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(Ruby PoV)
"Spar with me," I ordered Cloud when I found him in the evening. He looked up at me in surprise from where he sat at the dining hall table. "Please. Like we used to?"
He sighed. "Can I at least finish digesting first?" He asked.
"Oh. Right." I suppose that was fair. I'd ambushed him a little.
"The doctors are insisting that I get three meals a day. Keeping my brain fed the proper nutrition," he said. "It's about repair and regrowth."
"But you're not sleeping well."
His eyes flicked away. "No. I suppose not."
"Penny said that's an important time for the brain to repair itself."
"Been talking with Penny about me?"
"She's my friend," I defended.
He raised his hands in surrender. "No judgement. Just curious."
"Yeah. I was talking to her during my mission today a little."
"I see. What was the mission?"
"Parts transfer for Amity." I slid into a seat at the table next to him. "Did you have a mission today?"
"Searching and destroying Grimm out in the tundra. Some bigass Goliaths were encroaching on Mantle. They needed somebody who can hit as hard as I can."
"Did anything interesting happen?"
"Nothing me and Limit Breaker couldn't handle."
"They usually have you deploy a landing strategy out there in the tundra."
"Limit Breaker. It's my go to for all my problem solving." He smiled. "I can glide pretty well when it's active. Not unlike you." He poked my side where he knew I was ticklish and I flinched to cover my ribs with my arms and let out a giggle.
"You should see some of the things I can do with Petal Burst now," I said with a smile.
"More of your usual bullshit, I suspect. You always did cheat."
"Hey, you and your semblance are in my ballpark now," I protested.
"My semblance doesn't make me invulnerable the way yours does. I have to work hard to give that impression."
"That why you always keep it almost charged? All the time?" I wondered.
"Maybe I'm a little paranoid," he agreed. "Sue me. I've got a lot to be paranoid about." He gave me a genuine smile that warmed my heart while I looked up at him. I reached out and stroked his hair and he leaned into my touch with a tired sigh.
I giggled up at him. Then I gave him a kiss that squashed out noses together. I really had missed him so much while he was gone. It was good to have him back. So good. I looked forward to the next chance I could get some genuine alone time with him. And Weiss if she wanted to be involved in that. I think she would.
I didn't mind sharing that kind of thing with her.
"Well alright. No sense delaying any longer." He slid off the bench and ruffled the part in my hair. I glowered at him with a smile and fixed my head dressing.
"You ready for a fight?" I asked. I slid off the bench and made to keep up with him.
"Are you? I'm going to knock you flat, Rubes."
"I'd like to see you try. We'll see if you can touch me." I used to beat him handily. Now… now I wasn't sure. He'd grown so much since even before Mistral.
I held his whole arm and skipped to the arena to keep up with his long gait.
It was late on a Monday so nobody else was using the room. Cloud strode in and spun his sword from the harness on his back in the broadsword form. I once demolished him with his weapon in that stance.
He carefully checked the tip of the weapon with his fingers. Drawing it back with his right hand and stretching out his left to brush off some Grimm ash that remained on the tip.
Crescent Rose unfolded from my back and I rolled it around hand over hand in his direction. I twisted the weapon behind my back and held it there until he looked over at me and gave me a firm nod.
He activated his semblance immediately because he was a cheater like that. And he dashed forward on a pocket of air with both hands on his weapon, holding it just before his shoulder. He had one leg bent at the knee and the other straightened out as he flew.
He swung in a low horizontal cut at me. I blocked with the blade of Crescent Rose but the attack sent uncomfortable vibrations all the way up my arm. He was truly unbelievably strong. If I was going to beat him it was going to be with my speed.
He flicked his blade out the other direction. I vanished in a blur of petals and popped back a step for a moment and leveled my weapon at him. I shot him once in the stomach and he grunted. He lowered his blade to block the next shot.
He was on me in a blue haze. He tried to hit me again but I met his strike. Then I expanded the blade of Crescent Rose backwards to make it longer. It forced him back an awkward half step.
I capitalized and slashed at him three times, spinning my blade up and around my body as I did.
He came back on me but I blew apart into three red caped swirls of red and nearly teleported behind him. I made to cut at him but he kicked me in rapid succession and brought his blade around down onto me.
I blocked high and pulled the trigger on my weapon to give us some horizontal momentum. I'd been ready for it and he hadn't and it pulled him off to the side.
I slashed at him twice with the blade and he knocked both attacks to the side fairly easily like he was still warming up.
