"You didn't tell us you were going to the best freaking hotel in Vale!" Yang shouted, as Ruby and Jet both blushed. They had returned from The Shining Jewel after a day of touring shops, amusement parks, and restaurants, and were now both sat on their floating bed, with Yang up there with them. Blake and Weiss were out, for what reason Jet couldn't fathom.
"It was awesome, Yang!" Ruby squealed in delight, having not let go of Jet's arm since Yang had started questioning them. Yang rounded on her.
"I know! How on Remnant did you get the money to afford that?" she asked, loudly. Jet could almost taste her jealousy, and was glad when Ruby spoke for him, not wanting to brave Yang's wrath if he could avoid it.
"We got a pretty good discount from Nouvelle. She actually WORKS there Yang!" she said, and Yang blanched at that.
"Friends in high places, huh?" she muttered to Jet, and when he nodded in reply, she shrugged her shoulders. "Wish we could have come."
"I wanted it to be special for my little Rose." Jet replied smoothly "And Nouvelle could only afford to discount us two. I doubt Weiss would have approved of spending that much." he said with a knowing wink.
"Fitting for my Crown Jewel." Ruby said, attempting to imitate Jet's dark and quiet voice. "Valuable, pleasing to the eye and, dare I say it, solid."
Jet and Yang had both been trying to contain their mirth at Ruby's impersonation when, at the mention of solidarity, Yang eyes suddenly flashed red in shock.
"W-what did you say?" Yang asked. Jet looked confusedly at Yang as Ruby repeated, this time in her normal voice, "Solid."
Yang looked from Jet to Ruby, and Jet caught on as her eyes turned slowly to red. "Does that mean what I think it means?" Heart pounding in his throat, realising the imminent misunderstanding, Jet immediately tried to calm Yang down.
"She's talking about my muscles. She's obsessed with them." Jet truthfully said, but he knew Yang was extremely protective of her sister, and if she thought...
"Like hell she is!" she yelled, immediately moving towards Jet. Knowing that he'd only get one chance at escape, Jet immediately stopped time. He'd been intending to disappear completely, but the world regained motion a little early, and Yang spotted his blur as he slowed down time to escape a now fully enraged Yang.
Bursting out of the dorm buildings, he unfurled his wings, intending to fly up so that he couldn't be reached, but he felt a brutal strength pulling him down, and fell, smashing down to the ground. Rolling around on the dusty pavement, he found himself face to face with Yang.
"Tell me… WHAT DID YOU DO?!" she roared, but before she got a chance to get a hit in, a red shockwave coming from Jet blasted her backwards enough for him to roll away and adopt a combat stance.
"Yang, for all that is dear to both of us, CALM DOWN!" he yelled back. "Ruby made a mistake with her word choice!"
Jet pulled out his classic, Shadow Meteor, and ignited it, the purple flames coalescing at the tip. Yang immediately charged with a shrieking battle cry. Onlookers stopped and stared at the fight about to commence.
Yang immediately threw a right cross, but it was deflected by Jet, who counterattacked by swinging his staff in a loop, aiming for Yang's head. Yang was knocked backwards, but pressed her attack, throwing a flurry of heavy punches, Jet dodging each except for one, which hit him with such force that he smashed into a nearby wall, and both fighters head the cracking of bone along with a scream which could only mean one thing: Jet's wings had been broken.
Infuriated, his own version of Yang's semblance taking effect, he charged, twirling Shadow Meteor, landing hit after hit on the blonde, but this only infuriated the blonde further, and her next punch sent Jet flying into the crowd, landing on his back and causing him to shriek in agony as his broken wings were crushed.
Yang moved in and grabbed his head, punching his face as the onlookers gasped, but she didn't seem to care.
"How dare you do that with Ruby? Who do you think you are?!" she yelled in his face. She felt the red shockwave being charged, but was too slow to stop it from discharging and sending her into the same cracked wall that Jet had broken his wings on. Both combatants rose, and if Jet was furious before, he was ready to kill now.
"You did it, didn't you?!" Yang roared, flames engulfing her, but Jet's aura started to glow a deep, red, and he let out a statement that made every onlooker in the vicinity cower at its malevolence.
"Yang, either you calm down now and listen to me, or I crush you for good!"
"I will make you pay! She's underage you BASTARD!" Yang roared.
"Come forth, embodiment of VENGEANCE!" Jet screamed, and the darkness appeared, so that he was no longer in sight. It then began to fade.
As the darkness diminished, Jet stood in another suit, this one without a helmet. This suit was fully armoured, looking similar to a metal, shining, purple beowolf on its hind legs, but this suit was smaller, more agile than Jet Black Phantom. He now stood taller than Yang, and his claws were elongated into painful looking blades. A tail sprouted from the suit, similar to a death stalker's, and had several dust cannons attached. He wielded a sword that had a black hilt with a purplish silver blade, and there was a glowing orb at the centre of the hilt.
"You'll regret EVER angering me!" Jet's voice rang in Yang's ears as she gazed upon his new form. "Your end in person, Abyssal Chaos Jet!"
With a battle cry of his own, Jet curled up similarly to a boarbatusk, and rolled with lighting speed towards Yang, purple lighting dancing across his armour as blades glinted from every surface. Yang dived out of the way as the ball of death flew at her, and Jet popped out, before firing off several lightning bolts from his tail, which Yang deflected before she charged, winding up another killer punch.
"YANG! JET!" someone cried from the crowd as Jet brought up his sword and met her challenge, going for a long sweep as the brawler came within range. It worked, and the blade connected, sending her flying into the crowd. Jet started to move through them, intent upon finishing her off.
