I'm an idiot."
"No discussion here." Weiss commented.
"Hey!" Pyrrha and Tia shouted.
"No one of us thought of it either, ice queen." Yang defended Jaune, but Pyrrha stared away. She did think of it. Just decided to not disclose the information. The two finally remove their gloves, for the Spartan disappointment.
"Better. Had fun today, Tia?" Jaune asked her daughter.
"Yeah! Emerald was great! I hope she can babysit me more times!" Tia celebrated, and Emerald felt a bit of guilty over how happy the girl was.
"Very well. Here, the rest of your money." Jaune said giving the lien to the girl. "I hope she didn't give you trouble."
"No, she was a little angel. Well, I better get going now. My team might be wondering what is holding me." Emerald got up, and then Tia kissed her cheek, making both girls blush hard.
"I hope we can hang out again..." Tia said almost in a whisper.
"Yeah. Of course." Emerald petted her and left.
"Better we go wash ourselves. Today have being weird." Jaune commented. "Weird, where's my wallet?"
…
"Who only carry discount coupons in a wallet?" Emerald wondered. "Who still have a Dust-Man wallet at seventeen?"
"Ah, there you are. Let's go back to our room to discuss what you discovered." Cinder said as she approached with Mercury. Emerald laughed at his bald head, since he had a big spot in the shape of a bear on it.
"Har. Har." He groaned.
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"Excellent! Excellent! You boys did a good job!" Oobleck said as he checked the footage of Tia team CRDL got. "How you get so many different angles?"
"Taking pantie shots." Russell said before Cardin slapped the back of his head.
"He meant pan shots. We're fans of pictures."
"Ah, a good hobby to have."
"Hey, Doctor, what's in the bag?" Sky asked and pointed to the plastic bag Oobleck was carrying.
"The dragonet's skin. It will be an amazing sample to study!"
"After or before I punish you all for stalking my niece?" Glynda asked as she stood as a menacing shadow behind the group.
…
"You know, Pyr, if we're going to make this a habit, we might as well start going to sleep together from the start." Jaune suggested as once again he woke up with Pyrrha snuggling him. She blushed madly but…
"It would help me with my nightmares..." She suggested back, and he blushed madly, and the two stared at each other.
"Finally!" Tia yelled from the bathroom. "I shed all the old skin. Do I look prettier?"
Jaune and Pyrrha sighed and sat on the bed. Indeed, Tia was now sporting shinier scales, and the once white scales now had a golden and red pattern in some parts, especially on her fingertips and tail. She also was taller, as tall as Nora. And most of all, she was curvier.
"You… look great..." Jaune and Pyrrha said at the same type as they noticed she was a teenager now, still younger than them, more in Ruby's league, but a teenager. She now even had breasts, and those indeed were bigger than Ruby's. Not as big as Blake's but still very visible and that made Jaune groan loud.
"Pyr, you have the talk with her. I'm going to the city to buy a shotgun."
"Oh no, we already decided those discussions will be with the both us. Then we buy the biggest, meanest shotgun together, as a family."
"You two realize you're still not a married couple, right?" Ren chimed in, and the two teens blushed. "This will cause a commotion."
"Shotgun." Pyrrha and Jaune said in agreement.
"I hope Emerald likes my new scales." Tia whispered as she stared herself on the big mirror in the wall. "Oh, I got fun bags!"
Yang, Coco and Blake felt a cold, deadly wind on their back.
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A.N. Sorry for the delay. Personal issues got me busy. I hope my mood keep improved so I can write often again. ^^