I burst forward then back and caught him in the front then in the back. He grunted under the blows twice and though he stumbled he didn't look particularly hurt.
I twirled around in a circle and tried to catch him with the fully unfolded blade. He blocked alarmingly easily and riposted. He thrust his blade forward, then upwards in a massive flying leap.
Then he came back down on me from above with all the weight of his sword and armor and him. I burst into petals rather than take the hit. I reentered the same space I exited and kicked out with one of my legs. He blocked it on the side of his own.
He very rudely made to drive his elbow into my face. It snapped my head back. Then he brought his blade forward in slashing motion with the tip buried in the ground and slammed it into the whole of my body. His blade was taller than me, even held at an angle like it was.
He tried to open me up and combo me but I burst apart once more and flowed back together behind him. "Almost," I teased. I wrapped Crescent Rose around his waist and fired to jerk the blade backward against his body.
It caught him and made him stumble back, ripping into his golden aura. Then he whipped around and went for his Cross Slash. The first hit struck me in the stomach but I vanished out of the way of the following attacks.
He danced back a step. He was now in his limited state. He immediately flexed and started to charge the next round of his semblance and I took that as my cue to attack. His semblance forced you to approach him. To play his game. I pulled Crescent Rose over my shoulder. Then across my stomach, then around behind my back and in a twirling fashion over my head.
Cloud deftly blocked each one of my attacks and rather than riposte he stuttered back a step and went for his semblance again.
I whipped the barrel of my weapon up at him and fired at him three times in rapid succession. He dived into a hovering roll but not to the side or backwards. He dived towards me. His right hand held his weapon up behind his body easily enough and his left came up and forward to grab me. He snatched me by the neck of my cape and yanked me into the air like a brute. He made to slam me into the ground but I vanished again, I left him with only a palm full of petals.
Each time I disappeared it cost me something. I wasn't sure if that was his plan, to bleed me dry but it might just work.
He flirtatiously sniffed the petals for a moment in his hand before he blew them at me. I blushed a little but resolved to not let him distract me. Or to try not to. He was distracting enough without trying as it was.
He jumped and brought his weapon down in a massive overhead strike. I vanished rather than take that one either.
He guessed where I was going to reappear and trapped me in an attack that swung upwards and knocked me into the air. When I made to dodge in mid-air he read my dodge attempt and was waiting for me with a swing at the ready.
He hit me three times in the span of a tenth of a second. I yelped as I was flung into a pillar of cubes.
"You alright Rubes?" He called over to me. I was struggling to get up for a moment. I didn't have the most aura in the world. He had spades more than I did. That last attack did something like twenty five percent of my aura in one go of the mighty triple hit.
I picked myself up and blew my hair out of my face with a pfft upwards and to the side. I pointed the business end of my weapon at him in response and shot at him four times. The first one hit him in the chest and gave him his semblance. The next three went wide as he suddenly blurred to the side. My shots missed because of it and he started to close the gap on me incredibly quickly.
He flickered into my range and caught my whole body up in a massive upwards swing. He followed it up by juggling once. Then he let me down rather than spending the remainder of our match hammering me while I was in the air above him.
I quickly moved in on him and pulled Crescent Rose across my body and at him. Then from another side. Then I spun and tried to hammer him with the blade.
He reached out and caught the long handle of my weapon and picked me up into the air with it using one hand. I kicked him in the chest but he mostly looked bemused.
"This is serious," I protested. He wasn't taking me honestly!
"You're seriously cute." He countered. He had a wide grin on his face. "You're just not strong enough yet. We should do weights together."
I blushed at the thought of Cloud in tight workout clothes and doing exercises together. It sounded good to me.
He bent in and kissed my cheek before I could react.
I let go of my weapon and punched him in the chest. It did nothing.
He kicked me and made my aura collapse inwards with a crackle of red. He inhaled deeply, like he was enjoying the smell.
I rose with a tired sigh and he came up behind me and put his arms around my waist. I jerked back like I was going to resist but then he kissed my neck and I let out a little moan. He ran his lips over to my jawline.
"Your sweat tastes delicious," he whispered right into my ear.
I shuddered. I tried weakly to push away from him. "You're cheating."
"No. This is cheating." He poked my sides with fingers while I was tight in his grasp and without aura to spend to get away and I laughed hysterically as he tickled me. He spun me around and he kissed my lips full on. I dissolved into the kiss with a little sigh. My eyes fluttered closed.
"Cloud…" I mewled against his lips. "We should stop. We're in public." I pushed against his rock hard chest weakly.