Jet quickly found Yang, who was down, and raised his sword. Yang rolled out of the way and triggered her semblance's final stage, and pummelled him with a punishing blow to the head upon rising to her feet. She didn't get much of a chance to capitalise on Jet's dizziness, as the armoured tail moved and blocked each punch while its owner was dazed.
Distracted as she was with the tail, Yang never saw its owner regain their senses, nor the blade that swept towards her, passing right through her. It was only when the crystal on the sword started glowing a deep red that Yang noticed something wrong. Her semblance suddenly failed, and she felt drained of all her strength. To make matters worse, her feet were frozen to the ground.
Wait, FROZEN? She looked in time to see Weiss and Ruby, the former attempting to do the same to Jet, and succeeding when Ruby used her scythe to bring down Jet's shield against dust based attacks. He was still angry though, and used his tail, attempting to fire more thunderbolts at Yang, but Weiss froze the tail as well.
Ruby ran in-between the two combatants, who were still struggling to move, malevolent intent in both of their eyes.
"Stop fighting!" she cried, looking at Yang, then Jet, then back again. "Flux, I need Jet out here now!" she called upon seeing her lover's dark eyes.
"The hell I won't!" Yang yelled, still struggling with all her might. Jet, on the other hand, stopped struggling, the darkness in his eyes leaving.
"Ruby," he said calmly, "you made her think that we did… that at the Shining Jewel. That's what set our bomb off. But you and Weiss have still left me one way to still attack." Ruby raised her scythe, but Yang suddenly shrieked as a painful spasm in her chest suddenly occurred, when Jet's sword flashed the same colour as the glowing orb within it.
"This is Retrograde Epiphany." he explained, gesturing to the sword. "It doesn't deal physical damage. But if I land but a single hit on anything with an aura, it drains it and replenishes mine." Jet demonstrated by raising the dust shield that Ruby had broken, and continued. "But I can use it to disable semblances, drain strength, or even turn someone's own aura against them. So, Yang," Jet twitched the sword, causing Yang to scream again, "you can either stay angry at me and suffer, or let us discuss this without fighting, and I give you your aura and semblance back."
Yang felt the pain of her aura being drained again. As much as she tried, she couldn't raise her anger, nor could she break from the grip Jet had. Resigning herself, she looked up at Jet with lilac eyes.
"I…" she gasped as another spasm wracked her body. "Jet. I'm calm now. Let me go."
Jet's stinger twitched, but he released Yang, moving next to Ruby as she approached him. Weiss also walked over, but Jet turned to her.
"Weiss, do me a favour and let Blake know what happened. This conversation is only for Ruby, Yang and I. Please." he implored. Without a word, Weiss nodded, and Yang was thankful that she hadn't commented on the fact that it was the third time she'd lost to Jet in a fight.
But she had other problems to address, as Jet put a hand on her shoulder and beckoned for Ruby to take his hand, before he stopped time and allowed the three of them to move to a more private spot. She WOULD find out why Jet had done what he'd done, and why Ruby had agreed to it.
She saw Jet healing his wings using the same water power as he'd used to heal their arms from before.
Yang, Jet and Ruby were sitting in the library, Jet maintaining the time stop and keeping physical contact with the two sisters to make absolutely sure they weren't overheard.
"…and it sorta went from there in the bath." Ruby finished, and Jet nodded in agreement. She had just told Yang about the events leading up to Jet's massage. Ruby and Yang were both blushing crimson, and Jet was as well, though he was far less red than either of the girls.
"Did you plan this, Jet?" Yang asked, and both girls focussed on him. She felt less angry about the whole thing than before, but still felt ticked that Jet had immediately swooped on Ruby (he DID have wings after all) once they were alone. He took his time before responding.
"The spa part, yes." Jet said, carefully. "What happened next, no. Yang huffed. Part of her annoyance was now because she'd wanted to give Ruby her first proper massage, but now Jet had taken that privilege.
"Was it just that? I swear, if you went-" Yang began, but she was cut off by Ruby.
"No, we didn't." she squeaked, still finding it tough to talk out of embarrassment. Jet pulled her closer to him, and she rested her head on his shoulder, feeling her embarrassment lessen a little. She gazed at Yang with her puppy eyes expression. "You're not going to do anything to Jet, are you?"
Yang knew that her sister was desperate for her and Jet to stay together. Part of her wanted to tease her, but this was serious.
"I'll leave you two alone." she conceded. She felt her eyes turn red as she rounded on Jet. "I'll even let you continue doing this. But I warn you, Jet," she gripped his hand tightly, and felt his resistance flare as she crushed his hand, Ruby shifting away but still holding Jet's hand, "if you hurt her or cause something we'll all regret, you won't survive our next encounter, no matter how powerful you are." she growled forcefully. Jet surprised her by gripping her hand that was crushing it in a vice grip, and saw his eyes turn a bright cyan.
"If it comes to that, you won't have to. As for my statement to you," he hissed, as Yang felt her own hand being crushed, "anyone hurts my rose, I'll be sure to let Flux pay them a visit."
The tension between Yang and Jet was so tangible it could be cut with a knife. Finally, the pair's vice grips ceased, and they both turned to Ruby.
"We're both here to protect you, Ruby." Jet said. "You could say we're your guardian devils."
"That's not even a pun, Jet. Corny." Yang replied, and all three started to smile.
"I know. That's your PUN-isment." Jet laughed, as a groan came from Ruby. Yang felt like she'd been punched in the face. Never, in a million years, had she ever walked into an obvious one like that.
Jet ended the time stop. He was really glad that Izzet had lent him that favor of a one-use unlimited time stop. It made things like this so much easier.