"We don't have to be." He released me, twirling me away from him like we were dancing. "You tease."
"Me?" I asked, shocked.
"In that new outfit. Absolutely. You and Weiss both." He laughed. I turned as red as my cloak.
"You're the one looking all… all like that." I pointed up at him. With his piercings and hair done up. He gave me a brilliant smile.
"Whatcha gonna do about it, little Rose?"
"I'll show you. Seriously. You look all… so hot." He kicked a leg up as he leaned against the wall with his knee out. His foot was flat against the wall and he looked like the hottest thing I'd ever seen in a man.
"Prove it," he murmured. His voice was full of an electric current. I could remember the feel of his aura smothering mine. I shuddered again. I could feel my own heartbeat between my legs.
I would prove it, damn it. Or my name wasn't Ruby Rose.
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"I'm going to Cloud's room for sex tonight," I told Weiss as I stepped out of our shower. "Well, we'll actually be leaving campus and finding a hotel room. The beds here are too small."
Her eyes ran up and down my figure in the tight towel. She flushed at me. Whether it was about my state of undress or how directly I came out with my plans I wasn't sure.
"I-I see. And…?"
"And is that something you'd be interested in?" I asked. She was already in her nightwear.
"Maybe…"
"Clear and effective communication, Weiss. We won't hold anything against you if you're not ready."
"I want to be ready. I'm just nervous I suppose."
I walked up to her, sashaying my hips as I did. I relished the way she watched me. Oh yeah. Weiss was bi as hell. Poor girl. Let me take care of you…
"You have nothing to be nervous about. Cloud and I will take such good care of you. He's a really attentive lover. He listens. He explores." I shuddered a little as memories ran me over. I got goosebumps as I recalled being pressed firmly against the cold tile of a shower wall. The chill of the tile and heat of his body and the water had been a stark contrast.
Then that time I rode him out in Anima. The way his body flexed under mine while we held hands was etched into my mind. His hands falling to my hips to control the pace even though I whined to be in charge. It was so domineering as he thrust up into me. So good.
Weiss took in my hardening breasts. I'd need to be careful. I just got out of the shower. I didn't need to let these thoughts overwhelm me. It was hard though.
"Well I suppose. He and I did get awfully close the other night."
"You said nothing happened," I pointed out.
"Some kissing happened. Some dry-grinding happened. But I wanted you to be there for my first time and I told him so," she informed me.
"You're such a sweetheart." I kissed her lips. She groaned a little as I pushed her back. My wet hair fell on both of our faces in a tight curtain. She went for my bottom lip but if she thought I'd bottom that easily again she'd be… oh…
I whined. I really was just a bottom in her hands. At least with Cloud I could pretend I was a switch. Even if it was only because he let me. I tried to soak that in. It was only because he allowed it.
She placed her hands on my back just above my butt through the cloth of the towel and pulled me deeper into the kiss. She put her tongue in my mouth and I wrapped my lips around it, small and pink, and gave it a tiny suck.
Her breath hitched when I did it. I sucked very gently on the tip of her tongue and welcomed more of it wiggling into my mouth. The tips of both our breasts were hardening now against one another and it felt good to pull her close.
"So…" I panted when we separated. "So will you be there?" I asked.
She rapidly nodded. She breathed hard and tried to calm herself down again too. Ha. Take that. I could kiss like nobody's business. "Is Cloud a top or…?" She asked.
"Yes. But don't worry. He'll take care of you. Between the two of us we'll find a nice place for you."
"Then I'm looking forward to it."
I squealed a little. I was going to be having sex with my best friends. I walked away from Weiss and began to put on matching underwear for the night. A nice surprise for Cloud to enjoy later. Not that he would care that much but it was the principle of preparation that was the thing.
"I think I might be a switch," Weiss mumbled. "I always thought I'd be a top but when he picked me up in the air on our date night it was just too much, he made me melt."
"That's what happens when you run into a real top. Cloud at least lets me pretend a little. But he's always the one in control. I'm not sure what it is my deal."
"You melt is your problem. You can't be in control when you're all gooey," Weiss said.
"It just feels so good though." I whined. She gave me a dark and thirsty look when I did and a little of her own dominance showed. She had that same hunger Cloud had. "And if he says he feels like a dog we'll just remind him how much of a man he really is. I don't know how much it'll help but it'll feel good."
"For all we know we're about to cure him. A lot of chemical activity happens in the brain during sex."
"Science!" I exclaimed pointing at her. "Take that Salem." She laughed.
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-WG